Alright genius, where did I say one way or the other how I felt about whether it was acceptable or not?
Making an application work with an OS and its base is the best way of development. My statement illustrates that bringing in a port of a huge bloated static IE is pointless. Using a browser built with our libs and toolkits is the *idea*.
IE for Unix is a pointless exercise and is as much a kludge as the old Netscapes have been, most likely even worse.
Nobody mentioned the reason IE runs better than NS on a Win box...it's built around and uses the loaded libs that Win uses. If IE were ported it would be similarly bloated as NS is now under linux or BSD's.
Mozilla has made amazing leaps towards stability, and with Konqueror from KDE2 on its way...
We'll be in good shape soon, and with something that is our own and not a kludgy port and a static bin.
Got a PMP300 with the stock 32MB in it. I get about 64mins of music on it if I use 64kbps mp3's. I find the 64kbp to be fine for what I need, I mostly listen on subways and trains, and the time is just right if I change the load each morning to keep me busy.
A huge benefit is that there are no moving parts, thus no mechanical wear other than the headphone jack and the interface control pad thing. Also battery life if phenomenal. I get a good week of commuting out of a single AA alkaline batt.
I have a WinBook that I took on the road doing rock tours with. It ran RedHat and was handy to have. My biggest mistake at the time was buying a Megahertz nic/modem card. Be SURE that the exact model you are getting is fully supported for both functions. For the longest time only the nic function was supported in mine and I had to drag an external Sportster around with me to dialup.
If I had it to do again I'd go with the cheaper two card solution and buy a seperate modem card and nic card. This way you could use both if you wanted at once, save some cash and some trouble with configuring. The Megahertz card is really expensive compared with a pair of generic single function cards.
As an interesting aside...I found KDE to be really handy to have on a laptop. I don't run it often on this box but on the laptop the layout made getting around with the (shudder) touchpad much easier. Also mine was a dualscan display and the default colors of KDE just looked better. Kppp is really handy when you have a different dialup number all the time while traveling. Don't forget a nice 25' phone cable to have too you'll thank me later.
Another quick laptop tip. Get a personal 800 number from ATT and setup mgetty if you have a cable or dsl connect at home. The rates are cheaper than many isp's 800 access rates and of course you can have your home system POP'ng your mail etc in crontabs via your cable or xDSL connect. Much quicker to just snag the mail or read it via the home box over one's own private dialup or an ssh session via a net connect.
I can assure you that none of this was 'turned up' and it had to be a press release or a planned and structured 'leak' to the Park Press. This is a local paper and let me tell you definitively that they are the equivalent of a fourth grade class newspaper and do not know the meaning of investigative reporting. Hmm wait a minute...they just may be able to figure out the origin of tech-vests if pushed enough...the mall is rather close to them;-).
This paper incidentally has come out in favor of govt. regulation and censorship of internet content many times. They are a reprehensible source of 'news'.
No way...I can't believe that is true..do you know the cost of one of those...
I bet what you see are the traffic light controlling systems that departments use to trip lights to green for the right-of-way crossing intersections. There are strobe units, there are infrared and there are RF units in use.
Also departments have cams in the lightbars as well, not all are dash/window mount.
I'm pretty sure that the F.D.'s are using thermal imaging and not radar, not that it really matters but the thermal imaging scopes to 'see' through smoke have been around for a bit now.
Liberal 1. as in The Media (TM)...oooh you're a liberal...that is good..you support our agenda.
2. Open minded in general
3. Politically, meaning you either have your income derived from government funded business, have no income and benefit from same, or just don't think too clearly.
As a generality... education as in formal university education will result in a liberal mindset, particularly when experienced in youth with little real world experience...not a bad thing necessarily.
Geekdom, again generality, will result in quite a bit of detachment from the 'real world' living in theoretical reality.
Now, combine geekdom, leftist theory from a university and you have a liberal....give that same 'liberal' a few years running his own business and you'll find a conservative by 40.
Conservative is a term that describes wisdom. The Media (TM) has an agenda to advance and the wise are a threat...therefore a conservative is obviously reported as evil. These stereotypes are coming from media sources use your own grain of salt and figure it out.
According to The Media or associated liberals I am a redneck. In reality I'm Libertarian and quite conservative as that implies in today's context.
As for this whole religion thing...who cares? Religion is a great thing when kept to oneself.
Probably your cheapest way out would be to find a single space rackmount stereo line mixer. I bet Fuhrman or Sampson have them, they are generally for keyboardists.
If you daisy chained all your cards into each other as suggested your noise level would be insane as the gain staging with most of the soundcards out today is horrible.
A great source for used pro-sound equipment is Daddy's Junky Music Store a.k.a. Used Gear By Mail, their service is outstanding and they will make sure that you are satisfied with any purchase. I think the URL is http://www.ugbm.com
Make no mistake about it, ASCAP is merely the enforcement branch of the music industry crime family. Any artist that fools themselves into believing that ASCAP does anything at all for them than make the labels more money is fooling themselves.
ASCAP hasn't done anything for anyone in the music industry outside of the owners of the record labels. If you are Adman Duritz or Matchbox20 then yeah they are your friends, but anyone else, they're just a tax collector.
Be lucky you do not own a small club at all, these mafiosos will demand several hundred dollars a month from you under continuous harrassment on the premise that any live music venue MUST be hosting coverbands. Hell, if you're anywhere near their offices they will even send out spies to see if any band would have the gall to play a cover.
ASCAP epitomizes the current commercial music industry. The industry now uses artists solely as tools of profit. There is little or no artist development, and signings are treated like futures trading. Sure you may wind up the recipient of a million dollar publishing deal after a bidding war, but if your one-hit-wonder song doesn't do 10 million copies you are now tied up via your contract to the label that signed you and are tossed away with the trash. The only way to return is to reform the band and use all new material. The biz is disgusting these days quite frankly, and ASCAP is merely the enforcement branch. Think of them as the collectors for a bookie or a shylock. Afterall Mariah Carey has to get her alamony on time;-).
Oh btw, I work in the industry. I'm speaking from experience, and the current environment is what is driving me to leave the music biz for other work.
Uh oh it's out of the bag. I put that thing there years ago. There's really no secret code to it, I just made the whole gibberish up just to win a college art contest...go figure.
As a few others have stated, one has to keep in mind that these articles are written for the layperson that may have an eye on what the latest 'spin' is in this 'new linux thing' (direct quote heard recently from a friend with a rather large tech stock portfolio when he heard me mention the OS on my laptop). Ever try to explain what linux, X, and the difference between a desktop environment and a basic GUI is to an everyday Mac or Windows user? Most people just have a hollow stare, even when they really want to understand.
The point made about the authors' lack of knowledge as pertaining to current linux development can possibly be due to the fact that anyone with a real thorough working knowledge is most likely working in the computer field and not a columnist. What we (linuxers) may need is some sort of a centralized press consortium to release more accurate announcements at a central location. Possibly yet another mailing list where the releases can be hashed out for detail and accuracy before their public release. If such a group were formed, wouldn't it be wise to have representatives of the 'major' projects such as KDE, GNOME, X-Free, and the kernel developers as examples?
Due to the fact that most of the development is done on such a large scale with so many participants, the logistics of disseminating accurate updates are a bit complex. I think that some sort of centralized information source would be a great asset and fix many of these articles. I don't mean a help page for active linuxers with details that will go over the heads of the mainstream computer public, there's a ton of those. What we may need is a laypersons guide to linux. Quite frankly wording descriptions will be an interesting task.
Realize that when someone such as Caldera or Redhat makes a press statement that they indeed have a business interest at stake, and rightly and fairly so, the same for the GNOME or KDE developers, although they don't have profit in mind of course. Anyone representing these groups will obviously only include pertinent information to their efforts. What is needed is a sort of neutral ground, community based information source for the general public.
I appologize if this is a bit of a ramble, be glad I'm not a columnist;-). Oh yeah, my e-mail and domain are no longer active.
The Darwin Smartboard is a basic split format similar to the MS Natural with a few differences.
The first major one is that it is a mechanical key type...the main reason I bought it. The second main one is that the key shapes are tailored based on useage to reduce the reach for the most commonly used keys etc.. Yet another is that this is about the same desktop footprint of a 'normal' large Unix kbd.
Now the bad news, the company is now out of business afaik, I LOVE this thing and literally was probably nearly the last order they filled. Does anyone know a source for these suckers, I'd like to get at least one more.
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Alright genius, where did I say one way or the other how I felt about whether it was acceptable or not?
Making an application work with an OS and its base is the best way of development. My statement illustrates that bringing in a port of a huge bloated static IE is pointless. Using a browser built with our libs and toolkits is the *idea*.
IE for Unix is a pointless exercise and is as much a kludge as the old Netscapes have been, most likely even worse.
Nobody mentioned the reason IE runs better than NS on a Win box...it's built around and uses the loaded libs that Win uses. If IE were ported it would be similarly bloated as NS is now under linux or BSD's.
Mozilla has made amazing leaps towards stability, and with Konqueror from KDE2 on its way...
We'll be in good shape soon, and with something that is our own and not a kludgy port and a static bin.
This thing works also, now to get a spare cable and use this thing for the occasional emergency when a serial console is needed at work.
/dev/palm and away you go.
If you don't already have a serial console setup...
Just run a getty on
http://www.frotz.net/vt100/
If you run strings on vbrun.dll you'll find numerous occurances of
a ||y__p|4z4D34a||y__p|4z44a||y__p|4z4
D34a||y__p|4z4D3D34a||y__p|4z4D34a||y__p|4z4D34
Got a PMP300 with the stock 32MB in it. I get about 64mins of music on it if I use 64kbps mp3's. I find the 64kbp to be fine for what I need, I mostly listen on subways and trains, and the time is just right if I change the load each morning to keep me busy.
A huge benefit is that there are no moving parts, thus no mechanical wear other than the headphone jack and the interface control pad thing. Also battery life if phenomenal. I get a good week of commuting out of a single AA alkaline batt.
Any tips for cheap SmartCards for it?
I've seen exactly this happen on an Ultra5 running Solaris 2.6 with absolutely all available patches installed.
I would snicker as the senior SA would power cycle the Ultra as my Debian system would 'chug' (his words) along.
I have a WinBook that I took on the road doing rock tours with. It ran RedHat and was handy to have. My biggest mistake at the time was buying a Megahertz nic/modem card. Be SURE that the exact model you are getting is fully supported for both functions. For the longest time only the nic function was supported in mine and I had to drag an external Sportster around with me to dialup.
If I had it to do again I'd go with the cheaper two card solution and buy a seperate modem card and nic card. This way you could use both if you wanted at once, save some cash and some trouble with configuring. The Megahertz card is really expensive compared with a pair of generic single function cards.
As an interesting aside...I found KDE to be really handy to have on a laptop. I don't run it often on this box but on the laptop the layout made getting around with the (shudder) touchpad much easier. Also mine was a dualscan display and the default colors of KDE just looked better. Kppp is really handy when you have a different dialup number all the time while traveling. Don't forget a nice 25' phone cable to have too you'll thank me later.
Another quick laptop tip. Get a personal 800 number from ATT and setup mgetty if you have a cable or dsl connect at home. The rates are cheaper than many isp's 800 access rates and of course you can have your home system POP'ng your mail etc in crontabs via your cable or xDSL connect. Much quicker to just snag the mail or read it via the home box over one's own private dialup or an ssh session via a net connect.
I can assure you that none of this was 'turned up' and it had to be a press release or a planned and structured 'leak' to the Park Press. This is a local paper and let me tell you definitively that they are the equivalent of a fourth grade class newspaper and do not know the meaning of investigative reporting. Hmm wait a minute...they just may be able to figure out the origin of tech-vests if pushed enough...the mall is rather close to them ;-).
This paper incidentally has come out in favor of govt. regulation and censorship of internet content many times. They are a reprehensible source of 'news'.
No way...I can't believe that is true..do you know the cost of one of those...
I bet what you see are the traffic light controlling systems that departments use to trip lights to green for the right-of-way crossing intersections. There are strobe units, there are infrared and there are RF units in use.
Also departments have cams in the lightbars as well, not all are dash/window mount.
I'm pretty sure that the F.D.'s are using thermal imaging and not radar, not that it really matters but the thermal imaging scopes to 'see' through smoke have been around for a bit now.
Liberal
1. as in The Media (TM)...oooh you're a liberal...that is good..you support our agenda.
2. Open minded in general
3. Politically, meaning you either have your income derived from government funded business, have no income and benefit from same, or just don't think too clearly.
As a generality... education as in formal university education will result in a liberal mindset, particularly when experienced in youth with little real world experience...not a bad thing necessarily.
Geekdom, again generality, will result in quite a bit of detachment from the 'real world' living in theoretical reality.
Now, combine geekdom, leftist theory from a university and you have a liberal....give that same 'liberal' a few years running his own business and you'll find a conservative by 40.
Conservative is a term that describes wisdom. The Media (TM) has an agenda to advance and the wise are a threat...therefore a conservative is obviously reported as evil. These stereotypes are coming from media sources use your own grain of salt and figure it out.
According to The Media or associated liberals I am a redneck. In reality I'm Libertarian and quite conservative as that implies in today's context.
As for this whole religion thing...who cares? Religion is a great thing when kept to oneself.
Yeah this is a bit trippy, but that's the fun.
Could be they're just wealthy, The Law(TM) only applies to or interferes with the working classes for the most part.
Probably your cheapest way out would be to find a
single space rackmount stereo line mixer. I bet Fuhrman or Sampson have them, they are generally for keyboardists.
If you daisy chained all your cards into each other as suggested your noise level would be insane as the gain staging with most of the soundcards out today is horrible.
A great source for used pro-sound equipment is Daddy's Junky Music Store a.k.a. Used Gear By Mail, their service is outstanding and they will make sure that you are satisfied with any purchase. I think the URL is http://www.ugbm.com
Make no mistake about it, ASCAP is merely the enforcement branch of the music industry crime family. Any artist that fools themselves into believing that ASCAP does anything at all for them than make the labels more money is fooling themselves.
;-).
ASCAP hasn't done anything for anyone in the music industry outside of the owners of the record labels. If you are Adman Duritz or Matchbox20 then yeah they are your friends, but anyone else, they're just a tax collector.
Be lucky you do not own a small club at all, these mafiosos will demand several hundred dollars a month from you under continuous harrassment on the premise that any live music venue MUST be hosting coverbands. Hell, if you're anywhere near their offices they will even send out spies to see if any band would have the gall to play a cover.
ASCAP epitomizes the current commercial music industry. The industry now uses artists solely as tools of profit. There is little or no artist development, and signings are treated like futures trading. Sure you may wind up the recipient of a million dollar publishing deal after a bidding war, but if your one-hit-wonder song doesn't do 10 million copies you are now tied up via your contract to the label that signed you and are tossed away with the trash. The only way to return is to reform the band and use all new material. The biz is disgusting these days quite frankly, and ASCAP is merely the enforcement branch. Think of them as the collectors for a bookie or a shylock. Afterall Mariah Carey has to get her alamony on time
Oh btw, I work in the industry. I'm speaking from experience, and the current environment is what is driving me to leave the music biz for other work.
Uh oh it's out of the bag. I put that thing there years ago. There's really no secret code to it, I just made the whole gibberish up just to win a college art contest...go figure.
As a few others have stated, one has to keep in mind that these articles are written for the layperson that may have an eye on what the latest 'spin' is in this 'new linux thing' (direct quote heard recently from a friend with a rather large tech stock portfolio when he heard me mention the OS on my laptop). Ever try to explain what linux, X, and the difference between a desktop environment and a basic GUI is to an everyday Mac or Windows user? Most people just have a hollow stare, even when they really want to understand.
;-). Oh yeah, my e-mail and domain are no longer active.
The point made about the authors' lack of knowledge as pertaining to current linux development can possibly be due to the fact that anyone with a real thorough working knowledge is most likely working in the computer field and not a columnist. What we (linuxers) may need is some sort of a centralized press consortium to release more accurate announcements at a central location. Possibly yet another mailing list where the releases can be hashed out for detail and accuracy before their public release. If such a group were formed, wouldn't it be wise to have representatives of the 'major' projects such as KDE, GNOME, X-Free, and the kernel developers as examples?
Due to the fact that most of the development is done on such a large scale with so many participants, the logistics of disseminating accurate updates are a bit complex. I think that some sort of centralized information source would be a great asset and fix many of these articles. I don't mean a help page for active linuxers with details that will go over the heads of the mainstream computer public, there's a ton of those. What we may need is a laypersons guide to linux. Quite frankly wording descriptions will be an interesting task.
Realize that when someone such as Caldera or Redhat makes a press statement that they indeed have a business interest at stake, and rightly and fairly so, the same for the GNOME or KDE developers, although they don't have profit in mind of course. Anyone representing these groups will obviously only include pertinent information to their efforts. What is needed is a sort of neutral ground, community based information source for the general public.
I appologize if this is a bit of a ramble, be glad I'm not a columnist
Yes!! It appears they are back, merged with another Co. . I really can't recommend one enough.
Thanks for the tip.
The Darwin Smartboard is a basic split format similar to the MS Natural with a few differences.
The first major one is that it is a mechanical key type...the main reason I bought it. The second main one is that the key shapes are tailored based on useage to reduce the reach for the most commonly used keys etc.. Yet another is that this is about the same desktop footprint of a 'normal' large Unix kbd.
Now the bad news, the company is now out of business afaik, I LOVE this thing and literally was probably nearly the last order they filled. Does anyone know a source for these suckers, I'd like to get at least one more.