I second the vote for Logitech's proprietary cordless mice. I got me a Logitech VX Revolution for my Asus netbook, and it has excellent battery life, great precision and an almost invisible receiver. The size of the receiver was what initially sold me on this mouse, since anything protruding from a netbook is bound to break sooner rather than later.
Sure they have - it's called self-fulfilling prophecies. When Gartner says "X will be the next big thing!", every management drone on the planet runs out and implements X. Thus, Gartner's right!
I'm learning to play bass guitar at the moment, and I've found Hydrogen (Free, Open Source) to be of great help. It's a drum machine, which lets me quickly setup simple or more advanced drum-loops, even layout the drum patterns for an entire song. Granted, this is probably not quite as important for a violin player - although it can be used as a simple metronome as well.
This is slashdot. You would be equaly corrected (if not flamed, scolded and ridiculed) for making similar mistakes about Star Trek, Tolkien or The Simpsons plots.
Wether or not you're doing anything wrong - why would you mind a picture of a pair of eyes watching you? I'm as obsessive about privacy as the next guy, but seriously...
Mr. Garfield keeps using the word "source" throughout the interview, and from the context I believe he is referring to sources of digital media, not source code. By "open source" I assume he means non-commercial, non-DRM'ed sources of digital media (i.e. P2P networks like LimeWire etc).
Actually, Last.fm has something similar. You can sort through bands, songs or even genres, and tag them with a personal tag. So you could make your own "Party", "Happy", "Bored", "Depressed" and "Suicidal" tags - then go through your archive or the genre/band archive at last.fm and tag music with your own custom tags. Using the "personal tag radio" feature of the last.fm player you can then choose your mood and have the music to match.
I can indeed vouch for Rekall - I use the Linux version myself, for development and testing, and have successfully deployed the Windows version (using databases and interfaces designed on Linux) at client sites. The only thing I found lacking, was an updated version of the Windows Runtime version of Rekall (a version compiled without the development interface, for end users). This was also recently released though, and I will be purchasing some licenses shortly.
Form/report design is point-and-drool, and even includes wizards for fast form- and report creation. It allows forms and report templates to be stored in the database itself, so only a small file containing db login information etc. needs to be installed along with the client software. You can script everything with Python, or use macros if you are unfamiliar with Python.
It's an excellent RAD tool for database apps that require little to no programming experience, and it comes with plugins for a lot of databases (including MySQL, Postgres and ODBC). Some of the DB plugins are sold separately for the binary W32 version. As for a Mac version, there are currently no binaries available as far as I know. I do not own a mac, so I'm not sure if it compiles cleanly on MacOS. Apart from the DB libraries I think it only depends on QT and Python though, so I can't see why it shouldn't work.
Indeedy - my (admittedly somewhat newer) DEC VT420 amber terminal is currently serving as console for my Linux firewall. Saved my butt a couple of times when I've messed up the firewall config and accidently locked myself out =)
Now the DEC VT420 uses RS-232 and works well with getty out-of-the-box, so there's not much work involved in setting it up.
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You'll be wanting X: Rebirth then. I know I do!
We just need to use a mashup of service enabled architectures to provide a seamlessly semantic experience.
If that doesn't work, then depolarize the bogotronic flux.
Bingo, Sir!
Uhm yeah make that the VX Nano. Damnit.
I second the vote for Logitech's proprietary cordless mice. I got me a Logitech VX Revolution for my Asus netbook, and it has excellent battery life, great precision and an almost invisible receiver. The size of the receiver was what initially sold me on this mouse, since anything protruding from a netbook is bound to break sooner rather than later.
If you have the hardware to run VMWare Server (free) you can always use the FreeNAS VMWare Appliance.
Sure they have - it's called self-fulfilling prophecies. When Gartner says "X will be the next big thing!", every management drone on the planet runs out and implements X. Thus, Gartner's right!
Well YMMV, but for quick 3D sketching you may have better luck with Google Sketchup.
Hey! Speak for yourself.
Indeed, all Trackmania games/expansions contain the Starforce Malware - was planning on buying it but this completely put me off it.
I'm learning to play bass guitar at the moment, and I've found Hydrogen (Free, Open Source) to be of great help. It's a drum machine, which lets me quickly setup simple or more advanced drum-loops, even layout the drum patterns for an entire song. Granted, this is probably not quite as important for a violin player - although it can be used as a simple metronome as well.
I may have a business proposition for you!
This is slashdot. You would be equaly corrected (if not flamed, scolded and ridiculed) for making similar mistakes about Star Trek, Tolkien or The Simpsons plots.
Looks like we're victims of the dreaded 403 scam... A weird twist on the old bait-and-switch
Right, I'll shut up.
Wether or not you're doing anything wrong - why would you mind a picture of a pair of eyes watching you? I'm as obsessive about privacy as the next guy, but seriously...
Mr. Garfield keeps using the word "source" throughout the interview, and from the context I believe he is referring to sources of digital media, not source code. By "open source" I assume he means non-commercial, non-DRM'ed sources of digital media (i.e. P2P networks like LimeWire etc).
Actually, Last.fm has something similar. You can sort through bands, songs or even genres, and tag them with a personal tag. So you could make your own "Party", "Happy", "Bored", "Depressed" and "Suicidal" tags - then go through your archive or the genre/band archive at last.fm and tag music with your own custom tags. Using the "personal tag radio" feature of the last.fm player you can then choose your mood and have the music to match.
Only Linux/ALSA is supported.
Windows, Linux and MacOS is supported. On Linux, Skype uses OSS, not ALSA. ALSA support is in the works.
Audio is poor quality: only 8KHz 1 channel 8 bit sampling.
Audio quality scales with available bandwith/cpu power. Skype dynamically switches codecs depending on the available resources.
Encryption not turned on by default.
Really? All Skype calls are encrypted end-to-end by default - Skype to PSTN calls are encrypted until it reaches the PSTN network.
User interface uses harsh, unfriendly colours.
Subjective. The Linux version can easily be themed through QT, as it is dynamically linked to your QT library.
The ringing sound is kind of loud, and surprises you when you're not expecting it because you forgot to set your status to not interrupt you.
Not only can you change the default ring tone, you can download free ringtones from the Skype website...
So... What was the problem again?
Indeed it is. Start with small objects though. And stay away from rabbits.
So, on average each customer burned himself 70 times on the same cup of coffee? Damn...
I can indeed vouch for Rekall - I use the Linux version myself, for development and testing, and have successfully deployed the Windows version (using databases and interfaces designed on Linux) at client sites. The only thing I found lacking, was an updated version of the Windows Runtime version of Rekall (a version compiled without the development interface, for end users). This was also recently released though, and I will be purchasing some licenses shortly.
Form/report design is point-and-drool, and even includes wizards for fast form- and report creation. It allows forms and report templates to be stored in the database itself, so only a small file containing db login information etc. needs to be installed along with the client software. You can script everything with Python, or use macros if you are unfamiliar with Python.
It's an excellent RAD tool for database apps that require little to no programming experience, and it comes with plugins for a lot of databases (including MySQL, Postgres and ODBC). Some of the DB plugins are sold separately for the binary W32 version. As for a Mac version, there are currently no binaries available as far as I know. I do not own a mac, so I'm not sure if it compiles cleanly on MacOS. Apart from the DB libraries I think it only depends on QT and Python though, so I can't see why it shouldn't work.
Yeah, I want my life-size basrelief carved into a large slab of carbon or some other black material. Mmmm..
It has a non-GPL compliant license though. Pity.
I really am curious about how the brains of people like that work. On the other hand I'm probably better off not knowing.
Now the DEC VT420 uses RS-232 and works well with getty out-of-the-box, so there's not much work involved in setting it up.