To put this in to perspective, there are about 70mil mobile phones in England with 65mil population. The episode of friends "The One Where They're Up All Night", where Ross and Joey get stuck on the roof, didn't make much sense to british people because by this time, most people in the UK had phones with them all the time. There is recognition of this in "The One with Ross's Wedding", where they visit England and immediately notice that people seem to be using mobile phones a lot.
Or option 4 no glasses needed 3D tvs. I saw one in Harrods a couple of weekends ago. It had some slight annoying virical bands to the sides & you needed to keep you head in the same position infront of it, but on the whole was very impressive. This used some triangular/prism/old tech idea like cards you twist slightly to get alternate views.
I've been using mobiles in NW Europe for over ten years and know many others like me and I've never heard of this dropped call phenomenon. I do recall seeing mobile phone network adverts when visiting America which contained "now with fewer dropped calls" and wondering WTF?! I think Americans need to seriously berate their carriers if dropped calls are the norm.
I came from a SunOS background but used Linux based distributions at home (Slaskware was the easiest at the time). I the tried NetBSD and FreeBSD and they were okay, I found general responsiveness felt good, not necessarily faster, but more consistant, this was years before low lateny linux kernel. After about 9-12 months, I realised I was spending a lot of my time just trying to get iBCS, Wine and Linux compatibility working so I could be productive. I realised I wasn't gaining anything from running FreeBSD and was struggling to make it work like a Linux based desktop OS. As a server I favoured Solaris anyway.
Just because it's expensive generally and for good reason with loads of top of the range, top spec components, doesn't justify charging an equally high cost for mouse, keyboard and power cables!
They've just upped the price based on a general PC:Cray ratio.
Power Cord (kit of 2) £62.00 Keyboard and Mouse £106.00
It's infuriating. I already have a computer the size of a cell phone. It's called a "cell phone". Damn it, why can't I plug it into a TV or monitor, and plug a mouse and keyboard into it and use the damned thing like a computer?
The n95 lets you use a bluetooth keyboard and has video out.
VMWare will run on Linux permitting multiple Linux, Windows, etc Virtual Machines. MS Virtual Server only runs on Windows and although it can then run a Linux virtual machine, I don't really see people doing that.
Although this is marked troll, and possibly was meant as one. The original article does mention having switched to firefox, thunderbird and OOo. So frankly I fail to see why it wouldn't be quite an easy step. It would probably provide faster and certainly cheaper desktops. Ignore the "is it ready for the desktop" waffle we've seen on/. for years, this is a place where there is a support staff, so users just need to use their desktops for work and the hard stuff is done by the admin.
I thought cube was the defacto standard well-known open source 3d game engine ? http://www.cubeengine.com/
Oddly my quick scan of this/. thread shows nobody has mentioned it yet. This allows simple in-game 3d world creation, even with people over a network collaboratively. All the source is available and the actual game itself is bonza.
xvoice is a gtk1 X application which uses IBM's ViaVoice engine to provide voice control and dictation support to arbitrary X applications. xvoice.sf.net is the url. The mailing list mainly covers issues of getting the ViaVoice libs working on modern distributions. The last release of VV was around the glibc2.0/2.1 era and most new ld.so's will struggle to execute the libraries and java dependancies. It's also fairly hard to buy a copy of VV 2nd hand anywhere and IBM appear to ignore any request to release it.
However once you get past all of these issues (actually even running the old gtk1 xvoice becomes hard on modern dists), it works a charm. As it's X clean, you can X to any X server, be it one run under OSX or Windows, or a Sun SPARC box. You just need the mic connected to the x86 Linux box the client runs on.
This meets your requirement for editing in vim etc. The accuracy, I found was fantastic.
I have two voip capable cellphones, a 9500 and 9300i. There are also the PalmOS wifi enabled phones too most of which can get free VOIP software and make free calls from any free wireless lan.
I've used smbmount a few times for various reasons over the years and found it a tad flakey dealing with the server going away. NFS servers rebooting on the other hand are a different story, the clients deal well and the protocol is (normally*) truely stateless. However my most recent uses have found it to have been greatly improved, it dealt well with constant windows reboots, and my/jdrive mount, stayed working every morning I came in and tried it until my password expired (easily fixed). So with good Linux client handling it can appear quite stateless, making NFS almost redundant.
As for security, well on the initial mount I typed my credentials. Then I had access to everything my user could access on the windows cifs export filesystem, just as in windows. Local root means NOTHING in this context, I couldn't su to another user and expect to mount their files.
If you want to have the filesystem automatically mount once they log on, using an automounter and something that could lead, via ldap auth for example "su - anotherusersid ; cd/home/theirstuff" then don't use kerberos/ldap, feed the users initial password details in to the mount and leave it like that.
Assuming something like XDM, then I suggest you try to take the login details and feed it securely in to the smbmount, it only needs to exist in memory, possibly a tmp file for a moment. If you need to write some code then think of it like ssh-agent, which uses quite complex techniques to protect a session you've entered a passphrase in to. Or indeed if these boxes are local user+local root, then who else is going to be able to scan ram, or cat tmp files quick enough to find a password fed from one app to another? That is assuming you don't just patch xdm itself making it nigh on impossible.
*nfs exports of nfs shares from other servers upset this, as can other things.
It's only the past few years that Windows has started to take over UNIX use in universities, certainly from my experience in the UK. Linux was used by many during this when it arrived over a decade ago, along with many who stuck with all the other UNIX flavours, I can't believe people who are new to this (7years experience with Linux) don't spot the same trends. Actions like this are far too little too late, the war was won a long time and ago and what's needed is a cleverly crafted resistance movement not pretending Linux is new and starting to make inroads.
30 of what kind of meters? Surely it would depend on the size of the meters, lets assume they are large pressure meters about 0.1metres in diameter, that would be 3metres in distance which is quite poor for bluetooth.
I used centimetres, which indicates I'm not from North America, also the 9300i and in fact most smart phones are behind in N.A. compared to the rest of the world so that was the 2nd clue:)
I was born in Britain, however the phone has 11meg wireless, USB (2 I think), bluetooth, IrDA, removable MMC card so obviously getting data on the phone isn't hard (well I say that, I don't(/won't) use MS Windows, so that made life especially hard*).
It'll run any symbian binary, I've even hacked up one of my own, to use mini bluetooth serial device, as the 9500 doesn't have serial like the older 9210 did. It'll also run perl, java and well probably loads of things, there is even a PC emulator. nokia.com/phones/9500
*I say hard, it was actually great fun, and it's on my todo list to get this working via USB under linux, and ideally talking direct PLP rather than p3nfs.
Mine has 640x200x24 screen 200Mhz cpu, 32M SDRAM, 2G mmc capable storage with 90M flash built in and the ability to play ogg/aac/mp3 with high quality stereo. It already has SDL libraries and has doom and other major graphical platforming games ported. This is not uncommon for newer phones, the 9300i which I believe is expected in about 2 months will be even more powerful, with 54M wifi, in only 11cm x 4cm x 1.8cm form factor, ssh (via putty) making it possibly the most useful device in the known universe to a unixy geek.
Anyway despite all of this, and the 3year old desktop PC specs, the main games I play are simple puzzle and card games. But note, I play these _AN_ _AWFUL_ _LOT_. Also despite being an open source fan, somebody who has almost never had a need to purchase software, I did pay for RayMan on the 9210 and it was fantastic.
I definitely believe there is a market for phone games, especially simple fun playable puzzle games.
I thought there was a famous King Tut and a famous child leader with loads of gold found around his burial chamber called Tutankhamun? Not the same person.
Try using PerlApp http://www.activestate.com/Products/Perl_Dev_Kit/ which should build you a single.exe (you can get it for unix too) which embeds all modules needed, but only the modules used, so shouldn't be too big.
The DDoS from people who hate Slashdot only lasts a day or two
Huh? The "slashdot effect" is caused by people who like slashdot and read the articles then go to the links./. is so popular that this takes down small sites. It doesn't have an impact on larger sites like bbc.co.uk as they have a beefy setup.
The xvoice team have failed to get IBM to recompile newer ViaVoice libraries, or even the same code against a more modern libc, ld.so and gcc environment making it quite hard to keep it working on newer distributions. It's also limited to ia32. They certainly don't seem likely to release the source code.
So I'm surprised to see an announcement like this one.
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To put this in to perspective, there are about 70mil mobile phones in England with 65mil population. The episode of friends "The One Where They're Up All Night", where Ross and Joey get stuck on the roof, didn't make much sense to british people because by this time, most people in the UK had phones with them all the time. There is recognition of this in "The One with Ross's Wedding", where they visit England and immediately notice that people seem to be using mobile phones a lot.
I'm not certain "sensors" works on the ASrock this mentions. I do have to wonder if they tried hard enough!
Or option 4 no glasses needed 3D tvs. I saw one in Harrods a couple of weekends ago. It had some slight annoying virical bands to the sides & you needed to keep you head in the same position infront of it, but on the whole was very impressive. This used some triangular/prism/old tech idea like cards you twist slightly to get alternate views.
I've been using mobiles in NW Europe for over ten years and know many others like me and I've never heard of this dropped call phenomenon. I do recall seeing mobile phone network adverts when visiting America which contained "now with fewer dropped calls" and wondering WTF?! I think Americans need to seriously berate their carriers if dropped calls are the norm.
I came from a SunOS background but used Linux based distributions at home (Slaskware was the easiest at the time).
I the tried NetBSD and FreeBSD and they were okay, I found general responsiveness felt good, not necessarily faster, but more consistant, this was years before low lateny linux kernel.
After about 9-12 months, I realised I was spending a lot of my time just trying to get iBCS, Wine and Linux compatibility working so I could be productive. I realised I wasn't gaining anything from running FreeBSD
and was struggling to make it work like a Linux based desktop OS. As a server I favoured Solaris anyway.
Spend hundreds of dollars hiring a car to drive 3+hours to see Stone Henge!
This isn't the "e" editor, this is something new /usr/ucb/e
-rwxr-xr-x 7 root 204800 Jan 21 1994
what gives?
Just because it's expensive generally and for good reason with loads of top of the range, top spec components, doesn't justify charging an equally high cost for mouse, keyboard and power cables!
They've just upped the price based on a general PC:Cray ratio.
Power Cord (kit of 2) £62.00
Keyboard and Mouse £106.00
It's infuriating. I already have a computer the size of a cell phone. It's called a "cell phone". Damn it, why can't I plug it into a TV or monitor, and plug a mouse and keyboard into it and use the damned thing like a computer?
The n95 lets you use a bluetooth keyboard and has video out.
VMWare will run on Linux permitting multiple Linux, Windows, etc Virtual Machines. MS Virtual Server only runs on Windows and although it can then run a Linux virtual machine, I don't really see people doing that.
Driller came out in 1987 which had "full three-dimensional environments using filled polygons"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Driller_(game)
I don't know why this is scored as funny, it's quite serious. It could well happen.
Although this is marked troll, and possibly was meant as one. The original article does mention having switched to firefox, thunderbird and OOo. So frankly I fail to see why it wouldn't be quite an easy step. It would probably provide faster and certainly cheaper desktops. Ignore the "is it ready for the desktop" waffle we've seen on /. for years, this is a place where there is a support staff, so users just need to use their desktops for work and the hard stuff is done by the admin.
I thought cube was the defacto standard well-known open source 3d game engine ?
/. thread shows nobody has mentioned it yet. This allows simple in-game 3d world creation, even with people over a network collaboratively. All the source is available and the actual game itself is bonza.
http://www.cubeengine.com/
Oddly my quick scan of this
xvoice is a gtk1 X application which uses IBM's ViaVoice engine to provide voice control and dictation support to arbitrary X applications. xvoice.sf.net is the url. The mailing list mainly covers issues of getting the ViaVoice libs working on modern distributions. The last release of VV was around the glibc2.0/2.1 era and most new ld.so's will struggle to execute the libraries and java dependancies. It's also fairly hard to buy a copy of VV 2nd hand anywhere and IBM appear to ignore any request to release it.
However once you get past all of these issues (actually even running the old gtk1 xvoice becomes hard on modern dists), it works a charm. As it's X clean, you can X to any X server, be it one run under OSX or Windows, or a Sun SPARC box. You just need the mic connected to the x86 Linux box the client runs on.
This meets your requirement for editing in vim etc. The accuracy, I found was fantastic.
I have two voip capable cellphones, a 9500 and 9300i. There are also the PalmOS wifi enabled phones too most of which can get free VOIP software and make free calls from any free wireless lan.
. html -phone
http://www.europe.nokia.com/nokia/0,6771,77854,00
http://www.my-xda.com/comp.html -more phones.
http://www.barablu.com/ -voip software.
http://www.skype.com/download/skype/mobile/ -more voip software
I've used smbmount a few times for various reasons over the years and found it a tad flakey dealing with the server going away. NFS servers rebooting on the other hand are a different story, the clients deal well and the protocol is (normally*) truely stateless. However my most recent uses have found it to have been greatly improved, it dealt well with constant windows reboots, and my /jdrive mount, stayed working every morning I came in and tried it until my password expired (easily fixed). So with good Linux client handling it can appear quite stateless, making NFS almost redundant.
/home/theirstuff" then don't use kerberos/ldap, feed the users initial password details in to the mount and leave it like that.
As for security, well on the initial mount I typed my credentials. Then I had access to everything my user could access on the windows cifs export filesystem, just as in windows. Local root means NOTHING in this context, I couldn't su to another user and expect to mount their files.
If you want to have the filesystem automatically mount once they log on, using an automounter and something that could lead, via ldap auth for example "su - anotherusersid ; cd
Assuming something like XDM, then I suggest you try to take the login details and feed it securely in to the smbmount, it only needs to exist in memory, possibly a tmp file for a moment. If you need to write some code then think of it like ssh-agent, which uses quite complex techniques to protect a session you've entered a passphrase in to. Or indeed if these boxes are local user+local root, then who else is going to be able to scan ram, or cat tmp files quick enough to find a password fed from one app to another? That is assuming you don't just patch xdm itself making it nigh on impossible.
*nfs exports of nfs shares from other servers upset this, as can other things.
It's only the past few years that Windows has started to take over UNIX use in universities, certainly from my experience in the UK. Linux was used by many during this when it arrived over a decade ago, along with many who stuck with all the other UNIX flavours, I can't believe people who are new to this (7years experience with Linux) don't spot the same trends. Actions like this are far too little too late, the war was won a long time and ago and what's needed is a cleverly crafted resistance movement not pretending Linux is new and starting to make inroads.
30 of what kind of meters? Surely it would depend on the size of the meters, lets assume they are large pressure meters about 0.1metres in diameter, that would be 3metres in distance which is quite poor for bluetooth.
I used centimetres, which indicates I'm not from North America, also the 9300i and in fact most smart phones are behind in N.A. compared to the rest of the world so that was the 2nd clue :)
I was born in Britain, however the phone has 11meg wireless, USB (2 I think), bluetooth, IrDA, removable MMC card so obviously getting data on the phone isn't hard (well I say that, I don't(/won't) use MS Windows, so that made life especially hard*).
It'll run any symbian binary, I've even hacked up one of my own, to use mini bluetooth serial device, as the 9500 doesn't have serial like the older 9210 did. It'll also run perl, java and well probably loads of things, there is even a PC emulator. nokia.com/phones/9500
*I say hard, it was actually great fun, and it's on my todo list to get this working via USB under linux, and ideally talking direct PLP rather than p3nfs.
Mine has 640x200x24 screen 200Mhz cpu, 32M SDRAM, 2G mmc capable storage with 90M flash built in and the ability to play ogg/aac/mp3 with high quality stereo. It already has SDL libraries and has doom and other major graphical platforming games ported. This is not uncommon for newer phones, the 9300i which I believe is expected in about 2 months will be even more powerful, with 54M wifi, in only 11cm x 4cm x 1.8cm form factor, ssh (via putty) making it possibly the most useful device in the known universe to a unixy geek.
Anyway despite all of this, and the 3year old desktop PC specs, the main games I play are simple puzzle and card games. But note, I play these _AN_ _AWFUL_ _LOT_. Also despite being an open source fan, somebody who has almost never had a need to purchase software, I did pay for RayMan on the 9210 and it was fantastic.
I definitely believe there is a market for phone games, especially simple fun playable puzzle games.
I thought there was a famous King Tut and a famous child leader with loads of gold found around his burial chamber called Tutankhamun? Not the same person.
Try using PerlApp http://www.activestate.com/Products/Perl_Dev_Kit/ which should build you a single .exe (you can get it for unix too) which embeds all modules needed, but only the modules used, so shouldn't be too big.
The DDoS from people who hate Slashdot only lasts a day or two
/. is so popular that this takes down small sites. It doesn't have an impact on larger sites like bbc.co.uk as they have a beefy setup.
Huh? The "slashdot effect" is caused by people who like slashdot and read the articles then go to the links.
The xvoice team have failed to get IBM to recompile newer ViaVoice libraries, or even the same code against a more modern libc, ld.so and gcc environment making it quite hard to keep it working on newer distributions. It's also limited to ia32. They certainly don't seem likely to release the source code.
So I'm surprised to see an announcement like this one.