The eyes of children under 15 are still growing. Excessive near work may cause the eyes to grow into an elongated shape (I'm not sure if there are any formal studies showing this, but it would explain why nearsightedness progresses so rapidly in children that wear glasses). Once the eyes have finished growing, they are much less prone to change shape. Personally, I would be wary of staring into a screen just inches from my eyes for an extended period of time, even though I am in the recommended age range.
I'm not on my linux box right now, so I can't check this, but there is a line in the XFree86 config file for "number of buttons" - I set this to 4, and everything works fine for me.
Re:I suspect that the hype prevented the disaster
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2037, for those of you who are non-Unix folks, is when the Unix counter for time overflows on
32-bit machines. Unix machines measure time in seconds elapsed since 1970, using a 32-bit counter, meaning they can only go to 4 billion seconds or so. 2037 is when 4 billion seconds will have passed, and an awful lot of today's machines are going to be VERY confused at that rollover. 64-bit machines shouldn't be affected for 4 billion times longer than that -- in other words, by using 64 bits to track seconds with, a machine could outlive our Sun without getting confused about the date. Just shooting from the hip, I think 64 bits' worth of seconds ought to be about 240 billion years. That's quite awhile.:)
Actually, it's a 32-bit signed variable (to allow for dates before 1970), which has a range of approximately plus or minus 2 billion. The rollover will occur on 19 Jan 2038 (not 2037). This will likely cause immense problems, as most people will have no clue why this will be a problem (Y2K is much easier to understand for the unwashed masses).
I second the endorsement of Logitech trackball. I've got the Trackman Marble FX. The angle takes a little getting used to, but I like it. A friend has a Kensington ("Expert Mouse" IIRC - a big 4-button trackball), with which he is quite happy.
The review mentions that the Palm seems much more unstable while on the network. I think the reason for this is that the TCP/IP stack uses 32k of the dynamic heap, which is quite limited (IIRC, the Palm V has less than 20k available while the TCP/IP stack is loaded). Many apps aren't tested with an active net connection, so the authors aren't as careful about checking their memory allocations.
There are two dhcp clients available for Linux. I've had some problems with dhcpcd, but pump works fine. It's included with RH6.1, and there are Debian packages.
1...Contributor lists from major Linux or related open source projects. These projects included Debian, KDE, GNOME, GTK+, Python the GIMP and many others.
2...VA has a number of Linux Community members in it's ranks, they were asked for their input.
3...To fill in the remainder of the slots for Linux developers, we reviewed a number of online source code archives, a complete running system, and all of the HowTos (11 gigabytes total reviewed). By measuring how many times an email occurred in these files, we graded the "prolifacy" of any one contributor and just worked from the top down based on how much work any one person had done until we exhausted the number of shares available for the program.
Python can be compiled to bytecodes, but python programs are traditionally distributed only in source form. There's nothing stopping anyone from distributing python programs in bytecode form, but there's not much that can be done to obfuscate the bytecode, so decompiling is relatively easy.
The size and composition of these planets effectively rules out Life As We Know It (tm). But, they are deemed to be "possibly life-bearing" because they could contain liquid water. Why is liquid water important? Because it is essential for Life As We Know It (tm), which, as has already been admitted, could not exist there.
There are a finite number of shares offered. Companies are allowed to reserve shares for their employees and selected others. The rest of the shares go to "everybody else", which generally means large institutions. The Letter gets you the oppportunity to buy from a pool of stock which most people don't have access to. You're not guaranteed to get in (AFAIK), but your chances are significantly better.
Well, CORL has nearly doubled in the last couple of months. Problem is, without an IPO, they're not as visible. Also, when people see Corel, they think WordPerfect or Corel Draw. When people see Cobalt, they wonder who it is, then go and look it up and see the magic word "Linux"
VA is doing their best to let non-Americans in on the offer, and you don't have to meet some arbitrary standard of financial status to get in on the deal. I just wish they had given a URL to the pdf instead of dropping it in everyone's inbox.
I believe there is a FAQ on Slashdot on how to make your story preferences Avantgo friendly.
At this location there is a mirror of the headlines and articles of/. in a Palm-friendly form.
I suspect that there's a similar thing out that will download websites and translate them into doc format.
SiteScooper will convert websites to doc. But what you really want is malsync, which is a Unix version of the AvantGo conduit, or Plucker, a GPL'd Palm HTML viewer with it's own conduit (written in AWK, currently being rewritten in Perl).
Check out this site for drivers. I also have a K6-2 300 with a G200, and I get more than 1fps, but not enough to be playable. I'm using the Debian-packaged version of the drivers, now horribly outdated (from august, iirc). I'll try compiling from the latest source and see how it turns out.
Actually, IIRC there was a buffer overflow in Pine which could be exploited (long since patched of course). If you download and run unknown binaries on Linux, you are vulerable to trojans, and to a lesser extent viruses. The one thing that makes Linux less vulnerable to malicious software is that a user's access to the machine is limited, as in NT. If a malicious program is run by root (either intentionally or through an insecure setuid program), there is no protection.
According to linux.corel.com, the distro will be available in three flavors. Intrestingly, according to their checklist, the "standard" version includes Netscape Communicator, Acrobat Reader, and an "Instant Messenger - ICQ compatible client', but the "download" edition has none of these things. This doesn't make any sense, since communicator, acroread, and several different AIM and ICQ clients are already available as Debian packages. Can anyone (beta testers?) say if standard Debian packages will install on Corel Linux and vice versa?
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The Palm IIIe doesn't have flash either. The Palm III, IIIx, V, Vx (maybe VII), and TRGPro have flash. I don't know about the RAM requirements, but I seem to recall a minimum of 4M, which would mean IIIx, Vx, or TRGPro.
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The Visor has no flash, so you wouldn't be able to replace your ROM image with this. (This could be worked around with a program like loadlin.exe). Even if you could, I don't think you would want to yet, as installing this ROM image would be irreversable. For now, stick with emulation
OSK did not port Linux to the Palm; they're using the ucLinux kernel. OSK has written a PalmOS compatibility layer (analogous to Wine), which lets you run existing Palm applications as well as Linux apps.
IDE DVD drives use the ATAPI protocol. Put a CD in, and it looks just like a normal CDROM drives. Put a DVD in, and you can mount it just like you can a CD, except it can have a lot more stuff on it. (You should have a recent kernel to be able to read the larger filesystems).
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The eyes of children under 15 are still growing. Excessive near work may cause the eyes to grow into an elongated shape (I'm not sure if there are any formal studies showing this, but it would explain why nearsightedness progresses so rapidly in children that wear glasses). Once the eyes have finished growing, they are much less prone to change shape. Personally, I would be wary of staring into a screen just inches from my eyes for an extended period of time, even though I am in the recommended age range.
Here's an excerpt from /etc/X11/XF86Config:
Section "Pointer"
Protocol "MouseManPlusPS/2"
Device "/dev/mouse"
Buttons 4
End Section
I'm not on my linux box right now, so I can't check this, but there is a line in the XFree86 config file for "number of buttons" - I set this to 4, and everything works fine for me.
Actually, it's a 32-bit signed variable (to allow for dates before 1970), which has a range of approximately plus or minus 2 billion. The rollover will occur on 19 Jan 2038 (not 2037). This will likely cause immense problems, as most people will have no clue why this will be a problem (Y2K is much easier to understand for the unwashed masses).
I second the endorsement of Logitech trackball. I've got the Trackman Marble FX. The angle takes a little getting used to, but I like it. A friend has a Kensington ("Expert Mouse" IIRC - a big 4-button trackball), with which he is quite happy.
The review mentions that the Palm seems much more unstable while on the network. I think the reason for this is that the TCP/IP stack uses 32k of the dynamic heap, which is quite limited (IIRC, the Palm V has less than 20k available while the TCP/IP stack is loaded). Many apps aren't tested with an active net connection, so the authors aren't as careful about checking their memory allocations.
There are two dhcp clients available for Linux. I've had some problems with dhcpcd, but pump works fine. It's included with RH6.1, and there are Debian packages.
Python can be compiled to bytecodes, but python programs are traditionally distributed only in source form. There's nothing stopping anyone from distributing python programs in bytecode form, but there's not much that can be done to obfuscate the bytecode, so decompiling is relatively easy.
The size and composition of these planets effectively rules out Life As We Know It (tm). But, they are deemed to be "possibly life-bearing" because they could contain liquid water. Why is liquid water important? Because it is essential for Life As We Know It (tm), which, as has already been admitted, could not exist there.
There are a finite number of shares offered. Companies are allowed to reserve shares for their employees and selected others. The rest of the shares go to "everybody else", which generally means large institutions. The Letter gets you the oppportunity to buy from a pool of stock which most people don't have access to. You're not guaranteed to get in (AFAIK), but your chances are significantly better.
Well, CORL has nearly doubled in the last couple of months. Problem is, without an IPO, they're not as visible. Also, when people see Corel, they think WordPerfect or Corel Draw. When people see Cobalt, they wonder who it is, then go and look it up and see the magic word "Linux"
VA is doing their best to let non-Americans in on the offer, and you don't have to meet some arbitrary standard of financial status to get in on the deal. I just wish they had given a URL to the pdf instead of dropping it in everyone's inbox.
Dealcatcher.com has a large database of deals like this.
At this location there is a mirror of the headlines and articles of /. in a Palm-friendly form.
SiteScooper will convert websites to doc. But what you really want is malsync, which is a Unix version of the AvantGo conduit, or Plucker, a GPL'd Palm HTML viewer with it's own conduit (written in AWK, currently being rewritten in Perl).
Check out this site for drivers. I also have a K6-2 300 with a G200, and I get more than 1fps, but not enough to be playable. I'm using the Debian-packaged version of the drivers, now horribly outdated (from august, iirc). I'll try compiling from the latest source and see how it turns out.
Actually, IIRC there was a buffer overflow in Pine which could be exploited (long since patched of course). If you download and run unknown binaries on Linux, you are vulerable to trojans, and to a lesser extent viruses. The one thing that makes Linux less vulnerable to malicious software is that a user's access to the machine is limited, as in NT. If a malicious program is run by root (either intentionally or through an insecure setuid program), there is no protection.
"As a discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis approaches one"
Technically, they're not hyping it at all. Transmeta haven't said anything; they're just letting /. and others speculate like mad.
You know, that Crusoe logo looks an awful lot like the Debian logo.
According to linux.corel.com, the distro will be available in three flavors. Intrestingly, according to their checklist, the "standard" version includes Netscape Communicator, Acrobat Reader, and an "Instant Messenger - ICQ compatible client', but the "download" edition has none of these things. This doesn't make any sense, since communicator, acroread, and several different AIM and ICQ clients are already available as Debian packages. Can anyone (beta testers?) say if standard Debian packages will install on Corel Linux and vice versa?
The Palm IIIe doesn't have flash either. The Palm III, IIIx, V, Vx (maybe VII), and TRGPro have flash. I don't know about the RAM requirements, but I seem to recall a minimum of 4M, which would mean IIIx, Vx, or TRGPro.
The Visor has no flash, so you wouldn't be able to replace your ROM image with this. (This could be worked around with a program like loadlin.exe). Even if you could, I don't think you would want to yet, as installing this ROM image would be irreversable. For now, stick with emulation
OSK did not port Linux to the Palm; they're using the ucLinux kernel. OSK has written a PalmOS compatibility layer (analogous to Wine), which lets you run existing Palm applications as well as Linux apps.
IDE DVD drives use the ATAPI protocol. Put a CD in, and it looks just like a normal CDROM drives. Put a DVD in, and you can mount it just like you can a CD, except it can have a lot more stuff on it. (You should have a recent kernel to be able to read the larger filesystems).