This key is in version 0.8 of the css package, available from the site linked to in the howto. The Matrix seems to decrypt OK, but when I try to pass the resulting.vob file to mpeg2player, it says "can't read first packet", creates a small white window, and sits there indefinitely. The Matrix is the only DVD I have to test with currently, so I'm not sure if it's a problem with that disc or with my setup.
The page recommends 350mHz with 128M RAM for video alone, 600mHz for video and audio (there are software decoders for Windows that require significantly less horsepower simply because the software is more optimized). There are not yet any decoder cards that work with Linux. Another requirement that is not mentioned in the HOWTO is that you must be running a 16-bit X server.
wmnetselect is an applet that sits in your dock/panel/whatever. Select text in any X app and middle-click on the wmnetselect icon, and Netscape will go to that URL. It's designed for WindowMaker, but works in other environments as well.
As others have said, this technology is not perfect. www.surgicaleyes.org is a site that aims to inform people of the risks of eye surgery. Read and think about the information there before deciding if it's worth the risk.
On the other hand, the one person I know personally who had laser eye surgery (I think it was LASIK) loved it. He had both eyes done on Friday and was back to work on Monday.
Battery life on the TRGPro is comparable to existing devices while the CF slot is not in use. When it is in use, power consumption varies depending on the installed device. The flash storage cards aren't bad, but the IBM Microdrive can really eat batteries.
The advantage of CF over springboard is interoperability - you can plug a CF card into a laptop, digital camera, etc, and share data directly. Springboard is quite PalmOS-centric.
TRG is not an unknown in the handheld industry. They've been producing memory upgrades for older Palm/Pilots for years now. TRG as a company has had time to build up a reputation, although they don't have anyone with the personal reputation of Hawkins and Dubinsky.
A keyboard like what you describe is made by ThinkOutside (www.thinkoutside.com). It is 3.5x5x0.8" (approximately the same size as a Palm III). It folds out to just under 14".
An InfoWorld story (http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayStory.pl? 991019.enkessler.htm) reports that an upcoming Nokia phone/PalmOS hybrid will run on "an Arm chip". I've heard good things about the StrongARM line, but I'm concerned about the existance of two different binary-incompatible architectures for Palm. Palm's standardization on m68k was IMO a great boost to the 3rd-party software community.
In other news, the TRGPro (www.trgpro.com) was announced. It's basically a modified Palm IIIx produced by TRG (makers of FlashPro and various memory upgrades) to include a Compact Flash slot. The device includes 8M ram and 2M flash, and will retail for about $320 when it is released in December.
Now,instead, if someone were to post an informative and well-researched article on the challenges involved in extending the PalmOS graphics model to support larger screens and color, we might have something worthy of News for Nerds...
It looks like Palm will be doing exactly that tomorrow. At PalmSource, there is a presentation scheduled on "Enhanced graphics APIs", which involve support for higher resolution and/or color.
At PalmSource (the Palm developers' conference), there is a session on "Enhanced Graphics APIs" scheduled for Tuesday at 2:30 PDT. I expect they'll be announcing a new product at that session if not before.
NiCd batteries don't work very well in Palm devices due to the lower voltage. Other kinds of rechargables (such as the Li-ion battery in the Palm V and Vx) fare better.
All existing Palm devices except the new Vx use a 16mHz processor (DragonBall EZ for IIIx, IIIe, and V, regular DragonBall on the others). The Vx uses a 20mHz DragonBall EZ.
OS3.3 does work on the PalmIII. The other significant improvements besides faster hotsyncing are improved infrared support (I think this has been possible with 3rd-party software), and the addition of the Euro symbol to all the standard fonts. Aside from the Euro symbol, which may or may not matter for you, there's not a very compelling reason for wanting 3.3 on a Visor.
The main use for the flash so far is a 3rd-party app called FlashPro, which lets you store applications in the unused ~800k of flash.
I use wxWindows from Python and love it. It's not quite as cross-platform as you say (if anyone's working on a Qt port, they're being quiet about it, and IIRC the the Mac version is rather early in development), but it's still better than just about any GUI lib out there. I think a cross-platform library is not as appealing in C++, since it still has to be recompiled for each platform. wxWindows is however gaining a foothold in the Python community, where an app can run on any platform where the wxPython libraries have been ported with no extra recompilation required.
As for the Gnome support, the wx people would love to add it, but last time this came up on gnome-devel-list, the gnome folks weren't too keen on the idea. It's not currently possible to make a full-fledged Gnome app (whatever that means) with wxWindows, but you can come as close as you can with plain GTK (no libgnome/libgnomeui)
Ah. I hadn't noticed the library change. Must've happened at about the same time I switched mail clients. It didn't make any sense for closing a window to crash iff the mail app was open, but at the time I wasn't aware of any other change.
I'm not implying that the mail client doesn't have more than it's share of bugs, but at least this one apparently wasn't its fault.
I find trackballs much more comfortable than standard mice. I use the command line and keyboard shortcuts too much to have any real RSI problems with any pointing device, but a trackball just feels better. I prefer trackballs with the large finger-operated ball, such as those made by Logitech and Kensington. I currently use a Logitech Trackman Marble FX. It's for right-hand use only, so if you want to use your left hand, go with a Kensington. I don't recall the model name, but they have one that is a large square base with a button in each corner and a large ball in the middle.
I used to have the same problem, crashing when closing windows. That actually seemed to be the fault of the mail component. Since I switched to mutt for email, I haven't had a single crash when closing a browser window (it still crashes more than any other non-beta Linux app I've ever seen). I think this has been all but confirmed as a glibc 2.1 issue (I'm also running potato). Perhaps we will be able to get 4.7 compiled against glibc2.1 and fix this mess
It may be too late for you, but I made my RSI symptoms go away by altering my computer environment and habits:
* Keyboard position matters - The single best thing I did was to get out the toolbox and lower the keyboard drawer on my desk by several inches (it should be just above your knees, so that your forearms are horizontal while typing). Hacking up your desk may not be an option; if not you can also just set the keyboard on your lap.
* Keyboard shape doesn't matter as much - The main thing that the Microsoft Natural and similar keyboards are good for is compensating for poor keyboard positioning. The angled split is good for situations where you must keep the keyboard higher than the optimal position.
* Mice are bad - I can't use a standard mouse for very long at all without some pain in my wrist. I prefer finger-operated trackballs (I have a Logitech Trackman Marble FX. Kensington also has some good trackballs)
* Don't get lazy - just because you have a wrist rest in front of your keyboard doesn't mean you should keep your wrists on it while typing. Your wrists should be straight, which doesn't happen if they're resting on a pad
* Unlearn bad typing habits - (this one I'm still working on) I tend to use the left shift key for everything, whether the shifted character is typed with the left or right hand. This is not a good idea; train yourself to shift with the opposite hand. On a related note, you may want to consider remapping your keyboard - I mapped the key to the left of 'A' (normally capslock) to Control. Some people say the Dvorak keyboard layout is easier on the hands, since more of the typing is done on the home row.
Ding is a dictionary lookup program that includes a German-English dictionary. The program is GPL; the web page doesn't mention a separate copyright for the dictionary data, so I assume it is also GPL.
Linux is legally free, but Red Hat still makes money (well, not yet, but hopefully soon). Individual users don't really matter to McAfee (until a fairly recent version, they did nothing to enforce the evaluation time limit). They get their money from corporations like the one I worked at last summer. They licensed two copies of McAfee for every employee (the second copy is so people don't bring viruses from home). In retrospect, McAfee was a stupid decision, since it did not get along well at all with Novell networks. Still, I'm surprised that they haven't changed the password on their site after all these years (I won't give it to you, so don't ask).
Mozillazine (www.mozillazine.org) has this article today:
Yet another hole has been found in Internet Explorer's ActiveX implementation. This one allows arbitrary code to be written to the user's hard-drive. The bug was found by Georgi Guninski, who has found many security bugs in IE and Communicator. To read more about it, click here to visit Georgi's page. If you click "Test it" beside the name of this bug ("Executing programs with IE 5.0") while using IE, the page you visit will write a small bit of sample code to your StartUp menu. You've been warned. Georgi calls this bug "the most significant of my discoveries and the most dangerous also".
The 8X maximum multiplier in the article refers to the processor speed relative to the bus speed, not relative to the "official speed". Current Celerons use a 66mHz bus, so 8x would mean a maximum speed of 533mHz. These machines will default to 7x for a 466 mHz clock.
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This key is in version 0.8 of the css package, available from the site linked to in the howto. The Matrix seems to decrypt OK, but when I try to pass the resulting .vob file to mpeg2player, it says "can't read first packet", creates a small white window, and sits there indefinitely. The Matrix is the only DVD I have to test with currently, so I'm not sure if it's a problem with that disc or with my setup.
The page recommends 350mHz with 128M RAM for video alone, 600mHz for video and audio (there are software decoders for Windows that require significantly less horsepower simply because the software is more optimized). There are not yet any decoder cards that work with Linux. Another requirement that is not mentioned in the HOWTO is that you must be running a 16-bit X server.
wmnetselect is an applet that sits in your dock/panel/whatever. Select text in any X app and middle-click on the wmnetselect icon, and Netscape will go to that URL. It's designed for WindowMaker, but works in other environments as well.
On the other hand, the one person I know personally who had laser eye surgery (I think it was LASIK) loved it. He had both eyes done on Friday and was back to work on Monday.
A keyboard like what you describe is made by ThinkOutside (www.thinkoutside.com). It is 3.5x5x0.8" (approximately the same size as a Palm III). It folds out to just under 14".
An InfoWorld story (http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayStory.pl? 991019.enkessler.htm) reports that an upcoming Nokia phone/PalmOS hybrid will run on "an Arm chip". I've heard good things about the StrongARM line, but I'm concerned about the existance of two different binary-incompatible architectures for Palm. Palm's standardization on m68k was IMO a great boost to the 3rd-party software community.
In other news, the TRGPro (www.trgpro.com) was announced. It's basically a modified Palm IIIx produced by TRG (makers of FlashPro and various memory upgrades) to include a Compact Flash slot. The device includes 8M ram and 2M flash, and will retail for about $320 when it is released in December.
Fetchez la vache!
At PalmSource (the Palm developers' conference), there is a session on "Enhanced Graphics APIs" scheduled for Tuesday at 2:30 PDT. I expect they'll be announcing a new product at that session if not before.
NiCd batteries don't work very well in Palm devices due to the lower voltage. Other kinds of rechargables (such as the Li-ion battery in the Palm V and Vx) fare better.
All existing Palm devices except the new Vx use a 16mHz processor (DragonBall EZ for IIIx, IIIe, and V, regular DragonBall on the others). The Vx uses a 20mHz DragonBall EZ.
OS3.3 does work on the PalmIII. The other significant improvements besides faster hotsyncing are improved infrared support (I think this has been possible with 3rd-party software), and the addition of the Euro symbol to all the standard fonts. Aside from the Euro symbol, which may or may not matter for you, there's not a very compelling reason for wanting 3.3 on a Visor.
The main use for the flash so far is a 3rd-party app called FlashPro, which lets you store applications in the unused ~800k of flash.
I use wxWindows from Python and love it. It's not quite as cross-platform as you say (if anyone's working on a Qt port, they're being quiet about it, and IIRC the the Mac version is rather early in development), but it's still better than just about any GUI lib out there. I think a cross-platform library is not as appealing in C++, since it still has to be recompiled for each platform. wxWindows is however gaining a foothold in the Python community, where an app can run on any platform where the wxPython libraries have been ported with no extra recompilation required.
As for the Gnome support, the wx people would love to add it, but last time this came up on gnome-devel-list, the gnome folks weren't too keen on the idea. It's not currently possible to make a full-fledged Gnome app (whatever that means) with wxWindows, but you can come as close as you can with plain GTK (no libgnome/libgnomeui)
Ah. I hadn't noticed the library change. Must've happened at about the same time I switched mail clients. It didn't make any sense for closing a window to crash iff the mail app was open, but at the time I wasn't aware of any other change.
I'm not implying that the mail client doesn't have more than it's share of bugs, but at least this one apparently wasn't its fault.
I find trackballs much more comfortable than standard mice. I use the command line and keyboard shortcuts too much to have any real RSI problems with any pointing device, but a trackball just feels better. I prefer trackballs with the large finger-operated ball, such as those made by Logitech and Kensington. I currently use a Logitech Trackman Marble FX. It's for right-hand use only, so if you want to use your left hand, go with a Kensington. I don't recall the model name, but they have one that is a large square base with a button in each corner and a large ball in the middle.
I used to have the same problem, crashing when closing windows. That actually seemed to be the fault of the mail component. Since I switched to mutt for email, I haven't had a single crash when closing a browser window (it still crashes more than any other non-beta Linux app I've ever seen). I think this has been all but confirmed as a glibc 2.1 issue (I'm also running potato). Perhaps we will be able to get 4.7 compiled against glibc2.1 and fix this mess
It may be too late for you, but I made my RSI symptoms go away by altering my computer environment and habits:
* Keyboard position matters - The single best thing I did was to get out the toolbox and lower the keyboard drawer on my desk by several inches (it should be just above your knees, so that your forearms are horizontal while typing). Hacking up your desk may not be an option; if not you can also just set the keyboard on your lap.
* Keyboard shape doesn't matter as much - The main thing that the Microsoft Natural and similar keyboards are good for is compensating for poor keyboard positioning. The angled split is good for situations where you must keep the keyboard higher than the optimal position.
* Mice are bad - I can't use a standard mouse for very long at all without some pain in my wrist. I prefer finger-operated trackballs (I have a Logitech Trackman Marble FX. Kensington also has some good trackballs)
* Don't get lazy - just because you have a wrist rest in front of your keyboard doesn't mean you should keep your wrists on it while typing. Your wrists should be straight, which doesn't happen if they're resting on a pad
* Unlearn bad typing habits - (this one I'm still working on) I tend to use the left shift key for everything, whether the shifted character is typed with the left or right hand. This is not a good idea; train yourself to shift with the opposite hand. On a related note, you may want to consider remapping your keyboard - I mapped the key to the left of 'A' (normally capslock) to Control. Some people say the Dvorak keyboard layout is easier on the hands, since more of the typing is done on the home row.
HTH,
-Ben
Years divisible by four but not by 100 are leap years. Years divisible by 400 are also leap years. Thus, 2000 is a leap year, 1900 and 2100 are not.
http://www.tu-chemnitz.de/~fri/ding/
Ding is a dictionary lookup program that includes a German-English dictionary. The program is GPL; the web page doesn't mention a separate copyright for the dictionary data, so I assume it is also GPL.
Linux is legally free, but Red Hat still makes money (well, not yet, but hopefully soon). Individual users don't really matter to McAfee (until a fairly recent version, they did nothing to enforce the evaluation time limit). They get their money from corporations like the one I worked at last summer. They licensed two copies of McAfee for every employee (the second copy is so people don't bring viruses from home). In retrospect, McAfee was a stupid decision, since it did not get along well at all with Novell networks. Still, I'm surprised that they haven't changed the password on their site after all these years (I won't give it to you, so don't ask).
It's mocking Sun's equally meaningless slogan, "We put the dot in .com"
Mozillazine (www.mozillazine.org) has this article today:
Yet another hole has been found in Internet Explorer's ActiveX
implementation. This one allows arbitrary code to be written to the user's
hard-drive. The bug was found by Georgi Guninski, who has found many
security bugs in IE and Communicator. To read more about it, click here to
visit Georgi's page. If you click "Test it" beside the name of this bug
("Executing programs with IE 5.0") while using IE, the page you visit will
write a small bit of sample code to your StartUp menu. You've been warned.
Georgi calls this bug "the most significant of my discoveries and the most
dangerous also".
The 8X maximum multiplier in the article refers to the processor speed relative to the bus speed, not relative to the "official speed". Current Celerons use a 66mHz bus, so 8x would mean a maximum speed of 533mHz. These machines will default to 7x for a 466 mHz clock.