The good thing with bluetooth support in a digital camera is NOT being able to transfer images wirelessly. The pro's are:
* Ability to remotecontrol your camera * Sending smaller pictures to your PDA, for say use in presentations * Being able to send smaller pictures to the many new mobile phones (like the Sony Ericsson T68i)) * Bluetooth chips are getting cheap and massproduction gives Sony even cheaper chips for use in other devices * Using an open standard that many operating systems and hardware will understand (at least sending images)
Bluetooth is the future. Apple has excellent support for it. Linux has good support with Bluez and Nokia's Linux bluetooth stack (Affix). Soon even Microsoft will support it.:-P
Actually it's not harder than to open up the Airport menu, click Make Network and other users can easily access you.
But Rendezvous (zeroconf) is a very interesting technology, I tried to get it working in Linux a while back but the project was not that complete and there were few things you could do with it.
Transgaming have made steady progress since I first noticed them at the fall of 2000. I have deleted my Windows partition and can play all the games I need, without ever wanting to reboot.
I bought a Rio 800 with 128 MB memory last year after investigating Linux support. My friend has a Rio 500, it's supported by a kernel module and has really good GUI programs for it, a lot better than in Windows.
But it was more difficult with the Rio 800. Things weren't quite as good back then when I bought the player. There's a program called Unix Rio Utillity which uses is a commandline interface to the Rio. It has matured a lot and is now working perfectly.
There's no good GUI available though so I created the Perl Rio Util (prioutil) with Perl and GTK. Works kinda nice, but I haven't had time to update it for some time now.
This is a smart move by Apple. They recently released the iPOD portable mp3 player for Windows and I'm pretty sure people will want to get firewirecards for that. Plus, many new graphicscards and soundcards have built-in firewire. Yes, most new motherboards have USB 2.0, but people want Firewire as well.
Audiogalaxy has been a good source for music online. I will now have much greater difficulty finding and trying out new bands. This will of course result in fewer purchased CDs. Again, too bad.
I am thrilled beyond words. This is absolutely the best browser I have ever used. I had a tough time deciding which browser to use, but this is it. I especially recommend the Mouse Gesture Add-on.
This phone is old. It's been out for over a year. New high-end Nokia phones have bluetooth, or have it very soon.
Ciryon
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That has been discussed before and those statistics doesn't say anything. Take a look at the amount of packages with a Linux distribution and compare to the amount of programs you get with Winbloze. Is it strange that there are more 'vulnerabilities' in Linux? The same holes repeated over and over, but in different programs.
How many apps do you get in windows? Perhaps less than 50 including DOS utils and crap like Wordpad and Paint. In a normal Linux distro there are more than 2000 apps.
They sure have an impressive list of companies that support them: Fujitsu, IBM, HP, NEC and others.
Might be worth a try. I use Mandrake Linux at work now, and I can do pretty much anything with it that Windows users can. The only frustrating thing is the lack of good browser plugins (yes, there is Codeweavers but it tends to be rather slow and I want it native.)
I wish I had a C-Pen when I studied. It reads text and can translate it. Perfect for students!
Ciryon
Transgaming isn't bad.
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Many people are mad at Transgaming because they're choosing to release their code under a non-GPL licence. People are paying to get the binary code and gets to vote for their favourite game. This might sound bad, but the thing is that they have really created something really great. The advancements have been huge. I'm still amazed to see Diablo II or new games like Solider of Fortune II or Jedi Outcast run perfectly on my Linux box.
Transgaming has also promised to give back the sourcecode to Wine. There are many obstacles, including licenced technology like SafeDisc and S3 Texture Compression (if they ever do it) but I'm sure they can overcome it.
I would guess there are now more working games for Linux than for Mac OS. That's impressive.
Ok, this is getting it even harder to choose which browser to use in Linux.
Konqueror is really great and comes in handy especially when you want to use drag it to drag and drop images or files from webpages and FTP servers because of it's tight KDE integration. I hear they have tabs in CVS now too!
Mozilla 1.0rc2 which I'm currently running is stable, has loads of features and actually works with almost every page (including my bank). It is very rare that this browser crasches. A lot of work has been done here for the past few months.
Opera is the non-GPL browser and I actually try to get away from it a little. But once you get used to the mousegestures and the superfast page rendering it's hard to getaway.
There are in my opinion two really good DVD players for Linux:
1. Xine 2. Ogle
I use Xine for the most time since it's also capable of playing all kinds of video formats. But actually Ogle is better for pure DVD playing. I'm not sure if this is true anymore but Xine uses Ogle's code for DVD menu navigation. DVD menu navigation is something we had to wait a really long time to get in Linux. I was even so desperate I tried some strange (propably illegal) port of WinDVD called LinDVD a while ago, but now I'm proud to support real GNU projects.
Very strange is that neither of the players can manage to play Depeche Mode - The Videos DVD with sound.:-/
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Uhm, why not just buy a Mac? You can get them really cheap or really expensive depending on your preferences.
Ciryon
The good thing with bluetooth support in a digital camera is NOT being able to transfer images wirelessly. The pro's are:
:-P
* Ability to remotecontrol your camera
* Sending smaller pictures to your PDA, for say use in presentations
* Being able to send smaller pictures to the many new mobile phones (like the Sony Ericsson T68i))
* Bluetooth chips are getting cheap and massproduction gives Sony even cheaper chips for use in other devices
* Using an open standard that many operating systems and hardware will understand (at least sending images)
Bluetooth is the future. Apple has excellent support for it. Linux has good support with Bluez and Nokia's Linux bluetooth stack (Affix). Soon even Microsoft will support it.
Ciryon
Actually it's not harder than to open up the Airport menu, click Make Network and other users can easily access you.
But Rendezvous (zeroconf) is a very interesting technology, I tried to get it working in Linux a while back but the project was not that complete and there were few things you could do with it.
Ciryon
this is the future of Linux gaming.
Transgaming have made steady progress since I first noticed them at the fall of 2000. I have deleted my Windows partition and can play all the games I need, without ever wanting to reboot.
Ciryon
But it was more difficult with the Rio 800. Things weren't quite as good back then when I bought the player. There's a program called Unix Rio Utillity which uses is a commandline interface to the Rio. It has matured a lot and is now working perfectly.
There's no good GUI available though so I created the Perl Rio Util (prioutil) with Perl and GTK. Works kinda nice, but I haven't had time to update it for some time now.
Ciryon
Can this be used for audio only to substitute programs like CuBase ?
Ciryon
Ciryon
Warcraft III is running using OpenGL in Linux. That game is running FASTER (please note my capitalized letters) than in Windows. I'm not kidding.
Ciryon
Someone could easily disable it by flying an aircraft with wire around its legs!
Ciryon
RealPlayer is really really bad. And it costs $15 per MONTH !
The only streaming player one should use is QuickTime.
1. Aren't there any mirrors? :-)
2. Where can I buy the 'blasphemious T-shirts'? They must be worth a fortune now!
Ciryon
Audiogalaxy has been a good source for music online. I will now have much greater difficulty finding and trying out new bands. This will of course result in fewer purchased CDs. Again, too bad.
Ciryon
Ciryon
Well? What's the URL so we can all try it? They gotta trust me, I'm swedish! ;-)
It's interesting to see Apple and how OS X uses an Open Source kernel (Darwin). Why shouldn't Microsoft be able to do the same thing?
They can keep closed sourced programs and user interface portion, but why not open up the kernel?
Ciryon
This phone is old. It's been out for over a year. New high-end Nokia phones have bluetooth, or have it very soon.
Ciryon
How many apps do you get in windows? Perhaps less than 50 including DOS utils and crap like Wordpad and Paint. In a normal Linux distro there are more than 2000 apps.
Ciryon
Might be worth a try. I use Mandrake Linux at work now, and I can do pretty much anything with it that Windows users can. The only frustrating thing is the lack of good browser plugins (yes, there is Codeweavers but it tends to be rather slow and I want it native.)
Ciryon
Ciryon
Transgaming has also promised to give back the sourcecode to Wine. There are many obstacles, including licenced technology like SafeDisc and S3 Texture Compression (if they ever do it) but I'm sure they can overcome it.
I would guess there are now more working games for Linux than for Mac OS. That's impressive.
Ciryon
Would be cool if any of these talented guys wanted to help out with a open source RTS game. Then it would surely look as good as commercial ones.
Ciryon
The best Linux based server operating system is soon to see yet another fine release.
Ciryon
Konqueror is really great and comes in handy especially when you want to use drag it to drag and drop images or files from webpages and FTP servers because of it's tight KDE integration. I hear they have tabs in CVS now too!
Mozilla 1.0rc2 which I'm currently running is stable, has loads of features and actually works with almost every page (including my bank). It is very rare that this browser crasches. A lot of work has been done here for the past few months.
Opera is the non-GPL browser and I actually try to get away from it a little. But once you get used to the mousegestures and the superfast page rendering it's hard to getaway.
Well, off to download!!
Ciryon
There are in my opinion two really good DVD players for Linux:
:-/
1. Xine
2. Ogle
I use Xine for the most time since it's also capable of playing all kinds of video formats. But actually Ogle is better for pure DVD playing. I'm not sure if this is true anymore but Xine uses Ogle's code for DVD menu navigation. DVD menu navigation is something we had to wait a really long time to get in Linux. I was even so desperate I tried some strange (propably illegal) port of WinDVD called LinDVD a while ago, but now I'm proud to support real GNU projects.
Very strange is that neither of the players can manage to play Depeche Mode - The Videos DVD with sound.
Ciryon
Very good point. I wish I some moderation points left. ;-)