What would be really awesome is if Palm's new OS wan installable on Windows PocketPC hardware. I'd pay $50-100 to be able to run palm os 6.0 on an iPaq or Tosh 740 with built-in 802.11b.
It would be even cooler if they could manage to get it to dual boot. But I'd settle for one or the other. This would be great for people who's companies insist that they buy WinCE devices. They could just buy them and then buy PalmOS for it.
I think that using multiple monitors is great for anyone who uses multiple programs at the same time. If all you ever do is use one program, with one window and enter data, then it's not such a big deal. However, as one starts to multitask more, having a second screen to utilize is a big improvement.
I find that it is siginificantly faster to switch between programs running on different screens, than to try to find which item in the task bar represents that program and clicking on it. In addition, anyone who has to use reference material to work on a current project will find it very helpful. On one screen, you can have the pdf(instead of printing it out) and you can read through it as you are working on the second screen.
I will always use multiple screens if they are available to me.
The best way to get your boss to see how much nicer it is/more productive one can become is to setup his computer to have multiple screens. Let him use it for a week or two. (This is of course provided that he uses his computer substancially and would appreciate it.) Then when he goes back to one screen he will see how limiting it is. (Just like that first time when you work on a 21" screen for a while and have to go back to your 15" screen.)
As for LCDs vs. CRTs, it all comes down to cost and desk space. If you're trying to get them to bite the bullet and get some multiple screen systems, getting them to buy 19" CRTs is going to be much easier than 18" LCDs. However, if your Desks aren't big enough for CRTs then you are stuck.
Just thought of one more reason that going to multiple monitors is good. It gives you significantly more screen space for your money spent. Two 19" monitors might run you $350-$500 (depending on which screens you get... you could even get it under $300)... one 21" monitor will run you $300+... and one 24" will run you $1200...
Cell phones do work from airplanes. The issue is that the airlines want you to use their in flight phones and the various cell phone companies don't want you to be able to hit your home cell from a mile in the air, where chances are, you wouldn't have to pay roaming fees. They want to set up a situation where they have a captive consumer with no outside competition... they set up a deal with the airline that lets them charge the consumer $3 a minute... give the airline $1 and keep $2... or something along those lines.
What about the creation of an iCal program for the PC that sync's with.Mac's cal and address book. This would allow you to use the.Mac as your "source" and all the others would sync with it.
I don't know whether anyone has tried this, or is working on this, but it could be quite nice.
In addition to support for Windows, if it were done in a modular manner (and even if just the protocols were made open), you could create a version for Linux and any other platform.
Actually, from what I gather MS's R&D engineers are some of the best engineers around. The actual production engineers are good as well, but nowhere near their R&D counterparts.
Yeah, they get their UI from Apple, and buy up/copy any other promising piece of software or technology.
Earlier this year, Microsoft lost its bid to settle dozens of private antitrust lawsuits by donating $1 billion worth of computers and software to the nation's poorest public schools. U.S. District Judge J. Frederick Motz in Baltimore ruled that the proposal was unacceptable because it would give the software giant an unfair advantage over rival Apple Computer, a major player in the education market.
I'm glad someone is paying attention and stopping M$ from further advancing their cause with their punishment. If M$ wants to give money to the schools, they can do so by giving them money that is not tied to M$ products. The schools should be able to buy Apple, Sun, IBM, Linux or M$ products (or whatever else).
These are supposed to be punishments for M$ not helping them secure market share. If they want to give $1billion dollars in software to schools w/o money, they should just do it.
It would be awesome if Thomson and the Fraunhofer Gesellschaft said that there was a licensing fee for only decoders that ran under Windows and on portable devices!
That would give them a more easily enforcable license: "Hey M$, how many copies of Media Player have you sold?"
Just wish they had some Linux zealots willing to give up a bit of profit for the cause!
The only way to properly do this is to find a USB extension cable. It's a device that has a small hub controller in one end. (looks like a regular cable with male& female A connectors on each end, but has a larger housing at one end and in that housing, there's a hub.)
You might find that you can extend it in other ways, but they will be very finicky.
The other option is to connect multiple cables together using regular hubs.
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Ahh, nipples. The most intuitive interface known to man.
Connected to one of the most confusing devices EVER!!!
I am very interested in finding a cross platform solution. I don't believe that Evolution is the way to go. Creating an LDAP server and using LDAP clients on all the different platforms is a much more elegant solution.
I'd love to hear what others are doing.
I know that many mail clients out there support LDAP searches, however, I haven't found any good guides to setting up the LDAP servers. If anyone has any pointers, I'd love to hear them.
While it's not seamless, it does work well, and its session state is stored on the server, so your local computer crashing won't take it down too. Plus as an added benefit, you can connect to it from other machines.
As pointed out elsewhere, spammers can get information about whether or not you've viewed one of their messages when you view the HTML if it asks for any external data such as images.
I use Tiny Personal Firewall to prevent progams from accessing the network in ways that I don't want them too. For example, I have told it that Outlook Express should only be allowed to talk to my servers, and even then, only on ports 25 and 145 (send mail and IMAP). This stops all images from being downloaded or other html calls from going off of my machine and letting spammers know that I've viewed their mail.
The nice part of this is that if I decide that I want to view images in an html mail message (nytimes news stories for example), I just right click on the tiny personal firewall icon and disable the firewall, and then just enable it after.
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Personally, I'll sacrifice performance I'll never realize in return for a beautiful, intuitive, and responsive interface housed in a quiet, attractive package.
Wouldn't we all... especially if she'll do the dishes too...
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With a 400MB/s bus speed, the limitation is with the drive itself.
Ummm... NO.... it's 400mb/s!
That amounts to about 50MB/s.
So about half the speed of an ATA100 bus.
What would be really awesome is if Palm's new OS wan installable on Windows PocketPC hardware. I'd pay $50-100 to be able to run palm os 6.0 on an iPaq or Tosh 740 with built-in 802.11b.
It would be even cooler if they could manage to get it to dual boot. But I'd settle for one or the other. This would be great for people who's companies insist that they buy WinCE devices. They could just buy them and then buy PalmOS for it.
If you are running LinuxPPC, you could check out MacOnLinux.
Writing the equivalent of WINE for OS X would be a very very large undertaking.
I think that using multiple monitors is great for anyone who uses multiple programs at the same time. If all you ever do is use one program, with one window and enter data, then it's not such a big deal. However, as one starts to multitask more, having a second screen to utilize is a big improvement.
I find that it is siginificantly faster to switch between programs running on different screens, than to try to find which item in the task bar represents that program and clicking on it. In addition, anyone who has to use reference material to work on a current project will find it very helpful. On one screen, you can have the pdf(instead of printing it out) and you can read through it as you are working on the second screen.
I will always use multiple screens if they are available to me.
The best way to get your boss to see how much nicer it is/more productive one can become is to setup his computer to have multiple screens. Let him use it for a week or two. (This is of course provided that he uses his computer substancially and would appreciate it.) Then when he goes back to one screen he will see how limiting it is. (Just like that first time when you work on a 21" screen for a while and have to go back to your 15" screen.)
As for LCDs vs. CRTs, it all comes down to cost and desk space. If you're trying to get them to bite the bullet and get some multiple screen systems, getting them to buy 19" CRTs is going to be much easier than 18" LCDs. However, if your Desks aren't big enough for CRTs then you are stuck.
Just thought of one more reason that going to multiple monitors is good. It gives you significantly more screen space for your money spent. Two 19" monitors might run you $350-$500 (depending on which screens you get... you could even get it under $300)... one 21" monitor will run you $300+... and one 24" will run you $1200...
Cell phones do work from airplanes. The issue is that the airlines want you to use their in flight phones and the various cell phone companies don't want you to be able to hit your home cell from a mile in the air, where chances are, you wouldn't have to pay roaming fees. They want to set up a situation where they have a captive consumer with no outside competition... they set up a deal with the airline that lets them charge the consumer $3 a minute... give the airline $1 and keep $2... or something along those lines.
This isn't a feature in Pheonix yet, is it? I couldn't find it. Is it in the plan for upcoming releases?
What exactly does pipelining do?
Has anyone tried these devices out?
How well do they work?
Do they decrease the CPU load?
Why don't you connect the computers up wirelessly?
Then you wouldn't need any hubs. You could even put wireless cards or USB adapters onto your desktop machines.
Any you'll love it for other things when you're home and just surfing the web in front of the TV.
What about the creation of an iCal program for the PC that sync's with .Mac's cal and address book. This would allow you to use the .Mac as your "source" and all the others would sync with it.
I don't know whether anyone has tried this, or is working on this, but it could be quite nice.
In addition to support for Windows, if it were done in a modular manner (and even if just the protocols were made open), you could create a version for Linux and any other platform.
Actually, from what I gather MS's R&D engineers are some of the best engineers around. The actual production engineers are good as well, but nowhere near their R&D counterparts.
Yeah, they get their UI from Apple, and buy up/copy any other promising piece of software or technology.
Earlier this year, Microsoft lost its bid to settle dozens of private antitrust lawsuits by donating $1 billion worth of computers and software to the nation's poorest public schools. U.S. District Judge J. Frederick Motz in Baltimore ruled that the proposal was unacceptable because it would give the software giant an unfair advantage over rival Apple Computer, a major player in the education market.
I'm glad someone is paying attention and stopping M$ from further advancing their cause with their punishment. If M$ wants to give money to the schools, they can do so by giving them money that is not tied to M$ products. The schools should be able to buy Apple, Sun, IBM, Linux or M$ products (or whatever else).
These are supposed to be punishments for M$ not helping them secure market share. If they want to give $1billion dollars in software to schools w/o money, they should just do it.
If you want a good free text editor, get xemacs/emacs!
If you want to pay for an excellent editor, get BBEdit!
'Nuf said!
It would be awesome if Thomson and the Fraunhofer Gesellschaft said that there was a licensing fee for only decoders that ran under Windows and on portable devices!
That would give them a more easily enforcable license: "Hey M$, how many copies of Media Player have you sold?"
Just wish they had some Linux zealots willing to give up a bit of profit for the cause!
Come on people, do some f***ing research before posting clearing erronious material.
Also no OS X native Matlab yet, meaning I have to switch to (yuck) classic. (I just go and use a SPARCstation).
Did you even take the time to look at MathWorks Website? Or have you not looked at it in the 6 months?
Here is a link to MatLab of OS X.
Please have some knowledge before you post...
The only way to properly do this is to find a USB extension cable. It's a device that has a small hub controller in one end. (looks like a regular cable with male& female A connectors on each end, but has a larger housing at one end and in that housing, there's a hub.)
You might find that you can extend it in other ways, but they will be very finicky.
The other option is to connect multiple cables together using regular hubs.
Ahh, nipples. The most intuitive interface known to man.
Connected to one of the most confusing devices EVER!!!
Linux has an LDAP server, I just have no clue how to set it up and add data to it. Are there any good books on the subject?
I am very interested in finding a cross platform solution. I don't believe that Evolution is the way to go. Creating an LDAP server and using LDAP clients on all the different platforms is a much more elegant solution.
I'd love to hear what others are doing.
I know that many mail clients out there support LDAP searches, however, I haven't found any good guides to setting up the LDAP servers. If anyone has any pointers, I'd love to hear them.
What about VNC?
While it's not seamless, it does work well, and its session state is stored on the server, so your local computer crashing won't take it down too. Plus as an added benefit, you can connect to it from other machines.
As pointed out elsewhere, spammers can get information about whether or not you've viewed one of their messages when you view the HTML if it asks for any external data such as images.
I use Tiny Personal Firewall to prevent progams from accessing the network in ways that I don't want them too. For example, I have told it that Outlook Express should only be allowed to talk to my servers, and even then, only on ports 25 and 145 (send mail and IMAP). This stops all images from being downloaded or other html calls from going off of my machine and letting spammers know that I've viewed their mail.
The nice part of this is that if I decide that I want to view images in an html mail message (nytimes news stories for example), I just right click on the tiny personal firewall icon and disable the firewall, and then just enable it after.
Personally, I'll sacrifice performance I'll never realize in return for a beautiful, intuitive, and responsive interface housed in a quiet, attractive package.
Wouldn't we all... especially if she'll do the dishes too...
Yeah... in school, we used to have to say the pledge ... "united we stand, divided we fall..."
no the pledge is illegal.
Check out ephpod. It can download news and weather.
My Apex lets me fast forward through anything that I want. And lets me jump to the title screen at any time.
Janeway is a totally useless character... a computer could do her job better.
Plus her voice is as annoying as all get out.