I have found Omnipad to be an excellent editor. Here is their decription from their site
"OmniPad is a multipurpose text/code editor designed to be intuitive, sleek, fast, and feature packed There are way too many features to list here but some of the major ones are: Multiple document interface, syntax highlighting, autocomplete, built in FTP, hex editing, total customization, and many more."
X apps can talk to more than one display device at once. I used to use xemacs and have it displayed on several different computers at the same time. It was great, I could be coding in a buffer and my friend could be following along in my code, fixing bugs...all in the same buffer. I think that X probably doesn't care whether or not you are using multiple displays, and that it is just the application that has to be writting to do this.
(I believe the xemacs command is something like "make-frame-on-display", but I don't remember it exactly.)
An apple a day keeps the doctor away... well... we can hope.
For Linux to make the set onto the desktop, it really needs to have some major parts of it's code rewritten. First, X has to GO!!! I love X, but for the average user, popping up a window from another machine just isn't important. I was at school and many of the Comp Sci majors there didn't even know that they could remotely display information.
I believe that Linux needs the Apple treatment. A true front end has to be written, possibly from the ground up... for Linux. The guts of Linux are great, but it just doesn't have anywhere near the ease of use that other OS's have.
People need to have an OS that's friendly, do unto Linux what Apple did to BSD. Write a great (modern) interface and ditch X. This new interface could always have the capabilites of X, but it really needs to have screen performance as its primary concern.
I've been using debian for several years and really find it to be a stellar distribution. I love apt-get and the fact that it has been a solid system (even though I'm running unstable). My only gripe is that the install system and process for configuring X could be improved greatly. My roommate just tried installing Debian and configuring X (and getting nvidia drivers to work). His response was that maybe he should really go back to windows! OUCH! I Downloaded a few other distributions and he was much happier with his experience with all of them. (SuSE Mandrake and RedHat)
Don't get me wrong, I love deb and will keep using it, however, getting it to be a bit for friendly to the first time user couldn't hurt either.
I have been trying to figure out what to do. I got given a head unit that doesn't have an aux input. (which if you have, you can hook your iPod up directly) At any rate, I found a great solution to my problem. A little FM transmitter. There are a number of these things on the market, I chose the one from iRock. It has been working extremely well.
Cypress have a number of different USB 1.1 and 2.0 solutions that work extremely well. They have the SX series and FX series. The SX series is very simple to use, as it is essentially a fifo that an external processor can control. The FX series is a flexible io device with a 8051 that controls it. You might look into either of these as a way to develop your product. They have dev kits for $500 or so (I don't remember the exact price). The kits come with development software and a demo driver.
However, I'm not sure whether the ATA side of enclosures runs at ATA33/66/100 or 133. Most firewire disks available today are just repackaged IDE drives. Just wondering how they compare when connected to firewire.
I have been wondering why people are pushing serial ata and not Firewire/ieee1394. The 1394 protocol seems to be quite good, with their second version coming out soon with extremely fast transfer rates.
Has anyone done any studies comparing 1394 to ATA and SCSI? I would be really interested to see that.
Some other things I've been wondering are whether there are ATA133-to-1394 adapters and firewire raid solutions. It would seem to be excellent for creating less expensive raid devices.
It's too bad that apple hasn't set up a method for others to use the software updater to keep all software on the machine upto date. It would be extremely nice if you were presented with a list of programs that the machine could look for updates for.
If you want, you can get one of teh Lucent/Orinoco cards and attach an external antenna to it. Right now I am writing this response on a bronze key G3 (no internal wireless) using a lucent wavelan card.
I'm using the wireless drivers from the project mentioned above on sourceforge...
... because they want to have control over that data. If they were to just pull the data from cable, they'd have no way of making sure you'd paid your subscription.
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Don't get me started on the wonderful system we have in the states. I'd love to be able to switch to a nice GSM phone, but here in the states, GSM service is only available in a few areas. In Vermont, we're stuck with patchy analog service and even patchier digital service. The only good thing about cellular service is that it's not tied to hard lines, so there is compition.
If you want to use your iPod on a windows based machine, just grab xplay
Works like a charm!
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Wearing a ti ring is bad if you ever get injured and your finger swells. Most ER's are not capable of cutting through ti and as a result, you could be in a lot of trouble if you ever need to have it taken off.
You can get IDE to ieee1394 (firewire) adapters that plug into the back of your hard drive. Now, you just get a nice firewire controller and you have a hot swapable device.
I think that the last time I checked, these controllers were around $40-50... And firewire's very cool.
In one of the buildings that I worked in, my monitor kept flickering no matter what I did. Regular monitors (Apple, SGI, Sun, Sony) were all but unusable. The only monitors that came close to being usable were old IBM Trinitron monitors that were bought with old IBM RS6000 320's and 340's. These monitors weighted 100 lbs or so and probably had significant sheilding. Additionally, it may have been the BNC cabling. We tried UPS's and other power conditioning to no avail. We tried bringing in power from other rooms, no luck.
At any rate, after much eye pain and quite a few hours of tracking the problem down, it was found that one of the main power lines for the building was in contact with the metal frame of the building near that office. I guess that it was producing a 60Hz oscillating electric field and that was messing up the monitors. At any rate, when that power line was fixed, the monitor flickering went away.
10. Defendants shall include a warning that the downloadable encrypted digital music files of the songs contained on the Charlie Pride CD may only be downloaded six times."
hmm... how are they going to possibly be able to inforce this, since all downloads are anonymous?
1. Defendants shall immediately ensure that any and all Internet music file downloads and listening of the music contained or arising out of said Charlie Pride CD are always anonymous and personal identifying information including, but not limited to, e-mail address and IP addresses shall not be required nor obtained as a condition of downloading (including file downloads from sunncomm.com) or playing or listening to the CD or music files, thereby protecting consumer privacy.
UMG has authorized all retailers to accept returns. If you have experienced any of the following problems, you may return the CD (even if the package is opened) accompanied by the receipt, to the retailer that the CD was originally purchased from for a full refund:
1. The CD is not playing in your CD or DVD player.
2. The CD is not playing in your computer.
3. The audio has audible problems.
4. The songs did not start and stop when the skip button was pushed.
5. The fast forward and rewind functions did not work.
6. You are not able to play all of the songs on the CD.
7. There are long delays between the songs or after you press a button for a particular function (fast forward, rewind, etc.).
UMG is making every effort to eliminate these problems as soon as possible.
... for providing a full installer, so that I can do a full clean install of the software. Updaters often leave residue from previous versions of the software.
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Laptops are much more efficient than regular desktops. They are definitely the way to go.
I have found Omnipad to be an excellent editor. Here is their decription from their site
"OmniPad is a multipurpose text/code editor designed to be intuitive, sleek, fast, and feature packed There are way too many features to list here but some of the major ones are: Multiple document interface, syntax highlighting, autocomplete, built in FTP, hex editing, total customization, and many more."
X apps can talk to more than one display device at once. I used to use xemacs and have it displayed on several different computers at the same time. It was great, I could be coding in a buffer and my friend could be following along in my code, fixing bugs...all in the same buffer. I think that X probably doesn't care whether or not you are using multiple displays, and that it is just the application that has to be writting to do this.
(I believe the xemacs command is something like "make-frame-on-display", but I don't remember it exactly.)
An apple a day keeps the doctor away... well... we can hope.
For Linux to make the set onto the desktop, it really needs to have some major parts of it's code rewritten. First, X has to GO!!! I love X, but for the average user, popping up a window from another machine just isn't important. I was at school and many of the Comp Sci majors there didn't even know that they could remotely display information.
I believe that Linux needs the Apple treatment. A true front end has to be written, possibly from the ground up... for Linux. The guts of Linux are great, but it just doesn't have anywhere near the ease of use that other OS's have.
People need to have an OS that's friendly, do unto Linux what Apple did to BSD. Write a great (modern) interface and ditch X. This new interface could always have the capabilites of X, but it really needs to have screen performance as its primary concern.
I could have sworn that this was a story after one of the confrences a number of months back.
Can we not have so many reposts...
I've been using debian for several years and really find it to be a stellar distribution. I love apt-get and the fact that it has been a solid system (even though I'm running unstable). My only gripe is that the install system and process for configuring X could be improved greatly. My roommate just tried installing Debian and configuring X (and getting nvidia drivers to work). His response was that maybe he should really go back to windows! OUCH! I Downloaded a few other distributions and he was much happier with his experience with all of them. (SuSE Mandrake and RedHat)
Don't get me wrong, I love deb and will keep using it, however, getting it to be a bit for friendly to the first time user couldn't hurt either.
Oh, it's easy to get a CDRW or scanner connected to a Sun? Solaris, IRIX, HP-UX, AIX.
The simple answer:
Just shell out the cash!
All you have to do is buy one of their supported drives (from Sun/SGI/HP/IBM) and you're all set!
I don't know... but the answer is 42!
I have been trying to figure out what to do. I got given a head unit that doesn't have an aux input. (which if you have, you can hook your iPod up directly) At any rate, I found a great solution to my problem. A little FM transmitter. There are a number of these things on the market, I chose the one from iRock. It has been working extremely well.
Cypress have a number of different USB 1.1 and 2.0 solutions that work extremely well. They have the SX series and FX series. The SX series is very simple to use, as it is essentially a fifo that an external processor can control. The FX series is a flexible io device with a 8051 that controls it. You might look into either of these as a way to develop your product. They have dev kits for $500 or so (I don't remember the exact price). The kits come with development software and a demo driver.
However, I'm not sure whether the ATA side of enclosures runs at ATA33/66/100 or 133. Most firewire disks available today are just repackaged IDE drives. Just wondering how they compare when connected to firewire.
I have been wondering why people are pushing serial ata and not Firewire/ieee1394. The 1394 protocol seems to be quite good, with their second version coming out soon with extremely fast transfer rates.
Has anyone done any studies comparing 1394 to ATA and SCSI? I would be really interested to see that.
Some other things I've been wondering are whether there are ATA133-to-1394 adapters and firewire raid solutions. It would seem to be excellent for creating less expensive raid devices.
It's too bad that apple hasn't set up a method for others to use the software updater to keep all software on the machine upto date. It would be extremely nice if you were presented with a list of programs that the machine could look for updates for.
If you want, you can get one of teh Lucent/Orinoco cards and attach an external antenna to it. Right now I am writing this response on a bronze key G3 (no internal wireless) using a lucent wavelan card.
I'm using the wireless drivers from the project mentioned above on sourceforge...
... because they want to have control over that data. If they were to just pull the data from cable, they'd have no way of making sure you'd paid your subscription.
Don't get me started on the wonderful system we have in the states. I'd love to be able to switch to a nice GSM phone, but here in the states, GSM service is only available in a few areas. In Vermont, we're stuck with patchy analog service and even patchier digital service. The only good thing about cellular service is that it's not tied to hard lines, so there is compition.
If you want to use your iPod on a windows based machine, just grab xplay
Works like a charm!
Wearing a ti ring is bad if you ever get injured and your finger swells. Most ER's are not capable of cutting through ti and as a result, you could be in a lot of trouble if you ever need to have it taken off.
You can get IDE to ieee1394 (firewire) adapters that plug into the back of your hard drive. Now, you just get a nice firewire controller and you have a hot swapable device.
I think that the last time I checked, these controllers were around $40-50... And firewire's very cool.
In one of the buildings that I worked in, my monitor kept flickering no matter what I did. Regular monitors (Apple, SGI, Sun, Sony) were all but unusable. The only monitors that came close to being usable were old IBM Trinitron monitors that were bought with old IBM RS6000 320's and 340's. These monitors weighted 100 lbs or so and probably had significant sheilding. Additionally, it may have been the BNC cabling. We tried UPS's and other power conditioning to no avail. We tried bringing in power from other rooms, no luck.
At any rate, after much eye pain and quite a few hours of tracking the problem down, it was found that one of the main power lines for the building was in contact with the metal frame of the building near that office. I guess that it was producing a 60Hz oscillating electric field and that was messing up the monitors. At any rate, when that power line was fixed, the monitor flickering went away.
Does it cause problems when the iPod tries to play one of these non-existant songs? Does it have extra long pauses?
10. Defendants shall include a warning that the downloadable encrypted digital music files of the songs contained on the Charlie Pride CD may only be downloaded six times."
hmm... how are they going to possibly be able to inforce this, since all downloads are anonymous?
1. Defendants shall immediately ensure that any and all Internet music file downloads and listening of the music contained or arising out of said Charlie Pride CD are always anonymous and personal identifying information including, but not limited to, e-mail address and IP addresses shall not be required nor obtained as a condition of downloading (including file downloads from sunncomm.com) or playing or listening to the CD or music files, thereby protecting consumer privacy.
Thought that this was interesting:
UMG has authorized all retailers to accept returns. If you have experienced any of the following problems, you may return the CD (even if the package is opened) accompanied by the receipt, to the retailer that the CD was originally purchased from for a full refund:
1. The CD is not playing in your CD or DVD player.
2. The CD is not playing in your computer.
3. The audio has audible problems.
4. The songs did not start and stop when the skip button was pushed.
5. The fast forward and rewind functions did not work.
6. You are not able to play all of the songs on the CD.
7. There are long delays between the songs or after you press a button for a particular function (fast forward, rewind, etc.).
UMG is making every effort to eliminate these problems as soon as possible.
For anyone who loves RPGs and other fantasy games, this is a must have!
Go out and get this for yourself or for anyone else who you know loves these games.
Game play is great. The user interface is excellent, and the graphics are wonderful.
... for providing a full installer, so that I can do a full clean install of the software. Updaters often leave residue from previous versions of the software.
I just wish people wouldn't take advantage of it.