80kb of ram! We started with the Adam till it went bad after a couple of months and we returned it for a Commodore 64 -- never looked back. Used the Commodore 64 from 1985 through 1993 when I finally purchased a 486DX2 50MHz with 4mb ram a 400mb hard drive -- Windows 3.11.
Actually, what the US needs is true leadership by statesmen who really believe and live out its ideals: Truth, Justice, and Liberty! It is hard for a country to "have more confidence in its ideals" when its leaders are cynical, ruthless, narcissistic politicians (on both sides of the aisle and in the Whitehouse).
I remember when you implemented user ids. I worried about online privacy way back then and resisted getting a log in until there were over 20k users signed up. (If that self could only see facebook, etc now . ..) Finally, I broke down -- I was tired of posting as an anonymous cow herd:-). Thank you for all the years. ~Ruach
Listening to the radio yesterday (here in SC) I heard a black man state that in his church, two of the other Democrat candidates for state wide office, whose last names both start with A, were passing out flyers instructing people to vote for the first name on the ballot. He also said that he knew of other black churches where the same thing happened.
Green came before Rawl, simple as that.
Alvin Green won, he should be allowed to run. (Not that he will beat Demint anyway).
I have to use XP at work and would be lost without Servant Salamander http://www.altap.cz/.
Funny name, but just about the closest thing to MC in the windows world. The old version is freeware, and the newest shareware. This is one of the three shareware programs I have ever paid for -- considering how must I HATE paying for software that is saying a lot!
I have never owned a PocketPC device, but I have had a palm for about two years now.
Yes, a palm -- another company that is "dying." However, I have been really, really happy with mine. I wanted to get a PDA for a long time (I am in my mid thirties now and only got it two years ago)! The early palms were too clunky (save the Palm V -- the first PDA I ever lusted after save for the screen at 160x160 was not acceptable). Then, they came out with the color devices, but still 160x160. Next, came Sony with the Clie -- sexy and 320x320, but you had memstick lock in and a higher price point for the same or sometimes fewer features -- not acceptable. Finally, palm went back to its roots a bit and just made a simple nice PDA (very much like the V I mentioned earlier) -- the Tungsten|E. As I said, I have had it about two years now, and it is great.
Point 1) Battery life. I can and have listened to several hours of ogg files using Aeroplayer (for free if you just want oggs) or mp3s with the also free dioplayer. Both programs turn off the screen while playing, and the battery life is great (relatively). Also, both programs will automacially turn off when the battery gets to a critical level. I have not tried to run it dry to find out how long it would last, but I am guessing at least 5 hours -- and it trickle charges off the USB mini cable. Also, aeroplayer has many nice skins.
Point 2) Crash. Palm's crash -- PocketPC's crash -- Desktop PCs crash -- although much less than they used to. However, with my palm, I have never lost data in a crash. Perhaps I am lucky, but even in the event of a crash, the palm is pretty stable. You can totally drain the battery (to where you loose data) if it crashes and you do not know it and reset it, but I find that scenario hard to imagine. Mine has only crashed while I was actively using it -- usually trying out some beta software or something. My palm has a built in feature that if the battery drops below a certain level, it will not turn back on until you charge it (if only my work Blackberry was so kind). It will last on that "no power on" state for about two weeks before finally loosing data.
Point 3) Sync. Palm does not shine as far as syncing -- that is contacts and all (O if hotsync would die . ..). It works well once you have it set up, but it is nowhere near as simple as PocketPC (guy in next cube has one). However, as far as music syncing, just drag the tunes to the SD card, pop it out of the PC and into the palm -- bingo!
Yes, Ubuntu packages do not work on Sarge -- Ubuntu starts from SID (which is what I am typing this reply on and have been using since 2000 without a reinstall!). I do not expect Knoppix packages to run on Sarge, or Mepis or Ubuntu. Ubuntu, while closely tied to Debian is a different beast. SID packages are already high quality. Ubuntu just polishes they up a bit further, makes TOO MANY things brown, and pushes it out the door every six months. I run it on my work laptop, and it works like a charm (except the infamous Broadcom wireless grrr).
The reason Ubuntu is great for Debian is that they are paying Debian developers who ARE pushing back patches both to the upstream, and to SID. I believe that when X.org hits SID, it will be better because of Ubuntu than it would have been in Ubuntuless world. Ditto for many other packages.
I appreciate your reasons for wanting to use gentoo, but I have been running Debian "Unstable" for the past three years on my desktop PC and have found it much more stable, system wise, than redhat (started on 5.1--talk about unstable! more like unusable) or mandrake. Admittedly, I have not used RH or MK for several years, but it was rough back then.
I can only think of one or two times "Unstable" has actually been borked after an apt-get upgrade YMMV.
That being said, I would never use "unstable" on a server, but I would not use gentoo on a server either!
err, ummm I have a T|E. If you go to contacts and want to copy a contact you are supposed to do/t.
I could do it every time I tried until I waited almost a second between the down stroke and the cross stroke.
It is NOT impossible.
I never had the joy of a palm device until now so no previous experience. I think G2 is ok. However, I am left handed and wish I could cross my 't' right to left.
I think your last sentence sums it up: you hate G2. Fine. I think it is ok.
Go check out a Tungsten E. Although it is billed as the bottom of the business line, it is the rightful heir to the Palm V. Thin, simple (no collapsing/sliding stuff), highres screen and shiny. Plus, you can play ogg files for free using AeroPlayer from your SD card (they charge for their mp3 plugin, but ogg is and according to the website will remain free). I have had mine since Thanksgiving and think it is truly an ideal Palm.
Eh, way off topic, but have you had success with XFree86 4.x and the TGUI 9680s? If so, please let me know what you did to get them working. I have one that would blank screen on every 4.x I have thrown at it (currently holding at 3.3.6 yearg).
Can not resist... must post... bye bye moderator points.
"In the Unix world there have always been two different sets of keybindings that people use, emacs keys and vi keys. I think that it is fair to say that the majority of unix users spend a lot of their time in either emacs or vi."
You make some good points, but I spend 99% of my computer time in Linux and almost never use vi(m) or emacs.
RANT MODE = 1 Use of vi or emacs may be true for many "UNIX" users, but a LOT of computer users out there first touched a C64, or an appleII or a dos (win included here) box and know that "CTRL-c" is copy and "CTRL-v" is paste and you can move the cursor with . . . (wait for it) the CURSOR control keys! RANT MODE = 0
"Next up, apt-get is bad about handling low disk space. Try apt-get upgrade when you're going from stable to unstable. You need to download 100MB+ of packages for a reasonably complete install. That's more than many people have in/var, which is where apt-get stubbornly insists downloaded files must go. If there's a way to change this, it's undocumented, because believe me I've looked."
I have also run into this situation (think firewall box with tiny old 400mb hd). I just mounted a network share, pointed a simlink (/var/cache/apt/archives) to it and went on my happy way. Could be more difficult if the box is not networked, but those seem to be quite rare in Linux land. If you have the disk space in another partition; even easier!
Err, umm, hate to rain on your parade, but what about this quote from the article?
"We're very vertical-market oriented in areas such as the construction, marine, forestry and oil-and-gas industries, focusing on remote applications and also things like emergency services and aviation."
P.S. Sorry about the formatting, I'm no html wonder (shrug).
P.S.S. Yes, I'm a lefty, but my right handed wife can play a pretty mean game of D with this layout. (Yes, I got a good one, she plays descent and enjoys it)!
Ah, an educated man . . . Definately the most correct and complete answer. BTW M.A. in Bible here. (However, I just finished a year of Church History post M.A. because I like it).
P.S. Sorry it took this long to reply, but I do not check my user preferences often and did not realize that several people replied.
P.S.S Not personally "Orthodox" -- "Fundamental, Protestant, Bible believing, Independant . .." -- yes, all those scary words, but most people still think I'm a nice guy!
P.S.S.S If you'd like to chat, my email is (remove the spam blocker-SPAM YUCK) mSoPverAstr@MbjuY.eUdCuK.
Alright, I want to know just how many people out there really know where the term 'navel-gazing' comes from. It is refreshing to see a someone using a term that reminds me of all that stuff I studied in college!
I know that the answer seems obvious by the word, looking at your navel - self introspection - but where did that originate?
Hint: You'll have to think in an Orthodox way . . .
Indeed. I have lurked on/. for at least two years now. If Rob does check IPs he'll see that I spend about and hour (mininum) on./ per day 5-6 days per week.
I never saw a need for an account until Rob began putting in all these new cool features. Now I have 2 accounts, one here at work and one at home (ruach@home).
However, I apparently will not qualify as a moderator due to the newness of my account. I do not post often (third or fourth post right here, first as a non-AC). Yet I have seen a few things that I would have moderated if I had the chance.
Back to the subject (sorry, rambling mode off (hopefully)) I wonder if there are a lot of non-posting, formerly non-account lurkers who, while perfectly qualified to moderate, will get left out.
Anyway, no big deal, but something to think about when implimenting "the system."
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Web Browser: Chromium, Firefox, Midori, Qupzilla, Iron
Email Client: Thunderbird
Terminal: Gnome-Terminal
IDE: none
File manager: mc, double commander, nautilus
Basic Text Editor: mcedit, gedit
IRC/Messaging Client: none
PDF Reader: qpdfview
Office Suite: LibreOffice
Calendar: google calendar
Video Player: vlc
Music Player: audacious
Photo Viewer: picasa
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80kb of ram! We started with the Adam till it went bad after a couple of months and we returned it for a Commodore 64 -- never looked back. Used the Commodore 64 from 1985 through 1993 when I finally purchased a 486DX2 50MHz with 4mb ram a 400mb hard drive -- Windows 3.11.
Actually, what the US needs is true leadership by statesmen who really believe and live out its ideals: Truth, Justice, and Liberty! It is hard for a country to "have more confidence in its ideals" when its leaders are cynical, ruthless, narcissistic politicians (on both sides of the aisle and in the Whitehouse).
What about starred items?
I remember when you implemented user ids. I worried about online privacy way back then and resisted getting a log in until there were over 20k users signed up. (If that self could only see facebook, etc now . . .) Finally, I broke down -- I was tired of posting as an anonymous cow herd :-).
Thank you for all the years.
~Ruach
Listening to the radio yesterday (here in SC) I heard a black man state that in his church, two of the other Democrat candidates for state wide office, whose last names both start with A, were passing out flyers instructing people to vote for the first name on the ballot. He also said that he knew of other black churches where the same thing happened.
Green came before Rawl, simple as that.
Alvin Green won, he should be allowed to run. (Not that he will beat Demint anyway).
Peace
I have to use XP at work and would be lost without Servant Salamander http://www.altap.cz/.
Funny name, but just about the closest thing to MC in the windows world. The old version is freeware, and the newest shareware. This is one of the three shareware programs I have ever paid for -- considering how must I HATE paying for software that is saying a lot!
I have never owned a PocketPC device, but I have had a palm for about two years now.
Yes, a palm -- another company that is "dying." However, I have been really, really happy with mine. I wanted to get a PDA for a long time (I am in my mid thirties now and only got it two years ago)! The early palms were too clunky (save the Palm V -- the first PDA I ever lusted after save for the screen at 160x160 was not acceptable). Then, they came out with the color devices, but still 160x160. Next, came Sony with the Clie -- sexy and 320x320, but you had memstick lock in and a higher price point for the same or sometimes fewer features -- not acceptable. Finally, palm went back to its roots a bit and just made a simple nice PDA (very much like the V I mentioned earlier) -- the Tungsten|E. As I said, I have had it about two years now, and it is great.
- Point 1) Battery life. I can and have listened to several hours of ogg files using Aeroplayer (for free if you just want oggs) or mp3s with the also free dioplayer. Both programs turn off the screen while playing, and the battery life is great (relatively). Also, both programs will automacially turn off when the battery gets to a critical level. I have not tried to run it dry to find out how long it would last, but I am guessing at least 5 hours -- and it trickle charges off the USB mini cable. Also, aeroplayer has many nice skins.
- Point 2) Crash. Palm's crash -- PocketPC's crash -- Desktop PCs crash -- although much less than they used to. However, with my palm, I have never lost data in a crash. Perhaps I am lucky, but even in the event of a crash, the palm is pretty stable. You can totally drain the battery (to where you loose data) if it crashes and you do not know it and reset it, but I find that scenario hard to imagine. Mine has only crashed while I was actively using it -- usually trying out some beta software or something. My palm has a built in feature that if the battery drops below a certain level, it will not turn back on until you charge it (if only my work Blackberry was so kind). It will last on that "no power on" state for about two weeks before finally loosing data.
- Point 3) Sync. Palm does not shine as far as syncing -- that is contacts and all (O if hotsync would die . .
.). It works well once you have it set up, but it is nowhere near as simple as PocketPC (guy in next cube has one). However, as far as music syncing, just drag the tunes to the SD card, pop it out of the PC and into the palm -- bingo!
Take a look back at the palms. Yes, they are "dying," but the Tungsten|E2 http://www.palm.com/us/products/handhelds/tungsteEnjoy!
Seriously.
Yes, Ubuntu packages do not work on Sarge -- Ubuntu starts from SID (which is what I am typing this reply on and have been using since 2000 without a reinstall!). I do not expect Knoppix packages to run on Sarge, or Mepis or Ubuntu. Ubuntu, while closely tied to Debian is a different beast. SID packages are already high quality. Ubuntu just polishes they up a bit further, makes TOO MANY things brown, and pushes it out the door every six months. I run it on my work laptop, and it works like a charm (except the infamous Broadcom wireless grrr).
The reason Ubuntu is great for Debian is that they are paying Debian developers who ARE pushing back patches both to the upstream, and to SID. I believe that when X.org hits SID, it will be better because of Ubuntu than it would have been in Ubuntuless world. Ditto for many other packages.
I appreciate your reasons for wanting to use gentoo, but I have been running Debian "Unstable" for the past three years on my desktop PC and have found it much more stable, system wise, than redhat (started on 5.1--talk about unstable! more like unusable) or mandrake. Admittedly, I have not used RH or MK for several years, but it was rough back then.
I can only think of one or two times "Unstable" has actually been borked after an apt-get upgrade YMMV.
That being said, I would never use "unstable" on a server, but I would not use gentoo on a server either!
I could do it every time I tried until I waited almost a second between the down stroke and the cross stroke.
It is NOT impossible.
I never had the joy of a palm device until now so no previous experience. I think G2 is ok. However, I am left handed and wish I could cross my 't' right to left.
I think your last sentence sums it up: you hate G2. Fine. I think it is ok.
Go check out a Tungsten E. Although it is billed as the bottom of the business line, it is the rightful heir to the Palm V. Thin, simple (no collapsing/sliding stuff), highres screen and shiny. Plus, you can play ogg files for free using AeroPlayer from your SD card (they charge for their mp3 plugin, but ogg is and according to the website will remain free). I have had mine since Thanksgiving and think it is truly an ideal Palm.
Eh, way off topic, but have you had success with XFree86 4.x and the TGUI 9680s? If so, please let me know what you did to get them working. I have one that would blank screen on every 4.x I have thrown at it (currently holding at 3.3.6 yearg).
Thanks! Ruach
Can not resist... must post... bye bye moderator points.
"In the Unix world there have always been two different sets of keybindings that people use, emacs keys and vi keys. I think that it is fair to say that the majority of unix users spend a lot of their time in either emacs or vi."
You make some good points, but I spend 99% of my computer time in Linux and almost never use vi(m) or emacs.
RANT MODE = 1
Use of vi or emacs may be true for many "UNIX" users, but a LOT of computer users out there first touched a C64, or an appleII or a dos (win included here) box and know that "CTRL-c" is copy and "CTRL-v" is paste and you can move the cursor with . . . (wait for it) the CURSOR control keys!
RANT MODE = 0
Ok, I feel better now. Thanks!
I have also run into this situation (think firewall box with tiny old 400mb hd). I just mounted a network share, pointed a simlink (/var/cache/apt/archives) to it and went on my happy way. Could be more difficult if the box is not networked, but those seem to be quite rare in Linux land. If you have the disk space in another partition; even easier!
As to locking, agreed! That is very frustrating!
and for those who go waaaayy back . . .
the cursed "www."
Err, umm, hate to rain on your parade, but what about this quote from the article?
"We're very vertical-market oriented in areas such as the construction, marine, forestry and oil-and-gas industries, focusing on remote applications and also things like emergency services and aviation."
Here is the layout: (keeps your hands on the home row, ready to fly!)
tab-automap e-nose down t-missle1 y-missle2 i-forward o-up
s-turnL d-flare f-turnR j-slideL k-afterburn(d2) l-slideR
c-nose up b-mine ,-backup .-down
space-fire primary
P.S. Sorry about the formatting, I'm no html wonder (shrug).
P.S.S. Yes, I'm a lefty, but my right handed wife can play a pretty mean game of D with this layout. (Yes, I got a good one, she plays descent and enjoys it)!
Ah, an educated man . . .
." -- yes, all those scary words, but most people still think I'm a nice guy!
Definately the most correct and complete answer.
BTW M.A. in Bible here. (However, I just finished a year of Church History post M.A. because I like it).
P.S. Sorry it took this long to reply, but I do not check my user preferences often and did not realize that several people replied.
P.S.S Not personally "Orthodox" -- "Fundamental, Protestant, Bible believing, Independant . .
P.S.S.S If you'd like to chat, my email is (remove the spam blocker-SPAM YUCK) mSoPverAstr@MbjuY.eUdCuK.
Alright, I want to know just how many people out there really know where the term 'navel-gazing' comes from. It is refreshing to see a someone using a term that reminds me of all that stuff I studied in college!
I know that the answer seems obvious by the word, looking at your navel - self introspection - but where did that originate?
Hint: You'll have to think in an Orthodox way . . .
Indeed. I have lurked on /. for at least two years now. If Rob does check IPs he'll see that I spend about and hour (mininum) on ./ per day 5-6 days per week.
I never saw a need for an account until Rob began putting in all these new cool features. Now I have 2 accounts, one here at work and one at home (ruach@home).
However, I apparently will not qualify as a moderator due to the newness of my account. I do not post often (third or fourth post right here, first as a non-AC). Yet I have seen a few things that I would have moderated if I had the chance.
Back to the subject (sorry, rambling mode off (hopefully)) I wonder if there are a lot of non-posting, formerly non-account lurkers who, while perfectly qualified to moderate, will get left out.
Anyway, no big deal, but something to think about when implimenting "the system."