There's a GPL'd VNC client for PalmOS. It's called PalmVNC (wow...). I make a 320x460 desktop on my main machine and VNC from the PDA to that. No scrolling, and I can use gaim with subpixel anti-aliasing on my Clie:D
A lot of spare computers, anyway. I got to attend a small class that he taught at Chiba University this summer. I implemented his algorithm in scheme here.
Yeah, he's probably getting rich off his free music now. Oh wait. He writes/sings music because HE WANTS TO! What a concept, eh. It's not all a conspiracy!
This is not true. If it were, then if you plugged ANY 1.1 device into your computer it would all slow down to 1.1 speeds. I have a 1.1 hub with all of my periphials (mouse, keyboard, PDA, 1.1MS reader, USB audio) and then I have a 2.0 CF reader attached to the other port on my computer (actually I have 5 more ports, but that's not the point...). When the CF reader is attached to the 1.1 hub I get 800KiB/s off of it; when it's not on the hub I get 4MiB/s. So if plugging in a 1.1 device slows stuff down in theory it doesn't in practice.
At $4/8GB (or is that 8 GiB? They never put useful units on these things...), that's 80GB for $40. An 80GB hard drive is about twice that (probably less if you search around, I know, I know). So the price/storage ratio is pretty good!
While I was in Japan I did all my software development on my clie. You can take a look at what I generated at my site. There's some good CS stuff and a very nice (IMHO) puzzle program.
Actually, it did everything I needed. I could edit programs and listen to music at the same time. Needless to say, however, it's nice to have my Athlon 3000+ too:)
> Don't use the hardware that you picked up at that swap meet, you'll be fine.
Why not? If I can run on a cheap piece of shit that I got at a swap meet, I will. Linux can lock out bad blocks of ram (with the badram patch), etc. Linux will run on anything, M$ will not. So you're saying that Windows is great because it only runs on expensive OEM machines. Great. You've just convinced me to never use it!
Actually, I'd like some Linux-centric benchmarks. I don't care how long WinRAR takes; it's useless. What about bzip2? And then there's the kernel compile, games, etc. Before I buy something, I want to know how it performs on things that _I_ do.
That said, I have a 3000+ right now (er... a 2500+ "unlocked" to a 3000+:-D) and won't be upgrading soon. It's fast enough and I can't use more than 512MiB of RAM at a time anyway (all programs in memory + disk cache of them are only about 300MiB for me; gcc uses some more...). I'm saving my money for a 2.0TiB RAID array:)
My address is unobfuscated and I don't get that much spam. I see none, thanks to spamassassin, but every 3 days or so my =spam box only has about 50 mails. Not bad.
You mean how Sony doesn't lock down the sound and video API on their PDAs? Oh wait, they DO lock them down. So you have to use THEIR DRM-enabled software to put ATRAC3 files on the memory stick (interestingly normal mp3s work. But not for long, I bet.)
Isn't the lowest common denominator always 1 and therefore pretty useless mathematically? I think the greatest common denominator is what people mean to say. Something that all numbers (people, etc.) have in common. So I guess that we should say that M$ users are, taken as a set, relatively prime. Interesting....
We all seem to want Linux to take over the world. But to be honest, who gives a shit. If people want to use stupid programs that are slow and bug-ridden, let 'em. It's THEIR problem, not mine. My computer has been up for months (actually I had a bad RAM module and had to reboot the other day, but that's no fault of any software), and does everything I need it to. I'm happy, so who cares if others aren't happy with my way?
Actually I was planning at some point to do research on audio compression with Iterated Function Systems. That's what "Fractal Image Compression" is. Maybe someone has already done this?
And I wasn't _really_ joking about the above protocol. Maybe we should do it more than a bit at a time:)
I think I have a way of sharing music while avoiding legal action. The client should work like this:
1) Request a file 2) Ask "Is bit #0 a 1" 3) Get a response, write the appropriate bit to a disk (or buffer). 4) Repeat for the other 9238472093847 bits.
Now, here we're not copying anything. We're just asking about it in a way that lets us make an educated guess about the contents of the file. How can that be illegal!?
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There's a GPL'd VNC client for PalmOS. It's called PalmVNC (wow...). I make a 320x460 desktop on my main machine and VNC from the PDA to that. No scrolling, and I can use gaim with subpixel anti-aliasing on my Clie :D
how about a good 'ol rm / -rf instead.
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Q: I have a problem in windows.
A: OK, just type format c: and all your troubles should soon cease to be.
A lot of spare computers, anyway. I got to attend a small class that he taught at Chiba University this summer. I implemented his algorithm in scheme here.
> [hits head repeatedly on keyboard]
:)
Don't hit the shift key while you're doing that, though
No, it looks like |_$. Not the same!
OTOH, I've never looked at my website in anything other than Mozilla/Netscape. It looks nice there, so maybe it does in IE too. Who cares?
:)
Then again, I'm not trying to sell anything. If some windows user can't read my site in IE then they won't get anything useful out of reading it
He means the RED X in excel that deletes a cell. In the toolbar, not the window frame.
Yeah, he's probably getting rich off his free music now. Oh wait. He writes/sings music because HE WANTS TO! What a concept, eh. It's not all a conspiracy!
Bzflag, frozen-bubble, etc. There are some good games that are GPL'd.
Veering off topic, but you should FLAC instead of MP3. It's 100% lossless and usually compresses at least 3:1.
http://sprintrelayonline.com/ is free!
This is not true. If it were, then if you plugged ANY 1.1 device into your computer it would all slow down to 1.1 speeds. I have a 1.1 hub with all of my periphials (mouse, keyboard, PDA, 1.1MS reader, USB audio) and then I have a 2.0 CF reader attached to the other port on my computer (actually I have 5 more ports, but that's not the point...). When the CF reader is attached to the 1.1 hub I get 800KiB/s off of it; when it's not on the hub I get 4MiB/s. So if plugging in a 1.1 device slows stuff down in theory it doesn't in practice.
At $4/8GB (or is that 8 GiB? They never put useful units on these things...), that's 80GB for $40. An 80GB hard drive is about twice that (probably less if you search around, I know, I know). So the price/storage ratio is pretty good!
While I was in Japan I did all my software development on my clie. You can take a look at what I generated at my site. There's some good CS stuff and a very nice (IMHO) puzzle program.
:)
Actually, it did everything I needed. I could edit programs and listen to music at the same time. Needless to say, however, it's nice to have my Athlon 3000+ too
> Don't use the hardware that you picked up at that swap meet, you'll be fine.
Why not? If I can run on a cheap piece of shit that I got at a swap meet, I will. Linux can lock out bad blocks of ram (with the badram patch), etc. Linux will run on anything, M$ will not. So you're saying that Windows is great because it only runs on expensive OEM machines. Great. You've just convinced me to never use it!
Actually, I'd like some Linux-centric benchmarks. I don't care how long WinRAR takes; it's useless. What about bzip2? And then there's the kernel compile, games, etc. Before I buy something, I want to know how it performs on things that _I_ do.
:-D) and won't be upgrading soon. It's fast enough and I can't use more than 512MiB of RAM at a time anyway (all programs in memory + disk cache of them are only about 300MiB for me; gcc uses some more...). I'm saving my money for a 2.0TiB RAID array :)
That said, I have a 3000+ right now (er... a 2500+ "unlocked" to a 3000+
Sorry, your notation confused me. The file transferred at 40KiB/s. That's 0.5Mbps or about half-T1. I get it :)
It runs on WinNT, too. So it sucks more.
My address is unobfuscated and I don't get that much spam. I see none, thanks to spamassassin, but every 3 days or so my =spam box only has about 50 mails. Not bad.
Uh I'll Ctrl-K the parts that implement DRM. Can you edit the XP sourcecode? No. Can you edit the Linux sourcecode? Yes. So I don't see the problem.
You mean how Sony doesn't lock down the sound and video API on their PDAs? Oh wait, they DO lock them down. So you have to use THEIR DRM-enabled software to put ATRAC3 files on the memory stick (interestingly normal mp3s work. But not for long, I bet.)
Isn't the lowest common denominator always 1 and therefore pretty useless mathematically? I think the greatest common denominator is what people mean to say. Something that all numbers (people, etc.) have in common. So I guess that we should say that M$ users are, taken as a set, relatively prime. Interesting....
We all seem to want Linux to take over the world. But to be honest, who gives a shit. If people want to use stupid programs that are slow and bug-ridden, let 'em. It's THEIR problem, not mine. My computer has been up for months (actually I had a bad RAM module and had to reboot the other day, but that's no fault of any software), and does everything I need it to. I'm happy, so who cares if others aren't happy with my way?
Actually I was planning at some point to do research on audio compression with Iterated Function Systems. That's what "Fractal Image Compression" is. Maybe someone has already done this?
:)
And I wasn't _really_ joking about the above protocol. Maybe we should do it more than a bit at a time
I think I have a way of sharing music while avoiding legal action. The client should work like this:
1) Request a file
2) Ask "Is bit #0 a 1"
3) Get a response, write the appropriate bit to a disk (or buffer).
4) Repeat for the other 9238472093847 bits.
Now, here we're not copying anything. We're just asking about it in a way that lets us make an educated guess about the contents of the file. How can that be illegal!?