Are there any video cameras that use flash yet? A 1GB drive should be plenty of space for a full length movie, not to mention the very short pieces of film I record when mtnbiking.
I just bought my first digital camera, upgraded to a 32 MB flash card, and am loving life! The usb flash reader I bought works beautifully with linux (it's just a SCSI device to the OS) Nice stuff.
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Forgot a very important couple:
You can use your pilot as a telnet terminal. Great for that headless firewall...or for browsing usenet or slashdot from any room in the house (slrn works great at palm's limited text resolution).
The PPP stack allowed me to write a controlling program on the palm for my jukebox. Much better than having to use a laptop. Turn on PDA, Touch "Play" Voila!
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Calendar Alarms
Recording Mountain bike race results in the rain
Usenix usually has their full schedule of events at a hot-sync station
Not as likely to lose information in your pilot as a bunch of loose papers of varying sizes
Palm pilot is a nicer way to have important references with you at all times (personally I have several apache docs, the ISAKMP and IKE RFC's, HTML::EmbPerl, Perl, The Bastard Operator from hell, several others)
It's easier to search for something in a digital document than in your own scattered notes on paper.
Addressbook that I can sync with my mail apps.
Can hold several books (see references bullet above) while being much smaller than even a single one of them.
b/c I don't need to have two boxes to do it under linux?
Why should I reboot to an O/S with crappier apps for the stuff I do regularly just to play a game?
I have quake3, unreal tournament, tribes 2 all under linux and am quite happy with it. I don't have a windoze partition on any of my computers. Haven't since 1993, when I first discovered the joys of running OS/2.
Windoze is counterintuitive, and doesn't allow you to work the way you want to work. Funk Dat!
In the past, it has been posted that Mandrake is "Redhat that works"
I've found that Mandrake does things a little differently (nonstandard), but things do seem to work really well, even if you need to tweak things a little. I have had no problems at all with Mandrake 7.2.
One nice thing with Mandrake vs. Redhat is they are quite good at supporting newer things without breaking old stuff. For example, I have had good USB support in Mandrake using the 2.2.17 kernel. 2.2 didn't have usb support directly. Mandrake backrevved the newer code into it....sweet stuff. Just yesterday I plugged a flash card reader into my USB port, and after probing the appropriate usb-store module (doesn't get done by default), I had a working flash device. That simple!
I don't like the way they handle GUI's and switching between them (I still haven't figured out how to make a custom XDM in mandrake, but that's not oh-so important to me anyway). But it's linux and you have the freedom to fix that dumb stuff. I simply boot to framebuffer without XDM, and start windowmaker with my.xinitrc script.
Aurora sucks...dunno what the point is..but that's a simple fix too. Just remove the package and things are back to normal.
Mandrake has some security settings you can use. I haven't done much with them, but they may be good for newbies. I much prefer running my own firewalling scripts from rc.local, and controlling rights manually.
Mandrake is a lovely distro for the desktop (The number of useful packages makes downloading anything else pretty much unnecessary!) I use it exclusively on my home and work desktops.
For servers I find Redhat to work better. I haven't tried any other distributions.
Mandrake's desktop install doesn't include much in the way of development tools at all. This is on purpose. If you need to compile things, you obviously will need to configure your install (or install later, it's easy with RPMs) the proper development tools. What is the problem here?
I never upgrade. Not even Mandrake-Mandrake. The best thing to do is backup your home directories, and anything custom you wrote (like rc.local), and do a fresh install, learning how to use any new architecture.
On a first run, I will use the default desktops taht are installed (KDE or Gnome) just to see if they are usable yet. Then I always go back to windowmaker + Rox:)
People don't buy Tivo to skip commercials. They buy it to easily watch shows they are interested in when they have the time to watch them...NOT when the network says they should watch them.
Some of us have much better things to do after work when there are still a few precious hours of light outside to do them, than to sit in front of a television.
Others like the nifty stuff that comes on only late at night, but let's face it, we do have to sleep some time in order to work that job that pays the bills for all of this wonderful entertainment.
Watching things when you want to is what Tivo is about.
That said I haven't bought one. Instead I wrote my own little program that gets called from a cron job and is programmed with a web interface to use Lirc to control the VCR. This has the added benefit that I can jump on from anywhere I have net access (work, visiting parents, whatever) and set the thing up to record a show:) The drawback of course is the length of tape you have to work with.
Companies "don't want employees doing AOL or Yahoo!, they want to do instant messaging in-house," said Andre Durand, Jabber.com founder and general manager.
So why don't they just run an internal IRC server?
Why doesn't a major Linux distribution provider (like RedHat) specifically embrace an
application suite, and ship it with their bundle? By creating such a de facto standard, much
would be accomplished for interoperability and document sharing.
I can construct a playlist for my own webserver, and simply "stream" the songs that way. I do this all the time at work b/c the radio reception in my lab sucks.
http://my.server.wherever/mp3s/artist/album/song.m p3 works fine for me!
well, perhaps the fines are a bit steep and a firing and public humiliation were enough but...
This guy was just plain STUPID! When somebody tells you to stop doing something, and then you continue doing it, then they tell you to stop again, and you resume doing it on another computer, and then you are reprimanded yet a THIRD time, and then you go "I'll show them!" and access things you shouldn't using somebody else's account, you'd damned well better be prepared to accept the consequences!
What a moron! So many chances to change his behavior, yet he totally refused to do so. If he didn't like their policies, he should have simply left.
I wouldn't go that far. Being able to create a popup window is a very useful feature (think looking at a detailed item in a table from a database by clicking on the shorter description, for example)
What they *DO* need to get rid of, however, are the onopen() and onclose() calls. That's where the annoyance comes in.
Read the thread above for a good discussion on this.
Let's put it a different way...having both GNOME and KDE is like having two different mail protocols. You'd have to pick the right one depending on who you were sending mail to. What if you were sending to a list of people? UH-OH!
He didn't say a single GUI. He said a single environment. Having two different API's is STUPID. If we could have a single OO IPC API for graphical environments, it would be great.
IF THIS WERE THE CASE, you could still use any windowmanager, filemanager, apps, whatever you like. And guess what? They'd actually all work together. Imagine that!
Why don't you think a bit before you post in the future?
Yes, but a standard OO API, be it KDE, Gnome, or GnomDE, or KDome, whatever would be a wonderful thing.
Then you could STILL pick your filemanager, windowmanager, applications, etc of choice and know they would all use the same communications methods.
In other words, there should be a standard protocol for OO IPC in the graphical world. Apps can then simply use the protocol. Simple, right? I don't see everyone in the world forced to use the same mail client, yet everyone I send mail to usually gets it, right?
I would love to be able to simply drag an attachment from ROX-Filer to the attachment pane in pronto and have it do what you would expect.
We are a very long way away from that.
I really do miss OS/2. Programmers didn't even need to program any of that stuff. It just worked. If I used a "File attachment" container...all the drag-drop stuff simply worked. Hell, I didn't have to do ANYTHING special for the drag-drop font/color changes to work. That stuff was simply inherited from PM as it should be.
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Are there any video cameras that use flash yet? A 1GB drive should be plenty of space for a full length movie, not to mention the very short pieces of film I record when mtnbiking.
I just bought my first digital camera, upgraded to a 32 MB flash card, and am loving life! The usb flash reader I bought works beautifully with linux (it's just a SCSI device to the OS) Nice stuff.
Maybe IBM likes the fact that KDE was on that track? Of course, they've lost that with konqueror, so it's a moot point anyway.
Why should I reboot to an O/S with crappier apps for the stuff I do regularly just to play a game?
I have quake3, unreal tournament, tribes 2 all under linux and am quite happy with it. I don't have a windoze partition on any of my computers. Haven't since 1993, when I first discovered the joys of running OS/2.
Windoze is counterintuitive, and doesn't allow you to work the way you want to work. Funk Dat!
I've found that Mandrake does things a little differently (nonstandard), but things do seem to work really well, even if you need to tweak things a little. I have had no problems at all with Mandrake 7.2.
One nice thing with Mandrake vs. Redhat is they are quite good at supporting newer things without breaking old stuff. For example, I have had good USB support in Mandrake using the 2.2.17 kernel. 2.2 didn't have usb support directly. Mandrake backrevved the newer code into it....sweet stuff. Just yesterday I plugged a flash card reader into my USB port, and after probing the appropriate usb-store module (doesn't get done by default), I had a working flash device. That simple!
I don't like the way they handle GUI's and switching between them (I still haven't figured out how to make a custom XDM in mandrake, but that's not oh-so important to me anyway). But it's linux and you have the freedom to fix that dumb stuff. I simply boot to framebuffer without XDM, and start windowmaker with my .xinitrc script.
Aurora sucks...dunno what the point is..but that's a simple fix too. Just remove the package and things are back to normal.
Mandrake has some security settings you can use. I haven't done much with them, but they may be good for newbies. I much prefer running my own firewalling scripts from rc.local, and controlling rights manually.
Mandrake is a lovely distro for the desktop (The number of useful packages makes downloading anything else pretty much unnecessary!) I use it exclusively on my home and work desktops.
For servers I find Redhat to work better. I haven't tried any other distributions.
Mandrake's desktop install doesn't include much in the way of development tools at all. This is on purpose. If you need to compile things, you obviously will need to configure your install (or install later, it's easy with RPMs) the proper development tools. What is the problem here?
On a first run, I will use the default desktops taht are installed (KDE or Gnome) just to see if they are usable yet. Then I always go back to windowmaker + Rox :)
Mandrake on my desktops at home and at work.
No windoze partition to be found on any of them.
...I can't use opera to even browse slashdot because it doesn't handle cookies properly.
Some of us have much better things to do after work when there are still a few precious hours of light outside to do them, than to sit in front of a television.
Others like the nifty stuff that comes on only late at night, but let's face it, we do have to sleep some time in order to work that job that pays the bills for all of this wonderful entertainment.
Watching things when you want to is what Tivo is about.
That said I haven't bought one. Instead I wrote my own little program that gets called from a cron job and is programmed with a web interface to use Lirc to control the VCR. This has the added benefit that I can jump on from anywhere I have net access (work, visiting parents, whatever) and set the thing up to record a show :) The drawback of course is the length of tape you have to work with.
To the future seen in "Terminator" and "The Matrix."
I can construct a playlist for my own webserver, and simply "stream" the songs that way. I do this all the time at work b/c the radio reception in my lab sucks.
"YOU IDIOTS ARE USING INSECURE PASSWORDS!!!!" (now..what should I use as a slashdot password?)
Not to mention he kept doing the shit after being told to stop. This fool had so many chances to avoid this, yet continued on with his actions.
and people here spell 'fuck' 'fsck' What's your point?
This guy was just plain STUPID! When somebody tells you to stop doing something, and then you continue doing it, then they tell you to stop again, and you resume doing it on another computer, and then you are reprimanded yet a THIRD time, and then you go "I'll show them!" and access things you shouldn't using somebody else's account, you'd damned well better be prepared to accept the consequences!
What a moron! So many chances to change his behavior, yet he totally refused to do so. If he didn't like their policies, he should have simply left.
Alan C. Bonebrake, Judge.
I just love people who think they know shit...
What they *DO* need to get rid of, however, are the onopen() and onclose() calls. That's where the annoyance comes in.
IBM's java VM for OS/2 was quite good. Many of us have been able to live quite fine without microsoft's "innovations"
Let's put it a different way...having both GNOME and KDE is like having two different mail protocols. You'd have to pick the right one depending on who you were sending mail to. What if you were sending to a list of people? UH-OH!
He didn't say a single GUI. He said a single environment. Having two different API's is STUPID. If we could have a single OO IPC API for graphical environments, it would be great.
IF THIS WERE THE CASE, you could still use any windowmanager, filemanager, apps, whatever you like. And guess what? They'd actually all work together. Imagine that!
Why don't you think a bit before you post in the future?
Then you could STILL pick your filemanager, windowmanager, applications, etc of choice and know they would all use the same communications methods.
In other words, there should be a standard protocol for OO IPC in the graphical world. Apps can then simply use the protocol. Simple, right? I don't see everyone in the world forced to use the same mail client, yet everyone I send mail to usually gets it, right?
I would love to be able to simply drag an attachment from ROX-Filer to the attachment pane in pronto and have it do what you would expect.
We are a very long way away from that.
I really do miss OS/2. Programmers didn't even need to program any of that stuff. It just worked. If I used a "File attachment" container...all the drag-drop stuff simply worked. Hell, I didn't have to do ANYTHING special for the drag-drop font/color changes to work. That stuff was simply inherited from PM as it should be.