bin Laden was trained in Pakistan by the ISI, funded by the U.S. (Soviet-Afghan conflict in 80's which ISI played well to bait/switch Islamist aggression into it's borders (Kashmir, et al.))
What I'm very curious about now are the true motives of Pakistan in this whole current situation. India has my sympathies.
Not turning our society into theirs. Turning our society into that which their propoganda purports us to be. Of course it they had their way, it's "practice Islam or die".
Yes, their methods are irrational.
I'm suggesting that we need to be very careful in our reaction to events lest we help destroy that which we wish to defend.
And yes, I know Maslow's hierarchy is being pressed here... gov't defending itself, then citizens, then rights and freedoms.
After seeing the relase of HP's "media deck", I decided to take my underutilized debian home server and see if I can turn it into something akin to these beasties. Of course it's all custom this n' that but here's where I'm at so far...
mp3 server. mp3's actually play off server itself with 75' stereo cabling going through my house to stereo in family room. I then built a handy web page to control this. apache/php webpage manages playlists and such and actually plays them through madplay for low cpu usage. I have an ap downstairs and can then access webpage on my ipaq through dillo. works well:-)
The next step is to try getting the ntsc off my nvidia card to my vcr (same fashion prolly.. stereo cable + rca connector but prolly need vid amp for the signal). If this works, I'd be able to play avi's,.rm's etc. on tv and of course get stereo sound.
So far, beyound what I already had in my box, I invested $10 for stereo cabling + rca connectors from rat shack.
of MS seems pretty obvious. Hopefully the public will discern a ploy as well.. but I think your average computer user will not be interested in their 'vision'. If what they currently use, works, that will keep them away. It's a bad economy so people are going to be less likely to grab at such tenuous upgades as XP and.Net.
What I love is how they're broadening their ability to piss people off.. good job guys!
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I guess around 4-5 months ago someone ported snes9x to the arm cpu and made it work nicely on the iPAQ. A year ago now, I helped on getting xmame to work nicely on the iPAQ (sound fix;). xstella works well too (atari 2600). Plus it can ssh or receive ssh sessions for your remote pleasure.
will want their representatives to have such legislation move full-steam-ahead in the wake of recent events. The terrorists will have also blown apart our privacy and made Big Brother, bigger.
Living life is the best tribute to these people since our very way of life was attacked.
On a more on-topic note, K-Office, the ApplixWare suite, StarOffice all provide an "Office" view of typical business applications. IIRC, there was a story fairly recently on/. about a city hall in Florida that went to linux and K-Office.
What they "are" is my point. In broadest terms, they are objects. That is what I bought.
If I go to the grocers and buy a tomato, I have the freedom to do what I wish with this "object"... I'm not limited by any bundled cookbook that stipulates what I may and may not do with said tomato.
The grocer also will tell me all sorts of information when queried. They're free to sell it without any strings being placed on them by the farmer/co-op/distributor whom they bought it from.
A washing machine is meant to be a device to clean clothing but when purchased, you own it. If you contact the manufacturer, they will provide information regarding its motor which chould then be used to construct a cheap lathe if you want to.
My point is I resent being locked into 'wince only' and having absolutely no option/information to enable me to change that... it is hardware that I bought and they're 'bundling' software.
At least with the iPAQ, there is no such 'locked in bundle'. The means and information is available to change it's o/s.
Is this illegal, obviously not. But as a consumer, it saddens me to see how 'consumer rights' are virtually non-existant and never discussed. I work for a manufacturing company (not a thing to do with computers or dot-coms) and if we ever treated our customers with the same level of 'service' and 'quality' as many computer companies do, we would be long out of business. However this seems to be the de-facto, unquestioned standard in this industry (except for FSF maybe).
Compaq sold me hardware (ipaq) and the freedom to use what software I wanted. I bought a physical device.
HP sold me an "HP/C handheld" (jornada 720). To date, after 8 months of effort, no one from HP will provide any kind of support (flashroms? no - although HP Singapore engineers have such modified 720's; hardware info - none) for the jornada. Buying the jornada based on HP's past excellent support of their calculators (yes I know, different division entirely) and HP 200 'palmtops' was quite a mistake. The jornada is technically a great device but practically useless to me (read, "MS only")
I sincerely hope the HP/Compaq merger does not go through.
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Mod this one up. It's sadly dead-on.
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If you read earlier posts, you'll see that the non-windows version has no ads.
Buying a cheap laptop is really best. Yes, not what the poster is after (I'd love to see something like this too) but it just doesn't yet exist.
Some kind of ultraportable would fit his needs probably.
What I'm very curious about now are the true motives of Pakistan in this whole current situation. India has my sympathies.
MS may have forced OEM's to preinstall windoze on your pc (clue in Dept. of Justice), but thereafter, the choice is yours.
Somehow I think the radical Islamist point of view won't follow these points.
Yes, their methods are irrational.
I'm suggesting that we need to be very careful in our reaction to events lest we help destroy that which we wish to defend.
And yes, I know Maslow's hierarchy is being pressed here... gov't defending itself, then citizens, then rights and freedoms.
We are turning our society into that which the terrorists originally perceived us to be.
Sad.
mp3 server. mp3's actually play off server itself with 75' stereo cabling going through my house to stereo in family room. I then built a handy web page to control this. apache/php webpage manages playlists and such and actually plays them through madplay for low cpu usage. I have an ap downstairs and can then access webpage on my ipaq through dillo. works well
The next step is to try getting the ntsc off my nvidia card to my vcr (same fashion prolly.. stereo cable + rca connector but prolly need vid amp for the signal). If this works, I'd be able to play avi's,
So far, beyound what I already had in my box, I invested $10 for stereo cabling + rca connectors from rat shack.
Either they or their technology are pathetic.
ARM binary here
For details on running, go here.
Currently it seems 2.0 is not available in the Open edition.
Those hockey pucks my english mother-in-law makes should be outlawed!
Someone then please explain why pygtk is unsuitable...?
getting passed in Congress, makes me feel that if Sept. 11 sparked a 'war', then the terrorists are truly winning.
Their actions that day will have done more than they realize to turn their perceptions of the U.S., into a possible reality.
of MS seems pretty obvious. Hopefully the public will discern a ploy as well.. but I think your average computer user will not be interested in their 'vision'. If what they currently use, works, that will keep them away. It's a bad economy so people are going to be less likely to grab at such tenuous upgades as XP and .Net.
in a bad economy, the thieves become more active!
What I love is how they're broadening their ability to piss people off.. good job guys!
I guess around 4-5 months ago someone ported snes9x to the arm cpu and made it work nicely on the iPAQ. A year ago now, I helped on getting xmame to work nicely on the iPAQ (sound fix ;). xstella works well too (atari 2600). Plus it can ssh or receive ssh sessions for your remote pleasure.
Read: iPAQ == computer. (and wow, it's portable too!)
Watch those packets fly with http://www.blug.linux.no/rfc1149/
Enjoy!
mount -o noatime /dev/hd[whatever] /[mountpoint]
and watch your battery power increase.
with the main points of the article but am saddened to see the quip at the end.
Stuff like that only baits flames and takes away from the more serious issues which are then easily ignored.
will want their representatives to have such legislation move full-steam-ahead in the wake of recent events. The terrorists will have also blown apart our privacy and made Big Brother, bigger.
The price of 'freedom' just increased.
Living life is the best tribute to these people since our very way of life was attacked.
/. about a city hall in Florida that went to linux and K-Office.
On a more on-topic note, K-Office, the ApplixWare suite, StarOffice all provide an "Office" view of typical business applications. IIRC, there was a story fairly recently on
What they "are" is my point. In broadest terms, they are objects. That is what I bought.
If I go to the grocers and buy a tomato, I have the freedom to do what I wish with this "object"... I'm not limited by any bundled cookbook that stipulates what I may and may not do with said tomato.
The grocer also will tell me all sorts of information when queried. They're free to sell it without any strings being placed on them by the farmer/co-op/distributor whom they bought it from.
A washing machine is meant to be a device to clean clothing but when purchased, you own it. If you contact the manufacturer, they will provide information regarding its motor which chould then be used to construct a cheap lathe if you want to.
My point is I resent being locked into 'wince only' and having absolutely no option/information to enable me to change that... it is hardware that I bought and they're 'bundling' software.
At least with the iPAQ, there is no such 'locked in bundle'. The means and information is available to change it's o/s.
Is this illegal, obviously not. But as a consumer, it saddens me to see how 'consumer rights' are virtually non-existant and never discussed. I work for a manufacturing company (not a thing to do with computers or dot-coms) and if we ever treated our customers with the same level of 'service' and 'quality' as many computer companies do, we would be long out of business. However this seems to be the de-facto, unquestioned standard in this industry (except for FSF maybe).
Sad.
Compaq sold me hardware (ipaq) and the freedom to use what software I wanted. I bought a physical device.
HP sold me an "HP/C handheld" (jornada 720). To date, after 8 months of effort, no one from HP will provide any kind of support (flashroms? no - although HP Singapore engineers have such modified 720's; hardware info - none) for the jornada. Buying the jornada based on HP's past excellent support of their calculators (yes I know, different division entirely) and HP 200 'palmtops' was quite a mistake. The jornada is technically a great device but practically useless to me (read, "MS only")
I sincerely hope the HP/Compaq merger does not go through.