1. The basic thing you do with a laptop is carry it around. It needs to be small and light.
2. If you are away from a wall outlet you need power supply options. Manufacturer specs always lie.
3. If you do multimedia presentations you need horsepower and good video out.
These three reasons led me to buy a Sony Vaio Picturebook. I have an "old" Intel powered model - everything works under Linux (no internal modem).
400 Mhz Pentium II, 128 Mb Ram, 12 Gb HD in 2.2 lbs with standard battery. I also ghave a double battery which gets me to Paris and back on the train (400 km).
Modems belong in phones not in computers. That way when a new technology comes along you change your phone -> GPRS for example. That is why I am pleased to have an "old" Vaio with IRDA.
Portable computers if treated with care last a long time. Much longer than a desktop. Running Linux on a 400 Mhz PII makes the computer powerfull enough for most tasks. At the moment it is doing a part time job as a developpment web application server (Postgresql, Tomcat...)
RedHat Linux on the Vaio C1XD/S
The names and holiday addresses (on the French and Italien Riviera) of eastern european mafia bosses are known to all. These guys don't copy CD's, they run the factories that press them in tens of thousands.
Pirated music and software is a multi billion dollar/year business in the ex-eastern block. Everybody knows it but who is doing something?
Instead of coming down on guys who have people out on the streets hawking CDs for $2 by the thousands, the industry will have us believe that it is the college student copying a couple of titles given by a friend who will put them out of business.
What would happen if Sony got Interpol to arrest one of these guys poolside?
Use your imagination, or think federal building sized explosion with different logo on the wall...
These are two nasty groups of people: multinational corporations and organized crime. Guess who the little guy in the middle is?
USB is a standard for the time being. Of course Intel is not happy about ieee1394 (Firewire, iLink) and is doing its best to give us many USBs which are of course "backward compatible".
For the moment "plug and type"tm.
If you are using OS X you can of course use a 3 button USB mouse on your Mac too.
My experience is limited to my Vaio Picture book running RedHat 6.2 and 7.1.
I have lots of sailing magazine info in French and of course local newspaper articles.
Airbus Industries is also involved from the beginning as is the local governement. Saint Nazaire is the place where lots of high tech cruising ships and central pieces of Airbus planes are built. Also bits and pieces of Mirage fighter planes etc. So lots of composite fiber expertise is to be found here.
They say flying. In sports catamaran sailing we say fly a hull.
The father of the modern ocean going hydrofoil is tha late Eric Tabarly. He won races and beat the transatlantic record on "Paul Ricard" back in the late 70's
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Formula 40 boats have dagger boards that are very long and 13-15 inwards. So when both boards are fully down the boat tends to lift up on them.
This is also applied to some 60' racing trimarans.
It is the second version - the first one broke during testing.
It is on beautifull piece of carbon fiber under sail. As long as it doesn't hit anything hard in the water (whale, container, tree trunk...) it will hold the new transatlantic record.
It is not meant to beat the outright speed sailing record, but it possibly could under the right conditions.
After the second or blue screen on a common filter you understand why Macs are still the Photoshop tool of choice. That and a 400 Mhz G3 blowing the doors off a 800 Mhz PIII in Photoshop...
I use the GIMP a lot now because it is more convenient than getting up and going into the design studio to work on the spare G4.
You can get special iron on transfers for your ink jet printer...
Pirate T-shirt HOWTO
Most important point - wash the T-Shirt dry it and iron it before transfering your design. This gets the starch out of the fabric and gives you a nice smooth surface to transfer to.
Now fire up the GIMP and make your first T-shirt which should be a test T-shirt to see what the colors look like after transfer. Make a range of color swatches in various tints (don't forget to identify the color formula used i.e. % of Cyan, yellow, Magenta and black). No reason to waste a T-shirt so type in "The original pirate T-shirt color swatch shirt"! Maybe add a pirate flag motif...
Once you have printed the transfer and ironed it on let it cool down then check which colors print best.
Now go over to Think Geek and check out some T-shirt designs. Another good spot is http://www.unamerican.com. Make your design and don't forget to sign it "I stole this T-shirt design from...". Hey! Credit where credit is due.
This HOWTO is to be used only in countries where postage rates prohibit importing the real thing.
Copyleft all rights reversed... Blah Blah
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There is a USB 4 port KVM box from Belkin.
Thank you very much
1. The basic thing you do with a laptop is carry it around. It needs to be small and light. 2. If you are away from a wall outlet you need power supply options. Manufacturer specs always lie. 3. If you do multimedia presentations you need horsepower and good video out. These three reasons led me to buy a Sony Vaio Picturebook. I have an "old" Intel powered model - everything works under Linux (no internal modem). 400 Mhz Pentium II, 128 Mb Ram, 12 Gb HD in 2.2 lbs with standard battery. I also ghave a double battery which gets me to Paris and back on the train (400 km). Modems belong in phones not in computers. That way when a new technology comes along you change your phone -> GPRS for example. That is why I am pleased to have an "old" Vaio with IRDA. Portable computers if treated with care last a long time. Much longer than a desktop. Running Linux on a 400 Mhz PII makes the computer powerfull enough for most tasks. At the moment it is doing a part time job as a developpment web application server (Postgresql, Tomcat...) RedHat Linux on the Vaio C1XD/S
6. Where are the mafia bosses who make billions from bootleg CDs pressed in factories and sold on eastern european markets for $2?
Why aren't major US corporation having them arrested by Interpol while thay are on vacation on the Riviera?
Because the people who run major US corporations don't have balls...
The names and holiday addresses (on the French and Italien Riviera) of eastern european mafia bosses are known to all. These guys don't copy CD's, they run the factories that press them in tens of thousands.
Pirated music and software is a multi billion dollar/year business in the ex-eastern block. Everybody knows it but who is doing something?
Instead of coming down on guys who have people out on the streets hawking CDs for $2 by the thousands, the industry will have us believe that it is the college student copying a couple of titles given by a friend who will put them out of business.
What would happen if Sony got Interpol to arrest one of these guys poolside?
Use your imagination, or think federal building sized explosion with different logo on the wall...
These are two nasty groups of people: multinational corporations and organized crime. Guess who the little guy in the middle is?
USB is a standard for the time being. Of course Intel is not happy about ieee1394 (Firewire, iLink) and is doing its best to give us many USBs which are of course "backward compatible".
For the moment "plug and type"tm.
If you are using OS X you can of course use a 3 button USB mouse on your Mac too.
My experience is limited to my Vaio Picture book running RedHat 6.2 and 7.1.
stay away from the yellow kiwis please...
You can add German to that list
Neptune? The watergod planet...
I have lots of sailing magazine info in French and of course local newspaper articles.
Airbus Industries is also involved from the beginning as is the local governement. Saint Nazaire is the place where lots of high tech cruising ships and central pieces of Airbus planes are built. Also bits and pieces of Mirage fighter planes etc. So lots of composite fiber expertise is to be found here.
The boat is pure carbon fiber on honeycomb.
They say flying. In sports catamaran sailing we say fly a hull.
The father of the modern ocean going hydrofoil is tha late Eric Tabarly. He won races and beat the transatlantic record on "Paul Ricard" back in the late 70's
Formula 40 boats have dagger boards that are very long and 13-15 inwards. So when both boards are fully down the boat tends to lift up on them.
This is also applied to some 60' racing trimarans.
This was built just down the road from my office.
It is the second version - the first one broke during testing.
It is on beautifull piece of carbon fiber under sail. As long as it doesn't hit anything hard in the water (whale, container, tree trunk...) it will hold the new transatlantic record.
It is not meant to beat the outright speed sailing record, but it possibly could under the right conditions.
Try using Photoshop on a Mac and on a Windows PC.
After the second or blue screen on a common filter you understand why Macs are still the Photoshop tool of choice. That and a 400 Mhz G3 blowing the doors off a 800 Mhz PIII in Photoshop...
I use the GIMP a lot now because it is more convenient than getting up and going into the design studio to work on the spare G4.
Are these the same people that don't care that RedHat chose an inferior RDBMS for RedHat Database?
Are they having a marketing problem?
I use Mac OS X on my Mac
lol
I got mine at my local supermarket...
You can get special iron on transfers for your ink jet printer...
Pirate T-shirt HOWTO
Most important point - wash the T-Shirt dry it and iron it before transfering your design. This gets the starch out of the fabric and gives you a nice smooth surface to transfer to.
Now fire up the GIMP and make your first T-shirt which should be a test T-shirt to see what the colors look like after transfer. Make a range of color swatches in various tints (don't forget to identify the color formula used i.e. % of Cyan, yellow, Magenta and black). No reason to waste a T-shirt so type in "The original pirate T-shirt color swatch shirt"! Maybe add a pirate flag motif...
Once you have printed the transfer and ironed it on let it cool down then check which colors print best.
Now go over to Think Geek and check out some T-shirt designs. Another good spot is http://www.unamerican.com. Make your design and don't forget to sign it "I stole this T-shirt design from...". Hey! Credit where credit is due.
This HOWTO is to be used only in countries where postage rates prohibit importing the real thing.
Copyleft all rights reversed... Blah Blah
Macromedia Flash
Free anime sites are just a Google away
Postgres handles multibyte
If the locale of your machine is set correctly you should have no problems with JDBC and JSP
Once they have everything locked up we will just create a counter culture that will produce its own free content.
There are already lots of bands who give away their music for free. There is a growing free anime culture thanks to Flash. We have free litterature...
Who need copy protected content?
How dare you suggest such a thing! I think I have been to Yahoo twice this year to check if a client was indexed.
I don't go to microsoft.com - too dangerous, too many trojans...
What is AOL? I thought it was a company that made shiny coasters?
It is fine with me. It is French and not Quebecois.
Connasse
Pleased to be of assistance
Actually it's Et vous êtes un con monsieur
the feminin for con being of course conne