First a points: Face it: The palm m130 is a cheap 160x160 pixels handheld. 16bit colout on a 160x160 cheap screen is _not_ that much different than a 12bit colour screen. What are you going to do? Run photoshop on your palm or show your vacation pictures to others on a frikin 160x160 screen?
That being said, I own an m130 and have been insanely pleased with it. However, this offer puts me into temptation.. Do i return the m130 and use the money (+£100) to buy the much sexier m515? I might be a righteous person and not do it. But others?
This is a bug in XFree86 and/or (depending on what you are using) XFS. The error doesn't happen under windows... And apparently, it can be triggered under linux by other programs as well (gimp) if you set the font size absurdly high.
Also, this is _not_ a DOS attack. What it does is make X consume all available memory and swap. And it can be triggered remotely by running mozilla, and browsing a webpage with absurdly large fonts. But it is by no means a DOS attack, because no-one is actively attacking you, making you "Deny Service" to other users.
1) PalmOS 5 will not add many things true. But: It will standardise apis (such as the resolution API), and allow a whole new class of ARM applications to run. The CLIE won't be able to run those
2)The screen size is an application issue. It's just that not many applications support the new resolution. It is hoped that Palmos5 will include an api to handle that
3) Battery life: It's not true that colour devices have bad battery life. I've never run out of battery on my palm m130. The palm m505 has a _lot_ of hours of battery life as well
. Sony has a bad record when it comes to battery life
4) Memory sticks are big. Compared to MMC/SD cards they are. Compared to SM/CF they are longer and also smaller. Plus they _are_ more expensive. For the same price you got a 128MS, you can get a 256MB compact flash card! And don't forget that you can get CF (albeit type II) cards at up to 1 GB... And there are more CF periferals...
5) True, the CLIE can play MP3s. It's just that by getting a clie you add to the statistics of people that "have access to" ATRAC3 format and fund those that develop this...
Note that this is probably going to sound as an anti-sony rant (and in some ways, it is) but bear with me.
Here are some issues against buying this:
PalmOS5 The new OS is coming out soon (Q4). It only supports ARM cpus. This machine has a dragonball (m68k derivative) cpu. Will you give $600 for this and not be able to upgrade it to palmOS 5? You will not be able to run ARM apps either...
Resolution support: Few apps support sony's 320x320 resolution (the one that older clies have). Very few support this one's. Sony seems to be flooding the market with new APIs when PalmOS 5 is going to tackle the screen size issue...
Low battery life. The battery life on this is extremely low (4 hours AFAIK? check palminfocenter.com)
Memory Stick. It's big (physical size), expensive, proprietary, and does not hold too much data. It locks you into an all exclusive and very expensive sony world. And don't forget the MagicGate sticks folks!
Sony's ATRAC3 (the lovely DRM-enabled music format)
Few peripherals. Palms, Visors, and even pocketpc enjoy a much greater variety of peripherals... A stowaway for your sony? A GPS module for your sony? Don't think so...
This sounds an awful lot like the arguements against gun companies. Essentially, gun companies don't kill people, they just make guns. Ammo companies don't kill people, they just make bullets.
Yes, but the major difference is that guns can only harm and/or kill people. Software such as kazaa can have other uses other than to illegally copy music.
I also consider that DVD-Region locking should *at least* be limited in time.
Listen to me: Valenti and his hord consider that DVD Region-ing is a way to prevent a film to be seen in a place in which it has not previously been played in theater.
And thereby lies the problem. Why is a film not shown to all audiences at the same time? Why are some countries more priviledged than others? Why does a DVD come out in region 1 when the same movie hasn't been shown in a theatre in region 3?
And the answer is: Complete. Market. Domination. Have you considered that a DVD in the UK (region 2) costs about twice as much as a DVD in the US (region 1)?
"Apache on warpath over Java license" by Steve Anglin Feb. 20, 2002 [Print this article]
According to vnunet.com, "The Apache Software Foundation's battle with Sun Microsystems stepped up gear last week as the open source community struggled to loosen Sun's cast iron grip on the Java platform." This is in response to, first, Lutris being turned-down for J2EE certification, and then JBoss, which is J2EE compliant from a technical standpoint, but apparently not J2EE compliant enough for Sun certification.
Last week, ONJava.com published O'Reilly editor Mike Loukides' follow-up on the possibility of open source J2EE from Sun: Will You See Open Source J2EE Implementations? Not Likely. TheServerSide.com also published an interview with one of Sun's J2EE principles, Karen Tegan. While Sun essentially says it supports open source efforts, it does not want those efforts to impact the J2EE certification process, a process that clearly is closed source at best. See the conflict.
As a high ranking member in the Java Community Process (JCP), Apache is part of the JSPA (Java Specification Participation Agreement). In this capacity, Apache can actively propose new and revised Java API specifications as well as integrate a particular specification under Jakarta, Apache's open source Java projects. Apache's reply is here in Apache's JSPA Position . According to Apache, "...Sun doesn't give a hoot about whether J2EE licensing restricts open source J2EE products (in case you missed it, it does)."
Sun benefits from its relationship with Apache. Apache gives Sun "...an advertising statement...to claim that it (Sun) has a 'vision which uses open standards and non-proprietary interfaces'." If Apache's reply and suggestions go unanswered, Apache can put pressure on Sun in other, more severe ways. Without Apache, Sun could lose many of its Java developers as Jakarta projects would be affected. The impact could be quite severe, certainly in terms of publicity. Financially, who knows?
Steve Anglin is Managing Editor of ONJava.com and O'Reilly Network's.NET DevCenter for O'Reilly & Associates' Online Publishing Group (OPG).
The XBOX is a game *console*. It's perfectly reasonable to maintain a closed standard. What MS is trying to do is make sure they get their licensing fees from "official" peripheral manufacturers, instead of having their profits dried up by cheap Taiwanese knockoffs.
Yes the XBOX is a marketed as console (although, as you and I know, it's suspiciously close to a PC). It is, however, the only console to disallow importing peripherals. A joypad bought in Japan is not any less official than one bought in the UK, the USA etc. And what makes you think for that matter that "cheap Taiwanese knockoffs" will not create "cheap joystick knowoffs" with US USB ids?
This is a good example of Microsoft trying to totally control their livingroom PC...
Many. Then again, how many OSes written in Java have their been over the years?
But the buffer overflow exploits and crashes have not been just in kernels... How about userland stuff such as ISS/apache, sendmail/exchange etc? Java wouldn't allow that...
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J2ME apps for mobile phones & stuff
Until now, movies in space-saving DivX (MPEG-4) format could only be viewed on a PC
That's not true. The archos multimedia player can play divx's. Also there are projects for the dreamcast and possibly others that can play divx's
Try hotbod.com instead! I still remember back in the day my horror when made this mistake at my school library...
What you say????
Is it some sort of disease?
a) Why is this on the BSD section? Is it some joke on the "BSD is dying?" troll?
b) Where was it reported on OSNews? Can't find the article anywhere
For grandpa? i think you're doing something wrong there.
Well let's see:
650MHz UltraSparc III Processor (64bit)
(up to) 4 GB Ram
(up to) 160GB HDD
dual ethernet
15.1" LCD (up to 1400 x 1050)
Who's drooling? Certainly not me. Nooo sirrreee. Dude, I'm getting a Dell!
"It's odd that RH, SuSe and Mandrake compete with each other more than their common enemy."
You mean BSD?
"
No need! Haven't you heard? BSD is dying! I think they're going after CPM next...
i think you'd better rethink that statement and get your priorities straight
First a points:
Face it: The palm m130 is a cheap 160x160 pixels handheld. 16bit colout on a 160x160 cheap screen is _not_ that much different than a 12bit colour screen. What are you going to do? Run photoshop on your palm or show your vacation pictures to others on a frikin 160x160 screen?
That being said, I own an m130 and have been insanely pleased with it. However, this offer puts me into temptation.. Do i return the m130 and use the money (+£100) to buy the much sexier m515? I might be a righteous person and not do it. But others?
This might be an economical disaster for palm...
Innovation halts patents? [ducks]
Checkout the bugzila item here
Also, this is _not_ a DOS attack. What it does is make X consume all available memory and swap. And it can be triggered remotely by running mozilla, and browsing a webpage with absurdly large fonts. But it is by no means a DOS attack, because no-one is actively attacking you, making you "Deny Service" to other users.
1) PalmOS 5 will not add many things true. But: It will standardise apis (such as the resolution API), and allow a whole new class of ARM applications to run. The CLIE won't be able to run those
2)The screen size is an application issue. It's just that not many applications support the new resolution. It is hoped that Palmos5 will include an api to handle that
3) Battery life: It's not true that colour devices have bad battery life. I've never run out of battery on my palm m130. The palm m505 has a _lot_ of hours of battery life as well
. Sony has a bad record when it comes to battery life
4) Memory sticks are big. Compared to MMC/SD cards they are. Compared to SM/CF they are longer and also smaller. Plus they _are_ more expensive. For the same price you got a 128MS, you can get a 256MB compact flash card! And don't forget that you can get CF (albeit type II) cards at up to 1 GB... And there are more CF periferals...
5) True, the CLIE can play MP3s. It's just that by getting a clie you add to the statistics of people that "have access to" ATRAC3 format and fund those that develop this...
Thanks!
Here are some issues against buying this:
PalmOS5 The new OS is coming out soon (Q4). It only supports ARM cpus. This machine has a dragonball (m68k derivative) cpu. Will you give $600 for this and not be able to upgrade it to palmOS 5? You will not be able to run ARM apps either...
Resolution support: Few apps support sony's 320x320 resolution (the one that older clies have). Very few support this one's. Sony seems to be flooding the market with new APIs when PalmOS 5 is going to tackle the screen size issue...
Low battery life. The battery life on this is extremely low (4 hours AFAIK? check palminfocenter.com)
Memory Stick. It's big (physical size), expensive, proprietary, and does not hold too much data. It locks you into an all exclusive and very expensive sony world. And don't forget the MagicGate sticks folks!
Sony's ATRAC3 (the lovely DRM-enabled music format)
Few peripherals. Palms, Visors, and even pocketpc enjoy a much greater variety of peripherals... A stowaway for your sony? A GPS module for your sony? Don't think so...
sorry for ranting
Gee, i hope they don't do poetry...
err, yes, thanks for pointing that out i guess...
Yes, but the major difference is that guns can only harm and/or kill people. Software such as kazaa can have other uses other than to illegally copy music.
Or the banjo
It seems to handle the load pretty well, i mean, load balancing all those 404 errors
Yes, and we love it.
I find your lack of faith.... Disturbing...
And thereby lies the problem. Why is a film not shown to all audiences at the same time? Why are some countries more priviledged than others? Why does a DVD come out in region 1 when the same movie hasn't been shown in a theatre in region 3?
And the answer is: Complete. Market. Domination. Have you considered that a DVD in the UK (region 2) costs about twice as much as a DVD in the US (region 1)?
"Apache on warpath over Java license"
.NET DevCenter for O'Reilly & Associates' Online Publishing Group (OPG).
by Steve Anglin
Feb. 20, 2002
[Print this article]
According to vnunet.com, "The Apache Software Foundation's battle with Sun Microsystems stepped up gear last week as the open source community struggled to loosen Sun's cast iron grip on the Java platform." This is in response to, first, Lutris being turned-down for J2EE certification, and then JBoss, which is J2EE compliant from a technical standpoint, but apparently not J2EE compliant enough for Sun certification.
Last week, ONJava.com published O'Reilly editor Mike Loukides' follow-up on the possibility of open source J2EE from Sun: Will You See Open Source J2EE Implementations? Not Likely. TheServerSide.com also published an interview with one of Sun's J2EE principles, Karen Tegan. While Sun essentially says it supports open source efforts, it does not want those efforts to impact the J2EE certification process, a process that clearly is closed source at best. See the conflict.
As a high ranking member in the Java Community Process (JCP), Apache is part of the JSPA (Java Specification Participation Agreement). In this capacity, Apache can actively propose new and revised Java API specifications as well as integrate a particular specification under Jakarta, Apache's open source Java projects. Apache's reply is here in Apache's JSPA Position . According to Apache, "...Sun doesn't give a hoot about whether J2EE licensing restricts open source J2EE products (in case you missed it, it does)."
Sun benefits from its relationship with Apache. Apache gives Sun "...an advertising statement...to claim that it (Sun) has a 'vision which uses open standards and non-proprietary interfaces'." If Apache's reply and suggestions go unanswered, Apache can put pressure on Sun in other, more severe ways. Without Apache, Sun could lose many of its Java developers as Jakarta projects would be affected. The impact could be quite severe, certainly in terms of publicity. Financially, who knows?
Steve Anglin is Managing Editor of ONJava.com and O'Reilly Network's
Yes the XBOX is a marketed as console (although, as you and I know, it's suspiciously close to a PC). It is, however, the only console to disallow importing peripherals. A joypad bought in Japan is not any less official than one bought in the UK, the USA etc. And what makes you think for that matter that "cheap Taiwanese knockoffs" will not create "cheap joystick knowoffs" with US USB ids?
This is a good example of Microsoft trying to totally control their livingroom PC...
But the buffer overflow exploits and crashes have not been just in kernels... How about userland stuff such as ISS/apache, sendmail/exchange etc? Java wouldn't allow that...
Again though, I do like C...