Let's see, we don't have enough press about issues such as SCO suing IBM, Open Something or other suing Apple, SCO is going to revoke a piece of paper from IBM that isn't supposed to be revokable.
Now some self taught someone in the middle of the US has decided to point out something that is apparently not worth pointing out to make a name for himself or something?
Anyone ready to bring SUSE into the limelight of 'something is wrong with the license' type of issue?
Come one, we need to get Linux and the words 'bad licensing' in the press a bit more. Let's really kick it back to four years ago where no one would touch it in the enterprise. I mean it was almost successful at displacing another OS. So we need to make sure we kick it down a few notches.
I wanted decent signal through out the house, and a WAP that did 802.11g/b.
And I wanted this back in December I think it was. At the time, Airport Extreme was out. Linksys wasn't.
So I bought a single Airport Extreme.
Because of the range, my upper theater room and the TiVo could not for some reason get a good signal unless you raised it high in the air.
So when I picked up my new Powerbook G4 12" I added a second airport and did the WDS thing.
Worked like a champ.
Of course, just as I get this all done. I get transfered.
So now I have one in the garage plugged into my structured wiring cabinet / DSL modem hanging from teh wall and another one in the living room. Going to probably move that one upstairs into the theater room.
Works great though. I can surf from the screened in deck. It's great. Of course the little on likes to come and read keys off and beat on the keyboard while I attempt to post messages and such:)
I didn't discover what PNG was until I discovered OSS. Prior to that I found GIF format files everywhere. I still do.
The reports of it's death are greatly exaggerated.
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The Death of Bluetooth?
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· Score: 2, Insightful
I don't know about most of you, but finding a bluetooth enabled device that actually does anything is difficult if not impossible. Systems from vendors do not have a lot of models with bluetooth, or it is an option.
Apple is the only vendor I know that ships it in most of their models. IBM's Thinkpads have a few models with it.
And the next device I'd want, the phones are kinda rare. Only one or two and then the plans are either not offered/don't support anything that I would need (national coverage with no roaming fees with a large amount of minutes under $50 a month, Sprint is the only one that offers and so far they have NO bluetooth phones). On top of that, I want PDA functions in a phone with bluetooth. That doesn't exist either.
The next piece I'd want is a headset.
I have my mouse. Of course it only works with Windows/Intel somehow (surprise, it's a Microsoft device)
The problem with Bluetooth is people expect it to have wi-fi range. Bluetooth was something that you could use in an office cube, or a meeting room, and that is it. It's not supposed to solve world hunger or network a 5000 sq ft. building.
Is G5 a good marketing name though? I've understood that the whole Gx-line is thought of as slow and stagnant processors. Perhaps a name not associated with Motorola would be a better idea.
Some times I think the 'bad name' is only from Wintel folks that like to bash things.
Let's fix everything, let's ban people
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Geocaching Crackdown?
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· Score: 2, Interesting
I mean, Parks are there for you to enjoy from afar. Heaven forbid that a new technology combined with a new idea have gotten people off their butts and exploring our national treasures.
Better block it all off/make it illegal so that people will just stay home.
I never understand the mentality of these folks. First, we don't get enough money because no one visits, then too many people are coming/going to the same place.
It's like the age old ban kids from downtown because they use skateboards. Ban kids from 'cruising', ban people from the park. You keep banning people from doing things you're just going to turn them into criminals for doing something that doesn't harm anyone
P.S. To anyone considering getting a Powerbook to run Linux on, make sure you check that it's video card and wireless nyetworking are supported under Linux.
Does that include the Airport Extreme that is in my 12" Powerbook?
I believe that the point he was making was not about metered bandwidth, but rather the ridiculous justification that the broadband ISPs are using for metered bandwidth, which is that UNSCRUPULOUS BASTARDS (customers) are engaging in SEEDY ACTIVITY (use of what they paid for) and must be stopped.
But what I meant in my post included the 'demand' charges the electric company does to folks that use more than their 'allotted' need for electricity at any given time.
Really what it boils down to though is the phone companies rolled out broadband expecting 100% of the users to use 1% of the available broadband and route the entire area through a single fractional T1 or something ridiculous like that, and now that people are p2p-ing (illeagly copied music/movies mind you) they suddenly find themselves out of bandwidth.
Do I feel bad for the ISPs whining? Hell no. But do I think because all the problems with the RIAA and the MPAA and their ability to sue the crap out of everyone will help the ISPs and their whining do things to their networks to either
A) Charge more for bandwidth
B) Block the current P2P ports and make some new rule if we (being the customer) find ways around it we get booted
Either way, as long as P2P is the focus of lawsuits and 'theft of services' they will find a way to shut it down/charge us for it.
And then we'll be back to downloading ISOs and file updates at 14.4k like speeds of yesteryear.
...this person never had to get a printer working with Wordperfect 4.2 in DOS 3.3 and then print from Lotus 1-2-3 to the same said printer.
Standards are a good thing for common access points. Should there be a standard bad guy in every video game with the same face? no. Should there be a standard way to draw said bad guy on your screen so youc an shoot him? yes.
Your local electric providor just keeps charging away per Kw/h of electricity you use, and if you have a higher 'demand' for said electricity you get charged extra for daring to need more electricity than what they deem as a 'nominal' usage during that time period.
So really, ISPs want to be the electric company of our data. The more you use above what they deem 'nominal' you pay a demand fee for and an increased fee over the guy down the street that lives off of one light bulb that is on only one hour a day.
I'd agree with that. I can think of times, especially later in the day after you've walked an entire park one time through that an ol' segway for $20 - $40 for the rest of the day would be ideal.
They could even use the govenor key so that you can't go full speed to avoid running people down, though that could be a ride in and of itself.
Resident Evil on the original PS scared the bu-jeezus out of me and my brother. He broke a controller by throwing it up into the air abnd biouncing it off the ceiling. Even when they re-released it with the vibro mode we played it again. Weld get so freaked out we'd shut the game off. Reminded me of seeing friday thw 13th when I was in 4th grade. Someone closed the bathroom door while we were brushin our teeth and no one would dare opwn it. hehe:)
I've had my 12" powerbook for maybe a month now. I leave it on 24x7.
It is the CD-RW/CD version, with 640MB of RAM in it. I run distributed.net client on it so the CPU is working a lot. It does get warm, it just hasn't wobbled yet.
Doesn't the phone company have to tell law enforcement who a phone number belongs too if asked? Don't they have to provide a list of numbers that that phone number has called if asked?
This has nothing to do with violating freedom or any other right we supposedly have under the constitution.
he used his position within DirecTV to gain access to secret, confidential information, and leaked it to someone. What that someone did, or whether or not he benfitted is immaterial. He violated NDA from DirecTV, and violated that law.
Just like if someone posted a source code module from Windows 2003, the secret recipie of Mickey D's Secret Sauce, or anything else confidential.
OK, for the record, when looking in your bookmarks and seeing the 'Open in Tabs' button when you think 'what does this do?' don't do it on a very full menu.
It opens every bookmark in that menu in it's own tab. Woot. talk about a lotta web pages
Meaning, is Fox the releasing mechanism or did they license the distribution rights to someone else and they're releasing it?
Kinda like Farscape. Sci-Fi Licensed season 1 to someone else, until they saw we actually bought the things.
Of course Fox will only make money off the one release since they were short sighted enough to cancel a decent show.
It wasn't emmy winning material mind you, but it had a lot of potential and was really getting good near the end (Which, irnoically enough was the fricken beginning if they'd aired it like they should have)
Someone needs to edit flawed submissions. I thought for a minute there'd be no PC version which to me smacked of idiocy.
However, making it a console only version for the XBox while releasing it on the PC.
Eh, I dont' care. To me, FPS on a Console suck. I prefer the KB/Mouse method of input not the little slow to respond pads (in FPS modes, in other mods, the pads rock).
However, I'll never own an XBox so I don't care. Gamecube and PS2 are for me. MS isn't getting near my TV if I can avoid it.
No, I don't irrationally hate Microsoft. I irrationally hate the idea of Windows Media Player deciding how and when I can watch movies.
I'm an open-standards kind of guy. DVD is an open standard, sure it's an open RESTRICTED standard, but it's still open.
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Let's see, we don't have enough press about issues such as SCO suing IBM, Open Something or other suing Apple, SCO is going to revoke a piece of paper from IBM that isn't supposed to be revokable.
Now some self taught someone in the middle of the US has decided to point out something that is apparently not worth pointing out to make a name for himself or something?
Anyone ready to bring SUSE into the limelight of 'something is wrong with the license' type of issue?
Come one, we need to get Linux and the words 'bad licensing' in the press a bit more. Let's really kick it back to four years ago where no one would touch it in the enterprise. I mean it was almost successful at displacing another OS. So we need to make sure we kick it down a few notches.
I wanted decent signal through out the house, and a WAP that did 802.11g/b.
:)
And I wanted this back in December I think it was. At the time, Airport Extreme was out. Linksys wasn't.
So I bought a single Airport Extreme.
Because of the range, my upper theater room and the TiVo could not for some reason get a good signal unless you raised it high in the air.
So when I picked up my new Powerbook G4 12" I added a second airport and did the WDS thing.
Worked like a champ.
Of course, just as I get this all done. I get transfered.
So now I have one in the garage plugged into my structured wiring cabinet / DSL modem hanging from teh wall and another one in the living room. Going to probably move that one upstairs into the theater room.
Works great though. I can surf from the screened in deck. It's great. Of course the little on likes to come and read keys off and beat on the keyboard while I attempt to post messages and such
I used VBR encoding with the lowest bitrate allowed to 112 (lame -b112 -vbr) and then the --r3mix settings.
Did about 700 CDs with this. Sounds great on my headphones on my iPod.
Now of course I'm wondering if I should make the effort to move to AAC yet or not.
They keep shooting our probes down. We should really look at is as a success that we got the ones there that we did.
I mean notice, they never land near the face or the pyramids!
(apologies to the author Robert Doherty for stealing the idea from his Area 51 series)
I didn't discover what PNG was until I discovered OSS. Prior to that I found GIF format files everywhere. I still do.
I don't know about most of you, but finding a bluetooth enabled device that actually does anything is difficult if not impossible. Systems from vendors do not have a lot of models with bluetooth, or it is an option.
Apple is the only vendor I know that ships it in most of their models. IBM's Thinkpads have a few models with it.
And the next device I'd want, the phones are kinda rare. Only one or two and then the plans are either not offered/don't support anything that I would need (national coverage with no roaming fees with a large amount of minutes under $50 a month, Sprint is the only one that offers and so far they have NO bluetooth phones). On top of that, I want PDA functions in a phone with bluetooth. That doesn't exist either.
The next piece I'd want is a headset.
I have my mouse. Of course it only works with Windows/Intel somehow (surprise, it's a Microsoft device)
The problem with Bluetooth is people expect it to have wi-fi range. Bluetooth was something that you could use in an office cube, or a meeting room, and that is it. It's not supposed to solve world hunger or network a 5000 sq ft. building.
Some times I think the 'bad name' is only from Wintel folks that like to bash things.
He's from Kansas and he is republican.
You think he'll loose?
Better block it all off/make it illegal so that people will just stay home.
I never understand the mentality of these folks. First, we don't get enough money because no one visits, then too many people are coming/going to the same place.
It's like the age old ban kids from downtown because they use skateboards. Ban kids from 'cruising', ban people from the park. You keep banning people from doing things you're just going to turn them into criminals for doing something that doesn't harm anyone
Does that include the Airport Extreme that is in my 12" Powerbook?
But what I meant in my post included the 'demand' charges the electric company does to folks that use more than their 'allotted' need for electricity at any given time.
Really what it boils down to though is the phone companies rolled out broadband expecting 100% of the users to use 1% of the available broadband and route the entire area through a single fractional T1 or something ridiculous like that, and now that people are p2p-ing (illeagly copied music/movies mind you) they suddenly find themselves out of bandwidth.
Do I feel bad for the ISPs whining? Hell no. But do I think because all the problems with the RIAA and the MPAA and their ability to sue the crap out of everyone will help the ISPs and their whining do things to their networks to either
Either way, as long as P2P is the focus of lawsuits and 'theft of services' they will find a way to shut it down/charge us for it.
And then we'll be back to downloading ISOs and file updates at 14.4k like speeds of yesteryear.
...this person never had to get a printer working with Wordperfect 4.2 in DOS 3.3 and then print from Lotus 1-2-3 to the same said printer.
Standards are a good thing for common access points. Should there be a standard bad guy in every video game with the same face? no. Should there be a standard way to draw said bad guy on your screen so youc an shoot him? yes.
Your local electric providor just keeps charging away per Kw/h of electricity you use, and if you have a higher 'demand' for said electricity you get charged extra for daring to need more electricity than what they deem as a 'nominal' usage during that time period.
So really, ISPs want to be the electric company of our data. The more you use above what they deem 'nominal' you pay a demand fee for and an increased fee over the guy down the street that lives off of one light bulb that is on only one hour a day.
There are three script kiddies downloading, and re-downloading the package to make it win the race :)
I'd bet money you won't see the PowerPC 970 in anything other than the PowerMac at least at first.
PowerMac = Highest Performer, iMac = Mid teir and eMac = cheapy.
PowerPC 970 isn't going to be a laptop PC unless you want to cook eggs. Can't see that nice chip being in a book just now.
(Speaking as a recent Powerbook 12" Owner too)
I'd agree with that. I can think of times, especially later in the day after you've walked an entire park one time through that an ol' segway for $20 - $40 for the rest of the day would be ideal.
They could even use the govenor key so that you can't go full speed to avoid running people down, though that could be a ride in and of itself.
This just proves that sex is worth big money.
Resident Evil on the original PS scared the bu-jeezus out of me and my brother. He broke a controller by throwing it up into the air abnd biouncing it off the ceiling. Even when they re-released it with the vibro mode we played it again. Weld get so freaked out we'd shut the game off. Reminded me of seeing friday thw 13th when I was in 4th grade. Someone closed the bathroom door while we were brushin our teeth and no one would dare opwn it. hehe :)
I've had my 12" powerbook for maybe a month now. I leave it on 24x7.
It is the CD-RW/CD version, with 640MB of RAM in it. I run distributed.net client on it so the CPU is working a lot. It does get warm, it just hasn't wobbled yet.
But I've only had it a month.
Thanks for the clarification. Didn't think about the fack that the RIAA is a civil organization, even though they act like they are law enforcement.
Doesn't the phone company have to tell law enforcement who a phone number belongs too if asked? Don't they have to provide a list of numbers that that phone number has called if asked?
How is this different?
This has nothing to do with violating freedom or any other right we supposedly have under the constitution.
he used his position within DirecTV to gain access to secret, confidential information, and leaked it to someone. What that someone did, or whether or not he benfitted is immaterial. He violated NDA from DirecTV, and violated that law.
Just like if someone posted a source code module from Windows 2003, the secret recipie of Mickey D's Secret Sauce, or anything else confidential.
OK, for the record, when looking in your bookmarks and seeing the 'Open in Tabs' button when you think 'what does this do?' don't do it on a very full menu.
It opens every bookmark in that menu in it's own tab. Woot. talk about a lotta web pages
Meaning, is Fox the releasing mechanism or did they license the distribution rights to someone else and they're releasing it?
Kinda like Farscape. Sci-Fi Licensed season 1 to someone else, until they saw we actually bought the things.
Of course Fox will only make money off the one release since they were short sighted enough to cancel a decent show.
It wasn't emmy winning material mind you, but it had a lot of potential and was really getting good near the end (Which, irnoically enough was the fricken beginning if they'd aired it like they should have)
Someone needs to edit flawed submissions. I thought for a minute there'd be no PC version which to me smacked of idiocy.
However, making it a console only version for the XBox while releasing it on the PC.
Eh, I dont' care. To me, FPS on a Console suck. I prefer the KB/Mouse method of input not the little slow to respond pads (in FPS modes, in other mods, the pads rock).
However, I'll never own an XBox so I don't care. Gamecube and PS2 are for me. MS isn't getting near my TV if I can avoid it.
No, I don't irrationally hate Microsoft. I irrationally hate the idea of Windows Media Player deciding how and when I can watch movies.
I'm an open-standards kind of guy. DVD is an open standard, sure it's an open RESTRICTED standard, but it's still open.