I have to agree with you. Can someone please outline to me how 80% of the computer owning population would benefit from this ? And I'd like to include aunts, uncles, grandparents, kids under 10, general office workers etc etc. I hate to say it, but you'd probably potentially appeal to more potential linux users by making nice splash screens when you install, start up apps and window managers (although I know they kinda do that already). Hell, even a stupid bonzai / office assistant could appeal to the kids and aunts alike, and *thats* the kind of thing that could just sway someone from wanting to use linux. They really don't need to figure out whether to include ATM support as a module or included in their bzImage !
I thought that was funny. Oh well. Looks as if the moderators today are adding 6 - (2d6) points randomly. If it's any consolation, I would've modded ya up...
I agree with the other poster. I love my empeg car stereo. They are releasing new software for it on a regular basis and it is definitely the coolest bit of high tech gadetery I've bought in the last year.
But it was a bummer that it's now EOL....
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Don't often laugh when reading/. but well done. Roll on the 99c coin...
Before you all start bitchin' about the non-open side of this, I purchased the "empeg" car player. Yeah it was pricey when I got it, and for another 30 gigs of drive space even more so, (it now has 50Gb on it), but it runs linux on arm architecture and for the 20 hour drive I just did yesterday from Milan to London, it was a damn godsend to listen to music I wanted to listen to. In fact, the only problem I had was that I had 11 days left of toons to listen to when I got back to my house....
Oh, and the customer & techincal support people are the best. Take a look at geek.empeg.com to see what they give to the techies who want to prod under the bonnet of the thing... (and yes I'm too lazy to make it a hyperlink).
Have you found any working consume.net access points ? I think the idea's fantastic - but I haven't actually heard about it working anywhere yet... The only person that replied to my emails was a chap who lived within 300 m (great!), but was taking all his stuff to Edinburgh. (SOOL that time I guess).
I guess the only practical wireless alternative is to buy one of these babies and get war-walking....
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Is there someone else outthere hosting a site where we can have a non-biased discussion ? BROWSE AT -1 Checkout how many posts have gone straight in at -1 (and this one too will, I betcha...)
Can you forward the link for downloading/installing onto linux / bsd / pls ? Better still, the source so we can recompile it under any os.
Thanks in advance
That's a good statistic, but there could be a significant number of people who
a) created their public key
b) uploaded it
c) had it signed by their mate(s)
d) didn't refresh the keyserver, but just updated their own keyring
How do you get the new firmware ?! Do you have to have some business like relationship with ericsson, or do you just use a few magic leads and a firmware writing piece of software ? Please tell...
Not only that, but just set up a small laptop running ipsniff (or your favourite packing sniffing tool) and log all those passwords / emails / etc etc. Imagine the resale value (or just stock price movement tip-offs)of the information gleamed from that kinda data....
..and I gotta say the wap performance (even on 9.6) is far better than I thought it would be - beats the socks off the Nokia 7110 (Connection failed connection failed connection failed etc). I do have a question for you, though : Have you managed to get the HSCDS working yet ? I can get a connect string CONNECT 14400 (at the most so far), but the text then appears as trash, no matter which ISP I dial into ?
How does a TIVO interface with either ONDigital or a sky digi-box ? Does it have some kind of magical lead that controls ? (Please don't offtopic me yet - I'm curious coz I might get one...)
I got one too. They kick the preverbial ass out of all the alternatives (that I've seen so far). And you can get a tcsh if you type q into the serial port.....;-)
It's not "bear" that's misspelt - she means "Freya the bear, not Freya as in spatula" ( a common mistake with new/. posters I have found. But yes, a free bear is a bad thing, but a free beard - well that's ok too I guess. Free Bard ? I didn't know that there was one imprisoned somewhere)
I could go on but I need to write some perl stuff now.
I would have mod'd you up, but I'd already commented on his article (as I can't mod him down!). I've been to the article and made my vote. Long live democracy !
Crikey. Here I am with those golden moderator points and I choose to write on this forum instead. I was shocked and dismayed to read "part 2". Crikey. Part 1 was only worth reading coz of the flames that followed it. Is it just my imagination or is it that every day a MS bashing piece of news comes out, and if it doesn't, then JC'll just write on e anyway? This really is getting tedious. When I first discovered/. I actually thought it was a refreshing, up-to-date finger on the pulse site that informed me of stuff that I actually found interesting - just the like the title says - news for nerds. Now, instead of hoping/. puts up more stories during my working day, I'm finding I visit theregister.co.uk more often coz it's often more relevant, more interesting and more amusing. The only thing it doesn't have is the comments from joe public (which makes/. sooo much more compulsive). But today - jeez - it's as if today is a no-news day in the world of/. , but theregister still seems to make something out of it..
Please please please start publishing stories that aren't just anti - MS. I hate them as much as the next MS hating man (or woman), but I'm bored of x stories a day just bashing MS. Please IF ONLY I COULD HAVE USED THOSE POINTS ON THIS ARTICLE!!
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took me a few moments to figure out the sig. Then I LOLd.
Get a few friends together. Split into two groups and form two companies. Call one "Good Software Inc." and call the other "Evil Software Inc.".
Now Good software Inc release some software, no matter how lame, under the GPL. Evil Software Inc (remember they're just friends), take the software and sell it as part of their proprietary application (perhaps even keeping the about box!). Hire two lawyers, one to represent Good, the other Evil. Go to court. Good puts forth the GPL Free Software case, Evil deliberately *loose* the case and pay punitive damages of, oh say, $100.
The GPL has had its debut in court and wins ! (And it'll always be known as the Good vs Evil 2001 GPL case).
Then you all go down the pub (if you're English, at least).
Who knows if anybody'll read this ? Here goes anyway..
I live in a house where I own 2 PCs and 1 Mac (G4 cube). The PCs run Win 2k and RedHat. I keep all my "personal" data on the RH machine coz I know that I can access it from anywhere (i.e. the other 2 or off the web) and I "trust" the operating system to keep the files in order (yeah I do take backups as well). Here's the crunch. The two "loud" PCs (and they are loud) live in the lounge, in the opposite corner to the TV. If the flatties wanna use 'em, they can. I don't care about noise in the lounge. The thing I do, though, is if I want to use 'em - I'll switch em on and just X / VNC back to the G4 *Silent* Mac in my room. OK, I can't run games over VNC (not good ones anyway), but it sure make working with I.T. nice without the fan noise....
Let me know if you find any good deals ! I've looked at www.net4nowt.com who seem to have real people reviews of all the ISPs that I could use, but so far (still) all of the xDSL lines on all of the ISPs are either full up or 100 quid + per month. I'm on 64k ISDN at the mo, which is OK for surfing email etc etc, but it sux at napster / aimster etc etc.
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I have to agree with you. Can someone please outline to me how 80% of the computer owning population would benefit from this ? And I'd like to include aunts, uncles, grandparents, kids under 10, general office workers etc etc. I hate to say it, but you'd probably potentially appeal to more potential linux users by making nice splash screens when you install, start up apps and window managers (although I know they kinda do that already). Hell, even a stupid bonzai / office assistant could appeal to the kids and aunts alike, and *thats* the kind of thing that could just sway someone from wanting to use linux. They really don't need to figure out whether to include ATM support as a module or included in their bzImage !
I thought that was funny. Oh well. Looks as if the moderators today are adding 6 - (2d6) points randomly. If it's any consolation, I would've modded ya up...
I agree with the other poster. I love my empeg car stereo. They are releasing new software for it on a regular basis and it is definitely the coolest bit of high tech gadetery I've bought in the last year.
But it was a bummer that it's now EOL....
Don't often laugh when reading /. but well done. Roll on the 99c coin...
Before you all start bitchin' about the non-open side of this, I purchased the "empeg" car player. Yeah it was pricey when I got it, and for another 30 gigs of drive space even more so, (it now has 50Gb on it), but it runs linux on arm architecture and for the 20 hour drive I just did yesterday from Milan to London, it was a damn godsend to listen to music I wanted to listen to. In fact, the only problem I had was that I had 11 days left of toons to listen to when I got back to my house....
Oh, and the customer & techincal support people are the best. Take a look at geek.empeg.com to see what they give to the techies who want to prod under the bonnet of the thing... (and yes I'm too lazy to make it a hyperlink).
Have you found any working consume.net access points ? I think the idea's fantastic - but I haven't actually heard about it working anywhere yet... The only person that replied to my emails was a chap who lived within 300 m (great!), but was taking all his stuff to Edinburgh. (SOOL that time I guess).
I guess the only practical wireless alternative is to buy one of these babies and get war-walking....
Name as many films with the "super-access everything" password as you can...
(I can only think of 2 right now - Tron and War Games)
if (comment like "%girl%" or comment like "%What happened to%" or comment like "%original story%") update posting set score = -1, reason = random("Troll","Offtopic")
Is there someone else outthere hosting a site where we can have a non-biased discussion ?
BROWSE AT -1 Checkout how many posts have gone straight in at -1 (and this one too will, I betcha...)
Can you forward the link for downloading /installing onto linux / bsd / pls ? Better still, the source so we can recompile it under any os.
Thanks in advance
That's a good statistic, but there could be a significant number of people who
a) created their public key
b) uploaded it
c) had it signed by their mate(s)
d) didn't refresh the keyserver, but just updated their own keyring
But I still like the 11% statistic.
I understood what you were saying.....
How do you get the new firmware ?! Do you have to have some business like relationship with ericsson, or do you just use a few magic leads and a firmware writing piece of software ? Please tell ...
Not only that, but just set up a small laptop running ipsniff (or your favourite packing sniffing tool) and log all those passwords / emails / etc etc. Imagine the resale value (or just stock price movement tip-offs)of the information gleamed from that kinda data....
..and I gotta say the wap performance (even on 9.6) is far better than I thought it would be - beats the socks off the Nokia 7110 (Connection failed connection failed connection failed etc). I do have a question for you, though : Have you managed to get the HSCDS working yet ? I can get a connect string CONNECT 14400 (at the most so far), but the text then appears as trash, no matter which ISP I dial into ?
.. I just received mine from www.expansys.com for around 250 quid.
How does a TIVO interface with either ONDigital or a sky digi-box ? Does it have some kind of magical lead that controls ? (Please don't offtopic me yet - I'm curious coz I might get one...)
Was that a 2000AD .sig ?
I got one too. They kick the preverbial ass out of all the alternatives (that I've seen so far). And you can get a tcsh if you type q into the serial port ..... ;-)
It's not "bear" that's misspelt - she means "Freya the bear, not Freya as in spatula" ( a common mistake with new /. posters I have found. But yes, a free bear is a bad thing, but a free beard - well that's ok too I guess. Free Bard ? I didn't know that there was one imprisoned somewhere)
I could go on but I need to write some perl stuff now.
I would have mod'd you up, but I'd already commented on his article (as I can't mod him down!). I've been to the article and made my vote. Long live democracy !
Crikey. Here I am with those golden moderator points and I choose to write on this forum instead. I was shocked and dismayed to read "part 2". Crikey. Part 1 was only worth reading coz of the flames that followed it. Is it just my imagination or is it that every day a MS bashing piece of news comes out, and if it doesn't, then JC'll just write on e anyway? This really is getting tedious. When I first discovered /. I actually thought it was a refreshing, up-to-date finger on the pulse site that informed me of stuff that I actually found interesting - just the like the title says - news for nerds. Now, instead of hoping /. puts up more stories during my working day, I'm finding I visit theregister.co.uk more often coz it's often more relevant, more interesting and more amusing. The only thing it doesn't have is the comments from joe public (which makes /. sooo much more compulsive). But today - jeez - it's as if today is a no-news day in the world of /. , but theregister still seems to make something out of it..
Please please please start publishing stories that aren't just anti - MS. I hate them as much as the next MS hating man (or woman), but I'm bored of x stories a day just bashing MS. Please
IF ONLY I COULD HAVE USED THOSE POINTS ON THIS ARTICLE!!
took me a few moments to figure out the sig. Then I LOLd.
Get a few friends together. Split into two groups and form two companies. Call one "Good Software Inc." and call the other "Evil Software Inc.".
Now Good software Inc release some software, no matter how lame, under the GPL. Evil Software Inc (remember they're just friends), take the software and sell it as part of their proprietary application (perhaps even keeping the about box!). Hire two lawyers, one to represent Good, the other Evil. Go to court. Good puts forth the GPL Free Software case, Evil deliberately *loose* the case and pay punitive damages of, oh say, $100.
The GPL has had its debut in court and wins ! (And it'll always be known as the Good vs Evil 2001 GPL case).
Then you all go down the pub (if you're English, at least).
Who knows if anybody'll read this ? Here goes anyway..
I live in a house where I own 2 PCs and 1 Mac (G4 cube). The PCs run Win 2k and RedHat. I keep all my "personal" data on the RH machine coz I know that I can access it from anywhere (i.e. the other 2 or off the web) and I "trust" the operating system to keep the files in order (yeah I do take backups as well). Here's the crunch. The two "loud" PCs (and they are loud) live in the lounge, in the opposite corner to the TV. If the flatties wanna use 'em, they can. I don't care about noise in the lounge. The thing I do, though, is if I want to use 'em - I'll switch em on and just X / VNC back to the G4 *Silent* Mac in my room. OK, I can't run games over VNC (not good ones anyway), but it sure make working with I.T. nice without the fan noise....
Let me know if you find any good deals ! I've looked at www.net4nowt.com who seem to have real people reviews of all the ISPs that I could use, but so far (still) all of the xDSL lines on all of the ISPs are either full up or 100 quid + per month. I'm on 64k ISDN at the mo, which is OK for surfing email etc etc, but it sux at napster / aimster etc etc.