I have a Satellite M35-S161, and as parent poster said getting the wifi up is quite an adventure. And this is for the Atheros madwifi drivers which afaik are among the better non-Intel (non-Centrino) 802.11g drivers available. This was on Fedora Core 3 btw, hoping they autodetect it in Core 4 (haven't checked).
Previously I had installed RedHat on a laptop with a wireless pcmcia (smc 2632w) having a Prism chipset, which was supposedly the best supported B chipset at the time. I had a hard time getting that to work as well. Still, I do think that things seem to be improving re. wireless support.
Support for 15.4" screens is another matter altogether though:(
Any gamma burst from a single point will only fall on half the Earth's surface directly. What stops us from just hopping across to the other half, instead of needing scifi tech to survive?
For that matter, even without warning around half the world population would automatically be shielded - well if China and India were on the exposed side that might be much less than half though;)
Well, I barely know enough to use dd for getting boot sectors off hard disk partitions, but you might want to look into that. Since you want to copy entire disks guess you want to use
dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/hdb bs=<120gb> count=1
or something like that - I have only used dd to copy 512 bytes off hda5, so this is basically just a wild guess:)
Hmm - the phone you've linked to is a CDMA2000 phone. Dunno if there's another version, but India happens to be a GSM market so I'm quite sure this phone wouldn't be very popular there:)
The concept is that app should run for years without single crush
I have a Nokia 3650, and let me tell you that I have experienced much more than a 'single crash' - also, I'm definitely not alone in my experience as a friend also has his 3650 crash, not ring on incoming calls, not make outgoing calls without rebooting etc. That said, I do agree that Symbian seems to be in a far better position than Linux for smartphones currently.
Well, the B in my post is MyRealBox:) - as for the fact that I shouldn't circumvent A, well I wouldn't have if they hadn't offered free pop/smtp earlier. If myrealbox.com goes paid pop/smtp tomorrow, are you going to switch to another service and tell everyone, or take advantage of forwarding to keep the same address?
I have already switched when usa.net and later yahoo stopped pop3, hopping around all the time gets really irritating after a while. More so for friends and family who want to get in touch with me, I wouldn't even mind changing addresses monthly if it wouldn't affect everyone else I was in contact with.
I read the other reply on why this is not a good idea, where thedillybar talks about 50mb attachments etc. Here's another scenario where SPF would cause problems with what I think is a fairly simple setup.
In my case I use a free email account A that, unfortunately, does not have either pop or smtp capability (which it had earlier, but this is now a paid feature). I forward all mails to another free account B that has pop/smtp, and send them through this with the From: field set to A. In this case, I cannot send mail from A's domain without either paying for their service, or going through webmail each time - and I don't find either of these alternatives acceptable.
Changing my email address is an option so far, but I don't want to do it in this case since it won't really solve anything. Sure I could start using B as my primary email, but who knows when they make pop/smtp paid as well? Using my current setup, I've been able to change the 'backend' (pop provider) when they went paid while keeping the 'frontend' (email address used to contact me) constant.
Should A enforce strict SPF rules - which well they might, since possibly spam might be one of the reasons why they stopped pop in the first place - then, afaik, I can expect my mails sent through B's smtp to bounce. The only solutions I can see (use A's webmail, or change emails) aren't feasible in the long term.
Since I have been joe-jobbed (with my address at A!:^( ), and of course I get my daily helpings of spam like everyone else; I would love to see a good solution or atleast a compromise that would decrease spams. But so far SPF seems to be introducing it own problems into the mix, and I'm not sure it properly addresses the ones it sets out to solve either.
For some weird reason, I was under the impression that Moz mail couldn't automagically do this... D'uh! Thanks a lot for pointing this out -/me now has to go google for details on how to do this:-)
And, though I agree that signing is perhaps useless for the general case; I would certainly prefer to have the option in many cases. Sadly though, in most cases the people who are bright enough to set up decryption/signature verification of incoming mail are also those who wouldn't easily be fooled by forged headers. And those who are gullible are often not that technologically literate.
I'm with at&t myself, but I do know that those on T-Mobile have to pay for both incoming and outgoing sms. However, iirc the outgoing (and incoming) charge is 5c/msg, unlike at&t's 10c/msg for outgoing sms.
Assuming for a moment that, unlike what another poster pointed out, there *are* kidnappers stupid enough to let some kid keep his cell. Why can't the parents just tell the police his cell number and get it tracked through E911 or other triangulation services that are currently available instead?
This technology afaik just builds on the infrastructure that providers also have for E911 (in US) and tries to commercialize it for ad revenue et al. Right now they're talking about letting spouses and friends know about your location, but eventually there could be some provision that ad companies pay for sending the sms or mms (at bulk rates of course), and that would open the floodgates for much more targeted advertising. Especially since once its the sender who's paying for cell bandwidth, it becomes 'acceptable' like for telemarketing to land lines (of course the time you spend answering such calls is apparently worthless!).
Unlike spam, don't ads need some server to host the images? If we block doubleclick's servers, is there actually a way for them to get around it? Apart from using other companies for hosting (say akamai), that would increase their costs though.
Well, since the summary says its the estate of JRR Tolkien... I would imagine they have a much better claim to it than Alberta Hot Rods. Although I do think this is an exception, usually the laws are used to snatch domains away from individuals or families who do have some claim on them, but not enough $$$ to defend the rights in court.
iirc, Kazaa lite has an option to continue sharing files but disallow file listing. Though I would expect that checking 'Don't Share Files' will certainly stop listing as well.
Thanks for the info - seems like a very interesting addon. Haven't downloaded because the next update is due this Monday (2nd Jun). Any idea, what're the chances of this being integrated into Mozilla?
Triband phones won't work either - these work with three different GSM bands - 800, 1800 & 1900 MHz - not gsm and cdma. Phones which do work with both cdma and gsm do exist, iirc they're called GAIT phones (dunno what the abbreviation stands for)
I went to the product site and they don't have a Linux version, nor does it appear under active development. Or is there some other version / download link that is more up to date?
With both KDE and Gnome forming groups for industry support, it might be interesting to see how major companies side towards one or the other.
SuSE is in the KDE group, and as/. mentioned Redhat and VA aren't, so each distro will just back their favourite group. I would like to know which distros will still offer both of them. This competition should be good for all, with both groups trying to outdo each other in features. Just hope it doesn't lead to too much feature-itis again though.
There are often stories about someone calculating pi to some new nth degree of accuracy. I would really like to know, how do they calculate this? Anyone can give me pointers to some explanations?
And note, I want just an overview - I'm not interested in checking the answer;)
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Previously I had installed RedHat on a laptop with a wireless pcmcia (smc 2632w) having a Prism chipset, which was supposedly the best supported B chipset at the time. I had a hard time getting that to work as well. Still, I do think that things seem to be improving re. wireless support.
Support for 15.4" screens is another matter altogether though :(
Any gamma burst from a single point will only fall on half the Earth's surface directly. What stops us from just hopping across to the other half, instead of needing scifi tech to survive?
;)
For that matter, even without warning around half the world population would automatically be shielded - well if China and India were on the exposed side that might be much less than half though
Well if all of Earth is in violation, did you mean Martian law? ;)
Hmm - the phone you've linked to is a CDMA2000 phone. Dunno if there's another version, but India happens to be a GSM market so I'm quite sure this phone wouldn't be very popular there :)
I have a Nokia 3650, and let me tell you that I have experienced much more than a 'single crash' - also, I'm definitely not alone in my experience as a friend also has his 3650 crash, not ring on incoming calls, not make outgoing calls without rebooting etc. That said, I do agree that Symbian seems to be in a far better position than Linux for smartphones currently.
Well, the B in my post is MyRealBox :) - as for the fact that I shouldn't circumvent A, well I wouldn't have if they hadn't offered free pop/smtp earlier. If myrealbox.com goes paid pop/smtp tomorrow, are you going to switch to another service and tell everyone, or take advantage of forwarding to keep the same address?
I have already switched when usa.net and later yahoo stopped pop3, hopping around all the time gets really irritating after a while. More so for friends and family who want to get in touch with me, I wouldn't even mind changing addresses monthly if it wouldn't affect everyone else I was in contact with.
I read the other reply on why this is not a good idea, where thedillybar talks about 50mb attachments etc. Here's another scenario where SPF would cause problems with what I think is a fairly simple setup.
:^( ), and of course I get my daily helpings of spam like everyone else; I would love to see a good solution or atleast a compromise that would decrease spams. But so far SPF seems to be introducing it own problems into the mix, and I'm not sure it properly addresses the ones it sets out to solve either.
In my case I use a free email account A that, unfortunately, does not have either pop or smtp capability (which it had earlier, but this is now a paid feature). I forward all mails to another free account B that has pop/smtp, and send them through this with the From: field set to A. In this case, I cannot send mail from A's domain without either paying for their service, or going through webmail each time - and I don't find either of these alternatives acceptable.
Changing my email address is an option so far, but I don't want to do it in this case since it won't really solve anything. Sure I could start using B as my primary email, but who knows when they make pop/smtp paid as well? Using my current setup, I've been able to change the 'backend' (pop provider) when they went paid while keeping the 'frontend' (email address used to contact me) constant.
Should A enforce strict SPF rules - which well they might, since possibly spam might be one of the reasons why they stopped pop in the first place - then, afaik, I can expect my mails sent through B's smtp to bounce. The only solutions I can see (use A's webmail, or change emails) aren't feasible in the long term.
Since I have been joe-jobbed (with my address at A!
For some weird reason, I was under the impression that Moz mail couldn't automagically do this ... D'uh! Thanks a lot for pointing this out - /me now has to go google for details on how to do this :-)
And, though I agree that signing is perhaps useless for the general case; I would certainly prefer to have the option in many cases. Sadly though, in most cases the people who are bright enough to set up decryption/signature verification of incoming mail are also those who wouldn't easily be fooled by forged headers. And those who are gullible are often not that technologically literate.
Ow - my bad! As I said, I didn't remember anything of what I'd read. Yup, it was a raven not a crow all right :)
Iirc, 'spake the crow, nevermore' is a line from an Edgar Allan Poe work. Which I have read ages ago, but don't remember either name or story now :(
I'm with at&t myself, but I do know that those on T-Mobile have to pay for both incoming and outgoing sms. However, iirc the outgoing (and incoming) charge is 5c/msg, unlike at&t's 10c/msg for outgoing sms.
Assuming for a moment that, unlike what another poster pointed out, there *are* kidnappers stupid enough to let some kid keep his cell. Why can't the parents just tell the police his cell number and get it tracked through E911 or other triangulation services that are currently available instead?
This technology afaik just builds on the infrastructure that providers also have for E911 (in US) and tries to commercialize it for ad revenue et al. Right now they're talking about letting spouses and friends know about your location, but eventually there could be some provision that ad companies pay for sending the sms or mms (at bulk rates of course), and that would open the floodgates for much more targeted advertising. Especially since once its the sender who's paying for cell bandwidth, it becomes 'acceptable' like for telemarketing to land lines (of course the time you spend answering such calls is apparently worthless!).
Unlike spam, don't ads need some server to host the images? If we block doubleclick's servers, is there actually a way for them to get around it? Apart from using other companies for hosting (say akamai), that would increase their costs though.
Well, since the summary says its the estate of JRR Tolkien ... I would imagine they have a much better claim to it than Alberta Hot Rods. Although I do think this is an exception, usually the laws are used to snatch domains away from individuals or families who do have some claim on them, but not enough $$$ to defend the rights in court.
The reference is from Ghostbusters, where Dustin Hoffman (iirc) has a ghost-detector he uses to, err, detect ghosts :-)
Maybe its just named after Doctor Who's robot dog? ;)
iirc, Kazaa lite has an option to continue sharing files but disallow file listing. Though I would expect that checking 'Don't Share Files' will certainly stop listing as well.
Thanks for the info - seems like a very interesting addon. Haven't downloaded because the next update is due this Monday (2nd Jun). Any idea, what're the chances of this being integrated into Mozilla?
Triband phones won't work either - these work with three different GSM bands - 800, 1800 & 1900 MHz - not gsm and cdma. Phones which do work with both cdma and gsm do exist, iirc they're called GAIT phones (dunno what the abbreviation stands for)
I went to the product site and they don't have a Linux version, nor does it appear under active development. Or is there some other version / download link that is more up to date?
With both KDE and Gnome forming groups for industry support, it might be interesting to see how major companies side towards one or the other.
/. mentioned Redhat and VA aren't, so each distro will just back their favourite group. I would like to know which distros will still offer both of them. This competition should be good for all, with both groups trying to outdo each other in features. Just hope it doesn't lead to too much feature-itis again though.
SuSE is in the KDE group, and as
There are often stories about someone calculating pi to some new nth degree of accuracy. I would really like to know, how do they calculate this? Anyone can give me pointers to some explanations?
;)
And note, I want just an overview - I'm not interested in checking the answer