Pick up a 1U or 2U server box. Dual-proc, up to 4GB (more in Intel boxes) RAM, fast EIDE or SCSI drives, doesn't take up much room. Get one with side vents and you can used it like a normal desktop.
Grab a thin LCD monitor, a nice keyboard and mouse.
To travel, pack the monitor up against the case with some nice padding between the two and away you go. Everything should fit into a small suitcase or large briefcase.
You get lots of power, but not much space is taken up. Plus, it will be much more upgradeable than a laptop ever will be. You won't be able to use it while travelling, but it won't be that difficult to travel with.:)
Have you tried 5.0-DP2 or higher?? Works much better on my el cheapo SeaNote laptop than any Linux distro did (in fact, RedHat 8.0 was the only one that actually installed successfully, but it's a pig).
FreeBSD 5.0 supports ACPI and CardBus, the last two show-stoppers for modern laptop support. What more do you need??
If the chip was in the head, then why the big hulla-balloo over the arm from Terminator 1? The chip in the arm (which is the only piece left of the original Terminator) is what leads to the creation of CyberDyne and SkyNet. After all, the recovery of the arm is the whole point of T2. But, they again leave an arm behind, which means the while circle begins again, and T2 was pointless.
Only problem is, they didn't destroy the Terminator's arm, that was torn off in the giant gear. They destroyed the arm that was left by the original Terminator, but Arnie only had one arm when he took the molten lead bath. There's still an arm (and thus a chip) floating around somewhere. Hence, the ability to make a sequel.
Once an RC has been created, -CURRENT becomes synonimous with -RC. For instance, if you CVSup'd your sources yesterday, you'd have 5.0-CURRENT. If you CVSup your source today, you'll have 5.0-RC1. If you CVSup your sources again in a few weeks, your'll have 5.0-RC2. And so on.
Linux has got the most gawd-awful filesystem layout in any operating system I've used (various Linux distros, OS/2, DOS, Windows 3.1-2K, Free/OpenBSD, Netware). It's nothing short of a monstrosity. If you want to see what a filesystem layout should look like, have a look at FreeBSD:
/ The OS itself /usr Contributed/bundled third-party apps shipped with the OS /usr/local Everything you install, whether by hand or via ports
/etc Configuration files for the OS /usr/local/etc Configuration files for user-installed programs
/var/log Log files for all programs /tmp Temp files for all programs
/usr/lib* Libraries for the OS /usr/local/lib* Libraries for user-installed programs
It doesn't get much simpler than that. None of this/opt crap, none of this each-package-has-its-own-directory crap, none of this config-files-strewn-about-everywhere crap, and none of this where-the-hell-are-logs-for-app-X crap. The FHS is nothing more than a way to "standardise" the different ways each distro does things -- in that each way is correct according to the "standard".
You put your OS files in one place, you put your program files in another, and you share log/tmp space. How hard of a concept is that??
There's nothing inherently insecure about using a GUI mail program. There are plenty of GUI mail programs that only show plain text. There's not much that a plain text message can do.
What you are talking about is to stop using mail programs that use the OS to render HTML. That is easy enough to fix: switch to a mail program that has its own internal rendering engine that only renders HTML, no embeded scripts, no external images, no CSS, nothing but the bare-bones HTML. Something like Pegasus.
The only reason Outlook is a security risk is because it uses the HTML/ECMAScript/VBScript rendering engine that is part of IE, which is part of Windows. Thus, anything you can do in IE you can do in an e-mail message (pre-)viewed in Outlook. Once you break that link, security goes way up.
Hmmm, tell that to the 34 elementary schools in our district that are using Linux on the desktop everyday. That's almost 1000 PCs running RedHat Linux 7.1 that students are using for everything from Mr. Potato Head in grade 1 to publishing books and digital/graphics arts in grade 7.
And we're not the only school district going this way. There are several here in BC, Canada going this route, and two in the Oregon/Washington are putting Linux into the high schools (at last count, Portland school district had nearly 2500 secondary PCs running Linux).
Ah, I'm glad I live in hicksville in the middle of nowhere here in poor ol' Canada, then.:)
We just spent the last year putting 34 dual-proc Linux servers into each of 34 elementary schools, each with 30 Pentium/P-II computers running as X Terminals. That's nearly 1000 computers all running Linux, 1 full lab in each elementary school.
What is taught in these labs: - typing - wordprocessing - spreadsheeting - presentations - graphic arts - HTML - critical/deductive thinking
Each of these labs is booked solid with students during the week. We've even had a few Intermediate (gr. 4-7) classes publish books, pamphlets, and flyers using these labs (something they couldn't do before as they couldn't afford the software -- these labs come with the GIMP and Corel PhotoPaint 9, both of which are free).
Even the primary classes are using the labs as there is a tonne of educational free software out there for Linux.
But, the best part, which you rarely ever see listed in articles like this, is that support costs *go down* with Linux servers. How so, you might ask? So long as there is someone there to turn the power back on during a power outage or to reset the router, all administration is done remotely, whether it be via SSH, VNC, or remote X sessions.
Going this route, we were able to eliminate nearly $30,000 CDN in Novell licensing (these server double as Samba servers), another $45,000+ in Windows/Office licensing, several hundred thousand in new computer purchases (these were all donated or purchased used), plus several tens of thousands of dollars in support contracts. Even factoring in the cost of the servers ($5000/per), the switches, the millwork, and the wiring, we still came out ahead. (In fact, they saved enough to hire me on full time to look after it.)
Next up is a pilot with this system in a secondary school to see if there's software to cover the programming (Kylix), accounting (??), CAD (Cycas), and the like. If this works, then we will be able to completely remove Novell and Windows from the school district.
And we're not the only ones. There are several school districts in BC moving this way now (we're just the first), and a couple more in the Portland/Washington area of the US. Finally, schools are moving away from teaching specific software packages in school to teaching skills and abilitie that students can take with them and apply to whatever software they run into in the world.
That's precisely what BSD has. One partition table entry for the BSD slice. Inside that slice, you can partition to your heart's content. All other OS's see only a single BSD partition, which makes things very nice, neat, and tidy.
I can't stand the DOS/Linux method of using a separate partition table entry for each partition. You end up with a partition table 17 miles long just for a standard Linux install. Try adding multiple disks and multiple OSs and you end up with something that resembles the original Dead Sea Scrolls.
1 OS per partition table entry. Makes it so much simpler.
There is no "emulation" in FreeBSD. FreeBSD supports Linux binaries. It is compatibility, not emulation. When an ELF binary is executed the loader looks to see what kind it is. If it's FreeBSD, then it load the FreeBSD kernel table (or ABI or whatever that thing is called). If it's a Linux binary, then it loads the Linux ABI. All that changes is the name of the system calls.
MS-DOS 7 is part of Windows 95-ME. They tried to hide it a little more with each release, but Windows has never been more than a graphical shell for DOS.
NT-based Windows is the only one that is a full-blown OS
DR-DOS was better, technically, but it was a pain to configure and use. Config files are nice, but not when they are over 6 pages long filled with strange incantations. If DR had simplified the setup (look at MS-DOS config.sys/autoexec.bat in comparoson), then they could have taken the DOS world bu storm.
Use CTRL+Click to select Folders C,D, and F. Don't release the mouse button on the last click. Drag the selections to Folder A and release the button (hold CTRL to force a copy, or Shift to force a move).
It *IS* available in the ports tree. Has been for several weeks./usr/ports/www/opera It's currently at 6.10 B1, though. Expect an update shortly to 6.10.
Double-click your way to the source directory in the right-hand pane of Explorer. Click on the file. Drag file to tree-view on left. Hover over closed folder and it will open. Hover over closed folder and it will open. Release mouse-button to copy/move file.
Wow! That was really hard. (Granted, you need Win98+ or Win2K+.)
WordPerfect has had the same file format since WP 6 for Windows. It is the same in version 6, 7, 8, 9, and 10. And with this track record, I expect it to be the same through to version 20 (if we ever get that far).
You have to love it when a company uses an industry standard for its file formats: SGML -- the precursor to XML, and it's been around a *lot* longer.
The equation editor in WordPerfect 9+ is great. Granted, I've never use TeX or its relatives, but WP's EE got me through two years of physics, calculus, and stats. It's a thing of beauty.
The EE that Word comes with should not even be considered an aborted attempt at an EE. It's nothing more than pond scum.
Four simple reasons to use WordPerfect over any other wordprocessor:
1. Reveal Codes 2. Make-it-fit 3. Keyboard-centric setup/control 4. Everything is based on SGML
Everything else works the same as in every other wordprocessor on the planet. But those three things make it *very* hard to even use any other wordprocessor.
Reveal Codes lets you see exactly where each formatting code begins and ends, and shows you exactly which formatting code is being used. This may not sound like much, but when you spend an hour fiddling with Word to get proper formatting on a section, you'll come to like this. ALT+F3 to view the codes, manipulate them however you want (works like an HTML editor), then ALT+F3 to close.
Make-it-fit will auto-format your document to fit a specified number of pages. It alters the margins, the line spacing, font size, and the like (you choose which it affects) to either shrink or grow the document as needed. Very handy for students.
Everything in WordPerfect is controllable via the keyboard. I'm sure everyone remembers those little cardboard cutouts that went around the function keys listing what each one does. They are still applicable in WordPerfect today (you can even change the function key bindings to whatever version you are most familiar with from 5 - 10). It's so nice to not have to use a mouse -- it's amazing how much more productive one can be by keeping one's hand on the keyboard at all times.
And lastly, having everything based on SGML (Standardised General Markup Language, the precursor to XML) means that all versions of WordPerfect can open all files created in WordPerfect. You can create a document in WP 10, save it as a WordPerfect 10 document, then open it in WordPerfect 6 with all formatting and whatnot intact. People complain about how much larger WP doc is compared to a Word doc. There's a reason for that: the files include a DTD (Document Type Definition) that describes how the document is formatted and how the program should treat each element. You want open, standardised file formats?? It doesn't get much more standardised than that.
CARDBUS support has been available in 4.x since the commit of NEWCARD. PCMCIA was also updated at this time. However, 32-bit support is still spotty and will remain so until the release of 5.0 with it's full CardBus and PCMCIA support.
That's the major reason I use WordPerfect. Nothing make working on a large, complex document easier than being able to see the various formatting codes and how they are working together.
Anything similar to "Make-It-Fit"?? Another *very* useful feature in WordPerfect. Helps especially with students who need to have exactly X number of pages. It manipulates the margins, line spacing, font size and the like to either shrink or enlarge the document. Put this to use on virtually all my documents.
The documentation on the website isn't all that helpful, or even useful. Anyone know if these are supported? Or if support is planned?
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Pick up a 1U or 2U server box. Dual-proc, up to 4GB (more in Intel boxes) RAM, fast EIDE or SCSI drives, doesn't take up much room. Get one with side vents and you can used it like a normal desktop.
:)
Grab a thin LCD monitor, a nice keyboard and mouse.
To travel, pack the monitor up against the case with some nice padding between the two and away you go. Everything should fit into a small suitcase or large briefcase.
You get lots of power, but not much space is taken up. Plus, it will be much more upgradeable than a laptop ever will be. You won't be able to use it while travelling, but it won't be that difficult to travel with.
I think you meant, "See ... you *do* have to be a rocket scientist to rn Linux." :)
Have you tried 5.0-DP2 or higher?? Works much better on my el cheapo SeaNote laptop than any Linux distro did (in fact, RedHat 8.0 was the only one that actually installed successfully, but it's a pig).
FreeBSD 5.0 supports ACPI and CardBus, the last two show-stoppers for modern laptop support. What more do you need??
If the chip was in the head, then why the big hulla-balloo over the arm from Terminator 1? The chip in the arm (which is the only piece left of the original Terminator) is what leads to the creation of CyberDyne and SkyNet. After all, the recovery of the arm is the whole point of T2. But, they again leave an arm behind, which means the while circle begins again, and T2 was pointless.
Only problem is, they didn't destroy the Terminator's arm, that was torn off in the giant gear. They destroyed the arm that was left by the original Terminator, but Arnie only had one arm when he took the molten lead bath. There's still an arm (and thus a chip) floating around somewhere. Hence, the ability to make a sequel.
Once an RC has been created, -CURRENT becomes synonimous with -RC. For instance, if you CVSup'd your sources yesterday, you'd have 5.0-CURRENT. If you CVSup your source today, you'll have 5.0-RC1. If you CVSup your sources again in a few weeks, your'll have 5.0-RC2. And so on.
You want tag=.
Linux has got the most gawd-awful filesystem layout in any operating system I've used (various Linux distros, OS/2, DOS, Windows 3.1-2K, Free/OpenBSD, Netware). It's nothing short of a monstrosity. If you want to see what a filesystem layout should look like, have a look at FreeBSD:
It doesn't get much simpler than that. None of this /opt crap, none of this each-package-has-its-own-directory crap, none of this config-files-strewn-about-everywhere crap, and none of this where-the-hell-are-logs-for-app-X crap. The FHS is nothing more than a way to "standardise" the different ways each distro does things -- in that each way is correct according to the "standard".
You put your OS files in one place, you put your program files in another, and you share log/tmp space. How hard of a concept is that??
There's nothing inherently insecure about using a GUI mail program. There are plenty of GUI mail programs that only show plain text. There's not much that a plain text message can do.
What you are talking about is to stop using mail programs that use the OS to render HTML. That is easy enough to fix: switch to a mail program that has its own internal rendering engine that only renders HTML, no embeded scripts, no external images, no CSS, nothing but the bare-bones HTML. Something like Pegasus.
The only reason Outlook is a security risk is because it uses the HTML/ECMAScript/VBScript rendering engine that is part of IE, which is part of Windows. Thus, anything you can do in IE you can do in an e-mail message (pre-)viewed in Outlook. Once you break that link, security goes way up.
Not surprising since OOo uses compression on its files (or is that StarOffice 6 -- one of the two does internal compression on its files).
Why not just resurrect Xenix then?
Hmmm, tell that to the 34 elementary schools in our district that are using Linux on the desktop everyday. That's almost 1000 PCs running RedHat Linux 7.1 that students are using for everything from Mr. Potato Head in grade 1 to publishing books and digital/graphics arts in grade 7.
And we're not the only school district going this way. There are several here in BC, Canada going this route, and two in the Oregon/Washington are putting Linux into the high schools (at last count, Portland school district had nearly 2500 secondary PCs running Linux).
Ah, I'm glad I live in hicksville in the middle of nowhere here in poor ol' Canada, then. :)
We just spent the last year putting 34 dual-proc Linux servers into each of 34 elementary schools, each with 30 Pentium/P-II computers running as X Terminals. That's nearly 1000 computers all running Linux, 1 full lab in each elementary school.
What is taught in these labs:
- typing
- wordprocessing
- spreadsheeting
- presentations
- graphic arts
- HTML
- critical/deductive thinking
Each of these labs is booked solid with students during the week. We've even had a few Intermediate (gr. 4-7) classes publish books, pamphlets, and flyers using these labs (something they couldn't do before as they couldn't afford the software -- these labs come with the GIMP and Corel PhotoPaint 9, both of which are free).
Even the primary classes are using the labs as there is a tonne of educational free software out there for Linux.
But, the best part, which you rarely ever see listed in articles like this, is that support costs *go down* with Linux servers. How so, you might ask? So long as there is someone there to turn the power back on during a power outage or to reset the router, all administration is done remotely, whether it be via SSH, VNC, or remote X sessions.
Going this route, we were able to eliminate nearly $30,000 CDN in Novell licensing (these server double as Samba servers), another $45,000+ in Windows/Office licensing, several hundred thousand in new computer purchases (these were all donated or purchased used), plus several tens of thousands of dollars in support contracts. Even factoring in the cost of the servers ($5000/per), the switches, the millwork, and the wiring, we still came out ahead. (In fact, they saved enough to hire me on full time to look after it.)
Next up is a pilot with this system in a secondary school to see if there's software to cover the programming (Kylix), accounting (??), CAD (Cycas), and the like. If this works, then we will be able to completely remove Novell and Windows from the school district.
And we're not the only ones. There are several school districts in BC moving this way now (we're just the first), and a couple more in the Portland/Washington area of the US. Finally, schools are moving away from teaching specific software packages in school to teaching skills and abilitie that students can take with them and apply to whatever software they run into in the world.
Just as it should be.
That's precisely what BSD has. One partition table entry for the BSD slice. Inside that slice, you can partition to your heart's content. All other OS's see only a single BSD partition, which makes things very nice, neat, and tidy.
I can't stand the DOS/Linux method of using a separate partition table entry for each partition. You end up with a partition table 17 miles long just for a standard Linux install. Try adding multiple disks and multiple OSs and you end up with something that resembles the original Dead Sea Scrolls.
1 OS per partition table entry. Makes it so much simpler.
There is no "emulation" in FreeBSD. FreeBSD supports Linux binaries. It is compatibility, not emulation. When an ELF binary is executed the loader looks to see what kind it is. If it's FreeBSD, then it load the FreeBSD kernel table (or ABI or whatever that thing is called). If it's a Linux binary, then it loads the Linux ABI. All that changes is the name of the system calls.
MS-DOS 7 is part of Windows 95-ME. They tried to hide it a little more with each release, but Windows has never been more than a graphical shell for DOS.
NT-based Windows is the only one that is a full-blown OS
DR-DOS was better, technically, but it was a pain to configure and use. Config files are nice, but not when they are over 6 pages long filled with strange incantations. If DR had simplified the setup (look at MS-DOS config.sys/autoexec.bat in comparoson), then they could have taken the DOS world bu storm.
Never tried PC-DOS, so can't comment on that one.
Use CTRL+Click to select Folders C,D, and F. Don't release the mouse button on the last click. Drag the selections to Folder A and release the button (hold CTRL to force a copy, or Shift to force a move).
It's really not all that difficult.
Obviously, there were enough users willing to complain and request a native version to make development of a native version worthwhile.
It *IS* available in the ports tree. Has been for several weeks. /usr/ports/www/opera It's currently at 6.10 B1, though. Expect an update shortly to 6.10.
Double-click your way to the source directory in the right-hand pane of Explorer.
Click on the file.
Drag file to tree-view on left.
Hover over closed folder and it will open.
Hover over closed folder and it will open.
Release mouse-button to copy/move file.
Wow! That was really hard. (Granted, you need Win98+ or Win2K+.)
WordPerfect has had the same file format since WP 6 for Windows. It is the same in version 6, 7, 8, 9, and 10. And with this track record, I expect it to be the same through to version 20 (if we ever get that far).
You have to love it when a company uses an industry standard for its file formats: SGML -- the precursor to XML, and it's been around a *lot* longer.
The equation editor in WordPerfect 9+ is great. Granted, I've never use TeX or its relatives, but WP's EE got me through two years of physics, calculus, and stats. It's a thing of beauty.
The EE that Word comes with should not even be considered an aborted attempt at an EE. It's nothing more than pond scum.
Four simple reasons to use WordPerfect over any other wordprocessor:
1. Reveal Codes
2. Make-it-fit
3. Keyboard-centric setup/control
4. Everything is based on SGML
Everything else works the same as in every other wordprocessor on the planet. But those three things make it *very* hard to even use any other wordprocessor.
Reveal Codes lets you see exactly where each formatting code begins and ends, and shows you exactly which formatting code is being used. This may not sound like much, but when you spend an hour fiddling with Word to get proper formatting on a section, you'll come to like this. ALT+F3 to view the codes, manipulate them however you want (works like an HTML editor), then ALT+F3 to close.
Make-it-fit will auto-format your document to fit a specified number of pages. It alters the margins, the line spacing, font size, and the like (you choose which it affects) to either shrink or grow the document as needed. Very handy for students.
Everything in WordPerfect is controllable via the keyboard. I'm sure everyone remembers those little cardboard cutouts that went around the function keys listing what each one does. They are still applicable in WordPerfect today (you can even change the function key bindings to whatever version you are most familiar with from 5 - 10). It's so nice to not have to use a mouse -- it's amazing how much more productive one can be by keeping one's hand on the keyboard at all times.
And lastly, having everything based on SGML (Standardised General Markup Language, the precursor to XML) means that all versions of WordPerfect can open all files created in WordPerfect. You can create a document in WP 10, save it as a WordPerfect 10 document, then open it in WordPerfect 6 with all formatting and whatnot intact. People complain about how much larger WP doc is compared to a Word doc. There's a reason for that: the files include a DTD (Document Type Definition) that describes how the document is formatted and how the program should treat each element. You want open, standardised file formats?? It doesn't get much more standardised than that.
The release target is Oct. 20 or so. But, I'm guessing the actual release will be in November after all the show-stoppers are worked out.
:)
That being said, I wouldn't use it on a production server/workstation until 5.1 or 5.2.
CARDBUS support has been available in 4.x since the commit of NEWCARD. PCMCIA was also updated at this time. However, 32-bit support is still spotty and will remain so until the release of 5.0 with it's full CardBus and PCMCIA support.
That's the major reason I use WordPerfect. Nothing make working on a large, complex document easier than being able to see the various formatting codes and how they are working together.
Anything similar to "Make-It-Fit"?? Another *very* useful feature in WordPerfect. Helps especially with students who need to have exactly X number of pages. It manipulates the margins, line spacing, font size and the like to either shrink or enlarge the document. Put this to use on virtually all my documents.
The documentation on the website isn't all that helpful, or even useful. Anyone know if these are supported? Or if support is planned?