Finally! I thought I was the crazy one in the crowd. I get a splitting headache within minutes if I read any length of text on a machine with cleartype enabled. The problem is worse for me on TFTs, on CRTs I can get away with it for some time. But CRTs are hard to find these days.
Why people buy a shiny new 1920*1280 TFT screen and then promptly turn on cleartype is a complete mystery to me.
Hello NBC, I'm from Europe and I have one XP and two linux PCs. And your marketing department seems to be utterly clueless as to how they ever could target me via advertisements on a webpage or embedded in a video. And selling your old TV series to European TV stations years later does no cut it.
Yet any localized Google homepage shows me unobtrusive ads that are relevant to my search queries and geographical location. Times are changing NBC. Adapt or die.
Signed, A user from Europe who wants to buy cheap American stuff.
So now with shadow copy Vista not only saves all versions of goatse and tubgirl that I ever will encounter, I'm most likely unable to remove all traces to those pictures from my machine. And with instant search everybody can find them easily.
Monitoring gas and oxygen supplies and all the hardware that controls it can be dangerous. What if your homebrew micro-controller with its connection wires makes an earth-loop and noise gets on the signal control lines?
What is your fail-safe strategy? Do the valves fail open or closed if something short circuits in your setup? Does your home-grade micro controller survive the heat & vibration of the environment?
Buy something of the shelve from a "standard" industrial automation firm. You can get anything from a $49,- PID controller to a $5 million DCS just my googling. Used industrial control parts even turn up on Ebay these days.
Disclaimer: I actually seen a fully functional glass furnace in action. And I have also seen a fully functioning glass furnace during a control computer blackout. For the people that don't know glass furnaces: once you fire them up most designs need to run continuously until they reach their end-of-life. Once they powerdown and the glass solidifies the only way to get it running is to break it down and build a new one. Imagine that: A 12 year lifespan and you need a 100% uptime for the control computers (redundancy is your friend)..
Can it be? I always was a fan of BeOS for the reason that is looked and felt so clean and fast. And now there is a new OS, obviously based on BeOS, that has Google power behind it. I want to run this on my pda, on my laptop for basic internet usage, etc...
I'll have to do a "me too" here. My current machine is fine, I got enough cpu power & memory, but I really wish I could get an AGP videocard upgrade. I'm stuck with a Shuttle barebone. It has done its job perfectly the last few years, but now I'm stuck at the end of an upgrade path. No possibility of swapping mobo's, no pci-e video cards....
Yes please. There are some ide flash drives and pcmcia 2 ide convertors available now, but a cheap 16GB drive with an ide connector would be very nice.
I could boot my laptop and my OS for my file server from that. The big data HD for file server is another problem, but slowly we are getting to the point of low-power / high volume data storage.
Email response is all about priority. If I have 20 new emails in de morning but my phone doesn't stop ringing then the emails will have to wait. But I do my work in a support environment, there is always a fire somewhere. I can assume that a code-monkey who spends his time writing the latest and greatest new program can maybe concentrate on his job at hand for a few hours before dealing with emails. You have to avoid the trap of being caught in an endless cycle of writing emails to each other without getting any actual work done.
As for asshats who write an email and then come to my desk 15 minutes later asking why I have not responded yet: well if it was THAT important why didn't you come to me directly...
I want my base OS to stay clean and healthy. I want to test/run/use many different programs, some from sources that I can not trust/will not trust. But these days CPU power is getting cheap and memory is cheap. That is why a virtual machine is usefull. I load a VM with a certain program or set of programs, use it and throw it away when I'm done.
I don't even care that much about runnig two different OSes, most times the OS inside the VM is the same as the host OS.
It was made 10 years ago, the Psion 5MX. For it's time it was very good. The included agenda/database software is even today a good match for the modern PDAs. Unfortunately these days everybody seems to be facinated with running Windows CE on a small PDA screen and call it an improvement... I'm getting old.
In these modern days the big corporations want SCADA systems, PLCs and DCS's to also connect to their internal IT network. That way you can make really cool reports and overview with the live-data as base. And ofcourse the IT networks are also connected to the internet. The days that the industrial network, which controls everything from a 1 arm robot upto a complete hydrocracker, are running in splendid isolation are long gone.
Hi! I have a super duper business idea for you. But it will only last for a few months, so be quick! Please send all your VC money asap to my nigerian bank account manager so that he can leverage your business opportunity. Feel free to synergize your partners to maximize the cummulative profits streams to me.
I await your business proposal, please send accurate paperwork so that we can leverage the moment and exchange funds in this great enterprise 2 enterprise opportunity.
/me smacks Zymano around a bit with a large trout. No, no, no. I already have a small camera in my cell phone, in my pda and in my digital photo camera. And 2 out of these 3 cams are crap. I want devices that are designed to do one thing and do it perfectly. And the iPod is such a device. Don't mess with it.
yes please, give me Symbian OS on a PDA. In the last 10 years I've gone from Psion to Palm OS to Pocket PC. And it was a downhill ride. In terms of organsier software nothing could beat the Psion OS with its agenda/database apps.
Symbian is the modern succesor of Psion OS, so I really want a PDA with that OS. Unfortunately I'm one of the 3 people left in the world who wants my PDA separate from my cellphone, so no luck so far.
I want my GDA (Google Digital Assistant). Then I can wander around the world and if I have a question I can look it up in my GDA. And it should look friendly and reassuring.
Anyone with a bit of common sense will do. And anyone with a bit of common sense will get rid of that awful word "cyber"... So jumping to a conclusion: They're doomed. They will do all the wrong things for the wrong reasons. It will take a generation or 2 before there will be people in the governement that understand IT.
According to froogle the cheap color laser printers are under 500,- now. Time to investigate what the price per page is for a color toner compared to a color inktjet...
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At the moment I'm compiling KDE 3.3.2 on my 400MHz ultrasparc. After almost 48 hours it is now on package 51 of 54. It seems that.cpp code compiles very slowly, as the cpu load is high and the disk & swap activity are minimal: load average: 1.40, 1.34, 1.62.
But the machine is very responsive so other tasks are not influenced.
I drive a Renault Laguna. A 4 door saloon with very much the same equipment as the bigger SUV-styled Renault Vel Satis. On the the steering wheel there are 4 buttons to set/reset the cruise control and to accelerate/deccelerate. BUT: on the dashboard there is a nice mechanical switch to switch on & off the entire cruise control system. I have tried it in the past: set the cruise control to a certain speed, flip the mechanical switch to the off position and the whole cruise control gets powered down.
Renault is not stupid they have done their homework. And yes you cannot remove the keycard while driving. Why? To prevent the driver or other passengers from pulling it out while you are driving. That would be dangerous as you would also lose the power braking and powersteering.
Call me an old fart, but I liked the way my Psion 3 and Psion 5 worked. I've played with WinCE devices, had a Palm 3c and now a Sony TH55. The hardware is great: nice small package, good color screen, wifi & bluetooth. But the PalmOS is not my thing. What I hate is the way that all the information is scattered through the whole damn thing. I need to go to the addresbook to get some addresses, then browse to the memopad to find memo's, then browse to a spreadsheet to get some data. On an old Psion I could make a subdirectory for a project and gather all my address files/database files/spreadsheets/memo's for that project in 1 place. Just tap on the file and it opened. Brilliant concept. But maybe I'm just not getting the "Palm" way of thinking.
But Palm is the only reasonably working PDA at the moment. Psion 5 is to old hardware-wise and the PocketPC2003 tries to hard to be a windows machine with a too small screen.
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Finally! I thought I was the crazy one in the crowd. I get a splitting headache within minutes if I read any length of text on a machine with cleartype enabled. The problem is worse for me on TFTs, on CRTs I can get away with it for some time. But CRTs are hard to find these days.
Why people buy a shiny new 1920*1280 TFT screen and then promptly turn on cleartype is a complete mystery to me.
Hello NBC,
I'm from Europe and I have one XP and two linux PCs. And your marketing department seems to be utterly clueless as to how they ever could target me via advertisements on a webpage or embedded in a video. And selling your old TV series to European TV stations years later does no cut it.
Yet any localized Google homepage shows me unobtrusive ads that are relevant to my search queries and geographical location. Times are changing NBC. Adapt or die.
Signed,
A user from Europe who wants to buy cheap American stuff.
This government is so incompetent!! Bush screwed up. Again...
Sharks, I wanted sharks. Is that so difficult?
So now with shadow copy Vista not only saves all versions of goatse and tubgirl that I ever will encounter, I'm most likely unable to remove all traces to those pictures from my machine. And with instant search everybody can find them easily.
Now that's progress.
Monitoring gas and oxygen supplies and all the hardware that controls it can be dangerous. What if your homebrew micro-controller with its connection wires makes an earth-loop and noise gets on the signal control lines?
What is your fail-safe strategy? Do the valves fail open or closed if something short circuits in your setup? Does your home-grade micro controller survive the heat & vibration of the environment?
Buy something of the shelve from a "standard" industrial automation firm. You can get anything from a $49,- PID controller to a $5 million DCS just my googling. Used industrial control parts even turn up on Ebay these days.
Disclaimer: I actually seen a fully functional glass furnace in action. And I have also seen a fully functioning glass furnace during a control computer blackout. For the people that don't know glass furnaces: once you fire them up most designs need to run continuously until they reach their end-of-life. Once they powerdown and the glass solidifies the only way to get it running is to break it down and build a new one. Imagine that: A 12 year lifespan and you need a 100% uptime for the control computers (redundancy is your friend)..
/me looks around surprised. Everything is in flash players these days, isn't it? And if I want good quality video I download it from the newsgroups.
Damn, just broke the first rule of newsgroups.
Can it be? I always was a fan of BeOS for the reason that is looked and felt so clean and fast. And now there is a new OS, obviously based on BeOS, that has Google power behind it. I want to run this on my pda, on my laptop for basic internet usage, etc...
I'll have to do a "me too" here. My current machine is fine, I got enough cpu power & memory, but I really wish I could get an AGP videocard upgrade. I'm stuck with a Shuttle barebone. It has done its job perfectly the last few years, but now I'm stuck at the end of an upgrade path. No possibility of swapping mobo's, no pci-e video cards....
Yes please. There are some ide flash drives and pcmcia 2 ide convertors available now, but a cheap 16GB drive with an ide connector would be very nice.
I could boot my laptop and my OS for my file server from that. The big data HD for file server is another problem, but slowly we are getting to the point of low-power / high volume data storage.
Email response is all about priority. If I have 20 new emails in de morning but my phone doesn't stop ringing then the emails will have to wait. But I do my work in a support environment, there is always a fire somewhere. I can assume that a code-monkey who spends his time writing the latest and greatest new program can maybe concentrate on his job at hand for a few hours before dealing with emails. You have to avoid the trap of being caught in an endless cycle of writing emails to each other without getting any actual work done.
As for asshats who write an email and then come to my desk 15 minutes later asking why I have not responded yet: well if it was THAT important why didn't you come to me directly...
Welcome to the age of abundance and paranoia.
I want my base OS to stay clean and healthy. I want to test/run/use many different programs, some from sources that I can not trust/will not trust. But these days CPU power is getting cheap and memory is cheap. That is why a virtual machine is usefull. I load a VM with a certain program or set of programs, use it and throw it away when I'm done.
I don't even care that much about runnig two different OSes, most times the OS inside the VM is the same as the host OS.
It was made 10 years ago, the Psion 5MX. For it's time it was very good. The included agenda/database software is even today a good match for the modern PDAs. Unfortunately these days everybody seems to be facinated with running Windows CE on a small PDA screen and call it an improvement... I'm getting old.
The subcontractor they hired to do the programming was called Diebold?
In these modern days the big corporations want SCADA systems, PLCs and DCS's to also connect to their internal IT network. That way you can make really cool reports and overview with the live-data as base. And ofcourse the IT networks are also connected to the internet. The days that the industrial network, which controls everything from a 1 arm robot upto a complete hydrocracker, are running in splendid isolation are long gone.
I'm not going to stick a PSP in my ear! Have you seen the size of it? I'm sticking to my fish, proven technology.
Hi! I have a super duper business idea for you. But it will only last for a few months, so be quick! Please send all your VC money asap to my nigerian bank account manager so that he can leverage your business opportunity. Feel free to synergize your partners to maximize the cummulative profits streams to me.
I await your business proposal, please send accurate paperwork so that we can leverage the moment and exchange funds in this great enterprise 2 enterprise opportunity.
Vice-Prince Mike Okelewa, the 2nd.
/me smacks Zymano around a bit with a large trout. No, no, no. I already have a small camera in my cell phone, in my pda and in my digital photo camera. And 2 out of these 3 cams are crap. I want devices that are designed to do one thing and do it perfectly. And the iPod is such a device. Don't mess with it.
yes please, give me Symbian OS on a PDA. In the last 10 years I've gone from Psion to Palm OS to Pocket PC. And it was a downhill ride. In terms of organsier software nothing could beat the Psion OS with its agenda/database apps.
Symbian is the modern succesor of Psion OS, so I really want a PDA with that OS. Unfortunately I'm one of the 3 people left in the world who wants my PDA separate from my cellphone, so no luck so far.
I want my GDA (Google Digital Assistant). Then I can wander around the world and if I have a question I can look it up in my GDA.
And it should look friendly and reassuring.
Anyone with a bit of common sense will do. And anyone with a bit of common sense will get rid of that awful word "cyber"... So jumping to a conclusion: They're doomed. They will do all the wrong things for the wrong reasons. It will take a generation or 2 before there will be people in the governement that understand IT.
According to froogle the cheap color laser printers are under 500,- now. Time to investigate what the price per page is for a color toner compared to a color inktjet...
At the moment I'm compiling KDE 3.3.2 on my 400MHz ultrasparc. After almost 48 hours it is now on package 51 of 54. It seems that .cpp code compiles very slowly, as the cpu load is high and the disk & swap activity are minimal: load average: 1.40, 1.34, 1.62.
But the machine is very responsive so other tasks are not influenced.
I drive a Renault Laguna. A 4 door saloon with very much the same equipment as the bigger SUV-styled Renault Vel Satis.
On the the steering wheel there are 4 buttons to set/reset the cruise control and to accelerate/deccelerate. BUT: on the dashboard there is a nice mechanical switch to switch on & off the entire cruise control system. I have tried it in the past: set the cruise control to a certain speed, flip the mechanical switch to the off position and the whole cruise control gets powered down.
Renault is not stupid they have done their homework. And yes you cannot remove the keycard while driving. Why? To prevent the driver or other passengers from pulling it out while you are driving. That would be dangerous as you would also lose the power braking and powersteering.
Call me an old fart, but I liked the way my Psion 3 and Psion 5 worked. I've played with WinCE devices, had a Palm 3c and now a Sony TH55. The hardware is great: nice small package, good color screen, wifi & bluetooth. But the PalmOS is not my thing. What I hate is the way that all the information is scattered through the whole damn thing. I need to go to the addresbook to get some addresses, then browse to the memopad to find memo's, then browse to a spreadsheet to get some data.
On an old Psion I could make a subdirectory for a project and gather all my address files/database files/spreadsheets/memo's for that project in 1 place. Just tap on the file and it opened. Brilliant concept. But maybe I'm just not getting the "Palm" way of thinking.
But Palm is the only reasonably working PDA at the moment. Psion 5 is to old hardware-wise and the PocketPC2003 tries to hard to be a windows machine with a too small screen.
Excellent! This will go wel with my Feng Shui compliant wall of rocks that I use as a firewall.