Or at the very least, they should be using laptop IDE connectors. Yes, 2.5'' drives cost more for less performance, but that's the trade off. The whole point of these things is to trade off some of the performace and price for size. So why don't they go all the way?
The Department of Transportation gave the industry a big boost last October when it announced that a fuel cell design by PolyFuel would be allowed on airplanes, a change from the airline industry's rigid "no fuels" policy. Methanol powered devices, such as cell phones and laptops, should appear within the next two years.
You need to notify the Computer And Technology Crime High-tech Response Team (CATCH) at http://www.catchteam.org/
From their site:
The Computer And Technology Crime High-tech Response Team, or "CATCH," is a multi-agency task force formed in June 2000 to apprehend and prosecute all criminals who use technology to prey on the citizens of San Diego, Imperial and Riverside Counties.
They visited us and gave a presentation to all of the sys admins. They seem competent.
Have you looked into the price of Bluetooth? I want to put a GPS unit in my car. Rather than connecting a serial cable to a PC or PDA every time I enter the vehicle, how about using Bluetooth? Trying to find serial to Bluetooth adapters is difficult -- finding affordable ones is impossible. The cheapest unit I found was around $170 -- and that was just for the unit that would attach to the GPS unit.
I thought this stuff was supposed to be used in keyboards and mice. Where are the cheap Bluetooth modules?
Or better yet, what happens when a confirmation message is sent to confirm your confirmation message? Is there any looping message detection built in? Maybe if both sides are using the same program, but this could be disasterous if two users have different challange-response systems that don't know about each other.
The exact same thing happened to me. I lost a $75 rebate on playground equipment because the bar code I sent in was not the correct one. There were two visible. I cut out the one that most looked liked a UPC. After we actually put together the equipment, we noticed another bar code that was on the bottom of the box -- of course, that was the valid one.
I now try to avoid anything with a rebate. In January, I bought a CF WLAN card in a fit of weakness. When I finally got around to sending in the rebate form, oops, it had expired. Screwed again (this time $40).
With a little bit of editing, the following text can be brought up to date. Any good editors out there?
When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.--Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.
He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good. He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his Assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them. He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of Representation in the Legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only. He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their public Records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures. He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people. He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected; whereby the Legislative powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within. He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new Appropriations of Lands. He has obstructed the Administration of Justice, by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary powers. He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries. He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people, and eat out their substance. He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standi
Why don't we use netapp or a tape silo? That's easy -- cost. I looked into getting a Network Appliance filer about two years ago. A 500GB demo unit (i.e. used) would have cost us $80000. Sorry, but a university department cannot afford that. We now have 18 TB of disk storage on Linux systems and a 10-tape SDLT changer for less than the cost of a netapp filer.
I don't have the capacity to back up all 18TB, but we do take care of the most critical data. How much of that could I back up over DSL to my house? A few GB at most? That just is not very feasible.
Great! Now tell me how I can back up 12000 GB to my home over DSL? Some of us work at places with multiple users and real data. Doing an rsync to my house is just not an option. Face it: dump must be fixed!
Exactly! Anyone who thinks tar is a substitute for dump has never actually had to restore user files. Tar works fine when the user actually remembers the exact path and filename. Most of the time, they don't remember exactly. That is where the interactive option of restore comes in handy. You can cd around until you find what it is they actually wanted.
Dump is broken and needs to be fixed. Anything less than that is not acceptable!
I have to go now and put another 10 110GB tapes in my tape changer.
I was looking through Bugzilla about this very bug. It turns out that it is a feature, not a bug. The developers are adamant about that. TITLE tags are displayed when you mouse over. ALT tags are only displayed when images are not. They will not accept any bug submissions asking otherwise.
I have started adding TITLE and ALT tags on my pages.
How do you back up that claim? I have been programming (for pay) since 1987. In my experience, this is not true. Backdoors are a firing offense. And now adays, a criminal offense -- remember, Fatherland Security is watching you.
In 1993, the Palm Pilot did not exist. Back then, Palm was a software company. They wrote the PIM applications for the Radio Shack GEOS-based Zoomer (aka Tandy Z-PDA, aka Casio Z-7000, aka AST GridPAD 2930). Grafitti was released for the Zoomer and the Newton at about the same time (I don't remember which one was first).
The first commercial release of Grafitti was not for a non-existant Palm Pilot.
3) Educational users: upgrading our servers is also a pain. We do it as little as possible. Our main server is still running 6.2. I am in the process of replacing it with an 8.0 server, but it takes a lot of time. We cannot afford Advanced Server. We are going to be left out in the cold.
I do support Red Hat however I can. I buy RH Pro for each release. That is about the limit of our budget.
Every time someone posts about a new EMBEDDED technology, all of the 13 year olds complain about the "obsolete" hardware.
Well, computers are used for much more than just game systems for 13 year olds. These people need to be hit with a clue-by-four.
When I saw the post, I thought about data acquistion, environmental monitoring, security systems, etc. Never once did I think "duh, but it won't play Quake" (or Doom or whatever game is in this week with the 13 year old crowd that comprise most of the posters around here.
There is one big group that you are neglecting in your analysis -- the group that is most likely to actually buy these small systems: data acquisition and embedded systems people.
All of the people out there who collect data for a living live and die by serial ports. I work at a lab and get requests for computers with the only requirement being "must have serial ports!" Some of the data acquisition boxes are moving toward USB, but the vast majority remain serial. I had a guy doing environmental monitoring in a vehicle that requested a PC with 12 serial ports.
The people I work with who do embedded systems wouldn't even consider a board if it didn't have serial ports.
I helped a guy set up a laptop that connected to the on-board computer in big rigs. He was doing collection of engine data. The port it used? Parallel.
Just because *you* don't use them, do not assume that no one else does.
One of the things I find the most frustrating about Linux is the lack of standards in the GUI. Have you ever used a computer when the mouse didn't work? On Windows, you can keep right on moving along -- every program follows the same standards. How do I close this windows? Why Alt-F4 of course. That works in Windows 3.1 on up, OS/2, Motif, etc. etc. Linux window managers *used* to follow that standard -- until someone decided it was too Microsoftish (never mind that it was part of CUA -- the Common User Access as defined by IBM).
With each new release, Linux takes a step backwards. I never know what the keyboard shortcuts are going to be. Talk about a "point and drool interface", that is Linux. You must use that mouse.
The recent accessibility initiatives are improving the situation, but it is too little too late.
Some smartass always points out that I could just redefine the keyboard shortcuts. But then I would have a nonstandard system and any other system I went to would not have the same (or even similar) shortcuts.
Another reason I spend more time in Windows is for printer support. Linux is only recently moving from the stone age to the iron age. Try using all of those nifty features that your printer has from a Linux system. You know: multiple trays, envelope feeders, double-sided printing, etc. Good luck! Some of them you can get to work no problem -- but only when printing certain ways. Printing a text document with a2ps or enscript, I can do quite a bit. Printing via other methods, I can't. Some things take a herculean effort to figure out. I should not have to spend three hours figuring out arcane Ghostscript parameters just to use my printer.
The next big area is sound support. Gag! It just plain sucks! Maybe someday when ALSA is the standard things will be better. We are not there yet.
As it comes to servers, I use Linux and won't use anything else. But when it comes to an end-user experience, give me Windows.
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Or at the very least, they should be using laptop IDE connectors. Yes, 2.5'' drives cost more for less performance, but that's the trade off. The whole point of these things is to trade off some of the performace and price for size. So why don't they go all the way?
http://www.catchteam.org/
From their site:
They visited us and gave a presentation to all of the sys admins. They seem competent.
I thought this stuff was supposed to be used in keyboards and mice. Where are the cheap Bluetooth modules?
Yes! This is my first time to read games.slashdot and my eyes immediately started watering when I saw the awful color.
Or better yet, what happens when a confirmation message is sent to confirm your confirmation message? Is there any looping message detection built in? Maybe if both sides are using the same program, but this could be disasterous if two users have different challange-response systems that don't know about each other.
Creationists are looked down upon because they want their mythology taught as science.
Teach creationism as part of theology -- great.
Teach creationism as part of biology -- ludicrous.
I don't believe in the theory of gravity. Does that mean you won't recommend me for that physics position? I hope you wouldn't.
I now try to avoid anything with a rebate. In January, I bought a CF WLAN card in a fit of weakness. When I finally got around to sending in the rebate form, oops, it had expired. Screwed again (this time $40).
99% is an absurdly high estimate. If you remove network transparency, you destroy X for hundreds of users here who use it every single day.
I don't have the capacity to back up all 18TB, but we do take care of the most critical data. How much of that could I back up over DSL to my house? A few GB at most? That just is not very feasible.
Great! Now tell me how I can back up 12000 GB to my home over DSL? Some of us work at places with multiple users and real data. Doing an rsync to my house is just not an option. Face it: dump must be fixed!
Dump is broken and needs to be fixed. Anything less than that is not acceptable!
I have to go now and put another 10 110GB tapes in my tape changer.
I have started adding TITLE and ALT tags on my pages.
Someone in the know please answer this. I have the same question and also found the Red Hat site lacking in details.
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How do you back up that claim? I have been programming (for pay) since 1987. In my experience, this is not true. Backdoors are a firing offense. And now adays, a criminal offense -- remember, Fatherland Security is watching you.
The first commercial release of Grafitti was not for a non-existant Palm Pilot.
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Bring back the Z-80!
You missed one category:
3) Educational users: upgrading our servers is also a pain. We do it as little as possible. Our main server is still running 6.2. I am in the process of replacing it with an 8.0 server, but it takes a lot of time. We cannot afford Advanced Server. We are going to be left out in the cold.
I do support Red Hat however I can. I buy RH Pro for each release. That is about the limit of our budget.
Thank you!!!
Every time someone posts about a new EMBEDDED technology, all of the 13 year olds complain about the "obsolete" hardware.
Well, computers are used for much more than just game systems for 13 year olds. These people need to be hit with a clue-by-four.
When I saw the post, I thought about data acquistion, environmental monitoring, security systems, etc. Never once did I think "duh, but it won't play Quake" (or Doom or whatever game is in this week with the 13 year old crowd that comprise most of the posters around here.
There is one big group that you are neglecting in your analysis -- the group that is most likely to actually buy these small systems: data acquisition and embedded systems people.
All of the people out there who collect data for a living live and die by serial ports. I work at a lab and get requests for computers with the only requirement being "must have serial ports!" Some of the data acquisition boxes are moving toward USB, but the vast majority remain serial. I had a guy doing environmental monitoring in a vehicle that requested a PC with 12 serial ports.
The people I work with who do embedded systems wouldn't even consider a board if it didn't have serial ports.
I helped a guy set up a laptop that connected to the on-board computer in big rigs. He was doing collection of engine data. The port it used? Parallel.
Just because *you* don't use them, do not assume that no one else does.
One of the things I find the most frustrating about Linux is the lack of standards in the GUI. Have you ever used a computer when the mouse didn't work? On Windows, you can keep right on moving along -- every program follows the same standards. How do I close this windows? Why Alt-F4 of course. That works in Windows 3.1 on up, OS/2, Motif, etc. etc. Linux window managers *used* to follow that standard -- until someone decided it was too Microsoftish (never mind that it was part of CUA -- the Common User Access as defined by IBM).
With each new release, Linux takes a step backwards. I never know what the keyboard shortcuts are going to be. Talk about a "point and drool interface", that is Linux. You must use that mouse.
The recent accessibility initiatives are improving the situation, but it is too little too late.
Some smartass always points out that I could just redefine the keyboard shortcuts. But then I would have a nonstandard system and any other system I went to would not have the same (or even similar) shortcuts.
Another reason I spend more time in Windows is for printer support. Linux is only recently moving from the stone age to the iron age. Try using all of those nifty features that your printer has from a Linux system. You know: multiple trays, envelope feeders, double-sided printing, etc. Good luck! Some of them you can get to work no problem -- but only when printing certain ways. Printing a text document with a2ps or enscript, I can do quite a bit. Printing via other methods, I can't. Some things take a herculean effort to figure out. I should not have to spend three hours figuring out arcane Ghostscript parameters just to use my printer.
The next big area is sound support. Gag! It just plain sucks! Maybe someday when ALSA is the standard things will be better. We are not there yet.
As it comes to servers, I use Linux and won't use anything else. But when it comes to an end-user experience, give me Windows.
Don't pull another "Lone Gunmen" -- the book hasn't made it to this time zone yet!