That has never been a problem before. Older Palms use a capacitor to keep the memory alive whily you put in new batteries. In practice you get a good 30-40 seconds to get the fresh batteries in before the memory goes bad.
True enough. But, there is marketing and then there is Marketing. The occasional ad on TV or in a magazine saying "Hey! We exist! Buy our stuff." is "marketing". The full-frontal-in-your-face-24x7-got-our-own-cable-n etwork-we-put-ads-on-blimps -we-buy-r ights-to-rolling-stones-songs-like-you-buy-chewing -gum-you-will-sleep-eat-breath-dream-our -corporate-logo -we're-telling-you-where-you-will -go-today noise is Marketing
That search turns up quite a bit on "linux" and "vpn" but very little (scratch that, nothing) on "gre", which is an imporatant part of the question at hand.
It won't be too long until games are being written in Visual Basic using DirectX7/8, with all of the numerically intensive geometry transformation, lighting, and rasterization handled by hardware, leaving the developer to deal with scripting the story line, and art, and not writing game engines.
This, of course, will be known as the death of games. Sure there may be a brief period that produces a couple of good games, but it won't last once the Nintendo Effect sets in. ( Nintendo Effect: Hey! This new game, Super Max Attack IV is just like the old game Mega Blaster Man 8 except the bad guys are blue instead of green and the players gun goes bleep insead of bloop.)
I have to second that. Arkeia rocks, especially in a mixed Linux and NT environment since it seems to be the only Unix-based backup system that preserves NT's permissions, ownership and ACLs.
First of all, as a veteran (victim?) graduate of UW-Stout's Applied Math department, I have to say that I am impressed that there is someone there with enough cluefullness to read slashdot.
Second, I have to agree, the State theater is a hole. It was actually a reasonable theatre when it was just two screens, at least for a small town anyway. They really fscked it up when they butchered the big theater into 2 screens.
I still have fond memories of walking to class in sub-zero temps and 40-below wind chills, classes in the Harvey Hall 2nd floor "computer" lab - mudding or bbsing during class. (There were no computers in the lab, only DEC vt100 dumb terminals, and I don't think that lab even exists any more).
Ahh, you are correct. I tend to use disks that have both Joliet and RockRidge extentions, and in that case it seems that the RockRidge extentions are used in prefernce to the Joliet extents.
This will create a an ISO9660 image file. You then use cdrecord or other similar program to burn the image to the disk. (In a pinch I've used Adaptech EZ-CD Creator on a Win95 box to burn an image created this way. You might also want to look into a program called xcdroast which is a nice graphical front end for mkisofs and cdrecord.
And, of coarse, you can always add more options - like bootable CDs, volume names, etc - when you are more comforatble with it.
Incorrect. A disk burnt with proper Joliet extensions works perfectly in Linux. (ie. the extensions are completely ignored) I I burn discs with both Joliet and Rock-Ridge on them all the time. They work happily in both Linux and Windows.
There may have been a buggy version or two of mkisofs that has given people this impression.
Yeah, it's still possible to upgrade from 5.2 to 6.0. It's actually pretty smooth, with just 2 small issues that I've found in upgrading 4 machines
The upgrade leaves your XF86Config file as is. That makes sure that you still have a working X11 config, but you have to hand edit the file to take advantage of the TrueType-aware font server they install by default.
The upgrade will blindly install sendmail. This causes havok with a machine running qmail or any other MTA.
Well, you have to say "ATM machine" to differentiate it from "ATM mode" networking.
Sorry, couldn't resist.
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I don't have any control over it. Both customers are Fortune 50 companies with huge nation-wide internal networks. The both indepently decided to renumber their networks with 10.0.0.0 addresses. The first company is using over 50% of the 10.0.0.0 network.
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This morning actually.
It seems that the IP address situation is prompting many of the large Fortune-500 type companies to renumber their networks with 10.0.0.0 or other reserved network numbers, and employ proxies and/or NAT. That's all fine and good for them, but makes my life hell. The company I work for does, among other things, software maintentance. For our large customers, this usually means mainaining a frame relay or other semi-permanent connection into their networks. One of our customers just converted their network over to 10.0.0.0 numbers a few weeks ago, and this morning another customer notified me that they would be doing the same in a few weeks. I now get to try to manage access to two different networks with the same IP addresses.
Anyone know what they are using for the backplane fabric? I woundn't imagine switched 100Mb ethernet would work too well for that many nodes. I wonder if they are using Myrinet or gigabit ethernet.
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The comment said "Add some sound processing capabilities". I would take this mean adding a single-chip MP3 decoder - like the one the Rio uses - to the palmpilot. You don't need an FPU or even very much CPU throughput that way.
This question came up on the kernel devel list last week. The answer is that the mirror sites can choose how they want to update. Most use rsync now, but some choose to ftp mirror.
It's not really a wast of screen space - the writing area is completely below the screen. There are no LCD elements under the writing area, only the touch membrane.
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I'm getting lots of 404s, internal server errors, and the ever populat 'document contains no data'.
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How do you tell if computers are a tool or a toy?
Easy. Take an average mid-sized company. Now:
Then, sit back and see how long they stay in business. I could be wrong, but I think you'll find such a company would have a difficult time competing.
That has never been a problem before. Older Palms use a capacitor to keep the memory alive whily you put in new batteries. In practice you get a good 30-40 seconds to get the fresh batteries in before the memory goes bad.
True enough. But, there is marketing and then there is Marketing. The occasional ad on TV or in a magazine saying "Hey! We exist! Buy our stuff." is "marketing". The full-frontal-in-your-face-24x7-got-our-own-cable-n etwork-we-put-ads-on-blimpsg -gum-you-will-sleep-eat-breath-dream-our -corporate-logol -go-today noise is Marketing
-we-buy-r ights-to-rolling-stones-songs-like-you-buy-chewin
-we're-telling-you-where-you-wil
That search turns up quite a bit on "linux" and "vpn" but very little (scratch that, nothing) on "gre", which is an imporatant part of the question at hand.
This, of course, will be known as the death of games. Sure there may be a brief period that produces a couple of good games, but it won't last once the Nintendo Effect sets in. ( Nintendo Effect: Hey! This new game, Super Max Attack IV is just like the old game Mega Blaster Man 8 except the bad guys are blue instead of green and the players gun goes bleep insead of bloop.)
I have to second that. Arkeia rocks, especially in a mixed Linux and NT environment since it seems to be the only Unix-based backup system that preserves NT's permissions, ownership and ACLs.
First of all, as a veteran (victim?) graduate of UW-Stout's Applied Math department, I have to say that I am impressed that there is someone there with enough cluefullness to read slashdot.
Second, I have to agree, the State theater is a hole. It was actually a reasonable theatre when it was just two screens, at least for a small town anyway. They really fscked it up when they butchered the big theater into 2 screens.
I still have fond memories of walking to class in sub-zero temps and 40-below wind chills, classes in the Harvey Hall 2nd floor "computer" lab - mudding or bbsing during class. (There were no computers in the lab, only DEC vt100 dumb terminals, and I don't think that lab even exists any more).
Ahh, you are correct. I tend to use disks that have both Joliet and RockRidge extentions, and in that case it seems that the RockRidge extentions are used in prefernce to the Joliet extents.
Basically, the command line will look like:
mkisofs -J -r -o output-filename root-directoryThis will create a an ISO9660 image file. You then use cdrecord or other similar program to burn the image to the disk. (In a pinch I've used Adaptech EZ-CD Creator on a Win95 box to burn an image created this way. You might also want to look into a program called xcdroast which is a nice graphical front end for mkisofs and cdrecord.
And, of coarse, you can always add more options - like bootable CDs, volume names, etc - when you are more comforatble with it.
Incorrect. A disk burnt with proper Joliet extensions works perfectly in Linux. (ie. the extensions are completely ignored) I I burn discs with both Joliet and Rock-Ridge on them all the time. They work happily in both Linux and Windows.
There may have been a buggy version or two of mkisofs that has given people this impression.
Sorry, couldn't resist.
I don't have any control over it. Both customers are Fortune 50 companies with huge nation-wide internal networks. The both indepently decided to renumber their networks with 10.0.0.0 addresses. The first company is using over 50% of the 10.0.0.0 network.
It seems that the IP address situation is prompting many of the large Fortune-500 type companies to renumber their networks with 10.0.0.0 or other reserved network numbers, and employ proxies and/or NAT. That's all fine and good for them, but makes my life hell. The company I work for does, among other things, software maintentance. For our large customers, this usually means mainaining a frame relay or other semi-permanent connection into their networks. One of our customers just converted their network over to 10.0.0.0 numbers a few weeks ago, and this morning another customer notified me that they would be doing the same in a few weeks. I now get to try to manage access to two different networks with the same IP addresses.
Check again. It's there now.
Anyone know what they are using for the backplane fabric? I woundn't imagine switched 100Mb ethernet would work too well for that many nodes. I wonder if they are using Myrinet or gigabit ethernet.
Paying programmers by the number of lines they produce is only slightly less dangerous than paying firemen by the number of fires they put out.
The only thing worse would be paying them by the number of bugs they fix.
Another: - We've upped our standards. Up yours.
The comment said "Add some sound processing capabilities". I would take this mean adding a single-chip MP3 decoder - like the one the Rio uses - to the palmpilot. You don't need an FPU or even very much CPU throughput that way.
Oops. My bad. It's only mispelled once. ("SILICAN" {sic})
Then why was "sillicon" misspelled twice in the registration info?
This question came up on the kernel devel list last week. The answer is that the mirror sites can choose how they want to update. Most use rsync now, but some choose to ftp mirror.
Insanity at it's finest.
It's not really a wast of screen space - the writing area is completely below the screen. There are no LCD elements under the writing area, only the touch membrane.
I'm getting lots of 404s, internal server errors, and the ever populat 'document contains no data'.