Actually, I do use my phone primary for calling. On my very nice smartphone (Samsung i780 - Windows Mobile), I've turned off UMTS and switched right back to plain old GSM + GPRS. As a result, my battery will now last two days, where I can make several long (> 30 mins) calls. And, e-mail/calendar/contact synchronization still work over good old GPRS. As a side effect, phone calls are still much more reliable over GSM than they are over UMTS - at least they are on this phone.
And this basically sums up my experience with these devices over the past couple of years. Getting any pc to do decent tv-out is a nightmare (Modeline Hell as he calls it). Getting sound on both regular outputs and digital outputs with Alsa is "challenging" to say the least. And then I just want the box to suspend and wake-up using a remote. Again, that's possible in theory, but somehow I've never found a board that will reliably go into S3 and wakeup from S3 over and over again. If you finally get it to work once, it suddenly doesn't work the second time.
Finally, I've just switched to a UPNP frontend for my Mythtv backend. It turns on and off in 5-10 secs, does both analog and digital audio outputs and I've never had issues with its tv outputs. I've lost some functionality, but at least it's reliable and "just works".
The comparison between the Athlon XP and the Sempron is nice, but AMD has stopped supplying Athlon XP's under 3000+ rating. The CPU is already out of stock in some stores and others will soon follow. It won't be long before AMD stops the entire Barton line and all CPU's are based on the Athlon-64 core like the Sempron (which is Athlon-64 with 64-bit extensions disabled).
One pro for the Sempron is that it supports Cool'nQuiet, but I haven't been able to find a 2.4 patch that will support Cool'nQuiet for the Sempron yet.
I'm sorry, but Lindows is just another distro. It may be a good desktop distro for the unknowing (I haven't given it a try), but there are lots of other (more popular) distro's out there. We can still use all of the other Linux desktop offerings out there.
The whole point of the judgement is that the judge thinks that Microsoft has proven that Lindows chose the name Lindows because of its relation to Windows. And, since Windows is a registered trademark in the Netherlands, this is obviously an infringement. Remember, Windows in Dutch has no other meaning as it does in English; it is not a common word.
Nobody can really claim that they chose Lindows for any other reason than the similarity to Windows. They could have chosen a lot of other cool names as Xandros and others have done. They didn't and they made the choice realizing that they might get into legal trouble for doing so.
The drivers work great on my RH8 machine with my Geforce2 card. But I've switched back to the XFree86 drivers right after. Why? They still don't support power management. All I want is for my monitor to turn off after a while. Not possible. From the README: KNOWN LAPTOP ISSUES
o Power Management is not currently supported. *sigh*
A really great tool was developed by IBM, the stack-smashing protector. It is a lot like StackGuard, but adds a little more security. It supports gcc 2.95.2, 2.95.3, 3.0 and 3.0.4.
See this list of mirrors. It's the google cache of the original list of mirrors. I'm downloading from the Dutch mirror at the moment. http://www.google.com/search?q=cache:VznF ah_clJsC: whiteboard.openoffice.org/mirrors/+&hl=en
First of all, what's the other alternative. Running your business without any methodology means letting everyone do their own thing their own way. That maybe good sometimes, but not always.
Several good management methodologies do exist. In Europe ITIL (Systems management) and Prince2 (Project Management), both developed by the CCTA have a large user basis. Learning these is very useful, since both are used in a large number of organisations.
Well, perhaps this is not proof, but I noticed this when looking at the XFree86 site.... The last update to this site and the last beta-relase were in the beginning of September. However, the site claims to release a new snapshot every 6 weeks or so... Has nothing happened since the beginning of September? Kind regards, Mark Wormgoor
The going rate in the Netherlands would be about US$39.000 per year. Entered your information on http://www.intermediair.nl/ using the following information: - College-degree, - >4yrs experience in IT, - 31-35 yrs old Most of Europe has the same shortage in IT-staff as the US, pushing up the rates.
First of all, after the transplant, the person will be paralysed from the neck down, due to the fact that the nerves can't be reconnected. This means it will only be useful for people that are already paralysed. It will only prolong their life-span, but they remain paralysed.
Second of all, nobody has to be killed in order to find a body. Normal transplants happen every day using organs from people who died. Why is this so different? If they only take the heart or the whole body? You're dead anyway:)
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Even the US is quite high, compared to some other countries:
Iceland - 2.8
Sweden - 3
UK - 3.7
Netherlands - 3.9
Sure, but then don't complain if the hurricane/tornado takes your house (or the neighbourhood) down.
And, furthermore, the "IP money" flowing back to the US would compensate the US's significant trade deficit. Obviously, this is not the case.
Actually, I do use my phone primary for calling. On my very nice smartphone (Samsung i780 - Windows Mobile), I've turned off UMTS and switched right back to plain old GSM + GPRS. As a result, my battery will now last two days, where I can make several long (> 30 mins) calls. And, e-mail/calendar/contact synchronization still work over good old GPRS. As a side effect, phone calls are still much more reliable over GSM than they are over UMTS - at least they are on this phone.
And this basically sums up my experience with these devices over the past couple of years. Getting any pc to do decent tv-out is a nightmare (Modeline Hell as he calls it). Getting sound on both regular outputs and digital outputs with Alsa is "challenging" to say the least. And then I just want the box to suspend and wake-up using a remote. Again, that's possible in theory, but somehow I've never found a board that will reliably go into S3 and wakeup from S3 over and over again. If you finally get it to work once, it suddenly doesn't work the second time.
Finally, I've just switched to a UPNP frontend for my Mythtv backend. It turns on and off in 5-10 secs, does both analog and digital audio outputs and I've never had issues with its tv outputs. I've lost some functionality, but at least it's reliable and "just works".
It's been fixed in CVS.
The comparison between the Athlon XP and the Sempron is nice, but AMD has stopped supplying Athlon XP's under 3000+ rating. The CPU is already out of stock in some stores and others will soon follow. It won't be long before AMD stops the entire Barton line and all CPU's are based on the Athlon-64 core like the Sempron (which is Athlon-64 with 64-bit extensions disabled).
One pro for the Sempron is that it supports Cool'nQuiet, but I haven't been able to find a 2.4 patch that will support Cool'nQuiet for the Sempron yet.
I'm sorry, but Lindows is just another distro. It may be a good desktop distro for the unknowing (I haven't given it a try), but there are lots of other (more popular) distro's out there. We can still use all of the other Linux desktop offerings out there.
The whole point of the judgement is that the judge thinks that Microsoft has proven that Lindows chose the name Lindows because of its relation to Windows. And, since Windows is a registered trademark in the Netherlands, this is obviously an infringement. Remember, Windows in Dutch has no other meaning as it does in English; it is not a common word.
Nobody can really claim that they chose Lindows for any other reason than the similarity to Windows. They could have chosen a lot of other cool names as Xandros and others have done. They didn't and they made the choice realizing that they might get into legal trouble for doing so.
The drivers work great on my RH8 machine with my Geforce2 card. But I've switched back to the XFree86 drivers right after. Why? They still don't support power management. All I want is for my monitor to turn off after a while. Not possible. From the README:
KNOWN LAPTOP ISSUES
o Power Management is not currently supported.
*sigh*
A really great tool was developed by IBM, the stack-smashing protector. It is a lot like StackGuard, but adds a little more security. It supports gcc 2.95.2, 2.95.3, 3.0 and 3.0.4.
http://www.trl.ibm.com/projects/security/ssp/
See this list of mirrors. It's the google cache of the original list of mirrors. I'm downloading from the Dutch mirror at the moment.F ah_clJsC: whiteboard.openoffice.org/mirrors/+&hl=en
http://www.google.com/search?q=cache:Vzn
I have to agree completely that the Net is the New Jerusalem according to this iDefense article:
Middle East Tensions Spill Online.
What's the big deal about Uranium. If you spend a couple of million dollars in Russia, you can buy weapons-grade plutonium. No need for reactors.
:-)
If you spend enough, you can probably get a free bomb to go with it
First of all, what's the other alternative. Running your business without any methodology means letting everyone do their own thing their own way. That maybe good sometimes, but not always.
Several good management methodologies do exist. In Europe ITIL (Systems management) and Prince2 (Project Management), both developed by the CCTA have a large user basis. Learning these is very useful, since both are used in a large number of organisations.
Well, perhaps this is not proof, but I noticed this when looking at the XFree86 site.... The last update to this site and the last beta-relase were in the beginning of September. However, the site claims to release a new snapshot every 6 weeks or so... Has nothing happened since the beginning of September? Kind regards, Mark Wormgoor
The going rate in the Netherlands would be about US$39.000 per year. Entered your information on http://www.intermediair.nl/ using the following information:
- College-degree,
- >4yrs experience in IT,
- 31-35 yrs old
Most of Europe has the same shortage in IT-staff as the US, pushing up the rates.
Has anyone read the article indeed?
:)
First of all, after the transplant, the person will be paralysed from the neck down, due to the fact that the nerves can't be reconnected. This means it will only be useful for people that are already paralysed. It will only prolong their life-span, but they remain paralysed.
Second of all, nobody has to be killed in order to find a body. Normal transplants happen every day using organs from people who died. Why is this so different? If they only take the heart or the whole body? You're dead anyway
Kind regards,
Mark Wormgoor