You stated in your question that you cannot return to WinCE after loading Linux. Just last month I saw Getty from Compaq at the Boston LUG meeting talking about Linux on the IPaq. They claim to now have a method for reverting a machine to the WinCE state. I checked, and the procedure is (was) on www.handhelds.org. Looks a lttle scary to me going either way.
Getty also mentioned that they might actually start shipping IPaqs with linux on them, if demand was sufficient.
The UI needs a lot of work... I am sure people are working on it. Give it a few months and check again...
The article mentions a current technology that is being used call the Grid.
I recently went over to Boston University for a NCSA meeting on a Grid node. It is like net meeting on steroids. Two large hi-res projection screens and multi-point casting for video. All this just so we can watch powerpoint presentations... It is cool, and in a few years it will actually work.
Even if you are just watching the presentation, you are on camera and have to remember not to pick your nose. Too often.
The PdQ was a good idea, it is just too damn thick. The thing ended up being about two inches thick, like you took a cell phone and a Palm III and glued them together.
Like I said in an earlier post, I use a Palm III, qualcom PCS phone, and a wire connector. I can surf and get email onto my palm. You get a network connection, so you can use avantgo to browse, (with b/w images evem).
The wire I got for my phone came with the PdQ software. It actually is pretty nice to use, but I would suggst using Avantgo as your browser.
The cell + a palm keeps me from having a big lump in my pocket ("glad to see you, buddy") and gives me freedom to use either or both together. But I still want one device to do it all, and still be palm III (or V) size.
But we all have needs/wants/desires. I personally don't want to carry 5 different devices. One device the size of a palm III would be great.
I want:
1. basic Palm III functions (address book, schedules, games, etc.)
2. cell phone usage (integrated with address book, click and dial)
3. mp3s (and 128+ MB storage)
4. gps (I get lost)
5. limited voice recognition ("new memo, buy beer" )
6. Wireless, easy communication to laptop, etc (IrDa, Bluetooth, wireless LAN)
The new Compaq iPaq can do these things with add-ons, but then it is as big as the clunky Qualcomm PdQ thing that integrated palm III with a phone. Damn thing was a brick.
I now use a qualcomm phone, a palm III and a wire. I can check mail/surf web, but I have to hook up this damn wire all the time and carry three pieces of crap.
VNC is a great application for viewing another person's screen. Free, cross-platfom, and useful. Just run the server on the machine that needs to be seen, and people can connect using any java enabled browser. I think it is GPL, so it could be integrated with existing GPL code.
For Unix machines, the server keeps a virtual desktop that everyone else could connect to an view/modify.
I just got back from the Boston/MIT LUG meeting. http://www.blu.org/ They had Jim Gettys talk about linux on the iPaq.
Unlike the Yopy, the iPaq is actually shipping.
Unlike the Yopy, the iPaq has open development with rapid release. They are using the 2.4pre kernels, and might be fully supported in the main kernel tree when 2.4 is out.
The interface is open, and supports USB, serial, compact flash adapter ($40), and PC card (PCMCIA) adapter ($140). The PC card adapter has a battery that doubles the life (and the size almost) of the beast. This allows use of the 1 GB IBM CF microdrive, 2 GB PC card HD, wireless 10 Mbit PC cars, ethernet pc cards, etc.
USB will eventually be used for wired network, but no keyboard/mouse support.
They recently figured out how to restore CE, so you can go back and forth between win/lin.
The Helix guys here are working on porting parts of GNOME. Usability has a ways to go, but it looks sweet.
Check www.handhelds.org. You can use a guest account and log into one of the machine and do development. (Java and other things are already running)
I was amazed at how quickly development is coming along.
You can produce a good bit of methane yourself, without reliance on natural resources. Your poop and the excess biomass (garbage) from your house can be fermented to create a decent amount of methane. I have no idea if it would be enought to power a fuel cell, but it could be a start.
Of course, you can always look for other alternatives, like grow corn for ethanol production (and use the excess biomass for methane) but the big oil companies don't like people looking into these kinds of ideas and technologies.
I have realized for a while that someone needs to release a decent mod for a FPS without violence. I always want to show off my 3D card to my girl, but she does not appreciate the violence. The best I can do is tell her "look, with accelerated OpenGL 3D, the blood droplets are round instead of square"
Th Quake 3 engine is amazing (and the new unreal engine somehow looks even better with support for exterior places). With the support for large textures, curved surfaces, fog, light effects, and mirrored surfaces, something could be made up.
Idea- simple mod where you can "paint" the walls of a large room. I did this with Q3 and a plasma gun.
Or maybe reimplement that arcade firefighting game...Spray water on fires to put them out...
I wish I had time to be a mod writer...
Maybe there are things out there, but I don't know any.
I don't think people consider Metllica a bunch of prcks for defending their "intellectual property" rghts under the US legal system. They have every right to do so.
I think they are a bunch of pricks for not putting the music and the fans first. If they were actually cool about music (allow non-commercial downloads, free trading of albums and live shows) I think they would make the fans very happy. They can still make tons of money touring, even if they never sell another album.
Again, the problem is big business screwing the public and the bands. If a group doesn't have a label deal, they could set up their own web site to sell CDs, sell them for $5 and still make more money than with standard label deals... but this has all been said over and over here before.
"Does this mean that "A" has finally found a NP-space P-time inverse, and the whole algorithm becomes no more than a toy! "
If he did, he would win that million dollar prize that was posted on/. a few months back. He probably could make much more moolah just using his P time algorithm... Reminds me of the movie Sneakers. I wonder what goes on behind our backs...
Plus, with quantum computing moving along, all (most) security will be obsolete.
When I was a little kid, some of us would compete in the "Olympics of the Mind". After a few years the name was changed to "Oddessey of the Mind" due to problems with the Olympics.
People forget that the US postal system has always allowed anoymous mailing. This has allowed people like the Unibomber to commit some terrible crimes. They do have people that monitor and try to intercept some things (kiddie pron, etc.) but pretty much anyone can send illegal material by snail mail completely anonymously.
The problem is picking up packages anonymously. You could get a PO box, but those can be monitored easily.
At least there is a way to allow anonymous publishing of material.
If I am not mistaken, Sun claimed that StarOffice was to be relesed as open source under the Sun Community License (which is not really OS, but you can at least read the source) They put limitations on distributing changed sources...
I have seen some distros with StarOffice included. I assume Sun allows this redistribution, or maybe the distros have a special agreement with Sun.
On the other hand, you are also missing the point. StarOffice does not run as root (usually) so it probably cannot trash your entire PC (but maybe your home directory... make backups) PCs with Windows typically don't have this "feature" so a rogue program can muck system files left and right.
Sometimes sysadmins lock down PCs so that users can't kill the PC, but this doesn't always work. I have heard the M$ Office must write to various directories and files so you cannot really secure a PC with Office.
Just my $0.02 - ed
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You could always hack something using multiple SCSI adapters on each node. The bandwidth would proabably be more thant the standard PCI bus can handle.
Open/close on files usually has significant latency, but maybe that is not due to the SCSI interface. I guess that is why he asked about IP on SCSI....
SCSI adapters aren't that cheap, but 100 Mbs switches aren't either. Are there any gigabit NICs available yet?
Google and/. search for old sites are two of my favorites.
I just know that/. typically has a bunch of people reading that know how to quickly get me to the info I need. They have done this before, so why duplicate the effort.
As a suggestion for posting stories, a lot of news sites post links to what's related for a given stories. Maybe/. could have a couple of old/. links and a few tutorials that would be useful for all/. stories, but then people would have do actually do some work to post a story.
Could someone point me to a decent networking tutorial on the web?
I use systems, and I understand IP (a bit). I do not understand the stuff between the nodes. Switches. Routers. Hubs. Firewalls. Addressing.
Most people don't have to deal with this crap casue a network guy sets it up and we plug in and use the IP address he gives us, but if I ever want to set up my own network (beowulf lab or home network) I need some more info.
I have also heard that you can directly connect two NICs with a special cable. Do you need software changes to do this?
There are a few small projectors out on the market. Many are now XGA resolution (1024x768), under 5 lbs, and around 800-1000 lumens. The footprint is usually smaller than a sheet of letter paper (A4 for you Eurotrash and other non-American)
I think Compaq has the smallest version at 4.5, XGA, 800 lumens and 5-6 K$.
I wanted a simple LCD screen (like from a laptop) so I could roll my own laptop/lugable PC. I hate laptop keyboards, and my destop could be "compressed" to fit in a small bag. I couldn't find anything reasonable. I could rip off a laptop LCD, but they are usually hardwired or use special chips to run a signal (no standard analog VGA connector) Sony glasstron goggles are probably the best bet, but the 800x600 SVGA version is still 2.5 K$.
You can't call me a weenie for running as high a resolution as possible.
The problem is not bigger monitors, it is the idiot web designers that want everything to "look just like it does on my browser". Crap. Things should have simple formating.
If I want to run at 1600x1200 full screen I should be able to. I hate damn sites that have so much screwed up formatting (bad css, screwy javascript, frames, shockwave intros, etc all suck). I also occasionally browse from my palm pilot.
The internet once was about information, not font size or user experience. We never should have let artists near a computer.
I personally want more screen real estate. I am not going to be happy until I have 3 21 inch monitors beaming info at me.
To return to my main point, screw you and your stupid "Designed for 800x600" web pages. HTML should not be designed for anything or anyone.
I think that is a valid argument against Macs. The original poster may not have presented the idea in the nicest way, but I agree with his sentiment.
Have you used the hockey puck? It is uncomfortable. Why ship millions of crappy mice (unless you expect to sell more mice on upgrade.) Yes, it does looks cool.
And does the MacOS support extra buttons when you do upgrade the mouse? I thought MacOS was a single consistant (dumbed down) interface so you wouldn't be confused by right/middle/left clicking.
As lease Macs ship a mouse with a button. Maybe the next "innovation" will be the 0 button mouse. Just move the cursor around the screen...
BTW: -5 troll. Thanks-
ed
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You said "Stocks are about greed. No one ever bought a stock becouse of morals, or to better the community. They buy it becouse they believe that it will make them money.."
I think there are some exceptions to this. I bought a few hundred of RedHat because I like what they do and I alway felt a little guilty not paying for my OS (I know I could buy shrinkwrap...) I realized the market was nutty and sold some when RHAT was up around 250. They are now back where they should have been all along. Even without the crazy profit, I am glad I bought into Red Hat, even if it is only a few shares.
In another case, I think the Green Bay Packers sold stock to fans so that nobody could come in and buy the team and move it. People bought the stock as symbolic more than anything.
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You stated in your question that you cannot return to WinCE after loading Linux. Just last month I saw Getty from Compaq at the Boston LUG meeting talking about Linux on the IPaq. They claim to now have a method for reverting a machine to the WinCE state. I checked, and the procedure is (was) on www.handhelds.org. Looks a lttle scary to me going either way.
Getty also mentioned that they might actually start shipping IPaqs with linux on them, if demand was sufficient.
The UI needs a lot of work... I am sure people are working on it. Give it a few months and check again...
The article mentions a current technology that is being used call the Grid.
I recently went over to Boston University for a NCSA meeting on a Grid node. It is like net meeting on steroids. Two large hi-res projection screens and multi-point casting for video. All this just so we can watch powerpoint presentations... It is cool, and in a few years it will actually work.
Even if you are just watching the presentation, you are on camera and have to remember not to pick your nose. Too often.
The PdQ was a good idea, it is just too damn thick. The thing ended up being about two inches thick, like you took a cell phone and a Palm III and glued them together.
Like I said in an earlier post, I use a Palm III, qualcom PCS phone, and a wire connector. I can surf and get email onto my palm. You get a network connection, so you can use avantgo to browse, (with b/w images evem).
The wire I got for my phone came with the PdQ software. It actually is pretty nice to use, but I would suggst using Avantgo as your browser.
The cell + a palm keeps me from having a big lump in my pocket ("glad to see you, buddy") and gives me freedom to use either or both together. But I still want one device to do it all, and still be palm III (or V) size.
But we all have needs/wants/desires. I personally don't want to carry 5 different devices. One device the size of a palm III would be great.
I want:
1. basic Palm III functions (address book, schedules, games, etc.)
2. cell phone usage (integrated with address book, click and dial)
3. mp3s (and 128+ MB storage)
4. gps (I get lost)
5. limited voice recognition ("new memo, buy beer" )
6. Wireless, easy communication to laptop, etc (IrDa, Bluetooth, wireless LAN)
The new Compaq iPaq can do these things with add-ons, but then it is as big as the clunky Qualcomm PdQ thing that integrated palm III with a phone. Damn thing was a brick.
I now use a qualcomm phone, a palm III and a wire. I can check mail/surf web, but I have to hook up this damn wire all the time and carry three pieces of crap.
One day...
VNC is a great application for viewing another person's screen. Free, cross-platfom, and useful. Just run the server on the machine that needs to be seen, and people can connect using any java enabled browser. I think it is GPL, so it could be integrated with existing GPL code.
For Unix machines, the server keeps a virtual desktop that everyone else could connect to an view/modify.
They even have a Palm Pilot VNC viewer app.
I just got back from the Boston/MIT LUG meeting. http://www.blu.org/ They had Jim Gettys talk about linux on the iPaq.
Unlike the Yopy, the iPaq is actually shipping.
Unlike the Yopy, the iPaq has open development with rapid release. They are using the 2.4pre kernels, and might be fully supported in the main kernel tree when 2.4 is out.
The interface is open, and supports USB, serial, compact flash adapter ($40), and PC card (PCMCIA) adapter ($140). The PC card adapter has a battery that doubles the life (and the size almost) of the beast. This allows use of the 1 GB IBM CF microdrive, 2 GB PC card HD, wireless 10 Mbit PC cars, ethernet pc cards, etc.
USB will eventually be used for wired network, but no keyboard/mouse support.
They recently figured out how to restore CE, so you can go back and forth between win/lin.
The Helix guys here are working on porting parts of GNOME. Usability has a ways to go, but it looks sweet.
Check www.handhelds.org. You can use a guest account and log into one of the machine and do development. (Java and other things are already running)
I was amazed at how quickly development is coming along.
Only $500 bucks....
You can produce a good bit of methane yourself, without reliance on natural resources. Your poop and the excess biomass (garbage) from your house can be fermented to create a decent amount of methane. I have no idea if it would be enought to power a fuel cell, but it could be a start.
Of course, you can always look for other alternatives, like grow corn for ethanol production (and use the excess biomass for methane) but the big oil companies don't like people looking into these kinds of ideas and technologies.
I have realized for a while that someone needs to release a decent mod for a FPS without violence. I always want to show off my 3D card to my girl, but she does not appreciate the violence. The best I can do is tell her "look, with accelerated OpenGL 3D, the blood droplets are round instead of square"
Th Quake 3 engine is amazing (and the new unreal engine somehow looks even better with support for exterior places). With the support for large textures, curved surfaces, fog, light effects, and mirrored surfaces, something could be made up.
Idea- simple mod where you can "paint" the walls of a large room. I did this with Q3 and a plasma gun.
Or maybe reimplement that arcade firefighting game...Spray water on fires to put them out...
I wish I had time to be a mod writer...
Maybe there are things out there, but I don't know any.
ed
I don't think people consider Metllica a bunch of prcks for defending their "intellectual property" rghts under the US legal system. They have every right to do so.
I think they are a bunch of pricks for not putting the music and the fans first. If they were actually cool about music (allow non-commercial downloads, free trading of albums and live shows) I think they would make the fans very happy. They can still make tons of money touring, even if they never sell another album.
Again, the problem is big business screwing the public and the bands. If a group doesn't have a label deal, they could set up their own web site to sell CDs, sell them for $5 and still make more money than with standard label deals... but this has all been said over and over here before.
"Does this mean that "A" has finally found a NP-space P-time inverse, and the whole algorithm becomes no more than a toy! "
/. a few months back. He probably could make much more moolah just using his P time algorithm... Reminds me of the movie Sneakers. I wonder what goes on behind our backs...
If he did, he would win that million dollar prize that was posted on
Plus, with quantum computing moving along, all (most) security will be obsolete.
Ed
When I was a little kid, some of us would compete in the "Olympics of the Mind". After a few years the name was changed to "Oddessey of the Mind" due to problems with the Olympics.
Doh.
Which components cannot be distributed together? The KDE applications and the QT toolkit I would assume...
Why is this the rule? Is it explicitly stated in the license, or are people attempting to justify continued development of Gnome?
Does that make any sense? I thought you could write a GPL program using Motif and distribute it alongside Motif (assuming you can distribute Motif)
QT finally got the license together and they still catch he**.
I thought the QT deal was a system library (like GTK+) for drawing widgets and such to the screen...
If it is a system library, then the GPL should be used in KDE.
What am I missing on this? What have I overlooked?
ed
People forget that the US postal system has always allowed anoymous mailing. This has allowed people like the Unibomber to commit some terrible crimes. They do have people that monitor and try to intercept some things (kiddie pron, etc.) but pretty much anyone can send illegal material by snail mail completely anonymously.
The problem is picking up packages anonymously. You could get a PO box, but those can be monitored easily.
At least there is a way to allow anonymous publishing of material.
I have been begging for better colors for months.
/. is so great, why not let users configure their own color, or would that be too much load on the server...
I do like the basic gray and green, but the other sections suck nuts.
Since
-ed
If I am not mistaken, Sun claimed that StarOffice was to be relesed as open source under the Sun Community License (which is not really OS, but you can at least read the source) They put limitations on distributing changed sources...
I have seen some distros with StarOffice included. I assume Sun allows this redistribution, or maybe the distros have a special agreement with Sun.
On the other hand, you are also missing the point. StarOffice does not run as root (usually) so it probably cannot trash your entire PC (but maybe your home directory... make backups) PCs with Windows typically don't have this "feature" so a rogue program can muck system files left and right.
Sometimes sysadmins lock down PCs so that users can't kill the PC, but this doesn't always work. I have heard the M$ Office must write to various directories and files so you cannot really secure a PC with Office.
Just my $0.02 - ed
You could always hack something using multiple SCSI adapters on each node. The bandwidth would proabably be more thant the standard PCI bus can handle.
Open/close on files usually has significant latency, but maybe that is not due to the SCSI interface. I guess that is why he asked about IP on SCSI....
SCSI adapters aren't that cheap, but 100 Mbs switches aren't either. Are there any gigabit NICs available yet?
Eff U buddy. DealaWhere is good for what I do. Think of us as a suburb of Phillie.
/. No exams for me, mutha...
I just defended my Ph.D. I got some time on my hands to read/post to
And I am not a network guru or CS geek so I have questions about this stuff.
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Yes, I know how to use a search engine.
/. search for old sites are two of my favorites.
/. typically has a bunch of people reading that know how to quickly get me to the info I need. They have done this before, so why duplicate the effort.
/. could have a couple of old /. links and a few tutorials that would be useful for all /. stories, but then people would have do actually do some work to post a story.
Google and
I just know that
As a suggestion for posting stories, a lot of news sites post links to what's related for a given stories. Maybe
Thanks for the info, everyone-
ed
Could someone point me to a decent networking tutorial on the web?
I use systems, and I understand IP (a bit). I do not understand the stuff between the nodes. Switches. Routers. Hubs. Firewalls. Addressing.
Most people don't have to deal with this crap casue a network guy sets it up and we plug in and use the IP address he gives us, but if I ever want to set up my own network (beowulf lab or home network) I need some more info.
I have also heard that you can directly connect two NICs with a special cable. Do you need software changes to do this?
Sorry I am so clueless.
ed
There are a few small projectors out on the market. Many are now XGA resolution (1024x768), under 5 lbs, and around 800-1000 lumens. The footprint is usually smaller than a sheet of letter paper (A4 for you Eurotrash and other non-American)
I think Compaq has the smallest version at 4.5, XGA, 800 lumens and 5-6 K$.
I wanted a simple LCD screen (like from a laptop) so I could roll my own laptop/lugable PC. I hate laptop keyboards, and my destop could be "compressed" to fit in a small bag. I couldn't find anything reasonable. I could rip off a laptop LCD, but they are usually hardwired or use special chips to run a signal (no standard analog VGA connector) Sony glasstron goggles are probably the best bet, but the 800x600 SVGA version is still 2.5 K$.
Good luck.
ed
You can't call me a weenie for running as high a resolution as possible.
The problem is not bigger monitors, it is the idiot web designers that want everything to "look just like it does on my browser". Crap. Things should have simple formating.
If I want to run at 1600x1200 full screen I should be able to. I hate damn sites that have so much screwed up formatting (bad css, screwy javascript, frames, shockwave intros, etc all suck). I also occasionally browse from my palm pilot.
The internet once was about information, not font size or user experience. We never should have let artists near a computer.
I personally want more screen real estate. I am not going to be happy until I have 3 21 inch monitors beaming info at me.
To return to my main point, screw you and your stupid "Designed for 800x600" web pages. HTML should not be designed for anything or anyone.
Love,
ed
I think that is a valid argument against Macs. The original poster may not have presented the idea in the nicest way, but I agree with his sentiment.
Have you used the hockey puck? It is uncomfortable. Why ship millions of crappy mice (unless you expect to sell more mice on upgrade.) Yes, it does looks cool.
And does the MacOS support extra buttons when you do upgrade the mouse? I thought MacOS was a single consistant (dumbed down) interface so you wouldn't be confused by right/middle/left clicking.
As lease Macs ship a mouse with a button. Maybe the next "innovation" will be the 0 button mouse. Just move the cursor around the screen...
BTW: -5 troll. Thanks-
ed
You said "Stocks are about greed. No one ever bought a stock becouse of morals, or to better the community. They buy it becouse they believe that it will make them money.."
I think there are some exceptions to this. I bought a few hundred of RedHat because I like what they do and I alway felt a little guilty not paying for my OS (I know I could buy shrinkwrap...) I realized the market was nutty and sold some when RHAT was up around 250. They are now back where they should have been all along. Even without the crazy profit, I am glad I bought into Red Hat, even if it is only a few shares.
In another case, I think the Green Bay Packers sold stock to fans so that nobody could come in and buy the team and move it. People bought the stock as symbolic more than anything.
ed
I noticed that too. That topic seems to have cooled recently. I also think the some of the kiddies have left as a result...
I personally think quality has been on an upswing. I may be in the minority on this one.
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