Hi, slightly off-topic, I'd like to get a notebook to run Linux on, but I never found something appropriate. Maybe someone can help me on this one! What I need:
as cheap as possible, I'm a student
does not have to be new
486+, 32 MB RAM, 2 GB HDD, no floppy/CDROM
light and small to be truly portable (Libretto, VAIO are nice but way too expensive)
some way to sync data with my home PC
I want to enter text, compile a bit, nothing more
BTW, how do you access a cell phone from your notebook to dialup an ISP and get mails?! Not that I have a cell phone, I'm just curious. Thanks in advance!
So you prefer window manager XYZ. That's fine. But a new release of KDE as a key package to make Linux used by the masses definitely is news on Slashdot. Your posting on what you personally prefer and dislike is, with all respect to you, redundant, not interesting (moderators?!) as you don't give any new insightful clues to the discussion.
Seems to be more like a primer to that typesetting system;-) I haven't written that many documents with it, but I'm very grateful to anyone who contributed as it makes formulas so easy. Figures are getting assigned numbers in the right order! No, this is not going to be flamebait on how bad Word is. Just a 'thank you' to Donald Knuth for his great works, including books such as Concrete Mathematics...
As M-JPEG makes each frame accessible independent from the others, try something like MPEG-I or MPEG-II, otherwise file sizes will be huge. Make sure that you get a standard video file format (I'm not sure about Lokis code) or you will have problems viewing the films in the future. Having to convert them every ten years or so using lossy video codecs also will result in quality becoming poorer and poorer, so MPEG xy may be the way to go. I'd avoid proprietary stuff like QuickTime / Sorenson - although the codecs are great, compatible players might not be available in the future. The exact format will depend on how much disk space you're willing to provide for the storage of a minute of film.
When I just M2'ed (yeah, I said it!), I found all comments fairly moderated. I cannot understand why my M2 should be disregarded because of this, although I think that 10 m2's of 'unfair' are pretty unlikely.
I also encountered a duplicate, it asked for the same item (Interesting, IIRC) and I don't see why moderating twice should be OK as CmdrTaco says in the update. Can't you take my M2 vote for all acts of moderation of a kind (here: Interesting) for this comment? It might be more complicated from the programming point of view, but it does make sense.
What does a '5 meter resolution' satellite deliver? From the airport photos I guess it does not mean 'one pixel corresponds to 5 meters', it's finer.
Another thing: Why should 'closed' countries like North Korea have more to loose with these publicly available shots? I'm quite sure US reconnaissence watches them tightly, so what's the difference for them?
One more question: What resolution does state-of-the-art technology deliver? This probably can only be guessed - maybe an AC wants to elaborate on this;-)
This machine isn't for you! It's for me! They aren't marketing it with you in mind, as well they shouldn't!
If they claim to be twice as fast as the fastest PIII and if they hide the fact that this is restricted to Photoshop, they are doing marketing with all PC users in mind. It's as simple as that - period. Nobody (including the original poster) denies they have a fast machine, it's their extremely wrong-leading type of advertising one can criticize.
If it wasn't for animations, everyone could switch to PNG right now. But all those ads on websites seem to be in need of motion, so GIF will be needed - this is about the only way many websites can make money: by selling ads. Of course there is MNG, the animation format pendant of PNG, but nobody writes software for it (except for JASC, the Paintshop Pro makers - they have some animation program that supports a subset of MNG, I think).
Moreover, there are quite a few old browsers around that still will not give you PNG support, so web designers prefer the format most people will be able to see. If this compatibility is kept forever, there'll never be progress, of course.
BTW, JPEG and GIF don't deal with the same kinds of images - JPEG's for photos, GIF's for images with very few (e.g. 30) colors and large areas of the same color. PNG can store all types of images, also the ones JPEG supports, but PNG does not come close to the compression ratios JPEG gives due to the fact that it's lossy.
Someone please go to cnn.com and explain to those who put up the message board HOW DO YOU DEFINE A HACKER? what a hacker is. I don't have the strength anymore... Sigh! Hacker != cracker, how difficult can this possibly be?
Java is doubtlessly superior to C in terms of maintainability, readability, compile time checking, so the software engineering aspects make it much more suitable for large projects. Execution speed is the problem. As QuakeXYZ and similar games will always use the bleeding edge of computer graphics hardware, I can only imagine them running nicely when the Java3D library is perfectly supporting modern graphics hardware (read: the part of it important for games like texturing etc.) and CPUs fast enough to run JVM's feeding the 3d library in an adequate manner with geometry data. Unfortunately, it takes a couple of specialized developers to check this out, without a guarantee of getting any other result than 'not possible yet'.
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Lazarus is a Delphi clone based on Free Pascal, a GPL'd multi-platform Pascal compiler already working under Linux x86, Win32, OS/2 etc. and compatible with Delphi 2. It is currently in alpha stage and under heavy development, a very nice open source project.
Lazarus is aimed at working with different widget sets like GTK etc. Go to the homepage.
I heard that Lucasfilm and others are experimenting with the creation of fully digital movies, which could be transferred to movie theaters by satellite or with any other high-bandwidth connection, no more need for expensive and sensitive reels (which can be easily stolen:-)). What resolutions / color depths / color spaces are they using? Links, anyone? Or is it all research right now?
As some MIT guy pointed out during a slashdot discussion on mp3, it is extremely difficult to design audio / video codecs. While there are many people with the knowledge to design operating systems or compilers, very few people can do the same for codecs. Once a codec is designed, implementing it is easy (e.g. writing an mp3 player). Design includes running large numbers of tests with many persons, because no automated comparison of algorithms can be done. This need for PhD-level people and money for the tests makes it hard for free software to get a foot into the door. Also, the free codec had to become an accepted standard, which is a hard thing of its own.
As some people seem to be interested in it - if you have issue 3/99 of German Linux Magazin, there is a detailed description of the installation process. It's a pretty long report of one user's experience. Unfortunately, the article is not available online, the link just leads to the table of contents;-( Maybe some German readers still have a copy, or you could ask Linux Magazin editors to make available an online version...
I've written some articles / FAQs that I have published on my Geocities website, each with a Copyright (year) by (me) note. Apart from this, only GPL'd code, my HTML code and a few images without copyright infringements are there, nothing to worry about.
My questions:
1) What can they do with my writings, can they sell them?
2) Where can I get a free account with about 2 megs of space that does not have any restrictions?
I guessed there must be a DTD as the language is supposed to be build on top of xml, but I didn't find it on that site.
I said that the article was maybe online... but maybe you can get a copy of that CACM issue in a university library near you? It's a small article (one page) combined with a large, very informative article on XML-based e-commerce, sort of an introduction to the topic...
I found the site not very informative. However, it states that fpml is based on XML. Moreover, the logo on top of each page indicates that XML-like elements are used.
To make business work, enterprises must share their DTD's (document type definitions) for new languages like fpml to take advantage of the net. Making it secret would make no sense at all! See the "Share the Ontology in XML-based trading architecures" article in this year's March issue of Communications of the ACM, maybe it's also available online (www.acm.org).
There is development under way to provide Delphi-like IDE's to be used with Free Pascal, a great Pascal compiler for Linux x86, Win32, DOS, Amiga and OS/2 that supports Delphi 2.0 features, is TP 7.0 compatible and has very responsive developers. Everything under GPL...
What it says to me is that a huge number of people in America (I don't know how popular the Roswell mythos is outside the U.S.) believe, or at least suspect, that technology and its masters are ruling the world, and not benevolently. Everybody who watches the X-Files, nobody else (I guess).
Anyway, I think people (in the U.S., other nations will follow as usually) have developed a certain anxiety towards technology as most of them can hardly use it, not speaking about understanding the background or even controlling it. That's IMO the reason for the popularity of TV shows, articles etc. with conspiracy-kind-of technology-hostile stories. News in the popular press on Echelon and Microsoft's Word-GUID's will do the rest. It is understandable...
This is not a reply to Katz' article but to some of the people posting here. Note that *many* people on this planet are struggling to survive on a daily basis. They're not concerned with issues like net security and possibilities of the net for the individual. So, before there will be a global revolution-kind-of change by many people being connected this new and without doubt exciting way, many long-existing problems of literally billions of people will have to be solved first.
I know the difference. It's just that this whole thread should be about the general approach of secure email on the web and maybe their implementation. I presume some clueless guy wrote this piece of text who had nothing to do with the actual system (which is bad enough, granted). BTW, I'm not sure if they've claimed that a password that is not in a dictionary cannot be found?! Where? Anyway, someone should point it out to them...
Splitting hairs... Testing all words in a dictionary is some form of an optimized brute force attack. I guess they made their point to the average user, don't take real-world passwords. Yepp, they didn't use the word 'hacker' in an appropriate way either. Just because someone wasn't able to employ perfect terminology doesn't mean the whole system doesn't work.
Almost everybody has xanim. The problem is that very new material distributed as QuickTime, e.g. the Star Wars trailer.mov files, is encoded using codecs (like Sorenson) for which no support exists within xanim because no information on the internals is given to the author of xanim, not even if he signs an NDA.
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BTW, how do you access a cell phone from your notebook to dialup an ISP and get mails?! Not that I have a cell phone, I'm just curious.
Thanks in advance!
Sigh.
So you prefer window manager XYZ. That's fine. But a new release of KDE as a key package to make Linux used by the masses definitely is news on Slashdot. Your posting on what you personally prefer and dislike is, with all respect to you, redundant, not interesting (moderators?!) as you don't give any new insightful clues to the discussion.
Seems to be more like a primer to that typesetting system ;-) I haven't written that many documents with it, but I'm very grateful to anyone who contributed as it makes formulas so easy. Figures are getting assigned numbers in the right order! No, this is not going to be flamebait on how bad Word is. Just a 'thank you' to Donald Knuth for his great works, including books such as Concrete Mathematics...
As M-JPEG makes each frame accessible independent from the others, try something like MPEG-I or MPEG-II, otherwise file sizes will be huge. Make sure that you get a standard video file format (I'm not sure about Lokis code) or you will have problems viewing the films in the future. Having to convert them every ten years or so using lossy video codecs also will result in quality becoming poorer and poorer, so MPEG xy may be the way to go. I'd avoid proprietary stuff like QuickTime / Sorenson - although the codecs are great, compatible players might not be available in the future. The exact format will depend on how much disk space you're willing to provide for the storage of a minute of film.
When I just M2'ed (yeah, I said it!), I found all comments fairly moderated. I cannot understand why my M2 should be disregarded because of this, although I think that 10 m2's of 'unfair' are pretty unlikely.
I also encountered a duplicate, it asked for the same item (Interesting, IIRC) and I don't see why moderating twice should be OK as CmdrTaco says in the update. Can't you take my M2 vote for all acts of moderation of a kind (here: Interesting) for this comment? It might be more complicated from the programming point of view, but it does make sense.
What does a '5 meter resolution' satellite deliver? From the airport photos I guess it does not mean 'one pixel corresponds to 5 meters', it's finer.
;-)
Another thing: Why should 'closed' countries like North Korea have more to loose with these publicly available shots? I'm quite sure US reconnaissence watches them tightly, so what's the difference for them?
One more question: What resolution does state-of-the-art technology deliver? This probably can only be guessed - maybe an AC wants to elaborate on this
This machine isn't for you! It's for me! They aren't marketing it with you in mind, as well they shouldn't!
If they claim to be twice as fast as the fastest PIII and if they hide the fact that this is restricted to Photoshop, they are doing marketing with all PC users in mind. It's as simple as that - period. Nobody (including the original poster) denies they have a fast machine, it's their extremely wrong-leading type of advertising one can criticize.
If it wasn't for animations, everyone could switch to PNG right now. But all those ads on websites seem to be in need of motion, so GIF will be needed - this is about the only way many websites can make money: by selling ads. Of course there is MNG, the animation format pendant of PNG, but nobody writes software for it (except for JASC, the Paintshop Pro makers - they have some animation program that supports a subset of MNG, I think).
Moreover, there are quite a few old browsers around that still will not give you PNG support, so web designers prefer the format most people will be able to see. If this compatibility is kept forever, there'll never be progress, of course.
BTW, JPEG and GIF don't deal with the same kinds of images - JPEG's for photos, GIF's for images with very few (e.g. 30) colors and large areas of the same color. PNG can store all types of images, also the ones JPEG supports, but PNG does not come close to the compression ratios JPEG gives due to the fact that it's lossy.
Someone please go to cnn.com and explain to those who put up the message board HOW DO YOU DEFINE A HACKER? what a hacker is. I don't have the strength anymore... Sigh! Hacker != cracker, how difficult can this possibly be?
Java is doubtlessly superior to C in terms of maintainability, readability, compile time checking, so the software engineering aspects make it much more suitable for large projects. Execution speed is the problem. As QuakeXYZ and similar games will always use the bleeding edge of computer graphics hardware, I can only imagine them running nicely when the Java3D library is perfectly supporting modern graphics hardware (read: the part of it important for games like texturing etc.) and CPUs fast enough to run JVM's feeding the 3d library in an adequate manner with geometry data. Unfortunately, it takes a couple of specialized developers to check this out, without a guarantee of getting any other result than 'not possible yet'.
Lazarus is a Delphi clone based on Free Pascal, a GPL'd multi-platform Pascal compiler already working under Linux x86, Win32, OS/2 etc. and compatible with Delphi 2. It is currently in alpha stage and under heavy development, a very nice open source project.
Lazarus is aimed at working with different widget sets like GTK etc. Go to the homepage.
I heard that Lucasfilm and others are experimenting with the creation of fully digital movies, which could be transferred to movie theaters by satellite or with any other high-bandwidth connection, no more need for expensive and sensitive reels (which can be easily stolen :-)). What resolutions / color depths / color spaces are they using? Links, anyone? Or is it all research right now?
As some MIT guy pointed out during a slashdot discussion on mp3, it is extremely difficult to design audio / video codecs. While there are many people with the knowledge to design operating systems or compilers, very few people can do the same for codecs. Once a codec is designed, implementing it is easy (e.g. writing an mp3 player). Design includes running large numbers of tests with many persons, because no automated comparison of algorithms can be done. This need for PhD-level people and money for the tests makes it hard for free software to get a foot into the door. Also, the free codec had to become an accepted standard, which is a hard thing of its own.
As some people seem to be interested in it - if you have issue 3/99 of German Linux Magazin, there is a detailed description of the installation process. It's a pretty long report of one user's experience. Unfortunately, the article is not available online, the link just leads to the table of contents ;-( Maybe some German readers still have a copy, or you could ask Linux Magazin editors to make available an online version...
I've written some articles / FAQs that I have published on my Geocities website, each with a Copyright (year) by (me) note. Apart from this, only GPL'd code, my HTML code and a few images without copyright infringements are there, nothing to worry about.
My questions:
1) What can they do with my writings, can they sell them?
2) Where can I get a free account with about 2 megs of space that does not have any restrictions?
I guessed there must be a DTD as the language is supposed to be build on top of xml, but I didn't find it on that site.
I said that the article was maybe online... but maybe you can get a copy of that CACM issue in a university library near you? It's a small article (one page) combined with a large, very informative article on XML-based e-commerce, sort of an introduction to the topic...
I found the site not very informative. However, it states that fpml is based on XML. Moreover, the logo on top of each page indicates that XML-like elements are used.
To make business work, enterprises must share their DTD's (document type definitions) for new languages like fpml to take advantage of the net. Making it secret would make no sense at all! See the "Share the Ontology in XML-based trading architecures" article in this year's March issue of Communications of the ACM, maybe it's also available online (www.acm.org).
There is development under way to provide Delphi-like IDE's to be used with Free Pascal, a great Pascal compiler for Linux x86, Win32, DOS, Amiga and OS/2 that supports Delphi 2.0 features, is TP 7.0 compatible and has very responsive developers. Everything under GPL...
See the IDE homepages of Megido and Lazarus.
What it says to me is that a huge number of people in America (I don't know how popular the Roswell mythos is outside the U.S.) believe, or at least suspect, that technology and its masters are ruling the world, and not benevolently.
Everybody who watches the X-Files, nobody else (I guess).
Anyway, I think people (in the U.S., other nations will follow as usually) have developed a certain anxiety towards technology as most of them can hardly use it, not speaking about understanding the background or even controlling it. That's IMO the reason for the popularity of TV shows, articles etc. with conspiracy-kind-of technology-hostile stories. News in the popular press on Echelon and Microsoft's Word-GUID's will do the rest. It is understandable...
This is not a reply to Katz' article but to some of the people posting here. Note that *many* people on this planet are struggling to survive on a daily basis. They're not concerned with issues like net security and possibilities of the net for the individual. So, before there will be a global revolution-kind-of change by many people being connected this new and without doubt exciting way, many long-existing problems of literally billions of people will have to be solved first.
I know the difference. It's just that this whole thread should be about the general approach of secure email on the web and maybe their implementation. I presume some clueless guy wrote this piece of text who had nothing to do with the actual system (which is bad enough, granted). BTW, I'm not sure if they've claimed that a password that is not in a dictionary cannot be found?! Where? Anyway, someone should point it out to them...
Splitting hairs... Testing all words in a dictionary is some form of an optimized brute force attack. I guess they made their point to the average user, don't take real-world passwords. Yepp, they didn't use the word 'hacker' in an appropriate way either. Just because someone wasn't able to employ perfect terminology doesn't mean the whole system doesn't work.
SuSE gets out a release every four months - it was about time for a new one, last was published in December / January. This wasn't about Red Hat!
Almost everybody has xanim. The problem is that very new material distributed as QuickTime, e.g. the Star Wars trailer .mov files, is encoded using codecs (like Sorenson) for which no support exists within xanim because no information on the internals is given to the author of xanim, not even if he signs an NDA.
Granted, I'm not a native speaker, but 'Tipper' sounds weird to me, similar to Flipper. Is this a modified version of a real name?