personally, i use dual machines because i write software (well, i did... now i'm at a nice crappy support job taking a breather). it's nice to be able to push the machine and not have it get latent. i can compile the source code with gcc's -j3, listen to MP3s, and still surf the web comfortably on my dual celeron 400 (BP6).
in short, MP is really nice if you're a multi-tasking user that runs lots of intensive processing.
As far as the power supply goes, if you've got a meter you can trust, it's hard to go wrong building your own. They're nice and simple, and a good way to spend a relaxing afternoon (beer in hand, even - just don't spill it).
And i second your assessment of Tek scopes, all the working scopes in my high school electronoics class were Tek, however, not all the scopes in the lab were working...
-josh, who has yet to get around to buying his scope, but needs one desperately every month or so
Um, no it doesn't. The thing is not rugged at all. I'm not that hard on my equipment and mine is suffering after only a few months. Secondly, the big display really limits batterly life. I can pull a full 4 hours out of a battery, but only if the lighting is right such that i can see with the display brightness at minimum. The nearly-hot-swappable batteries are quite nice for this, though (you just close it up, let it finish going to sleep, and swap the batteries).
The display is huge and the titanium supporting it is quite thin. Added to Apple's Wonderful Idea(TM) to actually have the keyboard and the LCD almost touching, you wind up damaging your display if you squish anything (soft muffin crumbs killed some of my pixels) in there.
Then, i had left it closed on the coffee table. One of my kittens jumped on the side hanging off, and the latch broke. It fell under 2 feet. Half a meter fall, and it's busted. I now have to ship it back to Apple, where they will look at it and _then_ give me a quote to fix it.
I almost never run terminals side-by-side, either; perl one-liners get really long, and if it doesn't wrap, i'm a happier camper.
Anyway, i'd think twice before picking up a PBG4, especially if you're going to be beating on it. I'm very close to the point of having my credit card company refund my money and return the product to Apple as "Unsatisfactory." It's a beautiful machine, very cool, and very powerful, but it's not up to my standards for durability.
-josh, who wishes everything was as durable as his TI-85
As a side note, most windows techs i know make it a habit of carrying around a USB NIC. Almost all PCs have USB anymore, so you can just plug it in and go. That, with a laptop and a crossover cable,and you've got a great way to backup/install files.
Of course, the smarter guys just have 30GB USB hard drives =)
or the artists could work comfortably, in the way they're used to, and you could spend a little extra time with a computer graphics guy doing the object capture/associated tweaking...
Actually, you can: if you spend over 50$, staples will generally deliver it for free (if you're in the vicinity). So splurge and buy some paper, or a new mouse, or any of a myriad of things. I got my table delivered with some iron-on transfers and a ream of paper.
"The Europeans that developed the philosophies and ideas on which the United States was founded? "
For the record, the vast majority of the american governmental system is based on ideas taken from the Romans and Greeks. European, yes, but not really related to the modern Europeans in very many direct ways. The Romans came close, with the empire and all, but the Greeks were radically different (loose collaborations among distinct city-states). To me, the EU is proof enough that Europeans don't value freedom as much as USians.
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Run this through google: Toshiba LCD USB -camera HID Infinia. If you remove the "Infinia" you get a lot more results, but they're a lot less pertinent.
Included are directions to working with it under win9x; you could probably bug the linux guys about it based on that knowledge.
Good luck, i'd like to know where to get my hands on one of these! =)
Under the 2.4 series kernels (and maybe 2.2 now..i don't really follow those), you can use USB Keyboards, Mice, and Joysticks (HID devices). My suggestion would be to get a 2.4 series kernel working with the HID stuff, add the vendor/product ID Magic Numbers to a table in one of the drivers, and see what it does. Linux will give you "Invalid scancode" when it sees invalid button presses, and hopefully that will give you a clue as to how to get the LCD panel to work.
Of course, knowing the USB specs, this type of device probably has a very explicit protocol defined for it. You might be best served to send email around to the linux-usb (linux-usb.org) people to see if they have any clues.
-josh, who likes to play with USB every so often, but really doesn't like it enough to actually work on it.
as a quick side note, they weren't allowing butane lighters on when i flew last week. even in checked bags.
they did allow on batteries, though. and they didn't check my coins to see if i had sharpened them. nor did they check any of my potentially-sharpened metal devices.
i think he was thinking something like 802.11b, which runs at 11Mb. The real problem with a system like this is the killer latency, and to a smaller extent routing. Conventional routing techniques assume relatively stable nodes with relatively constant latency and bandwidth. A truly dynamic, ad-hoc network isn't something i've ever seen implemented in a stable and functional fashion.
Of course, this isn't what i do for a living, so can anybody else shed some light on potential options?
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the excuse i heard (from Alan Cox, no less) was that you don't get as much noise on the output, since the DAC is located outside of the enclosure. less EM noise and all that. it made me very curious. haven't really dont much tinkering though.
Not really.. on Macs, the OS is part of the bundle, period. Apple hardware, Apple OS. You can call it an Apple Tax, but that's like saying "they made me buy a battery with my picturebook--i paid the sony tax."
Afaik, the only compatibility for windows formats (ie: MS Office formats, since Everyone Uses Word) on MacOS is MS Office for Mac. please correct me if i'm wrong, but i don't consider that an option.
There's something ironic about the fact that i boot into linux to view.doc's...
So, personally, i've been designing a webapp for use by myself and my friends lately, and this whole thing has inspired me to use POST vs GET whenever possible.
Unless they're actually wanting HTTP Headers instead of just URLs, which seems more clueful on their part.
Either way, this is a travesty. Not in and of itself, but because of the precedent that it sets. People can't take video and sound of you in a public place, but they can take an exact record of what you've been surfing to.. wonderful.
It would probably be possible to set up an anonymizing proxy that used a form of chaffing with HTTP headers to obscure the actual transactions from the random crap grabs.
to empty the trash in os x, you just long-click on the trash can, and a little menu pops up: "Empty Trash."
More of a concern with the apple laptops is the lack of page up/down Home/End buttons.
And all the Explorer buttons are done in software. someone else posted about using them w/usboverdrive extension in macos (personally, i'd rather just use the trackpad).
I _do_ miss the middle-click paste-selection from X11...
Please, do use a product before you bash it.
-josh, slowly becoming an OS X fan (Real Transparent Terminals!)
c) isn't an option a lot of the time. yes, SCO is utter and complete shit, but iBCS just doesn't work a lot of the time lately. It's fading into obscurity as everything gets ported over natively.
(when it does work, it's a beautiful thing, though. one of my favorite things we did with it was run a logistics package; the software vendor didn't realize it was a linux box, but they did call us up when they modem'd in and 'ps' didn't work (SCO uses a SysV ps, the one on there was BSD-only, since updated).)
iBCS also has a bit of a problem with some security setups. all that is immaterial, however, because for all intents and purposes, SCO usually Just Works.
you bring up a good point: all different construction toys have different attributes, lending themselves to different kinds of structures.
for example, i just bought myself a tub of k-nex. they're neat, and you can do weird things with them you couldn't with lego (they come with _gears_! gears, i say!), nor as well with construx. But they have little to no inherent stability. when you build something out of lego, it's pretty damned solid. construx wasn't exactly perfect (the longest bars would torque a little.. i snapped quite a few of them building little throwing devices). but knex just wobble. you have to design structure in, as opposed to just expecting it to be there.
lego has very few basic blocks. they're all the same basic thing, serving the same basic role. the same goes for construx and knex. sure, they all have neat "accessory" pieces (like the cool little translucent lego pieces, or the pulleys and cockpits of construx, or the gears of knex), but they're still fundamentally basic.
this toy sounds very similiar, but with more flexbility (haven't seen it yet,/.ed). it sounds like this toy is actually more flexible than lego, and will hopefully spur on more creative designs exercising that flexibility.
-jbm, just back from a bike ride, so probably not quite lucid.
we're being proactive. the marketing department is actually the spawn of a colony of spindoctors and lobbyists. a device (the infinite improbability engineer) landed on their planet that managed to allow them to create any device they desired. so they warped themselves back into the past on a distant world, finding work at Sirius.
The engineer, seeing what it had wrought upon the universe, poofed out of existence shortly thereafter.
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personally, i use dual machines because i write software (well, i did... now i'm at a nice crappy support job taking a breather). it's nice to be able to push the machine and not have it get latent. i can compile the source code with gcc's -j3, listen to MP3s, and still surf the web comfortably on my dual celeron 400 (BP6).
in short, MP is really nice if you're a multi-tasking user that runs lots of intensive processing.
As far as the power supply goes, if you've got a meter you can trust, it's hard to go wrong building your own. They're nice and simple, and a good way to spend a relaxing afternoon (beer in hand, even - just don't spill it).
And i second your assessment of Tek scopes, all the working scopes in my high school electronoics class were Tek, however, not all the scopes in the lab were working...
-josh, who has yet to get around to buying his scope, but needs one desperately every month or so
Um, no it doesn't. The thing is not rugged at all. I'm not that hard on my equipment and mine is suffering after only a few months. Secondly, the big display really limits batterly life. I can pull a full 4 hours out of a battery, but only if the lighting is right such that i can see with the display brightness at minimum. The nearly-hot-swappable batteries are quite nice for this, though (you just close it up, let it finish going to sleep, and swap the batteries).
The display is huge and the titanium supporting it is quite thin. Added to Apple's Wonderful Idea(TM) to actually have the keyboard and the LCD almost touching, you wind up damaging your display if you squish anything (soft muffin crumbs killed some of my pixels) in there.
Then, i had left it closed on the coffee table. One of my kittens jumped on the side hanging off, and the latch broke. It fell under 2 feet. Half a meter fall, and it's busted. I now have to ship it back to Apple, where they will look at it and _then_ give me a quote to fix it.
I almost never run terminals side-by-side, either; perl one-liners get really long, and if it doesn't wrap, i'm a happier camper.
Anyway, i'd think twice before picking up a PBG4, especially if you're going to be beating on it. I'm very close to the point of having my credit card company refund my money and return the product to Apple as "Unsatisfactory." It's a beautiful machine, very cool, and very powerful, but it's not up to my standards for durability.
-josh, who wishes everything was as durable as his TI-85
As a side note, most windows techs i know make it a habit of carrying around a USB NIC. Almost all PCs have USB anymore, so you can just plug it in and go. That, with a laptop and a crossover cable,and you've got a great way to backup/install files.
Of course, the smarter guys just have 30GB USB hard drives =)
or the artists could work comfortably, in the way they're used to, and you could spend a little extra time with a computer graphics guy doing the object capture/associated tweaking...
Actually, you can: if you spend over 50$, staples will generally deliver it for free (if you're in the vicinity). So splurge and buy some paper, or a new mouse, or any of a myriad of things. I got my table delivered with some iron-on transfers and a ream of paper.
No, no, no -- this is DNA. _Everything_ has a deeper meaning. That's why i think he's more literature.
;^)
(I do agree with you, but i felt that had to be pointed out
"The Europeans that developed the philosophies and ideas on which the United States was founded? "
For the record, the vast majority of the american governmental system is based on ideas taken from the Romans and Greeks. European, yes, but not really related to the modern Europeans in very many direct ways. The Romans came close, with the empire and all, but the Greeks were radically different (loose collaborations among distinct city-states). To me, the EU is proof enough that Europeans don't value freedom as much as USians.
For infinite justice!
didn't you hear?
Jesux's Developer is dead.
-- Nietzsche
(another bad pun brought to you by jbm)
Run this through google: Toshiba LCD USB -camera HID Infinia. If you remove the "Infinia" you get a lot more results, but they're a lot less pertinent.
Included are directions to working with it under win9x; you could probably bug the linux guys about it based on that knowledge.
Good luck, i'd like to know where to get my hands on one of these! =)
Under the 2.4 series kernels (and maybe 2.2 now..i don't really follow those), you can use USB Keyboards, Mice, and Joysticks (HID devices). My suggestion would be to get a 2.4 series kernel working with the HID stuff, add the vendor/product ID Magic Numbers to a table in one of the drivers, and see what it does. Linux will give you "Invalid scancode" when it sees invalid button presses, and hopefully that will give you a clue as to how to get the LCD panel to work.
Of course, knowing the USB specs, this type of device probably has a very explicit protocol defined for it. You might be best served to send email around to the linux-usb (linux-usb.org) people to see if they have any clues.
-josh, who likes to play with USB every so often, but really doesn't like it enough to actually work on it.
as a quick side note, they weren't allowing butane lighters on when i flew last week. even in checked bags.
they did allow on batteries, though. and they didn't check my coins to see if i had sharpened them. nor did they check any of my potentially-sharpened metal devices.
oh, shove it up yo.... oops. yah.
i think he was thinking something like 802.11b, which runs at 11Mb. The real problem with a system like this is the killer latency, and to a smaller extent routing. Conventional routing techniques assume relatively stable nodes with relatively constant latency and bandwidth. A truly dynamic, ad-hoc network isn't something i've ever seen implemented in a stable and functional fashion.
Of course, this isn't what i do for a living, so can anybody else shed some light on potential options?
the excuse i heard (from Alan Cox, no less) was that you don't get as much noise on the output, since the DAC is located outside of the enclosure. less EM noise and all that. it made me very curious. haven't really dont much tinkering though.
Not really.. on Macs, the OS is part of the bundle, period. Apple hardware, Apple OS. You can call it an Apple Tax, but that's like saying "they made me buy a battery with my picturebook--i paid the sony tax."
Afaik, the only compatibility for windows formats (ie: MS Office formats, since Everyone Uses Word) on MacOS is MS Office for Mac. please correct me if i'm wrong, but i don't consider that an option.
.doc's...
There's something ironic about the fact that i boot into linux to view
So, personally, i've been designing a webapp for use by myself and my friends lately, and this whole thing has inspired me to use POST vs GET whenever possible.
Unless they're actually wanting HTTP Headers instead of just URLs, which seems more clueful on their part.
Either way, this is a travesty. Not in and of itself, but because of the precedent that it sets. People can't take video and sound of you in a public place, but they can take an exact record of what you've been surfing to.. wonderful.
It would probably be possible to set up an anonymizing proxy that used a form of chaffing with HTTP headers to obscure the actual transactions from the random crap grabs.
to empty the trash in os x, you just long-click on the trash can, and a little menu pops up: "Empty Trash."
More of a concern with the apple laptops is the lack of page up/down Home/End buttons.
And all the Explorer buttons are done in software. someone else posted about using them w/usboverdrive extension in macos (personally, i'd rather just use the trackpad).
I _do_ miss the middle-click paste-selection from X11...
Please, do use a product before you bash it.
-josh, slowly becoming an OS X fan (Real Transparent Terminals!)
this is a bit more like spraypainting it in big letters on their corporate headquarters.
which would get you in deep shit if you were caught.
you know, now that i think about it, i haven't really heard of any militant hindi/buddhist radicals. seems to be a monotheistic thing...
(half tounge in cheek)
c) isn't an option a lot of the time. yes, SCO is utter and complete shit, but iBCS just doesn't work a lot of the time lately. It's fading into obscurity as everything gets ported over natively.
(when it does work, it's a beautiful thing, though. one of my favorite things we did with it was run a logistics package; the software vendor didn't realize it was a linux box, but they did call us up when they modem'd in and 'ps' didn't work (SCO uses a SysV ps, the one on there was BSD-only, since updated).)
iBCS also has a bit of a problem with some security setups. all that is immaterial, however, because for all intents and purposes, SCO usually Just Works.
you bring up a good point: all different construction toys have different attributes, lending themselves to different kinds of structures.
/.ed). it sounds like this toy is actually more flexible than lego, and will hopefully spur on more creative designs exercising that flexibility.
for example, i just bought myself a tub of k-nex. they're neat, and you can do weird things with them you couldn't with lego (they come with _gears_! gears, i say!), nor as well with construx. But they have little to no inherent stability. when you build something out of lego, it's pretty damned solid. construx wasn't exactly perfect (the longest bars would torque a little.. i snapped quite a few of them building little throwing devices). but knex just wobble. you have to design structure in, as opposed to just expecting it to be there.
lego has very few basic blocks. they're all the same basic thing, serving the same basic role. the same goes for construx and knex. sure, they all have neat "accessory" pieces (like the cool little translucent lego pieces, or the pulleys and cockpits of construx, or the gears of knex), but they're still fundamentally basic.
this toy sounds very similiar, but with more flexbility (haven't seen it yet,
-jbm, just back from a bike ride, so probably not quite lucid.
we're being proactive. the marketing department is actually the spawn of a colony of spindoctors and lobbyists. a device (the infinite improbability engineer) landed on their planet that managed to allow them to create any device they desired. so they warped themselves back into the past on a distant world, finding work at Sirius.
The engineer, seeing what it had wrought upon the universe, poofed out of existence shortly thereafter.
didn't you know that?