The Sledg-O-Matic is the handiest, the dandiest little damn processor you ever did see. It'll replace a whole slew of previous chips and processors in your boxen. It fits in all sockets, with a nudge and a shoehorn sometimes, but it'll go. And it smashes its way through software installs and kernal compiles. Need more bandwidth? Let the Sledg-O-Matic clear the way. Have a problem with programs that don't work? Use the Sledg-O-Matic on the CEO of the software company that made it. It's a lot more permanent than a pie in the face.
Next time you go to buy a CPU, remember the Sledg-O-Matic!
Do I sense a causality loop in the patent description. Surely this technology is intended to tear a hole in the space-time continuum. Q will be so pissed.
This is what I am interested in since the DaVinci just moved to 2MB of RAM and is a lot more cost effective. Check out www.davinciworld.com for now. They seem to be supporting users wishing to develop on this platform. Looks like a community sharing cool apps and hacks.
What other PDAs use the Dragonball? the Pilot? Rip
No, it's soccer from his "point of view." It's all about perspective. Now if you wrote the post I would expect you to call it football.
And if you think your soccer players are so much tougher than our football players then let's put them on the field together. Yeah, I know you will say something about them wearing pads and stuff. We require that so that guys don't die each game from all the hard hits. It's a way more strategic and tough game than soccer or rugby. I know, I've played a lineman.
And re: the World Series. Have you heard of the two Canadian teams Montreal Expos and the Toronto Blue Jays. Have your country get their crap together and submit a team.
Dull, dull, boring dull. They need to reload the last iteration of their page. It was cluttered but it had some stank on it. This looks like any other corp. home page, gay. Those so-called designers have dumbed-down a previously exciting place to go. A definite 10 on the boring meter.
Mostly french running the company side of things, but a lot of europeans involved. Meaning non-native English speakers. Give them a break, it's a second language for them, unlike our fearless leaders. We could all use a good spell checker on this 'bored' however. My problem is that my fingers get cold while typing. They keep it a comfortable 65 F in here sometimes. Brrrr.
The capsule had explosive bolts that would blow the door off when a lever was pulled or a button pushed. This was to prevent the astronaut from being trapped in a sinking capsule. It is likely that the hatch bolts blew from the impact of landing. Many people however believe that Gus Grissom panicked and blew the hatch to get out. Either way, the open hatch allowed in water and caused the capsule to sink. This led to the addition of a raft-like ring that inflated when the capsule hit the water. Also added were a couple of balloon-like inflatable balls on top to turn it right side up in the water.
You see, we were concerned about our astronauts coming back alive. All of these are safety features. In fact, we didn't send up people in unsafe rockets just to be first. The Soviet Union however, sent men up without spacesuits/pressure suits at times to save weight, sent three men in a ship built for two, had few if any controls in the ship, and had them land on the tundra. Can you say "Oy, my achin' back!"? Squeezing men into a metal capsule led to the term Spam in a Can among pilots. Let's just say that USSR is lucky they didn't lose more men than we know about.
Found a link on 1800batteries.com and it looks like the keyboard is $39 extra. It only has 256K of memory so it looks like extra apps are out. But it has built-in calendar/scheduling, to do list, address/phone book and you can take notes w/ it. And like I thought it can HotSync w/ Outlook.
I wonder if it or some smaller schedulers I saw at Best Buy will Sync w/ a Linux box using korganizer or something?
Has anyone else seen or used the DaVinci? I saw it in a catalog (1-800-batteries, now iGo or something) and recently saw it in a Target store.
This looks like a knockoff of the Palm III, but for $99 comes with a little keyboard and a similar cradle to Palm for HotSync. I can never find one I can hold and play with, but I'm really curious about how it compares. I think if someone only wants to keep addresses and phone numbers in it then its gotta be worth it.
I'm all for equal access. The Net is colorblind. I won't give someone a *new* computer, but I'll show them how to get a low-cost PC and teach them how to upgrade it or make use of what they have. If asked, I will allow a friend or non-PC owner access to the net to get a good deal on a PC. Hell, I'll even give some direction, but they gotta want to do it.
Apathy is the mind-killer. I've got relatives that glaze over when I talk about something I saw on the Internet or email. I try to set up everyone I know that has a PC but no access with NetZero (www.netzero.net), but you can't make them use it. Most are just afraid they will break the damn thing.
Here's a suggestion. Donate your old PC to your local school district. Even a 386 can run command line Linux. And I just read about a GUI suite of tools by a company called New Deal for 286 on up that runs on DOS and it's slick New Deal Inc. Check it out and make that old PC new again for a friend. It's only $50 and Linux is FREE. Beyond this we can't help the helpless and those that don't want to learn.
According to recent articles, Red Hat has acquired a web design house in whole or in part to advance their portal presence and stuff.
Even so some of you feel they should move all of Red Hat to the coast to get in on the action. Why?? In this digital age a programmer/developer can telecommute. Location is irrelevent unless you need to have physical access to the hardware you are working on.
Besides, when California slides in the ocean one of these days, Red Hat will be happily high and dry in NC. And I'm sure housing is cheaper there if you really wanted to move.
There was another article on Cnet/news.com with a pointer to www.thelinuxstore.com last week, probably Thursday. I submitted it too. If you check their site all there is is a logo for PIA and a link to an e-mail address. I mailed them to ask a few ques. and received a prompt answer. I have never dealt with them before, but from the speed of the response I would say they have somebody dedicated to this product. Could be they are wanting to recover some of their credibility and customers with a proper rollout.
Anyway, the email I received stated that the PIA will have a full install of Linux (unknown distro), will have a spreadsheet, word proc., email, internet pre-configured. But it did not say if it was set up for a specific provider.
My thoughts are that you should be able to alter any funky setup on this box and at the least have a decent machine for email, net and basics. Might be a step up for some people using a 486 or 386 with low RAM.
It means that if I have a network that has requirements that fall within what Linux has been benchmarked to do, then why not give it a try. (Surely the tuning needed for this test will show up on linux.com for all to see in the tuning HowTo.) Now, the info is there for all to see that a _free_ OS can do such and such. It's not as much of a risk now.
And as the improvements flow from the Open Source groups as a result of these tests it will only get better for those of us that have already switched over. Peace
And all you Europeans give the US a hard time when this stuff happens over here. Now you can see the kind of bubble-headed crap we put up with in our courts. Seems every moron with a gripe who runs into a lawyer (barrister) thinks he has a reason to sue just because something is _not_specifically_stated_ in the law as to what the courts should do. Then a judge can't just use good common sense and throw the b*stards out of the court house and down the steps for wasting everyone's time and money.
Waawaa, he hurt my feelings with what he said. Did the posting really ruin the guys reputation or just get a few people to laugh at him? Did it cause him to lose business or not get a job? Just glad you guys can see how the law can get twisted. And it can happen in _your_ backyard.
You might want to check out this strange artsy site. It's off topic, but they were mentioned on Wired today. See if you can get to the link for the guest list for viewing the real project. Hell.com
And when I went to an interview with a consulting firm, the interviewer asked me what languages I had programmed in? I told him before I left Engineering school I took Cobol and Fortran. "Fortran!! Man, nobody programs in that anymore!" I responded, "Hey, doesn't somebody have to maintain the code?" His response, "Who cares, that won't make us any money."
As an American I think I can speak freely on this issue. I don't hate Iranians or Iraqis or pretty much anybody (in fact I am friends with several ex-Iranians, not a racist comment, those people escaped Iran and now live free here due to help from religious organizations). I do agree with my gov't. however that some things that people in the middle east do are morally wrong and digusting to me. I would disapprove of any company helping them and then finding out that technology or software or widget was used to blow people up, poison people or attack innocents.
I don't get to personnally approve of every law or blockade my gov't. arranges, but I can vote against the decision makers in the next election. *HINT* They know this and are always looking over their shoulder to see if the people approve. I would like to see the day that EVERY individual has this power.
I'm sure that some in the US gov't are sorry that the old DARPANET ever took off and grew to the Internet we all know and contribute to today. The Internet now gives people voice who previously had none. More Americans and people of other nations now have an outlet for FREEDOM of SPEECH, creativity, and an easy way to contact those in power. Thus the Internet is a GOOD thing.
Don't screw it up by helping those that abuse the rights of their own people!!
You get this group to start making those PC's on a chip, maybe buy out Cyrix or IDT and you got yourself the next wave of small computers. Or they could make a deal with some motherboard mfg. to use their PC on a chip (CPU, chipset, etc.) on mobo w/sound, video, SCSI, 56K or cable modem built in and we're talkin' cutting edge, small footprint computing. I for one would like to clear some crap off my desk (work and home). They could add an AGP slot for upgrading video and totally drop the ISA slot. Maybe two or three PCI and an AGP. And make it a sub $250 system. Wishful thinking.
Technet and all of Microsoft.com is so slow it gives me reason to call them Microsloth. It takes forever to load anything on a regular modem line. Too many "see what I can do with Java/HTML" graphics. And the slowest download times on patches/updates.
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The Sledg-O-Matic is the handiest, the dandiest little damn processor you ever did see. It'll replace a whole slew of previous chips and processors in your boxen. It fits in all sockets, with a nudge and a shoehorn sometimes, but it'll go. And it smashes its way through software installs and kernal compiles. Need more bandwidth? Let the Sledg-O-Matic clear the way. Have a problem with programs that don't work? Use the Sledg-O-Matic on the CEO of the software company that made it. It's a lot more permanent than a pie in the face.
Next time you go to buy a CPU, remember the Sledg-O-Matic!
Do I sense a causality loop in the patent description. Surely this technology is intended to tear a hole in the space-time continuum. Q will be so pissed.
Later,
Rip
Oh, you can't tell me they passed up the opportunity to rename it Mindlink. Earthspring however, would have made them sound all wet.
Move along nothing to see here, just another Mindlinker.
Rip
I just started looking into SMP so spare the flames. I'm sure I haven't heard of _every_ mobo mfgr.
Check out the site http://www.uclinux.org/ they ported linux to a palmpilot that has basically the same processor.
What other PDAs use the Dragonball? the Pilot?
Rip
Just checked out linuxce.org and they have already contacted Everex and gotten some support. Check it out.
And if you think your soccer players are so much tougher than our football players then let's put them on the field together. Yeah, I know you will say something about them wearing pads and stuff. We require that so that guys don't die each game from all the hard hits. It's a way more strategic and tough game than soccer or rugby. I know, I've played a lineman.
And re: the World Series. Have you heard of the two Canadian teams Montreal Expos and the Toronto Blue Jays. Have your country get their crap together and submit a team.
Dull, dull, boring dull. They need to reload the last iteration of their page. It was cluttered but it had some stank on it. This looks like any other corp. home page, gay. Those so-called designers have dumbed-down a previously exciting place to go. A definite 10 on the boring meter.
Mostly french running the company side of things, but a lot of europeans involved. Meaning non-native English speakers. Give them a break, it's a second language for them, unlike our fearless leaders. We could all use a good spell checker on this 'bored' however. My problem is that my fingers get cold while typing. They keep it a comfortable 65 F in here sometimes. Brrrr.
You see, we were concerned about our astronauts coming back alive. All of these are safety features. In fact, we didn't send up people in unsafe rockets just to be first. The Soviet Union however, sent men up without spacesuits/pressure suits at times to save weight, sent three men in a ship built for two, had few if any controls in the ship, and had them land on the tundra. Can you say "Oy, my achin' back!"? Squeezing men into a metal capsule led to the term Spam in a Can among pilots. Let's just say that USSR is lucky they didn't lose more men than we know about.
I don't know why the other post broke but here it is. Only 256K of mem, but it does all the basics and the keyboard is $39 extra.
I wonder if it or some smaller schedulers I saw at Best Buy will Sync w/ a Linux box using korganizer or something?
This looks like a knockoff of the Palm III, but for $99 comes with a little keyboard and a similar cradle to Palm for HotSync. I can never find one I can hold and play with, but I'm really curious about how it compares. I think if someone only wants to keep addresses and phone numbers in it then its gotta be worth it.
Apathy is the mind-killer. I've got relatives that glaze over when I talk about something I saw on the Internet or email. I try to set up everyone I know that has a PC but no access with NetZero (www.netzero.net), but you can't make them use it. Most are just afraid they will break the damn thing.
Here's a suggestion. Donate your old PC to your local school district. Even a 386 can run command line Linux. And I just read about a GUI suite of tools by a company called New Deal for 286 on up that runs on DOS and it's slick New Deal Inc. Check it out and make that old PC new again for a friend. It's only $50 and Linux is FREE. Beyond this we can't help the helpless and those that don't want to learn.
Even so some of you feel they should move all of Red Hat to the coast to get in on the action. Why?? In this digital age a programmer/developer can telecommute. Location is irrelevent unless you need to have physical access to the hardware you are working on.
Besides, when California slides in the ocean one of these days, Red Hat will be happily high and dry in NC. And I'm sure housing is cheaper there if you really wanted to move.
Anyway, the email I received stated that the PIA will have a full install of Linux (unknown distro), will have a spreadsheet, word proc., email, internet pre-configured. But it did not say if it was set up for a specific provider.
My thoughts are that you should be able to alter any funky setup on this box and at the least have a decent machine for email, net and basics. Might be a step up for some people using a 486 or 386 with low RAM.
I think it's about time the script kiddies had their own distribution!!!
I ran it through the de-kiddigizer.
And as the improvements flow from the Open Source groups as a result of these tests it will only get better for those of us that have already switched over.
Peace
Waawaa, he hurt my feelings with what he said. Did the posting really ruin the guys reputation or just get a few people to laugh at him? Did it cause him to lose business or not get a job? Just glad you guys can see how the law can get twisted. And it can happen in _your_ backyard.
If you're just plain lazy go here.
And when I went to an interview with a consulting firm, the interviewer asked me what languages I had programmed in? I told him before I left Engineering school I took Cobol and Fortran. "Fortran!! Man, nobody programs in that anymore!" I responded, "Hey, doesn't somebody have to maintain the code?" His response, "Who cares, that won't make us any money."
*/Rant on
As an American I think I can speak freely on this issue. I don't hate Iranians or Iraqis or pretty much anybody (in fact I am friends with several ex-Iranians, not a racist comment, those people escaped Iran and now live free here due to help from religious organizations). I do agree with my gov't. however that some things that people in the middle east do are morally wrong and digusting to me. I would disapprove of any company helping them and then finding out that technology or software or widget was used to blow people up, poison people or attack innocents.
I don't get to personnally approve of every law or blockade my gov't. arranges, but I can vote against the decision makers in the next election. *HINT* They know this and are always looking over their shoulder to see if the people approve. I would like to see the day that EVERY individual has this power.
I'm sure that some in the US gov't are sorry that the old DARPANET ever took off and grew to the Internet we all know and contribute to today. The Internet now gives people voice who previously had none. More Americans and people of other nations now have an outlet for FREEDOM of SPEECH, creativity, and an easy way to contact those in power. Thus the Internet is a GOOD thing.
Don't screw it up by helping those that abuse the rights of their own people!!You get this group to start making those PC's on a chip, maybe buy out Cyrix or IDT and you got yourself the next wave of small computers. Or they could make a deal with some motherboard mfg. to use their PC on a chip (CPU, chipset, etc.) on mobo w/sound, video, SCSI, 56K or cable modem built in and we're talkin' cutting edge, small footprint computing. I for one would like to clear some crap off my desk (work and home). They could add an AGP slot for upgrading video and totally drop the ISA slot. Maybe two or three PCI and an AGP. And make it a sub $250 system. Wishful thinking.
Technet and all of Microsoft.com is so slow it gives me reason to call them Microsloth. It takes forever to load anything on a regular modem line. Too many "see what I can do with Java/HTML" graphics. And the slowest download times on patches/updates.