The thing looks like a bad clone of a WinCE with really lame apps on top of it. Had a look at their version of Minesweeper? Ever notice how most minesweeper clones have a little picture of an actual flag? Theirs has an "F".
Also, it touts "multitasking" as one of the features, but who the hell needs multitasking on an organizer? It's not like I'm gonna be running Word on the thing.
66 MHz machines running X windows must be dog-slow, too.
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To be honest, I've been wanting to run a native Linux version of Internet Explorer for some time. I abhor Netscape; it crashes with alarming frequency on *every* platform I use it on. I'd like an alternative that supports most modern HTML features (and misfeatures like Java and Javascript), and IE on Windows seems to do this pretty well.
Please, dear God, if they do port it, though, let it not be like the truly hideous Solaris port of IE. *barf*.
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...but what about latency? Who cares if you get 1600MB/second if it takes longer to access a given word in memory? What are the latency times like for Sun stuff, which, as far as I know, uses the same basic chips as cheap PC RAM does?
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Hi. We're techpages.com. We crash Netscape on Linux and on Solaris, for no reason at all.
When will webmasters learn to test their websites on as many platforms as possible before deploying? I bet these bozos just loaded it in IE 5, said "Yup, looks good," and headed home for the day.
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I've already downloaded and burned all three ISO images. I got them at about 400K/s off PSU's mirror. You can get a list of all mirrors, most of which probably have the thing by now, here.
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Some ad companies pay "per impression" as well as per click. Impressions are just ad views, not clickthroughs, which generally pay much more but are also much less common.
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Am I the only one who finds Junkbuster more trouble than it's worth? Okay, I've spent eight hours setting up the damned thing, blocked everything that's ever shat forth a banner ad and, um.. Wow! Look at that! I never noticed banner ads before and... I still don't notice them!
I guess it follows JWZ's line of thinking, "Linux is only free if your time is worth nothing."
Me, personally, I just ignore the banner ads and let the companies earn their pittance. Why are some people so afraid of that?
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Actually, only about 33% of everything the US and the USSR sent to Mars was deemed "successful". Most of the rest either missed their mark completely, exploded, or was lost or stopped working once it reached Mars.
Here's my source, since anything contrary to the opinion of the status quo on slashdot needs backing up, but "what feels right" never does.
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The last two were dismal failures, and each one cost hundreds of millions of dollars to build and launch. Now they wanna launch a pair of them?
If there were a way for taxpayers to specify how much of their tax dollars went to which area of the government, you'd see about $0.00 for NASA from me, at least until they figure out how to better their aim.
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but I was very suprised to know that the pricing was a flat rate price independant of usage, plus there seemed to be no restriction on running a network, or any servers off that network.
This is only true because Optus started beating the hell out of Telstra's cable modem service towards the beginning of this year. Prior to that, it wasn't uncommon for one of my friends to exceed his monthly download "cap" (a paltry 300 MB/month) and pay 0.25/MB thereafter, or some utterly disgusting rate. Once Optus came in with unmetered, unlimited access at similar speeds, a lot of people jumped ship to them, and Telstra had to change their pricing schemes for high-speed access simply to remain competitive (IMO their prices are still too high, but what do I know...)
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There's also an NSF study here and another study discussed on CNN in which a panel of climatologists disprove dissenters' arguments against global warming. It should be noted that most scientists nowadays believe global warming has been occurring.
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Huh? Have you had your head in your ass since 1992? Japan's economy is in the shitter. Unemployment has doubled since 1988 and the cost of living is more than in ny other developed country. The economic crisis in Asia a couple years ago hit them rather hard too.
Shit, no wonder this was marked as a troll. It was pretty content-free.
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How can companies like Sega be convinced that products that don't make them money anymore should be made GPL?
Well, stealing them certainly hasn't worked.
Also, it should be noted that many companies are releasing "classic" games, along with emulators, on CD-ROM, so there's still plenty of money to be made with ancient old-school games.
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/ doesn't need to be big, if all you've got in it is/etc,/lib,/bin, and/sbin. Mine's about 90 megs or so.
/usr, if you're gonna have a separate/usr/local (and you should have an/opt, by the way, for "payware"), should be a couple hundred megs.
/usr/local should be a gig or two. Especially if you're using huge bloated apps like emacs or the Gimp, which can easily chew up 60 megs alone.
/home -- make it as big as you can. I find I'm running out with 2 gigs.
/var -- if you're hosting a huge amount of mail, make it large (a gig or so). If not, don't bother. Mine's about 400 megs, and I've got plenty of room.
/tmp - I like to compile stuff in/tmp. Yes, I'm bad. A gig here for me.
Now, you need space for "other crap": mp3s, temp space for other packages, download space. I use the "sandbox" scheme:
Which I stole from Northeastern's CS department scheme, just because it seemed cute. All the stuff I'm about to burn to CD, or have downloaded and want to fool around with, or that's a big lame work-in-progress that won't fit in/home goes somewhere in there.
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Imagine the goddamned publicity they got from that Gervase stunt? They were smart to make as big a stink as they did about it, even knowing full well it was the wrong answer anyway.
Funny how only the CBS affiliates in my area covered the story on TV though.
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You know, you *can* turn that crap off in Netscape 4.74.
Losing a great deal of the other HTML features modern sites use would be enough to make me switch immediately (hell, it was enough to make me switch to netscape 2 in '96...)
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Slashdot Mirror
Also, it touts "multitasking" as one of the features, but who the hell needs multitasking on an organizer? It's not like I'm gonna be running Word on the thing.
66 MHz machines running X windows must be dog-slow, too.
- A.P.
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- A.P.
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Please, dear God, if they do port it, though, let it not be like the truly hideous Solaris port of IE. *barf*.
- A.P.
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- A.P.
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- A.P.
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When will webmasters learn to test their websites on as many platforms as possible before deploying? I bet these bozos just loaded it in IE 5, said "Yup, looks good," and headed home for the day.
- A.P.
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- A.P.
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- A.P.
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I guess it follows JWZ's line of thinking, "Linux is only free if your time is worth nothing."
Me, personally, I just ignore the banner ads and let the companies earn their pittance. Why are some people so afraid of that?
- A.P.
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Mine tend to cost less than $100 million.
- A.P.
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Actually, only about 33% of everything the US and the USSR sent to Mars was deemed "successful". Most of the rest either missed their mark completely, exploded, or was lost or stopped working once it reached Mars.
Here's my source, since anything contrary to the opinion of the status quo on slashdot needs backing up, but "what feels right" never does.
- A.P.
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- A.P.
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If there were a way for taxpayers to specify how much of their tax dollars went to which area of the government, you'd see about $0.00 for NASA from me, at least until they figure out how to better their aim.
- A.P.
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This is only true because Optus started beating the hell out of Telstra's cable modem service towards the beginning of this year. Prior to that, it wasn't uncommon for one of my friends to exceed his monthly download "cap" (a paltry 300 MB/month) and pay 0.25/MB thereafter, or some utterly disgusting rate. Once Optus came in with unmetered, unlimited access at similar speeds, a lot of people jumped ship to them, and Telstra had to change their pricing schemes for high-speed access simply to remain competitive (IMO their prices are still too high, but what do I know...)
- A.P.
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There's also an NSF study here and another study discussed on CNN in which a panel of climatologists disprove dissenters' arguments against global warming. It should be noted that most scientists nowadays believe global warming has been occurring.
- A.P.
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Shit, no wonder this was marked as a troll. It was pretty content-free.
- A.P.
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Well, stealing them certainly hasn't worked.
Also, it should be noted that many companies are releasing "classic" games, along with emulators, on CD-ROM, so there's still plenty of money to be made with ancient old-school games.
- A.P.
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/usr, if you're gonna have a separate
/usr/local should be a gig or two. Especially if you're using huge bloated apps like emacs or the Gimp, which can easily chew up 60 megs alone.
/home -- make it as big as you can. I find I'm running out with 2 gigs.
/var -- if you're hosting a huge amount of mail, make it large (a gig or so). If not, don't bother. Mine's about 400 megs, and I've got plenty of room.
/tmp - I like to compile stuff in
Now, you need space for "other crap": mp3s, temp space for other packages, download space. I use the "sandbox" scheme:
/dev/sde1 8746648 7321200 981136 88%
/dev/sdd1 4307423 3763192 321312 92%
/dev/sdb4 1416229 1008444 334602 75%
/dev/sdc1 4102112 3562837 327008 92%
Which I stole from Northeastern's CS department scheme, just because it seemed cute. All the stuff I'm about to burn to CD, or have downloaded and want to fool around with, or that's a big lame work-in-progress that won't fit in
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Imagine the ratings *that* would've gotten.
- A.P.
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Funny how only the CBS affiliates in my area covered the story on TV though.
- A.P.
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Losing a great deal of the other HTML features modern sites use would be enough to make me switch immediately (hell, it was enough to make me switch to netscape 2 in '96...)
- A.P.
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