I went for a job at BBC R&D last year, who live in Kingswood Warren, a country house in the midst of the Surrey bantustans. The work they do there is amazing, a great opportunity for playing with new toys in the net broadcasting field, as well as hosting the encoders and root broadcast servers for the network (the web servers and the Real network have mirrors on the east and west coast of the States and at Telehouse in London's Docklands among other places). But for travelling (from the East End to the stockbroker belt, and that it was more of a support job than a sysadmin job, it would have been great.
Their job, among other things, is to get the best value for money possible and the best reach possible. Real are now charging stupid sums for their licensing. RealOne appears to have broken Tara's Real plugin for WinAmp, and the player is appallingly intrusive. Ogg Vorbis is free, everyone with Windows has Media Player, it seems logical. I'll be voting yes if I can listen to Danny Baker on BBC London without Real.
From another angle, what legal recouse is there if a paid-for Red Carpet update breaks a system? I haven't read the small print, but what do Ximian think they're selling for their $10?
As a newcomer to Evolution it strikes me as a potentially good update method. My base distribution is Mandrake, which I stick with because it is largely hassle free - I'm a geek but not geeky enough to want to battle with things that should Just Work like sound and general USB. I use KDE partially because I am used to the Windows layout but also because Gnome doesn't strike me as 'serious' in any of the themes I've seen. Conversely Gnome has a more mature application base which I find myself using more than KDE.
Red Carpet looks good as an updater and has direct support for Mandrake. This is a good thing. It doesn't (and doesn't seem likely to) have support for KDE. This is, as far as I'm concerned, a Bad Thing. I'd love to be able to keep KDE up to date but it's frustrating to do so through Package Manager. Red Carpet seems to do a great job of resolving those niggling library issues transparently in other systems although it has a cavalier attitude to the KDE menu system - it seems to make things disappear.
I'd love to be able to say that $10 is worth paying to keep my system up to date but I can't see its value until it becomes a Linux support tool instead of a Gnome support tool. I would consider paying for the odd big update if it was guaranteed safe and genuinely faster than the free service, but as it is, a faster download isn't one that's quite worth shelling out $100 a year for.
I like KDE's look and feel over Gnome but find myself using Gnome apps rather than their KDE equivalent - I've just started using Evolution because it's much better than KMail, and Pan is a better newsreader than KNode, but even with the Ximian theme, Gnome as a desktop just doesn't do it for me.
The MS APIs have been reasonably consistent since Windows 3. A new OS or library only adds functions, doesn't revise old ones. You should be able to compile Win 3.x code on XP with little problem should you so wish.
Actually, Burger King have got the food tie-in in the UK, and they're being pretty low-key about it at the moment. Maybe they don't see it as a kids' film.
I have to concur. The epic space opera bits are pretty spectacular but the second and third books in particular get a bit too worthy in places and more concerned with the political ramifications of creating a new world than with the excitement and fear of a new frontier. Worth reading though.
It has to be.com.us,.org.us,.net.us or it's a complete mockery of the international system. Leave the local system in place and do something sensible. Are ICANN so toothless as to not enforce this?
It was meant to be an emulation of Victorian literature. If you've ever read something like Disraeli's 'Tancred' you'll see where it comes from. Having said, it's a great collection of ideas that suddenly falls off a cliff. Enormously unsatisfying.
Charging a penny a page does nothing but give the user a right to view the page, which continues the lie of 'allowed usage' being propagated by the RIAA and other corporate bodies. Ted Nelson has been hawking his concept of Transpublishing alongside Xanadu for years. It describes a system where the user buys a right to use an item many times rather than a right to view it once. It also allows publishers to choose the amount they charge, and that charge can be nothing. Just as long as Microsoft or Verisign don't manage the payment servers it would be fine.
Trusting your name services to an ISP who lose them every few weeks because their build system is broken tends to help the blood pressure enormously.
<generalisation type="Sweeping"> Most of the default systems that the Internet is based on are inadequate for the expectations of business. There are plenty of alternatives that do work but it's often down to trusting your ISP that their systems are sufficiently bulletproof, and things like that are often not included in SLAs, and indeed not even considered. I'd love someone to show me an ISP who consider these things business critical.
</generalisation>
Mandrake 8.0 works for me with my SMC 2632W Intersil PRISM based card - PCMCIA detects it as wlan and it Just Works, albeit without WEP. To build it the correct drivers, you need the kernel source RPM, PCMCIA-CS source for your build and the driver source from The Linux WLAN Project. It's a bit labourious to do first time but once it's done it works perfectly.
I can't imagine why Palm bought Be otherwise. As has been said often already, BeOS's strength is the media-centricity of the OS (absolutely essential for Palm to compete with CE, Linux, Symbian and insert-your-propietary-phone-OS-here devices) and its relative portability. PalmOS is fast, resilient and simple and with a minimal but flexible hardware platform - they should swallow their pride and look at the Springboard or just go with PCMCIA support Palm v5 could be a very rich environment. I might even consider updating my Vx.
Thank glub, I thought it was just me. I had to rebuild my laptop the other day and thought I'd upgrade to 'drake 8.1 while I was at it and spent a fruitless evening trying to install it from the CDs. Went back to 8.0 and everything is fine. Can't get KDE 2.2.1 to install from the 'net though (see, was a link to the subject).
Windows for Pens came out in about mid-'92, not long after Win 3.1. If you believe Jerry Kaplan it was a fast hack by MS to muddy the waters for his Go pad computing product. It was essentially an API extension for Visual Basic and MS C and possibly drivers for some common pen products (can't remember) but I can't imagine that there was much development for it. It was combined into the Win32 API in Win95. It's probably still there.
The WinME side of my laptop has slowly been declining with every patch I install, be it from Microsoft or Acer. Having fscked the sound I decided to try and roll the config back a week, which promptly deleted the boot files for WinME. So I'm now booting into Linux primarily at last, using OpenOffice build 638, which seems to read Office2K files happily, and running NT4 in VMware 3.0 beta to use Ameol until I find time to start my Cix OLR project. I will not be going anywhere near XP and I'd like to thank Microsoft for improving my computing experience immensely.
There's a point though - how long is it going to be before the Jornada and iPaq ranges merge? And will it look like the human-alien hybrid from Alien:Resurrection?
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Is can it be made to interface with the guidance system on your Beer Scooter?
I went for a job at BBC R&D last year, who live in Kingswood Warren, a country house in the midst of the Surrey bantustans. The work they do there is amazing, a great opportunity for playing with new toys in the net broadcasting field, as well as hosting the encoders and root broadcast servers for the network (the web servers and the Real network have mirrors on the east and west coast of the States and at Telehouse in London's Docklands among other places). But for travelling (from the East End to the stockbroker belt, and that it was more of a support job than a sysadmin job, it would have been great.
Their job, among other things, is to get the best value for money possible and the best reach possible. Real are now charging stupid sums for their licensing. RealOne appears to have broken Tara's Real plugin for WinAmp, and the player is appallingly intrusive. Ogg Vorbis is free, everyone with Windows has Media Player, it seems logical. I'll be voting yes if I can listen to Danny Baker on BBC London without Real.
From another angle, what legal recouse is there if a paid-for Red Carpet update breaks a system? I haven't read the small print, but what do Ximian think they're selling for their $10?
Red Carpet looks good as an updater and has direct support for Mandrake. This is a good thing. It doesn't (and doesn't seem likely to) have support for KDE. This is, as far as I'm concerned, a Bad Thing. I'd love to be able to keep KDE up to date but it's frustrating to do so through Package Manager. Red Carpet seems to do a great job of resolving those niggling library issues transparently in other systems although it has a cavalier attitude to the KDE menu system - it seems to make things disappear.
I'd love to be able to say that $10 is worth paying to keep my system up to date but I can't see its value until it becomes a Linux support tool instead of a Gnome support tool. I would consider paying for the odd big update if it was guaranteed safe and genuinely faster than the free service, but as it is, a faster download isn't one that's quite worth shelling out $100 a year for.
I like KDE's look and feel over Gnome but find myself using Gnome apps rather than their KDE equivalent - I've just started using Evolution because it's much better than KMail, and Pan is a better newsreader than KNode, but even with the Ximian theme, Gnome as a desktop just doesn't do it for me.
The MS APIs have been reasonably consistent since Windows 3. A new OS or library only adds functions, doesn't revise old ones. You should be able to compile Win 3.x code on XP with little problem should you so wish.
Actually, Burger King have got the food tie-in in the UK, and they're being pretty low-key about it at the moment. Maybe they don't see it as a kids' film.
Remember: Embrace and Extend. Or smother and absorb depending on how they feel.
I have to concur. The epic space opera bits are pretty spectacular but the second and third books in particular get a bit too worthy in places and more concerned with the political ramifications of creating a new world than with the excitement and fear of a new frontier. Worth reading though.
It looks very like a demo model to me. Not to say that it can't be done, but you'll end up with something like the Motorola V.Box.
Hey, our networks are fine. Shoulda listened to the old world...
It's amazing what a Google can do...
e xh ibit/treas3.htm
http://www.man.ac.uk/Science_Engineering/CHSTM/
Not necessarily, they are chief executives after all.
It has to be .com.us, .org.us, .net.us or it's a complete mockery of the international system. Leave the local system in place and do something sensible. Are ICANN so toothless as to not enforce this?
It was meant to be an emulation of Victorian literature. If you've ever read something like Disraeli's 'Tancred' you'll see where it comes from. Having said, it's a great collection of ideas that suddenly falls off a cliff. Enormously unsatisfying.
Charging a penny a page does nothing but give the user a right to view the page, which continues the lie of 'allowed usage' being propagated by the RIAA and other corporate bodies. Ted Nelson has been hawking his concept of Transpublishing alongside Xanadu for years. It describes a system where the user buys a right to use an item many times rather than a right to view it once. It also allows publishers to choose the amount they charge, and that charge can be nothing. Just as long as Microsoft or Verisign don't manage the payment servers it would be fine.
<generalisation type="Sweeping"> Most of the default systems that the Internet is based on are inadequate for the expectations of business. There are plenty of alternatives that do work but it's often down to trusting your ISP that their systems are sufficiently bulletproof, and things like that are often not included in SLAs, and indeed not even considered. I'd love someone to show me an ISP who consider these things business critical. </generalisation>
Mandrake 8.0 works for me with my SMC 2632W Intersil PRISM based card - PCMCIA detects it as wlan and it Just Works, albeit without WEP. To build it the correct drivers, you need the kernel source RPM, PCMCIA-CS source for your build and the driver source from The Linux WLAN Project. It's a bit labourious to do first time but once it's done it works perfectly.
I can't imagine why Palm bought Be otherwise. As has been said often already, BeOS's strength is the media-centricity of the OS (absolutely essential for Palm to compete with CE, Linux, Symbian and insert-your-propietary-phone-OS-here devices) and its relative portability. PalmOS is fast, resilient and simple and with a minimal but flexible hardware platform - they should swallow their pride and look at the Springboard or just go with PCMCIA support Palm v5 could be a very rich environment. I might even consider updating my Vx.
Thank glub, I thought it was just me. I had to rebuild my laptop the other day and thought I'd upgrade to 'drake 8.1 while I was at it and spent a fruitless evening trying to install it from the CDs. Went back to 8.0 and everything is fine. Can't get KDE 2.2.1 to install from the 'net though (see, was a link to the subject).
Windows for Pens came out in about mid-'92, not long after Win 3.1. If you believe Jerry Kaplan it was a fast hack by MS to muddy the waters for his Go pad computing product. It was essentially an API extension for Visual Basic and MS C and possibly drivers for some common pen products (can't remember) but I can't imagine that there was much development for it. It was combined into the Win32 API in Win95. It's probably still there.
The WinME side of my laptop has slowly been declining with every patch I install, be it from Microsoft or Acer. Having fscked the sound I decided to try and roll the config back a week, which promptly deleted the boot files for WinME. So I'm now booting into Linux primarily at last, using OpenOffice build 638, which seems to read Office2K files happily, and running NT4 in VMware 3.0 beta to use Ameol until I find time to start my Cix OLR project. I will not be going anywhere near XP and I'd like to thank Microsoft for improving my computing experience immensely.
Don't think so - you've still got the right to vote with your feet and find an ISP that isn't MSN, surely?
There's a point though - how long is it going to be before the Jornada and iPaq ranges merge? And will it look like the human-alien hybrid from Alien:Resurrection?
Oops, took the wrong pill this morning...
I can confirm that. It was available for download from Microsoft long before Win95 came out. I even used it for a few hack and slash jobs back then.