Its a very nice combination, but the T610 has one glaring omission that limits its use as a PDA: the contacts on the phone only support phone number and email address. No mailing address. That's pretty much a show-stopper for me.
An even bigger issue for me is that I have 2400 contacts in my PDA (currently a sony Clié UX50), and the T610 can only hold 500 or so. Also, coming from the Wifi-based sync I had with jpilot on my Linux box, the Bluetooth sync process through iSync was agonizingly slow. So I carry both the UX50 and the T610 around, with no plans to change.
[T]his is really no different from the New York Times endorsing a candidate for president (or running an oped supporting or opposing such a candidate).
If a broadcasting station owner chooses to show Fahrenheit 911 ahead of the election, let him do so.
I'm primarily used to running Linux on my desktop, but lately I've been considering buying a laptop. I've heard many good things about OS X, so I'm thinking of buying an iBook.
I have a question for people who've used both sorts of systems: Are there any features/characteristics of x86 Linux machines that are lacking on OS X machines?
I see no reason why I can't
make this my primary system, in the sense that in addition to a local Firebird I can easily run my other key applications (Emacs for email and editing, and slrn for news) on the Linux server through ssh and GNU screen.
I still run my life this way. I like having none of my work interfered with when I reboot the iBook for an Apple software update. With a simple "export DISPLAY=:0" on one of the GNU screen virtual terminals, I can easily watch a movie on my Linux box's 17" screen using mplayer and control the action from the iBook keyboard. All in all, it's all just about as ideal a computing environment as I could wish for.
If Bush was wired, the receiver would be the size of a deck of cards or smaller, not some giant thing strapped to his back.
Indeed. Heck, there wouldn't be anything on the back at all; the earpiece would be all that's needed.
The story's veracity is also hurt by Salon running it, given its reputation for "All Bush bashing, all the time." TeeVee's terrific parody of Salon from earlier this year got that characteristic dead on.
Two tips: 1) AAA members can go to their local office and ask for a free credit-card sized spare car key. 2) I recently bought an All-Ett, which bills itself as the world's thinnest wallet. It's definitely the thinnest of the several I've ever owned. I usually keep my wallet and keys in a desk drawer at work, but the All-Ett is thin enough I forget it in my back pocket some days.
I need to use a thin wallet, because it's *packed*. Here goes:
* Debit card * Mastercard * Debit card * Borders gift card * Costco card * Amex * CA driver's license * Organ donor card * Columbia University alumni card * Columbia undergraduate college alumni card * Refillable pay card for a large Times Square arcade that isn't even open anymore * Medical insurance card * AAA card * above-mentioned AAA spare key * LDS temple recommend * Card containing LDS ordinances and the Articles of Faith * For the Strength of Youth mini-brochure * Blood donor card * Card printed with important work-related numbers * Restaurant Associates discount card * List of Restaurant Associates-operated restaurants * Electronic passkey for apartment building * San Francisco Public Library card * New York Public Library card * Car wash discount card * College-area deli sandwich discount card (I graduated five years ago!) * Good Guys gift card * Manhattan subway map * Subway stamp card and loose stamps * Another, different sandwich discount card * Smart & Final club card * Two of my business cards * Family photo * $1 in SF Giants Bucks
. . . and yes, some real money, too. Thank you, All-Ett.
I'm going to piggyback off brianerst's posting because so many of his thoughts echo my own.
Instapundit Glenn Reynold's blog. Another decent match for my own viewpoint. Glenn's more of a linker than a commentator, but he's one of the best about linking to all sides of the blogosphere.
Unquestionably, still the king of traffic generators three years after bursting into prominence. Whether you like him or not, you *have* to read him in order to keep up with what's going on.
The Corner National Review's blog. Conservative and largely Catholic.
To be honest, "Catholic" isn't the first term I'd use to describe The Corner although it wouldn't be surprising given National Review's Catholic heritage thanks to its founder. I like the Corner because it has hordes of contributors and they are by and large hilarious; tons of Star Trek, Simpsons, and other pop culture and meta jokes along with the cogent political mini-analyses. It's consistently funny in a light, juvenile way that no leftist blog I'm aware of is.
Andrew Sullivan. Classical liberal, Oakeshott conservative. [...] When his emotions are not ruling his thinking, though, he's very, very good.
Not a bad description. He's certainly always been a a one-issue voter; for some time it was the Iraq war, and now it's gay marriage. He makes me roll my eyes more than he used to, but I will always admire his brains and passion. And he's always had the best readers' letters column.
Mickey Kaus Slate's resident blogger, Mickey is a DLC "New" Democrat. He's one of the more honest of the bloggers (zings his own side often, recognizes good arguments on the other side) and a good source of insider media stuff.
Agreed. Kaus is definitely one of those people who loves to mock his own side more than anything else. And I'm with him on the value of welfare reform.
Josh Marshall Establishment Democrat. I found his stuff to be really good a few years back, but recently he's spending more time rooting for the team (DNC/Kerry) than being objective. Also, darkly hints at constant "breaking soon" scoops that either never appear or completely underwhelm.
If you hadn't written that last sentence I would've. He pulls this trick every month or two, and in the three years I've been reading him I'm not sure it's *ever* really panned out in a big way. However, definitely played a big role, along with a few other key blogs, in booting Lott from the Majority Leader post.
His latest attempt at "breaking soon" was, actually, what proved to be the CBS memos, although to his credit he was one of the few leftist blogs to realize early on their bogosity and said so, and accordingly took lumps from the loons who naturally thought he'd been bribed by Karl Rove or something.
Kevin Drum Another Establishment Democrat. Kevin tends to be more self-reflective than Josh, which stands him in good stead. Great place to capture the mood of the DNC political types.
Ditto. Another leftist blog that turned against the CBS memos early on. And, since of the Big 3 leftist blogs that did so he's the only one who permits comments, boy did the loons among his readership take it out on him. Take a look back at the last two weeks' worth of posts and accompanying comments on the topic; they are alternately hilarious and very, very scary.
The irony here is that Drum himself spent most of February 2004 talking endlessly about new evidence that alleged exposed President Bush's failure to live up to his TexANG responsibilities. And who was his primary source (including multiple interviews)? Bill Burkett! On the one hand, tghis gives his current denuncations of what Burkett did all the more strength, but he has yet to publicly consider that maybe he might've been spun by Burkett back in February too.
Colorado's proposed Amendment 36 intends to divvy up the state's nine EC votes proportional to the popular vote. In other words, each 11.1% wins you an additional EC vote.
In practice, this will mean that in most cases only one, or perhaps two, EC vote will be up for grabs, because few elections see the winner win (assuming a two-person race) more than 55.6% of the voting electorate, and fewer still with 66.7%. The losing side will be almost certain to win at least three and quite likely four EC votes, no matter what happens.
This, of course, will mean that Colorado will immediately become the least-interesting state of the Union to Presidential candidates. There's a good reason why an organization formed to oppose the referendum calls itself "Coloradans Against A Really Stupid Idea."
The ex post facto nature of the amendment also guarantees a lawsuit, especially if the national election is close.
The irony is that although Democrats are behind Amendment 36 in hopes of giving Senator Kerry a guaranteed four or, at the least, three EC votes, it's entirely possible that the move could backfire. Bush won Colorado in 2000, but this year the state is a tossup . It's entirely possible that Kerry could lose because he won Colorado outright but didn't get all its EC votes.
When there was no contest at all. "Yeah, everyone send in your entries. Oh, nevermind, maybe next year."
Of course it looks like those extra 2 years paid off. This year's winners look very interesting.
Not only that, those extra two years gave me the chance to polish up my GPLed x86 virtual machine that runs Windows XP and all applications at 100% speed under Linux or *BSD. And it's only 2K! Although I sadly just missed the IOCCC deadline due to some last-minute optimizations, here's the source, making its world debut:
Thanks to an anonymous source I'll call "G.L." deep within Skywalker Ranch, let me be the first to reveal to the world the names of Episodes VII, VIII, and IX:
* Star Wars: Reloaded * Star Wars: Revolutions * Star Wars: Electric Boogaloo
All I see is black in both Firefox and Explorer. Clearly, Sawyer is predicting that by 2014 the Internet will have collapsed due to the overwhelming volume of Spam and viruses.
Bart: [rings bell] Flanders is a soft touch. He'll give us the
money for sure.
[Ned answers the door. He's wearing dark glasses and
carrying a cane] Ned: Jesus? Is that you? Ralph: Mr. Flanders, you're blinded-ded! Ned: Oh, yeah. I never should have had that trendy laser
surgery. It was great at first but, you know, at the ten-
year mark your eyes fall out.
This is the inevitable result of Google management using old and busted, Old Economy measures like P/E or EPS to judge when to go with an IPO. Don't they know that Clicks per Million (CPM) or Eyeballs per Million (EPM) are the new hotness?!?
Now if you'll excuse me, I've got to leave for a First Tuesday party; I don't want to settle for just reading about it on SFGirl afterwards.
Finally, a browser that can defeat reigning champs NCSA Mosaic, Arena, and Cello! *Anything* that breaks their monopoly-like dominance of the Web browser market will be welcomed!
Folks, if you're setting up honkin' great big RAID arrays at home and don't want to pay for decent RAID controllers like 3wares, *use software RAID*.
I'd love to, but the guy whose Web page I first cited said a purely software RAID-based didn't work for him for an array his size. Ideas on what happpened?
Like Finnie, I want to be able to store huge amounts of DivX/Xvid files online. In addition to the storage array, I also plan to build a separate MythTV box, which among other things will let me play them at will. My 200GB Series 1 TiVo's been serving me well for more than four years, but I really like the idea of being able to seamlessly integrate my AVI collection with TV recordings, and from what I gather MythTV has finally matured enough to be a realistic TiVo alternative.
I have been 100% Linux at home for almost a decade and am quite comfortable with most of the technical aspects of the project.
I'm planning on making the following changes to Finnie's build configuration:
Instead of 200GB ATA, use 250GB SATA drives for a total of 1.5TB. Outpost.com offers a Western Digital 250GB SATA drive for $170. I just missed the chance to get a $30 rebate off each drive, but I'm sure Fatwallet will alert me to a similar opportunity sooner or later.
Accordingly, get a HighPoint SATA RAID card instead of the specified RocketRAID 454 ATA RAID card. I think the RocketRAID 1640 is the way to go.
Instead of ext3, use XFS as the file system.
My questions:
If I connect the storage array to my Linksys WRT54G router, will 100Mbps Ethernet be fast enough to pump the AVI files to the MythTV box without dropping frames?
Conversely, will 100Mbps Ethernet be sufficient to let me use the storage array as the primary storage medium for MythTV's recordings? What about HDTV encodings (using the pcHDTV Linux-only card)? Or do I have to upgrade to a Gigabit Ethernet router? Or would the encoder card and MythTV software have to run on the storage array itself in order to achieve acceptable performance? (Actually, I'm not opposed to doing so, if one box can simultaneously handle both storage and MythTV tasks.)
Anything else that I'm missing or should keep in mind?
. . . that, since the area around the Sand Hill Road exit on I-280 in Menlo Park still exists, SLAC has *not* yet succeeded in bringing matter and amtimatter together.
Yeechang, who worked for two years in that exact location
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M3 T00!!!
An even bigger issue for me is that I have 2400 contacts in my PDA (currently a sony Clié UX50), and the T610 can only hold 500 or so. Also, coming from the Wifi-based sync I had with jpilot on my Linux box, the Bluetooth sync process through iSync was agonizingly slow. So I carry both the UX50 and the T610 around, with no plans to change.
If a broadcasting station owner chooses to show Fahrenheit 911 ahead of the election, let him do so.
I've posted three Usenet articles on this very topic.
In one of those posts I wrote:
I still run my life this way. I like having none of my work interfered with when I reboot the iBook for an Apple software update. With a simple "export DISPLAY=:0" on one of the GNU screen virtual terminals, I can easily watch a movie on my Linux box's 17" screen using mplayer and control the action from the iBook keyboard. All in all, it's all just about as ideal a computing environment as I could wish for.
Indeed. Heck, there wouldn't be anything on the back at all; the earpiece would be all that's needed.
The story's veracity is also hurt by Salon running it, given its reputation for "All Bush bashing, all the time." TeeVee's terrific parody of Salon from earlier this year got that characteristic dead on.
Interesting; I'd have guessed GTA:SA would have kicked Halo 2's butt, considering there are a lot of PS2s than Xboxese out there.
I presume GTA:SA will still easily be #2, though? And can you quantify the difference? Is it 2:1, 3:1, or what?
Two tips:
1) AAA members can go to their local office and ask for a free credit-card sized spare car key.
2) I recently bought an All-Ett, which bills itself as the world's thinnest wallet. It's definitely the thinnest of the several I've ever owned. I usually keep my wallet and keys in a desk drawer at work, but the All-Ett is thin enough I forget it in my back pocket some days.
I need to use a thin wallet, because it's *packed*. Here goes:
* Debit card
* Mastercard
* Debit card
* Borders gift card
* Costco card
* Amex
* CA driver's license
* Organ donor card
* Columbia University alumni card
* Columbia undergraduate college alumni card
* Refillable pay card for a large Times Square arcade that isn't even open anymore
* Medical insurance card
* AAA card
* above-mentioned AAA spare key
* LDS temple recommend
* Card containing LDS ordinances and the Articles of Faith
* For the Strength of Youth mini-brochure
* Blood donor card
* Card printed with important work-related numbers
* Restaurant Associates discount card
* List of Restaurant Associates-operated restaurants
* Electronic passkey for apartment building
* San Francisco Public Library card
* New York Public Library card
* Car wash discount card
* College-area deli sandwich discount card (I graduated five years ago!)
* Good Guys gift card
* Manhattan subway map
* Subway stamp card and loose stamps
* Another, different sandwich discount card
* Smart & Final club card
* Two of my business cards
* Family photo
* $1 in SF Giants Bucks
. . . and yes, some real money, too. Thank you, All-Ett.
(Chief Wiggum lets a police dog sniff Homer's underwear. It runs off whimpering.)
Wiggum: Eh, it's a shame. He had one day left until retirement!
--5F18, "Natural Born Kissers"
Unquestionably, still the king of traffic generators three years after bursting into prominence. Whether you like him or not, you *have* to read him in order to keep up with what's going on.
To be honest, "Catholic" isn't the first term I'd use to describe The Corner although it wouldn't be surprising given National Review's Catholic heritage thanks to its founder. I like the Corner because it has hordes of contributors and they are by and large hilarious; tons of Star Trek, Simpsons, and other pop culture and meta jokes along with the cogent political mini-analyses. It's consistently funny in a light, juvenile way that no leftist blog I'm aware of is.
Not a bad description. He's certainly always been a a one-issue voter; for some time it was the Iraq war, and now it's gay marriage. He makes me roll my eyes more than he used to, but I will always admire his brains and passion. And he's always had the best readers' letters column.
Agreed. Kaus is definitely one of those people who loves to mock his own side more than anything else. And I'm with him on the value of welfare reform.
If you hadn't written that last sentence I would've. He pulls this trick every month or two, and in the three years I've been reading him I'm not sure it's *ever* really panned out in a big way. However, definitely played a big role, along with a few other key blogs, in booting Lott from the Majority Leader post.
His latest attempt at "breaking soon" was, actually, what proved to be the CBS memos, although to his credit he was one of the few leftist blogs to realize early on their bogosity and said so, and accordingly took lumps from the loons who naturally thought he'd been bribed by Karl Rove or something.
Ditto. Another leftist blog that turned against the CBS memos early on. And, since of the Big 3 leftist blogs that did so he's the only one who permits comments, boy did the loons among his readership take it out on him. Take a look back at the last two weeks' worth of posts and accompanying comments on the topic; they are alternately hilarious and very, very scary.
The irony here is that Drum himself spent most of February 2004 talking endlessly about new evidence that alleged exposed President Bush's failure to live up to his TexANG responsibilities. And who was his primary source (including multiple interviews)? Bill Burkett! On the one hand, tghis gives his current denuncations of what Burkett did all the more strength, but he has yet to publicly consider that maybe he might've been spun by Burkett back in February too.
Make the next iPod yellow and engrave on the back "B3ATL35 R00LZ!!!11!!!" That should satisfy Apple Records.
Colorado's proposed Amendment 36 intends to divvy up the state's nine EC votes proportional to the popular vote. In other words, each 11.1% wins you an additional EC vote.
In practice, this will mean that in most cases only one, or perhaps two, EC vote will be up for grabs, because few elections see the winner win (assuming a two-person race) more than 55.6% of the voting electorate, and fewer still with 66.7%. The losing side will be almost certain to win at least three and quite likely four EC votes, no matter what happens.
This, of course, will mean that Colorado will immediately become the least-interesting state of the Union to Presidential candidates. There's a good reason why an organization formed to oppose
the referendum calls itself "Coloradans Against A Really Stupid Idea."
The ex post facto nature of the amendment also guarantees a lawsuit, especially if the national election is close.
The irony is that although Democrats are behind Amendment 36 in hopes of giving Senator Kerry a guaranteed four or, at the least, three EC votes, it's entirely possible that the move could backfire. Bush won Colorado in 2000, but this year the state is a tossup . It's entirely possible that Kerry could lose because he won Colorado outright but didn't get all its EC votes.
Is it the Ark of the Covenants?
Is it the Holy Grail?
No; they find an even rarer, more legendary, and more precious treasure.
Not only that, those extra two years gave me the chance to polish up my GPLed x86 virtual machine that runs Windows XP and all applications at 100% speed under Linux or *BSD. And it's only 2K! Although I sadly just missed the IOCCC deadline due to some last-minute optimizations, here's the source, making its world debut:NO CARRIER
Thanks to an anonymous source I'll call "G.L." deep within Skywalker Ranch, let me be the first to reveal to the world the names of Episodes VII, VIII, and IX:
* Star Wars: Reloaded
* Star Wars: Revolutions
* Star Wars: Electric Boogaloo
All I see is black in both Firefox and Explorer. Clearly, Sawyer is predicting that by 2014 the Internet will have collapsed due to the overwhelming volume of Spam and viruses.
In addition to the disk image mentioned above, the article itself is available at the invaluable Classic Computer Magazine Archive.
This is the inevitable result of Google management using old and busted, Old Economy measures like P/E or EPS to judge when to go with an IPO. Don't they know that Clicks per Million (CPM) or Eyeballs per Million (EPM) are the new hotness?!?
Now if you'll excuse me, I've got to leave for a First Tuesday party; I don't want to settle for just reading about it on SFGirl afterwards.
Finally, a browser that can defeat reigning champs NCSA Mosaic, Arena, and Cello! *Anything* that breaks their monopoly-like dominance of the Web browser market will be welcomed!
I'd love to, but the guy whose Web page I first cited said a purely software RAID-based didn't work for him for an array his size. Ideas on what happpened?
Yeechang Lee is away. He will check his mail once he's back. Meanwhile, please call 555-1212 for urgent assistance.
Now I know why my computer just exploded in "The Simpsons"-style flames.
. . . that, since the area around the Sand Hill Road exit on I-280 in Menlo Park still exists, SLAC has *not* yet succeeded in bringing matter and amtimatter together.
Yeechang, who worked for two years in that exact location
1. Spend $250K on the hardware for the cluster.
2. Buy $0.5K worth of pizza to pay student assemblers a la Virginia Tech.
3. ???
4. Profit!!!