For programmers, I HIGHLY recommend the Adesso/Ortek MCK-142 Pro. http://www.monu-cad.com/keyboard.htm These have 24 programmable keys, you don't need software to program it. I know the price is steep but it's going to save you lots and lots of time in years.
Last I knew, the MCK-142 Pro required a DOS mode TSR to enable all of its special functions, including the extra 24 buttons. There's no way of using it in anything beyond Windows 3.1 (i.e., no Windows 3.11/Windows for Workgroups, Windows 95, 2000, NT, etc.).
Is the situation different for Linux? A quick browse around, and I'm not finding any MCK-142 Pro utilities for other operating systems.
It sure as hell does. I know of about half a dozen places within walking distance of me that are looking for programmers. Submitting your resume to a recruiter means hundreds, literally, of offers.
Move somewhere sane and stable and look for work there.
I tried out the palm-top version of the AmigaOS a few days ago, only to be frustrated at boot time by a chunky, low-res image of a hand holding a Workbench floppy disk. Palmtops don't have floppy drives!! Until this is fixed, I don't see much future for AmigaOS on hand held platforms.
<CrotchetyOldMan>Whyyyyy, you young whippersnapper... back in the day, we had to put in a KICKSTART disk and wait - oh, we'd wait and wait and wait - you damned kids think you're so PUT OFF when you have to put in a WORKBENCH disk... whyyyyy, we used ta dream of puttin' a 256k expansion up front, and here you are with your 512k and 1 meg systems, ooooooh... go get me a 1020 to beat you with...!</CrotchetyOldMan>
This isn't a new role for IBM at all. IBM was contracted to make and assemble Atari Jaguars. As most/.er know, they fab Transmeta's chips too. IBM one of the best fabribation capacities in the industry, so it should be no surprise they would built PS3's.
I don't know why the parent's being moderated as funny. The Jaguar portion is 100% true - Motorola manufactured the chips for a while, don't know about the whole time, but IBM was definitely there doing the Atari Jaguar.
If you want to throw UNIX on a server, why the hell did you buy it with a WinNT or Win2k license?...and you say this took place on hundreds of them...which translates to hundreds of thousands of dollars to Microsoft in licensing.
Often, companies will not sell you a server without an OS. And often, requesting Linux and other alternatives will cost more than Windows.
I wouldn't go that far - NPR has been pretty aggressive in lobbying against microbroadcasting, and other independent media. Fearing that microbroadcast operators might threaten its monopoly on community-oriented broadcasting, it lobbied the FCC and Congress to keep low-power operations illegal, narrowing the pool of voices you hear on air.
No. NPR is lobbying to ensure that these microstations are kept at least three steps distant from existing stations. So if there's a 91.5 in a market, there shouldn't be a 91.1, 91.3, 91.7 or 91.9, leaving 92.1 and 90.9 as the next available steps on either side.
This does reduce the number of slots available for microbroadcasting my a significant percentage, but there would still be dozens of slots available even in the busiest markets.
...as if those oversized SUV drivers weren't getting annoying enough... now they're gonna slick me if I try and pass and plug my ass if I push my grocery cart in their path!?
The micro ads on my.yahoo.com get my attention far more than the banners. I've become conditioned to not even look toward anything flashing or rectangular with the standard aspects. I don't think I could even tell you what the standard ads are in circulation on Slashdot anymore, despite visiting about twice daily.
Nobody drives to McDonald's. You swing through on your way home from work. So subtract the gas and most of that time.
Also, a steak cooked in a toaster-oven!? That would taste about as shitty as a McDonald's burger! What a terrible waste of a good cut of meat!
Another point, an ungarnished potato can be good when you are in the mood for it, but McDonald's fries are seasoned with yummy beef essence and grease.
Finally, even if we accept your numbers ($2 plus $1 of "gas and time" vs. $4 of food which must have gotten to your house by magic), you should be aware that $4 minus $3 is $1, not fifty cents.
You forgot about his $.50 can of Coke.
And a steak prepared in a toaster oven can be quite tasty indeed - it's really not so different from an oven.
Second of all, you must excercise your abs! Your abs support your back! Be carefull though -- alot of ab excercises are dangerous for people with back injuries. Just try situps:)
No!!! Do crunches. Situps are terrible for the back. Crunches, done properly, will exercise the same muscles without jarring your back and without such a high risk of tearing muscles.
What's this big hangup Linux PDA people have about being able to run Apache, ssh, bash etc.?
In order of importance stuff like that is way lower than other PDA requirements such as:
Handwriting recognition & pen support, Battery life, Form factor, Organizer apps, Usability & convenience, Speed, Durability and build quality,
Price, Peripherals, 3rd party support
If the substantially lacking in some of these areas, then you'll be the proud owner of a piece of shit. Whether it's running a Linux kernel or not is irrelevant.
Now that PDAs have become mainstream enough that the majority are being sold at Best Buy, Circuit City, et cetera, one of the most critical points is how well it demos. I'll say that without a bright, colorful display, half of Palm's potential customers are going to be grabbing and trying the colorful iPaq on the next shelf over.
Does anyone think that entering the PDA arena with what's been going on is such a good idea? Palm, the real leader, is in major trouble.
Palm showed that there's a market. They've also shown that they have no clue how to evolve that market to capture new audiences and sell new units to their existing clients. That makes it a very good time for others to move in and take over.
As long as the cables aren't too long, I don't think you would have too much trouble with capacitive loading, which is what causes timing issues. I forget exactly how you do it, but it's also possible to compensate for excess capacitance.
Alternatively, you can get up to 7 more slots per existing PCI slot with one of these. Search for "PCI Expansion" on Google and you'll find several more brands.
No idea how well these work - I believe this was the model I saw being hawked at Siggraph, and the salesman had no idea about latencies, cable lengths or similar. But he suuuuuure wanted to sell me one today!
IDE hard drives are so cheap these days that you may find you're better off getting a removable hard drive tray and backing up to that.
Benefits are - it's very fast, very reliable, cost effective, and you can very quickly access files in a random fashion.
I use a second system and back up over ethernet so I can power the second system off and swap out drives as need be. A cheap PC with a removable tray, two 75gb 7200 RPM IBM Deskstar drives, a network card and an extra monitor can be had for well under a grand.
Yes it is on the list, second paragraph, right before debian.
Sorry - rather, Progeny isn't in the category lists. It hasn't been classified as simple, intermediate or advanced, and it didn't receive a review as the remainder of the distributions did.
Looking at the specs, I read that this thing weighs over a thousand pounds and takes a full two hours to spin up.
Reminds me of those old MFM Seagates...
Seriously - does anyone really want something that weighs half a ton and spins so damned fast that it'll drive a generator for three hours sitting next to them?
Progeny isn't in the list. Progeny is a commercial distribution by Ian Murdock, based on the Debian distribution. It has a graphical installer that's even simpler than those of the distributions in the beginner level, and a rapidly evolving set of support options. All of this while maintaining Debian's trump card of apt.
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Last I knew, the MCK-142 Pro required a DOS mode TSR to enable all of its special functions, including the extra 24 buttons. There's no way of using it in anything beyond Windows 3.1 (i.e., no Windows 3.11/Windows for Workgroups, Windows 95, 2000, NT, etc.).
Is the situation different for Linux? A quick browse around, and I'm not finding any MCK-142 Pro utilities for other operating systems.
I believe that the reversal of characters would constitute a grammatical error.
As such, your sig is forfeit, grammar nazi. I hope it was worth the pleasure - it's been a long run.
It sure as hell does. I know of about half a dozen places within walking distance of me that are looking for programmers. Submitting your resume to a recruiter means hundreds, literally, of offers.
Move somewhere sane and stable and look for work there.
Well, that would certainly make more sense. :)
<CrotchetyOldMan>Whyyyyy, you young whippersnapper... back in the day, we had to put in a KICKSTART disk and wait - oh, we'd wait and wait and wait - you damned kids think you're so PUT OFF when you have to put in a WORKBENCH disk... whyyyyy, we used ta dream of puttin' a 256k expansion up front, and here you are with your 512k and 1 meg systems, ooooooh... go get me a 1020 to beat you with...!</CrotchetyOldMan>
I don't know why the parent's being moderated as funny. The Jaguar portion is 100% true - Motorola manufactured the chips for a while, don't know about the whole time, but IBM was definitely there doing the Atari Jaguar.
Software Engineer just didn't do it for me.
Often, companies will not sell you a server without an OS. And often, requesting Linux and other alternatives will cost more than Windows.
Cute. Or make a 1080 degree image, with red, green and blue in different rotations. Yeh.
No. NPR is lobbying to ensure that these microstations are kept at least three steps distant from existing stations. So if there's a 91.5 in a market, there shouldn't be a 91.1, 91.3, 91.7 or 91.9, leaving 92.1 and 90.9 as the next available steps on either side.
This does reduce the number of slots available for microbroadcasting my a significant percentage, but there would still be dozens of slots available even in the busiest markets.
You can listen here ( http://www.npr.org/ramfiles/fa/20010604.fa.01.ram ).
...as if those oversized SUV drivers weren't getting annoying enough... now they're gonna slick me if I try and pass and plug my ass if I push my grocery cart in their path!?
The micro ads on my.yahoo.com get my attention far more than the banners. I've become conditioned to not even look toward anything flashing or rectangular with the standard aspects. I don't think I could even tell you what the standard ads are in circulation on Slashdot anymore, despite visiting about twice daily.
If he were british, he'd boil them. They boil EVERYTHING there.
And don't you get me started on their concept of "pudding!"
You forgot about his $.50 can of Coke. And a steak prepared in a toaster oven can be quite tasty indeed - it's really not so different from an oven.
No!!! Do crunches. Situps are terrible for the back. Crunches, done properly, will exercise the same muscles without jarring your back and without such a high risk of tearing muscles.
Now that PDAs have become mainstream enough that the majority are being sold at Best Buy, Circuit City, et cetera, one of the most critical points is how well it demos. I'll say that without a bright, colorful display, half of Palm's potential customers are going to be grabbing and trying the colorful iPaq on the next shelf over.
Palm showed that there's a market. They've also shown that they have no clue how to evolve that market to capture new audiences and sell new units to their existing clients. That makes it a very good time for others to move in and take over.
Realllllly thin wires will do it, I believe.
No idea how well these work - I believe this was the model I saw being hawked at Siggraph, and the salesman had no idea about latencies, cable lengths or similar. But he suuuuuure wanted to sell me one today!
Benefits are - it's very fast, very reliable, cost effective, and you can very quickly access files in a random fashion.
I use a second system and back up over ethernet so I can power the second system off and swap out drives as need be. A cheap PC with a removable tray, two 75gb 7200 RPM IBM Deskstar drives, a network card and an extra monitor can be had for well under a grand.
Sorry - rather, Progeny isn't in the category lists. It hasn't been classified as simple, intermediate or advanced, and it didn't receive a review as the remainder of the distributions did.
Reminds me of those old MFM Seagates...
Seriously - does anyone really want something that weighs half a ton and spins so damned fast that it'll drive a generator for three hours sitting next to them?
Progeny isn't in the list. Progeny is a commercial distribution by Ian Murdock, based on the Debian distribution. It has a graphical installer that's even simpler than those of the distributions in the beginner level, and a rapidly evolving set of support options. All of this while maintaining Debian's trump card of apt.