When I first heard of BSD Mall I jumped on the chance to "subscribe" to the OpenBSD CD releases, where they automatically charge your card and send you the CD every time one comes out. That worked good for, well, one release (3.5). I never did get my 3.6 or 3.7 CDs from them, despite repeated calls, nor did my colleague who signed up at the same time. I was about to cancel with them when I magically received a 3.8 CD in the mail and a notice explaining how they are under new management. We'll see if my 3.9 CDs actually arrives.
Point being, how much money did OpenBSD lose because BSD Mall couldn't do their jobs?
I'm not surprised by the pre Xbox 360 sales dip as the 360 has limited backwards compatability. However the PS3 and Revolution don't have this issue, and current generation games are planned to play fine on them.
If you buy a set from BSD Mall they now come with both 2 CDs and a DVD that has all sorts of extra packages on it, for the same price that just the 2 CDs would cost you in the past.
I remember it being mentioned back at E3 that the DS will have two slots. The primary one will accept DS media. The secondary slot will support GBA/GB cartridges.
I still haven't heard anything about peripheral compatability. Specifically, will I be able to hook a DS up to my Gamecube with the GBA->GCN cable to play FF:CC with it.
Although Sun has not publicly stated under which licence it intends to release an open source Solaris, Schwartz said: Make no mistake, we will open-source Solaris.
If you wonder about something, you should read the article.
I just moved to Howard County about a month ago. I can practically spit on the HCPL Center from my house. I've been meaning to check it out, and free wi-Fi is sealing the deal for me.
And it really is refreshing to see library IT people being able to use Linux to breathe new life into perfectly good old PCs. I stopped off at the Prince George's County Library (also in MD) last night, and their web-based card catalog system is access through IE3 on Win95 Gateway machines, and they're still so slow to be practically unusable.
Once the prices of smart phones start to decline I think we'll see a lot of PDA users dropping the PDA all together and moving their information over to your smart phone. Right now I have two cell phones and a PDA, and none of them talk to each other, and any syncing has to be done manually. I would rather be able to have all of my contact information, schedule, and media on one device and only carry around one device.
I think the only thing holding off smart phones (aside from the price) is the size. Right now consumers want tiny phones but big color screens to run PalmOS. Eventually someone will find a way to engineer a middle ground. PDAs will still be around, but they will be more of a niche thing. While recently house shopping, I noticed that the real estate company had special locked containers attached to the doors of the houses that contained the keys. The real estate agent snapped a Palm Zire 71 onto this locked box, punched in some number, and opened the lock. PDAs (more like PDA-like devices) will still be around for these purposes.
By "expansion card" they mean an SD card for holding the MP3s. There isn't enough internal RAM for the OS, the Real or Audible player, and your MP3s. You may have meant this, but figured I would clarify for anyone reading.
I have a Palm Zire 71 I received last May and it has the same requirement--all MP3s must be stored on an SD card.
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What we have a real problem here in MD is Canadian Geese, ever since two years ago when they made it illegal for us to kill them. They're all over their place, and their feces stays around longer than they do.
We have a similar computer setup in the library for the college I work for. Each PC has a special PCI card in it that keeps information from being permanently stored on the HDD. I believe they are called Sentinel cards, but I have been unable to find a link for them. Anyone else know of them?
The card has a keyhole in the back with two settings. There is the administrative mode, in which any changes made to the computer (basically, anything written to the HDD), are saved from that point on. In the user mode, which we keep them in when we are not performing maintenance, any new documents or modifications to files are undone upon reboot. And we make sure the staff reboots the machines once a day.
We do this to make our jobs easier, keep viruses out of there, keep the HDDs from filling up, etc. But it also seems to have some merit as a privacy tool. However, I am not entirely clear on the workings of the cards. In addition to the chance of something hitting the swap space, files may actually be written the HDD and erased either on shutdown or the next bootup. In any of these cases, it may be possible to "undelete" these files if caught in enough time.
Because there aren't any easy to use, reliable, voice over IP software that she can use under Linux and that is compatable with all her friend's Windows software.
That and security updates. It took her 2 years to develop an interest in keeping her computer secure. However, after that she figured it out pretty good. I'm sure she'd get used to apt-get real soon if she _wanted_ to.
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TiK either. It used to be owned by AOL and was their UNIX AIM. After the protocol war between AOL and M$ they took it off their page. Since then others have picked it up and it has come along nicely in a short amount of time.
Well, I'm sure all those high school english professors who insist that you write someone out instead of typing it will be thrilled. Judging from some of the posts I'm no the only one that thinks handwritting is slow in comparisson to typing. But something else bothers me.
I remember reading some time ago (cannot remember where, sorry) and article about how people who have grown used to writing on their PDAs started developing problems writing on paper. Seems like a stupid way to go about making a paper-less society.
Do we really need another input gizmo? How long until someone comes out with an ergonomically-correct stylus?
My school just started distributing Microsoft products for the price of the media. $14 to be precise. It included Office 2000 Premium, Visual Studio 6.0 Pro and Windows 98 upgrade. I was quite shocked at the fact that there was Pro and Premium in there. I must admit though that I didn't see what they were up to right away.
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Point being, how much money did OpenBSD lose because BSD Mall couldn't do their jobs?
I'm not surprised by the pre Xbox 360 sales dip as the 360 has limited backwards compatability. However the PS3 and Revolution don't have this issue, and current generation games are planned to play fine on them.
If you buy a set from BSD Mall they now come with both 2 CDs and a DVD that has all sorts of extra packages on it, for the same price that just the 2 CDs would cost you in the past.
I still haven't heard anything about peripheral compatability. Specifically, will I be able to hook a DS up to my Gamecube with the GBA->GCN cable to play FF:CC with it.
If you wonder about something, you should read the article.
I just moved to Howard County about a month ago. I can practically spit on the HCPL Center from my house. I've been meaning to check it out, and free wi-Fi is sealing the deal for me.
And it really is refreshing to see library IT people being able to use Linux to breathe new life into perfectly good old PCs. I stopped off at the Prince George's County Library (also in MD) last night, and their web-based card catalog system is access through IE3 on Win95 Gateway machines, and they're still so slow to be practically unusable.
Once the prices of smart phones start to decline I think we'll see a lot of PDA users dropping the PDA all together and moving their information over to your smart phone. Right now I have two cell phones and a PDA, and none of them talk to each other, and any syncing has to be done manually. I would rather be able to have all of my contact information, schedule, and media on one device and only carry around one device.
I think the only thing holding off smart phones (aside from the price) is the size. Right now consumers want tiny phones but big color screens to run PalmOS. Eventually someone will find a way to engineer a middle ground. PDAs will still be around, but they will be more of a niche thing. While recently house shopping, I noticed that the real estate company had special locked containers attached to the doors of the houses that contained the keys. The real estate agent snapped a Palm Zire 71 onto this locked box, punched in some number, and opened the lock. PDAs (more like PDA-like devices) will still be around for these purposes.
By "expansion card" they mean an SD card for holding the MP3s. There isn't enough internal RAM for the OS, the Real or Audible player, and your MP3s. You may have meant this, but figured I would clarify for anyone reading.
I have a Palm Zire 71 I received last May and it has the same requirement--all MP3s must be stored on an SD card.
What we have a real problem here in MD is Canadian Geese, ever since two years ago when they made it illegal for us to kill them. They're all over their place, and their feces stays around longer than they do.
We have a similar computer setup in the library for the college I work for. Each PC has a special PCI card in it that keeps information from being permanently stored on the HDD. I believe they are called Sentinel cards, but I have been unable to find a link for them. Anyone else know of them?
The card has a keyhole in the back with two settings. There is the administrative mode, in which any changes made to the computer (basically, anything written to the HDD), are saved from that point on. In the user mode, which we keep them in when we are not performing maintenance, any new documents or modifications to files are undone upon reboot. And we make sure the staff reboots the machines once a day.
We do this to make our jobs easier, keep viruses out of there, keep the HDDs from filling up, etc. But it also seems to have some merit as a privacy tool. However, I am not entirely clear on the workings of the cards. In addition to the chance of something hitting the swap space, files may actually be written the HDD and erased either on shutdown or the next bootup. In any of these cases, it may be possible to "undelete" these files if caught in enough time.
Because there aren't any easy to use, reliable, voice over IP software that she can use under Linux and that is compatable with all her friend's Windows software.
That and security updates. It took her 2 years to develop an interest in keeping her computer secure. However, after that she figured it out pretty good. I'm sure she'd get used to apt-get real soon if she _wanted_ to.
I bet all the users that are suing are from Florida too.
Don't forget about TiK either. It used to be owned by AOL and was their UNIX AIM. After the protocol war between AOL and M$ they took it off their page. Since then others have picked it up and it has come along nicely in a short amount of time.
Well, I'm sure all those high school english professors who insist that you write someone out instead of typing it will be thrilled. Judging from some of the posts I'm no the only one that thinks handwritting is slow in comparisson to typing. But something else bothers me.
I remember reading some time ago (cannot remember where, sorry) and article about how people who have grown used to writing on their PDAs started developing problems writing on paper. Seems like a stupid way to go about making a paper-less society.
Do we really need another input gizmo? How long until someone comes out with an ergonomically-correct stylus?
My school just started distributing Microsoft products for the price of the media. $14 to be precise. It included Office 2000 Premium, Visual Studio 6.0 Pro and Windows 98 upgrade. I was quite shocked at the fact that there was Pro and Premium in there. I must admit though that I didn't see what they were up to right away.