The right to play the content on any device I see fit? At any time?
When I have bought a tune or a video the producer shouldn't care where I play it as along as it is for myself or my household. Your rights stops at my front door.
And I am still not trying to convince anyone to pay a TV license for materials and I don't "fire up iPlayer and get the fucking video". So now you want to combine the consumers usage with a specific device?
I just want to be able to purchase a CD or DVD with music or video content on it. As simple as that.
And did I write that I wanted the rights of the producer erased and leave the content provider in the cold? Please show me how you read that into it? (atarashii meagane katta ho ga ii kamoshirenai?).
It is a digital world, and the producer side, or what seems to be the defenders of the content producers have amalgamated too much political backing, actually leaving the consumers out in the cold, and I would like to move the balance the other way, even just a little.
And I am not trying to convince anyone to pay a TV license fee or any other fee. Where did I write that? Actually, I just want content producers to concentrate on doing that, produce content and make it available on reasonable terms.
Today, too often some content is either not available or not on reasonable terms if it is.
No, it is about taking rights away from the consumer, in an attempt to enforce and manage the rights of the producer.
Unfortunately, it is often not really enforceable making people that attempts to use their fair-use rights into criminals, but still not providing the sought after control of the producers.
So, it is a loose-loose situation.
A great deal of re-thinking of the situation ought to be done.
Well, if drunken half naked cheerleaders appear at a party with Belgium beer, I'll be the first in line to join the party:-)
Other than that, I don't really understand your analogy to Belgians?
Except for being a 'constructed country' almost like Jugoslavia, I see a lot of good things about Belgium, and much better than any animal analogy. For example they speak much better French than those from the country called France, and they actually invented what is normally known as "French Fries".
Amd making the best beer in the world makes me wonder what makes you make the suggestion:
"then we're no better than animals, or Belgians."
Or do you in fact mean the very strong horses from Belgium, that I may not know to be known as "Belgians", but as they are horses, they are of course 'animals'?
The Sharp is actually a Pocket Calculator, though it has a 24KB ROM with BASIC in it, and a qwerty keyboard with little calculator buttons. It was fun to learn on, but the one line LCD display got a little boring in the end.
Otherwise, I am very proud of my still working mail-server, which is a Digital Multia with an AXP21066 CPU, which is the smallest 64bit CPU ever made, fully loaded RAM (128MB) and a (now rather small, but still fine and working) SCSI disk:
$ cat/proc/cpuinfo cpu : Alpha cpu model : LCA4 cpu variation : -4294967301 cpu revision : 0 cpu serial number : Linux_is_Great! system type : Noname system variation : 0 system revision : 0 system serial number : MILO-2.2-17 cycle frequency [Hz] : 166629900 timer frequency [Hz] : 1024.00 page size [bytes] : 8192 phys. address bits : 34 max. addr. space # : 63 BogoMIPS : 323.24 kernel unaligned acc : 0 (pc=0,va=0) user unaligned acc : 0 (pc=0,va=0) platform string : N/A cpus detected : 0 $ cat/proc/meminfo total: used: free: shared: buffers: cached: Mem: 129015808 126205952 2809856 0 2613248 13729792 Swap: 269467648 7520256 261947392 MemTotal: 125992 kB MemFree: 2744 kB MemShared: 0 kB Buffers: 2552 kB Cached: 12344 kB SwapCached: 1064 kB Active: 4744 kB Inactive: 11240 kB HighTotal: 0 kB HighFree: 0 kB LowTotal: 125992 kB LowFree: 2744 kB SwapTotal: 263152 kB SwapFree: 255808 kB $ df Filesystem 1k-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/sda3 17213849 10246172 6085553 63%/ /dev/sda1 52088 564 51524 2%/dos
I believe the date on the motherboard is 1994 and the BIOS says 1995, with an option of loading Windows NT:-) I don't really remember, and I don't like to boot it, because the mobo-battery (for the BIOS) is not good anymore and it is only barely that I can remember to boot it.
It is however, the most stable system I have ever had, and a few Intel/AMD based PC systems have come and gone in the mean time.
As far as I remember, Slashdot originally ran on a similar platform?
I, and quite a few friends and colleagues cried a few tears when Compaq bought Digital, and a few more when AXP was discontinued! Not that I am a fan of VMS, but it was sort of fun to play with, in its own archaic way. Sort of like the fun of trying to sleep next to a hungry tiger;-)
Well, I've worked for a few North American companies and I think this is the norm rather than specific to MS.
A P or VP decides upon something and then goes out'a his way to prove he made the right decision making sure everyone below him knows it is his way or the highway.
And not until the entire company tanks you get to know which decisions seems to have been wrong that made the company tank, while he is laughing all the way to the bank. Well, he only got $20mill instead of $100mill, but who's counting?!
And MS isn't even close to tanking, so really, who's counting!?!!!
I think thou have a too limited view upon the world of politics. And Bush is too stupid to think about too complex thoughts, just like his father. Leaving the bottle after so many years didn't seem to be enough.
China has its hands full reg. developing its own economics and avoiding political trouble at home and abroad. It may be difficult for you to understand that not everyone wants US politics or even its own politics in all other countries.
US has to be the only country in the World that seems not to give a damn about its home ground, but uses so much energy to fix up all other countries.
Leave Burma alone, as you should have Iraq. Global terrorism hasn't decreased, but increased because of the latter Iraq war.
Instead, use positive political means to help the foreign opinions you favor, instead of the brain dead direct negative measures you again and again fail to get good results out of (Bay of Pigs, Vietnam, Grenada, Kuwait, Iraq, well even the Korean War didn't solve much, North Korea is still in power last time I watched).
Did I mention that the dinosaur once in a while gets its butt kicked? How many dead so far in Iraq? Are political means sometimes a good way to deal with other countries? You should try it sometimes, without the bullying tactics!
When Linus joined Transmeta I was really pleased to hear about what they had to offer wrt. technologies that did powersaving (540MHz at 1W) and flexible architecture emulating with the core architecture based on VLIW.
Since Intel haven't really gotten off with their own VLIW architecture in Merced, which is really disappointing since it is the natural next step towards "HW is something that can be emulated in SW" where the only thing HW provides basically is calculation at higher speeds. I'm not downplaying the importance of that, but let's get the task division straight
So, here's to hoping that this investment can further Transmeta's ideas, and I'll again look into buying AMD CPUs:-)
You may be right in a few of your points, but what came to mind while reading your message was, did you receive a laptop from MS as well, and are you keeping it?
1.How do you define 'a modern PC'? 2.How is Vista an improvement over XP? 3.'better looking' and 'more polished' are feel-good things that will be very different from person to person so how is it 'a much nicer experience'?
So, it makes you look so much like a paid-for-astro-turfer that you probably don't even deserve a laptop.
And the model that comes to mind is C139, which is a very simple candybar type GSM mobile phone, that can do little more than voice and SMS, eg. it has a calculator, a simple calendar and a few games. So, it isn't heavy on functionality, but it has a rather large battery and the recharge time is very good.
I have given one to each of my children and they like it because they can easily write SMS messages and talk with their friends. It doesn't have a camera, MP3 or flip, but in my opinion exactly because of that it is a perfect first-user or simple-user mobile phone.
So, it may not be with a great new design as this new one, but the C139 is small and lightweight (85g) and with good battery life, so for people that prefers that, it seems to be a great phone. A different version C116 also looks interesting for the young with the exact same functionality, but I ended up going for the C139.
I am myself leaning more towards PDA smartphones so to me it is definitely not enough! I still have my crusty old A780, but the N95 really looks interesting as Motorola doesn't seem to come out with a new PDA phone with GPS included. To bad, because the Linux/Qt base of A780 really works well, and perhaps just needs improvement to a newer kernel (over the 2.4.20) and of the utilities that deals with USB and the phonebook, to mention a few:-)
I just downloaded it and fooled around for a few pages with opening and closing tabs, and I was sort of disappointed by seeing that apart from the problem of using a lot of memory it also seems to not really give it back when closing tabs. Why do I have to have 178MB memory usage (including swap) with just 3 tabs open (slashdot, linuxtoday and about:config) that had previously been a few more with some regular news sites.
Browsing speed does seem like it is faster than before, and I would even put it up with opera speed of loading and rendering pages.
Well, I know I am a cheapskate that should probably realize that browsing the web and checking email on top of fvwm2 needs more than a puny 256MB!
P.S. The new close button style is really a pain, and I wonder how I can get back the 'one' tab close and open buttons as it were instead?
One that isn't true anymore on that page is that the flashcard maxes out at 512MB, because I have a 1GB micro-SD card and it works fine (it is sort of slow to index it when filled up, but it works).
And in 2005 it even got the Silver Medal for Products of the Year 2005, PDAs and smartphones:
I am very happy with it because it is so full of functionality, but I only wish that Motorola would continue developing and fixing the software, because it has some annoying things to it when using it a lot, eg. the calendar and phonebook should be more flexible in configuartion, and they should equip it with more RAM so it could run the USB connection and/or GPS functions at the same time as other applications.
All in all it is a great piece, but I only wish Motorola would finish it, as it so far SW wise only seems 95% complete. It is the only mobile phone with Bluetooth that I know of, that will connect to any other mobile I have tested it against, whereas other Motorola/Nokia/SonyEricsson seems to get into trouble some time or another.
The only thing it misses to be real modern even today (except for a little more RAM) is A2DP (Hi-Fi Stereo Bluetooth), and if that could be put into it, it would really kick ass, and I wouldn't be so worried about missing WiFi, or about Nokias N95 with its 5mpix autofocus camera (A780 only has 1.3mpix fixed focus), because the A780 has a real PC/PDA feel to it whereas N95 with its Symbion60 probably is more like a regular mobile. And then I would choose the A780's Linux/Qt UI anyday!
I'll have to admit that it's just an old 500 C/M, but with a Provia 100 ASA (and I really liked Velvia 50 ASA) I get pretty good colour and resolution.
It is, however, rather troublesome with 100MB TIFF per frame, and not very useful on the web. In any case least my mother with just a modem complains about it:-)
So, I thought a good camera-phone would be useful, and with N90 having a Carl Zeiss lens, though probably not in the same league as a Tessar (T*), it should be a compelling choice.
At least for snapshots, it ought to be easier to handle, eh?
My biggest worry is actually the ruggedness of these cameras. Even there, the Hasselblad is pretty good, but I have always had to admit, that there isn't much 'spy-camera' to it.
Being an enthusiast bicyclist myself, with an old steel framed (though reinforced by various other materials) bike from 10 years ago, I'd have to agree with the following line:
"there's only so much one can do without having to rely on natural talent and training"
However, as I am also maintaining the bike myself, I can appreciate the more expensive parts of more expensive bikes, as they are often easier to clean, adjust and all in all maintain, than cheaper parts.
And if you ever try and climb the hill/mountain that is often referred to as Alpe d'Huez, you will appreciate lightweight equipment and well functioning gears.
So, what I am trying to say is that a good bicycle is a piece of equipment that should function as an extended piece of your body, with the least trouble and as lightweight as possible.
Expensive bikes are not purely lightweight, but a good combination of lightweight, stiffness/responsiveness and wellfunctioning of the whole equipment.
But the most important pieces in a successful Tour de France rider is just like with a marathon runner, a determined mind, and compaartive to the marathon runner that 'only' runs about 42km once, the Tour de France rider cycles about 3500km for 3 weeks, so he really has to be really determined:-)
Anyone getting through Tour de France within timelimits deserve respect!
Missing pieces sort of irritating
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Having had some trouble with Japanese printing on Mdk10 Community, I thought I'd give this a try on a IBM T30 laptop with Mdk 9.2 just previously installed on it.
I did a fresh install of Fedora2, but even during install ran into a dumb fault that it took me two attempts to realize was *that bad*. The T30 has its own way to hibernate where it uses a special typed partition to store RAM contents on disk, but the Fedora2 installer insisted on calling it a swap partition with no other options, and then barfing just before starting to install, ie. after everything had been setup and made ready toi start the installation.
The only option there was to reboot: Ok or OK?
Mdk and others will leave partition types alone if they don't knows them, why can't Fedora?
And why am I allowed to go all the way to the end of setup of the installation and then only be given the option to reboot and loose it all?
And why does it take so friggin long time to install? The time estimater said around the beginning it would take 50min, but it eventually took >2.5h to just copy the files over. Even at the end the estimated 2min takes 5minutes, so something hasn't the right factors in it.
After installation my mainpoints were to get an HP printer working from OpenOffice and Mozilla with Danish and Japanese and hopefully an old parport Plustek scanner set up wit SANE as well, as I could see from the SANE site that it was well supported.
Wanting the default language to be English, but needing the odd time to print documents and webpages with Danish and Japanese I tested that, and that went fine, except that I can't type Danish characters from a Danish keyboard in OpenOffice. In KOffice, Abiword and the odd xterm I can do it just fine, and copy'n'paste them over to OO and print from there works fine too, but no matter how much I attempted to adjust OO to use Danish, it wouldn't accept Danish characters from the keyboard.
It turned out that if I set the LANG env variable to nothing it would work.
It won't let me add the Plustek scanner though, and xsane just won't detect it, even if I make its config files the only scanner available on the system.
The parport and config file are both set up according to the sane.plustek_pp man-pages, but the scanner doesn't seem to exist at all on this system.
I haven't figured out how to make it work, but at least Mdk10 had a wizard to help set up a scanner.
I am not sure if it is a 2.6 kernel related problem that needs some tuning.
I didn't try Fedora1, but Fedora2 is not as well made a distribution as eg. RH9 and earlier distributions were. It looks like bits and pieces have fallen off the edges during collecting them all, and even though they had such a long testing period.
Looking forward to other distributions with the 2.6 kernel in it.
My body says: That's not such a bad sig. With a Japanese smiley waving its hand.
My sig then says: If it's gonna be sunshine today let's go for a stroll.
This sentence comes from the cassette tape played repeatedly at the Nihongo Nouryoku Shiken (Japanese Proficiency Test for foreigners) in Japan before the test starts. At least it did when I took both 3. and 2. Kyu in early 90'ies in Shibyua and Shinjuku:-)
"I've always considered self-reliance to be important"
So you think still staying out of NATO is good, too? Joining the group, kicking and screaming?
The concept of a country is >100years too old and self reliance is a myth, ask the finns when fighting the russians (my grandfather took part there and frooze his butt off, but anyway thanks for trying), the Danish Jews when escaping the nazis and the Norwegians when receving the same guys going through Sweden from Denmark. So it isn't so simple.
Actually, Swedish military hasn't been worth just about anything since Wasa sank.
There is no such thing as selv reliance, and you are probably right that Sweden wouldn't be able to defend yourselves even on your own soil, but then who would want to try? Between Stockholm and Kiruna there isn't much but agriculture and some fishing, except perhaps for a good hockey team in Oernskjoeldsvik/Husum that also has a lot of forrestation (now owned by some Finns;-)
Well, the Swedish Navy isn't one of the coolest organisations in Sweden (well, anywhere), eg. you could ask them how they feel about Russian submarines around the Swedish coast or if they prefer Scottish Whisky?;-)
They do, however, have an awesome Air Force with airplanes the US of A can only dream of! USA could of course buy them, but national pride probably prohibits that.
You are right and you are right and you are right:-)
It doesn't really matter, though. Success is not measured against how many people and institutions switch from Windows to Linux, but against success stories of the use of Linux as a platform and software on top of it.
Free Software is about freedom, and that includes other's right to use whatever they want as long as we (I) am free to use what I want.
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The right to play the content on any device I see fit? At any time?
When I have bought a tune or a video the producer shouldn't care where I play it as along as it is for myself or my household. Your rights stops at my front door.
And I am still not trying to convince anyone to pay a TV license for materials and I don't "fire up iPlayer and get the fucking video". So now you want to combine the consumers usage with a specific device?
I just want to be able to purchase a CD or DVD with music or video content on it. As simple as that.
Yes, of course, but I probably should have put a smiley there :-)
And did I write that I wanted the rights of the producer erased and leave the content provider in the cold? Please show me how you read that into it? (atarashii meagane katta ho ga ii kamoshirenai?).
It is a digital world, and the producer side, or what seems to be the defenders of the content producers have amalgamated too much political backing, actually leaving the consumers out in the cold, and I would like to move the balance the other way, even just a little.
And I am not trying to convince anyone to pay a TV license fee or any other fee. Where did I write that?
Actually, I just want content producers to concentrate on doing that, produce content and make it available on reasonable terms.
Today, too often some content is either not available or not on reasonable terms if it is.
No, it is about taking rights away from the consumer, in an attempt to enforce and manage the rights of the producer.
Unfortunately, it is often not really enforceable making people that attempts to use their fair-use rights into criminals, but still not providing the sought after control of the producers.
So, it is a loose-loose situation.
A great deal of re-thinking of the situation ought to be done.
Well, if drunken half naked cheerleaders appear at a party with Belgium beer, I'll be the first in line to join the party :-)
Other than that, I don't really understand your analogy to Belgians?
Except for being a 'constructed country' almost like Jugoslavia, I see a lot of good things about Belgium, and much better than any animal analogy. For example they speak much better French than those from the country called France, and they actually invented what is normally known as "French Fries".
Amd making the best beer in the world makes me wonder what makes you make the suggestion:
"then we're no better than animals, or Belgians."
Or do you in fact mean the very strong horses from Belgium, that I may not know to be known as "Belgians", but as they are horses, they are of course 'animals'?
Just curious.
The Sharp is actually a Pocket Calculator, though it has a 24KB ROM with BASIC in it, and a qwerty keyboard with little calculator buttons. It was fun to learn on, but the one line LCD display got a little boring in the end.
/proc/cpuinfo /proc/meminfo / /dos
:-)
;-)
Otherwise, I am very proud of my still working mail-server, which is a Digital Multia with an AXP21066 CPU, which is the smallest 64bit CPU ever made, fully loaded RAM (128MB) and a (now rather small, but still fine and working) SCSI disk:
$ cat
cpu : Alpha
cpu model : LCA4
cpu variation : -4294967301
cpu revision : 0
cpu serial number : Linux_is_Great!
system type : Noname
system variation : 0
system revision : 0
system serial number : MILO-2.2-17
cycle frequency [Hz] : 166629900
timer frequency [Hz] : 1024.00
page size [bytes] : 8192
phys. address bits : 34
max. addr. space # : 63
BogoMIPS : 323.24
kernel unaligned acc : 0 (pc=0,va=0)
user unaligned acc : 0 (pc=0,va=0)
platform string : N/A
cpus detected : 0
$ cat
total: used: free: shared: buffers: cached:
Mem: 129015808 126205952 2809856 0 2613248 13729792
Swap: 269467648 7520256 261947392
MemTotal: 125992 kB
MemFree: 2744 kB
MemShared: 0 kB
Buffers: 2552 kB
Cached: 12344 kB
SwapCached: 1064 kB
Active: 4744 kB
Inactive: 11240 kB
HighTotal: 0 kB
HighFree: 0 kB
LowTotal: 125992 kB
LowFree: 2744 kB
SwapTotal: 263152 kB
SwapFree: 255808 kB
$ df
Filesystem 1k-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda3 17213849 10246172 6085553 63%
/dev/sda1 52088 564 51524 2%
I believe the date on the motherboard is 1994 and the BIOS says 1995, with an option of loading Windows NT
I don't really remember, and I don't like to boot it, because the mobo-battery (for the BIOS) is not good anymore and it is only barely that I can remember to boot it.
It is however, the most stable system I have ever had, and a few Intel/AMD based PC systems have come and gone in the mean time.
As far as I remember, Slashdot originally ran on a similar platform?
I, and quite a few friends and colleagues cried a few tears when Compaq bought Digital, and a few more when AXP was discontinued!
Not that I am a fan of VMS, but it was sort of fun to play with, in its own archaic way. Sort of like the fun of trying to sleep next to a hungry tiger
Well, I've worked for a few North American companies and I think this is the norm rather than specific to MS.
A P or VP decides upon something and then goes out'a his way to prove he made the right decision making sure everyone below him knows it is his way or the highway.
And not until the entire company tanks you get to know which decisions seems to have been wrong that made the company tank, while he is laughing all the way to the bank. Well, he only got $20mill instead of $100mill, but who's counting?!
And MS isn't even close to tanking, so really, who's counting!?!!!
Toshiba, founded 1875, even though it did merge a few times and the name 'Toshiba' wasn't official until 1978.
Actually, this is not 'funny', but 'insightful', and it lays the ground to endless quarrels between men and women. Usually one couple at a time.
Ever heard: "If you don't understand, I'm not gonna tell you!"
Pop-quiz: Was the above statement said by a man or a woman?
I think thou have a too limited view upon the world of politics.
And Bush is too stupid to think about too complex thoughts, just like his father. Leaving the bottle after so many years didn't seem to be enough.
China has its hands full reg. developing its own economics and avoiding political trouble at home and abroad. It may be difficult for you to understand that not everyone wants US politics or even its own politics in all other countries.
US has to be the only country in the World that seems not to give a damn about its home ground, but uses so much energy to fix up all other countries.
Leave Burma alone, as you should have Iraq. Global terrorism hasn't decreased, but increased because of the latter Iraq war.
Instead, use positive political means to help the foreign opinions you favor, instead of the brain dead direct negative measures you again and again fail to get good results out of (Bay of Pigs, Vietnam, Grenada, Kuwait, Iraq, well even the Korean War didn't solve much, North Korea is still in power last time I watched).
Did I mention that the dinosaur once in a while gets its butt kicked? How many dead so far in Iraq?
Are political means sometimes a good way to deal with other countries? You should try it sometimes, without the bullying tactics!
Yeah, and if they crank up the vibrator functionality, they ought to get deep into the market ...
When Linus joined Transmeta I was really pleased to hear about what they had to offer wrt. technologies that did powersaving (540MHz at 1W) and flexible architecture emulating with the core architecture based on VLIW.
:-)
Since Intel haven't really gotten off with their own VLIW architecture in Merced, which is really disappointing since it is the natural next step towards "HW is something that can be emulated in SW" where the only thing HW provides basically is calculation at higher speeds. I'm not downplaying the importance of that, but let's get the task division straight
So, here's to hoping that this investment can further Transmeta's ideas, and I'll again look into buying AMD CPUs
No, it should be Spectre, and James Bond will come and save us all, when he is done with (whatever kind of) poker game he is in on right now.
You may be right in a few of your points, but what came to mind while reading your message was, did you receive a laptop from MS as well, and are you keeping it?
1.How do you define 'a modern PC'?
2.How is Vista an improvement over XP?
3.'better looking' and 'more polished' are feel-good things that will be very different from person to person so how is it 'a much nicer experience'?
So, it makes you look so much like a paid-for-astro-turfer that you probably don't even deserve a laptop.
And the model that comes to mind is C139, which is a very simple candybar type GSM mobile phone, that can do little more than voice and SMS, eg. it has a calculator, a simple calendar and a few games. So, it isn't heavy on functionality, but it has a rather large battery and the recharge time is very good.
:-)
I have given one to each of my children and they like it because they can easily write SMS messages and talk with their friends. It doesn't have a camera, MP3 or flip, but in my opinion exactly because of that it is a perfect first-user or simple-user mobile phone.
So, it may not be with a great new design as this new one, but the C139 is small and lightweight (85g) and with good battery life, so for people that prefers that, it seems to be a great phone. A different version C116 also looks interesting for the young with the exact same functionality, but I ended up going for the C139.
I am myself leaning more towards PDA smartphones so to me it is definitely not enough! I still have my crusty old A780, but the N95 really looks interesting as Motorola doesn't seem to come out with a new PDA phone with GPS included. To bad, because the Linux/Qt base of A780 really works well, and perhaps just needs improvement to a newer kernel (over the 2.4.20) and of the utilities that deals with USB and the phonebook, to mention a few
I just downloaded it and fooled around for a few pages with opening and closing tabs, and I was sort of disappointed by seeing that apart from the problem of using a lot of memory it also seems to not really give it back when closing tabs. Why do I have to have 178MB memory usage (including swap) with just 3 tabs open (slashdot, linuxtoday and about:config) that had previously been a few more with some regular news sites.
Browsing speed does seem like it is faster than before, and I would even put it up with opera speed of loading and rendering pages.
Well, I know I am a cheapskate that should probably realize that browsing the web and checking email on top of fvwm2 needs more than a puny 256MB!
P.S. The new close button style is really a pain, and I wonder how I can get back the 'one' tab close and open buttons as it were instead?
And it has a Linux 2.4.20 kernel on it, or at least the one I have has.
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A Motorola page about it, which may not even be the most complete or detailed page:
http://direct.motorola.com/ENG/Web_full_specs.asp
One that isn't true anymore on that page is that the flashcard maxes out at 512MB, because I have a 1GB micro-SD card and it works fine (it is sort of slow to index it when filled up, but it works).
And in 2005 it even got the Silver Medal for Products of the Year 2005, PDAs and smartphones:
http://searchmobilecomputing.techtarget.com/produ
I am very happy with it because it is so full of functionality, but I only wish that Motorola would continue developing and fixing the software, because it has some annoying things to it when using it a lot, eg. the calendar and phonebook should be more flexible in configuartion, and they should equip it with more RAM so it could run the USB connection and/or GPS functions at the same time as other applications.
All in all it is a great piece, but I only wish Motorola would finish it, as it so far SW wise only seems 95% complete. It is the only mobile phone with Bluetooth that I know of, that will connect to any other mobile I have tested it against, whereas other Motorola/Nokia/SonyEricsson seems to get into trouble some time or another.
The only thing it misses to be real modern even today (except for a little more RAM) is A2DP (Hi-Fi Stereo Bluetooth), and if that could be put into it, it would really kick ass, and I wouldn't be so worried about missing WiFi, or about Nokias N95 with its 5mpix autofocus camera (A780 only has 1.3mpix fixed focus), because the A780 has a real PC/PDA feel to it whereas N95 with its Symbion60 probably is more like a regular mobile. And then I would choose the A780's Linux/Qt UI anyday!
Hasselblad camera?
:-)
:-)
I'll have to admit that it's just an old 500 C/M, but with a Provia 100 ASA (and I really liked Velvia 50 ASA) I get pretty good colour and resolution.
It is, however, rather troublesome with 100MB TIFF per frame, and not very useful on the web. In any case least my mother with just a modem complains about it
So, I thought a good camera-phone would be useful, and with N90 having a Carl Zeiss lens, though probably not in the same league as a Tessar (T*), it should be a compelling choice.
At least for snapshots, it ought to be easier to handle, eh?
My biggest worry is actually the ruggedness of these cameras. Even there, the Hasselblad is pretty good, but I have always had to admit, that there isn't much 'spy-camera' to it.
Am I totally off? (line)
Being an enthusiast bicyclist myself, with an old steel framed (though reinforced by various other materials) bike from 10 years ago, I'd have to agree with the following line:
:-)
"there's only so much one can do without having to rely on natural talent and training"
However, as I am also maintaining the bike myself, I can appreciate the more expensive parts of more expensive bikes, as they are often easier to clean, adjust and all in all maintain, than cheaper parts.
And if you ever try and climb the hill/mountain that is often referred to as Alpe d'Huez, you will appreciate lightweight equipment and well functioning gears.
So, what I am trying to say is that a good bicycle is a piece of equipment that should function as an extended piece of your body, with the least trouble and as lightweight as possible.
Expensive bikes are not purely lightweight, but a good combination of lightweight, stiffness/responsiveness and wellfunctioning of the whole equipment.
But the most important pieces in a successful Tour de France rider is just like with a marathon runner, a determined mind, and compaartive to the marathon runner that 'only' runs about 42km once, the Tour de France rider cycles about 3500km for 3 weeks, so he really has to be really determined
Anyone getting through Tour de France within timelimits deserve respect!
Having had some trouble with Japanese printing on Mdk10 Community, I thought I'd give this a try on a IBM T30 laptop with Mdk 9.2 just previously installed on it.
I did a fresh install of Fedora2, but even during install ran into a dumb fault that it took me two attempts to realize was *that bad*. The T30 has its own way to hibernate where it uses a special typed partition to store RAM contents on disk, but the Fedora2 installer insisted on calling it a swap partition with no other options, and then barfing just before starting to install, ie. after everything had been setup and made ready toi start the installation.
The only option there was to reboot: Ok or OK?
Mdk and others will leave partition types alone if they don't knows them, why can't Fedora?
And why am I allowed to go all the way to the end of setup of the installation and then only be given the option to reboot and loose it all?
And why does it take so friggin long time to install? The time estimater said around the beginning it would take 50min, but it eventually took >2.5h to just copy the files over. Even at the end the estimated 2min takes 5minutes, so something hasn't the right factors in it.
After installation my mainpoints were to get an HP printer working from OpenOffice and Mozilla with Danish and Japanese and hopefully an old parport Plustek scanner set up wit SANE as well, as I could see from the SANE site that it was well supported.
Wanting the default language to be English, but needing the odd time to print documents and webpages with Danish and Japanese I tested that, and that went fine, except that I can't type Danish characters from a Danish keyboard in OpenOffice. In KOffice, Abiword and the odd xterm I can do it just fine, and copy'n'paste them over to OO and print from there works fine too, but no matter how much I attempted to adjust OO to use Danish, it wouldn't accept Danish characters from the keyboard.
It turned out that if I set the LANG env variable to nothing it would work.
It won't let me add the Plustek scanner though, and xsane just won't detect it, even if I make its config files the only scanner available on the system.
The parport and config file are both set up according to the sane.plustek_pp man-pages, but the scanner doesn't seem to exist at all on this system.
I haven't figured out how to make it work, but at least Mdk10 had a wizard to help set up a scanner.
I am not sure if it is a 2.6 kernel related problem that needs some tuning.
I didn't try Fedora1, but Fedora2 is not as well made a distribution as eg. RH9 and earlier distributions were. It looks like bits and pieces have fallen off the edges during collecting them all, and even though they had such a long testing period.
Looking forward to other distributions with the 2.6 kernel in it.
Your sig says: This is not a sig
:-)
My body says: That's not such a bad sig.
With a Japanese smiley waving its hand.
My sig then says: If it's gonna be sunshine today let's go for a stroll.
This sentence comes from the cassette tape played repeatedly at the Nihongo Nouryoku Shiken (Japanese Proficiency Test for foreigners) in Japan before the test starts. At least it did when I took both 3. and 2. Kyu in early 90'ies in Shibyua and Shinjuku
I forgot:
Sono sig wa warukunain janai? (^_^)/
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Kyou wa haretara sampo ni ikimashou.
"I've always considered self-reliance to be important"
;-)
So you think still staying out of NATO is good, too? Joining the group, kicking and screaming?
The concept of a country is >100years too old and self reliance is a myth, ask the finns when fighting the russians (my grandfather took part there and frooze his butt off, but anyway thanks for trying), the Danish Jews when escaping the nazis and the Norwegians when receving the same guys going through Sweden from Denmark. So it isn't so simple.
Actually, Swedish military hasn't been worth just about anything since Wasa sank.
There is no such thing as selv reliance, and you are probably right that Sweden wouldn't be able to defend yourselves even on your own soil, but then who would want to try? Between Stockholm and Kiruna there isn't much but agriculture and some fishing, except perhaps for a good hockey team in Oernskjoeldsvik/Husum that also has a lot of forrestation (now owned by some Finns
Well, the Swedish Navy isn't one of the coolest organisations in Sweden (well, anywhere), eg. you could ask them how they feel about Russian submarines around the Swedish coast or if they prefer Scottish Whisky? ;-)
They do, however, have an awesome Air Force with airplanes the US of A can only dream of! USA could of course buy them, but national pride probably prohibits that.
You are right and you are right and you are right :-)
:-)
It doesn't really matter, though. Success is not measured against how many people and institutions switch from Windows to Linux, but against success stories of the use of Linux as a platform and software on top of it.
Free Software is about freedom, and that includes other's right to use whatever they want as long as we (I) am free to use what I want.
It is as simple as that