Now i'm not sure how the hardware is laid out on a Visor compared to a Palm III, but I've been able to fix my palm III a few times. There's a little socketed board inside (using what looks like a small simm socket type thing). That card has a tendency to come loose. So I'd reccomend that you just crack open your visor and check all the connections. Especially if you use the device daily theres a good chance that vibrations, smacks, drop, etc have caused a connector to come lose.
Just remember - you'll probably violate your warranty. Oh well. It's saved me twice.
Split up the users by the school they are in, i.e. at GWU, we've got seas.gwu.edu(engineering), esia.gwu.edu(international affairs), and a couple others. Most university students don't run high volume stuff off their website - so you could probably get away with decently powered boxes - 1 for each school, with tons of SCSI HD space on each box. Or - get a big honkin SUN box and let it do everything (gwis2.circ.gwu.edu).
Of course - if this isn't a university - just throw my comments out the window;-}
Funny that - Levis wanting people to do "casual fridays" - hmmm. Doesnt' casual include kakhis (they make em), and casual button down or polo shirts (they make both of em). That's like Armani saying a study shows people work better in expensive suits;-}
Gotta back this guy up on the PacBell office - I worked there for 2 years. Place never seemed to amaze me. In fact - they got fined by the state Public Utilities Commission - supposedly the place was too extravagant and luxurious;-} (Was that why ISDN cost too much?)
Anyways, besides the fact that I worked underground, it was great. Of course - working underground has the advantage of A) always cool and B) You never really know what time it is. There was a man made lake (not a pond, a lake) in the back of the building, and 2 more out front.
Access into the building was either showing your badge to the man at the front desk, or prox-card. Even went to the trouble of hiding the prox-card readers in marble pedestals. Of course - i was fond of the entry ways where you thunked your proxcard, entered the little room which made sure you were the only one in there - then the door into the building would open.
Place was soo nice that tons of high schools used the cafeteria for proms and balls. (Hey, at what hotel can you sit out on the lake and watch the swans swim by?)
Then i left for DC for school;-{ Oh well.
Oh right - it was cubeville, with FL and white noise, but it was allright. Those nice lunches and long walks around the lake made up for it.
I've got the same situation at my place. My main linux server is hidden behind the TV so that it's Ricochet wireless modem can get a good signal at the window (I live in a basement).
As long as your computer can boot by itself, i.e. no booting problems and it brings up the network you're golden.
Your RPMs are easy to upgrade - just 'rpm -Uvh pkgname'. No need to reboot, but I do say damn the uptime and reboot if you've seriously just changed every piece of code in the box;-}
Kernel can be a bit trickier. Telnet in, and patch it first thing (Oh wait, you've got a stock redhat kernel? You could rpm -Uvh it, but i've got a certain fondness for going to ftp.kernel.org and grabbing the newest stable kernel(2.2.16 I believe). Then you can just patch it and recompile whenever you want - no icky redhatness to deal with.) After it's patched - either login through an X terminal and 'make xconfig'. If you're using telnet 'make menuconfig'.
I'm hoping you know what to do after that, but if you don't - drop by the linux document project. They've got a mirror at www.linuxhq.com. There's a Kernel-Upgrading HOWTO which pretty much says everything i've said - and more
Check you facts sweetie. Verizon (remember, Bell Atlantic and GTE merged) has a seperate division for Internet Access/DSL. This seperate division uses non-union people - in fact one of the major points of the unions was that they wanted access to the new/interesting markets.
And there is PPPoE software for linux which works reasonably well.
Oh - and they are fulfilling their end of the bargain. If they credit you for the time you are unable to use the service, then they're good to go, unfortunately for you and me though.
Me - I just use covad people. Fastpoint is installing my line any day now. Woo Hoo!
Note: I'm not an employee of Verizon, just an unsatisfied customer (i'm still waiting for them to install my POTS line. Argh. VoIP anyone?)
>>Uh, right. Phone lines never stop working huh? This is almost funny. At least try an intelligent Troll in future.
hmmm - i'm assuming you've never used a telephone if you're making comments like that. Telephone service is one of the most reliable things in the US (excuse my ethnocentricity - i've never been outside the US). Ethernet, and networks in general goes down quite a bit more
In fact, several companies (running a google search right now...) have said they were working on getting a "IP Dial Tone" - ie that you know you'll always be online or able to get a connection, like the phone line whose uptime is like 99.999 something percent.
Keeping Current on 1998 predictions 9. IP dial tone will remain IP busy signal through the
end of '97. Yes, it is a great idea. Yes, I think it will
happen. Just not in 1998. No applications, no
infrastructure, too many firms trying to make a
"standard" at this point. Much more likely for 1998
will be the explosion of service-level agreements
(SLA). However, although these will be
misunderstood by users. They are likely to be
confused by mixed marketing messages, SLAs that fail
to specify true goals, and a lack of metrics for judging
SLAs.
Follow-up to 98 predictions Fred Said: "IP dial tone will remain IP busy signal
through the end of '97."
Scoreboard... Direct Hit. Don't confuse the use of IP
for voice services (which has happened) with IP dial
tone (which hasn't happened just yet). The ability to
plug into the IP network and call away still has a long
way to go. Too many technology issues, too many
standard bearers and not enough market demand have
temporarily derailed this scheme. But, just like
computer-telephone integration, it has still got legs for
1999.
With most universities, you sign away your rights when you choose to enter the university. Hidden somewhere in the 500 page student conduct and rules handbook are little paragraphs saying things like "Your firstborn will become property of the university if you laughed at the University President" or "All work created for university classes becomes the property of the University" or even worse... "All work with the grade of B+ or higher becomes the property of the university". Talk about a kick in the pants - do a crappy job if you want to hold onto your IP rights.....
Universities have been around for a while and have perfected their methods of fscking their students
I don't know about you - but i'd kill for a set of those neural nanonics;-} Hamilton's books kick ass.
But back on topic - I know i'd get one of these sensors. Sure - I might not want people tracking me, but that's why there is an off swtich. I would want the ability to have my life signs monitored. Even better would be if it could react when my life signs became fsck'd.
PS: Would this implant work when the Hamilton's possessed drop by;-}
Bzzt - wrongo to you too. Landlords can NOT lock a tenent out of the house. Nor can they cut power, water, or anything else. In fact, they can't even lock you out of you don't pay your rent. They need a court issued eviction notice before they can throw your ass out on the street. Tenants have major rights *provided the are on a lease*. You friend that you are staying with can boot you at anytime, but your landlord has no such ability. If he does, he's breaking his contract and liable for all sorts of punative damages, not to mention having the police knock on his door at 4am and demand they he give his tenant keys to the new locks he installed.
This is rated 2: interesting? How about -1 flamebait? like anyone would use a version of linux from the evil empire. And like the evil empire would produce a product that they had to open source.
Correct me if i'm wrong, but why would they even need a deal to use MS Linux (If there was such a thing) as MS Linux would keep the old free-license - unless they wrote something completely new and unrelated but liked the linux name.....
hey, I live in DC. And while it isn't perfect - it's great. My box is always online thanks to Ricochet being progressive and installing their network here. And DC is quite a safe city. I can walk home from the bars (allright area of town) to where I live (hmm - getting a bit slim shady) and not have to worry about being harasses, beaten up, mugged, or killed.
Oh - and stop trolling around. Extrapolating strange facts and making someone look bad is not good. Remember, you are as free to vote as Taco (I'm assuming you're both citizens and not inmates (hey, can criminals vote?)) So live and let live.
Actually, It was Apple Corp, the Beatles record company who filed the trademark infringement suite against Apple (Why shouldn't they have, they were bigger than god;-} )
The suite was filed in February of 1989, and on October 9th of 1991, Apple Computers settled the suit paying Apple Corps 26.5 Millions
So no - they didn't decide to just get along because they were in different markets
My bad - i just realized the IIIe is the econo-model..... Hmm - well then - you can probably find out what chip the standard III's use and use that. Next time - just buy the real palm. It's not worth it to buy the cheap one and wreck it trying to upgrade it to the next model (IMHO)
I've got a palm III, and as far as I can tell it's got an EEPROM (or something similar). When you update the system on it - it writes it into the chip. Plus there's palm software out there that lets you move applications over to the bios chip to save memory space.
Ok - so if some govermental authority tries to block all my traffic with a box - what is to prevent me from just cutting their box out of the circuit? Sure - the rest of the world might be able to get along without us, but i sure as heck want my e-mail delivered to me. And i don't think international service providers are going to look too kindly at the US government blocking their business.
For instance most companies overseas cables provide more than just internet, ie telephone and telegraph service;-}. I would hope they would say "You're not interfering with our right to try and earn a living by blocking our traffic" - and throw the government's box out on the street.
Simple as that - what is the man going to do if all of their "control" boxen get yanked, and dropped off a big building? "Sorry mr suit, your equipment was malfuntioning and interfering with my business"
Not that i'm anti-government, but hey - the people still have a voice here in america
hehehe - i remember my mac days. There are a heck of a lot of ways to get a floppy out. You can (if i remember correctly)
Drag it to the trashcan
use a menu or keyboard shortcut to dismount it
use a menu or keyboard shortcut to eject it
hold down the mouse button while booting
Seems like plenty of ways to eject a disk to me.
And a lot easier on the fingers than having to push something on the front of a pc (after you've umount'd it). !offtopic! - does anyone remember the power-inject disk drives? The ones that sucked the floppy in? Ahh - those were the days !offtopic!
hmmm - maybe my windows calculator is faulty (eeek pentium divide error), but last time i checked 1/2 inch =.5 inch 17/32 inch =.53125 9/16 inch =.5625
there's no network port, but there is certainly a USB port - so one could concievably either use a parallel port or USB ethernet adaptor (Last i hear d the parallel port jobbies were more supported). I just want someone to say if it's possible to hook it into my network somehow - even via a sketchy modem-modem link (with my server on the other end lying to it)
actually - if your house burns down and your money was in your mattress the treasury department has investigators that can figure out how much money there was - something about money not burning that well or something.
Have you ever done a side by side comparison? I blow people away by putting a cd in my cd player, and starting the song on my computer in MP3. Flipping between the two(after they're synchronized) is quite an experience (as is CD is soo much better quality on a good stereo).
But I still use mp3's for things like background music and parties where i'm not going to bother with CD's. Each has it's place in the world.
Of course, everybody who has taken a science class knows that this is a fallacy. The idea that because you are buying a box of Cap'n Crunch every two days and you never buy toothpaste (As far as they know) does not mean you will have bad dental hygene. Last year, i bought a big big pack of toothbrushes and a big big pack of toothpaste at costco - and i won't be buying toothpaste or toothbrushes for a long time because i have enough. Point is - i am still maintaining my dental health. They cannot infer from your purchasing records what are activites are - and are liable to be sued if they do.
Actually, the IBM workpad is a 3com made device. I've got mine right in front of me. It may have the IBM logo on the front, and the 3com logo is on the back. Dare i also mention that i got it from a 3com sales rep? IBM sells it to people who like Big Blue's name behind stuff.
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Now i'm not sure how the hardware is laid out on a Visor compared to a Palm III, but I've been able to fix my palm III a few times. There's a little socketed board inside (using what looks like a small simm socket type thing). That card has a tendency to come loose. So I'd reccomend that you just crack open your visor and check all the connections. Especially if you use the device daily theres a good chance that vibrations, smacks, drop, etc have caused a connector to come lose.
Just remember - you'll probably violate your warranty. Oh well. It's saved me twice.
If this is a university, here's my suggestion
;-}
Split up the users by the school they are in, i.e. at GWU, we've got seas.gwu.edu(engineering), esia.gwu.edu(international affairs), and a couple others. Most university students don't run high volume stuff off their website - so you could probably get away with decently powered boxes - 1 for each school, with tons of SCSI HD space on each box. Or - get a big honkin SUN box and let it do everything (gwis2.circ.gwu.edu).
Of course - if this isn't a university - just throw my comments out the window
Funny that - Levis wanting people to do "casual fridays" - hmmm. Doesnt' casual include kakhis (they make em), and casual button down or polo shirts (they make both of em). That's like Armani saying a study shows people work better in expensive suits ;-}
Gotta back this guy up on the PacBell office - I worked there for 2 years. Place never seemed to amaze me. In fact - they got fined by the state Public Utilities Commission - supposedly the place was too extravagant and luxurious ;-} (Was that why ISDN cost too much?)
;-{ Oh well.
Anyways, besides the fact that I worked underground, it was great. Of course - working underground has the advantage of A) always cool and B) You never really know what time it is. There was a man made lake (not a pond, a lake) in the back of the building, and 2 more out front.
Access into the building was either showing your badge to the man at the front desk, or prox-card. Even went to the trouble of hiding the prox-card readers in marble pedestals. Of course - i was fond of the entry ways where you thunked your proxcard, entered the little room which made sure you were the only one in there - then the door into the building would open.
Place was soo nice that tons of high schools used the cafeteria for proms and balls. (Hey, at what hotel can you sit out on the lake and watch the swans swim by?)
Then i left for DC for school
Oh right - it was cubeville, with FL and white noise, but it was allright. Those nice lunches and long walks around the lake made up for it.
I've got the same situation at my place. My main linux server is hidden behind the TV so that it's Ricochet wireless modem can get a good signal at the window (I live in a basement).
;-}
As long as your computer can boot by itself, i.e. no booting problems and it brings up the network you're golden.
Your RPMs are easy to upgrade - just 'rpm -Uvh pkgname'. No need to reboot, but I do say damn the uptime and reboot if you've seriously just changed every piece of code in the box
Kernel can be a bit trickier. Telnet in, and patch it first thing (Oh wait, you've got a stock redhat kernel? You could rpm -Uvh it, but i've got a certain fondness for going to ftp.kernel.org and grabbing the newest stable kernel(2.2.16 I believe). Then you can just patch it and recompile whenever you want - no icky redhatness to deal with.) After it's patched - either login through an X terminal and 'make xconfig'. If you're using telnet 'make menuconfig'.
I'm hoping you know what to do after that, but if you don't - drop by the linux document project. They've got a mirror at www.linuxhq.com. There's a Kernel-Upgrading HOWTO which pretty much says everything i've said - and more
Check you facts sweetie. Verizon (remember, Bell Atlantic and GTE merged) has a seperate division for Internet Access/DSL. This seperate division uses non-union people - in fact one of the major points of the unions was that they wanted access to the new/interesting markets.
And there is PPPoE software for linux which works reasonably well.
Oh - and they are fulfilling their end of the bargain. If they credit you for the time you are unable to use the service, then they're good to go, unfortunately for you and me though.
Me - I just use covad people. Fastpoint is installing my line any day now. Woo Hoo!
Note: I'm not an employee of Verizon, just an unsatisfied customer (i'm still waiting for them to install my POTS line. Argh. VoIP anyone?)
hmmm - i'm assuming you've never used a telephone if you're making comments like that. Telephone service is one of the most reliable things in the US (excuse my ethnocentricity - i've never been outside the US). Ethernet, and networks in general goes down quite a bit more
In fact, several companies (running a google search right now...) have said they were working on getting a "IP Dial Tone" - ie that you know you'll always be online or able to get a connection, like the phone line whose uptime is like 99.999 something percent.
Some links to prove are..
9. IP dial tone will remain IP busy signal through the end of '97. Yes, it is a great idea. Yes, I think it will happen. Just not in 1998. No applications, no infrastructure, too many firms trying to make a "standard" at this point. Much more likely for 1998 will be the explosion of service-level agreements (SLA). However, although these will be misunderstood by users. They are likely to be confused by mixed marketing messages, SLAs that fail to specify true goals, and a lack of metrics for judging SLAs.
Fred Said: "IP dial tone will remain IP busy signal through the end of '97."
Scoreboard
Universities have been around for a while and have perfected their methods of fscking their students
I don't know about you - but i'd kill for a set of those neural nanonics ;-} Hamilton's books kick ass.
;-}
But back on topic - I know i'd get one of these sensors. Sure - I might not want people tracking me, but that's why there is an off swtich. I would want the ability to have my life signs monitored. Even better would be if it could react when my life signs became fsck'd.
PS: Would this implant work when the Hamilton's possessed drop by
Bzzt - wrongo to you too. Landlords can NOT lock a tenent out of the house. Nor can they cut power, water, or anything else. In fact, they can't even lock you out of you don't pay your rent. They need a court issued eviction notice before they can throw your ass out on the street. Tenants have major rights *provided the are on a lease*. You friend that you are staying with can boot you at anytime, but your landlord has no such ability. If he does, he's breaking his contract and liable for all sorts of punative damages, not to mention having the police knock on his door at 4am and demand they he give his tenant keys to the new locks he installed.
This is rated 2: interesting? How about -1 flamebait? like anyone would use a version of linux from the evil empire. And like the evil empire would produce a product that they had to open source.
Correct me if i'm wrong, but why would they even need a deal to use MS Linux (If there was such a thing) as MS Linux would keep the old free-license - unless they wrote something completely new and unrelated but liked the linux name.....
That's my rant for the day.
hey, I live in DC. And while it isn't perfect - it's great. My box is always online thanks to Ricochet being progressive and installing their network here. And DC is quite a safe city. I can walk home from the bars (allright area of town) to where I live (hmm - getting a bit slim shady) and not have to worry about being harasses, beaten up, mugged, or killed.
Oh - and stop trolling around. Extrapolating strange facts and making someone look bad is not good. Remember, you are as free to vote as Taco (I'm assuming you're both citizens and not inmates (hey, can criminals vote?)) So live and let live.
Actually, It was Apple Corp, the Beatles record company who filed the trademark infringement suite against Apple (Why shouldn't they have, they were bigger than god ;-} )
The suite was filed in February of 1989, and on October 9th of 1991, Apple Computers settled the suit paying Apple Corps 26.5 Millions
So no - they didn't decide to just get along because they were in different markets
My bad - i just realized the IIIe is the econo-model..... Hmm - well then - you can probably find out what chip the standard III's use and use that. Next time - just buy the real palm. It's not worth it to buy the cheap one and wreck it trying to upgrade it to the next model (IMHO)
I've got a palm III, and as far as I can tell it's got an EEPROM (or something similar). When you update the system on it - it writes it into the chip. Plus there's palm software out there that lets you move applications over to the bios chip to save memory space.
No offense - but do your homework first.
>>Humans are generally huddled in small areas, and fish and penguins don't really need phone service.
;-}
Pengiuns don't need phone service - but most want high-speed internet access.
Hehehehe
Ok - so if some govermental authority tries to block all my traffic with a box - what is to prevent me from just cutting their box out of the circuit? Sure - the rest of the world might be able to get along without us, but i sure as heck want my e-mail delivered to me. And i don't think international service providers are going to look too kindly at the US government blocking their business.
;-}. I would hope they would say "You're not interfering with our right to try and earn a living by blocking our traffic" - and throw the government's box out on the street.
For instance most companies overseas cables provide more than just internet, ie telephone and telegraph service
Simple as that - what is the man going to do if all of their "control" boxen get yanked, and dropped off a big building? "Sorry mr suit, your equipment was malfuntioning and interfering with my business"
Not that i'm anti-government, but hey - the people still have a voice here in america
- Drag it to the trashcan
- use a menu or keyboard shortcut to dismount it
- use a menu or keyboard shortcut to eject it
- hold down the mouse button while booting
Seems like plenty of ways to eject a disk to me.And a lot easier on the fingers than having to push something on the front of a pc (after you've umount'd it).
!offtopic! - does anyone remember the power-inject disk drives? The ones that sucked the floppy in? Ahh - those were the days !offtopic!
hmmm - maybe my windows calculator is faulty (eeek pentium divide error), but last time i checked .5 inch .53125 .5625
1/2 inch =
17/32 inch =
9/16 inch =
there's no network port, but there is certainly a USB port - so one could concievably either use a parallel port or USB ethernet adaptor (Last i hear d the parallel port jobbies were more supported). I just want someone to say if it's possible to hook it into my network somehow - even via a sketchy modem-modem link (with my server on the other end lying to it)
actually - if your house burns down and your money was in your mattress the treasury department has investigators that can figure out how much money there was - something about money not burning that well or something.
But I still use mp3's for things like background music and parties where i'm not going to bother with CD's. Each has it's place in the world.
Of course, everybody who has taken a science class knows that this is a fallacy. The idea that because you are buying a box of Cap'n Crunch every two days and you never buy toothpaste (As far as they know) does not mean you will have bad dental hygene. Last year, i bought a big big pack of toothbrushes and a big big pack of toothpaste at costco - and i won't be buying toothpaste or toothbrushes for a long time because i have enough. Point is - i am still maintaining my dental health. They cannot infer from your purchasing records what are activites are - and are liable to be sued if they do.
electric barbarella?
I'll plug you in... dim the lights - electric barbarella
Actually, the IBM workpad is a 3com made device. I've got mine right in front of me. It may have the IBM logo on the front, and the 3com logo is on the back. Dare i also mention that i got it from a 3com sales rep? IBM sells it to people who like Big Blue's name behind stuff.