I believe that as a part of CHRP, nearly all of PowerComputing's clones had PS2 and serial ports. I know for sure that a clone I used had both PS2 and ADB for keyboard/mouse, and they were each equally plug-and-play compatible.
Macs have another great keyboard combo: Command-Option-Escape! On old-school macs it would generally not help, but on OS X it's the friendliest GUI to kill -9 I have ever seen.
That also reminds me, on OS 9, you could press command-power, and escape to a prompt. The only command I know of was 'go', which would take you to the Finder. Great on the older installs of At Ease:)
I've made the transition from Mandrake on a Desktop to OSX on a Powerbook. Surprisingly, KDE has some apps that are very good and designed well enough to compliment an OSX environment.
Example 1: KMail! If you haven't ever tried this email client, try it NOW. It has some of the most killer email filtering speed I have ever seen in an email application. It nicely integrates with GnuPG. It has good keyboard shortcuts. It's set up not to download images from emails. It stores emails with maildir by default. It's pretty. Did I mention that it's fast? Up until 10.3's much improved mail.app, I would have killed to have KMail running naitively on OS X.
Ex 2: KOffice. I've never used it, but it's absolutely essential that OS X has a free naitive-running office package. Unless the OO.org aqua port gets back up, this package will likely be KOffice.
Ex 3: Konqueror is a very good file manager. While the OS X file manager is very good, there are a couple of areas that it misses. For example, I can use konqueror to select all items matching the file pattern '*foo*.bar'. In OS X, I have to drop to a terminal, and loose the trash can functionality, or switch views and sort by type, which takes longer. As another poster said, SMB apparently works better in konqueror than Finder (thanks, I'll have to try that!). If konqueror can run, then so can any other KDE app, especially when you consider that Konqueror is the most (featureful | bloated) app in KDE.
I've found that BitTorrent works the best in the dorm that I'm in - it takes longer for the downloads to start when compared to my DSL @ home, but once they do I routinely see 500-600 KB/s. Of course, if you're going to use bittorrent, make sure to check out www.suprnova.org, where you can find things like linux ISO's, and..... stuff;)
My 12" PowerBook + iPod (Apple had an absolutely sick discount for students) has worked wonders - I never thought that something so technological could be such a great conversation piece - or described as huggable, cute, etc.
Vaio's appear to have the same effect - what other computer equipment have people used to pick girls up?
Apple got smart when they put a (token) address book and calendar on there. They're very close to useless
I'm suprised to hear someone say that. For me, having the (basic) PIM functions has been a lifesaver! I use the alarms so I don't make sure I miss any lectures, the todo list to keep on top of my homework, the address book for quick access to phone numbers. I even use OmniOutliner (free with my powerbook!) to export my lecture notes to my iPod for quick refrence. I have a shared calendar in iCal with movie release dates so when I'm out with friends it's easy to see what's playing. I would easily pay $100 for these features.
My only complaint is that I can't mark todo's as completed. While I can understand limiting other editing functions, a checkmark widget should be easy to implement on the ipod. Perhaps in the next software revision:)
This isn't much different from MacOS or *nix software installation. It's actually pretty standard. The only difference is MacOS asks for the admin user pass during install and does it on its own.
Let me clarify: Under *nix, you can use the su command which switches physical users. For an example, if I and logged in as 'andrew', and then
'su root', I am not elevating andrew to root privlidges. It's more like logging out and logging back in as root. This is like shift-right-clicking an exe in Windows and running a program as administrator.
For this install of Palm Desktop on Win2k the steps were:
1. Log in as admin. Use the Users control panel to elevate the normal user from 'limited' to 'administrators'.
2. Log out, log in as the other user. Install the software. Reboot:(
3. Log back in as admin, bring the user down to limited user. Log out.
4. Log in as regular user.
5. Find out that the software expects to be able to write to the program files directory. It can't because the filesystem is ntfs, and the folder is owned by admin and is read-only by everyone else.
6. Try to change the path of the data files (looks easy from within the app), but PalmDesktop still wants to write to an INI file in the program files folder.
7. Change the file permissions on that file by running explorer as admin, and pray for faster OS X or Linux adoption:)
So yes, it was a PITA. Next time, i'm just going to format the drive and throw on xandros/mandrake/etc with kde and korganizer/kpilot/etc.
If every software maker followed these Microsoft specifications Windows would be a much better operating system. A good example of a broken app is Palm Desktop. First of all, it only works with one user. Second, to install it, you have to give the limited user admin rights, install it, and bring them back down to limited rights. It's the same for Documents To Go. Talk about a PITA - and notice that neither of the apps boxes have the Windows logo on them.
The oldest CDR I've ever used must have been burned in 1994. The disc itself said it was rated for 2x burning, and I *think* the brand was Pinnacle. I saw an ad for the same kind of CDR (and a burner) in a 1994 Macworld. I think it's the burner mentioned in this article.
The CD read just fine in my 24x Yamaha drive in 2000. So if all of the CD's I burn today last 6-8 years, I'll be OK, because I'll be able to transfer them all to a 1TB iPod:)
Do what I did - don't just slashdot it! Fill out the form with as much fake info as possible, and he will be hard pressed to filter the real info from the fake. I for one filled out things like "I will hunt you down and flay you alive", "I fucked your mom" (sorry, just saw American Wedding;-), etc. Lets give these fuckers a taste of their own medicine.
3. Please, give us the option of a double-click interface.
In MDK 9.1, got to K Menu-->Configuration-->Control Centre. Under the Peripherals entry, select Mouse. Right in the middle of the window, you can choose between double and single click, as well as configure single click. Hope this helps!
That said, the bug button in Safari still exists (it is disabled by default in 1.0)
It's still in Safari, under the Safari App menu. If you are finding enough bugs, you can still still do as the poster says and add the button. I've only found 1 website that has problems with Safari, and the page works in Konqueror, so I would say that KHTML is off to a great start:-)
Sounds like a good start, but what about OS's that are not obtained through a company (think FreeBSD, Linux From Scratch, etc)? Perhaps there should be an exemption - if the source code is avalible to the purchaser, then the responsibility should shift to those actually running the server.
It would also make sense to force closed-source OS vendors to allow those who purchase their OS free access to the code, or suffer an additional penalty for security flaws. For an example, MS could choose to not disclose their code at all, and pay the appropriate fines, or they could make the code avalible under specific terms (only the purchaser can view/change/compile the code). This would allow closed-source companies to continue their model if they wished, put provide incentives to be more security concious, either through fixing the code themselves or opening the code up.
If you're located in an area that only qualifies for IDSL or T1 services, setting up NetShare in your neighborhood would allow all surrounding locations to contribute to the cost of a T1 circuit while sharing in high quality broadband access!
The way I interpret this is that Speakeasy is saying that this plan makes it easy for people who don't live in an area where ADSL/SDSL is avalible to share a connection and split the costs, much like the co-ops mentioned awhile back. They are NOT limiting the kind of connection you can use. I would look into setting up a 3-10 Mbit line and sharing that! The costs would still be very low, but imagine the speed when no one else on your network is online - great for getting iso's and other "files";-)
*I* usually listen to a whole cd (either the original or ripped, played in order with the xmms gapless plugin). I found a neat solution for playing tracks in a random order. Rip them all to mp3 or ogg, and use a crossfade plugin. The transitions between the songs don't seem jarring at all, and it works great for electronica and live tracks.
Now, for Linkin Park, these guys have no room to bitch. They got noticed by UPLOADING SONGS IN DIGITAL FORMAT and posting on other bands' web forums asking their fans to try out their music. And now their bitching about the same-style format that got them where they are today. What a whiny bunch of prats.
I'll admit it - I actually bought the special edition cd/dvd version of Linkin Park's latest CD, Meteora. If you watch the interviews, or just look at the design of the packaging, you will realize that LP tried (and IMHO succeded) to create a single work of art. Musically, the only way to properly listen to the CD is to listen to the whole thing at once. You just don't get as much out of their music if you listen to them as as singles. So give LP a break - if more artists thought this way about CD's then perhaps it would be worth the 20$ for the complete work.
At the ISP where I work we offer fiber connections that allow for increased bandwidth for certain periods of time. For example, our burstable connections are usually around 1-3 meg for normal times, then burstable up to 10 megs. I'm sure you can find something suitable to you.
*blatant sales pitch*
If your buisness is near Southern Ontario, check out our website at www.sentex.net. We rock:-)
Oh, and make sure to devote a couple hours to
mp3 swapping.
What he really means is pr0n swapping - after all, mp3's are only a couple MB's each, while a good pr0n movie can easily be between 500 and 1024 MB, which is quite a pain if you have bandwidth caps or worse yet - dialup:-P. What would be really cool would be to set up BitTorrent trackers - each comp can only send out a max of 100 mbps, but imagine the speed of bittorrent on such a network - it would be worth attending just for the pr0n/mp3/divx opportunities!
Check out GTKtalog. Not only does it do catalogs, it also uses file and other such utilities to save more info about the files - MP3 tags/bitrates, etc. It also will look inside of archives like.tar.gz, rpm,.zip, so you can search for a file inside of the archive. It's been very useful for cataloging my MP3 CD's and download archives.
...to committ technological suicide. Perhaps throwing the DC from the top of his house, or drowning it in water, or something. But to go out of his way to ASK for a slashdotting, well this guy must be severley disturbed...
But hey, I beat the rush! I got the text and about 1/8th of the picture... pretty cool for a DreamCast. I'm not sure about the size of the flash ram, but perhaps this could be used to create emergency backup webservers? Let's hear the suggestions...
I think it was in the last story about the Terminator 3 Trailer, but someone posted a script (.qtl) that tells QuickTime to play a movie in full screen. Sorry, I can't find it, but perhaps someone will have better luck:-)
If you decide on Mandrake, go with 9.1. It is much more polished than 8.0-9.0. I have a simple integrated Intel i810 Video Card, and mandrake configured it properly for 3D automatically. I downloaded the Linux client for Quake III, and was fragging within 10 minutes. There is no performance difference between Linux and Windows 2000 (on my machine). I'm sure that it would be the same with any other native linux game.
Also, the Sims Edition of Mandrake uses WineX, so it's not actually a native port. It might make more sense to use Mandrake 9.1, install WineX, and run the Sims on that.
If you want to learn more about gaming on Mandrake, check out www.mandrakeusers.org. They have a game forum which will help you towards linux gaming nirvana:-)
My bank (bmo.com) does the same thing. The reason is that they want you to have the same password for both internet and telephone banking. Of course, a phone keypad can only do certain characters, leading to the alpha-neumeric restriction. As to why it's only 6 characters, I'll never know...they must be using M$ software somewhere down the line;-)
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I believe that as a part of CHRP, nearly all of PowerComputing's clones had PS2 and serial ports. I know for sure that a clone I used had both PS2 and ADB for keyboard/mouse, and they were each equally plug-and-play compatible.
Macs have another great keyboard combo: Command-Option-Escape! On old-school macs it would generally not help, but on OS X it's the friendliest GUI to kill -9 I have ever seen.
:)
That also reminds me, on OS 9, you could press command-power, and escape to a prompt. The only command I know of was 'go', which would take you to the Finder. Great on the older installs of At Ease
Does CMD-Power work on OS X? Here goes....
For a GPL'ed SFTP/FTP program try out Cyberduck. It rocks :)
I've made the transition from Mandrake on a Desktop to OSX on a Powerbook. Surprisingly, KDE has some apps that are very good and designed well enough to compliment an OSX environment.
Example 1: KMail! If you haven't ever tried this email client, try it NOW. It has some of the most killer email filtering speed I have ever seen in an email application. It nicely integrates with GnuPG. It has good keyboard shortcuts. It's set up not to download images from emails. It stores emails with maildir by default. It's pretty. Did I mention that it's fast? Up until 10.3's much improved mail.app, I would have killed to have KMail running naitively on OS X.
Ex 2: KOffice. I've never used it, but it's absolutely essential that OS X has a free naitive-running office package. Unless the OO.org aqua port gets back up, this package will likely be KOffice.
Ex 3: Konqueror is a very good file manager. While the OS X file manager is very good, there are a couple of areas that it misses. For example, I can use konqueror to select all items matching the file pattern '*foo*.bar'. In OS X, I have to drop to a terminal, and loose the trash can functionality, or switch views and sort by type, which takes longer. As another poster said, SMB apparently works better in konqueror than Finder (thanks, I'll have to try that!). If konqueror can run, then so can any other KDE app, especially when you consider that Konqueror is the most (featureful | bloated) app in KDE.
So that's why people bother. Props to them!
I've found that BitTorrent works the best in the dorm that I'm in - it takes longer for the downloads to start when compared to my DSL @ home, but once they do I routinely see 500-600 KB/s. Of course, if you're going to use bittorrent, make sure to check out www.suprnova.org, where you can find things like linux ISO's, and ..... stuff ;)
My 12" PowerBook + iPod (Apple had an absolutely sick discount for students) has worked wonders - I never thought that something so technological could be such a great conversation piece - or described as huggable, cute, etc. Vaio's appear to have the same effect - what other computer equipment have people used to pick girls up?
My only complaint is that I can't mark todo's as completed. While I can understand limiting other editing functions, a checkmark widget should be easy to implement on the ipod. Perhaps in the next software revision
For this install of Palm Desktop on Win2k the steps were:
1. Log in as admin. Use the Users control panel to elevate the normal user from 'limited' to 'administrators'.
2. Log out, log in as the other user. Install the software. Reboot
3. Log back in as admin, bring the user down to limited user. Log out.
4. Log in as regular user.
5. Find out that the software expects to be able to write to the program files directory. It can't because the filesystem is ntfs, and the folder is owned by admin and is read-only by everyone else.
6. Try to change the path of the data files (looks easy from within the app), but PalmDesktop still wants to write to an INI file in the program files folder.
7. Change the file permissions on that file by running explorer as admin, and pray for faster OS X or Linux adoption
So yes, it was a PITA. Next time, i'm just going to format the drive and throw on xandros/mandrake/etc with kde and korganizer/kpilot/etc.
If every software maker followed these Microsoft specifications Windows would be a much better operating system. A good example of a broken app is Palm Desktop. First of all, it only works with one user. Second, to install it, you have to give the limited user admin rights, install it, and bring them back down to limited rights. It's the same for Documents To Go. Talk about a PITA - and notice that neither of the apps boxes have the Windows logo on them.
The oldest CDR I've ever used must have been burned in 1994. The disc itself said it was rated for 2x burning, and I *think* the brand was Pinnacle. I saw an ad for the same kind of CDR (and a burner) in a 1994 Macworld. I think it's the burner mentioned in this article. The CD read just fine in my 24x Yamaha drive in 2000. So if all of the CD's I burn today last 6-8 years, I'll be OK, because I'll be able to transfer them all to a 1TB iPod :)
Do what I did - don't just slashdot it! Fill out the form with as much fake info as possible, and he will be hard pressed to filter the real info from the fake. I for one filled out things like "I will hunt you down and flay you alive", "I fucked your mom" (sorry, just saw American Wedding ;-), etc. Lets give these fuckers a taste of their own medicine.
It's something that I've picked up from the great community over at mandrakeusers.org. Check it out, and see how an online LUG should (and can!) work.
Sounds like a good start, but what about OS's that are not obtained through a company (think FreeBSD, Linux From Scratch, etc)? Perhaps there should be an exemption - if the source code is avalible to the purchaser, then the responsibility should shift to those actually running the server.
It would also make sense to force closed-source OS vendors to allow those who purchase their OS free access to the code, or suffer an additional penalty for security flaws. For an example, MS could choose to not disclose their code at all, and pay the appropriate fines, or they could make the code avalible under specific terms (only the purchaser can view/change/compile the code). This would allow closed-source companies to continue their model if they wished, put provide incentives to be more security concious, either through fixing the code themselves or opening the code up.
The way I interpret this is that Speakeasy is saying that this plan makes it easy for people who don't live in an area where ADSL/SDSL is avalible to share a connection and split the costs, much like the co-ops mentioned awhile back. They are NOT limiting the kind of connection you can use. I would look into setting up a 3-10 Mbit line and sharing that! The costs would still be very low, but imagine the speed when no one else on your network is online - great for getting iso's and other "files"
*I* usually listen to a whole cd (either the original or ripped, played in order with the xmms gapless plugin). I found a neat solution for playing tracks in a random order. Rip them all to mp3 or ogg, and use a crossfade plugin. The transitions between the songs don't seem jarring at all, and it works great for electronica and live tracks.
At the ISP where I work we offer fiber connections that allow for increased bandwidth for certain periods of time. For example, our burstable connections are usually around 1-3 meg for normal times, then burstable up to 10 megs. I'm sure you can find something suitable to you.
:-)
*blatant sales pitch*
If your buisness is near Southern Ontario, check out our website at www.sentex.net. We rock
Check out GTKtalog. Not only does it do catalogs, it also uses file and other such utilities to save more info about the files - MP3 tags/bitrates, etc. It also will look inside of archives like .tar.gz, rpm, .zip, so you can search for a file inside of the archive. It's been very useful for cataloging my MP3 CD's and download archives.
...to committ technological suicide. Perhaps throwing the DC from the top of his house, or drowning it in water, or something. But to go out of his way to ASK for a slashdotting, well this guy must be severley disturbed...
But hey, I beat the rush! I got the text and about 1/8th of the picture... pretty cool for a DreamCast. I'm not sure about the size of the flash ram, but perhaps this could be used to create emergency backup webservers? Let's hear the suggestions...
I think it was in the last story about the Terminator 3 Trailer, but someone posted a script (.qtl) that tells QuickTime to play a movie in full screen. Sorry, I can't find it, but perhaps someone will have better luck :-)
If you decide on Mandrake, go with 9.1. It is much more polished than 8.0-9.0. I have a simple integrated Intel i810 Video Card, and mandrake configured it properly for 3D automatically. I downloaded the Linux client for Quake III, and was fragging within 10 minutes. There is no performance difference between Linux and Windows 2000 (on my machine). I'm sure that it would be the same with any other native linux game.
:-)
Also, the Sims Edition of Mandrake uses WineX, so it's not actually a native port. It might make more sense to use Mandrake 9.1, install WineX, and run the Sims on that.
If you want to learn more about gaming on Mandrake, check out www.mandrakeusers.org. They have a game forum which will help you towards linux gaming nirvana
My bank (bmo.com) does the same thing. The reason is that they want you to have the same password for both internet and telephone banking. Of course, a phone keypad can only do certain characters, leading to the alpha-neumeric restriction. As to why it's only 6 characters, I'll never know...they must be using M$ software somewhere down the line ;-)