If I could get an LCD monitor that was bright, clear, and had colour as good as my CRT for a reasonable price, I would. But at the moment I can't. The only one I've ever seen that meets my requirements(apart from price) is the old SGI ones.
I think I'll probably have to wait for OLED before I get my flat panel. I can't wait to get this huge massive thing off my desk....
Not entirely sure yet. I'm still at the planning stage. I think I may have to build a fuel cell myself. The motor will be a permament magnet motor, using one of those extremely powerful rare earth magnets. I'm going to run a website about the conversion when I do it, so hopefully it will get/.'ed.:-)
Would you believe that an electric motor can actually accelerate faster than an ICE? The key problem though is battery usage. If you accelerate like that all the time you will run the batteries flat quickly. I'm going to use a Mazda 626 or similiar, and a rechargeable fuel cell instead of batteries in the hope of fixing the range problem.
An affordable "webpad" like computer running Linux, with a nice bright clear full colour screen, similiar to those things on Star Trek Enterprise. That would be an excellent type of computer, and would likely replace my desktop computer for a lot of stuff.
Too much grease and oil. I don't know about other geeks, but I hate to get grease and oil and rubbish all over my hands because it's hard to clean off your hands, and then you get it on your keyboard:-(. I do have a car project though, but it will be a once off to remove all the internal combustion engine related gear in my car, and replace it with an electric motor. Once the old stuff is out it shouldn't be as messy.
You may laugh at preloaded Linux-only, or dual-boot machines, but I work in a computer shop and have already sold several preloaded machines with dual-boot linux systems. Why do they want them? Most want to just learn about the OS and because many of them want to get away from Microsoft.
I dunno about that, but it just seems damn boring when I listen to it from here in Australia. "All Things Considered" would have to be the worlds most boring radio program, with the worlds dullest presenters. Australian public radio stations are much more interesting.
You know nothing about what you're talking about in the Australian situation. I'm currently setting up an ISP that will likely be offering DSL. The costs are horrendus. Because I'm fairly well in charge of it, I'll be setting the policies fairly, so you will pay for your bandwidth, and no one user will be allow to hog all the bandwidth, but I won't be blocking any services except maybe spammers and virus senders.
All you lamers on whirlpool.net know nothing about what you're talking about. Here's a business propisition for you - you buy hot dogs for $2 and sell them for $1.
You ever stop to think about the other monopoly who owns the backbone and makes Telstra's costs so high? It called Optus. I'm suprised Telstra hasn't pulled the plug on broadband already because they say they are making a loss on it.
Did it ever occur to you that Telstra are losing money on their broadband services? I'm suprised they haven't pulled the plug on the service yet. They don't own the backbone, they pay Optus heaps(per megabyte), to access the backbone. You wonder why Optus has a better deal - they own the backbone. Based on my calc's even 3Gb a month is losing them money on the ADSL accounts.
Let me know when you start a business selling something for less than you pay for it!
Ian you're an idiot! Do you want all broadband ISPs to go broke - then you'd have no Cable, no DSL, and no Freenet! I don't see why companies that are making a decent profit should decrease service.
Let me know when you start an internet service, that sells access for less than it costs you!
I think it would be quite good to see printer drivers in the kernel. CUPS is nice and all, but before manufacturers are going to supply drivers, every Linux user needs the same printing system. If the kernel had this, it would make things easier. Maybe I should suggest it on LKML.
Um, did you read the installation instructions? I read the CUPS documentation, followed the instructions, and my Epson 600 worked perfectly first time.
I use KDE, and have found that Konqueror never freezes while loading pages. The AA works very nicely too. If you want something closer to BeOS, you may like to try Atheos.
You could try Atheos. It's not a BeOS clone, but is quite like a combination of it and AmigaOS, and is under rapid development. It's also under the GPL. It's aiming for the market of people who don't want to fiddle to get the OS the way they want it. The OS has an integrated GUI/desktop, instead of the Linux style of Kernel-Usermode-XFree86-WindowManager. It's mostly POSIX compliant, and has many Linux apps ported already. It might be just what you're looking for.
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If I could get an LCD monitor that was bright, clear, and had colour as good as my CRT for a reasonable price, I would. But at the moment I can't. The only one I've ever seen that meets my requirements(apart from price) is the old SGI ones.
I think I'll probably have to wait for OLED before I get my flat panel. I can't wait to get this huge massive thing off my desk....
Not by much. Just copy it to a floppy and send it from home.
"Oh, we run exchange so you can't forward it or I'll know!" Does he realise that someone can put the message on a floppy disk, and send it from home?
Not entirely sure yet. I'm still at the planning stage. I think I may have to build a fuel cell myself. The motor will be a permament magnet motor, using one of those extremely powerful rare earth magnets. I'm going to run a website about the conversion when I do it, so hopefully it will get /.'ed. :-)
Would you believe that an electric motor can actually accelerate faster than an ICE? The key problem though is battery usage. If you accelerate like that all the time you will run the batteries flat quickly. I'm going to use a Mazda 626 or similiar, and a rechargeable fuel cell instead of batteries in the hope of fixing the range problem.
An affordable "webpad" like computer running Linux, with a nice bright clear full colour screen, similiar to those things on Star Trek Enterprise. That would be an excellent type of computer, and would likely replace my desktop computer for a lot of stuff.
Too much grease and oil. I don't know about other geeks, but I hate to get grease and oil and rubbish all over my hands because it's hard to clean off your hands, and then you get it on your keyboard :-(. I do have a car project though, but it will be a once off to remove all the internal combustion engine related gear in my car, and replace it with an electric motor. Once the old stuff is out it shouldn't be as messy.
David
These FPGA's sound pretty interesting, where do you get them? Could one build a useful, interesting homebrew computer with them? Thanks,
David
All the invaders have to do is cut the data lines going out to the internet. Simple!
You may laugh at preloaded Linux-only, or dual-boot machines, but I work in a computer shop and have already sold several preloaded machines with dual-boot linux systems. Why do they want them? Most want to just learn about the OS and because many of them want to get away from Microsoft.
I dunno about that, but it just seems damn boring when I listen to it from here in Australia. "All Things Considered" would have to be the worlds most boring radio program, with the worlds dullest presenters. Australian public radio stations are much more interesting.
I think that's a good slip up. They obviously know exactly where every email comes from, and all internet data.
It's the Borg!!! We will all be assimiliated! Resistance is Futile......
You know nothing about what you're talking about in the Australian situation. I'm currently setting up an ISP that will likely be offering DSL. The costs are horrendus. Because I'm fairly well in charge of it, I'll be setting the policies fairly, so you will pay for your bandwidth, and no one user will be allow to hog all the bandwidth, but I won't be blocking any services except maybe spammers and virus senders.
All you lamers on whirlpool.net know nothing about what you're talking about. Here's a business propisition for you - you buy hot dogs for $2 and sell them for $1.
You ever stop to think about the other monopoly who owns the backbone and makes Telstra's costs so high? It called Optus. I'm suprised Telstra hasn't pulled the plug on broadband already because they say they are making a loss on it.
Did it ever occur to you that Telstra are losing money on their broadband services? I'm suprised they haven't pulled the plug on the service yet. They don't own the backbone, they pay Optus heaps(per megabyte), to access the backbone. You wonder why Optus has a better deal - they own the backbone. Based on my calc's even 3Gb a month is losing them money on the ADSL accounts.
Let me know when you start a business selling something for less than you pay for it!
Ian you're an idiot! Do you want all broadband ISPs to go broke - then you'd have no Cable, no DSL, and no Freenet! I don't see why companies that are making a decent profit should decrease service.
Let me know when you start an internet service, that sells access for less than it costs you!
I think it would be quite good to see printer drivers in the kernel. CUPS is nice and all, but before manufacturers are going to supply drivers, every Linux user needs the same printing system. If the kernel had this, it would make things easier. Maybe I should suggest it on LKML.
Um, did you read the installation instructions? I read the CUPS documentation, followed the instructions, and my Epson 600 worked perfectly first time.
AFAIK, you can use KDE applications without using KDE as your window manager. I used KMail when I was using Enlightenment as my window manager.
This one isn't. I installed CUPS on my network, had absolutely no problems. All done in the CUPS web based GUI - no problems whatsoever.
Never saw that one. You should have submitted it as a story.....
I use KDE, and have found that Konqueror never freezes while loading pages. The AA works very nicely too. If you want something closer to BeOS, you may like to try Atheos.
You could try Atheos. It's not a BeOS clone, but is quite like a combination of it and AmigaOS, and is under rapid development. It's also under the GPL. It's aiming for the market of people who don't want to fiddle to get the OS the way they want it. The OS has an integrated GUI/desktop, instead of the Linux style of Kernel-Usermode-XFree86-WindowManager. It's mostly POSIX compliant, and has many Linux apps ported already. It might be just what you're looking for.
AFAIK, it either works or it doesn't. Like you get 10mb/sec or you get nothing. There is no link quality control on it from what I can see.