FAT, as the lowest common denominator, is the best choice for flash cards and any other device that has to work in any random Windows, Mac, or Linux box. Otherwise, you'll have to develop and maintain filesystem drivers for your end users.
You can bring as much drinking water as you can carry onto a plane. You just have to buy it at inflated prices in the terminal after the screening point.
Does anybody else notice these benchmarks are flawed? For an article discussing the shell, we should know that in this first benchmark, time is only counting the execution time of grep, and not wc, and is thus undercounting how much CPU time is actually used. How about a neat shell trick to correctly run that benchmark?
> ~ $ time grep and tmp/a/longfile.txt | wc -l > 2811 > > real 0m0.097s > user 0m0.006s > sys 0m0.032s > ~ $ time grep -c and tmp/a/longfile.txt > 2811 > > real 0m0.013s > user 0m0.006s > sys 0m0.005s > ~ $
I think the biggest problem with gracenote is that they will threaten any company using freedb in their product with legal action based on their evil patent portfolio where they basically patented databse lookups over a network. He tries to point out that they've let freedb go on, but really they've worked hard to take it down.
There's a big difference here - if you bought a BetaMax deck, you couldn't get new movies, but if you get a Plasma, you'll be able to use it through its whole lifespan. The availability of plasma displays in the future shouldn't affect your purchasing decision now.
What if there were two of these maintainers, who would switch off each 2.6.x release. Then, each release would be maintained until 2.6.(x+2) comes out, by which time 2.6.(x+1) will be stable enough.
Isn't QT under GPL (not LGPL)? Thus, they'd have to have purchased the commercial version of QT to distribute the program without full source. Has anybody checked up on this?
As mentioned in other posts, this sounds exactly like what Dell did. In order to satisfy a contract with Microsoft that requires every PC to be sold with an OS, if you bought an "OS-less" PC, it included FreeDOS on a CD. Of course, nobody is going to actually use FreeDOS, but it satisfies the contract.
You just need the Boot CD that comes with the Linux Kit, and maybe a memory card for each PS2. Then you can boot each of the CD (one at a time), and they can run, mounting the root partition over NFS, fine until the next re-boot.
Volkswagen and Audi dealers sell the PhatBox mentioned a couple other times here. You can get it with a new car, or put it in a 99 or newer VW/Audi. Oh, and yes, it plays Ogg and you can manage it from Linux with a couple Perl scripts.
I use my PS2 Linux kit as a set-top embedded device. It makes a very nice home MP3 player (I have a cherry GTK GUI going on it), and I can play old NES games on it. These are things you could do with a cheap PC, but if you already have a PS2, I think it's better to go with the Linux kit.
Oh, and that 40G hard drive it came with is by far the biggest one I have outside my TiVo, so I sometimes use it as a file server, though it's not great for that.
When my TiVo was down for a week while I was upgrading it (120G drive and tivoweb!), my roomate and his girlfriend would hound me daily asking when the TiVo would work again...
Get a Mini-ITX computer. You can build a case yourself into almost any form factor. Or, you can buy it with a case that fits well into a stereo system: http://www.checkercube.com/store/Online-ITX.html Just add an IRMAN remote and a sound card with digital out, and you're set.
This year they're allowed to remotely send adjustments to the car. While movable wings are not allowed, they can change engine mappings (fuel economy vs. power), brake balance, and any other electronic function in the car. They can even modify the traction control or automatic gear shifting.
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He's in the Bay Area? He'll probably only have 20 new job offers by the end of the week. Must be rough...
FAT, as the lowest common denominator, is the best choice for flash cards and any other device that has to work in any random Windows, Mac, or Linux box. Otherwise, you'll have to develop and maintain filesystem drivers for your end users.
The American Academy of Pediatrics agrees - private banking is a waste. Go public banking, and you're more likely to save somebody's life.
http://www.aap.org/advocacy/releases/jan07cordblood.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garden_leave
You can bring as much drinking water as you can carry onto a plane. You just have to buy it at inflated prices in the terminal after the screening point.
Does anybody else notice these benchmarks are flawed? For an article discussing the shell, we should know that in this first benchmark, time is only counting the execution time of grep, and not wc, and is thus undercounting how much CPU time is actually used. How about a neat shell trick to correctly run that benchmark?
> ~ $ time grep and tmp/a/longfile.txt | wc -l
> 2811
>
> real 0m0.097s
> user 0m0.006s
> sys 0m0.032s
> ~ $ time grep -c and tmp/a/longfile.txt
> 2811
>
> real 0m0.013s
> user 0m0.006s
> sys 0m0.005s
> ~ $
I think the biggest problem with gracenote is that they will threaten any company using freedb in their product with legal action based on their evil patent portfolio where they basically patented databse lookups over a network. He tries to point out that they've let freedb go on, but really they've worked hard to take it down.
There's a big difference here - if you bought a BetaMax deck, you couldn't get new movies, but if you get a Plasma, you'll be able to use it through its whole lifespan. The availability of plasma displays in the future shouldn't affect your purchasing decision now.
Or, send them straight to voicemail, where they'll figure out that you're not the one they were trying to call.
If you're on the "best" coast, you've still got 15 minutes left!
Apple would sure miss the $100+ you pay every year and a half to upgrade OS X.
What if there were two of these maintainers, who would switch off each 2.6.x release. Then, each release would be maintained until 2.6.(x+2) comes out, by which time 2.6.(x+1) will be stable enough.
Isn't QT under GPL (not LGPL)? Thus, they'd have to have purchased the commercial version of QT to distribute the program without full source. Has anybody checked up on this?
As mentioned in other posts, this sounds exactly like what Dell did. In order to satisfy a contract with Microsoft that requires every PC to be sold with an OS, if you bought an "OS-less" PC, it included FreeDOS on a CD. Of course, nobody is going to actually use FreeDOS, but it satisfies the contract.
You just need the Boot CD that comes with the Linux Kit, and maybe a memory card for each PS2. Then you can boot each of the CD (one at a time), and they can run, mounting the root partition over NFS, fine until the next re-boot.
Volkswagen and Audi dealers sell the PhatBox mentioned a couple other times here. You can get it with a new car, or put it in a 99 or newer VW/Audi. Oh, and yes, it plays Ogg and you can manage it from Linux with a couple Perl scripts.
You need the Linux kit for the special boot disk that allows you to load a Linux kernel, which must be on a dedicated memory card.
I use my PS2 Linux kit as a set-top embedded device. It makes a very nice home MP3 player (I have a cherry GTK GUI going on it), and I can play old NES games on it. These are things you could do with a cheap PC, but if you already have a PS2, I think it's better to go with the Linux kit.
Oh, and that 40G hard drive it came with is by far the biggest one I have outside my TiVo, so I sometimes use it as a file server, though it's not great for that.
My car player has been able to play Vorbis ever since Tremor came out.
When my TiVo was down for a week while I was upgrading it (120G drive and tivoweb!), my roomate and his girlfriend would hound me daily asking when the TiVo would work again...
Get a Mini-ITX computer. You can build a case yourself into almost any form factor. Or, you can buy it with a case that fits well into a stereo system: http://www.checkercube.com/store/Online-ITX.html
Just add an IRMAN remote and a sound card with digital out, and you're set.
I partied there last night, and when I woke up, I had no idea how I wound up on that couch...
FLAC is a documented codec, Ogg isn't. I'd say Ogg is still trying to move towards FLAC.
I like hacking the CD changer bus to allow you to control many gigs of mp3s instead of 6 lowly CDs, like PhatNoise.
This year they're allowed to remotely send adjustments to the car. While movable wings are not allowed, they can change engine mappings (fuel economy vs. power), brake balance, and any other electronic function in the car. They can even modify the traction control or automatic gear shifting.