All the people that I know who use MS Windows use filesharing applications. But then again all the people who I know who use a free operating system, eg FreeBSD or linux, also use filesharing applications. MP3s and divxs are not OS dependant you know.
I have been considering doing this, not because i want a usable OS, but because I want to learn how the hell its actually done! Sure enough i can look at mature code, but from other peoples code you learn significantly less than breaking stuff yourself. By doing it yourself you can learn WHY certain things are done in a certain method, and what doesnt work etc.
Maybe the editors, like some of us readers, want to play by the rules. Sure a non reg link exists, but how long will it exist when every news site starts abusing the system?
Im happy enough signing up once for a website, using a spam catching email address, and using those login detials to read whatever the editors post.
If you dont like registering for an article, then dont read it, but dont bitch about it.
Where do people stand if they bought SCO Linux? This has got to be the most interesting position ever, even if it doesnt turn out to hold water.
Picture this: SCO warning customers that they may be liable, can those customers sue/claim compensation from the company that sold them the infringing product? Isnt this comparable to SCO sueing themselves?
Whatever the outcome, people are going to feel this for years to come.
Windows XP already has a IPv6 stack included. Granted all the tools are command line only, but its there and its actually a damn fine implentation. All you have to do now is get MS to push for it.
Disclaimer: I help run ipng.org.uk, a uk IPv6 tunnel broker with/64 delegation and full rdns control.
There is no way that a person needs their PDA on for 10 hours at a time even on standby if they are using it as the niche device that it is.
Im a support technician. My pda contains a heck of a lot of info on the systems that I support and thats what myself and the other support techicians use them for, that and time management. Oh and todo lists, contact databases etc.
I am often out of the office for days at a stretch. My pda handles all this admirably, with maybe one recharge a week. Other than that, its in the cradle for minutes at a time while i hotsync.
Assuming a standby time of 10 hours the actual time span would likely be at least double that if you use your PDA once every other minute.
An Ipod manages its 10 hours because it powers down the drive when the 32mb buffer is full. Your point is what exactly? I should cut down on my use of the pda?
You can't convince me that you would often not be anywhere near a recharge source for even just 10 hours.
Ah yes, while i should be doing my work, you think i should be looking for a power outlet? With my current pda, i dont need to, its on my hip waiting to go.
You can purchase more than one mode of recharge for your PDA if you really need to, for instance a second cradle, an AC adapter, a solar recharger, a USB recharger, an automotive recharger, etc.
I shouldnt need to. Pdas are not high drain devices. Besides, I dont need to.
If you're going to be typing papers (which can take hours) or surfing the web and checking email constantly on your wireless connection (a high-drain pursuit), then you should have a laptop.
If anyone needs 1gb of storage space, then they should have a laptop. Why the hell do you need that amount of storage space in a pda, is your life that busy? Are the documents you keep for referal that big? If so, you need to take a look at your working habits. (sic)
There and then != all day, every day. If you are using your PDA for more than 10 hours a day without a recharge then you need to seriously re-evaluate your working habits.
My working habits are fine, its a hell of a lot better than carrying around the manuals, or a hefty laptop which is overkill for reading a few pdfs. Oh, and "There and Then" does equal all day, every day. Can you guarentee to me that theres a point where you WOULDNT need access to your pda? No, you can only say when you PROBABLY dont need access. When my laptop is out of battery, Im half lost, because i could be blind sided by a request for information which is on that laptop. This is why i carry spare battery packs.
As I said in my last post, a Business Man needs unfetted access to his information.
being a graduate of an electrical engineering program and a practicing system engineer, I believe that I am being realistic in this case.
Get some practical experience and try using your pda for more than time management, and stop carrying around manuals, you will notice a marked improvement in your working practices. Field experience can count for a heck of a lot more than classroom work. (Im not belittleing your degree, so sorry if it sounds like it).
The bottom line is that you can't even make a claim like yours without knowing the power requirements for the device.
Im basing my figures on real life devices which ive used. Putting a hard disk into anything decimates the battery life. Try putting a microdrive into a camera and see how long the battery lasts vs the memory card. It drops, dramatically.
I sleep once a day. My cradle however is not at my place of sleep, its at my place of work. Same as the vast majority of people i know with palms.
Yes the new ipod firmware brings it up to 10 hours, and thats not good enough for me, not by a long stretch. But i make do. There is no way i could "make do" with a pda, as you need the info on it there and then. You can live without mp3s until you recharge, but try telling a business man out of the office that he will have to wait for his info. Get real.
I can't wait to have these start appearing in all sorts of Palm devices. The processors and screens of these guys have long caught up to the PC's of min 90's, but the sotrage capacities have been hovering around late 80's levels with the micro-drives being too large to fit in.
Yes, but battery capacity hasnt. When alcohol powercells come in, maybe, but until then, no way. Adding a hard disk to a palm device would bring the length of time between charges down to daily, not acceptable.:(
If the shock spring was finely balanced, then the slightest vibration would have set it rolling, so the thumping of several speakers, at tremendous bass, would be sure to have an affect
The windshield has rain sensors which automatically trigger the wipers, which walk off. Simple yet amazingly effective.
Prop planes are very very picky about what fuel they will run on. Prop plane fuel is much more expensive than the kerosene that jets will run on, and also prop planes require a lot more maintenence on their engines than jet aircraft. They may not guzzle more gas, but what they do drink isa lot more expensive.
Wrong, the Eurofighter is the first plane to go into service that can utilise supercruise in level flight. The EE Lightening could do so in a dive (and it could also go balistic straight from the end of the runway, and did so to get to the height nessacery to intercept Russian Bombers who routinly strayed into Northsea airspace).
I design and write a couple of apps that are heavy on end user input, and i do ALL validation server side. Its faster, less code to send client side, I have a guarenteed enviroment to validate in, AND I CAN TRUST MY VALIDATION 100%. Anything that dynamically alters client side information/input is asking for trouble.
I didnt say the article wasnt any use to me, i found it informative. It still came across as flag waving tho, and i deplore that sort of thing.
I for one, have never found myself doing any debugging in the browser past printing to it from php. Thats how i debug, simple. My html is rarely at fault, and if it looks good in IE or Phoenix, then it rocks. I dont do javascript. I dont do stuff client side. Theres nothing for the client to debug, job done.
As an aside, this article struck me as less of a "handy things in mozilla" and more of a "oooh look at what mozilla does over IE". It really struck me as that, another flag waving rather than truely informative.
As discussed on the mailing lsit, the National Post doesnt have this article online as of yet, but it is in the actual paper, and that is the source Theo quoted when announcing to the mailing list.. Basically the Globe has it online, so everyone has been quoting that in stories because its easier to reference something online in a online story.
And on a totally different note: GO THEO! WHOOOOT!!
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All the people that I know who use MS Windows use filesharing applications. But then again all the people who I know who use a free operating system, eg FreeBSD or linux, also use filesharing applications. MP3s and divxs are not OS dependant you know.
They dont have to, infact Its quite plausable that I can install a BSD base system with no GPLed applications.
He said distro, that could include the BSDs as well.
I have been considering doing this, not because i want a usable OS, but because I want to learn how the hell its actually done! Sure enough i can look at mature code, but from other peoples code you learn significantly less than breaking stuff yourself. By doing it yourself you can learn WHY certain things are done in a certain method, and what doesnt work etc.
Except that the didnt keep the copyright notices at all.
Only because their R&D budget is lower than their Purchase and Acquisitions Budget :P
Yes, they are. There is as much in the cards firmware that is licensed as there is in the drivers.
Maybe the editors, like some of us readers, want to play by the rules. Sure a non reg link exists, but how long will it exist when every news site starts abusing the system?
Im happy enough signing up once for a website, using a spam catching email address, and using those login detials to read whatever the editors post.
If you dont like registering for an article, then dont read it, but dont bitch about it.
Throw me a copy at richard@mysterae.com and i will host it someplace.
IM quite happily using #Develop (pronounced sharp-develop), which is a damn good .net c# IDE.
So what does that say about boxed versions of Redhat, Mandrake, Suse, blah blah blah?
Where do people stand if they bought SCO Linux? This has got to be the most interesting position ever, even if it doesnt turn out to hold water.
Picture this: SCO warning customers that they may be liable, can those customers sue/claim compensation from the company that sold them the infringing product? Isnt this comparable to SCO sueing themselves?
Whatever the outcome, people are going to feel this for years to come.
I guess this makes the other ad story 3 or 4 down the main page a bit of a moot point.
Considered Googling for it?
But what have they done for me lately?
Given you a standard desktop market?Windows XP already has a IPv6 stack included. Granted all the tools are command line only, but its there and its actually a damn fine implentation. All you have to do now is get MS to push for it.
Disclaimer: I help run ipng.org.uk, a uk IPv6 tunnel broker with /64 delegation and full rdns control.
That's a silly and non-realistic argument.
Why thanks. Fuck you too.
There is no way that a person needs their PDA on for 10 hours at a time even on standby if they are using it as the niche device that it is.
Im a support technician. My pda contains a heck of a lot of info on the systems that I support and thats what myself and the other support techicians use them for, that and time management. Oh and todo lists, contact databases etc.
I am often out of the office for days at a stretch. My pda handles all this admirably, with maybe one recharge a week. Other than that, its in the cradle for minutes at a time while i hotsync.
Assuming a standby time of 10 hours the actual time span would likely be at least double that if you use your PDA once every other minute.
An Ipod manages its 10 hours because it powers down the drive when the 32mb buffer is full. Your point is what exactly? I should cut down on my use of the pda?
You can't convince me that you would often not be anywhere near a recharge source for even just 10 hours.
Ah yes, while i should be doing my work, you think i should be looking for a power outlet? With my current pda, i dont need to, its on my hip waiting to go.
You can purchase more than one mode of recharge for your PDA if you really need to, for instance a second cradle, an AC adapter, a solar recharger, a USB recharger, an automotive recharger, etc.
I shouldnt need to. Pdas are not high drain devices. Besides, I dont need to.
If you're going to be typing papers (which can take hours) or surfing the web and checking email constantly on your wireless connection (a high-drain pursuit), then you should have a laptop.
If anyone needs 1gb of storage space, then they should have a laptop. Why the hell do you need that amount of storage space in a pda, is your life that busy? Are the documents you keep for referal that big? If so, you need to take a look at your working habits. (sic)
There and then != all day, every day. If you are using your PDA for more than 10 hours a day without a recharge then you need to seriously re-evaluate your working habits.
My working habits are fine, its a hell of a lot better than carrying around the manuals, or a hefty laptop which is overkill for reading a few pdfs. Oh, and "There and Then" does equal all day, every day. Can you guarentee to me that theres a point where you WOULDNT need access to your pda? No, you can only say when you PROBABLY dont need access. When my laptop is out of battery, Im half lost, because i could be blind sided by a request for information which is on that laptop. This is why i carry spare battery packs.
As I said in my last post, a Business Man needs unfetted access to his information.
being a graduate of an electrical engineering program and a practicing system engineer, I believe that I am being realistic in this case.
Get some practical experience and try using your pda for more than time management, and stop carrying around manuals, you will notice a marked improvement in your working practices. Field experience can count for a heck of a lot more than classroom work. (Im not belittleing your degree, so sorry if it sounds like it).
The bottom line is that you can't even make a claim like yours without knowing the power requirements for the device.
Im basing my figures on real life devices which ive used. Putting a hard disk into anything decimates the battery life. Try putting a microdrive into a camera and see how long the battery lasts vs the memory card. It drops, dramatically.
I sleep once a day. My cradle however is not at my place of sleep, its at my place of work. Same as the vast majority of people i know with palms.
Yes the new ipod firmware brings it up to 10 hours, and thats not good enough for me, not by a long stretch. But i make do. There is no way i could "make do" with a pda, as you need the info on it there and then. You can live without mp3s until you recharge, but try telling a business man out of the office that he will have to wait for his info. Get real.
I can't wait to have these start appearing in all sorts of Palm devices. The processors and screens of these guys have long caught up to the PC's of min 90's, but the sotrage capacities have been hovering around late 80's levels with the micro-drives being too large to fit in.
Yes, but battery capacity hasnt. When alcohol powercells come in, maybe, but until then, no way. Adding a hard disk to a palm device would bring the length of time between charges down to daily, not acceptable. :(
If the shock spring was finely balanced, then the slightest vibration would have set it rolling, so the thumping of several speakers, at tremendous bass, would be sure to have an affect
The windshield has rain sensors which automatically trigger the wipers, which walk off. Simple yet amazingly effective.
Prop planes are very very picky about what fuel they will run on. Prop plane fuel is much more expensive than the kerosene that jets will run on, and also prop planes require a lot more maintenence on their engines than jet aircraft. They may not guzzle more gas, but what they do drink isa lot more expensive.
Wrong, the Eurofighter is the first plane to go into service that can utilise supercruise in level flight. The EE Lightening could do so in a dive (and it could also go balistic straight from the end of the runway, and did so to get to the height nessacery to intercept Russian Bombers who routinly strayed into Northsea airspace).
I design and write a couple of apps that are heavy on end user input, and i do ALL validation server side. Its faster, less code to send client side, I have a guarenteed enviroment to validate in, AND I CAN TRUST MY VALIDATION 100%. Anything that dynamically alters client side information/input is asking for trouble.
I didnt say the article wasnt any use to me, i found it informative. It still came across as flag waving tho, and i deplore that sort of thing.
I for one, have never found myself doing any debugging in the browser past printing to it from php. Thats how i debug, simple. My html is rarely at fault, and if it looks good in IE or Phoenix, then it rocks. I dont do javascript. I dont do stuff client side. Theres nothing for the client to debug, job done.
As an aside, this article struck me as less of a "handy things in mozilla" and more of a "oooh look at what mozilla does over IE". It really struck me as that, another flag waving rather than truely informative.
As discussed on the mailing lsit, the National Post doesnt have this article online as of yet, but it is in the actual paper, and that is the source Theo quoted when announcing to the mailing list.. Basically the Globe has it online, so everyone has been quoting that in stories because its easier to reference something online in a online story.
And on a totally different note: GO THEO! WHOOOOT!!