As for the cost, I don't really see it. My powerbook was three grand which is comparable for the same setup in an Intel/AMD world. A 17" flat panel developer worstation is the same price at both Apple and Dell. Yes, you can get Intel boxes cheaper, but the similar components seem to cost the same whether it's from Apple, Dell, or IBM.
Well I've been looking at laptops recently, I've seen some cheap ones for as low as $800, and some really decent ones for $1200, and this is just at Best Buy. The laptop I wanted doesn't need to be superpowerful, I just wanted something half ass that I can carry around with me to read email, browse the web , maybe do a little coding on the road (or heck, even outside), etc.
As far as desktops go, I already have good hard drives, sound cards, video cards, keyboards, mice, monitors, etc. So if I need a new desktop or machine for something new to play with, I just buy a case, mobo, cpu, and memory. ($500 maybe?) The rest of the parts can be salvaged from older machines, or in one of my many random boxes-o-parts. I like the look of OS X as well, but my cost of entry is just too great, and won't be happening for me any time soon, at least not until all my parts and junk become obsolete.
Comming up with standard version numbers sounds too hard for marketing people, maybe your idea of a secret decoder ring is a better idea. They can just work out some deal to give them away for free in boxes of cereal. That way they're forcing consumers to buy breakfast cereal and a video card, a powerful combination, especially if it's a box of Lucky Charms.
well a lot of people use frames improperly, yes. But when used correctly, it can save redownloading the same data over and over. I happen to use frames with my little pet project, roomjuice, fairly well. You can see a screenshots here to get an idea of how I'm using them. The playlist is in the bottom left hand frame, and the browsing is the right hand frame. If you have say a few hundred songs in a directory, then frames can be quite a saver, or else if I used tables, then I'd have to refresh the current directory each time someone click on a song to add.
I consider stuff like this an IQ test. If you fall for it, you fail.:) Kind of along the lines that the lottery is a tax on people who can't do math.
It's still wrong tho. I've received envelopes from Columbia House that make it look like some important credit card bill, until you start reading it. It's not as bad, but it's still deceptive marketing.
Very true, but I think the original point idea of nationalized local phone access stills stand tho. Create some new entity called the USLPC (US local phone carrier) or something, and make it a stand alone, non-profit service just like the USPS. I think it would work well. I'm all for govenment controlled monopolies, that aren't in it for profit, as long as they runs things fairly efficiently.
The city of Wadsworth here runs their own electric company (they buy electricity in bulk from Ohio Edison and run and maintain their own lines), and as a result, we pay about 1/3 compared to neighboring communities, they run their own cable company, forcing time warner to drop their rates in our area, they run their own ISP over the cable lines (although road runner pricing still hasn't dropped, heh), you can get minimal broadband 128kbps access for ~ $15/mo, or 256kbps for ~ $25/mo. Which is really enough for the casual user. I pay $67/mo for 512 kbps access, as I use it for work, want to run game servers for friends, etc.
2% of the emails you buy will be viewed (viewed meaning that someone actually generated an http request based on the HTML inside)
And I'm NEVER one of the 2% as I have external images in email turned off thanks to Mozilla. A lot of spammers will use images to gerneate and http request, thereby allowing them to track who views what messages. I'm a much happier camper since I turned off external images and installed spamassassin, although a lot more junk has been slipping by spamassassin now since I first installed it awhile back. It's still a godsend tho.
Ahh, I was curious as how to do that. I was dreading having to run xmkmf or whatever and tons of other shit to make ttf fonts work in the past. Or do you have to run an xfont server to get this copy to directory capability?
I wonder how long before these fonts will be available via apt?
This is one thing I LOVE about id Software. When Quake3 first come out, it required the CD for single player, and a real key for online game play. But after 6 months or so, the patch they released didn't require the CDROM at all. And when enough legit people were having trouble with their reg keys, they actually turned key authentication off. ( I think q3 1.17 - ~1.3x or something didn't use key auth at all) Of course they don't announce this information, it just kind of happens silently and only people "in the know" are aware.
They support users well. I wish they would support the mod community a bit better, and maybe have a guy or two that does nothing but work with/help out popular mods, to track down quake3 engine/scripting bugs, or what not.
Damnit, how does this funky web browser work? "SELECT DISTINCT(title), articlebody FROM http://slashdot.org/", nope that's not it--it would be a clever way to get rid of the dupes tho.
I just switched to gnome2.2 from fluxbox of all things maybe 6 months back, before that I ran wmaker for years. Anyway, http://packages.debian.org/unstable/gnome/gaim.htm l shows gnome as suggested, but not required. The tray functionality is actually done via a plugin.
Gaim.60 and then.61 shortly afterwards just recently went into unstable, so testing might not see it for a couple weeks.
You can already block users that aren't on your AIM buddy list with Windows AIM I used to run it that way starting like 3 years ago, until I switched to Gaim, which I don't believe has that option, or it's burried somewhere and I haven't bothered to find it.
I've yet to received a piece of AIM spam, I used to get ICQ spam all the time, and messages from random people who never would disclose to me why they decided to message me. They would think I was rude for asking, when in fact I was just curious as HELL how/why they messaged me, I tried explaining this to them to no avail. Maybe this was an interactive Nigerian money scam and I just never let it progress to where they would ask me to recieve $40 million for giving them my Bank Account number--yeah right. Anyone stupid enough fall for this deserves to have their bank account wiped, sans elderly. All of the random messaging has totally stopped now that I switched to using the new ICQ protocol.
I think there's some way you can filter by warning level as well. Or maybe it's just that if your warning level gets high enough, you can no longer send messages.
The new version of Gaim has the ability to queue messages up until you want to read them. v.60 and up have this ability (although I haven't tried it, your post makes me want to turn it on tho:) ). You need to run a desktop that has a notify window area--in other words Gnome2.x or KDE. The new Gaim is a *really* nice program, a LOT of work was put into it, I love it. It's flawless as far as I'm concerned.
Heh, the funny thing is that a modem can actually be faster than that for straight html. Modems do compression by default, I remember back when using a modem, I was able to sustain 11 KB/sec on a large, highly compressable text file, downloading from large web pages (such as slashdot comments) you could get similar rates.
And modems are full duplex as well I'm pretty sure. I remember downloading and uploading at the same time, maybe pulling 5-6KB/sec down, 4KB/sec up. 56k modems have a slower upstream than down because of something weird with how the digital-analog lines are. It's been awhile since I've used a modem, so I'm really not too sure. Hell, I wasn't too sure if I was informed correctly in the first place... heh.
The local cable company ( www.wadsnet.com ) here offers 128kpbs service for $15/mo. I'm like ok, I'll take 10? Instead I pay $60/mo for their 512kpbs business class which isn't too too horrible.
I was thinking the same thing. This could bite Intel right in the ass if they're not careful. What if all the other chip manufacturers until and settle on a standard socket. Then why should I buy an Intel board when I'd be stuck buying Intel chips. Now if I buy an AMD compat board, I could use an AMD chip, low power and quiet VIA chip, Crusoe (hey, who knows, they might actually release something useful to me), etc.
I've run into the same thing. In fact, I've taken it one step further, I have NEVER felt a I needed a book to teach me PHP/MySQL, both projects have fantastic online documentation. If there's something that the PHP documentation doesn't tell me, chances are the user comments do. There hasn't been one feasible thing that I haven't been able to figure out with PHP or MySQL thru the online documentation.
The interesting thing is, I've recently have had to start learning Java / JSP / PL/SQL / Oracle. Documentation is a nightmare. There just doesn't seem to be one end all be all on stop shop for my Java documentation needs, there's about 20 relevant manuals that I need to sift through to find out one thing, and there's about 20 different ways to implement your site. Ok are we going to build our own tag libraries, conform to J2EE, use java beans, just do straight jsp, on what classes should we make and for what? What stuff should be stored in PL/SQL, etc etc etc. It's crazy.
PHP is a dream come true, ease of use wise. It may not be the fastest thing in the world since it's just a scripting language, but there's the Zend caching engine that can help quite a bit. There's just something to be said for reading PHP code from top to bottom and know exactly what's going on. And being able to pay a cheap PHP monkey to code your site for you, instead of paying an expensive Java/Oracle programmer with 10 years experience.
Interestingly enough in one case when downloading a bittorrent the file "downloaded sucessfully". But the files were corrupt, I re-ran the bittorrent on the files, it check the files, downloaded a bit more, and then everything was fine. Kinda disconcerting.
I just set up a debian box the other day with this.
apt-get install apache php4 php4-cgi mysql-server
Then uncomment the necessary lines in/etc/apache/httpd.conf to turn on the php modules. (just search for php and uncomment the lines having to do with php4), then "/etc/init.d/apache restart" and then yer off. You may have to do a little magic with php to load the mysql modules as well, I'm not sure, I kinda forget what all I ended up doing.
This is just with Debian though, I believe there's probably a version of RedHat/Mandrake that has support out of the box, if you're allergic to reading manuals...
Well, I don't have a working version available to the internet at the moment (firewall), here's the app: room juice It's an mp3 player interface, if you search for mp3, that'll return a big page.:)
All of other pages I've written that spring to mind are either internal tools or otherwise require a login. Most pull data from a database.
More examples, load up somethingawful.com that's 63k. hardocp.com (88k) bluesnews.com (130k) shugashack.com (90k), etc. Forums are another example or some heavy duty html.
I often wondered this myself, UNTIL I actually tried to sit down and use PostgreSQL. MySQL permissions and everything just made sense, it's all kept in very nice and neat tables and easy to understand by by looking at the tables without having to read any to little documention.
While on the other hand, permissions for PostgreSQL are scattered everywhere. Half of it is config files for who gets allowed in and what type of authentication to what tables, triggers, etc, some are in special PostgreSQL tables that aren't immediately obvious even how to access if you wanted to edit them directly. It's all very confusing.
PostgreSQL is nice, they just need to go that extra mile to make sure user permissions are easy to understand, etc. Do other little things here and there to make the learning curve is not quite as steep.
Slashdot Mirror
As for the cost, I don't really see it. My powerbook was three grand which is comparable for the same setup in an Intel/AMD world. A 17" flat panel developer worstation is the same price at both Apple and Dell. Yes, you can get Intel boxes cheaper, but the similar components seem to cost the same whether it's from Apple, Dell, or IBM.
Well I've been looking at laptops recently, I've seen some cheap ones for as low as $800, and some really decent ones for $1200, and this is just at Best Buy. The laptop I wanted doesn't need to be superpowerful, I just wanted something half ass that I can carry around with me to read email, browse the web , maybe do a little coding on the road (or heck, even outside), etc.
As far as desktops go, I already have good hard drives, sound cards, video cards, keyboards, mice, monitors, etc. So if I need a new desktop or machine for something new to play with, I just buy a case, mobo, cpu, and memory. ($500 maybe?) The rest of the parts can be salvaged from older machines, or in one of my many random boxes-o-parts. I like the look of OS X as well, but my cost of entry is just too great, and won't be happening for me any time soon, at least not until all my parts and junk become obsolete.
Comming up with standard version numbers sounds too hard for marketing people, maybe your idea of a secret decoder ring is a better idea. They can just work out some deal to give them away for free in boxes of cereal. That way they're forcing consumers to buy breakfast cereal and a video card, a powerful combination, especially if it's a box of Lucky Charms.
well a lot of people use frames improperly, yes. But when used correctly, it can save redownloading the same data over and over. I happen to use frames with my little pet project, roomjuice, fairly well. You can see a screenshots here to get an idea of how I'm using them. The playlist is in the bottom left hand frame, and the browsing is the right hand frame. If you have say a few hundred songs in a directory, then frames can be quite a saver, or else if I used tables, then I'd have to refresh the current directory each time someone click on a song to add.
Oddly enough the skip commercial link worked, but too well, as it crashed mozilla.
I consider stuff like this an IQ test. If you fall for it, you fail. :) Kind of along the lines that the lottery is a tax on people who can't do math.
It's still wrong tho. I've received envelopes from Columbia House that make it look like some important credit card bill, until you start reading it. It's not as bad, but it's still deceptive marketing.
Very true, but I think the original point idea of nationalized local phone access stills stand tho. Create some new entity called the USLPC (US local phone carrier) or something, and make it a stand alone, non-profit service just like the USPS. I think it would work well. I'm all for govenment controlled monopolies, that aren't in it for profit, as long as they runs things fairly efficiently.
The city of Wadsworth here runs their own electric company (they buy electricity in bulk from Ohio Edison and run and maintain their own lines), and as a result, we pay about 1/3 compared to neighboring communities, they run their own cable company, forcing time warner to drop their rates in our area, they run their own ISP over the cable lines (although road runner pricing still hasn't dropped, heh), you can get minimal broadband 128kbps access for ~ $15/mo, or 256kbps for ~ $25/mo. Which is really enough for the casual user. I pay $67/mo for 512 kbps access, as I use it for work, want to run game servers for friends, etc.
2% of the emails you buy will be viewed (viewed meaning that someone actually generated an http request based on the HTML inside)
And I'm NEVER one of the 2% as I have external images in email turned off thanks to Mozilla. A lot of spammers will use images to gerneate and http request, thereby allowing them to track who views what messages. I'm a much happier camper since I turned off external images and installed spamassassin, although a lot more junk has been slipping by spamassassin now since I first installed it awhile back. It's still a godsend tho.
Ahh, I was curious as how to do that. I was dreading having to run xmkmf or whatever and tons of other shit to make ttf fonts work in the past. Or do you have to run an xfont server to get this copy to directory capability?
I wonder how long before these fonts will be available via apt?
This is one thing I LOVE about id Software. When Quake3 first come out, it required the CD for single player, and a real key for online game play. But after 6 months or so, the patch they released didn't require the CDROM at all. And when enough legit people were having trouble with their reg keys, they actually turned key authentication off. ( I think q3 1.17 - ~1.3x or something didn't use key auth at all) Of course they don't announce this information, it just kind of happens silently and only people "in the know" are aware.
They support users well. I wish they would support the mod community a bit better, and maybe have a guy or two that does nothing but work with/help out popular mods, to track down quake3 engine/scripting bugs, or what not.
Damnit, how does this funky web browser work? "SELECT DISTINCT(title), articlebody FROM http://slashdot.org/", nope that's not it--it would be a clever way to get rid of the dupes tho.
I just switched to gnome2.2 from fluxbox of all things maybe 6 months back, before that I ran wmaker for years. Anyway, http://packages.debian.org/unstable/gnome/gaim.htm l shows gnome as suggested, but not required. The tray functionality is actually done via a plugin.
.60 and then .61 shortly afterwards just recently went into unstable, so testing might not see it for a couple weeks.
Gaim
Not on a 128kbps connection you can't. :)
You can already block users that aren't on your AIM buddy list with Windows AIM I used to run it that way starting like 3 years ago, until I switched to Gaim, which I don't believe has that option, or it's burried somewhere and I haven't bothered to find it.
I've yet to received a piece of AIM spam, I used to get ICQ spam all the time, and messages from random people who never would disclose to me why they decided to message me. They would think I was rude for asking, when in fact I was just curious as HELL how/why they messaged me, I tried explaining this to them to no avail. Maybe this was an interactive Nigerian money scam and I just never let it progress to where they would ask me to recieve $40 million for giving them my Bank Account number--yeah right. Anyone stupid enough fall for this deserves to have their bank account wiped, sans elderly. All of the random messaging has totally stopped now that I switched to using the new ICQ protocol.
I think there's some way you can filter by warning level as well. Or maybe it's just that if your warning level gets high enough, you can no longer send messages.
The new version of Gaim has the ability to queue messages up until you want to read them. v .60 and up have this ability (although I haven't tried it, your post makes me want to turn it on tho :) ). You need to run a desktop that has a notify window area--in other words Gnome2.x or KDE. The new Gaim is a *really* nice program, a LOT of work was put into it, I love it. It's flawless as far as I'm concerned.
So would would be the transfer rate of a VAN full of DAT tapes? All depends on how far it has to drive I guess. :)
Heh, the funny thing is that a modem can actually be faster than that for straight html. Modems do compression by default, I remember back when using a modem, I was able to sustain 11 KB/sec on a large, highly compressable text file, downloading from large web pages (such as slashdot comments) you could get similar rates.
And modems are full duplex as well I'm pretty sure. I remember downloading and uploading at the same time, maybe pulling 5-6KB/sec down, 4KB/sec up. 56k modems have a slower upstream than down because of something weird with how the digital-analog lines are. It's been awhile since I've used a modem, so I'm really not too sure. Hell, I wasn't too sure if I was informed correctly in the first place... heh.
The local cable company ( www.wadsnet.com ) here offers 128kpbs service for $15/mo. I'm like ok, I'll take 10? Instead I pay $60/mo for their 512kpbs business class which isn't too too horrible.
for the lazy
I was thinking the same thing. This could bite Intel right in the ass if they're not careful. What if all the other chip manufacturers until and settle on a standard socket. Then why should I buy an Intel board when I'd be stuck buying Intel chips. Now if I buy an AMD compat board, I could use an AMD chip, low power and quiet VIA chip, Crusoe (hey, who knows, they might actually release something useful to me), etc.
I've run into the same thing. In fact, I've taken it one step further, I have NEVER felt a I needed a book to teach me PHP/MySQL, both projects have fantastic online documentation. If there's something that the PHP documentation doesn't tell me, chances are the user comments do. There hasn't been one feasible thing that I haven't been able to figure out with PHP or MySQL thru the online documentation.
The interesting thing is, I've recently have had to start learning Java / JSP / PL/SQL / Oracle. Documentation is a nightmare. There just doesn't seem to be one end all be all on stop shop for my Java documentation needs, there's about 20 relevant manuals that I need to sift through to find out one thing, and there's about 20 different ways to implement your site. Ok are we going to build our own tag libraries, conform to J2EE, use java beans, just do straight jsp, on what classes should we make and for what? What stuff should be stored in PL/SQL, etc etc etc. It's crazy.
PHP is a dream come true, ease of use wise. It may not be the fastest thing in the world since it's just a scripting language, but there's the Zend caching engine that can help quite a bit. There's just something to be said for reading PHP code from top to bottom and know exactly what's going on. And being able to pay a cheap PHP monkey to code your site for you, instead of paying an expensive Java/Oracle programmer with 10 years experience.
You forgot that it has support for RFC 3514, the evil bit in IPV4, and also has support for the new evil bit in the IPV4 headers.
Interestingly enough in one case when downloading a bittorrent the file "downloaded sucessfully". But the files were corrupt, I re-ran the bittorrent on the files, it check the files, downloaded a bit more, and then everything was fine. Kinda disconcerting.
I just set up a debian box the other day with this.
/etc/apache/httpd.conf to turn on the php modules. (just search for php and uncomment the lines having to do with php4), then "/etc/init.d/apache restart" and then yer off. You may have to do a little magic with php to load the mysql modules as well, I'm not sure, I kinda forget what all I ended up doing.
apt-get install apache php4 php4-cgi mysql-server
Then uncomment the necessary lines in
This is just with Debian though, I believe there's probably a version of RedHat/Mandrake that has support out of the box, if you're allergic to reading manuals...
Well, I don't have a working version available to the internet at the moment (firewall), here's the app: room juice It's an mp3 player interface, if you search for mp3, that'll return a big page. :)
All of other pages I've written that spring to mind are either internal tools or otherwise require a login. Most pull data from a database.
More examples, load up somethingawful.com that's 63k. hardocp.com (88k) bluesnews.com (130k) shugashack.com (90k), etc. Forums are another example or some heavy duty html.
I've seen html on some pages I've written with rather largish tables to be upwards of 100KB, compressing that would be quite a gain.
I often wondered this myself, UNTIL I actually tried to sit down and use PostgreSQL. MySQL permissions and everything just made sense, it's all kept in very nice and neat tables and easy to understand by by looking at the tables without having to read any to little documention.
While on the other hand, permissions for PostgreSQL are scattered everywhere. Half of it is config files for who gets allowed in and what type of authentication to what tables, triggers, etc, some are in special PostgreSQL tables that aren't immediately obvious even how to access if you wanted to edit them directly. It's all very confusing.
PostgreSQL is nice, they just need to go that extra mile to make sure user permissions are easy to understand, etc. Do other little things here and there to make the learning curve is not quite as steep.
Intuitive applications are the ones that succeed.