After having my own Sony woes with my Clie and a friend's Vaio, I went on a search for the perfect (for me of course) sub-notebook.
My search ended at the Fujitsu P-5010. It's the size of a book so it fits in my backpack easily. It's not thin, but at 3.4 lbs it's light. It's 1" thickness prevents it from being fragile (with it in my bag, I've fallen on my bag...no damage). Plus the modular bay battery allows me to use it for about 7 hours of compiling Gentoo before I have to plug it in.
Linux support is good (except for wide-angle resolution, gotta go XiG for that).
My only complaints are: XFree can't do 1280x768 on the i855gm chipset (this may be fixed soon). I like a trackpoint more than a touchpad.
For Gentoo users it's as easy as: emerge update emerge -u world
It took my Athlon 800 system >2 minutes to be fixed. I can understand the liability about why not to upgrade and apply security holes, but as IT pros, we have to weigh out the evils of this world and pick the best path for our users.
Simple but not easy...
You must fight UCITA, fight SSSCA and most of all fight ignorance. The general public have no idea this stuff is happening. If they did, they would fight too. You see it's just that by the time everyone hears about such laws and bills, they are already in effect. Education of technology is your platform.
are they going to pay the developing students or give them a scholarship or discount? I'm not pay tax dollars so a company can make money, I don't think I should have to pay tax for a university to do the same thing. After all, isn't a university a company of sorts?
BeOS (remember them?) wanted to do this as well. Only one model shipped with both BeOS and Windows (made by Hitachi I think). But anyone who bought this computer didn't know it had BeOS on it. Why? Well right before the launch date, guess who stepped in and reminded Hitachi that, in the OEM contract, if Windows is installed on a machine to be sold, that machine may only have a Microsoft OS installed at the time of sale. Hence the fall of BeOS because they couldn't give away their OS. Hitachi was forced to remove the BeBootloader and hence the Be Partition was there but never was accessible.
If that isn't a monopoly, than I'm a complete idiot.
You should try TightVNC (www.tightvnc.org). It's OSS, and has more GUI configuration and integration into Win2000. The 'Tight' part is about low-bandwidth.
Plenum Rated and other tips.
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I did this to my house last year.
If you go the Cat5e route, be absolutely certain to pay the extra few bucks to get Plenum rated cable instead of PVC. Plenum rated cable won't put off toxic fumes if it catches fire. Also, your local fire marshall will love you.
I recommend running wire, the night that only one side of the drywall is placed, this way you have something to anchor it to and get a reference of where your plugs are and need to be.
Phone cables now are typically Cat5 or Cat5e. Don't use them unless you must, crosstalk can be bad.
Lastly run 2 cables everywhere a computer can fit. Do you want an automated house in the future? Plan now! Maybe you don't but when you sell the house do you want that as a selling point? HTH
bound by the biology and their father's great-grandfather's opinions
I never knew my great-grandfather. My grandfather is an atheist. My father is dead. I think for myself.
If two lesbians want a child, I assure you that they too think of life as a holy thing
I disagree, naturally women have hormones that drive them to have babies. The same thing is almost constant in men. We call it a sex drive. Hormones have absolutely nothing to do with paradigm.
Maybe a suicidal individual would rather put his faith in God to understand his reasons, forgive him, and allow him a place in Heaven, than to continue a difficult life in this imperfect world?
Let me tell you about someone who was being killed because of his beliefs and teachings. He had every ability to avoid his death sentence and every ability to stop the process of his execution. But he did not. He allowed his oppressors to kill him in a manner that was disgraceful and excruciating. His name is Jesus. If he would have prevented his death, there would be no escape from the sin that is in everyone. To directly respond to your comment, God understands pain and suffering better than we ever will, not only has he been there but he designed us and knows exactly what makes us feel good or bad. If suicide was allowed to escape a difficult life in an imperfect world, then there would be no living Christians (at least not for long). The gift of eternal life that God gives comes not by understanding or compassion but by belief and conviction. He has compassion on everyone, even you. But that does not guarantee anyone a place in heaven, rather the belief the Jesus died to free us from our sins and rose to prepare a place for those of us who believe.
You can find evidence for creationism at www.answersingenesis.org
Remember while we are still sinners, God loved us so much that he sent his own son to die for us. I'm praying for you, AC.
I will attempt to explain to you the reasoning behind the "religious right" when they oppose this stuff (stuff = cloning, abortion, suicide).
There is a concept that is not much mentioned (certainly not in the (typically liberal) media), it's called sanctity of life. The idea is that life is a holy thing or that life has value. This comes into play in each of these situations.
abortion: convenience vs. life - The mother (and sometimes the father) don't want a child and but they want the sex, so the utilitarian answer is to get rid of the child and keep the sex (BTW - I won't debate what is and isn't a human, that's stupid, if anything can be a human there's no sense in calling it something it isn't. -i.e. a corpse is still human but no one ever mentions that)
cloning: is simply unnatural reproduction. Much like lesbians being fertilized. This unnatural reproduction degrades life to the point that it can be thrown around. Ever wonder why we have kids are killing kids...because their parents didn't value their lives and didn't pass along this sanctity to them. They see that murderers are paraded on TV, much less are true heros.
Suicide: Suicide (assisted or otherwise) is one thing, total rejection of any dependence on God. By taking your own life, you cement your belief that God does not have a will for your life and is not working for the good of those who love Him, through your pain. BTW, pain is how you grow stronger, ask any athlete, ask any mature person.
In conclusion, because life is not held as holy by secular humanists and secular humanists are the most vocal to serve themselves, all we here is this secular point of view, so that's all we know.
When asked in an interview why most of the evidence for creationism is ignored and evolutionism is heralded, Biologist Sir Julian Huxley replied, "I suppose the reason we lept at The Origin of Species was because the idea of God interfered with our sexual mores." (mores - http://www.dictionary.com/cgi-bin/dict.pl?term=mor es )
You can swap the battery if you're at all mechanically inclined. Instructions on taking apart an iPAQ is up on www.handhelds.org (warrantee voider).
M$ is finally getting it!!!
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As the quote on M$s site: "We wanted to have all the rich features of Windows XP for the desktop but in a small footprint. Windows XP Embedded enables us to build our device image in a small footprint and gives us all of the features we need to support our design."
This is what users have been screaming for on their desktops. Food for thought.
I used to have this book that speculated what would happen to the earth if that big of an asteroid hit. One of the things mentioned was a colossal crater (as in more than 1000mi in dia.) that so far is no where visible on Earth.
So they say they found a bunch of bones that suggest "major disturbances in climate that led to the death of most trees and flowering plants." Why does that sort of stuff always lead toward an asteroid that there is no _direct_ evidence of?
This is what I call yellow journalism. It is there opinions and beliefs that are reported and taken as truth.
News flash: It's good for you health to eat saturated fatty foods. The large fat globules travel through the blood vessels and break up smaller globs stuck to the insides of vessels.
BTW: What does this have to do with nerd news? Are there some archeological nerds out there that go to/. for their news?
My bro bought one of these for $200. He runs a 1Ghz Athlon. I have an 850MHz Athlon. I have a $30 case with fan and a $15 Thermaltake fan/heatsink. Here's the catch, my computer and his computer make the same amount of noise. My cooling system can handle up to 1.3Ghz with no sound increase. Not only that but his is a ton heavier and the first one he got didn't work and he had to ship it back (Shipping costs ~$50) When the replacement arrived, it was missing the processor clamp.
In short, my bro is mad and only marginally satisified with his case.
Re:(OT)Re:What is thanksgiving day?
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that 'I all' should be an 'If all' Sorry.
(OT)Re:What is thanksgiving day?
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Thanksgiving, although not called a religious holiday, is the day the pilgrims dedicated to giving thanks to the Christian God for a year of good harvest and blessings (including meeting and learning from the natives). We, who remember this, also count our blessings from the past year. I all thanksgiving is is just what you described, it's hard to think of things to be thankful for.
It seems like this would be possible. But in order to make it worthwhile there would have to have something fun like shooting monsters or racing other 'players' or whatever.
BTW, I have and use Amateur Radio Support! I would not use a new kernel without it.
After the interview is all said and done. That's only ~10 questions. I'm seeing a lot more than 10 very important (IMHO) questions. Some of these questions being unanswered is a big contributor to why Linux is not so readily accepted in the corporate world.
Where can we get the questions answered? I think that there ought to be a Linux kernel documentation project to bring the docs up to speed and answer questions like this. I have not the knowledge of the kernel for this, but such a project would be invaluable to the Linux community.
Recently there was a post on/. that asked for a stable and fast kernel. (I'm too lazy to look it up.) The poster cited older kernels' stability and speed and the trend toward recent kernels having too many bugs to be worth all of the new features they have.
What will be your main focus while maintaining 2.4, stability or backported extra functionality. It is doubtless that there will be some backports. But what will you focus on stability and speed or features?
Mandrake kernels have hundreds of patches! The default kernel for 8.1 has support for Ext3, Reiser, XFS and JFS as well as a ton of other stuff that is not in either of the standard kernel trees. I like Mandrake, they live on the edge and somehow don't die.
A joystick is totally possible with the iPaq. It's 'ActiveSync' port just a glorified serial port. It shouldn't be hard to splice an old serial joystick to an activesync cable. Compile a new kernel and shazamm!
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After having my own Sony woes with my Clie and a friend's Vaio, I went on a search for the perfect (for me of course) sub-notebook.
My search ended at the Fujitsu P-5010. It's the size of a book so it fits in my backpack easily. It's not thin, but at 3.4 lbs it's light. It's 1" thickness prevents it from being fragile (with it in my bag, I've fallen on my bag...no damage). Plus the modular bay battery allows me to use it for about 7 hours of compiling Gentoo before I have to plug it in.
Linux support is good (except for wide-angle resolution, gotta go XiG for that).
My only complaints are: XFree can't do 1280x768 on the i855gm chipset (this may be fixed soon). I like a trackpoint more than a touchpad.
Check out the P-series forums at leog.net
For Gentoo users it's as easy as:
emerge update
emerge -u world
It took my Athlon 800 system >2 minutes to be fixed. I can understand the liability about why not to upgrade and apply security holes, but as IT pros, we have to weigh out the evils of this world and pick the best path for our users.
Simple but not easy...
You must fight UCITA, fight SSSCA and most of all fight ignorance. The general public have no idea this stuff is happening. If they did, they would fight too. You see it's just that by the time everyone hears about such laws and bills, they are already in effect. Education of technology is your platform.
are they going to pay the developing students or give them a scholarship or discount? I'm not pay tax dollars so a company can make money, I don't think I should have to pay tax for a university to do the same thing. After all, isn't a university a company of sorts?
If that isn't a monopoly, than I'm a complete idiot.
You should try TightVNC (www.tightvnc.org). It's OSS, and has more GUI configuration and integration into Win2000. The 'Tight' part is about low-bandwidth.
I did this to my house last year.
If you go the Cat5e route, be absolutely certain to pay the extra few bucks to get Plenum rated cable instead of PVC. Plenum rated cable won't put off toxic fumes if it catches fire. Also, your local fire marshall will love you.
I recommend running wire, the night that only one side of the drywall is placed, this way you have something to anchor it to and get a reference of where your plugs are and need to be.
Phone cables now are typically Cat5 or Cat5e. Don't use them unless you must, crosstalk can be bad.
Lastly run 2 cables everywhere a computer can fit. Do you want an automated house in the future? Plan now! Maybe you don't but when you sell the house do you want that as a selling point? HTH
but you can't fit all those in one pocket...
BTW, you can't go check your email from any open WLAN with a piece of paper or a calculator.
only if you call having the truth a bias
bound by the biology and their father's great-grandfather's opinions
I never knew my great-grandfather. My grandfather is an atheist. My father is dead. I think for myself.
If two lesbians want a child, I assure you that they too think of life as a holy thing
I disagree, naturally women have hormones that drive them to have babies. The same thing is almost constant in men. We call it a sex drive. Hormones have absolutely nothing to do with paradigm.
Maybe a suicidal individual would rather put his faith in God to understand his reasons, forgive him, and allow him a place in Heaven, than to continue a difficult life in this imperfect world?
Let me tell you about someone who was being killed because of his beliefs and teachings. He had every ability to avoid his death sentence and every ability to stop the process of his execution. But he did not. He allowed his oppressors to kill him in a manner that was disgraceful and excruciating. His name is Jesus. If he would have prevented his death, there would be no escape from the sin that is in everyone. To directly respond to your comment, God understands pain and suffering better than we ever will, not only has he been there but he designed us and knows exactly what makes us feel good or bad. If suicide was allowed to escape a difficult life in an imperfect world, then there would be no living Christians (at least not for long). The gift of eternal life that God gives comes not by understanding or compassion but by belief and conviction. He has compassion on everyone, even you. But that does not guarantee anyone a place in heaven, rather the belief the Jesus died to free us from our sins and rose to prepare a place for those of us who believe.
You can find evidence for creationism at www.answersingenesis.org Remember while we are still sinners, God loved us so much that he sent his own son to die for us. I'm praying for you, AC.
I will attempt to explain to you the reasoning behind the "religious right" when they oppose this stuff (stuff = cloning, abortion, suicide).
r es )
There is a concept that is not much mentioned (certainly not in the (typically liberal) media), it's called sanctity of life. The idea is that life is a holy thing or that life has value. This comes into play in each of these situations.
abortion: convenience vs. life - The mother (and sometimes the father) don't want a child and but they want the sex, so the utilitarian answer is to get rid of the child and keep the sex (BTW - I won't debate what is and isn't a human, that's stupid, if anything can be a human there's no sense in calling it something it isn't. -i.e. a corpse is still human but no one ever mentions that)
cloning: is simply unnatural reproduction. Much like lesbians being fertilized. This unnatural reproduction degrades life to the point that it can be thrown around. Ever wonder why we have kids are killing kids...because their parents didn't value their lives and didn't pass along this sanctity to them. They see that murderers are paraded on TV, much less are true heros.
Suicide: Suicide (assisted or otherwise) is one thing, total rejection of any dependence on God. By taking your own life, you cement your belief that God does not have a will for your life and is not working for the good of those who love Him, through your pain. BTW, pain is how you grow stronger, ask any athlete, ask any mature person.
In conclusion, because life is not held as holy by secular humanists and secular humanists are the most vocal to serve themselves, all we here is this secular point of view, so that's all we know.
When asked in an interview why most of the evidence for creationism is ignored and evolutionism is heralded, Biologist Sir Julian Huxley replied, "I suppose the reason we lept at The Origin of Species was because the idea of God interfered with our sexual mores." (mores - http://www.dictionary.com/cgi-bin/dict.pl?term=mo
There is a keyboard like Sharps for the H3800 series (no linux on that series yet).
p c/ options/tools.html
http://www.compaq.com/products/handhelds/pocket
You can swap the battery if you're at all mechanically inclined. Instructions on taking apart an iPAQ is up on www.handhelds.org (warrantee voider).
This is what users have been screaming for on their desktops. Food for thought.
Hitachi makes a better processor called the SuperH. But why no one is using it is beyond me.
What flood are you talking about? BTW, why should I listen to someone who won't even reveal who (s)he is?
I agree with your first statement, but it sounds like you got on a soapbox and started blathering. Care to expound upon your claims?
You're on. It is not a "creation science" book.
So they say they found a bunch of bones that suggest "major disturbances in climate that led to the death of most trees and flowering plants." Why does that sort of stuff always lead toward an asteroid that there is no _direct_ evidence of?
This is what I call yellow journalism. It is there opinions and beliefs that are reported and taken as truth.
News flash: It's good for you health to eat saturated fatty foods. The large fat globules travel through the blood vessels and break up smaller globs stuck to the insides of vessels.
BTW: What does this have to do with nerd news? Are there some archeological nerds out there that go to /. for their news?
My bro bought one of these for $200. He runs a 1Ghz Athlon. I have an 850MHz Athlon. I have a $30 case with fan and a $15 Thermaltake fan/heatsink. Here's the catch, my computer and his computer make the same amount of noise. My cooling system can handle up to 1.3Ghz with no sound increase. Not only that but his is a ton heavier and the first one he got didn't work and he had to ship it back (Shipping costs ~$50) When the replacement arrived, it was missing the processor clamp. In short, my bro is mad and only marginally satisified with his case.
that 'I all' should be an 'If all' Sorry.
Thanksgiving, although not called a religious holiday, is the day the pilgrims dedicated to giving thanks to the Christian God for a year of good harvest and blessings (including meeting and learning from the natives). We, who remember this, also count our blessings from the past year. I all thanksgiving is is just what you described, it's hard to think of things to be thankful for.
It seems like this would be possible. But in order to make it worthwhile there would have to have something fun like shooting monsters or racing other 'players' or whatever.
BTW, I have and use Amateur Radio Support! I would not use a new kernel without it.
After the interview is all said and done. That's only ~10 questions. I'm seeing a lot more than 10 very important (IMHO) questions. Some of these questions being unanswered is a big contributor to why Linux is not so readily accepted in the corporate world.
Where can we get the questions answered? I think that there ought to be a Linux kernel documentation project to bring the docs up to speed and answer questions like this. I have not the knowledge of the kernel for this, but such a project would be invaluable to the Linux community.
Recently there was a post on /. that asked for a stable and fast kernel. (I'm too lazy to look it up.) The poster cited older kernels' stability and speed and the trend toward recent kernels having too many bugs to be worth all of the new features they have.
What will be your main focus while maintaining 2.4, stability or backported extra functionality. It is doubtless that there will be some backports. But what will you focus on stability and speed or features?
Mandrake kernels have hundreds of patches! The default kernel for 8.1 has support for Ext3, Reiser, XFS and JFS as well as a ton of other stuff that is not in either of the standard kernel trees. I like Mandrake, they live on the edge and somehow don't die.
is that you can get it anywhere there is water and sunlight. Never run out of gas and be stranded again! Cool, especially if you're on a budget.
A joystick is totally possible with the iPaq. It's 'ActiveSync' port just a glorified serial port. It shouldn't be hard to splice an old serial joystick to an activesync cable. Compile a new kernel and shazamm!