I have been told that RH is specialized in file serving world. I have also been told that other Linux distros are specialized in other areas. How will Corel Linux be specialized?
Sounds like it would be interesting. Can the Corel Linux be better than Open Office? Will it also come with an email/calendar client? (Which is one thing that I miss in open office.) Can it translate Word docs easily? I think that it would be better to be compatible than be great and uncompatible.
When you can wait a few months and get a cheaper processor, that will do the trick. Most of my friends, when building their own computers, will wait for the second or third generation chips (ie AMD 1800XP+). They can get a fast computer, for cheap.
Just take a look at Pricewatch. The Athlon XP 2200 is at $144, while the Athlon 2000 is under $100. Why would you spend that much more on a new processor, when you aren't getting alot more speed out of them.
With a few months turn over, it is worth the wait to save $50 or more on a slightly older processor, than on that latest processor.
If you're in the market for a new AMD motherboard, perhaps you should wait and see how the new VIA KT400
Well some of these boards have been tested. According to this article on Toms Hardware the KT400 boards aren't worth it. Interesting benchmarks, that is for sure.
Going wireless takes on huge security issues. How is Dartmouth going to deal with tightening down security? I know of people that drove down through a city with a laptop and pringles cans and picked up alot of wireless networks (including a state lottery wireless network). So that would be the biggest concern for me.
I would rather be wired and go gigabyte than go wireless and be stuck at speeds less than 100 megabytes. Wireless is nice, but it is also more expensive than staying wired.
The resolution can go as high as 3840x2400. That is insane. I think the question is no longer how high can the resolution go. But on the otherhand, how high can I set the resolution with having to be able to squint to see the letters that I am typing. I can barely see the letters that I type at 1600x1200. I can imagine what 3840x2400 would look like.
Upon seeing the article, I went in search of the earliest gecko based broswer. I found Netscape 4.08 (running 32 bit, but there is a 16-bit version). Slashdot loads fine. Which is great!!
On the other hand, AOL gives me a connection reset before it loads the entire page. M$ site gives me a small unreadable font. Interesting things happen when running an old broswer.
"'If you're going to manipulate small things, you need small tools,' says Keith Jackson....Jackson, a physicist in the Materials Sciences Division's Center for X-Ray Optics"
It took a Physicist to figure that out? I thought little kids can figure that out. I am glad to learn the obvious from a physicist.
One of my parents work for a school district. The school district then gives them free email and internet access. My parents will not change until they have to. Free email and internet as convinced my parents.
Already more than 350 million player applications use Microsoft Windows Media CODEC (coder-decoder) and the plan is to extend it off the desktop into the home-theatre lounge room, DVD players, cinema and for professional film and television production, replacing industry standards Avid and Apple QuickTime.
Soon I will have to option to buy M$ home theater equipment. Does that mean that it will crash every day so I won't be able to watch/ listen to the media? Does that also mean that I will have to deal with the rights management? Will it also automatically download updates that I will not be informed of?
it requires zero configuration once you're configured properly.
I work at my university setting up studetn owned computers. I have set up a few Macs, even a 10.2 TiBook the other day. Networking is pretty easy. Select what device (Airport, ethernet) and tell it dhcp. No restarting. Web will then work. The only problem that I have ran acrossed is working with proxies. We have three proxies on campus, and IE 5.x does not like to work with the proxies to go outside of the intranet.
I have found away around this problem. I have to tell the system what proxy to use, and then hard code the sign in proccess screen, as the homepage using the same proxy. When IE starts up, the user is then given the choice to sign in (or if he is sign in to go the internet, it will say). Since IE doesn't like to use connection scripts, this is the only solution I have found.
This small problem is not bad, just wish M$ would fix IE to run connection scripts.
Uses MP3 format at compression rates up to 320 kbps. Enough capacity for nearly 400 audio CDs or 5,000 individual songs.
Does this mean that I can only use mp3 format? How about wav or Ogg Vorbis?
I would not spend $400 on one of these. I currently have 25 gigs of storage that I can use for whatever, and supports all music formats. Thanks to a Linux file server, and winamp, and free cd ripping software. Why would someone want to spend $400 when I put together a better file server that cost under $100?
I am running on a dialup, the fastest that I have ever connected is 32.xxx. I have a 56k modem, but my phone are bad, so they slow down the transmission. I average (on a good day) 1mb = 10 minutes. Let me see.
1mb = 10 min download time
8mb = 80 min download time
80 = 1 hour 20 min
The only time I am going to download something that big is when it is something I need, which isn't that often. I am not going to sit and wait that long just to see a flash animation. I don't think it is worth that long of wait.
The post are interesting what people thought in the mid 1980s. Even though I started being a programmer in the late 90s (in college currently), I never thought that the y2k bug was for real.
In taking steps to check computers y2k compatibility, I took the oldest PC that my family had and changed the time. The pc was a 486DX50 running Win 3.11. I reset the clock and let it roll over. After it rolled over, I rebooted the machine. The computer froze on the first restart, after that it worked fine. My families other machine (a mac), I never worried about since it is compatible for a long time.
My pastor was even in somewhat of a worry. "Even stoplights could go out" he would say. I could see his theory but disagreed. Everyone I that talked about y2k, I told them about the 486, and that there would be nothing going wrong. As far as I know nothing major did go wrong.
I know that a few government computers failed, but they were old computers at that, and they were up after awhile. Airports didn't shut down like everyone expected, and life went on like normal.
Sometimes, you have to listen to the people that don't code, but have tried different test and have proven theories wrong. Maybe they are right. I just think it is funny all the worry that went into the "y2k bug" especially after nothing happened.
The chair that I sit in at school in my dorm is a wooden rocking type chair. The first time I sat in it, and rolled back, I felt like I was going to fall over. Its nice, but not my ideal.
To me, this idea looks nice, but alittle cramped. I also like to turn on an instant, with this chair, that is impossible. I would rather have a adjustable office chair.I need back support and I like a chair that pushes on my back when I lean back. A car chair just doesn't cut it for chairs that I need.
I have two different machines. A PII (laptop) and an AMD 133 tower running Linux. The AMD bios does not support cd-rom boot, so to install Linux, I have to use a boot floppy. I use my laptop floppy for making the boot floppies. I mostly use Zip drives more. Acutally, if you want to know what I use, it all network. To transfer my files, I use a network if present. I have used other floppies for changing a admin password at my school so I can do some administrative stuff. I enjoy the floppy drive, but I don't use it that often. I would just have to find another way to use some utilities that can fit on a floppy.
Every movie that comes out does not follow the book. LoTR followed very close to the book, but wasn't quite on target all the time. I have enjoyed reading the Narnia series, but am alittle weary of the movies. C.S. Lewis is a great author, and I would hate to see his books turned into not so great of movie. I just hope that the movies follow the story line very close for me to even think of going to watch/buy them.
I have never seen R2-D2 going up or down stairs in the Star War movies, but he does go from one level to the next. If R2-D2 can follow a series of commands, can I tell him to go upstairs and get me a mountain dew?
I have torn a part a laptop or two. The first thing to come is is the LCD monitor. How is the maintance working if you have to tear it apart? How would the insides be accesible?
Why is it water cooled? I have used a laptop for years and things have bumped the screen and I have tosseed it around. If I have pipes in the monitor area, most likely they would break, thos water would be going everywhere. O don't forget water on the motherboard. Well, I guess if springs a leak, I'll have to buy a new laptop. Over $2000 is washed down the drain when my laptop sprag a leak.
If you know the Linux program, why don't you just use Linux for the network controller? Have the Linux box be used as a gateway, running ipchains and the wondershaper. Linux is not that hard. Linux can also be run on an early machine. I am running Red Hat 7.2 on an AMD 133 with 48 mb of ram. I am running in command line, which is hard for a beginner to learn, but it is running dhcpd and Samba nicely. I would recommend Linux because security is easier to setup and maintain than Windows. Windows you will never know what ports are open or who is watching. Linux you can close ports alittle easier, much better for server (or routers/gateways). Why Live on Windows? Most of the programs you need for network admin are free.
I know I will be repeating some people but here are some reasons why Apple will not port OS X.
Apple is proprietary. They make the majority of the hardware that goes into their machines. They make their own monitors, accessories and a few other things that are essential to use.
Any competition for Apple would force Apple bankrupt. Does any one remember Power Mac? or Umax? Yes, they did help Apple with the system bus and a few other things, but they almost forced Apple to go under. Any competition would down right kill Apple.
Special functions/features would be lost. Since Apple makes their own hardware for their software, it is optimized for each other. Porting OS X to a x86 architecture would make Apple to generalize programs for many types of hardware. This would make things like quartz (unless there is hardware out for it) to run.
Yes I would like to see OS X be ported to the x86 system, I would tri-boot then (Linux, Mac OS X and M$). I think it is a big step for Apple to work with the iPod to work with Windows. I would be surprised if Apple decided to make OS X useable with the x86 architecture. Who knows, the Opteron may help with the port since it will be the first 64 bit proc available to end users. ATIs new video card ] may also help with the port. But I am not holding my breath for Apple to port OS X.
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I have been told that RH is specialized in file serving world. I have also been told that other Linux distros are specialized in other areas. How will Corel Linux be specialized?
Sounds like it would be interesting. Can the Corel Linux be better than Open Office? Will it also come with an email/calendar client? (Which is one thing that I miss in open office.) Can it translate Word docs easily? I think that it would be better to be compatible than be great and uncompatible.
When you can wait a few months and get a cheaper processor, that will do the trick. Most of my friends, when building their own computers, will wait for the second or third generation chips (ie AMD 1800XP+). They can get a fast computer, for cheap.
Just take a look at Pricewatch. The Athlon XP 2200 is at $144, while the Athlon 2000 is under $100. Why would you spend that much more on a new processor, when you aren't getting alot more speed out of them.
With a few months turn over, it is worth the wait to save $50 or more on a slightly older processor, than on that latest processor.
Microsoft-funded Institute for Software Choice.
You have one choice. Microsoft.
If you're in the market for a new AMD motherboard, perhaps you should wait and see how the new VIA KT400
Well some of these boards have been tested. According to this article on Toms Hardware the KT400 boards aren't worth it. Interesting benchmarks, that is for sure.
Going wireless takes on huge security issues. How is Dartmouth going to deal with tightening down security? I know of people that drove down through a city with a laptop and pringles cans and picked up alot of wireless networks (including a state lottery wireless network). So that would be the biggest concern for me.
I would rather be wired and go gigabyte than go wireless and be stuck at speeds less than 100 megabytes. Wireless is nice, but it is also more expensive than staying wired.
The resolution can go as high as 3840x2400. That is insane. I think the question is no longer how high can the resolution go. But on the otherhand, how high can I set the resolution with having to be able to squint to see the letters that I am typing. I can barely see the letters that I type at 1600x1200. I can imagine what 3840x2400 would look like.
Upon seeing the article, I went in search of the earliest gecko based broswer. I found Netscape 4.08 (running 32 bit, but there is a 16-bit version). Slashdot loads fine. Which is great!!
On the other hand, AOL gives me a connection reset before it loads the entire page. M$ site gives me a small unreadable font. Interesting things happen when running an old broswer.
"'If you're going to manipulate small things, you need small tools,' says Keith Jackson....Jackson, a physicist in the Materials Sciences Division's Center for X-Ray Optics"
It took a Physicist to figure that out? I thought little kids can figure that out. I am glad to learn the obvious from a physicist.
I think its time to go buy a bunch of bottles of jolt and to pull an all nighter. Lets GO!!
One of my parents work for a school district. The school district then gives them free email and internet access. My parents will not change until they have to. Free email and internet as convinced my parents.
Already more than 350 million player applications use Microsoft Windows Media CODEC (coder-decoder) and the plan is to extend it off the desktop into the home-theatre lounge room, DVD players, cinema and for professional film and television production, replacing industry standards Avid and Apple QuickTime.
Soon I will have to option to buy M$ home theater equipment. Does that mean that it will crash every day so I won't be able to watch/ listen to the media? Does that also mean that I will have to deal with the rights management? Will it also automatically download updates that I will not be informed of?
it requires zero configuration once you're configured properly.
I work at my university setting up studetn owned computers. I have set up a few Macs, even a 10.2 TiBook the other day. Networking is pretty easy. Select what device (Airport, ethernet) and tell it dhcp. No restarting. Web will then work. The only problem that I have ran acrossed is working with proxies. We have three proxies on campus, and IE 5.x does not like to work with the proxies to go outside of the intranet.
I have found away around this problem. I have to tell the system what proxy to use, and then hard code the sign in proccess screen, as the homepage using the same proxy. When IE starts up, the user is then given the choice to sign in (or if he is sign in to go the internet, it will say). Since IE doesn't like to use connection scripts, this is the only solution I have found.
This small problem is not bad, just wish M$ would fix IE to run connection scripts.
Uses MP3 format at compression rates up to 320 kbps. Enough capacity for nearly 400 audio CDs or 5,000 individual songs.
Does this mean that I can only use mp3 format? How about wav or Ogg Vorbis?
I would not spend $400 on one of these. I currently have 25 gigs of storage that I can use for whatever, and supports all music formats. Thanks to a Linux file server, and winamp, and free cd ripping software. Why would someone want to spend $400 when I put together a better file server that cost under $100?
Worth your time and the 8Mb download.
I am running on a dialup, the fastest that I have ever connected is 32.xxx. I have a 56k modem, but my phone are bad, so they slow down the transmission. I average (on a good day) 1mb = 10 minutes. Let me see.
1mb = 10 min download time
8mb = 80 min download time
80 = 1 hour 20 min
The only time I am going to download something that big is when it is something I need, which isn't that often. I am not going to sit and wait that long just to see a flash animation. I don't think it is worth that long of wait.
The post are interesting what people thought in the mid 1980s. Even though I started being a programmer in the late 90s (in college currently), I never thought that the y2k bug was for real.
In taking steps to check computers y2k compatibility, I took the oldest PC that my family had and changed the time. The pc was a 486DX50 running Win 3.11. I reset the clock and let it roll over. After it rolled over, I rebooted the machine. The computer froze on the first restart, after that it worked fine. My families other machine (a mac), I never worried about since it is compatible for a long time.
My pastor was even in somewhat of a worry. "Even stoplights could go out" he would say. I could see his theory but disagreed. Everyone I that talked about y2k, I told them about the 486, and that there would be nothing going wrong. As far as I know nothing major did go wrong.
I know that a few government computers failed, but they were old computers at that, and they were up after awhile. Airports didn't shut down like everyone expected, and life went on like normal.
Sometimes, you have to listen to the people that don't code, but have tried different test and have proven theories wrong. Maybe they are right. I just think it is funny all the worry that went into the "y2k bug" especially after nothing happened.
Most sources, once they become available on the web will be available is some time of mod within a few days, just wait, it will come.
The chair that I sit in at school in my dorm is a wooden rocking type chair. The first time I sat in it, and rolled back, I felt like I was going to fall over. Its nice, but not my ideal.
To me, this idea looks nice, but alittle cramped. I also like to turn on an instant, with this chair, that is impossible. I would rather have a adjustable office chair.I need back support and I like a chair that pushes on my back when I lean back. A car chair just doesn't cut it for chairs that I need.
I have two different machines. A PII (laptop) and an AMD 133 tower running Linux. The AMD bios does not support cd-rom boot, so to install Linux, I have to use a boot floppy. I use my laptop floppy for making the boot floppies. I mostly use Zip drives more. Acutally, if you want to know what I use, it all network. To transfer my files, I use a network if present. I have used other floppies for changing a admin password at my school so I can do some administrative stuff. I enjoy the floppy drive, but I don't use it that often. I would just have to find another way to use some utilities that can fit on a floppy.
Every movie that comes out does not follow the book. LoTR followed very close to the book, but wasn't quite on target all the time. I have enjoyed reading the Narnia series, but am alittle weary of the movies. C.S. Lewis is a great author, and I would hate to see his books turned into not so great of movie. I just hope that the movies follow the story line very close for me to even think of going to watch/buy them.
R2-D2 can follow a series of commands
I have never seen R2-D2 going up or down stairs in the Star War movies, but he does go from one level to the next. If R2-D2 can follow a series of commands, can I tell him to go upstairs and get me a mountain dew?
For a coder there are two types of food. Pizza Jolt Thats a well rounded meal.
I have torn a part a laptop or two. The first thing to come is is the LCD monitor. How is the maintance working if you have to tear it apart? How would the insides be accesible?
Why is it water cooled? I have used a laptop for years and things have bumped the screen and I have tosseed it around. If I have pipes in the monitor area, most likely they would break, thos water would be going everywhere. O don't forget water on the motherboard. Well, I guess if springs a leak, I'll have to buy a new laptop. Over $2000 is washed down the drain when my laptop sprag a leak.
If you know the Linux program, why don't you just use Linux for the network controller? Have the Linux box be used as a gateway, running ipchains and the wondershaper. Linux is not that hard. Linux can also be run on an early machine. I am running Red Hat 7.2 on an AMD 133 with 48 mb of ram. I am running in command line, which is hard for a beginner to learn, but it is running dhcpd and Samba nicely. I would recommend Linux because security is easier to setup and maintain than Windows. Windows you will never know what ports are open or who is watching. Linux you can close ports alittle easier, much better for server (or routers/gateways). Why Live on Windows? Most of the programs you need for network admin are free.
Linux, because Windows XP is eXPerimental!
Yes I would like to see OS X be ported to the x86 system, I would tri-boot then (Linux, Mac OS X and M$). I think it is a big step for Apple to work with the iPod to work with Windows. I would be surprised if Apple decided to make OS X useable with the x86 architecture. Who knows, the Opteron may help with the port since it will be the first 64 bit proc available to end users. ATIs new video card ] may also help with the port. But I am not holding my breath for Apple to port OS X.