Completely free and open, and using native widgets and updated constantly. Granted, it's only a word processor, but that's all I've noticed being talked about in this/. discussion anyway. If you're going to do serious spreadsheet work, for example. you *will* need Excel -- it's actually really not that bad.
Sid is always "testing", the most unstable places for apps to go. Remember who Sid was in Toy Story? Same thing. After packages get more stable, they get promoted to "testing".
Not to nitpick, and I'm sure this is what you meant, but: Sid is always "unstable", not "testing".
In addition, to clarify. "After packages get more stable" is a combination of factors. Mainly:
after they have been in unstable for a certain period of time (3/5/10 days, depending on the package type and priority, IIRC)
have all dependencies in testing
have no critical bugs filed against them
are built sucessfully on all archs.
I can recommend Why is package X not in testing yet?. It helps spell out why, heh, a package has not migrated into testing from unstable yet. It helps a whole lot when people whine about old testing packages.
So yes. I, like many other Debian users and non-users, hope the release comes soon!
I would never backup sensitive data on something like this
Encryption? Simply using GnuPG or any of the free AES encryptors out there will make it incredibly secure. If your data is sensitive enough, you should be doing this already...
Similar to the old proof-of-concepts and prototypes from years ago for the OQO, Tiqit and FlipStart, a new entrant, the HagakiPC (H-PC) has reared it's head. Hagaki means postcard in Japanese. It's a considerably less powerful device and won't interest those on the prowl for full functionality. However, it could have some interesting uses in non-consumer applications.
Specs
Utilizing a AMD Geode SC1200 CPU running at 266MHz. This CPU is capable of TV out, video in and has Macrovision copy protection built in. There is 128MB of built in RAM and 128MB of flash memory, 1 x USB 1.1, 1 x CF Type I / Type II slot.
Hagaki PC in red The battery life should last for nearly 3 and a half hours, running on a 2500mAh with 3.6W of power consumption. There also appears to be an optional model HPC-BA-64MB with only 64MB of RAM as opposed to the HPC-BA-128MB model's 128MB. The 64MB model has no flash mem.
The LCD screen is a simple 640x480 VGA resolution with 16bit color with touch screen capabilities. Unfortunately no information can be found on the LCD brand/model.
All of this in a 135 x 109 x 18mm (5.31 x 4.x29 x.71") body, weighing in at a skimpy 340g (0.74lb) and giving it a total volume of 264,870mm, making it just a touch bigger than the OQO but considerably smaller than the FlipStart. Without battery, the unit weighs 220g.
Who's it for?
You'll notice we didn't include a hard drive spec, because it doesn't have one. The H-PC is built to run any x86 OS from a CF card. Thus you could install and run WinCE, Linux, DOS, XP and any other OS that can run from a CF card. The interesting implication is that the OS will be instantly on since you can simply swap out cards to switch OS's. The obvious downside is the large cost you'll have to pay for Microdrives and their possibly shorter life span when compared to a regular HD.
Linux users of Embedix or Emdebian may be interested in this device. There is also Damn Small Linux which is a distro that can run on a CF card. With an OS such as these that are designed for much smaller footprints, the price of use would be considerably smaller than those wanting to run XP, which requires a considerably bigger CF card or Microdrive.
Thoughts
We've seen prototypes before and then been made to bear years and years of waiting. The lack of a keyboard is passable -- neither the Antelope or Sony U50 have one but they seem to be fairly popular. However, the lack of a HD clearly puts it into an even smaller niche of potential handtop users. CPU power and RAM do not necessarily spell the H-PC's death, there are plenty of people making do with old PDA CPU's. While this may not be a device for the casual consumer, it could possibly make it's way into industrial or even commercial (advertising? kiosk?) situations. It's great to see companies already developing niche products. This investment of time and money into the handtop market is an encouraging sign. Overall, the HagakiPC is interesting, but time will tell what market will make use of the device.
Many of my computers aren't fast enough to use X, let alone KDE or GNOME. So I settle with the console, and I love it. 7 or so virtual terminals, and I'm set.
I use: links/elinks - Great web browser, has many improvements over plain lynx pork - AIM client, better than all the other console ones. It's supposed to be like some IRC clients in interface, but it's done well. bitchx - I hang out in #debian a lot, and this runs great. And, natch, bash and vi.
1) makes it easy to install/remove programs, and provides an easy way to run Windows executables.
Apt is what you want. apt-get install whatever, and it's installed, and in KDE/GNOME menus. Takes just seconds. apt-get install wine gets WINE, and gets Windows programs running. Even puts something in the KDE menu and makes it so that double-clicking on Windows applications makes wine open them. Pretty nifty.
2) makes it easy to install/remove web plugins, like flash.
apt-get install flashplugin-nonfree and it ends up woring in Mozilla and Konq. And installing Java is just like in Windows (download the package from Sun, run the installer).
3) makes it easy to install/remove drivers.
All drivers are handled in the kernel, so apt-getting a newer version of a kernel gets you the Debian kernel with all drivers available in Linux already compiled in. And removing them doesn't make sense because they're small modules that are only loaded when needed.
4) provides a sane way to manage libraries.
Libraries in Debian are handled just like programs: apt-get install library or apt-get remove library installs it or removes it, respectively. And because of the awesomeness of Apt, all dependency issues are handled with no problems. In 3+ years of using Debian, with the stable distribution, I have had no dep problems at all. And with unstable, there have been 3 I can count, which have all been fixed within the day.
Recently, I set up a small Debian-based computer lab using LTSP at the school I attend. Currently, it only has the server and 5 thin clients, but it is astounding what can be done with this hardware:
Server: 800 MHz Pentium III, 1 GB SDRAM, dual 20 GB hard drives. Thin Clients (all diskless and netbooting thanks to LTSP): 233 MHz Cyrix III with 64 MB RAM, 233 MHz Pentium II with 48 MB RAM, 333 MHz Celeron with 32 MB RAM, 300 MHz Pentium II with 64 MB RAM, 150 MHz Pentium MMX with 32 MB RAM (IIRC).
This setup can have 6 people (one on the server plus the thin clients) running Gaim + Mozilla + OpenOffice with very little slowdown. Rarely is it noticeable. And it is very easy to manage; since there is only one computer with Debian and all the data and whatnot on it, only one box has to be updated, had new users added, etc.
Total cost so far: $0, it is all just hardware out of my friend's basements and mine. The fact that no money has to be spent to get something like this to work (and work well) really shows that a new, shiny 2.4 GHz Pentium 4 is not needed just to check email and browse the web. The science department at this same school actually just recieved 24 new 3.2 GHz Dells, and the most that is ever done on them are Excel spreadsheets!
Imagine the money that can be saved by using old but completely useful computers instead of upgrading every couple of years when it is unneeded... (and spending more money on licenses for new versions of Office and Windows and etc.)
The debian Linux distribution in most cases does not come with the
ability to handle rpm packages with the rpm tool. But there is a
tool called "alien" which allows you to convert rpm files into the
debian supported *.deb package format. Please consult your debian
documentation on how to operate this tool.
A typcial debian installation commandline will look like this:
dpkg -i <ati_package_name>.deb
In order to override complaints (which might be caused by an already
installed package "xlibmesa3" that also provides the file libGL.so.1.2)
please use this installation command line:
A few years ago I had this sudden desire to start collecting the arcade games I remember from my childhood in the 80's. I'm not completely certain why this notion suddenly took hold of me seemingly out of the blue. Maybe it was the nearly mint Pac-Man machine I kept walking by at the Bistro at Sweet Briar College where I work. It wasn't getting a lot of play there in the late nineties where it had lived a fairly sheltered existance for nearly 20 years.
To some extent I'm certain I had the sudden realization that it might be possible to actually own an arcade game now. I was older and had an income higher than I did when I was ten years old and had to think twice about spending a whole quarter in such a fleeting manner. As a child in the 80's the thought of owning an actual arcade game was somewhat akin to the likelihood that I could take a ride on the space shuttle just by asking nicely. This was a time when the height of excitement was a gradeschool friend having a birthday party that included a set number of FREE tokens for the gameroom at the local Chuck E. Cheese knockoff. The choices and spending power in that couple of hours was overwhelming.
Maybe it was the fact that I grew up immersed in computers and did play a lot games on the Atari 2600, my Commodore 64 or a friend's ColecoVision. This was the era when finding a console version that came close to the real game was a challenge that made the genuine arcades a luxury for their graphical prowess if not the big screen and the neat lighted marquees. There was a certain ambience to an 80's gameroom filled with noisy arcades that added a lot to the experience.
Right about the time I started eyeing the Pac-Man machine I had discovered MAME and was having a nostalgic blast not only with the games I remembered (or knew about and never got to play) but with the very concept of emulation. Those involved in the "emulation scene" will know what I'm talking about here. It becomes addictive in a very strange way. At the time, though, this fascination with emulation simply fueled my desire to own the real thing and fulfill a childhood dream.
In very short order I was absorbing everything I could find online about arcade collecting and was avidly pursuing my first classic machine. I expressed my desire to purchase the lonely Pac-Man machine in the Bistro which likely led to it being added to the next silent auction the college periodically uses to divest itself of various items. In the few months it took before I was able to get the Pac-Man I managed to score a Q*Bert machine from a guy outside of Raleigh, North Carolina. A little while later I located a BurgerTime machine in Richmond, Virginia, then a Gauntlet and a Space Duel cocktail somewhere out in the sticks southwest of here. I was calling various arcade operators all over the place and seeing what they had sitting around from the arcade heyday. Some were being thrown out and others I bought for a song. Unfortunately, I lost count of the number of operators I spoke with that had literally taken dumptruck loads of machines to the landfill in the days or weeks before I got a bug in my butt to obtain them. Afterall, one man's garbage is another geek's nostalgic obsession. It didn't please either of us that they had to pay to dispose of them and I would have paid to obtain them had my wild goose chase begun sooner.
To make a very long story shorter, I owned just over 30 machines by the time that Pac-Man that started it all came into my posession. In the meantime I had bought, repaired, sold and brokered tons of machines.
Now where does one put 30 arcade games? Well, a few of your prized ones you put in your house and try to find a tasteful way to fit them into the decor. They are most definitely not furniture and are hardly compact. Your project machines you stash in your parents' large cinderblock shed/workshop rendering it virtually unusable since the average woodworking endeavor requires more than five square
AmigaOne News:Alan Redhouse Comments on AmigaWorld about the A1-SE Lite
Posted by Mikey_C on 20-Sep-2003 18:14:27 (2452 reads)
Read Alan's full post
TA magazine issue 15. To quote myself (because its easier than typing):
Quote:
AmigaOne Lite - some more details.
In the last edition of Total Amiga I gave a brief overview of the AmigaOne Lite - an entry level AmigaOne designed to both as a CD32/A1200 successor and for use in embedded systems such as kiosks, STB's etc. However the more observant of you will have realised that in the last issue I actually described the AmigaOne-SE Lite - so why the change of name?
In the interim period we have re-examined the costs and decided that it is economically feasible to significantly increase the A1-Lite's specification and flexibility within the same overall target pricing. As one of these changes is to use the standard A1XE CPU modules (plus a new entry-level 750CXe module) we dropped the 'SE' from its name.
The full specifications for the AmigaOne Lite are as follows:
Micro ITX form factor (170mmx170mm) Gigabit and 10/100 ethernet on board 133MHz UDMA RAID IDE controller USB 2.0 on board IEEE 1394 ('FireWire') on board 2x AGP graphics on board with PAL/NTSC TV out AC97 sound on board 1 x PCI33MHz slot (horizontal, via supplied riser card) Cardbus slot for flash card support (diskless booting, applications, games slot etc) Usual legacy PS/2, serial, parallel ports
Being a standard form factor it will fit in a standard micro ITX case, such as the one shown in the enclosed photograph. Please visit the web link at http://www.morex.com.tw/minicase.htm and www.mini-itx.com to see other suitable case designs.
We are aiming to bring the AmigaOne Lite to market early next year.
Not mentioned in the above spec is that the board is now designed to take the standard A1XE megarray cpu module so that it can be supplied with/upgraded to anything from an entry level (=cheap) 750CXe@433 to (possibly) a 1.3GHz G4.
The pictures published on the Soft3 website are of the first pre-prototype version - there will be 2 or 3 revisions before the actual production version is ready. The first step - this board - is basically to shrink the A1XE board to a mini-ITX formfactor and make sure it works properly. Then the other chipsets and connectors will be added and that series of boards use for developers to port OS & applications. It will also be used to demonstrate capability - and hopefully gain some significant orders - in the industrial markets that we and other dealers are targetting (display controllers, kiosks, etc).
Finally we hope the final version (which will be as near as possible to the above spec) will be available for sale in the specialist shops (and ultimately in the high street electronic entertainment chains) - with OS4 and some Amiga applications - in 1Q04.
The pre-production pictures were intended to be shown - at this stage - only to the A1 developers and to the A1-users list on AmigaWorld to try to get some useful feedback. Thats why there was really no explanation available to the world at largel when Soft3 (due to a misunderstanding) put them up on their own website.
However, from what I can see the, open publication of these pictures, together with the screen shots of a beta of OS4 running on the A1 - has had a very positive reception. But, please, no private emails for more details on availability dates and prices - we're swamped with emails as it is. This stuff will be posted 'when its ready' (c).
YES IT DOES! It's 1024 MiB that equals 1 GiB. 1000 MB is a perfect way to describe 1 GB.
The thing you have to remember...
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...is that these things don't have an optimized operating system yet. It's like running benchmarks of Photoshop on Windows ME on a dual Opteron or something.
Once 10.3 comes out, and once 64 bit apps get optimized, this system will kick even more butt...
(disclaimer: I only skimmed the article, but hey, it was long.)
This guy looks like the guy who was doing the Linux Router Project. He started it because of intrest in Linux and open source, but his long-term plan was to make some money. Although LFS was killed, and Gentoo forked, they seem to have the same, might I say bitter, thought that because they were doing something they *must* be paid.
I don't know whether its a good thing or a bad thing. I mean, its more people coming and helping the open source movement. But then again, its exactly not what made the Linux kernel popular: Linus made the kernel for fun, not profit, and it soared. I can only imagine what's going to happen to this company...
Who cares about SPEC benchmarks. Get real-world tests, which the G5 clearly spanked the Xeon system on.
It's like saying I get higher 3dMark scores than you do, but I get less FPS in games. Which computer would you rather have? You want real benchmarks, not artificial ones.
We are aware that we have photographed a number of homes in the process of documenting the California Coast. The California Coast is a unique and beautiful place, and those people who have chosen to live on it have made the coast a part of their lives, and their lives a part of the coast. It should come as no surprise that the public at large would be attracted to view this beautiful place some call home. We have little sympathy for those who would feel that in order to enjoy the beauty of the coast that they must deny others access to it.
All of the photographs on this site have been taken from a public place and in compliance with applicable Federal and State laws. (emphasis mine)
Please be sure to review some of the highest resolution photographs before forming your own opinion. You cannot see much detail, for example, identify individuals or see into a house. Also, as discussed in the next section, this information is available elsewhere.
A very good book about how technology will affect the privacy of all of us is The Transparent Society: Will Technology Force Us to Choose Between Privacy and Freedom? by David Brin.
I just picked up a Linksys router for $50 for someone I consult with, and it dials PPPoE (it's not PPoE) automaticly and allows the MAC address to be changed...this might be what you want...
If the only thing wrong is the monitor, and you're willing to invest a bit, then just buy the iRack (watch out though, the US might try to DDoS it...), and put it in your rack in the closet...
Or rip out it's guts, copy the iRack's install guide, and install all the parts on a piece of plywood...
Or, as another poster said, rip out the drive, install VNC, then put the drive back in...
Also, I know that thay there is something that looks suspiciously like a VGA port and does connect suspiciously near the monitor on the motherboard of my Rev A iMac...
Or you could buy the iPort from Griffin Technology that adds a serial port and video out to your Rev A or Rev B iMac for only $60...
Or, as a last dich effort, you could rip out the guts, and make an aquarium....
Or you could send it to me, I'm in the Boston area and would love an old iMac to do the above with...;)
Seriously, there are so many posibilities. I'm sure with the above you can make the iMac a nice file server. Or whatever.
You so sure? According to the latest Netcraft survey Apache has 62% of the server market while all versions of Windows have only 27%. And you still see more Windows server viruses appearing (Slammer exploited bugs in the SQL server). If you want to talk about end users and desktops though, you'll have to find a email client that runs programs automatically with root-like priv's, then I might believe you.
Mini-ITX systems are cool if you need something low-power
You're right; they're not the best for playing the newest games or trying to compile Gentoo or whatever that's processor- or GPU-intensive. But it can play MP3s and be a dedicated server for small LAN parties, which is all I do with it. Yes, it is a niche product, so it won't always be the small system that works for everybody.
Also the Mini-ITX types are missing a point entirely, they need to make a board with at least dual if not triple ethernet for network gateways. You want to keep them small, hence this rules out the use of PCI carrds...
With one 10/100 ethernet built in and the ability to get PCI riser cards (you can fit two gigabit PCI cards on top of the mainboard with a riser from VIA) you could fill the need for three ethernet ports while only making it a inch or two taller. But again, the Mini-ITX motherboards are designed to do one task and do it well, rather than covering all the bases. I popped in one of these and use it as server for small LAN parties that I go to with friends. So, this board fits my needs, but may not fit yours. I'm just telling everybody about it because it is small, and can be fit into the same cases and form factors as the ones listed in the story, and costs one twelth less.:)
Haha, well you really think that a small link buried in a page of pictures would be noticed, and a PDF would be downloaded just to see the price, when I'm not in the market for it now? C'mon...this is Slashdot....;)
But seriously, I checked the ordering page and it didn't have any prices...so....
Orange
This has already been done...
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/. discussion anyway. If you're going to do serious spreadsheet work, for example. you *will* need Excel -- it's actually really not that bad.
Completely free and open, and using native widgets and updated constantly. Granted, it's only a word processor, but that's all I've noticed being talked about in this
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Not to nitpick, and I'm sure this is what you meant, but: Sid is always "unstable", not "testing".
In addition, to clarify. "After packages get more stable" is a combination of factors. Mainly:
I can recommend Why is package X not in testing yet?. It helps spell out why, heh, a package has not migrated into testing from unstable yet. It helps a whole lot when people whine about old testing packages.
So yes. I, like many other Debian users and non-users, hope the release comes soon!
-orange.
All you have to do is hit reload at that page. Always works for me.
-orange
I would never backup sensitive data on something like this
Encryption? Simply using GnuPG or any of the free AES encryptors out there will make it incredibly secure. If your data is sensitive enough, you should be doing this already...
-orange
HagakiPC
.71") body, weighing in at a skimpy 340g (0.74lb) and giving it a total volume of 264,870mm, making it just a touch bigger than the OQO but considerably smaller than the FlipStart. Without battery, the unit weighs 220g.
Similar to the old proof-of-concepts and prototypes from years ago for the OQO, Tiqit and FlipStart, a new entrant, the HagakiPC (H-PC) has reared it's head. Hagaki means postcard in Japanese. It's a considerably less powerful device and won't interest those on the prowl for full functionality. However, it could have some interesting uses in non-consumer applications.
Specs
Utilizing a AMD Geode SC1200 CPU running at 266MHz. This CPU is capable of TV out, video in and has Macrovision copy protection built in. There is 128MB of built in RAM and 128MB of flash memory, 1 x USB 1.1, 1 x CF Type I / Type II slot.
Hagaki PC in red
The battery life should last for nearly 3 and a half hours, running on a 2500mAh with 3.6W of power consumption. There also appears to be an optional model HPC-BA-64MB with only 64MB of RAM as opposed to the HPC-BA-128MB model's 128MB. The 64MB model has no flash mem.
The LCD screen is a simple 640x480 VGA resolution with 16bit color with touch screen capabilities. Unfortunately no information can be found on the LCD brand/model.
All of this in a 135 x 109 x 18mm (5.31 x 4.x29 x
Who's it for?
You'll notice we didn't include a hard drive spec, because it doesn't have one. The H-PC is built to run any x86 OS from a CF card. Thus you could install and run WinCE, Linux, DOS, XP and any other OS that can run from a CF card. The interesting implication is that the OS will be instantly on since you can simply swap out cards to switch OS's. The obvious downside is the large cost you'll have to pay for Microdrives and their possibly shorter life span when compared to a regular HD.
Linux users of Embedix or Emdebian may be interested in this device. There is also Damn Small Linux which is a distro that can run on a CF card. With an OS such as these that are designed for much smaller footprints, the price of use would be considerably smaller than those wanting to run XP, which requires a considerably bigger CF card or Microdrive.
Thoughts
We've seen prototypes before and then been made to bear years and years of waiting. The lack of a keyboard is passable -- neither the Antelope or Sony U50 have one but they seem to be fairly popular. However, the lack of a HD clearly puts it into an even smaller niche of potential handtop users. CPU power and RAM do not necessarily spell the H-PC's death, there are plenty of people making do with old PDA CPU's. While this may not be a device for the casual consumer, it could possibly make it's way into industrial or even commercial (advertising? kiosk?) situations. It's great to see companies already developing niche products. This investment of time and money into the handtop market is an encouraging sign. Overall, the HagakiPC is interesting, but time will tell what market will make use of the device.
It is essentially a clone of the current design
It's not a clone of the current design; it is the current design. The exact same thing. It's just in a differently labeled box.
orange
Many of my computers aren't fast enough to use X, let alone KDE or GNOME. So I settle with the console, and I love it. 7 or so virtual terminals, and I'm set.
I use:
links/elinks - Great web browser, has many improvements over plain lynx
pork - AIM client, better than all the other console ones. It's supposed to be like some IRC clients in interface, but it's done well.
bitchx - I hang out in #debian a lot, and this runs great.
And, natch, bash and vi.
Works out great.
-orange
Debian does everything you want.
1) makes it easy to install/remove programs, and provides an easy way to run Windows executables.
Apt is what you want. apt-get install whatever, and it's installed, and in KDE/GNOME menus. Takes just seconds. apt-get install wine gets WINE, and gets Windows programs running. Even puts something in the KDE menu and makes it so that double-clicking on Windows applications makes wine open them. Pretty nifty.
2) makes it easy to install/remove web plugins, like flash.
apt-get install flashplugin-nonfree and it ends up woring in Mozilla and Konq. And installing Java is just like in Windows (download the package from Sun, run the installer).
3) makes it easy to install/remove drivers.
All drivers are handled in the kernel, so apt-getting a newer version of a kernel gets you the Debian kernel with all drivers available in Linux already compiled in. And removing them doesn't make sense because they're small modules that are only loaded when needed.
4) provides a sane way to manage libraries.
Libraries in Debian are handled just like programs: apt-get install library or apt-get remove library installs it or removes it, respectively. And because of the awesomeness of Apt, all dependency issues are handled with no problems. In 3+ years of using Debian, with the stable distribution, I have had no dep problems at all. And with unstable, there have been 3 I can count, which have all been fixed within the day.
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Recently, I set up a small Debian-based computer lab using LTSP at the school I attend. Currently, it only has the server and 5 thin clients, but it is astounding what can be done with this hardware:
Server: 800 MHz Pentium III, 1 GB SDRAM, dual 20 GB hard drives.
Thin Clients (all diskless and netbooting thanks to LTSP): 233 MHz Cyrix III with 64 MB RAM, 233 MHz Pentium II with 48 MB RAM, 333 MHz Celeron with 32 MB RAM, 300 MHz Pentium II with 64 MB RAM, 150 MHz Pentium MMX with 32 MB RAM (IIRC).
This setup can have 6 people (one on the server plus the thin clients) running Gaim + Mozilla + OpenOffice with very little slowdown. Rarely is it noticeable. And it is very easy to manage; since there is only one computer with Debian and all the data and whatnot on it, only one box has to be updated, had new users added, etc.
Total cost so far: $0, it is all just hardware out of my friend's basements and mine. The fact that no money has to be spent to get something like this to work (and work well) really shows that a new, shiny 2.4 GHz Pentium 4 is not needed just to check email and browse the web. The science department at this same school actually just recieved 24 new 3.2 GHz Dells, and the most that is ever done on them are Excel spreadsheets!
Imagine the money that can be saved by using old but completely useful computers instead of upgrading every couple of years when it is unneeded... (and spending more money on licenses for new versions of Office and Windows and etc.)
from the readme:
Some notes for debian users:
The debian Linux distribution in most cases does not come with the
ability to handle rpm packages with the rpm tool. But there is a
tool called "alien" which allows you to convert rpm files into the
debian supported *.deb package format. Please consult your debian
documentation on how to operate this tool.
A typcial debian installation commandline will look like this:
dpkg -i <ati_package_name>.deb
In order to override complaints (which might be caused by an already
installed package "xlibmesa3" that also provides the file libGL.so.1.2)
please use this installation command line:
dpkg -i --force-overwrite <ati_package_name>.deb
Hopefully this helps!
...in case it gets slashdotted...
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A few years ago I had this sudden desire to start collecting the arcade games I remember from my childhood in the 80's. I'm not completely certain why this notion suddenly took hold of me seemingly out of the blue. Maybe it was the nearly mint Pac-Man machine I kept walking by at the Bistro at Sweet Briar College where I work. It wasn't getting a lot of play there in the late nineties where it had lived a fairly sheltered existance for nearly 20 years.
To some extent I'm certain I had the sudden realization that it might be possible to actually own an arcade game now. I was older and had an income higher than I did when I was ten years old and had to think twice about spending a whole quarter in such a fleeting manner. As a child in the 80's the thought of owning an actual arcade game was somewhat akin to the likelihood that I could take a ride on the space shuttle just by asking nicely. This was a time when the height of excitement was a gradeschool friend having a birthday party that included a set number of FREE tokens for the gameroom at the local Chuck E. Cheese knockoff. The choices and spending power in that couple of hours was overwhelming.
Maybe it was the fact that I grew up immersed in computers and did play a lot games on the Atari 2600, my Commodore 64 or a friend's ColecoVision. This was the era when finding a console version that came close to the real game was a challenge that made the genuine arcades a luxury for their graphical prowess if not the big screen and the neat lighted marquees. There was a certain ambience to an 80's gameroom filled with noisy arcades that added a lot to the experience.
Right about the time I started eyeing the Pac-Man machine I had discovered MAME and was having a nostalgic blast not only with the games I remembered (or knew about and never got to play) but with the very concept of emulation. Those involved in the "emulation scene" will know what I'm talking about here. It becomes addictive in a very strange way. At the time, though, this fascination with emulation simply fueled my desire to own the real thing and fulfill a childhood dream.
In very short order I was absorbing everything I could find online about arcade collecting and was avidly pursuing my first classic machine. I expressed my desire to purchase the lonely Pac-Man machine in the Bistro which likely led to it being added to the next silent auction the college periodically uses to divest itself of various items. In the few months it took before I was able to get the Pac-Man I managed to score a Q*Bert machine from a guy outside of Raleigh, North Carolina. A little while later I located a BurgerTime machine in Richmond, Virginia, then a Gauntlet and a Space Duel cocktail somewhere out in the sticks southwest of here. I was calling various arcade operators all over the place and seeing what they had sitting around from the arcade heyday. Some were being thrown out and others I bought for a song. Unfortunately, I lost count of the number of operators I spoke with that had literally taken dumptruck loads of machines to the landfill in the days or weeks before I got a bug in my butt to obtain them. Afterall, one man's garbage is another geek's nostalgic obsession. It didn't please either of us that they had to pay to dispose of them and I would have paid to obtain them had my wild goose chase begun sooner.
To make a very long story shorter, I owned just over 30 machines by the time that Pac-Man that started it all came into my posession. In the meantime I had bought, repaired, sold and brokered tons of machines.
Now where does one put 30 arcade games? Well, a few of your prized ones you put in your house and try to find a tasteful way to fit them into the decor. They are most definitely not furniture and are hardly compact. Your project machines you stash in your parents' large cinderblock shed/workshop rendering it virtually unusable since the average woodworking endeavor requires more than five square
AmigaOne News:Alan Redhouse Comments on AmigaWorld about the A1-SE Lite
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Posted by Mikey_C on 20-Sep-2003 18:14:27 (2452 reads)
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TA magazine issue 15. To quote myself (because its easier than typing)
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AmigaOne Lite - some more details.
In the last edition of Total Amiga I gave a brief overview of the AmigaOne Lite - an entry level AmigaOne designed to both as a CD32/A1200 successor and for use in embedded systems such as kiosks, STB's etc. However the more observant of you will have realised that in the last issue I actually described the AmigaOne-SE Lite - so why the change of name?
In the interim period we have re-examined the costs and decided that it is economically feasible to significantly increase the A1-Lite's specification and flexibility within the same overall target pricing. As one of these changes is to use the standard A1XE CPU modules (plus a new entry-level 750CXe module) we dropped the 'SE' from its name.
The full specifications for the AmigaOne Lite are as follows:
Micro ITX form factor (170mmx170mm)
Gigabit and 10/100 ethernet on board
133MHz UDMA RAID IDE controller
USB 2.0 on board
IEEE 1394 ('FireWire') on board
2x AGP graphics on board with PAL/NTSC TV out
AC97 sound on board
1 x PCI33MHz slot (horizontal, via supplied riser card)
Cardbus slot for flash card support (diskless booting, applications, games slot etc)
Usual legacy PS/2, serial, parallel ports
Being a standard form factor it will fit in a standard micro ITX case, such as the one shown in the enclosed photograph. Please visit the web link at http://www.morex.com.tw/minicase.htm and www.mini-itx.com to see other suitable case designs.
We are aiming to bring the AmigaOne Lite to market early next year.
Not mentioned in the above spec is that the board is now designed to take the standard A1XE megarray cpu module so that it can be supplied with/upgraded to anything from an entry level (=cheap) 750CXe@433 to (possibly) a 1.3GHz G4.
The pictures published on the Soft3 website are of the first pre-prototype version - there will be 2 or 3 revisions before the actual production version is ready. The first step - this board - is basically to shrink the A1XE board to a mini-ITX formfactor and make sure it works properly. Then the other chipsets and connectors will be added and that series of boards use for developers to port OS & applications. It will also be used to demonstrate capability - and hopefully gain some significant orders - in the industrial markets that we and other dealers are targetting (display controllers, kiosks, etc).
Finally we hope the final version (which will be as near as possible to the above spec) will be available for sale in the specialist shops (and ultimately in the high street electronic entertainment chains) - with OS4 and some Amiga applications - in 1Q04.
The pre-production pictures were intended to be shown - at this stage - only to the A1 developers and to the A1-users list on AmigaWorld to try to get some useful feedback. Thats why there was really no explanation available to the world at largel when Soft3 (due to a misunderstanding) put them up on their own website.
However, from what I can see the, open publication of these pictures, together with the screen shots of a beta of OS4 running on the A1 - has had a very positive reception. But, please, no private emails for more details on availability dates and prices - we're swamped with emails as it is. This stuff will be posted 'when its ready' (c).
Hope this helps
Alan
1000 MB != 1 GB
YES IT DOES! It's 1024 MiB that equals 1 GiB. 1000 MB is a perfect way to describe 1 GB.
...is that these things don't have an optimized operating system yet. It's like running benchmarks of Photoshop on Windows ME on a dual Opteron or something.
Once 10.3 comes out, and once 64 bit apps get optimized, this system will kick even more butt...
Orange
(disclaimer: I only skimmed the article, but hey, it was long.)
This guy looks like the guy who was doing the Linux Router Project. He started it because of intrest in Linux and open source, but his long-term plan was to make some money. Although LFS was killed, and Gentoo forked, they seem to have the same, might I say bitter, thought that because they were doing something they *must* be paid.
I don't know whether its a good thing or a bad thing. I mean, its more people coming and helping the open source movement. But then again, its exactly not what made the Linux kernel popular: Linus made the kernel for fun, not profit, and it soared. I can only imagine what's going to happen to this company...
Orange
Who cares about SPEC benchmarks. Get real-world tests, which the G5 clearly spanked the Xeon system on.
It's like saying I get higher 3dMark scores than you do, but I get less FPS in games. Which computer would you rather have? You want real benchmarks, not artificial ones.
Orange
This is cleary explained on the site:
Privacy Concerns
We are aware that we have photographed a number of homes in the process of documenting the California Coast. The California Coast is a unique and beautiful place, and those people who have chosen to live on it have made the coast a part of their lives, and their lives a part of the coast. It should come as no surprise that the public at large would be attracted to view this beautiful place some call home. We have little sympathy for those who would feel that in order to enjoy the beauty of the coast that they must deny others access to it.
All of the photographs on this site have been taken from a public place and in compliance with applicable Federal and State laws. (emphasis mine)
Please be sure to review some of the highest resolution photographs before forming your own opinion. You cannot see much detail, for example, identify individuals or see into a house. Also, as discussed in the next section, this information is available elsewhere.
A very good book about how technology will affect the privacy of all of us is The Transparent Society: Will Technology Force Us to Choose Between Privacy and Freedom? by David Brin.
I just picked up a Linksys router for $50 for someone I consult with, and it dials PPPoE (it's not PPoE) automaticly and allows the MAC address to be changed...this might be what you want...
Orange
According to the linked page,
Please note that OGG-S is neither affiliated with nor endorsed by Xiph.org or Ogg Vorbis.
Don't expect this to become anything big any time soon.
Orange
You can jump straight to the fast SourceForge download site here: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group _id=978&release_id=147101
Orange
If the only thing wrong is the monitor, and you're willing to invest a bit, then just buy the iRack (watch out though, the US might try to DDoS it...), and put it in your rack in the closet...
;)
Or rip out it's guts, copy the iRack's install guide, and install all the parts on a piece of plywood...
Or, as another poster said, rip out the drive, install VNC, then put the drive back in...
Also, I know that thay there is something that looks suspiciously like a VGA port and does connect suspiciously near the monitor on the motherboard of my Rev A iMac...
Or you could buy the iPort from Griffin Technology that adds a serial port and video out to your Rev A or Rev B iMac for only $60...
Or, as a last dich effort, you could rip out the guts, and make an aquarium....
Or you could send it to me, I'm in the Boston area and would love an old iMac to do the above with...
Seriously, there are so many posibilities. I'm sure with the above you can make the iMac a nice file server. Or whatever.
Orange
it's the popularity of the software.
You so sure? According to the latest Netcraft survey Apache has 62% of the server market while all versions of Windows have only 27%. And you still see more Windows server viruses appearing (Slammer exploited bugs in the SQL server). If you want to talk about end users and desktops though, you'll have to find a email client that runs programs automatically with root-like priv's, then I might believe you.
Orange
Mini-ITX systems are cool if you need something low-power
:)
You're right; they're not the best for playing the newest games or trying to compile Gentoo or whatever that's processor- or GPU-intensive. But it can play MP3s and be a dedicated server for small LAN parties, which is all I do with it. Yes, it is a niche product, so it won't always be the small system that works for everybody.
Also the Mini-ITX types are missing a point entirely, they need to make a board with at least dual if not triple ethernet for network gateways. You want to keep them small, hence this rules out the use of PCI carrds...
With one 10/100 ethernet built in and the ability to get PCI riser cards (you can fit two gigabit PCI cards on top of the mainboard with a riser from VIA) you could fill the need for three ethernet ports while only making it a inch or two taller. But again, the Mini-ITX motherboards are designed to do one task and do it well, rather than covering all the bases. I popped in one of these and use it as server for small LAN parties that I go to with friends. So, this board fits my needs, but may not fit yours. I'm just telling everybody about it because it is small, and can be fit into the same cases and form factors as the ones listed in the story, and costs one twelth less.
Orange
Haha, well you really think that a small link buried in a page of pictures would be noticed, and a PDF would be downloaded just to see the price, when I'm not in the market for it now? C'mon...this is Slashdot.... ;)
But seriously, I checked the ordering page and it didn't have any prices...so....
Orange
...unless it's the same guy:
http://mini-itx.com/projects/nespc/
Orange