Another poster kinda had the point; the 12" Powerbook strength is its portability. Now, if you put a 1.33GHz G4 in there, you will need (a) more cooling and (b) more battery (or lower battery life). Both of these will add weight, negating part of the benefit of the smaller size. Also, the cooling would likely increase the overall size (larger air ducts, etc).
I would love to be able to get a 1.33GHz 12" powerbook, but engineering would seem to be the problem.
On a serious note, I'm thinking about getting a laptop and the Powerbooks are looking like a good bet; Unix core (so I can run apache & Postgresql etc; yes, I know they work on Windows too, just about) with a nice GUI and everything "just works"(TM) rather than having to download beta drivers to get wifi kind of working under linux.
Er, they sent the systems to a company which was supposed to blank the disks but didn't. The data clearing company failed to do their job not the bank.
Google was the first search engine I found where you didn't get a porn site on the first page (well, unless you were specifically looking for one...) unlike most of the other search engines I used. Up till now, they've kept being nice, not doing popups or any other crap that other search engines do, but I'm a little worried that they might IPO and then become slaves to money, at which point the ideals may take a back seat to profits. If they do IPO, I hope that they realise that being a good search engine and playing nice is a large part of the reason they are so successful.
FWIW, Solaris does the same as IRIX, saving the output to/var/crash/`hostname`
From that, you can run some tests on the core files to get some info about what went wrong as well as things like stack traces & process lists. Even without analyzing that, you'll generally get some info in/var/adm/messages.
Linux should have some method of capturing what errors were generated during crashes; count it as one of those "enterprise level" features....
Depends what the list is being generated from; if I want to to generate a list of email addresses from my company database to email customers who have bought a product which has been recalled, you'll agree it's valid. However, I'm still using "list-generating software" which could be made illegal.
Unfortunately many of these things are difficult to word in legalese while avoid false positives/negatives.
Yeah, but this would have required HP to spend money on getting licenses for this. Mandrake is free, making the choice, in your words, a "no brainer".
Fact is, a lot of people who buy this box will use whatever linux distro they're happiest with; those who are just dipping their toe in the water (so to speak) will use whatever comes with the box (Mandrake in this case).
We know the world has gone to hell when the world's best rapper is white, the world's best golfer is black and the French are accusing the USA of being arrogant
Duuno the source, but it was doing the rounds via email just before Gulf War II, clone of the attack.
Very few large/medium business users actually use preloaded configurations, rolling their own image to desktops. They'll also have their own tech support.
To be fair, yes, smaller businesses will probably use the preinstalled system & tech support from the supplier.
Simple answer; which is easier to install? Debian has traditionally been slated for being difficult to install/configure (well, for newbies) and Mandrake has been praised for its ease of installation/configuration.
To be honest, for general usage, Mandrake sounds like a good choice (Disclaimer: I use Debian at home, and have never used Mandrake. Dunno how useful Knoppix would be for this).
It isn't that bad an idea, using Google (or, as someone else has said, Google Groups). Hell, I've put up stuff that even Sun has referenced!
However, it is still a klunky interface to the problem, notably that (a) there are disparate levels of quality across sites and indexability (if that's even a word) and (b) sites can come and go. What the submitter wants is a site where people can dump their experiences for others to find, the idea being that through time, a catalogue of problems & solutions is generated.
There are micro JREs running on small hardware (most modern mobile phones use it). As others seems to be leaning towards ARM, I'm pretty sure one of them could run Java at some kind of acceptable speed.
If you can track down where the traffic is coming from (which I believe you can with MSBLASTER, at least to the extent of IP address and from there, MAC address), block their port until they fix their machine. Once they've (a) patched up and (b) removed MSBLASTER, let them back on. Having an A4 sheet detailing where to get the patch and removal tool (possibly mirrored locally) would be a good idea too.
Nice thought about the BBC, but that would involve the BBC taking a political stance which would violate a lot of what they stand for. Hopefully, however, they can at least report on the issue to alert people.
Yup, mod parent up. If he hadn't said it, I was about to...:) They've made $11m profit so far and it's still in the cinemas. They're still selling cuddly toys etc. in stores which will be making money and it hasn't even reached rental, let alone video/dvd sales & movie channels.
By "badly", I suspect that the MPAA means that "people haven't been flocking to it like the sheep we expect them to be".
I know Sun sell a variety of country kits, including keyboards which are now USB (make sure you get a type 6 which is the USB one). Dunno if they'll sell a UK country kit in the US, though, but their store suggests they do: go to spare parts, choose for workstation/Sunblade 100 & go to Input devices; the country kits come in at $60 including keyboard, mouse & mouse mat + some other odds & ends; might even include an ethernet cable, but I'm not 100% sure on that.
Sun keyboards are pretty good, and you get some extra keys to play with as well. I'm sure you should be able to remap them to something in XFree, dunno what Windows does with them.
In my case, I sometimes change resolution for streaming videos. The image is usually small (especially for some movie trailers) and even at double size, it's quite small in terms of screen real-estate under 1280x1024. Decreasing resolution to 800x600 usually lets it fill the screen much better.
No, "full screen" mode is not an option in most cases as the scaling usually makes the image look, well, wrong. Also, not all players provide such an option, especially embedded players in browsers (some don't even allow double size).
Er, that was on unstable; we went months without the newest versions of KDE, Gnome and XFree. Stable was even further behind, but I agree, it has a reputation for being rock solid stability, if only because it doesn't change much (only for bugfixes & security updates).
I tend to run unstable (albeit without many updates) and it's been reliable with very few crashes (of any kind) on the system.
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I would love to be able to get a 1.33GHz 12" powerbook, but engineering would seem to be the problem.
On a serious note, I'm thinking about getting a laptop and the Powerbooks are looking like a good bet; Unix core (so I can run apache & Postgresql etc; yes, I know they work on Windows too, just about) with a nice GUI and everything "just works"(TM) rather than having to download beta drivers to get wifi kind of working under linux.
Er, they sent the systems to a company which was supposed to blank the disks but didn't. The data clearing company failed to do their job not the bank.
Google was the first search engine I found where you didn't get a porn site on the first page (well, unless you were specifically looking for one...) unlike most of the other search engines I used. Up till now, they've kept being nice, not doing popups or any other crap that other search engines do, but I'm a little worried that they might IPO and then become slaves to money, at which point the ideals may take a back seat to profits. If they do IPO, I hope that they realise that being a good search engine and playing nice is a large part of the reason they are so successful.
From that, you can run some tests on the core files to get some info about what went wrong as well as things like stack traces & process lists. Even without analyzing that, you'll generally get some info in /var/adm/messages.
Linux should have some method of capturing what errors were generated during crashes; count it as one of those "enterprise level" features....
PS: I was going to correct your (you're) grammar mistake before I noticed the other errors and figured I couldn't be bothered.
Unfortunately many of these things are difficult to word in legalese while avoid false positives/negatives.
Won't pollute the waters? Have you seen the Thames? I doubt it could get much more polluted....
Fact is, a lot of people who buy this box will use whatever linux distro they're happiest with; those who are just dipping their toe in the water (so to speak) will use whatever comes with the box (Mandrake in this case).
To be fair, yes, smaller businesses will probably use the preinstalled system & tech support from the supplier.
To be honest, for general usage, Mandrake sounds like a good choice (Disclaimer: I use Debian at home, and have never used Mandrake. Dunno how useful Knoppix would be for this).
However, it is still a klunky interface to the problem, notably that (a) there are disparate levels of quality across sites and indexability (if that's even a word) and (b) sites can come and go. What the submitter wants is a site where people can dump their experiences for others to find, the idea being that through time, a catalogue of problems & solutions is generated.
ls -lart
which has the added bonus of being mnemonic as well as including an obligatory BOFH reference :)
There are micro JREs running on small hardware (most modern mobile phones use it). As others seems to be leaning towards ARM, I'm pretty sure one of them could run Java at some kind of acceptable speed.
If you can track down where the traffic is coming from (which I believe you can with MSBLASTER, at least to the extent of IP address and from there, MAC address), block their port until they fix their machine. Once they've (a) patched up and (b) removed MSBLASTER, let them back on. Having an A4 sheet detailing where to get the patch and removal tool (possibly mirrored locally) would be a good idea too.
Nice thought about the BBC, but that would involve the BBC taking a political stance which would violate a lot of what they stand for. Hopefully, however, they can at least report on the issue to alert people.
By "badly", I suspect that the MPAA means that "people haven't been flocking to it like the sheep we expect them to be".
Sun keyboards are pretty good, and you get some extra keys to play with as well. I'm sure you should be able to remap them to something in XFree, dunno what Windows does with them.
Hrm, reminds me of one of Prince Philip's gaffes.
Okay, what's the bets that maternity hospitals in the area are scrambling to ban all leave for next May?
Also, it doesn't cover cases where files get deleted/corrupted.
No, "full screen" mode is not an option in most cases as the scaling usually makes the image look, well, wrong. Also, not all players provide such an option, especially embedded players in browsers (some don't even allow double size).
Yes, AV isn't the be-all and end-all of protecting against attack, but it is a necessary part.
I tend to run unstable (albeit without many updates) and it's been reliable with very few crashes (of any kind) on the system.