Well, I'll tell you, I had a room mate with a w2k box, and his box was amazingly stable. He knew a thing or two about windows. On the other hand, I've worked with 2k systems that were anything but stable. So, I suppose the stability depends on a thing or two of its own.
Then again, I've only crashed linux twice (that is, full-on kernel panic or otherwise failure). Once when I didn't realize the computer was on, and replaced the hard drive. The other time, I moved the computer from a horizontal position to a vertical one, and a stick of ram literally fell out of it. Other than that, I've never seen it crash.
I'm thinking, the idea is that it is high resolution, and you won't use it for that. Similar to the oversampling on a cd player.
Perhaps though, part of the 20x zoom relies on the super high resolution CCD capturing a high rez image, and zooming in on it (digital zoom, so its called).
I haven't read much on it though, but from what I can tell in your post, well, I'm confused too:p
I think one thing you don't realize is just how fast the pre-gecko netscape is.
I have netscape 3.01 installed on my mac, and it is significantly faster than safari and firebird (and, I would assume, IE). It renders differently, many times wrong, but its SO fast.
That is how the internet should be. Who woulda thought, browsing would be twice as fast just with a better browser...
actually, most web sites out there are served on what is commonly called a "virtual server" which is essentially one apache web server handling many sites. In order for the apache server to know what site's content to send out, it has to know what site you have requested. Simply requesting the ip address will result in either the first virtual host, or the default host, which is usually the homepage for the hosting company.
I looked around, I can't figure it out. But, I did see the quote quoted a few times. I'll ask a few radioshack buddies I still keep in contact with, and see what they say.
When I learned unix, we didn't have "kmoppix". But, most unix-like systems have a single user mode. On Mac OS X, you press, I believe, option-apple-s on bootup. Of course, using the install cd works well too. Don't be a moron - treat unix like unix.
You know, you'd think that would work too, but the difference may be in that the keys on the laptop are not actually part of the keyboard - and thus might require a driver, in addition to teaching the software how to respond to them.
yeah, but it might as well - four glaring internet shortcut keys are completely unsupported by the 'supported' operating system. These keys, no doubt, would work under windows, which the laptop is clearly designed for.
Of course, its nice not paying the microsoft tax on the sale though!!!
And just to validate my statement, let me mention briefl the 'ups' of the laptop, and the 'downs':
ups:
The laptop has a pretty good, bright screen (minus one dead pixel, visible when the background is dark).
Performance is very good. In fact, I think that laptop has more sprightly response and speed than any of my other machines here. KDE's and Xandros' applications pretty much load instantly. 3D support is also preconfigured and display a flight simulator with no lag at all.
The feel and construction of the laptop is very solid overall. The keyboard's feel is also very good, I just wish the PgUp key was not just next to the BACKSPACE key...
I tried out my USB Palm device and it worked out well with any of the usb slots. Ethernet also worked very well and with no problems. I burned an ISO image with the DVD/CD-RW combo drive, which also worked fine. On board speakers did the job as expected as well.
Being a Centrino, battery life is pretty good.
ok, now the downs:
While this product is Linux-certified, the "sleep" function simply doesn't work.
Half the time the WiFi card won't initialize
When I visited the KDE control center and clicked the "monitor" preference panel, Xandros greeted me with an alert box telling me that it won't allow me to do anything
On the front of the laptop, there are four "quick launch internet buttons" for email, browsing etc, but pressing them does nothing at all. Apparently there is no driver for them or a remapping tool available on Xandros.
So basically, the battery, display, and keyboard work. As does the USB, sound, cd-burner, and presumably the firewire port. Unfortunately, the sleep function does not, nor do the included extra shortcut keys. And to top it off, the wifi gui setup appears to have some issues.
Now, these are all rather standard issues with a non-linux certified laptop. Regular hardware (video, mouse, keyboard, cdrom) works, and laptop-specific hardware (sleep, wifi pcmcia cards, funky extra keys) does not. However, with linux certification, I would expect at least sleep to work. Thats a core point of a laptop. And Wifi today is so essential to working without being plugged in, I'd rate it right up with sleep and battery life.
While this laptop does for some reason claim to be linux certified, anyone can buy an off-the-shelf compaq, ibm, toshiba, or viao and have the same experience. The only thing that makes this laptop, complete with its 'internet shortcut keys' that don't work, linux-certified is that it comes without windows.
And what about SSH? I'm not completely certain, but I think that was on by default in 3.2, and when the issues came about, Theo said something like, "well, nobody's tried that on OpenBSD" so it wasn't considered a security hole.
Of course, if you add enough third party software, DOS can do a fair amount. But then, you open yourself to attack, etc. Then it isn't all that secure.
1) I'm not full of shit. 2) Theo and the gang typically take far longer than Apple, and even red hat, to release patches. 3) Actually, I do know quite a lot about openbsd. And thats why I use it. But claiming "Only one remote hole in the default install, in more than 8 years!" is laughable. 4) Maybe you haven't noticed, but most people who run OpenBSD are not running it as a desktop system. Thats why I pointed it out.
"The scientists confirmed this problem by firing up the particle accelerator at Stanford University and blasting electrons at a piece of the magnetic material used to store computer data."
So, this is like when me and a friend drank a bunch of beer and took a sledge hammer to my monitor, and discovered it couldn't handle more than about 10 foot-pounds of force? Shit, I could have told you that...
You know, in the past few months, I've heard more about one company buying another company than I'd care to hear:
IBM will buy SCO Apple will buy Real Microsoft will buy everyone
And now this. Don't people realize there is more to 'buying' a company than ordering fries and a coke? Also, sometimes its advantages not to buy a company, but rather, to create a partnership, or even to just buy or license IPO.
The *other* way companies of similar persuasion exist at the same time, other than just eating each other, is to COMPETE.
That is the point of our economy. Rather than having large fish eat the small fish, and then be left with nothing but big fish and us (fish food), the big fish and the small fish should compete for our business by making their offerings more attractive.
yeah, I have to second that. Although I ran into a little trouble with my 4 meg video card, I was able to get it running pretty easily.
A few things to note to the flamer: 1) OpenGL.org is the 'obscure web site' you are looking for. 2) 99% of the people who would be playing quake on a linux box installed linux with one large partition, so space in/tmp wouldn't likely be an issue. 3) unless your browser is retarded, you shouldn't have to chmod +x an installer. 4) All you really have to do to the XF86Config file is enable OpenGL, and whatever video card driver you likely needed anyway.
Yeah, I've had bad days on linux too, but quake was an easy one. Now, converting SQL tables from a proprietary SQL server running on SCO unix, passwords from a solaris yp box, onto linux, and then passing FTP through an ipv6 vpn with two firewalls on either side, thats a more interesting day.
...they compared code from the wrong non-linux kernel.
I mean, everyone knows the code-base for linux 2.6 is directly stolen from the Windows 2.1 leak. Well, all the good code anyway.
I propose a third-party be selected to go over every line of windows 2.1 code, and linux 2.6. Once all the common code has been found, I'm confident the open source community will gladly dump it from the linux code-base, and basically start from scratch.
How, can a system that doesn't know the difference from your ass and a hole in the ground possibly tell which of the million or so McDonalds restaurants you are at?
This reminds me of a dream I once had, where I came back from school, and my parents had installed a circuit board into my cat's brain, to make her "more pleasant".
It was a truly awful dream, as the process was not reversible.
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Well, I'll tell you, I had a room mate with a w2k box, and his box was amazingly stable. He knew a thing or two about windows. On the other hand, I've worked with 2k systems that were anything but stable. So, I suppose the stability depends on a thing or two of its own.
Then again, I've only crashed linux twice (that is, full-on kernel panic or otherwise failure). Once when I didn't realize the computer was on, and replaced the hard drive. The other time, I moved the computer from a horizontal position to a vertical one, and a stick of ram literally fell out of it. Other than that, I've never seen it crash.
He says the only current difference is 'how windowing is handled.'
Then, of course, there is this issue of stability...
I'm thinking, the idea is that it is high resolution, and you won't use it for that. Similar to the oversampling on a cd player.
:p
Perhaps though, part of the 20x zoom relies on the super high resolution CCD capturing a high rez image, and zooming in on it (digital zoom, so its called).
I haven't read much on it though, but from what I can tell in your post, well, I'm confused too
its funny I would be modded 'offtopic', when the number reason porn took off is because of the Indycam.
in more or less slashdot language:
1) webcam
2) porn
3)...?
4) profit!
...every hair on that breast!
I think one thing you don't realize is just how fast the pre-gecko netscape is.
I have netscape 3.01 installed on my mac, and it is significantly faster than safari and firebird (and, I would assume, IE). It renders differently, many times wrong, but its SO fast.
That is how the internet should be. Who woulda thought, browsing would be twice as fast just with a better browser...
actually, most web sites out there are served on what is commonly called a "virtual server" which is essentially one apache web server handling many sites. In order for the apache server to know what site's content to send out, it has to know what site you have requested. Simply requesting the ip address will result in either the first virtual host, or the default host, which is usually the homepage for the hosting company.
I looked around, I can't figure it out. But, I did see the quote quoted a few times. I'll ask a few radioshack buddies I still keep in contact with, and see what they say.
Did you used to work at radioshack, in ohio, by chance?
Thats something we used to say....
When I learned unix, we didn't have "kmoppix". But, most unix-like systems have a single user mode. On Mac OS X, you press, I believe, option-apple-s on bootup. Of course, using the install cd works well too. Don't be a moron - treat unix like unix.
...that it supports WiFi now?
I'm so confused...
You know, you'd think that would work too, but the difference may be in that the keys on the laptop are not actually part of the keyboard - and thus might require a driver, in addition to teaching the software how to respond to them.
yeah, but it might as well - four glaring internet shortcut keys are completely unsupported by the 'supported' operating system. These keys, no doubt, would work under windows, which the laptop is clearly designed for.
Of course, its nice not paying the microsoft tax on the sale though!!!
And just to validate my statement, let me mention briefl the 'ups' of the laptop, and the 'downs':
ups:
The laptop has a pretty good, bright screen (minus one dead pixel, visible when the background is dark).
Performance is very good. In fact, I think that laptop has more sprightly response and speed than any of my other machines here. KDE's and Xandros' applications pretty much load instantly. 3D support is also preconfigured and display a flight simulator with no lag at all.
The feel and construction of the laptop is very solid overall. The keyboard's feel is also very good, I just wish the PgUp key was not just next to the BACKSPACE key...
I tried out my USB Palm device and it worked out well with any of the usb slots. Ethernet also worked very well and with no problems. I burned an ISO image with the DVD/CD-RW combo drive, which also worked fine. On board speakers did the job as expected as well.
Being a Centrino, battery life is pretty good.
ok, now the downs:While this product is Linux-certified, the "sleep" function simply doesn't work.
Half the time the WiFi card won't initialize
When I visited the KDE control center and clicked the "monitor" preference panel, Xandros greeted me with an alert box telling me that it won't allow me to do anything
On the front of the laptop, there are four "quick launch internet buttons" for email, browsing etc, but pressing them does nothing at all. Apparently there is no driver for them or a remapping tool available on Xandros.
So basically, the battery, display, and keyboard work. As does the USB, sound, cd-burner, and presumably the firewire port. Unfortunately, the sleep function does not, nor do the included extra shortcut keys. And to top it off, the wifi gui setup appears to have some issues.
Now, these are all rather standard issues with a non-linux certified laptop. Regular hardware (video, mouse, keyboard, cdrom) works, and laptop-specific hardware (sleep, wifi pcmcia cards, funky extra keys) does not. However, with linux certification, I would expect at least sleep to work. Thats a core point of a laptop. And Wifi today is so essential to working without being plugged in, I'd rate it right up with sleep and battery life.
While this laptop does for some reason claim to be linux certified, anyone can buy an off-the-shelf compaq, ibm, toshiba, or viao and have the same experience. The only thing that makes this laptop, complete with its 'internet shortcut keys' that don't work, linux-certified is that it comes without windows.
The reviewer concludes that this a great purchase, as long as you are more selective over the distro installed.
Well, thats the case with windows machines too.
And what about SSH? I'm not completely certain, but I think that was on by default in 3.2, and when the issues came about, Theo said something like, "well, nobody's tried that on OpenBSD" so it wasn't considered a security hole.
And,
MS-DOS: 0 Remote anything in over 20 years
Of course, if you add enough third party software, DOS can do a fair amount. But then, you open yourself to attack, etc. Then it isn't all that secure.
1) I'm not full of shit.
2) Theo and the gang typically take far longer than Apple, and even red hat, to release patches.
3) Actually, I do know quite a lot about openbsd. And thats why I use it. But claiming "Only one remote hole in the default install, in more than 8 years!" is laughable.
4) Maybe you haven't noticed, but most people who run OpenBSD are not running it as a desktop system. Thats why I pointed it out.
We remain proud of OpenBSD's record of eight years with only a single remote hole in the default install.
I love OpenBSD as much as anyone serious about security, but this quote is completely full of shit.
If you look at the release 3.4 errata list, there's at least three or four root exploits waiting to happen. And 3.3 and 3.2 aren't any better.
And YES, sendmail was in the default install. As well as many programs based off the lately bad libc-6.
OpenBSD is the most secure, and secure-oriented, but its not perfect by any means.
And yes, I run OpenBSD on a few servers, and one desktop!
"The scientists confirmed this problem by firing up the particle accelerator at Stanford University and blasting electrons at a piece of the magnetic material used to store computer data."
So, this is like when me and a friend drank a bunch of beer and took a sledge hammer to my monitor, and discovered it couldn't handle more than about 10 foot-pounds of force? Shit, I could have told you that...
You know, in the past few months, I've heard more about one company buying another company than I'd care to hear:
IBM will buy SCO
Apple will buy Real
Microsoft will buy everyone
And now this. Don't people realize there is more to 'buying' a company than ordering fries and a coke? Also, sometimes its advantages not to buy a company, but rather, to create a partnership, or even to just buy or license IPO.
The *other* way companies of similar persuasion exist at the same time, other than just eating each other, is to COMPETE.
That is the point of our economy. Rather than having large fish eat the small fish, and then be left with nothing but big fish and us (fish food), the big fish and the small fish should compete for our business by making their offerings more attractive.
yeah, I have to second that. Although I ran into a little trouble with my 4 meg video card, I was able to get it running pretty easily.
/tmp wouldn't likely be an issue.
A few things to note to the flamer:
1) OpenGL.org is the 'obscure web site' you are looking for.
2) 99% of the people who would be playing quake on a linux box installed linux with one large partition, so space in
3) unless your browser is retarded, you shouldn't have to chmod +x an installer.
4) All you really have to do to the XF86Config file is enable OpenGL, and whatever video card driver you likely needed anyway.
Yeah, I've had bad days on linux too, but quake was an easy one. Now, converting SQL tables from a proprietary SQL server running on SCO unix, passwords from a solaris yp box, onto linux, and then passing FTP through an ipv6 vpn with two firewalls on either side, thats a more interesting day.
...they compared code from the wrong non-linux kernel.
I mean, everyone knows the code-base for linux 2.6 is directly stolen from the Windows 2.1 leak. Well, all the good code anyway.
I propose a third-party be selected to go over every line of windows 2.1 code, and linux 2.6. Once all the common code has been found, I'm confident the open source community will gladly dump it from the linux code-base, and basically start from scratch.
At last, a reason to create a better linux.
How, can a system that doesn't know the difference from your ass and a hole in the ground possibly tell which of the million or so McDonalds restaurants you are at?
This reminds me of a dream I once had, where I came back from school, and my parents had installed a circuit board into my cat's brain, to make her "more pleasant".
It was a truly awful dream, as the process was not reversible.