I've always prefered the parallel port when it comes to attaching various leds and relays to a computer. If course, opto-couplers help too if you don't want to fry your motherboard...
Seriously, it doesn't have a "connector" - it has that craddle with a usb interface. It's a difference, when you look at what's available today.
It's not old in age, well, not that much I agree. But looking at it specs, it's easy to see it was surpassed in almost every aspect about 3-6 months after it came out.
It's still the PDA I have, because it satisfies all my needs. It did when I bought it, and my needs haven't really changed that much. But I know if I'm buying a new one, it will be 5 times better in memory, speed, graphics area, etc. I still appreciate it - it's not like it's crashing all the time or anything like that.
People in Montreal (Quebec, Canada) are coming together to offer free wireless hotspots in local venues. For about 200$, we install all the needed hardware, give them a little sign/poster, and voila, another free public hotspot for Montrealers.
"Perhaps C++ is able to make better use of the Pentium 4's SSE2 SIMD extensions for arithmetic and trigonometry, but this is pure speculation on my part."
I was happy to see these results - it meant I didn't have to run the tests myself. At least it confirmed that gcc performs better in linux then its cygwin for, not surprisingly. Last question remains: what about mingw gcc?
You can get cygwin gcc to build palmos applications, so that's not a limitation. I think I cross-compile other stuff for linux with it from windows, but I'm not 100% sure.
Personally, I love how they come up it 25.3%, and 1.79$... those a pretty accurate figures but I bet the last one or two digits have no statistical value whatsoever.
I hope you aren't sarcastic about your last comments on the review. I found it helpful - I probably won't be buying this book now. Also, I read XP refactored recently, and it sort of opened my eyes, I'm happy to admit:)
I think the FSF has been clear about this from the very start. It was _never_ about a "method of software methodology" (sic), that's the OSF viewpoint. You realise it's not a coincidence the first F in FSF means Free. And from the very start, it was not about price, it was about freedom.
RMS is but one man. He's not here to represent everyone, but for the last 20 years, he represented his ideals. Even he understands not everyone will agree with him, and that's alright.
There were other posts addressing is "dislike" of Debian. From the footnote of this article:
"Meanwhile, once again there is no installable GNU/Linux distribution that we can endorse; all of them include or recommend non-free software."
You can find more background info on the non-free divide, but like RMS reminds us in his footnote, there's a difference between what the developpers admit (or are even aware of) and what is actually the reality as defined by the strickest terms. Also, a thread has surfaced again on the debian mailing lists to modify the social contract about non-free.
Actually, you're in luck. The story goes a little like this. Someone enjoyed GNU/Linux enough but felt none of the distros out there really got the right idea, so he decided do make his own non-commercial distro. Debian was born. Now, a guy in Germany decided 3 years ago it would be cool to have this great distro to-go, and so Knoppix, the Live-CD saw the light. Couple of years later, someone wanted it even more portable, so he trimmed it to fit on a tiny "business" card CD and called it Damn Small Linux. Later, another guy with too much time on his hands decided it would nicely fill a void on his USB key, and modified DLS 0.36 just for that purpose. Yay! You could now boot it from USB. But he was too shy to give it a name.
The latest chapter is called Flonix, and trust me, it won't be the last.
Yeah, you hit it on the nail. If it really was a service pack review, the point would be moot. With a new release every 3 years, SP act as minor versions, and do come with some improvements other then security fixes.
A lot of programs and drivers still have problems with files greater the 4 GiB or so. It's a shame, but it's getting better everyday accross the chain. If you think about it, there aren't many other files bigger then that for the common mortal.
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Timothy, can you fix it?
I've always prefered the parallel port when it comes to attaching various leds and relays to a computer. If course, opto-couplers help too if you don't want to fry your motherboard...
Seriously, it doesn't have a "connector" - it has that craddle with a usb interface. It's a difference, when you look at what's available today.
It's not old in age, well, not that much I agree. But looking at it specs, it's easy to see it was surpassed in almost every aspect about 3-6 months after it came out.
It's still the PDA I have, because it satisfies all my needs. It did when I bought it, and my needs haven't really changed that much. But I know if I'm buying a new one, it will be 5 times better in memory, speed, graphics area, etc. I still appreciate it - it's not like it's crashing all the time or anything like that.
We're also working on a custom distro:
easyhotspot.waglo.com
People in Montreal (Quebec, Canada) are coming together to offer free wireless hotspots in local venues. For about 200$, we install all the needed hardware, give them a little sign/poster, and voila, another free public hotspot for Montrealers.
- 160x160 screen
- palmos < 5.x
- < 100MHz CPU
- no USB connector
- ...
It's a nice machine for its time, you have to admitI was happy to see these results - it meant I didn't have to run the tests myself. At least it confirmed that gcc performs better in linux then its cygwin for, not surprisingly. Last question remains: what about mingw gcc?
You can get cygwin gcc to build palmos applications, so that's not a limitation. I think I cross-compile other stuff for linux with it from windows, but I'm not 100% sure.
yes, you can download all his kgs games there.
Nothing a quick search engine couldn't solve...
I particularly liked your bit comparing their pr and software skills :)
so odd in fact I had to quote it.
Personally, I love how they come up it 25.3%, and 1.79$... those a pretty accurate figures but I bet the last one or two digits have no statistical value whatsoever.
IBM is running a bunch of virtual linux machine on their big iron with good results too.
*hehe* Doesn't leave much room for mistakes either, now, does it :)
I hope you aren't sarcastic about your last comments on the review. I found it helpful - I probably won't be buying this book now. Also, I read XP refactored recently, and it sort of opened my eyes, I'm happy to admit :)
only this book was published in 2001 - that's at least a 3 years long month...
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Try those subject words with any search engine. This is probably what you're looking for.
I think the FSF has been clear about this from the very start. It was _never_ about a "method of software methodology" (sic), that's the OSF viewpoint. You realise it's not a coincidence the first F in FSF means Free. And from the very start, it was not about price, it was about freedom.
RMS is but one man. He's not here to represent everyone, but for the last 20 years, he represented his ideals. Even he understands not everyone will agree with him, and that's alright.
There were other posts addressing is "dislike" of Debian. From the footnote of this article:
You can find more background info on the non-free divide, but like RMS reminds us in his footnote, there's a difference between what the developpers admit (or are even aware of) and what is actually the reality as defined by the strickest terms. Also, a thread has surfaced again on the debian mailing lists to modify the social contract about non-free.
Actually, you're in luck. The story goes a little like this. Someone enjoyed GNU/Linux enough but felt none of the distros out there really got the right idea, so he decided do make his own non-commercial distro. Debian was born. Now, a guy in Germany decided 3 years ago it would be cool to have this great distro to-go, and so Knoppix, the Live-CD saw the light. Couple of years later, someone wanted it even more portable, so he trimmed it to fit on a tiny "business" card CD and called it Damn Small Linux. Later, another guy with too much time on his hands decided it would nicely fill a void on his USB key, and modified DLS 0.36 just for that purpose. Yay! You could now boot it from USB. But he was too shy to give it a name.
The latest chapter is called Flonix, and trust me, it won't be the last.
Yeah, you hit it on the nail. If it really was a service pack review, the point would be moot. With a new release every 3 years, SP act as minor versions, and do come with some improvements other then security fixes.
A lot of programs and drivers still have problems with files greater the 4 GiB or so. It's a shame, but it's getting better everyday accross the chain. If you think about it, there aren't many other files bigger then that for the common mortal.