..that in one of the original (old LCD) iMac commercials, the chief designer mentioned coming up with a design like this, just to have it rejected my Steve Jobs?
I'd be grateful if anyone would provide a link to that commercial.
This is the second time I'm posting on/. on Bang & Olufsen remotes. Look at this picture. Which is the more well designed remote?
The Beolink 7000 (incidentally costing around $700 in 1991). It had:
Two way communication, ie. you could see the CD track/play time and so on when using the remote in a separate room with Beolink speakers.
Backlit touch screen.
Rechargeable batteries.
When you put the remote on the table, it would automatically raise the control panel (with a noiseless motor) for easier access. It would straighten out when you picked it up so you could hold it like a normal remote.
Hell, this was 1991! Screw the fact that the Sony remote has a 200MHz processor and runs Linux. I want something as good as this! Please! Alas, Bang&Olufsen stopped making these. Another great product down the drain.
The reason most techies said things like these are that they simply didn't understand that Apple did with the iPod what nobody had ever done to a HD based MP3 player before: Made it small, user friendly and good looking.
This is what makes the cute girls go "Ooh! I'd want one of those!". They wouldn't say that about the 1st gen. Nomad.
Now, what _I_ thought when the iPod was released was this: "Finally a _good_ MP3 player. Now i just have to wait a few more years for the price to come down and for the Vorbis support to be added."
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Not "anyone" can eavesdrop a GSM phone or a DECT cordsless phone. Or VOIP over IPSec, for that matter.
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In my experience, they started performing better than 3Com cards. Replacing 3Com 3C900B/C cards with Intel PRO/100S cards in my P133 server and PII-400 workstation, Linux 2.4.x, Unex switch) gave me a performance increase of roughly 2x (from 3-4MB/s to 7-8MB/s.)
To get an idea just how well designed these remotes are, take a look at this image.
The two remotes to the right had two-way communication, so you could see the current CD track or radio station, etc. The one to the right actually raised the control panel for easy access when put on a table.
1. CheckInstall will generate DPKG files (among many package formats) for anything you build from source. Makes it easy to uninstall the files.
2. What APT repository were you using? Did you search for the package at apt-get.org to see if there were any third party repository? You know that you can have several repositories in your sources.list file, right?
How should a package manager handle the user overwriting files left and right with different versions? The policy is that you put YOUR stuff in/usr/local and leave the rest alone. If you don't want to do that, creating your own Debian packages _really_ isn't that hard.
- Where I won't have QuickTime popping up urging me to "go PRO for $29.99" when I've just spent my kidney, my arm and my leg on a new cool PowerMac G5. - Where the default DVD player won't allow me to play videos fullscreen without kludges. - Where there's only one half-baked limited shareware program that provides multiple workspaces. - Where I have no choice of turning off the glittery bells & whistles interface. - Where I won't have to buy a $129 OS upgrade every year.
Any good patch system should support removing the patch and restoring the system as it was. Then you'll have the option of turning off the service or take the chance that exploits are not widely circulated.
Additionally, you should only need to restart the affected services, without having to reboot the entire computer. I think this is the main reason why Windows users are slow to apply patches - I'd certainly be if I would have to reboot my computer daily.
-K
Can anyone explain to me how on earth it is ACID compliant from the user's viewpoint?
I think the real solution to the DB/OOP problem is somthing like this. That is - modify the object system itself to support transparent database access. Doing this, you'll be able to write the rest of the application pretty much without worrying about the database backend.
Yeah, sure, why bother? I want a simple camera to take low-res pictures to send to my friends. OK, I'll buy a digital camera. I want my entire music collection with me. I'll buy an iPod. I want my address book, my mail, my encrypted passwords and some games to play when I'm bored. I'll buy a Palm. In addition to my spiffy phone with Bluetooth and GPRS. Lucky me that I no longer need a wallet to hold my money, because I sure as hell can't fit it in my pocket.
I installed Mandrake the other night (8.2) and had no such problems. It did, however, ask me whether I had a SCSI adapter or not. Even a Windows installer will occansionally ask you such questions.
Are you sure you didn't select the "Expert install"? If so, why are you surprised when the installer keeps asking you "expert" questions?
While we're on the topic of the FreeBSD vm, let's see what Matt Dillon, the FreeBSD vm hacker has to say about the Linux vm:
"I think Linux is going through a somewhat painful transition as it moves away from a Wild-West/Darwinist development methodology into something a bit more thoughtful. I will admit to wanting to take a clue-bat to some of the people arguing against Rik's VM work who simply do not understand the difference between optimizing a few nanoseconds out of a routine that is rarely called verses spending a few extra cpu cycles to choose the best pages to recycle in order to avoid disk I/O that would cost tens of millions of cpu cycles later on." (Read the rest of the interview here.)
IMNSHO: People just don't know what they're missing.
PostgreSQL used to have a maximum row limit (8K i think) that kept it out of the question in many cases. This has been fixed, and, as this review by Tim Perdue has shown, PostgreSQL is now challenging MySQL in speed also.
So why are everyone still using MySQL, with all it's shortcomings?
My friend is using it, and he's happy with it.
My ISP only has MySQL support, so it's the only way to go.
Even Slashdot is using it!
It's the most popular DBMS, so it must be the best, right?
Everyone and my neighbour is using it, so it's easy to get support.
You get the picture. MySQL isn't the most popular free DBMS because it's the best. This is not to say that there are valid reasons for using MySQL. But you can say the same thing about other software: What is the most popular and successful open source server OS? Linux. Which is the better server OS, Linux or FreeBSD? One could argue that FreeBSD is way better.
If you're almost convinced MySQL is the way to go, but would like a second opinion before deploying it, Why not MySQL? by Ben Adida, part of the OpenACS project is must-read.
For the sake of half-completeness: Don't forget that we have another very powerful RDBMS that has quite recently been open-sourced: Interbase
Other people have already commented on the "best Linux laptop one can buy" statement. Being quite annoyed with my aging ThinkPad 365X only having two mouse buttons, I can't understand how a laptop with one mouse button could be a good buy if you want to run Linux (and presumably X)?
However, if you want three mouse buttons, most (all?) the new IBM Thinkpads have three mouse buttons. And though the Thinkpads are considered expensive in the PC laptop market, I'm certain that they compare nicely with the Apple offerings.
This page by Jason Spisak has some information about building a thin client with no moving parts. It includes an address to TK Power which manufactures fanless PSUs. Depending on your systems power needs, a fanless PSU just might be what you need.
-K
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..that in one of the original (old LCD) iMac commercials, the chief designer mentioned coming up with a design like this, just to have it rejected my Steve Jobs?
I'd be grateful if anyone would provide a link to that commercial.
- Two way communication, ie. you could see the CD track/play time and so on when using the remote in a separate room with Beolink speakers.
- Backlit touch screen.
- Rechargeable batteries.
- When you put the remote on the table, it would automatically raise the control panel (with a noiseless motor) for easier access. It would straighten out when you picked it up so you could hold it like a normal remote.
Hell, this was 1991! Screw the fact that the Sony remote has a 200MHz processor and runs Linux. I want something as good as this! Please! Alas, Bang&Olufsen stopped making these. Another great product down the drain.The reason most techies said things like these are that they simply didn't understand that Apple did with the iPod what nobody had ever done to a HD based MP3 player before: Made it small, user friendly and good looking.
This is what makes the cute girls go "Ooh! I'd want one of those!". They wouldn't say that about the 1st gen. Nomad.
Now, what _I_ thought when the iPod was released was this: "Finally a _good_ MP3 player. Now i just have to wait a few more years for the price to come down and for the Vorbis support to be added."
Not "anyone" can eavesdrop a GSM phone or a DECT cordsless phone. Or VOIP over IPSec, for that matter.
In my experience, they started performing better than 3Com cards. Replacing 3Com 3C900B/C cards with Intel PRO/100S cards in my P133 server and PII-400 workstation, Linux 2.4.x, Unex switch) gave me a performance increase of roughly 2x (from 3-4MB/s to 7-8MB/s.)
To get an idea just how well designed these remotes are, take a look at this image.
The two remotes to the right had two-way communication, so you could see the current CD track or radio station, etc. The one to the right actually raised the control panel for easy access when put on a table.
1. CheckInstall will generate DPKG files (among many package formats) for anything you build from source. Makes it easy to uninstall the files.
/usr/local and leave the rest alone. If you don't want to do that, creating your own Debian packages _really_ isn't that hard.
2. What APT repository were you using? Did you search for the package at apt-get.org to see if there were any third party repository? You know that you can have several repositories in your sources.list file, right?
How should a package manager handle the user overwriting files left and right with different versions? The policy is that you put YOUR stuff in
It's Eugenia Lilo-Query.
Oh no!
This popularity is the ONLY reason for the TERRIBLE security track record of Apache compared to, say, IIS.
Oh, wait..
I want a computing platform where:
- Where I won't have QuickTime popping up urging me to "go PRO for $29.99" when I've just spent my kidney, my arm and my leg on a new cool PowerMac G5.
- Where the default DVD player won't allow me to play videos fullscreen without kludges.
- Where there's only one half-baked limited shareware program that provides multiple workspaces.
- Where I have no choice of turning off the glittery bells & whistles interface.
- Where I won't have to buy a $129 OS upgrade every year.
Any good patch system should support removing the patch and restoring the system as it was. Then you'll have the option of turning off the service or take the chance that exploits are not widely circulated.
Additionally, you should only need to restart the affected services, without having to reboot the entire computer. I think this is the main reason why Windows users are slow to apply patches - I'd certainly be if I would have to reboot my computer daily. -K
McBride... McDonalds... MC Hammer... And now, McLaughlin.
Can anyone explain to me how on earth it is ACID compliant from the user's viewpoint?
I think the real solution to the DB/OOP problem is somthing like this.
That is - modify the object system itself to support transparent database access. Doing this, you'll be able to write the rest of the application pretty much without worrying about the database backend.
-K
There's a patch here
A patched ssh package is already available in Debian stable.
-K
Yeah, sure, why bother? I want a simple camera to take low-res pictures to send to my friends. OK, I'll buy a digital camera. I want my entire music collection with me. I'll buy an iPod. I want my address book, my mail, my encrypted passwords and some games to play when I'm bored. I'll buy a Palm. In addition to my spiffy phone with Bluetooth and GPRS. Lucky me that I no longer need a wallet to hold my money, because I sure as hell can't fit it in my pocket.
Imagine a Beowulf cluster of these!
-K
I installed Mandrake the other night (8.2) and had no such problems. It did, however, ask me whether I had a SCSI adapter or not. Even a Windows installer will occansionally ask you such questions.
Are you sure you didn't select the "Expert install"? If so, why are you surprised when the installer keeps asking you "expert" questions?
-K
I couldn't agree more. Moderators: Why haven't this post been modded up?
Others: Give AllTheWeb a try!
This story is about how MS changed its EULA and you just gave them control of your computer.
My computer?? Since when did I run Windows XP on my computer?
s/Slackware/Debian/g
:)
Sorry. I can't help it.
Now for the final question: Does IT run Linux?
While we're on the topic of the FreeBSD vm, let's see what Matt Dillon, the FreeBSD vm hacker has to say about the Linux vm:
"I think Linux is going through a somewhat painful transition as it moves away from a Wild-West/Darwinist development methodology into something a bit more thoughtful. I will admit to wanting to take a clue-bat to some of the people arguing against Rik's VM work who simply do not understand the difference between optimizing a few nanoseconds out of a routine that is rarely called verses spending a few extra cpu cycles to choose the best pages to recycle in order to avoid disk I/O that would cost tens of millions of cpu cycles later on." (Read the rest of the interview here.)
Kakemann
PostgreSQL used to have a maximum row limit (8K i think) that kept it out of the question in many cases. This has been fixed, and, as this review by Tim Perdue has shown, PostgreSQL is now challenging MySQL in speed also.
So why are everyone still using MySQL, with all it's shortcomings?
You get the picture. MySQL isn't the most popular free DBMS because it's the best. This is not to say that there are valid reasons for using MySQL. But you can say the same thing about other software: What is the most popular and successful open source server OS? Linux. Which is the better server OS, Linux or FreeBSD? One could argue that FreeBSD is way better.
If you're almost convinced MySQL is the way to go, but would like a second opinion before deploying it, Why not MySQL? by Ben Adida, part of the OpenACS project is must-read.
For the sake of half-completeness: Don't forget that we have another very powerful RDBMS that has quite recently been open-sourced: Interbase
Kakemann
Other people have already commented on the "best Linux laptop one can buy" statement. Being quite annoyed with my aging ThinkPad 365X only having two mouse buttons, I can't understand how a laptop with one mouse button could be a good buy if you want to run Linux (and presumably X)?
However, if you want three mouse buttons, most (all?) the new IBM Thinkpads have three mouse buttons. And though the Thinkpads are considered expensive in the PC laptop market, I'm certain that they compare nicely with the Apple offerings.
This page by Jason Spisak has some information about building a thin client with no moving parts. It includes an address to TK Power which manufactures fanless PSUs. Depending on your systems power needs, a fanless PSU just might be what you need. -K