I wonder if the battery life is really anywhere near 22 hours, and also if it is turned into a brick with two batteries.
The 22 hours quote comes from the maximum battery life when you have two battery packs installed. The maximum battery life time is 11 hours with the one supplied battery. The entire specs can be found here.
Not exactly a tutorial, but one of the tools that you can use to mirror a site is GNU wget. I use wget to make an internal mirror of Postfix.org as well as the Jargon File on a weekly basis. A quickie on how to use wget can be found here.
HTH
The title and the description is a bit deceiving
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It's not a "wireless monitor" per se but rather an incarnation of Microsoft's Tablet PC. Instead of running the full blown XP-based Tablet PC OS, it is running a newer version of CE.NET and has built-in wireless.
Now, where I find it useful is in a datacenter where you may have loads of servers (be it Windows or Unix-based that supports either RDP or Citrix, or even VNC) and some type of wired or wireless network that you can connect to any given server and monitor/troubleshoot it without the use of KVM's or continuously stand looking at a 1U rackmount LCD display.
I really don't see it picking up a lot of consumers, but it doesn't really say that it was meant specifically for consumers. Prosumers and Corporate users... maybe.
Actually... the tension is between NetBSD and OpenBSD. Theo deRaadt "forked" the NetBSD code and created OpenBSD. I used to have a link that discusses the reasons for the split as well as some comments made by Theo.
As far as I know of... there isn't any noticeable tension between OpenBSD and FreeBSD... but of course, I don't pay attention to the politics; I just use what is best for each situation.
Try Crucial.com
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You can try Crucial.com. I was able to find three different 30-pin Fast Page SIMMs within about a minute here.
Unfortunately, if many people stop buying CDs and DVDs, then the RIAA and the MPAA can twist the profits and revenue results to say that more and more people are "pirating" their stuff.
Remember, you are dealing with organizations and companies that only care about increasing revenues and profits to appease their shareholders, even when the economy is/was in a recession and/or the number of consumers/buyers stays stagnant.
It nice to see that Microsoft and the Apache group are able to work out the little bug or mis-implementation. I'm not thrilled nor very happy with Microsoft, but they aren't always at fault.
I dont see it as anything to get all up in arms and angry about.
Remember, this is/. If it's about Microsoft and it goes against anything open or standard, then everyone will get pissy. If it were Netscape or Opera, then it will be passed of as a fluke.
I definitely agree that the US-IIi's are really nice processors, primarily the ones with 2MB of cache. For what I would use a Sun machine for wouldn't require one of the higher-end video cards... just something that can output 1600x1200 at 16-bit with a decent refresh would be fine.
I have an Ultra 10 sitting idle at work and I hate it primarily because of the cruddy IDE controller (no DMA). Because I really don't use it all that often, I can't really justify the purchase of a SCSI card and a decent SCSI hard drive. Right now, most of my development is done on my FreeBSD box that has 4 hard drives (2 Ultra Fast SCSI, 1 Ultra2 SCSI, 1 7200RPM Ultra66 hard drive but limited to ATA33 because of the on-board... doesn't matter too much because it's used as the home dir, swap, tmp, and scratch space).
I've always thought of the Blade 100 being the replacement for the Ultra 5 desktops. The form factor is similar, the Blade 100 has a faster processor, supports USB and IEEE1394/FireWire, based on more commodity parts (like the ALi southbridge IIRC and uses PC133 memory versus proprietary form-factor DIMMs), etc.
The Blade 1000 (and now the 2000) are the uber versions of the Ultra 60/80 workstations (with the exception of the quad-processor equipped 80, but that really depends if the apps that one would use would really use all four processors or if it is optimized for Mhz "horsepower").
Personally, I like the form factor of both the Ultra 5 and the Blade 100, and if I had the dough, I would probably get a mid-level Blade 100 (512MB of RAM, DVD-ROM, add a non-Sun IDE hard drive).
The Blade desktops/workstations are definitely not "terminals"... if you want a terminal, look at the Sun Rays or if you really want to, hit eBay and get the used Ultra 5 desktops.
Komodo is built on the Mozilla platform. Portions of Komodo were created using source code governed by the Netscape Public License (NPL) and the Mozilla Public License (MPL). The source code for the portions of Netscape 6 governed by the NPL and MPL is available from under those licenses.
more info
Komodo 1.2 was built off the Mozilla 0.9.5 branch as of 16 October 2001. Mozilla patches for each Komodo release are available from the ActiveState download server.
Unfortunately, they don't say exactly which portions of Mozilla they use.
When I first glanced over the text, my eyes picked up EV (as in electic vehicle), Nova and GM. Didn't GM learn something about the Nova already;-) Oh wait... that was in Mexico and it's not a game. n/m.
it would let me drag and drop multiple files from ftp onto the desktop
If the "Enable folder view for FTP sites" option is enabled, then you should be able to select multiple files and drag-and-drop from the browser to the desktop under Windows 2000/XP. It's definitely not the best FTP client for Windows, but I use it if I'm too lazy to open up WS_FTP Pro:)
If for info, then Keep It Simple Stupid. Don't use javascript. Keep graphics to a minimum. Make sure it works with image loading turned off. Make sure it works with text browsers. Don't use image maps. Keep pages short with clear links up and down.
Those points were the key things that I kept in mind when designing my personal site closedsrc.org. The only graphics that I use on the site are: the logo (but it has an ALT tag for text-browsers), the W3C valid logos, the FreeBSD button, a little s/deformed toon character, and the Google logo (for the Google search).
Everything else uses CSS (1 and 2), tables (I try to not nest tables if at all possible), and adhere to HTML 4.01 Strict (or Transitional if I can't adhere to Strict for some reason). The site is browseable with most browsers and the server will include a little warning at the top of the page if it detects a browser that won't show the page correctly (and uses a different CSS file that provides just the bare necessities).
I personally hate sites that try to be fashionable, flashy, uses too much animations (either via Flash, JavaScript or Java), and ones that squeeze content into a width of only 400-500 pixels.
InDesign 2.0 is a really nice product and has a huge potential to be the Quark killer, I definitely agree to that. There is a chance that the designers where I work will be moving to InDesign from Quark. PageMaker still has it's uses though.
For the graphics designers, I hope that is true. Personally, I would rather wait for Adobe to thoroughly test the software and make sure that all of the major and somewhat-major bugs and performance kinks are worked out, then see a shoddy release. Though I do know that the patience of some are beginning to wear thin.
So far, I have been fairly happy with the performance enhancements made and bugs squashed in the 10.1.3 update (compared to 10.1 anyways).
Outside of Microsoft, other important things for the Mac OS X platform include the release of a fully native versions of Adobe Photoshop, Adobe PageMaker and Adobe Premiere (although Final Cut Pro might work in some cases)... and some other key tools. It seems to me that Quark and Macromedia have been more active in releasing native applications for Mac OS X (I haven't followed that scene too much, so I could be somewhat wrong there).
Office and Internet Explorer are fairly important to the platform, but not always as important as the tools for AV technicians, 3D artists, graphics designers, and page layout designers.
Via C3/Cyrix III Processor
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As far as the processor is concerned, you can go with Via's C3/Cyrix III processor. I'd go for the 0.15u or 0.13u versions of the processors (speeds start at around 700Mhz) and eat up to around 10-12W of power (according to page at sandpile.org). With that, you would only need a nice heatsink and no fan (since it gets about as warm as a high-end G3). The only possible problem is chipset support and it's FPU runs at half of the core speed.
If you want to stick with an Intel processor, you may want to look at the 0.13u version of the Celeron processor and cut the bus speed down to 66Mhz (if the chipset supports it) and cut down voltage (if possible). That should reduce the power consumption (and thus heat dissipation) by a fair amount.
I hear you... my heart was like a stone but then it was shattered several times into millions of pieces. sigh.
Re:Python Dev Under VS.NET IDE
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That's sad to hear... I guess it's too costly for them to develop both Visual [Perl|Python] and Komodo at the same time while kind of stepping on each other's feet.
I just pulled down the python.org Win32 build of 2.2 and the win32all package from Hammond's website. Thanks for the info and the linkage.
Ars Technica also has an article on .NET
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Ars Technica has an article that looks into what the.NET Framework is supposed to be, the CLR, metadata, and.NET vs. COM. Some of the stuff has probably been covered elsewhere, but it's still an informative read nonetheless.
Python Dev Under VS.NET IDE
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Although I have tried Visual Python in a while, but I think it's nice to see that Python/win32 developers have a great IDE for development. Right now, I use the PythonWin Environment, which is a great development environment, but it still lacks some of the flexibilities of the VS.NET IDE (like true Visual SourceSafe add-in; ya I know, CVS is great but I work in a Windows-dominant dev environment and the other devs don't like nor use CVS).
Speaking about Python, does anyone know when the final release of ActivePython 2.2 will be released? It has been in "Alpha" for a while and the product page hasn't been updated in a while.
Slashdot Mirror
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Now, where I find it useful is in a datacenter where you may have loads of servers (be it Windows or Unix-based that supports either RDP or Citrix, or even VNC) and some type of wired or wireless network that you can connect to any given server and monitor/troubleshoot it without the use of KVM's or continuously stand looking at a 1U rackmount LCD display.
I really don't see it picking up a lot of consumers, but it doesn't really say that it was meant specifically for consumers. Prosumers and Corporate users... maybe.
Sorry about that... :(
As far as I know of... there isn't any noticeable tension between OpenBSD and FreeBSD... but of course, I don't pay attention to the politics; I just use what is best for each situation.
You can try Crucial.com. I was able to find three different 30-pin Fast Page SIMMs within about a minute here.
Remember, you are dealing with organizations and companies that only care about increasing revenues and profits to appease their shareholders, even when the economy is/was in a recession and/or the number of consumers/buyers stays stagnant.
But I like less better than more (at least when using Solaris ;-)
It nice to see that Microsoft and the Apache group are able to work out the little bug or mis-implementation. I'm not thrilled nor very happy with Microsoft, but they aren't always at fault.
I have an Ultra 10 sitting idle at work and I hate it primarily because of the cruddy IDE controller (no DMA). Because I really don't use it all that often, I can't really justify the purchase of a SCSI card and a decent SCSI hard drive. Right now, most of my development is done on my FreeBSD box that has 4 hard drives (2 Ultra Fast SCSI, 1 Ultra2 SCSI, 1 7200RPM Ultra66 hard drive but limited to ATA33 because of the on-board... doesn't matter too much because it's used as the home dir, swap, tmp, and scratch space).
The Blade 1000 (and now the 2000) are the uber versions of the Ultra 60/80 workstations (with the exception of the quad-processor equipped 80, but that really depends if the apps that one would use would really use all four processors or if it is optimized for Mhz "horsepower").
Personally, I like the form factor of both the Ultra 5 and the Blade 100, and if I had the dough, I would probably get a mid-level Blade 100 (512MB of RAM, DVD-ROM, add a non-Sun IDE hard drive).
The Blade desktops/workstations are definitely not "terminals"... if you want a terminal, look at the Sun Rays or if you really want to, hit eBay and get the used Ultra 5 desktops.
When I first glanced over the text, my eyes picked up EV (as in electic vehicle), Nova and GM. Didn't GM learn something about the Nova already ;-) Oh wait... that was in Mexico and it's not a game. n/m.
Remember, there is a magnet within your hard drive... there is one (or two) magnets that are used in conjunction with the arm to go back and forth.
Everything else uses CSS (1 and 2), tables (I try to not nest tables if at all possible), and adhere to HTML 4.01 Strict (or Transitional if I can't adhere to Strict for some reason). The site is browseable with most browsers and the server will include a little warning at the top of the page if it detects a browser that won't show the page correctly (and uses a different CSS file that provides just the bare necessities).
I personally hate sites that try to be fashionable, flashy, uses too much animations (either via Flash, JavaScript or Java), and ones that squeeze content into a width of only 400-500 pixels.
InDesign 2.0 is a really nice product and has a huge potential to be the Quark killer, I definitely agree to that. There is a chance that the designers where I work will be moving to InDesign from Quark. PageMaker still has it's uses though.
So far, I have been fairly happy with the performance enhancements made and bugs squashed in the 10.1.3 update (compared to 10.1 anyways).
Office and Internet Explorer are fairly important to the platform, but not always as important as the tools for AV technicians, 3D artists, graphics designers, and page layout designers.
If you want to stick with an Intel processor, you may want to look at the 0.13u version of the Celeron processor and cut the bus speed down to 66Mhz (if the chipset supports it) and cut down voltage (if possible). That should reduce the power consumption (and thus heat dissipation) by a fair amount.
I hear you... my heart was like a stone but then it was shattered several times into millions of pieces. sigh.
I just pulled down the python.org Win32 build of 2.2 and the win32all package from Hammond's website. Thanks for the info and the linkage.
Ars Technica has an article that looks into what the .NET Framework is supposed to be, the CLR, metadata, and .NET vs. COM. Some of the stuff has probably been covered elsewhere, but it's still an informative read nonetheless.
Speaking about Python, does anyone know when the final release of ActivePython 2.2 will be released? It has been in "Alpha" for a while and the product page hasn't been updated in a while.