I've been testing 2.5 since about.40 and it's great. Excpet for drivers. They still aren't there for me so i haven't sued it much on my main boxes. I have dome other boxes running.47 and it's running great. I can't wait for it to go to 2.6
It also works by crooks owning casinos. If people are giving you money and you're giving them money back, you can do a lot of tricky things. Especially w/ counterfeit or otherwise marked dough.
Code munky sounds cool, but has a negative connotation, so let's not use that. However programmers aren't really engineers. Engineers work in the real world. that's how they're differnet for mathmatitions that also know physics. Programmers do something else. not to knock eitehr, but they're differnet things. And this... engineer stuff (domestic engineer sanitation engineer) is stupid.
while my Knoppix 3.1 cds are fine for mow i'm glad the knoppix folks are so quick w/ updates.
Knoppix is great for a sys where you can't install an OS. I still use my gentoo livecds for repair, but i never leave home w/out a knoppix CD. (I'm such a nerd)
I'll bite Go gentoo. Seriously. It has all the advantages of LFS w/out the hell of actually maintaining the system. It also has a cool init system. And it doesn't need a working system. All you need is a cd.
Buy CD Rip CD (someone'll find a way, i'm sure) Return CD as non-playable on PC Better quality than most downloaded MP3s, albeit with more work and still free.
RH and drake are slow. I'll give you that. Also linux doesn't depend on the HDD as much since it uses ram more efficiantly. Also, GNOME and KDE are huge. It's the eye candy. Windows still has a really simple interface, even luna. it's bubbly, but not complex. If you want fast, check out Enlightenment or fluxvbox. Also using a distro like gentoo will speed thing up a lot.
It's considered ok since it's not connected to the net much. It's still a bad idea, especially if someone starts selling cell modems for it (or do such already exist). It does make the syste a lot easier to use for the average user, though. I think a system like apple has would be better, though.
This looks like the kinda site to get/.ed soon. Full article text. he didn't have any pics.
Review of the Sharp Zaurus 5500 Ed Schernau, ed at schernau.com
No, there are no screenshots. I don't have a digital camera. It's all 1 giant page. I don't know if this works with OSX, and I don't care at the moment. It supposedly works with Linux, but I haven't tried it. This review is NOT exhaustive. All copyrights are owned by their owners, blah blah blah, I'm not trying to piss people off.
As seen here on Slashdot, the Sharp Zaurus 5500 recently went on sale at HSN due to the newer, Zaurus 5600 being released. Being a cheap geek, I purchased the 5500 model. First, I'd like to say that I was impressed with HSN - very good pricing, and a 15% off coupon for first time orders. Their website is easy to navigate and quick, and provided accurate package tracking. I paid 178USD for it, delivered.
Here's what you get in the package:
The Zaurus 5500 battery (950 mAh) Getting started manual User manual CD of software and drivers AC adapter USB Sync cradle/charger - the cradle has a DC jack that you plug the AC adapter into - it does NOT use the USB port for charging power.
Impressions The Zaurus looks very slick, a polished metal looking PDA. There's a translucent plastic flip-up lid over the touchscreen. The whole thing is about 1.5x the length of a deck of playing cards, and about as wide and thick. The stylus slides into a slot, there is an IR and SD port on 1 side of the unit, and a headphone jack and CF slot on the top of the unit. The bottom of the unit has the DC power jack and 'Sharp IO port', which is where it mates with its cradle.
Hardware/OS The Z 5500 runs on the Intel StrongArm processor, running a version of Lineo - embedded Linux. It has a 2.4.6 kernel. Because of this, any Linux software compiled for ARM (like the whole Debian arm tree) will run. You get 64MB of memory, 1/2 of which is locked away by the Z, so you have 32MB to run in. This has not proved to be a problem, yet. It runs Qtopia, an embedded GUI system on a 320x240 color screen. Almost any linux-y thing you can think of, you can do. It has a shell, you can even make swapfiles to increase running memory (at the expense of storage of course). There are init scripts. Repeat after me: It's a miniaturized Linux box. Everything runs as root. It uses ext2fs for main storage, and minix and cramfs for its own purposes. You can type 'mount' to see what's what.
Keyboard The keyboard is excellent. You hold the Zaurus in both hands and type with your thumbs. Clever use of 'Shift' and 'Function' keys give you nearly QWERTY layout. You can get about 1 letter every 3/4 of a second.
Handwriting It also does handwriting recognition, in a certain area of the screen. You enable this by hitting a small icon on the screen, and scribble away. I've not spent much time with it, yet. It's fiddly, but not as bad as Palm's Grafiti.
Backlight Good, but not great. The screen is lit from a flourescent light on the side, which can look weird if you hold the Z at an angle. Some parts of the screen are brighter than others.
Sync The Z connects to its host via IP over USB. Syncing occurs completely over IP. This is slick, if you get a CF Ethernet card for it, you can (in theory) sync with your system anywhere in the world. My old Palm had a serial cable, so USB seemed like warp speed to me. Save yourself headache - set the Zaurus to NOT use DHCP, likewise your PC system. It defaults to 192.168.129.201, your PC defaults to 192.168.129.1. There's a GUI to configure all of this on the Z.
GUI Very cool. Touch once to run an app, touch and hold to bring up properties. A combination of thumb and thumbnail will get everything done.
I hooked it up and let it charge for a while, then loaded the software onto my PC. I have Windows2000 running on an ABit BP6 motherboard, with 2 USB 1.0 ports. This m
I'm running a NAT netowrk. However when i run port scans and such on my system it says i'm running one FreeBSD 4.6 box. How will they now i'm using NAT?
Also, if i only have one box connected (the router) and route band internally, who cares. I'm only using one connection.
Earthlink has no restrictions of that kind. I run a http/ftp/ssh server with no trouble. I could run other stuff too, but i have no need to. Maybe you need to reconsider your choice of ISP.
I am in nol way affiliated w/ Earthlink, but i have been doing work for people ruinning AOL and have a high opinion of Earthlink these days.:)
if we can identigy spam servers by location block them/ Hell, block entire countries and soon they'll rethink policies. Please note that i plan for the isps to do this blocking, not the gov.
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Also, what about DOS. If someone writes a distributed client to slam spammers would that work. I know they're usually located at colos, but colos would be more picky about customers if they could be shut down for a while if they harbor spammers. 3 strikes. 1 complaint: warning and admin 2: bring down spammer (and possible colo) for an hounr 3: bring them down for 24 hrs 4: keep slamming until neutrilized.
I've heard that Spamassasin and the like wreak havoc w/ ebay stuff from vendors. Mail lists and Ebay itself can easily be whitelisted, but i don't want to miss vendor messages.
There's that one guy that lives in the US. the tech crowd signed him up for a bunch of snail mailing lists and stuff. We could go after him if his state enacts such a bill. His servers are overseas, but he (and therefore the co.) aren't
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I've been testing 2.5 since about .40 and it's great. Excpet for drivers. They still aren't there for me so i haven't sued it much on my main boxes. I have dome other boxes running .47 and it's running great. I can't wait for it to go to 2.6
It also works by crooks owning casinos. If people are giving you money and you're giving them money back, you can do a lot of tricky things. Especially w/ counterfeit or otherwise marked dough.
Code munky sounds cool, but has a negative connotation, so let's not use that. However programmers aren't really engineers. Engineers work in the real world. that's how they're differnet for mathmatitions that also know physics. Programmers do something else. not to knock eitehr, but they're differnet things. And this ... engineer stuff (domestic engineer sanitation engineer) is stupid.
while my Knoppix 3.1 cds are fine for mow i'm glad the knoppix folks are so quick w/ updates.
Knoppix is great for a sys where you can't install an OS. I still use my gentoo livecds for repair, but i never leave home w/out a knoppix CD. (I'm such a nerd)
I'll bite
Go gentoo. Seriously. It has all the advantages of LFS w/out the hell of actually maintaining the system. It also has a cool init system. And it doesn't need a working system. All you need is a cd.
They'd figure out how to modify themseves to be able to fuck. Yea, that's it.
Buy CD
Rip CD (someone'll find a way, i'm sure)
Return CD as non-playable on PC
Better quality than most downloaded MP3s, albeit with more work and still free.
atoms seem to be stable. electrons are moving. Isn't this perpetual motion? I know it's not the same but i've never heard a good reason why.
So will my IDE environment work wic my NIC Card or not?
you want nedit. It's a basic text editor with color syntaxing for many languages. I use it as my primary coding app.
I open the story and ther's a MS Visual studio ad. I think that's kinda funny.
I just wonder when they're gonna bring back dinosaurs.
cues jurassic park music
I've gotten it up to 680 MB before it crashed. (I have 768mb RAM)
RH and drake are slow. I'll give you that. Also linux doesn't depend on the HDD as much since it uses ram more efficiantly. Also, GNOME and KDE are huge. It's the eye candy. Windows still has a really simple interface, even luna. it's bubbly, but not complex. If you want fast, check out Enlightenment or fluxvbox. Also using a distro like gentoo will speed thing up a lot.
you use XP. Serves you right for piracy.
It's considered ok since it's not connected to the net much. It's still a bad idea, especially if someone starts selling cell modems for it (or do such already exist). It does make the syste a lot easier to use for the average user, though. I think a system like apple has would be better, though.
This looks like the kinda site to get /.ed soon. Full article text. he didn't have any pics.
Review of the Sharp Zaurus 5500
Ed Schernau, ed at schernau.com
No, there are no screenshots. I don't have a digital camera. It's all 1 giant page. I don't know if this works with OSX, and I don't care at the moment. It supposedly works with Linux, but I haven't tried it. This review is NOT exhaustive. All copyrights are owned by their owners, blah blah blah, I'm not trying to piss people off.
As seen here on Slashdot, the Sharp Zaurus 5500 recently went on sale at HSN due to the newer, Zaurus 5600 being released. Being a cheap geek, I purchased the 5500 model. First, I'd like to say that I was impressed with HSN - very good pricing, and a 15% off coupon for first time orders. Their website is easy to navigate and quick, and provided accurate package tracking. I paid 178USD for it, delivered.
Here's what you get in the package:
The Zaurus 5500
battery (950 mAh)
Getting started manual
User manual
CD of software and drivers
AC adapter
USB Sync cradle/charger - the cradle has a DC jack that you plug the AC adapter into - it does NOT use the USB port for charging power.
Impressions
The Zaurus looks very slick, a polished metal looking PDA. There's a translucent plastic flip-up lid over the touchscreen. The whole thing is about 1.5x the length of a deck of playing cards, and about as wide and thick. The stylus slides into a slot, there is an IR and SD port on 1 side of the unit, and a headphone jack and CF slot on the top of the unit. The bottom of the unit has the DC power jack and 'Sharp IO port', which is where it mates with its cradle.
Hardware/OS
The Z 5500 runs on the Intel StrongArm processor, running a version of Lineo - embedded Linux. It has a 2.4.6 kernel. Because of this, any Linux software compiled for ARM (like the whole Debian arm tree) will run. You get 64MB of memory, 1/2 of which is locked away by the Z, so you have 32MB to run in. This has not proved to be a problem, yet. It runs Qtopia, an embedded GUI system on a 320x240 color screen. Almost any linux-y thing you can think of, you can do. It has a shell, you can even make swapfiles to increase running memory (at the expense of storage of course). There are init scripts. Repeat after me: It's a miniaturized Linux box. Everything runs as root. It uses ext2fs for main storage, and minix and cramfs for its own purposes. You can type 'mount' to see what's what.
Keyboard
The keyboard is excellent. You hold the Zaurus in both hands and type with your thumbs. Clever use of 'Shift' and 'Function' keys give you nearly QWERTY layout. You can get about 1 letter every 3/4 of a second.
Handwriting
It also does handwriting recognition, in a certain area of the screen. You enable this by hitting a small icon on the screen, and scribble away. I've not spent much time with it, yet. It's fiddly, but not as bad as Palm's Grafiti.
Backlight
Good, but not great. The screen is lit from a flourescent light on the side, which can look weird if you hold the Z at an angle. Some parts of the screen are brighter than others.
Sync
The Z connects to its host via IP over USB. Syncing occurs completely over IP. This is slick, if you get a CF Ethernet card for it, you can (in theory) sync with your system anywhere in the world. My old Palm had a serial cable, so USB seemed like warp speed to me. Save yourself headache - set the Zaurus to NOT use DHCP, likewise your PC system. It defaults to 192.168.129.201, your PC defaults to 192.168.129.1. There's a GUI to configure all of this on the Z.
GUI
Very cool. Touch once to run an app, touch and hold to bring up properties. A combination of thumb and thumbnail will get everything done.
I hooked it up and let it charge for a while, then loaded the software onto my PC. I have Windows2000 running on an ABit BP6 motherboard, with 2 USB 1.0 ports. This m
why i never emerge -u world on something important.
and even worse at 18 times the speed of light
*THUD* "ow, what was that? It hurt, but i don't see antything in front of me"
"take off your goggles"
"Damn mountains"
I'm running a NAT netowrk. However when i run port scans and such on my system it says i'm running one FreeBSD 4.6 box. How will they now i'm using NAT?
Also, if i only have one box connected (the router) and route band internally, who cares. I'm only using one connection.
Earthlink has no restrictions of that kind. I run a http/ftp/ssh server with no trouble. I could run other stuff too, but i have no need to. Maybe you need to reconsider your choice of ISP.
:)
I am in nol way affiliated w/ Earthlink, but i have been doing work for people ruinning AOL and have a high opinion of Earthlink these days.
if we can identigy spam servers by location block them/ Hell, block entire countries and soon they'll rethink policies. Please note that i plan for the isps to do this blocking, not the gov.
----
Also, what about DOS. If someone writes a distributed client to slam spammers would that work. I know they're usually located at colos, but colos would be more picky about customers if they could be shut down for a while if they harbor spammers. 3 strikes. 1 complaint: warning and admin 2: bring down spammer (and possible colo) for an hounr 3: bring them down for 24 hrs 4: keep slamming until neutrilized.
I've heard that Spamassasin and the like wreak havoc w/ ebay stuff from vendors. Mail lists and Ebay itself can easily be whitelisted, but i don't want to miss vendor messages.
There's that one guy that lives in the US. the tech crowd signed him up for a bunch of snail mailing lists and stuff. We could go after him if his state enacts such a bill. His servers are overseas, but he (and therefore the co.) aren't