The only drawback of the Psion line was the screen. At least for the 3x series. I have the 3c without backlight and it is quite hard to read. Mind, I didn't have that problem until I got used to the modern tft screens...
If someone would buy the rights to the 5 series http://www.jarno.demon.nl/psion5.htm/ and update it with a good colour screen (and perhaps wifi) I would get one immediately.
Strictly speaking the NetBSD flag isn't a logo, but an emblem. A proper logo is readable and commonly consists of a brandname in a specific and usually artistic typeface.
While Tux (as an emblem and/or mascot) is recognized because of gross overexposure in any and all media this is not true of Puffy. Not only does the picture change with every new release (check out the t-shirt page http://www.openbsd.org/tshirts.html) but it isn't quite clear what it stands for if you do not already know.
I, for one, think the NetBSD flag is quite good. The design is crisp, has upbeat colors and anyway, it's a bloody step forward from that fugly Iwo Jima picture.
I maintain the computer for a 80+ year old woman. All she does use it for is e-mail and playing online bridge and other games.
These games are at the MS GameZone http://zone.msn.com/ and for this you absolutely need Internet Explorer, probably because of heavy use of VB-Script.
So, no possibility to upgrade to FireFox and no chance to keep the machine free of spyware. (Win2k, coz XP won't run on the hardware).
Any pointers to get rid of IE here are greatly appreciated!
I maintain the computer for a 80+ year woman. All she does use it for is e-mail and playing online bridge and other games.
These games are at the MS GameZone http://zone.msn.com/ and for this you absolutely need Internet Explorer, probably because of heavy use of VB-Script.
So, no possibility to upgrade to FireFox and no chance to keep the machine free of spyware. (Win2k, coz XP won't run on the hardware).
Any pointers to get rid of IE here are greatly appreciated!
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Good to hear you like it, but why did you expect rubbish?
I spent the last few years in LinuxLand where documentation is, with few exceptions, mostly absent or just plain wrong.
The Lehey book on FreeBSD showed me things could be different. I expected that because I couldn't find a book about NetBSD there wasn't any quality documentation for it. I was wrong, as the downloadable manual is outstanding.
Tehanu, the 20 yr later followup to Earthsea, was an incredible disappointment.
For me, Tehanu is one of the truly great stories. It is very different in tone compared to the first three parts of Earthsea, I'll grant you that. But where these could be described somewhat as 'high-fantasy', Tehanu is more of a real (oh boy, I'm gonna get flamed for this) novel. The character development of the little girl is unbelievably well-written.
I've read every single book by LeGuin, and there are two books that dwarf the rest: The Dispossessed and Tehanu.
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You can print the NetBSD handbook yourself:)
I just now downloaded the PDF, expecting a messy collection of readme's and cryptic notes in horrid layout. But none of that! It's a beautifully designed document! At first glance the contents seems to be very complete as well.
but FreeBSD's documentation doesn't usually apply equally to NetBSD. The differences are well covered in NetBSD's own online documentation, though.
I'll look into that, but I must say I'm pleasantly surprised by the documentation so far.
Thanks!
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I'm not aware of any books on NetBSD. I do however have the (excellent!) book "The Complete FreeBSD" by Lehey.
Is NetBSD sufficiently similar in structure to FreeBSD that I can use this book to set up and understand my machine? Or is there just to much difference?
If anyone can point me to printed documentation on NetBSD, that would be very welcome indeed.
I tried to absorb the syntax docs one afternoon, but it gave me nightmares. [...] Ever since I've been haunted by perverse unreadbility of it all.
When I started to learn Perl (coming from a C background) I had quite a different experience. I really felt I had "come home", or something like that. Sure, you can write obscure code, but that's no different from C. But you don't have to, it can be very clear.
I'll give credit to the fact that perl is compact, terse, to the point and has a reputation for string manipulation.
I just love it for the short development times, and the fact that you can really use it for just about any environment. Want to do CGI? Sure! Just GUI? No problem! Connect to about every database there is, that's no biggie.
And what about CPAN? That's a part of Perl too! You get all that ready-to-run code for just about any problem domain.
IMO, "the right job" for perl is about 2% of all programming tasks out there.
Maybe you are right, but somehow I get a lot of those 2% jobs...;-)
Now you have to excuse me, I have some perl coding to do!;-)
11 out of 14 posts so far have been modded down as Flamebait, Troll, Redundant, or Off Topic. Is this usual?
It seems that, in the interest of scoring a quick karma fix, there are a lot of posters that want nothing more than to post --as fast as possible-- a semi-witty comment or a meta semi-witty comment.
And it seems that (ever so slowly) the moderators are getting real sick of the tired old "Soviet Russia Beowulf Hot Grits In Japan" posts.
Maybe it's time to get some content back in this site...
An accelerometer measures acceleration, not speed. Sure, you could integrate over time all the tiny, tiny changes in acceleration while you drive almost at a fixed speed on the freeway but it gets inaccurate real fast and you have no way to sync it to the outside world.
I'm pleased with the new design... kind of back to it's roots.
I, for one, do NOT welcome our wheel-clicking overlords. Normally I use my iPod without really looking at it: while driving (car or bicycle) or without getting it out of my coat pocket (to avoid getting too much attention of thugs).
By having separate buttons and wheel there is almost no clicky-where-no-clicky-was-intended. With this new old approach this is no longer working.
While I can understand that Steve wants everybody to rejoice the iPod in the open, I prefer mine hidden.
Had something like that happening to me, only without warranty.
The warning light came on and the engine lost some power, which returned after restarting. Anyway, the dealer diagnosed that the exhaust manifold had a leak and replaced it (about $150). Next day, the light went on. Dealer diagnosed the catalytic convertor to be faulty and replaced it ($400). A week later, bingo, there was the light again.
This time I took it in for diagnostics, 't was the exhaust manifold again. No repairs, I took my car to another shop.
They didn't hook it up to some machine but did a visual inspection and some thinking: the thermostat was probably faulty and sent all sort of weird temps to the management system. They replaced it at their risk (cost me $12, but that would be returned if the problem returned) and the light has never lit up again.
No amount of law ever got me a penny back from the first shop though...
I think both Episode I and II were good movies [...]
They both were nothing more than commercials for the merchandise. How else can the Jar-Jar abomination be explained if not designed to lure small children in to buying heaps of worthless crap?
Mind, I have nothing against making a lot of cash, but I prefer having it done by producing a movie that can be watched without having to reach for the barf bag...
You are quite right! I too consider myself lucky to own one of these great sticks. Not only is it extremely unlikely that it would break, but if it does it is very easy to repair. I'm sure it is the last joystick I've ever bought and it will surely last well into the next millenium.
stopping me from running what I want in my fucking house, on my fucking computer, and forcing me to "sign" draconian agreements to use software YOU force me to use.
I'm not normally one to point out the bloody obvious, but you don't have to use that software. There are plenty alternative operating systems and applications.
If you want to just do your home-office, browsy things, just get a Mac. If you want to tinker with your computer, get GNU/Linux. And if you value your privacy, just get OpenBSD.
Bottom line is, don't sit-'n-sulk (tm), but take arms against this sea of troubles!
We already have more than our fair share of incompatibilities. First choose your desktop: KDE or Gnome (or something lighter). After that your apps will use different widget sets: Qt, Tk, Gtk, WxWindows, whatever. There is no common layout for GUI elements anywhere.
And now we would actually replace X11 with something different? I really don't think this will help us get anywhere, it just adds more hassle.
Bomba
[Mod me up, or mod me down, but don't just ignore me!;-)]
Well, there are endless reruns of it, so if you really want to see it...
But, to get back on topic, I don't think nanotech will be useful at all because it can't be controlled very well. How would you shut it off? How would you give new instructions? It can't be done because it is just to small.
Not in my lifetime anyhow...
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You might want to look into PicoBSD. It has an amazingly small footprint, yet it is fully BSD.
1) Chance of getting caught
2) Punishment when caught
If at least one of these is high enough, most people will think twice about committing a crime.
To bad you posted AC or you would have made a friend...
If someone would buy the rights to the 5 series http://www.jarno.demon.nl/psion5.htm/ and update it with a good colour screen (and perhaps wifi) I would get one immediately.
While Tux (as an emblem and/or mascot) is recognized because of gross overexposure in any and all media this is not true of Puffy. Not only does the picture change with every new release (check out the t-shirt page http://www.openbsd.org/tshirts.html) but it isn't quite clear what it stands for if you do not already know.
I, for one, think the NetBSD flag is quite good. The design is crisp, has upbeat colors and anyway, it's a bloody step forward from that fugly Iwo Jima picture.
These games are at the MS GameZone http://zone.msn.com/ and for this you absolutely need Internet Explorer, probably because of heavy use of VB-Script.
So, no possibility to upgrade to FireFox and no chance to keep the machine free of spyware. (Win2k, coz XP won't run on the hardware).
Any pointers to get rid of IE here are greatly appreciated!
These games are at the MS GameZone http://zone.msn.com/ and for this you absolutely need Internet Explorer, probably because of heavy use of VB-Script.
So, no possibility to upgrade to FireFox and no chance to keep the machine free of spyware. (Win2k, coz XP won't run on the hardware).
Any pointers to get rid of IE here are greatly appreciated!
I spent the last few years in LinuxLand where documentation is, with few exceptions, mostly absent or just plain wrong.
The Lehey book on FreeBSD showed me things could be different. I expected that because I couldn't find a book about NetBSD there wasn't any quality documentation for it. I was wrong, as the downloadable manual is outstanding.
For me, Tehanu is one of the truly great stories. It is very different in tone compared to the first three parts of Earthsea, I'll grant you that. But where these could be described somewhat as 'high-fantasy', Tehanu is more of a real (oh boy, I'm gonna get flamed for this) novel. The character development of the little girl is unbelievably well-written.
I've read every single book by LeGuin, and there are two books that dwarf the rest: The Dispossessed and Tehanu.
I just now downloaded the PDF, expecting a messy collection of readme's and cryptic notes in horrid layout. But none of that! It's a beautifully designed document! At first glance the contents seems to be very complete as well.
but FreeBSD's documentation doesn't usually apply equally to NetBSD. The differences are well covered in NetBSD's own online documentation, though.
I'll look into that, but I must say I'm pleasantly surprised by the documentation so far.
Thanks!
Is NetBSD sufficiently similar in structure to FreeBSD that I can use this book to set up and understand my machine? Or is there just to much difference?
If anyone can point me to printed documentation on NetBSD, that would be very welcome indeed.
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Those of you that don't grok Perl should have their posting privileges revoked. At least for this thread! ;-)
When I started to learn Perl (coming from a C background) I had quite a different experience. I really felt I had "come home", or something like that. Sure, you can write obscure code, but that's no different from C. But you don't have to, it can be very clear.
I'll give credit to the fact that perl is compact, terse, to the point and has a reputation for string manipulation.
I just love it for the short development times, and the fact that you can really use it for just about any environment. Want to do CGI? Sure! Just GUI? No problem! Connect to about every database there is, that's no biggie.
And what about CPAN? That's a part of Perl too! You get all that ready-to-run code for just about any problem domain.
IMO, "the right job" for perl is about 2% of all programming tasks out there.
Maybe you are right, but somehow I get a lot of those 2% jobs... ;-)
Now you have to excuse me, I have some perl coding to do! ;-)
It seems that, in the interest of scoring a quick karma fix, there are a lot of posters that want nothing more than to post --as fast as possible-- a semi-witty comment or a meta semi-witty comment.
And it seems that (ever so slowly) the moderators are getting real sick of the tired old "Soviet Russia Beowulf Hot Grits In Japan" posts.
Maybe it's time to get some content back in this site...
An accelerometer measures acceleration, not speed. Sure, you could integrate over time all the tiny, tiny changes in acceleration while you drive almost at a fixed speed on the freeway but it gets inaccurate real fast and you have no way to sync it to the outside world.
It runs Linux and it's miles better (pun intended) than the Windows CE counterpart Tomtom Navigator 3 which has occasional glitches.
If only it could run *BSD... ;-)
Still, I would prefer to have a wireless remote. And wireless headphones, btw!
I, for one, do NOT welcome our wheel-clicking overlords. Normally I use my iPod without really looking at it: while driving (car or bicycle) or without getting it out of my coat pocket (to avoid getting too much attention of thugs).
By having separate buttons and wheel there is almost no clicky-where-no-clicky-was-intended. With this new old approach this is no longer working.
While I can understand that Steve wants everybody to rejoice the iPod in the open, I prefer mine hidden.
After all, it's mine! Mine! My preciousss!
The warning light came on and the engine lost some power, which returned after restarting. Anyway, the dealer diagnosed that the exhaust manifold had a leak and replaced it (about $150). Next day, the light went on. Dealer diagnosed the catalytic convertor to be faulty and replaced it ($400). A week later, bingo, there was the light again.
This time I took it in for diagnostics, 't was the exhaust manifold again. No repairs, I took my car to another shop.
They didn't hook it up to some machine but did a visual inspection and some thinking: the thermostat was probably faulty and sent all sort of weird temps to the management system. They replaced it at their risk (cost me $12, but that would be returned if the problem returned) and the light has never lit up again.
No amount of law ever got me a penny back from the first shop though...
They both were nothing more than commercials for the merchandise. How else can the Jar-Jar abomination be explained if not designed to lure small children in to buying heaps of worthless crap?
Mind, I have nothing against making a lot of cash, but I prefer having it done by producing a movie that can be watched without having to reach for the barf bag...
You are quite right! I too consider myself lucky to own one of these great sticks. Not only is it extremely unlikely that it would break, but if it does it is very easy to repair. I'm sure it is the last joystick I've ever bought and it will surely last well into the next millenium.
I'm not normally one to point out the bloody obvious, but you don't have to use that software. There are plenty alternative operating systems and applications.
If you want to just do your home-office, browsy things, just get a Mac. If you want to tinker with your computer, get GNU/Linux. And if you value your privacy, just get OpenBSD.
Bottom line is, don't sit-'n-sulk (tm), but take arms against this sea of troubles!
Quoting Shakespeare? Me?
I've heard these things kinda suck...
Actually, this is just what we don't need!
;-)]
We already have more than our fair share of incompatibilities. First choose your desktop: KDE or Gnome (or something lighter). After that your apps will use different widget sets: Qt, Tk, Gtk, WxWindows, whatever. There is no common layout for GUI elements anywhere.
And now we would actually replace X11 with something different? I really don't think this will help us get anywhere, it just adds more hassle.
Bomba [Mod me up, or mod me down, but don't just ignore me!
Well, there are endless reruns of it, so if you really want to see it...
But, to get back on topic, I don't think nanotech will be useful at all because it can't be controlled very well. How would you shut it off? How would you give new instructions? It can't be done because it is just to small.
Not in my lifetime anyhow...