Well, then they wouldn't be the best applicants then, would they? Technically they may be but there's more to many positions in a company than just technical knowledge of systems and procedures.
Mail.app has had Exchange support since Panther (as previous poster noted). This is, as you would guess , e-mail only (Mail.app is an e-mail app, after all). However, meeting requests come through fine as ICS files that work handily in iCal. Event confirmations work as well, and you can use Snerdware's tools to sync iCal with Exchange (which you'll need to schedule your own meetings).
FWIW, Panther has Active Directory support (and Tiger's will be better) - once you're joined to an AD forest, Address Book ties into the directory automagically and Mail.app will (try) to autoconfigure itself for Exchange if you log in with an AD account.
It's not too hard to find an active-matrix screen on a P200-vintage laptop, actually - by the time they came out it seems a lot of people were realizing that the old passive matrix screens just weren't worth the trouble. The only laptops I've seen with the old passive-matrix screens on 'em in that vintage were the real low-end consumer units (Compaqs, actually) - everything else I've worked on that's that old has had an active-matrix screen, but I pretty much only see Dells. I'd worry more about getting a laptop with a 256-color only video card in it.
Some Palms (and Palmish devices.. I have a Sony Clie) come with a gateway-type program you can use to put random files on the memory card. If yours doesn't have one built in, you may be able to find a third-party one.
How about the Linksys NSLU2? No wireless but you can buy a WET-11 Ethernet bridge for it if you want. Also, it can run Linux, and with the addition of a regular access point and a USB Ethernet adapter it'd probably work pretty good as a router.
Good for the company. They may not go completely bankrupt.
However, also not good.. if the public catches wind of Diebold's shenanigans in a big way, how much you wanna bet that people will stop using their ATMs too?
There was a page on this. I can't seem to find it anymore, though.
OpenBSD doesn't own openbsd.org - it's run by the U of Alberta SunSITE, which is one of these things where Sun gives your university a bunch of hardware. There's a whole bunch of 'em around the world (there's a list at the link). They're kinda precluded from running anything besides Solaris on it.
You can buy the Athlon XP Mobile chip now, and it works in a regular Athlon board. I'd imagine the same would be tru for the Athlon64 mobiles.. 'less you're talking about OEM machines.
Always found the Sony Clie to be very readable. Good high-res (for PalmOS units, 320x240) displays and nice bright backlights. Won't do Microsoft Reader, but etexts and stuff should be fine. There's a lot of good PalmOS software (including specific eBook readers and whatnot), and relatively good Palm support for Linux in general. New ones are relatively expensive but you should be able to get older ones (like my PEG-SJ30) online for around $150 or less. Bad things include their reliance on Memory Stick.
If you don't like Sony, or you'd rather have a Windows-based one or whatnot, the Dell Axims are very nice. The X3 is very small and includes nifties like built-in WiFi. Plus, they're damned cheap - the 300MHz Axim X3 (doesn't have wifi) runs $199 retail. Hard to beat, pricewise. ASUS also makes some neat-looking ones too.
Places such as GVision and whatnot make 9-14" LCDs. WEN USA has small CRTs and LCDs as well. Lots of places that sell POS equipment will have 'em too. And you can always check Froogle. However, don't expect to get a screen for a reasonable cost.
In my experience (I have a beige G3 minitower at 400MHz, with 384MB RAM and YDL 3) MOL runs Mac OS X a bit faster than it does natively. Probably wouldn't be a good idea if you have apps that require specialized hardware cards, though.
Most of my time at the station is spent standing by my car pumping gas. I say, forget the speed pass, and bring back the latches on the handles that auto-shut-off when the tank is full, so I don't have to stand out in the cold while the gas is pumping. That would be a lot more convenient than taking the fastest part of the transaction and making it a little bit faster.
they got rid of those? never seen a pump that didn't have 'em. I don't trust them to click off, but they do if I forget about it. if they really wanted to make it simpler they should develop robotics that automatically find your gas tank and fill it up, but something tells me that's way too expensive to be feasable, at least right now. then they could have a speedpass device or a swiper that came up to your window. or, you could just go to full service; they do exist still.
Have your folks try out Vonage or Packet8. They can sign up for a number in your area code, and they can call you over it for just whatever they want to pay per month. (Packet8 might be better, since they're a bit cheaper and some of Vonage's features - like E911 service - wouldn't be all that useful in the UK. Packet8 is about $20/mo, and Vonage starts at $25.99/mo.) If you really wanted to, you both could sign up for Packet8 and get videophone service.:-)
If you don't have sufficient access to the source that produces the hard copy (for instance, a locked PDF), how are you going to get a hard copy without the Glossmark on it? 'Cause, if all you've got is the hard copy with the hologram thing which can't be effectively scanned or copied, you're a bit stuck. (Unless you wanted to re-create the document, or re-create the Glossmark and hope people will think anything with it on it is authentic.)
And they've been selling them (the VGA-res ones at least) in Walgreen's in the US for months also. Made under the Pure Digital moniker, selling for $20. A 2MP one would be spiffy, though. I got one last month, and my grandparents had one last December.
But I'm going to guess that since you don't know what a monopoly is, you don't know what a profit margin is either, or the nature of consumer goods manufacturing.
And that makes him(her) how much different from the majority of slashdotters?;-)
Because, quite honestly, we need to bitch about everything. I certainly don't care that the Treo 600 doesn't fit the parent commenter's needs - his(her) opinion means jack to me; if I feel they fit a need in my life, I'll buy one regardless of what (s)he says. And, somehow, it's "Insightful" to say, "Hey! You company! You need to make x because I feel x is the bestest thing ever, and my opinion is the only one that matters." Maybe it gives the moderators the warm fuzzies to mod such a comment up, or maybe there's some alterior motive behind it.
I agree with one of the comments a couple levels up - if you really want something that fits in your pocket and gets good reception, just get the free phone that comes with most plans. It's not like they're stopping production on everything and thusly forcing you to buy a Treo 600. For what it's worth, I never had a problem with my basic, no-frills Nokia that came with my SunCom (now AT&T) plan - I'd still be using it if I didn't switch providers.
If memory serves, the difference is the Quadros and FireGL (etc.) cards are better for CAD/CAM because they're more exact, whereas your Radeon and GeForce series chips are engineered to be fast. You don't care too much if a wall in QuakeIII is misrendered for a second, but it'd be a big problem if you were rendering something like an office building or such. There was an article on Slashdot semi-recently that covered the differences, in fact. Gist is, you might be able to render things fine on a GeForceFX , but if you're doing it for your livelihood, then it's a Nice Thing to know that the rendered result is accurate, and that's what the workstation cards try to provide.
This argument is pointless, and one oft-repeated unfortunately. Different people find different things work for them. Whereas you and other people may not find OS X a particularily productive enviroment, other people (including myself) find it to be, and moreso find Windows and Linux (especially Linux, IMHO) provide them with a mediocre enviroment to work in.
I'm not posting this to beat up on the parent but it's something that tends to come up often.
Yes, you have been.
However. On systems before 2000, "My Documents" was not in C:\Documents and Settings\Username\blah. 95 didn't have one (or, none of my copies ever did..) and everything else put it in C:\. NT 4, I believe, put it in C:\WINNT\Profiles (but to be honest I can't ever remember having one on NT 4). Grain-of-salt warnings apply as I can't be bothered to use anything older than Win2000 nowadays anyway.
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Well, then they wouldn't be the best applicants then, would they? Technically they may be but there's more to many positions in a company than just technical knowledge of systems and procedures.
Mail.app has had Exchange support since Panther (as previous poster noted). This is, as you would guess , e-mail only (Mail.app is an e-mail app, after all). However, meeting requests come through fine as ICS files that work handily in iCal. Event confirmations work as well, and you can use Snerdware's tools to sync iCal with Exchange (which you'll need to schedule your own meetings).
FWIW, Panther has Active Directory support (and Tiger's will be better) - once you're joined to an AD forest, Address Book ties into the directory automagically and Mail.app will (try) to autoconfigure itself for Exchange if you log in with an AD account.
It's not too hard to find an active-matrix screen on a P200-vintage laptop, actually - by the time they came out it seems a lot of people were realizing that the old passive matrix screens just weren't worth the trouble. The only laptops I've seen with the old passive-matrix screens on 'em in that vintage were the real low-end consumer units (Compaqs, actually) - everything else I've worked on that's that old has had an active-matrix screen, but I pretty much only see Dells. I'd worry more about getting a laptop with a 256-color only video card in it.
Some Palms (and Palmish devices.. I have a Sony Clie) come with a gateway-type program you can use to put random files on the memory card. If yours doesn't have one built in, you may be able to find a third-party one.
You mean like this? Granted, it's not hydrogen.
How about the Linksys NSLU2? No wireless but you can buy a WET-11 Ethernet bridge for it if you want. Also, it can run Linux, and with the addition of a regular access point and a USB Ethernet adapter it'd probably work pretty good as a router.
However, also not good.. if the public catches wind of Diebold's shenanigans in a big way, how much you wanna bet that people will stop using their ATMs too?
You're aware that there are tools that come with djbdns that automate a lot of that for you, right? Or am I just missing something about your setup?
There was a page on this. I can't seem to find it anymore, though.
OpenBSD doesn't own openbsd.org - it's run by the U of Alberta SunSITE, which is one of these things where Sun gives your university a bunch of hardware. There's a whole bunch of 'em around the world (there's a list at the link). They're kinda precluded from running anything besides Solaris on it.
Dell has self-support programs. Guess where you get the disassembly instructions. :-)
You can buy the Athlon XP Mobile chip now, and it works in a regular Athlon board. I'd imagine the same would be tru for the Athlon64 mobiles.. 'less you're talking about OEM machines.
Always found the Sony Clie to be very readable. Good high-res (for PalmOS units, 320x240) displays and nice bright backlights. Won't do Microsoft Reader, but etexts and stuff should be fine. There's a lot of good PalmOS software (including specific eBook readers and whatnot), and relatively good Palm support for Linux in general. New ones are relatively expensive but you should be able to get older ones (like my PEG-SJ30) online for around $150 or less. Bad things include their reliance on Memory Stick.
If you don't like Sony, or you'd rather have a Windows-based one or whatnot, the Dell Axims are very nice. The X3 is very small and includes nifties like built-in WiFi. Plus, they're damned cheap - the 300MHz Axim X3 (doesn't have wifi) runs $199 retail. Hard to beat, pricewise. ASUS also makes some neat-looking ones too.
Places such as GVision and whatnot make 9-14" LCDs. WEN USA has small CRTs and LCDs as well. Lots of places that sell POS equipment will have 'em too. And you can always check Froogle. However, don't expect to get a screen for a reasonable cost.
In my experience (I have a beige G3 minitower at 400MHz, with 384MB RAM and YDL 3) MOL runs Mac OS X a bit faster than it does natively. Probably wouldn't be a good idea if you have apps that require specialized hardware cards, though.
Most of my time at the station is spent standing by my car pumping gas. I say, forget the speed pass, and bring back the latches on the handles that auto-shut-off when the tank is full, so I don't have to stand out in the cold while the gas is pumping. That would be a lot more convenient than taking the fastest part of the transaction and making it a little bit faster.
they got rid of those? never seen a pump that didn't have 'em. I don't trust them to click off, but they do if I forget about it. if they really wanted to make it simpler they should develop robotics that automatically find your gas tank and fill it up, but something tells me that's way too expensive to be feasable, at least right now. then they could have a speedpass device or a swiper that came up to your window. or, you could just go to full service; they do exist still.
Have your folks try out Vonage or Packet8. They can sign up for a number in your area code, and they can call you over it for just whatever they want to pay per month. (Packet8 might be better, since they're a bit cheaper and some of Vonage's features - like E911 service - wouldn't be all that useful in the UK. Packet8 is about $20/mo, and Vonage starts at $25.99/mo.) If you really wanted to, you both could sign up for Packet8 and get videophone service. :-)
If you don't have sufficient access to the source that produces the hard copy (for instance, a locked PDF), how are you going to get a hard copy without the Glossmark on it? 'Cause, if all you've got is the hard copy with the hologram thing which can't be effectively scanned or copied, you're a bit stuck. (Unless you wanted to re-create the document, or re-create the Glossmark and hope people will think anything with it on it is authentic.)
And they've been selling them (the VGA-res ones at least) in Walgreen's in the US for months also. Made under the Pure Digital moniker, selling for $20. A 2MP one would be spiffy, though. I got one last month, and my grandparents had one last December.
And that makes him(her) how much different from the majority of slashdotters? ;-)
Because, quite honestly, we need to bitch about everything . I certainly don't care that the Treo 600 doesn't fit the parent commenter's needs - his(her) opinion means jack to me; if I feel they fit a need in my life, I'll buy one regardless of what (s)he says. And, somehow, it's "Insightful" to say, "Hey! You company! You need to make x because I feel x is the bestest thing ever, and my opinion is the only one that matters." Maybe it gives the moderators the warm fuzzies to mod such a comment up, or maybe there's some alterior motive behind it.
I agree with one of the comments a couple levels up - if you really want something that fits in your pocket and gets good reception, just get the free phone that comes with most plans. It's not like they're stopping production on everything and thusly forcing you to buy a Treo 600. For what it's worth, I never had a problem with my basic, no-frills Nokia that came with my SunCom (now AT&T) plan - I'd still be using it if I didn't switch providers.
Certainly puts this Pet Shop Boys song into perspective.
If memory serves, the difference is the Quadros and FireGL (etc.) cards are better for CAD/CAM because they're more exact, whereas your Radeon and GeForce series chips are engineered to be fast. You don't care too much if a wall in QuakeIII is misrendered for a second, but it'd be a big problem if you were rendering something like an office building or such. There was an article on Slashdot semi-recently that covered the differences, in fact. Gist is, you might be able to render things fine on a GeForceFX , but if you're doing it for your livelihood, then it's a Nice Thing to know that the rendered result is accurate, and that's what the workstation cards try to provide.
If it's only recording the last 5 seconds, then your mechanic would only see the location of his shop. Unless you drive REALLY fast.
This argument is pointless, and one oft-repeated unfortunately. Different people find different things work for them. Whereas you and other people may not find OS X a particularily productive enviroment, other people (including myself) find it to be, and moreso find Windows and Linux (especially Linux, IMHO) provide them with a mediocre enviroment to work in.
I'm not posting this to beat up on the parent but it's something that tends to come up often.
Yes, you have been. However. On systems before 2000, "My Documents" was not in C:\Documents and Settings\Username\blah. 95 didn't have one (or, none of my copies ever did..) and everything else put it in C:\. NT 4, I believe, put it in C:\WINNT\Profiles (but to be honest I can't ever remember having one on NT 4). Grain-of-salt warnings apply as I can't be bothered to use anything older than Win2000 nowadays anyway.