I am typying this from netpositive. Wow. Setup was so hassle free. Wish linux/windows installation was so easy (Win is easy, but time consuming). Sound, video, everything works great. Note to users of fairly new hard ware. Be does NOT support UDMA66/100. I had to change out my IBM from 66 to 33 to get the OS to boot. Also note that you are only allowed 500 MB for the BE partition, but you can mount FAT32 (ext2 also???) partitions. Other than the small problem of UDMA-66, it is a promising OS
I have a HP Jordana 320lx running CE 2.0, and I am a MS shareholder as of 2 weeks ago (only in it for the money;) I like what can be done with CE over other handhelds (although Transmeta will undoubtedly change that), especially with Pocket Word and Excel, which help in school. But what is the big deal with them opening CE? I dont think us shareholders will notice a drop. CE is only (at least 2.0 and prior. 3.0 will be much more powerful) a small os intended for scheduling and light word processing on RISC processors, and runs from ROM. Opening it up would require a great deal of development to convert it to x86 or whatever you want, and still, that is pointless because you can do everything that CE can do in Windows 95. Go ahead, let them open source it. Somehow someone will make a neat hack of it and burn it on a ROM chip and put it in their HPC so they have a better CE. The ONLY good thing I can see coming of this is getting a way to load Linux onto a HPC, which hasnt that been done on one of the IBM HPC"s anyhow?
I have been reading up on car-based MP3 solutions lately, and most of the sites I go to say to get a certain $100 6" lcd, plus you have to buy the computer.... To me, this setup, with linux, seems like a VERY good solution for a MP3 player. Seem feasable?
Why do you need to encrypt the signal anyhow? If you are worried about tempest actually decoding your 1600x1200 display (or just 1024x768), you have too much money. Plus, this will make monitor prices go (slightly) up.... What next? The signal from your keyboard/printer/mouse/soundcard/joystick/whatever will be encrypted.....
You want fidelity? Have you heard of sony's new HCD format? Uses DVD-like disks, but audio is recorded in 2x2^20 samples per second, much higher than CD's 44.1khz. In the future, who is going to care about hearing 1/2000000 of a second of audio? The point of anyone in the future hearing, reading, or seeing anything we make today would be for quantity of information, not quality. So what if a document is 50% degraded? 50% is still useful... Data recovery labs today, though expensive, can recover drives that have had lightning surges, been burned, and I have even heard of torn up floppies being put back together. Im sure aging of disks will be only a small problem.
I think that if they did this correctly, the system could be accepted. Controlling speed is a bad thing. What if you were driving down a hill, going at speed limit, and a truck's brakes behind you were out, and the only way to get out of its way was to speed? Or what if your pregnant wife is going into labor in the car, and the nearest hospital is an hour away? Controlling the speed is bad within limits (Ok.... if the cops are chasing a speeder, the satelite should be able to transmit an engine shutdown command to the car). But what if the system just tracked speeders, and automatically gave them a ticket for speeding? That would be more acceptable
True, Alpha and Merced will be the things that every one wants, but it is just not practical. Also, Im not a big linux user, but isnt the best practical chip for linux right now a PPC or G3/G4???
Lets remember that Crusoe will be announced in about 3 weeks.
In case you did not read futher, the 32 chip version with 2GB of RAM will cost around $40k. Also, why in the world would you want one, unless you were rendering high quality video in faster than realtime.... The thing could render Toy Story (for the lack of a better example) in about 10-20 minutes. Also, if you do the math, it could run resolutions 4092x3072 in 30FPS, 32bit, or higher, but what monitor could support it. At least the thing does 32bit, finally. Im opting for the V5-6000 (AGP, 4 chip, 64MB), for myself, and I think it costs over $300.
Yes. More functionality is one possible outcome, but sloppy / fast code is not a good excuse. Bugs arise from sloppy code, and programs start to get big. Also, this is just a personal preference, but I miss the days where you could copy a program (or store it, for that matter) with its INI files on a FDD or ZIP, take it to a different computer, and it would run fine. No relying on registry settings. But back to sloppy code. I have seen SOOOO may simple programs (especially MP3 related ones, like ID taggers) that have DOWNLOAD sizes of 1 MB or higher.... But then again, if you go by Intel's marketing scheme, faster CPU=Faster internet...
Seems that the/. effect has hit my FTP server.... I did not know my cable modem could do 160kbps upload.. Only get 40 in the past. I think my ISP is mad. Go to slash mirror
I have converted this video into 3 Real G2 videos: 56k/s (1.6mb) 70k/s (2.8mb) 128k/s (5.2mb) They are available here: ftp://24.29.236.226 and are in the root dir. 10 max connections allowed, 7k/s max each. Sorry... I would of uploaded this to Slash Mirror, but it wont let me upload in the uploads directory
I will do that.... One of the things you have to love about WIn98 and multimedia apps. Real Encoder/Producer does not like Soreneson, so I had to export to uncompressed AVI. I came close to the AVI 2GB limit, and i have crashed 3 times when compressing. I will have it mirrored ASAP
Im not a linux user, so i dont know if this will help you, but i know it will help those of you with slower modems. As soon as the download is done, i will post several G2 versions (varying bandwiths). Please email me for the address: danwatt@bigfoot.com (im on a cable modem, and the ISP does not like bandwith hogging).
(not to get too OTP) Yes, since processors get faster, coders dont need to optimize as much. But still, you fail to see the full potential of 1GHz. Not only will it be good for games (especially non-GPU's), but good for servers, slow algorithms (namely compression), and the like. Who cares about optimization anyhow??? With faster CPU's comes sloppier code, but that means that the programmers dont work as much, therefore (somewhat) lowering the prices/increasing their pay/hour.
It gets to a point where shrinking can no longer be the best option. Sure, you can (eventually) make chips with pathways of 1 atom in dimension. But think of this: If you were to take EVERY circuit (chip/PCB/whatever) in an office (for example: the pentagon), and combined it into 1 device, that device would still be SOOO small that you would still need a microscope to see it. So, let me ask. What happens if you open up your case (that has this tiny cpu in it), and you sneezy? Oops, there goes the CPU... But, in contrast, what if they did make chips so small that pathways were single atoms? What if they could efficiently make a chip that is big enough to see without the use of a microscope? The thing would have like 10e20 or more transistors!!! But here is my question: does it get to a point that having lots of transistors really dont matter?
What I gather from it: 1) It can translate instructions (like x86) into its own format 2) It has some sort of intelligent memory buffering system. 3) Judging by the abstract, it SEEMS to almost be able to switch "modes" or instruction sets on the fly
The two high schools that I have attended in the past 3 years both use your social security number as a form of ID. It is on the back of my PhotoID, and if there are any field trip lists, everyones "School ID" is on it. I have had several teachers who give out old field trip lists/other lists as scratch paper. Ha. On the back of the scratch sheets I have the opportunity to rip off about 25 families...
I looked at Python. Not that easy of a language (this is coming from a 2nd year CS student, just learning C++, knows lots of Pascal). I was taught pascal in my 1st year of CS, and it confused SOME people, but most could understand it. Python looks to be more confusing (to the beginner) than C++. But I do think that making CS a required course is both good and bad. Yes, computers are becoming much more widely used than anyone ever thought, but too many people dont care about programming, and being forced to take the class would end up hurting their GPA. But, CS is good at teaching problem solving...
I remember that a similar service was available in Houston, TX. (I just moved away from there to Chicago). It offered $100/mo for non-dedicated SOHO access (Off-peak hours), and something around $600-$700/mo for 100% dedicated. And yes, it too was wireless. NO, I do not rememebr the name of the service. Sorry. But it does exist in other (major) cities
(If anyone knows of a service like this in Chicago, let me know)
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I am typying this from netpositive. Wow. Setup was so hassle free. Wish linux/windows installation was so easy (Win is easy, but time consuming). Sound, video, everything works great.
Note to users of fairly new hard ware. Be does NOT support UDMA66/100. I had to change out my IBM from 66 to 33 to get the OS to boot. Also note that you are only allowed 500 MB for the BE partition, but you can mount FAT32 (ext2 also???) partitions.
Other than the small problem of UDMA-66, it is a promising OS
I have a HP Jordana 320lx running CE 2.0, and I am a MS shareholder as of 2 weeks ago (only in it for the money ;) I like what can be done with CE over other handhelds (although Transmeta will undoubtedly change that), especially with Pocket Word and Excel, which help in school. But what is the big deal with them opening CE? I dont think us shareholders will notice a drop. CE is only (at least 2.0 and prior. 3.0 will be much more powerful) a small os intended for scheduling and light word processing on RISC processors, and runs from ROM. Opening it up would require a great deal of development to convert it to x86 or whatever you want, and still, that is pointless because you can do everything that CE can do in Windows 95. Go ahead, let them open source it. Somehow someone will make a neat hack of it and burn it on a ROM chip and put it in their HPC so they have a better CE. The ONLY good thing I can see coming of this is getting a way to load Linux onto a HPC, which hasnt that been done on one of the IBM HPC"s anyhow?
I have been reading up on car-based MP3 solutions lately, and most of the sites I go to say to get a certain $100 6" lcd, plus you have to buy the computer.... To me, this setup, with linux, seems like a VERY good solution for a MP3 player. Seem feasable?
Why do you need to encrypt the signal anyhow? If you are worried about tempest actually decoding your 1600x1200 display (or just 1024x768), you have too much money. Plus, this will make monitor prices go (slightly) up.... What next? The signal from your keyboard/printer/mouse/soundcard/joystick/whatever will be encrypted.....
You want fidelity? Have you heard of sony's new HCD format? Uses DVD-like disks, but audio is recorded in 2x2^20 samples per second, much higher than CD's 44.1khz. In the future, who is going to care about hearing 1/2000000 of a second of audio? The point of anyone in the future hearing, reading, or seeing anything we make today would be for quantity of information, not quality. So what if a document is 50% degraded? 50% is still useful... Data recovery labs today, though expensive, can recover drives that have had lightning surges, been burned, and I have even heard of torn up floppies being put back together. Im sure aging of disks will be only a small problem.
Then the future historians will dig around and find a nifty source code of "DeCSS" and their problem is solved.
I think that if they did this correctly, the system could be accepted. Controlling speed is a bad thing. What if you were driving down a hill, going at speed limit, and a truck's brakes behind you were out, and the only way to get out of its way was to speed? Or what if your pregnant wife is going into labor in the car, and the nearest hospital is an hour away? Controlling the speed is bad within limits (Ok.... if the cops are chasing a speeder, the satelite should be able to transmit an engine shutdown command to the car). But what if the system just tracked speeders, and automatically gave them a ticket for speeding? That would be more acceptable
True, Alpha and Merced will be the things that every one wants, but it is just not practical. Also, Im not a big linux user, but isnt the best practical chip for linux right now a PPC or G3/G4???
Lets remember that Crusoe will be announced in about 3 weeks.
my $2.e-2
In case you did not read futher, the 32 chip version with 2GB of RAM will cost around $40k. Also, why in the world would you want one, unless you were rendering high quality video in faster than realtime.... The thing could render Toy Story (for the lack of a better example) in about 10-20 minutes. Also, if you do the math, it could run resolutions 4092x3072 in 30FPS, 32bit, or higher, but what monitor could support it. At least the thing does 32bit, finally. Im opting for the V5-6000 (AGP, 4 chip, 64MB), for myself, and I think it costs over $300.
Yes. More functionality is one possible outcome, but sloppy / fast code is not a good excuse. Bugs arise from sloppy code, and programs start to get big. Also, this is just a personal preference, but I miss the days where you could copy a program (or store it, for that matter) with its INI files on a FDD or ZIP, take it to a different computer, and it would run fine. No relying on registry settings. But back to sloppy code. I have seen SOOOO may simple programs (especially MP3 related ones, like ID taggers) that have DOWNLOAD sizes of 1 MB or higher.... But then again, if you go by Intel's marketing scheme, faster CPU=Faster internet...
Dont you have something better to do than look for the newest article and get a first post? Why dont you do something more entertaining???
Seems that the /. effect has hit my FTP server.... I did not know my cable modem could do 160kbps upload.. Only get 40 in the past. I think my ISP is mad. Go to slash mirror
I have converted this video into 3 Real G2 videos: 56k/s (1.6mb) 70k/s (2.8mb) 128k/s (5.2mb) They are available here: ftp://24.29.236.226 and are in the root dir. 10 max connections allowed, 7k/s max each. Sorry... I would of uploaded this to Slash Mirror, but it wont let me upload in the uploads directory
I will do that.... One of the things you have to love about WIn98 and multimedia apps. Real Encoder/Producer does not like Soreneson, so I had to export to uncompressed AVI. I came close to the AVI 2GB limit, and i have crashed 3 times when compressing. I will have it mirrored ASAP
Im not a linux user, so i dont know if this will help you, but i know it will help those of you with slower modems. As soon as the download is done, i will post several G2 versions (varying bandwiths). Please email me for the address: danwatt@bigfoot.com (im on a cable modem, and the ISP does not like bandwith hogging).
(not to get too OTP) Yes, since processors get faster, coders dont need to optimize as much. But still, you fail to see the full potential of 1GHz. Not only will it be good for games (especially non-GPU's), but good for servers, slow algorithms (namely compression), and the like. Who cares about optimization anyhow??? With faster CPU's comes sloppier code, but that means that the programmers dont work as much, therefore (somewhat) lowering the prices/increasing their pay/hour.
It gets to a point where shrinking can no longer be the best option. Sure, you can (eventually) make chips with pathways of 1 atom in dimension. But think of this: If you were to take EVERY circuit (chip/PCB/whatever) in an office (for example: the pentagon), and combined it into 1 device, that device would still be SOOO small that you would still need a microscope to see it. So, let me ask. What happens if you open up your case (that has this tiny cpu in it), and you sneezy? Oops, there goes the CPU... But, in contrast, what if they did make chips so small that pathways were single atoms? What if they could efficiently make a chip that is big enough to see without the use of a microscope? The thing would have like 10e20 or more transistors!!! But here is my question: does it get to a point that having lots of transistors really dont matter?
What I gather from it: 1) It can translate instructions (like x86) into its own format 2) It has some sort of intelligent memory buffering system. 3) Judging by the abstract, it SEEMS to almost be able to switch "modes" or instruction sets on the fly
The two high schools that I have attended in the past 3 years both use your social security number as a form of ID. It is on the back of my PhotoID, and if there are any field trip lists, everyones "School ID" is on it. I have had several teachers who give out old field trip lists/other lists as scratch paper. Ha. On the back of the scratch sheets I have the opportunity to rip off about 25 families...
I looked at Python. Not that easy of a language (this is coming from a 2nd year CS student, just learning C++, knows lots of Pascal). I was taught pascal in my 1st year of CS, and it confused SOME people, but most could understand it. Python looks to be more confusing (to the beginner) than C++. But I do think that making CS a required course is both good and bad. Yes, computers are becoming much more widely used than anyone ever thought, but too many people dont care about programming, and being forced to take the class would end up hurting their GPA. But, CS is good at teaching problem solving...
I remember that a similar service was available in Houston, TX. (I just moved away from there to Chicago). It offered $100/mo for non-dedicated SOHO access (Off-peak hours), and something around $600-$700/mo for 100% dedicated. And yes, it too was wireless. NO, I do not rememebr the name of the service. Sorry. But it does exist in other (major) cities
(If anyone knows of a service like this in Chicago, let me know)