When, why, and because of whom did the human hair become the standard unit of distance. This IBM circuit is 10 microhairs, great. Exactly how big is a hair again? I've got hairs of varying sizes on my scalp, my eyelids, and my lip. Which one of them is the SI standard? Is there a man at the national institute of weights and measures who is the caretaker of the reference hair?
Just tell me big the damn thing is in regular units: meters, angstroms, astronomical units, whatever.
I use Debian PPC on the TiBook, as do many people on the debian-powerpc@lists.debian.org mailing list. I installed 2.2r2 and upgraded using apt to the latest unstable release. I then replaced the kernel with Ben H's 2.4.8-benh kernel, which includes support for sleeping and some other useful bits. I don't have any problems at all, other than Linux using the battery a bit faster than MacOS 9 does.
You are missing the point like a lot of other people on this thread. The old hardware isn't going to cause 30 second startup dealys because the applications are running on a server somewhere else, not on the terminal's cheapo CPU. Also, you don't bother upgrading the RAM or changing the power supply in a $25 computer. You throw it away and replace it. Finally, your users don't need a 100mbps network to share files because their files aren't on their desktop, they are on a server. To share them, copy them over to/share.
You are the 85h person in this discussion to completely misunderstand the technical details of this story. StarOffice not running on these 386s and 486s with 24MB of RAM. AbiWord is not running there, either. The fonts aren't installed there. All of the applications are being executed on a more powerful workgroup server. The terminals are ONLY handling network packets and drawing things on the screen. That's it!
I'll second that. I have a lot of time, money, and effort invested in DACs, and I don't let other people's crappy DACs anywhere near my audio gear. This would be a great little device with coax or optical digital output, and it shouldn't be overly hard to hack in. There must be a serial digital input on that Crystal SAC somewhere.
I'm used to meditate on how this attitude came to be, but now I believe simply that most MySQL users are natural idoits. MySQL is shit slow. Insert block selects. Even selects can block selects. MySQL lack concurrency in a big way. In PostgreSQL, there is hardly ever any kind of blocking at all. Selects don't block inserts nor the other way about. Certainly no select can block another select.
PostgreSQL is way faster than MySQL in everything besides some contrived read-only benchmarks. In actual benchmarks and the real world where the rest of us live, PostgreSQL's performance shines above MySQL's in every way.
Yes, you're missing everything. Apple invented FireWire. They spent a lot of time creating it. Then they allowed IEEE to put it through a standards process.
Linux programs discover the type of the file by looking at the file's contents (ref: file(1)). I think this is an obvious and straight-forward way to determine file type, and is therefore not prone to implementation bugs. The mapping of file type to program is handled by application environments like GNOME and KDE. Nautilus determines a file's type and offers a number of programs useful or manipulating the file. I think it works great.
Again, it's better to just install cameras all over the city than to install bluetooth receivers all over the city, then make a beat cop cart around a ccd and its batteries, plus his phone and its batteries. Bluetooth has a range of a few meters at best, so you'd literally have to blanket your city in bluetooth stations (with a wired backhaul because you can't have an 802.11b backhaul on your bluetooth device) to get the signal off of that cop's camera.
Even if you went through all of that, anyone could jam the cop's bluetooth gear with $5 worth or electronics in a case the size of a cigarette pack.
Wait, I have an idea. The 911 dispatcher calls out over the radio for a response at the corner of 12th and Main. The closest cops to 12th and main go there. Sounds cheaper and more reliable than bluetooth + GPS to me.
My esteemed Slashdot colleagues have already pointed out that 802.11b can have verious modes, from 1 to 11mbps. But there also is no standard for 802.11b radio output power. You can have a 100mW radio like the Cisco Aironet LCM352, or you can have a 30mW radio like the Lucent Orinoco Silver. You could have 1W or 1mW, as well. I suspect that if your range requirement is only 10 meters, you could use a 5mW radio and a short dipole antenna at 1mbps for a low-power 802.11b device. If you could get 1 or 2 dBi gain out of the antenna, you'd be doing even better.
That table is a joke. Those proerties may work in some simple test cases, but whenever I test on Konqueror it butchers my pages. I always write strict HTML 4.01 or XHTML 1.0 with CSS2 and DOM2 code, and run it through validator.w3.org before using the browsers. I have good luck with Mozilla and ts descendants, and also with IE 6.0. Konqueror, Opera, and IE 5.5 normally eat shit.
This guy needs to develop some aethestic sense
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The author of this article referes to Galeon as "nasty" and "tacky". I'm looking at a Galeon window right now, and it has only six small icons, a URL bar, the throbber, and standard GNOME menubar. I think it looks very minimal and tastful.
The author says Opera is clean and simple. In my eyes, Opera is horrible. It's default screen is covered with 500 different widgets. When you load a page, they all start whizzing and moving around. It's very distracting. Opera doesn't look at home on GNOME nor KDE, which just adds to its problems. Opera, with its adverts and grotesque widgets, is a visual insult.
In the picture showing the guts of this machine, it looks like the airport cage is autographed and dated 2001-01-12, so I would think this mod is over 18 months old.
Don't be a moron. The PowerBook G4 is very fragile. I own one. I've had it since February 2001 and I always treat it with kid gloves. So far, I've smashed the screen latch by simply picking it up with one hand instead of two, I've ripped off all four rubber feet by dragging it a little ways across a tabletop, and I've nearly ruined the screen by grabbing it too hard. The PowerBook G4 is so flimsy that you can cause a short on the motherboard by lifting the machine in a particular way, and if you pinch the right side of the machine while a CD or DVD is spinning, you'll scratch the disc.
Oh, I forgot to mention something. Its going to suck a lot for the Java DVD player when the GC comes along and and makes everything stop for 50ms. You'd have to write the program such that it generates no garbage at all, so as to not tickle that particular Java feature. Personally, I don't use Java where timing is any kind of problem.
I didn't make the example, you did:) You said that DVD can be done in Java because Java is as fast as C++ for computation. I'm telling you that while justifaction may be true, the conclusion is not: even C++ is not fast enough for DVD decoding.
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Just tell me big the damn thing is in regular units: meters, angstroms, astronomical units, whatever.
I use Debian PPC on the TiBook, as do many people on the debian-powerpc@lists.debian.org mailing list. I installed 2.2r2 and upgraded using apt to the latest unstable release. I then replaced the kernel with Ben H's 2.4.8-benh kernel, which includes support for sleeping and some other useful bits. I don't have any problems at all, other than Linux using the battery a bit faster than MacOS 9 does.
You are missing the point like a lot of other people on this thread. The old hardware isn't going to cause 30 second startup dealys because the applications are running on a server somewhere else, not on the terminal's cheapo CPU. Also, you don't bother upgrading the RAM or changing the power supply in a $25 computer. You throw it away and replace it. Finally, your users don't need a 100mbps network to share files because their files aren't on their desktop, they are on a server. To share them, copy them over to /share.
You are the 85h person in this discussion to completely misunderstand the technical details of this story. StarOffice not running on these 386s and 486s with 24MB of RAM. AbiWord is not running there, either. The fonts aren't installed there. All of the applications are being executed on a more powerful workgroup server. The terminals are ONLY handling network packets and drawing things on the screen. That's it!
I'll second that. I have a lot of time, money, and effort invested in DACs, and I don't let other people's crappy DACs anywhere near my audio gear. This would be a great little device with coax or optical digital output, and it shouldn't be overly hard to hack in. There must be a serial digital input on that Crystal SAC somewhere.
PostgreSQL is way faster than MySQL in everything besides some contrived read-only benchmarks. In actual benchmarks and the real world where the rest of us live, PostgreSQL's performance shines above MySQL's in every way.
Wait, I forgot sequences.
Looks like it might be a while. Better just get PostgreSQL in the meantime.
Before anyone goes berserk over the sum, please realize that 2 billion yen is only about 17 million US dollars.
Ah that makes a lot more sense. Thanks.
The 65Hz figure is from their datasheet.
Their power-saving plan works by alternating the duty cycle of their red, green, and blue LEDs at 1-65Hz. I can feel a headache coming on already.
Apple doesn't source the PowerPC exclusively from IBM. All the G4s come from Motorola.
It's Apple's technology.
Linux programs discover the type of the file by looking at the file's contents (ref: file(1)). I think this is an obvious and straight-forward way to determine file type, and is therefore not prone to implementation bugs. The mapping of file type to program is handled by application environments like GNOME and KDE. Nautilus determines a file's type and offers a number of programs useful or manipulating the file. I think it works great.
You're going to transmit motion video over a cell phone link?
Even if you went through all of that, anyone could jam the cop's bluetooth gear with $5 worth or electronics in a case the size of a cigarette pack.
Wait, I have an idea. The 911 dispatcher calls out over the radio for a response at the corner of 12th and Main. The closest cops to 12th and main go there. Sounds cheaper and more reliable than bluetooth + GPS to me.
My esteemed Slashdot colleagues have already pointed out that 802.11b can have verious modes, from 1 to 11mbps. But there also is no standard for 802.11b radio output power. You can have a 100mW radio like the Cisco Aironet LCM352, or you can have a 30mW radio like the Lucent Orinoco Silver. You could have 1W or 1mW, as well. I suspect that if your range requirement is only 10 meters, you could use a 5mW radio and a short dipole antenna at 1mbps for a low-power 802.11b device. If you could get 1 or 2 dBi gain out of the antenna, you'd be doing even better.
That table is a joke. Those proerties may work in some simple test cases, but whenever I test on Konqueror it butchers my pages. I always write strict HTML 4.01 or XHTML 1.0 with CSS2 and DOM2 code, and run it through validator.w3.org before using the browsers. I have good luck with Mozilla and ts descendants, and also with IE 6.0. Konqueror, Opera, and IE 5.5 normally eat shit.
The author says Opera is clean and simple. In my eyes, Opera is horrible. It's default screen is covered with 500 different widgets. When you load a page, they all start whizzing and moving around. It's very distracting. Opera doesn't look at home on GNOME nor KDE, which just adds to its problems. Opera, with its adverts and grotesque widgets, is a visual insult.
In the picture showing the guts of this machine, it looks like the airport cage is autographed and dated 2001-01-12, so I would think this mod is over 18 months old.
Don't be a moron. The PowerBook G4 is very fragile. I own one. I've had it since February 2001 and I always treat it with kid gloves. So far, I've smashed the screen latch by simply picking it up with one hand instead of two, I've ripped off all four rubber feet by dragging it a little ways across a tabletop, and I've nearly ruined the screen by grabbing it too hard. The PowerBook G4 is so flimsy that you can cause a short on the motherboard by lifting the machine in a particular way, and if you pinch the right side of the machine while a CD or DVD is spinning, you'll scratch the disc.
Oh, I forgot to mention something. Its going to suck a lot for the Java DVD player when the GC comes along and and makes everything stop for 50ms. You'd have to write the program such that it generates no garbage at all, so as to not tickle that particular Java feature. Personally, I don't use Java where timing is any kind of problem.
I didn't make the example, you did :) You said that DVD can be done in Java because Java is as fast as C++ for computation. I'm telling you that while justifaction may be true, the conclusion is not: even C++ is not fast enough for DVD decoding.