Laptops without an OS pre-installed are possible through them and they at least appear to be reasonably priced per included laptop features. I once purchased an IBM laptop with linux pre-installed but I think they have since discontinued that option...
Anyone know of a rough performance comparison between linux apps running on a UltraSPARC-IIi 650MHz processor VS a new P4 or Athlon XP? This seems like a very nice laptop but I'm not at all familiar with Sparc processor performance...
Anyone know where I can pick up parts to build an alpha system? From what I can tell building a PPC system from scratch is going to leave me with a somewhat rigged/dated machine. Personally, I have always been interested in building my own Alpha box. Where can one get Alpha processors/motherboards? I've so far had no luck finding such things...
The news.com articles make different claims as to how many processors the final machine will have. The first article claims 65,000 processors. The second article claims over a million, packed 32 CPUs per die. My calculator is usually right so one of the stories is wrong, probably the first one. I just don't see where they obtained the 65,000 number.
"...I would like an install program that is actually powerful. You know, like allowing me to do what I want in the way I see fit, rather than restricting me to what someone else thought. Oh wait....that's a design goal of unix, isn't it?"
It seems one of the respondents to my post is in fact correct. Sony does make a home that would suit your needs. Unfortunately, if it can't be found at the local electronics reseller such as Best Buy or any of the other large ones, few people will ever know about it.
It certainly makes me wonder if it would have been better if this had started out much the same way as radio did, under government control. (not the way the current FCC does things under the Telecommunications Act of 1996) Looking past the obvious problem that someone had to front the funds for the satellites, a different approach might have led to overnite adoption of a digital media format for regular radio. To think that there just might be a real market for selling quality, COMPATIBLE receivers would be pretty much amazing at this point.
"Radio Paradise is struggling to pay the new webcaster royalties, which are completely stupid. The recording industry won't be happy until they've squashed every outlet for new and interesting music, and they wonder why CD sales are down!!:-( "
Totally agree. Until they stop their nonsense, I refuse to buy anything from a major label. Once they realize that people are actually in control of the music they choose to listen to and how they get it,(rather than the mega-monster-music-companies) I just might consider purchasing CDs again. Since that doesn't seem likely at any point in the near future, they lose out.
I've been itching to buy one of these as of late because I live in an area with poor analog radio reception. Personally, there are a couple of reasons I've been holding off buying one of these...(hope you're listening sirius/xm)
First of all, you can only get a receiver for your car! Is this really the only place they expect people to listen to the radio? Sony makes a unit for the XM systems that is car removable, but I have been told that is just the headset and the "base unit" which mounts somewhere like under a car seat is separate.
Secondly, they need to come up with something better than "just tear out your factory deck". I LIKE my factory deck, and for those who don't know this already, you get better resale on a car that has the factory deck in it. Tearing out a custom unit when it comes time to sell a car is a pain.
Third, and probably most importantly for the prudent consumer, "Will I make the right choice?" The topic of this thread alone should be enough to convince most that this isn't a device you want to run out and spend $300 on. I want a little bit of a guarantee that my nifty new receiver isn't going to become a useless box less than a year after I buy it because the network is no longer in business.
Which brings me to point four: "Why can't I have a receiver that works on both Sirius and XM?" Yes, I realize they are competing for the same market segment. I DON'T CARE. I am a consumer. I want some guarantee that if Sirius(the network I'd probably choose due to a choice of programming) ends up in bankruptcy court, I want to know I have the option of getting service with XM. These devices are just too much money to be throwing away. And I want one that works in my car as well as my home.
Sirius seems to offer a bit higher quality programming than XM. XM seems like a whole lot of the shit that is on television, only now I can listen to it. I can pretty well guarantee that most consumers who are willing to shell out $10 or more a month for this type of service, which is basically radio(something we're accustomed to getting for free), aren't going to willingly listen to a bunch of damn commercials. This is in fact the reason I would choose Sirius over XM. Because they have NPR. No commercials. I get to listen to the news in peace. Commercials are just plain annoying.
$700? You've got to be kidding me. I'm not going to waste the time, but it wouldn't be to difficult to make a perl script that increments an IP address range and calls smbclient -M... In fact, it would be really easy for someone to do this one time and send a link to the tone of "Tired of annoying messages like this? Go to www.xxx.net to find out how to eliminate messages like this forever." And that would be the end of this problem. Unfortunately, if you did this as a regular citizen, you'd have the FBI crashing through your window in no time for "hacking"...
"I've been super impressed by OS X having used it as my primary laptop for the last couple weeks. It really is a great unix box- and this is one of the important missing puzzle pieces."
Make OS X run on X86 hardware and you'd really have something there!
I was agreeing with you right up until the part about binaries being larger than the source. Looked at a kernel tree lately? My installed kernel, with all modules, makes up maybe two MB. The download of the kernel tree? Over thirty megs. Unpacked? Over a hundred megs. Generally speaking, if a package uses a lot of shared libraries that are already installed on your system, it is possible for the source to be a smaller download than the binaries. However this isn't always the case.
Need another example? Download the sources for XFree86 then download the binaries.
If you're going to redesign the chip... then re-compile the code... why not just DROP X86?!?!?
Because recompiling code on modified compiler/chip is still easier than re-working all existing x86 code for a different architecture. How long would it take you to recompile "Office"? Probably a significant amount of time unless you happen to have access to a supercomputer. Now, how long would it take you to port "Office" to a Power4? Yeah, that's what I figured too. Better to recompile...
Not without 3D glasses. The CRT can provide part of what is needed to produce a 3D effect(and must), but cannot do so without the help of the infamous flickering goggles.
AMD has decided to put off at least one customer for yet another period amount of time. I am patient. I will get what I want or I simply won't buy anything. I waited patiently for the palomino so that I could build my dual system. The palomino came out so late that I thought to myself, "Hmmm, I think I am gonna hold off until this fall when hammer comes out." Sadly, it appears as if Intel isn't AMD's only enemy. Their inability to release a chip on time will hurt them more than Intel will.
Yes, a loosely defined treastise of laws to screw poor IT people over when someone fucks up. Don't worry, "risk management", aka your company's liaison to the insurance provider, will make all of you sign waivers after giving you a class that gives you just the vaguest notion of what HIPAA is. You will walk away confused, feeling like someone just screwed you and there will be nothing you can do about it. The purpose of all this is simple: Later on when someone fucks up, they now have some individual to blame and say "Hey, we're not responsible as an organization, he is!!!". And you won't have the first clue why they are putting you in jail. HIPAA is bureaucracy at its finest. HIPAA is Bill Clinton's legacy. HIPAA should die a quick and painful death before we all suffer its wretchedness.
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Just out of curiosity, what interface are you using to your PC? I have a card reader that reads 3 different media formats, including one you didn't mention, compact flash. I use compact flash for my camera. I have a 128MB card for it, which is enough space to hold about 330 images at 1600x1200 resolution. I use a USB card reader to dump the images to my laptop at a speed that I am completely happy with. (The card reader beats the hell out of the old serial cable the camera came with.)
"I learnt about 10 commands in vi 10 years ago and thats all I've ever needed. I have better things to do than learn how to copy a block into a different file in vim etc because I can do that using X windows cut & paste."
You could go for a walk through the park too but why should you? You could just go for a drive instead...
I know this is a difficult concept to grasp but your way isn't the right way for everyone. The X windowing system isn't always an option.
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Those are good enough reasons for me. Now if I could only figure out whether or not SUNW is a good buy at ~3.00 per share...
I would recommend giving this vendor a try:
http://xtremenotebooks.com/index.html
Laptops without an OS pre-installed are possible through them and they at least appear to be reasonably priced per included laptop features. I once purchased an IBM laptop with linux pre-installed but I think they have since discontinued that option...
Anyone know of a rough performance comparison between linux apps running on a UltraSPARC-IIi 650MHz processor VS a new P4 or Athlon XP? This seems like a very nice laptop but I'm not at all familiar with Sparc processor performance...
Anyone know where I can pick up parts to build an alpha system? From what I can tell building a PPC system from scratch is going to leave me with a somewhat rigged/dated machine. Personally, I have always been interested in building my own Alpha box. Where can one get Alpha processors/motherboards? I've so far had no luck finding such things...
The news.com articles make different claims as to how many processors the final machine will have. The first article claims 65,000 processors. The second article claims over a million, packed 32 CPUs per die. My calculator is usually right so one of the stories is wrong, probably the first one. I just don't see where they obtained the 65,000 number.
Ever try this distro?
;-)
http://www.gentoo.org
From the sounds of it, you might like this. You get maximum control with its install.
Where might one find such information?
It seems one of the respondents to my post is in fact correct. Sony does make a home that would suit your needs. Unfortunately, if it can't be found at the local electronics reseller such as Best Buy or any of the other large ones, few people will ever know about it.
It certainly makes me wonder if it would have been better if this had started out much the same way as radio did, under government control. (not the way the current FCC does things under the Telecommunications Act of 1996) Looking past the obvious problem that someone had to front the funds for the satellites, a different approach might have led to overnite adoption of a digital media format for regular radio. To think that there just might be a real market for selling quality, COMPATIBLE receivers would be pretty much amazing at this point.
"Radio Paradise is struggling to pay the new webcaster royalties, which are completely stupid. The recording industry won't be happy until they've squashed every outlet for new and interesting music, and they wonder why CD sales are down!! :-( "
Totally agree. Until they stop their nonsense, I refuse to buy anything from a major label. Once they realize that people are actually in control of the music they choose to listen to and how they get it,(rather than the mega-monster-music-companies) I just might consider purchasing CDs again. Since that doesn't seem likely at any point in the near future, they lose out.
I've been itching to buy one of these as of late because I live in an area with poor analog radio reception. Personally, there are a couple of reasons I've been holding off buying one of these...(hope you're listening sirius/xm)
First of all, you can only get a receiver for your car! Is this really the only place they expect people to listen to the radio? Sony makes a unit for the XM systems that is car removable, but I have been told that is just the headset and the "base unit" which mounts somewhere like under a car seat is separate.
Secondly, they need to come up with something better than "just tear out your factory deck". I LIKE my factory deck, and for those who don't know this already, you get better resale on a car that has the factory deck in it. Tearing out a custom unit when it comes time to sell a car is a pain.
Third, and probably most importantly for the prudent consumer, "Will I make the right choice?" The topic of this thread alone should be enough to convince most that this isn't a device you want to run out and spend $300 on. I want a little bit of a guarantee that my nifty new receiver isn't going to become a useless box less than a year after I buy it because the network is no longer in business.
Which brings me to point four: "Why can't I have a receiver that works on both Sirius and XM?" Yes, I realize they are competing for the same market segment. I DON'T CARE. I am a consumer. I want some guarantee that if Sirius(the network I'd probably choose due to a choice of programming) ends up in bankruptcy court, I want to know I have the option of getting service with XM. These devices are just too much money to be throwing away. And I want one that works in my car as well as my home.
Sirius seems to offer a bit higher quality programming than XM. XM seems like a whole lot of the shit that is on television, only now I can listen to it. I can pretty well guarantee that most consumers who are willing to shell out $10 or more a month for this type of service, which is basically radio(something we're accustomed to getting for free), aren't going to willingly listen to a bunch of damn commercials. This is in fact the reason I would choose Sirius over XM. Because they have NPR. No commercials. I get to listen to the news in peace. Commercials are just plain annoying.
$700? You've got to be kidding me. I'm not going to waste the time, but it wouldn't be to difficult to make a perl script that increments an IP address range and calls smbclient -M... In fact, it would be really easy for someone to do this one time and send a link to the tone of "Tired of annoying messages like this? Go to www.xxx.net to find out how to eliminate messages like this forever." And that would be the end of this problem. Unfortunately, if you did this as a regular citizen, you'd have the FBI crashing through your window in no time for "hacking"...
Sad really.
Without a journalling filesystem, online defrag is pretty much impossible. Unless of course you try to defrag the way Win98 did...
Make OS X run on X86 hardware and you'd really have something there!
Need another example? Download the sources for XFree86 then download the binaries.
Because recompiling code on modified compiler/chip is still easier than re-working all existing x86 code for a different architecture. How long would it take you to recompile "Office"? Probably a significant amount of time unless you happen to have access to a supercomputer. Now, how long would it take you to port "Office" to a Power4? Yeah, that's what I figured too. Better to recompile...
Not without 3D glasses. The CRT can provide part of what is needed to produce a 3D effect(and must), but cannot do so without the help of the infamous flickering goggles.
No wonder they're number one!
(Sorry AOL, I couldnt' resist.)
And I thought I had troubles getting regular users to save files properly. I can't wait to see them install a Sun server and configure the thing too!
AMD has decided to put off at least one customer for yet another period amount of time. I am patient. I will get what I want or I simply won't buy anything. I waited patiently for the palomino so that I could build my dual system. The palomino came out so late that I thought to myself, "Hmmm, I think I am gonna hold off until this fall when hammer comes out." Sadly, it appears as if Intel isn't AMD's only enemy. Their inability to release a chip on time will hurt them more than Intel will.
Yes, a loosely defined treastise of laws to screw poor IT people over when someone fucks up. Don't worry, "risk management", aka your company's liaison to the insurance provider, will make all of you sign waivers after giving you a class that gives you just the vaguest notion of what HIPAA is. You will walk away confused, feeling like someone just screwed you and there will be nothing you can do about it. The purpose of all this is simple: Later on when someone fucks up, they now have some individual to blame and say "Hey, we're not responsible as an organization, he is!!!". And you won't have the first clue why they are putting you in jail. HIPAA is bureaucracy at its finest. HIPAA is Bill Clinton's legacy. HIPAA should die a quick and painful death before we all suffer its wretchedness.
Just out of curiosity, what interface are you using to your PC? I have a card reader that reads 3 different media formats, including one you didn't mention, compact flash. I use compact flash for my camera. I have a 128MB card for it, which is enough space to hold about 330 images at 1600x1200 resolution. I use a USB card reader to dump the images to my laptop at a speed that I am completely happy with. (The card reader beats the hell out of the old serial cable the camera came with.)
I could've swore they killed beta max a LONG time ago!
The pope announced today that all non-catholics are going to hell...
I did this a little while ago in the "Slasdot comment box..." ESC :wq
You could go for a walk through the park too but why should you? You could just go for a drive instead...
I know this is a difficult concept to grasp but your way isn't the right way for everyone. The X windowing system isn't always an option.