I had the exact same phone until I dropped it. What a shame, that phone had awesome battery life and great signal stregnth. My past 3 phones had been Sanyo candy-bar style phones and got great reception, but i missed the coolness factor of my old samsung flip-phone (not the reception tho). I decided to replace the broken 4900 with another sanyo, the SCP-8100. This phone is a color flip with camera and vision. The 4 factors for buying this phone were:
1. Vision
2. Use same date cable from 4900
3. Great sanyo reception
4. Flip (yay, I'm r33t now!)
What I didnt take into account was how much battery that thing would suck up. The camera was cool for like a week until I figured how lame the QVGA pics were, but I still post to my moblog just for the hell of it. Anyway, I have to charge this puppy every night and I only talk on it maybe an hour a day, do maybe 10 shortmails (fake SMS), and connect it to the laptop about once a week for email on the go.
What was this thread about again? Oh yeah, PDAs. Um, keeping on topic, if you have a phone and a data cable, you may want to check out bitpim. Its can access your phones calander, phone book, pictures, etc... worth checking out Jeff DeMaagd as its compatible with the 4900.
Now if only sprint would embrace the MS Smartphones, I would love to get a windows mobile phone that could sync with exchange and open word docs. Er, I mean, so I could put linux on it, sync with sendmail, and use vi. right;)
I know it sounds stupid but I made a big mistake with the Canon ZR80. My G/F has the Canon ZR75, a nice camera I'll say. When the new line of ZR cameras came out they were 18% smaller so I picked up the low end of the 3. The ZR80 had just what I needed and none of what I didnt (Still camera, etc). What I failed to notice was that the camera did not have an audio in jack. My audio capture is limited to the crappy mic built into the unit. This has really hindered my creativity. I should have waited and got the ZR75 when the prices went down dispite the fact that its somewhat larger.
My question to you fellow slashdotters, is, what alternatives to capturing audio do I have? I've never messed with recording to a dat or something similar and trying to sync the audio, that sounds like a real pain. Any suggestions are truly welcome.
I agree a bit about those cases, they are *way* too heavy, and removing the HDDs is kinda a pain but the metal bar across the video card is really no big deal. My biggest complaints with these boxes it truly their weight.
We just got the new dimension 4600's in and they're a lot lighter and easier to work on, but for some reason the HDD will vibrate on the case in the front making the most obnoxious sound sometimes.
In other news, Starbucks will start its own awareness campaign by placing stickers of coffee cups with "$10" printed in the middle of them on various CDs, Office supplies, video games, and books.
Shashdot has also announced that it will start an awareness campaign of its own that has the experts puzzled. Robert Potter of NetCraft says "I dont understand how the hot grits, levis, and slashdot could be so big, this was totally off our radar! totally!"
Tell Dell seems interesting
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This interview was especially interesting, and I'm usually one to read a hardware review over a CEO interview any day. Its amazing to see how dells business has grown and spread out over the last few years. I think they're corporate image and branding have had a lot to do with it.
When I think "HP" the first thing that comes to mind is "Printers". When I think "HP PCs" the first thing that comes to mind is "junk". Now when I think of dell I think of a reputable company, I think of laptops, desktops, servers, handhelds, printers. I think of solid machines that work very well, last a long time, and are a plesure to work ok (I love the screwless entry and layout of the Deminsion Desktops). My great experience with dell desktops and servers makes dell a good choice for a pocket pc or printer in my view.
My company primaraly buys dell. We have a Dell NT4 server thats been in the company for 7 years now and its still ticking. Its not as easy to get inside of as the desktop workstations but I've actually never had to open it up to replace anything. We had a different CEO a few years ago that was a Gateway fanboy. A couple of gateway laptops were ordered but have since broken down. The feeling around the office when it comes to hardware is, "just go to dell". I know it seems like the "nobody ever got fired for buying microsoft" thing but the bad experiences with gateway and the solid ones with dell have really impacted our thinking when it comes to hardware
I thought the "Tell Dell" part of the interview was especially interesting. Twice a year dell gives the employees a way to speak their mind about their boss and it directly effects their bonus, and this goes all the way to the top. I think that is a wonderful way to give employees a sense of belonging. It gives lets them know that they have a say in the way the company operates. The company I work for does employee performance reviews twice a year. Its like the same thing dell does but the other way around. Now considering the fact that my company is small in comparison (100-150 employees) I'm not sure something like "tell dell" would work in my company. There are tons of things I could say about how my CIO "doesnt get it" (but then again I'm thinking like an engineer not a manager), but saying them on paper and turning that in to my boss is a completely different story.
Does anyone else hear work for a company that does performance reviews, or boss reviews? I'd like to hear some testimony, and this has really intreged me so I'm wondering if something like this would work in a small company like the one I work for.
Slashdot needs spellcheck. Maybe I should get that firebird spellcheck extension
I just recently "saved" a pair of 22" HP monitors from "recycling" at work. Now I'm surfing slashdot at 3200x1200. I cant wait until management decides to recycle the 19" LCDs
But Gartner research just confirmed that BSD is...
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But Gartner research just confirmed that BSD is dieing.
IE6 released December 2002. Then SP 1 6 months later. Its only been a year since the last update if you dont count hotfixes. Maybe MSDN should offer nightly builds;)
Now if I can only convince my boss to get a set of these for pair programming. That would rock. I can imagine myself now Xtreme programing on windows Xp working with directX making a game for the Xbox about the X-men with my X-Girlfriend. Then I'll release it for free and register a website for it, how about X.org! Oh... uh, Wait...
Back to reality, this thing wont be out for windows until Longhorn (2006,7,25), and by then it will be called Windows XXL. I think I better stick to my mac os X, making wallpapers of CowboyNealiX from ST:Voyager.
Can I get a second opinion on this. I've been really weary on installing anti-spyware. The only 2 programs I trust are Ad-aware and Spybot Search & Destroy (And half the time the users I point to it find something posing at it that actually contains more spyware). Anyone else use this program, I'm looking to build up my toolkit (read thumb drive inoculizer;)
Anyway, looks like its going to be another fun weekend for us sysadmins
How do we expect to be able to say YES to "Will my windows application work under linux" when we cant say 100% YES to "Will my windows application from 1995 work on windows XP?"
Whenever I see these reports on ZDnet and the like which cite some unheard of research group found that on average companies loose 30% productivity from their work force due to spam I think of how long it took me to install Spam Assassin (an afternoon) and how long people around the office spend bitching about some popup, or their weather bug, or the v1agr4 spam they got last week (on their hotmail account), or the toolbars they got in IE that wont go away, to them its all spam and they'll spend 1000000% more time bitching about it with the co-workers than it would take to
A) Delete the spam.
B) Install a popup blocker. or
C) Stop installing every "FREE" weather bug utility when you've got a frickin window office.
Then again, I just spent 5 minutes reading and writing on slashdot about my problem with clueless users. The point is, spam or no spam, people are going to bitch about something or another.
Me: So what did you get for Christmas last year? Friend: My uncle gave me a copy of Red Hat 7.
Me: Ohh, sorry man. Friend: Yeah, sucks. might as well have gotten a gift card with ftp.linuxdistrohere.com
Me: Its the thought that counts, right? Friend: Guess so...
...
Me: So what did you get him? Friend: Free Pepsi music download.....
Me: Word.
The one thing that disappoints me is that they're letting quake 4 be developed on the doom 3 engine.:-(
Wolf & Wolf 2 - Same engine
Doom & Doom 2 - Same engine
Quake & Quake 2 - Same engine (well, sorta)
Quake 3 & Wolf 3 - same engine
Doom 3 & Quake 4 - same engine
Whats next, Wolf 4 and Doom 4 on the same engine in 4 years?
Starting to see a trend? It seems like once they got ot quake 2 they could have made a new engine and done wolf 3 and doom 3 on it, then have a new engine this summer for quake 3, but they kept going with quake's success.
Incase anyone was wondering, it goes kinda like this:
Wolfenstein 3D:: Wolf3d Engine
Wolfenstein 3D 2 (Spear of Destiny):: Wolf3d Engine
Doom:: Doom Engine
Doom 2:: Doom Engine
Quake:: Quake Engine
Quake 2:: Quiake Engine (beef'd up)
Quake 3:: Quake 3 Engine
Return to Castle Wolfenstein:: Quake 3 Engine (Beef'd up)
Doom 3:: Doom 3 Engine... ...
So now we've got 3 Wolfensteins, 3 Quakes, and 3 Dooms. Each of which has an original and a sequal on the same engine, and a third on new engine, which gets recycled to make the next game.
Whats coming next?...
Quake 4:: Doom 3 Engine (prolly?)
Then what, Wolf 4, Doom 4.... I'm all for new and shiny, but at some point id needs to come up with something fresh. Their last new series was 8 years ago.
Thank you for the advice. I will keep port 587 AUTH only. I have never let my mail server become an open relay and never intend to. I agree, I am a newbie at administrating mail servers. I used to do web-dev work for this company but since were pretty small and the CIO decided to host our own mail I was given the task of setting up exchange. I'm fluent with server 2003, exchange, sql, sharepoint, office, etc. No, I'm not an MCSE paper monkey, yes I've been coding since I was 11 on my PC-XT, but your right, Im new at this and I need to get with the program. Instead of bashing me (unless I'm reading it wrong), could you refer me to said program. My experiences have only been within the Exchange realm and not the bigger picture of the internet.
Thank you very much in advance. I look forward to delving into whatever you point me at. I'm open minded.
This reminds me of a great Mozilla extension
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This reminds me of a great Mozilla FireFox extension that renames by browser to things such as Mozilla FireWorm, SpaceDragon, MoonPony, WaterSpider, or SuperPanda.
War Dialing was cool
War Driving was nostalgic
War Flying was cute
War Biking, Skateboarding, Parasailing, Hang-gliding, sky-diving, monster-truck driving, walking, chalking, talking, and even steven hawking were just kind of uninteresting.
Now if a soldier in Iraq wants to mount an iPaq, Solar panel, GPS, and WiFi card on his helmet and call it War-War'ing, that *might* be cool enough to come full circle and be sweet again.
Until then, its off to Defcon and try to get a twentyseventhousandmillion mile 802.11b signal going.
Ok, I just read RFC 2476, Looks like R. Gellens and J. Klensin beat me to that great idea by 6 years. Thanks for clueing me in. I'm wondering to myself how the hell I would ever have found that out, I'm not one to read random RFC's. Linkies?
Yes but in our experiences (well, theirs, before I was onboard), VPNs were not supported by many of the ISPs that our telecommuting employees worked from. What has you experiences been in that regard?
Slashdot Mirror
...Kevin and co-host of the day finish talking about fillmybox@gmail.com and switch back over to Sarah for the news...
/me ROFL
Sarah: "Fill my box"
Kevin: "I will later"
Co-host of the day turns red.
Any words Kevin?
Ahem, its TEH GOOGLE! get it right
I had the exact same phone until I dropped it. What a shame, that phone had awesome battery life and great signal stregnth. My past 3 phones had been Sanyo candy-bar style phones and got great reception, but i missed the coolness factor of my old samsung flip-phone (not the reception tho). I decided to replace the broken 4900 with another sanyo, the SCP-8100. This phone is a color flip with camera and vision. The 4 factors for buying this phone were:
;)
1. Vision
2. Use same date cable from 4900
3. Great sanyo reception
4. Flip (yay, I'm r33t now!)
What I didnt take into account was how much battery that thing would suck up. The camera was cool for like a week until I figured how lame the QVGA pics were, but I still post to my moblog just for the hell of it. Anyway, I have to charge this puppy every night and I only talk on it maybe an hour a day, do maybe 10 shortmails (fake SMS), and connect it to the laptop about once a week for email on the go.
What was this thread about again? Oh yeah, PDAs. Um, keeping on topic, if you have a phone and a data cable, you may want to check out bitpim. Its can access your phones calander, phone book, pictures, etc... worth checking out Jeff DeMaagd as its compatible with the 4900.
Now if only sprint would embrace the MS Smartphones, I would love to get a windows mobile phone that could sync with exchange and open word docs. Er, I mean, so I could put linux on it, sync with sendmail, and use vi. right
Give me $600 for this phone.
Yes but it doesnt have anything on neverball.
What, jedi mind tricks? Well fine then, neverball's still FOSS! =P
I know it sounds stupid but I made a big mistake with the Canon ZR80. My G/F has the Canon ZR75, a nice camera I'll say. When the new line of ZR cameras came out they were 18% smaller so I picked up the low end of the 3. The ZR80 had just what I needed and none of what I didnt (Still camera, etc). What I failed to notice was that the camera did not have an audio in jack. My audio capture is limited to the crappy mic built into the unit. This has really hindered my creativity. I should have waited and got the ZR75 when the prices went down dispite the fact that its somewhat larger.
My question to you fellow slashdotters, is, what alternatives to capturing audio do I have? I've never messed with recording to a dat or something similar and trying to sync the audio, that sounds like a real pain. Any suggestions are truly welcome.
Thanks,
Aardwolf
I agree a bit about those cases, they are *way* too heavy, and removing the HDDs is kinda a pain but the metal bar across the video card is really no big deal. My biggest complaints with these boxes it truly their weight.
We just got the new dimension 4600's in and they're a lot lighter and easier to work on, but for some reason the HDD will vibrate on the case in the front making the most obnoxious sound sometimes.
In other news, Starbucks will start its own awareness campaign by placing stickers of coffee cups with "$10" printed in the middle of them on various CDs, Office supplies, video games, and books.
Shashdot has also announced that it will start an awareness campaign of its own that has the experts puzzled. Robert Potter of NetCraft says "I dont understand how the hot grits, levis, and slashdot could be so big, this was totally off our radar! totally!"
1991 - 2004:
Wolf1, Wolf2, Doom1, Doom2, Quake1, Quake2, Quake3, Wolf3, Doom3, Quake4, Wolf4... Doom4?
Starting to see a trend here?...
Come on id, where is Commander Keen 7?
This interview was especially interesting, and I'm usually one to read a hardware review over a CEO interview any day. Its amazing to see how dells business has grown and spread out over the last few years. I think they're corporate image and branding have had a lot to do with it.
When I think "HP" the first thing that comes to mind is "Printers". When I think "HP PCs" the first thing that comes to mind is "junk". Now when I think of dell I think of a reputable company, I think of laptops, desktops, servers, handhelds, printers. I think of solid machines that work very well, last a long time, and are a plesure to work ok (I love the screwless entry and layout of the Deminsion Desktops). My great experience with dell desktops and servers makes dell a good choice for a pocket pc or printer in my view.
My company primaraly buys dell. We have a Dell NT4 server thats been in the company for 7 years now and its still ticking. Its not as easy to get inside of as the desktop workstations but I've actually never had to open it up to replace anything. We had a different CEO a few years ago that was a Gateway fanboy. A couple of gateway laptops were ordered but have since broken down. The feeling around the office when it comes to hardware is, "just go to dell". I know it seems like the "nobody ever got fired for buying microsoft" thing but the bad experiences with gateway and the solid ones with dell have really impacted our thinking when it comes to hardware
I thought the "Tell Dell" part of the interview was especially interesting. Twice a year dell gives the employees a way to speak their mind about their boss and it directly effects their bonus, and this goes all the way to the top. I think that is a wonderful way to give employees a sense of belonging. It gives lets them know that they have a say in the way the company operates. The company I work for does employee performance reviews twice a year. Its like the same thing dell does but the other way around. Now considering the fact that my company is small in comparison (100-150 employees) I'm not sure something like "tell dell" would work in my company. There are tons of things I could say about how my CIO "doesnt get it" (but then again I'm thinking like an engineer not a manager), but saying them on paper and turning that in to my boss is a completely different story.
Does anyone else hear work for a company that does performance reviews, or boss reviews? I'd like to hear some testimony, and this has really intreged me so I'm wondering if something like this would work in a small company like the one I work for.
Slashdot needs spellcheck. Maybe I should get that firebird spellcheck extension
CSM check out Visualizing Project Management and Communicating Project Management. Their process models are truly first class.
I just recently "saved" a pair of 22" HP monitors from "recycling" at work. Now I'm surfing slashdot at 3200x1200. I cant wait until management decides to recycle the 19" LCDs
But Gartner research just confirmed that BSD is dieing.
IE6 released December 2002. Then SP 1 6 months later. Its only been a year since the last update if you dont count hotfixes. Maybe MSDN should offer nightly builds ;)
Now if I can only convince my boss to get a set of these for pair programming. That would rock. I can imagine myself now Xtreme programing on windows Xp working with directX making a game for the Xbox about the X-men with my X-Girlfriend. Then I'll release it for free and register a website for it, how about X.org! Oh... uh, Wait...
Back to reality, this thing wont be out for windows until Longhorn (2006,7,25), and by then it will be called Windows XXL. I think I better stick to my mac os X, making wallpapers of CowboyNealiX from ST:Voyager.
Anyone else read it,
(Apple, Mozilla, and Opera) could add up to a potentially new kind of application development and deployment that Iexplore
Ok, its official, I'm a nerd. go moz.
Can I get a second opinion on this. I've been really weary on installing anti-spyware. The only 2 programs I trust are Ad-aware and Spybot Search & Destroy (And half the time the users I point to it find something posing at it that actually contains more spyware). Anyone else use this program, I'm looking to build up my toolkit (read thumb drive inoculizer ;)
Anyway, looks like its going to be another fun weekend for us sysadmins
How do we expect to be able to say YES to "Will my windows application work under linux" when we cant say 100% YES to "Will my windows application from 1995 work on windows XP?"
A) Delete the spam.
B) Install a popup blocker. or
C) Stop installing every "FREE" weather bug utility when you've got a frickin window office.
Then again, I just spent 5 minutes reading and writing on slashdot about my problem with clueless users. The point is, spam or no spam, people are going to bitch about something or another.
True story...
...
Me: So what did you get for Christmas last year?
Friend: My uncle gave me a copy of Red Hat 7.
Me: Ohh, sorry man.
Friend: Yeah, sucks. might as well have gotten a gift card with ftp.linuxdistrohere.com
Me: Its the thought that counts, right?
Friend: Guess so...
Me: So what did you get him?
Friend: Free Pepsi music download.....
Me: Word.
Good luck to Sub500.com.
The one thing that disappoints me is that they're letting quake 4 be developed on the doom 3 engine. :-(
Wolf & Wolf 2 - Same engine
Doom & Doom 2 - Same engine
Quake & Quake 2 - Same engine (well, sorta)
Quake 3 & Wolf 3 - same engine
Doom 3 & Quake 4 - same engine
Whats next, Wolf 4 and Doom 4 on the same engine in 4 years?
Starting to see a trend? It seems like once they got ot quake 2 they could have made a new engine and done wolf 3 and doom 3 on it, then have a new engine this summer for quake 3, but they kept going with quake's success.
Just be glad its not commander keen.
Wolfenstein 3D :: Wolf3d Engine
Wolfenstein 3D 2 (Spear of Destiny) :: Wolf3d Engine
Doom :: Doom Engine
Doom 2 :: Doom Engine
Quake :: Quake Engine
Quake 2 :: Quiake Engine (beef'd up)
Quake 3 :: Quake 3 Engine
Return to Castle Wolfenstein :: Quake 3 Engine (Beef'd up)
Doom 3 :: Doom 3 Engine ...
...
So now we've got 3 Wolfensteins, 3 Quakes, and 3 Dooms. Each of which has an original and a sequal on the same engine, and a third on new engine, which gets recycled to make the next game.
Whats coming next?...
Quake 4 :: Doom 3 Engine (prolly?)
Then what, Wolf 4, Doom 4.... I'm all for new and shiny, but at some point id needs to come up with something fresh. Their last new series was 8 years ago.
Thank you for the advice. I will keep port 587 AUTH only. I have never let my mail server become an open relay and never intend to. I agree, I am a newbie at administrating mail servers. I used to do web-dev work for this company but since were pretty small and the CIO decided to host our own mail I was given the task of setting up exchange. I'm fluent with server 2003, exchange, sql, sharepoint, office, etc. No, I'm not an MCSE paper monkey, yes I've been coding since I was 11 on my PC-XT, but your right, Im new at this and I need to get with the program. Instead of bashing me (unless I'm reading it wrong), could you refer me to said program. My experiences have only been within the Exchange realm and not the bigger picture of the internet.
Thank you very much in advance. I look forward to delving into whatever you point me at. I'm open minded.
War Dialing was cool
War Driving was nostalgic
War Flying was cute
War Biking, Skateboarding, Parasailing, Hang-gliding, sky-diving, monster-truck driving, walking, chalking, talking, and even steven hawking were just kind of uninteresting.
Now if a soldier in Iraq wants to mount an iPaq, Solar panel, GPS, and WiFi card on his helmet and call it War-War'ing, that *might* be cool enough to come full circle and be sweet again.
Until then, its off to Defcon and try to get a twentyseventhousandmillion mile 802.11b signal going.
Ok, I just read RFC 2476, Looks like R. Gellens and J. Klensin beat me to that great idea by 6 years. Thanks for clueing me in. I'm wondering to myself how the hell I would ever have found that out, I'm not one to read random RFC's. Linkies?
Yes but in our experiences (well, theirs, before I was onboard), VPNs were not supported by many of the ISPs that our telecommuting employees worked from. What has you experiences been in that regard?