BIG nod here. I've got a T68i, and it's worthless as a phone. I just use it to give my PDA and laptops internet access. If I need to make a call, I'll walk a few blocks to the nearest payphone rather than use the T68i in my pocket.
This is also with AT&T. I'm told TMobile in the US and the European carriers are much better.
If I've got a vulnerable service running on on of my systems, I'd rather know about it right away so I can make the decision as to whether I want to keep it running or temporarily deploy an alternate service.
I liked the handling of ssh's problems last year much better. "Heads up, there's a problem in these versions. We'll let you know exactly what after we get the patch out." It's not enough to give a hacker a reasonable foot up, but it gets the service off the network should anyone already be quietly taking advantage of the weakness.
Ever have your drives dynamically renumbered out from beneath your vfstab? Try it some time
Correct me if I'm wrong, but with Linux you get this when you reboot with any change in your SCSI drives and with USB and IDE drives pretending to be SCSI drives.
Many of the BSDs do this in the background unless told not to, always reading/writing forward to the next logical sector in the queue, then skipping all the way back to the earliest sector in the queue when there are no more later sectors available before a sync barrier. If you don't turn around and operate backwards, you don't have to worry about the logical versus physical arrangement. I don't know what Linux does, but I'll guess it's got similar.
By the way, do remember that drives don't actually have so many heads as you see in the bios. The values the BIOS reports rarely have anything to do with the real hardware anymore. This is just left over from the days when you had relatively low track limits, and so drives would lie, doubling or quadrupling heads and cutting track counts in half or quarter.
I've been looking at this. Unfortunately, they only have Windows drivers, and I can't find any reference to Linux support. I'd hate to have to set up a Windows notebook just for 'net use.
Supposedly the Sprint PCS Vision Merlin card looks like a generic LAN card to the OS and requires no special drivers, but still has a Sprint app for establishing the connection. I'd love to hear if someone knows more about that or the others under Linux.
Barring any good info on that, the Sony 608 is being announced by SprintPCS Tuesday, and it's got Bluetooth GPRS modem support like the T68i. No word from Sprint on whether you're allowed to use that, or if the Sprint PCS Vision service is restricted to the phone browser for that as it is with the other Sprint phones. Here's hoping.
There's support for DVI flat panels now so long as you POST on that head, as well as real acceleration on all the modern nvidia cards. Looks like no more grabbing and rebuilding the non-free kernel-invasive nvidia stuff.:)
Safari could be so much more useful if it'd focus more on acting like an electronic book and less like acting like a website.
Could we please please please have a way of freely adjusting the font size when reading Safari books?
Please please please? I'm sure these are the webmasters' favorites, but they're not in line with other sites, so we have to adjust our fonts on visiting and leaving Safari.
And could we please please please have a way of reading just the book, no banners, side columns, etc... just the content? I know you can collapse the side content, but that saves vertical space where horizontal space is the problem.
Safari's layout sucks extra bandwidth and is pretty painful to navigate on a wireless PDA or a small tablet, where both the metered bandwidth and the small display space are at a premium. This kills all the joy of Safari for those of us who like to read electronic books on the bus and in bed.
MS Reader does a lot of things well. The bookmarking is one such thing. The bookmarks are tied to a word, not a line or a page. You can adjust font sizes or other options which will affect the layout, and your bookmarks are still good.
The layout is attractive and natural, with ample margins, and no scrollbars or other such interruptions. The menus are all brought up by clicking on unobtrusive text at the top of the screen.
MS Reader also allows plugins which can be activated on selecting a word, changing pages, etc. The three I've seen are a dictionary, a translation utility and a verbal reader.
MS Reader uses.LIT files, which are pretty much just bundled and compressed HTML. It would be nice to see a similar open source book format.
If they provide this, then you can make a game that boots from Linux and sell games where MS gets no part of the royalty. That's why MS wouldn't want this.
Okay, but there are a total of zero certified general purpose Bluetooth adapters, for example, and MS hasn't even got a certification program for it, despite the devices having been available for some time now. To even implement Bluetooth, you have to make all kinds of guesses about the NT kernel's internal workings.
The only Bluetooth device with partial WHQL certification is MS' own dongle for their wireless keyboard and mouse, and its restriction to keyboard and mouse is completely arbitrary.
Why not put enough mouse buttons on the thing in the first place? Even most Mac OS X users replace the single-button mouse with a triple.
I don't know about you, but I don't relish the idea of an external mouse most places you'd use a laptop. "Hey, could you drop down your beverage tray? I'm out of space, and I need to mouse..." "Damnit, why do they always build these presentation podiums at an angle!?" "Hold on, driver! Hold the bus! I've got to wind up my mouse!" "Why does cafeteria/Starbucks grime always make the mouse skip?"
"One mouse button ought to be enough for anybody." -- Steve Jobs
Ask me how far up the list baiting girls with my Linux laptop falls on the list of feature considerations. I'll give up that feature not to have to sacrifice a dedicated meta key if I want to paste with gpm.
When they stick enough mouse buttons on the thing, then I'll care if it's shiny.
Why the hell can't apple make a three button laptop? Make it a $20 option, or stick a single cover over the three buttons and let folks pry it off if they want three buttons. Even when using OS X, one button is obnoxious.
And yes, I know I can plug an external mouse in. No, I'm not willing to do that on a plane, at the bus stop, or on a presentation podium, and I promise you that extra peripherals hanging off detract from Edmo's believed girl magnet factor.
If I were to purchase one for use with one network provider, what information do I need to get in hand to ensure that they don't lock it to their service? It's my understanding that many of the newer units work on multiple networks, so long as you retain one of the codes used when they configure the phone.
At this price, I'd want to ensure that the phone's sale was contingent on my getting that code. I don't think many cellular resellers would hold back on that if it makes the difference of their getting a commission or not.
I'd have been happier to grab one of the old arcade cabinets. They had 'em running FreeBSD and Linux. A certain Midway arcade title you may well know and love was based on one of the two!
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This is also with AT&T. I'm told TMobile in the US and the European carriers are much better.
I liked the handling of ssh's problems last year much better. "Heads up, there's a problem in these versions. We'll let you know exactly what after we get the patch out." It's not enough to give a hacker a reasonable foot up, but it gets the service off the network should anyone already be quietly taking advantage of the weakness.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but with Linux you get this when you reboot with any change in your SCSI drives and with USB and IDE drives pretending to be SCSI drives.
Is there a standard trick to deal with this?
By the way, do remember that drives don't actually have so many heads as you see in the bios. The values the BIOS reports rarely have anything to do with the real hardware anymore. This is just left over from the days when you had relatively low track limits, and so drives would lie, doubling or quadrupling heads and cutting track counts in half or quarter.
Supposedly the Sprint PCS Vision Merlin card looks like a generic LAN card to the OS and requires no special drivers, but still has a Sprint app for establishing the connection. I'd love to hear if someone knows more about that or the others under Linux.
Barring any good info on that, the Sony 608 is being announced by SprintPCS Tuesday, and it's got Bluetooth GPRS modem support like the T68i. No word from Sprint on whether you're allowed to use that, or if the Sprint PCS Vision service is restricted to the phone browser for that as it is with the other Sprint phones. Here's hoping.
Why fork?
Are there features going into CinePaint that aren't valid for GIMP? And the other way around?
It seems like both projects might benefit by staying more tightly coupled.
There's support for DVI flat panels now so long as you POST on that head, as well as real acceleration on all the modern nvidia cards. Looks like no more grabbing and rebuilding the non-free kernel-invasive nvidia stuff. :)
Keep up the great work, guys.
It's not so easy and requires a page reload on each page with ThunderHawk, which is unfortunately the only usable PocketPC browser. Ugh!
Could we please please please have a way of freely adjusting the font size when reading Safari books?
Please please please? I'm sure these are the webmasters' favorites, but they're not in line with other sites, so we have to adjust our fonts on visiting and leaving Safari.
And could we please please please have a way of reading just the book, no banners, side columns, etc... just the content? I know you can collapse the side content, but that saves vertical space where horizontal space is the problem.
Safari's layout sucks extra bandwidth and is pretty painful to navigate on a wireless PDA or a small tablet, where both the metered bandwidth and the small display space are at a premium. This kills all the joy of Safari for those of us who like to read electronic books on the bus and in bed.
You can read the group nicely formatted at mcgroarty.net/inkfeed. Each includes a link to the site it comes from underneath the article.
Konqueror just got better Javascript debugging. It's in CVS now and it's slated to be part of 3.2. I wonder if Apple will pick this up sooner?
If memory serves, the reset switch stopped programs and was non-destructive.
The layout is attractive and natural, with ample margins, and no scrollbars or other such interruptions. The menus are all brought up by clicking on unobtrusive text at the top of the screen.
MS Reader also allows plugins which can be activated on selecting a word, changing pages, etc. The three I've seen are a dictionary, a translation utility and a verbal reader.
MS Reader uses .LIT files, which are pretty much just bundled and compressed HTML. It would be nice to see a similar open source book format.
If they provide this, then you can make a game that boots from Linux and sell games where MS gets no part of the royalty. That's why MS wouldn't want this.
The only Bluetooth device with partial WHQL certification is MS' own dongle for their wireless keyboard and mouse, and its restriction to keyboard and mouse is completely arbitrary.
Why not put enough mouse buttons on the thing in the first place? Even most Mac OS X users replace the single-button mouse with a triple.
I don't know about you, but I don't relish the idea of an external mouse most places you'd use a laptop. "Hey, could you drop down your beverage tray? I'm out of space, and I need to mouse..." "Damnit, why do they always build these presentation podiums at an angle!?" "Hold on, driver! Hold the bus! I've got to wind up my mouse!" "Why does cafeteria/Starbucks grime always make the mouse skip?"
"One mouse button ought to be enough for anybody." -- Steve Jobs
When they stick enough mouse buttons on the thing, then I'll care if it's shiny.
Why the hell can't apple make a three button laptop? Make it a $20 option, or stick a single cover over the three buttons and let folks pry it off if they want three buttons. Even when using OS X, one button is obnoxious.
And yes, I know I can plug an external mouse in. No, I'm not willing to do that on a plane, at the bus stop, or on a presentation podium, and I promise you that extra peripherals hanging off detract from Edmo's believed girl magnet factor.
I can't find any indication that you can actually buy the AntelopeTech device.
If I were to purchase one for use with one network provider, what information do I need to get in hand to ensure that they don't lock it to their service? It's my understanding that many of the newer units work on multiple networks, so long as you retain one of the codes used when they configure the phone.
At this price, I'd want to ensure that the phone's sale was contingent on my getting that code. I don't think many cellular resellers would hold back on that if it makes the difference of their getting a commission or not.
Have you seen LCDs which respond quickly when it's cold? It's a very, very clever idea. But I don't think it's fit for outdoors!
(Hint: hex math.)
Yes. We get hungry for squirrel chili about 18 days sooner 'round here.
Raise your hand if you're paying $3,200 a month for a single processor, please. No? Somebody needs to double-check their estimate. :-)
I'd have been happier to grab one of the old arcade cabinets. They had 'em running FreeBSD and Linux. A certain Midway arcade title you may well know and love was based on one of the two!