AMIDiag from American Megatrends has been around for a long time. It has Windows and DOS versions. The DOS version will run on DRDOS. I used to use it when I was building servers for a former employer.
I have been using the Homebase Anywhere service from Axentra Corporation. They provide IMAP and webmail, 100 megs of web and storage space and your own portal page with webdav access. Photo albums are automatically generated by uploading photos and description files to your "Photos" directory. Other features include compatibility with Mozilla calendar, an LDAP capable address book, and an online web page generator. There is a free 60 day trial. Axentra also sells the Rumba Multifunction Server Appliance, which is a mini-ITX and Linux based internet gateway server which has all of the features of Homebase Anywhere.
I can pick up my telephone and call any other telephone on the planet, if I know the number, including those on competing telephone services. In Canada, the wireless phone services signed an agreement to allow their subscribers to access to all wireless internet hot spots no matter which provider owns it. The value of a communications service is proportional to the number of people you can communicate with. Why can't these competing IM services interconnect with one another like the telephone services do?
>It would be, except that they're still distributing said product.
The Linux kernel doesn't seem to be currently in the list of packages on that server.
From a story here: "Gibson's MaGIC -- short for Media-accelerated Global Information Carrier -- makes standard Cat-5 Ethernet cable act like a super cable, capable of carrying up to 32 channels of 32-bit, 48 kHz uncompressed digital sound in both directions (64 channels total), with a control stream 100 times as powerful as MIDI over a single wire. It eliminates latency and jitter, allowing professional real-time sync of hundreds of instruments and devices (250 us point-to-point latency over 100 meters)."
No you can't. It is only available in two proprietary formats that cannot be used unless you spend a lot of money on a proprietary, closed source, non-free operating system.
But when are you going to fix the bug that causes browsers on exported X displays to crash (see Mozilla bugzilla #58937). This is really an annoying bug, since many sites have taken to showing flash advertisements. They cause the browser to crash every time, and affects all browsers on Linux.
>I've never seen flash crash my browser. It seems >pretty stable on the 24hr a day information kiosks >and set-top boxes I've used it on too.
Mozilla bug 58937 - Flash crashes with exported X display. Actually a bug in Flash plugin not Mozilla.
CBC Radio had a program called "Schoolyard Bullies" available at http://radio.cbc.ca/programs/thismorning/sites/hea lth/bullies_001214/bullies_001214.html.
Also, CBC TV's The National had a program called "Bullies" viewable at http://cbc.ca/national/news/bully/.
There are a lot of links to related resources on these two sites, such as http://www.bullying.org and others.
I clicked on the Bluetooth link and got this: Microsoft VBScript runtime error '800a000d' Type mismatch: 'CInt'/browser_check.asp, line 7 Not too encouraging.
Having an open source codec is only half the battle. If the program that you are interested in is only available in a proprietary format on an OS you prefer not to use, you are sol, no matter how good a competing codec may be. I already stopped listening to one radio program that I could only get online, because it switched from Realaudio to a Microsoft only format. The open source codec has to be sufficiently superior to entice content providers to use it in place of or in addition to the proprietary ones. Otherwise, it is the operating system wars all over again. Having a superior OS on your computer does you no good if the program you want/need to run is only available for the inferior but dominant one. The same thing for streaming video content.
I still spend more time in OS/2 than Linux. I like Linux, but I get frustrated that I can't drag things with the right mouse button. Linux developers seem intent on reproducing Windows way of doing things instead of the "proper" way that OS/2 uses. Maybe in 5 years, Linux will have an object oriented interface as good as the Workplace Shell with Stardock's Object Desktop. That said, I would probably spend more time in Linux if there were an X mail client as good as PMMail, a newsreader as good as Emtec News and an FTP client as good as Emtec FTP. I paid good money for those! The mail client is the most important. It's sad that IBM will not let Stardock market an updated OS/2 client, but we've known for years that IBM doesn't give a damn about us long time OS/2 end users. I know that Linux is bound to become my main OS because of this, but it is so hard to give up the WPS. So many good ideas get lost by the wayside because of proprietary software.
I heard the fellow interviewed on CBC Radio'sAs It Happens program. He said that he already had a modern pc, but that he used the Altair for a lot of boilerplate legal forms that would have taken him too much time to convert to a modern program. Since the Altair was working satisfactorily, there was no reason to take the trouble to port the stuff over. With this new computer from Dell, he says he now has too many computers.
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AMIDiag from American Megatrends has been around for a long time. It has Windows and DOS versions. The DOS version will run on DRDOS. I used to use it when I was building servers for a former employer.
I have been using the Homebase Anywhere service from Axentra Corporation. They provide IMAP and webmail, 100 megs of web and storage space and your own portal page with webdav access. Photo albums are automatically generated by uploading photos and description files to your "Photos" directory. Other features include compatibility with Mozilla calendar, an LDAP capable address book, and an online web page generator. There is a free 60 day trial. Axentra also sells the Rumba Multifunction Server Appliance, which is a mini-ITX and Linux based internet gateway server which has all of the features of Homebase Anywhere.
Uhh . . . the page renders as a blank.
The news article that you linked to has a link to imunified.org. Clicking on it gets this: The registration for IMUNIFIED.ORG has expired.
I can pick up my telephone and call any other telephone on the planet, if I know the number, including those on competing telephone services. In Canada, the wireless phone services signed an agreement to allow their subscribers to access to all wireless internet hot spots no matter which provider owns it. The value of a communications service is proportional to the number of people you can communicate with. Why can't these competing IM services interconnect with one another like the telephone services do?
SciTech provides commercial video drivers for linux. Has any one tried them? How do they compare to the open source or vendor supplied drivers?
>It would be, except that they're still distributing said product. The Linux kernel doesn't seem to be currently in the list of packages on that server.
Space: The Imagination Station in Canada is running the finale next week.
Actually, one of the panel members at the panel discussion, was Jim Handman, Senior Producer of Quirks and Quarks.
From a story here: "Gibson's MaGIC -- short for Media-accelerated Global Information Carrier -- makes standard Cat-5 Ethernet cable act like a super cable, capable of carrying up to 32 channels of 32-bit, 48 kHz uncompressed digital sound in both directions (64 channels total), with a control stream 100 times as powerful as MIDI over a single wire. It eliminates latency and jitter, allowing professional real-time sync of hundreds of instruments and devices (250 us point-to-point latency over 100 meters)."
I tried to find the 5500 in the stores, but was told that it was unavailable in Canada. I wonder if Sharp Canada will carry the 5600.
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No you can't. It is only available in two proprietary formats that cannot be used unless you spend a lot of money on a proprietary, closed source, non-free operating system.
Actually, the page just forwards to http://www.redmap.net/, which seems to be Mozilla friendly.
I tried to run it on Mandrake 9.0 RC3, but it segfaults after doing the first track.
The Kitchener/Waterloo newspaper, The Record, has as the headline today (Aug 17) UW, Microsoft deal under fire. This Slashdot discussion is mentioned.
But when are you going to fix the bug that causes browsers on exported X displays to crash (see Mozilla bugzilla #58937). This is really an annoying bug, since many sites have taken to showing flash advertisements. They cause the browser to crash every time, and affects all browsers on Linux.
>I've never seen flash crash my browser. It seems >pretty stable on the 24hr a day information kiosks >and set-top boxes I've used it on too. Mozilla bug 58937 - Flash crashes with exported X display. Actually a bug in Flash plugin not Mozilla.
Looks OK to me with Mozilla 0.9.6. It uses Flash, though. Many web designers who use Flash neglect to provide an alternate non-Flash page.
CBC Radio had a program called "Schoolyard Bullies" available at http://radio.cbc.ca/programs/thismorning/sites/hea lth/bullies_001214/bullies_001214.html.
Also, CBC TV's The National had a program called "Bullies" viewable at http://cbc.ca/national/news/bully/.
There are a lot of links to related resources on these two sites, such as http://www.bullying.org and others.
I clicked on the Bluetooth link and got this: Microsoft VBScript runtime error '800a000d' Type mismatch: 'CInt' /browser_check.asp, line 7 Not too encouraging.
Having an open source codec is only half the battle. If the program that you are interested in is only available in a proprietary format on an OS you prefer not to use, you are sol, no matter how good a competing codec may be. I already stopped listening to one radio program that I could only get online, because it switched from Realaudio to a Microsoft only format. The open source codec has to be sufficiently superior to entice content providers to use it in place of or in addition to the proprietary ones. Otherwise, it is the operating system wars all over again. Having a superior OS on your computer does you no good if the program you want/need to run is only available for the inferior but dominant one. The same thing for streaming video content.
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I still spend more time in OS/2 than Linux. I like Linux, but I get frustrated that I can't drag things with the right mouse button. Linux developers seem intent on reproducing Windows way of doing things instead of the "proper" way that OS/2 uses. Maybe in 5 years, Linux will have an object oriented interface as good as the Workplace Shell with Stardock's Object Desktop. That said, I would probably spend more time in Linux if there were an X mail client as good as PMMail, a newsreader as good as Emtec News and an FTP client as good as Emtec FTP. I paid good money for those! The mail client is the most important. It's sad that IBM will not let Stardock market an updated OS/2 client, but we've known for years that IBM doesn't give a damn about us long time OS/2 end users. I know that Linux is bound to become my main OS because of this, but it is so hard to give up the WPS. So many good ideas get lost by the wayside because of proprietary software.
I heard the fellow interviewed on CBC Radio's As It Happens program. He said that he already had a modern pc, but that he used the Altair for a lot of boilerplate legal forms that would have taken him too much time to convert to a modern program. Since the Altair was working satisfactorily, there was no reason to take the trouble to port the stuff over. With this new computer from Dell, he says he now has too many computers.