I'd have modded you as interesting for that posting - I didn't know of this system, I'm interested to learn about it and it's really cool that you can get chipsets that support both it & GPS - but I've already posted in this thread.
...Oh! I nearly forgot...reading the link you provide states that the Russian system is accurate to 70 metres, which is plenty less than GPS, nevermind the proposed Galileo. That's why I didn't mod you as informative. It was close tho'.
The United States is unlikely to change or shut down GPS... We could even invade and take control.... The only thing is we just don't do crazy things like that (shame on the first person to replay using Iraq as an example)
Yeah, shame on anyone who easily refutes you. It'd be much harder than that if you were a peace-loving nation.
I'm not aware of too many things, I know what I know, if you know what I mean...
Ok... really off-topic here.... but I associate that lyric with Suzanne Vega... but for the life of me my searches are not returning a song or album title under which she might have recorded it. only Edie Brickell. Can anyone help me out here?
Damn, I hope no-one says anything insightful or stupid in this thread... I have mod points & I'm itching to use 'em.
I'm not a serious photographer, but I like to think that I have a modicum of a clue. Years ago when I got my SLR the manual talked about the position of your arms when holding the camera, in order to keep it steady; with a traditional SLR, for instance, one's right hand is close to one's eye pressing the button, so it's best to tuck the right elbow against your body so that there's less movement when you close the shutter.
Fast forward to the twenty-first century and I've been using a crappy digital Kodak one megapixel for a couple of years & decide to upgrade to a snazzy 4 or 5 megapixel Olympus MjuMini. I consistently get WORSE & more blurry pictureswith the new camera.
For those of you not familiar with these two cameras the crappy Kodak, as well as its LCD screen, has a little viewfinder which you frame up with; you may be able to frame the picture using the LCD, but I've never done so. The MjuMini, on the other hand, is about half the size and has no space at all for a viewfinder - you HAVE to frame the shot by holding it a couple of feet from your face, so that when you press the shutter the movement is transferred directly to the camera, with nothing to steady it. It seems extremely difficult to hold a camera really still when it's two feet away from your face, and I'm getting some really crappy shots with it, indoor, at least (most of my photos are for ebay, or posting a photo of a connector for a technical discussion).
It seems to me that this Sony really isn't solving a significant problem in previewing images.
So far, no one has found a road-and wheel combination in which the road has the same shape as the wheel. That's an intriguing challenge for mathematicians.
but this seems to me to be most obviously untrue. A conventional road has the same cross-section as the planet it's built on... so a hypothetical flat road encircling the globe is as near as damnit circular. Now what shape are wheels? An intriguing challenge for mathematicians and bloggers, perhaps.
It's certainly based on Linux, and is mentioned on at least one of the NSLU2 enthusiast websites. A customer of mine chose the EFG because it's a single box, and that appeared neater, but it's actually quite a chunky-sized box and its fan produces a surprising amount of noise. My customer chose to spend about £100 more on their EFG than they would have done on a NSLU and two USB drives, but they end up often turning it off because of the noise. As long as they remember most days to turn it on for their scheduled backup then that's fine & dandy, but I suspect they don't - I kinda think they would have done better with the NSLU.
[I can knock this up for a third of the price using cheap commodity components] which shows just how much too much they are charging for the above products.
"How much too much" is a very subjective figure. Considering research & development and the actual cost of your time setting up your home-brew solution the extra they're charging isn't even all profit. Account for the fact that Apple & Promise have to make a profit - it's not worth running a business if you don't - the "intangible" value of buying a off-the-shelf system, supported by a big name manufacturer suddenlly looks less costly on the pocket. And the value of something - whilst still subjective - should not be confused with its price.
Personally, one of the things I find to stand out about the Promise is that not just the power-supplies but also the drives are hot-swappable. I don't think your solution offers this (?) and although it's probably not important to Joe Photographer that sort of quality is a big selling point in my book.
I've just specced up a server for a small business client of mine... they have 7 desktops at the moment, perhaps growing to 10 within a year or two (nature of the business is such that they couldn't possibly have more than 15 or 20 staff). Buying a new server from Dell in order to run their new database software on I just specc'd up redundant everything - hot-swap PSUs & scsi drives, dual-proc Xeons... for this it actually only costs a few hundred quid more than a low-end server (MS licensing is a bigger cost) and I figure it'll pay for itself should they ever need it. I figured a high-end server like this allows for some "future proofing".
The question is: since Dell only supply Intel processors, will this machine be supported by the future MS releases? Are Xeons these days EMT64 capable?
... with this development coming up I can see Linux kill another Unix. Although, I have to say, Apple developers work miracles on OS X, so I can also see OS X not getting killed by Linux.
It's the intoxicants that are causing you to see double.
Probably a very deep basement directly under the Parliment building with tunnels to the same under 10 Downing St and Windsor castle
You must be an American around here. It's about 20 miles from Windsor Castle to Downing Street, which would be a bit more than 4 minutes travelling time, especially at rush hour. I think you mean Buckingham Palace - confusingly that isn't in Buckingham.
Hula (another Novell incubator project) is innovative. Hula implements integrated open standards based calendaring, scheduling, email etc.
May I ask how this is different from the open standards of iCal? I'm sure this isn't simply a case of "so many standards to choose from", so I'd be interested to hear more. I'd truly like to see an open alternative to Exchange & Outlook, but I suspect that success depends on many factors, with technical qualities being only one item on the list.
The Office of Secretary of State in most U.S. States is usually a constitutional officer under that state's constitution
Well that was clear! So he's an elected official? I can understand that their office would have a lot of independence, especially in the US. In the UK Members of Parliament have an autonomous budget for only one or two secretarial staff - all other staff in the government are civil servants and subject to civil service management & guidelines. (Well, that's traditionally the case, anyway - in these days of spin-doctoring I wonder how many are politically-affiliated "consultants" paid for miscellaneously?)
I've read the Betanews & Boston Globe articles, and really can't make any sense of them. My understanding was that the Massachusetts state government was planning to switch to the OpenDocument format, yet here's this William F. Galvin saying "we will not be participating". Is Galvin not part of the Massachusetts state government? Could someone clarify for the benefit of someone not familiar with the US political system.
The FUSE page you link to already lists (on its "Filesystems based on FUSE" page) Wayback which sounds exactly as you describe.
The project page doesn't give any details of how you access previous versions of files, but:
Wayback is an implementation of a versioning file system for Linux. This means that when you use a Wayback file system, old versions of files are never lost. No matter how much you change a file or directory, everything is always kept in a versioning file so that you never lose important data. Wayback provides the ability to remount any already mounted file system with versioning support under a different directory. Because of this, you can use Wayback on any block device with any base file system (ext3, ReiserFS, FAT, etc).
At least that's what Google AdWords keeps telling me. By a curious coincidence with this article I got an email from them today, saying I'm not allowed to use that term when describing the quality of the Linux-support for the ADSL modems that I sell.
I believe that I applied for an exemption for this term when I originally set up the ad with AdWords, but it's been running for months quite happily without bothering anyone.
When I Google for "enterprise-level" I (of course) get loads of hits discussing enterprise-ready email, whether Linux is enterprise-ready, firewalls & stuff, but I see the only advertiser is Enterprise Rent-A-Car UK. That makes me extremely tempted to trademark the term in the context of ADSL modems & then file a complaint about the Ford-pimping bastards. At least that way I might get a dialogue going with Google - as it is I confidently expect any complaints or protests about the matter to be ignored or get auto-responses; if I create a new advert with the words it gets suspended within half an hour.
If there's anyone reading this who works at Google then I'd be extremely grateful if you could have a little word with your censorship department for me, or give me a direct email address for them. Having an advert claiming "Outstanding Linux-support" simply doesn't satisfy me the way "Enterprise-level Linux support" does. And hey! Linux is a trademark, so I guess they'll be censoring that next week!!
Thank you for ignoring this rant. Please moderate it "funny" because i surely won't be so miffed at Google next week.
My wireless card wasn't detected. Doesn't matter what distro, it doesn't work out of the box - I need ndiswrapper and custom setup. Not bitching about that, but Ubuntu didn't magically make it happen.
Buy a card with open-source drivers, then. If you're prepared to buy hardware from manufacturers who only support Windows then it's not the least bit remarkable that stuff doesn't automagically happen.
I guess we've gotten used to the majority of soundcards & wired Ethernet cards working out of the box, but wireless - like current graphics cards - is another matter. It's really hard to reverse-engineer drivers when the manufacturer won't even talk to you.
Ralink have GPL'd the drivers they wrote for their RT2x00 chipset & released documentation to OpenBSD, resulting in very active community support for these cards. The drivers weren't in Ubuntu last time I checked (I suspect they'll be in this release) but I do know that Mandrake (10.2 & Limited Edition) recognises Ralink wireless cards out of the box.
DISCLOSURE: I'm employed by the vendor linked to in this comment.
Who says your interceptor has to be stationary? Just drive slow on the interstate until a potentially interesting conversation passes you, then you keep pace
Yeah, this could be the technology that actually makes long car journeys with geeks interesting!
And to the grandparent - I don't know where you live, but here in the UK you see every idiot walking around wearing an expensive bluetooth headset. I think it's a prestige thing - look I have £50 to spend on looking like a cheap, stupid cyborg!
Hey, anyone remember the last bunch of people to mess with the calendar?
Withouth bothering to follow the link, I'd guess that'd be the Committee for Public Safety, yes?
If you weren't too lazy to follow the link, you'd see these Roman dudes Julius and Augustus mentioned. Apparently they named some summer months after those guys, or something, but let's not let fact get in the way of alarmism here on Slashdot.
I've just had a look at this blog, and why would anyone bother? It's self referential, a little self indulgent, and there's nothing either interesting or insightful on the front page.
Perhaps a regular reader could tell me - is it usually better than this?
If you read a bit more, it turns out that the site linked to is only one of about a dozen blogs he writes, and he claims to make very little off that one.
He states that some, but not all, of his other blogs are mentioned in his archives, and indeed I managed to find that his best earner is a digital camera review blog, yet another one for laptop reviews earns him less. Both those sites looked pretty similar to me - essentially each article seemed to be a photo, a link to a real review site, a 2 line summary and a couple of paragraphs quoted from TFA - but the camera site seemed to have good layout and relevant, tasteful ads.
He also stated in one blog article that of the dozen sites, only a couple earn him any money so he was considering killing off or selling off the others but that his dilemma is to hold on & see if they take off in the future.
What I find really interesting is that he spends 8 to 12 hours a day maintaining his sites. Essentially this story isn't about a one-man blogger getting paid a fortune for his insights on his favourite subject - he's effectively a one-man publishing business, and the article is about how the internet has empowered him to succeed.
A six-figure salary is pretty good considering that, but I'll pass, thanks. I'd rather be lazy and poor.
I personally don't like the fact that his most successful has little of its own content - his business model seems to be based on aggregating other sites' information and (presumably) doing that research actively enough to get it on his site whilst it's still newsworthy to his readers.
Another poster earlier has expressed similar feelings, but I find it a little disappointing that Google - it's Adwords that earns him most of his money - is empowering sites with less of their own content. To me the power of the internet is that a search engine can find you reviews and forums about digital cameras if that's what you want to know about, and it seems a little wasteful that he's earning money off the back ofd the reviewers as just a middleman. But on the other hand, he's obviously doing a useful job filtering and highlighting content for people who can't find it with a search engine - we all know how clogged Google gets with portal sites, and at least this guy's putting some effort into ensuring his is relevant and interesting.
In any case, if the bloke can make a living at it then good luck to him. I can't help but thinking of the similarities to the dot com (or desktop publishing?) boom - there's no barrier to entry, so anyone can start doing the same thing and competing with him, but that's the nature of business and if it doesn't work out he can always move along and do something else.
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Damn, I hope no-one says anything insightful or stupid in this thread... I have mod points & I'm itching to use 'em.
Stroller.
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Fast forward to the twenty-first century and I've been using a crappy digital Kodak one megapixel for a couple of years & decide to upgrade to a snazzy 4 or 5 megapixel Olympus MjuMini. I consistently get WORSE & more blurry pictureswith the new camera.
For those of you not familiar with these two cameras the crappy Kodak, as well as its LCD screen, has a little viewfinder which you frame up with; you may be able to frame the picture using the LCD, but I've never done so. The MjuMini, on the other hand, is about half the size and has no space at all for a viewfinder - you HAVE to frame the shot by holding it a couple of feet from your face, so that when you press the shutter the movement is transferred directly to the camera, with nothing to steady it. It seems extremely difficult to hold a camera really still when it's two feet away from your face, and I'm getting some really crappy shots with it, indoor, at least (most of my photos are for ebay, or posting a photo of a connector for a technical discussion).
It seems to me that this Sony really isn't solving a significant problem in previewing images.
It's certainly based on Linux, and is mentioned on at least one of the NSLU2 enthusiast websites. A customer of mine chose the EFG because it's a single box, and that appeared neater, but it's actually quite a chunky-sized box and its fan produces a surprising amount of noise. My customer chose to spend about £100 more on their EFG than they would have done on a NSLU and two USB drives, but they end up often turning it off because of the noise. As long as they remember most days to turn it on for their scheduled backup then that's fine & dandy, but I suspect they don't - I kinda think they would have done better with the NSLU.
Personally, one of the things I find to stand out about the Promise is that not just the power-supplies but also the drives are hot-swappable. I don't think your solution offers this (?) and although it's probably not important to Joe Photographer that sort of quality is a big selling point in my book.
I have thanks for you for indulging my lazy inquisitiveness.
I've just specced up a server for a small business client of mine... they have 7 desktops at the moment, perhaps growing to 10 within a year or two (nature of the business is such that they couldn't possibly have more than 15 or 20 staff). Buying a new server from Dell in order to run their new database software on I just specc'd up redundant everything - hot-swap PSUs & scsi drives, dual-proc Xeons... for this it actually only costs a few hundred quid more than a low-end server (MS licensing is a bigger cost) and I figure it'll pay for itself should they ever need it. I figured a high-end server like this allows for some "future proofing".
The question is: since Dell only supply Intel processors, will this machine be supported by the future MS releases? Are Xeons these days EMT64 capable?
Stroller.
I've read the Betanews & Boston Globe articles, and really can't make any sense of them. My understanding was that the Massachusetts state government was planning to switch to the OpenDocument format, yet here's this William F. Galvin saying "we will not be participating". Is Galvin not part of the Massachusetts state government? Could someone clarify for the benefit of someone not familiar with the US political system.
The project page doesn't give any details of how you access previous versions of files, but:
I believe that I applied for an exemption for this term when I originally set up the ad with AdWords, but it's been running for months quite happily without bothering anyone.
When I Google for "enterprise-level" I (of course) get loads of hits discussing enterprise-ready email, whether Linux is enterprise-ready, firewalls & stuff, but I see the only advertiser is Enterprise Rent-A-Car UK. That makes me extremely tempted to trademark the term in the context of ADSL modems & then file a complaint about the Ford-pimping bastards. At least that way I might get a dialogue going with Google - as it is I confidently expect any complaints or protests about the matter to be ignored or get auto-responses; if I create a new advert with the words it gets suspended within half an hour.
If there's anyone reading this who works at Google then I'd be extremely grateful if you could have a little word with your censorship department for me, or give me a direct email address for them. Having an advert claiming "Outstanding Linux-support" simply doesn't satisfy me the way "Enterprise-level Linux support" does. And hey! Linux is a trademark, so I guess they'll be censoring that next week!!
Thank you for ignoring this rant. Please moderate it "funny" because i surely won't be so miffed at Google next week.
I guess we've gotten used to the majority of soundcards & wired Ethernet cards working out of the box, but wireless - like current graphics cards - is another matter. It's really hard to reverse-engineer drivers when the manufacturer won't even talk to you.
Ralink have GPL'd the drivers they wrote for their RT2x00 chipset & released documentation to OpenBSD, resulting in very active community support for these cards. The drivers weren't in Ubuntu last time I checked (I suspect they'll be in this release) but I do know that Mandrake (10.2 & Limited Edition) recognises Ralink wireless cards out of the box.
DISCLOSURE: I'm employed by the vendor linked to in this comment.
And to the grandparent - I don't know where you live, but here in the UK you see every idiot walking around wearing an expensive bluetooth headset. I think it's a prestige thing - look I have £50 to spend on looking like a cheap, stupid cyborg!
He states that some, but not all, of his other blogs are mentioned in his archives, and indeed I managed to find that his best earner is a digital camera review blog, yet another one for laptop reviews earns him less. Both those sites looked pretty similar to me - essentially each article seemed to be a photo, a link to a real review site, a 2 line summary and a couple of paragraphs quoted from TFA - but the camera site seemed to have good layout and relevant, tasteful ads.
He also stated in one blog article that of the dozen sites, only a couple earn him any money so he was considering killing off or selling off the others but that his dilemma is to hold on & see if they take off in the future.
What I find really interesting is that he spends 8 to 12 hours a day maintaining his sites. Essentially this story isn't about a one-man blogger getting paid a fortune for his insights on his favourite subject - he's effectively a one-man publishing business, and the article is about how the internet has empowered him to succeed.
A six-figure salary is pretty good considering that, but I'll pass, thanks. I'd rather be lazy and poor.
I personally don't like the fact that his most successful has little of its own content - his business model seems to be based on aggregating other sites' information and (presumably) doing that research actively enough to get it on his site whilst it's still newsworthy to his readers.
Another poster earlier has expressed similar feelings, but I find it a little disappointing that Google - it's Adwords that earns him most of his money - is empowering sites with less of their own content. To me the power of the internet is that a search engine can find you reviews and forums about digital cameras if that's what you want to know about, and it seems a little wasteful that he's earning money off the back ofd the reviewers as just a middleman. But on the other hand, he's obviously doing a useful job filtering and highlighting content for people who can't find it with a search engine - we all know how clogged Google gets with portal sites, and at least this guy's putting some effort into ensuring his is relevant and interesting.
In any case, if the bloke can make a living at it then good luck to him. I can't help but thinking of the similarities to the dot com (or desktop publishing?) boom - there's no barrier to entry, so anyone can start doing the same thing and competing with him, but that's the nature of business and if it doesn't work out he can always move along and do something else.