Re:Where's Alviso?
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Where's Alviso?
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If they want DDR2 and PCI-E on a laptop so badly, what's stopping them from using a 925X? No, it wouldn't be Centrino, but you COULD throw a Dothan (or any P4, be it Socket 423, 478, or LGA775) on that chipset.
I thought the 8xx Opterons were only 8-way... So, is this a cluster, or an actual SMP rig? They say SMP, but it almost seems like a cluster from the way they describe it.
Come to think of it, Windows would only allow RAIDing internal drives (whatever it's partition manager can touch - not a USB drive, IIRC). Of course, if it were burned right, a CD-ROM RAID would be just wrong, but interesting...
.BMP - simple file format, no compression, lossless (the.WAV of images), 24-bit color max (IIRC), no transparency support, no animation support.GIF - relatively simple file format, decent compression, lossless, 8-bit color max (without using dirty hacks), 1-bit transparency support, has animation support.JPG - fairly simple file format, great compression, lossy (there are lossless versions, though), 24-bit color max, no transparency support, no animation support (without nasty JavaScript hacks).PNG - relatively complex file format, good compression, lossless, 24-bit color max, 8-bit transparency support, has animation support in APNG version.MNG - extremely complex file format, similar specs to PNG, has animation support.BMP's simplicity is lost when going to a compressed format..GIF? APNG is PNG (which isn't much bigger on small images, and smaller on big images) animated..JPG is normally lossy..MNG is bloated.
The only thing that could help PNG is a lossy version of it (since making an image lossy is done in the compression stage, a lossy PNG could even be read by a PNG viewer without modifications) - photographs don't need the extra data.
That might be why I haven't been getting any e-mail - SoftHome's bad about not sending out mailbox full notices...
Anyway, I grabbed the invite before anyone got to it. Now, I just need to update to Opera 7.60P1, and I'll be able to get to my account without firing up Firefox (which... takes... forever... on... my... box... - not the fault of FF, but the fault of my being cheap)
Also, that rumor site said that one slot was a SIM card slot, and also said that this might mean it's GSM-only. They haven't seen a SIM card, have they? They also mentioned that it had SD/MMC support, and the slot looked about right for that.
It's obviously not GSM-only if there are special Sprint PCS Business Connection features! (Sprint PCS is CDMA). FWIW, my Nokia 3588i (Sprint branded) has a place for a SIM card under the battery cover (no SIM card door, though, unlike on a Nokia 3100 (IIRC) that I had for about a month, until AT&T screwed me over). This seems to be a base type-wide component (it's an RH-44, which AFAICT translates into 358x)
How much RAM do you have? OOo does NOT play nice AT ALL with any less than 256MB RAM. I had an old Celery 466MHz with 256MB RAM and Win2K SP4, and it lagged a few seconds, though. I can't get it to run at all on my Pentium MMX 233MHz with 96MB RAM and Mandrake 10.0 Community. However, it's quite fast (except a few UI slowdowns) on the laptop that I have for a class - 2.2GHz P4 (that was NOT my purchasing decision - the school is a Dell-only school, and they're cheap, too, so they got a lapburner with ~2.5-3 hours on a fairly large battery - it's still cooler than my old 75MHz Pentium laptop, though, because it's physically a LOT bigger, so more room for air), 256MB RAM, WinXP (I needed Publisher, and I've never gotten it working on Wine). OK, so it's not fast when I have Publisher, Opera, GIMP 2, and a couple OOo windows open, but...
They do. It's called WordPad (although, it's a sad excuse for a modern WP - no SPELL checking). In fact, they HAD a lightweight office suite, Works, but bloated it at version 5.0, and made it worse with Works 2000 (when they added Word).
Note that it had special features for PCS. Sprint PCS Vision is $15/month for unlimited access (they supposedly start asking if you're using a laptop, which is a no-no, after 30MB), and it doesn't use minutes.
MS Office is the Indy car in Stunts. Try to get it to do something it wasn't SUPPOSED to do, and it screws up. The Lamborghini LM-003 (IIRC) doesn't get anywhere fast (let's face it - OOo is SLOW...), but gets there.
And, I think it'll be easy. I didn't RTWFA (not enough time, and it WAS a Microsoftie's review), but I was under the impression that it was essentially Windows CE Portable Media Center Edition (as opposed to Windows CE Phone Edition, Windows CE Pocket PC (also available in a Phone Edition of it's own), Windows CE Handheld PC, Windows CE Car PC (not very common at all), and of course, Windows CE). A 400MHz XScale? That screams WinCE-box-with-an-HDD-strapped-to-it.
This isn't for Slashdotters. This is for those who have never heard of Mozilla, Firefox, or Opera (I'm not including Safari, as it's Mac-only). You didn't waste your time looking at it, as you can tell whether it'd be a good resource for those blindly using IE.
Probably an autoresponder saw that you had a non-working browser, and sent that. Now, here's a feature I'd like to see in Moz/FF (not that I use it, though) - alternately (NOT AS DEFAULT, like Opera would) ID as the version of Netscape that is based on it. So, Moz 1.7 and 1.8 would ID as Netscape 7.2, and versions of Firefox that use the versions of Gecko in 1.7 and later would ID that as well.
Re:Depnds on the time for which you want to store
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Portable Storage?
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Don't trust anything magnetic, plastic, and high density for long periods of time, especially if not software duplication grade and/or made in this day and age.
I've got 23 year old Apple II floppies that work perfectly to this day.
Myself, I almost use my Lexar JumpDrive Elite (kicking myself for not ditching USB2 and going for a ruggedized one, now that I know it exists) as/home (C:\Documents and Settings\ for you Windows folk). I use it like most people use floppy disks. Put EVERYTHING on it (well, not everything...), and trust it. While I do have a dead JumpDrive (a 32MB classic model - I lost the cap - most likely, the flash itself is still good), I trust this one more. I'll be sure to offload important documents to my school network shares, laptop, and old desktop/server, though.
Did you ever get any software for it, especially shareware disks? DOS had viruses, you know... (emphasis for those virii people)
BTW, there were a couple viruses for the Apple II. The first personal computer (not PC, though) virus was for it, and was so dangerous that it wasn't let out. The second version had major bugs, so a third version was released, to immunize disks against V2 (this is all based on some stuff I read online, though)... I also heard of some school that had some disks acting up - BUT NOT ALL. It was found to be ANOTHER A2 virus. The ones that weren't acting up were infected with version 3 of that first virus.
Actually, I think of it more as knowing TO install an alarm, knowing THAT when they smash the window, it's smashed, or knowing THAT when someone put sugar in your tank, it's got sugar in the tank. Granted, you do need to know how to put the glass back in, or clean the tank (or think of it as hiring someone (or their creations) to do so, and then the analogy still works).
Funny, true story - I had XP Pro on a Dell laptop provided for use in a class at my school (and kept it on, even though I was free to erase - needed Publisher, and had never gotten it working on Wine), and I started the command prompt properly (cmd), but then tried an su (I forgot that I was using Windows, not Linux, and that because of XP's broken user system, I couldn't set myself as a Power User like on 2000, so I was an admin anyway).
Correction - user-initiated popups. The best example, is, of course a mouseclick, but onMouseOver is user-initiated, too. I went through the source for Nero Online's Last Measure (that site that the trolls were pushing that defeated pop-up blockers like Opera's), and found that THAT is how it works - mousing over any of the images pops another up, and the images move around so that they move under the mouse, causing more mouseovers. They don't NEED straight popups, because it defeats all popup blockers that allow user-initiated popups, and a full popup blocker won't allow it anyway.
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If they want DDR2 and PCI-E on a laptop so badly, what's stopping them from using a 925X? No, it wouldn't be Centrino, but you COULD throw a Dothan (or any P4, be it Socket 423, 478, or LGA775) on that chipset.
I thought the 8xx Opterons were only 8-way... So, is this a cluster, or an actual SMP rig? They say SMP, but it almost seems like a cluster from the way they describe it.
If someone doesn't understand, I'll clarify:
There's a mod for Doom 3 (yes, already) called "Duct Tape". It literally duct tapes the flashlight to your gun.
*smashes head on desk*
Duh...
Come to think of it, Windows would only allow RAIDing internal drives (whatever it's partition manager can touch - not a USB drive, IIRC). Of course, if it were burned right, a CD-ROM RAID would be just wrong, but interesting...
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It was fast, but THAT is what I call
.BMP - simple file format, no compression, lossless (the .WAV of images), 24-bit color max (IIRC), no transparency support, no animation support .GIF - relatively simple file format, decent compression, lossless, 8-bit color max (without using dirty hacks), 1-bit transparency support, has animation support .JPG - fairly simple file format, great compression, lossy (there are lossless versions, though), 24-bit color max, no transparency support, no animation support (without nasty JavaScript hacks) .PNG - relatively complex file format, good compression, lossless, 24-bit color max, 8-bit transparency support, has animation support in APNG version .MNG - extremely complex file format, similar specs to PNG, has animation support .BMP's simplicity is lost when going to a compressed format. .GIF? APNG is PNG (which isn't much bigger on small images, and smaller on big images) animated. .JPG is normally lossy. .MNG is bloated.
The only thing that could help PNG is a lossy version of it (since making an image lossy is done in the compression stage, a lossy PNG could even be read by a PNG viewer without modifications) - photographs don't need the extra data.
Well, APNG is a small EXTENSION on PNG, and non-APNG viewers can see an APNG's first frame, so I would assume so.
Well, can you do a USB RAID on x86 hardware? I've read about a five-USB-floppy OS X (IIRC, it might have been OS 9) RAID, but never anything on x86.
Of course, a two-JumpDrive RAID 0 might be kinda nice, especially if one only has USB1.1...
That might be why I haven't been getting any e-mail - SoftHome's bad about not sending out mailbox full notices...
Anyway, I grabbed the invite before anyone got to it. Now, I just need to update to Opera 7.60P1, and I'll be able to get to my account without firing up Firefox (which... takes... forever... on... my... box... - not the fault of FF, but the fault of my being cheap)
At risk of losing karma, and looking like a fool, I'm in.
Also, that rumor site said that one slot was a SIM card slot, and also said that this might mean it's GSM-only. They haven't seen a SIM card, have they? They also mentioned that it had SD/MMC support, and the slot looked about right for that.
It's obviously not GSM-only if there are special Sprint PCS Business Connection features! (Sprint PCS is CDMA). FWIW, my Nokia 3588i (Sprint branded) has a place for a SIM card under the battery cover (no SIM card door, though, unlike on a Nokia 3100 (IIRC) that I had for about a month, until AT&T screwed me over). This seems to be a base type-wide component (it's an RH-44, which AFAICT translates into 358x)
How much RAM do you have? OOo does NOT play nice AT ALL with any less than 256MB RAM. I had an old Celery 466MHz with 256MB RAM and Win2K SP4, and it lagged a few seconds, though. I can't get it to run at all on my Pentium MMX 233MHz with 96MB RAM and Mandrake 10.0 Community. However, it's quite fast (except a few UI slowdowns) on the laptop that I have for a class - 2.2GHz P4 (that was NOT my purchasing decision - the school is a Dell-only school, and they're cheap, too, so they got a lapburner with ~2.5-3 hours on a fairly large battery - it's still cooler than my old 75MHz Pentium laptop, though, because it's physically a LOT bigger, so more room for air), 256MB RAM, WinXP (I needed Publisher, and I've never gotten it working on Wine). OK, so it's not fast when I have Publisher, Opera, GIMP 2, and a couple OOo windows open, but...
80's? Last I checked, Stunts was available in four versions, built in 1990-1992.
They do. It's called WordPad (although, it's a sad excuse for a modern WP - no SPELL checking). In fact, they HAD a lightweight office suite, Works, but bloated it at version 5.0, and made it worse with Works 2000 (when they added Word).
Note that it had special features for PCS. Sprint PCS Vision is $15/month for unlimited access (they supposedly start asking if you're using a laptop, which is a no-no, after 30MB), and it doesn't use minutes.
MS Office is the Indy car in Stunts. Try to get it to do something it wasn't SUPPOSED to do, and it screws up. The Lamborghini LM-003 (IIRC) doesn't get anywhere fast (let's face it - OOo is SLOW...), but gets there.
You couldn't have seen THIS one in 1998 - the iMac had just come out, and this photo had an eMac in it.
And, I think it'll be easy. I didn't RTWFA (not enough time, and it WAS a Microsoftie's review), but I was under the impression that it was essentially Windows CE Portable Media Center Edition (as opposed to Windows CE Phone Edition, Windows CE Pocket PC (also available in a Phone Edition of it's own), Windows CE Handheld PC, Windows CE Car PC (not very common at all), and of course, Windows CE). A 400MHz XScale? That screams WinCE-box-with-an-HDD-strapped-to-it.
This isn't for Slashdotters. This is for those who have never heard of Mozilla, Firefox, or Opera (I'm not including Safari, as it's Mac-only). You didn't waste your time looking at it, as you can tell whether it'd be a good resource for those blindly using IE.
Probably an autoresponder saw that you had a non-working browser, and sent that. Now, here's a feature I'd like to see in Moz/FF (not that I use it, though) - alternately (NOT AS DEFAULT, like Opera would) ID as the version of Netscape that is based on it. So, Moz 1.7 and 1.8 would ID as Netscape 7.2, and versions of Firefox that use the versions of Gecko in 1.7 and later would ID that as well.
Don't trust anything magnetic, plastic, and high density for long periods of time, especially if not software duplication grade and/or made in this day and age.
/home (C:\Documents and Settings\ for you Windows folk). I use it like most people use floppy disks. Put EVERYTHING on it (well, not everything...), and trust it. While I do have a dead JumpDrive (a 32MB classic model - I lost the cap - most likely, the flash itself is still good), I trust this one more. I'll be sure to offload important documents to my school network shares, laptop, and old desktop/server, though.
I've got 23 year old Apple II floppies that work perfectly to this day.
Myself, I almost use my Lexar JumpDrive Elite (kicking myself for not ditching USB2 and going for a ruggedized one, now that I know it exists) as
A PCjr? Talk about secure...
Did you ever get any software for it, especially shareware disks? DOS had viruses, you know... (emphasis for those virii people)
BTW, there were a couple viruses for the Apple II. The first personal computer (not PC, though) virus was for it, and was so dangerous that it wasn't let out. The second version had major bugs, so a third version was released, to immunize disks against V2 (this is all based on some stuff I read online, though)... I also heard of some school that had some disks acting up - BUT NOT ALL. It was found to be ANOTHER A2 virus. The ones that weren't acting up were infected with version 3 of that first virus.
Actually, I think of it more as knowing TO install an alarm, knowing THAT when they smash the window, it's smashed, or knowing THAT when someone put sugar in your tank, it's got sugar in the tank. Granted, you do need to know how to put the glass back in, or clean the tank (or think of it as hiring someone (or their creations) to do so, and then the analogy still works).
Funny, true story - I had XP Pro on a Dell laptop provided for use in a class at my school (and kept it on, even though I was free to erase - needed Publisher, and had never gotten it working on Wine), and I started the command prompt properly (cmd), but then tried an su (I forgot that I was using Windows, not Linux, and that because of XP's broken user system, I couldn't set myself as a Power User like on 2000, so I was an admin anyway).
Correction - user-initiated popups. The best example, is, of course a mouseclick, but onMouseOver is user-initiated, too. I went through the source for Nero Online's Last Measure (that site that the trolls were pushing that defeated pop-up blockers like Opera's), and found that THAT is how it works - mousing over any of the images pops another up, and the images move around so that they move under the mouse, causing more mouseovers. They don't NEED straight popups, because it defeats all popup blockers that allow user-initiated popups, and a full popup blocker won't allow it anyway.