Phone: Not much battery life, lowest common denominator (mine does this) Camera: Common now, battery life is killed by it (not mine!) PDA: Very rudimentary, and it's almost needed for contact management. Mine has that, but there's no substitute for a Palm (except another true standalone PDA or one that was a cell wrapped around a PDA, but those are poor cells). Calendar: Mine has it, but it barely hits battery life. Games: Not much battery life hit - Java doesn't need that much, and the Nokia games seem to be fairly lightweight. Java: See games. High res: Not my phone! Mine gets great battery life, but I'd sacrifice some for more screen res. High color monitor: Kinda pointless with low res, but mine has it, and gets better battery life than an old B&W phone to boot. Video: I'll admit, the ATI Imageon will eat battery. PIM: See calendar. Triband: Gahhh... if only we had good GSM over here... well, when it's on CDMA, it isn't bad, but roaming (especially analog) eats battery. Polyphonic: That means MIDI support. Nothing much there, and it's how all Nokias do ring tones now. MP3, AAC: That shouldn't eat MUCH power, but I don't have or need it. MMS: Shouldn't eat any more than a good amount of RAM and the high res, high color screen. FM Radio: That WOULD eat some, wouldn't it? E-Mail: Not much - not any more than SMS - it's something I'd like to have, too. Browser: Less power than Java, unless you go with WebViewer (dl'd the trial today on another phone, not bad, but/. logins don't work), which is a Java app. Bluetooth: Eats battery, is a security risk (esp. on Nokia phones), and isn't cheap - I don't have that. GPRS: GSM is good. Mine doesn't have it, either... WAP: See browser. HSCSD: WTF? Touch screen: Not that much more power. Not very cheap either. EDGE: Hmm, isn't that a Verizon PC Card modem connection type? Sorry, don't have Verizon or a cell modem. WCDMA: Does Sprint use this (on a non-Vision phone)? If so, I've got it. Portrait caller ID: The way phones work, it's not that much more work to bring up the photo. Flashlight: White LED or flourescent? I'll admit, it'll burn battery quickly either way. I just use the backlight for that, though;-) Calorie counter: This is a real feature? Thermometer: Hardly any power. Picture editor: You're looking at a Series 60 "phone", aren't you? (it's a bit of a stretch to call that a phone - it's a PDA phone!) FAX, WP, Excel, PPT, Flash, kitchen sink: Yep, it's Series 60 (however, WebViewer, a ~40K J2ME app, can view Word and Excel files on any Java cell phone)
Umm... OK, so 400GB is the largest SINGLE hard drive. The La Cie drive appears to have two 250GB HDDs in a RAID 0. For that matter, I think/. mentioned a La Cie external drive with FOUR 250GB HDDs in a RAID 0. BTW, look at this:
which they claim makes them the new capacity king Emphasis mine./. need not correct it, as your drive seems to be a RAID 0 of two drives, and/. said that they claim it's the biggest, not that it is the biggest.
FUD, FUD, FUD. I disagree with TCPA, NGSCB, and DRM, but what you said about TCPA not allowing "untrusted" apps to run isn't true. It'll definitely allow untrusted apps to run (not talking about OSes) - it'll just not allow said untrusted apps to access data (unless a hole is found in the TCPA system).
My grandmother has an HP with one hell of a large preload, and it's got the backup of the XP install in a 350MB partition. Space isn't the problem here. It's that if the hard drive dies, you lose that partition, and have to pay $13 to Fujitsu to get a CD set, if it's at all like how the HP system works.
RTFA. He treats spam as a store that comes to you in your inbox, and sells some stuff online (via a semi-legit site, and spam). He's not just a spam-victim, he's a spammer, too. He even said he ran a couple of porn sites and squatted a few domain names.
AFAIK, there's a difference between Kickstart and AmigaOS. Kickstart is the BIOS, and it's written for your version of AOS, but the AOS is a big problem too. AIAB (Amiga In A Box) is a project to create an AmigaOS install on top of WinUAE very easily. They're having to ask for an AOS Workbench 3.0 or 3.1 disk image to be fed into the emu upon bootup, because they can't distribute it.
AOL: I guess they target ads based on location... Amazon: Ditto... C|Net: Don't know here... eBay: Maybe it traces the location of the visitor to provide the right country? Google: AdWords, AdWords, AdWords (and a little bit of Google Toolbar, even though it says IN VERY PLAIN ENGLISH what it's going to do...) MS: AutoUpdate, and maybe Windows Update? Yahoo!: Don't know, but I'm not surprised that something they did fits under what this bill doesn't allow.
UNIX V1 was released in 1971, and CP/M 1.0 came out in 1974.
GNU, a TOOLSET for *nix, was started in 1983. DOS, a (slightly - MS copyrights thrown in) modified clone of CP/M, was released in 1981. Here's a better comparison:
1971: UNIX (kernel, toolset) 1974: CP/M (BIOS, kernel, toolset) 1981: DOS (kernel, toolset - CP/M clone) 1983: GNU (toolset for UNIX clones (aka *nix)) 1984: X Window System (GUI, primarily used on *nix) 1985: Windows (GUI for DOS) 1987: Minix (kernel, toolset - *nix) 1987: OS/2 (kernel, toolset - borrowed ideas from DOS, but is a new OS) 1988: OS/2 1.1 (OS/2 plus GUI, bugfixes, etc.) 1991: Linux (kernel - *nix) ~1992: XWS works on Linux 1993: Windows NT (fork of OS/2, adds Win32 support to the Windows line - Win2K and WinXP are WinNT5 and WinNT5.1)
Actually, 2003 was the year of that. I remember seeing something on/. saying Mac OS had 2.something% market share, whereas desktop Linux had 3.something%.
How did it die? If it was HDD, get a new one, and have a good laptop. If it was mobo, the screen MIGHT be LVDS, which (with a lot of soldering) could be converted to DVI. If it was KB/mouse, plug a PS/2 one in long enough to set this up. And then, if it was screen hinges, even better - PERFECT for the job.
Old laptop (free) + PCMCIA CompactFlash adaptor ($10) + Frame ($10 at most) + FreeDOS (free) + LxPic (free) + VESA TSR (free) + PCMCIA and CF drivers for DOS (free) = $20 plus memory card, and I'm using a floppy disk and hard drive, which means no PCMCIA/CF drivers, no CF card, and no CF adaptor, dropping it to $10 (it's a fully working lappy, just old and slow, and I could get a whole newer lappy for the cost of taking it to 40MB RAM)
Of course, it seems a bit overboard to use Linux for something that's only running one process. I've got an old P75 laptop (and it only uses a cord, no brick, too!), and it has an 8.4"x6.3"x640x480x16-bit screen, and an 810MB HDD. It'll run FreeDOS just fine, with a VESA TSR and LxPic (designed for HPLX palmtops, but works great on just about anything that runs DOS). After all, it does fairly well with Win95 (except with only 16MB RAM, it's dog slow). Flip the screen around, devise a latch, make a frame around it, and you've got a good picture frame. I suggest NOT matting it, as the choice of mat depends on the picture, and if it's changing pictures...
I'm working on something, but not knowing much about laptops internally (how much space is required for stuff, etc.), I can't do that much. If you'd care to help me, comment in my journal.
Try Sopwith 2. Perfect on ANY processor, and better gameplay than 1 to boot. Sopwith: The Authors Edition is even better, but not quite true to the original.
How is this redundant, when I'm the first reply to the parent saying anything about nv vs. nvidia? I was providing anecdotal evidence that the xfree86 nv driver might not be so speedy.
Actually, I've found the nvidia driver to be MUCH faster, even in KDE, than nv. Maybe it's because I've got an old slow box (PMMX233), and the acceleration seems to speed it up a big deal... I installed the drivers because 1fps in BZFlag wasn't my cup of tea.
Opera is good in that you can only block unwanted pop-ups. Knock on wood, the only site I had trouble with (with Opera set that way) was something with Geocities.
However, there ARE tools to get 400K out of a 360K 3.5" floppy (and 800 out of a 720K) - the Mac OS uses them by default. Also, Microsoft developed tools to get 1.6 and 1.8MB out of a 1.44MB floppy. AFAIK, the technology is used by Linux, but Windows has a crap fit if it catches you writing to a 1.6/1.8MB floppy.
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Phone: Not much battery life, lowest common denominator (mine does this) /. logins don't work), which is a Java app. ;-)
Camera: Common now, battery life is killed by it (not mine!)
PDA: Very rudimentary, and it's almost needed for contact management. Mine has that, but there's no substitute for a Palm (except another true standalone PDA or one that was a cell wrapped around a PDA, but those are poor cells).
Calendar: Mine has it, but it barely hits battery life.
Games: Not much battery life hit - Java doesn't need that much, and the Nokia games seem to be fairly lightweight.
Java: See games.
High res: Not my phone! Mine gets great battery life, but I'd sacrifice some for more screen res.
High color monitor: Kinda pointless with low res, but mine has it, and gets better battery life than an old B&W phone to boot.
Video: I'll admit, the ATI Imageon will eat battery.
PIM: See calendar.
Triband: Gahhh... if only we had good GSM over here... well, when it's on CDMA, it isn't bad, but roaming (especially analog) eats battery.
Polyphonic: That means MIDI support. Nothing much there, and it's how all Nokias do ring tones now.
MP3, AAC: That shouldn't eat MUCH power, but I don't have or need it.
MMS: Shouldn't eat any more than a good amount of RAM and the high res, high color screen.
FM Radio: That WOULD eat some, wouldn't it?
E-Mail: Not much - not any more than SMS - it's something I'd like to have, too.
Browser: Less power than Java, unless you go with WebViewer (dl'd the trial today on another phone, not bad, but
Bluetooth: Eats battery, is a security risk (esp. on Nokia phones), and isn't cheap - I don't have that.
GPRS: GSM is good. Mine doesn't have it, either...
WAP: See browser.
HSCSD: WTF?
Touch screen: Not that much more power. Not very cheap either.
EDGE: Hmm, isn't that a Verizon PC Card modem connection type? Sorry, don't have Verizon or a cell modem.
WCDMA: Does Sprint use this (on a non-Vision phone)? If so, I've got it.
Portrait caller ID: The way phones work, it's not that much more work to bring up the photo.
Flashlight: White LED or flourescent? I'll admit, it'll burn battery quickly either way. I just use the backlight for that, though
Calorie counter: This is a real feature?
Thermometer: Hardly any power.
Picture editor: You're looking at a Series 60 "phone", aren't you? (it's a bit of a stretch to call that a phone - it's a PDA phone!)
FAX, WP, Excel, PPT, Flash, kitchen sink: Yep, it's Series 60 (however, WebViewer, a ~40K J2ME app, can view Word and Excel files on any Java cell phone)
Umm... OK, so 400GB is the largest SINGLE hard drive. The La Cie drive appears to have two 250GB HDDs in a RAID 0. For that matter, I think /. mentioned a La Cie external drive with FOUR 250GB HDDs in a RAID 0. BTW, look at this:
/. need not correct it, as your drive seems to be a RAID 0 of two drives, and /. said that they claim it's the biggest, not that it is the biggest.
which they claim makes them the new capacity king
Emphasis mine.
FUD, FUD, FUD. I disagree with TCPA, NGSCB, and DRM, but what you said about TCPA not allowing "untrusted" apps to run isn't true. It'll definitely allow untrusted apps to run (not talking about OSes) - it'll just not allow said untrusted apps to access data (unless a hole is found in the TCPA system).
Exactly. Since the "protection" violates the CDDA spec, it's not a CD, and can't be labeled as such.
My grandmother has an HP with one hell of a large preload, and it's got the backup of the XP install in a 350MB partition. Space isn't the problem here. It's that if the hard drive dies, you lose that partition, and have to pay $13 to Fujitsu to get a CD set, if it's at all like how the HP system works.
RTFA. He treats spam as a store that comes to you in your inbox, and sells some stuff online (via a semi-legit site, and spam). He's not just a spam-victim, he's a spammer, too. He even said he ran a couple of porn sites and squatted a few domain names.
For a certain amount of money, however. Won't make most people happy...
AFAIK, there's a difference between Kickstart and AmigaOS. Kickstart is the BIOS, and it's written for your version of AOS, but the AOS is a big problem too. AIAB (Amiga In A Box) is a project to create an AmigaOS install on top of WinUAE very easily. They're having to ask for an AOS Workbench 3.0 or 3.1 disk image to be fed into the emu upon bootup, because they can't distribute it.
RTFA. Here's why they're pissed:
AOL: I guess they target ads based on location...
Amazon: Ditto...
C|Net: Don't know here...
eBay: Maybe it traces the location of the visitor to provide the right country?
Google: AdWords, AdWords, AdWords (and a little bit of Google Toolbar, even though it says IN VERY PLAIN ENGLISH what it's going to do...)
MS: AutoUpdate, and maybe Windows Update?
Yahoo!: Don't know, but I'm not surprised that something they did fits under what this bill doesn't allow.
Let's go back to the roots of this...
UNIX V1 was released in 1971, and CP/M 1.0 came out in 1974.
GNU, a TOOLSET for *nix, was started in 1983. DOS, a (slightly - MS copyrights thrown in) modified clone of CP/M, was released in 1981. Here's a better comparison:
1971: UNIX (kernel, toolset)
1974: CP/M (BIOS, kernel, toolset)
1981: DOS (kernel, toolset - CP/M clone)
1983: GNU (toolset for UNIX clones (aka *nix))
1984: X Window System (GUI, primarily used on *nix)
1985: Windows (GUI for DOS)
1987: Minix (kernel, toolset - *nix)
1987: OS/2 (kernel, toolset - borrowed ideas from DOS, but is a new OS)
1988: OS/2 1.1 (OS/2 plus GUI, bugfixes, etc.)
1991: Linux (kernel - *nix)
~1992: XWS works on Linux
1993: Windows NT (fork of OS/2, adds Win32 support to the Windows line - Win2K and WinXP are WinNT5 and WinNT5.1)
Yes, you did have to look at the whole timeline.
Actually, 2003 was the year of that. I remember seeing something on /. saying Mac OS had 2.something% market share, whereas desktop Linux had 3.something%.
How did it die? If it was HDD, get a new one, and have a good laptop. If it was mobo, the screen MIGHT be LVDS, which (with a lot of soldering) could be converted to DVI. If it was KB/mouse, plug a PS/2 one in long enough to set this up. And then, if it was screen hinges, even better - PERFECT for the job.
Actually, it's a $300+ version of a $200-900 picture frame, and the $200 frame has monthly fees, and can only take pictures via dial-up.
Old laptop (free) + PCMCIA CompactFlash adaptor ($10) + Frame ($10 at most) + FreeDOS (free) + LxPic (free) + VESA TSR (free) + PCMCIA and CF drivers for DOS (free) = $20 plus memory card, and I'm using a floppy disk and hard drive, which means no PCMCIA/CF drivers, no CF card, and no CF adaptor, dropping it to $10 (it's a fully working lappy, just old and slow, and I could get a whole newer lappy for the cost of taking it to 40MB RAM)
Of course, it seems a bit overboard to use Linux for something that's only running one process. I've got an old P75 laptop (and it only uses a cord, no brick, too!), and it has an 8.4"x6.3"x640x480x16-bit screen, and an 810MB HDD. It'll run FreeDOS just fine, with a VESA TSR and LxPic (designed for HPLX palmtops, but works great on just about anything that runs DOS). After all, it does fairly well with Win95 (except with only 16MB RAM, it's dog slow). Flip the screen around, devise a latch, make a frame around it, and you've got a good picture frame. I suggest NOT matting it, as the choice of mat depends on the picture, and if it's changing pictures...
OT, but my sentiments exactly.
I'm working on something, but not knowing much about laptops internally (how much space is required for stuff, etc.), I can't do that much. If you'd care to help me, comment in my journal.
It's about $1.79/liter, IIRC... (got the cryogenic storage tank refilled not too long ago)
On Mandrake 9.2: /mnt/win_c/ /mnt/Windows/C/
On SuSE 8.2:
Gahhh... my school blocks most free hosts...
Can anyone reply with them?
Try Sopwith 2. Perfect on ANY processor, and better gameplay than 1 to boot. Sopwith: The Authors Edition is even better, but not quite true to the original.
How is this redundant, when I'm the first reply to the parent saying anything about nv vs. nvidia? I was providing anecdotal evidence that the xfree86 nv driver might not be so speedy.
Actually, I've found the nvidia driver to be MUCH faster, even in KDE, than nv. Maybe it's because I've got an old slow box (PMMX233), and the acceleration seems to speed it up a big deal... I installed the drivers because 1fps in BZFlag wasn't my cup of tea.
Technically, there ARE tools to read/write 400 and 800K HFS (or whatever Mac OS uses on floppies of that age) disks on a PC.
I thought that MS was the first to use the floppy disk extending stuff on FAT12, though...
Opera is good in that you can only block unwanted pop-ups. Knock on wood, the only site I had trouble with (with Opera set that way) was something with Geocities.
However, there ARE tools to get 400K out of a 360K 3.5" floppy (and 800 out of a 720K) - the Mac OS uses them by default. Also, Microsoft developed tools to get 1.6 and 1.8MB out of a 1.44MB floppy. AFAIK, the technology is used by Linux, but Windows has a crap fit if it catches you writing to a 1.6/1.8MB floppy.