Oh, and OT, but this idiot can't write a sentance, there's no doubt he discovered this after falling asleep on the keyboard. fucking kids these days.:)
That should be "sentence" not "sentance". When I was growning up and we learned about those "sentance" things, they taught me that we need to capitalize the first word of each new "sentance". English isn't the posters first language, what's your excuse? If you're going to bitch and moan, please use proper grammer when doing so. Tard.
Did you even read the post before trolling it? While linux is very MUCH like Unix on many levels, it's not the same thing. Say for example the guy wants to run HPUX on his Transmeta CPU. He would need to emulate a PA-RISC HP processor, and that's NOTHING even close to the x86 instruction set, you tard.
So lemme see if I got this straight now... if I live in, or visit Australia I can drink an American beer, shit on my Xbox and it wil boot linux, but I can't program VB (is that because VB is shit or because VB doesn't run on linux) but I can watch some prawn on it.
I'm really a good natured person 99% of the time. But, the easiest solution to this is not to fine the spammers we catch. Rather, a few violent and gory executions, broadcast on PPV Friday prime time, and I can imagine that you'd find a lot less spam in your mail box on Monday.
The same type of solution would work with auto accidents. If you want to reduce the number of accidents, remove the seat belts, air bags and ABS brakes. Line the dash with 6" steel spikes and I can bet you'll find the number of accidents drops to next to nothing over night because we all become the world's safest drivers.
a head-to-head comparison of several generations of cards.
OMG. I thought my Radeon AIW was kind of a middle of the pack sort of card. According to this, I don't even make the cut to bring up the end of the pack. Crap. Oh well, it runs everything I need it to so far, maybe it's time to start pricing out a new one and put this in a dedicated TV/Divx/MP3 box hooked up to the Tv.
So if you caught a guy with a gun hiding in the bushes outside your house, you don't think he should be punished? After all, he didn't DO anything, right?
Well, close on this one but no cigar. He DID DO something wrong and should be punished for trespassing, possibly assalt and a slew of other potential charges. He SHOULD NOT be charged with breaking and entering (unless he was on his way out), murder, or a ton of other charges.
Charge him with what he did wrong, not what he might of done wrong.
Last week I spent a few hours of each day playing with the new 8.2 Distro (FTP install version) and here is what I came up with.
On my old laptop, everything but the wireless NIC and the sound card came right up. Easy to setup users, change screen resolutions. To get the NIC working, I downloaded and read the README from Cisco, Hmmm.. says I need the src files for the PCMCIA software, ok - no worries. Get the latest version. Ok, so that's unpacked. What, now that PCMCIA version wants the src for the kernel. Ok, well... dig, dig, dig and unpack. Once all this was done -./Configure make all, make install and now the cardmgr is completely dead and stays dead. Ah, I had the wrong kernel, ok - grab the one from SuSe, uncompress the tree, fsck, my drive is full already. Ok - kill the other kernel tar ball and replace it../configure make all make install - still dead. fsck it.
Total install time : 3.5 hours Total debug time: 6.0 hours
XP install. Everything including the sound card and the wireless card come up with no additional drivers needed. Total install time : 1.25 hours Total debug time: 0.00 hours.
I then decided to install this beast on a 20gb partition I've got on my IDE "raid". Comes up, install still takes forever. Goes to reboot and will you look at that? Since I didn't let setup format the other 100gb partition on this, it couldnt' write the boot records correctly and the MBR is hosed. Never was able to get it to boot all the way to runlevel 5. Normal tools to fix a windows boot partition (fixboot or fixmbr) are worthless. I had to wipe the SuSe partition and start installing a second image of XP to get it to see it.
Total install time : 3.5 hours Total Debug time: 4 hours
Now, I know that I'm far from any sort of Linux master, but I've had a few years of experience in a *nix world and done a touch of administration, so I'd guess I'm probably a little ahead of the average 'Joe' who hears about this 'Linux' thing and wants to install it to see what all the hoopla is about. I'm sure that there are probably a ton of people who could tell me what I did wrong, and how I could of fixed this in half the time, and how I really should of used the -U switch even though it wasn't in the README.... but you were not at my house last week, and neither will you be there when Average Joe tries to install it the first time and shies away from Linux for the rest of his life, lest he uncover the emotional scaring done during an install like the one I just went through.
Until a some more standards are worked out, like driver sets and the like, then this creature isn't going to dent the Winderz world a bit. It's come a long way, I like *nix for what it's good at, I like winderz for what it's good at.
The article doesn't even claim to be the smallest printer.... from the article...
the world's smallest wireless pocket sized printer.
So, as far as wireless pocket sized printers, this one is the smallest (so far). I have no idea how many other wireless printers there are, or what a LARGE pocket sized printer would be like... but - looks like they have the market nitch of Wireless AND pocket sized.
X (Gnome) won't change the resolution from 640x480 4 bit color and the pcmcia manager (cardmgr?) doesn't want to talk to the Cisco WiFi card - returns an error - I'd have to fire it up again to see what errors it throws up.
I've been through the FAQ, support pages and a quick google on these problems but haven't made the time to troubleshoot.
I KDE with 128 Megs of RAM on a P3 733 and it seems to run just fine, until you start opening VNC sessions, but that's to be expected. For "Normal" use I see that 128 seems to be enough. Course, now once I start running a web server, database and Mr. House on it, probably want to push it up to 256.
On my windows box I run 512 and an XP1800 and there are many times that it seems like twice that is needed. Go figure.
Kind of excited, I've decided to port all the machines on my network to Linux and run Wine or VMware for those "have to have" windows apps.
Any suggestions on a distro? I have the latest of Mandrake, Red Hat and Slackware. Been trying to get slack running on my laptop (P150, 256M) and it's not playing well at all.
Seems that my linux box at home doesn't have proper restrictions on it, and now... for some odd reason is no longer acception SSH connections. OOPS. I just hope it doesn't make any noise while it melts until I get home to reboot the poor thing.
This is limited to bash, correct? I use csh on HPUX at work and it doesn't fork, in fact, produces a syntax error.
That's Linux's problem, not Dell's or Microsoft's.
Nope, it's my problem and no one elses. I read that this boot loader would work on Ipaqs and ran across some reviews of this Amigo PD-600C PPC was an IPAQ in sheeps clothing and made the equation that it would work.
Yes, most of the hardware has the same specs, but it seems that most of the hardware is made in completely different ways (like you just said). I really just wanted to throw it out there that since you mentioned loading Linux on a PPC, that it probably doesn't work on anything other than an IPAQ (in my experience).
The good news is that I did make a back up of the ROM, and that the company I work for will probably have the equipment to reflash the chip. IF I can find time to do that.
I'm also not to worried about program compatibility, as we home brew all out own software (or 98% of it) - much to the displeasure of our IT department. The thing I'm looking forward to is the improved WiFi support - we have a hard time keeping these able to talk to the server.
I just bought a new Dell Axim and would very much like to install Pocket PC 2003.
Hmmm... I was interested in this since I order 2-4 Axims a week for work. I did a bit of digging around and here is what I found. This was on one of the Dell support pages Dated 17 Jun 03
Thank you for using the Dell Community Forum.
Yes, Pocket PC 2003 is real. I do not have a firm date when Dell will begin shipping Pocket PC 2003, or when upgrades will be available, or who will be eligible for free upgrades.
One warning. I have been told that many applications that work in Pocket PC 2002 do not work in Pocket PC 2003. It appears that Pocket PC 2003 is a major Operating System upgrade and that some applications will have to be recompiled for it.
I am at the moment testing a few applications on Pocket PC 2003, and so far I have only found one application, the game Argentum that will not run. I do not have a list of applications that will work with Pocket PC 2003, but I will try to keep you posted about any applications that I have trouble with.
Hope the moderator of that forum isn't too upset that I quoted with out requesting permission, but to the best of my knowldge this is a open to the public site.
It does look like there WILL be an upgrade path, that a ROM for the Axim has been developed (as this moderator had one) and that it doesn't melt your PPC when you install it.
I also agree that way to many people know my SSN, but that's because lot's of institutions require you to put it on every god damn form that you ever sign.
IANAL but as I understand it, unless the instituion is going to provide you with a taxable income, then they have no legitimite reason to request it. I believe this is covered in the Privacy Act of 1974, but could be mistaken. Now of course, if you apply for a car loan, and refuse to disclose your SSN, then they can refuse to process the loan, but you're not required to give it to them by law.
Yes, I can hear the "boo hoo! poor cop! go eat more donuts!" trolls now... save it. You trolls can scoff all you want. Feel free to live in your "no cops" world... sounds great on the surface... but getting your ass kicked by some gangbangers when you're walking home from the LAN party some night might change your tune.
I often wonder what would happen if we removed *ALL* laws for 10 or 20 years. If you want to rape your neighbor's daughter on the front lawn in the middle of the afternoon while high on crack, by all means - do so. There would be no laws, no judges, no lawers and no cops to stop you. Oh, there would also be no cops to stop your neighbor from shooting you for doing that.
Maybe it's time we introduce a little natural selection back into the human race.
Of course, this isn't a good idea at all, but it's amusing to think about every time I hear someone say "There needs to be a law" or "The govenment should set up a program to help X".
These friends are beligerent a-holes who can't keep their mouths shut
Man, if that's the way you talk about your friends, I'd hate to see what you call the ones you don't like:)
I've met cops I liked and respected, I've met cops I didn't. But when you get right down to it, that person is doing something for me and my family. Every day they have the potential to die to keep me and mine safe from harm.
Simple logic dictates my behavior when I deal with a cop. He doesn't know me from Adam, he has a gun and I do not. It is in my best interest to keep my hands where he can see them, make no sudden moves and to be polite and cooperate with him/her as best I can. I've NEVER had this go wrong. YMMV
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Point well made. Now where *DID* I put that coffee to have with my humble pie? I think I need some.
*blush*
Oh, and OT, but this idiot can't write a sentance, there's no doubt he discovered this after falling asleep on the keyboard. fucking kids these days. :)
That should be "sentence" not "sentance". When I was growning up and we learned about those "sentance" things, they taught me that we need to capitalize the first word of each new "sentance". English isn't the posters first language, what's your excuse? If you're going to bitch and moan, please use proper grammer when doing so. Tard.
Did you even read the post before trolling it? While linux is very MUCH like Unix on many levels, it's not the same thing. Say for example the guy wants to run HPUX on his Transmeta CPU. He would need to emulate a PA-RISC HP processor, and that's NOTHING even close to the x86 instruction set, you tard.
So lemme see if I got this straight now... if I live in, or visit Australia I can drink an American beer, shit on my Xbox and it wil boot linux, but I can't program VB (is that because VB is shit or because VB doesn't run on linux) but I can watch some prawn on it.
Does that sound right?
Screw that - my kids have been doing this for free since they could walk. I think they get it from my side of the family.
I'm really a good natured person 99% of the time. But, the easiest solution to this is not to fine the spammers we catch. Rather, a few violent and gory executions, broadcast on PPV Friday prime time, and I can imagine that you'd find a lot less spam in your mail box on Monday.
The same type of solution would work with auto accidents. If you want to reduce the number of accidents, remove the seat belts, air bags and ABS brakes. Line the dash with 6" steel spikes and I can bet you'll find the number of accidents drops to next to nothing over night because we all become the world's safest drivers.
It's all about incentive.
a head-to-head comparison of several generations of cards.
OMG. I thought my Radeon AIW was kind of a middle of the pack sort of card. According to this, I don't even make the cut to bring up the end of the pack. Crap. Oh well, it runs everything I need it to so far, maybe it's time to start pricing out a new one and put this in a dedicated TV/Divx/MP3 box hooked up to the Tv.
So if you caught a guy with a gun hiding in the bushes outside your house, you don't think he should be punished? After all, he didn't DO anything, right?
Well, close on this one but no cigar. He DID DO something wrong and should be punished for trespassing, possibly assalt and a slew of other potential charges. He SHOULD NOT be charged with breaking and entering (unless he was on his way out), murder, or a ton of other charges.
Charge him with what he did wrong, not what he might of done wrong.
Why are some of you such dorks? Didn't those beatings in high school teach you anything?!
.357". Imagine, a slashdotter calling someone on /. a dork.
Taught me "Walk dorkily and carry a
I wouldn't feel right about handcuffng a Gnome developer
:-)
I'd be just fine with handcuffing a Gnome developer, as long as she was attractive and liked that sort of thing.
Last week I spent a few hours of each day playing with the new 8.2 Distro (FTP install version) and here is what I came up with.
./Configure make all, make install and now the cardmgr is completely dead and stays dead. Ah, I had the wrong kernel, ok - grab the one from SuSe, uncompress the tree, fsck, my drive is full already. Ok - kill the other kernel tar ball and replace it. ./configure make all make install - still dead. fsck it.
On my old laptop, everything but the wireless NIC and the sound card came right up. Easy to setup users, change screen resolutions. To get the NIC working, I downloaded and read the README from Cisco, Hmmm.. says I need the src files for the PCMCIA software, ok - no worries. Get the latest version. Ok, so that's unpacked. What, now that PCMCIA version wants the src for the kernel. Ok, well... dig, dig, dig and unpack. Once all this was done -
Total install time : 3.5 hours
Total debug time: 6.0 hours
XP install. Everything including the sound card and the wireless card come up with no additional drivers needed.
Total install time : 1.25 hours
Total debug time: 0.00 hours.
I then decided to install this beast on a 20gb partition I've got on my IDE "raid". Comes up, install still takes forever. Goes to reboot and will you look at that? Since I didn't let setup format the other 100gb partition on this, it couldnt' write the boot records correctly and the MBR is hosed. Never was able to get it to boot all the way to runlevel 5. Normal tools to fix a windows boot partition (fixboot or fixmbr) are worthless. I had to wipe the SuSe partition and start installing a second image of XP to get it to see it.
Total install time : 3.5 hours
Total Debug time: 4 hours
Now, I know that I'm far from any sort of Linux master, but I've had a few years of experience in a *nix world and done a touch of administration, so I'd guess I'm probably a little ahead of the average 'Joe' who hears about this 'Linux' thing and wants to install it to see what all the hoopla is about. I'm sure that there are probably a ton of people who could tell me what I did wrong, and how I could of fixed this in half the time, and how I really should of used the -U switch even though it wasn't in the README.... but you were not at my house last week, and neither will you be there when Average Joe tries to install it the first time and shies away from Linux for the rest of his life, lest he uncover the emotional scaring done during an install like the one I just went through.
Until a some more standards are worked out, like driver sets and the like, then this creature isn't going to dent the Winderz world a bit. It's come a long way, I like *nix for what it's good at, I like winderz for what it's good at.
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Hi, it looks like you're jerking off again at work... shall I :
* - download some porn for you?
* - turn on the web cam you installed in the women's locker room?
* - alert you if your boss is coming to see you?
who read RMPT as RTFM at first glance? Only I guess with this, PTFM might fit better.
The article doesn't even claim to be the smallest printer.... from the article...
the world's smallest wireless pocket sized printer.
So, as far as wireless pocket sized printers, this one is the smallest (so far). I have no idea how many other wireless printers there are, or what a LARGE pocket sized printer would be like... but - looks like they have the market nitch of Wireless AND pocket sized.
X (Gnome) won't change the resolution from 640x480 4 bit color and the pcmcia manager (cardmgr?) doesn't want to talk to the Cisco WiFi card - returns an error - I'd have to fire it up again to see what errors it throws up.
I've been through the FAQ, support pages and a quick google on these problems but haven't made the time to troubleshoot.
I KDE with 128 Megs of RAM on a P3 733 and it seems to run just fine, until you start opening VNC sessions, but that's to be expected. For "Normal" use I see that 128 seems to be enough. Course, now once I start running a web server, database and Mr. House on it, probably want to push it up to 256.
On my windows box I run 512 and an XP1800 and there are many times that it seems like twice that is needed. Go figure.
Kind of excited, I've decided to port all the machines on my network to Linux and run Wine or VMware for those "have to have" windows apps.
Any suggestions on a distro? I have the latest of Mandrake, Red Hat and Slackware. Been trying to get slack running on my laptop (P150, 256M) and it's not playing well at all.
Does this mean I have a new source for free pr0n? woot!!! Will have to check this out when i get home.
Seems that my linux box at home doesn't have proper restrictions on it, and now... for some odd reason is no longer acception SSH connections. OOPS. I just hope it doesn't make any noise while it melts until I get home to reboot the poor thing.
This is limited to bash, correct? I use csh on HPUX at work and it doesn't fork, in fact, produces a syntax error.
That's Linux's problem, not Dell's or Microsoft's.
Nope, it's my problem and no one elses. I read that this boot loader would work on Ipaqs and ran across some reviews of this Amigo PD-600C PPC was an IPAQ in sheeps clothing and made the equation that it would work.
Yes, most of the hardware has the same specs, but it seems that most of the hardware is made in completely different ways (like you just said). I really just wanted to throw it out there that since you mentioned loading Linux on a PPC, that it probably doesn't work on anything other than an IPAQ (in my experience).
The good news is that I did make a back up of the ROM, and that the company I work for will probably have the equipment to reflash the chip. IF I can find time to do that.
Dell Support Forums - give this a try, I found it in the General Software section.
I'm also not to worried about program compatibility, as we home brew all out own software (or 98% of it) - much to the displeasure of our IT department. The thing I'm looking forward to is the improved WiFi support - we have a hard time keeping these able to talk to the server.
you can load Linux on the thing and stop complaining.
Or, in my case turn it into a $200 brick. The only Linux distro for PPCs seems to be for IPAQ only (and not those claming to be IPAQ compatable).
I just bought a new Dell Axim and would very much like to install Pocket PC 2003.
Hmmm... I was interested in this since I order 2-4 Axims a week for work. I did a bit of digging around and here is what I found. This was on one of the Dell support pages Dated 17 Jun 03
Thank you for using the Dell Community Forum.
Yes, Pocket PC 2003 is real. I do not have a firm date when Dell will begin shipping Pocket PC 2003, or when upgrades will be available, or who will be eligible for free upgrades.
One warning. I have been told that many applications that work in Pocket PC 2002 do not work in Pocket PC 2003. It appears that Pocket PC 2003 is a major Operating System upgrade and that some applications will have to be recompiled for it.
I am at the moment testing a few applications on Pocket PC 2003, and so far I have only found one application, the game Argentum that will not run. I do not have a list of applications that will work with Pocket PC 2003, but I will try to keep you posted about any applications that I have trouble with.
Hope the moderator of that forum isn't too upset that I quoted with out requesting permission, but to the best of my knowldge this is a open to the public site.
It does look like there WILL be an upgrade path, that a ROM for the Axim has been developed (as this moderator had one) and that it doesn't melt your PPC when you install it.
I also agree that way to many people know my SSN, but that's because lot's of institutions require you to put it on every god damn form that you ever sign.
IANAL but as I understand it, unless the instituion is going to provide you with a taxable income, then they have no legitimite reason to request it. I believe this is covered in the Privacy Act of 1974, but could be mistaken. Now of course, if you apply for a car loan, and refuse to disclose your SSN, then they can refuse to process the loan, but you're not required to give it to them by law.
Yes, I can hear the "boo hoo! poor cop! go eat more donuts!" trolls now... save it. You trolls can scoff all you want. Feel free to live in your "no cops" world... sounds great on the surface... but getting your ass kicked by some gangbangers when you're walking home from the LAN party some night might change your tune.
I often wonder what would happen if we removed *ALL* laws for 10 or 20 years. If you want to rape your neighbor's daughter on the front lawn in the middle of the afternoon while high on crack, by all means - do so. There would be no laws, no judges, no lawers and no cops to stop you. Oh, there would also be no cops to stop your neighbor from shooting you for doing that.
Maybe it's time we introduce a little natural selection back into the human race.
Of course, this isn't a good idea at all, but it's amusing to think about every time I hear someone say "There needs to be a law" or "The govenment should set up a program to help X".
These friends are beligerent a-holes who can't keep their mouths shut
:)
Man, if that's the way you talk about your friends, I'd hate to see what you call the ones you don't like
I've met cops I liked and respected, I've met cops I didn't. But when you get right down to it, that person is doing something for me and my family. Every day they have the potential to die to keep me and mine safe from harm.
Simple logic dictates my behavior when I deal with a cop. He doesn't know me from Adam, he has a gun and I do not. It is in my best interest to keep my hands where he can see them, make no sudden moves and to be polite and cooperate with him/her as best I can. I've NEVER had this go wrong. YMMV