I love it when people try to make a "I'm better than you, I would have never made that bandwidth mistake!" style reply to a post, but can't even spell things correctly. That sure makes you look SMRT!
I'll have you know I just logged in to Slashdot for the first time in two or three years just to reply to this comment, because I totally agree. It is _way_ too often that I run across a page that looks like ass just because the designers didn't set a background color and didn't use transparent images. And the worst part is that this is one of the kind of things where, if you complain, they reply and say "Oh, well, that's your fault. You should have your background color set to white." Know what? They're wrong!
About 6 months ago I was looking for the perfect laptop: I wanted a Unixy OS, but I also wanted all of the features of the hardware to work (sleep, sound, modem, wireless, etc.). After much pondering and digging, I got an iBook. OSX Just Works(tm) with the hardware (as you would expect), is a lot of fun to use, and can run all of my X apps, console apps, and most anything else I need without much effort. But the big thing I really liked is that all of the hardware worked without spending a month grabbing kernel patches, fighting with modules, and trying giving up on various bits. Also, the iBook is nice and small (smaller than any of my friends and collegues laptops), has a good enough screen resolution, and is fairly powerful for laptop needs.
Of course, you can also wipe it off and put Linux on it. But, as a testament to OSX, let me say that not a single piece of hardware I own is running anything from Micros~1 - most everything is running Linux (or PalmOS, etc.) - and the iBook is the only one of the machines (beyond the ones that can't handle it) that havn't been overwritten with Linux.
So, in the end I recommend the iBook you mentioned at the beginning.
What's that ``double-S'' thingy you speak of? And what kind of poor excuse for a programmer/writer are you if you never use the back-tick and/or wiggly (tilde in some locals) key?
I sure hope this isn't the guy who redesigns _my_ keyboard to get rid of the useful stuff...
This reminds me of 4 years ago when my own Lego-death scenes made the/. front page. You know, back when/. was fun to read still. Unfortunately, the server they live on is having a little net problem right now, else I would put up another link...
Looking at my computer collection, I have four computers running Linux, one running Solaris, one running NeXTstep, and one running Mac OS X. Looks like Linux is winning in my case!
That looks like it is still larger than (and not nearly as cool looking as) my good ol' SparcClassic case. For small PCs, nothing can beat the size and shape of the Classic in my opinion...
Any n-1 dimensional plane cutting through an n dimensional space is a hyperplane. So, the correct wording of the story would have been "A hyper plane is a 3-dimensional space that cuts through a 4-dimensional space, just as a 2-dimensional hyperplane cuts through 3-dimensional space."
Maybe I'm odd or something, but all I want in a PDA is something that can hold addresses, remind me of things, play a few games when I am bored, and perhaps run a lisp interpreter or something similar. I have no wish to carry movies around on a little screen everyplace I go, nor do I want something that drains batteries as fast as a full sized laptop. That's what I like about palm devices. My Visor (Manos, the Handspring of Fate) is wonderfuly simple, Just Works(tm), and lasts 2 to 3 weeks on rechargable batteries. Seems like the perfect setup to me...
This sounds more like somebody that doesn't know much about writing (learn to use commas correctly!) who performed a bad install on a Redhat 7.x machine. Some of the problems described are obviously just RH's Gnome 1.4 setup conflicting, which is no big surprise. And many problems sound like he just didn't bother thinking while using the system. Whoever came up with this idea that "we shouldn't have to think to be able to use a computer" should be beaten with something large. You have to think to use any other machine, right? Even I have to spend a moment thinking about what darkness setting I want my toaster set at. Part if living is thinking about things, people!
And the world is full of green cheese too, just because I believe it!
Seriously, I have to agree with you on that. Nobody running around today was around 4.6 billion years ago, or 5762 years ago, and any human who was around at that time didn't think to record the event. So the only resources we can depend on are religious scholars interpreting human writings from a Divine source, or scientific scholars interpreting a physical world from a Divine source. Either way, I think it is a perfectly fine way to do things.
And yes, I know I inserted my own "my belief is truth"ism in there, but too bad! I can be as pig-headed as I want, because I am writing on Slashdot!:)
If I had known this was newsworthy, I would have posted a few months ago when I got my Visor (Manos, the Handspring of Fate) running httpd with a Xircom wireless ethernet module...
When I was using a cable modem, they specifically said "You will get basic service with this whether you want it or not." I thought that is how everybody probably did it. I didn't realize some places tried to hide it from you...
Is this how things in the technology world work when one of the players doesn't hold a monopoly and everybody plays fair? I wish it worked like that in the PC business...
I recently got the Xircom Springport wireless module for my Visor (Manos, the Handspring of Fate). It has worked well in most all of the situations I have tried it in, and is a lot of fun. The built-in battery makes things easier too. The only setup I have run into where it didn't work with the default settings was on a friend's Linksys with a Win2k computer acting as a DHCP server. In that case I had to give it a static IP and other information. However, since that same setup gives that friend troubles with his Macs too, I won't blame the module quite yet.
Overall, it was a great buy. By the way, I got it NEW IN BOX!!1! from Ebay for $100 instead of for the $300 or so it tends to be at other places.
I do this apparently amazing and rather unheard of thing when I come to red light: I stop. I know, it may be a little hard for some people to understand, but I actually put forth the courtesy to stop at a light that is red and, thus, means "stop". Of course, the number of people that I saw run the red light outside my office window for the last four years leads me to believe most other people don't think this way.
C'mon, really. Don't think you could just leave 2 minutes earlier and not speed through every yellow/red light you come to? Pedestrians, people on bikes, and people who do actually follow a couple of the laws our fine government have come up with would appreciate it. And you know what? This way I don't have to worry about little cameras on poles, as I know they don't apply to me (unlike the fools who think red lights don't apply to them).
So, does this mean that every time I delete a piece of spam-mail I am stealing too? I had always thought it was them who were stealing my time and resources, not the other way around...
You know, Apple got rid of legacy ports a loooooong time ago (at least in computer-time). Of course, I am still a fan of legacy ports (where would all of my cool old hardware plug in?), but this doesn't seem groundbreaking on the grand scheme of things. Heck, Sun even went all USB on their SunRay appliances. Yeah, they aren't "real computers" but still. But, alas, the world is dominated by "innovation" from Intel and Micros~1, so until they do it, it hasn't been done. (like the "first optical mouse" that Micros~1 came up with a couple years ago - what do you call the optical Sun mouse I have that has "1992" stamped on the bottom of it?)
You know, this sounds a lot like the 20/20 hindsight problem: Things become obvious after you know about them. If you know my passwords, it would be very easy for you to figure out how I came up with them. However, there are thousands upon thousands of ways I could come up with my passwords, so the chance that somebody will come up with what one of them is at the right time on the right computer is rather low. For example, I might have a slinky sitting on my desk, but that doesn't mean somebody will immediately think of my password as being "metalSlinky" or "51inky" or "rollsdownstairs". They will be even more confused when they find out my password is actually created from the name of my dog. Since I might have a picture of my dog on my desk, they could then say "Oh, yeah, I knew that," but we both know they were really focusing on my slinky.
Of course, at the same time I would never underestimate the ability of people to come up with really, really bad passwords...
"The combination is: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5." ... "Remind me to change the combination on my luggage."
You want the laptop that I have sitting next to me? It is a CTX EZ Book complete with a 200 MHz Pentium Desktop processor. Yes, you read that correctly: desktop processor. It runs hot as can be and has no battery life to speak of, but my was it cheap to produce!
Now leave me alone so I can download more free pirated music!
Ok, this will be a little off topic, but whatever happened to the good ol' days when you would grab a piece of software with "Pirated by L33t Hax0r" stamped someplace on the title screen? Whenever I read "pirated music" that is all I can think of...
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I love it when people try to make a "I'm better than you, I would have never made that bandwidth mistake!" style reply to a post, but can't even spell things correctly. That sure makes you look SMRT!
Or... you could write your own. It isn't very hard:
a dlines.pl
http://www.wirelesscouch.net/cgi-bin/headlines/he
I'll have you know I just logged in to Slashdot for the first time in two or three years just to reply to this comment, because I totally agree. It is _way_ too often that I run across a page that looks like ass just because the designers didn't set a background color and didn't use transparent images. And the worst part is that this is one of the kind of things where, if you complain, they reply and say "Oh, well, that's your fault. You should have your background color set to white." Know what? They're wrong!
About 6 months ago I was looking for the perfect laptop: I wanted a Unixy OS, but I also wanted all of the features of the hardware to work (sleep, sound, modem, wireless, etc.). After much pondering and digging, I got an iBook. OSX Just Works(tm) with the hardware (as you would expect), is a lot of fun to use, and can run all of my X apps, console apps, and most anything else I need without much effort. But the big thing I really liked is that all of the hardware worked without spending a month grabbing kernel patches, fighting with modules, and trying giving up on various bits. Also, the iBook is nice and small (smaller than any of my friends and collegues laptops), has a good enough screen resolution, and is fairly powerful for laptop needs.
Of course, you can also wipe it off and put Linux on it. But, as a testament to OSX, let me say that not a single piece of hardware I own is running anything from Micros~1 - most everything is running Linux (or PalmOS, etc.) - and the iBook is the only one of the machines (beyond the ones that can't handle it) that havn't been overwritten with Linux.
So, in the end I recommend the iBook you mentioned at the beginning.
What's that ``double-S'' thingy you speak of? And what kind of poor excuse for a programmer/writer are you if you never use the back-tick and/or wiggly (tilde in some locals) key?
I sure hope this isn't the guy who redesigns _my_ keyboard to get rid of the useful stuff...
So, uh, if you have no tolerance for bad journalism, why do you read Slashdot?
This reminds me of 4 years ago when my own Lego-death scenes made the /. front page. You know, back when /. was fun to read still. Unfortunately, the server they live on is having a little net problem right now, else I would put up another link...
Looking at my computer collection, I have four computers running Linux, one running Solaris, one running NeXTstep, and one running Mac OS X. Looks like Linux is winning in my case!
Although, that Mac sure is cool...
That looks like it is still larger than (and not nearly as cool looking as) my good ol' SparcClassic case. For small PCs, nothing can beat the size and shape of the Classic in my opinion...
Any n-1 dimensional plane cutting through an n dimensional space is a hyperplane. So, the correct wording of the story would have been "A hyper plane is a 3-dimensional space that cuts through a 4-dimensional space, just as a 2-dimensional hyperplane cuts through 3-dimensional space."
Does this mean the people who wrote Apache can DoS my web server? And the GNU people can DoS the rest of my computer?
Maybe I'm odd or something, but all I want in a PDA is something that can hold addresses, remind me of things, play a few games when I am bored, and perhaps run a lisp interpreter or something similar. I have no wish to carry movies around on a little screen everyplace I go, nor do I want something that drains batteries as fast as a full sized laptop. That's what I like about palm devices. My Visor (Manos, the Handspring of Fate) is wonderfuly simple, Just Works(tm), and lasts 2 to 3 weeks on rechargable batteries. Seems like the perfect setup to me...
This sounds more like somebody that doesn't know much about writing (learn to use commas correctly!) who performed a bad install on a Redhat 7.x machine. Some of the problems described are obviously just RH's Gnome 1.4 setup conflicting, which is no big surprise. And many problems sound like he just didn't bother thinking while using the system. Whoever came up with this idea that "we shouldn't have to think to be able to use a computer" should be beaten with something large. You have to think to use any other machine, right? Even I have to spend a moment thinking about what darkness setting I want my toaster set at. Part if living is thinking about things, people!
And the world is full of green cheese too, just because I believe it!
:)
Seriously, I have to agree with you on that. Nobody running around today was around 4.6 billion years ago, or 5762 years ago, and any human who was around at that time didn't think to record the event. So the only resources we can depend on are religious scholars interpreting human writings from a Divine source, or scientific scholars interpreting a physical world from a Divine source. Either way, I think it is a perfectly fine way to do things.
And yes, I know I inserted my own "my belief is truth"ism in there, but too bad! I can be as pig-headed as I want, because I am writing on Slashdot!
If I had known this was newsworthy, I would have posted a few months ago when I got my Visor (Manos, the Handspring of Fate) running httpd with a Xircom wireless ethernet module...
When I was using a cable modem, they specifically said "You will get basic service with this whether you want it or not." I thought that is how everybody probably did it. I didn't realize some places tried to hide it from you...
Is this how things in the technology world work when one of the players doesn't hold a monopoly and everybody plays fair? I wish it worked like that in the PC business...
I recently got the Xircom Springport wireless module for my Visor (Manos, the Handspring of Fate). It has worked well in most all of the situations I have tried it in, and is a lot of fun. The built-in battery makes things easier too. The only setup I have run into where it didn't work with the default settings was on a friend's Linksys with a Win2k computer acting as a DHCP server. In that case I had to give it a static IP and other information. However, since that same setup gives that friend troubles with his Macs too, I won't blame the module quite yet.
Overall, it was a great buy. By the way, I got it NEW IN BOX!!1! from Ebay for $100 instead of for the $300 or so it tends to be at other places.
I do this apparently amazing and rather unheard of thing when I come to red light: I stop. I know, it may be a little hard for some people to understand, but I actually put forth the courtesy to stop at a light that is red and, thus, means "stop". Of course, the number of people that I saw run the red light outside my office window for the last four years leads me to believe most other people don't think this way.
C'mon, really. Don't think you could just leave 2 minutes earlier and not speed through every yellow/red light you come to? Pedestrians, people on bikes, and people who do actually follow a couple of the laws our fine government have come up with would appreciate it. And you know what? This way I don't have to worry about little cameras on poles, as I know they don't apply to me (unlike the fools who think red lights don't apply to them).
So, does this mean that every time I delete a piece of spam-mail I am stealing too? I had always thought it was them who were stealing my time and resources, not the other way around...
Actually, if you draw little dots on a piece of paper, it will kind of work on that too. :)
You know, Apple got rid of legacy ports a loooooong time ago (at least in computer-time). Of course, I am still a fan of legacy ports (where would all of my cool old hardware plug in?), but this doesn't seem groundbreaking on the grand scheme of things. Heck, Sun even went all USB on their SunRay appliances. Yeah, they aren't "real computers" but still. But, alas, the world is dominated by "innovation" from Intel and Micros~1, so until they do it, it hasn't been done. (like the "first optical mouse" that Micros~1 came up with a couple years ago - what do you call the optical Sun mouse I have that has "1992" stamped on the bottom of it?)
You know, this sounds a lot like the 20/20 hindsight problem: Things become obvious after you know about them. If you know my passwords, it would be very easy for you to figure out how I came up with them. However, there are thousands upon thousands of ways I could come up with my
passwords, so the chance that somebody will come up with what one of them is at the right time on the right computer is rather low. For example, I
might have a slinky sitting on my desk, but that doesn't mean somebody will immediately think of my password as being "metalSlinky" or "51inky"
or "rollsdownstairs". They will be even more confused when they find out my password is actually created from the name of my dog. Since I might have a picture of my dog on my desk, they could then say "Oh, yeah, I knew that," but we both know they were really focusing on my slinky.
Of course, at the same time I would never underestimate the ability of people to come up with really, really bad passwords...
"The combination is: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5."
...
"Remind me to change the combination on my luggage."
You want the laptop that I have sitting next to me? It is a CTX EZ Book complete with a 200 MHz Pentium Desktop processor. Yes, you read that correctly: desktop processor. It runs hot as can be and has no battery life to speak of, but my was it cheap to produce!
Now leave me alone so I can download more free pirated music!
Ok, this will be a little off topic, but whatever happened to the good ol' days when you would grab a piece of software with "Pirated by L33t Hax0r" stamped someplace on the title screen? Whenever I read "pirated music" that is all I can think of...