got it running on my Dell Optiplex GX280 at work. No network or sound support for the onboard stuff, but sticking in a generic network card with a RTL8139D chip and it's off and running.
it's got an X300 only, graphics acceleration doesn't seem to be all working, but 2D interface is plenty fast. Screen savers are a slideshow tho.
honest to god: I ran Win2k Pro for about a year on a 486DX2-66 with 96MB of RAM. Office work and Internet surfing only, but hell I loved it. Stable, and acceptably fast.
very cool idea, but having little wires to power each key is hardly feasable, simply from a durability point of view.
But
Think it'd be possible to power this using the technology that powers RFID chips? have a transmitter located on the keyboard, little RFID-like chips to control each key...wonder if that'd be able to provide enough power....?
while I agree with his conclusions, several of his points seem a bit off:
5. More input options than PalmOS (e.g. transcriber, speech addon from MS).
Yes, but they all suck. Graffiti (Block Input) isn't nearly as accurate as with a Palm device, and the other options are so slow and inaccurate you end up using the oncreen keyboard most of the time. And yes I have tried Caligrapher, better, but not good enough still.
11. Better office format compliancy, MS Office is usually bundled with the PDA.
While PalmOS itself doesn't come with an Office app, nearly every manufacturer since OS 4 days has bundled Documents to Go with their Palm. And that completely knocks PocketOffice out the door. Table support, native Powerpoint,doc/xls format support, Pocket Office has NONE of these things. And there aren't even any third party apps that will provide it!
12. ActiveSync rocks, it allows for direct internet connection and can mount the PDA to your desktop (PalmOS' drive mode is a hack, and only available to recent models)
ActiveSync's continuous connection model is good in theory. In practice it's slow, crashes often (either the handheld, requiring a soft-reset or the PC-side, requireing either reloading ActiveSync or rebooting. And reloading ActiveSync needs to be done via a third party freeware program), and an overall resource hog. Backup functions suck on it too; you hard reset a palm, hotsync it and everything comes back. Hard-reset a PPC, and it refuses to acknowledge it as the same old pda. (Use Sprite backup instead, works great, but a tad pricey)
15. Able to install/run apps from flash addon cards and built-in storage.
All new Palm apps can do that. And the older ones can be stored in storage and run through some hackery in the OS. Not as nice, but it works.
I switched from an old Sony Clie T615 to a PocketPC (Acer n50). The single selling point that caused me to switch was the Wifi capability in the PPC. There just aren't any Palms out there with the same hardware as PPC. I still like Palm OS, yes it's built on an aging platform and design, but honestly I was able to get more work done, faster, and be more productive with the Palm than I ever am with this new PPC. If only Palm woke up and caught up with hardware people wanted, I'm sure it'd be much more competitive. As of now, you'd be stupid to pick up a Palm when you can get so many more features in a PPC for the same price.
it strikes me that viruses and spyware/adware/malware whatever you want to call it only differ from each other in that spyware contains an EULA. They're really both equally damaging to productivity, and I dare say that many spyware programs are harder to get rid of than viruses!
Why is it that spyware writers are free from prosecution? If virus writers wrote an EULA that was as unlikely to be read as those by common spyware programs, even if it stated explicetly that "this program is known as a virus, it will delete all your data and spread to other computers. Click yes if you agree to this", would that make virus authors immune to prosecution??
a brand new car won't explode on you if you leave it sitting in a parking lot idling.
a brand new idle Windows box connected to the internet however....
Capsules may be cheaper, but think of the capability of the shuttle. There does not exist another vehicle that can COMFORTABLY take 10 people into space and back, AND cargo too. The largest capsules only seat 3 people, and have no room for anything else. I think when you measure it as cost per capability, the reusable Shuttle is still a winner.
how can you NOT run as Administrator in XP though? The RunAs command doesn't work half the time, and when it does it installs the software in the wrong profile directory.
How many of us geeks actually manage to run XP as a Power User as we're "supposed" to and not as a member of the Admin group at the very least?
not to mention how some worms seem to be able to get past that stuff even if you are running as Power User, so now you have a worm ridden box, where the worm has more priviledges than you!
I think this is evidence the American influence is starting to get to us Canadians. now OUR police is assuming everyone is guilty and keeping tabs on everyone because it's POSSIBLE we're criminals. If this goes through, the whole notion of "innocent until proven guilty" will be turned on it's head here too. *sigh*
for me to never buy a not so creative Creative product again, to add to the list, next to unstable, bloated drivers, crappy sounding, slow performance.
I try never to buy, sell, or build systems with parts from unethical companies. Creative just made the list.
The "Run As" service in Windows works once in a blue moon. half hte time some obscure stupid error comes up and it won't let you run as a different user properly and crash out. If it worked as advertised I wouldn't be running as an admin regularly. As it stands, Windows useless unelss you run as an admin.
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got it running on my Dell Optiplex GX280 at work. No network or sound support for the onboard stuff, but sticking in a generic network card with a RTL8139D chip and it's off and running.
it's got an X300 only, graphics acceleration doesn't seem to be all working, but 2D interface is plenty fast. Screen savers are a slideshow tho.
it just looks so WRONG! =D
honest to god:
I ran Win2k Pro for about a year on a 486DX2-66 with 96MB of RAM. Office work and Internet surfing only, but hell I loved it. Stable, and acceptably fast.
very cool idea, but having little wires to power each key is hardly feasable, simply from a durability point of view.
But
Think it'd be possible to power this using the technology that powers RFID chips? have a transmitter located on the keyboard, little RFID-like chips to control each key...wonder if that'd be able to provide enough power....?
while I agree with his conclusions, several of his points seem a bit off:
5. More input options than PalmOS (e.g. transcriber, speech addon from MS).
Yes, but they all suck. Graffiti (Block Input) isn't nearly as accurate as with a Palm device, and the other options are so slow and inaccurate you end up using the oncreen keyboard most of the time. And yes I have tried Caligrapher, better, but not good enough still.
11. Better office format compliancy, MS Office is usually bundled with the PDA.
While PalmOS itself doesn't come with an Office app, nearly every manufacturer since OS 4 days has bundled Documents to Go with their Palm. And that completely knocks PocketOffice out the door. Table support, native Powerpoint,doc/xls format support, Pocket Office has NONE of these things. And there aren't even any third party apps that will provide it!
12. ActiveSync rocks, it allows for direct internet connection and can mount the PDA to your desktop (PalmOS' drive mode is a hack, and only available to recent models)
ActiveSync's continuous connection model is good in theory. In practice it's slow, crashes often (either the handheld, requiring a soft-reset or the PC-side, requireing either reloading ActiveSync or rebooting. And reloading ActiveSync needs to be done via a third party freeware program), and an overall resource hog. Backup functions suck on it too; you hard reset a palm, hotsync it and everything comes back. Hard-reset a PPC, and it refuses to acknowledge it as the same old pda. (Use Sprite backup instead, works great, but a tad pricey)
15. Able to install/run apps from flash addon cards and built-in storage.
All new Palm apps can do that. And the older ones can be stored in storage and run through some hackery in the OS. Not as nice, but it works.
I switched from an old Sony Clie T615 to a PocketPC (Acer n50). The single selling point that caused me to switch was the Wifi capability in the PPC. There just aren't any Palms out there with the same hardware as PPC. I still like Palm OS, yes it's built on an aging platform and design, but honestly I was able to get more work done, faster, and be more productive with the Palm than I ever am with this new PPC. If only Palm woke up and caught up with hardware people wanted, I'm sure it'd be much more competitive. As of now, you'd be stupid to pick up a Palm when you can get so many more features in a PPC for the same price.
Number 5... ALIVE !
he shoulda smuggled away a bobby pin or something (see Airplane II)
Anyone have a link on a HOWTO for doing something similar with a Linux router box instead?
nono, tits is fine. as long as there's no nipple.
she should've made him agree to an EULA first
if it's a parallel universe, couldn't it also be the end of that universe? maybe it's just ending in a different manner, but still ending nonetheless?
someone needs to write one, then we can really test the legality of this spyware "it's (hidden) in the EULA!" crap.
they gave a working human heart to a LAMB before they used it for that huge transplant waiting list???
um...OK THEN
I dare say it looks better on the Voodoo2 setup than it does on the DX9 cards. I mean, I can actually SEE!
it strikes me that viruses and spyware/adware/malware whatever you want to call it only differ from each other in that spyware contains an EULA. They're really both equally damaging to productivity, and I dare say that many spyware programs are harder to get rid of than viruses!
Why is it that spyware writers are free from prosecution? If virus writers wrote an EULA that was as unlikely to be read as those by common spyware programs, even if it stated explicetly that "this program is known as a virus, it will delete all your data and spread to other computers. Click yes if you agree to this", would that make virus authors immune to prosecution??
you mean this?
a cc id23.html
http://mm.iit.uni-miskolc.hu/Data/Winx/stories/
a brand new car won't explode on you if you leave it sitting in a parking lot idling. a brand new idle Windows box connected to the internet however....
Capsules may be cheaper, but think of the capability of the shuttle. There does not exist another vehicle that can COMFORTABLY take 10 people into space and back, AND cargo too. The largest capsules only seat 3 people, and have no room for anything else. I think when you measure it as cost per capability, the reusable Shuttle is still a winner.
I don't know about AES being rock solid, but setting up a 802.1x RADIUS server is a pain in the ass. I've still yet to figure it out.
At least this is giving us tools to make it more secure when we want to, instead of making it hard as hell to TRY being secure.
how can you NOT run as Administrator in XP though? The RunAs command doesn't work half the time, and when it does it installs the software in the wrong profile directory.
How many of us geeks actually manage to run XP as a Power User as we're "supposed" to and not as a member of the Admin group at the very least?
not to mention how some worms seem to be able to get past that stuff even if you are running as Power User, so now you have a worm ridden box, where the worm has more priviledges than you!
I think this is evidence the American influence is starting to get to us Canadians. now OUR police is assuming everyone is guilty and keeping tabs on everyone because it's POSSIBLE we're criminals. If this goes through, the whole notion of "innocent until proven guilty" will be turned on it's head here too. *sigh*
let's see:
1. Bonzi Buddy
2. Gator
3. lop
4. oops! no more apps can be started!
XP SE GUARANTEES your inability to work!
wouldn't this be a good way to test the new DEP in SP2?
for me to never buy a not so creative Creative product again, to add to the list, next to unstable, bloated drivers, crappy sounding, slow performance.
I try never to buy, sell, or build systems with parts from unethical companies. Creative just made the list.
The "Run As" service in Windows works once in a blue moon. half hte time some obscure stupid error comes up and it won't let you run as a different user properly and crash out. If it worked as advertised I wouldn't be running as an admin regularly. As it stands, Windows useless unelss you run as an admin.
actually, it's more like counting lighting bolts by listening to crackles on AM radio.