As one of the other posters said, buy an older R500 based ATI card. I'm trying this out myself; I ordered a card this week and (hopefully) will find out how well it works with the Radeon driver. But everything I've read suggests it will work pretty well.
I also ordered a (cheap) R600 (or R700? don't remember...) based card to experiment with or put on the shelf for a few months; people seem to be working quite hard on ironing the bugs out, and those will probably be well supported in the future.
I ordered my R580+ based card from a place called compuvest. It was my first order with them so I can't say whether or not they're worth recommending. They seem to have a lot of generation-ago equipment. Another place to try would be geeks.com, which is where I got the R600 based card.
I'm not sure how well this will work out, but that's what I'm trying...
I'll admit that there is a slight element of fashion... since I'd much rather carry a purse than wear baggy cargo pants! Maybe I'm just too old for that sort of thing?
I guess my point was that the *default* for most women's pants is either "no pockets" or "ridiculously tiny pockets". I'd have to go out of my way to find pants that would have usable pockets, and even then, they wouldn't be acceptable in places where I'm expected to "dress up", like a job interview, and I would look, not necessarily unattractive, but out of place. With a purse, even a crappy one, I can wear whatever random pants happen to be available/necessary for the occasion/clean/etc... For me it's entirely a functional, practical issue, and has nothing to do with paying thousands of dollars for some small, ugly sack with some rich idiot's initials on it!
Also, pants rarely have pockets big enough for a laptop *and* a half ton of crap, while they do make purses that big. Sadly, I don't have one that size at the moment...
Purses aren't practical? Okay, tell me where I'm supposed to put my wallet when MY PANTS DON'T EVEN HAVE POCKETS?!?!?!?!? And on the occassions when I do have pockets, they're usually too small to be useful. And then my girlfriends scold me for using them anyway, claiming I'm being unfashionable by carrying THINGS in my pockets.
The girl across the hall from me was showing me a picture of a $600 purse she wants to buy... which seems a little insane to me. I just want something to carry stuff in.
I think the solar panel is a bit much, personally; the light shouldn't be on often enough for the power supply to be an issue. I've seen other purses with an LED light built in; they didn't strike me as all that practical when I was looking at them in the store since the light doesn't get all the way to the bottom. I have had other women tell me they wish their purse had a light "like a fridge", though, so maybe the EL material would be an improvement.
I'll bet this is a troll. No specific details, could do a s/Tomcat/whatever/ and get the same review, the classic calling cards of a book review troll. You make the call...
Sorry, not a troll. Download part of the book and judge for yourself:
With better prose and better production values, a second edition might be worth a second look.
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How Tomcat Works
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My boss came into my office a few minutes ago, saw this book on my desk, and asked if I had seen the review on Slashdot. I laughed a bit and said I had. I read this book many months ago, and told my boss about it.
"How Tomcat Works" is a potentially good idea, done badly.
The writing is awful. Not just inelegant, but frequently so bad that it gets in the way of the ideas being presented. Spelling, typos, grammar problems, convoluted sentences, miswordings that invert the meaning of a sentence entirely: this book has all that, and more. A fourth grade teacher with a red pen would have made this a much better book.
A book on "Tomcat Internals" is a wonderful idea; Tomcat's a somewhat complicated beast. But the approach that this book takes... it just didn't work for me. It's possible that I simply couldn't get past the bad writing. Or it may simply be that it doesn't meet my needs. I'm familiar enough with Tomcat that I don't need it explained in tiny little baby steps. What I do need, when I'm up to my ankles in Tomcat internals and trying to solve a particular problem and get on with my life, is a clean, well organized book that will quickly get me oriented, refresh my memory on the relevant bits of Tomcat's architecture, and point me to the solution to my problem. This book fails to do that.
The production values in this book leave a lot to be desired. There aren't enough diagrams, and, at least in my edition, the few that do appear are printed at very low resolution. The index is a joke. (Hint for the authors: a quick indexing script doesn't always make a useful index, okay? Second hint: hyphens denoting sequential pages are cool.)
I've learned a lot about Tomcat since reading this book... mostly by wading through the source code. After a quick initial read-through, "How Tomcat Works" has stayed on my bookshelf, untouched, for at least five or six months. This book will join "Apache Server Commentary" in the pile of books that seemed like a really good idea, but in the end, were much less helpful than I had hoped.
If you just need a book on installing or using Tomcat, or writing Java servlets in general, there are many better books. If you need a book on Tomcat internals, you probably need a better book than this one.
One of my ISP's has their server a bit misconfigured, which I discovered when, by chance, I came across my.bash_history on a Google search! I don't use that particular account often, and there was nothing in the history that would compromise security, thank goodness. But I'm going to cancel the account anyway.
So, yes, your information can be exposed when someone else goofs up. How often do you check whether the contents of your home directory have found their way onto Google?
As far as why this happened, it may be related to the fact that the small ISP has been sold about three different times since I opened the account back in the mid-90's.
This ISP was, at some point in the past, also subject to a brute-force search of email addresses, obvious by the look of the spam that started to come in, and in the last couple years, it has gradually become 100% spam. So they weren't watching the SMTP server or the HTTP server, apparently.
Hopefully I'll be able to find a new ISP with more diligent and paranoid sysadmins.
What I really want to know is how to convince Steve Jobs that both battery life and battery configuration are really, really important.
My Powerbook G3 Pismo is great, I usually run it with two batteries, one in each bay, and another two batteries in my external charger. With that setup, I can work all day and all night completely wirelessly. I start in the morning with everything charged. At lunchtime I swap the empty battery in the Pismo for one in the charger; no need to even shut down or sleep; they're hot-swappable. At dinnertime I do a second swap. At bedtime I plug the Pismo back into the wall. Works great... or it did. The machine's old, the batteries are old and degraded... sometimes I have to swap three or four times in a day now. So, I upgraded.
My new G4 iBook has good battery life. I start in the morning with the battery charged... and at lunchtime, when it's dead, I switch back to the Pismo. If I had a spare iBook battery and a charger, I could simply shut the machine down (or put it to sleep, maybe), flip it over, and swap the batteries, but this is way less convenient!
Now, how do I convince Steve Jobs to make me a laptop with two battery bays in it?
Steve, if you're reading this from your hospital bed, get well soon, and pleeeease make a machine with two hot-swappable battery bays again! And don't make me stand on my head to swap them, either; put the battery on the side where I can get to it! (And you can leave out the optical drive; I never use it!)
I just bought a new iBook based, in part, on a tiny little review in Glamour.
For the Slashdot crowd: Glamour is a girls' clothes/hair/makeup/lifestyle magazine.
Now, to be fair, that wasn't the only reason I bought it! My G3 Pismo was getting kinda old, and I really did need a new laptop, and the iBook is both cuter and cheaper than the G4 Powerbook. But seeing it in a girls' magazine did have an influence. Peer pressure is both subtle and profound. And weird. And even weirder for girls.
Of course, I saw another review in Glamour for the iPod, in which they claimed that it was nice, but "hard to use", which made me wonder what they were trying to use it for? I have doorstops that are harder to use than my iPod.
I don't think many Slashdot readers will start subscribing to Glamour, though! (In fact, I might be the only one. Yes, I know, I am weird. The question is, which makes me weirder: Glamour, or Slashdot?)
I spent several hours today typing on my brand new folding palm keybard. It works pretty well since the keys are about normal size and I was able to get used to the keyboard quickly, and get a lot of stuff done.
I would not want to type, say, my thesis, on those funky little Clie keys. The folding keyboard seems much better if you need to type a lot of text. And if you don't need to type a lot of text, what's wrong with the stylus? (Hint: use the little tap keyboard, with practice it's faster than handwriting recognition, at least for me.)
I spend a lot of time in situations where neither wireless nor full size keybards are practical, so what works well for me might not be as good for other people.
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Read more here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R520#Variants
I also ordered a (cheap) R600 (or R700? don't remember...) based card to experiment with or put on the shelf for a few months; people seem to be working quite hard on ironing the bugs out, and those will probably be well supported in the future.
I ordered my R580+ based card from a place called compuvest. It was my first order with them so I can't say whether or not they're worth recommending. They seem to have a lot of generation-ago equipment. Another place to try would be geeks.com, which is where I got the R600 based card.
I'm not sure how well this will work out, but that's what I'm trying...
I'll admit that there is a slight element of fashion... since I'd much rather carry a purse than wear baggy cargo pants! Maybe I'm just too old for that sort of thing?
I guess my point was that the *default* for most women's pants is either "no pockets" or "ridiculously tiny pockets". I'd have to go out of my way to find pants that would have usable pockets, and even then, they wouldn't be acceptable in places where I'm expected to "dress up", like a job interview, and I would look, not necessarily unattractive, but out of place. With a purse, even a crappy one, I can wear whatever random pants happen to be available/necessary for the occasion/clean/etc... For me it's entirely a functional, practical issue, and has nothing to do with paying thousands of dollars for some small, ugly sack with some rich idiot's initials on it!
Also, pants rarely have pockets big enough for a laptop *and* a half ton of crap, while they do make purses that big. Sadly, I don't have one that size at the moment...
Purses aren't practical? Okay, tell me where I'm supposed to put my wallet when MY PANTS DON'T EVEN HAVE POCKETS?!?!?!?!? And on the occassions when I do have pockets, they're usually too small to be useful. And then my girlfriends scold me for using them anyway, claiming I'm being unfashionable by carrying THINGS in my pockets.
The girl across the hall from me was showing me a picture of a $600 purse she wants to buy... which seems a little insane to me. I just want something to carry stuff in.
I think the solar panel is a bit much, personally; the light shouldn't be on often enough for the power supply to be an issue. I've seen other purses with an LED light built in; they didn't strike me as all that practical when I was looking at them in the store since the light doesn't get all the way to the bottom. I have had other women tell me they wish their purse had a light "like a fridge", though, so maybe the EL material would be an improvement.
And... why is this on Slashdot? Whatever.
I'll bet this is a troll. No specific details, could do a s/Tomcat/whatever/ and get the same review, the classic calling cards of a book review troll. You make the call...
Sorry, not a troll. Download part of the book and judge for yourself:
You might like this book. I did not.
With better prose and better production values, a second edition might be worth a second look.
My boss came into my office a few minutes ago, saw this book on my desk, and asked if I had seen the review on Slashdot. I laughed a bit and said I had. I read this book many months ago, and told my boss about it.
"How Tomcat Works" is a potentially good idea, done badly.
The writing is awful. Not just inelegant, but frequently so bad that it gets in the way of the ideas being presented. Spelling, typos, grammar problems, convoluted sentences, miswordings that invert the meaning of a sentence entirely: this book has all that, and more. A fourth grade teacher with a red pen would have made this a much better book.
A book on "Tomcat Internals" is a wonderful idea; Tomcat's a somewhat complicated beast. But the approach that this book takes... it just didn't work for me. It's possible that I simply couldn't get past the bad writing. Or it may simply be that it doesn't meet my needs. I'm familiar enough with Tomcat that I don't need it explained in tiny little baby steps. What I do need, when I'm up to my ankles in Tomcat internals and trying to solve a particular problem and get on with my life, is a clean, well organized book that will quickly get me oriented, refresh my memory on the relevant bits of Tomcat's architecture, and point me to the solution to my problem. This book fails to do that.
The production values in this book leave a lot to be desired. There aren't enough diagrams, and, at least in my edition, the few that do appear are printed at very low resolution. The index is a joke. (Hint for the authors: a quick indexing script doesn't always make a useful index, okay? Second hint: hyphens denoting sequential pages are cool.)
I've learned a lot about Tomcat since reading this book... mostly by wading through the source code. After a quick initial read-through, "How Tomcat Works" has stayed on my bookshelf, untouched, for at least five or six months. This book will join "Apache Server Commentary" in the pile of books that seemed like a really good idea, but in the end, were much less helpful than I had hoped.
If you just need a book on installing or using Tomcat, or writing Java servlets in general, there are many better books. If you need a book on Tomcat internals, you probably need a better book than this one.
So, yes, your information can be exposed when someone else goofs up. How often do you check whether the contents of your home directory have found their way onto Google?
As far as why this happened, it may be related to the fact that the small ISP has been sold about three different times since I opened the account back in the mid-90's.
This ISP was, at some point in the past, also subject to a brute-force search of email addresses, obvious by the look of the spam that started to come in, and in the last couple years, it has gradually become 100% spam. So they weren't watching the SMTP server or the HTTP server, apparently.
Hopefully I'll be able to find a new ISP with more diligent and paranoid sysadmins.
What I really want to know is how to convince Steve Jobs that both battery life and battery configuration are really, really important.
My Powerbook G3 Pismo is great, I usually run it with two batteries, one in each bay, and another two batteries in my external charger. With that setup, I can work all day and all night completely wirelessly. I start in the morning with everything charged. At lunchtime I swap the empty battery in the Pismo for one in the charger; no need to even shut down or sleep; they're hot-swappable. At dinnertime I do a second swap. At bedtime I plug the Pismo back into the wall. Works great... or it did. The machine's old, the batteries are old and degraded... sometimes I have to swap three or four times in a day now. So, I upgraded.
My new G4 iBook has good battery life. I start in the morning with the battery charged... and at lunchtime, when it's dead, I switch back to the Pismo. If I had a spare iBook battery and a charger, I could simply shut the machine down (or put it to sleep, maybe), flip it over, and swap the batteries, but this is way less convenient!
Now, how do I convince Steve Jobs to make me a laptop with two battery bays in it?
Steve, if you're reading this from your hospital bed, get well soon, and pleeeease make a machine with two hot-swappable battery bays again! And don't make me stand on my head to swap them, either; put the battery on the side where I can get to it! (And you can leave out the optical drive; I never use it!)
For the Slashdot crowd: Glamour is a girls' clothes/hair/makeup/lifestyle magazine.
Now, to be fair, that wasn't the only reason I bought it! My G3 Pismo was getting kinda old, and I really did need a new laptop, and the iBook is both cuter and cheaper than the G4 Powerbook. But seeing it in a girls' magazine did have an influence. Peer pressure is both subtle and profound. And weird. And even weirder for girls.
Of course, I saw another review in Glamour for the iPod, in which they claimed that it was nice, but "hard to use", which made me wonder what they were trying to use it for? I have doorstops that are harder to use than my iPod.
I don't think many Slashdot readers will start subscribing to Glamour, though! (In fact, I might be the only one. Yes, I know, I am weird. The question is, which makes me weirder: Glamour, or Slashdot?)
I would not want to type, say, my thesis, on those funky little Clie keys. The folding keyboard seems much better if you need to type a lot of text. And if you don't need to type a lot of text, what's wrong with the stylus? (Hint: use the little tap keyboard, with practice it's faster than handwriting recognition, at least for me.)
I spend a lot of time in situations where neither wireless nor full size keybards are practical, so what works well for me might not be as good for other people.