Again, this is a private process not designed to freak anyone out. It's designed to put someone on the path of healing.
It may very well be private as far as the church is concerned, but once the press gets ahold of it, game over. And we all know how voracious the press is for juicy news (this would qualify, I would think, at least within the IT community).
There is a way to turn off just radio reception, so the watch can continue to function. Once it's turned on again, the watch will pick up the correct local time (based on whichever atomic clock it pulls the info from).
That being said, I don't know how any of the flight crew would know the difference... it looks like any other LCD watch.
I see you use a Zaurus, but have you ever thought of deveoping for a Qtopia/OpenZaurus environment? We could use a good AvantGo app for the Zaurus.
Really.
For all the bitching I hear about WinCE/Palm being awful environments to develop, I don't see much work for the Embedded Linux side. I can assure you your work would be appreciated. And we'd pay for good, solid apps.
So I'm here attending LinuxWorld in NYC and was wandering around Mid-town. Came upon a Fossil watch store. They have this watch that gets all it's info from MSN, called Wrist Net.
I gave in to impulse and bought one ($199 plus $59 per year MSNDirect service).
It's actually pretty cool (and I'm no Mircosoft fan). If I could have found one that didn't rely on MSN for the content it would have been better, but it works pretty well. I only wonder if it will turn out to be the bomber that was Fossil's Wrist Palm.
In any case, does anyone know what the watch actually runs? I can't find anything in the documentation.
Actually, at the time, it was a pretty neat desktop. By today's standards it obviously wouldn't hold its own though. I had used it back in maybe 96-97... it had a GREAT Netware Client that worked with 4.x (what was "in" at the time), not to mention pretty decent NW Admin tools. I'm assuming that the tight Netware integration had to do with the then close ties with Novell.
How things change.
Also, the most tricky manouvre tested in the US seems to be parking, whereas in the UK you also have to safely demonstrate emergency stopping, reversing around a corner, making a three-point turn (turning around the direction of your car in a confined area using forward and reverse gears), etc.
The emergency stopping is definitely a good idea, as well as the three-point turn, however you'll never see reversing around a corner -at overtly, as it's illegal in (I believe) all states.
As for the P4/1.8GHz story try this for a test : Install MySQL on your linux PC and create a database with a table of about 5-6GB. Run alter table on it. Wait for it CRUMBLE TO DUST as it hits past 2GBs. Then get a Sun.
Now create that same database with MySQL on a Sun box (I don't think you can get > 3.2 for Solaris) and watch it crumble as well. It's not Linux or any other OS, for that matter... it's MySQL that dies.
Or you could do what we've done where I work:
Keep support for the hardware only and put Suse 7.3 Sparc on it.
I have no benchmarks, but it sure feels zippier than Solaris 8 or 9 for the kind of stuff we do (NFS&SMB, limited DB stuff).
I have to ask:
If you think being an MCP sucks (I'm not one, nor do I plan on being one, so I wouldn't know), why did you even bother taking the exam? Was it for employment possibilities? Job requirement? If that's the case - and I'm assuming that you would prefer to do other (perhaps Linux) systems work - why not market that instead? If you're strong in other systems, you're definitely employable.
It runs on a laptop with "few problems". Few problems is a reason enough not to switch.
I've said this before, but I'll repeat it. This is really an old argument. If you were to install Windows XP on the same laptop from scratch, you would run into the same (possibly more) problems. Here's a little experiment I recently did:
I bought an emachine laptop (M5310) not too long ago. It came with XP Home installed. I wiped it clean. Installed Suse 9 on it. I had to change a line in/etc/XF86Config to get the proper screen resolution (1280x800). Hot-plug devices (PC cards and USB) worked properly. ACPI worked fine, although I had to futz with the power-management settings a bit (/etc/sysconfig/powermanagement) to get proper CPU throttling. Other than that, SUSE loaded fine.
Now I decided to load XP Professional. Why professional instead of Home? Well, I had a full copy of XP PRO and didn't have a full Home copy. That's right. The laptop did not ship with the full media. It came with a Ghost image.
Let me tell you... XP Pro barfed all over the place. Could not get wireless working. Screen resolution was 1280-768 stretched (I probably could have found a way to fix this, admittedly).
Somehow, after the initial install, the CD/DVD drive was gone. Couldn't get it back. Only one USB port worked - how XP managed that I don't know.
My point is that there will always be problems with getting any machine working properly after a fresh install - Linux, XP, BSD. The real key to desktop acceptance by Joe Camera/Scanner/Dialup is for manufacturers to ship boxes with Linux loaded and a generous set of drivers/modules installed - they're out there. All it takes is for one major computer maker to do the quality testing of everything for their hardware.
I doubt it. If you were a Windows (perhaps only) admin and were told to migrate to Unix, would you know what to dod with the tools? This is simply MS's attempt to get Unix people productive (and therefore more willing to at least consider switching) to Windows.
Eventually SCO and Novell are going to have to go at it in a courtroom to determine who owns what and what they can do with it.
True enough (IMO), but do you really think SCO will be around when this finally comes to happen? I mean, they've got their hands pretty full with their current lawsuits - and they've actually only filed one themselves - the rest are against them. They aren't talking much about the lawsuits against them either, other than the initial "Hey, they're out to get us" comments. The only thing we've consistently been hearing is "We're right, you all are wrong" without ANY substantial data to back anything up.
If Novell/SCO were to ever make it to court (and I really doubt it), how much of SCO could there possibly be left? Novell definitely has more staying power.
Not only that, you can download a small ISO for SUSE 9 that will then continue on with a full ftp install. If you don't want to do an ftp install, download all the files to another server. You can then install via http, NFS or Samba.
The article says that things are still going as planned with UnitedLinux, mentioning the groups involved, including SCO. Not too long ago I switched from RedHat to SUSE 9 and (still) am all set to recommend the switch on our cluster at work from RH 7.3 to SUSE. I would hate to do that, only to find out that SCO will have something to say WRT any UnitedLinux installation.
But Linux needs to steer away from being "the nerd OS" to being something my grandma can use.
Tell you what. Sit one of your relatives in from of a properly configured Linux desktop (either KDE or Gnome will do). Let them click around for awhile and answer any questions they have. People get the hang of Linux on the desktop pretty quickly. The reason your grandma probably doesn't want to deal with Linux on the desktop is because you're making it seem more difficult for her than it really is.
It's up to us to teach people how to use a Linux desktop, not the desktop itself.
If we're going to continue to misspell his name, we might as well spell it Derwood, don big red wigs and colorful mu-mus and chant spells at hime while snapping in grand gestures.
I don't think any of the distributions are worried at all about MS. I can't remember the last time SUSE or Mandrake made a comment about MS, pro or con. Yeah, RedHat's recently made a couple, but that's because they're changing their licensing scheme (and forgetting who the majority of their customers are in the process).
I don't believe any sort of server should be dynamic. The whole idea of a server is that it's a static place one can always reach.
Dynamic setups are partially the reason email is in the pickle it's in right now.
who will use the IP either to squash competition by not licensing it to anyone (to kill off UNIX and Linux - the Microsoft option)...
I don't know the specifics of Sun's licensing (I understand it's perpetual), but contracts usually are included in the sale. There's no way they could kill off Unix, much less Linux if Microsoft were to buy out SCO. Say what you want about code being placed within Linux. Linux as a whole is still GPL'd and that will never change.
Did they actually go harrass threaten and lie to take money from people?
Harrass? Probably not. But lying, yes. To their own employees. Most of those employees contributed to 401Ks that were managed by Enron's very own finance dept. Their 401Ks no longer exist.
Your pricing is way off on the cards. You can get 1 gig CF and SD cards for well under 200 bucks now. The price is continuing to fall too. I dunno... I've always looked at cards slots for storage expansion as a plus. My other real point was that the Zaurus does a lot of other things besides audio and video. I'd rather carry around one device with a couple of expansion cards than two or three dedicated devices.
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It may very well be private as far as the church is concerned, but once the press gets ahold of it, game over. And we all know how voracious the press is for juicy news (this would qualify, I would think, at least within the IT community).
There is a way to turn off just radio reception, so the watch can continue to function. Once it's turned on again, the watch will pick up the correct local time (based on whichever atomic clock it pulls the info from).
That being said, I don't know how any of the flight crew would know the difference... it looks like any other LCD watch.
Really.
For all the bitching I hear about WinCE/Palm being awful environments to develop, I don't see much work for the Embedded Linux side. I can assure you your work would be appreciated. And we'd pay for good, solid apps.
I gave in to impulse and bought one ($199 plus $59 per year MSNDirect service).
It's actually pretty cool (and I'm no Mircosoft fan). If I could have found one that didn't rely on MSN for the content it would have been better, but it works pretty well. I only wonder if it will turn out to be the bomber that was Fossil's Wrist Palm.
In any case, does anyone know what the watch actually runs? I can't find anything in the documentation.
Actually, at the time, it was a pretty neat desktop. By today's standards it obviously wouldn't hold its own though. I had used it back in maybe 96-97... it had a GREAT Netware Client that worked with 4.x (what was "in" at the time), not to mention pretty decent NW Admin tools. I'm assuming that the tight Netware integration had to do with the then close ties with Novell.
How things change.
The emergency stopping is definitely a good idea, as well as the three-point turn, however you'll never see reversing around a corner -at overtly, as it's illegal in (I believe) all states.
Now create that same database with MySQL on a Sun box (I don't think you can get > 3.2 for Solaris) and watch it crumble as well. It's not Linux or any other OS, for that matter... it's MySQL that dies.
Or you could do what we've done where I work:
Keep support for the hardware only and put Suse 7.3 Sparc on it.
I have no benchmarks, but it sure feels zippier than Solaris 8 or 9 for the kind of stuff we do (NFS&SMB, limited DB stuff).
Provide some links. Instead of *sighing* and griping about being the only one who reads metalink, help people out. Lots of people would be interested.
I have to ask:
If you think being an MCP sucks (I'm not one, nor do I plan on being one, so I wouldn't know), why did you even bother taking the exam? Was it for employment possibilities? Job requirement? If that's the case - and I'm assuming that you would prefer to do other (perhaps Linux) systems work - why not market that instead? If you're strong in other systems, you're definitely employable.
I've said this before, but I'll repeat it. This is really an old argument. If you were to install Windows XP on the same laptop from scratch, you would run into the same (possibly more) problems. Here's a little experiment I recently did:
I bought an emachine laptop (M5310) not too long ago. It came with XP Home installed. I wiped it clean. Installed Suse 9 on it. I had to change a line in /etc/XF86Config to get the proper screen resolution (1280x800). Hot-plug devices (PC cards and USB) worked properly. ACPI worked fine, although I had to futz with the power-management settings a bit (/etc/sysconfig/powermanagement) to get proper CPU throttling. Other than that, SUSE loaded fine.
Now I decided to load XP Professional. Why professional instead of Home? Well, I had a full copy of XP PRO and didn't have a full Home copy. That's right. The laptop did not ship with the full media. It came with a Ghost image.
Let me tell you... XP Pro barfed all over the place. Could not get wireless working. Screen resolution was 1280-768 stretched (I probably could have found a way to fix this, admittedly). Somehow, after the initial install, the CD/DVD drive was gone. Couldn't get it back. Only one USB port worked - how XP managed that I don't know.
My point is that there will always be problems with getting any machine working properly after a fresh install - Linux, XP, BSD. The real key to desktop acceptance by Joe Camera/Scanner/Dialup is for manufacturers to ship boxes with Linux loaded and a generous set of drivers/modules installed - they're out there. All it takes is for one major computer maker to do the quality testing of everything for their hardware.
I doubt it. If you were a Windows (perhaps only) admin and were told to migrate to Unix, would you know what to dod with the tools? This is simply MS's attempt to get Unix people productive (and therefore more willing to at least consider switching) to Windows.
Friends and family, maybe, but not mail. These things aren't sent via regular mail. They're usually messengered over - much more accountable.
True enough (IMO), but do you really think SCO will be around when this finally comes to happen? I mean, they've got their hands pretty full with their current lawsuits - and they've actually only filed one themselves - the rest are against them. They aren't talking much about the lawsuits against them either, other than the initial "Hey, they're out to get us" comments. The only thing we've consistently been hearing is "We're right, you all are wrong" without ANY substantial data to back anything up.
If Novell/SCO were to ever make it to court (and I really doubt it), how much of SCO could there possibly be left? Novell definitely has more staying power.
Not only that, you can download a small ISO for SUSE 9 that will then continue on with a full ftp install. If you don't want to do an ftp install, download all the files to another server. You can then install via http, NFS or Samba.
The article says that things are still going as planned with UnitedLinux, mentioning the groups involved, including SCO. Not too long ago I switched from RedHat to SUSE 9 and (still) am all set to recommend the switch on our cluster at work from RH 7.3 to SUSE. I would hate to do that, only to find out that SCO will have something to say WRT any UnitedLinux installation.
Take a deep breath a go back a re-read the parent post. He was obviously was making a funny. Relax and enjoy it.
Sheesh.
Tell you what. Sit one of your relatives in from of a properly configured Linux desktop (either KDE or Gnome will do). Let them click around for awhile and answer any questions they have. People get the hang of Linux on the desktop pretty quickly. The reason your grandma probably doesn't want to deal with Linux on the desktop is because you're making it seem more difficult for her than it really is.
It's up to us to teach people how to use a Linux desktop, not the desktop itself.
If we're going to continue to misspell his name, we might as well spell it Derwood, don big red wigs and colorful mu-mus and chant spells at hime while snapping in grand gestures.
I don't think any of the distributions are worried at all about MS. I can't remember the last time SUSE or Mandrake made a comment about MS, pro or con. Yeah, RedHat's recently made a couple, but that's because they're changing their licensing scheme (and forgetting who the majority of their customers are in the process).
I don't believe any sort of server should be dynamic. The whole idea of a server is that it's a static place one can always reach. Dynamic setups are partially the reason email is in the pickle it's in right now.
The server runs natively on Linux. The client needs Wine (or, in my case, Crossover Office).
I don't know the specifics of Sun's licensing (I understand it's perpetual), but contracts usually are included in the sale. There's no way they could kill off Unix, much less Linux if Microsoft were to buy out SCO. Say what you want about code being placed within Linux. Linux as a whole is still GPL'd and that will never change.
Harrass? Probably not. But lying, yes. To their own employees. Most of those employees contributed to 401Ks that were managed by Enron's very own finance dept. Their 401Ks no longer exist.
I'd say that's pretty evil and misleading.
Your pricing is way off on the cards. You can get 1 gig CF and SD cards for well under 200 bucks now. The price is continuing to fall too. I dunno... I've always looked at cards slots for storage expansion as a plus. My other real point was that the Zaurus does a lot of other things besides audio and video. I'd rather carry around one device with a couple of expansion cards than two or three dedicated devices.