I have a normal GPRS mobile, the internet stuff is useful but not a killer.
For me the useful things my current phone (Sony Ericsson K750i) does are the camera (2 megapixel) and the MP3 player (1 gig capacity). Means I carry one thing in my pockeet instead of three.
The real killer app for me is the ability to control my PC with it over bluetooth, handy for presentations and stuff, and for the look on peoples face when the PC suddenly gets a mind of its own.
The most I've ever used the internet access for is to check football (soccer) results on a Saturday afternoon when I wasn't near a TV.
I've only got a Sun Netra X1 running Sparc Gentoo, a Netgear FSM726S switch, a Win2k domain controller, a dual boot XP/Gentoo 3500 Athlon 64 , a 1 gig Celeron with Win98SE running off a 2Mb ADSL connection on a Netgear DG834GT. There's a couple of laptops that connect to the wi-fi point on the router but that's pretty much it.
I did have a dual Pentium Pro 200 machine as well but it caught fire for some reason and I had to junk it......
Try running the computer systems for an insurance company where a couple of minutes can be very important to when a client is "on risk". On my systems time has to be accurate and synchronised across the whole network.
Slackware has a thriving community that is capable of stepping in to maintain the distro if anything were to happen to Pat Volkerding. This was pretty much proven during his recent illness.
Libranet doesn't seem to have attracted the same kind of following unfortunately.
If you have a look at the posting history of the original article writer in alt.os.linux.slackware you will see that his article is not an unbiased look at Slackware but an attempted hatchet job on the distro, he tends to post under the name ANC but morphs his email address to escape killfiles.
The only problem with this idea is that to upgrade you have to actually own a copy of the prior system.
My upgrade 2k pro still insists I find my NT4 WS disk and put it in the drive to prove I own it, can't do that if I sell my NT4 disk to someone else can I ?
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doesn't compiling code with Intel's cc result in significantly better binaries than any flag you can throw at gcc??
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Not if you're running on an AMD64 it doesn't.
http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/07/12/1
I have a normal GPRS mobile, the internet stuff is useful but not a killer.
For me the useful things my current phone (Sony Ericsson K750i) does are the camera (2 megapixel) and the MP3 player (1 gig capacity). Means I carry one thing in my pockeet instead of three.
The real killer app for me is the ability to control my PC with it over bluetooth, handy for presentations and stuff, and for the look on peoples face when the PC suddenly gets a mind of its own.
The most I've ever used the internet access for is to check football (soccer) results on a Saturday afternoon when I wasn't near a TV.
Apply random patches until one kind of works?
It's good enough for Microsoft dammit, it should be good enought for everybody !
which will merely LAND YOU IN COURT for piracy
It's not going to land me in court for piracy, I don't have a ship let alone an eye patch or a parrot....
Of course, this would destroy the IT world as we know it.
No, it would CHANGE the IT world as we know it, probably for the better.
I've only got a Sun Netra X1 running Sparc Gentoo, a Netgear FSM726S switch, a Win2k domain controller, a dual boot XP/Gentoo 3500 Athlon 64 , a 1 gig Celeron with Win98SE running off a 2Mb ADSL connection on a Netgear DG834GT. There's a couple of laptops that connect to the wi-fi point on the router but that's pretty much it.
I did have a dual Pentium Pro 200 machine as well but it caught fire for some reason and I had to junk it......
$DEITY NO !!!
The only reason for X is so that I can run a crapload of terminals !!!!!!
Tesco is like Walmart
One pound in every eight that is spent in the UK goes into their tills.
All an IQ test proves is that you can do IQ tests.
I sacrificed a chicken and chanted a bit to get a server restarted once, does that count as being a geek ?
Are you talking to our claims department then ?
Why hasn't this happened yet?
They haven't outsourced me yet !!!!!
Try running the computer systems for an insurance company where a couple of minutes can be very important to when a client is "on risk". On my systems time has to be accurate and synchronised across the whole network.
You don't get out much do you ?
I did, he glowed nicely after his dose of rads......
but, looking at the contents I remember when books like this were called manuals and came with your software in the box.
Slackware has a thriving community that is capable of stepping in to maintain the distro if anything were to happen to Pat Volkerding. This was pretty much proven during his recent illness.
Libranet doesn't seem to have attracted the same kind of following unfortunately.
If you have a look at the posting history of the original article writer in alt.os.linux.slackware you will see that his article is not an unbiased look at Slackware but an attempted hatchet job on the distro, he tends to post under the name ANC but morphs his email address to escape killfiles.
Ah, but I'm in the UK ;-).
I suppose it'll work in the US as well, it's a tri-band phone.
Nokia 6230
Plays MP3s and it has uncrippled Bluetooth, I just copy tracks over from my PC and away I go.
can limit your ability to get a product to market on time or in sufficient quantity ?
Could someone explain to me why this is news ? I must be a bit slow but I thought it was already common knowledge.
just to crawl about a server rack and under peoples desks, wtf is the point ?
I'm trying to work out how "Windows Public Beta" is different from a normal release for MS ?
Works great and supports Postgreqsl if you're of the frame of mind that MySQL have signed up with the devil.
Get the software at
http://www.s9y.org/
And see an example at
http://www.benarty.co.uk/blog/
The only problem with this idea is that to upgrade you have to actually own a copy of the prior system.
My upgrade 2k pro still insists I find my NT4 WS disk and put it in the drive to prove I own it, can't do that if I sell my NT4 disk to someone else can I ?