If you have a CD-ROM, just stick a RedHat CD in and boot.
If you don't have a CD-ROM, stick the HD in another system with a CD-ROM (it's EASY to get out.), install Linux, and boot. This is what I did on the iPaq I have at work. Linux runs like a champ.
BTW, the i810 sound/video can be a bit annoying. You need to download drivers from Intel to get video to work. Sound is easy if you've dealt with ALSA before. (I love ALSA, but creating a proper set of modules.conf entries is pure hell!)
Oh, and another option - Look into PXE network booting for Linux, the iPaqs have PXE netboot support. (If you're cloning multiple iPaqs, VA SystemImager would most likely work. I don't have a link on hand, but I got it from beowulf-underground.org)
I do recall that 56k was the limit in the 440 band, but I haven't head of 56k limits in higher bands. (I think most of them have some limit, but higher than 56k once you get above 1 GHz.)
I believe the original specs from N6GN indicated that even the 100 mW transmitters could probably reach 40 miles with a good LOS. (Of course, getting that good an LOS is TOUGH. You'd need VERY tall towers and no hills in between.)
These may be microwaves, but they're very low power. (Max 100 mW)
Compare this to the 500-1000 watts used by microwave ovens. Also, microwave ovens are specifically tuned to be absorbed at maximum efficiency by water.
The first issue, which a few people have mentioned, is that microwaves are LOS. On a lake with two mile range, that isn't really a problem.
The second is that developing high power in the microwave regions is very difficult. Note the quote of a 100 mW diode costing $45 in addition to the $90 cost of the rest of the unit. 100 mW isn't much power.
Fortunately, for link builders, the antenna size to achieve a given gain is proportional to the wavelength of the signal. In the case of this link, extremely high frequency means a very short wavelength and very high gain with not much of an antenna. A 1-2 foot dish will give incredible gain, but reduce your beamwidth to 5 degrees. (I don't have my ARRL Handbook with the exact quotes handy...)
It was posted for CSLUG consumption, I don't know what ESR's opinion is on posting for mass consumption. And anyway, the server it was hosted on has been down for about 2 weeks as its primary users (Myself and one other guy) aren't in Ithaca.
I'll talk to Aron (the guy that taped/captured/posted it) and see if he thinks we should contact ESR first about it.
Warning: It's 2 CDs worth (MPEG format, about 2 hours of video.)
Providing "enhanced" service to some doesn't mean you have to reduce service to everyone else. It's called adding an extra T3 line on the content provider's bill. (That's how I interpret this.)
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If you read the Evolution thread, they're adding VBS capability, but unlike Windows, they're keeping it in a sandbox with restrictions.
If anything, KDE is more Windows-like than GNOME by a long shot.
Personally, I use GNOME. Rip out Enlightenment, and it runs great. I do have KDE libs installed for some apps, although I'd vastly prefer if those apps used GTK+ - GTK is just so much more pleasing visually.
I know of at least one user that basically said about some distros, "I won't use it because I'm sick of Windows and I don't want anything remotely similar." - Thus eliminating every KDE-based distro. Yes, KDE may be a bit more polished now, but people should keep in mind that there are just as many users that are totally sick of what they've been having shoved down their throats and want something completely different as there are users who want something as similar as possible to Windows. For now, I think KDE and GNOME will be filling seperate niches.
Unfortunately, I've had similar problems, although with other bugs in the installer:
Remote install - Downloaded the RPMS, then said, "RPM is for wrong architecture" - The installer subsequently deleted all the RPMs and quit without installing the RPMs or giving any notice of a problem. (The errors were in the console - not everyone looks there!)
Local install - Installer segfaulted.
I downloaded the RPMs and installed manually. Once the installer is fixed, Gnome 1.2 is quite good.
BTW, on the stability/bloat issue everyone harps on - I've never had stability issues with the versions of GNOME that RedHat packages with their distros, esp. not 6.2
Bloat - This is enlightenment's fault, not GNOME. GNOME ditched E for this reason among others. Sawmill (sawfish now due to trademark issues) is just as pretty, and is MUCH faster. And of course, those that read the article will see that gdk-pixbuf's aim is for a major speed increase.
It looks like Corel has implemented it somehow in Corel Linux. I don't know if standard KDE has this, or it's a Corel add-on that will find its way to other distros as time goes by.
(Note, I haven't played with this myself, but I saw a demo of Corel Linux a few weeks ago - Pretty impressive if you don't mind KDE's ugliness. - No, I'm not going to hide the fact that I find KDE aesthetically plain to the point of being seriously displeasing.)
Your username is:username@netzero.net, and your password is the "encrypted" one. In the Windows PPP log, it'll show as being 1 character from the end of the password, seperated by some unprintable character.
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Unless the iPaq is a designation for an entire line of computers. The iPaq is a cheap iMac ripoff that sucks. I'm sitting on one right now. It's nice and small, but the CD-ROM drive is NOT a standard option. (Yes, that's right, NO removable media at all!), and it only has Ethernet, no modem.)
I'd have to agree... In some cases, having the same general look and feel as a MS product isn't THAT bad. It's when you get deep down into menus, etc. that things start getting nasty - you can't see this stuff from a screenshot. What's so bad that a client LOOKS like Outlook? As long as it does NOT clone Outlook in these respects: a) Security holes b) Bloat c) UI gets *nasty* once you get down into the dialog boxes/menus. So far, I don't know about b) or c), but a) is definately improved over Outlook, and I'm guessing that b) is a vast improvement, too.
I agree... Have you ever heard any of the orchestral arrangements of some of the game tunes? I have some Zelda and Mario stuff, among others, and some of it is *simply amazing*
The Zelda theme is great, even in original form, and there's a lot that could be done with it. If only I had 3-4 more weeks for my Intro to Digital Music final project. (I have a pretty sucky re-arrangement for the Mario theme.)
I know it's a joke, but those two do NOT belong together.
Bob was a flop, but some of Microsoft's mice are great. My trusty Logitech Cordless finally died after two years (thumb button stopped working), I replaced it with an Intellimouse Explorer - It's an excellent product, one of the few that MS has.
While some people don't seem to like the mousewheel, I love it. Microsoft claims to be an innovator, the only case where they're telling the truth is the mousewheel. (Correct me if I'm wrong and someone did the mousewheel before MS...)
As to the rest of the groupings, I don't know. But IMHO the hardware division should be seperated. Not because they give/receive an unfair advantage, but because whatever "Baby Bill" it's stuck with, it'll be dragged down. I hope MS decides to sping it off for similar reasons to Lucent getting spun off by AT&T and Palm Computing getting spun off into a seperate company from 3Com.
Note: Don't buy any MS Cordless mice. Logitech's been doing cordless for much longer, and from what I've heard of the MS Cordless mouse's battery life, it REALLY shows. I replaced my batteries every 6 months or so, I know someone who replaces their MS Cordless batteries every 3-4 weeks or less.
Problem: The old drivers are missing features that can't be added due to lack of documentation. (Like DMA, which is the primary reason the performance sucks.) In addition, the old drivers don't support the GeForce.
What makes a video card fast is 90% done by what's in the core of the chip, not the driver. For example, Voodoo1 vs. Voodoo2 - Before 3Dfx released a Voodoo2-aware glide for Linux, someone discovered that you could get the voodoo2 to work with the V1 drivers with 95% of the performance of the Voodoo2. (Which was about 2-3x that of the V1). All that was needed was to change a byte in the card-detection routine. Yes, the V2 had some additional features that needed driver modifications, but it's not like those were anything revolutionary - higher end boards had been using the same techniques for years.
Even if NVidia has something super-special that their drivers reveal, that's what patents were made for! If it's patented, it can't be stolen and used by another hardware vendor even if the source is available.
I don't see how a 6-month release interval can be considered a dishonest business practice in any way at all, as long as the released products aren't of shoddy quality. It's simply called keeping ahead of your competition. If they can't keep up technically, then too bad for them.
The driver issue - That's a different story. There's no reason not to go open-source. Maybe their hardware does some really neat stuff that might be revealed by open-source drivers. Well, that's what hardware patents are for. If they haven't patented whatever is so damn revolutionary about their card that they can't release source, then they're stupid.
Whatever secrets they have, they'll become obsolete soon anyway. In this market, the value of IP degrades pretty quickly.
Read my post up above - I've had NUMEROUS occasions where Mandrake was far less stable than Red Hat, mainly due to their insistence of including packages that are not yet stable. (Such as X 4.0, which supports fewer cards than 3.3.x and is less stable, they should wait for it to stabilize. Also some voodoo IDE optimization crap that is likely to fail as it did on a friend's machine on which RH 6.1 ran flawlessly.)
The last time RedHat vs. Mandrake came up, RedHat was bashed for having some older packages that were a revision or two behind.
Simply put, unlike Mandrake, RedHat actually takes care to make sure their OS is stable. If this means using somewhat older, less cutting edge but tried-and-true stuff, than so be it.
I can't have any respect for a distro that's putting X 4.0 into any sort of release. Despite the fact that it's versioned as an actual release, the general consensus is that it's still beta quality w.r.t stability, and it definately is missing support for numerous cards, such as the I128s that are in the lab where I work on my current research project. Including X4 in a distro at this point is stupid. (Even a beta - why have your beta release held up until whenever X4 catches up to X3.3.6 in stability/card support? Who knows when that's going to happen?)
Also, on a similar note, if you have the slightest bit of flakiness with your hardware, Mandrake will die, and die badly. One of my friends was trying to set up IP Masq, and was using Mandrake. It was doing some sort of "ide optimization" crap that did only one thing - render the system unusable/unbootable. (hung during init cycle). Gave him a copy of RedHat 6.1, installed and ran like a charm.
Mandrake's got some impressive things going on. But they take too many risks for a distro that's supposedly targeting newer desktop users - they're just asking for a support nightmare.
I can't believe it actually got posted - I gave up on getting posted. (This appeared over 3 weeks after submission.)
Fixed the problem about 3 days after I submitted my question. I found out that some people on linux-kernel had similar problems, the FlashPoint driver has some timing problems. I got a patch from one of the l-k guys, works like a charm.
It hasn't been integrated to the kernel tree, as they're still figuring out how to implement it without reducing performance for those who dont' have the problem.
Reading the article, you'll see that even the Beatles used synths.
I'm taking a course called Introduction to Digital Music, which is taught by one of Moog's "beta testers"/"guinea pigs". (Professor David Borden). Since beginning, I've noticed that almost every piece of music since the 80s that I've listened to has a synth. (Examples include Genesis, Phil Collins, and Van Halen among many others.)
And in modern days, there are those who are just "8-year-old-button pushers" *coughcoughSpearscoughcough*, and then there are those who are extremely skilled artists. (Orbital, Juno Reactor, Propellerheads to name a few). Haven't listened to Aphex Twin yet, but I intend to.
I nearly had a chance to participate in a videoconference with Keith Emerson and Robert Moog in addition to a few other people. Unfortunately, it was the same time as one of my exams. DAMN!
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If you have a CD-ROM, just stick a RedHat CD in and boot.
If you don't have a CD-ROM, stick the HD in another system with a CD-ROM (it's EASY to get out.), install Linux, and boot. This is what I did on the iPaq I have at work. Linux runs like a champ.
BTW, the i810 sound/video can be a bit annoying. You need to download drivers from Intel to get video to work. Sound is easy if you've dealt with ALSA before. (I love ALSA, but creating a proper set of modules.conf entries is pure hell!)
Oh, and another option - Look into PXE network booting for Linux, the iPaqs have PXE netboot support. (If you're cloning multiple iPaqs, VA SystemImager would most likely work. I don't have a link on hand, but I got it from beowulf-underground.org)
It links to the same design this project links to.
When was this announced?
I do recall that 56k was the limit in the 440 band, but I haven't head of 56k limits in higher bands. (I think most of them have some limit, but higher than 56k once you get above 1 GHz.)
I believe the original specs from N6GN indicated that even the 100 mW transmitters could probably reach 40 miles with a good LOS. (Of course, getting that good an LOS is TOUGH. You'd need VERY tall towers and no hills in between.)
These may be microwaves, but they're very low power. (Max 100 mW)
Compare this to the 500-1000 watts used by microwave ovens. Also, microwave ovens are specifically tuned to be absorbed at maximum efficiency by water.
The first issue, which a few people have mentioned, is that microwaves are LOS. On a lake with two mile range, that isn't really a problem.
The second is that developing high power in the microwave regions is very difficult. Note the quote of a 100 mW diode costing $45 in addition to the $90 cost of the rest of the unit. 100 mW isn't much power.
Fortunately, for link builders, the antenna size to achieve a given gain is proportional to the wavelength of the signal. In the case of this link, extremely high frequency means a very short wavelength and very high gain with not much of an antenna. A 1-2 foot dish will give incredible gain, but reduce your beamwidth to 5 degrees. (I don't have my ARRL Handbook with the exact quotes handy...)
It was posted for CSLUG consumption, I don't know what ESR's opinion is on posting for mass consumption. And anyway, the server it was hosted on has been down for about 2 weeks as its primary users (Myself and one other guy) aren't in Ithaca.
I'll talk to Aron (the guy that taped/captured/posted it) and see if he thinks we should contact ESR first about it.
Warning: It's 2 CDs worth (MPEG format, about 2 hours of video.)
Providing "enhanced" service to some doesn't mean you have to reduce service to everyone else. It's called adding an extra T3 line on the content provider's bill. (That's how I interpret this.)
If you read the Evolution thread, they're adding VBS capability, but unlike Windows, they're keeping it in a sandbox with restrictions.
If anything, KDE is more Windows-like than GNOME by a long shot.
Personally, I use GNOME. Rip out Enlightenment, and it runs great. I do have KDE libs installed for some apps, although I'd vastly prefer if those apps used GTK+ - GTK is just so much more pleasing visually.
I know of at least one user that basically said about some distros, "I won't use it because I'm sick of Windows and I don't want anything remotely similar." - Thus eliminating every KDE-based distro. Yes, KDE may be a bit more polished now, but people should keep in mind that there are just as many users that are totally sick of what they've been having shoved down their throats and want something completely different as there are users who want something as similar as possible to Windows. For now, I think KDE and GNOME will be filling seperate niches.
Unfortunately, I've had similar problems, although with other bugs in the installer:
Remote install - Downloaded the RPMS, then said, "RPM is for wrong architecture" - The installer subsequently deleted all the RPMs and quit without installing the RPMs or giving any notice of a problem. (The errors were in the console - not everyone looks there!)
Local install - Installer segfaulted.
I downloaded the RPMs and installed manually. Once the installer is fixed, Gnome 1.2 is quite good.
BTW, on the stability/bloat issue everyone harps on - I've never had stability issues with the versions of GNOME that RedHat packages with their distros, esp. not 6.2
Bloat - This is enlightenment's fault, not GNOME. GNOME ditched E for this reason among others. Sawmill (sawfish now due to trademark issues) is just as pretty, and is MUCH faster. And of course, those that read the article will see that gdk-pixbuf's aim is for a major speed increase.
It looks like Corel has implemented it somehow in Corel Linux. I don't know if standard KDE has this, or it's a Corel add-on that will find its way to other distros as time goes by.
(Note, I haven't played with this myself, but I saw a demo of Corel Linux a few weeks ago - Pretty impressive if you don't mind KDE's ugliness. - No, I'm not going to hide the fact that I find KDE aesthetically plain to the point of being seriously displeasing.)
Your username is :username@netzero.net, and your password is the "encrypted" one. In the Windows PPP log, it'll show as being 1 character from the end of the password, seperated by some unprintable character.
Unless the iPaq is a designation for an entire line of computers. The iPaq is a cheap iMac ripoff that sucks. I'm sitting on one right now. It's nice and small, but the CD-ROM drive is NOT a standard option. (Yes, that's right, NO removable media at all!), and it only has Ethernet, no modem.)
I'd have to agree... In some cases, having the same general look and feel as a MS product isn't THAT bad. It's when you get deep down into menus, etc. that things start getting nasty - you can't see this stuff from a screenshot. What's so bad that a client LOOKS like Outlook? As long as it does NOT clone Outlook in these respects: a) Security holes b) Bloat c) UI gets *nasty* once you get down into the dialog boxes/menus. So far, I don't know about b) or c), but a) is definately improved over Outlook, and I'm guessing that b) is a vast improvement, too.
I agree... Have you ever heard any of the orchestral arrangements of some of the game tunes? I have some Zelda and Mario stuff, among others, and some of it is *simply amazing*
The Zelda theme is great, even in original form, and there's a lot that could be done with it. If only I had 3-4 more weeks for my Intro to Digital Music final project. (I have a pretty sucky re-arrangement for the Mario theme.)
I know it's a joke, but those two do NOT belong together.
Bob was a flop, but some of Microsoft's mice are great. My trusty Logitech Cordless finally died after two years (thumb button stopped working), I replaced it with an Intellimouse Explorer - It's an excellent product, one of the few that MS has.
While some people don't seem to like the mousewheel, I love it. Microsoft claims to be an innovator, the only case where they're telling the truth is the mousewheel. (Correct me if I'm wrong and someone did the mousewheel before MS...)
As to the rest of the groupings, I don't know. But IMHO the hardware division should be seperated. Not because they give/receive an unfair advantage, but because whatever "Baby Bill" it's stuck with, it'll be dragged down. I hope MS decides to sping it off for similar reasons to Lucent getting spun off by AT&T and Palm Computing getting spun off into a seperate company from 3Com.
Note: Don't buy any MS Cordless mice. Logitech's been doing cordless for much longer, and from what I've heard of the MS Cordless mouse's battery life, it REALLY shows. I replaced my batteries every 6 months or so, I know someone who replaces their MS Cordless batteries every 3-4 weeks or less.
Problem: The old drivers are missing features that can't be added due to lack of documentation. (Like DMA, which is the primary reason the performance sucks.) In addition, the old drivers don't support the GeForce.
What makes a video card fast is 90% done by what's in the core of the chip, not the driver. For example, Voodoo1 vs. Voodoo2 - Before 3Dfx released a Voodoo2-aware glide for Linux, someone discovered that you could get the voodoo2 to work with the V1 drivers with 95% of the performance of the Voodoo2. (Which was about 2-3x that of the V1). All that was needed was to change a byte in the card-detection routine. Yes, the V2 had some additional features that needed driver modifications, but it's not like those were anything revolutionary - higher end boards had been using the same techniques for years.
Even if NVidia has something super-special that their drivers reveal, that's what patents were made for! If it's patented, it can't be stolen and used by another hardware vendor even if the source is available.
I don't see how a 6-month release interval can be considered a dishonest business practice in any way at all, as long as the released products aren't of shoddy quality. It's simply called keeping ahead of your competition. If they can't keep up technically, then too bad for them.
The driver issue - That's a different story. There's no reason not to go open-source. Maybe their hardware does some really neat stuff that might be revealed by open-source drivers. Well, that's what hardware patents are for. If they haven't patented whatever is so damn revolutionary about their card that they can't release source, then they're stupid.
Whatever secrets they have, they'll become obsolete soon anyway. In this market, the value of IP degrades pretty quickly.
Read my post up above - I've had NUMEROUS occasions where Mandrake was far less stable than Red Hat, mainly due to their insistence of including packages that are not yet stable. (Such as X 4.0, which supports fewer cards than 3.3.x and is less stable, they should wait for it to stabilize. Also some voodoo IDE optimization crap that is likely to fail as it did on a friend's machine on which RH 6.1 ran flawlessly.)
The last time RedHat vs. Mandrake came up, RedHat was bashed for having some older packages that were a revision or two behind.
Simply put, unlike Mandrake, RedHat actually takes care to make sure their OS is stable. If this means using somewhat older, less cutting edge but tried-and-true stuff, than so be it.
I can't have any respect for a distro that's putting X 4.0 into any sort of release. Despite the fact that it's versioned as an actual release, the general consensus is that it's still beta quality w.r.t stability, and it definately is missing support for numerous cards, such as the I128s that are in the lab where I work on my current research project. Including X4 in a distro at this point is stupid. (Even a beta - why have your beta release held up until whenever X4 catches up to X3.3.6 in stability/card support? Who knows when that's going to happen?)
Also, on a similar note, if you have the slightest bit of flakiness with your hardware, Mandrake will die, and die badly. One of my friends was trying to set up IP Masq, and was using Mandrake. It was doing some sort of "ide optimization" crap that did only one thing - render the system unusable/unbootable. (hung during init cycle). Gave him a copy of RedHat 6.1, installed and ran like a charm.
Mandrake's got some impressive things going on. But they take too many risks for a distro that's supposedly targeting newer desktop users - they're just asking for a support nightmare.
Otherwise, why is blowing a picture up to 8.5x11 (or more) possible?
I can't believe it actually got posted - I gave up on getting posted. (This appeared over 3 weeks after submission.)
Fixed the problem about 3 days after I submitted my question. I found out that some people on linux-kernel had similar problems, the FlashPoint driver has some timing problems. I got a patch from one of the l-k guys, works like a charm.
It hasn't been integrated to the kernel tree, as they're still figuring out how to implement it without reducing performance for those who dont' have the problem.
Reading the article, you'll see that even the Beatles used synths.
I'm taking a course called Introduction to Digital Music, which is taught by one of Moog's "beta testers"/"guinea pigs". (Professor David Borden). Since beginning, I've noticed that almost every piece of music since the 80s that I've listened to has a synth. (Examples include Genesis, Phil Collins, and Van Halen among many others.)
And in modern days, there are those who are just "8-year-old-button pushers" *coughcoughSpearscoughcough*, and then there are those who are extremely skilled artists. (Orbital, Juno Reactor, Propellerheads to name a few). Haven't listened to Aphex Twin yet, but I intend to.
I nearly had a chance to participate in a videoconference with Keith Emerson and Robert Moog in addition to a few other people. Unfortunately, it was the same time as one of my exams. DAMN!