The shashdot article says 1700 CET, which is 5 pm, not 7 pm!
I'm currently using CEST (Central European Summer Time?), and my computer says that 18:00 CEST is 16:00 UTC.
If that's any help...
To get a good sound quality for the speech recognition engine, and to allow for full hands-free use (having the PDA in a pocket), I think some sort of headset will be required.
This would be a simple way to make sure that only the person wearing the headset can use the speech-controlled functionality.
When will PalmOS run on faster CPU:s?
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I agree that a key question is when Palm-based PDA:s will run on faster CPU:s, such as 200 MHz StrongARM:s.
I'm working on Speech Recognition on StrongARM, and there are some really neat things that can be done on StrongARM-based PDA:s, but the Dragonball is out of the question.
Personally, although I like PalmOS, I would rather go with something like the Linux-based Sharp Zaurus today, than buy a new PalmOS PDA with slow processors.
There are very serious problems with the shared library versioning scheme on Linux.
I pointed out some of them on the bug-glibc mailing list:
if glibc (or really any shared library, bug glibc is fundemaental for all apps) is updated (even from, say, 2.1.1 to 2.1.2), the
n all applications (including things like X-windows) on the system need to be recompiled for guaranteed correct behaviour.
If a user has glibc 2.2.2, downloads an application which was compiled with glibc 2.2.1, but uses some shared already on the user's computer compiled under glibc 2.2.2, correct behaviour is not guaranteed.
I havn't had time to propose a solution, but there should be one if you think hard enough...
I agree, I think that noise can be unconciously irritating, even when you don't conciously hear it. The fact that you notice (and appreciate!) silence when you turn the machine off even when not having noticed the noise would be indicative of this.
The Whisper system I wrote about supposedly has some sort of special hard disk caddy to dampen the hard disk noise. I imagine that an absorbing material which prevents the vibrations from spreading to the chassis might do a lot of good.
IMHO, an important and often underrated ergonomic problem is computer noise.
Even a fairly low background noise gets irritating after a while. Remember the good old days when computers had neither power supply nor CPU fans?
I'll be trying the Lap PowerWhisper System (Sorry, in Swedish only), it's supposed to generate under 24 dBA (quieter than your normal bedroom/living room). I just hope it will fit an ABIT BP6 mobo with 2 celerons!
Does anyone have experience with this case, or other good solutions for having a quiet computer system?
The Sharky Extreme Overclocking Guide claims that 75% of Celeron 466 can be overclocked to 525 MHz, that all 400 MHz CPUs can be overclocked to 450 MHz, and 85% to 498 MHz.
This led me to the conclusion that a 400 MHz Celeron might be better than a 466 MHz, due to the greater likelyhood of overclockability, and the fact that successfull overclocking will give a faster bus speed (83 MHz for 400 oc'd to 498 MHz).
I'd say the relationship between politics & software/Linux this brings up is important and relevant as "News for Nerds".
I visited China's westernmost central Asian Xinjiang province recently. The intellectual oppression of local Asian population was sad to see.
China is an interesting case because I believe it is clear to many of us that the PRC violates human rights. At the same time, my (very uniformed) feeling is that the Chinese government (and probably people too) are unclear about what direction their country should take. There is a lacking ideological leadership after Mao Tsetung and Deng Xiaoping.
In such a volatile state of affairs, memes such as the open source movement, and the principles of openness of the internet might possibly have some influence on the developing future.
Internet access is springing up even in remote areas, and the governmental censorship of the Internet is futile (amnesty.org was blocked, but viewing the site from for exampel google's cache was no problem. Trying to find and censor encrypted/access controlled websites must be difficult). So if nothing else, the Internet has created a channel for independent information.
Well, as far as I can see, FLTK is C++ and not available for Java. So it's not really an alternative if you want to program in Java, which IMHO is a nicer programming language.
I think (sorry if I'm misinterpreting you) that you're assuming the same people/company makes the games and the engine (so the development of one can subsidize the other).
Why make this assumption? Very different skills are involved.
I'm starting a company to make a game engine. We're good coders, but we'll let other companies (who are good at the content part) make the games.
I don't see how we can make money while making the engine open source. Suggestions welcome.
How to make a Linux boot CD-ROM w/auto drivers?
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I've been thinking about doing something like this to show a software demo on computers without Linux. The trick would of course be the drivers (mainly sound and graphics). Is anyone working on such support? How good is the auto-detect/probing of hardware? I imagine installation would be much more user friendly if the system could largely configure itself in terms of hardware. Hmm. I guess good Plug and Play support would solve this... Sorry if I'm just rambling:-)
The movie which best captures Gibson's style is a great (but not well known) Italian/French movie called Nirvana (http://www.nirvana.it). Has anyone else out there seen it? My guess is that we need a European movie to do it right, Hollywood just can't catch the nuances and humor properly.
Apparently this is the american version whose power supply only works on 110V as opposed to the european one, which I believe automatically switches between 110/220 volts. So, a friend of mine offered to buy me one (thanks, Mårten!) because he already has one, and hence my questions:
What kind of AC adapter do the Palm Vs have? Is it a standard connector to the cradle? What voltage/current does it supply? I'd be most grateful for any replies!
It seems to me like there are often interesting discussions regarding the changes in the newly released kernels, here on slashdot. In that sense, I think Slashdot as a forum works well. As long as there are people who post with interesting content, there is obviously some interest in the event.
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The shashdot article says 1700 CET, which is 5 pm, not 7 pm!
I'm currently using CEST (Central European Summer Time?), and my computer says that 18:00 CEST is 16:00 UTC.
If that's any help...
...it seems like that one went down Monday night already ( Graph).
To get a good sound quality for the speech recognition engine, and to allow for full hands-free use (having the PDA in a pocket), I think some sort of headset will be required.
This would be a simple way to make sure that only the person wearing the headset can use the speech-controlled functionality.
I agree that a key question is when Palm-based PDA:s will run on faster CPU:s, such as 200 MHz StrongARM:s.
I'm working on Speech Recognition on StrongARM, and there are some really neat things that can be done on StrongARM-based PDA:s, but the Dragonball is out of the question.
Personally, although I like PalmOS, I would rather go with something like the Linux-based Sharp Zaurus today, than buy a new PalmOS PDA with slow processors.
Hercules was showing a new monitor: the 920, looks like the 720, but 17". They said it would retain for about 1000 Euro.
They're really nicely designed these monitors with a blue metallic metal frame, thin, and with a nice metal foot.
Sharp's Linux PDA 'Zaurus' looked really nice.
Fujitsu-Siemens showed a 400 MHz PDA (PocketLoox) based on Intels X-scale, sucessor to the StrongARM.
Lots of PDA:s everywhere. I think the telephone - PDA combination will be popular, every PDA seems to have a phone-addon.
From memory, they said around May-June.
First in Germany and the UK.
It really looks like a gread PDA. Nice screen and GUI.
And I suppose it is trivial to prove that PI with an arbitrary number of digits is embedded in PI...
I pointed out some of them on the bug-glibc mailing list:
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if glibc (or really any shared library, bug glibc is fundemaental for all apps) is updated (even from, say, 2.1.1 to 2.1.2), the
n all applications (including things like X-windows) on the system need to be recompiled for guaranteed correct behaviour.
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If a user has glibc 2.2.2, downloads an application which was compiled with glibc 2.2.1, but uses some shared already on the user's computer compiled under glibc 2.2.2, correct behaviour is not guaranteed.
I havn't had time to propose a solution, but there should be one if you think hard enough...The current situation is not acceptable.
Do you know how the AMP's ThinARM compares to the StrongARM? I noticed that the ThinARM only runs at 56 MHz, compared to the StrongARM's 200 MHz...
The Whisper system I wrote about supposedly has some sort of special hard disk caddy to dampen the hard disk noise. I imagine that an absorbing material which prevents the vibrations from spreading to the chassis might do a lot of good.
Even a fairly low background noise gets irritating after a while. Remember the good old days when computers had neither power supply nor CPU fans?
I'll be trying the Lap Power Whisper System (Sorry, in Swedish only), it's supposed to generate under 24 dBA (quieter than your normal bedroom/living room). I just hope it will fit an ABIT BP6 mobo with 2 celerons!
Does anyone have experience with this case, or other good solutions for having a quiet computer system?
Or, it can be a fridge, like the ScreenFridge
The Sharky Extreme Overclocking Guide claims that 75% of Celeron 466 can be overclocked to 525 MHz, that all 400 MHz CPUs can be overclocked to 450 MHz, and 85% to 498 MHz.
This led me to the conclusion that a 400 MHz Celeron might be better than a 466 MHz, due to the greater likelyhood of overclockability, and the fact that successfull overclocking will give a faster bus speed (83 MHz for 400 oc'd to 498 MHz).
Is there a flaw in my reasoning? Am I Comments?
I'd say the relationship between politics & software/Linux this brings up is important and relevant as "News for Nerds".
I visited China's westernmost central Asian Xinjiang province recently. The intellectual oppression of local Asian population was sad to see.
China is an interesting case because I believe it is clear to many of us that the PRC violates human rights. At the same time, my (very uniformed) feeling is that the Chinese government (and probably people too) are unclear about what direction their country should take. There is a lacking ideological leadership after Mao Tsetung and Deng Xiaoping.
In such a volatile state of affairs, memes such as the open source movement, and the principles of openness of the internet might possibly have some influence on the developing future.
Internet access is springing up even in remote areas, and the governmental censorship of the Internet is futile (amnesty.org was blocked, but viewing the site from for exampel google's cache was no problem. Trying to find and censor encrypted/access controlled websites must be difficult). So if nothing else, the Internet has created a channel for independent information.
Well, as far as I can see, FLTK is C++ and not available for Java.
So it's not really an alternative if you want to program in Java, which IMHO is a nicer programming language.
$ telnet 128.119.41.46
Trying 128.119.41.46...
Connected to 128.119.41.46.
Escape character is '^]'.
Digital UNIX (eternity.cs.umass.edu) (ttyp3)
login:
A program of 512 words of ROM shouldn't be too hard to get rock solid.
I can't stop myself from pitying that little thing as it's being slashdotted. It looks so helpless.
Why make this assumption? Very different skills are involved.
I'm starting a company to make a game engine. We're good coders, but we'll let other companies (who are good at the content part) make the games.
I don't see how we can make money while making the engine open source. Suggestions welcome.
I've been thinking about doing something like this to show a software demo on computers without Linux. :-)
The trick would of course be the drivers (mainly sound and graphics). Is anyone working on such support? How good is the auto-detect/probing of hardware?
I imagine installation would be much more user friendly if the system could largely configure itself in terms of hardware. Hmm. I guess good Plug and Play support would solve this...
Sorry if I'm just rambling
The movie which best captures Gibson's style is a great (but not well known) Italian/French movie called Nirvana (http://www.nirvana.it). Has anyone else out there seen it?
My guess is that we need a European movie to do it right, Hollywood just can't catch the nuances and humor properly.
Apparently this is the american version whose power supply only works on 110V as opposed to the european one, which I believe automatically switches between 110/220 volts.
So, a friend of mine offered to buy me one (thanks, Mårten!) because he already has one, and hence my questions:
What kind of AC adapter do the Palm Vs have? Is it a standard connector to the cradle? What voltage/current does it supply?
I'd be most grateful for any replies!
It seems to me like there are often interesting discussions regarding the changes in the newly released kernels, here on slashdot.
In that sense, I think Slashdot as a forum works well. As long as there are people who post with interesting content, there is obviously some interest in the event.
Perhaps he means hardware 3D accelleration support.