I really like my PalmPilot and it does indeed fit in my pocket. However, I am really interested in what the e-book market will be like in say 2 years. These are the units that have, by comparison, a HUGE screen. It is almost like a LCD from a laptop where the laptop is still in the enclosure of the screen. The Itsy seems like it is small enough to ride on the back of such a screen and could be used as a plugable daugter CPU. For a 8.5" by 11" display unit you could probably get at least 4 Itsy's on the back of it. Just add in a scrollable/foldable keyboard and you could have some serious portable and extendable computing. Imagine an SMP e-book. Of course, all this is just fluff unless battery technology comes out of the dark ages (from a consumer standpoint). That or power consumption be devices has to drop considerably.
"You cannot uncook Mushoo pork once is has been cooked" -- wiseman
Something that I was thinking about when I read this article.
Most of these articles are allowed
to be 1 page of material with 2 scrolls.
they can't be novels since you would lose most readers
they can't be too short because the banner adverts have to show up more than once on the page
Basically you have around 400-500 words to make your point, get the sponsors seen, and get the hell out and hope to generate some "fervor". Bonus points if you have a banner ridden feedback loop area on the web site.
If this was a high school essay and you were to grade it he would get a B or a C. There are no references. It is mostly an opinion article that is given street cred because the author is a company president. The company might just be one that summarizes major publications in the IT forum in a readily digested manner to aid those IT professionals too busy to read since they are kicking/integrating/troubleshooting their NT servers. I am just guessing;)
One thing did ring true. His photo. I looked at it and said to myself... whoa... nice whiteboard... did you learn to draw from the back of a TV Guide? CAN YOU DRAW CAPPY? IF SO YOU CAN BE AN ANIMATOR OR ARTIST.
Anyway... I just read through some of his other stuff. To be honest it appears that he sticks to subject matter that is closely parallel to his own company. BIG SHOCKER THERE. Also, if you are a MS person you have enough to keep up with regarding this being killed, extended etc... but look at this article:
http://www.internetwk.com/columns/logic051099.htm or this one: http://www.internetwk.com/columns/pers0309.htm
This is quoting him... so in a year... you go from the quoted to the writer of a column... its called promotion. And if you are a fan of Jesse Berst just remember that an audience that gives feedback is an audience that generates revenues for the ads these places sell. Just keep that in mind when you click on the response boards.... you are just paying them with each click.
Synopsis: The best way to get around this is to recommend that your workplace cancel all subscriptions to these types of mags with a note referencing the desire for more factual articles than "Look Before You Leap".
Latra, Jay
"You cannot uncook Mushoo pork once is has been cooked" -- wiseman
Well, I love my 950. It was an early bday present from my gf. I was a little put off at first that I had to use the included software with it and boot into Win95. Then I did some digging and came across links to gphoto, photopc, and phototk. It was then that I learned of the 900 and 900S support. I figured that the 950 can't be too different and that the serial reading software for linux/bsd/whatever would work for the 950. Out of the gate it didn't work../configure; make; make install; etc... I had to look at what was going on and see if I was messing something up in the process. Well, it turned out that I could get the images but only in a certain manner. I know this now and if I get the right cable made I am going to try to contribute to the serial sniffing operation to reverse engineer the protocol used by the 950. I am really happy with the camera. A friend of mine has the Olympus equivalent of the 950 and has had great success with photopc. He is a command line kinda guy anyways:) Also, I think the best way to show Nikon that you feel Linux should be supported is to register with that in the comments section when you buy the camera. There is a web site for registration for ALL Nikon products. Put your money where your mouth is if you really want it. Nikon is a company and will support its customers if it can make more sales. Just let them know you would like to use Linux products vs. Win95 products since dual booting can be a pain.;)
"You cannot uncook Mushoo pork once is has been cooked" -- wiseman
Why? If you go to the end of the article you accomplish two things:
You increase Forbe's banner impression revenue;)
You get to read a nice summary of open source defense mechanisms
I really liked the example of "Briux" but I fear/. folks will take this out of context to say that Linux should be forked. All in all it wasn't a bad article. Just turn off Java before you get to the site unless you are running Windows 95/98/NT.
"You cannot uncook Mushoo pork once is has been cooked" -- wiseman
I do not make a living from my music making. I have played weddings and messed around at parties but nothing that really paid bills. Primarily I have made dinner/travel money mixing others music at small live shows. My real life paying job is working at a wholesale ISP shop... it has nothing to do with music and with the hours I tend to pull it can keep me from my real hobbies/passions (music and home computing) at times.
So, it took me a while before I made WAV files from my 4 track demo tapes and opted to make MP3 files to put up my music on MP3.com. Before this I had made Real Audio versions only and put them on my personal web site.
The reasons for this are that I thought, by keeping my music files in Real Audio format, I could reach a larger listening base (like 4 more people;) ). But, I broke down and got the Blade encoder and went to work putting things up on my MP3.Com sight. I noticed when I looked back at my web logs that there was way more interest in the downloading of my MP3's than the listening and browsing of my Real Audio files.
This is because the sound is quite a bit different going from a RA encoder set to 28.8 stereo to 128 bit rate 44.1KHz samples. It is also because I had never let people have MP3's to download on my own site.
What MP3.com meant to me was a chance to have a little rack of music store space out there that someone might be able to browse past one day. And I know my stuff is not something cranked out of a studio with million dollar gear... so the price (free) is for real. I made a DAM cd but I wish there was an option just to make them free vs. a bottom line price of $5.99.
I like their site and I like the idea. I could spend my whole day there listening to people's new songs.
If you remember one of the concepts in the old Max Headroom TV show: in the future everyone has a TV channel and although some/most of it sucks... everyone has a chance to broadcast it. MP3.com and my own web site brought a variant on that premise to life for me.
"You cannot uncook Mushoo pork once is has been cooked" -- wiseman
I actually don't have one myself but I know of two people that are doing really well with the 3com card.
My gf, Carrie, has been using her BigPicture kit with streamer and stamp to do her web cam page. She is running
2.2.x kernel
loads i2c module
loads bttv modules
She also uses this setup when she boots into win95. Before this she was using the Quickcam approach and picture quality was lower, not to mention it was a resource hog. Using the PCI based video capture board is the best way to do it.
Why do I think this is the best one for Linux? Well, I have a WinTV 401 card but I still like the way her web cam looks. You get a really good card and the camera is worth the extra cost.
Another examples of BigPicture with Linux is DocTV in the lab where I work (it runs on Doc's Linux box).
What I would really like to see happen is either QSeeMe being worked on some more. If I could have any application ported to Linux though to use the video4linux support it would be iVisit. I have posted on/. about it before. It just never seems to catch peoples attention for some odd reason. I mean Tim Dorcey even said he would welcome a port to Linux. Search on/. for "iVisit" or go to the support page for iVisit if you are interested. Tim seemed really interested in the project.
"You cannot uncook Mushoo pork once is has been cooked" -- wiseman "That's a really dumb idea" -David Card
Actually... heh... this is so indicting... there are also live bait vending machines here in Raleigh. So, you can hit all the geeks stops in RTP then go out really far on Creedmoor in Raleigh and stop at a convenience store and get live bait.
North Carolina has linux and live bait - two great tastes that go great together.
Beer in movie theaters is a reality (well, in RTP)
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Yes! I have yet to go to RHPS though. By that account if I did go I would be a RH "virgin". I have been here in the area since 1990. Still, every Fri nite the parade of regulars arrive decked out in their best RH motif and garb. I agree. The Rialto is a swank place indeed. The stage up front would acutally make for a pretty good speaking area if anyone wanted to talk to the management there about doing a Linux talk of some kind.
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You want suds with your celluloid?
Well, when you are here in good ole Raleigh, NC for Linux Expo '99 and you are looking to have a beer and see a movie you can try the following theaters:
They have a good selection of beers but I wouldn't count on them being able to be showing Star Wars "The Ticketbox Menace". So, what you might want to do is just check out these places if you are looking for the essential beer/movie combo. Also, these are located very close to some very nice bars as well. The main attraction to these places is that you don't get the commercialized movie circuit running through it every week. There is also the Carolina Theater... that's where I saw Pi when it was playing.
Read deeper... this includes some manner of hosting service provided by Network Solutions... it is still $70 to register a domain from them. This $119 is just regular $70 plus the $49 domain _hosting_ fee.
They are just rounding the portal wagons
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If the site is easier to use then people will use it. As a matter of fact the feature where you can secure the.org and.net based off of a.com search is quite spiffy. This is the heart of the "upsale". And I am not sure if the latest xmas gift is going to be.com wear but when I sold fudge.com I got cool tee-shirts:)
What it is going to come down to is advertising and pricing. By giving someone (that doesn't know any more than to follow the URL listed in a magazine advertisement) a way to:
secure the domain
reserve a web service (that $119 thing)
get merchandising and banner revenue right away
they will be setting the standard that all the other registrars will have to have. These marketing relationships and infrastructure do not happen overnight. InterNIC is just raising the stakes a little more for the others playing in the same vertical market.
MTX combines the industry standard ATX form factor with PowerPlus Architecture. The MTX604-070 provides flexibility with the enhanced payload of six 32-bit PCI slots and one 64-bit PCI slot, plus a shared ISA slot. The board incorporates the PowerPlus Architecture which includes: dual 333 MHz PowerPC 604 processors, 512KB L2 cache, up to 1GB of DRAM, 1MB of boot flash, 8MB user flash, 8KB NVRAM/RTC, and a watchdog timer function. The board provides increased connectivity with fast wide SCSI, dual 10/100 Mb/s Ethernet, and Super I/O functions.
MTX604-070 targets communications, industrial automation, and simulation applications with an exciting combination of processor power and connectivity. click for image
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I really like my PalmPilot and it does indeed fit in my pocket. However, I am really interested in what the e-book market will be like in say 2 years. These are the units that have, by comparison, a HUGE screen. It is almost like a LCD from a laptop where the laptop is still in the enclosure of the screen. The Itsy seems like it is small enough to ride on the back of such a screen and could be used as a plugable daugter CPU. For a 8.5" by 11" display unit you could probably get at least 4 Itsy's on the back of it. Just add in a scrollable/foldable keyboard and you could have some serious portable and extendable computing. Imagine an SMP e-book. Of course, all this is just fluff unless battery technology comes out of the dark ages (from a consumer standpoint). That or power consumption be devices has to drop considerably.
"You cannot uncook Mushoo pork once is has been cooked" -- wiseman
Most of these articles are allowed
- to be 1 page of material with 2 scrolls.
- they can't be novels since you would lose most readers
- they can't be too short because the banner adverts have to show up more than once on the page
Basically you have around 400-500 words to make your point, get the sponsors seen, and get the hell out and hope to generate some "fervor". Bonus points if you have a banner ridden feedback loop area on the web site.If this was a high school essay and you were to grade it he would get a B or a C. There are no references. It is mostly an opinion article that is given street cred because the author is a company president. The company might just be one that summarizes major publications in the IT forum in a readily digested manner to aid those IT professionals too busy to read since they are kicking/integrating/troubleshooting their NT servers. I am just guessing ;)
One thing did ring true. His photo. I looked at it and said to myself... whoa... nice whiteboard... did you learn to draw from the back of a TV Guide? CAN YOU DRAW CAPPY? IF SO YOU CAN BE AN ANIMATOR OR ARTIST.
Anyway... I just read through some of his other stuff. To be honest it appears that he sticks to subject matter that is closely parallel to his own company. BIG SHOCKER THERE. Also, if you are a MS person you have enough to keep up with regarding this being killed, extended etc... but look at this article:
http://www.internetwk.com/columns/logic051099.htm
or this one: http://www.internetwk.com/columns/pers0309.htm
This is quoting him... so in a year... you go from the quoted to the writer of a column... its called promotion. And if you are a fan of Jesse Berst just remember that an audience that gives feedback is an audience that generates revenues for the ads these places sell. Just keep that in mind when you click on the response boards.... you are just paying them with each click.
Synopsis: The best way to get around this is to recommend that your workplace cancel all subscriptions to these types of mags with a note referencing the desire for more factual articles than "Look Before You Leap".
Latra,
Jay
"You cannot uncook Mushoo pork once is has been cooked" -- wiseman
Well, I love my 950. It was an early bday present from my gf. I was a little put off at first that I had to use the included software with it and boot into Win95. Then I did some digging and came across links to gphoto, photopc, and phototk. It was then that I learned of the 900 and 900S support. I figured that the 950 can't be too different and that the serial reading software for linux/bsd/whatever would work for the 950. Out of the gate it didn't work. ./configure; make; make install; etc... I had to look at what was going on and see if I was messing something up in the process. Well, it turned out that I could get the images but only in a certain manner. I know this now and if I get the right cable made I am going to try to contribute to the serial sniffing operation to reverse engineer the protocol used by the 950. I am really happy with the camera. A friend of mine has the Olympus equivalent of the 950 and has had great success with photopc. He is a command line kinda guy anyways :) Also, I think the best way to show Nikon that you feel Linux should be supported is to register with that in the comments section when you buy the camera. There is a web site for registration for ALL Nikon products. Put your money where your mouth is if you really want it. Nikon is a company and will support its customers if it can make more sales. Just let them know you would like to use Linux products vs. Win95 products since dual booting can be a pain. ;)
"You cannot uncook Mushoo pork once is has been cooked" -- wiseman
If you go to the end of the article you accomplish two things:
- You increase Forbe's banner impression revenue
;) - You get to read a nice summary of open source defense mechanisms
I really liked the example of "Briux" but I fearAll in all it wasn't a bad article. Just turn off Java before you get to the site unless you are running Windows 95/98/NT.
"You cannot uncook Mushoo pork once is has been cooked" -- wiseman
So, it took me a while before I made WAV files from my 4 track demo tapes and opted to make MP3 files to put up my music on MP3.com. Before this I had made Real Audio versions only and put them on my personal web site.
The reasons for this are that I thought, by keeping my music files in Real Audio format, I could reach a larger listening base (like 4 more people ;) ). But, I broke down and got the Blade encoder and went to work putting things up on my MP3.Com sight. I noticed when I looked back at my web logs that there was way more interest in the downloading of my MP3's than the listening and browsing of my Real Audio files.
This is because the sound is quite a bit different going from a RA encoder set to 28.8 stereo to 128 bit rate 44.1KHz samples. It is also because I had never let people have MP3's to download on my own site.
What MP3.com meant to me was a chance to have a little rack of music store space out there that someone might be able to browse past one day. And I know my stuff is not something cranked out of a studio with million dollar gear... so the price (free) is for real. I made a DAM cd but I wish there was an option just to make them free vs. a bottom line price of $5.99.
I like their site and I like the idea. I could spend my whole day there listening to people's new songs.
If you remember one of the concepts in the old Max Headroom TV show: in the future everyone has a TV channel and although some/most of it sucks... everyone has a chance to broadcast it. MP3.com and my own web site brought a variant on that premise to life for me.
"You cannot uncook Mushoo pork once is has been cooked" -- wiseman
http://members.iworld.net/soonjp/vidc onf.html
"You cannot uncook Mushoo pork once is has been cooked" -- wiseman
"That's a really dumb idea" -David Card
My gf, Carrie, has been using her BigPicture kit with streamer and stamp to do her web cam page. She is running
- 2.2.x kernel
- loads i2c module
- loads bttv modules
She also uses this setup when she boots into win95. Before this she was using the Quickcam approach and picture quality was lower, not to mention it was a resource hog. Using the PCI based video capture board is the best way to do it.Why do I think this is the best one for Linux? Well, I have a WinTV 401 card but I still like the way her web cam looks. You get a really good card and the camera is worth the extra cost.
Another examples of BigPicture with Linux is DocTV in the lab where I work (it runs on Doc's Linux box).
What I would really like to see happen is either QSeeMe being worked on some more. If I could have any application ported to Linux though to use the video4linux support it would be iVisit. I have posted on /. about it before. It just never seems to catch peoples attention for some odd reason. I mean Tim Dorcey even said he would welcome a port to Linux. Search on /. for "iVisit" or go to the support page for iVisit if you are interested. Tim seemed really interested in the project.
"You cannot uncook Mushoo pork once is has been cooked" -- wiseman
"That's a really dumb idea" -David Card
I wish I had beer for Wing Commander. No... strong liquor... wait... no... strong narcotics. ;)
North Carolina has linux and live bait - two great tastes that go great together.
Yes! I have yet to go to RHPS though. By that account if I did go I would be a RH "virgin". I have been here in the area since 1990. Still, every Fri nite the parade of regulars arrive decked out in their best RH motif and garb. I agree. The Rialto is a swank place indeed. The stage up front would acutally make for a pretty good speaking area if anyone wanted to talk to the management there about doing a Linux talk of some kind.
Well, when you are here in good ole Raleigh, NC for Linux Expo '99 and you are looking to have a beer and see a movie you can try the following theaters:
- Rialto
- Studio I and II
- Colony
They have a good selection of beers but I wouldn't count on them being able to be showing Star Wars "The Ticketbox Menace". So, what you might want to do is just check out these places if you are looking for the essential beer/movie combo. Also, these are located very close to some very nice bars as well. The main attraction to these places is that you don't get the commercialized movie circuit running through it every week. There is also the Carolina Theater... that's where I saw Pi when it was playing.Save me a nut brown ale....
Latra,
Jay
Read deeper... this includes some manner of hosting service provided by Network Solutions... it is still $70 to register a domain from them. This $119 is just regular $70 plus the $49 domain _hosting_ fee.
What it is going to come down to is advertising and pricing. By giving someone (that doesn't know any more than to follow the URL listed in a magazine advertisement) a way to:
- secure the domain
- reserve a web service (that $119 thing)
- get merchandising and banner revenue right away
they will be setting the standard that all the other registrars will have to have. These marketing relationships and infrastructure do not happen overnight. InterNIC is just raising the stakes a little more for the others playing in the same vertical market.So, the real question is... when are you guys
doing the layout for the Linux Journal swimsuit edition? It's all about geek tan skin.
MTX combines the industry standard ATX form factor with PowerPlus Architecture. The MTX604-070 provides flexibility with the enhanced payload of six 32-bit PCI slots and one 64-bit PCI slot, plus a shared ISA slot. The board incorporates the PowerPlus Architecture which includes: dual 333 MHz PowerPC 604 processors, 512KB L2 cache, up to 1GB of DRAM, 1MB of boot flash, 8MB user flash, 8KB NVRAM/RTC, and a watchdog timer function. The board provides increased connectivity with fast wide SCSI, dual 10/100 Mb/s Ethernet, and Super I/O functions.
MTX604-070 targets communications, industrial automation, and simulation applications with an exciting combination of processor power and connectivity. click for image
Mmmm... yummy.
The reason there is no /dev/video is that :)
/dev/$1$dev /dev/$1$dev c 81 $[ $2 + $dev ] /dev/$1$dev
/dev/$1 /dev/${1}0 /dev/$1
m l
you most likely have not created it
For example... MAKEDEV from xawtv (requires bttv support)
-------------->8---------------
#!/bin/bash
function makedev () {
for dev in 0 1 2 3; do
echo "/dev/$1$dev: char 81 $[ $2 + $dev ]"
rm -f
mknod
chmod 666
done
# symlink for default device
rm -f
ln -s
}
# see http://roadrunner.swansea.uk.linux.org/v4lapi.sht
echo "*** new device names ***"
makedev video 0
--------------.8---------------
Good luck n stuff!