I used an even more twisted form of efficiency, I used parallel research, I looked for the answer on Slashdot. Took very little effort on my part, and got me the correct answer on the back of others.
tell me about it. My older 366 Cleron based Vaio came with Windows 98.
but it didn't have it for long. Win2k went on (I did use linux for a while but had problems getting Irda working effecftively and reliably all the time) and I foudn that the sony Firewire plug isn't supported under win2k by either Sony (because that Vaio shouldn't run Win2k) or Microsoft because they don't know what the controller for firewire is.
"The problem is that in most countries outside the US, governmens make sure that citizens are protected from lies as much as possible"
Except those perpetrated by the the government themselves, and and complaints about it rejected by the same advertising standards organisation, because it was to get a government message accross.
Roll your own Mini box. Choose your own Distro. Install your own choice of DVD player.
I like the Idea of a Newb proof linux, and a Newb HTPC, but why is Joe Consumer getting sold short, because he isn't Joe Geek.
Doesn't happen in most home stuff. Go into a HiFi or Audio Video shop, and they will try to sell you up to the best, even though the budget stuff is available. In most computer shops they try to sell you the garbage at only marginally lower prices than the good stuff. Or maybe that is just the UK
There is one thing being the private supporter of freedom fighters, and being the public supporter of a government determined to anihilate another nation because of a religious difference.
Now think carefully, which side is which? Depends on which paer/TV station has brainwashed you.
Remember former president Nelson Mandella, how many years was he imprisioned as a Terrorist? It's all down to the spin, whether it is colour, sex, race, or religion, those with the most funds, and best spin always come out of the shit shining.
To be honest, in day to day life(outside work) when was the last time you actually had an intelligent conversation with anyone.
Seems the whole non IT, non Academic, Non scientific, non professional community has been dumbed down to the point of vending machines. Would you like fries with that. Pause. Yes.
No thought, just a programmed response to buy something you never ordered. At least it seems to be getting that way in the UK
My Matrox G450 is connected only by TVout to my Widescreen in the Lounge.
Which means when a movie is played it goes DVDmax full screen, and you can't see the controls or the mouse.
but If I VNC in with my laptop, and use it as a remote control, I can play with the sound settings, stop and pause the movie, and use the DVD menus fine.
Plus I can check my Mail, and make sure any DivX downloads are resumed;)
My thoughts exactley, Arby is very well known and respected on Hardforums and MP3Car fourms.
An ubergeek if there is one. Not like some of the slackers here who don't do windows icase it will weaken their contribution to the gene pool.
have they ever thought, as the system he has built is totally standard X86 hardware, that generation one uses Windows because it may have probs, but works out of the box. generation two might just have custom software to do the Job. But I'm sure he won't use linux. If he is going to do wireless, he better base it on OpenBSD to be on the safe side.
Windows has it's uses. and this case it is quick and dirty, functional, and a proof of concept, and it actually works.
While they are still trying to pull the last few bugs out of their wonderful curses front end, before starting to code the PostgreSQL based data and file storage system, Arby is cruising with the tunes playing.
I have a project in the pipeline.
It may be windows, it may not. I don't know yet.
GPSDrive looks cool, and is free, but so is GPSS, and both do voice directions, so who knows.
Ah the thing that is missing from the Bestbuy HU is the ability to play DVDs for your passengers, run your GPS, or when parked up with friends play a lan Quake game with your wireless lan.
Don't even dream of telling me that Best buy has a system that can do that. At any price.
And how many MP3 Headunits can hold 20-40-60 gig of MP3s if you want and be controlled by a ncie big easy to read touch interface?
You beat me to that. back in the dim and distant days of 1997, I commuted from one side of London to the other, by bike, after bringing it in on the train from out of town.
At the traffic lights/stop signals, where a cycle lane is present on that road, quite often there are two stop lanes, one for cars/vans/trucks/Mbikes, and the other for cyclists a few feet forward. many times I felt my back wheel getting pushed by the bumper behind while at a red stop signal.
Ocassionally while trying to hold the bike back my foot would slip from the pedal backwards and crack on indicator or headlamp, and once the cleated sole of cycling shoe burst a radiator. Shame really.
I would buy American. Except you put the steering wheel on the wrong side of the car. Bloody stupid place to put it if you ask me, I mean what does a passenger need with a steering wheel. Oh wait, your in america, your passenger is your driver, and that is Sinister.;)
In the UK, there aren't that many US cars sold new. More European LHD cars are appearing because their prices are cheaper than in the UK, so maybe that will start to change the balance, and we will see more UK specced, but LHD American manufactured LHD cars here. Chevrolet sell the Camaro amongst other models, and the price for the performance, and specs is impressive compared to other cars on the UK market for the price, but the LHD scares a lot of people off buying, along with the percieved higher cost of imported parts, and the lablour at specialist repair shops.
"Absolutely. I can see computers in a few classes in High School (Like say, programming:-) But in elementary school??? Pffft, why bother. You might as well have a TV and a nintendo too while you're at it."
Careful they might need additional windows licenses too.
If that is the case, better bring a suit against the writers of xpdf and postscript utilities under linux, and Adobe for Acrobat distiller.
Open a restricted (no copy/paste/edit or print), but not passworded PDF in xpdf on a linux box.
Then print it to a postscript file and copy that back to your windows box, and then re-distill the ps to a pdf.
Suddenly all the restrictions are removed, and you can copy or print the sensitive readonly info.
All the software was used in the manner it was intended. I'm sure that the Adobe, or the developers of the opensource tools wouldn't use it for that purpose, but because it can be used for that purpose (and has been by me to test the theory) they have infinged the DCMA in the same way as Tom.
I wonder who will be first to accuse Adobe as a co-defendant in a digital copyright suit. Company information in digital form surely must be protected by the DCMA?
got the Irda working, PCMCIA came working out of the box.
Come Mandrake 7.1, Irda stopped, but USB started working for my CPIA webcam. Very cool, but I couldn't dial out from my cellphone anymore.
7.2 had pretty much the same results
Installed Win2k, and it works, and is sort of stable.
I use Mandrake 8.0 on my file server/devbox, and dual boot, win98/Mandrake 7.2 on my girlfriends machine for games, and win2k on my SMP BP6 workstation/game box.
I would love to run Mandrake on my Laptop again, becuase it was so much faster than win2k, but as a whole win2k has been more compatable with my day to day laptop needs of the occasional game of Command and Conquer, getting mail, and using my wireless lan card (yes I know my wifi card can be used in Linux), getting sound that worked without blackmagic, and irda transfer, and dial out.
BTW when I did get IRDA working in Mandrake 7, I did get the file transfering from my cellphone working in linux fatser than one the guys at work got it working on his Win98 Laptop.
Slashdot Mirror
I used an even more twisted form of efficiency, I used parallel research, I looked for the answer on Slashdot. Took very little effort on my part, and got me the correct answer on the back of others.
I guess I must be perfect CEO material.
Also Infomap Navigator found at http://www.directions.ltd.uk/
Does the ticket for Europe and the UK. Yes it is a Windows app, but they have also released a Linux Binary for it.
Most references to ROI I know of, being a "little britain" dweller, is Republic of Ireland.
Southern Ireland, or Eire.
tell me about it.
My older 366 Cleron based Vaio came with Windows 98.
but it didn't have it for long. Win2k went on (I did use linux for a while but had problems getting Irda working effecftively and reliably all the time) and I foudn that the sony Firewire plug isn't supported under win2k by either Sony (because that Vaio shouldn't run Win2k) or Microsoft because they don't know what the controller for firewire is.
I hope you sue for personal injuries, damage to the property, and loss of earnings.
"The problem is that in most countries outside the US, governmens make sure that citizens are protected from lies as much as possible" Except those perpetrated by the the government themselves, and and complaints about it rejected by the same advertising standards organisation, because it was to get a government message accross.
http://www.linitx.com
Roll your own Mini box. Choose your own Distro. Install your own choice of DVD player.
I like the Idea of a Newb proof linux, and a Newb HTPC, but why is Joe Consumer getting sold short, because he isn't Joe Geek.
Doesn't happen in most home stuff.
Go into a HiFi or Audio Video shop, and they will try to sell you up to the best, even though the budget stuff is available.
In most computer shops they try to sell you the garbage at only marginally lower prices than the good stuff.
Or maybe that is just the UK
Well, sometimes the police make mistakes and get it right. They can't always be donut munchers.
Even if they excel at it.
There is one thing being the private supporter of freedom fighters, and being the public supporter of a government determined to anihilate another nation because of a religious difference.
Now think carefully, which side is which? Depends on which paer/TV station has brainwashed you.
Remember former president Nelson Mandella, how many years was he imprisioned as a Terrorist? It's all down to the spin, whether it is colour, sex, race, or religion, those with the most funds, and best spin always come out of the shit shining.
Depends on where you works :):):)
To be honest, in day to day life(outside work) when was the last time you actually had an intelligent conversation with anyone.
Seems the whole non IT, non Academic, Non scientific, non professional community has been dumbed down to the point of vending machines.
Would you like fries with that.
Pause.
Yes.
No thought, just a programmed response to buy something you never ordered.
At least it seems to be getting that way in the UK
I'm doing pretty much the same thing.
;)
My Matrox G450 is connected only by TVout to my Widescreen in the Lounge.
Which means when a movie is played it goes DVDmax full screen, and you can't see the controls or the mouse.
but If I VNC in with my laptop, and use it as a remote control, I can play with the sound settings, stop and pause the movie, and use the DVD menus fine.
Plus I can check my Mail, and make sure any DivX downloads are resumed
So does Zonealarm, when looking at were a suspect attack on your system came from.
My thoughts exactley, Arby is very well known and respected on Hardforums and MP3Car fourms.
An ubergeek if there is one. Not like some of the slackers here who don't do windows icase it will weaken their contribution to the gene pool.
have they ever thought, as the system he has built is totally standard X86 hardware, that generation one uses Windows because it may have probs, but works out of the box. generation two might just have custom software to do the Job. But I'm sure he won't use linux. If he is going to do wireless, he better base it on OpenBSD to be on the safe side.
Windows has it's uses. and this case it is quick and dirty, functional, and a proof of concept, and it actually works.
While they are still trying to pull the last few bugs out of their wonderful curses front end, before starting to code the PostgreSQL based data and file storage system, Arby is cruising with the tunes playing. I have a project in the pipeline. It may be windows, it may not. I don't know yet. GPSDrive looks cool, and is free, but so is GPSS, and both do voice directions, so who knows.
Ah the thing that is missing from the Bestbuy HU is the ability to play DVDs for your passengers, run your GPS, or when parked up with friends play a lan Quake game with your wireless lan.
Don't even dream of telling me that Best buy has a system that can do that. At any price.
And how many MP3 Headunits can hold 20-40-60 gig of MP3s if you want and be controlled by a ncie big easy to read touch interface?
Nice job there, I really like what you have done.
And good to see someone realising that what Arby has done isn't anymore dangerous than a CD player, or RC.
You touch the screen.
jeez, call yourself a geek.
Please leave slashdot.
You beat me to that.
back in the dim and distant days of 1997, I commuted from one side of London to the other, by bike, after bringing it in on the train from out of town.
At the traffic lights/stop signals, where a cycle lane is present on that road, quite often there are two stop lanes, one for cars/vans/trucks/Mbikes, and the other for cyclists a few feet forward. many times I felt my back wheel getting pushed by the bumper behind while at a red stop signal.
Ocassionally while trying to hold the bike back my foot would slip from the pedal backwards and crack on indicator or headlamp, and once the cleated sole of cycling shoe burst a radiator. Shame really.
I would buy American. Except you put the steering wheel on the wrong side of the car. Bloody stupid place to put it if you ask me, I mean what does a passenger need with a steering wheel. Oh wait, your in america, your passenger is your driver, and that is Sinister. ;)
In the UK, there aren't that many US cars sold new. More European LHD cars are appearing because their prices are cheaper than in the UK, so maybe that will start to change the balance, and we will see more UK specced, but LHD American manufactured LHD cars here. Chevrolet sell the Camaro amongst other models, and the price for the performance, and specs is impressive compared to other cars on the UK market for the price, but the LHD scares a lot of people off buying, along with the percieved higher cost of imported parts, and the lablour at specialist repair shops.
Thats because all the the MS/IIS vulnerabilities are large enough to drive a truck through. They don't do small in Redmond.
"Absolutely. I can see computers in a few classes in High School (Like say, programming :-) But in elementary school??? Pffft, why bother. You might as well have a TV and a nintendo too while you're at it."
Careful they might need additional windows licenses too.
If that is the case, better bring a suit against the writers of xpdf and postscript utilities under linux, and Adobe for Acrobat distiller.
Open a restricted (no copy/paste/edit or print), but not passworded PDF in xpdf on a linux box.
Then print it to a postscript file and copy that back to your windows box, and then re-distill the ps to a pdf.
Suddenly all the restrictions are removed, and you can copy or print the sensitive readonly info.
All the software was used in the manner it was intended. I'm sure that the Adobe, or the developers of the opensource tools wouldn't use it for that purpose, but because it can be used for that purpose (and has been by me to test the theory) they have infinged the DCMA in the same way as Tom.
I wonder who will be first to accuse Adobe as a co-defendant in a digital copyright suit. Company information in digital form surely must be protected by the DCMA?
I agree.
My F250 Vaio came with Win98.
I shifted that quicksmart
Put Mandrake 7 on it,
got the Irda working, PCMCIA came working out of the box.
Come Mandrake 7.1, Irda stopped, but USB started working for my CPIA webcam. Very cool, but I couldn't dial out from my cellphone anymore.
7.2 had pretty much the same results
Installed Win2k, and it works, and is sort of stable.
I use Mandrake 8.0 on my file server/devbox, and dual boot, win98/Mandrake 7.2 on my girlfriends machine for games, and win2k on my SMP BP6 workstation/game box.
I would love to run Mandrake on my Laptop again, becuase it was so much faster than win2k, but as a whole win2k has been more compatable with my day to day laptop needs of the occasional game of Command and Conquer, getting mail, and using my wireless lan card (yes I know my wifi card can be used in Linux), getting sound that worked without blackmagic, and irda transfer, and dial out.
BTW when I did get IRDA working in Mandrake 7, I did get the file transfering from my cellphone working in linux fatser than one the guys at work got it working on his Win98 Laptop.
look at http://www.rnntv.com
This is the only feed workin gI can pickup in the uk