I agree about the thumb buttons. I have an old Logitech M-BA47 from around 2000. It has a nice thumb button right where I rest my thumb (i.e low). When I first hooked it up, XFree86 mapped it as another middle button. I was happy with that so I never looked into changing it. It works great for me under Linux. Pasting text or opening links in new tabs is a matter of simply pressing with my thumb. And I never liked pressing down on the mouse wheel because it can turn unless you're careful about applying the pressure (or at least that's what I'm thinking about whenever I have to do it on other mice). Pressing the thumb button is so much easier.
Then earlier this year, my mum took pity on me still using a non-optical mouse and got me a Logitech MX500 mouse. Bleh. For a start, I had to hunt around a lot of web pages to figure out how to map the buttons the way I like. Then I realised the stupidity of having two (not one) thumb buttons, making them thin, and placing them up on the rim of the mouse. So now I not only had to move my thumb, I had to be careful to hit the right one, and I had to apply more pressure because they were much smaller. Think about it, the left and right mouse buttons are nice big pads you can rest your fingers on, so why make the other buttons so small and hard to hit?
And to top it off, the optical sensor simply didn't work on my black laminated desktop. I know, I could get a mouse pad. But it would get in the way and I've gotten used to having my mouse glide across the surface. So I gave it to my brother and went back to my trusty old non-optical mouse with the better thumb button. He doesn't need the middle mouse button nearly as much in windows. He also needed a mouse pad though:P
WTF? Yes, I know about Rackspace. I wasn't saying that they didn't exist or didn't show up on Google. The GP was claiming that they had bought SCO Linux licenses and I corrected him. My comment about google was about searching for Rackspace and SCO licenses. If you want that as a clickyclick: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&q=rackspace +sco+license&btnG=Search
That's alright. Although I see someone has modded your original post as 'insightful', even after mapnjd called attention to my correction. Yet more proof that people don't take moderation seriously enough. And why I have my preferences set to give a -1 adjustment to anything moderated insightful.
I think that receiving a recommendation from MS is nowhere near as bad as paying money to SCO and thus helping to fund their idiotic crusade against Linux. And it's not really their doing, apart from supporting MS server software. But hey, if some people need that platform for their legacy software then there's a market for it;)
Er, no. EV1 (aka Rackshack) bought a SCO license, but Google doesn't turn up anything about Rackspace. I think you've just gotten the names (Rackspace vs Rackshack) mixed up.
But instead of paying for the firmware, just get bsd and possible use that old machine for something that needs... I don't know, storage?
Because he's not talking about any old PC. Take a ook at this page. See the little box next to tux? That's no PC, it's a Linksys wrt54g wireless router. I still wouldn't recommend buying the firmware though. The Sveasoft guy has proven to be a real arsehole, trying to force people to pay for his firmware based on Linux and other open-source software.
And don't forget holidays! We take holidays ("vacations" for the yanks) very seriously.
If a national holiday falls on a weekend, we take the following monday off instead. Can't have a perfectly good holiday go to waste now can we?
Finally, the title of the article is "Corrupted PC's Find New Home in the Dumpster."
Do you see anything wrong with that? Corrupted is a verb, corrupt is an adjective. Geez!
Huh? My Oxford dictionary & thesaurus lists "corrupt" as both a verb and adjective. It does not list "corrupted", but my guess would be that it's being used as the past-tense adjective form of "corrupt" (I'm no linguist though). The title looks fine to me.
The general idea of having any file, not just programs, be an executable command.
Erm, excuse me? It's called a document-centric interface and Apple did it first. And they did it right. The Macintosh embeds application-asociation information in the file metadata. Windows (and Unix/Linux for that matter) emulates this using "filename extensions" and a database of "associations" with applications. Double-click on a file, it looks it up, and launches the app with the file. Nothing to do with executable content (hello viruses!) or the Unix hash-bang line.
On a side note, it's interesting that I've never seen anything like this mentioned in any of the oft-regurgitated "what Linux needs to succeed" articles by the idiot pundits. We need the mime type or something embedded in the filesystem. That would help to make the Linux desktop easier to use.
As for the combo box... I dunno. The name kinda gives it away. It's a combination of two other widgets. Sure it's a new thing, but composed of two existing things.
Anyone know a decent source for PPC motherboards in the UK?
A good source will soon be all of the Apple users throwing out their PPC-based Macs. Lotsa cheap G3 and G4 systems to stick more RAM in and install Linux or BSD on:)
How many of those are just viruses edited by some script kiddy to say "0wn3d by Fr0g3r" or some such shit?
Like sobig.a, sobig.b, sobig.c, sobig.d, sobig.e, etc...
The sad part is that making simple modifications is usually all that is necessary to "fool" virus scanners. Make a change and it now has a new signature that the anti-virus maker has to issue. Notice also that all the commercial anti-virus scanners have subscription services necessary to stay "up to date". So there's a financial disincentive stopping the makers from creating intelligent and truly effective anti-virus software. They'd put themselves out of business if they did.
Here here! My variation of the "LAMP" acronym is Linux, Apache, Mason, PostgreSQL. Working pretty damn well for me. I've been looking at AxKit on and off for a while, but who wants to use "LAAP"?:P
I remember seeing a report on TV years ago about a technique the Russians developed. First they load you up with barbituates (sp?) and then put you on ice. Your body slows down and your heart eventually stops (perhaps like hypothermia) but the barbituates somehow preserve you. Then they can cut you open and do open-heart surgery without the complicated heart-lung machines. Then they stitch you up, take you out of the ice, and somhow (?!) revive you. Necessity is the mother of invention!
What backward country charges per-minute on local calls? Here in.au local calls are a flat rate, while long distance calls are charged per minute. Get a local ISP and you can sit online for as long as they allow and only pay 20-25 cents for the phone call!
Powermac 12" v. some cheap-o taiwan windows laptop? No comparison.
Yes there is. Linux will run on both. If you use a distro that actually cares about being cross-platform (*cough*Debian*cough*) then you can setup both laptops (or desktops) nearly identically and do a real comparison of the hardware. But I know what you mean. I'd much rather a nice cool G3 or G4 laptop than something that needs a vent on the side. I don't like the idea of wasting a large amount of precious battery life on heating air.
Or the other argument, that one standard desktop is *needed* to make support easier. Lack of standards is supposedly one of the things holding Linux back, at least it is according to the idiot pundits paid by magazines to fill space and inspire letters to the editor.
I hadn't thought of the PVR/media centre angle. That could certainly make the HDD popular. Selling it with an external USB/1394 tuner for local TV standards (PAL/NTSC/SECAM or DVB/ATSC) would better justify the cost to most people, instead of it simply being a HDD+Linux kit.
It will be interesting to see if/how Sony presents the PVR/media centre capabilities. MS is going after that market pretty agressively with MCE and the Xbox 360. With Sony's ties to the entertainment industry one would expect them to also go after this market. But at the same time it cripples them. They already have lots of other devices that do similar things e.g CD/DVD players, portable music players, VHS/DVD recorders, tape decks, etc. They wouldn't want to damage the profits from those devices by making an all-in-one device that is cheap compared to the multiple devices it replaces. They're also very sensitive about piracy because of the amount of music, movies, and TV content that their various divisions. Just look at their refusal to support MP3 on their portable players. Although haven't they recently given in to supporting MP3? Either way, any PVR they make will be locked down pretty hard with DRM. Much like MS's MCE.
As for cracking, I've been corrected by another poster. Apparently the PS/2 has been cracked for many years now. In that light, maybe the PS/3 won't stand up for long. But they've likely learnt from the PS/2 experience and have made the PS/3 much more secure. Who knows... we'll have to see.
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I agree about the thumb buttons. I have an old Logitech M-BA47 from around 2000. It has a nice thumb button right where I rest my thumb (i.e low). When I first hooked it up, XFree86 mapped it as another middle button. I was happy with that so I never looked into changing it. It works great for me under Linux. Pasting text or opening links in new tabs is a matter of simply pressing with my thumb. And I never liked pressing down on the mouse wheel because it can turn unless you're careful about applying the pressure (or at least that's what I'm thinking about whenever I have to do it on other mice). Pressing the thumb button is so much easier.
Then earlier this year, my mum took pity on me still using a non-optical mouse and got me a Logitech MX500 mouse. Bleh. For a start, I had to hunt around a lot of web pages to figure out how to map the buttons the way I like. Then I realised the stupidity of having two (not one) thumb buttons, making them thin, and placing them up on the rim of the mouse. So now I not only had to move my thumb, I had to be careful to hit the right one, and I had to apply more pressure because they were much smaller. Think about it, the left and right mouse buttons are nice big pads you can rest your fingers on, so why make the other buttons so small and hard to hit?
And to top it off, the optical sensor simply didn't work on my black laminated desktop. I know, I could get a mouse pad. But it would get in the way and I've gotten used to having my mouse glide across the surface. So I gave it to my brother and went back to my trusty old non-optical mouse with the better thumb button. He doesn't need the middle mouse button nearly as much in windows. He also needed a mouse pad though :P
WTF? Yes, I know about Rackspace. I wasn't saying that they didn't exist or didn't show up on Google. The GP was claiming that they had bought SCO Linux licenses and I corrected him. My comment about google was about searching for Rackspace and SCO licenses. If you want that as a clickyclick: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&q=rackspace +sco+license&btnG=Search
That's alright. Although I see someone has modded your original post as 'insightful', even after mapnjd called attention to my correction. Yet more proof that people don't take moderation seriously enough. And why I have my preferences set to give a -1 adjustment to anything moderated insightful.
I think that receiving a recommendation from MS is nowhere near as bad as paying money to SCO and thus helping to fund their idiotic crusade against Linux. And it's not really their doing, apart from supporting MS server software. But hey, if some people need that platform for their legacy software then there's a market for it ;)
Er, no. EV1 (aka Rackshack) bought a SCO license, but Google doesn't turn up anything about Rackspace. I think you've just gotten the names (Rackspace vs Rackshack) mixed up.
The diagram I'm looking at appears to be more like the Ariane 4 or Ariane 5 to me. The big middle one especially looks like the Ariane 5.
Because he's not talking about any old PC. Take a ook at this page. See the little box next to tux? That's no PC, it's a Linksys wrt54g wireless router. I still wouldn't recommend buying the firmware though. The Sveasoft guy has proven to be a real arsehole, trying to force people to pay for his firmware based on Linux and other open-source software.
And don't forget holidays! We take holidays ("vacations" for the yanks) very seriously.
If a national holiday falls on a weekend, we take the following monday off instead. Can't have a perfectly good holiday go to waste now can we?
There's no ampersand (&) at the end of the curl line, so it's not being run in the background. Just one download after another...
I've also seen a few other mistakes, and I'm only part-way through the first page. Well written? nope.
Huh? My Oxford dictionary & thesaurus lists "corrupt" as both a verb and adjective. It does not list "corrupted", but my guess would be that it's being used as the past-tense adjective form of "corrupt" (I'm no linguist though). The title looks fine to me.
Erm, excuse me? It's called a document-centric interface and Apple did it first. And they did it right. The Macintosh embeds application-asociation information in the file metadata. Windows (and Unix/Linux for that matter) emulates this using "filename extensions" and a database of "associations" with applications. Double-click on a file, it looks it up, and launches the app with the file. Nothing to do with executable content (hello viruses!) or the Unix hash-bang line.
On a side note, it's interesting that I've never seen anything like this mentioned in any of the oft-regurgitated "what Linux needs to succeed" articles by the idiot pundits. We need the mime type or something embedded in the filesystem. That would help to make the Linux desktop easier to use.
As for the combo box... I dunno. The name kinda gives it away. It's a combination of two other widgets. Sure it's a new thing, but composed of two existing things.
A good source will soon be all of the Apple users throwing out their PPC-based Macs. Lotsa cheap G3 and G4 systems to stick more RAM in and install Linux or BSD on :)
Aw, go easy on the Parisians. They just lost the Olympics to a country that makes the worst food in the world :)
The sad part is that making simple modifications is usually all that is necessary to "fool" virus scanners. Make a change and it now has a new signature that the anti-virus maker has to issue. Notice also that all the commercial anti-virus scanners have subscription services necessary to stay "up to date". So there's a financial disincentive stopping the makers from creating intelligent and truly effective anti-virus software. They'd put themselves out of business if they did.
Here here! My variation of the "LAMP" acronym is Linux, Apache, Mason, PostgreSQL. Working pretty damn well for me. I've been looking at AxKit on and off for a while, but who wants to use "LAAP"? :P
I remember seeing a report on TV years ago about a technique the Russians developed. First they load you up with barbituates (sp?) and then put you on ice. Your body slows down and your heart eventually stops (perhaps like hypothermia) but the barbituates somehow preserve you. Then they can cut you open and do open-heart surgery without the complicated heart-lung machines. Then they stitch you up, take you out of the ice, and somhow (?!) revive you. Necessity is the mother of invention!
And here we have the latest slash-meme. I would have preferred another Simpsons quote, but beggers can't be choosers.
Dang, I was hoping I had made a subtle jab at the US and your whacky telephone system :p
What backward country charges per-minute on local calls? Here in .au local calls are a flat rate, while long distance calls are charged per minute. Get a local ISP and you can sit online for as long as they allow and only pay 20-25 cents for the phone call!
Yes there is. Linux will run on both. If you use a distro that actually cares about being cross-platform (*cough*Debian*cough*) then you can setup both laptops (or desktops) nearly identically and do a real comparison of the hardware. But I know what you mean. I'd much rather a nice cool G3 or G4 laptop than something that needs a vent on the side. I don't like the idea of wasting a large amount of precious battery life on heating air.
And the iNob - The last word in electronic accessories for tossers. You won't be able to take get your hand off it!
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Or the other argument, that one standard desktop is *needed* to make support easier. Lack of standards is supposedly one of the things holding Linux back, at least it is according to the idiot pundits paid by magazines to fill space and inspire letters to the editor.
I hadn't thought of the PVR/media centre angle. That could certainly make the HDD popular. Selling it with an external USB/1394 tuner for local TV standards (PAL/NTSC/SECAM or DVB/ATSC) would better justify the cost to most people, instead of it simply being a HDD+Linux kit.
It will be interesting to see if/how Sony presents the PVR/media centre capabilities. MS is going after that market pretty agressively with MCE and the Xbox 360. With Sony's ties to the entertainment industry one would expect them to also go after this market. But at the same time it cripples them. They already have lots of other devices that do similar things e.g CD/DVD players, portable music players, VHS/DVD recorders, tape decks, etc. They wouldn't want to damage the profits from those devices by making an all-in-one device that is cheap compared to the multiple devices it replaces. They're also very sensitive about piracy because of the amount of music, movies, and TV content that their various divisions. Just look at their refusal to support MP3 on their portable players. Although haven't they recently given in to supporting MP3? Either way, any PVR they make will be locked down pretty hard with DRM. Much like MS's MCE.
As for cracking, I've been corrected by another poster. Apparently the PS/2 has been cracked for many years now. In that light, maybe the PS/3 won't stand up for long. But they've likely learnt from the PS/2 experience and have made the PS/3 much more secure. Who knows... we'll have to see.
Huh, I stand corrected then! I guess this would allow a PS/2 Linux kit user to compile their own kernel. Not to mention the possibilities for piracy.