I've been a happy SanDisk fan as long as I've had a digital camera (since 2001).
I have never had a failure on a SanDisk device, and I've never noticed any slowness.
Same CPU, not a faster one, so the post is flawed.
It's N800 + GPS + smaller form factor + slideable backlit QWERTY keyboard + better positioned camera and new version of the debian-based OS.
It's NOT a phone. Phones that big would suck anyway. You use WLAN in cities, in public places, you use your existing phone with GPRS/edge/3G via bluetooth elsewhere. This was one of the wisest decisions Nokia made: I have gone through 3 phones in my 8 months of N800 use.
Compromises are compromises. Phones must be cheap, small, handy, with LONG battery time. Anything with a big screen won't do. Anything with a big form factor won't do. The iPhone is far too large.
I don't have N810 yet, I'll just sum up what the N800 (similar machine) is good for:
irc (xterm, irssi, etc), movies (mplayer), remote use (SSH, telnet, VNC, RDP), plain old surfing, car GPS.
On top of that N810 has optimized flash that supposedly runs youtube vids at acceptable speed. OS2007 version failed at this, youtube worked, but too slowly.
iPhone runs on proprietary OS, with a real SDK coming out next year. The Maemo platform is now 2-3 years old, well understood and readily available. N800/N810 even have python bindings for most things:-)
Since.doc etc are undocumented closed pieces of crap, one risks losing anything from formatting to everything when using them. So, use ODF until the need arises to send the file as attachment or such (and in that scenario PDF is a better choice).
It's crap like this that made me chuckle last week.
A buddy at IRC said his fellow was taking an "extreme holiday", visiting
north korea, syria, libya, venezuela, kuba, mexico, USA in that order.
USA is the only scary part of that trip and that tells a lot about the land of the free.
Bugs.
Eudora does not do UTF-8 well, it creates mangled HTML, it often crashes, it has really awkward profile handling, the LDAP support sucks ass, and the built in junk filter is useless.
How can you know for sure this source code is what ran the breathalyzerthingie in question?
Unless every result also prints a checksum against the current firmware and RAM, this is useless.
I assume the machine IS reseted after every measurement to a known state.
With beryl, use x11vnc as server (with -nodamage flag), not vino (the gnome's built in VNC server). It will display just black. Search ubuntu wiki for comprehensive explanation. Besides, x11vnc is much faster than vino.
VNC clients all work 100% fine with beryl.
Some java web applets won't work - they display a single-color rectangle where the graphics should be. Problem with the java plugin probably.
Linux has been 'Desktop Ready' for at least 10 years now. It's the applications, not the desktop. Functionally, KDE and Gnome have been on par with Winblows since KDE2 days.
99% of Windows users don't know how to use Windows, at all. Really. They just know the couple of APPLICATIONS they use, and how to launch them.
Example: I had just this week to teach a windows user how to remove entries from boot loader menu. He had to reinstall windows and the reinstall process partially borked, like it usually does.
It was like 'start a command prompt' (+long explanation), change file attributes on boot.ini in C: root (+long explanation), launch text editor (+explanation), toggle back file permissions - oops I mean attributes... and boot and pray.
How this was any easier than modifying GRUB config escapes me.
'Readiness' and 'Intuitiviness' do not equal familiarity.
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I have never had a failure on a SanDisk device, and I've never noticed any slowness.
After this - fuck them.
I'd mod you up if I could. An N810 is a safe bet since it will work with the rest of your gear 5 years from now.
Same CPU, not a faster one, so the post is flawed.
It's N800 + GPS + smaller form factor + slideable backlit QWERTY keyboard + better positioned camera and new version of the debian-based OS.
It's NOT a phone. Phones that big would suck anyway. You use WLAN in cities, in public places, you use your existing phone with GPRS/edge/3G via bluetooth elsewhere. This was one of the wisest decisions Nokia made: I have gone through 3 phones in my 8 months of N800 use.
Compromises are compromises. Phones must be cheap, small, handy, with LONG battery time. Anything with a big screen won't do. Anything with a big form factor won't do. The iPhone is far too large.
I don't have N810 yet, I'll just sum up what the N800 (similar machine) is good for: irc (xterm, irssi, etc), movies (mplayer), remote use (SSH, telnet, VNC, RDP), plain old surfing, car GPS.
On top of that N810 has optimized flash that supposedly runs youtube vids at acceptable speed. OS2007 version failed at this, youtube worked, but too slowly.
iPhone runs on proprietary OS, with a real SDK coming out next year. The Maemo platform is now 2-3 years old, well understood and readily available. N800/N810 even have python bindings for most things :-)
Since .doc etc are undocumented closed pieces of crap, one risks losing anything from formatting to everything when using them. So, use ODF until the need arises to send the file as attachment or such (and in that scenario PDF is a better choice).
..and faster boot time to logon screen. The USB still sucks and the power savings are not optimal, but they usually work to at least some degree.
Just wondering.
As simple as that. 99% of my Linux hassles is with proprietary, closed crap. Open stuff tends to Just Work after reading the friendly manual.
Everyone already uses buckazoids out there.
It's crap like this that made me chuckle last week. A buddy at IRC said his fellow was taking an "extreme holiday", visiting north korea, syria, libya, venezuela, kuba, mexico, USA in that order. USA is the only scary part of that trip and that tells a lot about the land of the free.
Bugs. Eudora does not do UTF-8 well, it creates mangled HTML, it often crashes, it has really awkward profile handling, the LDAP support sucks ass, and the built in junk filter is useless.
fuck mohammed too.
How can you know for sure this source code is what ran the breathalyzerthingie in question? Unless every result also prints a checksum against the current firmware and RAM, this is useless. I assume the machine IS reseted after every measurement to a known state.
Do you truly believe the US has not done the reverse a hundred times already? No wonder China wants to move away from M$ "operating systems."
That's the way they do business. Loot, pillage, go for the short time benefit. Cry 'racism' all you want, I counter them with my 'realist' card.
The comments all suck. This one included. BOOBIES.
No RP11 on non-x86, mobile devices, anything. Another stupid, unnecessary dead-end.
It's either Hungry Hippo or Horny Hobbit.
I just wish the tor network remained for normal surfing anonymously and not warez.
Short answer: SELinux properly configured.
VNC clients all work 100% fine with beryl.
Some java web applets won't work - they display a single-color rectangle where the graphics should be. Problem with the java plugin probably.
99% of Windows users don't know how to use Windows, at all. Really. They just know the couple of APPLICATIONS they use, and how to launch them.
Example: I had just this week to teach a windows user how to remove entries from boot loader menu. He had to reinstall windows and the reinstall process partially borked, like it usually does.
It was like 'start a command prompt' (+long explanation), change file attributes on boot.ini in C: root (+long explanation), launch text editor (+explanation), toggle back file permissions - oops I mean attributes... and boot and pray.
How this was any easier than modifying GRUB config escapes me.
'Readiness' and 'Intuitiviness' do not equal familiarity.
Even if ATI released 100% working, fast drivers, they would be useless if they weren't OPEN and FREE.
No matter how good it is, I won't give any money to those wankers.
Just bomb and invade the nucler regulatory commission and proclaim problem solved, once and for all. Once and for all!
Too much time on the internet... +1 childish.