Yeah, I got an av420, its smaller cousin.
Amazing. I've been travelling for 4 months and its thripped as a video player/recorder, mp3 player, and photo storage device. And it fits in my pocket.
IANAL, but as far as I know,it depends.
There are laws passed that are designed to apply no matter what a contract says, others can be avoided by contract
My last Linux driver issue was finding a 3d driver for a Radeon 7500 about 4 years ago. A distro like SuSE makes it really easy these days. I've installed 9.1 on older machines, high-end new ones, even rather propritary laptops with wireless cards an softmodems without a hitch. Everything works great and I had to do almost nothing (as much or less work than with winows).
Meanwhile, a buggy ATI driver (for a mobile 9700) leads my laptop to need some major cpr on win xp.
Windows is actually a bit of a pain in terms of drivers. For example, if you want to switch from ati to nvidia video cards(or vice versa) and get the best results you either have to really know your way around the registry or reformat. It sucks.
Well Sacramento has a Public Utility and guess who's rates barely rose (at about the cost of inflation) and who always had power during the summer of when everyone else had blackouts and insane power bills.
I mentioned in the PA thread that Lewisham (in London) does this and its a very good and successful program though with much, much less coverage, and in fact allows me to live here.
My phone line can't get DSL (in London for Chissake!) and cable's not an option either). Its either this or an expensive ISDN or T1 as I just can't stand 56K.
This is a good idea.
Lewisham in London set up something like this, and it works pretty well (sometimes has issues with too many users). Heck, I'm using it right now.
It allows an area that is underserved by affordable internet connections (even dialup is near 20GBP [40USD] and this is a "low income" area). Not to mention, me, in damn near central london has a phone line that cannot get DSL (and Cable's not availible here either).
Most people who complain about speed, complains about start-up times, which isn't a problem on Linux, since you can start all the applications you need and leave them running forever. There is no need to quit an application - just switch desktops.
This is a laptop, which means you gotta turn it off to take it places to use it to get the value out of it. And unless they've perfected solid state hard drives and have really, really long battery life this is an issue.
Though really, a Linux install doen't take anymore time to boot than windows and app start times are similar, esp compared with the crapware infested machines mom and dad have at home.
You're worried about a help desk worker?
That grumpy guy behind the counter at the video store (going off of Hollywood video) has your address, phone, birthdate, names of family members (and b-dates), and SSN (and a simple print screen will print all that data off). This is at the lowest level.
Higher up, you get credit card numbers cause we store those. Oh and you *can't* really delete an account, when we "delete" an account, we simply set it to do not rent to. All the data's there.
And I'm not quite sure about this, but I think all the customer data for a store (many tens of thousands?) is kept on a local server, probably with minimal ecyption (judging by the age of the system and a couple other factors).
Not to mention that that vindictive sales man could just check out a movie on your account and lose it.
I'm so glad I quit that job and am getting a "real" job. I think I'll stick with cash for movie transactions though.
That's what you'd think but at least here in St Paul, MN its not the best thing to do. Police know where these annoyting lights are and camp out by them. I've seen more cops idling by long lights at night than anywhere else. I'm just glad I saw tehm first.
I noticed an increase in spam like emails starting yesterday afternoon, thought some spammer or scammer had gotten my email address. I dunno if I'm happy or sad its a virus not a spammer.
These email viruses are so annoying, my delete key might wear out, and if I got like 20 on 0 day and like 40 today, well, crud.
I use a variety of firewire drives (all 3.5" to save money, but 2.5" enclosures are about the same). I generally buy enclosures and drives separately as it is much cheaper and you can choose which drive you want based on what you need. I find that there is little difference in quality of the ecolsure if you by a name brand or a generic one. the key is the chipset. I laways get some varient of the Oxford 911 chipset, seems to be the fastest and most reliable.
Also if it not bus powered look for a power switch on back, cause unplugging a lot is really annoying.
Check out an old kyocera 6035, you can find them on ebay for like $100 (try to get a later revision). Runs and older palmOS (3.5). Gives all the pda functions I use and a good phone too. Verizon, sprint, and someone else I think. A little big though, but about teh same size as the late-1990s model it replaced
Exactly
I've run the exact same drive (WD 120 SE) in a usb2 enclosure and a firewire. On benchmarks, the firewire was generally about 30% faster.
More reliable connection too.
While you prolly already noticed it.
A car in the preview (and I assume the movie) is the same olds (type at least) in the evil-dead series. In all of his films.
Actually, the last place I worked tried citrix on thin-clients.
Frankly, they sucked and most users wanted their old machines back. These were not powerusers, but just regular office workers who wanted word without a frame-rate.
Plus, if the central server crashes, you loose a group if workstations rather than one workstation.
I own a kyocera 7135, which is a 1st gen smartphone.
I use it all the damn time.
POP Email, weborwseing, notes, games, etc.
Very useful and actually quite stable.
So buy the ultra-limited stuff from itunes or napster?
Increasing the profits of these flawed systems won't change anything.
Call me when they have a format I can play on a muvu2, my car's mp3 player, and runs on linux. Until then, I'll stick to used at less than $8 a cd (cheaper than any of these download services and I get to use the damn things how I like, not how Steve Jobs or the RIAA wants me to)
"The scientists confirmed this problem by firing up the particle accelerator at Stanford University and blasting electrons at a piece of the magnetic material used to store computer data."
I wish I had a particle accelerator just lying around, that'd be sweet.
The osx is BSD so its faster arguement is weak, because, well I run linux (and have run bsd) on my x86 laptop.
Also note that if this is a pentium-M, these chips do not follow the standard Intel Ghz ratings, a 1.7 Ghz p4-m is similar in speed to something like a 2.6 Ghz P4c (I could be wrong on thsi exact number, but it really is a big difference)
I'd bet the new g4 laptops are faster than a p-M laptop bought 1/5 years ago though/
SuSe also keeps a list of laptops that are known to fully work with their distros.
Also, my gateway, a very propritary laptop, work virtually out of the box, all i ahd to do was switch from acpi to apm to get my fans working. It detected my wifi card on install, and I even have 3d drivers (yay for quake goodnesss).
No more configuration than it took to get winxp pro working on it anyhow.
Their insall guide is not distro specific, probably to prevent fan biys from complaining that "oh its red hat, where's gentoo?" In reality, they should have focused on one distro, I don't care which one. This is supposed to be a beginner's guide and a through walk through would have been a lot more useful to a newbie than a brief overview of the steps to cover all major distros. Linux installed is easy to use, its the initial install and setup that scares away the newbies.
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Yeah, I got an av420, its smaller cousin. Amazing. I've been travelling for 4 months and its thripped as a video player/recorder, mp3 player, and photo storage device. And it fits in my pocket.
IANAL, but as far as I know,it depends. There are laws passed that are designed to apply no matter what a contract says, others can be avoided by contract
My last Linux driver issue was finding a 3d driver for a Radeon 7500 about 4 years ago. A distro like SuSE makes it really easy these days. I've installed 9.1 on older machines, high-end new ones, even rather propritary laptops with wireless cards an softmodems without a hitch. Everything works great and I had to do almost nothing (as much or less work than with winows). Meanwhile, a buggy ATI driver (for a mobile 9700) leads my laptop to need some major cpr on win xp. Windows is actually a bit of a pain in terms of drivers. For example, if you want to switch from ati to nvidia video cards(or vice versa) and get the best results you either have to really know your way around the registry or reformat. It sucks.
Well Sacramento has a Public Utility and guess who's rates barely rose (at about the cost of inflation) and who always had power during the summer of when everyone else had blackouts and insane power bills. I mentioned in the PA thread that Lewisham (in London) does this and its a very good and successful program though with much, much less coverage, and in fact allows me to live here. My phone line can't get DSL (in London for Chissake!) and cable's not an option either). Its either this or an expensive ISDN or T1 as I just can't stand 56K.
This is a good idea. Lewisham in London set up something like this, and it works pretty well (sometimes has issues with too many users). Heck, I'm using it right now. It allows an area that is underserved by affordable internet connections (even dialup is near 20GBP [40USD] and this is a "low income" area). Not to mention, me, in damn near central london has a phone line that cannot get DSL (and Cable's not availible here either).
Most people who complain about speed, complains about start-up times, which isn't a problem on Linux, since you can start all the applications you need and leave them running forever. There is no need to quit an application - just switch desktops.
This is a laptop, which means you gotta turn it off to take it places to use it to get the value out of it. And unless they've perfected solid state hard drives and have really, really long battery life this is an issue.
Though really, a Linux install doen't take anymore time to boot than windows and app start times are similar, esp compared with the crapware infested machines mom and dad have at home.
You're worried about a help desk worker? That grumpy guy behind the counter at the video store (going off of Hollywood video) has your address, phone, birthdate, names of family members (and b-dates), and SSN (and a simple print screen will print all that data off). This is at the lowest level. Higher up, you get credit card numbers cause we store those. Oh and you *can't* really delete an account, when we "delete" an account, we simply set it to do not rent to. All the data's there. And I'm not quite sure about this, but I think all the customer data for a store (many tens of thousands?) is kept on a local server, probably with minimal ecyption (judging by the age of the system and a couple other factors). Not to mention that that vindictive sales man could just check out a movie on your account and lose it. I'm so glad I quit that job and am getting a "real" job. I think I'll stick with cash for movie transactions though.
That's what you'd think but at least here in St Paul, MN its not the best thing to do. Police know where these annoyting lights are and camp out by them. I've seen more cops idling by long lights at night than anywhere else. I'm just glad I saw tehm first.
I noticed an increase in spam like emails starting yesterday afternoon, thought some spammer or scammer had gotten my email address. I dunno if I'm happy or sad its a virus not a spammer. These email viruses are so annoying, my delete key might wear out, and if I got like 20 on 0 day and like 40 today, well, crud.
I use a variety of firewire drives (all 3.5" to save money, but 2.5" enclosures are about the same). I generally buy enclosures and drives separately as it is much cheaper and you can choose which drive you want based on what you need. I find that there is little difference in quality of the ecolsure if you by a name brand or a generic one. the key is the chipset. I laways get some varient of the Oxford 911 chipset, seems to be the fastest and most reliable. Also if it not bus powered look for a power switch on back, cause unplugging a lot is really annoying.
For 6800 ultra, I might do it for a month. Just would mean a month of extra wardriving.
You must ahve missed the sweet nforce 3 250GBs. Oh, and the via k8t800 is actually a great chip, light-years ahead of their previous chipsets.
Check out an old kyocera 6035, you can find them on ebay for like $100 (try to get a later revision). Runs and older palmOS (3.5). Gives all the pda functions I use and a good phone too. Verizon, sprint, and someone else I think. A little big though, but about teh same size as the late-1990s model it replaced
Exactly I've run the exact same drive (WD 120 SE) in a usb2 enclosure and a firewire. On benchmarks, the firewire was generally about 30% faster. More reliable connection too.
While you prolly already noticed it. A car in the preview (and I assume the movie) is the same olds (type at least) in the evil-dead series. In all of his films.
Well yes and no They can't regulate the network, but they sure can regulate the connection to the iner/intranet
Actually, the last place I worked tried citrix on thin-clients. Frankly, they sucked and most users wanted their old machines back. These were not powerusers, but just regular office workers who wanted word without a frame-rate. Plus, if the central server crashes, you loose a group if workstations rather than one workstation.
I own a kyocera 7135, which is a 1st gen smartphone. I use it all the damn time. POP Email, weborwseing, notes, games, etc. Very useful and actually quite stable.
Yeah, I run SuSE 8.2 on my laptop, finally got good support for power managment. Waiting for 9.1 as well
So buy the ultra-limited stuff from itunes or napster? Increasing the profits of these flawed systems won't change anything. Call me when they have a format I can play on a muvu2, my car's mp3 player, and runs on linux. Until then, I'll stick to used at less than $8 a cd (cheaper than any of these download services and I get to use the damn things how I like, not how Steve Jobs or the RIAA wants me to)
"The scientists confirmed this problem by firing up the particle accelerator at Stanford University and blasting electrons at a piece of the magnetic material used to store computer data." I wish I had a particle accelerator just lying around, that'd be sweet.
The osx is BSD so its faster arguement is weak, because, well I run linux (and have run bsd) on my x86 laptop. Also note that if this is a pentium-M, these chips do not follow the standard Intel Ghz ratings, a 1.7 Ghz p4-m is similar in speed to something like a 2.6 Ghz P4c (I could be wrong on thsi exact number, but it really is a big difference) I'd bet the new g4 laptops are faster than a p-M laptop bought 1/5 years ago though/
SuSe also keeps a list of laptops that are known to fully work with their distros. Also, my gateway, a very propritary laptop, work virtually out of the box, all i ahd to do was switch from acpi to apm to get my fans working. It detected my wifi card on install, and I even have 3d drivers (yay for quake goodnesss). No more configuration than it took to get winxp pro working on it anyhow.
Their insall guide is not distro specific, probably to prevent fan biys from complaining that "oh its red hat, where's gentoo?"
In reality, they should have focused on one distro, I don't care which one. This is supposed to be a beginner's guide and a through walk through would have been a lot more useful to a newbie than a brief overview of the steps to cover all major distros.
Linux installed is easy to use, its the initial install and setup that scares away the newbies.
Why the Mac Weekly had it (well in photo form at least) in Feb.