I have an IBM 380XD, PII 266 MHz, 5GB hd, 96 MB RAM. I'll let that soak in a bit...
I had FreeBSD on one drive, now swapped drives and running Xubuntu. It's pretty happy if I use Fluxbox or Xmonad for window manager, usable for PDFs, documents (abiword), web browsing, other light duty stuff. FreeBSD is a little faster but I find Xubuntu easier to manage.
p.s. Xubuntu = xfce + Ubuntu.
I spent many hours with these things. They are so stiff that you develop an iron grip in your off hand so you can hold the base still while trying to move the zarking thing. The button (singular) was also pretty stiff. Maybe it just seemed that way.
Definitely not oversensitive. They moved when and where expected, and had (if I remember correctly) two speeds in each direction.
They were indestructible. Ours were run over by the cart the computer was on, stepped on (ouch), struck against solid objects, wrenched hard in frustration, and always worked about the same.
Could have been much worse, but could have been better by making it less exercise to use.
I switched because my wrists bothered me. My fingers do not travel as far and I am less tired by Dvorak. My hands tell me it is easier and that is enough for me.
he describes some qualities of human hands and letter frequency, suggests some qualities an ideal keyboard should have, and looks at the two top religions.. err.. layouts.
Dvorak and me and studies and keyboards...
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I say: I switched because less finger travel made my hands less tired at the same typing speed. I still use both layouts, but if I am typing a lot, I will use dvorak.
When I first thought about switching, I created an Excel macro to count finger reaches in QWERTY phrases and one for Dvorak. I also started making a list of common words that can be typed on the home row in each. In both of these endeavors, Dvorak won. roughly 25-30% less finger travel, more in some phrases. Many more common words on the home row.
Here http://www.kinesis-ergo.com/ is a company that makes ergo keyboards with vertical rows, QWERTY, Dvorak, or both.
History says: The slant of the columns on the keyboard is an artifact left over from mechanical typewriters. For those not acquainted with the story of the keyboards, here's a short version: http://www.mit.edu:8001/people/jcb/Dvorak/
We use iCal from brown bear software. Cheap, works well, can handle multiple calendars, each with multiple people, accessible by web browser.
they are here http://www.brownbearsw.com/
the Insight has similar proportions; is it built on the CRX chassis? seems plausible, esp. because honda started offering hybrids with the smallest size and is working up.
I did my own logo for my business cards, and a couple small pieces for presentations, etc. Here is how I do it:
1. Have a rough but flexible idea. too much detail interferes with creativity.
2. Relax. Pencils have erasers for a reason. If you like it, ink it. If not, erase it.
3. Work much bigger than the intended result and keep it SIMPLE. I put light guidelines on paper to keep me in the right direction, the business card logo that is less than 3/4 inch on a side started out between 2" and 4" on a side. Scan and reduce, little goofs will disappear and the rest can be touched up.
4. Have stuff to work from. I did a loon once for someone's preso. had pics from clip art, decorations, whatever around to get ideas from. got the head from one, the shading pattern from another, etc.
5. I like the college recruitment idea.. or ask your friends & contacts, someone may give it a shot. Trade them some free computer support or something.
I saw this on tv a couple times, I think. Fun, and yet very weird. Scientists need to have more fun, it would be good for creativity, and creativity brings new ideas (instead of support for current ones).
that's how they made progress so far, word of mouth. It's hard to be patient when a product you see as inferior and more expensive is more widely used than one that is good, shows great promise, and costs less. Slow and steady may not "win" anytime soon, but it will build support and credibility.
heck, we run win2k because we don't want to deal with the potential problems of going to xp. we have a couple win98 machines because the software they use does not run right under win2k.
Linux is right out.
this is funny because the hp mainframe will be migrating to a unix-shaped OS in a year or two.
now I need to get an old castoff computer, install Linux, and learn. I have a Knoppix cd, but it doesn't like our integrated video much and will not talk to my modem (it's a winmodem, grr)
that would be nifty... we have no such thing. Outlook gets mail and stores it on the local machine, removing it from the server. this may have been done because of server space in the past, but now it is a pain if a workstation dies. spares are a pain. users exist on the server (for email) and on local machine, everything on the local machine. not many computers to support here, but enough that I would like it to be easier.
don't be like us, plan ahead for time & cost of support.
I agree. It's the only way to get average users away from the MS they've been taught is the One True OS. But you need more than that; I remember setting up OS/2 in a lab in college; it was more stable and ran Windows (3.x) apps better than windows did. It didn't let an app crash windows and it didn't let Windows crash os/2. It was a great product. It died penniless and alone like certain literary figures in part because it didn't have a good advertising agent.
if you build a better, faster, cheaper, rock-solid OS, they will come -- if they know about it, if it looks familiar, and if it runs what they have exactly like their old OS, but BETTER. But it has to be better as in "noticeable to Joe Average User" better, not as in "geeks know it's more stable" or "some people know non-monopoly is better.
sounds like in the reasonably near future we will have an OS that can run some MS Windows apps without being MS Windows.
I think this is wonderful. I hope it survives the lawsuits MS will undoubtably try to kill it with (whether the suits have merit or not, they will probably try).
May the Force and the Schwartz) be with you!
hmm..
so if they don't deny they used another project's code, but don't give them credit, they need to make up their minds.
They could decide to deny they used other code and commit plagiarism.
They could decide to give credit where it is due and say it is based on x project(s).
They could rewrite and truthfully say they did it themselves.
but they need to pick one.
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I have an IBM 380XD, PII 266 MHz, 5GB hd, 96 MB RAM. I'll let that soak in a bit... I had FreeBSD on one drive, now swapped drives and running Xubuntu. It's pretty happy if I use Fluxbox or Xmonad for window manager, usable for PDFs, documents (abiword), web browsing, other light duty stuff. FreeBSD is a little faster but I find Xubuntu easier to manage. p.s. Xubuntu = xfce + Ubuntu.
I spent many hours with these things. They are so stiff that you develop an iron grip in your off hand so you can hold the base still while trying to move the zarking thing. The button (singular) was also pretty stiff. Maybe it just seemed that way.
Definitely not oversensitive. They moved when and where expected, and had (if I remember correctly) two speeds in each direction.
They were indestructible. Ours were run over by the cart the computer was on, stepped on (ouch), struck against solid objects, wrenched hard in frustration, and always worked about the same.
Could have been much worse, but could have been better by making it less exercise to use.
I switched because my wrists bothered me. My fingers do not travel as far and I am less tired by Dvorak. My hands tell me it is easier and that is enough for me.
Wow! they actually did it before there was a massive public outcry about whether it was ethical or humane or whatever. One step for someone...
Not necessarily; it doesn't mention tin foil specifically, so maybe it still works.
Just n\use more layers, or develop a better tin foil.
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http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2003/8/28/21547/206
he describes some qualities of human hands and letter frequency, suggests some qualities an ideal keyboard should have, and looks at the two top religions.. err.. layouts.
I say:
I switched because less finger travel made my hands less tired at the same typing speed. I still use both layouts, but if I am typing a lot, I will use dvorak.
When I first thought about switching, I created an Excel macro to count finger reaches in QWERTY phrases and one for Dvorak. I also started making a list of common words that can be typed on the home row in each. In both of these endeavors, Dvorak won. roughly 25-30% less finger travel, more in some phrases. Many more common words on the home row.
Here http://www.kinesis-ergo.com/ is a company that makes ergo keyboards with vertical rows, QWERTY, Dvorak, or both.
History says:
The slant of the columns on the keyboard is an artifact left over from mechanical typewriters.
For those not acquainted with the story of the keyboards, here's a short version:
http://www.mit.edu:8001/people/jcb/Dvorak/
We use iCal from brown bear software. Cheap, works well, can handle multiple calendars, each with multiple people, accessible by web browser. they are here http://www.brownbearsw.com/
the Insight has similar proportions; is it built on the CRX chassis? seems plausible, esp. because honda started offering hybrids with the smallest size and is working up.
Hmm..
Thishttp://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/11/23 /0331228&tid=172&tid=158&tid=201&tid=2 18 was also posted just recently here; he lists the sites he used.
Zen and the Art of Windows Maintenance?
with a copy of firefox & instructions. runs under familiar Windows, does a familiar thing in a new way.
I did my own logo for my business cards, and a couple small pieces for presentations, etc.
.02 cents' worth.. (inflation stinks).
Here is how I do it:
1. Have a rough but flexible idea. too much detail interferes with creativity.
2. Relax. Pencils have erasers for a reason. If you like it, ink it. If not, erase it.
3. Work much bigger than the intended result and keep it SIMPLE. I put light guidelines on paper to keep me in the right direction, the business card logo that is less than 3/4 inch on a side started out between 2" and 4" on a side. Scan and reduce, little goofs will disappear and the rest can be touched up.
4. Have stuff to work from. I did a loon once for someone's preso. had pics from clip art, decorations, whatever around to get ideas from. got the head from one, the shading pattern from another, etc.
5. I like the college recruitment idea.. or ask your friends & contacts, someone may give it a shot. Trade them some free computer support or something.
just my
just keep your browser tuned to http://www.darwinawards.com/. If you don't see trepanation, you'll see lots of other odd stuff.
I saw this on tv a couple times, I think. Fun, and yet very weird. Scientists need to have more fun, it would be good for creativity, and creativity brings new ideas (instead of support for current ones).
suggested by a line in a poem on an album, we could start measuring force (and speed) using the butterfly sneeze (bs) as the base unit.
it would work...
You may only have two:
Fast, cheap (in $), good quality.
in more words:
Fast + Cheap won't be good;
Good + cheap won't be fast;
Fast + good won't be cheap.
Will greedo still shoot first in the series?
Will Jar-jar present a "moral of the story" segment at the end of the show?
If a series airs but no one watches, does it still suck?
More importantly: If a series airs and no one watches it, does it still make money?
which will bring us to: "Computer... Tea, Earl Grey, hot."
that's how they made progress so far, word of mouth. It's hard to be patient when a product you see as inferior and more expensive is more widely used than one that is good, shows great promise, and costs less. Slow and steady may not "win" anytime soon, but it will build support and credibility.
sing with me: we shall overcome...
heck, we run win2k because we don't want to deal with the potential problems of going to xp. we have a couple win98 machines because the software they use does not run right under win2k. Linux is right out. this is funny because the hp mainframe will be migrating to a unix-shaped OS in a year or two. now I need to get an old castoff computer, install Linux, and learn. I have a Knoppix cd, but it doesn't like our integrated video much and will not talk to my modem (it's a winmodem, grr)
that would be nifty... we have no such thing. Outlook gets mail and stores it on the local machine, removing it from the server. this may have been done because of server space in the past, but now it is a pain if a workstation dies. spares are a pain. users exist on the server (for email) and on local machine, everything on the local machine. not many computers to support here, but enough that I would like it to be easier.
don't be like us, plan ahead for time & cost of support.
I agree. It's the only way to get average users away from the MS they've been taught is the One True OS. But you need more than that; I remember setting up OS/2 in a lab in college; it was more stable and ran Windows (3.x) apps better than windows did. It didn't let an app crash windows and it didn't let Windows crash os/2. It was a great product. It died penniless and alone like certain literary figures in part because it didn't have a good advertising agent. if you build a better, faster, cheaper, rock-solid OS, they will come -- if they know about it, if it looks familiar, and if it runs what they have exactly like their old OS, but BETTER. But it has to be better as in "noticeable to Joe Average User" better, not as in "geeks know it's more stable" or "some people know non-monopoly is better.
sounds like in the reasonably near future we will have an OS that can run some MS Windows apps without being MS Windows. I think this is wonderful. I hope it survives the lawsuits MS will undoubtably try to kill it with (whether the suits have merit or not, they will probably try). May the Force and the Schwartz) be with you!
hmm.. so if they don't deny they used another project's code, but don't give them credit, they need to make up their minds. They could decide to deny they used other code and commit plagiarism. They could decide to give credit where it is due and say it is based on x project(s). They could rewrite and truthfully say they did it themselves. but they need to pick one.