Exactly how is a magnetic field going to damage a memory card (short of some huge magnet that just crushes the package)? They're not disk-based, they're just static RAM.
Because the Type 5 doesn't come in USB... are you telling me the PC version of the Type5 is a regular PS/2 keyboard with the 10 side-keys acting like multi-media keys?
The type5 only works with the Sun keyboard interface (it's not PS/2), so you can only use it with a Sun system unless you buy or make a converter box and hook it to a PC. The side keys aren't mapped by default in X on Linux, so you can map them to other functions, and I suspect you could override the mappings under Solaris as well. I suspect you could do something similar on Windows with appropriate API voodoo (after using a converter box of course).
Anyway, I've got tons of Type 6 keyboards lying around at work from country kits on our rackmount suns, do you find them less enjoyable than the type 5?
The type6 is pretty much a PC keyboard branded by Sun. It doesn't have the quality or feel of the type5 (it's more like the Logitech Elite), but the upside is it's USB and generates standard PC keycodes so you can use it with pretty much anything that has USB.
Never tried a Model M (or maybe I have, just don't recognize it) but I absolutely love the Sun type5 keyboard (the variant with the PC-like layout, not the UNIX-like layout - can't stand having capslock and control switched or the tiny backspace key). The feel of the keys is awesome, it blows away the squidgey feel of a brand new $60 Logitech Elite keyboard. or the clunky feel of older PC keyboards (Dell, DEC from the DOS era). The feel seems just perfect; you might say it's like a light tactile keyboard without the 'click' noise. The keys resist at the beginning of the stoke, and glide down after the initial resistance while making no noise. The Logitech Elite's keys seem to have less resistance at the beginning, and a funny feeling when they're pressed down all the way. It's hard to get an idea what I'm talking about unless you've used those keyboards.
The Sun type5 is supposed to be $72 IIRC, but you can get them on places like Ebay for much less. As a bonus you get a bunch of extra keys to map to whatever you want.
With a standard PC keyboard, I get around 70WPM and lot of typos, on the type5 I get 90-100 without any errors. Both are using the QWERTY layout of course.
I'm a Linux user and developer, and I listen to Metallica and AC/DC. I seem to be fitting the 'developer' profile much more than the 'Linux user' profile, although from the amount of time I spend on each it should be the other way around.
I really don't like classical, and I really don't like management, so that works:-)
The only Slackware version that runs on sparc AFAIK is splack (as the other poster at my level said). It's way outdated though, it's a sparc port of slack 7.2 IIRC. I didn't notice much of a difference in speed between Gentoo and splack. That said, this was on an Ultra 1 at 167MHz, so if there were any performance differences they should have been quite evident to me. There was a _much_ bigger performance increase when going to a 200MHz processor.
For some strange reason that conjures up visions of Internet Explorer... "I before E, except after so many exceptions"... You may be onto something there. Are you implying people use Internet Explorer before they encounter too many unhandled exceptions, then switch?
On a more serious note, the version I learned was something along the lines of "I before E, except after C, and weird is weird".
Seems to me that with a 3D desktop, we need 3D apps, so someone needs to start a fork of GTK which is source and binary compatible with the official GTK library but renders 3D widgets. The same could be done for other windowing toolkits, but I'd be most interested in seeing GTK first. Imagine firefox, GIMP, or [insert your favorite GTK app(s) here] running with true 3D widgets.
This would be really neat with those 3D stereo page-flip glasses (yes, I have a pair) which give true stereoscopic 3D from a regular CRT monitor.
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So if you do call it a CFC not a CFCC, what do you call the software that runs on it? ...Vaporware?
Hell reportedly experiencing record low temperatures.
Assuming it isn't a cloudy day, "bluescreen" applies too...
Northface U: It's like overclocking your education!
Or maybe tape it on top of your nearest set of railroad tracks. No, nevermind, the cards would probably survive that...
Sounds like these memory cards are about ready for use in the real world now that they've passed durability testing. Oh wait...
... because so far this is the only thing I've heard of that could run Longhorn.
We've just upped our warranties to 5 years. So up yours!
Never tried a Model M (or maybe I have, just don't recognize it) but I absolutely love the Sun type5 keyboard (the variant with the PC-like layout, not the UNIX-like layout - can't stand having capslock and control switched or the tiny backspace key). The feel of the keys is awesome, it blows away the squidgey feel of a brand new $60 Logitech Elite keyboard. or the clunky feel of older PC keyboards (Dell, DEC from the DOS era). The feel seems just perfect; you might say it's like a light tactile keyboard without the 'click' noise. The keys resist at the beginning of the stoke, and glide down after the initial resistance while making no noise. The Logitech Elite's keys seem to have less resistance at the beginning, and a funny feeling when they're pressed down all the way. It's hard to get an idea what I'm talking about unless you've used those keyboards.
The Sun type5 is supposed to be $72 IIRC, but you can get them on places like Ebay for much less. As a bonus you get a bunch of extra keys to map to whatever you want.
With a standard PC keyboard, I get around 70WPM and lot of typos, on the type5 I get 90-100 without any errors. Both are using the QWERTY layout of course.
I think you really mangled what SCO is trying to say: "All your ELF are belong to us!"
I'm a Linux user and developer, and I listen to Metallica and AC/DC. I seem to be fitting the 'developer' profile much more than the 'Linux user' profile, although from the amount of time I spend on each it should be the other way around.
:-)
I really don't like classical, and I really don't like management, so that works
I count 25, can you send the extra one to me?
Like Yoda you speak. But, agreeing with you I am.
But if you were really on fire, you wouldn't type "Aaaghhhhh!", you'd just say it.
Perhaps you were dictating?
The only Slackware version that runs on sparc AFAIK is splack (as the other poster at my level said). It's way outdated though, it's a sparc port of slack 7.2 IIRC. I didn't notice much of a difference in speed between Gentoo and splack. That said, this was on an Ultra 1 at 167MHz, so if there were any performance differences they should have been quite evident to me. There was a _much_ bigger performance increase when going to a 200MHz processor.
For some strange reason that conjures up visions of Internet Explorer... "I before E, except after so many exceptions"... You may be onto something there. Are you implying people use Internet Explorer before they encounter too many unhandled exceptions, then switch?
On a more serious note, the version I learned was something along the lines of "I before E, except after C, and weird is weird".
That's right, because the fee is really $699. Pay up, Linux sucker.
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I think the bank robber should have worn a tinfoil hat to 'foil' the night goggles :-)
Seems to me that with a 3D desktop, we need 3D apps, so someone needs to start a fork of GTK which is source and binary compatible with the official GTK library but renders 3D widgets. The same could be done for other windowing toolkits, but I'd be most interested in seeing GTK first. Imagine firefox, GIMP, or [insert your favorite GTK app(s) here] running with true 3D widgets.
This would be really neat with those 3D stereo page-flip glasses (yes, I have a pair) which give true stereoscopic 3D from a regular CRT monitor.