OpenZaurus doesn't work on the 5600 (yet). They are porting it now, but OZ was developed for the 5000/5500, which have SA1100 chips. The 5600 has an XScale processor.
One thing I CAN imagine is The Matrix: Reloaded without that gratuitous sex/orgy scene in the middle. What was the point? What did it show that was important to the plot? Is Keanu's butt-crack really that important to his role as The One?
I agree. I have looked into doing this myself, but it adds a new level of complexity. You have to buy an IR Transceiver, program LIRC to handle the custom remote commands to change to certain preset channels, etc. This may be trivial for some, but it is much more complex than "cron/scheduler".
Believe me, I think it is a great idea, I just don't think it is all that "easy" to implement.
And how are you going to "change channels"? Or do you only listen to 1 station? I personally would like to be able to record both AM and FM without remembering to switch my receiver.
I actually built a basic one of these at home. I bought an ADS Cadet Radio Card (the only one on the planet that gets the AM band) for $7. I bought a $50 PC at a computer show (Dell P200MMX) and installed Linux. I then wrote a Perl program to control recording, etc.
THEN, I found out that AM reception is nearly impossible on the ADS Cadet in certain circumstances (namely mine). Tried just about everything I could without buying a $50 antenna. Anyway, I ended up hooking up my stereo and my wife mostly uses it to record some of her tapes to MP3 (or Ogg) and then from there to CD. And please no flames about compression crappiness...They are voice-only tapes.
Some day I will try to get it working again, but right now I figure my $50 Dell is creating too much noise on the ISA bus for the card to pick up AM. FM works great, but who wants to hear the same 10 songs over and over? If anyone wants my source, I made it a service that starts on Virtual Console 1 and it takes programmable key-strokes for commands. Also will take a USR1 signal from cron jobs. Pretty decent for the hack job it is.
OK, I know someone will call me a complete (l)user for this, but after I installed this update on my (mandated) Win2K laptop, going to http://www.google.com gave me only a borked up page. If I hit ctrl-refresh, everything is fine. This was confirmed on a co-workers PC. Anyone else having this problem? Is Google borked or is MS putting in an additional "fix" to help out MSN?
I worked for the DOD for a couple of years, and we "disposed" of HDs by smashing them with a sledge. Brutal and effective. I never got to do this myself, but we instructed those doing the disposal in the correct methods.
I guess he is going to do Speak & Math next! Woohoo! I thought I was the only kid on the planet who ever had one of these. Plus, it sucked more simply because it had a membrane keypad rather than the nice push-button-type-thingies. These things so infiltrated my inner being that I sometimes still quote S&S: "You are RIGHT! Next, try..."
They probably have a hardware decoder, similar to my (dated) DXR2. I think the DXR3 had pretty sweet support for Linux and it is just a Zoran chip anyway, which the Linux Media Labs cards have as well (although I am not a guru of this stuff, so don't flame too hard).
I want one...I have the 5000D, which completely rocks, but could use a LOT more flash for installing apps. Plus, with double the MHz on the processor, it would make playing MP3s/Video less painful. I wish the site wasn't/.'ed so quickly so I could actually read about it. Anyone wanna buy my 5000d?
I completely agree with you. I just started using Mandrake 9.0 a week ago, when I decided to upgrade and was unhappy with RH 7.2. Since I couldn't download RH 8.0 (all mirrors/.'ed), I found one that I could get MD from and loaded it. After a few aborted tries in loading it (due to my pickiness about LV sizes, etc), it loaded without a hitch AND I can use LVM during the install. I don't know if RH 8 does that, but that was one of the bones I had to pick with RH 7.2. I had to set everything up after the fact before, but not now...
I have not experienced ANY bugs with it, and have worked with both GNOME and KDE with great success. MD 9 is MUCH faster than RH 7.2, and I will be loading it on my home PC soon, which says a lot, since my wife will KILL me if I break the computer one more time (go figure). Also, I haven't had one crash of GNOME or KDE, which is amazing, considering how often it crashed in RH 7.2.
The only complaint I have is that XShipwars won't compile with the new gcc. Haven't tried the to install the old gcc, if it is even available.
I guess I will have to read the review and try to find the same problems. I am obviously not enough of a "Power User" to cause them. I mean, I have only been using Linux since kernel 1.2.13 (Slackware), and I only use Linux every day as my desktop.
but the parts where he makes substantive arguements _for_ Christian beliefs really irritate me, because they are so transparently misleading: making arguements that a brilliant man like Lewis would never take seriously if the conclusions weren't Christian.
You should remember that a "brilliant man like Lewis" did take those arguments seriously at one point despite the fact that they are Christian. He was an avowed athiest looking to disprove Christianity when he converted. You may be right that they are somewhat watered down, but that is because they were originally a radio piece which had to make sense to the public at large. I don't claim to be an expert on him but I have read a number of his books, including a biography, and it was patently clear that he had no desire to be a Christian in his initial searchings.
If you are really interested in a "serious" work of his, try The Problem of Pain. That will get your thinker thinking.
Jim Conway of the New York-based Direct Marketing Association worries that U.S. companies may have to scale back U.S. campaigns if they cannot assure that their mailing lists contain no European addresses.
Why not use Bookpool? http://www.bookpool.com/.x/hhowgiv3a6/sm/157870266 6
They are always cheaper for the techy books. I wish they would give me a cut for all the times I have sent people there. Now they will get/.'ed too.:-)
I agree whole-heartedly. There tends to be a trend in society to believe that the Bad News Media is all there is out there. This is not the case, but a profile of someone who helped a homeless person yesterday doesn't seem to be very interesting to news viewers. There will always be bad people in the world, but I would say the majority of people have the same desire as the gentleman above: they want to help people out. It makes them feel good, giving a sense of accomplishment as well as adding to the common good. Ultimately, criminals will generally succeed in what they are trying to do. Need anyone be reminded of Oklahoma City? The men that did that were not geniuses or high-tech UberCriminals. They were farm-boys with too much time on their hands. They didn't use sat. phones or 1024-bit encryption. That is where the FBI has gone awry. They think that the.0001 percent of the world population that is dangerous to society is worth limiting the advancement of everyone else. Give me a break. They will NEVER NEVER catch them all, or prevent all of the crimes. When does the protection become so prohibitive that it is not worth it? When you aren't allowed to have a truly private conversation? When you aren't allowed to drive across state borders with fertilizer for your farm? When you can't buy a gun to go hunting? When you can't buy a computer more powerful than X? You should decide. Not some bozo with to much politcal weight and not enough brains or scruples.
It is weird, but people do that a lot. I have even caught myself basing my opinion of a computer on how it looks (although I tend to shy away from pretty little clear boxes with no floppy). One of my friends always based her opinion of a computer on how "big" it was (please no replies to this one). Maybe that could be a good marketing technique: "We have the biggest computers on the market." Whatever.
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My wife will be so happy! I won't be spending loads of money on anything. Free hardware from Billy, free software from GNU. What more could you ask?
OpenZaurus doesn't work on the 5600 (yet). They are porting it now, but OZ was developed for the 5000/5500, which have SA1100 chips. The 5600 has an XScale processor.
One thing I CAN imagine is The Matrix: Reloaded without that gratuitous sex/orgy scene in the middle. What was the point? What did it show that was important to the plot? Is Keanu's butt-crack really that important to his role as The One?
Every time I read something about this STUPID argument, it makes me thing of the movie Clockwork Orange.
YOU WILL WATCH IT! Here are the toothpicks.
I agree. I have looked into doing this myself, but it adds a new level of complexity. You have to buy an IR Transceiver, program LIRC to handle the custom remote commands to change to certain preset channels, etc. This may be trivial for some, but it is much more complex than "cron/scheduler".
Believe me, I think it is a great idea, I just don't think it is all that "easy" to implement.
Here it is. Sorry it is posted in such a crappy format, but /. has much better bandwidth than my crappy little cable modem.
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http://features.slashdot.org/journal.pl?op=list&u
And how are you going to "change channels"? Or do you only listen to 1 station? I personally would like to be able to record both AM and FM without remembering to switch my receiver.
I actually built a basic one of these at home. I bought an ADS Cadet Radio Card (the only one on the planet that gets the AM band) for $7. I bought a $50 PC at a computer show (Dell P200MMX) and installed Linux. I then wrote a Perl program to control recording, etc.
THEN, I found out that AM reception is nearly impossible on the ADS Cadet in certain circumstances (namely mine). Tried just about everything I could without buying a $50 antenna. Anyway, I ended up hooking up my stereo and my wife mostly uses it to record some of her tapes to MP3 (or Ogg) and then from there to CD. And please no flames about compression crappiness...They are voice-only tapes.
Some day I will try to get it working again, but right now I figure my $50 Dell is creating too much noise on the ISA bus for the card to pick up AM. FM works great, but who wants to hear the same 10 songs over and over? If anyone wants my source, I made it a service that starts on Virtual Console 1 and it takes programmable key-strokes for commands. Also will take a USR1 signal from cron jobs. Pretty decent for the hack job it is.
OK, I know someone will call me a complete (l)user for this, but after I installed this update on my (mandated) Win2K laptop, going to http://www.google.com gave me only a borked up page. If I hit ctrl-refresh, everything is fine. This was confirmed on a co-workers PC. Anyone else having this problem? Is Google borked or is MS putting in an additional "fix" to help out MSN?
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I worked for the DOD for a couple of years, and we "disposed" of HDs by smashing them with a sledge. Brutal and effective. I never got to do this myself, but we instructed those doing the disposal in the correct methods.
New sizing metric:
Barbie Ovens!
I think it could replace the "U" for rack-mounting..."My new Dell server is 3 BOs. Do we have the space?"
I guess he is going to do Speak & Math next! Woohoo! I thought I was the only kid on the planet who ever had one of these. Plus, it sucked more simply because it had a membrane keypad rather than the nice push-button-type-thingies. These things so infiltrated my inner being that I sometimes still quote S&S: "You are RIGHT! Next, try..."
What great memories, I think!
They probably have a hardware decoder, similar to my (dated) DXR2. I think the DXR3 had pretty sweet support for Linux and it is just a Zoran chip anyway, which the Linux Media Labs cards have as well (although I am not a guru of this stuff, so don't flame too hard).
Well, you got them /.'ed, if that counts for anything. :-)
Of course it does, silly. The best part is bringing up a terminal and typing 'ls' for your geek friends. Or 'ifconfig', 'lsmod', or 'uname -a'.
I want one...I have the 5000D, which completely rocks, but could use a LOT more flash for installing apps. Plus, with double the MHz on the processor, it would make playing MP3s/Video less painful. I wish the site wasn't /.'ed so quickly so I could actually read about it. Anyone wanna buy my 5000d?
I completely agree with you. I just started using Mandrake 9.0 a week ago, when I decided to upgrade and was unhappy with RH 7.2. Since I couldn't download RH 8.0 (all mirrors /.'ed), I found one that I could get MD from and loaded it. After a few aborted tries in loading it (due to my pickiness about LV sizes, etc), it loaded without a hitch AND I can use LVM during the install. I don't know if RH 8 does that, but that was one of the bones I had to pick with RH 7.2. I had to set everything up after the fact before, but not now...
I have not experienced ANY bugs with it, and have worked with both GNOME and KDE with great success. MD 9 is MUCH faster than RH 7.2, and I will be loading it on my home PC soon, which says a lot, since my wife will KILL me if I break the computer one more time (go figure). Also, I haven't had one crash of GNOME or KDE, which is amazing, considering how often it crashed in RH 7.2.
The only complaint I have is that XShipwars won't compile with the new gcc. Haven't tried the to install the old gcc, if it is even available.
I guess I will have to read the review and try to find the same problems. I am obviously not enough of a "Power User" to cause them. I mean, I have only been using Linux since kernel 1.2.13 (Slackware), and I only use Linux every day as my desktop.
- The release date was 9-30. Is this is a news site or what?
I was thinking the same thing. What the heck? I heard about this 2 days ago and I don't even keep up on releases. Sheesh! What kind of news is this???
but the parts where he makes substantive arguements _for_ Christian beliefs really irritate me, because they are so transparently misleading: making arguements that a brilliant man like Lewis would never take seriously if the conclusions weren't Christian.
You should remember that a "brilliant man like Lewis" did take those arguments seriously at one point despite the fact that they are Christian. He was an avowed athiest looking to disprove Christianity when he converted. You may be right that they are somewhat watered down, but that is because they were originally a radio piece which had to make sense to the public at large. I don't claim to be an expert on him but I have read a number of his books, including a biography, and it was patently clear that he had no desire to be a Christian in his initial searchings.
If you are really interested in a "serious" work of his, try The Problem of Pain. That will get your thinker thinking.
Let's all celebrate about this quote.
Jim Conway of the New York-based Direct Marketing Association worries that U.S. companies may have to scale back U.S. campaigns if they cannot assure that their mailing lists contain no European addresses.
Why not use Bookpool? http://www.bookpool.com/.x/hhowgiv3a6/sm/157870266 6
/.'ed too. :-)
They are always cheaper for the techy books. I wish they would give me a cut for all the times I have sent people there. Now they will get
Anyone every read H.G. Wells...The First Men in the Moon? I'll bet he is rolling in his grave right now...
I agree whole-heartedly. There tends to be a trend in society to believe that the Bad News Media is all there is out there. This is not the case, but a profile of someone who helped a homeless person yesterday doesn't seem to be very interesting to news viewers. There will always be bad people in the world, but I would say the majority of people have the same desire as the gentleman above: they want to help people out. It makes them feel good, giving a sense of accomplishment as well as adding to the common good. Ultimately, criminals will generally succeed in what they are trying to do. Need anyone be reminded of Oklahoma City? The men that did that were not geniuses or high-tech UberCriminals. They were farm-boys with too much time on their hands. They didn't use sat. phones or 1024-bit encryption. That is where the FBI has gone awry. They think that the .0001 percent of the world population that is dangerous to society is worth limiting the advancement of everyone else. Give me a break. They will NEVER NEVER catch them all, or prevent all of the crimes. When does the protection become so prohibitive that it is not worth it? When you aren't allowed to have a truly private conversation? When you aren't allowed to drive across state borders with fertilizer for your farm? When you can't buy a gun to go hunting? When you can't buy a computer more powerful than X? You should decide. Not some bozo with to much politcal weight and not enough brains or scruples.
Just my 2 pesos.
It is weird, but people do that a lot. I have even caught myself basing my opinion of a computer on how it looks (although I tend to shy away from pretty little clear boxes with no floppy). One of my friends always based her opinion of a computer on how "big" it was (please no replies to this one). Maybe that could be a good marketing technique: "We have the biggest computers on the market." Whatever.