You're right about the coverage: voicestream omnipoint provides digital in a number of cities, and sprint pcs [if the link doesn't work click on learn, coverage, select iowa] don't exactly offer great coverage. However that samsung phone I mentioned does work in analog mode, and I assumed it could still operate as a modem in that mode, although I may be wrong there. The author said that analog was widely available and probably his best bet.
I'm surprised and the US Cellular claims of PCS coverage in comparison to the Sprint PCS claims. I wonder why companies wouldn't mutally negotiate terms for sharing PCS access. Unless PCS is some general term and TDMA and CDMA in no way like one-another.
-Daniel
ps, personally I don't think there's going to be a good solution, and he should abandon the "live" idea and just get a good camera with lots of storage, mount it, take slides, and upload them progressivly at the end of each day using a phone modem.
DOH! when I said nokia, I meant ericsson.
s/nokia/ericsson/
specifically the T28 world, or that new palm os one, the 383 world?
On another note, having grown up outside the US, I figured that GSM would take over the world considering it was worldwide, but I was quite disappointed to find out that the US millitary was hidering America's integration into thinking globally. Only more recently has there been a concept of the Dual GSM phone which allows communication both inside the restricted wavelengths of the US, and with the standard in the rest of the world.
A samsung sprint pcs modem has a serial port and is a modem; just put a modem where you want to connect to (or use a more costly ISP) and dial up. Then transfer the file and disconnect. The samsung 8500 has a special serial cable just for hooking directly up to a palm V. no costly PDA modem needed. This is also largly true of GSM modems (the omnipoint ones here, like that nokia dual band thing).
I was told once, and I now think it a lie, that GSM worked by communicating to low orbit satellites and hence was global. I don't know if that's true, but I'd hope that either sprint pcs, or GSM would be widely available over the entirety of your course.
Don't ask about the camera, I wouldn't really suggest that sony picture book. But the cam for the clie is no longer an option it seems; and things like this never seem to be real. Although the visor eye module may be what you'd want in that case.
just about any PCI 3D card is a bit of an over statement. As I think you hinted at, a video card would need to dump its legacy BIOS firmware, and pick up some Forth firmware (usually called open firmware, which is what sun and powermacs have in common these days).
ATI makes a very few number of mac cards for PCI. 3Dfx voodoo 4 and 5 pci for mac are available at a deal of a price really, and voodoo3 cards (pci) can be flashed to OF with a tool you could download under experimental. The #9 Imagine 128 was supposed to be able to be flashed to OF, but even though I got the software and the card, the resulting firmware just didn't work, however it went back to BIOS firmware just fine, so no harm done. Formac makes some "pro" cards that sort of are based around some #9 tech. They're not in a normal price-range though.
However, as was correctly pointed out by an anonymous poster, in a clearly more understanding manner, both the names ssh and secure shell are trademarked. Although explicly secsh is not, a strong case can be made that it is equivalent to secure shell.
Now it just sucks that english phrases that are propperly descriptive of a range of possible products can be considered commercial trademarks.
Umm, you could mark up data using XML making it self describing.
Or don't, since arguably, you're the only person/company that'll ever use that data. Just send the data.
XML describes the syntax only, not the content. I would argue that the syntax is never the important part of the message. Hence regardless of whether the reader can figure out the syntax of the XML encoded data that describes itself (woo.) your reader would still have to be partial to information about what to do with it.
Since the bulk of your data is content, and the bulk of what must be done with it cannot be described through XML and syntax descriptions, then the bulk of your work will be writing your reader, and your writer. Whom does it aid in that case that the data is in the almost human unreadable XML format, as opposed to being either more readable or more compact as per your inevitable specifications?
the standard, as I understand it, that openSSH is based on, is described in an open standard named secshell. the closed SSH works off that as well, but has the trademark SSH. I'm inclined to give the Author the right to the name, although its a real pitty he didn't think of enforcing his trademark early on, as now its quite late. However, I'd suggest that openSSH should keep its name and change its tool to sec, or secsh. And please don't make a lame joke about csh worrying about this.
Clearly the problem is that there are multiple tools that are used the same way and called the same thing. ssh makes a secshell connection to address with terminal emulation. One of these tools has a trademark on ssh; I think its actually in a good possition to make a case that the other tool should use a different name, such as the more descriptive secsh.
of course, unless your email is encrypted, anyone in its path of transmission can read it... there's no step of opening the envelope, you just have to glance in its direction. I think that's one reason that there's been no legistlation again reading your email.
hey; with a data packet cache this could use simple rules:
1) if the next in sequence packet is in the cache put it into the stream next. (move to next packet)
2) if the next in sequence packet is in the stream repeat it in its place in the stream. (next)
3) if the cache is full (this packet is out of sequence) repeat this packet in its place (next)
4) if there's space for this packet (out of seq) in the cache, chache it for being put in sequence.
after a few loops, everything will be in sequence.
Of course with access of the whole loop taking only 100ms it might be okay to just cache the sequence you're looking for and you'll have a worst case of 100ms access. This approach would be bad though for application accross the whole network.
hmm. That's neat. Apple must have read that when they began thinking about the now long dropped OpenDOC. That was sort of a nice idea they never explianed as clearly as you just did, so no one could figure out why they should learn/support it.
you buy a wacom tablet and photoshop and illustrator. Then whenever you press the pen to the wacom's setup field, it asks which graphic program? you pick, and off you go. You don't have to worry about photoshop files overwriting other files either since they're all secretly.psd or something.
you buy a card reader with some card reading software and it just works when you want to log in.
I do think this is great; but its VERY similar to the idea of the start menu (which has no real innovations though); Basically I know users who arn't aware that you can browse for files outside of the app you made them in because they really don't know what the OS can do for them.
-Daniel
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If apple were to run OS-X on iX86 based machines that they provided, I think you'd find that that there wouldn't be many similarities between apple's iX86 boxes and off the shelf windows iX86 boxes.
Look at a G4, and look at a standard iX86 box. They basically share the same memory bus, the same PCI bus, the same AGP port, the same USB ports; the Apple lacke a normal UART serial (except for the modem card that I don't think is an option any more) and has a FireWire (highspeed) serial instead. What else is different... well the processor, its cache, but most importantly the Firmware/ROM.
Apple, in some deal of wisdom, has used Sun's OpenBoot ROM (named openfirmware) to keep their system bootable, iX86s use the uber-patched BIOS. If Apple were to make intel based machines, it would make its own custom motherboard, and stick with the clearly supirior OpenBoot styled Firmware. It would be nice if you could get this off the shelf, but you can't since MS never bothered to prod developers into supporting it.
now consider that the only cost differences are the price of the Mot's or IBM's latest PPC (who-knows) vs the price of Intel's latest chip (the who-cares), using current history, you'll see that Apple is actually saving money by buying the cheeper chip. And it has better bang for buck no-doubt.
So, considering we know Apple won't use off the shelf part, whyever would Apple increase its production costs? Is the world such a sad place that it's going to sell a 1.1Ghz chip that does 0.5 instructions a cycle peak with more success than a 500Mhz chip that does 2 instructions per cycle average?
well; book pool has all three cheapest of all.
23.95.
That's cheeper than any (and for many other books too) and significantly less commercial.
I mean thinkgeek is just a sad way of targeting people who buy odd things. They browse around and find other people's products (like that PC window kit) and sell it at a markup.
That's incorrect.
This Knowlegebase article for which you'd require a free apple care login (why I don't know), is entitled: Power Macintosh G3 (Blue and White): PCI Expansion Slot Specifications and clearly states that they include:
1 - 66 MHz PCI Bus with one PCI Slot which accepts a 66 MHz 32-bit PCI card.
1 - 33 MHz PCI Bus with three PCI Slots which accept 33 MHz 32-bit or 64-bit cards.
That's not the same as 1- 66mhz pci bus that accepts 64-bit cards.
I agree, if you want to play with linuxPPC (although debain for the ppc is much better), go ahead and buy a mac, maybe even a $700 old imac.
but you missed the one thing it has that you can't get from any standard desktop market machine, 64bit 66mhz PCI. That stuff costs REAL money; hence the price is great actually; even if you could retrofit a G4 tower with extra logic for that bus (and I don't think anyone sane can), then it would probably end up costing more than 2500 in total.
okay. if we had the FCC regulating protocols on the internet, a scary analogy to radio broadcasting might happen, where there's no chance you'd ever get a license to serve unless you could sustain 10% of the hits yahoo gets (I would give a hard figure but I don't know any), and you're serving a regional demographic without interfering with a pre-existing one. Oh sure, you can pick up a dynamic IP from any licensed ISP, but the minute you start looking like you're actually serving content of any kind, you'd be fined, banned for a period, possibly jailed after repeated offenses. Yep, this applies to running a quake 3 server too.
This is actually conjuring up an amusing image of someone actually plugging in their soldering iron waiting for it to heat up correctly, and testing and cleaning the tip with a bit of solder. Fully satisfied that the process is well on its way, our hardware hacker touches both the solder end and the coper wire for the battery to the terminals he's so carefully traced through his dead machine. He's looking forward to a new and working machine, and brings the iron down to melt the solder. Before it even gets to the ink terminal on the plastic, the top layer browns, then melts away, exposing the next sensitive layer which quickly does the same as the iron is brought to a contact possition with the wire and solder. Our hacker realizes his error as he reflexivly twitches back; the solder hasn't melted yet, but there's a glob of messy plastic and ink burning to the tip of his iron. For shame, he thinks as toxins fill his notrils, I am so surprisingly stupid.:)
Besides, he wanted me to stick with a non-preemptive psudo multi tasking, non threaded
implementaion in C. C....C for christ sakes. Pfffft. I told him, Look, Steve, I'll write your new kernel in Java or I won't write it.
We know this is a joke and all, and the whole kernel in Java thing really makes that clear, but I just have to point out one really important oft overlooked fact about MacOS.
Until, say system7.0 it wasn't considered a good idea to write any mac program in C. Why? Because the macOS and it's toolbox (ROM based) were all intended for use by Pascal programmers. I think this means a good deal of MacOS was written in Pascal... and then assembly of course, the latter being a mainstay of any OS in those pre-portability days.
I have 4 computers, which for the most part run 24/7. I turn two of them off when CAISO declares a Stage 2 power alert. By your numbers, The monthly bill for my computer equipment
alone should be 1008 Kwh per month. My entire house drew only about 750 Kwh last month. That's with an electric stove, oven, clothes dryer, and a wife that doesn't turn lights off.
Lights are irrelevant.
Wife is irrelevant.
Resistance is futile.
You must comply.
-Daniel
Re:This project should help MySQL
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The additional consideration for this line of thinking is:
Does MySQL have the same directed and well defined core of development that linux development had and has?[think kernel here]
Is the current base of MySQL well written enough, with enough source infrastructure to survive eventual restructuring during concurrent feature enhancement?
Is there, as there was with linux, little competition in similar projects offering a similar feature set that might attract more followers or be a better candidate than MySQL for development attention?
I'm not saying that MySQL lacks any of these. But there are tons of opensourced projects that just needed a bit of getting better that never did because they never really were good enough on a source level. Linux is a lucky case, but take heart, if there hadn't been linux, you still could have run the most fo the gnu system on BSD thanks to GCC.
Lastly, I'm largly unaware of any linux-only apps that actually make or break a user's choice to use linux vs. any other unix. I think what really makes or breaks the choice is price-point and percieved momentum. pauvre pauvre netBSD.
I have the Sony camera of which you speak. Quality is just fine for home video. In addition to composite video, they also have Firewire (bidirectional) so it means I never have to use a VHS tape
again. I can just make MPEG-2 versions of my video through the Firewire card.
Right, in addition, all your old VHS tapes should be able to be input into the video in, and transfered on the fly as an MPEG-2 stream over IEEE1394, that I think is a feature actually missing in more expensive DV cameras.
Is there any real drawback to the Digital 8 cameras out there?
I mean I've looked at them, like the sony TRV-120, they seem reletivly inexpensive, they can record to 8mm tape that's cheeper and more available (possibly even more durable). They can play hi8 and such. They have composite video in and out such that they can digitize a signal for you, and they're still pretty small.
So is the draw back manufactured, i.e. the CCDs arn't as good as the DV cams? or is it part of wieght/energy usage, or is it that 8mm is just a bad format for high bandwidth stuff.... I'm not following why people arn't all over these cameras as opposed to the more expensive ones.
-Daniel
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Didn't anyone else think:
he took two small boxes in.
he made people very exited.
he does transport stuff.
it's clean, and safe (hence can't move too fast)
so maybe he walk from one box to the next without spending time in-between. A transporter so to speak.
But then even I think I'm insane.
I'd like to add that with the aid of a secondary machine, I installed LinuxPPC2000 onto a scsi drive intended for a 6115CD (ppc601), and then installed just the MkLinux kernel and booter portions of the latest MkLinux kernel I could find (which I think was something like 2.2.12 but I don't recall). A lot of stuff worked (like X and Gnome and the rest of linux), some stuff didn't but it wasn't critical. I made an old mac owner happy for a few weeks as they taught themselves perl and actually used netscape at better speeds than the macOS netscape. Eventually the machine was relegated to old-game-platform, and now runs macOS without touching the linux partition.
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voicestream omnipoint provides digital in a number of cities, and sprint pcs [if the link doesn't work click on learn, coverage, select iowa] don't exactly offer great coverage. However that samsung phone I mentioned does work in analog mode, and I assumed it could still operate as a modem in that mode, although I may be wrong there. The author said that analog was widely available and probably his best bet.
I'm surprised and the US Cellular claims of PCS coverage in comparison to the Sprint PCS claims. I wonder why companies wouldn't mutally negotiate terms for sharing PCS access. Unless PCS is some general term and TDMA and CDMA in no way like one-another.
-Daniel
ps, personally I don't think there's going to be a good solution, and he should abandon the "live" idea and just get a good camera with lots of storage, mount it, take slides, and upload them progressivly at the end of each day using a phone modem.
DOH! when I said nokia, I meant ericsson. s/nokia/ericsson/ specifically the T28 world, or that new palm os one, the 383 world? On another note, having grown up outside the US, I figured that GSM would take over the world considering it was worldwide, but I was quite disappointed to find out that the US millitary was hidering America's integration into thinking globally. Only more recently has there been a concept of the Dual GSM phone which allows communication both inside the restricted wavelengths of the US, and with the standard in the rest of the world.
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http://navasgrp.home.att.net/tech/sch-8500/
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http://www.interpug.com/npug/articles/sprint2.htm
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http://store.yahoo.com/cellularaccessorycom/datca
b samsch.html
A samsung sprint pcs modem has a serial port and is a modem; just put a modem where you want to connect to (or use a more costly ISP) and dial up. Then transfer the file and disconnect. The samsung 8500 has a special serial cable just for hooking directly up to a palm V. no costly PDA modem needed. This is also largly true of GSM modems (the omnipoint ones here, like that nokia dual band thing).I was told once, and I now think it a lie, that GSM worked by communicating to low orbit satellites and hence was global. I don't know if that's true, but I'd hope that either sprint pcs, or GSM would be widely available over the entirety of your course.
Don't ask about the camera, I wouldn't really suggest that sony picture book. But the cam for the clie is no longer an option it seems; and things like this never seem to be real. Although the visor eye module may be what you'd want in that case.
ATI makes a very few number of mac cards for PCI. 3Dfx voodoo 4 and 5 pci for mac are available at a deal of a price really, and voodoo3 cards (pci) can be flashed to OF with a tool you could download under experimental. The #9 Imagine 128 was supposed to be able to be flashed to OF, but even though I got the software and the card, the resulting firmware just didn't work, however it went back to BIOS firmware just fine, so no harm done. Formac makes some "pro" cards that sort of are based around some #9 tech. They're not in a normal price-range though.
You probably don't want a 64 bit PCI card though.
-Daniel
that sounds better, or at least on par with Boston.
http://www.ietf.org/ids.by.wg/secsh.html is the main heading for all discussions on SSH and secsh. Notice its named secsh. I'm surprised you wouldn't notice.
However, as was correctly pointed out by an anonymous poster, in a clearly more understanding manner, both the names ssh and secure shell are trademarked. Although explicly secsh is not, a strong case can be made that it is equivalent to secure shell.
Now it just sucks that english phrases that are propperly descriptive of a range of possible products can be considered commercial trademarks.
-Daniel
Or don't, since arguably, you're the only person/company that'll ever use that data. Just send the data.
XML describes the syntax only, not the content. I would argue that the syntax is never the important part of the message. Hence regardless of whether the reader can figure out the syntax of the XML encoded data that describes itself (woo.) your reader would still have to be partial to information about what to do with it.
Since the bulk of your data is content, and the bulk of what must be done with it cannot be described through XML and syntax descriptions, then the bulk of your work will be writing your reader, and your writer. Whom does it aid in that case that the data is in the almost human unreadable XML format, as opposed to being either more readable or more compact as per your inevitable specifications?
-Daniel
don't believe the hype - zootv [U2]
Clearly the problem is that there are multiple tools that are used the same way and called the same thing. ssh makes a secshell connection to address with terminal emulation. One of these tools has a trademark on ssh; I think its actually in a good possition to make a case that the other tool should use a different name, such as the more descriptive secsh.
-Daniel
-Daniel
- 1) if the next in sequence packet is in the cache put it into the stream next. (move to next packet)
- 2) if the next in sequence packet is in the stream repeat it in its place in the stream. (next)
- 3) if the cache is full (this packet is out of sequence) repeat this packet in its place (next)
- 4) if there's space for this packet (out of seq) in the cache, chache it for being put in sequence.
after a few loops, everything will be in sequence. Of course with access of the whole loop taking only 100ms it might be okay to just cache the sequence you're looking for and you'll have a worst case of 100ms access. This approach would be bad though for application accross the whole network.-Daniel
hmm. That's neat. Apple must have read that when they began thinking about the now long dropped OpenDOC. That was sort of a nice idea they never explianed as clearly as you just did, so no one could figure out why they should learn/support it.
you buy a wacom tablet and photoshop and illustrator. Then whenever you press the pen to the wacom's setup field, it asks which graphic program? you pick, and off you go. You don't have to worry about photoshop files overwriting other files either since they're all secretly .psd or something.
you buy a card reader with some card reading software and it just works when you want to log in.
I do think this is great; but its VERY similar to the idea of the start menu (which has no real innovations though); Basically I know users who arn't aware that you can browse for files outside of the app you made them in because they really don't know what the OS can do for them. -Daniel
Look at a G4, and look at a standard iX86 box. They basically share the same memory bus, the same PCI bus, the same AGP port, the same USB ports; the Apple lacke a normal UART serial (except for the modem card that I don't think is an option any more) and has a FireWire (highspeed) serial instead. What else is different... well the processor, its cache, but most importantly the Firmware/ROM.
Apple, in some deal of wisdom, has used Sun's OpenBoot ROM (named openfirmware) to keep their system bootable, iX86s use the uber-patched BIOS. If Apple were to make intel based machines, it would make its own custom motherboard, and stick with the clearly supirior OpenBoot styled Firmware. It would be nice if you could get this off the shelf, but you can't since MS never bothered to prod developers into supporting it.
now consider that the only cost differences are the price of the Mot's or IBM's latest PPC (who-knows) vs the price of Intel's latest chip (the who-cares), using current history, you'll see that Apple is actually saving money by buying the cheeper chip. And it has better bang for buck no-doubt.
So, considering we know Apple won't use off the shelf part, whyever would Apple increase its production costs? Is the world such a sad place that it's going to sell a 1.1Ghz chip that does 0.5 instructions a cycle peak with more success than a 500Mhz chip that does 2 instructions per cycle average?
-Daniel
That's cheeper than any (and for many other books too) and significantly less commercial. I mean thinkgeek is just a sad way of targeting people who buy odd things. They browse around and find other people's products (like that PC window kit) and sell it at a markup.
-Daniel
- 1 - 66 MHz PCI Bus with one PCI Slot which accepts a 66 MHz 32-bit PCI card.
- 1 - 33 MHz PCI Bus with three PCI Slots which accept 33 MHz 32-bit or 64-bit cards.
That's not the same as 1- 66mhz pci bus that accepts 64-bit cards.-Daniel
PS it did sound plausable and interesting though
but you missed the one thing it has that you can't get from any standard desktop market machine, 64bit 66mhz PCI. That stuff costs REAL money; hence the price is great actually; even if you could retrofit a G4 tower with extra logic for that bus (and I don't think anyone sane can), then it would probably end up costing more than 2500 in total.
-Daniel
okay. if we had the FCC regulating protocols on the internet, a scary analogy to radio broadcasting might happen, where there's no chance you'd ever get a license to serve unless you could sustain 10% of the hits yahoo gets (I would give a hard figure but I don't know any), and you're serving a regional demographic without interfering with a pre-existing one. Oh sure, you can pick up a dynamic IP from any licensed ISP, but the minute you start looking like you're actually serving content of any kind, you'd be fined, banned for a period, possibly jailed after repeated offenses. Yep, this applies to running a quake 3 server too.
-Daniel
We know this is a joke and all, and the whole kernel in Java thing really makes that clear, but I just have to point out one really important oft overlooked fact about MacOS.
Until, say system7.0 it wasn't considered a good idea to write any mac program in C. Why? Because the macOS and it's toolbox (ROM based) were all intended for use by Pascal programmers. I think this means a good deal of MacOS was written in Pascal... and then assembly of course, the latter being a mainstay of any OS in those pre-portability days.
-Daniel
Lights are irrelevant. Wife is irrelevant. Resistance is futile. You must comply.
-Daniel
- Does MySQL have the same directed and well defined core of development that linux development had and has?[think kernel here]
- Is the current base of MySQL well written enough, with enough source infrastructure to survive eventual restructuring during concurrent feature enhancement?
- Is there, as there was with linux, little competition in similar projects offering a similar feature set that might attract more followers or be a better candidate than MySQL for development attention?
I'm not saying that MySQL lacks any of these. But there are tons of opensourced projects that just needed a bit of getting better that never did because they never really were good enough on a source level. Linux is a lucky case, but take heart, if there hadn't been linux, you still could have run the most fo the gnu system on BSD thanks to GCC.Lastly, I'm largly unaware of any linux-only apps that actually make or break a user's choice to use linux vs. any other unix. I think what really makes or breaks the choice is price-point and percieved momentum. pauvre pauvre netBSD.
-Daniel
Right, in addition, all your old VHS tapes should be able to be input into the video in, and transfered on the fly as an MPEG-2 stream over IEEE1394, that I think is a feature actually missing in more expensive DV cameras.
-Daniel
Is there any real drawback to the Digital 8 cameras out there?
I mean I've looked at them, like the sony TRV-120, they seem reletivly inexpensive, they can record to 8mm tape that's cheeper and more available (possibly even more durable). They can play hi8 and such. They have composite video in and out such that they can digitize a signal for you, and they're still pretty small.
So is the draw back manufactured, i.e. the CCDs arn't as good as the DV cams? or is it part of wieght/energy usage, or is it that 8mm is just a bad format for high bandwidth stuff.... I'm not following why people arn't all over these cameras as opposed to the more expensive ones.
-Daniel
Didn't anyone else think: he took two small boxes in. he made people very exited. he does transport stuff. it's clean, and safe (hence can't move too fast) so maybe he walk from one box to the next without spending time in-between. A transporter so to speak. But then even I think I'm insane.
I'd like to add that with the aid of a secondary machine, I installed LinuxPPC2000 onto a scsi drive intended for a 6115CD (ppc601), and then installed just the MkLinux kernel and booter portions of the latest MkLinux kernel I could find (which I think was something like 2.2.12 but I don't recall). A lot of stuff worked (like X and Gnome and the rest of linux), some stuff didn't but it wasn't critical. I made an old mac owner happy for a few weeks as they taught themselves perl and actually used netscape at better speeds than the macOS netscape. Eventually the machine was relegated to old-game-platform, and now runs macOS without touching the linux partition.