Maybe the solution is something else. Much of the focus has been on high acceleration, "You have to be made of the right stuff to use this or you'll puke" technology. What if the solution isn't rocketing into space, but coasting into (or gradually reaching ) space. The obvious candidate is the space elevator. But there might be other technologies out there just waiting to be./ed.
I personally hope they are all having a good hard look at Apple's stuff.
The Gnome folks appear to be doing just that. I suspect Gnome is an attempt to clone the Mac UI (elegance over features) and KDE an attempt to clone the Windows UI (features over elegance).
Take a look at the difference between Nautilus (the Gnome file manager) and Konqueror (the KDE file manager-cum-web browser).
Nautilus is easier to use if all you want is to copy a file from one local "folder" to another. But if you want to copy a file from an ftp site, Konqueror lets you perform the operation without resort to a dedicated ftp program.
Well, this seems to be the Composer-equivalent of Firebird and Thunderbird. The site says it's Gecko-based like Firebird and Mozilla, and a standalone app like Firebird and Thunderbird.
For flash and hard disk players that support Ogg Vorbis look no further than the iRiver.
The suppored formats of the flash-based iFP-700 series include all important audio formats like MPEG 1/2/2.5 Layer 3, OGG and yes the dreaded WMA.
Capacities range from 125MB (the iFP-780) to 1GB. The iFP series can also record from its built-in FM tuner or mike, which makes it a handy tool for reporters (though IANAL and don't know if digital recordings are admissible in court).
The iFP is also "well-supported" by the opensource movement with a SourceForge page devoted to a hardware-specific driver . Support for the use of the iFP as a generic USB Mass Storage device is also available.
The geek factor aside, I can't see the point of the exercise. I can see the value of PCs which can boot from a network-mounted disk image. Look ma, no hard disk! This clearly can't be done with gmailfs. You need another filesystem (containing, say, your web browser) to access gmailfs. And that makes it no different from having a backup of your ~home or your precious porn collection stored on removable media like a CDR or a USB thumb drive.
And I can already do that by emailing to myself the zip file of my day's work.
cdrecord -scanbus should still work. But with the new ide direct access (minus the ide-scsi emulation layer), you have to pass an argument to -scanbus to get the bus, etc, ID of your burner. To view the possible arguments, try cdrecord -scanbus dev=help. In my case to get the bus ID I use cdrecord -scanbus dev=ATA. To burn a DVD I use something like cdrecord dev=ATA:1,1,0 (which is functionally, I think, equivalent to dev=/dev/hdd).
That's unless SuSE did something really insane with their fork of cdrecord.
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Maybe the solution is something else. Much of the focus has been on high acceleration, "You have to be made of the right stuff to use this or you'll puke" technology. What if the solution isn't rocketing into space, but coasting into (or gradually reaching ) space. The obvious candidate is the space elevator. But there might be other technologies out there just waiting to be ./ed.
The Gnome folks appear to be doing just that. I suspect Gnome is an attempt to clone the Mac UI (elegance over features) and KDE an attempt to clone the Windows UI (features over elegance).
Take a look at the difference between Nautilus (the Gnome file manager) and Konqueror (the KDE file manager-cum-web browser).
Nautilus is easier to use if all you want is to copy a file from one local "folder" to another. But if you want to copy a file from an ftp site, Konqueror lets you perform the operation without resort to a dedicated ftp program.
Well, this seems to be the Composer-equivalent of Firebird and Thunderbird. The site says it's Gecko-based like Firebird and Mozilla, and a standalone app like Firebird and Thunderbird.
The suppored formats of the flash-based iFP-700 series include all important audio formats like MPEG 1/2/2.5 Layer 3, OGG and yes the dreaded WMA.
Capacities range from 125MB (the iFP-780) to 1GB. The iFP series can also record from its built-in FM tuner or mike, which makes it a handy tool for reporters (though IANAL and don't know if digital recordings are admissible in court).
The iFP is also "well-supported" by the opensource movement with a SourceForge page devoted to a hardware-specific driver . Support for the use of the iFP as a generic USB Mass Storage device is also available.
And I can already do that by emailing to myself the zip file of my day's work.
That's unless SuSE did something really insane with their fork of cdrecord.