>Old SGI/Sun computers definately look cooler. They >definately are cooler. >But they require a lot more to get to work, and you >have to have special keyboard/mice/monitor adapters in most cases.
You don't need mice or monitors. It took me 10 minutes to make a serial cable from an old Appletalk cable. You have to connect only 4 pins.
>Have your mom go buy a new printer and scanner and >try to install it. Have them try to install an >application themselves.
A couple of months ago I helped some friends with a new printer. It was a Brother HL-14xx connected to a SMC 7004WBR router. It was trivial to set up on the laptop running debian with CUPS. But I only had an afternoon and never got i working on the Windows ME computer even though I had CD's and manuals for Windows, the printer, and the router. It is still not working.
So ME does not handle LPD natively and the Brohter software kan handle 4 or 5 protocols, just not LPD. It would probably have worked on Win XP, but that didn't help since I could not upgrade to XP over the internet.
Unlike printed encyclopedias in wikipedia different languages mix. I think a lot of Wikipedia user will just read the english article if there is no article in their own language. And even if there is many will still check the english article to see if it is more comprehensive.
For a small language region, it is a huge task to make a encyclopedia and it will be expensive, so many with english as their 2. language would buy an english encyclopedia because it is bigger and cheaper.
On Wikipedia there is no threshold you need to pass before you can publish a non-english version.
=== Few people have a kind word to say about telecoms regulators. But the success of Wi-Fi shows what can be achieved when regulators and technologists work together ===
So instead of regulating it all, they let a few percent be unregulated and a success was born.
I don't really see why that should make me have kind words for regulators.
But I live in Denmark. I april I was at meeting in Finland. I used a cheap headset on my laptop and the kPhone SIP client to make 4 or 5 phone calls to Denmark using Musimi, a new danish VoIP phone company.
It worked OK. No notiable delay. Some noise, probably from cheap headset and soundcard.
At home I use a Grandstream Handytone 286 and it works better than the kPhone software on the same DSL line. So I am sure this on would work well on a good WiFi net: http://www.zyxel.com/product/model.php?index cate=1 075688089&indexFlagvalue=1075687935
>Tell me do you think its a crime to block spam > from getting to the end user as well.
I do. Or that it should be. An ISP can tag spam or they can offer to block spam if the client wants it. They can even block spam by default until the client request they do not.
If they just delete spam, I have no way to verify that they are in fact blockin just spam and not anything they do not like.
And that is what personal votes is for. Call or email a candidate that you know is against patens. Make it very clear that you are supporting him/her because of the SW patent issue. Ask for a few posters or flyers to put up in your neithborhood.
The candidates within a party can finish very close. And contrary to the popular beleif on/. they don't all have lobby sponsored million-euro election budgets so it could make a difference.
And if this network admin just want to share his network with his neighbors and people on the street and it does violate his agreement with his ISP. Is there a law against that?
No he is innocent until proven guilty. If you are accused of a crime you do not have to know who did it to get off the hook.
If you download illegal content in a library is the librarian on the hook if she cant point at you.
At work or university you can probably put a laptop with a fake MAC address on the network and download your illegal stuff. Is the CEO or dean on the hook?
They would use the RFID tag when you would return a product or when you send it in for repair. If you dispose of your garbage in unathorized way, it could be traced back to using the warranty notes you filled out when you bought it.
I don't think they are afraid of being confused by an unknown tag.
Hmm, I can see that there being a chance that your vote counts no matter how others vote could make it more interesting.
Maybe you (in the US) should just put all ballots in one big bucket, draw one ballot and announce the candidate on that ballot to be the next president.
You can do it in firmware. IRiver does that: http://www.millerpc.co.uk/shop/news/october /iRiver _OGG.asp
As for wasting silicon:
===
The iFP-300 series would be same as the iMP-250 and 350 that require a selection between Ogg firmware and MP3 &WMA firmware. The iFP-500 series is capable of supporting both types of codec simultaneously. ===
I am not sure how to parse that. Do you give up WMA or both WMA and MP3 for OGG?
But it shows that you can get Ogg on at least some hardware without extra silicon development cost.
Also the Rio Karma play Ogg and has Java software that runs fine on any OS.
One thing is to for you in US to force all content in the whole world you don't like to a special domain.
But how will you keep everything else out of these domains. OSDN might think/. is sexy and move it to www.slashdot.sex. Of course most people would then have to open their filter for.sex to get/. and it would all be for nothing.
Start supporting those who do sell laptops without OS'es.
I compiled a list of danish vendors that sell computers without an OS. I put in an entry for laptops because they are a little harder to get without an OS and you generally cannot build them from components.
If MS were willing to do something like this that at best make them look bad, they must really have thought that is was going to work. That it would stop Linux or at least halt Linux for a year or two.
Of course the adoption of Linux might have been even faster without all this, but I hope that those who thought this would hurt Linux will realize it was not worth it.
Although I am sure that someone will manage to take out a few millions and spend them in south america somewhere.
>That's not a bad thing unless OSS is your religion.
Or if you use something other than ix86 platforms. Vendors will probably not make binary drivers for CF-cards on my Yopy. Although in this Centrino case this might not be a big issue.
Or you want to path your driver. I.e to allow TV-out on your graphics card. Or fix a bug.
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> "These things can scratch or simply get lost."
And that is why it is now illegal to make backups of these things.
>TV that will simply show what we want to see, when
>we want to see it.
> When we get home, the home computer will know who
> we are from our voice or our face
I dont watch TV at home. But I might watch a movie on my Linux-laptop on the plane. When does mr Gates predict I can do that without rediculous disks.
>Old SGI/Sun computers definately look cooler. They
>definately are cooler.
>But they require a lot more to get to work, and you
>have to have special keyboard/mice/monitor adapters in most cases.
You don't need mice or monitors.
It took me 10 minutes to make a serial cable from an old Appletalk cable. You have to connect only 4 pins.
>Have your mom go buy a new printer and scanner and >try to install it. Have them try to install an >application themselves.
A couple of months ago I helped some friends with a new printer. It was a Brother HL-14xx connected to a SMC 7004WBR router. It was trivial to set up on the laptop running debian with CUPS. But I only had an afternoon and never got i working on the Windows ME computer even though I had CD's and manuals for Windows, the printer, and the router. It is still not working.
So ME does not handle LPD natively and the Brohter software kan handle 4 or 5 protocols, just not LPD. It would probably have worked on Win XP, but that didn't help since I could not upgrade to XP over the internet.
Unlike printed encyclopedias in wikipedia different languages mix. I think a lot of Wikipedia user will just read the english article if there is no article in their own language. And even if there is many will still check the english article to see if it is more comprehensive.
For a small language region, it is a huge task to make a encyclopedia and it will be expensive, so many with english as their 2. language would buy an english encyclopedia because it is bigger and cheaper.
On Wikipedia there is no threshold you need to pass before you can publish a non-english version.
No, mobility is nice. But the foremost ability of my mobile phone is that people can call me wherever i am and I can call from whereever I am.
Besides WiFI has some roaming on a smaller scale. You could still talk while you walk on your workplace or campus.
===
Few people have a kind word to say about telecoms regulators. But the success of Wi-Fi shows what can be achieved when regulators and technologists work together
===
So instead of regulating it all, they let a few percent be unregulated and a success was born.
I don't really see why that should make me have kind words for regulators.
Thank you but in this case it is not really needed:
o _no_driver.wmv
o _driver.wmv
>time wget http://www.ikp.liu.se/evolve/2004/filmer/Park_aut
real 0m3.116s
>time wget http://cif.rochester.edu/~alex/mirror/Park_auto_n
real 0m10.941s
I dont know what Kewney did.
x cate=1 075688089&indexFlagvalue=1075687935
But I live in Denmark. I april I was at meeting in Finland. I used a cheap headset on my laptop and the kPhone SIP client to make 4 or 5 phone calls to Denmark using Musimi, a new danish VoIP phone company.
It worked OK. No notiable delay. Some noise, probably from cheap headset and soundcard.
At home I use a Grandstream Handytone 286 and it works better than the kPhone software on the same DSL line.
So I am sure this on would work well on a good WiFi net:
http://www.zyxel.com/product/model.php?inde
>Tell me do you think its a crime to block spam
> from getting to the end user as well.
I do. Or that it should be.
An ISP can tag spam or they can offer to block spam if the client wants it. They can even block spam by default until the client request they do not.
If they just delete spam, I have no way to verify that they are in fact blockin just spam and not anything they do not like.
And that is what personal votes is for. Call or email a candidate that you know is against patens. Make it very clear that you are supporting him/her because of the SW patent issue. Ask for a few posters or flyers to put up in your neithborhood.
/. they don't all have lobby sponsored million-euro election budgets so it could make a difference.
The candidates within a party can finish very close. And contrary to the popular beleif on
And if this network admin just want to share his network with his neighbors and people on the street and it does violate his agreement with his ISP. Is there a law against that?
No he is innocent until proven guilty. If you are accused of a crime you do not have to know who did it to get off the hook.
If you download illegal content in a library is the librarian on the hook if she cant point at you.
At work or university you can probably put a laptop with a fake MAC address on the network and download your illegal stuff. Is the CEO or dean on the hook?
I made a picture frame too. I put some notes here.
http://www.agol.dk/elgaard/picframe.html
There is no reason to use a window manager or screensaver. Just start X or run in framebuffer.
According toi ndows bring in 61% of the profit for Microsoft.
http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104-966219.html
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They would use the RFID tag when you would return a product or when you send it in for repair. If you dispose of your garbage in unathorized way, it could be traced back to using the warranty notes you filled out when you bought it.
I don't think they are afraid of being confused by an unknown tag.
Hmm, I can see that there being a chance that your vote counts no matter how others vote could make it more interesting.
Maybe you (in the US) should just put all ballots in one big bucket, draw one ballot and announce the candidate on that ballot to be the next president.
Debian also have apt-src which install packeges from source in the same way.
You can do it in firmware.r /iRiver _OGG.asp
IRiver does that:
http://www.millerpc.co.uk/shop/news/octobe
As for wasting silicon:
===
The iFP-300 series would be same as the iMP-250 and 350 that require a selection between Ogg firmware and MP3 &WMA firmware. The iFP-500 series is capable of supporting both types of codec simultaneously.
===
I am not sure how to parse that. Do you give up WMA or both WMA and MP3 for OGG?
But it shows that you can get Ogg on at least some hardware without extra silicon development cost.
Also the Rio Karma play Ogg and has Java software that runs fine on any OS.
So it is more like Ebola.
One thing is to for you in US to force all content in the whole world you don't like to a special domain.
/. is sexy and move it to www.slashdot.sex. Of course most people would then have to open their filter for .sex to get /. and it would all be for nothing.
But how will you keep everything else out of these domains. OSDN might think
I compiled a list of danish vendors that sell computers without an OS. I put in an entry for laptops because they are a little harder to get without an OS and you generally cannot build them from components.
The list is at http://www.agol.dk/nogenpc/
It is in danish, but you get the point Baerbare=Laptops, Ja=yes.
If MS were willing to do something like this that at best make them look bad, they must really have thought that is was going to work.
That it would stop Linux or at least halt Linux for a year or two.
Of course the adoption of Linux might have been even faster without all this, but I hope that those who thought this would hurt Linux will realize it was not worth it.
Although I am sure that someone will manage to take out a few millions and spend them in south america somewhere.
>The DVD Forum won't allow this. If your player has
>the HD-DVD logo on it, it must play every HD-DVD disc, period.
Anyone wants to put a bet on wheater the next Xbox will hawe a HD-DV logo?
Yes. That is exactly the point.
If drivers are not OSS they will only work on current ix86 platforms.
But OSS drivers will work on any platform that has a least one competent developer willing to spend a few hours to make it work.
>That's not a bad thing unless OSS is your religion.
Or if you use something other than ix86 platforms. Vendors will probably not make binary drivers for CF-cards on my Yopy.
Although in this Centrino case this might not be a big issue.
Or you want to path your driver. I.e to allow TV-out on your graphics card. Or fix a bug.
Or you use a !Linux OSS OS, like BSD.
Or you use an old or experimental kernel.