What's up with the Gnome desktop on SuSE Linux? Gnome might have been ok for Novell Linux Desktop but once you switch the name to SuSE it better default to KDE.
The FCC EIRP Limits, for unlicened persons, are 1 Watt (30dB) for omnidirectional setups and 4 Watts (36dB) for point to point links. This limit applies only to transmission power. What that means is that if you have a card that has two antenna ports, one for transmit (Tx) and the other for receive (Rx), you can connect a high gain (30+ dBi) dish to the Rx port and a lower powered directional antenna to the Tx port (total Tx dBm + dBi capped at 36dB). With the setup I just described you can legally, without being licensed, make a 100 mile 11Mbps link.
I do! hell, the wifi setup on my laptop puts out 604mW. I have a 200mW Z-COM, Prism2.5, PCMCIA Card connected to a 5.5dBi Antenna(1), 4.8dBi gain after connecter and cable loss are calculated in. If you were to connect this card to a converted PrimeStar dish with a biquad feeder(2) (27 - 31dBi gain) you would have an EIRP of 159 watts... In other words, don't point it at your gonads!
Then buy out SCO Group Inc. (market cap: 90.27M), drop all of SCO's lawsuits, and release all UNIX source code under the open source MIT License, with a clause that forbids Microsoft and all it's subsidiaries from making derivative products from said code.
Yep. I have a Nokia 6236i from Verizon, they DRM'd the crap out of it but if you can find a copy of Nokia's Diego (v3.xx) program and buy a DKU-2 cable on eBay ($5) you can reset everything back to the defaults. Now I can upload my own MP3 ringtones, screensavers, and backgrounds, download pics from the phone to the pc, run any java J2ME apps / games I want, and get on the internet for free (uses regular minutes, free nights & weekends).
It's very easy to get a FreeBSD/KDE desktop up and running.
You could also give PC-BSD a try, It's an offshoot of FreeBSD designed for desktop use. It uses KDE (3.5.1), GUI installer, has auto updating stuff, self-contained program packages (Like on Mac's) and simple GUI package & system management tools, and many other cool stuff.
http://www.pcbsd.org/ http://www.freebsd.org/ ------------------- Anyways... KDE has completely won me over. My opinion is it's *better* then Windows and almost as good as Mac OS X, just wait till KDE 4 is out! The three KDE/QT apps I can't live without are Qalculate!, amaroK, and Quanta Plus. It would be nice if you could build Firefox, OOo, and Java with QT, and have KDE bindings.
"As of the most recent release (yesterday), WINE 0.9.8 has reportedly fixed PS7 to run in Linux (obviously x86 only).
Your still two versions behind the industry, everyone runs CS2 now.
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What pissed me off the most was the switch to UPS, and then doubling the price for the equivalent FedEx service.
FexEx 3day service takes 2 days to get here. UPS 3day service takes 4 days to get here. And we are less then 50 miles from one of UPS's main hubs!!!
My first order with them was on 7/15/2002, my invoice list is 7 pages deep and I spend thousands of dollars per year at their store and this is the thanks I get!!!
Needless to say, I've been doing more business with other vendors.
What about a QT app, the toolkit is free if you GPL the code. All it means is that you have to make avilable the source code (if requested) to the people (and only those people) you distribute the program to. Or you can buy the QT toolkit and then not be forced to release the code as GPL. You can use just about any backend language with QT too.
Otherwise I would give Borland's Delphi a go. Delphi is turbo pascal with object-oriented extension's. It makes fast and very lightweight apps, and it's easy to learn. It also has a Linux counterpart called Kylix.
Why not make hard drives with two heads per platter, It seems trivial to make it work? Just place the heads at opposite sides of the drive, shrink the platter a bit to accommodate the two heads, and implement a abstracted queueing algorithm so the two heads can work together.
With SCSI's command queueing a dual head drive would at the very least double random read/write performance and access times. This would also make the drive sorta more fault tolerant because you only need one working head to read data off the drive.
I want a 15,000-RPM dual head Ultra320 hard drive!
Try This: 1. Remove the primary battery on the notebook 2. Open up the notebook and remove it's internal battery. 3. Power on the notebook (without it's batteries installed). 4. With the notebook on, turn it off by removing the power cord. 5. Leave notebook sit for at least 1 hour, the longer the better.
Now plug the notebook back in and turn it on, if it starts up and displays an error message saying it's lost it's CMOS settings or something like that then your good to go.
A merger or buyout between SUN and Apple would end up like HP/Compaq. I think a better fit would be a merger between SUN and AMD. AMD has always wanted into the server market. Sun would have more chip fabs and engineers for the Sparc line. And the two of them together would have the IP for three major processor architectures, Alpha being the 3rd chip.
So this is why they bought Macromedia! Web development software is not one of Adobe's primary markets. Apple caught them off guard with Aperture, Macromedia's Lightroom now fills this gap. So theirs still hope Adobe will kill off Flash by replacing it with SVG!... or opening the Flash spec, like pdf's.
Or Apple could build motherboards for resale.... But I don't see it happening like that. Here's what will happen, you will start to see lots of Intel Mac motherboards on ebay etc, ether pulled from new Mac's off the line or from FRU replacement boards. You will then be able to legally sell white box Mac's with OS X preinstalled.
"When I was watching the MS antitrust stuff happening, I really thought that was the beginning of the end for Microsoft. I was both gleeful and a little scared. Taking a lesson from countless other businesses under government investigation, they bought their way out of it through donations to politicians who, in turn, would support MS's interests."
Mid way through the Microsoft antitrust trial the entire DOJ, including the antitrust division, migrated all of their systems to windows 2000.
"If you think about it, how many times do you know users who actually use the clock that is displayed on their task bar? I've seen many people at various places I've worked, completely ignore their own PC and look at the clock on the wall. Or, they might even ask someone, "do you know what time it is"? when it's right there in front of them. It's not that they're stupid or that they don't understand what that clock does. It's that they've been OVEREXPOSED to it. This holds true for weather, and headlines as well. Rather than bombarding the user with information, let it agreggate the info in a hidden area with constant updates. Then (much like the Dashboard in Mac OS X) using a special key combo, function key or maybe a clickable area, present the information as a translucent area over the existing desktop. This will then force the user to focus on the new information without being able to interact or be distracted by what is now backgrounded."
I've seen many people get up from their calculator and spend minutes looking for a calculator, explain that to me.
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What's up with the Gnome desktop on SuSE Linux? Gnome might have been ok for Novell Linux Desktop but once you switch the name to SuSE it better default to KDE.
SuSE == KDE
KDE == SuSE
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The FCC EIRP Limits, for unlicened persons, are 1 Watt (30dB) for omnidirectional setups and 4 Watts (36dB) for point to point links. This limit applies only to transmission power. What that means is that if you have a card that has two antenna ports, one for transmit (Tx) and the other for receive (Rx), you can connect a high gain (30+ dBi) dish to the Rx port and a lower powered directional antenna to the Tx port (total Tx dBm + dBi capped at 36dB). With the setup I just described you can legally, without being licensed, make a 100 mile 11Mbps link.
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I do! hell, the wifi setup on my laptop puts out 604mW. I have a 200mW Z-COM, Prism2.5, PCMCIA Card connected to a 5.5dBi Antenna(1), 4.8dBi gain after connecter and cable loss are calculated in. If you were to connect this card to a converted PrimeStar dish with a biquad feeder(2) (27 - 31dBi gain) you would have an EIRP of 159 watts... In other words, don't point it at your gonads!
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Google, you want to change the world?
Then buy out SCO Group Inc. (market cap: 90.27M), drop all of SCO's lawsuits, and release all UNIX source code under the open source MIT License, with a clause that forbids Microsoft and all it's subsidiaries from making derivative products from said code.
Yep. I have a Nokia 6236i from Verizon, they DRM'd the crap out of it but if you can find a copy of Nokia's Diego (v3.xx) program and buy a DKU-2 cable on eBay ($5) you can reset everything back to the defaults. Now I can upload my own MP3 ringtones, screensavers, and backgrounds, download pics from the phone to the pc, run any java J2ME apps / games I want, and get on the internet for free (uses regular minutes, free nights & weekends).
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It's very easy to get a FreeBSD/KDE desktop up and running.
You could also give PC-BSD a try, It's an offshoot of FreeBSD designed for desktop use. It uses KDE (3.5.1), GUI installer, has auto updating stuff, self-contained program packages (Like on Mac's) and simple GUI package & system management tools, and many other cool stuff.
http://www.pcbsd.org/
http://www.freebsd.org/
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Anyways... KDE has completely won me over. My opinion is it's *better* then Windows and almost as good as Mac OS X, just wait till KDE 4 is out! The three KDE/QT apps I can't live without are Qalculate!, amaroK, and Quanta Plus. It would be nice if you could build Firefox, OOo, and Java with QT, and have KDE bindings.
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This would be the best thing to ever happen to PostgreSQL, MySQL is a POS.
"As of the most recent release (yesterday), WINE 0.9.8 has reportedly fixed PS7 to run in Linux (obviously x86 only).
Your still two versions behind the industry, everyone runs CS2 now.
What pissed me off the most was the switch to UPS, and then doubling the price for the equivalent FedEx service.
FexEx 3day service takes 2 days to get here.
UPS 3day service takes 4 days to get here. And we are less then 50 miles from one of UPS's main hubs!!!
My first order with them was on 7/15/2002, my invoice list is 7 pages deep and I spend thousands of dollars per year at their store and this is the thanks I get!!!
Needless to say, I've been doing more business with other vendors.
What about a QT app, the toolkit is free if you GPL the code. All it means is that you have to make avilable the source code (if requested) to the people (and only those people) you distribute the program to. Or you can buy the QT toolkit and then not be forced to release the code as GPL. You can use just about any backend language with QT too.
Otherwise I would give Borland's Delphi a go. Delphi is turbo pascal with object-oriented extension's. It makes fast and very lightweight apps, and it's easy to learn. It also has a Linux counterpart called Kylix.
Why not make hard drives with two heads per platter, It seems trivial to make it work? Just place the heads at opposite sides of the drive, shrink the platter a bit to accommodate the two heads, and implement a abstracted queueing algorithm so the two heads can work together.
With SCSI's command queueing a dual head drive would at the very least double random read/write performance and access times. This would also make the drive sorta more fault tolerant because you only need one working head to read data off the drive.
I want a 15,000-RPM dual head Ultra320 hard drive!
"it may have only killed 80 people so far, but thats over 50% of the 150 or so people that have been infected."
53.3%, but, that number is based only on reported cases.
It'll run NetBSD first :-)
t ml
Has anyone tried running Darwin / FreeBSD?
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Try This:
1. Remove the primary battery on the notebook
2. Open up the notebook and remove it's internal battery.
3. Power on the notebook (without it's batteries installed).
4. With the notebook on, turn it off by removing the power cord.
5. Leave notebook sit for at least 1 hour, the longer the better.
Now plug the notebook back in and turn it on, if it starts up and displays an error message saying it's lost it's CMOS settings or something like that then your good to go.
Scorpions are cold blooded animals that can survive being frozen.t m
t ml
http://www.museums.org.za/bio/scorpions/biology.h
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A merger or buyout between SUN and Apple would end up like HP/Compaq. I think a better fit would be a merger between SUN and AMD. AMD has always wanted into the server market. Sun would have more chip fabs and engineers for the Sparc line. And the two of them together would have the IP for three major processor architectures, Alpha being the 3rd chip.
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Then why is it hosted on Macromedia's website?
So this is why they bought Macromedia! Web development software is not one of Adobe's primary markets. Apple caught them off guard with Aperture, Macromedia's Lightroom now fills this gap. So theirs still hope Adobe will kill off Flash by replacing it with SVG!... or opening the Flash spec, like pdf's.
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What about the ability to run thunderbird, or a lite version of it, inside a firefox tab... I think that would be sweet.
What about something like the S/PDIF interconnect that we have for digital audio?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SPDIF
http://www.epanorama.net/documents/audio/spdif.
Or Apple could build motherboards for resale.... But I don't see it happening like that. Here's what will happen, you will start to see lots of Intel Mac motherboards on ebay etc, ether pulled from new Mac's off the line or from FRU replacement boards. You will then be able to legally sell white box Mac's with OS X preinstalled.
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"When I was watching the MS antitrust stuff happening, I really thought that was the beginning of the end for Microsoft. I was both gleeful and a little scared. Taking a lesson from countless other businesses under government investigation, they bought their way out of it through donations to politicians who, in turn, would support MS's interests."
Mid way through the Microsoft antitrust trial the entire DOJ, including the antitrust division, migrated all of their systems to windows 2000.
"If you think about it, how many times do you know users who actually use the clock that is displayed on their task bar? I've seen many people at various places I've worked, completely ignore their own PC and look at the clock on the wall. Or, they might even ask someone, "do you know what time it is"? when it's right there in front of them. It's not that they're stupid or that they don't understand what that clock does. It's that they've been OVEREXPOSED to it. This holds true for weather, and headlines as well. Rather than bombarding the user with information, let it agreggate the info in a hidden area with constant updates. Then (much like the Dashboard in Mac OS X) using a special key combo, function key or maybe a clickable area, present the information as a translucent area over the existing desktop. This will then force the user to focus on the new information without being able to interact or be distracted by what is now backgrounded."
I've seen many people get up from their calculator and spend minutes looking for a calculator, explain that to me.