We ha d a go and tried the H.323 to ISDN gateway in our company. It worked like a breeze, right out of the box.
We were able to connect M$ Netmeeting directly to the server as well as the minimal phone application for windows (yes there is one avail. at Open H.323 Org).
I am sory to say that calling the communications prgramm under Linux froze my box completely -- it was probably the soundcard. But when I look an the Gnome or KDE application which are available I think Unix users have a good option to participate.
When it comes to Mac I must say I have no access to one, so I cannot verify the availability/functionality of any app for MacOS. I do beleive though that under MacOSX the above Unix versions should run very well ?
When it comes to SIP we do have linphone (Gnome) available as well as a whole rack ot libraries for different languages. All found on Freshmeat Net with the simple query "SIP".
No idea about MacOS SIP apps, but the same though as above: MacOSX and Gnome ?
We were at Sharp's booth on this years CeBIT and I must say that the Zaurus simply rock'ed. There were absolutely cool features to be used by us, the programmers. For the users there were lot's of things to play around with and use.
If the guy who did the review made a bad one then it might be because there were no clumsy nagging M$-like startup screens (after hard reset to calibrate or presenting your todays todos which you will never see again, if you leave your apps open) like there is on the Windows CE devices like the IPAQ (which btw totally sucks !). And he was probably trying to find the start menu on the very top of the screen -- which wasn't there, for good reasons.
We were able to do things that you are not able to do on a Windows CE device, e.g. the rotation of the screen as provided by Trolltech's Qtopia (great software !).
I had the chance to chat with the man from Trolltech and we were talking about cool features that might be implemented on this device.
In direct comaprison to the IPAQ e.g. the Zaurus wins in the points:
exchangeable battery (sorry IPAQ users >:-) )
two expansion slots vs. zero on the IPAQ (I know you can add the add on pack)
keyboard -- try to use it with both thumbs for approx. 5 minutes and you'll stop using the on screen keyboard (except for the keys you simple cannot find...)
4 or 5 different on screen input methods(M$ will never be able to do this, they simply cannot count further that two >:-D )
slighty smaller
much smaller and lighter than the ipaq with the extension pack
much less buggy operating system -- M$ is constantly producing bugs: no close (X) button on some apps in Windows CE 3.x, IE display bugs in Windows CE 3.x that were gone in Windows CE 2002 but new ones (bad ones) appeared...
Opera is fast
Comes withJava
It looses here:
battery live too short -- since I only used IPAQ's with the extension, that comes with a second battery, I cannot tell how the ratio is. Nut the battery is exchangeable...
form factor: too edgy -- the IPAQ has nice curves and sort of snuggles to the hand.
The software that can be used in conjunction with the Zaurus can very well sync to Microsoft Outlook - via the Qtopia Desktop (or what that name was). It has wide variety of functions for the Outlook-less Windows user.
There is an alternate application alled Intellisync, that is a lot smaller and only does basic syncing.
Trolltech is probably going to release the specs for their syncing protocol, so expect to see apps for Linux when that happened (KDE/GNOME desktop integration).
We had a IPAQ user starting to play the asteriods clone, we had a hard time getting that device back from him...
Well I think the problem here is that other companies did give away their Linux version for free. Look at ID Software for example. You were able to buy a Dos version of Quake and then download the Linux binaries in order to play that game under Linux. This is, I think, the real problem we have to adress here. The Linux users have to learn not to buy the Windows version but instead wait for the Linux Version to become available and buy that one. I am doing this myself and it works just fine. The only thing I am amazed about is that Loki was actually porting games I never had dreamed of being ported:-)
And now, please excuse me, I have to rush out and grap some Loki Ggames...
I disagree. Konqueror ist not bloated, it just knows what application or slave to trigger when you enter a url.
In detail:
Konqueror ist able to render HTML using a kparts aware HTML-renderer. This very kpart can be used by any other app as well...
Konqueror is able to display Postscript or PDF using a kparts aware PS/PDF-renderer. This is used by kghostview as a standalone app.
Konqueror is able to load tiff files using the kparts aware tiff image loader. This kpart will also be used by the image viewer.
Konqueror is able to browse news servers using nntp by using the io-slave for nntp. This can be used by knode as well (though I do not yet know if it does:-) ).
Konqueror is able to browse an imap server using the io slave for imap. This is used by kmail as well.
So you might see that it is not one application that does all the jobs but indeed a lot of parts working together. And nobody is stopping you from writing a really slim and fast webbrowser without filemanager capabilities. In fact there is an example project that shows exactly this: menu bar, toolbar with url field and html renderer using kparts. You have it compiled and running really quick and it does not do anything but browse the web.
1.
Well in fact there was a guy in, I think it was britain, who had a chip implantet so it would trigger doors to open up for him and other eletric-computer devices greet him whenever they measured his presence.
I do not know about the power consumption of that device in that very experiment, but I can see it being powered by such a "battery".
2.
Nonetheless there is a, well, *dangerous* downside to this:
Just think about this movie - can't remember the title, but it is about a prison where the guys have to wear explosive collars - and replace thos collars with little tracking devices under your skin, too deep to remove with a knife but still strong enough to send out tracing signals... You would be "branded" forever, even if you might just been to jail because of judicial wrongdoing - like it happened before.
3.
Still, to carry that idea further, I would love to have an 'implant' like thing doing a job for me like seen in the game DeusEx or that book,... damn was it Neuromancer ?
Just imagine a small implant releasing the necessary amount of insulin for people with diabetics. You only need a refill from time to time.
While checking out XMLRPC and SOAP for the use in a project in our company I came to the following conclusion:
XMLRPC
- has a really small amount of tags
- is really easy to use (straightforward)
- libs are available for nearly every flavour of prgramming language
- specs are there and seemingly final
- lot of programs support it, there are even small cmd-line and gui test programs
SOAP
- has been passed on to the w3c
- since then it has "evolved" and "evolved" and "evolved"....
- no final spec yet
- no date for the spec yet to see
- horrendous ammount of tags
- not as straight forward as XMLRPC (at least to me)
- nearly no support in libs or programs
Anyway I used XMLRPC to connect java, visal basic an zope:-)
BTW: there are (at least) three more protocols out there that no one has looked at yet....
As usual MS will not fix any bugs. They will just keep adding new gimmicks that nobody needs, i.e. the menues appearing from thin air instead of rolling in...
If we are apllying the rule of thumb, that fixing one bug introduces two new ones, MS will never be able to deliver a bug free version. And since the will be adding a lot of unusable features they wil introduce even more bugs.
Pagers or let's call them LoveGetty's
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In Germany they are sometimes considered to be the ultimate way to get to know someone, especially for the youngsters. Since the "normal" young people do not know how to start a conversation with someone they see (!) in a disco or a bar/pub/party (whatever), they need some kind of device that tells them to go ahead and have a chat.
These youngsters fear they might get disappointed or might blame themselves when talking to someone they do not know. Since the LoveGetty (heard it somewhere) tells them exactly whether the other person is a match they dare to have a chat.
You should have seen the TV-ads, they were aiming straight at kids and they told those kids that using these pager devices would be sooo much fun.
I do not think it is a really good thing, since everyone should communicate whenever he/she wants to and not when a machine tells them to. On the other hand, I have not heard a lot about those things lately (speaking of TV-ads or Radio-commercials), thus I think they sort of died a silent death:-)
I have used a keyboard including an IBM (tm) Trackpoint (tm) and I must say I am very pleased. Test show that you are fastest with a Trackpoint. You are faster than any available Trackpad or mouse. I only wish IBM would build a keyboard with three buttons and in ergo-style. Anyway I would not try to playgames with that thing, though I was able to play quake a little bit. It is the best tool for campers or snipers, since the precision of the IBM Trackpoints is outstandingly good.
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We ha d a go and tried the H.323 to ISDN gateway in our company. It worked like a breeze, right out of the box.
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We were able to connect M$ Netmeeting directly to the server as well as the minimal phone application for windows (yes there is one avail. at Open H.323 Org).
I am sory to say that calling the communications prgramm under Linux froze my box completely -- it was probably the soundcard. But when I look an the Gnome or KDE application which are available I think Unix users have a good option to participate.
When it comes to Mac I must say I have no access to one, so I cannot verify the availability/functionality of any app for MacOS. I do beleive though that under MacOSX the above Unix versions should run very well ?
When it comes to SIP we do have linphone (Gnome) available as well as a whole rack ot libraries for different languages. All found on Freshmeat Net with the simple query "SIP"
No idea about MacOS SIP apps, but the same though as above: MacOSX and Gnome ?
If the guy who did the review made a bad one then it might be because there were no clumsy nagging M$-like startup screens (after hard reset to calibrate or presenting your todays todos which you will never see again, if you leave your apps open) like there is on the Windows CE devices like the IPAQ (which btw totally sucks !). And he was probably trying to find the start menu on the very top of the screen -- which wasn't there, for good reasons.
We were able to do things that you are not able to do on a Windows CE device, e.g. the rotation of the screen as provided by Trolltech's Qtopia (great software !).
I had the chance to chat with the man from Trolltech and we were talking about cool features that might be implemented on this device.
In direct comaprison to the IPAQ e.g. the Zaurus wins in the points:
- exchangeable battery (sorry IPAQ users >:-) )
- two expansion slots vs. zero on the IPAQ (I know you can add the add on pack)
- keyboard -- try to use it with both thumbs for approx. 5 minutes and you'll stop using the on screen keyboard (except for the keys you simple cannot find
...)
- 4 or 5 different on screen input methods(M$ will never be able to do this, they simply cannot count further that two >:-D )
- slighty smaller
- much smaller and lighter than the ipaq with the extension pack
- much less buggy operating system -- M$ is constantly producing bugs: no close (X) button on some apps in Windows CE 3.x, IE display bugs in Windows CE 3.x that were gone in Windows CE 2002 but new ones (bad ones) appeared
...
- Opera is fast
- Comes withJava
It looses here:The software that can be used in conjunction with the Zaurus can very well sync to Microsoft Outlook - via the Qtopia Desktop (or what that name was). It has wide variety of functions for the Outlook-less Windows user.
There is an alternate application alled Intellisync, that is a lot smaller and only does basic syncing.
Trolltech is probably going to release the specs for their syncing protocol, so expect to see apps for Linux when that happened (KDE/GNOME desktop integration).
We had a IPAQ user starting to play the asteriods clone, we had a hard time getting that device back from him
But the two most important things are
Though I only had time too look at the dynapi so far, they both sound very promising.
So please, if you are going to use such a library, try one of those open source, LGPL'ed libraries first.
All pages seem to have english equivalents. Just erase the -fr to obtain it in english: http://www.gamers.org/~quinet/lilo/index-fr.html becomes http://www.gamers.org/~quinet/lilo/index.html
Well I think the problem here is that other companies did give away their Linux version for free. Look at ID Software for example. You were able to buy a Dos version of Quake and then download the Linux binaries in order to play that game under Linux. This is, I think, the real problem we have to adress here. The Linux users have to learn not to buy the Windows version but instead wait for the Linux Version to become available and buy that one. I am doing this myself and it works just fine. The only thing I am amazed about is that Loki was actually porting games I never had dreamed of being ported :-)
And now, please excuse me, I have to rush out and grap some Loki Ggames ...
In detail:
So you might see that it is not one application that does all the jobs but indeed a lot of parts working together. And nobody is stopping you from writing a really slim and fast webbrowser without filemanager capabilities. In fact there is an example project that shows exactly this: menu bar, toolbar with url field and html renderer using kparts. You have it compiled and running really quick and it does not do anything but browse the web.
I thought it RTCW was supposed to be available as a Linux native version ?
:-) ...
As far as I recall you were able to download the multiplayer demo for RTCW already - and I damn well have
So why use winex when you can get the real stuff ? I will zip out of the door and see if my Linux Shop has it already.
- Holle
I got a couple of points to say to this:
... You would be "branded" forever, even if you might just been to jail because of judicial wrongdoing - like it happened before.
... damn was it Neuromancer ?
1.
Well in fact there was a guy in, I think it was britain, who had a chip implantet so it would trigger doors to open up for him and other eletric-computer devices greet him whenever they measured his presence.
I do not know about the power consumption of that device in that very experiment, but I can see it being powered by such a "battery".
2.
Nonetheless there is a, well, *dangerous* downside to this:
Just think about this movie - can't remember the title, but it is about a prison where the guys have to wear explosive collars - and replace thos collars with little tracking devices under your skin, too deep to remove with a knife but still strong enough to send out tracing signals
3.
Still, to carry that idea further, I would love to have an 'implant' like thing doing a job for me like seen in the game DeusEx or that book,
Just imagine a small implant releasing the necessary amount of insulin for people with diabetics. You only need a refill from time to time.
While checking out XMLRPC and SOAP for the use in a project in our company I came to the following conclusion:
....
:-)
....
XMLRPC
- has a really small amount of tags
- is really easy to use (straightforward)
- libs are available for nearly every flavour of prgramming language
- specs are there and seemingly final
- lot of programs support it, there are even small cmd-line and gui test programs
SOAP
- has been passed on to the w3c
- since then it has "evolved" and "evolved" and "evolved"
- no final spec yet
- no date for the spec yet to see
- horrendous ammount of tags
- not as straight forward as XMLRPC (at least to me)
- nearly no support in libs or programs
Anyway I used XMLRPC to connect java, visal basic an zope
BTW: there are (at least) three more protocols out there that no one has looked at yet
As usual MS will not fix any bugs. They will just keep adding new gimmicks that nobody needs, i.e. the menues appearing from thin air instead of rolling in ...
If we are apllying the rule of thumb, that fixing one bug introduces two new ones, MS will never be able to deliver a bug free version. And since the will be adding a lot of unusable features they wil introduce even more bugs.
In Germany they are sometimes considered to be the ultimate way to get to know someone, especially for the youngsters. Since the "normal" young people do not know how to start a conversation with someone they see (!) in a disco or a bar/pub/party (whatever), they need some kind of device that tells them to go ahead and have a chat.
:-)
These youngsters fear they might get disappointed or might blame themselves when talking to someone they do not know.
Since the LoveGetty (heard it somewhere) tells them exactly whether the other person is a match they dare to have a chat.
You should have seen the TV-ads, they were aiming straight at kids and they told those kids that using these pager devices would be sooo much fun.
I do not think it is a really good thing, since everyone should communicate whenever he/she wants to and not when a machine tells them to.
On the other hand, I have not heard a lot about those things lately (speaking of TV-ads or Radio-commercials), thus I think they sort of died a silent death
- Holger
I have used a keyboard including an IBM (tm) Trackpoint (tm) and I must say I am very pleased. Test show that you are fastest with a Trackpoint. You are faster than any available Trackpad or mouse.
I only wish IBM would build a keyboard with three buttons and in ergo-style.
Anyway I would not try to playgames with that thing, though I was able to play quake a little bit. It is the best tool for campers or snipers, since the precision of the IBM Trackpoints is outstandingly good.
- Holle