FYI, my iBook G4 gets really hot too. There are times when I have to put a blanket or a book in between the computer and my legs. Alas, I do not expect a G5 laptop to run any cooler.
That is my #1 biggest complaint about ALL laptops. The heat dissipation sucks in every single one I've used (Dell, HP, IBM, and now Apple).
If you want a bleeding edge powerful laptop, it's not going to run cool. I'm learning to accept that fact.
There's a reason why marketing departments don't call them laptops anymore.:)
What are you doing that prevents you from apt-get or yumming it? Most distributions come with pre-packaged versions of Apache and PHP. What is it about those pre-packaged versions that you find unnacceptable?
While I think this is a bit premature, some of you nay-sayers really need to read Snowcrash. A virtual economy is inevitable, and few stories I've read have captured the awesome potential as well as Snowcrash did.
Will you need an MPEG2 encoder? Depends on your CPU speed. But if you have a P3 1ghz, a decent video capture card and use something like rtjpeg MythTV should run fine with passable disk utilization.
I'd still recommend an MPEG2 encoder regardless. I use a Hauppage PVR350 for both input and output. While watching and recording simultaneously, I have a net CPU usage of 1% (P4 2.6). When I was running my P3 950, I had a net CPU usage of only between 1% and 2%.
New options for controlling where links from other applications open.
Thank God! This (and the Slashdot rendering glitch) are the ONLY problems I have with Firefox. This one particularly bites me on OSX machines where you can't APPLE-TAB between multiple windows of one application. Anybody know if it's possible to turn that on?
Hot damn! I've been waiting for 1.0. Now that it's here, time to get EVERYBODY I know to install it!
Gaim would be decent if it wasn't so horribly buggy. Gaim crashes at least once per day on me, and it really took a dump when my friend tried to send me some graphical images he put up.
With millions of dollars in bandwidth costs on the line, and potentially billions of dollars in customer satisfaction, Microsoft may very well want to play nice on this issue. SPAM is a serious problem, and bickering and fighting isn't going to make it go away. Cooperation and hard work will.
I know this has been discussed before. Unfortunately, I can't seem to find it. My current install of Nautilus alwas opens every folder in a new window.
I hate that.
I can't find the setting to turn this off! Can anybody help me out?
I've been using Gmail for a few months now. The interface is very good, very useable, and has quite a few features that the other services do not offer (such as hot keys).
The only problem with Gmail is that the address book sucks. It only stores basic information, it adds weird people to your address book without your permission (mailing lists), and worst of all it doesn't yet support distribution lists.
IF they fix the address book, the Gmail service will be awesome.
Sure, but management is saying that you have to have X features done in Y days using only Z resources without any idea what X, Y and Z need to be to produce a good product.
Don't tell me it doesn't happen. I have to deal with it every single freaking day.
I was carrying my computer down the steps, and just as I hit the balcony (four steps left to go) I lost my grip on my computer. Flew out of my hands, hit the wall, bounced off the wall and then hit the floor.
Fell a grand total of about six feet.
Surpisingly enough? It still worked afterwords! I was very lucky that day...
Ummm... excuse me? Bullshit. Real standards implementation is another feature you can have that sets you above the competition. If you are standard compliant, AND support all the nifty extra doo-hickies and thing-a-ma-jigs then you've got that much better of a product.
Repeat after me: Standards compliance and nifty new features are NOT mutually exclusive!
Will they be removing this super annoying footer/signature messages (Provided by Yahoo!)? We already know it's provided by Yahoo!, that's what the @yahoo.com Email address is for!!
I still BUY PS1 games! I was a shmuck and bought a Sega Saturn. I never purchased a PS1 or N64, skipped that generation (thank you Quake and Everquest).
When I bought a PS2, first thing I did was start getting the old PS1 games I missed out on (esp old skewl shooters like Einhander and R-Type).
I own just as many PS1 games as I own PS2 games. I only have enough room for two console inputs into my stereo.
Backwards compatibility is something I want, no doubt about it. I'm the primary demographic too. Upper 20's, boat loads of cash, and a true love of video games.
Man this sucks. I've got an FVS318. While, thankfully it's not the router that is the cause of this particular ruckus, it's a Netgear product.
I like it. It's a very solid, reliable firewall/router. I've had it for a number of years now, and Netgear to this day continues to put out new firmware updates that not only fix bugs, but implement new features. It works well, and I always liked it better than my friend's Linksys.
But this whole crisis makes me really really leary... How do I know there isn't a backdoor in my firewall/router as well? The fact is, now I don't.
Getting a Linksys that can run a custom Linux distribution becomes more appealing every single day. This may be what finally pushes me over the edge.
Awesome! I work for RBC, and all I can say is that I am very pleased with this. I felt absolutely betrayed when I heard the announcement the first time. Since then, my probes into upper management lead me to no satisfactory answers. It's nice to see my management is finally getting it's act together on this issue.
Slashdot Mirror
All reasons why I moved from Debian back to Fedora.
It's not the mouse that bothers me. You can always buy another mouse.
It's the damn trackpad on the laptops! They should at least give us the option of having a notebook with two buttons.
Bryan
FYI, my iBook G4 gets really hot too. There are times when I have to put a blanket or a book in between the computer and my legs. Alas, I do not expect a G5 laptop to run any cooler.
:)
That is my #1 biggest complaint about ALL laptops. The heat dissipation sucks in every single one I've used (Dell, HP, IBM, and now Apple).
If you want a bleeding edge powerful laptop, it's not going to run cool. I'm learning to accept that fact.
There's a reason why marketing departments don't call them laptops anymore.
Bryan
How about somebody make a freaking WiFi PCMCIA card that DOES NOT STICK OUT THE SIDE OF MY LAPTOP??
THAT would be nice...
Bryan
What are you doing that prevents you from apt-get or yumming it? Most distributions come with pre-packaged versions of Apache and PHP. What is it about those pre-packaged versions that you find unnacceptable?
Bryan
While I think this is a bit premature, some of you nay-sayers really need to read Snowcrash. A virtual economy is inevitable, and few stories I've read have captured the awesome potential as well as Snowcrash did.
Bryan
Will you need an MPEG2 encoder? Depends on your CPU speed. But if you have a P3 1ghz, a decent video capture card and use something like rtjpeg MythTV should run fine with passable disk utilization.
I'd still recommend an MPEG2 encoder regardless. I use a Hauppage PVR350 for both input and output. While watching and recording simultaneously, I have a net CPU usage of 1% (P4 2.6). When I was running my P3 950, I had a net CPU usage of only between 1% and 2%.
This card has been well worth the money.
Bryan
I'm not trolling. Please enlighten me. What does a FreeBSD jail offer that Linux + chroot does not?
New options for controlling where links from other applications open.
Thank God! This (and the Slashdot rendering glitch) are the ONLY problems I have with Firefox. This one particularly bites me on OSX machines where you can't APPLE-TAB between multiple windows of one application. Anybody know if it's possible to turn that on?
Hot damn! I've been waiting for 1.0. Now that it's here, time to get EVERYBODY I know to install it!
Bryan
Gaim would be decent if it wasn't so horribly buggy. Gaim crashes at least once per day on me, and it really took a dump when my friend tried to send me some graphical images he put up.
But the people who have to sit next to you don't appreciate it.
In shape, or not, smelly people suck.
Bryan
With millions of dollars in bandwidth costs on the line, and potentially billions of dollars in customer satisfaction, Microsoft may very well want to play nice on this issue. SPAM is a serious problem, and bickering and fighting isn't going to make it go away. Cooperation and hard work will.
Bryan
$2/hr doesn't mean squat to me, and if I can get a party of 6 into some real "DM-controlled" sort of adventures at $2/hr, I'm on it.
You can save yourself $2/hour and just install Neverwinter Nights.
I expect this round will contain some sort of PS/2 in a chip design (most likely VERY similar to hardware for the PSP).
:(
The PS4 will probably be an extension of the PS3 hardware, and the PS4 will probably fully emulate in software the PS1/PS2 hardware.
Just a guess... I won't know for many years however.
Bryan
I know this has been discussed before. Unfortunately, I can't seem to find it. My current install of Nautilus alwas opens every folder in a new window.
I hate that.
I can't find the setting to turn this off! Can anybody help me out?
Thanks,
Bryan
I've been using Gmail for a few months now. The interface is very good, very useable, and has quite a few features that the other services do not offer (such as hot keys).
The only problem with Gmail is that the address book sucks. It only stores basic information, it adds weird people to your address book without your permission (mailing lists), and worst of all it doesn't yet support distribution lists.
IF they fix the address book, the Gmail service will be awesome.
Bryan
Sure, but management is saying that you have to have X features done in Y days using only Z resources without any idea what X, Y and Z need to be to produce a good product.
Don't tell me it doesn't happen. I have to deal with it every single freaking day.
Bryan
FlashBlock! That is the BEST plugin EVER created! Everybody who has Firefox installed should also have this plugin installed.
Bryan
I was carrying my computer down the steps, and just as I hit the balcony (four steps left to go) I lost my grip on my computer. Flew out of my hands, hit the wall, bounced off the wall and then hit the floor.
Fell a grand total of about six feet.
Surpisingly enough? It still worked afterwords! I was very lucky that day...
Bryan
Ummm... excuse me? Bullshit. Real standards implementation is another feature you can have that sets you above the competition. If you are standard compliant, AND support all the nifty extra doo-hickies and thing-a-ma-jigs then you've got that much better of a product.
Repeat after me: Standards compliance and nifty new features are NOT mutually exclusive!
Will they be removing this super annoying footer/signature messages (Provided by Yahoo!)? We already know it's provided by Yahoo!, that's what the @yahoo.com Email address is for!!
Bryan
I still BUY PS1 games! I was a shmuck and bought a Sega Saturn. I never purchased a PS1 or N64, skipped that generation (thank you Quake and Everquest).
When I bought a PS2, first thing I did was start getting the old PS1 games I missed out on (esp old skewl shooters like Einhander and R-Type).
I own just as many PS1 games as I own PS2 games. I only have enough room for two console inputs into my stereo.
Backwards compatibility is something I want, no doubt about it. I'm the primary demographic too. Upper 20's, boat loads of cash, and a true love of video games.
Bryan
Man this sucks. I've got an FVS318. While, thankfully it's not the router that is the cause of this particular ruckus, it's a Netgear product.
I like it. It's a very solid, reliable firewall/router. I've had it for a number of years now, and Netgear to this day continues to put out new firmware updates that not only fix bugs, but implement new features. It works well, and I always liked it better than my friend's Linksys.
But this whole crisis makes me really really leary... How do I know there isn't a backdoor in my firewall/router as well? The fact is, now I don't.
Getting a Linksys that can run a custom Linux distribution becomes more appealing every single day. This may be what finally pushes me over the edge.
Bryan
Why is something illegal? Because there is a law against it! What other kind of justification do you need?! Self fulfilling indeed.
Awesome! I work for RBC, and all I can say is that I am very pleased with this. I felt absolutely betrayed when I heard the announcement the first time. Since then, my probes into upper management lead me to no satisfactory answers. It's nice to see my management is finally getting it's act together on this issue.