Seriously, what's the point of the article? If a/. user posts such a remark it gets flagged as flamebait, but it seems it _is_ ok to put it on the front page.
I use Windows (W2K) and Linux (Ubuntu Feisty) on a daily basis as development machines and have (minor) annoyances on both. Both will do weird stuff and crash. YES I consider the shell crashing also a crash from a user point of view, restarting it is sometimes as painfull as rebooting, it is actually worse than my W2K box (which crashes maybe once a year?) YMMV of course.
So in that regard, I would say forcing him to use windows may be a good learning experience for a linux user to get to know windows intead of laughing about it without ever using it.
Now go and tag this as flamebait....
This seems to be just what Iceland has been doing al along...
Lets just hope they don't have any accidents as they had in Iceland. Toying around with this enormous amount of energy can be very dangerous: during the drilling and testing for one of their power plants, they hit a spot that was just a bit too hot to handle, and the whole drill and pipe systems was found again several kilometers away... Let them be warned;)
I would dump it in GIT or the likes.... any change of it will be recorded;)
Seriously, many version controlling systems already contain the data integrity and authenticity checks that you need
Yes, battery life is poor on ipod... Apple is very good at protecting the secrets of its hardware, which is another good reason to go and buy something else!
1) not practical to move and type at the same time
2) very simplistic: just a laptop mounted on top of it
2) noisy, I bet
3) _consumes_ energy rather then produce, why not mount it on a bike and produce some energy
4) expensive alternative to riding your bike to work
5) what's next, put this thing inside a car to keep moving while driving (and polluting)?
6) slownewsday?
aargh...
Maybe it means the iPod Linux developers? Apple doesn't seem too keen on giving out an SDK for the iPod. And the IPL people don't have any PP datasheets either
I don't know what it takes to get it so information can show up in the UI, but I think this "recorder" may just be using the iPod as a mass storage device. The only easy way to get information to show up on the iPod without syncing is to save a note in a particular folder. Well if they want to use it as a mass storage device, they should maybe better look at memory cards or usb sticks... they're cheaper too;)
'thousands of developers passionate about writing applications for the iPod.' What developers? At Apple? Or will PortalPlayer *finally* publish its datasheets so others can write code for it too?
Hahahahahaha
Seriously....
Watch how much memory SlimServer uses on your pc, then re-read your won post. SlimServer is the thing I hate about my SqueezeBox. Bloated perl crap. It takes 70MB *RAM* to run and still is slow and buggy. Yes, that's 70 MB!
Oh! Wow! When was the last time you had a blue screen of death? Running on ultra-cheap worthless memory are you?
Shall I bash you with some issues from Linux that are >5 years old?
You can do better than that can you? Or not?
firmware-tampering risks? What firmware tampering risks?
Installing RockBox (and IPL) is completely 100% risk-free on ipod! Sure, there's no fancy idiot proof installer, and we should also remember that support for ipod is in early stages (but already working nicely), but you cannot brick your ipod!
Worst case, you need to use the apple recovery utility.
And once RockBox is installed, upgrading it is just drag-and-drop a bunch of files, as the bootloader is 'set-and-forget'....... and yes, RockBox has been mentioned on/. in the past, though not the recent past.
I'm quite happy with Jabber and PSI. I have contacts using MSN and Jabber - the others have been converted:)
as for a good transport: jabber.anywise.com - very reliable!
excuse me... 'a small group of fanatics'? They were a majority when Bush got elected, no? At least, that is how it looks from the other side of the ocean.
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Using the WinAPI means dynamically linking something like NTDLL.DLL... In the end every program does this because that's how one interfaces with the OS. And is resides in the App's memory space.
Or do you know another way to run code on Windows? No. So what's the difference between OO and MSO running on Windows? None.
The only difference is that portable apps use some kind of windowing library. And that one than calls WinAPI.
Now, can you prove that MS actually included Office code in the OS for the sake of a smaller footprint? Because that is the only thing you can claim when you talk about using a part of the OS that OO doesn't.
Quite unlikely, no?
Peter
Then we don't have the same travel experiences I guess...
I've been traveling all over the world, and only in the US did I get treated that way. I felt like an unwanted foreigner, not a human being or a tourist coming to spend his money.
I've been picked out and searched in other places as well, but it always looked random: there was a mixture of people being asked questions. I have no problem with that, not even if you only get picked out because you look suspicious.
But suspicious can never be the same as 'foreigner', that makes no sense.
If police in Belgium does something like that, be sure it will be all over the papers the next day and some high official finds himself with no job. It happened here in the past. But not anymore. The US still has a lot to catch up....
I have observed the same thing more than two years ago when traveling from Canada to the US by road. We (5 Belgians) drove our rented car to the border and were told we were randomly picked and needed to park the car to have it searched. We had to wait in a building filled with... foreigners! Not one typical American person!
Later in the airport, my wife got randomly picked again for a complete search.
Result: we will never ever travel to the US again.
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My Office2000 version works fine...
I bet my copy has the same features as your well-paid 2007 one minus the bugs and bloat yours has...
You get a build-in paint stripper?
It does so by issuing a command to the NDIS device driver... [to] pass along, at most 10 packets per millisecond (10,000 packets per second)...
So... could this be used as another attack vector for denial of service?
Seriously, what's the point of the article? If a /. user posts such a remark it gets flagged as flamebait, but it seems it _is_ ok to put it on the front page.
I use Windows (W2K) and Linux (Ubuntu Feisty) on a daily basis as development machines and have (minor) annoyances on both. Both will do weird stuff and crash. YES I consider the shell crashing also a crash from a user point of view, restarting it is sometimes as painfull as rebooting, it is actually worse than my W2K box (which crashes maybe once a year?) YMMV of course.
So in that regard, I would say forcing him to use windows may be a good learning experience for a linux user to get to know windows intead of laughing about it without ever using it.
Now go and tag this as flamebait....
This seems to be just what Iceland has been doing al along...
;)
Lets just hope they don't have any accidents as they had in Iceland. Toying around with this enormous amount of energy can be very dangerous: during the drilling and testing for one of their power plants, they hit a spot that was just a bit too hot to handle, and the whole drill and pipe systems was found again several kilometers away... Let them be warned
I wouldn't want to use my pc a day without the Logitech trackman marble FX
- Trackball/dp/B00000JBUI
It's a real shame Logitech doesn't make it anymore. Its design was a revolution but it really takes little to get used to.
Amazon seems to have some used ones at a ridiculous price:
http://www.amazon.com/Logitech-TrackMan-Marble-FX
I would dump it in GIT or the likes.... any change of it will be recorded ;)
Seriously, many version controlling systems already contain the data integrity and authenticity checks that you need
Yes, battery life is poor on ipod... Apple is very good at protecting the secrets of its hardware, which is another good reason to go and buy something else!
Using http://www.rockbox.org/ can give some older or failed (marketing-wise) players new life. Rockbox runs fine on the Gigabeat Fx0 :)
1) not practical to move and type at the same time 2) very simplistic: just a laptop mounted on top of it 2) noisy, I bet 3) _consumes_ energy rather then produce, why not mount it on a bike and produce some energy 4) expensive alternative to riding your bike to work 5) what's next, put this thing inside a car to keep moving while driving (and polluting)? 6) slownewsday? aargh...
RockBox (http://www.rockbox.org/) made it to the list!
The alternative firmware for mp3 players was mentioned on slashdot several times: http://slashdot.org/search.pl?query=rockbox
Well that depends on what you want to do.... - accessing the datafiles on the ipod (your links), no problem - writing apps on the ipod, a bit harder
Hahahahahaha Seriously.... Watch how much memory SlimServer uses on your pc, then re-read your won post. SlimServer is the thing I hate about my SqueezeBox. Bloated perl crap. It takes 70MB *RAM* to run and still is slow and buggy. Yes, that's 70 MB!
What about 100% of your uplink bandwidth? Happened to me, won't happen again!
The contact between SanDisk and Rockbox is real, not a rumour.
Oh! Wow! When was the last time you had a blue screen of death? Running on ultra-cheap worthless memory are you? Shall I bash you with some issues from Linux that are >5 years old? You can do better than that can you? Or not?
firmware-tampering risks? What firmware tampering risks?
... and yes, RockBox has been mentioned on /. in the past, though not the recent past.
Installing RockBox (and IPL) is completely 100% risk-free on ipod! Sure, there's no fancy idiot proof installer, and we should also remember that support for ipod is in early stages (but already working nicely), but you cannot brick your ipod!
Worst case, you need to use the apple recovery utility.
And once RockBox is installed, upgrading it is just drag-and-drop a bunch of files, as the bootloader is 'set-and-forget'....
I'm quite happy with Jabber and PSI. I have contacts using MSN and Jabber - the others have been converted :)
as for a good transport: jabber.anywise.com - very reliable!
The company I work for does these things from time to time. Have a look at http://www.dekimo.com/
excuse me... 'a small group of fanatics'? They were a majority when Bush got elected, no? At least, that is how it looks from the other side of the ocean.
Using the WinAPI means dynamically linking something like NTDLL.DLL... In the end every program does this because that's how one interfaces with the OS. And is resides in the App's memory space. Or do you know another way to run code on Windows? No. So what's the difference between OO and MSO running on Windows? None. The only difference is that portable apps use some kind of windowing library. And that one than calls WinAPI. Now, can you prove that MS actually included Office code in the OS for the sake of a smaller footprint? Because that is the only thing you can claim when you talk about using a part of the OS that OO doesn't. Quite unlikely, no? Peter
Then we don't have the same travel experiences I guess... I've been traveling all over the world, and only in the US did I get treated that way. I felt like an unwanted foreigner, not a human being or a tourist coming to spend his money. I've been picked out and searched in other places as well, but it always looked random: there was a mixture of people being asked questions. I have no problem with that, not even if you only get picked out because you look suspicious. But suspicious can never be the same as 'foreigner', that makes no sense. If police in Belgium does something like that, be sure it will be all over the papers the next day and some high official finds himself with no job. It happened here in the past. But not anymore. The US still has a lot to catch up....
I have observed the same thing more than two years ago when traveling from Canada to the US by road. We (5 Belgians) drove our rented car to the border and were told we were randomly picked and needed to park the car to have it searched. We had to wait in a building filled with... foreigners! Not one typical American person!
Later in the airport, my wife got randomly picked again for a complete search.
Result: we will never ever travel to the US again.