Or we could deposit some organisms from our own planet which can survive under tough conditions - cockroaches being an example - and watch the scene fold out from there. Of course, no-one wants a planet inhabited entirely by cockroaches, it sounds like some sort of bad sci-fi B-movie,
True, Citrix will suffer when running on a 100BASE-T backbone with graphically intensive programs - if everyone is doing things at once on the server.
Good point about VMware also, however I merely assumed that with a paltry 350 Mhz, the machines in question would not be equipped with any more than 128MB RAM - a reason, I would assume, for the use of Linux as their OS of choice.
VMware is always a useful app, however your comps may be too slow.
CITRIX!! Citrix would be _the_ best solution in this situation. Works great on that speed hardware, doesn't require a great amount of bandwidth, and runs with all applications EXTREMELY well. Clients available for Linux. I'd say, the perfect solution.
It will be called Cobalt 6.1, iirc. Or at least a derivative thereof. Palmsource would be crazy not to call it Cobalt, in fact, as all the hype surrounding the new OS is directed thus. Cahiha, ignorance is better than the illusion of knowledge - and the latter is clearly applicable in this case. I made my posting extremely clear - likely, you were karma whoring so much you didn't even read the post.
That's the whole point of my post! I am rebutting the parent that we should "run Linux" on palms.. the only way this is happening is _through_ palmsource (therefore gaining backwards-compatibility) and therefore parent is redundant. Read my post again. Mod cahiha down.
Previous application compatibility: Palm OS Cobalt (6.x), which is being waited for with bated breath in the handheld industry, is being built as a combination of Linux technology gained through CMS (a China-based mobile company) which palmsource purchased last year, and the BeOS which Palm purchased when still a combined company (IIRC). Although PalmOne (now Palm) switching to Linux _by themselves_ may sound a great idea at first, there could not be any backwards compatibility (licensing), and there would therefore be no apps - and apps are the reason p1 remains in the game.
(1) There should be no space between 'fragment' and the comma, and this should be a fullstop anyway; (2) 'till' should not be captialised, there should be a space in between 'spelling' and '(your'; (3) 'your' should be 'you've' as in 'you have misspelt 'grammar', and 'Grammar' should not be capitalised; (4) 'tongue' is spelt thus. Correctly written, this statement should be written: ""Dude!" is a sentence fragment. Until you learn correct grammar and spelling (you misspelt 'grammar'), I think you should bite your tongue before correcting others." -- Said statement obviously applies to the AC himself. I'm not going to post anonymously, just pointing out some irony.
You miss my point: I was not talking specifically about the A6 ARM-based box, which is - as you pointed out - expensive; rather, I was discussing the 'bare box' idea (an example of this being, as I stated, the Mac mini). I can see where you misunderstood me.
You didn't RTFP. The idea is 1) that sysadmins creating a cluster _don't need_ mice, keyboards, speakers, etc.; and 2) that the lower base price entices non-computer users. (Of course, they get slugged extra later, but it's the psychological thing.)
This new market sector of small, stripped-down PCs (a la Mac Mini) I foresee becoming extremely popular. The costs are low, therefore people who have given that excuse to not owning a computer will be happy to buy. Usage is simple, which will appeal to the same group of people. They will be useful for clusters (ie. Beowolf) as they are not made more costly by monitors, mice, et cetera. It is easy to take one and install an alternate OS on it (again, a la Mac mini). As well, they will be a hit with developing countries. Cheapness without the ambiguity of a white-box.
It's about time some larger, collative body steps in to perform something like this. Incidences of telephone companies (as one example of many) charging the wrong price on bills, or not providing a service, and then not fixing it up for the customer are all too common, and frankly current means of fighting these (ie. TIO, Telecommunications Industry Ombudsman in Australia) , although having some power, are by no means a definitive source on _all_ incidents regardless of industry. This is a good move for the consumer in defeating corporate scare / money-grabbing tactics.
Yeah. It wasn't found in my dictionary. See, I don't use the American's FUCKED UP way of spelling things. "Humour" is spelt thus, and unlike what Mr gates would like you to believe, there is no such thing as US English.
You're wrong, John C. Dvorak did not invent the Dvorak keyboard layout on which I now type. It was pioneered back in the 30's, by Dr. August Dvorak. http://www.mwbrooks.com/dvorak/
I hope you enjoy typing on your keyboard which was _designed_ to slow down the typist and be as inefficient as possible (to prevent typewriter jams). But I find Dvorak to be far superiour, and I had 110wpm on QWERTY. (140 on Dvorak) Furthermore, Dvorak is extremely well supported on all operating systems.
It's exceedingly easy to press "Sleep". ACPI is not the only power management API out there. Good as it is, it's not the end of the world if it doesn't work.
a great step for Linux. Yes, I know that there are computers being sold with Linux pre-installed. This is taking the logical next step!
After so many years of laptops designed for Windows, we are starting to see those designed for alternate OS's emerge. This is great, as there will be no obviously flawed device choices. (For example: modem.) The ACPI discrepancy is a minor one and no real issue for 99.99% of users.
Again, this is the logical next step in the development of these great operating systems that are free. Good going FOSSS!
Mate, if you had read the post, you would quickly come to the (correct) realisation that I am Australian. I don't use O2 to make calls, although it is apparently good for that as well. It's things like free GPRS which allow me to love 'em! As well, they are continually supporting the latest and greatest of mobile phones. (Can't wait for the XDAIII, it may cause me to ditch my Sony Clie.)
Point taken, but I was just trying to simplify the process. For example, it is as a direct result of BT's decisions that O2 came about, regardless of ownership. I still get free GPRS here in Australia, and they work on 3 base carrier GSM networks.
Yes, Whirlpool is a terrific read for Australian providers and worldwide issues. Great for hardware support, and some nice reading of chronical stories. You guys in the US have sure got it lucky in terms of cheap broadband; 1534/512 aDSL here costs about $50US/mo.
I have been to the UK, and must concur: BT is the pits! They are comparable to Australia's Telstra in many ways. One thing that BT has done right, though, is the O2 mobile company. Brilliant! http://o2.co.uk/
This is nothing more than a marketing brainwave. Microsoft will never in their right mind help the OSS community, unless the OSS community helps them an exponentially greater amount. MS realises they are fast losing ground to FOSSS, and the lifejackets are out.
This turn of events is summed up well by the blurb: Google's service will be a good thing in that it is preserving works which could otherwise be destroyed or lost with time, and, most importantly, _searched_ for information as opposed to leafing through page after page; and the competition will be good in that Google will be forced to improve its service to stay on top. For the consumer: A win/win situation!
This is yet another example of why to choose GUN Linux, and it couldn't have come at a better time - we can contrast this feature-filled and efficient kernel with the buggy, under-equipped one which is Longhorn. The masses are slowly realising that proprietary, closed source solutions are not the way forward and that computers will mainly advance from the imput of the community. Hats off to Linux coders.
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Or we could deposit some organisms from our own planet which can survive under tough conditions - cockroaches being an example - and watch the scene fold out from there. Of course, no-one wants a planet inhabited entirely by cockroaches, it sounds like some sort of bad sci-fi B-movie,
True, Citrix will suffer when running on a 100BASE-T backbone with graphically intensive programs - if everyone is doing things at once on the server. Good point about VMware also, however I merely assumed that with a paltry 350 Mhz, the machines in question would not be equipped with any more than 128MB RAM - a reason, I would assume, for the use of Linux as their OS of choice.
VMware is always a useful app, however your comps may be too slow. CITRIX!! Citrix would be _the_ best solution in this situation. Works great on that speed hardware, doesn't require a great amount of bandwidth, and runs with all applications EXTREMELY well. Clients available for Linux. I'd say, the perfect solution.
It will be called Cobalt 6.1, iirc. Or at least a derivative thereof. Palmsource would be crazy not to call it Cobalt, in fact, as all the hype surrounding the new OS is directed thus. Cahiha, ignorance is better than the illusion of knowledge - and the latter is clearly applicable in this case. I made my posting extremely clear - likely, you were karma whoring so much you didn't even read the post.
That's the whole point of my post! I am rebutting the parent that we should "run Linux" on palms.. the only way this is happening is _through_ palmsource (therefore gaining backwards-compatibility) and therefore parent is redundant. Read my post again. Mod cahiha down.
Previous application compatibility: Palm OS Cobalt (6.x), which is being waited for with bated breath in the handheld industry, is being built as a combination of Linux technology gained through CMS (a China-based mobile company) which palmsource purchased last year, and the BeOS which Palm purchased when still a combined company (IIRC). Although PalmOne (now Palm) switching to Linux _by themselves_ may sound a great idea at first, there could not be any backwards compatibility (licensing), and there would therefore be no apps - and apps are the reason p1 remains in the game.
(1) There should be no space between 'fragment' and the comma, and this should be a fullstop anyway; (2) 'till' should not be captialised, there should be a space in between 'spelling' and '(your'; (3) 'your' should be 'you've' as in 'you have misspelt 'grammar', and 'Grammar' should not be capitalised; (4) 'tongue' is spelt thus. Correctly written, this statement should be written: ""Dude!" is a sentence fragment. Until you learn correct grammar and spelling (you misspelt 'grammar'), I think you should bite your tongue before correcting others." -- Said statement obviously applies to the AC himself. I'm not going to post anonymously, just pointing out some irony.
You miss my point: I was not talking specifically about the A6 ARM-based box, which is - as you pointed out - expensive; rather, I was discussing the 'bare box' idea (an example of this being, as I stated, the Mac mini). I can see where you misunderstood me.
You didn't RTFP. The idea is 1) that sysadmins creating a cluster _don't need_ mice, keyboards, speakers, etc.; and 2) that the lower base price entices non-computer users. (Of course, they get slugged extra later, but it's the psychological thing.)
This new market sector of small, stripped-down PCs (a la Mac Mini) I foresee becoming extremely popular. The costs are low, therefore people who have given that excuse to not owning a computer will be happy to buy. Usage is simple, which will appeal to the same group of people. They will be useful for clusters (ie. Beowolf) as they are not made more costly by monitors, mice, et cetera. It is easy to take one and install an alternate OS on it (again, a la Mac mini). As well, they will be a hit with developing countries. Cheapness without the ambiguity of a white-box.
True, I suppose. However, there was never a defining moment in which the language and the bastardisation thereof split.. or was there?
It's about time some larger, collative body steps in to perform something like this. Incidences of telephone companies (as one example of many) charging the wrong price on bills, or not providing a service, and then not fixing it up for the customer are all too common, and frankly current means of fighting these (ie. TIO, Telecommunications Industry Ombudsman in Australia) , although having some power, are by no means a definitive source on _all_ incidents regardless of industry. This is a good move for the consumer in defeating corporate scare / money-grabbing tactics.
Yeah. It wasn't found in my dictionary. See, I don't use the American's FUCKED UP way of spelling things. "Humour" is spelt thus, and unlike what Mr gates would like you to believe, there is no such thing as US English.
You're wrong, John C. Dvorak did not invent the Dvorak keyboard layout on which I now type. It was pioneered back in the 30's, by Dr. August Dvorak. http://www.mwbrooks.com/dvorak/ I hope you enjoy typing on your keyboard which was _designed_ to slow down the typist and be as inefficient as possible (to prevent typewriter jams). But I find Dvorak to be far superiour, and I had 110wpm on QWERTY. (140 on Dvorak) Furthermore, Dvorak is extremely well supported on all operating systems.
.. are a great and effective way to spread Linux etc. by combatting the short attention span of the youth of today.
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It's exceedingly easy to press "Sleep". ACPI is not the only power management API out there. Good as it is, it's not the end of the world if it doesn't work.
a great step for Linux. Yes, I know that there are computers being sold with Linux pre-installed. This is taking the logical next step! After so many years of laptops designed for Windows, we are starting to see those designed for alternate OS's emerge. This is great, as there will be no obviously flawed device choices. (For example: modem.) The ACPI discrepancy is a minor one and no real issue for 99.99% of users. Again, this is the logical next step in the development of these great operating systems that are free. Good going FOSSS!
Mate, if you had read the post, you would quickly come to the (correct) realisation that I am Australian. I don't use O2 to make calls, although it is apparently good for that as well. It's things like free GPRS which allow me to love 'em! As well, they are continually supporting the latest and greatest of mobile phones. (Can't wait for the XDAIII, it may cause me to ditch my Sony Clie.)
Point taken, but I was just trying to simplify the process. For example, it is as a direct result of BT's decisions that O2 came about, regardless of ownership. I still get free GPRS here in Australia, and they work on 3 base carrier GSM networks.
Yes, Whirlpool is a terrific read for Australian providers and worldwide issues. Great for hardware support, and some nice reading of chronical stories. You guys in the US have sure got it lucky in terms of cheap broadband; 1534/512 aDSL here costs about $50US/mo.
I have been to the UK, and must concur: BT is the pits! They are comparable to Australia's Telstra in many ways. One thing that BT has done right, though, is the O2 mobile company. Brilliant! http://o2.co.uk/
This is nothing more than a marketing brainwave. Microsoft will never in their right mind help the OSS community, unless the OSS community helps them an exponentially greater amount. MS realises they are fast losing ground to FOSSS, and the lifejackets are out.
This turn of events is summed up well by the blurb: Google's service will be a good thing in that it is preserving works which could otherwise be destroyed or lost with time, and, most importantly, _searched_ for information as opposed to leafing through page after page; and the competition will be good in that Google will be forced to improve its service to stay on top. For the consumer: A win/win situation!
This is yet another example of why to choose GUN Linux, and it couldn't have come at a better time - we can contrast this feature-filled and efficient kernel with the buggy, under-equipped one which is Longhorn. The masses are slowly realising that proprietary, closed source solutions are not the way forward and that computers will mainly advance from the imput of the community. Hats off to Linux coders.