Better yet, make it a high definition TV tuner card. You can watch HDTV content on your normal TV, then when HDTV's are more affordable, get one sans tuner and use the VGA output from the mini motherboard to watch real HDTV, not to mention progressive scan DVD.
In case you're not getting enough sleep, maybe you should get a Visor to help you make up for it by Power Napping. These people have released a springboard module for the Visor that aids in taking a powernap. It works by monitoring your sleep patterns and waking you up before you enter deep sleep so you feel refreshed after a nap and not groggy. The only thing I'm not sure about is keeping your finger on the sensor while you're asleep.
Nope. The Gamecube takes smaller discs not because Nintendo is concerned about privacy issues, but because they want to save money. The Ultimate GameCube FAQ describes how the DVD forum requires a $20 fee per unit for everything that can pay DVDs. In order to keep their price point (ie -- Xbox), they choose not to include that functionality. The Panasonic 'Q' combo unit costs more partly because of the DVD playing penalty.
There are 24 chromosomes. There are 46 chromosomes. Stop! You're both right.
The average human has 46 chromosomes. There are 23 pairs of them. Of the 23 pairs, 22 pairs consist of similarly constructed mates only differing in the base pairs (AGTC) -- but the structure of the thing is the same. The other set is the XY pair (which determines sex), which are structurally different, ie different sizes, shapes.
So there are 24 kinds of chromosomes, of which most people have 46. Girls have 23 different kinds (no Y) while guys have all 24.
I've had a couple of libretto's over the last few years and they have pcmcia floppy drives. This presents the same sort of install problem your having here. Like a USB floppy, there were hardware hooks for booting of the external floppy, but once the kernel loaded it couldn't see the floppy anymore.
With RedHat 5.x (I think), this was a royal pain. There were serveral different methods of bootstrap, usually involving a parallel port zip drive. But them came RedHat 6.x. The netboot driver contains all the pcmcia network drivers so that you can boot off a single floppy and then do a network install.
I understand that you'd like to install Debian or Slackware and not necessarily RedHat. Since RedHat does it already, its clearly possible so someone should be able to kludge something up. That's one option. Another option is to try out RedHat (or Mandrake) and see how that works out. In my personal experience, I find that Mandrake is especially laptop-friendly
Check out GraphViz. Its an open source chart drawing package from the AT&T research people. We've been using it for 6-8 months now to draw all sorts of charts including call trees for a hundred or so shell scripts.
Then input for graphviz is an amazingly simple file which need only contain the relationship between your nodes -- like this:
A->B->C;
A->C;
Graphviz figures out where to draw all the lines and the best placement for the nodes. Of course, input files can be much more complex with many attributes to specify. Graphviz even does spline fits to preferred edge paths to connect the nodes with non-overlapping curved lines. In my opinion, this is much better than Visio's drawing method, especially when you get into densely populated graphs. Visio draws all of its connections at 90 degrees (or we're just stupid and couldn't turn it off) causing lots of confusion and ambiguity in the charts. Graphviz also runs like greased lightening. We looked into scripting Visio and the results were pretty sad. Visio took 3 minutes to generate a diagram of a large program's call tree while webdot took about 2 seconds. This was the hands down decision maker since we were going for dynamic generation for web pages.
The graphviz package includes a utility call webdot that acts as a chart server for the web. You make calls of the form
The first machine is the webdot server with webdot running out of cgi. The second half of the url tells webdot where to get its input file (mychart.dot) and the last extension (.gif) tells webdot what output to use. Output possiblities incluing gif, ps, pdf, clickable imagemap, tcl and lots of others. The tcl one is cool because (if the web browser has the pluging) you can zoom in and move around your chart. Obviously, the URL for the input file can be anything including dynamic information generated from cgi, jsp, asp, etc.
Graphviz is cool. We like Graphviz.
Basically, to draw these organizational charts, you just need some perl script that pulls your data from your data store (rdb, ldap, flatfile) and generates the dot file for input. Graphviz can do the rest. The tcl plug-in is especially useful for large, complex graphs.
How about the Trek Thumbdrive? Its a thumb sized piece of solid state memory with a USB plug. You just plug it into a USB socket and {poof!} shows up like a disk (at least on Windows). They come in sizes from 8 to 512 meg.
A student could wak up to a machine, pop his thumbdrive in the front usb port, copy his data to his thumbdrive, pop it out and be off home. At home, his computer most likely has USB. Just pop in the thumbdrive and repeat.
Only Windows drivers currently, but Mac and Linux are supposed to be soon to follow. Its just flash ram... how hard could it be?
ADSL and cable modem services are growing at an extremely high rate. We recently had cable modem service rolled out in our area and everyone I know snatched it up. More and more people have a home network to go along with it. Just check Amazon's electronics section -- the number one selling item is a hardware DSL/cable modem router. Its devices like this that make home networks extremely easy to implement.
There are some internet appliances that support broadband connections.
I've been monkeying around in my spare time trying to build a pc that's integrated into my home theatre setup. I'd like to run linux only, but the DVD issue has forced me to install win98 as well.
Anyway, I had lots of trouble getting X to display on the TV. I have an ATI XPERT@Play card with the rage pro chipset. Text mode was trivial. The card autodetects a TV connected to the S-Video or RCA output on boot and initializes the console to use that output. I really had problems when it came to getting X to work. I tried several dozen modelines purporting to be TV resolutions to no avail. Eventually, I stumbled onto some instructions refering to the mystical, magical frame buffer device and X server.
I specified at the lilo prompt for my kernel to use the 640x480 framebuffer mode at 16 bit color (vga=0x312 or was it vga=0x311? -- more info in/usr/src/linux/Documentation/fb/vesafb.txt) Voila! There was the penguin icon at the top of the screen. I made the required changes to the XF86Config file to use the "default" mode and presto -- the frame buffer X server started right up!
A friend of mine has also used the frame buffer on a slightly different ATI card with equally good results. There is a noticeable improvement in picture quality using the S-Video output opposed to the RCA output.
http://hyper.stanford.edu/~dhinds/pcmcia/pcmcia. html
And look under supported cards, way at the bottom. The drive is not in the standard pcmcia distribution due to its small user base, but its on the pcmcia-cs ftp site with detailed instructions.
I had trouble with wrist aches a while ago and I got a Gel-eez wrist rest and mouse pad from Case Logic. It's helped alot. They're on the order of $10 from Best Buy like places.
I haven't tried the arched MS natural-like keyboards. Are they really that much better?
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Better yet, make it a high definition TV tuner card. You can watch HDTV content on your normal TV, then when HDTV's are more affordable, get one sans tuner and use the VGA output from the mini motherboard to watch real HDTV, not to mention progressive scan DVD.
http://www.compgeeks.com
'nuff said.
In case you're not getting enough sleep, maybe you should get a Visor to help you make up for it by Power Napping. These people have released a springboard module for the Visor that aids in taking a powernap. It works by monitoring your sleep patterns and waking you up before you enter deep sleep so you feel refreshed after a nap and not groggy. The only thing I'm not sure about is keeping your finger on the sensor while you're asleep.
Nope. The Gamecube takes smaller discs not because Nintendo is concerned about privacy issues, but because they want to save money. The Ultimate GameCube FAQ describes how the DVD forum requires a $20 fee per unit for everything that can pay DVDs. In order to keep their price point (ie -- Xbox), they choose not to include that functionality. The Panasonic 'Q' combo unit costs more partly because of the DVD playing penalty.
There are 24 chromosomes. There are 46 chromosomes. Stop! You're both right.
The average human has 46 chromosomes. There are 23 pairs of them. Of the 23 pairs, 22 pairs consist of similarly constructed mates only differing in the base pairs (AGTC) -- but the structure of the thing is the same. The other set is the XY pair (which determines sex), which are structurally different, ie different sizes, shapes.
So there are 24 kinds of chromosomes, of which most people have 46. Girls have 23 different kinds (no Y) while guys have all 24.
I've had a couple of libretto's over the last few years and they have pcmcia floppy drives. This presents the same sort of install problem your having here. Like a USB floppy, there were hardware hooks for booting of the external floppy, but once the kernel loaded it couldn't see the floppy anymore.
With RedHat 5.x (I think), this was a royal pain. There were serveral different methods of bootstrap, usually involving a parallel port zip drive. But them came RedHat 6.x. The netboot driver contains all the pcmcia network drivers so that you can boot off a single floppy and then do a network install.
I understand that you'd like to install Debian or Slackware and not necessarily RedHat. Since RedHat does it already, its clearly possible so someone should be able to kludge something up. That's one option. Another option is to try out RedHat (or Mandrake) and see how that works out. In my personal experience, I find that Mandrake is especially laptop-friendly
Check out GraphViz. Its an open source chart drawing package from the AT&T research people. We've been using it for 6-8 months now to draw all sorts of charts including call trees for a hundred or so shell scripts.
a ch ine2/some/path/mychart.dot.gif
Then input for graphviz is an amazingly simple file which need only contain the relationship between your nodes -- like this:
A->B->C;
A->C;
Graphviz figures out where to draw all the lines and the best placement for the nodes. Of course, input files can be much more complex with many attributes to specify. Graphviz even does spline fits to preferred edge paths to connect the nodes with non-overlapping curved lines. In my opinion, this is much better than Visio's drawing method, especially when you get into densely populated graphs. Visio draws all of its connections at 90 degrees (or we're just stupid and couldn't turn it off) causing lots of confusion and ambiguity in the charts. Graphviz also runs like greased lightening. We looked into scripting Visio and the results were pretty sad. Visio took 3 minutes to generate a diagram of a large program's call tree while webdot took about 2 seconds. This was the hands down decision maker since we were going for dynamic generation for web pages.
The graphviz package includes a utility call webdot that acts as a chart server for the web. You make calls of the form
http://machine1.com/cgi-bin/webdot.cgi/http://m
The first machine is the webdot server with webdot running out of cgi. The second half of the url tells webdot where to get its input file (mychart.dot) and the last extension (.gif) tells webdot what output to use. Output possiblities incluing gif, ps, pdf, clickable imagemap, tcl and lots of others. The tcl one is cool because (if the web browser has the pluging) you can zoom in and move around your chart. Obviously, the URL for the input file can be anything including dynamic information generated from cgi, jsp, asp, etc.
Graphviz is cool. We like Graphviz.
Basically, to draw these organizational charts, you just need some perl script that pulls your data from your data store (rdb, ldap, flatfile) and generates the dot file for input. Graphviz can do the rest. The tcl plug-in is especially useful for large, complex graphs.
A student could wak up to a machine, pop his thumbdrive in the front usb port, copy his data to his thumbdrive, pop it out and be off home. At home, his computer most likely has USB. Just pop in the thumbdrive and repeat.
Only Windows drivers currently, but Mac and Linux are supposed to be soon to follow. Its just flash ram... how hard could it be?
ADSL and cable modem services are growing at an extremely high rate. We recently had cable modem service rolled out in our area and everyone I know snatched it up. More and more people have a home network to go along with it. Just check Amazon's electronics section -- the number one selling item is a hardware DSL/cable modem router. Its devices like this that make home networks extremely easy to implement.
There are some internet appliances that support broadband connections.
Most of these aren't on the market yet, but are due by the end of the year. So it looks a lot like a case of RSN.
I've been monkeying around in my spare time trying to build a pc that's integrated into my home theatre setup. I'd like to run linux only, but the DVD issue has forced me to install win98 as well.
/usr/src/linux/Documentation/fb/vesafb.txt) Voila! There was the penguin icon at the top of the screen. I made the required changes to the XF86Config file to use the "default" mode and presto -- the frame buffer X server started right up!
Anyway, I had lots of trouble getting X to display on the TV. I have an ATI XPERT@Play card with the rage pro chipset. Text mode was trivial. The card autodetects a TV connected to the S-Video or RCA output on boot and initializes the console to use that output. I really had problems when it came to getting X to work. I tried several dozen modelines purporting to be TV resolutions to no avail. Eventually, I stumbled onto some instructions refering to the mystical, magical frame buffer device and X server.
I specified at the lilo prompt for my kernel to use the 640x480 framebuffer mode at 16 bit color (vga=0x312 or was it vga=0x311? -- more info in
A friend of mine has also used the frame buffer on a slightly different ATI card with equally good results. There is a noticeable improvement in picture quality using the S-Video output opposed to the RCA output.
Um, that's been out for a long time. Check here:
. html
http://hyper.stanford.edu/~dhinds/pcmcia/pcmcia
And look under supported cards, way at the bottom. The drive is not in the standard pcmcia distribution due to its small user base, but its on the pcmcia-cs ftp site with detailed instructions.
It works too!
I think there's a problem with determining the drive geometry with >8gb drives.
Try passing the drive geometry at the lilo prompt, ie
lilo: linux hda=2055,255,63
Works for my 17gb ibm drive.
I had trouble with wrist aches a while ago and I got a Gel-eez wrist rest and mouse pad from Case Logic. It's helped alot. They're on the order of $10 from Best Buy like places.
I haven't tried the arched MS natural-like keyboards. Are they really that much better?