Well it looks like you may access 800 k floppies but technically you can't, at least not without modified hardware.800 K Mac floppies are read/written at a variable rotation speed, which is impossible to simulate with a standard PC floppy controller.
Absolutely true, I can't believe some jerks would make such a decision to let one moron and his cellphone disturb tens of people around him. We can also imagine people would start carrying radio jammers with them in the plane to piss off cell users, which would off course endanger everybody in the plane. Now there's usually a public phone in the plane for people who DO have an important call to make, that should be well enough. I don't want to listen to some guy talking about what he did last week-end or any other crap, respect the persons around you or be prepared to experience the dissection of your cell and optionally your brain by angry passengers.
Cool device, it's been released nearly 1 year ago but I doesn't seem to be a great success so far which may remind us of the Eggy player. (page in Japanese).
People might prefer using a slightly more expensive PDA but with which they could do more than play MP3s or watch a movie.
The MT-AV1 is using the same video codec ("Nancy") as the one in the Sharp MI-E21 by the way.
Still a cool gadget though.
Re:so XFree86 = usage stattistics?
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Yeah, I saw that one in the news recently. Some institute made some research to find out which joke people around the world found out the funniest, and that was the hunters joke.
There was an article in the Daily Telegraph about that recently.
'Guess they didn't ask the/. crew, or it would have been the "imagine a beowulf" joke which would have arrived first !:]
Anyway, I don't really mind that the development of Minix has stopped, we studied it during the OS course at university but that's not the kind of thing you want to use at home. Still, the books by Tanenbaum (the OS and Networking ones) are some of the best I have read, highly recommended for people don't know them.
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I wonder, if you want more featured DB servers, why not try more advanced ones, such as SAP DB ?
Like MySQL it's open source, multi-platform (Linux, Windows, Solaris, AIX,...), has language bindings for Java (JDBC), Python, Perl, a cool administration GUI and a nice manual.
One nice feature is that if you need, you can buy get the commercial version (for you customer for instance), which is identical except you get support. I use it myself and it seriously kicks ass.
One of the original posters (frostman) mentions his friend wants to use the internet, I presume he's talking about the times he's not on the sea, or is there currently affordable solution to get an internet connections available for people working on the sea (apart from using morse-code modems;) ?
Well if you want Mozilla to look like IE then you should have a look at the Mozilla ActiveX project which lets you write your own interface around the Mozilla engine.
Even sweeter the API is compatible with existing IE control's, so if you have an application using the IE control you can switch to using Mozilla in no time.
I understand that some Window$ users might prefer an interface closer to what they're used to see (but you have to make concessions when you develop multi-platform applications), but still the possibilities for easy customization is already here.
While you may agree or not to the fact that there's no major reason to switch to Mozilla (tabs are pretty sweet though, among other things), by switching to Mozilla you not only say no to M$ attempt at making the Web a Windows-only space (regarding HTML or EcmaScript, among other things), but you also change the statistics, you know, the log files every web site collects.
When Mozilla gets a substantial amount of browsers market, Web designers will hopefully make their pages standard-compliant, and we might one day get rid of those "designed for IE only" crap sites.
Well you may stick with IE but if you like stability, standards and support the open source movement then you know what to do.
It looks very interesting but many people don't want to deal with the command-line, for instance people usually prefer using something like WinCVS, which works pretty well anyway.
Is there any project undergoing to add UI tools to Aegis, apart from the web interface which is read-only ?
Well if you want to write some VB code in the first place it seems that you won't need a JVM for this kind of job. You can use lots of interesting languages instead (python included) but no lame languages has been ported yet.
Sony just released a new PDA in Japan named Clie PEG-NR70 that may be even cooler than the Zaurus, even though it's not running Linux, but Palm compatibility means lots of cool software too !
You got an flippable keyboard with much bigger keys (the Zaurus ones are really tiny, I can tell you for I own one myself), and all the usual cool stuff (MP3 player, optional camera, acts a universal remote control,...).
It sells for about US $500 in Japan, and no planned US release I could see...
Unfortunately yes, some evil company was inspired enough to make one, check that out.
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Although I'd like to agree with you, I'm not totally conviced a good developer makes a good manager, although they are complementary the skills required are somewhat different, that's why most of the project leaders I've seen so far don't have a clue about technical details.
They have to lead a project team, that's why companies rather choose them by their ability to manage a team rather than by their ability to understand the internals of CORBA or of whatever technology you use.
I would love to have managers understand development issues (more than the "manager level") though, that would be the beginning of the "managers" vs "techies" war...
You're So funny. Is your life really that crappy that you have to whine about something totally unrelated ? My advice for you : breath deeply, try to find a nice girlfriend if you can and you'll see life can be better for you if you try, nerdy "Jimmy"
I find it really funny to see people replying that they get their logs filled with "wandaoo.fr". Well for your information the correct spelling is wanadoo.fr, so please check your spelling if you want to be taken seriously.
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Well it looks like you may access 800 k floppies but technically you can't, at least not without modified hardware.800 K Mac floppies are read/written at a variable rotation speed, which is impossible to simulate with a standard PC floppy controller.
Howdy Nathanan ! Could you please be kind enough to give me my cartidge back, I never gave it to you, bastard !
Thanks,
Joel.
Absolutely true, I can't believe some jerks would make such a decision to let one moron and his cellphone disturb tens of people around him. We can also imagine people would start carrying radio jammers with them in the plane to piss off cell users, which would off course endanger everybody in the plane. Now there's usually a public phone in the plane for people who DO have an important call to make, that should be well enough. I don't want to listen to some guy talking about what he did last week-end or any other crap, respect the persons around you or be prepared to experience the dissection of your cell and optionally your brain by angry passengers.
Cool device, it's been released nearly 1 year ago but I doesn't seem to be a great success so far which may remind us of the Eggy player. (page in Japanese).
People might prefer using a slightly more expensive PDA but with which they could do more than play MP3s or watch a movie. The MT-AV1 is using the same video codec ("Nancy") as the one in the Sharp MI-E21 by the way. Still a cool gadget though.
There was an article in the Daily Telegraph about that recently. 'Guess they didn't ask the /. crew, or it would have been the "imagine a beowulf" joke which would have arrived first ! :]
Anyway, I don't really mind that the development of Minix has stopped, we studied it during the OS course at university but that's not the kind of thing you want to use at home. Still, the books by Tanenbaum (the OS and Networking ones) are some of the best I have read, highly recommended for people don't know them.Does it come with a pair of scissors to cut the pages of the book you want to scan ?
That would be great, but I don't know any digital camera that can record at 2 bpp, or even 4. Do you know any ?
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Tell me, are you trolling or just ignorant ? Of course SAP DB supports transactions, RTFM !
Time to get rid of those lame empty project pages or better kick those guys butts to make their projects finally move somewhere !
Firebird is sweet too.
If you're not restricted to using MySQL there are quite a few other options available, give it a try !
One of the original posters (frostman) mentions his friend wants to use the internet, I presume he's talking about the times he's not on the sea, or is there currently affordable solution to get an internet connections available for people working on the sea (apart from using morse-code modems ;) ?
Right, but Slashdotters do.
Even sweeter the API is compatible with existing IE control's, so if you have an application using the IE control you can switch to using Mozilla in no time.
I understand that some Window$ users might prefer an interface closer to what they're used to see (but you have to make concessions when you develop multi-platform applications), but still the possibilities for easy customization is already here.
While you may agree or not to the fact that there's no major reason to switch to Mozilla (tabs are pretty sweet though, among other things), by switching to Mozilla you not only say no to M$ attempt at making the Web a Windows-only space (regarding HTML or EcmaScript, among other things), but you also change the statistics, you know, the log files every web site collects.
When Mozilla gets a substantial amount of browsers market, Web designers will hopefully make their pages standard-compliant, and we might one day get rid of those "designed for IE only" crap sites.
Well you may stick with IE but if you like stability, standards and support the open source movement then you know what to do.
Just my 2 c.
It looks very interesting but many people don't want to deal with the command-line, for instance people usually prefer using something like WinCVS, which works pretty well anyway.
Is there any project undergoing to add UI tools to Aegis, apart from the web interface which is read-only ?
Well if you want to write some VB code in the first place it seems that you won't need a JVM for this kind of job. You can use lots of interesting languages instead (python included) but no lame languages has been ported yet.
...that would cover an area the size of Texas and New Mexico combined
So they have their rednecks in Mars too ?
After looking at some of the system pictures on their page, like that one, you can feel lucky you were not working in the IT field 30 years ago.
Sony just released a new PDA in Japan named Clie PEG-NR70 that may be even cooler than the Zaurus, even though it's not running Linux, but Palm compatibility means lots of cool software too !
...).
You got an flippable keyboard with much bigger keys (the Zaurus ones are really tiny, I can tell you for I own one myself), and all the usual cool stuff (MP3 player, optional camera, acts a universal remote control,
It sells for about US $500 in Japan, and no planned US release I could see...
Unfortunately yes, some evil company was inspired enough to make one, check that out.
Although I'd like to agree with you, I'm not totally conviced a good developer makes a good manager, although they are complementary the skills required are somewhat different, that's why most of the project leaders I've seen so far don't have a clue about technical details.
They have to lead a project team, that's why companies rather choose them by their ability to manage a team rather than by their ability to understand the internals of CORBA or of whatever technology you use.
I would love to have managers understand development issues (more than the "manager level") though, that would be the beginning of the "managers" vs "techies" war...
ROTFL ! Hey coward, why don't you think before posting next time ?
You're So funny. Is your life really that crappy that you have to whine about something totally unrelated ?
My advice for you : breath deeply, try to find a nice girlfriend if you can and you'll see life can be better for you if you try, nerdy "Jimmy"
I find it really funny to see people replying that they get their logs filled with "wandaoo.fr". Well for your information the correct spelling is wanadoo.fr, so please check your spelling if you want to be taken seriously.