Out of curiosity, what are people's experiences backing up Zire 21's to Unix/Linux? I'm debating whether replacing my m100 is worth it, but I'm kinda attracted to the simplicity of the m100's serial port vs. the Zire's USB.
I generally like my m100, in that it is a nice no-frills PDA, the AAA batteries won't go bad like built-in NiCads, and that pilot-xfer works great with it. However,
1) I do have this bad capacitor problem. 2) The flip cover hinge broke early on. I made a new hinge out of tape. 3) The CPU is slooooooowwwwwww.
Overall, I'm abivalent towards PDAs, though (this m100 is probably my first and last PDA). I just wonder about spending ~$100 on something that is used 99% of the time for addresses and as a calculator. Next time I shop for something PDA-like, I'll look at the sub-$50 address books, as long as there's a way to back it up to UNIX/Linux via a serial port.
I'm not sure that current games are longer, but one thing that is certain is that they are often less interesting. For example, I think, overall, I had more fun with early Final Fantasy games than the later ones, but I'm not sure the early ones were really shorter. There are a few modern games that are really good, like Deus Ex, but most just lose my interest in striving for realism. It's almost as if there's so much time in making it real, that it just isn't real at all.
Hey, everyone, you heard it here first! Dun Malg, an lesser known Apple insider, has said that Apple's next generation of high performance workstations will be driven by massive arrays of Zilog Z80 microprocessors. The advantage to this is clearly the low power of the architecture coupled with massive parallel capability. Apple's "supercomputer on a chip" marketing for the G4 will extend easily to "massively parallel supercomputer in a box" for the next line of workstations. Rumor also has it these super powerful workstations will be enclosed in a 6 inch cube--a wonderful desk saver!
The best conclusion in their report is one they didn't even mention. The MHz/performance graphs are non-linear! This is clearly showing the diminishing returns of the MHz race in CPUs, which is why I'm glad Intel finally jumped off their ivory tower regarding Netburst.
For high reliability, I'd just buy a pre-engineered system from IBM or Sun rather than put on my engineering hat and pretend I know what I am doing.
For hobbyists, all this is good and fun, but I'd hate for my anectdotal experience of one machine running underclocked well to be the underpinnings of a business webserver.
You know, after all that work, IMO it shows that instead of spending big bucks on underclocking the best CPUs...why not just go out and get a decent Pentium III system? They don't output heat like P4/Athlon64 do, and I'd bet they'd be as fast as a 1GHz Athlon64 (32-bit mode, of course). The only catch would be the graphics bus on an older system, but for the underclocking crowd I doubt that matters much.
Win2K and Office2K are probably when Microsoft truly peaked. They achieved probably 99% of what 99% of businesses need, small and large, so WinXP and Longhorn are pretty much forced upgrades. Too bad for Microsoft, as their business model can only erode from here on out. This is good news for Linux, Mac OS and Solaris, though...:-)
It doesn't matter whether activity is legal or not, because legitimate data is useful to computer criminals, too. If I knew every mailing list password, web site password e-mail verification, bank account website confirmation, credit card order, etc. was duplicated on the e-mail provider's servers, even after I delete them, that would really piss me off. Delete means delete, not fake delete plus persistent archive.
If you can explain to my dad how to secure Windows XP or Gentoo Linux in two paragraphs or less (cannot assume he knows what 'ports' or 'TCP/IP' are either), then I'll accept your argument.
All this crap happens because Windows is still a SINGE USER system.
Yes, Windows has been and is and probably will be for years the _worst_ networked operating system possible to connect to the Internet...yet millions of people do it...because that's what Dell shipped on their crappy PC. Microsoft has the smartest lawyers on the planet, because, in any other industry, they'd have been sued into pulp by now.
I still run an old release of OpenBSD on my firewall. No errata in three years applies to my config, so no updates needed.
KISS is important, and keeping things isolated from eachother across servers helps, too. I probably wouldn't run SMP OpenBSD, either, as single cpus are easier to keep secure (probably why OpenBSD dragged their feet so long on SMP).
You can gain other important skills by other ordinary high-school jobs. You don't have to work at a burger joint, there's libraries, and even good entry level jobs at factories. Working third shift at a factory can be loads of fun (kinda dark and mysterious).
Also, commitments among friends in high school often end at graduation. Life gets more complex, and you can find no fault in your friends if they get a significant other or decide to change their focus in education (what if they get into a different college from you).
Don't grow up too fast. You'll feel like you're 65 and ready to retire by the time you're 25, so be careful.
I understand your points, it's just that I'm remembering what made Super Mario Brothers or Zelda or even Final Fantasy 1 so much fun back in the day, and FFX just doesn't add up for me. While plenty of kids I knew got all the secrets to SMB and had lots of fun doing it, for example, all I see in the FFX games is tedium and frustration, especially considering that there really is no way in the game itself to know what all the things to do are (200 lighting bolts, etc.). Perhaps I'm too old school.
Yeah, I've done that, too. Old PCI card with Solaris 8 drivers...bam works in Solaris 10. They don't support it officially, of course, but it is a lifesaver on occasion.
Linux fanboys don't know what they are missing! This is what makes Slashdot so painful to read, sometimes. OpenSolaris will make it doubly so.
(except Kimarhi's which I really don't know anyone that's actually done it)
IMO, they should design the minigames such that at least one kid at a school can get them all, if only to motivate the other kids. That would be good marketing. Instead, I look up on GameFaqs what it takes to get these ultimate weapons, and my reaction is "What kid is going to get these?!? I remember spending a day or so on stuff like this before, but come on this is rediculous."
Do kids formulate their self esteem based on these minigames and spend the weeks required to get them all? Do they commit suicide if they don't get them?
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Out of curiosity, what are people's experiences backing up Zire 21's to Unix/Linux? I'm debating whether replacing my m100 is worth it, but I'm kinda attracted to the simplicity of the m100's serial port vs. the Zire's USB.
I generally like my m100, in that it is a nice no-frills PDA, the AAA batteries won't go bad like built-in NiCads, and that pilot-xfer works great with it. However,
1) I do have this bad capacitor problem.
2) The flip cover hinge broke early on. I made a new hinge out of tape.
3) The CPU is slooooooowwwwwww.
Overall, I'm abivalent towards PDAs, though (this m100 is probably my first and last PDA). I just wonder about spending ~$100 on something that is used 99% of the time for addresses and as a calculator. Next time I shop for something PDA-like, I'll look at the sub-$50 address books, as long as there's a way to back it up to UNIX/Linux via a serial port.
I'm not sure that current games are longer, but one thing that is certain is that they are often less interesting. For example, I think, overall, I had more fun with early Final Fantasy games than the later ones, but I'm not sure the early ones were really shorter. There are a few modern games that are really good, like Deus Ex, but most just lose my interest in striving for realism. It's almost as if there's so much time in making it real, that it just isn't real at all.
Hey, everyone, you heard it here first! Dun Malg, an lesser known Apple insider, has said that Apple's next generation of high performance workstations will be driven by massive arrays of Zilog Z80 microprocessors. The advantage to this is clearly the low power of the architecture coupled with massive parallel capability. Apple's "supercomputer on a chip" marketing for the G4 will extend easily to "massively parallel supercomputer in a box" for the next line of workstations. Rumor also has it these super powerful workstations will be enclosed in a 6 inch cube--a wonderful desk saver!
The best conclusion in their report is one they didn't even mention. The MHz/performance graphs are non-linear! This is clearly showing the diminishing returns of the MHz race in CPUs, which is why I'm glad Intel finally jumped off their ivory tower regarding Netburst.
For high reliability, I'd just buy a pre-engineered system from IBM or Sun rather than put on my engineering hat and pretend I know what I am doing.
For hobbyists, all this is good and fun, but I'd hate for my anectdotal experience of one machine running underclocked well to be the underpinnings of a business webserver.
You know, after all that work, IMO it shows that instead of spending big bucks on underclocking the best CPUs...why not just go out and get a decent Pentium III system? They don't output heat like P4/Athlon64 do, and I'd bet they'd be as fast as a 1GHz Athlon64 (32-bit mode, of course). The only catch would be the graphics bus on an older system, but for the underclocking crowd I doubt that matters much.
Win2K and Office2K are probably when Microsoft truly peaked. They achieved probably 99% of what 99% of businesses need, small and large, so WinXP and Longhorn are pretty much forced upgrades. Too bad for Microsoft, as their business model can only erode from here on out. This is good news for Linux, Mac OS and Solaris, though...
Sun recently bought a company that claims to allow Windows and Linux apps to be used over Java clients.
http://www.tarantella.com/
It doesn't matter whether activity is legal or not, because legitimate data is useful to computer criminals, too. If I knew every mailing list password, web site password e-mail verification, bank account website confirmation, credit card order, etc. was duplicated on the e-mail provider's servers, even after I delete them, that would really piss me off. Delete means delete, not fake delete plus persistent archive.
If you can explain to my dad how to secure Windows XP or Gentoo Linux in two paragraphs or less (cannot assume he knows what 'ports' or 'TCP/IP' are either), then I'll accept your argument.
And yes, most empires come to an end. So will Microsoft.
SPOILER: In the end, Ballmer turns to the good side and throws Gates down an elevator shaft.
This is all a pretty good drama, IMO.
All this crap happens because Windows is still a SINGE USER system.
Yes, Windows has been and is and probably will be for years the _worst_ networked operating system possible to connect to the Internet...yet millions of people do it...because that's what Dell shipped on their crappy PC. Microsoft has the smartest lawyers on the planet, because, in any other industry, they'd have been sued into pulp by now.
I still run an old release of OpenBSD on my firewall. No errata in three years applies to my config, so no updates needed.
KISS is important, and keeping things isolated from eachother across servers helps, too. I probably wouldn't run SMP OpenBSD, either, as single cpus are easier to keep secure (probably why OpenBSD dragged their feet so long on SMP).
If Microsoft's specialty isn't insecure code, what is it?
^_____________^
I, for one, bow to our Master Control Program overlords!
Sourceforge is a kludge of every insecure OSS program out there: FTP, CVS, etc. It isn't very representative of a normal website.
You can gain other important skills by other ordinary high-school jobs. You don't have to work at a burger joint, there's libraries, and even good entry level jobs at factories. Working third shift at a factory can be loads of fun (kinda dark and mysterious).
Also, commitments among friends in high school often end at graduation. Life gets more complex, and you can find no fault in your friends if they get a significant other or decide to change their focus in education (what if they get into a different college from you).
Don't grow up too fast. You'll feel like you're 65 and ready to retire by the time you're 25, so be careful.
No, it's because of the Bud and Miller carbonated alcoholic beverages.
I understand your points, it's just that I'm remembering what made Super Mario Brothers or Zelda or even Final Fantasy 1 so much fun back in the day, and FFX just doesn't add up for me. While plenty of kids I knew got all the secrets to SMB and had lots of fun doing it, for example, all I see in the FFX games is tedium and frustration, especially considering that there really is no way in the game itself to know what all the things to do are (200 lighting bolts, etc.). Perhaps I'm too old school.
Minigames generally suck because not enough development time went into them to make them fun.
Ahhh, that brings back memories of Xenosaga. I love driller...oh, wait, no I don't!
With Niagara, Niagara II, and Rock, the future of SPARC is just fine.
McNealy as Kirk
Papadopoulos as Spock
Bechtolsheim as Scotty
Yen as Sulu
Schwartz as Chekov
Uhura?
Yeah, I've done that, too. Old PCI card with Solaris 8 drivers...bam works in Solaris 10. They don't support it officially, of course, but it is a lifesaver on occasion.
Linux fanboys don't know what they are missing! This is what makes Slashdot so painful to read, sometimes. OpenSolaris will make it doubly so.
(except Kimarhi's which I really don't know anyone that's actually done it)
IMO, they should design the minigames such that at least one kid at a school can get them all, if only to motivate the other kids. That would be good marketing. Instead, I look up on GameFaqs what it takes to get these ultimate weapons, and my reaction is "What kid is going to get these?!? I remember spending a day or so on stuff like this before, but come on this is rediculous."
Do kids formulate their self esteem based on these minigames and spend the weeks required to get them all? Do they commit suicide if they don't get them?