You may find that a secondhand Psion 5 or 5MX, and PsiLinux to be a cheaper option. And you get a keyboard too, so much better for coommand line fans;-)
Actually I should point out that this is not a hugely advanced port, although it is a clever one considering the raw horsepower you have on an Ipaq vs. even my 5MX.
And the rest of you, he's asking about a Linux PDA, not a PDA, so stop trying to talk him into a Palm, other than to remind him that Linux is in this case potentially limiting!
I may have spent mos of today banging my head on a wall to make a network card work in my laptop under progeny (back-up plan: Mandrake 8 detects the damn thing, so I could install that - like JErry Pournelle's advice to always install the latest Windows consumer version, let it detect the hardware, write it down, and then install something difficut) but by heck, let no-one ever tell this community that you don't take geekdom seriously...
...but I found the net useful in my recent search because www.upmystreet.co.uk tells you average prices in a specific area. This told me where I could afford. Then it's into the car, off you go and look at the place in question.
If I liked it, buy some local papers, and wander about noting names of local estate agents.
Hell, even in academia you can do it. As an IT guy in a university, I've taugh nobel laureates how to print. It's not that they are stupid; it's that their PC is a tool and not something they want to fiddle with.
Have you souped up your car? No? Why not, any slashdot reader is clever enough to be able to do it! Well, of course I'm only saying that because I read/. at 2;-)
...that when you install one of these things, or rap your mobile in tinfoil, or whatever, the phone circuitry has a tendancy to say to itself "Hmm, not a good signal here. I'll just up the old transmission strength". Ater all, that's good engineering.
It can be tricky getting your userbase all runnning the same thing. Even in a corporate environment like mine, where we have policies in place that we make people sign saying "we reserve the right to fire you if you uninstall your AV" it still happens.
The approach I'd suggest is:
* Identify the way virii are getting in and concentrate efforts there. These days, that means the e-mail servers.
* Identify storage areas and say "what you put on here, my people will protect. We'll back it up and scan it for virii. If your disseration is valuable, put a copy of it here."
* Make AV software available to users either free or at low cost. Promo campaigns to explain why it is a good idea.
* And finally, since it's Slashdot: deprecate Windows OS's, and promote Linux, FreeBSD, MacOS et al. because no-one bothers to write viruses for non-wintel yet. (I know, I know, there are some. But I see 12 entries for Linux in McAfee's AV library, out of 50,000)
I think people are missing the point this guy trie
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Which is simply this:
AOL find themselves feeling the Microsoft squeeze. MS are now offerring everything that AOL does, built right in. IE+MSN+Messenger etc.
What to do? Well, why not put together a CD, that they spam us all with as per usual; drop it into your PS/2 and bing, you got a locked down Linux box with StarOffice, Mozilla, Evolution, blah blah, all dialing AOL.
This may be what makes Free software suceed; it has so little need for money that it too can outlast anyone.
Everytime I get hold of a fresh distribution of Linux I am impressed by the improvement since the last one. Thats why, even though it is not my production OS, I keep coming back. Some day I think it will be my production OS.
But look at CE. I remember their early attempts; they sucked. Big time. The Compaq 2010c (company dabbled witha few of them at one time) at the back of my desk drawer is huge, heavy, and slow. But if I had to replace my trusty Psion 5 tomorrow, it'd be with an iPaQ.
That's how they work. The first versions suck; but they are so rich they don't fail with V1 and keep going until they have something that doesn't suck.
Try documenting how actual support incidents worked. Have they had occasion to use the support on the other package? Did it work? What about with your open package?
First time I watched Face/Off it was in danish, no subtitles. You could still understand everything that was going on...Hmm, they're shooting at each other...explosion...oooh, doves!...speedboat...more shooting...
Well, I disagree re: headcasting in the articles sense sucking becasue of low bandwidth; it sucks on so many more deeper levels.
In fact the point of this kind of headcasting is to get low bandwith pseudo-video-conferencing by use of some sort of avatar. You watch what I am doing and send that, rather than a photo. "BigLig is smiling" is a shorter message than the video of me smiling. Then stick a digital photo of my face on a model, morph it to smile, va va voom.
The thing is, though, that you need a crapload of stuff at my end to work out I am smiling, so if I at all care that you can see I am smiling that much I'll put the money into a bigger pipe rather than an expensive face scanning device, and send real video, which is better.
And, returning to my earlier point that this article is clearly crap, even if you did want to do this kind of headcasting, you don't need anything fancy at the other end to display it. My much loved old TNT card could do this sort of rendering standing on it's head, so who needs extra stuff built into the video chipset?
...this is particularly crap. This guy is not familiar with the standard use of the phrase "head" in relation to video cards. To quote: "Head means head obviously".
So what possible interest could his "thoughts and analysis" be?
...how hard would it be to put something in a wired keyboard that would trasmit everything you type?
I'll bet, not very. Of course, you need physical access, but like everyone is saying, if you believe you are likely to be subject to this sort of intrusion, you aren't going to buy wireless anything.
Someone at my work built something along these lines; he had a flight case custom built, LCD flat panel in the top, regular PC in the bottom.
Now, our requirements differed from yours, as we needed lots of PCI cards in this unit. Since you don't then starting from one of those 1U servers is probably the best idea. It's not perfect though, since a 1U server will be an akward shape.
Mind you, other small form factor machines in a neater shape are more likely to be workstations (e.g. Compaq Ipaq) and so won't offer the power.
Try the people who e.g. make custom flight cases for musicians.
Since it specifically mentions that it only displays the maxiumum visible number of avatars. I suspect Quake just keeps trying to display them.
However, looking at the referenced patents, I notice that USRE036574 would seem to me to certaily cover Quake and lots more; it patents real-time video games where you use a modem.
Well, I must say the round iMac mouse is un-usable whatever hand you have it in, true;-)
You can certianly get symettrical mice, but asymetrical ones are more comfortable.
There's a wonderful shop in Soho called Anyhting Left Handed that just sells things that have been reversed, like can-openers, notebooks, watches. You may have something similar, or, by the power of google: http://directory.google.com/Top/Shopping/Niche/Lef t-Handed_Products/
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You may find that a secondhand Psion 5 or 5MX, and PsiLinux to be a cheaper option. And you get a keyboard too, so much better for coommand line fans ;-)
Actually I should point out that this is not a hugely advanced port, although it is a clever one considering the raw horsepower you have on an Ipaq vs. even my 5MX.
And the rest of you, he's asking about a Linux PDA, not a PDA, so stop trying to talk him into a Palm, other than to remind him that Linux is in this case potentially limiting!
I may have spent mos of today banging my head on a wall to make a network card work in my laptop under progeny (back-up plan: Mandrake 8 detects the damn thing, so I could install that - like JErry Pournelle's advice to always install the latest Windows consumer version, let it detect the hardware, write it down, and then install something difficut) but by heck, let no-one ever tell this community that you don't take geekdom seriously...
...but I found the net useful in my recent search because www.upmystreet.co.uk tells you average prices in a specific area. This told me where I could afford. Then it's into the car, off you go and look at the place in question.
If I liked it, buy some local papers, and wander about noting names of local estate agents.
Tivo et al. can't make the units cheap enough, so their business model involves selling services.
Interesting to see if ICANN have any right to stop him... of course, he who controls . controls it all, but lets see.
Hell, even in academia you can do it. As an IT guy in a university, I've taugh nobel laureates how to print. It's not that they are stupid; it's that their PC is a tool and not something they want to fiddle with.
/. at 2 ;-)
Have you souped up your car? No? Why not, any slashdot reader is clever enough to be able to do it! Well, of course I'm only saying that because I read
...that when you install one of these things, or rap your mobile in tinfoil, or whatever, the phone circuitry has a tendancy to say to itself "Hmm, not a good signal here. I'll just up the old transmission strength". Ater all, that's good engineering.
It can be tricky getting your userbase all runnning the same thing. Even in a corporate environment like mine, where we have policies in place that we make people sign saying "we reserve the right to fire you if you uninstall your AV" it still happens.
The approach I'd suggest is:
* Identify the way virii are getting in and concentrate efforts there. These days, that means the e-mail servers.
* Identify storage areas and say "what you put on here, my people will protect. We'll back it up and scan it for virii. If your disseration is valuable, put a copy of it here."
* Make AV software available to users either free or at low cost. Promo campaigns to explain why it is a good idea.
* And finally, since it's Slashdot: deprecate Windows OS's, and promote Linux, FreeBSD, MacOS et al. because no-one bothers to write viruses for non-wintel yet. (I know, I know, there are some. But I see 12 entries for Linux in McAfee's AV library, out of 50,000)
Which is simply this:
AOL find themselves feeling the Microsoft squeeze. MS are now offerring everything that AOL does, built right in. IE+MSN+Messenger etc.
What to do? Well, why not put together a CD, that they spam us all with as per usual; drop it into your PS/2 and bing, you got a locked down Linux box with StarOffice, Mozilla, Evolution, blah blah, all dialing AOL.
This may be what makes Free software suceed; it has so little need for money that it too can outlast anyone.
Everytime I get hold of a fresh distribution of Linux I am impressed by the improvement since the last one. Thats why, even though it is not my production OS, I keep coming back. Some day I think it will be my production OS.
But look at CE. I remember their early attempts; they sucked. Big time. The Compaq 2010c (company dabbled witha few of them at one time) at the back of my desk drawer is huge, heavy, and slow. But if I had to replace my trusty Psion 5 tomorrow, it'd be with an iPaQ.
That's how they work. The first versions suck; but they are so rich they don't fail with V1 and keep going until they have something that doesn't suck.
Try documenting how actual support incidents worked. Have they had occasion to use the support on the other package? Did it work? What about with your open package?
First time I watched Face/Off it was in danish, no subtitles. You could still understand everything that was going on...Hmm, they're shooting at each other...explosion...oooh, doves!...speedboat...more shooting...
Well, I disagree re: headcasting in the articles sense sucking becasue of low bandwidth; it sucks on so many more deeper levels.
In fact the point of this kind of headcasting is to get low bandwith pseudo-video-conferencing by use of some sort of avatar. You watch what I am doing and send that, rather than a photo. "BigLig is smiling" is a shorter message than the video of me smiling. Then stick a digital photo of my face on a model, morph it to smile, va va voom.
The thing is, though, that you need a crapload of stuff at my end to work out I am smiling, so if I at all care that you can see I am smiling that much I'll put the money into a bigger pipe rather than an expensive face scanning device, and send real video, which is better.
And, returning to my earlier point that this article is clearly crap, even if you did want to do this kind of headcasting, you don't need anything fancy at the other end to display it. My much loved old TNT card could do this sort of rendering standing on it's head, so who needs extra stuff built into the video chipset?
...this is particularly crap. This guy is not familiar with the standard use of the phrase "head" in relation to video cards. To quote: "Head means head obviously".
So what possible interest could his "thoughts and analysis" be?
"Quake" in this context can be taken as a generic term for "FPS"es.
150 sounds about right for Half-Life, for example, which is what I mostly play these days.
This article is inteesting because it questions whether ISPs are aware that this is the level of latency FPS players will accept to their servers.
...how hard would it be to put something in a wired keyboard that would trasmit everything you type?
I'll bet, not very. Of course, you need physical access, but like everyone is saying, if you believe you are likely to be subject to this sort of intrusion, you aren't going to buy wireless anything.
Fox's page has photos:
http://www.newenglandcomics.com/ticktv.shtml
Ah, well, Orson Welles used to say that any reasonably intelligent person could learn the mechanics of directing a feature film over a weekend.
Well, then they can fine the Jedi provided they fine all the people who put down "Christian" and haven't been to church in 10 years. ;-)
Who want's to be a Jedi anyhow? The Dark Side has much cooler clothes.
We did something similar, mailed everyone a .VBS script that went into the registry and disabled their ability to run....VBS scripts.
;-)
It worked well until we did an AV procedure on our Mail store and it efficently deleted them all
http://www.keyboardco.com/ do refurbished original IBM PC's - the ones with the satisfying klunkiness that a really nice keyboard has.
Someone at my work built something along these lines; he had a flight case custom built, LCD flat panel in the top, regular PC in the bottom.
Now, our requirements differed from yours, as we needed lots of PCI cards in this unit. Since you don't then starting from one of those 1U servers is probably the best idea. It's not perfect though, since a 1U server will be an akward shape.
Mind you, other small form factor machines in a neater shape are more likely to be workstations (e.g. Compaq Ipaq) and so won't offer the power.
Try the people who e.g. make custom flight cases for musicians.
Since it specifically mentions that it only displays the maxiumum visible number of avatars. I suspect Quake just keeps trying to display them.
However, looking at the referenced patents, I notice that USRE036574 would seem to me to certaily cover Quake and lots more; it patents real-time video games where you use a modem.
Mind you, IANAL.
Well, I must say the round iMac mouse is un-usable whatever hand you have it in, true ;-)
f t-Handed_Products/
You can certianly get symettrical mice, but asymetrical ones are more comfortable.
There's a wonderful shop in Soho called Anyhting Left Handed that just sells things that have been reversed, like can-openers, notebooks, watches. You may have something similar, or, by the power of google: http://directory.google.com/Top/Shopping/Niche/Le