I sure hope not, I just placed an order last Tuesday for one. It's gotten a good review from PC Magazine in this article.
I've been using a Novatel Wireless CDPD modem since November last year, and at 19,200 bps, it is decent for e-mail and SSH sessions. But web browsing, unless you are really patient...:-) This will make things a LOT better.
The artifacts are a result of heat on the CCDs introducing "hot pixels". Also, JPEG compression is also a factor in that. Admittedly, there are still some color fringing problems with high-contrast areas, although the D1 seems to have a good grasp of this problem in terms of fixing it...
As for interchangeable lenses, the Nikon D1 uses any of the Nikon AF lenses that are available. You will be able to use your N-60 lenses with the D1. Virtually ANY F-Mount lens ou can find, or so they say.
Canon has just release the EOS D-30 which is a digital SLR to compete with the Nikon D1
There are definitely a lot of things that can be improved with digital photography, but its getting there...
1. You can now set your watch by NT. It always crashes at the same time 2. All new LOWs in uptime length 3. All new M$ certification$ all over the place
Cool, now I wish I bought the Sierra, instead of my Novatel Merlin... which so far does not work with Linux...
The Merlin is a good card, but runs only under Windoze for the moment...
Emailed Novatel asking about Linux support, and they could not give me a definite answer. For those who are interested in the Merlin, check out http://www.novatelwireless.com. They also have the Omnisky wireless modem for Palm V users, which currently offers free unlimited usage during their beta period which is until the end of March 2000.
I ordered an Inspiron 5000 with the internal modem. and specifically asked the sales guy I was talking to on the phone if it was a winmodem, and all he could say was:
"It doesn't say anything about it being a WinModem"
To their credit, if you check their website, it does mention if it is a winmodem or not.
I already have the book, and finished it... It is a good addition to the Star Wars series of books with a new enemy to contend with... the Empire is hardly mentioned in the book..
Before I say anything else, anyone interested in knowing who dies?
I don't want to give it away just yet... just in case someone wants to learn about it on their own...
There used to be a book that was called the "Linux Bible" it was merely a compilation of all the FAQs, How-Tos etc relating to Linux, I was able to get it at Fry's but that was about 4 years ago or something, I haven't seen anything like that since...
I believe it was printed by the makers of Yggdrasil Plug 'N Play Linux... which can't be found any more either... but it did exist once...
We're currently using Oracle 8 Enterprise Edition, running on Red Hat 6.0... pretty impressive, our first database was running under Access97 and when it reached around 200MB a simple
select count(*) from table;
Took minutes, we then experimented with SQL Server 7.0, but after a few weeks with that, we moved to Oracle 8EE on Red Hat.
Pretty much beats the crap outta both previous setups... I had it on a PPro 180 with 128MB or RAM, and it was way faster than MS SQL 7.0 on a Dual PII200 with 256MB of RAM...
Oracle and RedHat are both working very well, although Oracle 8EE was built with RH5.2 in mind, you have to patch it to make it work with GLIBC2.1 which comes with RH6...
For those of you who want to check out a nice step-by-step install sequence for Oracle8 w/ RH6 go see http://jordan.fortwayne.com/oracle/rh6x.html
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The casio wristwatch camera sure has a nice profile, but does not do well for taking pictures to view on a monitor.
Here's a tiny Sony prototype that has 640x480 resolution...
Here is a link to Metricom's Press Release on Yahoo!
I sure hope not, I just placed an order last Tuesday for one. It's gotten a good review from PC Magazine in this article. I've been using a Novatel Wireless CDPD modem since November last year, and at 19,200 bps, it is decent for e-mail and SSH sessions. But web browsing, unless you are really patient... :-) This will make things a LOT better.
Is it just me or does this article have a nintendo icon?
The artifacts are a result of heat on the CCDs introducing "hot pixels". Also, JPEG compression is also a factor in that. Admittedly, there are still some color fringing problems with high-contrast areas, although the D1 seems to have a good grasp of this problem in terms of fixing it...
As for interchangeable lenses, the Nikon D1 uses any of the Nikon AF lenses that are available. You will be able to use your N-60 lenses with the D1. Virtually ANY F-Mount lens ou can find, or so they say.
Canon has just release the EOS D-30 which is a digital SLR to compete with the Nikon D1
There are definitely a lot of things that can be improved with digital photography, but its getting there...
Agfa has a nice camera the EPhoto CL30 which has
a Clik! Drive built in. Much cheaper, although has
only 40MB.
Check it out here
Gives new meaning to domestic violence... ;-)
New standards in reliability...
1. You can now set your watch by NT. It always crashes at the same time
2. All new LOWs in uptime length
3. All new M$ certification$ all over the place
No links... so here are a couple on that story... Cnet explanation and Cnet coverage
The Merlin is a good card, but runs only under Windoze for the moment...
Emailed Novatel asking about Linux support, and they could not give me a definite answer. For those who are interested in the Merlin, check out http://www.novatelwireless.com. They also have the Omnisky wireless modem for Palm V users, which currently offers free unlimited usage during their beta period which is until the end of March 2000.
"It doesn't say anything about it being a WinModem"
To their credit, if you check their website, it does mention if it is a winmodem or not.
Will this pave the way for an NSA-Linux IPO? ;-)
Before I say anything else, anyone interested in knowing who dies?
I don't want to give it away just yet... just in case someone wants to learn about it on their own...
that's http://jordan.fortwayne.com/oracle/
Good install procedure for 8.0.5 on RH6 is on http://joradn.fortwayne.com/oracle/
We currently have around 3 tables with over 2 million rows on each table, and Oracle has so far performed to expectations...
I believe it was printed by the makers of Yggdrasil Plug 'N Play Linux... which can't be found any more either... but it did exist once...
I setup my first linux machine with that, then moved on to Slackware, then in 1997 or so moved to RH 5.1...
It also worked pretty well as a "rescue" disk when my experiments screwed up a slackware box... ;-)
Can't seem to find that distribution anywhere these days...
select count(*) from table;
Took minutes, we then experimented with SQL Server 7.0, but after a few weeks with that, we moved to Oracle 8EE on Red Hat.
Pretty much beats the crap outta both previous setups... I had it on a PPro 180 with 128MB or RAM, and it was way faster than MS SQL 7.0 on a Dual PII200 with 256MB of RAM...
Oracle and RedHat are both working very well, although Oracle 8EE was built with RH5.2 in mind, you have to patch it to make it work with GLIBC2.1 which comes with RH6...
For those of you who want to check out a nice step-by-step install sequence for Oracle8 w/ RH6 go see http://jordan.fortwayne.com/oracle/rh6x.html