I'm waiting for unlocked sidekicks, but the details are sketchy if SSH application will work without access to the application servers.
The Sony P900 or the Treo 600 is the one that I would go with. But I really like the sidekicks size and layout. Too bad its locked to 1 carrier. Being able to SSH and having a fullsize thumbboard is really nice.
The T-Cube seems like a perfect replacement for an audio/visual pc. I play all my mp3s/videos over the network on an Xbox. The t-cube has audio, not sure if the vga can do fast enough video for movies. 400mhz seems fast enough for it. Looks like a nice thin-client, but not being x86, having to port software would be a chore. If there was network streaming video/audio from a server, then it would be nice and seemeless. Mplayer streaming or VLAN streaming is the most popular.
People are still listening to game sound tracks of the 80's. Giana Sisters, Outrun, many 8bit computers and consoles. Almost everything is original music. You can checkout the online radio at SceneMusic.net
As for new music, I think its pretty cool the xbox games has most music in windows media, easy enough to copy and convert. Amped series has tons of cool Indie music. Just goto the music directory on the dvd.
I think my favorite video game that had purchased music from Crystal Method, N20 on PSX. It has the whole vegas CD in the game.
How many other people out there, went over the correct shade of yellow for the alarm lights with a vendor? Funny stories about NOC design. This thread could have some very interesting stuff, if people would let some company secrets slip.;)
But onto my point.
Biggest thing about a noc, is you need to see the alarm, other than taking action, missing an alarm is the worst design flaw. Filter, Page, auto-ticket, there are many things a professional NOC can lend some experience on design. Not everything has to cost, in fact many opensource software works great. (Big Brother anyone?)
BTW, windows and vmware? Pfft.. Worst thing you want is a crash in the middle of working, Solaris and xterms. Eye-candy is the worst thing to get in the way of working outages.
Humm, also a good ticketing system is important, if you want to page out someone, you need to have enough detail for the person to do their job.
Oh yea, give me an Aeron Chair also. I know, its.com ish, but they do feel great.
Actually, EA cant do anything they want with its world. This is the point Urizenus made, he reported a crime and EA had to by law contact the authorities. EA doesn't want this to become practice, so they canceled the reporters account. They also hunted down accounts related to the on line newspaper, and closed them.
In the real world, this would be an anti-slapp law against EA. I see no reason why a VR World wouldn't have the same legal status. If someone tells you that they raped a 10 yo girl, and EA refused to report the person to authorities, EA is covering up a crime.
Just because its on line, doesn't mean you can get away with a crime.
I've been using no-cd patches for years. Started when the cdrom spin up would pause the system, a horrible pause ruins a nice fragging experience. Still need a legit cdkey to play online, so its not piracy.
I wonder, how many legit gamers have to use "freedom" utilities to play games normally? I hate lugging all my cd's to a lan party, when you dont know what games people are going to be playing.
Occaisionally I'll hit a site with DHTML menus that render a little funky in Mozilla because they weren't coded right, but I never hit any sites that "need" IE.
I wish that was true at my work. Our IT and Engineering departments put little javascript programs that check to make sure you are using IE. Our HR department wouldnt even load on Mozilla. The Internal helpdesk uses NTLM which doesnt work all the time on Mozilla, maybe this release will fix it. Our IT is against all non-IE browsers. When WinXP came out, about half our sites where broken. This is what happens when your IT is in bed with Microsoft. I'm sure most companies with IT shops for the larger fortune 500 companies have this problem. (Other news our IT has been outsourced to HP, starting jan-1, so who knows whats going to happen now...)
My workplace is not 3rd party browser friendly, not by a longshot. I can hack html with proxomitron, rewrite html to trick many IT websites, but a few will plain not work. I've called IT and opened tickets, using the excuse "My desktop is a Sun box, and I use Netscape/Mozilla" their response, find a windows box somewhere. Or they provide a citrix client.
So, at work I use Avant browser(tabbed, ie core), at home I use firebird. I run into very few IE only sites at home, maybe 1 every couple of months. - The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man hardly anything. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832)
[snip] AT&T Wireless (AWE:NYSE - commentary - research) customers cannot activate new GSM cell-phone accounts or make changes to existing GSM service because of a glitch that a Wall Street analyst is blaming on an upgrade of software from Siebel Systems (SEBL:Nasdaq - commentary - research). [/snip]
[snip] An executive in charge of consulting services at Siebel Systems is leaving the software company at the end of the year, a representative for the San Mateo, Calif., company confirmed Friday. [/snip]
And Siebel stock is now marked as a Buy. Go figure.
Are you running Linux or Windows? Linux fonts are notoriously bad even with the FreeType kind of configuration.
The fonts are not anti-aliased when using RDC, its the same as running with font smoothing turned off. I wish cleartype was enabled on RDC. Nice thing about RDC is there are mac/linux clients, and linux servers. Faster than VNC, but vnc has more client/servers ports.
BTW, my console fonts are not bad, true vga goodness.:) In fact I use vga2 or console in all my gui's. vga2 looks perfect in putty.
Systemax, cheap but good.
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Systemax pc's are pretty good, been around awhile, basic solid machines. If you already use AOL, thats a nice system with monitor for 299. Wonder how much the ink cartridges are... The mobo seems to be very cheap, would be nice for more specs.
Doing a quick pricewatch search shows the pc is an average deal, and system max uses quality oem hardware, your choice.
But I'd rather go over to Outpost.com (frys) and get something like amd200+mb for 100 bux, get a nice case for 40 bux, some memory, hd and gfx card for about 350 for that price. Pick up a used 17 inch monitor for 20 bux at RePC.
There are good deals, but you have to look. I found used dual P2's for 250 bux with scsi drives. Awesome linux/bsd servers.
I mean like Internet applications today, we had email, files, newsgroups, and chat across the nation using BBS's, while using DOS as the main os. Aka, an early version.;)
Back in Spokane, most of the ISP's moved to the local Telco/bank building where we could buy T1's without haul charges. They just had to wire cat5 down to our room's. (Couple ladders, and you had a t1 hooked up that afternoon.)
With a room for a couple hundred, and savings per T1, a few livingston portmasters, and bam. ISP was 56K enabled. Being in the telco building also helped when you needed more digital circuits.
I left the small mom and pop ISP business and went to work for a telco before DSL came out. I always wonder how they hang on when the most customers drop dialup and move to cheap 30 bux a month DSL.
BTW, I remember when almost everyone ran WWIV BBS, and you could send email almost anywhere, and then the sysop fights started, WWIV BBS broke off into thier own groups, the national WWIV BBS chain was gone. Couple hundred BBS's all over the world, it was amazing, early version of the Internet. Real message forums, and email that worked. When it broke down, I gave up on BBS's. Lucky the Internet thingy was here, and we started migrating people to pay BBS's that had Internet access. Then added PPP module, then became a full ISP. You get the picture.
Subear, your post is marked insightful, Amazing for an overrated post that reads like an uninformed person.
The RIAA is NOT in the distribution business, they are in the association business, hence Recording Industry Association of America. They represent the rights and needs of their members. Whether or not record labels go to digital distribution of music or not is not up to the RIAA, it is up to each individual member company.
Maybe you haven't been reading the news, but the RIAA is against p2p, all legal forms of p2p. Using the courts to shut down legal services like mp3.com was about control of distribution. Even when Napster1 tried to follow the rules, the RIAA wouldn't stand for it. The RIAA also guides distribution in Jukeboxes, radio stations, etc. Saying that the RIAA has no control over distribution is lie.
The RIAA is controlling distribution services with lawsuits. Whats worse, is the RIAA is making decisions for all artists, even artists that dont belong to the RIAA. The RIAA is the modern day Mafia. Do it our way, or we will send Vinnie over to make you think otherwise. BTW, Vinnie is really Sen. Orrin Hatch, the corporate paid whore he is.
BTW, my car player plays mp3s, sony discman mp3 players cost 50 bux. Mp3 is here to stay. Now with all these DRM'ed shit, I have to convert to mp3 to listen to music I bought legally. So STFU about something you obviously know nothing about.
From the Article. Is there a way out of this mess? Can the record industry offer it's own insurance, so listeners do not have to file share? Can it do so without creating a double moral hazard? Yes - by shifting to a more sophisticated contract.
I'd rather just get the RIAA out of the distribution side of music, they don't belong on this side of the fence. With the RIAA trying to control the distribution channels, they just strangle new technologies and screw the artists who they supposedly support.
With Senator Orrin Hatch the riaa whore and Corporate Elected Criminal is just trying his damnest to go after these p2p users, using piracy as an escape goat to mask the problem that only concerns the RIAA. Control of distribution.
iTunes and Napster2 already show people will buy music online. Just need to get more Indie/Alternative music available, which even cuts more into RIAA funds.
Spoofing DHCP is easy and handy to make sure you get the settings you want. A few times I unpluged a machine, plugged in a hub+laptop and gave the server settings I pre-configured, overiding the default DHCP servers. Microsoft/SUN and other vendors use configurable DHCP settings to pass information to Applications (proxy/etc). Even mobile networks can use DHCP to get its current settings. (gateway/msisdn/int-ext networks)
Historically Slashdot has always had Linux/BSD/open source news about releases and updates. This is news for nerds. You can always configure slashdot to ignore these stories. I'd rather see more news, and let users configure what they want to see, than less news to make a few people happy.
With 500 submissions an hour, theres no shortage of news.
Gentoo gives you total control, like no other linux distro.
true. but it takes days to install and my mother would never be able to set her own USE flags. i think mepis is looking to provide maximum customization while still being "end user friendly"
I wasnt speaking for people like your mother, I was speaking for the linux hacker who likes to tweak and hack. The person who tries more than one distro, or even has a ppc/sparc box. The ones who like to bang the metal, code demos, have a little bit of the artist hacker in them.
Gentoo isnt the distro for your mother. Gentoo is like the turbo charger you bolt on, or the even the custom paint job for your car. Its the way you want, exactly. And that customization takes knowledge and experience with building a src based linux setup. Yes it takes time to compile, just as building a plane in your garage takes time.
I wouldnt ever recommend Gentoo (except live cd's). Knoppix/SuSE or Mandrake are much better choices. SuSE has better end-user tools, Knoppix provides the best visual (out of the box) experience. Mandrake is popular and easy to find support. Just as there are different cars, there are different linux distros. Pick the one for the right job.
[snip]MEPIS Linux 2003 is desktop Linux the way you want it.[/snip]
Thats why I use Gentoo. Gentoo gives you total control, like no other linux distro.
How about you guys post some replies instead of marking my post flamebait. The desktop is still configured for you, so its the way "They Want it". Even Mandrake and Suse make choices for you, Great distros, but you are forced to select the provided options. If you really want it "Your way" and bang metal, you need to use a source based distro, Gentoo is just the most popular one. Theres always Linuxfromscratch
The article isnt correct, there was a problem, its fixed now. For details check Forbes.com Siebel is the largest activations provider in the USA. Dell and others use the same software. The CEO of Siebel is stepping down Jan 1 due to these types of issues.
before plunging into AT&T's more expensive services.
Unlimited Verizon is 199 a month, Unlimited ATTWS is 149. Really, a quick google search will show price plans. Check out Inphonic click check rate plans. Some good information on coverage and prices. Zipcode search will tell which Telco covers your area. Theres a reason most public safety departments go with ATTWS, they need a network thats fast and stable.
Whats funny, is 40% of most customers think thier wireless telco sucks, and switching will resolve the issue. The problem is you might not be with the best telco for your area. Most people will just buy a phone and expect it to work everywhere. Everyone is about 2 years away from total network coverage for telcos, and in 2 years 2mbit+ data speeds will be normal. Now with customers able to switch (After contract is up) the best companies will start to show with better coverage and services. I also expect to see more CDMA/TDMA telcos merge together. (Sprint/Verizon) or (ATTWS/Cingular/Tmobile)
Its only going to get faster, better coverage and more offered services. Edge is the leader now, UMTS will take the market next.
Latency is always around 600ms and up for Wireless.
I was trouble shooting a customer out in NY, trying to figure out why he was moving around, and jumping from cellsite 2 cellsite so quickly. The guy was out on the water on a boat, and the signal was bouncing off the water. They didnt tell me that untill later. (LOL) I was able to ping his phone for over 2 hours without a problem.
BTW, I vpn over GPRS with good results, Im really wanting that dual edge/wifi card, that will be perfect.
Why would I want to help a non-free OS get support? Can't the SkyOS team spend money on the parts they need to build their business (after all, they charge money for their system)? Can't they learn what they want to know from the XFree86 source code?
Its a free OS, they just dont give the source code. Check your facts.
Sometimes people ignore real issues (like software freedom) to pretend they're irrelevant. Abiding by copyright law has serious consequences. If the SkyOS team is found liable for copyright infringement, they'll learn just how unwise it is to ignore politics.
If the moon is made of cheese... But really, the claims dont have any proof. Even OSNews had an article about the using GPL'ed tools doesnt open the OS.
Too bad your reply had nothing to do about ATI Drivers, and slaming the authors of SkyOS. They have not been proven of stealing code. "I Think" posts are not proof. SCO Thinks linux has copied code too, should we believe SCO?
Xfree shouldnt be the only one group to get documentation. In fact there was a slashdot story about how ATI couldnt get patchs submitted to Xfree, developers tired of the politics, hence all the new X server spinoffs.
There are numerous projects on freashmeat about porting drivers and driver development for new OS's. There are other options....
After talking to an ATI representative, they said that they were unwilling to donate a video card for us to use to implement our driver. This is unfortunate, as we have great support for NVidia's cards, but currently only support ATI's cards via VESA 2.0 mode.
If anyone has any ATI contacts, call them up and ask them to support the project with some hardware and any documents they can provide. I bet there are a dozen ATI developers that read slashdot, why dont you guys/gals help out. Sometimes we can bypass all politics, lets see if someone out there can do it.
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I'm waiting for unlocked sidekicks, but the details are sketchy if SSH application will work without access to the application servers.
The Sony P900 or the Treo 600 is the one that I would go with. But I really like the sidekicks size and layout. Too bad its locked to 1 carrier. Being able to SSH and having a fullsize thumbboard is really nice.
The T-Cube seems like a perfect replacement for an audio/visual pc. I play all my mp3s/videos over the network on an Xbox. The t-cube has audio, not sure if the vga can do fast enough video for movies. 400mhz seems fast enough for it. Looks like a nice thin-client, but not being x86, having to port software would be a chore. If there was network streaming video/audio from a server, then it would be nice and seemeless. Mplayer streaming or VLAN streaming is the most popular.
But ya, 2 different types of uses.
I've been seeing alot of news and slashdot posts about TRON being the most popular OS in the world, but have not see it or used it.
Is there an SDK for this OS somewhere, free for download? Support on migrating linux apps to it?
Just currious, if TRON will make a migration to the US and electronics over here. That t-cube looks sweet, 400mhz cpu, even audio support.
People are still listening to game sound tracks of the 80's. Giana Sisters, Outrun, many 8bit computers and consoles. Almost everything is original music. You can checkout the online radio at SceneMusic.net
As for new music, I think its pretty cool the xbox games has most music in windows media, easy enough to copy and convert. Amped series has tons of cool Indie music. Just goto the music directory on the dvd.
I think my favorite video game that had purchased music from Crystal Method, N20 on PSX. It has the whole vegas CD in the game.
How many other people out there, went over the correct shade of yellow for the alarm lights with a vendor? Funny stories about NOC design. This thread could have some very interesting stuff, if people would let some company secrets slip. ;)
.com ish, but they do feel great.
But onto my point.
Biggest thing about a noc, is you need to see the alarm, other than taking action, missing an alarm is the worst design flaw. Filter, Page, auto-ticket, there are many things a professional NOC can lend some experience on design. Not everything has to cost, in fact many opensource software works great. (Big Brother anyone?)
BTW, windows and vmware? Pfft.. Worst thing you want is a crash in the middle of working, Solaris and xterms. Eye-candy is the worst thing to get in the way of working outages.
Humm, also a good ticketing system is important, if you want to page out someone, you need to have enough detail for the person to do their job.
Oh yea, give me an Aeron Chair also. I know, its
Actually, EA cant do anything they want with its world. This is the point Urizenus made, he reported a crime and EA had to by law contact the authorities. EA doesn't want this to become practice, so they canceled the reporters account. They also hunted down accounts related to the on line newspaper, and closed them.
In the real world, this would be an anti-slapp law against EA. I see no reason why a VR World wouldn't have the same legal status. If someone tells you that they raped a 10 yo girl, and EA refused to report the person to authorities, EA is covering up a crime.
Just because its on line, doesn't mean you can get away with a crime.
I've been using no-cd patches for years. Started when the cdrom spin up would pause the system, a horrible pause ruins a nice fragging experience. Still need a legit cdkey to play online, so its not piracy.
I wonder, how many legit gamers have to use "freedom" utilities to play games normally? I hate lugging all my cd's to a lan party, when you dont know what games people are going to be playing.
Occaisionally I'll hit a site with DHTML menus that render a little funky in Mozilla because they weren't coded right, but I never hit any sites that "need" IE.
I wish that was true at my work. Our IT and Engineering departments put little javascript programs that check to make sure you are using IE. Our HR department wouldnt even load on Mozilla. The Internal helpdesk uses NTLM which doesnt work all the time on Mozilla, maybe this release will fix it. Our IT is against all non-IE browsers. When WinXP came out, about half our sites where broken. This is what happens when your IT is in bed with Microsoft. I'm sure most companies with IT shops for the larger fortune 500 companies have this problem. (Other news our IT has been outsourced to HP, starting jan-1, so who knows whats going to happen now...)
My workplace is not 3rd party browser friendly, not by a longshot. I can hack html with proxomitron, rewrite html to trick many IT websites, but a few will plain not work. I've called IT and opened tickets, using the excuse "My desktop is a Sun box, and I use Netscape/Mozilla" their response, find a windows box somewhere. Or they provide a citrix client.
So, at work I use Avant browser(tabbed, ie core), at home I use firebird. I run into very few IE only sites at home, maybe 1 every couple of months.
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The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man hardly anything. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832)
The URL you are looking for is at thestreet.com.
/me buys some SAP stock. ;)
[snip]
AT&T Wireless (AWE:NYSE - commentary - research) customers cannot activate new GSM cell-phone accounts or make changes to existing GSM service because of a glitch that a Wall Street analyst is blaming on an upgrade of software from Siebel Systems (SEBL:Nasdaq - commentary - research).
[/snip]
And related.
[snip]
An executive in charge of consulting services at Siebel Systems is leaving the software company at the end of the year, a representative for the San Mateo, Calif., company confirmed Friday.
[/snip]
And Siebel stock is now marked as a Buy. Go figure.
Are you running Linux or Windows? Linux fonts are notoriously bad even with the FreeType kind of configuration.
:) In fact I use vga2 or console in all my gui's. vga2 looks perfect in putty.
The fonts are not anti-aliased when using RDC, its the same as running with font smoothing turned off. I wish cleartype was enabled on RDC. Nice thing about RDC is there are mac/linux clients, and linux servers. Faster than VNC, but vnc has more client/servers ports.
BTW, my console fonts are not bad, true vga goodness.
Systemax pc's are pretty good, been around awhile, basic solid machines. If you already use AOL, thats a nice system with monitor for 299. Wonder how much the ink cartridges are... The mobo seems to be very cheap, would be nice for more specs.
Doing a quick pricewatch search shows the pc is an average deal, and system max uses quality oem hardware, your choice.
But I'd rather go over to Outpost.com (frys) and get something like amd200+mb for 100 bux, get a nice case for 40 bux, some memory, hd and gfx card for about 350 for that price. Pick up a used 17 inch monitor for 20 bux at RePC.
There are good deals, but you have to look. I found used dual P2's for 250 bux with scsi drives. Awesome linux/bsd servers.
I mean like Internet applications today, we had email, files, newsgroups, and chat across the nation using BBS's, while using DOS as the main os. Aka, an early version. ;)
Good Internet history can be found at zakon.org.
Back in Spokane, most of the ISP's moved to the local Telco/bank building where we could buy T1's without haul charges. They just had to wire cat5 down to our room's. (Couple ladders, and you had a t1 hooked up that afternoon.)
With a room for a couple hundred, and savings per T1, a few livingston portmasters, and bam. ISP was 56K enabled. Being in the telco building also helped when you needed more digital circuits.
I left the small mom and pop ISP business and went to work for a telco before DSL came out. I always wonder how they hang on when the most customers drop dialup and move to cheap 30 bux a month DSL.
BTW, I remember when almost everyone ran WWIV BBS, and you could send email almost anywhere, and then the sysop fights started, WWIV BBS broke off into thier own groups, the national WWIV BBS chain was gone. Couple hundred BBS's all over the world, it was amazing, early version of the Internet. Real message forums, and email that worked. When it broke down, I gave up on BBS's. Lucky the Internet thingy was here, and we started migrating people to pay BBS's that had Internet access. Then added PPP module, then became a full ISP. You get the picture.
Ok, why would anyone be using QT when you could use wxWindows? The license is true LGPL.
Its been months, and people have been bitching about QT's license, just use something else. Everyone I know seems to love wxWindows.
Subear, your post is marked insightful, Amazing for an overrated post that reads like an uninformed person.
The RIAA is NOT in the distribution business, they are in the association business, hence Recording Industry Association of America. They represent the rights and needs of their members. Whether or not record labels go to digital distribution of music or not is not up to the RIAA, it is up to each individual member company.
Maybe you haven't been reading the news, but the RIAA is against p2p, all legal forms of p2p. Using the courts to shut down legal services like mp3.com was about control of distribution. Even when Napster1 tried to follow the rules, the RIAA wouldn't stand for it. The RIAA also guides distribution in Jukeboxes, radio stations, etc. Saying that the RIAA has no control over distribution is lie.
The RIAA is controlling distribution services with lawsuits. Whats worse, is the RIAA is making decisions for all artists, even artists that dont belong to the RIAA. The RIAA is the modern day Mafia. Do it our way, or we will send Vinnie over to make you think otherwise. BTW, Vinnie is really Sen. Orrin Hatch, the corporate paid whore he is.
BTW, my car player plays mp3s, sony discman mp3 players cost 50 bux. Mp3 is here to stay. Now with all these DRM'ed shit, I have to convert to mp3 to listen to music I bought legally. So STFU about something you obviously know nothing about.
From the Article.
Is there a way out of this mess? Can the record industry offer it's own insurance, so listeners do not have to file share? Can it do so without creating a double moral hazard? Yes - by shifting to a more sophisticated contract.
I'd rather just get the RIAA out of the distribution side of music, they don't belong on this side of the fence. With the RIAA trying to control the distribution channels, they just strangle new technologies and screw the artists who they supposedly support.
With Senator Orrin Hatch the riaa whore and Corporate Elected Criminal is just trying his damnest to go after these p2p users, using piracy as an escape goat to mask the problem that only concerns the RIAA. Control of distribution.
iTunes and Napster2 already show people will buy music online. Just need to get more Indie/Alternative music available, which even cuts more into RIAA funds.
Spoofing DHCP is easy and handy to make sure you get the settings you want. A few times I unpluged a machine, plugged in a hub+laptop and gave the server settings I pre-configured, overiding the default DHCP servers. Microsoft/SUN and other vendors use configurable DHCP settings to pass information to Applications (proxy/etc). Even mobile networks can use DHCP to get its current settings. (gateway/msisdn/int-ext networks)
Physical access is the number 1 security hole.
Historically Slashdot has always had Linux/BSD/open source news about releases and updates. This is news for nerds. You can always configure slashdot to ignore these stories. I'd rather see more news, and let users configure what they want to see, than less news to make a few people happy.
With 500 submissions an hour, theres no shortage of news.
Gentoo gives you total control, like no other linux distro.
true. but it takes days to install and my mother would never be able to set her own USE flags. i think mepis is looking to provide maximum customization while still being "end user friendly"
I wasnt speaking for people like your mother, I was speaking for the linux hacker who likes to tweak and hack. The person who tries more than one distro, or even has a ppc/sparc box. The ones who like to bang the metal, code demos, have a little bit of the artist hacker in them.
Gentoo isnt the distro for your mother. Gentoo is like the turbo charger you bolt on, or the even the custom paint job for your car. Its the way you want, exactly. And that customization takes knowledge and experience with building a src based linux setup. Yes it takes time to compile, just as building a plane in your garage takes time.
I wouldnt ever recommend Gentoo (except live cd's). Knoppix/SuSE or Mandrake are much better choices. SuSE has better end-user tools, Knoppix provides the best visual (out of the box) experience. Mandrake is popular and easy to find support. Just as there are different cars, there are different linux distros. Pick the one for the right job.
[snip]MEPIS Linux 2003 is desktop Linux the way you want it.[/snip]
Thats why I use Gentoo. Gentoo gives you total control, like no other linux distro.
How about you guys post some replies instead of marking my post flamebait. The desktop is still configured for you, so its the way "They Want it". Even Mandrake and Suse make choices for you, Great distros, but you are forced to select the provided options. If you really want it "Your way" and bang metal, you need to use a source based distro, Gentoo is just the most popular one. Theres always Linuxfromscratch
[snip]MEPIS Linux 2003 is desktop Linux the way you want it.[/snip]
Thats why I use Gentoo. Gentoo gives you total control, like no other linux distro.
The article isnt correct, there was a problem, its fixed now.
For details check Forbes.com Siebel is the largest activations provider in the USA. Dell and others use the same software. The CEO of Siebel is stepping down Jan 1 due to these types of issues.
before plunging into AT&T's more expensive services.
Unlimited Verizon is 199 a month, Unlimited ATTWS is 149. Really, a quick google search will show price plans. Check out Inphonic click check rate plans. Some good information on coverage and prices. Zipcode search will tell which Telco covers your area. Theres a reason most public safety departments go with ATTWS, they need a network thats fast and stable.
Whats funny, is 40% of most customers think thier wireless telco sucks, and switching will resolve the issue. The problem is you might not be with the best telco for your area. Most people will just buy a phone and expect it to work everywhere. Everyone is about 2 years away from total network coverage for telcos, and in 2 years 2mbit+ data speeds will be normal. Now with customers able to switch (After contract is up) the best companies will start to show with better coverage and services. I also expect to see more CDMA/TDMA telcos merge together. (Sprint/Verizon) or (ATTWS/Cingular/Tmobile)
Its only going to get faster, better coverage and more offered services. Edge is the leader now, UMTS will take the market next.
Latency is always around 600ms and up for Wireless.
I was trouble shooting a customer out in NY, trying to figure out why he was moving around, and jumping from cellsite 2 cellsite so quickly. The guy was out on the water on a boat, and the signal was bouncing off the water. They didnt tell me that untill later. (LOL) I was able to ping his phone for over 2 hours without a problem.
BTW, I vpn over GPRS with good results, Im really wanting that dual edge/wifi card, that will be perfect.
Why would I want to help a non-free OS get support? Can't the SkyOS team spend money on the parts they need to build their business (after all, they charge money for their system)? Can't they learn what they want to know from the XFree86 source code?
Its a free OS, they just dont give the source code. Check your facts.
Sometimes people ignore real issues (like software freedom) to pretend they're irrelevant. Abiding by copyright law has serious consequences. If the SkyOS team is found liable for copyright infringement, they'll learn just how unwise it is to ignore politics.
If the moon is made of cheese... But really, the claims dont have any proof. Even OSNews had an article about the using GPL'ed tools doesnt open the OS.
Too bad your reply had nothing to do about ATI Drivers, and slaming the authors of SkyOS. They have not been proven of stealing code. "I Think" posts are not proof. SCO Thinks linux has copied code too, should we believe SCO?
They did give the tech specs to X developers...
Xfree shouldnt be the only one group to get documentation. In fact there was a slashdot story about how ATI couldnt get patchs submitted to Xfree, developers tired of the politics, hence all the new X server spinoffs.
There are numerous projects on freashmeat about porting drivers and driver development for new OS's. There are other options....
After talking to an ATI representative, they said that they were unwilling to donate a video card for us to use to implement our driver. This is unfortunate, as we have great support for NVidia's cards, but currently only support ATI's cards via VESA 2.0 mode.
If anyone has any ATI contacts, call them up and ask them to support the project with some hardware and any documents they can provide.
I bet there are a dozen ATI developers that read slashdot, why dont you guys/gals help out. Sometimes we can bypass all politics, lets see if someone out there can do it.