My older APEX wont play some disney DVDs. The MP3 list is horrible. I picked up a newer APEX at wallmart for 70 bux, its ok, but you have to press the shift button everytime to move around on the onscreen menu. (and it displays Shift in bold green onscreen, ick!) Without the remote it hard to use. It also makes a "broken cd" noise like a computer cd-rom drive thats bad. Whack on the side, and it works for a few hours quitely.
Im not so sure if its worth the features, if I have to put up with a interface built by monkeys, and hardware thats flimsy.
Also notice, if you try to check out the cross linked posts..
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Who said we are running M$? In fact we are running Solaris. I dont see us moving to IBM mainframes, and I dont think IBM will support our sun servers.
But Applications, we use many applications for monitoring, backups, web, database. Much of our utilties are already opensource, and our Sys-Admins know how to support them.
I want to know about Applications and the companies that support them. Linux isnt the only opensource product. (-;
1. If you want to use an opensource product, where do you learn about it? I know about oracle and mysql, but who do I goto for mysql paid support?
2. What about total solutions, other than RedHat or VA Software, are there other vedors? Or do I just goto IBM and Say "Linux"?
3. Are any opensource vendors bidding on government contracts?
4. Do the opensource vendors support 24/7 priority support? What about public safety? (fire/police/ambulance/etc.)
I deal with public safety, and they want a live person, with escalation if something is service impacting. They want service level agreements.
If I contact a large vendor, they have all those answers, they even seek my business. I have not seen much opensource support or opensource products besides apache and support utiltiies. I have not *seen* many adverts, people offering demos, people offering to fill a niche market, where are the opensource companies people need to turn too?
There will be more logging, the world is growing, and wood products are needed. This 6 legged beast can save land by not crushing it like a bulldozer, so the forest grows back quicker. The solution is not less logging, its reforestation and proper management. These machines are just tools to help. If there was no requirements to reforest, companies would just use large machines and flatten the land, its much easier.
*But* this technology is only for American forests (we have laws about our own soil). Companies like Citigroup and Boise Lumber cant get away with that in the America. But the rest of the world, its rape and pillage time. - Beer Good, strippers and beer better...
1. Extremely Slow on extremely large sites, unresponsive (looks like program hangs) (large tables, source code, large amount thumbnails) 2. One busy tab can hang Mozilla. 3. Image place holders should allow you to scroll a page while its loading. Scroll bar freezes. 4. Spell Checker crashes. (to be fair, its a beta spellchecker) 5. Crashs on multiple tabs loading. 6. Little Bloated, Would like things seperated, Mozilla browser crashs, email crashs with it, downloads crash. 7. Personal bar doesnt wrap, should have a drop down menu at the end. (imho) 8. Downloading, Mozilla copies the file, after it downloads, and hangs until copied.. (not to mention if it crashs, you loose your download,very annoying, might switch to a download program to bypass problem) Why cant it just save to the directory you select? Why copy, and need 2x the space...
They fixed the context menus on the personal bar when I submitted a bug report, All I can is WOW. These guys are on the ball about fixing it. But I see a trend to blame the website authors and mark bugs as "Evangelism" or "WontFix", or push off till next year. I do believe thou, some of the developers are off on a break, so thats why the push off till next year.
Remember, I am not a developer. I just read the news, report and follow the bug reports. I truely like Mozilla, themes, tabs, email/news client that is very nice. I would consider my self as a poweruser, I do tend to push mozilla harder than the average folks.
Been wanting to setup a dedicated VNC station. Trying to get DirectFB and DirectVNC to work. Not much success, but after seeing the screenshots, this looks ideal for a central VNC console. And with VNC supported on almost everything, including some toasters would rock. (BTW, we call some network appliances toasters at work, aka, a simple server with no internal disks, throw away, replacable.)
I can see allot of potential for uses of vnc and directfb, and micro-vnc embedded appliances. (Software KVM, VideoCapture, Security, Service controls, Monitoring applications, etc..)
BTW, Gentoo has built in support for DirectFB. Now if DirectVNC just came preconfigured also...
Last time I checked the embedded systems used for HVAC are all 486s running QNX. Now they are called embedded systems, but they seem to be normal PC's with serial/probe modules. The C64 is about on par with my with my nokia gsm/gprs phone. (tcp-stack/gfx/audio/64K/IR/Bluetooth/etc)
C64 Seems more impressive now, compared with 2ghz cpus.
Yes, but the trains have AC, so its nice and cool, then the doors open, and its 110 degrees blast of air. Doors Close and its nice and chilled again. Real problem to using trains, the heat.
Does anyone remember playing Battletech mud? With Color Ansi text, was the first large scale multiplayer game I played. I dont remember the exact one (Colorado EDU i think), but I found BattleTech 3065 MUX which seems pretty close.
Side note on the game. We use to have open mechs contests, where you could use any tech to build a mech. Make 3 mechs to play. I used tons of clan tech, put a beagle probe on a mech that could run around 29+ or some ungodly hexes. First round, my light mech (15 ton i think) was behind them. Nobody had a chance. Oh the time wasted on it.
Hes got a kick ass job, gets paid well, has fun. What more can you ask for? Comedy makes up half the posts, if there was no comedy, i might as well be reading white papers or rfcs.
This had better not pass into law because it's an open invitation to civil war on the net.
Humm, that would be a good thing for Homeland security and the cyber cops. Now they could be put to good use. They need to justify the budget for some reason, you cant keep yelling terrorists forever.
I resent that, filtering ads actually saves slashdot on bandwidth. (-;
My main news sites are la times, ny times, bbc and news.yahoo. If I could get a site that had as much news, and that many points of views, it would be worth my money. I hate reading 1 story and not getting all of the information.
If your using windows, and you want to disable real spyware, this is how you do it. Ever wonder why real player gives you updates when you tell it not to run on startup?
Well... It is Slamming if the email/form/letter looks like you're renewing an existing service with your current provider, even if the fine print states its switching service.
Basically it comes down to "Permission", if your tricked, did you give permission? Phone companies will ask you to say, "I want to switch service" and record it. Do you see this level of candidness, that the customer is 100% clear on his actions? Nope.
You know the fact about 500K kids are kidnapped each year? The truth is most are run aways, and 5K are kidnapped by family members. Out of that, around 100 are kidnapped by strangers. Read this on some FBI response to the total amount value reported by missing children agencies. They claim the number has dropped by to under 100 in 2001.
How would I know how many kids are kidnapped? News and word of mouth are the only stats I get. Who can you trust will give you correct answers? The news makes it look like every minute a little kid is kidnapped, we have had 2 in the last couple of weeks, lucky 1 got away.
I really want to get a mod chip for my xbox, so I can boot unsigned software. I want to be able to use it as an mp3 player, linux box, divx player, x terminal, etc.. I have plans!
So there are uses for mod chips, but pirating software? Hell, I live in the Seattle area, all the people at M$ get xbox games for 10 bux, I just have them get then for me. Why pirate?! (-;
I wonder if you owned all legal games, and a modded console, if a jury trial would find you not guilty. The FUD is so thick, its hard to tell what the un-slashdots would think.
Been using GCC 3.1 on my 7.3 SuSE Sparc install (sunblade 100) for months. They had the RPMS out for awhile, just upgrade and go, it even compiles the kernel. Very nice, alot of compile problems have went away with GCC 3.1.
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My older APEX wont play some disney DVDs. The MP3 list is horrible. I picked up a newer APEX at wallmart for 70 bux, its ok, but you have to press the shift button everytime to move around on the onscreen menu. (and it displays Shift in bold green onscreen, ick!) Without the remote it hard to use. It also makes a "broken cd" noise like a computer cd-rom drive thats bad. Whack on the side, and it works for a few hours quitely.
Im not so sure if its worth the features, if I have to put up with a interface built by monkeys, and hardware thats flimsy.
Trip from Seattle to spokane,
Plane - 1-2 hours (45 minute flight), 99 bux.
Train - 12 hours, 25 bux.
Auto - 4:30 hours, 25-40 bux in gas.
Sometimes its easier to drive, and you dont need to rent a car when you get there. Trains would work, if they where high-speed, and had more runs.
YMMV (haha)
bolles@reed.UUCP -- uucp
Also notice, if you try to check out the cross linked posts..
Group: net . bugs (This group is no longer archived)
Group: net . flame (This group is no longer archived)
Group: net . puzzle (This group is no longer archived)
Who said we are running M$? In fact we are running Solaris. I dont see us moving to IBM mainframes, and I dont think IBM will support our sun servers.
But Applications, we use many applications for monitoring, backups, web, database. Much of our utilties are already opensource, and our Sys-Admins know how to support them.
I want to know about Applications and the companies that support them. Linux isnt the only opensource product. (-;
In 1998, some of that was true. (same for NT) Sad part some admins in 1998 are now senior management, and they still carry that prejudice.
Just wondering, Typical questions.
1. If you want to use an opensource product, where do you learn about it? I know about oracle and mysql, but who do I goto for mysql paid support?
2. What about total solutions, other than RedHat or VA Software, are there other vedors? Or do I just goto IBM and Say "Linux"?
3. Are any opensource vendors bidding on government contracts?
4. Do the opensource vendors support 24/7 priority support? What about public safety? (fire/police/ambulance/etc.)
I deal with public safety, and they want a live person, with escalation if something is service impacting. They want service level agreements.
If I contact a large vendor, they have all those answers, they even seek my business. I have not seen much opensource support or opensource products besides apache and support utiltiies. I have not *seen* many adverts, people offering demos, people offering to fill a niche market, where are the opensource companies people need to turn too?
I read the fine print, if your exchange server runs outlook web services. We currently dont. YMMV
Win XP is RDC 5.1, and 2K is RDC 5.0.
You obviously missed his point. :)
There will be more logging, the world is growing, and wood products are needed. This 6 legged beast can save land by not crushing it like a bulldozer, so the forest grows back quicker.
The solution is not less logging, its reforestation and proper management. These machines are just tools to help. If there was no requirements to reforest, companies would just use large machines and flatten the land, its much easier.
*But* this technology is only for American forests (we have laws about our own soil). Companies like Citigroup and Boise Lumber cant get away with that in the America. But the rest of the world, its rape and pillage time.
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Beer Good, strippers and beer better...
1. Extremely Slow on extremely large sites, unresponsive (looks like program hangs) (large tables, source code, large amount thumbnails)
2. One busy tab can hang Mozilla.
3. Image place holders should allow you to scroll a page while its loading. Scroll bar freezes.
4. Spell Checker crashes. (to be fair, its a beta spellchecker)
5. Crashs on multiple tabs loading.
6. Little Bloated, Would like things seperated, Mozilla browser crashs, email crashs with it, downloads crash.
7. Personal bar doesnt wrap, should have a drop down menu at the end. (imho)
8. Downloading, Mozilla copies the file, after it downloads, and hangs until copied.. (not to mention if it crashs, you loose your download,very annoying, might switch to a download program to bypass problem) Why cant it just save to the directory you select? Why copy, and need 2x the space...
They fixed the context menus on the personal bar when I submitted a bug report, All I can is WOW. These guys are on the ball about fixing it. But I see a trend to blame the website authors and mark bugs as "Evangelism" or "WontFix", or push off till next year. I do believe thou, some of the developers are off on a break, so thats why the push off till next year.
Remember, I am not a developer. I just read the news, report and follow the bug reports. I truely like Mozilla, themes, tabs, email/news client that is very nice. I would consider my self as a poweruser, I do tend to push mozilla harder than the average folks.
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Do you use DirectVNC?
There are tab addons for IE.
Been wanting to setup a dedicated VNC station. Trying to get DirectFB and DirectVNC to work. Not much success, but after seeing the screenshots, this looks ideal for a central VNC console. And with VNC supported on almost everything, including some toasters would rock. (BTW, we call some network appliances toasters at work, aka, a simple server with no internal disks, throw away, replacable.)
I can see allot of potential for uses of vnc and directfb, and micro-vnc embedded appliances. (Software KVM, VideoCapture, Security, Service controls, Monitoring applications, etc..)
BTW, Gentoo has built in support for DirectFB. Now if DirectVNC just came preconfigured also...
Last time I checked the embedded systems used for HVAC are all 486s running QNX. Now they are called embedded systems, but they seem to be normal PC's with serial/probe modules. The C64 is about on par with my with my nokia gsm/gprs phone. (tcp-stack/gfx/audio/64K/IR/Bluetooth/etc)
C64 Seems more impressive now, compared with 2ghz cpus.
Yes, but the trains have AC, so its nice and cool, then the doors open, and its 110 degrees blast of air. Doors Close and its nice and chilled again. Real problem to using trains, the heat.
But the flow isnt 2 way. What happens to the AOL user who can resolve your domain? This is why most splinter DNS NICs dont work.
Does anyone remember playing Battletech mud? With Color Ansi text, was the first large scale multiplayer game I played. I dont remember the exact one (Colorado EDU i think), but I found BattleTech 3065 MUX which seems pretty close.
Side note on the game. We use to have open mechs contests, where you could use any tech to build a mech. Make 3 mechs to play. I used tons of clan tech, put a beagle probe on a mech that could run around 29+ or some ungodly hexes. First round, my light mech (15 ton i think) was behind them. Nobody had a chance. Oh the time wasted on it.
Hes got a kick ass job, gets paid well, has fun. What more can you ask for? Comedy makes up half the posts, if there was no comedy, i might as well be reading white papers or rfcs.
This had better not pass into law because it's an open invitation to civil war on the net.
Humm, that would be a good thing for Homeland security and the cyber cops. Now they could be put to good use. They need to justify the budget for some reason, you cant keep yelling terrorists forever.
I resent that, filtering ads actually saves slashdot on bandwidth. (-;
My main news sites are la times, ny times, bbc and news.yahoo. If I could get a site that had as much news, and that many points of views, it would be worth my money. I hate reading 1 story and not getting all of the information.
If your using windows, and you want to disable real spyware, this is how you do it. Ever wonder why real player gives you updates when you tell it not to run on startup?
W indows\Curr entVersion\Run
Registry Key Location:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\
Key Name: TkBellExe
Value: C:\Program Files\Common Files\Real\Update_OB\evntsvc.exe -osboot
delete evntsvc.exe, everything will still function fine.
Well... It is Slamming if the email/form/letter looks like you're renewing an existing service with your current provider, even if the fine print states its switching service.
Basically it comes down to "Permission", if your tricked, did you give permission? Phone companies will ask you to say, "I want to switch service" and record it. Do you see this level of candidness, that the customer is 100% clear on his actions? Nope.
You know the fact about 500K kids are kidnapped each year? The truth is most are run aways, and 5K are kidnapped by family members. Out of that, around 100 are kidnapped by strangers. Read this on some FBI response to the total amount value reported by missing children agencies. They claim the number has dropped by to under 100 in 2001.
How would I know how many kids are kidnapped? News and word of mouth are the only stats I get. Who can you trust will give you correct answers? The news makes it look like every minute a little kid is kidnapped, we have had 2 in the last couple of weeks, lucky 1 got away.
I really want to get a mod chip for my xbox, so I can boot unsigned software. I want to be able to use it as an mp3 player, linux box, divx player, x terminal, etc.. I have plans!
So there are uses for mod chips, but pirating software? Hell, I live in the Seattle area, all the people at M$ get xbox games for 10 bux, I just have them get then for me. Why pirate?! (-;
I wonder if you owned all legal games, and a modded console, if a jury trial would find you not guilty. The FUD is so thick, its hard to tell what the un-slashdots would think.
Been using GCC 3.1 on my 7.3 SuSE Sparc install (sunblade 100) for months. They had the RPMS out for awhile, just upgrade and go, it even compiles the kernel. Very nice, alot of compile problems have went away with GCC 3.1.
Actually, Kinda got the hint from the page itself.
http://spellchecker.mozdev.org/