It isn't government funded, well not totally anyway. As far as I know, the government provides the spectrum, and may provide the core organization. But after that, they don't do squat! Local PBS stations will program what the viewers want and the viewers vote for what they want with dollars. You mean you have never seen the Red Green duct tape tote board? You have never seen your local PBS station pleading for money???? If it wasn't for the folks who donate money to those stations, they would not exist. This is why their are stations who cannot afford to convert from analog to the digital SD and HDTV. They simply do not have the cash to do it. To those who think more government owned tv would be good idea would just have to look at what soviet tv looked like to see it would not be a good idea. If the government owned the stations, we'd probably never hear about thinks such as the China incident that just happened. The government would have total control over those owned stations and for those that think they hide things now, boy you have NO idea what they would hide if all tv was owned by the government.
Now, what DOES offend me is that the government GAVE these license to these rich media types for free! (granted not all regular tv stations are full of money, but most are). Imagine the amount of money the FCC would have had come in if they had to pay the fee for an HDTV license! They tax us, then give the media companies who could afford these things stuff for free. Now I am not saying I am a victim or something just because I can't get one of these license's (even if I could, I would not be able to afford the equipment let alone the real estate needed for a tower)...it's the fact that the government makes stupid choices that costs them (and us) money.
Now, sometimes the goverment needs to step in and do things to spur development. But obviously this HDTV thing is being botched. The way they did this stuff is nothing close to the way that they handled AM/FM. Most of us do not remember a time when AM was the only game in town. The first successor to AM failed because it required the user to buy a new radio. When the FM standard was shown to work along side the AM standard, then FM finally took off. Now you have both AM and FM stations. I think the FCC screwed up when they drafted that all stations should be SD/HD capable by a certain date. That's not right. Analog TV works fine for 90 percent of the things broadcast. Only things that benefit from the resolution increase are movies and sporting events.
This is the first time I have seen a actual picture of the artist mockup that was posted a while back. This thing is pretty cool, from what they are saying. The earlier posting had said compaq was looking more at using Linux for this thing. I am glad to see this addition is being persued. We'll have a handheld with almost as much power as a desktop and that's pretty cool. I am waiting to see if this thing becomes a reality. If it does, I WANT ONE!:) I imagine this thing would be popular with someone like Jenni from Jennicam or one of the other cam girls. Tis is something they/I have been looking for. I would use it for amateur radio SSTV.
Oh well! There goes the ethernet enabled IM (I think Clear Channel coined IM to mean internet modulation which means streams). Anyone remember Kerbango and a few others of those radios with built in modems for streaming audio?? Looks like they are useless rocks now, unless they can pick up Internet Only streams like Wolf FM.
No this one was more like driving on a real road, not a race track. It was either CGA or EGA graphics driving cars like the Taurus (when it first cam eout) and the Mustang on city streets. This would pre-date CD-ROMS even.
The idea is intersting to say the least. I have always wondered why we don't do things such as this. It makes perfect sense to me. Although then you'd get people protesting the killing of over 100 thousand soybean plants every month!:) They you'll see the tree huggers laying in fields of soybeans so the combines don't get the precious little soybeans. You'll see things such as biodiesel is murder!:)
Personally fully electric (with solar cell roofs) cars will be the best thing I think. Batteries are getting better it seems like every year and solar keeps getting more efficient over time too. Eventually your car will recharge during the day either by the solar cells or the free electric you get from your place of work(on cloudy days). For the meantime, cars like the Insight and the Prius are very interesting to me. I wish I could afford a Insight or Prius now. I also like the fully electric EV1 from GM but they still won't make those available here in Ohio (no way to heat the car good enoguh in the winter), and if I wanted to throw away 40,000 I'd buy a SUV (EV1's are leased only....once they are done being leased, GM takes them back....they don't even resell them, to my knowledge).
Movies have had product placemnet ever since I can remember. Games haven't just started this though. If I remember right, there was actually a game put together by ford in which you drove guess what....Fords. Also, do you really think that the auto manufacterures didn't lobby game companies to put their cars in the game? Personally, to me, this will add realism. Instead of billboards for fake products, you have billboards for real products. Makes a whole lot of sense to me! Also, not sure if it will, but if they start getting ad revenue, then maybe they won't charge 50-60 bucks for a game. Now, I DO have a problem with buying a utility from norton and having an add take up screen space. Those products are worth their price while some games just aren't. Anyone remember Daikatana????:)
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Yeah they already had a name for a pesky server that kept going down. The Wiener server. I have done that too. I will be working with something at work, by remote, then someone, or something decides it's a nice time for a reboot and then I exclaim YOU WEINER!:) All computers get nicknames around me. Usually it's Weiner, screwy, honey, POS (Piece of $hit) or beast. Some nicks are not fit for Slashdot consumption (multiple expletive nicknames for different pieces of hardware when they either don't work as advertise, or do and I am a dumbass and can't figure out the problem.).
Actually I have heard good things about the Thinkpads. IBM is probably Linux's best supporter right now. Oh, BTW, can you use the ltmodem driver with 2.4?? Last I checked it was tied to the kernel that came with Red Hat 6.2. It was possible to load it on other's, but whether it worked or not depended on how different it was from the Red Hat one.
Ok I just checked it and I see it has been updated....finally! Looks like some resourceful hackers hacked on the original to make it work similarly to the way the aureal hackers did. Actually a coworker of mine has this same laptop (I think) and he's running lilo dual boot with slack ware on the other partition. He needs to get a new HD cuz he has barely 1.2 gig of space and that's not hardly enough to seriously play.
You are definitely right about the hardware though. I see most laptops getting replaced before the LCD burns out.
That doesn't tell us much of anything! I LOVE how this guy wormed around the stupid Windows XP license issue. I mean I know he's probably been NDA'd out the ying yang, but why not tell us he can't answer the question instead of skirting the issue? I WANT, as well as my Dad, who might be considered right smack in the middle of the target demographic for Windows XP, the ability to upgrade my Motherboard. I want to upgrade my Graphics card. I also don't want to have to call in for a new license string everytime I do it either. Even doing it on the net is NOT acceptable. The idea I have to call to activate something I am holding in my hand is....is....revolting! I like the line in the first question saying Microsoft has always cared about what the consumer wants when some of the things in Windows XP is just....just idiotic! I also don't see them selling much of the Home version (everyone wants what they have at work.....Professional). Hopefully, for their sakes, it won't be a release filled with just the flashy Luna interface. I am sorry for the full flame job but sheesh! What does he think EVERYONE is an AOL user???
Well there's two!:) My point is it's pretty hard to find such notebooks (I bet i can't find one with three as fast as I can find one with only two mouse buttons!:)). My thing is there just isn't that many notebooks that work with Linux (100%......not having the internal modem and/or ethernet work is not 100 %). I can buy/build a desktop with 100 % Linux support for just about everything. Can't do that with a laptop (easily anyway). Let alone try to find ones that come preinstalled (I don't need a preinstall, but some people do).
I think your laptop's MB or something else will fail long before your LCD. The thing you would probably have to worry about the most is physical damage. I, personally have never seen a LCD fail, but that doesn't mean they don't. If your that worried about it, either get a LCD flat panel to plug into when your at home, or a 15 in monitor to plug into. For that matter, you can extend the keyboard and mousing device (trackpoint, touchpad or whatever) by throwing in a cheapy mouse too. Oh, and Cmdrtaco will wonder this too, but how come there are NO laptops with three mouse buttons???? Anyone who spends a lot of time under Linux or UNIX (FreeBSD or anything running X windows) will come to appreciate the extra button (no Apple, it's not that hard to figure out a lousy three buttons).
Before someone busts on someone for not looking or doing research before asking this, let me tell you this. This person wants to know from someone who may have experience using a open source Help Desk solution. He doesn't want to know there are X amount of products on freshmeat and X are 1.0 or above. He WANTS to know what are the pitfalls and good things about the software. Does it require alot of maintenance? Does it fail every 5 minutes? That kind of stuff. That said, from actually using a Help Desk product(non opensource), and from having worked a help desk kind of deal, I think I know what would work.
A help desk is something that, I find, is different for everyone. Some Help Desks ACTUALLY help, while others just take work orders. For ones that actually help, one that would have the ability to search prior work orders and see if the same thing came up before, and if there's instructions, then tell the user how to fix it themselves. This helps the user LEARN something saving your HD people another phone call. This is the best kind of help desk and one which should be a/the model. If this is just going to be something that people are going to hit a web page and type in what's wrong, then you could also just look for a web based work order system as well as other help desk type software. Help Desk's are highly different from company to company and some times, you just have to devlop your own software to make it do what you want.
Rob and Hemos SUGAR COAT NOTHING! Debian will ALWAYS be there, while Red Hat could (I doubt they will) go away and same goes with Corel, Libranet, Storm Linux (already gone...thank god it is based on Debian) and a few others. Rob made his decision a long time ago and if u don't like it go read kuro5hin or something. Noone expects everyone to like Debian or Red Hat or Mandrake or whatever. That's the good thing about Linux is we have a choice. The safest choice, in my opinion, is Debian just because it's NOT going to go away. Debian is the most stable distro I have seen. It just works. Only way I can get apt to produce errors is if I am pointing at conflicting sources. If site a carries version 1.0.2 as the latest and site b has 2.0 as the latest, there will be conflicts (well duh!). If you stick to the STABLE apt sources, you won't get many errors, and you will only have to reboot for kernel upgrades, and possibly dist-upgrades (althought I have upgraded a potato to woody and not had to reboot, it just didn't update the kernel, but it updated everything else).
To get back on topic, nice to see the new guy come in even though I don't know totally how Debian's organization works. It's just good to see them moving forward on something anyway!:) Hopefully we'll have a stable woody soon.
VM can run on bare iron. You don't have to have MVS to use it(we don't). z/OS is just OS/390 which is just MVS. IBM just changed the name and not much else. Linux can also run on bare iron but is MUCH more flexible running under VM. IBM is changing names around trying to shake the stodgy mainframe image surrounding the platform. In fact, they call them servers now. Mainframes were the first servers. They were serving before most of us were born. Servers, as we call them, only wish they can pump as much I/O as one z series machine.
Why whine about them? If they want to NOT be used by me, then they can charge 15 bucks a cd image. So what? I'll just download Debian! This is just a excuse for them to do what Red Hat already does, except they are not selling CD's at Walmart. Why don't they just make some CD's and sell them online for those who don't have a broadband connection? That would make more sense to me! Don't they realize that someone could just as well pay the 15 bucks, then upload the image to another server and charge nothing for it? The Kernel developers have made money with their work by getting jobs at the distros, but I bet there are still a good chunk who work on Kernel code just for the heck of it. There are millions of developers who have not gotten money for what Libranet is ditributing. Is Libranet going to pay them? What about the Debian developers that made Libranet possible?? Is Libranet going to pay them?? Nope. Libranet is putting a HUGE nail right in their foot. May as well say goodbye to Libranet. If I want a nice to use Debian based distro, I'd choose Progeny or heck Debian! It's NOT hard if you know a bit about your computer to install Debian. What you need to know takes 5 minutes to figure out.
The writer wrote: It is the first to have a horizontal alignment which is WRONG! What about Game Gear? Lynx? Nomad? ALL of these were HORIZONTAL. The original game boy was the only one that came in a nice, compact, vertical package. I bet the only reason Gameboy Advanced came out in the format it is in was for room! I bet that, within a few years, they will be back to the original, classic Gameboy format, or a format simlar to the slimmer Pocket Gameboy.
Active desktop is not defunct, it's just not touted or used much. You can still have a web page sitting on your desktop (nothing like RSS in my opinion). Active Desktop is what makes it possible for users to only have to single click on desktop icons instead of double clicking (yeah, big deal I know, but it saves a click).
RSS on the other hand appears to be alot less heavy unlike active desktop. Active desktop would slow a machine down if it has a web page on it. This looks like all it's doing is grabbing a jpg and a list of links. Nothing heavy there. While on the desktop you may not want this, but with the rss in Nautilus it looks as if you can store these little snippets in any folder in your home directory. That would be handy.
as for my other comments on Nautilus, I think there's LOTS Nautilus is doing that has been done and some that hasn't been done before. This is the first time I can remember being able to tag files with those little tags (on Linux anyway). Others may have done what Nautilus is doing, but, to me, Eazel is combining alot of handy features into one app. No one app has ever done as much as Nautilus is doing, IMHO.
I hate replying to myself, but after a bit of time using nautilus as a browser, I noticed one thing that could be handy....a PRINT button! Only way to print a web page is to hit up the launch in Mozilla button an print from there, but it would sure be nice to be able to print direct from Nautilus. Also, can Java appleys be done in Nautilus?? Is there a JRE we have to run??
Man that RSS module will ROCK! I must say, Nautilus 1.0 is MUCH improved over the preview release and speed is good too (128 MB Ram, Pentium II 450 MHz, Permedia 2 with 8 MB and XFree 4.0.1). Now if I could only have the RSS module!:) That looks GREAT! I imagine having the headlines on my desktop all of the time and they be updated as I work during the day! I am using Nautilus right now to post this and I must say NICE JOB! Yeah, there's a lot of stuff some users (read ubergeeks who like crusty stuff) won't like or use, but I LOVE the way Nautilus renders the desktop and the default icons are beautiful! Eazel may just be trimming the chaff away. I did notice it said almsot none of the developers were touched and that's a good thing. Would I be in favor of a Ximian and Eazel merger? Sure. Nautilus is going to be part of Ximian Gnome anyway, so it only makes sense. I can now wave good bye to ugly GMC.
Well, I usaully don't buy on price watch for one reason....it's not fair to the local guys I sue fro stupid crap. When I am going to buy hardware, I usually go local in case something fails. This also supports the local guy so when I really need something, they are still there (you know, lik ewhen you really need a new network cable or a power supply to fix something reight away and can't wait, even overnight, for shipping. I know the above was off topic, but we need to support the local guys because if we don't, they won't be there when we need them.
By the time you buy that hub, you may as well have bought a Linksys unit. Thanks for shedding some light on configging two pc card nics on a laptop under OpenBSD, but it's a waste of a good laptop! The Linksys units or dlinks that can act as a firewall as well as a router are more flexible, and cost less then a lap top and are noisless as well. Also, be it a PC or a Laptop, I'd spend MORE time setting and tweaking that up then I would a Linksys. With the Linksys, while there still needs to be some thought involved, you don't have to edit text files and stop and restart services. It handles most of that on it's own. Also, with a Linksys, that's one less thing you have to buy for your home network. I don't want to think too much about geting a firewall up and going. I just want it to work. I am not saying that I expect the Linksys to be totally automatic, it's just that it's easier and even cheaper then using a old PC and a hub for a small home network. Also, I have about 20 more uses for even a old laptop that I would not want to waste it on a firewall.
I think it would be tough, not to mention expensive to buy a coupe PC card ethernet adapters. It's not like they only cost a few bucks like desktop cards. Also, wouldn't be damn near impossible to get both cards working at the same time?? To me, the blue Linksys Cable/DSL/Firewall/NAT routers are they way to go. They cost as much as a P75 would and they would probably have more ports (4-11 depending on model you buy). Also a P 90 laptop would not be a bad Xterm:)!
I don't belive this got posted. Yeah it's stupid that CDDB doesn't work with grip, but afaik, it does use freedb as a default. I just ripped a track a minute ago. I guess it is news for nerds, but not very important......
Wow. That's like Personal Communications in java. Pretty cool. Never seen that product before but it looks pretty cool. Would not have been useful for my situation. Actually, it's our consultant who does mainframe systems programming is trying to learn/switch to Linux for his business. They are paying him to go to Linux classes and he's planning on putting a Linux vm guest up on our machine so we can use it to learn UNIX for a our new project (new client server UNIX based system running Oracle for the DB for administrative use at the college I work at). We may end up keeping the mainframe for web hosting (figure we could keep the existing student machine and eliminate the admin and test stuff and use Linux for hosting student web pages on the machine....full use of the webserver including cgi stuff. They could even use it for a web development class....). It seems like an awful shame to get rid of our mf considering we just bought it (Multiprise 2000 system....not top end, but pretty good non the less.). Heck we are doing interesting stuff now. We have some consultants programming a web based registration system and fee payment system to interface with our existing registration and fee payment programs. They are using, yes you are going to hear me right, COBOL for doing CGI. Imagine that! Works pretty well too.
Thanks dude! c3270 rocks ass! I was able to get it compiled and everything. Still have to investigate the keymap issue, but I was able to get it going with a nometa keymap (c3270 -keymap nometa) which substitutes the escape key for the meta key. Worked like a charm. Even looks pretty good too! Although NOTHING beats IBM's Personal Communications in windows, or a dumb terminal in looks (fonts look much better on both...). Maybe IBM will port Personal Communications to Linux? I love the scripting feature. Works like a recorder for getting the general script down, then you can edit it with a text editor to change it. I use that to submit a job on the mainframe that requires me to enter the same crap every time I run it( date, expiration date and other info ). Once I had the script created, when the dates change I edit the script, run it again. I think x3270 and c3270 have scripting, but I haven't used either long enough to do it. Anyway thanks guys for the suggestions! I found my answer!
I know of the first one. It's been abandoned and does compile, but it segfaults when you try to connect to a system (it seems to connect, then you press a key and it segfaults. Sometimes it segfaults out of the box). I will try the second one mentioned in your post. I was able to connect with 3270v4.1, but either I didn't know the keymap, or it was not working because I could enter data, and press what I thought was enter (according to the keymap I thought it used) and it didn't work.
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Now, what DOES offend me is that the government GAVE these license to these rich media types for free! (granted not all regular tv stations are full of money, but most are). Imagine the amount of money the FCC would have had come in if they had to pay the fee for an HDTV license! They tax us, then give the media companies who could afford these things stuff for free. Now I am not saying I am a victim or something just because I can't get one of these license's (even if I could, I would not be able to afford the equipment let alone the real estate needed for a tower)...it's the fact that the government makes stupid choices that costs them (and us) money.
Now, sometimes the goverment needs to step in and do things to spur development. But obviously this HDTV thing is being botched. The way they did this stuff is nothing close to the way that they handled AM/FM. Most of us do not remember a time when AM was the only game in town. The first successor to AM failed because it required the user to buy a new radio. When the FM standard was shown to work along side the AM standard, then FM finally took off. Now you have both AM and FM stations. I think the FCC screwed up when they drafted that all stations should be SD/HD capable by a certain date. That's not right. Analog TV works fine for 90 percent of the things broadcast. Only things that benefit from the resolution increase are movies and sporting events.
This is the first time I have seen a actual picture of the artist mockup that was posted a while back. This thing is pretty cool, from what they are saying. The earlier posting had said compaq was looking more at using Linux for this thing. I am glad to see this addition is being persued. We'll have a handheld with almost as much power as a desktop and that's pretty cool. I am waiting to see if this thing becomes a reality. If it does, I WANT ONE! :) I imagine this thing would be popular with someone like Jenni from Jennicam or one of the other cam girls. Tis is something they/I have been looking for. I would use it for amateur radio SSTV.
Oh well! There goes the ethernet enabled IM (I think Clear Channel coined IM to mean internet modulation which means streams). Anyone remember Kerbango and a few others of those radios with built in modems for streaming audio?? Looks like they are useless rocks now, unless they can pick up Internet Only streams like Wolf FM.
No this one was more like driving on a real road, not a race track. It was either CGA or EGA graphics driving cars like the Taurus (when it first cam eout) and the Mustang on city streets. This would pre-date CD-ROMS even.
Personally fully electric (with solar cell roofs) cars will be the best thing I think. Batteries are getting better it seems like every year and solar keeps getting more efficient over time too. Eventually your car will recharge during the day either by the solar cells or the free electric you get from your place of work(on cloudy days). For the meantime, cars like the Insight and the Prius are very interesting to me. I wish I could afford a Insight or Prius now. I also like the fully electric EV1 from GM but they still won't make those available here in Ohio (no way to heat the car good enoguh in the winter), and if I wanted to throw away 40,000 I'd buy a SUV (EV1's are leased only....once they are done being leased, GM takes them back....they don't even resell them, to my knowledge).
Movies have had product placemnet ever since I can remember. Games haven't just started this though. If I remember right, there was actually a game put together by ford in which you drove guess what....Fords. Also, do you really think that the auto manufacterures didn't lobby game companies to put their cars in the game? Personally, to me, this will add realism. Instead of billboards for fake products, you have billboards for real products. Makes a whole lot of sense to me! Also, not sure if it will, but if they start getting ad revenue, then maybe they won't charge 50-60 bucks for a game. Now, I DO have a problem with buying a utility from norton and having an add take up screen space. Those products are worth their price while some games just aren't. Anyone remember Daikatana???? :)
Yeah they already had a name for a pesky server that kept going down. The Wiener server. I have done that too. I will be working with something at work, by remote, then someone, or something decides it's a nice time for a reboot and then I exclaim YOU WEINER! :) All computers get nicknames around me. Usually it's Weiner, screwy, honey, POS (Piece of $hit) or beast. Some nicks are not fit for Slashdot consumption (multiple expletive nicknames for different pieces of hardware when they either don't work as advertise, or do and I am a dumbass and can't figure out the problem.).
Ok I just checked it and I see it has been updated....finally! Looks like some resourceful hackers hacked on the original to make it work similarly to the way the aureal hackers did. Actually a coworker of mine has this same laptop (I think) and he's running lilo dual boot with slack ware on the other partition. He needs to get a new HD cuz he has barely 1.2 gig of space and that's not hardly enough to seriously play.
You are definitely right about the hardware though. I see most laptops getting replaced before the LCD burns out.
That doesn't tell us much of anything! I LOVE how this guy wormed around the stupid Windows XP license issue. I mean I know he's probably been NDA'd out the ying yang, but why not tell us he can't answer the question instead of skirting the issue? I WANT, as well as my Dad, who might be considered right smack in the middle of the target demographic for Windows XP, the ability to upgrade my Motherboard. I want to upgrade my Graphics card. I also don't want to have to call in for a new license string everytime I do it either. Even doing it on the net is NOT acceptable. The idea I have to call to activate something I am holding in my hand is....is....revolting! I like the line in the first question saying Microsoft has always cared about what the consumer wants when some of the things in Windows XP is just....just idiotic! I also don't see them selling much of the Home version (everyone wants what they have at work.....Professional). Hopefully, for their sakes, it won't be a release filled with just the flashy Luna interface. I am sorry for the full flame job but sheesh! What does he think EVERYONE is an AOL user???
Well there's two! :) My point is it's pretty hard to find such notebooks (I bet i can't find one with three as fast as I can find one with only two mouse buttons! :)). My thing is there just isn't that many notebooks that work with Linux (100% ......not having the internal modem and/or ethernet work is not 100 %). I can buy/build a desktop with 100 % Linux support for just about everything. Can't do that with a laptop (easily anyway). Let alone try to find ones that come preinstalled (I don't need a preinstall, but some people do).
I think your laptop's MB or something else will fail long before your LCD. The thing you would probably have to worry about the most is physical damage. I, personally have never seen a LCD fail, but that doesn't mean they don't. If your that worried about it, either get a LCD flat panel to plug into when your at home, or a 15 in monitor to plug into. For that matter, you can extend the keyboard and mousing device (trackpoint, touchpad or whatever) by throwing in a cheapy mouse too. Oh, and Cmdrtaco will wonder this too, but how come there are NO laptops with three mouse buttons???? Anyone who spends a lot of time under Linux or UNIX (FreeBSD or anything running X windows) will come to appreciate the extra button (no Apple, it's not that hard to figure out a lousy three buttons).
A help desk is something that, I find, is different for everyone. Some Help Desks ACTUALLY help, while others just take work orders. For ones that actually help, one that would have the ability to search prior work orders and see if the same thing came up before, and if there's instructions, then tell the user how to fix it themselves. This helps the user LEARN something saving your HD people another phone call. This is the best kind of help desk and one which should be a/the model. If this is just going to be something that people are going to hit a web page and type in what's wrong, then you could also just look for a web based work order system as well as other help desk type software. Help Desk's are highly different from company to company and some times, you just have to devlop your own software to make it do what you want.
To get back on topic, nice to see the new guy come in even though I don't know totally how Debian's organization works. It's just good to see them moving forward on something anyway! :) Hopefully we'll have a stable woody soon.
VM can run on bare iron. You don't have to have MVS to use it(we don't). z/OS is just OS/390 which is just MVS. IBM just changed the name and not much else. Linux can also run on bare iron but is MUCH more flexible running under VM. IBM is changing names around trying to shake the stodgy mainframe image surrounding the platform. In fact, they call them servers now. Mainframes were the first servers. They were serving before most of us were born. Servers, as we call them, only wish they can pump as much I/O as one z series machine.
Why whine about them? If they want to NOT be used by me, then they can charge 15 bucks a cd image. So what? I'll just download Debian! This is just a excuse for them to do what Red Hat already does, except they are not selling CD's at Walmart. Why don't they just make some CD's and sell them online for those who don't have a broadband connection? That would make more sense to me! Don't they realize that someone could just as well pay the 15 bucks, then upload the image to another server and charge nothing for it? The Kernel developers have made money with their work by getting jobs at the distros, but I bet there are still a good chunk who work on Kernel code just for the heck of it. There are millions of developers who have not gotten money for what Libranet is ditributing. Is Libranet going to pay them? What about the Debian developers that made Libranet possible?? Is Libranet going to pay them?? Nope. Libranet is putting a HUGE nail right in their foot. May as well say goodbye to Libranet. If I want a nice to use Debian based distro, I'd choose Progeny or heck Debian! It's NOT hard if you know a bit about your computer to install Debian. What you need to know takes 5 minutes to figure out.
The writer wrote: It is the first to have a horizontal alignment which is WRONG! What about Game Gear? Lynx? Nomad? ALL of these were HORIZONTAL. The original game boy was the only one that came in a nice, compact, vertical package. I bet the only reason Gameboy Advanced came out in the format it is in was for room! I bet that, within a few years, they will be back to the original, classic Gameboy format, or a format simlar to the slimmer Pocket Gameboy.
RSS on the other hand appears to be alot less heavy unlike active desktop. Active desktop would slow a machine down if it has a web page on it. This looks like all it's doing is grabbing a jpg and a list of links. Nothing heavy there. While on the desktop you may not want this, but with the rss in Nautilus it looks as if you can store these little snippets in any folder in your home directory. That would be handy.
as for my other comments on Nautilus, I think there's LOTS Nautilus is doing that has been done and some that hasn't been done before. This is the first time I can remember being able to tag files with those little tags (on Linux anyway). Others may have done what Nautilus is doing, but, to me, Eazel is combining alot of handy features into one app. No one app has ever done as much as Nautilus is doing, IMHO.
I hate replying to myself, but after a bit of time using nautilus as a browser, I noticed one thing that could be handy....a PRINT button! Only way to print a web page is to hit up the launch in Mozilla button an print from there, but it would sure be nice to be able to print direct from Nautilus. Also, can Java appleys be done in Nautilus?? Is there a JRE we have to run??
Man that RSS module will ROCK! I must say, Nautilus 1.0 is MUCH improved over the preview release and speed is good too (128 MB Ram, Pentium II 450 MHz, Permedia 2 with 8 MB and XFree 4.0.1). Now if I could only have the RSS module! :) That looks GREAT! I imagine having the headlines on my desktop all of the time and they be updated as I work during the day! I am using Nautilus right now to post this and I must say NICE JOB! Yeah, there's a lot of stuff some users (read ubergeeks who like crusty stuff) won't like or use, but I LOVE the way Nautilus renders the desktop and the default icons are beautiful! Eazel may just be trimming the chaff away. I did notice it said almsot none of the developers were touched and that's a good thing. Would I be in favor of a Ximian and Eazel merger? Sure. Nautilus is going to be part of Ximian Gnome anyway, so it only makes sense. I can now wave good bye to ugly GMC.
By the time you buy that hub, you may as well have bought a Linksys unit. Thanks for shedding some light on configging two pc card nics on a laptop under OpenBSD, but it's a waste of a good laptop! The Linksys units or dlinks that can act as a firewall as well as a router are more flexible, and cost less then a lap top and are noisless as well. Also, be it a PC or a Laptop, I'd spend MORE time setting and tweaking that up then I would a Linksys. With the Linksys, while there still needs to be some thought involved, you don't have to edit text files and stop and restart services. It handles most of that on it's own. Also, with a Linksys, that's one less thing you have to buy for your home network. I don't want to think too much about geting a firewall up and going. I just want it to work. I am not saying that I expect the Linksys to be totally automatic, it's just that it's easier and even cheaper then using a old PC and a hub for a small home network. Also, I have about 20 more uses for even a old laptop that I would not want to waste it on a firewall.
I think it would be tough, not to mention expensive to buy a coupe PC card ethernet adapters. It's not like they only cost a few bucks like desktop cards. Also, wouldn't be damn near impossible to get both cards working at the same time?? To me, the blue Linksys Cable/DSL/Firewall/NAT routers are they way to go. They cost as much as a P75 would and they would probably have more ports (4-11 depending on model you buy). Also a P 90 laptop would not be a bad Xterm :)!
I don't belive this got posted. Yeah it's stupid that CDDB doesn't work with grip, but afaik, it does use freedb as a default. I just ripped a track a minute ago. I guess it is news for nerds, but not very important......
Wow. That's like Personal Communications in java. Pretty cool. Never seen that product before but it looks pretty cool. Would not have been useful for my situation. Actually, it's our consultant who does mainframe systems programming is trying to learn/switch to Linux for his business. They are paying him to go to Linux classes and he's planning on putting a Linux vm guest up on our machine so we can use it to learn UNIX for a our new project (new client server UNIX based system running Oracle for the DB for administrative use at the college I work at). We may end up keeping the mainframe for web hosting (figure we could keep the existing student machine and eliminate the admin and test stuff and use Linux for hosting student web pages on the machine....full use of the webserver including cgi stuff. They could even use it for a web development class....). It seems like an awful shame to get rid of our mf considering we just bought it (Multiprise 2000 system....not top end, but pretty good non the less.). Heck we are doing interesting stuff now. We have some consultants programming a web based registration system and fee payment system to interface with our existing registration and fee payment programs. They are using, yes you are going to hear me right, COBOL for doing CGI. Imagine that! Works pretty well too.
Thanks dude! c3270 rocks ass! I was able to get it compiled and everything. Still have to investigate the keymap issue, but I was able to get it going with a nometa keymap (c3270 -keymap nometa) which substitutes the escape key for the meta key. Worked like a charm. Even looks pretty good too! Although NOTHING beats IBM's Personal Communications in windows, or a dumb terminal in looks (fonts look much better on both...). Maybe IBM will port Personal Communications to Linux? I love the scripting feature. Works like a recorder for getting the general script down, then you can edit it with a text editor to change it. I use that to submit a job on the mainframe that requires me to enter the same crap every time I run it( date, expiration date and other info ). Once I had the script created, when the dates change I edit the script, run it again. I think x3270 and c3270 have scripting, but I haven't used either long enough to do it. Anyway thanks guys for the suggestions! I found my answer!
I know of the first one. It's been abandoned and does compile, but it segfaults when you try to connect to a system (it seems to connect, then you press a key and it segfaults. Sometimes it segfaults out of the box). I will try the second one mentioned in your post. I was able to connect with 3270v4.1, but either I didn't know the keymap, or it was not working because I could enter data, and press what I thought was enter (according to the keymap I thought it used) and it didn't work.