They can still do this with the iso's. Listen, they are NOT going to make money any more by selling the CD's unless:
1. There is SIGNIFICANT non-free software with the box. If a box had Word Perfect or some other non-GPL software, it would be a better buy then the iso.
2. They close the source....which they CAN'T do!
Also, I have noticed that up2date or the redhat network will allow you to download packages even if you are not a member. Debian, being a non-profit entity, will never charge access fees for apt. Therefore, it's still better. Nick brings up a EXCELLENT point about apt in that when Stormix shut their servers down, he can just point it at Debian's servers and still be ok. If Red Hat goes belly up, RPM will probably die, unless someone else picks it up. Also, RPM's database can too easily get corrupted by forcing installs which can be and usually is necessary, plus most bigger projects like KDE doesn't post a order of installation(at least they didn't last I checked), so you almost have to force the install to get everything going unless you know the order. Red Carpet by the Ximian folks is great and will allow a conduit for them to make money if they ever release some closed source stuff, or they can get money from a closed developer to allow them to put a channel in red carpet to let people buy their software thru it. and Red Carpet is INFINTELY better then Eazel's stuff (Eazel is limited to what's on Eazel's servers now, plus server reliability is lacking!).
I also might add that it's EASY to upgrade a kernel with APT and dpkg. Just grab the kernel-package and the kernel source deb you want, build the kernel deb with a one line command using make-kpkg. This builds a deb including the kernel and kernel modules. When you use dpkg to install it, it will even run lilo for you. (I think! I only did it once, but all I remembered was that it was MUCH easier!). One time I did a RPM kernel upgrade and RPM didn't edit lilo.conf or run lilo (was I supposed to? Did up2date remind me? no!, but Red Carpet didn't either though...) and I was unable to boot. Sure, I could have fixed it, but after futzing with it for too long I said screw it it takes less time to re-install, and this was a new install so I didn't loose anything....isn't this why we are trying to AVOID Windows??? Debian has it right.
Yeah your right. Galactica 1980 really blew. Two guys in street clothes on gay motorcycles. CMON! What happened to the Vipers! I just hope the new show has these things in it: New Vipers (Multiple variants, keep the tri engine for history....), Cylons (Especially the cool Gold ones every once in a while thrown in occasionally with the normal cannon fodder silver ones, Ultra cool cylon base ships, A Cool Galactica that can handle a cylon attack better (every other week the landing bay got hit and they had to land somewhere else). Oh well....I hope it's good!
May be they had a reason for having it the way they do. Also, if you assume you KNOW IT ALL....you are probably mistaken. I will be the first to admit I don't know it all. Would you? I really HATE when someone calls in and tries to tell me what is wrong with my systems. It drives me crazy, especially when they call to tell me something is down (and I am working on it and here). The outsider assume's that they may know why something is the way it is. I get someone caling in that thinks they know everything trying to tell me what's wrong and it ends up being THEIR misconfiguration that causes what they see. Just because you think you know something (and what caused it) is wrong doesn't mean there is! There's more behind the scene that you may not know. They may have been in the process of installing a new router and were in the process of configuring it for the first time(make a change, put it in service to test, take it out....it's up so short of time when your doing this, it's not a security problem). Now this may not have been the case, but it could have been which may have caused that curt message. I, personally, think it's impolite to do something such as this especially if it's NOT your system. Now if you know someone on the other end (sounds like the person in question didn't, except for the friend's website), you could send a e-mail to the person you know. Remember, what you think may be going on may not be going on.
They are important to me and I even saw links that led to pages talking about them. Computers that are important to me:
Atari 8 bits (specifically the 800 XL, my First Personal Computer EVER!)
Apple ][ (who didn't play with one of these back in the late 70's and early 80's! I remember learning how to do animation on these....yeah it was blocky, but it was cool)
My Leading Edge 286 machine, my first IBM compatible (I loved this machine! I went through college with it! Leading Edge made great clones...where are they now? Biggest thing I remember about this machine was it was the heaviest computer I ever owned. Totally metal case and the keyboard could break a person's head open.).
Those were my early machine I messed with. Now I play with a Multiprise 2000 (S/390 machine), of course PC's, A couple Ultra 30's and maybe soon a RS/6000 server (for TSM at work). I work IN a computer room. All day, everyday. I see vestiges of computers like those on the minicomputer site in this room. When I was first hired, we had a ES/9000 machine, and several 486 based servers. We have come a long way. By the way, Xerox still uses PDP-11 chips in some of their printer controllers. I run a BIG Xerox 4890 printer and it has a PDP based controller. You thought 8 by 3 filenames were too short? Try 6 by 3's and you cannot change the extension, it must be some type that Xerox uses (FSL, FRM, LGO, JSL, JDL, PDE amongst the types....there are more, but those are the ones I use the most). I believe Xerox even uses some of the Alto like technology in their big printers as well. Their bigger machines use a interface VERY similar to what I saw in Pirates of the Silicon Valley, and other sources depicting those Alto's. Heck I even here that some traffic light manufacturers still use 8085 processors in their controllers. These are slowly changing. Xerox is starting to use Sun machines to run their printers (the above to Ultra 30's are controllers for DP-65's.). Things you wouldn't imagine using PC technology probably do now. Things are changing, but some of the old machines still are useful.
My guess for MIR splashdown is above. Too bad Mir and Alpha are probably too far apart to dock together because that would be a cool use of the extra hardware. It seems like a waste, to me, to not figure out a use for this stuff. It can't be all bad stuff. I guess it woul dprobably be too much of a logistical nightmare to get them to re-use these modules.
Well, not the Cappucino one, but with the espresso, figure out how to wire in a lcd and small (wince devices had a small keyboard) and you have a full, portable, very functional Linux system. What would ya use it for? PORTABLE MP3's! Will it support VBR? YOU BETCHA! Will it support higher then 128 KBps? YUP! I wouldn't mind having one for on the bus. With a wireless internet connection would make it even better. It's also faster then the Xybernaut!:) Hey I wonder if you can order the Xybernaut wrist Keyboard, and wrist LCD and make it work with this espresso machine!:)
Epson seems to have the best ones going right now. Especially since most Epson's are supported under gimp-print (what you want for photos under linux). It seems, right now, that they cooperate the best, but that could be changing with ESR at HP. I have always liked HP printers, but the newer ones are having a rougher time with support for Linux. Epson also has some of the best Large format printers too. Check out the linux printing website. for a list of supported printers. Most printers appearing here, but not on a distro's web site will eventually appear on a distro's HCL. If it isn't supported out of the box, you can find help getting it to work on here. Also, if you have a USB printer, check out the linux-usb website. There you can find out if you can even use the USB on linux. If it's supported under the parallel port, usually you can get it to work on usb also, but not always. Check here first. Quote from the big section of suggested printers on linuxprinting.org :
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Most of the medium format Styli, including the Photo 1270, (a 13x19 format CMYKcm printer), and the Stylus Colors 1520 and 3000 (both 17x22 CMYK printers) are supported well.
The Epson 2000P has preliminary support only; it doesn't work well yet. The large format printers (the 5000, 7000, 7500, 9000, 9500, etc) are not supported, although the 7500 may work soon.
Good luck!
Sorry! I can't think of ANYTHING that would be better. One thing I can tell you is that they have this stuff they advertised on TV...man I can't remember what it's called, but it has a littl eblack plastic scraper built into the bottle and a dropper. Put a couple drops of that stuff on the velcro and scrape with the scraper. After you get the majority of the stuff off, put a littl emore solution and scrap it off. Then, take a soft cloth and wipe it down with a appropriate cleaner. Good as new. I used this same stuff to take a glass mount antenna off of a leased car and it came off and the leasing company was non the wiser! Oh and this stuff was seen on TV too, so you might know what I mean!
YES! This is what I have spoke of MANY times. I used to have many co-workers who took up computers for only one reason: money. Now, I choose computer because I love them. If I could afford it, my house would be like Bill Gate's house, but not lame (pictures changing when a certain person walks into a room....ah, no thanks! It's a little cool, but lame because of what a person would have to wear/do to have it happen.). I WANT to walk around like a MIT guy with a computer display on his head. I would not CARE what people would think. I'd be the first to stand in line for a wearable computer (ahhh....would be so nice to have telesopic vision or a heads up display. Or when someone asks you a question, you quickly look it up on your HUD with your wireless broadband....:)). Computers ARE my life, after God and family. I could care less about having marble kitchen counter (while nice, they are not necessary). I would rather have a nice computer then a car! Besides, if I had a handheld, the bus would be better because I could read webpages instead of books. Why do I like them. I DON'T KNOW!:) I just do. Can I put them down? When I don't need them, I can. If my son needs me to do something for him, I do. Same goes for the wife. Also, the same goes when I am having non computer fun (watching TV or a movie or out for a family outing). The point is if you HATE your job, you won't do well. If you like it, you usually will do great!
Computers extend my memory. Computers remeber all of the stupid stuff I don't have to. Computers do all the stupid stuff I don't want to do. Example: I don't want to remember everyone's phone number in my department, nor do I have to thanks to the computer. I Don't LIKE to do taxes by hand, what does it? A computer. Does that mean my memory has gon to pot? Nope! I remember weird stuff like how to get out of a current recurrent bug in Linux or at work on a computer until it's fixed. I remember things like my son's birthday, my wife's birthday, our anniversary, my dad's birthday and all of my family's b-days. Now quick, ask me what year! I have NO idea when my dad was born. To me, no matter how old he is he will be dad. I remember things that MATTER. Why should I remember how some obscure command works when I always have a reference and when I look at said command it lights up in my head and I say BINGO! Books, computers and calculators are extension of my mind and help me think and analyse better. I guess that means anlysis is more important than rote learning huh? (They finally get it eh?:))
The point is that it's ZERO cost. Because the manufacturer has to charge nothing for the OS means, to me anyway, is that they can include better hardware becuase they do not have to actively work too hard on the OS. It also means they don't have to pay X amount of dollars to Microsoft or Palm. All they might have to do is write a few apps and that's it.
I wanted to post what I thought of Fisher already. It's pretty good, although a bit early to determine stability (ask me in a few days.). The GNOME install is fairly new. It even included Sawfish 0.36 which just came out recently. The firewall configuration on install is cool, especially since I am not experienced. The installer has a slightly revised look. There are a few missing applets from the install (like GnomeICU and a few others), but nothign major. X configured just fine with Anaconda. Kernel 2.4 installs by default. Version number assigned was 7.0.90. Mozilla 0.7 is included also. So far, I have yet to need to download much of anything. I haven't even downloaded Ximian GNOME yet. KDE still is annoying to me, so I am a GNOMER. KDE's arts just doesn't work for me (esound works fine, as well as the OSS stuff). To me, an OS without sound, is, well a bad one. Now, my sound issues may be related to the hacked up driver I have to use on my Vortex card. Hopefully Creative will bring out new drivers. Else, I may have to get a Creative Live card. Anyone else get the problem with arts stuttering like crazy when playing sound? Anyway, good job redhat! 2.4 rules!
I don't think so. Look, I know JUST as many people who worked HARD for their Tech Pluses as some who worked for their Extra's. I personally would look no different on Extras who were a 20 wpm extra or a 5 wpm extra and the same should go for the Security stiff with BIND. Yeah, you get some idiots when it's easier to get a license or to become part of a group, but sometimes, just sometimes, even the idiots have good ideas.
Only because that 31337 sub-culture will not "train" the script kiddies (be they ham radio jammers, or real script kiddies) from knowing right from wrong. I am sorry, but this ticks me off. I am a ham radio operator. I do not think that with the current rules, ham radio has gone down hill. Only reason it may have is because the elitest CW'ers think you should always learn old stuff before you can talk on HF phone. That's just BS. What does having to know CW have to do with talking on 10 m phone? NOTHING! What does it have to do with knowing how to setup a good antenna system? Nothing! Does not having to do anything but 5 wpm make it easier to become a Extra Class ham? I don't think so. CW is a mode of operation and nothing more. You should not have to learn how to use a specific mode before you even want/need to use it. YOu can carp about emergency preparedness all you want, but with computers getting smaller all of the time, whose to say they can't build a decoder right in a rig for decoding and sending CW? CW can be done better and even faster then 20 wpm by a computer. End of story. Sorry I rambled, but here's more on the topic:
This is a bad move, no matter where you stand. Security by obscurity doesn't work. A good example is the ramen worm deal. When I heard about it, I was already patched. I was concerned, but not too concerned because I apply patches as soon as they are available like any good sysadmin should! By obscuring the problem a script kiddie can already have exploited the problem before I find out and that's bad! Also, if there is a problem and you know it but don't know how to fix it, by publishing it, you might have an attack, but then again you might get hit by a slew of patches fixing it. A system can only be more secure by having more eyes look at the code and more eyes that know there's a problem with the code looking for it.
According to the e-mail about the beta, you need a updated boot disk to install Fisher if you have a floppy and a zip drive. They say the install will fail if you have that combo. They give a like to the bootdisk image, but, however, it's incorrect. The correct links here. Fix this up Red Hat! You also better fix da CD too before ya go to 7.1!!:)
While I like Linux as much as the next geek, I do realize that companies such as Red Hat, SuSE and the other distros don't have a way to truely generate REAL money yet. I think that Eazel has something, but they need to get the software done, and then work on the money stuff. Get companies involved. Make it easy to buy stuff from Nautilus. Red Hat has something too, but I think that they need something more. Maybe turn into a hardware company? IBM will be there even if everyone stopped using Linux right now. They have stuff they can use in place that works just fine, but costs real money.
The future of a Linux company will lie in 2 areas. Embedded systems is a match made in heaven. PDA's, Printers (linux and print server built in) and set top devices are places where Linux can work not because it's easy, but because it's free! The complexities can be covered up, and the only thing the company has to write is the interface code and any other code (which can be closed source) necessary to make the thing work. Just look at Tivo for a good example.
The other place it will be in the future is in typical servers AND desktops, with a manufacturer specific distro ala VA Linux. Doesn't take a math major to figure that one out. Hmm, lessee, do I want to pay MS or someone else 100's of bucks for an OS or do my own Linux distro for free? G let me think...:)
I wish the best for the distro companies, and I wish a few will stay around. In a short time, there may not be so many commercial (non hardware) distros any more. Fear not though, there will always be Debian!
What if they all do die? Does that mean Linux is dead? Not hardly. Someone else will pick it up.
Man. I will remember that day forever. I was a freshman in High School, in Algebra class. We were all excited that the shuttle was going up with Christa that day. We weren't watching it at the time, but a knock came at our door, the teacher went to answer it, and we heard the teacher exclaim "What? The shuttle blew up?" The whole class did a collective sucking in of air, and because every classroom had a TV (morning TV show instead of announcements at my school), the teacher switched it on and we saw the big cloud with the snakes coming out from the rocket boosters. I watched agast the rest of the day. School may as well been effectively cancelled that day, but we all stayed and every class in the whole building watched the coverage. We'd all be talking "I can see a parachute", or "maybe someone could have lived", but I knew in my heart, it was gone along with everyone on board. I went home, and I had some homework to do, but my heart wasn't in it. I cried for two hours when I got home. You see, Challenger was special to me, because it was first launched om my birthday. I have a hat with the mission patch on it from one of the missions (maybe not the first mission, but it was one of the first missions) that I still have to this day.
Now, the whole crew is in heaven approving of NASA's current decisions.
We CAN'T be anything like we were back during Apollo and the early shuttle days. Even if there's a snowball's chance in you know where of something happening, if there's any chance of a critical failure resuliting in the loss of crew and craft, we should take it seriously. I applaud NASA for it's current efforts.
What CAN be done now, is we can finally get around to designing a craft that can take off in adverse conditions safely. Can it be done? I don't know. Maybe. Should it be done? If it's possible, we should do it. Then, maybe, we can resume a schedule similar to what we had back in the eighties of a launch a month.
Me and a friend were talking about portable pc's and I said it's was too bad that Apple dropped Newton because they really had something there. They had most of what the pocket pc's have today, but about 5 years ago. Only if they could have done something about the size. I thought the last newton was good in size but still kind of on the big side. I think the Palms were out then. They killed the Newton in the portablity race. Now, if they would not have killed it, they could have redesigned it, they would have killed palm.
I don't know how much truth there may be to this rumour, but I saw here a mockup of something that could be called the Apple iPad. I can't tell if it's fake or not (I guess it could be a fake). Either way it's a neat idea! Now I saw a pic that looked like it came from the same web site (same kind of style of pic) that looked similar to the Titanium G4 Powerbook. The pic was out BEFORE Macworld. Maybe this might be the next one more thing from Jobs...:)
This article is too alarmist. I would rather Linus take as much time as he and the other people need to get things right then for them to release too early. This is the way it should be. Where I work we have a system going into production on Monday and the only reason it's been done is to satisfy the politicos. It's not ready, the developers know it, but they are forced to do what's required especially since it mostly works anyway (except they have never had a chance to test it under load yet....heh heh). Monday will be hell for me because of this. Managers should NEVER have the final say on when something is ready. I see Linus as a informed manager. Informed mangers, or managers who know what they are managing, can maked good decisions. I would have even like to have seen Linus wait even longer then he did, but it was his decision to say it's good and not mine or yours. I already knew it was good because I was running it. The beauty of open source is if something's not quite there it's YOUR choice to run it. Unlike when Microsoft foists something upon us in a package update or service pack promising that it's better. At least when you update a kernel on Linux you can keep the old one around unlike when Microsoft does this. Noone is FORCING IBM to run a specific kernel or anything like that. In fact, IBM is helping to improve the kernel by pouring resources into it (programmers).
I thought I saw this on here before. I guess not. I did a quick search, but this is the only China Maglev on Slashdot, but I did here about the China Maglev train before. Saw it somewhere (maybe Reuters or Yahoo) before today.
The only way I know of to assure that you can get broadband anything in BFE is to get a dish. I am not sure if DirectPC is 2 way yet (still had to use a modem for the uplink portion), but it seems to me that's the only way to avoid a dial up.
I know it might be off topic, but your interpretation of this FAI rule sounds dumb. If you are using a device and software to take measurements for indicating a world record, why would you NOT want the software to be public anyway? If it's closed, how can one repeat the same experiment??? Am I the only one that thinks this makes no sense?
Also, who says you can't call a open source (GPL or LGPL) library with a proprietary program? Netscape does it all the time and it's closed. So does alot of other programs. Heck Oracle is as closed source as can be yet they use a open source resource (namely, the kernel(only one I can be positive about)!). Doesn't all closed source programs running on Linux use something that's GPL'D?? Your FAI example doesn't make alot of sense. You said the PROTOCOLS must be closed. Why does the program that produces the graph have to be closed?? It's not the protocol right???
Get a optical mouse and a good chair. The chair is what's going to help the RSI. I frankly think the trackball promotes more RSI then a mouse. Just think your thumb is repeating that movement alot more then your hand doing things on the mouse. Get that chair where the keyboard is split and attached to the arms and has a moveable platform for mouseing. The only thing better then a mouse, in my opinion, is a track point. You can even get a trackpoint integrated into a plain IBM keyboard (sorry don't know the part number from IBM).
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They can still do this with the iso's. Listen, they are NOT going to make money any more by selling the CD's unless:
1. There is SIGNIFICANT non-free software with the box. If a box had Word Perfect or some other non-GPL software, it would be a better buy then the iso.
2. They close the source....which they CAN'T do!
Also, I have noticed that up2date or the redhat network will allow you to download packages even if you are not a member. Debian, being a non-profit entity, will never charge access fees for apt. Therefore, it's still better. Nick brings up a EXCELLENT point about apt in that when Stormix shut their servers down, he can just point it at Debian's servers and still be ok. If Red Hat goes belly up, RPM will probably die, unless someone else picks it up. Also, RPM's database can too easily get corrupted by forcing installs which can be and usually is necessary, plus most bigger projects like KDE doesn't post a order of installation(at least they didn't last I checked), so you almost have to force the install to get everything going unless you know the order. Red Carpet by the Ximian folks is great and will allow a conduit for them to make money if they ever release some closed source stuff, or they can get money from a closed developer to allow them to put a channel in red carpet to let people buy their software thru it. and Red Carpet is INFINTELY better then Eazel's stuff (Eazel is limited to what's on Eazel's servers now, plus server reliability is lacking!).
I also might add that it's EASY to upgrade a kernel with APT and dpkg. Just grab the kernel-package and the kernel source deb you want, build the kernel deb with a one line command using make-kpkg. This builds a deb including the kernel and kernel modules. When you use dpkg to install it, it will even run lilo for you. (I think! I only did it once, but all I remembered was that it was MUCH easier!). One time I did a RPM kernel upgrade and RPM didn't edit lilo.conf or run lilo (was I supposed to? Did up2date remind me? no!, but Red Carpet didn't either though...) and I was unable to boot. Sure, I could have fixed it, but after futzing with it for too long I said screw it it takes less time to re-install, and this was a new install so I didn't loose anything....isn't this why we are trying to AVOID Windows??? Debian has it right.
Yeah your right. Galactica 1980 really blew. Two guys in street clothes on gay motorcycles. CMON! What happened to the Vipers! I just hope the new show has these things in it: New Vipers (Multiple variants, keep the tri engine for history....), Cylons (Especially the cool Gold ones every once in a while thrown in occasionally with the normal cannon fodder silver ones, Ultra cool cylon base ships, A Cool Galactica that can handle a cylon attack better (every other week the landing bay got hit and they had to land somewhere else). Oh well....I hope it's good!
May be they had a reason for having it the way they do. Also, if you assume you KNOW IT ALL....you are probably mistaken. I will be the first to admit I don't know it all. Would you? I really HATE when someone calls in and tries to tell me what is wrong with my systems. It drives me crazy, especially when they call to tell me something is down (and I am working on it and here). The outsider assume's that they may know why something is the way it is. I get someone caling in that thinks they know everything trying to tell me what's wrong and it ends up being THEIR misconfiguration that causes what they see. Just because you think you know something (and what caused it) is wrong doesn't mean there is! There's more behind the scene that you may not know. They may have been in the process of installing a new router and were in the process of configuring it for the first time(make a change, put it in service to test, take it out....it's up so short of time when your doing this, it's not a security problem). Now this may not have been the case, but it could have been which may have caused that curt message. I, personally, think it's impolite to do something such as this especially if it's NOT your system. Now if you know someone on the other end (sounds like the person in question didn't, except for the friend's website), you could send a e-mail to the person you know. Remember, what you think may be going on may not be going on.
Atari 8 bits (specifically the 800 XL, my First Personal Computer EVER!)
Apple ][ (who didn't play with one of these back in the late 70's and early 80's! I remember learning how to do animation on these....yeah it was blocky, but it was cool)
My Leading Edge 286 machine, my first IBM compatible (I loved this machine! I went through college with it! Leading Edge made great clones...where are they now? Biggest thing I remember about this machine was it was the heaviest computer I ever owned. Totally metal case and the keyboard could break a person's head open.).
Those were my early machine I messed with. Now I play with a Multiprise 2000 (S/390 machine), of course PC's, A couple Ultra 30's and maybe soon a RS/6000 server (for TSM at work). I work IN a computer room. All day, everyday. I see vestiges of computers like those on the minicomputer site in this room. When I was first hired, we had a ES/9000 machine, and several 486 based servers. We have come a long way. By the way, Xerox still uses PDP-11 chips in some of their printer controllers. I run a BIG Xerox 4890 printer and it has a PDP based controller. You thought 8 by 3 filenames were too short? Try 6 by 3's and you cannot change the extension, it must be some type that Xerox uses (FSL, FRM, LGO, JSL, JDL, PDE amongst the types....there are more, but those are the ones I use the most). I believe Xerox even uses some of the Alto like technology in their big printers as well. Their bigger machines use a interface VERY similar to what I saw in Pirates of the Silicon Valley, and other sources depicting those Alto's. Heck I even here that some traffic light manufacturers still use 8085 processors in their controllers. These are slowly changing. Xerox is starting to use Sun machines to run their printers (the above to Ultra 30's are controllers for DP-65's.). Things you wouldn't imagine using PC technology probably do now. Things are changing, but some of the old machines still are useful.
My guess for MIR splashdown is above. Too bad Mir and Alpha are probably too far apart to dock together because that would be a cool use of the extra hardware. It seems like a waste, to me, to not figure out a use for this stuff. It can't be all bad stuff. I guess it woul dprobably be too much of a logistical nightmare to get them to re-use these modules.
Well, not the Cappucino one, but with the espresso, figure out how to wire in a lcd and small (wince devices had a small keyboard) and you have a full, portable, very functional Linux system. What would ya use it for? PORTABLE MP3's! Will it support VBR? YOU BETCHA! Will it support higher then 128 KBps? YUP! I wouldn't mind having one for on the bus. With a wireless internet connection would make it even better. It's also faster then the Xybernaut! :) Hey I wonder if you can order the Xybernaut wrist Keyboard, and wrist LCD and make it work with this espresso machine! :)
Rebates suck. How come thy just can't lower the price?? Makes sense to me. That's why I like when Micro Center offers the instant rebates.
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Most of the medium format Styli, including the Photo 1270, (a 13x19 format CMYKcm printer), and the Stylus Colors 1520 and 3000 (both 17x22 CMYK printers) are supported well. The Epson 2000P has preliminary support only; it doesn't work well yet. The large format printers (the 5000, 7000, 7500, 9000, 9500, etc) are not supported, although the 7500 may work soon. Good luck!
Sorry! I can't think of ANYTHING that would be better. One thing I can tell you is that they have this stuff they advertised on TV ...man I can't remember what it's called, but it has a littl eblack plastic scraper built into the bottle and a dropper. Put a couple drops of that stuff on the velcro and scrape with the scraper. After you get the majority of the stuff off, put a littl emore solution and scrap it off. Then, take a soft cloth and wipe it down with a appropriate cleaner. Good as new. I used this same stuff to take a glass mount antenna off of a leased car and it came off and the leasing company was non the wiser! Oh and this stuff was seen on TV too, so you might know what I mean!
YES! This is what I have spoke of MANY times. I used to have many co-workers who took up computers for only one reason: money. Now, I choose computer because I love them. If I could afford it, my house would be like Bill Gate's house, but not lame (pictures changing when a certain person walks into a room....ah, no thanks! It's a little cool, but lame because of what a person would have to wear/do to have it happen.). I WANT to walk around like a MIT guy with a computer display on his head. I would not CARE what people would think. I'd be the first to stand in line for a wearable computer (ahhh....would be so nice to have telesopic vision or a heads up display. Or when someone asks you a question, you quickly look it up on your HUD with your wireless broadband.... :)). Computers ARE my life, after God and family. I could care less about having marble kitchen counter (while nice, they are not necessary). I would rather have a nice computer then a car! Besides, if I had a handheld, the bus would be better because I could read webpages instead of books. Why do I like them. I DON'T KNOW! :) I just do. Can I put them down? When I don't need them, I can. If my son needs me to do something for him, I do. Same goes for the wife. Also, the same goes when I am having non computer fun (watching TV or a movie or out for a family outing). The point is if you HATE your job, you won't do well. If you like it, you usually will do great!
Computers extend my memory. Computers remeber all of the stupid stuff I don't have to. Computers do all the stupid stuff I don't want to do. Example: I don't want to remember everyone's phone number in my department, nor do I have to thanks to the computer. I Don't LIKE to do taxes by hand, what does it? A computer. Does that mean my memory has gon to pot? Nope! I remember weird stuff like how to get out of a current recurrent bug in Linux or at work on a computer until it's fixed. I remember things like my son's birthday, my wife's birthday, our anniversary, my dad's birthday and all of my family's b-days. Now quick, ask me what year! I have NO idea when my dad was born. To me, no matter how old he is he will be dad. I remember things that MATTER. Why should I remember how some obscure command works when I always have a reference and when I look at said command it lights up in my head and I say BINGO! Books, computers and calculators are extension of my mind and help me think and analyse better. I guess that means anlysis is more important than rote learning huh? (They finally get it eh? :))
The point is that it's ZERO cost. Because the manufacturer has to charge nothing for the OS means, to me anyway, is that they can include better hardware becuase they do not have to actively work too hard on the OS. It also means they don't have to pay X amount of dollars to Microsoft or Palm. All they might have to do is write a few apps and that's it.
I wanted to post what I thought of Fisher already. It's pretty good, although a bit early to determine stability (ask me in a few days.). The GNOME install is fairly new. It even included Sawfish 0.36 which just came out recently. The firewall configuration on install is cool, especially since I am not experienced. The installer has a slightly revised look. There are a few missing applets from the install (like GnomeICU and a few others), but nothign major. X configured just fine with Anaconda. Kernel 2.4 installs by default. Version number assigned was 7.0.90. Mozilla 0.7 is included also. So far, I have yet to need to download much of anything. I haven't even downloaded Ximian GNOME yet. KDE still is annoying to me, so I am a GNOMER. KDE's arts just doesn't work for me (esound works fine, as well as the OSS stuff). To me, an OS without sound, is, well a bad one. Now, my sound issues may be related to the hacked up driver I have to use on my Vortex card. Hopefully Creative will bring out new drivers. Else, I may have to get a Creative Live card. Anyone else get the problem with arts stuttering like crazy when playing sound? Anyway, good job redhat! 2.4 rules!
I don't think so. Look, I know JUST as many people who worked HARD for their Tech Pluses as some who worked for their Extra's. I personally would look no different on Extras who were a 20 wpm extra or a 5 wpm extra and the same should go for the Security stiff with BIND. Yeah, you get some idiots when it's easier to get a license or to become part of a group, but sometimes, just sometimes, even the idiots have good ideas.
This is a bad move, no matter where you stand. Security by obscurity doesn't work. A good example is the ramen worm deal. When I heard about it, I was already patched. I was concerned, but not too concerned because I apply patches as soon as they are available like any good sysadmin should! By obscuring the problem a script kiddie can already have exploited the problem before I find out and that's bad! Also, if there is a problem and you know it but don't know how to fix it, by publishing it, you might have an attack, but then again you might get hit by a slew of patches fixing it. A system can only be more secure by having more eyes look at the code and more eyes that know there's a problem with the code looking for it.
According to the e-mail about the beta, you need a updated boot disk to install Fisher if you have a floppy and a zip drive. They say the install will fail if you have that combo. They give a like to the bootdisk image, but, however, it's incorrect. The correct links here. Fix this up Red Hat! You also better fix da CD too before ya go to 7.1!! :)
The future of a Linux company will lie in 2 areas. Embedded systems is a match made in heaven. PDA's, Printers (linux and print server built in) and set top devices are places where Linux can work not because it's easy, but because it's free! The complexities can be covered up, and the only thing the company has to write is the interface code and any other code (which can be closed source) necessary to make the thing work. Just look at Tivo for a good example.
The other place it will be in the future is in typical servers AND desktops, with a manufacturer specific distro ala VA Linux. Doesn't take a math major to figure that one out. Hmm, lessee, do I want to pay MS or someone else 100's of bucks for an OS or do my own Linux distro for free? G let me think... :)
I wish the best for the distro companies, and I wish a few will stay around. In a short time, there may not be so many commercial (non hardware) distros any more. Fear not though, there will always be Debian!
What if they all do die? Does that mean Linux is dead? Not hardly. Someone else will pick it up.
We CAN'T be anything like we were back during Apollo and the early shuttle days. Even if there's a snowball's chance in you know where of something happening, if there's any chance of a critical failure resuliting in the loss of crew and craft, we should take it seriously. I applaud NASA for it's current efforts.
What CAN be done now, is we can finally get around to designing a craft that can take off in adverse conditions safely. Can it be done? I don't know. Maybe. Should it be done? If it's possible, we should do it. Then, maybe, we can resume a schedule similar to what we had back in the eighties of a launch a month.
Live on Challenger Crew. IN our hopes and dreams.
I don't know how much truth there may be to this rumour, but I saw here a mockup of something that could be called the Apple iPad. I can't tell if it's fake or not (I guess it could be a fake). Either way it's a neat idea! Now I saw a pic that looked like it came from the same web site (same kind of style of pic) that looked similar to the Titanium G4 Powerbook. The pic was out BEFORE Macworld. Maybe this might be the next one more thing from Jobs... :)
This article is too alarmist. I would rather Linus take as much time as he and the other people need to get things right then for them to release too early. This is the way it should be. Where I work we have a system going into production on Monday and the only reason it's been done is to satisfy the politicos. It's not ready, the developers know it, but they are forced to do what's required especially since it mostly works anyway (except they have never had a chance to test it under load yet....heh heh). Monday will be hell for me because of this. Managers should NEVER have the final say on when something is ready. I see Linus as a informed manager. Informed mangers, or managers who know what they are managing, can maked good decisions. I would have even like to have seen Linus wait even longer then he did, but it was his decision to say it's good and not mine or yours. I already knew it was good because I was running it. The beauty of open source is if something's not quite there it's YOUR choice to run it. Unlike when Microsoft foists something upon us in a package update or service pack promising that it's better. At least when you update a kernel on Linux you can keep the old one around unlike when Microsoft does this. Noone is FORCING IBM to run a specific kernel or anything like that. In fact, IBM is helping to improve the kernel by pouring resources into it (programmers).
I thought I saw this on here before. I guess not. I did a quick search, but this is the only China Maglev on Slashdot, but I did here about the China Maglev train before. Saw it somewhere (maybe Reuters or Yahoo) before today.
The only way I know of to assure that you can get broadband anything in BFE is to get a dish. I am not sure if DirectPC is 2 way yet (still had to use a modem for the uplink portion), but it seems to me that's the only way to avoid a dial up.
Also, who says you can't call a open source (GPL or LGPL) library with a proprietary program? Netscape does it all the time and it's closed. So does alot of other programs. Heck Oracle is as closed source as can be yet they use a open source resource (namely, the kernel(only one I can be positive about)!). Doesn't all closed source programs running on Linux use something that's GPL'D?? Your FAI example doesn't make alot of sense. You said the PROTOCOLS must be closed. Why does the program that produces the graph have to be closed?? It's not the protocol right???
Get a optical mouse and a good chair. The chair is what's going to help the RSI. I frankly think the trackball promotes more RSI then a mouse. Just think your thumb is repeating that movement alot more then your hand doing things on the mouse. Get that chair where the keyboard is split and attached to the arms and has a moveable platform for mouseing. The only thing better then a mouse, in my opinion, is a track point. You can even get a trackpoint integrated into a plain IBM keyboard (sorry don't know the part number from IBM).
Bail....your family and your well being comes WAYYYYY before your friends and co-workers.