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.
But could this change be the thing hodling the Debian project from including Helixcode Gnome in their Distro?? According to the list there was some copyright issues....
Yeah they are kewl! Not to mention they have time travleing abilities (That's for CmdrTaco). Penguins are the thing when your in a situation we were in last week. No friggin water in our building. Had to trek to another building for water. Not to mention it was freakin cold too!
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You wrote: Every font is anti-aliased, as are many of the lines, etc.
How can you guys tell that this stuff is anti-aliased?? I personally, from the screenshot, can't tell. Remember, screenshots can be doctored because they are just another image file. On the other hand, it wouldn't surprise me one bit if I saw anti-aliasing in both this and X in all of the new 2.4 distros bound to be coming RSN since 2.4 is out!
Amen! My wife thinks that the government or an employer can do anything they want to you. What I mean by this is things like take our kid away (saying we abused him even though we know he has a medical problem, but what that problem is, we don't know). Firing you for no reason. Things like that. Sure, they CAN do those things to you if you LET them. If you speak your mind and read the constitution, then you might just get what you want! If you vote every election (not just the presidential elections either.....there are ALWAYS important issues on the ballots every election.), you might get what you want. I say might. Remmeber, this is somewhat of a democracy (it's not a true democracy no matter what Al Gore says. If it was, then we'd have no electoral college, we'd have no appointments whatsoever). To those who THINK you have no freedoms, you better REALLY look at the country you want to move in. If you REALLY do, you will probably discover you ain't so bad off here. You see the government is supposed to be us. If you stand by and let others take over, well, then it's YOUR fault the country went down the crapper. SPEAK your mind. Let the president know you WANT encryption, the right to bear arms, lower taxes and free (as in speech) software!
Oh and how many of you have e-mailed the president, or the VP?? HMM??? Yeah, some flunky does read them but there's power in numbers. If the vocal minority speaks out and the majority sits on their hands, then who becomes the minority then??
Oh and how many of you ever contested what a company has done to you? I have e-mailed CEO's before and gotten things changed! It's time for the majority to quit sitting on your hands!
Man I wish I could have seen the inside of my son when they did this to him. The camera they used to do this was ULTRA cool. The only neater thing was an EEG he had done. That was actually using a PC for recording the brain waves. And, it ran DOS! (I about fell over when I saw that).
Well, I agree, some problems will come up, but with Linux, except with one group (the kernel developers are the group I speak of Thank God!), the developers (one which I am not yet, but am trying to think of something to do) will stop working on the old stuff once it works once, and when a change is made elsewhere and it breaks the old stuff, the old stuff never gets fixed and just gets a work around. Sounds like some big developer out there that begins with a M right??:) Case in point, look which 3D cards are supported. 3dfx, GeForce, ATI Rage and with 4.0.2 Radeon and a few others, but what about 3Dlabs (for 3d NOT 2d stuff...2d never has been the problem). All of the sexy stuff gets work, and not enough of the lamo boring stuff. That's not JUST Linux either. Microsoft and Windows Developers are just as guilty. Granted, with Linux, I have been able to get most of my stuff work, but it wasn't easy. If we ever want more exposure, and legitimacy, Linux needs a desktop distro to succeed. Also, for the distro people, PLEASE scale down the amount of apps. Noone needs 4-5 terminal emulation programs in the distro. Now if they want em, they can download em which is fine. If you still see a need to include these, ASK the user in the install which one he wants and have a little info about each if they need more info. That way, the user can kill the distro bloat before it even hits the hard disk.
Yeah but how many Xterm clients do you need? Surveying freshmeat, here's how many I came up with:
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Also, there seem to be ALOT of different versions of solitare, one for every toolkit. If you are installing Gnome or KDE, why would you need a tk one? Only reason I can think of is of the gtk+ one or the qt one sucks! The distros need to decide which terminal they want or which MUA they want or just choose a freakin standard. If I don't like it, I will do one of two things, first, download the one I want and install it, or pick the distro that has the one I want. I have, personally never understood terminal emulators that have pixmapped backgrounds and stuff like that. The pixmap makes things hard to read!:) one thing I do like is transparent terminals. Just change the frame in sawfish or your wm de jour and resize it and fit a couple terms on the desk to do anything you want (I seen a couple screen shots of someone running a script in the window that was checking his e-mail on various servers...much better then the panel or kicker e-mail checkers....). I do like that there are alot of apps on the disk, but lets be honest, how many solitare games do you need? How many versions of minesweeper do you need? One of each is enough for anyone.
Hmm....while I agree with you on some point, I disagree on others. X-windows setup should be easy period. This is my main problem with some (not all) Linux users is that some think everything is easy because it went easy for them. Let me tell you as nice a distro Red Hat is for people who have never had the experience of Linux, it's lauded graphical install doesn't always get things right (I am not talking about 6.1, I am talking 7.0!). Granted, the problem may be in Xfree86 it self since I am using 4.0.1, but, to me, if something isn't stable it should not be included in the base install. Debian does nto do this. Heck if I had a machine I can totally dedicate to Linuc, Debian would be the distro I pick (Woody is too unstable now for me to dedicate a machine to use everyday, but it's getting close!:)) It doesn't bother ME to fix the installers error, but it would bother my Mom, which is why she's still using Windows. The error I am speaking of is that I have yet to see a distro configure my card correctly on Xfree86 4.0.1. I have a Permedia 2v and there's a problem in the server in that it will over drive the monitor (thankfully my monitor has protection from this, but I still don't like it when it does it) and that's when the HW_cursor option is on. You have to force the HW_cursor off in the setup and force the SW_cursor on to fix this. If it hadn't been that I have been using Linux for a while with 3.3.6, I had never would have found the mail list on Xfree86, I'd have gone to Red Hat, and I have never seen anything like this in their Knowledge Base. This is a plus and a minus for Linux. The plus is that I had a problem, and because of mail lists and the internet I was able to find my problem. Score 100 points for Open Source!! The bad part is, is that there is NO documentation of this except in the mail list logs. Some might say well it's on Bugzilla and I say so, it should be listed in the docs on how to set the card up. This is WHY even when someone who is pretty savvy about computers trys Linux, it takes them 6 hours to find the freaking bug that ends up being a easy fix. Telling them to try Red Hat is NOT a solution.
Here's my attempt. Show him Linux. Show him how C, C++, Java and Assembly (maybe show him assembly first). If he IS a prodigy, he'll run with it and we'll have another programmer working on Open Source. Teach him the VALUE of code and not that people will pay him lots of money for his programs. Teach him to do things right and to release code only when it's time. It's kids like this that can make computers better.
That's what we run. Big magnastar tape library (well, R2D2 sized anyway) with a RS/6000 server for running the TSM software on AIX. All of our servers backup to a RAID array, then at scheduled times, the RAID will be backup by tape. In an ideal situation which we don't have you'd have one generation on the RAID, and 2-3 on tape, at least one of which would be offsite. Right now we don't have enough tape to do it. It's spiffy once we get enough tape. It also has a client for almost every OS imagineable, even Linux and Windows included! As it stands now, we need to get another library to hold the tapes because we were already short and we just add 36 GB of expandable SAN from EMC! Those are going to be the main application volumes for the servers just installed. Each server only has one disk in a non raid stiuation (nothing of value is on that drive, just the boot code), which will probably be backed up to tsm as well. Big tapes ARE coming and they aren't all bad so far as access time. If you want REAL good access time and tape, the AIT tapes are the way to go. From what I understand, they have a chip which stores a Table Of Contents. It also has the location of each file on tape. So all the drive has to do is zip to the section on the tape, and read the file. It doesn't have to read the whole tape to find the file.
My boss went to a IBM storage demo in Vegas to see their new tech and one of the IBM guys said in a short time(meaning RSN!), they are going to have a drive that can write 40 TB to one tape! That's COOL!
Correct! Mainframes have had RAID LONG before PC's and servers. RAID is only good for HARDWARE failures. This is why a drive can fail and we stick a new one in using hot swapable drive and you can just insert another drive and it handles the problem. A lightning strike WILL take out not only your RAID array, but the server as well. Lightning can affect you even if you are on conditioned UPS power, but usually nothing as severe as just running on a surge protector. Usually it would just kick powerchute or whatever your using and have it down the machine, but it's still an inconvenience. Tape backups are still the cheapest way of off site storage. Things are impoving though. With end to end broad band connections, some installations are using a mirroring type system where the remote system will mirror your system over IP or a secure T1. This way all you'd have to do is get the new system built, then connect and restore all of the data, or if your really fancy you never went down anyway even if the main center took a hit (automatically cut over to the hot site).
Apple is STUPID! I can understand if someone was using their logo(one did, so that's ok but the aqua ones did not), but haven't they learned that Look and Feel stuff doesn't fly? anyone remember Apple trying to sue Microsoft?? What's so HIGH tech about a pixmapped gumdrops??
I was wondering if anyone was going to catch that! If you are too freaking lazy and only code web pages that 95% of the people in the world can't read, then HOW is this going to help Linux?? I hate to say this but until we get a perfect world(never happen), you should at least TRY to be accomodating to ALL browsers. Remember, some Linux folk are stuck using Windows at work by corporate standard.
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G this sounds real great and all, but when the equivalent can be done with the Aiwa, and other devices in concert, why spend the money? If I wanted to spend that much I can have more then just AM/FM, MP3 and RDS. I could have GPS display (maybe someday when a map program for Linux is available, I could actually use something other then windows.), I can have AM/FM, TV and DVD (passenger only), internet (again passenger only) and the base system, not counting wireless internet cost, would cost LESS the 999 (if u find a cheap LCD source, if not, a bit more the 999). The EMPEG, for all it is and as cool it is, just does not impress me for the cost!
Yes but do you have to really have that even? The ideal answer would be yes. But I don't think you'd need it to be perfectly identical either. You can just deal with the problems later. People freak out and act like this is a real serious problem (yeah, it is a problem, but nothing to panic about...) when it just isn't!
Yeah, the installer may not run, (have to have someway for the distro to pick the right kernel), but big deal! Just use another machine to run the install on with similar equipment (everything except motherboard and CPU from your new P4 installed in a new PII or PIII system). Once installed, put the HD back into the P4 system and your running Linux on the P4. I know there WAS a SMP bug or something in that AC fixed, but AFAIK, it is fixed in later releases(2.2.18), and the P4 has no SMP systems just yet. The article should be updated to indicate that it's the installer that will choke, and not Linux in general.
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AND it has a radio too! Looks like with EMPEG you'd have to ditch radio for the sake of lost of MP3's. Radio is good sometimes (like trying to figure out what's causing the traffic jam infront of you.).
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Just do what I did! Go shopping for yourself (well kind of sort of). My wife knew that I wanted a CD-RW drive, so she let me buy the one I wanted. As it is, we never get time to oursleves anyway (any time we are out, we are usually together...one car, I ride the bus to work which means all I do is go to and form work, no stopping on the way home.). My wife then bought herself something nice. All we care about is seeing our 20 month old's eyes light up with the lights on the tree and the gift Santa just got for him under the tree. That's enough for us! We get gifts, but we don't have to open them!:)
Yeah I want one, but not cuz they look cool in the Matrix. I want one because they'd be warm!
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Speaking of DA MINTS, I found a source here in the US where I would not have to wait for them, and I can pick them up ANY time of day, any day, except Christmas Day. That would be Meijer! At least the one I go to here in Ohio carries them. If they don't at yours, ASK! I find it IS possible ot get them if you can get enough people asking the management about them, which is probably why they have them at our store. Meijer managers LOVE satisfying the customer. They are also around $2.50 a box too! I save shipping and 50 cents a tine to boot! I get them every week!:)
Try to reinvent something? Does it need reinvented? Maybe. WIMP GUI interfaces will be around for a LONG time. Why do some computer people, or marketing execs insist that learning how to use a computer is hard?? It's easy once you know it! If someone is too timid, or quiet that they do not ask for help with their mega super de duper computer right after they first buy one, then TUFF! Is a pencil intuitive? What if you have never seen a pencil before? I look at my 20 month old son and he still has problems coloring, or learning how to move his crayon across the paper (he's a little behind in development, but heck he's not even 2 yet!). A baby has never seen a pencil before, has to be taught how to use it just the same as he will one day be taught how to use a computer. Maybe it will have a super de duper LEET interface like.NYET, or maybe it will be a os that has a command line yet ( LINUX LINUX LINUX!! ). Point is, if someone has no initiative to learn the current interfaces, then what makes us, or the media think they will want to learn the new interfaces?? Why is it when some people get to some ages that they think they never have to learn another thing in their life to be productive? I have accepted that I will be a life long learner, it's about time that others accept it as well.
I am not saything there is not anything wrong with the new stuff, I am just saying that the old stuff ain't bad either. At least they work.
Ok, I may not have KNOWN exactly this whole tech behind a pager ( I know about radio, but not as it pertains to pagers....I give to craps about pagers because i fond them very useless....why carry a pager when a cellphone (with and integrated pager possibly) will do). Just because I showed a little lack of knowlegde in that doesn't mean you have to bust on me about id's and pager crap. It also doesn't mean I (the poster) am clueless, it just means I have some familiarity with pagers and just because I am not a pager geek (and know every detail about every model of pager) doesn't mean what I said could not have been insiteful.
Maybe they rated it insiteful because it may have a grain of truth. One could very easily set something up to change the frequency of the pager by merely sending a ir sequence to it. It seems alot easier to me to do that instead of cracking open the case of the pager.
For the matter of having the same case in multple units, that show some merit, but I doubt they'd do that with an IR port. Why would a pager need an IR port except to do something as the above? Maybe if it had a way to send info to other pagers (say transfer pages to a computer too.). Who knows! It just may be what I said was true. Maybe not. Point is you won't be able to tell unless you work in said pager company. I doubt that Motorola will release specs to something such as this.
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LOAD A FREAKIN WEB PAGE! I will admit, something might be my problem, but the documentation SUCKS for KDE 2.X. I try to get it to load slashdot and I get Konquerer cannot handle text/html check your installation. I havre looked all over the place trying to find a detailed way on getting this to work and I have not had any success. I am running Red Hat 6.2. I amslo want to comment that KDE has too freaking many packages. Can't some of these things be integrated into one package? Can the KDE folks do something like Helixcode has done with GNOME? I might have to go buy Mandrake just so I can try a proper KDE setup.
Could this be for reprogramming the id of the pager? It used to be done with crystals, but could they have used some other way so that when service changes (from one pager service, to another, say after you paid for the pager...), they can just program it via the IR port instead of taking it apart??
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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.
But could this change be the thing hodling the Debian project from including Helixcode Gnome in their Distro?? According to the list there was some copyright issues....
How can you guys tell that this stuff is anti-aliased?? I personally, from the screenshot, can't tell. Remember, screenshots can be doctored because they are just another image file. On the other hand, it wouldn't surprise me one bit if I saw anti-aliasing in both this and X in all of the new 2.4 distros bound to be coming RSN since 2.4 is out!
Oh and how many of you have e-mailed the president, or the VP?? HMM??? Yeah, some flunky does read them but there's power in numbers. If the vocal minority speaks out and the majority sits on their hands, then who becomes the minority then??
Oh and how many of you ever contested what a company has done to you? I have e-mailed CEO's before and gotten things changed! It's time for the majority to quit sitting on your hands!
One word: sigmoidscopy
Man I wish I could have seen the inside of my son when they did this to him. The camera they used to do this was ULTRA cool. The only neater thing was an EEG he had done. That was actually using a PC for recording the brain waves. And, it ran DOS! (I about fell over when I saw that).
Well, I agree, some problems will come up, but with Linux, except with one group (the kernel developers are the group I speak of Thank God!), the developers (one which I am not yet, but am trying to think of something to do) will stop working on the old stuff once it works once, and when a change is made elsewhere and it breaks the old stuff, the old stuff never gets fixed and just gets a work around. Sounds like some big developer out there that begins with a M right?? :) Case in point, look which 3D cards are supported. 3dfx, GeForce, ATI Rage and with 4.0.2 Radeon and a few others, but what about 3Dlabs (for 3d NOT 2d stuff...2d never has been the problem). All of the sexy stuff gets work, and not enough of the lamo boring stuff. That's not JUST Linux either. Microsoft and Windows Developers are just as guilty. Granted, with Linux, I have been able to get most of my stuff work, but it wasn't easy. If we ever want more exposure, and legitimacy, Linux needs a desktop distro to succeed. Also, for the distro people, PLEASE scale down the amount of apps. Noone needs 4-5 terminal emulation programs in the distro. Now if they want em, they can download em which is fine. If you still see a need to include these, ASK the user in the install which one he wants and have a little info about each if they need more info. That way, the user can kill the distro bloat before it even hits the hard disk.
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Also, there seem to be ALOT of different versions of solitare, one for every toolkit. If you are installing Gnome or KDE, why would you need a tk one? Only reason I can think of is of the gtk+ one or the qt one sucks! The distros need to decide which terminal they want or which MUA they want or just choose a freakin standard. If I don't like it, I will do one of two things, first, download the one I want and install it, or pick the distro that has the one I want. I have, personally never understood terminal emulators that have pixmapped backgrounds and stuff like that. The pixmap makes things hard to read! :) one thing I do like is transparent terminals. Just change the frame in sawfish or your wm de jour and resize it and fit a couple terms on the desk to do anything you want (I seen a couple screen shots of someone running a script in the window that was checking his e-mail on various servers...much better then the panel or kicker e-mail checkers....). I do like that there are alot of apps on the disk, but lets be honest, how many solitare games do you need? How many versions of minesweeper do you need? One of each is enough for anyone.
Hmm....while I agree with you on some point, I disagree on others. X-windows setup should be easy period. This is my main problem with some (not all) Linux users is that some think everything is easy because it went easy for them. Let me tell you as nice a distro Red Hat is for people who have never had the experience of Linux, it's lauded graphical install doesn't always get things right (I am not talking about 6.1, I am talking 7.0!). Granted, the problem may be in Xfree86 it self since I am using 4.0.1, but, to me, if something isn't stable it should not be included in the base install. Debian does nto do this. Heck if I had a machine I can totally dedicate to Linuc, Debian would be the distro I pick (Woody is too unstable now for me to dedicate a machine to use everyday, but it's getting close!:)) It doesn't bother ME to fix the installers error, but it would bother my Mom, which is why she's still using Windows. The error I am speaking of is that I have yet to see a distro configure my card correctly on Xfree86 4.0.1. I have a Permedia 2v and there's a problem in the server in that it will over drive the monitor (thankfully my monitor has protection from this, but I still don't like it when it does it) and that's when the HW_cursor option is on. You have to force the HW_cursor off in the setup and force the SW_cursor on to fix this. If it hadn't been that I have been using Linux for a while with 3.3.6, I had never would have found the mail list on Xfree86, I'd have gone to Red Hat, and I have never seen anything like this in their Knowledge Base. This is a plus and a minus for Linux. The plus is that I had a problem, and because of mail lists and the internet I was able to find my problem. Score 100 points for Open Source!! The bad part is, is that there is NO documentation of this except in the mail list logs. Some might say well it's on Bugzilla and I say so, it should be listed in the docs on how to set the card up. This is WHY even when someone who is pretty savvy about computers trys Linux, it takes them 6 hours to find the freaking bug that ends up being a easy fix. Telling them to try Red Hat is NOT a solution.
Here's my attempt. Show him Linux. Show him how C, C++, Java and Assembly (maybe show him assembly first). If he IS a prodigy, he'll run with it and we'll have another programmer working on Open Source. Teach him the VALUE of code and not that people will pay him lots of money for his programs. Teach him to do things right and to release code only when it's time. It's kids like this that can make computers better.
My boss went to a IBM storage demo in Vegas to see their new tech and one of the IBM guys said in a short time(meaning RSN!), they are going to have a drive that can write 40 TB to one tape! That's COOL!
Correct! Mainframes have had RAID LONG before PC's and servers. RAID is only good for HARDWARE failures. This is why a drive can fail and we stick a new one in using hot swapable drive and you can just insert another drive and it handles the problem. A lightning strike WILL take out not only your RAID array, but the server as well. Lightning can affect you even if you are on conditioned UPS power, but usually nothing as severe as just running on a surge protector. Usually it would just kick powerchute or whatever your using and have it down the machine, but it's still an inconvenience. Tape backups are still the cheapest way of off site storage. Things are impoving though. With end to end broad band connections, some installations are using a mirroring type system where the remote system will mirror your system over IP or a secure T1. This way all you'd have to do is get the new system built, then connect and restore all of the data, or if your really fancy you never went down anyway even if the main center took a hit (automatically cut over to the hot site).
Apple is STUPID! I can understand if someone was using their logo(one did, so that's ok but the aqua ones did not), but haven't they learned that Look and Feel stuff doesn't fly? anyone remember Apple trying to sue Microsoft?? What's so HIGH tech about a pixmapped gumdrops??
I was wondering if anyone was going to catch that! If you are too freaking lazy and only code web pages that 95% of the people in the world can't read, then HOW is this going to help Linux?? I hate to say this but until we get a perfect world(never happen), you should at least TRY to be accomodating to ALL browsers. Remember, some Linux folk are stuck using Windows at work by corporate standard.
G this sounds real great and all, but when the equivalent can be done with the Aiwa, and other devices in concert, why spend the money? If I wanted to spend that much I can have more then just AM/FM, MP3 and RDS. I could have GPS display (maybe someday when a map program for Linux is available, I could actually use something other then windows.), I can have AM/FM, TV and DVD (passenger only), internet (again passenger only) and the base system, not counting wireless internet cost, would cost LESS the 999 (if u find a cheap LCD source, if not, a bit more the 999). The EMPEG, for all it is and as cool it is, just does not impress me for the cost!
Yes but do you have to really have that even? The ideal answer would be yes. But I don't think you'd need it to be perfectly identical either. You can just deal with the problems later. People freak out and act like this is a real serious problem (yeah, it is a problem, but nothing to panic about...) when it just isn't!
Yeah, the installer may not run, (have to have someway for the distro to pick the right kernel), but big deal! Just use another machine to run the install on with similar equipment (everything except motherboard and CPU from your new P4 installed in a new PII or PIII system). Once installed, put the HD back into the P4 system and your running Linux on the P4. I know there WAS a SMP bug or something in that AC fixed, but AFAIK, it is fixed in later releases(2.2.18), and the P4 has no SMP systems just yet. The article should be updated to indicate that it's the installer that will choke, and not Linux in general.
AND it has a radio too! Looks like with EMPEG you'd have to ditch radio for the sake of lost of MP3's. Radio is good sometimes (like trying to figure out what's causing the traffic jam infront of you.).
Just do what I did! Go shopping for yourself (well kind of sort of). My wife knew that I wanted a CD-RW drive, so she let me buy the one I wanted. As it is, we never get time to oursleves anyway (any time we are out, we are usually together...one car, I ride the bus to work which means all I do is go to and form work, no stopping on the way home.). My wife then bought herself something nice. All we care about is seeing our 20 month old's eyes light up with the lights on the tree and the gift Santa just got for him under the tree. That's enough for us! We get gifts, but we don't have to open them! :)
Yeah I want one, but not cuz they look cool in the Matrix. I want one because they'd be warm!
Speaking of DA MINTS, I found a source here in the US where I would not have to wait for them, and I can pick them up ANY time of day, any day, except Christmas Day. That would be Meijer! At least the one I go to here in Ohio carries them. If they don't at yours, ASK! I find it IS possible ot get them if you can get enough people asking the management about them, which is probably why they have them at our store. Meijer managers LOVE satisfying the customer. They are also around $2.50 a box too! I save shipping and 50 cents a tine to boot! I get them every week! :)
I am not saything there is not anything wrong with the new stuff, I am just saying that the old stuff ain't bad either. At least they work.
Maybe they rated it insiteful because it may have a grain of truth. One could very easily set something up to change the frequency of the pager by merely sending a ir sequence to it. It seems alot easier to me to do that instead of cracking open the case of the pager.
For the matter of having the same case in multple units, that show some merit, but I doubt they'd do that with an IR port. Why would a pager need an IR port except to do something as the above? Maybe if it had a way to send info to other pagers (say transfer pages to a computer too.). Who knows! It just may be what I said was true. Maybe not. Point is you won't be able to tell unless you work in said pager company. I doubt that Motorola will release specs to something such as this.
LOAD A FREAKIN WEB PAGE! I will admit, something might be my problem, but the documentation SUCKS for KDE 2.X. I try to get it to load slashdot and I get Konquerer cannot handle text/html check your installation. I havre looked all over the place trying to find a detailed way on getting this to work and I have not had any success. I am running Red Hat 6.2. I amslo want to comment that KDE has too freaking many packages. Can't some of these things be integrated into one package? Can the KDE folks do something like Helixcode has done with GNOME? I might have to go buy Mandrake just so I can try a proper KDE setup.
Could this be for reprogramming the id of the pager? It used to be done with crystals, but could they have used some other way so that when service changes (from one pager service, to another, say after you paid for the pager...), they can just program it via the IR port instead of taking it apart??