Actually you're wrong. I need the dongle to speak with my LG G4050 phone from Cingular because they claim it has data capabilities through irda, but there's nothing supporting that. Sure windows detects the device, but that's as far as being helpful as it goes. I even have IrComm2k (another GPL project) because the virtual IR com port support from the windows driver doesn't work correctly. Closest thing I can do is open a terminal in windows connected to that com port and try hit-and-miss ATA commands. No support for viewing the actual protocol in progress.
I want to run it in linux because it will give me messages in log files and such (and I could probably crank up the debug level to see whats going on). I've had to patch my kernel up to this point for support for it. Now it's just built in.
I just wish I could get some better information out of it from the windows drivers and non-exsistant utilities. Until then I'll use Linux and it will be extremely helpful.
Sure I'm a windows user... but sometimes the way it treats me like I'm a two legged gimp goat, urks me and stands in my way of learning things.
I find myself in this dilemma. To make a long story short, I have a teenage stepson. He's wanting to get into computers, (probably web stuff or game development, so I keep trying to turn him on to/.) but he lived with his (other, divorced) parent up until recently, about a year ago.
Living with his mother and myself, we're both geeks. So needless to say, the usual geek-a-thon we partake in, he fits right in. He's enthralled by computers and the internet. I work for an ISP, his mom works for another company, in customer service. Sometimes our social skills clash with him and we find it very difficult to communicate.
But the bottom line is... he's a great kid. He has a lot of potential. In fact, when I was in high school, I was just like him. I had my click of friends and kept to myself, had a hard time communicating... and loved (lived?) computers.
So... I do for him what I think I would have wanted at that age... just give him exposure. I met a friend for lunch and he wanted to show(off) some equipment at their facility (servers, routers, racks, etc), so I asked the stepson if he'd like to come along... of course he did. We had a blast. I just let him be himself, and it seems to be working out.
He's interested in this girl at school and he's been really different... traded his glasses for contacts, etc. He's even laughing at our jokes! (which can be terrible and often eyeball-roll inducing.) Ok so maybe he's not like I was in high school...
Oh, I should also probably note... I have a Yamaha DS-XG (YMF744) with ALSA and OSS emulation support, but sometimes if I boot up, and run the UT2k4 demo, the sound seems to be "turned down" all the way. Od d behavior. But then again, my system is a Slackware 9.0 upgraded to most of the parts of 9.1, including Gnome 2.4. I'm probably missing something...
Here's my experience with 2.6 kernel (been running it since 2.6.0 was released).
DVDs look awesome. I had to tweak the hdparms for DMA, but they work great.
Ever since NVidia came out with the latest drivers, things like the UT2k4 Demo fun fantastic.
I was a little hung up on modules... seeing as I rarely use them, it wasn't a show-stopper. The conversion from modutils to module-init-tools was mostly painless.
Recently, I've been playing with MTD, and trying to get a test machine to use 12 out of the 16 megs of an AGP Voodoo3 3000 card's memory as a device I can format or use as swap. I have been unsuccessful. (2.6.3). This is also on a testing machine, not my "main" machine.
On a slightly OT note, planning on building a Mini ITX system with a Via Epia board (one of the 800 mhz ones). Should have the case this week, jury's still out on the mb.
Other than that, no complaints, it's been fantastic. I'm running 2.6.3 on 3 different machines (with different responsibilies) and it feels like there's no going back now!
I haven't RTFA yet, but just with the little information in the post, it sounds biased. I bet the Windows Servers were hardened while the Linux ones were not. I believe the BSD/OSX results. There's a *ton* of stuff inherently enabled on a default Windows install as well as Linux that makes it very exploitable.
Those are all simple, standards-basesd protocols, not an entire OS which would constitute a "monoculture". I can program an smtp client in perl... do you think I could as easlier write an OS?
Is it just me or does this smell like a stealth PR stunt to you? Gee... source code gets leaked... this hits a few communities right in the nose. Now MS can say "See, open source is bad because all these new viruses are made because our source was leaked" and "File-sharing is bad because this is how this is moving around the internet". It's just too conveniently making MS look like a victim.
(joe) Just fine... but I keep getting these damn disney commercials on my pda and cellphone. They want me to go see some new movie, wish they'd leave me alone, it's really getting annoying.
(me) Wow, really? I've never seen those.
(joe) How can you avoid them? It's like they push it out to you or something?!?!
(me) Are your devices running windows?
(joe) Yea, it's like an embedded thing. My pda, cell, toaster, even my toilet! It's great! When I flush I hear a Disney jingle everytime.
(me shows joe his new sharp zaurus and other Linux-based devices)
Important: Windows XP 64-Bit Edition for 64-Bit Extended Systems is only compatible with 64-bit AMD Opteron- or Athlon 64-based computers. It cannot be successfully installed on 64-bit Intel Itanium-based systems.
Isn't a browser that comes with the computer, or comes with the operating system kinda like a radio that comes "stock" with a car? And we know what sort of quality those are...
I don't think certs are the entire picture. At my job, I got the job first, then certs afterward. If for some reason I were to lose my job or look for another, I would bank on my experience, not the certs. Almost like the experience is the big mac, and the certs are the fries (or onion rings, or baked potato, etc). I obtained my ccna last year, and this year going for my choice of others. Having the experience made certain parts of the ccna easier for me. Also, looking over the requirements for ccnp, there's a few things in there I stop and say "Wow, thats part of this certification? I've done that a million times!".
I think (and would like to hope) I got my job in the first place not because I had any certs (I had none in fact when I started) but on the merit of skills and what I was willing/able to learn.
...during the superbowl, I will be wirelessly offering 300 gigs of Mp3s (that weren't from p2p networks) outside of my house. The wep key passphrase? "We are still going to download music for free off the Internet."
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Actually you're wrong. I need the dongle to speak with my LG G4050 phone from Cingular because they claim it has data capabilities through irda, but there's nothing supporting that. Sure windows detects the device, but that's as far as being helpful as it goes. I even have IrComm2k (another GPL project) because the virtual IR com port support from the windows driver doesn't work correctly. Closest thing I can do is open a terminal in windows connected to that com port and try hit-and-miss ATA commands. No support for viewing the actual protocol in progress.
I want to run it in linux because it will give me messages in log files and such (and I could probably crank up the debug level to see whats going on). I've had to patch my kernel up to this point for support for it. Now it's just built in.
I just wish I could get some better information out of it from the windows drivers and non-exsistant utilities. Until then I'll use Linux and it will be extremely helpful.
Sure I'm a windows user... but sometimes the way it treats me like I'm a two legged gimp goat, urks me and stands in my way of learning things.
... I was thinking "I don't need this kernel upgrade, 2.6.3 has been working great for me..." I find in the changelog:
[IRDA]: Add stir4200 driver.
doh... finally added support for one of my usb-irda dongles.
Damn.
I find myself in this dilemma. To make a long story short, I have a teenage stepson. He's wanting to get into computers, (probably web stuff or game development, so I keep trying to turn him on to
Living with his mother and myself, we're both geeks. So needless to say, the usual geek-a-thon we partake in, he fits right in. He's enthralled by computers and the internet. I work for an ISP, his mom works for another company, in customer service. Sometimes our social skills clash with him and we find it very difficult to communicate.
But the bottom line is
So... I do for him what I think I would have wanted at that age... just give him exposure. I met a friend for lunch and he wanted to show(off) some equipment at their facility (servers, routers, racks, etc), so I asked the stepson if he'd like to come along
He's interested in this girl at school and he's been really different... traded his glasses for contacts, etc. He's even laughing at our jokes! (which can be terrible and often eyeball-roll inducing.) Ok so maybe he's not like I was in high school...
I mean come on! They think they're making money. It's not like Darl tried to go marry some guy named Mike. Then they'd try and stop him.
...that guy on the Gyration website looks just like... John Kerry!
(insert political paranoid campaign conspiracy theories here)
We don't need no water let the Andrew Jackson burn
burn Andrew Jackson, burn.
...it runs Unix.
...I don't know if it's a good name or not unless I see it in context.
"This worm only effects Windows 2000, Windows XP and Windows XP: Reloaded."
Yea, guess it's an ok name.
Rome didn't switch to Linux in a day, ya know!
Oh, I should also probably note... I have a Yamaha DS-XG (YMF744) with ALSA and OSS emulation support, but sometimes if I boot up, and run the UT2k4 demo, the sound seems to be "turned down" all the way. Od d behavior. But then again, my system is a Slackware 9.0 upgraded to most of the parts of 9.1, including Gnome 2.4. I'm probably missing something ...
Here's my experience with 2.6 kernel (been running it since 2.6.0 was released).
DVDs look awesome. I had to tweak the hdparms for DMA, but they work great.
Ever since NVidia came out with the latest drivers, things like the UT2k4 Demo fun fantastic.
I was a little hung up on modules... seeing as I rarely use them, it wasn't a show-stopper. The conversion from modutils to module-init-tools was mostly painless.
Recently, I've been playing with MTD, and trying to get a test machine to use 12 out of the 16 megs of an AGP Voodoo3 3000 card's memory as a device I can format or use as swap. I have been unsuccessful. (2.6.3). This is also on a testing machine, not my "main" machine.
On a slightly OT note, planning on building a Mini ITX system with a Via Epia board (one of the 800 mhz ones). Should have the case this week, jury's still out on the mb.
Other than that, no complaints, it's been fantastic. I'm running 2.6.3 on 3 different machines (with different responsibilies) and it feels like there's no going back now!
...this is our government's "intelligence" agencies, you know, the ones who were supposed to stop things like 911 from happening.
I haven't RTFA yet, but just with the little information in the post, it sounds biased. I bet the Windows Servers were hardened while the Linux ones were not. I believe the BSD/OSX results. There's a *ton* of stuff inherently enabled on a default Windows install as well as Linux that makes it very exploitable.
Computer, start the car please.
I'm unable to process your request, sir.
Computer, please explain.
Sensors indicate a high level of alcohol in your bloodstream, sir.
Computer, what can I do?
Please have a responsible, lucid and sober person pilot the machine.
Number two, make it so.
Those are all simple, standards-basesd protocols, not an entire OS which would constitute a "monoculture". I can program an smtp client in perl... do you think I could as easlier write an OS?
Is it just me or does this smell like a stealth PR stunt to you? Gee... source code gets leaked... this hits a few communities right in the nose. Now MS can say "See, open source is bad because all these new viruses are made because our source was leaked" and "File-sharing is bad because this is how this is moving around the internet". It's just too conveniently making MS look like a victim.
...a few people have already mentioned it, but here it goes.
Download some porn/mp3s/warez/movies and show them the speed they'll get.
(That's what they end up doing with it anyhow.)
(me) Hey Joe, how ya doing?
(joe) Just fine... but I keep getting these damn disney commercials on my pda and cellphone. They want me to go see some new movie, wish they'd leave me alone, it's really getting annoying.
(me) Wow, really? I've never seen those.
(joe) How can you avoid them? It's like they push it out to you or something?!?!
(me) Are your devices running windows?
(joe) Yea, it's like an embedded thing. My pda, cell, toaster, even my toilet! It's great! When I flush I hear a Disney jingle everytime.
(me shows joe his new sharp zaurus and other Linux-based devices)
(joe) Oooh...
(to be continued!)
...at first I read that as "Denver Man Sues Penis-Enlargement Farms".
It was a fit of jealous rage. I knew I could eek more info out of it if I tried hard enough. Thanks. ;)
Isn't a browser that comes with the computer, or comes with the operating system kinda like a radio that comes "stock" with a car? And we know what sort of quality those are...
I don't think certs are the entire picture. At my job, I got the job first, then certs afterward. If for some reason I were to lose my job or look for another, I would bank on my experience, not the certs. Almost like the experience is the big mac, and the certs are the fries (or onion rings, or baked potato, etc). I obtained my ccna last year, and this year going for my choice of others. Having the experience made certain parts of the ccna easier for me. Also, looking over the requirements for ccnp, there's a few things in there I stop and say "Wow, thats part of this certification? I've done that a million times!".
I think (and would like to hope) I got my job in the first place not because I had any certs (I had none in fact when I started) but on the merit of skills and what I was willing/able to learn.
...during the superbowl, I will be wirelessly offering 300 gigs of Mp3s (that weren't from p2p networks) outside of my house. The wep key passphrase? "We are still going to download music for free off the Internet."
Does the fact that I don't need this service mean I have a life?