This novel changed my life and made me write a doctoral thesis! If Otherland by Tad Williams isn't geek literature at it's best... well maybe it has a too large char[] for many;)
Hi all,
this is really great news for me! I was planning to try Linux on my PowerBook for quite some time now. I was a Linux (Mandrake, SuSE) and gaming Windows user for ten years and got myself a PowerBook last year. I really like Mac OSX, but I was missing many of my beloved Linux apps. I tried to install Debian quite some times, but it wasn't more than a hassle. There are some approaches for Knoppix clones for PPC, but they didn't get me further than a console, which didn't give me anything but a bash. Well, I have a bash in OSX too.
Now I found Ubuntu, and was already about to install Warty, but didn't dare to crash my machine in the middle of writing down my thesis. So I waited further until today, I really needed to try Ubuntu live. And it works! I have a 15" Alu PowerBook, and Ubuntu live gives me a working X in correct resolution, DHCP networking (ethernet only, no WLAN / Airport support:(), sound, and a good bunch of Gnome applications plus OpenOffice and Firefox. I am writing this in Ubuntus Firefox, actually.
Still, what I really loved in SuSE was KDE with Kile, Kate and KMail. Now I have Gnome... well, maybe I'll try it out here and then. But for my main work I'll stick to Mac OSX, which is not too bad, either.
Hey, by the way, Ubuntu just reminded me that my battery is running low, even that works! All out of the box! But wait! Where is the AT sign on this crappy keyboard layout? I don't HAVE AltGr...
I like my Tucano notebook folder quite a lot. It's made of neoprene, only a few milimeters think, and holds my 15" PowerBook safe and dry. With such a cover, you can put your notebook just into any backpack you like, no need for a special one.
I was talking about media attention for the school, not apple. And if you are a parent, trying to decide where to send your son or daugther, seeing that your money is invested in really useful technologies (tm), then you might think about it.
I once had a very nice SCSI drive, 10.000RPM or something, 4GB, top of the line! Only problem was, it was too noisy and I couldn't concentrate anymore. So I took it out of my computer and sold it via a newspaper. Someone called to buy it, I attached it once again to my SCSI controller to erase the data (forgot to do that before), but didn't mind to actually install the drive in the case. So, of course I tipped the system and the drive fell 2 inches to the floor, cracking the heads into the disks at 10.000 rpm... whew! The drive was 999DM (ancient german currency, about half a dollar) worth!
This is not really new. There was an article in the german IT magazine c't recently, which resembled mostly what is in several hints like this one. It's about using Rendezvous on a Linux box combined with a streaming server for iTunes. Works great and is real good fun!
The question that arises is: when will we be far enough to use iPods for size comparions instead of CDs? "The booklet is CD size" is outdated, rather use "The booklet is about iPod size" or "double iPod mini size" would be necessary to reach all those young children who never had access to such an antique medium as a CD.
When DSL was new to Hamburg, Germany, by a new telecom company (HanseNet), they offered 2MBit/s instead of Telekom's 768kBit/s. I called them to verify that I could really get a 2 MBit/s line to my home. They said "yes, but you'll never experience 2 Mbit/s really." "How comes?" I ask him, and he replies "You computer can't handle that much data anyway.". Getting interested in this, I ask "which part of my computer can't handle 2 MBit/s, please?". Astoundingly he must have thought I want to browse the net with my old Newton or whatever, since he claimed: " Your CPU is too slow, it could never handle that much data." This was not 1974 or so, it was in the year 2001, I think I had a CPU fast enough for 2 MBit/s in my PC at that time!
Fortunetaly, the line proved to be real 2 MBit/s in the end and was just recently improved to 3 MBit/s. I wonder how my new G4 PowerBook can handle THAT much!
Before buying a tablet PC, please remember that they have touchscreen. Due to this, the displays look quite bad. On some models, if you hold them upright (like you would hold a notebook), you see different colours with each of your eye! I've read a review about them in c't 1/2004, not sure if you can buy the article online. They tested most up to date Tablet PCs. Oh, and one model you didn't list is Fujitsu Siemens. They haev the Stylistic ones, really crap, and a Lifebook T or something, which is quite ok. I for myself chose to buy an Apple Powerbook, which a) has a better Display, b) has a better OS, and c) attracts more women.
Please read the license text, it is much more enlightening than flame wars. It states in 2.c that " You must cause the whole of the work to be licensed at no charge to all third parties under the terms of this License." This means that you may in fact take the source which is published under LGPL and change it, even take charges for it, but it will always be LGPL, thus open source. At least I understand it this way. The license is an interesting read, since the consider it "lesser" to their original license, the GPL.
If they improved web site compatibility, they most likely changed the rendering engine KHTML. Does anyone know? The changes will have to be given back to the KHTML developers, since it is LGPLed. I know the Apple developers did that before, and I must say that this is a great example for a working open source license!
The SWF Format for flash movies is open, anyone can write programs with SWF output. Unfortunetaly I don't have a link at hand for documentation, but there are several programs with SWF output. I think that SWF has a major advantage over SVG, which is file size. The SVG XML format wastes plenty of bandwidth. Don't misunderstand me, XML and SVG are still very nice things, and I'm more than happy to see the news here, just wanted to point these things out.
From the review: You will encounter bugs and will have more trouble installing plugins than with IE.
The people who wrote the review must a) be dumb or b) never have installed a plugin in Mozilla. I installed gesture support and EnigMail encryption for Mozilla Mail, and both were just a click on a web page, then restart Mozilla, done. What is the trouble here? How can it be made more easy?
Maybe this makes the first spoiler less notable. if they aren't really dead, noone can complain about the first spoiler anymore, since they being dead is a) not true, und b) only to introduce some certain tention into the series which/. just increased by the spoiler.
I am an EverQuest addict. EverQuest is a subscription based MMORP-game which "updates" itself every time you start it, so all users can connect to the same server, no version conflicts, great. Late last year they updated the game engine to be full-featured DirectX8 woohoo. Well, before the graphics sucked because they were totally outdated, even Moorhuhn looked better. But now my GeForce 2 MX can hardly handle the data, and half a gig of RAM is just enough for the game not to crash.
My point is:
There are 300.000 subscribers to EverQuest, and with Star Wars Galaxies out there will probably be even more addicted folks. You'd risk all of our sanity (which would result in the collapse of the 77th wealthiest "state" in the world!) if there wouldn't be more, faster, cheaper graphics boards. Really. It's damn important!
Gandalf is NOT dead, actually, he'll beat the shit out of Saruman and return as "Gandalf the White". Oh, but hey, this is not even my spoiler, it's shown in the Two-Towers trailer...
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... Apple is expensive? ;-)
... I'm still listening to the Quake sound track on my iPod, it's just great ;-)
This novel changed my life and made me write a doctoral thesis! If Otherland by Tad Williams isn't geek literature at it's best... well maybe it has a too large char[] for many ;)
Now I found Ubuntu, and was already about to install Warty, but didn't dare to crash my machine in the middle of writing down my thesis. So I waited further until today, I really needed to try Ubuntu live. And it works! I have a 15" Alu PowerBook, and Ubuntu live gives me a working X in correct resolution, DHCP networking (ethernet only, no WLAN / Airport support :(), sound, and a good bunch of Gnome applications plus OpenOffice and Firefox. I am writing this in Ubuntus Firefox, actually.
Still, what I really loved in SuSE was KDE with Kile, Kate and KMail. Now I have Gnome... well, maybe I'll try it out here and then. But for my main work I'll stick to Mac OSX, which is not too bad, either.
Hey, by the way, Ubuntu just reminded me that my battery is running low, even that works! All out of the box! But wait! Where is the AT sign on this crappy keyboard layout? I don't HAVE AltGr...
Oh well, maybe not polish, but make it look good you can!
I like my Tucano notebook folder quite a lot. It's made of neoprene, only a few milimeters think, and holds my 15" PowerBook safe and dry. With such a cover, you can put your notebook just into any backpack you like, no need for a special one.
I was talking about media attention for the school, not apple. And if you are a parent, trying to decide where to send your son or daugther, seeing that your money is invested in really useful technologies (tm), then you might think about it.
What an easy way to get media attention, right after the peak of the oh-wow-there-are-new-iPods-coming wave.
I once had a very nice SCSI drive, 10.000RPM or something, 4GB, top of the line! Only problem was, it was too noisy and I couldn't concentrate anymore. So I took it out of my computer and sold it via a newspaper. Someone called to buy it, I attached it once again to my SCSI controller to erase the data (forgot to do that before), but didn't mind to actually install the drive in the case. So, of course I tipped the system and the drive fell 2 inches to the floor, cracking the heads into the disks at 10.000 rpm... whew! The drive was 999DM (ancient german currency, about half a dollar) worth!
This is not really new. There was an article in the german IT magazine c't recently, which resembled mostly what is in several hints like this one. It's about using Rendezvous on a Linux box combined with a streaming server for iTunes. Works great and is real good fun!
The question that arises is: when will we be far enough to use iPods for size comparions instead of CDs? "The booklet is CD size" is outdated, rather use "The booklet is about iPod size" or "double iPod mini size" would be necessary to reach all those young children who never had access to such an antique medium as a CD.
Perl really looks like the curses in Asterix comic books.
When DSL was new to Hamburg, Germany, by a new telecom company (HanseNet), they offered 2MBit/s instead of Telekom's 768kBit/s. I called them to verify that I could really get a 2 MBit/s line to my home. They said "yes, but you'll never experience 2 Mbit/s really." "How comes?" I ask him, and he replies "You computer can't handle that much data anyway.". Getting interested in this, I ask "which part of my computer can't handle 2 MBit/s, please?". Astoundingly he must have thought I want to browse the net with my old Newton or whatever, since he claimed: " Your CPU is too slow, it could never handle that much data." This was not 1974 or so, it was in the year 2001, I think I had a CPU fast enough for 2 MBit/s in my PC at that time!
Fortunetaly, the line proved to be real 2 MBit/s in the end and was just recently improved to 3 MBit/s. I wonder how my new G4 PowerBook can handle THAT much!
Before buying a tablet PC, please remember that they have touchscreen. Due to this, the displays look quite bad. On some models, if you hold them upright (like you would hold a notebook), you see different colours with each of your eye! I've read a review about them in c't 1/2004, not sure if you can buy the article online. They tested most up to date Tablet PCs. Oh, and one model you didn't list is Fujitsu Siemens. They haev the Stylistic ones, really crap, and a Lifebook T or something, which is quite ok. I for myself chose to buy an Apple Powerbook, which a) has a better Display, b) has a better OS, and c) attracts more women.
Oh, and please read this article about the Safari improvements going into KDE 3.2 :)
Please read the license text, it is much more enlightening than flame wars. It states in 2.c that " You must cause the whole of the work to be licensed at no charge to all third parties under the terms of this License." This means that you may in fact take the source which is published under LGPL and change it, even take charges for it, but it will always be LGPL, thus open source. At least I understand it this way. The license is an interesting read, since the consider it "lesser" to their original license, the GPL.
If they improved web site compatibility, they most likely changed the rendering engine KHTML. Does anyone know? The changes will have to be given back to the KHTML developers, since it is LGPLed. I know the Apple developers did that before, and I must say that this is a great example for a working open source license!
The SWF Format for flash movies is open, anyone can write programs with SWF output. Unfortunetaly I don't have a link at hand for documentation, but there are several programs with SWF output. I think that SWF has a major advantage over SVG, which is file size. The SVG XML format wastes plenty of bandwidth. Don't misunderstand me, XML and SVG are still very nice things, and I'm more than happy to see the news here, just wanted to point these things out.
I knew open source peeps were all punks. See, Plan 9 is a punk band!
From the review:
You will encounter bugs and will have more trouble installing plugins than with IE.
The people who wrote the review must a) be dumb or b) never have installed a plugin in Mozilla. I installed gesture support and EnigMail encryption for Mozilla Mail, and both were just a click on a web page, then restart Mozilla, done. What is the trouble here? How can it be made more easy?
Maybe this makes the first spoiler less notable. if they aren't really dead, noone can complain about the first spoiler anymore, since they being dead is a) not true, und b) only to introduce some certain tention into the series which /. just increased by the spoiler.
I am an EverQuest addict. EverQuest is a subscription based MMORP-game which "updates" itself every time you start it, so all users can connect to the same server, no version conflicts, great. Late last year they updated the game engine to be full-featured DirectX8 woohoo. Well, before the graphics sucked because they were totally outdated, even Moorhuhn looked better. But now my GeForce 2 MX can hardly handle the data, and half a gig of RAM is just enough for the game not to crash.
My point is:
There are 300.000 subscribers to EverQuest, and with Star Wars Galaxies out there will probably be even more addicted folks. You'd risk all of our sanity (which would result in the collapse of the 77th wealthiest "state" in the world!) if there wouldn't be more, faster, cheaper graphics boards. Really. It's damn important!
Gandalf is NOT dead, actually, he'll beat the shit out of Saruman and return as "Gandalf the White". Oh, but hey, this is not even my spoiler, it's shown in the Two-Towers trailer...
I bet this is the first time a C64 is /.ted. Please, let it rest! It's so small and cute!
Why would I pay for a banner free subscription of anything if there are nice products like WebWasher for free? It even keeps my Opera-Banner away :-)