Be sure to get that FM receiver option so you can listen to higher-quality music when you get tired of your 64 Kbps WMA collection.
Or rather, when there's quality programming you like to hear. Contratry to popular belief, there are plenty of things worth listening to which aren't music.
Radio is one of the key things I miss from my IPods.
Give someone a computer, some time, and some programming skills, and they can empower themselves for FREE - that is, without compensating anyone else that somehow manages to lay claim to what they've created.
Red Hat, Also sells propietary software, but they don't develop it.
This is so far from the truth as you can possibly be: Red Hat is a huge contributor to open software (GNOME, glibc, kernel, gcc and a ton of other things). And they don't sell proprietary software.
Red Hat is a major contributor to the open source community, by having enginers on a lot of projects.Bigger than SUSE, Mandrake and Gentoo are absent.
Fedora a POS? As far as I'm concerned, it's the best distribution available for me as a developer and a long time (10 years) Linux enthusiast. The major shortcoming is with servers, which I don't want to update or reinstall as often as a desktop/laptops.
Contrary to your statement, Red Hat is the one of these offering a free download - Fedora. Downloading something current from the others (for AMD64) is harder/not possible.
As I understand it, they work almost identically to a SMP setup, meaning they don't offer much of any performance benefit in most apps (particularly games). They draw more power, they run at higher temperatures, etc.
SMP without the mess (extra CPUs, cooling, expensive/complicated motherboards) and cost is definitely something to be impressed about.
It should give a big performance boost to a multi app and multi thread environment.
Ummmm, haven't you seen Evolution? Or is there some other reason that's not what you're looking for?
Evolution doesn't run on many platforms - and unless using a US keyboard, it's a #!#!%R to use. No "n" for "Next unread", no they use "]". Which sucks to type on many keyboards... and changing the shortcuts? Suddenly, you can't use the keys you reassigned as part of a search term.
I think you miss the point of the LSB. LSB is not a package format- there is not such thing as an "LSB package", and deb, ebuild, rpm, etc. have nothing to do with the LSB.
(A previous version of) RPM is actually part of the LSB standard.
eh, I thought they used euros in the uk... hmm... anyway, isnt 40lbs(?) like 100usd?
Great Britain is still using pounds... not all the European Union members joined in the first wave, UK, Denmark and Sweden are exceptions. And even though the dollar has started its way down, 40 GBP is just 75 USD, not 100.
That's part of the beauty of the Pentium M: most of the notebooks based on it are in the 6lbs or less range, and I've yet to see one with a battery life of less than four hours.
My Dell Inspiron 500m (Centrino, first generation) has a battery life of about 1h 40m... Windows or Linux both, and yes, cpu scaling does work.
As long as you don't decrease the spending, it should[1]. But if it also means decreasing the spending, the above doesn't necesarrily make sense: Tax money spent in many areas increase growth - maybe not immediately, but in the long run. Examples of this are education, basic research, transport infrastructure and the fuzzy term "safety".
[1] Until such a time when confidence in the ability to repay or future economic prospects disappear.
Now what are we using that requires that much bandwidth? All together now: Uncompressed video and Gigabit Ethernet.
Networking on laptops are no longer done with PCMCIA... first ethernet, and now wireless, are usually delivered built in. Many laptops come with GbE too.
Not the same. I'm thinking of the ones with dedicated IPSEC hardware (BEVP41). And given that it is simple to set up, works well through NAT etc, it was well worth the price, compared to all the hours I spent trying to make Freeswan work. No moving parts etc. being good too. And it plays well with other IPSEC hardware... so all I'm wondering of now is the easiest way to get Linux to connect to it as a road warrior with FC2/3
AFAIK the Broadcom wireless chipset used in that Linksys is closed source so you are basically stuck with kernel 2.4.
I'm thinking of Linux connecting to one of them (they have native IPSEC in hardware, and can do 50-75 tunnels depending on the model), not on replacing the hardware on the unit itself.
It seems that MS holding onto IE is simply to save face, there is no real value in IE any more,
Yes, there is. Customer lock in. Making moving onto non-MS platforms harder and more costly. And keeping MS as the dominant corporate desktop platform is their spearhead into the corporate server space as well.
Currently, the US has huge trade deficits, and due to economic mismanagement, the largest budget deficit ever.
Currently, the rest of the world has been content in just saving dollars and using them betweem themselves... if they switch to the euro, the house of cards could come tumbling down fast.
I'll probably lose a lot of karma for this, but just like the past summer's hurricane disasters in Florida, people have to realise that there is a price to pay when you choose to live in a natural disaster zone.
A couple of issues:
Tsunamis aren't a regular occurence here. And the earthquake was in the top 5 list since 1900.
The combination... fatal. People are so unused to it that no warning system was in place, and that when the water disappeared just before the big hit, people went down to the beach to catch fish.
People in this region have less knowledge and choices available to them than people living in or moving to Florida.
Your points definitely apply to Florida (hurricanes) and California (earth quakes), though.
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Be sure to get that FM receiver option so you can listen to higher-quality music when you get tired of your 64 Kbps WMA collection.
Or rather, when there's quality programming you like to hear. Contratry to popular belief, there are plenty of things worth listening to which aren't music.
Radio is one of the key things I miss from my IPods.
Give someone a computer, some time, and some programming skills, and they can empower themselves for FREE - that is, without compensating anyone else that somehow manages to lay claim to what they've created.
That's what patents are intended to stop.
The biggest security problems come from the inside. Other employees can't be trusted just because they work for the same company.
For unauthorized data access, that's likely. But DOS? I doubt it...
Ubuntu?
I was having SUSE and Mandrake in mind.
Red Hat, Also sells propietary software, but they don't develop it.
This is so far from the truth as you can possibly be: Red Hat is a huge contributor to open software (GNOME, glibc, kernel, gcc and a ton of other things). And they don't sell proprietary software.
A couple of issues:
What kind of value is added by restricting interoperability?
Not the value of Outlook, the value of Exchange.
I don't understand the hype about dual core CPUs.
As I understand it, they work almost identically to a SMP setup, meaning they don't offer much of any performance benefit in most apps (particularly games). They draw more power, they run at higher temperatures, etc.
SMP without the mess (extra CPUs, cooling, expensive/complicated motherboards) and cost is definitely something to be impressed about.
It should give a big performance boost to a multi app and multi thread environment.
Ummmm, haven't you seen Evolution? Or is there some other reason that's not what you're looking for?
Evolution doesn't run on many platforms - and unless using a US keyboard, it's a #!#!%R to use. No "n" for "Next unread", no they use "]". Which sucks to type on many keyboards... and changing the shortcuts? Suddenly, you can't use the keys you reassigned as part of a search term.
good news: You could actually print a picture of Natalie Portman that tastes like hot grits.
You could do that now with no printing necesarry, just heat the paper. Grits... ugh.
I think you miss the point of the LSB. LSB is not a package format- there is not such thing as an "LSB package", and deb, ebuild, rpm, etc. have nothing to do with the LSB.
(A previous version of) RPM is actually part of the LSB standard.
eh, I thought they used euros in the uk... hmm... anyway, isnt 40lbs(?) like 100usd?
Great Britain is still using pounds... not all the European Union members joined in the first wave, UK, Denmark and Sweden are exceptions. And even though the dollar has started its way down, 40 GBP is just 75 USD, not 100.
It does run at 600 MHz most of the time.
That's part of the beauty of the Pentium M: most of the notebooks based on it are in the 6lbs or less range, and I've yet to see one with a battery life of less than four hours.
My Dell Inspiron 500m (Centrino, first generation) has a battery life of about 1h 40m... Windows or Linux both, and yes, cpu scaling does work.
Decreasing taxes increases growth.
As long as you don't decrease the spending, it should[1]. But if it also means decreasing the spending, the above doesn't necesarrily make sense: Tax money spent in many areas increase growth - maybe not immediately, but in the long run. Examples of this are education, basic research, transport infrastructure and the fuzzy term "safety".
[1] Until such a time when confidence in the ability to repay or future economic prospects disappear.
Now what are we using that requires that much bandwidth? All together now: Uncompressed video and Gigabit Ethernet.
Networking on laptops are no longer done with PCMCIA... first ethernet, and now wireless, are usually delivered built in. Many laptops come with GbE too.
As for GbE filling the bus... chipsets often handle these outside the PCI bus. And servers use PCI-X (or now, PCI Express).
While it's nice to something as fast as possible, is there a point to have a 3.0Gb/s interface to a product that can only handle 817Mb/s?
On drive cache.
Actually, they are granted rights by various international convents which the US has signed.
The US just happens to be in blatant violation.
Not the same. I'm thinking of the ones with dedicated IPSEC hardware (BEVP41). And given that it is simple to set up, works well through NAT etc, it was well worth the price, compared to all the hours I spent trying to make Freeswan work. No moving parts etc. being good too. And it plays well with other IPSEC hardware... so all I'm wondering of now is the easiest way to get Linux to connect to it as a road warrior with FC2/3
AFAIK the Broadcom wireless chipset used in that Linksys is closed source so you are basically stuck with kernel 2.4.
I'm thinking of Linux connecting to one of them (they have native IPSEC in hardware, and can do 50-75 tunnels depending on the model), not on replacing the hardware on the unit itself.
Linksys sells a VPN router that uses the IPSec standard, for around $100.
We have some of those, and they work great.
That said, has anyone set up the IPSEC in 2.6 to work with one of them? Would be nice to be able to do it over the wireless connection too...
It seems that MS holding onto IE is simply to save face, there is no real value in IE any more,
Yes, there is. Customer lock in. Making moving onto non-MS platforms harder and more costly. And keeping MS as the dominant corporate desktop platform is their spearhead into the corporate server space as well.
Oh... yeah... IE is great... no need to change it until longhorn...
In all fairness, that statement was about features. Not security.
They'll keep on patching this Swiss Cheese after-the-fact for a long time yes, and know it.
Currently, the US has huge trade deficits, and due to economic mismanagement, the largest budget deficit ever.
Currently, the rest of the world has been content in just saving dollars and using them betweem themselves... if they switch to the euro, the house of cards could come tumbling down fast.
I'll probably lose a lot of karma for this, but just like the past summer's hurricane disasters in Florida, people have to realise that there is a price to pay when you choose to live in a natural disaster zone.
A couple of issues:
Your points definitely apply to Florida (hurricanes) and California (earth quakes), though.