Yes, but (though I didn't explicitly state it) I was referring more to home users. You obviously don't want users installing spyware-laden crap on a corporate network.
Actually, IIRC the 1541 was single-sided, single-density, around 160kb of storage.
But yes, there are various different expansions available, including hard drives and more memory. There were various 3rd-party options, and now someone has developed a way to hook up an IDE drive to a C64. It also can be used to access CF cards.
I believe that apps had to support the memory upgrade peripherals. I seem to recall them being fairly popular with GEOS users.
Yeah, all they have to do is make their DRM settings more restrictive. Oh, wait...
Seriously, why is anyone defending Apple in this mess? DRM, no matter how permissive, is still bad. It will always be more restrictive than a non-DRM-encumbered format. I personally find it apalling that so many people are willing to swallow that, and then defend the very people restricting their rights.
The day I let anybody tell me what I can do with stuff I paid for on my computer is the day I die. Or go back to pencil, paper, and an abacus.
You don't specify how much RAM your system has, nor how much you actually use your swap space.
If you really hit your swap hard, then I guess installing a dedicated swap drive would make sense. Of course, so would upgrading your RAM, which would have a much more positive impact on your system's performance, and without the additional heat, noise, and power consumption that adding another drive would.
As another poster mentioned, the rule of thumb is to have twice as much swap as physical ram. Personally, I think that's outmoded, and I don't see the point in even having a swap partition equal in size to a system's physical ram. I have 512mb in my desktop box, and I rarely hit my swap. Right now, I'm running a slew of apps, and I've only hit 5mb of swap.
In short, it may be an interesting exercise, but it's probably not worth it.
Yeah, I've always preferred a blank start page. I only rarely launch my browser directly these days, though. I have my bookmarks in KDE's MacOS-style menubar, KNewsTicker / Kontact have the sites I frequently visit which have RSS feeds, and a URL in thr Run dialog takes care of anything else.
Though I admit that I don't use the bookmarks much anymore. Just entering the URL from the Run dialog is faster for me, and all the sites I like to visit are in the autocomplete history.
Yeah, and we can just crack the case open while playing some Joey Beltram.
I can see it now... The Pioneer DBL-100, with InstaRave(tm) technology.
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Not sure about speed. It seems fast enough for most stuff, but I'd do some careful benchmarking and optimization if I was writing/designing a big app.
I've never used ASP or JSP, but PHP is much easier to pick up than Perl or JavaScript. It's very simple, and uses C/C++-like syntax without the complexity you have to learn to program effectively in C/C++.
Unfortunately, this means that there's huge amount of PHP code that's utter crap out there, because you don't have to think before you code.
Jesus god, Amazon needs to partner with Google. Searching for that title got me several search results, including:
* 'The Phallus Palace: Female to Male Transsexuals' * 'Clinical Neurology: A Modern Approach (Paper)' * 'The World Almanac and Book of Facts 2004' * 'When Girls Feel Fat: Helping Girls Through Adolescence' * 'Principles of Frontal Lobe Function'
Whoever coded their search engine could use some advice from that last title.
It's a hot thing to do in bed if you're a slutty shaved blonde worth $30m.
It is not a hot thing to do if you're a 300lb, hairy, sweaty slashdot nerd 'flying solo.' I beg you, slashdot readers, don't video tape yourselves in bed.
Somebody mentioned this in passing, but didn't provide much information about it.
It's called miniGPS, and it's written by Psiloc. They make plenty of other goodies for S60 phones, so check them out.
But it's not 'real' GPS, and only lets you know what tower you connect through. As another poster mentioned, the 3650 doesn't have GPS, and E911 is not the same thing.
Personally, while I really like this idea, I'd rather keep my land-line, at least for now. I can use it to dial in to my LAN from my laptop if there's no WAP coverage where I am, as well as being able to dial out to my ISP if there's a DSL outage. Also, a simple $5 corded phone is quite useful if your power goes out, as it will run off the phone line. A cordless obviously won't work properly, and your cell will eventually need to be recharged.
But I am glad to see that there are more options. Qwest seems to be gunning for the cable data services. They are (or were) offering an upgrade to 1.5mb/896kb service for a one-time $10 setup fee, and the same cost/mo as my 640/272k service. Score!
Yeah... In the FOTR commentary, Jackson says that he thought it would be 'silly' for him to be carrying a broken blade around for two and a half movies.
Which was fine with me, until I read the book and saw that the blade was re-forged at the Council of Elrond, before the bulk of the journey began.
1) Poster says, "...this will be a good way of getting my PowerBook on the office network, without having to have a drop put in." Clearly, this is an alternative to using plain ethernet. 2) That does not make it less frustrating if/when the system crashes. Furthermore, were the poster to use a hub/switch, they would still have one system with network access if the other crashes, instead of being cut off until the host system fscks/scandisks. 3) NAT is a huge disadvantage if you want to use a LAN, not an advantage.
If the poster had enough trouble that they had to ask/., it's clear to me that the correct solution is to spend the $13 and get a switch.
It's clear that the poster would prefer ethernet, except s/he is unable (or unwilling) to install a second drop, and wants to use FW as a replacement. Just because it can be done doesn't mean that it's a good idea, and there are significant disadvantages to using FW instead of ethernet.
For example, you're dependent upon another computer, which is far more likely to crash than a simple hub or switch, you have to use NAT to communicate with other systems on the LAN, and it's more difficult to get set up, and more difficult to use than ethernet.
Pricewatch has a 5-port switch listed for $13 with shipping & handling. Though the poster may have a FW cable, $13 seems like a very reasonable price to pay to avoid the hassles s/he has already encountered.
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Yes, but (though I didn't explicitly state it) I was referring more to home users. You obviously don't want users installing spyware-laden crap on a corporate network.
They also don't have permission to do most things that users are used to doing, such as installing new software.
Not saying that your comment is wrong, just that for most people, convenience is more important than security.
Actually, IIRC the 1541 was single-sided, single-density, around 160kb of storage.
But yes, there are various different expansions available, including hard drives and more memory. There were various 3rd-party options, and now someone has developed a way to hook up an IDE drive to a C64. It also can be used to access CF cards.
I believe that apps had to support the memory upgrade peripherals. I seem to recall them being fairly popular with GEOS users.
Yeah, all they have to do is make their DRM settings more restrictive. Oh, wait...
Seriously, why is anyone defending Apple in this mess? DRM, no matter how permissive, is still bad. It will always be more restrictive than a non-DRM-encumbered format. I personally find it apalling that so many people are willing to swallow that, and then defend the very people restricting their rights.
The day I let anybody tell me what I can do with stuff I paid for on my computer is the day I die. Or go back to pencil, paper, and an abacus.
Because no monitor known to man is capable of displaying lines that long.
But only one out of thousands who has one in your mom.
Oh yeah, the threat of violence has always been a great way to get what you want.
Are you Italian?
read that as 'is the fault,' please.
Care to explain how Java's license that forbids distribution the fault of the distributor?
You don't specify how much RAM your system has, nor how much you actually use your swap space.
If you really hit your swap hard, then I guess installing a dedicated swap drive would make sense. Of course, so would upgrading your RAM, which would have a much more positive impact on your system's performance, and without the additional heat, noise, and power consumption that adding another drive would.
As another poster mentioned, the rule of thumb is to have twice as much swap as physical ram. Personally, I think that's outmoded, and I don't see the point in even having a swap partition equal in size to a system's physical ram. I have 512mb in my desktop box, and I rarely hit my swap. Right now, I'm running a slew of apps, and I've only hit 5mb of swap.
In short, it may be an interesting exercise, but it's probably not worth it.
Yeah, I've always preferred a blank start page. I only rarely launch my browser directly these days, though. I have my bookmarks in KDE's MacOS-style menubar, KNewsTicker / Kontact have the sites I frequently visit which have RSS feeds, and a URL in thr Run dialog takes care of anything else.
Though I admit that I don't use the bookmarks much anymore. Just entering the URL from the Run dialog is faster for me, and all the sites I like to visit are in the autocomplete history.
Yeah, and we can just crack the case open while playing some Joey Beltram.
I can see it now... The Pioneer DBL-100, with InstaRave(tm) technology.
Not sure about speed. It seems fast enough for most stuff, but I'd do some careful benchmarking and optimization if I was writing/designing a big app.
I've never used ASP or JSP, but PHP is much easier to pick up than Perl or JavaScript. It's very simple, and uses C/C++-like syntax without the complexity you have to learn to program effectively in C/C++.
Unfortunately, this means that there's huge amount of PHP code that's utter crap out there, because you don't have to think before you code.
Jesus god, Amazon needs to partner with Google. Searching for that title got me several search results, including:
* 'The Phallus Palace: Female to Male Transsexuals'
* 'Clinical Neurology: A Modern Approach (Paper)'
* 'The World Almanac and Book of Facts 2004'
* 'When Girls Feel Fat: Helping Girls Through Adolescence'
* 'Principles of Frontal Lobe Function'
Whoever coded their search engine could use some advice from that last title.
Here's the correct link.
See, your problem is that you're trying to sell the raw human chemicals. Complete, functioning organs get much more on the black market.
Start with a kidney, then work your way up.
It's a hot thing to do in bed if you're a slutty shaved blonde worth $30m.
It is not a hot thing to do if you're a 300lb, hairy, sweaty slashdot nerd 'flying solo.' I beg you, slashdot readers, don't video tape yourselves in bed.
What about Mobile IP?
Not really. I mean, how fast can a sweaty, unwashed three-hundred-pound nerd run, anyways?
Somebody mentioned this in passing, but didn't provide much information about it.
It's called miniGPS, and it's written by Psiloc. They make plenty of other goodies for S60 phones, so check them out.
But it's not 'real' GPS, and only lets you know what tower you connect through. As another poster mentioned, the 3650 doesn't have GPS, and E911 is not the same thing.
But miniGPS is quite cool.
Personally, while I really like this idea, I'd rather keep my land-line, at least for now. I can use it to dial in to my LAN from my laptop if there's no WAP coverage where I am, as well as being able to dial out to my ISP if there's a DSL outage. Also, a simple $5 corded phone is quite useful if your power goes out, as it will run off the phone line. A cordless obviously won't work properly, and your cell will eventually need to be recharged.
But I am glad to see that there are more options. Qwest seems to be gunning for the cable data services. They are (or were) offering an upgrade to 1.5mb/896kb service for a one-time $10 setup fee, and the same cost/mo as my 640/272k service. Score!
If you would have read the comment, you would have realized that it's a joke. Lighten up.
This is clearly illegal. Microsoft is using their monopoly power in crooked business to gain a foothold in the lucrative crooked politics arena.
Yeah... In the FOTR commentary, Jackson says that he thought it would be 'silly' for him to be carrying a broken blade around for two and a half movies.
Which was fine with me, until I read the book and saw that the blade was re-forged at the Council of Elrond, before the bulk of the journey began.
1) Poster says, "...this will be a good way of getting my PowerBook on the office network, without having to have a drop put in." Clearly, this is an alternative to using plain ethernet.
/., it's clear to me that the correct solution is to spend the $13 and get a switch.
2) That does not make it less frustrating if/when the system crashes. Furthermore, were the poster to use a hub/switch, they would still have one system with network access if the other crashes, instead of being cut off until the host system fscks/scandisks.
3) NAT is a huge disadvantage if you want to use a LAN, not an advantage.
If the poster had enough trouble that they had to ask
It's clear that the poster would prefer ethernet, except s/he is unable (or unwilling) to install a second drop, and wants to use FW as a replacement. Just because it can be done doesn't mean that it's a good idea, and there are significant disadvantages to using FW instead of ethernet.
For example, you're dependent upon another computer, which is far more likely to crash than a simple hub or switch, you have to use NAT to communicate with other systems on the LAN, and it's more difficult to get set up, and more difficult to use than ethernet.
Pricewatch has a 5-port switch listed for $13 with shipping & handling. Though the poster may have a FW cable, $13 seems like a very reasonable price to pay to avoid the hassles s/he has already encountered.