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This is a how-to essay on installing Gentoo on an HP TC4200 tablet
PC, including a diary of my experience.
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Gentoo on the Sager 4750: An Install Odessy.
A long-time PalmOS user defects.
I've been using PalmOS devices for almost a decade. In that time,
Palm has lost sight of the original developer's vision -- the vision
that made them great -- and has begun practicing repulsive corporate
tactics. As a result, they've lost a fan, and a customer.
Mt. Bachelor -- the ski resort -- was purchased by Powder Corp. a few
years ago. This was our second year skiing under the new managament, and
we're not happy with it.
Over the 2004 winter holidays, Monika and I flew United Airlines to
the West coast from Pennsylvania to visit family and to go skiing in Bend,
Oregon. Our return flight was a disaster, and we won't be flying
United again.
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In today's society, people assume that they are privaleged to certain
rights. Moreover, many people believe that there exist certain
inalienable human rights. This is not true. The only rights we have
are the ones which society, in the form of the govornment, issue to
us. This is observable in that most societies do not share the same
concepts of "rights," and many people live their entire lives without
those rights which we members of Western society take for granted.
Th ...
Well, I haven't had much time to do any more work on this document,
so I'm going to drop a quick note in lieu of leaving it updated, until
I can find more time to write more useful information.
I need a hero. I just don't have the resources to do this myself. I
want The Ultimate Operating System. I want dynamically loaded,
resident, shared libraries. I want multi-user support, and MVS
security. I want POSIX compliance, a small, efficient kernel, and
hot-pluggable modules. I'd be ecstatic if it all ran on a CHRP or at
least PPC computer. I want an attractive window manager and GUI, with a
system-wide standard drag-n-drop and clipboard mechanism. I want to
be able to run X applic ...
Right now I'm doing 1:1 translations. That is, I have a package
for each conversion. Since we're only outputting HTML, this isn't
too bad (at this point). I forsee several problems with this method,
none of them very surprising; these are all well known problems, but I
like to itemize them for my own cognitive and motivational processes.
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Changing the layout requires changing the Java translation classes, recompiling,
and restarting the server. The XS lan ...
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Right now I'm doing 1:1 translations. That is, I have a package
for each conversion. Since we're only outputting HTML, this isn't
too bad (at this point). I forsee several problems with this method,
none of them very surprising; these are all well known problems, but I
like to itemize them for my own cognitive and motivational processes.
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Changing the layout requires changing the Java translation classes, recompiling,
and restarting the server. The XS lan ...
Note: This was written back last in mid-1995; I'm leaving it up just to see how wildly off-base I was in my predictions. Most likely, this section will be the last in a series of pages of similar predictions, starting with the most recent (from your point of view) to the most remote. Enjoy.
The Okidata OL810e/PS is a 600x1200 DPI LED laser printer targeted at the SOHO market.
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I am perpetually on the search for a good email client that does every
critical thing that I want it to. The task is hopeless. Today,
though, I found a client that seems to do the most important things,
and I thought you might be interested. The application is called
TkRat.
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This page assumes assumes the 2.2.17 kernel, with USB support compiled
in. The 2.2.18 kernel comes with USB support, as does the 2.4 kernel, and
most of the 2.2.x kernel RPMs distributed by Mandrake.
I am aware that this is really trivial, and that if I spent my
time more productively, I could produce software that would make me
rich and famous and hated across the width and breadth of the earth,
just like Bill Gates. However, I'm intent on contributing something
useful to mankind (unlike Bill Gates), and herewith is another
product review.
I've got a new printer, and boy is it spiffy! This is a review of the Brother HL-1650 duplexing laser printer. If you want the guts without having to read the review, here's the upshot: when I bought it, it was $540 new and was the only laser printer under $1000 with Postscript and auto-duplex, and it is worth every penny. It is fast and makes beautiful print-outs, and it works flawlessly with Linux Mandrake (8.0) and Cups via USB. Could you ask for more?
This document is in no way a specification endorsed by SyQuest. The views contained
therein are purely the opinions of the author.
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A thought has been percolating in my brain for the past couple of
months; I'm sure I'm not the first to consider it. It regards, in
the specific case, pervasive computing and privacy.
MVS does not have this problem. Root's responsibilities are divided
up among
multiple administrative users, so that no one user alone can compromise
a
system. It does this through a mechanism in the kernel that queries
an
external security manager program when certain kernel routines are
called.
Examples of these routines are exec(), kill(), nice(), and the various
file
access methods. If the security manager allows the action, the
kernel goes
ahead and performs the action.
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