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Since I bought mine in april 2005, it's only been off for a total 
of about 4-5 hours

funny, how they have such products but is not spending efforts to 
make it known.


one of the things I noted about Creative is they have spend too much 
efforts (and money) fighting Apple and trying to be like Steve Jobs 
(SimWongHoo acting like Steve Jobs giving conference).

pick the wrong fight and tout the wrong 'innovations'

what I think Creative is good at, is creating abnormally huge drivers. 
They are almost as good as Logitech at that.

A hack to get skype working with any wireless phone http://www.stretta.com/~matthew/resources/skype/

Joe, Mac mini does have a CPU fan, but it's pretty quiet (less than 
22db from memory). Unit does get pretty hot if you start doing a 
number of CPU intensive tasks at the same time, at which point you 
can actually hear the CPU fan. I've not noticed any performance issues 
with the 5400rpm drive, but I don't run any DB intensive stuff on 
it. The units originally shipped with 256MB RAM, which was just not 
enough for serious use, but I've found the 512MB they now ship with 
to be more than adequate. Most apps run well, except OpenOffice which 
runs like an absolute dog (both the X11 version and NeoOffice).

what os are you running ?

thanks for the info. The alternative I was considering was a shuttle 
barebone http://eu.shuttle.com/en/Desktopdefault.aspx/tabid-72/170_read-11083/
 which comes at about $300 more but it's at least 3 times the size 
of the Mac mini and probably noiser . The barebones do have a normal 
fan in addition to the CPU fan and that makes them noiser

As hotspots become more prevalent, a timely reminder of the threat 
of Arp Cache Poisoning http://grc.com/nat/arp.htm

A recent CDC study shows that less than a third of U.S. hospitals 
use electronic medical records, a situation that had dangerous repercussions 
in the chaos following Hurricane Katrina. It won't be easy--or cheap--to 
establish a secure, nationwide network that puts test results and 
prescriptions online, and allows national disease trends to be tracked. 
President Bush has proposed a $125 million budget for 2006 to develop 
EMR programs.

Yahoo Widgets  http://widgets.yahoo.com/win/

(some nice looking widgets there.. nicely done)

Hmm, 201 time widgets alone.

Actually, 1851 widgets all up.

Ahh, ok.. Yahoo bought Konfabulator :)

Three problems with them:


1) The widget engine is a hefty 12MB or so download (for widgets 
that are nothing other than HTML+CSS+Javascript+Images bundled in 
a zip file with a magic extension)

2) The download/installation process tries repeatedly to high-jack 
your browser preferences

3) The widgets look pretty ordinary compared to the OS X dashboard 
equivalents (go here, http://www.apple.com/downloads/dashboard/and 
compare the respective dictionary/thesaurus offerings)

What's 12mb these days?

With modem upper limit. with broadband 3 songs :)

My watch uploads faster than that.

Now this is cool  http://www.treehugger.com/files/2005/11/tired_of_living.php

and this.. http://www.hiptechblog.com/2006/01/15/worlds-smallest-gps-receiver/

Quick review of the Dell 2405fpw 24" 1920x1200 LCD.  Worth every 
penny. About $1K US.


Although, there is not system to show 4:3 ratio information form 
older video cards, so either buy a new video card that supports wide 
view, or deal with stretched video.

It is BRIGHT, and swivels portrait or landscape.

Does it come with a magnifying glasss to see Altme at that resolution?

:)

Henrik: and don't forget HP on huuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuge drivers 
size (near 400MB for a printer driver! Go crazy)

[so either buy a new video card that supports wide view]

I have not-so-big LCD - but also wide - 19" 1440x900 - and my old 
Riva TNT2 works fine - just added custom setting.

gpl ver 3 beta    http://gplv3.fsf.org/draft

I have a Samsung 213T (1600x1200), and like it very much. I do use 
the larger font size in AltME though. Not as big as the Dell, but 
there are good deals to be had on it.

I plugged it into my Mac yesrday, and went portrait with it, it is 
pretty amazing.  you see twice the hight, and web pages look like 
they are meant to.  also being DVI makes it really crisp.

but does it strain your neck, having to look up and down all the 
time? :-)

don't know, but it might.  I'm old, so my vision is poor, and I need 
to have it close enough to me to read it all, so it in fact goes 
above and below my vision.

I personally like having the top edge of the screen just below eye 
level

Firefox XUL example  http://www.faser.net/mab/chrome/content/mab.xul

If you like windows.. http://www.hanselman.com/blog/ScottHanselmans2005UltimateDeveloperAndPowerUsersToolList.aspx

My list is shorter : Rebol.exe ;-)

http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn8606this explains why 
I'm not a cat person.

because you're not a suicidal rat?

oh right, toxoplasmosis. Fun stuff.

Oracle acquires Sleepycat
http://sleepycat.com/

After some time, I am really glad we can see QNX related interview! 
- http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=13688

I still think it is so far the bes commercial OS design ... many 
say so about Plan9, but I don't know it. I met Dan Dodge back in 
98 in Germany, when Gateway choosed QNX as a future kernel for AmigaOS. 
What a pity it all failed ...

Their kernel is really small ... IIRC it was something around 75KB 
back at that time? This is kind of Core I would like to see Rebol/Core 
be running :-)

For me the best arch is a nanokernel.

Uh, I really suggest to read the article, so nice. I still remember 
how we were blowed by what QNX could do. most of system parts are 
components, which can be plugged/unplugged in a real time, so cool 
...

will look for nanokernel to read something about it.

Pekr. Thats how a nanokernel works.

Imagine a small kernal, sever stitched together drivers, and nothing 
more than a browser with a built in frame work for the UI.  This 
would be more than good enough for 95% of people's computer needs. 
 No Linux, no OSX, no Windows.  Barely an OS at all.

MagmaOs (Rebol OS) was supposed to be like that, no? :-)

Reichart: That sounds like the old browser & OS on floppy disk demo 
that QNX had.

that demo was fun. worked well on a 486 with 8 MB RAM

Cool.  If we can make this part of the Open Source project of FireFox, 
I think it could "win" this time around.