On 03/19/2010 11:41 AM, Benjamin Scott wrote:
Chrome is*fast*, I will give it that.
And there are some benchmarks showing a toss-up among certain browser
functions, but the key is that Firefox's entire UI is rendered in a
single thread, which makes for awful pauses on the fastest of machines
On 03/16/2010 05:52 PM, Arc Riley wrote:
I was going to buy a Sansa Clip+ which supports Ogg Vorbis and FLAC, but
then we got Android phones and I've found it just as adequate for music
playing.
I did get the Clip and it's great except that it doesn't do playcounts.
Which makes it about
On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 11:29 AM, Bill McGonigle b...@bfccomputing.comwrote:
Last I looked only the iPod and a handful of Creative devices supported
this, but I'd like to find something that did (or that I could hack to
do it). I'm trying to avoid buying both Apple and Creative gear.
-Bill
Bill McGonigle b...@bfccomputing.com writes:
On 03/16/2010 05:52 PM, Arc Riley wrote:
I was going to buy a Sansa Clip+ which supports Ogg Vorbis and FLAC, but
then we got Android phones and I've found it just as adequate for music
playing.
I did get the Clip and it's great except that
On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 10:08 PM, Jeffry Smith jsm...@alum.mit.edu wrote:
I have the Sansa Fuze - playes Ogg Vorbis just fine. It's picky on
the movie format (non-free H.264/AAC with some weirdness), but someone
built an app (using libwine, unfortunately) that does the conversion
on Linux.
Ken D'Ambrosio k...@jots.org writes:
I'm afraid I haven't followed the thread (something about sandbags, sump
pumps, and river depth managed to put me into full-out thrash mode),
Eek--hope you've got that all under control, now.
so I don't know if RockBox was mentioned or not; if not, here
On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 11:23 AM, Bill McGonigle b...@bfccomputing.com wrote:
... the key is that Firefox's entire UI is rendered in a single
thread, which makes for awful pauses on the fastest of machines (Thunderbird
can suffer similarly).
I find it's not so much the UI proper as
On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 12:15 PM, Joshua Judson Rosen
roz...@geekspace.com wrote:
If you'd be content with something that has RF transceivers,
microphones, and/or cameras ...
The market for devices without at least one of those is fast
approaching zero, and most manufacturers have already
Nice list. Going through it:
On 03/16/2010 05:47 PM, Joshua Judson Rosen wrote:
* The Touchboo
... a little big for foran iPod-replacement
agree
* The Pandora
vapor at this point. They show pictures of mass production from last
year but not available until the end of this year?
Way back when I was at Digital (as it then was) and before, we used to have
a tool called 'xon'. It took as an argument the DNS name or IP address of
a server on the net, connected to it, started a shell or optionally specified
command, with the DISPLAY environment variable all set up, and maybe
On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 4:13 PM, Bill Freeman f...@ke1g.mv.com wrote:
Way back when I was at Digital (as it then was) and before, we used to have
a tool called 'xon'. It took as an argument the DNS name or IP address of
a server on the net, connected to it, started a shell or optionally
On 03/22/2010 04:39 PM, mark wrote:
On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 4:13 PM, Bill Freeman f...@ke1g.mv.com
mailto:f...@ke1g.mv.com wrote:
Way back when I was at Digital (as it then was) and before, we
used to have
a tool called 'xon'. It took as an argument the DNS name or IP
On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 4:13 PM, Bill Freeman f...@ke1g.mv.com wrote:
Way back when I was at Digital (as it then was) and before, we used to have
a tool called 'xon'. It took as an argument the DNS name or IP address of
a server on the net, connected to it, started a shell or optionally
On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 4:54 PM, Tom Buskey t...@buskey.name wrote:
On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 4:13 PM, Bill Freeman f...@ke1g.mv.com wrote:
Way back when I was at Digital (as it then was) and before, we used to
have
a tool called 'xon'. It took as an argument the DNS name or IP address of
On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 4:13 PM, Bill Freeman f...@ke1g.mv.com wrote:
Googling doesn't seem to turn up xon, so it was either a local tool, or it
has long fallen out of favor. Maybe it was rsh based.
I never used anything by the name of xon (that I recall), but I
think just about everyone had
Benjamin Scott dragonh...@gmail.com writes:
On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 12:15 PM, Joshua Judson Rosen
roz...@geekspace.com wrote:
If you'd be content with something that has RF transceivers,
microphones, and/or cameras ...
The market for devices without at least one of those is fast
This is in response to some recent discussion around printer
brands/models. I can tell you about a recent purchase here at
$DAYJOB. We're basically a Windows shop, so most of the below is
written from that perspective. But what I'm missing in applicability
I make up in length. ;-)
We
[aggregate reply to multiple people, multiple posts]
On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 1:55 PM, Greg Rundlett (freephile)
g...@freephile.com wrote:
I'm searching for a color printer/scanner/copier/fax that works well across
Mac, Windows and Linux, with document feeder and optional tray to accomodate
On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 2:45 PM, Benjamin Scott dragonh...@gmail.com wrote:
I'm searching for a color printer/scanner/copier/fax ...
They all suck.
Oh, and I forgot to mention Matthew The Oatmeal Inman's take on printers:
http://tinyurl.com/y8hvkur
You might even buy one of those
On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 8:31 PM, Joshua Judson Rosen
roz...@geekspace.com wrote:
... people working in government or industry where
there is a concern about espionage, accountability, privacy, or fodder
for blackmail or public criticism (so: G-men ...
Government people carry BlackBerries and
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