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  1. Re:Here's a Sweet Dodge? by tibit · · Score: 1 · on Many Police Departments Engage in Warrantless Cell Phone Tracking

    I tried to follow that URL, but it doesn't seem to work.

    It was pretty close. A dot was missing before 'com', and the link was to a wrong title, but the search function found the book they suggested: Arrest, Search and Investigation in North Carolina. The Cell Phone Technology for Criminal investigations is a training course; I think you'd have to attend it in person.

  2. Use a Patent Book by WhiteHorse-The+Origi · · Score: 1 · on How Do I Put an Invention Into the Public Domain?

    I have a laboratory-grade($30) notebook in which I write down all my patentable ideas with decent ink and date/sign. It has a spot for someone else to sign upon disclosure. This is what they recommend for all inventors/researchers. It's admissible in court and they are frequently used to over-ride patents.
    http://shopping.netsuite.com/s.nl/c.ACCT107430/sc.23/category.56/.f

  3. Re:When is the last time Dvorak... by DianeA · · Score: 1 · on The Downsides of Software as Service
    Software as a Service has a huge upside for businesses. You may want to read and understand research that's being published by Gartner, Forrester, etc.

    Software as a Service (SaaS) means an entirely new business model that allows businesses to outsource large pieces of IT to companies that provide such services in the form of a "utility". In other words a business leader can now go directly to a SaaS firm and buy software solutions right through the internet, for very low costs and with very high ease of use. This means the business doesn't have to incur the costs of owning and managing its own software. I think the vision of SaaS is pretty clear...
    • No more buying, installing, and managing your own software
    • No more buying, installing, and managing your own hardware
    • No more dedicated IT headcount
    • No more owning and managing of your own data centers
    • No more long rollout cycles
    • Because everything is web-based, people can connect from anywhere in the world
    • Etc.
    If you think about it, this is exactly what business leaders want, too. Just like businesses were able to outsource benefits, payroll, accounting, phone service, power, gas, etc., they can now also outsource software provisioning and management.

    If you want to see some good examples, take a look at: One thing that I think is amazing about all of this is that it makes a great deal of sense. No business owner in their right mind wants to have dedicated IT organizations, especially when they're not in the business of IT. SaaS allows businesses to just connect to someone else's IT organization and infrastructure and use their's, at a small fraction of the cost. Pretty cool concept, actually.

    I can say that we use multiple different SaaS solutions and we love them. They save us a fortune in IT costs. They eliminate all the time it used to take us to deal with IT organizations. We get better solutions. And, it beats having to roll everything out and manage it all, ourselves.

    If you don't like SaaS and are looking for excuses against it, you're probably an IT person that's afraid of losing your job because of SaaS. The people that like SaaS realize that they can give their businesses far more IT with better solutions for far less of an investment and in a fraction of the time.

    Have fun,

    Diane
  4. Stop recommending spaghetti code by babylon93 · · Score: 0 · on What Business Software Runs Your Office?
    Joomla - written in PHP - is the only item in your list with decent source code. Comments in the code and the use of CVS or SVN are some obvious good points. It still has the HTML-in-the-code problem but 2 out of 3 isn't bad.

    vTiger (and SugarCRM) - also written in PHP - both have Terrible performance. Absolutely terrible. I suppose that if you use this software with a database of less than 10,000 customers you might be ok. Searching for bugs actually times out (not a good sign). Something else of note: the SugarCRM developers can't code valid HTML. See for yourself - http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww .sugarcrm.com

    LedgerSMB and SQL-Ledger are seriously some of the worst Perl I have ever seen in the last 10 years.

    I wouldn't touch LedgerSMB/SQL-Ledger with a 10 foot pole.
    Every Perl programmer worth his/her salt knows that any Perl program or module should begin with:

    #!/your/path/to/perl -w
    use strict;
    use warnings;

    I looked through the source code and although I didn't see any obvious vulnerabilities (i.e. SQL Injection or Cross-Site-Scripting) there are literally hundreds (thousands?) of lines of (poorly coded) HTML scattered throughout the Perl source.

    Conventions as old as Perl5 (October of 1994) are completely ignored (clear module hierarchy, stricture, code comments, POD documentation, full test suite, etc.) and will ultimately lead any business built on such shoddy code to peril (or ruin).

    The Dieter Simader (coder) and DWS Systems Inc. (company) may have made headlines with this steaming pile back in 1992. However, looking at the source code, it bears a copyright date of 2006. Mr. Dieter Simader appears to have successfully sheltered himself from learning anything new for the last 13 years (and running). Great Job!

    Shitty code like *THIS* gives Perl a bad name. I would rather they simply close the download site before another hapless would-be user falls into the trap that is SQL-Ledger/LedgerSMB.

    SalesForce (http://www.salesforce.com/), NetSuite (http://www.netsuite.com/) and Oracle/Siebel CRM on Demand (http://www.crmondemand.com/ are all excellent (hosted and proprietary) tools.

  5. Re: I woudn't do X on the web by RallyDriver · · Score: 1 · on Paul Graham Claims "Microsoft is Dead"

    Well, it seems like a lot of people would happily run financials via the web ... our company is moving to that from installed Windows apps, and it wasn't my doing, it was our CFO.

    I seem to remember a few years back being told by a Siebel sales guy that hosted software for sales CRM wasn't going to fly either, but I bought it anyway :-)

  6. Several Posible Solutions by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Inventory Tracking & Purchasing

    I do IT work for a small to medium distribution buisness and we are updating out ERP/CRM application. So far we are looking at the folowing solutions:

    VAI
    Net Suite
    Intuit Eclipse
    Tech Sys
    Infor
    Activant

    Good luck, we are just finishing up coming up with our needs requirements and that was a pain in and of its self.
  7. Re:Too Expensive by sidney · · Score: 3, Informative · on Motorola to Marry BPL and Wireless

    You can get them for $280 each in lots of 25 which could put the price in the range for an ISP to offer at cost with a one year contract lock in (making their profit on the ISP service). And as with all electronics, the price will only get cheaper as the technology advances and as the production volume goes up if and when this becomes a popular consumer technology.

  8. 24dbi external antenna by v1 · · Score: 1 · on Wide Area Wireless on a Shoestring Budget?


    http://shopping.netsuite.com/s.nl/c.403468/sc.5/ca tegory.35/.f

    Three levels of gain - 15, 19, and the highest being a very respectable 24dbi. That would probably be overkill for your use - just placing the 15dbi gain one up on each end and aiming them properly should give you an excellent signal point to point. They're fully weatherproof too, unlike the "pringles can" jobbies, and they're actually reasonably priced. The 24 is under $70 iirc and you don't have to buy a pigtail. (cantenna pigtails cost as much as the cantenna does!)

    (original link in case that one is a temp... http://www.rangeextender.com/)

  9. Re:Focus on old tech by plcurechax · · Score: 3, Informative · on O'Reilly's New Magazine for DIY Tech Projects

    Your idea of using surplus is only good is you have whatever said surplus already laying around. I don't happen to have any of the old parts you mention (gameboys, zip drives, scanner, etc.) lying around, or you have a large enough surplus supply (electronic goldmine, ocean state electronics, ebay but prices get whacked quickly) on the market.

    Experimenting with cheap 8-bit microcontrollers such as Microchip's PIC or Atmel's AVRs is quite cheap, and typically all you need is a chip and one (really cheap if want) device - a programmer to transfer the (binary/hex) programs from your PC to the microcontroller's flash memory.

    You will quickly outgrow Radio Shack unless you need a part right now and you don't have the right one in your own stock pile, often referred to as a "junk box" regardless of actual physical size. You should be getting the free catalogs (or CDs) from Digikey, Mouser, Newark, and Jameco. These all have usable online ordering systems and reasonable minimum order & shipping fees. UK geeks check G3SEK's UK Component and Tool Suppliers web page.

    Many useful projects can be made for less than $100 even if you need to buy all the parts. After you build a collection of common parts (common resistors, capacitor values, PIC 16F628, AVR AT90S2313, red & green LEDs, 2N2222A, 2N3904, 2N3906, 2N4401, 2N4403, 2N4416, 4N25, 1N4148, 1N4001, 1N4007, etc.) and tools this cost will go down.

    The real question is do they assume a general audience or do they assume a "knowledgeable user" is their target market? If the stuff is purely "cookbook" & kit building (AmQRP kits as an example) with little or no encouragement (and knowledge transfer) for the average Make reader to explore and expand it won't survive IMHO. BTW AmQRP kits on their own are pretty limited at expanding your knowledge, but combined with the AMQRP Homebrewer magazine and Conference Proceedings they do teach a lot. There is also the QRP-L mailing list which is very useful for technical questions (and has a rich archive)

    I think it should be what Nuts and Volts magazine tries to be, but without the "legacy" dead weight and filler articles. A gentler introduction to most of the Circuit Cellar type stuff.

    If people think this will recreate the Homebrew Computer Club, I expect they will be mistaken, but if you expect it to awaken the curiousity and encourage youth to learn about electronics, then I hope it is a brillent success.

    In the end, I am curious and not quite sure what to expect of Make. It could be really lame if all it ends up being is computer geeks pretending to be electronic engineers (or electronic hobbyists). I hope that at least 10% of it expands what I know, which is more than I can say of books like Hardware Hacking Projects for Geeks (O'Reilly) and Hardware Hacking: Have Fun While Voiding Your Warranty. I am more interested in reading stuff like Hacking the Xbox (An Introduction to Reverse Engineering) by Andrew "bunnie" Huang which starts simple but gets into FPGAs and reverse engineering.

  10. Re:Mod Parent Down by Minna+Kirai · · Score: 1 · on Sam Lake on Video Game Storytelling

    This is simply untrue.

    Ok, right, you have a separate account for troll-plugging. I stand by the "0% complete" accusation, as by definition a mod for an unreleased game can hardly have started yet. DFC smells like a media-scam; a crafty way to score hot-button interviews with credulous reporters.

    But more generously, can't you look at the "troll" label in a positive way? What is your project really, besides an attempt to elicit emotional responses from others? And isn't that the very essense of "trolling"?

  11. Audiophile opinion by Amiga+Lover · · Score: 3, Interesting · on Latest AAC Encoder Comparison Results

    I used to work for an auto electronics installer, and the most discerning fuckers would pay out the nose for single directional cable which sounded JUST that bit better.

    I used to get my jollies installing the cable the wrong way round on one side. Not one of the audionerds noticed by listening.

    Want to know how much flowery crap they can go on with? Take a look here. You only have to read the descriptions of a few of those turntables to realise these guys are as wacked out as alien abductees and the guy on the street corner who tells you every morning he has the FBI after him.