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I don't consider Linux doomed. I just don't see any signs Motorola will persuit embedded Linux in their cellphones.

If you had actually read the original story you would realize that Symbian is off topic in this context. The point is Motorolas commitment to Linux - or lack of such. Seems to me they put Linux cold on ice, in benefit of MS.

As for design, that's far from pointless. Design is very much what sells the plethora of more or less identically featured phones. Thus, it is indeed relevant that the A760 looks aged or cheaper compared to MPx200. Another sample of that is the external antenna: The more stylish looking MPx200 have an internal antenna.

To an end-user, A760's major strenght over MPx200 is its display size; 240x320px vs 176x220. Let's hope that is enough to raise demands in the western hemisphere as well.

Here's a review by pcworld: First Linux Tablet PC I realize it's not as optimistic as most of us would like to think, but we need to remember that the average buyer is the PCWorld technologist or lower.

Given some time and a bunch of developers really motivated to get an awesome linux tablet, I would consider this do-able, but unfortunatley, I don't think that is the case right now.

AARGH! I need to preview! Click here.

No. Buy a laser. If you care about longevity longer than a couple years, and decent quality (OK, so the second part CAN be acheived by cheap inks, but only the ones that are barely cheaper), cheap ink .

SCC filed a antitrust suit back in Feb. Hopefully this new ruling will give them something to push back with. But since the courts favored Lexmark originally, SCC was forced to pull their cartridges. The damage may have already been done.

Actually Napster has teamed up with some companies to produce Napster-branded MP3 players. You can read some details here. I think this was reported on Slashdot recently, too.

Why is their chart done up as a JPEG image? They're a computer magazine, aren't they? Hell, I think it might have been from their pages that I first learned the difference between DCT and RLE; they should know better than to convert a graphic to a JPEG!

Remember kiddies--if it's a solid block of color, use PNG or GIF. Otherwise, use JPEG.

If only they listed contact addresses for the authors on the article.

Jouster

I'm not sure why, but a couple of links were removed from the edited post. I haven't yet used MS Office 2003, so I'm not in a position to say whether or not the PC World review 'sums things up pretty well' (not my words) or not. Some of the other edits do clarify, however. As for the "spectacular-conglomeration dept.", if that referred to this post, a tip of the hat to simoniker.

For anyone who cares, here's how it looked as submitted, with an additional Google link for PC Pro article to bypass their registration page. The interesting thing is that PC Pro changed the headline which was definitive about shutting out Macs to something less than absolute.

The first users of MS Office 2003 are weighing in and the response is decidedly mixed. The new Outlook has received a favorable response but the mantra seems to be there's little reason to upgrade unless you absolutely need the new features. Microsoft probably heard this in beta trials and has adopted the curious strategy of denigrating previous versions of Office as "too hard to find things" and having a "clunky" interface. Meanwhile, Bill Gates dismissed the open source competition. One of the new features - self-destructing documents - seems to have caused some confusion because 'Microsoft says the new feature is not designed to remove all traces of a file' and MS spokesman Mike Pryke-Smith says, "The message will still be in various places." E-mails will not self-destruct. Another problem is the permissions technology called Information Rights Management that will shut out Mac users (Google link). PC World has a long and detailed review of Microsoft Office 2003 (single-page).

I'm not sure why, but a couple of links were removed from the edited post. I haven't yet used MS Office 2003, so I'm not in a position to say whether or not the PC World review 'sums things up pretty well' (not my words) or not. Some of the other edits do clarify, however. As for the "spectacular-conglomeration dept.", if that referred to this post, a tip of the hat to simoniker.

For anyone who cares, here's how it looked as submitted, with an additional Google link for PC Pro article to bypass their registration page. The interesting thing is that PC Pro changed the headline which was definitive about shutting out Macs to something less than absolute.

The first users of MS Office 2003 are weighing in and the response is decidedly mixed. The new Outlook has received a favorable response but the mantra seems to be there's little reason to upgrade unless you absolutely need the new features. Microsoft probably heard this in beta trials and has adopted the curious strategy of denigrating previous versions of Office as "too hard to find things" and having a "clunky" interface. Meanwhile, Bill Gates dismissed the open source competition. One of the new features - self-destructing documents - seems to have caused some confusion because 'Microsoft says the new feature is not designed to remove all traces of a file' and MS spokesman Mike Pryke-Smith says, "The message will still be in various places." E-mails will not self-destruct. Another problem is the permissions technology called Information Rights Management that will shut out Mac users (Google link). PC World has a long and detailed review of Microsoft Office 2003 (single-page).

I'm not sure why, but a couple of links were removed from the edited post. I haven't yet used MS Office 2003, so I'm not in a position to say whether or not the PC World review 'sums things up pretty well' (not my words) or not. Some of the other edits do clarify, however. As for the "spectacular-conglomeration dept.", if that referred to this post, a tip of the hat to simoniker.

For anyone who cares, here's how it looked as submitted, with an additional Google link for PC Pro article to bypass their registration page. The interesting thing is that PC Pro changed the headline which was definitive about shutting out Macs to something less than absolute.

The first users of MS Office 2003 are weighing in and the response is decidedly mixed. The new Outlook has received a favorable response but the mantra seems to be there's little reason to upgrade unless you absolutely need the new features. Microsoft probably heard this in beta trials and has adopted the curious strategy of denigrating previous versions of Office as "too hard to find things" and having a "clunky" interface. Meanwhile, Bill Gates dismissed the open source competition. One of the new features - self-destructing documents - seems to have caused some confusion because 'Microsoft says the new feature is not designed to remove all traces of a file' and MS spokesman Mike Pryke-Smith says, "The message will still be in various places." E-mails will not self-destruct. Another problem is the permissions technology called Information Rights Management that will shut out Mac users (Google link). PC World has a long and detailed review of Microsoft Office 2003 (single-page).

Nah, he just ripped it off from here.

And, if you look at comparision chart you will see that Polywell Polystation Two with 128Mb video card (same as Apple) beat Apple's dual processor unit in Photoshop 17/18 and 47/51 :)
Was it the other way around there'd be loud shouts on how unbiased and fair this test was :)

As far as I remember ALL Microsoft programs for Macs are written from scratch. Not ported. Well, if you call writing separate version with same functions for different platform "porting", then yes, ported.

Further the PC World tests run here are much different than the tests run against the G5. This is no explaination of this.

Further the PC World tests run here are much different than the tests run against the G5. This is no explaination of this.

Further the PC World tests run here are much different than the tests run against the G5. This is no explaination of this.

where they cannot even format an html table?
BTW here's the full story without clicking through 8 pages.

Learn to format PC Mag (aka pull your head out).

Dual 2GHz G5 gets smacked down by P4-3.2GHz and Atlhon64 FX-51!!!

http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,112749,p g,8,00.asp

Dual 2GHz G5 gets smacked down by P4-3.2GHz and Atlhon64 FX-51!!!

So apple zealots, who has the fastestachine now?

By contrast, the rate of software piracy in China (which includes Taiwan province and Hong Kong) is about 93%. In short, the Chinese simply steal any software that they do not wish to buy.

The adoption rate of Linux and open-source software in Brazil will be much higher than the rate in China. IBM has made a good strategic move by investing in Brazil. Other American companies should follow suit: divert investments away from China and into Brazil.

... from the desk of the reporter

Well, if you're going to be confrontational about it, let's go:

Feel free to quote meaningless news quips all you like as long as they imply whatever you want to imply.

Me? I'll take some facts and numbers out of official specification documents: The G5 runs between 19 watts of heat dissipation and 42 watts, depending on its clock speed (source as HTML, as PDF)

The Pentium 4 desktop version runs between 60 and 80 watts (source). Indeed, the G5 in its desktop version is in fact competitive with Intel's low power Mobile Pentium 4-M processor for notebooks, which ranges from an impressive 7 watts up to 35 watts (source).

Put that in your pipe and smoke it.

P.S.
This is the direction in which intel is headed with its Mobile Pentium 4 (not M) processor. 70 watts in a laptop.

Finally, Windows 98SE had a similar bug where it shut down too quickly without allowing the heads to park and would ultimately self corrupt.

Wrong. It's not about head parking. It's about not being able to synchronize data not yet written to the disk before shutdown. It can lead to loss of data, but it won't wreck your harddisk.

here, duh

Try PC World. Their ink jet reviews break down the price of cartidges, how long they last, and total cost per page (as well as other relevant info) in the detailed descriptions.

Try PC World. Their ink jet reviews break down the price of cartidges, how long they last, and total cost per page (as well as other relevant info) in the detailed descriptions.

It's a web browser

Um, yes, I read the fucking article. And other articles, like this one, which states that Lamo "spoke openly of his exploits to SecurityFocus reporter Kevin Poulsen, according to Christine Mohan, a spokesperson at The New York Times."

And then, sure enough, I went to SecurityFocus and found this article.

The man practically wrote his own arrest warrant, why is everybody crying about it? HE ADMITTED TO THE CRIME TO A JOURNALIST!

• There are about double the number of cable modem users as DSL users
• Cablers are more satisfied than DSLers with their service
• Cable costs less and is faster
• Cable is installed faster and with fewer problems

SpamCop is currently alive, but Julian had to blow a bunch of cash on upgraded servers after getting knocked down a couple months ago. Pretty much every site which offers any sort of blocklist has had several months of continuous DDoS.

And, even more interesting, ended up with Linux:

Because the Mirra server is built on a Linux software platform, the files stored on the appliance should be safe from worms and viruses that attack Windows-based servers
Link

Here in the European Union, it arrived as of July 1st 2003. Purchases made online within the EU are liable to VAT (Value Added Tax, the EU version of Sales Tax), even if the supplier of the goods is based and shipping from outside the EU.

Some details here.

And now it's the other way around?

Moron! You're just suppose to break in and steal stuff, not unlock the door, announce yourself to the occupants, then offer to buy them much better locks!

Outlook Express: Death Is Exaggerated (PCWorld.com)
Outcry forces reprieve for Outlook Express (ZDNet UK)

OSNews Discussion

OE might be in the IE boat tho, meaning no release until the next release of Windows, as suggested on Beta News. So there will be an opportunity, but not a gaping hole as the next release of Windows will forcefully spread the next version of OE again.

Perhaps he's going to use something like this or this

1. Horizontal scrolling required

Just wait for Microsoft to introduce their horizontal scroll wheel and make it ok to design websites on the width as well. :-P

I've personally thought about writing a worm that would disable the exploit upon infection, along with any other exploits it found on the system. [On Win32, this would mean disabling most functionality of IE] While I think this should be done, I can't afford the lawyer to try it.

However, if the people writing the "repair" worms are the same (or similar) morons that wrote the buggy software in the first place, you end up as bad or worse than before.

Well, there are many websites that vigorously claim that the email tax is a number one hoax....

So it must be true then.

Right?
RIGHT!

Uh Oh.

That was this summer 2003, Sen. Mark Dayton's idea to fight Spam...

Pfew, that was a close call: Senator Downplays E-Mail Tax Idea, Thursday, May 22, 2003.

If they tax email, then the spammers have won.

Now, if 'they' find this posting, they'll probably come up with a tax on hyperlinks...

But will anybody think of the children?

Well, there are many websites that vigorously claim that the email tax is a number one hoax....

So it must be true then.

Right?
RIGHT!

Uh Oh.

That was this summer 2003, Sen. Mark Dayton's idea to fight Spam...

Pfew, that was a close call: Senator Downplays E-Mail Tax Idea, Thursday, May 22, 2003.

If they tax email, then the spammers have won.

Now, if 'they' find this posting, they'll probably come up with a tax on hyperlinks...

But will anybody think of the children?

Well, there are many websites that vigorously claim that the email tax is a number one hoax....

So it must be true then.

Right?
RIGHT!

Uh Oh.

That was this summer 2003, Sen. Mark Dayton's idea to fight Spam...

Pfew, that was a close call: Senator Downplays E-Mail Tax Idea, Thursday, May 22, 2003.

If they tax email, then the spammers have won.

Now, if 'they' find this posting, they'll probably come up with a tax on hyperlinks...

But will anybody think of the children?

PCWorld.com Outlook Express: Death is Exaggerated The idea may have been floated as a trial balloon, but Microsoft backed off quickly under intense pressure from OE's user base.

I've always been pleased with gdivx player. You should be able to get it here

"if they don't have the key"

As I said above: "I'm willing to bet it depends on trusting some basic internet function that is exploitable one way or another."

Given that security is the difficulty of cracking something vs. the reward of having done so (owning every Windows machine that this function hasn't been disabled on) and given that many crypto schemes once belived secure are no longer considered secure which crypto scheme do you want to trust this all important function to?

While we're at it, let's pretend we're Microsoft. We'll be obscure and not tell anyone, hoping that no one will figure it out for themselves. And while we're at it, let's make sure that is anyone does figure it out, they won't tell anyone else on the white hat side of the fence, just because we don't want the PR hit.

Remember, we're talking about the same organization that needed an outsider to renew their domain name and had the verisign keys problem. Why would you trust them for security?

Try the e-mail client within Mozilla. There are lots of cool features, including a spam filter that you teach. I use it at home and see very little spam. I'd use it at work, but we use Outlook there, and I have to reply to Outlook meeting notices and schedule conference rooms.

Brief non-topical note: You might come to like Mozilla the browser, too. It's PC World Magazine's best browser of 2003 (scroll down a bit to see the note).

If you expect an OS to be released and have absolutely no vulnerabilities from day one, then I would love to have some of what you are smoking.

Even Linux has its problems with security flaws. The only problem with Linux is you have to know a hell of a lot more about the system and be willing to invest more time in protecting it.

What did I have to do to protect my WinXP Pro machine? Visit Windows update every so often, usually once a week, download the updates and have a firewall. Things everyone using Windows should do, and if you exclude step one, things everyone should do.

The constant witching about MS is getting to be annoying, no one is perfect, but at least it is easy and painless to install updates if you install them when they are released, not when all the other idiots that waited until a virus is spreading are installing them.

I tried Linux, I have it dual booting on my machine, I don't like it. Sure if it had come out back when I was a kid I might have a different opinion of it, if I had more time to spend learning about it. But it didn't and I don't. No one is paying me to use it and so far no one has required that I know it. So I'm not wasting my time.

Here are some real numbers.

Best Performance among various hardware

802.11g
wep off: 15.5Mbps
b card on network/wep off: 9.4Mbps
wep on: 10.3Mbps

802.11b
wep off: 4.8Mbps

well actually...

Power Pad Offers Easy Recharge

There is the iTunes store. Maybe, they will make it a general music software, you never know.

Yep, check this out: Best Wi-Fi Ever: 802.11g.

Of three 802.11g AP's they tested, bandwidth was reduced by 15-50% for the entire wireless network when a single 802.11b card was present. It is also notable that WEP reduces bandwidth by ~30%.

I find this offering by Garmin to be superior to other combination PDA and fill-in-the-blank-with-MP3-Player-or-cell-phone-or -digital-camera.

It is particularly applicable for mobile professionals who often find themselves in unfamiliar cities. The high level sales executives where I work immediately come to mind. No they aren't stupid, they just often find themselves having to get to a certain downtown meeting in a city they have been to many times visiting different clients and I am sure it would be nice to have a mobile GPS integrated with the PDA they already carry anyway. Plus it is sleek and stylish enough that even the women in the power suits would pull it out of their purse at a meeting.