"...one keystroke reveals the underlying code of almost any XO program or any Web page. Students can not only study how their favorite programs have been written, but even experiment by making changes. (If they make a mess of things, they can restore the original.)"
This makes these things the coolest thing ever! Every application is fully customizable. That's software freedom at it's most beautiful.
Unfortunately for the world of would-be hobbyist programmers, there really is only one reasonable development platform, and it is Windows Mobile. His points might be poorly-referenced, but I think he's pretty right-on about everything.
I'm no drone. I'm a teacher. Outlook syncs with my Windows Mobile phone. I love having a programmable computer with an abundance of free software for a phone. (If it's true that Apple's phone isn't programmable, I would never buy it). Sure Windows Mobile has problems, but life's to short to wait for a linux phone.
I operate my own SmarterMail server. The Outlook plugin syncs contacts/tasks/calendaring with a very usable web application. The commercial version is affordable, and they offer a free version:
"SmarterMail Free Edition is limited to 10 email users on a single domain, and includes all the functionality of SmarterMail Enterprise Edition. Unlike trial software or shareware, free SmarterTools products contain no time limits, popup nag screens, or functionality limits (besides the user limit mentioned above). "
Are you saying someone who can reset a person's password to a known value can't read that person's eamil? He may get caught, but there's no way I know short of some sort of third-party add on, or requiring a fingerprint scanner or security token. Enlighten me on Exchange, please.
Yeah, if an employee had the card info and the willingness to pass it on, lack of IM is not going to deter him. But there are legit reasons for wanting to block AIM. For one, your unwitting users, some of whom are probably administrators on their local machines, could be exposing sensitive information stored on their local hard drives. I'm going to send a friendly reminder to my AIM/Trillian userbase this morning:
There's another AIM worm "on the loose" this morning:
Please don't click on IM links, even if they appear to come from your friends unless you know for certain that you're not talking to an automated process.
In this particular instance, you might get a message like "hey is it alright to put this picture of you up on my egallery album?" Clicking could induce a continuing "cycle of infections" that would be unseemly given our upcoming Sarbox audit.
Thanks!
BTW, Does anyone know a way to block automated hyperlinking of URLs?
Yeah, i used to keep an Apple Ads scrapbook as a kid in the 80's back when a GUI was rare and exciting.
When I saw that hipster-computer-talks-to-Japanese-camera ad tonight, I thought to myself, "It's not only a lie, it's pretentious and lame." The ad where the PC keeps hanging is at least funny, but it's a big lie too. I would almost go Mac for it's Unix-ness, but the UI is horrible. Fix the friggin finder, and give me keyboard shortcuts for everything. If you need a mouse to use a GUI, it's not an environment I want to spend my time in.
This seems like a vote of no-confidence. You'd think the marketing people, at the very least, would've told someone "We have to include at least one hosted app or service in Vista, or people are going to think the CLR and.NET APIs are second-class environments."
It's hard to sympathize with any company whose actions have been so underhanded . They ruined their own business a long time ago, and their current legal manuevering is at best an ugly money grab.
I love Tomcat, but have tried at least 10 times to get it working with IIS using the jk2 connector, and have never succeeded. There are plenty of articles around on the subject, but the procedure varies depending on which version of Windows, Tomcat, and jk are involved.
I'm going to go try again right now, I'll let you know how it goes...
I can't even see being mad, wanting the blog taken down, or wanting an apology. This is not even close to identity theft... the blogger is not seriously claiming to be the guy. He has no idea who the guy is!
IMO, this is a totally harmless, victim-less gag. In fact, the only way the guy could ever get his memory stick back is for somebody to post the pictures, somehow make the site famous, and wait.
If the photos were compromising in any way, I could see being mad... but so far, this is just a hillarious, novel work of art.
I think anti-virus software should be developed with tax dollars by the government. As long as software security comes at a price, too many people won't want or be able to pay for it, bringing everybody down. The internet is a shared public resource, like the highway system, and we'll never be able to keep it running smoothly by expecting users to pay for protection, because most of them won't.
What if Microsoft were held responsible for some of the damage its software was doing to our public resource? You wouldn't even need tax dollars to set up a free anti-virus program.
I believe the reason that extensions keep breaking in new versions is that the XPCOM object model keeps changing. Until that's nailed down, extensions will continue to need periodic updating.
My new HP NC8000 is the quitest laptop I've ever heard. The fan runs on full during start-up, but once Windows is running, it is dead quiet. The hard drive is unbelievably quiet as well.
I just bought a refurbished nc8000 with 512MB RAM, which is not on the recall list but uses an Intel 855PM chipset (one of the ones involved in the recall), and noticed a bunch of strange lock-up problems when doing memory-intensive work. Again, no bluescreens, and context switching in WinXP still works, but everything else is locked.
Can anyone else report similar issues?
Other than the strange lockups (which prompted me to reformat a few times, and ultimately install Mandrake 10), I love the laptop. Great graphics, so fast, very solid, beautiful screen for under $1400 on eBay.
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Yes, you're right about the ratio, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_gas_vehicle#Energy_content.
.25 .33 .38 .40
simply, it's the ratio of carbon atoms to hydrogen atoms:
methane- CH4 = 1:4 =
ethane -C2H6 = 1:3 =
propane-C3H8 = 3:8 =
butane -C4H10= 2:5 =
Methane has the lowest amount of carbon per mole.
But no matter how you slice it, all hydrocarbon combustion creates CO2.
IMHO, If we need to, as a civilization, we can survive on solar power using existing technologies if we reduce our consumption to more modest levels.
"...one keystroke reveals the underlying code of almost any XO program or any Web page. Students can not only study how their favorite programs have been written, but even experiment by making changes. (If they make a mess of things, they can restore the original.)"
This makes these things the coolest thing ever! Every application is fully customizable. That's software freedom at it's most beautiful.
Unfortunately for the world of would-be hobbyist programmers, there really is only one reasonable development platform, and it is Windows Mobile. His points might be poorly-referenced, but I think he's pretty right-on about everything.
Not to mention that CD-ROM drives are produced on a huge scale by an industry with lots of competition.
I'm no drone. I'm a teacher. Outlook syncs with my Windows Mobile phone. I love having a programmable computer with an abundance of free software for a phone. (If it's true that Apple's phone isn't programmable, I would never buy it). Sure Windows Mobile has problems, but life's to short to wait for a linux phone. I operate my own SmarterMail server. The Outlook plugin syncs contacts/tasks/calendaring with a very usable web application. The commercial version is affordable, and they offer a free version: "SmarterMail Free Edition is limited to 10 email users on a single domain, and includes all the functionality of SmarterMail Enterprise Edition. Unlike trial software or shareware, free SmarterTools products contain no time limits, popup nag screens, or functionality limits (besides the user limit mentioned above). "
Are you saying someone who can reset a person's password to a known value can't read that person's eamil? He may get caught, but there's no way I know short of some sort of third-party add on, or requiring a fingerprint scanner or security token. Enlighten me on Exchange, please.
Yeah, i used to keep an Apple Ads scrapbook as a kid in the 80's back when a GUI was rare and exciting.
When I saw that hipster-computer-talks-to-Japanese-camera ad tonight, I thought to myself, "It's not only a lie, it's pretentious and lame." The ad where the PC keeps hanging is at least funny, but it's a big lie too. I would almost go Mac for it's Unix-ness, but the UI is horrible. Fix the friggin finder, and give me keyboard shortcuts for everything. If you need a mouse to use a GUI, it's not an environment I want to spend my time in.
This seems like a vote of no-confidence. You'd think the marketing people, at the very least, would've told someone "We have to include at least one hosted app or service in Vista, or people are going to think the CLR and .NET APIs are second-class environments."
IMAP is an open standard that works great for those who don't want their email addresses to have "gmail" in them.
I just tried it, and on my Pentium M 1.5 laptop the interface was highly responsive as well as beautiful.
Speaking of, if you're going to be in Park City this year, the notorious Slamdance film festival (held simultaneously with Sundance) is showing some machinima on Sunday, Jan 23 @ 10am. They also have an Anarchy Online Competition, with 9 finalists you can watch in Real format.
54% of total portable music market, 92% of hard drive-based market.
It's hard to sympathize with any company whose actions have been so underhanded . They ruined their own business a long time ago, and their current legal manuevering is at best an ugly money grab.
But it seems the impact on Linux will be, at worst, a re-write of any SCO-owned code, should any be found.
FOSS will never die.
I love Tomcat, but have tried at least 10 times to get it working with IIS using the jk2 connector, and have never succeeded. There are plenty of articles around on the subject, but the procedure varies depending on which version of Windows, Tomcat, and jk are involved.
I'm going to go try again right now, I'll let you know how it goes...
BTW, Tomcat != J2EE
I can't even see being mad, wanting the blog taken down, or wanting an apology. This is not even close to identity theft... the blogger is not seriously claiming to be the guy. He has no idea who the guy is!
IMO, this is a totally harmless, victim-less gag. In fact, the only way the guy could ever get his memory stick back is for somebody to post the pictures, somehow make the site famous, and wait.
If the photos were compromising in any way, I could see being mad... but so far, this is just a hillarious, novel work of art.
I think anti-virus software should be developed with tax dollars by the government. As long as software security comes at a price, too many people won't want or be able to pay for it, bringing everybody down. The internet is a shared public resource, like the highway system, and we'll never be able to keep it running smoothly by expecting users to pay for protection, because most of them won't.
What if Microsoft were held responsible for some of the damage its software was doing to our public resource? You wouldn't even need tax dollars to set up a free anti-virus program.
Given that extensions can do anything an ActiveX control can do, I don't think making people manually enable them is overly paranoid.
I believe the reason that extensions keep breaking in new versions is that the XPCOM object model keeps changing. Until that's nailed down, extensions will continue to need periodic updating.
My new HP NC8000 is the quitest laptop I've ever heard. The fan runs on full during start-up, but once Windows is running, it is dead quiet. The hard drive is unbelievably quiet as well.
I just bought a refurbished nc8000 with 512MB RAM, which is not on the recall list but uses an Intel 855PM chipset (one of the ones involved in the recall), and noticed a bunch of strange lock-up problems when doing memory-intensive work. Again, no bluescreens, and context switching in WinXP still works, but everything else is locked.
Can anyone else report similar issues?
Other than the strange lockups (which prompted me to reformat a few times, and ultimately install Mandrake 10), I love the laptop. Great graphics, so fast, very solid, beautiful screen for under $1400 on eBay.
See above... Kopete is also broken.
According to the
iFolder developer pdf on sourceforge, it requires Mono 0.30.2.
Why would they develop it in Mono if they were planning to support KDE?
Can I get a save dialog with an address bar (like Explorer has?)
Not to mention, some North American Indians resent the title "Native American" because it was given to them, rather late, by white anthropolgists.
Check out the wikipedia's summary of the issue if you're interested.