I run the mail system for a smallish company and I currently use sendmail, pop, imap and friends. Everyone uses either Outlook or Outlook Express on the desktop which is fine, but there is one problem. Many people want to use Outlooks Calander sharing stuff, which aparently only works with Exchange server. I've tried Outlook's "Net Folders" thing which tries to share the calander information via e-mail but it sucks. Anyone know of a way to use the shared calander functions without Exchange? We're running a mix of Solaris and Linux, so a solution for either would be fine.
1985 called... They want their assembler code back!
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This guy does some cool stuff... but man, why does it all have to be in assembler. C is readable and damn fast these days.
The way these usually work (and it sounds like this one is the same) is that they just proxy your keyboard connector. Then, if you scan a barcode the device just shoots the numerical form the barcode into your keyboard buffer. To interface you could just write a keystroke filter that looks for barcode formatted numbers.
People have been screaming for YEARS, ever since Win95 was released that it was "just" DOS with a pretty face and how it still had 16 bit code and this and that...
They finally remove it and now it's a completely different story. It's a conspiracy.
Sheesh.
If you really want to just blow shit up these days, have a look at Soldier of Fortune by Raven Software. I have been blowing shit up for the past three nights... I think I perhaps have a problem. Don't buy this one for your neice tho.
That's fine when you have a few days to wait for a e-mail response, but what about when a production system is down and you need help NOW? AFAIK most Open Source programmers don't include their cell phone numbers in the README:)
I assume you mean support as in "Help me with this problem" support? In that case, how does Linux stand up to Windows when the problem is "I need a driver for XXX". Also, Linux and gaming should not be mentioned in the same comment. They are mutually exclusive.
The LDP just doesn't hang when some random bug drops your entire system to a dead halt in the middle of the night. Sure, you can spend the weekend hacking to figure out what the bug is but it takes you a lot longer than it would the author cause you have to learn so much first. Commerical support has it's uses.
What these dipshits are doing is just as illegal as what they are protesting. Sheesh. In their "How to Create & Lay an MP3 Egg" they teach you how to fight online piracy as well! From the site: Here's a brief overview of how to lay your own Cuckoo's Eggs in the Napster nest. 1. Download and install Napster 2. Download or rip songs for use as eggs. 3. Edit the songs adding noise, sounds, and other info 4. Copy your MP3 file into the Napster directories. 5. Connect to Napster and start laying eggs
Step 1 is pretty easy... in fact you probably already have Napster installed. The laying of eggs will work best if you can install Napster on multiple machines so you have the best chance of letting many users connect.
Step 2 is pretty easy. You can either use Napster to download popular songs, or rip some from a CD using Musicmatch or CoolEdit. Pick really popular songs for maximum demand... remixes or duets are very popular downloads, as are live recordings.
It doesn't matter if you are stealing to help someone or stealing to hurt em. It's still just as illegal. Hypocrites.
The biggest problem with this show was that no one knew it existed! I work about 2 minutes from the Overland Park Trade Center (where the show was held) and I live about 10 mins from it and never heard a peep about the thing until I saw it's abysmal failure here on Slashdot.
The most incredible thing about this whole mess is that the loser in question (the ISP operator) ADMITS that his server was cracked as well so that the crackers were able to add information to his named.conf and DNS database yet he is sueing Nike because of THEIR failure in security. Hypocrisy at it's finest. I hope someone mirrors his page where he freely admits this before he figured out how stupid he really is.
ARGH! Why the hell is it that EVERY SINGLE TIME a story accidentally gets reposted someone says Slashdot is dying. This was originally posted over a year ago. Do YOU remember every single thing you said or did last year? Do you do some type of search to make sure you don't repeat jokes or quotes before you say em? NO! Slashdot isn't dying... people just makes mistakes now and then. Sheesh.
No one gets my root password. If a colo facility asked for it I would be out the door with my money before they got done explaining why. If they need to secure their network they need to secure their boxes.. your box being insecure cannot do anything to their network except overload it and if that happens they can pull your network cable out:)
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I saw Titan A.E. at a Dickenson Theater (pretty big chain in KC, dunno about where else) and they were also playing Fantasia 2000... so I don't think that particular theory holds true.
Wow, really? You are tired of crazy schemes like pay at the pump, ATMs, using a credit card for groceries, phone numbers, keys to get into your house and car? Perhaps we should each have a person that walks around with us that will tell other people that you are really who you are. But then, why the hell should they believe him? Unfortunatly, human beings are a lot less trustworthy than a deadbolt and a key.
Yea! Then instead of fighting a virus every once in a while I can teach 1500 people how to use a OS and GUI that can barely stand up. That'll be a lot of fun! "How do I view this Powerpoint document?" Well, let's see, I think someone has hacked together a Powerpoint viewer. "Okay, now how do I embed the Powerpoint document in my Word document" Well, err... lemme check Freshmeat. "Freshmeat?" Sigh... --------- No thank you.
Lot's of people will say "Why not just build a $100 PC and hook up to your stero?". The reason the Audiotron (or whatever) is better is because it's not a massive beige case with a ugly monitor and keyboard. You get a nice, modern looking stero component with a remote and a good looking display to put with your kick ass receiver, DVD player, etc. I have been looking for something like this for a long time, although I really do wish it was just standard NFS or SMB. Sign me up!
I use PayMyBills.com, have been for about 6 months. I am pretty happy with em. Not really had any problems except for one day where they had a few hours down time. It's very nice to be able to pay all yer bills by clicking a few checkboxes. If you find yourself spending hundreds every month in late fees, give it a shot.
It's worth reading what the guy has to say on his web page about this mess. Sounds like he's been pretty nice about the whole thing and that he has offered a pile of options to the OpenSSH team. You can read the page here
Did God mean for us to die at the age of 30 many years ago or did He mean for us to live to 80 or so like we do now? Does He update the "expiration date" as our technology increases, or have we become powerful enough that we don't have to pay attention to Him? Immortality through technology is a goal that we have strived for since the beginning. Right now we can only prolong our lives, eventually we will be able to prolong them indefinitly. This is just the next step in health care.
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I run the mail system for a smallish company and I currently use sendmail, pop, imap and friends. Everyone uses either Outlook or Outlook Express on the desktop which is fine, but there is one problem. Many people want to use Outlooks Calander sharing stuff, which aparently only works with Exchange server. I've tried Outlook's "Net Folders" thing which tries to share the calander information via e-mail but it sucks. Anyone know of a way to use the shared calander functions without Exchange? We're running a mix of Solaris and Linux, so a solution for either would be fine.
1985 called... They want their assembler code back!
--
This guy does some cool stuff... but man, why does it all have to be in assembler. C is readable and damn fast these days.
All the money is going to waste until the bombs start raining down on your kids, then you're asking "Why weren't we prepared???"
Have a look here and here.
http://uscan.sourceforge.net/upc.txt
http://www.jounce.net/~maarken/
The way these usually work (and it sounds like this one is the same) is that they just proxy your keyboard connector. Then, if you scan a barcode the device just shoots the numerical form the barcode into your keyboard buffer. To interface you could just write a keystroke filter that looks for barcode formatted numbers.
People have been screaming for YEARS, ever since Win95 was released that it was "just" DOS with a pretty face and how it still had 16 bit code and this and that...
They finally remove it and now it's a completely different story. It's a conspiracy.
Sheesh.
If you really want to just blow shit up these days, have a look at Soldier of Fortune by Raven Software. I have been blowing shit up for the past three nights... I think I perhaps have a problem. Don't buy this one for your neice tho.
That's fine when you have a few days to wait for a e-mail response, but what about when a production system is down and you need help NOW? AFAIK most Open Source programmers don't include their cell phone numbers in the README :)
I assume you mean support as in "Help me with this problem" support? In that case, how does Linux stand up to Windows when the problem is "I need a driver for XXX". Also, Linux and gaming should not be mentioned in the same comment. They are mutually exclusive.
The LDP just doesn't hang when some random bug drops your entire system to a dead halt in the middle of the night. Sure, you can spend the weekend hacking to figure out what the bug is but it takes you a lot longer than it would the author cause you have to learn so much first. Commerical support has it's uses.
What these dipshits are doing is just as illegal as what they are protesting. Sheesh. In their "How to Create & Lay an MP3 Egg" they teach you how to fight online piracy as well! From the site:
Here's a brief overview of how to lay your own Cuckoo's Eggs in the Napster nest.
1. Download and install Napster
2. Download or rip songs for use as eggs.
3. Edit the songs adding noise, sounds, and other info
4. Copy your MP3 file into the Napster directories.
5. Connect to Napster and start laying eggs
Step 1 is pretty easy... in fact you probably already have Napster installed. The laying of eggs will work best if you can install Napster on multiple machines so you have the best chance of letting many users connect.
Step 2 is pretty easy. You can either use Napster to download popular songs, or rip some from a CD using Musicmatch or CoolEdit. Pick really popular songs for maximum demand... remixes or duets are very popular downloads, as are live recordings.
It doesn't matter if you are stealing to help someone or stealing to hurt em. It's still just as illegal.
Hypocrites.
Heheh... I know you!
The biggest problem with this show was that no one knew it existed! I work about 2 minutes from the Overland Park Trade Center (where the show was held) and I live about 10 mins from it and never heard a peep about the thing until I saw it's abysmal failure here on Slashdot.
The most incredible thing about this whole mess is that the loser in question (the ISP operator) ADMITS that his server was cracked as well so that the crackers were able to add information to his named.conf and DNS database yet he is sueing Nike because of THEIR failure in security. Hypocrisy at it's finest. I hope someone mirrors his page where he freely admits this before he figured out how stupid he really is.
ARGH! Why the hell is it that EVERY SINGLE TIME a story accidentally gets reposted someone says Slashdot is dying. This was originally posted over a year ago. Do YOU remember every single thing you said or did last year? Do you do some type of search to make sure you don't repeat jokes or quotes before you say em? NO! Slashdot isn't dying... people just makes mistakes now and then. Sheesh.
No one gets my root password. If a colo facility asked for it I would be out the door with my money before they got done explaining why. If they need to secure their network they need to secure their boxes.. your box being insecure cannot do anything to their network except overload it and if that happens they can pull your network cable out :)
I saw Titan A.E. at a Dickenson Theater (pretty big chain in KC, dunno about where else) and they were also playing Fantasia 2000... so I don't think that particular theory holds true.
Wow, really?
You are tired of crazy schemes like pay at the pump, ATMs, using a credit card for groceries, phone numbers, keys to get into your house and car?
Perhaps we should each have a person that walks around with us that will tell other people that you are really who you are.
But then, why the hell should they believe him?
Unfortunatly, human beings are a lot less trustworthy than a deadbolt and a key.
Yea! Then instead of fighting a virus every once in a while I can teach 1500 people how to use a OS and GUI that can barely stand up. That'll be a lot of fun!
"How do I view this Powerpoint document?"
Well, let's see, I think someone has hacked together a Powerpoint viewer.
"Okay, now how do I embed the Powerpoint document in my Word document"
Well, err... lemme check Freshmeat.
"Freshmeat?"
Sigh...
---------
No thank you.
For a group of people that hates MicroSoft so much, we sure steal their GUIs a lot.
Lot's of people will say "Why not just build a $100 PC and hook up to your stero?".
The reason the Audiotron (or whatever) is better is because it's not a massive beige case with a ugly monitor and keyboard. You get a nice, modern looking stero component with a remote and a good looking display to put with your kick ass receiver, DVD player, etc.
I have been looking for something like this for a long time, although I really do wish it was just standard NFS or SMB. Sign me up!
I use PayMyBills.com, have been for about 6 months. I am pretty happy with em. Not really had any problems except for one day where they had a few hours down time. It's very nice to be able to pay all yer bills by clicking a few checkboxes. If you find yourself spending hundreds every month in late fees, give it a shot.
It's worth reading what the guy has to say on his web page about this mess. Sounds like he's been pretty nice about the whole thing and that he has offered a pile of options to the OpenSSH team.
You can read the page here
The only game that matters.
Did God mean for us to die at the age of 30 many years ago or did He mean for us to live to 80 or so like we do now? Does He update the "expiration date" as our technology increases, or have we become powerful enough that we don't have to pay attention to Him?
Immortality through technology is a goal that we have strived for since the beginning. Right now we can only prolong our lives, eventually we will be able to prolong them indefinitly. This is just the next step in health care.