> I/theenk/ that it'll run on the little monochrome Sony (SJ20?)
Sorry, it won't. I have this model, and while a sweet (and very cheap) device, the Power48 author has made the (in my view somewhat silly) decision to insist on a color display. Trying to run it brings up an error dialog:
16-bit color unavailable
Power48 requires a color screen with 16-bit color depth to run.
And that's that. Additionally, I find it quite arbitrary that the ROM images MUST reside on a VFS device. The flimsy excuse given is that they require a lot of space, but even the largest image (49G) is just 1MB, while the actual emulator is about half that. Both could even fit on a 2MB Palm, let alone the 8MB and 16MB models. If the requirement for a color screen and VFS card were removed, it could run on a wide range of devices.
It's more useful in a portable device like this. While out, you're more likely to have a BT cell phone with you than be in range of some access point. Ideally of course you'd want both, but realistically I'd take the cheaper BT if I could only have one. I just wish they'd start including BT as a standard feature even in the low-end models.
"Would those green emissions overwhelm my inner eye of imagination, unlike a piece of paper sitting in a typewriter?"
"Could it be that pink shoes and a semi-transparent whiff of cloth really will make me a better woman?"
Seriously, if he gets too distracted by his tools to put down words, maybe he doesn't have much to say to begin with. Besides, there certainly is a touch of forced excentricity to the choices of some famour writers. Hemingway used carpenter's pencils? Ha, the common hack! I will use nothing but the horn of a unicorn to scratch my glorious thoughts into redwood tablets. Anything else just won't do.
You must be joking. Show me housing for $3000 a year in the US, and then we're talking.
> there are more logical places to put your frustration than India
Who the hell is pissed off at India? They're merely the beneficiary of the current ill-conceived outsourcing trend. If you think I have a gripe with Indian programmers, you're reading this all completely wrong.
Methinks someone is just interested in tinkering with some new programming, not in really solving a problem. While the programmer in me salutes you, get real! Do you honestly think you're going to save either time OR money implementing (even just a subset of) a protocol instead of installing and tuning something that has already been written and debugged for quite a while? You can't have been writing code for very long then.
If I were you, I'd spend the week you think this is going to take you to write installing and learning OpenLDAP instead, and to set up some synchronization mechanism to your current database. This could be as simple as a database trigger that monitors all changes and spits out an LDIF file to import into OpenLDAP. Considering what you say about your resource limitations, these probably aren't enormous databases either.
I also remember an interview by a German magazine a couple of years ago, in which Scott went on a loony rant about how Europeans are too obsessed with privacy and data security and how they should get with the program and take the US as a model. He said he certainly makes no secret of his salary--to which the interviewer smuggly replied that as CEO of a public company he certainly doesn't have much choice. How about disclosing his medical records instead?
> These farmers then compete with farmers of countries like India in > the international market whose per capita income is 500 USD per year
Well, it's an unfortunate outcome of the continual agricultural battle between the US and Europe. They're constantly one-upping each other with protectionism or subsidies, meanwhile wreaking havoc with the "lesser" players.
> If you're unemployed because you were replaced by someone from India > willing to work for less then maybe you need to evaluate your true worth
That would be true if it were a mostly level playing field. The fact is you're competing against a workforce on a payscale an order of magnitude lower than yours. There's no acceptable salary adjustment that can make this work. The lowest a single person in the US can earn and just barely scrape by is around $20K a year, and certainly not in all parts of the country. This is more than twice the going rate of a programmer in India, living a good life by local standards.
What it comes down to is that while the goals of a global market and workforce are certainly laudable, until living standards are equalized across the globe this mostly benefits the global players that can produce low and sell high. It doesn't even benefit those Indian workers to the extent you might believe, because not all goods have the same relative pricing as food and shelter. At $6K/yr he might eat and sleep well, but he still won't be buying fancy computers or drive expensive cars.
I'm not worried about those Indians that come overe here and compete with us on (mostly) equal terms. I'm worried about those that compete with us from over there, because the terms are anything but equal. How can you outbid someone who considers $6000 a year a good living while requiring ten times as much yourself?
Scott is a moron who enters every interview with this smug feeling of superiority, half the time not realizing that he's the joke. His often open contempt for others--in particular interviewers--makes it all the more pathetic.
> Did you read the thread the whole way through, or did you just click and flame?
What thread? I went and read the entire piece you linked to, then went and did some research on his connection to the UW-IMAP project, then did some searching on anything he ever has to say on anything that's not UW-IMAP. Basically, his code IS IMAP, anything else is crap. Never mind that other servers have some bugs in their implementation of his protocol. What about the glaring fact that HIS server chokes once you have more than a couple of mails in a folder, because they're ALL in one file? Even with the latests storage changes it's still slow as ass. Or that his folders can't contain both folders and mail?
Incidentally, how exactly was my post a flame? I stated two facts:
1. He is connected to UW-IMAP: true 2. UW-IMAP doesn't scale well: true
> you haven't seen all the demos if you haven't seen trees and such
I've seen enough to not be impressed.
> echopoint poker is good enough to kill a few hours
I DID specifically see that one. Refreshing the entire page when dealing? Ugh! That's NOT a rich GUI client.
If you want to see a rich GUI, look at XUL and Mozilla. Now there you can have serious rich GUI distributed apps. For a lot of people an HTML page simply doesn't qualify as a rich interface, regardless of how fancy the backend is. You're still dealing with HTML tables that keep jerking around while the page loads.
Don't think so. Their sample apps behave JUST like regular old web apps because that's what they are. The webmail example looks and feels pretty much like any other webmail client, with a "dead" HTML message list that refreshes the entire page when clicking one message, just to highlight it. What one usually understands by a rich GUI is that there are high-level components for common visual elements such as lists, trees, tabs etc, that provide more or less complex functionality. The highest level component I see in their stuff is the HTML table. Yay! Maybe they just didn't demo the right stuff, but so far the main gain seems to be the GUI programming paradigm on the back-end. Which is nice, to be sure, but a rich client it ain't.
> the SnapGear firewalls seem to be the most serious protection you can get at a really low price
Just running NAT without a DMZ or port mapping alone gives you the single biggest protection all by itself. Everything else is incremental improvement above that. But for most consumers that don't know sh!t about security, the best and simplest advice is to just get a simple NAT box. Especially since such consumers are most likely to merely browse and use email and would be perfectly served by NAT.
I believe I was following directions from http://www.dslreports.com. Just search for your model number (I assume 7004WBR--if it's not that, it isn't the same Amit hardware). I really wouldn't remember what all I did, it's been months. It involves cross-grading the firmware from SMC to an earlier version of Amit, then upgrading from there to 1.96h3, and also involves hard resetting the router to perform crash recoveries. Anyway, dslreports is a great resource to know.
You really have to do the legwork to search this stuff. Google groups (a.k.a. usenet) is your friend. I guess you could also take it apart and see if there is any info on the circuit board.
It's been a while, but I know that google groups contains a fair bit of postings about it, that's where I found the links to the downloads. I believe it was a Taiwanese ftp site. Also, the SMC Germany site contains newer firmware updates, though not as new as what Amit have. Mine involved a bit of song and dance to convince the SMC box to accept the OEM firmware, but it's working fine now.
Don't know about the 7401BRA, but my 7004BR was OEM'ed by Amit in Taiwan. Products from Asante, 3Com and GVC used the same base hardware, and their firmware is interchangeable. You'll just have to do some googe grouping to find out.
"See man Asher Bond just hooked you up with an extra 1 gigabyte man! It sits right up here on top of the case for state of the art ventilation. How ya like me now!?!? "
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Phft! That's the model without the propane soldering iron. Looz-R!
> I /theenk/ that it'll run on the little monochrome Sony (SJ20?)
Sorry, it won't. I have this model, and while a sweet (and very cheap) device, the Power48 author has made the (in my view somewhat silly) decision to insist on a color display. Trying to run it brings up an error dialog:
16-bit color unavailable
Power48 requires a color screen with 16-bit color depth to run.
And that's that. Additionally, I find it quite arbitrary that the ROM images MUST reside on a VFS device. The flimsy excuse given is that they require a lot of space, but even the largest image (49G) is just 1MB, while the actual emulator is about half that. Both could even fit on a 2MB Palm, let alone the 8MB and 16MB models. If the requirement for a color screen and VFS card were removed, it could run on a wide range of devices.
It's more useful in a portable device like this. While out, you're more likely to have a BT cell phone with you than be in range of some access point. Ideally of course you'd want both, but realistically I'd take the cheaper BT if I could only have one. I just wish they'd start including BT as a standard feature even in the low-end models.
"Would those green emissions overwhelm my inner eye of imagination, unlike a piece of paper sitting in a typewriter?"
"Could it be that pink shoes and a semi-transparent whiff of cloth really will make me a better woman?"
Seriously, if he gets too distracted by his tools to put down words, maybe he doesn't have much to say to begin with. Besides, there certainly is a touch of forced excentricity to the choices of some famour writers. Hemingway used carpenter's pencils? Ha, the common hack! I will use nothing but the horn of a unicorn to scratch my glorious thoughts into redwood tablets. Anything else just won't do.
here's a hearty "HA, HA, HA" for a funny joke well told!
> Simple: buy the same things (s)he is buying.
You must be joking. Show me housing for $3000 a year in the US, and then we're talking.
> there are more logical places to put your frustration than India
Who the hell is pissed off at India? They're merely the beneficiary of the current ill-conceived outsourcing trend. If you think I have a gripe with Indian programmers, you're reading this all completely wrong.
Methinks someone is just interested in tinkering with some new programming, not in really solving a problem. While the programmer in me salutes you, get real! Do you honestly think you're going to save either time OR money implementing (even just a subset of) a protocol instead of installing and tuning something that has already been written and debugged for quite a while? You can't have been writing code for very long then.
If I were you, I'd spend the week you think this is going to take you to write installing and learning OpenLDAP instead, and to set up some synchronization mechanism to your current database. This could be as simple as a database trigger that monitors all changes and spits out an LDIF file to import into OpenLDAP. Considering what you say about your resource limitations, these probably aren't enormous databases either.
I also remember an interview by a German magazine a couple of years ago, in which Scott went on a loony rant about how Europeans are too obsessed with privacy and data security and how they should get with the program and take the US as a model. He said he certainly makes no secret of his salary--to which the interviewer smuggly replied that as CEO of a public company he certainly doesn't have much choice. How about disclosing his medical records instead?
> These farmers then compete with farmers of countries like India in
> the international market whose per capita income is 500 USD per year
Well, it's an unfortunate outcome of the continual agricultural battle between the US and Europe. They're constantly one-upping each other with protectionism or subsidies, meanwhile wreaking havoc with the "lesser" players.
> If you're unemployed because you were replaced by someone from India
> willing to work for less then maybe you need to evaluate your true worth
That would be true if it were a mostly level playing field. The fact is you're competing against a workforce on a payscale an order of magnitude lower than yours. There's no acceptable salary adjustment that can make this work. The lowest a single person in the US can earn and just barely scrape by is around $20K a year, and certainly not in all parts of the country. This is more than twice the going rate of a programmer in India, living a good life by local standards.
What it comes down to is that while the goals of a global market and workforce are certainly laudable, until living standards are equalized across the globe this mostly benefits the global players that can produce low and sell high. It doesn't even benefit those Indian workers to the extent you might believe, because not all goods have the same relative pricing as food and shelter. At $6K/yr he might eat and sleep well, but he still won't be buying fancy computers or drive expensive cars.
I'm not worried about those Indians that come overe here and compete with us on (mostly) equal terms. I'm worried about those that compete with us from over there, because the terms are anything but equal. How can you outbid someone who considers $6000 a year a good living while requiring ten times as much yourself?
Scott is a moron who enters every interview with this smug feeling of superiority, half the time not realizing that he's the joke. His often open contempt for others--in particular interviewers--makes it all the more pathetic.
Or, more customary:
42 miles per gallon in liters per 100 kilometers
> Did you read the thread the whole way through, or did you just click and flame?
What thread? I went and read the entire piece you linked to, then went and did some research on his connection to the UW-IMAP project, then did some searching on anything he ever has to say on anything that's not UW-IMAP. Basically, his code IS IMAP, anything else is crap. Never mind that other servers have some bugs in their implementation of his protocol. What about the glaring fact that HIS server chokes once you have more than a couple of mails in a folder, because they're ALL in one file? Even with the latests storage changes it's still slow as ass. Or that his folders can't contain both folders and mail?
Incidentally, how exactly was my post a flame? I stated two facts:
1. He is connected to UW-IMAP: true
2. UW-IMAP doesn't scale well: true
Where's the flame?
> you haven't seen all the demos if you haven't seen trees and such
I've seen enough to not be impressed.
> echopoint poker is good enough to kill a few hours
I DID specifically see that one. Refreshing the entire page when dealing? Ugh! That's NOT a rich GUI client.
If you want to see a rich GUI, look at XUL and Mozilla. Now there you can have serious rich GUI distributed apps. For a lot of people an HTML page simply doesn't qualify as a rich interface, regardless of how fancy the backend is. You're still dealing with HTML tables that keep jerking around while the page loads.
And his opinion wouldn't by any chance be tainted by his connection to UW-IMAP? A server which is pretty much worthless for any sort of scalability?
Don't think so. Their sample apps behave JUST like regular old web apps because that's what they are. The webmail example looks and feels pretty much like any other webmail client, with a "dead" HTML message list that refreshes the entire page when clicking one message, just to highlight it. What one usually understands by a rich GUI is that there are high-level components for common visual elements such as lists, trees, tabs etc, that provide more or less complex functionality. The highest level component I see in their stuff is the HTML table. Yay! Maybe they just didn't demo the right stuff, but so far the main gain seems to be the GUI programming paradigm on the back-end. Which is nice, to be sure, but a rich client it ain't.
> the SnapGear firewalls seem to be the most serious protection you can get at a really low price
Just running NAT without a DMZ or port mapping alone gives you the single biggest protection all by itself. Everything else is incremental improvement above that. But for most consumers that don't know sh!t about security, the best and simplest advice is to just get a simple NAT box. Especially since such consumers are most likely to merely browse and use email and would be perfectly served by NAT.
I believe I was following directions from http://www.dslreports.com. Just search for your model number (I assume 7004WBR--if it's not that, it isn't the same Amit hardware). I really wouldn't remember what all I did, it's been months. It involves cross-grading the firmware from SMC to an earlier version of Amit, then upgrading from there to 1.96h3, and also involves hard resetting the router to perform crash recoveries. Anyway, dslreports is a great resource to know.
You really have to do the legwork to search this stuff. Google groups (a.k.a. usenet) is your friend. I guess you could also take it apart and see if there is any info on the circuit board.
It's been a while, but I know that google groups contains a fair bit of postings about it, that's where I found the links to the downloads. I believe it was a Taiwanese ftp site. Also, the SMC Germany site contains newer firmware updates, though not as new as what Amit have. Mine involved a bit of song and dance to convince the SMC box to accept the OEM firmware, but it's working fine now.
Depends on the model. My 7004BR was OEM'ed by Amit, but other models weren't necessarily. Just google on " firmware" or something like that.
Don't know about the 7401BRA, but my 7004BR was OEM'ed by Amit in Taiwan. Products from Asante, 3Com and GVC used the same base hardware, and their firmware is interchangeable. You'll just have to do some googe grouping to find out.
It seems to work, though sales dipped for a moment there during the MSBlaster storm when the mind control packets didn't reach their Macs.
That guy's a hoot. My fave:
"See man Asher Bond just hooked you up with an extra 1 gigabyte man! It sits right up here on top of the case for state of the art ventilation. How ya like me now!?!? "