This system is dumb. When I have to do emergency braking, I am not trying to stop in shortest possible distance, I am also trying to stop as smooth as I could, so car behind me have time to react and won't crash into my back. If this system on slow speed, jam breaks each time there is obstance within 300 feet there is good chance of taigaiting idiot 30 feet behind me to hit my car.
It is worthless to log messages, as long as you could not prove their authenticity. As we know, many protocols could be spoofed. Somebody suggested that IM with broker is legally binding. Somebody would have hard time proving it in the court if sender will say he never sent them.
Solution? For example Fire (MacOS IM client) allows you not only encrypt, but also sign IM messages with GPG. I think it is pretty cool!
After plain dumb journalism like this story on JBoss I wonder if I should trust other stories published here. The meaning of the statement is completely changed. It takes 20 sec to read the original quote (not even the whole story)!
I am using Fire (MacOS X multi-protocol IM client) and it has GPG encryption for long time.
The way they done it, it is quite easy to make it work with other IM clients: they just use GPG to sign/encrypt each message and then send it plain text in ASCII armor. The client on other side can detect such messages and decode them.
No protocol extensions required. I wish somebody address support for such mechanism in standard Yahoo and ICQ clients and other clients.
I guess if more open source IM clients will support it, it could become de-facto IM encryption standard...
I use IM a lot for work and some information I exchange there could considered business secrets.
I used Handspring Treo and player with Thungsten phone, and from these 3 Cliet have worst keyboard I've see.
Besides 4 shits states (shift, control, blue, red) main problem that they are non-sticky. On Treo you press CTRL and then some key. On Clie you need to press them simultaneously. With my big fingers, typing phone number while keeping BLUE shift key is very difficult. Also it makes it impossible to type with one hand.
Also, keys does not have enough play and you do not feel key press.
Besides keyboard disappointment, it is nice Palm. Bluetooth works well (hotsync with Mac, GPRS with t68i).
I was in France on business trip 8 years ago and needed access to my email. At the hotel desk I found minitel terminak, and after short exploration I found the service which provided me with telnet access to elm, and tin which I used to check my email and read news. It was little expensive, but it was paid for by my employer.
Hope they would get blogs contents via RSS. It allows to download only incremental updates and traffic-wise more efficient than donwloading and indexiing HTTP pages.
I do not understand authors rant about C++. What it have to do with the subject of the article (web services). Indeed you can write web services (client and server part) in C++ or any other language.
The fact them amount of data transfered with XML is more than tightly packed binary structures is old news. But overall tendency of Internet protocol design seems to favor ease of parse, human readability over saving few bytes.
Side note: XMLRPC could be used for web services and it is slightly more terse than SOAP.
Overall article is very light-weight and holds almost not useful information (besides God vs C++ programmers joke).
http://www.stagecast.com/ is pretty good. It is visual programming tool for kids to create games. While it does not have programming language in classic sense, it teaches to think algorithms.
My 10 yeard old dauggter mastered it pretty quickly.
I was wondering - wouldn't it be possible to use cell phone for communications? Perhaps with some antennae booster. Will simplify some design. If you take smart phone, like Handpsring Treo, it could be flight computer as well.
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All Plam devices sync with GNOME address book and calendar. Just get yourself mail client which can use these.
It is right way of doing this, because you could not support all email cients on the market. So it is up to email client to integrate with gnome calendar and address book.
Until last month such machine was my home firewall/wireless router. With network cards (2 wired, 1 wireless) running OpenBSD it worked as charm running firewall, NAT, dhcpd and DNS for my home network of 5 computers on DSL.
There are 3 directions of keyboard evolution I see:
First is so-called ergonomic keyboards. They usually, split in two halves, have weird shape, etc. I still to have use classic keyboard on my laptop, and I if I get used to this weird shape switching between laptop and desctop will be nightmare.
Second direction is so-called "internet" keyboard. Usually they just put on top row of keys for browser functions like "home", "back" and sometime sound controls. Usually it makes keyboard bigger and overloaded with functions.
And there is third direction, which I welcome most - simplification without getting to far away from original layout.
I am typing this on Apple Pro keyboard. It does not have "scroll-lock", "print screen", "pause" keys. Layout is very clean and easy to use. What I miss is a "click" feel, but this is a metter of personal preference. Built-in 2-port USB hub is also nice. And yes, it costs $59.
I am having problems with SUN JVM on linux and considering switch my java servers to Solaris x86. Does anybody have feedback on quality of JVM on Solaris x86?
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This system is dumb. When I have to do emergency braking, I am not trying to stop in shortest possible distance, I am also trying to stop as
smooth as I could, so car behind me have time to react and won't crash into my back. If this system on slow speed, jam breaks each time there is obstance within 300 feet there is good chance of taigaiting idiot 30 feet behind me to hit my car.
It is worthless to log messages, as long as you could not prove their authenticity. As we know, many protocols could be spoofed. Somebody suggested that IM with broker is legally binding. Somebody would have hard time proving it in the court if sender will say he never sent them.
Solution? For example Fire (MacOS IM client) allows you not only encrypt, but also sign IM messages with GPG. I think it is pretty cool!
I've put macosX version on Gnutela (via LimeWire) here:
mozilla-1.4RC2-mac-MachO.dmg.gz
After plain dumb journalism like this story on JBoss I wonder if I should trust other stories published here. The meaning of the statement is completely changed. It takes 20 sec to read the original quote (not even the whole story)!
I am using Fire (MacOS X multi-protocol IM client) and it has GPG encryption for long time.
The way they done it, it is quite easy to make it work with other IM clients: they just use GPG to sign/encrypt each message and then send it plain text in ASCII armor. The client on other side can detect such messages and decode them.
No protocol extensions required. I wish somebody address support for such mechanism in standard Yahoo and ICQ clients and other clients.
I guess if more open source IM clients will support it, it could become de-facto IM encryption
standard...
I use IM a lot for work and some information I exchange there could considered business secrets.
Also you should read their book on Scheme
Phone numbers are already universal.
Since I travel sometimes, in my cell phone
address book I keep all numbers in full international format. For example
+1(415)12345678
for number in San Francisco, CA, USA
this allows to dial them from anywhere in the world.
Most modern Unix-like OS are tend to relay heavily on open source software. SCO included. We can fight back.
Put code in popular free/open source packages which cause compilation/execution problems on SCO Unix.
Do not port and test free/open source packages to SCO Unix.
Sourceforge to remove SCO machines from their compile farm.
Let us see who would want to use SCO Unix then, without BASH, APACHE, LESS, SSH, etc.
I used Handspring Treo and player with Thungsten phone, and from these 3 Cliet have worst keyboard I've see.
Besides 4 shits states (shift, control, blue, red) main problem that they are non-sticky. On Treo you press CTRL and then some key. On Clie you need to press them simultaneously. With my big fingers, typing phone number while keeping BLUE shift key is very difficult. Also it makes it impossible to type with one hand.
Also, keys does not have enough play and you do not feel key press.
Besides keyboard disappointment, it is nice Palm. Bluetooth works well (hotsync with Mac, GPRS with t68i).
I was in France on business trip 8 years ago and needed access to my email. At the hotel desk I found minitel terminak, and after short exploration I found the service which provided me with telnet access to elm, and tin which I used to check my email and read news. It was little expensive, but it was paid for by my employer.
Hope they would get blogs contents via RSS.
It allows to download only incremental updates
and traffic-wise more efficient than donwloading
and indexiing HTTP pages.
This does not look like AK47 magazine at all!
As somebody born in Soviet Union, I know
wery well how AK47 magazine looks like.
I do not understand authors rant about C++. What it have to do with the subject of the article (web services). Indeed you can write web services (client and server part) in C++ or any other language.
The fact them amount of data transfered with XML is more than tightly packed binary structures is old news. But overall tendency of Internet protocol design seems to favor ease of parse, human readability over saving few bytes.
Side note: XMLRPC could be used for web services and it is slightly more terse than SOAP.
Overall article is very light-weight and holds almost not useful information (besides God vs C++ programmers joke).
http://www.stagecast.com/ is pretty good. It is visual programming tool for kids to create games. While it does not have programming language in classic sense, it teaches to think algorithms.
My 10 yeard old dauggter mastered it pretty quickly.
I am using:
http://www.rdesktop.org/
You sill need to pay microsoft for remote
access licenses on server side thought.
Ever been to Blockbuster? They have big
section of Sega, X-Box and Playstation games.
They even used to rent Gameboy catridges until
recently.
Site is slashdotted. Anybody have link to google cache for this page?
We will strike back. Next week "SF Chronicle" will examine Hollywood!
Well, here in San Francisco it works also with Cingular and AT&T. Plus it is 3-band and will work pretty much anywhere in the world.
I was wondering - wouldn't it be possible
to use cell phone for communications? Perhaps
with some antennae booster. Will simplify some design. If you take smart phone, like Handpsring Treo, it could be flight computer as well.
All Plam devices sync with GNOME address book
and calendar. Just get yourself mail client
which can use these.
It is right way of doing this, because you could not
support all email cients on the market. So it is up to email client to integrate with gnome calendar and address book.
Until last month such machine was my home
firewall/wireless router. With network cards
(2 wired, 1 wireless) running OpenBSD it worked
as charm running firewall, NAT, dhcpd and DNS
for my home network of 5 computers on DSL.
I've had a Clie for a year and Keyboard there sucks. Keys organization is bad, they are hard to press, labels are not clear enough.
Now I have Treo. Even though overall it is not so good as Clie, it have very usable keyboard (stolen from blackberry I heard).
So, if keyboard is important for you - look at Handspring Treo.
There are 3 directions of keyboard evolution I see:
First is so-called ergonomic keyboards. They usually, split in two halves, have weird shape, etc. I still to have use classic keyboard on my laptop, and I if I get used to this weird shape switching between laptop and desctop will be nightmare.
Second direction is so-called "internet" keyboard. Usually they just put on top row of keys for browser functions like "home", "back" and sometime sound controls. Usually it makes keyboard bigger
and overloaded with functions.
And there is third direction, which I welcome most - simplification without getting to far away from original layout.
I am typing this on Apple Pro keyboard. It does not have "scroll-lock", "print screen", "pause" keys. Layout is very clean and easy to use. What I miss is a "click" feel, but this is a metter of personal preference. Built-in 2-port USB hub is also nice. And yes, it costs $59.
I am having problems with SUN JVM on linux
and considering switch my java servers to
Solaris x86. Does anybody have feedback on
quality of JVM on Solaris x86?