They are a startup, partly funded by Google, that are offering free wifi in San Francisco and doing some very neat things with simple to setup wifi meshes.
If you read the prerequisites carefully you'll note that it requires IE. I suspect it's just a small wrapper around the IE COM object that just makes sure IE doesn't leave "droppings" lying around.
You only need huge great servers if you think like AOL and wish to control everything. If you use protocols like XMPP (e.g. like Jabber) then you can have decentralised small servers very similar to how email works. That way you have much greater scalability and openess.
Pathfinder had more complicated tasks to conduct? Ha ha.... it was a glorified remote controlled car whose only reason to be was to get pretty pictures on US TV so NASA had a chance of getting more funding.
Beagle 2 was intended to do serious science and was a serious achievement just to get the thing built.</rant>
I can personally vouch for some of these conference services. Shout99 has a good conference service plus lots of other information for freelancers. Or you could try Conference So Easy or Call Vox for similar packages.
I'm lucky in that I work only a few minutes from my office but it is still very useful to be able to work at home at times. Less distractions are a wonderful thing when you have some difficult code to think through and it makes it a lot easier to get into the zone.
If you want to stop receiving telemarketing calls in the UK you can register with the Telephone Preference Service. It is backed by Oftel and it will stop telemarketers as they can be hit with big fines if you are on the list and they call you.
In the UK there are several organised groups going around destroying speed cameras, such as MAD (Motorists Against Detection). (You can take a look at http://www.speedcam.co.uk/welcome.htm
).
It is a general feeling that speed cameras are not being used to improve safety, but as a means of raising extra revenue (i.e. tax) for the government. Indeed a lot of people feel that speed cameras cause accidents as everyone slams on the brakes to avoid getting caught by the cameras (often "hidden" behind trees or road signs) and immediately speeds up again afterwards. I know I do!
What's the goverment's response to this? Well it's to have a huge increase in the number of speed cameras. (Sorry I don't have the figures to hand, but it's a lot).
MAD are not an isolated group, there are several groups around the country, they are probably just the best known.
The version of MSN Messenger that ships with XP talks SIP (I'm not sure if the downloadable version of Messenger for earlier operating system does support SIP, I guess not because XP has SIP built in to the operating system).
Microsoft seems to be taking the view that SIP is the way to go and is down playing H.323.
Messenger is preconfigured to talk to several different ITSPs (internet telephony service providers) that provide worldwide PC to phone services. I know of one of these CallServe that have some information on their site.
IP telephony may not be sexy any more but it is still building rapidly in usage. A lot of "cheap" international phone to phone calls now use IP without the users necessarily being aware of the fact.
I've seens models of Buran in Russian space museums on the back of a "big plane", I guess whatever is the Russian equivalent of a 747. I'm not too good on identifying Russian plane types.
So I guess it was transported in the same way as a shuttle.
If you live in the UK here's how to stop unwanted telephone marketing and fax spam, just go to these wonderful web sites and sign up. It really is as simple as that.
http://www.tps-online.org.uk/
http://www.fps-online.org.uk/
These are the links to the telephone preference service and fax preference service.
Telemarketeers are not allowed to call you by law if you are signed up to these services. And any half decent telemarketeer with respect them (I know that's an oxymoron) otherwise they won't be in business for long.
The "antiquated" file system is NTFS which hasn't been around since MS-DOS days. It is future proof, it is reliable, in fact it's pretty darn good.
The obvious reason I can see in introducing this file system IS to break compatibility making it harder to move data to competing systems and forcing another round of the upgrade treadmill.
Microsoft need to do something to force people to upgrade their OS and to upgrade Office, this seems to be.
Why don't you read the article and why don't you read the comments Troll Boy?
It's even worse than that. I've gone to the bother of downloading the patch for IE6 from Technet (quite a lot of bother as it's 2Mb+ and I've only got a slow connection), and I've tried to install it and it tells me "Sorry this patch if for IE6" - I do have IE6 installed.
Oh well buggered by Bill again.:-(
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Great joke, pity the moderators didn't see it as such!:-)
If you were you would know that many IRA terrorists have been caught due to CCTV cameras. Sure, it's difficult to catch them before the act, but after the act cameras have often supplied the needed evidence to identify and catch those responsible.
I live in the UK, was born here and as about as British as they come.
If you do view this link, please do NOT think this is representative of the UK. I watched this programme on TV and I was horrified and disgusted, more disgusted than I have ever been by a television programme. And please don't think this is only me, I spoke to several of my colleagues at work the following day and they were equally as upset.
All the news coverage I have seen on this programme has been equally as critical and it seems that heads may roll at the BBC following this. I have seen many newspaper reports condemning this programme from newspapers across the political spectrum.
If you don't live in the UK, you may not be aware that the BBC home political coverage is widely held to have a left wing bias. The audience for this program is also largely self selected and hence tends to get stuffed with people with an axe to grind.
Please, please do not view this as representative of the view in the UK. Last week I saw more people participate in the public show of sympathy than I did for the death of Princess Diana.
I would estimate that 90% or higher of the population is completely behind the US. And I have the courage to put my name to this post which cannot be said for the AC that posted it.
Ah... but there is something important you are forgetting - patents.
My understanding is that a lot of the extremely useful optimisations are covered by patents owned by IBM, Intel, Microsoft, etc.
Now if IBM and Intel just opened up those patents then a lot more useful optimisations could be done. Otherwise we have the much more difficult route of the GCC developers having to come up with their own non-infringing optimisations.
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This looks a similar idea to the solar wifi mesh box thingy that Meraki are doing.
They are a startup, partly funded by Google, that are offering free wifi in San Francisco and doing some very neat things with simple to setup wifi meshes.
I thought that a lot of this had been done already by Lotus, I certainly remember TV new spots on it a few years ago.
A quick Google has brought up this from 2004.
Of course I haven't actually read the article, hey this is Slashdot!
Or to make things worse, they take things that the Brits did (before the Yanks entered the War) and pretended that Americans did it. :)
If you read the prerequisites carefully you'll note that it requires IE. I suspect it's just a small wrapper around the IE COM object that just makes sure IE doesn't leave "droppings" lying around.
Err.... surely it's a lot easier, cheaper and faster to just buy more RAM then you don't have to swap?
Or is this supposed to be a "funny" post and the moderators are asleep?
Of course, wings add a great deal of engineering difficulty to the design, but the US already has a great deal of experience with them.
Maybe the Russians have some experience with wings too?
Bzzzztt....
Sorry, thank you for playing.
You only need huge great servers if you think like AOL and wish to control everything. If you use protocols like XMPP (e.g. like Jabber) then you can have decentralised small servers very similar to how email works. That way you have much greater scalability and openess.
or
"Prescott" as in fat bastard who deserves a good slap?
Overweight and generates lots of hot air, I think that's much more appropriate.
Pathfinder had more complicated tasks to conduct? Ha ha.... it was a glorified remote controlled car whose only reason to be was to get pretty pictures on US TV so NASA had a chance of getting more funding.
Beagle 2 was intended to do serious science and was a serious achievement just to get the thing built.</rant>
I can personally vouch for some of these conference services. Shout99 has a good conference service plus lots of other information for freelancers. Or you could try Conference So Easy or Call Vox for similar packages.
I'm lucky in that I work only a few minutes from my office but it is still very useful to be able to work at home at times. Less distractions are a wonderful thing when you have some difficult code to think through and it makes it a lot easier to get into the zone.
If you want to stop receiving telemarketing calls in the UK you can register with the Telephone Preference Service. It is backed by Oftel and it will stop telemarketers as they can be hit with big fines if you are on the list and they call you.
There is a similar service for junk faxes, the Fax Preference Service and even regular junk mail.
They have a similar spam blocking service but I doubt how useful that is :-)
In the UK there are several organised groups going around destroying speed cameras, such as MAD (Motorists Against Detection). (You can take a look at http://www.speedcam.co.uk/welcome.htm ).
It is a general feeling that speed cameras are not being used to improve safety, but as a means of raising extra revenue (i.e. tax) for the government. Indeed a lot of people feel that speed cameras cause accidents as everyone slams on the brakes to avoid getting caught by the cameras (often "hidden" behind trees or road signs) and immediately speeds up again afterwards. I know I do!
What's the goverment's response to this? Well it's to have a huge increase in the number of speed cameras. (Sorry I don't have the figures to hand, but it's a lot).
MAD are not an isolated group, there are several groups around the country, they are probably just the best known.
More stories, here and here.
The version of MSN Messenger that ships with XP talks SIP (I'm not sure if the downloadable version of Messenger for earlier operating system does support SIP, I guess not because XP has SIP built in to the operating system).
Microsoft seems to be taking the view that SIP is the way to go and is down playing H.323.
Messenger is preconfigured to talk to several different ITSPs (internet telephony service providers) that provide worldwide PC to phone services. I know of one of these CallServe that have some information on their site.
IP telephony may not be sexy any more but it is still building rapidly in usage. A lot of "cheap" international phone to phone calls now use IP without the users necessarily being aware of the fact.
I've seens models of Buran in Russian space museums on the back of a "big plane", I guess whatever is the Russian equivalent of a 747. I'm not too good on identifying Russian plane types.
So I guess it was transported in the same way as a shuttle.
If you live in the UK here's how to stop unwanted telephone marketing and fax spam, just go to these wonderful web sites and sign up. It really is as simple as that.
http://www.tps-online.org.uk/
http://www.fps-online.org.uk/
These are the links to the telephone preference service and fax preference service.
Telemarketeers are not allowed to call you by law if you are signed up to these services. And any half decent telemarketeer with respect them (I know that's an oxymoron) otherwise they won't be in business for long.
Hey look at the kettle calling the pot a troll!
The "antiquated" file system is NTFS which hasn't been around since MS-DOS days. It is future proof, it is reliable, in fact it's pretty darn good.
The obvious reason I can see in introducing this file system IS to break compatibility making it harder to move data to competing systems and forcing another round of the upgrade treadmill.
Microsoft need to do something to force people to upgrade their OS and to upgrade Office, this seems to be.
Why don't you read the article and why don't you read the comments Troll Boy?
Hey!
You can sell me beer.
It's even worse than that. I've gone to the bother of downloading the patch for IE6 from Technet (quite a lot of bother as it's 2Mb+ and I've only got a slow connection), and I've tried to install it and it tells me "Sorry this patch if for IE6" - I do have IE6 installed.
:-(
Oh well buggered by Bill again.
Great joke, pity the moderators didn't see it as such! :-)
Hmmm... I guess you are not from the UK.
If you were you would know that many IRA terrorists have been caught due to CCTV cameras. Sure, it's difficult to catch them before the act, but after the act cameras have often supplied the needed evidence to identify and catch those responsible.
Tony Blair wants to eliminate the IRA?
Don't make me laugh! TB has spent the last five years giving in to every single demand of the IRA and getting nothing in return expect vapid promises.
That is the entire problem with terrorists, for too long we have rolled over and appeased them all for a easy life.
Ask the Czechs about how good appeasement works.
I live in the UK, was born here and as about as British as they come.
If you do view this link, please do NOT think this is representative of the UK. I watched this programme on TV and I was horrified and disgusted, more disgusted than I have ever been by a television programme. And please don't think this is only me, I spoke to several of my colleagues at work the following day and they were equally as upset.
All the news coverage I have seen on this programme has been equally as critical and it seems that heads may roll at the BBC following this. I have seen many newspaper reports condemning this programme from newspapers across the political spectrum.
If you don't live in the UK, you may not be aware that the BBC home political coverage is widely held to have a left wing bias. The audience for this program is also largely self selected and hence tends to get stuffed with people with an axe to grind.
Please, please do not view this as representative of the view in the UK. Last week I saw more people participate in the public show of sympathy than I did for the death of Princess Diana.
I would estimate that 90% or higher of the population is completely behind the US. And I have the courage to put my name to this post which cannot be said for the AC that posted it.
Ah... but there is something important you are forgetting - patents.
My understanding is that a lot of the extremely useful optimisations are covered by patents owned by IBM, Intel, Microsoft, etc.
Now if IBM and Intel just opened up those patents then a lot more useful optimisations could be done. Otherwise we have the much more difficult route of the GCC developers having to come up with their own non-infringing optimisations.
Whoever modded this up should be shot.
This idiot obviously didn't read the article and then got modded up again for being a gimboid!
Us Brits might not need saving but the Taiwanese certainly will.