Are LCDs ready to take over as the primary computer display or is the retirement of CRTs, premature?
Maybe, maybe not, but that comma certainly is.
Slightly OT - convert wired keyboards to wireless?
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Does anybody know if somebody manufacturers a unit for turning a wired keyboard into a (nearly) wireless keyboard i.e. a little transmitter box that the keyboard plugs into, with a receiver plugged into the PC?
There's a lot of funky keyboards out there that are wired with a PS/2 connector, unfortunately you can't use them the other side of the room.
He appeared to be giving out about those who run old computers for the sake of keeping up geek appearances. Certainly, if an old machine does the job, use it, so long as the job isn't adding to the matrix screensavers around your desk.
Keep working through it, "Endgame" in season four still brings tears to my eyes. Babylon 5's schtick is that it was so different at the time compared to what was out there. It taught the L.A. T.V. producers that there is an audience willing to follow a longer story arc. Shows like 24 would never have been made had it not been for Babylon 5 really showing the way.
As for DS9, it only got good once B5 aired against it and showed what good sci-fi should be like. Sure, the production was comparitvely cheap, but the characterisation and storyline outdid all it's peers.
I'm drunk BTW, and have no idea why I'm in front of my computer.
The market for commercial security tools is quite different. To begin with, it's smaller than the market for OSS tools. While security professionals may use either, any crackers worth their (or somebody elses) salt are won't be caught using commercial products. Thus, there're probably more 'feature requests' and feedback for the OSS developers to respond to.
Also, a number of commercial products are not written with just the user in mind - the larger ones also involve things like generating pretty reports for use in the CTO's bonus negotiations and suchlike.
Finally, lots of the commercial products try to be competitive by doing everything at once, whereas the OSS tools tend to be more focused on specific functionality, following the traditional unix approach.
Of course, all these points are generalisations and there are exceptions to them all, but that's what you get for asking such a general question.
Learn to read: He wrote "computers... at airports and train stations" not "the schedule board at South Station".
He used South Station as a real example of bad network security. If it's bad there, there's no reason to think other such places do not have bad security practices. It is a logical extension that other aspects of a station's network could also be vulnerable due to poor security procedures.
Agism is not an attractive quality. While he probably is out to promote his business, give him some credit: most authors looking for coverage would have warned of hackers causing train crashes or some such nonsense.
Finally, it doesn't sound like a federal inditement to me at all; I'm pretty sure he wrote the article on his own, without any federal assistance.
If the train station is skimping on cleaning and lighting, are they really providing wireless Internet access?
More to the point, who owns the train stations? Are they typically independent of each other, or are they usually owned by a rail company, perhaps franchised out? If the latter, you would expect an IT department to exist.
Even if it's an independent operator, unless he really knows about network security, he should contract the work out to somebody who does.
The lesson from the article however is that the companies who should know better don't. South Station didn't plan, write, or deploy the system. They paid another company to do so, and that company screwed up.
This was actually one of the better Joe Public security articles I've read for some time. The author went to some effort not to lose the reader to try and help them understand the problem. Too often the public are treated as idiots when it comes to computers, and so, knowing nothing else, they respond as idiots.
I know it's a geeky sterotype to boast about your uptime, and to have a myriad of displays strewn about your desk, but I hope everybody posting here to preach about the ills of global warming practice the little things too.
Stopping the trademarks stops the sale of these machines both by stopping retailers from joining the expensive marketing campaign
Repeat after me: Linux did not utilise the Centrino properly.
One of the core messages of the marketing campaign was based on the performance and power consumption of the chip.
Linux did not utilise these features properly, so the marketing campaign really wasn't relevant.
Intel wanted customers to be assured that when they buy into the Centrino brand, their expectations would be met. Linux could not meet these expectations.
they finance with their wholesale orders
Nonsense. Buying something from a company does not give you any rights to use their trademarks, no more than it gives you a right to use their parking spaces.
and gives Intel the ability to sue people who use the trademark anyway, directly stopping the sale.
Er, yes. That is what a trademark is. Pat yourself on the back. Now, what's your point? A broadside on the nefarious IP world of trademarks?
I'm just pointing out how anticompetitive (against Linux) this is.
Again: Linux did not utilise the Centrino properly.
Intel did not stop the sale of laptops.
Intel did not stop the sale of laptops with linux installed.
Intel did stop such laptops from carrying, and being advertised under, the Centrino logo.
Linux now utilises the Centrino properly.
Intel still does not stop the sale of laptops.
Intel still does not stop the sale of laptops with linux installed.
Intel now allows such laptops to carry, and be aversited under, the Centrino brand.
You're the one who's getting all worked up about my knickers.
I'm sure your knickers are lovely so I will make no further comment on them.
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No, let's not.
It's stupid.
Apples and Oranges: A Comparison.
Ow... brain hurting... pen stuck up nose...
It's a sign of maturity.
No, it's a sign that you've finally been broken in, and shall now conform and be another productive citizen.
Have a nice day.
I wonder though, how long before companies block access to the
(Ah, the joys of slashdot:)
Man, I'm just in the door from seeing the film (only opened here today), did that rock or what?
To all you out there who constantly accuse Microsoft of not being innovators, can I say a big "Hah!".
So there!
Will they now simply be known as Crosoft now, by the way?
Maybe, maybe not, but that comma certainly is.
Does anybody know if somebody manufacturers a unit for turning a wired keyboard into a (nearly) wireless keyboard i.e. a little transmitter box that the keyboard plugs into, with a receiver plugged into the PC?
There's a lot of funky keyboards out there that are wired with a PS/2 connector, unfortunately you can't use them the other side of the room.
Sorry, I thought the crowd around here would take a shine to my carefully wrought puns.
Mind you, my wife is reminding me that the kids, Lacey and Nicholas, are constantly telling my I'm not funny.
If only I had a nickel for every time I heard that, still... that's Our Son Nick and Ol' Lace for you.
Yes, you'd zinc so, wouldn't you?
Ah... it's rare to see jokes of that mettle around here.
In other words, only one nation may be guaranteed freedom, all the others have to live in fear of oppression so that the USA can be free?
"running for no reason"
He appeared to be giving out about those who run old computers for the sake of keeping up geek appearances. Certainly, if an old machine does the job, use it, so long as the job isn't adding to the matrix screensavers around your desk.
Jesse Vincents who took req and ran with it to develop RT.
Thank you, sir.
Keep working through it, "Endgame" in season four still brings tears to my eyes. Babylon 5's schtick is that it was so different at the time compared to what was out there. It taught the L.A. T.V. producers that there is an audience willing to follow a longer story arc. Shows like 24 would never have been made had it not been for Babylon 5 really showing the way.
As for DS9, it only got good once B5 aired against it and showed what good sci-fi should be like. Sure, the production was comparitvely cheap, but the characterisation and storyline outdid all it's peers.
I'm drunk BTW, and have no idea why I'm in front of my computer.
Um, neither.
The market for commercial security tools is quite different. To begin with, it's smaller than the market for OSS tools. While security professionals may use either, any crackers worth their (or somebody elses) salt are won't be caught using commercial products. Thus, there're probably more 'feature requests' and feedback for the OSS developers to respond to.
Also, a number of commercial products are not written with just the user in mind - the larger ones also involve things like generating pretty reports for use in the CTO's bonus negotiations and suchlike.
Finally, lots of the commercial products try to be competitive by doing everything at once, whereas the OSS tools tend to be more focused on specific functionality, following the traditional unix approach.
Of course, all these points are generalisations and there are exceptions to them all, but that's what you get for asking such a general question.
Learn to read: He wrote "computers ... at airports and train stations" not "the schedule board at South Station".
He used South Station as a real example of bad network security. If it's bad there, there's no reason to think other such places do not have bad security practices. It is a logical extension that other aspects of a station's network could also be vulnerable due to poor security procedures.
Agism is not an attractive quality. While he probably is out to promote his business, give him some credit: most authors looking for coverage would have warned of hackers causing train crashes or some such nonsense.
Finally, it doesn't sound like a federal inditement to me at all; I'm pretty sure he wrote the article on his own, without any federal assistance.
If the train station is skimping on cleaning and lighting, are they really providing wireless Internet access?
More to the point, who owns the train stations? Are they typically independent of each other, or are they usually owned by a rail company, perhaps franchised out? If the latter, you would expect an IT department to exist.
Even if it's an independent operator, unless he really knows about network security, he should contract the work out to somebody who does.
The lesson from the article however is that the companies who should know better don't. South Station didn't plan, write, or deploy the system. They paid another company to do so, and that company screwed up.
This was actually one of the better Joe Public security articles I've read for some time. The author went to some effort not to lose the reader to try and help them understand the problem. Too often the public are treated as idiots when it comes to computers, and so, knowing nothing else, they respond as idiots.
Heh, my laptop appears to have a sense of humour. About 5 seconds after posting parent, it complained about low battery power.
I know it's a geeky sterotype to boast about your uptime, and to have a myriad of displays strewn about your desk, but I hope everybody posting here to preach about the ills of global warming practice the little things too.
They only hired the evil ones.
The two are apples and oranges.
Apples and Oranges - A Comparison.
Stopping the trademarks stops the sale of these machines both by stopping retailers from joining the expensive marketing campaign
Repeat after me: Linux did not utilise the Centrino properly.
One of the core messages of the marketing campaign was based on the performance and power consumption of the chip.
Linux did not utilise these features properly, so the marketing campaign really wasn't relevant.
Intel wanted customers to be assured that when they buy into the Centrino brand, their expectations would be met. Linux could not meet these expectations.
they finance with their wholesale orders
Nonsense. Buying something from a company does not give you any rights to use their trademarks, no more than it gives you a right to use their parking spaces.
and gives Intel the ability to sue people who use the trademark anyway, directly stopping the sale.
Er, yes. That is what a trademark is. Pat yourself on the back. Now, what's your point? A broadside on the nefarious IP world of trademarks?
I'm just pointing out how anticompetitive (against Linux) this is.
Again: Linux did not utilise the Centrino properly.
Intel did not stop the sale of laptops.
Intel did not stop the sale of laptops with linux installed.
Intel did stop such laptops from carrying, and being advertised under, the Centrino logo.
Linux now utilises the Centrino properly.
Intel still does not stop the sale of laptops.
Intel still does not stop the sale of laptops with linux installed.
Intel now allows such laptops to carry, and be aversited under, the Centrino brand.
You're the one who's getting all worked up about my knickers.
I'm sure your knickers are lovely so I will make no further comment on them.