Dish Network has a few hybrids (e.g. all day dish ticket), but I don't know if their PVR works with them or how. If it does you would have the pause/ff/rew, etc.
Anyone remember Circuit City and their pushing DIVX - the watch for only 24 hour DVDish format (you could "silver" the disk though). It died. I don't think it was ever cracked (I don't think anyone bothered).
Apple has the only thing close to working - they allow burning CDs and downloading to their iPod and even sharing with a few computers. (I have one of those Panasonic "media devices" SD-MPEG4-JPEG-Voice recorder/players which works well but the DRM is so bad I can't even put an MP3 broadcast on it and listen to it - fortunately that is the only DRM it has).
1. Install fresh W2K and WXP and whatever else is likely to act as a culture medium for the infection.
2. Run nmap (both tcp and udp) on said boxes with default ports open.
3. Don't pass packets through anything which use those ports.
Worms usually won't be able to proxy-tunnel through other combinations. I don't know if you can move ports through the registry if something is really needed but something might be doable.
If they want to copy or connect, use ssh (this also can provide tunnels and obscures the traffic from the RIAA).
It could be said that the sun was not designed for mainstream computing, but the G5s are shipping as Dual 2Ghz 64 bit PPCs and this years Apple WWDC keynote went into the technical aspects (very high memory, IO, and processor bandwidth, or has Jobs put it, it can transfer a DVD from memory to processor in one second). The 64 bit AMD is also good but will still require a recompile. LinuxPPC-G5 or Linux-x86-Opteron are both different than the stock vanilla PC Linuicies. Apple/IBM and AMD have a very healthy competition going on. Wither (should it be wither) Intel and whatever happened to the unsyncable Itanic?
Considering the number of OTDs (outlook transmitted diseases) that would be prevented if Microsoft would just shut off a lot of stuff by default, I can only wonder what new spams and worms will be spread more efficiently.
I read a lot to manage my money, but the only way I can find time is to find a local restaurant or coffee shop (I don't know of a 24 hr library) without wireless. Sometimes I drive some distance and then do it.
First, I don't have the distractions available. Since I can't work on them anyway I can only accomplish what I take with me, so I usually get it done.
Second, it creates fixed or sunk costs (in economic terms what you have to spend before doing the first thing, but in this case time - if the web is 3 seconds away I might do something, but not if it is 30 minutes away).
Third, at most places like that, I can get refills on drinks and have everything else so I really don't have to get up much from the table.
In my case, my stomach benefits since I eat slower when I am reading and can read better when it is slower. My attention switching is satisfied by the food and beverage. ------------ I have several PDA devices, but don't schedule with them. I use a piece of paper (or small pad or index cards) and pen.
I list the things I really need to get done, and sometimes add color or icons to indicate urgency and/or importance.
When I have some "free" time, I look at the list and see if there is anything I can/want-to work on. Instead of just surfing or doing something else, I try to do something (including personal projects - "go to the bookstore" can be on it). I keep adding and transferring and sometimes use these copy times to reestablish priorities or set my day. ---------------------- The first technique creates blocks of time where tasks may be accomplished.
The second organizes my time in general so that I am doing things I need to get done more of the time.
It sounds obvious, but that is what most companies suffer from. It sounds like they actually reward you for producing the good looking façade with bailing wire and duct-tape beneath. They say they don't like the "not following procedure". But what happens? Nothing? Next time do they say "do it right" or "do it now"?
Do you sign off on the release, or is that a PHB function? Is it YOUR boss' function? Is the "heat" for not doing it right coming from somewhere else? Did you clearly state the quality when you made it available or it was taken from you for release?
Screens saying Alpha Version when started might help. What I can suggest is that you ask the people giving you heat for not following procedure require such a screen until THEY sign off on it which THEY should only do when all the procedures are followed and all the loose ends are tied up.
If they don't have the authority to prevent release, or don't want to exercise it, ignore them. They are merely acting as a conscience in a company that doesn't want one.
CS Lewis wrote his Space Trilogy, and so far I believe his claim that it was the first that suggested that other worlds might be more advanced than earth. And he was Christian and HE noted that nothing in scripture or tradition would prevent or require life on other worlds. If there were, they might be unfallen (and would probably avoid us), fallen but redeemable (and either BC or AD regardless of their technology), or fallen and unredeemable.
The latter category is where the demons go (having been angles). Note that Christians do believe that there are other beings in the universe - the angels and demons.
My problem with SETI is how do we know when it has failed? If there are millions of indistinguishable stones to overturn looking for treasure, and you can only overturn a thousand, is it really science?
Assuming we find an unfallen world (which we thankfully can't access) and find that they are far advanced in every science and art, but politically incorrect. I.e. they respect life, don't give into their lusts, have no swear words in their vocabulary... Or maybe we found one and it was classified.
Why not also study parapsychology - maybe we can cross over with John Edwards and Ramtha and other channelers could prove that there are other beings in the universe, or in local parallel universes to earth. Isn't this what SETI is supposed to be looking for?
We can study parapsychology "scientifically", but until something blatant happens we will never end. SETI is the same way. Funding based on mere beliefs in ETs or God(s) should either both or neither be funded.
Of course if your point is that SETI is being funded because of political validity instead of scientific validity, your point destroys your position. The same way that although breast cancer kills far more than AIDS and isn't easily preventable, even the Feminists support the far greater funding on AIDS research.
And while you bring up evolution, you shouldn't forget its twin brother - eugenics. For some reason research along the lines of Nazi scientists makes people squeamish - but if we are merely evolved animals, we can be bred like dogs or pigeons in order to make a better person. Realize that this was all very scientific at the time (and many of the writings of Charles Darwin you don't see reproduced today were quite racist). And the Christian opposition pointed out that we had souls.
Finally, the reason I consider it that evolution is still pseudo-science is that there is nothing known within scientific law which can produce complex mechanisms (the original cell, the cambrian explosion, structures like a feather or the eye). Merely adding time doesn't help. And I don't believe that it is honest to just call each link a miracle - though research might end up if it eliminates everything else.
Instead of looking for ETs, I think it would be far more profitable to look for this law, force, or whatever. Something like an eye should take billions of years, not millions. So what and where is this "engineering" force?
Neither side admits it might exist and no one is looking for it.
I check my mail. But I do an SSH tunnel, and while it is up I can be doing anything including things they are trying to gage statistics on, but I wouldn't count toward a percentage using encryption to do X because they wouldn't be able to tell.
WEP has lots of problems. OK, lets say Vendor X turns WEP on. They will have to put a big sign up saying what the password is (so captured packets could then be decrypted...). This is any more secure? It is more of a hassle.
The fact that APs don't enable WEP by default might be a problem, but even if they did, they would have to make that password public (again, no more security) or go through a lot of tech support calls from people who had the caps lock key on when configuring one or the other.
[On point MS Bash: The greater percentage of the worms, viri, and other really evil disruptions would go away if MS would simply DISABLE things like javascript and other active content in Outlook and disable unnecessary services and ports BY DEFAULT - in comparison WEP, although covering a different security aspect, is not worth bothering about from an economic standpoint - And I've not heard any meaningful clarion call to reform the MS situation]
WEP is so bad that it is almost pointless. To make it even marginally secure requires a lot of hassle (e.g. burning the WEP key into a Cisco card's flash - assuming you can go all cisco - from an offline, locked-up computer).
All the fixes are well known, but are just becoming standard, or require external standards (e.g. PPPoE over a proper encrypted tunnel).
Several of my projects fall into the same category.
Artists starve. Especially if they write software.
I work full-time on embedded work. He could do the same and work on LRP later.
I don't think it is dead (unless the floppy is). He doesn't have infinite time, but he hasn't found enough helpers, yet hasn't found a benefactor. So what? Life isn't fair or nice.
Linus is a great coordinator and facilitator, but he only writes a little (proportionately) code. Linux is written by thousands.
If LRP is worth it, it will continue on sourceforge or someplace similar and be more than a one man project.
Any state just didn't have to take the money and they could ignore the law.
The problem is that many people, including most reading this assume that things like libraries are "free", or that someone else should pay up but NOT have any say in how that payment is used.
Call a union certification election. This is from the federal agency, the National Labor Relations Board (they can't retaliate). I don't think you can be fired for calling this.
IANAL, but you might want to find a labor law specialist. A few hundred to a lawyer now is likely to save thousands later.
The other possibility is to jump to one of the contractors.
Another possibility is to exercise your vacation or sick days (this is where the lawyer comes in - he can read the fine print in your employee handbook).
You have no promise that you won't be let go AFTER working the extra long hours.
Instead of some of the parallel things where they "standardize" on something like excel or word with such a narrow definition that you can only use OfficeXP on 2000.
If you read, it will be a gradual migration, but it says it is for cost reasons.
Also it is quite possible that it will allow running Windows under VMWare or something similar if required.
The two biggest reasons are cost and licensing, the latter generally going toward the silly (like MS demanding a windows license for each iMac in an Oregon school system).
The other thing the mandate bypasses is the years of wrangling where they will continue to upgrade Windows while people with kickbacks "need just a few more months" every few months to prove that Windows is more economical overall than Linux.
What is more to be feared is the "choice" that is encumbered so that only one product qualifies. The sort of thing that you can use Linux (or Windows or Mac OS X) only if you provide hundreds of pages of justification that you don't have to do otherwise.
It may be a simple case of that. If the Brazilian government does not want to buy Licensing 6.0 and MS basically said that would be the only way they would provide (cut-rate) Windows and office licenses, it doesn't leave much else.
Left out of the discussion is Apple and Mac OS X which is partially free. It is an example of a hybrid open-closed system that seems to be working quite well.
Let me start out with some orthodoxy someone else stated:
Security is a process.
Not something you can bolt-on, buy, or issue a memo on. Beyond that the learning resources mentioned by other posters are all good if not overkill. http://www.insecure.org/tools.html was covered in another article earlier this month.
But let me add a bit of heresy:
You don't have to be an uber-geek to do security, merely figuring out how to be properly secure against skript kiddiez will cover most cases, and the rest are more likely from internal threats - negligence or malice. And there is no anti-social engineering CLI or GUI tool.
Currently, the most common practice it to fire, buy-off, or otherwise silence the "whistleblowers". This is the police state model. So flaws continue since reporting them gets you in trouble with everyone including your boss. The monoculture "corporate load" takes care of everything. (monoculture in the agricultural sense, and in the most narrow one where every stalk of corn is a clone of all the others so one blight can destroy the whole like happened in Ireland in the late 1840s).
There are enough tools to detect and contain break-ins and outbreaks, but a CDC epidemiologist is probably a better model than a KGB officer. Use surveillance and containment, but unless someone insists on being "Typhoid Mary", ignore the user's idiosyncrasies and just make sure things get done.
You don't need to do cryptanalysis for the process to work, buy you need to have some people skills and have a corporation that understands what and how much they are asking for. You also have to take care of details like security patches and deleting old accounts and doing normal auditing.
The most common problems are that they want to be both secure and transparent. This is a tradeoff. And barring that they want to use Brand X software to "solve all their problems". Brand X may be good or bad, but processes create layers and usually Brand X only handles one layer, or can't handle some cases gracefully (abandon security or transparency in that case).
One other difficulty is that the average corporation doesn't really know about network security. They assume because there have been no detected attacks or other problems that there is no problem. Or the "process" is split and is part of an ongoing turf war between the guards insuring you have a visitor's badge and the IT department that has to do this as part of the gazillion other things they do. This usually creates policies but not the process.
The C700 screen is better than most laptops. I can see it in the Sun. The 760 has the bigger battery (1700 v.s. 950 mAh) and they are claiming 8 hours battery life, and it doubles the memory.
Basically think of most of a Linux laptop in your pocket (although it uses Qtopia, not X unless you add it). For network diagnosis it is hard to beat. Plus you get the standard WordProc/Spreadsheet/Present/etc.
Also it works as a SD and CF reader - it uses Samba to export the card mount points to your desktop. So you don't need another USB CF or SD reader. And it plays MP3s, and other formats (more than the iPod).
I have a collection of map images which I serve using the Boa webserver, the usual collection of network tools like (t)ethereal, and I can even compile on it (I have a 512Mb SD). I can also plug it into my cell phone and turn it into a wireless access point - NAT - firewall (I recompiled the kernel to add iptables).
It can replace a laptop if your eyes are reasonably good since the screen is sharp, clear, high-resolution, but still physically small (but there is the magnify button). I can't fully touch type (there is an external keyboard for that), but I can enter text reasonably fast.
I suppose someone will get one because they are neat, but people buy sports cars and rarely drive them and then never go much over 55. But that is a terrible waste.
The C700 is available form Dynamism (otherwise still only in Japan). Runs Linux 2.4.18 with some embedded patches, and uses an ARM XScale processor, but comes with Hancom office clone apps. Just slightly larger than the 5500.
The screen is tremendous. Touch sensitive, VGA (640x480, 16 bit depth) and brighter than most laptops. And it pivots 180 degrees from landscape/laptop to portrait/PDA mode.
And it has a qwerty touch keyboard that seems to be like the vulcan - I can touch type with two or three fingers per hand, but there are external keyboards.
Battery life and compatibility with hardware are very good.
The Vulcan may run the XP Bloatware, but I probably have more things on my Zaurus than would fit on the V. And Bloatware eats batteries unless it runs glacially instead of merely slow and there isn't that much room for a batteries. The Vulcan is 800x480, but that is still not that much bigger and an unusual aspect ratio.
[Bloatware Battery Bludgeoning is a matter of physics and why WinCE devices will never beat Palm, with the Zaurus in the middle - CE executes far more instructions, so does more cycles and the rest is physics - to the point that the power consumption goes up with the square of the clock speed]
It may be interesting to see though. Especially if they can get Linux running. But they don't mention any CF or PCMCIA for hardware.
If you get a good (7.5 Db or better) antenna, you can wardrive across country. There will be gaps but more than a few open APs. I was picking up APs on the strangest points along I-80...
Beyond that, Sprint PCS with unlimited Vision should work if you are going to stay on the freeways (or Verizon's equivalent or others).
I actually enjoyed their thinking liberal (and conservative) articles and was considering subscribing since it made me think, but the link opened a page that was entitled:
Raise Limbaugh's blood pressure! Keep Salon in business
This is not something a thinking liberal would say. Of course "thinking liberals" apparently are so rare that they couldn't have a subscriber base from them (especially if you alienate some allied groups). Those who are liberals only as beneficiaries of the state can't afford a subscription, and the limousine liberals only want to freeload.
Pity that they have to decline into demagoguery in a foolish attempt to stave off bankruptcy. They may not have had sufficient value in their content to survive, but now even their content has no value, merely volume.
It is always a loss when reasoned voices lose a forum, however that happened long ago at Salon. A few are left, but they are apparently a mistake.
or at least public funds, but we've ignored the constitution or warped the interpretation so that it isn't recognizable (why did Alcohol prohibition require an ammendment, but the war on drugs with asset forfeiture was just a majority?).
That said, Government funds aren't some infinite trough for whatever YOU or I want but don't want to pay for myself. Congress said use censorware or we don't pay for your internet access.
Anyone here is completely free to create their own library and set whatever rules they want. But they will have to pay for it themselves.
Even municipalities, etc. are free to open their computers - just don't accept federal funds.
If the 55 MPH limit was "constitutional" (we don't pay for your roads unless you implement speed traps), censorware is.
Something like a background or credit check should be brought out BEFORE the job is offered and it should be made clear that the job is contingent on either having the check or having good credit or whatever.
Oh, by the way, didn't we mention you would have to spend May through September in Antarctica?
Oh, by the way, didn't we mention that you would be installing this in the sexual predators wing of the local prison, youru predecessor left after...
I usually ask about this in interviews - first is about the NDA since there are opensource/GPL issues. I also ask to see the employee manual, or if there are any "unique" or unusual requirements. If they say no, then if they ask something like this after I join I say they should have brought it up when I asked.
The other thing would be to file a counter-NDA saying only X has the right to view clearly specified data from the credit report and that they owe you $10,000 if anyone else sees it, or something like it and just say it is YOUR standard procedure.
All through the '70s and '80s there was a push to fund the panicmonger scientists on the left - The new ice age (switched to global warming, but they will probably be back to Ice Age in a decade or so), Acid Rain (lakes that were highly acid in 1800 but were limed returned to becoming acid, but it was our fault).
The Hyperliberal New York Times is now upset that instead of giving THE LIBERAL PSEUDOSCIENTIFIC LINE they National Cancer Institute is actually looking at data.
Abortion is either a factor or a nonfactor in breast cancer. There have been studies validating both sides, but Bill Clinton will have the NCI say there is no effect, and GWB will have it say there is a clear causal connection.
Condoms are another problem. If they were a drug the FDA would ban them for not being effective or being too hard to use. "Those who used latex condoms correctly and consistently". But how many is that out of everyone who uses condoms? And what of things like HPV that isn't covered by the condom. That, and abstinence. was being censored by the previous administration.
Maybe there will be a page saying "We recommend the use of low-tar cigarettes and filters" and not making any mention of quitting or abstinence of cigarettes if a Tobacco state politician becomes president.
The government should stay out of this too. Where in the constitution does it give them the power to do this?
Back in the '80s there was this Canadian who went by the handle "Rodey" (we were both on BIX, Byte [magazine] information exchange) or something similar that came up with some backup software - I think it basically enhanced and replaced the original DOS backup/restore.
It was free except for "Military" use. He didn't really define Military (apparently he let soldiers use it on their personal computer). Back then I raised the same objections discussed here. But there is nothing new under the sun.
Technically the definitions given back then would mean it would have been perfectly fine for Al Queda or Hamas or any other Terrorist group to use the software because they weren't "military".
(Not that our government and people are any better - we stretch things so that we can label some "Prisoners of war" and others "Enemy Combatant" depending on which is the most useful, and most people seem to agree).
The originator of this new site appears to be some kind of anarchist, which is fine. At least it seems his heart is in the right place.
Even his declaration allows governments to forbid publishing "State Secrets" and "Child Pornography". But that doesn't define "child", or take on the issue of virtual child porn, or state secrets like "we've committed genocide", or who has been arrested under what charge. Who decides who qualifies as a critic, intellectual, artist, or religious figure?
There are fora for vigorous debate on such issues and methods where even the laws can be changed. Software licenses are not such.
In a different venue, but along the same lines, I asked someone about what they actually DID that wasn't merely symbolic to promote their views. I contribute regularly to politicians and organizations that fight for my freedom. It is harder to send a percentage of your income than it is to write a whiny rant and attach it as a license.
If you go to Richard Stallman's webpage, you will find many very strong political views. Many of those are in diametric opposition to my views, others I agree with.
For all his strong views on these positions, he didn't contaminate the GPL with them, and I have followed by not encumbering my licenses.
This follows from the Golden rule. The corollary in question is "Never give or allow a power that you wouldn't also give to your worst enemy and your most disagreeable political opponent".
Keeping the licenses simple and directed at their proper issues is the best thing to do. Otherwise we will need a liberal.sourceforge.net, conservative.sourceforge.net, marxist.sourceforge.net, libertarian.sourceforge.net, and others simply to support forks of projects with different political limitations.
but without Sean Connery. I had trouble finding a character I could identify with, much less care about, and found it confusing - they have hyperdrives, but need people-power for 1800s technology for things like railroads, food, and mining. Much of the rest was cliché - in fact it seemed like a collection of them.
Another thing was too many characters, all with some complex secret past that wouldn't be fully revealed until a 4th season. No one was on screen long enough to make enough points to be 3-d.
I still have the episodes on my PVR, and may scan through them yet. Some of the later episodes seemed to begin to explain things.
Many people seem to want to watch anything labled "sci-fi" that isn't really good, or has no science. And part of the problem is too much is PC so I doubt any real issue will be tackled which was the redeeming feature. Simply writing a plot that occurs in the future, or in a fantasy or spirtual meta-world doesn't redeem the plot, or the characters.
And especially if there is bad science. Farscape at least had one character admit it (we can't have been shrunk since the oxygen molecules wouldn't shrink so we wouldn't be able to breathe). It is one thing to ask me to suspend disbelief. It is another thing to push absurdity or contradiction.
SciFi is interesting because of the wonder of exploring new worlds.
But I find many cartoons (and I don't mean Animé which almost always achieves a high level) better than something like FireFly, at least as it started.
Firefly was followed by "John Doe" which was more interesting and had the scifi elements including a main character that knew everything about everything except himself and this created tension from the first episode. It replaced Dark Angel which also had a similar tension (though the last episode of the first season and the transition pegged my absurdity meter).
Maybe it will pick up, or maybe it will be cancelled. But I don't think it will be the death of SciFi. They will need to wait for something more innovative and something that does take chances.
1. Any "captive" application - think stripped browser on a kiosk - could use Pico.
2. If the TOOLKITS which are (or should be) platform-neutral are ported. Qt is probably a good candidate. The Zaurus already runs QPE and Pico separately, but it isn't much of a leap to do QPE (already over Qt) over PicoGUI.
But before you get too excited, the code is still in an early state, at least as far as compiling on every platform. It keeps client-server though.
And I need to address some other comments about X.
First, it isn't that slow, and one of the problems is that a lot of software is assuming SHM or other extensions that force things to be local.
Second, dxcp or other programs can compress the X stream to make it usable over some slower links and would reduce bandwidth in any case.
Third, if you are doing remote control or something similar, VNC or something similar is the correct solution.
Fourth, X is the basic set of protocols. But in many references they mean X plus every toolkit, extension, and window manager and probably a few applications. Some things are only big because of these accretions.
Citrix, or almost anything else on Windows is a hack since Windows was never designed to work remotely.
You can criticize X all you want, but it is opensource, so you can fix or enhance the problems, and it seems to work well enough to allow the wide adoption.
And PicoGUI addresses one of the major points - the need for a lighter weight system for embedded and small computer use.
The author doesn't give the circumstances of his unemployment. Did he quit, was he laid off, took another job that didn't work, or was he fired. That would have some effect. If there is mutual hatred it depends on whether you want to be considered the better person or if it would be "throwing pearls after swine" (is this only the beginning of a free computer helpline so the ex-boss can avoid doing what is needed).
If it was something trivial (a minute or two) I wouldn't charge. If I left under good terms (did the layoff come from the boss or from corporate central?) I would probably continue to help and ask to be rehired at the first opening.
Depending on what it was beyond that, I would ask them to fax a P.O. or simple agreement that they would pay or consider me rehired for the necessary period.
You get a PPP connection (following the Howto instructions), so the IP of both endpoints tends to be quasi-random, but over a limited range. If you surf on the phone itself it goes through a WAP gateway.
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Dish Network has a few hybrids (e.g. all day dish ticket), but I don't know if their PVR works with them or how. If it does you would have the pause/ff/rew, etc.
Anyone remember Circuit City and their pushing DIVX - the watch for only 24 hour DVDish format (you could "silver" the disk though). It died. I don't think it was ever cracked (I don't think anyone bothered).
Apple has the only thing close to working - they allow burning CDs and downloading to their iPod and even sharing with a few computers. (I have one of those Panasonic "media devices" SD-MPEG4-JPEG-Voice recorder/players which works well but the DRM is so bad I can't even put an MP3 broadcast on it and listen to it - fortunately that is the only DRM it has).
Basic recipie:
1. Install fresh W2K and WXP and whatever else is likely to act as a culture medium for the infection.
2. Run nmap (both tcp and udp) on said boxes with default ports open.
3. Don't pass packets through anything which use those ports.
Worms usually won't be able to proxy-tunnel through other combinations. I don't know if you can move ports through the registry if something is really needed but something might be doable.
If they want to copy or connect, use ssh (this also can provide tunnels and obscures the traffic from the RIAA).
It could be said that the sun was not designed for mainstream computing, but the G5s are shipping as Dual 2Ghz 64 bit PPCs and this years Apple WWDC keynote went into the technical aspects (very high memory, IO, and processor bandwidth, or has Jobs put it, it can transfer a DVD from memory to processor in one second).
The 64 bit AMD is also good but will still require a recompile. LinuxPPC-G5 or Linux-x86-Opteron are both different than the stock vanilla PC Linuicies.
Apple/IBM and AMD have a very healthy competition going on. Wither (should it be wither) Intel and whatever happened to the unsyncable Itanic?
Considering the number of OTDs (outlook transmitted diseases) that would be prevented if Microsoft would just shut off a lot of stuff by default, I can only wonder what new spams and worms will be spread more efficiently.
I read a lot to manage my money, but the only way I can find time is to find a local restaurant or coffee shop (I don't know of a 24 hr library) without wireless. Sometimes I drive some distance and then do it.
First, I don't have the distractions available. Since I can't work on them anyway I can only accomplish what I take with me, so I usually get it done.
Second, it creates fixed or sunk costs (in economic terms what you have to spend before doing the first thing, but in this case time - if the web is 3 seconds away I might do something, but not if it is 30 minutes away).
Third, at most places like that, I can get refills on drinks and have everything else so I really don't have to get up much from the table.
In my case, my stomach benefits since I eat slower when I am reading and can read better when it is slower. My attention switching is satisfied by the food and beverage.
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I have several PDA devices, but don't schedule with them. I use a piece of paper (or small pad or index cards) and pen.
I list the things I really need to get done, and sometimes add color or icons to indicate urgency and/or importance.
When I have some "free" time, I look at the list and see if there is anything I can/want-to work on. Instead of just surfing or doing something else, I try to do something (including personal projects - "go to the bookstore" can be on it). I keep adding and transferring and sometimes use these copy times to reestablish priorities or set my day.
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The first technique creates blocks of time where tasks may be accomplished.
The second organizes my time in general so that I am doing things I need to get done more of the time.
Reward something, and you will get more of it.
corollary:
Penalize something and you will get less of it.
It sounds obvious, but that is what most companies suffer from. It sounds like they actually reward you for producing the good looking façade with bailing wire and duct-tape beneath. They say they don't like the "not following procedure". But what happens? Nothing? Next time do they say "do it right" or "do it now"?
Do you sign off on the release, or is that a PHB function? Is it YOUR boss' function? Is the "heat" for not doing it right coming from somewhere else? Did you clearly state the quality when you made it available or it was taken from you for release?
Screens saying Alpha Version when started might help. What I can suggest is that you ask the people giving you heat for not following procedure require such a screen until THEY sign off on it which THEY should only do when all the procedures are followed and all the loose ends are tied up.
If they don't have the authority to prevent release, or don't want to exercise it, ignore them. They are merely acting as a conscience in a company that doesn't want one.
CS Lewis wrote his Space Trilogy, and so far I believe his claim that it was the first that suggested that other worlds might be more advanced than earth. And he was Christian and HE noted that nothing in scripture or tradition would prevent or require life on other worlds. If there were, they might be unfallen (and would probably avoid us), fallen but redeemable (and either BC or AD regardless of their technology), or fallen and unredeemable.
The latter category is where the demons go (having been angles). Note that Christians do believe that there are other beings in the universe - the angels and demons.
My problem with SETI is how do we know when it has failed? If there are millions of indistinguishable stones to overturn looking for treasure, and you can only overturn a thousand, is it really science?
Assuming we find an unfallen world (which we thankfully can't access) and find that they are far advanced in every science and art, but politically incorrect. I.e. they respect life, don't give into their lusts, have no swear words in their vocabulary... Or maybe we found one and it was classified.
Why not also study parapsychology - maybe we can cross over with John Edwards and Ramtha and other channelers could prove that there are other beings in the universe, or in local parallel universes to earth. Isn't this what SETI is supposed to be looking for?
We can study parapsychology "scientifically", but until something blatant happens we will never end. SETI is the same way. Funding based on mere beliefs in ETs or God(s) should either both or neither be funded.
Of course if your point is that SETI is being funded because of political validity instead of scientific validity, your point destroys your position. The same way that although breast cancer kills far more than AIDS and isn't easily preventable, even the Feminists support the far greater funding on AIDS research.
And while you bring up evolution, you shouldn't forget its twin brother - eugenics. For some reason research along the lines of Nazi scientists makes people squeamish - but if we are merely evolved animals, we can be bred like dogs or pigeons in order to make a better person. Realize that this was all very scientific at the time (and many of the writings of Charles Darwin you don't see reproduced today were quite racist). And the Christian opposition pointed out that we had souls.
Finally, the reason I consider it that evolution is still pseudo-science is that there is nothing known within scientific law which can produce complex mechanisms (the original cell, the cambrian explosion, structures like a feather or the eye). Merely adding time doesn't help. And I don't believe that it is honest to just call each link a miracle - though research might end up if it eliminates everything else.
Instead of looking for ETs, I think it would be far more profitable to look for this law, force, or whatever. Something like an eye should take billions of years, not millions. So what and where is this "engineering" force?
Neither side admits it might exist and no one is looking for it.
I check my mail. But I do an SSH tunnel, and while it is up I can be doing anything including things they are trying to gage statistics on, but I wouldn't count toward a percentage using encryption to do X because they wouldn't be able to tell.
WEP has lots of problems. OK, lets say Vendor X turns WEP on. They will have to put a big sign up saying what the password is (so captured packets could then be decrypted...). This is any more secure? It is more of a hassle.
The fact that APs don't enable WEP by default might be a problem, but even if they did, they would have to make that password public (again, no more security) or go through a lot of tech support calls from people who had the caps lock key on when configuring one or the other.
[On point MS Bash: The greater percentage of the worms, viri, and other really evil disruptions would go away if MS would simply DISABLE things like javascript and other active content in Outlook and disable unnecessary services and ports BY DEFAULT - in comparison WEP, although covering a different security aspect, is not worth bothering about from an economic standpoint - And I've not heard any meaningful clarion call to reform the MS situation]
WEP is so bad that it is almost pointless. To make it even marginally secure requires a lot of hassle (e.g. burning the WEP key into a Cisco card's flash - assuming you can go all cisco - from an offline, locked-up computer).
All the fixes are well known, but are just becoming standard, or require external standards (e.g. PPPoE over a proper encrypted tunnel).
Several of my projects fall into the same category.
Artists starve. Especially if they write software.
I work full-time on embedded work. He could do the same and work on LRP later.
I don't think it is dead (unless the floppy is). He doesn't have infinite time, but he hasn't found enough helpers, yet hasn't found a benefactor. So what? Life isn't fair or nice.
Linus is a great coordinator and facilitator, but he only writes a little (proportionately) code. Linux is written by thousands.
If LRP is worth it, it will continue on sourceforge or someplace similar and be more than a one man project.
Any state just didn't have to take the money and they could ignore the law.
The problem is that many people, including most reading this assume that things like libraries are "free", or that someone else should pay up but NOT have any say in how that payment is used.
It doesn't work that way.
Federal = Feudal, only we vote for our lords.
Call a union certification election. This is from the federal agency, the National Labor Relations Board (they can't retaliate). I don't think you can be fired for calling this.
IANAL, but you might want to find a labor law specialist. A few hundred to a lawyer now is likely to save thousands later.
The other possibility is to jump to one of the contractors.
Another possibility is to exercise your vacation or sick days (this is where the lawyer comes in - he can read the fine print in your employee handbook).
You have no promise that you won't be let go AFTER working the extra long hours.
Instead of some of the parallel things where they "standardize" on something like excel or word with such a narrow definition that you can only use OfficeXP on 2000.
If you read, it will be a gradual migration, but it says it is for cost reasons.
Also it is quite possible that it will allow running Windows under VMWare or something similar if required.
The two biggest reasons are cost and licensing, the latter generally going toward the silly (like MS demanding a windows license for each iMac in an Oregon school system).
The other thing the mandate bypasses is the years of wrangling where they will continue to upgrade Windows while people with kickbacks "need just a few more months" every few months to prove that Windows is more economical overall than Linux.
What is more to be feared is the "choice" that is encumbered so that only one product qualifies. The sort of thing that you can use Linux (or Windows or Mac OS X) only if you provide hundreds of pages of justification that you don't have to do otherwise.
It may be a simple case of that. If the Brazilian government does not want to buy Licensing 6.0 and MS basically said that would be the only way they would provide (cut-rate) Windows and office licenses, it doesn't leave much else.
Left out of the discussion is Apple and Mac OS X which is partially free. It is an example of a hybrid open-closed system that seems to be working quite well.
Let me start out with some orthodoxy someone else stated:
Security is a process.
Not something you can bolt-on, buy, or issue a memo on. Beyond that the learning resources mentioned by other posters are all good if not overkill. http://www.insecure.org/tools.html was covered in another article earlier this month.
But let me add a bit of heresy:
You don't have to be an uber-geek to do security, merely figuring out how to be properly secure against skript kiddiez will cover most cases, and the rest are more likely from internal threats - negligence or malice. And there is no anti-social engineering CLI or GUI tool.
Currently, the most common practice it to fire, buy-off, or otherwise silence the "whistleblowers". This is the police state model. So flaws continue since reporting them gets you in trouble with everyone including your boss. The monoculture "corporate load" takes care of everything. (monoculture in the agricultural sense, and in the most narrow one where every stalk of corn is a clone of all the others so one blight can destroy the whole like happened in Ireland in the late 1840s).
There are enough tools to detect and contain break-ins and outbreaks, but a CDC epidemiologist is probably a better model than a KGB officer. Use surveillance and containment, but unless someone insists on being "Typhoid Mary", ignore the user's idiosyncrasies and just make sure things get done.
You don't need to do cryptanalysis for the process to work, buy you need to have some people skills and have a corporation that understands what and how much they are asking for. You also have to take care of details like security patches and deleting old accounts and doing normal auditing.
The most common problems are that they want to be both secure and transparent. This is a tradeoff. And barring that they want to use Brand X software to "solve all their problems". Brand X may be good or bad, but processes create layers and usually Brand X only handles one layer, or can't handle some cases gracefully (abandon security or transparency in that case).
One other difficulty is that the average corporation doesn't really know about network security. They assume because there have been no detected attacks or other problems that there is no problem. Or the "process" is split and is part of an ongoing turf war between the guards insuring you have a visitor's badge and the IT department that has to do this as part of the gazillion other things they do. This usually creates policies but not the process.
The C700 screen is better than most laptops. I can see it in the Sun. The 760 has the bigger battery (1700 v.s. 950 mAh) and they are claiming 8 hours battery life, and it doubles the memory.
Basically think of most of a Linux laptop in your pocket (although it uses Qtopia, not X unless you add it). For network diagnosis it is hard to beat. Plus you get the standard WordProc/Spreadsheet/Present/etc.
Also it works as a SD and CF reader - it uses Samba to export the card mount points to your desktop. So you don't need another USB CF or SD reader. And it plays MP3s, and other formats (more than the iPod).
I have a collection of map images which I serve using the Boa webserver, the usual collection of network tools like (t)ethereal, and I can even compile on it (I have a 512Mb SD). I can also plug it into my cell phone and turn it into a wireless access point - NAT - firewall (I recompiled the kernel to add iptables).
It can replace a laptop if your eyes are reasonably good since the screen is sharp, clear, high-resolution, but still physically small (but there is the magnify button). I can't fully touch type (there is an external keyboard for that), but I can enter text reasonably fast.
I suppose someone will get one because they are neat, but people buy sports cars and rarely drive them and then never go much over 55. But that is a terrible waste.
The C700 is available form Dynamism (otherwise still only in Japan). Runs Linux 2.4.18 with some embedded patches, and uses an ARM XScale processor, but comes with Hancom office clone apps. Just slightly larger than the 5500.
The screen is tremendous. Touch sensitive, VGA (640x480, 16 bit depth) and brighter than most laptops. And it pivots 180 degrees from landscape/laptop to portrait/PDA mode.
And it has a qwerty touch keyboard that seems to be like the vulcan - I can touch type with two or three fingers per hand, but there are external keyboards.
Battery life and compatibility with hardware are very good.
The Vulcan may run the XP Bloatware, but I probably have more things on my Zaurus than would fit on the V. And Bloatware eats batteries unless it runs glacially instead of merely slow and there isn't that much room for a batteries. The Vulcan is 800x480, but that is still not that much bigger and an unusual aspect ratio.
[Bloatware Battery Bludgeoning is a matter of physics and why WinCE devices will never beat Palm, with the Zaurus in the middle - CE executes far more instructions, so does more cycles and the rest is physics - to the point that the power consumption goes up with the square of the clock speed]
It may be interesting to see though. Especially if they can get Linux running. But they don't mention any CF or PCMCIA for hardware.
If you get a good (7.5 Db or better) antenna, you can wardrive across country. There will be gaps but more than a few open APs. I was picking up APs on the strangest points along I-80...
Beyond that, Sprint PCS with unlimited Vision should work if you are going to stay on the freeways (or Verizon's equivalent or others).
I actually enjoyed their thinking liberal (and conservative) articles and was considering subscribing since it made me think, but the link opened a page that was entitled:
Raise Limbaugh's blood pressure! Keep Salon in business
This is not something a thinking liberal would say. Of course "thinking liberals" apparently are so rare that they couldn't have a subscriber base from them (especially if you alienate some allied groups). Those who are liberals only as beneficiaries of the state can't afford a subscription, and the limousine liberals only want to freeload.
Pity that they have to decline into demagoguery in a foolish attempt to stave off bankruptcy. They may not have had sufficient value in their content to survive, but now even their content has no value, merely volume.
It is always a loss when reasoned voices lose a forum, however that happened long ago at Salon. A few are left, but they are apparently a mistake.
or at least public funds, but we've ignored the constitution or warped the interpretation so that it isn't recognizable (why did Alcohol prohibition require an ammendment, but the war on drugs with asset forfeiture was just a majority?).
That said, Government funds aren't some infinite trough for whatever YOU or I want but don't want to pay for myself. Congress said use censorware or we don't pay for your internet access.
Anyone here is completely free to create their own library and set whatever rules they want. But they will have to pay for it themselves.
Even municipalities, etc. are free to open their computers - just don't accept federal funds.
If the 55 MPH limit was "constitutional" (we don't pay for your roads unless you implement speed traps), censorware is.
Something like a background or credit check should be brought out BEFORE the job is offered and it should be made clear that the job is contingent on either having the check or having good credit or whatever.
Oh, by the way, didn't we mention you would have to spend May through September in Antarctica?
Oh, by the way, didn't we mention that you would be installing this in the sexual predators wing of the local prison, youru predecessor left after...
I usually ask about this in interviews - first is about the NDA since there are opensource/GPL issues. I also ask to see the employee manual, or if there are any "unique" or unusual requirements. If they say no, then if they ask something like this after I join I say they should have brought it up when I asked.
The other thing would be to file a counter-NDA saying only X has the right to view clearly specified data from the credit report and that they owe you $10,000 if anyone else sees it, or something like it and just say it is YOUR standard procedure.
All through the '70s and '80s there was a push to fund the panicmonger scientists on the left - The new ice age (switched to global warming, but they will probably be back to Ice Age in a decade or so), Acid Rain (lakes that were highly acid in 1800 but were limed returned to becoming acid, but it was our fault).
The Hyperliberal New York Times is now upset that instead of giving THE LIBERAL PSEUDOSCIENTIFIC LINE they National Cancer Institute is actually looking at data.
Abortion is either a factor or a nonfactor in breast cancer. There have been studies validating both sides, but Bill Clinton will have the NCI say there is no effect, and GWB will have it say there is a clear causal connection.
Condoms are another problem. If they were a drug the FDA would ban them for not being effective or being too hard to use. "Those who used latex condoms correctly and consistently". But how many is that out of everyone who uses condoms? And what of things like HPV that isn't covered by the condom. That, and abstinence. was being censored by the previous administration.
Maybe there will be a page saying "We recommend the use of low-tar cigarettes and filters" and not making any mention of quitting or abstinence of cigarettes if a Tobacco state politician becomes president.
The government should stay out of this too. Where in the constitution does it give them the power to do this?
Back in the '80s there was this Canadian who went by the handle "Rodey" (we were both on BIX, Byte [magazine] information exchange) or something similar that came up with some backup software - I think it basically enhanced and replaced the original DOS backup/restore.
It was free except for "Military" use. He didn't really define Military (apparently he let soldiers use it on their personal computer). Back then I raised the same objections discussed here. But there is nothing new under the sun.
Technically the definitions given back then would mean it would have been perfectly fine for Al Queda or Hamas or any other Terrorist group to use the software because they weren't "military".
(Not that our government and people are any better - we stretch things so that we can label some "Prisoners of war" and others "Enemy Combatant" depending on which is the most useful, and most people seem to agree).
The originator of this new site appears to be some kind of anarchist, which is fine. At least it seems his heart is in the right place.
Even his declaration allows governments to forbid publishing "State Secrets" and "Child Pornography". But that doesn't define "child", or take on the issue of virtual child porn, or state secrets like "we've committed genocide", or who has been arrested under what charge. Who decides who qualifies as a critic, intellectual, artist, or religious figure?
There are fora for vigorous debate on such issues and methods where even the laws can be changed. Software licenses are not such.
In a different venue, but along the same lines, I asked someone about what they actually DID that wasn't merely symbolic to promote their views. I contribute regularly to politicians and organizations that fight for my freedom. It is harder to send a percentage of your income than it is to write a whiny rant and attach it as a license.
If you go to Richard Stallman's webpage, you will find many very strong political views. Many of those are in diametric opposition to my views, others I agree with.
For all his strong views on these positions, he didn't contaminate the GPL with them, and I have followed by not encumbering my licenses.
This follows from the Golden rule. The corollary in question is "Never give or allow a power that you wouldn't also give to your worst enemy and your most disagreeable political opponent".
Keeping the licenses simple and directed at their proper issues is the best thing to do. Otherwise we will need a liberal.sourceforge.net, conservative.sourceforge.net, marxist.sourceforge.net, libertarian.sourceforge.net, and others simply to support forks of projects with different political limitations.
It will be a dark day if this ever happens.
but without Sean Connery. I had trouble finding a character I could identify with, much less care about, and found it confusing - they have hyperdrives, but need people-power for 1800s technology for things like railroads, food, and mining. Much of the rest was cliché - in fact it seemed like a collection of them.
Another thing was too many characters, all with some complex secret past that wouldn't be fully revealed until a 4th season. No one was on screen long enough to make enough points to be 3-d.
I still have the episodes on my PVR, and may scan through them yet. Some of the later episodes seemed to begin to explain things.
Many people seem to want to watch anything labled "sci-fi" that isn't really good, or has no science. And part of the problem is too much is PC so I doubt any real issue will be tackled which was the redeeming feature. Simply writing a plot that occurs in the future, or in a fantasy or spirtual meta-world doesn't redeem the plot, or the characters.
And especially if there is bad science. Farscape at least had one character admit it (we can't have been shrunk since the oxygen molecules wouldn't shrink so we wouldn't be able to breathe). It is one thing to ask me to suspend disbelief. It is another thing to push absurdity or contradiction.
SciFi is interesting because of the wonder of exploring new worlds.
But I find many cartoons (and I don't mean Animé which almost always achieves a high level) better than something like FireFly, at least as it started.
Firefly was followed by "John Doe" which was more interesting and had the scifi elements including a main character that knew everything about everything except himself and this created tension from the first episode. It replaced Dark Angel which also had a similar tension (though the last episode of the first season and the transition pegged my absurdity meter).
Maybe it will pick up, or maybe it will be cancelled. But I don't think it will be the death of SciFi. They will need to wait for something more innovative and something that does take chances.
But to answer the question:
1. Any "captive" application - think stripped browser on a kiosk - could use Pico.
2. If the TOOLKITS which are (or should be) platform-neutral are ported. Qt is probably a good candidate. The Zaurus already runs QPE and Pico separately, but it isn't much of a leap to do QPE (already over Qt) over PicoGUI.
But before you get too excited, the code is still in an early state, at least as far as compiling on every platform. It keeps client-server though.
And I need to address some other comments about X.
First, it isn't that slow, and one of the problems is that a lot of software is assuming SHM or other extensions that force things to be local.
Second, dxcp or other programs can compress the X stream to make it usable over some slower links and would reduce bandwidth in any case.
Third, if you are doing remote control or something similar, VNC or something similar is the correct solution.
Fourth, X is the basic set of protocols. But in many references they mean X plus every toolkit, extension, and window manager and probably a few applications. Some things are only big because of these accretions.
Citrix, or almost anything else on Windows is a hack since Windows was never designed to work remotely.
You can criticize X all you want, but it is opensource, so you can fix or enhance the problems, and it seems to work well enough to allow the wide adoption.
And PicoGUI addresses one of the major points - the need for a lighter weight system for embedded and small computer use.
The author doesn't give the circumstances of his unemployment. Did he quit, was he laid off, took another job that didn't work, or was he fired. That would have some effect. If there is mutual hatred it depends on whether you want to be considered the better person or if it would be "throwing pearls after swine" (is this only the beginning of a free computer helpline so the ex-boss can avoid doing what is needed).
If it was something trivial (a minute or two) I wouldn't charge. If I left under good terms (did the layoff come from the boss or from corporate central?) I would probably continue to help and ask to be rehired at the first opening.
Depending on what it was beyond that, I would ask them to fax a P.O. or simple agreement that they would pay or consider me rehired for the necessary period.
You get a PPP connection (following the Howto instructions), so the IP of both endpoints tends to be quasi-random, but over a limited range. If you surf on the phone itself it goes through a WAP gateway.