From the FAQ (which isn't the easiest thing in the world to find actually):
Q: Does it have Wifi?
A: The currently available Neo1973 does not have WiFi. There was no suitable Wifi device available when it was designed. The next version will have WiFi.
Q: Will it be possible to use popular VoIP applications such as Skype on the OpenMoko platform?
A: Perhaps. Hardware issues mean that it won't work well on the Neo1973. (the typical latency of GPRS is far too high). Also, Skype is a closed source application, which does not provide binaries that would be suitable to run on OpenMoko. Skype's vendor could of course choose to provide binaries for OpenMoko phones. However, many telephone providers' terms of service agreements preclude running VoIP over their baseline GSM service.
Q: Same question for Instant Messaging applications such as MSN Messenger?
A: Very probably. MSN is closed source and will only run where Microsoft wants you to run it. But there are many Open Source IM clients, many of which have a plugin architecture and so support the use of more than one IM protocol, even simultaneously. One example is Pidgin, formerly called GAIM. GPRS does induce a certain amount of latency but that should not be a problem for simple, text-oriented chat between parties. And the GTA02's WiFi will make it even better.
So actually it might pay to hang on for the GTA02 or whatever until WiFi is in, I'd imagine that once there is a WiFi DevKit that lots of people have, someone will implement VOIP on the quick.
Either that site used to be a lot more useful, or there is a much more useful site out there for these phones. They were selling functional development kits and everything, there was a slashdot article which I'm too lazy to find. Actually, I lied, but I think there were others too.
I'm waiting for OpenMoko to launch. That seems like a device with a little more thought put into it than this clone. The guys in the article just seem to be interested solely in responding to Apple with a quick knockoff to make a few bucks.
There's going to be a lot of blind hackers in the next couple of weeks.
If you're smart, you'll figure out how to wrangle this as workmans comp before you build the thing.
Also true. That's why that screwdriver almost never goes to an office with people.
"Post 9/11" I took it with me to Bermuda, I made it through terminal security at 3 airports and gate security for two flights. The guy at the gate for my third flight said "we have to toss this", I was like "NO, you're not costing me $50 for a new screwdriver". I don't know why I wasn't gunned down for that (this was at Kennedy), but he let me on the plane. That's so not like me either, but I wasn't letting that thing go without an argument. Step two would have been for me to offer to throw out all the bits but take the now blunt screwdriver, it didn't come to that.
They didn't bat an eye at the 5 72GB drives, crimpers, wire cutters, and all the other crap I had in carry on.
$50 is not too much to spend on a screwdriver. Especially when you want it to work 100% of the time and work smoothly. I can't count the number of bogus $25 "ratchet" screwdrivers my bosses used to buy from Home Depot. I've had my Snap-On for 10 years and I'll probably have it many, many more.
Plus, if you have decent tools, there's a chance people won't destroy them first chance they get and not replace them.
Of course. I still see it as a bummer for the iPhone though. When I had a Treo, it was dead simple to pop an SD card out and jam it in my camera, or the card reader on my home machine. It's nice the iPhone has WiFi, but sometimes it's quicker to just grab the card and jam it in whatever. Nevermind that you can just hand the thing to someone else.
How does Internap keep doing this? The major Seattle problem, yeah, but I can recall several outages (of LJ mainly) where they say "our provider lost power due to whatever and their generators didn't work/were overloaded/worked, but then stopped".
I've been in their Boston facility, and it was packed to the gills, and there were large generators outside. I'd have to assume they work.
He was in the same CS clan as me way back in Historical Times and used to call me up and ask me to tell him how to "hack stuff". I didn't tell him much of anything, sounds like he learned whatever he wanted to learn though:-) But yeah, John from Hartford, different nick at the time, but right age bracket, same interest in breaking things that aren't his to break. Nice. Hopefully this will straighten him out. At least he didn't get in any actual trouble.
Doing an inclusive whitelist and including the area code would be fine I guess if you're in like 802 or 207, but if you're in 617 or 212, it might suck. But yeah, should work as long as the local automated dialer thing the emergency services use sends correct CID info. I get a lot of stuff from my local area code (firefighters, cops) that I'd just as soon block.
But yeah, good point, if it's granular enough for the user to allow specific phone numbers, it should be easy to do 617*
I was surprised to learn that some towns in my area (verifiably, I'm sure they all do it) have, as part of their emergency response plan (think disaster response, not car-accident type stuff), to call every phone number in the exchange with a recorded message saying "GET THE HELL (IN YOUR CELLAR/OUT OF DODGE/OFF MY LAWN)", that kind of thing, and that they'd used it in the case of a disastrous flood.
So, if you block your phone with a device, that probably won't work. I have to think that any of the services offered by the phone companies would allow some kind of override for FEMA type stuff, since they're unlikely to ask if you'd like to buy a magazine subscription.
To be fair, it's a no show on my Macs too, for the same reason. I can get over the scroll thing on the laptop obviously, but it's got other slight annoyances that keep me with Firefox.
I just tested that because I don't want to reboot my Mac right now, but it looks like it is still missing mid-click autoscrolling, which has always made me dislike Safari.
Many replies to this are justifying the "blue" based on "large quantities of water" absorbing more red and thus things become blue tinged, or other such digressions. Remember, this image is not of a "large quantity of water", it's like a couple square meters. From the photo it looks like it could either be a small puddle, or a huge river, since there is no point of reference to judge your distance from the subject, but the article said it's pretty small.
I was in your situation, and I bought the Mac. I'm an experienced Linux user on desktops and servers, and outside of laptops I haven't gone out and just bought a computer in over 15 years. I had the advantage of already having a MacBook, and an iBook before that that I had gotten used. Now the iBook runs SuSE and is my stereo with Amarok.
Anyway, my intent when I got the Mac Pro was to dual-boot with Linux until I didn't feel like dual booting anymore. Turns out I didn't want to, once I got things tweaked, and once I changed my workflow away from multiple independent displays with lots of shaded windows, things have been very good. I do still miss my display setup, but I haven't found it too limiting.
I have to believe that they can do at least a little better with bundled apps (There seems to be no equivalent to "MS Paint" for example, not that I think MS Paint is great, but there should be... SOMETHING out of the box, I dunno).
I have no real regrets, I don't dual boot to Linux, though I have been using the VMWare beta to pull data off my old drives. Some things take time to build trust, like iPhoto, some things just suck completely, like iTunes (use Amarok, plug), but overall, you get a unixy development environment albeit with BSD toolchain rather than GNU, a stable desktop environment, though easier for me to crash than X, and a high quality machine for a good price. I priced equivalent HPs with identical hardware before my purchase, and the HP was $1200 more than the Mac Pro 2.6 I got.
By the way, I was driven crazy by things such as "no window auto-raise" and highlight->cut, midclick->paste, and window shading. I'm not going to pay $15 for window shading, the copy/paste thing still bugs me, and after a while, I realized why auto-raise/auto-focus can't work. Since the application menus are in the bar at the top of the screen, every time you tried to get to the "file" menu for firefox, you could end up mousing over another app and changing the bar before you could get there. Sucks, but it's an answer. That makes me wish for independent displays more though, since applications on a second or third monitor still have their menus all the way on the left screen.
Zimbra really seems to want to be the only thing on a machine though. I've reverted to Mail.app and UW-IMAP until I get the gumption to build a machine just for Zimbra.
I'd agree that it's Enterprise Ready, having seen a couple admin friends roll it out to their enterprise, seems pretty sweet. Their licensing model looks pretty sane too. Full functionality in the OSS version, then pay extra for all the Exchange/Outlook integration features, hopefully that brings in enough cash to keep development going for all us folks that don't need those plugins.
I have looked at MITs tech job postings, and one thing that really stood out is that they seem to be looking for Skillset, not degree. Many/most companies post job postings saying "BS EE/CS" blah blah, MIT seemed to say "If you know how to do X, apply for job Y".
I actually thought that was kind of progressive for an engineering school. Especially when, you're right, some engineers can be pretty biased against people they see as being Children of a Lesser God.
Honestly, I believe it's because she lied. It's not like she could have held that position for 28 years if she wasn't good at it. That has nothing to do with anything, it's that she misrepresented herself and MIT seems to have standards for conduct and honesty.
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Of course someone beat me to it, what was I even thinking.
So actually it might pay to hang on for the GTA02 or whatever until WiFi is in, I'd imagine that once there is a WiFi DevKit that lots of people have, someone will implement VOIP on the quick.
Either that site used to be a lot more useful, or there is a much more useful site out there for these phones. They were selling functional development kits and everything, there was a slashdot article which I'm too lazy to find. Actually, I lied, but I think there were others too.
I'm waiting for OpenMoko to launch. That seems like a device with a little more thought put into it than this clone. The guys in the article just seem to be interested solely in responding to Apple with a quick knockoff to make a few bucks.
I guess Trend isn't covered since there is no Linux client
That's not really true. Trend sells IMSS for linux relays. I notice you said "client", but still, I would think IMSS should have been included.
There's going to be a lot of blind hackers in the next couple of weeks. If you're smart, you'll figure out how to wrangle this as workmans comp before you build the thing.
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Also true. That's why that screwdriver almost never goes to an office with people.
"Post 9/11" I took it with me to Bermuda, I made it through terminal security at 3 airports and gate security for two flights. The guy at the gate for my third flight said "we have to toss this", I was like "NO, you're not costing me $50 for a new screwdriver". I don't know why I wasn't gunned down for that (this was at Kennedy), but he let me on the plane. That's so not like me either, but I wasn't letting that thing go without an argument. Step two would have been for me to offer to throw out all the bits but take the now blunt screwdriver, it didn't come to that.
They didn't bat an eye at the 5 72GB drives, crimpers, wire cutters, and all the other crap I had in carry on.
$50 is not too much to spend on a screwdriver. Especially when you want it to work 100% of the time and work smoothly. I can't count the number of bogus $25 "ratchet" screwdrivers my bosses used to buy from Home Depot. I've had my Snap-On for 10 years and I'll probably have it many, many more.
Plus, if you have decent tools, there's a chance people won't destroy them first chance they get and not replace them.
Of course. I still see it as a bummer for the iPhone though. When I had a Treo, it was dead simple to pop an SD card out and jam it in my camera, or the card reader on my home machine. It's nice the iPhone has WiFi, but sometimes it's quicker to just grab the card and jam it in whatever. Nevermind that you can just hand the thing to someone else.
ALL phones have a mini-sd card slot
Well, strictly speaking, they don't ALL have memory card slots...
How does Internap keep doing this? The major Seattle problem, yeah, but I can recall several outages (of LJ mainly) where they say "our provider lost power due to whatever and their generators didn't work/were overloaded/worked, but then stopped". I've been in their Boston facility, and it was packed to the gills, and there were large generators outside. I'd have to assume they work.
He was in the same CS clan as me way back in Historical Times and used to call me up and ask me to tell him how to "hack stuff". I didn't tell him much of anything, sounds like he learned whatever he wanted to learn though :-) But yeah, John from Hartford, different nick at the time, but right age bracket, same interest in breaking things that aren't his to break. Nice. Hopefully this will straighten him out. At least he didn't get in any actual trouble.
Doing an inclusive whitelist and including the area code would be fine I guess if you're in like 802 or 207, but if you're in 617 or 212, it might suck. But yeah, should work as long as the local automated dialer thing the emergency services use sends correct CID info. I get a lot of stuff from my local area code (firefighters, cops) that I'd just as soon block.
But yeah, good point, if it's granular enough for the user to allow specific phone numbers, it should be easy to do 617*
I was surprised to learn that some towns in my area (verifiably, I'm sure they all do it) have, as part of their emergency response plan (think disaster response, not car-accident type stuff), to call every phone number in the exchange with a recorded message saying "GET THE HELL (IN YOUR CELLAR/OUT OF DODGE/OFF MY LAWN)", that kind of thing, and that they'd used it in the case of a disastrous flood.
So, if you block your phone with a device, that probably won't work. I have to think that any of the services offered by the phone companies would allow some kind of override for FEMA type stuff, since they're unlikely to ask if you'd like to buy a magazine subscription.
To be fair, it's a no show on my Macs too, for the same reason. I can get over the scroll thing on the laptop obviously, but it's got other slight annoyances that keep me with Firefox.
I just tested that because I don't want to reboot my Mac right now, but it looks like it is still missing mid-click autoscrolling, which has always made me dislike Safari.
Many replies to this are justifying the "blue" based on "large quantities of water" absorbing more red and thus things become blue tinged, or other such digressions. Remember, this image is not of a "large quantity of water", it's like a couple square meters. From the photo it looks like it could either be a small puddle, or a huge river, since there is no point of reference to judge your distance from the subject, but the article said it's pretty small.
No Assassination of Lord British?
I never played UO, but that story was fun to read from the "bad guy's" perspective
Hint: Ginger.
That's always worked out so well for everyone who's ever said it in the past.
I was in your situation, and I bought the Mac. I'm an experienced Linux user on desktops and servers, and outside of laptops I haven't gone out and just bought a computer in over 15 years. I had the advantage of already having a MacBook, and an iBook before that that I had gotten used. Now the iBook runs SuSE and is my stereo with Amarok.
... SOMETHING out of the box, I dunno).
Anyway, my intent when I got the Mac Pro was to dual-boot with Linux until I didn't feel like dual booting anymore. Turns out I didn't want to, once I got things tweaked, and once I changed my workflow away from multiple independent displays with lots of shaded windows, things have been very good. I do still miss my display setup, but I haven't found it too limiting.
I have to believe that they can do at least a little better with bundled apps (There seems to be no equivalent to "MS Paint" for example, not that I think MS Paint is great, but there should be
I have no real regrets, I don't dual boot to Linux, though I have been using the VMWare beta to pull data off my old drives. Some things take time to build trust, like iPhoto, some things just suck completely, like iTunes (use Amarok, plug), but overall, you get a unixy development environment albeit with BSD toolchain rather than GNU, a stable desktop environment, though easier for me to crash than X, and a high quality machine for a good price. I priced equivalent HPs with identical hardware before my purchase, and the HP was $1200 more than the Mac Pro 2.6 I got.
By the way, I was driven crazy by things such as "no window auto-raise" and highlight->cut, midclick->paste, and window shading. I'm not going to pay $15 for window shading, the copy/paste thing still bugs me, and after a while, I realized why auto-raise/auto-focus can't work. Since the application menus are in the bar at the top of the screen, every time you tried to get to the "file" menu for firefox, you could end up mousing over another app and changing the bar before you could get there. Sucks, but it's an answer. That makes me wish for independent displays more though, since applications on a second or third monitor still have their menus all the way on the left screen.
Good luck
And you might be onto something. Meth science can make you a bundle.
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Zimbra really seems to want to be the only thing on a machine though. I've reverted to Mail.app and UW-IMAP until I get the gumption to build a machine just for Zimbra.
I'd agree that it's Enterprise Ready, having seen a couple admin friends roll it out to their enterprise, seems pretty sweet. Their licensing model looks pretty sane too. Full functionality in the OSS version, then pay extra for all the Exchange/Outlook integration features, hopefully that brings in enough cash to keep development going for all us folks that don't need those plugins.
I have looked at MITs tech job postings, and one thing that really stood out is that they seem to be looking for Skillset, not degree. Many/most companies post job postings saying "BS EE/CS" blah blah, MIT seemed to say "If you know how to do X, apply for job Y".
I actually thought that was kind of progressive for an engineering school. Especially when, you're right, some engineers can be pretty biased against people they see as being Children of a Lesser God.
Honestly, I believe it's because she lied. It's not like she could have held that position for 28 years if she wasn't good at it. That has nothing to do with anything, it's that she misrepresented herself and MIT seems to have standards for conduct and honesty.