As I recall Cisco makes a phone that works over ethernet. Maybe they also have a similar product that'll work as an intercom? Maybe this phone even will? I've never looked into it, I just remember them annoucing that they were going to make it. But you might want to check into that.
Why not just forget doing all this and give the TV/Radio bands up for wireless internet? Then the TV and radio stations can use the internet to broadcast thier content. This would enable us to get tv and radio from anywhere in the world and not being confined to our distance from the station or what stations our cable/satalite provider offers. Another benifit of this would be that it would allow anyone to start thier own station with little more than a camera, computer and net access. This could lead to bringing us quality programming (not likely, but it's a nice theory and it's not like it can be worse than what is already on tv and the radio!)
I still long for the day when I can tune into any station in the world from my car over the internet or watch a television broadcast from the other side of the world. Oh and while we're at it, why do we have to see all these stupid on screen displays such as in the case of sports the scores in the corner of the screen. Why I can't I bring that info. up on demand instead of being forced to watch it throughout the entire show?
I'm sure there are some techincal limitations as it stands right now, but if we freed up these bands would wireless broadband be possible? I sure hope so.
An idea on handling getting the messages would include grabbing the phone number from call display and cross referencing it with info from a reverse telephone lookup service. Then you can pass all the information into e-mail form, then to check your messages all you have to do is fire up your e-mail client and it'll show up if a new message is waiting and you can even include the audio file as an attachment. This would also make it pretty easy to get your messages from anywhere in the world.
Just an idea, I believe Nortel or someone is doing something similar to this so I guess I'm really stealing thier idea, but it sounds like a fairly good one to me.
Although not the same project at all, JWZ uses his computer for caller identification. You may want to check that out for some ideas, especially if you want to log caller id info.
And what happens when that DVD breaks, gets scratched, etc.? Do you have to shell out (whatever the price of a DVD is, my DVD drive has never even seen a DVD before.) again just to have the media that you were only licencing before? Maybe if you owned the contents of the disk it may be worth spending the money, but since it is just a licence to use the contents of the disk it isn't. Maybe the MPAA should have to replace unusable DVDs?
As I understand it you are legally allowed on copy for backup purposes. This just might be the backup solution suitable for DVDs.
Now more on-topic: I would assume a tape drive would have a high enough transfer rate for full motion video and it really wouldn't be that hard to hack up some software to read/write to a tape drive with video data would it? The problem I see is drive noise. I'm sure there are quiet ones out there, but the ones I have experience are rather loud. So unless the computer is far away from your viewing area the noise might be less than desireable.
I have an old P-100 without a fan (yes, it was manufactured that way. no, I didn't remove it). So that disproves your theory!;)
Sure it gets mighty hot, but so far so good. The thing is about 6 years old, gets left on almost all the time, and it just keeps on working.
Only turn the fan on while needed?
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My laptop's fan only comes on when it gets too hot, which isn't that often (only a few times since I've had the machine). If your laptop does not have this feature maybe there is a way to implement it? Unless you are working in a extra warm environment it shouldn't be much of a problem for you the odd time that it does come on.
The biggest noise problem on my machine is the hard drive! Now if I could find a silent hard drive I would be happy! Anyone have any affordable solutions for silent hard drives (with decent capacity?)
Back in my day we had to use our fingers. Each finger representing a bit, giving us a whole byte. (we didn't use our thumbs) But we knew how to optimize code back then so it was a non-issue. One byte ought to be enough for anyone right?
I agree that we don't want all audio streamed from the net, however I would love to be able to stream radio stations over the net at CD quality. Yes I know that we can already do that now, but I'm not talking about on my home PC hooked up to my dsl/cable connection. Where I want streaming radio is in cars, walkman type devices, etc. While I usually listen to CDs in these situations, sometimes I would just like to listen to the radio, see what new music is out there, just to listen to something different if nothing else, however the problem with this is firstly the quality isn't great and you are limited to a certain area and when you leave that area the station is gone. Secondly the genres of music generally played on the radio do not apeal to me. The internet can solve all of this not to mention that that most of the device that could do all of this could fit on a single IC.
Of course the thing that is holding us back is the lack of wireless broadband! Yes I know some cities are starting to implement this, but it still isn't everywhere, and it isn't in the country, which is where I see it is even more important to have because that is where long car trips will take place and you can make better use of the internet power.
Re:guessing a tcp sequence isnt *THAT* hard...
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Although it is fun to pick on Microsoft and Windows, these are not the results I recieved when nmapping win2k boxes.
Didn't have a Windows 9x box handy to try it out on but maybe this is what you have done.
I assume this must change after every nmap, but why would the workstation be seemingly more secure than the server machine? I guess that's just Microsoft's way of doing things...
The other curious thing I stumbled upon is the fact that the Windows 2000 Workstation was not recognized by this scan, it returned that no OS matched the host. Maybe this explains why it is so high, maybe it isn't Win2K after all, mind you I seem to be using the machine at the moment. Hmmmm......
The problem I see with VNC (and Terminal Services for that matter) is that they send the whole desktop over instead of the running app like X does.
I already have all my desktop setup running on the computer I'm using so why do I need another? X intergrates the application into the existing environment and almost makes it transparent to the fact that it isn't running on your computer.
The only advantage that I see to using the VNC, Terminal Services, etc. way is that if you have a device that is made just for that say a VNC device that doesn't have any sort of desktop and it just uses the remote one. But if you already are using a full fledge desktop on your computer, running another on a remote computer seems redundant.
One problem I see with the X protocol though is that clients behind a firewall can't run X apps on a remote server (without setup on the firewall anyway). I have never used X tunneling via ssh so maybe it solves this problem?
Don't forget the payment you have to make just to post to this site!
Okay you might only have to pay to see the headlines but the comments about the story is what makes slashdot different and better than any other news service. If everyone had to pay $.1 or even $.01 to post, would you? It would sure cut down on the trolls (which might be worth it just for that) but we may miss some insightful posts as well.
What about thin clients?
Sure you'll still need multi-purpose server machines around, but the bulk of the machines will be single use devices (ie. X-Terminals).
I don't however think the multipurpose PC will cease to exist, I think it will be incorperated into the rest of the smaller devices however. The PC will be the control hub for the whole system and all the smaller single use devices will be controlled by the main PC.
For example it seems silly to put HTTP servers in to every single device ever made just so they can be controlled over the internet from anywhere. What would make more sense is having the PC act as the HTTP host (if that is how you are going to do it) and it would then control the other devices on the internal lan. This way it uses one interface to do everything rather than multiple different interfaces to do everything.
I agree rot13 all the way! I suggested this back when Napster announced they were going to be doing this. It should be trivial to add into gnapster and other open source napster clients. All that needs to be done is have the search encoded before it is sent to Napster servers as well as encoding the song names when they are sent to Napster. The results would also be decrypted so the user still sees the regular query and not some funny looking rot13 encoded string.
How about adding filename scrambling into napster clones, and if possible patched into the official client? The client could automatically scramble (say using rot-13, I knew there had to be a useful use of rot-13!) the filename when it announces what songs it has to napster servers as well as automatically scamble the search query.
So when you use this method you'll actually be searching for Zrgnyyvpn but the user will believe they are searching for Metallica.
Of course changing the encoding method every so often would be a good idea so Napster doesn't decode the request, then filter it.
Not knowing what types of systems you are running this may not work for you but the enlightenment sound daemon might do the trick for you. You can set it up to play the audio on a different machine over the network so all you would have to do is setup a main audio machine to listen to all the incoming audio connections from your other computers. This means that you only have to hook your headphones up to the main audio computer and software will do the rest.
Of course this will not work on all systems, but there may be alternatives for other systems that I am not aware of.
My laptop has a touchpad as it's built in mouse. Although I found it rather awkward to get used to I can now control it as well as I can a regular mouse. The reason I suggest this style of mouse is because it has no moving parts, which should make it much less prone to mechanical failures. I have seen these units sold as part of a keyboard or as a standalone device for non-laptop computers.
What if they want to connect to thier computer in thier dorm room though? Myself (not in a dorm however) have a server running where I can save my data from school to (via ftp I might add) and then when I get home I have easy access to the files, this beats carrying around disks or any other type of storage media.
I also can connect back to my server to grab the data anywhere I have a internet connection, so it doesn't matter where I am, I can get at it.
With all the hype of 1-click patents, the patent office has decided that they would like to actaully implement such a solution. Anyone will be able to create thier patents with just one click from the patent office's web site with this new system being introduced. A spokesman with the patent office stated "We at the patent office have decided that we would like to move in to the 21st century. To do this we will leave behind the cumbersome ways of registering patents like we have in the past and move to our new 1-click system of registering patents." This new method of 1-click patents will make it easier then ever to register a patent. This plan was annonced just after the appeals court put Amazon's 1-click patent in question.
This sounds great other than the obvious problem of Google's search engine wouldn't really work for usenet. Google's engine works by rating the popularity of a page based on links from other pages, now unless I'm missing a way to link to other posts this isn't going to work well.
The only way to really rate popularity would be based on possibly thread size, or how many people visit a message from within Deja. I'm sure Google has a plan though.
I have an Acer TravelMate 737TLV (P3-700, 128MB RAM, 16GB HDD, etc.) and I have Linux installed on it. It was really no trouble at all to get working. X was the only real problem, the video card is supported however the X server doesn't know how to turn on the LCD screen, so I am using framebuffer to get around this. I believe newer versions of the X server do support the LCD screen, I just haven't got around to try and get it to work yet. The LT Softmodem works in it even. The motherboard is an intel (forget the chipset), the NIC is also made by intel and works fine in Linux. Everything seems to work great(other then the X problems I stated)
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Yes, this is how I also take it.
As I recall Cisco makes a phone that works over ethernet. Maybe they also have a similar product that'll work as an intercom? Maybe this phone even will? I've never looked into it, I just remember them annoucing that they were going to make it. But you might want to check into that.
Why not just forget doing all this and give the TV/Radio bands up for wireless internet? Then the TV and radio stations can use the internet to broadcast thier content. This would enable us to get tv and radio from anywhere in the world and not being confined to our distance from the station or what stations our cable/satalite provider offers. Another benifit of this would be that it would allow anyone to start thier own station with little more than a camera, computer and net access. This could lead to bringing us quality programming (not likely, but it's a nice theory and it's not like it can be worse than what is already on tv and the radio!)
I still long for the day when I can tune into any station in the world from my car over the internet or watch a television broadcast from the other side of the world. Oh and while we're at it, why do we have to see all these stupid on screen displays such as in the case of sports the scores in the corner of the screen. Why I can't I bring that info. up on demand instead of being forced to watch it throughout the entire show?
I'm sure there are some techincal limitations as it stands right now, but if we freed up these bands would wireless broadband be possible? I sure hope so.
Not sure what you mean exactly by laptop derived but these will give you mp3's in your car!:
An idea on handling getting the messages would include grabbing the phone number from call display and cross referencing it with info from a reverse telephone lookup service. Then you can pass all the information into e-mail form, then to check your messages all you have to do is fire up your e-mail client and it'll show up if a new message is waiting and you can even include the audio file as an attachment. This would also make it pretty easy to get your messages from anywhere in the world.
Just an idea, I believe Nortel or someone is doing something similar to this so I guess I'm really stealing thier idea, but it sounds like a fairly good one to me.
Although not the same project at all, JWZ uses his computer for caller identification. You may want to check that out for some ideas, especially if you want to log caller id info.
And what happens when that DVD breaks, gets scratched, etc.? Do you have to shell out (whatever the price of a DVD is, my DVD drive has never even seen a DVD before.) again just to have the media that you were only licencing before? Maybe if you owned the contents of the disk it may be worth spending the money, but since it is just a licence to use the contents of the disk it isn't. Maybe the MPAA should have to replace unusable DVDs?
As I understand it you are legally allowed on copy for backup purposes. This just might be the backup solution suitable for DVDs.
Now more on-topic: I would assume a tape drive would have a high enough transfer rate for full motion video and it really wouldn't be that hard to hack up some software to read/write to a tape drive with video data would it? The problem I see is drive noise. I'm sure there are quiet ones out there, but the ones I have experience are rather loud. So unless the computer is far away from your viewing area the noise might be less than desireable.
I have an old P-100 without a fan (yes, it was manufactured that way. no, I didn't remove it). So that disproves your theory! ;)
Sure it gets mighty hot, but so far so good. The thing is about 6 years old, gets left on almost all the time, and it just keeps on working.
My laptop's fan only comes on when it gets too hot, which isn't that often (only a few times since I've had the machine). If your laptop does not have this feature maybe there is a way to implement it? Unless you are working in a extra warm environment it shouldn't be much of a problem for you the odd time that it does come on.
The biggest noise problem on my machine is the hard drive! Now if I could find a silent hard drive I would be happy! Anyone have any affordable solutions for silent hard drives (with decent capacity?)
Neither does my official client!
http://www.govital.net/~soz/adbusters/index.html
Most of the music I have been looking for lately is still on there. And if all else fails it's quite simple to hop on over to opennap.
Anyone have data on whether the alternatives (opennap, gnutella, etc.) traffic has increased 60%?
An abacus?
;)
Back in my day we had to use our fingers. Each finger representing a bit, giving us a whole byte. (we didn't use our thumbs) But we knew how to optimize code back then so it was a non-issue. One byte ought to be enough for anyone right?
0100 0010 was comonly used while debugging!
I agree that we don't want all audio streamed from the net, however I would love to be able to stream radio stations over the net at CD quality. Yes I know that we can already do that now, but I'm not talking about on my home PC hooked up to my dsl/cable connection. Where I want streaming radio is in cars, walkman type devices, etc. While I usually listen to CDs in these situations, sometimes I would just like to listen to the radio, see what new music is out there, just to listen to something different if nothing else, however the problem with this is firstly the quality isn't great and you are limited to a certain area and when you leave that area the station is gone. Secondly the genres of music generally played on the radio do not apeal to me. The internet can solve all of this not to mention that that most of the device that could do all of this could fit on a single IC.
Of course the thing that is holding us back is the lack of wireless broadband! Yes I know some cities are starting to implement this, but it still isn't everywhere, and it isn't in the country, which is where I see it is even more important to have because that is where long car trips will take place and you can make better use of the internet power.
Although it is fun to pick on Microsoft and Windows, these are not the results I recieved when nmapping win2k boxes.
Windows 2000 Workstation:
TCP Sequence Prediction: Class=random positive increments Difficulty=232626 (Good luck!)
Windows 2000 Server:
TCP Sequence Prediction: Class=random positive increments Difficulty=22436 (Worthy challenge)
Didn't have a Windows 9x box handy to try it out on but maybe this is what you have done.
I assume this must change after every nmap, but why would the workstation be seemingly more secure than the server machine? I guess that's just Microsoft's way of doing things... The other curious thing I stumbled upon is the fact that the Windows 2000 Workstation was not recognized by this scan, it returned that no OS matched the host. Maybe this explains why it is so high, maybe it isn't Win2K after all, mind you I seem to be using the machine at the moment. Hmmmm......
The problem I see with VNC (and Terminal Services for that matter) is that they send the whole desktop over instead of the running app like X does.
I already have all my desktop setup running on the computer I'm using so why do I need another? X intergrates the application into the existing environment and almost makes it transparent to the fact that it isn't running on your computer.
The only advantage that I see to using the VNC, Terminal Services, etc. way is that if you have a device that is made just for that say a VNC device that doesn't have any sort of desktop and it just uses the remote one. But if you already are using a full fledge desktop on your computer, running another on a remote computer seems redundant.
One problem I see with the X protocol though is that clients behind a firewall can't run X apps on a remote server (without setup on the firewall anyway). I have never used X tunneling via ssh so maybe it solves this problem?
Don't forget the payment you have to make just to post to this site!
Okay you might only have to pay to see the headlines but the comments about the story is what makes slashdot different and better than any other news service. If everyone had to pay $.1 or even $.01 to post, would you? It would sure cut down on the trolls (which might be worth it just for that) but we may miss some insightful posts as well.
What about thin clients?
Sure you'll still need multi-purpose server machines around, but the bulk of the machines will be single use devices (ie. X-Terminals).
I don't however think the multipurpose PC will cease to exist, I think it will be incorperated into the rest of the smaller devices however. The PC will be the control hub for the whole system and all the smaller single use devices will be controlled by the main PC.
For example it seems silly to put HTTP servers in to every single device ever made just so they can be controlled over the internet from anywhere. What would make more sense is having the PC act as the HTTP host (if that is how you are going to do it) and it would then control the other devices on the internal lan. This way it uses one interface to do everything rather than multiple different interfaces to do everything.
I agree rot13 all the way! I suggested this back when Napster announced they were going to be doing this. It should be trivial to add into gnapster and other open source napster clients. All that needs to be done is have the search encoded before it is sent to Napster servers as well as encoding the song names when they are sent to Napster. The results would also be decrypted so the user still sees the regular query and not some funny looking rot13 encoded string.
How about adding filename scrambling into napster clones, and if possible patched into the official client? The client could automatically scramble (say using rot-13, I knew there had to be a useful use of rot-13!) the filename when it announces what songs it has to napster servers as well as automatically scamble the search query.
So when you use this method you'll actually be searching for Zrgnyyvpn but the user will believe they are searching for Metallica.
Of course changing the encoding method every so often would be a good idea so Napster doesn't decode the request, then filter it.
Not knowing what types of systems you are running this may not work for you but the enlightenment sound daemon might do the trick for you. You can set it up to play the audio on a different machine over the network so all you would have to do is setup a main audio machine to listen to all the incoming audio connections from your other computers. This means that you only have to hook your headphones up to the main audio computer and software will do the rest.
Of course this will not work on all systems, but there may be alternatives for other systems that I am not aware of.
My laptop has a touchpad as it's built in mouse. Although I found it rather awkward to get used to I can now control it as well as I can a regular mouse. The reason I suggest this style of mouse is because it has no moving parts, which should make it much less prone to mechanical failures. I have seen these units sold as part of a keyboard or as a standalone device for non-laptop computers.
What if they want to connect to thier computer in thier dorm room though? Myself (not in a dorm however) have a server running where I can save my data from school to (via ftp I might add) and then when I get home I have easy access to the files, this beats carrying around disks or any other type of storage media.
I also can connect back to my server to grab the data anywhere I have a internet connection, so it doesn't matter where I am, I can get at it.
2001-04-01 11:06:54
Maybe it's just one big April fools joke and it will never happen?
Associated Press
Washington, D.C.
With all the hype of 1-click patents, the patent office has decided that they would like to actaully implement such a solution. Anyone will be able to create thier patents with just one click from the patent office's web site with this new system being introduced. A spokesman with the patent office stated "We at the patent office have decided that we would like to move in to the 21st century. To do this we will leave behind the cumbersome ways of registering patents like we have in the past and move to our new 1-click system of registering patents." This new method of 1-click patents will make it easier then ever to register a patent. This plan was annonced just after the appeals court put Amazon's 1-click patent in question.
This sounds great other than the obvious problem of Google's search engine wouldn't really work for usenet. Google's engine works by rating the popularity of a page based on links from other pages, now unless I'm missing a way to link to other posts this isn't going to work well.
The only way to really rate popularity would be based on possibly thread size, or how many people visit a message from within Deja. I'm sure Google has a plan though.
How about a t-shirt from copyleft?
This one seems like it would suit the occasion nicely!
Too bad you can include pictures in slashdot posts, oh well, you'll just have to follow the link.
I have an Acer TravelMate 737TLV (P3-700, 128MB RAM, 16GB HDD, etc.) and I have Linux installed on it. It was really no trouble at all to get working. X was the only real problem, the video card is supported however the X server doesn't know how to turn on the LCD screen, so I am using framebuffer to get around this. I believe newer versions of the X server do support the LCD screen, I just haven't got around to try and get it to work yet. The LT Softmodem works in it even. The motherboard is an intel (forget the chipset), the NIC is also made by intel and works fine in Linux. Everything seems to work great(other then the X problems I stated)