Also see MyBooks. It's intended as a Quickbooks replacement from small business on up to sub-ERP small and medium enterprise. It's written in Java so it runs even on FreeBSD and OS/2. Its backend is SQL. If you buy the high end package, you get the source code.
I have met very intelligent and generally educated businesspeople who assume that if they change to another email client, they have to not only eliminate their old one but also change their email address and possibly their ISP. It seems like a rational assumption based on caution if one hasn't applied their generalized thinking toward this specific domain of thought and then taken the time to back up their thinking through a specialist.
My understanding is that Discover Card has a habit of eventually suing its own customers who are behind on their payments even if the customers are actively offering alternative arrangements. This happens after they've given the customer several months to pay, but they don't offer flexible or partial payment schedules, and they then turn the account over to an attorney. It doesn't matter if you've been in contact with them each month after you stop paying and have proactively offered partial payment before an action takes place. They'll take all or nothing. And then their lawyers are worse, threatening to sue to garnish wages.
And don't even bother with their CreditSafe insurance; that's from another company who even the Discover Card staff have nothing but contempt for. They'll require proof of disability or unemployment for every single month that you apply. As if you can prove the negative, just like that.
This is based on my own experience as well as reports from others who have seen lots of lawsuits in the newspapers filed on behalf of Discover Card toward their own customers.
In my opinion, this is very much similar to the RIAA situation in that we are dealing with a customer base comprised of a lot of pathological deadbeats but also many who are upstanding but merely temporarily down on their luck. The company doesn't care if you've clearly authenticated yourself as a non-deadbeat by faithfully buying plenty of their services for years, then indicating that they're willing to meet you halfway. Yet they treat us all like deadbeats by default if we don't follow their narrow, rigid formula.
I'd say they're out of touch with the very fabric of society, business principles, and basic ethics, in an extremely myopic and exaggerated form of short term self preservation. And it doesn't even work, at that!
Of course there are exceptions to my point and almost any other point; don't bother me with minutiae;)
Well yeah, there's blood spray initially as it's being cauterized and then nothing at all as he falls away. I seem to remember hearing somewhere that Darth Maul is still actually alive due to cybernetic regeneration.:-o
Microsoft proactively sent me this security upgrade by email for free! Now that's what I call service! I mean, it sounded all "technical" and stuff and had their logo all over it. I was impressed.
The kid down at the Radio Shack set me up to pay a whole $20 a month for this Intarweb Online Servar thingie or whatever so I naturally I did my part to help clean it up. You bet I turned on the upgrade right off.
I'm still waiting, though, because after 'xfs' rendered all the fonts required for ShowLetter.exe, 'top' shows that the process 'wine' just took up 100% cpu time for the last couple hours or so.
PID USER PRI NI SIZE RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM TIME COMMAND
1005 dtm 14 0 1020 1020 844 R 4.3 1.2 0:00 top
768 dtm 14 0 22460 5612 2772 S 1.7 98 1:23 wine
Bush Seeks to Expand Access to Private Data.
Read that article and click to rate it if you like it, at the bottom of the page, for the benefit of the casually browsing public.
Here are some choice excerpts:
"A suspected terrorist could be released, free to leave the country, or worse, before the trial," Mr. Bush said. "This disparity in the law makes no sense. If dangerous drug dealers can be held without bail in this way, Congress should allow for the same treatment for accused terrorists."
Despite Mr. Bush's concerns, Justice Department officials said they knew of no specific instances in which a person charged in a terrorism case had fled after being granted bail.
(snip)...Mr. Bush's proposal, he said, "means that there are no effective checks and balances. It's very worrisome."
Civil rights lawyers, defense advocates and some former prosecutors say they see no need to broaden the Justice Department's powers so markedly. Under current law, they say, terrorism investigators can typically get a subpoena in a matter of hours or minutes by going through a judge or a grand jury.
"[L]aw-abiding Americans have no reason to fear the long reach of the antiterrorism law known as the Patriot Act because its most intrusive measures would require a judge's sign-off."
My own colleague Matthew writes, "This is ingenuous. While the law does require a judge to sign off on the warrant, it mandates that the judge *does* sign. In other words, the judge is required to rubber-stamp whatever the police want; it is not true oversight."
You know how Teddy Roosevelt was so against the trusts (megacorps that were above the law and beyond mere monopoly, a la Standard Oil) because they were more powerful than the government in so many ways, hence offending his own megalomaniacal sensibilities? Apparently, the U.S. Government today is disappointed about the fact that modern megacorps had taken on the role of Big Brother via image recognition, data mining, and monopolistic practices. In the face of such competition, they apparently feel the need to get their anti-Constitution on. Pull out the big guns!
I'm done debating the competency of our current Presidential administration or the legitimacy of the Presidential office. In the face of this perpetually double edged sword, I just want to keep both the terrorists and the government in check.
Hey I might not be thinking about this in a sufficiently technical mental mode, but how can the RIAA or anyone else gather download statistics about entire global p2p networks? How do they know whether downloading is up, down, or how much traffic of any kind is happening, ever? Maybe I just don't use them often enough. Or maybe this is in the same category as other statistics, being open lies that the public doesn't know how to refute and hence might believe. Any clues?
I know what the article submitter means, but I don't like the thought of encouraging anybody to kick the OpenOffice.org team anywhere over anything.
Developing OpenOffice.org at all is one of the heftiest, most complex, most daunting, hard-to-please development projects that one can possibly undertake. It takes a G4 two days of processing and a couple gigabytes of storage just to compile it once. The addition of tackling the moving target of a global monopoly only increases the level of user support they can hardly please everybody on. Just supporting the normal users is hard enough at this point!;)
I imagine an unknown point in time where OO.o's base development will stabilize. Recently, and perhaps still today, they were still dealing with legacy architecture inside OO.o from the StarOffice days. Sometimes it seems like a pre-1.0 of Mozilla when it was still entrenched with Netscape, but with an uncontrollable and inestimable potential waiting for the stars to align. It'll break fully out into its own space, it'll merge more with other productivity- and collaboration-oriented projects, and it'll become more things to more people.
And please, let's knock off the doom and gloom about the Aqua version.
My idea of a productivity suite used to be 'vi' and Mozilla. OO.o is so cool it's made me want to use an office suite! I get excited over designing dynamic documents and mail merges!;) It's incredible that this thing exists and works at all! It's an entirely free, highly innovative, enterprise-oriented office suite framework for crying out loud!:)
The Linux-carrying infidels allege that SCO employees produced this anti-protest artwork on the lawn in a brazen attempt to discredit the efforts of the grassroots community, as personified as a whole by one Linus Torvalds. But how can this be?
I am not convinced that any old SCO employee made those amateur drawings. Those pictures are good art, and I see no evidence that anyone at SCO knows how to produce quality art on a volunteer basis.
Hence, if Chewbacca lives on Endor, you must acquit SCO!
Hi all. Do you know anything about the third party inkjet cartridge replacements? Is it important whether they're perfectly calibrated to manufacturer specs, or whatever? Can they accumulate junk in the nozzles or create other artifacts due to a cheaper design? We don't need absolutely perfect color, especially considering that with today's consumer technology, almost any printer is at least as good as consumer photography anyway. Here's an example for my Epson Stylus 580C.
I like the nostalgia happening here. Amen to the Apple printers. I worked with the gentlemen who were lead engineers for Apple's printing and imaging technologies until the return of Jobs, which smote them summarily and mightily. Bob Ogrey had one of each Apple printer ever made, in his garage and knew them each as if they had their own personality:) Wicked talented industrial designers. Bob was present on the famous tech support call where some dude called Apple tech support to ask how to remove his cat's tail from the Laserwriter. Everyone was drunk by the time that call ended. I believe that story was covered by Steven Levy either in Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution or in Insanely Great: The Life and Times of the Macintosh, the Computer That Changed Everything. Here is a similar true story.
There's a giant warehouse in Sunnyvale, CA full of ANYTHING you need from workstations and parts up to Sun and SGI enterprise stuff. Even a bargain basement Cray. For the non-mainstream stuff like Sun and SGI, it's all usually way cheaper than some retail place like Weird Stuff, although they're pretty good too.
Tell em you saw this on Slashdot. I'm sure they'll get a kick out of it.
2) It costs money to call from other countries. Obviously there are deals by which big companies can make it cost not-that-much; otherwise IBM wouldn't be setting up call centers in India. But I suspect the resources for that kind of thing are a little beyond the fly-by-night organizations that set up spam centers.
They'll probably end up building voice-over-IP networks for toll bypass, seriously.:-/ That's for the price of some basic computer telephony, some $20/hr foreign engineering, and some leased lines.
Your software should be unique, irreplaceable and of a very good quality. It should also occupy a specific niche unreacheable for large corporations.
Another example is Arkeia which in addition to your criteria, also requires tons of quality assurance. It's an enterprise backup software solution, so they have labs with all mainstream backup hardware to test it on. That's expensive and difficult. And they have a VAR program with excellent members.
So basically they came from the other direction, coming from the high end and reaching down. They're producing a major high quality app that would traditionally be relegated to being produced by enterprise for enterprise, which does rival the enterprise competition in quality and support, but also porting it to most OS's and releasing a time-unlimited shareware version. They also open sourced an ANSI C version of the most basic 'tar'-like version of their software for emergencies and for future-proofing. That ANSI C client is prepended to each tape so that you can retrieve it in an emergency with a bare OS and 'dd'. It rules.
As said Chris Gulker, "Many of us are Webloggers 'bloggers' for short.
With the creation of the latest stupidest-buzzphrase-abbreviation-hybrid-on-earth, saving unemployed hackers of the world the overuse of those two whole characters w and e, the RSI-wracked populace may finally begin to heal.
I want liberty but my political beliefs end at having to buy a winter coat.
There are any number of reasons why a person might be intolerant of climate. There's a high correlation between being really smart and having physical degenerations. Some people smart enough to want a project like this might also have fibromyalgia, rheumatoid arthritis, or be elderly. So therefore moving to a cold state might mean they can't ever leave their house without excruciating pain, immobility, disease, or other suffering.
I'm not sure if there's a reason you're not using VNC, but it does everything described by everyone in this thread so far. There are XF86 extensions to embed VNC, so you can remotify an existing local-only non-VNC session. And xinerama for spanning. And then another one to create one virtual space out of two X servers running on two separate machines.:)
Hi all. I may be remembering incorrectly but I think I heard that there existed assembly level vulnerabilities specifically for IA32 (x86) CPUs running certain OSs. In other words, there are CPU hardware design flaws that a user can exploit via certain asm instructions in order to gain privilege to the OS. This would be a roughly similar concept compared to the way an attacker can find a way to gain a UID 0 shell and then break out of chroot. Is this possible, or just urban legend?
Hey can someone mod this up? I've searched google and various security sites about this and can't confirm an answer.
Slashdot Mirror
And here I thought it meant that they'd added speech synthesis to Interchange!
Also see MyBooks. It's intended as a Quickbooks replacement from small business on up to sub-ERP small and medium enterprise. It's written in Java so it runs even on FreeBSD and OS/2. Its backend is SQL. If you buy the high end package, you get the source code.
I have met very intelligent and generally educated businesspeople who assume that if they change to another email client, they have to not only eliminate their old one but also change their email address and possibly their ISP. It seems like a rational assumption based on caution if one hasn't applied their generalized thinking toward this specific domain of thought and then taken the time to back up their thinking through a specialist.
My understanding is that Discover Card has a habit of eventually suing its own customers who are behind on their payments even if the customers are actively offering alternative arrangements. This happens after they've given the customer several months to pay, but they don't offer flexible or partial payment schedules, and they then turn the account over to an attorney. It doesn't matter if you've been in contact with them each month after you stop paying and have proactively offered partial payment before an action takes place. They'll take all or nothing. And then their lawyers are worse, threatening to sue to garnish wages.
;)
And don't even bother with their CreditSafe insurance; that's from another company who even the Discover Card staff have nothing but contempt for. They'll require proof of disability or unemployment for every single month that you apply. As if you can prove the negative, just like that.
This is based on my own experience as well as reports from others who have seen lots of lawsuits in the newspapers filed on behalf of Discover Card toward their own customers.
In my opinion, this is very much similar to the RIAA situation in that we are dealing with a customer base comprised of a lot of pathological deadbeats but also many who are upstanding but merely temporarily down on their luck. The company doesn't care if you've clearly authenticated yourself as a non-deadbeat by faithfully buying plenty of their services for years, then indicating that they're willing to meet you halfway. Yet they treat us all like deadbeats by default if we don't follow their narrow, rigid formula.
I'd say they're out of touch with the very fabric of society, business principles, and basic ethics, in an extremely myopic and exaggerated form of short term self preservation. And it doesn't even work, at that!
Of course there are exceptions to my point and almost any other point; don't bother me with minutiae
Well yeah, there's blood spray initially as it's being cauterized and then nothing at all as he falls away. I seem to remember hearing somewhere that Darth Maul is still actually alive due to cybernetic regeneration. :-o
Most of the time, there's no blood because the energy of the light saber cauterizes the wound. Such as with Darth Maul in Episode I.
The kid down at the Radio Shack set me up to pay a whole $20 a month for this Intarweb Online Servar thingie or whatever so I naturally I did my part to help clean it up. You bet I turned on the upgrade right off.
I'm still waiting, though, because after 'xfs' rendered all the fonts required for ShowLetter.exe, 'top' shows that the process 'wine' just took up 100% cpu time for the last couple hours or so.
PID USER PRI NI SIZE RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM TIME COMMAND
1005 dtm 14 0 1020 1020 844 R 4.3 1.2 0:00 top
768 dtm 14 0 22460 5612 2772 S 1.7 98 1:23 wine
$ killall -9 wine
$
Well said. :-/ Guess who trained, paid, and antagonized so many of the terrorists in the first place! Apparently the CIA has a Terrorism 101 class.
You know how Teddy Roosevelt was so against the trusts (megacorps that were above the law and beyond mere monopoly, a la Standard Oil) because they were more powerful than the government in so many ways, hence offending his own megalomaniacal sensibilities? Apparently, the U.S. Government today is disappointed about the fact that modern megacorps had taken on the role of Big Brother via image recognition, data mining, and monopolistic practices. In the face of such competition, they apparently feel the need to get their anti-Constitution on. Pull out the big guns!
I'm done debating the competency of our current Presidential administration or the legitimacy of the Presidential office. In the face of this perpetually double edged sword, I just want to keep both the terrorists and the government in check.
Hey I might not be thinking about this in a sufficiently technical mental mode, but how can the RIAA or anyone else gather download statistics about entire global p2p networks? How do they know whether downloading is up, down, or how much traffic of any kind is happening, ever? Maybe I just don't use them often enough. Or maybe this is in the same category as other statistics, being open lies that the public doesn't know how to refute and hence might believe. Any clues?
I know what the article submitter means, but I don't like the thought of encouraging anybody to kick the OpenOffice.org team anywhere over anything.
;)
;) It's incredible that this thing exists and works at all! It's an entirely free, highly innovative, enterprise-oriented office suite framework for crying out loud! :)
Developing OpenOffice.org at all is one of the heftiest, most complex, most daunting, hard-to-please development projects that one can possibly undertake. It takes a G4 two days of processing and a couple gigabytes of storage just to compile it once. The addition of tackling the moving target of a global monopoly only increases the level of user support they can hardly please everybody on. Just supporting the normal users is hard enough at this point!
I imagine an unknown point in time where OO.o's base development will stabilize. Recently, and perhaps still today, they were still dealing with legacy architecture inside OO.o from the StarOffice days. Sometimes it seems like a pre-1.0 of Mozilla when it was still entrenched with Netscape, but with an uncontrollable and inestimable potential waiting for the stars to align. It'll break fully out into its own space, it'll merge more with other productivity- and collaboration-oriented projects, and it'll become more things to more people.
And please, let's knock off the doom and gloom about the Aqua version.
My idea of a productivity suite used to be 'vi' and Mozilla. OO.o is so cool it's made me want to use an office suite! I get excited over designing dynamic documents and mail merges!
I am not convinced that any old SCO employee made those amateur drawings. Those pictures are good art, and I see no evidence that anyone at SCO knows how to produce quality art on a volunteer basis.
Hence, if Chewbacca lives on Endor, you must acquit SCO!
I intend to research on epinions.com and on fixyourownprinter.com. I appreciate any insight.
ObPrinterStory
I like the nostalgia happening here. Amen to the Apple printers. I worked with the gentlemen who were lead engineers for Apple's printing and imaging technologies until the return of Jobs, which smote them summarily and mightily. Bob Ogrey had one of each Apple printer ever made, in his garage and knew them each as if they had their own personality :) Wicked talented industrial designers. Bob was present on the famous tech support call where some dude called Apple tech support to ask how to remove his cat's tail from the Laserwriter. Everyone was drunk by the time that call ended. I believe that story was covered by Steven Levy either in Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution or in Insanely Great: The Life and Times of the Macintosh, the Computer That Changed Everything. Here is a similar true story.
http://www.stores.ebay.com/netgodshouseofhack
http://unixsurplus.com
There's a giant warehouse in Sunnyvale, CA full of ANYTHING you need from workstations and parts up to Sun and SGI enterprise stuff. Even a bargain basement Cray. For the non-mainstream stuff like Sun and SGI, it's all usually way cheaper than some retail place like Weird Stuff, although they're pretty good too.
Tell em you saw this on Slashdot. I'm sure they'll get a kick out of it.
They'll probably end up building voice-over-IP networks for toll bypass, seriously. :-/ That's for the price of some basic computer telephony, some $20/hr foreign engineering, and some leased lines.
Yeah. Or we could do that in regard to all the other mission-critical applications it's been in all this time! :)
So basically they came from the other direction, coming from the high end and reaching down. They're producing a major high quality app that would traditionally be relegated to being produced by enterprise for enterprise, which does rival the enterprise competition in quality and support, but also porting it to most OS's and releasing a time-unlimited shareware version. They also open sourced an ANSI C version of the most basic 'tar'-like version of their software for emergencies and for future-proofing. That ANSI C client is prepended to each tape so that you can retrieve it in an emergency with a bare OS and 'dd'. It rules.
Thanks to Slashdot posters for having shown me these links in past discussions! :)
There are any number of reasons why a person might be intolerant of climate. There's a high correlation between being really smart and having physical degenerations. Some people smart enough to want a project like this might also have fibromyalgia, rheumatoid arthritis, or be elderly. So therefore moving to a cold state might mean they can't ever leave their house without excruciating pain, immobility, disease, or other suffering.
I'm not sure if there's a reason you're not using VNC, but it does everything described by everyone in this thread so far. There are XF86 extensions to embed VNC, so you can remotify an existing local-only non-VNC session. And xinerama for spanning. And then another one to create one virtual space out of two X servers running on two separate machines. :)