There are several membrane only keyboards on the market but most are too mushy. the "Virtually Indestructible Keyboard" from Grandtec has semi-solid key tops so you know when you have pessed the key far enough unlike others on the mrket that have keycaps as mushy as the sides of the keys. Radio Shack and Best Buy have carried then in their stores so take a look. BTW this message was typed on their black USB verion.
I have a PCI Wireless card with a Prism chipset and running the HostAP drivers. It serves as one hella Access Point. I allow port 80 to connect through squid. I log MAC addresses and sites visited. I do this as a service to anyone that might be cruising through the neighborhood looking for bandwidth. I have had noone abuse this yet. If I do have an abusive user then a MAC address ban will stop most users.
It's probably an FCC problem. Europe allows different channels than thew United States. I believe the extra channels are in a secure military band. If Intel were to release enough information for the opensource community to write a driver Intel might be in trouble with the FCC for allowing, although indirectly, their customers to broadcast on military frequencies.
aaaaaaaaa...... SCO linked to a jargon file entry that links back to them. I can hear the death of webspiders recursing infinitely until they die they die the "lack o memory" death
I remember reading about this tech as it was first appearing. Comments about using an ordinary camcorder to see the infrared emitted or even modifing a learning remote and hanging out near fire houses or intersections to grab the code.
I live in a small Texas town with a volunteer fire department. Our fire department has has a truck with a fan for about 10 years now. Admittedly, it doesnt have the ducting but is effective none the less. This is not a new concept.
I have a Zaurus 5500 and a Linksys WCF12. While driving to work a sometimes leave Wellenreiter running, logging whatever networks I run across. Most of my trip is on highways and I pick up at least 20 networks that are at least 100m away from the highway. If I leave Wellenreiter running at the default channel hop delay of 100ms it gets warm after running for 30 minutes continuously so I set it to 1000ms insead. I run openzaurus 3.2 upgraded to Opie 1.0. OZ comes with the HostAP drivers and the WCF12 is a Prism2 chipset so I guess eventually it will be able to work as an access point. I do recommend the Zaurus but it will take a little work to get a good war-driving rig set up. Just remember Sharp Zaurus 5500 Linksys WCF12 Openzaurus 3.2 Opie 1.0 Wellenreiter
The Television is the ONLY source of news (biased as it may be) for the majority of the population.
The majority of the population need to google for "Naked News". Then they might never go to TV for news again.
I work for a robotics company. We use QNX as the OS on our PC based control. The following is an example of how QNX has impressed me.
One November a customer called and complained that they were not getting their log files. These log files were written to a ftp shared directory. One of my coworkers logged into the robot via modem and started looking around. When he tried to get a directory listing he got an Input/Output error instead. After a little digging around in the logs in ram he determined the hard drive had died. The most interesting thjing is that the hard drive had apparently died in August. The robot had run continually from August to November and the only trace of any problems was the lack of log files. There was no other permament storage in the system. The OS, UI and all the robot applications were running in RAM for 3 months without problems. I Love QNX
The article also stated that users could vote with Digital Cable boxes. I am remembering the elections from Max Headroom where each of the candidates were each broadcasting and viewers tuned their channels to whomever they wished to vote for and at some predefined time the votes would be tallied. Realtime graphs were available to candidates and they reacted accordingly.
Mozilla and an IMAP server with LDAP address lists and the calendar addon can do 90% of what most people use Outlook for. The IMAP mail client in Mozilla can access folders on an Exchange 2000 server. An LDAP distributed address book will do the same job as Exchange Global address lists. The Calendar addon still needs some work but can access distributed iCal claendars and keep a local calendar. Use Mozilla!!!
Can the slashdot effect make spam expensive? If we posted any URL from a spam message, minus any identifying information, to slashdot and enough people visit that url will the spammer lose money paying for that bandwidth? What if several broadband slashdotters run a recursive wget several hundred times simultaneously? Can we make spam a less viable matketing technique if the bandwidth costs alone are more than snail mail and any of the idiots that actually buy stuff from spammers can't even connect to the site in question?
The Zaurus runs Linux, comes with the Opera browser, has a keyboard built in, works with many wireless CF and PCMCIA cards, and is less than the newest IPAQ. Opera has scaling built into the browser, which makes navigating a page very easy. Zoom out to view the entire page or in to read details. The screen visibility is better than the IPAQ and the Journada. It has an SD memory slot for memory expansion and a CF slot for expansion cards or memory.
I realize this is slightly offtopic and I can probably kiss some karma points goodbye but, did anyone else notice a modified image at the top of this page? This image was at the top of this story.
I started dating the female who is now my wife my Freshman year in High School, and we have been together ever since. Guess this gives me an advantage at becoming an alpha geek someday.
Several (maybe all) players can transport files other than MP3 and will happily allow you to download the other formats. If your player can transfer other files but not MP3 then a little hex editing to the software will fix that. I have modified the Samsung Yepp Explorer software for a friend (the Linux version has no limitations). Search the file for MP3 and replace it with anything (mp2, abc, 123, etc). Works for me
Its an RCA CD-MP3 Player but it doesn't sound like a typical RCA (read it sounds good) and retails for $169. If I was going to buy a CD-MP3 playter it would be the TDK Mojo mostly for the music manager and display.
Motorola has been using an OLED display on oe of their TimePort models, the 8767, sice August. It is in 3 colors, just each color is in a different region of the screen. Text is green, battery meter is blue, signal is amber, etc. Very bright, just like the LED display on my alarm clock, but much higher resolution. IIRC, it can display 5 lines of text.
Here's a link
Isn't OSX was based on *BSD and isn't *BSD supposed to be more secure out of the box? If cracks are found quickly, will that serve as a wakeup call to all admins of "out-of-the-box" Distros, be it RedHat, Mandrake, SuSE, Debian, BeOS, QNX, *BSD, WinNT, Win9x, etc. Maybe managers and hiring personnel will fianlly realize that all admins are not created equal.
Oh well, yet another Star Trek series I can't watch. I saw every episode of ST:TNG, most of ST:DS9, a season of ST:Voyager and then Paramount pulled it to UPN only in my area and I can't get UPN. Stupid Paramount
Slashdot Mirror
There are several membrane only keyboards on the market but most are too mushy. the "Virtually Indestructible Keyboard" from Grandtec has semi-solid key tops so you know when you have pessed the key far enough unlike others on the mrket that have keycaps as mushy as the sides of the keys. Radio Shack and Best Buy have carried then in their stores so take a look. BTW this message was typed on their black USB verion.
I have a PCI Wireless card with a Prism chipset and running the HostAP drivers. It serves as one hella Access Point. I allow port 80 to connect through squid. I log MAC addresses and sites visited. I do this as a service to anyone that might be cruising through the neighborhood looking for bandwidth. I have had noone abuse this yet. If I do have an abusive user then a MAC address ban will stop most users.
It's probably an FCC problem. Europe allows different channels than thew United States. I believe the extra channels are in a secure military band. If Intel were to release enough information for the opensource community to write a driver Intel might be in trouble with the FCC for allowing, although indirectly, their customers to broadcast on military frequencies.
aaaaaaaaa......
SCO linked to a jargon file entry that links back to them. I can hear the death of webspiders recursing infinitely until they die they die the "lack o memory" death
I remember reading about this tech as it was first appearing. Comments about using an ordinary camcorder to see the infrared emitted or even modifing a learning remote and hanging out near fire houses or intersections to grab the code.
Hmm, a relational database overlaying a file system...
Where have I heard of this before...
I live in a small Texas town with a volunteer fire department. Our fire department has has a truck with a fan for about 10 years now. Admittedly, it doesnt have the ducting but is effective none the less. This is not a new concept.
I have a Zaurus 5500 and a Linksys WCF12. While driving to work a sometimes leave Wellenreiter running, logging whatever networks I run across. Most of my trip is on highways and I pick up at least 20 networks that are at least 100m away from the highway. If I leave Wellenreiter running at the default channel hop delay of 100ms it gets warm after running for 30 minutes continuously so I set it to 1000ms insead. I run openzaurus 3.2 upgraded to Opie 1.0. OZ comes with the HostAP drivers and the WCF12 is a Prism2 chipset so I guess eventually it will be able to work as an access point. I do recommend the Zaurus but it will take a little work to get a good war-driving rig set up.
Just remember
Sharp Zaurus 5500
Linksys WCF12
Openzaurus 3.2
Opie 1.0
Wellenreiter
The Television is the ONLY source of news (biased as it may be) for the majority of the population.
The majority of the population need to google for "Naked News". Then they might never go to TV for news again.
mplayer
I work for a robotics company. We use QNX as the OS on our PC based control. The following is an example of how QNX has impressed me.
One November a customer called and complained that they were not getting their log files. These log files were written to a ftp shared directory. One of my coworkers logged into the robot via modem and started looking around. When he tried to get a directory listing he got an Input/Output error instead. After a little digging around in the logs in ram he determined the hard drive had died. The most interesting thjing is that the hard drive had apparently died in August. The robot had run continually from August to November and the only trace of any problems was the lack of log files. There was no other permament storage in the system. The OS, UI and all the robot applications were running in RAM for 3 months without problems.
I Love QNX
The article also stated that users could vote with Digital Cable boxes. I am remembering the elections from Max Headroom where each of the candidates were each broadcasting and viewers tuned their channels to whomever they wished to vote for and at some predefined time the votes would be tallied. Realtime graphs were available to candidates and they reacted accordingly.
Mozilla and an IMAP server with LDAP address lists and the calendar addon can do 90% of what most people use Outlook for. The IMAP mail client in Mozilla can access folders on an Exchange 2000 server. An LDAP distributed address book will do the same job as Exchange Global address lists. The Calendar addon still needs some work but can access distributed iCal claendars and keep a local calendar. Use Mozilla!!!
several plugins for XMMS may get you started. They have plans for the hardware to connect a parallel port to leds, stepper motors, whatever.
Can the slashdot effect make spam expensive?
If we posted any URL from a spam message, minus any identifying information, to slashdot and enough people visit that url will the spammer lose money paying for that bandwidth? What if several broadband slashdotters run a recursive wget several hundred times simultaneously? Can we make spam a less viable matketing technique if the bandwidth costs alone are more than snail mail and any of the idiots that actually buy stuff from spammers can't even connect to the site in question?
...The RIAA Sues Kazaa...
um...
The Zaurus runs Linux, comes with the Opera browser, has a keyboard built in, works with many wireless CF and PCMCIA cards, and is less than the newest IPAQ. Opera has scaling built into the browser, which makes navigating a page very easy. Zoom out to view the entire page or in to read details. The screen visibility is better than the IPAQ and the Journada. It has an SD memory slot for memory expansion and a CF slot for expansion cards or memory.
I realize this is slightly offtopic and I can probably kiss some karma points goodbye but, did anyone else notice a modified image at the top of this page? This image was at the top of this story.
I started dating the female who is now my wife my Freshman year in High School, and we have been together ever since. Guess this gives me an advantage at becoming an alpha geek someday.
Several (maybe all) players can transport files other than MP3 and will happily allow you to download the other formats. If your player can transfer other files but not MP3 then a little hex editing to the software will fix that. I have modified the Samsung Yepp Explorer software for a friend (the Linux version has no limitations). Search the file for MP3 and replace it with anything (mp2, abc, 123, etc). Works for me
Its an RCA CD-MP3 Player but it doesn't sound like a typical RCA (read it sounds good) and retails for $169. If I was going to buy a CD-MP3 playter it would be the TDK Mojo mostly for the music manager and display.
Motorola has been using an OLED display on oe of their TimePort models, the 8767, sice August. It is in 3 colors, just each color is in a different region of the screen. Text is green, battery meter is blue, signal is amber, etc. Very bright, just like the LED display on my alarm clock, but much higher resolution. IIRC, it can display 5 lines of text. Here's a link
Isn't OSX was based on *BSD and isn't *BSD supposed to be more secure out of the box? If cracks are found quickly, will that serve as a wakeup call to all admins of "out-of-the-box" Distros, be it RedHat, Mandrake, SuSE, Debian, BeOS, QNX, *BSD, WinNT, Win9x, etc. Maybe managers and hiring personnel will fianlly realize that all admins are not created equal.
Oh well, yet another Star Trek series I can't watch. I saw every episode of ST:TNG, most of ST:DS9, a season of ST:Voyager and then Paramount pulled it to UPN only in my area and I can't get UPN. Stupid Paramount
Found a link to the bistromathematic drive