I got badly burned by a company whose name rhymes with "Horacle" when I did some work without a written contract. I'd done three things for them, each one taking about a month, and got paid for all of them, and then I did a fourth that took two months, and they refused to pay me. Unfortunately I didn't have anything in writing to prove that they'd promised to pay me for this work.
Don't even need to hijack the existing one, just set up your own access point. Some people are likely to connect to it thinking it's the Bell one. Then even though your credit card payment screens look remarkably like Bell's, you're really selling them a service (wireless access through your own DSL or cable modem) and are probably getting closer to being legal.
You haven't priced DLT tapes recently, have you? I bought 10 USED 15Gb DLT IIIs for $100, and that was a good price. They cost $35 each new. That's over $2 per gig, compared to about a dollar per gig for IDE drives.
I swear, I'm so pissed off at Apple right now that if somebody wants to do an "I switched back" commercial I'll star in it. Last year I ordered a TiBook for Christmas, but didn't get it until February. This year, some on-line friends bought me an engraved 20Gb iPod as a thank-you present, but it arrived with a flakey hard drive so I had to send it back. According to the Apple "Support"(sic) web site, they verified the fault 4 days later and ordered a replacement, but here it is 30 days later and I still don't have my freaking iPod.
That's why you head for fields, not highways. I've known people who've made emergency landings in fields, and an A&P mechanic has come out and taken off the wings *properly*. The plane involved is still flying.
I'm willing to bet that half the times the handle gets pulled, it's going to be in a situation where not only would a non-BRS equipped pilot have successfully flown out of the situation, and left the plane flyable afterwards.
You might recall that the *first* time somebody tried to pull the handle, the BRS didn't go off until after they'd hit the ground. They managed to survive anyway, in spite of not using the chute. But boy was Cirrus and BRS embarrassed!
Actually, I think it will drive up the costs of aviation. The way the chute is anchored, it has to pull out stuff from the fuselage to deploy, and then the fuselage itself is designed to absorb some of the impact. According to people I've talked to, basically every time you pull the handle, the insurance company buys you a new plane. That's not going to be cheap.
At home we've got 2 Linux boxes, a Mac G4, two Mac laptops (three when my daughter is home from college), and a Windows box. I use the Linux box for development, but prefer the TiBook for surfing. My wife uses the G4 for everything, and my younger daughter prefers the Windows box (mostly because with Mac OS X and Linux, she can't install all the crapware she downloads off the net). We *all* read our email and Usenet by sshing into the Linux server. The other night the three of us were sitting around using AOL Instant Messanger to talk to the daughter at college - using AIM, iChat and gaim.
The problem is that there are some really badly designed web sites out there, and clueless web managers who, when you tell them their site doesn't work for you, say "well, it works for Internet Explorer 5.5, so you'd better upgrade". That sort of thing forces you to use Windows more often than you'd like to. We're just in the process of switching banks because our old one's web site was like that.
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How about "gimpeon", then? That has some movie editing capability, from one of the original authors of Cineon.
I have a bunch of mailman lists, and my users like the web based interface. Some of them like the monthly password mailing, some hate it. I'm not to thrilled about how badly it handles bounces, though, and I wish it could be configured to just reject email from non-subscribers (which is usually spam) rather than presenting it to me to have to make a decision on.
My web hosting company (Gradwell.net) has ezmlm, and from what I've been reading, it seems to be much better on the back end, giving me the option to reject all email from non-subscribers and better bounce handling. The only problem is that a lot of my users are not very email savvy, and they need the crutch of a web interface. Before I write my own, it would be nice to find out if there is one available. Does anybody know of one?
The Airport card is $99 which is about $40-$50 cheaper than 3rd party 802.11b cards.
I don't know where you're shopping for 3rd party 802.11b cards, but all the ones I've seen are either similar price to the Airport card (but support 128bit WEP) or much, much cheaper (and only do 40bit WEP like the Airport).
I didn't buy the life time subscription either, figuring they'd be out of business in a year or two, but at least I could use the hard disks in my computers afterwards. It's now 2.5 years later, I'm still paying per month, and who the hell wants 5400rpm disks in their computers any more?
And a few months ago I added a second TiVo, so that my History Channel and Comedy Central stuff wouldn't get overwritten by "Trading Spaces", "Big Brother" and "Survivor".
Nobody claimed the Wrights produced the first powered plane. I think one of the ancient Greeks did that.
What the Wrights did first, was they produced the first sustained controlled manned heavier than air powered aircraft flight. And they did it in a way that was repeatable, controllable, and so could be incrementally improved to the point where a few short years later they were demonstrating flights of an hour or more and carrying a passenger. And that's the difference between the Wrights and all those others who claimed to fly first, like this guy in England or the Eole or the guy in New Zealand - that their aircraft led to further, better aircraft and even further aircraft, whereas the other pretenders to the throne built one or two failures or uncontrolled short hop planes and then retired from the field.
because they didn't want to benefit humankind as Alberto Santos-Dumont wanted, but just to make a profit.
It might frighten you to learn this, but making a profit on your work is not evil.
Besides, what does that have to do with anything. You tried to make it sound like the Wright Brothers didn't fly until after Santos Dumont, and you asserted that there were no witnesses to the 1903 flight. I showed that you were wrong, and you came back with this crap about them not publicizing it. Did you know that the day of the flight, they approached local newspapers and nobody was interested in the story?
He didn't ever need a catapult And by 1906, neither did the Wrights.
Good they succeeded where they should have started, at services I don't know where you get this idea from. They built an airplane company that built airplanes. Those are things, not services. They built them to make money, which evidently you consider evil, but they were highly successful at it and the name Wright was on an aircraft company until well after World War II.
Your aggressiveness and arrogance shows you are a mostly insecure person. The fact that when you can't win an argument on your phoney made up "facts" you resort to personal attacks shows a lot more about your personality than it does about mine.
Wrong on several counts. While the Wright Brother's first flight wasn't "open to the public", they did have several witnesses, as they invited some people from the local coast guard station to watch. Also, Santos Dumont's public flight was mere seconds of barely controlled flailing around at a time when the Wrights were making figure eight flights around pylons.
The proof is in who made a success of building aircraft after the first one. Santos Dumount's plane was crap, and went on the scrap heap of history. Wright Brothers, because they understood the concepts of control and aerodynamics, went on to build a highly successful aircraft company based on ever better aircraft. By 1908, the Wrights were demonstrating flights of an hour or more and carrying passengers.
There is no reason to allow sites from outside your LAN to relay through your mail server based just on the From line or the MAIL FROM smtp command. At the very least, it's pretty trivial to only allow mail to be sent to outside the LAN (or localhost) if it comes from inside the LAN. If you need to be able to send email through it when you're at work or away on business, for example, then set up an SSL tunnel or some sort of authentication.
A good 10-20% of all the spam I get has headers forged to look like it came from me or from mailer-daemon on my site. Allowing mail to go through based on where it claims to be coming from, rather than where it actually is coming from, is just plain stupid. Spammers lie. Their entire business model is based on a lie, so why would you assume that they'd never lie about being from your domain?
I'm just quoting The Register there: We refer to the SonyEricsson P800, which struck us with its Aquaesque eye candy (that's Thin Quartz). (See our hands-on here and screenshots here).
Jobs recently invited SonyEricsson's chairman to demonstrate the device at MacWorld Expo, and at the WorldWide Developer Conference disclosed that Apple had introduced a new common address book format specifically to make it easier to communicate with PDAs and smartphones.
I assume "the device" refers to the P800 in the previous paragraph. I also consider the distinct possibility that SonyEricsson uses different model numbers in the US and the UK (which I've seen them do before) or that the Register got the model number wrong (whcih I've seen them to before).
Just so long as neither Sony nor Ericsson have any input what-so-ever when it comes to the user interface.
Read the referenced article. It says that the most likely candidate for cross licensing is one of the phones based on the Symbian platform, such as the P800 which is a pleasant piece of eye-candy. It's also the phone that Jobs invited Sony to demo at MacWorld Expo and the WWDC.
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I got badly burned by a company whose name rhymes with "Horacle" when I did some work without a written contract. I'd done three things for them, each one taking about a month, and got paid for all of them, and then I did a fourth that took two months, and they refused to pay me. Unfortunately I didn't have anything in writing to prove that they'd promised to pay me for this work.
Don't even need to hijack the existing one, just set up your own access point. Some people are likely to connect to it thinking it's the Bell one. Then even though your credit card payment screens look remarkably like Bell's, you're really selling them a service (wireless access through your own DSL or cable modem) and are probably getting closer to being legal.
He makes it to the shore just as Kevin Costner steps ashore from his catamaran.
You haven't priced DLT tapes recently, have you? I bought 10 USED 15Gb DLT IIIs for $100, and that was a good price. They cost $35 each new. That's over $2 per gig, compared to about a dollar per gig for IDE drives.
I swear, I'm so pissed off at Apple right now that if somebody wants to do an "I switched back" commercial I'll star in it. Last year I ordered a TiBook for Christmas, but didn't get it until February. This year, some on-line friends bought me an engraved 20Gb iPod as a thank-you present, but it arrived with a flakey hard drive so I had to send it back. According to the Apple "Support"(sic) web site, they verified the fault 4 days later and ordered a replacement, but here it is 30 days later and I still don't have my freaking iPod.
That's why you head for fields, not highways. I've known people who've made emergency landings in fields, and an A&P mechanic has come out and taken off the wings *properly*. The plane involved is still flying.
I'm willing to bet that half the times the handle gets pulled, it's going to be in a situation where not only would a non-BRS equipped pilot have successfully flown out of the situation, and left the plane flyable afterwards.
You might recall that the *first* time somebody tried to pull the handle, the BRS didn't go off until after they'd hit the ground. They managed to survive anyway, in spite of not using the chute. But boy was Cirrus and BRS embarrassed!
Actually, I think it will drive up the costs of aviation. The way the chute is anchored, it has to pull out stuff from the fuselage to deploy, and then the fuselage itself is designed to absorb some of the impact. According to people I've talked to, basically every time you pull the handle, the insurance company buys you a new plane. That's not going to be cheap.
Is there any way to sync a PocketPC on Linux?
Is there an emulator to run Palm OS apps on PocketPC?
Is there a Java runtime environment for PocketPC?
At home we've got 2 Linux boxes, a Mac G4, two Mac laptops (three when my daughter is home from college), and a Windows box. I use the Linux box for development, but prefer the TiBook for surfing. My wife uses the G4 for everything, and my younger daughter prefers the Windows box (mostly because with Mac OS X and Linux, she can't install all the crapware she downloads off the net). We *all* read our email and Usenet by sshing into the Linux server. The other night the three of us were sitting around using AOL Instant Messanger to talk to the daughter at college - using AIM, iChat and gaim.
The problem is that there are some really badly designed web sites out there, and clueless web managers who, when you tell them their site doesn't work for you, say "well, it works for Internet Explorer 5.5, so you'd better upgrade".
That sort of thing forces you to use Windows more often than you'd like to. We're just in the process of switching banks because our old one's web site was like that.
How about "gimpeon", then? That has some movie editing capability, from one of the original authors of Cineon.
I have a bunch of mailman lists, and my users like the web based interface. Some of them like the monthly password mailing, some hate it. I'm not to thrilled about how badly it handles bounces, though, and I wish it could be configured to just reject email from non-subscribers (which is usually spam) rather than presenting it to me to have to make a decision on.
My web hosting company (Gradwell.net) has ezmlm, and from what I've been reading, it seems to be much better on the back end, giving me the option to reject all email from non-subscribers and better bounce handling. The only problem is that a lot of my users are not very email savvy, and they need the crutch of a web interface. Before I write my own, it would be nice to find out if there is one available. Does anybody know of one?
'"Digital Pants" or "Smarty Pants" are an important part of our future strategy.'
Now I'll sit back and wait for somebody to spot the reference and correct any errors I made.
What they have now is the F-22 Raptor, a new front line fighter that is as maneuverable as an F-15, but as stealthy as an F-117.
It's obvious that this thing is just a proof of concept for some of the ideas in the F-22.
The Airport card is $99 which is about $40-$50 cheaper than 3rd party 802.11b cards.
I don't know where you're shopping for 3rd party 802.11b cards, but all the ones I've seen are either similar price to the Airport card (but support 128bit WEP) or much, much cheaper (and only do 40bit WEP like the Airport).
I didn't buy the life time subscription either, figuring they'd be out of business in a year or two, but at least I could use the hard disks in my computers afterwards. It's now 2.5 years later, I'm still paying per month, and who the hell wants 5400rpm disks in their computers any more?
And a few months ago I added a second TiVo, so that my History Channel and Comedy Central stuff wouldn't get overwritten by "Trading Spaces", "Big Brother" and "Survivor".
Nobody claimed the Wrights produced the first powered plane. I think one of the ancient Greeks did that.
What the Wrights did first, was they produced the first sustained controlled manned heavier than air powered aircraft flight. And they did it in a way that was repeatable, controllable, and so could be incrementally improved to the point where a few short years later they were demonstrating flights of an hour or more and carrying a passenger. And that's the difference between the Wrights and all those others who claimed to fly first, like this guy in England or the Eole or the guy in New Zealand - that their aircraft led to further, better aircraft and even further aircraft, whereas the other pretenders to the throne built one or two failures or uncontrolled short hop planes and then retired from the field.
because they didn't want to benefit humankind as Alberto Santos-Dumont wanted, but just to make a profit.
It might frighten you to learn this, but making a profit on your work is not evil.
Besides, what does that have to do with anything. You tried to make it sound like the Wright Brothers didn't fly until after Santos Dumont, and you asserted that there were no witnesses to the 1903 flight. I showed that you were wrong, and you came back with this crap about them not publicizing it. Did you know that the day of the flight, they approached local newspapers and nobody was interested in the story?
He didn't ever need a catapult
And by 1906, neither did the Wrights.
Good they succeeded where they should have started, at services
I don't know where you get this idea from. They built an airplane company that built airplanes. Those are things, not services. They built them to make money, which evidently you consider evil, but they were highly successful at it and the name Wright was on an aircraft company until well after World War II.
Your aggressiveness and arrogance shows you are a mostly insecure person.
The fact that when you can't win an argument on your phoney made up "facts" you resort to personal attacks shows a lot more about your personality than it does about mine.
Wrong on several counts. While the Wright Brother's first flight wasn't "open to the public", they did have several witnesses, as they invited some people from the local coast guard station to watch. Also, Santos Dumont's public flight was mere seconds of barely controlled flailing around at a time when the Wrights were making figure eight flights around pylons.
The proof is in who made a success of building aircraft after the first one. Santos Dumount's plane was crap, and went on the scrap heap of history. Wright Brothers, because they understood the concepts of control and aerodynamics, went on to build a highly successful aircraft company based on ever better aircraft. By 1908, the Wrights were demonstrating flights of an hour or more and carrying passengers.
RISC chips are so much more turquoise, too.
Everybody knows that mauve has the most RAM.
...on my ssh session?
I'd use your service, but I'd never see your banner ad.
There is no reason to allow sites from outside your LAN to relay through your mail server based just on the From line or the MAIL FROM smtp command. At the very least, it's pretty trivial to only allow mail to be sent to outside the LAN (or localhost) if it comes from inside the LAN. If you need to be able to send email through it when you're at work or away on business, for example, then set up an SSL tunnel or some sort of authentication.
A good 10-20% of all the spam I get has headers forged to look like it came from me or from mailer-daemon on my site. Allowing mail to go through based on where it claims to be coming from, rather than where it actually is coming from, is just plain stupid. Spammers lie. Their entire business model is based on a lie, so why would you assume that they'd never lie about being from your domain?
My TiVo is made by Sony. It's good. And they didn't even force it to use Memory Stick(evil).
I'm just quoting The Register there:
We refer to the SonyEricsson P800, which struck us with its Aquaesque eye candy (that's Thin Quartz). (See our hands-on here and screenshots here).
Jobs recently invited SonyEricsson's chairman to demonstrate the device at MacWorld Expo, and at the WorldWide Developer Conference disclosed that Apple had introduced a new common address book format specifically to make it easier to communicate with PDAs and smartphones.
I assume "the device" refers to the P800 in the previous paragraph. I also consider the distinct possibility that SonyEricsson uses different model numbers in the US and the UK (which I've seen them do before) or that the Register got the model number wrong (whcih I've seen them to before).
Just so long as neither Sony nor Ericsson have any input what-so-ever when it comes to the user interface.
Read the referenced article. It says that the most likely candidate for cross licensing is one of the phones based on the Symbian platform, such as the P800 which is a pleasant piece of eye-candy. It's also the phone that Jobs invited Sony to demo at MacWorld Expo and the WWDC.
We have product give-away door prizes at our local Linux Users Group. Next month the give-away is Yellow Dog Linux CDs.