Depending on how big your save file would have been you could have stored it as a cookie in the browser. YMMV as to what browser gives you what kind of support for this though.
I seem to remember a web server writen in postscript being mentioned on/. some years back. It seems like a pretty big stretch to me having a language designed for displaying text and graphics serve out web pages.
Hey guys I don't think this guy has too bad of an idea. He is essentially opening up a video store where the movie is returned within hours instead of days. The turn around time is great. The biggest problem would be real estate and infrastructure. I think you would need at least 20 - 30 rooms to fill possible demand. Each room could seat say 8 people and there would be some kind of terminal to order food and what not. You would also have to install cameras to keep people from leaving nasty stains on the couches too. Still if the facilities were nice enough I think I would catch a flick or two at my own private theater/resturaunt.
Actually a lot of the SMB protocol is RPC based. The SAMBA guys just decode the messages and then run the appropriate code. I believe there is a next generation off shoot of SAMBA that is looking into making an RPC based version. I think one of the big problems though is that MS hasn't released and open source friendly version of the documentation that explains the stubs.
Actually I bought my phone. They gave it to me cheap because they want my business. If I loose it the cheapest phone I can buy without a new account is around 180$. Likewise I had to pay for my dish and receiver. While your right that stealing a service is illegal I should be able to mod my hardware anyway I want. Even if its just dropping off a 5 story building.
It sounds like they limit the bandwidth for the whole school. For good reasons it seems as well. If it were a per connection or per ip basis you could kind of use a distributed setup but that would be a bit impractical. Another option you have is to buddy up with someone whose school isn't doing the same thing and convince him to setup a server and ssh into his box and d/l the files to there then transfer them over ftp. Yet another option is setting up a local p2p network. Gnucleus has an option for being behind a firewall. It'll let you run an internal p2p network. For common stuff your "friends" around the rest of the network may have what you are looking for. Then there is good old irc and news groups. Its not p2p but the selection is usually pretty good.
I've been looking for something that will allow me to create content in one format and then have it available in several formats. Here's what I mean. As an author take a template and fill in the bits of information to create an html page. Then have that data propagated to a similar template for a pdf, word doc, etc. Ideally all of this content would then be managed under a CMS. Is there any such beast out there?
You're right a lot of that stuff is not right and should be protested. One thing that you might find interesting about the US is that there is a growing movement for more humane treatment of animals. Its sponsored by what seems to be the most unlikely corporation of them all, McDonalds. They now have specifications for the beginning to the end. Starting with raising the animals up to the end of the animal's life. It seems they figured out along with help from the animal rights people that the nicer an animal is treated the better it tastes. Now if a supplier doesn't want to follow these specs or fails an inspection they won't buy his food. And that is one customer that you don't want to loose. Also now that it is seen as so beneficial the other fast food places are jumping on the bandwagon. I wouldn't eat a lobster if I knew that it didn't die as soon as you put its head in the boiling water. I get disgusted at people who put them in tail first or shell them live. You're right thats cruel. However I have know problem eating an animal that has been ethically treated. Thanks for the good conversation. Its hard to find that here these days.
I remember seeing some xmas lights like this along some peoples walkways last year. I didn't think it looked very good but there were a few of them around. After halloween you should be able to find them.
Do we, as civilised poeple, need to deliberately cause such pain and suffering to our fellow creatures?
It's unavoidable. By consuming resources you cannot hope to avoid it. Even walking in the park can harm unknown numbers of creatures. This is not meant to be a license to go on a killing spree though. As with all things there needs to be a responsible balance. I don't think factory farms are a responsible idea. I don't think cramming 10 chickens in a cage and cutting of their beaks is a responsible thing. If we're going to kill'em we owe them something better than that.
Many plants have evolved such that being eaten in part or whole is part of their reproduction.
They merely take advantage of a situation they have little control over.
I choose not to limit myself.
In doing so you limit others.
In living I consume resources. Therefore I limit others by keeping resources from them. Only in death will I be able to stop limiting others because I will no longer be consuming anything.
I kill, you kill, even my trees in my back yard kill. Yes thats right that big tree in my back yard that shades the ground so well kills more infants in a year than I can count. I also happen to think that its a very strong majestic beautiful tree. I don't think its a murderer. Its nature is to do what it must to survive and grow. In fact our own instincts have evolved to adore that which is best at ruining others. Do you prefer the sickly flower or the full bright colored flower? I'm not sure what seperates us from animals and plants in this. Probably precious little. You choose to eat the rotting corpses of plants. I choose not to limit myself. Just don't make the mistake that you aren't killing for food and that what you are eating is not the rotting corpse of something dead.
What prevents somebody from gathering up a can of these things and shooting them off to mars for terra forming? If we send some off now it would give us a good jump start for when we can send people there efficiently.
Speaking of Aethera whatever happened to the open source competitor Magellan? The server for it doesn't seem to be up as I write this. Is this just one more unfinished project?
It sounds like you want to get the file format for power point. What I know is that Office files are stored in a structured format like a file system. There is a project on the Apache Jakarta website that has been reverse engineering many of these file formats. They have been collaborating with the open source office guys so the library should be fairly decent. I haven't tried it myself though.
I've used a handspring and iPaq but have come to love my Sharp Zaurus. It comes with Opera as its browser but you could put KDE's konqueror on it. Text input is a pain on any pda but the Z's built in keyboard is one of the greatest enhancements to a pda I've seen so far. Its basically the same hardware as a Pocket PC but it has CF and SD built right in. I haven't tried the wireless part yet but others have had plenty success with it. OTOH I have a gut feeling that running the Cat5 and setting up some diskless PCs as Xterminals would give you better bang for your buck and more expandibility in the app department later on.
I suppose that Sharp could come out with a sleeve like device for the Z. The sleeve on the iPAQ fits into the spot where the cradle connects IIRC. The Z has something similar. My main complaint about those sleeves is that as soon as you add one it starts making the thing huge. When I first saw the belt pack thing I practically laughed my ass off. It made me picture a bunch of Revenge of the Nerd style people walking around with these big protrusions coming from their hips. I believe its Toshiba that offers a CF and SD built in at a reasonable size. That makes sense. Especially if you've actually seen how big the double PCMCIA sleave makes the thing. A wireless card and CF card make it weigh as much as one of those ultra light laptops and it ends up being roughly the size of a brick. My Z fits in my pants pocket almost as comfortable as my old handspring. There is no way in hell an iPAQ with a sleeve would fit in my pocket. The only way that thing is a PocketPC is if it brings its own MS Pocket.
I've had mine for a little over a week now. You can get the bash shell by copying the.ipk files on the install cd. I think the directory is applications. There is a file manager and also some program to run their digital camera CF-plugin. Also tell your friends with the developer version to pick up a couple cf cards or I guess SD would work and search around on http://zauruszone.com's forums for RAM upgrade. It isn't really an upgrade but moves a lot of the stuff in the ROM to a CF card and gives you almost as much RAM as the consumer version.
I lived in a place for a while where if the monitor was set to anything above 60Hz the screen image would waver back and forth quickly. We tried everything we could. The house was old so we ran some new electrical wire. The breaker box was new and properly grounded as well. There were no visible major power lines around the place. Some of those high power lines can cause interference. I don' think there was a cell tower nearby either. The only thing I can think of was that there were railroad tracks running behind the place. Its possible that the railroad were sending radio communications and interfering that way. At the time I lived there I didn't have a UPS but my brother whose house it is has one now and it doesn't seem to help.
Sorry Timothy the created edit msoffice docs is not a tie in with M$. This functionality is provided by a 3rd party application. Sony also bundles it with their Clie products. I forget the name of it right now though.
To get on their national do not call list you can visit their site and opt out. To do it by mail is free but to do it online requires a 5$ fee paid by credit card. The catch for the by mail option is that it could take up to 30 days to process. Where is the logic in this? They have to pay some poor data entry people to process every form that comes in yet it costs very little to have me submit my form to a web server. It doesn't make sense. The only thing I can think of is that they don't want any script kiddies deregistering entire electronic phone books.
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It must be an oz only thing. It fails on my Z with the stock sharp rom because it tries to write to /root which is a read only file system.
Depending on how big your save file would have been you could have stored it as a cookie in the browser. YMMV as to what browser gives you what kind of support for this though.
I seem to remember a web server writen in postscript being mentioned on /. some years back. It seems like a pretty big stretch to me having a language designed for displaying text and graphics serve out web pages.
Hey guys I don't think this guy has too bad of an idea. He is essentially opening up a video store where the movie is returned within hours instead of days. The turn around time is great. The biggest problem would be real estate and infrastructure. I think you would need at least 20 - 30 rooms to fill possible demand. Each room could seat say 8 people and there would be some kind of terminal to order food and what not. You would also have to install cameras to keep people from leaving nasty stains on the couches too. Still if the facilities were nice enough I think I would catch a flick or two at my own private theater/resturaunt.
Actually a lot of the SMB protocol is RPC based. The SAMBA guys just decode the messages and then run the appropriate code. I believe there is a next generation off shoot of SAMBA that is looking into making an RPC based version. I think one of the big problems though is that MS hasn't released and open source friendly version of the documentation that explains the stubs.
Actually I bought my phone. They gave it to me cheap because they want my business. If I loose it the cheapest phone I can buy without a new account is around 180$. Likewise I had to pay for my dish and receiver. While your right that stealing a service is illegal I should be able to mod my hardware anyway I want. Even if its just dropping off a 5 story building.
Thats the geek way of dieing with your boots on.
It sounds like they limit the bandwidth for the whole school. For good reasons it seems as well. If it were a per connection or per ip basis you could kind of use a distributed setup but that would be a bit impractical. Another option you have is to buddy up with someone whose school isn't doing the same thing and convince him to setup a server and ssh into his box and d/l the files to there then transfer them over ftp. Yet another option is setting up a local p2p network. Gnucleus has an option for being behind a firewall. It'll let you run an internal p2p network. For common stuff your "friends" around the rest of the network may have what you are looking for. Then there is good old irc and news groups. Its not p2p but the selection is usually pretty good.
I've been looking for something that will allow me to create content in one format and then have it available in several formats. Here's what I mean. As an author take a template and fill in the bits of information to create an html page. Then have that data propagated to a similar template for a pdf, word doc, etc. Ideally all of this content would then be managed under a CMS. Is there any such beast out there?
You're right a lot of that stuff is not right and should be protested. One thing that you might find interesting about the US is that there is a growing movement for more humane treatment of animals. Its sponsored by what seems to be the most unlikely corporation of them all, McDonalds. They now have specifications for the beginning to the end. Starting with raising the animals up to the end of the animal's life. It seems they figured out along with help from the animal rights people that the nicer an animal is treated the better it tastes. Now if a supplier doesn't want to follow these specs or fails an inspection they won't buy his food. And that is one customer that you don't want to loose. Also now that it is seen as so beneficial the other fast food places are jumping on the bandwagon. I wouldn't eat a lobster if I knew that it didn't die as soon as you put its head in the boiling water. I get disgusted at people who put them in tail first or shell them live. You're right thats cruel. However I have know problem eating an animal that has been ethically treated. Thanks for the good conversation. Its hard to find that here these days.
I remember seeing some xmas lights like this along some peoples walkways last year. I didn't think it looked very good but there were a few of them around. After halloween you should be able to find them.
Do we, as civilised poeple, need to deliberately cause such pain and suffering to our fellow creatures?
It's unavoidable. By consuming resources you cannot hope to avoid it. Even walking in the park can harm unknown numbers of creatures. This is not meant to be a license to go on a killing spree though. As with all things there needs to be a responsible balance. I don't think factory farms are a responsible idea. I don't think cramming 10 chickens in a cage and cutting of their beaks is a responsible thing. If we're going to kill'em we owe them something better than that.
Many plants have evolved such that being eaten in part or whole is part of their reproduction.
They merely take advantage of a situation they have little control over.
I choose not to limit myself.
In doing so you limit others.
In living I consume resources. Therefore I limit others by keeping resources from them. Only in death will I be able to stop limiting others because I will no longer be consuming anything.
I kill, you kill, even my trees in my back yard kill. Yes thats right that big tree in my back yard that shades the ground so well kills more infants in a year than I can count. I also happen to think that its a very strong majestic beautiful tree. I don't think its a murderer. Its nature is to do what it must to survive and grow. In fact our own instincts have evolved to adore that which is best at ruining others. Do you prefer the sickly flower or the full bright colored flower? I'm not sure what seperates us from animals and plants in this. Probably precious little. You choose to eat the rotting corpses of plants. I choose not to limit myself. Just don't make the mistake that you aren't killing for food and that what you are eating is not the rotting corpse of something dead.
What prevents somebody from gathering up a can of these things and shooting them off to mars for terra forming? If we send some off now it would give us a good jump start for when we can send people there efficiently.
Speaking of Aethera whatever happened to the open source competitor Magellan? The server for it doesn't seem to be up as I write this. Is this just one more unfinished project?
sorry should have previewed. Apache Jakarta
It sounds like you want to get the file format for power point. What I know is that Office files are stored in a structured format like a file system. There is a project on the Apache Jakarta website that has been reverse engineering many of these file formats. They have been collaborating with the open source office guys so the library should be fairly decent. I haven't tried it myself though.
Maybe thats why they sound like people dying when you try to give them baths. :-)
I've used a handspring and iPaq but have come to love my Sharp Zaurus. It comes with Opera as its browser but you could put KDE's konqueror on it. Text input is a pain on any pda but the Z's built in keyboard is one of the greatest enhancements to a pda I've seen so far. Its basically the same hardware as a Pocket PC but it has CF and SD built right in. I haven't tried the wireless part yet but others have had plenty success with it.
OTOH I have a gut feeling that running the Cat5 and setting up some diskless PCs as Xterminals would give you better bang for your buck and more expandibility in the app department later on.
vGINA = Virtual Graphical Identification and Authentication
I suppose that Sharp could come out with a sleeve like device for the Z. The sleeve on the iPAQ fits into the spot where the cradle connects IIRC. The Z has something similar. My main complaint about those sleeves is that as soon as you add one it starts making the thing huge. When I first saw the belt pack thing I practically laughed my ass off. It made me picture a bunch of Revenge of the Nerd style people walking around with these big protrusions coming from their hips. I believe its Toshiba that offers a CF and SD built in at a reasonable size. That makes sense. Especially if you've actually seen how big the double PCMCIA sleave makes the thing. A wireless card and CF card make it weigh as much as one of those ultra light laptops and it ends up being roughly the size of a brick. My Z fits in my pants pocket almost as comfortable as my old handspring. There is no way in hell an iPAQ with a sleeve would fit in my pocket. The only way that thing is a PocketPC is if it brings its own MS Pocket.
I've had mine for a little over a week now. You can get the bash shell by copying the .ipk files on the install cd. I think the directory is applications. There is a file manager and also some program to run their digital camera CF-plugin. Also tell your friends with the developer version to pick up a couple cf cards or I guess SD would work and search around on http://zauruszone.com's forums for RAM upgrade. It isn't really an upgrade but moves a lot of the stuff in the ROM to a CF card and gives you almost as much RAM as the consumer version.
I lived in a place for a while where if the monitor was set to anything above 60Hz the screen image would waver back and forth quickly. We tried everything we could. The house was old so we ran some new electrical wire. The breaker box was new and properly grounded as well. There were no visible major power lines around the place. Some of those high power lines can cause interference. I don' think there was a cell tower nearby either. The only thing I can think of was that there were railroad tracks running behind the place. Its possible that the railroad were sending radio communications and interfering that way. At the time I lived there I didn't have a UPS but my brother whose house it is has one now and it doesn't seem to help.
Sorry Timothy the created edit msoffice docs is not a tie in with M$. This functionality is provided by a 3rd party application. Sony also bundles it with their Clie products. I forget the name of it right now though.
To get on their national do not call list you can visit their site and opt out. To do it by mail is free but to do it online requires a 5$ fee paid by credit card. The catch for the by mail option is that it could take up to 30 days to process. Where is the logic in this? They have to pay some poor data entry people to process every form that comes in yet it costs very little to have me submit my form to a web server. It doesn't make sense. The only thing I can think of is that they don't want any script kiddies deregistering entire electronic phone books.