My vote also goes for the Sony Clie SJ-20 (or SJ-30 if you want color.)
These also have the advantage of very good battery life on rechargable, user-replacable batteries. I get about a week of use on a single charge with mine.
Can't say if it works with MacOS but I've been using mine with Linux since the first day. I don't think I've ever synced it to a Windows box.
I would like to see someone build a tablet that runs completely over WiFi. Why waste battery life and weight cramming in a hard drive, cd-rom, huge processor, etc when wireless networks are cheap and ubiquitous.
Have a real computer somewhere run a small server app and handle the storage and let the tablet be just a dumb terminal. You would save weight and the batteries would last a whole day. Why the hell do I need a Pentium 4 processor in something that is basically just going to be used for display?
I wouldn't even mind if the server software only ran on Windows because I know it would only be a matter of time before someone made an open source version.
While I agree with you that it's not the best security in the world it's not completely useless to send the password hash over the network.
In the overall scheme of things, the risk of someone intercepting traffic is minimal compared to the risk of someone grabbing the entire password database. The real point of using the password hash is to keep the cleartext password out of a database.
Let's face it. It's a lot less time consuming to just grab an entire database than it is to intercept all the traffic (even if it is automated) until you get the passwords you want.
I know up until very recently DieBold was a big user of OS/2. What would you rather have running your ATM, Windows or OS/2? As to why they haven't picked up free software, I'm not really sure.
The bank I work for is still running OS/2 on it's ATMs. Although they do occasionally threaten to "upgrade" them to Windows.
Now that I think about it, I can't remember the last time they needed to be restarted. It may be a butt-ugly os but it does work damn good.
I've never owned a printer and I never plan on owning one. On the very rare occasions when I HAVE to print something (Usually once a year at tax time) I take the file to work and print it there.
I've never understood the need to print stuff out. It's hard to grep a dead tree.
My personal favorite has to be #6: Hotheaded Naked Ice Borers. I remember seeing that story in Discover and being completely amazed. It had me going for quite a while until I did some checking and found out that the scientist's last name was latin for fool. Since her first name was April I then figured out it was a joke.
Apparently naked mole rats are a big favorite for April Fools pranks. They show up again later on in this list.
I've been doing exactly that for about a year now with Mozilla's current mail.
Just move the mail folders (sometimes takes a little digging to find them) over to the shared drive and change the Account settings to point to the new location. (Hint: if you can't find this setting it's at the bottom of the server settings screen) It works pretty well except for occasionally being a little slow to index folders.
Now I just wish I could figure out how to do the same thing with prefs and bookmarks.
I dont' even bother trying to contact tech support anymore. I've found that user forums get answers a lot faster and usually more accurately. I discovered this when I had a problem with my old system (a Dell). After sitting on hold a few times I ran across the Dell | Talk site and found the answer in about half the time I had already spent on hold.
When I built my new system earlier this year that was one of the things I looked for when selecting parts. I also checked the user forums before hand to see what kinds of problems other people were having. As a result of doing my homework I haven't had a single problem with the new box, but it's still reasurring to know that real help is there if I need it.
Look for this. It's VHS unfortunately, but it's got all of the clasics on it. Rabbit of Seville, What's Opera, Doc?, etc.
When I was in college some poor sucker rented this and left it in the tv room of the dorm. That video played contstantly for about a month. We never got tired of it.
There is hardly any interaction or connection between the viewer and the tv
I've often wondered if there is any difference in reactions to TV from people who grew up with a remote control. In my experience their viewing seems to be less passive than older people. Can channel surfing be considered interactive or is it just trying to get more of that "orienting response" like the proverbial rat pushing the button until it starves?
The article seems to imply that there is no difference but a lot of my viewing tends to be more critical. Making fun of commercials, flipping channels. Granted, I will occasionally just zone in front of the idiot box but that usually puts me to sleep.
Would Beavis and Butthead be more immune to the addicting effects of television? Douglas Rushkoff touches on this in Media Virus but I'm not familliar with any scientific studies on the difference in viewing habits between age groups.
I hear you. No more than two minutes after talking to my supervisor about this the VP walks in and asks if he should be concerned about this satanist thing he just opened on his computer.
Moron!
Of course the plus side of all of this is I get to try to reinforce my attempts to teach them halfway decent security habits. I usually try to put the fear of god in them by first asking if they have anything important saved on their computer.
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You sir, are my new hero.
I think the record industry executives asses are going to have to get a lot fatter before that will work with file sharing.
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Keyboard of the GODS! I wish I could afford one right now.
My vote also goes for the Sony Clie SJ-20 (or SJ-30 if you want color.)
These also have the advantage of very good battery life on rechargable, user-replacable batteries. I get about a week of use on a single charge with mine.
Can't say if it works with MacOS but I've been using mine with Linux since the first day. I don't think I've ever synced it to a Windows box.
I would like to see someone build a tablet that runs completely over WiFi. Why waste battery life and weight cramming in a hard drive, cd-rom, huge processor, etc when wireless networks are cheap and ubiquitous.
Have a real computer somewhere run a small server app and handle the storage and let the tablet be just a dumb terminal. You would save weight and the batteries would last a whole day. Why the hell do I need a Pentium 4 processor in something that is basically just going to be used for display?
I wouldn't even mind if the server software only ran on Windows because I know it would only be a matter of time before someone made an open source version.
You stay the hell away from my sister you pervert!
It's like seeing your sister naked. Ack!
I don't know. I always thought your sister was pretty hot.
While I agree with you that it's not the best security in the world it's not completely useless to send the password hash over the network.
In the overall scheme of things, the risk of someone intercepting traffic is minimal compared to the risk of someone grabbing the entire password database. The real point of using the password hash is to keep the cleartext password out of a database.
Let's face it. It's a lot less time consuming to just grab an entire database than it is to intercept all the traffic (even if it is automated) until you get the passwords you want.
Did anyone else picture a TIE figher when reading that description?
What a shame it is that I've decided the RIAA isn't getting any more money from me.
They can take their copy protected crap and stick it right here.
I know up until very recently DieBold was a big user of OS/2. What would you rather have running your ATM, Windows or OS/2? As to why they haven't picked up free software, I'm not really sure.
The bank I work for is still running OS/2 on it's ATMs. Although they do occasionally threaten to "upgrade" them to Windows.
Now that I think about it, I can't remember the last time they needed to be restarted. It may be a butt-ugly os but it does work damn good.
but if it makes the hard drive explode as soon as u get it, how do u share it on kazaa and give it to others?
Maybe they special hard drives that are suspended in a magnetic field.
"Damn, the drive is blank again! Why does it keep doing that?"
I've never owned a printer and I never plan on owning one. On the very rare occasions when I HAVE to print something (Usually once a year at tax time) I take the file to work and print it there.
I've never understood the need to print stuff out. It's hard to grep a dead tree.
My personal favorite has to be #6: Hotheaded Naked Ice Borers. I remember seeing that story in Discover and being completely amazed. It had me going for quite a while until I did some checking and found out that the scientist's last name was latin for fool. Since her first name was April I then figured out it was a joke.
Apparently naked mole rats are a big favorite for April Fools pranks. They show up again later on in this list.
Maybe he is trying to tell us the way to acheive enlightenment is pain. Lots and lots of beautiful pain.
I've been doing exactly that for about a year now with Mozilla's current mail.
Just move the mail folders (sometimes takes a little digging to find them) over to the shared drive and change the Account settings to point to the new location. (Hint: if you can't find this setting it's at the bottom of the server settings screen) It works pretty well except for occasionally being a little slow to index folders.
Now I just wish I could figure out how to do the same thing with prefs and bookmarks.
I thought you read /. for the "In Soviet Russia" posts.
And I got an OFFTOPIC!
Damn moderators are smoking crack again!
You're not fooling anyone Jon. We all know you are the videocam/train guy.
I dont' even bother trying to contact tech support anymore. I've found that user forums get answers a lot faster and usually more accurately. I discovered this when I had a problem with my old system (a Dell). After sitting on hold a few times I ran across the Dell | Talk site and found the answer in about half the time I had already spent on hold.
When I built my new system earlier this year that was one of the things I looked for when selecting parts. I also checked the user forums before hand to see what kinds of problems other people were having. As a result of doing my homework I haven't had a single problem with the new box, but it's still reasurring to know that real help is there if I need it.
Look for this. It's VHS unfortunately, but it's got all of the clasics on it. Rabbit of Seville, What's Opera, Doc?, etc.
When I was in college some poor sucker rented this and left it in the tv room of the dorm. That video played contstantly for about a month. We never got tired of it.
I hear ya. I just burned ISO's for 2.2r5, fired up Mozilla when it was done and the first thing I see is this.
Never tried Debian before but I've heard good things about it. I think tomorrow will be "play with new distro" Day.
There is hardly any interaction or connection between the viewer and the tv
I've often wondered if there is any difference in reactions to TV from people who grew up with a remote control. In my experience their viewing seems to be less passive than older people. Can channel surfing be considered interactive or is it just trying to get more of that "orienting response" like the proverbial rat pushing the button until it starves?
The article seems to imply that there is no difference but a lot of my viewing tends to be more critical. Making fun of commercials, flipping channels. Granted, I will occasionally just zone in front of the idiot box but that usually puts me to sleep.
Would Beavis and Butthead be more immune to the addicting effects of television? Douglas Rushkoff touches on this in Media Virus but I'm not familliar with any scientific studies on the difference in viewing habits between age groups.
Time for a Google search I guess.
I hear you. No more than two minutes after talking to my supervisor about this the VP walks in and asks if he should be concerned about this satanist thing he just opened on his computer.
Moron!
Of course the plus side of all of this is I get to try to reinforce my attempts to teach them halfway decent security habits. I usually try to put the fear of god in them by first asking if they have anything important saved on their computer.
They can have my pc when they pry it from my cold dead hands.