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  1. Re:Great web site and a good read... But FLAW on Running Ancient UNIX On Nintendo Gameboy · · Score: 5, Informative

    their are a couple of flaws

    o 1 the game boy is not running unix

    o 2 they dont have a game boy they have the game boy advance

    o 3 they simulate a PDP11 on a game boy advance simulator running on a mac/pc

    instead why dont you look at howto use uclinux on GBA...

    http://wwwhsse.fh-hagenberg.at/Studierende/hse02 00 6/uclgba/gba-howto/

    regards

    John Jones

  2. open keys for realmedia ? on Ask RealNetworks CEO Rob Glaser · · Score: 4, Interesting

    hi

    could real allow people to create and sign their REAL media that they created at no cost ?

    so allow people to create their own online stores rather than sign up to itunes or MSN

    this way you just sell server software to ISP's and streaming people (profitable)

    regards

    John Jones

  3. peer review... on NIH Proposes to Open Tax-Funded Research · · Score: 2, Interesting

    people claim that in order to post the research then it should be reviewed

    ok I agree

    what I dont agree with is that the reviewers in most case for publications get paid pitance or are completely out of their depth
    what the NIH needs to do is set up a publishing system that ANYONE can use and submit their work

    you get mod points and a team of very fancy reviewers who NIH appoints and have unlimted mod points

    those publications e.g. NATURE who charge me to view somone elses work are dead

    NIH should be looking out for the people who pay tax's

    (I dont pay tax in the US anymore I pay uk tax's and frankly complain about it...)

    regards

    John Jones

  4. maybe... on Am I a Spam Zombie? · · Score: 4, Informative

    ok if you run windows you need a virus checker

    are you a home user ?
    if so

    http://free.grisoft.com/freeweb.php/doc/2/

    and get avg for free
    Now you need a firewall

    http://www.free-firewall.org/

    then I would advice get rid of spyware with spybot
    donate something to the project if you like it...

    http://www.safer-networking.org/en/download/


    regards

    John Jones

  5. Xeon and Itanium will share the same bus on Itanium Retreats To Multis, Opteron Presses Attack · · Score: 1

    future intel systems will have a server and consumer Front Side Bus

    that means that all the Xeon boards will accept Itanium and means large Itanium systems could accept Xeon's (x86_64) and so those huge clusters could also be x86_64 clusters or IA64 clusters...

    intel hedge bets

    plus I thought that hypertransport bandwidth was good but not great (why the memory controler was on chip) so that means accessing memory on another processor would be expensive...

    hmmm if all the processors are working on the same dataset what happens ?

    regards

    John Jones

  6. yeah but think about it on How Google Could Overthrow AIM · · Score: 1

    you would want everything crypto and locked in because you want to sell adverts that people pay for...
    (you could give developers a key and allow access like this)

    why serve up an advert if its not relevent to the user ?

    google won't why not ? because the advertisers(money people want to have a good return rate on money spent thats why google is so great because they get a great conversion betwen ad and sale because it targets people who are intrested)

    the ads would be placed in coversation like they are in coversations(thread/email) in gmail

    why do voip and jabber ?
    sip has a msg built in so why not just use this to allow expand in the future...
    how about Video on demand and Digital Video recoder allowing custom adverts between shows tailored to the user this is the future...

    just speculating on the possibility...

    regards

    john jones

  7. Terrible. F on USB Development Tools for Embedded Devices? · · Score: 4, Informative

    your using a custom kernel so
    look at netbsd USB stack and see howto put that into your src

    you can dump out the usb traffic under netbsd look at the src

    if you want to reverse engineer a windows driver you can use VMware on linux and dump the traffic
    http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?s id=7582

    or

    insert a windows driver (that dumps usb traffic) and look at the dumps but this could taint the results see http://usbsnoop.sourceforge.net/

    or

    buy a hardware that sits inbetween the cables for $1000 see http://www.usbdeveloper.com/USBViewer/usbview.htm

    really I would look at http://www.fsmlabs.com/ as you can run real time tasks and use the linux drivers for usb because that part sure as hell is not going to be real time...

    it you have failed to do ANY RESEARCH at all

    Terrible. F

    regards

    john jones

  8. pint in the Eagle,,, on DNA Pioneer Francis Crick Passes Away · · Score: 1

    I will in honer have a pint in the eagle

    and thank you to all the people that worked on the Xray labs that made this discovery possible

    regards

    John Jones

  9. I would PAY to get IMAP access to Gmail on How Does Gmail Stack Up In The Webmail World? · · Score: 1

    hell

    they could insert ads in the msg's and if they are useful that would be great

    just let me access it by imap as well as web...

    regards

    john jones

  10. they think they can make money... on Attention Bonds Gain Momentum · · Score: 1


    simply put they want to make a profit

    FAIL - you have to get consumers to sign up to a service that their friends do not use
    (transition will just be a nightmare )

    sorry but why not provide companies with something they want...

    like emails that are encrypted
    (and maybe for bonus points self destruct)

    companies dont like their comunications flying around for all to see

    companies dont like the idea that those msg's could go to court

    in the end it comes down to what you can sell !

    regards

    John Jones

  11. SAS - development on Where are the High-Capacity SCSI Drives? · · Score: 1

    would you put effort into product development when you where already spending money on Serial Attached SCSI ?

    well the storage people do not think it wise to spend the money...

    iSCSI and SAS are good things !
    (pitty there is not a MacOS X driver for iSCSI...)

    regards

    John Jones

  12. WebDAV in the OS so all apps... on Office 2003 Pro as an XML Authoring Application? · · Score: 2, Informative

    windows supports WebDAV (internet folders and such even with win98)
    Apple Supports WebDav (OS X finder mounts them)
    Linux Supports WebDAV (through FileSystem mounting)

    so why is this a big deal ?

    most Adobe products have WebDAV support there is that old stallwart FrameMaker and their high end versioning system is infact a WebDAV server based...

    XML in terms of Docbook can be edited in all editors and some even have things to help you along like formating,preview,block level viewing and colour highlighting

    try out xemacs (its pretty nice) or any good editor

    john 'confused' jones

    p.s. personally I would go with frammaker

  13. they all work with linux on Presentation Remotes for OpenOffice Impress? · · Score: 1

    you just have to configure them...

    and that means more than ./configure

  14. are you serious ? on Presentation Remotes for OpenOffice Impress? · · Score: 1

    this is not hard...

    3 options

    o Use the controller from the projector
    (you know the thing you plug into to display they come with a ps2/usb cable that you plug into the laptop and then the controller has the mouse on it )

    >>

    o Infrared controller (tv remote) and assign buttons to any arbitrary function (keys/scripts)
    (use the IR reciver on your laptop if you have one if you THIS SUCKS because anything in the way say a lecturn means it does not work )

    o Bluetooth clicker just like a pro...
    (its bluetooth so it works with Apple powerbooks without a dongle and the lecturn can get in the way without a worry see http://www.logitech.com/index.cfm/products/details /US/EN,CRID=3,CONTENTID=4981 )

    personally I would like all projector manufacturers to make the controller bluetooth
    (are you listening HP ? think ipaq)

    regards

    John Jones

  15. SVG render ? on Trolltech Releases First Qt 4 Technology Preview · · Score: 2, Insightful

    so...

    this would be a great thing to have and cross platform would be a killer feature
    IMHO

    regards

    John Jones

  16. what a load... on Lead Developer of SPF Anti-Spam Scheme Interviewed · · Score: 2, Insightful


    ever heard of key signing ?

    so you end up with a web of trust...

    SPF and Caller ID are a solution until you end up sending emails from your outlook automatically...

    oh wait thats been done before

    OpenPGP and email clients that support it, go a long way to solving the problem i.e. set your boundrys

    I trust bob
    bob trusts jane
    jane trusts bart
    bart trusts lisa

    so I think that I want only 3 degrees and everyone else has to tell me via phone fax and friends they want to email then I trust them and their friends...

    works a bit like friendster and gmail invites only way of doing things I can see that will work

    regards

    John Jones

  17. Re:Confused on Lead Developer of SPF Anti-Spam Scheme Interviewed · · Score: 1

    yeah I'm confused as well because this is not going to work well

    I think they are saying they want you have to rewrite your headers in a sane way this part is callerID and you can use SRS workaround

    meanwhile in the REAL world...
    as far ass I can see SPF is going to be extra work for ISP and host providers

    your hosting provider is going to have to provide a SMTP server that you can post msg's through and make it secure (via SSL etc so you dont send passwd plaintext)

    AOL love this because they have very few mail servers and lots of users using their pants email client which post's directly to their servers so no change in user's config...

    so expect your hosting costs to go up if you want mail with it...

    personally I would prefer that they delt with public key distrubution so that we could effectivly trust people with keys and build a web of trust about email...

    regards

    John Jones

  18. Why not everyone use PGP ? on Lead Developer of SPF Anti-Spam Scheme Interviewed · · Score: 4, Interesting

    explain this to me

    if you are going to HAVE to use ESMTP why not add the ability to look up public key for domain ?

    if you are doing the domain why not query for user ?
    finger server or in DNS record ?

    is this in the spec ?

    in the future then everyone can use weak crypto for emails and not send everything plain text
    (speak to the person in internet cafe or bussiness and they dont understand that their msg is transmited plaintext and maybe through other peoples servers who may or may not read the email )

    it would be nice to say we thought of providing keys but people dont have to use them...

    regards

    John Jones

  19. ok what do you need ? on Encrypted Volumes for Linux and Windows? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    what do you need ?

    how about a file e.g. tar/zip of all your files that is encrypted each time you login/logout ?
    use a standard AES/DES and secure deletion

    whats wrong with this ?

    slow
    unsecure if power fails

    but with everthing else you are at vendors mercy

    I would use PGP disk or a secure online file server...

    regards

    John Jones

  20. I would be intrested in the 2nd month figures on iTMS Europe: 800,000 Tracks In A Week · · Score: 1

    how many times have you seen:

    oh there is this new new thing lets try it out...

    so I would like to know how many are returning customers

    I registered but could not find the music I wanted and I support apple in offering the same contract to all record labels and bands

    so off I go to rip it off a mate (the p2p is frankly awful for music now)

    regards

    John Jones

  21. Grid Engine on Renderfarm Setup Tips? · · Score: 1

    ok I only have experance with a custom T&L rendering platform but the grid engine worked very well I have used it at a couple of hardware design places and it's CPU blancing was very nice indeed
    it supports

    Apple Mac OS/X
    Compaq Tru64 Unix 5.0, 5.1
    Hewlett Packard HP-UX 11.x
    IBM AIX 4.3, 5.1
    Linux x86, kernel 2.4, glibc >= 2.2
    Linux AMD64 (Opteron), kernel 2.4, glibc >= 2.2
    Silicon Graphics IRIX 6.5
    Sun Microsystems Solaris (Sparc) 7 and higher 32-bit
    Sun Microsystems Solaris (Sparc) 7 and higher 64-bit
    Sun Microsystems Solaris (x86) 8 and higher

    see http://gridengine.sunsource.net/
    I would look at what software you want to run BEFORE buying hardware

    regards

    John jones

  22. cant you read books on your ipod ? on Telltale Weekly Audiobooks Now Offered as AAC · · Score: 1

    I would like to read books on my ipod screen I know that news readers but where are the poem and so on

    www.

    where going to do this

    regards

    John Jones

  23. Re:Jabber ? on Mozilla 1.8 Alpha Released · · Score: 1

    a few points

    the jabber support you mention is being rewritten and nothing is working....

    Mozilla Calendar needs to be polished
    dont worry about being fancy just be able to subscribe to ical via webDAV and tell if somthing has changed

    Enigmail seems to do some really nasty hacks to get this working I would like it all nice in the Mozilla Thunderbird Mail Project tree

    regards

    John Jones

  24. Jabber ? on Mozilla 1.8 Alpha Released · · Score: 1

    hey look features are features but a few are missing

    I would like a IM client (IRC does not rock my world) a Jabber client would be good

    I would like a iCal clone... (in process)

    I would like OpenPGP intergrated (only 128bit to save the export legal stuff) just basic crypto would be great (make it easy to setup as well)

    regards

    John Jones

  25. what does Intel think ? on nVidia Announces MXM for Notebooks · · Score: 3, Interesting

    ok 2 questions that none of this touch apon

    the PCI Express spec would not have anything to say about this kind thing ?

    Intel is BIG in the graphics area what will they be shipping ?

    regards

    John Jones