People keep complaining about how they dont want people using laptops while they watch the movie. They do have valid arguments, but this does have useful purposes. I normally would not take a laptop into a theater with me, but in the lobby or while waiting in line for a ticket (had to wait about 45 minutes for tickets to a SXSW show recently) it would be great, especially if I had a wireless card in my PDA. Plus if there was an antenna on the roof it would cover a decent amount of the shopping center(outdoor part of course).
I can almost see laptops at Alamo working, definatly wouldnt work at a traditional theater though.
I have a friend who has had two different recent models of Sony Clie, the first ones screen broke the day after he got it, it was dropped from about 2 feet up, yes that shouldnt have happened but it broke so easily that it seems like bad design to me, he bitched at the place he got it at until they refunded atleast some of his money, he then bought a newer model with a really nice waranty so if it broke they would replace it for free. Well it broke, I dont remember exactly what happened, and they replaced it for free but the waranty didnt cover the new one. The third one broke while he was walking around with it just in his pocket, he couldnt think of anything that would have caused it.
I admit they have great features but they dont seem very durable. He didnt treat them that bad and the same piece broke 3 times on 2 different models, sure seems like bad design to me, btw sony said it would cost $100 to replace the screen.
My Handspring Visor on the other hand has put up with me treating it like shit, it is in my pocket all of the time, sometimes in my jacket, it has been stepped on, dropped everything and its in great shape. dont get me started about the Dell laptop though.... grrr....
It sounds like you just gave lots of information on why your companies team never wins. Its sad to hear that some schools teams end up like that, but not all, at the school I go to (yes I am a high school student and am involved in the competition) the students do the work, and we usually do decently (my memory sucks so I dont remember exactly how we have ranked in the past, havent been first but done really well).
We also did the BEST competition earlier this year, and due to the downturn in the economy and the fact that one of the companies they worked for layed off a lot of people and we ended up loosing most of our mentors, even when we had them they did not do much work, the students (including myself) did the work with advice from the mentors, which is the reason they are suposed to be there, not to build the damn thing.
Apple is the person to ask for support from, an actual linux version of QT would be nice, not as good as opensource but still nice. Of course its probably not going to happen, but a lot of requests couldnt hurt.....
Well it may not be an option to sue them for slander, but is there any legal action companies such as Red Hat and Lineo can take against Microsoft for attempting to hurt their business with lies?
Thats not the problem, It has apm, it can shutdown just fine and everything, and give me battery status, it just fails when trying to suspend, I dont remember what the error message was.
I tried upgrading to 2.4.10 the other day and noticed that the new kernel even with all of the same configuration could no longer suspend my system. This is on my laptop and not being able to
suspend is a major problem. I have not tried 2.4.11 but I didnt see anything about apm in the changelog.
Can anyone point me to where the best place to go to inform people of bugs and get information on how to help fix them is?
Also where is the best place to submit patches to if I manage to fix the bugs myself?
A while back I was setting up some computers at school. I was told that MS Office needed to be on these machines for various reasons so I went ahead and installed Office 2000, I also installed abiword because it is my wordprocessor of choice. I was feeling like I should shove my opinions on those who didnt know the difference so i tried to associate.doc files with abiword. Whenever I tried to change the association from MS Word to AbiWord MS Word ran and changed it back. If this isnt an unfair business practice I dont know what is. If anyone needs proof of this for a good reason I can try and reproduce it.
By adding a backdoor you are adding a known weekness, chances are others will find it and will then be able to readd your email as well. They claim warants and things will be needed to use this backdoor, but thats really not going to stop a law enforcment agent or anyone else who manages to get there hands in the right place from reading your encrypted stuff. Do you really think the US government and military will feel confident enough in this system to use it themselves? I dont think so, and if they wont use it neither will I (and even if they did I would just laugh at their stupidity and keep using opensource crypto)
and what ever happened to capitalism? Munitions laws already push encryption companies over seas resulting in the loss of money for the US, this will just make it worse.
Ham is a nice thing ot have in an emergency and you no longer have to pass a morse code test. All that it takes to get your license is a 35 question written test that isn't very hard at all to study for. Many ham radio's also have a wide recieve and work great as scanners, I have yet to see any with trunking abilities though.As for CB, It is license free and works for communication but in my opinion not nearly as well as ham radio, you will find many more people to talk to on the ham bands and if you ever need help (even if your car just broke down) there are lots of hams that are more than willing to give you assistance (atleast in my experiance).
If you want to see what the licensing test is like goto http://www.aa9pw.com/radio/exam.html and take a practice test, if you goto the resources section you can download the actual question pool that they use for the test that includes every question you might be asked.
Well its great to know hams are helping. I wish I could be of help but im in texas which is a little far from the sites where it looks like it is needed. At the moment I am working on improving my portable ham setup and will be joining the local ARES shortly. I started working on this before all of this happened and it is just further motivation. I also want to be ready to help in any way I can if anything develops further. 73, KD5LLI
This is a very different story than the ares website is giving, are hams needed? and if so why is the website giving the impression that their help is not wanted.
I dont know much about hams in NYC but communication in disasters is what ham radio organizations such as ARES(http://www.ares.org) are for. Does anyone have any information on the use of ham radios in this disaster and how hams can help? Is it even being used at all? If they are having difficulties with communication im sure ham radio could help. I know cell phone systems are there, but as was shown during the attack, they arent reliable.
When i first heard about it and now I am very glad that I have my ham, No matter what disaster strikes and what communcations systems go down, I will always have a way to contact people. I highly recommend that anyone wanting a reliable means of communication get licensed and get a radio, its not hard to do and is a great thing to have. Plus you are able to provide a valuable service in disasters.
Well the site has been slashdoted so can someone tell me, did they crack pie or didnt they? the description seems to suggest they did but i cant help but think there is a catch.
I do not think that there are no security holes in my system. But i do know that there has been an atempt to make it secure. I also know if that i was to download something that contained malicious code and then run it there would be a lot less it could do than if i was running windows. I also know that it would be a lot harder to write something that i wouldnt know was being run.
My OS may be far from invincible but as we have seen the OS that requires lots of support does sell more copies.
DONT TAKE ME SO SERIOUSLY!!!!!!!
I am not saying that it is okay to write a virus to destroy a system just because the hole shouldnt have been there. Wha ti am saying is that the software makers should make SOME atempt at keeping it from hapening. Which microsoft doesnt seem to do very well. They include features that let things like word documents execute code, and dont put any protection to make sure the user knows what is going to happen.
I know it cant acount for every situation but if people would just put some thought into the design of their mail clients and operating systems then there wouldnt be much these virus's could do.
If you dont give random applications the ability to screw up your system then you dont really even need a virus scanner.
That is why i run a real Operating system (and a real distribution of it for that mater SLACKWARE!!!!!!! (sorry i jsut had to use this chance to shamelessly promote my favorite distro))
To me it really seems like wireless is ideal for places like africa that don't yet have a real network infrastructure. If instead of running wires they setup an AD-HOC wireless system anyone that could get the hardware could get on the network, and anyone setup to be on it could contribute to the coverage of the network. If each machine connecting to it had the ability to forward and route packets than you would need no wired infrastructure just a bunch of machines with wireless. It would start out small, maybe one location being able to access another, but eventually as sites were added they could have nationwide coverage.
I know not all of the technology needed for this is currently readily available but if people would work toward it and start implementing it i think that it would be an ideal solution.
The python scripting in Blender is not at all the same. In POV-Ray scenes and objects are described in the POV-Ray language (.pov files) which is an extremely flexible language for describing scenes and objects. Instead of simply describing a scene using points and meshes you can script them (or use points and meshes if you really want) and program into the pov file there movements and everything. It is really great for those of us who also program.
WARNING: extreme rambling and extrmely bad spelling below
Well there are good sides and bad sides to this. As someone pointed out the good side of this is that some people may be able to get there hands on some nice wireless equipment rather cheap. and i think this is more important than having a comercial wireless provider. Having wireless is nice but if it relies on a single company that can disapear as quickly as this one there is a problem. Currently almost everyones internet access relies on a comercial provider, well actually multiple providers, with large areas being reliant on a single low level provider (a baby bell or a cable company, well actually both in many cases). If one of these companies systems goes down communication goes down, your internet goes down. and to most people this is acceptable, it will eventually come back up, because they make money off of it. but what if all of the sudden one of these low level providers decided to charge a whole lot more for internet access than they currently do, then everyone has to pay more, making the internet unavailable to everyone but the upper classes. If you think about it it is already causing division, there are many people who still cant afford the internet, who cant pay a monthly fee because they have to spend all the money they have trying to feed their family. Well what if the Internet was free? Of course you are thinking that free internet isnt possible, because someone has to pay for the lines, someone has to pay for the bandwidth, someone has to pay for the resources to keep it up. But why is this? The bandwidth is all around us. You may not be able to see it but it is there, it is free, and wireless technology lets you use it. And if everyone who wants the internet instead of having a modem had a wireless card of some kind of any kind and were in range of a few other machines with wireless, and they all knew how to route then it would be free, everyone would be able to use it, there would be no need to pay a monthly fee, because there would be no company in charge of it. Yes there are some technical problems that need to be worked out for this to work as i have described, and it may take a little bit for the speed of the type of wireless necesary to catch up with the speed of current wired conections, but if people start working on it, and setting up what they can, setting up wireless everywere they can and making it available to the public, share your internet connection, get enough people interested, and enough equipment out there and then we can work on the software, and the hardware, and teach the wireless points to talk to each other and not just through the wired network. and then it will be free, everyone will be able to communicate, everyone will have open access to information. okay enough rambling. the technology is out there, 802.11, ax25, etc.. its there, use it, and share it.
I am currently one of the heads of a group of students at LBJ High School(www.lbjhs.net) in Austin,Tx that runs
our network. Back sometime around 1995 a group of students formed a computer club that quickly grew into much more than just that. Before long this club wanted a decent conection to the internet, since the school district was very against this because they are afraid of students being in control they found funding from other sources and obtained a T1. We now have about 10 servers that run mainly Linux but also include a mix of NT, Novell and AIX. We also maintain about 500 computers. All of this work is done by only students and our network has quickly outgrown the one that the School District installed but is afraid of letting students touch.
for more information visit http://www.stac.org and
http://www.lbjhs.net
But sometimes the way geeks are treated by society leads to further anti-social behaviour, i have personally experianced people being assholes simply because they want someone to pick on, it is the fact that you are different in some way that makes them feel they have the right to pick on you, it doesnt mater if you are shy or anti-social, lucky i havent had to deal with people like that for quite a while.
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People keep complaining about how they dont want people using laptops while they watch the movie. They do have valid arguments, but this does have useful purposes. I normally would not take a laptop into a theater with me, but in the lobby or while waiting in line for a ticket (had to wait about 45 minutes for tickets to a SXSW show recently) it would be great, especially if I had a wireless card in my PDA. Plus if there was an antenna on the roof it would cover a decent amount of the shopping center(outdoor part of course).
I can almost see laptops at Alamo working, definatly wouldnt work at a traditional theater though.
I have a friend who has had two different recent models of Sony Clie, the first ones screen broke the day after he got it, it was dropped from about 2 feet up, yes that shouldnt have happened but it broke so easily that it seems like bad design to me, he bitched at the place he got it at until they refunded atleast some of his money, he then bought a newer model with a really nice waranty so if it broke they would replace it for free. Well it broke, I dont remember exactly what happened, and they replaced it for free but the waranty didnt cover the new one. The third one broke while he was walking around with it just in his pocket, he couldnt think of anything that would have caused it.
I admit they have great features but they dont seem very durable. He didnt treat them that bad and the same piece broke 3 times on 2 different models, sure seems like bad design to me, btw sony said it would cost $100 to replace the screen.
My Handspring Visor on the other hand has put up with me treating it like shit, it is in my pocket all of the time, sometimes in my jacket, it has been stepped on, dropped everything and its in great shape. dont get me started about the Dell laptop though.... grrr....
It sounds like you just gave lots of information on why your companies team never wins. Its sad to hear that some schools teams end up like that, but not all, at the school I go to (yes I am a high school student and am involved in the competition) the students do the work, and we usually do decently (my memory sucks so I dont remember exactly how we have ranked in the past, havent been first but done really well).
We also did the BEST competition earlier this year, and due to the downturn in the economy and the fact that one of the companies they worked for layed off a lot of people and we ended up loosing most of our mentors, even when we had them they did not do much work, the students (including myself) did the work with advice from the mentors, which is the reason they are suposed to be there, not to build the damn thing.
well sorry for the ranting and bad spelling......
Apple is the person to ask for support from, an actual linux version of QT would be nice, not as good as opensource but still nice. Of course its probably not going to happen, but a lot of requests couldnt hurt.....
Well it may not be an option to sue them for slander, but is there any legal action companies such as Red Hat and Lineo can take against Microsoft for attempting to hurt their business with lies?
Now they can insert advertisements into our dreams.
Thats not the problem, It has apm, it can shutdown just fine and everything, and give me battery status, it just fails when trying to suspend, I dont remember what the error message was.
I tried upgrading to 2.4.10 the other day and noticed that the new kernel even with all of the same configuration could no longer suspend my system. This is on my laptop and not being able to
suspend is a major problem. I have not tried 2.4.11 but I didnt see anything about apm in the changelog.
Can anyone point me to where the best place to go to inform people of bugs and get information on how to help fix them is?
Also where is the best place to submit patches to if I manage to fix the bugs myself?
A while back I was setting up some computers at school. I was told that MS Office needed to be on these machines for various reasons so I went ahead and installed Office 2000, I also installed abiword because it is my wordprocessor of choice. I was feeling like I should shove my opinions on those who didnt know the difference so i tried to associate .doc files with abiword. Whenever I tried to change the association from MS Word to AbiWord MS Word ran and changed it back. If this isnt an unfair business practice I dont know what is. If anyone needs proof of this for a good reason I can try and reproduce it.
By adding a backdoor you are adding a known weekness, chances are others will find it and will then be able to readd your email as well. They claim warants and things will be needed to use this backdoor, but thats really not going to stop a law enforcment agent or anyone else who manages to get there hands in the right place from reading your encrypted stuff. Do you really think the US government and military will feel confident enough in this system to use it themselves? I dont think so, and if they wont use it neither will I (and even if they did I would just laugh at their stupidity and keep using opensource crypto)
and what ever happened to capitalism? Munitions laws already push encryption companies over seas resulting in the loss of money for the US, this will just make it worse.
Ham is a nice thing ot have in an emergency and you no longer have to pass a morse code test. All that it takes to get your license is a 35 question written test that isn't very hard at all to study for. Many ham radio's also have a wide recieve and work great as scanners, I have yet to see any with trunking abilities though.As for CB, It is license free and works for communication but in my opinion not nearly as well as ham radio, you will find many more people to talk to on the ham bands and if you ever need help (even if your car just broke down) there are lots of hams that are more than willing to give you assistance (atleast in my experiance).
If you want to see what the licensing test is like goto http://www.aa9pw.com/radio/exam.html and take a practice test, if you goto the resources section you can download the actual question pool that they use for the test that includes every question you might be asked.
KD5LLI
Well its great to know hams are helping. I wish I could be of help but im in texas which is a little far from the sites where it looks like it is needed. At the moment I am working on improving my portable ham setup and will be joining the local ARES shortly. I started working on this before all of this happened and it is just further motivation. I also want to be ready to help in any way I can if anything develops further. 73, KD5LLI
This is a very different story than the ares website is giving, are hams needed? and if so why is the website giving the impression that their help is not wanted.
KD5LLI
I dont know much about hams in NYC but communication in disasters is what ham radio organizations such as ARES(http://www.ares.org) are for. Does anyone have any information on the use of ham radios in this disaster and how hams can help? Is it even being used at all? If they are having difficulties with communication im sure ham radio could help. I know cell phone systems are there, but as was shown during the attack, they arent reliable.
When i first heard about it and now I am very glad that I have my ham, No matter what disaster strikes and what communcations systems go down, I will always have a way to contact people. I highly recommend that anyone wanting a reliable means of communication get licensed and get a radio, its not hard to do and is a great thing to have. Plus you are able to provide a valuable service in disasters.
KD5LLI
Well the site has been slashdoted so can someone tell me, did they crack pie or didnt they? the description seems to suggest they did but i cant help but think there is a catch.
I do not think that there are no security holes in my system. But i do know that there has been an atempt to make it secure. I also know if that i was to download something that contained malicious code and then run it there would be a lot less it could do than if i was running windows. I also know that it would be a lot harder to write something that i wouldnt know was being run.
My OS may be far from invincible but as we have seen the OS that requires lots of support does sell more copies.
DONT TAKE ME SO SERIOUSLY!!!!!!! I am not saying that it is okay to write a virus to destroy a system just because the hole shouldnt have been there. Wha ti am saying is that the software makers should make SOME atempt at keeping it from hapening. Which microsoft doesnt seem to do very well. They include features that let things like word documents execute code, and dont put any protection to make sure the user knows what is going to happen.
I know it cant acount for every situation but if people would just put some thought into the design of their mail clients and operating systems then there wouldnt be much these virus's could do. If you dont give random applications the ability to screw up your system then you dont really even need a virus scanner. That is why i run a real Operating system (and a real distribution of it for that mater SLACKWARE!!!!!!! (sorry i jsut had to use this chance to shamelessly promote my favorite distro))
To me it really seems like wireless is ideal for places like africa that don't yet have a real network infrastructure. If instead of running wires they setup an AD-HOC wireless system anyone that could get the hardware could get on the network, and anyone setup to be on it could contribute to the coverage of the network. If each machine connecting to it had the ability to forward and route packets than you would need no wired infrastructure just a bunch of machines with wireless. It would start out small, maybe one location being able to access another, but eventually as sites were added they could have nationwide coverage.
I know not all of the technology needed for this is currently readily available but if people would work toward it and start implementing it i think that it would be an ideal solution.
The python scripting in Blender is not at all the same. In POV-Ray scenes and objects are described in the POV-Ray language (.pov files) which is an extremely flexible language for describing scenes and objects. Instead of simply describing a scene using points and meshes you can script them (or use points and meshes if you really want) and program into the pov file there movements and everything. It is really great for those of us who also program.
WARNING: extreme rambling and extrmely bad spelling below
Well there are good sides and bad sides to this. As someone pointed out the good side of this is that some people may be able to get there hands on some nice wireless equipment rather cheap. and i think this is more important than having a comercial wireless provider. Having wireless is nice but if it relies on a single company that can disapear as quickly as this one there is a problem. Currently almost everyones internet access relies on a comercial provider, well actually multiple providers, with large areas being reliant on a single low level provider (a baby bell or a cable company, well actually both in many cases). If one of these companies systems goes down communication goes down, your internet goes down. and to most people this is acceptable, it will eventually come back up, because they make money off of it. but what if all of the sudden one of these low level providers decided to charge a whole lot more for internet access than they currently do, then everyone has to pay more, making the internet unavailable to everyone but the upper classes. If you think about it it is already causing division, there are many people who still cant afford the internet, who cant pay a monthly fee because they have to spend all the money they have trying to feed their family. Well what if the Internet was free? Of course you are thinking that free internet isnt possible, because someone has to pay for the lines, someone has to pay for the bandwidth, someone has to pay for the resources to keep it up. But why is this? The bandwidth is all around us. You may not be able to see it but it is there, it is free, and wireless technology lets you use it. And if everyone who wants the internet instead of having a modem had a wireless card of some kind of any kind and were in range of a few other machines with wireless, and they all knew how to route then it would be free, everyone would be able to use it, there would be no need to pay a monthly fee, because there would be no company in charge of it. Yes there are some technical problems that need to be worked out for this to work as i have described, and it may take a little bit for the speed of the type of wireless necesary to catch up with the speed of current wired conections, but if people start working on it, and setting up what they can, setting up wireless everywere they can and making it available to the public, share your internet connection, get enough people interested, and enough equipment out there and then we can work on the software, and the hardware, and teach the wireless points to talk to each other and not just through the wired network. and then it will be free, everyone will be able to communicate, everyone will have open access to information. okay enough rambling. the technology is out there, 802.11, ax25, etc.. its there, use it, and share it.
I am currently one of the heads of a group of students at LBJ High School(www.lbjhs.net) in Austin,Tx that runs
our network. Back sometime around 1995 a group of students formed a computer club that quickly grew into much more than just that. Before long this club wanted a decent conection to the internet, since the school district was very against this because they are afraid of students being in control they found funding from other sources and obtained a T1. We now have about 10 servers that run mainly Linux but also include a mix of NT, Novell and AIX. We also maintain about 500 computers. All of this work is done by only students and our network has quickly outgrown the one that the School District installed but is afraid of letting students touch.
for more information visit http://www.stac.org and
http://www.lbjhs.net
Jess Haas
Senior Network Admin
The real question is how much money do "Anti-Virus" companies make off of virus?
Youll have to talk to Homer about that. Jess(with yet another useless and offtopic simpsons reference)
But sometimes the way geeks are treated by society leads to further anti-social behaviour, i have personally experianced people being assholes simply because they want someone to pick on, it is the fact that you are different in some way that makes them feel they have the right to pick on you, it doesnt mater if you are shy or anti-social, lucky i havent had to deal with people like that for quite a while.