You might want to look into a Handspring Visor and a GPS springboard expansion. You can get a refurbished Visor Deluxe for about US$99 and a good GPS package for under $200. That'll give you a good sized display and lots of flexibility.
Why does a user need to click on the link? Why not just use a javascript location.href= or whatever to automatically load the link? It's my understanding that Yahoo Profiles still lets you embed javascript in a picture URL. What's to stop someone from creating an automated attack and then getting chatters to check your profile? The possibilites seem endless.
The email account is just a dumping place for the stolen information. Disabling the account will do nothing to stop it. Actually the account had exceeded its storage limit by yesterday so it is effectively disabled already.
I don't expect filtering to take off. The parents will want to surf the net too. There will have to be a very easy way turn the filtering on/off which of course would make it easier for kids to bypass. If parents have to do anything more than push a button to toggle the filter, I can't imagine many parents would even bother.
Two Words... "Google Cache". Of course, they specifically requested permission from the site before the blatantly copied the material from this site to thier caching servers, didn't they ?
First of all Slashdot is not Google; therefor it doesn't really matter in this case. "They started it" doesn't hold up too well in court. Secondly, Google is considered a search engine and must follow the robots.txt (supposedly) so they have permision to index it. Whether or not they can legally display that index to Google users is questionable. If I'm not mistaken, hasn't Google been given trouble about their caching before?
As if these guys are going to mount legal action against slashdot... posting it here SAVES them money, its not like they've got a site full of banners.
Keep up the good work, Taco
I never claimed the above post was illegal. Reread my reply. Troll.
Great, now how do I install one of these for each wall in my house, and get a customised version quake where I can go running from room to room before getting zapped by a bouncing eyeball...?
As a moderator, I try to discourage copying the text of an article and posting it as a comment because of the copyright issues. Now I'm sure you got permission from the authors before posting this text here (didn't you?), but many slashdot readers/posters don't seem to have any comprehension of the proper way to legally copy copywriten material (as all material posted on the web is). Is this an example you want to set?
That's nice to know. Is there a way to easily add icons to the desktop? That's something I never figured out. I didn't spend a lot of time researching it because it was on my work computer and I didn't have the time.
I've used Litestep on Windows 2000. I loved it with the exception of two things. 1) a bad theme rendered it nearly unusable. I logged in as another user and reinstalled to fix it, but I later learned of a way I could have fixed it without reinstalling. Partially my fault. 2) The Start menu never seemed to update as I installed new software. It was as if it generated a static menu from the start menu during install.
There were many things I really liked about it: multiple desktops, transparent menus, smaller interface features waste less screen space, right-click access to the start menu, etc. I eventually ditched it though mostly because of the start menu issue.
That is where you reluctantly, slowly push down the mouse button while gritting your teath and cringing knowing that when the mouse button rises enough and sends that click to the computer that you have a pretty good chance of screwing up your computer.
...if you're talking TCO here, Microsoft will lose every time.
How do you figure? You can find Windows admins dirt cheap, Windows supports most hardware, and most users are familiar with it. The TCO beyond initial licensing isn't that spectacular compared to other OSes.
How is the parent off topic? Did you check the link? Sharity is an alternative to SAMBA that appears to be easier to use. The thread it was posted under was discussing the difficulty of using SAMBA. It is 100% on topic.
BUT, SYSTEM can access any folder on the filesystem (such as sysvol, etc) regardless of the ACL. It can also end any process. It may have some restrictions placed on certain tasks for security purposes, but I certainly believe it is the most powerful account on the local system.
"On VMS-derived windows (such as all versions of Windows NT and of course Windows 2K) the root superuser account is named "Administrator" and is directly analogous to Unix "root""
Not quite right. The Windows SYSTEM account is the equivlent of Root. Administrator is a few (big) steps below.
People! Please stop it! The subject line is NOT part of the body of your message. The subject line should give a very short indication of the topic of your message. The message itself should be completely contained inside the "Comment" field. That ranks right up there with sending an email with no subject.
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You might want to look into a Handspring Visor and a GPS springboard expansion. You can get a refurbished Visor Deluxe for about US$99 and a good GPS package for under $200. That'll give you a good sized display and lots of flexibility.
The $ in MS is just getting old
I agree. I personally prefer micros~1
That's because no one cared about the iPaq =)
How upset would you be if someone in the middle of the night made a duplicate of the car in your driveway and drove away with the duplicate?
I'd be pretty upset if I designed, built, and sold that type of car for a living.
Why does a user need to click on the link? Why not just use a javascript location.href= or whatever to automatically load the link? It's my understanding that Yahoo Profiles still lets you embed javascript in a picture URL. What's to stop someone from creating an automated attack and then getting chatters to check your profile? The possibilites seem endless.
The email account is just a dumping place for the stolen information. Disabling the account will do nothing to stop it. Actually the account had exceeded its storage limit by yesterday so it is effectively disabled already.
I don't expect filtering to take off. The parents will want to surf the net too. There will have to be a very easy way turn the filtering on/off which of course would make it easier for kids to bypass. If parents have to do anything more than push a button to toggle the filter, I can't imagine many parents would even bother.
Admit it. You didn't read the article did you? Neither did the moderators I'd imagine.
Stopping and restarting an engine while sitting at a stop light will waste more gas and be harder on the engine than letting it idle.
CmdrTaco (editor) may be some kind of troll or karma whore, but he's contributed much more to this site than you ever will.
No one's arguing with you there. What's your point?
Two Words... "Google Cache". Of course, they specifically requested permission from the site before the blatantly copied the material from this site to thier caching servers, didn't they ?
First of all Slashdot is not Google; therefor it doesn't really matter in this case. "They started it" doesn't hold up too well in court. Secondly, Google is considered a search engine and must follow the robots.txt (supposedly) so they have permision to index it. Whether or not they can legally display that index to Google users is questionable. If I'm not mistaken, hasn't Google been given trouble about their caching before?
As if these guys are going to mount legal action against slashdot ... posting it here SAVES them money, its not like they've got a site full of banners.
Keep up the good work, Taco
I never claimed the above post was illegal. Reread my reply. Troll.
Great, now how do I install one of these for each wall in my house, and get a customised version quake where I can go running from room to room before getting zapped by a bouncing eyeball...?
Weren't the big eyeballs in Doom II?
As a moderator, I try to discourage copying the text of an article and posting it as a comment because of the copyright issues. Now I'm sure you got permission from the authors before posting this text here (didn't you?), but many slashdot readers/posters don't seem to have any comprehension of the proper way to legally copy copywriten material (as all material posted on the web is). Is this an example you want to set?
That's nice to know. Is there a way to easily add icons to the desktop? That's something I never figured out. I didn't spend a lot of time researching it because it was on my work computer and I didn't have the time.
I've used Litestep on Windows 2000. I loved it with the exception of two things. 1) a bad theme rendered it nearly unusable. I logged in as another user and reinstalled to fix it, but I later learned of a way I could have fixed it without reinstalling. Partially my fault. 2) The Start menu never seemed to update as I installed new software. It was as if it generated a static menu from the start menu during install.
There were many things I really liked about it: multiple desktops, transparent menus, smaller interface features waste less screen space, right-click access to the start menu, etc. I eventually ditched it though mostly because of the start menu issue.
That is where you reluctantly, slowly push down the mouse button while gritting your teath and cringing knowing that when the mouse button rises enough and sends that click to the computer that you have a pretty good chance of screwing up your computer.
I didn't buy it. I got the student license. Take a look at http://www.obdev.at/products/sharity/free.html
...if you're talking TCO here, Microsoft will lose every time.
How do you figure? You can find Windows admins dirt cheap, Windows supports most hardware, and most users are familiar with it. The TCO beyond initial licensing isn't that spectacular compared to other OSes.
How is the parent off topic? Did you check the link? Sharity is an alternative to SAMBA that appears to be easier to use. The thread it was posted under was discussing the difficulty of using SAMBA. It is 100% on topic.
You're probably right. And maybe it's better that way. Sometimes though it'd be nice to have a "root" in Windows.
Has anyone tried sharity? (http://www.obdev.at/products/sharity/index.html)? I got a license for it a while back but haven't gotten around to trying it.
BUT, SYSTEM can access any folder on the filesystem (such as sysvol, etc) regardless of the ACL. It can also end any process. It may have some restrictions placed on certain tasks for security purposes, but I certainly believe it is the most powerful account on the local system.
"On VMS-derived windows (such as all versions of Windows NT and of course Windows 2K) the root superuser account is named "Administrator" and is directly analogous to Unix "root""
Not quite right. The Windows SYSTEM account is the equivlent of Root. Administrator is a few (big) steps below.
People! Please stop it! The subject line is NOT part of the body of your message. The subject line should give a very short indication of the topic of your message. The message itself should be completely contained inside the "Comment" field. That ranks right up there with sending an email with no subject.