"Adobe has since posted a fix for the vulnerability on its site, and a spokesman said Wednesday he was unaware of any security breaches resulting from the software flaw..."
Two words: Show me.
Prove that the "flaw" exists. Just saying "Clicking on the whatchamacallit causes bad things to happen, please upgrade." isn't enough.
Show me that this isn't some FUD to force users to upgrade to a version that isn't riddled with the latest DRM that they "forgot" to put into those versions?
Show me that this version doesn't fix a vulnerability that exposes passwords in PDFs read with it.
Show me that this isn't more ass-covering by Adobe, again.
Until then, xpdf, gpdf and other non-Adobe variants are all working fine. Nothing to see here, move along.
"That's why IMO he's not a victim. He's an asshole. And the guy who was arrested is more of a victim here. A victim of the asshole."
Unfortunately, with the draconian "hacking" laws present in the US, where he's going HIS asshole is going to be the next victim.
I used to have a pen pal in Dannemora State Prison in NY many years ago (we were both magicians at the time). He told me that the first week new inmates get there, they bust out your front teeth to keep you from biting down on "anything" they put in your mouth (and I'm sure you can guess what they'd be putting in there). If you're tough and can fight your way through that or make enough friends, you "earn your stripes". Why do you think everyone works out in the yard with weights? The bigger you are the easier it is to fight back or keep people off your back. This is reality.
My pen pal friend used to sleep with wet sheets, because some of his cellmates had their cells "firebombed" by homemade napalm-type devices, literally torching the entire cell to cinders. At one point he intentionally caused an incident that had him thrown into solitary confinement for 30 days to stay alive. 4 inmates in his block were killed during those 30 days...
I learned a lot about how the internal prison system works through our letters. Every letter we wrote was opened and read by the prison staff, prior to delivery. At one point they searched his cell ("turned it") because they thought he was trying to impersonate a guard to escape. After that, all letters were sent through his mother directly to him in prison.
"I do know that OpenBSD runs on the PalmOne Treo 600"
I call bullshit. Show me a citation with working links to back up your assertion here please.
The Treo 600 works WITH NetBSD, just like it works with Linux, FreeBSD, and OSX... but the Treo 600 does not RUN NetBSD... and nobody that I know of has ported it over to do so. I would know, I manage this little project, and I'd be one of the first to find this out.
This is interesting... and it looks like they changed it (probably after numerous complaints).
The local copy of their website I have archived does not appear to contain any of this information. Still no contact number for support or warrantee information (just the "pre-sales" number). Their feedback form does nothing, I've tried using it to resolve the problem I had with my order.
Thanks for the link though, I just hope my experience can help others make a well-informed decision if they choose to buy from this vendor.
The original ask-slashdot was looking for a firewire enclosure, not a USB 2.0 enclosure. He even went so far as to say that it needed to be a 6-pin firewire (by which I assume he meant bus-powered).
Perfect, so my reply answered exactly what he asked. Good, thanks for the reminder.
All sarcasm aside, did you even READ my reply? The Coolmax enclosure has usb2 and firewire (1394b), so it is not only EXACTLY what he was looking for, but even more, because it has greater functionality in a smaller form factor.
Without a doubt the Coolmax 2.5" at newegg was the smallest, lightest, most-powerful I've seen, for under $20.00.
It came with all of the cables (usb and firewire), extra screws, a screwdriver, a faux leather carrying case, and it runs entirely on bus power. One of the cables has two usb ends so you can draw power from two usb ports to drive it, instead of using an AC adapter, but you'll only need one.
Its so small and light, I actually keep it velcroed to the lid of my laptop as a 3rd IDE drive when I need the storage.
Absolutely amazing purchase.
One thing though, STAY AWAY FROM COOLDRIVES.COM!. I bought a drive enclosure from them, they shipped me the wrong product, and a broken AC adapter. Their website is useless at finding contact info, so I called the manufacturer of the drive, and they said I was out of luck.
I gave them negative feedback through Yahoo's feedback mechanism and within MINUTES, someone from the company called me and was using profanity at me and calling me all kinds of wonderful names (details of the libel and slander on my blog).
Stick with newegg and partners, amazing service, fast shipping, and superior products. I couldn't be happier with my purchase of this drive enclosure. The vendor included everything I could possibly think of, and priced it very aggressively.
A "podcast" is a downloadable audio file of some whiny kid who thinks he's an authority on something and has a delusional idea that people care what he has to say--in audio form.
In other words, the audio (and sometimes video) video equivalent of a blog. Nothing more.
Come on... isn't this obvious? You can only put $200 hammers and $500 toilet seats on invoices for so long before people start asking questions again.
Where do you think these ridiculously high-priced projects put their money? You think it goes into the project? Heck no, the project will be delayed, deferred for more research, requesting more money, etc. like all lofty projects of this ilk.
No my dear taxpayers, this, like other projects of the same quality will just be used as another vehicle to misappropriate spending into other things like TTR, black projects, more domestic weapons we don't need, and other things.
We've already cut billions of dollars out of things like broadcast television, the No Child Left Behind act, elementary school teachers and programs, and hundreds of other community things, why not just ferret that over to the "Big Skullcap In the Sky" instead?
Why not? Because its easier to get people to go "Oooo... Ahhhh" and hand over their wallets like Good Citizens, instead of questioning the goals of the project.
Why not spend a few billion on domestic problems? Or spend a few billion feeding and educating hungry people in poverished countries? Why not explore conversion to alternative fuel solutions? Why not look for ways to improve everything UNDER the atmosphere that has measurable results, instead of trying to improve everything OUTSIDE of the the atmosphere, which we can't measure yet?
No, this is just a ruse to get more money stashed away into other projects and to buy more beaurocrats, than to actually improve technology that exists today.
Heck, we've only spent a paltry $170 billion already on "The War(tm)", and we're doing so well there... why not spend the same amount on things we CAN fix, without killing ~20k civilians and soldiers?
"5. And finally, let's not forget last weeks shit ruling wherein Walmart, Target, and any other retailer now can, or at least has the potential to take your house and land away from your in order to build more stores, in order to make themselves richer."
I should note, I LIVE in New London, CT... the same town that lost this ruling in the Supreme Court. The location they're plowing over is pretty historical in our town (near Fort Trumbull). Its about 4 blocks from the house we just bought 18 months ago.
But guess what... we're ALREADY seeing the WAL*MART, Lowes, and Target sharks canvasing around the neighborhoods, doing measurements, taking pictures and all that. They're driving around all of the places here in town (mostly densely-packed housing, oddly enough), looking for the next best place to put their stores. We have a Target, Home Depot, WAL*MART, and a huge mall 1 town away (specifically 1 mile away from the place they're razing now). I just don't get it.
I have no doubt that in a few years, our poor historical town is going to look like Las Vegas, where you've got acres of pretty lights and parking lots, but when you turn your back on the lights, all you see is the desert, and poverty and suffering.
These monopolies insisted that they wouldn't abuse this ruling to start grabbing prime real-estate, but that's exactly what they're doing now. All they have to do is pay off enough city officials to sign off on it, or manufacture a "research study" that shows the tax benefits outweigh displacing 200 families, and more houses get plowed under.
Wasn't one of the primary reasons we travelled West from England hundreds of years ago to ESCAPE the incessant taxes? Its getting ridiculous now. Its like "Screw the people, we can kick them out, flatten their house, and TAX the hell out of them!" Well, you can't tax people if they have no money to pay for your taxes, or if they move out of the area. Sorry Charlie, you lose this one.
Unfortunately, when they did the surveying for the location they're about to kick families out of, it was 3-4 years ago, before this made its way through the courts. In the last 3-4 years, unemployment has pretty much vaporized the area of businesses and any revenue. So now they'll build their hotel and healthclub on the water, and nobody will use them, because nobody here has money, least of which the families that will get "blue book" value for their houses.
Someone pull the plug, reboot the Government, something has gone horribly wrong here.
This "law" is really going to suck for Joe Job emails (you know, the ones where someone takes YOUR email address and uses it in their From: line to spam millions, so the bounces and rejection messages come back to YOUR mailbox).
If they're not properly parsing headers to find the REAL sender of the email (i.e. in the "From " line, not the "From:" line), they're going to likely investigate and piss off a LOT of innocent people who have absolutely nothing whatsoever to do with the originating spam messages.
Time to start using those 16,384-byte gpg and crypto keys on all of my systems again. Sigh.
Someone came up with a Perl script (or was it Python, I forget now), that basically selects an x,y coordinate on GlobalXplorer, then moves over a few millimeters, and then again and again, etc. until you have a series of images that no longer contain the watermark. Combine those together and you've got a watermark-less image of the region you want.
Its time-consuming, but it does work.
The difference between Google and GlobalXplorer is that Google isn't using its mapping capabilities to openly promote a business model, but GlobalXplorer is (8x10 prints, etc.)
"Now imagine a world where I may _have_ to use Windows for some awful task -- a world where I have one computer (not two) with VMWare style software helping run OS.X and 2K side by side. Just image (it's coming:)."
Coming? Its already been here for 2-3 or more years. I've been happily running OSX on my Thinkpad + every Windows version released (need them for testing and such), with Linux as my host OS.
I would never run VMware under Windows to run ANYTHING, because the host operating system's memory management and hardware/driver support is horrible, compared to Linux (as a host).
Windows2000, XP, 2003 and Longhorn betas run SIGNIFICANTLY faster under VMware run on a Linux host than they do natively on the bare metal itself. Seriously, it flies.
PearPC running OSX is a bit of a dog, but its easily tuned to be manageable. I have an ageing G3 (running Tiger from my ADC account) in the basement rack that is faster than PearPC, and I use that for my primary work on OSX over vnc or ssh. PearPC is just not useful for actual development on my 2.1Ghz Thinkpad.
So all of the tools you require already exist, if you want to use them. As for running OSX binaries "natively" on Linux or Windows, that won't happen... probably ever, since they're keyed to the OS which is keyed to the LaGrande features in the new Intel processors that Apple is going ot be using.
Just pick your poison, there are literally dozens of options.
GlobalXplorer still walks all over Google maps for zoom and clarity. They get about 10x closer than the highest-resolution Google maps for quite a few areas (and the maps are less than 3-4 months old).
And let's not forget about the California Coastline project (helicopter taking VERY high resolution images every 500' along the entire California coast.
I found some sort of easter egg there. Zoom in on that center photo, then look in the bottom-left corner of the image, right up near the waterline by the tidewall... is that a mannequin of a naked woman (with hair too!), or is that painted on the landscape there? Or is it really a cadaver? A sunbather? I can't quite tell...
And of course, there's Map24, which has, hands-down the best mapping UI out of anything I've ever used.
Now I just wish some of these sites would support "mobile" directions and maps. Hrmph, Google's "Directions" link on maps.google.com doesn't even work at all, it just reloads/refreshes the main map view in anything but MSIE. What a waste.
rsync uses SSH by default (and the better way is to set RSYNC_RSH=ssh in your environment, so your commandline isn't exposed to other users via 'ps -afux'), and you should be compressing DVD images, use the -S (sparse) flag.
"They've already considered hard drives. Since he's dismissed hard drives and seemingly all forms of optical media, the only thing that I can think of for this article getting posted is that the submitter *really* wants Slashdot to tell him that "Yes, it's ok to mortgage the house to buy that new Network Appliance SAN you've been drooling over."
The question he really needs to answer is... what is worth more? Losing your data? Or spending $5,000 on a NAS server or a RAID machine?
"Microsoft is a publicly traded company, and releasing information about product features is considered material information. Thus, if they put in a feature they announced was not going to be available in a major product they would be in serious trouble with the SEC."
You almost got it... but its exactly the opposite of what you've described.
I'm saying that Microsoft will announce that their product will be available in 2007, minus some key features.
Instead of releasing "some" of an OS in 2007, they release ALL of the OS in December 2005.
"I mean, how many Windows based, Free/OSS RSS-reader developers read this news and crumbled and cried in the corner? Now realizing that 96% of people will use the capability built into longhorn and which uses the spiffy new Longhorn graphics, while they retool their code after the release."
I'm going to guess... none.
Microsoft isn't a threat to Free Software/OSS, and Free Software/OSS doesn't exist to displace Microsoft products or their users.
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"At this rate we'll get Longhorn Lite in 2006, Longhorn Complete in 2007, and Longhorn As It Was Really Promised Ten Years Ago in 2012.
MS just needs to get over themselves and get a product out the door with the *current* set of features they promised."
Have you ever considered that this might just be a marketing ruse by Microsoft to get their competitors (Apple, the OSS community, etc.) to slow down on focusing their efforts, because "..well, we have a couple of years before Longhorn is released, whats the rush?"
Seriously, what if they released Longhorn in December of this year, with all of the features they've previously claimed were pulled from it? (WinFS, podcasting, IE7, etc.)
This is a very VERY common marketing move, and I'm surprised nobody has seen through it yet. You publically announce that your product is being delayed, so your competitors relax a bit, then you announce some key feature of your product was dropped, etc. and your competition smirks and goes out and celebrates... and then you release the full product, WITH the "dropped" features on Monday.
Your competition crumbles and cries in the corner.
"It is perfectly legal for third party companies to combine this information and it is being done today. Why do you think it is illegal? Do you understand what the credit reporting agencies are doing?"
Perhaps in another country, but not in the United States of America, it is not legal. Not without violating about 10 different laws, the HIPAA and dozens of various privacy policies guaranteeing that the information is NOT shared with third parties.
If you have direct evidence of companies doing it, please speak up... because they're breaking the law. Please provide some actual evidence.
"Force those wanting unemployment to travel to the unemployment office in person, scan a fingerprint with a modern scanner, take their picture, and record the SS#, age, and name."
(Emphasis mine)
Do you really believe what you wrote? You're in favor of constitutionally-violating the rights of thousands upon thousands of unemployed citizens?
"This will prevent two individuals from ever claiming the same identity, or a single person from registering multiple SS#s."
Or you'll see a huge drop in people filing for unemployment and an enormous rise in people finding other ways to fraud the system to get paid so they can buy diapers and groceries for their families. Did you know that in some boroughs of Chicago, unemployment is over 60%?!
The problem is severe, let's not make it worse by encouraging people to commit more fraud by invading their lives more than we already do.
"Sure, there's still the problem of the government having all of this information on everyone (It's not like online companies, banks, and other companies don't have this information about you already), but it could also prevent things like this from happening."
(emphasis mine)
The difference here is that the banks aren't legally allowed to combine the information they have with the profiling information places like WAL*MART and Radio Shack and the DMV and so on. The government is allowed to.
If the government controls the information, and makes the laws (laws they regularly break), they will most-certainly be combining this + National ID + all sorts of other information (health records, credit reports, Internet activity, phone records, etc.) to build a nice detailed profile about you.
Mozilla 1.7.8............No Safari 2.0 (412).........Yes Opera 8.0 build 1092.....Yes Konqueror 3.4.0..........Yes Firefox 1.0.4............Yes
THIS, is precisely why I continue to use Mozilla over an of the other browsers (and contrary to popular "opinion", Mozilla is NOT the same as thing Firefox. Mozilla excels in speed, features, and granular configurability).
Yet more examples of companies trying to abuse the Open Source community, thinking that we're all just milling around in groups waiting for things to do and projects to contribute to.
"Ho hum. When is a company going to come along and ask us to write their code for them. I'm bored."
Sure, we'll get right on that... writing your code for you, for free, while you profit and make a business model out of it. Absolutely! Where do I sign up?
Palm is trying it, Sun is trying it, Linksys tried it, and thousands of other companies tried it. When are companies going to learn that we don't just write code in our spare time because we're bored.
We write code because it is either improves technology, or it is fun, interesting, or scratches an particular itch we have, or because we're getting paid to write it.
If you want us to help you improve your business model, or write your code for you... PAY US. You know, like you would any other developer who writes code for you. What particular itch does the eBay search engine scratch for us? Why should we help? How does this improve OUR community? How can WE use this technology?
The real reason is because they think the Open Source community is just a free consortium to "cherry pick" whomever they want to write their code for them. They can't afford to hire anyone, so they turn to us. Nice.
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Two words: Show me .
Prove that the "flaw" exists. Just saying "Clicking on the whatchamacallit causes bad things to happen, please upgrade." isn't enough.
Show me that this isn't some FUD to force users to upgrade to a version that isn't riddled with the latest DRM that they "forgot" to put into those versions?
Show me that this version doesn't fix a vulnerability that exposes passwords in PDFs read with it.
Show me that this isn't more ass-covering by Adobe, again.
Until then, xpdf, gpdf and other non-Adobe variants are all working fine. Nothing to see here, move along.
Unfortunately, with the draconian "hacking" laws present in the US, where he's going HIS asshole is going to be the next victim.
I used to have a pen pal in Dannemora State Prison in NY many years ago (we were both magicians at the time). He told me that the first week new inmates get there, they bust out your front teeth to keep you from biting down on "anything" they put in your mouth (and I'm sure you can guess what they'd be putting in there). If you're tough and can fight your way through that or make enough friends, you "earn your stripes". Why do you think everyone works out in the yard with weights? The bigger you are the easier it is to fight back or keep people off your back. This is reality.
My pen pal friend used to sleep with wet sheets, because some of his cellmates had their cells "firebombed" by homemade napalm-type devices, literally torching the entire cell to cinders. At one point he intentionally caused an incident that had him thrown into solitary confinement for 30 days to stay alive. 4 inmates in his block were killed during those 30 days...
I learned a lot about how the internal prison system works through our letters. Every letter we wrote was opened and read by the prison staff, prior to delivery. At one point they searched his cell ("turned it") because they thought he was trying to impersonate a guard to escape. After that, all letters were sent through his mother directly to him in prison.
Scary stuff.
I call bullshit. Show me a citation with working links to back up your assertion here please.
The Treo 600 works WITH NetBSD, just like it works with Linux, FreeBSD, and OSX... but the Treo 600 does not RUN NetBSD... and nobody that I know of has ported it over to do so. I would know, I manage this little project, and I'd be one of the first to find this out.
Yep, my bad. Thanks for catching it.
This is interesting... and it looks like they changed it (probably after numerous complaints).
The local copy of their website I have archived does not appear to contain any of this information. Still no contact number for support or warrantee information (just the "pre-sales" number). Their feedback form does nothing, I've tried using it to resolve the problem I had with my order.
Thanks for the link though, I just hope my experience can help others make a well-informed decision if they choose to buy from this vendor.
Perfect, so my reply answered exactly what he asked. Good, thanks for the reminder.
All sarcasm aside, did you even READ my reply? The Coolmax enclosure has usb2 and firewire (1394b), so it is not only EXACTLY what he was looking for, but even more, because it has greater functionality in a smaller form factor.
Without a doubt the Coolmax 2.5" at newegg was the smallest, lightest, most-powerful I've seen, for under $20.00.
It came with all of the cables (usb and firewire), extra screws, a screwdriver, a faux leather carrying case, and it runs entirely on bus power. One of the cables has two usb ends so you can draw power from two usb ports to drive it, instead of using an AC adapter, but you'll only need one.
Its so small and light, I actually keep it velcroed to the lid of my laptop as a 3rd IDE drive when I need the storage.
Absolutely amazing purchase.
One thing though, STAY AWAY FROM COOLDRIVES.COM!. I bought a drive enclosure from them, they shipped me the wrong product, and a broken AC adapter. Their website is useless at finding contact info, so I called the manufacturer of the drive, and they said I was out of luck.
I gave them negative feedback through Yahoo's feedback mechanism and within MINUTES, someone from the company called me and was using profanity at me and calling me all kinds of wonderful names (details of the libel and slander on my blog).
Stick with newegg and partners, amazing service, fast shipping, and superior products. I couldn't be happier with my purchase of this drive enclosure. The vendor included everything I could possibly think of, and priced it very aggressively.
In other words, the audio (and sometimes video) video equivalent of a blog. Nothing more.
Come on... isn't this obvious? You can only put $200 hammers and $500 toilet seats on invoices for so long before people start asking questions again.
Where do you think these ridiculously high-priced projects put their money? You think it goes into the project? Heck no, the project will be delayed, deferred for more research, requesting more money, etc. like all lofty projects of this ilk.
No my dear taxpayers, this, like other projects of the same quality will just be used as another vehicle to misappropriate spending into other things like TTR, black projects, more domestic weapons we don't need, and other things.
We've already cut billions of dollars out of things like broadcast television, the No Child Left Behind act, elementary school teachers and programs, and hundreds of other community things, why not just ferret that over to the "Big Skullcap In the Sky" instead?
Why not? Because its easier to get people to go "Oooo... Ahhhh" and hand over their wallets like Good Citizens, instead of questioning the goals of the project.
Why not spend a few billion on domestic problems? Or spend a few billion feeding and educating hungry people in poverished countries? Why not explore conversion to alternative fuel solutions? Why not look for ways to improve everything UNDER the atmosphere that has measurable results, instead of trying to improve everything OUTSIDE of the the atmosphere, which we can't measure yet?
No, this is just a ruse to get more money stashed away into other projects and to buy more beaurocrats, than to actually improve technology that exists today.
Heck, we've only spent a paltry $170 billion already on "The War(tm)", and we're doing so well there... why not spend the same amount on things we CAN fix, without killing ~20k civilians and soldiers?
I should note, I LIVE in New London, CT... the same town that lost this ruling in the Supreme Court. The location they're plowing over is pretty historical in our town (near Fort Trumbull). Its about 4 blocks from the house we just bought 18 months ago.
But guess what... we're ALREADY seeing the WAL*MART, Lowes, and Target sharks canvasing around the neighborhoods, doing measurements, taking pictures and all that. They're driving around all of the places here in town (mostly densely-packed housing, oddly enough), looking for the next best place to put their stores. We have a Target, Home Depot, WAL*MART, and a huge mall 1 town away (specifically 1 mile away from the place they're razing now). I just don't get it.
I have no doubt that in a few years, our poor historical town is going to look like Las Vegas, where you've got acres of pretty lights and parking lots, but when you turn your back on the lights, all you see is the desert, and poverty and suffering.
These monopolies insisted that they wouldn't abuse this ruling to start grabbing prime real-estate, but that's exactly what they're doing now. All they have to do is pay off enough city officials to sign off on it, or manufacture a "research study" that shows the tax benefits outweigh displacing 200 families, and more houses get plowed under.
Wasn't one of the primary reasons we travelled West from England hundreds of years ago to ESCAPE the incessant taxes? Its getting ridiculous now. Its like "Screw the people, we can kick them out, flatten their house, and TAX the hell out of them!" Well, you can't tax people if they have no money to pay for your taxes, or if they move out of the area. Sorry Charlie, you lose this one.
Unfortunately, when they did the surveying for the location they're about to kick families out of, it was 3-4 years ago, before this made its way through the courts. In the last 3-4 years, unemployment has pretty much vaporized the area of businesses and any revenue. So now they'll build their hotel and healthclub on the water, and nobody will use them, because nobody here has money, least of which the families that will get "blue book" value for their houses.
Someone pull the plug, reboot the Government, something has gone horribly wrong here.
This "law" is really going to suck for Joe Job emails (you know, the ones where someone takes YOUR email address and uses it in their From: line to spam millions, so the bounces and rejection messages come back to YOUR mailbox).
If they're not properly parsing headers to find the REAL sender of the email (i.e. in the "From " line, not the "From:" line), they're going to likely investigate and piss off a LOT of innocent people who have absolutely nothing whatsoever to do with the originating spam messages.
Time to start using those 16,384-byte gpg and crypto keys on all of my systems again. Sigh.
Someone came up with a Perl script (or was it Python, I forget now), that basically selects an x,y coordinate on GlobalXplorer, then moves over a few millimeters, and then again and again, etc. until you have a series of images that no longer contain the watermark. Combine those together and you've got a watermark-less image of the region you want.
Its time-consuming, but it does work.
The difference between Google and GlobalXplorer is that Google isn't using its mapping capabilities to openly promote a business model, but GlobalXplorer is (8x10 prints, etc.)
Coming? Its already been here for 2-3 or more years. I've been happily running OSX on my Thinkpad + every Windows version released (need them for testing and such), with Linux as my host OS.
I would never run VMware under Windows to run ANYTHING, because the host operating system's memory management and hardware/driver support is horrible, compared to Linux (as a host).
Windows2000, XP, 2003 and Longhorn betas run SIGNIFICANTLY faster under VMware run on a Linux host than they do natively on the bare metal itself. Seriously, it flies.
PearPC running OSX is a bit of a dog, but its easily tuned to be manageable. I have an ageing G3 (running Tiger from my ADC account) in the basement rack that is faster than PearPC, and I use that for my primary work on OSX over vnc or ssh. PearPC is just not useful for actual development on my 2.1Ghz Thinkpad.
So all of the tools you require already exist, if you want to use them. As for running OSX binaries "natively" on Linux or Windows, that won't happen... probably ever, since they're keyed to the OS which is keyed to the LaGrande features in the new Intel processors that Apple is going ot be using.
Just pick your poison, there are literally dozens of options.
And let's not forget about the California Coastline project (helicopter taking VERY high resolution images every 500' along the entire California coast.
I found some sort of easter egg there. Zoom in on that center photo, then look in the bottom-left corner of the image, right up near the waterline by the tidewall... is that a mannequin of a naked woman (with hair too!), or is that painted on the landscape there? Or is it really a cadaver? A sunbather? I can't quite tell...
And of course, there's Map24, which has, hands-down the best mapping UI out of anything I've ever used.
Now I just wish some of these sites would support "mobile" directions and maps. Hrmph, Google's "Directions" link on maps.google.com doesn't even work at all, it just reloads/refreshes the main map view in anything but MSIE. What a waste.
You can (and should) be using the following now, especially if you're rsync'ing LARGE files:
rsync uses SSH by default (and the better way is to set RSYNC_RSH=ssh in your environment, so your commandline isn't exposed to other users via 'ps -afux'), and you should be compressing DVD images, use the -S (sparse) flag.
The question he really needs to answer is... what is worth more? Losing your data? Or spending $5,000 on a NAS server or a RAID machine?
You almost got it... but its exactly the opposite of what you've described.
I'm saying that Microsoft will announce that their product will be available in 2007, minus some key features.
Instead of releasing "some" of an OS in 2007, they release ALL of the OS in December 2005.
I'm going to guess... none.
Microsoft isn't a threat to Free Software/OSS, and Free Software/OSS doesn't exist to displace Microsoft products or their users.
Have you ever considered that this might just be a marketing ruse by Microsoft to get their competitors (Apple, the OSS community, etc.) to slow down on focusing their efforts, because "..well, we have a couple of years before Longhorn is released, whats the rush?"
Seriously, what if they released Longhorn in December of this year, with all of the features they've previously claimed were pulled from it? (WinFS, podcasting, IE7, etc.)
This is a very VERY common marketing move, and I'm surprised nobody has seen through it yet. You publically announce that your product is being delayed, so your competitors relax a bit, then you announce some key feature of your product was dropped, etc. and your competition smirks and goes out and celebrates... and then you release the full product, WITH the "dropped" features on Monday.
Your competition crumbles and cries in the corner.
You realize the professor made completely falsified threats, right? The thief kept the laptop and I'm sure the professor lost a lot of credibility.
Perhaps in another country, but not in the United States of America, it is not legal. Not without violating about 10 different laws, the HIPAA and dozens of various privacy policies guaranteeing that the information is NOT shared with third parties.
If you have direct evidence of companies doing it, please speak up... because they're breaking the law. Please provide some actual evidence.
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Do you really believe what you wrote? You're in favor of constitutionally-violating the rights of thousands upon thousands of unemployed citizens?
Or you'll see a huge drop in people filing for unemployment and an enormous rise in people finding other ways to fraud the system to get paid so they can buy diapers and groceries for their families. Did you know that in some boroughs of Chicago, unemployment is over 60%?!
The problem is severe, let's not make it worse by encouraging people to commit more fraud by invading their lives more than we already do.
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The difference here is that the banks aren't legally allowed to combine the information they have with the profiling information places like WAL*MART and Radio Shack and the DMV and so on. The government is allowed to.
If the government controls the information, and makes the laws (laws they regularly break), they will most-certainly be combining this + National ID + all sorts of other information (health records, credit reports, Internet activity, phone records, etc.) to build a nice detailed profile about you.
Which would you prefer?
THIS, is precisely why I continue to use Mozilla over an of the other browsers (and contrary to popular "opinion", Mozilla is NOT the same as thing Firefox. Mozilla excels in speed, features, and granular configurability).
Yet more examples of companies trying to abuse the Open Source community, thinking that we're all just milling around in groups waiting for things to do and projects to contribute to.
Sure, we'll get right on that... writing your code for you, for free, while you profit and make a business model out of it. Absolutely! Where do I sign up?
Palm is trying it, Sun is trying it, Linksys tried it, and thousands of other companies tried it. When are companies going to learn that we don't just write code in our spare time because we're bored.
We write code because it is either improves technology, or it is fun, interesting, or scratches an particular itch we have, or because we're getting paid to write it.
If you want us to help you improve your business model, or write your code for you... PAY US. You know, like you would any other developer who writes code for you. What particular itch does the eBay search engine scratch for us? Why should we help? How does this improve OUR community? How can WE use this technology?
The real reason is because they think the Open Source community is just a free consortium to "cherry pick" whomever they want to write their code for them. They can't afford to hire anyone, so they turn to us. Nice.
So here's the obligatory HOWTO: HOWTO Pay for Free Software.
Seriously, I strongly recommend that every company read it and understand how our community works.