I have to admit, I dont think I ever want to be without email on my pager ever again!! cell phone i can live without since most everyone i need to contact has a toll-free number these days.
I most definitely prefer a smaller number of keys (the BAT), but the twiddler is much nicer to hold, while the BAT is table-bound:(
make a twiddler-sized BAT ??
hehehe
this was NOT meant to be taken as NEW stuff
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I posted this article NOT to break any ground...these things have certainly been around for awhile now.
I do think that there are likely quite a few people that haven't heard of them yet, and seeing as how they (the Twiddler, at least) can be used with palm pilots, i thought some people might find it interesting as an alternative to a stylus:) also pretty groovy for a workstation or laptop:)
they are quite pricey too, though. But after all, those who can afford $500 for a Palm can almost certainly spare a bill or two for a nice input device;)
when i put the mod chip in my playstation i was appalled at how small the damned pads were compared to the pictures in the instructions (which were obviously like 300x magnification) *grin*
i bought a micro soldering iron (very small wattage) and some very small solder (30 awg?) with flux core.
/me looks at his sony playstation motherboard and grins (oh, warranty...yea...that thing is shattered when I started soldering a chip to the board) *grin*
at least if my palm had 8 mb of ram at could compete with my HP-48GX =]
for anyone who has a decent amount of coordination among the fingers, I have seen a chording keyboard for one hand that produces every keystrokes by using a combination of 11 keys (I think?).
I believe it was two key possibilities per finger and three for the thumb (any math majors care to calculate and see if this would cover 104 keys using a max chord of 3 simultaneous keys??? )
at any rate, a scuba diver was the first to use this that i know of so that he could record his results into a waterproof backpack computer while diving and still have one hand free.:)
now which is more interesting, the backpack underwater computer? or the one hand chording keyboard?? *grin*
script kiddie or not, ummm, doesnt he have a right to due process like the rest of us???
get a clue...latch on to him not because he is a great cracker, but because our great government is trying to show others what happens to people like him by holding him for 4 years without trial or bail hearing. it sounds more like the plot of a government power flick than real life...scary.
this is the same crap we've been reading (no offense to caldera users) for the past few months.
the bottom line is caldera wants a piece of redhat pie and is pissed that everyone is embracing redhat and not caldera. caldera isnt nearly as committed to making standard base happen as they are to being the ones who will be KNOWN for making linux work for business. to be honest, since redhat is already holding the marbles, it seems more sincere when THEY talk about standards.
dont get me wrong and flame me because of my redhat comments....i know full well the difference between linux and redhat (although i HAVE been running redhat since 2.0...*grin*)
but the reality is that corporations were bound to embrace at least one distribution and leave others hanging....and now caldera is bitter because they feel like the kid who didnt get picked to play kickball:)
no joke.... as long as i still have a copy of L3ENC sitting on my hard drive (and "the man" cant find a way to make that copy blow up) they can all kiss my ass because i will continue to produce mp3's:)
knowing that someone as stupid as Mr. Cuba can be the president of a company gives me hope of ruling the world someday;)
"...But as when c't pointed out that the software utility could be bypassed, company spokesman George Alfs noted that all software can be hacked..."
"We would want to look at the code before we make a comment on that," Alfs said. "But the end user always needs to be aware of malicious software."
So then WHY THE FUCK DOES INTEL TRY TO CONVINCE THE CONSUMER THAT THEIR PATCH IS SECURE? Now everyone knows that Intel cannot be trusted farther than they can be kicked.
I think MS and Intel are trying to be the Howard Stern of privacy invasions.... "yea boys, let's just keep taking a little more away from these dumb comsumers until, at last, we have cameras in their living room..."
maybe someone should have taught you critical analysis in your rise to wisdom. before you go name-calling, why don't you stop and consider the fact that maybe, just MAYBE, intel does not have your best interests in mind here.
you ever wonder why people use IBM/AIX in mission critical stuff?? its because it rocks over linux in support for clustering, mirroring, disk configuration...etc stability. now i said "stability" of these things...not just simple support for them. people dont spend $5 million on IBM systems when they could get the same thing from linux systems. (go look at ibm.com under S390 and look at the on-board hardware encryption) and you'll know why corps. use IBM/AIX.
rs/6000 machines are not nicely configured for ANY small amount of money. the last one we got was just over $30k (with academic discount) and still only had 32 mb ram... get an alpha!
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I have to admit, I dont think I ever want to be without email on my pager ever again!! cell phone i can live without since most everyone i need to contact has a toll-free number these days.
I most definitely prefer a smaller number of keys (the BAT), but the twiddler is much nicer to hold, while the BAT is table-bound :(
make a twiddler-sized BAT ??
hehehe
I posted this article NOT to break any ground...these things have certainly been around for awhile now.
:) also pretty groovy for a workstation or laptop :)
;)
I do think that there are likely quite a few people that haven't heard of them yet, and seeing as how they (the Twiddler, at least) can be used with palm pilots, i thought some people might find it interesting as an alternative to a stylus
they are quite pricey too, though. But after all, those who can afford $500 for a Palm can almost certainly spare a bill or two for a nice input device
ummm, yea....WHATEVER.
get a clue man. why don't you wander over to
debian.org and see how GREAT and PROFESSIONAL their site looks....blah
if you dont like the redhat site, i suggest you
donate your time and redesign the fucking thing into something more suitable in your mind.
damn...some people just dont get it at all.
when i put the mod chip in my playstation i was appalled at how small the damned pads were compared to the pictures in the instructions (which were obviously like 300x magnification) *grin*
i bought a micro soldering iron (very small wattage) and some very small solder (30 awg?)
with flux core.
alot of patience, daniel-son
at least if my palm had 8 mb of ram at could compete with my HP-48GX =]
for anyone who has a decent amount of coordination
:)
among the fingers, I have seen a chording keyboard
for one hand that produces every keystrokes by
using a combination of 11 keys (I think?).
I believe it was two key possibilities per finger
and three for the thumb (any math majors care to
calculate and see if this would cover 104 keys using a max chord of 3 simultaneous keys??? )
at any rate, a scuba diver was the first to use this that i know of so that he could record his results into a waterproof backpack computer while diving and still have one hand free.
now which is more interesting, the backpack underwater computer? or the one hand chording keyboard?? *grin*
the challenge was not extended to intel platform data warehouses, rather SPECIFICALLY to SQL Server 7.0
IBM only showed that they can spank Oracle with DB2.
script kiddie or not, ummm, doesnt he have a right to due process like the rest of us???
get a clue...latch on to him not because he is a great cracker, but because our great government is trying to show others what happens to people like him by holding him for 4 years without trial or bail hearing. it sounds more like the plot of a government power flick than real life...scary.
I'd love to see this kind of attitude succeed in a corporate IT environment *not*
"well, sir, I know you told me to install AIX 4.2 weeks ago...but that's a lame idea, so I'm doing it MY way"
heh
this is the same crap we've been reading (no offense to caldera users) for the past few months.
:)
the bottom line is caldera wants a piece of redhat pie and is pissed that everyone is embracing redhat and not caldera. caldera isnt nearly as committed to making standard base happen as they are to being the ones who will be KNOWN for making linux work for business. to be honest, since redhat is already holding the marbles, it seems more sincere when THEY talk about standards.
dont get me wrong and flame me because of my redhat comments....i know full well the difference between linux and redhat (although i HAVE been running redhat since 2.0...*grin*)
but the reality is that corporations were bound to embrace at least one distribution and leave others hanging....and now caldera is bitter because they feel like the kid who didnt get picked to play kickball
my two cents
did you see the hardware they were running??
400 mhz risc with 1 mb L2 cache and ultra 2
10,000 rpm hdd's.
and its surprising that it spanked a pentium II ??
I'm all for building nice intel systems, but when
you need performance and have the money to burn,
i have to agree--- BUY RISC and run *nix
didnt the article say that it would be released
free?
no joke.... as long as i still have a copy :)
;)
of L3ENC sitting on my hard drive (and "the man"
cant find a way to make that copy blow up) they can all kiss my ass because i will continue to produce mp3's
knowing that someone as stupid as Mr. Cuba can be the president of a company gives me hope of ruling the world someday
who needs an economic interest when the interest
is supposed to be on the MUSIC???
what an idiot....just another business geek
flapping his mouth!
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people like this give our entire species a bad name.
comments from intel:
"...But as when c't pointed out that the software utility could be bypassed, company spokesman George Alfs noted that all software can be hacked..."
"We would want to look at the code before we make a comment on that," Alfs said. "But the end user always needs to be aware of malicious software."
So then WHY THE FUCK DOES INTEL TRY TO CONVINCE THE CONSUMER THAT THEIR PATCH IS SECURE?
Now everyone knows that Intel cannot be trusted
farther than they can be kicked.
I think MS and Intel are trying to be the
Howard Stern of privacy invasions.... "yea
boys, let's just keep taking a little more
away from these dumb comsumers until, at last,
we have cameras in their living room..."
BOYCOTT sounds like a fitting word here!
i can dithc my cell phone and beeper, and i can change the MAC address of my ethernet card.
maybe someone should have taught you critical analysis in your rise to wisdom. before you go name-calling, why don't you stop and consider the fact that maybe, just MAYBE, intel does not have your best interests in mind here.
my two cents
you ever wonder why people use IBM/AIX in mission critical stuff?? its because it rocks over linux in support for clustering, mirroring, disk configuration...etc stability. now i said "stability" of these things...not just simple support for them. people dont spend $5 million on IBM systems when they could get the same thing from linux systems. (go look at ibm.com under S390 and look at the on-board hardware encryption) and you'll know why corps. use IBM/AIX.
as i stated above, rs/6000 are ANYTHING but a good deal for the money!! $15k would be a rinky dink rs/6000
rs/6000 machines are not nicely configured for ANY small amount of money. the last one we got was just over $30k (with academic discount) and still only had 32 mb ram... get an alpha!
i work at a HUGE corporate shop that
... lamers!
is exclusively dell for windoze boxes...
wanna take a guess what they said when i needed
something for NT?
you guessed it!! "im sorry sir, but we dont
support NT on your box, since it wasnt preinstalled"
get over it man...
last i checked, l0pht had received
quite a few "thank you"'s on bug
lists and the like (including red hat
site errata)...
what have YOU contributed lately that
makes you worthy of calling l0pht a lamer???