Try Reflection Technology for the Private Eye. Their working on a full color version, but it think their behind on the resolution front (only 640x480).
Microdisplay has 1024x768 displays and just introduced an evaluation kit for $2000 on their 800x600 display that can be operated for three hours from AA batteries. See their press releases for further detials.
Displaytech has reflective LCDs with 1280x1024 resolution. Originally designed for projection systems, but they are small enough to be used in a HUD system. PDFs can be found off of their products page. They also have developers kits.
Things are really heating up in the microdisplay industry. Especially as there was a conference SID last week San Jose, CA.
I persoanlly want to incorporate a couple of the 1280x1024 displays into a hat to provide a 3D headsup display. Placing the display above the brim with focusing lenses, and a flip down 1 way reflective mirror should provide a good useable display.
Did you email them in a polite manner expressing your concerns? Even if you have a spine, you still need to make your view heard.
I've mad many emails to companies that I felt did E-Commerce badly. One was to a company that had setup their order processing system so one couldn't check the shipping costs till I'd entered a credit card number. I wrote the polite letter, two days latter it was changed.
You need to make your view heard, and be polite about it. If enough people bitch, and take their business elsewhere, things will change.
One thing I've said for years is if you want to kill off wars between nations, get the peoples of the nations talking to each other. Get them in daily communication, and building cross national friendships. The original way I thought of doing this was to make all long distance phone calls (national and international) part of basic phone service. It looks like the net is going to be the initial leader in providing the communication. Some leaders may eventually recognise that it has a major role in world peace. Think about this, if you were close friends with somebody in another country, would you condone your government attacking that country? Yes the net is one more step in the the people taking control of their lives away from governments, etc. Nolonger will the relations between two countries be goverened by what their leaders think of each other, but by what their peoples think of each other. When peoples in two different nations communicate, they will realize that they really aren't that much different. Everybody wants to put food on the table, everybody wants shelter, everbody wants relaxation and enjoyment, everbody wants... the list goes on and on. You look all accross the world, and these are constants. People will see all the various forms that satisfy these needs, and most will realize that it's just a different way, not necessasarily better or worse, just different.
If SGI wants to run their graphics programs under Linux, they need support for large >2G files. Updating Linux's filesystem with their XFS code is one way to provide this. Linux currently dosen't support something they need, time to add it in. They are giving away a bit of tech (which is unimportant to them) to get a bigger market for their main product which is graphics programs. They want to sell licenses to their graphics programs. They may make some money on hardware, but their big bucks come in from selling high end graphics capibility. In order to make it into the linux market they need certin capibilities from the underlying OS/environment. A filesystem that handles lager files is one of them.
Gees guys, look for the self intrest angle here. If I want to do X, what do I need before I can make it happen.
To make it really real world, all the different tests should be running at the same time, and have surges and lulls in the hit rate. The test should also be done over a week long run period. Testing machines continue to make requests even if the server crashed. Ofcource at this point the server is racking up serious numbers of failed requests.
I've looked into making them, and the main cost is the LEDs them selves. For high brightness LEDs your talking $1 a piece in 1+k quantities for red @ 1cd light output. If you want full color, look at $4 per led with much reduced visibility, or $12 for simular visibility to a high brightness red. Prohibitive. One could setup a Linux box behind one of the displaies to run it without much fuss. Just use an IO card and latches, or the parallel port with latches and addressing logic. A hint, don't try to control more than 8x8 squares at once unless boosting your sink/drive currents.
You can check to see if it's on the SMB bus. I know some displays use the SMB bus as it's an available communications link, and standard chips are available for it. There is a group working on code for monitering CPU temps and system voltages via SMB connected devices already installed on many motherboards. I just couldn't find it on a quick search.
I've been waiting for these for over a year now. Now it looks like I'll only have to wait till the price drops.
The only worry I have is if they will force focus points to close to the eye. The only way I've kept from going heavily near sighted is to keep my moniter far from my head. At over an arms reach.
Why not tax mass Unsolicited EMailings?
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Why not tax mass Unsolicited EMailings? If thay don't pay the tax, send the IRS (or Insert country's equivalent here) after them.
With these 6 db table entries I've just told the code generator to make two new routines. One to update current quotes table, and one to update the historical quotes table. With two more DB entries I can place them on a menus. So, how many lines of code did I write in the past twenty minutes? Does what I wrote even count? I've just made two new access/update routines without writing a single line of "code". Or should I count the 2500+ lines of newly generated code?:)
At one time authors were paid by the word. this lead to the saying "Pages and pages of painfully padded paragraphs." The publishing industry wised up and started to pay on book sold. Books thinned out, were cheeper to make, and sold more as they were less time consuming to read. I wonder what will happen with the software industry if they catch on that quality matters, not just volume?
That's right, circuit breakers (and fuses) are worthless for surges. Before they pop, they let through way to much juice. Pop! goes the circuit behind them. On the other hand a good surge supressor clamps down alot faster, but instead of interupting the current spike it shunts it off in a different direction. A common method is to shunt the spike to ground, and hold the difference between the line the spike comes in on and ground to a reasonable voltage difference. Note: in a surge condition a spike can and will raise the ground's voltage significantly, however the circuit is spared because the voltage between it's ground and the line with the spike are held within reason. Problems do arise when you have many different devices interconnected, each with its' own ground. If a surge comes in and the circuitry can't get all the devices to agree on a ground, then devices may be dammaged where the grounds don't match. To get around this one tries to place all linked devices on the same electrical circuit. Failing that, one then goes to isolation circuits.
Right, and it looks like they selected their suspect without it.
"Several computer experts earlier this week said they had found clues linking the virus to a writer who uses the computer handle "VicodinES." Malley said Smith was "definitely not" the person who used that handle, but also said investigators believe he took two viruses, one of which came from VicodinES, and combined them with another virus to create Melissa."
So you feel that emails between corporations, etc are private communications. I'll agree. On the other hand, phone calls between two companies (or for that matter people) are also private communications. You can't go and jam a company's phone lines. It's against the law. There are laws that cover negligent or malicious disruption of phone service. (They're actually broad general laws that would even cover disruption of smoke signals.) It's simple to see how he got charged with disruption of public communications.
"besides the majority of that actual mail systems effected were private systems". They don't matter much, what matters is were specific email communications systems that are expected to carry and or be the final resting point of official government communications effected? If yes, then he is in deep dodo.
Talk to Texas A&M University about their tools for security. Especially their firewall Drawbridge, and Tiger security auditing scripts. They also have monitering software to moniter their internal network for cracking signatures.
Another sorce is to look at CERT. They have lots of links to documents and articles on security. One of their documents pointed me to the TAMA stuff.
Drawbridge is designed for blocking off site access on a machine/port by machine/port basis. Machines that pass the tiger scripts are enabled for more external access than ones that don't. As a default only SMTP is enabled from off site to a machine. Higher levels of external access can be obtained when a machine meats tighter security levels.
One of the nice things about Drawbridge is it can be run on a PC, and securly remotly updated. It also uses lookup tables so it's fast. It is a memory hog, but then that's the price for speed. I belive it will only work for Class B and C networks.
Email me at bryan@visi.com, and I'll gather a bunch of related links from my bookmarks at home. There are some good PDFs on their experiences, and the tools they made to implement security.
I've been dealing with security alot lately as I've recently setup a firewall for my home system. I personally don't use Drawbridge as my network is small and Linux IPCHAINS is more suited to my system. I do use some of the Tiger scripts for auditing. I also use Tripwire (available from CERT).
As I understand current copyright/contract law in USA. If you didn't transfer copyright as part of the contract, then you own the copyright for the code you wrote and can do as you please with it.
Several posters have grumbled about how little the J. Random Slashdotter knows about art and the humanities, and they're right. It's a damn shame when you try to talk about the Enlightenment, and the only response is, what about Gnome...
But if you really want to get scared, go ask an artist about technology. If the artist is a sculptor, you might get a little materials science, blacksmith-and-wizard variety; for the rest of them, fahgeddit.
I may not be a typical artist, but I sure do know what a TCP/IP stack is. I've almost gotten to the point that if it dosen't have some sort of computer in it I don't bother to design it anymore. Pretty much the only exception is clothing, and even then I've been known to slip a chip or two in.
They (as a group, with honorable exceptions) decided long ago that people who actually do things are essentially helots, necessary to a comfortable existence but beneath the dignity of high-class people. And then they took ars gratia artis and overgeneralized it into disappearing up their own assholes.
The real truth is most of us artist are just average Janes and Joes. To most of us the final product, or it's effect on the audience is what matters. Not how much we are in the limelight.
[snip]You'd have a hell of a lot better chance getting an explanation of the Hundred Years War on Slashdot than you would of getting any clue as to what TCP/IP is all about from any artistic group.
True, however...
And it's not because they're stupid, either. They've just decided that it's got no class.
I have to disagree. The major reason I see most artists not knowing what TCP/IP is, is because they don't need to know inorder to make their creations. It's a simple need to know situation. Some of the best potters and glass blowers I know are excelent chemists. Gee, I wonder why?
If you look at a few of my most recent designs, you'll see some serious embedded microprocessor work. Why, because I find it fun to give my works an extra demension of effect.
Nah, just add more space heaters. You can never have to many. Well, unless you're managing to jam cable.:}
It is nice having multiple systems up, even if some are antiquated. My primary is currently hosed (bad potato problems), so I'm using my secondary to post this.
I just checked a retailer, and saw that your camera uses CompactFLASH cards. This means you can easily download pictures if you have a PCMCIA slot and and adapter card. That's what I use.
I have a cheep laptop (running Linux) that I have a network card for. I have the PCMCIA scripts setup so when I insert the card it automatcally mounts the msdos filesystem on it. I then use FTP to transfer the images to my main computer. Another option is to buy a PCMCIA card controler for your computer, though that may be more than a used laptop. If you buy a PCMCIA card controler, buy one that hooks up to the ISA or PCI bus, not the parallel port or SCSI buss. The latter two are not supported by Linux.
Sounds like you need to look at the air flow through your system. Many fans != better cooling, just more air movement. I have a case that has lots of high capacity harddisks in it. With the normal cooling pattern for the case, the disks were always to hot to touch, but with placing cooling fans so they blew across the disks and out of the case, I solved my problems. I used a couple of heavy gauge wires and cable ties to hold the fans in place, then added some air vents to the case for the air to exit the case. Now my system runs cool. One thing you may try is using small walls to direct the air flow to where it is needed.
On a more recent system I use a large fan over the front of the drive bays to force air past the three hot running harddisks. The fan chosen is large enough that it reversed the air flow pattern in the case, except for the power supply which has it's own fan and still draws the right direction. The power supply was initially the only source of air movement in the case and it wasn't enough. I sized a fan to have about 4 times the flow the power supplie's fan had. Doing this, all the normal intakes became exhaust vents, and the case and harddisks stay cool now. All spots on the outside of the case are now cool. Opening up the case and touch testing spots, they are all cool or at most warm after hours of run time.
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Try Reflection Technology for the Private Eye. Their working on a full color version, but it think their behind on the resolution front (only 640x480).
Displaytech has reflective LCDs with 1280x1024 resolution. Originally designed for projection systems, but they are small enough to be used in a HUD system. PDFs can be found off of their products page. They also have developers kits.
Things are really heating up in the microdisplay industry. Especially as there was a conference SID last week San Jose, CA.
I persoanlly want to incorporate a couple of the 1280x1024 displays into a hat to provide a 3D headsup display. Placing the display above the brim with focusing lenses, and a flip down 1 way reflective mirror should provide a good useable display.
Did you email them in a polite manner expressing your concerns? Even if you have a spine, you still need to make your view heard.
I've mad many emails to companies that I felt did E-Commerce badly. One was to a company that had setup their order processing system so one couldn't check the shipping costs till I'd entered a credit card number. I wrote the polite letter, two days latter it was changed.
You need to make your view heard, and be polite about it. If enough people bitch, and take their business elsewhere, things will change.
One thing I've said for years is if you want to kill off wars between nations, get the peoples of the nations talking to each other. Get them in daily communication, and building cross national friendships. The original way I thought of doing this was to make all long distance phone calls (national and international) part of basic phone service. It looks like the net is going to be the initial leader in providing the communication. Some leaders may eventually recognise that it has a major role in world peace. Think about this, if you were close friends with somebody in another country, would you condone your government attacking that country? Yes the net is one more step in the the people taking control of their lives away from governments, etc. Nolonger will the relations between two countries be goverened by what their leaders think of each other, but by what their peoples think of each other. When peoples in two different nations communicate, they will realize that they really aren't that much different. Everybody wants to put food on the table, everybody wants shelter, everbody wants relaxation and enjoyment, everbody wants... the list goes on and on. You look all accross the world, and these are constants. People will see all the various forms that satisfy these needs, and most will realize that it's just a different way, not necessasarily better or worse, just different.
Gees guys, look for the self intrest angle here. If I want to do X, what do I need before I can make it happen.
To make it really real world, all the different tests should be running at the same time, and have surges and lulls in the hit rate. The test should also be done over a week long run period. Testing machines continue to make requests even if the server crashed. Ofcource at this point the server is racking up serious numbers of failed requests.
I've looked into making them, and the main cost is the LEDs them selves. For high brightness LEDs your talking $1 a piece in 1+k quantities for red @ 1cd light output. If you want full color, look at $4 per led with much reduced visibility, or $12 for simular visibility to a high brightness red. Prohibitive. One could setup a Linux box behind one of the displaies to run it without much fuss. Just use an IO card and latches, or the parallel port with latches and addressing logic. A hint, don't try to control more than 8x8 squares at once unless boosting your sink/drive currents.
You can check to see if it's on the SMB bus. I know some displays use the SMB bus as it's an available communications link, and standard chips are available for it. There is a group working on code for monitering CPU temps and system voltages via SMB connected devices already installed on many motherboards. I just couldn't find it on a quick search.
Likely much better funded too... :)
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WearComp7
Check out the second URL for a cool wearable computer. Most people wouldn't notice, or if they did, they would think you're a spook cos of the wires.
I've been waiting for these for over a year now. Now it looks like I'll only have to wait till the price drops.
The only worry I have is if they will force focus points to close to the eye. The only way I've kept from going heavily near sighted is to keep my moniter far from my head. At over an arms reach.
Why not tax mass Unsolicited EMailings? If thay don't pay the tax, send the IRS (or Insert country's equivalent here) after them.
If you look at the end of the article it mentions that the EU is going to look at regulating SPAM at the reception end. How are they gonna do this?
I guess SPAMers will need to have the country of residence for the email address.
In one code generator table I place:
GUI, "Update * Quote", c?x?, GUI-Update-Quote, STOCK, Current_Quotes|Historical_Quotes, browser
In another table I place:
GUI-Update-Quote, Field, "Company", *.company, c15x1, c60, display, search, primary
GUI-Update-Quote, Field, "Ticker", *.ticker, c15x2, c16, display, search, secondary
GUI-Update-Quote, Field, "Start", *.price.start, c15x3, q12, update, ,
GUI-Update-Quote, Field, "High", *.price.high, c15x4, q12, update, ,
GUI-Update-Quote, Field, "Low", *.price.low, c15x5, q12, update, ,
GUI-Update-Quote, Field, "Close", *.price.close, c15x6, q12, update, ,
With these 6 db table entries I've just told the code generator to make two new routines. One to update current quotes table, and one to update the historical quotes table. With two more DB entries I can place them on a menus. So, how many lines of code did I write in the past twenty minutes? Does what I wrote even count? I've just made two new access/update routines without writing a single line of "code". Or should I count the 2500+ lines of newly generated code?:)
At one time authors were paid by the word. this lead to the saying "Pages and pages of painfully padded paragraphs." The publishing industry wised up and started to pay on book sold. Books thinned out, were cheeper to make, and sold more as they were less time consuming to read. I wonder what will happen with the software industry if they catch on that quality matters, not just volume?
That's right, circuit breakers (and fuses) are worthless for surges. Before they pop, they let through way to much juice. Pop! goes the circuit behind them. On the other hand a good surge supressor clamps down alot faster, but instead of interupting the current spike it shunts it off in a different direction. A common method is to shunt the spike to ground, and hold the difference between the line the spike comes in on and ground to a reasonable voltage difference. Note: in a surge condition a spike can and will raise the ground's voltage significantly, however the circuit is spared because the voltage between it's ground and the line with the spike are held within reason. Problems do arise when you have many different devices interconnected, each with its' own ground. If a surge comes in and the circuitry can't get all the devices to agree on a ground, then devices may be dammaged where the grounds don't match. To get around this one tries to place all linked devices on the same electrical circuit. Failing that, one then goes to isolation circuits.
I want one for my bedroom, though I'll have to install Linux on it.
I've been tempted to pickup an iMac to use as a cheep x-terminal in my bedroom. This givers me other options.
"Several computer experts earlier this week said they had found clues linking the virus to a writer who uses the computer handle "VicodinES." Malley said Smith was "definitely not" the person who used that handle, but also said investigators believe he took two viruses, one of which came from VicodinES, and combined them with another virus to create Melissa."
See ABC News for further details.
"besides the majority of that actual mail systems effected were private systems". They don't matter much, what matters is were specific email communications systems that are expected to carry and or be the final resting point of official government communications effected? If yes, then he is in deep dodo.
Talk to Texas A&M University about their tools for security. Especially their firewall Drawbridge, and Tiger security auditing scripts. They also have monitering software to moniter their internal network for cracking signatures.
Another sorce is to look at CERT. They have lots of links to documents and articles on security. One of their documents pointed me to the TAMA stuff.
Drawbridge is designed for blocking off site access on a machine/port by machine/port basis. Machines that pass the tiger scripts are enabled for more external access than ones that don't. As a default only SMTP is enabled from off site to a machine. Higher levels of external access can be obtained when a machine meats tighter security levels.
One of the nice things about Drawbridge is it can be run on a PC, and securly remotly updated. It also uses lookup tables so it's fast. It is a memory hog, but then that's the price for speed. I belive it will only work for Class B and C networks.
Email me at bryan@visi.com, and I'll gather a bunch of related links from my bookmarks at home. There are some good PDFs on their experiences, and the tools they made to implement security.
I've been dealing with security alot lately as I've recently setup a firewall for my home system. I personally don't use Drawbridge as my network is small and Linux IPCHAINS is more suited to my system. I do use some of the Tiger scripts for auditing. I also use Tripwire (available from CERT).
For those who remember Bloom County, "Death Star" has a totally different meaning. I sugest you take a look at the AT&T logo.
I always think of AT&T when I hear of "Death Star" in refference to computing.
As I understand current copyright/contract law in USA. If you didn't transfer copyright as part of the contract, then you own the copyright for the code you wrote and can do as you please with it.
Others have commented on the GPL relationship.
I'd say he's testing us to see how many of us just look at what shows up on the front page versus looking at the indexes.
But if you really want to get scared, go ask an artist about technology. If the artist is a sculptor, you might get a little materials science, blacksmith-and-wizard variety; for the rest of them, fahgeddit.
I may not be a typical artist, but I sure do know what a TCP/IP stack is. I've almost gotten to the point that if it dosen't have some sort of computer in it I don't bother to design it anymore. Pretty much the only exception is clothing, and even then I've been known to slip a chip or two in.
They (as a group, with honorable exceptions) decided long ago that people who actually do things are essentially helots, necessary to a comfortable existence but beneath the dignity of high-class people. And then they took ars gratia artis and overgeneralized it into disappearing up their own assholes.
The real truth is most of us artist are just average Janes and Joes. To most of us the final product, or it's effect on the audience is what matters. Not how much we are in the limelight.
[snip]You'd have a hell of a lot better chance getting an explanation of the Hundred Years War on Slashdot than you would of getting any clue as to what TCP/IP is all about from any artistic group.
True, however...
And it's not because they're stupid, either. They've just decided that it's got no class.
I have to disagree. The major reason I see most artists not knowing what TCP/IP is, is because they don't need to know inorder to make their creations. It's a simple need to know situation. Some of the best potters and glass blowers I know are excelent chemists. Gee, I wonder why?
If you look at a few of my most recent designs, you'll see some serious embedded microprocessor work. Why, because I find it fun to give my works an extra demension of effect.
Nah, just add more space heaters. You can never have to many. Well, unless you're managing to jam cable. :}
It is nice having multiple systems up, even if some are antiquated. My primary is currently hosed (bad potato problems), so I'm using my secondary to post this.
Is looking for a good faraday cage...
I have a cheep laptop (running Linux) that I have a network card for. I have the PCMCIA scripts setup so when I insert the card it automatcally mounts the msdos filesystem on it. I then use FTP to transfer the images to my main computer. Another option is to buy a PCMCIA card controler for your computer, though that may be more than a used laptop. If you buy a PCMCIA card controler, buy one that hooks up to the ISA or PCI bus, not the parallel port or SCSI buss. The latter two are not supported by Linux.
On a more recent system I use a large fan over the front of the drive bays to force air past the three hot running harddisks. The fan chosen is large enough that it reversed the air flow pattern in the case, except for the power supply which has it's own fan and still draws the right direction. The power supply was initially the only source of air movement in the case and it wasn't enough. I sized a fan to have about 4 times the flow the power supplie's fan had. Doing this, all the normal intakes became exhaust vents, and the case and harddisks stay cool now. All spots on the outside of the case are now cool. Opening up the case and touch testing spots, they are all cool or at most warm after hours of run time.