I've purchased from Zebra, about a year or 2 ago. The ZX81 was less expensive then ($30) but if the demand is enough I can't see anything wrong with his pricing. I mean has has kept them for a while!
BTW, there is a project out there to build a new ZX/TS version of the Z80 with the latest and greatest technology. I can't find the link but I did backup the notes. Very cool to be able to run a ZX81 at 33MHz with up to 1 Meg of ram (not very useful with the way the ZX's ram addressing was set up).
A hard drive can't transfer at any where near that speed, so what's the use? Unless you run and store everything in the RAM, but I don't know, is that even possible? Is so much faster than physical storage to be worth it? About the only use I can think of for it is in dumb terminals, and who wants those?!
It might be more useful to think that they might start putting drive controllers in parallel or drives in parallel or maybe even just the heads. Drives are cheap enough where this could be done and have a resonable cost for the speed (but not for the average user). This would increase the speed of the access on hard drives. Just because there isn't a use for it now doesn't mean that we can't think up a use for it in the future.
Check out "Firewalls and Internet Security: Repelling the Wily Hacker" (ISBN 0-201-63357-4). There is a chapter called "An Evening with Berferd" where they did just that.
I would warn you that special precautions are necessary, this is something you should think very carefully about before attempting.
One version of the Enigma code was broken before the war. I thought the Polish had actually deciphered it at gave it to the English shortly after Poland was invaded. There were several different versions to the Enigma machine, the navy had one, other forces had others. The SS eventually developed an Enigma with ~12 dials (I think the original at the start of the war had 5 or 6).
Please don't trust what I've written as my memory is a bit shaky (I try to remember the important things and vaguely remember the rest).
I'm a Yank and found the whole idea a bit out of sorts. Hollywood has it's head so firmly up its butt that it wouldn't know to jump if you pushed a sub in it too. They'll probably put a tag on the movie stating "based on a true story".:-/
Strange how the the Enigma save the planet (exagerated) and shortened the war (true). The people who cracked it were brilliant heroes (true). But the guy who wrote DeCSS is a criminal and a hacker (oh my god he's one of THEM!).
In todays society the people who cracked the enigma would be locked up, sued, and branded criminals. Ironic, it's all a matter of timing.
Is the memory access switched also? I'm going to guess it wouldn't be. The memory it self is the slow down. You can fly with the computational speed but when you need to slow down for access to memory we begin to lose the speed (I know that cache helps this somewhat).
I know on the standard Intel setup the memory is one of the slow downs (~100MHz speed, though I believe there maybe 133MHz available).
BTW, my particular need is in the area of I/O and prcessing. The server is processing user reequests (usually from an ehternet) and the either accessing a slow speed device (serially attached) or is hitting a network to attach to the low speed device (uController w/ethernet).
wow, I didn't realize questioning the ultimate power of money was flamebait.
Though I didn't moderate your post, posting a critism without supporting comments tends not to be useful. That might be enough to consider it flamebait. Critism in itself shouldn't be considered Flamebait or a Troll as long as it you support it with why you feel that way or whatever is needed to support your point. Then it's adding to the discussion.
It's great that we're getting all of these faster CPU's but when are we going to see faster busses for the data to travel to the memory and devices? Then we're going to need faster devices and memory. IMO we are speeding up the CPU's but not the system.
The pages are gone (Mon Apr 3 19:24:27 EDT 2000), when you pull them up (try 2/ instead of 1/ in the URL) they are blank. Looks like the story is missing from Slashdot now also (oops it's back on slashdot now). I wonder who got on their butt about this one (Intel maybe).
I've given a bit more thought to the "Home of the Future" and I've come to the conclusion that a lot of this stuff just isn't going to be in there. Such as the toilet (I hope that this company who intends to make this isn't the same company whose toilets caught fire:-) and 'frig with internet access. Now a frig with a virtual view of what's in the 'frig might be a good idea. Keeps me from open the 'frig and gawking. If I want to view the internet I would watch it on the best monitor in the house (or maybe my cell phone, ok maybe not). Now carring on a conversation with a computer about something I'm cooking could be useful (Hal, how much salt did I add the last time I made this....). And maybe some sensors in the bathroom which can determine that I'm taking a shower and the air is too humid. But I don't want a type of vision in the bathrooms. I can see it now, while at work at Big Bad Corp. (don't read anything into the initials I don't work for them) I get called down to security and reprimanded for have the Pot Roast and the glass of milk because it raised the time I spent in the bathrooms from 15 minutes/day to 25 minutes/day. And That I might want to have my colon inspected because it's getting a bit large.
It'll come down to economics, I can spend $500 (US) for a high quality toilet or $1000 (a guess) for a new fancy I-toilet. When the items get added up for the final bill and things need to get trimmed because I've gone with too much quality the I-toilet will be the first off the list. Of course the projection system and surreal sound system will have to stay and maybe even upgraded, after all I did trim the I-toilet off the list;-).
I think it will come down to this, a lot of this stuff is resolving a problem that doesn't exist. It's a really neat idea but not much else going for it. Fads come and go. The stuff that will stay and work is something that we can set and forget.
Warning: I was tired when I wrote this so it may jump around and skip lots of details. For that I apologize.
I think we'll see home automation within the next 10 years. Despite one poster's assertation that no one can not afford a thermostat in every room (bi-metallic switches are cheap, small processors are becoming just as cheap).
Let's imagine my home, you walk through the front door and it appears to be a normal un-automated home. All the automation is unseen, no wires, no buttons, no mic's, no speakers. Lights go on when appropriate (depending on ambiant light) and go off when appropriate (you're no longer there). The home temperature, humidity and air flow are just right (this is rather kludgy in today's un-automated systems). The audio system works via voice or a remote. When you ask or select an item the appropriate devices go on. Choose the TV, then the TV goes on (maybe the surround sound system also), want to listen to CD's, fine, the TV will go off and the stereo stays on. The system will need to learn as it goes but should have some kind of initial programming with a simple to use interface (that's currently the voodoo). The system will know you are there (or out) and it won't need badges or pins. It will be able to select the correct settings for your bath/shower and it will be able not waste energy by heating the water all day waiting for someone to use the hot water.
Other things that can be automated, tracking of energy usage and monitoring various things. The kitchen stove should know when food is going to burn and avoid it, the 'frig should also know when things are going bad and warn about them. You'll have the system inventory items, order stock and bid for the best price (these last parts begin to make me nervous) and obviously security, physical as in intruder and fire, and as in predictive break down. Everything has to have a manual over ride and the system/owner/user has to have a way of checking authenticity.
The problem are many such as internet access but the technology will be available. The biggest problem I have is permitting automated systems to take full control. I really don't like that idea but there are something I want the automated systems to handle. Such as garden watering and fertilizing. But I don't want my home to order more milk without consulting me. I also find it very scary to have my whole home available via the net. I design networks for a living and know and understand most of the technology. My leariness towards this is because the potential for abuse is extremely high and I expect the real problems will be corporations and not hackers trying the gain control not of my home but of my buying power.
Currently there are a lot of problems that need to be resolved before such systems can be accepted. I just hope the hardware/software community can resolve them before the sales/marketing community can pitch them.
There is a single paragraph discussing forking without any proof behind it. The rest of the three-page article discusses Linux's impact on the market and how it has been gaining ground on NT and is upsetting the server OS balance. What's the problem here?
Because it appears to build up Linux only to tear it down. Another reason is that if forking is inevitable then it will probably happen a lot smoother than the media is making it out to be. I personally don't believe that there will be a fork of the nature the article wants us to believe. Isn't the RT-Linux a fork? I don't see this as being disasterous to Linux or the server market.
I'm a little wary of this one. Let's see if M$ has added some kind of contract agreement barring RealNetworks from producing a Linux Version. It might not be a bad thing if Linux were to have support for the M$ protocol but I would feel much safer with an Open protocol also. I just can not put a lot of trust in M$. I've watched them squeeze too many markets in the last ~25 years. This could come down to RealNetworks dropping it's own protocol in favor of M$'s protocol.
It read more like an ad (yet a poorly written ad).
BTW wasn't there some virus called Melisa that pounded the hell out of many Corporate email systems recently. Imagine what would happen with an Open Source OS! My god the tragedy of it all!
We could take such a Virus to it's next step. M$ and the Anti-Virus companies did forget to check the extension of the links. And then there was the mail were part of the contants could be executed by receiving it (I'm a little weak on the details of that one). Now we could have a virus that does more than one thing on the system. It could email itself, open up sharing and permission. Schedule internet connections and attach to ports all from the comfort of email. Nah, never could happen, M$ is closed source. Nobodies is that smart to get around the M$ OS!
There are times when I wouldn't use the Voice recognition and other times when it would be great to have (driving your car, needing a note to be taken for instance). I use my PDA a lot, it's enabled me to carry just it and not a pen and paper. I 'post notes' and organize them from time to time like at the end of the day or just before I leave work. Currently I don't use it to take lots of notes during a conversation (like at work). There I still use my notebook because it's just easier to write without thinking. I use a lot of symbols and such as a kind of shorthand. It's the one area where I have a hard time with Graffitti. Also I tend to add notes in the margins and drawing s (a picture is worth a 1000 words) which is not possible with any computer I know of. If someone can overcome these short comings they'd truely have a product that should sell.
I live near NY, in order for me to work in a city thay big I would need a 40% salary increase (that's just to keep the same amount of money in the back at the end of each month). Now the cool thing about being a geek is that many geek jobs really don't require that you're near your work. I telecomputed for the last 2 years, it was nice but I'm going to cut back on it. I miss the day to day conversations with fellow geeks.
If you're really looking to atract geeks to a place try addressing the following:
1) Cost of living vs salary, a geek's primary concern isn't money but a geek has to have toys.
2) Good transportation system (this area's about to go 100% grid lock in the next decade). Things need to be close enough to get to but not in my backyard (NIMBY).
3) Other geeks must be near by. I hate trying to talk to non geeks about my ideas. They have no idea what I'm talking about. Luckily for me, my boss is going to move me to a research center close to home (YES!).
4) Other places of interest within traveling distance (that's why I love this area NY, Phili, Boston, DC, A train's ride away).
5) Bandwidth, I love my cable modem.
6) Geek toy stores would be nice, but I find the online prices (after I do a good search) to be much too good.
7) Lots of ethnic foods, I don't know why but geeks love lots of different types of food. This area has lots of them, thank God!
8) 7x24, geeks keep a varied time table. I wouldn't be able to handle the dry counties of NC for long. They seem to roll up their sidewalks at 5 PM.
There are probably other things as this is just one geeks ideas and probably doesn't reflect even a small portion of the other geeks needs.
This is going to sound weird but if I login as user A netscape is unstable and crashes very easily. Yet if I login in as user B and connect to the same pages it's stable. I've already fixed the fonts problem that was causing the jvm to crash so I no longer have that problem. Do a dejanews search, something along the lines of java causes netscape to crash. Search the comp.os.linux.* newsgroups.
BTW I've tried isolating the ENV and moved directories, tried cleaning out the.netscape directory, etc. etc. . I also do not use the wrappper file, though I have tried it.
My current employer has an IP agreement but it is only for work I do within work hours or on work equipment. The software I develope on my own (out of hours and on my own equipment) is my own.
At one time I was going to do some part-time work at a local Radio Shack. Their IP agreement stated that all work I did, on their time or my time was theirs. So I'll never work for Radio Shack unless that has changed (and I need a part-time job).
How about using it as a remote ....
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That sounds kind of stupid doesn't it? But keep reading it's not as limited as that. For the sake of brevity I won't go into each detail. I think I'll post an article on my web page with my thoughts on this subject (and I'll go into details). See the links below.
First I have a PIIIx (4M of ram expandable to 8M and OS3.3), This is one tool I find very useful. I'm also a home automation (HA) enthusiast and I've been pondering/considering using inexpensize items to interface to my HA systems. I have a gameboy, a TI-85, an HP28C, a TRS model 100 and the Palm Pilot. Each has it's limitations, the PIIIx/Visor has several things going for it. But it also has limitations, one of which is you can not task switch an application. You can only do 1 thing with it at a time (this is not a limitation of the processor, I think). By adding multitasking you can send and receive messages (not limited to mail, other types of messages also) run an app, have another app interrupt you to let you know something else is going on (not just appointments or timed todos). If I can get an 802.11 interface connectivity/flexiblity would be further increased. There are still lots of problems to overcome and most of what I am describing sounds very silly but the Palm Pilot provides an simple to use and flexible system to interface to other things. And with the cost of the Visor these devices may just replace the TV remote as a simple device found in just about every home (at least in the US).
One other thing, has anyone noticed that the Palm Pilots are only a little larger than the report pads used on Star Trek?
Having read the article I'm going to guess that the facts are really out of whack on this one. Why would AT&T request that @Home be sold. My guess would be that AT&T was working on a deal where @Home users would be able to directly access AOL from there PC's. The user would be able to choose their web provider (AOL or otherwise). Of course this is only a guess and I could be very wrong. I guess we'll know is a little while (a week or 2 maybe).
In my business deadlines are a major part of my job so it's always noticable when slacking off. My problem is controlling the number of hours and the hours of the day when I work. I can easily take 2 hours at lunch as I will still have 10 hours of work to finish by the dealine.
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I've purchased from Zebra, about a year or 2 ago. The ZX81 was less expensive then ($30) but if the demand is enough I can't see anything wrong with his pricing. I mean has has kept them for a while!
BTW, there is a project out there to build a new ZX/TS version of the Z80 with the latest and greatest technology. I can't find the link but I did backup the notes. Very cool to be able to run a ZX81 at 33MHz with up to 1 Meg of ram (not very useful with the way the ZX's ram addressing was set up).
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Linux Home Automation - Neil Cherry - ncherry@home.net
http://members.home.net/ncherry (Text only)
http://meltingpot.fortunecity.com/ lig htsey/52 (Graphics)
http://linuxha.sourceforge.net/ (SourceForge)
Check out "Firewalls and Internet Security: Repelling the Wily Hacker" (ISBN 0-201-63357-4). There is a chapter called "An Evening with Berferd" where they did just that.
I would warn you that special precautions are necessary, this is something you should think very carefully about before attempting.
One version of the Enigma code was broken before the war. I thought the Polish had actually deciphered it at gave it to the English shortly after Poland was invaded. There were several different versions to the Enigma machine, the navy had one, other forces had others. The SS eventually developed an Enigma with ~12 dials (I think the original at the start of the war had 5 or 6).
Please don't trust what I've written as my memory is a bit shaky (I try to remember the important things and vaguely remember the rest).
I'm a Yank and found the whole idea a bit out of sorts. Hollywood has it's head so firmly up its butt that it wouldn't know to jump if you pushed a sub in it too. They'll probably put a tag on the movie stating "based on a true story". :-/
Ooops that might turn you into a karma whore ;-)
Strange how the the Enigma save the planet (exagerated) and shortened the war (true). The people who cracked it were brilliant heroes (true). But the guy who wrote DeCSS is a criminal and a hacker (oh my god he's one of THEM!).
In todays society the people who cracked the enigma would be locked up, sued, and branded criminals. Ironic, it's all a matter of timing.
Is the memory access switched also? I'm going to guess it wouldn't be. The memory it self is the slow down. You can fly with the computational speed but when you need to slow down for access to memory we begin to lose the speed (I know that cache helps this somewhat).
I know on the standard Intel setup the memory is one of the slow downs (~100MHz speed, though I believe there maybe 133MHz available).
BTW, my particular need is in the area of I/O and prcessing. The server is processing user reequests (usually from an ehternet) and the either accessing a slow speed device (serially attached) or is hitting a network to attach to the low speed device (uController w/ethernet).
--
Linux Home Automation - Neil Cherry - ncherry@home.net
http://members.home.net/ncherry (Text only)
http://meltingpot.fortunecity.com/lig htsey/52 (Graphics)
http://linuxha.sourceforge.net/ (SourceForge)
It's great that we're getting all of these faster CPU's but when are we going to see faster busses for the data to travel to the memory and devices? Then we're going to need faster devices and memory. IMO we are speeding up the CPU's but not the system.
The pages are gone (Mon Apr 3 19:24:27 EDT 2000), when you pull them up (try 2/ instead of 1/ in the URL) they are blank. Looks like the story is missing from Slashdot now also (oops it's back on slashdot now). I wonder who got on their butt about this one (Intel maybe).
:-)
CONSPIRACY!
I've given a bit more thought to the "Home of the Future" and I've come to the conclusion that a lot of this stuff just isn't going to be in there. Such as the toilet (I hope that this company who intends to make this isn't the same company whose toilets caught fire :-) and 'frig with internet access. Now a frig with a virtual view of what's in the 'frig might be a good idea. Keeps me from open the 'frig and gawking. If I want to view the internet I would watch it on the best monitor in the house (or maybe my cell phone, ok maybe not). Now carring on a conversation with a computer about something I'm cooking could be useful (Hal, how much salt did I add the last time I made this....). And maybe some sensors in the bathroom which can determine that I'm taking a shower and the air is too humid. But I don't want a type of vision in the bathrooms. I can see it now, while at work at Big Bad Corp. (don't read anything into the initials I don't work for them) I get called down to security and reprimanded for have the Pot Roast and the glass of milk because it raised the time I spent in the bathrooms from 15 minutes/day to 25 minutes/day. And That I might want to have my colon inspected because it's getting a bit large.
;-).
It'll come down to economics, I can spend $500 (US) for a high quality toilet or $1000 (a guess) for a new fancy I-toilet. When the items get added up for the final bill and things need to get trimmed because I've gone with too much quality the I-toilet will be the first off the list. Of course the projection system and surreal sound system will have to stay and maybe even upgraded, after all I did trim the I-toilet off the list
I think it will come down to this, a lot of this stuff is resolving a problem that doesn't exist. It's a really neat idea but not much else going for it. Fads come and go. The stuff that will stay and work is something that we can set and forget.
--
Linux Home Automation - Neil Cherry - ncherry@home.net
http://members.home.net/ncherry (Text only)
http://meltingpot.fortunecity.com/lig htsey/52 (Graphics)
http://linuxha.sourceforge.net/ (SourceForge)
Warning: I was tired when I wrote this so it may jump around and skip lots of details. For that I apologize.
I think we'll see home automation within the next 10 years. Despite one poster's assertation that no one can not afford a thermostat in every room (bi-metallic switches are cheap, small processors are becoming just as cheap).
Let's imagine my home, you walk through the front door and it appears to be a normal un-automated home. All the automation is unseen, no wires, no buttons, no mic's, no speakers. Lights go on when appropriate (depending on ambiant light) and go off when appropriate (you're no longer there). The home temperature, humidity and air flow are just right (this is rather kludgy in today's un-automated systems). The audio system works via voice or a remote. When you ask or select an item the appropriate devices go on. Choose the TV, then the TV goes on (maybe the surround sound system also), want to listen to CD's, fine, the TV will go off and the stereo stays on. The system will need to learn as it goes but should have some kind of initial programming with a simple to use interface (that's currently the voodoo). The system will know you are there (or out) and it won't need badges or pins. It will be able to select the correct settings for your bath/shower and it will be able not waste energy by heating the water all day waiting for someone to use the hot water.
Other things that can be automated, tracking of energy usage and monitoring various things. The kitchen stove should know when food is going to burn and avoid it, the 'frig should also know when things are going bad and warn about them. You'll have the system inventory items, order stock and bid for the best price (these last parts begin to make me nervous) and obviously security, physical as in intruder and fire, and as in predictive break down. Everything has to have a manual over ride and the system/owner/user has to have a way of checking authenticity.
The problem are many such as internet access but the technology will be available. The biggest problem I have is permitting automated systems to take full control. I really don't like that idea but there are something I want the automated systems to handle. Such as garden watering and fertilizing. But I don't want my home to order more milk without consulting me. I also find it very scary to have my whole home available via the net. I design networks for a living and know and understand most of the technology. My leariness towards this is because the potential for abuse is extremely high and I expect the real problems will be corporations and not hackers trying the gain control not of my home but of my buying power.
Currently there are a lot of problems that need to be resolved before such systems can be accepted. I just hope the hardware/software community can resolve them before the sales/marketing community can pitch them.
--
Linux Home Automation - Neil Cherry - ncherry@home.net
http://members.home.net/ncherry (Text only)
http://meltingpot.fortunecity.com/lig htsey/52 (Graphics)
http://linuxha.sourceforge.net/ (SourceForge)
There is a single paragraph discussing forking without any proof behind it. The rest of the three-page article discusses Linux's impact on the market and how it has been gaining ground on NT and is upsetting the server OS balance. What's the problem here?
Because it appears to build up Linux only to tear it down. Another reason is that if forking is inevitable then it will probably happen a lot smoother than the media is making it out to be. I personally don't believe that there will be a fork of the nature the article wants us to believe. Isn't the RT-Linux a fork? I don't see this as being disasterous to Linux or the server market.
>What about the knife and spoon jokes...
;-)
>Linux may fork, but will it use a knife?
(From Robin Hood w/Kevin Cosner, meant with humor of course
Why a spoon cousin...?
Because it's dull, you idiot!
I'm a little wary of this one. Let's see if M$ has added some kind of contract agreement barring RealNetworks from producing a Linux Version. It might not be a bad thing if Linux were to have support for the M$ protocol but I would feel much safer with an Open protocol also. I just can not put a lot of trust in M$. I've watched them squeeze too many markets in the last ~25 years. This could come down to RealNetworks dropping it's own protocol in favor of M$'s protocol.
It read more like an ad (yet a poorly written ad).
BTW wasn't there some virus called Melisa that pounded the hell out of many Corporate email systems recently. Imagine what would happen with an Open Source OS! My god the tragedy of it all!
We could take such a Virus to it's next step. M$ and the Anti-Virus companies did forget to check the extension of the links. And then there was the mail were part of the contants could be executed by receiving it (I'm a little weak on the details of that one). Now we could have a virus that does more than one thing on the system. It could email itself, open up sharing and permission. Schedule internet connections and attach to ports all from the comfort of email. Nah, never could happen, M$ is closed source. Nobodies is that smart to get around the M$ OS!
There are times when I wouldn't use the Voice recognition and other times when it would be great to have (driving your car, needing a note to be taken for instance). I use my PDA a lot, it's enabled me to carry just it and not a pen and paper. I 'post notes' and organize them from time to time like at the end of the day or just before I leave work. Currently I don't use it to take lots of notes during a conversation (like at work). There I still use my notebook because it's just easier to write without thinking. I use a lot of symbols and such as a kind of shorthand. It's the one area where I have a hard time with Graffitti. Also I tend to add notes in the margins and drawing s (a picture is worth a 1000 words) which is not possible with any computer I know of. If someone can overcome these short comings they'd truely have a product that should sell.
I live near NY, in order for me to work in a city thay big I would need a 40% salary increase (that's just to keep the same amount of money in the back at the end of each month). Now the cool thing about being a geek is that many geek jobs really don't require that you're near your work. I telecomputed for the last 2 years, it was nice but I'm going to cut back on it. I miss the day to day conversations with fellow geeks.
If you're really looking to atract geeks to a place try addressing the following:
1) Cost of living vs salary, a geek's primary concern isn't money but a geek has to have toys.
2) Good transportation system (this area's about to go 100% grid lock in the next decade). Things need to be close enough to get to but not in my backyard (NIMBY).
3) Other geeks must be near by. I hate trying to talk to non geeks about my ideas. They have no idea what I'm talking about. Luckily for me, my boss is going to move me to a research center close to home (YES!).
4) Other places of interest within traveling distance (that's why I love this area NY, Phili, Boston, DC, A train's ride away).
5) Bandwidth, I love my cable modem.
6) Geek toy stores would be nice, but I find the online prices (after I do a good search) to be much too good.
7) Lots of ethnic foods, I don't know why but geeks love lots of different types of food. This area has lots of them, thank God!
8) 7x24, geeks keep a varied time table. I wouldn't be able to handle the dry counties of NC for long. They seem to roll up their sidewalks at 5 PM.
There are probably other things as this is just one geeks ideas and probably doesn't reflect even a small portion of the other geeks needs.
(First the silly question) :-)
Prove your existence
(Now the real question)
How do we get back control of our information?
This is going to sound weird but if I login as user A netscape is unstable and crashes very easily. Yet if I login in as user B and connect to the same pages it's stable. I've already fixed the fonts problem that was causing the jvm to crash so I no longer have that problem. Do a dejanews search, something along the lines of java causes netscape to crash. Search the comp.os.linux.* newsgroups.
.netscape directory, etc. etc. . I also do not use the wrappper file, though I have tried it.
BTW I've tried isolating the ENV and moved directories, tried cleaning out the
My current employer has an IP agreement but it is only for work I do within work hours or on work equipment. The software I develope on my own (out of hours and on my own equipment) is my own.
At one time I was going to do some part-time work at a local Radio Shack. Their IP agreement stated that all work I did, on their time or my time was theirs. So I'll never work for Radio Shack unless that has changed (and I need a part-time job).
That sounds kind of stupid doesn't it? But keep reading it's not as limited as that. For the sake of brevity I won't go into each detail. I think I'll post an article on my web page with my thoughts on this subject (and I'll go into details). See the links below.
First I have a PIIIx (4M of ram expandable to 8M and OS3.3), This is one tool I find very useful. I'm also a home automation (HA) enthusiast and I've been pondering/considering using inexpensize items to interface to my HA systems. I have a gameboy, a TI-85, an HP28C, a TRS model 100 and the Palm Pilot. Each has it's limitations, the PIIIx/Visor has several things going for it. But it also has limitations, one of which is you can not task switch an application. You can only do 1 thing with it at a time (this is not a limitation of the processor, I think). By adding multitasking you can send and receive messages (not limited to mail, other types of messages also) run an app, have another app interrupt you to let you know something else is going on (not just appointments or timed todos). If I can get an 802.11 interface connectivity/flexiblity would be further increased. There are still lots of problems to overcome and most of what I am describing sounds very silly but the Palm Pilot provides an simple to use and flexible system to interface to other things. And with the cost of the Visor these devices may just replace the TV remote as a simple device found in just about every home (at least in the US).
One other thing, has anyone noticed that the Palm Pilots are only a little larger than the report pads used on Star Trek?
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Linux Home Automation - Neil Cherry - ncherry@home.net
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Having read the article I'm going to guess that the facts are really out of whack on this one. Why would AT&T request that @Home be sold. My guess would be that AT&T was working on a deal where @Home users would be able to directly access AOL from there PC's. The user would be able to choose their web provider (AOL or otherwise). Of course this is only a guess and I could be very wrong. I guess we'll know is a little while (a week or 2 maybe).
In my business deadlines are a major part of my job so it's always noticable when slacking off. My problem is controlling the number of hours and the hours of the day when I work. I can easily take 2 hours at lunch as I will still have 10 hours of work to finish by the dealine.