802.11 is the only real threat for now. 802.11 is the only widely adapoted standard. Everything else is niche market or platform specific.
With 802.11 I can take a Nintendo DS with Linux and go to McDonalds, Starbucks, most local libraries and TV stations, and dozens of bussiness and port scan and/or brute force the hell out of the place.
If I find an open platform (it could even be the router) I then have the DS pull every bit of info out of it I can automatically. Then go home and look at my booty, like unencrypted passwords, stored in my handheld. Alterntively, I can inject tojans into the system that I scanning without anyone suspecting.
It been mentioned that DS be done through Revolution. Thats fine and all, but what about the stylus games? Kirby wouldn't play anywhere as well on anything other then an LCD screen with some sort of stylus.
About a year and a half ago I was using GAIM and ran into a glitch. I checked there site and a new version had come out. I upgraded to the new version on my Win98 system. Yeah I know but, the accounting package our company had didn't work right on anything else at the time.
The new version crashed upon startup. The website hadn't had anything posted about upgrade problems. So I went to the IRC channel for GAIM and asked them if there was an issue. The channel had the usual 'Welcome to GAIM' text. Two developers were in the channel at the time.
One developer told me to read the site about and check that channel. Again, neither had been updated. The second developers called me an idiot, and said I should know more about GTK. The GAIM project has just updated to GTK 2.6 from 2.4; 2.6 is not Win98 compatible.
So I asked if there was work around. The next 20 minutes the second developer berated me for asking such stupid questions with the first developer 'Amen-ing' everything he said.
Finally a third developer who came into the channel and flipped out at the immature attitude of the first two. #3 told me the whole story about the new version and GTK. The third developer changed the title on the channel and left to put a note on GAIM.
While that person was away I asked if they have been a lot of problems with GTK for while. I was then told that they were thinking about dropping development on Windows because to many Windows people were using GAIM, and not enough Linux people.
After all that I left the channel, changed my name, and came back to see what was going on. Two more people came in with same basic questions on GAIM and GTK. I was able to divert the wrath of the cruel developers and actually give the people some help.
So there's my horror story with OSS and OSS tech support. I still use GAIM on occasion, but I and most of my friends are moving over to Google Talk
Techincally Firefox is rendering it wrong. The page uses a ton of realtive font sizes [font size="+1"]. The old W3 standards in HTML 4.01 was that no font could go beyond -6 and +6. Naughty Drudge Report doesn't properly close its [font] tags and uses [font size="+7"].
IE assumes anything over +6 is only a +6. The Gecko engine just keeps increasing the size proportionally.
Does the government control what I say?, what I think? Who's next, the Christians, the Jew, the guys who feel their OS is better then another OS? Taken to its final conclusion anything could be labeled hate speech; even a Linux zealot who runs Linux servers and publishes anti-Microsoft hate material.
I use VB.NET and its a message. Ehe programs are huge, slow and can't be distrubuted without a 100 megs of addition binary. But enough bitching, you asked for a solution, here's what I have IMHO:
VB/VB.NET - Good at teaching GUI concepts. A little clunk at some of it OOP.
C# - Its Java with a nice GUI
C/C++.NET - Its nice, but for someone learning I think its overkill.
I would recommend:
Freebasic - Its free and compatible with most QuickBasic code. It compile to Window, Linux, DOS platforms.
Bloodshed Dev-C - Its free, makes small binaries, and actually is a VERY nice gui for MingW/GCC. Oh and you don't have to worry about setting up GCC, it does automatically for you.
Ultra PDF is way to encapsilate any content that can be displayed in a browser(ussually IE) even PDF's. It has the ussual limitations like being Windows only a poor compression (if any).
If Apple tried to go all Windows there would be such a backlash that people would port every application possible to Darwin and/or Open Darwin. Far to many people love the Apple interface to just let it go.
1. Podcasting - I can podcast a show to millions of people and they can listen any time they want with a 10th of the bandwidth and equipment.
2. Preimium/Subscriber Based Content - A lot of broadcastors are setting up commercial free broadcasts and podcasts with all the behind the scenes audio in place of the commercials for a price.
3. Cost - It costs a butt-load of money to set up a streaming server and internet connection that can handle then load of any broadcast. If you use someone else to do the streaming for you, it still costs a lot and you loss control of your broadcast. P2P solutions for live broadcasts just don't work now and I'm not sure they ever will.
4. Laws - Its been 2 minutes since you looked at the the FCC/EFF/MPAA/ABCDEF page. Better refresh it to see what the new rules are. Can someone point me to an update set of rules and regulations for broadcasting is?
Just for the mobility factor you need a way to transmit your message over the radio waves. If someone could come up with a simple way for me to broadcast my message to say a five mile radius from my home to some I would love you.
CB sucks. LPFM is dead (thanks to my church). Shortwave/Ham radio requires to many licenses (see #4).
If someone could make a simple transmitter in one of the unlicened bands for $200, and then make a reciever that will re-transmit the signal into FM so my car or home stero could pick it up for $100 or less, I would be eternally greatful. The exact frequency wouldn't matter because the listener would ID themself by a digital call sign that people would find your station.
I believe you are correct in that solar towers are more efficient. But I think the reason the military is using solar panels is three fold.
First, in the event of an attack it would be drop a set of solar panels into a bunker then drop a tower with steaming hot water down into silo.
Second, a series of panels produce a lot less heater. Without a central source of heat, heat seekers would have trouble locking onto target.
Third the panels would stretch out over miles and work independent of each other. If an attack would happen on one section of solar nodes, the other sections would still keep working.
Getting past all the Micr$oft and Crapomedia comments that have been posted so far, I have to ask: How much will the design tools cost?
If its freeware, Sparkle WILL kill Flash. If its cheapware($99 or less) it will hurt Flash in the short term, and could kill Flash in 5 years(because of the cost). If it cost ny more then that, and Micrsoft's product will just become a niche market like Real Media's SMIL format.
I just scanned through the article and saw they never listed any con's. How much of a performance hit are you taking? Is there any long term damage on the processor or memory? Are you voiding your warranty?
Aren't the Brits (or anyone) worried about cross pollination? What if we're going through a 100 year cycle (which many believe)? We would be left with modified seeds that will only do well in dry climates because bees, wasp, and wind transmitted pollen into the wrong fields.
I can see this happening. Jobs has a much better name in both the consumer and business world. Jobs has several companies that have been producing original products(iPod, Airport, The Incredibles) and making money(Apple and Pixar of course) for years.
Can Eisner say that (Home on the Range, Beauty and the Beast Princess Collect 2 Special Edition, Disney Land)?
My floppy only holds 1.44 megs of information. Zip disks have the COD (Click of Death) and only hold 100 megs on average. The last tape drive cost he $300 and the tapes only lasted 2 years before they died. So where are the sub $200 magnetic media (a price to put it on par with CD and DVD burners) that has a comparable life span and read speed as my optical media?
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802.11 is the only real threat for now. 802.11 is the only widely adapoted standard. Everything else is niche market or platform specific.
With 802.11 I can take a Nintendo DS with Linux and go to McDonalds, Starbucks, most local libraries and TV stations, and dozens of bussiness and port scan and/or brute force the hell out of the place.
If I find an open platform (it could even be the router) I then have the DS pull every bit of info out of it I can automatically. Then go home and look at my booty, like unencrypted passwords, stored in my handheld. Alterntively, I can inject tojans into the system that I scanning without anyone suspecting.
It been mentioned that DS be done through Revolution. Thats fine and all, but what about the stylus games? Kirby wouldn't play anywhere as well on anything other then an LCD screen with some sort of stylus.
About a year and a half ago I was using GAIM and ran into a glitch. I checked there site and a new version had come out. I upgraded to the new version on my Win98 system. Yeah I know but, the accounting package our company had didn't work right on anything else at the time.
The new version crashed upon startup. The website hadn't had anything posted about upgrade problems. So I went to the IRC channel for GAIM and asked them if there was an issue. The channel had the usual 'Welcome to GAIM' text. Two developers were in the channel at the time.
One developer told me to read the site about and check that channel. Again, neither had been updated. The second developers called me an idiot, and said I should know more about GTK. The GAIM project has just updated to GTK 2.6 from 2.4; 2.6 is not Win98 compatible.
So I asked if there was work around. The next 20 minutes the second developer berated me for asking such stupid questions with the first developer 'Amen-ing' everything he said.
Finally a third developer who came into the channel and flipped out at the immature attitude of the first two. #3 told me the whole story about the new version and GTK. The third developer changed the title on the channel and left to put a note on GAIM.
While that person was away I asked if they have been a lot of problems with GTK for while. I was then told that they were thinking about dropping development on Windows because to many Windows people were using GAIM, and not enough Linux people.
After all that I left the channel, changed my name, and came back to see what was going on. Two more people came in with same basic questions on GAIM and GTK. I was able to divert the wrath of the cruel developers and actually give the people some help.
So there's my horror story with OSS and OSS tech support. I still use GAIM on occasion, but I and most of my friends are moving over to Google Talk
Techincally Firefox is rendering it wrong. The page uses a ton of realtive font sizes [font size="+1"]. The old W3 standards in HTML 4.01 was that no font could go beyond -6 and +6. Naughty Drudge Report doesn't properly close its [font] tags and uses [font size="+7"].
IE assumes anything over +6 is only a +6. The Gecko engine just keeps increasing the size proportionally.
http://www.w3schools.com/tags/tag_font.asp
Does the government control what I say?, what I think? Who's next, the Christians, the Jew, the guys who feel their OS is better then another OS? Taken to its final conclusion anything could be labeled hate speech; even a Linux zealot who runs Linux servers and publishes anti-Microsoft hate material.
I use VB.NET and its a message. Ehe programs are huge, slow and can't be distrubuted without a 100 megs of addition binary. But enough bitching, you asked for a solution, here's what I have IMHO:
VB/VB.NET - Good at teaching GUI concepts. A little clunk at some of it OOP.
C# - Its Java with a nice GUI
C/C++.NET - Its nice, but for someone learning I think its overkill.
I would recommend:
Freebasic - Its free and compatible with most QuickBasic code. It compile to Window, Linux, DOS platforms.
Bloodshed Dev-C - Its free, makes small binaries, and actually is a VERY nice gui for MingW/GCC. Oh and you don't have to worry about setting up GCC, it does automatically for you.
Lets take at a couple of points from original post:
Cleanly rendered
* Bots 2 - Text version
* BOTS ][ - 3d rendered
Safe and youth friendly environment:
* Bots 2 - Has a parental advisory on the homepage
* BOTS ][ - Claims to be as safe a MySpace
'nuff said
PC World has a cople of screen shoots. Your domain will be a your Gmail address: http://gmailusername.googlepages.com/
Don't expect this to be like Office live for a good long time.
Ultra PDF is way to encapsilate any content that can be displayed in a browser(ussually IE) even PDF's. It has the ussual limitations like being Windows only a poor compression (if any).
You got a suggestion of a place with reasonable laws that I can host @ $10/month and isn't a scam?
If Apple tried to go all Windows there would be such a backlash that people would port every application possible to Darwin and/or Open Darwin. Far to many people love the Apple interface to just let it go.
Internet Radio is being killed by four factors:
1. Podcasting - I can podcast a show to millions of people and they can listen any time they want with a 10th of the bandwidth and equipment.
2. Preimium/Subscriber Based Content - A lot of broadcastors are setting up commercial free broadcasts and podcasts with all the behind the scenes audio in place of the commercials for a price.
3. Cost - It costs a butt-load of money to set up a streaming server and internet connection that can handle then load of any broadcast. If you use someone else to do the streaming for you, it still costs a lot and you loss control of your broadcast. P2P solutions for live broadcasts just don't work now and I'm not sure they ever will.
4. Laws - Its been 2 minutes since you looked at the the FCC/EFF/MPAA/ABCDEF page. Better refresh it to see what the new rules are. Can someone point me to an update set of rules and regulations for broadcasting is?
Just for the mobility factor you need a way to transmit your message over the radio waves. If someone could come up with a simple way for me to broadcast my message to say a five mile radius from my home to some I would love you.
CB sucks. LPFM is dead (thanks to my church). Shortwave/Ham radio requires to many licenses (see #4).
If someone could make a simple transmitter in one of the unlicened bands for $200, and then make a reciever that will re-transmit the signal into FM so my car or home stero could pick it up for $100 or less, I would be eternally greatful. The exact frequency wouldn't matter because the listener would ID themself by a digital call sign that people would find your station.
I believe you are correct in that solar towers are more efficient. But I think the reason the military is using solar panels is three fold.
First, in the event of an attack it would be drop a set of solar panels into a bunker then drop a tower with steaming hot water down into silo.
Second, a series of panels produce a lot less heater. Without a central source of heat, heat seekers would have trouble locking onto target.
Third the panels would stretch out over miles and work independent of each other. If an attack would happen on one section of solar nodes, the other sections would still keep working.
This is old news, Ghost in the Shell had this years ago. Can't reality catch with anime already?!
If you could narrow the region of the country you're in, it would make finding a canidate much easier.
BTW: Ohio here, will code for food and money.
Email me: tekrat[at]30gigs.killthisreallylongpart.com
I think Duke Nukem Forever would be great on Linux!
Getting past all the Micr$oft and Crapomedia comments that have been posted so far, I have to ask: How much will the design tools cost?
If its freeware, Sparkle WILL kill Flash. If its cheapware($99 or less) it will hurt Flash in the short term, and could kill Flash in 5 years(because of the cost). If it cost ny more then that, and Micrsoft's product will just become a niche market like Real Media's SMIL format.
I just scanned through the article and saw they never listed any con's. How much of a performance hit are you taking? Is there any long term damage on the processor or memory? Are you voiding your warranty?
Aren't the Brits (or anyone) worried about cross pollination? What if we're going through a 100 year cycle (which many believe)? We would be left with modified seeds that will only do well in dry climates because bees, wasp, and wind transmitted pollen into the wrong fields.
This goes along with another post I made a couple of days ago. Jobs gets the job done. The current leadership doesn't.
Hopefully the merger won't affect Pixar's writers. As we saw with Chicken Little Disney does decent computer animation, but crap stories.
I can see this happening. Jobs has a much better name in both the consumer and business world. Jobs has several companies that have been producing original products(iPod, Airport, The Incredibles) and making money(Apple and Pixar of course) for years.
Can Eisner say that (Home on the Range, Beauty and the Beast Princess Collect 2 Special Edition, Disney Land)?
If you don't like search engines caching your content have a script that displays your content in two ways:
Preview Content: mywebsite.com/preview/index.php?article=123544
Display Content: mywebsite.com/display/index.php?article=123544
Robots.txt: Don't look at my display folder
Preview displays the title, a descriptive blurb, and a link to the full content. Display is the full article. Now you get the best of both worlds.
Isn't there a shell in EFI that will let you emulate BIOS? You should just have to configure EFI to launch the BIOS shell.
Compared to SCO UNIX.
My floppy only holds 1.44 megs of information. Zip disks have the COD (Click of Death) and only hold 100 megs on average. The last tape drive cost he $300 and the tapes only lasted 2 years before they died. So where are the sub $200 magnetic media (a price to put it on par with CD and DVD burners) that has a comparable life span and read speed as my optical media?