I gotta chime in here... I also purchased an N800 and am overall very satisfied with it. The thing is amazingly capable, especially when paired with a bluetooth keyboard. I use the Think Outside XTBTUE keyboard. The keyboard folds up to a size not much larger than the N800. I can walk around with an 802.11b/g capable, fully functional Debian based machine in my pocket, with ssh, vnc, and a keyboard that I can type on at full speed.
To be honest though, I think what really was the catalyst for my purchase was the desire to show my support for companies willing to empower and work with the opensource community, rather than against it (which is also why I purchased a SqueezeBox, another company willing to work with their opensource customers.) Check out maemo.org for a glimpse of the N800 development community.
Nokia even had a program where they allowed 500 active opensource contributors to purchase an N800 for only $99.
PS. Hear that companies? I vote with my wallet and will gladly give my money to companies that embrace opensource software.
Check Point's website has some decent info about the acquisition, albeit somewhat fluffed with marketing. They also have a pdf FAQ regarding the acquisition.
I remember a number of years ago I worked through school doing tech support for a local ISP. When sending out some generic emails, I would change my 'From' address to be 'support@xyz.net' instead of my own 'firstlast@xyz.net'
One day, while particularly bored and feeling I could use a little more challenging job, I sent out a volley of emails to potential employers inquiring about possible opportunities.
Yup, you guessed it. I was stupid enough to accidentally send them all from 'support@xyz.net' which was an alias which everyone, including my employer received. I felt pretty embarrassed when all these replies started showing up in everyone's inbox. Luckily, my boss was a great guy and just thought the whole fiasco was pretty damn funny.
For those of you slightly lacking in geography, UAE stands for the United Arab Emirates, a country located on the Arabian Peninsula just east of Saudi Arabia.
It's only a matter of time before controversial pictures surface showing puppets being sexually humiliated, threatened with dogs, and beaten until their stuffing is hanging out.
Seriously "A pallet is a wooden or plastic platform that can be picked up using a forklift; palletized cargo is cargo placed on a pallet, which is how Newegg's inventory is shipped to them." is considered a story?
Now, now- don't be so quick to judge.
I found the statement, 'the automated box maker makes a lot of boxes' to be quite insightful.
It looks to me like Castle Technologies just happens to sell machines which have RISC OS on them. One of many companies in the UK. Wouldn't the company in violation be RISCOS Ltd?
It would go to the state where the buyer resides. Sales tax is, essentially, a 'use tax'. That's why when you buy a car accross state lines, you don't pay sales tax at the time of purchase. You pay the tax when you register the car at the location where it will be used.
I've worked in PC repair, and I'd like you to show me a single shop out there that doesn't make you sign a nice long release of liability saying "No matter what happens to your data, it isn't our problem"
Last issue of 2600 magazine had a four page article dedicated to the art of dumpster diving. Best advice: Bring a bunch of empty boxes in your car, that way, you can tell a police officer that you are helping a friend move, and your just looking for more empty boxes.
Your talking about an agency which tried to get a backdoor placed into Phil Zimmermann's PGP. Even if they did try to protect the information, there is not way they would do anything which would impede their ability to extract every bit on just a whim. 'Encrypting the data' would just be a PR stunt.
As an employee of Terra Soft I thought I'd let you know a little tidbit of information. Our server, which is handling the/.ing just fine (and has an uptime of 248 days) is actually running 200MHz slower than these Boxer systems. It is an old Beige G3 tower running at 400MHz with 640megs of ram, of course running Yellow Dog, and it has handled a good deal of/. submissions, without so much as blinking.
processor : 0 cpu : 740/750 temperature : 28-31 C (uncalibrated) clock : 400MHz revision : 2.2 (pvr 0008 0202) bogomips : 801.17
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Microsoft, you're a, you, ah, you're such a bad company. Like all the way through to your core.
Are beer sales up?
I gotta chime in here... I also purchased an N800 and am overall very satisfied with it. The thing is amazingly capable, especially when paired with a bluetooth keyboard. I use the Think Outside XTBTUE keyboard. The keyboard folds up to a size not much larger than the N800. I can walk around with an 802.11b/g capable, fully functional Debian based machine in my pocket, with ssh, vnc, and a keyboard that I can type on at full speed.
To be honest though, I think what really was the catalyst for my purchase was the desire to show my support for companies willing to empower and work with the opensource community, rather than against it (which is also why I purchased a SqueezeBox, another company willing to work with their opensource customers.) Check out maemo.org for a glimpse of the N800 development community.
Nokia even had a program where they allowed 500 active opensource contributors to purchase an N800 for only $99.
PS. Hear that companies? I vote with my wallet and will gladly give my money to companies that embrace opensource software.
Wouldn't creating a Polish version fall under localisation?
You should see what Bush had to say about the global warming news.
Check Point's website has some decent info about the acquisition, albeit somewhat fluffed with marketing. They also have a pdf FAQ regarding the acquisition.
I found a pretty good analysis of the various editions.
I remember a number of years ago I worked through school doing tech support for a local ISP. When sending out some generic emails, I would change my 'From' address to be 'support@xyz.net' instead of my own 'firstlast@xyz.net'
One day, while particularly bored and feeling I could use a little more challenging job, I sent out a volley of emails to potential employers inquiring about possible opportunities.
Yup, you guessed it. I was stupid enough to accidentally send them all from 'support@xyz.net' which was an alias which everyone, including my employer received. I felt pretty embarrassed when all these replies started showing up in everyone's inbox. Luckily, my boss was a great guy and just thought the whole fiasco was pretty damn funny.
For those of you slightly lacking in geography, UAE stands for the United Arab Emirates, a country located on the Arabian Peninsula just east of Saudi Arabia.
It's only a matter of time before controversial pictures surface showing puppets being sexually humiliated, threatened with dogs, and beaten until their stuffing is hanging out.
Seriously "A pallet is a wooden or plastic platform that can be picked up using a forklift; palletized cargo is cargo placed on a pallet, which is how Newegg's inventory is shipped to them." is considered a story?
Now, now- don't be so quick to judge.
I found the statement, 'the automated box maker makes a lot of boxes' to be quite insightful.
If you're interested in the subject, check out Klaus-Peter Zauner's publication: Robot Control: From Silicon Circuitry to Cells
I was wondering why craigslist added the following text to all their housing related pages:
Fair Housing Is Everyone's Right
Stating a discriminatory preference in a housing post is illegal
When making any posting on craigslist, you must comply with section 3604(c) of the Federal Fair Housing Act.
This reminds me of something my biology teacher told me in high school:
HIV is very easy to kill. Anyone with a bottle of Clorox has a powerful tool for killing all variants of HIV.
The hard part is killing it without killing or damaging other tissues.
The ratio of SUV's to cars found upside down in the ditch is much greater than the ratio of SUV's to cars on the road.
Growing up in the mountains of Colorado I can't tell you how amazingly consistent it is:
Snow = SUV's (often with Texas plates) upside down on the side of the road. Every storm.
SUV's provide the lethal combination of a high center of gravity and a false sense of security.
It looks to me like Castle Technologies just happens to sell machines which have RISC OS on them. One of many companies in the UK.
Wouldn't the company in violation be RISCOS Ltd?
It would go to the state where the buyer resides. Sales tax is, essentially, a 'use tax'. That's why when you buy a car accross state lines, you don't pay sales tax at the time of purchase. You pay the tax when you register the car at the location where it will be used.
Didn't Al Gore invent the telegraph?
I've worked in PC repair, and I'd like you to show me a single shop out there that doesn't make you sign a nice long release of liability saying "No matter what happens to your data, it isn't our problem"
Last issue of 2600 magazine had a four page article dedicated to the art of dumpster diving. Best advice: Bring a bunch of empty boxes in your car, that way, you can tell a police officer that you are helping a friend move, and your just looking for more empty boxes.
Your talking about an agency which tried to get a backdoor placed into Phil Zimmermann's PGP. Even if they did try to protect the information, there is not way they would do anything which would impede their ability to extract every bit on just a whim. 'Encrypting the data' would just be a PR stunt.
Maybe we can remove all that useless fiber, and use the conduits as oil pipelines, to move oil around the country...
(many of the pipes were originally burried with the intention of creating an oil backbone for the country, an idea, which never took off.)
Weird. A link in the story description to a reply to that same story...
Hmmm... But... but.... *head explodes*
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