Uhm, hello. How about a warning that you have to be a _paid_ subscriber to read this article?!? Nothing like following a link, reading the first page, hitting 'continue' and getting asked for a login. I'm sure Biz 2.0 liked the nice little boost in readership this engendered, though. Maybe you guys should ask for an ad or something. Seems like they now owe you one. Sheesh.
No... it is not about rap, given that many of the groups are in completely different genres. It's about someone dictating that bands like _Devo_ "promote(s) violence or illegal activity". Yes, everytime I slip that Devo disc in I feel like beating up a few little old ladies and robbing a bank. Of course, a big part of Devo was thinking for yourself. Oh wait... could that be the real connection?
Does anybody else see the possibility of a 2-bug attack: * first bug rewrites a program's config file to cause mailicious initial actions * shell uri bug causes said program to run Or: * first bug writes.exe * shell uri bug causes said program to run Or: weeeeeeee!
1) What do they get now (binary usage, source usage, source ownership) at what price
2) What will be your ongoing relationship (will you provide bug fixes, future versions, telephone support) at what price.
Make sure you handle both sw and hw.
But, the key thing is to talk to a lawyer who knows this area and understands the tradeoffs between different approaches, especially between proprietary and open source.
A lot of people on bit torrent. It took maybe 8 seconds to download.
Under 1.7, for the first time ever slashdot.org _just appeared_. No waiting for everything to decide how big it is and where it wants to be. Nothing. Site just appeared. I tried a batch of them and almost everything rendered instantly with a second or two from return to in my face. Very cool. Since this is the OS X build, I'm dieing to see how fast the linux build is.
Filezilla -- probably the best free gui ftp/sftp client for windows there is. The pity is that they didn't stick to cross-platform on some of the underlieing stuff, so it doesn't run on my linux & os x boxen. Boooo!
For those of you with access to a Windows box and a Mac OS X box (next to each other is best) try this:
1) Open real.com in a browser on each computer 2) Realize, cool! They've customized it for each browser 3) Download the completely free player
On the windows box it goes like this: 1) Click big orange "Download Now" button 2) When page is through loading, look on the right side of the screen and click "Download Free RealPlayer" 3) Install it. Note: you're never asked for any info to get the installer.
On the Mac: 1) Click big orange "Free Download" button 2) Hmmm... 9.95 per month after trial. Darn it. 3) Hit back button 4) Squint at page and squint and (if you're on a laptop scrolldown). But don't scroll down too fast... you're looking for legalese size and placement text that reads:
Mac OS 8-9.x users click here
Free RealOne Player for Mac OS X 6) Realize that that's two links (and two seperate links) and click on second line. 7) Enter your email address and a password. 8) Go hunh? Why do I need a password to listen to music.
That's when (I)... 1) Realize almost everything I want to listen is also in either QuickTime or Windows Media Player format (both available for Windows and Mac) 2) Wonder why am I working this hard? It took me less time to figure out my iPod (without opening a manual) that I've wasted on this. 3) Decide, heck... I'll just listen to Car Talk on the (get this) radio! 4) Remember that this kind of non-sense is why it's been years since real has part of the software I install when I buy a new machine. 5) Post to Real's site, Car Talk's site and Slashdot on the off chance someone at Real cares enough to listen to why people arn't using their product.
Right now the best Virtual Desktop App for OS X is Desktop Manager. Any number of virtual desktops you can name and switch to with command-option-left (or right) arrow. The end desktops roll to each (turning your desktops into a loop). The latest rev even lets you specify the transition effect between virtual desktops -- mine set to slide, like it sliding around that loop of desktops.
Fast user switching rolls me between users with an effect like it's rotating a cube.
I've got systems running Linux and XP --with MS' virtual window add-on-- at work and the combination creates the best virtual desktop and fast user switching setup I have access to.
And expose is mindblowing. Between that desktop manager, the Dock really only has to be there so you can start apps/sometimes open docs (via a popup folder)/stash a open app to move it between virtual windows.
The three work great together.
But I'm still going to install Linux in some form or another when I get a larger harddrive. Why? Because it gives me a way to try things without fscking a production LAMP box. In general, there are always things that can only be done when you've got access to that OS.
The things to evaluate your platform choice by (OS in general, specific device in particular) would seem to be cost, dependability, battery life, ease-of-development, etc., I suspect B&W Palm devices are going to hit it best with the possible exception of development. There are probably Palm-licenses that sell the hardware combo you need.
You really want to look at getting devices with some sort of wireless internet provider. Write your custom code to every so often check for an internet connection & if found, upload the data.
You should really look at having cradles that mount into the vehicle and ride off the car's power.
And think through the entire process these guys go through to make this fit as simply into the way _they_ work as possible. Or you might find out you've got a lot of custom paperweights.
Pushing the GPL would be wise. There's nothing like cutting costs and getting free publicity down the road as the app spreads and people jump on board...
Why not use cheap intel hardware seems like a really strange question in this context. If memory serves, subs run in the 100s of billions of dollars a unit. And the nuclear ones stay down six months at a stretch. No Fed-ex delivery of replacement parts. You can't buy Dells with 28% return rates. "Uhm, Captin, the computer is down again. Can you tell the Admiral that we're going to have to take it off-line again while I trouleshoot." Don't think so.
The more interesting question is why Apple instead of Sun hardware. Given the XServes were supposedly originally designed to the NIH's specs, it may be that they're the most cost-effective answer to the problem.
And... completely off topic... can someone please tell Mr. Bush that outside of Texas it's nuclear, not nuke-u-leer.
By Call Tracing... if you mean locating where you are when you dial 911, it works like this with Vonage. After you sign up, you go to a 911 Service form on their site and fill in your physical address. They use that to locate which 911 service handles your area. Then you get an email that says 911 service is on. When you place a 911 call, things are dispatched to that address. Assuming you don't typo your address, it seems to take about 2 or 3 days.
Keep in mind that Vonage is not a cell phone service. It's an adaptor hook up to a highspeed internet service (e.g. cable modem) and you plug a regular phone into the adaptor. So, you can take the gadget to another location that has highspeed internet, plug it in and immeadiately talk. But, you then have to update your 911 address.
I was royally screwed (if you totalled up the dollars and the cost of my time, etc., it was thousands of dollars) by SBC over about 6 months a few years back.
Since then one of my goals has been to disconnect myself from the _bell_ & chain. There is no Ma Bell line into my place. My TV and Internet are via the cable company and my phone service (including 911) is via a gadget that plugs into my hub. I just plug a regular phone into the gadget and make all the calls I want anywhere in the us/canada.
Monthly cost? Just under $130/mth for cable/internet/local/long distance. Back in the DSL days I usually paid that or more for local calls and DSL plus another $70-100 for the other stuff. The phone people are at www.vonage.com.
I just had this weird flashed and imagined "FBI Proposes putting Videocameras in every room in America to catch criminals" The inevitable first post might read something like this:
I drew first post! I drew first post! And before any of you liberals spout off, unless you are a criminal you have nothing to fear from cameras everywhere you go. Well... unless you are a criminal or gay or really ugly in the nude or read socially unacceptable books or masturbate or pick your nose and scratch your butt. But, we don't like people like that anyway. This'll finally give us an excuse to get rid of all of THEM.
Slashdot Mirror
Uhm, hello. How about a warning that you have to be a _paid_ subscriber to read this article?!? Nothing like following a link, reading the first page, hitting 'continue' and getting asked for a login. I'm sure Biz 2.0 liked the nice little boost in readership this engendered, though. Maybe you guys should ask for an ad or something. Seems like they now owe you one. Sheesh.
Timothy forgot about all of the slashdot readers who don't use windows. This is Windows-only. The donwload site does tell you in very small print.
And I've either got to deal with an adaptor or ditch that really nice LCD I just bought? Oh boy!
No.
Yeah for the little guy. Great to see he's made good with this.
No... it is not about rap, given that many of the groups are in completely different genres. It's about someone dictating that bands like _Devo_ "promote(s) violence or illegal activity". Yes, everytime I slip that Devo disc in I feel like beating up a few little old ladies and robbing a bank. Of course, a big part of Devo was thinking for yourself. Oh wait... could that be the real connection?
first post?
Anyway... sounds very interesting. I'll looking forward to playing with it myself...
Showed up for me when I went to the main slashdot page. Maybe you need to adjust your preferences?
Does anybody else see the possibility of a 2-bug attack: .exe
* first bug rewrites a program's config file to cause mailicious initial actions
* shell uri bug causes said program to run
Or:
* first bug writes
* shell uri bug causes said program to run
Or:
weeeeeeee!
Steps
1) Write bugs
2) Negotiate with Pr0n fnords
3) Deploy bugs
4) Pr0f1t!
Me glad me not part of collective at moments like these...
Buy the gadget you linked to, disassemble it and figure out how they did it?
You've basically got two questions to answer:
1) What do they get now (binary usage, source usage, source ownership) at what price
2) What will be your ongoing relationship (will you provide bug fixes, future versions, telephone support) at what price.
Make sure you handle both sw and hw.
But, the key thing is to talk to a lawyer who knows this area and understands the tradeoffs between different approaches, especially between proprietary and open source.
A lot of people on bit torrent. It took maybe 8 seconds to download.
Under 1.7, for the first time ever slashdot.org _just appeared_. No waiting for everything to decide how big it is and where it wants to be. Nothing. Site just appeared. I tried a batch of them and almost everything rendered instantly with a second or two from return to in my face. Very cool. Since this is the OS X build, I'm dieing to see how fast the linux build is.
Muhahaha! Take that creaky IE!
... leading cheerleader for in-appropriate php apps
They've got a page of snapshots from the last 24 hours: http://www.geonet.org.nz/whiteisland.html
I can't tell you what he was doing in those (presumably middle-of-the-night) black images. Maybe he slipped out for a beer...
Filezilla -- probably the best free gui ftp/sftp client for windows there is. The pity is that they didn't stick to cross-platform on some of the underlieing stuff, so it doesn't run on my linux & os x boxen. Boooo!
For those of you with access to a Windows box and a Mac OS X box (next to each other is best) try this:
1) Open real.com in a browser on each computer
2) Realize, cool! They've customized it for each browser
3) Download the completely free player
On the windows box it goes like this:
1) Click big orange "Download Now" button
2) When page is through loading, look on the right side of the screen and click "Download Free RealPlayer"
3) Install it. Note: you're never asked for any info to get the installer.
On the Mac:
1) Click big orange "Free Download" button
2) Hmmm... 9.95 per month after trial. Darn it.
3) Hit back button
4) Squint at page and squint and (if you're on a laptop scrolldown). But don't scroll down too fast... you're looking for legalese size and placement text that reads:
Mac OS 8-9.x users click here
Free RealOne Player for Mac OS X
6) Realize that that's two links (and two seperate links) and click on second line.
7) Enter your email address and a password.
8) Go hunh? Why do I need a password to listen to music.
That's when (I)...
1) Realize almost everything I want to listen is also in either QuickTime or Windows Media Player format (both available for Windows and Mac)
2) Wonder why am I working this hard? It took me less time to figure out my iPod (without opening a manual) that I've wasted on this.
3) Decide, heck... I'll just listen to Car Talk on the (get this) radio!
4) Remember that this kind of non-sense is why it's been years since real has part of the software I install when I buy a new machine.
5) Post to Real's site, Car Talk's site and Slashdot on the off chance someone at Real cares enough to listen to why people arn't using their product.
Right now the best Virtual Desktop App for OS X is Desktop Manager. Any number of virtual desktops you can name and switch to with command-option-left (or right) arrow. The end desktops roll to each (turning your desktops into a loop). The latest rev even lets you specify the transition effect between virtual desktops -- mine set to slide, like it sliding around that loop of desktops.
Fast user switching rolls me between users with an effect like it's rotating a cube.
I've got systems running Linux and XP --with MS' virtual window add-on-- at work and the combination creates the best virtual desktop and fast user switching setup I have access to.
And expose is mindblowing. Between that desktop manager, the Dock really only has to be there so you can start apps/sometimes open docs (via a popup folder)/stash a open app to move it between virtual windows.
The three work great together.
But I'm still going to install Linux in some form or another when I get a larger harddrive. Why? Because it gives me a way to try things without fscking a production LAMP box. In general, there are always things that can only be done when you've got access to that OS.
Dad gum it... Hoi probably meant this:
. jh tml?articleID=676806
http://www.aftenposten.no/english/local/article
The way I've dealt with it under both XP & OS X is to modify etc/hosts.
Under OS X, Solaris, Linux, etc., it's "/etc/hosts". Under Windows XP, it's "C:\Windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts"
In either case, add this to the end of the file:
0.0.0.0 sitefinder.verisign.com
Wah-lah!
Okay, so it's stupid. I had to try once...
This does sound like a nifty project.
The things to evaluate your platform choice by (OS in general, specific device in particular) would seem to be cost, dependability, battery life, ease-of-development, etc., I suspect B&W Palm devices are going to hit it best with the possible exception of development. There are probably Palm-licenses that sell the hardware combo you need.
You really want to look at getting devices with some sort of wireless internet provider. Write your custom code to every so often check for an internet connection & if found, upload the data.
You should really look at having cradles that mount into the vehicle and ride off the car's power.
And think through the entire process these guys go through to make this fit as simply into the way _they_ work as possible. Or you might find out you've got a lot of custom paperweights.
Pushing the GPL would be wise. There's nothing like cutting costs and getting free publicity down the road as the app spreads and people jump on board...
Why not use cheap intel hardware seems like a really strange question in this context. If memory serves, subs run in the 100s of billions of dollars a unit. And the nuclear ones stay down six months at a stretch. No Fed-ex delivery of replacement parts. You can't buy Dells with 28% return rates. "Uhm, Captin, the computer is down again. Can you tell the Admiral that we're going to have to take it off-line again while I trouleshoot." Don't think so.
The more interesting question is why Apple instead of Sun hardware. Given the XServes were supposedly originally designed to the NIH's specs, it may be that they're the most cost-effective answer to the problem.
And... completely off topic... can someone please tell Mr. Bush that outside of Texas it's nuclear, not nuke-u-leer.
By Call Tracing... if you mean locating where you are when you dial 911, it works like this with Vonage. After you sign up, you go to a 911 Service form on their site and fill in your physical address. They use that to locate which 911 service handles your area. Then you get an email that says 911 service is on. When you place a 911 call, things are dispatched to that address. Assuming you don't typo your address, it seems to take about 2 or 3 days.
Keep in mind that Vonage is not a cell phone service. It's an adaptor hook up to a highspeed internet service (e.g. cable modem) and you plug a regular phone into the adaptor. So, you can take the gadget to another location that has highspeed internet, plug it in and immeadiately talk. But, you then have to update your 911 address.
I was royally screwed (if you totalled up the dollars and the cost of my time, etc., it was thousands of dollars) by SBC over about 6 months a few years back.
Since then one of my goals has been to disconnect myself from the _bell_ & chain. There is no Ma Bell line into my place. My TV and Internet are via the cable company and my phone service (including 911) is via a gadget that plugs into my hub. I just plug a regular phone into the gadget and make all the calls I want anywhere in the us/canada.
Monthly cost? Just under $130/mth for cable/internet/local/long distance. Back in the DSL days I usually paid that or more for local calls and DSL plus another $70-100 for the other stuff. The phone people are at www.vonage.com.
I just had this weird flashed and imagined "FBI Proposes putting Videocameras in every room in America to catch criminals" The inevitable first post might read something like this:
I drew first post! I drew first post! And before any of you liberals spout off, unless you are a criminal you have nothing to fear from cameras everywhere you go. Well... unless you are a criminal or gay or really ugly in the nude or read socially unacceptable books or masturbate or pick your nose and scratch your butt. But, we don't like people like that anyway. This'll finally give us an excuse to get rid of all of THEM.