The article seemed to say that they were concerned about non-closable access points; i.e., the same security problems we all know about with 802.11. That is to say, they want to make it easy for people who use 802.11 access points on an intranet to have the default installation be secure, and if they industry doesn't do it, the government will regulate them into it. That doesn't seem like a bad thing to me. Nowhere in the article did I see that that providing Internet access was going to be outlawed.
Re:SO when do we get client support on most client
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XFORMS Approved by W3C
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> When, for instance, will Mozilla or IE support this?
That should tide us over until support for mobile phones, pdas, appliances, net-connected office equipment, workflow systems, and other browsers pick up support.
If you are implementing XForms yourself, please do send implementation feedback.
See also W3C XForms, which has just become a Candidate Recommendation (one step before PR). XForms updates HTML forms to be XML-based, and plays well with other standards, adding forms to SVG and other XML applications. There are already about a dozen XForms implementations, ranging from those for hand-held devices to standalone clients and popular browser plug-ins. (And a Bugzilla entry for Mozilla that is entertaining reading, though a link from Slashdot won't work anyway.)
Disclaimer: I am one of the editors of the XForms spec.
You can set up an imap store on a Linux server and drag the messages from the Exchange folder to the imap folder. For that matter, you can drag them back to the Exchange server.
I'm sure IBM's tool is fine, but it's not free (it's got a standard 30 or 90 day IBM Alphaworks license) and the Installshield installer is unusable on Linux -- it looked through every file on my system trying to find a JVM). I posted a note on the IBM site asking for an update with a workable installer.
Re:XDocs has nothing to do with PDF - I've seen it
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It would be nice if Microsoft supported W3C standards like XForms...
Friends and I worked at the MIT Logo lab in 1980, where we did the first mass-market Logo, for the TI 99/4 (though I didn't contribute to it), and Logo for the Apple II (where I did). I then went on to Terrapin, which had originally been started by Danny Hillis and others to sell turtles, and we got Terrapin to sell Logo. I enhanced the Apple II version, and did the Commodore 64 version and we did a Mac version (plus some other ones like C128, C264, and C16 where the boxes never shipped, and some that only shipped a little, like Music Logo). I did Logo translations (with others), in Japanese, German, Italian, and French.
When Mitch Resnick was at MIT LCS and started the *Logo project as a grad student, I was a bit jealous as I'd been working on the same thing in my spare time, but I didn't have the resolve he did (thesis). It's funny, because the idea for *Logo came from StarLisp, of course, which was came from Thinking Machines, which was also started by Danny. The *Lisp stuff was fun, and I've often wished that Mitch would bring out StarLogo so I could play with it again.
I think my favorite Logo that I didn't write was the "1986" version mentioned by another poster -- it ran on a dual-processor PDP-11 / bit-slice machine with a vector graphics display. The drawing was done by adding to a "display list" which the vector processor displayed. This feature allowed Hal Abelson and Andy diSessa to develop some interesting observations about group theory (see their book "Turtle Geometry" ("Turtle Geometry: The computer as a medium for exploring mathematics" by Abelson & DiSessa, 1981, MIT Press, Cambridge MA).
The interesting thing about that version of Logo was that in addition to forward and right, it had grow and spin, which introduced time-varying elements into the display list. grow:n made a line that grew at a speed on n, and spin:n made an angle that turned at a speed of n. With fd and rt, the following draws a star that grows asymetrically. With grow and spin it explodes! Lots of fun taking any random old chestnut Logo program and taking it up a level.
to wow:n
if:n > 200 then stop ; yes, no brackets in those days
grow:n
spin 144
wow:n+5
end
My favorite non-Logo that I did write was at MIT AI and LCS and later at UC Berkeley, called Boxer, which presently runs on the Mac, but might be out on PCs sometime. It takes direct manipulation interfaces to the extreme -- the entire workspace is shown as the screen, and every data item and every procedure is represented as a box, a square container on the screen, and all are inside other boxes. To make a menu, you make a box with a keystroke, and put the names of the commands you want in the box. To execute the menu, you point and click. Pretty simple. There's all sorts of other features, like hyperlinked boxes, boxes that are portals to other resources (web sites, other people's computers, etc.). Look for it someday.
Charles Simonyi didn't just create "a text-editing program that later became Microsoft Word" as the Slashdot story says; he wrote the first WYSIWIG editor at the place that invented the concept, in 1974. Note that 1974/1975 saw the development of BITBLT, WYSIWIG editors, PDLs, icons, and pop-up menus.
See PARC's history and search for "Bravo", or read the summary below:
1975
Engineers demonstrate a graphical user interface for a personal computer, including icons and the first use of pop-up menus. This interface will be incorporated in future Xerox workstations and greatly influence the development of Windows and Macintosh interfaces.
1974
...Press, the first PDL, is developed by PARC scientists and greatly influenced the design of Interpress and Postscript.
The Bravo word-processing program is completed, and work on Gypsy, the first bitmap What-You-See-Is-What-You-Get (WYSIWYG) cut and paste editor, begins. Bravo and Gypsy programs together represent the world's first user-friendly computer word-processing system.
BITBlt, an algorithm that enables programmers to manipulate images very rapidly without using special hardware, is invented. The computer command enables the quick manipulation of the pixels of an image and will make possible the development of such computer interfaces as overlapping screen windows and pop-up menus.
According to the Symantec report cited in the story, the bug in openssl is this which is reported as RHSA-2002-155, for which the the fix is openssl-0.9.6b-24.i386.rpm for RedHat 7.3 i386 (plus some other RPMs for other versions, or other RPMS for other versions of RedHat). Maybe the 'g' build from openssh.org is necessary, but RedHat seems to think they've already fixed in in their "b-24" release.
If you install the preferences toolbar and decide you don't like it, you'll have to delete some files and edit some XML RDF files to uninstall it.
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No DirecTV gets their service from PacBell. I know because I know someone who bought a house which had DSL, but PacBell refused to give it to him because he was too far (12-14K feet according to DSLreports), even though it was already there! So he called DirectTV and they said they rely on PacBell for the service. So he went to Speakeasy and Covad did the trick, though he can only get 1Mbit instead of 1.5Mbit down.
Leonard and Emacs / Richard Stallman and GPL
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Leonard made changes to Emacs on ITS and TOPS-10 when he was at CMU, in order to take advantage of the screen buffer controls (insert line, rather than redraw-rest-of-screen, etc.) on the Heath/Zenith H19/Z19 VT52 clone.
Although as everyone knows Leonard later became a strong contributor to free software, these updates to Emacs he placed under a restrictive license, and vigorously protected his code. RMS was quite upset by this, as were some other folks. Although Stallman's tiff with Symbolics over Lisp Machine source access is often cited as the reason he started the GNU project, I believe that his interactions with Leonard over ZEmacs were an even earlier influence.
So, in some sense, we have Leonard to thank for the Gnu project that he later contributed to.
Here is the earliest Usenet mention that Google has (we weren't all big USENET users in those days -- it was mostly UUCP modem-based systems).
Although Alan Kay et. al. designed the Xerox Alto to use 80% of its resources for the Graphical User Interface (the real innovation -- understanding that the purpose of the computer is its user interface), SmallTalk needed extra memory and used the bottom part of the screen video memory for its stack. As a result, you could see when something crashed or went into infinite recursion.
What if you could get the equivalent of 100Mb ethernet speeds for the price of your cable bill, and got "cable TV" content delivered on top of IP instead of vice versa? Now how much would you pay? Perhaps the same as your current cable bill, perhaps $30-$50-$60?
The real scary thing to me is if media companies conspire to provide plenty of IP bandwidth down, very little up (perhaps even non-routable addresses), restrictive terms of service, etc. on a large scale to replace current cable TV service. We'll be a nation of net potatos, awash in infotainment content but unable to do anything new.
My town is considering FTTH, and I wrote to the planning commission that they should offer the bandwidth to other providers, so that we can jump-start the entertainment services that so many people want, but that the city should provide symmetic up/down service with liberal terms of service to encourage innovation in network services and make our fair city a nice place to live.
Funny you mention Realtors setting garage door combos on houses for sale -- in my neighborhood a house went for sale, and I went on the tour on Sunday afternoon. I saw a Linksys 802.11b box in the window, plugged in to a DSL connection and turned on. I tried accesing it from my house and it was open. There was basically no furniture in the house, so I assumed the occupants had just left it on while they moved out, but your post makes me wonder:
Is there some secret society of Realtors who turn off WEP encryption on 802.11 boxes in unoccupied houses for sale, just like they do with garage door openers, so the realtors can all use their laptops when they are at the house?
Get a $20 USB compact flash interface and use CF cards formatted as DOS FAT. They work on Win 98 and up, Macs, and Linux, and some other exotics as well. (Some old versions of Linux don't support some cheaper USB CF interfaces, but newer ones do.) For extra measure, get a PCMCIA CF card adapter; they cost about $10 new or $1 at a garage sale.
Yes, I use my thumbs on my T900 and I can type quite fast on it, but I found the placement of the number keys and the angle of operation of all keys to be such that I could not type on it. Have you tried a T900 or a Blackberry? They keyboards are much, much better, in my opinion.
Slashdot Mirror
Yes -- I think those Saturn shots are actually labeled Hubble pictures if you follow the link from inside the his site.
The Cyberiad "N" words are such a delight. I've often wondered what they were like in the original Polish.
The article seemed to say that they were concerned about non-closable access points; i.e., the same security problems we all know about with 802.11. That is to say, they want to make it easy for people who use 802.11 access points on an intranet to have the default installation be secure, and if they industry doesn't do it, the government will regulate them into it. That doesn't seem like a bad thing to me. Nowhere in the article did I see that that providing Internet access was going to be outlawed.
See the list of implementations. Here are some highlights, in answer to your question:
That should tide us over until support for mobile phones, pdas, appliances, net-connected office equipment, workflow systems, and other browsers pick up support.
If you are implementing XForms yourself, please do send implementation feedback.
See also W3C XForms, which has just become a Candidate Recommendation (one step before PR). XForms updates HTML forms to be XML-based, and plays well with other standards, adding forms to SVG and other XML applications. There are already about a dozen XForms implementations, ranging from those for hand-held devices to standalone clients and popular browser plug-ins. (And a Bugzilla entry for Mozilla that is entertaining reading, though a link from Slashdot won't work anyway.)
Disclaimer: I am one of the editors of the XForms spec.
You can set up an imap store on a Linux server and drag the messages from the Exchange folder to the imap folder. For that matter, you can drag them back to the Exchange server.
I'm sure IBM's tool is fine, but it's not free (it's got a standard 30 or 90 day IBM Alphaworks license) and the Installshield installer is unusable on Linux -- it looked through every file on my system trying to find a JVM). I posted a note on the IBM site asking for an update with a workable installer.
It would be nice if Microsoft supported W3C standards like XForms...
<model>
<instance>
<login>
<username/>
<password/>
</login>
</instance>
<bind nodeset="username" required="true()"/>
<bind nodeset="password" require="true()"/>
</model>
<input ref="username">
<label>Username</label>
</input >
<secret ref="password">
<label>Password</label>
</secret>
See http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/forms -- and there's already an IE plugin that does it.
http://graflex.org/klotz/hiptop/bot
The T-Mobile sidekick does have a camera. It's not built in -- it clips on your keychain and plugs in in about 1 second.
Assuming 1 MBit/sec Bluetooth transfer, in six hours this device can transfer about half its contents, running flat out.
Friends and I worked at the MIT Logo lab in 1980, where we did the first mass-market Logo, for the TI 99/4 (though I didn't contribute to it), and Logo for the Apple II (where I did). I then went on to Terrapin, which had originally been started by Danny Hillis and others to sell turtles, and we got Terrapin to sell Logo. I enhanced the Apple II version, and did the Commodore 64 version and we did a Mac version (plus some other ones like C128, C264, and C16 where the boxes never shipped, and some that only shipped a little, like Music Logo). I did Logo translations (with others), in Japanese, German, Italian, and French.
When Mitch Resnick was at MIT LCS and started the *Logo project as a grad student, I was a bit jealous as I'd been working on the same thing in my spare time, but I didn't have the resolve he did (thesis). It's funny, because the idea for *Logo came from StarLisp, of course, which was came from Thinking Machines, which was also started by Danny. The *Lisp stuff was fun, and I've often wished that Mitch would bring out StarLogo so I could play with it again.
I think my favorite Logo that I didn't write was the "1986" version mentioned by another poster -- it ran on a dual-processor PDP-11 / bit-slice machine with a vector graphics display. The drawing was done by adding to a "display list" which the vector processor displayed. This feature allowed Hal Abelson and Andy diSessa to develop some interesting observations about group theory (see their book "Turtle Geometry" ("Turtle Geometry: The computer as a medium for exploring mathematics" by Abelson & DiSessa, 1981, MIT Press, Cambridge MA).
The interesting thing about that version of Logo was that in addition to forward and right, it had grow and spin, which introduced time-varying elements into the display list. grow :n made a line that grew at a speed on n, and spin :n made an angle that turned at a speed of n. With fd and rt, the following draws a star that grows asymetrically. With grow and spin it explodes! Lots of fun taking any random old chestnut Logo program and taking it up a level.
My favorite non-Logo that I did write was at MIT AI and LCS and later at UC Berkeley, called Boxer, which presently runs on the Mac, but might be out on PCs sometime. It takes direct manipulation interfaces to the extreme -- the entire workspace is shown as the screen, and every data item and every procedure is represented as a box, a square container on the screen, and all are inside other boxes. To make a menu, you make a box with a keystroke, and put the names of the commands you want in the box. To execute the menu, you point and click. Pretty simple. There's all sorts of other features, like hyperlinked boxes, boxes that are portals to other resources (web sites, other people's computers, etc.). Look for it someday.
See PARC's history and search for "Bravo", or read the summary below:
According to the Symantec report cited in the story, the bug in openssl is this which is reported as RHSA-2002-155, for which the the fix is openssl-0.9.6b-24.i386.rpm for RedHat 7.3 i386 (plus some other RPMs for other versions, or other RPMS for other versions of RedHat). Maybe the 'g' build from openssh.org is necessary, but RedHat seems to think they've already fixed in in their "b-24" release.
If you install the preferences toolbar and decide you don't like it, you'll have to delete some files and edit some XML RDF files to uninstall it.
No DirecTV gets their service from PacBell.
I know because I know someone who bought a house which had DSL, but PacBell refused to give it to him because he was too far (12-14K feet according to DSLreports), even though it was already there! So he called DirectTV and they said they rely on PacBell for the service. So he went to Speakeasy and Covad did the trick, though he can only get 1Mbit instead of 1.5Mbit down.
Leonard made changes to Emacs on ITS and TOPS-10 when he was at CMU, in order to take advantage of the screen buffer controls (insert line, rather than redraw-rest-of-screen, etc.) on the Heath/Zenith H19/Z19 VT52 clone.
Although as everyone knows Leonard later became a strong contributor to free software, these updates to Emacs he placed under a restrictive license, and vigorously protected his code. RMS was quite upset by this, as were some other folks. Although Stallman's tiff with Symbolics over Lisp Machine source access is often cited as the reason he started the GNU project, I believe that his interactions with Leonard over ZEmacs were an even earlier influence.
So, in some sense, we have Leonard to thank for the Gnu project that he later contributed to.
Here is the earliest Usenet mention that Google has (we weren't all big USENET users in those days -- it was mostly UUCP modem-based systems).
Although Alan Kay et. al. designed the Xerox Alto to use 80% of its resources for the Graphical User Interface (the real innovation -- understanding that the purpose of the computer is its user interface), SmallTalk needed extra memory and used the bottom part of the screen video memory for its stack. As a result, you could see when something crashed or went into infinite recursion.
What if you could get the equivalent of 100Mb ethernet speeds for the price of your cable bill, and got "cable TV" content delivered on top of IP instead of vice versa? Now how much would you pay? Perhaps the same as your current cable bill, perhaps $30-$50-$60?
The real scary thing to me is if media companies conspire to provide plenty of IP bandwidth down, very little up (perhaps even non-routable addresses), restrictive terms of service, etc. on a large scale to replace current cable TV service. We'll be a nation of net potatos, awash in infotainment content but unable to do anything new.
My town is considering FTTH, and I wrote to the planning commission that they should offer the bandwidth to other providers, so that we can jump-start the entertainment services that so many people want, but that the city should provide symmetic up/down service with liberal terms of service to encourage innovation in network services and make our fair city a nice place to live.
That's a different issue -- your original question said "2 or more", not "50+".
Funny you mention Realtors setting garage door combos on houses for sale -- in my neighborhood a house went for sale, and I went on the tour on Sunday afternoon. I saw a Linksys 802.11b box in the window, plugged in to a DSL connection and turned on. I tried accesing it from my house and it was open.
There was basically no furniture in the house, so I assumed the occupants had just left it on while they moved out, but your post makes me wonder:
Is there some secret society of Realtors who turn off WEP encryption on 802.11 boxes in unoccupied houses for sale, just like they do with garage door openers, so the realtors can all use their laptops when they are at the house?
Galeon puts the close X's on the tabs and it works fine for me and looks OK.
Get a $20 USB compact flash interface and use CF cards formatted as DOS FAT.
They work on Win 98 and up, Macs, and Linux, and some other exotics as well.
(Some old versions of Linux don't support some cheaper USB CF interfaces, but newer ones do.) For extra measure, get a PCMCIA CF card adapter; they cost about $10 new or $1 at a garage sale.
Yes, I use my thumbs on my T900 and I can type quite fast on it, but I found the placement of the number keys and the angle of operation of all keys to be such that I could not type on it. Have you tried a T900 or a Blackberry? They keyboards are much, much better, in my opinion.