Re:another option -- the Sony U101
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thanks. I really hope Sony returns to the form factor -- the u50/70 is an interesting device, but doesn't have the same appeal to me.
PS: I think the Toshiba Libretto should definitely get inclusion in the history -- especially the earlier, smallest models.
another option -- the Sony U101
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While the article covers the U50/U70 model, it doesn't talk about the slightly older (and kinda hard to get, but still obtainable) Sony U101. I've had one for a while and really love it -- I'm typing this message on it right now. The above linked site is my detailed page on running Linux on the system (which I haven't updated in a while, but will soon, promise). Anyway, unlike the U50, it's shaped more like a mini laptop -- but it's still smaller than some of the systems on handtops.com.
Hmm. I dunno what to say to that except: Quicksilver was damn well very good. Much better than Cryptonomicon, when you figure in things like "the plot".
The Diamond Age I really like in concept, but that whole drummers subplot (no, wait, main plot) is just silly.
But really, you should stop reading slashdot right now and go get Snow Crash, because, sheesh.:)
Is the source of about a billlion and one nfs security holes.
Or rather, it is the source of the NFS security hole. But it's okay. NFS4 (or 3, even) with Kerberos totally solves this problem, much more elegantly.
Everyone's all excited by ACLs, but I'm sceptical of their real world value. The "keep it simple" principle of security can't be emphasized enough. With ACLs, you have to really examine the access rights of a given object to figure out what's going on. With the standard Unix user/group system -- with simple directory-based inheritence -- it's completely transparent.
And, most importantly, I've yet to see one thing worth doing with ACLs which couldn't be set up with user/group permissions instead -- and more simply.
Re:Have to be careful here with music tastes
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Once again, I'm reminded of the awesome Lore Brand Comic (Brunching Shuttlecocks) "All Music".
Re:v6 could help solve some net problems
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Sure, DHCP can do that. And lots of people use it that way. In fact, pretty much all of those Linksys/Dlink/whatever firewall/gateway/router boxes support it...
What do you mean new? I've been getting 419 spam for years which contains links to news sites that support the story. For a while, I was collecting the different ones just for fun, and of the 800 or so such messages I got in about six months, almost 200 have references to legit news sites....
Yes, it'd be good to do that with all computer-related acronyms. That's very important on a non-technical web site like slashdot. Why, in just the few last day's articles, we should have seen:
China Deploys IPv6 [Internet Protocol version Six] Network
NVidia Releases Linux [Linus + Unix] Drivers Supporting 4K [four kilobyte -- approximately four thousand characters] Stacks
YRO [Your Rights Online]: China Will Monitor, Censor SMS [Short Message Service] Messages
Apple: Alpine to Release iPod [um, "Internet Pod"?] Interface in Autumn [Fall] 2004
New Radar [Radio Detection And Ranging] Sees Through Walls
HDTV [High Definition Television] Comes to the Mac [Macintosh]
Dept. of Homeland Security Says to Stop Using IE [Internet Explorer]
Daleks [not an acronym] Exterminated From New Dr. [Doctor] Who
Remember when Excel used to ship with its own Windows shell, before Windows was available?
Sure. And I remember when Samna Ami did the same thing for word processors -- long before Microsoft. And even though Ami Pro was a *way* better word processor than Microsoft Word, where is it now?
Not bundled with your computer, that's where -- and that is the "innovation" that Microsoft shows, and why they beat the competition. They simply leverage one strong market position into another.
Stripping them out is silly -- better would be to note the error and not allow submission until it's corrected.
Invalid characters in host/domain names aren't just an abstract problem -- they don't work with many popular proxy programs. (Squid, for example.) If you want your content to be visible, use legal, standard names!
The Better Business Bureau is a joke. They're not a pro-customer organization -- they're a *business* organization. Their job is to make complaints go away. Any complaint which isn't immediately quantifiable as directly lost money will be dismissed out of hand. And any complaint which does involve money, they'll try to resolve -- as the company's advocate, not yours.
Several years ago, I tracked down a spammer with a clearly fraudulent make-money-fast scam, and filed a complaint with the BBB. They didn't accept it as valid, and the company continued to show a completely clean record.
It's an irony. Microsoft counters the GPL with an even less restrictive license.
Despite the/. summary, the new license isn't really BSD-like. It's certainly a lot more relaxed, but it doesn't let you take the original code and do whatever you want with it. This is all about letting companies ship modified *binary* versions -- there's no way, for example, to make a complete fork.
Were this truly a BSD-style license, it'd be possible to take the code base and dump it wholesale into Wine, or a Wine-CE -- enabling perfect WinCE compatibility on the Zaurus, or even on Linux desktop systems. How much you want to bet that's not possible?
Plus, aren't there still per-copy license fees? Or has Microsoft already done the IE thing and dropped that to compete?
Sure, sure, karma, whatever. It's not a troll, though. The other things I mentioned would be really "interesting technology to try and develop" too -- and also easier said than done.
Sure, I can see how you could basically block a doorway using air pressure. But how's this supposed to _work_ on a larger scale? How much energy do you need to generate the required airflow at the base to make this extend even a few hundred feet into the air? Even assuming that an air barrier would be effective at all.
Heh. "Some sort of air curtain." Yeah, just make one of those and we'll be all set. Also, you know what'd be good? Faster than light drive, and maybe if we could jigger up some quantum teleporters.
This is slightly tangental, but I want to take the unsolicited opportunity to encourage people to subscribe to LWN. This is by far the best source of Linux journalism in existance. Slashdot, as we all know and love, ain't journalism. And Linux Journal and Linux Magazine are nice and all, but by the time they go to press, everything is already obsolete.
LWN, though, provides timely and actually insightful articles, including an invaluable roundup of current security issues and very good articles on the current state of the kernel. Subscriptions aren't that much, and as I can see by the way the site is hard to reach minutes after beeing Slashdotted, they could definitely use the money.
Not only do subscribers get to see the articles a couple weeks earlier than everyone else, you're also supporting an important community resource.
I think they could care less, actually, but shouldn't. Linking directly to sites is the right thing to do. The Globe and Mail can handle a few hits from Slashdot -- and they probably actually want them.
And Clear Channel for censorship too. Sure, they've got plenty of juvenile-level "dirty" humor shock jocks -- but criticize Bush and you're off the air.
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thanks. I really hope Sony returns to the form factor -- the u50/70 is an interesting device, but doesn't have the same appeal to me.
PS: I think the Toshiba Libretto should definitely get inclusion in the history -- especially the earlier, smallest models.
While the article covers the U50/U70 model, it doesn't talk about the slightly older (and kinda hard to get, but still obtainable) Sony U101. I've had one for a while and really love it -- I'm typing this message on it right now. The above linked site is my detailed page on running Linux on the system (which I haven't updated in a while, but will soon, promise). Anyway, unlike the U50, it's shaped more like a mini laptop -- but it's still smaller than some of the systems on handtops.com.
Hmm. I dunno what to say to that except: Quicksilver was damn well very good. Much better than Cryptonomicon, when you figure in things like "the plot".
:)
The Diamond Age I really like in concept, but that whole drummers subplot (no, wait, main plot) is just silly.
But really, you should stop reading slashdot right now and go get Snow Crash, because, sheesh.
Is the source of about a billlion and one nfs security holes.
Or rather, it is the source of the NFS security hole. But it's okay. NFS4 (or 3, even) with Kerberos totally solves this problem, much more elegantly.
Everyone's all excited by ACLs, but I'm sceptical of their real world value. The "keep it simple" principle of security can't be emphasized enough. With ACLs, you have to really examine the access rights of a given object to figure out what's going on. With the standard Unix user/group system -- with simple directory-based inheritence -- it's completely transparent.
And, most importantly, I've yet to see one thing worth doing with ACLs which couldn't be set up with user/group permissions instead -- and more simply.
Once again, I'm reminded of the awesome Lore Brand Comic (Brunching Shuttlecocks) "All Music".
Sure, DHCP can do that. And lots of people use it that way. In fact, pretty much all of those Linksys/Dlink/whatever firewall/gateway/router boxes support it...
Probably. But how is this comment an on-topic reply to its parent? (As opposed to the story in general.)
Dasani is tap water.
Well, it *starts* as tap water.
Meanwhile storing them in a separate database which is available to the highest black-market bidder.
Or probably not....
For what it's worth, not Versign anymore -- they sold off Network Solutions last year or so.
...the new Spam mail with links?
What do you mean new? I've been getting 419 spam for years which contains links to news sites that support the story. For a while, I was collecting the different ones just for fun, and of the 800 or so such messages I got in about six months, almost 200 have references to legit news sites....
Yes, it'd be good to do that with all computer-related acronyms. That's very important on a non-technical web site like slashdot. Why, in just the few last day's articles, we should have seen:
And of course, let's not forget
Oh, how much better Slashdot would be.
Remember when Excel used to ship with its own Windows shell, before Windows was available?
Sure. And I remember when Samna Ami did the same thing for word processors -- long before Microsoft. And even though Ami Pro was a *way* better word processor than Microsoft Word, where is it now?
Not bundled with your computer, that's where -- and that is the "innovation" that Microsoft shows, and why they beat the competition. They simply leverage one strong market position into another.
Stripping them out is silly -- better would be to note the error and not allow submission until it's corrected.
Invalid characters in host/domain names aren't just an abstract problem -- they don't work with many popular proxy programs. (Squid, for example.) If you want your content to be visible, use legal, standard names!
The Better Business Bureau is a joke. They're not a pro-customer organization -- they're a *business* organization. Their job is to make complaints go away. Any complaint which isn't immediately quantifiable as directly lost money will be dismissed out of hand. And any complaint which does involve money, they'll try to resolve -- as the company's advocate, not yours.
Several years ago, I tracked down a spammer with a clearly fraudulent make-money-fast scam, and filed a complaint with the BBB. They didn't accept it as valid, and the company continued to show a completely clean record.
I don't know about DOSemu/FreeDOS, but DOSBox says it can. (Well, for 688 Attack Sub -- dunno if the +8 means anything.)
It's an irony. Microsoft counters the GPL with an even less restrictive license.
Despite the /. summary, the new license isn't really BSD-like. It's certainly a lot more relaxed, but it doesn't let you take the original code and do whatever you want with it. This is all about letting companies ship modified *binary* versions -- there's no way, for example, to make a complete fork.
Were this truly a BSD-style license, it'd be possible to take the code base and dump it wholesale into Wine, or a Wine-CE -- enabling perfect WinCE compatibility on the Zaurus, or even on Linux desktop systems. How much you want to bet that's not possible?
Plus, aren't there still per-copy license fees? Or has Microsoft already done the IE thing and dropped that to compete?
It's a common term. Check out the title in addition to Chairman.
Or check out one of the 3.25 million hits from this google search.
Sure, sure, karma, whatever. It's not a troll, though. The other things I mentioned would be really "interesting technology to try and develop" too -- and also easier said than done.
Sure, I can see how you could basically block a doorway using air pressure. But how's this supposed to _work_ on a larger scale? How much energy do you need to generate the required airflow at the base to make this extend even a few hundred feet into the air? Even assuming that an air barrier would be effective at all.
Heh. "Some sort of air curtain." Yeah, just make one of those and we'll be all set. Also, you know what'd be good? Faster than light drive, and maybe if we could jigger up some quantum teleporters.
I know this is an editorial and all and very light on research findings but this paragraph right here struck me as odd: [paragraph snipped]
Didja read further? That "conventional wisdom" being wrong is exactly the entire point of the article.
This is slightly tangental, but I want to take the unsolicited opportunity to encourage people to subscribe to LWN. This is by far the best source of Linux journalism in existance. Slashdot, as we all know and love, ain't journalism. And Linux Journal and Linux Magazine are nice and all, but by the time they go to press, everything is already obsolete.
LWN, though, provides timely and actually insightful articles, including an invaluable roundup of current security issues and very good articles on the current state of the kernel. Subscriptions aren't that much, and as I can see by the way the site is hard to reach minutes after beeing Slashdotted, they could definitely use the money.
Not only do subscribers get to see the articles a couple weeks earlier than everyone else, you're also supporting an important community resource.
I think they could care less, actually, but shouldn't. Linking directly to sites is the right thing to do. The Globe and Mail can handle a few hits from Slashdot -- and they probably actually want them.
And Clear Channel for censorship too. Sure, they've got plenty of juvenile-level "dirty" humor shock jocks -- but criticize Bush and you're off the air.
Plus, there's all sorts of technology involved -- GPS, satellite phone, and the materials and construction of the boat itself.
But what it really comes down to is clearly illustrated in this bit from the article:Now if that's not geeky, I dunno what is.