Agreed, I just bought an N810 a few weeks ago. I wanted a wifi device to bring with me when I travel through France this May for twitter, email, photo uploads, and possibly a skype/SIP call or two. It ships with an app for the Boingo wireless service installed, it's US$7.95/mo and gives you access to Starbucks/McDonalds wifi in the states and bunch more in Europe. I got my N810 for US$250 with tax, shipped. I like the keys on my Blackberry better, but the touch screen is great, handwriting recognition seems good but I haven't taken the time to train it. The screen/picture looks great. It says it will only support an 8GB SDHC MiniSD card so thats what I picked up, recognized it right away. It runs linux and uses apt for package management.
Bottom line, the touch screen works great for basic browsing and bookmarked browsing. It uses the MicroB browser (mozilla) and has Adobe Flash support. The slide out keyboard is really nice, but doesn't have a number row. It seems to have better wifi reception than my first gen MacBookPro. The N810 is a little on the heavy side and is thick/heavy compared to the current generation iPhone.
http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/ DOC-269012A1.pdf: > With today's elimination of the Morse code exam requirements, > the FCC concluded that the disparity between the operating > privileges of Technician Class licensees and Technician Plus > Class licensees should not be retained. Therefore, the FCC, > in today's action, afforded Technician and Technician Plus > licensees identical operating privileges.
It would appear at the effective date of the order no-code tech licenses will have full tech+code privileges.
Actually I think I'm maintaining all of the non ATT owned wildfire servers remaining in the US. I get mixed responses from people on the voice recognition, it works great for me unless there is tons of background noise. All you have to do is train it once for each one of your phone locations. There are a few things it could do, but the version we're running isn't that new. Outlook integration, fax receive, email notifications, and some various find me follow me refinements would be nice to have. I also run a handful of Asterisk servers and one of these days I'll clone WF's feature set on asterisk. I've been told the final version of Wildfire that got shelved had all of the features I want then some I can't recall who bought them and their IP at the moment. Asterisk is the key to developing the replacement. Supposedly someone has setup a cmu:sphinx server with asterisk that works on a limited dictionary, so thats a step in the right direction. In the meantime we're still selling WildFire service and people are still using it.
I didn't even think to start investigating wine on a mac until after my iBook g3 died and apple announced the Intel macs. I got a MacBookPro back in March and it was not a trivial operation to get regular wine compiled. But crossover is a simple to install as dragging the application to the you harddrive. Halflife 2 works, although I didn't try to playonline, but I did install via steam and it is playable.
I've been toting my ibook, powersupply, mouse, ipod, stereo faceplate, keys, wallet, ipphone handset, a bajillion cables, pens, pencils, and course books in my spire bag for the past 3.5 years. Its a great comfortable backpack, feels like it weighs nothing when its on. They don't make the particular model I have anymore, it fit somewhere between the zoom and the meta. I think I paid $130 for it with some studet discount rate. Its a pit pricey but it will definitely last longer than any of the devices I tote in it.
I would reccomend this brand to anyone looking for a high qaulity back that doesn't scream laptop bag.
Wasn't this the cause of all the PowerBook 5300's catching fire and exploding back in '95 when they came out? Or perhaps that was just a charging issue.... I must agree though that article was very clever in its promotion of the Valance Saphion technology.....Bringing in quotes but no actual numbers(probability) of current batteries actually exploding... I know my iBook battery sure gets toasty, heck the whole laptop and charging unit warm up to well over 100F. But I've never heard of a iBook battery(Lithium ion) exploding.....Maybe they're talking about operating these things inside a furnace, or perhaps on Mercury, or even the face of the sun....
If you look at surrounding evidence that's popped up recently: -Job posting for Windows iTunes developer -Numerous bands are being scheduled to play Friday in apple stores, etc.... -This album announcement
I'd say Apple is about to release iTunes for windows. But I'm never very accurate on this guesses by it makes sense to me...
Why am I using ICQ right now? Because it has a lot of really important features that AIM lacks. Offline messaging, more in depth profiles, and screenname formatting flexability. Sure its not great for wimps who can't remember their ICQ numbers. Of course both the ICQ and AIM clients suck so much I've used neither since I discovered Trillian, Fire, gAIM, iChat, and Jabber. Now only if they'd adopt some of the features that WASTE has, like ambiquitous encyption(although I'm being told that the latest AIM has some sort of encryption built in).
Is it me or does having a localized TLD counterintuitive to the ethos of the internet community? The internet as a place exists without borders and nationality. The only things that people have to use to discriminate is language and experience. Yet on IRC or USENET I'll occasionally have people who say things like you're only disagreeing with me, or you're only treating me like this because I'm >>insert a minority from where ever they are from here. We need more qualitative domain names, perhaps a process that takes into account nature of the material, organization, and language not location like.la and.us are setting the precident for. Domains like en.news.com.slashdot similar to the USENET naming style. The only place that regional information belongs is for stuff like en.us.gov.irs etc....
Sure it takes away a lot of the marketability/familiarity of internet addresses and complicates systems like email but its just a basis for thought.
I go to San Jose State University as a Computer Engineering Major and live on campus. Before I left for school I picked up an iBook. With me to school I brought my desktop, and all my PC crap as well as my Hand Spring Visor (with 4.0 student). Maybe its just me being lazy but I found it much much easier to take notes with pen and paper than the ibook, and I found it much easier to record all of my assigments in the back of the notebook (opposite direction as normal) than in the handspring. If you want to record classes on your laptop I sugest bringing an external Microphone because otherwise you get a lot of great sounding key-clicks but not much of your class. While I've never been asked to turn off my laptop when I do use it the proffessors are lest trustworthy of the few people who have laptops, because they tend to believe that you're playing games or chatting on AIM/posting to slashdot. If you're going to be an Engineering Major I strongly suggest picking up a PC laptop so you can actually run stuff like Matlab and AutoCAD. The advantage to having a wireless enabled laptop mac or PC is that you can go to the library, student union, study area or just about anywhere and work on your 10 page english paper or engineering report.
Debian isn't really as hard as the poster says. While it may take a little trial and error, and you might have to rtfm Debian has in fact come a long way. I got my iBook online with debian, everything working, in the space of one weekend. The trick is researching what drivers you need and compiling a kernel (like the benh fork) before you try futzing with things. While there are a few random quirks with getting linux up in general, like how do you right/middle click, etc...They can be easily solved by doing a 30second google. But I have to say Apple has a history of not liking people doing strange things to their macs, if a live CD came out that made installing linux as easy as installing MacOS X then it would draw some negative attention from Apple I think. On the otherhand when my ibook suffered a logicboard melt down (semi-common occurence on my model) I sent in my ibook with debian still on the drive, and it came back fixed, good as new, with the boot loader still functioning and debian still on the drive.
For a momment lets put aside the cost and feasability of implementation. The internet is the most unregulated open space. People of all nations in the world can generally get access without being hampered by opressive firewalls(yes I am aware of China) and in the western world you can generally get on the net for free if you need to. Everyone can exchange ideas and communicate for free. Now suppose everyone had to chip in a penny every time they sent an email. Who pays for it? The ISP or the user? What about the user who participates in a dozen mailing lists, and communicates with friends? Why should that user have to pay for legitimate use of the internet? ISP prices will go up, and networks will close. Instead of being able to send mail to anyone anytime of the day you'll actually have to stop and think. It'll be like many Cellular providers with the unlimited on the same netowrk rates. People will group with one carrier inside online communities like AOL and possibly even opt-out of email service to avoid a fee increse. Regulation of email in my mind poses the threat of sending the net deeper into the dark ages of communication.
While this might be a cool thing if it goes through, I imediatly remembered upon reading this 2 things. 1.)Al Gore is now on Apple's board, and 2.) Tipper Gore (Al's wife) is very very very big on censoring music. So I'm not really sure if I trust Apple, whom I love the products of with the ownership of the music I love.
I found this: article about Tipper for those of you with no background here.
Actually AFAIK the so called keyboard prints can cause permanent dammage to the "polarizer" layer of the screen. If you don't keep the screen clean(and possibly the keyboard too) then you may find yourself looking at a replacement laptop screen or if your lucky enough to find a place that will do it a replacement polarizer layer.
While I haven't had this particular issue with my iBook, its logic board promptly ate its self this weekend when I plugged in the AC adapter(no it wasn't surged.) I got an email from a freind with a similar experience this weekend also. While the iBook is a great laptop when it works I can't help but think in the PC world if batteries acted up like this, and logic board randomly failed we would be talking class action lawsuit not discussing it calmly on slashdot.
In the passive repeater section he mentions getting better signal by aiming the antenna at the church. In the real world we call this obstacle gain.
-sonic
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Reading this the idea that it could use distributed communication to monitor and control the infection rate triggered the term "Distributed Computing" in my mind. The amount of processing power that could be harnessed by such a worm is tremendous. Even if the worm used a small fraction of procession time from a large infected base population its power would probably be enough to do some good calculations quickly. I don't think the algorithms are ready yet, but imagine if you can use this worm to distribute a distributed AI. Combine this with the concept of virus polymorphism, and you have a virus that could stay alive, possibly undetected in the open, and do some interesting stuff. Maybe I've been reading too much sci-fi (Ender's Game) but couldn't these concepts, which are now very real, be used to create an internet life form if you will. Anyway, I don't claim to be an expert on anything I just talked about but I wanted to get the idea out into the open.
The problem is that by the time you're done locking down the system to the point where it can't be bypassed easily the system is so crippled that students don't want to use it. But if you want to lock the system down so that the users can only use 1 set program then FoolProof is probably the easiest to set up. I prefer however the NetBoot method becuase it gives people more freedom, if students feel hindered by the computers lack of functionality they're more likely to be turned off of learning. If a student has full access they feel slightly responsible for the system, especially if they have to use that computer everyday. I successfully helped run a low-budget mac lab, with no spiffy netboot servers, and no security software. The only thing we ran was Net Assistant to lock screens for lecture times. If a machine got messed up we'd load up the fresh system image we created at the beginning of the year with all of our apps working, and re imaged the machine. The only thing you might want to do is find a way to disable internet services. We had the problem of kids going on line in the middle of lectures/work time when the screens were unlocked and loading sites with embeded midi at full volume.
Looking at the pictures of the big racks of these machines on apples page, I can't help but think, what if I need to go in back and patch in a keyboard mouse, and monitor..Not a fun job. However there is a firewire port on the front, does apple have a utility for plugging in say an iBook on front and running and it as a terminal/console? That would be my main use for that port if I had an installation of these boxes... While there is that DB9 RS232 port on the back there is firewire on the front surly the placement of this is signifigant. Also anyone know about OSX server clustering support? The gigabit ethernet, 1u size, and raw power of these boxes makes me want to cluster them....
I'm a senior in highschool and I "cracked" the "code" in about 6min....The hardest of the whole thing was running find and replace for their base 4 alphabet(I was too lazy to write a script for it), and then punching some numbers into my scientific calculator. I wish some US schools would do this, then maybe I could afford to go to the schools I get accepted to.....
Does anyone have any facts on what type of effects on countries these types of actions have? How much money will this cost Ukraine, how many jobs will be lost in Ukraine. When people lose their jobs they obviously don't make money, and in some areas I can see this leading to starvation. Could the U.S. governments(or rather its lobbiest's demmands) now be responsible for the starvation and possible death of Ukranian workers, only so that they will put tiny little ID markings on their CD media?!
To cool your mini server room try an APC Network Air system, they have really huge expensive ones, and then this one: apc.com. Little expensive, but it cools the room down and takes moisture out of the air. They have a vent duct you have to run outside though, and you'll want to get the kit to hook the dehumidifier to a pipe or something that drains outside, because at.26Gallons of water per hour, with its tiny reservoir it can fill up fast, although it seems like it shuts off the dehumidifier if the tank gets full.
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Agreed, I just bought an N810 a few weeks ago. I wanted a wifi device to bring with me when I travel through France this May for twitter, email, photo uploads, and possibly a skype/SIP call or two. It ships with an app for the Boingo wireless service installed, it's US$7.95/mo and gives you access to Starbucks/McDonalds wifi in the states and bunch more in Europe. I got my N810 for US$250 with tax, shipped. I like the keys on my Blackberry better, but the touch screen is great, handwriting recognition seems good but I haven't taken the time to train it. The screen/picture looks great. It says it will only support an 8GB SDHC MiniSD card so thats what I picked up, recognized it right away. It runs linux and uses apt for package management.
Bottom line, the touch screen works great for basic browsing and bookmarked browsing. It uses the MicroB browser (mozilla) and has Adobe Flash support. The slide out keyboard is really nice, but doesn't have a number row. It seems to have better wifi reception than my first gen MacBookPro. The N810 is a little on the heavy side and is thick/heavy compared to the current generation iPhone.
Sounds like A View to a Kill to me.
http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/ DOC-269012A1.pdf:
> With today's elimination of the Morse code exam requirements,
> the FCC concluded that the disparity between the operating
> privileges of Technician Class licensees and Technician Plus
> Class licensees should not be retained. Therefore, the FCC,
> in today's action, afforded Technician and Technician Plus
> licensees identical operating privileges.
It would appear at the effective date of the order no-code tech licenses will have full tech+code privileges.
Actually I think I'm maintaining all of the non ATT owned wildfire servers remaining in the US. I get mixed responses from people on the voice recognition, it works great for me unless there is tons of background noise. All you have to do is train it once for each one of your phone locations. There are a few things it could do, but the version we're running isn't that new. Outlook integration, fax receive, email notifications, and some various find me follow me refinements would be nice to have.
I also run a handful of Asterisk servers and one of these days I'll clone WF's feature set on asterisk. I've been told the final version of Wildfire that got shelved had all of the features I want then some I can't recall who bought them and their IP at the moment. Asterisk is the key to developing the replacement. Supposedly someone has setup a cmu:sphinx server with asterisk that works on a limited dictionary, so thats a step in the right direction. In the meantime we're still selling WildFire service and people are still using it.
Actually the Darwine project already has a lot of the PPC/qemu stuff implemented.
http://darwine.opendarwin.org/ (opendarwin is shutting down, so I think most of their docs are being merged into the winehqwiki, http://wiki.winehq.org/ )
I didn't even think to start investigating wine on a mac until after my iBook g3 died and apple announced the Intel macs. I got a MacBookPro back in March and it was not a trivial operation to get regular wine compiled. But crossover is a simple to install as dragging the application to the you harddrive. Halflife 2 works, although I didn't try to playonline, but I did install via steam and it is playable.
I've been toting my ibook, powersupply, mouse, ipod, stereo faceplate, keys, wallet, ipphone handset, a bajillion cables, pens, pencils, and course books in my spire bag for the past 3.5 years. Its a great comfortable backpack, feels like it weighs nothing when its on. They don't make the particular model I have anymore, it fit somewhere between the zoom and the meta. I think I paid $130 for it with some studet discount rate. Its a pit pricey but it will definitely last longer than any of the devices I tote in it.
I would reccomend this brand to anyone looking for a high qaulity back that doesn't scream laptop bag.
Wasn't this the cause of all the PowerBook 5300's catching fire and exploding back in '95 when they came out? Or perhaps that was just a charging issue.... I must agree though that article was very clever in its promotion of the Valance Saphion technology.....Bringing in quotes but no actual numbers(probability) of current batteries actually exploding... I know my iBook battery sure gets toasty, heck the whole laptop and charging unit warm up to well over 100F. But I've never heard of a iBook battery(Lithium ion) exploding.....Maybe they're talking about operating these things inside a furnace, or perhaps on Mercury, or even the face of the sun....
-sonic
If you look at surrounding evidence that's popped up recently:
-Job posting for Windows iTunes developer
-Numerous bands are being scheduled to play Friday in apple stores, etc....
-This album announcement
I'd say Apple is about to release iTunes for windows. But I'm never very accurate on this guesses by it makes sense to me...
-sonic
Why am I using ICQ right now? Because it has a lot of really important features that AIM lacks. Offline messaging, more in depth profiles, and screenname formatting flexability. Sure its not great for wimps who can't remember their ICQ numbers. Of course both the ICQ and AIM clients suck so much I've used neither since I discovered Trillian, Fire, gAIM, iChat, and Jabber. Now only if they'd adopt some of the features that WASTE has, like ambiquitous encyption(although I'm being told that the latest AIM has some sort of encryption built in).
-sonic
Is it me or does having a localized TLD counterintuitive to the ethos of the internet community? The internet as a place exists without borders and nationality. The only things that people have to use to discriminate is language and experience. Yet on IRC or USENET I'll occasionally have people who say things like you're only disagreeing with me, or you're only treating me like this because I'm >>insert a minority from where ever they are from here. We need more qualitative domain names, perhaps a process that takes into account nature of the material, organization, and language not location like .la and .us are setting the precident for. Domains like en.news.com.slashdot similar to the USENET naming style. The only place that regional information belongs is for stuff like en.us.gov.irs etc....
Sure it takes away a lot of the marketability/familiarity of internet addresses and complicates systems like email but its just a basis for thought.
-sonic
I go to San Jose State University as a Computer Engineering Major and live on campus. Before I left for school I picked up an iBook. With me to school I brought my desktop, and all my PC crap as well as my Hand Spring Visor (with 4.0 student). Maybe its just me being lazy but I found it much much easier to take notes with pen and paper than the ibook, and I found it much easier to record all of my assigments in the back of the notebook (opposite direction as normal) than in the handspring. If you want to record classes on your laptop I sugest bringing an external Microphone because otherwise you get a lot of great sounding key-clicks but not much of your class. While I've never been asked to turn off my laptop when I do use it the proffessors are lest trustworthy of the few people who have laptops, because they tend to believe that you're playing games or chatting on AIM/posting to slashdot. If you're going to be an Engineering Major I strongly suggest picking up a PC laptop so you can actually run stuff like Matlab and AutoCAD. The advantage to having a wireless enabled laptop mac or PC is that you can go to the library, student union, study area or just about anywhere and work on your 10 page english paper or engineering report.
Just my 2 cents...
-sonic
Debian isn't really as hard as the poster says. While it may take a little trial and error, and you might have to rtfm Debian has in fact come a long way. I got my iBook online with debian, everything working, in the space of one weekend. The trick is researching what drivers you need and compiling a kernel (like the benh fork) before you try futzing with things. While there are a few random quirks with getting linux up in general, like how do you right/middle click, etc...They can be easily solved by doing a 30second google. But I have to say Apple has a history of not liking people doing strange things to their macs, if a live CD came out that made installing linux as easy as installing MacOS X then it would draw some negative attention from Apple I think. On the otherhand when my ibook suffered a logicboard melt down (semi-common occurence on my model) I sent in my ibook with debian still on the drive, and it came back fixed, good as new, with the boot loader still functioning and debian still on the drive.
-sonic
For a momment lets put aside the cost and feasability of implementation. The internet is the most unregulated open space. People of all nations in the world can generally get access without being hampered by opressive firewalls(yes I am aware of China) and in the western world you can generally get on the net for free if you need to. Everyone can exchange ideas and communicate for free. Now suppose everyone had to chip in a penny every time they sent an email. Who pays for it? The ISP or the user? What about the user who participates in a dozen mailing lists, and communicates with friends? Why should that user have to pay for legitimate use of the internet? ISP prices will go up, and networks will close. Instead of being able to send mail to anyone anytime of the day you'll actually have to stop and think. It'll be like many Cellular providers with the unlimited on the same netowrk rates. People will group with one carrier inside online communities like AOL and possibly even opt-out of email service to avoid a fee increse. Regulation of email in my mind poses the threat of sending the net deeper into the dark ages of communication.
While this might be a cool thing if it goes through, I imediatly remembered upon reading this 2 things. 1.)Al Gore is now on Apple's board, and 2.) Tipper Gore (Al's wife) is very very very big on censoring music. So I'm not really sure if I trust Apple, whom I love the products of with the ownership of the music I love.
I found this: article about Tipper for those of you with no background here.
-sonic
Actually AFAIK the so called keyboard prints can cause permanent dammage to the "polarizer" layer of the screen. If you don't keep the screen clean(and possibly the keyboard too) then you may find yourself looking at a replacement laptop screen or if your lucky enough to find a place that will do it a replacement polarizer layer.
-sonic
While I haven't had this particular issue with my iBook, its logic board promptly ate its self this weekend when I plugged in the AC adapter(no it wasn't surged.) I got an email from a freind with a similar experience this weekend also. While the iBook is a great laptop when it works I can't help but think in the PC world if batteries acted up like this, and logic board randomly failed we would be talking class action lawsuit not discussing it calmly on slashdot.
-sonic
In the passive repeater section he mentions getting better signal by aiming the antenna at the church. In the real world we call this obstacle gain.
-sonic
Reading this the idea that it could use distributed communication to monitor and control the infection rate triggered the term "Distributed Computing" in my mind. The amount of processing power that could be harnessed by such a worm is tremendous. Even if the worm used a small fraction of procession time from a large infected base population its power would probably be enough to do some good calculations quickly. I don't think the algorithms are ready yet, but imagine if you can use this worm to distribute a distributed AI. Combine this with the concept of virus polymorphism, and you have a virus that could stay alive, possibly undetected in the open, and do some interesting stuff. Maybe I've been reading too much sci-fi (Ender's Game) but couldn't these concepts, which are now very real, be used to create an internet life form if you will. Anyway, I don't claim to be an expert on anything I just talked about but I wanted to get the idea out into the open.
-sonic
The problem is that by the time you're done locking down the system to the point where it can't be bypassed easily the system is so crippled that students don't want to use it. But if you want to lock the system down so that the users can only use 1 set program then FoolProof is probably the easiest to set up. I prefer however the NetBoot method becuase it gives people more freedom, if students feel hindered by the computers lack of functionality they're more likely to be turned off of learning. If a student has full access they feel slightly responsible for the system, especially if they have to use that computer everyday. I successfully helped run a low-budget mac lab, with no spiffy netboot servers, and no security software. The only thing we ran was Net Assistant to lock screens for lecture times. If a machine got messed up we'd load up the fresh system image we created at the beginning of the year with all of our apps working, and re imaged the machine. The only thing you might want to do is find a way to disable internet services. We had the problem of kids going on line in the middle of lectures/work time when the screens were unlocked and loading sites with embeded midi at full volume.
-sonic
Looking at the pictures of the big racks of these machines on apples page, I can't help but think, what if I need to go in back and patch in a keyboard mouse, and monitor..Not a fun job. However there is a firewire port on the front, does apple have a utility for plugging in say an iBook on front and running and it as a terminal/console? That would be my main use for that port if I had an installation of these boxes...
While there is that DB9 RS232 port on the back there is firewire on the front surly the placement of this is signifigant.
Also anyone know about OSX server clustering support? The gigabit ethernet, 1u size, and raw power of these boxes makes me want to cluster them....
-sonic
I'm a senior in highschool and I "cracked" the "code" in about 6min....The hardest of the whole thing was running find and replace for their base 4 alphabet(I was too lazy to write a script for it), and then punching some numbers into my scientific calculator. I wish some US schools would do this, then maybe I could afford to go to the schools I get accepted to.....
-sonicsft
Does anyone have any facts on what type of effects on countries these types of actions have? How much money will this cost Ukraine, how many jobs will be lost in Ukraine. When people lose their jobs they obviously don't make money, and in some areas I can see this leading to starvation. Could the U.S. governments(or rather its lobbiest's demmands) now be responsible for the starvation and possible death of Ukranian workers, only so that they will put tiny little ID markings on their CD media?!
-sonicsft
To cool your mini server room try an APC Network Air system, they have really huge expensive ones, and then this one: apc.com. Little expensive, but it cools the room down and takes moisture out of the air. They have a vent duct you have to run outside though, and you'll want to get the kit to hook the dehumidifier to a pipe or something that drains outside, because at .26Gallons of water per hour, with its tiny reservoir it can fill up fast, although it seems like it shuts off the dehumidifier if the tank gets full.
-Ryan