Of course, it's intended for gamers, but can easily be made into a one-handed chording keyboard to nurture your inner cyborg, if you just...
Yeah, so why buy a $25 gaming thing with 14 buttons when you can get a numeric pad? those have 17 keys, have been around for ever and can be had for a buck at your friendly computer recycler.
What's so different with the gaming pad? why didn't Bruce propose the same thing with numeric pads? hell, why didn't he propose the same thing with the numeric pad section of a normal keyboard?
Micheal Powell, head of FCC, is Colin Powell's son not his brother.
Yes my bad, sorry. However, that doesn't change my point, which is that I don't like it at all that the head of the media regulation agency (a known de-regulator) and Bush's defense man (a known liar) being kin, and on top of that, Bush being good buddy with the corporations that own the media supposed to be regulated by the FCC.
There's way too much conflict of interest going on between corporate America, the militaro-industrial complex, the Saudis and the Bush administration...
I'm not trying to troll, here, but I heard Caldera sucked...
You heard wrong. OpenLinux was the first distro with a graphical installer and a hardware autodetect that actually worked great. It had its quicks, but it was ahead of RH and everybody else back then. Of course, it didn't last very long...
The FCC cannot regulate the entire world - just the US.
You mean there are other countries where the guy who regulates the media doesn't have a brother in a government who lies shamelessly to its people and to the UN? Sounds marvellous...
Well so far Vonage is great. Ive been a subscriber for 3 years and have not recived a single sales call. I belive I have recived about 10 calls that got the wrong number.
Not even a single call from a dictionary salesman eh? I beliEve you on that one...
SCO produces software? This whole time I thought SCO was a law firm comprised of ludites.
I know I shouldn't be feeding the trolls, but...
SCO, aka Caldera, used to produce one of the best Linux distro out there, called Caldera OpenLinux. And also one of the very first Linux distro. Not to mention, a neat Windows 3.11 emulator for Linux called Wabi, that actually sort of worked. Ironic eh?
The bunch of lawyers you're talking about is their investment firm, the Canopy Group, and Ray Noorda. And they're not ludites, they're very savvy lawyers who successfully sued Microsoft and won (well, settled for a ton of $$$). It's just that this time, they bit too hard a morcel with this Linux bullshit...
Yeah right, just for good reasons eh?
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- a great design - very clever shortcuts - decent to great keying speed after training - a real potential to help people with RSI - a manual to teach the user to "key fast in less than xxx weeks without effort" - an absolutely insane retail price - zero chance to make any sort of dent in the entrenched PC-104-type keyboard market
When I was at school, in the physics lab, we had a jar of very fine iron powder that was used to demonstrate ferromagnetic liquids properties. We used to pour a little on the backside of a credit card, lightly shake the credit card to spread it around, and we could see the patterns left by the magnetic record on the stripes (which, incidently, weren't located where the visible black stripes were).
I imagine you could do the same with any magnetic card and a little fine iron sawdust that you could make yourself with a grinder.
When I'm at Starbucks for a few hours, the caffine gives way eventually. Fortuantely the Starbucks I frequent gives police officers free coffee. I'm nieve enough to hope that one of them would notice if someone was taking pliars or a bic pen to my laptop while I was peeing.
Let's see, you stay at Starbucks for hours, you write english like my left foot, and you know police officers get free coffee: you wouldn't happen to be the guy behind the counter would you?
Thing was so insecure that I was playing with it in the airport on a business trip one day and I realized all I had to do was to push the pin inwards and it immediately came off.
I had one of these and they're a waste of $70.
Here's another good one: pick the thing up very very slowly, so it doesn't start screaming, lift it about 10" off the table, then slam it flat on the table, battery down, as hard as you can. The motion sensor will be busted right out and the thing won't peep a sound. If, by some misfortune, it does start beeping, press your thumb real hard against the hole underneath, where the piezo is, to silence it.
These things are crap, honestly. Stay away from it...
We'll give you $1500 if someone steals your laptop' guarantee doesn't apply -- because the process of opening the lock doesn't damage the lock or cable.
After your lock has been cleanly picked, go to your local Home Depot, get a cable cutter and cut the cable yourself. Make sure you make a real mess of it. Then send back to Kensington and claim the $1500.
I have my own system here: instead of learning one or more passwords, I've learned a small formula that I made up, that use the first 5 letters in a hostname and the date, and spews out a alphanumerical string.
On my main box, where I log in often, the script never updates my password and the date is always set to the epoch, so I always use the same password. On boxes on which I log in infrequently, I have a small program to change the password every day, and I have to recalculate the password for the day. It's kind of a pain, but at least I can have accounts of dozens of boxes and not have to remember all the passwords, and the passwords change all the time and resist to dictionary-based attacks.
Of course, if I ever reveal the formula, I'm dead:-)
So I should switch from a fully functional, secure, fast, and stable email client (Outlook) to some pile of shit just because you are having a special day for it?
While we test our pile of shit, could you please ask the maker of your fully functional secure fast and stable email client to disable the feature that sends me spam each time some script kiddy mails you an.exe attachment? Thank you.
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Of course, it's intended for gamers, but can easily be made into a one-handed chording keyboard to nurture your inner cyborg, if you just...
Yeah, so why buy a $25 gaming thing with 14 buttons when you can get a numeric pad? those have 17 keys, have been around for ever and can be had for a buck at your friendly computer recycler.
What's so different with the gaming pad? why didn't Bruce propose the same thing with numeric pads? hell, why didn't he propose the same thing with the numeric pad section of a normal keyboard?
Micheal Powell, head of FCC, is Colin Powell's son not his brother.
Yes my bad, sorry. However, that doesn't change my point, which is that I don't like it at all that the head of the media regulation agency (a known de-regulator) and Bush's defense man (a known liar) being kin, and on top of that, Bush being good buddy with the corporations that own the media supposed to be regulated by the FCC.
There's way too much conflict of interest going on between corporate America, the militaro-industrial complex, the Saudis and the Bush administration...
I'm not trying to troll, here, but I heard Caldera sucked...
You heard wrong. OpenLinux was the first distro with a graphical installer and a hardware autodetect that actually worked great. It had its quicks, but it was ahead of RH and everybody else back then. Of course, it didn't last very long...
I can't wait to find out how Nigerians pronounce "i HaVe A gReAt BuSiNeSs PrOpOsAl FoR U"
Dude, that's so 20th century. The hip Nigerian now says "HELLO, PLEASE PAY US $50.000 FOR OUR 50TH ANNIVERSARY OR YOU WILL BE SNIPPED."
The FCC cannot regulate the entire world - just the US.
You mean there are other countries where the guy who regulates the media doesn't have a brother in a government who lies shamelessly to its people and to the UN? Sounds marvellous...
Well so far Vonage is great. Ive been a subscriber for 3 years and have not recived a single sales call. I belive I have recived about 10 calls that got the wrong number.
Not even a single call from a dictionary salesman eh? I beliEve you on that one...
SCO produces software? This whole time I thought SCO was a law firm comprised of ludites.
I know I shouldn't be feeding the trolls, but...
SCO, aka Caldera, used to produce one of the best Linux distro out there, called Caldera OpenLinux. And also one of the very first Linux distro. Not to mention, a neat Windows 3.11 emulator for Linux called Wabi, that actually sort of worked. Ironic eh?
The bunch of lawyers you're talking about is their investment firm, the Canopy Group, and Ray Noorda. And they're not ludites, they're very savvy lawyers who successfully sued Microsoft and won (well, settled for a ton of $$$). It's just that this time, they bit too hard a morcel with this Linux bullshit...
Can you say "bubbacam pr0n"?
The real question is: are emacs key combinations even possible with it? it's already a bit of a challenge on a full size "normal" keyboard...
- a great design
- very clever shortcuts
- decent to great keying speed after training
- a real potential to help people with RSI
- a manual to teach the user to "key fast in less than xxx weeks without effort"
- an absolutely insane retail price
- zero chance to make any sort of dent in the entrenched PC-104-type keyboard market
IBM's technology department has warned internal users to not install Windows XP SP2 until IBM can fix some known issues
And of course, the first thing that happens is, this internal memo somehow finds its way to ZDNet. Looks like PR FUD to me.
It's good though, at least Microsoft gets a little of its own medicine once in a while...
consortium of Taiwanese firms are to launch a 2 Terabyte memory card
I didn't realize Taiwan too had a Library of Congress...
When I was at school, in the physics lab, we had a jar of very fine iron powder that was used to demonstrate ferromagnetic liquids properties. We used to pour a little on the backside of a credit card, lightly shake the credit card to spread it around, and we could see the patterns left by the magnetic record on the stripes (which, incidently, weren't located where the visible black stripes were).
I imagine you could do the same with any magnetic card and a little fine iron sawdust that you could make yourself with a grinder.
When I'm at Starbucks for a few hours, the caffine gives way eventually. Fortuantely the Starbucks I frequent gives police officers free coffee. I'm nieve enough to hope that one of them would notice if someone was taking pliars or a bic pen to my laptop while I was peeing.
Let's see, you stay at Starbucks for hours, you write english like my left foot, and you know police officers get free coffee: you wouldn't happen to be the guy behind the counter would you?
Thing was so insecure that I was playing with it in the airport on a business trip one day and I realized all I had to do was to push the pin inwards and it immediately came off.
I had one of these and they're a waste of $70.
Here's another good one: pick the thing up very very slowly, so it doesn't start screaming, lift it about 10" off the table, then slam it flat on the table, battery down, as hard as you can. The motion sensor will be busted right out and the thing won't peep a sound. If, by some misfortune, it does start beeping, press your thumb real hard against the hole underneath, where the piezo is, to silence it.
These things are crap, honestly. Stay away from it...
They probably use the bic pin to set the pins and the scissors to apply the torque.
You do realize that the DHS protects its laptops with Kensington locks, right? That means you just won free holidays in Cuba.
-- Signed: John A. <ashybaby@dhs.gov>
sooo... if you steal my laptop, please take the cable and lock
Modern thieves are picky, they only nick good products that have resale value. Kensington locks are, well, kindly left to you...
We'll give you $1500 if someone steals your laptop' guarantee doesn't apply -- because the process of opening the lock doesn't damage the lock or cable.
After your lock has been cleanly picked, go to your local Home Depot, get a cable cutter and cut the cable yourself. Make sure you make a real mess of it. Then send back to Kensington and claim the $1500.
I have my own system here: instead of learning one or more passwords, I've learned a small formula that I made up, that use the first 5 letters in a hostname and the date, and spews out a alphanumerical string.
:-)
On my main box, where I log in often, the script never updates my password and the date is always set to the epoch, so I always use the same password. On boxes on which I log in infrequently, I have a small program to change the password every day, and I have to recalculate the password for the day. It's kind of a pain, but at least I can have accounts of dozens of boxes and not have to remember all the passwords, and the passwords change all the time and resist to dictionary-based attacks.
Of course, if I ever reveal the formula, I'm dead
Instead, the underwriters, led by Morgan Stanley and Credit Suisse First Boston, will get 3%
All very nice, reputable people who really don't deserve to be treated like shit. I mean, they'd never to that to anybody themselves would they?
still just ugly metal boxes with minor variations on a 70yr design but now designed to last about 3yr
Yes I'll second that, my 70 year old IBM still works like a champ...
So /. should stop linking to hardware review websites
No...
or start ignoring their submissions?
Yes, if they link to themselves. That's called journalistic integrity.
In case you didn't notice, this very nice review was brought to you you by a nice dotcom that has absolutely no interest in making you visit them....
So I should switch from a fully functional, secure, fast, and stable email client (Outlook) to some pile of shit just because you are having a special day for it?
.exe attachment? Thank you.
While we test our pile of shit, could you please ask the maker of your fully functional secure fast and stable email client to disable the feature that sends me spam each time some script kiddy mails you an
I've been hunting for a win32 email client that doesn't suck a bag of cocks. Anyone got any suggestions? I'd appreciate it a lot.
There you go.