Thanks for all your hard work CmdrTaco! I hope/. stays the way it is. Mind you it would be hard to mess up such a simple concept, probably devastatingly so.
Thanks for all the great stories, knowledge and laughs along the way:)
You do not have to add people one by one to the post visibility/privacy on your facebook posts. You can create groups of people and add the group, just like the circles on Google+.
The new design consumes 8KB of memory every second until the window is closed. Looks like objects are not being destroyed properly. It also uses a lot of CPU!
Looks like a market targeted version of del.icio.us to me. Which in itself is not a abd thing as the tagging metaphor works quite well for this type of application. It will be interesting to see if this project has any success.
The zx-81 was my first computer, got it for christmas 1981. The best memory of the ZX-81 for me was the first time I saw 3D Monster Maze!!! This game above all others inspired me to learn exactly how these games were constructed and to create my own. Soon after I started my upgrades with the 16K RAM pack of wobbly doom, that thing cost me some time lol. I then progressed through the following hardware path Sinclair zx-81, Sinclar ZX Spectrum 48K, Acorn BBC Master B, Commodore 64, Commodore Amiga and finally onto the IBM PC family when they finally supported enough interesting features and performance!
Now I collect opperation vintage computing hardware and frequently fire them up and go oooooooooo
A Service that pre calculates/derives urls from a sandbox these urls and then optionally:
Updates the access lists on my cisco router preventing connections to all affected domains
Updates the rules on my linux firewal to prevent connection to these domains
Updates a central hosts file that is compatible with win32/linux and osx which maps all affected domains to some safe value, to be used during logon scripting
During comdex 1999 (the 20th anniversary of comdex btw) Bill Gates during his keynote speach spent the whole session evangelising about how we were going to see a shift in the software ownership paradigm. He was refering explicitly to ASP based activities and at the time said they were going to start providing hosted applications that would be rented to users.
MR. GATES: Now I'd like to show another great new thing that's available online, David Jaffe is going to help us take a look at what we call Office Online, and this is a new way, just one of the new choices you have, of how you want to get at any Windows application.
MR. JAFFE: As you mentioned, that's absolutely right. As you mentioned, another element of choice for users is something that we announced earlier this week called Microsoft Office Online, which delivers Office 2000 as a service over the Internet. This provides even more choice for users in accessing their software and on any device. So, let's go ahead and see how this works. You'll see here that we have a Windows 98 PC and that there's virtually nothing on this machine other than the operating system.
Now, the real excitement of Office Online is that with just a user name and a password, I can go ahead and access the Windows 2000 desktop and all my Office applications via the Internet without even a single bit residing on my local machine.
(Applause.)
MR. JAFFE: Now, one key advantage of Office Online is that users can get the most up-to-date software without having to do a single thing. So, for example, if there was an update, such as a service release, the latest anti-virus software, or even a new expense report template, it can be updated automatically without the user having to do a single thing.
So, let's go ahead and check out our Office applications. So, I'm going to go ahead into Excel 2000. As you can see, this is the full version of Excel with all the tools that I'm normally familiar with, such as the Office Assistant, which allows me to ask my questions in my own words. Now, the Office Online has a number of interesting user support scenarios.
So, for example, say I'm a new Excel user, and I have no idea how to access the expense report template that was previously added. Office Online makes it possible not only for a support engineer to watch what I'm doing with my permission, but actually take control over my machine, and show me how to solve that problem. So, we'll go ahead and have my support engineer actually show me how to find this expense report template. So, you'll see, hands-free, it's going out and showing me exactly where my expense report template is. Now, this is a pretty simple example, but you can imagine the benefits that this will show with even a more complex scenario.
So, now here that we have our expense statement, I'm going to go ahead and fill out a little bit of information, such as my name, my Social Security Number, and my department. Now, suppose we had a power outage and my machine were just shut down without warning. Now, in the past, this might have been very problematic. I would have probably lost a lot of my data. With Office Online, this is not a problem. Now, I could go ahead and reboot the same machine or, in this case, I'm just going to go over and switch to a new machine, and I'll go back and log on with Microsoft Office Online, and I'll put in my password, the same password that we used before.
In just a second you'll notice that the expense report template comes right back up, exactly where we left it. You'll see that all the data is there, and in fact, even the question that I asked the office in this thing would still be there, as well. Now, what makes this possible is that the applications are actually being run on the server instead of my local machine. So we've recently seen how Office Online h
You should be using your upstream SMTP server. This is a great move as it will protect users from the evil SMTP abusing worm that infest Microsoft users.
There is an open fan on the front of the Kids gaming machine. Just right for the little darlings to stuff candy, straws, pens, peanut butter with jelly and even fingers in to the ~4k RPM fan. EEK!
However I have worked with PL/I and do so on a day to day basis. I also know C++, Perl and many other languages. I find PL/I both flexible and fast, It has pointers and other neat things like sliding DSECT. It would be interesting to see a OO implementation of PL/I. Also I wish there was a cersion of PL/I for Linux!
Many of the posts here talk of internet voting. I have read the article and knowhere does it say that this is any form of internet voting. It clearly says that it will validate and count votes at the polling place.
;)
I agree with many of the posts here that yes infact the software here should perhaps be open source. However if you stop to think about this for a moment you would realise that this could have its own set of severe problems. Also please realize that just because software is open source in no way does this imply Linux as the operating system. There are many open source projects available for other OS(es?).
Suppose it goes open source. What if Joe Schmo election official decides that no candidate appart from his own preference is going to win. Joe pops online before the election downloads the source code and makes several small changes and actually makes the thing compile for the known architecture. Looks over the guys shoulder as he installs and sets the system up (after all the polling place is his garage). Oooo look he logged in as some poweruser to make instalation specific changes, perhaps the location of the box... Joe preserves all the configuration data, including any encryption keys (after all he has the source, he knows where they live) and installs. BOOM
What would seem more likely to me is that the software should infact stay closed. This would not mean insecuritys as it could still be given openBSD/whatever certification via NDA
Well I have been unmetered now for 6 months and I live in the UK.
There are many unmetered access providers in the UK now. This is partly due to the initial Altavista announcement. From this point of view it is great that Altavista made the announcement in the first place but on the other hand is sad that it has fallen through:(
The state of the UK's current flat rate or unmetered ISP provider standard and level of service is poor and its plain to all involved that it is infact BT who are holding back this market. They seem to have severe problems handling the increase of traffic on their network. You get all kinds of BT announcement whilst trying to connect to ISPs now.. Things like 'Sorry there is a fault, please hang up and try again' or 'The telephone network is currently busy, please try again later'. These messages are created by the switches being unable to open a new connection, ie the switches are overloaded.
If you ask me BT must be cringing at the thought of the 'unbundling or the loop' that is being forced on them by OFTEL (the uk telecomunications ombudsman). Expect to see the BT stock take a hit and all kinds of nasty telepone problems.
Funnily enough none of these problems affect BT's own ISP btinternet.com........
I visited comdex fall 1999 and was really happy to discover the wireless lan that was available for public use at the Geek Compound. This saved me so many headaches. The first day I managed to use one of the/. machines, all laptops, all wireless. I was able to use the net and check my servers whilst in Vegas. There was very minimal waiting time to get a seat (were they all scared of the geeks;) ) which is cool seeing as they were in the UK and the queues at the email farm and novell stations were huge. The other days I just jacked in my Dell Inspiron using the supplied UTP and chatted away the time between keynotes and sessions I wanted to attend. Great work lads.
I found my experience of wireless lan very much transparent, latency was low and transfer speed was great. For home network, multiple node internet access this must be the solution. After all who wants cat 5 all over thier home/appartment/cellar;)
Slashdot Mirror
I wanted to mod you up but computer says not today.
= No looky
Yes I know I could use chromium/chrome etc but seriously NO.
It's sad because it's true.
Thanks for all your hard work CmdrTaco! I hope /. stays the way it is. Mind you it would be hard to mess up such a simple concept, probably devastatingly so.
Thanks for all the great stories, knowledge and laughs along the way :)
At least you spell checked your post this time! :P
`News for nerds, Stuff that matters'
You do not have to add people one by one to the post visibility/privacy on your facebook posts. You can create groups of people and add the group, just like the circles on Google+.
I have the same CPU usage issue in Chrome. Also it consumes memory at the rate of 8KB a second until the slashdot page is closed, never releasing any.
Hi,
The new design consumes 8KB of memory every second until the window is closed. Looks like objects are not being destroyed properly. It also uses a lot of CPU!
please fix this ASAP
Cheers
Looks like a market targeted version of del.icio.us to me. Which in itself is not a abd thing as the tagging metaphor works quite well for this type of application. It will be interesting to see if this project has any success.
Everyone that is not working for a cash rich corporation probably.
The zx-81 was my first computer, got it for christmas 1981. The best memory of the ZX-81 for me was the first time I saw 3D Monster Maze!!! This game above all others inspired me to learn exactly how these games were constructed and to create my own. Soon after I started my upgrades with the 16K RAM pack of wobbly doom, that thing cost me some time lol. I then progressed through the following hardware path Sinclair zx-81, Sinclar ZX Spectrum 48K, Acorn BBC Master B, Commodore 64, Commodore Amiga and finally onto the IBM PC family when they finally supported enough interesting features and performance!
Now I collect opperation vintage computing hardware and frequently fire them up and go oooooooooo
The urge.com page that is presented that says coming soon or whatever mines ALOT of data about you.
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....
For example this is the URL of an image included on the page...
http://viadms.112.2o7.net/b/ss/viadms/1/G.7-PD-R/
Then there is the little javascript that creates this URL
http://www.urge.com/s_code_urge.js
During comdex 1999 (the 20th anniversary of comdex btw) Bill Gates during his keynote speach spent the whole session evangelising about how we were going to see a shift in the software ownership paradigm. He was refering explicitly to ASP based activities and at the time said they were going to start providing hosted applications that would be rented to users.
The following is cut n pasted from http://www.microsoft.com/billgates/speeches/11-14c omdex.asp
MR. GATES: Now I'd like to show another great new thing that's available online, David Jaffe is going to help us take a look at what we call Office Online, and this is a new way, just one of the new choices you have, of how you want to get at any Windows application.
MR. JAFFE: As you mentioned, that's absolutely right. As you mentioned, another element of choice for users is something that we announced earlier this week called Microsoft Office Online, which delivers Office 2000 as a service over the Internet. This provides even more choice for users in accessing their software and on any device. So, let's go ahead and see how this works. You'll see here that we have a Windows 98 PC and that there's virtually nothing on this machine other than the operating system.
Now, the real excitement of Office Online is that with just a user name and a password, I can go ahead and access the Windows 2000 desktop and all my Office applications via the Internet without even a single bit residing on my local machine.
(Applause.)
MR. JAFFE: Now, one key advantage of Office Online is that users can get the most up-to-date software without having to do a single thing. So, for example, if there was an update, such as a service release, the latest anti-virus software, or even a new expense report template, it can be updated automatically without the user having to do a single thing.
So, let's go ahead and check out our Office applications. So, I'm going to go ahead into Excel 2000. As you can see, this is the full version of Excel with all the tools that I'm normally familiar with, such as the Office Assistant, which allows me to ask my questions in my own words. Now, the Office Online has a number of interesting user support scenarios.
So, for example, say I'm a new Excel user, and I have no idea how to access the expense report template that was previously added. Office Online makes it possible not only for a support engineer to watch what I'm doing with my permission, but actually take control over my machine, and show me how to solve that problem. So, we'll go ahead and have my support engineer actually show me how to find this expense report template. So, you'll see, hands-free, it's going out and showing me exactly where my expense report template is. Now, this is a pretty simple example, but you can imagine the benefits that this will show with even a more complex scenario.
So, now here that we have our expense statement, I'm going to go ahead and fill out a little bit of information, such as my name, my Social Security Number, and my department. Now, suppose we had a power outage and my machine were just shut down without warning. Now, in the past, this might have been very problematic. I would have probably lost a lot of my data. With Office Online, this is not a problem. Now, I could go ahead and reboot the same machine or, in this case, I'm just going to go over and switch to a new machine, and I'll go back and log on with Microsoft Office Online, and I'll put in my password, the same password that we used before.
In just a second you'll notice that the expense report template comes right back up, exactly where we left it. You'll see that all the data is there, and in fact, even the question that I asked the office in this thing would still be there, as well. Now, what makes this possible is that the applications are actually being run on the server instead of my local machine. So we've recently seen how Office Online h
http://yopy.com/engrish/products/yp3700_overview.h tm ;)
You should be using your upstream SMTP server. This is a great move as it will protect users from the evil SMTP abusing worm that infest Microsoft users.
Now someone can code the paperclip assistant!
There is an open fan on the front of the Kids gaming machine. Just right for the little darlings to stuff candy, straws, pens, peanut butter with jelly and even fingers in to the ~4k RPM fan. EEK!
Yes BoA Online works very well,better than real life ;)
Bullshit.
The cart id was part of the link...
However I have worked with PL/I and do so on a day to day basis. I also know C++, Perl and many other languages. I find PL/I both flexible and fast, It has pointers and other neat things like sliding DSECT. It would be interesting to see a OO implementation of PL/I. Also I wish there was a cersion of PL/I for Linux!
Many of the posts here talk of internet voting. I have read the article and knowhere does it say that this is any form of internet voting. It clearly says that it will validate and count votes at the polling place.
I agree with many of the posts here that yes infact the software here should perhaps be open source. However if you stop to think about this for a moment you would realise that this could have its own set of severe problems. Also please realize that just because software is open source in no way does this imply Linux as the operating system. There are many open source projects available for other OS(es?).
Suppose it goes open source. What if Joe Schmo election official decides that no candidate appart from his own preference is going to win. Joe pops online before the election downloads the source code and makes several small changes and actually makes the thing compile for the known architecture. Looks over the guys shoulder as he installs and sets the system up (after all the polling place is his garage). Oooo look he logged in as some poweruser to make instalation specific changes, perhaps the location of the box... Joe preserves all the configuration data, including any encryption keys (after all he has the source, he knows where they live) and installs. BOOM
What would seem more likely to me is that the software should infact stay closed. This would not mean insecuritys as it could still be given openBSD/whatever certification via NDA
Just my 2 pence worth
Well I have been unmetered now for 6 months and I live in the UK.
:(
........
There are many unmetered access providers in the UK now. This is partly due to the initial Altavista announcement. From this point of view it is great that Altavista made the announcement in the first place but on the other hand is sad that it has fallen through
The state of the UK's current flat rate or unmetered ISP provider standard and level of service is poor and its plain to all involved that it is infact BT who are holding back this market. They seem to have severe problems handling the increase of traffic on their network. You get all kinds of BT announcement whilst trying to connect to ISPs now.. Things like 'Sorry there is a fault, please hang up and try again' or 'The telephone network is currently busy, please try again later'. These messages are created by the switches being unable to open a new connection, ie the switches are overloaded.
If you ask me BT must be cringing at the thought of the 'unbundling or the loop' that is being forced on them by OFTEL (the uk telecomunications ombudsman). Expect to see the BT stock take a hit and all kinds of nasty telepone problems.
Funnily enough none of these problems affect BT's own ISP btinternet.com
I visited comdex fall 1999 and was really happy to discover the wireless lan that was available for public use at the Geek Compound. This saved me so many headaches. The first day I managed to use one of the /. machines, all laptops, all wireless. I was able to use the net and check my servers whilst in Vegas. There was very minimal waiting time to get a seat (were they all scared of the geeks ;) ) which is cool seeing as they were in the UK and the queues at the email farm and novell stations were huge. The other days I just jacked in my Dell Inspiron using the supplied UTP and chatted away the time between keynotes and sessions I wanted to attend. Great work lads.
;)
I found my experience of wireless lan very much transparent, latency was low and transfer speed was great. For home network, multiple node internet access this must be the solution. After all who wants cat 5 all over thier home/appartment/cellar
Thanks again Geeks...