Well, I work for a company that has been developing an application that runs on AXP that I would consider somewhat interesting.
In Germany they have mandated a decentralised health care IT infrastructure that enables people to store and manage identity (X509 certificates) and health related information on a smartcard (think ePrescription, HMO contract data, emergency data).
This system has rather hard requirements to security that involve among other things a sort of dedicated hardware platform that mediates between patient and doctor smartcards and a secure backend.
Since the CISCO ISR brings with it the entire network stack and it has this AXP platform for deploying applications on Linux, it's a pretty good match. We write our software in Java, expose a web service to the doctor/pharmacy system, talk to card readers in the LAN and establish VPN tunnels to the backend.
Since you have a dedicated hardware box doing this with a certified firewall, hardened Linux and a certified application stack you are able to provide a pretty robust device that has near-zero maintenance overhead. You drop it in the physician's network, do an initial setup and then forget about it.
I can't say for sure that NetOffice supports everything that you mention, but it's a free, PHP+MySQL based project management app that has at least most of what you mention. All the task properties, the task dependencies and reporting capabilities.
At work we've been using Mantis (awesome tool) for bug-tracking but we're about to start using NetOffice for Project and Task management, it has a nice bottom up approach (different from something like MS Project) and it's a breeze to set up.
That's an interesting point; I was completely unaware of this, but Pentium M processors have rather impressive performance. They have always been marketed as The Mobile Solution, in their Centrino package, but I could never get a handle on how I should compare these processors to say plain old Pentium 4.
Turns out they do rather well. I have a Pentium 4 3Ghz machine with HyperThreading support at work, a standard Dell machine. By now a year old or so. Along comes a colleague with a _laptop_ with a Pentium M 2.13Ghz processor. I install part of our software on it and then notice that a particulary processor bound piece of it runs 3 times faster than on my machine! This thing solidly beats my desktop development machine. Ouch.
Some digging around on the web uncovered that these babies are indeed competitive with a 3.4Ghz (even 3.6Ghz?) P4 AND they suck a lot less power.
I can not understand why they don't market these things more, they look like a great desktop architecture.
Ah but he doesn't. Log onto iTunes that is. Someone logs on with a legitimate account and then he reverse engineers some protocols/crypto/specs producing a tool that is _capable_ of logging onto iTunes.
Assuming (and I wouldn't even dare to hazard whether this is or isn't so) it is illegal to acces iTunes with "unauthorized" software they'd need to have a log of _him_ connecting to the service. As for "breaching" his contract with iTunes, who says he actually engaged in one by making use of their services.
It's like someone built a very large wall with 1 door in it, offering a service to people who want to look at what's behind the wall and making those people use that door (i.e. Apple). Then someone else comes around, looks at the wall (or listens to stories of people describing the wall) and says: "Well, here is this periscope like contraption, that you can use to look over the wall if you should choose to."
First, my sympathy, I was dealing with this exact same issue 2 days ago.
After some searching I came to the Thunderbird FAQ that says: "you can import your Mozilla Mail settings", but it doesn't say how. It turns out that ONCE during after the install of Thunderbird you get an option to import settings from Mozilla Mail, but the option then disappears from the "Import" dialog box.
The solution is to open the Thunderbird Profile manager (on windows it's a shortcut in the Thunderbird Start Menu group) and delete your Profile. (be sure that you don't have any data in that profile you need to maintain, back it up) If you now start Thunderbird it'll ask you if you want to import settings from Mozilla Mail. Works like a charm.
But, it's possible that it won't actually ask this; in that case, close Thunderbird, go to the file system (windows explorer) and navigate to:
c:\Documents and Settings\[username]\Application Data\Thunderbird\ and delete the file profiles.ini and registry.dat . This will effectively erase all knowledge that Thunderbird has about your profile.
Start Thunderbird again and it should ask you if you want to import Mozilla Mail settings and email.
Obviously they should just give you this option on the Import dialog of Thunderbird, who knows why they opted to leave it out there.
I find the Open File Dialog to be one of the best features of Gnome (2.8) currently. I actually miss it when I'm on Windows.
The buttons representing the current path are sheer genious. The shortcut list is convenient and it's easy to update with new locations.
I gather from the 2.9 screenshots they're adding find-as-you-type; I'll reserve judgement until I've tried it but if they handle the focus issue well it should be a boon.
This is something that has always bugged me as well. Over here in Belgium "liberal" is used to designate those who promote business, the ones that are on the other side of the socialists as it were when it comes to the economy, employment. This struck me as weird because the word itself has a Latin root that means free. This didn't jive with this whole business-capitalism spiel.
Then, by chance, I happened upon a very interesting article by Phil Agre: http://polaris.gseis.ucla.edu/pagre/conservatism.h tml. It's called "What is conservatism and what is wrong with it?". It actually goes into the history of how language was coopted and twisted into artificial meaning. It's long but definitely worth a read.
The licensing issue is probably the reason this isn't Europe-wide, I don't think your second point is valid at all.
Everyone has credit cards over here and as for making pan-European (or global) shopping sites? See Amazon. In fact, Apple already has a good deal of online shops available (selling hardware and software) in countries other than the UK, Germany and France.
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Don't be sorry, you hit the nail on the head.
During the cold war it was the "Red Menace" that the government used as a scarecrow to make people swallow ever expanding defense budgets and intrusions on their privacy. Then came Reagan, the "Red Menace" wasn't a believable bogeyman anymore (not that it ever was, but that's propaganda for you) so it became "The War Against Drugs" and now it's Terrorists.
Which is rather ironic actually, considering the atrocities US troops have committed in the last few decades (all in the name of world peace) we can safely regard the US as one of the greatest Terrorist aggressors in the world.
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Well, I work for a company that has been developing an application that runs on AXP that I would consider somewhat interesting.
In Germany they have mandated a decentralised health care IT infrastructure that enables people to store and manage identity (X509 certificates) and health related information on a smartcard (think ePrescription, HMO contract data, emergency data).
This system has rather hard requirements to security that involve among other things a sort of dedicated hardware platform that mediates between patient and doctor smartcards and a secure backend.
Since the CISCO ISR brings with it the entire network stack and it has this AXP platform for deploying applications on Linux, it's a pretty good match. We write our software in Java, expose a web service to the doctor/pharmacy system, talk to card readers in the LAN and establish VPN tunnels to the backend.
Since you have a dedicated hardware box doing this with a certified firewall, hardened Linux and a certified application stack you are able to provide a pretty robust device that has near-zero maintenance overhead. You drop it in the physician's network, do an initial setup and then forget about it.
The only link I can come up with on the fly is this marketroid page that lists our "solution".
At work we've been using Mantis (awesome tool) for bug-tracking but we're about to start using NetOffice for Project and Task management, it has a nice bottom up approach (different from something like MS Project) and it's a breeze to set up.
It's worth checking out.
Turns out they do rather well. I have a Pentium 4 3Ghz machine with HyperThreading support at work, a standard Dell machine. By now a year old or so. Along comes a colleague with a _laptop_ with a Pentium M 2.13Ghz processor. I install part of our software on it and then notice that a particulary processor bound piece of it runs 3 times faster than on my machine! This thing solidly beats my desktop development machine. Ouch.
Some digging around on the web uncovered that these babies are indeed competitive with a 3.4Ghz (even 3.6Ghz?) P4 AND they suck a lot less power.
I can not understand why they don't market these things more, they look like a great desktop architecture.
Assuming (and I wouldn't even dare to hazard whether this is or isn't so) it is illegal to acces iTunes with "unauthorized" software they'd need to have a log of _him_ connecting to the service. As for "breaching" his contract with iTunes, who says he actually engaged in one by making use of their services.
It's like someone built a very large wall with 1 door in it, offering a service to people who want to look at what's behind the wall and making those people use that door (i.e. Apple). Then someone else comes around, looks at the wall (or listens to stories of people describing the wall) and says: "Well, here is this periscope like contraption, that you can use to look over the wall if you should choose to."
But of course, IANAL.
After some searching I came to the Thunderbird FAQ that says: "you can import your Mozilla Mail settings", but it doesn't say how. It turns out that ONCE during after the install of Thunderbird you get an option to import settings from Mozilla Mail, but the option then disappears from the "Import" dialog box.
The solution is to open the Thunderbird Profile manager (on windows it's a shortcut in the Thunderbird Start Menu group) and delete your Profile. (be sure that you don't have any data in that profile you need to maintain, back it up) If you now start Thunderbird it'll ask you if you want to import settings from Mozilla Mail. Works like a charm.
But, it's possible that it won't actually ask this; in that case, close Thunderbird, go to the file system (windows explorer) and navigate to:
c:\Documents and Settings\[username]\Application Data\Thunderbird\ and delete the file profiles.ini and registry.dat . This will effectively erase all knowledge that Thunderbird has about your profile.
Start Thunderbird again and it should ask you if you want to import Mozilla Mail settings and email.
Obviously they should just give you this option on the Import dialog of Thunderbird, who knows why they opted to leave it out there.
The buttons representing the current path are sheer genious. The shortcut list is convenient and it's easy to update with new locations.
I gather from the 2.9 screenshots they're adding find-as-you-type; I'll reserve judgement until I've tried it but if they handle the focus issue well it should be a boon.
Then, by chance, I happened upon a very interesting article by Phil Agre: http://polaris.gseis.ucla.edu/pagre/conservatism.
The licensing issue is probably the reason this isn't Europe-wide, I don't think your second point is valid at all.
Everyone has credit cards over here and as for making pan-European (or global) shopping sites? See Amazon. In fact, Apple already has a good deal of online shops available (selling hardware and software) in countries other than the UK, Germany and France.
During the cold war it was the "Red Menace" that the government used as a scarecrow to make people swallow ever expanding defense budgets and intrusions on their privacy. Then came Reagan, the "Red Menace" wasn't a believable bogeyman anymore (not that it ever was, but that's propaganda for you) so it became "The War Against Drugs" and now it's Terrorists.
Which is rather ironic actually, considering the atrocities US troops have committed in the last few decades (all in the name of world peace) we can safely regard the US as one of the greatest Terrorist aggressors in the world.