Most sites that support themselves solely off advertising are hurting bigtime right now. I used to work for a place where a large portion of their revenue was from ads, but now, even though they are doing more advertising, the income it generates is negligible.
Why not come up with something that people are willing to pay for? Something on the order of $1 a month per subscriber is much more than you will get from advertising. Plus, at $1 a month, it's not like it's going to break the bank for anyone. Of course, you would need to charge them once for like $12 for the whole year, otherwise your credit card fees would take most of your money.
I wonder how much they spent on developing this and how much it will cost to implement it into their chips. I can't imagine they will ever get their money back out of it, the overclocking community is a niche market compared to the Dell, Gateway's, and HP's of the world.
This isn't really what you want, but it's cool enough to mention here. Target sells an Eddie Bauer branded flashlight that is roughly the same size as the AA Maglite. Except, it has 3 ultra bright LED's on it, which nearly blind you (brighter than the Maglite). They look like Xenon HID's on newer cars. And the best part of all, *200* hours on one set of batteries. $25, so it's a bit more expensive, but the coolness factor makes up for it.
A couple years ago, flashlights like that cost a couple hundred bucks.
Convince a network engineer friend to set up a transparent proxy at his work and run some stats. This will give you a good idea of the percentage of pr0n traffic at work.
You know damn well that a good portion of your traffic at home is for pr0n, so you probably don't have to measure that.:)
Netscreen has a product that will supposedly do what you want. I haven't had a chance to play with one yet, so I can't give you firsthand knowledge of it.
One of the things you'll notice, is that with that much traffic, you are going to get amazing amounts of false alarms. The Netscreen product has some cool features to reduce or eliminate false alarms altogether.
I used a couple of different IDS systems on a 135Mb/sec link, and ISS and Snort could not handle it. 100% CPU all the time. Netscreen is also planning on integrating their IP ASIC into the unit to give it even higher throughput.
I've gone with some of the online places, and they've all been a hassle to deal with except for one. Icelandair.com rules, if you're going to Iceland or Europe, look into their site and sign up for their Netfares club or whatever it's called to find really good deals.
Other than Icelandair, I've found comparable ticket prices through normal travel agents, and they seem to care a little more about your trip than a hacked IIS box talking to a shotty SQL server 2000 database with the slammer worm on it.
It's not worth saving a couple of bucks through an online site if you have the money. It's typically not any more expensive if you call around, and you'll get better service.
Me and some friends built a few of these back in high school. We even had a takedown model that screwed apart, and when assembled, measured over 6 feet long. Hairspray is for wussies though, try ether (starting fluid). I put an apple through a sheet of 1/2" plywood with ether. It kicks like a 20 gauge shotgun, and is just as loud.
I think it's spudtech.com that has an excel spreadsheet for calculating speeds and stuff for particular setups. The setup I had came out to 380mph muzzle velocity. Using that spreadsheet, I came up with a new design that hit's 720mph, over the speed of sound. Someday when I get bored, I'm going to try to accelerate an apple past the speed of sound. It will probably desintegrate before it even leaves the barrel, but it will scare my neighbors, and that's all I really want to do.
BTW, apples make better ammo. The fit better in the barrel, and if you can find a tree, they are free.
Interesting. This thing died off a couple years ago, but it looks like they relaunched it with a few changes. Originally, they handed out Cisco ATA182 devices to us (the beta testers), and you hooked it up to your phone line, a broadband connection, and a phone. When you made a long distance call, the unit would search for another device in the area code you were calling, and then tell the remote device to dial the number and then connect you. This way, you avoided long distance charges. It actually worked very well, I talked with a guy on a satellite link in Austrailia with it, and it didn't sound worse than my land line.
There were some glaring problems with this setup though. Say I decided I wanted to go on a prank phone call binge, the owner of the remote phone line could be blamed for my rampage of personal insults and threats. Plus, there were some serious security issues with the original version of the software running on the ATA device, like being able to connect directly to it with a SIP client and get dialtone, which allowed you to dial anything you wanted unfiltered (911, 900 numbers, etc).
It looks the the reincarnation of this is simply a removal of the PSTN capabilities. You can make calls to other people on the FWD network, but that's it. No land line access.
Kind of odd this story would come up today... I just took out the old ATA to try to upgrade the software on it and get it to work with Asterisk. Unfortunately, I can't figure out how to reset it to defaults as it won't let you do anything at all until it finds the Gatekeeper that is programmed into it.
How does FWD plan to make money to stay afloat? Obviously, if this catches on, they will need to invest money in hardware and bandwidth. Where will the cash come from? The calls are not routed through them, but the directory services are run by them.
Also, unencrypted SIP traffic can be sniffed, and there are SIP reassemblers out there that will allow you to listen to the conversations you capture. Bored tech monkeys at ISP's are going to have fun with this.:)
On the Ericsson T68 line, you can turn on delivery reports under the SMS -> Options menu. It will tell you if the remote phone received the message or not. About 1 out of 20 I send don't make it (and get no report), and I have to resend.
I've heard that on a friday or saturday night in the UK, up to 60% of SMS's go undelivered. Everyone is out at the loud bars and SMS'ing their friends to find out where they are at.
This is stupid. Right now, it sucks enough going to a city where there is no GSM service that ATTWS has roaming agreements with. This is just going to make things worse. Right now, we have TDMA, GSM 2G, CDMA, and now W-CDMA. Why can't cellular providers just agree on one standard like in Europe and go with it? So is ATT going to continue to build their GSM 2G network which is still half-assed at best? It will be a happy day when number portability is enforced by the FCC.
Tvi is only 320x240 (or close to that). HDTV is 640x480.
No, you are wrong. Resolution on a normal NTSC TV is 720x525, but there's a bit less because the edges of the screen are cut off. HDTV is 1920x1080, although some manufacturers cut this down to 1440x1080, or even lower.
I don't think this is true. In december of 1976, I was 13 months old. My parents took a trip to see some family, and I remember parts of the plane ride vividly. The orange carpet, the dark gray folding tray that I kept playing with, and the lady that turned around and yelled at my mom for letting me play with it. I colored in some sort of coloring book, and my mom spent half the ride in the bathroom because she was sick (likely from the flying, or because she was pregnant with my brother).
I also remember being at my uncle's house that trip and getting a red tricycle for christmas and riding it around in their basement which had panelling all over the walls and a dark colored shag carpet.
I don't think these memories were "implanted" as you suggest. I remember enough detail of them where someone would have to have told me a very detailed description of the whole trip, which never happened. A few years ago, I told my parents I remembered it, and they verified that everything I remembered was true. Most people probably cannot remember anything before the age of two, but I can.
I had this for about 2 months. It worked well initially, but ATT Broadband decided that they would block all SIP (5060/udp) traffic to Vonage.com's network. I was able to get SIP traffic through to other places on the net, but not to Vonage. I verified this with a sniffer outside of my firewall to make sure the packets were going out, and then a Vonage tech verified he wasn't receiving them on his side.
For awhile ATT was NAT'ing the traffic, but *only* the SIP traffic. Regular tcp connections and traffic on other UDP ports were not NAT'd. But eventually, they blocked it completely. I called them and finally got someone to fix it, but two weeks later, it stopped working again and I cancelled the phone service because I didn't want to spend 3 hours on the phone with ATT every 2 weeks.
I would assume they blocked it because of their own competing service. Vonage does have customers using ATTBI, so it does work for some people. But if you're in Minneapolis, chances are you may have some problems.
This doesn't accomplish much, as a user can just manually assign an ip. Why not turn on port security on your switches and only allow certain MAC addresses on certain ports. Obviously, I don't know what kind of switches you are using, but since most of the world seems to be using Cisco, that's probably what you have and those will do it just fine.
Real HGH is illegal to sell as far as I know, it's considered a steroid since it's a hormone that is normally produced by the human body. Most likely, they are selling "homeopathic" HGH, which is simply herbs and chemicals (precursors) that supposedly stimulate the production of real HGH. Whether or not this actually works, I don't know. But I do remember reading something awhile back about some nasty side effects of supplementing HGH.
If you're looking to gain muscle with no work, there is nothing that will do this for you. There is no substitute for exercise. However, you can help the process along by getting enough protein (roughly.75 grams per pound of body weight, which means you'll have to supplement or eat a lot of tuna or chicken). Creatine also helps dramatically in some people, I gained over 40 pounds of muscle over a 6 month period after I started taking creatine. Creatine is naturally produced by your body at the rate of 1-2 grams per day. A normal dose of creatine is 5-10 grams. You would have to eat 50 pounds of raw red meat to get this much creatine from food. Previously, I could not gain any muscle without taking it, I tried for several months with almost no results from regular exercise.
There is also Androstendione. Andro stimulates the production of testosterone. Bodybuilders who take it ignore the instructions on the bottle and take about 3-4 times the recommended dosage. Andro *is* a steroid, but it's not illegal since it's not a hormone that occurs naturally in the human body. Although, this is only partially true, since Andro does occur in pregnant women and it was illegal briefly for about 6 months or so a few years ago. Apparently, it is legal again though since stores are selling it again. But, the same risks apply with Andro as with any other steroids, increased risk of prostate cancer, 'roid rage, acne, more body hair, and a host of other things, possibly even nut shrinkage. I took andro for about 2 months a few years ago before I knew really how it worked. Little things that annoyed me tended to make me fly off the handle, increased acne, etc... I stopped taking it. I wouldn't recommend taking it, the side effects are noticable and in my experience the benefits were not that great.
Creatine doesn't work for all people, but it had amazing results for me. Nutrition is probably 80% of it though. Make sure you get enough protein, vitamins, etc, and don't eat shitty food (fast food). If you want recommendations for brands, Kaizen Effervescent Creatine seems to have the best results, and you'll feel it after taking it for only a day. The effervescent creatine uses sodium bicarbonate to get more sodium into your bloodstream to make the creatine absorb better. Another common method of doing this is adding dextrose which spikes your insulin leve, but gives you a sugar crash. As for protein, IsoPure is probably the best protein on the market right now as it is 100% ion-exchange, and not a blend like everything else.
I know a couple of bodybuilders, and they all think the HGH stuff is a bunch of crap. You'll likely just be wasting your money on it.
The bad part about this, is that the fiber will be easy to access for people who would like to do bad things to it, like chop it in half. Right now, most fiber is buried and terminates in locked buildings/closets/etc. But simply lifting a manhole cover gives an attacker access.
A few years ago, there was a guy in Fargo, ND who wanted to rob a stereo shop called Site On Sound. The shop had an alarm system, so instead of just chopping the wires on the outside of the building, he obtained some city blueprints and found where the largest bundle of phone wires went, and cut it in half with a chainsaw. Apparently, it was a 2 foot thick bundle of twisted pairs, and the entire city of Fargo was completely without phone service for nearly a week while the 2 foot thick cable was spliced back together.
Hope they don't plan on running anything too important over sewer fiber. It's cheap, but it has far greater risk than burying it.
Does anyone know of a good replacement for quicken on mac OS X? I bought Quicken 2003, and I'm fairly unhappy with it, especially since it crashes for no reason. I'd like something which has some scripting capabilities to pull down data from my bank, or remove duplicates in.qif files (like a.qif from a bill pay service, and the corresponding check on the bank.qif).
I would assume it's possible to make GNUCash work, but last time I tried to compile that beast under linux and make all the deps work, it was nearly impossible. Probably would take a couple days or more under OSX.
Preferably I could find something not chocked full of ads or something that does not contact it's maker for any reason. Why can't companies make good solid software anymore without trying to screw their clients into upgrading or buying services?
Due to your dedication to your work for the past 20 years and the obvious amount of intelligence required for your research, I would like to officially welcome you into the running for next years Darwin awards.
This prestigious award is only given to a lucky few, unfortunately many are not recognized until after their deaths. However, we do encourage you to continue your work and hopefully you will be next years winner. Good luck.
I was thinking about this last week with a couple of friends. With the new mobile phones that are being released which have Java capabilities, it would likely be trivial to write an app which would scan your area for other bluetooth devices running the same app, and do a comparison of the data you've entered to see if you are a match. Whether you are looking to buy or sell something, find a ride, or find a date, you could enter this info into your phone, and when it finds another in range with matching interests, it can beep/vibrate/send your photo to the other phone/etc.
Unfortunately, I think the latest java compliant nokia doesn't have bluetooth, and my t68i doesn't have java. I think the Ericsson P800 is going to have both, and siemens is supposed to be releasing a new one in january that I think has both of these features. The real barrier to this is getting people to install it on their phones, most people aren't technical enough to know how to do it, most people aren't going to pay for the app so it would have to be free, but probably the best way would be to convince some wireless provider to just preload it on their phones and advertise it as a feature to get more customers. Which may not be so hard to do since it's a very interesting use of technology which real people may have an interest in, and it shouldn't be hard to design either.
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Most sites that support themselves solely off advertising are hurting bigtime right now. I used to work for a place where a large portion of their revenue was from ads, but now, even though they are doing more advertising, the income it generates is negligible.
Why not come up with something that people are willing to pay for? Something on the order of $1 a month per subscriber is much more than you will get from advertising. Plus, at $1 a month, it's not like it's going to break the bank for anyone. Of course, you would need to charge them once for like $12 for the whole year, otherwise your credit card fees would take most of your money.
I wonder how much they spent on developing this and how much it will cost to implement it into their chips. I can't imagine they will ever get their money back out of it, the overclocking community is a niche market compared to the Dell, Gateway's, and HP's of the world.
I read something awhile back about the almond scent of cyanide. Apparently, only women can smell it, but not all women, only like 50% or so.
Weird.
There goes all that SBLU stock I owned. 52 shares now worth a whoppin' .067 each. Maybe with my $3.50 I can buy a beer. No, I can't... sigh....
If those hands are from another man, and he whacks off, does that make him gay?
This isn't really what you want, but it's cool enough to mention here. Target sells an Eddie Bauer branded flashlight that is roughly the same size as the AA Maglite. Except, it has 3 ultra bright LED's on it, which nearly blind you (brighter than the Maglite). They look like Xenon HID's on newer cars. And the best part of all, *200* hours on one set of batteries. $25, so it's a bit more expensive, but the coolness factor makes up for it.
A couple years ago, flashlights like that cost a couple hundred bucks.
I worked for a large media company, and some of the developers came up with some pretty good names.
They had a sproc that would go do whatever you told it to, and it was called sprocbitch(), but was later changed to sprocstar().
They had another tool called ASS (forgot what it stood for) and another called PHAT (Publishing something something Tool)
I had a perl script that watched some processes and restarted them if they died called babysitter.pl.
They also had the HOG (Hand of God) that watched processes on servers and whacked them if they got out of hand.
There were some others, but I forgot them all.
I just downloaded the patent to my OS X desktop, and threw it in the garbage. It gave me a warm feeling.
Convince a network engineer friend to set up a transparent proxy at his work and run some stats. This will give you a good idea of the percentage of pr0n traffic at work.
:)
You know damn well that a good portion of your traffic at home is for pr0n, so you probably don't have to measure that.
Netscreen has a product that will supposedly do what you want. I haven't had a chance to play with one yet, so I can't give you firsthand knowledge of it.
One of the things you'll notice, is that with that much traffic, you are going to get amazing amounts of false alarms. The Netscreen product has some cool features to reduce or eliminate false alarms altogether.
I used a couple of different IDS systems on a 135Mb/sec link, and ISS and Snort could not handle it. 100% CPU all the time. Netscreen is also planning on integrating their IP ASIC into the unit to give it even higher throughput.
I've gone with some of the online places, and they've all been a hassle to deal with except for one. Icelandair.com rules, if you're going to Iceland or Europe, look into their site and sign up for their Netfares club or whatever it's called to find really good deals.
Other than Icelandair, I've found comparable ticket prices through normal travel agents, and they seem to care a little more about your trip than a hacked IIS box talking to a shotty SQL server 2000 database with the slammer worm on it.
It's not worth saving a couple of bucks through an online site if you have the money. It's typically not any more expensive if you call around, and you'll get better service.
Me and some friends built a few of these back in high school. We even had a takedown model that screwed apart, and when assembled, measured over 6 feet long. Hairspray is for wussies though, try ether (starting fluid). I put an apple through a sheet of 1/2" plywood with ether. It kicks like a 20 gauge shotgun, and is just as loud.
I think it's spudtech.com that has an excel spreadsheet for calculating speeds and stuff for particular setups. The setup I had came out to 380mph muzzle velocity. Using that spreadsheet, I came up with a new design that hit's 720mph, over the speed of sound. Someday when I get bored, I'm going to try to accelerate an apple past the speed of sound. It will probably desintegrate before it even leaves the barrel, but it will scare my neighbors, and that's all I really want to do.
BTW, apples make better ammo. The fit better in the barrel, and if you can find a tree, they are free.
Interesting. This thing died off a couple years ago, but it looks like they relaunched it with a few changes. Originally, they handed out Cisco ATA182 devices to us (the beta testers), and you hooked it up to your phone line, a broadband connection, and a phone. When you made a long distance call, the unit would search for another device in the area code you were calling, and then tell the remote device to dial the number and then connect you. This way, you avoided long distance charges. It actually worked very well, I talked with a guy on a satellite link in Austrailia with it, and it didn't sound worse than my land line.
:)
There were some glaring problems with this setup though. Say I decided I wanted to go on a prank phone call binge, the owner of the remote phone line could be blamed for my rampage of personal insults and threats. Plus, there were some serious security issues with the original version of the software running on the ATA device, like being able to connect directly to it with a SIP client and get dialtone, which allowed you to dial anything you wanted unfiltered (911, 900 numbers, etc).
It looks the the reincarnation of this is simply a removal of the PSTN capabilities. You can make calls to other people on the FWD network, but that's it. No land line access.
Kind of odd this story would come up today... I just took out the old ATA to try to upgrade the software on it and get it to work with Asterisk. Unfortunately, I can't figure out how to reset it to defaults as it won't let you do anything at all until it finds the Gatekeeper that is programmed into it.
How does FWD plan to make money to stay afloat? Obviously, if this catches on, they will need to invest money in hardware and bandwidth. Where will the cash come from? The calls are not routed through them, but the directory services are run by them.
Also, unencrypted SIP traffic can be sniffed, and there are SIP reassemblers out there that will allow you to listen to the conversations you capture. Bored tech monkeys at ISP's are going to have fun with this.
On the Ericsson T68 line, you can turn on delivery reports under the SMS -> Options menu. It will tell you if the remote phone received the message or not. About 1 out of 20 I send don't make it (and get no report), and I have to resend.
I've heard that on a friday or saturday night in the UK, up to 60% of SMS's go undelivered. Everyone is out at the loud bars and SMS'ing their friends to find out where they are at.
This is stupid. Right now, it sucks enough going to a city where there is no GSM service that ATTWS has roaming agreements with. This is just going to make things worse. Right now, we have TDMA, GSM 2G, CDMA, and now W-CDMA. Why can't cellular providers just agree on one standard like in Europe and go with it? So is ATT going to continue to build their GSM 2G network which is still half-assed at best? It will be a happy day when number portability is enforced by the FCC.
Tvi is only 320x240 (or close to that). HDTV is 640x480.
No, you are wrong. Resolution on a normal NTSC TV is 720x525, but there's a bit less because the edges of the screen are cut off. HDTV is 1920x1080, although some manufacturers cut this down to 1440x1080, or even lower.
I don't think this is true. In december of 1976, I was 13 months old. My parents took a trip to see some family, and I remember parts of the plane ride vividly. The orange carpet, the dark gray folding tray that I kept playing with, and the lady that turned around and yelled at my mom for letting me play with it. I colored in some sort of coloring book, and my mom spent half the ride in the bathroom because she was sick (likely from the flying, or because she was pregnant with my brother).
I also remember being at my uncle's house that trip and getting a red tricycle for christmas and riding it around in their basement which had panelling all over the walls and a dark colored shag carpet.
I don't think these memories were "implanted" as you suggest. I remember enough detail of them where someone would have to have told me a very detailed description of the whole trip, which never happened. A few years ago, I told my parents I remembered it, and they verified that everything I remembered was true. Most people probably cannot remember anything before the age of two, but I can.
I had this for about 2 months. It worked well initially, but ATT Broadband decided that they would block all SIP (5060/udp) traffic to Vonage.com's network. I was able to get SIP traffic through to other places on the net, but not to Vonage. I verified this with a sniffer outside of my firewall to make sure the packets were going out, and then a Vonage tech verified he wasn't receiving them on his side.
For awhile ATT was NAT'ing the traffic, but *only* the SIP traffic. Regular tcp connections and traffic on other UDP ports were not NAT'd. But eventually, they blocked it completely. I called them and finally got someone to fix it, but two weeks later, it stopped working again and I cancelled the phone service because I didn't want to spend 3 hours on the phone with ATT every 2 weeks.
I would assume they blocked it because of their own competing service. Vonage does have customers using ATTBI, so it does work for some people. But if you're in Minneapolis, chances are you may have some problems.
This doesn't accomplish much, as a user can just manually assign an ip. Why not turn on port security on your switches and only allow certain MAC addresses on certain ports. Obviously, I don't know what kind of switches you are using, but since most of the world seems to be using Cisco, that's probably what you have and those will do it just fine.
Real HGH is illegal to sell as far as I know, it's considered a steroid since it's a hormone that is normally produced by the human body. Most likely, they are selling "homeopathic" HGH, which is simply herbs and chemicals (precursors) that supposedly stimulate the production of real HGH. Whether or not this actually works, I don't know. But I do remember reading something awhile back about some nasty side effects of supplementing HGH.
.75 grams per pound of body weight, which means you'll have to supplement or eat a lot of tuna or chicken). Creatine also helps dramatically in some people, I gained over 40 pounds of muscle over a 6 month period after I started taking creatine. Creatine is naturally produced by your body at the rate of 1-2 grams per day. A normal dose of creatine is 5-10 grams. You would have to eat 50 pounds of raw red meat to get this much creatine from food. Previously, I could not gain any muscle without taking it, I tried for several months with almost no results from regular exercise.
If you're looking to gain muscle with no work, there is nothing that will do this for you. There is no substitute for exercise. However, you can help the process along by getting enough protein (roughly
There is also Androstendione. Andro stimulates the production of testosterone. Bodybuilders who take it ignore the instructions on the bottle and take about 3-4 times the recommended dosage. Andro *is* a steroid, but it's not illegal since it's not a hormone that occurs naturally in the human body. Although, this is only partially true, since Andro does occur in pregnant women and it was illegal briefly for about 6 months or so a few years ago. Apparently, it is legal again though since stores are selling it again. But, the same risks apply with Andro as with any other steroids, increased risk of prostate cancer, 'roid rage, acne, more body hair, and a host of other things, possibly even nut shrinkage. I took andro for about 2 months a few years ago before I knew really how it worked. Little things that annoyed me tended to make me fly off the handle, increased acne, etc... I stopped taking it. I wouldn't recommend taking it, the side effects are noticable and in my experience the benefits were not that great.
Creatine doesn't work for all people, but it had amazing results for me. Nutrition is probably 80% of it though. Make sure you get enough protein, vitamins, etc, and don't eat shitty food (fast food). If you want recommendations for brands, Kaizen Effervescent Creatine seems to have the best results, and you'll feel it after taking it for only a day. The effervescent creatine uses sodium bicarbonate to get more sodium into your bloodstream to make the creatine absorb better. Another common method of doing this is adding dextrose which spikes your insulin leve, but gives you a sugar crash. As for protein, IsoPure is probably the best protein on the market right now as it is 100% ion-exchange, and not a blend like everything else.
I know a couple of bodybuilders, and they all think the HGH stuff is a bunch of crap. You'll likely just be wasting your money on it.
The trial is in Europe & the person they we're calling lives in Arizona.
Yeah, and the DVD consortium is in the US, but the "offender" is in Europe. Something is wrong here.
The bad part about this, is that the fiber will be easy to access for people who would like to do bad things to it, like chop it in half. Right now, most fiber is buried and terminates in locked buildings/closets/etc. But simply lifting a manhole cover gives an attacker access.
A few years ago, there was a guy in Fargo, ND who wanted to rob a stereo shop called Site On Sound. The shop had an alarm system, so instead of just chopping the wires on the outside of the building, he obtained some city blueprints and found where the largest bundle of phone wires went, and cut it in half with a chainsaw. Apparently, it was a 2 foot thick bundle of twisted pairs, and the entire city of Fargo was completely without phone service for nearly a week while the 2 foot thick cable was spliced back together.
Hope they don't plan on running anything too important over sewer fiber. It's cheap, but it has far greater risk than burying it.
Does anyone know of a good replacement for quicken on mac OS X? I bought Quicken 2003, and I'm fairly unhappy with it, especially since it crashes for no reason. I'd like something which has some scripting capabilities to pull down data from my bank, or remove duplicates in .qif files (like a .qif from a bill pay service, and the corresponding check on the bank .qif).
I would assume it's possible to make GNUCash work, but last time I tried to compile that beast under linux and make all the deps work, it was nearly impossible. Probably would take a couple days or more under OSX.
Preferably I could find something not chocked full of ads or something that does not contact it's maker for any reason. Why can't companies make good solid software anymore without trying to screw their clients into upgrading or buying services?
Dear Professor,
Due to your dedication to your work for the past 20 years and the obvious amount of intelligence required for your research, I would like to officially welcome you into the running for next years Darwin awards.
This prestigious award is only given to a lucky few, unfortunately many are not recognized until after their deaths. However, we do encourage you to continue your work and hopefully you will be next years winner. Good luck.
I was thinking about this last week with a couple of friends. With the new mobile phones that are being released which have Java capabilities, it would likely be trivial to write an app which would scan your area for other bluetooth devices running the same app, and do a comparison of the data you've entered to see if you are a match. Whether you are looking to buy or sell something, find a ride, or find a date, you could enter this info into your phone, and when it finds another in range with matching interests, it can beep/vibrate/send your photo to the other phone/etc.
Unfortunately, I think the latest java compliant nokia doesn't have bluetooth, and my t68i doesn't have java. I think the Ericsson P800 is going to have both, and siemens is supposed to be releasing a new one in january that I think has both of these features. The real barrier to this is getting people to install it on their phones, most people aren't technical enough to know how to do it, most people aren't going to pay for the app so it would have to be free, but probably the best way would be to convince some wireless provider to just preload it on their phones and advertise it as a feature to get more customers. Which may not be so hard to do since it's a very interesting use of technology which real people may have an interest in, and it shouldn't be hard to design either.