Awesome! So if I were a terrorist, all I would have to do is leave a bag with impact detonated explosives laying around, and security will set it off for me? Sweet!
This fixes nothing. Open standards and the ability to cleanly replace applications is what is really needed. This does nothing to address either of those problems.
Let's address what was in the findings of fact from the antitrust trial back in the late 90's.
And if you don't want to remember to socksify all your apps, you can also tunnel PPP over ssh, and set your default route and DNS through the tunnel (remember to set a static route to your remote endpoint first!). But nowadays, you can do that easier and more efficiently using openvpn. PPP over ssh works a lot better than you would think something wrapped in tcp would.
I agree with that sentiment. So let's stop using global warming as the reason, right? The best thing you can do is to stop clearing forests for golf courses, anyway, and I don't see that being proposed. Also, more paper production. Recycling paper to be used again for paper uses a lot more power and chemicals than making it fresh. Fresh paper comes from farms of trees grown just for that purpose. Young trees absorb more CO2 than old ones. Tadaa! Oh, but using trees wouldn't be 'green' now, would it? Then there's using nuclear power. Oh no, can't do that.
We're an insiginificant blink in the life of this planet anyway. Get over it.
Got it. It's called a Palm Pre, and it's easy to customize and develop for, even if you are more of a linux sysadmin than web programmer. Dropping an adblocking/etc/hosts on it was simple, for example, as was replacing the text autoreplace and such. Don't like the names of things, or that they are visible in Luna? Just fire up the text editor (vi is already on the phone, as are tools like wget, etc. Firewall is iptables, yadda yadda). You can do all of this out of the box. You just have to enable developer mode and connect using novaterm (novacom for the windoze users).
Still many issues (WebOS is still young), but overall I'm still loving this phone, and am excited to where palm is taking it. Did I mention that they embrace the homebrew community, and work with them, unlike a certain other company that has some sort of multi-touch device on the market?
If you have a copy of the formulas and such, it's much easier to ask questions and absorb things since you don't have to furiously write things down. The Navier-Stokes equations, for example. Routh tables, for another.
The best class I had in college was an Aeronautics class where the professor had us buy the notes at the local copy center. That was one of the few classes, despite being one of the most complex, that I did well in that semester.
$50 at radio shack. If you already have phone lines you can use them. Replace the rj11s with rca. Voila! Then just get some amplified computer speakers and plug them in.
I love my pre. Palm is encouraging the homebrew community, and once you install preware, getting most of the things you wish were in the default OS is really easy via patches. Development is open (albeit just javascript for now), and the UI is responsive, even without using the GPU yet. Palm just hired Mathew Tippet from AMD, so speculation is that WebOS will likely start using the GPU soon and become a whole lot smoother (and it's not bad now!).
One benefit of choosing the html/css/javascript approach (hence, the 'Web' in WebOS), is that the barrier to entry is reduced for people (like me) who have never developed for a phone before. I'm excited to have a phone I can write my own stuff for without much effort. Heck the (free) SDK runs just fine on linux. That's a first.
And, of course, it's a linux phone. And you don't have to jailbreak it to get that access. Connect with novaterm, and you are in a busybox session. The phone runs iptables for firewalling. It has standard network interfaces. Vi and Wget are already there. You can enable cron, install openssh, etc. A couple of things that I've already done was to put an ad-blocking/etc/hosts file on, and to also customize the autoreplace dictionary (shame there's no good GUI app for that yet).
uh, video cameras? If someone is weaving all over the road, or almost rear-ending people at turns and stoplights, they need to be fined or taken off the roads.
If they aren't specific, people find loopholes. It would be nice if we could apply common sense in the court system (a single dangerous/distracted driving law would then suffice), but that will never happen or be enforceable.
The biggest problem is laws that supercede previous laws needing to still have the verbage of the original, with links, etc, making them bloated and not easily understandable (see healthcare reform in U.S.). Better to simply kill old laws when the new one is written, as is done in RFC land. Oh well.
Simple. Get a Palm Pre. Seriously. WebOS is good stuff. Download the SDK, plug the phone into your computer, and type 'novaterm' (ok, first you have to type the konami code on the phone). Hey. Look. Linux. And the apps are all text (javascript to be precise). You even have things like vi and wget without having to install them.
- unfettered access to the linux subsystem (ie, need adblocking? You can replace/etc/hosts with an ad/malware blocking version! You can patch many aspects of the phone this way, go check out the patches on precentral)
- if you are a web developer (html, css, javascript), you already know how to write code for this phone. It's that easy. The SDK is freely available, and RUNS FINE ON LINUX. No need to keep a windows box around just to write some phone apps.
- like all the other apps, controlling the US is also done via javascript. Many features can be unlocked just by uncommenting some code.
- and for just plain old users... the interface is very clean, consistent, and beautiful. It stays out of your way. Some of the included apps aren't as powerful as they maybe should be, but that is what the openness of the phone and the homebrew community is for.
pain in the ass to do it in sharepoint, it's probably quite easy to do with a LAMP solution.
Tell me...
Is sharepoint ready for the DMZ yet? No application level authentication is pretty much a dealbreaker for any company that knows the first thing about security. Sadly (or to your delight if you are a competitor who notices their employee using it), many companies deploy it (with full access to internal documents) anyway.
... for things that likely shouldn't be used much anymore.
Just because everybody does 'database', mission-critical calculations, and pretty formatted page layout in spreadsheets doesn't make it right. Just because people do form letters in word processors, doesn't make it right. There are better tools.
It'd be nice if corporate cultures had fostered doing things a better way, and wordprocessors and spreadsheets remained in the realms of one-off papers/letters and what-if/preliminary design/research respectively. Most features added in the last decade have been pretty useless for that type of use, which is really where the use of these tools should be focused.
Imagine if the effort put into adding those features had been focused on other projects and useful software that is currently lagging.
Just got a palm pre myself. While being on sprint sucks, the phone is amazing. Very open with an active homebrew community. Easy to 'root' (even from linux... I don't even own a windows computer). Changing the phone's behavior is usually just a matter of editing some javascript and CSS (most of the things you'd like to do there is already a patch for, and you don't need to fully install optware just to install the patches). This is all done in a familiar linux environment.
I was on the fence about getting a 'droid on verizon and the palm pre. After a few days with the pre, however, I am VERY HAPPY with my decision. WebOS is the most open thing I've ever seen on a phone. Messaging is still a little better on the blackberry, but WebOS does it as well as any other platform. And palm / sprint seem to be quite ok with it (other than tethering. *sigh*).
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Awesome! So if I were a terrorist, all I would have to do is leave a bag with impact detonated explosives laying around, and security will set it off for me? Sweet!
This fixes nothing. Open standards and the ability to cleanly replace applications is what is really needed. This does nothing to address either of those problems.
Let's address what was in the findings of fact from the antitrust trial back in the late 90's.
... the porn you watch ;-)
The Palm pre?
Palm's WebOS. I'd prefer perl there, but it is what it is.
And if you don't want to remember to socksify all your apps, you can also tunnel PPP over ssh, and set your default route and DNS through the tunnel (remember to set a static route to your remote endpoint first!). But nowadays, you can do that easier and more efficiently using openvpn. PPP over ssh works a lot better than you would think something wrapped in tcp would.
I agree with that sentiment. So let's stop using global warming as the reason, right? The best thing you can do is to stop clearing forests for golf courses, anyway, and I don't see that being proposed. Also, more paper production. Recycling paper to be used again for paper uses a lot more power and chemicals than making it fresh. Fresh paper comes from farms of trees grown just for that purpose. Young trees absorb more CO2 than old ones. Tadaa! Oh, but using trees wouldn't be 'green' now, would it? Then there's using nuclear power. Oh no, can't do that.
We're an insiginificant blink in the life of this planet anyway. Get over it.
signed != secure.
There are already much much better ways to do this. Like how ubuntu uses Sudo.
2010: The year of the linux botnet.
*sigh*
Got it. It's called a Palm Pre, and it's easy to customize and develop for, even if you are more of a linux sysadmin than web programmer. Dropping an adblocking /etc/hosts on it was simple, for example, as was replacing the text autoreplace and such. Don't like the names of things, or that they are visible in Luna? Just fire up the text editor (vi is already on the phone, as are tools like wget, etc. Firewall is iptables, yadda yadda). You can do all of this out of the box. You just have to enable developer mode and connect using novaterm (novacom for the windoze users).
Still many issues (WebOS is still young), but overall I'm still loving this phone, and am excited to where palm is taking it. Did I mention that they embrace the homebrew community, and work with them, unlike a certain other company that has some sort of multi-touch device on the market?
well, eventually it is.
But the point is, what happens when the next great encoding scheme comes along, and the only copies of your music you have are compressed?
I refuse to pay for lossy compressed music. Period.
If you have a copy of the formulas and such, it's much easier to ask questions and absorb things since you don't have to furiously write things down. The Navier-Stokes equations, for example. Routh tables, for another.
The best class I had in college was an Aeronautics class where the professor had us buy the notes at the local copy center. That was one of the few classes, despite being one of the most complex, that I did well in that semester.
$50 at radio shack. If you already have phone lines you can use them. Replace the rj11s with rca. Voila! Then just get some amplified computer speakers and plug them in.
there's no firewall on the iphone?
glad I own a pre!
good default iptables ruleset ftw!
There's usually a woman involved.
I love my pre. Palm is encouraging the homebrew community, and once you install preware, getting most of the things you wish were in the default OS is really easy via patches. Development is open (albeit just javascript for now), and the UI is responsive, even without using the GPU yet. Palm just hired Mathew Tippet from AMD, so speculation is that WebOS will likely start using the GPU soon and become a whole lot smoother (and it's not bad now!).
One benefit of choosing the html/css/javascript approach (hence, the 'Web' in WebOS), is that the barrier to entry is reduced for people (like me) who have never developed for a phone before. I'm excited to have a phone I can write my own stuff for without much effort. Heck the (free) SDK runs just fine on linux. That's a first.
And, of course, it's a linux phone. And you don't have to jailbreak it to get that access. Connect with novaterm, and you are in a busybox session. The phone runs iptables for firewalling. It has standard network interfaces. Vi and Wget are already there. You can enable cron, install openssh, etc. A couple of things that I've already done was to put an ad-blocking /etc/hosts file on, and to also customize the autoreplace dictionary (shame there's no good GUI app for that yet).
Linkees:
http://www.webos-internals.org/wiki/Main_Page
http://www.precentral.net/homebrew-apps
Heh s/US/UI/
uh, video cameras? If someone is weaving all over the road, or almost rear-ending people at turns and stoplights, they need to be fined or taken off the roads.
For each law written, you should have to repeal two. But then again, that may lead to more bloated laws. *hrmph*.
If they aren't specific, people find loopholes. It would be nice if we could apply common sense in the court system (a single dangerous/distracted driving law would then suffice), but that will never happen or be enforceable.
The biggest problem is laws that supercede previous laws needing to still have the verbage of the original, with links, etc, making them bloated and not easily understandable (see healthcare reform in U.S.). Better to simply kill old laws when the new one is written, as is done in RFC land. Oh well.
Simple. Get a Palm Pre. Seriously. WebOS is good stuff. Download the SDK, plug the phone into your computer, and type 'novaterm' (ok, first you have to type the konami code on the phone). Hey. Look. Linux. And the apps are all text (javascript to be precise). You even have things like vi and wget without having to install them.
- unfettered access to the linux subsystem (ie, need adblocking? You can replace /etc/hosts with an ad/malware blocking version! You can patch many aspects of the phone this way, go check out the patches on precentral)
- if you are a web developer (html, css, javascript), you already know how to write code for this phone. It's that easy. The SDK is freely available, and RUNS FINE ON LINUX. No need to keep a windows box around just to write some phone apps.
- like all the other apps, controlling the US is also done via javascript. Many features can be unlocked just by uncommenting some code.
- and for just plain old users... the interface is very clean, consistent, and beautiful. It stays out of your way. Some of the included apps aren't as powerful as they maybe should be, but that is what the openness of the phone and the homebrew community is for.
seems like a dumb name.
pain in the ass to do it in sharepoint, it's probably quite easy to do with a LAMP solution.
Tell me ...
Is sharepoint ready for the DMZ yet? No application level authentication is pretty much a dealbreaker for any company that knows the first thing about security. Sadly (or to your delight if you are a competitor who notices their employee using it), many companies deploy it (with full access to internal documents) anyway.
... for things that likely shouldn't be used much anymore.
Just because everybody does 'database', mission-critical calculations, and pretty formatted page layout in spreadsheets doesn't make it right. Just because people do form letters in word processors, doesn't make it right. There are better tools.
It'd be nice if corporate cultures had fostered doing things a better way, and wordprocessors and spreadsheets remained in the realms of one-off papers/letters and what-if/preliminary design/research respectively. Most features added in the last decade have been pretty useless for that type of use, which is really where the use of these tools should be focused.
Imagine if the effort put into adding those features had been focused on other projects and useful software that is currently lagging.
Just got a palm pre myself. While being on sprint sucks, the phone is amazing. Very open with an active homebrew community. Easy to 'root' (even from linux ... I don't even own a windows computer). Changing the phone's behavior is usually just a matter of editing some javascript and CSS (most of the things you'd like to do there is already a patch for, and you don't need to fully install optware just to install the patches). This is all done in a familiar linux environment.
I was on the fence about getting a 'droid on verizon and the palm pre. After a few days with the pre, however, I am VERY HAPPY with my decision. WebOS is the most open thing I've ever seen on a phone. Messaging is still a little better on the blackberry, but WebOS does it as well as any other platform. And palm / sprint seem to be quite ok with it (other than tethering. *sigh*).