nothing to do with this. this is an analog adapter. for asterisk. which competes with cisco's products such as their... analog adapters. and Call Manager, for that matter.
as the organizer of the largest slashdot meetup, that's exactly what i'm going to do. put up a mailing list and wiki on my website, and link to it in my sig.
Now my question is... are any of those applications you expect your grandmother to use? When the parent says "very few", he/she i think means, "all but the most technical". you just cited 3 that (in my books anyway) fall under that "most technical" designation.
the hokeyness does do a lot though to make ubuntu more accessible to Joe or Jane Luser. i've already put several of my friends on it who would never have gone near linux otherwise... explained to them how to ask smart questions, and sent them to #ubuntu on freenode... and they are happy as can be:-)
Debian and Ubuntu are currently similar enough that i have yet to hear of this happening, though i'm sure it's possible. note that the ubu dev model is something like this: snapshots of debian unstable every 6 months, with fixes applied and fed back into "vanilla" debian. as such i think that we're going to continue to see them being very similar.
Vis Coronation Street. That show's been on for so long that the "childhood pictures" of many of the actors are just publicity shots for the show... from when they were kids:-)
if you just call it "music.iso" when you go to save it it will probably save as "music.iso.nrg". you just probably have to select the appropriate format from the drop-down.
right on topic: bruce shneier, my favourite security wonk, just wrote a great piece about the failure of two-factor identification, especially when it comes to fishing. a very worthwhile read, as is all his stuff that i've read:-)
that's a very reasonable way of doing it, but i wonder if maybe making the location bar a different colour as FireFox does for secure sites might be a better - in the sense of more obvious - solution.
it's kind of funny, though, how it is essentially our (as in the mostly-north-american-and-western-european readership of slashdot)'s lack of familiarity with the writing systems of the rest of the world that are getting us into this particular pickle.
add that to bad eyes from gazing into a CRT for too many hours, and designers with predelictions for ever-smaller fonts, and you have quite the character set predicament.
my concern here lies with the implementation of IDN support... a solution has not been found for the browsers that already implement it (other than turning it off - not a reasonable trade-off for those who want to use IDN sites).
the original idn exploit: http://www.shmoo.com/idn/
unicode draft technical report on security and UTF8: http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr36/tr36-2. html
I don't think that the cathedral vs bazarr analogy so much refers to the building of the cathedral as much as its management and how it's run; a top-down, authoritariam style vs. the distributed one of the bazaar.
The BSD TCP/IP network stack was openly "pirated" by Microsoft, if by "pirated" one means "used while drowning in hypocracy by decrying the very free movement one is exploiting," which is really the only definition of "piracy" I can imagine would apply to using a Free product in compliance with its license. I suspect that is what the original poster meant.
The two "giftie" highschools in my hometown had extremely nerd-friendly programs. One did US FIRST robotics, and the other was the home of the venerable Ottawa Carleton Educational Space Simulation, or SpaceSim. Our motto: Filling Kids' Heads With Space. Okay, so that wasn't really our motto. But we did science education, and I got to be an "astronaut". It was beyond awesome.
the newton can do both, and you set which one you want to use. I quite like the cursive recognizer, and have it set to that, but the print recognizer is great too.
as far as i understand it there are separate engines for each. you set which one you prefer when you're setting up your newton, and it uses the one you set.
Almost more important than the/. audience getting to see it is the boost to your Google pagerank that you get for having a post within the first 100 or so that doesn't get modded down. It's a SEO person's wet dream.
i have the same webcam issue. i need the latest kernel to support other bits of hardware, most importantly my BIOS's ACPI implementation. so the webcam is a no-go.
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don't need to port it to windows, the original windows connectivity software still works :-)
yeah, they kept blowing up in his face and all....
nothing to do with this. this is an analog adapter. for asterisk. which competes with cisco's products such as their... analog adapters. and Call Manager, for that matter.
how long this will last now that Cisco bought Sipura.... cf: http://newsroom.cisco.com/dlls/2005/corp_042605.ht ml?CMP=ILC-001
dumb terminals being the excuse of old hardware addicts everywhere :-)
seriously, how many dumb terminals do you need?!?
Toronto, Ontario, fourth thursday of the month, at Futures Bakery at Bloor and Brunswick. Turnout is usually from 15-20 people.
as the organizer of the largest slashdot meetup, that's exactly what i'm going to do. put up a mailing list and wiki on my website, and link to it in my sig.
they have been selling these for at least a year.
Now my question is... are any of those applications you expect your grandmother to use? When the parent says "very few", he/she i think means, "all but the most technical". you just cited 3 that (in my books anyway) fall under that "most technical" designation.
the hokeyness does do a lot though to make ubuntu more accessible to Joe or Jane Luser. i've already put several of my friends on it who would never have gone near linux otherwise... explained to them how to ask smart questions, and sent them to #ubuntu on freenode... and they are happy as can be :-)
Debian and Ubuntu are currently similar enough that i have yet to hear of this happening, though i'm sure it's possible. note that the ubu dev model is something like this: snapshots of debian unstable every 6 months, with fixes applied and fed back into "vanilla" debian. as such i think that we're going to continue to see them being very similar.
-Leigh
Vis Coronation Street. That show's been on for so long that the "childhood pictures" of many of the actors are just publicity shots for the show... from when they were kids :-)
-Leigh
if you just call it "music.iso" when you go to save it it will probably save as "music.iso.nrg". you just probably have to select the appropriate format from the drop-down.
reasons i have not gone on 2nd dates with people that only nerds will understand:
:-)
1) potential suitor worked for microsoft
2) potential suitor's spelling in emails / im drove me batty
3) potential suitor too hardcore a gentoo evangelist / ubuntu basher
all seem perfectly reasonable to me
as in "backed into a corner", one might suppose :-)
right on topic: bruce shneier, my favourite security wonk, just wrote a great piece about the failure of two-factor identification, especially when it comes to fishing. a very worthwhile read, as is all his stuff that i've read :-)
that's a very reasonable way of doing it, but i wonder if maybe making the location bar a different colour as FireFox does for secure sites might be a better - in the sense of more obvious - solution.
it's kind of funny, though, how it is essentially our (as in the mostly-north-american-and-western-european readership of slashdot)'s lack of familiarity with the writing systems of the rest of the world that are getting us into this particular pickle.
add that to bad eyes from gazing into a CRT for too many hours, and designers with predelictions for ever-smaller fonts, and you have quite the character set predicament.
my concern here lies with the implementation of IDN support... a solution has not been found for the browsers that already implement it (other than turning it off - not a reasonable trade-off for those who want to use IDN sites).
. html
the original idn exploit:
http://www.shmoo.com/idn/
unicode draft technical report on security and UTF8:
http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr36/tr36-2
I don't think that the cathedral vs bazarr analogy so much refers to the building of the cathedral as much as its management and how it's run; a top-down, authoritariam style vs. the distributed one of the bazaar.
-Leigh
The BSD TCP/IP network stack was openly "pirated" by Microsoft, if by "pirated" one means "used while drowning in hypocracy by decrying the very free movement one is exploiting," which is really the only definition of "piracy" I can imagine would apply to using a Free product in compliance with its license. I suspect that is what the original poster meant.
good job reading the parent there.
-Leigh
the "fatal" errors are a well-known ugliness in the boot process. it's completely harmless and will be fixed in Hoary.
The two "giftie" highschools in my hometown had extremely nerd-friendly programs. One did US FIRST robotics, and the other was the home of the venerable Ottawa Carleton Educational Space Simulation, or SpaceSim. Our motto: Filling Kids' Heads With Space. Okay, so that wasn't really our motto. But we did science education, and I got to be an "astronaut". It was beyond awesome.
-Leigh
the newton can do both, and you set which one you want to use. I quite like the cursive recognizer, and have it set to that, but the print recognizer is great too.
:-)
as far as i understand it there are separate engines for each. you set which one you prefer when you're setting up your newton, and it uses the one you set.
long live the newt
-Leigh
Almost more important than the /. audience getting to see it is the boost to your Google pagerank that you get for having a post within the first 100 or so that doesn't get modded down. It's a SEO person's wet dream.
-Leigh
i have the same webcam issue. i need the latest kernel to support other bits of hardware, most importantly my BIOS's ACPI implementation. so the webcam is a no-go.
-Leigh