back in 1989 I was in the first year of highschool here in brasil and my stepfather gave me an HP-15C, a very cool calculator.
Well, the desks at the school were too damn small to fit notepads, pens AND the calculator so I tied it to wristband and started using it in my left wrist. one of the first wearable puters ever.
now everyone is copying my ideas and I don't see money flowing to my pockets. not fair.
someone in/. buying an 8 bit box with a microsoft BIOS ???
it's the end of the world...
They're wrong
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The Drone War
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All these sci-fi writers are wrong. deeply wrong.
take the last two wars US fought: Gulf and Afghanistan.
Gulf was won by siege. They sufocated Iraq by preventing them from buying weapons and _food_. when Iraq's soldiers came to the point of choosing between death and surender, they surended.
Afghanistan was not properly an US war. it was a civil war with US giving air cover.
in certain environments (Afghanistan specially) you can't win or even fight a drone war, because THEY DON'T HAVE DRONES. the only thing they have is AK-47 and some grenades. their bases are almost all in the underground in a mountain landscape.
the only way to fight a war in such place is with _infantry_. in the ground. with handguns. using guerrila tatics.
ask pentagon about fighting in tropical jungles like vietnam or amazon. ask them if drones are efective in such places. if they say YES, they don't know theyr jobs.
When Linus released Linux...
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Hurd: H2 CD Images
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he said in the post that Hurd was not far away. This was ten years ago, and we're still waiting.
maybe if slashdot talks a litle bit more about it more ppl will join and code for it... maybe...
From my box I can send to you HUNDREDS of messages with assorted "From:" addresses, including notorious domains like slashdot.org, yahoo.com, hotmail.com and so on and non-existent ones such as msn-aol.net.
If you have your own mail transfer agent (like sendmail) this is quite easy to do.
The only way to know from where a spam really comes is by loking in the headers. specialy the lines "Received from:". these ones are placed there by the RECEIVING mta, so the spammer have no control over them.
except for the periodic newsletter they send Hotmail does't spam it's users. remember one thing folks: Hotmail is free, so I see nothing wrong with them sending some advertise once in a while.
I'm not a big fan of M$, as some of my posts shows, but I don't like to be unfair. They don't spam. this is final.
last year I created a bogus hotmail account just to test this. I didnt tell anyone about that acount, i unchecked all partners boxes during registration and started to monitor the acount.
when the experiment ended six months later there was NO MESSAGES in the box except for hotmails newslwetter, which were few.
Honda doesn't mind if you open the hood to tweak your car, and you know why ?
Do you know how much equipment you need to make a perfect copy of a Civic ? do you know how much this said equipment cost ?
Ford has the equipment, knowledge and $$$ to do this, but if they do Honda WILL fill a law suit aleging lots of patents and copyright infringment. As a result Ford rathers design theyr own models.
Know, what kind of equipment do you need to make a perfect copy of a software ? how much does it cost ?
You just need a computer with a CD burner. anyone can buy one for less tha US$ 2.000,00 and doing the copy is a nobrainer. THAT'S why software makers DO mind if you start to tweak with their products.
You want to tweak your software ? fix that litle anoyance you found ? Use free (as in freedom) software. Linux, Hurd, GNU, whatever... The guys who develop the code does't mind if you take a look or change what they did.
When apple moved to powerPC they came with a m68k emulator to give users the ability to run old code until all the codebase was ported to new architeture, and the new risc CPUs paved the way for the move to a Un*x based OS, which still keeps the ability to run old code using a virtual machine where a changed version of MacOS 9 runs. This is a Good Thing(tm) since it allows the company to suply it's costumers with cuting edge technology without breaking with the past.
But the point of the article is not if the companies are upgrading or not. When aplle upgraded the HARDWARE from m68k to PPP it was just that. hardware. you're not FORCED (at least not yet) to upgrade hardware if you don't want (or need) to.
The whole point is: softwares companies _FORCING_ you to upgrade your software when you _DON'T_WANT_ to at gun^H^H^Hlaw suit point.
The fact is: if the only thing I need in an office suite is the ability to create, print and send letters with pretty formated paragraphs and my company's logo on the top, I don't need office XP running in Windows XYZ. I can do this in win95 with office 95 or Red Hat 6.0 whit StarOffice 5.2.
Programed obsolence enforced by some stupid EULA is imoral, unfortunatelly for USians it's not ilegal in your country. at least I'm safe where I am. here this kind of this IS ilegal.
Re:Can anyone tell me why...
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Lunar Lasers
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If you take in account the adverse efects microwaves beamed from space will have to the whole earth ecosystem, we're in a lose-lose situation.
on a second tought the 50+ bilion for the lunar project would be better spent in researching wind/solar panel/tides as viable power sources.
Telling me to upgrade my linux kernel just 'cause Marcelo Trosatti tought 2.4.5 was in it's last days....
hmmmm... wait a minute... no I wouldn't. the kernel if free as in freedom AND as in beer. I can upgrade it every week if I want. Call me at will Marcelo...
Can anyone tell me why...
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we should spend trilions on space based power plants when 80% of amazon hydroeletrical potential is not yet in use ???
and this is the first AYBABTU quote I could find. One of the most important posts in the geek history, for here is where all the AYBABTU annoyance started...
can be done if the subject have a firewall loging each and every packet.
once he finds strange packets leaving the machine a smart guy with some knowledge can start searching manually his system, and once he finds what he's looking for he can put togheter a package similar to backorifice, knowing that it wont be cought by antivirus.
the fraging.pak is almost 9 megs, it has to be installed in the ramfs, because the built-in flash is taken by either Familiar with microX or QPE, this means by-by.pak if you run out of batteries.
a compact flash or a microdrive would solve both problems, but they're too damn expensive for me to consider the right now.
Well, this is not the first, and probably it won't be the last too, dangerous boog in the 2.4 series. IIRC (too lazy today to check) 2.4.11 is marked as "do not use" in the kernel mirrors.
I tried quake for the iPaq version of qpe. it needs the.pak files, and d'ya know how big those friging paks are ??? Flash memory doesn't grow on trees...
unfortunatly we have here in brasil some of the best cracker in the world. sooner or later one of them will find a way to crack the digatal signatures.
The bad point is that the press don't know the diffence between "crackers" and "hackers", so as soon as the first digitaly signed forgery shows up, the brasilian press will start mudslinging hackers as the culprits.
it's about time we start a PR campaign to teach the public and the press about the diference.
Well, I don't know if ever had a Palm and played with many combinations of apps, but my experieces shows that PalmOS allows one aplication to take control off certain kind of file.
anyway, this is not necessary because PalmOS is not file oriented like windows, unix or mac. In Palm's interface you choose the aplication and from the app you choose the document you want to work with. Unless you intall a specific app like Launcher III that allows you to see all the objects stored in memory, you won't see the files unless you're inside the application.
when inspecting the memory contents of my Palm, I found that PalmOS uses a four digit file type ID. When you launch an application it looks the files that "belongs" to it by inspecting this ID. If you install two similar apps (i.e 2 diferent doc readers) both will know which files to look for when they're started, so you can choose the one that better fits the situation, ZDoc to edit eBooks or CSpotRun (wich is faster than ZDoc) to just read them.
This gives you a clean interface, without overlaping windows messing up your screen AND the choice of which application will handle your documents.
Of course, PalmOS is not perfect. Remember, all OS sucks, all applications sucks, all hardware sucks. there's no such thing as a perfect thing, but with some modifications I'm sure PalmOS would be a nice substitute for the current set of GUIs, with the advantage of the small memory footprint (about 1,7 MB in a Palm color) and runs in modest CPUs (motorola's Dragonball EZ 20MHz).
"We wanted to find people who didn't understand the function of file folders, how to open files, how to delete files. We couldn't find anyone. That makes it hard to change people's expectations of how computers should behave." - try 3rd world. I know lots of ppl here in Brasil that never saw a computer in their lives and that still fears that a HAL 9000 can someday takeover the world.
But that's not the reason of this post.
the real reason of this post is to say that the solution to the desktop mess may already exist, living right in our POCKETS... yes, I am talking about PalmOS.
Palm os is task oriented. you want to type a text ? fire the text editor. all your texts will be registered as belonging to that app, and will be an inseparable part of it.
Want to draw a picture ? same thing.
The job of organizing files by date, size, content, name, category, etc will be handled by THE APPLICATION, in a way that best matches the type of aplication you're using. Keep in mind that organizing AutoCAD drawings is completelly diferent than organizing texts or bitmap images.
Slashdot Mirror
as a pioneer of wearable computers.
back in 1989 I was in the first year of highschool here in brasil and my stepfather gave me an HP-15C, a very cool calculator.
Well, the desks at the school were too damn small to fit notepads, pens AND the calculator so I tied it to wristband and started using it in my left wrist. one of the first wearable puters ever.
now everyone is copying my ideas and I don't see money flowing to my pockets. not fair.
printers and scanners ?
once one of the best R&D companies of the planet reduced to a mere peripheral manufacturer is not a god thing.
this Fiorina chick is realy screwing the company. I was trying to sell my HP48G, but now I'll keep it for the sake of the good old times.
MSX ??? MicroSoft eXtended ???
/. buying an 8 bit box with a microsoft BIOS ???
someone in
it's the end of the world...
All these sci-fi writers are wrong. deeply wrong.
take the last two wars US fought: Gulf and Afghanistan.
Gulf was won by siege. They sufocated Iraq by preventing them from buying weapons and _food_. when Iraq's soldiers came to the point of choosing between death and surender, they surended.
Afghanistan was not properly an US war. it was a civil war with US giving air cover.
in certain environments (Afghanistan specially) you can't win or even fight a drone war, because THEY DON'T HAVE DRONES. the only thing they have is AK-47 and some grenades. their bases are almost all in the underground in a mountain landscape.
the only way to fight a war in such place is with _infantry_. in the ground. with handguns. using guerrila tatics.
ask pentagon about fighting in tropical jungles like vietnam or amazon. ask them if drones are efective in such places. if they say YES, they don't know theyr jobs.
he said in the post that Hurd was not far away. This was ten years ago, and we're still waiting.
maybe if slashdot talks a litle bit more about it more ppl will join and code for it... maybe...
What's your e-mail ?
From my box I can send to you HUNDREDS of messages with assorted "From:" addresses, including notorious domains like slashdot.org, yahoo.com, hotmail.com and so on and non-existent ones such as msn-aol.net.
If you have your own mail transfer agent (like sendmail) this is quite easy to do.
The only way to know from where a spam really comes is by loking in the headers. specialy the lines "Received from:". these ones are placed there by the RECEIVING mta, so the spammer have no control over them.
except for the periodic newsletter they send Hotmail does't spam it's users. remember one thing folks: Hotmail is free, so I see nothing wrong with them sending some advertise once in a while.
I'm not a big fan of M$, as some of my posts shows, but I don't like to be unfair. They don't spam. this is final.
last year I created a bogus hotmail account just to test this. I didnt tell anyone about that acount, i unchecked all partners boxes during registration and started to monitor the acount.
when the experiment ended six months later there was NO MESSAGES in the box except for hotmails newslwetter, which were few.
If you want do the experiment yourselves.
another arcticle that makes ppl remember M$ Bob...
AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!
hmmmm. Toyota ???
to determine if you're using a VPN client, you can always implement something like this.
Hey, is HTTP based, so how would they tell the difenrence ?
Honda doesn't mind if you open the hood to tweak your car, and you know why ?
Do you know how much equipment you need to make a perfect copy of a Civic ? do you know how much this said equipment cost ?
Ford has the equipment, knowledge and $$$ to do this, but if they do Honda WILL fill a law suit aleging lots of patents and copyright infringment. As a result Ford rathers design theyr own models.
Know, what kind of equipment do you need to make a perfect copy of a software ? how much does it cost ?
You just need a computer with a CD burner. anyone can buy one for less tha US$ 2.000,00 and doing the copy is a nobrainer. THAT'S why software makers DO mind if you start to tweak with their products.
You want to tweak your software ? fix that litle anoyance you found ? Use free (as in freedom) software. Linux, Hurd, GNU, whatever... The guys who develop the code does't mind if you take a look or change what they did.
I agree with you but I'd like to add something.
When apple moved to powerPC they came with a m68k emulator to give users the ability to run old code until all the codebase was ported to new architeture, and the new risc CPUs paved the way for the move to a Un*x based OS, which still keeps the ability to run old code using a virtual machine where a changed version of MacOS 9 runs. This is a Good Thing(tm) since it allows the company to suply it's costumers with cuting edge technology without breaking with the past.
But the point of the article is not if the companies are upgrading or not. When aplle upgraded the HARDWARE from m68k to PPP it was just that. hardware. you're not FORCED (at least not yet) to upgrade hardware if you don't want (or need) to.
The whole point is: softwares companies _FORCING_ you to upgrade your software when you _DON'T_WANT_ to at gun^H^H^Hlaw suit point.
The fact is: if the only thing I need in an office suite is the ability to create, print and send letters with pretty formated paragraphs and my company's logo on the top, I don't need office XP running in Windows XYZ. I can do this in win95 with office 95 or Red Hat 6.0 whit StarOffice 5.2.
Programed obsolence enforced by some stupid EULA is imoral, unfortunatelly for USians it's not ilegal in your country. at least I'm safe where I am. here this kind of this IS ilegal.
If you take in account the adverse efects microwaves beamed from space will have to the whole earth ecosystem, we're in a lose-lose situation.
on a second tought the 50+ bilion for the lunar project would be better spent in researching wind/solar panel/tides as viable power sources.
Telling me to upgrade my linux kernel just 'cause Marcelo Trosatti tought 2.4.5 was in it's last days....
hmmmm... wait a minute... no I wouldn't. the kernel if free as in freedom AND as in beer. I can upgrade it every week if I want. Call me at will Marcelo...
we should spend trilions on space based power plants when 80% of amazon hydroeletrical potential is not yet in use ???
are belong to us.
and this is the first AYBABTU quote I could find. One of the most important posts in the geek history, for here is where all the AYBABTU annoyance started...
If you live in brasil.
Our consumer laws says that a company must keep support for a product up to 5 years after it's dicontinued.
Since win95 were discontinued only in 1998, they must keep support for it (at least here) until 2003.
can be done if the subject have a firewall loging each and every packet.
once he finds strange packets leaving the machine a smart guy with some knowledge can start searching manually his system, and once he finds what he's looking for he can put togheter a package similar to backorifice, knowing that it wont be cought by antivirus.
the fraging .pak is almost 9 megs, it has to be installed in the ramfs, because the built-in flash is taken by either Familiar with microX or QPE, this means by-by .pak if you run out of batteries.
a compact flash or a microdrive would solve both problems, but they're too damn expensive for me to consider the right now.
for the brasilian guy, hum ?
Well, this is not the first, and probably it won't be the last too, dangerous boog in the 2.4 series. IIRC (too lazy today to check) 2.4.11 is marked as "do not use" in the kernel mirrors.
done that...
.pak files, and d'ya know how big those friging paks are ??? Flash memory doesn't grow on trees...
I tried quake for the iPaq version of qpe. it needs the
discussing this technology almost 5 years ago.
unfortunatly we have here in brasil some of the best cracker in the world. sooner or later one of them will find a way to crack the digatal signatures.
The bad point is that the press don't know the diffence between "crackers" and "hackers", so as soon as the first digitaly signed forgery shows up, the brasilian press will start mudslinging hackers as the culprits.
it's about time we start a PR campaign to teach the public and the press about the diference.
you realized how valuable tha thing really was.
We take for granted our TVs, internet, computers, pr0n, our liberty, etc. in such a way that sometimes we don't see how valuable these things are.
let's keep an eye on this new free Afghanistan, they can teach us a lot on this subject.
Well, I don't know if ever had a Palm and played with many combinations of apps, but my experieces shows that PalmOS allows one aplication to take control off certain kind of file.
anyway, this is not necessary because PalmOS is not file oriented like windows, unix or mac. In Palm's interface you choose the aplication and from the app you choose the document you want to work with. Unless you intall a specific app like Launcher III that allows you to see all the objects stored in memory, you won't see the files unless you're inside the application.
when inspecting the memory contents of my Palm, I found that PalmOS uses a four digit file type ID. When you launch an application it looks the files that "belongs" to it by inspecting this ID. If you install two similar apps (i.e 2 diferent doc readers) both will know which files to look for when they're started, so you can choose the one that better fits the situation, ZDoc to edit eBooks or CSpotRun (wich is faster than ZDoc) to just read them.
This gives you a clean interface, without overlaping windows messing up your screen AND the choice of which application will handle your documents.
Of course, PalmOS is not perfect. Remember, all OS sucks, all applications sucks, all hardware sucks. there's no such thing as a perfect thing, but with some modifications I'm sure PalmOS would be a nice substitute for the current set of GUIs, with the advantage of the small memory footprint (about 1,7 MB in a Palm color) and runs in modest CPUs (motorola's Dragonball EZ 20MHz).
"We wanted to find people who didn't understand the function of file folders, how to open files, how to delete files. We couldn't find anyone. That makes it hard to change people's expectations of how computers should behave." - try 3rd world. I know lots of ppl here in Brasil that never saw a computer in their lives and that still fears that a HAL 9000 can someday takeover the world.
But that's not the reason of this post.
the real reason of this post is to say that the solution to the desktop mess may already exist, living right in our POCKETS... yes, I am talking about PalmOS.
Palm os is task oriented. you want to type a text ? fire the text editor. all your texts will be registered as belonging to that app, and will be an inseparable part of it.
Want to draw a picture ? same thing.
The job of organizing files by date, size, content, name, category, etc will be handled by THE APPLICATION, in a way that best matches the type of aplication you're using. Keep in mind that organizing AutoCAD drawings is completelly diferent than organizing texts or bitmap images.