Isn't IOS based on OS X?
Maybe it's not an either/or thing. Maybe it's simply re-enabling a few more features in IOS that had to be axed to fit it on a phone with limited battery life.
True Full multi-tasking comes to mind. Better support for peripherals & ports, and other such stuff.
I've had it running since yesterday
-Unobtrusive
-Caught 4 virii (keylogger & trojans)missed by ESET NOD32 in software installers I had downloaded
-Took about 40% longer to do a full deep scan than Nod32
-No logs showing that the scans ran when scheduled (only a list of detected problems)
-Smart enough to look for virus catalog updates right before scanning
-Phones home to MSFT (anonymously) with security data
It seems less obtrusive running in the background watching applications & downloads than Norton 2009 did on my old computer. I haven't tried Norton 2010 (and hopefully never will)
I found ESET Smart Security 4 to be buggy on Win 7 x64 (dropping the internet connection unless I disabled the firewall mini-driver)
Overall, this Windows Security Essentials seems like the best option for me right now. And it's free, which is nice.
I use Zoho Writer everyday to share frequently updated docs among co-workers. It's buggy, terrible for printing, and not completely dependable. But it's damn convenient for that kind of sharing. Especially if updates are only needed a couple times a day.
When I started using it a year ago, it was better than Google's alternative, though I think Google has now passed it.
Still, if I'm going to type anything for printing I'll use Word. If I'm going to do anything that doesn't need to be continuously shared, I'll use one of the office apps. If I need a spreadsheet of any complexity, I'll use Office.
I'd much rather see Google & Zoho polish the features they do have (Zoho still can't print in Landscape format, has nothing close to WYSIWYG printing, and frequently locks. Google has no locking to prevent users from overwriting each other (last time I tried it...). Don't bloat till you've got the skeleton working.
A spreadsheet seems perfect for your purpose. I won't say Excel specifically, since there are lots of other free alternatives, but Excel is fine if you already have MS Office. (Since you mentioned Notepad, I'm guessing you're on Windows).
If you need to access it with software (and you're not just using it as a list for yourself) you can export/import tab delimited versions of your spreadsheet. PHP, Perl and other languages have standard modules for handling tab delimited data (or just do it yourself if you're comfortable with that).
From a spreadsheet you can filter, sort, tally, etc. and adding fields is easy.
Several people posted good info that invalidates my original posting.
1. Samsung is a licensee/subcontractor to IBM for the production of PowerPC chips.
(And IBM lists some versions that are low power and appear to be up to the task of running the iPhone). So there is no reason to suppose the iPhone is running ARM.
It's a lot more common to run phones on ARM cores, but PPC can do it.
A power PC core would make it much more likely that the iPhone is running on some variation of a Darwin based OS X.
2. Apple doesn't have to make any Darwin based operating system open if they don't want to. Their license restricts everyone else.
So there was no material basis for my Suggestion that the iPhone isn't running OS X. It might not be, but my reasons were mostly wrong.
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So many of these online calendars including google's and 30 boxes just don't seem to have an interface designed by people who use calendar software a lot. Outlook may be inefficient and clunky, but it's easy to see what you've got going on at a glance. Even the Agenda view in Google only shows the start times of appointments, not the end times. Great if you're meeting a friend. Not great if you're using the thing for work.
The best online calendar I've found for actual practical use (not the prettiest. Not AJAX. Not anything fancy) is the one used on the free service mail.centralpets.com. I've asked them what software they run, but they won't say. A few stray clues suggest it's from a Spanish company.
Google just has to stop trying to be a slick interface maker and deliver information. They're an information company first. Software and slickness second.
3G wireless phone services ARE packet based data networks. The 3G voice protocols are more optimized for voice than layering on top of IP. The network exists and building a redundant network ONLY makes sense because of regulated competition. The problem isn't a technical one. It is a question of markets, taxes, monopolies, states rights, lobbying... in other words, your government (and your phone company) in action.
People seem to think WinFS is about the user experience -- where your files will be kept instead of folders, what meta data you can search on or what the new Explorer will look like. Somebody on the WinFS blog wanted screenshots (even). But it's really about programming standards and flexibility. When you write a program, almost the first thing you do is create a data format which might be an XML or RDBMS Schema or a text file format with a lot of commas. If you want to share that data between apps or between computers, you really have to create your own API with users and security and all of that junk. In general, you have to do a lot of the low level stuff. If it's built into the OS, it's a terrific thing. It just has to be efficient. MySQL is integral to the LAMP platform. Maybe it's not a file system, but from a programming perspective, that's what it is. Screenshots of MySQL aren't exciting, but having a ubiquitous MySQL with a direct API through the OS integrated with the OS security would be nice. Maybe that's what WinFS will partly be.
The aerial photo quality is very good. I don't know if it's a group denial going on with some of the posters here, but every comparison I made between Google Earth aerial photos (Google earth plus if that matters) or maps.google.com vs. this new MSN service showed MSN significantly higher resolution and sharper in general. I compared seven locations in Portland, Los Angeles, and nearby non-urban areas. All were much better.
Google has a much nicer and smoother interface (though the traffic today might be causing some of that effect). Competition is good! If Google can't handle a little (legal, non-anti-competitive) heat, than why put them on such a high pedestal?
A lot of big cities are already gathering images and info (including satellite imagery) and making them available. Portland, OR (big?) has Portland Maps. Not as slick as Google, but it sure would be neat if google listed links to other map/info sources for a region you're looking at on their map. I think listing relevant links is something they can handle. Paris Metro? Utah Topo? Disneyland bathrooms?
Not open source or even free, but useful: I use Windates -- as a simple back-upable calendar/reminder program with a small footprint. It is iCal compatible, but till I find a good FREE iCAL server, I'm not using that feature.
I like it because it has customizable alarms, recurring events, and some other niceties, without sucking up half my RAM. It also remembers old appointments so I can look up old names and such.
I used to use outlook, but it was just too clunky and too much 95% of the time.
I wouldn't bother waiting for the server to clear. These are tiny pics (420x?).
And so far as I can tell, on a limited variety of topics. You will have more fun google image searching, with far more entertaining results.
This seems like a token or mininformed effort. Mostly useful for high school students?
90% for all variations of IE is a lot more than I'm seeing. My tiny website is hardly a cross-section of the web, but my IE penetration is 75% for the past month or so (it's been hovering around there), down from an average last year of 86%, so that's not bad. I'm getting all variations of Firefox at about 7 1/4% ( 1 1/8% for pre 1.0 - which says something. I'm not sure what though.)
And that's not counting the fact that robots account for 5% of my traffic. If you subtract Robots, that brings Firefox closer to 7 1/2%.
(A big story is how much of all web traffic is just from Robots). Of course, that brings IE use up too.
So that's what I'm seeing. Anyone else's weblogs showing something interesting?
(Disclaimer: my site is mostly of regional - Portland, OR - interest. Home of L. Torvalds, who probably accounts for.0001% of my traffic.)
Thanks, but the links you provide are documents for fresh installs. I have an install.
I could parse the fresh install guide and try to deduce for myself which files should be overwritten and which I need to keep (e.g. php.ini).
But that's exactly what I would like in an UPDATE guide.
I'm running PHP on Windows (with Apache2 and MySQL). I would like to upgrade to 4.3.10, but there is really no documentation I can find for a good procedure for doing that. The "installer" is really not even suitable for fresh installs. The zip files are useable for new installs but don't really seem to acknowledge the idea that one might have an existing installation.
Are there changes I need to make to my.ini files for the update? Which files do I need to keep and which should I overwrite from my previous version.
What do I need to do so everything continues to work smoothly with Apache2 and MySQL? Not obvious to me. I bet the answers are simple.
Maybe someone ought to put them in the docs?
For that matter, if the solutions suggested in this thread for Linux upgrading are so clear, why are they not on the UPGRADE page. That would make sense.
In Windows XP (and I believe 2000 and 98), if you look under the Display Properties control panel and double-click on your display icon (e.g. the big square with a 1 in the middle), you ought to get access for the settings for your display driver. Under the "General" tab it is standard (though a few manufacturers override it) to include "DPI settings" which is intended EXACTLY for the purpose you are seeking.
"If your screen resolution makes screen items too small to view comfortably, you can increase the DPI to cmpensate. To change font sizes only, click Cancel and go to the Appearance tab".
Mine is set to "large size (120 DPI)" to accommodate 1600x1200 on a 19" monitor nicely.
I think DirecTV is discontinuing their consumer internet satellite service. There were a couple slashdot articles about that a few months ago.
Commercial satellite broadband is available but you're getting into hundreds/month/user.
I don't think this site has any such Grand Ambition as taking on Google (or even selling out to them). The logo isn't the only thing kinda on the 1/2-ass side. How many Blogs are indexed? 594 as of this posting (Who we Are tab on roogle).
Why this guy isn't using publicly (freely!) available info on published, syndicated blog content is anyone's guess. Mine is that they ain't too serious. "farter" is still holding up above "Microsoft" as the number one search term. Go "farter!"
I wrote a game in 1989 for a Mac 512. A racing game that pitted your bike against Lemond and a grey lobster. The biggest hangup: I measured my speed by attaching my MOUSE to the flywheel on the exercise bike. I have to admit it did reduce my mouse lifespan by a couple years:)
The worst thing about this merger from the point of view of an AT&T cablemodem user that I've heard about is NO Usenet. Comcast doesn't support it and AT&T has made some gurglings about following their lead (no loss to the customers because of the wonderful comcast community we'll get in its place).
Urgh.
From NYT article "And he was the first person on record to solve the Olbers Paradox, which had dogged astronomers since Kepler: the mystery of why the sky is dark at night. If the universe was infinite, as 19th-century astronomers believed, there should be an infinite number of stars as well, plenty, in other words, to illuminate the sky at all times. Poe understood why this in fact was not the case: the universe is finite in time and space (and light from some stars has not yet reached the Milky Way)."
It seems to me that a simpler answer is given by a simple converging power series. Some infinite series converge! Light from stars that are farther and farther away are dimmer according to the inverse square law. Just add them up for any portion of the sky and you get a finite number, no? Why make it more complicated than that?
XDocs and PDF are not doing the same thing
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Is XDocs a resolution independent format that is entirely portable (supporting embeddable fonts) that can handle complex layout like postscript?
Not from anything I've read.
Does PDF support an embeddable data hieracrchy like an XML document for machine parsing of its content? Not in any deep way.
XDocs appears to be a technology/application specifically oriented towards Forms -- that is, data entry stuff. PDF is a technology for creating portable printable documents. They are fundamentally different. Could PDF add on a nice XML layer that would give the data a document contains a more meaningful, parseable structure? Yes, but they haven't done so. Could MSFT add a more portable, resolution independent, presentation layer to their data structures? Yup. But not yet. In the meantime, they just aren't directly competing.
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Isn't IOS based on OS X? Maybe it's not an either/or thing. Maybe it's simply re-enabling a few more features in IOS that had to be axed to fit it on a phone with limited battery life. True Full multi-tasking comes to mind. Better support for peripherals & ports, and other such stuff.
I've had it running since yesterday -Unobtrusive -Caught 4 virii (keylogger & trojans)missed by ESET NOD32 in software installers I had downloaded -Took about 40% longer to do a full deep scan than Nod32 -No logs showing that the scans ran when scheduled (only a list of detected problems) -Smart enough to look for virus catalog updates right before scanning -Phones home to MSFT (anonymously) with security data It seems less obtrusive running in the background watching applications & downloads than Norton 2009 did on my old computer. I haven't tried Norton 2010 (and hopefully never will) I found ESET Smart Security 4 to be buggy on Win 7 x64 (dropping the internet connection unless I disabled the firewall mini-driver) Overall, this Windows Security Essentials seems like the best option for me right now. And it's free, which is nice.
Still, if I'm going to type anything for printing I'll use Word. If I'm going to do anything that doesn't need to be continuously shared, I'll use one of the office apps. If I need a spreadsheet of any complexity, I'll use Office.
I'd much rather see Google & Zoho polish the features they do have (Zoho still can't print in Landscape format, has nothing close to WYSIWYG printing, and frequently locks. Google has no locking to prevent users from overwriting each other (last time I tried it...). Don't bloat till you've got the skeleton working.
A spreadsheet seems perfect for your purpose. I won't say Excel specifically, since there are lots of other free alternatives, but Excel is fine if you already have MS Office. (Since you mentioned Notepad, I'm guessing you're on Windows). If you need to access it with software (and you're not just using it as a list for yourself) you can export/import tab delimited versions of your spreadsheet. PHP, Perl and other languages have standard modules for handling tab delimited data (or just do it yourself if you're comfortable with that). From a spreadsheet you can filter, sort, tally, etc. and adding fields is easy.
Several people posted good info that invalidates my original posting. 1. Samsung is a licensee/subcontractor to IBM for the production of PowerPC chips. (And IBM lists some versions that are low power and appear to be up to the task of running the iPhone). So there is no reason to suppose the iPhone is running ARM. It's a lot more common to run phones on ARM cores, but PPC can do it. A power PC core would make it much more likely that the iPhone is running on some variation of a Darwin based OS X. 2. Apple doesn't have to make any Darwin based operating system open if they don't want to. Their license restricts everyone else. So there was no material basis for my Suggestion that the iPhone isn't running OS X. It might not be, but my reasons were mostly wrong.
So many of these online calendars including google's and 30 boxes just don't seem to have an interface designed by people who use calendar software a lot. Outlook may be inefficient and clunky, but it's easy to see what you've got going on at a glance. Even the Agenda view in Google only shows the start times of appointments, not the end times. Great if you're meeting a friend. Not great if you're using the thing for work. The best online calendar I've found for actual practical use (not the prettiest. Not AJAX. Not anything fancy) is the one used on the free service mail.centralpets.com. I've asked them what software they run, but they won't say. A few stray clues suggest it's from a Spanish company. Google just has to stop trying to be a slick interface maker and deliver information. They're an information company first. Software and slickness second.
3G wireless phone services ARE packet based data networks. The 3G voice protocols are more optimized for voice than layering on top of IP. The network exists and building a redundant network ONLY makes sense because of regulated competition. The problem isn't a technical one. It is a question of markets, taxes, monopolies, states rights, lobbying ... in other words, your government (and your phone company) in action.
People seem to think WinFS is about the user experience -- where your files will be kept instead of folders, what meta data you can search on or what the new Explorer will look like. Somebody on the WinFS blog wanted screenshots (even). But it's really about programming standards and flexibility. When you write a program, almost the first thing you do is create a data format which might be an XML or RDBMS Schema or a text file format with a lot of commas. If you want to share that data between apps or between computers, you really have to create your own API with users and security and all of that junk. In general, you have to do a lot of the low level stuff. If it's built into the OS, it's a terrific thing. It just has to be efficient. MySQL is integral to the LAMP platform. Maybe it's not a file system, but from a programming perspective, that's what it is. Screenshots of MySQL aren't exciting, but having a ubiquitous MySQL with a direct API through the OS integrated with the OS security would be nice. Maybe that's what WinFS will partly be.
Several sites including Craigslist post an audio file in addition to the visual specifically for the blind.
Google has a much nicer and smoother interface (though the traffic today might be causing some of that effect). Competition is good! If Google can't handle a little (legal, non-anti-competitive) heat, than why put them on such a high pedestal?
A lot of big cities are already gathering images and info (including satellite imagery) and making them available. Portland, OR (big?) has Portland Maps. Not as slick as Google, but it sure would be neat if google listed links to other map/info sources for a region you're looking at on their map. I think listing relevant links is something they can handle. Paris Metro? Utah Topo? Disneyland bathrooms?
Anyone know a good (FREE) iCal server?
I wouldn't bother waiting for the server to clear. These are tiny pics (420x?). And so far as I can tell, on a limited variety of topics. You will have more fun google image searching, with far more entertaining results. This seems like a token or mininformed effort. Mostly useful for high school students?
And that's not counting the fact that robots account for 5% of my traffic. If you subtract Robots, that brings Firefox closer to 7 1/2%. (A big story is how much of all web traffic is just from Robots). Of course, that brings IE use up too.
So that's what I'm seeing. Anyone else's weblogs showing something interesting? (Disclaimer: my site is mostly of regional - Portland, OR - interest. Home of L. Torvalds, who probably accounts for .0001% of my traffic.)
Thanks, but the links you provide are documents for fresh installs. I have an install. I could parse the fresh install guide and try to deduce for myself which files should be overwritten and which I need to keep (e.g. php.ini). But that's exactly what I would like in an UPDATE guide.
Are there changes I need to make to my .ini files for the update? Which files do I need to keep and which should I overwrite from my previous version.
What do I need to do so everything continues to work smoothly with Apache2 and MySQL? Not obvious to me. I bet the answers are simple.
Maybe someone ought to put them in the docs?
For that matter, if the solutions suggested in this thread for Linux upgrading are so clear, why are they not on the UPGRADE page. That would make sense.
"If your screen resolution makes screen items too small to view comfortably, you can increase the DPI to cmpensate. To change font sizes only, click Cancel and go to the Appearance tab". Mine is set to "large size (120 DPI)" to accommodate 1600x1200 on a 19" monitor nicely.
http://webcast.ucsd.edu:8080/ramgen/UCSD_TV/7153.r m
That's from the University of California Video archive. Lots of interesting stuff.
More interestin info can be found at this interesting /. thread about a "guy building a 747 simulator in his backyard!"
I think DirecTV is discontinuing their consumer internet satellite service. There were a couple slashdot articles about that a few months ago. Commercial satellite broadband is available but you're getting into hundreds/month/user.
I don't think this site has any such Grand Ambition as taking on Google (or even selling out to them). The logo isn't the only thing kinda on the 1/2-ass side. How many Blogs are indexed? 594 as of this posting (Who we Are tab on roogle). Why this guy isn't using publicly (freely!) available info on published, syndicated blog content is anyone's guess. Mine is that they ain't too serious. "farter" is still holding up above "Microsoft" as the number one search term. Go "farter!"
I wrote a game in 1989 for a Mac 512. A racing game that pitted your bike against Lemond and a grey lobster. The biggest hangup: I measured my speed by attaching my MOUSE to the flywheel on the exercise bike. I have to admit it did reduce my mouse lifespan by a couple years :)
The worst thing about this merger from the point of view of an AT&T cablemodem user that I've heard about is NO Usenet. Comcast doesn't support it and AT&T has made some gurglings about following their lead (no loss to the customers because of the wonderful comcast community we'll get in its place). Urgh.
It seems to me that a simpler answer is given by a simple converging power series. Some infinite series converge! Light from stars that are farther and farther away are dimmer according to the inverse square law. Just add them up for any portion of the sky and you get a finite number, no? Why make it more complicated than that?
Not from anything I've read.
Does PDF support an embeddable data hieracrchy like an XML document for machine parsing of its content? Not in any deep way.
XDocs appears to be a technology/application specifically oriented towards Forms -- that is, data entry stuff. PDF is a technology for creating portable printable documents. They are fundamentally different. Could PDF add on a nice XML layer that would give the data a document contains a more meaningful, parseable structure? Yes, but they haven't done so. Could MSFT add a more portable, resolution independent, presentation layer to their data structures? Yup. But not yet. In the meantime, they just aren't directly competing.