Wish I could be more informative, but check the tv - building 7 (part of the WTC complex) collapsed, but it was expected and officials were waiting for about a half hour, from what I heard. Apparently, injuries from this collapse are minimal.
I have to wonder how this e-paper is going to operate - will it work like a PDA with its own embedded OS, or will there be some sort of seperate device with an "e-paper display driver" that spits out pages to the device? If the first is true, I imagine there will be a small square on the paper where the chips are that cannot display anything. Maybe that's where the paper's logo will go (Intel Inside or something).
But I really hope it won't run on Microsoft PaperPC.
Then again, it would be really funny if the person sitting next to me had a page of e-paper that suddenly went all blue - This paper has performed an illegal operation and will be shut down. How do you control-alt-delete a piece of paper?
Well, it's busy downloading for me right now, but I'd guess it's a higher res of the.pict file, which is (understandably) a Mac image format, which is viewable by Quicktime on Windows machines, and possibly the Gimp on Linux? Unfortunately, the site has been/.ed now, so it will take some time to finish the download and LILO my way into the fun partition and verify.
And I need to reboot Windows anyway before viewing the pict file, because (a)I had to upgrade Quicktime, and (b)Windows is stupid and makes me reboot after every install/patch/upgrade/2 hours of productivity.
And as far as the backend goes, why MySQL? Postgres is much more robust...
Because then you'd spell LAPP.
Beides, that, I agree - doesn't PGSQL handle transcations better now? I am running an intranet off it, and survey registration to. Neither needs transactions now, but it's only a matter of time before the company asks me about cc sales, and I might as well be familiar with postgresql now.
if (`cat $1 >/dev/null;`)
{
echo "Thank you for your request.\n";
@answer = array(
"Reboot your machine.\n",
"Make sure it's plugged in.\n",
"Reboot and don't cancel out of the network login screen this time\n",
"You should have saved your work.\n",
"No, the IT staff doesn't maintain the AC.\n",
"That's because the NT server crashed again. Reboot.\n");
$ans_index = int(rand()) * 5;
echo @answer[$ans_index];
}
The code's a little incorrect, but that's not important...
While those settings on operating systems and other software can be changed, most computer users and many network administrators don't know how to do that, Kreitner said.
Many network administrators don't know how to change security settings on desktop machines (which are usually some flavor of windows)??? How do they keep their jobs if they can't change a desktop computer's security settings?
The scary thing is, it's probably true. I thought back to my college days and all my fellow CIS majors (computer info. systems). A lot of them couldn't use windows, understand "for" loops or update a printer driver, yet they got their degrees. And they are the ones who use Windows NT and IIS and Outlook because it's so damn easy to install and everything has a pretty icon for it ("ooh! a picture of a person means this icon lets me add people to the PDC... what does PDC mean?"). Not to mention they probably believed Microsoft got to the top because they made the best product, and unix is old so it must be bad.
So considering that the quote above probably has some scary truth to it, maybe we should focus more on idiot-proofing the Network Administration population, and less on idiot-proofing servers with more security installed by default. Remember, if it's installed by default, it will always be the same solution- and that's easier to hack than a security setting that set by each individual sysadmin. Example - If a particular Linux distro by default installed the very strong root password of H8&^h3{ew and a user called user1 with password D4s^Je0* on every machine, wouldn't some less intelligent sysadmins keep those on there, figuring it was pretty strong? Then some beginner hackers could search the web for that flavor's default apache page, telnet the IP and root the machine! Just an example, but meant to point out that installing high security by default could backfire, and usually a better solution is less idiots, not more idiot-proof machines.
(for the benefit of those browsing above the AC's...)
Hard disk space is NOT cheap. Have you seen the prices of hard disks recently?
Yeah, I got a 30GB drive several months ago for about $150, and prices have gone down since then. That's cheap. About 3 times as expensive as blank CDR's, megabyte for megabyte, but it is cheap.
But of course, I'm not the type to spout numbers without some kind of evidence. Check here, or if that's not big enough check here or here. Yeah, it's more than a few beers, but what were you expecting to pay for serious storage?
You mean how you don't use it. I, on the other hand, have ~38 gigs and can run lots of apps, games, and store/edit videos and music. HD space is cheap! Use digital media for you pictures, videos and music!
Sure, 4GB used to work fine in 1996, before computers could be used as part of the entertainment center. But times have changed, you're holding back the potential of your computer if you don't get some disk space!
A pre-release beta test version of MANA is available by anonymous FTP from ftp://ftp.kvaleberg.com/pub/mana-4.0beta.tar.gz
Okay, pre-release beta, not sounding too great, but at least they're working on it. Further down that page,
Latest update: July 12th 2000
So, it's been a year since a beta came out. Not a good sign, honestly. Maybe if I was a programmer and unemployed I could work on it myself, but I'm not and I'm not.
In other news, the article says that one way to legally redistribute Pine and Pico is "In free-of-charge distributions by for-profit concerns." What if I downloaded a few ISO's from the RedHat ftp site? I recieved a distribution free-of-charge. And wouldn't you know, of the four distro's I've been through so far, I downloaded them all (using the boot floppy and ftp installations back in the day) so I guess they won't come knocking at my door.
And, of course, when you apply the patch, you get a dialog box with an "OK" button that will restart the whole server, not just the service it is fixing. No "Would you like to restart now?" dialog, just "Press OK to restart." I should have expected that.
I can't believe how many stories you're coming up with! Folks, if you want to see a fun trend, take a look at Jon Erikson's profile. Read the comments he's made - menstruation is a sin to punish women for Eve's actions (I guess the liberals want you to think it's some sort of biological thing about reproduction cylcles! Don't believe them!).
Why, why, does this guy think we will believe Native Americans were "invented" in the 1960's? Are we supposed to believe that Mark Twain's stories were also therefore written in the 1960's and backdated to the 1800's? Has this guy ever seen the hundreds of "Cowboy and Indian" movies of the early 20th century?
Moderators, I think our best attack is to mod him down whenever possible, to the point that his karma will be so bad his posts start at -1. It's not like his posts are worth modding up; he is so extreme that he will try to convince us that a race of people was invented in the 1960's, a time that many people here can remember. According to his profile, he was born in 1970. Some freak got to this guy and brainwashed him pretty early on, I guess.
But I wouldn't recommend it as an intro to programming. The first language you learn should be very strict and require good programming practices.
I think the best way to get into programming is by starting with C (to learn basic programming stuff), then moving on to C++ (for your object-oriented stuff and pointers) and then Java (to learn about the AWT and threads and such). Granted, what I suggest learning Java for can be learned in C++ too, but I think it's better to branch out to a slightly different language at that point to learn how different languages are similar yet different.
The reason I think C is a great starting point is that you can't get away with a lot of tricks in it. You have to define your variables at the start (unlike VB, which teaches students to program poorly). Students don't dwell on making listboxes and buttons, they work on sorting arrays and file i/o and sentinel loops (while (i!=0) {scanf(i); j++; k[j]=i;}) and they get a feel for how the computer "thinks." C++ then gives you abstraction, like linked lists and classes and private members and overloaded constructor functions, but you're still using the familiar C syntax. Java, then, turns everything into an object and students have to learn that main() isn't a function, it's an instance of class Main inherits Applet or whatever, I don't remember any more.
Re:Great idea, just two problems...
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NTSC tvs are limited to 640x480....
I don't know how they did it, but my ATI All-In-Wonder spits out 800x600 to my TV. I think if you use S-Video inputs you can get higher resolutions.
On your other point, they're coming out with a hard drive, which I would assume either uses the weird looking expansion slot in back or the Firewire in front. And if the HD is $200 or less, you've still got a kickass system for $500.
I just really, really hope I can use my cable connection with it...
Maybe instead of saying "Hey, I'm about to turn yellow," it could say other stuff, like "This is a 'no turn on red' intersection," or "This lane must turn left," or "Construction ahead," or "Corner of 5th (<-- East West -->) and 115th (Heading North)."
Of course, then it won't be long before they start to say "Drink Pepsi," or "Now playing on 104.3: Howard Stern," but this could certainly have some very useful applications!
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You got animated GIMP in my Mozilla! No, you got Mozilla in my animated GIMP!
And thus, GIMPy animated Mozilla cups were born.
something tells me I'm gonna get modded down for that one...
Cheap, useable competition
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There are some things PhotoShop can do which The GIMP so far cannot...
I agree with that, but the Gimp is a lot cheaper. Not everyone can justify the cost of Photoshop, but want to be able to do some amateur graphic design. (I went with PSP6, but only because I use it at work on a windows box).
And I like the animated GIMP! Is that a first for/.?
Add to that the fact that most of you would still be working on PDPs if it weren't for Microsoft and IBM making babies.
I'd still be using an Amiga, actually, quite happily. I only left it in 95 because I went to college, where the IT staff wouldn't network an Amiga, and my CS programs had to compile on x86. But Windows and DOS were so simple (meaning limited) compared to the wonderful Workbench and CLI, so I was able to breeze through the Wintel learning curve and start to play with Linux.
You might as well be telling us that we would still be using BBS's and Archie if it weren't for AOL. The/. gang knows that we don't owe our computers to MS or Intel. We'd be just fine (or better) without them, using Macs, or Sun, or Amiga, or any other company that would have been able to crop up.
But it's tough to get mad at a comment that was modded down so much. I laugh at flamebait! Ha ha!
1. but wait I don't have PS/2, nor I
will acquire one in my life time.
2. Because sony is more or less
evil than microsoft, or others, while others
have sane architectures like XBox + DirectX... (two Microsoft products... wtf?)
3. And you have to sign non-disclosure just to use their fucking APIs. Fuck that.
That's not very informative. As a general rule, I never mod up something that makes no sense.
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cripes, I changed my prefs to view at -1 for that? I guess I'm a loser too.
Wish I could be more informative, but check the tv - building 7 (part of the WTC complex) collapsed, but it was expected and officials were waiting for about a half hour, from what I heard. Apparently, injuries from this collapse are minimal.
I have to wonder how this e-paper is going to operate - will it work like a PDA with its own embedded OS, or will there be some sort of seperate device with an "e-paper display driver" that spits out pages to the device? If the first is true, I imagine there will be a small square on the paper where the chips are that cannot display anything. Maybe that's where the paper's logo will go (Intel Inside or something).
But I really hope it won't run on Microsoft PaperPC.
Then again, it would be really funny if the person sitting next to me had a page of e-paper that suddenly went all blue - This paper has performed an illegal operation and will be shut down. How do you control-alt-delete a piece of paper?
Well, it's busy downloading for me right now, but I'd guess it's a higher res of the .pict file, which is (understandably) a Mac image format, which is viewable by Quicktime on Windows machines, and possibly the Gimp on Linux? Unfortunately, the site has been /.ed now, so it will take some time to finish the download and LILO my way into the fun partition and verify.
And I need to reboot Windows anyway before viewing the pict file, because (a)I had to upgrade Quicktime, and (b)Windows is stupid and makes me reboot after every install/patch/upgrade/2 hours of productivity.
And as far as the backend goes, why MySQL? Postgres is much more robust...
Because then you'd spell LAPP.
Beides, that, I agree - doesn't PGSQL handle transcations better now? I am running an intranet off it, and survey registration to. Neither needs transactions now, but it's only a matter of time before the company asks me about cc sales, and I might as well be familiar with postgresql now.
No, but MS's stock symbol might "mysteriously" change to BSOD...
but then I was on the tram to work so my mind was wandering!
I bet the tram was vibrating at more than 30Hz!
I'd like to think my suicidal sig helped, too.
Sometimes, I read /. just for the humor derived from pronouncing the misspellings the way they are spelled.
I agree with the post, though.
I was hoping they meant the cool little game with the turtle and the "go 25 / right 90" commands... drats.
Here's your level 1 tech support agent:
/dev/null;`)
if (`cat $1 >
{
echo "Thank you for your request.\n";
@answer = array(
"Reboot your machine.\n",
"Make sure it's plugged in.\n",
"Reboot and don't cancel out of the network login screen this time\n",
"You should have saved your work.\n",
"No, the IT staff doesn't maintain the AC.\n",
"That's because the NT server crashed again. Reboot.\n");
$ans_index = int(rand()) * 5;
echo @answer[$ans_index];
}
The code's a little incorrect, but that's not important...
Many network administrators don't know how to change security settings on desktop machines (which are usually some flavor of windows)??? How do they keep their jobs if they can't change a desktop computer's security settings?
The scary thing is, it's probably true. I thought back to my college days and all my fellow CIS majors (computer info. systems). A lot of them couldn't use windows, understand "for" loops or update a printer driver, yet they got their degrees. And they are the ones who use Windows NT and IIS and Outlook because it's so damn easy to install and everything has a pretty icon for it ("ooh! a picture of a person means this icon lets me add people to the PDC... what does PDC mean?"). Not to mention they probably believed Microsoft got to the top because they made the best product, and unix is old so it must be bad.
So considering that the quote above probably has some scary truth to it, maybe we should focus more on idiot-proofing the Network Administration population, and less on idiot-proofing servers with more security installed by default. Remember, if it's installed by default, it will always be the same solution- and that's easier to hack than a security setting that set by each individual sysadmin. Example - If a particular Linux distro by default installed the very strong root password of H8&^h3{ew and a user called user1 with password D4s^Je0* on every machine, wouldn't some less intelligent sysadmins keep those on there, figuring it was pretty strong? Then some beginner hackers could search the web for that flavor's default apache page, telnet the IP and root the machine! Just an example, but meant to point out that installing high security by default could backfire, and usually a better solution is less idiots, not more idiot-proof machines.
(for the benefit of those browsing above the AC's...)
Yeah, I got a 30GB drive several months ago for about $150, and prices have gone down since then. That's cheap. About 3 times as expensive as blank CDR's, megabyte for megabyte, but it is cheap.
But of course, I'm not the type to spout numbers without some kind of evidence. Check here, or if that's not big enough check here or here. Yeah, it's more than a few beers, but what were you expecting to pay for serious storage?
Size doesn't matter, how you use it does.
You mean how you don't use it. I, on the other hand, have ~38 gigs and can run lots of apps, games, and store/edit videos and music. HD space is cheap! Use digital media for you pictures, videos and music!
Sure, 4GB used to work fine in 1996, before computers could be used as part of the entertainment center. But times have changed, you're holding back the potential of your computer if you don't get some disk space!
The problem is (from the page mentioned above),
Okay, pre-release beta, not sounding too great, but at least they're working on it. Further down that page,
So, it's been a year since a beta came out. Not a good sign, honestly. Maybe if I was a programmer and unemployed I could work on it myself, but I'm not and I'm not.
In other news, the article says that one way to legally redistribute Pine and Pico is "In free-of-charge distributions by for-profit concerns." What if I downloaded a few ISO's from the RedHat ftp site? I recieved a distribution free-of-charge. And wouldn't you know, of the four distro's I've been through so far, I downloaded them all (using the boot floppy and ftp installations back in the day) so I guess they won't come knocking at my door.
And I don't use kIllustruator either!
And, of course, when you apply the patch, you get a dialog box with an "OK" button that will restart the whole server, not just the service it is fixing. No "Would you like to restart now?" dialog, just "Press OK to restart." I should have expected that.
1.5 grams is worth more than $5, if it isn't the crappiest crap of all weed that is crap. Not that I would know, of course...
Why, why, does this guy think we will believe Native Americans were "invented" in the 1960's? Are we supposed to believe that Mark Twain's stories were also therefore written in the 1960's and backdated to the 1800's? Has this guy ever seen the hundreds of "Cowboy and Indian" movies of the early 20th century?
Moderators, I think our best attack is to mod him down whenever possible, to the point that his karma will be so bad his posts start at -1. It's not like his posts are worth modding up; he is so extreme that he will try to convince us that a race of people was invented in the 1960's, a time that many people here can remember. According to his profile, he was born in 1970. Some freak got to this guy and brainwashed him pretty early on, I guess.
But I wouldn't recommend it as an intro to programming. The first language you learn should be very strict and require good programming practices.
I think the best way to get into programming is by starting with C (to learn basic programming stuff), then moving on to C++ (for your object-oriented stuff and pointers) and then Java (to learn about the AWT and threads and such). Granted, what I suggest learning Java for can be learned in C++ too, but I think it's better to branch out to a slightly different language at that point to learn how different languages are similar yet different.
The reason I think C is a great starting point is that you can't get away with a lot of tricks in it. You have to define your variables at the start (unlike VB, which teaches students to program poorly). Students don't dwell on making listboxes and buttons, they work on sorting arrays and file i/o and sentinel loops (while (i!=0) {scanf(i); j++; k[j]=i;}) and they get a feel for how the computer "thinks." C++ then gives you abstraction, like linked lists and classes and private members and overloaded constructor functions, but you're still using the familiar C syntax. Java, then, turns everything into an object and students have to learn that main() isn't a function, it's an instance of class Main inherits Applet or whatever, I don't remember any more.
NTSC tvs are limited to 640x480....
I don't know how they did it, but my ATI All-In-Wonder spits out 800x600 to my TV. I think if you use S-Video inputs you can get higher resolutions.
On your other point, they're coming out with a hard drive, which I would assume either uses the weird looking expansion slot in back or the Firewire in front. And if the HD is $200 or less, you've still got a kickass system for $500.
I just really, really hope I can use my cable connection with it...
Maybe instead of saying "Hey, I'm about to turn yellow," it could say other stuff, like "This is a 'no turn on red' intersection," or "This lane must turn left," or "Construction ahead," or "Corner of 5th (<-- East West -->) and 115th (Heading North)."
Of course, then it won't be long before they start to say "Drink Pepsi," or "Now playing on 104.3: Howard Stern," but this could certainly have some very useful applications!
You got animated GIMP in my Mozilla!
No, you got Mozilla in my animated GIMP!
And thus, GIMPy animated Mozilla cups were born.
something tells me I'm gonna get modded down for that one...
There are some things PhotoShop can do which The GIMP so far cannot ...
I agree with that, but the Gimp is a lot cheaper. Not everyone can justify the cost of Photoshop, but want to be able to do some amateur graphic design. (I went with PSP6, but only because I use it at work on a windows box).
And I like the animated GIMP! Is that a first for /.?
Add to that the fact that most of you would still be working on PDPs if it weren't for Microsoft and IBM making babies.
I'd still be using an Amiga, actually, quite happily. I only left it in 95 because I went to college, where the IT staff wouldn't network an Amiga, and my CS programs had to compile on x86. But Windows and DOS were so simple (meaning limited) compared to the wonderful Workbench and CLI, so I was able to breeze through the Wintel learning curve and start to play with Linux.
You might as well be telling us that we would still be using BBS's and Archie if it weren't for AOL. The /. gang knows that we don't owe our computers to MS or Intel. We'd be just fine (or better) without them, using Macs, or Sun, or Amiga, or any other company that would have been able to crop up.
But it's tough to get mad at a comment that was modded down so much. I laugh at flamebait! Ha ha!
1. but wait I don't have PS/2, nor I will acquire one in my life time.
2. Because sony is more or less evil than microsoft, or others, while others have sane architectures like XBox + DirectX ... (two Microsoft products... wtf?)
3. And you have to sign non-disclosure just to use their fucking APIs. Fuck that.
That's not very informative. As a general rule, I never mod up something that makes no sense.