The support of USB Palms through Gnome (Gpilot or Evolution) is pants. It never worked correctly.
Now, I have SuSE 9.2 and I can sync my NX70 with the Kpilot shipped with SuSE.
One of the issue you may encounter is that user interaction required to sync a Palm is kind of convoluted (plug Palm, open sync application, wait, start HotSync from the Palm, click on Sync in the app, you get the picture) so the first time is always difficult. Please note that this is really Palm fault for having a freaky handshake protocol, not Kpilot's or Jpilot's.
Their "tests" show different pictures for each card. How can they juge the picture quality if they do not show the same picture displayed by each card? The artefacts we see could be attributed to actual differences in the pictures. At least show me a video capture!
"A billion people today do not have adequate shelter," he says. Using soil dug from the building site and stabilized with cement, the contour crafter could erect inexpensive dwellings customized to a family's needs.
Oh yeah, it's obvious that a robotic house builder is the only solution for all those poor people living in tents. Can it make coffee from cow dung?
I went through the same problem last month for the website of my company (see sig). PayPal may be OK for "donations" but it is not good enough for e-commerce websites. PayPal is down or broken in some way about 100% of the time. Also, many people (including me) don't want to pay with PayPal because of all the problems you can read on PayPalSucks.
So I offer CC payments through eSellerate. I handle my own shopping cart and the user picks the payment means when he checks out. eSellerate is good for me because the commission is 10% flat, without a fixed fee. Most similar services charge something like "5% or $2, whichever is higher". My product cost $6.99, so $2 is a lot of money.
Also, you can really customize the checkout process on eSellerate so that the customer can't tell the difference between your site and the eSellerate checkout site. You can't do that with PayPal.
As a conclusion, please do not offer PayPal only. PayPal is not a reliable company and lot's of people avoid them.
Problem is, this JSR is going nowhere. There are some big corps onboard, but no one seem's interested in defining a common API. Sun's management is clearly not interested (more precisely, "Sun's managment has decided not to commit any resources to this project in the short term.") So there are lots of research papers, prototypes and Master's thesis, which are all very interesting, but no working implementation that everyone can use.
That's really sucks because with an implementation of this JSR, the JVM could get a lot more OS-like. Too bad.
Hey, you! Wake up! This is the 21st century now, not 1988! Those kind of protections were build into the NT kernel since the very beggining (1993 or something), which means win 2k and xp have them.
I think that there one big difference between the PowerEdge and Dimension lines: PowerEdges are noisy as hell while Dimensions are nearly silent. Now I'm thinking that this may be on purpose...
Please define "your own email server". If you are talking about getting a domain from a provider then using the POP3 and SMTP server of this provider instead of the POP3 and SMTP server of your ISP, then it is a great idea. If you are talking about hosting and managing your own server at your place, using your alway-on connection, then, no, I don't think that this is a good idea, unless you're really into tinkering with servers.
Decent providers will let you do 1 to 6 with the cheapest plan. But you have to get a decent one: I agree most free or cheap providers much more than your ISP. I pay about 60$ a year for mine, and it is great value. Hosting your server may gave you a nice egoboo and some bragging rights, but actually it's a PITA. I'd rather let someone else deal with spams, viruses, security updates and everything else, and go on with my life. And I'm pretty sure that their server will have better uptime than mine.
I can't see the problem with requiring the user to register and login to send SMS. Those free SMS services are just toys anyways: they are designed let users experiment with the principle of SMS. If you are serious about sending SMSs through the Internet, you have to invest in a real service, which will come with strong authentication.
Not so fast. Those web forms usually limit you to 1 or 2 SMS per day. I guess that you could also automate the creation of a new account, but the company offering the web interface pays for each 'free' SMS, so I bet that the form is heavily secured.
Spammers sending SMSs usually buy them in bulk from operators, directly or through a third party. The second option is simply to use stacks of GSM modems, but it is costly.
Now here is something amazing: OO files are just zipped archives of XML files. One could simply unzip the files, store the individual files in CVS and voila! the perfect revision management system. Well maybe not perfect, but probably much better than the Word one, especially with a better SCM than CVS and a little frontend to manages the fact that several files represent a single document.
Now, it seems simple, but last time I looked at the OO site, I didn't found anything like this. My guess at the time was that the built-in revision system was good enough.
That's a tad more complicated then that, you see. The main problem of "computerizing" business systems is that if you limit yourself to computerize the system as it is, your project is doomed to fail.
It will fail because instead of rationalizing a system, you just add a computerized layer of cruft on top of the total mess that most companies call "business processes". This has been demonstrated in a huge number of projects, both in the private and public sector.
So the way to success is to 1) simplify and rationalize the business system (that's called business reengineering) and 2) computerize the new system. Of cource 1) is much harder than 2), so many companies skip it and move directly to 2). At this point failure is guaranteed. If you go through 1) first, at least you have a chance.
All modern architectures implement all 3 different protections bits (read, write, execute). It should have been implemented a long, long time ago, and you definitely cannot emulate it perfectly in software. I don't known why it wasn't implemented from the begining or at least when the 386 was released, but it was sorely missed by everyone working on improving the security of an OS. I guess Intel didn't think that this architecture would survive in the 21th century.
So adding the NX is a long overdue fix which should really improve the security of PCs, if it is used correctly by the OS.
Regards, David
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Mastering the material in a book is different from merely reading a book...
Concerning the editor, it really doesn't matter. Those books are good because they are from the authors of Java (and maybe because Sun has some good reviewers).
Well then, just wrap your debugging code in two ifs:
if(constant) { if(variable) {
} }
Not really pretty, sure, but it fulfills exactly the same job as a preprocessor (in this case), in the same number of lines of code, while keeping the code clean. Debugging incorrect preprocessing directives is a pain!
Sorry, you're mistaken. See this part of the Java Spec, toward the end of the page:
http://java.sun.com/docs/books/jls/second_edition/ html/statements.doc.html#236365
Basically, if the condition of your if() is a constant (static final boolean), then the compiler 'may' drop the block entirely. The standard compiler does it. Eclipse doesn't.
See also the log4j cookbook, which says that leaving dynamic if() for logging statements all over the place has no mesurable performance impact.
Of course it is a violation. You can't get something for nothing. Energy is only transfered, it cannot be 'created'. Nuclear plants takes uranium and transform it into heat. A magnet is not a fuel because it does not contain energy. Magnetic fields decay because the material decays, not because they are 'used'.
Think: handheld game console + cell phone = ? Mobile online gaming of course! Even the demo game shipped with the N-Gage supported that. Of course for now the GPRS charges are killing it, but it the near future, this is going to be huge!
I second Yast... that! Yast is kind of slow (even on beasties like bi-Opterons). Hopefully you don't have to use it too much. The only option that I actually use quite often is the 'Install New Package' option. Since I've installed the distro by FTP, I don't have to search for the DVD so I usually end up waiting for Yast to boot up and look through the package database.
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The support of USB Palms through Gnome (Gpilot or Evolution) is pants. It never worked correctly.
Now, I have SuSE 9.2 and I can sync my NX70 with the Kpilot shipped with SuSE.
One of the issue you may encounter is that user interaction required to sync a Palm is kind of convoluted (plug Palm, open sync application, wait, start HotSync from the Palm, click on Sync in the app, you get the picture) so the first time is always difficult. Please note that this is really Palm fault for having a freaky handshake protocol, not Kpilot's or Jpilot's.
Their "tests" show different pictures for each card. How can they juge the picture quality if they do not show the same picture displayed by each card? The artefacts we see could be attributed to actual differences in the pictures. At least show me a video capture!
Those guys must have skipped Science 101.
"A billion people today do not have adequate shelter," he says. Using soil dug from the building site and stabilized with cement, the contour crafter could erect inexpensive dwellings customized to a family's needs.
Oh yeah, it's obvious that a robotic house builder is the only solution for all those poor people living in tents. Can it make coffee from cow dung?
Hi,
I went through the same problem last month for the website of my company (see sig). PayPal may be OK for "donations" but it is not good enough for e-commerce websites. PayPal is down or broken in some way about 100% of the time. Also, many people (including me) don't want to pay with PayPal because of all the problems you can read on PayPalSucks.
So I offer CC payments through eSellerate. I handle my own shopping cart and the user picks the payment means when he checks out. eSellerate is good for me because the commission is 10% flat, without a fixed fee. Most similar services charge something like "5% or $2, whichever is higher". My product cost $6.99, so $2 is a lot of money.
Also, you can really customize the checkout process on eSellerate so that the customer can't tell the difference between your site and the eSellerate checkout site. You can't do that with PayPal.
As a conclusion, please do not offer PayPal only. PayPal is not a reliable company and lot's of people avoid them.
There is already a JSR for that would define a standard for Jail-like compartments in a single JVM process:
JSR 121: Application Isolation API Specification
Problem is, this JSR is going nowhere. There are some big corps onboard, but no one seem's interested in defining a common API. Sun's management is clearly not interested (more precisely, "Sun's managment has decided not to commit any resources to this project in the short term.") So there are lots of research papers, prototypes and Master's thesis, which are all very interesting, but no working implementation that everyone can use.
That's really sucks because with an implementation of this JSR, the JVM could get a lot more OS-like. Too bad.
I heard that, in order to cut costs. they will put wires only in the front cover.
You do know that von Braun is the father of the outdated "pointless pit stops at the ISS, L5, moon or wherever" strategy, right?
Hey, you! Wake up! This is the 21st century now, not 1988! Those kind of protections were build into the NT kernel since the very beggining (1993 or something), which means win 2k and xp have them.
Regards,
Here: http://www.anoto.com/
l ?pg=1&topic=&topic_set=
Their concept will blow your mind. Basically the best integration between traditional paper and pens, computers and the Internet.
Wired (the magazine, not the website) ran an article about them a few years ago. You can read it here: http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/9.04/anoto.htm
Regards,
AIH
I think that there one big difference between the PowerEdge and Dimension lines: PowerEdges are noisy as hell while Dimensions are nearly silent. Now I'm thinking that this may be on purpose...
Regards,
AIH
Please define "your own email server". If you are talking about getting a domain from a provider then using the POP3 and SMTP server of this provider instead of the POP3 and SMTP server of your ISP, then it is a great idea. If you are talking about hosting and managing your own server at your place, using your alway-on connection, then, no, I don't think that this is a good idea, unless you're really into tinkering with servers.
Decent providers will let you do 1 to 6 with the cheapest plan. But you have to get a decent one: I agree most free or cheap providers much more than your ISP. I pay about 60$ a year for mine, and it is great value. Hosting your server may gave you a nice egoboo and some bragging rights, but actually it's a PITA. I'd rather let someone else deal with spams, viruses, security updates and everything else, and go on with my life. And I'm pretty sure that their server will have better uptime than mine.
Regards,
AIH
I can't see the problem with requiring the user to register and login to send SMS. Those free SMS services are just toys anyways: they are designed let users experiment with the principle of SMS. If you are serious about sending SMSs through the Internet, you have to invest in a real service, which will come with strong authentication.
Regards,
AIH
Not so fast. Those web forms usually limit you to 1 or 2 SMS per day. I guess that you could also automate the creation of a new account, but the company offering the web interface pays for each 'free' SMS, so I bet that the form is heavily secured.
Spammers sending SMSs usually buy them in bulk from operators, directly or through a third party. The second option is simply to use stacks of GSM modems, but it is costly.
Regards,
Now here is something amazing: OO files are just zipped archives of XML files. One could simply unzip the files, store the individual files in CVS and voila! the perfect revision management system. Well maybe not perfect, but probably much better than the Word one, especially with a better SCM than CVS and a little frontend to manages the fact that several files represent a single document.
Now, it seems simple, but last time I looked at the OO site, I didn't found anything like this. My guess at the time was that the built-in revision system was good enough.
Regards,
That's a tad more complicated then that, you see. The main problem of "computerizing" business systems is that if you limit yourself to computerize the system as it is, your project is doomed to fail.
It will fail because instead of rationalizing a system, you just add a computerized layer of cruft on top of the total mess that most companies call "business processes". This has been demonstrated in a huge number of projects, both in the private and public sector.
So the way to success is to 1) simplify and rationalize the business system (that's called business reengineering) and 2) computerize the new system. Of cource 1) is much harder than 2), so many companies skip it and move directly to 2). At this point failure is guaranteed. If you go through 1) first, at least you have a chance.
Regards.
I beg to differ.
All modern architectures implement all 3 different protections bits (read, write, execute). It should have been implemented a long, long time ago, and you definitely cannot emulate it perfectly in software.
I don't known why it wasn't implemented from the begining or at least when the 386 was released, but it was sorely missed by everyone working on improving the security of an OS. I guess Intel didn't think that this architecture would survive in the 21th century.
So adding the NX is a long overdue fix which should really improve the security of PCs, if it is used correctly by the OS.
Regards,
David
Mastering the material in a book is different from merely reading a book...
Concerning the editor, it really doesn't matter. Those books are good because they are from the authors of Java (and maybe because Sun has some good reviewers).
Regards,
David
Sorry, you're mistaken. See this part of the Java Spec, toward the end of the page: http://java.sun.com/docs/books/jls/second_edition/ html/statements.doc.html#236365
Basically, if the condition of your if() is a constant (static final boolean), then the compiler 'may' drop the block entirely. The standard compiler does it. Eclipse doesn't.
See also the log4j cookbook, which says that leaving dynamic if() for logging statements all over the place has no mesurable performance impact.
Of course it is a violation. You can't get something for nothing. Energy is only transfered, it cannot be 'created'. Nuclear plants takes uranium and transform it into heat. A magnet is not a fuel because it does not contain energy. Magnetic fields decay because the material decays, not because they are 'used'.
This definitely looks like a stupid scam.
I totally agree with you. At 1(one) Euro, mine was great value, even if the games suck.
I think you're missing the point of the N-Gage.
Think: handheld game console + cell phone = ? Mobile online gaming of course! Even the demo game shipped with the N-Gage supported that. Of course for now the GPRS charges are killing it, but it the near future, this is going to be huge!
Porn was found in the remains of Pompei. I'm pretty sure someone will come up with a sample of Egyptian porn (being 2000BC).
Now does anyone have an example of Neoholitic porn? Goddess of fertility doesn't count.
I second Yast... that! Yast is kind of slow (even on beasties like bi-Opterons). Hopefully you don't have to use it too much. The only option that I actually use quite often is the 'Install New Package' option. Since I've installed the distro by FTP, I don't have to search for the DVD so I usually end up waiting for Yast to boot up and look through the package database.
That's very well said. I need to rewatch Robocop, I think I missed most of the message (was too young), beside the obvious 'big corp VPs==evil'.
Clearly the US is not only country with this kind of tendency. But they do have bigger toys, which is why I'm more afraid of them.
Anyway, I still think that Starship Troopers is kind of US-centric. Movies like Gattaca or The Cube are truely 'generic', but this one isn't.