You seem knowledgable, so I'll ask you: does the OpenMoko include PIM apps?
As far as I can tell, not quite yet. If you check their wiki, they mention a "today" app, which suggets pim functionality further down the line.
And, just as importantly, does it synchronize with anything (hopefully e.g. KDE PIM at the least, but bonus points for Apple's iSync...)?
When talking to some one in the OpenMoko IRC channel, I was told that they would be using the Evolution Data Server for PIM related functions, so may be not KDE, but should be more than workable from an integration perspective.
The only thing I'm worried about is the potential for hackers to hack the network stacks and trying to get free phone calls/data transfers with this device. If that happens it will be banned faster than you can say iPhone.
Just to note, the GSM module is closed source (but with a very clear open API).
I know I'm probably going to be flamed for this, or marked down as flame bait...
One of the apparently huge selling points of apple over the underlying operating system, BSD (or Linux), is that any idiot can use it.
Well, I'm sorry but the majority of Mac Users on my site, could at no point in time do what your asking of them.
It's not simple, and it's not acceptable as far as I'm concerned, admitedly that's just due to my user base, and network configuration, but it's rubbish.
I know you hear people come out with "Why are people so quick to blame", well my counter question is "Why are people so quick to make excuses".
In the last 6 months, the number of excuses and the perenial "wait untill the next version". SHEESH
Please, just give me some thing that actually works now (and yes, lots of it works, but bloody loads does not).
If you compare what is currently available in the UK the offer is very good.
I currently pay £35 a month for 2MB/256k, and a static IP, there is no bandwidth limit and I am able to run any server that I wish. For an additional £5, I can quadruple my download and increase my upload.
500GB is a cap, and one which I don't like. I have looked at their website, and unfortunately there is no information about additional charges to get an uncapped connection, and no information with regards to running servers/static IP's.
From past expearience in the UK there has not been a backlash against indeviduals running servers at home. ISP's regularly run checks to make sure that you are not an open relay, but other then that, they give you free rain. I'm not sure why the US has come down so hard on you guys.
One thing the announcement doesn't mention is the fact that this is not on offer every where, only where another ISP (Easynet) has "unbundled" the local exchange.
For example, I am currently only able to get 2MBit max connection.
Any way, enough rambling from me, in short, I think it's a good deal.
I have not looked into cricket, so this comment has nothing to do with that.
However, the nice thing about MRTG is that it can be used to minotor just about any thing if it has a set of numbers fed to it.
We have seen it being used to monitor sea level, temperature, disk space usage, network usage. The whole shabang.
It just takes a bit of effort.
At home I have set up MRTG to monitor Network usage, disk usage, memory usage, and a bunch of other things, you just have to spend some time navigating the SNMP trea and finding the UID's that you require.
Like I said, I don't know about cricket (having a look at it now), but all you mentioned CAN be done with MRTG.
The only REAL downside that I have noticed is the limitation on the number of things that can be monitored in one graph. IE, two.
RRD TOOl (sp?) is the successor to MRTG I beleive wich allows the graphing of numerous values, limited only be the clutter created in the graph.
I would have thought it would have been pronounced like Zen, as in Xine, or a "real world word" xylophone http://dictionary.reference.com/help/ahd4/pronkey. html
Any thing along the lines of an X as in galaxy is just too much effort to pronounce.
The user may desire to hook their graphics card up to a projector that is placed upside down on to the cieling, and as such would have to rotate the image.
The same goes for the mirroring (if it means turning every thing around like in a mirror), for projectors BEHIND the white screen.
Your not a god, don't think you are Q either, so don't beleive you know every possible use for every thing.
I recently installed Xine on my RedHat 8.0 distro, found an irritating error message appearing. Couldn't quite figure it out, figured, heck I will be brave and break my system by compiling from source.
Off I go, get the source, compile (after much hassle), get it working. Woopie, installed, lets start it.
DOH!! Same error.
Hmmmmmm, Ahhh, lets have a look around the net.
Ooooo, look at that, right lets try changing my resolution down from 1920*1440 to 1600*1200...
RestartX (loose all open windows, all programs running, have to restart every thing, reconnect to all remote servers, start all my downloads again). Start xine.
hey presto it worked...
Some times we just have to change the res, for ALL sorts of reasons.
We may also have more then one user on a machine that likes to have their own resolutoin. Some one with 20*20 vision and another person with poor vision.
Really all sorts of reasons that I know I can't think of.
I know whenI am in windows I switch between resolutions every so often, or colour depths. For what ever reason...
I may be wrong here, but I think the important thing is to provide a conductive shielding around the case, I don't think this has to cover it 100%, so, you could have a mesh for example...
I also know that it is possible to get plastics with say graphite heald within it, which increase the conductive nature of the material.
If this is done would it not then provide a level of shielding? How much of one I could not say.
If getting hold of this material is may be more specialised and hard to come by then i am aware of. Then what about using plexyglass, and then puchasing a fine wire mesh (think chicken wire fences, but miniturised), and have this placed on the inside of the case.
Yep, if you do some reading, you will find that in the latest Release of StarOffice 6, they are removing the "Desktop" interface that came with the previous versions.
I can see why it was there when they were running on Solaris, however on MS Windows platforms it was just a pain in the rear end.
I will be lookingforward to the next release of StarOffice and shall hopefully be running it under Linux.
It may not be as good as MS Office (which I think rocks), however from what I can see it is substantially better then the other office products that come from KDE et all.
But when you see people that are in the IT industry having to sell their cars, and other assets, it can give an insight as to how much money is floating about.
This can give a small indecation of how the industry may be looking, or affecting certain sectors.
Yes, may be not as intresting or as important as UD and what they are doing.
When I ended up in a position where I had to apply passwords to important systems, it came apparent to me that I am going to have to find some way of thinking up a non-sensical password, that is not easy to crack, but yet, is easy to remember.
However, when it comes to passwords for box's that I do not use for soem time, I am still at a loss as to how I am going to remember them. I think the only thing I am going to be able to do, is some thing like the PalmPilot. We shall have to see.
But an example of out of date passwords is...
h3ll5ang3l5 r3dh0tbab35 01nkf3t15h (don't ask me where I thought of that, I was really strugling at this point, had to think of about ten at one time when I implemented some services) j3llyb3lly j3llyw3lly
None of these make much sence, and sertanly are not common words or phrases, so I could not see a cracker getting them (but then I could be wrong).
And they are all reletivly easy to remember, as they are all words.
However for a the really seure passwords, it has to be a random string of caracters that are pronouncable, and then just add numbers and replace letters. One you remember the sound you are sorted.
Hey do all, just a quick question, I have been checking some of these posts here, all verry intresting in there own way.
One things has struck me, people use the word information alot, do they mean to use this word. Or do they mean data?
We may find it is easier to find out how much data our brains/minds can hold. It is what is done with this data that is most important.
There is a world of diffrence between the two words, one I have noticed that is not appriciated by many (or is it just my circle, way look, my tail, round and round and round and round, sorry where was I?)
I think this is the problem, yours are not random verifications. You have puposely spoken to the owner of the key before signing it to make sure it is representing who it says it is.
The other writer (I am assuming) is saying that people are signing keys with out actually verifying that the key belongs to who ever.
Don't ask me why some one may wish to do this, it is beyond me (well okay, I can think of some reasons, but no point in saying).
I think you have either missed the point (even if it was badly put), either that or you are being plane argumentative.
Tell me, do you lock your door to the house? Do you lock your car door (if you don't have one, please imagine you do)
My point is this. Just because it is possible to get in to the house, even with the door locked, you don't leave it open, as a form of discouragement, to try and make it harder for some one to break in to your house. There is no such thing as a 100% secure system, none. But you can make that system as hard to break in to as possible.
I think this is one thing that people should realise. It is all more of a deterent then a 100% garantee of protection.
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You seem knowledgable, so I'll ask you: does the OpenMoko include PIM apps?
As far as I can tell, not quite yet. If you check their wiki, they mention a "today" app, which suggets pim functionality further down the line.
And, just as importantly, does it synchronize with anything (hopefully e.g. KDE PIM at the least, but bonus points for Apple's iSync...)?
When talking to some one in the OpenMoko IRC channel, I was told that they would be using the Evolution Data Server for PIM related functions, so may be not KDE, but should be more than workable from an integration perspective.
The only thing I'm worried about is the potential for hackers to hack the network stacks and trying to get free phone calls/data transfers with this device. If that happens it will be banned faster than you can say iPhone.
Just to note, the GSM module is closed source (but with a very clear open API).
I do not believe "hackers" are an issue here.
Not that this is terribly helpful.
But running smbclient -U -L will almost always get you a list.
However, at times you will also have to include the workgroup/domain for that user, I think it's -W.
I know I'm probably going to be flamed for this, or marked down as flame bait...
One of the apparently huge selling points of apple over the underlying operating system, BSD (or Linux), is that any idiot can use it.
Well, I'm sorry but the majority of Mac Users on my site, could at no point in time do what your asking of them.
It's not simple, and it's not acceptable as far as I'm concerned, admitedly that's just due to my user base, and network configuration, but it's rubbish.
I know you hear people come out with "Why are people so quick to blame", well my counter question is "Why are people so quick to make excuses".
In the last 6 months, the number of excuses and the perenial "wait untill the next version". SHEESH
Please, just give me some thing that actually works now (and yes, lots of it works, but bloody loads does not).
If you compare what is currently available in the UK the offer is very good.
I currently pay £35 a month for 2MB/256k, and a static IP, there is no bandwidth limit and I am able to run any server that I wish. For an additional £5, I can quadruple my download and increase my upload.
500GB is a cap, and one which I don't like. I have looked at their website, and unfortunately there is no information about additional charges to get an uncapped connection, and no information with regards to running servers/static IP's.
From past expearience in the UK there has not been a backlash against indeviduals running servers at home. ISP's regularly run checks to make sure that you are not an open relay, but other then that, they give you free rain. I'm not sure why the US has come down so hard on you guys.
One thing the announcement doesn't mention is the fact that this is not on offer every where, only where another ISP (Easynet) has "unbundled" the local exchange.
For example, I am currently only able to get 2MBit max connection.
Any way, enough rambling from me, in short, I think it's a good deal.
Doug
I have not looked into cricket, so this comment has nothing to do with that.
However, the nice thing about MRTG is that it can be used to minotor just about any thing if it has a set of numbers fed to it.
We have seen it being used to monitor sea level, temperature, disk space usage, network usage. The whole shabang.
It just takes a bit of effort.
At home I have set up MRTG to monitor Network usage, disk usage, memory usage, and a bunch of other things, you just have to spend some time navigating the SNMP trea and finding the UID's that you require.
Like I said, I don't know about cricket (having a look at it now), but all you mentioned CAN be done with MRTG.
The only REAL downside that I have noticed is the limitation on the number of things that can be monitored in one graph. IE, two.
RRD TOOl (sp?) is the successor to MRTG I beleive wich allows the graphing of numerous values, limited only be the clutter created in the graph.
Doug
I would have thought it would have been pronounced like Zen, as in Xine, or a "real world word" xylophone http://dictionary.reference.com/help/ahd4/pronkey. html
Any thing along the lines of an X as in galaxy is just too much effort to pronounce.
Doug
I can't remember where the link is, however here are the solutions that I know "work".
/etc/init.d/netfs script and comment out the options for mounting SMB shares.
/etc/rc.local and add some thing like this.
/mnt/ & /mnt/ &
If you only have one or two SMB entries, edit the
it will look some thing like -a -t smbfs
Then edit
mount
mount
etc.
i know this is a REAL pain, but any other method I have seen has lead to a real mess.
When doing that, if you run ps -aux | grep mount you will see some mount's sitting around. These have not caused me any problems that i am aware of.
All other work arounds I have seen related to this, have never worked for every one.
Doug
Unfortunately I can't remember the exact methods (and i am suffering the same problems as your self).
I am not entirly sure it is tied down to file locking either.
I would advise investigating time out options in both the smb client and the server.
NFS suffers similar problems unless you "soft mount" the partition.
Doug
There is a mirror of the images at
t ho ts/
http://www.dark-hill.co.uk/~seth/storage/screen
Dougie
Not that they will need it...
r a/ wave.html
http://www.dark-hill.co.uk/www.cs.tut.fi/%257Ei
The user may desire to hook their graphics card up to a projector that is placed upside down on to the cieling, and as such would have to rotate the image.
The same goes for the mirroring (if it means turning every thing around like in a mirror), for projectors BEHIND the white screen.
Your not a god, don't think you are Q either, so don't beleive you know every possible use for every thing.
I recently installed Xine on my RedHat 8.0 distro, found an irritating error message appearing. Couldn't quite figure it out, figured, heck I will be brave and break my system by compiling from source.
Off I go, get the source, compile (after much hassle), get it working. Woopie, installed, lets start it.
DOH!! Same error.
Hmmmmmm, Ahhh, lets have a look around the net.
Ooooo, look at that, right lets try changing my resolution down from 1920*1440 to 1600*1200...
RestartX (loose all open windows, all programs running, have to restart every thing, reconnect to all remote servers, start all my downloads again). Start xine.
hey presto it worked...
Some times we just have to change the res, for ALL sorts of reasons.
We may also have more then one user on a machine that likes to have their own resolutoin. Some one with 20*20 vision and another person with poor vision.
Really all sorts of reasons that I know I can't think of.
I know whenI am in windows I switch between resolutions every so often, or colour depths. For what ever reason...
Doug
I may be wrong here, but I think the important thing is to provide a conductive shielding around the case, I don't think this has to cover it 100%, so, you could have a mesh for example...
I also know that it is possible to get plastics with say graphite heald within it, which increase the conductive nature of the material.
If this is done would it not then provide a level of shielding? How much of one I could not say.
If getting hold of this material is may be more specialised and hard to come by then i am aware of. Then what about using plexyglass, and then puchasing a fine wire mesh (think chicken wire fences, but miniturised), and have this placed on the inside of the case.
Just a thought.
Doug
Yep, if you do some reading, you will find that in the latest Release of StarOffice 6, they are removing the "Desktop" interface that came with the previous versions.
I can see why it was there when they were running on Solaris, however on MS Windows platforms it was just a pain in the rear end.
I will be lookingforward to the next release of StarOffice and shall hopefully be running it under Linux.
It may not be as good as MS Office (which I think rocks), however from what I can see it is substantially better then the other office products that come from KDE et all.
Well just my two pence worth.
Doug
I hate to point this out mate.
But when you see people that are in the IT industry having to sell their cars, and other assets, it can give an insight as to how much money is floating about.
This can give a small indecation of how the industry may be looking, or affecting certain sectors.
Yes, may be not as intresting or as important as UD and what they are doing.
But I would still say intresting.
End User Licencing Agreement, I beleive.
Pointless post.
But I thought it was rather ammusing my self.
When I ended up in a position where I had to apply passwords to important systems, it came apparent to me that I am going to have to find some way of thinking up a non-sensical password, that is not easy to crack, but yet, is easy to remember.
However, when it comes to passwords for box's that I do not use for soem time, I am still at a loss as to how I am going to remember them. I think the only thing I am going to be able to do, is some thing like the PalmPilot. We shall have to see.
But an example of out of date passwords is...
h3ll5ang3l5
r3dh0tbab35
01nkf3t15h (don't ask me where I thought of that, I was really strugling at this point, had to think of about ten at one time when I implemented some services)
j3llyb3lly
j3llyw3lly
None of these make much sence, and sertanly are not common words or phrases, so I could not see a cracker getting them (but then I could be wrong).
And they are all reletivly easy to remember, as they are all words.
However for a the really seure passwords, it has to be a random string of caracters that are pronouncable, and then just add numbers and replace letters. One you remember the sound you are sorted.
Hey do all, just a quick question, I have been checking some of these posts here, all verry intresting in there own way.
One things has struck me, people use the word information alot, do they mean to use this word. Or do they mean data?
We may find it is easier to find out how much data our brains/minds can hold. It is what is done with this data that is most important.
There is a world of diffrence between the two words, one I have noticed that is not appriciated by many (or is it just my circle, way look, my tail, round and round and round and round, sorry where was I?)
Oh yes,
Well just my two pennys worth.
Dougie
Dito mate : (
Yep, semi sarcastic : )
Oh, and I can't spell so leave me alone.
I think this is the problem, yours are not random verifications. You have puposely spoken to the owner of the key before signing it to make sure it is representing who it says it is.
The other writer (I am assuming) is saying that people are signing keys with out actually verifying that the key belongs to who ever.
Don't ask me why some one may wish to do this, it is beyond me (well okay, I can think of some reasons, but no point in saying).
I think you have either missed the point (even if it was badly put), either that or you are being plane argumentative.
Tell me, do you lock your door to the house? Do you lock your car door (if you don't have one, please imagine you do)
My point is this. Just because it is possible to get in to the house, even with the door locked, you don't leave it open, as a form of discouragement, to try and make it harder for some one to break in to your house. There is no such thing as a 100% secure system, none. But you can make that system as hard to break in to as possible.
I think this is one thing that people should realise. It is all more of a deterent then a 100% garantee of protection.
Does any one dissagree?