another link with almost exactly the same amount of vagueness....on the BBC.
For the copy and pasters: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_1 454000/1454737.stm
who really uses any those engines to do serious searching anyways? You really expect theres not some sort of slant on the results from MSN? What about this iWon.com crap? Do all the users think the prize money just appears at the company's doors waiting to be given away? Oh, all the revenue MUST come from banner ads...right? The bottom line is: Naive consumers will always be treated as naive consumers by companies that stand to profit from it. It's not even necessarily bad...just reality. It's like an STN ratio, you go where the signal is...not all the hype and noise. But really, how many people who use these sites as their main search engines are going to use another site now? Will they just end up moving to another site using the same strategy?
agreed.
There's a lot of good mission work being done. Work done by clueful folks who really want to help, and that helps improve the quality of life for people.
There's also a bunch of repressed yoyo's out there in THE NAME OF GOD, messing with people's culture and trying to force them into repressed western beliefs, with no infrastructure to support it.
</pointless commentary>
Im in full agreeance. Unfortunately, Ask Slashdot has turned into more theory throwing and distro wars more than the helpful how-to type stuff it once was. its evolution for better or worse. you're question is good, but the answer is not so easy. Which is probably why you submitted an Ask Slashdot anyways. The truth is, you'd have beeter results asking a question like this @ linuxnewbie.org or something similar.
BTW: I dont have an easy answer for you either, Im an apt-get snob, but only cause its easier for simpleminded folk like me. and linuxnewbie has answered many question of mine and made many clarifications, even though Im no newbie. its helpful.
I beleive this is definately a valid use for this technology. Combating fraud is a worthy cause. The problem I see though, is that the general public is usually pretty retarded about these things, and once they see a valid use, they'll accept any other use the government or big brother deems ok, which we all know will lead to invasions of privacy and personal freedoms and then inevitably to abuses by "big company". If we only had a trustworthy government we could trust to protect our freedoms instead of slowly erode them, this would be great. But facing reality, this will just lead to more invasions of privacy.
Does anyone else see any correlation between this and the recent ruling against police using infrared technology to detect marijuana growing inside an Oregon mans home?
And I was just bragging to my co-workers how secure my firewall was after their Win based firewall was just compromised. I'm gonna catch a bunch of crap on Monday! The patch IS amazingly easy to apply though. Good thing most OpenBSD users are cluefull enough to WANT and KNOW how to apply them!
What I really find amazing is that a group of people dedicated to analyzing systems, and fixing them (HACKING), has such a hard time finding a social hack for a simple problem. Find an American or Canadian friend. (thats the hardest part) Trust them (Actully this is the hardest part), and them have them order & receive and repackage your loot and mail it to you. Ive done this before in order to get my favorite alcohols into and out of the US. Sure, cuban cigars might get picked out by customs dogs... But caffeine mints? Especially if its one friend just innocently sending a package to another friend, clueless about import/export laws. Nobody goes to jail for that sort of thing. And if you lose a package due to your Bawls, that sucks. Try again. Just dont send whole cases, customs people dont like quantity. C'mon people figure it out! Of course a EU satellite franchise definately would be cool, and most likely profitable!
Actually, you are correct, thats what the "officially supported" systems are. Ive had no problems whatsoever connecting it to several Linux ditros, Solaris, OpenBSD, QNX, and BeOS. Its just a ps/2 connected mouse. No special software needed (although a windows program is included that has a few goofy addons). No special OS needed. Not even that many fingers are needed, although an opposable thumb often helps. You just cant call support asking for someone to help you with the unsupported OS's. But really, most people have no problem plugging it into the back of their computer.
This sounds kinda cool, for those that are smart enough to use them. I feel sorry for the people who are gonna have to support it though, anything relying on the average end-users hardware is nuts to support, and anything that is software based (WINMODEMS!!! ACCKK!) is no doubt going to be installed and run on a bunch of p-133s by users who just dont have/want a clue. Then they'll bitch about it. Aside from that its a pretty good idea.
What about running a network over old soundcards? Possible?
You want a gyroscopically controlled wireless mouse it sounds like - I happen to have a ton of experience with these units (supporting and using them) http://www.gyration.com. I like the GyroPoint the most out of all the units. They have a nice range (70'), and all you need to do is rotate your wrist slightly.
Check the Good Ole "LunchBox" form factor! For those unfamiliar, they are basically just a small atx case that accepts standard atx mobo/peripherals and has an LCD display and keyboard that fold up to become part of the "case". It ends up being about the size of a briefcase thats double thick. Portable desktop power.
This PL-300 may be your solution. Its usually used for digital projectors and transmits several remotely or locally, SWITCHABLE video and audio signals from the transmitter to the receiver via CAT-5(b) cable. Also it has an bi-directionall RS-232 port on both receiver and transimtter, so you can interact with the display or sources. It can be connected to any AV controller board that uses RS-232. I have used these extensively and found them to be very good products.
Also, anytime i need to do some funky/custom cabling switching etc... Extron has been a good source for cables and distribution amps.
When you get your project dialed in, let us all know how you did it!
If you want to be well liked, be CANADIAN. Im an American, and have experienced much anti-American sentiment that extended beyond "obligatory but well-meant jokes" in various European countires. In my last trip I put a Canadian flag patch on my backpack and was treated VERY nicely my entire trip. Luckily I lived in Canada for a year so I wasn't completely clueless when asked where I lived and such.
Gotta love the Canadians...
Im too lazy to dig up any links right now but ive seen a setup that utilized limited spectrum 2way radios communicating via a receiver/transmitter unit connected to a computer. Various computers round the area had these and they intercommunicated via their 100baseT network. The reason for the limited spectrum radios is so that you could do a person to person communication or communicate to a specific group or combo of groups...
Anyways...I ran across this at some ham radio site i happened upon, it was awesomely documented in text and pictures...I dont know for sure if they had an open design or not (but i vaguely remember they did), and I saw this about a year ago. i know this is kind of vague, but try poking around ham radio geek sites...somebodys always hooking something new up to a radio it seems...
even though my humble self agrees with him, there could have been a better way of saying it than this..
"Frankly, I think it's a piece of crap," Torvalds says of Mach, the microkernel on which Apple's new operating system is based. "It contains all the design mistakes you can make, and manages to even make up a few of its own."
although there is a lot to be said about being frank.
this is definately not current news;
I read this a LONG time ago on
FreakTech (near the bottom of the page)
I beleive it was posted about
11 MONTHS AGO!!!!!!!!
I submitted it months ago myself and
thought it was rejected because it
was ??Old News??
WTF ????
Slashdot Mirror
who really uses any those engines to do serious searching anyways? You really expect theres not some sort of slant on the results from MSN? What about this iWon.com crap? Do all the users think the prize money just appears at the company's doors waiting to be given away? Oh, all the revenue MUST come from banner ads...right? The bottom line is: Naive consumers will always be treated as naive consumers by companies that stand to profit from it. It's not even necessarily bad...just reality. It's like an STN ratio, you go where the signal is...not all the hype and noise. But really, how many people who use these sites as their main search engines are going to use another site now? Will they just end up moving to another site using the same strategy?
agreed.
There's a lot of good mission work being done. Work done by clueful folks who really want to help, and that helps improve the quality of life for people.
There's also a bunch of repressed yoyo's out there in THE NAME OF GOD, messing with people's culture and trying to force them into repressed western beliefs, with no infrastructure to support it.
</pointless commentary>
Im in full agreeance. Unfortunately, Ask Slashdot has turned into more theory throwing and distro wars more than the helpful how-to type stuff it once was. its evolution for better or worse. you're question is good, but the answer is not so easy. Which is probably why you submitted an Ask Slashdot anyways. The truth is, you'd have beeter results asking a question like this @ linuxnewbie.org or something similar.
BTW: I dont have an easy answer for you either, Im an apt-get snob, but only cause its easier for simpleminded folk like me. and linuxnewbie has answered many question of mine and made many clarifications, even though Im no newbie. its helpful.
I beleive this is definately a valid use for this technology. Combating fraud is a worthy cause. The problem I see though, is that the general public is usually pretty retarded about these things, and once they see a valid use, they'll accept any other use the government or big brother deems ok, which we all know will lead to invasions of privacy and personal freedoms and then inevitably to abuses by "big company". If we only had a trustworthy government we could trust to protect our freedoms instead of slowly erode them, this would be great. But facing reality, this will just lead to more invasions of privacy.
Does anyone else see any correlation between this and the recent ruling against police using infrared technology to detect marijuana growing inside an Oregon mans home?
And I was just bragging to my co-workers how secure my firewall was after their Win based firewall was just compromised. I'm gonna catch a bunch of crap on Monday! The patch IS amazingly easy to apply though. Good thing most OpenBSD users are cluefull enough to WANT and KNOW how to apply them!
What I really find amazing is that a group of people dedicated to analyzing systems, and fixing them (HACKING), has such a hard time finding a social hack for a simple problem. Find an American or Canadian friend. (thats the hardest part) Trust them (Actully this is the hardest part), and them have them order & receive and repackage your loot and mail it to you. Ive done this before in order to get my favorite alcohols into and out of the US. Sure, cuban cigars might get picked out by customs dogs... But caffeine mints? Especially if its one friend just innocently sending a package to another friend, clueless about import/export laws. Nobody goes to jail for that sort of thing. And if you lose a package due to your Bawls, that sucks. Try again. Just dont send whole cases, customs people dont like quantity. C'mon people figure it out! Of course a EU satellite franchise definately would be cool, and most likely profitable!
Actually, you are correct, thats what the "officially supported" systems are. Ive had no problems whatsoever connecting it to several Linux ditros, Solaris, OpenBSD, QNX, and BeOS. Its just a ps/2 connected mouse. No special software needed (although a windows program is included that has a few goofy addons). No special OS needed. Not even that many fingers are needed, although an opposable thumb often helps. You just cant call support asking for someone to help you with the unsupported OS's. But really, most people have no problem plugging it into the back of their computer.
This sounds kinda cool, for those that are smart enough to use them. I feel sorry for the people who are gonna have to support it though, anything relying on the average end-users hardware is nuts to support, and anything that is software based (WINMODEMS!!! ACCKK!) is no doubt going to be installed and run on a bunch of p-133s by users who just dont have/want a clue. Then they'll bitch about it. Aside from that its a pretty good idea.
What about running a network over old soundcards? Possible?
You want a gyroscopically controlled wireless mouse it sounds like - I happen to have a ton of experience with these units (supporting and using them) http://www.gyration.com. I like the GyroPoint the most out of all the units. They have a nice range (70'), and all you need to do is rotate your wrist slightly.
How about just calculating pi out to a hundred places and have the tattoo spiral outward from 3? Either that or a block of Seti data....
Check the Good Ole "LunchBox" form factor! For those unfamiliar, they are basically just a small atx case that accepts standard atx mobo/peripherals and has an LCD display and keyboard that fold up to become part of the "case". It ends up being about the size of a briefcase thats double thick. Portable desktop power.
This PL-300 may be your solution. Its usually used for digital projectors and transmits several remotely or locally, SWITCHABLE video and audio signals from the transmitter to the receiver via CAT-5(b) cable. Also it has an bi-directionall RS-232 port on both receiver and transimtter, so you can interact with the display or sources. It can be connected to any AV controller board that uses RS-232. I have used these extensively and found them to be very good products.
Also, anytime i need to do some funky/custom cabling switching etc... Extron has been a good source for cables and distribution amps.
When you get your project dialed in, let us all know how you did it!
If you want to be well liked, be CANADIAN. Im an American, and have experienced much anti-American sentiment that extended beyond "obligatory but well-meant jokes" in various European countires. In my last trip I put a Canadian flag patch on my backpack and was treated VERY nicely my entire trip. Luckily I lived in Canada for a year so I wasn't completely clueless when asked where I lived and such.
Gotta love the Canadians...
Im too lazy to dig up any links right now but ive seen a setup that utilized limited spectrum 2way radios communicating via a receiver/transmitter unit connected to a computer. Various computers round the area had these and they intercommunicated via their 100baseT network. The reason for the limited spectrum radios is so that you could do a person to person communication or communicate to a specific group or combo of groups...
Anyways...I ran across this at some ham radio site i happened upon, it was awesomely documented in text and pictures...I dont know for sure if they had an open design or not (but i vaguely remember they did), and I saw this about a year ago. i know this is kind of vague, but try poking around ham radio geek sites...somebodys always hooking something new up to a radio it seems...
point taken
i have seen the light
even though my humble self agrees with him, there could have been a better way of saying it than this.. "Frankly, I think it's a piece of crap," Torvalds says of Mach, the microkernel on which Apple's new operating system is based. "It contains all the design mistakes you can make, and manages to even make up a few of its own." although there is a lot to be said about being frank.
hardly...
in portland, oregon its 9:40 and im already drunk!
After several decades of quiet contemplation, the 16 bit message, mysteriously enough, was 42.
good one....
It took me a bit to remember the question though!
You already have, User #28218
What? Sold my soul? Defiled Gerbilism?
Joined a cult? Posted Mindlessly
on Slashdot?
i might even leave my current religion to pursue a calling in Open Source and Bleeding Edge evangelism.
so where do i sign up for the "Church of the Bleeding Edge & Open Source" do the collection plate funds go to the fsf?
Even the cosmos is gettin
in on the beowulf craze...
I gotta get me one of these
101 node/galaxy clusters
DOH!
sorry 'bout the URL typo...
her it is: FreakTech
this is definately not current news;
I read this a LONG time ago on
FreakTech (near the bottom of the page)
I beleive it was posted about
11 MONTHS AGO!!!!!!!!
I submitted it months ago myself and
thought it was rejected because it
was ??Old News??
WTF ????