Been doing it for years with my Palm:) The default Xstroke alphabet resembles graffiti anyway, so anyone coming from the palm fold will be able to use it with reasonable speed. The only thing it can't do is cursive.
The PC World article says that there is no handwriting recognition included. I would have thought that using X-Stroke would be the best idea. I use it on my iPaq (flashed with Familiar and GPE) all the time!
Although I'm not sure if they're called space pens because they are used in space or because they are shiny and silver, they do work really rather well. Mine worked well when writing on report sheets upside down under machines in the factory, or in the wet outside.
Note that I only use past tense because I managed to lose the pen. Bah. I bet they can't invent one immune from that!
>>The whole industry is going to benefit by this, >>in a large, large way. The question one day will >>no longer be "Microsoft or Linux?" but "Which >>open Source software should we use, and why?"
It would be even nicer if the term 'open source' disappeared completely, because there was no other kind and the need to distinguish it was gone!
PHP is used for enterprise sized applications, sure. It shouldn't be though. More problems are caused by simple typos than anything else in PHP!
Try tracking down why the product management system is losing track of cost when running through the billing system, and it turns out after much blood, sweat and tears to be the fact that someone was passing the variable '$intAmunt' to the amount calculator. This wouldn't even register on the scope of a bug in a more strict language (even perl with 'use strict'!). It'd be more of a 30 second "d'oh!" on the part of the developer who did it, and it would be fixed.
This isn't to say that, with EXTREME discipline and massive amounts of checking, code review, and testing PHP can't do these things. It's just that it handily lends itself to the kind of programmer to whom discipline and adherance to standards is secondary to churning out kewl new stuff.
> I would take the articles advice and get out - as soon as possible. Even if things seem tolerable.
Indeed. There is a very fine line between tolerance and acceptance. If you cross the line, you not only become part of the problem, you put up mental barriers to ever getting out of the situation.
There are guys who work for us who have done 24 hour shifts for no more than the measly salary already on offer, and they can't see that it may not be in their best interests to put up with it.
I intend to get out at the earliest opportunity...
The point isn't to secure the machine, but to secure the user's logged in session. If I have some personal emails open with the screen locked, and the best a would be attacker can do is kill the X session, my data is still safe.
Having said that, if someone leaves a terminal logged in, you can Ctrl-Alt-F* to it and type 'killall xlock' or 'killall xscreensaver' and it releases the X desktop back for normal use.
The front page of www.redhat.com has 'Enterprise' and 'Consulting' splashed all over it. Coupled with the removal of boxed sets, it appears that RedHat Linux itself will become a community project supported by RedHat Enterprise's services company.
Just hope it doesn't go the way of Netscape and Mozilla...
The problem with the arguments put forward in this thread is that they follow a similar pattern to Wine based applications, which appear to be dead or the minority now.
1) Develop cool open platform 2) MS Develop similar, but incompatible, platform 3) Port flakey emulation of MS platform 4) Platform is only useable on Windows
The basis here is that RedHat will already have the original draft. Don't start talking about porting the incompatible Windows implementation away from Windows, but porting the clean room implementation TO windows. Why would we WANT to port the Windows API calls to Linux?
I hope another opportunity for OSS to be first, rather than the sad 2nd place, will not be missed through this self-defeating attitude.
I've just extracted the 1.0-4363.run file from the NVidia site, and it appears that although the file does come with a few builds of the kernel module for stock kernels, there is also source which can be used to build against whatever you happen to have installed.
Science has a great way of trying to promote it's present ideas through naming. For example, many types of dinosaur have latin names relating them to birds, and your average joe-public says 'dinosaurs must have changed to birds. Even the name says so!'
What we, the inventor and sole user of the classification system, decide at any point what falls in which category adds nought to the truth of a particular theory, but it goes a long way toward swaying those of no particular interest, and also those with a vested interest, to the ideas of those who make the classification.
Orange really are quite amazing at this kind of thing. I moved from my 121 account when t-mobile moved in and caused everything to go banana shaped, and I got a new phone (Ericsson T68) for free, a 5 day number port, and some other goodies. Total cash up front? None whatsoever.
One time, the field engineer forgot to shut the boot of his car and sent a 17" Iiyama hurtling across the carpark. Worked fine, thanks to gaffer tape!
On another occasion, I munged a working hard disk from two dead ones; one with a scratched platter, and another with a popped PROM (not identifiable by BIOS). Binned the dead remains.
Finally, once my monitor ground pin came loose, and the 3DFX card attached to it had trannies on the output glowing so hot you could see them through the card. Worked lovely tho'.
And I too have seen motherboards catch fire on first boot, only to work fine after that, to verify other tales of this ilk.
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Been doing it for years with my Palm :) The default Xstroke alphabet resembles graffiti anyway, so anyone coming from the palm fold will be able to use it with reasonable speed. The only thing it can't do is cursive.
The PC World article says that there is no handwriting recognition included. I would have thought that using X-Stroke would be the best idea. I use it on my iPaq (flashed with Familiar and GPE) all the time!
Details here
Although I'm not sure if they're called space pens because they are used in space or because they are shiny and silver, they do work really rather well. Mine worked well when writing on report sheets upside down under machines in the factory, or in the wet outside.
Note that I only use past tense because I managed to lose the pen. Bah. I bet they can't invent one immune from that!
>>The whole industry is going to benefit by this,
>>in a large, large way. The question one day will
>>no longer be "Microsoft or Linux?" but "Which
>>open Source software should we use, and why?"
It would be even nicer if the term 'open source' disappeared completely, because there was no other kind and the need to distinguish it was gone!
They could only sue because the product contains the same old s*** :)
Oh, I dunno. I know certain folk who would love to 'unlink french'.
In the purely *nix meaning of the word...
PHP is used for enterprise sized applications, sure. It shouldn't be though. More problems are caused by simple typos than anything else in PHP!
Try tracking down why the product management system is losing track of cost when running through the billing system, and it turns out after much blood, sweat and tears to be the fact that someone was passing the variable '$intAmunt' to the amount calculator. This wouldn't even register on the scope of a bug in a more strict language (even perl with 'use strict'!). It'd be more of a 30 second "d'oh!" on the part of the developer who did it, and it would be fixed.
This isn't to say that, with EXTREME discipline and massive amounts of checking, code review, and testing PHP can't do these things. It's just that it handily lends itself to the kind of programmer to whom discipline and adherance to standards is secondary to churning out kewl new stuff.
> I would take the articles advice and get out - as soon as possible. Even if things seem tolerable.
Indeed. There is a very fine line between tolerance and acceptance. If you cross the line, you not only become part of the problem, you put up mental barriers to ever getting out of the situation.
There are guys who work for us who have done 24 hour shifts for no more than the measly salary already on offer, and they can't see that it may not be in their best interests to put up with it.
I intend to get out at the earliest opportunity...
The point isn't to secure the machine, but to secure the user's logged in session. If I have some personal emails open with the screen locked, and the best a would be attacker can do is kill the X session, my data is still safe.
Having said that, if someone leaves a terminal logged in, you can Ctrl-Alt-F* to it and type 'killall xlock' or 'killall xscreensaver' and it releases the X desktop back for normal use.
unless.. whoa! I wanna dual processor Zaurus!
No, that's silly. And so is SCO.
The front page of www.redhat.com has 'Enterprise' and 'Consulting' splashed all over it. Coupled with the removal of boxed sets, it appears that RedHat Linux itself will become a community project supported by RedHat Enterprise's services company.
Just hope it doesn't go the way of Netscape and Mozilla...
AYTTM, the renamed EveryBuddy, can do on the fly translation via BabelFish, and it can do l33t and 3x7r3M3 l33t translation.
It may be that AYTTM could be shown as prior art, as it to is loaded as dynamic module at runtime should the user request it.
The problem with the arguments put forward in this thread is that they follow a similar pattern to Wine based applications, which appear to be dead or the minority now.
1) Develop cool open platform
2) MS Develop similar, but incompatible, platform
3) Port flakey emulation of MS platform
4) Platform is only useable on Windows
The basis here is that RedHat will already have the original draft. Don't start talking about porting the incompatible Windows implementation away from Windows, but porting the clean room implementation TO windows. Why would we WANT to port the Windows API calls to Linux?
I hope another opportunity for OSS to be first, rather than the sad 2nd place, will not be missed through this self-defeating attitude.
I've just extracted the 1.0-4363 .run file from the NVidia site, and it appears that although the file does come with a few builds of the kernel module for stock kernels, there is also source which can be used to build against whatever you happen to have installed.
:)
And it does work, 'cos I just did it
It is a sad world, however, when it is necessary to judge a technological advancement by how it will be abused by perverts and child abusers.
I'm not saying your comment isn't true, as it most certainly is. It's just a shame, that's all.
Science has a great way of trying to promote it's present ideas through naming. For example, many types of dinosaur have latin names relating them to birds, and your average joe-public says 'dinosaurs must have changed to birds. Even the name says so!'
What we, the inventor and sole user of the classification system, decide at any point what falls in which category adds nought to the truth of a particular theory, but it goes a long way toward swaying those of no particular interest, and also those with a vested interest, to the ideas of those who make the classification.
Just my 2p.
I only found out about this from /. but by the time it was posted all the shops in the UK had either run out or were closed!
Gutted!
I did just mean the unicast ones, but as has been pointed out, in this case they are requested so mozilla lets 'em through anyway.
It'd be interested to see what happens in the wild.
the unicast samples here
I have those things turned off and the ads still appear. I also have ad blocking turned on. I'm using Mozilla 1.4a :(
Still, a swift Alt-F4 gets rid of these, and other, unsavoury internet items.
Here is a list of companies trialing/interested in these ads. It's a good place to start with the email protests.
I haven't seen it mentioned in the comments here, but I thought the joke was at stab at both American McGee AND American Greetings.
Note the similar names? I presumed it was a joke about if American McGee got there first?
Maybe it's just me?
Go to b3ta so everyone can have their very own 30 seconds of fame. :)
Orange really are quite amazing at this kind of thing. I moved from my 121 account when t-mobile moved in and caused everything to go banana shaped, and I got a new phone (Ericsson T68) for free, a 5 day number port, and some other goodies. Total cash up front? None whatsoever.
Marvellous.
One time, the field engineer forgot to shut the boot of his car and sent a 17" Iiyama hurtling across the carpark. Worked fine, thanks to gaffer tape!
On another occasion, I munged a working hard disk from two dead ones; one with a scratched platter, and another with a popped PROM (not identifiable by BIOS). Binned the dead remains.
Finally, once my monitor ground pin came loose, and the 3DFX card attached to it had trannies on the output glowing so hot you could see them through the card. Worked lovely tho'.
And I too have seen motherboards catch fire on first boot, only to work fine after that, to verify other tales of this ilk.