I'm shocked that with all of these posts no/. readers have pointed out that use of such communication jamming devices isn't kosher with the old FCC. Any US theater trying to use this will find the feds knocking at their door... and that is a shame.
It seems they are missing the boat with some of the design decisions they made (ie, no Wi-Fi, no handwriting or voice recognition software). The product's usefulness is seriously limited without these two capabilities. Where's the advantage of having a tablet in your hand if you can't use handwriting or if you can't access your data?
I think they left these things out to make a more affordable product. It also made the product less desirable.
I strongly recommend going to college if you have the opportunity.
I could sit here and preach about how the education gives you something to fall back on or how businesses won't look at a resume without some sort of post high school degree, but I'm sure others here will have already told you that.
The real reason to go to college: What is your hurry to start working? You've got a whole life of work ahead of you. Take the time now to enrich your life while you are young. You'll make new friends that you will have for the rest of your life. You'll be exposed to new ideas and ways of thinking. You'll get to swill beer and puke any time you want.
But seriously... there's more to life than going to work and getting a paycheck. Enrich your life.
As a long time WSJ subscriber (both online and in print), I can tell you that Walt Mossberg's reviews are always thorough and fair. As a technology consultant I'm lucky enough to get the oportunity to test many of the same products he reviews.
This is another review where I think Walt is right on. The Zaurus SL-5500 is making the same mistake made by M$ with their PDA, mainly that the user interface is too complicated. The Palm OS is still the standard for simplicity as far as the GUI is concerned.
I can't speak for the issue of Outlook sync. However, if it's advertised on the box and in the company press release, there should at least be some documentation on how to get it to work.
I hope the word LINUX doesn't scare the average user away from using the product. I'm afraid that poor documentation will only make people fear it more.
If the Linux community wants a broader acceptance of the platform then we have to stop with the attitude that something is good enough because a nerd can figure it out.
An equally interesting article in Mr. Schneier's newsletter this month concerns Oracle's "Unbreakable" Database.
It seems Oracle put forth a good faith (albeit flawed) effort to secure Oracle9i. They enlisted the services of TCSEC, ITSEC, Common Criteria, Russian Criteria, and FIPS
140-1 to test for security holes. None of them detected a simple buffer overflow problem.
These security companies are a sham (or at least should be ashamed).
I was transitioned to the new Comcast network two weeks ago. Since the transition my firewall has been logging what I believe could be interpreted as a "man in the middle" attack. Here is an example of the log entry:
02/12/2002 09:55:09.592 ICMP packet dropped 10.94.96.1, 5, WAN 68.80.x.x, 5, WAN 'Route Redirect' 0
I'm assuming the IP 10.94.96.1 is from comcast. The only other logged entry with that address shows up after my DHCP lease expires (as follows):
I'm no TCP/IP or routing guru, so could someone interpret this log entry? Could this be a "man in the middle" attack being initiated by Comcast? Is this a smoking gun?
We verified that we are not open to relay when we set up the server. We checked again last week when we were investigating why we couldn't send email to at home. We even looked up the tech notes from MS that others in this thread have referenced to be sure we didn't make an error.
It's unlikely that any spam was coming from our server, we are a three employee consulting firm and none of us send spam. Also, the MX record for our domain was only recently pointed to this server (3 months ago).
I checked the anti-spam lists. Our IP is not listed. This is clearly a problem only with @home. The frustrating part is we can't get ahold of them to fix it.
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I'm shocked that with all of these posts no /. readers have pointed out that use of such communication jamming devices isn't kosher with the old FCC. Any US theater trying to use this will find the feds knocking at their door... and that is a shame.
Great looking design, but...
It seems they are missing the boat with some of the design decisions they made (ie, no Wi-Fi, no handwriting or voice recognition software). The product's usefulness is seriously limited without these two capabilities. Where's the advantage of having a tablet in your hand if you can't use handwriting or if you can't access your data?
I think they left these things out to make a more affordable product. It also made the product less desirable.
Ray for the orange and the blue!
Ray, ray, ray, ray, ray for the orange and the blue!
I strongly recommend going to college if you have the opportunity.
I could sit here and preach about how the education gives you something to fall back on or how businesses won't look at a resume without some sort of post high school degree, but I'm sure others here will have already told you that.
The real reason to go to college: What is your hurry to start working? You've got a whole life of work ahead of you. Take the time now to enrich your life while you are young. You'll make new friends that you will have for the rest of your life. You'll be exposed to new ideas and ways of thinking. You'll get to swill beer and puke any time you want.
But seriously... there's more to life than going to work and getting a paycheck. Enrich your life.
As a long time WSJ subscriber (both online and in print), I can tell you that Walt Mossberg's reviews are always thorough and fair. As a technology consultant I'm lucky enough to get the oportunity to test many of the same products he reviews.
This is another review where I think Walt is right on. The Zaurus SL-5500 is making the same mistake made by M$ with their PDA, mainly that the user interface is too complicated. The Palm OS is still the standard for simplicity as far as the GUI is concerned.
I can't speak for the issue of Outlook sync. However, if it's advertised on the box and in the company press release, there should at least be some documentation on how to get it to work.
I hope the word LINUX doesn't scare the average user away from using the product. I'm afraid that poor documentation will only make people fear it more.
If the Linux community wants a broader acceptance of the platform then we have to stop with the attitude that something is good enough because a nerd can figure it out.
Semi-off-topic?
An equally interesting article in Mr. Schneier's newsletter this month concerns Oracle's "Unbreakable" Database.
It seems Oracle put forth a good faith (albeit flawed) effort to secure Oracle9i. They enlisted the services of TCSEC, ITSEC, Common Criteria, Russian Criteria, and FIPS
140-1 to test for security holes. None of them detected a simple buffer overflow problem.
These security companies are a sham (or at least should be ashamed).
I was transitioned to the new Comcast network two weeks ago. Since the transition my firewall has been logging what I believe could be interpreted as a "man in the middle" attack. Here is an example of the log entry:
02/12/2002 09:55:09.592 ICMP packet dropped 10.94.96.1, 5, WAN 68.80.x.x, 5, WAN 'Route Redirect' 0
I'm assuming the IP 10.94.96.1 is from comcast. The only other logged entry with that address shows up after my DHCP lease expires (as follows):
02/12/2002 00:25:58.544 DHCP Client got ACK from server. 10.94.96.1, 67 68.80.x.x, 68 68.80.x.x
I'm no TCP/IP or routing guru, so could someone interpret this log entry? Could this be a "man in the middle" attack being initiated by Comcast? Is this a smoking gun?
It will only be a matter of time before we are all talking MiB and GiB... around the same time the U.S. will be converting to the metric sysem!
The times they aren't-a-changin'.
Why do people get all upset about marketers tracking their viewing, shopping, ass-wiping, etc. habits? I think this is a desirable feature.
I'd like marketers to target me with coupons and adverts for items that I'm interested in. It's better than getting junk mail for crap I don't need.
We verified that we are not open to relay when we set up the server. We checked again last week when we were investigating why we couldn't send email to at home. We even looked up the tech notes from MS that others in this thread have referenced to be sure we didn't make an error.
It's unlikely that any spam was coming from our server, we are a three employee consulting firm and none of us send spam. Also, the MX record for our domain was only recently pointed to this server (3 months ago).
I checked the anti-spam lists. Our IP is not listed. This is clearly a problem only with @home. The frustrating part is we can't get ahold of them to fix it.
When my small consulting company tries to send email to our customers on the @Home network we get this message back (edited to exclude our domain):
Unable to deliver the message due to a communications failure.
550 5.0.0 Mail originating from that domain is not welcome here.
We host our own email from our Exchange server. There's no reason our domain should be blocked. How can I check if @home is blocking us?