I suspect that the system will have to allow "fair use" recording, while preventing copies
of copies. Of course this killed DAT decks. You could make a DAT copy of a CD, but not a copy of that DAT tape (a copy of a copy didn't
work).
When did Sun start using calendar manager under X?
Calendar manager is an application that talks to
centralized calendar files using RPC. The client
application is an X application. It connects to
a database on a server system using RPC (rpc.cmsd).
The database keeps track of the user's calendar
appointments. You can check other people's
calendars (the stuff they let you see)
I think this has been around for quite a while,
but I'm not sure the date. Does anyone know?
I know it ran on SunOs 4.x with openwindows
and later solaris.
This has NOTHING to do with global warming. It is
the result of the "Yosemite Syndrome". After
countless expeditions of tourists to the north
pole, all using heavy equipment to REND and
CRUSH the precious frozen-ecosystem, it is no
wonder that we're starting to see open water
at the pole.
We must introduce legislation to carefully limit
the number of icebreakers that can carelessly
break the eons-old northern ice as preservation
for our future generations. Some of this ice
was frozen centuries before the giant sequioas
only to be reduced to ice cubes at the bow of
these fossil (fuel) burning monstrosites.
Maybe we extend clinton's protectionist
legislation so that we exclude all motorized
vehicles from international ice floes - allowing
only eco-safe hikers to make their way to the
north pole. No mountain bikes either.
What about spread spectrum? Would SETI pick this up? Many new cordless phones are spread-spectrum phones - it is more robust because it's relatively immune to interference and allows better use of the shared frequency band. I was told that the bandwidth available using spread spectrum is dependent on the speed of the processing - so faster processors = more bandwidth. However, to SETI - would they even see a signal like this?
We've been using radio for just over 50 years. If we go to high-bandwidth digital connections in the next couple of years, if car radios are replaced with car satellite receivers, the whole radio spectrum of our planet can change drastically in just the blink of an eye, cosmos-wise.
I was reading a wired interview of the director(?) of Xerox PARC, and when they mentioned linux, he said that "Open Source is Literacy". Maybe people won't want to hack their own telephone switch, but if it brings some people to a higher level of understanding, can't it shake up the monopolies in other ways? Maybe it will lead to better standards in the future for something as "trivial" as digital answering machines or something else that can benefit us hackers.
You could probably just plug a compatible laptop into an outlet in a house's backyard and gain access to their network. I can imagine lots of problems like:
- turn off that noisy stereo (air conditioner, washer, etc) - gain access to the DSL link, send spam or incriminating email - gain access to a computer
I wonder how many houses will be set up with a filter on external outlets?
...and don't REMOVE the ISP shortcut from your windoze desktop! That helped subsidize the cost of your modem|game|software. Someone worked long and hard to write the code to put it there!
It's immoral to remove, blah, blah...
Seriously though - Mozilla should do one better with site-by-site preference tweaks like: doubleclick.com: never_load or doubleclick.com: redirect=onepixel.gif slashdot.org: load_all_images accept_all_cookies shop.site: load_local_images accept_local_cookies geocities.com: no_crappy_popup_windows justtext.com: load_no_images *: load_local_images accept_no_cookies disable_java
This would probably be too complicated for Joe average, but is exactly what I would use.
I've also been using one of these for several years.
It's wonderful. The picture is exactly as it came off the satellite, and the sound is digital (PCM or AC3) depending on the signal. I'm not sure if it records the AC3, I think it does. It doesn't record HDTV, but I can't receive it anyway. I think I heard one of dishnetwork's other satellites mirrors the HBO signal in HDTV for no additional cost.
I've always bought S-VHS tapes and they work just fine. Some people buy regular VHS tapes and put holes in them to fool the sensors, but this could drop pieces of plastic in the case/tape path so it's risky.
I don't think this will work. A LONG time ago, Byte magazine used to print these special barcode-like patches on their pages. The idea was you could buy a special scanner that would let you scan them and out would pop the source code from the article or whatever. They only lasted a little while before quietly disappearing forever.
I think it would make much more sense to print the url itself and give away those pen-like scanners - that way people could still scan it while scanning normal text too. They could print it in an OCR font and it would benefit people who only had eyes to read it.
Look at the market for this: I think the people who would READ a newspaper wouldn't be geeky enough to think of using a scanner, while the people who would know those little smudges were scannable would probably be reading their news online anyway.
The garmin emap is less than $200 and displays a map.
I bought mine at http://www.tvnav.com and love it. It's about the same size as a palm-pilot. It has a built-in map of north and south america, but you can spend (lots) more money on it to buy flash memory chips and maps. That lets you download more detailed maps along with address searches, restaurant, hotel, services information.
I went dirt-bike riding once and I had to leave the bike in the woods overnight. It really helped when getting back to camp, and I wonder if I would EVER have found my bike the next day without it.
I have a Garmin E-Map GPS receiver. I used it on the commute to work, and waited until 9:00pm Pacific to drive home. (then I found it was 8:00 eastern when they turned it off). The GPS receiver has a satellite status page that shows Lat/Long, altitute, speed and accuracy. On the way to work the altitude typically said stuff like -200 feet, -100 feet and so forth. The accuracy readout varied between 57 and 150 feet.
Coming back from work, the altitute was around 200 feet and only varied by 1-2 feet. The accuracy readout always read around 88 feet though. It didn't fluctuate as much as before. I looked at the track of my trip to work, and it tended to wander back and forth and to the side of the road. On the trip home it was always centered right on the road and in the correct lane.
Don't know how the receiver figures accuracy, but it seemed like it might be more stable. I just expected to see 'Accuracy: 3 feet' or something.
However, now you just get color. Color is getting cheap enough (and high enough resolution) that your eyes are (practically speaking) more of a factor.
I run a 21" color monitor at 1600x1280. Now a comparable monochrome monitor should be at least 3200x2560. It would be interesting to see what you could do at those resolutions. But they're not readily available...
In other countries, education is a different animal. "Hacking an education" may be an issue, but if you're dealing with a flawed educational system, it may be irrelevant. If anyone has read of Dr Feynman's experiences with Brazil in "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman", you understand what I mean.
I took a language course in Mexico once, and a requirement to start the course was to go to the copy service and have them make a copy of the text for the course. People in the U.S. take access to textbooks for granted I think. (of course, internet access can be taken for granted too...)
Now, imagine that you're learning in a "less than optimal" environment. Maybe it's even a country that provides a free college education. Your teacher reads out of the book and assigns homework. You get home, but are confused when trying to do it. However, you pull up a lecture off the internet on the subject and one of the best professors in the field explains things to you while carefully skirting the cognitive stumbling blocks.
What if college teachers themselves in other countries can learn their subject better online? I don't know, I think a lot of good can come of this.
This microsoft "dot-truth" marketing summary looks familiar. I think it's their answer to sun's "reality check" that's been on their site for years: http://www.sun.com/dot-com/realitycheck/index.ht ml
"As Microsoft sniffily denies suggestions that the Chinese government is poised to ban Windows 2000, TurboLinux has opportunistically leapt into the fray by claiming it's been outselling Windows in China for the past four months."
Slashdot Mirror
I suspect that the system will have to allow "fair use" recording, while preventing copies
of copies. Of course this killed DAT decks. You could make a DAT copy of a CD, but not a copy of that DAT tape (a copy of a copy didn't
work).
College is still the best place to meet eligible,
educated members of the opposite sex.
When did Sun start using calendar manager under X?
Calendar manager is an application that talks to
centralized calendar files using RPC. The client
application is an X application. It connects to
a database on a server system using RPC (rpc.cmsd).
The database keeps track of the user's calendar
appointments. You can check other people's
calendars (the stuff they let you see)
I think this has been around for quite a while,
but I'm not sure the date. Does anyone know?
I know it ran on SunOs 4.x with openwindows
and later solaris.
This has NOTHING to do with global warming. It is
the result of the "Yosemite Syndrome". After
countless expeditions of tourists to the north
pole, all using heavy equipment to REND and
CRUSH the precious frozen-ecosystem, it is no
wonder that we're starting to see open water
at the pole.
We must introduce legislation to carefully limit
the number of icebreakers that can carelessly
break the eons-old northern ice as preservation
for our future generations. Some of this ice
was frozen centuries before the giant sequioas
only to be reduced to ice cubes at the bow of
these fossil (fuel) burning monstrosites.
Maybe we extend clinton's protectionist
legislation so that we exclude all motorized
vehicles from international ice floes - allowing
only eco-safe hikers to make their way to the
north pole. No mountain bikes either.
Save the ice.
the cheapest place I've found to buy computer books:
http://www.bookpool.com
They only sell tech-related books, but they're
always less than than Amazon, Barnes and Noble,
Fatbrain, etc...
Note I'm not affiliated with them in any way.
Did you ever finish that solataire program that only deals winnable hands?
:-)
What about spread spectrum? Would SETI pick this up? Many new cordless phones are spread-spectrum phones - it is more robust because it's relatively immune to interference and allows better use of the shared frequency band. I was told that the bandwidth available using spread spectrum is dependent on the speed of the processing - so faster processors = more bandwidth. However, to SETI - would they even see a signal like this?
We've been using radio for just over 50 years. If we go to high-bandwidth digital connections in the next couple of years, if car radios are replaced with car satellite receivers, the whole radio spectrum of our planet can change drastically in just the blink of an eye, cosmos-wise.
I was reading a wired interview of the director(?)
of Xerox PARC, and when they mentioned linux, he
said that "Open Source is Literacy". Maybe people
won't want to hack their own telephone switch, but
if it brings some people to a higher level of
understanding, can't it shake up the monopolies in
other ways? Maybe it will lead to better standards
in the future for something as "trivial" as
digital answering machines or something else
that can benefit us hackers.
Giant mice escape from laboratory, breed with
common mice, etc....
Funny thing - this could REALLY happen today!
I'm glad they're not experimenting with cockroaches.
RAISIN = Redundant Array of Impregnable SovereIgn Nations?
Maybe I could use your site for Parity or stripe to your site for speed.
You could probably just plug a compatible laptop into an
outlet in a house's backyard and gain access to their
network. I can imagine lots of problems like:
- turn off that noisy stereo (air conditioner, washer, etc)
- gain access to the DSL link, send spam or
incriminating email
- gain access to a computer
I wonder how many houses will be set up with a filter
on external outlets?
...and don't REMOVE the ISP shortcut from your
windoze desktop! That helped subsidize the cost
of your modem|game|software. Someone worked long
and hard to write the code to put it there!
It's immoral to remove, blah, blah...
Seriously though - Mozilla should do one better
with site-by-site preference tweaks like:
doubleclick.com: never_load
or
doubleclick.com: redirect=onepixel.gif
slashdot.org: load_all_images accept_all_cookies
shop.site: load_local_images accept_local_cookies
geocities.com: no_crappy_popup_windows
justtext.com: load_no_images
*: load_local_images accept_no_cookies disable_java
This would probably be too complicated for Joe
average, but is exactly what I would use.
I've also been using one of these for several years.
It's wonderful. The picture is exactly as it
came off the satellite, and the sound is digital
(PCM or AC3) depending on the signal. I'm not
sure if it records the AC3, I think it does.
It doesn't record HDTV, but I can't receive
it anyway. I think I heard one of dishnetwork's
other satellites mirrors the HBO signal in HDTV
for no additional cost.
I've always bought S-VHS tapes and they work just
fine. Some people buy regular VHS tapes and put
holes in them to fool the sensors, but this could
drop pieces of plastic in the case/tape path so
it's risky.
I don't think this will work. A LONG time ago,
Byte magazine used to print these special
barcode-like patches on their pages. The idea
was you could buy a special scanner that would
let you scan them and out would pop the source
code from the article or whatever. They only
lasted a little while before quietly disappearing
forever.
I think it would make much more sense to print
the url itself and give away those pen-like
scanners - that way people could still scan
it while scanning normal text too. They
could print it in an OCR font and it would
benefit people who only had eyes to read it.
Look at the market for this: I think the people
who would READ a newspaper wouldn't be geeky
enough to think of using a scanner, while the
people who would know those little smudges were
scannable would probably be reading their news
online anyway.
As a followup, it got better today. Today
my accuracy is around 14 feet with 5-6 satellites.
I wonder if SA was really off last night.
Not bad!
The garmin emap is less than $200 and displays a map.
I bought mine at http://www.tvnav.com and love it.
It's about the same size as a palm-pilot. It has
a built-in map of north and south america, but you
can spend (lots) more money on it to buy flash
memory chips and maps. That lets you download more
detailed maps along with address searches, restaurant,
hotel, services information.
I went dirt-bike riding once and I had to leave
the bike in the woods overnight. It really helped
when getting back to camp, and I wonder if I would
EVER have found my bike the next day without it.
I have a Garmin E-Map GPS receiver. I used it on
the commute to work, and waited until 9:00pm Pacific
to drive home. (then I found it was 8:00 eastern
when they turned it off). The GPS receiver has
a satellite status page that shows Lat/Long,
altitute, speed and accuracy. On the way to work
the altitude typically said stuff like -200 feet,
-100 feet and so forth. The accuracy readout
varied between 57 and 150 feet.
Coming back from work, the altitute was around
200 feet and only varied by 1-2 feet. The accuracy
readout always read around 88 feet though. It
didn't fluctuate as much as before. I looked at the
track of my trip to work, and it tended to wander
back and forth and to the side of the road. On
the trip home it was always centered right on the
road and in the correct lane.
Don't know how the receiver figures accuracy, but
it seemed like it might be more stable. I just
expected to see 'Accuracy: 3 feet' or something.
FYI, solaris 8 ships with samba. It's on
a secondary disk, but it's there. (it also
ships with bash, apache, gcc, perl, and lots
more)
However, now you just get color. Color is getting
cheap enough (and high enough resolution) that
your eyes are (practically speaking) more of a
factor.
I run a 21" color monitor at 1600x1280. Now a
comparable monochrome monitor should be at least
3200x2560. It would be interesting to see what
you could do at those resolutions. But they're
not readily available...
I think a lot of these comments are U.S.-centric.
In other countries, education is a different
animal. "Hacking an education" may be an
issue, but if you're dealing with a flawed
educational system, it may be irrelevant.
If anyone has read of Dr Feynman's experiences
with Brazil in "Surely You're Joking, Mr.
Feynman", you understand what I mean.
I took a language course in Mexico once, and a
requirement to start the course was to go to the
copy service and have them make a copy of the
text for the course. People in the U.S. take
access to textbooks for granted I think.
(of course, internet access can be taken for
granted too...)
Now, imagine that you're learning in a "less
than optimal" environment. Maybe it's even a
country that provides a free college education.
Your teacher reads out of the book and assigns
homework. You get home, but are confused when
trying to do it. However, you pull up a lecture
off the internet on the subject and one of the
best professors in the field explains things to
you while carefully skirting the cognitive
stumbling blocks.
What if college teachers themselves in other
countries can learn their subject better online?
I don't know, I think a lot of good can come
of this.
I wonder how long it will be until sound isn't
really a problem. They may be loud, but you
won't be able to hear them.
Indy cars (and motorcycles) have been reaching
higher and higher RPM's. There is talk that if
they go higher they may be ultrasonic.
Maybe you'll hear them as they spin up and then
the sound will become inaudible...
hmmm...
t ml
This microsoft "dot-truth" marketing summary
looks familiar. I think it's their answer to
sun's "reality check" that's been on their
site for years:
http://www.sun.com/dot-com/realitycheck/index.h
The archives show several anti-windows articles.
This could lead to effective miniblinds?
Register article:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/000107-000006.html
"As Microsoft sniffily denies suggestions that the Chinese
government is poised to ban Windows 2000, TurboLinux has
opportunistically leapt into the fray by claiming it's been
outselling Windows in China for the past four months."
etc...
All these documents say is that it was evaluated
at c2 level. Did they pass the evaluation and
become certified or did I miss something?