Swing
Release 1.4.2 includes many bug fixes and these major enhancements:
* The Microsoft Windows XP look and feel. If you are using the system look and feel on the Windows XP platform, Swing components now match the platform.
* The GTK+ look and feel. You can now customize your look and feel to a particular theme.
Which means the look/feel argument for.NET is moot.
When will you GNU/Linux hippies learn! This would be STEALING the music.
And to top it off, your hippie free software barcode font is probably PIRATED as well!
http://www.idautomation.com/piracy/illegalfonts. ht ml
Congratulations! You have found a way to violate at least 2 different copyrights with one crappy inkjet printer!
[On a more serious note: PDF417 is a 2D barcode format that can encode about 1K. While this isn't enough for a full song, it would be enough for a lo-fi sound bite or brief voice advertisement.]
Most people are lucky if DNS just works without major headaches.
I could swear BIND and its config file is considered, along with Sendmail, one of the most convoluted programs in Internetdom. It, again along with Sendmail, is historically also one of the most bug-ridden and exploited.
And now someone is suggesting futzing around with it?! Why not just change your domain to "rootmeplease.com" and get it over with?
Nothing beats the ease of setup and use of my new VoIP phone with Packet8. $49 set up fee and they sent me a DTE.
Plug DTE into power, hub and my cordless phone base station and I had dial tone.
They assigned me a local number, so it is a local call from my office.
Free calls worldwide to other Packet8 scuscribers. Unlimited calls in US/Canada for people with regular phones. $20.59/month and that INCLUDES all taxes.
I get to use my cordless phone and speaker phones. I can take the DTE with me and my phone number follows me.
Oh, and Packet8 just introduced *real* E911, for the paranoid among you. (Note: If you take the DTE travelling with you and then call 911, it'll claim you're at your address on file -- back home.)
Father's Day alone saved me the $20 in what would have been LD charges.
For those that love the software phones, Vonage supports one that has a Linux client as well.
And VoicePulse will allow you to set up your own Asterisk server, hook in and use them as a PSTN gateway.
If by "abandon" you mean "remove", then you're insane.
However, if you mean "make not necessary for daily tasks", then Linux has been there for a while.
Mandrake, SuSE, Red Hat EWS, Linspire, Mepis, Xandros -- all work fine for daily home/SOHO operations without ever seeing a shell. This is probably also true of several other distros I haven't tried.
Actually, the one thing my kids dislike about Linux is the lack of a Shockwave plugin for online game sites. Winex has been good enough for Windows games (Starcraft, Half-Life, Counter Strike, Railroad Tycoon) and native Linux games are also great (Neverwinter Nights, Pingus, FreeCiv, Quake 3 Arena, LBreakout, Armageddon, etc.)
I guess it is time to break down and get CrossOver for the Internet plugin support.
And this is where something like Grokdoc would come in handy, though it doesn't cover Samba.
What distro were you using? Where did you have problems? Were you trying to just share stuff or do full Domain Authentication as well?
I just installed SuSE 9.1 on a latop here at work, and it saw all three NT/2K domains immediately. I was able to share some files just with a couple of clicks.
Quantum cryptography, at least in this application, only uses the quantum network to exchange KEYS to conventional symmetric crypto.
The same crypto algorithms are used, this is just a "secure" method of key exchange. PKI was invented because of the problem of exchanging keys securely -- this is just a fancy way of doing the same thing.
This has been SO effective in eliminating capital crimes like murder.
The two main problems are:
Most people don't think before/during committing a crime.
Those that do frequently think "they aren't going to catch me, so I'm not going to get punished and I don't have to worry".
Most crime exists because a good many people are lazy and stupid, and that is part of human nature.
Well... to qualify that...a good deal of crime exists today because lots of people can't mind their own business and insist on not only telling other people what not to do, but getting together and making as many laws as possible.
The same thing that is stopping them now -- sheer, dumb luck.
There have already been incidents of 911 systems and certain local phone systems going down due to viruses and worms. Not to mention what a good phreaker can do to a corporate PBX.
Hey! If we switch to VOIP, maybe phreaking will go away. What's the point in using someone else's phone when yours is free or almost?
That isn't what Lucent primarily did. Their big markets were WAN equipment (Frame Relay, ATM, Sonet/SDH) as well as DSL DSLAMs and phone switches such as the 5ESS. The "equipment for cell phones" you refer to was frequently all the ATM and 5E stuff in the phone switching office.
Lets not forget all the long haul DWDM, fiber and everything Bell Labs had their fingers in.
And can you install the distro, configure Samba to authenticate off of the existing Windows Domain and have everything up and running in under 10 minutes?
I've yet to meet a sysadmin (with a job) that has enough spare time to do what you describe. Your time is worth (or should be) more than the $300.
I've installed four of these units for consulting clients and they are quite happy. Most of their happieness comes from everything being up and running in 10 minutes and they now have more storage space without major hassles.
How about legal challenge? If I remember, a couple of big ISPs are going through court on these -- violation of the American's with Disability Act. Specifically, the visually impaired have problems with this sort of thing.
Once enough people start using something like this, someone will successfully automate it.
In your example's case:
1. Convert to greyscale
2. Adjust threshold to 170/255 (66%)
3. Convert to 1-bit b&w
4. Remove letters left to right
5. OCR
I automated the first 3 steps in about 5 minutes, and it worked on 5 consecutive graphics from your CR. The last two require more effort than I want to invest right now. Considering all the letters in your CR are CAPS and the same font, you can replace step 4 with a script to move them to the same baseline. A good OCR package may handle it as is.
-Charles
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OS/X suffers from the same fatal flaw as WinXP -- it is a lot easier to learn if you have no prior experience. It is really good for people with no computer skills.
However, if you've been using computers for a while and are familiar with something else, both seem like a royal pain and are confusing because everything isn't where it was.
But, again, for people with no prior computing experience it wins hands down.
Who is it that finds all the exploits and reports them to Microsoft in the first place? It sure as hell isn't Microsoft employees!
This means, known holes and exploits are available to certain people BEFORE patches exist. Are you willing to bet your business that those "certain people" are ALWAYS good, ethical and honest? There are no intelligent "bad guys" who can do this?
Where are all the "hackers" and "black hats" the media is always screaming about! Please, don't tell me they are ALL script kiddies.
-Charles
P.S. -- How can I ever get "first post" if the damn artitle quotes make me laugh so hard I can't type?
Since I'm not a non-profit or educational user, I only was paying attention to the NEXT paragraph -- for personal or internal business use...
On the bright (but odd) side, I finally installed RHEL3 WS last night on my personal machine. The next thing I did was grab the KDE 3.2 RPMs off of Fedora and install them. They required a new redhat-artwork RPM, along with an updated Xscreensaver, QT and one or two other RPMs.
Now my new RHEL3 install says FEDORA all over it!:-) Yes, the uname dumps out 2.4.21-9EL or some such for the kernel, but I don't see "RHEL" anywhere now.
It gets better. Follow the internal link to their Trademark section, and you'll find that you don't even have to strip the logos if you copy it around internally.
It mainly applies to making your own distro or commercial activities.
"With the exception of certain image files identified in Section 2 below, the license terms for the components permit Customer to copy, modify, and redistribute the component, in both source code and binary code forms."
The software (RHEL) and support services are SEPARATE. Don't buy one, install a thousand times then use RHN -- you're in violation.
Hell, just borrow a copy from someone and install if you aren't going to use RHN or support.
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Slackware and SuSE both ship the Sun JVM.
.NET is moot.
And Sun's 1.4.2 also has:
Swing
Release 1.4.2 includes many bug fixes and these major enhancements:
* The Microsoft Windows XP look and feel. If you are using the system look and feel on the Windows XP platform, Swing components now match the platform.
* The GTK+ look and feel. You can now customize your look and feel to a particular theme.
Which means the look/feel argument for
-Charles
When will you GNU/Linux hippies learn! This would be STEALING the music.
. ht ml
And to top it off, your hippie free software barcode font is probably PIRATED as well!
http://www.idautomation.com/piracy/illegalfonts
Congratulations! You have found a way to violate at least 2 different copyrights with one crappy inkjet printer!
[On a more serious note: PDF417 is a 2D barcode format that can encode about 1K. While this isn't enough for a full song, it would be enough for a lo-fi sound bite or brief voice advertisement.]
It isn't a menu option in Mozilla, for some silly reason. You have to change an entry in prefs.js.
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http://twiki.iwethey.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/Us
Most people are lucky if DNS just works without major headaches.
I could swear BIND and its config file is considered, along with Sendmail, one of the most convoluted programs in Internetdom. It, again along with Sendmail, is historically also one of the most bug-ridden and exploited.
And now someone is suggesting futzing around with it?! Why not just change your domain to "rootmeplease.com" and get it over with?
-Charles
Nothing beats the ease of setup and use of my new VoIP phone with Packet8. $49 set up fee and they sent me a DTE.
Plug DTE into power, hub and my cordless phone base station and I had dial tone.
They assigned me a local number, so it is a local call from my office.
Free calls worldwide to other Packet8 scuscribers. Unlimited calls in US/Canada for people with regular phones. $20.59/month and that INCLUDES all taxes.
I get to use my cordless phone and speaker phones. I can take the DTE with me and my phone number follows me.
Oh, and Packet8 just introduced *real* E911, for the paranoid among you. (Note: If you take the DTE travelling with you and then call 911, it'll claim you're at your address on file -- back home.)
Father's Day alone saved me the $20 in what would have been LD charges.
For those that love the software phones, Vonage supports one that has a Linux client as well.
And VoicePulse will allow you to set up your own Asterisk server, hook in and use them as a PSTN gateway.
No. Vonage uses SIP -- which is a VoIP standard -- and Skype uses their own proprietary protocol. Skype works with Skype and that is all.
Go180.net currently provides half-a-dozen free hotspots in Spokane, not affiliated with this story.
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http://www.go180.net/products/details.asp?DetID
Those are probably what you were detecting.
-Charles (ex-Spokane resident)
KSH is there. Follow the sh line almost to the end.
If by "abandon" you mean "remove", then you're insane.
However, if you mean "make not necessary for daily tasks", then Linux has been there for a while.
Mandrake, SuSE, Red Hat EWS, Linspire, Mepis, Xandros -- all work fine for daily home/SOHO operations without ever seeing a shell. This is probably also true of several other distros I haven't tried.
Actually, the one thing my kids dislike about Linux is the lack of a Shockwave plugin for online game sites. Winex has been good enough for Windows games (Starcraft, Half-Life, Counter Strike, Railroad Tycoon) and native Linux games are also great (Neverwinter Nights, Pingus, FreeCiv, Quake 3 Arena, LBreakout, Armageddon, etc.)
I guess it is time to break down and get CrossOver for the Internet plugin support.
-Charles
And this is where something like Grokdoc would come in handy, though it doesn't cover Samba.
What distro were you using? Where did you have problems? Were you trying to just share stuff or do full Domain Authentication as well?
I just installed SuSE 9.1 on a latop here at work, and it saw all three NT/2K domains immediately. I was able to share some files just with a couple of clicks.
-Charles
Details, details, details.
Quantum cryptography, at least in this application, only uses the quantum network to exchange KEYS to conventional symmetric crypto.
The same crypto algorithms are used, this is just a "secure" method of key exchange. PKI was invented because of the problem of exchanging keys securely -- this is just a fancy way of doing the same thing.
Isn't that shared, not switched, bandwidth? What happens to the speed when you aren't the only one in the whole damn country using the pipe?
Just like 802.11b -- where throughput drops proportionally to the number of active users.
-Charles
Cell phone.
Get one of those uber-cheap "pay only when you use it" phones as an emergency line. Keep it charged and turned off.
Hell, most cell phones will allow you to call 911 even when there is no active account on the phone!
-Charles
Right.
This has been SO effective in eliminating capital crimes like murder.
The two main problems are:
Most people don't think before/during committing a crime.
Those that do frequently think "they aren't going to catch me, so I'm not going to get punished and I don't have to worry".
Most crime exists because a good many people are lazy and stupid, and that is part of human nature.
Well... to qualify that...a good deal of crime exists today because lots of people can't mind their own business and insist on not only telling other people what not to do, but getting together and making as many laws as possible.
-Charles
The same thing that is stopping them now -- sheer, dumb luck.
There have already been incidents of 911 systems and certain local phone systems going down due to viruses and worms. Not to mention what a good phreaker can do to a corporate PBX.
Hey! If we switch to VOIP, maybe phreaking will go away. What's the point in using someone else's phone when yours is free or almost?
-Charles
That isn't what Lucent primarily did. Their big markets were WAN equipment (Frame Relay, ATM, Sonet/SDH) as well as DSL DSLAMs and phone switches such as the 5ESS. The "equipment for cell phones" you refer to was frequently all the ATM and 5E stuff in the phone switching office.
Lets not forget all the long haul DWDM, fiber and everything Bell Labs had their fingers in.
Charles Hill
ex-Lucent ACN
And can you install the distro, configure Samba to authenticate off of the existing Windows Domain and have everything up and running in under 10 minutes?
I've yet to meet a sysadmin (with a job) that has enough spare time to do what you describe. Your time is worth (or should be) more than the $300.
I've installed four of these units for consulting clients and they are quite happy. Most of their happieness comes from everything being up and running in 10 minutes and they now have more storage space without major hassles.
-Charles
The section on Colin Fashey's site, way down at the bottom, that reads "Basic operation:"
You have to authorize each sender? The sender computes a code to send you mail?
Right. Most people can't get the clock on their VCR to stop blinking. This ain't gonna happen.
-Charles
How about legal challenge? If I remember, a couple of big ISPs are going through court on these -- violation of the American's with Disability Act. Specifically, the visually impaired have problems with this sort of thing.
Once enough people start using something like this, someone will successfully automate it.
In your example's case:
1. Convert to greyscale
2. Adjust threshold to 170/255 (66%)
3. Convert to 1-bit b&w
4. Remove letters left to right
5. OCR
I automated the first 3 steps in about 5 minutes, and it worked on 5 consecutive graphics from your CR. The last two require more effort than I want to invest right now. Considering all the letters in your CR are CAPS and the same font, you can replace step 4 with a script to move them to the same baseline. A good OCR package may handle it as is.
-Charles
OS/X suffers from the same fatal flaw as WinXP -- it is a lot easier to learn if you have no prior experience. It is really good for people with no computer skills.
However, if you've been using computers for a while and are familiar with something else, both seem like a royal pain and are confusing because everything isn't where it was.
But, again, for people with no prior computing experience it wins hands down.
-Charles
Who is it that finds all the exploits and reports them to Microsoft in the first place? It sure as hell isn't Microsoft employees!
This means, known holes and exploits are available to certain people BEFORE patches exist. Are you willing to bet your business that those "certain people" are ALWAYS good, ethical and honest? There are no intelligent "bad guys" who can do this?
Where are all the "hackers" and "black hats" the media is always screaming about! Please, don't tell me they are ALL script kiddies.
-Charles
P.S. -- How can I ever get "first post" if the damn artitle quotes make me laugh so hard I can't type?
I just pulled Gentoo off a couple of servers...
It takes too damn much time and effort to distribute patches & changes.
God help you if you're running a desktop and want to update X or KDE -- it'll take half a day to update.
You're right, it is confusing.
:-) Yes, the uname dumps out 2.4.21-9EL or some such for the kernel, but I don't see "RHEL" anywhere now.
Since I'm not a non-profit or educational user, I only was paying attention to the NEXT paragraph -- for personal or internal business use...
On the bright (but odd) side, I finally installed RHEL3 WS last night on my personal machine. The next thing I did was grab the KDE 3.2 RPMs off of Fedora and install them. They required a new redhat-artwork RPM, along with an updated Xscreensaver, QT and one or two other RPMs.
Now my new RHEL3 install says FEDORA all over it!
That wasn't so hard...
It gets better. Follow the internal link to their Trademark section, and you'll find that you don't even have to strip the logos if you copy it around internally.
:-)
It mainly applies to making your own distro or commercial activities.
Hell, *I* could send you a copy.
-Charles
I've read it a dozen times, though IANAL.
Zip on down to Appendix #1...
"With the exception of certain image files identified in Section 2 below, the license terms for the components permit Customer to copy, modify, and redistribute the component, in both source code and binary code forms."
The software (RHEL) and support services are SEPARATE. Don't buy one, install a thousand times then use RHN -- you're in violation.
Hell, just borrow a copy from someone and install if you aren't going to use RHN or support.
Or am I mis-interpreting Appendix #1?
-Charles