I've been running 1.0.1 on Mandrake 7 for several months now. It does everything I need and does it well. Calendar, contacts, virtual folders, filtering, multiple accounts, etc. are all there. Stability is excellent as well.
eMacs start at $1099, iMacs start at $1399, and PowerMacs start at $1599. Right now Dell has similarly featured Dimension 4500 starting at $899. $500 is not an insignificant price difference, but of course the Dell does have the downside of coming with Windows.
Walking or using public transportation is all well and good if it's a viable alternative in your situation, but for plenty of people it is not. Take my school for example. While some of the students are local, many live up to 30 miles away. Driving is the only way to get there, as public transportation is just too spotty (very few train stops, trains do not come very often).
I like to go to Boston (~35 miles) now and then and I can only take public transportation about half way. There is a subway that covers the second half of the trip, but train service between my home and there is only about once per hour and doesn't run all day long. I don't have anything against public transportation, but it just isn't practical in some cases.
I think public transportation in the US suffers from something of a chicken and egg problem. It works in large cities, but much of the country is suburban or rural. People in those areas can't use public transportation very much because there is typically much less service than in major cities, and their cars work just fine to get them where they want to go. But public transportation can't get the funding to build up infrastructure if enough people aren't already using it. Thus it will probably take a major crisis with conventional transportation (running out of petroleum, say) to actually effect the transition to public transportation.
This is definitely true. I used to listen to a program on a local AM station WRKO due to poor AM reception at my house. Now they've had to stop webcasting.
With decent remote management software, there's no need to go visit computers individually. It should be easy to configure it to alert someone if something suspicious happens to a machine (cover removed, installed RAM amount decreases, etc.).
A Win2k box will become completely unresponsive to keyboard and mouse if a program running in a DOS window outputs lots of text, and will remain so until the program stops printing text. Completely unacceptable, in my opinion. Makes is a real pain to use Perl's -w flag while debugging a script.
The "Vectra" label has been put on quite a number of different chassis designs, some of them truly crimes against humanity. I have two different ones as servers, and while working on the drives may not necessarily involve tools, it certainly does demand very small and very flexible fingers to manipulate the power and data cables.
To answer some of the fears, no, most Biometrics databases don't give you anything when compromised. Why? Because they don't store the biometric. They merely store minutiae from the sample. These can be loosely defined as a series of data points illustrating some of the salient features of the biometric registered. If it's your fingerprint, the database merely contains a bunch of vectors illustrating where the most important ridges and forks and such are on your print. THIS INFORMATION IS NOT ENOUGH TO RECOVER THE PRINT. It's encryption, it's processing (the database might be encrypted, though). While you could potentially create a Biometric from the minutiae (assuming you understood the data format and what it describes) that fooled the algorigthm the minutiae were sampled from, your "faked" fingerprint would not fool a different algorithm.
Sounds like little more than security through obscurity, and we know were that's gotten us in the past. Using an encoding system that is difficult to understand and assuming that no one will figure it out is not a good idea - I think the telephone companies have plenty of stories to back that up.
I also don't buy the argument that it would be impossible to create a fingerprint that generated the same hash points. As I see it, this is little different than crypt()ing passwords. Of course the function is one-way so that you can't derive the original data from the hash, but given enough processing time and knowledge of the algorithm(s) an input can be generated that creates the same hash.
The biggest problem I see with bioinformatics (or at least fingerprints) is that they are forever tied to you. Passwords can be changed infintely, but you can't very will replace your fingers if someone dupes the prints.
PCI slots are most certainly not compatible with AGP cards - the connector is physically different. There cannot even be a shared PCI/AGP slot with two connectors but one back panel cutout. This was possible with ISA and PCI because the cards face in opposite directions, but this is not the case with PCI and AGP cards.
How can it be the pen manufacturer's fault if some other company makes ink cartridges that aren't the right size?
Re:Not silkscreening, but what about this hack?
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Silkscreening CD-Rs?
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What sort of heat transfer process? The only one I've seen for t-shirts involves an iron, and I can't imagine that that would be very compatible with a plastic CD-R.
Perhaps that's just a typo? All the other ocurrences of that phrase just say "between 40Hz and 3600 Hz". It seems like a relatively easy typo for a typist to make, given the frequency with which "-40 dbm" appears.
Re:Just follow the ion emissions
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Cloaking Detection?
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Read the documentation from the Perl UserAgent libs and figure out how to change the http headers to spoof various browsers. I've done this before. I think that I ended up going into the UserAgent code and doing this manually. I don't remember exactly how I accomplished this, I just remember that it was easy.
It's quite straightforward:
my $ua = LWP::UserAgent->new;
$ua->agent("Whatever 3.11/sun4u");
You're not detecting the "GPS signal" so much as spurious emissions generated by the receiver's electronics. Most likely, sufficient shielding could be implemented to contain these.
Of course, delaying turn-on of the GPS until the car moves would probably be a lot simpler.
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The header (CSID) really means nothing, as it can be set by the sender. Only caller ID can be even remotely trusted to be true.
I've been running 1.0.1 on Mandrake 7 for several months now. It does everything I need and does it well. Calendar, contacts, virtual folders, filtering, multiple accounts, etc. are all there. Stability is excellent as well.
eMacs start at $1099, iMacs start at $1399, and PowerMacs start at $1599. Right now Dell has similarly featured Dimension 4500 starting at $899. $500 is not an insignificant price difference, but of course the Dell does have the downside of coming with Windows.
Walking or using public transportation is all well and good if it's a viable alternative in your situation, but for plenty of people it is not. Take my school for example. While some of the students are local, many live up to 30 miles away. Driving is the only way to get there, as public transportation is just too spotty (very few train stops, trains do not come very often).
I like to go to Boston (~35 miles) now and then and I can only take public transportation about half way. There is a subway that covers the second half of the trip, but train service between my home and there is only about once per hour and doesn't run all day long. I don't have anything against public transportation, but it just isn't practical in some cases.
I think public transportation in the US suffers from something of a chicken and egg problem. It works in large cities, but much of the country is suburban or rural. People in those areas can't use public transportation very much because there is typically much less service than in major cities, and their cars work just fine to get them where they want to go. But public transportation can't get the funding to build up infrastructure if enough people aren't already using it. Thus it will probably take a major crisis with conventional transportation (running out of petroleum, say) to actually effect the transition to public transportation.
Do you absolutely need to be running Linux? Chances are NetBSD is Unix-y enough for most purposes, and it runs on absolutely everything.
Supported 68k systems
Supported PPC systems
Setting the date on Linux (or any other pltform that uses a GNU-like date (1) command) isn't hard. As root, just do:
date -s "string"
Where string is a date in the same format as date outputs by default (you can use different formats, but that's the most straightforward).
Is plugging in a PC card really considered "upgrading"?
If it didn't come with the computer, it's an upgrade.
Personally, I don't think the lack of PCMCIA slots is a big deal on the iBook. The single mouse button is what keeps me away.
Credit-card charge disputing is generally limited to charges over $50. FTC docs.
This is definitely true. I used to listen to a program on a local AM station WRKO due to poor AM reception at my house. Now they've had to stop webcasting.
Although not mentioned in the manual, the 3030 will also work with 128MB cards - one of those will hold 160+ cards at the full 2048x1536 resolution.
Old Slashdot Article.
All of two seconds with Google. Really.
With decent remote management software, there's no need to go visit computers individually. It should be easy to configure it to alert someone if something suspicious happens to a machine (cover removed, installed RAM amount decreases, etc.).
A Win2k box will become completely unresponsive to keyboard and mouse if a program running in a DOS window outputs lots of text, and will remain so until the program stops printing text. Completely unacceptable, in my opinion. Makes is a real pain to use Perl's -w flag while debugging a script.
There is nearly no "dual use" with such devices
Are you trying to say that an individual couldn't own locks and a lockpick set at the same time?
The "Vectra" label has been put on quite a number of different chassis designs, some of them truly crimes against humanity. I have two different ones as servers, and while working on the drives may not necessarily involve tools, it certainly does demand very small and very flexible fingers to manipulate the power and data cables.
To answer some of the fears, no, most Biometrics databases don't give you anything when compromised. Why? Because they don't store the biometric. They merely store minutiae from the sample. These can be loosely defined as a series of data points illustrating some of the salient features of the biometric registered. If it's your fingerprint, the database merely contains a bunch of vectors illustrating where the most important ridges and forks and such are on your print. THIS INFORMATION IS NOT ENOUGH TO RECOVER THE PRINT. It's encryption, it's processing (the database might be encrypted, though). While you could potentially create a Biometric from the minutiae (assuming you understood the data format and what it describes) that fooled the algorigthm the minutiae were sampled from, your "faked" fingerprint would not fool a different algorithm.
Sounds like little more than security through obscurity, and we know were that's gotten us in the past. Using an encoding system that is difficult to understand and assuming that no one will figure it out is not a good idea - I think the telephone companies have plenty of stories to back that up.
I also don't buy the argument that it would be impossible to create a fingerprint that generated the same hash points. As I see it, this is little different than crypt()ing passwords. Of course the function is one-way so that you can't derive the original data from the hash, but given enough processing time and knowledge of the algorithm(s) an input can be generated that creates the same hash.
The biggest problem I see with bioinformatics (or at least fingerprints) is that they are forever tied to you. Passwords can be changed infintely, but you can't very will replace your fingers if someone dupes the prints.
I'd assume that the s/// expression would be in something like a foreach $domain (@domains) {} loop, thus making the /g option unnecessary.
PCI slots are most certainly not compatible with AGP cards - the connector is physically different. There cannot even be a shared PCI/AGP slot with two connectors but one back panel cutout. This was possible with ISA and PCI because the cards face in opposite directions, but this is not the case with PCI and AGP cards.
How can it be the pen manufacturer's fault if some other company makes ink cartridges that aren't the right size?
What sort of heat transfer process? The only one I've seen for t-shirts involves an iron, and I can't imagine that that would be very compatible with a plastic CD-R.
Perhaps that's just a typo? All the other ocurrences of that phrase just say "between 40Hz and 3600 Hz". It seems like a relatively easy typo for a typist to make, given the frequency with which "-40 dbm" appears.
It wasn't Intel that indested in this nut, but rather a company that Intel later bought up.
Colocate
Read the documentation from the Perl UserAgent libs and figure out how to change the http headers to spoof various browsers. I've done this before. I think that I ended up going into the UserAgent code and doing this manually. I don't remember exactly how I accomplished this, I just remember that it was easy.
It's quite straightforward:my $ua = LWP::UserAgent->new;
$ua->agent("Whatever 3.11/sun4u");
You're not detecting the "GPS signal" so much as spurious emissions generated by the receiver's electronics. Most likely, sufficient shielding could be implemented to contain these.
Of course, delaying turn-on of the GPS until the car moves would probably be a lot simpler.