It's slightly more complicated than that. Almost every modern OS supports IPv6 out of the box, and has link local IPv6 address configured (prefixed with FE80::). Windows Vista/7 generally also configures a Teredo interface (prefixed by 2001:0::). When communicating on the link local network, it will likely use IPv6 if it's available between two hosts (and they both know each other's IPv6 addresses through some mechanism like mDNS/bonjour etc). Without a global address, this is as far as it goes. Once a global IPv6 address is configured, things get interesting. Host software now assumes that it has off-site IPv6 connectivity and will act accordingly.
The DNS servers don't originate the queries for the AAAA records, the client software does. IPv6 compliant web browsers will query for the AAAA record for a given host first, followed by the A record. If it gets no AAAA reply, it will go ahead and use the A reply. The DNS servers (unless they are VERY old) will just pass on through the response. If there is no AAAA record, you'll just get a SERVFAIL, it won't return the A record instead. The absence of an AAAA record for a given hostname implies to the client that the hostname is not IPv6 compliant. If there is an AAAA record, though, modern browsers will favor it over the A reply.
This is perfect behavior as long as the IPv6 address the host has actually has real, global, IPv6 connectivity. It really becomes an issue on networks with broken IPv6 implementations. Hosts have a global IPv6 prefix assigned, but not real connectivity will still try to use IPv6 instead of IPv4 and that's the issue that Yahoo (well the whole internet, at some point, really) is going to have to deal with.
It's perfectly reasonable for an IPv4 native or IPv4/6 dual stack DNS server to return AAAA queries received via IPv4. There's no reason that every DNS server that replies to queries needs to have IPv6 enabled to serve up AAAA records, just as there's no reason that IPv6-enabled DNS servers should only return AAAA records. DNS isn't the issue here, it's client behavior (and more importantly, network behavior) to the availability of IPv6 connected hosts. Most modern hosts behave in a perfectly reasonable manner to having native IPv6 connectivity. It's the things that connect them together that are still broken in places.
There's a big difference between "syncs with Outlook" and "syncs with Exchange".
One requires a desktop computer running an e-mail client, and the other just requires the same e-mail service that everyone else uses. Also, Exchange ActiveSync gives you push e-mail (as well as contacts and calendar) and it works fairly well.
By the way, the 4 things that are mentioned work flawlessly on my Treo 755.
Not bashing the iPhone, really, but to me it doesn't seem like it was built with corporate users in mind. That's not necessarily a bad thing, but it definitely shows in the things they've focused on.
I have never ONCE had an issue that Verizon customer service didn't resolve to my satisfaction. They have been very good to me over the years. They don't cripple their phones more than any other provider does. I've never had problems getting pictures from my treo to my computer. Nobody of consequences uses GSM in the US besides T-Mobile and AT&T. The other major players in the US Cell market (Sprint, Verizon and US Cellular) use CDMA. It's not some bizarro protocol, it's just not the protocol that the rest of the world adopted.
There are problems with every major US carrier. They all want to sell superfluous crap that people don't want or need.
Have you actually USED EDGE? It's not a lot of fun. You better hope that there's wifi wherever you need to use your iPhone for data stuff. I think you'll be surprised at how many places you find yourself wanting data
The two major dealbreakers for me were the carrier they chose (AT&T) and the lack of tethered bluetooth modem functionality. There still just isn't a substitute for a real computer (i.e. laptop) when you're on the road. Being able to access a decent-speed data network from anywhere with cellphone service is something that I've come to depend on when I'm on the road. Also, bluetooth GPS and TomTom is something I've found incredibly helpful as well.
The iPhone is intriguing for a lot of people, but until it gets off of AT&T and onto a decent 3G network (read: Verizon or Sprint) with good coverage (read: NOT AT&T) it's just not an option for a lot of people like me.
I believe somewhere up in the comments someone said it will NOT be capable of this.
I've been doing it personally since the Kyocera 6035 days, though back then the data was SLOW. Back then it was via a serial cable, but since I moved to the Treo 650 I've been able to do it via bluetooth. There are quite a few other phones that I'm aware of that you can use as modems. To do it legit, though, most carriers require an additional service plan. It's come in handy plenty of times though. Being able to VPN into the network to fix stuff from a parking lot in the middle of nowhere can come in handy from time to time.
There is a google maps application for the treo that does almost exactly what the iPhone does. It works very well, especially if you have a 2.5 or 3G data connection (680, 700 or 755).
The Treo's web experience, especially the 650, is rough largely because of the 1xRTT data network it rides on. The web browser is a bit sluggish as well, so it's not entirely the data connection, but it certainly doesn't help things. Keep in mind that the 1xRTT network is only marginally slower than the EDGE network that the iPhone will be largely tethered to, unless you're in a wifi hotspot area (in which case your notebook/laptop would be far more useful). If you don't believe me, try using the 650 as a dialup modem. It's almost unbearably slow to load a page in firefox.
The camera in the 650 is horrible. The one in my 755 is better but still not great, however it's serviceable for taking pictures in a pinch when you don't have a real camera with you.
I don't see the iPhone as being FAR more capable, I just see it as looking a whole lot better. In fact, I see it as being marginally less capable as most smartphones on the market, but far better integrated. That's what Apple does, and it's why the iPhone will probably be a success. It's not the mecca of smartphones yet, though. Give me VPN and the ability to provide native, non-networked apps and it'll be a lot closer. Also get it off that horrible network and give it 3G and then you might have something that I"d fork over some money for.
If by "carrier of your choice" you mean T-Mobile, I'm sure it might be possible. Those are really the only two pervasive GSM carriers in the US. There are a few regional ones that are GSM, but the other big boys (Verizon, Spring, US Cellular etc) are all CDMA here. No matter how "unlocked" the phone gets, you won't be able to use it with those carriers. Also, EDGE will be EDGE regardless of who the carrier is.
My biggest gripe with the iPhone is that it's EDGE/GSM and it's with a carrier that has horrible coverage in areas that I frequent (rural Iowa). Also, it doesn't really "do" anything that my Treo 755 doesn't. I just recently bought the 755 after looking at what the iPhone was going to offer, and couldn't find one compelling reason to buy the iPhone over it. Granted, I don't listen to a whole lot of music on my phone, and I'm sure that might be handy (though with ptunes, the phone is certainly capable), but I can browse a useful web, listen to streaming internet radio, watch TV via the EVDO network and my slingbox, watch videos, get my e-mail with attachments, synch seamlessly with the exchange server at work (contacts, calendar and push e-mail) even over the VPN (using Movian), SSH, use it as a tethered modem via bluetooth for data, built-in google maps, decent camera (though by no means great) etc. Having come from the Kyocera 6035 in the past, I wasn't enthused with the thought of losing my keyboard.
Really there just isn't anything that the iPhone does that I want that I can't get in the 755, plus the 755 comes with EVDO. Not to mention it only cost me 275 bucks.
Now I'm not saying it's going to be a failure, I just don't see a compelling feature set over the existing bevy of smartphones. This might turn into the smartphone for the masses, but it's going to be because of marketing and slick packaging, not utility, practicality or price.
Yes, but Cingular "locks" their GSM phones into their network, just like Sprint and Verizon do with their CDMA phones. Of course you can get them unlocked, and turn them into "world phones", but I can't see this happening en masse, since there really isn't much motiviation to do so, especially since "Carrier to carrier" in the US means "Cingular to T-Mobile" and vice-versa. I do like GSM more than CDMA, for the most part, but there isn't much point in having a GSM phone in the US if you never travel overseas (most neighboring US countries also have CDMA networks in addition to GSM).
IMO the real success/failure of the iPhone will be based on how many people will be willing to move to Cingular/ATT to get the phone, possibly breaking expensive contracts to do so. Sure the phone costs 500 bucks, but then you're going to have to pay a couple hundred more on top of that to get out of your contract with Verizon or Sprint/Nextel or US Cellular or T-Mobile or whatnot to get one. All of a sudden you are looking at 700 bucks just to own one, and probably another 65-70/month to use it. That will surely slow adoption in the first couple years of the phone. Most casual phone users aren't used to paying the 20-50 bucks a month for a data plan either, which will probably be necessary with the iPhone.
I'm a long-time "smartphone" user (Kyocera 6035 -> Kyocera 7135 -> Treo 650 -> Treo 755p), and I have to admit that I was tempted by the iPhone, but at the end of the day, my existing applications and uses for my phone just doesn't require the functionality of the iPhone. If I want an "immersive" web experience, I pull out my laptop and use the Treo as a modem over bluetooth and get EVDO speeds. If I just need to google something quick, or read a headline or two, the phone is fine for that. E-mail, calendar and contacts synch transparently with exchange, and if I have more than one voicemail in my mailbox, I haven't checked it often enough. Movian VPN gets me onto the VPN and with pssh I can do quite a bit of remote admin-type work. It's got a crappy MP3 player built-in, and is expandable with miniSD cards up to 4 gb. If that's not to my liking, I can just stream audio.
Do I have complaints? Sure. Lots of little nit-noid things, but they are mostly tradeoffs. I love the little keyboard, but that costs screen real-estate. I wish it was smaller, but then the screen would be even tinier. I wish the camera was better. I wish smartphone OSes didn't suck so much, etc.
Sure the iPhone has some nice bells and whistles, but it's nothing that I can see making a huge difference over my Palm-based smartphone lifestyle. That being said, the first time someone pulls one out on a flight I'm on, I can definitely see myself getting jealous.
There will likely never be good drivers for the best video cards for Linux until there is a large installed base of users in the market for those video cards on Linux.
There will likely never be a large installed base of Linux users until a distribution hits the market that is a viable alternative to windows for most tasks.
It's really a chicken-egg problem.
If you want to wage jihad with the closed-software community, you have the option of going with a variety of different distributions that are much more focused on that.
If, instead, you want to build the very best Linux desktop you can, you do what Ubuntu is doing. Politics be damned. The people who view free software as religion or political platform tend to block it into a corner that will always relegate it to a niche market in the view of the general public. At the end of the day, the vast VAST majority of users could care less about whether the driver is close-sourced, or open sourced or anything in between. They care mostly that it works, and secondly that it costs them nothing in terms of time and money to make it work. Ubuntu is aimed at those users. Those users are the ones who will have to use Linux to get it out of the niche. And once it becomes a sizable portion of the market, we will see better drivers.
I am, and for the last few years have been, a DirecTV and DirecTivo subscriber. I've loved the service so far. I moved a couple of months ago, and had to deal with all the "upgrade" stuff that they want to offer you at the same time. I had to fight and claw to keep them from "Upgrading" my tivo to that horrendous DTV DVR thing that they've been shoving down people's throats. The installer ended up giving me one anyway, despite my insistance that I didn't want one.
I REALLY dislike that thing, and if that's more or less what the HR20 is going to be, you can say goodbye to my 150 bucks/month worth of DirecTV business the day you shut down the MPEG-2 streams. The user interface is horrendous. The remote is abysmal. It's slow as crap. It's loud. It's unstable, and it's generally a piece of garbage. I talked several people into DirecTV because of DirecTivo just before the switch, and they ended up with the same garbage I got. I honestly had to apologize to them because I didn't know that DirecTV had stopped selling DirecTivos and started selling their homegrown crap. They will probably be going back to cable in a few months when their contracts are up.
I don't honestly see what the HR20 has over the HR10-250 besides MPEG-4, which in all honesty would probably be a very simple thing to implement in the HR10-250. DirecTV differentiated itsself in the DVR-compatable TV providers by integrating Tivo (NOT just a "DVR") seamlessly with their service. Now that they are getting rid of that only distinction, the ONLY reason to stay with DirecTV is Sunday Ticket. And to be honest, considering it costs an absurd amount of money, and noone in their right mind can watch all those games, even that might not be enough of a reason for me to consider staying with DirecTV.
It's sad to me that DirecTV is letting the best offering in the business turn into an also-ran.
I wonder if the patent process has been patented yet?
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You can say what you want about Iowa (Idiots Out Wandering Around, etc. etc. etc) but we do have a pretty forward thinking state government.
Iowa has the Iowa Communications Network, a state-owned OC-192 fiber that is primarily used for distance learning, but also hooks all the small, country schools into the internet. I believe that it is the largest state owned fiber-optic network in the US. (Oklahoma has something like it, but not on as big a scale).
Some time back there was an aritcle about the CAVE. Well, Dr. Carolina Cruz-Neira, one of the founding "mothers" if you will, of the CAVE is now at Iowa State University, preparing for the opening of the next generation of CAVE-like technologies - The C6 .
Maybe we have nothing to do but pick corn and dink with computers, but I sure love this state!
I hate spam as much as the next guy, but they gotta make some money somewhere. I view it as an annoyance more than an inconvienence. If Real had the financial horsepower MS does, I don't think you'd see the spam...
If MS did it, it would be pretty pointless. For them, WMP is more of a control issue than a making money issue, I suspect. Kinda like the browser wars all over again?
Maybe I'm way off base.... just my 2% of a dollar.
Glass cockpits are common, if not exclusively used in today's high performance fighter aircraft. These aircraft are capable of sustaining more than their pilots can handle as far as G forces, and often will go from +8 or 9 to -2 or 3 in a matter of seconds. I think glass has proven it's self.
Also, most analog guages (with a few exceptions) rely on electricty as well (for gyros and such), so if you lost electricity, you're still in pretty dire straits.
This being said, almost every glass cockpit I've ever seen has a backup set of small analog guages just in case!
Just in from bugtraq.... From core.lists.bugtraq@CORE-SDI.COM Fri Apr 14 20:23:10 2000 Date: Fri, 14 Apr 2000 20:40:48 -0300 From: Gerardo Richarte To: BUGTRAQ@SECURITYFOCUS.COM Subject: DVWSSR.dll Buffer Overflow Vulnerability in Microsoft IIS 4.0 Web Servers Russ wrote (in ntbugtraq): > Ok, here's a breaking update. > > Latest reports say that there is > > NO VULNERABILITY IN DVWSSR.DLL > > Yup, that's right, different again from what I said earlier, and even more > different than what I said yesterday to WSJ. That is not correct. We have been playing with dvwssr.dll and we've found a buffer overflow that stops the server from incoming connections, at least.
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We've been playing a little more trying to exploit this buffer overflow, and as we don't have InterDevs installed on our IIS, we copied the.dll to/msadc directory, and with this configuration, we have been able to make the code jump to our buffer. Under this circunstances, the actual BO allow to execute arbitrary code in the target machine. It's interesting to note that no log is generated as efect of this attack.
Apparently Microsoft finds it serious enough to recommend deleting a dll and removing functionality from their product...if it WASN'T a backdoor, do you think they'd do that? After all, they can see the source code and are the only ones that know for sure how their stuff works...or maybe they are just doing it to bely fears...who knows?
They've been doing a very good job with the SB Live! drivers, and you can also find Dxr2 sources here as well (though I don't have one, so I don't know how mature they are)
That *nix still runs the majority of the net's big pipes? I'm sure this could have been written for NT as well, but the really BIG bandwidth boxen are *nix.
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It's slightly more complicated than that. Almost every modern OS supports IPv6 out of the box, and has link local IPv6 address configured (prefixed with FE80::). Windows Vista/7 generally also configures a Teredo interface (prefixed by 2001:0::). When communicating on the link local network, it will likely use IPv6 if it's available between two hosts (and they both know each other's IPv6 addresses through some mechanism like mDNS/bonjour etc). Without a global address, this is as far as it goes. Once a global IPv6 address is configured, things get interesting. Host software now assumes that it has off-site IPv6 connectivity and will act accordingly.
The DNS servers don't originate the queries for the AAAA records, the client software does. IPv6 compliant web browsers will query for the AAAA record for a given host first, followed by the A record. If it gets no AAAA reply, it will go ahead and use the A reply. The DNS servers (unless they are VERY old) will just pass on through the response. If there is no AAAA record, you'll just get a SERVFAIL, it won't return the A record instead. The absence of an AAAA record for a given hostname implies to the client that the hostname is not IPv6 compliant. If there is an AAAA record, though, modern browsers will favor it over the A reply.
This is perfect behavior as long as the IPv6 address the host has actually has real, global, IPv6 connectivity. It really becomes an issue on networks with broken IPv6 implementations. Hosts have a global IPv6 prefix assigned, but not real connectivity will still try to use IPv6 instead of IPv4 and that's the issue that Yahoo (well the whole internet, at some point, really) is going to have to deal with.
It's perfectly reasonable for an IPv4 native or IPv4/6 dual stack DNS server to return AAAA queries received via IPv4. There's no reason that every DNS server that replies to queries needs to have IPv6 enabled to serve up AAAA records, just as there's no reason that IPv6-enabled DNS servers should only return AAAA records. DNS isn't the issue here, it's client behavior (and more importantly, network behavior) to the availability of IPv6 connected hosts. Most modern hosts behave in a perfectly reasonable manner to having native IPv6 connectivity. It's the things that connect them together that are still broken in places.
There's a big difference between "syncs with Outlook" and "syncs with Exchange".
One requires a desktop computer running an e-mail client, and the other just requires the same e-mail service that everyone else uses. Also, Exchange ActiveSync gives you push e-mail (as well as contacts and calendar) and it works fairly well.
By the way, the 4 things that are mentioned work flawlessly on my Treo 755.
Not bashing the iPhone, really, but to me it doesn't seem like it was built with corporate users in mind. That's not necessarily a bad thing, but it definitely shows in the things they've focused on.
I have never ONCE had an issue that Verizon customer service didn't resolve to my satisfaction. They have been very good to me over the years. They don't cripple their phones more than any other provider does. I've never had problems getting pictures from my treo to my computer. Nobody of consequences uses GSM in the US besides T-Mobile and AT&T. The other major players in the US Cell market (Sprint, Verizon and US Cellular) use CDMA. It's not some bizarro protocol, it's just not the protocol that the rest of the world adopted.
There are problems with every major US carrier. They all want to sell superfluous crap that people don't want or need.
Have you actually USED EDGE? It's not a lot of fun. You better hope that there's wifi wherever you need to use your iPhone for data stuff. I think you'll be surprised at how many places you find yourself wanting data
The two major dealbreakers for me were the carrier they chose (AT&T) and the lack of tethered bluetooth modem functionality. There still just isn't a substitute for a real computer (i.e. laptop) when you're on the road. Being able to access a decent-speed data network from anywhere with cellphone service is something that I've come to depend on when I'm on the road. Also, bluetooth GPS and TomTom is something I've found incredibly helpful as well.
The iPhone is intriguing for a lot of people, but until it gets off of AT&T and onto a decent 3G network (read: Verizon or Sprint) with good coverage (read: NOT AT&T) it's just not an option for a lot of people like me.
I believe somewhere up in the comments someone said it will NOT be capable of this.
I've been doing it personally since the Kyocera 6035 days, though back then the data was SLOW. Back then it was via a serial cable, but since I moved to the Treo 650 I've been able to do it via bluetooth. There are quite a few other phones that I'm aware of that you can use as modems. To do it legit, though, most carriers require an additional service plan. It's come in handy plenty of times though. Being able to VPN into the network to fix stuff from a parking lot in the middle of nowhere can come in handy from time to time.
There is a google maps application for the treo that does almost exactly what the iPhone does. It works very well, especially if you have a 2.5 or 3G data connection (680, 700 or 755).
The Treo's web experience, especially the 650, is rough largely because of the 1xRTT data network it rides on. The web browser is a bit sluggish as well, so it's not entirely the data connection, but it certainly doesn't help things. Keep in mind that the 1xRTT network is only marginally slower than the EDGE network that the iPhone will be largely tethered to, unless you're in a wifi hotspot area (in which case your notebook/laptop would be far more useful). If you don't believe me, try using the 650 as a dialup modem. It's almost unbearably slow to load a page in firefox.
The camera in the 650 is horrible. The one in my 755 is better but still not great, however it's serviceable for taking pictures in a pinch when you don't have a real camera with you.
I don't see the iPhone as being FAR more capable, I just see it as looking a whole lot better. In fact, I see it as being marginally less capable as most smartphones on the market, but far better integrated. That's what Apple does, and it's why the iPhone will probably be a success. It's not the mecca of smartphones yet, though. Give me VPN and the ability to provide native, non-networked apps and it'll be a lot closer. Also get it off that horrible network and give it 3G and then you might have something that I"d fork over some money for.
If by "carrier of your choice" you mean T-Mobile, I'm sure it might be possible. Those are really the only two pervasive GSM carriers in the US. There are a few regional ones that are GSM, but the other big boys (Verizon, Spring, US Cellular etc) are all CDMA here. No matter how "unlocked" the phone gets, you won't be able to use it with those carriers. Also, EDGE will be EDGE regardless of who the carrier is.
My biggest gripe with the iPhone is that it's EDGE/GSM and it's with a carrier that has horrible coverage in areas that I frequent (rural Iowa). Also, it doesn't really "do" anything that my Treo 755 doesn't. I just recently bought the 755 after looking at what the iPhone was going to offer, and couldn't find one compelling reason to buy the iPhone over it. Granted, I don't listen to a whole lot of music on my phone, and I'm sure that might be handy (though with ptunes, the phone is certainly capable), but I can browse a useful web, listen to streaming internet radio, watch TV via the EVDO network and my slingbox, watch videos, get my e-mail with attachments, synch seamlessly with the exchange server at work (contacts, calendar and push e-mail) even over the VPN (using Movian), SSH, use it as a tethered modem via bluetooth for data, built-in google maps, decent camera (though by no means great) etc. Having come from the Kyocera 6035 in the past, I wasn't enthused with the thought of losing my keyboard.
Really there just isn't anything that the iPhone does that I want that I can't get in the 755, plus the 755 comes with EVDO. Not to mention it only cost me 275 bucks.
Now I'm not saying it's going to be a failure, I just don't see a compelling feature set over the existing bevy of smartphones. This might turn into the smartphone for the masses, but it's going to be because of marketing and slick packaging, not utility, practicality or price.
Yes, but Cingular "locks" their GSM phones into their network, just like Sprint and Verizon do with their CDMA phones. Of course you can get them unlocked, and turn them into "world phones", but I can't see this happening en masse, since there really isn't much motiviation to do so, especially since "Carrier to carrier" in the US means "Cingular to T-Mobile" and vice-versa. I do like GSM more than CDMA, for the most part, but there isn't much point in having a GSM phone in the US if you never travel overseas (most neighboring US countries also have CDMA networks in addition to GSM).
IMO the real success/failure of the iPhone will be based on how many people will be willing to move to Cingular/ATT to get the phone, possibly breaking expensive contracts to do so. Sure the phone costs 500 bucks, but then you're going to have to pay a couple hundred more on top of that to get out of your contract with Verizon or Sprint/Nextel or US Cellular or T-Mobile or whatnot to get one. All of a sudden you are looking at 700 bucks just to own one, and probably another 65-70/month to use it. That will surely slow adoption in the first couple years of the phone. Most casual phone users aren't used to paying the 20-50 bucks a month for a data plan either, which will probably be necessary with the iPhone.
I'm a long-time "smartphone" user (Kyocera 6035 -> Kyocera 7135 -> Treo 650 -> Treo 755p), and I have to admit that I was tempted by the iPhone, but at the end of the day, my existing applications and uses for my phone just doesn't require the functionality of the iPhone. If I want an "immersive" web experience, I pull out my laptop and use the Treo as a modem over bluetooth and get EVDO speeds. If I just need to google something quick, or read a headline or two, the phone is fine for that. E-mail, calendar and contacts synch transparently with exchange, and if I have more than one voicemail in my mailbox, I haven't checked it often enough. Movian VPN gets me onto the VPN and with pssh I can do quite a bit of remote admin-type work. It's got a crappy MP3 player built-in, and is expandable with miniSD cards up to 4 gb. If that's not to my liking, I can just stream audio.
Do I have complaints? Sure. Lots of little nit-noid things, but they are mostly tradeoffs. I love the little keyboard, but that costs screen real-estate. I wish it was smaller, but then the screen would be even tinier. I wish the camera was better. I wish smartphone OSes didn't suck so much, etc.
Sure the iPhone has some nice bells and whistles, but it's nothing that I can see making a huge difference over my Palm-based smartphone lifestyle. That being said, the first time someone pulls one out on a flight I'm on, I can definitely see myself getting jealous.
There will likely never be good drivers for the best video cards for Linux until there is a large installed base of users in the market for those video cards on Linux.
There will likely never be a large installed base of Linux users until a distribution hits the market that is a viable alternative to windows for most tasks.
It's really a chicken-egg problem.
If you want to wage jihad with the closed-software community, you have the option of going with a variety of different distributions that are much more focused on that.
If, instead, you want to build the very best Linux desktop you can, you do what Ubuntu is doing. Politics be damned. The people who view free software as religion or political platform tend to block it into a corner that will always relegate it to a niche market in the view of the general public. At the end of the day, the vast VAST majority of users could care less about whether the driver is close-sourced, or open sourced or anything in between. They care mostly that it works, and secondly that it costs them nothing in terms of time and money to make it work. Ubuntu is aimed at those users. Those users are the ones who will have to use Linux to get it out of the niche. And once it becomes a sizable portion of the market, we will see better drivers.
I am, and for the last few years have been, a DirecTV and DirecTivo subscriber. I've loved the service so far. I moved a couple of months ago, and had to deal with all the "upgrade" stuff that they want to offer you at the same time. I had to fight and claw to keep them from "Upgrading" my tivo to that horrendous DTV DVR thing that they've been shoving down people's throats. The installer ended up giving me one anyway, despite my insistance that I didn't want one.
I REALLY dislike that thing, and if that's more or less what the HR20 is going to be, you can say goodbye to my 150 bucks/month worth of DirecTV business the day you shut down the MPEG-2 streams. The user interface is horrendous. The remote is abysmal. It's slow as crap. It's loud. It's unstable, and it's generally a piece of garbage. I talked several people into DirecTV because of DirecTivo just before the switch, and they ended up with the same garbage I got. I honestly had to apologize to them because I didn't know that DirecTV had stopped selling DirecTivos and started selling their homegrown crap. They will probably be going back to cable in a few months when their contracts are up.
I don't honestly see what the HR20 has over the HR10-250 besides MPEG-4, which in all honesty would probably be a very simple thing to implement in the HR10-250. DirecTV differentiated itsself in the DVR-compatable TV providers by integrating Tivo (NOT just a "DVR") seamlessly with their service. Now that they are getting rid of that only distinction, the ONLY reason to stay with DirecTV is Sunday Ticket. And to be honest, considering it costs an absurd amount of money, and noone in their right mind can watch all those games, even that might not be enough of a reason for me to consider staying with DirecTV.
It's sad to me that DirecTV is letting the best offering in the business turn into an also-ran.
I wonder if the patent process has been patented yet?
You can say what you want about Iowa (Idiots Out Wandering Around, etc. etc. etc) but we do have a pretty forward thinking state government.
Iowa has the Iowa Communications Network, a state-owned OC-192 fiber that is primarily used for distance learning, but also hooks all the small, country schools into the internet. I believe that it is the largest state owned fiber-optic network in the US. (Oklahoma has something like it, but not on as big a scale).
Some time back there was an aritcle about the CAVE. Well, Dr. Carolina Cruz-Neira, one of the founding "mothers" if you will, of the CAVE is now at Iowa State University, preparing for the opening of the next generation of CAVE-like technologies - The C6 .
Maybe we have nothing to do but pick corn and dink with computers, but I sure love this state!
I hate spam as much as the next guy, but they gotta make some money somewhere. I view it as an annoyance more than an inconvienence. If Real had the financial horsepower MS does, I don't think you'd see the spam...
If MS did it, it would be pretty pointless. For them, WMP is more of a control issue than a making money issue, I suspect. Kinda like the browser wars all over again?
Maybe I'm way off base.... just my 2% of a dollar.
Glass cockpits are common, if not exclusively used in today's high performance fighter aircraft. These aircraft are capable of sustaining more than their pilots can handle as far as G forces, and often will go from +8 or 9 to -2 or 3 in a matter of seconds. I think glass has proven it's self.
Also, most analog guages (with a few exceptions) rely on electricty as well (for gyros and such), so if you lost electricity, you're still in pretty dire straits.
This being said, almost every glass cockpit I've ever seen has a backup set of small analog guages just in case!
I can see this turning into the first major test for post-DOJ Microsoft. Will they try to stifle this like Java? It will be interesting to see.
I don't see how this can be anything but a good thing for every other platform. More power to them!
Just in from bugtraq....
.dll to /msadc directory, and with
From core.lists.bugtraq@CORE-SDI.COM Fri Apr 14 20:23:10 2000
Date: Fri, 14 Apr 2000 20:40:48 -0300
From: Gerardo Richarte
To: BUGTRAQ@SECURITYFOCUS.COM
Subject: DVWSSR.dll Buffer Overflow Vulnerability in Microsoft IIS 4.0 Web
Servers
Russ wrote (in ntbugtraq):
> Ok, here's a breaking update.
>
> Latest reports say that there is
>
> NO VULNERABILITY IN DVWSSR.DLL
>
> Yup, that's right, different again from what I said earlier, and even more
> different than what I said yesterday to WSJ.
That is not correct.
We have been playing with dvwssr.dll and we've found a buffer overflow that stops the server from incoming connections, at least.
-snip-
We've been playing a little more trying to exploit this buffer overflow, and as we don't
have InterDevs installed on our IIS, we copied the
this configuration, we have been able to make the code jump to our buffer.
Under this circunstances, the actual BO allow to execute arbitrary code in the target machine.
It's interesting to note that no log is generated as efect of this attack.
-snip-
ok folks..this is almost comical...
Apparently Microsoft finds it serious enough to recommend deleting a dll and removing functionality from their product...if it WASN'T a backdoor, do you think they'd do that? After all, they can see the source code and are the only ones that know for sure how their stuff works...or maybe they are just doing it to bely fears...who knows?
http://www.nytimes.com/a ponline/f/AP-Microsoft-Password.html...still not very in depth..
http://opensource.creative.com
They've been doing a very good job with the SB Live! drivers, and you can also find Dxr2 sources here as well (though I don't have one, so I don't know how mature they are)
That *nix still runs the majority of the net's big pipes? I'm sure this could have been written for NT as well, but the really BIG bandwidth boxen are *nix.