In order to prevent such interference problems, each Part 15 transmitter must be designed to ensure that no type of antenna can be used with it other than the one used to demonstrate compliance with the technical standards. This means that Part 15 transmitters must have permanently attached antennas, or detachable antennas with unique connectors. A "unique connector" is one that is not of a standard type found in electronic supply stores.
That's a rather scary statement - isn't the connector on the back of the average Linksys WiFi router (or Airport base station, or 99% of the WiFi PC cards) standard?
Personnally, I prefer to submit only one single unsubscribe request. My email address just happend to be...:
'or'test@yahoo.com'like'%
If the spammer uses sequel sewer or access rather than a real database, this will wipe their address list squeaky clean!
At which point, the spammer gets to sue you for business damages due to lost potential revenue? The best part is, they can scale the damages based on thier potential lost revenue (IE - the bigger the spammer, the more they can hold you liable for).
Now that Apple has announced that it is moved to Intel, who is going to buy a G5 now?
RTFA. The announcement is not that Apple is porting OS-X to run on ANY x86 box. It's that they're going to port it to run on THEIR x86 box. You're not going to be able to fire up OS-X on your Dell, Acer, Gateway, or eMachines PC. You're still going to be buying Apple's low-to-mid-range hardware (eMac line?). It's just going to have an Intel processor inside instead of the PPC. The release says they will be using the processor in their mid-range boxes, not their high-end boxes. So the demographic who will be buying the G5s in the future are be the same ones who're buying it now. People with a need for a stinky-fast machine that runs OS-X.
Also does this mean I will be able to buy a Dell PowerEdge 2850 running Mac OSX Server?
Funny - I do just that. Azureus in a VNC session following (more or less) the docs here. The VNC session lives completely in it's own space. I can VNC over SSH from anywhere and manage Azureus - seeding files, checking progress, etc. I also added an FTP drop box that Azureus monitors for new torrents, so I dont even need SSH if I find something I want to grab.
Granted, at 56k, it's not particularly fast, but Azureus management doesn't really need to be.
What I read into this is, these UltraCade guys decide to be the "defenders of good" and apply to own the trademark for MAME, thinking that somehow, MAME is synonymous with the UltraCade name/product. With their newly appointed power, they go out and sue everyone who is distributing illegal ROMs in the name of those people who own the original works. Were they at all elected/nominated/asked to do this on behalf of even one ROM owner? If approached, would any ROM owner actually want UltraCade to represent them (in essence, to be a middleman between the client and lawyers - with the appropriate fees, I'm sure). Do they plan on paying the original ROM owners any of the awards at all?
I'd certainly feel better about this if UltraCade were a non-profit organization or at least a representative body, and not just some company who's figured out an alternate revenue stream.
yes, but if you look at the chart given when clicking on the text "FireFox 1.0" in the tables (sorry, no link), you can see that strangely the official Firefox version is often faster than the Moox version (which is supposed to be the optimized build). Can someone explain me why?
If you mouseover the Moox version launch number, you'll see that it threw 2 errors during launch. He doesn't go into any details, but I'd find any results after those errors highly suspect. I personally have found the Moox versions to render much faster than the non-moox on both P4 and AMD Athlon boxes. Sorry, no hard numbers, just a user's impression.
Due to the spyware, I'm not likely to install eXeem anytime soon, some questions to those who have:
One of BitTorrent's strengths was that it was very difficult to spoof content. IE - If you trusted the tracker, you knew exactly what you were downloading. Given eXeem's new "everyone's a tracker" marketing, is it now vulnerable to spoofing? If a user posts a malicious file under an alternate name, what's to prevent everyone from downloading it? Are there safeguards to protect the network from being flooded with invalid files?
Functionally, how is eXeem different from other P2P clients? My idea of what goes on is; You do a search across all files shared on the eXeem network, pick a file you like, and start downloading from peers. That's roughly the same thing with Kazaa, etc. What's the advantage of using eXeem?
I'm a little disappointed that Apple chose to go cheap on the Mini's video hardware. Especially with QuickTime 7 announcing support for High-Def video. Given that the Mini is a great form-factor for a 'media center' application, would it have killed them to put support for a component video adapter on the DVI port or at least offer ugpraded video as an option?
And for that matter, what about digital audio out? I see a good market for a 'media center' friendly video/audio breakout box with IR support (Keyspan, are you listening?)
I'll second the vote for the Sidekick II. Despite the snoop-dog/Paris Hilton marketing angle, it's actually a fairly good power tool for the road-warrior.
The SSH client supports multiple simultaneous sessions, SSH2, Telnet, and "raw" modes, up to 999 line scrollback, saving login information (with or without passwords), multiple font styles, vt100, ANSI, xterm, and 'linux' terminal emulation (but alas, not alternate ports). T-Mobile does not block port 22 and I've had great success logging in remotely to my home systems.
It also supports IMAPS, although it behaves like a POP account in that it only retrieves emails, there's no folder support and deleting mails from the local device does not delete them from the server. In the end, I prefer this as my inbox often has hundreds of messages and I really only care about the new ones.
If you're willing to forgo T-Mobile's lackluster phone support, you can get a development key that allows you to upload applications outside the normal channels. There's a fairly active development community creating 3rd party apps. Some good ones include a full-featured RSS reader, e-book reader, unified IM client (AIM, Yahoo!, and Jabber).
Of course, since you're in the UK, I dont think this is of much use to you since as far as I know, the Sidekick II is a US only product right now. However, for US folks that are interested, Amazon's got it for $-50 with rebates (that means you get $50 back, about half the first phone bill including setup fees).
The one thing MS will have to do save MCE from failure is to improve their non-Microsoft codec support.
Currently, you can purchase MCE 2005 with a pre-configured new computer or as an "OEM" version that must sell with hardware of some sort (for ~$140USD). Microsoft officially refuses to support the OEM version.
Out of the box, I was unable to play the 3 most popular video formats in my collection, a DVD, DiVX, and MPEG2. There was no feedback as to why the playback was failing (a black media window in the corner). The DiVX and MPEG2 codecs can be downloaded for free (not from Microsoft) and a DVD codec must be purchased (again, not from Microsoft) for ~$15USD-$20USD.
Robust? Yes. Ready for prime-time home integrators? Not quite.
Feed your curiosity - there's several excellent books on the United States' great effort to put men on the moon (probably some excellent ones on the Soviet program as well - but I've not read them).
In particular, I'd recommend "Failure Is Not An Option" by Gene Kranz (the guy who's played by Ed Harris in Apollo 13) and "The Last Man on the Moon" by Gene Cernan and Donald Davis. Both are more about the human experience, but good reads nonetheless.
I use it standalone and it's very effective. The only missing requirement is the easy whitelist/blacklist/filter manipulation interface, but I'm sure there's existing tools for that (webmin comes to mind).
That the most popular examples of products (FireFox and TiVo) that have gained success primarily through word-of-mouth rather than rely heavily on traditional advertising are also the two most cited by advertisers as hurting their bottom line?
is it a must to have your media PC in the same room? couldn't you tuck it in the cupboard somewhere and transmit signals wirelessly?
You still need something on the recieving end to decode the wireless signal and translate it into a video signal. It might be easier to make a silent reciever/translator, but that still ends up being a PC for most folks.
New GC games: $40-$50, normally.
New PS2 games: $40-$50, normally
New Xbox games: $40-$50, normally
I'm sorry, which bizarro world do you live in where something that sells for the exact same price is "usually $5 more expensive" than its counterparts?
Actually - as per Amazon, the top 4 selling titles for each platform (list price, not including bundles/special editions): Gamecube
Paper Mario $46.95
Mario Sunshine $49.99
Metroid Prime 2 $46.95
Zelda $49.99
Average $48.47
PS2
GTA San Andreas $44.99
JAK 3 $36.95
Incredibles $36.49
Tony Hawk 2 $45.79
Average $41.05
XBox
Halo 2 $44.99
Halo $49.99
Need for Speed Underground 2 $44.99
Star Wars Battlefront $45.95
Average $46.48
It's too bad that such a glaring problem got missed in production.
I doublt it was "missed". I'm sure Palm was aware of the tradeoff of going with the FAT filesystem and felt that it was worth the rewards of not having to re-engineer a filesystem and break compatibility with current SD card file formats (they currently sell an SD card reader to allow end users to install MP3s).
Does that make the iMac the holy grail?
No, the G4 Cube with LCD display still owns the silent crown for quiet desktops. I recently updated the drive in my iBook with a new Toshiba and it's now silent until the fan kicks in.
I'll second the vote for Spire gear. It's definetely not at the cheap end of the spectrum, but I fully expect it to last 2-3 times longer than the cheaper stuff and do an above-average job of protecting my stuff. I often commute via motorcycle so I needed something I could have great faith in.
Plenty of pockets, very solid strap/handle connections, large zipper handles, 3 sections. The larger packs allow you to detatch and stow the shoulder straps for carrying. They all have chest straps for more vigorous travel.
One of the cooler features of the Spire backpacks is that the laptop is mounted in a plastic shell that's in the middle of the backpack, rather than against your back. Keeps down on the sweat buildup and absorbs a bit of the shock. I like 'em so much I bought a second one when I got my larger 15" laptop.
My only complaint with the Spire is the lack of excess strap management. If you've got things cinched down, there's plenty of leftover strap flopping around. Nothing a few rubber-bands or velcro wouldn't solve, but I sure wish they'd put in a solution from the factory.
As bags go, I'd put the Spire and Timbuk2 at the top of the list - In both cases, they're on the pricy side of things. However, I'm not about to trust my $2k laptop to a $50 backpack.
I was just thinking about this - since the chunks of the file are in semi-random order, that's a form of encryption, right? One has to have the index to be able to correctly assemble the pieces. As such, are torrents covered by the DMCA?
I've rarely gone more than a year without a re-install on any given box. I try a lot of software and tend to upgrade major hardware regularly. I dont trust windows to migrate to a new motherboard without leaving a boatload of legacy files around.
Besides, installing and tweaking software is one of those things that usually hits my hacker happy buttons (and I doubt I'm alone in this respect). Be it a new linux distro, OS-X, or even Windows.
I dont think that's as effective anymore. I'm getting a lot of spam these days with text that's been copied from (I'm assuming) public domain works. As a story, it makes little sense, but they're all in perfect grammatical form.
It shouldn't have to read my mind. I should just be able to check a box to ignore commercial sites. Heck, if I could squelch epinions, bizrate, and amazon, that'd help oodles. It'd help more if I didn't have to add -buy -amazon -epinions -bizrate to every single query as well.
I would think it would be in the industry's best interests to allow itself to be categorized like this. Maybe now that they have a froogle link on the home page, e-businesses and users will begin to target that more for sales and leave google for information.
Syncing requires two components, HotSync itself and conduit(s).
HotSync handles the communication between the host machine and the Palm handheld. This includes handshaking, scheduling conduit activation, data transfer between the device and conduits, error checking, and logging.
The Conduits are what handles the data once it's on the host machine, chosing which records need to be updated on the host and client, backing up data, etc.
iSync's interaction with the Palm is as a conduit only. It still requires HotSync to communicate with a device. HotSync is developed by PalmSource and is provided as part of the Palm Desktop distribution.
There is an open source version of HotSync out there, I wouldn't think it would take too much effort to port it over to OS-X and adapt it to whatever changes Palm is making to the new syncronization process.
Back in the early 80's, there was a multiline chat system called POPnet. 32 incoming lines, with nodes in Walnut Creek, Maryland, San Ramon, and a few other places. For many of us, it was an addiction - More than one user hit the million-minute mark. Despite it's folding in the early 90s, most of the core crowd still keep in touch (some on a daily basis). I'm sure there's more than a few POPnetters reading this:)
So with those huge magnets running so close to the surface, do they have to worry about picking up metal debris from the road? I know here in the S.F. Bay Area, there's stretches of freeway where it's not uncommon to see alternators and u-joints in the road.
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That's a rather scary statement - isn't the connector on the back of the average Linksys WiFi router (or Airport base station, or 99% of the WiFi PC cards) standard?
'or'test@yahoo.com'like'%
If the spammer uses sequel sewer or access rather than a real database, this will wipe their address list squeaky clean!
At which point, the spammer gets to sue you for business damages due to lost potential revenue? The best part is, they can scale the damages based on thier potential lost revenue (IE - the bigger the spammer, the more they can hold you liable for).
RTFA. The announcement is not that Apple is porting OS-X to run on ANY x86 box. It's that they're going to port it to run on THEIR x86 box. You're not going to be able to fire up OS-X on your Dell, Acer, Gateway, or eMachines PC. You're still going to be buying Apple's low-to-mid-range hardware (eMac line?). It's just going to have an Intel processor inside instead of the PPC. The release says they will be using the processor in their mid-range boxes, not their high-end boxes. So the demographic who will be buying the G5s in the future are be the same ones who're buying it now. People with a need for a stinky-fast machine that runs OS-X.
Also does this mean I will be able to buy a Dell PowerEdge 2850 running Mac OSX Server?
Not likely. See above.
Granted, at 56k, it's not particularly fast, but Azureus management doesn't really need to be.
I'd certainly feel better about this if UltraCade were a non-profit organization or at least a representative body, and not just some company who's figured out an alternate revenue stream.
If you mouseover the Moox version launch number, you'll see that it threw 2 errors during launch. He doesn't go into any details, but I'd find any results after those errors highly suspect. I personally have found the Moox versions to render much faster than the non-moox on both P4 and AMD Athlon boxes. Sorry, no hard numbers, just a user's impression.
One of BitTorrent's strengths was that it was very difficult to spoof content. IE - If you trusted the tracker, you knew exactly what you were downloading. Given eXeem's new "everyone's a tracker" marketing, is it now vulnerable to spoofing? If a user posts a malicious file under an alternate name, what's to prevent everyone from downloading it? Are there safeguards to protect the network from being flooded with invalid files?
Functionally, how is eXeem different from other P2P clients? My idea of what goes on is; You do a search across all files shared on the eXeem network, pick a file you like, and start downloading from peers. That's roughly the same thing with Kazaa, etc. What's the advantage of using eXeem?
And for that matter, what about digital audio out? I see a good market for a 'media center' friendly video/audio breakout box with IR support (Keyspan, are you listening?)
The SSH client supports multiple simultaneous sessions, SSH2, Telnet, and "raw" modes, up to 999 line scrollback, saving login information (with or without passwords), multiple font styles, vt100, ANSI, xterm, and 'linux' terminal emulation (but alas, not alternate ports). T-Mobile does not block port 22 and I've had great success logging in remotely to my home systems.
It also supports IMAPS, although it behaves like a POP account in that it only retrieves emails, there's no folder support and deleting mails from the local device does not delete them from the server. In the end, I prefer this as my inbox often has hundreds of messages and I really only care about the new ones.
If you're willing to forgo T-Mobile's lackluster phone support, you can get a development key that allows you to upload applications outside the normal channels. There's a fairly active development community creating 3rd party apps. Some good ones include a full-featured RSS reader, e-book reader, unified IM client (AIM, Yahoo!, and Jabber).
Of course, since you're in the UK, I dont think this is of much use to you since as far as I know, the Sidekick II is a US only product right now. However, for US folks that are interested, Amazon's got it for $-50 with rebates (that means you get $50 back, about half the first phone bill including setup fees).
Currently, you can purchase MCE 2005 with a pre-configured new computer or as an "OEM" version that must sell with hardware of some sort (for ~$140USD). Microsoft officially refuses to support the OEM version.
Out of the box, I was unable to play the 3 most popular video formats in my collection, a DVD, DiVX, and MPEG2. There was no feedback as to why the playback was failing (a black media window in the corner). The DiVX and MPEG2 codecs can be downloaded for free (not from Microsoft) and a DVD codec must be purchased (again, not from Microsoft) for ~$15USD-$20USD.
Robust? Yes. Ready for prime-time home integrators? Not quite.
In particular, I'd recommend "Failure Is Not An Option" by Gene Kranz (the guy who's played by Ed Harris in Apollo 13) and "The Last Man on the Moon" by Gene Cernan and Donald Davis. Both are more about the human experience, but good reads nonetheless.
There's a very well-tested and supported Wiki at: Fairly-Secure Anti-SPAM Gateway Using OpenBSD, Postfix, Amavisd-new, SpamAssassin, Razor and DCC that is configured to sit between the 'net and your Exchange server.
I use it standalone and it's very effective. The only missing requirement is the easy whitelist/blacklist/filter manipulation interface, but I'm sure there's existing tools for that (webmin comes to mind).
Do ya think there's something to be learned here?
You still need something on the recieving end to decode the wireless signal and translate it into a video signal. It might be easier to make a silent reciever/translator, but that still ends up being a PC for most folks.
New PS2 games: $40-$50, normally
New Xbox games: $40-$50, normally
I'm sorry, which bizarro world do you live in where something that sells for the exact same price is "usually $5 more expensive" than its counterparts?
Actually - as per Amazon, the top 4 selling titles for each platform (list price, not including bundles/special editions):
Gamecube
Paper Mario $46.95
Mario Sunshine $49.99
Metroid Prime 2 $46.95
Zelda $49.99
Average $48.47
PS2
GTA San Andreas $44.99
JAK 3 $36.95
Incredibles $36.49
Tony Hawk 2 $45.79
Average $41.05
XBox
Halo 2 $44.99
Halo $49.99
Need for Speed Underground 2 $44.99
Star Wars Battlefront $45.95
Average $46.48
So it's not exactly the same price now is it.
It's too bad that such a glaring problem got missed in production. I doublt it was "missed". I'm sure Palm was aware of the tradeoff of going with the FAT filesystem and felt that it was worth the rewards of not having to re-engineer a filesystem and break compatibility with current SD card file formats (they currently sell an SD card reader to allow end users to install MP3s).
Does that make the iMac the holy grail? No, the G4 Cube with LCD display still owns the silent crown for quiet desktops. I recently updated the drive in my iBook with a new Toshiba and it's now silent until the fan kicks in.
Plenty of pockets, very solid strap/handle connections, large zipper handles, 3 sections. The larger packs allow you to detatch and stow the shoulder straps for carrying. They all have chest straps for more vigorous travel.
One of the cooler features of the Spire backpacks is that the laptop is mounted in a plastic shell that's in the middle of the backpack, rather than against your back. Keeps down on the sweat buildup and absorbs a bit of the shock. I like 'em so much I bought a second one when I got my larger 15" laptop.
My only complaint with the Spire is the lack of excess strap management. If you've got things cinched down, there's plenty of leftover strap flopping around. Nothing a few rubber-bands or velcro wouldn't solve, but I sure wish they'd put in a solution from the factory.
As bags go, I'd put the Spire and Timbuk2 at the top of the list - In both cases, they're on the pricy side of things. However, I'm not about to trust my $2k laptop to a $50 backpack.
I was just thinking about this - since the chunks of the file are in semi-random order, that's a form of encryption, right? One has to have the index to be able to correctly assemble the pieces. As such, are torrents covered by the DMCA?
I've rarely gone more than a year without a re-install on any given box. I try a lot of software and tend to upgrade major hardware regularly. I dont trust windows to migrate to a new motherboard without leaving a boatload of legacy files around.
Besides, installing and tweaking software is one of those things that usually hits my hacker happy buttons (and I doubt I'm alone in this respect). Be it a new linux distro, OS-X, or even Windows.
I dont think that's as effective anymore. I'm getting a lot of spam these days with text that's been copied from (I'm assuming) public domain works. As a story, it makes little sense, but they're all in perfect grammatical form.
It shouldn't have to read my mind. I should just be able to check a box to ignore commercial sites. Heck, if I could squelch epinions, bizrate, and amazon, that'd help oodles. It'd help more if I didn't have to add -buy -amazon -epinions -bizrate to every single query as well. I would think it would be in the industry's best interests to allow itself to be categorized like this. Maybe now that they have a froogle link on the home page, e-businesses and users will begin to target that more for sales and leave google for information.
Syncing requires two components, HotSync itself and conduit(s).
HotSync handles the communication between the host machine and the Palm handheld. This includes handshaking, scheduling conduit activation, data transfer between the device and conduits, error checking, and logging.
The Conduits are what handles the data once it's on the host machine, chosing which records need to be updated on the host and client, backing up data, etc.
iSync's interaction with the Palm is as a conduit only. It still requires HotSync to communicate with a device. HotSync is developed by PalmSource and is provided as part of the Palm Desktop distribution.
There is an open source version of HotSync out there, I wouldn't think it would take too much effort to port it over to OS-X and adapt it to whatever changes Palm is making to the new syncronization process.
And of course, who could forget spending hours buried in the text files of the Temple of the Screaming Electron.
So with those huge magnets running so close to the surface, do they have to worry about picking up metal debris from the road? I know here in the S.F. Bay Area, there's stretches of freeway where it's not uncommon to see alternators and u-joints in the road.