In this Slashdot article there are listed several ideas for FM transmitters. After reading that article, I am think of setting it up in my house with iTunes.
Pros:
Easy to listen to your songs anywhere.
Can use a cheap fm radio/headphone when I'm out mowing the yard, working on the house, etc.
Cons:
Everyone is stuck listening to the same thing (unless you setup multiple sound cards/transmitters)
Have to use some sort of remote control software (VNC) to control what is being played.
Another thing that came out of the Pippin development was the set top box. Many sellers on eBay sell this as a prototype and say it didn't do well... in actuality it did ok - it was a media/navigation/shopping hub placed in hotel rooms at Disney World. That's actually why there's so many of them.
I picked up one of these, hoping to do something cool with it. Any ideas/websites on what I can use it for?
Why, oh why, don't newsites put actual links to the product's (or company's) website when writing an article or review. News.com is bad enough, but PC Mag also does it. When you click on one of the suggested story links at the bottom you get another review of the software. They actually have an url to the website, but it's not a link, one has to copy and paste to go to the website!!
Do these news sites want the companies to actually pay for a direct link? What is the motivation? I've had several articles on news.com in which I'd like to visit the company's website, for which a url is nowhere to be found and I have to resort to Google to find it. ARGH!
FYI, those are actually directories. The finder just makes it appear as a single file. To look inside control-click on the app and select "Show Package Contents".
Combine OS X, Printshop, and an Epson 960 and anyone can create good looking labels. Printshop even integrates with iTunes, so you can burn an audio disc from iTunes, flip over to Printshop, and print the CD label from the playlist that created the CD, so you have all the artist and song information.
Very cool stuff. And Epson has quite a few printers now that will print on printable CDRs and DVDRs.
First and foremost, the Mac was developed to be used with the mouse and keyboard at the same time. The idea was that you had one hand on the mouse and the left hand on the keyboard (sorry lefties).
Actually, the Mac was designed to be used with only a mouse. In fact, the keyboard was an optional item on the early Macs.
Warning: Inserting a nonstandard sized or shaped disc into a drive that is not designed to accommodate it may damage the drive. Some slot-loading drives may be able to accomodate 80 mm round discs, but their use is not supported and any damage caused will not be covered under your Apple warranty or applicable extended service contract.
I stand corrected. I guess I've been lucky with my PB G4!!
I don't want a slot loading drive -- they never (AFAIK) take the industry standard Mini-CDR or Mini-CDRW or Mini-DVD discs, while a "regular" CD loading system does.
Slot loading drives will take mini-cd and mini-dvd just fine. They do have problems with irregular shaped disks, such as business card cds.
select Internet Zone; click Custom Level; set just about everything to Disable or Prompt.
select Trusted Sites; click Sites; remove https requirement (because the use of https is no guarantee of safety). Then go to Custom Level, then set some items to Prompt, most to Enable.
If I'm reading the advisory correctly, this won't help you because this exploit tricks IE to think it is running from the "Local Computer" zone, not the Internet zone. You would need to set everything for the "Local Computer" zone to disable or prompt also.
One of Apple's best kept secrets is that they have a Windows version of AppleWorks 6. It seems they only sell it to educational customers, but at $39 it is a great deal. Go to the Apple store and enter one of the educational stores.
Now I have 3 complaints about the Mac (damn, ejecting a CD shouldn't be that hard, and I'm lowering the volume so it'll be quiet, don't beep damn you!).
Go to System Preferences, click on Sound. Click on the Sound Effects tab and uncheck "Play feedback when volume keys are pressed".
Now you're back to two complaints:-).
p.s. What's hard about pressing the eject key on the keyboard to eject the CD?
...but when are we going to start including computer skills in our education system? Why is it not something that we there not standards that children know when they graduate high school?
Computer skills should not be taught separately, but integrated into the curriculum. It's not if the student knows how to use a spreadsheet, but it should be: "Using a spreadsheet, graph the rise of disease deaths in the late 1800s. Research the cause of these desease deaths and hypothesis what you would do to lower these deaths in a paper. Include other graphs and pictures that support your hypothesis."
Of course, this is something I made up, but it get's the point across.
the prosumer. These are people who are not content with just typing a couple of documents or sending some emails, instead, they want to edit their home videos, play high powered games or any number of other activities
And this wouldn't be the box for them. It wouldn't be a solution for everyone, but it would be a solution for the majority.
OTOH, LTSP also allows you to run applications locally, so you could put a hard drive in the terminal. You would then run your games and video editing locally. But in this article they're talking about practically unlimited bandwidth, so your network would be as fast as a local hard drive, so maybe you'd just use your ISPs storage.
You are correct, as are a lot of other posters in this thread that there are a lot of downsides, but these downsides do not affect the majority of Internet users who only want to surf, e-mail, play music, and IM.
To see how this would work, take a machine with two nics in your house and install K12LTSP. Now, take another old machine, Pentium 90 is fine, slap a 8139 nic in it and plug it into the k12ltsp server. Create a boot floppy, put it in the pentium 90, and turn it on. Low and behold KDE in all its glory! On a 100Mbit connection it should feel like you're sitting at the server... (Simplified, but shouldn't take a SlashDot reader too long to set up. The newest Knoppix CD let's you do this also, just two machines and two CDs.)
Now imagine the ISP running LTSP, and they just give out diskless workstations to new subscribers, much like cell phones, no additional charge for the hardware. Users don't have to worry about managing anything with their computer. For local storage they use USB flash drives. Their camera still uploads their pictures, they can still use a local printer, etc.
Will this replace my computer? No, I would need more than this provides. Would this replace the computer for a lot of my family members? Yes.
We have already spent tens of thousands of dollars on a Windows infrastructure that works. Why should we buy a separate OS X server (in essence, another directory server) when we already have directory servers in place? That makes no sense.
You didn't say how many OS X machines you manage, but if it's more than 10, an OS X server will easily pay for itself. With the OS X server you leverage your existing directory and get the ability to manage your OS X machines exactly like you do your Windows machines. You have to ask yourself if it's worth $500 for the OS X server software to easily manage your OS X machines. (The 10 user license only counts apple file share connections, and since you wouldn't be using afp services you wouldn't need the unlimited version).
Once you have the OS X server in place you can manage almost EVERYTHING on the OS X machine, including mounting the users home directory or any other share points, putting things in the dock, etc.
We have a few Macs at work right now, and while I agree they're much better than yesteryear (Samba has a lot to do with it) having them access servers anything beyond basic window shares is a bitch and using Active Directory to set permissions locally is next to impossible. Not to mention that most users need to be retrained (something as simple as "open your X: drive" becomes ridiculously complicated unless you create scripts to put the drives on the desktop). In short, that $5000 becomes $20,000 including IT costs in no time.
The best way to handle this is to put in an OS X server. Bind it to your AD for Users and Groups. Use AD to manage your users, groups, and windows machines, and use OS X and Workgroup Manager to manage your OS X machines.
So 20 years ago the D-pad was a revolutionary new way to control and replaced the analog joystick. Now the analog joystick is the revolutionary new way to control and will replace the d-pad? The d-pad was created because it offered many benefits over an analog joystick:
The d-pad actually replaced the digital joystick. Twenty years ago the only machines that I can remember having analog sticks were the Apple II and TRS-80. All the Ataris used digital sticks. Analog sticks didn't really come into their own until the release of the dual-shock controller for the PS1 and the N64.
Anyway, I'd like to see a controller based on the original iPod wheel. That way you can spin it for paddle games, but also use it for directional use.
I imagine they have some basic images. But that still wipes out any stored e-mail (servers can't always handle your archive) that users may not have backed up recently, any software that doesn't need to be part of the "base image", and software configurations specific to the user, and you'll still have to do things like go around to 60,000 PCs to set up their individual e-mail, etc.
E-mail should either be stored on the server and accessed through imap or in their documents folder which should be stored on the server and backed up with the server. Their settings should also be stored in their file server account, not on the individual machines. I'm assuming they would be using roaming profiles, so that all configuration for the user is stored with their documents. The only thing you should have to do after re-imaging is re-install any software that is unique for the user. But even with this software their configuration should be stored with their files.
Under OS X (and I'm assuming XP/2000) everything unique to the user is stored in their home directory. All settings, email, everything. I can wipe out machines at will, and not worry about losing files or settings.
I wouldn't consider daily system images of 80,000 PCs to be feasible or cost effective.
You don't image every machine at night. You have a standard image (and with 60,000 PCs they probably would require several) that has the required software. All user files should be stored on a file server, which is backed up.
That's how I manage ~600 Macs. If I can't fix a problem with a machine in 15 minutes, it gets re-imaged. Quick and easy way to deploy and fix machines.
OK, looking at that review, what I saw must have been a cut-down version of the same software. It had the same basic user interface, but lacked many of the options. S
You're probably thinking of Adobe PhotoDeluxe or Adobe Photoshop LE.
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I picked up one of these, hoping to do something cool with it. Any ideas/websites on what I can use it for?
Why, oh why, don't newsites put actual links to the product's (or company's) website when writing an article or review. News.com is bad enough, but PC Mag also does it. When you click on one of the suggested story links at the bottom you get another review of the software. They actually have an url to the website, but it's not a link, one has to copy and paste to go to the website!!
Do these news sites want the companies to actually pay for a direct link? What is the motivation? I've had several articles on news.com in which I'd like to visit the company's website, for which a url is nowhere to be found and I have to resort to Google to find it. ARGH!
FYI, those are actually directories. The finder just makes it appear as a single file. To look inside control-click on the app and select "Show Package Contents".
Very cool stuff. And Epson has quite a few printers now that will print on printable CDRs and DVDRs.
Actually, the Mac was designed to be used with only a mouse. In fact, the keyboard was an optional item on the early Macs.
You need to revisit jEdit. It does everything you mentioned in your post.
I stand corrected. I guess I've been lucky with my PB G4!!
Slot loading drives will take mini-cd and mini-dvd just fine. They do have problems with irregular shaped disks, such as business card cds.
If I'm reading the advisory correctly, this won't help you because this exploit tricks IE to think it is running from the "Local Computer" zone, not the Internet zone. You would need to set everything for the "Local Computer" zone to disable or prompt also.
One of Apple's best kept secrets is that they have a Windows version of AppleWorks 6. It seems they only sell it to educational customers, but at $39 it is a great deal. Go to the Apple store and enter one of the educational stores.
Go to System Preferences, click on Sound. Click on the Sound Effects tab and uncheck "Play feedback when volume keys are pressed".
Now you're back to two complaints :-).
p.s. What's hard about pressing the eject key on the keyboard to eject the CD?
Computer skills should not be taught separately, but integrated into the curriculum. It's not if the student knows how to use a spreadsheet, but it should be: "Using a spreadsheet, graph the rise of disease deaths in the late 1800s. Research the cause of these desease deaths and hypothesis what you would do to lower these deaths in a paper. Include other graphs and pictures that support your hypothesis."
Of course, this is something I made up, but it get's the point across.
And this wouldn't be the box for them. It wouldn't be a solution for everyone, but it would be a solution for the majority.
OTOH, LTSP also allows you to run applications locally, so you could put a hard drive in the terminal. You would then run your games and video editing locally. But in this article they're talking about practically unlimited bandwidth, so your network would be as fast as a local hard drive, so maybe you'd just use your ISPs storage.
You are correct, as are a lot of other posters in this thread that there are a lot of downsides, but these downsides do not affect the majority of Internet users who only want to surf, e-mail, play music, and IM.
To see how this would work, take a machine with two nics in your house and install K12LTSP. Now, take another old machine, Pentium 90 is fine, slap a 8139 nic in it and plug it into the k12ltsp server. Create a boot floppy, put it in the pentium 90, and turn it on. Low and behold KDE in all its glory! On a 100Mbit connection it should feel like you're sitting at the server... (Simplified, but shouldn't take a SlashDot reader too long to set up. The newest Knoppix CD let's you do this also, just two machines and two CDs.)
Now imagine the ISP running LTSP, and they just give out diskless workstations to new subscribers, much like cell phones, no additional charge for the hardware. Users don't have to worry about managing anything with their computer. For local storage they use USB flash drives. Their camera still uploads their pictures, they can still use a local printer, etc.
Will this replace my computer? No, I would need more than this provides. Would this replace the computer for a lot of my family members? Yes.
How can the Commodore brand be worth $33 million when Hasbro bought Atari for $5 million in 1998.
And how kind of Google to provide a link to the DMCA notice, which lists the websites removed from the Google search results.
You didn't say how many OS X machines you manage, but if it's more than 10, an OS X server will easily pay for itself. With the OS X server you leverage your existing directory and get the ability to manage your OS X machines exactly like you do your Windows machines. You have to ask yourself if it's worth $500 for the OS X server software to easily manage your OS X machines. (The 10 user license only counts apple file share connections, and since you wouldn't be using afp services you wouldn't need the unlimited version).
Once you have the OS X server in place you can manage almost EVERYTHING on the OS X machine, including mounting the users home directory or any other share points, putting things in the dock, etc.
The best way to handle this is to put in an OS X server. Bind it to your AD for Users and Groups. Use AD to manage your users, groups, and windows machines, and use OS X and Workgroup Manager to manage your OS X machines.
The d-pad actually replaced the digital joystick. Twenty years ago the only machines that I can remember having analog sticks were the Apple II and TRS-80. All the Ataris used digital sticks. Analog sticks didn't really come into their own until the release of the dual-shock controller for the PS1 and the N64.
Anyway, I'd like to see a controller based on the original iPod wheel. That way you can spin it for paddle games, but also use it for directional use.
Also check out the K12 Linux Terminal Server Project. It's a great way get more good out of your current equipment.
E-mail should either be stored on the server and accessed through imap or in their documents folder which should be stored on the server and backed up with the server. Their settings should also be stored in their file server account, not on the individual machines. I'm assuming they would be using roaming profiles, so that all configuration for the user is stored with their documents. The only thing you should have to do after re-imaging is re-install any software that is unique for the user. But even with this software their configuration should be stored with their files.
Under OS X (and I'm assuming XP/2000) everything unique to the user is stored in their home directory. All settings, email, everything. I can wipe out machines at will, and not worry about losing files or settings.
You don't image every machine at night. You have a standard image (and with 60,000 PCs they probably would require several) that has the required software. All user files should be stored on a file server, which is backed up.
That's how I manage ~600 Macs. If I can't fix a problem with a machine in 15 minutes, it gets re-imaged. Quick and easy way to deploy and fix machines.
You're probably thinking of Adobe PhotoDeluxe or Adobe Photoshop LE.
Grissom actually filled out a grant application for the device, we don't know if they received the grant and the device.