During WWDC this year, one of the presenters showed how certain files can have ICC profiles embedded in them that can translate the color palette in radical ways. They were using this to verify that apps were using colorsync correctly and not double applying it. After this, I started digging and (in Panther, anyway) you can use ColorSync Utility to install custom output filters to adapt colors any way you like.
For instance: They include an output filter for CMYK (4-color printing) that prints everything in sepiatone.
There's absolutely no reason at all that this facility couldn't be used to do some funky color translations for the screen to help color blind people see it better. Obviously, this would require a better knowledge of the various types and degrees of color blindness than I have, but it could be useful to many and should automatically effect all apps on the machine
NTP used to be fairly large and provided a number of lightweight computers to the educational market. A few years back, a friend of mine worked there when they had offices outside of Vancouver, BC near where MoLicell opened the first rechargeable lithium battery plant. At the time, I was living just down the road. Then they transferred him to Ireland and shortly afterwards closed up operations. (Hi Kaari - I know you're reading this...)
I don't know the extent of their claims or of their patent portfolio, but I do remember that they held quite an extensive patent collection in the handheld market. I agree that a judgment of that magnitude against RIM would be devastating for the Blackberry, but it might be warranted - who knows? Not you or I (small assumption about the reader, but probably not far off). Please also try to remember that both companies are canadian and that canadian patent laws likely differ greatly in key areas than their american counterparts.
Sucks that it's one canadian company suing another canadian company. This could be another case of the all-too-typical SCO-style litigation. Only time will tell.
It's too bad, but I won't be able to use this release for the projects I've had on the go (closed source - sorry) that run off of FreeBSD.
For some reason, the bktr driver used for TV tuner card and some other hardware hangs seconds after activiation on FreeBSD 5.x. I'll likely have to rewrite the driver anyway at some stage to fix some issues I have with it, but this is preventing me from upgrading past FreeBSD 4.8.
The efforts required to get Darwin running for at least one of these projects is starting to look like less and less of a pain. Time will tell...
I think some of the technical folks on here have missed the point: A 'ping' signal doesn't have be the regular ICMP ping. It could be any sort of protocol that requests an echo back from the target.
I do think that an awful lot of people on here are getting the point: What happens when I, mister malicious black hat decides to spend a little money on research material and aquires, by one menas or another, a few of these units for destructive testing and reverse engineering? Now I can spoof the Pheonix server on any given LAN and - proof - Merry Christmas, Bob's your uncle!
I can see the military and paramilitary organizations liking something like this. I'd also be surprised if they don't have something similar under lock and key right now. If I recall, most of the concern over the laptops wasn't over the data on them, but more over how the security procedures when awry. There were one or two that went missing from internal areas that wouldn't have been equipped for travel, but they likely wouldn't have been protected by this system either.
Personally, I think people fall into one of two categories:
1) The stupid/ignorant. These people wouldn't buy this BIOS anyway. They're gonna be hooped when their data gets lost/stolen.
2) The paranoid. These people are probably already using strong encryption, finger print scanners, etc. They're gonna be hooped as well... unless they were paranoid enough to do regular backups! Admittedly, the thief won't have access to the data, but I suspect most of the stolen laptops get wiped shortly after the thief copies the porn off for his own amusement anyway.
I see IT managers loving this because it covers their arses. I see the users either not needing it or not liking it....just my 3 cents worth (Canadian funds:-)
What about putting on of these in it: http://www.totalimpact.com/briQ.html
Let it run your compiles for you while you play the latest shoot-em-up game or set it up to run SETI@Home 24 hours a day... I'm sure that there are better uses than this, but I'm not very creative today.
The local rep for one of the major DSP manufacturers uses the eval boards he's given for home automation... his hot tub is currently controlled by a 600 MIP 32-bit DSP unit.
He claims the temperature hasn't changed more than half a degree in the past year.
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During WWDC this year, one of the presenters showed how certain files can have ICC profiles embedded in them that can translate the color palette in radical ways. They were using this to verify that apps were using colorsync correctly and not double applying it. After this, I started digging and (in Panther, anyway) you can use ColorSync Utility to install custom output filters to adapt colors any way you like.
For instance: They include an output filter for CMYK (4-color printing) that prints everything in sepiatone.
There's absolutely no reason at all that this facility couldn't be used to do some funky color translations for the screen to help color blind people see it better. Obviously, this would require a better knowledge of the various types and degrees of color blindness than I have, but it could be useful to many and should automatically effect all apps on the machine
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Won't speak to the Tivo (I don't have one), but I have been spending some time looking at putting a BSD variant on my Sharp Zaurus.
NTP used to be fairly large and provided a number of lightweight computers to the educational market. A few years back, a friend of mine worked there when they had offices outside of Vancouver, BC near where MoLicell opened the first rechargeable lithium battery plant. At the time, I was living just down the road. Then they transferred him to Ireland and shortly afterwards closed up operations. (Hi Kaari - I know you're reading this...)
I don't know the extent of their claims or of their patent portfolio, but I do remember that they held quite an extensive patent collection in the handheld market. I agree that a judgment of that magnitude against RIM would be devastating for the Blackberry, but it might be warranted - who knows? Not you or I (small assumption about the reader, but probably not far off). Please also try to remember that both companies are canadian and that canadian patent laws likely differ greatly in key areas than their american counterparts.
Sucks that it's one canadian company suing another canadian company. This could be another case of the all-too-typical SCO-style litigation. Only time will tell.
It's too bad, but I won't be able to use this release for the projects I've had on the go (closed source - sorry) that run off of FreeBSD.
For some reason, the bktr driver used for TV tuner card and some other hardware hangs seconds after activiation on FreeBSD 5.x. I'll likely have to rewrite the driver anyway at some stage to fix some issues I have with it, but this is preventing me from upgrading past FreeBSD 4.8.
The efforts required to get Darwin running for at least one of these projects is starting to look like less and less of a pain. Time will tell...
I think some of the technical folks on here have missed the point: A 'ping' signal doesn't have be the regular ICMP ping. It could be any sort of protocol that requests an echo back from the target.
...just my 3 cents worth (Canadian funds :-)
I do think that an awful lot of people on here are getting the point: What happens when I, mister malicious black
hat decides to spend a little money on research material and aquires, by one menas or another, a few of these units for destructive testing and reverse engineering? Now I can spoof the Pheonix server on any given LAN and - proof - Merry Christmas, Bob's your uncle!
I can see the military and paramilitary organizations liking something like this. I'd also be surprised if they don't have something similar under lock and key right now. If I recall, most of the concern over the laptops wasn't over the data on them, but more over how the security procedures when awry. There were one or two that went missing from internal areas that wouldn't have been equipped for travel, but they likely wouldn't have been protected by this system either.
Personally, I think people fall into one of two categories:
1) The stupid/ignorant. These people wouldn't buy this BIOS anyway. They're gonna be hooped when their data gets lost/stolen.
2) The paranoid. These people are probably already using strong encryption, finger print scanners, etc. They're gonna be hooped as well... unless they were paranoid enough to do regular backups! Admittedly, the thief won't have access to the data, but I suspect most of the stolen laptops get wiped shortly after the thief copies the porn off for his own amusement anyway.
I see IT managers loving this because it covers their arses. I see the users either not needing it or not liking it.
-Rob
What about putting on of these in it:
http://www.totalimpact.com/briQ.html
Let it run your compiles for you while you play the latest shoot-em-up game or set it up to run SETI@Home 24 hours a day... I'm sure that there are better uses than this, but I'm not very creative today.
I've seen worse.
The local rep for one of the major DSP manufacturers uses the eval boards he's given for home automation... his hot tub is currently controlled by a 600 MIP 32-bit DSP unit.
He claims the temperature hasn't changed more than half a degree in the past year.
I use OmniWeb under OS X on my PowerBook - no problems...
...then I changed it to report a various version of Netscape for Mac or Windows and it appears they are only blocking Netscape 6.1 on the PC.
This should turn out to be one interesting fight... who brought the popcorn?