when companies like Lucent [snip].. didn't invest in its development it is only fair they are forced to pay up.
mmmm did Lucent (or actually AT&T or actually NCR) not invest in the wifi development?? You beter check your history books. Wi-Fi was "invented" and developed by Lucent/AT&T/NCR in the Netherlands in 1990. They were the first to bring a WiFi product to the market. So you can not claim they did not invest in it's development.
Last year TomTom announced their HD Traffic system http://www.tomtom.com/news/category.php?ID=4&NID=389&Language=4 that is using GSM handset location information from Vodafone to determine traffic conditions on dutch highways. Every 3 minute TomTom gets raw, anonymous handset location data from Vodafone. This data is then processed to determine where on the high ways large concentrations of mobile phones are moving slow. This might mean that there is a traffic jam at that location.
Each TomTom with HD traffic will also be equiped with a GSM sim and this enhanced traffic information is send via GPRS to these devices.
Some people are questioning the validity of their claims that this give better traffic details that current methodes. What is a car has broken down? will it trigger a traffic jam notification? How about paralell roads that are jammed? Or taxi's waiting at the trainstation for a pick up?
My first computer was a Exidy Sorcerer http://oldcomputers.net/sorcerer.html and I used it to type up a school report about whale's. My father brought it home one day. We had it hooked up to a electronic daisy wheel typewriter from brother.
I still have the computer, with the (Very) large disk reader.
From then I went on to a zx-81, various MSX computers, a philips yes and than a "proper" PC.
Now I'm typing this on a Dell D800 widescreen (1920x1200) notebook.
mmmm There are Geeks in gray suits with an MBA. and even some without a gray suit, but still geeks and still with an MBA. http://zenii.linux.org.uk/diary/
Here in The Netherlands all banks already implemented a 2-factor Authentication for years.
There are 4 main systems in place:
Challenge - Response based on a "calculator" that is linked to your account
Challenge - Response based on a generic calculator in which you insert your bank card
Challenge - Response based on a list of random codes that you received from the bank
Challenge - Response based on a SMS Text Message to your mobile phone
The first requires you to carry your little "calculator" with you if you want to make payments. When you receive your calculator you have to enter a specific code to link the calculator to your account.
The second allows you to use the "calculator" from other people, because you have to insert your bank card into the device (most bank card in The Netherlands have a digital chip on the card). So if you are not at home, but you can borrow a calculator, you can make transactions.
The third system asks you to pick a number from a sheet with random numbers. This list is send by the bank via postal mail to you. Once a number is used, it is no longer valid. When all codes are used, you will receive a new list.
The forth system is the easiest. Each time you want to make a transaction the bank sends you a code in a SMS text message to your mobile phone (the mobile number was registered before with the bank). You can than use this number as the reponse.
Most people are used to this kind of authentication and do not find it difficult to use. Electronic banking is also moving towards a unified payment across different banks. They have introduced iDEAL http://www.ideal-betalen.nl/. When a e-merchant is connected via iDEAL than you can click on the iDEAL logo as a payment option. You than select your own bank from a list and you are then forwarded to your normal electronic banking pages from your own bank. You use the same system that you would normally use to transfer money and in the background a noticatication is send to the e-merchant when you have submitted the order.
Talpa is the personal investment company of John de Mol. He is the person that created Big Brother and other big time TV programs. He sold his TV production company Endemol (known for Fear Factor for example) for Bilions to Telefonica and now he is bidding on the Dutch Soccer TV rights. He is strating his own TV station in the Netherlands.
Well, gentoo is known for the fact that you download the source of every program and than start compiling. These sources are distributed in.tar.gz or.tar.bz form and can be very large. A version change (even a change from.0.0.1 to.0.0.2) has it's own tarball and therefor is downloaded again completly. But, the real changes between these 2 can be small.
Enter "deltup" a tool that looks at to tarrballs and gives you a diff between the 2 that you can use to "transform the old tarball to a exact copy of the new tarball", it even preserves MD5 checksums compatibility. Now some enterprising gentoo user create a "dynamic deltup server" that automates the creation of these delta files, and people can reuse the delta files that other people used.
Using this technique in combination with gentoo portage people can reduce there traffic with on average 75%.
Have a look at the following URL's for more information:
You hear all this buzz about HDTV screens, being Plasma or LCD etc etc. But when you look at the specifications they are never True 1080P ready. I want a widescreen display that can do 1920x1080 at 30". The closet thing is the samsung 240T (24" 1920x1200) but it is already a few years old. All the screens that came after always had a lower resolution. When you check the LCD screen manufacturers you will also not find screens that size, so.. where are they?
For those that are worried about the security of these product should lookup Rob Gongrijp with google. He is one of the original founders of XS4ALL, one of the first dutch ISP and well known for his Hactic magazine on hacking. He ran a white hat hacking company wjere he was hacking companies for money to check their security. So if he is behind it, you can be pretty sure that some solid check and double check on the security was done.
For the last 2 months I am trying to convert my desktop in the office to linux.
I am currently almost there, but the biggest problem that is holding me back at the moment is that certain business software is not available under Linux. The GUI for my accounting software package does not run under linux (it might under WINE, but not nativly). My Order Management System does not run under Linux, My Billing Application does not run under linux.
All the rest works via open office, outlook web access and other applications, but the biggest problem is that unless the core applications of your company are available for Linux, you can not switch.
So all this talk about hardware should be supported, USB should plug and play etc etc means nothing when my software does not work.
Maybe it is good to have understand the whole story from the beginning...
It starts way back in 1997 when the German magazine places some of their issues online at a dutch ISP (XS4ALL). In these issues they describe how to derail german trains.
A German Court rules that these documents are illegal and these publications are illegal in Germany. German ISP are orderded to block the URL to XS4ALL. Because blocking something on the internet is virtually impossible these blocks were lifted because a lot of people started to publish mirrors of these documents.
Back to April this year... The German Railroads suddenly notice that these documents are still online and available and through a (dutch) court order forces XS4ALL to take these pages down.
At the same time Indymedia plublishes a list with mirrors where these documents can be found... and that is now illegal to. They want to appleal, but as always.. money is an issue..
I can remember that when AT&T (now Lucent) moved into tho the former Sovjet Union then found a system just like this. Each number was assigned a priority between 1 and 3. 1 was for the party elite, 3 for the "normal" citizens.
When a prio 1 phone wanted to make a call, a prio 3 call was dropped if there was not enough capacity available. etc etc etc
This caused the "normal" citizen to keep their lines open for as long as possible, because getting a new connection could be impossible for days..
The same will most likely happen here... and remember.. we all are egoists.. whould you turn your priority down if you know that you next door neighbor does not and get's better reception?
In The Netherland professor Mick Eekhut is doing research into using glas like building materials.
He calls his "glass" Zappi and you can find some more details here
Here is an abstract:
Abstract
Glass is not generally used for loadbearing building components. The primary reason for this is that once the failure process starts in a glass component, the cracks run throughout the entire component. As a consequence the component fails completely in its loadbearing function. This is generally resolved by using metal components in the design that serve as a backup.
For architectural reasons the use of metal components is not desirable while the presence of metal components designed to carry all the loads if the glass fails, obviates the need for a loadbearing function in the glass.
To resolve these problems a hybrid glass/polymer composite system has been developed. Special tempering treatments have been developed to increase the toughness of the glass. In addition a method of combining the specially tempered glass with polymers has been developed. In combination these processes give the following properties :
structural engineering properties
comparable with aluminium.
reduced chance of crack initiation and
crack propagation in the tempered glass.
high residual strength of the component
after accidental damage.
slow progressive collapse of components if
damage exceeds a certain criterion allowing
for sufficient time to evacuate the building.
very large components are possible
The resulting system has the advantage of allowing complete transparency, while having adequate strength, stiffness and safety to compete with metals while the increased architectural possibilities outweigh the cost of the components.
Currently the new KPN building in Rotterdam is doing this, and this is permanent. They also play snake on the building, and show falling leaves and other art.
I found this page in dutch http://www.kopvanzuid.rotterdam.nl/2202.htm
They use almost 1000 !! green lights on a 94 * 40 meter side of the building. The lights are 1.8 M apart and are computer controlled.
Yesterday I read a news artical about a US doctor that tried to row from cape cod to Europe.
On the 30th of september he went missing (story) and yesterday they found this boat of the coast of Ireland (story). He had all the electronic equipment that the participants of this race have.. but that did not help him....
You can see his progress on the Ocean Rowing Society web page until the 30rd of september.
On their web site you can also find more information about his journey.
His younger brother has created a web site with even more information
So those who say that the electronic equipment makes it easier... should think again
For those that want to play a online simulation game, have a look at SimCountry
You can choose to manage a country (think dictator) or become a bigshot CEO of a multi-national (sorry to say but microsoft is already active in the world, maybe AOL Time Warner is free?)
It is still under development, so be aware that things might look strange from time to time. It is activly developed by 4 people at this time
Currently they have 3 worlds active and around 6000 players. And they did not do a lot of advertising.
If you are realy good at the game they even reward you with cash via PayPal.
You can ready an interview with the creator of this game, Jossi Gil at Brassknuckles
Slashdot Mirror
This might explain why he was working with AES:
http://twitter.com/brokep/status/7915813818
"@niczar I clocked 12.8Gbps using AES 128 ECB on a dual quad 2.26ghz xeon with HT (= 16 cores). Not cost efficient."
http://twitter.com/brokep/status/7905751784
Is there a fast solution with a graphics card to do #AES within #Linux? I need 10Gbps or so realtime.
when companies like Lucent [snip] .. didn't invest in its development it is only fair they are forced to pay up.
mmmm did Lucent (or actually AT&T or actually NCR) not invest in the wifi development?? You beter check your history books. Wi-Fi was "invented" and developed by Lucent/AT&T/NCR in the Netherlands in 1990. They were the first to bring a WiFi product to the market. So you can not claim they did not invest in it's development.
I'm here at my desk, if anyone has questions :-)
Bruce
Why are you at your desk at 2AM in the morning :-)
(or maybe I should get a live too ;-0 )
Last year TomTom announced their HD Traffic system http://www.tomtom.com/news/category.php?ID=4&NID=389&Language=4 that is using GSM handset location information from Vodafone to determine traffic conditions on dutch highways. Every 3 minute TomTom gets raw, anonymous handset location data from Vodafone. This data is then processed to determine where on the high ways large concentrations of mobile phones are moving slow. This might mean that there is a traffic jam at that location.
Each TomTom with HD traffic will also be equiped with a GSM sim and this enhanced traffic information is send via GPRS to these devices.
Some people are questioning the validity of their claims that this give better traffic details that current methodes. What is a car has broken down? will it trigger a traffic jam notification? How about paralell roads that are jammed? Or taxi's waiting at the trainstation for a pick up?
My first computer was a Exidy Sorcerer http://oldcomputers.net/sorcerer.html and I used it to type up a school report about whale's. My father brought it home one day. We had it hooked up to a electronic daisy wheel typewriter from brother.
I still have the computer, with the (Very) large disk reader.
From then I went on to a zx-81, various MSX computers, a philips yes and than a "proper" PC.
Now I'm typing this on a Dell D800 widescreen (1920x1200) notebook.
mmmm There are Geeks in gray suits with an MBA. and even some without a gray suit, but still geeks and still with an MBA. http://zenii.linux.org.uk/diary/
There are 4 main systems in place:
The first requires you to carry your little "calculator" with you if you want to make payments. When you receive your calculator you have to enter a specific code to link the calculator to your account.
The second allows you to use the "calculator" from other people, because you have to insert your bank card into the device (most bank card in The Netherlands have a digital chip on the card). So if you are not at home, but you can borrow a calculator, you can make transactions.
The third system asks you to pick a number from a sheet with random numbers. This list is send by the bank via postal mail to you. Once a number is used, it is no longer valid. When all codes are used, you will receive a new list.
The forth system is the easiest. Each time you want to make a transaction the bank sends you a code in a SMS text message to your mobile phone (the mobile number was registered before with the bank). You can than use this number as the reponse.
Most people are used to this kind of authentication and do not find it difficult to use. Electronic banking is also moving towards a unified payment across different banks. They have introduced iDEAL http://www.ideal-betalen.nl/. When a e-merchant is connected via iDEAL than you can click on the iDEAL logo as a payment option. You than select your own bank from a list and you are then forwarded to your normal electronic banking pages from your own bank. You use the same system that you would normally use to transfer money and in the background a noticatication is send to the e-merchant when you have submitted the order.
Here is the palace of the Queeen of the Netherlands.
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http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?ll=52.094421,4.3427
Talpa is the personal investment company of John de Mol. He is the person that created Big Brother and other big time TV programs. He sold his TV production company Endemol (known for Fear Factor for example) for Bilions to Telefonica and now he is bidding on the Dutch Soccer TV rights. He is strating his own TV station in the Netherlands.
Enter "deltup" a tool that looks at to tarrballs and gives you a diff between the 2 that you can use to "transform the old tarball to a exact copy of the new tarball", it even preserves MD5 checksums compatibility. Now some enterprising gentoo user create a "dynamic deltup server" that automates the creation of these delta files, and people can reuse the delta files that other people used.
Using this technique in combination with gentoo portage people can reduce there traffic with on average 75%.
Have a look at the following URL's for more information:
http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=215262
m e.html
http://linux01.gwdg.de/~nlissne/deltup-status.ati
Rigolo
You hear all this buzz about HDTV screens, being Plasma or LCD etc etc. But when you look at the specifications they are never True 1080P ready. I want a widescreen display that can do 1920x1080 at 30". The closet thing is the samsung 240T (24" 1920x1200) but it is already a few years old. All the screens that came after always had a lower resolution. When you check the LCD screen manufacturers you will also not find screens that size, so .. where are they?
For those that are worried about the security of these product should lookup Rob Gongrijp with google. He is one of the original founders of XS4ALL, one of the first dutch ISP and well known for his Hactic magazine on hacking. He ran a white hat hacking company wjere he was hacking companies for money to check their security. So if he is behind it, you can be pretty sure that some solid check and double check on the security was done.
For the last 2 months I am trying to convert my desktop in the office to linux.
I am currently almost there, but the biggest problem that is holding me back at the moment is that certain business software is not available under Linux. The GUI for my accounting software package does not run under linux (it might under WINE, but not nativly). My Order Management System does not run under Linux, My Billing Application does not run under linux.
All the rest works via open office, outlook web access and other applications, but the biggest problem is that unless the core applications of your company are available for Linux, you can not switch.
So all this talk about hardware should be supported, USB should plug and play etc etc means nothing when my software does not work.
Rigolo
Is the poster using a bamboo clock? This artical is from the Whole Earth Winter 2001 Issue ("http://www.wholeearthmag.com/ArticleBin/444.html )
Rigolo
So ... we do not have to rely on those butterlfies in Tokio to influence our weather ... we can do it our selfs now?
Maybe it is good to have understand the whole story from the beginning ...
...
l )
... .. money is an issue ..
It starts way back in 1997 when the German magazine places some of their issues online at a dutch ISP (XS4ALL). In these issues they describe how to derail german trains.
A German Court rules that these documents are illegal and these publications are illegal in Germany. German ISP are orderded to block the URL to XS4ALL. Because blocking something on the internet is virtually impossible these blocks were lifted because a lot of people started to publish mirrors of these documents.
Back to April this year
The German Railroads suddenly notice that these documents are still online and available and through a (dutch) court order forces XS4ALL to take these pages down.
XS4ALL is applealing this decision and they are still in court (you can check the XS4ALL pages at http://www.xs4all.nl/nieuws/overzicht/radikal.htm
At the same time Indymedia plublishes a list with mirrors where these documents can be found
and that is now illegal to. They want to appleal, but as always
I hope this helps.
Rigolo
I can remember that when AT&T (now Lucent) moved into tho the former Sovjet Union then found a system just like this. Each number was assigned a priority between 1 and 3. 1 was for the party elite, 3 for the "normal" citizens.
..
... and remember .. we all are egoists .. whould you turn your priority down if you know that you next door neighbor does not and get's better reception?
When a prio 1 phone wanted to make a call, a prio 3 call was dropped if there was not enough capacity available. etc etc etc
This caused the "normal" citizen to keep their lines open for as long as possible, because getting a new connection could be impossible for days
The same will most likely happen here
He calls his "glass" Zappi and you can find some more details here
Here is an abstract:
Abstract
Glass is not generally used for loadbearing building components. The primary reason for this is that once the failure process starts in a glass component, the cracks run throughout the entire component. As a consequence the component fails completely in its loadbearing function. This is generally resolved by using metal components in the design that serve as a backup.
For architectural reasons the use of metal components is not desirable while the presence of metal components designed to carry all the loads if the glass fails, obviates the need for a loadbearing function in the glass.
To resolve these problems a hybrid glass/polymer composite system has been developed. Special tempering treatments have been developed to increase the toughness of the glass. In addition a method of combining the specially tempered glass with polymers has been developed. In combination these processes give the following properties :
- structural engineering properties
comparable with aluminium.
- reduced chance of crack initiation and
crack propagation in the tempered glass.
- high residual strength of the component
after accidental damage.
- slow progressive collapse of components if
damage exceeds a certain criterion allowing
for sufficient time to evacuate the building.
- very large components are possible
The resulting system has the advantage of allowing complete transparency, while having adequate strength, stiffness and safety to compete with metals while the increased architectural possibilities outweigh the cost of the components.Rigolo
Currently the new KPN building in Rotterdam is doing this, and this is permanent. They also play snake on the building, and show falling leaves and other art.
I found this page in dutch http://www.kopvanzuid.rotterdam.nl/2202.htm
They use almost 1000 !! green lights on a 94 * 40 meter side of the building. The lights are 1.8 M apart and are computer controlled.
Rigolo
Yesterday I read a news artical about a US doctor that tried to row from cape cod to Europe.
On the 30th of september he went missing (story) and yesterday they found this boat of the coast of Ireland (story). He had all the electronic equipment that the participants of this race have .. but that did not help him ....
You can see his progress on the Ocean Rowing Society web page until the 30rd of september. On their web site you can also find more information about his journey.
His younger brother has created a web site with even more information
So those who say that the electronic equipment makes it easier ... should think again
RigoloYou can choose to manage a country (think dictator) or become a bigshot CEO of a multi-national (sorry to say but microsoft is already active in the world, maybe AOL Time Warner is free?)
It is still under development, so be aware that things might look strange from time to time. It is activly developed by 4 people at this time
Currently they have 3 worlds active and around 6000 players. And they did not do a lot of advertising.
If you are realy good at the game they even reward you with cash via PayPal.
You can ready an interview with the creator of this game, Jossi Gil at Brassknuckles