Notice the date on this sketch of a female blood elf. Yeah, I know it could have been part of some back story for the original game but it makes me wonder if things were removed from the original game to provide content for an expansion pack.
If you do a quick format during the OS install then it's very possible that someone who knows what they are doing can still read the files mentioned in the article. They had to make sure that data was copied on top of the important info.
CRC cards are not documentation. They are an artifact of the development process. You can hang onto them for historical records if you find them useful, but they are inherently out of synch with the final product (except by coincidence).
Remove the mention of CRC cards and you've perfectly described documentation.
Now a days JBoss uses a modified version of Tomcat to provide Servlet and JSP support. The way you delpoy is different and your configuration changes, so in a sense you could say that everything changes. Bugs and performance wise they are going to be the same. Usually the main reason to go with JBoss AS over Tomcat is when you need EJB support.
The author obviously meant commercial in the "pay big bucks for" sense. It's not the standard definition of commercial but a google search turned up this definition: "Software developed for and sold to the general public. Generally there are licensing fees associated with the use of such software.".
JBoss is not an alternative to commercial J2EE App Servers, because it is a commercial J2EE App Server. It's an alternative to proprietary J2EE App Servers.
Hate to break this to you but EVERY J2EE app server, certified or not, is propietary. Just take a look at deployment on any app server. The J2EE specs are done that way on purpose to allow vendors and companies to add value addons.
I got one of these a month ago from http://www.geeks.com from $140.
I wanted wireless access so I also bought a Sandisk 802.11b + 128meg CF card because it was so cheap. Since I researched ahead of time I knew that sharp has basically stopped supporting these things or providing update so my new cheap wifi card was only going to work if I replaced Sharp's software with OpenZaurus.
OpenZaurus is a little ruff around the edges. If you've messed with Gentoo or ever done a Roll Your Own Distro then OpenZaurus should be a walk in the park but it's not for average Joe consumer.
I was happy to find that the OpenZaurus email app has support for IMAPS and SMTPS w/AUTH. I've about given up reading/writing word, excel, and powerpoint files because even though the Original Sharp ROMs have application to do this you can't really get them to work under OpenZaurus. But how much spreadsheet work would you do on a 320x240 device? OpenZaurus does have lots of software, it's got ipkg which you can think of as a mini-clone of apt-get or yum.
As other have said, battery life could be better(especially with the wifi card). But other then that it's cool that there are SD and CF slots. SDIO is not supported but I've got a 1gig SD card working fine. Other have complained about having to use headphones for sound, personally I don't have a problems with that.
Favorite thing done with my Zaurus so far; Walking around every corner of my apartment and scanning all the wireless networks so see what the best channel would be for my network. I've also managed to cut down alot on post-it notes.
Well what if I physically rearrange the keys on my keyboard? Will that work?
Well sort off, most keyloggers log back spaces too. So your logs would have a mess load of typos with backspaces and corrections.
You should help protect you friends from keyloggers. Go and move some of their keys around for the greater good! (Hint: Z and X are good keys to switch to make long time touch typist think they've gone crazy).
But if you really want to defeat the software keyloggers you could always try something like this: There should be a way under most OSes to program up a virtual keyboard. On boot up launch your virtual key(minimized) auto typing to some type of/dev/null device. Better yet, make your virtual keyboard a keylogger itself and when it sees a key press have it simulate a random amount of key presses. Lots of simulated backspaces would really confuse anyone trying to go thru the logs. Just don't simulate any of the standard hot-key combos.
>> But what if it was a wrong place, wrong time drunken haze kind of thing
> Well, hopefully it's still going to feel appropriate to lock up someone who rapes someone else, or messes with kids, no matter how drunk or frat-influenced they were. It still goes to their capacity for judgement.
I think parent poster might have been taking about believing that 17 year old girl when she said she was 18. Yep, that can get you labeled as a sex offender for life. I really don't see the problem with tagging a child rapist w/gps for life but the drunk guy that thought you front door was his bathroom??? There needs to be degrees. I think the slashdot title was misleading(I hope) reading the article it sounds like only the molesters would have this apply.
>> Would you buy a car with a locked hood that the dealer refused to give you the combination for?
> And where in the world will you find that?
Yeah, it was a crazy statement but it was meant to make a point. Why would you use close source software when there was an open source equivalent? You're answer should be, because the closed source software was better. If you can't say that then you have a problem. Look at it this way, if Toyota came out with a car that got 200 mpg but did have the hood locked, how many people would still buy it? To a small degree this takes place with the computer that are in cars now but the software industry and the auto industry evolved in different times.
Would you buy a car with a locked hood that the dealer refused to give you the combination for?
I like open source software and Linux just for the simple reason that if it breaks I know I can find and fix the problem given enough time. I've gone thru the code on lots of projects, from Pine to ArgoUML to JBoss. Do I always have the time? No, but someone else might have. Most open source projects are fairly good about taking bug reports, applying fixes you've written, or even giving you cvs access.
This is my only complaint with Sun's open source Java implementation. Yeah, it's open source but it doesn't really matter if I fix their code for them, I still have to go and vote on which bugs I want fixed( top 25 Java bugs by vote rank).
Do I care if my Mom uses FireFox? Only from a support(spyware/popup tech call) perspective. To many people treat open source as a religion/political aggenda. I believe the best approach is to treat it like a club/group of people sharing ideas and working together to fix problems.
Living in Houston I'd like to know if anyone has had results in trying to get their opinion heard and who is the best government offical to contact. Information about the best means of contact would be good too, I know emails are said to be ignored but is faxing, mailing letters, or a phone call the most effective?
Haven't you ever played with radio controlled cars? Not the Walmart kind but the stuff at hobby stores. Most of those battery packs are shrink wrapped. It's really freaking cheap, Google turns up lots of results if you really want to make your own battery packs.
Parent post is right even if they aren't all that informative. I have a Gentoo system with a Geforce MX with tv out in my entertainment system and I ran MythTV on it for a couple of months without a tv tuner card. MythTV does more then just record and playback tv, such as play dvds and divx/xvid movies. It actually uses MPlayer or Xine(I prefer Xine) to handle playing but everything is basically presented in a girlfriend friendly enterface. As far as a remote goes I just have a wireless keyboard and mouse. And you mention wireless, 802.11b won't cut it for all movies so make sure you use G.
There have been reports of Microsoft using its patents against open source. What is your view on this?
Of the two I know about in a little detail, one of them is the Fat file system patent,...
On the Fat side, Microsoft has been attempting to play hardball. The information I have from the industry is [that] there is so much prior art and so many implementations of Fat-compatible file systems on different operating systems, Microsoft will have a hard time claiming they have ever enforced these patents - and thereby at this point in time restrict Linux use of that file system.
But Microsoft enforcement of the FAT patents has nothing to do with an OS using a FAT filesystem. It only has to do with shipping a device that already contains a FAT filesystem. A compact flash card for example. Take a look at FAT File System Technology and Patent License
I'm using XMLMind's XML Editor. I just took over the tldp.org's Enterprise Java on Linux Howto and I didn't have any experience with docbook and it's been fairly easy with XMLMind. It's sort of a WYSIWYG editor for docbook and it will do transformation to html. There is a free version but if you buy it then you get webdav support. I was going to buy it since I like the free version so much but it's a little pricey for me but since we're comparing it to Office here...Oh, and it's Java based so it'll run anywhere.
It only took me about 8 years. My first name is Matthieu, it's a French spelling, and no matter how legibly I write it some data entry moron always assumes I can't spell my own name and fixes it. There were a few cases where I had to explain it when applying for credit and such but I've never had any major problems. Unless you count getting it fixed, I had to send off for a copy of my birth certificate because the DMV here in Houston wouldn't take my word that they misspelled my name.
On the plus side I could always tell who got my information from the DMV based on the spelling of my name. If you always slightly misspell your name with all companies and government agencies you can see who the biggest privacy violators are.
We cannot even make software now which is safe from low level, machine representable things like buffer overruns.
We also can't make people completely immune from psycological problems either. Panic attacks could be equated to buffer overruns if you wanted.
The "Three Laws Safe" idea is crap. We are talking about software systems, which are buggy, incomplete, and able to do things the creators never imagined. What makes us think we can all the sudden implement three very high order rules in a manner which is completely foolproof?
Any real species aren't buggy???? There's this little thing called evolution or natural selection , maybe you've heard of it? All we need to do is make the buggy software capable of reproducing and mutating. The 3 laws aren't crap as you so eloquitely put it, they are the idea of ethics. What keeps humans alive as a species? The belief that we should do good, not harm each other or ourselves. Sounds similar to the 3 laws doesn't it?
The only thing I question is if Asimov's type of AI should be embedded with the 3 laws or if it an even higher level rule should be give to them, the belief in a God. I'm agnostic myself but if you look at societies around the world most of the general belief in doing good stems from the belief in religion. That's why I find the story of the robot in charge of the power station who came to believe in the master so interesting. What came first, God or Ethics?-)
I'm a Java developer so I didn't need the VM stuff but I've gone from doing development on a Windows laptop to the same system with Linux. Gentoo is a pain to setup(first couple times around) but as far as laptop exp. goes for me I always end up needing the latest kernel, X server, etc in order to get everything working. But I am writing this from my laptop.
It took about a week and a half on and off to get my laptop(HP ze4240) fully working. We're talking 2.6.5 kernel, Xorg w/ dri cvs for 3d, linuxant modem driver, etc. But then you get in to things like my pcmcia DLink DWL-650 rev P 802.11b card wasn't support by the rev of the wlan software even in Gentoo so I had to go out and get the latest version of that.
You might just want to go to http://www.distrowatch.com/ and just try the most popular free distros till you get one that works on your system without too much hassle. You could also take a look at http://www.linux-laptop.net/ and see how other people faired at various distros on your laptop model.
I had South Western Bell DSL at one time with an email address of osdev@swbell.net I had to move and ended up someplace without DSL. A year or so goes by and I move again to someplace where I can get DSL again. I tried to see about getting my old email address back. Trying to sign up with the same address told me the it was taken already, given the addesss I figured that was kinda odd so I called them. Apparently the don't(or didn't) ever release old email address because their records showed the the address was a deactivated account that belonged to me and there wasn't anyway to reactivate it or delete it. The guy I talked to said that he'd been told that every once in a while they are supposed to clean out all the old address but in the 4 years he'd been working there it had never happend.
I guess in a way it's like adding your name to one of those Mars DVDs. That email address will be taken long after I'm gone.
I support my Dentist's network for free and make myself available for a couple of support calls a year and in return I get free dental work. Even when I have dental insurance it still saved me several hundreds of dollars. He also works on my girlfriend for free even though she's not covered under my issurance. One year I think I saved about 2,400 dollars. I figure if I billed him and he billed me at normal prices we'd break about even.
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Notice the date on this sketch of a female blood elf. Yeah, I know it could have been part of some back story for the original game but it makes me wonder if things were removed from the original game to provide content for an expansion pack.
You are not your relational database!
If you do a quick format during the OS install then it's very possible that someone who knows what they are doing can still read the files mentioned in the article. They had to make sure that data was copied on top of the important info.
Contest games: Instead of Yet another soccer game, how about we get something new? zero gravity ping pong in a cube for example.
Dude, you just described Pong. As in Pong from 1958.
CRC cards are not documentation. They are an artifact of the development process. You can hang onto them for historical records if you find them useful, but they are inherently out of synch with the final product (except by coincidence).
Remove the mention of CRC cards and you've perfectly described documentation.
Now a days JBoss uses a modified version of Tomcat to provide Servlet and JSP support. The way you delpoy is different and your configuration changes, so in a sense you could say that everything changes. Bugs and performance wise they are going to be the same. Usually the main reason to go with JBoss AS over Tomcat is when you need EJB support.
The author obviously meant commercial in the "pay big bucks for" sense. It's not the standard definition of commercial but a google search turned up this definition: "Software developed for and sold to the general public. Generally there are licensing fees associated with the use of such software.".
JBoss is not an alternative to commercial J2EE App Servers, because it is a commercial J2EE App Server. It's an alternative to proprietary J2EE App Servers.
Hate to break this to you but EVERY J2EE app server, certified or not, is propietary. Just take a look at deployment on any app server. The J2EE specs are done that way on purpose to allow vendors and companies to add value addons.
I got one of these a month ago from http://www.geeks.com from $140. I wanted wireless access so I also bought a Sandisk 802.11b + 128meg CF card because it was so cheap. Since I researched ahead of time I knew that sharp has basically stopped supporting these things or providing update so my new cheap wifi card was only going to work if I replaced Sharp's software with OpenZaurus. OpenZaurus is a little ruff around the edges. If you've messed with Gentoo or ever done a Roll Your Own Distro then OpenZaurus should be a walk in the park but it's not for average Joe consumer.
I was happy to find that the OpenZaurus email app has support for IMAPS and SMTPS w/AUTH. I've about given up reading/writing word, excel, and powerpoint files because even though the Original Sharp ROMs have application to do this you can't really get them to work under OpenZaurus. But how much spreadsheet work would you do on a 320x240 device? OpenZaurus does have lots of software, it's got ipkg which you can think of as a mini-clone of apt-get or yum.
As other have said, battery life could be better(especially with the wifi card). But other then that it's cool that there are SD and CF slots. SDIO is not supported but I've got a 1gig SD card working fine. Other have complained about having to use headphones for sound, personally I don't have a problems with that.
Favorite thing done with my Zaurus so far; Walking around every corner of my apartment and scanning all the wireless networks so see what the best channel would be for my network. I've also managed to cut down alot on post-it notes.
And don't forget http://slashdot.org/palm
Well what if I physically rearrange the keys on my keyboard? Will that work?
/dev/null device. Better yet, make your virtual keyboard a keylogger itself and when it sees a key press have it simulate a random amount of key presses. Lots of simulated backspaces would really confuse anyone trying to go thru the logs. Just don't simulate any of the standard hot-key combos.
Well sort off, most keyloggers log back spaces too. So your logs would have a mess load of typos with backspaces and corrections.
You should help protect you friends from keyloggers. Go and move some of their keys around for the greater good! (Hint: Z and X are good keys to switch to make long time touch typist think they've gone crazy).
But if you really want to defeat the software keyloggers you could always try something like this: There should be a way under most OSes to program up a virtual keyboard. On boot up launch your virtual key(minimized) auto typing to some type of
>> But what if it was a wrong place, wrong time drunken haze kind of thing
> Well, hopefully it's still going to feel appropriate to lock up someone who rapes someone else, or messes with kids, no matter how drunk or frat-influenced they were. It still goes to their capacity for judgement.
I think parent poster might have been taking about believing that 17 year old girl when she said she was 18. Yep, that can get you labeled as a sex offender for life. I really don't see the problem with tagging a child rapist w/gps for life but the drunk guy that thought you front door was his bathroom??? There needs to be degrees. I think the slashdot title was misleading(I hope) reading the article it sounds like only the molesters would have this apply.
>> Would you buy a car with a locked hood that the dealer refused to give you the combination for?
> And where in the world will you find that?
Yeah, it was a crazy statement but it was meant to make a point. Why would you use close source software when there was an open source equivalent? You're answer should be, because the closed source software was better. If you can't say that then you have a problem. Look at it this way, if Toyota came out with a car that got 200 mpg but did have the hood locked, how many people would still buy it? To a small degree this takes place with the computer that are in cars now but the software industry and the auto industry evolved in different times.
Would you buy a car with a locked hood that the dealer refused to give you the combination for?
I like open source software and Linux just for the simple reason that if it breaks I know I can find and fix the problem given enough time. I've gone thru the code on lots of projects, from Pine to ArgoUML to JBoss. Do I always have the time? No, but someone else might have. Most open source projects are fairly good about taking bug reports, applying fixes you've written, or even giving you cvs access. This is my only complaint with Sun's open source Java implementation. Yeah, it's open source but it doesn't really matter if I fix their code for them, I still have to go and vote on which bugs I want fixed( top 25 Java bugs by vote rank).
Do I care if my Mom uses FireFox? Only from a support(spyware/popup tech call) perspective. To many people treat open source as a religion/political aggenda. I believe the best approach is to treat it like a club/group of people sharing ideas and working together to fix problems.
is that it's going to require a code fork to be able to ever graphically edit your applications menu.
Living in Houston I'd like to know if anyone has had results in trying to get their opinion heard and who is the best government offical to contact. Information about the best means of contact would be good too, I know emails are said to be ignored but is faxing, mailing letters, or a phone call the most effective?
Haven't you ever played with radio controlled cars? Not the Walmart kind but the stuff at hobby stores. Most of those battery packs are shrink wrapped. It's really freaking cheap, Google turns up lots of results if you really want to make your own battery packs.
Parent post is right even if they aren't all that informative. I have a Gentoo system with a Geforce MX with tv out in my entertainment system and I ran MythTV on it for a couple of months without a tv tuner card. MythTV does more then just record and playback tv, such as play dvds and divx/xvid movies. It actually uses MPlayer or Xine(I prefer Xine) to handle playing but everything is basically presented in a girlfriend friendly enterface. As far as a remote goes I just have a wireless keyboard and mouse. And you mention wireless, 802.11b won't cut it for all movies so make sure you use G.
ONE BILLION DOLLARS!!!!!
Keeping customers loyal isn't required anymore, businesses woke up to how many uninformed people with money are out there long ago. MOOO....
The article text says the dollar amount hasn't been decided yet and Sun is probably going to appeal anyway.
There have been reports of Microsoft using its patents against open source. What is your view on this?
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Of the two I know about in a little detail, one of them is the Fat file system patent,
On the Fat side, Microsoft has been attempting to play hardball. The information I have from the industry is [that] there is so much prior art and so many implementations of Fat-compatible file systems on different operating systems, Microsoft will have a hard time claiming they have ever enforced these patents - and thereby at this point in time restrict Linux use of that file system.
But Microsoft enforcement of the FAT patents has nothing to do with an OS using a FAT filesystem. It only has to do with shipping a device that already contains a FAT filesystem. A compact flash card for example. Take a look at FAT File System Technology and Patent License
I'm using XMLMind's XML Editor. I just took over the tldp.org's Enterprise Java on Linux Howto and I didn't have any experience with docbook and it's been fairly easy with XMLMind. It's sort of a WYSIWYG editor for docbook and it will do transformation to html. There is a free version but if you buy it then you get webdav support. I was going to buy it since I like the free version so much but it's a little pricey for me but since we're comparing it to Office here...Oh, and it's Java based so it'll run anywhere.
It only took me about 8 years. My first name is Matthieu, it's a French spelling, and no matter how legibly I write it some data entry moron always assumes I can't spell my own name and fixes it. There were a few cases where I had to explain it when applying for credit and such but I've never had any major problems. Unless you count getting it fixed, I had to send off for a copy of my birth certificate because the DMV here in Houston wouldn't take my word that they misspelled my name.
On the plus side I could always tell who got my information from the DMV based on the spelling of my name. If you always slightly misspell your name with all companies and government agencies you can see who the biggest privacy violators are.
We cannot even make software now which is safe from low level, machine representable things like buffer overruns.
We also can't make people completely immune from psycological problems either. Panic attacks could be equated to buffer overruns if you wanted.
The "Three Laws Safe" idea is crap. We are talking about software systems, which are buggy, incomplete, and able to do things the creators never imagined. What makes us think we can all the sudden implement three very high order rules in a manner which is completely foolproof?
Any real species aren't buggy???? There's this little thing called evolution or natural selection , maybe you've heard of it? All we need to do is make the buggy software capable of reproducing and mutating. The 3 laws aren't crap as you so eloquitely put it, they are the idea of ethics. What keeps humans alive as a species? The belief that we should do good, not harm each other or ourselves. Sounds similar to the 3 laws doesn't it?
The only thing I question is if Asimov's type of AI should be embedded with the 3 laws or if it an even higher level rule should be give to them, the belief in a God. I'm agnostic myself but if you look at societies around the world most of the general belief in doing good stems from the belief in religion. That's why I find the story of the robot in charge of the power station who came to believe in the master so interesting. What came first, God or Ethics?-)
I'm a Java developer so I didn't need the VM stuff but I've gone from doing development on a Windows laptop to the same system with Linux. Gentoo is a pain to setup(first couple times around) but as far as laptop exp. goes for me I always end up needing the latest kernel, X server, etc in order to get everything working. But I am writing this from my laptop.
It took about a week and a half on and off to get my laptop(HP ze4240) fully working. We're talking 2.6.5 kernel, Xorg w/ dri cvs for 3d, linuxant modem driver, etc. But then you get in to things like my pcmcia DLink DWL-650 rev P 802.11b card wasn't support by the rev of the wlan software even in Gentoo so I had to go out and get the latest version of that.
You might just want to go to http://www.distrowatch.com/ and just try the most popular free distros till you get one that works on your system without too much hassle. You could also take a look at http://www.linux-laptop.net/ and see how other people faired at various distros on your laptop model.
I had South Western Bell DSL at one time with an email address of osdev@swbell.net I had to move and ended up someplace without DSL. A year or so goes by and I move again to someplace where I can get DSL again. I tried to see about getting my old email address back. Trying to sign up with the same address told me the it was taken already, given the addesss I figured that was kinda odd so I called them. Apparently the don't(or didn't) ever release old email address because their records showed the the address was a deactivated account that belonged to me and there wasn't anyway to reactivate it or delete it. The guy I talked to said that he'd been told that every once in a while they are supposed to clean out all the old address but in the 4 years he'd been working there it had never happend.
I guess in a way it's like adding your name to one of those Mars DVDs. That email address will be taken long after I'm gone.
I support my Dentist's network for free and make myself available for a couple of support calls a year and in return I get free dental work. Even when I have dental insurance it still saved me several hundreds of dollars. He also works on my girlfriend for free even though she's not covered under my issurance. One year I think I saved about 2,400 dollars. I figure if I billed him and he billed me at normal prices we'd break about even.