wtf is up with that? Lots of people around here just dropped $600 for this thing, only to get bent over by Sharp.
For what it's worth, I'm extremely happy with the 6000. It's rugged as hell, the screen literally has to be seen to be believed, and it can do just about anything. But buy another overpriced product from Sharp only to have them screw me over again? Thanks, but I'll pass.
It was only decided that Sun had infringed on Kodak's patent. Kodak will return to court and they're initial claim of damages is $1 billion. So it's only a worst-case that Kodak would end up with that much, they'll most likely get less.
However, this still leaves that fact that, unless an appeal overturns this ruling, Sun will need to pay Kodak something for every java product out there. Wow is the patent office messed up... anybody think of some prior art out there?
I was also looking for something to read books on. Plus I figured it'd be nice to have Linux on the PDA.. and I ended up with a Z-6000.
In a word: awesome. The screen is beautiful. Bright and beautiful. You can hit a button, and it flips into landscape mode.. making pleasant reading for hours upon hours. You can scrape webpages and read them in the Zaurus's full featured browser.. download PDFs and read them with a great PDF reader, or download ebooks and read them with any of the great readers.
Plus, this thing is literally bulletproof. Just throw it in a bag and go.. no worry about it breaking.
There's also a great community. When I first got this, I was asking tons of retarded questions.. and they were more than helpful in their responses.
The ONLY downside is that it's kind of pricy. But I'll use this thing forever..
I've actually been digging around ALL DAY looking for an OS/free chat sales module to try on our site. I can't find may projects out there.. anybody know of any, and can you provide a review?
The the one I just settled on and am implementing right seems pretty good: http://www.craftysyntax.com/CSLH/
Here's a quick summary..
It's free
You can 'force' people into chat
Users can log a message if Support is not around
You can create predefined messages to throw at the user (to avoid having to retype the same text all the time)
You can see what users are viewing, in realtime
And yeah, again, it's free:)
Anybody have any reviews or know of other, similar systems out there?
-Fatty
Ya know, while I have the attention of the Slashdot crew, I figure I might as well ask for any information. He seems to be located in Jakarta, and he's sending email from hundreds of compromised machines he's got around the world. The only 'fixed' thing pointing to him is:
www.m3k.biz
You can see all of his random, illegal, shady businesses in the subdirectories he's promoting. WHAT can I DO to shut this guy down??
Almost ready to buy a frickin' plane ticket out there, FattyBoeBatty
.. because now I can receive 10x the amount of spam and cracking attempts from those countries. And nobody over there will still give a crap about what people on there network are doing.
Seriously, if those two countries just dropped off the entire Internet, the quality of online life would increase dramatically.
(In case you can't tell, I'm angry. I've currently got some spammer over there forging my email domain RIGHT NOW and I'm dealing with thousands of bounces from everwhere.. and nobody involved gives a rat's ass about stopping it.)
So what ever happened to that great idea of including RMX records in zone files? It would 100% eliminate spam like this (which accounts for the vast majority). I haven't heard anything frome either qmail or sendmail implementing it.. which sucks.
See, the reason I'm so big on this, is because I consulted at implementing this at Shadango.com (a new, free, filtering service). We started performing reverse lookups and you would NOT believe the filtering success. It was like day and night. So seriously.. try implementing that on your mail servers and see what happens. And if you're just curious and want to see how effective it can be, check out the implementation at Shadango.com
No, I'd agree that MB sound isn't not too terrible... but it never comes out of that little speaker loud enough for me to be able to hear anything..
-fatty
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WHY did this get modded up to 5? The stupidest man in the world declares that he likes Gator and uses it -- yes, everyone really needs to know this.
First off, both IE/Mozilla have (much better) built-in form/password completion now. And that 'memory footprint' you complain about is Gator processing everything you do. Even if you manage to block Gator servers, you still have a massive application doing loads of stuff in the background. BUT, you don't even know if all of Gator's servers are located at *.gator.com. You could *still* be sending back loads of personal information without knowing it.
Seriously, everybody listen: Do not use Gator. Not ever.
GEEZ man.. READ THE FREAKIN' ARTICLE, not the first line before posting your rant, and especially before you speak ill of Andy and DDJ.
The article is an extremely incriminating analysis of Microsoft and alludes to some vicious monopolistic strategies by the Evil One. He NOT condoning MS or their actions as you concluded from your detailed analysis of the first paragraph.
He's pointing out some really scary, underhanded things that MS has done in the past. I would suggest that ALL Microsoft supporters read this article to really see what a monopoly can get away with.
This is a brilliant question.. PLEASE, some knowing individual take the time to answer this!
I worked an an ISP where we had to make a couple of code tweaks to Apache. Worked great. Yeah Open Source. But then we all got into a debate about whether we had to go through the effort of making the whole thing available online since we were hosting some web sites for some local businesses.
Sure, nobody would ever know that we tweaked it -- but it would just be kind of shitty if we were violating the very premise that allowed us to keep our system secure in the first place.
So please, someone prove an answer.. I've been wondering about this for years!
I was in a debate with a co-worker about where the blame for the DMCA lies.. and realized that neither of us are sure of the facts.
Did the entertainment industry draft the law, and then shove it down the throats of some unsuspecting lawmakers? Or did a desperate music industry beg lawmakers for some tool to allow them to enforce their property rights in the New Age, and end up getting the 'end all, be all' of copyright law handed to them by evil lawmakers?
I think that the answer to this question really affects where my (and our) hostility should be directed.
For all you guys that switched to Eclipse as a primary IDE, what did you switch from? I'm considering spending some time learning to use it, but first I think it would be helpful to see why people chose it vs. other IDEs.
For what it's worth, I've started using IntelliJ lately and it's the best editor I've ever used by far. Has anyone else tried it?
Dunno if you'll see this or not; if so, shoot an email to test@gigglemail.com
I'm currently working with a couple of guys here in the US on a small web venture. The goal is to get it breaking even and then run it from elsewhere -- same idea as you've been brewing. So far we've narrowed down our search and have started talking to corporate law firms in South Africa and the Philippines, but with some inside help we could definitly consider Sri Lanka.
"I have a question about some conflicting results with the search engine google. I did a search for "pictures of mountains" and got exactly 1 million results. My friend did the same search (from the same office)and got 1,010,000 results. A second friend did the same search as the last 2 and got 1,020,000"
I work at Google. This is a new feature that we added about four months ago, it's called the Friend Result Growth: For searches that return a huge result, the engine approximates the returned number as 1,000,000 + Friend*10,000.
If you recall, the U.S. did next to nothing (that we know of at least) after the original WTC bombing, its embassy bombings, and the attack on the U.S. Cole. You can turn the cheek all you want, but it doesn't stop anybody from slapping you.
We did next to NOTHING? Are you kidding? The only problem is that the US had no smoking gun to know exactly who's ass to kick. As it turned out, the Taliban made like a legitimate suspect, so we went in and completely destroyed them. We ripped out the leadership of Afganistan and replaced it with one of our choosing. Since then we've just been itching with anticipation at the thought of beating the crap out of anybody else that comes forward. We still may have overlooked the villian? Fine, Iraq supports terrorism -- maybe they had something to do with it. Now they're about to have their ass handed to 'em in a doggie bag.
I agree that war is a terrible thing. Peace is always better, and you made a good argument for it. But don't start to twist the facts around: The US has already done quite a bit and is still ready to go head-to-head with ANY country or group that would be brave enough to take credit for 9/11.
"Their aim is to find a spam filter so effective, that spammers would receive few, if any, responses, making sending unsolicited bulk e-mail a financially prohibitive task"
Ya know, I know how this quote was intended to be interpreted. But it presents an interesting line of thought if you read it differently: What if ISPs who implemented spam filtering (with something like SpamAssassin, not just a keyword filter) bounced back the replies that users sent to the spammer? And for spam that pushes you to a temporary site, what if the ISP put up some generic instructional page on what spam is instead of just pulling it down.
I think that a tiny bit of end-user education, put in place by just a few large ISPs, could really go a long way.
I think the whole problem is with current business models of internet businesses -- with free services, the host really has no compelling reason to guarantee anything. It's a lot easier to just drop a message than to report and gracefully handle an error. Perhaps industry-wide slacking service (just like this) will soon lead to subscription-based messaging clients.
"...Program control. More cooperation with the code itself. I'd like the debugger to provide a library against which I can link my code so that the code being debugged can control things like which variables are being watched and which breakpoints are active. I could then easily have breakpoints that are enabled only under certain conditions...."
You know, that's actually a great idea -- and if you think of the logical continuation of it, it would only be a matter of time before you needed a debugger for your debugging code. How cool would that be!
About a week ago I switched from Win2000 to Redhat because I want to learn a bit about server admin. Although I had intended to do it for ages, there had never been a truly compelling, black-and-white, discrete reason to 'take the plunge'. I'd literally thought about if for years but put it off because I didn't want to deal with the hassle -- the incumbant OS was not great, but it got the job done and *I knew how to use it*.
Now what do I think after switching? Well, it's tough to have to learn a whole new world of computing. I can no longer just click on software install programs and have them appear in my start menu. Hell, I still don't know how to run half the stuff that I think I've already installed. I can't view some webpages, and I don't have a clue how to network my work PC (microsoft) with my home desktop (linux).
I think if most people were bred on Linux, it'd be a no-brainer. But there are way too many dumb people like myself that are okay to exist in the comfort zone of the status quo, because they know that stuff will work.
After eight years of interventions - behavioral training, occupational therapy, speech therapy - Leah is a happy, upbeat 11-year-old who downloads her favorite songs by the hundreds. And she is still deeply autistic.
Actually, I've done a lot of clinical psych work and the problem described in the article doesn't have anything to do with OCD (obsessive compulsive) or an addictive personalities. I think it's important for people to keep in mind that OCD involves individuals who engage in pointless 'rituals', not who become addicted to just one thing.
Second, as far as general addictions go, there ARE such things as "Cleaning Addictions" (mentioned in the previous post), and they have nothing to do with OCD. Seriously. People with non-addictive personalities have become mentally addicted to EVERYTHING. I was treating a woman who had become addicted to watching gameshows. Why was it an addiction? 1. Significant personal distress (she felt horribly guilty if she missed an episode of Wheel of Fortune), and 2. Reduced interpersonal functioning (she would ignore her friends and family to sit in front of the Game Show Network).
Now that two major sticking points of addiction have been brought up, how many slashdotters found themselves pacing around aimlessly these past few days when their @Home service disappeared? Friends and family say you spend too much time online? You'd be surprised how many people are (technically) addicted to the Internet. Luckily, as many sys admins and workaholics have found, not all addictions necessarily hold you back in life.
Slashdot Mirror
Ya know, as great as that product sounds, I'd be very wary before dropping any cash for a Sharp PDA.
Why? Well remember that linux-based 6000 version that had several reviews on here not too long ago? Well, Sharp is ALREADY DROPPING SUPPORT FOR IT.
wtf is up with that? Lots of people around here just dropped $600 for this thing, only to get bent over by Sharp.
For what it's worth, I'm extremely happy with the 6000. It's rugged as hell, the screen literally has to be seen to be believed, and it can do just about anything. But buy another overpriced product from Sharp only to have them screw me over again? Thanks, but I'll pass.
-Fatty
It was only decided that Sun had infringed on Kodak's patent. Kodak will return to court and they're initial claim of damages is $1 billion. So it's only a worst-case that Kodak would end up with that much, they'll most likely get less.
However, this still leaves that fact that, unless an appeal overturns this ruling, Sun will need to pay Kodak something for every java product out there. Wow is the patent office messed up... anybody think of some prior art out there?
-Fatty
I was also looking for something to read books on. Plus I figured it'd be nice to have Linux on the PDA.. and I ended up with a Z-6000.
In a word: awesome. The screen is beautiful. Bright and beautiful. You can hit a button, and it flips into landscape mode.. making pleasant reading for hours upon hours. You can scrape webpages and read them in the Zaurus's full featured browser.. download PDFs and read them with a great PDF reader, or download ebooks and read them with any of the great readers.
Plus, this thing is literally bulletproof. Just throw it in a bag and go.. no worry about it breaking.
There's also a great community. When I first got this, I was asking tons of retarded questions.. and they were more than helpful in their responses.
The ONLY downside is that it's kind of pricy. But I'll use this thing forever..
-Fatty
Here's a quick summary..
Ya know, while I have the attention of the Slashdot crew, I figure I might as well ask for any information. He seems to be located in Jakarta, and he's sending email from hundreds of compromised machines he's got around the world. The only 'fixed' thing pointing to him is:
www.m3k.biz
You can see all of his random, illegal, shady businesses in the subdirectories he's promoting. WHAT can I DO to shut this guy down??
Almost ready to buy a frickin' plane ticket out there,
FattyBoeBatty
.. because now I can receive 10x the amount of spam and cracking attempts from those countries. And nobody over there will still give a crap about what people on there network are doing.
Seriously, if those two countries just dropped off the entire Internet, the quality of online life would increase dramatically.
(In case you can't tell, I'm angry. I've currently got some spammer over there forging my email domain RIGHT NOW and I'm dealing with thousands of bounces from everwhere.. and nobody involved gives a rat's ass about stopping it.)
ORIGINAL:"In any case, the little down is making the most of it. There isn't much else in the down."
I'm gonna warn you now: This is very random.
But I can't help wondering! HOW does someone misspell 'town' as 'down' TWICE in a row?
There has to be some odd reason.. but I can't figure out what it is for the life of me.
Someone help a brother out.. this is gonna bug me al night.
-Fatty
So what ever happened to that great idea of including RMX records in zone files? It would 100% eliminate spam like this (which accounts for the vast majority). I haven't heard anything frome either qmail or sendmail implementing it.. which sucks.
See, the reason I'm so big on this, is because I consulted at implementing this at Shadango.com (a new, free, filtering service). We started performing reverse lookups and you would NOT believe the filtering success. It was like day and night. So seriously.. try implementing that on your mail servers and see what happens. And if you're just curious and want to see how effective it can be, check out the implementation at Shadango.com
-Fatty
No, I'd agree that MB sound isn't not too terrible... but it never comes out of that little speaker loud enough for me to be able to hear anything..
-fatty
WHY did this get modded up to 5? The stupidest man in the world declares that he likes Gator and uses it -- yes, everyone really needs to know this.
First off, both IE/Mozilla have (much better) built-in form/password completion now. And that 'memory footprint' you complain about is Gator processing everything you do. Even if you manage to block Gator servers, you still have a massive application doing loads of stuff in the background. BUT, you don't even know if all of Gator's servers are located at *.gator.com. You could *still* be sending back loads of personal information without knowing it.
Seriously, everybody listen: Do not use Gator. Not ever.
-Fatty
Moderators: PLEASE mod down the parent!
GEEZ man.. READ THE FREAKIN' ARTICLE, not the first line before posting your rant, and especially before you speak ill of Andy and DDJ.
The article is an extremely incriminating analysis of Microsoft and alludes to some vicious monopolistic strategies by the Evil One. He NOT condoning MS or their actions as you concluded from your detailed analysis of the first paragraph.
He's pointing out some really scary, underhanded things that MS has done in the past. I would suggest that ALL Microsoft supporters read this article to really see what a monopoly can get away with.
-Fatty
So what about software that is covered by the GPL?
This is a brilliant question.. PLEASE, some knowing individual take the time to answer this!
I worked an an ISP where we had to make a couple of code tweaks to Apache. Worked great. Yeah Open Source. But then we all got into a debate about whether we had to go through the effort of making the whole thing available online since we were hosting some web sites for some local businesses.
Sure, nobody would ever know that we tweaked it -- but it would just be kind of shitty if we were violating the very premise that allowed us to keep our system secure in the first place.
So please, someone prove an answer.. I've been wondering about this for years!
-Fatty
I was in a debate with a co-worker about where the blame for the DMCA lies.. and realized that neither of us are sure of the facts.
Did the entertainment industry draft the law, and then shove it down the throats of some unsuspecting lawmakers? Or did a desperate music industry beg lawmakers for some tool to allow them to enforce their property rights in the New Age, and end up getting the 'end all, be all' of copyright law handed to them by evil lawmakers?
I think that the answer to this question really affects where my (and our) hostility should be directed.
-Fatty
For all you guys that switched to Eclipse as a primary IDE, what did you switch from? I'm considering spending some time learning to use it, but first I think it would be helpful to see why people chose it vs. other IDEs.
For what it's worth, I've started using IntelliJ lately and it's the best editor I've ever used by far. Has anyone else tried it?
-Fatty
Dunno if you'll see this or not; if so, shoot an email to test@gigglemail.com
I'm currently working with a couple of guys here in the US on a small web venture. The goal is to get it breaking even and then run it from elsewhere -- same idea as you've been brewing. So far we've narrowed down our search and have started talking to corporate law firms in South Africa and the Philippines, but with some inside help we could definitly consider Sri Lanka.
Let me know.
Nate
"I have a question about some conflicting results with the search engine google. I did a search for "pictures of mountains" and got exactly 1 million results. My friend did the same search (from the same office)and got 1,010,000 results. A second friend did the same search as the last 2 and got 1,020,000"
I work at Google. This is a new feature that we added about four months ago, it's called the Friend Result Growth: For searches that return a huge result, the engine approximates the returned number as 1,000,000 + Friend*10,000.
-Fatty
What the hell are you talking about?
If you recall, the U.S. did next to nothing (that we know of at least) after the original WTC bombing, its embassy bombings, and the attack on the U.S. Cole. You can turn the cheek all you want, but it doesn't stop anybody from slapping you.
We did next to NOTHING? Are you kidding? The only problem is that the US had no smoking gun to know exactly who's ass to kick. As it turned out, the Taliban made like a legitimate suspect, so we went in and completely destroyed them. We ripped out the leadership of Afganistan and replaced it with one of our choosing. Since then we've just been itching with anticipation at the thought of beating the crap out of anybody else that comes forward. We still may have overlooked the villian? Fine, Iraq supports terrorism -- maybe they had something to do with it. Now they're about to have their ass handed to 'em in a doggie bag.
I agree that war is a terrible thing. Peace is always better, and you made a good argument for it. But don't start to twist the facts around: The US has already done quite a bit and is still ready to go head-to-head with ANY country or group that would be brave enough to take credit for 9/11.
-Fatty
"Their aim is to find a spam filter so effective, that spammers would receive few, if any, responses, making sending unsolicited bulk e-mail a financially prohibitive task"
Ya know, I know how this quote was intended to be interpreted. But it presents an interesting line of thought if you read it differently: What if ISPs who implemented spam filtering (with something like SpamAssassin, not just a keyword filter) bounced back the replies that users sent to the spammer? And for spam that pushes you to a temporary site, what if the ISP put up some generic instructional page on what spam is instead of just pulling it down.
I think that a tiny bit of end-user education, put in place by just a few large ISPs, could really go a long way.
-Fatty
I think the whole problem is with current business models of internet businesses -- with free services, the host really has no compelling reason to guarantee anything. It's a lot easier to just drop a message than to report and gracefully handle an error. Perhaps industry-wide slacking service (just like this) will soon lead to subscription-based messaging clients.
-Ben S.
test@gigglemail.com
"...Program control. More cooperation with the code itself. I'd like the debugger to provide a library against which I can link my code so that the code being debugged can control things like which variables are being watched and which breakpoints are active. I could then easily have breakpoints that are enabled only under certain conditions...."
You know, that's actually a great idea -- and if you think of the logical continuation of it, it would only be a matter of time before you needed a debugger for your debugging code. How cool would that be!
-Fatty
About a week ago I switched from Win2000 to Redhat because I want to learn a bit about server admin. Although I had intended to do it for ages, there had never been a truly compelling, black-and-white, discrete reason to 'take the plunge'. I'd literally thought about if for years but put it off because I didn't want to deal with the hassle -- the incumbant OS was not great, but it got the job done and *I knew how to use it*.
Now what do I think after switching? Well, it's tough to have to learn a whole new world of computing. I can no longer just click on software install programs and have them appear in my start menu. Hell, I still don't know how to run half the stuff that I think I've already installed. I can't view some webpages, and I don't have a clue how to network my work PC (microsoft) with my home desktop (linux).
I think if most people were bred on Linux, it'd be a no-brainer. But there are way too many dumb people like myself that are okay to exist in the comfort zone of the status quo, because they know that stuff will work.
just my two cents....
I get my story put on the front page of slashdot AND it's my birthday! Rock'n'Roll!!!
Happy Birthday to Me
-FattyBoeBatty
From the article...
After eight years of interventions - behavioral training, occupational therapy, speech therapy - Leah is a happy, upbeat 11-year-old who downloads her favorite songs by the hundreds. And she is still deeply autistic.
The RIAA's next target: autistic kids.
--fatty
Actually, I've done a lot of clinical psych work and the problem described in the article doesn't have anything to do with OCD (obsessive compulsive) or an addictive personalities. I think it's important for people to keep in mind that OCD involves individuals who engage in pointless 'rituals', not who become addicted to just one thing.
Second, as far as general addictions go, there ARE such things as "Cleaning Addictions" (mentioned in the previous post), and they have nothing to do with OCD. Seriously. People with non-addictive personalities have become mentally addicted to EVERYTHING. I was treating a woman who had become addicted to watching gameshows. Why was it an addiction? 1. Significant personal distress (she felt horribly guilty if she missed an episode of Wheel of Fortune), and 2. Reduced interpersonal functioning (she would ignore her friends and family to sit in front of the Game Show Network).
Now that two major sticking points of addiction have been brought up, how many slashdotters found themselves pacing around aimlessly these past few days when their @Home service disappeared? Friends and family say you spend too much time online? You'd be surprised how many people are (technically) addicted to the Internet. Luckily, as many sys admins and workaholics have found, not all addictions necessarily hold you back in life.
-Fatty