There are a number of applications written in Mono, not just Tomboy. F-Spot and Beagle are a couple of the major ones that come to mind. In fact, the first hit on a google search for "mono applications" is the following link which lists many applications....
I'm using some of these Gold DVD-R's. After doing some research I picked these. They are supposed to have a shelf life of 200 years or something if treated and stored properly.
What about the apple display connector? Or was it desktop connector? I think that had some cooler features than this one. I really liked the idea of a SINGLE cable to the monitor that supported power, usb, video and audio. I don't see power or usb in this new spec.
I'd be curious to know how much this ad actually cost. I've been searching the linked pages, and spreadfirefox.com and I can't find the figure. Does anyone know?
I can't believe that he would complain about something like this! Oh wait, yes I can, because he's a fruit cake.
Seriously, I don't understand the privacy concerns with this. Do you need to scan in and out of the bathroom or something? Is he afraid they're going to track his bowel movements?
What I can understand is why they want this info. If there's equipment that goes missing.. it's quite usefull to know who is in the building, or who opened the door to the room.
I've been using NameCheap for quite some time and I'm very happy with them. Nice clean interface, free dns, dns changes are reflected immediately, and their support is pretty decent. They use perldesk or something for support which I've found works well since they are quite responsive.
And to top it off.. they're cheap! $8.88
I've used joker.com in the past, and they're okay and cheap...but really really difficult if to deal with if you're in North America and need to talk to a real person, or need to send them a letter since they're in germany.
I came across these recently. I had never seent hem before, they're interesting.
Basically they're USB CD towers. They do not actually play the CD's, but rather just catalog them, and spit them out at you when you request a disc. They also have some features that allow you to loan discs to friends and they'll track their location and such.
I like it.
Okay, I've read all the posts and there's some very good ideas about what to put on this laptop. Some posters are even suggesting leaving the kid at the command prompt. Wow. I have a much much better idea. Send the kid outside!.. have him play lego, ride a bike, play soccer, or even read a book!!
Learning computers is an excelent idea for kids, however sticking a 6 year old at the command prompt is NOT.
This should work a little differently. Why not stripe your data accross many hosts with parity data being stored on serveral. A central server would maintain a list of servers containing your data. In the event of a failure, you would simply fireup the client, that would contact this server for a list of your backup "devices" and it would start pulling in, reconstructing and decrypting the data. This would have a couple bonuses...
1) You could stripe it accross 100 machines, and have another 100 with parity data so that any 50% of the machines can be unavaliable and you can still get your data back.
2) Security - Rather than having a full copy of your data on their machine, each node only has a small subset of your data, and does not know where to find the rest of the data making reconstruction nearly impossible for the storage node. GPG would be used on top of this.
I live in an area of the country where temperature extermes are a way of life. I'm planning on doing this as well and I'm planning on putting the whole system in a modified coleman electric cooler. This unit, can heat the contents, or cool the contents, depending on the polarity to the peltier device. I would also add a vent with flaps that could be automatically closed and opened. A temperature sensing circuit would then measure inside and outside temperature to determine how to best vent/heat/cool the box. It would also provide a thermal shutdown feature.
Of course this is all "planned" so the chances of me actually building this might be slim:-)
I bought one of these players and it rocks!
I already had some CF cards for my digital camera so at $79, this was an awesome addition to my gadget collection. It works flawless and is inexpensive compared to the iPod.
I have an external CF card reader so I just pop it out of the NEXII (no need to waste the batteries) and it shows up as a drive on my PC. MP3's and images from my camera happily co-exist on the card. Life is good. I whole heartedly reccomend the NexII.
I think one of the cool things about VoIP on 802.11b would be the additional features you could build in to the handset. If your handset is something similar to an iPaq, you have a full ~11Mbit data connection as well as voice communications. This could open a lot of possibilities for collabrative applications and video conferencing.
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I normally am an avid reader of Ask Slashdot but this is gone too far.
Is this the "Ask Slashdot Technical Support Forum"?
Man. Do some searching. Ebay or Google could have easily answered both of these questions.
I may get flamed or mod'd down for this but I seriously think the best option are iBooks.
Apple has come up with some pretty cool mobile classroom type systems.
I would imagine it this way.
A road case, like bands use, with custom foam in the middle to hold the desired number of laptops. All laptops would be wired within the road case for charging purposes. These can then be taken out of the case and handed out to students in a classroom. The case is configured with an Airport base station and all the laptops are configured with airport.
The case would travel to the location via any means available. The teacher would simple plug power in to the road case, and into a network connection and hand out the laptops and you're off to the races.
This could be modified to handle dialup or isdn connections.
This solution offers several advantages.
1) Vehicles are expensive - using this method you do not have to pay for insurance or maintenance on a vehicle. You also do not need a dedicated driver.
2) You make use of available space - Students and teachers do not have to leave the class room. Classes can be held practically anywhere.
Much of my experience is the same as some of the other posters but I thought I'd share anyways.
We're currently in the process of renovating a 100 year old house. Part of the process has been gutting the house down to the studs, re-insulating, upgrading electrical and drywalling. I have been going a little extreme given my geek nature. Every outlet that gets put in is accompanied by an empty box that has conduit running to the attic, or the basement. I'm not pulling any wire now, but this leaves the option to put any device almost anywhere. I can use these empty boxes to pull the wiring for my surround channels. I can use it for data wiring, more electrical wiring, telephone wiring, home automation, etc...
Basically, my 2cents is - Use Conduit. As soon as you pull in all your cat5 and coax, there's going to be a new standard or a new innovation in fiber or something that is going to cause all your work to be useless. The only nearly sure thing is conduit.
One of the problems, with using VNC and laptops is that kids are smart. They'll figure out how to disable it, or otherwise mess with it. Especially if they can take the laptops home and spend hours "customizing" them.
Maybe a tool that's more stealthy, like sub7 would be more appropriate?
The other option is to implement a proxy server as the only way to access the net and then block the webmail sites and the mail protocols.
I was actually thinking about something like this the other day. However, I was thinking of a different approach....
Install temperature sensors in each room of your house, connected to a central pc, or data logger, then, you could graph the heat loss in each room over time, and see which rooms are cooling the fastest.
My plan includes a sensor on the furnace, and an outdoor sensor. This way I can also see how long the furnace has to run to maintain an internal temperature given the outside temperature.
I know, I'm a serious geek, but I think it's cool:)
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There are a number of applications written in Mono, not just Tomboy. F-Spot and Beagle are a couple of the major ones that come to mind. In fact, the first hit on a google search for "mono applications" is the following link which lists many applications....
http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=9780
I'm using some of these Gold DVD-R's. After doing some research I picked these. They are supposed to have a shelf life of 200 years or something if treated and stored properly.
I bought them at this Canadian retailer...
http://ncix.com/products/index.php?sku=16000
What about the apple display connector? Or was it desktop connector?
I think that had some cooler features than this one. I really liked the idea of a SINGLE cable to the monitor that supported power, usb, video and audio. I don't see power or usb in this new spec.
I'd be curious to know how much this ad actually cost. I've been searching the linked pages, and spreadfirefox.com and I can't find the figure. Does anyone know?
I'd sure like to see a mythfront end distro that boots off a compact flash card. I haven't seen one. Does such a beast exist?
Well, that would be one way to keep RMS out of the woods.
Well, soon GWB will just name RMS part of the axis of evil and they will label him a terrorist for not wanting his every move tracked.
:)
In the near future, RMS will be captured and taken to Guantanamo Bay where he will be tortured and forced to carry an RFID proximity card.
Okay... now I'm just rambling
I can't believe that he would complain about something like this! Oh wait, yes I can, because he's a fruit cake.
Seriously, I don't understand the privacy concerns with this. Do you need to scan in and out of the bathroom or something? Is he afraid they're going to track his bowel movements?
What I can understand is why they want this info. If there's equipment that goes missing.. it's quite usefull to know who is in the building, or who opened the door to the room.
Can somebody please save me from reading the entire changelog? I just want to know the major differences between 2.4.x and 2.6.x.
:)
Please save me! I'm lazy
I've been using NameCheap for quite some time and I'm very happy with them.
Nice clean interface, free dns, dns changes are reflected immediately, and their support is pretty decent. They use perldesk or something for support which I've found works well since they are quite responsive.
And to top it off.. they're cheap! $8.88
I've used joker.com in the past, and they're okay and cheap...but really really difficult if to deal with if you're in North America and need to talk to a real person, or need to send them a letter since they're in germany.
I came across these recently. I had never seent hem before, they're interesting.
l s/item-details.asp?sku=K26-2800%20P l s/item-details.asp?sku=B600-2000%20P
:)
Basically they're USB CD towers. They do not actually play the CD's, but rather just catalog them, and spit them out at you when you request a disc. They also have some features that allow you to loan discs to friends and they'll track their location and such.
I like it.
This one does 75 CD's http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchToo
This one does 100 CD's http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchToo
The cool thing about the second one is you can daisy chain it and store up to 127,000 CD's or so.
Also there's tigerdirect.ca for the Canucks out there.
Okay, I've read all the posts and there's some very good ideas about what to put on this laptop. Some posters are even suggesting leaving the kid at the command prompt.
Wow.
I have a much much better idea. Send the kid outside!.. have him play lego, ride a bike, play soccer, or even read a book!!
Learning computers is an excelent idea for kids, however sticking a 6 year old at the command prompt is NOT.
This should work a little differently.
Why not stripe your data accross many hosts with parity data being stored on serveral. A central server would maintain a list of servers containing your data. In the event of a failure, you would simply fireup the client, that would contact this server for a list of your backup "devices" and it would start pulling in, reconstructing and decrypting the data.
This would have a couple bonuses...
1) You could stripe it accross 100 machines, and have another 100 with parity data so that any 50% of the machines can be unavaliable and you can still get your data back.
2) Security - Rather than having a full copy of your data on their machine, each node only has a small subset of your data, and does not know where to find the rest of the data making reconstruction nearly impossible for the storage node. GPG would be used on top of this.
Apparently the new Alpa version of Mozilla addes RW support of LDAP
I live in an area of the country where temperature extermes are a way of life. I'm planning on doing this as well and I'm planning on putting the whole system in a modified coleman electric cooler. This unit, can heat the contents, or cool the contents, depending on the polarity to the peltier device. I would also add a vent with flaps that could be automatically closed and opened. A temperature sensing circuit would then measure inside and outside temperature to determine how to best vent/heat/cool the box. It would also provide a thermal shutdown feature. :-)
Of course this is all "planned" so the chances of me actually building this might be slim
I bought one of these players and it rocks!
I already had some CF cards for my digital camera so at $79, this was an awesome addition to my gadget collection. It works flawless and is inexpensive compared to the iPod.
I have an external CF card reader so I just pop it out of the NEXII (no need to waste the batteries) and it shows up as a drive on my PC. MP3's and images from my camera happily co-exist on the card. Life is good. I whole heartedly reccomend the NexII.
I think one of the cool things about VoIP on 802.11b would be the additional features you could build in to the handset.
If your handset is something similar to an iPaq, you have a full ~11Mbit data connection as well as voice communications. This could open a lot of possibilities for collabrative applications and video conferencing.
I normally am an avid reader of Ask Slashdot but this is gone too far.
Is this the "Ask Slashdot Technical Support Forum"?
Man. Do some searching. Ebay or Google could have easily answered both of these questions.
Windows 2000 has a built in Time Sync service that uses NTP.
/set'
He is likely not talking about 'net time
I should have put this url in the original post....
http://www.apple.com/education/cart/
I may get flamed or mod'd down for this but I seriously think the best option are iBooks.
:)
Apple has come up with some pretty cool mobile classroom type systems.
I would imagine it this way.
A road case, like bands use, with custom foam in the middle to hold the desired number of laptops. All laptops would be wired within the road case for charging purposes. These can then be taken out of the case and handed out to students in a classroom. The case is configured with an Airport base station and all the laptops are configured with airport.
The case would travel to the location via any means available. The teacher would simple plug power in to the road case, and into a network connection and hand out the laptops and you're off to the races.
This could be modified to handle dialup or isdn connections.
This solution offers several advantages.
1) Vehicles are expensive - using this method you do not have to pay for insurance or maintenance on a vehicle. You also do not need a dedicated driver.
2) You make use of available space - Students and teachers do not have to leave the class room. Classes can be held practically anywhere.
just my 2 cents
Phones are intrusive, and phone spam is the worst of all.
Get a web site.
Get email
Much of my experience is the same as some of the other posters but I thought I'd share anyways.
We're currently in the process of renovating a 100 year old house. Part of the process has been gutting the house down to the studs, re-insulating, upgrading electrical and drywalling. I have been going a little extreme given my geek nature. Every outlet that gets put in is accompanied by an empty box that has conduit running to the attic, or the basement. I'm not pulling any wire now, but this leaves the option to put any device almost anywhere. I can use these empty boxes to pull the wiring for my surround channels. I can use it for data wiring, more electrical wiring, telephone wiring, home automation, etc...
Basically, my 2cents is - Use Conduit. As soon as you pull in all your cat5 and coax, there's going to be a new standard or a new innovation in fiber or something that is going to cause all your work to be useless. The only nearly sure thing is conduit.
One of the problems, with using VNC and laptops is that kids are smart. They'll figure out how to disable it, or otherwise mess with it. Especially if they can take the laptops home and spend hours "customizing" them.
Maybe a tool that's more stealthy, like sub7 would be more appropriate?
The other option is to implement a proxy server as the only way to access the net and then block the webmail sites and the mail protocols.
I was actually thinking about something like this the other day. However, I was thinking of a different approach....
:)
Install temperature sensors in each room of your house, connected to a central pc, or data logger, then, you could graph the heat loss in each room over time, and see which rooms are cooling the fastest.
My plan includes a sensor on the furnace, and an outdoor sensor. This way I can also see how long the furnace has to run to maintain an internal temperature given the outside temperature.
I know, I'm a serious geek, but I think it's cool