Wasn't Sandia a nuclear lab? Then they know how to look after American interests.
With the market scooped up by the Europeans and theJapanese,
no wonder that AMD and Intel are getting cosy.
The acquisition of SVG by ASML could very well be called off,
due to fears that strategic U.S. technology
might fall in the wrong hands...
This might be a troll, but actually I thought the same. If you have is a hammer etc. And I can't help but think SOAP as a pro-Microsoft thing. Remember Microsoft's whitepaper on using SOAP for getting through those pesky firewalls? Check what Bruce Schneier thinks of that.
And here's Zico plugging alternative Microsoft technology.
RDP client for Terminal Server available under GPL
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Remember the DM 30.000 reward for a GPL'd client implementation of RDP?
RDP is the thin client protocol used by Windows NT Terminal Server and Windows 2000. Well, you guys might be interested to know that Samba team member Matt Chapman has done it.
rdesktop is available on the rdesktop website and only supports NT4 and 8-bit screens. Since then, patches have been made by several people, which extend the support to Windows 2000 and 16-bit screens. Get the "unified patched" version from Peter Bystrom's site instead.
This is of course great news if you previously were forced to use a Windows RDP client on the desktop to access your (corporate) Windows network. You could even make a very inexpensive thin Linux client with RDP, VNC and Low-bandwidth X support.
I don't know if Matt actually got the reward. The German company IGEL might as well have caved in and bought a licence from Microsoft, since they are now offering products containing RDP support.
The Dutch PTT uses these as well. But if you have the choice, go for the Ethernet version instead (costs EUR 50 extra over here). USB generally draws more CPU cycles than Ethernet. The USB version doesn't even work with Windows ME if the multiple IP addresses version of PPTP over ADSL is used! And as a plus, the Ethernet actually looks like a modem, not like a stupid green horseshoe crab;-).
You'll also need the Linux PPTP driver. Hopefully it works with these USB drivers.
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I just want to say one word to you...
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>however it can serve as a proxy server, so you can still serve your Linux box.
I intended to use it that way but unfortunately I did not succeed in restricting its services to my LAN network card (resp. IP address). It also bound to the cable network card, which meant anyone on the Internet could surf with my machine as a proxy.
Even the big fish in the pond, DoubleClick, has announced that its revenues are likely to fall as Internet advertising drops (its stock, of course, has plunged).
Cool!
(BTW, use login slashdot1234 and password slashdot123)
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www.windows2000test.com finally hacked? ;-)
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The award for the "hackme" LinuxPPC contest was that you could get the hardware, but I didn't know that with the www.windows2000test.com you would get the whole Windows source code!;-)
Well, if you don't like BorderControl, try Realmapping. They claim to have "world's most accurate IP database for country, language, region and target group recognition of Internet users". Which means "more than 97.5% accuracy in regards to country and language".
They don't want to say how they achieve this (it's their trade secret) but I would guess they are using the RIPE/ARIN etc. databases. I mean, the WHOIS databases and traceroute give me a fairly accurate indication of where the IP address is located, and at least they are free;-)
Actually, they are giving away a hint about their procedure:
"It boils down to this:
The first step is automatically building up
different databases containing information about
the 4.25 billion IP addresses available.
On the basis of these databases, our input team
makes an interpretation and a manual allocation
for the different databases. These allocations are automatically checked for consistency and compared - once again automatically - with all available information".
They must have one hell of an NDA for their manual verification people;-)
The silk screen of my Palm Personal was broken so I couldn't use it for the full 100%, but Screenwrite ($5) allowed me to write Grafitti on the screen.
An acquaintance of mine is deafblind and I tried to get hold of this Logitech Force Feedback mouse here in Holland.
Well, apparently Logitech does import them, and they sell them to a couple of distributors, but then they completely lose track of them. They can't tell which shops have them. Logitech gave me the phone numbers of the 4 distributors, who either didn't want to talk to me because I was an end-user or just had no idea in which shops these mice ended up...
I'm quite appalled by this. I understand they don't make these mice specifically for handicapped people but at least Logitech could be a bit more helpful. I might be contacting Logitech HQ in Switzerland or the USA...
Hey, here's one for you Americans! A solar powered electric chair!
It'll take a while for the batteries to load, but it's a good example of how you can combine technology with society and environment in one great invention!
Slashdot Mirror
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Fair enough. Thanks for pointing this out.
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And here's Zico plugging alternative Microsoft technology.
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RDP is the thin client protocol used by Windows NT Terminal Server and Windows 2000. Well, you guys might be interested to know that Samba team member Matt Chapman has done it.
rdesktop is available on the rdesktop website and only supports NT4 and 8-bit screens. Since then, patches have been made by several people, which extend the support to Windows 2000 and 16-bit screens. Get the "unified patched" version from Peter Bystrom's site instead.
This is of course great news if you previously were forced to use a Windows RDP client on the desktop to access your (corporate) Windows network. You could even make a very inexpensive thin Linux client with RDP, VNC and Low-bandwidth X support.
I don't know if Matt actually got the reward. The German company IGEL might as well have caved in and bought a licence from Microsoft, since they are now offering products containing RDP support.
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You'll also need the Linux PPTP driver. Hopefully it works with these USB drivers.
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Are you listening?
"Plastics".
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Perhaps it's on the list of free available databases?
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Cool.
(That's a motor cycle, right?)
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I intended to use it that way but unfortunately I did not succeed in restricting its services to my LAN network card (resp. IP address). It also bound to the cable network card, which meant anyone on the Internet could surf with my machine as a proxy.
So I stuck with Junkbuster/Win32...
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Cool!
(BTW, use login slashdot1234 and password slashdot123)
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The award for the "hackme" LinuxPPC contest was that you could get the hardware, but I didn't know that with the www.windows2000test.com you would get the whole Windows source code! ;-)
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And hey, they mention Linux there too! ;-)
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I assume you meant amused.
3) Corruption - well....you wouldn't feel hard if you considered it as the rules of game.... :)
Wasn't a high government official executed recently because of corruption? I would not consider that a game.
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They don't want to say how they achieve this (it's their trade secret) but I would guess they are using the RIPE/ARIN etc. databases. I mean, the WHOIS databases and traceroute give me a fairly accurate indication of where the IP address is located, and at least they are free ;-)
Actually, they are giving away a hint about their procedure:
"It boils down to this: The first step is automatically building up different databases containing information about the 4.25 billion IP addresses available. On the basis of these databases, our input team makes an interpretation and a manual allocation for the different databases. These allocations are automatically checked for consistency and compared - once again automatically - with all available information".
They must have one hell of an NDA for their manual verification people ;-)
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The silk screen of my Palm Personal was broken so I couldn't use it for the full 100%, but Screenwrite ($5) allowed me to write Grafitti on the screen.
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Argh, I saw footage of that on TV this week. It was in a documentary about Fred Leuchter, a electric chair engineer turned Holocaust revisionist.
It really disgusted me. Those were other times, but I can't suppress the feeling that Edison must have been a cruel man.
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Well, apparently Logitech does import them, and they sell them to a couple of distributors, but then they completely lose track of them. They can't tell which shops have them. Logitech gave me the phone numbers of the 4 distributors, who either didn't want to talk to me because I was an end-user or just had no idea in which shops these mice ended up...
I'm quite appalled by this. I understand they don't make these mice specifically for handicapped people but at least Logitech could be a bit more helpful. I might be contacting Logitech HQ in Switzerland or the USA...
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"Never invest based on a 'tip' on the Internet without doing independent research"
Hey, here's one for you Americans! A solar powered electric chair!
It'll take a while for the batteries to load, but it's a good example of how you can combine technology with society and environment in one great invention!
Would make a whizz at the World Expo!
Well, being a Dutch citizen I would say that's debatable, but then again, I assume you are referring only to its satellite communications branch ;-).
Which is called Station 12, incidentally. They advertise a lot on CNN International...
Besides, check out the rest of their website. All around cool guys...