There has been a windows freeware utility from a company called pointix that added mouse gesture navigation a loooong time ago. Pick it up here or do a search at downloads.com for 'Pointix'.
Unfortunately Pointix does not support/sell/publicize this nifty utility anymore!
I bought a Logitech iFeel mouse after reading about support in this game, and not there doesn't seem to be a single mention on the main page or any of the fan sites... is it time to return my mouse?
Given that the economy is slowing down and all the dot coms are going belly up, yahoo may still be the best kind of stock to hold because of it's strong balance sheet and diverse nature and upwards potential as a e company with experience.
Remember, 2 billion is a LOT of money and the rest of the market isn't doing great either.
Sometimes, life imitates art and brings back a deja vu feeling.
During a recent seating reorg at my previous company, I was reminded of a certain Dilbert strip where management was actually playing a huge game of chess with all the employee cubes! I coudn't find the actual strip anywhere, so I tried the website and even sent a few emails, but received no reply.
It would be nice to have a search engine for comic strips where one could search by theme or incident. Userfriendly has something basic where you can lookup plot lines. I'd be willing to pay a couple of bucks to have the right strip at the right time!
I work in finance-- auditors come in once a year, they go through all your books, take on some liability since they will be signing off on the audit and do an excellent job of making sure everything is in order. Sometimes, they do a systems audit and make sure your accounting system is reasonably secure.
This could probably be easily expanded to the IT site. Most of the large accounting firms also have IT consulting counterparts. I'm surprised we don't have some kind of e-commerce security certification like Trust-e is for privacy.
I don't believe that any company willfully leaves their systems insecure. If they did know better, they would fix things. Perhaps a standardized security audit is an inevitable. I can see banks getting in a line to have their systems audited since they have the most to lose.
I want a web server; not necessarily to be a professional web server admin: I've found the apache module of webmin incredibly helpful if you want to run apache but are less concerned with managing the web server itself.
PS: webmin is itself a great tool if you want to play with multiple distributions and not worry too much about the individual conf file idiosyncracies. Try it at webmin.
Its not about splitting hairs. If I release software under the GPL and say that Virginia law applies; you need to worry because UCITA allows me to retroactively change the license after sending you an email. The 'irrevocable' nature of GPL is lost in this case because of conflict with UCITA. Venue does matter.
But don't worry, RMS will hammer this out and in the end you will get truly good software!
I have felt this way myself a lot of times, and here is how I have been feeling lately:
There is a third player in this field that you have ignored- The judicial system. If toysmart decides to sell my information, I should be able to sue them and stop them. That way you do not have to rely on the FTC to be nice and step in.
A simple traceroute confirms two of my suspicions!
a. My ISP is far far away b. NASA has definitely not isolated their systems!
1 gateway.cec.wustl.edu (128.252.21.249) 2.246 ms 2.006 ms 1.168 ms 2 border2-verio.wustl.edu (128.252.5.254) 15.746 ms 156.419 ms 200.945 ms 3 spaceship.nasa.gov (xxx.xxx.xx.xxx) 5.46 ms 16.41 ms 20.45 ms 4 controlcenter.nasa.gov (xx.xxx.xx.xxx) 3.27 ms 6.08 ms 3.12 ms 5 lifesupport.apollo13.nasa.gov (xxx.xxx.x.xxx) 15.746 ms 156.419 ms 200.945 ms 6 galileo.jupiter.nasa.gov (xxx.xxx.xx.xxx) 2.246 ms 2.006 ms 1.168 ms 7 206.220.243.49 (206.220.243.49) 16.222 ms 14.125 ms 16.237 ms 8 fullnet.okcity.good.net (209.140.161.2) 32.884 ms 34.316 ms * 9 edug.gadwale.com (216.226.24.76) 35.227 ms 60.082 ms 63.112 ms
This is such a marketing gimmick! I read the front page.. I think cool! update! I click... I wait.. wait.. wait and the page says 'sorry I can't tell you more'!!
This maybe slightly offtopic, but this is the best crowd to answer the question.
I want to setup a wireless lan at work with my pc and a handheld. Specifically, I want to use either the Vadem Clio, which is just sooo cool or the Psion 5mx, both of these have pcmcia slots which would accept the lucent wavelan 11Mbps card. Is there any way to setup tcpip between these and my suse box? The options are just endless...Most of my time is spent at work or home and I'd rather have a fast connection than try to use my cell phone...
Sitting in a meeting...playing quake!
This way you don't have to deal with the hassle of WAP or web clipping or whatever it is they call it these days...
I don't care if this never gets moderated up and is lost in the 500 billions comments that will definitely follow this article. I have to say this:
This is the best article ever written by Jon. It is informative, well balanced and touches the real issues. I had my doubts about Jon's ability to talk to the corporate folks. Turns out he has what it takes.
Thanks Jon.
Now if only your other articles could be like this...
Spam is tolerated on email because it is unmetered; telemarketers are tolerated because you do not pay for the call.
OTOH, you don't receive (legally atleast) junk on your fax machine since it would cost you in terms of paper etc. By the same rule that telemarketers should not call cell phones, spam should be banned from cell phones.
Does anybody have legal background on this?
Atleast in the US, it is only a matter of time before a spammer gets sued and it all stops.
Also: remember when everybody made fun of the law that required spammers to add "ADV:" at the start of an email message?? Half the spam I get now starts with ADV: and has made life a lot easier!! Anybody else notice this??
While were on the topic, check out TCS SMS Gateway that lets you send text messages to almost any cell phone regardless of wireless provider! Comes in pretty handy when you want to make sure someone gets a message but you're not sure you want to talk to them.
The idea is to make a program look different/cool. This should not be acheived at the expense of functionality or by breaking standard UI guidelines. There are a whole bunch of bad skins out there because people who do not know how to implement UI but have the artistic penchant decide to design skins.
MS has a good example of skins in their win 98 themes; each theme is different, but it does not mess with functionality. MS spends a lot of time on UI design and this shows in their themes.
themes.org on the other had is not a good example and granny should not be downloading themes from there!
winamp has a good many themes that do not mess with functionality.
Let good knowledge come to us from all sides - Rig Veda, 3500 B.C.
This is obviously a victory for the slashdotters and in-the-know people. The public outpouring of criticism must have hit a nerve someplace or else this company would have IPOd and made big bucks as people wallowed in the buzzwords "linux""support" etc.!
See, an organized; vocal; non-malicious approach works!
This also shows the inherent market checks and bounds as the SEC would have been all over these people if the had any "creative accounting" going on.
you can fool all off the people some of the time or some of the people all of the time but you can never fool all of the people all of the time
we seem to have a lot of wireless networking posts here and it finally got to me; I have an athlon 850 sitting around (finally got to tell somebody!!) here in the midwest (stl) and ran into all these different problems:
a. it is not cheap let me repeat, it is not cheap
there are two basic options for a hobby lan the WaveLan cards or the WebGear Airport cards. The base stations for the wavelan are $600+ and those for the webgear are $500+
b. HUGE tradeoffs all over the place. wavelan is fast at 11Mbps, webgear only 2 wavelan cards are $180/ea, webgear gives you 2 for $199 you can use an airport instead of the wavelan access point, but that has configuration problems. You need a mac to configure stuff etc. I don't think I know anybody who uses a mac.
c. no local electronic stores carry them even good ol' compusa stopped carrying the webgear cards. (i called) If I am going to spend this kind of money, it will *have* to be an impulse buy at a store!!
d. can't find webgear cards anywhere online!
the only thing you really want to get is not in stock anywhere on the web!! Everybody posts about bargain buys (2/$99 etc) but where are they????
we could do all kinds of fun things with cheaper wireless lans, I live in a univ-student area and we could have all kinds of cool hacks if these things were cheaper...
this is when I wish most that we had a mercata style group for slashdotters...if apple can sell $99 wireless cards, why can't anybody else???
(posts with links get moderated up... hmmm... lets throw in some links@!!)
I wouldn't be very surprised if this license agreement only applies to vmware versions of win98+nt or winnt+2000 and does not apply to linux+win bundles.
Think about it: 1. If I want linux on win I can go for a umsdos based distrib or get lnx4win from mandrake which runs from an image and saves file permissions etc. 2. If I want win over linux; I am already a linux user; why not use Wine? or just dual boot to a win partition? a couple of scripts to dd the partition and restore it for multiple install testing. No performance hit, no svga problems, no fake peripherals in a virtual machine.
This is probably cements marketshare for vmware in msdn where developers need to cope with the plethora of different ms oses. Vmware is probably also concerned about plex86 eating into their win on linux market!
somebody please tell the RIAA! It is obvious that the in dash DVD Player is used to smuggle DVD's out of the region for which they have been manufactured.
we definitely need DVD checkpoints at all major metropolitan areas to make sure that the in dash dvd player has no dvds in it.
extending on the same logic, it is obvious that the in dash dvd player is actually used to copy and pirate DVDs and it is mounted in a car so that you can escape from the RIAA!
Slashdot Mirror
The best site I have found for dual proc machines is Los Alamos Computers.
The prices seem reasonable and they occaisonally put systems on e-Bay.
They were also the ones who built the Utimate Linux Box for Linux Journal and Eric Raymond that was featured earlier.
Too bad they are not accepting any new orders till 2002.
There has been a windows freeware utility from a company called pointix that added mouse gesture navigation a loooong time ago. Pick it up here or do a search at downloads.com for 'Pointix'.
Unfortunately Pointix does not support/sell/publicize this nifty utility anymore!
Adi.
I bought a Logitech iFeel mouse after reading about support in this game, and not there doesn't seem to be a single mention on the main page or any of the fan sites... is it time to return my mouse?
...and no debt.
Given that the economy is slowing down and all the dot coms are going belly up, yahoo may still be the best kind of stock to hold because of it's strong balance sheet and diverse nature and upwards potential as a e company with experience.
Remember, 2 billion is a LOT of money and the rest of the market isn't doing great either.
Sometimes, life imitates art and brings back a deja vu feeling.
During a recent seating reorg at my previous company, I was reminded of a certain Dilbert strip where management was actually playing a huge game of chess with all the employee cubes! I coudn't find the actual strip anywhere, so I tried the website and even sent a few emails, but received no reply.
It would be nice to have a search engine for comic strips where one could search by theme or incident. Userfriendly has something basic where you can lookup plot lines. I'd be willing to pay a couple of bucks to have the right strip at the right time!
I work in finance-- auditors come in once a year, they go through all your books, take on some liability since they will be signing off on the audit and do an excellent job of making sure everything is in order. Sometimes, they do a systems audit and make sure your accounting system is reasonably secure.
This could probably be easily expanded to the IT site. Most of the large accounting firms also have IT consulting counterparts. I'm surprised we don't have some kind of e-commerce security certification like Trust-e is for privacy.
I don't believe that any company willfully leaves their systems insecure. If they did know better, they would fix things. Perhaps a standardized security audit is an inevitable. I can see banks getting in a line to have their systems audited since they have the most to lose.
Adi.
I want a web server; not necessarily to be a professional web server admin: I've found the apache module of webmin incredibly helpful if you want to run apache but are less concerned with managing the web server itself.
Here is a screenshot of the webmin module.
PS: webmin is itself a great tool if you want to play with multiple distributions and not worry too much about the individual conf file idiosyncracies. Try it at webmin.
Its not about splitting hairs. If I release software under the GPL and say that Virginia law applies; you need to worry because UCITA allows me to retroactively change the license after sending you an email. The 'irrevocable' nature of GPL is lost in this case because of conflict with UCITA. Venue does matter.
But don't worry, RMS will hammer this out and in the end you will get truly good software!
You are correct! A simple search on Google reveals:
Google results 1-10 of about 1,670,000 for windows applications. Search took 0.10 seconds.
Of course, this is way to scientific compared to the 70,000 number.
adi.
I have felt this way myself a lot of times, and here is how I have been feeling lately:
There is a third player in this field that you have ignored- The judicial system. If toysmart decides to sell my information, I should be able to sue them and stop them. That way you do not have to rely on the FTC to be nice and step in.
Germany contribute to wine?? You have your facts mixed up my friend! It's the french that are into wine, the Germans are famous for their Beer!
A simple traceroute confirms two of my suspicions!
a. My ISP is far far away
b. NASA has definitely not isolated their systems!
1 gateway.cec.wustl.edu (128.252.21.249) 2.246 ms 2.006 ms 1.168 ms
2 border2-verio.wustl.edu (128.252.5.254) 15.746 ms 156.419 ms 200.945 ms
3 spaceship.nasa.gov (xxx.xxx.xx.xxx) 5.46 ms 16.41 ms 20.45 ms
4 controlcenter.nasa.gov (xx.xxx.xx.xxx) 3.27 ms 6.08 ms 3.12 ms
5 lifesupport.apollo13.nasa.gov (xxx.xxx.x.xxx) 15.746 ms 156.419 ms 200.945 ms
6 galileo.jupiter.nasa.gov (xxx.xxx.xx.xxx) 2.246 ms 2.006 ms 1.168 ms
7 206.220.243.49 (206.220.243.49) 16.222 ms 14.125 ms 16.237 ms
8 fullnet.okcity.good.net (209.140.161.2) 32.884 ms 34.316 ms *
9 edug.gadwale.com (216.226.24.76) 35.227 ms 60.082 ms 63.112 ms
This is such a marketing gimmick! I read the front page.. I think cool! update! I click ... I wait .. wait .. wait and the page says 'sorry I can't tell you more'!!
OK; can you talk about the alleged DDOS?
This maybe slightly offtopic, but this is the best crowd to answer the question.
I want to setup a wireless lan at work with my pc and a handheld. Specifically, I want to use either the Vadem Clio, which is just sooo cool or the Psion 5mx, both of these have pcmcia slots which would accept the lucent wavelan 11Mbps card. Is there any way to setup tcpip between these and my suse box? The options are just endless...Most of my time is spent at work or home and I'd rather have a fast connection than try to use my cell phone...
Sitting in a meeting...playing quake!
This way you don't have to deal with the hassle of WAP or web clipping or whatever it is they call it these days...
two questions:
1. do you read slashdot? how regularly? under what name do you post comments?
2. what do you think of Mr. Katz articles?
I don't care if this never gets moderated up and is lost in the 500 billions comments that will definitely follow this article. I have to say this:
This is the best article ever written by Jon. It is informative, well balanced and touches the real issues. I had my doubts about Jon's ability to talk to the corporate folks. Turns out he has what it takes.
Thanks Jon.
Now if only your other articles could be like this...
it has finally been proven that the karma theory holds on the internet!
...i mean the real karma theory...
cool.. tell me more abt. tcs.. where is your email address??
Spam is tolerated on email because it is unmetered; telemarketers are tolerated because you do not pay for the call.
OTOH, you don't receive (legally atleast) junk on your fax machine since it would cost you in terms of paper etc. By the same rule that telemarketers should not call cell phones, spam should be banned from cell phones.
Does anybody have legal background on this?
Atleast in the US, it is only a matter of time before a spammer gets sued and it all stops.
Also: remember when everybody made fun of the law that required spammers to add "ADV:" at the start of an email message?? Half the spam I get now starts with ADV: and has made life a lot easier!! Anybody else notice this??
While were on the topic, check out TCS SMS Gateway that lets you send text messages to almost any cell phone regardless of wireless provider! Comes in pretty handy when you want to make sure someone gets a message but you're not sure you want to talk to them.
The idea is to make a program look different/cool. This should not be acheived at the expense of functionality or by breaking standard UI guidelines. There are a whole bunch of bad skins out there because people who do not know how to implement UI but have the artistic penchant decide to design skins.
MS has a good example of skins in their win 98 themes; each theme is different, but it does not mess with functionality. MS spends a lot of time on UI design and this shows in their themes.
themes.org on the other had is not a good example and granny should not be downloading themes from there!
winamp has a good many themes that do not mess with functionality.
Let good knowledge come to us from all sides
- Rig Veda, 3500 B.C.
This is obviously a victory for the slashdotters and in-the-know people. The public outpouring of criticism must have hit a nerve someplace or else this company would have IPOd and made big bucks as people wallowed in the buzzwords "linux""support" etc.!
See, an organized; vocal; non-malicious approach works!
This also shows the inherent market checks and bounds as the SEC would have been all over these people if the had any "creative accounting" going on.
you can fool all off the people some of the time or
some of the people all of the time
but you can never fool all of the people all of the time
while we're on the topic...
does anybody know if the psion 5mx will work with the wavelan/webgear cards??
walking around with *fast* access... that has some serious cool value!!
we seem to have a lot of wireless networking posts here and it finally got to me; I have an athlon 850 sitting around (finally got to tell somebody!!) here in the midwest (stl) and ran into all these different problems:
a. it is not cheap
let me repeat, it is not cheap
there are two basic options for a hobby lan the WaveLan cards or the WebGear Airport cards. The base stations for the wavelan are $600+ and those for the webgear are $500+
b. HUGE tradeoffs all over the place.
wavelan is fast at 11Mbps, webgear only 2
wavelan cards are $180/ea, webgear gives you 2 for $199
you can use an airport instead of the wavelan access point, but that has configuration problems. You need a mac to configure stuff etc. I don't think I know anybody who uses a mac.
c. no local electronic stores carry them
even good ol' compusa stopped carrying the webgear cards. (i called)
If I am going to spend this kind of money, it will *have* to be an impulse buy at a store!!
d. can't find webgear cards anywhere online!
the only thing you really want to get is not in stock anywhere on the web!! Everybody posts about bargain buys (2/$99 etc) but where are they????
we could do all kinds of fun things with cheaper wireless lans, I live in a univ-student area and we could have all kinds of cool hacks if these things were cheaper...
this is when I wish most that we had a mercata style group for slashdotters...if apple can sell $99 wireless cards, why can't anybody else???
(posts with links get moderated up...
hmmm... lets throw in some links@!!)
get this!
I wouldn't be very surprised if this license agreement only applies to vmware versions of win98+nt or winnt+2000 and does not apply to linux+win bundles.
Think about it:
1. If I want linux on win I can go for a umsdos based distrib or get lnx4win from mandrake which runs from an image and saves file permissions etc.
2. If I want win over linux; I am already a linux user; why not use Wine? or just dual boot to a win partition? a couple of scripts to dd the partition and restore it for multiple install testing. No performance hit, no svga problems, no fake peripherals in a virtual machine.
This is probably cements marketshare for vmware in msdn where developers need to cope with the plethora of different ms oses. Vmware is probably also concerned about plex86 eating into their win on linux market!
somebody please tell the RIAA! It is obvious that the in dash DVD Player is used to smuggle DVD's out of the region for which they have been manufactured.
we definitely need DVD checkpoints at all major metropolitan areas to make sure that the in dash dvd player has no dvds in it.
extending on the same logic, it is obvious that the in dash dvd player is actually used to copy and pirate DVDs and it is mounted in a car so that you can escape from the RIAA!
...my 2 yen