For the phones I would make sure your telephony switch supports VoIP handsets and wire anywhere you expect to have a telephone with PoE. All the VoIP phones I've used have a built in switch so you can plug the user's workstation into the phone. Newer phones will have a gigabit switch. I've done testing with Avaya and Cisco phones and I couldn't find any bandwidth limits when plugged into the phone vs. straight into the wall jack. It's a great setup because you don't need power dongles or redundant wiring for the phones. Each desk has one jack for voice and data.
Check the power draw from the phones and make sure your switch can provide enough. I've seen PoE switches that can't light up every port because some devices were pulling too much power. Current-generation phones seem to take far less power than they did a couple of years ago unless they have big fancy LCD screens.
This may require an upgrade to your PBX though, which can be expensive. For the size organization you're talking about (or for just about any size, depending on specific features you need) going with Asterisk might be a great idea. You get free conference bridge support, voice mail, menuing, etc. and can perhaps ditch the service contract you're paying right now. You can find IP phone service as well or if you want to stick with T1s (or copper if it's cheaper), Digium sells hardware to support that which is generally pretty affordable.
And, unrelated to the phones, you might want to put LAN drops in the ceiling throughout the office for wireless access points.
One can hope that their automated systems are every bit as successful as Denver International Airport's big automation effort. Except instead of conveyor belts moving baggage it'll be nuclear powered, managing missiles and explosives.
Seriously, how much experience does France and England have with aircraft carriers of this size? None whatsoever from what I can tell. I'm deeply skeptical that they're going to magically find the means to reduce the personnel requirement by over 50%, least of all by making use of utterly untested technology. And on a warship no less! In a time of war I'd greatly prefer somewhat redundant personnel on board, rather than a ship being run by technology which has not been battle-tested.
It's when they start putting multiple big names in villain roles that these superhero franchises usually start to go straight to hell.
The "multiple big names" in question consist of a guy who's probably still best known from a T.V. show in the early nineties and some other guy from a TV show. They've both turned in great performances in other roles, but they're hardly "big names."
Batman and Robin had Uma Thurman and Arnold Schwartzeneggar. I really don't think Sam Raimi's going down that path at all.
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Send me an email to claim one : gmail_invite@fretnoise.net. I'll delete that account once they're all given away, so if the email bounces they're gone.
Adding shortcuts to your desktop is pretty easy. Adding shortcuts to "Computer" or something like that is not possible, as far as I know. You already probably know both of these, but here goes...
The harder way:
Right click on desktop
Select "Create Launcher"
Change the "Type" option to "Link"
Name it what you want
The URL should be in the format "file:///home/frank/happy"
(There's an option to create a lanucher for a directory, but I can't make it work.)
The easier way:
Navigate to the directory for which you want a link
Drag the target directory with the middle button to your desktop (Or any writeable directory, actually.)
Select "Link Here"
Though that method violates your rule about no symlinks, so perhaps the first way is best.
No, the parent is referring to digital cable. These cards decode digital broadcast TV. They all say they require an antenna to receive digital TV. They also have a input for cable TV, but not digital cable. They're careful to say "watch digital TV or cable TV." (But not "watch digital cable TV.")
I wouldn't be too worried about giving her something too childish, though. Most people have an immediate reaction when they're introduced to programming - for whatever reason some people's minds are well-suited to it, and it just seems like a natual and obvious way to talk to a computer. Others consider it boring and tedious. It's definitely not a matter of being smarter or anything, certainly some of the most brilliant people I know positively hate computers.
Anyways, I would think you'd be find with any of the "classic" beginner languages. And Logo's sort of fun, even for an adult.
I'm going to boldly reply to this and risk the "offtopic" mod it probably deserves.
I got it via yum. I couldn't find a simple way to get yum to tell you the repository a package was pulled from, but a bit of research shows it came from the fedora-us-2-stable repository at usc.edu's fedora mirror. I don't know if yum gets set up automatically if you load Fedora from the CD, but maybe it does - try running "yum install thunderbird" and see what happens.
[adam@clarence adam]$ yum info thunderbird ... Name : thunderbird Arch : i386 Version: 0.6 Release: 0.fdr.5.1 Size : 26.93 MB Group : Applications/Internet Repo : Locally Installed Summary: Mozilla Thunderbird mail/newsgroup client Description: Mozilla Thunderbird is a standalone mail and newsgroup client.
Sorry to jump so late into the conversation, but I am extremely impressed with Fedora Core 2. It's by far the smoothest and most well-integrated linux distro I've used.
The fonts look great. The mime handlers are set up right so I get sensible options to handle files that I download from a web browser. Thunderbird comes integrated with gpg.
Nautilus is just bizarrely fast - and I rather like the spatial thing. Spatial nautilus is terrible for just browsing a filesystem, but for doing real work like moving files around it's great. (And if you want to just browse, select "Browse filesystem.") I can type smb://wherever from the "run" dialog and have it browse windows servers. Great stuff.
And in general, Gnome 2.0 is very nice looking and user-friendly. It opens my files fine, it has software to to just about everything I use a computer for. For the first time ever, a newly installed distro has the feel of a computer that a real expert worked on, installing all the interesting plugins, getting stuff properly integrated, doing the little tweaks that I always had to do myself (Or more likely never bothered to do and just put up with minor inconveniences).
Maybe I'm just getting old, but I want a distro that I can install and just use. The only real customization I've had to do was manually install gdesklets and beep-media-player and get lm_sensors working. (The latter failed because my sensors aren't supported under 2.6 kernels yet.)
With yum, between the main repository and freshrpms, I have just about anything I might want to install.
Compared to my gentoo-using friends, I feel almost guilty about how easy it is to use, as if I was a Windows user or something.
It's just a fine distro, in my opinion. It reflects the hard work of a lot of generous people, and this review is unreasonably mean-spirited.
Useful for finding replacement parts?
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If I understand correctly, this requires a 3d model of the object in question to be processed by the system. Assuming the system is clever enough to compensate for orientation of the part and scale and such, which I assume it will be, it will only be useful for new databases. And even then assumes that someone will have taken the time to scan or model all the parts in 3d.
It seems like with a new database, people would be more careful about cataloging things in the first place, and matching by shape wouldn't be necessary. I don't think I want an airline to buy parts by asking a computer to find something that seems to more-or-less look the same. (Same materials? manufacturing method? MTBF? It is the part solid or hollow?) That sort of recognition is something that I would hope would be a last resort.
With older databases, there's no standard whatsoever for pictures of parts. Sometimes you get isometric exploded views of a whole system, sometimes individual parts in outline, or from an angle, photos, etc. This system doesn't claim to match those up at all, so I don't see how it could help you find that obscure part for your '72 BMW. (Unless your local Advance Auto has a 3d CAD operator standing by...)
The example from the article, where engineers can look for a pre-existing similar part to what they want save manufacturing money seems like the only really practical use. So the airplane manufacturers might get some use, but (please!) not the airlines themselves.
Keyboards that occasionally type "www.belkin.com" when they detect you're typing a URL. (But you know, not more than once every eight hours, so it's OK.)
USB mass-storage devices that randomly delete files and replace them with.jpgs of happy people using Belkin products.
PC Speakers that say "Shop at Belkin!" every couple of minutes.
They refer to having Sun and MS, and say "The two licensing agreements signed by us to date resulted in revenue of $8,250,000 during the April 30, 2003 quarter and $7,280,000 during the July 31, 2003 quarter."
Meaning that SCOSource received no revenue whatsoever outside of those two. Hopefully it'll stay that way after they start sending invoices out.
A shame. The King James Bible was almost certainly based on his translation. I've seen estimates that as much as 80% of the King James Bible was actually his work.
Like so many great reformers, he was put to death. His last known letter before he died is especially tragic to read.
From the article: "...all products that connect to a Personal Computer and Notebook Computer must pass these Designed for Windows XP logo requirements..."
Which sounds like hardware, but they mention applications in particular. If that's to be believed, they are saying no linux distros, no mac software as well.
I don't know their music to say just how introspective their songs may be, but since this is a collection of previously released songs I think it's fair to say the word you're looking for is "retrospective."
I'm sort of embarassed that the linux community is receiving press because of something so dumb.
Microsoft may be last in the console wars, but still, they have a few million users out there. And unline Nintendo and Sony, it cost them quite a lot to get those boxes in living rooms. Their only hope of recouping those losses - that investment - is to license games.
What game developer will pay MS a few dollars per game to write a win32/directX game on the xbox, when they can write linux/SDL for free?
Sure, I guess MS is rich enough to afford such losses, but I can't see any reason at all to go along with this. Least of all for linux, something they consider to be one of their only real competitors.
If the linux xbox folks want to reverse engineer the security key for the xbox, even though it's a technically daunting and probably hopelessly time consuming task, I wish them luck. (Though the DMCA might prove problematic if they do.) But expecing microsoft to just hand over the keys is pretty silly.
I've bought a few pirated VHS tapes while in NYC, mostly out of curiosity if they can actually get stuff that far before it gets released, and it was always some guy in a theater with a camcorder.
They implement copy protection via a serial number, which is verified online through the battle.net servers. If you have your own server, and modify your hosts file or whatever so that it goes to this new server instead of the battle.net server, their copy protection is circumvented. The DMCA says you can't make a device ("device" having been interpreted to mean software) that bypasses copy protection.
It's a terrible law, which copyright holders can apply in far too broad a scope, but terrible or not, it's on the books. Write your legislator, or hope the supreme court finally stops it.
Surrogate warfare? That's never been done before.
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That's nothing like, say a sattelite guided cruise missile, huh?
Jon Katz is one of the least profound or technically astute writer I can think of. When I fire a rifle at someone, obviously I'm having that bullet go and do all the dirty work, because I'm too cowardly to go ram a piece of steel through the guy's chest myself.
The goal of warfare from the beginning is to hurt the other guy while doing your best to minimize your own risks. What's the big difference between a bomber well above a nations strike capabilities dropping bombs and having a drone do it?
Jon Katz has, IMO, said nothing the least bit novel or thought provoking in this article. He's informed us of no new technology, and made a leap of logic any 12 year old could have.
Slashdot Mirror
For the phones I would make sure your telephony switch supports VoIP handsets and wire anywhere you expect to have a telephone with PoE. All the VoIP phones I've used have a built in switch so you can plug the user's workstation into the phone. Newer phones will have a gigabit switch. I've done testing with Avaya and Cisco phones and I couldn't find any bandwidth limits when plugged into the phone vs. straight into the wall jack. It's a great setup because you don't need power dongles or redundant wiring for the phones. Each desk has one jack for voice and data.
Check the power draw from the phones and make sure your switch can provide enough. I've seen PoE switches that can't light up every port because some devices were pulling too much power. Current-generation phones seem to take far less power than they did a couple of years ago unless they have big fancy LCD screens.
This may require an upgrade to your PBX though, which can be expensive. For the size organization you're talking about (or for just about any size, depending on specific features you need) going with Asterisk might be a great idea. You get free conference bridge support, voice mail, menuing, etc. and can perhaps ditch the service contract you're paying right now. You can find IP phone service as well or if you want to stick with T1s (or copper if it's cheaper), Digium sells hardware to support that which is generally pretty affordable.
And, unrelated to the phones, you might want to put LAN drops in the ceiling throughout the office for wireless access points.
I thought their new ToS was pretty crappy, so I'm glad to see they've amended it - better still that they've actually apologized.
Now how about an apology for illegally spying on U.S. citizens?
Yeah, because the hard drive is the new bling.
One can hope that their automated systems are every bit as successful as Denver International Airport's big automation effort. Except instead of conveyor belts moving baggage it'll be nuclear powered, managing missiles and explosives.
Seriously, how much experience does France and England have with aircraft carriers of this size? None whatsoever from what I can tell. I'm deeply skeptical that they're going to magically find the means to reduce the personnel requirement by over 50%, least of all by making use of utterly untested technology. And on a warship no less! In a time of war I'd greatly prefer somewhat redundant personnel on board, rather than a ship being run by technology which has not been battle-tested.
Batman and Robin had Uma Thurman and Arnold Schwartzeneggar. I really don't think Sam Raimi's going down that path at all.
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Send me an email to claim one : gmail_invite@fretnoise.net. I'll delete that account once they're all given away, so if the email bounces they're gone.
Sounds like a job for a really simple shell script driving mp3split. Sounds a lot easier than a custom chip!
Carmack with his wife, Anna Kang (And a certain mopey pop musician):
picture
Adding shortcuts to your desktop is pretty easy. Adding shortcuts to "Computer" or something like that is not possible, as far as I know. You already probably know both of these, but here goes...
The harder way:
Right click on desktop
Select "Create Launcher"
Change the "Type" option to "Link"
Name it what you want
The URL should be in the format "file:///home/frank/happy"
(There's an option to create a lanucher for a directory, but I can't make it work.)
The easier way:
Navigate to the directory for which you want a link
Drag the target directory with the middle button to your desktop (Or any writeable directory, actually.)
Select "Link Here"
Though that method violates your rule about no symlinks, so perhaps the first way is best.
No, the parent is referring to digital cable. These cards decode digital broadcast TV. They all say they require an antenna to receive digital TV. They also have a input for cable TV, but not digital cable. They're careful to say "watch digital TV or cable TV." (But not "watch digital cable TV.")
There was this book mentioned on slashdot a while back. It seems like a sensible approach.
Or perhaps something like Mindrover.
I wouldn't be too worried about giving her something too childish, though. Most people have an immediate reaction when they're introduced to programming - for whatever reason some people's minds are well-suited to it, and it just seems like a natual and obvious way to talk to a computer. Others consider it boring and tedious. It's definitely not a matter of being smarter or anything, certainly some of the most brilliant people I know positively hate computers.
Anyways, I would think you'd be find with any of the "classic" beginner languages. And Logo's sort of fun, even for an adult.
I got it via yum. I couldn't find a simple way to get yum to tell you the repository a package was pulled from, but a bit of research shows it came from the fedora-us-2-stable repository at usc.edu's fedora mirror. I don't know if yum gets set up automatically if you load Fedora from the CD, but maybe it does - try running "yum install thunderbird" and see what happens.
Sorry to jump so late into the conversation, but I am extremely impressed with Fedora Core 2. It's by far the smoothest and most well-integrated linux distro I've used.
The fonts look great. The mime handlers are set up right so I get sensible options to handle files that I download from a web browser. Thunderbird comes integrated with gpg.
Nautilus is just bizarrely fast - and I rather like the spatial thing. Spatial nautilus is terrible for just browsing a filesystem, but for doing real work like moving files around it's great. (And if you want to just browse, select "Browse filesystem.") I can type smb://wherever from the "run" dialog and have it browse windows servers. Great stuff.
And in general, Gnome 2.0 is very nice looking and user-friendly. It opens my files fine, it has software to to just about everything I use a computer for. For the first time ever, a newly installed distro has the feel of a computer that a real expert worked on, installing all the interesting plugins, getting stuff properly integrated, doing the little tweaks that I always had to do myself (Or more likely never bothered to do and just put up with minor inconveniences).
Maybe I'm just getting old, but I want a distro that I can install and just use. The only real customization I've had to do was manually install gdesklets and beep-media-player and get lm_sensors working. (The latter failed because my sensors aren't supported under 2.6 kernels yet.)
With yum, between the main repository and freshrpms, I have just about anything I might want to install.
Compared to my gentoo-using friends, I feel almost guilty about how easy it is to use, as if I was a Windows user or something.
It's just a fine distro, in my opinion. It reflects the hard work of a lot of generous people, and this review is unreasonably mean-spirited.
If I understand correctly, this requires a 3d model of the object in question to be processed by the system. Assuming the system is clever enough to compensate for orientation of the part and scale and such, which I assume it will be, it will only be useful for new databases. And even then assumes that someone will have taken the time to scan or model all the parts in 3d.
It seems like with a new database, people would be more careful about cataloging things in the first place, and matching by shape wouldn't be necessary. I don't think I want an airline to buy parts by asking a computer to find something that seems to more-or-less look the same. (Same materials? manufacturing method? MTBF? It is the part solid or hollow?) That sort of recognition is something that I would hope would be a last resort.
With older databases, there's no standard whatsoever for pictures of parts. Sometimes you get isometric exploded views of a whole system, sometimes individual parts in outline, or from an angle, photos, etc. This system doesn't claim to match those up at all, so I don't see how it could help you find that obscure part for your '72 BMW. (Unless your local Advance Auto has a 3d CAD operator standing by...)
The example from the article, where engineers can look for a pre-existing similar part to what they want save manufacturing money seems like the only really practical use. So the airplane manufacturers might get some use, but (please!) not the airlines themselves.
Keyboards that occasionally type "www.belkin.com" when they detect you're typing a URL. (But you know, not more than once every eight hours, so it's OK.)
.jpgs of happy people using Belkin products.
USB mass-storage devices that randomly delete files and replace them with
PC Speakers that say "Shop at Belkin!" every couple of minutes.
etc...
Stryker info
And, of course:
Stryper info
They claim $15,530,000 in revenue from SCOSource.
They refer to having Sun and MS, and say "The two licensing agreements signed by us to date resulted in revenue of $8,250,000 during the April 30, 2003 quarter and $7,280,000 during the July 31, 2003 quarter."
Meaning that SCOSource received no revenue whatsoever outside of those two. Hopefully it'll stay that way after they start sending invoices out.
Wow. Yeah. Well, it is slashdot, and reading the whole article before criticizing it would be out of line.
A shame. The King James Bible was almost certainly based on his translation. I've seen estimates that as much as 80% of the King James Bible was actually his work.
Like so many great reformers, he was put to death. His last known letter before he died is especially tragic to read.
The Tyndale Society
From the article:
"...all products that connect to a Personal Computer and Notebook Computer must pass these Designed for Windows XP logo requirements..."
Which sounds like hardware, but they mention applications in particular. If that's to be believed, they are saying no linux distros, no mac software as well.
I don't know their music to say just how introspective their songs may be, but since this is a collection of previously released songs I think it's fair to say the word you're looking for is "retrospective."
I'm sort of embarassed that the linux community is receiving press because of something so dumb.
Microsoft may be last in the console wars, but still, they have a few million users out there. And unline Nintendo and Sony, it cost them quite a lot to get those boxes in living rooms. Their only hope of recouping those losses - that investment - is to license games.
What game developer will pay MS a few dollars per game to write a win32/directX game on the xbox, when they can write linux/SDL for free?
Sure, I guess MS is rich enough to afford such losses, but I can't see any reason at all to go along with this. Least of all for linux, something they consider to be one of their only real competitors.
If the linux xbox folks want to reverse engineer the security key for the xbox, even though it's a technically daunting and probably hopelessly time consuming task, I wish them luck. (Though the DMCA might prove problematic if they do.) But expecing microsoft to just hand over the keys is pretty silly.
I've bought a few pirated VHS tapes while in NYC, mostly out of curiosity if they can actually get stuff that far before it gets released, and it was always some guy in a theater with a camcorder.
"Wholly inferior" is a pretty fair statement.
They implement copy protection via a serial number, which is verified online through the battle.net servers. If you have your own server, and modify your hosts file or whatever so that it goes to this new server instead of the battle.net server, their copy protection is circumvented. The DMCA says you can't make a device ("device" having been interpreted to mean software) that bypasses copy protection.
It's a terrible law, which copyright holders can apply in far too broad a scope, but terrible or not, it's on the books. Write your legislator, or hope the supreme court finally stops it.
That's nothing like, say a sattelite guided cruise missile, huh?
Jon Katz is one of the least profound or technically astute writer I can think of. When I fire a rifle at someone, obviously I'm having that bullet go and do all the dirty work, because I'm too cowardly to go ram a piece of steel through the guy's chest myself.
The goal of warfare from the beginning is to hurt the other guy while doing your best to minimize your own risks. What's the big difference between a bomber well above a nations strike capabilities dropping bombs and having a drone do it?
Jon Katz has, IMO, said nothing the least bit novel or thought provoking in this article. He's informed us of no new technology, and made a leap of logic any 12 year old could have.