Is there any software for Linux that will do street-address mapping? That is, you can key or speak in the actual street address of your destination and get a plot.
It looks like you need to know GPS coords to use what's available for Linux, but for GPS to be really usable in a car you need to be able to put in a street address for your destination. Has anyone tried to decode car GPS map CDs/DVDs? These are often available for purchase even without the GPS hardware, and it'd be worth it to pay $200 for the USA directions DVD and use free software imho.
Also, anyone try to integrate the range and direction signals from a Valentine One radar detector into DashPC?;)
Could the components be shrunk down enough to piggyback within existing fortresses? NYC at least has had declining numbers of payphones (and many LED/powered kiosks) but putting the critical electronics within the fortress and mounting the antenna within the kiosk could make things interesting...... The neighborhoods in NYC also have issues with payphones being used by drug dealers (search nytimes advanced for payphones) so outright conversion like Bell Canada in certain areas is also an intriguing idea.
... unless the howto is out of date, distributed shared memory support still needs to be added. I would think that this would be the top priority, particularly since any DB clusters would have to have this.
Have you actually tried to do this? LDAP is a nifty idea on paper, but implementing it is a royal waste of time, when a normal rdbms will do just fine. And believe me, I was on my way to the Utopia you described until I went to implement it.
As a matter of fact, I have. I configured LDAP to handle samba, postfix, pam, and sasl AAA reqs for my last job and it was rock-solid. It was a small co that didn't want to pay $$$ for Active Directory (and I frankly didn't want a) M$ to get money that could be used to keep the biz running and b) I didn't want to deal with any 2k crap, and it was from scratch).
It can be a PITA, particularly with SASL only having decent LDAP support recently, as well as directory mgmt tools. You also have to keep standards fairly straight, such as using crypt() in userPassword for backwards compatibility for outlook & IE.. Also, LDAP gives you email address management (multiple mail: keys in a user) and with postfix an easy way to keep group aliases up to date (all members of group 'x' are subscribed to 'x@business.com' maillist). You also get a corporate realtme addressbook for free.
In fact also, I have configured pam_mysql for my current project, and it works ok, but if I were managing a centralized AAA repository, LDAP would be my only choice.
Do not doubt the power of LDAP, grasshopper...
Groupware possibilities...
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I'd recommend Cyrus IMAP with Postfix SMTP, run both in SSL (with SMTP AUTH) and point it all to an OpenLDAP backend. Put phpgroupware in for web-based access. In fact, everything you do should be using LDAP, preferably LDAP over SSL, since once you go LDAP you start seeing neat possibilities open up when it comes to offering single username & password everywhere..
If compatibility with Outlook is not an issue, this is the easiest and thriftiest way to get groupware functionality.
.. The big problem when configuring spamfilters for work is dealing with incompetent MTAs belonging to critical partners (investors, VCs, clients). It's sad but unsurprising that many companies have open or broken SMTP servers which allow either out-and-out relaying or external relay by domain (external uses permitted domain in forged 'mail from:' header).
So, what happens next is you either (if you care) develop whitelists or (if you're BOFH) you give execs the choice between spamfiltering and no spamfiltering. When the users complain about no spamfiltering, fwd them on to the execs.
Life is so much easier when you don't care anymore...
.. Largely because it's good enough for what I need, and it runs in OS X. There's annoying bugs (print to PDF, then attach to email, since they haven't kept up with Jaguar's Mail api), but I don't have to go sign up for no dumbass thing to use it.
Also, TimeSlice for OS X is very nice, it itemizes your billing time (if you bill per hr) and exports it into CSV..
There's also AccountEdge for OS X, but it's overkill and overpriced for my simple needs.
Is there anything comparable for Xwindows? Good Q..
I've always thought the London Underground was a great engineering achievement... Fast transit, the fares are relatively cheap, and you get black nose hairs free of charge.:^)
Bah! The NYC subway system is larger, more comprehensive, and more exciting* than the tubes, though you will get better exercise leaving the underground since they're so much deeper.. Depth is a feature, as long as the escalators work:)
* if by exciting you mean "fragrant", shabby, poorly-lit and maintained, dangerous, unreliable and loud.
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Thats not fun thats just idiotic, perhaps such speed is fun to some people, to others it just means death. Remember the speed limits do actually mean something. I dont see most Americans driving at over 100 every where they go...
well, considering that Americans are shitty drivers (can't stay in a lane, can't fahren rechtig), our cars are shit, and our roads are largely shit, 100mph is, in general, unwise.
I find that unfortunate, considering we do have so many wide-open spaces. Personally I'd love to see I-80, I-5, I-95 and all the other great interstates go to no speed limits intercity. Too bad we have envirowankers pissing on our parade:(
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Well, considering that euroland has had negative population growth for awhile, maybe they don't NEED child seats?
egad, I must be getting old... Back in my day $3000 was a midrange laptop with a 12.1" TFT, or a high-end PC with 17" monitor, maybe 128MB RAM and 9GB HDD.. (or, actually, an Apple ][ with 48KB RAM and a 16KB extender card for Integer BASIC, but who's counting?) I wouldn't say that Macs are expensive, I'd just say PC equipment is INCREDIBLY CHEAP. Not that I'm complaining, but keep it in context...
The prices on the iBook, considering what you get, are outstanding when compared to similarly-configured PeeCee laptops. The TiG4 is a bit rich, but it is also l337, titanium, widescreen for inflight DVD love, and can handle FCPro rather nicely. The new Tis have DVD-R/CDRWs, 1GB RAM, 1GHz CPUs and Mobile Radeon 9ks w/64MB.. (too bad the HDDs are 4200rpm instead of 5400, but I'd definitely trade my extra 1200RPM for all the new goodies;)..
eMac is dirt cheap, particularly considering SuperDrive. You CAN NOT get iApps for PeeCees, and that's actually a pretty key differentiator. Same thing with Aqua, Quartz Extreme, all that other fun stuff.
I think at this point it's safe to say the price shibboleth is officially toast. You _can_ pay too much for a mac if you try hard enough, but is that really APPLE'S fault? I think not.. At least since they discontinued the Cube.. And as far as Apple is a single-source hardware company, as long as they raid the PC parts bin for the commodity stuff and innovate beyond that, I don't give half a damn. Apple drove USB, 802.11, (invented) Firewire, 3.5" floppies. They're currently driving Bluetooth, recordable DVDs. Some of us like to award balls, though I AM a bit whiny about Apple abandoning Newton..
Still, the first uber PDA (with voice recog, hwr, a small HDD, touch color screen to play divx movies back on, bluetooth, etc) will probably be Apple's, and I'll probably sell a kidney to get one...
Buffalo's light rail also has an honor system plus free-ridership aboveground, but they definitely do patrol the trains and issue $20 tickets (back when I went to school there) to cheaters..
I didn't see any fuzz on the SkyTrain, but being in Canada I'm sure EVERYONE is doing the right thing;)
I had a Palm 3c and a Newton, but I find that the iSync, bluetooth and T68 phone combo is the most useful to me when it comes to just keeping my contacts, todos and calendar together.
What I really want is basically a "super ipod" with a color widescreen (480x288) touchscreen that can play divx movies, music, have bluetooth, 802.11 and GSM (fone via wireless headset), have voice and handwriting recognition, for less than $1000. In theory, Apple can supply ALL the technology required for this device. In fact, they might be able to do it with a reduced-size Darwin kernel on a low-power PPC.. It should be able to use bluetooth keyboards and mice, and be attachable (via docking station) to KVM rigs, car stereos, and home stereos. It should be about 2/3 the length and width of the Newton 2100, and maybe just a little thinner, and feature at least a 20GB notebook HDD.
... at least in beta form, from Dragon. Compatible with the Newton 2x00 series, which featured a StrongArm 110 processor @ 162mhz (which is only today being matched by PocketPCs), the big limitation was in the available memory for vocabularies. With 64-128MB of RAM, 128-512MB flash memory in upcoming handhelds, it should be easy to do voice (particularly in an IBM branded Linux PDA?:) recog. Talk about a killer app...
Hey Apple, how about a new PDA with voice recog, inkwell, color, bluetooth + 802.11, compactflash and a small OS X kernel?
I'm impressed that it's a downloadable. Though I had already bought the paperback, it makes it easier to recommend to others as I don't have to worry about only sharing my copy. Incidentally, that 1 copy has turned into a hardcover of 1633, and 2 hardcovers of the anticipated 1634..
If you're an alternate-history fan, this is the book for you. I found 1633 a bit too heavy on the exposition (and some repetition, though I had just read 1632) but the characters are real and the story doesn't indulge in copouts..
... Operated remotely via cameras, and the stations are quite nice, at least in the summertime.. I got from downtown to Commercial Dr (to find some used cds and wander around;) quickly and easily on it.. I think it's technically just an elevated train and not a monorail proper, but it looks all futuristic..
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Is there any software for Linux that will do street-address mapping? That is, you can key or speak in the actual street address of your destination and get a plot.
;)
It looks like you need to know GPS coords to use what's available for Linux, but for GPS to be really usable in a car you need to be able to put in a street address for your destination. Has anyone tried to decode car GPS map CDs/DVDs? These are often available for purchase even without the GPS hardware, and it'd be worth it to pay $200 for the USA directions DVD and use free software imho.
Also, anyone try to integrate the range and direction signals from a Valentine One radar detector into DashPC?
Could the components be shrunk down enough to piggyback within existing fortresses? NYC at least has had declining numbers of payphones (and many LED/powered kiosks) but putting the critical electronics within the fortress and mounting the antenna within the kiosk could make things interesting... ... The neighborhoods in NYC also have issues with payphones being used by drug dealers (search nytimes advanced for payphones) so outright conversion like Bell Canada in certain areas is also an intriguing idea.
... unless the howto is out of date, distributed shared memory support still needs to be added. I would think that this would be the top priority, particularly since any DB clusters would have to have this.
Hey IBM, how about it?
Have you actually tried to do this? LDAP is a nifty idea on paper, but implementing it is a royal waste of time, when a normal rdbms will do just fine. And believe me, I was on my way to the Utopia you described until I went to implement it.
As a matter of fact, I have. I configured LDAP to handle samba, postfix, pam, and sasl AAA reqs for my last job and it was rock-solid. It was a small co that didn't want to pay $$$ for Active Directory (and I frankly didn't want a) M$ to get money that could be used to keep the biz running and b) I didn't want to deal with any 2k crap, and it was from scratch).
It can be a PITA, particularly with SASL only having decent LDAP support recently, as well as directory mgmt tools. You also have to keep standards fairly straight, such as using crypt() in userPassword for backwards compatibility for outlook & IE.. Also, LDAP gives you email address management (multiple mail: keys in a user) and with postfix an easy way to keep group aliases up to date (all members of group 'x' are subscribed to 'x@business.com' maillist). You also get a corporate realtme addressbook for free.
In fact also, I have configured pam_mysql for my current project, and it works ok, but if I were managing a centralized AAA repository, LDAP would be my only choice.
Do not doubt the power of LDAP, grasshopper...
I'd recommend Cyrus IMAP with Postfix SMTP, run both in SSL (with SMTP AUTH) and point it all to an OpenLDAP backend. Put phpgroupware in for web-based access. In fact, everything you do should be using LDAP, preferably LDAP over SSL, since once you go LDAP you start seeing neat possibilities open up when it comes to offering single username & password everywhere..
If compatibility with Outlook is not an issue, this is the easiest and thriftiest way to get groupware functionality.
Postfix makes this quite doable..
.. The big problem when configuring spamfilters for work is dealing with incompetent MTAs belonging to critical partners (investors, VCs, clients). It's sad but unsurprising that many companies have open or broken SMTP servers which allow either out-and-out relaying or external relay by domain (external uses permitted domain in forged 'mail from:' header).
So, what happens next is you either (if you care) develop whitelists or (if you're BOFH) you give execs the choice between spamfiltering and no spamfiltering. When the users complain about no spamfiltering, fwd them on to the execs.
Life is so much easier when you don't care anymore...
.. Largely because it's good enough for what I need, and it runs in OS X. There's annoying bugs (print to PDF, then attach to email, since they haven't kept up with Jaguar's Mail api), but I don't have to go sign up for no dumbass thing to use it.
Also, TimeSlice for OS X is very nice, it itemizes your billing time (if you bill per hr) and exports it into CSV..
There's also AccountEdge for OS X, but it's overkill and overpriced for my simple needs.
Is there anything comparable for Xwindows? Good Q..
I've always thought the London Underground was a great engineering achievement... Fast transit, the fares are relatively cheap, and you get black nose hairs free of charge. :^)
:)
Bah! The NYC subway system is larger, more comprehensive, and more exciting* than the tubes, though you will get better exercise leaving the underground since they're so much deeper.. Depth is a feature, as long as the escalators work
* if by exciting you mean "fragrant", shabby, poorly-lit and maintained, dangerous, unreliable and loud.
Thats not fun thats just idiotic, perhaps such speed is fun to some people, to others it just means death. Remember the speed limits do actually mean something. I dont see most Americans driving at over 100 every where they go...
:(
well, considering that Americans are shitty drivers (can't stay in a lane, can't fahren rechtig), our cars are shit, and our roads are largely shit, 100mph is, in general, unwise.
I find that unfortunate, considering we do have so many wide-open spaces. Personally I'd love to see I-80, I-5, I-95 and all the other great interstates go to no speed limits intercity. Too bad we have envirowankers pissing on our parade
Well, considering that euroland has had negative population growth for awhile, maybe they don't NEED child seats?
Of course, I'm waiting for the day that hell freezes over so you can find Microsoft Office for Linux....
Pack a sweater...
Oh, and no windows OS license required.
on a solaris system do a man on snoop.. or just use docs.sun.com if you don't have a solaris box handy..
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there isn't too much link between software and beer ...
That's too bad for software then.. Systems administration is driven by beer, caffeine, chocolate and paranoia...
egad, I must be getting old... Back in my day $3000 was a midrange laptop with a 12.1" TFT, or a high-end PC with 17" monitor, maybe 128MB RAM and 9GB HDD.. (or, actually, an Apple ][ with 48KB RAM and a 16KB extender card for Integer BASIC, but who's counting?) I wouldn't say that Macs are expensive, I'd just say PC equipment is INCREDIBLY CHEAP. Not that I'm complaining, but keep it in context...
;)..
The prices on the iBook, considering what you get, are outstanding when compared to similarly-configured PeeCee laptops. The TiG4 is a bit rich, but it is also l337, titanium, widescreen for inflight DVD love, and can handle FCPro rather nicely. The new Tis have DVD-R/CDRWs, 1GB RAM, 1GHz CPUs and Mobile Radeon 9ks w/64MB.. (too bad the HDDs are 4200rpm instead of 5400, but I'd definitely trade my extra 1200RPM for all the new goodies
eMac is dirt cheap, particularly considering SuperDrive. You CAN NOT get iApps for PeeCees, and that's actually a pretty key differentiator. Same thing with Aqua, Quartz Extreme, all that other fun stuff.
I think at this point it's safe to say the price shibboleth is officially toast. You _can_ pay too much for a mac if you try hard enough, but is that really APPLE'S fault? I think not.. At least since they discontinued the Cube.. And as far as Apple is a single-source hardware company, as long as they raid the PC parts bin for the commodity stuff and innovate beyond that, I don't give half a damn. Apple drove USB, 802.11, (invented) Firewire, 3.5" floppies. They're currently driving Bluetooth, recordable DVDs. Some of us like to award balls, though I AM a bit whiny about Apple abandoning Newton..
Still, the first uber PDA (with voice recog, hwr, a small HDD, touch color screen to play divx movies back on, bluetooth, etc) will probably be Apple's, and I'll probably sell a kidney to get one...
... But then again they're insured..
Just curious if MASSIVE is a D20 system... Mmm.. Improved Crit with a masterwork Scimitar weapon focus and Great Cleave.. IT'S CLOBBERIN' TIME!!!!
... and boot off LTSP.. Saves power, less noise, easier to manage, etc etc ;)
Buffalo's light rail also has an honor system plus free-ridership aboveground, but they definitely do patrol the trains and issue $20 tickets (back when I went to school there) to cheaters..
;)
I didn't see any fuzz on the SkyTrain, but being in Canada I'm sure EVERYONE is doing the right thing
Hi,
I had a Palm 3c and a Newton, but I find that the iSync, bluetooth and T68 phone combo is the most useful to me when it comes to just keeping my contacts, todos and calendar together.
What I really want is basically a "super ipod" with a color widescreen (480x288) touchscreen that can play divx movies, music, have bluetooth, 802.11 and GSM (fone via wireless headset), have voice and handwriting recognition, for less than $1000. In theory, Apple can supply ALL the technology required for this device. In fact, they might be able to do it with a reduced-size Darwin kernel on a low-power PPC.. It should be able to use bluetooth keyboards and mice, and be attachable (via docking station) to KVM rigs, car stereos, and home stereos. It should be about 2/3 the length and width of the Newton 2100, and maybe just a little thinner, and feature at least a 20GB notebook HDD.
... at least in beta form, from Dragon. Compatible with the Newton 2x00 series, which featured a StrongArm 110 processor @ 162mhz (which is only today being matched by PocketPCs), the big limitation was in the available memory for vocabularies. With 64-128MB of RAM, 128-512MB flash memory in upcoming handhelds, it should be easy to do voice (particularly in an IBM branded Linux PDA? :) recog. Talk about a killer app...
Hey Apple, how about a new PDA with voice recog, inkwell, color, bluetooth + 802.11, compactflash and a small OS X kernel?
And all the while our wily friend in France is playing in the new world.. I can see an awful lot of fun reading coming from this series..
Hey Baen, how about audiobooks?
I'm impressed that it's a downloadable. Though I had already bought the paperback, it makes it easier to recommend to others as I don't have to worry about only sharing my copy. Incidentally, that 1 copy has turned into a hardcover of 1633, and 2 hardcovers of the anticipated 1634..
If you're an alternate-history fan, this is the book for you. I found 1633 a bit too heavy on the exposition (and some repetition, though I had just read 1632) but the characters are real and the story doesn't indulge in copouts..
... Operated remotely via cameras, and the stations are quite nice, at least in the summertime.. I got from downtown to Commercial Dr (to find some used cds and wander around ;) quickly and easily on it.. I think it's technically just an elevated train and not a monorail proper, but it looks all futuristic..
I wonder how much it cost?