...and we shall see if OO formats 10 years from now will open in today's version of OO, or the other way around.
(La)TeX. A few weeks ago I re-typeset a 10 year old document in the latest version of LaTeX. Came out just right. I suspect that if I had a ten year old version of LaTeX2e I could typeset a modern document.
This is why I use LaTeX for more things than I probably should. On the other hand, I can still read and typeset those text files, and on whatever my platform of the day is. There simply isn't anything else that delivers the typesetting quality and longevity.
I agree and am suprised that no one else mentioned this. We have decent (not great, but passable) word processors and spreadsheet programs. Good web browsers. Very good networking and server level stuff. But when people talk about why they use Windows, it's because of Outlook and the calendar. If there was a "firefox" of calendaring it would be really nice. It's more than a client though (unless you can manage to get Exchange calendaring working), so you have to get the server, and it has to operate with the huge MS Outlook base out there.
So, um, good luck.
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Interestingly, I clicked "Check Mail" at around 13:00 EDT and got the message below. Apparently they were tired of waiting for me to log out and back in. Oddly, though, I logged in at about 8:30 EDT, had 6MB (yeah, old account). After clicking through the message below, I still had 6MB. After logging out and back in, still 6MB. And the interface I see (classic vs. "WinXP-looking") varies, apparently by the cache server I hit.
Great news - Yahoo! Mail is new and improved!
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* Streamlined interface
Makes using your mail even easier
* 100MB of email storage
Keep more of the things that are important to you - without worrying about bumping up against your storage limit.
* Message size up to 10MB
Send monster-sized files - photos, presentations, whatever!
So thanks again for choosing Yahoo! Mail to keep in touch, and we hope you enjoy the additional services now at your fingertips. For more information, please visit our Help page.
It's not quite the same, but it addresses the same problem... Checkpoint FW-1/NG has a feature where you telnet to a port, log in, and based on your login ID it opens whatever ports you are allowed to access - it basically adds a temporary rule to allow your IP to access that port. It will time out, or you can telnet to that high port again and "logout". Usin OTPs this is pretty secure, and leaves only one thing to need to really secure. I forget what it's called, but you get the idea. Anyhow, I have about 10% of the code for this done with OPIE and iptables, but will probably never finish.
There's an argument that as people listen to downloaded (stolen) MP3's, they'll be tempted to go to the shops and buy them, thus not depriving the shops of their cash or devaluing the commodity.
I think iTunes Music Store has pretty well deflated this myth. 30 million songs have been purchased by people who could have gone to the store and bought the CD, but didn't. If the music was free, people still would have downloaded it, and still wouldn't have bought the CD. iTunes is pretty good evidence that people care more about the content than the delivery medium.
Unless they all went out to buy the CDs, too, but I'd be suprised if people spend $9.99 at ITMS and another $16-18 at Tower.:)
Yes, I've had a jabber2s1 server running since 12/31/03 with no crashes. Only 8 people using it extensively, but it is used every day. We'll expand this base soon, because it does meet our (admittedly simple) needs: SSL support, internal server, chat rooms, person-to-person chat.
The only drawback is the documentation and code examples are a little lacking, but with time that will change, or I'll just figure out component writing on my own.
For people in finance and health care in the US, Sarbanes-Oxley and HIPAA affect the retention of messages, including IM, so Jabber's openness and the amount of control it gives the server owner, even with a gateway to AOL/Yahoo/MSN, is important.
For what it's worth, we use Psi on Linux, Solaris, Mac OS X, and Windows. It's a weird app, but it seems to work, and there is ongoing development on it. We have relatively non-technical people using Psi just fine, for the most part. Based on this stage of our testing, I'm fairly confident that we'll proceed with Jabber2.
I think "sniff out" is a bit strong. In fact, I think they use DHCP, and part of the DHCP RFC says:
The client's previous address as recorded in the client's (now expired or released) binding, if that address is in the server's pool of available addresses and not already allocated
So, it's nothing so devious as "sniffing", it's just how DHCP works, as long as the address space isn't over-subscribed.
Jabber and OpenLDAP can do this. It might be a bit overkill, but it certainly works, and has decent client support for Linux (and other Unixes), Windows, and OS X.
Jabber also supports SSL and is extensible (so can support things like group-conference room logging).
Only on Slashdot will you find a word like Sisyphean.
...used wrong. Well, if not wrong, not quite right. I don't think Sisyphus was under a lot of pressure, he just had to push that damn rock every day. It was hard work, and it was repetitive, and he never, ever got it to the top of the mountain, but there wasn't a deadline or anything. Think of it like patching Windows (ok, not just Windows, but this is slashdot) security holes - that's a sisyphusian task... it's painful and it never ends.
Don't iPods already work with Windows?:) I don't think they are that picky about which hardware is running the OS. So, I'm sure they do work with "HP Windows boxen" (when did that become plural for boxes?). In addition, there are several ways to get iPods to interoperate with Linux.
LateX on a 386?:) If you do this, make sure you have the disk space for the fonts and set LaTeX to keep them around. Generating them on demand on a 386 will take days.
That said, there is no better way to make beautiful documents, and LaTeX will certainly work well on a 386. And, of course, when you upgrade, your files will still look exactly the same - Mac, PC, Linux, BSD, whatever.
49 New York-Penn. Station Chicago
12/05/03 2:50pm
12/06/03 9:20am Reserved Coach
48 Chicago New York-Penn. Station
12/10/03 7:00pm
12/11/03 1:50pm Reserved Coach
$157 round trip
It takes a day, though.:(
However, the one good thing about trains, when going from big city to big city is that they drop you off where you want to be. No $20, 30 minute cab ride from BFE to downtown. I recently went to Boston, got off at the Back Bay station, wend underground to the hotel, to the attached conference center, and back without ever going outside in Boston. Try that on a plane (although, Boston is a nice city to go outside it, but I was there for 36 hours, so had to be quick).
High-speed rail between NYC and Chicago would be excellent, as it is, it's a ~2 hour plane ride, plus 2 hours early at the airport, plus 30 min in a cab on both ends, for a total of a 5 hour trip, where I can't plug in a laptop or use my cell phone. If I spent the same 5 hours on a train, with power, a better food selection, and my cell phone, it'd be like I never left the office.
I think if more people tried the train, more people would ride the train. Amtrak should give away tickets to people who have never ridden the train before, just to prove that it's worth it.
I read an earlier post suggesting that Jabberd isn't ready for production, although it seems to be the best in theory (open source, clients for everything, moving along an IETF track).
It's not there. I just got a SunBlade150, too. It wasn't there under Solaris8 and it wasn't there under Solaris9. I don't know what they mean when they say shipping, perhaps they mean available. Because you can download it in nice pkgadd-able packages from Sun's Star/Gnome site (what a funny name). And that works nicely. But don't forget to set your display to 24 bit color - see fbconfig and Google.
That'd be easy... you only need to phrases: "Can you hear me now... how about now? No, well, sorta... " and "So, where are you?... Yeah, I'm on the train/plane/highway". I'm sure that 50% of all cell phone traffic is that.
The reason is that there's bugger-all demand for this sort of thing.
I disagree. Yes, there's little demand for the average OSS user, which means it's unlikely that you'll ever see an equivalent OSS SSL library, but the assumption that most embedded devices are LAN only isn't quite accurate, mostly because LANs are fading with the growing number of wireless network devices. The physical security that was provided by CAT-5 needs to be replaced with something, and the safest thing for vendors to do is not to rely on then consumer to cope with the alphabet soup of WEP/SSID/LEAP/RADIUS/whatever, but to impose security on the end user. SSL is probably the single most broadly available means of security - everyone has it, whether he knows it or not. When your next VCR/DVR/stereo/refrigerator has built-in wireless and web access, won't you be happier with SSL?
On another note, the article also mentions that Mocana is also providing an SSH server for embedded devices. Finally. telnet may yet die the death it so deserves.
A week's pay indeed. Where as in the US, for an average per capita income of about $31,000, or an average weekly income of about $600, where Windows XP Pro costs $300 and Office XP Pro costs $460, that's more than a week's salary for the average American.
So about $10-$15 seems "fair" for Windows and Office in Vietnam, if pricing follows the strict PCI ratio (which isn't really fair, or make any sense). That's also probably why the price is what it is in the US and why the market in Vietnam has settled on $10 - apparently Windows+Office is valued at about a week's pay for people.
I'm sure there are interesting conclusions to be drawn here somewhere.
For those of you who want to try to make a dent in the billion billion billion billion billion billion whatever addresses, and run Linux, start with the HowTo.
Of course, you can Google for yourself, but it's apparent from some previous posts that some of you don't have access to Google. So, to you, cheers.
No wonder you can't find the form. When I go the FAQ URL posted earlier, I see:
Server Error in '/' Application. The resource cannot be found. Description: HTTP 404. The resource you are looking for (or one of its dependencies) could have been removed, had its name changed, or is temporarily unavailable. Please review the following URL and make sure that it is spelled correctly.
Requested Url:/FAQ/FAQConsumers.aspx
Are lots of people getting calls today and going to the web site? Perhaps they need a "do not slashdot our website" law... or better server sizing.
Slashdot Mirror
This is why I use LaTeX for more things than I probably should. On the other hand, I can still read and typeset those text files, and on whatever my platform of the day is. There simply isn't anything else that delivers the typesetting quality and longevity.
I agree and am suprised that no one else mentioned this. We have decent (not great, but passable) word processors and spreadsheet programs. Good web browsers. Very good networking and server level stuff. But when people talk about why they use Windows, it's because of Outlook and the calendar. If there was a "firefox" of calendaring it would be really nice. It's more than a client though (unless you can manage to get Exchange calendaring working), so you have to get the server, and it has to operate with the huge MS Outlook base out there.
So, um, good luck.
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Because it's named Pork!! You don't get that out of your fancy GUI IM clients. So ha.
Interestingly, I clicked "Check Mail" at around 13:00 EDT and got the message below. Apparently they were tired of waiting for me to log out and back in. Oddly, though, I logged in at about 8:30 EDT, had 6MB (yeah, old account). After clicking through the message below, I still had 6MB. After logging out and back in, still 6MB. And the interface I see (classic vs. "WinXP-looking") varies, apparently by the cache server I hit. Great news - Yahoo! Mail is new and improved!
Thanks for being a loyal Yahoo! Mail user. To ensure that Yahoo! Mail continues to be the easiest, most enjoyable way for you to stay in touch, we've made several great improvements to your service! In addition to all the features you currently enjoy, we've made these upgrades:
* Streamlined interface
Makes using your mail even easier
* 100MB of email storage
Keep more of the things that are important to you - without worrying about bumping up against your storage limit.
* Message size up to 10MB
Send monster-sized files - photos, presentations, whatever!
So thanks again for choosing Yahoo! Mail to keep in touch, and we hope you enjoy the additional services now at your fingertips. For more information, please visit our Help page.
Does anyone even know what I'm talking about? :)
I think iTunes Music Store has pretty well deflated this myth. 30 million songs have been purchased by people who could have gone to the store and bought the CD, but didn't. If the music was free, people still would have downloaded it, and still wouldn't have bought the CD. iTunes is pretty good evidence that people care more about the content than the delivery medium.
Unless they all went out to buy the CDs, too, but I'd be suprised if people spend $9.99 at ITMS and another $16-18 at Tower. :)
The only drawback is the documentation and code examples are a little lacking, but with time that will change, or I'll just figure out component writing on my own.
For people in finance and health care in the US, Sarbanes-Oxley and HIPAA affect the retention of messages, including IM, so Jabber's openness and the amount of control it gives the server owner, even with a gateway to AOL/Yahoo/MSN, is important.
For what it's worth, we use Psi on Linux, Solaris, Mac OS X, and Windows. It's a weird app, but it seems to work, and there is ongoing development on it. We have relatively non-technical people using Psi just fine, for the most part. Based on this stage of our testing, I'm fairly confident that we'll proceed with Jabber2.
To the Jabber/XMPP folks reading this: thanks.
So, it's nothing so devious as "sniffing", it's just how DHCP works, as long as the address space isn't over-subscribed.
Jabber also supports SSL and is extensible (so can support things like group-conference room logging).
Or... he was a brigand and a murderer... I guess it all depends on what you consider gifts...
whatever...
Whatever...
That said, there is no better way to make beautiful documents, and LaTeX will certainly work well on a 386. And, of course, when you upgrade, your files will still look exactly the same - Mac, PC, Linux, BSD, whatever.
12/05/03 2:50pm
12/06/03 9:20am Reserved Coach
48 Chicago New York-Penn. Station
12/10/03 7:00pm
12/11/03 1:50pm Reserved Coach
$157 round trip
It takes a day, though. :(
However, the one good thing about trains, when going from big city to big city is that they drop you off where you want to be. No $20, 30 minute cab ride from BFE to downtown. I recently went to Boston, got off at the Back Bay station, wend underground to the hotel, to the attached conference center, and back without ever going outside in Boston. Try that on a plane (although, Boston is a nice city to go outside it, but I was there for 36 hours, so had to be quick).
High-speed rail between NYC and Chicago would be excellent, as it is, it's a ~2 hour plane ride, plus 2 hours early at the airport, plus 30 min in a cab on both ends, for a total of a 5 hour trip, where I can't plug in a laptop or use my cell phone. If I spent the same 5 hours on a train, with power, a better food selection, and my cell phone, it'd be like I never left the office.
I think if more people tried the train, more people would ride the train. Amtrak should give away tickets to people who have never ridden the train before, just to prove that it's worth it.
So what do people use, then?
It's not there. I just got a SunBlade150, too. It wasn't there under Solaris8 and it wasn't there under Solaris9. I don't know what they mean when they say shipping, perhaps they mean available. Because you can download it in nice pkgadd-able packages from Sun's Star/Gnome site (what a funny name). And that works nicely. But don't forget to set your display to 24 bit color - see fbconfig and Google.
That'd be easy... you only need to phrases: "Can you hear me now... how about now? No, well, sorta... " and "So, where are you?... Yeah, I'm on the train/plane/highway". I'm sure that 50% of all cell phone traffic is that.
Ah ha! I found it! Ratface stole it, and he's trying to sell it to me! :)
I disagree. Yes, there's little demand for the average OSS user, which means it's unlikely that you'll ever see an equivalent OSS SSL library, but the assumption that most embedded devices are LAN only isn't quite accurate, mostly because LANs are fading with the growing number of wireless network devices. The physical security that was provided by CAT-5 needs to be replaced with something, and the safest thing for vendors to do is not to rely on then consumer to cope with the alphabet soup of WEP/SSID/LEAP/RADIUS/whatever, but to impose security on the end user. SSL is probably the single most broadly available means of security - everyone has it, whether he knows it or not. When your next VCR/DVR/stereo/refrigerator has built-in wireless and web access, won't you be happier with SSL?
On another note, the article also mentions that Mocana is also providing an SSH server for embedded devices. Finally. telnet may yet die the death it so deserves.
So about $10-$15 seems "fair" for Windows and Office in Vietnam, if pricing follows the strict PCI ratio (which isn't really fair, or make any sense). That's also probably why the price is what it is in the US and why the market in Vietnam has settled on $10 - apparently Windows+Office is valued at about a week's pay for people.
I'm sure there are interesting conclusions to be drawn here somewhere.
Of course, you can Google for yourself, but it's apparent from some previous posts that some of you don't have access to Google. So, to you, cheers.
Are lots of people getting calls today and going to the web site? Perhaps they need a "do not slashdot our website" law... or better server sizing.