Just to add my data point. I've been using open-source Heyu (http://www.heyu.org/) with a head-less Linux server, the X-10(tm) CM11a computer module and good quality Leviton "Smart Home" brand light switches for nearly 10 years with very good success. Yeah, it's home automation-light (pun intended) but it works.
Don't bother with the X-10 brand light switches. They are inexpensive, but don't have local dimming capability, feel/look cheap and usually die after 12-18 months. You can hack the internal X-10 module replacing the triac to fix/help the dying problem and also remove an R-C circuit to add local dimming ability (YMMV), but that's a lot of work and still feels X-10 cheap. Stick with the Levitons.
I like it, but having two small kids I can tell you those ears WILL be broken off within days. They really should talk to Fisher-Price for durable design ideas and not just the color scheme.
Just because they shipped what you ordered and your purchased items work as designed doesn't make a great retailer. I don't understand these NewEgg fanatic boosters ("I ordered 'x', it arrived and it works! NewEgg is FANTASTIC!!!"). Geez. The best way to evaluate an on-line retailer is to see how they react when there is a problem with your order. This is particularly true when the fault is purely with the retailer.
I've had some experience with NewEgg in this area and frankly NewEgg stinks. You can find better customer policies elsewhere at similar prices.
As has been mentioned by previous posters over the years, it seems to me DJB continues to confirm he's a bit of a nutter. While there are surely many security holes to be found in software, how smug of him to assume people can routinely find meaningful security holes on-demand. To prove it was possible, did DJB himself find as many holes (and report them) prior to teaching the class. I think not. Clearly DJB didn't know if the homework was even possible when he assigned it. These students should spend their education dollars elsewhere.
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I have in my bookshelf IBM's "Common User Access Advanced Interface Design Guide" book, Copyright June 1989. It states in Appendix B, page 148...
"Tab - Moves the cursor to the next field-either the next entry field or the first choice of the selection field if no choice is selected. The cursor moves from left to right and top to bottom. At the bottom-rightmost field, the cursor moves to the top-leftmost field."
Yeah, I heard Mr. Hazlett's interview on NPR. I think he, like Michael Power of the FCC, is a shill for the cable TV-Telephone-Data industry. He conveniently failed to discuss how broadcast media is still accessable to people capable of obtaining a broadcast license (might not be profitable business, but it's available), yet they may well be locked out of the local cable monopoly to transmit their media content whatever the cost.
Any so called "economist" trying to advocate a better collective good without considering monopolies
should be taken with a grain of salt.
If cable TV has won the battle, as Mr. Hazlett implied in his statements of vast majorities of households receiving cable TV over broadcast, then let's just accept it. The task for our government is to resolve the cable monopoly juggernaut and allow competition to work it's magic in improving cost, choice, and freedom. Hazlett argues for continued whipping of a dead horse.
That said, here in Los Angeles, broadcast TV continues to be a better value for me over cable TV. HDTV is available now on the channels I watch and it's free. Signal quality for most LA residents is supurbe with the direct line of sight to Mt.Wilson's anntennas. As for pay-per-view movies, I'd need to rent a bunch more DVDs each month to cost nearly as much as basic cable + the PPV cost. If I should add asyncronous TV capability (TIVO, Replay, MythTV,...) that would greatly ease the "nothing worth watching right now" problem in spite of the more limited channel choice on broadcast TV. Not that cable TV doesn't have the same problem with many more channels.
Sigh. You just had to give the wave tutorial link showing the single-engine aircraft thrashing about in the nasty turbulence of a rotor cloud. Try this link from a soaring perspective instead. Wave is the best type of lift and can only really be appreciated in a sailplane.
An issue for Fossett will be the aircraft's stall speed increasing as his altitude increases (thin air up high). I don't know the specs on his DG505 sailplane, but I'd guess at >50K' the stall speed gets darn close to Vne (max. not to exceed true airspeed).
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Just to add my data point. I've been using open-source Heyu (http://www.heyu.org/) with a head-less Linux server, the X-10(tm) CM11a computer module and good quality Leviton "Smart Home" brand light switches for nearly 10 years with very good success. Yeah, it's home automation-light (pun intended) but it works. Don't bother with the X-10 brand light switches. They are inexpensive, but don't have local dimming capability, feel/look cheap and usually die after 12-18 months. You can hack the internal X-10 module replacing the triac to fix/help the dying problem and also remove an R-C circuit to add local dimming ability (YMMV), but that's a lot of work and still feels X-10 cheap. Stick with the Levitons.
Batman nearly lost me on that little stunt. What a complete violation of our trust and the constitution!
I wish them luck. It's not like they're going after TicketMaster's evil monopoly where they would soon be crushed from existence.
I suspect with Disney's new movie http://disney.go.com/disneypictures/pirates/
to be released soon they needed stop any Priate(tm) trademark dilution.
I like it, but having two small kids I can tell you those ears WILL be broken off within days. They really should talk to Fisher-Price for durable design ideas and not just the color scheme.
Just because they shipped what you ordered and your purchased items work as designed doesn't make a great retailer. I don't understand these NewEgg fanatic boosters ("I ordered 'x', it arrived and it works! NewEgg is FANTASTIC!!!"). Geez. The best way to evaluate an on-line retailer is to see how they react when there is a problem with your order. This is particularly true when the fault is purely with the retailer.
I've had some experience with NewEgg in this area and frankly NewEgg stinks. You can find better customer policies elsewhere at similar prices.
Does the FCC require satellite phone services route 9-1-1 dialed calls to the nearest emergency dispatch, a la VoIP and POTS?
As has been mentioned by previous posters over the years, it seems to me DJB continues to confirm he's a bit of a nutter. While there are surely many security holes to be found in software, how smug of him to assume people can routinely find meaningful security holes on-demand. To prove it was possible, did DJB himself find as many holes (and report them) prior to teaching the class. I think not. Clearly DJB didn't know if the homework was even possible when he assigned it. These students should spend their education dollars elsewhere.
I have in my bookshelf IBM's "Common User Access Advanced Interface Design Guide" book, Copyright June 1989. It states in Appendix B, page 148...
"Tab - Moves the cursor to the next field-either the next entry field or the first choice of the selection field if no choice is selected. The cursor moves from left to right and top to bottom. At the bottom-rightmost field, the cursor moves to the top-leftmost field."
Seems like prior art to me, but IANAL.
This is a job for The Moleh tm
http://www.martinbowersmodelworld.com/the%20mole.
and I'd have made a million from it if not for you meddling kids..I mean /.'ers finding all these flaws.
Yeah, I heard Mr. Hazlett's interview on NPR. I think he, like Michael Power of the FCC, is a shill for the cable TV-Telephone-Data industry. He conveniently failed to discuss how broadcast media is still accessable to people capable of obtaining a broadcast license (might not be profitable business, but it's available), yet they may well be locked out of the local cable monopoly to transmit their media content whatever the cost. Any so called "economist" trying to advocate a better collective good without considering monopolies should be taken with a grain of salt.
If cable TV has won the battle, as Mr. Hazlett implied in his statements of vast majorities of households receiving cable TV over broadcast, then let's just accept it. The task for our government is to resolve the cable monopoly juggernaut and allow competition to work it's magic in improving cost, choice, and freedom. Hazlett argues for continued whipping of a dead horse.That said, here in Los Angeles, broadcast TV continues to be a better value for me over cable TV. HDTV is available now on the channels I watch and it's free. Signal quality for most LA residents is supurbe with the direct line of sight to Mt.Wilson's anntennas. As for pay-per-view movies, I'd need to rent a bunch more DVDs each month to cost nearly as much as basic cable + the PPV cost. If I should add asyncronous TV capability (TIVO, Replay, MythTV,...) that would greatly ease the "nothing worth watching right now" problem in spite of the more limited channel choice on broadcast TV. Not that cable TV doesn't have the same problem with many more channels.
Proof again that p0rn drives the Internet. What's next lap dancing?
Sigh. You just had to give the wave tutorial link showing the single-engine aircraft thrashing about in the nasty turbulence of a rotor cloud. Try this link from a soaring perspective instead. Wave is the best type of lift and can only really be appreciated in a sailplane.
An issue for Fossett will be the aircraft's stall speed increasing as his altitude increases (thin air up high). I don't know the specs on his DG505 sailplane, but I'd guess at >50K' the stall speed gets darn close to Vne (max. not to exceed true airspeed).
I've yet to read any positive comments for NSI.