I wonder how this new wireless startup will interact/affect with his role at Danger, Inc. as a member of the board. Will WoZ work with Danger, compete with them, or be completely unrelated?
Just because it is expandable doesn't make it much more than a PDA. Sure the VisorPhone springboard was a neat hack, as a former owner of one, I can tell you that it was really lousy to use. It was like holding a 2x4 to your ear to talk on the phone, and you constantly felt like you were pressing your LCD panel (which cost $80 to replace) into your face.
Bugzilla is way too involved for public use. If I'm going to stick a toe in the water, I want my first interaction to be very simple, and rewarding.
You should use the Bugzilla Helper, which still has a few fields (many less than the main bug entry page), but they are mostly necessary for a bug tracking package... You would never get it down to one field.:)
This helper form simplifies the bug submission process and describes every field fully. You may complain that that there are still too many fields on this form, but I would argue that they are all pretty necessary for a good bug report.
How is this different from the "tape delays" used in radio and television to protect against when someone curses when Howard Stern is live, or when Madonna talks like a drunken sailor on Letterman?
I mean, I am sure that hindsight is 20/20, but this doesn't seem that novel to me, even as a TiVo owner... I never thought the technology in the TiVo was very new, just recently cheapified....
You are leaving out the other option of using one of the pocket sized portable hard disk based MP3 players... I carry 6GB around on my person at all times, I can hook it up to a car with ease (either using a tape adapter [ick] or the stereo's line in)... I can also use it on the train, the bus, and many other places that are not a car.
Since it uses standard laptop IDE drives, I can easily put a larger drive in the unit... 6GB is a little tight for me, but it has done me well for the past 7 months...
Man... Everyone talks about "remembering" Stellar 7 on the PC... How sad..:)
In truth, the PC version of Stellar 7 was really a remake of the original that was released in 1983!! I played this version on the Commodore 64, but it might have also been available for other machines of that vintage.
Here are some screenshots of the original c64 version...
Irregardless of the pointless information above, Dynamix will be missed (even though I never liked Tribes)..:)
I'm sorry, I thought that species went extinct for a reason...
This is a prime example of humans assuming that they can 'fix' everything. A species goes extinct, whether it's as a result of our encroaching on nature, or simply natural selection, what is to say that it wasn't meant to happen?
The point is that there are many people out there who take advantage of exploits like this for nefarious purposes.
If it weren't for 'good crackers' like this person, we would be much more vulnerable overall. Crackers and Hackers like this person are the people for discovering and fixing security holes in our software. I think they should be applauded for working towards good rather than evil.
Of course, I forgot that in the utopian society you describe, there would be no need for security...
Did you ever think that it's possible to simply build a binary without mail/news or the stupid irc client? All it requires is a few simple options to the./configure script, all of which are clearly outlined at the mozilla build instructions page. I am so tired of hearing this crap that Mozilla is bloated.
Forget the fact that this mission is going to land on the freaking polar icecaps of Mars to look for water (as opposed to CO2/Dry Ice). And who cares about the meteorlogical research. But they use OSS!!!!! Oh my god, please let us know about that!
Funny, this/. article mentions that they use many OSS technologies, such as Linux. I didn't see Linux mentioned *ANYWHERE* in that document....
The RemoteSelector (http://www.visualdomain.net) software lets you switch regions any number of times, turn Macrovision on/off, switch video modes, control the Dxr2 software via a large number of remote controls, and more....
I bought it about a year ago so I could control the Dxr2 software and Winamp w/ my X10 RemoteMouse. I have been very happy with the progression of the software, new features constantly. I recently threw my X10 RemoteMouse in the trash (total piece of garbage) and replaced it with an IRMan (http://www.evation.com/irman) and it works great!
Both RemoteSelector and the IRMan were worth every penny....
You guys are all up in arms about Cisco and their evil, evil, features in IOS...
Traffic Shaping and Quality of Service support is in your god damned beloved Linux Kernel. Should we all stop supporting linux now that Linus and his merry band of hackers are trying to help out cable companies and evil Shadow Governments of the world?
The telnet server stuff has already been covered, but more importantly, people seem to have this untrue belief that the GUI in be is necessary. Most everything in the OS is launched via startup scripts, including the GUI. Granted, since no other interfaces are available, it would make life a bit difficult to use without Tracker/Deskbar running, it isn't impossible to comment out all the necessary lines to boot with no gui, and launch the necessary software in that script (telnet daemon, beowulf client, etc.)
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I wonder how this new wireless startup will interact/affect with his role at Danger, Inc. as a member of the board. Will WoZ work with Danger, compete with them, or be completely unrelated?
Just because it is expandable doesn't make it much more than a PDA. Sure the VisorPhone springboard was a neat hack, as a former owner of one, I can tell you that it was really lousy to use. It was like holding a 2x4 to your ear to talk on the phone, and you constantly felt like you were pressing your LCD panel (which cost $80 to replace) into your face.
and sold off to sony to keep from dying.
:)
You mean sold off to palm...
sean
Bugzilla is way too involved for public use. If I'm going to stick a toe in the water, I want my first interaction to be very simple, and rewarding.
:)
You should use the Bugzilla Helper, which still has a few fields (many less than the main bug entry page), but they are mostly necessary for a bug tracking package... You would never get it down to one field.
This helper form simplifies the bug submission process and describes every field fully. You may complain that that there are still too many fields on this form, but I would argue that they are all pretty necessary for a good bug report.
How is this different from the "tape delays" used in radio and television to protect against when someone curses when Howard Stern is live, or when Madonna talks like a drunken sailor on Letterman?
I mean, I am sure that hindsight is 20/20, but this doesn't seem that novel to me, even as a TiVo owner... I never thought the technology in the TiVo was very new, just recently cheapified....
sean
You are leaving out the other option of using one of the pocket sized portable hard disk based MP3 players... I carry 6GB around on my person at all times, I can hook it up to a car with ease (either using a tape adapter [ick] or the stereo's line in)... I can also use it on the train, the bus, and many other places that are not a car.
Since it uses standard laptop IDE drives, I can easily put a larger drive in the unit... 6GB is a little tight for me, but it has done me well for the past 7 months...
so i'll need an all in wonder card or something to have everything in my PC, along with the laser disc and laser disc player
No.
The connection between your computer and the LD player is a serial one, so the computer can control the playback of the video files on the LD player.
Well, it wouldn't hurt to see if it could be filed as an Evangelism "Bug" :)
sean
My first log entry for this attack is at 8:08 AM. Just FYI.
That explains it! It must be Hawaii! I never trusted those bastards anyway!
:P
sean
Yes, these phones, originally developed by Lucent for Phillips ran Inferno.
Being that Stellar 7(old) was written long before Arctic Fox, your point is moot.
Man... Everyone talks about "remembering" Stellar 7 on the PC... How sad.. :)
In truth, the PC version of Stellar 7 was really a remake of the original that was released in 1983!! I played this version on the Commodore 64, but it might have also been available for other machines of that vintage.
Here are some screenshots of the original c64 version...
Irregardless of the pointless information above, Dynamix will be missed (even though I never liked Tribes).. :)
It's not an id software game.
I don't know about "Master of Magic", but Mail-Order Monsters rocked... :P
Yeah, but the Babylonians are responsible for all this base60 nonsense that we see today (like 60 seconds in a minutes...)
:)
And if they had brains, they wouldn't have fucked with Kuwait..
I'm sorry, I thought that species went extinct for a reason...
This is a prime example of humans assuming that they can 'fix' everything. A species goes extinct, whether it's as a result of our encroaching on nature, or simply natural selection, what is to say that it wasn't meant to happen?
Sigh....
My answer is: No.
My reasoning is: Bloat is something I can't control. If I can simply build a smaller source base, then I cannot consider it bloated.
The point is that there are many people out there who take advantage of exploits like this for nefarious purposes.
If it weren't for 'good crackers' like this person, we would be much more vulnerable overall. Crackers and Hackers like this person are the people for discovering and fixing security holes in our software. I think they should be applauded for working towards good rather than evil.
Of course, I forgot that in the utopian society you describe, there would be no need for security...
If I checkout the source, type configure, and build mozilla, it builds with alot of stuff I don't want. One simple step rectifies that.
Did you ever think that it's possible to simply build a binary without mail/news or the stupid irc client? All it requires is a few simple options to the ./configure script, all of which are clearly outlined at the mozilla build instructions page. I am so tired of hearing this crap that Mozilla is bloated.
It's only 40 megs, what's the big deal about having a fast connection? It's smaller than most videogame demos.
seanf();
Forget the fact that this mission is going to land on the freaking polar icecaps of Mars to look for water (as opposed to CO2/Dry Ice). And who cares about the meteorlogical research. But they use OSS!!!!! Oh my god, please let us know about that!
/. article mentions that they use many OSS technologies, such as Linux. I didn't see Linux mentioned *ANYWHERE* in that document....
Funny, this
The RemoteSelector (http://www.visualdomain.net) software lets you switch regions any number of times, turn Macrovision on/off, switch video modes, control the Dxr2 software via a large number of remote controls, and more....
I bought it about a year ago so I could control the Dxr2 software and Winamp w/ my X10 RemoteMouse. I have been very happy with the progression of the software, new features constantly. I recently threw my X10 RemoteMouse in the trash (total piece of garbage) and replaced it with an IRMan (http://www.evation.com/irman) and it works great!
Both RemoteSelector and the IRMan were worth every penny....
seanf();
You guys are all up in arms about Cisco and their evil, evil, features in IOS...
Traffic Shaping and Quality of Service support is in your god damned beloved Linux Kernel. Should we all stop supporting linux now that Linus and his merry band of hackers are trying to help out cable companies and evil Shadow Governments of the world?
It is so easy to get some people worked up.
The telnet server stuff has already been covered, but more importantly, people seem to have this untrue belief that the GUI in be is necessary. Most everything in the OS is launched via startup scripts, including the GUI. Granted, since no other interfaces are available, it would make life a bit difficult to use without Tracker/Deskbar running, it isn't impossible to comment out all the necessary lines to boot with no gui, and launch the necessary software in that script (telnet daemon, beowulf client, etc.)
seanf();