A friend who has a 40 minute communte each way swears by audible.com. You can get a subscription for $15-$20/month, download books and serials including some science oriented stuff like "Sceince Friday", "Scientific American",...
Downloads are apparently in MP3 format, so you can use an MP3 player or burn to CD.
Personally, I listen to "Morning Edition" and "All Things Considered" on my 45 minute commute, with an occasional does of Tom Leykis for a change...
I was just going over this with a coworker... I'd suggest filing a provisional application to claim priority and protect your ownership rights, but then try to find someone with deeper pockets to follow it up with a formal application though a patent lawyer. Like others I advise against DIY unless you alread have some experience with the process as there are lots of little gotchas.
Unlike a "real" application there are no formal requirements for text or drawings for provisional applications except that they ultimately fit in an 8.5x11. All you need is a cover sheet and an $80 fee if you do it yourself.
Various universities have invention disclosure forms posted on the www (see e.g. http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe =UTF-8&q=invention.disclosure.forms) That ask all the right questions. Look at some of these and adapt them for your needs, this will drive you to pout all the information together in the right form and send it to the PTO with the cover sheet and your $80.
Good Point. Another post provided a link to http://www.endruntechnologies.com they have a 1U rackmount system that gets it time from CDMA cellular network instead of GPA.
You have a better chance of getting CDMA signals in building than GPS. Plus, since you don't need the positioning aspects it seems like overkill to use GPS.;-)
The built in spam filters for Outlook and Hotmail are just so much less efficient than Spamassassin or Razor/SpamNET.
My recent experience shows about 90% of the spam I get can be detected by Spamassasin, 70% by SpamNET and about the same for Hotmail. The Outlook/Outlook Express filters are basically blacklists and catch maybe 40% if properly maintained.
It does sound very similar, so why haven't they been able to implement a Bayesian filter as successfully as the lisp guru?
Try Sam's Club. Until my local Costco started digital prints on the same Fuji Crystal Archive paper Walmart and Sam's Club use for $0.20/4x6 I used Sam's Club online.
www.samsphotoclub.com They charge $0.24 and I found the qaulity to be better than that at Walmart online... You don't need to be a Sam;s Club member to use this service!
Costco online is also price competitive, but I found their prints (on Kodak paper) dull, particularly compared to what I had from Ofoto before Kodak took over there...
Of that bunch, I must say that I really like Webalizer. It produces really nice looking reports with pie and bar charts and the level of detail can be customized to almost any need. It's also nice that it'll work on both web server logs as well as squid logs....
Analog may be the most poular, but I also found it rather difficult to set up and get useful data into and out of.
Ditto, I also use hibernate on my home W2k box when I'm not using it. Thus, I think I'd enjoy speeding up the time it takes to resume using MRAM rather than the hard disk.
I used to use suspend, but my 802.11b interface doesn't seem to like that... The system just shuts down as soon as it comes back from suspend. (Previously had a similar problem with my old sound card).
This kinda defeats the purpose of suspend/hibernate.
That said, with the relative low cost of 512M CF cards, wouldn't it be easier now to use one of those in an IDE to CF adapter to store the hibernate file? (I guess this wound't work if you have 512M of RAM due to the fs overhrad required?)
Note that NET USE on NT and 2K behaves quite differently from that on 9x/ME.
While I can usually get away with passing a new set of credentials in a NET USE from the NT based OSes, it doesn't seem to work as reliably on 9x/ME. Plus, some of the users at work have recently reported problems with trying to NET USE domain resources on 2K when they are not actually logged on to the domain, even when passing the right/user:domain\username command-line option.
This is probably related to the fact that 9x/ME are never really members of any domain, they can just authenticate against one.
Not sounding like an idiot, but there are some subtelties you may be missing.
I for one have long wanted a native version of smbclient for Windows. (Server would be gravy). Network Neighborhood and the like, just don't give you the same flexibility you get from smbclient and its many configureation options.
Example: My Win98 laptop has to be told it belongs to a particular domain in order to be able to connect to resources at my wife's company, but this stops me from seeing resources on my local home workgroup and even the domain at my company. I could easily access most of those resources from smbclient using the appropriate -U and -W type options.
Other reasons why SAMBA for Windows might be interesting include (and others have mentioned some of these already):
Running SMB at non-standard ports
Running multiple distinct servers on a multi-homed machine
Implementation of other methods of user authentication (I'm thinking LDAP/Kerberos in a non-Active Directory Environment like NT4)
...
I'm not familiar enough to say if 2K or XP Server have become more customizable, but I am familiar enough with NT4 and Samba (since versions
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This looks like a great page, and may just be the solution for those of our remote users on W2K...
I was desperately looking for something like this a few months ago and only found pages describing the converse, i.e. how to connect FreeS/WAN to a W2K Server VPN.
I agree wholeheartedly with everything you say. The use of IPSec and availability of Mac and linux clients for the IP2 was also the main draw for us. (Even though we have only ever had Win clients). However I'm not entirely adverse to a proprietary solution that converts from one set of standard protocols to another.
Unfortunately, I guess we just bought into IPSec too early, before it had matured. According to various people on the the mailing list there have been few reports of successful interoperability between the VPN5000s and either the native W2K client, Free S/WAN or pretty much anything else that might be useful for a remote and mobile client.:-( (Yes, some point-to-point tunnels seem to work.)
As one of the other respondents mentioned, the primary reason I was looking at providing some access to SMB over WWW is that the early MS clients themselves are broken, due to their reliance on fragile technologies like the NT domain model and WINS. (Look at all the work the samba guys have had to do to replicate obscure undocumented behavior that the clients expect). By comparison IE and HTTPS are extremely robust.
Anyhow, I'm glad that MS has seen the light and AD/Kerberos/LDAP seems far superior, but I just don't see an upgrade in the cards for us due to the heavy licensing costs. (Mainly the cost to upgrade all of our CALs). We also still have to support the many potential 9x/ME clients out there, and can't simply mandate that only remote access from 2K and above will be supported.
As an aside, my own personal backdoor to our network has been to ssh over to to one of the linux boxes and use the command line tools to do whatever I want. I've also successfully used VNC over ssh to access apps on my destop, and provided this capability to others in the company when they have needed it.
Last, but not least (and slightly OT) I just don't "get" how the native 2K IPSec client is supposed to work over dialup to a random ISP POP. There does not seem to be a way to turn on or off the IPSec tunnel in a similar way to the Cisco client behaves. Am I missing something?
We've been using a Compatible Systems Intraport 2 (now aka Cisco VPN5000, and end of lifed) for IPSec based VPN services for a few years now. The number one problem we've had is the clients establish a good connection, but then clients can't seem to be able to resolve names reliably using WINS, so they need to hardcode some of our server addresses in LMHOSTS. (NOTE: Recent clients seem far more robust in this respect).
So, the very people who should be using it, users out in the field won't because they have been burned before. So, I was recently setting up IMAP/SSL and OWA/SSL access to our email server using stunnel as a backup, in case the VPN client doesn't feel like resolving names.
They seem to like this, so I was also looking at using one of the many variants on smb2www over SSL to provide backup access to our NT file servers, but I wanted to limit what servers and shares they could see this way from the outside. If these products can do that, then I might just recommend them for our company!
OK. So I can't type, or remember to use HTML tags. What's even more amusing about the original slip is that, between the two of us, I'm the wide one...
On the original topic, and for the record. I received my sample DiscSox and JewelSleeves. Here's a quick comaprison. They are very similar in size and overall appearance, but have enough minor differences that may matter to some...
DiscSox Pros:
The plastic over the front/back jewel case inserts is a bit clearer. The opening are along the longer ends of the sleeves with partial cutouts on one corner for easy removal of the CD and booklet.
Jewelsleeve Pros:
For single CD storage, both sides of the CD are in contact only with soft Tyvek like material (cf. only one side for the DiscSox).
So, I would tend to think that for archiving discs that have been ripped the JewelSleeves might be better. However, for a collection that is regularly used, the DiscSox might cause less aggravation.
I'd still have have access to my CD's or to burn a new copy each time to take them to work or play anything in the car where a CD player is already available
I'll probably use FLAC in the end and I figure I should be able to store ~16+ CDs on one 4.7 G DVD(-R/+R/+RW). I'll still have to deal with 40+ discs, but that'a a far cry from 650!
I can always generate MP3/OGG/WMA/(format du jour) files from the FLAC files later...
This comment is late, so probably won't get seen.
I was just going through this last weekend. (My son finally got ig enough to start pulling them off of the IKEA shelves in the living room.) So, I finally bit the bullet and bought a Sony 400 CD changer to store a good chunk of my collection of ~650 CDs. (Probably soon he'll be reaching for the buttons on that.)
I pulled out the largest set of discs that both my wide and I enjoy and stored them in the changer. The rest I grouped in categories and stored in CaseLogic 92 CD binders with the front jewel case inserts i.e a maximum of 46 CDs per case (I find any of the double wide binders, like the 264 too unwieldly, but still use of for my data CDs).
Looking on USENET for solutions I found numerous mentions of sratching on CDs stores in CaseLogic binders/sleeves and it does kind of make sense since there is no protection in these sleeves where the cutout is, and CDs will sit back to back in the case. Probably OK if you just keep it on a shelf...
Anyhow, I found mentions of DiscSox and Jewelsleeves. These both seem to have better protection for the discs front and back, as well as being able to store the front and back jewel box inserts. I ordered some samples of each. I haven't seen either of these mentioned in eralier posts. I'm also looking ath teh Jukebox sleeves from discsox to store the jewle box art in a much smaller area than required by jewel boxes...
Ultimately I think I will slowly archive my collection over to DVD+RWs using EAC and FLAC, just to have a backup... I know some older CDs seem to skip in the car.:-(
Anyhow, it also sounds like Sony will soon have a 400 disc MP3 and CDR/CDRW compatible changer. This sounds REALLY cool! http://www.videodirect.com/sony/cdplayers/cdpcx455.html Too bad I couldn't wait. No information on it direct from Sony though...
Balam
I signed up to CIS for a 2 week business trip to France in ~1999. Paid $9.95/mo and some incidental phone charges. Worked like a charm! Just finally got around to cancelling the account about 6 months ago after 2 years of not using it.
However, can you still get a Compuserve classic account? At the time AOL was pushing Compuserve 2000, a more AOL-like service that used AOL's POPs instead of the good old Compuserve ones. I recall that even at that time I had to scrounge around to find the right install CD. I think it was version 4?
Anyhow, unlike the classic service, "Compuserve 2000" did not list any international access phone numbers available online at the time...:-(
On my last European business trip, I just found an internet cafe and used webmail over SSL...
All the frequent international travelers in my company use AT&T Global...
The current batch of JetDirect boxes are very different from the ones you and I have experience with. The old ones were great, sometimes quirky, but great. The new ones, well I'll let you decide...
On the plus side, the new ones are more internet happy. They offer web based configuration and support IPP (Internet Printing Protocol).
However, unlike their predecessors, these units are not flash upgradeable and thus they can't be patched for new features/bugfixes. We have some minor issues with our 1st generation 170X and DHCP, but can't fix it without replacing the box.
My primary e-mail has been through AT&T Worldnet Services (AWS) for a long time now, POP3 only works if I am logged on to AWS, but you can turn on webmail to access your mail accounts from the net at large.
What is not widely known and is not officially supported is that they provide POP3/SSL and SMTP/SSL that can be accessed from anywhere on the net. Details are available at the WURD site http://www.wurd.com/.
I use this all the time to get my e-mail over DSL or at work... This allowed me to keep my long time e-mail address and still get the advantages of DSL. (My DSL provider's servers just plain suck.)
Hopefully they'll do something like that for broadband users too...
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Personally, I listen to "Morning Edition" and "All Things Considered" on my 45 minute commute, with an occasional does of Tom Leykis for a change...
Balam
I was just going over this with a coworker... I'd suggest filing a provisional application to claim priority and protect your ownership rights, but then try to find someone with deeper pockets to follow it up with a formal application though a patent lawyer. Like others I advise against DIY unless you alread have some experience with the process as there are lots of little gotchas.
Unlike a "real" application there are no formal requirements for text or drawings for provisional applications except that they ultimately fit in an 8.5x11. All you need is a cover sheet and an $80 fee if you do it yourself.
Here are a few decent links:
http://inventors.about.com/library/weekly/aa061701 a.htm
http://www.bpmlegal.com/provapp.htmlThis one is also pretty decent and a bit more DIY info http://www.frompatenttoprofit.com/provisional_pate nt_aps.htm
Finally, the software mentioned there seems useful... http://www.patentwizard.com/ and so are their FAQs http://www.patentwizard.com/htmls/support.htm, but if you were to go that route, you'd be out $580 for the software, filing and a flat fee review by their attorneys.
Various universities have invention disclosure forms posted on the www (see e.g. http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe =UTF-8&q=invention.disclosure.forms) That ask all the right questions. Look at some of these and adapt them for your needs, this will drive you to pout all the information together in the right form and send it to the PTO with the cover sheet and your $80.
Balam
Good Point. Another post provided a link to http://www.endruntechnologies.com they have a 1U rackmount system that gets it time from CDMA cellular network instead of GPA.
You have a better chance of getting CDMA signals in building than GPS. Plus, since you don't need the positioning aspects it seems like overkill to use GPS. ;-)
BalamThe built in spam filters for Outlook and Hotmail are just so much less efficient than Spamassassin or Razor/SpamNET.
My recent experience shows about 90% of the spam I get can be detected by Spamassasin, 70% by SpamNET and about the same for Hotmail. The Outlook/Outlook Express filters are basically blacklists and catch maybe 40% if properly maintained.
It does sound very similar, so why haven't they been able to implement a Bayesian filter as successfully as the lisp guru?
Try Sam's Club. Until my local Costco started digital prints on the same Fuji Crystal Archive paper Walmart and Sam's Club use for $0.20/4x6 I used Sam's Club online. www.samsphotoclub.com They charge $0.24 and I found the qaulity to be better than that at Walmart online... You don't need to be a Sam;s Club member to use this service!
Costco online is also price competitive, but I found their prints (on Kodak paper) dull, particularly compared to what I had from Ofoto before Kodak took over there...Balam
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Analog may be the most poular, but I also found it rather difficult to set up and get useful data into and out of.
Balam
Where's the next PARC, Bell Labs, IBM ?
I know all of these still exist in name at least, but they sure seem to be mere shadows of what they used to be...
And, no, I don't think it's MSFT
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I used to use suspend, but my 802.11b interface doesn't seem to like that... The system just shuts down as soon as it comes back from suspend. (Previously had a similar problem with my old sound card).
This kinda defeats the purpose of suspend/hibernate.
That said, with the relative low cost of 512M CF cards, wouldn't it be easier now to use one of those in an IDE to CF adapter to store the hibernate file? (I guess this wound't work if you have 512M of RAM due to the fs overhrad required?)
Balam
Note that NET USE on NT and 2K behaves quite differently from that on 9x/ME.
While I can usually get away with passing a new set of credentials in a NET USE from the NT based OSes, it doesn't seem to work as reliably on 9x/ME. Plus, some of the users at work have recently reported problems with trying to NET USE domain resources on 2K when they are not actually logged on to the domain, even when passing the right /user:domain\username command-line option.
This is probably related to the fact that 9x/ME are never really members of any domain, they can just authenticate against one.
Balam
I for one have long wanted a native version of smbclient for Windows. (Server would be gravy). Network Neighborhood and the like, just don't give you the same flexibility you get from smbclient and its many configureation options.
Example: My Win98 laptop has to be told it belongs to a particular domain in order to be able to connect to resources at my wife's company, but this stops me from seeing resources on my local home workgroup and even the domain at my company. I could easily access most of those resources from smbclient using the appropriate -U and -W type options.
Other reasons why SAMBA for Windows might be interesting include (and others have mentioned some of these already):
- Running SMB at non-standard ports
- Running multiple distinct servers on a multi-homed machine
- Implementation of other methods of user authentication (I'm thinking LDAP/Kerberos in a non-Active Directory Environment like NT4)
...
I'm not familiar enough to say if 2K or XP Server have become more customizable, but I am familiar enough with NT4 and Samba (since versions BalamI was desperately looking for something like this a few months ago and only found pages describing the converse, i.e. how to connect FreeS/WAN to a W2K Server VPN.
Balam
Unfortunately, I guess we just bought into IPSec too early, before it had matured. According to various people on the the mailing list there have been few reports of successful interoperability between the VPN5000s and either the native W2K client, Free S/WAN or pretty much anything else that might be useful for a remote and mobile client. :-( (Yes, some point-to-point tunnels seem to work.)
As one of the other respondents mentioned, the primary reason I was looking at providing some access to SMB over WWW is that the early MS clients themselves are broken, due to their reliance on fragile technologies like the NT domain model and WINS. (Look at all the work the samba guys have had to do to replicate obscure undocumented behavior that the clients expect). By comparison IE and HTTPS are extremely robust.
Anyhow, I'm glad that MS has seen the light and AD/Kerberos/LDAP seems far superior, but I just don't see an upgrade in the cards for us due to the heavy licensing costs. (Mainly the cost to upgrade all of our CALs). We also still have to support the many potential 9x/ME clients out there, and can't simply mandate that only remote access from 2K and above will be supported.
As an aside, my own personal backdoor to our network has been to ssh over to to one of the linux boxes and use the command line tools to do whatever I want. I've also successfully used VNC over ssh to access apps on my destop, and provided this capability to others in the company when they have needed it.
Last, but not least (and slightly OT) I just don't "get" how the native 2K IPSec client is supposed to work over dialup to a random ISP POP. There does not seem to be a way to turn on or off the IPSec tunnel in a similar way to the Cisco client behaves. Am I missing something?
Balam
So, the very people who should be using it, users out in the field won't because they have been burned before. So, I was recently setting up IMAP/SSL and OWA/SSL access to our email server using stunnel as a backup, in case the VPN client doesn't feel like resolving names.
They seem to like this, so I was also looking at using one of the many variants on smb2www over SSL to provide backup access to our NT file servers, but I wanted to limit what servers and shares they could see this way from the outside. If these products can do that, then I might just recommend them for our company!
Balam
On the original topic, and for the record. I received my sample DiscSox and JewelSleeves. Here's a quick comaprison. They are very similar in size and overall appearance, but have enough minor differences that may matter to some...
DiscSox Pros: The plastic over the front/back jewel case inserts is a bit clearer. The opening are along the longer ends of the sleeves with partial cutouts on one corner for easy removal of the CD and booklet.
Jewelsleeve Pros: For single CD storage, both sides of the CD are in contact only with soft Tyvek like material (cf. only one side for the DiscSox).
So, I would tend to think that for archiving discs that have been ripped the JewelSleeves might be better. However, for a collection that is regularly used, the DiscSox might cause less aggravation.
Balam
I'll probably use FLAC in the end and I figure I should be able to store ~16+ CDs on one 4.7 G DVD(-R/+R/+RW). I'll still have to deal with 40+ discs, but that'a a far cry from 650!
I can always generate MP3/OGG/WMA/(format du jour) files from the FLAC files later...
Balam
This comment is late, so probably won't get seen. I was just going through this last weekend. (My son finally got ig enough to start pulling them off of the IKEA shelves in the living room.) So, I finally bit the bullet and bought a Sony 400 CD changer to store a good chunk of my collection of ~650 CDs. (Probably soon he'll be reaching for the buttons on that.) I pulled out the largest set of discs that both my wide and I enjoy and stored them in the changer. The rest I grouped in categories and stored in CaseLogic 92 CD binders with the front jewel case inserts i.e a maximum of 46 CDs per case (I find any of the double wide binders, like the 264 too unwieldly, but still use of for my data CDs). Looking on USENET for solutions I found numerous mentions of sratching on CDs stores in CaseLogic binders/sleeves and it does kind of make sense since there is no protection in these sleeves where the cutout is, and CDs will sit back to back in the case. Probably OK if you just keep it on a shelf... Anyhow, I found mentions of DiscSox and Jewelsleeves. These both seem to have better protection for the discs front and back, as well as being able to store the front and back jewel box inserts. I ordered some samples of each. I haven't seen either of these mentioned in eralier posts. I'm also looking ath teh Jukebox sleeves from discsox to store the jewle box art in a much smaller area than required by jewel boxes... Ultimately I think I will slowly archive my collection over to DVD+RWs using EAC and FLAC, just to have a backup... I know some older CDs seem to skip in the car. :-(
Anyhow, it also sounds like Sony will soon have a 400 disc MP3 and CDR/CDRW compatible changer. This sounds REALLY cool! http://www.videodirect.com/sony/cdplayers/cdpcx455 .html Too bad I couldn't wait. No information on it direct from Sony though...
Balam
However, can you still get a Compuserve classic account? At the time AOL was pushing Compuserve 2000, a more AOL-like service that used AOL's POPs instead of the good old Compuserve ones. I recall that even at that time I had to scrounge around to find the right install CD. I think it was version 4?
Anyhow, unlike the classic service, "Compuserve 2000" did not list any international access phone numbers available online at the time... :-(
On my last European business trip, I just found an internet cafe and used webmail over SSL...
All the frequent international travelers in my company use AT&T Global...
On the plus side, the new ones are more internet happy. They offer web based configuration and support IPP (Internet Printing Protocol). However, unlike their predecessors, these units are not flash upgradeable and thus they can't be patched for new features/bugfixes. We have some minor issues with our 1st generation 170X and DHCP, but can't fix it without replacing the box.
Anyhow, to answer the original poster's question. HP has a list of supported printers (all HP branded) at their site. Unclear if any other USB printer would work. Link below. http://www.hp.com/cposupport/networking/support_do c/bpj06867.html
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My primary e-mail has been through AT&T Worldnet Services (AWS) for a long time now, POP3 only works if I am logged on to AWS, but you can turn on webmail to access your mail accounts from the net at large. What is not widely known and is not officially supported is that they provide POP3/SSL and SMTP/SSL that can be accessed from anywhere on the net. Details are available at the WURD site http://www.wurd.com/. I use this all the time to get my e-mail over DSL or at work... This allowed me to keep my long time e-mail address and still get the advantages of DSL. (My DSL provider's servers just plain suck.) Hopefully they'll do something like that for broadband users too... B