Jamie Zawinski came up with Cheesegrater which allows you to get an RSS feed from sites that don't have an RSS feed.
Kind of useful, written entirely in Perl, and I've tried it on a Linux box with no problems. Not sure if it'll work with other OSes, but its worth a shot.
Go grab the two perl scripts and the cron job if need be.
Let's put it simply. With more and more folk having laptops, PDA's and a desktop unit, if data is meant to be sync'ed between all of these, we need some form of solid state device that doesn't cost a bomb.
$200 for something that would span 20GB (and not 2GB!) would be great. It would prove that our data at least get's sync'ed and we are truly moving towards the age where our data is always with us, no matter where we are.
Little flash disks of 512MB or 1GB don't really help too much. There are 2GB Type II PC Cards, but they're not really good for some PDAs.
What's needed is a standard. And then, our data can be moved right along.
For me, I think the idealness of an online newspaper is that things like Avantgo and Sitescooper exist. Plucker is another piece of software that runs well.
What does it run on? The Palm OS! And carrying a newspaper, and several other sites in my pocket, on my Palm, surely makes me better read. Its just so convenient - take it out while standing in the train, or while sitting in a cramped bus.
Out of curiosity, isn't there a license when you install the software? Maybe nothing comes printed, but surely there's got to be something that comes with the software itself.
Everything is monitored. Be it by the employer, or by the federal government.
As to how efficient it all is, that is the question. AOL is basically trying to have fun with a market that has potential, hoping it'll be a cash cow. It may, or it may not.
Yes, the GPL is great. We should all share code, no matter how small or large we write something for.
But I think Lindows is doing an okay thing. The moment they have a final release, go ahead, and release the source. At the moment, keep it quiet for a bit, so no one "steals" the product before it can be released (hint hint at Redmond maybe?)
I too recommend gcc and vim (yeah, not emacs for me;) ) for OS related projects. It just makes sense. But then again, a good IDE usually helps.
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Kind of useful, written entirely in Perl, and I've tried it on a Linux box with no problems. Not sure if it'll work with other OSes, but its worth a shot.
Go grab the two perl scripts and the cron job if need be.
$200 for something that would span 20GB (and not 2GB!) would be great. It would prove that our data at least get's sync'ed and we are truly moving towards the age where our data is always with us, no matter where we are.
Little flash disks of 512MB or 1GB don't really help too much. There are 2GB Type II PC Cards, but they're not really good for some PDAs.
What's needed is a standard. And then, our data can be moved right along.
What does it run on? The Palm OS! And carrying a newspaper, and several other sites in my pocket, on my Palm, surely makes me better read. Its just so convenient - take it out while standing in the train, or while sitting in a cramped bus.
Out of curiosity, isn't there a license when you install the software? Maybe nothing comes printed, but surely there's got to be something that comes with the software itself.
As to how efficient it all is, that is the question. AOL is basically trying to have fun with a market that has potential, hoping it'll be a cash cow. It may, or it may not.
With such licensing schemes, I somehow doubt it.
Most uni's seem to place their stuff online anyways. Some lecturers are however, just paranoid.
First the TRGPro, then the Handera. The company has been heard of.
And I've been using a unit for about a year, and boy does it work fine. No problems with the unit.
Pay them a visit at: Handera's website. Just because they "renamed" their company, doesn't make them unheard of.
I would think that tunnelling via SSH would solve most of the problems.
I currently SSH tunnel for IRC, but for IM related software, I can't seem to SSH tunnel and get the relevant ports forwarded.
Anyone have a good idea for doing this?
But I'd think that my IRC connections are rather well encrypted.
Yes, the GPL is great. We should all share code, no matter how small or large we write something for.
But I think Lindows is doing an okay thing. The moment they have a final release, go ahead, and release the source. At the moment, keep it quiet for a bit, so no one "steals" the product before it can be released (hint hint at Redmond maybe?)
I too recommend gcc and vim (yeah, not emacs for me ;) ) for OS related projects. It just makes sense. But then again, a good IDE usually helps.
Being an AMD, its probably going to be cheaper. Plus, the MIPS architecture rocks, and is relatively easy to program in.
So, yes, its doable, and a portable terminal would be really clever.