One great feature of 10.2.x has become apparent through use of Rendezvous (aka OpenConf) and iChat. Rather than connecting to a central iChat (ie AOL) server, you can easily and automagically create an ad-hoc iChat network between any capable (running 10.2 and have a network connection) machines. This enables people to easily chat, exchange files etc. wherever they may be, by setting up simple wired or wireless networks. Look out for more of this at various conferences (wireless ad-hoc networks) and in the workplace. This sort of technology is being pushed by Apple and will be included in future updates to various "iApps" including iTunes...
There are solutions for recording tv straight to your Linux box, for a start have a look at the Video4Linux resources here and google and DistroWatch are always your friend;)
While the various larger distributions are geared towards multimedia functionality to different degrees, it obviously depends exactly what you want out of your box and how much you want to play with the guts (hardware and software). Many people would be happy with a DVD/VCD/mp3 player rather than a full-blown PVR, and I'm not sure how much freedom you'll get in this area with Media Center Pc's - I doubt this version of XP is designed around being able to rip, mix and burn;) This is where some of the other Linux projects come in (some focussed on the embedded market only though). Maybe distribution in the classical sense was not the best of description for me to use, although projects like Flamethrower Linux are aiming for that - RedHat and Debian are working on multimedia based distributions, altho they are aimed more at the multimedia worker rather than player.
Projects like Dave/Dina, homeDVR, OpenPVR, MythTV and FreeVo aim at homebrew boxes somewhat akin to the Media Center idea and there are a myriad of sources for building boxes that do as much if not more than the Media Center. Flexibility is always good IMHO, and if you can start with a box that may just do DVD, DivX, CD's, mp3's and ogg, but expand it into a classic gaming machine running MAME et al as well as serving up content to the rest of your flat/house/hovel then that is "a good thing". More info at ding, eboxy.
Remember that Linux is used for commercial PVR's (and the MoxiMedia Center) too and while there are companies that do these things commercially, that's normally a sign of open versions being around somewhere, especially if you like to get your hands dirty:) If you don't, then it won't be long before you new (or old) console will be able to fulfill many of these functions, again, they already can to a degree, if you don't mind hacking away a bit.
AFAIK it's only available pre-installed on the special "Media Center PCs" at least that's what M$'s blurb says. There's more info on this OS (and some of the HP machines it was first announced to be used on) here [that's news.com.com;)]. To be honest I can't see how anyone would really want to splash out on one of these considering the high cost and restrictions placed upon it's use (can you say DRM). I'd rather use some of the Multimedia-centric Linux distribs out there. Then again, I've seen stranger things happen... especially in the mass consumer market.
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I wasn't trying to imply any personal gain for yourself, or any crooked schemes, quite the opposite. It was the "this is an advertisement" stance other ppl were posting from that I was going against. I found the article linked to very interesting, no doubt so did Michael, and thats why he posted your submission. Maybe those posting from the "Advertisement" stance hadn't actually followed the link.. As an answer to the "how to I advertise my company on/." post, I'd say that the best way is to do something interesting enough to get a third party to write an article about it;)
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Good point, except I very much doubt that the submitter has much to do with the company in question. If I'm not mistaken, he's Russian, I doubt he/she could even use the service, let alone be advertising it. (Although yes, of course, in these modern days with newfangled things like the Internet, geographical location has little to do with it). If things posted on/. had to go through a "does this have anything to do with a way in which someone could possibly make money" filter, I doubt there'd be much content.
Na, Apple cornered that a long time ago with the iBrator;) Damn sight more user-friendly than any stimulus M$ could up with.... I mean, erm, or so I'm told.
Although the beeb insists on using Real for 99% of it's audio and video these days, the geezers in the background tested ogg vorbis a while back. It was a great trial IMHO and had some good content. It was a shame when they stopped the streams, but now, with the legal issues resolved, they're planning on bringing them back up. This could bode well, especially with the increase in streaming content from the beeb.
...and the Mac:) The PC version is GM while the x-box and other versions should have some more news coming next week...
There's more info on the PC and Mac versions of the game (although most details will obviously apply to the console ports) at the developers website.
Altho primarily aimed at Linux game programming, a lot of this book will prove useful to OS X coders too. All those nice open API's, CLI tools, scripting etc:) There'll obviously be some tweaks needed here and there to get code samples to work and not everything is 100% relevant, but hey. Definitely another one to add to the bookshelf for OS-X-philes as well as straight Linux crowd IMHO. Also a handy reference to have if your porting something from Linux to OS X. Cheers overcode!
The shipping version of Xandros has two CDs. One is the main desktop that we think is good enough and stable enough, and easy enough for people to use. The second CD is basically KDE 3...
So, contrary to what most people here are saying, you do have the option to use KDE 3. Xandros is not really aimed at something for the majority of/. readers to play with and argue about how bleeding edge they are. They're focussing at the business market. sure, it may not be the latest and the greatest versions of all the packages, but it will work and be stable. Do most large offices in the 'real' world use WindowsXP on every desktop, no. How long did it take for many of them to even get up to Win98, well, many I know of still aren't! Large organisations want usability, stability and don't like the hassle of being bleeding-edge. I'm sure plenty people who've worked in large organisations will attest to this.
Xandros appear to be focussing on a very particular market segment and fulfilling the needs of that market as well as they can. Whether it will work or not, i don't know, nobody does, but I think many are missing the bigger picture and bashing Xandros because it isn't what they need.
As a final note, one things that this venture will definitely do is improve Linux's stance in the more general business world. They're rolling back all there modifications to KDE et al (as they have to do) into the main trees. Doesn't this really show off one of the things that is good about these Licenses and the open-source and Linux world in general. Someone sees a market, wants to try to exploit it, works out a business model to attempt to do this, takes the 'raw-materials' available, improves them and has to give them back, therefore benefitting the community. Agree with their business model, idea, product, etc or not, it certainly shows the community is alive and working.
Definitely sounds like an interesting evaluation exercise. I'm of the opinion that it was a great move by Apple to move into this lower end server market. There's a lot of organisations that need some sort of server system for their network, but don't have the resources or the expertise to use some of the more traditional *nix based systems. That isn't to say that these are solely aimed at the "Idiots Guide to running a Server" market. There may be some nice user-friendly management and monitoring tools, but there's a lot under the hood to play with too. In the future there's also some interesting possibilities with clustering and the upcoming PPC970's from IBM. After all, this is really the first 'proper' server offering from Apple, future generations of the Xserve are definitely something to keep an eye on IMHO.
...some even had CD burners. ..when sailors wanted to send e-mail attachments to a Navy base across the country they sometimes found that their counterparts couldn't open the Microsoft Word or Excel document. No doubt there were a few suspect.ppt files in there too.
..The new system was designed to change all that. Yey, they're going to be using OpenOffice!
..also cluttering the files were computer games like Doom and music-swapping Napster software. And this is a surprise? It's time that people woke up and realised that people are people, no matter where they work. And people like to play doom and listen to music:) It will certainly be interesting to see how this turns out, how over-budget it is, whether it actually improves efficiency (cus it sure isn't at the moment with the two-systems per person approach) and how many security holes pop-up during the transition.
It was a sad day for the Mac community when we heard that Rodney had taken his own life. I'm glad somebody else recognised the iBrotha connection, it seems as if most people posting either didn't know of him, it didn't click or didn't read the links. There's a mention of Rodney at the bottom of the Wired article and the website of the iBrotha film itself has a dedication. peace
I'm aware of being able to turn calendars on and off etc, it's just that for the purpose of regularly updated feeds, I'd say the calendar would still get crowded (it's very easy to get comments from the same feed overlapping etc). Thanks for the further background info, interesting indeed, I'd say you should think about adding some more of the thought sbehind wCal to the site:-) I have no idea if it will go anywhere, but it's definitely nice to see imaginative uses of technology, if for no other reason than just because!
It's not that wCal is not easy to use, it's that it is itself a convoluted and overly complex solution to the most common use of RSS/RDF feeds. Apps like SlashDock are great as they give an unobtrusive and simple way of keeping up to date with many feeds at once. If you want a more powerful solution then there are plenty of heavier RSS/RDF readers out there. Mixing news feeds and appointments/scheduling seems like an odd idea to me, especially if your iCal gets cluttered with updates and news from even just a few regularly updated sites.
Now, using the old adage to "Think Different" wCal may well prove more promising. If we think of alternative uses of RSS (ie not just catching up with general site updates) say events that happen less frequently (maybe subscribing to software updates for the apps you use) then I can see wCal becoming a more viable solution. This could be done with their own Calander, but the 'auto-conversion' that wCal gives from RSS to iCalender may be preferable to some.
I'd be interested to hear exactly what your plans are for wCal and what you see it's primary uses as being. The technology merge is interesting, I'm sure there are possibilities for your software, but turning iCal into a news feed reader certainly isn't one of them IMHO.
Difficult to say that anything is totally new, I suspect this is 'new' but it will no doubt be influenced by previous work on BeOS, other filesystems the engineer has worked on, and other filesystems in general. I suspect the advantage of having it based on HFS+ is at least partly to do with compatibility. At the moment you can install OS X on a UFS partition, but some apps won't play nice. Hopefully 'Elvis' will get around this problem and give users more options.
Interesting use and integration of standard technologies (iCalender, WebDAV and RDF) but it seems like an overly complex way of checking news-feeds. I'll stick with using SlashDock and NetNewswire.
While the software side of things seems to be pretty similar to that of the Zaurus (Lineo Embedix, Trolltech QTEmbedded/Qtopia, Insignia Jeaode JVM, Opera, Hancom Office suite) there are some important hardware differences. Rather than any of Intel's StrongARM based chips they're using an Hitatchi SH7727[PDF] and are citing USB Host Control as a capability of the device.
I'm an owner and big fan of the Linux-based Zaurus, but the SA-1110 leaves a lot to be desired when USB connectivity is concerned. It can only act as a slave device and the silicon has numerous bugs and conflicts with general USB support and the USB CDC Spec (just check out Intel's own docs on the chip if you want to check up on this). This causes great problems with connectivity. The SA-1111 companion chip adds USB Host capability and some other nifty features, but is not used in any Linux handhelds that I know of. It would also increase size and power consumption if used.
It will be interesting to see how the SH7727, with it's similar approach to "handheld on a chip" functionality stands up against Intel's offering. It could end up showing the Pro's and Cons of these chips at the core of the devices more than the handheld as a whole.
There's also more info on India's movements into the handheld market here
With the prevalence of the internet as a means for distribution of all forms of data, new ways of meeting these needs are needed. No longer can one use traditional methods of increasing pipe size or basic colocation and assume that you're back will be covered. We're seeing increasing occurrences of sites being hammered (for whatever reason) and not just the small ones. While the internet may be a massively distributed thing, it still has some major Hopefully this is an area which the methodology of P2P systems and on-the-fly mirroring can help with. If something is in high demand, it should be made _easier_ to get hold off, not harder.
Hmm, then how come there was a counter-argument posted within two and a half hours. Thats not really a sign of monoculture or a 'party-line' which is toed by all. Not to mention the many and varied opinions which are expressed in just about every thread here on/.
Yes, there are unifying forces at work, but there always has been and hopefully always will. It's this solid foundation which allows the community to discuss, argue and explore just about any idea which we feel we want, from god knows how many viewpoints and angles. We are an open and evolving community, one which has a greater role to play in society and a greater voice than ever. This is probably why people know about the pro-open, anti-infringement stances that are taken on many subjects. It does not mean that there isn't diversity, it just means that some of the more important messages _are_ getting across to the wider world.
If someone wants to take this as something which it is not (no names mentioned) then that is their right. If someone (no names mentioned) wants to start another lively debate, then this is certainly the way to do it;)
...about what he did, it's interesting to see that he's planning on using his skills to help distribution of free software with the "Free Software Mirror Project". The warez scene has undoubtedly got a huge skills base at it's core for organising large scale distribution structures like this. We're already starting to see individuals skills and general methodology (such as the evolution of p2p) being used for legitimate distribution of software. Hopefully this will be something that grows (I cannot see that it won't). The recent example of hammering of websites and servers for the release of Mandrake 9, RedHat 8 and UT2003 show that these methods are needed (along with a myriad of other occasions). Methods for mirroring sites linked to by/. have also been mentioned in the past. However the techniques are developed and whomever develops them, the knowledge of how to get a stable and working environment where increased demand gives increased availability rather than the inverse has got to be worth exploiting.
..although it's got to be the first time a feature from a game has made it to a web browser;) I guess the next stage in development will be to hook up eye-movement sensors for control of a UI, altho thats bound to cause some nasty and new forms of RSI.
In the article they say that this "...is part of a new government plan to build relationships with businesses so that they will feel more comfortable reporting hacking attempts to authorities". I'm sorry, but if your in a company and you get a Secret Service guy literally knocking on your door and telling you he's been scanning your network, how does this improve relations. I'd guess most people would run a mile!
Although they are still spending plenty of cash on the expensive antennas too: "Peterson's tools are a laptop, a wireless network card and one of three antennae mounted on his car. One is a small metal antenna; the second is a large, white, 2-foot-tall tube; the third is a homemade antenna made out of a Pringles can"
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One great feature of 10.2.x has become apparent through use of Rendezvous (aka OpenConf) and iChat. Rather than connecting to a central iChat (ie AOL) server, you can easily and automagically create an ad-hoc iChat network between any capable (running 10.2 and have a network connection) machines. This enables people to easily chat, exchange files etc. wherever they may be, by setting up simple wired or wireless networks. Look out for more of this at various conferences (wireless ad-hoc networks) and in the workplace.
This sort of technology is being pushed by Apple and will be included in future updates to various "iApps" including iTunes...
While the various larger distributions are geared towards multimedia functionality to different degrees, it obviously depends exactly what you want out of your box and how much you want to play with the guts (hardware and software). Many people would be happy with a DVD/VCD/mp3 player rather than a full-blown PVR, and I'm not sure how much freedom you'll get in this area with Media Center Pc's - I doubt this version of XP is designed around being able to rip, mix and burn ;) This is where some of the other Linux projects come in (some focussed on the embedded market only though). Maybe distribution in the classical sense was not the best of description for me to use, although projects like Flamethrower Linux are aiming for that - RedHat and Debian are working on multimedia based distributions, altho they are aimed more at the multimedia worker rather than player.
Projects like Dave/Dina, homeDVR, OpenPVR, MythTV and FreeVo aim at homebrew boxes somewhat akin to the Media Center idea and there are a myriad of sources for building boxes that do as much if not more than the Media Center. Flexibility is always good IMHO, and if you can start with a box that may just do DVD, DivX, CD's, mp3's and ogg, but expand it into a classic gaming machine running MAME et al as well as serving up content to the rest of your flat/house/hovel then that is "a good thing". More info at ding, eboxy.
Remember that Linux is used for commercial PVR's (and the Moxi Media Center) too and while there are companies that do these things commercially, that's normally a sign of open versions being around somewhere, especially if you like to get your hands dirty :) If you don't, then it won't be long before you new (or old) console will be able to fulfill many of these functions, again, they already can to a degree, if you don't mind hacking away a bit.
AFAIK it's only available pre-installed on the special "Media Center PCs" at least that's what M$'s blurb says. There's more info on this OS (and some of the HP machines it was first announced to be used on) here [that's news.com.com ;)]. To be honest I can't see how anyone would really want to splash out on one of these considering the high cost and restrictions placed upon it's use (can you say DRM). I'd rather use some of the Multimedia-centric Linux distribs out there. Then again, I've seen stranger things happen... especially in the mass consumer market.
I wasn't trying to imply any personal gain for yourself, or any crooked schemes, quite the opposite. It was the "this is an advertisement" stance other ppl were posting from that I was going against. /." post, I'd say that the best way is to do something interesting enough to get a third party to write an article about it ;)
I found the article linked to very interesting, no doubt so did Michael, and thats why he posted your submission. Maybe those posting from the "Advertisement" stance hadn't actually followed the link..
As an answer to the "how to I advertise my company on
Good point, except I very much doubt that the submitter has much to do with the company in question. If I'm not mistaken, he's Russian, I doubt he/she could even use the service, let alone be advertising it. (Although yes, of course, in these modern days with newfangled things like the Internet, geographical location has little to do with it). /. had to go through a "does this have anything to do with a way in which someone could possibly make money" filter, I doubt there'd be much content.
If things posted on
Na, Apple cornered that a long time ago with the iBrator ;) Damn sight more user-friendly than any stimulus M$ could up with.... I mean, erm, or so I'm told.
Although the beeb insists on using Real for 99% of it's audio and video these days, the geezers in the background tested ogg vorbis a while back. It was a great trial IMHO and had some good content. It was a shame when they stopped the streams, but now, with the legal issues resolved, they're planning on bringing them back up. This could bode well, especially with the increase in streaming content from the beeb.
...and the Mac :) The PC version is GM while the x-box and other versions should have some more news coming next week...
There's more info on the PC and Mac versions of the game (although most details will obviously apply to the console ports) at the developers website.
Altho primarily aimed at Linux game programming, a lot of this book will prove useful to OS X coders too. All those nice open API's, CLI tools, scripting etc :) There'll obviously be some tweaks needed here and there to get code samples to work and not everything is 100% relevant, but hey. Definitely another one to add to the bookshelf for OS-X-philes as well as straight Linux crowd IMHO. Also a handy reference to have if your porting something from Linux to OS X.
Cheers overcode!
So, contrary to what most people here are saying, you do have the option to use KDE 3. Xandros is not really aimed at something for the majority of
Xandros appear to be focussing on a very particular market segment and fulfilling the needs of that market as well as they can. Whether it will work or not, i don't know, nobody does, but I think many are missing the bigger picture and bashing Xandros because it isn't what they need.
As a final note, one things that this venture will definitely do is improve Linux's stance in the more general business world. They're rolling back all there modifications to KDE et al (as they have to do) into the main trees. Doesn't this really show off one of the things that is good about these Licenses and the open-source and Linux world in general. Someone sees a market, wants to try to exploit it, works out a business model to attempt to do this, takes the 'raw-materials' available, improves them and has to give them back, therefore benefitting the community. Agree with their business model, idea, product, etc or not, it certainly shows the community is alive and working.
Definitely sounds like an interesting evaluation exercise.
I'm of the opinion that it was a great move by Apple to move into this lower end server market. There's a lot of organisations that need some sort of server system for their network, but don't have the resources or the expertise to use some of the more traditional *nix based systems. That isn't to say that these are solely aimed at the "Idiots Guide to running a Server" market. There may be some nice user-friendly management and monitoring tools, but there's a lot under the hood to play with too. In the future there's also some interesting possibilities with clustering and the upcoming PPC970's from IBM. After all, this is really the first 'proper' server offering from Apple, future generations of the Xserve are definitely something to keep an eye on IMHO.
1. goto here :)
2. click buy
3. upon delivery open box and plugin
4. turn on Apache with the click of a button
5. happily serve up lots of content
6. (optional) wait for attacks from ppl at suggesting using apple hardware...
...some even had CD burners.
..when sailors wanted to send e-mail attachments to a Navy base across the country they sometimes found that their counterparts couldn't open the Microsoft Word or Excel document. .ppt files in there too.
..The new system was designed to change all that.
..also cluttering the files were computer games like Doom and music-swapping Napster software. :)
No doubt there were a few suspect
Yey, they're going to be using OpenOffice!
And this is a surprise? It's time that people woke up and realised that people are people, no matter where they work. And people like to play doom and listen to music
It will certainly be interesting to see how this turns out, how over-budget it is, whether it actually improves efficiency (cus it sure isn't at the moment with the two-systems per person approach) and how many security holes pop-up during the transition.
It was a sad day for the Mac community when we heard that Rodney had taken his own life. I'm glad somebody else recognised the iBrotha connection, it seems as if most people posting either didn't know of him, it didn't click or didn't read the links. There's a mention of Rodney at the bottom of the Wired article and the website of the iBrotha film itself has a dedication.
peace
I'm aware of being able to turn calendars on and off etc, it's just that for the purpose of regularly updated feeds, I'd say the calendar would still get crowded (it's very easy to get comments from the same feed overlapping etc). :-)
Thanks for the further background info, interesting indeed, I'd say you should think about adding some more of the thought sbehind wCal to the site
I have no idea if it will go anywhere, but it's definitely nice to see imaginative uses of technology, if for no other reason than just because!
It's not that wCal is not easy to use, it's that it is itself a convoluted and overly complex solution to the most common use of RSS/RDF feeds. Apps like SlashDock are great as they give an unobtrusive and simple way of keeping up to date with many feeds at once. If you want a more powerful solution then there are plenty of heavier RSS/RDF readers out there. Mixing news feeds and appointments/scheduling seems like an odd idea to me, especially if your iCal gets cluttered with updates and news from even just a few regularly updated sites.
Now, using the old adage to "Think Different" wCal may well prove more promising. If we think of alternative uses of RSS (ie not just catching up with general site updates) say events that happen less frequently (maybe subscribing to software updates for the apps you use) then I can see wCal becoming a more viable solution. This could be done with their own Calander, but the 'auto-conversion' that wCal gives from RSS to iCalender may be preferable to some.
I'd be interested to hear exactly what your plans are for wCal and what you see it's primary uses as being. The technology merge is interesting, I'm sure there are possibilities for your software, but turning iCal into a news feed reader certainly isn't one of them IMHO.
Difficult to say that anything is totally new, I suspect this is 'new' but it will no doubt be influenced by previous work on BeOS, other filesystems the engineer has worked on, and other filesystems in general.
I suspect the advantage of having it based on HFS+ is at least partly to do with compatibility. At the moment you can install OS X on a UFS partition, but some apps won't play nice. Hopefully 'Elvis' will get around this problem and give users more options.
Interesting use and integration of standard technologies (iCalender, WebDAV and RDF) but it seems like an overly complex way of checking news-feeds. I'll stick with using SlashDock and NetNewswire.
While the software side of things seems to be pretty similar to that of the Zaurus (Lineo Embedix, Trolltech QTEmbedded/Qtopia, Insignia Jeaode JVM, Opera, Hancom Office suite) there are some important hardware differences. Rather than any of Intel's StrongARM based chips they're using an Hitatchi SH7727[PDF] and are citing USB Host Control as a capability of the device. I'm an owner and big fan of the Linux-based Zaurus, but the SA-1110 leaves a lot to be desired when USB connectivity is concerned. It can only act as a slave device and the silicon has numerous bugs and conflicts with general USB support and the USB CDC Spec (just check out Intel's own docs on the chip if you want to check up on this). This causes great problems with connectivity. The SA-1111 companion chip adds USB Host capability and some other nifty features, but is not used in any Linux handhelds that I know of. It would also increase size and power consumption if used. It will be interesting to see how the SH7727, with it's similar approach to "handheld on a chip" functionality stands up against Intel's offering. It could end up showing the Pro's and Cons of these chips at the core of the devices more than the handheld as a whole. There's also more info on India's movements into the handheld market here
With the prevalence of the internet as a means for distribution of all forms of data, new ways of meeting these needs are needed. No longer can one use traditional methods of increasing pipe size or basic colocation and assume that you're back will be covered. We're seeing increasing occurrences of sites being hammered (for whatever reason) and not just the small ones. While the internet may be a massively distributed thing, it still has some major Hopefully this is an area which the methodology of P2P systems and on-the-fly mirroring can help with. If something is in high demand, it should be made _easier_ to get hold off, not harder.
Hmm, then how come there was a counter-argument posted within two and a half hours. Thats not really a sign of monoculture or a 'party-line' which is toed by all. Not to mention the many and varied opinions which are expressed in just about every thread here on /.
;)
Yes, there are unifying forces at work, but there always has been and hopefully always will. It's this solid foundation which allows the community to discuss, argue and explore just about any idea which we feel we want, from god knows how many viewpoints and angles. We are an open and evolving community, one which has a greater role to play in society and a greater voice than ever. This is probably why people know about the pro-open, anti-infringement stances that are taken on many subjects. It does not mean that there isn't diversity, it just means that some of the more important messages _are_ getting across to the wider world.
If someone wants to take this as something which it is not (no names mentioned) then that is their right. If someone (no names mentioned) wants to start another lively debate, then this is certainly the way to do it
viva la revolution!
...about what he did, it's interesting to see that he's planning on using his skills to help distribution of free software with the "Free Software Mirror Project". The warez scene has undoubtedly got a huge skills base at it's core for organising large scale distribution structures like this. We're already starting to see individuals skills and general methodology (such as the evolution of p2p) being used for legitimate distribution of software. Hopefully this will be something that grows (I cannot see that it won't). /. have also been mentioned in the past. However the techniques are developed and whomever develops them, the knowledge of how to get a stable and working environment where increased demand gives increased availability rather than the inverse has got to be worth exploiting.
The recent example of hammering of websites and servers for the release of Mandrake 9, RedHat 8 and UT2003 show that these methods are needed (along with a myriad of other occasions). Methods for mirroring sites linked to by
..although it's got to be the first time a feature from a game has made it to a web browser ;)
I guess the next stage in development will be to hook up eye-movement sensors for control of a UI, altho thats bound to cause some nasty and new forms of RSI.
In the article they say that this "...is part of a new government plan to build relationships with businesses so that they will feel more comfortable reporting hacking attempts to authorities". I'm sorry, but if your in a company and you get a Secret Service guy literally knocking on your door and telling you he's been scanning your network, how does this improve relations. I'd guess most people would run a mile!
Although they are still spending plenty of cash on the expensive antennas too:
"Peterson's tools are a laptop, a wireless network card and one of three antennae mounted on his car. One is a small metal antenna; the second is a large, white, 2-foot-tall tube; the third is a homemade antenna made out of a Pringles can"