This is very similar to the Pico concept that Frank Stajano came up with a couple of years ago - though his is rather more complete than Steve Gibson's.
You can see Frank's (entertaining) talk from the 2011 Usenix security conference here:
There's a team at Cambridge University implementing this right now, and, like Gibson, Stajano has always pledged that it will be an open and patent-free standard.
We've just got around, after rather too long, to updating the Ndiyo site. It's still rather minimal, but a good deal more informative than it was before!
Anyone wanting to offer lucrative contracts to AT&T people after the closedown can find more information at www.xorl.org:-)
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Ah, but it's nice and easy with Mac apps because they don't generally sprinkle files all over the disk. You just drag'n'drop a single icon. It'll take longer for Microsoft to fix that than for USB2 to become common:-)
You can read my history of the coffee pot on the web site,
and I think there should also be a brief article about it in the July Communications of the ACM. Haven't received mine yet.
I guess they'll need updating now...
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The fact that they run an MS OS is secondary
But, sadly, may be an indication that PalmOS can't take advantage of the higher-powered hardware?
If you want a good summary of the culture behind the invention of the internet, I would recommend John Naughton's book "A Brief History of the Future".
I agree. I used to use Netscape both under Win and Unix. The IMAP worked well, and I had consistency between the platforms.
But I ended up needing one feature that only OE provided well - the ability to switch between personalities quickly. If I reply to a message in a folder on one account I appear to come from there, if I reply to the other, then from that one.
Mozilla is nearly there, but it's still a bit too unreliable for me, and it's *so* ugly...
I too use StarOffice for almost everything now, and in many ways find the wordprocessor superior to Word. Yes, very occasionally I can't import Word documents, but here's a thought:
Word 95 users can't import Word 2000 documents either.
So using Microsoft isn't the solution to all your compatibility problems. You also have to use the very latest version of Microsoft. Still, people shouldn't feel so embarassed about requesting a different format. Business partners ought really to be impressed if you reply to their email with, "We don't use Microsoft software since the security scares - could you save it as whatever and send it to me again?".
I've considered advising some clients to switch over to Linux + StarOffice, but the main thing that makes me hesitate is the printing. None of their printers are Postscript, and the overhead of running GhostScript for every print job would, I think, be excessive. They do a lot of printing, and their machines aren't all Pentiums yet.
Also, I suspect that persuading SO & Ghostscript to do things like printing from the right paper/envelope tray at the right time would not be much fun.
Still, doing these things in Unix is getting much better very quickly. My wife still uses "LaTeX" as a swear word since we used it to produce her thesis a few years ago...
Mmmm. The email forwarding service agreement sounds a bit dubious. How much does this actually cover?
Title, ownership rights, and intellectual property rights in all content and material that is part of, contained in, or accessed through the dotTV Email Service, and provided by either dotTV or sponsors or any other content provider shall remain in dotTV and/or its sponsors or such other content provider.
I remember, some years ago, trying to find out more about a DEC Hinote Ultra II laptop I was thinking of buying. The only review I could find on the web was in Spanish, so I fed it through a translation service. Most of it worked fairly well, and I could read the article, but it did want to translate 'desktop' as 'tablecloth' and 'turn on' as 'ignite'.
The reviewer was very excited about the fact that the laptop was so capable, you could often go for the whole day without igniting your tablecloth.
(Actually, the machine turned out to be one of the worst purchases I have ever made. Igniting the tablecloth would have been much more fun.)
> I wonder if the Sun Ray could work off of an open source Linux solution? Well, you could just get a diskless linux box, and run the svgalib-based VNC viewer on it. Connect to Xvnc, and you've got pretty much the same thing...:-)
I agree - I'm very pleased with my Coolpix900, provided you have enough light and regular access to a battery charger!
Treat it like a 64-100 ASA film camera and the images are superb.
Photopc works slowly but without a hitch, and I especially like the -f 3 option to name all the JPEG files based on the time and date of the shot. Then if I crop or rotate them, I still have the timestamp even though the file time may have changed.
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This is very similar to the Pico concept that Frank Stajano came up with a couple of years ago - though his is rather more complete than Steve Gibson's.
You can see Frank's (entertaining) talk from the 2011 Usenix security conference here:
https://www.usenix.org/conference/usenix-security-11/pico-no-more-passwords
There's a team at Cambridge University implementing this right now, and, like Gibson, Stajano has always pledged that it will be an open and patent-free standard.
We've just got around, after rather too long, to updating the Ndiyo site. It's still rather minimal, but a good deal more informative than it was before!
The downloads aren't being removed, BTW. They're just being slashdotted.
Xerox also has (had?) a research lab in Cambridge, colloquially known as EuroPARC.
Had. It's closing a few days later.
Anyone wanting to offer lucrative contracts to AT&T people after the closedown can find more information at www.xorl.org :-)
Ah, but it's nice and easy with Mac apps because they don't generally sprinkle files all over the disk. You just drag'n'drop a single icon. It'll take longer for Microsoft to fix that than for USB2 to become common :-)
Quentin
One of the many pleasant surprises for me was that OS X also comes with a full set of development tools out of the box.
What does Visual Studio cost these days?
I guess they'll need updating now...
But, sadly, may be an indication that PalmOS can't take advantage of the higher-powered hardware?
If you want a good summary of the culture behind the invention of the internet, I would recommend John Naughton's book "A Brief History of the Future".
I agree. I used to use Netscape both under Win and Unix. The IMAP worked well, and I had consistency between the platforms. But I ended up needing one feature that only OE provided well - the ability to switch between personalities quickly. If I reply to a message in a folder on one account I appear to come from there, if I reply to the other, then from that one. Mozilla is nearly there, but it's still a bit too unreliable for me, and it's *so* ugly...
Of course, it likely means that KDE wont be accepted by proprietary software makers as a standard...
Unless those companies want commercial support. In which case this model could work quite well.
Let's hope so.
Word 95 users can't import Word 2000 documents either.
So using Microsoft isn't the solution to all your compatibility problems. You also have to use the very latest version of Microsoft. Still, people shouldn't feel so embarassed about requesting a different format. Business partners ought really to be impressed if you reply to their email with, "We don't use Microsoft software since the security scares - could you save it as whatever and send it to me again?".
I've considered advising some clients to switch over to Linux + StarOffice, but the main thing that makes me hesitate is the printing. None of their printers are Postscript, and the overhead of running GhostScript for every print job would, I think, be excessive. They do a lot of printing, and their machines aren't all Pentiums yet.
Also, I suspect that persuading SO & Ghostscript to do things like printing from the right paper/envelope tray at the right time would not be much fun.
Still, doing these things in Unix is getting much better very quickly. My wife still uses "LaTeX" as a swear word since we used it to produce her thesis a few years ago...
...and beeps quietly once per second as it does so.
It might reduce the likelihood of getting support for them in XFree86 4.0, though :-(
Mmmm. The email forwarding service agreement sounds a bit dubious. How much does this actually cover?
I remember, some years ago, trying to find out more about a DEC Hinote Ultra II laptop I was thinking of buying. The only review I could find on the web was in Spanish, so I fed it through a translation service. Most of it worked fairly well, and I could read the article, but it did want to translate 'desktop' as 'tablecloth' and 'turn on' as 'ignite'.
The reviewer was very excited about the fact that the laptop was so capable, you could often go for the whole day without igniting your tablecloth.
(Actually, the machine turned out to be one of the worst purchases I have ever made. Igniting the tablecloth would have been much more fun.)
> I wonder if the Sun Ray could work off of an open source Linux solution? Well, you could just get a diskless linux box, and run the svgalib-based VNC viewer on it. Connect to Xvnc, and you've got pretty much the same thing... :-)
Yes you can. You can start a WinVNC server! :-)
Well, the one I had certainly used TCP/IP. The standard Microsoft install set up PPP over the serial line.
Well, at my lab most of us use our PCs, Linux boxes, Macs etc chiefly as VNC terminals to our real work running somewhere on the network....
But we may be biased in that direction!
I agree - I'm very pleased with my Coolpix900, provided you have enough light and regular access to a battery charger!
Treat it like a 64-100 ASA film camera and the images are superb.
Photopc works slowly but without a hitch, and I especially like the -f 3 option to name all the JPEG files based on the time and date of the shot. Then if I crop or rotate them, I still have the timestamp even though the file time may have changed.