RH is a special kind of Linux. Technically, they use Linux kernel. And even GNU tools. But practically, they mess everything so much up, that "root without IP addess" doesn't look strange anymore.
I think that RH is the biggest failure of Linux. Without RH the position of Linux on the market would be much better. All the time I hear a negative security experience of MSwin-admins, who have tried first time to learn Linux, is when they've chosen RH thinking that it is Linux. What a shame.
What I see on their pictures is GUI based (means graphical, ehile I begin to think about ncurses - just to make sure it's stable). What makes their GUI better and more stable than GUI from Zaurus?
I used Nextell before, like 3-4 years ago. Too primitive for todays phones, but it worked. The best part - it kept all the data on the server. So I could through away my phone, get anotherone, tune it to my number - and - ta-da - all my data was back with me. Besides, it still could sync with your external devices through the serial cable. Too bad the screen was too small, and too bad I can find a local provider here (in Ontaro) with the same service.
Thank you (and all other who answered) for the advise. Meanwhile I am adding cell-phones to my comparison too: with cell-phones you can keep all your data on the ASP server and that makes your cell-embedded PIM to be independent from memory limitations.
What we need is a Linux-based PDA with Palm-like applications. But nobody is offering that.
As I've suggested in the other comment: we need CLI-based Linux-PDA with ncurses-based PIM applications. Anyone?
... is Linux based and it is the wrong tool for PDA technology. Unless someone comes up with an entirely new user interface of course, qtopia is just dreadful.
Speaking about GUI for PIM... Is it really necessary to be Graphical? I mean, in PIM requirements there is no actually graphics per se. So, the small, simple, stable (and yet useful!) ncurses-based dialog should work fine.
Hard reset has been usually required when soft rest did not work, and that usuall happened when I used too many categories while too many primary records. The OS was 3.3 or something like that.
Also, last I checked they had dropped support for a desktop client that would run on Linux. Imagine that, a Linux handheld that only synchronizes with Win32.
That's a real shame. Last time I've used my Palm Vx to sync it even with Linux.
Perhaps PalmOS is built for the job, but also it's built for the crash in the middle of the job. Usually people associate reliability with servers, but it's getting really annoying whn your PDA locks up at the middle of meeting. Even more - you have to press hardware reset and all you data is gone.
Speaking about hard-reset - that one thing that was annoying me with Palm Vx all the time - at least once a week I've lost all my data because it locked itself up completely. I've noticed that the more I've used categories and the more data I ahd in general (my memory was 8MB) - the more chance of the final crash.
As for syncronizatio, I think it's a general problem in many cases, especially with intensive usage of categories - a sync software usually syncs your primary records, not categories, so, you either end up with duplicated primary records, or with messed up categories.
If all I need is just a PIM (calendaring, contacts, notes, money, short messages), then what would be the reason to choose PalmOS vs Linux on PDA?
Anyone with some experience with both? I used Palm Vx with Palm OS 3 and found it too buggy. I saw ads about Zaurus and found it interesting. I am really close to get Linux PDA. But before I cash out, is there anyone here who found a reason to migrate from Linux PDA to Palm OS?
Nocking sequence is like a bar code, which can be expressed as a number. The byte length of such number will be what? 16 bit atop?
Excuse me, with SSH and/or GPG we are dealing with 1024-bit keys today (which is just an example, not a maximum limitation).
How 16-bit key can be more secure than 1024-bit key?
The is negative. Noway 16-bit security can be stronger than 1024-bit one. It's against the theory of information, which is not proved false yet.
I know why somepeople will love such nocking security - because it's through obscurity. People without math in brains often prefer security through obscurity. And always fail.
J2ME and even J2SE is not a solution for me. I need a functionality of J2EE (specifically EJB, JAX, JMX, JMS). With the same version of Python interpreter (not like some pitty micro-edition) I can get that functionality with a compbination of libraries (like Twisted or Zope) still sitting within the footprint that is 10-100 times less than I've got from any EJB provider.
By the way, the footprint size per se is not the only negative factor that drives me away from Java: with a big footprint size the startup time from noJVM in memory to the running application is getting unacceptable long. And if the logic of the application is to load it up by demand - Java is out of consideration.
I'm using Iternet very carefully and never catch any viruses, neither through email or web. I do lots of web-administration and web-development, I guess that explains it. But recently my family gets more and more to use Internet and I've started bringning some immunization software into my house. Of course, having several computers forced me to choose something that I would install once instead of several times.
After getting our email protected with Postfix+Amavisd-new+Clamav+SpamAssassin+F-prot I asked myself: is it possible to get same quality protection for the web-surfing?
And the answer is Yes! It is possible. Now I am using Squid along with Dansguardian and Squidguard. Working together they are catching 99% of all adware/spyware malicious scriptlets. Also they remove annoying banners and give us the required level of the parent control.
Dansguardian integrates with PICS, Platform for Internet Content Selection, which was originally designed to help parents and teachers control what children access on the Internet, but it also facilitates other uses for labels, including code signing and privacy. The PICS platform is one on which other rating services and filtering software have been built.
Unfortunately Squidguard is getting out of its suppot by its original developers. It's getting more and more false-negatives (up-to 30% was complained on getntoo forums), but it's still better to have it.
Now I am bringing same protection to the company network at work and they are happy of that.
My point is to protect your network rather than individual computers. Windows based PC are unsecure per se. Besides it is a hassle to go to each PC and install different types of filtering software (especially when you have to support 3 or more different client OSes, like win98, win2k and MacOS).
generics support, autoboxing of primitives, syntactic sugar for loops, enumerated types, variable arguments
Looks more and more like Python. All I need now to move from Python to Java is just same small size of memory footprint and ability to interprete the source code. No need to mention FP-things like list comprehensions. Until then - keep your coffe for your blind-dumb managers. I use a real language.
Typically, a swarm bot is a collection of simple robots (s-bots) that self-organize according to algorithms inspired by the bridge-building and task-allocation activities of ants. And ant algorithms are used today to solve human problems especially in distribution and logistics.
Typically, a swarm mod (in other words - slash-bot) is a collection of simple mods (s-mods) that self-organize according to algorithms inspired by the karma rules, with addition of meta-moderation rules. And they are used today to solve human problems, especially in troll control.
Do you like it or not - but it is the world of money. And there is nothing wrong in makeing money on slight modification of the small logo image which is useless anyway. Even on converting the whole home page to the ad place.
How is it different than those stupid ad banners of Microsoft on all OSDN sites? If the ad money will help Google to keep and improve its quality - I don't see any problem in it. All I need from Google is the search field and the search results. What will be around on the empty-otherwise place - I don't care.
Let me generalize it: all procedural and imperative programming languages refuse to die.
I understand that on yearly days computers were weak and translation from functional to procedural form was not trivial task. That's why they tried to keep even so called "high-level" programming languages as close to the machine code as possible.
But now most of functional programming languages have compilers to produce as-fast-as-C native code, as well as as-fast-as-shell interpreters.
Now it's unforgivable that dumb and blind managers bite Java marketing catch, and stick to 50 years old type of programming language today called Java.
Here is the rule # 1 of international trade affairs: two countries make a trade of products and services for an equal amount of money (disbalance is supposed ot be an exception and has to trend to be neutralized in a long term).
If US exports jobs to India then US imports jobs from India for the same amount. Of course, Indian employee of US branches after getting US dollars want to spend them, and gues what? they want to spend them for US products. So, for the volume of production US offshore to India, there is a comparable volume of production India outsource to US. In other words, India imports products from US.
If you job has been outsourced to India, then it's most likely there is some new job vacancy in US waiting for your service to produce something for India.
So, what US exports to India most of all? That right: weapons. So, gues what would be your next job? That's right: production of weapons of mass distruction for Indian Army to outstand Pakistan. Do you like it? Now you know how to vote this year.
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I think that RH is the biggest failure of Linux. Without RH the position of Linux on the market would be much better. All the time I hear a negative security experience of MSwin-admins, who have tried first time to learn Linux, is when they've chosen RH thinking that it is Linux. What a shame.
No, you don't. Well, at least for lynx. I had a box without X with lynx. And I sure you srewd something up if your box required X for ncurses.
With this technology you can do it freehand.
It is based on Linux, isn't it? How is it in terms of quality of GUI? Is it stable? And how are PIM applications? Are they OK with many categories?
What I see on their pictures is GUI based (means graphical, ehile I begin to think about ncurses - just to make sure it's stable). What makes their GUI better and more stable than GUI from Zaurus?
I used Nextell before, like 3-4 years ago. Too primitive for todays phones, but it worked. The best part - it kept all the data on the server. So I could through away my phone, get anotherone, tune it to my number - and - ta-da - all my data was back with me. Besides, it still could sync with your external devices through the serial cable. Too bad the screen was too small, and too bad I can find a local provider here (in Ontaro) with the same service.
What we need is a Linux-based PDA with Palm-like applications. But nobody is offering that.
As I've suggested in the other comment: we need CLI-based Linux-PDA with ncurses-based PIM applications. Anyone?
Speaking about GUI for PIM ... Is it really necessary to be Graphical? I mean, in PIM requirements there is no actually graphics per se. So, the small, simple, stable (and yet useful!) ncurses-based dialog should work fine.
Anyone seen ncurses-based PIM for Linux?
Hard reset has been usually required when soft rest did not work, and that usuall happened when I used too many categories while too many primary records. The OS was 3.3 or something like that.
That's a real shame. Last time I've used my Palm Vx to sync it even with Linux.
What specifically clunky about PIM on Zaurus? Can you give few examples?
What's specifically wrong with calendaring in Zaurus? Your answer can be really helpful for me.
Perhaps PalmOS is built for the job, but also it's built for the crash in the middle of the job. Usually people associate reliability with servers, but it's getting really annoying whn your PDA locks up at the middle of meeting. Even more - you have to press hardware reset and all you data is gone.
As for syncronizatio, I think it's a general problem in many cases, especially with intensive usage of categories - a sync software usually syncs your primary records, not categories, so, you either end up with duplicated primary records, or with messed up categories.
Is it the same or different on Linux PDA?
Anyone with some experience with both? I used Palm Vx with Palm OS 3 and found it too buggy. I saw ads about Zaurus and found it interesting. I am really close to get Linux PDA. But before I cash out, is there anyone here who found a reason to migrate from Linux PDA to Palm OS?
Bring audio and video chatting to jabber - and you can say bye-bye to all other IM networks within few weeks after that.
Ehh... there is always something missing in good open-source projects...
Excuse me, with SSH and/or GPG we are dealing with 1024-bit keys today (which is just an example, not a maximum limitation).
How 16-bit key can be more secure than 1024-bit key?
The is negative. Noway 16-bit security can be stronger than 1024-bit one. It's against the theory of information, which is not proved false yet.
I know why somepeople will love such nocking security - because it's through obscurity. People without math in brains often prefer security through obscurity. And always fail.
Don't repeat their mistakes!
By the way, the footprint size per se is not the only negative factor that drives me away from Java: with a big footprint size the startup time from noJVM in memory to the running application is getting unacceptable long. And if the logic of the application is to load it up by demand - Java is out of consideration.
After getting our email protected with Postfix+Amavisd-new+Clamav+SpamAssassin+F-prot I asked myself: is it possible to get same quality protection for the web-surfing?
And the answer is Yes! It is possible. Now I am using Squid along with Dansguardian and Squidguard. Working together they are catching 99% of all adware/spyware malicious scriptlets. Also they remove annoying banners and give us the required level of the parent control.
Dansguardian integrates with PICS, Platform for Internet Content Selection, which was originally designed to help parents and teachers control what children access on the Internet, but it also facilitates other uses for labels, including code signing and privacy. The PICS platform is one on which other rating services and filtering software have been built.
Unfortunately Squidguard is getting out of its suppot by its original developers. It's getting more and more false-negatives (up-to 30% was complained on getntoo forums), but it's still better to have it.
Now I am bringing same protection to the company network at work and they are happy of that.
My point is to protect your network rather than individual computers. Windows based PC are unsecure per se. Besides it is a hassle to go to each PC and install different types of filtering software (especially when you have to support 3 or more different client OSes, like win98, win2k and MacOS).
Looks more and more like Python. All I need now to move from Python to Java is just same small size of memory footprint and ability to interprete the source code. No need to mention FP-things like list comprehensions. Until then - keep your coffe for your blind-dumb managers. I use a real language.
No, nobody will pay for it. Indian goverment is very corrupted. Indians need this service. Indian goverment doesn't.
Typically, a swarm mod (in other words - slash-bot) is a collection of simple mods (s-mods) that self-organize according to algorithms inspired by the karma rules, with addition of meta-moderation rules. And they are used today to solve human problems, especially in troll control.
How is it different than those stupid ad banners of Microsoft on all OSDN sites? If the ad money will help Google to keep and improve its quality - I don't see any problem in it. All I need from Google is the search field and the search results. What will be around on the empty-otherwise place - I don't care.
I understand that on yearly days computers were weak and translation from functional to procedural form was not trivial task. That's why they tried to keep even so called "high-level" programming languages as close to the machine code as possible.
But now most of functional programming languages have compilers to produce as-fast-as-C native code, as well as as-fast-as-shell interpreters.
Now it's unforgivable that dumb and blind managers bite Java marketing catch, and stick to 50 years old type of programming language today called Java.
If US exports jobs to India then US imports jobs from India for the same amount. Of course, Indian employee of US branches after getting US dollars want to spend them, and gues what? they want to spend them for US products. So, for the volume of production US offshore to India, there is a comparable volume of production India outsource to US. In other words, India imports products from US.
If you job has been outsourced to India, then it's most likely there is some new job vacancy in US waiting for your service to produce something for India.
So, what US exports to India most of all? That right: weapons. So, gues what would be your next job? That's right: production of weapons of mass distruction for Indian Army to outstand Pakistan. Do you like it? Now you know how to vote this year.