What about http://www.imcosys.com/? This phone looks like a good buy for 350 euros and was supposed to be out earlier this year. Anyone know what's up with it?
Correction: An electric cell stores energy using chemistry while a capacitor stores energy in electric fields.
A battery is simply a collection of related things intended for use together.
What you think is a battery may be a collection of electric cells, but is more likely to be a single electric cell.
You can also have a battery of capacitors. In fact, the term battery was first used in electricity to describe a collection of Leyden jars, otherwise known as capacitors.
For each assignment, pick a general subject. Then work with each student to pick a different subtopic that you both want to learn more about. The student succeeds by actually teaching you something. They should also be aware of how to write for different audiences. Arrange "teach me something" writing exchanges between students (peer writing), business majors (their future managers) and, if possible, an 8th grade reading level target group.
Cultural studies subject ideas? The history of technology of culture X. The contributions to US technology from cultural group Y. Tech advancements that result from increasing cultural diversity in a discipline.
The regulation shows that we have learned from experience and rightfully do not trust institutions that have a history of preying on children, lying, cheating, stealing and killing for money and protecting those who do.
What makes one of these problems less real than the other?
Your probably right about the IT person not choosing the faulty equipment, but...
You "don't think there should be such thing as negligence when it comes to defending yourself against the actions of a human." ???
So, if your child attended a school where the administration choose a locker room design with obvious and inviting doors to the outside, placed ineffective or no locks on those doors, provided poor or no supervision and mandated gym participation and showers, and some pervert came in off the street through that door and molested your child... You wouldn't call for any action against the school? The pervert is the only one responsible? What if it happens again with a different pervert? What it happens 100 times?
Let's say some idiot gave his 10 year old nephew a job driving the ambulance taking your child to the hospital, but fell for an obviously homemade false turn sign some college kids put up and drove off a cliff, killing your child. If you found out that the management of the ambulance company knowingly choose the 10 year old kid (Windows) to drive on the advise of his uncle (the IT staff) and the kid's dad (Microsoft) lobbied the uncle to give the kid a job when it's obvious that there are much better choices for ambulance drivers out there... You wouldn't call for any action against the management, the uncle or the driver's father? The college kids are the only ones liable? Even if the management does nothing and the 10 year old falls for more obvious tricks and kills hundreds of people?
Or your doctor chooses a drug for your wife that's known to cause death when the patient is exposed to THC and doesn't tell you about it, so you and your wife go to a rock concert and she dies. No action against the doctor because people at the concert were the ones doing the illegal thing?
People who want the rewards that come with holding your life in their hands, and then ignore reality put your life at risk and should be liable.
I've already go the rotational nightly backups -- So I can restore files from up to a week ago.
I will scan the computers for destroyed files for the next few nights -- if ( (extenstionMatch) && (smallFileSize) && (startsWithString("DATA Error [47 0F 94 93 F4 F5]") ) -- and save the list of files to restore.
And I'm considering writing a monitor for the Mac server that uses fs_usage and examines the files right after they are changed.
But it would really be useful to know what infected clients can do to servers through what type of connection. I have no problem turning off SMB access for three days and insisting that WIndows clients use WinSCP, but only if it is know that infected machines can destroy files on servers via SMB.
If neither Mr. Gates nor Mr. Belfiore can figure out how Front Row could have TV and digital video recorder functions without adding buttons to Apple's remote, Microsoft is in sorry shape.
Uh... I was pointing out how even the abilities of the new tool are misunderstood and it could be used for detail work.
I understand that I tend to explain things with enthusiasm -- It seems to help people pay attention -- But that's no reason for you to jump to conclusions about the nature of my artistic obsessions. At least most people wait until the showing to do that.
And surely you aren't dismissing obsession with perfection in a general sweep. Sometimes the whole performance can be the expression on a single note from the violinist. Sometimes the forrest can be the bark on a single tree.
"I don't know how useful it would be to make actual works of art"
That depends on how good you are at working "outside of the box." I've heard great music created with professional instruments, toy instruments and even computers. I've examined awesome sculpture made with marble and some made with Playdoh. I've even seen great paintings made with condiments. Artists are pretty good at figuring out how to use tools to express themselves in a meaningful ways.
"...it looks too big and awkward to do any detail work."
The level of detail you could do with this thing is orders of magnitude beyond traditional brushes. Did you know that many computer art programs can zoom down to a pixel? And dig this: They also let you assign your granularity in something called dpi. Imagine a single brush that could be adjusted from an angstrom thick to a kilometer wide. Cool, eh?
"It would be a lot easier to get colours right when painting from life anyway"
Yeah, too bad there's not a way to calibrate monitors. And we know that the aim of all painters is to create photographic realism in every detail, even when it interferes with the perceptive and emotional realism.
This week, some Macs at my workplace were unable to connect to smb shares on Windows boxes. All were showing error -36. These were mainly 10.4 machines, but also 10.3 and 10.2 machines that could connect before. And all of the users in question could connect from other Macs via browsing the Windows domain.
I sniffed the successful connections and found that they all had addresses like "cifs://windows.server.address" instead of the expected "smb://windows.server.address".
When I had the users connect from their "broken" Macs using Cmd+K and "cifs://", it worked for all of them. Don't know why, but it does.
Yes, Windows is much better at running the software that only runs on it, so only use Windows for that software.
Likewise, OS X and linux are much better at safe network use, so use only these OSes for network access.
Want to be safer and use apps that have not been ported from Windows to a safer OS? Here are the options.
A). Keep your security knowledge up to date and do all of the things needed to secure Windows. This is OK for some people, but for most it's is a bad idea. Most people are don't want to become computer security experts and even if they did, would not be good at it.
B). Pay or beg someone to do this for you and hope they do it right. This is the position most people are in at work and at home. Unfortunately, most of the people who are payed or begged to do this are obviously not doing a good job.
C). Keep your Windows system for now and boot it when you need to use those apps, but keep it completely off of the net. Get an OS X box (or linux one if you don't want it to just work) and use that for all network access. Inform the creators of Windows-only apps that you want them to port the software and you are actively looking for replacements that run on the new system.
Yes, OS X is not immune to spam, but it's default mail app's spam filtering is much better than Outlook on my PC. So much so that I find it painful to open mail on Windows. No, I do not want to take the time to make the Windows spam filtering better. I want to get work done.
Yes, someday someone may make Spyware for OS X. I insist people put something like LittleSnitch on their OS X boxes in preperation for that day. Yes, Windows has such things, but they're much more complicated and I want to get work done.
Yes, someday someone will make a virus for OS X. There are anti-virus applications you can install so you are ready. Yes, Windows has anti-virus software available, but I've seen hundreds of Windows systems fall to viruses and worms before the vendor has a def ready. No OS X box has fallen to malware, so I can get work done.
Yes, OS X boxes should still have backups done because hardware sometimes fails. There are many backup solutions for OS X. Yes, Windows has backup systems, too. But this the only reliability factor OS X and Windows are even on.
Agreed. The ticker is not a bad design in itself, but most of them have been poorly designed.
RSS tickers drove me batty until I found that some remove headlines from the ticker when I mark them "not interested" as well as when I click on them to open a story. Only the headlines I want to keep stay in the ticker.
PS: For me, it was a very close call between Tickershock and NewsTicker, but NewsTicker won. Their site and help are not that informative, but I liked seeing headlines from different sources in different colors.
I feel so spoiled having a *nix-based system with so many great apps to choose from.
Seriously, though, not only would a http://www.ruf.dk/ system work better, it would be more likely to succeed.
Area of operation.
SkyWeb is a bit better at this than traditional mass transit, but RUF covers much more area. As mass transit (bus-rail), RUF can use existing roads and switch to rail when it makes sense. RUF can also be used by individually owned RUF-enabled cars, extending the range far beyond the range of current bus systems.
Hours of operation.
SkyWeb is no better at this than traditional mass transit, but RUF can be used at any time by individually owned RUF-enabled cars.
Having to share a car with other people.
SkyWeb is a bit better at this than traditional mass transit, but 3 person unattended cars that are not owned by the occupants are likely to be vandalized. You could solve that with security cams, but they're very offensive to many people. WIth RUF, you can ride in attended vehicles or a RUF-enabled car you own, giving people a privacy option.
Having to walk too far.
SkyWeb is a bit better at this than traditional mass transit, but RUF allows those of us who do not want to walk a half a mile (for reasons such as disabilities, infant/child companions, bad weather, the size and weight of shopping booty or laziness) the option of using our own RUF vehicle from garage to garage.
Time to get somewhere.
SkyWeb is probably a bit better than this than traditional mass transit and so is RUF as used by the bus-rail vehicles, but personal RUF vehicles can be much faster than traditional cars.
Reducing congestion and pollution.
RUF wins hands-down because it invites more people into the system.
Automobile company opposition.
RUF wins. The existing manufacturers can make RUF enabled vehicles with all of the personality, comfort and profit of existing models.
Getting people to use it.
If you were sitting in a traffic jam watching RUF vehicles go by at 100km/h and knew your next car could ride on the RUF and have all of the personality, comfort and range of operation you were used to, you'd buy RUF.
Why hasn't RUF caught on? Maybe because it is compromise between mass transit and personal vehicle ownership. If Mass transitites give up a bit of social control (stop thinking that all cars are bad) and personal vehiclites give up a bit of stearing wheel control (only when on the track), we can have less congestion, cleaner air, go places faster and be less dependant on fossil fuels and still have the freedom of movement and ownership we enjoy with cars.
The Basic and Advanced views work for me, but the Expression Sheet, Graphing and Hexidecimal views show just brushed metal.
I'm almost entirely sure these last three views are not normally available, but some people (myself included) turned them on by moving them from the Calculator.app/Contents/Resources folder to the Calculator.app/Contents/PlugIns folder.
Unfortunately, deleting the old Expression Sheet, Graphing and Hexidecimal views in the PlugIns folder and replacing them with the new ones in the Resources folder does not fix these three additional views.
Oh well, it'd be nice to have them again, but I rarely used them and it's obvious that Apple didn't feel they were ready for prime-time.
As far as I know, AppleScript does offer something that Perl and Python do not: GUI scripting -- And you can launch Perl from AppleScript and vice-versa. I like the fact that with AppleScript I can control the GUI of an "unscriptble" app from Perl.
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Doesn't beat White LEDs at 300 lumens per watt.
This one rarely works for me. I think they think they're seeing through the method and choose the first choice (that doesn't quite solve the problem).
What about http://www.imcosys.com/? This phone looks like a good buy for 350 euros and was supposed to be out earlier this year. Anyone know what's up with it?
That wasn't Ben Franklin's reason, but it's a good one.
http://www.thebakken.org/artifacts/Leyden.htm
Correction: An electric cell stores energy using chemistry while a capacitor stores energy in electric fields.
A battery is simply a collection of related things intended for use together.
What you think is a battery may be a collection of electric cells, but is more likely to be a single electric cell.
You can also have a battery of capacitors. In fact, the term battery was first used in electricity to describe a collection of Leyden jars, otherwise known as capacitors.
For each assignment, pick a general subject. Then work with each student to pick a different subtopic that you both want to learn more about. The student succeeds by actually teaching you something. They should also be aware of how to write for different audiences. Arrange "teach me something" writing exchanges between students (peer writing), business majors (their future managers) and, if possible, an 8th grade reading level target group.
Cultural studies subject ideas? The history of technology of culture X. The contributions to US technology from cultural group Y. Tech advancements that result from increasing cultural diversity in a discipline.
The regulation shows that we have learned from experience and rightfully do not trust institutions that have a history of preying on children, lying, cheating, stealing and killing for money and protecting those who do.
What makes one of these problems less real than the other?
Your probably right about the IT person not choosing the faulty equipment, but...
You "don't think there should be such thing as negligence when it comes to defending yourself against the actions of a human." ???
So, if your child attended a school where the administration choose a locker room design with obvious and inviting doors to the outside, placed ineffective or no locks on those doors, provided poor or no supervision and mandated gym participation and showers, and some pervert came in off the street through that door and molested your child... You wouldn't call for any action against the school? The pervert is the only one responsible? What if it happens again with a different pervert? What it happens 100 times?
Let's say some idiot gave his 10 year old nephew a job driving the ambulance taking your child to the hospital, but fell for an obviously homemade false turn sign some college kids put up and drove off a cliff, killing your child. If you found out that the management of the ambulance company knowingly choose the 10 year old kid (Windows) to drive on the advise of his uncle (the IT staff) and the kid's dad (Microsoft) lobbied the uncle to give the kid a job when it's obvious that there are much better choices for ambulance drivers out there... You wouldn't call for any action against the management, the uncle or the driver's father? The college kids are the only ones liable? Even if the management does nothing and the 10 year old falls for more obvious tricks and kills hundreds of people?
Or your doctor chooses a drug for your wife that's known to cause death when the patient is exposed to THC and doesn't tell you about it, so you and your wife go to a rock concert and she dies. No action against the doctor because people at the concert were the ones doing the illegal thing?
People who want the rewards that come with holding your life in their hands, and then ignore reality put your life at risk and should be liable.
I'd like to know the answer to this, too.
Anybody know?
I've already go the rotational nightly backups -- So I can restore files from up to a week ago.
I will scan the computers for destroyed files for the next few nights -- if ( (extenstionMatch) && (smallFileSize) && (startsWithString("DATA Error [47 0F 94 93 F4 F5]") ) -- and save the list of files to restore.
And I'm considering writing a monitor for the Mac server that uses fs_usage and examines the files right after they are changed.
But it would really be useful to know what infected clients can do to servers through what type of connection. I have no problem turning off SMB access for three days and insisting that WIndows clients use WinSCP, but only if it is know that infected machines can destroy files on servers via SMB.
What worries me is files on my servers being destroyed by Windows machines connected to them.
Does this payload destroy files only on the local drives? On mounted drives, too? How about on mapped drives?
How can I protect my Mac, Windows and Linux servers from infected clients?
If neither Mr. Gates nor Mr. Belfiore can figure out how Front Row could have TV and digital video recorder functions without adding buttons to Apple's remote, Microsoft is in sorry shape.
but the whole world revolves around someone...
Copernicus Was Wrong
Uh... I was pointing out how even the abilities of the new tool are misunderstood and it could be used for detail work.
I understand that I tend to explain things with enthusiasm -- It seems to help people pay attention -- But that's no reason for you to jump to conclusions about the nature of my artistic obsessions. At least most people wait until the showing to do that.
And surely you aren't dismissing obsession with perfection in a general sweep. Sometimes the whole performance can be the expression on a single note from the violinist. Sometimes the forrest can be the bark on a single tree.
"I don't know how useful it would be to make actual works of art"
That depends on how good you are at working "outside of the box." I've heard great music created with professional instruments, toy instruments and even computers. I've examined awesome sculpture made with marble and some made with Playdoh. I've even seen great paintings made with condiments. Artists are pretty good at figuring out how to use tools to express themselves in a meaningful ways.
"...it looks too big and awkward to do any detail work."
The level of detail you could do with this thing is orders of magnitude beyond traditional brushes. Did you know that many computer art programs can zoom down to a pixel? And dig this: They also let you assign your granularity in something called dpi. Imagine a single brush that could be adjusted from an angstrom thick to a kilometer wide. Cool, eh?
"It would be a lot easier to get colours right when painting from life anyway"
Yeah, too bad there's not a way to calibrate monitors. And we know that the aim of all painters is to create photographic realism in every detail, even when it interferes with the perceptive and emotional realism.
Isn't it AppleTalk that's chatty? From what I understand and seen, AFP over TCP/IP is not chatty.
This week, some Macs at my workplace were unable to connect to smb shares on Windows boxes. All were showing error -36. These were mainly 10.4 machines, but also 10.3 and 10.2 machines that could connect before. And all of the users in question could connect from other Macs via browsing the Windows domain. I sniffed the successful connections and found that they all had addresses like "cifs://windows.server.address" instead of the expected "smb://windows.server.address". When I had the users connect from their "broken" Macs using Cmd+K and "cifs://", it worked for all of them. Don't know why, but it does.
Yes, Windows is much better at running the software that only runs on it, so only use Windows for that software.
Likewise, OS X and linux are much better at safe network use, so use only these OSes for network access.
Want to be safer and use apps that have not been ported from Windows to a safer OS? Here are the options.
A). Keep your security knowledge up to date and do all of the things needed to secure Windows. This is OK for some people, but for most it's is a bad idea. Most people are don't want to become computer security experts and even if they did, would not be good at it.
B). Pay or beg someone to do this for you and hope they do it right. This is the position most people are in at work and at home. Unfortunately, most of the people who are payed or begged to do this are obviously not doing a good job.
C). Keep your Windows system for now and boot it when you need to use those apps, but keep it completely off of the net. Get an OS X box (or linux one if you don't want it to just work) and use that for all network access. Inform the creators of Windows-only apps that you want them to port the software and you are actively looking for replacements that run on the new system.
Yes, OS X is not immune to spam, but it's default mail app's spam filtering is much better than Outlook on my PC. So much so that I find it painful to open mail on Windows. No, I do not want to take the time to make the Windows spam filtering better. I want to get work done.
Yes, someday someone may make Spyware for OS X. I insist people put something like LittleSnitch on their OS X boxes in preperation for that day. Yes, Windows has such things, but they're much more complicated and I want to get work done.
Yes, someday someone will make a virus for OS X. There are anti-virus applications you can install so you are ready. Yes, Windows has anti-virus software available, but I've seen hundreds of Windows systems fall to viruses and worms before the vendor has a def ready. No OS X box has fallen to malware, so I can get work done.
Yes, OS X boxes should still have backups done because hardware sometimes fails. There are many backup solutions for OS X. Yes, Windows has backup systems, too. But this the only reliability factor OS X and Windows are even on.
$1000 USD?
I used to fix people's WIndows machines for a minimum of $799, but the price dropped to $499 this week.
I've been really busy this week.
Agreed. The ticker is not a bad design in itself, but most of them have been poorly designed.
RSS tickers drove me batty until I found that some remove headlines from the ticker when I mark them "not interested" as well as when I click on them to open a story. Only the headlines I want to keep stay in the ticker.
PS: For me, it was a very close call between Tickershock and NewsTicker, but NewsTicker won. Their site and help are not that informative, but I liked seeing headlines from different sources in different colors.
I feel so spoiled having a *nix-based system with so many great apps to choose from.
The FireWave looks better for home theater because it has 5.1 surround sound support.
The M-Audo Transit is good for stereo in/out, but the iMic adapter is half the price.
Seriously, though, not only would a http://www.ruf.dk/ system work better, it would be more likely to succeed.
Area of operation.
SkyWeb is a bit better at this than traditional mass transit, but RUF covers much more area. As mass transit (bus-rail), RUF can use existing roads and switch to rail when it makes sense. RUF can also be used by individually owned RUF-enabled cars, extending the range far beyond the range of current bus systems.
Hours of operation.
SkyWeb is no better at this than traditional mass transit, but RUF can be used at any time by individually owned RUF-enabled cars.
Having to share a car with other people.
SkyWeb is a bit better at this than traditional mass transit, but 3 person unattended cars that are not owned by the occupants are likely to be vandalized. You could solve that with security cams, but they're very offensive to many people. WIth RUF, you can ride in attended vehicles or a RUF-enabled car you own, giving people a privacy option.
Having to walk too far.
SkyWeb is a bit better at this than traditional mass transit, but RUF allows those of us who do not want to walk a half a mile (for reasons such as disabilities, infant/child companions, bad weather, the size and weight of shopping booty or laziness) the option of using our own RUF vehicle from garage to garage.
Time to get somewhere.
SkyWeb is probably a bit better than this than traditional mass transit and so is RUF as used by the bus-rail vehicles, but personal RUF vehicles can be much faster than traditional cars.
Reducing congestion and pollution.
RUF wins hands-down because it invites more people into the system.
Automobile company opposition.
RUF wins. The existing manufacturers can make RUF enabled vehicles with all of the personality, comfort and profit of existing models.
Getting people to use it.
If you were sitting in a traffic jam watching RUF vehicles go by at 100km/h and knew your next car could ride on the RUF and have all of the personality, comfort and range of operation you were used to, you'd buy RUF.
Why hasn't RUF caught on? Maybe because it is compromise between mass transit and personal vehicle ownership. If Mass transitites give up a bit of social control (stop thinking that all cars are bad) and personal vehiclites give up a bit of stearing wheel control (only when on the track), we can have less congestion, cleaner air, go places faster and be less dependant on fossil fuels and still have the freedom of movement and ownership we enjoy with cars.
The Basic and Advanced views work for me, but the Expression Sheet, Graphing and Hexidecimal views show just brushed metal.
I'm almost entirely sure these last three views are not normally available, but some people (myself included) turned them on by moving them from the Calculator.app/Contents/Resources folder to the Calculator.app/Contents/PlugIns folder.
Unfortunately, deleting the old Expression Sheet, Graphing and Hexidecimal views in the PlugIns folder and replacing them with the new ones in the Resources folder does not fix these three additional views.
Oh well, it'd be nice to have them again, but I rarely used them and it's obvious that Apple didn't feel they were ready for prime-time.
As far as I know, AppleScript does offer something that Perl and Python do not: GUI scripting -- And you can launch Perl from AppleScript and vice-versa. I like the fact that with AppleScript I can control the GUI of an "unscriptble" app from Perl.
When whynot.net is available again, post to whynot.net asking for a pre-emptive solution to being slashdotted.