Just installed the 1.2.8 firmware for my DLink DI624 (b) and turned it on. It works great! Bit weirded out by one thing, though: Apple's system profiler lists the AirPort card's firmware as 3.3b1. Bad Apple!
The whole idea for it came about from a couple Apple employees (mostly Stuart Cheshire) wanting to make TCP/IP as easy to use as AppleTalk. It's an open standard, and indeed was an open standard before Apple even shipped an implementation of it.
Examples of Stuart's work include Bolo, AppleScript over TCP/IP, NaturalOrder, RFC 3442, RFC 3397, RFC 3396 and various other accomplishments.
Marketing and Money are more than afterthoughts, they are the meat and potatoes of business. If you don't have them, stick to writing GPL software, at least your poverty won't surprise you!
Maybe a little harsher than I would have put it, but brutally honest and true nonetheless.:)
Yeah, we considered something like that. The problem is that the market we're in (education) is a lot more fractured than the accounting market. Also, there's a few other factors in there that make the market really strange to work in.
Thanks for the sympathy.:) We haven't given up, and there's still a good chance of us making a living here... it's just taking longer than our worst forecasts.
It sounds like your strategy has been to actively seek out contracts rather than develop your own product line; the latter can be promoted for very little money.
Nope, it's our own product and was even a relatively unique idea. It was just in a market space that has other products.
I won't give details, but think about if you had some sort of companion product for a fianancing package. It doesn't compete, and it doesn't offer features that should be rolled into an existing package, but the Quicken guys (just for instance) might swat it down with FUD anyway while they build a competing product. That's more or less what happened to us...
Although they've apparently already redesigned the way the foam is applied (or how it works... I forget) so this won't happen again, this and the description of the Challenger breakup both have that one point in common, as noted in the article: The survivability study concluded relatively modest design changes might enable future crews to survive long enough to bail out.
Am I the only one that finds those words hauntingly familiar? I could have sworn the very same thing was said when they finally puzzled out Challenger. I hope they actually figure out a way to do it this time.
As someone who's been working on this for the last eighteen months, let me tell you the sad truth: Being faster, better and cheaper... and even first to market... isn't nearly enough. What you'll need is the business deals that your competition already has set up. And they're most likely exclusive.
Why did I say competition if you're first to market? Well, your competition won't offer the product you're working on... but they will have similiar products, and they'll happily tell users and business partners that they're working on a product that'll stomp yours.
It costs a LOT. I'd estimate at least 70% of our costs go towards trying to get business deals, and that's the sort of thing you just can't do cheaply.
No particular reason, only that it's my impression (and I could be wrong) that there was a 10.2.x update in February last year. 10.3.1 was definitely rushed out, so I'm sort of viewing 10.3.2 as at the same "maturity" level as 10.2.1. Just feels like we're due for an update soon.
Yeah, that's what I'M not happy about. The original pictures make a cylinder, not a sphere, but I can't find the an option in the tools to do cylindrical stitching. It gives the impression of a deeper crater than it really is, and lets you tilt.
Maybe for the next panorama I'll be able to figure it out...
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There are no innocents in the spam war. There are spammers, spam supporters, and victims...
A signifanct minority (possibly even a majority) of Slashdot editors and readeers have real issues with rational thinking. Even running this story with this spin and in "Your Rights Online" is sickening. I really hope at some point the slashdot editors get educated and stop posting spam-friendly stories.
It's my right to keep my email inbox clean of spam, using whatever techniques I feel are ncessary. It is not someone else's right to get an email, legitimate or not, into my inbox.
My inbox. My property.
No one in their right mind relies on email for critical communication. I would never trust my financial future, for instance, to one medium in particular. If I email a critical contract or something, you can damn well bet I'm going to call the person I sent it to and make sure s|he got it.
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Just installed the 1.2.8 firmware for my DLink DI624 (b) and turned it on. It works great! Bit weirded out by one thing, though: Apple's system profiler lists the AirPort card's firmware as 3.3b1. Bad Apple!
Looks like Apple is fixing the problem for free now.
What about ZeroConf?
The whole idea for it came about from a couple Apple employees (mostly Stuart Cheshire) wanting to make TCP/IP as easy to use as AppleTalk. It's an open standard, and indeed was an open standard before Apple even shipped an implementation of it.
Examples of Stuart's work include Bolo, AppleScript over TCP/IP, NaturalOrder, RFC 3442, RFC 3397, RFC 3396 and various other accomplishments.
It's only 358 licenses. They'll probably get more sales than that out of the round of publicity.
Marketing and Money are more than afterthoughts, they are the meat and potatoes of business. If you don't have them, stick to writing GPL software, at least your poverty won't surprise you!
Maybe a little harsher than I would have put it, but brutally honest and true nonetheless. :)
Yeah, we considered something like that. The problem is that the market we're in (education) is a lot more fractured than the accounting market. Also, there's a few other factors in there that make the market really strange to work in.
Thanks for the sympathy. :) We haven't given up, and there's still a good chance of us making a living here... it's just taking longer than our worst forecasts.
I found a blog entry on a possible Aqua port, but it doesn't seem to be integrated into the builds yet.
It really depends on exactly how modest the change is.
It sounds like your strategy has been to actively seek out contracts rather than develop your own product line; the latter can be promoted for very little money.
Nope, it's our own product and was even a relatively unique idea. It was just in a market space that has other products.
I won't give details, but think about if you had some sort of companion product for a fianancing package. It doesn't compete, and it doesn't offer features that should be rolled into an existing package, but the Quicken guys (just for instance) might swat it down with FUD anyway while they build a competing product. That's more or less what happened to us...
Although they've apparently already redesigned the way the foam is applied (or how it works... I forget) so this won't happen again, this and the description of the Challenger breakup both have that one point in common, as noted in the article: The survivability study concluded relatively modest design changes might enable future crews to survive long enough to bail out.
Am I the only one that finds those words hauntingly familiar? I could have sworn the very same thing was said when they finally puzzled out Challenger. I hope they actually figure out a way to do it this time.
As someone who's been working on this for the last eighteen months, let me tell you the sad truth: Being faster, better and cheaper... and even first to market... isn't nearly enough. What you'll need is the business deals that your competition already has set up. And they're most likely exclusive.
Why did I say competition if you're first to market? Well, your competition won't offer the product you're working on... but they will have similiar products, and they'll happily tell users and business partners that they're working on a product that'll stomp yours.
It costs a LOT. I'd estimate at least 70% of our costs go towards trying to get business deals, and that's the sort of thing you just can't do cheaply.
No particular reason, only that it's my impression (and I could be wrong) that there was a 10.2.x update in February last year. 10.3.1 was definitely rushed out, so I'm sort of viewing 10.3.2 as at the same "maturity" level as 10.2.1. Just feels like we're due for an update soon.
I know it's not a really good reason... :)
I haven't heard any rumors, but I'd expect it in February.
I don't think there's any panoramic ones...
The last security update was December 19th.
As for a monthly update... thanks, but I want new features (and especially security updates) as they become available.
LOL! Yeah, I used the wrong tool. I just replaced it with the new version. Hit refresh. :)
New version: here.
Old version (for those curious about context of comments on it) here.
Panormic, with extra space up top.
Unfortunately, I couldn't find out what angle the camera was at, so I had to guess.
Oh wait, you mean their physical desktop.
No, I want to see what goodies he has installed on his Powerbook -- I'd love to see what the next Keynote-type surprise is...
I thought about that, but it wouldn't fix the tilting problem. Still, I could at least make a letter-box effect with it...
But I need to head out for about an hour now. Someone will likely come up with a better version by the time I'm back. :)
Yeah, that's what I'M not happy about. The original pictures make a cylinder, not a sphere, but I can't find the an option in the tools to do cylindrical stitching. It gives the impression of a deeper crater than it really is, and lets you tilt.
Maybe for the next panorama I'll be able to figure it out...
I'm not exactly happy with how this turned out... but be kind, it's my first time ever using the QTVR tools. :)
Here.
It's on .mac, so it will probably be overwhelmed soon enough. :( Enjoy.
Quite a few online games insist on patching themselves every time they're run.
Ironically, this is one of the groups that needs this sort of protection the most. A cracked PC can cost hundreds of hours of effort.
Innocent people do not support spammers. If my email were to be blocked by SPEWS, I would be thrilled that someone had warned me that my host was supporting spammers... and I would have a new host by the end of the week.
There are no innocents in the spam war. There are spammers, spam supporters, and victims...
A signifanct minority (possibly even a majority) of Slashdot editors and readeers have real issues with rational thinking. Even running this story with this spin and in "Your Rights Online" is sickening. I really hope at some point the slashdot editors get educated and stop posting spam-friendly stories.
It's my right to keep my email inbox clean of spam, using whatever techniques I feel are ncessary. It is not someone else's right to get an email, legitimate or not, into my inbox.
My inbox. My property.
No one in their right mind relies on email for critical communication. I would never trust my financial future, for instance, to one medium in particular. If I email a critical contract or something, you can damn well bet I'm going to call the person I sent it to and make sure s|he got it.
I don't even use SPEWS to block spam. That's not the point of it. I use SPEWS to block spam-friendly companies because I don't want to hear what they have to say.
Apple's guidelines require all context menu commands to be safe. Thus, it would be Delete... anyway.