People who don't have a TiVo belong to at least one of these 3 groups:
* Can't afford it
* Don't know what it is
* Don't watch TV.
I used to hate TV. But when I had a roommate who had a Tivo, it made me watch TV. I then realized that I hate TV because everytime I sit down to watch TV it's all just infomercials and crappy TV shows. howvere there are many quality shows I loved (like Law and Order, Simpsons, the Daily Show, South Park, etc.). it's a dream to have all your favorite programs at your fingertips all the time. So many times I'd be watch my very own Simpsons marathon at 4am. I went from watching 1-2 hrs a week with live TV to 5-6 hrs a day with Tivo.
First off, compairing a DVD-R to a TiVo is stupid. It's like compairing a VCR to a TiVo,
I'd say DVD-R vs Tivo is more like CD-R vs. iPod. consider how many times I have to explain open sessions, track-at-once vs disc-at-once, CD-RW vs CD-R, yada yada yada.... I can safely assume that DVD-R would be every bit as difficult to use as a Tivo.
Glad too hear your Mom can use a Tivo without problems. Could she program the VCR? I think it's a common myth that using a Tivo is as difficult as programming the VCR.
When I heard about the Tivo I thought, "oh kewl, too bad it's too expensive."
When my ex-roommate got one, I was like, "Wow."
The joy of a Tivo has to be exprienced to understand. The progress from VCR to Tivo is like from the command-line to GUI, or from audio cassette to MP3 player.
BTW I'm speaking of Tivo only because it has better usability than anyone else. I didn't try ReplayTV but Ultimate TV was a total pain in the ass to use.
The same "open competition" which made the US completely incompatible with the rest of the world in 2G mobiles? (VoiceStream and GSM1900mhz excluded, of course).
How are they exceptions? GSM1900 is an US standard. The rest of the world use GSM1800 and GSM900.
Sorry to say but everything about your statement is wrong.
Mono is an open source project, limited in resources and developers. Its goal, to recreate the.NET platform on Linux, is an overly ambitious one. Not to mention the technical difficulties involved in porting.NET's runtime (and all the Win32 API calls it replies on) to Linux. It's an issue of resources and engineering, not a marketing one.
To say either Mono or Liberty hasn't caught on also means that the race must have begun in the first place. However, neither Mono nor Liberty are production ready, while the.NET framework and the MS Passport service have been available for a year.
As far as marketing budget goes, I'd quote Liberty's FAQ:
Q: What companies are on the Liberty Alliance Management Board?
A. There are currently 16 companies on the management board. They are: American Express, AOL Time Warner, Bell Canada, Citigroup, France Telecom, General Motors, Hewlett-Packard Company, MasterCard International, Nokia, NTT DoCoMo, Openwave Systems, RSA Security, Sony Corporation, Sun Microsystems, United Airlines, and Vodafone.
FYI, here in the US we use GSM1900, TDMA800 and TDMA1900. TDMA isn't widely used outside of North America bcause TMDA800 is basically Digital AMPS. Hence most TDMA phones should support AMPS also.
The rest of the world use GSM900 and GSM1800. There soon will be GSM850 available globally, which allow GSM850-compatible phones be used worldwide. Though I'm not sure if a GSM800(US) or GSM900(non-US) phone can use the GSM850 band.
The problem I have with OpenLDAP (or LDAP in general) right now is that it's not writable by most desktop email clients (OE, OL, Mozilla, Eudora, etc.) The only one I know of that can update LDAP is Evolution.
And I particular need PalmLDAP sync. Until then I won't touch LDAP.
Have u tried SyncML at all? I thought the whole thing died. Never heard anyone actually implemented SyncML.
calling this a roaming profile is somewhat miseading. A distributed profile would be more appropiate.
What u are suggesting is that instead of a single sign-on service like Liberty or Passport, there should be a distributed model instead for your personal information, and each server may contain a portion of your profile (ie. what it needs to know).
That's way too much interoperatibility issues to deal with. Why not just have a standardized profile information (eg. in XML or Dublin Core or something)? encrypt it with your own private key for security. Credit card #s and such are preferably store in a separate file and with higher level of encryption. Store these personal profile XML files on your HD, sync to your Palm, save it on a USB keychain, etc.
If u think storing your personal profile on a single sign-on service is insecure, then storing it on 10 different servers only makes it 10 times more insecure.
I've been using Backflip since Blink.com went paid-only (and switch the domain name to blinkpro.com for it's paid service). Blink was excellent, best of its breeds. But $48 a yr is a little too much to ask for... $20-30/yr would be about right.
Blink was also unique in that:
1. It has WAP support
2. It copies link as aliases (if u change one bookmark's URL, all the alias copies gets updated too)
<B><A HREF="http://backflip.com">Backflip</A></B&g t; does the job for me ever since. Blink had sidebars for both IE and Mozilla, Backflip only have one for Mozilla. Backlip's search is still broken right now.
Even then Backlip has been essential to my life ever since Blink turned commercial. I keep everything in Backflip.
Ultimately we need a workgroup bookmark server that integrates with Mozilla or IE. Actually I'd just settle for a roaming server for Mozilla, I might even use Mozilla for all my email/newsgroup needs if it has roaming server support.
it appears to be the floating point unit stalling for data.
Well, if it's stalling for data, your problem is probably that the P4 has a *tiny* L1 data cache compared to... uh... anything. It's only 8K, compared to the Athlons 64K. See the following URLs:
I also heard that Athlon's FPU has a much lower latency than P4's FPU. And Intel has focused FP-optimizations within the SSE2 operations rather than gerenal FP operations.
What's the bottleneck you encountered? Are you doing mostly floating-point operations? I read @ many places that the Athlon's FPU blows P4's away. It'd be kewl to hear your first-hand experiences.
Well, at least your apache log files will.
And since you do have the *private key* that is used to encrypt every packets going through your SSL server, theorically, you should be able to decrypt those packets if they were logged.
But then i don't know if anyone tried it.
If a daemon listens on a port that is open for incoming internet connections (eg. Apache), firewalls can only detect DoS type attacks. Firewalls aren't virus scanners for network sockets, there's no way a firewall would be able to reject an incoming packet as it arrives that it may contain malicious data.
Your Apache log files can probly tell u a lot more about exploit attempts.
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I used to hate TV. But when I had a roommate who had a Tivo, it made me watch TV. I then realized that I hate TV because everytime I sit down to watch TV it's all just infomercials and crappy TV shows. howvere there are many quality shows I loved (like Law and Order, Simpsons, the Daily Show, South Park, etc.). it's a dream to have all your favorite programs at your fingertips all the time . So many times I'd be watch my very own Simpsons marathon at 4am. I went from watching 1-2 hrs a week with live TV to 5-6 hrs a day with Tivo.
I'd say DVD-R vs Tivo is more like CD-R vs. iPod. consider how many times I have to explain open sessions, track-at-once vs disc-at-once, CD-RW vs CD-R, yada yada yada.... I can safely assume that DVD-R would be every bit as difficult to use as a Tivo.
Glad too hear your Mom can use a Tivo without problems. Could she program the VCR? I think it's a common myth that using a Tivo is as difficult as programming the VCR.
I can't agree any less.
When I heard about the Tivo I thought, "oh kewl, too bad it's too expensive."
When my ex-roommate got one, I was like, "Wow."
The joy of a Tivo has to be exprienced to understand. The progress from VCR to Tivo is like from the command-line to GUI, or from audio cassette to MP3 player.
BTW I'm speaking of Tivo only because it has better usability than anyone else. I didn't try ReplayTV but Ultimate TV was a total pain in the ass to use.
How are they exceptions? GSM1900 is an US standard. The rest of the world use GSM1800 and GSM900.
Easy solution: Make every AOL/AIM screename the default Liberty logon.
AOL is part of the Liberty Alliance.
Sorry to say but everything about your statement is wrong.
Mono is an open source project, limited in resources and developers. Its goal, to recreate the .NET platform on Linux, is an overly ambitious one. Not to mention the technical difficulties involved in porting .NET's runtime (and all the Win32 API calls it replies on) to Linux. It's an issue of resources and engineering, not a marketing one.
To say either Mono or Liberty hasn't caught on also means that the race must have begun in the first place. However, neither Mono nor Liberty are production ready, while the .NET framework and the MS Passport service have been available for a year.
As far as marketing budget goes, I'd quote Liberty's FAQ:
Sounds like plenty of marketing muscles to me.
One more thing about the phones I mentioned:
They all support AMPS, TDMA800/1900 and GSM900/1800/1900. So they can be used just about anywhere in the world with a cell signal.
Try GAIT phones. They are phones that support GSM + TDMA (and therefore AMPS also). What GSM/TDMA frequencies they support depends on model.
GAIT phones were created so that Cingular and AT&T have a smoother migration path to GSM/GPRS for their TDMA markets.
Here are a few GAIT phones I know of:
FYI, here in the US we use GSM1900, TDMA800 and TDMA1900. TDMA isn't widely used outside of North America bcause TMDA800 is basically Digital AMPS. Hence most TDMA phones should support AMPS also.
The rest of the world use GSM900 and GSM1800. There soon will be GSM850 available globally, which allow GSM850-compatible phones be used worldwide. Though I'm not sure if a GSM800(US) or GSM900(non-US) phone can use the GSM850 band.
The problem I have with OpenLDAP (or LDAP in general) right now is that it's not writable by most desktop email clients (OE, OL, Mozilla, Eudora, etc.) The only one I know of that can update LDAP is Evolution. And I particular need PalmLDAP sync. Until then I won't touch LDAP. Have u tried SyncML at all? I thought the whole thing died. Never heard anyone actually implemented SyncML.
calling this a roaming profile is somewhat miseading. A distributed profile would be more appropiate.
What u are suggesting is that instead of a single sign-on service like Liberty or Passport, there should be a distributed model instead for your personal information, and each server may contain a portion of your profile (ie. what it needs to know).
That's way too much interoperatibility issues to deal with. Why not just have a standardized profile information (eg. in XML or Dublin Core or something)? encrypt it with your own private key for security. Credit card #s and such are preferably store in a separate file and with higher level of encryption. Store these personal profile XML files on your HD, sync to your Palm, save it on a USB keychain, etc.
If u think storing your personal profile on a single sign-on service is insecure, then storing it on 10 different servers only makes it 10 times more insecure.
I've been using Backflip since Blink.com went paid-only (and switch the domain name to blinkpro.com for it's paid service). Blink was excellent, best of its breeds. But $48 a yr is a little too much to ask for... $20-30/yr would be about right.
Blink was also unique in that:
1. It has WAP support
2. It copies link as aliases (if u change one bookmark's URL, all the alias copies gets updated too)
<B><A HREF="http://backflip.com">Backflip</A></B&g t; does the job for me ever since. Blink had sidebars for both IE and Mozilla, Backflip only have one for Mozilla. Backlip's search is still broken right now.
Even then Backlip has been essential to my life ever since Blink turned commercial. I keep everything in Backflip.
Ultimately we need a workgroup bookmark server that integrates with Mozilla or IE. Actually I'd just settle for a roaming server for Mozilla, I might even use Mozilla for all my email/newsgroup needs if it has roaming server support.
What's the bottleneck you encountered? Are you doing mostly floating-point operations? I read @ many places that the Athlon's FPU blows P4's away. It'd be kewl to hear your first-hand experiences.
Well, at least your apache log files will. And since you do have the *private key* that is used to encrypt every packets going through your SSL server, theorically, you should be able to decrypt those packets if they were logged. But then i don't know if anyone tried it.
If a daemon listens on a port that is open for incoming internet connections (eg. Apache), firewalls can only detect DoS type attacks. Firewalls aren't virus scanners for network sockets, there's no way a firewall would be able to reject an incoming packet as it arrives that it may contain malicious data.
Your Apache log files can probly tell u a lot more about exploit attempts.