We've only got one mac dev, and his ability and desire to work on the port varies. On the plus side, he recently gave it a lot of love, and the source is getting there but not quite ready for you slashdotters to go bang on it:-P If you've got any os x dev skills, drop by the mailing list and lend a hand.
Actually, if you look at the source of the page, you can see that the designers apparently used a flash text image replacement technique for all the "spiffy" ui elements. This is a common technique among some of the most standards-aware web designers today, certainly not an anomaly. The code itself is clean, and if you look at the page without flash, you don't get flash buttons. Just checked it, and the page still looks and works fine with no-script blocking javascript and flash.
AbiCollab (the feature of AbiWord) has a number of backends for you to use in collaboration. One is Jabber-based, one is TCP, and one is the "AbiCollab.net Service" - so you can run it either centrally hosted or peer-to-peer.
Can you simultaneously edit real documents (any document abiword can open, so that's a huge amount and variety), fully featured (every feature AbiWord supports) at the same time - with parties not necessarily looking at the same part of the document (aka, not simple screen-sharing), and so on with those apps? You can with AbiWord. Use it with your voice or voice/video teleconference, sure, but putting a real word-processor in everyone's hands is powerful.
As anonymous posted before, the "plugin" is not a web browser plugin. AbiWord is a regular application. AbiCollab is a recent feature (debuted in 2.6, much improved in 2.8) allowing real-time collaboration between as many people as you want, over a variety of protocols. AbiCollab.net is a new web service that offers remote document storage, history, conversion, etc, that can also produce ".abicollab" files that, when saved and opened by your local copy of AbiWord (which is what happens when you click the edit link on the web), cause AbiWord to join a centrally-hosted collaboration session on that remote document. No browser magic is required: some server magic and abiword local magic takes place, but it's all very streamlined.
Yes - you can "call out" from either your phone access to grandcentral voicemail (call your own number, hit star, type a pin - then hit 2 after a message to call the person back, I think - which will return you to your voicemail when the call is done!) or click a "call" button online which rings the phone of your choice, then your chosen contact. This is the bit they say they might charge for once out of beta, since it's basically like a skype-out (you can add a Gizmo sip address as a line)
That's not really a Linux thing - look at Debian, you've got two kernels there and effectively the same userspace. Now, if you say you want everyone to stop using X, you'd probably need to implement some sort of direct rendering on the next level up, which is going to be your toolkit stuff (GDK/Cairo/GTK+ or the QT equiv, for most apps) You have now just bisected your GUI application compatibility.
I'm not sure that X11 is so lacking anymore - the recent versions have been making some nice improvements, and it's still the only thing with that high of compatibility.
Valencia, Spain has this ( http://www.emtvalencia.es/ ) - they call it e-Bus. The web site is a bit of a mess, but the most exciting pieces are the phone and on the stop pieces. Some bus stops (more every week, it seems) has an LED display that says how many minutes until the next bus on each line stopping there arrives. The same information is available by texting the stop number and line number to a specific number - it's returned via text within seconds. Now if only I could get their web site to work properly, I'd really be excited:)
It would seem my fine neighbors to the north have a fixation with robotic arms and devices built from them. I wonder if the US is missing out on the robot arm fun or, alternatively, if Canada is upset they always get stuck with building large robotic tools. FWIW, this is #3 and getting more sophisticated... those in the northern USA might want to start building their robotic-arm-shelters soon...
If a company's infrastructure is responsible for permitting such access, then the injured party can sue them for 'negligence.' If enough people were injured in some way, then you can get a class action lawsuit. Thus the idea of "Well, it's kind of but not really their fault, where do we draw the line" is already handled in the current legal system/environment. There are all sorts of standards for successfully claiming negligence.
Yes, but you have to actually go to the web site and choose an expert, not express, scan. Then, you have to make sure it's actually installing the right drivers - in my experience it enjoys picking the wrong wireless network and USB HID drivers.
Actually, that might be a BIOS issue. The PCI address space has to go somewhere, as does PCI-E: At least in WinXP, if you don't choose the "Remap PCI above 4gb" and something to do with a PCI-E address space, Windows will not have access to very much of large amounts of memory (like over 2gb)
Actually, the 256 is for root - same as the N800. It also comes with an "integrated memory card" (2gb, non-removable), so it's actually like 2gb storage, which is way more than the N800, from the factory, at least. N800 takes two full-size SDHC (up to 8gb each), N810 takes one MiniSD HC
If you check the box at the top that says automatically accept next HIT, then use the button at the top to submit (or even enter, just not the button at the bottom), it actually is quite quick. Captcha only about every 20 or so
Get a cheap 3g Bluetooth phone that supports tethering (or heck, even an expensive one), and add a Nokia N800 Internet Tablet. Nothing like holding a Linux platform that you can download the SDK for freely and easily (that is based on Debian and Gnome) to make one feel like the master of the world.
Well, no, that wasn't my point - there still is a Xensource, and still are several companies very interested in the tech, so it's not likely to be abandoned. OpenMosix seemed to be more of a small volunteer community (and perhaps for a while just Moshe), which means that the potential for transferring maintainership is a lot lower than when you have multiple paid folks working on the code.
Am I the only one who noticed that Moshe Bar (the leader of the openMosix project) has gone on to found three (!) virtualization companies, including Xensource? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moshe_Bar It seems his professional interests have moved on as of quite some time ago, and that this is merely "catching up."
I've looked into attempting an OpenMosix cluster before in my free time but the lack of a 2.6 version made it hard for me to justify the time - as all the work I do from day to day is on a 2.6 system, so I couldn't really gain anything from it. The project has seemed "dormant" for a while. Perhaps this announcement will spur someone on the sidelines to speak up and take the reins, and make openMosix a viable solution for modern (software) systems again: I have a whole pile of spare computers just itching to be run at the same time:D
I think you're confusing skilled crossfading (probably with beatmatching, which is generally appreciated) with automatic, "train-wreck" crossfading, where a computer (or a person) simply starts playing one track before the previous one ends, fading between them. That effectively "ruins" the beginning and end of a track, whereas what you're describing adds value to (at least the live) listening experience.
This could be a problem that is specific to the way your system (and presumably some other peoples' systems) is set up. I say this because I'm using Safari 3 Beta for Windows XP and Vista right now. On Windows 2000 Professional. As with most times a piece of software is claimed to be "completely useless", it seems here that perhaps the qualifier "in this case for my particular use" is warranted. Nobody would release a piece of software that does nothing without clearly labeling as useless - it must have worked for someone.
Is it just me, or does that article (intentionally?) confuse the two meanings "compression" can have with regards to digital audio? The loudness bit is audio compression: reducing dynamic range (which they do talk about). Then, they bring in the bit about data compression and the EMI iTunes Plus downloads, which is entirely different (admittedly, it also introduces artifacts, but of a completely different nature). The bit about the Los Lonely Boys album "compression-free" could easily be free of either (or both!) kinds of compression.
While the logical part of me chalks it up to confusing terminology being misunderstood, part of me wonders if those meanings are being intentionally conflated to make the article more impactful... it would sound less impressive if EMI wasn't "admitting there is a problem with compression"
(It does _not_ refer to creating a third ISM [license-free] band such as 900MHz and 2.4 GHz (especially since 5.8GHz [802.11a] is also license-free), and afaict, that's not what Google is lobbying for - they just want to be able to license it)
That is really a well-thought-out plan with some great ideas! I'm surprised "whole-house" vacuum cleaner only made it on the maybe list, though: "central vac" is fairly inexpensive, especially at build time, and a major convenience.
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We've only got one mac dev, and his ability and desire to work on the port varies. On the plus side, he recently gave it a lot of love, and the source is getting there but not quite ready for you slashdotters to go bang on it :-P If you've got any os x dev skills, drop by the mailing list and lend a hand.
Actually, if you look at the source of the page, you can see that the designers apparently used a flash text image replacement technique for all the "spiffy" ui elements. This is a common technique among some of the most standards-aware web designers today, certainly not an anomaly. The code itself is clean, and if you look at the page without flash, you don't get flash buttons. Just checked it, and the page still looks and works fine with no-script blocking javascript and flash.
AbiCollab (the feature of AbiWord) has a number of backends for you to use in collaboration. One is Jabber-based, one is TCP, and one is the "AbiCollab.net Service" - so you can run it either centrally hosted or peer-to-peer.
Can you simultaneously edit real documents (any document abiword can open, so that's a huge amount and variety), fully featured (every feature AbiWord supports) at the same time - with parties not necessarily looking at the same part of the document (aka, not simple screen-sharing), and so on with those apps? You can with AbiWord. Use it with your voice or voice/video teleconference, sure, but putting a real word-processor in everyone's hands is powerful.
As anonymous posted before, the "plugin" is not a web browser plugin. AbiWord is a regular application. AbiCollab is a recent feature (debuted in 2.6, much improved in 2.8) allowing real-time collaboration between as many people as you want, over a variety of protocols. AbiCollab.net is a new web service that offers remote document storage, history, conversion, etc, that can also produce ".abicollab" files that, when saved and opened by your local copy of AbiWord (which is what happens when you click the edit link on the web), cause AbiWord to join a centrally-hosted collaboration session on that remote document. No browser magic is required: some server magic and abiword local magic takes place, but it's all very streamlined.
Yes - you can "call out" from either your phone access to grandcentral voicemail (call your own number, hit star, type a pin - then hit 2 after a message to call the person back, I think - which will return you to your voicemail when the call is done!) or click a "call" button online which rings the phone of your choice, then your chosen contact. This is the bit they say they might charge for once out of beta, since it's basically like a skype-out (you can add a Gizmo sip address as a line)
Not so - you still need to run this on an x86. It's a virtual machine, not an emulator.
Best to use a hash of the contents instead of an incrementing number, we wouldn't want collisions... :-/
That's not really a Linux thing - look at Debian, you've got two kernels there and effectively the same userspace. Now, if you say you want everyone to stop using X, you'd probably need to implement some sort of direct rendering on the next level up, which is going to be your toolkit stuff (GDK/Cairo/GTK+ or the QT equiv, for most apps) You have now just bisected your GUI application compatibility.
I'm not sure that X11 is so lacking anymore - the recent versions have been making some nice improvements, and it's still the only thing with that high of compatibility.
Valencia, Spain has this ( http://www.emtvalencia.es/ ) - they call it e-Bus. The web site is a bit of a mess, but the most exciting pieces are the phone and on the stop pieces. Some bus stops (more every week, it seems) has an LED display that says how many minutes until the next bus on each line stopping there arrives. The same information is available by texting the stop number and line number to a specific number - it's returned via text within seconds. Now if only I could get their web site to work properly, I'd really be excited :)
how did you know that this is not news to me?
Unless...
It would seem my fine neighbors to the north have a fixation with robotic arms and devices built from them. I wonder if the US is missing out on the robot arm fun or, alternatively, if Canada is upset they always get stuck with building large robotic tools. FWIW, this is #3 and getting more sophisticated... those in the northern USA might want to start building their robotic-arm-shelters soon...
If a company's infrastructure is responsible for permitting such access, then the injured party can sue them for 'negligence.' If enough people were injured in some way, then you can get a class action lawsuit. Thus the idea of "Well, it's kind of but not really their fault, where do we draw the line" is already handled in the current legal system/environment. There are all sorts of standards for successfully claiming negligence.
Yes, but you have to actually go to the web site and choose an expert, not express, scan. Then, you have to make sure it's actually installing the right drivers - in my experience it enjoys picking the wrong wireless network and USB HID drivers.
Actually, that might be a BIOS issue. The PCI address space has to go somewhere, as does PCI-E: At least in WinXP, if you don't choose the "Remap PCI above 4gb" and something to do with a PCI-E address space, Windows will not have access to very much of large amounts of memory (like over 2gb)
Actually, the 256 is for root - same as the N800. It also comes with an "integrated memory card" (2gb, non-removable), so it's actually like 2gb storage, which is way more than the N800, from the factory, at least. N800 takes two full-size SDHC (up to 8gb each), N810 takes one MiniSD HC
If you check the box at the top that says automatically accept next HIT, then use the button at the top to submit (or even enter, just not the button at the bottom), it actually is quite quick. Captcha only about every 20 or so
Get a cheap 3g Bluetooth phone that supports tethering (or heck, even an expensive one), and add a Nokia N800 Internet Tablet. Nothing like holding a Linux platform that you can download the SDK for freely and easily (that is based on Debian and Gnome) to make one feel like the master of the world.
Well, no, that wasn't my point - there still is a Xensource, and still are several companies very interested in the tech, so it's not likely to be abandoned. OpenMosix seemed to be more of a small volunteer community (and perhaps for a while just Moshe), which means that the potential for transferring maintainership is a lot lower than when you have multiple paid folks working on the code.
Am I the only one who noticed that Moshe Bar (the leader of the openMosix project) has gone on to found three (!) virtualization companies, including Xensource? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moshe_Bar It seems his professional interests have moved on as of quite some time ago, and that this is merely "catching up."
:D
I've looked into attempting an OpenMosix cluster before in my free time but the lack of a 2.6 version made it hard for me to justify the time - as all the work I do from day to day is on a 2.6 system, so I couldn't really gain anything from it. The project has seemed "dormant" for a while. Perhaps this announcement will spur someone on the sidelines to speak up and take the reins, and make openMosix a viable solution for modern (software) systems again: I have a whole pile of spare computers just itching to be run at the same time
I think you're confusing skilled crossfading (probably with beatmatching, which is generally appreciated) with automatic, "train-wreck" crossfading, where a computer (or a person) simply starts playing one track before the previous one ends, fading between them. That effectively "ruins" the beginning and end of a track, whereas what you're describing adds value to (at least the live) listening experience.
This could be a problem that is specific to the way your system (and presumably some other peoples' systems) is set up. I say this because I'm using Safari 3 Beta for Windows XP and Vista right now. On Windows 2000 Professional. As with most times a piece of software is claimed to be "completely useless", it seems here that perhaps the qualifier "in this case for my particular use" is warranted. Nobody would release a piece of software that does nothing without clearly labeling as useless - it must have worked for someone.
Is it just me, or does that article (intentionally?) confuse the two meanings "compression" can have with regards to digital audio? The loudness bit is audio compression: reducing dynamic range (which they do talk about). Then, they bring in the bit about data compression and the EMI iTunes Plus downloads, which is entirely different (admittedly, it also introduces artifacts, but of a completely different nature). The bit about the Los Lonely Boys album "compression-free" could easily be free of either (or both!) kinds of compression.
While the logical part of me chalks it up to confusing terminology being misunderstood, part of me wonders if those meanings are being intentionally conflated to make the article more impactful... it would sound less impressive if EMI wasn't "admitting there is a problem with compression"
It appears that the "third pipe" refers to a third viable option for high-speed broadband access. The other two pipes are cable modem technology and DSL. Source: http://telephonyonline.com/news/telecom_third_pipe s_charm/
(It does _not_ refer to creating a third ISM [license-free] band such as 900MHz and 2.4 GHz (especially since 5.8GHz [802.11a] is also license-free), and afaict, that's not what Google is lobbying for - they just want to be able to license it)
That is really a well-thought-out plan with some great ideas! I'm surprised "whole-house" vacuum cleaner only made it on the maybe list, though: "central vac" is fairly inexpensive, especially at build time, and a major convenience.