GeoWorks was pretty great... at least in my recollection of it. I remember being so stoked for a WYSIWYG word processor. That sure beat MS Works for DOS.
The FTC's CAN-SPAM law, debated though they may be, allow that unsolicited e-mail can be sent LEGITIMATELY under certain strict guidelines. AOL's e-mail "tax" will potentially damage the ability of legitimate law-abiding businesses to legally market their products.
Huh? AOL's sender pays system would be fine. The CANSPAM act doesn't say that if you have an email address you MUST let people contact to you. It deals with contacts that aren't legal under it's terms -- but there is nothing illegal about blocking mail that would be legal under CANSPAM. It's your box -- do as you like.
I could setup an "email" system that is really just a form, much like the one I'm typing in now, that dumps the message into a database. I set up an autoresponder on my email which says "goto my website and enter your message there". If the mail comes from a real person, they'll read the response. If it comes from a business trying to sell me something, 99.99% chance the response is blackholed and I never hear from them. Fact is, I am not required to listen to marketing crap by CANSPAM. It simply limits the marketing crap I can get right now (supposedly).
It isn't like one is limited to a single email address. I have four or five for various purposes -- my Yahoo address for example is for filling in web forms -- I get hundreds of spam a day there. I never actually read it except to quickly grab a confirmation code from some website requiring registration.
What is to prevent someone from having a free and unprotected inbox AND a protect "real" address? I'm sure that's how I'd use such a system. Anyway, your mailing list participants can get a hotmail or gmail or yahoo or random address for that purpose. Costs everyone nothing.
I've been wondering the same -- sender pays seems like a great way to reduce junk mail to easily managable levels. Of all the horrors, the thought that AOL would have a sender pays email system makes me entertain the possibility of getting an AOL account again. Mind you, I ditched AOL probably around 1991 -- Delphi had a 20/20 package: $20 for 20 hours of online time which was much more affordable than AOL's $10 for 3 hrs and $3/hr thereafter. Delphi was text based and AOL had a gui (through GeoWorks) but I didn't really mind -- I was a broke college kid and just wanted some kind of connection.
Well, "open source" isn't much of an issue. It seems the frame is a kit, the wheels and suspension from a junk honda, the diesel a Jetta TDI, and some custom mods to make it all fit together. Seems more like fitting an AMD64 system into an Apple PowerPC case. It isn't really a new invention, just a different way of putting random parts together.
Wow, this makes how many politics articles this week? And all of them attacking either the GOP or the Bush Administration.
You are quite right. Neither the GOP nor the Bush admininistration require outside attack to reveal their interest level in truth, freedom, marksmanship, fiscal responsibility, science, compassion, or common sense.
Something is wrong with yours then because mine has backlit face (blue, 3 levels of adjustable brightness by hitting snooze) and the keys are backlit in orange just like my 3d gen ipod keys. Take it back before your return period expires because it is broken.
I've netbooted linux on macs equiped w/ openfirmware (I know the g3 and g4 laptops use this). cmd-opt-o-f on power up to do installs. As you surmised, bootp is necessary as well as nfs and tftp -- just make yaboot available on the linux side, and on the mac at the openfirmware prompt:
boot enet:XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX,yaboot
assuming yaboot (or whatever image) is the document root -- use back slashes between directories if it isn't. The XXXs denote the ip of the server.
Anyway, googling for "open firmware" is pretty informative, although open firmware isn't a well advertised feature and thus an unlikely to be used search term.
All I ever loaded was a linux installer. It would be interesting to put other images in the document root and see how things went.
AC is right -- the previous models (except for the cheapest 499 model) had wifi and bluetooth, but no modem (the 499 model only had a modem). Given that video is shared in these new minis and the 599 model only has 512mb ram and single core processor, I wonder if it will actually be all that much faster than the g4 model. At least w/ the g4, all the installed ram was useable by the system and did not have to be shared.
I got an iHome (iSigh) for my iPod. It isn't big but the sound is fine for the bedroom. The best part is that it is an alarm clock that will use your ipod as the music source (also has AM/FM radio and beeper). One thing -- it's the easiest digital alarm clock to set -- it has a round spinning wheel to set the time and works forward or backward.
I can't comment on CA, I work in WA, but there are some exceptions to confidentiality for WA state attorneys. RPC 1.6(b)(1) allows breaking confidentiality to prevent a crime. Just to be clear, this is WA's rule and CA could be different.
As this guy wasn't an attorney, and the Rules of Prof. Conduct exist to scare attorneys into good behavior, the prosecution is likely based on some law in a "computer tresspass" vein. Whatever -- the prosecutor needs to have his head examined. What a freakin' idiot.
The interesting question here for me is what may happen to the law firm. I know in WA that I'm held responsible for breaches made by my employees. That's not a small matter when it could put a very expensive license on the line -- I'll be paying $700/month in student loans for the next 25 years for mine and my loans aren't that bad compared to others'.
they start with 1 blade, go to 2 blades, then 3 blades....
You know, the best shaver IMHO is the old style that opens up when you twist the base and takes a double sided razor. Now, the Gillette blades suck, but the Rite Aide Platinum blades are much better, despite their generic character. Whenever I use one these double or tripple bladed contraptions -- I feel like my face has been ripped. But my trusty old single blade does a great and comfortable job. Plus, 15 blades cost about $5.
When I was in school, I set up some ambience speakers "left minus right". Very easy, just connect the front two speakers like normal. Then connect a second set of speakers to sides and behind the listening area -- except only connect the positive terminals to the amp, and then bridge the negative terminals between the speakers. I about jumped out of my skin the first time I listened to some old "Dead Can Dance" album and it sounded like the shaman's rattle was right behind me. Hmmmm, maybe I'll set that up again -- except the extra wires are a real drag. Oh, Roger Water's "the pros and cons of hitchhiking" was great on this setup too.
That's good to know, but still a half solution. I just want to put the pointer over the window and scroll -- I don't want to hit a combo-key to do that. It doesn't work w/ a scrolling trackpad. I don't have a scroll wheel mouse with me at the moment (common situtation w/ a laptop) so I can't actually test it out, but I'll try later.
I do. I've recently been using my powerbook with an external 20" widescreen monitor. Fortunately, everything I run in that screen is by X forwarding over ssh. Once upon a time when screen space was limited, having the menu bar for an application in the top apple bar was probably a good idea -- but if I have an OSX app running on the external monitor, I might have to traverse a couple feet of screen space to click the "file" menu item. But running linux apps over there is fine because the menu is inside the application window.
Other nagging issues for me are the lack of _universal_ middle click paste, sloppy focus (scroll background w/out foregrounding it), and lack of _integrated_ multiple desktops (yes I know middle click works in X11 and there are 3d party multiple desktop apps -- these are half solutions).
There is zero, repeat zero possibility that Perfect 10 will win this suit, though they may get a temporary stock boost in the short term by winning the first round....
Except Google's lawyer indicated that the only real effect from the ruling was that Perfect 10's pics wouldn't show up in searches. In other words, Perfect 10 is likely to do a lot less business when people can't find them. Seems to me a savvy pornographer would want to show up on google a lot -- internet porn is very competitive and the... exposure... can only help.
I'll wager a shiny quarter that the publicity generates a bit of a seller's market for these -- perhaps they'll sell on ebay for more than full new retail was. I wonder if my DVD player is one of these -- it'd be nice to make a profit on a player more than a year old. Besides, I hate the bright blue ring light around the power button. I'd love to have a player that would be respectfully dark during the movie.
As an aside, my $250 1976 toyota corolla wagon was the most fun car I ever owned. It wasn't going to pass VT inspection again, so I spent 7 months thrashing it. By the time I junked it, it's 3 speed automatic transmission would not go into reverse or third, the muffler was long gone, and there wasn't a square inch of undented metal on that thing. I've never had such a fun car since.
$900 would buy 3.6 "first cars" in my case. It's still more than my second car was.
Anyway, for $900 it better come bundled with an LCD monitor (17" minimum), input devices, a HD, removable media drives, and a general purpose OS. Otherwise, why would anyone pay for it when $900 will buy a good complete system?
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Jupiter is a dude, he doesn't get a "'that time' of the millenium".
GeoWorks was pretty great ... at least in my recollection of it. I remember being so stoked for a WYSIWYG word processor. That sure beat MS Works for DOS.
I could setup an "email" system that is really just a form, much like the one I'm typing in now, that dumps the message into a database. I set up an autoresponder on my email which says "goto my website and enter your message there". If the mail comes from a real person, they'll read the response. If it comes from a business trying to sell me something, 99.99% chance the response is blackholed and I never hear from them. Fact is, I am not required to listen to marketing crap by CANSPAM. It simply limits the marketing crap I can get right now (supposedly).
Besides that, I find it a bit hard to believe that OSS mailing list users are on AOL to begin with.
It isn't like one is limited to a single email address. I have four or five for various purposes -- my Yahoo address for example is for filling in web forms -- I get hundreds of spam a day there. I never actually read it except to quickly grab a confirmation code from some website requiring registration.
What is to prevent someone from having a free and unprotected inbox AND a protect "real" address? I'm sure that's how I'd use such a system. Anyway, your mailing list participants can get a hotmail or gmail or yahoo or random address for that purpose. Costs everyone nothing.
I've been wondering the same -- sender pays seems like a great way to reduce junk mail to easily managable levels. Of all the horrors, the thought that AOL would have a sender pays email system makes me entertain the possibility of getting an AOL account again. Mind you, I ditched AOL probably around 1991 -- Delphi had a 20/20 package: $20 for 20 hours of online time which was much more affordable than AOL's $10 for 3 hrs and $3/hr thereafter. Delphi was text based and AOL had a gui (through GeoWorks) but I didn't really mind -- I was a broke college kid and just wanted some kind of connection.
131 pages? Screw RTFA!
Well, "open source" isn't much of an issue. It seems the frame is a kit, the wheels and suspension from a junk honda, the diesel a Jetta TDI, and some custom mods to make it all fit together. Seems more like fitting an AMD64 system into an Apple PowerPC case. It isn't really a new invention, just a different way of putting random parts together.
Something is wrong with yours then because mine has backlit face (blue, 3 levels of adjustable brightness by hitting snooze) and the keys are backlit in orange just like my 3d gen ipod keys. Take it back before your return period expires because it is broken.
I've netbooted linux on macs equiped w/ openfirmware (I know the g3 and g4 laptops use this). cmd-opt-o-f on power up to do installs. As you surmised, bootp is necessary as well as nfs and tftp -- just make yaboot available on the linux side, and on the mac at the openfirmware prompt:
boot enet:XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX,yaboot
assuming yaboot (or whatever image) is the document root -- use back slashes between directories if it isn't. The XXXs denote the ip of the server.
Anyway, googling for "open firmware" is pretty informative, although open firmware isn't a well advertised feature and thus an unlikely to be used search term.
All I ever loaded was a linux installer. It would be interesting to put other images in the document root and see how things went.
AC is right -- the previous models (except for the cheapest 499 model) had wifi and bluetooth, but no modem (the 499 model only had a modem). Given that video is shared in these new minis and the 599 model only has 512mb ram and single core processor, I wonder if it will actually be all that much faster than the g4 model. At least w/ the g4, all the installed ram was useable by the system and did not have to be shared.
I got an iHome (iSigh) for my iPod. It isn't big but the sound is fine for the bedroom. The best part is that it is an alarm clock that will use your ipod as the music source (also has AM/FM radio and beeper). One thing -- it's the easiest digital alarm clock to set -- it has a round spinning wheel to set the time and works forward or backward.
I can't comment on CA, I work in WA, but there are some exceptions to confidentiality for WA state attorneys. RPC 1.6(b)(1) allows breaking confidentiality to prevent a crime. Just to be clear, this is WA's rule and CA could be different.
As this guy wasn't an attorney, and the Rules of Prof. Conduct exist to scare attorneys into good behavior, the prosecution is likely based on some law in a "computer tresspass" vein. Whatever -- the prosecutor needs to have his head examined. What a freakin' idiot.
The interesting question here for me is what may happen to the law firm. I know in WA that I'm held responsible for breaches made by my employees. That's not a small matter when it could put a very expensive license on the line -- I'll be paying $700/month in student loans for the next 25 years for mine and my loans aren't that bad compared to others'.
When I was in school, I set up some ambience speakers "left minus right". Very easy, just connect the front two speakers like normal. Then connect a second set of speakers to sides and behind the listening area -- except only connect the positive terminals to the amp, and then bridge the negative terminals between the speakers. I about jumped out of my skin the first time I listened to some old "Dead Can Dance" album and it sounded like the shaman's rattle was right behind me. Hmmmm, maybe I'll set that up again -- except the extra wires are a real drag. Oh, Roger Water's "the pros and cons of hitchhiking" was great on this setup too.
So what are you going to do with the $1470 remaining?
Good plan ... unless you "upgrade" to iTunes 6+, in which it won't work anymore. Stick w/ iTunes >6.n if you wanna do this.
That's good to know, but still a half solution. I just want to put the pointer over the window and scroll -- I don't want to hit a combo-key to do that. It doesn't work w/ a scrolling trackpad. I don't have a scroll wheel mouse with me at the moment (common situtation w/ a laptop) so I can't actually test it out, but I'll try later.
I do. I've recently been using my powerbook with an external 20" widescreen monitor. Fortunately, everything I run in that screen is by X forwarding over ssh. Once upon a time when screen space was limited, having the menu bar for an application in the top apple bar was probably a good idea -- but if I have an OSX app running on the external monitor, I might have to traverse a couple feet of screen space to click the "file" menu item. But running linux apps over there is fine because the menu is inside the application window.
Other nagging issues for me are the lack of _universal_ middle click paste, sloppy focus (scroll background w/out foregrounding it), and lack of _integrated_ multiple desktops (yes I know middle click works in X11 and there are 3d party multiple desktop apps -- these are half solutions).
Holy Moly -- I do have this model. Now to find a link to the remote control key sequence. ;-)
I'll wager a shiny quarter that the publicity generates a bit of a seller's market for these -- perhaps they'll sell on ebay for more than full new retail was. I wonder if my DVD player is one of these -- it'd be nice to make a profit on a player more than a year old. Besides, I hate the bright blue ring light around the power button. I'd love to have a player that would be respectfully dark during the movie.
As an aside, my $250 1976 toyota corolla wagon was the most fun car I ever owned. It wasn't going to pass VT inspection again, so I spent 7 months thrashing it. By the time I junked it, it's 3 speed automatic transmission would not go into reverse or third, the muffler was long gone, and there wasn't a square inch of undented metal on that thing. I've never had such a fun car since.
$900 would buy 3.6 "first cars" in my case. It's still more than my second car was.
Anyway, for $900 it better come bundled with an LCD monitor (17" minimum), input devices, a HD, removable media drives, and a general purpose OS. Otherwise, why would anyone pay for it when $900 will buy a good complete system?