That's WRONG! I create pdf's and capture them with Acrobat and they are FULLY SEARCHABLE. There is an OCR layer created in the file. It's searchable in Acrobat and completely indexable!
You don't need to spend all that money for Adobe Capture 3.0 when you can buy Adobe Acrobat 4.0. This is NOT the adobe reader, but the full version of Adobe Acrobat with all the bells and whistles. A url is: http://www.adobe.com/store/product s/acrobat.html.
In addition, you can also buy the Adobe Acrobat Business Tools, which is a slightly broken but still functional version of Acrobat 4.0. That is available here: http://www.adobe.com/store/pro ducts/acrbustools.html.
WinCE has been dropped by more and more vendors. They need something to get it back up in "the public eye." So they pretend to "open source" the code and get idiots to wet their pants over it.
This is so frustrating. What can average joe's due to help? I've bought the OpenDVD t-shirt, but what next?
Maybe I'm cynical, but I don't think that writing letters/emails to the MPAA and all the major studios will do any good. They probabaly just toss them right in the trash.
Have you found any support from people (aside from family) in Norway? Has the public reaction to the arrest been favorable (i.e. in support of you) or negative?
I find it incredable and hilareous that the woman mentioned in the article (the one who's laptop crashed and who got screwed on the $145 "fix") actually WENT BACK to a previous version of AOL!?! Instead of turning right around and signing up with a local ISP _that day_ she went back for more!?
To me, this is the pinical of every stereotype thrown at AOL users. To be shot in the foot and to go back for more is mind-boggling.
Yes, the article mentions she is currently "shopping" for an ISP, but come on to even think about going back after that incident is lunacy.
I too have been with distributed.net for quite a while (Since RC5-56 in spring of 1997). But I also participate in a number of other current distributed computing projects.
Why do this? Well, first my ultimate goal is not stats-oriented. I don't really care where I am in the stats, where my team is in the stats, etc. What I enjoy most is that I contribute to a number of projects, albiet a little in each.
For example. The Seti@home client runs on a Pentium 166 (overclocked to 200) that is sitting in the living room of my apt. It makes my roomates happy to see eye-candy on the monitor out there and it keeps the otherwise idle machine (it's a proxy/firewall for our cable modem connection) doing something. No, it doesn't zip through data blocks (about 1 every 5 days or so), but it is doing _something_.
So, what's my point? (I'm asking myself that same question). Basicly, it's that people participate in distributed computing projects for various reasons. If Seti@home has brought 1.6 million people into the distributed computing fold, then more power to them! (I do contest their figure of 1.6 million people participating, but that's for another discussion). Even if the client is not 100% efficient (and what software package is 100% efficient?) they are still contributing to the overall education of people in matters of distributed computing, in particular internet based projects.
Finally, it should be noted that distributed.net re-did a large number of CSC data blocks (~25%) as a security measure to reduce/eliminate false-positives from making their way into the stats.
It is really a shame when people get so wrapped up in being "stats whores" that they would think this way.
I understand the want to be noticed and visable, high on the stats, but at some point it just goes overboard. People begin installing clients on computers that they do not own or operate, people begin hacking clients to return false-positives to gain higher rankings....it's really pathetic.
Everyone has their own reasons for participating in a distributed computing project. To me, being concerned at all about their stats only proves that they are narrow minded and short sighted.
I wish someone would have told me, I'd have used that to my benefit a long time ago.
I'm sorry your feelings were hurt by comments made towards Seti@home....maybe you should talk to a grief counselor about it. I know that I never made any such comments.
If it seems too good to be true, generaly it's not true.
I wouldn't trust a web provider who had that kind of promotion of being very reliable or competent. Maybe I'm just cynical like that. Of course, my current provider is cut-rate, but doesn't offer huge promos either. They have basic service for basic prices and I've been happy thus far.
I worked for a digital mapping company. Our clients were primarily Utility companies. We used the USPS's CODE-1 software (which we had to purchase from them) in order to populate each address that fell under the utilities area with a correct Zip+4 value. The CODE-1 software/database contained the zip code and zip+4 of every home in the US. The company (which has projects in over 40 US states) used this databse for actual work.
The utility company (in this case a Natural Gas company) was then employing the program we built (a GIS system) to 1) give to their customer service reps for isolating and tracking problems and 2) to the field repair and install teams for accurate pipe placement and tracking.
That said, the only people who have a use for a large database of zipcodes are mass marketers
That is a blatently wrong statment.
I worked for a digital mapping company. Our clients were primarily Utility companies. We used the USPS's CODE-1 software (which we had to purchase from them) in order to populate each address that fell under the utilities area with a correct Zip+4 value. The CODE-1 software/database contained the zip code and zip+4 of every home in the US. The company (which has projects in over 40 US states) used this databse for actual work.
The utility company (in this case a Natural Gas company) was then employing the program we built (a GIS system) to 1) give to their customer service reps for isolating and tracking problems and 2) to the field repair and install teams for accurate pipe placement and tracking.
It's good to see another project starting up in the distributed field. I hope that this won't turn into a huge dcypher.net vs. distributed.net flame-war (although hints of this are already surfacing on EFNet). I think two contests pushing eachother forward, trying to create the most optimized clients etc. will be a good thing in the end. Hopefully it won't get pulled down by a lot of territorial "we're better than you" fanatacism...
A lot of people have been posting about the horrid quality of PC Chips motherboards. Well, maybe I got lucky again, but I just don't see that.
I own 2 PC Chips M571 (Socket-7) motherboards. One I gave to my grandmother for her first computer. All she uses it for is web browsing.
The second one I kept and have installed FreeBSD on (so I can learn learn learn!:) I've not gotten very far with it, but it does run Xfree86 without any problems and the machine has been rock solid since I installed FBSD. It's a Pentium 166 that's overclocked to 200 and 32 Megs of RAM. I bought the motherboard for around $52 (US). A perfect choice in my opinion. It lets me play with FreeBSD and I didn't have to spend a fortune to do it.
I had the same results with Packard Bell computers. So many people had terrible problems with it, yet I was using my Pentium 75 (O.C.ed to 90) up until 1998! In fact the machine is still being used by a friend of the family for some small network functions on his home LAN. The only thing that went wrong with that machine was the combo sound/modem card went bad after 3 years.
I also have a PC CHips 571LMR board sitting at home waiting to go into my new file server.
My point is that "you win some, you loose some." I guess that I've gotten lucky with these products and some people have not. I do have the feeling that PC Chips has done a lot to improve quality from previous years. They still are not ABIT or ASUS, but they offer inexpensive alternatives. I doubt I would use one for a mission critical piece of hardware, but who is going to be using Corel Linux for anything mission critical anyway?
I second that. I recently built and gave my grandmother a PC. It's only a 15" monitor and even at 640x480 with 14 point fonts in Windows she sometimes has problems seeing things on the screen. I want to get her a bigger monitor, but that'll be a long way off (as I can not afford it myself)
Please, think for yourself for a change. You might actually enjoy it.
I was. I wasn't listening to your tired "everyone should think like me" drivel. It's amazing that you actually think that by somehow thinking like you I'm thinking for myself.
It's also amazing that a person can not point out the similarities between a novel written about technology and the rise of such technology without being labeled an idiot. Maybe you should do some thinking of your own.
You assumed that I was making a comment in that particular vein. You read my comment with pre-formed assumptions, and somehow that's my fault?
Wall screens aren't a necessary, much less sufficient, requirement for Big Brother. I make no such claim in my statement.
Big TV screens existed in SF before 1984 was published. Bad-ass totalitarian governments have and do exist without wall screens, much less two-way wall screens. I never claimed either didn't exist.
"Oh no, someone came out with a big TV screen! We're all doomed to life under an evil tyranny!" No such statement exists in my original post.
Perhaps you have confused my post with somone elses. Whatever you think I am infering from my statment is of your own accord.
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That's WRONG! I create pdf's and capture them with Acrobat and they are FULLY SEARCHABLE. There is an OCR layer created in the file. It's searchable in Acrobat and completely indexable!
That is wrong. Adobe Acrobat 4.0 captures pages using "Capture" under the Tools menu.
You don't need to spend all that money for Adobe Capture 3.0 when you can buy Adobe Acrobat 4.0. This is NOT the adobe reader, but the full version of Adobe Acrobat with all the bells and whistles. A url is: http://www.adobe.com/store/product s /acrobat.html.
In addition, you can also buy the Adobe Acrobat Business Tools, which is a slightly broken but still functional version of Acrobat 4.0. That is available here: http://www.adobe.com/store/pro ducts/acrbustools.html.
For what it's worth, the Coca-Cola website states that they do own the trademark for "Coke": http://www.thecocacolacompany.com/sitemap/frames.a sp?cate gory=http://www.thecocacolacompany.com/tccc/tradem ark.html
A gimmick indeed.
WinCE has been dropped by more and more vendors. They need something to get it back up in "the public eye." So they pretend to "open source" the code and get idiots to wet their pants over it.
This is so frustrating. What can average joe's due to help? I've bought the OpenDVD t-shirt, but what next?
Maybe I'm cynical, but I don't think that writing letters/emails to the MPAA and all the major studios will do any good. They probabaly just toss them right in the trash.
Looking for ideas.
Have you found any support from people (aside from family) in Norway? Has the public reaction to the arrest been favorable (i.e. in support of you) or negative?
I find it incredable and hilareous that the woman mentioned in the article (the one who's laptop crashed and who got screwed on the $145 "fix") actually WENT BACK to a previous version of AOL!?! Instead of turning right around and signing up with a local ISP _that day_ she went back for more!?
To me, this is the pinical of every stereotype thrown at AOL users. To be shot in the foot and to go back for more is mind-boggling.
Yes, the article mentions she is currently "shopping" for an ISP, but come on to even think about going back after that incident is lunacy.
PiHex
Mersenne Primes
Seti@home
Why do this? Well, first my ultimate goal is not stats-oriented. I don't really care where I am in the stats, where my team is in the stats, etc. What I enjoy most is that I contribute to a number of projects, albiet a little in each.
For example. The Seti@home client runs on a Pentium 166 (overclocked to 200) that is sitting in the living room of my apt. It makes my roomates happy to see eye-candy on the monitor out there and it keeps the otherwise idle machine (it's a proxy/firewall for our cable modem connection) doing something. No, it doesn't zip through data blocks (about 1 every 5 days or so), but it is doing _something_.
So, what's my point? (I'm asking myself that same question). Basicly, it's that people participate in distributed computing projects for various reasons. If Seti@home has brought 1.6 million people into the distributed computing fold, then more power to them! (I do contest their figure of 1.6 million people participating, but that's for another discussion). Even if the client is not 100% efficient (and what software package is 100% efficient?) they are still contributing to the overall education of people in matters of distributed computing, in particular internet based projects.
Finally, it should be noted that distributed.net re-did a large number of CSC data blocks (~25%) as a security measure to reduce/eliminate false-positives from making their way into the stats.
It is really a shame when people get so wrapped up in being "stats whores" that they would think this way.
I understand the want to be noticed and visable, high on the stats, but at some point it just goes overboard. People begin installing clients on computers that they do not own or operate, people begin hacking clients to return false-positives to gain higher rankings....it's really pathetic.
Everyone has their own reasons for participating in a distributed computing project. To me, being concerned at all about their stats only proves that they are narrow minded and short sighted.
Enough ranting for one day.
Since when do I speak for all of slashdot?
Since when is my opinion gospel truth?
I wish someone would have told me, I'd have used that to my benefit a long time ago.
I'm sorry your feelings were hurt by comments made towards Seti@home....maybe you should talk to a grief counselor about it. I know that I never made any such comments.
distributed.net is made up of humans, people make mistakes. It's not the end of the world, but it is a little annoying.
On the plus side, with the current key rates the remaining 25% will be cracked within a week or two.
The other plus is that the key may not be at the very end of the remaining 25% of the keyspace and therefore we will finish even quicker!
If it seems too good to be true, generaly it's not true.
I wouldn't trust a web provider who had that kind of promotion of being very reliable or competent. Maybe I'm just cynical like that. Of course, my current provider is cut-rate, but doesn't offer huge promos either. They have basic service for basic prices and I've been happy thus far.
I worked for a digital mapping company. Our clients were primarily Utility companies. We used the USPS's CODE-1 software (which we had to purchase from them) in order to populate each address that fell under the utilities area with a correct Zip+4 value. The CODE-1 software/database contained the zip code and zip+4 of every home in the US. The company (which has projects in over 40 US states) used this databse for actual work.
The utility company (in this case a Natural Gas company) was then employing the program we built (a GIS system) to 1) give to their customer service reps for isolating and tracking problems and 2) to the field repair and install teams for accurate pipe placement and tracking.
That said, the only people who have a use for a large database of zipcodes are mass marketers
That is a blatently wrong statment.
I worked for a digital mapping company. Our clients were primarily Utility companies. We used the USPS's CODE-1 software (which we had to purchase from them) in order to populate each address that fell under the utilities area with a correct Zip+4 value. The CODE-1 software/database contained the zip code and zip+4 of every home in the US. The company (which has projects in over 40 US states) used this databse for actual work.
The utility company (in this case a Natural Gas company) was then employing the program we built (a GIS system) to 1) give to their customer service reps for isolating and tracking problems and 2) to the field repair and install teams for accurate pipe placement and tracking.
No one was sending junk mail to anyone.
I had heard that this was only done for PC's outside of the country...I don't remember ever hearing that this was done inside the US?
Either way, my Packard Bell 75 would only overclock to 90. At even 100 Mhz it would barely post...
Does anyone remember were they were at
12:34:56 on 7/8/90 ? (following American date "standard, July 8th).
A perfect sequeance of numbers
or, for others. August 7th.
That won't happen for a few years.
actually, i think the most idiotic thing is that for someone who thinks it's idiotic, _you_ replied!
happy odd day
It's good to see another project starting up in the distributed field. I hope that this won't turn into a huge dcypher.net vs. distributed.net flame-war (although hints of this are already surfacing on EFNet). I think two contests pushing eachother forward, trying to create the most optimized clients etc. will be a good thing in the end. Hopefully it won't get pulled down by a lot of territorial "we're better than you" fanatacism...
No, no other contest has been started at this moment. These are beta clients....the bugs are being worked out before the contenst(s) go live.
A lot of people have been posting about the horrid quality of PC Chips motherboards. Well, maybe I got lucky again, but I just don't see that.
I own 2 PC Chips M571 (Socket-7) motherboards. One I gave to my grandmother for her first computer. All she uses it for is web browsing.
The second one I kept and have installed FreeBSD on (so I can learn learn learn!:) I've not gotten very far with it, but it does run Xfree86 without any problems and the machine has been rock solid since I installed FBSD. It's a Pentium 166 that's overclocked to 200 and 32 Megs of RAM. I bought the motherboard for around $52 (US). A perfect choice in my opinion. It lets me play with FreeBSD and I didn't have to spend a fortune to do it.
I had the same results with Packard Bell computers. So many people had terrible problems with it, yet I was using my Pentium 75 (O.C.ed to 90) up until 1998! In fact the machine is still being used by a friend of the family for some small network functions on his home LAN. The only thing that went wrong with that machine was the combo sound/modem card went bad after 3 years.
I also have a PC CHips 571LMR board sitting at home waiting to go into my new file server.
My point is that "you win some, you loose some." I guess that I've gotten lucky with these products and some people have not. I do have the feeling that PC Chips has done a lot to improve quality from previous years. They still are not ABIT or ASUS, but they offer inexpensive alternatives. I doubt I would use one for a mission critical piece of hardware, but who is going to be using Corel Linux for anything mission critical anyway?
I second that. I recently built and gave my grandmother a PC. It's only a 15" monitor and even at 640x480 with 14 point fonts in Windows she sometimes has problems seeing things on the screen. I want to get her a bigger monitor, but that'll be a long way off (as I can not afford it myself)
I corrected myself in a follow up post.
Please, think for yourself for a change. You might actually enjoy it.
I was. I wasn't listening to your tired "everyone should think like me" drivel. It's amazing that you actually think that by somehow thinking like you I'm thinking for myself.
It's also amazing that a person can not point out the similarities between a novel written about technology and the rise of such technology without being labeled an idiot. Maybe you should do some thinking of your own.
You assumed that I was making a comment in that particular vein. You read my comment with pre-formed assumptions, and somehow that's my fault?
Wall screens aren't a necessary, much less sufficient, requirement for Big Brother.
I make no such claim in my statement.
Big TV screens existed in SF before 1984 was published. Bad-ass totalitarian governments have and do exist without wall screens, much less two-way wall screens.
I never claimed either didn't exist.
"Oh no, someone came out with a big TV screen! We're all doomed to life under an evil tyranny!"
No such statement exists in my original post.
Perhaps you have confused my post with somone elses. Whatever you think I am infering from my statment is of your own accord.