Here in BC (Canada) you can't get home DSL with less than 1.5 Mbps down and 640 Kbps up. And it's only $24.95 a month!*
*introductory rate only for first 12 months; 12 month contract required.
Trolltech(R), a leader in multiplatform development frameworks, today introduced Qtopia(R) Phone Edition (Qtopia Phone),
a Linux(R)-based application platform for phones.
The combination of Qtopia Phone and embedded Linux creates a robust operating environment with the flexibility to support
phones with limited capacity, feature phones and high-end enterprise smartphones. Qtopia Phone provides all the base Qtopia
applications, plus a user interface designed specifically for mobile phones.
The Trolltech Qtopia Phone Edition comes with two types of user interaction; either by a phone's keypad or touch screen.
Qtopia Phone will include all the standard Qtopia applications, customized to fit into a phone user interface, plus a 'Home'
launcher that presents time critical data such as missed calls, messages received, and calendar events.
Key features of the Trolltech Qtopia Phone Edition include:
Phone User Interface: Designed specifically with a mobile phone user in mind, Qtopia Phone's user interface is designed
to work on a variety of screen resolutions, such as 176 x 208 and 240 x 320 pixels, and can be used with either a
touch screen or the phone's keypad. It can be personalized by end users and customized by manufacturers and network operators.
Applications: Qtopia Phone includes a powerful suite of phone applications, including PIM, productivity, email, telephony
(dialer, messaging client and others) games, and media player (MP3, MPEG, and others).
Synchronization: Users can synchronize their phone with either Qtopia Desktop, a multiplatform desktop PIM
suite from Trolltech, or with Microsoft(R) Outlook. Qtopia Phone can synchronize contacts, calendar events, to do items,
as well as multimedia files and documents.
3rd party applications: Because Qtopia Phone Edition is based on the same development platform as Qtopia PDA Edition,
the existing Qtopia applications (over 1000 thus far) can easily be ported.
Java integration: Several Java Virtual Machines (JVM?) are already running on Qtopia Phone, including Esmertec's Jeode? and
IBM(R) VisualAge(TM) Micro Edition. Java applications integrate seamlessly into Qtopia phone, providing phone manufacturers Java
content with a native look and feel.
Development Environment: Trolltech provides a suite of tools that developers can use to customize and extend Qtopia Phone Edition.
The powerful development environment makes it easy to develop on a desktop system, then cross-compile onto a target device.
Qtopia Phone Edition is the first solution in the market to offer a completely extendable platform for Linux-based mobile
computing devices, said Haavard Nord, Trolltech CEO. Qtopia Phone provides unprecedented functionality as an
out-of-box solution and can be easily extended and customized. This advancement in the feature and smart phone arena keeps us
on the leading edge of innovation to provide our customers with the best-of-breed tools.
In a related press release, Trolltech today announced that Motorola, a premiere mobile phone manufacturer,
has chosen Trolltech's Qt/Embedded for the A760. Qt/Embedded is the software development framework used to develop Qtopia Phone.
Qtopia Phone Edition will be released in Q1, 2004.
About Qtopia(R) Phone edition:
Trolltech's embedded Linux phone edition is a customized version of Qtopia designed to work in a memory-constrained mobile phone.
With a modifiable user interface and low memory usage, phone manufacturers can create a stunning GUI that enables them to
stand out from the crowd. Qtopia Phone is available in two versions: Keypad-driven and Stylus-driven.
In Vancouver anyway, one of the local wireless companies applied to be a local carrier. Now Fido can offer service with your old phone number, the telco has to print your number in the phone book, and other such perks of being a CLEC. They charge $40 a month for unlimited local calling (with a much bigger local calling area than the telco) and a bunch of services (call waiting, call forwarding, etc.) included. It's aimed mostly at young urban or business types who are out more than they're home.
I've been applying MS updates/upgrades/service packs religiously since DOS 6 (I mean 6.2, I mean 6.21, no I meant 6.22) and I've never had any serious problems. Although I did miss the famous SP 6 for Windows NT, which I hear was a real bomb. I went straight to 6a.
The only time anything has really been screwed up royally by MS is when I uninstalled the PowerPoint 97 viewer. The uninstaller has an "issue" (that's what the KB article called it) whereby it deletes the _entire_ HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\TypeLib registry tree. If you know anything about the Windows registry, you'll know that's bad. 4 months later I still can't administer user settings!
It's a pity that more people don't just save as RTF. It's just as good for most uses, and it's a less obscure format.
If you've every tried opening an RTF document from MS Word in any other program, you'll realise why this is a bad idea.
You know what HTML from Word looks like, right?...
It is BULLSHIT that you have to PAY for your own credit report!!
Just move to Canada. We don't have to pay. I thought those "fraud alert" services I saw ads for on American TV were strange, because I assumed you could just get it yourself for free. But I should have known better, in the "land of opportunity."
Shouldn't broadband providers be sending emails to their clients with a link in them? You'd think every hotmail account would get a message saying "Plug that hole"
Actually, I got an email from Microsoft on August 4, telling me all about it! I imagine everyone who registered their software got the message as well. That should mean that all 347 legal users of Microsoft Windows were well protected.
*** PLEASE NOTE: Due to the critical importance of this message,
this communication is being sent to all of our Microsoft customers
to alert you of this Security Bulletin. ***
It has been widely reported in the press and on Microsoft's own web
site, that on July 16th we released a critical security bulletin
(MS03-026) and a patch regarding a vulnerability in the Windows
operating system. We wanted to make sure that if you were not aware
of this bulletin and corresponding patch that you take a moment to
go to http://www.microsoft.com/security/ security_bulletins/
ms03-026.asp to find out if you are running an affected version of
the Windows operating system and get the specific information as to
what you need to do to apply this patch if you have not already.
Although we encourage you to pay attention to all security bulletins
and to deploy patches in a timely manner we wanted to call special
attention to this particular instance as we have become aware of
some activity on the internet that we believe increases the
likelihood of the exploitation of this vulnerability. Specifically,
code has been published on several web sites that would allow
someone to spread a worm/virus that takes advantage of the
vulnerability in question thereby impacting your
computing environment.
Although it is our goal to produce the most secure and dependable
products possible, we do become aware of these types of
vulnerabilities. In order to minimize the risks of such
vulnerabilities to your computing environment, we encourage you to
subscribe to the Windows Update service by going to
http://www.windowsupdate.com and also subscribe to Microsoft's
security notification service at http://register.microsoft.com/
subscription/subscribeme.asp?ID=135 if you have not already. By
subscribing to these two services you will automatically receive
information on the latest software updates and the latest security
notifications thereby improving the likelihood that your computing
environment will be safe from worms and viruses that occur.
We apologize for any inconvenience the implementation of this patch
might cause and appreciate you taking the time to update
your system.
Thank you,
Microsoft Corporation
Re:... at the same time as the IPv6 upgrade! ???
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Actually, the US government is moving along a lot faster than many in the corporate world are. In fact there was a story about it here a few weeks ago.
And Windows supports IPv6 in Windows XP and up. Or if you're feeling adventurous, even in Windows 2000 (although it's not officially supported.)
Or, simply put, we need the companies like Symantec to consider any program that is distributed by tag-along means to be a trojan horse virus (even if it does technically click a "Yes" somewhere in the sequence) and then wipes it out.
Actually, Symantec has a class of viruses called Adware.* that covers just this sort of thing. Unfortunately, they don't consider them "malicious," so don't take any action against them. Go here and search for "Adware" to see some examples...
Re:My first thoughts [German, English Translation]
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Now if Google were god, wouldn't It be able to speak German well enough that It could translate the above piece a little better for us!
(I know this was translated by software (ref. "Osama are Ladin") but don't know if it was Google or not. My point remains though.)
There are all these words...and real estate on menus is sucked up by these complicated sentences that have nothing to do with what I use my computer for.
The problem is their target audience. I think it's my mom.
I deliberately do not support netscape 4 (the handfull of users of that product have plenty of alternatives) and that does make life easier. If only it didn't try to interpret the CSS!
if you load an external stylesheet using the @import command, NN4 doesn't know what you're on about and ignores the stylesheet altogether.
Fascinating stuff about how one sysadmin managed to keep the country online up until a US missle struck the roof of the Ministry of Information building.
The RIAA must have found out they were pirating music... (come on, it was either that or a Bill Gates finding out about a Linux server)
Ahh, only in America could Taiwan be described as "some tiny unheard of little island in Asia."
True story: my parents and I were on vacation in Florida. We told friends of my uncle we were from Canada. "Canada? What state's that in?"
Actually, that could be a great way to shop: pick things off the shelf, walk out and pay without having any queues at the checkout. Where's my patent lawyer?
You could try, but I'm sure Amazon would sue you. "Buying something? Don't we have a patent for that?"
Jeff Noon's books (the ones I've read) are pretty good sci-fi, try Pollen and Vurt.
And, as others have suggested, if you're looking for "scifi-geek-hacker", read Stephenson's Cryptonomicon. How many novels have you read with Perl scripts in them?
watch the first Wachowski brothers movie, Bound. Now *there* was an excellent movie - tension, humor, drama, awesome cinematography and far better dialogue than The Matrix
If you really want/. readers to watch this, you forgot to mention lesbian sex scenes.
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Here in BC (Canada) you can't get home DSL with less than 1.5 Mbps down and 640 Kbps up. And it's only $24.95 a month!* *introductory rate only for first 12 months; 12 month contract required.
Trolltech(R), a leader in multiplatform development frameworks, today introduced Qtopia(R) Phone Edition (Qtopia Phone), a Linux(R)-based application platform for phones.
The combination of Qtopia Phone and embedded Linux creates a robust operating environment with the flexibility to support phones with limited capacity, feature phones and high-end enterprise smartphones. Qtopia Phone provides all the base Qtopia applications, plus a user interface designed specifically for mobile phones.
The Trolltech Qtopia Phone Edition comes with two types of user interaction; either by a phone's keypad or touch screen. Qtopia Phone will include all the standard Qtopia applications, customized to fit into a phone user interface, plus a 'Home' launcher that presents time critical data such as missed calls, messages received, and calendar events.
Key features of the Trolltech Qtopia Phone Edition include: Phone User Interface: Designed specifically with a mobile phone user in mind, Qtopia Phone's user interface is designed to work on a variety of screen resolutions, such as 176 x 208 and 240 x 320 pixels, and can be used with either a touch screen or the phone's keypad. It can be personalized by end users and customized by manufacturers and network operators. Applications: Qtopia Phone includes a powerful suite of phone applications, including PIM, productivity, email, telephony (dialer, messaging client and others) games, and media player (MP3, MPEG, and others). Synchronization: Users can synchronize their phone with either Qtopia Desktop, a multiplatform desktop PIM suite from Trolltech, or with Microsoft(R) Outlook. Qtopia Phone can synchronize contacts, calendar events, to do items, as well as multimedia files and documents. 3rd party applications: Because Qtopia Phone Edition is based on the same development platform as Qtopia PDA Edition, the existing Qtopia applications (over 1000 thus far) can easily be ported. Java integration: Several Java Virtual Machines (JVM?) are already running on Qtopia Phone, including Esmertec's Jeode? and IBM(R) VisualAge(TM) Micro Edition. Java applications integrate seamlessly into Qtopia phone, providing phone manufacturers Java content with a native look and feel. Development Environment: Trolltech provides a suite of tools that developers can use to customize and extend Qtopia Phone Edition. The powerful development environment makes it easy to develop on a desktop system, then cross-compile onto a target device.
Qtopia Phone Edition is the first solution in the market to offer a completely extendable platform for Linux-based mobile computing devices, said Haavard Nord, Trolltech CEO. Qtopia Phone provides unprecedented functionality as an out-of-box solution and can be easily extended and customized. This advancement in the feature and smart phone arena keeps us on the leading edge of innovation to provide our customers with the best-of-breed tools.
In a related press release, Trolltech today announced that Motorola, a premiere mobile phone manufacturer, has chosen Trolltech's Qt/Embedded for the A760. Qt/Embedded is the software development framework used to develop Qtopia Phone.
Find out more on our Qtopia pages.
Availability:
Qtopia Phone Edition will be released in Q1, 2004.
About Qtopia(R) Phone edition:
Trolltech's embedded Linux phone edition is a customized version of Qtopia designed to work in a memory-constrained mobile phone. With a modifiable user interface and low memory usage, phone manufacturers can create a stunning GUI that enables them to stand out from the crowd. Qtopia Phone is available in two versions: Keypad-driven and Stylus-driven.
About Trolltech:
Trolltech(R) is a software company with two flags
In Vancouver anyway, one of the local wireless companies applied to be a local carrier. Now Fido can offer service with your old phone number, the telco has to print your number in the phone book, and other such perks of being a CLEC. They charge $40 a month for unlimited local calling (with a much bigger local calling area than the telco) and a bunch of services (call waiting, call forwarding, etc.) included. It's aimed mostly at young urban or business types who are out more than they're home.
I've been applying MS updates/upgrades/service packs religiously since DOS 6 (I mean 6.2, I mean 6.21, no I meant 6.22) and I've never had any serious problems. Although I did miss the famous SP 6 for Windows NT, which I hear was a real bomb. I went straight to 6a. The only time anything has really been screwed up royally by MS is when I uninstalled the PowerPoint 97 viewer. The uninstaller has an "issue" (that's what the KB article called it) whereby it deletes the _entire_ HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\TypeLib registry tree. If you know anything about the Windows registry, you'll know that's bad. 4 months later I still can't administer user settings!
It's a pity that more people don't just save as RTF. It's just as good for most uses, and it's a less obscure format.
If you've every tried opening an RTF document from MS Word in any other program, you'll realise why this is a bad idea.
You know what HTML from Word looks like, right?...
It is BULLSHIT that you have to PAY for your own credit report!!
Just move to Canada. We don't have to pay.
I thought those "fraud alert" services I saw ads for on American TV were strange, because I assumed you could just get it yourself for free. But I should have known better, in the "land of opportunity."
Shouldn't broadband providers be sending emails to their clients with a link in them? You'd think every hotmail account would get a message saying "Plug that hole" Actually, I got an email from Microsoft on August 4, telling me all about it! I imagine everyone who registered their software got the message as well. That should mean that all 347 legal users of Microsoft Windows were well protected. *** PLEASE NOTE: Due to the critical importance of this message, this communication is being sent to all of our Microsoft customers to alert you of this Security Bulletin. *** It has been widely reported in the press and on Microsoft's own web site, that on July 16th we released a critical security bulletin (MS03-026) and a patch regarding a vulnerability in the Windows operating system. We wanted to make sure that if you were not aware of this bulletin and corresponding patch that you take a moment to go to http://www.microsoft.com/security/ security_bulletins/ ms03-026.asp to find out if you are running an affected version of the Windows operating system and get the specific information as to what you need to do to apply this patch if you have not already. Although we encourage you to pay attention to all security bulletins and to deploy patches in a timely manner we wanted to call special attention to this particular instance as we have become aware of some activity on the internet that we believe increases the likelihood of the exploitation of this vulnerability. Specifically, code has been published on several web sites that would allow someone to spread a worm/virus that takes advantage of the vulnerability in question thereby impacting your computing environment. Although it is our goal to produce the most secure and dependable products possible, we do become aware of these types of vulnerabilities. In order to minimize the risks of such vulnerabilities to your computing environment, we encourage you to subscribe to the Windows Update service by going to http://www.windowsupdate.com and also subscribe to Microsoft's security notification service at http://register.microsoft.com/ subscription/subscribeme.asp?ID=135 if you have not already. By subscribing to these two services you will automatically receive information on the latest software updates and the latest security notifications thereby improving the likelihood that your computing environment will be safe from worms and viruses that occur. We apologize for any inconvenience the implementation of this patch might cause and appreciate you taking the time to update your system. Thank you, Microsoft Corporation
Actually, the US government is moving along a lot faster than many in the corporate world are. In fact there was a story about it here a few weeks ago. And Windows supports IPv6 in Windows XP and up. Or if you're feeling adventurous, even in Windows 2000 (although it's not officially supported.)
Or, simply put, we need the companies like Symantec to consider any program that is distributed by tag-along means to be a trojan horse virus (even if it does technically click a "Yes" somewhere in the sequence) and then wipes it out.
Actually, Symantec has a class of viruses called Adware.* that covers just this sort of thing. Unfortunately, they don't consider them "malicious," so don't take any action against them. Go here and search for "Adware" to see some examples...
Now if Google were god, wouldn't It be able to speak German well enough that It could translate the above piece a little better for us!
(I know this was translated by software (ref. "Osama are Ladin") but don't know if it was Google or not. My point remains though.)
for those of us in canada, there is the option to purchase a french CD, but i didn't try downloading one.
There are all these words...and real estate on menus is sucked up by these complicated sentences that have nothing to do with what I use my computer for.
The problem is their target audience. I think it's my mom.
I deliberately do not support netscape 4 (the handfull of users of that product have plenty of alternatives) and that does make life easier. If only it didn't try to interpret the CSS!
if you load an external stylesheet using the @import command, NN4 doesn't know what you're on about and ignores the stylesheet altogether.
Too bad they're getting too old for the girls to notice ...
Now they get noticed by women
and what fun is that? (ducks as wife throws a shoe)
there's always happy.birthday.to.yu
Fascinating stuff about how one sysadmin managed to keep the country online up until a US missle struck the roof of the Ministry of Information building.
The RIAA must have found out they were pirating music...
(come on, it was either that or a Bill Gates finding out about a Linux server)
My question, Is Eudora safe?
As long as you don't have that "Use Microsoft's viewer" checkbox checked in the Viewing Mail options!
Ahh, only in America could Taiwan be described as "some tiny unheard of little island in Asia."
True story: my parents and I were on vacation in Florida. We told friends of my uncle we were from Canada. "Canada? What state's that in?"
no, I feel the pain for the over 300 dollars deficit in my wallet for such a keyboard.
Hmmm, if this were a poll, one could make a joke about paying CowboyNeal $0.50 an hour to do all your typing for you for 700 hours...
Actually, that could be a great way to shop: pick things off the shelf, walk out and pay without having any queues at the checkout. Where's my patent lawyer? You could try, but I'm sure Amazon would sue you. "Buying something? Don't we have a patent for that?"
Jeff Noon's books (the ones I've read) are pretty good sci-fi, try Pollen and Vurt. And, as others have suggested, if you're looking for "scifi-geek-hacker", read Stephenson's Cryptonomicon. How many novels have you read with Perl scripts in them?
now I don't have to worry about that pesky "whois" command costing me money!
watch the first Wachowski brothers movie, Bound. Now *there* was an excellent movie - tension, humor, drama, awesome cinematography and far better dialogue than The Matrix /. readers to watch this, you forgot to mention lesbian sex scenes.
If you really want
and maybe we can get enough bandwidth for wireless VGA! Should only need 600 or 700 Mbps...