even better, you can use a mobile phone with IR and/or bluetooth (if you also have a bt compact flash) and use GSM (usually 9600 but "cheap") or GPRS (fast but ***very*** expensive in Europe) to send your stuff over to the server.
And if you have a lot of communication needs, you can always get one of those GSM/GPRS Compact Flash cards (Audiovox is one I know which looks like works with the Z).
With this combination you can forget cybercafes alltogether. At night time, GSM net access cost is 6 cents a minute in Spain (and should be similar in the rest of Europe).
At least one country I know of already has a "tax" of also around ten eurocents on CD-R media: Spain. Looks like it is going to be all over Europe soon. Sorry couldn't find any links though.
Hmmm... maybe saddam was on the right track... makes you think about all those mustaches in Iraq! Oh and guess what the Iraqui Information Minister was prolly the only one without a mustache... coincidence? I think not!
I don't have much idea about the US legal system since I am not even a US citizen. But isn't the US Supreme Court supposed to deal with constitutional issues? If not, then how does this work?
If only the computer detects and fixes bugs and other faults in software on its own.. that alone is the holy grail we are all after. I am not holding my breadth.
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Seriously. It is no secret that the great majority of Windows systems deployed all around the western (and the rest of the) world are pirate copies. There is no incentive for a specific company to switch to linux servers from windows servers when the linux solution will cost much more than the windows one.
Am I the only one here thinking that an 'open' phone is a brilliant idea? By open phone I mean a phone you can mess around with, add programs, modify stuff...unlike closed systems today's phones usually have. Linux + Java... If it all works together well and is efficient and fast on a phone, what else does one need? (apart from a working phone that is:)
There is mod_throttle for Apache which can be set up along with some scripting to activate/deactivate a virtual host. I have done this myself for a webhosting company. The problem is that the web hosting companies decide it is better not to have this option and force clients to charge the extra bandwidth. It is a business policy and not a technical impediment.
I wonder if slashdot themselves offered this service, wouldn't it be coercion? As in "you will be slashdotted if we post our story - which we are going to post - so either pay up or adios!"... hehe
"If it were a Tom Robbins book however, I couldn't see myself sitting in a cozy chair reading it on a laptop; this idea only makes sense to me for technical information because I am sitting at my computer anyways -- and where else would I need technical documentation?"
In the bathroom !!! Don't tell me the guy doesn't read technical stuff in the WC ? That is where Men read stuff. And yes, I have learned quite a lot in the bathroom, as I am sure have many of you.
(no jokes about shitty knowledge please... I have heard them already)
I really wonder if one can build an extremely simple computer (wonder how much mem the xilinx would be left with to use as RAM though) which can run a flavour of net/free BSD or even a micro linux. It probably would not be of much use but really fun.
So will we finally be able to embed (part of) our favourite OS into the PC hardware? Remember the Amiga OS... it had parts of its OS inside the ROM (intuition and other libraries (for graphics drawing and windowing)). A step forward... couple this with FlashCard RAM or otherwise.. and you can make some nice embedded systems. (Real NetPCs running linux with no CD/HD anyone?)
I agree... I cannot see how one cannot use GPL qt library for linux to create commercial Linux apps. Apparently there is no GPL version of the Qt/Windows though.
Also it is odd that TrollTech's website says that one still needs a commercial license to use qt apps for internal use in a commercial company (that is even if you don't sell the product, but just use it).
Can anyone with more information regarding how TrollTech licenses Qt enlighten us?
I still have to find *how* does one get secure user accessible (r/w/x) cgi-bin's per virtual host. Everybody seems to do it without any problems but it looks to me as if you simply cannot limit CGI acccess (r/w/x) to be only inside the user dir. The only methods I have tought are using XFS fs's ACL and security patches such as grsecurity and others...but even these are a pain.
Having suexec and a user accessible cgi-bin won't help much when the user executes a binary doing "cat/etc/passwd".
Would this kind of tech make great for polling? Advertisement polling or other ways of making polls using magazines / newspapers.
Now that we are at it... how about intelligent advertisement? The intellipage(tm) asks questions and responds to your needs regarding which flavour of their toothpaste you will like.
Possibilites are endless.
The great majority of small businesses in Europe (at leat south Europe) run windows without any licenses (i.e. pirate). Looks like these new moves are aimed at these people. This also explains the increase in BSA raids lately. Oviously all of this is an advantage to Open Source.
Yeah.. I kind of wish I could mod down (with my last 2 remaining mod points) the poster of the "comment"... Any luck slashcode will include this feature? hmmm... ok going back to reality.
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Why do you think normal people stay away from nerds then, eh?
even better, you can use a mobile phone with IR and/or bluetooth (if you also have a bt compact flash) and use GSM (usually 9600 but "cheap") or GPRS (fast but ***very*** expensive in Europe) to send your stuff over to the server. And if you have a lot of communication needs, you can always get one of those GSM/GPRS Compact Flash cards (Audiovox is one I know which looks like works with the Z). With this combination you can forget cybercafes alltogether. At night time, GSM net access cost is 6 cents a minute in Spain (and should be similar in the rest of Europe).
yeah...gives knew meaning to shitty net connection.
At least one country I know of already has a "tax" of also around ten eurocents on CD-R media: Spain. Looks like it is going to be all over Europe soon. Sorry couldn't find any links though.
Hmmm... maybe saddam was on the right track... makes you think about all those mustaches in Iraq! Oh and guess what the Iraqui Information Minister was prolly the only one without a mustache... coincidence? I think not!
Then what about the Internet? if Virii seem quite "alive" then Internet is a parallel live universe?
I don't have much idea about the US legal system since I am not even a US citizen. But isn't the US Supreme Court supposed to deal with constitutional issues? If not, then how does this work?
Check out http://www.zaurus.com
Except the laser thing.
If only the computer detects and fixes bugs and other faults in software on its own .. that alone is the holy grail we are all after. I am not holding my breadth.
Seriously. It is no secret that the great majority of Windows systems deployed all around the western (and the rest of the) world are pirate copies. There is no incentive for a specific company to switch to linux servers from windows servers when the linux solution will cost much more than the windows one.
He is trying to inform us that he wants today changed to.... April tortures' day
Not only that, but if the parent meant "commercial" programs, then you cannot use the service:
"Google Web APIs are a free beta service and are available for non-commercial use only. Please see our terms of service."
Am I the only one here thinking that an 'open' phone is a brilliant idea? By open phone I mean a phone you can mess around with, add programs, modify stuff...unlike closed systems today's phones usually have. Linux + Java ... If it all works together well and is efficient and fast on a phone, what else does one need? (apart from a working phone that is :)
There is mod_throttle for Apache which can be set up along with some scripting to activate/deactivate a virtual host. I have done this myself for a webhosting company. The problem is that the web hosting companies decide it is better not to have this option and force clients to charge the extra bandwidth. It is a business policy and not a technical impediment.
I wonder if slashdot themselves offered this service, wouldn't it be coercion? As in "you will be slashdotted if we post our story - which we are going to post - so either pay up or adios!" ... hehe
"If it were a Tom Robbins book however, I couldn't see myself sitting in a cozy chair reading it on a laptop; this idea only makes sense to me for technical information because I am sitting at my computer anyways -- and where else would I need technical documentation?"
In the bathroom !!! Don't tell me the guy doesn't read technical stuff in the WC ? That is where Men read stuff. And yes, I have learned quite a lot in the bathroom, as I am sure have many of you.
(no jokes about shitty knowledge please... I have heard them already)
I really wonder if one can build an extremely simple computer (wonder how much mem the xilinx would be left with to use as RAM though) which can run a flavour of net/free BSD or even a micro linux. It probably would not be of much use but really fun.
So will we finally be able to embed (part of) our favourite OS into the PC hardware? Remember the Amiga OS ... it had parts of its OS inside the ROM (intuition and other libraries (for graphics drawing and windowing)). A step forward... couple this with FlashCard RAM or otherwise.. and you can make some nice embedded systems. (Real NetPCs running linux with no CD/HD anyone?)
I agree... I cannot see how one cannot use GPL qt library for linux to create commercial Linux apps. Apparently there is no GPL version of the Qt/Windows though.
Also it is odd that TrollTech's website says that one still needs a commercial license to use qt apps for internal use in a commercial company (that is even if you don't sell the product, but just use it).
Can anyone with more information regarding how TrollTech licenses Qt enlighten us?
Incidentally, anyone here knows of good detailed Java IDE comparison reviews?
I still have to find *how* does one get secure user accessible (r/w/x) cgi-bin's per virtual host. Everybody seems to do it without any problems but it looks to me as if you simply cannot limit CGI acccess (r/w/x) to be only inside the user dir. The only methods I have tought are using XFS fs's ACL and security patches such as grsecurity and others...but even these are a pain. Having suexec and a user accessible cgi-bin won't help much when the user executes a binary doing "cat /etc/passwd".
Would this kind of tech make great for polling? Advertisement polling or other ways of making polls using magazines / newspapers. Now that we are at it... how about intelligent advertisement? The intellipage(tm) asks questions and responds to your needs regarding which flavour of their toothpaste you will like. Possibilites are endless.
Finally you can really get down into getting A's in the exams... Teacher thinking: "Why is that kid over there tapping on that blank paper?"
The great majority of small businesses in Europe (at leat south Europe) run windows without any licenses (i.e. pirate). Looks like these new moves are aimed at these people. This also explains the increase in BSA raids lately. Oviously all of this is an advantage to Open Source.
Yeah.. I kind of wish I could mod down (with my last 2 remaining mod points) the poster of the "comment" ... Any luck slashcode will include this feature? hmmm... ok going back to reality.