It chaps my butt just a bit that Opera did not have the courtesy to send me an email letting me know that a new version was available. I registered my Windows and Linux versions. Maybe their email server is buggy too.
Actually not the same. Since the American people recognized the militarys need to stricter laws and abridged freedoms in order to maintain order and discipline, we have the Uniform Code of Military Justice. It is not the same as any other university.
While possession of the copyrighted material is likely illegal, I imagine that it will be dealt with as an honors violation provided all of the content was for personal use. I doubt that it will be career ending unless there is an express policy that has been emphasized to the midshipmen.
The whole issue of the **AA's heavy-handed tactics makes we want to forbid my kids from purchasing a CD until they turn 18. If we could get direct artist to consumer sales and cut out the middlemen, we could all afford music and musicians could still be rich. A shareware model seems the right way to go.
I would think that a Shuttle mini-barebones system would make a great platform for this. Unfortunately, they can't seem to get all of the features in one box. The SV24/25 and SS40/G/50/G have the TV Out and the SS51G has the the SPDIF In/Out. The SS51G goes for around $300. I have a Hauppauge WinCast/dbx that I am pretty happy with which should fit in the SS51G just fine. I am not positive, but I believe that it has an Irda header on the mobo or you can build a receiver as shown on the lirc webpage. Throw a DVD (or even a DVD/CDR/CDRW so you can make CDs for your friends on the fly) and you have a quite impressive box. I have a Linksys wireless network in the house, so would probably opt for a WET11 to connect wirelessly. If an 800Mhz processor would get the job done, use the Cyrix as it runs cool enough that you don't need a fan. I own a couple of SV24s and have been very happy with them, but Shuttle keeps cranking out new versions so quickly that all I can do is salivate. This has been a great discussion. Thanks.
I don't think Joe Enterprise will pay $1600 either. While I know that they will go for less when purchased in quantity, I am afraid that they are a bit out of the box. If space and noise are an issue stand up a terminal server and use thin clients (hardware type). The information on the NEC is rather limited, but it does not appear to have an integrated NIC and it does not list one (or a modem) as an option. It does not list the port, but I would imagine that it could have a USB port(s) and then you would be left with a collection of crap sitting on your desk to make it functional. Confidence is not high.
Thanks for this message. As a parent... I do spend plenty of time reading to my kids and doing other activites, however, we also watch television and movies. My wife and I were excited when I read on/. about software that would G or PG-13-atize an R-Rated movie. The TV and film industry is not doing much to offer content that is of interest to children and parents. I can count on one hand the movies that I and my children enjoyed equally. PG13 movies tend to go too far. With the advent of DVDs, it should not add significant cost of production to allow me to watch a movie a rating or two lower than the one at which intended and yes, I would pay more for this capability. So, if the film industry does not like Clean Flicks, they can do it themselves. Instead, every year they push it a bit farther. The pre-9PM fare is getting less and less acceptable.
I doubt that most of the posters advocating "don't watch TV/movies' are parents. I imagine that they are single or DINKs with a morality not based on experience. I know that some of the posters are parents and if they are practicing what they are preaching, I applaude them.
I don't see where anyone is damaged here. If the issue is the service they provide, then offer a software product that does the job. I think that this would be a great open source project since it is all about choice.
I am not a puritan or even especially religious. I just want to be able to watch some interesting shows with my kids that we can both enjoy without the gratuitous sex, violence and foul language (and by gratuitous I mean that it adds NOTHING to plot or characters).
You might check this one out. There is more info at:
http://www.dontknowmuch.com/adults/index.asp
I have not read this particular book, but the other Don't Know Much books are very good.
I have a book called Einstein for Beginners. It is an illustrated cartoon type book, but I really liked it. It explained relativity and several other concepts in a manner that my 14 can understand. I really liked it alot and I would hope that you also like it a lot.
Yes I have read the commentary. Let me be specific. I would purchase an Ogg Vorbis only player (not MP3). I think that when manufacturers see that there is a market for open source based products, there will be a better selection. Further, when patent holders see a significant decrease in revenue, maybe they will pull their heads out of their fourth point of contact. I am planning to email a couple of my favorite hardware vendors and lobby. I would suggest that like-minded individuals do the same.
It is so disappointing to have to page through off-topic, redundant crap (i.e. Hey dude, this story is a duplicate) in order to get to some discussion about the topic. A year or so ago, you could browse at +1 or +2 and rise above the toilet rim, but now, the manure rises as high as +4. I think that/. better increase the number of ads because this baloney is cutting my visits from daily to weekly. The current metamoderation system does not weed out for those who overrate. Oh well...
You are sitting at home spanking the monkey or whatever these gloryhounds do, when you decide what a neat idea it would be to go check the security at your bank........and while you are their, you make copies of the photos on all of the desks and post them to the Internet when you are through.
For those open-minded individuals who will start down the 'they were performing a public service' path, I hope that you check the box to donate an extra $100 on your next tax return to help pay the bill for this stupidity.
If these knuckleheads had went straight to the Army or the DoD, I would have no problem. They would still have been taking a risk. I want our networks to be secure, but I don't buy this as a method to get there. Flame on Toro!
How can this be cost effective?
on
CD Copy Stopper
·
· Score: 1
I read the article the other day (either here or on wired) that talked about the Russian CD/DVD plant located in a Russian government building. I believe that it said they were selling for about $6 a piece. I assume that they are doing it at a profit. So, why in the heck at we paying more than twice that in the US. My hope is that technology would work to cut out the middle men or significantly reduce the cost of production and hence the cost. Music/Movies should be getting cheaper, not more expensive. If we could buy a music CD for $3.50 or a movie DVD for $7.50, why would anyone go to the time, effort and expense to steal the content. I have difficulty believing that it would not be better business to reduce prices and eliminate any copy protection. I was hoping to see artists/moviemakers selling their own music directly for download or as a packaged CD/DVD from their own websites. I know that a few artists are doing this, but not to the degree that I was hoping to see. Maybe the next generation of musicians/producers will move this direction. If not, hopefully I can gain great amusement from watching the supporters of the RIAA/MPAA get their asses handed to them.
Adsubtract does the same thing. You can create a default profile that blocks everything (pop-ups, java(and script), anims, cookies, and all of the baloney. Then you can create a profile for each site that requires some of these items to be turned on. It can be turned on and off with one click. I run it on W2K. I fooled with a couple of other free products, but did not find anything that performed as well.
Hunh? This one wandered down the path and fell off the ledge. Slashdot is a great example of the piece of human nature that makes us want to be in send mode more than receive. The story that I READ equating KDE and Gnome to Windows was related to testimony offered by a M$ funded long hair who did not know his butt from a hole in the ground. He equated the three and backed off under direct questioning. I believe that the slashdotter who posted the story made sport of the long hair (I believe Elzinga was his name, maybe not).
Bottom line, read the story, read the posts, engage your brain, then respond if you have something to contribute. Carping at the slashdot team is fun, but not relevant to this story.
100$ pricetag for a beta version is a bit pricey. They don't seem to understand that some of us are not so sure that they will be around long enough to get out 1.0. 100$ for a coaster is a bit much.
To clarify on the licensing, it is a personal license, so you can use it on every machine on which you are the primary user. For me that would cover a number of boxes, but means I would end up buying a license for nearly every member of my family. I don't know how the heck you would work that in a corporate environment.
Also, your $100 gets you into their insiders program with access to releases and info ahead of the great horde of unwashed.
Personally, I am pretty disappointed. If a serious contender to Bill and the gang would stand up, I would plunk down my cash. In this case, I think that I can just make out the man behind the curtain and he looks a helluva lot more like Bill than the Wizard.
I am not sure which is more disappointing, that 80% of the commentary is from folks who can't be bothered to read the article or the inane moderators who seem to be about as discerning as the crowd seated in the student section of a college football game.
With that whining out of the way... I don't have a big problem with the article. I think that what the government (and yes I work for the government, so go back to your plywood shacks and keep working on your manifestos 1984 gang) is trying to do is regain some control of the potentially sensitive information that they distribute. I did not see much about denying access. What I did read in the article was about controlling and monitoring access to potentially sensitive information.
That seems reasonable. I am sure that we will get alot of fodder about both ends of the pendulum (too much access/too little access), but I think that we will strike a balance. Security and an open society are often at odds. We (and I mean all of us as opposed to the royal 'We') are going to have to decide how much access we are willing to sacrifice in order to feel secure.
We (and I do mean the royal 'We'/Federal government) have been working for the past several years to lessen the quantity and quality of information that is available to hostile folks monitoring government websites. Sept 11 has increased our sense of urgency.
Fear not Orwellians, all is not lost. I think that our republic will survive and we will get it 80% right. If we got it exactly right, tens of thousands of websites like slashdot would go out of business. Have a good weekend.
My workplace uses blocking software. In conjunction with an investigation, a supervisor request or normal network maintenance, we occassionally monitor Internet (primarily WWW) usage. Each time we can't a half dozen folks who are then reprimanded or fired.
Our CEO's feeling is that we should not have to tell our employees that using a company provided PC and Internet bandwidth during the workday to surf porn it not OK. With the last few rounds of discipline however, we have put out a notice to all employees, the boss put out a letter to supervisors requiring them to council their staff and we initiated a user statement of agreement that is signed prior to being issued an account.
All that is great CYA. It is disappointing to see folks who should be setting the example protect the immature habits of a few. It is crap like this that is that is causing American jobs to go elsewhere. I am not for worker abuse, but like one of my bosses used to tell me "When you name is on the bottom of your paycheck, you will get a vote in workplace policy".
Replace a pager and a cellphone with a dual function phone. Replaced my Palm III with a Rex6000 (http://www.rex.net). In the process of replacing my phone with a Timex wristwatch/pager. Now if I can just replace my wife with a vibrating swiss army knife, I am in like flynn.
If the above post is a 5:Informative then I am a Knight who says Nee. It never ceases to amaze me how someone can turn the topic or focus of the post and be called Informative
If you can get any device for $16.95 that includes $6 in parts, youhave either found a vendor who is soon to be out of business or who considers a peanut butter sandwich as fine dining. The issue was dual booting or locking drives, not transporting data, etc between machines. A fine post, but not 5:Informative.
In a town where the major defense contractors can spin reality to match their 5 year business plan, what could the *real* reason be????? The real reason could be that the vendor who designed the simulation is the prime or a partner of the prime who intends to *help* us out of this mess. These are the same folks who hyped Y2K and then moved on to that awesome threat of hackers to our national security and now WMD looks like the next cash cow.
My employer is a key player in our nations WMD response. For that reason (and because I am a mindless cow who read everything that is commented upon on slashdot) I read Living Terrors. I think it did a good job of helping the reader to envision the circumstances and aftermath of a bioterrorism event. After that, the authors agenda got so ridiculous that the train left the tracks. Right, lets put the MDs in charge in an civil emergency. I would like to watch that sitcom on TV. Also, as to accuracy, his 'facts' about my agency were incorrect and easily verifiable.
If you want to know what the *real* reason is, find out the sponsor (senator/representative), the prime vendor and whose district they are from and find out who their paid lobbyists are.
Never have so many yapped so much about so little. It amazes me that so many budding geniuses are willing to devote the tens of minutes required to continue discussing a bound collection of a*swipe and the pinheaded authors whining. Lifes short, be brief.
You have already received a number of great suggestions. Some things to consider with collarboration are how you are going to get the users to use it. For customers who have never used collaboration software, the tools may be perceived as more of a hindrance than a help. Also, it may be difficult for them to express their needs until they become familiar with distance collaboration as a process. My suggestion is start simple, start cheap and don't make a big investment (of dollars or time) in a tool(s) until your customers have had a chance to experience distance collaboration.
With that said, a great tool that we are using is from http://www.mimio.com. It is a win/mac driven product today, but I would not be surprised if they offer linux drivers soon. What we think is great about it is the integration with Netmeeting (which is free with M$ IIS). It is replaced in Win/Exchange 2K with M$ Communications Server.
We are currently looking at Infoworkspace http://www.infoworkspace.com. We have also used the Collaborative Virtual Workspace developed by CMU. Good luck
Pertaining to the last section, when we order them from the phone company, we are looking for 'dry pairs'. The significance is that there is end to end connectivity without going through a CO. We used such a solution with 56K frame relay. Worked like a champ for $50 a month. If Internet access for the second office is also an issue, I concurr with my learned contemporary and say that DSL or otherwise the cable modem combined with a VPN is a good choice.
Having tried multilink, I was disappointed and thought that the pain to gain ratio was a bit too high.
I don't think that BGP will give the results that you are looking for in terms of aggregating bandwidth. It would facilitate fail over. But... I could be wrong. Cheers.
Sounds like another member of 'The Church of JC the Lost'. I've heard that if you use babelfish and play this site backwards in Hebrew it says 'Bill Gates is kewl'.
Lets get real here. In the first place M$ is writing the letter because copyrights and trademarks require that you defend them. If they don't have documentation of their calling folks on the carpet, they might lose a future case concerning challenges to their holdings.
I see no problem with/. setting a 'community standard' that copyrighted/trademarked material will not be posted. If you do, you will be moderated to the bitbucket where your comments cannot be viewed.
I personally could give a flip about M$ but there are some of you rocket surgeons out there that write some pretty nifty stuff and deserve to own your words if you chose to do so. I will defend your right to do so at least to the point of my own inconvenience:)
Bottom line, lighten up Francis, I don't think Bill G really cares what we think. He is just having his well paid legal nimrods perform due diligence on his property. Have a smurfy day.
I am not a GPL zealot, but I do admire those who contribute and I hope for the sucess of Open Source. I support the effort by assisting anyone who asks with the limited knowledge I possess.
I would gladly contribute to a GPL legal defense fund that could be used to encourage nVidia and others to act a bit more swiftly. I would also choose vendors that contribute a portion of their profit to the legal defense fund.
I certainly don't score this one a win. This is sort of like my building a fence on your property and telling you that I will fix it at my convenience.
One other suggestion might be an nVidia boycott equalling the time that they had the violating drivers available. These folks are not altruistic. In the end they do what maximizes profits. My guess is that their demographic studies show that Linux is an expanding market with good customer loyalty.
It should be good. TEMPEST is the program that DoD and some of other agencies follow for issues dealing with EMF. People have been aware that CRTs could be monitored for quite some time. About 20 years ago, a researcher named Wim Van Eck demonstrated that CRTs could be monitored with a $50 device from 100s of meters. He was able to recreate the screen because the ratio of horizontal to vertical frequency is constant. Mr. Van Eck recommended encrypting the signal so that the screen was drawn in a random fashion. He said that it could be done without raising the price of the monitor more than $20. Having multiple monitors as the other fellow suggested would not work. Van Eck phreaks have shown that each device has a unique signature. Just my.02. There is alot of information on the web about Van Eck and the phenomenon. There are some interesting stories about other folks using similar technology such as the BBC and Microsoft.
Slashdot Mirror
It chaps my butt just a bit that Opera did not have the courtesy to send me an email letting me know that a new version was available. I registered my Windows and Linux versions. Maybe their email server is buggy too.
>My guess is Slashdot was checking their legal
>responsibilites (and cta) etc...
I doubt it, they were probably just too busy processing hard-hitting, controversial stuff like:
The 1991 "X-Box" and
Why VHS Was Better
I had to laugh reading the first one trying to imagine how slow a news day it would take to get that one printed.
Actually not the same. Since the American people recognized the militarys need to stricter laws and abridged freedoms in order to maintain order and discipline, we have the Uniform Code of Military Justice. It is not the same as any other university.
While possession of the copyrighted material is likely illegal, I imagine that it will be dealt with as an honors violation provided all of the content was for personal use. I doubt that it will be career ending unless there is an express policy that has been emphasized to the midshipmen.
The whole issue of the **AA's heavy-handed tactics makes we want to forbid my kids from purchasing a CD until they turn 18. If we could get direct artist to consumer sales and cut out the middlemen, we could all afford music and musicians could still be rich. A shareware model seems the right way to go.
I would think that a Shuttle mini-barebones system would make a great platform for this. Unfortunately, they can't seem to get all of the features in one box. The SV24/25 and SS40/G/50/G have the TV Out and the SS51G has the the SPDIF In/Out. The SS51G goes for around $300. I have a Hauppauge WinCast/dbx that I am pretty happy with which should fit in the SS51G just fine. I am not positive, but I believe that it has an Irda header on the mobo or you can build a receiver as shown on the lirc webpage. Throw a DVD (or even a DVD/CDR/CDRW so you can make CDs for your friends on the fly) and you have a quite impressive box. I have a Linksys wireless network in the house, so would probably opt for a WET11 to connect wirelessly. If an 800Mhz processor would get the job done, use the Cyrix as it runs cool enough that you don't need a fan. I own a couple of SV24s and have been very happy with them, but Shuttle keeps cranking out new versions so quickly that all I can do is salivate. This has been a great discussion. Thanks.
I don't think Joe Enterprise will pay $1600 either. While I know that they will go for less when purchased in quantity, I am afraid that they are a bit out of the box. If space and noise are an issue stand up a terminal server and use thin clients (hardware type). The information on the NEC is rather limited, but it does not appear to have an integrated NIC and it does not list one (or a modem) as an option. It does not list the port, but I would imagine that it could have a USB port(s) and then you would be left with a collection of crap sitting on your desk to make it functional. Confidence is not high.
Thanks for this message. As a parent... I do spend plenty of time reading to my kids and doing other activites, however, we also watch television and movies. My wife and I were excited when I read on /. about software that would G or PG-13-atize an R-Rated movie. The TV and film industry is not doing much to offer content that is of interest to children and parents. I can count on one hand the movies that I and my children enjoyed equally. PG13 movies tend to go too far. With the advent of DVDs, it should not add significant cost of production to allow me to watch a movie a rating or two lower than the one at which intended and yes, I would pay more for this capability. So, if the film industry does not like Clean Flicks, they can do it themselves. Instead, every year they push it a bit farther. The pre-9PM fare is getting less and less acceptable.
I doubt that most of the posters advocating "don't watch TV/movies' are parents. I imagine that they are single or DINKs with a morality not based on experience. I know that some of the posters are parents and if they are practicing what they are preaching, I applaude them.
I don't see where anyone is damaged here. If the issue is the service they provide, then offer a software product that does the job. I think that this would be a great open source project since it is all about choice.
I am not a puritan or even especially religious. I just want to be able to watch some interesting shows with my kids that we can both enjoy without the gratuitous sex, violence and foul language (and by gratuitous I mean that it adds NOTHING to plot or characters).
You might check this one out. There is more info at:
http://www.dontknowmuch.com/adults/index.asp
I have not read this particular book, but the other Don't Know Much books are very good.
I have a book called Einstein for Beginners. It is an illustrated cartoon type book, but I really liked it. It explained relativity and several other concepts in a manner that my 14 can understand. I really liked it alot and I would hope that you also like it a lot.
Yes I have read the commentary. Let me be specific. I would purchase an Ogg Vorbis only player (not MP3). I think that when manufacturers see that there is a market for open source based products, there will be a better selection. Further, when patent holders see a significant decrease in revenue, maybe they will pull their heads out of their fourth point of contact. I am planning to email a couple of my favorite hardware vendors and lobby. I would suggest that like-minded individuals do the same.
/. better increase the number of ads because this baloney is cutting my visits from daily to weekly. The current metamoderation system does not weed out for those who overrate. Oh well...
It is so disappointing to have to page through off-topic, redundant crap (i.e. Hey dude, this story is a duplicate) in order to get to some discussion about the topic. A year or so ago, you could browse at +1 or +2 and rise above the toilet rim, but now, the manure rises as high as +4. I think that
Close, but try this:
....and while you are their, you make copies of the photos on all of the desks and post them to the Internet when you are through.
You are sitting at home spanking the monkey or whatever these gloryhounds do, when you decide what a neat idea it would be to go check the security at your bank....
For those open-minded individuals who will start down the 'they were performing a public service' path, I hope that you check the box to donate an extra $100 on your next tax return to help pay the bill for this stupidity.
If these knuckleheads had went straight to the Army or the DoD, I would have no problem. They would still have been taking a risk. I want our networks to be secure, but I don't buy this as a method to get there. Flame on Toro!
I read the article the other day (either here or on wired) that talked about the Russian CD/DVD plant located in a Russian government building. I believe that it said they were selling for about $6 a piece. I assume that they are doing it at a profit. So, why in the heck at we paying more than twice that in the US. My hope is that technology would work to cut out the middle men or significantly reduce the cost of production and hence the cost. Music/Movies should be getting cheaper, not more expensive. If we could buy a music CD for $3.50 or a movie DVD for $7.50, why would anyone go to the time, effort and expense to steal the content. I have difficulty believing that it would not be better business to reduce prices and eliminate any copy protection. I was hoping to see artists/moviemakers selling their own music directly for download or as a packaged CD/DVD from their own websites. I know that a few artists are doing this, but not to the degree that I was hoping to see. Maybe the next generation of musicians/producers will move this direction. If not, hopefully I can gain great amusement from watching the supporters of the RIAA/MPAA get their asses handed to them.
Adsubtract does the same thing. You can create a default profile that blocks everything (pop-ups, java(and script), anims, cookies, and all of the baloney. Then you can create a profile for each site that requires some of these items to be turned on. It can be turned on and off with one click. I run it on W2K. I fooled with a couple of other free products, but did not find anything that performed as well.
Hunh? This one wandered down the path and fell off the ledge. Slashdot is a great example of the piece of human nature that makes us want to be in send mode more than receive. The story that I READ equating KDE and Gnome to Windows was related to testimony offered by a M$ funded long hair who did not know his butt from a hole in the ground. He equated the three and backed off under direct questioning. I believe that the slashdotter who posted the story made sport of the long hair (I believe Elzinga was his name, maybe not).
Bottom line, read the story, read the posts, engage your brain, then respond if you have something to contribute. Carping at the slashdot team is fun, but not relevant to this story.
100$ pricetag for a beta version is a bit pricey. They don't seem to understand that some of us are not so sure that they will be around long enough to get out 1.0. 100$ for a coaster is a bit much.
To clarify on the licensing, it is a personal license, so you can use it on every machine on which you are the primary user. For me that would cover a number of boxes, but means I would end up buying a license for nearly every member of my family. I don't know how the heck you would work that in a corporate environment.
Also, your $100 gets you into their insiders program with access to releases and info ahead of the great horde of unwashed.
Personally, I am pretty disappointed. If a serious contender to Bill and the gang would stand up, I would plunk down my cash. In this case, I think that I can just make out the man behind the curtain and he looks a helluva lot more like Bill than the Wizard.
Have a smurfy day.
I am not sure which is more disappointing, that 80% of the commentary is from folks who can't be bothered to read the article or the inane moderators who seem to be about as discerning as the crowd seated in the student section of a college football game.
With that whining out of the way... I don't have a big problem with the article. I think that what the government (and yes I work for the government, so go back to your plywood shacks and keep working on your manifestos 1984 gang) is trying to do is regain some control of the potentially sensitive information that they distribute. I did not see much about denying access. What I did read in the article was about controlling and monitoring access to potentially sensitive information.
That seems reasonable. I am sure that we will get alot of fodder about both ends of the pendulum (too much access/too little access), but I think that we will strike a balance. Security and an open society are often at odds. We (and I mean all of us as opposed to the royal 'We') are going to have to decide how much access we are willing to sacrifice in order to feel secure.
We (and I do mean the royal 'We'/Federal government) have been working for the past several years to lessen the quantity and quality of information that is available to hostile folks monitoring government websites. Sept 11 has increased our sense of urgency.
Fear not Orwellians, all is not lost. I think that our republic will survive and we will get it 80% right. If we got it exactly right, tens of thousands of websites like slashdot would go out of business. Have a good weekend.
Flame On Johnny.
My workplace uses blocking software. In conjunction with an investigation, a supervisor request or normal network maintenance, we occassionally monitor Internet (primarily WWW) usage. Each time we can't a half dozen folks who are then reprimanded or fired.
Our CEO's feeling is that we should not have to tell our employees that using a company provided PC and Internet bandwidth during the workday to surf porn it not OK. With the last few rounds of discipline however, we have put out a notice to all employees, the boss put out a letter to supervisors requiring them to council their staff and we initiated a user statement of agreement that is signed prior to being issued an account.
All that is great CYA. It is disappointing to see folks who should be setting the example protect the immature habits of a few. It is crap like this that is that is causing American jobs to go elsewhere. I am not for worker abuse, but like one of my bosses used to tell me "When you name is on the bottom of your paycheck, you will get a vote in workplace policy".
Replace a pager and a cellphone with a dual function phone. Replaced my Palm III with a Rex6000 (http://www.rex.net). In the process of replacing my phone with a Timex wristwatch/pager. Now if I can just replace my wife with a vibrating swiss army knife, I am in like flynn.
If the above post is a 5:Informative then I am a Knight who says Nee. It never ceases to amaze me how someone can turn the topic or focus of the post and be called Informative
If you can get any device for $16.95 that includes $6 in parts, youhave either found a vendor who is soon to be out of business or who considers a peanut butter sandwich as fine dining. The issue was dual booting or locking drives, not transporting data, etc between machines. A fine post, but not 5:Informative.
Have a good weekend
In a town where the major defense contractors can spin reality to match their 5 year business plan, what could the *real* reason be????? The real reason could be that the vendor who designed the simulation is the prime or a partner of the prime who intends to *help* us out of this mess. These are the same folks who hyped Y2K and then moved on to that awesome threat of hackers to our national security and now WMD looks like the next cash cow.
My employer is a key player in our nations WMD response. For that reason (and because I am a mindless cow who read everything that is commented upon on slashdot) I read Living Terrors. I think it did a good job of helping the reader to envision the circumstances and aftermath of a bioterrorism event. After that, the authors agenda got so ridiculous that the train left the tracks. Right, lets put the MDs in charge in an civil emergency. I would like to watch that sitcom on TV. Also, as to accuracy, his 'facts' about my agency were incorrect and easily verifiable.
If you want to know what the *real* reason is, find out the sponsor (senator/representative), the prime vendor and whose district they are from and find out who their paid lobbyists are.
Inquiring and cynical minds want to know.
Never have so many yapped so much about so little. It amazes me that so many budding geniuses are willing to devote the tens of minutes required to continue discussing a bound collection of a*swipe and the pinheaded authors whining. Lifes short, be brief.
You have already received a number of great suggestions. Some things to consider with collarboration are how you are going to get the users to use it. For customers who have never used collaboration software, the tools may be perceived as more of a hindrance than a help. Also, it may be difficult for them to express their needs until they become familiar with distance collaboration as a process. My suggestion is start simple, start cheap and don't make a big investment (of dollars or time) in a tool(s) until your customers have had a chance to experience distance collaboration.
With that said, a great tool that we are using is from http://www.mimio.com. It is a win/mac driven product today, but I would not be surprised if they offer linux drivers soon. What we think is great about it is the integration with Netmeeting (which is free with M$ IIS). It is replaced in Win/Exchange 2K with M$ Communications Server.
We are currently looking at Infoworkspace http://www.infoworkspace.com. We have also used the Collaborative Virtual Workspace developed by CMU. Good luck
Pertaining to the last section, when we order them from the phone company, we are looking for 'dry pairs'. The significance is that there is end to end connectivity without going through a CO. We used such a solution with 56K frame relay. Worked like a champ for $50 a month. If Internet access for the second office is also an issue, I concurr with my learned contemporary and say that DSL or otherwise the cable modem combined with a VPN is a good choice.
Having tried multilink, I was disappointed and thought that the pain to gain ratio was a bit too high.
I don't think that BGP will give the results that you are looking for in terms of aggregating bandwidth. It would facilitate fail over. But... I could be wrong. Cheers.
Sounds like another member of 'The Church of JC the Lost'. I've heard that if you use babelfish and play this site backwards in Hebrew it says 'Bill Gates is kewl'.
/. setting a 'community standard' that copyrighted/trademarked material will not be posted. If you do, you will be moderated to the bitbucket where your comments cannot be viewed.
:)
Lets get real here. In the first place M$ is writing the letter because copyrights and trademarks require that you defend them. If they don't have documentation of their calling folks on the carpet, they might lose a future case concerning challenges to their holdings.
I see no problem with
I personally could give a flip about M$ but there are some of you rocket surgeons out there that write some pretty nifty stuff and deserve to own your words if you chose to do so. I will defend your right to do so at least to the point of my own inconvenience
Bottom line, lighten up Francis, I don't think Bill G really cares what we think. He is just having his well paid legal nimrods perform due diligence on his property. Have a smurfy day.
I am not a GPL zealot, but I do admire those who contribute and I hope for the sucess of Open Source. I support the effort by assisting anyone who asks with the limited knowledge I possess.
I would gladly contribute to a GPL legal defense fund that could be used to encourage nVidia and others to act a bit more swiftly. I would also choose vendors that contribute a portion of their profit to the legal defense fund.
I certainly don't score this one a win. This is sort of like my building a fence on your property and telling you that I will fix it at my convenience.
One other suggestion might be an nVidia boycott equalling the time that they had the violating drivers available. These folks are not altruistic. In the end they do what maximizes profits. My guess is that their demographic studies show that Linux is an expanding market with good customer loyalty.
Cheers.
It should be good. TEMPEST is the program that DoD and some of other agencies follow for issues dealing with EMF. People have been aware that CRTs could be monitored for quite some time. About 20 years ago, a researcher named Wim Van Eck demonstrated that CRTs could be monitored with a $50 device from 100s of meters. He was able to recreate the screen because the ratio of horizontal to vertical frequency is constant. Mr. Van Eck recommended encrypting the signal so that the screen was drawn in a random fashion. He said that it could be done without raising the price of the monitor more than $20. Having multiple monitors as the other fellow suggested would not work. Van Eck phreaks have shown that each device has a unique signature. Just my .02. There is alot of information on the web about Van Eck and the phenomenon. There are some interesting stories about other folks using similar technology such as the BBC and Microsoft.