At first, I had a Palm IIIxe, which I sync'd serially with two serial cables on two machines. This worked flawlessly.
Then I upgraded to a Tungsten C. At first, this worked great with two Fedora Core 2 machines.
Then I upgraded both machines to Fedora Core 3, and one of the systems continued to work great, while the other would frequently crash during sync'ing.
Then I reinstalled the crashy system with Ubuntu, and things were good again.
As far as PIM software, I've used almost exclusively jpilot, though I did try out evolution's palm pilot support for a while.
Quantum crypto in this sense is mostly a nonissue, because of the limited range.
What's more interesting is cryptography done on quantum computers. This promises to make traditional cryptography useless. However, there will be new algorithms usable on quantum computers that keep cryptography alive. The transition could be painful - I haven't heard anything about how it could be handled smoothly.
I believe really detecting a particular content is equivalent to the halting problem. Then again, so is virus detection. In other words, it's not doable in a really general case, but you can case by case it to some extent.
Anyway, if this starts happening, fileswappers will probably encrypt, or winnow and chaff, or steg their files.
Kinda makes you understand how windows users feel when we complain about windows and talk about how "linux users know more about windows than windows users know about linux". Just sounds like "whine, whine, wish I had real critical mass". Personally, I kind of regret my dalliances in NetBSD and FreeBSD - they took time away from Linux. Now I can't say I ran linux solid from the days of 0.12. And with the way Theo rants, there's a snowball's chance I'm going to try OpenBSD.
I once had luck getting over a green tea addiction (headaches, the shakes) by drinking yerba mate' once to satisfy my need. The next day, I didn't need either tea or mate'.
Mate' also contains caffeine. I'm not enough of a chemist/biologist/doctor to speculate why this worked, but it appeared to.
You -might- be able to do something similar by having green tea instead of coffee one day, and then nothing the next. Maybe. Or maybe mate' is the magic bullet. Or maybe I was just lucky.:) I suggest the green tea alternative because it's easier to find than mate', though I heard recently that mate' is in Kroger's in Cincinnati now (mainstream grocery chain).
BTW, a lot of the stuff on the internet will tell you yerba mate' isn't addictive, and that it doesn't cause you to be sleepless. Don't believe it! I got fiercely sick from mate' deprivation a number of times after drinking it reguarly for a year or two, and I once imbibed a LOT of mate' at a party late one evening, and didn't sleep much at all that night (despite plenty of trying). Also don't believe the stuff about mate' having mateine instead of caffeine. There was one study that said it contains mateine, and many that say it has caffeine.
But I wouldn't say that mate' addiction is worse to kick than coffee addiction. Mate' is good stuff, and it takes a long time to get addicted to it I think.
If some camera vendor released binary only software for their camera, and I could use gphoto2/gtkam/sane instead, I'd probably chose the latter.
If some camera vendor released opensource software for their camera, the other camera vendors would benefit from it (ooooohhh, shudder, horrors).
I'm happy to stick with gphoto2, I just want them to mention it on the box as supported software.
BTW, my powershot A60 seems to work ok with gphoto2. I've been attributing the need to powercycle, to the battery-saving autoshutoff I turned on in the camera.
Nah. If PVR's destroy ad revenues with traditional TV, that'll just make it that much more likely that PVR's won't work with the new Digital TV format(s).
I guess Sparc was cool once, but now it's just a pain. I long for Sun to return to the days of commodity processors - especially if they can pull off trouble-free, user-transparent sparc emulation on opteron.
Oh, and also trouble-free, user-transparent opteron emulation on sparc. That way people with old boxes can run the new software, and people with new boxes can run the old software, and everybody's happy.
It'd be nice to have a field in the ELF header that says "translate to native at load time" or "emulate native at runtime". So you have the option of running fast, or, if the binary is a little weird, you can fall back on the slower but more less problematic emulation (actually, emulation probably should be the default).
Seriously, get a refurb palm (these guys are decent), and run an RPN calculator program on it. There are free ones for PalmOS.
Then you can do a guhzillion other things with it too, and it doesn't dent the pocketbook much.
It's no joke. Insurance smooths your financial curve. The lottery, for all practical purposes, just makes your financial curve tend downward more. Play it a lot? Slope downward a lot.
But there is redeeming value in the lottery. You're not really buying a chance at winning anything - the odds are too slim. What you're buying is the fun of dreaming about winning.
However, people with sufficiently good imaginations can have all the same fun without buying a lottery ticket.:)
Here at UCI, the ICS appears to be VERY pro microsoft. The curriculum is mostly microsoft based, and in their support group, the main linux guy just got layed off.
Needless to say, I find this disturbing. A CS department moving to all microsoft is a bit like a math department moving to all algebra, because "calculus is just too hard".
On a somewhat related note, out in industry, I heard that at a particular part of Connexant, they're laying off the windows guys and replacing the windows servers with linux boxes.
So CS departments are a bit out of synch with what industry wants. Just a bit. And my guess is that microsoft is using every bit of leverage it has to get all-microsoft curricula in CS departments everywhere.
Success is happiness. That is, if you're happy with your results, you're succeeding.
You don't have to measure your satisfaction with your project by any particular measure but the one that matters to you. If you want lots of users, go for it. If you just code for the love of coding, there you go - that's all you need.
Bear in mind that any fork is a bit political. Some users may feel a degree of loyalty to the original project, or may just not have heard of your fork.
I read a "for dummies book". It was "Meditation for Dummies". I hated the title, thought it made me sound dumb, but it was recommended to me, so I gave it a chance.
I knew little about meditation going in.
I haven't become an expert, but I was left with the feeling that the book provided a good overview and emphasized the fundamentals, unlike the two other meditation books I started and good annoyed with for being too advanced.
I still hate the title, but I have more respect for the series of books now.
Whitespace that doesn't reflect a program's structure is a bug waiting to happen.
In that case, {'s and begin's are just an annoyance that take up extra space in many indentation styles, and introduce a class of errors.
People say that whitespace significance introduces its own class of errors. However, I've been bitten multiple times by bad indentation and bad {'s, while I've not once been bitten by python's usage of whitespace.
The easy rule is, don't use spaces in your indentation - only use one tab per nesting level. That way the 3 columners can see things at 3 columns, and the 8 columners can see things at 8 columns, and everybody gets to see things the way they most like, all from the same code. If you mix in spaces, then you end up stuck with one tabstop width unless you use a software formatter like gnu indent (which gives some people fits).
Ultimately you're going to need to burn more calories than you consume, plus maybe toning your abdominal muscles a bit if your intestines are starting to push out against your abdomen..
Two freebie ways of burning more calories are to drink tea and eat chili peppers. These both raise your metabolism, so you actually burn more calories at rest.
But that's probably not enough, especially if you're drinking a lot of beer. At some point, you're probably going to want to get a gym membership or some exercise equipment at home, or take up running, or something like that.
One good way of burning calories is to do weight training. Muscles are blast furnaces that love to gobble calories. The bigger they are, and the more you use them, the more they gobble. Muscle weighs more than fat, so don't worry too much about your results on the scale if you try this approach.
BTW, I'm no nutritionist, but I find Nonalcoholic beer pretty satisfying, and I believe it cuts out a lot of calories.
Also, there's vegetarianism. It tends to be low calorie unless you use too much oil or over-rely on high fat cheese, and it's a good way to go if you, as a typical guy, want to extend your lifespan to that of a typical woman.
Actually, I believe that the TRS-80, C64, Apple II and even Atari 800 had Microsoft derived BASIC implementations as their "OS". My friends used to criticize Atari BASIC for not being Microsoft, but it actually was - they just had to rip out the normal string arrays to make it fit on an 8K cartridge.
To balance this a bit, I've found myself dabbling in ancient things like camellia sinensis, kombucha, weiqi, yerba mate', archeology (especially archeoastronomy), manna, and probably some others that aren't coming to mind right now.
Are there any efforts afoot to combine the ip stack fingerprinting techniques of nmap -O and xprobe2? The combination would about have to be better than the sum of the parts.
The OS vendors are doing their part, but ISP's aren't bothering. There's no incentive to speak of yet.
It's going to take government incentives from a major country or three to make it happen - kind of like with digital TV.
Now digital TV is bad, because they apparently prevent recording shows. IPv6 is at least as worthy a cause, and merits the attention of a congresscritter who wants a bill to sponsor.
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At first, I had a Palm IIIxe, which I sync'd serially with two serial cables on two machines. This worked flawlessly.
Then I upgraded to a Tungsten C. At first, this worked great with two Fedora Core 2 machines.
Then I upgraded both machines to Fedora Core 3, and one of the systems continued to work great, while the other would frequently crash during sync'ing.
Then I reinstalled the crashy system with Ubuntu, and things were good again.
As far as PIM software, I've used almost exclusively jpilot, though I did try out evolution's palm pilot support for a while.
Quantum crypto in this sense is mostly a nonissue, because of the limited range.
What's more interesting is cryptography done on quantum computers. This promises to make traditional cryptography useless. However, there will be new algorithms usable on quantum computers that keep cryptography alive. The transition could be painful - I haven't heard anything about how it could be handled smoothly.
I believe really detecting a particular content is equivalent to the halting problem. Then again, so is virus detection. In other words, it's not doable in a really general case, but you can case by case it to some extent.
Anyway, if this starts happening, fileswappers will probably encrypt, or winnow and chaff, or steg their files.
Kinda makes you understand how windows users feel when we complain about windows and talk about how "linux users know more about windows than windows users know about linux". Just sounds like "whine, whine, wish I had real critical mass". Personally, I kind of regret my dalliances in NetBSD and FreeBSD - they took time away from Linux. Now I can't say I ran linux solid from the days of 0.12. And with the way Theo rants, there's a snowball's chance I'm going to try OpenBSD.
Yes, it's a Chinese game originally, but people in the West almost entirely use Japanese terminology to discuss the game.
I once had luck getting over a green tea addiction (headaches, the shakes) by drinking yerba mate' once to satisfy my need. The next day, I didn't need either tea or mate'.
Mate' also contains caffeine. I'm not enough of a chemist/biologist/doctor to speculate why this worked, but it appeared to.
You -might- be able to do something similar by having green tea instead of coffee one day, and then nothing the next. Maybe. Or maybe mate' is the magic bullet. Or maybe I was just lucky.
BTW, a lot of the stuff on the internet will tell you yerba mate' isn't addictive, and that it doesn't cause you to be sleepless. Don't believe it! I got fiercely sick from mate' deprivation a number of times after drinking it reguarly for a year or two, and I once imbibed a LOT of mate' at a party late one evening, and didn't sleep much at all that night (despite plenty of trying). Also don't believe the stuff about mate' having mateine instead of caffeine. There was one study that said it contains mateine, and many that say it has caffeine.
But I wouldn't say that mate' addiction is worse to kick than coffee addiction. Mate' is good stuff, and it takes a long time to get addicted to it I think.
If some camera vendor released binary only software for their camera, and I could use gphoto2/gtkam/sane instead, I'd probably chose the latter.
If some camera vendor released opensource software for their camera, the other camera vendors would benefit from it (ooooohhh, shudder, horrors).
I'm happy to stick with gphoto2, I just want them to mention it on the box as supported software.
BTW, my powershot A60 seems to work ok with gphoto2. I've been attributing the need to powercycle, to the battery-saving autoshutoff I turned on in the camera.
Nah. If PVR's destroy ad revenues with traditional TV, that'll just make it that much more likely that PVR's won't work with the new Digital TV format(s).
I guess Sparc was cool once, but now it's just a pain. I long for Sun to return to the days of commodity processors - especially if they can pull off trouble-free, user-transparent sparc emulation on opteron.
Oh, and also trouble-free, user-transparent opteron emulation on sparc. That way people with old boxes can run the new software, and people with new boxes can run the old software, and everybody's happy.
It'd be nice to have a field in the ELF header that says "translate to native at load time" or "emulate native at runtime". So you have the option of running fast, or, if the binary is a little weird, you can fall back on the slower but more less problematic emulation (actually, emulation probably should be the default).
Seriously, get a refurb palm (these guys are decent), and run an RPN calculator program on it. There are free ones for PalmOS. Then you can do a guhzillion other things with it too, and it doesn't dent the pocketbook much.
It's no joke. Insurance smooths your financial curve. The lottery, for all practical purposes, just makes your financial curve tend downward more. Play it a lot? Slope downward a lot.
:)
But there is redeeming value in the lottery. You're not really buying a chance at winning anything - the odds are too slim. What you're buying is the fun of dreaming about winning.
However, people with sufficiently good imaginations can have all the same fun without buying a lottery ticket.
Here at UCI, the ICS appears to be VERY pro microsoft. The curriculum is mostly microsoft based, and in their support group, the main linux guy just got layed off.
Needless to say, I find this disturbing. A CS department moving to all microsoft is a bit like a math department moving to all algebra, because "calculus is just too hard".
On a somewhat related note, out in industry, I heard that at a particular part of Connexant, they're laying off the windows guys and replacing the windows servers with linux boxes.
So CS departments are a bit out of synch with what industry wants. Just a bit. And my guess is that microsoft is using every bit of leverage it has to get all-microsoft curricula in CS departments everywhere.
Success is happiness. That is, if you're happy with your results, you're succeeding.
You don't have to measure your satisfaction with your project by any particular measure but the one that matters to you. If you want lots of users, go for it. If you just code for the love of coding, there you go - that's all you need.
Bear in mind that any fork is a bit political. Some users may feel a degree of loyalty to the original project, or may just not have heard of your fork.
I read a "for dummies book". It was "Meditation for Dummies". I hated the title, thought it made me sound dumb, but it was recommended to me, so I gave it a chance.
I knew little about meditation going in.
I haven't become an expert, but I was left with the feeling that the book provided a good overview and emphasized the fundamentals, unlike the two other meditation books I started and good annoyed with for being too advanced.
I still hate the title, but I have more respect for the series of books now.
Whitespace that doesn't reflect a program's structure is a bug waiting to happen.
In that case, {'s and begin's are just an annoyance that take up extra space in many indentation styles, and introduce a class of errors.
People say that whitespace significance introduces its own class of errors. However, I've been bitten multiple times by bad indentation and bad {'s, while I've not once been bitten by python's usage of whitespace.
The easy rule is, don't use spaces in your indentation - only use one tab per nesting level. That way the 3 columners can see things at 3 columns, and the 8 columners can see things at 8 columns, and everybody gets to see things the way they most like, all from the same code. If you mix in spaces, then you end up stuck with one tabstop width unless you use a software formatter like gnu indent (which gives some people fits).
You could try isometrics.
Ultimately you're going to need to burn more calories than you consume, plus maybe toning your abdominal muscles a bit if your intestines are starting to push out against your abdomen..
Two freebie ways of burning more calories are to drink tea and eat chili peppers. These both raise your metabolism, so you actually burn more calories at rest.
But that's probably not enough, especially if you're drinking a lot of beer. At some point, you're probably going to want to get a gym membership or some exercise equipment at home, or take up running, or something like that.
One good way of burning calories is to do weight training. Muscles are blast furnaces that love to gobble calories. The bigger they are, and the more you use them, the more they gobble. Muscle weighs more than fat, so don't worry too much about your results on the scale if you try this approach.
BTW, I'm no nutritionist, but I find Nonalcoholic beer pretty satisfying, and I believe it cuts out a lot of calories.
Also, there's vegetarianism. It tends to be low calorie unless you use too much oil or over-rely on high fat cheese, and it's a good way to go if you, as a typical guy, want to extend your lifespan to that of a typical woman.
Actually, I believe that the TRS-80, C64, Apple II and even Atari 800 had Microsoft derived BASIC implementations as their "OS". My friends used to criticize Atari BASIC for not being Microsoft, but it actually was - they just had to rip out the normal string arrays to make it fit on an 8K cartridge.
But it's hard to go wrong with Goedel, Escher, Bach if you're into philosophy of maths.
If SCO did distribute pieces of its own lockin code, it was almost certainly done unknowingly.
Forcing SCO to relinquish control of this code because of an accident is wrong.
SCO basically sucks, but that doesn't change the fact that if we set such a precedent, then microsoft's "pacman" claims are partially legitimized.
To balance this a bit, I've found myself dabbling in ancient things like camellia sinensis, kombucha, weiqi, yerba mate', archeology (especially archeoastronomy), manna, and probably some others that aren't coming to mind right now.
Are there any efforts afoot to combine the ip stack fingerprinting techniques of nmap -O and xprobe2? The combination would about have to be better than the sum of the parts.
The OS vendors are doing their part, but ISP's aren't bothering. There's no incentive to speak of yet.
It's going to take government incentives from a major country or three to make it happen - kind of like with digital TV.
Now digital TV is bad, because they apparently prevent recording shows. IPv6 is at least as worthy a cause, and merits the attention of a congresscritter who wants a bill to sponsor.
Go is the game.