Indeed it would be appropriate, although human idiocy knows no bounds. H1N1 is a neutral, politically correct, idiocy-avoiding name. There you have the Egyptian Government culling a ridiculous number of swine, just to show that the government was doing something, but hey, its "Swine Flu", swines must die! , Not to mention the Chinese Government confining Mexican Tourists -healthy Mexican Tourists, mind you- just because they were Mexican.
The reasoning was similar, "Hey, its the Mexican Flu, let's quarantine Mexicans!"... There are other examples of Xenophobia being triggered by associating Mexico with the desease, not to mention the disaster in the Tourism industry in Mexico.
So, while i concurr that previous practice was acceptable (Spanish Flu, et al), the current near-instantaneous information transfer and given the unlimited ability for human idiocy, A/H1N1 Influenza, is quite acceptable. After All, if you call it Human Influenza will any government risk culling humans? how about getting rid of the pesky furry H1N1s? oh, wait! H1N1 actually designates the virus... guess it is as correct as any name.
Bookmarks, places, whatever. That's so last decade. .
Ever since i started using the del.icio.us plugin, i've never looked back. Categorization, portability and mobility are essential. The thing that got me hooked is being able to share my bookmarks between computers, platforms and devices.
Besides, the execs at Sci-Fi have been trying to kill this potential cash cow since season 2, i dont understand why. First with the abnormally long hiatus between seasons, almos trying to turn off viewership. Then changing the airing date, as if the show wasnt good enough. Im sure there are funding issues too.
Perhaps there is an internal disagreement between Sci-fi and the producers, over the gods know what, but it's been a great show being hindered by the very network that airs it.
shame on them.
Believe it or not, Mexico DOES have an immigration authority, and you do need permission if you are a foreigner and plan to work in mexico.
Tourism is another matter. You can enter without a visa for 3 months. But stay here longer and the INI will be on your case, be sure. The US has no exclusivity on being bitches about aliens and economic activities.
I've read many a comment describing personal blogs as nonsensical mind-masturbating ego-trips. Although there is truth to that assertion, i don't think we should underestimate this activitie's therapeutic value.
I run my own egotheque and i couldn't give a whit about who reads it. It's for my own eyes and blowing off my own steam.
The fact that it's out there brings some voyeuristic/exhibitionist pleasure to dumping my mental drippings on a page that may or may not be read, or that someone may or may not find amusing. Just the thought that it -could- be read brings the aforementioned pleasures to doing so.
My struggle to stop smoking is my own. So is coping with my pathetic life in general. It's kind of therapeutic writing about it in public.
Web based applications and console apps. I developed a web-based phisical inventory tool that integrates with our MRP system. Not only that, but the MRP system can be accessed via handelds using Telnet. We bought like 20 Tungsten C's just for that reason.
They are deployed troughout 10 warehouses for the management personnel.
The rougher symbol WinCE machines that we bought were deployed for use on the production line. and they all use the same app.
No platfom-specific development.. a single app.
Just remember that the market for handeld devices is more than just the techno-gadget hip crowd, there are myriads of industry specific applications for this stuff.
But i was taught that the seminal work which spawned modern German was Luther's New Testament, much like Cervantes' Don Quixote is the seminal work for modern Spanish.
I must say I'm biased, since The Count of Montecristo is my all time favorite book;) but then again, I take your word for Les Miserables which is also agreat read.
While there will be incessant puns about the characters that this project is named after; given the fact that in the book, Don Quixote was out of his mind, I feel it is very appropriate, since it describes excactly what it does.
Perhaps the most famous part of this book is when Don Quixote gallantly charged at windmills, while Sancho watched. In his troubled mind, The windmills were evil Giants, which he sought to destroy to win the favors of his sweethart Dulcinea, wich is a very accurate depiction of what the program is supposed to do.
I find that the depiction, regardless of the obvious fact that in the book it was a hopeless cause; is a romantic metaphore, rather than an endorsement of failure, poor engineering or idealistic but unreachable goals.
As a side note, this book (El ingenioso Hidalgo, Don Quixote de la Mancha) is to the Spanish Language as The Count of Montecristo is to French, Luther's New testament translation is to German, and the works of Shakespeare are to English.
Although the article does not mention a lot of detail, I do hope that this will fix some of the reception problems i've been having in the LA Metropolitan area with Nextel.
It used to be pretty reliable almost anywhere, although lately there were some 'lossy' spots to say the least.
On the other hand, since i'm no iDEN expert.. will this require an upgrade to the handset's codeplug?
Maybe i'm an idiot for not having figured it out yet,
but i still need to access a couple of legacy applications (mainly accounting and inventory control) that were written for ANSI, SCOANSI and Televideo 955 (tvi955) terminals..
None of the above so called 'terminal emulators' is capable of 'emulating' a decent ansi-graphics screen with the default configuration because of all the unicode stuff floating around in linux, and I just can't select the font that will do it for mi.
that sucks big time when i could replace about 50 old Televideos with shiny new inexpensive linux machines, and provide my users with a lot of extra goodies than their terminals will allow.. but alas, can't use Linux because of the lack of 'emulation'. you are stuck with vt100, and unicode at that..
and 'rewrite your app to support unicode' is not an option for me..:(
I have yet to find an emulator that will allow me to do ansi-graphics out of the box.
We use Passport Software Inc's 'RW32' provided and professionally supported by SCAS, in Torrance, CA.
It is a closed source general accounting software, but it runs on Linux, and the clients are linux too.
It takes off where Great Plains Classic left, when it got shut down by microsoft in favor of MS Dynamics, and i think its great, rock solid stuff. (passport, not Dynamics)
Also, it is written in COBOL, and uses ACUCORP's ACUCOBOL runtime, for which you need a license. Finally, ACUCORP provides an ODBC driver that works pretty nicely with PHP for web frontends and reporting, and also runs on Linux.
The only gripe I have, is terminal emulation in Konsole, 'cuz the graphics characters come out as A-umlauts and what have you, and i cant seem to find documentation for that issue anywhere..
suggestions?
but how about, like the guy sugests, as a robotics controler? the thing is small enough to embed into an LCD display and presto! a thin client with enough processing power for an X display..
Or how about PDAs or even telemetry applications..
Maybe wearable computing is a little far fetched but i can see the advantages of having such a small device embedded on all sorts of appliances and stuff
is filtering out all the crap that comes from linkfarms.
all that spam only clogs the engine, and most of it are really crappy pages.
for a while, whenever i do a search, i haven't found relevant results on the first search page, sometimes the second will have something useful. specially when searching for hardware or manuals for devices.
first, before building a package NOT in ports, i would build any dependencies the package has using ports (in your case, any GAIM dependency)
When doing stuff by hand, i can't expect ANY package system to keep track of my whims, so i would document where i scattered stuff (libraries, binaries and the such)
I would not be greedy and submit any oddities, mods or other herbs and spices i found during manual build and forward them to the port maintainer
When your app hits ports, THEN install it using ports... referring to your notes on manual build to remove any stuff that may conflict
This is an awesome proggie for your Hi-Res PalmOS devices, and emulates the Saturn Processor, with all the functions of your favorite HP Calc... i've been using it for a couple of days only, and i can see the native ARM support on the Tungsten devices produces results even faster than the actual calc.
It actually emulates the Processor, and runs off a HP ROM, so, everything is there.. give it a spin!
The fact of the matter is that the very objective of creating this kind of tools is so that Enlgish speaking individuals, regardless of national origin, who simply refuse to learn other languages can benefit from the wealth of literary beauty and knowledge ammassed in other languages.
Just think of it.. the most spoken languages in the world are Chinese, then Spanish. English only comes after those two.. and then comes arabic and Bengali.
According to this more people in the world speak languges OTHER than english
of course, we are assuming that you follow a good security practice and have a BUILD machine to compile, before deploying to your 'secure' servers with no compiler
Well, it just so happens that the recently elected Inacio Lula, Brazil's president, comes from a communist worker's party, and in the political arena, that fact has been heralded as the Left's big come back in latin america.
I can see M$ advertising now: "See.. if you use OpenSource, you are a communist"
Last week marked an historic step in the record industries battle against P2P with the summary judgement issued by Judge Wilson in favour of Grokster Ltd and Streamcast Networks. Slyck has spoken exclusively to Wayne Rosso the outspoken President of Grokster Ltd about the summary judgement and other issues...
The iRiver iFP-195T is a 512MB Flash unit and is available on Amazon
Slyck Ciarán: Firstly, tell us your reaction to the extremely important summary judgement.
Grokster: We at Grokster are obviously very happy with the Judge's decision. The Court recognized that our file-sharing software has numerous legal and beneficial uses. This opinion lifts the cloud the plaintiffs have attempted to cast over innovation and investment. It makes clear that innovators will not be held liable for creating or investing in new technologies. This ruling also means that the labels and studios cannot ban 21st-century technology in defence of their inefficient and outmoded 20th-century distribution models
Slyck Ciarán: What is the next step in the lawsuit for you?
Grokster: The plaintiffs have commented publicly that they intended to appeal the ruling, so we assume they will and we will, of course, fight the appeal.
Slyck Ciarán: Janus Friis recently told Slyck that "Grokster is an older customized version of KMD/FT" and that older versions "supernode server to fetch seed IP addresses when not available locally". The verdict seemed to clear Gokster Ltd of operating any supernode server. Can you categorically say that Grokster does not need a supernode server and if not how does it fetch the location of supernodes when not availably locally?
Grokster: Grokster does not operate a Supernode server or a server with IP addresses or any type of server that interfaces in any way with the operation of Grokster or FastTrack with the exception of ad serving via the Start page. Grokster does not need a Supernode server to operate.
Slyck Ciarán: A side note in the summary judgement said that Sharman/Kazaa BV operates one such superode server/root supernode. Do you believe this statement to be accurate?
Grokster: We have no information as to whether they do or do not.
Slyck Ciarán: What is your understanding of how Morpheus was removed from the FastTrack network. Could the same not be done to Grokster?
Grokster: Some time after this occurred we found out that Kazaa and Grokster were issued upgrades to the communication encryption protocols and Morpheus was not, so the Morpheus clients could no longer communicate with the other programs
Slyck Ciarán: How is your relationship with those who own the FastTrack protocol. Why have they not supplied you with updates to the FT software in recent months? Were they annoyed by your postings of "we do not have an brilliant digital software" on your homepage as they have a direct interest in Altnet.
Grokster: fine (!)
Slyck Ciarán: A lot was made in the media about you speech at the Financial Times new media conference recently. You used the opportunity to attack the recoding industry for not licensing their music to P2P companies like yourself. Tell us more about why you think they should licence music to Grokster?
Grokster: It's not so much that they should license to Grokster, it's more a call for blanket compulsory licensing of some kind. At the moment content licensing negotiations are a one-way street. And what has happened is that record companies have used their content to slow the growth of ecommerce and the Internet until they can figure out how to co-opt the technology. Simply put, they want to own or control the technology themselves.
Slyck Ciarán: Anything else you would like to say to Slyck readers?
Grokster: Yes. Thanks for your support during this long court battle and we hope that you continue to use
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Indeed it would be appropriate, although human idiocy knows no bounds. H1N1 is a neutral, politically correct, idiocy-avoiding name. There you have the Egyptian Government culling a ridiculous number of swine, just to show that the government was doing something, but hey, its "Swine Flu", swines must die! , Not to mention the Chinese Government confining Mexican Tourists -healthy Mexican Tourists, mind you- just because they were Mexican.
The reasoning was similar, "Hey, its the Mexican Flu, let's quarantine Mexicans!"... There are other examples of Xenophobia being triggered by associating Mexico with the desease, not to mention the disaster in the Tourism industry in Mexico.
So, while i concurr that previous practice was acceptable (Spanish Flu, et al), the current near-instantaneous information transfer and given the unlimited ability for human idiocy, A/H1N1 Influenza, is quite acceptable. After All, if you call it Human Influenza will any government risk culling humans? how about getting rid of the pesky furry H1N1s? oh, wait! H1N1 actually designates the virus... guess it is as correct as any name.
It's a trap! if there was ever a story that needed that tag, this is it.
Bookmarks, places, whatever. That's so last decade. . Ever since i started using the del.icio.us plugin, i've never looked back. Categorization, portability and mobility are essential. The thing that got me hooked is being able to share my bookmarks between computers, platforms and devices.
Besides, the execs at Sci-Fi have been trying to kill this potential cash cow since season 2, i dont understand why. First with the abnormally long hiatus between seasons, almos trying to turn off viewership. Then changing the airing date, as if the show wasnt good enough. Im sure there are funding issues too. Perhaps there is an internal disagreement between Sci-fi and the producers, over the gods know what, but it's been a great show being hindered by the very network that airs it. shame on them.
for a minute there, i thought i-kid was a reference to Steve Jobs offspring.
Tourism is another matter. You can enter without a visa for 3 months. But stay here longer and the INI will be on your case, be sure. The US has no exclusivity on being bitches about aliens and economic activities.
Here is the Instituto Nacional de Migracion (the INS counterpart in Mexico) relevant page in english.
I run my own egotheque and i couldn't give a whit about who reads it. It's for my own eyes and blowing off my own steam.
The fact that it's out there brings some voyeuristic/exhibitionist pleasure to dumping my mental drippings on a page that may or may not be read, or that someone may or may not find amusing. Just the thought that it -could- be read brings the aforementioned pleasures to doing so.
My struggle to stop smoking is my own. So is coping with my pathetic life in general. It's kind of therapeutic writing about it in public.
Web based applications and console apps. I developed a web-based phisical inventory tool that integrates with our MRP system. Not only that, but the MRP system can be accessed via handelds using Telnet. We bought like 20 Tungsten C's just for that reason.
They are deployed troughout 10 warehouses for the management personnel.
The rougher symbol WinCE machines that we bought were deployed for use on the production line. and they all use the same app.
No platfom-specific development.. a single app.
Just remember that the market for handeld devices is more than just the techno-gadget hip crowd, there are myriads of industry specific applications for this stuff.
if you dont use it, it may atrophie (sp?)
if you train it, it gets stronger
if you drink beer, it gets slow
if you take drugs, it may enhance it in the short term, damage it on the long run
if you get really good at it, you can compete with it
But i was taught that the seminal work which spawned modern German was Luther's New Testament, much like Cervantes' Don Quixote is the seminal work for modern Spanish.
thx
Perhaps the most famous part of this book is when Don Quixote gallantly charged at windmills, while Sancho watched. In his troubled mind, The windmills were evil Giants, which he sought to destroy to win the favors of his sweethart Dulcinea, wich is a very accurate depiction of what the program is supposed to do.
I find that the depiction, regardless of the obvious fact that in the book it was a hopeless cause; is a romantic metaphore, rather than an endorsement of failure, poor engineering or idealistic but unreachable goals.
As a side note, this book (El ingenioso Hidalgo, Don Quixote de la Mancha) is to the Spanish Language as The Count of Montecristo is to French, Luther's New testament translation is to German, and the works of Shakespeare are to English.
It used to be pretty reliable almost anywhere, although lately there were some 'lossy' spots to say the least.
On the other hand, since i'm no iDEN expert.. will this require an upgrade to the handset's codeplug?
None of the above so called 'terminal emulators' is capable of 'emulating' a decent ansi-graphics screen with the default configuration because of all the unicode stuff floating around in linux, and I just can't select the font that will do it for mi.
that sucks big time when i could replace about 50 old Televideos with shiny new inexpensive linux machines, and provide my users with a lot of extra goodies than their terminals will allow.. but alas, can't use Linux because of the lack of 'emulation'. you are stuck with vt100, and unicode at that..
and 'rewrite your app to support unicode' is not an option for me.. :(
I have yet to find an emulator that will allow me to do ansi-graphics out of the box.
It is a closed source general accounting software, but it runs on Linux, and the clients are linux too.
It takes off where Great Plains Classic left, when it got shut down by microsoft in favor of MS Dynamics, and i think its great, rock solid stuff. (passport, not Dynamics)
Also, it is written in COBOL, and uses ACUCORP's ACUCOBOL runtime, for which you need a license. Finally, ACUCORP provides an ODBC driver that works pretty nicely with PHP for web frontends and reporting, and also runs on Linux.
The only gripe I have, is terminal emulation in Konsole, 'cuz the graphics characters come out as A-umlauts and what have you, and i cant seem to find documentation for that issue anywhere.. suggestions?
Or how about PDAs or even telemetry applications..
Maybe wearable computing is a little far fetched but i can see the advantages of having such a small device embedded on all sorts of appliances and stuff
all that spam only clogs the engine, and most of it are really crappy pages.
for a while, whenever i do a search, i haven't found relevant results on the first search page, sometimes the second will have something useful. specially when searching for hardware or manuals for devices.
it's really REALLY annoying.
When doing stuff by hand, i can't expect ANY package system to keep track of my whims, so i would document where i scattered stuff (libraries, binaries and the such)
I would not be greedy and submit any oddities, mods or other herbs and spices i found during manual build and forward them to the port maintainer
When your app hits ports, THEN install it using ports... referring to your notes on manual build to remove any stuff that may conflict
???
Profit!.. oh wait...
FreeBSD Ports
This is an awesome proggie for your Hi-Res PalmOS devices, and emulates the Saturn Processor, with all the functions of your favorite HP Calc... i've been using it for a couple of days only, and i can see the native ARM support on the Tungsten devices produces results even faster than the actual calc.
It actually emulates the Processor, and runs off a HP ROM, so, everything is there.. give it a spin!
GPL'd Too!... (not the roms, Though)
Just think of it.. the most spoken languages in the world are Chinese, then Spanish. English only comes after those two.. and then comes arabic and Bengali.
According to this more people in the world speak languges OTHER than english
of course, we are assuming that you follow a good security practice and have a BUILD machine to compile, before deploying to your 'secure' servers with no compiler
What is the name of the publication? i'd like to get a hold of that =)
I can see M$ advertising now: "See.. if you use OpenSource, you are a communist"
By Ciarán Tannam 4/30/03
Last week marked an historic step in the record industries battle against P2P with the summary judgement issued by Judge Wilson in favour of Grokster Ltd and Streamcast Networks. Slyck has spoken exclusively to Wayne Rosso the outspoken President of Grokster Ltd about the summary judgement and other issues...
The iRiver iFP-195T is a 512MB Flash unit and is available on Amazon
Slyck Ciarán: Firstly, tell us your reaction to the extremely important summary judgement.
Grokster: We at Grokster are obviously very happy with the Judge's decision. The Court recognized that our file-sharing software has numerous legal and beneficial uses. This opinion lifts the cloud the plaintiffs have attempted to cast over innovation and investment. It makes clear that innovators will not be held liable for creating or investing in new technologies. This ruling also means that the labels and studios cannot ban 21st-century technology in defence of their inefficient and outmoded 20th-century distribution models
Slyck Ciarán: What is the next step in the lawsuit for you?
Grokster: The plaintiffs have commented publicly that they intended to appeal the ruling, so we assume they will and we will, of course, fight the appeal.
Slyck Ciarán: Janus Friis recently told Slyck that "Grokster is an older customized version of KMD/FT" and that older versions "supernode server to fetch seed IP addresses when not available locally". The verdict seemed to clear Gokster Ltd of operating any supernode server. Can you categorically say that Grokster does not need a supernode server and if not how does it fetch the location of supernodes when not availably locally?
Grokster: Grokster does not operate a Supernode server or a server with IP addresses or any type of server that interfaces in any way with the operation of Grokster or FastTrack with the exception of ad serving via the Start page. Grokster does not need a Supernode server to operate.
Slyck Ciarán: A side note in the summary judgement said that Sharman/Kazaa BV operates one such superode server/root supernode. Do you believe this statement to be accurate?
Grokster: We have no information as to whether they do or do not.
Slyck Ciarán: What is your understanding of how Morpheus was removed from the FastTrack network. Could the same not be done to Grokster?
Grokster: Some time after this occurred we found out that Kazaa and Grokster were issued upgrades to the communication encryption protocols and Morpheus was not, so the Morpheus clients could no longer communicate with the other programs
Slyck Ciarán: How is your relationship with those who own the FastTrack protocol. Why have they not supplied you with updates to the FT software in recent months? Were they annoyed by your postings of "we do not have an brilliant digital software" on your homepage as they have a direct interest in Altnet.
Grokster: fine (!)
Slyck Ciarán: A lot was made in the media about you speech at the Financial Times new media conference recently. You used the opportunity to attack the recoding industry for not licensing their music to P2P companies like yourself. Tell us more about why you think they should licence music to Grokster?
Grokster: It's not so much that they should license to Grokster, it's more a call for blanket compulsory licensing of some kind. At the moment content licensing negotiations are a one-way street. And what has happened is that record companies have used their content to slow the growth of ecommerce and the Internet until they can figure out how to co-opt the technology. Simply put, they want to own or control the technology themselves.
Slyck Ciarán: Anything else you would like to say to Slyck readers?
Grokster: Yes. Thanks for your support during this long court battle and we hope that you continue to use