Obviously this is a practical concept, but I'm hesitant. I personally feel that spam blocking is the burden of the receiver, just by the nature of the email protocol. I hate obtrusive advertising as much as the next guy, but I do recognize it as a form of speech. And no matter how inane, idiotic, and offensive it may be, I feel it is protected under the 1st amendment.
I recognize that spam is an inconviniece for end recipients, and a serious waste of resources for networks. Regardless, i feel that a reverse firewall process as described sets a dangerous precedent. Many might concede to blocking mass emails, but would they also concede to blocking of private web servers? Would the blocking of P2P be acceptable?
I've encountered numerous mail servers that are rejecting emails sent from cable modem and DSL users. I think that that is a significantly more responsible solution, even though it may not be as efficient. I feel as a paying customer of my broadband provider, I should not be prevented from emailing whoever I want, in whatever manner I want, though I cannot force any mail server to actually receive my emails.
Here da go --> knoppix for ppc. Burn CD, boot, run knx-hdinstall, boot from hdd, edit/etc/apt/sources.list to point to your favorite debian mirror and then 'apt-get update && apt-get upgrade' and you're done. Or you can just stick with knoppix. It doesn't get much easier than that.
1. Dragable tabs. Drag the tabs to reorganize them. Or to paste URLs
2. Textless tabs. Just icons.
3. Invisible tabs. Still cntl-tabbable, but they don't appear on screen. Perhaps keep a tally in the statusbar. Or perhaps a MS Windows style Alt-Tab menu.
4. When there are more tabs open than can be displayed on the screen, there should be scroll arrows to shift the tabs.
5. Progress meters in tabs instead of just hourglasses.
6. An option to send a tab to a new window.
7. Alternate tab-bar locations. Left or bottom for instance.
8. Mouseless autoscrolling.
9. Optional redirection prevention.
10. Placeholders for unloaded/blocked images, and click to load capability.
11. Save Linked Page link right-click option for saving pages (images and all) to disk and place link in bookmarks.
There is the Acela line between DC and Boston. Aside from the Acela, Amtrak does service most metropolitan areas, but they simply cannot beat air fare for long trips. Also they are plagued with delays. Their fleet is aging, and they no longer own most of the track they run on. Aside from delays, the train ride can be a pleasant alternative to the security lines and often cheaper than air.
1. Police/Fire Scanner
2. Books on Tape
3. White Noise
4. Foreign Language Lessons
5. NPR
6. Raymond Scott - Soothing Sounds for Baby
7. Place Microphone in Center of Office
8. Train Sounds
9. Bubble Wrap
10. Car Dealership Commercials
11. Make a "People On Hold" Party Line
12. Heavy Breathing
13. These
14. Fax Machine Sounds
15. "Guess The DTMF" Game
16. Funny Answering Machine Outgoing Messages
17. Phone Sex
18. Bass Test CDs
19. Trivia Questions
20. The Sound of One Hand Clapping
You can start by browsing already "open sourced" works at opart.org and opsound.org. If you cannot find anything pre-existing to fit your needs, you will at least find a community of artisans who embrace open source principles. You'll also want to consult creative commons for the various free asin speech liscenses for the various mediums of art you'll be using.
I think you'll find that most open source artists, as with most open source developers are not seeking to be financially compensated directly, though are open for donations.
I myself am an "open source" musician and have contributed music to a few open source projects: SonarBuoyix and Tong.
I use fluxbox. I dislike KDE and Gnome. As far as I am concerned, window managing is a simple task that can be done with a simple window manager. Simplicity is beautiful.
Maybe start with something really simple and common like SQL. SQL is very simple, quick to learn, and very usefull.
Then move into a web programming language, such as perl. Use the SQL they know to make a simple database interface. This will get the student out of the intimidating console and into the familiar web browser. This will obviously incorporate HTML and eventually lead to CSS, JavaScript, and other client-side languages.
I personally found that perl5 can be a very good primer for c (or vice versa). Perl5 and c can introduce a student to OOP concepts without intimidating them.
Again I have to state that filesharing is not illegal. Violating copyrights, sex laws, and liscense agreements is illegal. People who produce CDRs etc, are not responsible for what I choose to do with them. If I produce a copy of a copyrighted product and give it to a friend, then I, not the CDR manufacturer, have committed a crime against the copyright holder. Therefore, when I make my mp3 collection available to the public via a p2p or ANY filesharing method, I commit the crime, not the people who offer the p2p service.
As much as I despise record companies, and the artists who whore their artform for profit, they have every right to copyright their material. That being said, I don't however think they have the right to take the law into their own hands. I don't agree that this tactic of, for the lack of a better anology, throwing thousands of baseballs into the air so noone knows which ball is in play, is neccesarily fair, and I question it's legality. But I would LOVE to see one p2p service, any of them, be completely free of pirated materials. Just imagine how usefull that service would be! It would be like the world wide web, only with a centralized searching system, and no slashdot effect.
Some laws are unjust and they are right to be broken. Copyright law is in a grey area at best and is far from the most unjust law I can think of. Music, film, and yes even porn lovers should be at the forefront of those fighting to get pirated materials out of p2p, because when legitimized, p2p could be the greatest part of the internet since the www.
In the mean time, try to avoid pirating copyrighted materials. If you're cheap, there's plenty of free stuff out there that will keep you busy.
It's inevitable; an "Astronaut Training Reality Show," winner gets to go on a space mission.
These contests aren't about discovering the next technological advancement. If NASA needed a new technology, they could just use the $20mil and contract it or do it themselves. No, this is all about public relations and generating interest in the space program.
The training program is already configured like a reality show, just add camera crew. Contestants have to endure countless hours of torture, physical challenges, training and conditioning, and at the end of it all Simon Cowell decides who gets to goto the moon. Or something like that.
If nothing else it would be nice to see a good documentary on the training program.
I have to disagree. I see a great advantage in having each application in a stand-alone context. I'd rather see mozilla-calendar stand-alone. Not everyone who wants an email client needs a calendar, and not everyone who needs a calendar wants an email client attached to it.
I don't think the goal of the mozilla projects should be to destroy their "competition". That's what Microsoft does. Instead of immitating and trying to replace Outlook, mozilla should be innovative and different. And I think that they have been doing just that.
You make some valid points supporting PlayStations. But I have a PC, with a hard disk, and I paid a lot of money for it. I already have an operating system I like just fine. I don't want to buy a USB "Dongle". I might want to pause my game to check my email. If I wanted to sit and wait while my game loads, I'd use a c64.
My friend, what happens when the latest and greatest new video card comes out and none of your video games support it? Do you throw all your games away and start buying new ones?
The entire point of PCs is that they are upgradable (and not just by buying a bigger "Dongle"). Console gaming systems are standardized. I suggest you stick with them.
1) The operating system would take up a significant amount of space on the disc.
2) A read-only filesystem makes saving preferences, screenshots, etc. difficult
3) Extreme variances in architectures and hardware would limit the playability.
4) Liscense violations against non-free components (nvidia).
5) Slow load times.
6) Game patches and updates would require the download of an entire new disc.
7) CD/DVDs deteriorate rapidly. Constant inserts/removals can lead to irreversible damage.
Text is as much a component of graphical interfaces as widgets are. I would consider GUIs more of an expansion on text interfaces than a replacement for them. Consider that slashdot is 99% text based, yet your likely viewing it using a GUI. So your text interface hasn't gone away, it just got a great deal more flexible.
And really, you can consider text-mode a graphical interface in the sense that the computer is displaying little graphics that we interpret. Advanced hieroglyphics. We recognize them as text, but others would see rows of silly icons.
And this 3d desktop you speak of, will simply be an expansion of graphical interfaces, as I'm certain it will involve graphics. And I'm sure it will also involve text.
There are of course other interfaces conceivable that wouldn't involve visuals at all. Such as text-to-speech and btty for the blind.
I would imagine that the ultimate interface would be capable of interacting with humans using any and all methods. Of course I don't neccesarily want to taste anything my computer has to offer.
Text interfacing will be around as long as we use text. As for text only interfaces, I'm a big fan of irssi and I'm not planning on giving it up any time soon.
I can't completely disagree with an article, but I can hardly call this an "Achilles Heel". Computers without sound are still usefull.
For about 4 years, my PC was an IBM Thinkpad 390X with the most god awful sound card ever made: an ESS Solo 1. The only operating system that this card actually worked in was Windows NT 4.0. In Windows 95/98/ME, 2000, and XP the output was distorted and jarbled, but barely tolerable. Neither OSS nor ALSA modules worked in linux 2.4. In 2.6 I could get 8bit 11250Hz. I had considered trying various USB or PCMCIA alternatives, but never got around to it.
Well, I absolutly refused to use NT 4.0. I would bounce back and forth from debian to XP. Using debian linux several months I would get frustrated by the lack of sound and goto XP. After a week of XP i would become frustrated by the distorted and jarbled sound, or a new kernel would be released, and I'd switch back to sweet, sweet silence. And this continued for the full 4 years, until I recently bought a new desktop computer (with an emu10k1).
During this constant switch back and forth from Windows XP to Debian GNU/Linux unstable, i learned that neither operating system is perfect. There's obviously tons of non-standardized hardware in this world, and noone can expect any one operating system to support everything flawlessly.
So here's my solution: Instead of paying $100 (or whatever) for Windows XP, use that $100 to buy an emu10k1 (or another known compatible sound device), donate the difference to the linux distribution of your choice, and use their free operating system. Or if you're greedy you can just keep the money you saved.
I know NPR is less of a public service than it is a not-for-profit business. And I know it's probably too much to ask for an Ogg Vorbis stream, but I would happily settle for a mp3 stream.
Luckily the GENIUSES at Science Friday help make it possible by maintaining a rather concise list of NPR streams of various formats, including mp3.
But these are all localized streams, and likely not localized to your location. Would be nice if there was a national stream available for free in an open format.
One would think donations from large organizations like Real Media would make it possible to offer MORE choices, not less.
My mistake. I was unaware that source packages were mandatory. But I fail to see the benefit of having source packages for applications that are entirely perl based for instance.
Well, I think you'll find that most packages that would benefit from optimization are available. Many official packages might not benefit from a source package, such as; perl, php, and python scripts, java and other WORA applications, and data-file packages such as extra themes and text files. I'm not aware of any debian rules requiring a package maintainer to include a source package, but perhaps a package maintainer to clarify. As far as third party packages, they don't even have to comply to the DFSG, so the availablity of source packages is at the whim of the third party package maintainer.
apt-build provides automatic source based package installation in debian. Not every package offers a source package, however. This is something I'd like to see expanded in debian.
Also note the aptly named, though apparently dead project www.debtoo.org (google cache) which is based on apt-build. Don't let this stop you though, 'apt-get install apt-build' and give it a try.
I agree, I don't think this technology is applicable for cooling directly on the chip. However, this Ionic Breeze technology i think would be perfect for cases.
Slashdot Mirror
Obviously this is a practical concept, but I'm hesitant. I personally feel that spam blocking is the burden of the receiver, just by the nature of the email protocol. I hate obtrusive advertising as much as the next guy, but I do recognize it as a form of speech. And no matter how inane, idiotic, and offensive it may be, I feel it is protected under the 1st amendment.
I recognize that spam is an inconviniece for end recipients, and a serious waste of resources for networks. Regardless, i feel that a reverse firewall process as described sets a dangerous precedent. Many might concede to blocking mass emails, but would they also concede to blocking of private web servers? Would the blocking of P2P be acceptable?
I've encountered numerous mail servers that are rejecting emails sent from cable modem and DSL users. I think that that is a significantly more responsible solution, even though it may not be as efficient. I feel as a paying customer of my broadband provider, I should not be prevented from emailing whoever I want, in whatever manner I want, though I cannot force any mail server to actually receive my emails.
How come everyone thinks debian is so hard?
/etc/apt/sources.list to point to your favorite debian mirror and then 'apt-get update && apt-get upgrade' and you're done. Or you can just stick with knoppix. It doesn't get much easier than that.
Here da go --> knoppix for ppc. Burn CD, boot, run knx-hdinstall, boot from hdd, edit
Flightgear is fun.
1. Dragable tabs. Drag the tabs to reorganize them. Or to paste URLs
2. Textless tabs. Just icons.
3. Invisible tabs. Still cntl-tabbable, but they don't appear on screen. Perhaps keep a tally in the statusbar. Or perhaps a MS Windows style Alt-Tab menu.
4. When there are more tabs open than can be displayed on the screen, there should be scroll arrows to shift the tabs.
5. Progress meters in tabs instead of just hourglasses.
6. An option to send a tab to a new window.
7. Alternate tab-bar locations. Left or bottom for instance.
8. Mouseless autoscrolling.
9. Optional redirection prevention.
10. Placeholders for unloaded/blocked images, and click to load capability.
11. Save Linked Page link right-click option for saving pages (images and all) to disk and place link in bookmarks.
There is the Acela line between DC and Boston. Aside from the Acela, Amtrak does service most metropolitan areas, but they simply cannot beat air fare for long trips. Also they are plagued with delays. Their fleet is aging, and they no longer own most of the track they run on. Aside from delays, the train ride can be a pleasant alternative to the security lines and often cheaper than air.
1. Police/Fire Scanner
2. Books on Tape
3. White Noise
4. Foreign Language Lessons
5. NPR
6. Raymond Scott - Soothing Sounds for Baby
7. Place Microphone in Center of Office
8. Train Sounds
9. Bubble Wrap
10. Car Dealership Commercials
11. Make a "People On Hold" Party Line
12. Heavy Breathing
13. These
14. Fax Machine Sounds
15. "Guess The DTMF" Game
16. Funny Answering Machine Outgoing Messages
17. Phone Sex
18. Bass Test CDs
19. Trivia Questions
20. The Sound of One Hand Clapping
You can start by browsing already "open sourced" works at opart.org and opsound.org. If you cannot find anything pre-existing to fit your needs, you will at least find a community of artisans who embrace open source principles. You'll also want to consult creative commons for the various free asin speech liscenses for the various mediums of art you'll be using.
I think you'll find that most open source artists, as with most open source developers are not seeking to be financially compensated directly, though are open for donations.
I myself am an "open source" musician and have contributed music to a few open source projects: SonarBuoyix and Tong.
...buy vinyl.
I use fluxbox. I dislike KDE and Gnome. As far as I am concerned, window managing is a simple task that can be done with a simple window manager. Simplicity is beautiful.
Maybe start with something really simple and common like SQL. SQL is very simple, quick to learn, and very usefull.
Then move into a web programming language, such as perl. Use the SQL they know to make a simple database interface. This will get the student out of the intimidating console and into the familiar web browser. This will obviously incorporate HTML and eventually lead to CSS, JavaScript, and other client-side languages.
I personally found that perl5 can be a very good primer for c (or vice versa). Perl5 and c can introduce a student to OOP concepts without intimidating them.
http://opart.org
Again I have to state that filesharing is not illegal. Violating copyrights, sex laws, and liscense agreements is illegal. People who produce CDRs etc, are not responsible for what I choose to do with them. If I produce a copy of a copyrighted product and give it to a friend, then I, not the CDR manufacturer, have committed a crime against the copyright holder. Therefore, when I make my mp3 collection available to the public via a p2p or ANY filesharing method, I commit the crime, not the people who offer the p2p service.
As much as I despise record companies, and the artists who whore their artform for profit, they have every right to copyright their material. That being said, I don't however think they have the right to take the law into their own hands. I don't agree that this tactic of, for the lack of a better anology, throwing thousands of baseballs into the air so noone knows which ball is in play, is neccesarily fair, and I question it's legality. But I would LOVE to see one p2p service, any of them, be completely free of pirated materials. Just imagine how usefull that service would be! It would be like the world wide web, only with a centralized searching system, and no slashdot effect.
Some laws are unjust and they are right to be broken. Copyright law is in a grey area at best and is far from the most unjust law I can think of. Music, film, and yes even porn lovers should be at the forefront of those fighting to get pirated materials out of p2p, because when legitimized, p2p could be the greatest part of the internet since the www.
In the mean time, try to avoid pirating copyrighted materials. If you're cheap, there's plenty of free stuff out there that will keep you busy.
It's inevitable; an "Astronaut Training Reality Show," winner gets to go on a space mission.
These contests aren't about discovering the next technological advancement. If NASA needed a new technology, they could just use the $20mil and contract it or do it themselves. No, this is all about public relations and generating interest in the space program.
The training program is already configured like a reality show, just add camera crew. Contestants have to endure countless hours of torture, physical challenges, training and conditioning, and at the end of it all Simon Cowell decides who gets to goto the moon. Or something like that.
If nothing else it would be nice to see a good documentary on the training program.
I have to disagree. I see a great advantage in having each application in a stand-alone context. I'd rather see mozilla-calendar stand-alone. Not everyone who wants an email client needs a calendar, and not everyone who needs a calendar wants an email client attached to it.
I don't think the goal of the mozilla projects should be to destroy their "competition". That's what Microsoft does. Instead of immitating and trying to replace Outlook, mozilla should be innovative and different. And I think that they have been doing just that.
apt-get install fluxbox xmms mozilla-firefox mozilla-thunderbird gaim irssi-text emacs21 gimp eterm nicotine
Just another reason to use PNG. As the availability of inexpensive bandwidth increases, so declines the need for lossy compression methods.
You make some valid points supporting PlayStations. But I have a PC, with a hard disk, and I paid a lot of money for it. I already have an operating system I like just fine. I don't want to buy a USB "Dongle". I might want to pause my game to check my email. If I wanted to sit and wait while my game loads, I'd use a c64.
My friend, what happens when the latest and greatest new video card comes out and none of your video games support it? Do you throw all your games away and start buying new ones?
The entire point of PCs is that they are upgradable (and not just by buying a bigger "Dongle"). Console gaming systems are standardized. I suggest you stick with them.
1) The operating system would take up a significant amount of space on the disc.
2) A read-only filesystem makes saving preferences, screenshots, etc. difficult
3) Extreme variances in architectures and hardware would limit the playability.
4) Liscense violations against non-free components (nvidia).
5) Slow load times.
6) Game patches and updates would require the download of an entire new disc.
7) CD/DVDs deteriorate rapidly. Constant inserts/removals can lead to irreversible damage.
Just to name a few.
Text is as much a component of graphical interfaces as widgets are. I would consider GUIs more of an expansion on text interfaces than a replacement for them. Consider that slashdot is 99% text based, yet your likely viewing it using a GUI. So your text interface hasn't gone away, it just got a great deal more flexible.
And really, you can consider text-mode a graphical interface in the sense that the computer is displaying little graphics that we interpret. Advanced hieroglyphics. We recognize them as text, but others would see rows of silly icons.
And this 3d desktop you speak of, will simply be an expansion of graphical interfaces, as I'm certain it will involve graphics. And I'm sure it will also involve text.
There are of course other interfaces conceivable that wouldn't involve visuals at all. Such as text-to-speech and btty for the blind.
I would imagine that the ultimate interface would be capable of interacting with humans using any and all methods. Of course I don't neccesarily want to taste anything my computer has to offer.
Text interfacing will be around as long as we use text. As for text only interfaces, I'm a big fan of irssi and I'm not planning on giving it up any time soon.
I can't completely disagree with an article, but I can hardly call this an "Achilles Heel". Computers without sound are still usefull.
For about 4 years, my PC was an IBM Thinkpad 390X with the most god awful sound card ever made: an ESS Solo 1. The only operating system that this card actually worked in was Windows NT 4.0. In Windows 95/98/ME, 2000, and XP the output was distorted and jarbled, but barely tolerable. Neither OSS nor ALSA modules worked in linux 2.4. In 2.6 I could get 8bit 11250Hz. I had considered trying various USB or PCMCIA alternatives, but never got around to it.
Well, I absolutly refused to use NT 4.0. I would bounce back and forth from debian to XP. Using debian linux several months I would get frustrated by the lack of sound and goto XP. After a week of XP i would become frustrated by the distorted and jarbled sound, or a new kernel would be released, and I'd switch back to sweet, sweet silence. And this continued for the full 4 years, until I recently bought a new desktop computer (with an emu10k1).
During this constant switch back and forth from Windows XP to Debian GNU/Linux unstable, i learned that neither operating system is perfect. There's obviously tons of non-standardized hardware in this world, and noone can expect any one operating system to support everything flawlessly.
So here's my solution: Instead of paying $100 (or whatever) for Windows XP, use that $100 to buy an emu10k1 (or another known compatible sound device), donate the difference to the linux distribution of your choice, and use their free operating system. Or if you're greedy you can just keep the money you saved.
I know NPR is less of a public service than it is a not-for-profit business. And I know it's probably too much to ask for an Ogg Vorbis stream, but I would happily settle for a mp3 stream.
Luckily the GENIUSES at Science Friday help make it possible by maintaining a rather concise list of NPR streams of various formats, including mp3.
But these are all localized streams, and likely not localized to your location. Would be nice if there was a national stream available for free in an open format.
One would think donations from large organizations like Real Media would make it possible to offer MORE choices, not less.
My mistake. I was unaware that source packages were mandatory. But I fail to see the benefit of having source packages for applications that are entirely perl based for instance.
Well, I think you'll find that most packages that would benefit from optimization are available. Many official packages might not benefit from a source package, such as; perl, php, and python scripts, java and other WORA applications, and data-file packages such as extra themes and text files. I'm not aware of any debian rules requiring a package maintainer to include a source package, but perhaps a package maintainer to clarify. As far as third party packages, they don't even have to comply to the DFSG, so the availablity of source packages is at the whim of the third party package maintainer.
apt-build provides automatic source based package installation in debian. Not every package offers a source package, however. This is something I'd like to see expanded in debian.
Also note the aptly named, though apparently dead project www.debtoo.org (google cache) which is based on apt-build. Don't let this stop you though, 'apt-get install apt-build' and give it a try.
I agree, I don't think this technology is applicable for cooling directly on the chip. However, this Ionic Breeze technology i think would be perfect for cases.