Personal donations ONLY are accepted - corporate & organizational money is strictly verboten.
This is the case at the federal level - provincial legislation is still a bit of a patchwork. My home province (Saskatchewan) still allows campaign contributions from corporations, trade unions, etc. - it's my understanding that many other provinces either ban (Quebec, Manitoba) or restrict (Ontario, New Brunswick) non-personal contributions.
Freemware is now called Plex86, and is alive and well
The latest announcement from Plex86 is dated 2003-12-19, asking for donations to help start the project up again. You must be using the same definition of "alive and well" as people used in the Terri Schiavo kerfuffle a few years back...
My apologies - for whatever reason, it looked like you were saying that Alien and Indiana Jones were the knockoffs in your original post. Now it makes much more sense. Time for me to shut up before I make even more of a fool of myself...
What the hell are you smoking, and can I have some? Alien (the movie) came out long before Doom (the game) - ditto for Indiana Jones / Tomb Raider. Looks like your Wayback Machine needs a little maintenance, Sherman...
I would like to buy one just for the hell of it... like a donation, I would even pay more in order to subsidize others
I wouldn't be surprised if they do come out with a non-kiddy version of it, in a more "professional" color (i.e. just about anything except lime green) to differentiate it from the kiddy version. I could see a modified version (with standard power supply instead of the wind-up generator) being used by people who just want something simple for e-mail, browsing, and word processing.
And yes, I'd definitely love to have one to play with too - and I'd also be willing to pay a little extra to subsidize the kiddy versions.
So, if I paint a Ferrari lime green and put a hand crank on it, nobody will steal it?
No guarantee, but if it's ever stolen and you see someone driving a lime green Ferrari with a hand crank on it, chances are pretty good that it was yours. Same idea here - you see an adult carrying around a lime green hand-cranked computer, chances are pretty good that it's stolen property (<hudsucker_proxy>"You know, for kids"</hudsucker_proxy>)
The search functionality of Google Desktop is great, but there still aren't enough sidebar plugins (at least not with the functionality that I'm looking for) for it to replace Desktop Sidebar on my workstation. There's a great deal of third-party plugin and skin development for it right now - a nifty little piece of software if you've got a big enough screen to be able to afford to give some up for a sidebar.
Google Desktop for me consists of the toolbar entry only, which is still a damn fine way to search through all my e-mail, Trillian logs, files, etc. Saved my ass more than once. I'll be watching plugin development for the sidebar with interest.
And Fujitsu has just announced color e-paper - at least in the lab, hopefully making it into commercial production in 2006 or 2007. This would be a better idea for a reconfigurable keyboard than OLEDs, in terms of power consumption and flexibility (able to make contoured keys, reflective vs. backlit, etc.).
Our company started using GoToMeeting (same company and technology as GoToMyPC), and we're extremely happy with it. We're using it for tech support, training, software installation assistance, sales product demos... oh, and even actual meetings (between our American and Canadian offices, between our office and our "road warrior" sales reps, etc.).
The software allows you to pass screen sharing, keyboard/mouse control, etc. from participant to participant. For our customers, it's a quick download that uninstalls itself after the meeting is over - I believe it tunnels through port 80, I don't think we've run into an instance of a firewall blocking the connection. All the customer needs to know is www.gotomeeting.com and the meeting ID (a 10-digit number, easy to read over the phone, send via e-mail, etc.).
The subscription model (at least at the time we signed up, about 6 months ago now) was on a per-organizer basis ("organizer" being the person who sets up and controls the meeting), with no limits on how many meetings each organizer can hold, or how many participants can be in each meeting. We were originally looking at GoToAssist (same company again, of course), but found GoToMeeting was much more flexible.
If I had one complaint about the service, it would be the speed/latency of the connection - it's about the same as VNC, quite acceptable when everyone involved is on a broadband connection, but somewhat frustrating when working with someone on a dial-up or satellite connection.
I have yet to see a registrar that has a nice a web management interface for a bunch (30+) domains
We use Bulk Register to manage 400+ domains currently for us and our customers. We've been using them 1999. Love 'em. Prices are good, interface is decent.
Get a Mac Mini, the FireWave, and the AirClick, and you've got yourself a nice little setup that can plug into your home theater system. The FireWave sounds exactly like what some people have been saying that the Mac Mini needs, better audio out options. Ask and ye shall receive...
I was hooked on Descent for a while, and one incident still stands out vividly in my mind. I was driving home from work, listening to the radio, and there was a loud beeping sound effect in one of the commercials. My first thought was "Crap - someone's got a missile lock on me" and I just about started swerving to break the missile lock. My second thought was "Whoa... maybe I've been playing Descent a little too much lately...":-)
I'm still not sure if the andrenaline rush I felt then was from the thought that a missile was locked on to my car, or if it was from me realizing that I had just about done something incredibly stupid. Can't imagine trying to explain that to my insurance company - "Yeah, I thought there was a radar-guided missile locked on to my car, and I wrapped it around the telephone pole trying to evade..."
CrazyBrowser hasn't been updated since 2002, and the CrazyBrowser site is pushing their commercial popup blocker / adblocker. I was a CrazyBrowser user until I found MyIE2 (now renamed Maxthon to avoid potential trademark issues), which is has a very effective pop-up blocker, tabbed browsing, mouse gestures, Super Drag & Drop (very cool feature, recently implemented for Mozilla/Firefox in the Super Drag & Go extension), built-in search bar, skins, plug-in architecture...
Having said that, I've already switched to Firefox at home - with the right extensions, etc. it has all the features of MyIE2/Maxthon that I'm used to, so it was a very intuitive move, very little adaptation required. At work, we rely on some custom ActiveX controls and client-side VBscript for our intranet, so I'm still using Maxthon there - for an MSHTML-based browser, it's probably the best one out there.
Alternate "open selection in new window" that doesn't require waving your mouse around like a Harry Potter wannabe is Super Drag & Go - highlight an url, drag it anywhere on the page and drop it to open it in a new window. Also works with links, images, etc. Extremely handy.
If someone were to make a download manager that wasn't spyware, this would be a good use of a BHO
Star Downloader - good download manager, freeware (there's also a "Pro" version available), no spyware/adware/crapware bundled, uses a BHO for integration into IE. Handy program - I've been using it for over a year now.
Or first list on a Google search:
Palm Desktop Replacement Comparison Chart
And had you actually clicked through the link you posted and read the article, you would have realized that it was an old article about "Palm-sized PCs" running Windows CE, not Palm® handhelds.
Am I the only one who is getting sick of the knee-jerk "use google" reactions to "Ask/." questions?
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This is the case at the federal level - provincial legislation is still a bit of a patchwork. My home province (Saskatchewan) still allows campaign contributions from corporations, trade unions, etc. - it's my understanding that many other provinces either ban (Quebec, Manitoba) or restrict (Ontario, New Brunswick) non-personal contributions.
The latest announcement from Plex86 is dated 2003-12-19, asking for donations to help start the project up again. You must be using the same definition of "alive and well" as people used in the Terri Schiavo kerfuffle a few years back...
ah yes - I seem to mostly remember his later stuff, I guess - wonder why? :-)
You've obviously never read any Heinlein...
Kidding... mostly... and as a 35-year-old, let me say that I fully agree with your opinion that most of your generation are idiots. ;-)
...but maybe that says more about me than it does about the game...
My apologies - for whatever reason, it looked like you were saying that Alien and Indiana Jones were the knockoffs in your original post. Now it makes much more sense. Time for me to shut up before I make even more of a fool of myself...
What the hell are you smoking, and can I have some? Alien (the movie) came out long before Doom (the game) - ditto for Indiana Jones / Tomb Raider. Looks like your Wayback Machine needs a little maintenance, Sherman...
I would like to buy one just for the hell of it ... like a donation, I would even pay more in order to subsidize others
I wouldn't be surprised if they do come out with a non-kiddy version of it, in a more "professional" color (i.e. just about anything except lime green) to differentiate it from the kiddy version. I could see a modified version (with standard power supply instead of the wind-up generator) being used by people who just want something simple for e-mail, browsing, and word processing.
And yes, I'd definitely love to have one to play with too - and I'd also be willing to pay a little extra to subsidize the kiddy versions.
So, if I paint a Ferrari lime green and put a hand crank on it, nobody will steal it?
No guarantee, but if it's ever stolen and you see someone driving a lime green Ferrari with a hand crank on it, chances are pretty good that it was yours. Same idea here - you see an adult carrying around a lime green hand-cranked computer, chances are pretty good that it's stolen property (<hudsucker_proxy>"You know, for kids"</hudsucker_proxy>)
The search functionality of Google Desktop is great, but there still aren't enough sidebar plugins (at least not with the functionality that I'm looking for) for it to replace Desktop Sidebar on my workstation. There's a great deal of third-party plugin and skin development for it right now - a nifty little piece of software if you've got a big enough screen to be able to afford to give some up for a sidebar.
Google Desktop for me consists of the toolbar entry only, which is still a damn fine way to search through all my e-mail, Trillian logs, files, etc. Saved my ass more than once. I'll be watching plugin development for the sidebar with interest.
Ditto on the TUGZip choice - 7-zip's interface is just nasty, and I found TUGZip to be more stable than IZarc. Your milage may vary, of course.
And Fujitsu has just announced color e-paper - at least in the lab, hopefully making it into commercial production in 2006 or 2007. This would be a better idea for a reconfigurable keyboard than OLEDs, in terms of power consumption and flexibility (able to make contoured keys, reflective vs. backlit, etc.).
Ok, I'm not normally part of the tinfoil-hat brigade, but this guy scares the living hell out of me...
Stay the hell out of my mind, we don't need the thought police.
The software allows you to pass screen sharing, keyboard/mouse control, etc. from participant to participant. For our customers, it's a quick download that uninstalls itself after the meeting is over - I believe it tunnels through port 80, I don't think we've run into an instance of a firewall blocking the connection. All the customer needs to know is www.gotomeeting.com and the meeting ID (a 10-digit number, easy to read over the phone, send via e-mail, etc.).
The subscription model (at least at the time we signed up, about 6 months ago now) was on a per-organizer basis ("organizer" being the person who sets up and controls the meeting), with no limits on how many meetings each organizer can hold, or how many participants can be in each meeting. We were originally looking at GoToAssist (same company again, of course), but found GoToMeeting was much more flexible.
If I had one complaint about the service, it would be the speed/latency of the connection - it's about the same as VNC, quite acceptable when everyone involved is on a broadband connection, but somewhat frustrating when working with someone on a dial-up or satellite connection.
Hope that helps.
We use Bulk Register to manage 400+ domains currently for us and our customers. We've been using them 1999. Love 'em. Prices are good, interface is decent.
And yes, DROC are absolute bottom-feeders.
Seeing as how the submitter neglected to link to the actual announcement, here it is: http://nat.org/2005/january/#17-January-2005
Get a Mac Mini, the FireWave, and the AirClick, and you've got yourself a nice little setup that can plug into your home theater system. The FireWave sounds exactly like what some people have been saying that the Mac Mini needs, better audio out options. Ask and ye shall receive...
I'm still not sure if the andrenaline rush I felt then was from the thought that a missile was locked on to my car, or if it was from me realizing that I had just about done something incredibly stupid. Can't imagine trying to explain that to my insurance company - "Yeah, I thought there was a radar-guided missile locked on to my car, and I wrapped it around the telephone pole trying to evade..."
And don't get me started on Tetris dreams...
Not a francophone, but as I know enough French to catch it. And I've been hooked on Jardinains for quite a long time now, as are my wife and kids.
And now, if you'll excuse me, I must go bounce some gnomes. Little bastards, laughing at me... I'll show them... I'll show them all...
Actually, in the Expanded Universe (short stories, books, comics, etc.), Boba Fett isn't dead. Just thought you'd like to know.
(Yes, I know - I'm a hopeless SW fanboy)
CrazyBrowser hasn't been updated since 2002, and the CrazyBrowser site is pushing their commercial popup blocker / adblocker. I was a CrazyBrowser user until I found MyIE2 (now renamed Maxthon to avoid potential trademark issues), which is has a very effective pop-up blocker, tabbed browsing, mouse gestures, Super Drag & Drop (very cool feature, recently implemented for Mozilla/Firefox in the Super Drag & Go extension), built-in search bar, skins, plug-in architecture...
Having said that, I've already switched to Firefox at home - with the right extensions, etc. it has all the features of MyIE2/Maxthon that I'm used to, so it was a very intuitive move, very little adaptation required. At work, we rely on some custom ActiveX controls and client-side VBscript for our intranet, so I'm still using Maxthon there - for an MSHTML-based browser, it's probably the best one out there.
Alternate "open selection in new window" that doesn't require waving your mouse around like a Harry Potter wannabe is Super Drag & Go - highlight an url, drag it anywhere on the page and drop it to open it in a new window. Also works with links, images, etc. Extremely handy.
Star Downloader - good download manager, freeware (there's also a "Pro" version available), no spyware/adware/crapware bundled, uses a BHO for integration into IE. Handy program - I've been using it for over a year now.
And had you actually clicked through the link you posted and read the article, you would have realized that it was an old article about "Palm-sized PCs" running Windows CE, not Palm® handhelds.
Am I the only one who is getting sick of the knee-jerk "use google" reactions to "Ask /." questions?