It started out when I was just a kid. I got hooked on Phonics. Soon I was reading everything I could get my hands on. I came from a poor family and my parents encouraged me. Said it was the only way to get ahead and I needed all the advantages I could get.
I thought after I read all the books at my local library I would be ok.
Then a "friend" hooked me up with the internet. I started out slow, 14.4k modems, then 33k, 56k. It wasn't so bad, I heard about people using multiple bonded 56k modems. I could still shut if off whenever I wanted to.
Then I heard about broadband. I found a dealer in my area and started with ISDN but eventually switched to DSL so my wife wouldn't notice the extra lines. There's nothing like it. Now I'm always ON.
But it's just not enough. I'm looking at getting a T1 put in or maybe going back to college. I hear they got in room Oc3 or better systems in the DORMS!! Damn - I'm shaking pretty bad now, gotta go.
People using wireless in their home are all about conveinece. Install stuff and it works, no wiring needed, just some basic networking skills the first time you set it up.
Think about Cell Phones or Wireless Phones. With old scanners it's pretty easy to listen in on your neighbors, and they may even order something over the phone and you can get their CC #'s.
I like the security on my Garage Door opener. I have to physically press a button on the motor compartment and then add the new remote or keypad. This would be great in my house - press - add new device to network on my router, get my PC to logon to the wireless net and the light goes off. In a home situation it would be great and we could let the machines worry about hardware and even use one time pads to each device based on mac.
I agree. I recently went to a local county planning meeting to let it be known that I didn't want another mega-strip mall next to the already huge wal-mart they just put in. I was one of only a few people there who didn't have gray hair. The room only had room for about 50 people in it anyway.
A little off topic but the developer said if we didn't rezone the farm land he bought to allow him to build strip malls he would be back with lawyers and sue for damages, etc etc and kept interrupting people.
My point is I that for most people my age who go to the internet instead of the library, the local government is largely absent from their lives. Poceedings are eventually posted to the net after a month or so, but there is no electronic way to voice their opinions locally that I know of.
I removed IE because some programs don't honor the default browser settings. They kept poping up IE. It bugged me so I deleted it and then it reappeared. I tried renaming and putting dummy files in, but it always got replaced. After that it was just a control issue.
Windows Update wouldn't work without IE and it's ActiveX junk. I don't see why the program should be required to scan my hard drive. It should be the default option but not required. The updates never really tell you what they do. "Stops potential take over of your computer, computer users worried about their computer being taken over should download this update." - but how likely is that thing to occur? What EXACTLY does it do? Could I get around it myself by having a firewall?
this article also mentioned about scanning all software on your PC. Just another security thing, but I don't want a program sending unknown encrypted stuff from my PC whenever it feels like it.
I would be interested to know how companies which have standardized on Mozilla get updates to thier windows machines assuming they have them. I have 100% eliminated iexplore.exe from my XP machine, and now it bitches every now and then. I'm behind a firewall with my other machines, but I need this one to do development for some clients.
I can download service packs, but does anyone know where I can download updates? Microsoft's site keeps telling me it requires ActiveX, but I just need the files. I don't need any junk on my machine trying to reactivate itself. Do you just wait for service packs to include the previous fixes? Can you download the files from someone elses machine?
$75 and they OWN your shirt. They will charge people for something you created and gave away and society will be poorer for it. If there is a rip or tear - will they provide support?? How long will it take for your patch to arrive? How do you know it's really 50 Cotton 50 Poly if you didn't make it yourself?
This is just another way THE (TACO) MAN is trying to control you. Post your designs on the web and license it under an Open Shirt License. The lightweight cotton GPL, Creative Clothing, or Big Shirt or Dress license.
I wouldn't mind paying a small amount in my monthly fee for authenticated emails. I already have a certain amount of local calls per month to prevent war-dialing. I've never come close to reaching that amount of calls.
Lets say there was Authenticated email and I get certain alotment of emails each month. 3000 outgoing messages a month, 100 a day max measured by recipients. If I sign up for a mailing list, then I could choose to accept the charge for the email like a collect call. That would knock one off my allowed messages, and that way the mailing list wouldn't be suddenly paying thosands of dollars to send out mass emails.
Junk mail still comes to me, but wouldn't be counted against my allowed emails. It would be only for sending email, or to accept the charge of the recipient sending an email to allow for large mailing lists to exist, like slashdot updates or sourceforge. Opt-in would be enforced by mail servers and relayers. That's the important part, how does the in-between relay server know it's a valid paid email??
Still for such a system of payments to work, there has to be an acceptable global payment method. Your ZOO can charge US cash, but what about mail from US to China? Perhaps an encryption token based system... whatever I'm all for less spam.
"the UL protects the idiots from themselves by requiring certian warning labels."
No, those warning labels protect companies from the lawyers of idiots. Those aren't UL warning labels. People are so willing to look like idiots if they get that fat check. Some only get honorable mention
McDonalds learned - Remember, Coffee == HOT. I can almost see the next one: WARNING! French Fries - HOT! For oral use only. We'll have to see how the appeal comes out though.;)
16 Colors! You spoiled little brat. CGA had 4 colors and was more then good enough for the babies who couldn't handle their 40 character green and white TV terminals.
I remember I wrote a fractal mandelbrot/julia zooming program on TRS-80 which produced output directly to my dot-matrix printer since I could program each pin for 8 gray levels and had a lot better the 320x200 res. It took a 3 days to do a picture and the program was backed up on my Casette player. I still have the printouts and GW-Basic source code. I could listen to programs and tell which ones they were. AND WE LIKED IT!:o)
There is an interesting section of their bylaws that members have to agree to in order to submit code. That should eliminate any of the ambiguity with the associated with some other submission processes. Non-members must submit to this agreement as well for their submissions to be accepted.
<Company or individual name> submits this input to CE Linux Forum WG XXX (the "Contribution") to the CE Linux Forum for use by the CE Linux Forum and its Members for purposes of developing and promoting a Proposed Specification or Standardized Specification and for any purpose reasonably related to the CE Linux Forum. The CE Linux Forum and its Members shall have no obligation to treat the Contribution as confidential information, or to use the Contribution for any purpose, however. <Company or individual name> hereby declares and agrees to license this input under terms that satisfy the Open Source Definition, as published by the Open Source Initiative including but not limited to GNU General Public License and GNU Lesser General Public License. Further, <Company or individual name> grants to any interested Member (i) a non-exclusive, perpetual, irrevocable, non-transferable, royalty free, worldwide license under all copyrights contained in its input, to reproduce in any form and make derivatives thereof for the sole purpose of developing, publishing, and distributing Proposed Specifications and Proposed Implementations, and (ii) a non-exclusive, perpetual, irrevocable, non-transferable, royalty free, worldwide license under all copyrights contained in its input, to reproduce in any form for the sole purpose of publishing or distributing Standardized Specifications or Reference Implementations.
I haven't had a chance to read the whole thing, but Here are the bylaws of the orginization.
Re:I bet any 2D textures weren't done on Linux...
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Dreamworks, Sinbad & Linux
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Very true. My friend does animations / special effects with Maya in Florida and South Carolina area. He would have an all Linux shop if not for Photoshop. He got into an argument at the last siggraph with a booth guy. Went more or less like this.
Friend: When are you going to have photoshop on Linux? It's the only program I use that I need Windows for.
Adobe: (Annoyed) Never. Linux people just want everything for free.
Friend: You sound pretty upset, people must ask you that a lot
Adobe: All the time! All day.
Friend: Maybe you should think about that.
As far as wanting things for free I'm not sure how much, but he paid several thousand for Maya on Linux over the years.
How many people and companies out there have had their domain hijacked via Network Solutions with just a fax? Now eBay is going to have available NAME, ADDRESS, CREDIT CARDS and BANK ACCOUNTS to anyone who can forge a fax from a law-enforcment agency. Just need to find someone selling some used 72" plasma TV or some other expensive trinket - there's a good mark.
Anyone know if this is this international, or just US?
Just another prohibition. Black markets exist and always will. Trying to completely make something 100% illegal your just giving your profits to those who can supply it and wasting money on lawyers.
Set a reasonable price and convenient service for music and people will pay. The price will be paid to avoid wasted time and higher quality downloads.
History doesn't repeat itslef but it sure does rhyme...
Although there are MUCH easier ways. I have 2 Axims and My D-Link DCF-660W wireless card works great on my Axim and has at least twice the range of the Dell Wireless card. Also the drivers come with a utility which shows the relative strength of the signal, as well as scanning for available networks. I've noticed it can even detect networks from the car while I drive around downtown. Imagine that.:)
If they can't even keep the handheld from crashing I doubt the drivers for wireless cards would be working yet.
Still I hope this project progresses enough to be a usable system soon. In the mean time for a super cheap little portable scanner, $300 would get you a Axim, Cradle and WiFi. Just beware of tech support it's a 30 to 90 minute wait to talk to people in India. It can be very frustrating.
I was just thinking about this line of the article.
"The group, which has asked not to be named in this article, approached ZDNet Australia after repeated attempts to contact Microsoft independently failed."
How long for Microsoft to look at there old emails and find out who this "Anonymous" hacking group is? Maybe they tried using an MSN account so they couldn't be tracked.:)
Perhaps it's the 100 or so SCO stories I've read lately, but this all seems familiar. Little guy with no leg to stand on threatens big behemoth who could squash them like a bug if only they didn't want to get a stain on their shoe.
This does make me wonder about Nintendo though. PS/2 and X-Box have some serious hacking going on and both are running Linux. Sony releasing a Linux kit takes all the fun out of Linux on PS/2. Still I wonder how much Nintendo Game Cube being in third place is because of the lack of hacking on the device to turn it into something else.
It may make sense to THEM
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Gates and Security
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"This technology can make our country more secure and prevent the nightmare vision of George Orwell at the same time," Gates said.
Of course were all going to sit here and point out to ourselves it doesn't make sense. But remember he was speaking to CONGRESS. The same people who believe in lowering taxes and raising spending will lower the national debt. Listening to confirmed software monopolist talking about what they should do about their future software plans.
When he said he doesn't think it's come true and doesn't think it will, perhaps he means he'll never acheive the total control he's always dreamed of, what with Linux the constitution on such standing in the way.
You have to remember to take everything out of context.
Many people may have worked on foo.c and a few different bugs been fixed in the same file. Having a standard bug reporting tool with a nice format is nice not just for end-users who will never be able to figure out a diff between multiple linux kernel sources, but also to developers.
Bugzilla has a nice format, but I do like MSFT bug reports better - symptoms, reproduce, work arounds, fixed, will not fix. Not how it's fixed, but for that - like you said you can look it up.
Slashdot Mirror
It started out when I was just a kid. I got hooked on Phonics. Soon I was reading everything I could get my hands on. I came from a poor family and my parents encouraged me. Said it was the only way to get ahead and I needed all the advantages I could get.
I thought after I read all the books at my local library I would be ok.
Then a "friend" hooked me up with the internet. I started out slow, 14.4k modems, then 33k, 56k. It wasn't so bad, I heard about people using multiple bonded 56k modems. I could still shut if off whenever I wanted to.
Then I heard about broadband. I found a dealer in my area and started with ISDN but eventually switched to DSL so my wife wouldn't notice the extra lines. There's nothing like it. Now I'm always ON.
But it's just not enough. I'm looking at getting a T1 put in or maybe going back to college. I hear they got in room Oc3 or better systems in the DORMS!! Damn - I'm shaking pretty bad now, gotta go.
People using wireless in their home are all about conveinece. Install stuff and it works, no wiring needed, just some basic networking skills the first time you set it up.
Think about Cell Phones or Wireless Phones. With old scanners it's pretty easy to listen in on your neighbors, and they may even order something over the phone and you can get their CC #'s.
I like the security on my Garage Door opener. I have to physically press a button on the motor compartment and then add the new remote or keypad. This would be great in my house - press - add new device to network on my router, get my PC to logon to the wireless net and the light goes off. In a home situation it would be great and we could let the machines worry about hardware and even use one time pads to each device based on mac.
I agree. I recently went to a local county planning meeting to let it be known that I didn't want another mega-strip mall next to the already huge wal-mart they just put in. I was one of only a few people there who didn't have gray hair. The room only had room for about 50 people in it anyway.
A little off topic but the developer said if we didn't rezone the farm land he bought to allow him to build strip malls he would be back with lawyers and sue for damages, etc etc and kept interrupting people.
My point is I that for most people my age who go to the internet instead of the library, the local government is largely absent from their lives. Poceedings are eventually posted to the net after a month or so, but there is no electronic way to voice their opinions locally that I know of.
I removed IE because some programs don't honor the default browser settings. They kept poping up IE. It bugged me so I deleted it and then it reappeared. I tried renaming and putting dummy files in, but it always got replaced. After that it was just a control issue.
Windows Update wouldn't work without IE and it's ActiveX junk. I don't see why the program should be required to scan my hard drive. It should be the default option but not required. The updates never really tell you what they do. "Stops potential take over of your computer, computer users worried about their computer being taken over should download this update." - but how likely is that thing to occur? What EXACTLY does it do? Could I get around it myself by having a firewall?
this article also mentioned about scanning all software on your PC. Just another security thing, but I don't want a program sending unknown encrypted stuff from my PC whenever it feels like it.
I would be interested to know how companies which have standardized on Mozilla get updates to thier windows machines assuming they have them. I have 100% eliminated iexplore.exe from my XP machine, and now it bitches every now and then. I'm behind a firewall with my other machines, but I need this one to do development for some clients.
I can download service packs, but does anyone know where I can download updates? Microsoft's site keeps telling me it requires ActiveX, but I just need the files. I don't need any junk on my machine trying to reactivate itself. Do you just wait for service packs to include the previous fixes? Can you download the files from someone elses machine?
$75 and they OWN your shirt. They will charge people for something you created and gave away and society will be poorer for it. If there is a rip or tear - will they provide support?? How long will it take for your patch to arrive? How do you know it's really 50 Cotton 50 Poly if you didn't make it yourself?
This is just another way THE (TACO) MAN is trying to control you. Post your designs on the web and license it under an Open Shirt License. The lightweight cotton GPL, Creative Clothing, or Big Shirt or Dress license.
I wouldn't mind paying a small amount in my monthly fee for authenticated emails. I already have a certain amount of local calls per month to prevent war-dialing. I've never come close to reaching that amount of calls.
Lets say there was Authenticated email and I get certain alotment of emails each month. 3000 outgoing messages a month, 100 a day max measured by recipients. If I sign up for a mailing list, then I could choose to accept the charge for the email like a collect call. That would knock one off my allowed messages, and that way the mailing list wouldn't be suddenly paying thosands of dollars to send out mass emails.
Junk mail still comes to me, but wouldn't be counted against my allowed emails. It would be only for sending email, or to accept the charge of the recipient sending an email to allow for large mailing lists to exist, like slashdot updates or sourceforge. Opt-in would be enforced by mail servers and relayers. That's the important part, how does the in-between relay server know it's a valid paid email??
Still for such a system of payments to work, there has to be an acceptable global payment method. Your ZOO can charge US cash, but what about mail from US to China? Perhaps an encryption token based system... whatever I'm all for less spam.
No, those warning labels protect companies from the lawyers of idiots. Those aren't UL warning labels. People are so willing to look like idiots if they get that fat check. Some only get honorable mention
McDonalds learned - Remember, Coffee == HOT. I can almost see the next one: WARNING! French Fries - HOT! For oral use only. We'll have to see how the appeal comes out though. ;)
16 Colors! You spoiled little brat. CGA had 4 colors and was more then good enough for the babies who couldn't handle their 40 character green and white TV terminals.
:o)
I remember I wrote a fractal mandelbrot/julia zooming program on TRS-80 which produced output directly to my dot-matrix printer since I could program each pin for 8 gray levels and had a lot better the 320x200 res. It took a 3 days to do a picture and the program was backed up on my Casette player. I still have the printouts and GW-Basic source code. I could listen to programs and tell which ones they were. AND WE LIKED IT!
My handheld has more power then my last laptop.
(Age 28)
I haven't had a chance to read the whole thing, but Here are the bylaws of the orginization.
Very true. My friend does animations / special effects with Maya in Florida and South Carolina area. He would have an all Linux shop if not for Photoshop. He got into an argument at the last siggraph with a booth guy. Went more or less like this.
Friend: When are you going to have photoshop on Linux? It's the only program I use that I need Windows for.
Adobe: (Annoyed) Never. Linux people just want everything for free.
Friend: You sound pretty upset, people must ask you that a lot
Adobe: All the time! All day.
Friend: Maybe you should think about that.
As far as wanting things for free I'm not sure how much, but he paid several thousand for Maya on Linux over the years.
How many people and companies out there have had their domain hijacked via Network Solutions with just a fax? Now eBay is going to have available NAME, ADDRESS, CREDIT CARDS and BANK ACCOUNTS to anyone who can forge a fax from a law-enforcment agency. Just need to find someone selling some used 72" plasma TV or some other expensive trinket - there's a good mark.
Anyone know if this is this international, or just US?
Just another prohibition. Black markets exist and always will. Trying to completely make something 100% illegal your just giving your profits to those who can supply it and wasting money on lawyers.
Set a reasonable price and convenient service for music and people will pay. The price will be paid to avoid wasted time and higher quality downloads.
History doesn't repeat itslef but it sure does rhyme...
Dude, the Animatrix is not real.
But wait - that's what THEY want you to think isn't it!
Although there are MUCH easier ways. I have 2 Axims and My D-Link DCF-660W wireless card works great on my Axim and has at least twice the range of the Dell Wireless card. Also the drivers come with a utility which shows the relative strength of the signal, as well as scanning for available networks. I've noticed it can even detect networks from the car while I drive around downtown. Imagine that. :)
If they can't even keep the handheld from crashing I doubt the drivers for wireless cards would be working yet.
Still I hope this project progresses enough to be a usable system soon. In the mean time for a super cheap little portable scanner, $300 would get you a Axim, Cradle and WiFi. Just beware of tech support it's a 30 to 90 minute wait to talk to people in India. It can be very frustrating.
http://freshmeat.net/add-mozilla-sidebar/
I was just thinking about this line of the article.
:)
"The group, which has asked not to be named in this article, approached ZDNet Australia after repeated attempts to contact Microsoft independently failed."
How long for Microsoft to look at there old emails and find out who this "Anonymous" hacking group is? Maybe they tried using an MSN account so they couldn't be tracked.
Perhaps it's the 100 or so SCO stories I've read lately, but this all seems familiar. Little guy with no leg to stand on threatens big behemoth who could squash them like a bug if only they didn't want to get a stain on their shoe.
This does make me wonder about Nintendo though. PS/2 and X-Box have some serious hacking going on and both are running Linux. Sony releasing a Linux kit takes all the fun out of Linux on PS/2. Still I wonder how much Nintendo Game Cube being in third place is because of the lack of hacking on the device to turn it into something else.
"This technology can make our country more secure and prevent the nightmare vision of George Orwell at the same time," Gates said.
Of course were all going to sit here and point out to ourselves it doesn't make sense. But remember he was speaking to CONGRESS. The same people who believe in lowering taxes and raising spending will lower the national debt. Listening to confirmed software monopolist talking about what they should do about their future software plans.
When he said he doesn't think it's come true and doesn't think it will, perhaps he means he'll never acheive the total control he's always dreamed of, what with Linux the constitution on such standing in the way.
You have to remember to take everything out of context.
you can get MUCH information - TOO MUCH.
Many people may have worked on foo.c and a few different bugs been fixed in the same file. Having a standard bug reporting tool with a nice format is nice not just for end-users who will never be able to figure out a diff between multiple linux kernel sources, but also to developers.
Bugzilla has a nice format, but I do like MSFT bug reports better - symptoms, reproduce, work arounds, fixed, will not fix. Not how it's fixed, but for that - like you said you can look it up.
Perhaps you mean a swallow. Of course I mean an African Swallow. But no, those are non-migratory... better port Embedded Linux too
GNU's Not Unix
Can't get much simpler then that.
Must be the BEER
Hey it takes to E's to be a GEEK
Last time I tried to get on the bus they demanded the royalty fees before I could even sit down.