Real VoIP (plugging in a Vonage black box doesn't count) is still the domain of hackers
The Nokia E60, E61 and E70 have wifi and VoIP (SIP) support. Though the software was, at first, a bit feature-incomplete (no STUN or ICE) this has been improved in recent firmware releases I'm told.
It's obviously frustrating that the E62 (which I understand is for the North American market) dropped wifi in favour of a mini-usb port - but you can still buy a (quad-band) E61 SIM-free, right?
There are a squillion more useful (and enjoyable) things you could be doing:
Contributing code to an open source project. Studying. Exercising. (this counts big-time later on) Reading something mind expanding. Building relationships with other humans. Think up your own dammit.
The point is: no matter what you may enjoy doing, there's something more beneficial (to you or the ppl around you) and just as enjoyable to do. But there are few things worse than sitting on your fat ass playing console games.
Just an example: You count Dance Dance Revolution as exercise? Loser. Pick a sport that's fun to play. Play with a friend so you build friendship. If it's a martial art you pick up some basic self-defence skills too. It's multitasking. And *that's* how you win at LIFE.
I realised when switching to Dvorak about a year ago, that most of the effort of learning to type is developing muscle memory - so your fingers know where keys are located in space. *Not* what the keys do, mind you.
You're not learning to type again, you're just mentally flipping keymaps. Continue to type on both key layouts (maybe one at work and one at home), and you can still mentally switch between them fairly quickly.
[Packet sniffers] are typically set up to capture passwords, credit card numbers and bank account information... "Where I'd draw the line is putting in your bank account information or credit card number."
Robert Vamosi, Senior Editor at CNET, you are an idiot. (Or maybe Susan Stellin is a terrible journalist - I suspect both.)
Saying entering your credit card number on a public computer is dangerous because someone's watching network packets is ridiculous.
Just goes to show how little average users understand about online safety, despite efforts to educate them about SSL...
The term is common in British English, Hiberno-English and Australian English...
...and South African English and Jamaican English...
So basically, lets just say non-US English. And frankly that's how it is most of the time - when an American dictionary lists a usage as "chiefly British" read "everywhere else in the English-speaking world" instead...
BT, at least, no longer allow names to be added to an account. It was generally the best way to help friends arriving in the UK open a bank account. But a recent attempt do so for my cousin resulted in repeated "computer-says-no".
I fear that the introduction of an ID card and institutions' dependence on it will make it even harder for expats. No evidence though, just a gut feeling.
That being said, I don't know what the OP was planning to do with a compass for mapping villages anyway: a compass doesn't tell you where you are, it only tells you what direction you're facing.
With a compass and a map that is at least detailed enough to show major relief features, your location can be determined by intersection of backbearings.
Meanwhile, has anyone got any success stories re. getting a Linux laptop on the internet with a mobile phone?
Well perhaps I've misunderstood you (or I'm being an insensitive European clod), but getting a connection to the internet through a mobile phone isn't at all difficult (on GSM networks - which is why I'm probably being an insensitive clod)
and all permutations of the above for which I've had the hardware.
Obviously this isn't limited to Nokia phones (hey, I just work here) - as long as the phone supports some kind of serial connection, you're go. No special software - wvdial does a fine job of taking care of the nitty gritty.
Gnokii does a decent job of accessing my phone features.
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And the path of trust is only as strong as the weakest link in the chain, not so?
Real VoIP (plugging in a Vonage black box doesn't count) is still the domain of hackers
The Nokia E60, E61 and E70 have wifi and VoIP (SIP) support.
Though the software was, at first, a bit feature-incomplete (no STUN or ICE) this has been improved in recent firmware releases I'm told.
It's obviously frustrating that the E62 (which I understand is for the North American market) dropped wifi in favour of a mini-usb port - but you can still buy a (quad-band) E61 SIM-free, right?
*All* game consoles are lame.
You Are Wasting Your Life.
There are a squillion more useful (and enjoyable) things you could be doing:
Contributing code to an open source project.
Studying.
Exercising. (this counts big-time later on)
Reading something mind expanding.
Building relationships with other humans.
Think up your own dammit.
The point is: no matter what you may enjoy doing, there's something more beneficial (to you or the ppl around you) and just as enjoyable to do.
But there are few things worse than sitting on your fat ass playing console games.
Just an example: You count Dance Dance Revolution as exercise?
Loser. Pick a sport that's fun to play. Play with a friend so you build friendship. If it's a martial art you pick up some basic self-defence skills too. It's multitasking. And *that's* how you win at LIFE.
I realised when switching to Dvorak about a year ago, that most of the effort of learning to type is developing muscle memory - so your fingers know where keys are located in space. *Not* what the keys do, mind you.
You're not learning to type again, you're just mentally flipping keymaps. Continue to type on both key layouts (maybe one at work and one at home), and you can still mentally switch between them fairly quickly.
Even wired switches are vulnerable to ARP cache poisoning.
Aiee, I humbly retract some of what I implied in my comment. :)
At least it's mitigated for the case where you already have cached certs from the sites to which you're connecting. (er. yeh. I don't)
Though I would completely agree it's too much to expect the average user to pre-obtain certs or indeed understand how the MITM attack works...
hmm...
Robert Vamosi, Senior Editor at CNET, you are an idiot. (Or maybe Susan Stellin is a terrible journalist - I suspect both.)
Saying entering your credit card number on a public computer is dangerous because someone's watching network packets is ridiculous. Just goes to show how little average users understand about online safety, despite efforts to educate them about SSL...
And they even mentioned key-loggers later on...
*gah*
in this story is that he went and bought a Cadillac...
So basically, lets just say non-US English. And frankly that's how it is most of the time - when an American dictionary lists a usage as "chiefly British" read "everywhere else in the English-speaking world" instead...
BT, at least, no longer allow names to be added to an account. It was generally the best way to help friends arriving in the UK open a bank account. But a recent attempt do so for my cousin resulted in repeated "computer-says-no".
I fear that the introduction of an ID card and institutions' dependence on it will make it even harder for expats. No evidence though, just a gut feeling.
No, really. Hit the sleep button. Pop out battery. Do stuff (like swap a SIM card). Replace battery. Resume laptop.
Works on my two-year-old Powerbook. I assume all new laptops have this feature by now.
Ah, but there is. It's called wmii.
Get one of the latest snapshots. It's a slight adjustment from using Ion (you like vi, right?) but I just can't live without it now.
http://toolbar.netcraft.com/site_report?url=http:/ /www.salt.ac.za
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A smoking pile of linux slag or a smoking pile of windows slag - it's still a smoking pile of slag...
Condolences carnun.
That being said, I don't know what the OP was planning to do with a compass for mapping villages anyway: a compass doesn't tell you where you are, it only tells you what direction you're facing.
With a compass and a map that is at least detailed enough to show major relief features, your location can be determined by intersection of backbearings.
zOMG!!! Now if I can just get this running on my optimized Gent00 box this will be the shizz!!!11
Well perhaps I've misunderstood you (or I'm being an insensitive European clod), but getting a connection to the internet through a mobile phone isn't at all difficult (on GSM networks - which is why I'm probably being an insensitive clod)
I've used a
- Nokia 6210,
- Nokia 6310i,
- Nokia 6230
(and a host of others I've had access to) connected to my Linux machine(s) (G4 Powerbook and desktop PC) via- USB cable,
- Bluetooth and
- Infrared,
dialing up to- a normal landline dialup (9600 bps!) and
- GPRS
and all permutations of the above for which I've had the hardware.Obviously this isn't limited to Nokia phones (hey, I just work here) - as long as the phone supports some kind of serial connection, you're go. No special software - wvdial does a fine job of taking care of the nitty gritty.
Gnokii does a decent job of accessing my phone features.
[gnomeza@ntbox etc]$ tail -n 1 rc.local
modprobe nt_unfixable_holes
For whom, exactly, would this be a "Security enhancement"?