Long time user (Yes I'm aware there are at least 600 people with accounts older than mine), rarely post, but wanted to just say thanks for the site over the years.
Be well and if you're ever in downtown Ann Arbor, swing by the library and say hi.
Asking Google for Racktrack Playa (mentioned in the story) will net you a Wikipedia entry, which has these fun coordinates at the upper right of the page. Click on that, and you'll get a page of links opening that location in various mapping websites and applications including Google Earth.
Or you could just go to 36.68N, 117.56W
The resolution in Google Earth for that location isn't remotely close to being useful for answering this puzzle.
They were just taking advantage of browser behavior.
www.google.com.net leads to sogosearch.com
When a browser fails to resolve an address, they will try adding.net and.com to the end of the address on the assumption maybe the user forgot to add it.
According to Apple's financial reports, they had 4.4 billion dollars in cash reserves. Vivendi, who currently own Universal, has somewhere between 6 and 7 billion dollars of debt, so I don't think Apple is going to be able to pay part cash, part stock. Vivendi is just looking to get out.
What I'm waiting to see is how this interacts with Apple's new music service which supposedly debuts next month. Nice catalog of music to choose from.
It would really be nice if Corante would provide RSS feeds for these blogs. Most of the weblogs tools in use today offer RSS feeds and quite frankly I find it a lot easier to keep up with many weblogs if I don't have to visit each and every page every day, I don't have that kind of time.:)
Oh my, if you play 60 arcade games per hour, you must really be bad at it. I'm sorry to see that.
However, I do agree that some of the TV series on DVD are definitely worth it, especially if they include some extras, like director commentary, with it.
That's exactly what I do. I connect from my Palm-powered Kyocera Smartphone to a single Win2K machine and use the Computer Management tool for the rest. But I need VNC to connect from that Palm to the Win2K when I am not in the building and am far away from a laptop or other suitable machine.
I use VNC to do remote administration of Windows 2000 servers (don't ask, I prefer using SSH with our *BSD and Debian boxes) over a 14.4K connection on a Kyocera Smartphone (Palm based cell phone) and I find it very usable for starting and stopping services, dealing with Active Directory and our backup tape libarary software. On a full screen redraw I might have to wait a few seconds, but it's rather usable. Oh yeah, our servers sit on a 1.5 Mbps link to the Internet.
Would I use it for word-processing over that 14.4K link? No way. But then I don't need to do that.
Please tell us a little more about what programs you are planning to run via VNC and I'm sure someone else here has already tried and will relay their experience.
Let's say that I'm the CIO of a medium sized.com, can I give myself permission, or do I have to go to the CEO and possibly even the board of directors? Do they need to get permission from the stockholders?
Let's say that I'm the #2 man at a public library and my main responsibility is the IT department. Do I need to ask the #1 man at the library, or do I need to go to the library board or the taxpayers?
It's beginning to look like there is no way to be truly safe unless you run these clients on your own personal computers at home.:(
I know that ReplayTV has gotten out of the direct consumer market, but Panasonic still sells a ShowStopper unit which allows program guide downloads with no subscription fee.
One issue though is that ReplayTV/Panasonic doesn't offer a toll-free number if you happen to be long distance from one of their dial-in numbers.
Perhaps it's time to include a feature in SourceForge to allow a project to point at a second seperate CVS for automatic copies of everything related to the project. Then if a project could secure the backup space somewhere, that should alleviate any concerns.
Well, the usual place to go is Microsoft's MSDN site, also an article at Web Developer's Journal. When you want to create your icon file, you can drop by favicon.com. One last thing, there was a bug in the way IE 5 handles a bad favicon.ico file. I don't recall if it was fixed with the "Favorites fix" for IE a while back. More info can be found here.
People have commented on how weak many of the proposals were. There were only 230 entries to choose from. Personally I'm disappointed that my project (thin client for public library use) didn't get picked, but as long as this eventually leads to some code that could be used in that environment, I suppose I'll be happy.
According to your message, you state that RIM uses the Bellsouth Wireless Data network and that the coverage is wonderful. Well guess what, the Palm VII uses the very same network and the coverage should be the same.
I can't help that you might not be learning anything new from these posts, but other people are and I am happy with that.
Remember, everyone was a newbie once. It's a tired old line, but it bears repeating.
I tend to tell folks to RTFM as well, but I do try to remember that even if we have been around for all the questions, it doesn't hurt to give the answer out one more time.
An old-timer who doesn't sympathize with your view. But I respect that you can have it.:)
This is what I want Netpliance to know. I'm willing to buy an I-Opener that I can modify at a reasonable price.
Netpliance has an opportunity here to beat the rest of the market by months. No one else that I'm aware of is ready to sell anything like this until Christmas 2000. If they would just figure out how to make a little money by selling us modifiable units, everyone would be happy and Netpliance would seal their market position.
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Long time user (Yes I'm aware there are at least 600 people with accounts older than mine), rarely post, but wanted to just say thanks for the site over the years.
Be well and if you're ever in downtown Ann Arbor, swing by the library and say hi.
Asking Google for Racktrack Playa (mentioned in the story) will net you a Wikipedia entry, which has these fun coordinates at the upper right of the page. Click on that, and you'll get a page of links opening that location in various mapping websites and applications including Google Earth.
Or you could just go to 36.68N, 117.56W
The resolution in Google Earth for that location isn't remotely close to being useful for answering this puzzle.
http://tinyurl.com/preview.php I've had it turned on since the days of people hiding goatse.cx behind TinyURLs.
They were just taking advantage of browser behavior.
.net and .com to the end of the address on the assumption maybe the user forgot to add it.
www.google.com.net leads to sogosearch.com
When a browser fails to resolve an address, they will try adding
According to Apple's financial reports, they had 4.4 billion dollars in cash reserves. Vivendi, who currently own Universal, has somewhere between 6 and 7 billion dollars of debt, so I don't think Apple is going to be able to pay part cash, part stock. Vivendi is just looking to get out.
What I'm waiting to see is how this interacts with Apple's new music service which supposedly debuts next month. Nice catalog of music to choose from.
It would really be nice if Corante would provide RSS feeds for these blogs. Most of the weblogs tools in use today offer RSS feeds and quite frankly I find it a lot easier to keep up with many weblogs if I don't have to visit each and every page every day, I don't have that kind of time. :)
Oh my, if you play 60 arcade games per hour, you must really be bad at it. I'm sorry to see that.
However, I do agree that some of the TV series on DVD are definitely worth it, especially if they include some extras, like director commentary, with it.
If you want to view by album, why not go to Artists and pick All, that should list all the albums.
Let's be real, have you ever really clicked on any Slashdot ad with the exception of ThinkGeek ads?
That's exactly what I do. I connect from my Palm-powered Kyocera Smartphone to a single Win2K machine and use the Computer Management tool for the rest. But I need VNC to connect from that Palm to the Win2K when I am not in the building and am far away from a laptop or other suitable machine.
I use VNC to do remote administration of Windows 2000 servers (don't ask, I prefer using SSH with our *BSD and Debian boxes) over a 14.4K connection on a Kyocera Smartphone (Palm based cell phone) and I find it very usable for starting and stopping services, dealing with Active Directory and our backup tape libarary software. On a full screen redraw I might have to wait a few seconds, but it's rather usable. Oh yeah, our servers sit on a 1.5 Mbps link to the Internet.
Would I use it for word-processing over that 14.4K link? No way. But then I don't need to do that.
Please tell us a little more about what programs you are planning to run via VNC and I'm sure someone else here has already tried and will relay their experience.
Let's say that I'm the CIO of a medium sized .com, can I give myself permission, or do I have to go to the CEO and possibly even the board of directors? Do they need to get permission from the stockholders?
:(
Let's say that I'm the #2 man at a public library and my main responsibility is the IT department. Do I need to ask the #1 man at the library, or do I need to go to the library board or the taxpayers?
It's beginning to look like there is no way to be truly safe unless you run these clients on your own personal computers at home.
In case you need to know if you're going to be stuck for long distance, I went back and found the local POP lookup for ReplayTV.
One issue though is that ReplayTV/Panasonic doesn't offer a toll-free number if you happen to be long distance from one of their dial-in numbers.
Perhaps it's time to include a feature in SourceForge to allow a project to point at a second seperate CVS for automatic copies of everything related to the project. Then if a project could secure the backup space somewhere, that should alleviate any concerns.
Sorry.
They closed down this past October, even before this Forbes article which was dated November 27, 2000.
I guess this is another example of how good the Internet research is at Forbes.
Well, the usual place to go is Microsoft's MSDN site, also an article at Web Developer's Journal. When you want to create your icon file, you can drop by favicon.com.
One last thing, there was a bug in the way IE 5 handles a bad favicon.ico file. I don't recall if it was fixed with the "Favorites fix" for IE a while back. More info can be found here.
Just went there with a newsreader myself. 180 newsgroups.
Get a Slashdot account and set up some Slashboxes. I have boxes for all the sections checked and thus I see when new articles show up.
People have commented on how weak many of the proposals were. There were only 230 entries to choose from. Personally I'm disappointed that my project (thin client for public library use) didn't get picked, but as long as this eventually leads to some code that could be used in that environment, I suppose I'll be happy.
According to your message, you state that RIM uses the Bellsouth Wireless Data network and that the coverage is wonderful. Well guess what, the Palm VII uses the very same network and the coverage should be the same.
Remember, everyone was a newbie once. It's a tired old line, but it bears repeating.
I tend to tell folks to RTFM as well, but I do try to remember that even if we have been around for all the questions, it doesn't hurt to give the answer out one more time.
An old-timer who doesn't sympathize with your view. But I respect that you can have it. :)
For those who just want the link: This Old Palm.
This is what I want Netpliance to know. I'm willing to buy an I-Opener that I can modify at a reasonable price.
Netpliance has an opportunity here to beat the rest of the market by months. No one else that I'm aware of is ready to sell anything like this until Christmas 2000. If they would just figure out how to make a little money by selling us modifiable units, everyone would be happy and Netpliance would seal their market position.