I have a HipTop as my cell phone, and it's useful. The phone portion is a bit akward, but the AIM, web browsing, and SSH are very useful, so is the keyboard.
I'm still waiting for the missing sync for it so I can get my contacts synced up with my laptop. I don't use many of the other features, as I have a Zire 72 for all that. Two other things I wish the HipTop had was longer battery life (if I forget to charge it at night, I'm screwed) and the ability to be used as a modem.
I've been wanting to do something like this for quite some time. I've gotten OpenLDAP and Kerberos 5 working, and it's a solution, but far from an elegant solution. It is difficult to figure out how to get everything working the first time, and I have a few gripes about things (perticularly with OpenLDAP and using authentication through it).
First of all, OpenLDAP lacks 3 major things to make it a viable enterprise directory service. First off, OpenLDAP needs online shcema and indexing changes. This is not a dealbreaker, but it would make things easier, not having to down the server for the occasional index or schema changes. Next, ACLs must be editable online somehow. This is a must! Things like delegation of access to certian ou's requires this. Third, and most important, is data inheritance. There should be the ability to inherit data onto an object, if it is specified as such, from it's parent. The whole point of creating ou's is to seperate users based on a common attribute. Being able to inherit information from the parent is a must here.
There are a few other things that are needed. A caching daemon is needed for disconnect capabilities, and gui and text mode utilities are needed for easy administration of the directory.
Now, I've gone and grabbed the domain opendas.org, and I'm going to think this over a bit, and over the next few days I'm going to put something up there. If anyone is interested in this, drop me a line at mike [at] tuxnami [dot] org.
Actually, I have thought about that. Problem is, my mentality isn't quite right for the military. I'm way too headstrong and individualistic. I really wouldn't work out well in the millitary. I think I'll continue my tiring endevor to get a nice sysadmin job and once I've gotten that, get my pilot's license:)
In order to pull this off, you will need to figure out how the keyboard's matrix is set up, then hook it up properly to a microcontroller, and then program said microcontroller to work with PS/2 (forget USB). Simply put no easy task. And then there's the trackpoint. With that, you will have to find a microcontroller with analog inputs, and figure out how the thing behaves electrically. Just give it up and buy a new keyboard. This thing is a task only for someone who knows a lot about EE, and has the time to do it.
Althought I like where I am headed in my career, systems administrator, an alternate choice has always been Airline pilot. Too bad you start off making squat for pay and have to go through so much expensive flight school.:/
Nope, those little strips are mylar, not metal. There is no significant amounts of metal in US currency. There are trace amounts in the magnetic inks that are used, these are there for things like mechanical bill validators. But there is no actual metal in US currency.
X11 will not be the limiting factor here. In your experience with X11, it was OpenOffice that was slow. 1.0.3 was a terribly slow program. I use X11 on my Mac all the time, and it has no performance hit what so ever.
I am, though, concerned for the speed of Bochs. I think it may be sluggish at best, but only time will tell. And for simple Win32 programs, this may just be the way to break people out of the Windows trap.
Some companies may just have some totally backwards policies on assigning IP addresess. For example, where I work you need to get a FQDN before you are able to get an IP from DHCP, or if you are unlucky enough to be in 90% of the complex, you have to have a statically assigned IP address. You have to go through and call the help desk to get the IP or FQDN before you can hook up the device. In a case like this, if you don't want to be hassled about the IP, you could just do firewire networking. I plan on doing it, as soon as my ancient NT box gets replaced.
Despite the fact that this flower may save hundreds of lives and thousands of injuries, anti-genetic research people are bound to delay this from being deploied. I do think that it will need to be tested to make sure it causes no harm, but it is going to be a great help in some war-torn countries.
I hate SCO as much as the next guy, but doing a DoS attack on them is not the answer. Sure, they are a bunch of low-life scumbags that want to lock up everything, and have a chunk of the profit, but doing massively illegal acts like this make the whole OSS and free software communities look like a bunch of script kiddies. This makes it very hard for us to take the moral high-ground here when it looks like we are doing this crap.
I put things in folders. On my desktop I have a folder for my most commonly used applications, then a link to my ~/Documents, and a link to my ~/Documents/Downloads. I started doing this when I switched to Mac, as to keep the dock clutter down, but I've started to apply similar practice to my Windows machines and my graphical Linux systems.
It's not really a thought process, but more of an automated response. Kinda like a reflex. It doesn't suprise me that plants can communicate, after all, they have had longer to evolve than animals;). There all sorts of things like this in biology that we have yet to discover.
One of my ex-girlfriends once dragged me on DDR. Oh how I sucked at it, but it did give me one heck of a workout. I strangely had fun playing it, but boy was I embarrased at my lack of rythim. And, the next day I was quite sore:)
I don't know much about the project, but his attitude about his project and users is absolutley deplorable.
First off, he shouldn't think of his users as moochers. First off, he was offering it for free. You give something away, you shouldn't ever expect anything back. Second, I'm sure there were many people, like the poster of this article, who are grateful users, but just haven't voiced their opinion. Personally, I'd rather have one message in my inbox about 5 reasons why my software sucks than 100 messages about reasons why it rocks.
Things like feature requests are very common for an admin of a project. And many people out there are rude, or just not conciderate, and their requests may seem like demands to some people. As far as technical support of the software, setup a listserv and make it community support. I would expect any message I send to any project admin about technical support to be brushed off.
One more thing, if he made this an open source project and is now hording the source, that is just wrong. The open source community is just that, you give to them and they provide peer review. True it doesn't always end up that way, but maybe that's because you didn't manage to get the right users.
Anyway, I think he needs to pick up a copy of The Cathedrial and the Bazaar. That may shed a little light onto his problem.
Let's add people who can't seem to drive and talk on the cell phone at the same time. Honestly, most people can't. I do it from time to time, but when I do, my conversation is slowed because I'm paying attention to the road, I will put the thing down when I need to make any sort of maneuver, and if need be, I have no problem throwing it over into the passenger seat when I need my driving skills at 100%. That said, I use a cell phone and drive about 2 times a year maybe.
It's amazing at how many people have the things surgically attached to their ear. In just a 5 mile drive from my house to the train station, there were no less than six cell users yapping away on their phones ignoring the driving task. They were swerving in and out of their lanes, and going 10MPH under the speed limit.
It just seems crazy on how so many people are addicted to the things. But I am supprised that 30% of the people out there recognize them as an annoyance... but I wonder how many of them are hypocrites.
HIPAA is the new health care information protection acts. It protects people's health information, and holds hospitals responsible for leaks, when it is at fault of the hospital. Before these acts were enacted, there were leaks all over the place, and in some cases you could have just stepped into a hospital and got someone's complete records.
But at the hospital I work at we use Lotus Sametime which is based on AIM, but authenticates to the Lotus Domino servers and encrypts all traffic. It's not the greatest solution, but since we are currently forced to use Notes, it works well.
I've always wondered about the "12 Days of Christmas" song, and if it meant that you get just that gift for that day, and the chorous was tallying up the earnings, or if the singer got the gift again, i.e. on the second day you would have recived your second partridge and pear tree combo along with your two turtle doves.
If this is the case you'd get 12 partridges in pear trees, 22 turtle doves, 30 french hens, 36 calling birds, 40 gold rings, 42 geese-a-laying, 40 maids-a-milking, 36 ladies dancing, 30 lords-a-leaping, 22 pipers piping, and 12 drummers drumming in all. That's one heck of a bounty!:)
Argh... they really shouldn't have enter default to posting a commennt... but here is some more data:
Also, once in a traceroute to www.sco.com I got this, which could be just an freak occourance, or something may be going on: 12 p0-0.CHR1.SaltLake-UT.us.xo.net (207.88.83.42) 74.945 ms 69.875 ms 68.083 ms
13 p0-0.CHR1.SaltLake-UT.us.xo.net (207.88.83.42) 75.724 ms !X * *
Well... that's what I have to say for now... if anyone thinks anything about this, let me know.
At about 9:00 CST today I saw that this whole www.sco.com 'DDoS' thing was happening and I wanted to see what was going on for myself. At that time I discovered that the ftp server, ftp.sco.com was down as well.
As I had to be off to class shortly, I had no time to look into this myself. Now looking into things, I don't know if I found anything significant or not, but the IP addresses for www.sco.com and ftp.sco.com trace slightly differently than the others.
Route trace to www.sco.com (216.250.128.12) and ftp.sco.com (216.250.128.13): (first 5 hops not disclosed)
6 sl-st20-chi-15-1.sprintlink.net (144.232.20.80) 41.964 ms 38.945 ms 31.379 ms
7 sl-xocomm-2-0.sprintlink.net (144.223.241.10) 41.726 ms 34.471 ms 31.864 ms
8 p5-0-0.RAR1.Chicago-IL.us.xo.net (65.106.6.133) 43.642 ms 35.284 ms 28.719 ms
9 p6-0-0.RAR2.Denver-CO.us.xo.net (65.106.0.25) 76.919 ms 60.173 ms 57.044 ms
10 p0-0-0-2.RAR1.Denver-CO.us.xo.net (65.106.1.81) 62.918 ms 58.354 ms 56.242 ms
11 p4-0-0.MAR1.SaltLake-UT.us.xo.net (65.106.6.74) 74.249 ms 72.024 ms 68.099 ms
12 p0-0.CHR1.SaltLake-UT.us.xo.net (207.88.83.42) 75.645 ms 69.934 ms 66.853 ms
13 * * *
Now, the rest of the subnet adds one more hop (for me at 13 before it times out: 13 205.158.14.114.ptr.us.xo.net (205.158.14.114) 79.440 ms 71.363 ms 66.883 ms
I don't know if this means anything or not, but in my mind it seems kind of odd.
Why do they need top publish this advice on a website? Can't they just email SCO's last remaining customer directly?
Because SCO's last remaining customer has been very careful as not to expose their identity. Think about it, would YOU want to be seen as a SCO customer?;)
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I have a HipTop as my cell phone, and it's useful. The phone portion is a bit akward, but the AIM, web browsing, and SSH are very useful, so is the keyboard.
I'm still waiting for the missing sync for it so I can get my contacts synced up with my laptop. I don't use many of the other features, as I have a Zire 72 for all that. Two other things I wish the HipTop had was longer battery life (if I forget to charge it at night, I'm screwed) and the ability to be used as a modem.
And the first 10 apps I install are:
a bulator
Butler
Vim (Cocoa)
Firefox
Fugu
GPG
GPG-Mail
Fink
Konf
X-Chat
Thunderbird (for newsgroups)
I've been wanting to do something like this for quite some time. I've gotten OpenLDAP and Kerberos 5 working, and it's a solution, but far from an elegant solution. It is difficult to figure out how to get everything working the first time, and I have a few gripes about things (perticularly with OpenLDAP and using authentication through it).
First of all, OpenLDAP lacks 3 major things to make it a viable enterprise directory service. First off, OpenLDAP needs online shcema and indexing changes. This is not a dealbreaker, but it would make things easier, not having to down the server for the occasional index or schema changes. Next, ACLs must be editable online somehow. This is a must! Things like delegation of access to certian ou's requires this. Third, and most important, is data inheritance. There should be the ability to inherit data onto an object, if it is specified as such, from it's parent. The whole point of creating ou's is to seperate users based on a common attribute. Being able to inherit information from the parent is a must here.
There are a few other things that are needed. A caching daemon is needed for disconnect capabilities, and gui and text mode utilities are needed for easy administration of the directory.
Now, I've gone and grabbed the domain opendas.org, and I'm going to think this over a bit, and over the next few days I'm going to put something up there. If anyone is interested in this, drop me a line at mike [at] tuxnami [dot] org.
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Mike Crawford
Hey, I work at a company's help desk and I get calls about how hotmail is down. And they aren't supposed to be checking personal email at work!
Mewyn
Actually, I have thought about that. Problem is, my mentality isn't quite right for the military. I'm way too headstrong and individualistic. I really wouldn't work out well in the millitary. I think I'll continue my tiring endevor to get a nice sysadmin job and once I've gotten that, get my pilot's license :)
Mewyn Dy'ner
In order to pull this off, you will need to figure out how the keyboard's matrix is set up, then hook it up properly to a microcontroller, and then program said microcontroller to work with PS/2 (forget USB). Simply put no easy task. And then there's the trackpoint. With that, you will have to find a microcontroller with analog inputs, and figure out how the thing behaves electrically. Just give it up and buy a new keyboard. This thing is a task only for someone who knows a lot about EE, and has the time to do it.
Mewyn Dy'ner
Althought I like where I am headed in my career, systems administrator, an alternate choice has always been Airline pilot. Too bad you start off making squat for pay and have to go through so much expensive flight school. :/
Mewyn Dy'ner
Nope, those little strips are mylar, not metal. There is no significant amounts of metal in US currency. There are trace amounts in the magnetic inks that are used, these are there for things like mechanical bill validators. But there is no actual metal in US currency.
Mewyn Dy'ner
I recently saw my dream job (well, at least for this point in my career) and applied to it.
It is a PC/Mac/Unix admin job at Pixar. Too bad I'm sure my resume got lost in the noise. I think it would be so awesome to work there.
Mewyn Dy'ner
X11 will not be the limiting factor here. In your experience with X11, it was OpenOffice that was slow. 1.0.3 was a terribly slow program. I use X11 on my Mac all the time, and it has no performance hit what so ever.
I am, though, concerned for the speed of Bochs. I think it may be sluggish at best, but only time will tell. And for simple Win32 programs, this may just be the way to break people out of the Windows trap.
Mewyn Dy'ner
What if you can't get an IP for the network?
Some companies may just have some totally backwards policies on assigning IP addresess. For example, where I work you need to get a FQDN before you are able to get an IP from DHCP, or if you are unlucky enough to be in 90% of the complex, you have to have a statically assigned IP address. You have to go through and call the help desk to get the IP or FQDN before you can hook up the device. In a case like this, if you don't want to be hassled about the IP, you could just do firewire networking. I plan on doing it, as soon as my ancient NT box gets replaced.
Mewyn Dy'ner
Despite the fact that this flower may save hundreds of lives and thousands of injuries, anti-genetic research people are bound to delay this from being deploied.
I do think that it will need to be tested to make sure it causes no harm, but it is going to be a great help in some war-torn countries.
Mewyn Dy'ner
I hate SCO as much as the next guy, but doing a DoS attack on them is not the answer. Sure, they are a bunch of low-life scumbags that want to lock up everything, and have a chunk of the profit, but doing massively illegal acts like this make the whole OSS and free software communities look like a bunch of script kiddies. This makes it very hard for us to take the moral high-ground here when it looks like we are doing this crap.
Mewyn Dy'ner
I put things in folders. On my desktop I have a folder for my most commonly used applications, then a link to my ~/Documents, and a link to my ~/Documents/Downloads. I started doing this when I switched to Mac, as to keep the dock clutter down, but I've started to apply similar practice to my Windows machines and my graphical Linux systems.
Mewyn Dy'ner
It's not really a thought process, but more of an automated response. Kinda like a reflex. It doesn't suprise me that plants can communicate, after all, they have had longer to evolve than animals ;). There all sorts of things like this in biology that we have yet to discover.
Mewyn Dy'ner
One of my ex-girlfriends once dragged me on DDR. Oh how I sucked at it, but it did give me one heck of a workout. I strangely had fun playing it, but boy was I embarrased at my lack of rythim. And, the next day I was quite sore :)
Mewyn Dy'ner
I don't know much about the project, but his attitude about his project and users is absolutley deplorable.
First off, he shouldn't think of his users as moochers. First off, he was offering it for free. You give something away, you shouldn't ever expect anything back. Second, I'm sure there were many people, like the poster of this article, who are grateful users, but just haven't voiced their opinion. Personally, I'd rather have one message in my inbox about 5 reasons why my software sucks than 100 messages about reasons why it rocks.
Things like feature requests are very common for an admin of a project. And many people out there are rude, or just not conciderate, and their requests may seem like demands to some people. As far as technical support of the software, setup a listserv and make it community support. I would expect any message I send to any project admin about technical support to be brushed off.
One more thing, if he made this an open source project and is now hording the source, that is just wrong. The open source community is just that, you give to them and they provide peer review. True it doesn't always end up that way, but maybe that's because you didn't manage to get the right users.
Anyway, I think he needs to pick up a copy of The Cathedrial and the Bazaar. That may shed a little light onto his problem.
Mewyn Dy'ner
Let's add people who can't seem to drive and talk on the cell phone at the same time. Honestly, most people can't. I do it from time to time, but when I do, my conversation is slowed because I'm paying attention to the road, I will put the thing down when I need to make any sort of maneuver, and if need be, I have no problem throwing it over into the passenger seat when I need my driving skills at 100%. That said, I use a cell phone and drive about 2 times a year maybe.
Mewyn Dy'ner
It's amazing at how many people have the things surgically attached to their ear. In just a 5 mile drive from my house to the train station, there were no less than six cell users yapping away on their phones ignoring the driving task. They were swerving in and out of their lanes, and going 10MPH under the speed limit.
It just seems crazy on how so many people are addicted to the things. But I am supprised that 30% of the people out there recognize them as an annoyance... but I wonder how many of them are hypocrites.
Mewyn Dy'ner
HIPAA is the new health care information protection acts. It protects people's health information, and holds hospitals responsible for leaks, when it is at fault of the hospital. Before these acts were enacted, there were leaks all over the place, and in some cases you could have just stepped into a hospital and got someone's complete records.
Mewyn Dy'ner
But at the hospital I work at we use Lotus Sametime which is based on AIM, but authenticates to the Lotus Domino servers and encrypts all traffic. It's not the greatest solution, but since we are currently forced to use Notes, it works well.
Mewyn Dy'ner
I've always wondered about the "12 Days of Christmas" song, and if it meant that you get just that gift for that day, and the chorous was tallying up the earnings, or if the singer got the gift again, i.e. on the second day you would have recived your second partridge and pear tree combo along with your two turtle doves.
:)
If this is the case you'd get 12 partridges in pear trees, 22 turtle doves, 30 french hens, 36 calling birds, 40 gold rings, 42 geese-a-laying, 40 maids-a-milking, 36 ladies dancing, 30 lords-a-leaping, 22 pipers piping, and 12 drummers drumming in all. That's one heck of a bounty!
Mewyn Dy'ner
Argh... they really shouldn't have enter default to posting a commennt... but here is some more data:
Also, once in a traceroute to www.sco.com I got this, which could be just an freak occourance, or something may be going on:
12 p0-0.CHR1.SaltLake-UT.us.xo.net (207.88.83.42) 74.945 ms 69.875 ms 68.083 ms
13 p0-0.CHR1.SaltLake-UT.us.xo.net (207.88.83.42) 75.724 ms !X * *
Well... that's what I have to say for now... if anyone thinks anything about this, let me know.
Mewyn Dy'ner
At about 9:00 CST today I saw that this whole www.sco.com 'DDoS' thing was happening and I wanted to see what was going on for myself. At that time I discovered that the ftp server, ftp.sco.com was down as well.
As I had to be off to class shortly, I had no time to look into this myself. Now looking into things, I don't know if I found anything significant or not, but the IP addresses for www.sco.com and ftp.sco.com trace slightly differently than the others.
Route trace to www.sco.com (216.250.128.12) and ftp.sco.com (216.250.128.13): (first 5 hops not disclosed)
6 sl-st20-chi-15-1.sprintlink.net (144.232.20.80) 41.964 ms 38.945 ms 31.379 ms
7 sl-xocomm-2-0.sprintlink.net (144.223.241.10) 41.726 ms 34.471 ms 31.864 ms
8 p5-0-0.RAR1.Chicago-IL.us.xo.net (65.106.6.133) 43.642 ms 35.284 ms 28.719 ms
9 p6-0-0.RAR2.Denver-CO.us.xo.net (65.106.0.25) 76.919 ms 60.173 ms 57.044 ms
10 p0-0-0-2.RAR1.Denver-CO.us.xo.net (65.106.1.81) 62.918 ms 58.354 ms 56.242 ms
11 p4-0-0.MAR1.SaltLake-UT.us.xo.net (65.106.6.74) 74.249 ms 72.024 ms 68.099 ms
12 p0-0.CHR1.SaltLake-UT.us.xo.net (207.88.83.42) 75.645 ms 69.934 ms 66.853 ms
13 * * *
Now, the rest of the subnet adds one more hop (for me at 13 before it times out:
13 205.158.14.114.ptr.us.xo.net (205.158.14.114) 79.440 ms 71.363 ms 66.883 ms
I don't know if this means anything or not, but in my mind it seems kind of odd.
Why do they need top publish this advice on a website? Can't they just email SCO's last remaining customer directly?
;)
Because SCO's last remaining customer has been very careful as not to expose their identity. Think about it, would YOU want to be seen as a SCO customer?
Mewyn Dy'ner