Dojo is an Open Source DHTML toolkit written in JavaScript. It allows you to easily build dynamic capabilities into web pages and any other environment that supports JavaScript sanely. You can use the components that Dojo provides to make your web sites more useable, responsive, and functional.
So, thats what we do - and we're involved with the Summer of Code for the third time in 2008. And this summer we have lots of exciting stuff planned: charting, accessibility, visualizations, automated testing, 3d graphics,... or suggest your own.
There's various hacks to run IE6 and IE7 side by side and they're not approved by MS...
And they don't work very well, since IE pulls in all sorts of other libraries that are upgraded. Filters(Alpha+PNG) support, XML parsing are two key ones that will be b0rked in IE6 with IE7 installed.
Providers can (and rarely, outside the US, do) lock phones they sell to their network, but it is generally trivial to unlock them - as another poster said. If you're not happy with the web instructions, drop into your local GSM repair place and have them do it for a few $.
This used to be a much more common practice outside the US, but there are so many people travelling overseas, parallel importing, etc that they just don't bother anymore.
Fonterra is the world's largest dairy company, and its a producer's co-operative. Now, the producers (farmers) own 100% of the Fonterra shares, and they're also the company's suppliers.
A co-operative doesn't neccessarily mean everyone is equal, just that everyone is an owner/stakeholder and that the company acts in their collective interests. In which case co-op's can scale.
Spending the last couple of years working for a consumer of XScale processors, I can tell you Intel's XScales are severely lagging behind Freescale, Samsung, and others. The Intel chips are slower, have less features, and are more expensive than the Freescale and Samsung offerings. Large consumer electronics customers are dropping them, especially as Samsung will offer better deals on processor+flash+ram offerings than Intel can. Because they're all based off the same ARM cores the application-level software shouldn't need to change much, and it is a viable choice when creating new hardware platforms. Intel does have nice marketing agreements where they pour 10s of millions into companies each year to put 'Powered by XScale' on the packaging, advertising, and software.
For background, factory workers (usually young women), are not so surprisingly in short supply and high demand in the manufacturing areas of the PRC these day.
The reason for this (in Electronics) is that guys (like young men everywhere) piss around and aren't focussed and aren't accurate enough. So the factories want women. And there are plenty of women production engineers, test engineers, line leaders, production managers, etc too (at least as many as in a Western facility).
Ah, someone who actually knows what they are talking about! Everything you said agrees with my experiences with consumer electronics manufacturing in China - although I would say the pay has increased somewhat at the companies we were working with.
Normal Chinese consumer electronics manufacturers work two 10/11/12-hour shifts with breaks - a day shift and a night shift. The shifts swap over once a month or thereabouts. The production engineers and managers often work a lot longer - 14/15/16 hours a day is normal.
- Who cares if there are more female than male workers? What possible bearing does this have on the situation? (I'm trying to figure out exactly why this was mentioned, because it's clearly intended to imply something, though I'm not quite sure what.)
I used to work for a consumer electronics company who had products manufactured in China, Indonesia, and other places in Asia. There are always more women than men (mostly they're 16-20yo girls), and this is because the women are more focussed and more accurate with their work. Simply that. There are a number of production and test engineers, line leaders, production managers, etc who are women - at least as many as a Western facility, so I don't see it as a "glass ceiling". In China at least, the line staff often come from the rural areas to work in the cities for 1-3 years then return home. And since young men are potentially more useful farming, and factories want young women, thats how it has turned out.
Now I could have been fed a load of horseshit over the past few years, but everyone tells it the same way, and I highly respect a lot of the manufacturers I worked with.
MythTV can be installed and setup very easily using the KnoppMyth distribution, and then customised after that (all I've done is install libdvdcss). Otherwise there is Jarod's detailed setup guide, and the mythtv-users mailing list is very busy, and people on there are very helpful.
If you're in New Zealand, we have a localt mythtvnz list.
A capacitor can be measured using area, yet how closely you pack the layers determines its volume. Let's assume we can pack a layer of this magic stuff and its insulation/fat in 1mm thickness, and our compartment is 10mm thick. Then we have 20cm^2 * 10 = 200cm^2 of "area", and (assuming your maths is right) 30watt hours - which is a significant improvement.
In late 2003, we looked at both Eclipse and Netbeans (3.6) as platforms to build a cross-platform fat-client app on. Netbeans at that time kicked Eclipse in terms of features, documentation, samples, support, and everything else. During development, it had its quirks but on the whole we were very impressed.
Nb4 was under development/test at the time but wasn't quite ready enough for us to build on (even though we started using it as an IDE).
My bank in New Zealand has just started a similar system for transfers to user-specified accounts. If you transfer > NZ$2500 (US$1500?) a day they will do the SMS thing. See here for more information on how it works.
Just letting you all know, especially those who paid close attention to my itinerary detail rantings, that although Muzz and I headed for Phuket today, all is well.
It is a strange story. We should have, by all accounts, been at the patong beach hotel, where we are booked in for tonight (my christmas present to murray). That hotel is now completely underwater.
Instead, our plane was delayed an hour for refuelling and we departed KL for Phuket at 11am, much to our dissatisfaction. After reaching thai airspace and beginning our decent into phuket airport, the plane backed up and circled. the pilot then announced that neither Phuket or Bangkok air traffic control were responding to communications.
We circled and circled until the pilot, quite frankly and worringly, stated he was giving up communication and heading back to KL. so thats where we went.
But we are now finding out about what happened. News is still breaking (its 5 pm here) but we think that the tsunami hit patong beach, and our hotel, no more than 10 minutes before our ETA (which had of course been delayed an hour).
so, instead of being in a disaster area we're both here in KL at the Hart's house drinking tea and eating chocolate biscuits watching CNN.
so this is just to let you know all is well. we dont know what we're going to do now, we got a refund on the flights and might go somewhere else instead.
hope you are well...im off to eat my biscuits and have a drink.
I've seen this bug in 2000 & XP, and also related bugs with the Alt, Ctrl and Right Mouse Button. They will get 'stuck' so every key you press comes out ALT-ified, and every mouse click is a 'right' one.
Its a Win32 problem as once its happening you can switch apps and it still happens. They way to clear it... bang alt, shift, control, left, right for 10 seconds or so and it seems to go away...
> waste diskspace and memory by dumping yet another copy of bozo.dll
>> That's basically the Linux solution (short of recompiling everything).
If you've read the other comments you'll know this is NOT the way linux manages it! Linux distributions have binary packages that contain ONLY the applications code, and they depend on other library packages, which are shipped and updated separately. There is usually only 1 copy of a library package, shared by all the apps on the system.
Hmm, Students don't tend to end up doing "work for free" - there are more mistakes, less documentation, less understanding and experience of security, portability, and less foresight for future possibilities/developments [in general!]. All this requires other people to review it, document it, approve it, modify it. While maybe not costing as much as for a professional to do it, it certainly isn't free.
One gadget I've been looking out for is a portable VGA-capture USB adaptor, or a KVM usb adaptor.
When you're playing around with headless servers it would be really handy just to have the actual screen available. Once the machine is booted, there is always SSH but sometimes it doesn't get that far.
A nice little window on the desktop containing the USB-connected machine, ala VMWare/VNC.
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Dojo is an Open Source DHTML toolkit written in JavaScript. It allows you to easily build dynamic capabilities into web pages and any other environment that supports JavaScript sanely. You can use the components that Dojo provides to make your web sites more useable, responsive, and functional.
So, thats what we do - and we're involved with the Summer of Code for the third time in 2008. And this summer we have lots of exciting stuff planned: charting, accessibility, visualizations, automated testing, 3d graphics, ... or suggest your own.
- Rob :)
Obligatory wikipedia reference...
Providers can (and rarely, outside the US, do) lock phones they sell to their network, but it is generally trivial to unlock them - as another poster said. If you're not happy with the web instructions, drop into your local GSM repair place and have them do it for a few $.
This used to be a much more common practice outside the US, but there are so many people travelling overseas, parallel importing, etc that they just don't bother anymore.
Fonterra is the world's largest dairy company, and its a producer's co-operative. Now, the producers (farmers) own 100% of the Fonterra shares, and they're also the company's suppliers. A co-operative doesn't neccessarily mean everyone is equal, just that everyone is an owner/stakeholder and that the company acts in their collective interests. In which case co-op's can scale.
Spending the last couple of years working for a consumer of XScale processors, I can tell you Intel's XScales are severely lagging behind Freescale, Samsung, and others. The Intel chips are slower, have less features, and are more expensive than the Freescale and Samsung offerings. Large consumer electronics customers are dropping them, especially as Samsung will offer better deals on processor+flash+ram offerings than Intel can. Because they're all based off the same ARM cores the application-level software shouldn't need to change much, and it is a viable choice when creating new hardware platforms. Intel does have nice marketing agreements where they pour 10s of millions into companies each year to put 'Powered by XScale' on the packaging, advertising, and software.
Ah, someone who actually knows what they are talking about! Everything you said agrees with my experiences with consumer electronics manufacturing in China - although I would say the pay has increased somewhat at the companies we were working with.
Normal Chinese consumer electronics manufacturers work two 10/11/12-hour shifts with breaks - a day shift and a night shift. The shifts swap over once a month or thereabouts. The production engineers and managers often work a lot longer - 14/15/16 hours a day is normal.
I used to work for a consumer electronics company who had products manufactured in China, Indonesia, and other places in Asia. There are always more women than men (mostly they're 16-20yo girls), and this is because the women are more focussed and more accurate with their work. Simply that. There are a number of production and test engineers, line leaders, production managers, etc who are women - at least as many as a Western facility, so I don't see it as a "glass ceiling". In China at least, the line staff often come from the rural areas to work in the cities for 1-3 years then return home. And since young men are potentially more useful farming, and factories want young women, thats how it has turned out.
Now I could have been fed a load of horseshit over the past few years, but everyone tells it the same way, and I highly respect a lot of the manufacturers I worked with.
MythTV can be installed and setup very easily using the KnoppMyth distribution, and then customised after that (all I've done is install libdvdcss). Otherwise there is Jarod's detailed setup guide, and the mythtv-users mailing list is very busy, and people on there are very helpful.
If you're in New Zealand, we have a localt mythtvnz list.
Rob :)
A capacitor can be measured using area, yet how closely you pack the layers determines its volume. Let's assume we can pack a layer of this magic stuff and its insulation/fat in 1mm thickness, and our compartment is 10mm thick. Then we have 20cm^2 * 10 = 200cm^2 of "area", and (assuming your maths is right) 30watt hours - which is a significant improvement.
In late 2003, we looked at both Eclipse and Netbeans (3.6) as platforms to build a cross-platform fat-client app on. Netbeans at that time kicked Eclipse in terms of features, documentation, samples, support, and everything else. During development, it had its quirks but on the whole we were very impressed.
Nb4 was under development/test at the time but wasn't quite ready enough for us to build on (even though we started using it as an IDE).
Maybe the crawler has taste. :)
My bank in New Zealand has just started a similar system for transfers to user-specified accounts. If you transfer > NZ$2500 (US$1500?) a day they will do the SMS thing. See here for more information on how it works.
TUGZip (at www.tugzip.com) has a much nicer UI than 7-Zip (at least last time I used it), as well as handling tonnes of formats and being free!
I've seen this bug in 2000 & XP, and also related bugs with the Alt, Ctrl and Right Mouse Button. They will get 'stuck' so every key you press comes out ALT-ified, and every mouse click is a 'right' one.
Its a Win32 problem as once its happening you can switch apps and it still happens. They way to clear it... bang alt, shift, control, left, right for 10 seconds or so and it seems to go away...
Rob :)
>> That's basically the Linux solution (short of recompiling everything).
If you've read the other comments you'll know this is NOT the way linux manages it! Linux distributions have binary packages that contain ONLY the applications code, and they depend on other library packages, which are shipped and updated separately. There is usually only 1 copy of a library package, shared by all the apps on the system.
Rob :)
One good thing is that you can preset (and change) settings using the user.js and prefs.js files, and also do "group" and "user" settings.
It also runs 100% happily launching off a shared network drive, which makes it very easy to update (just replace the binaries).
Rob :)
another one... GPS Photo Link
The Navman GPS4410 is a bluetooth GPS module, which has a battery life of 30 hours. See here for more details.
While it's primarily used for car navigation, you can get GPS NMEA data out of it (here is a good info site) which is the standard for GPS receivers.
It would be relatively easy to write a Palm/IPAQ/other app to record coordinates/tracks so you could tie them into your photos later.
Rob :)
When you're playing around with headless servers it would be really handy just to have the actual screen available. Once the machine is booted, there is always SSH but sometimes it doesn't get that far.
A nice little window on the desktop containing the USB-connected machine, ala VMWare/VNC.
another 17" monitor will set you back US$100. Even if you have a 19" or 21" main screen, you'll appreciate the extra space. and you'll never go back