Just remember, it wasn't WikiLeaks that released the cable, it was one of the major news organizations that WikiLeaks partnered with that redacted and chose to release the cable. WikiLeaks has only released the same cables that their partners did...
I've tried using my G1 as just a GPS, and yeah, battery life sucked. If you want a GPS for hunting and camping (I was tooling around in places where I could easily charge this up), just buy a real GPS unit, it's probably going to be on par for cost and as others have noted, use standard batteries, which is a major thing if you're out in the wild.
Android apps are Java, and allow for JNI. So the answer is that yes, non-JNI using apps work just fine. In the future, JNI using apps could work so long as native libraries are provided for all hardware architectures that are supported (today there's a hardcoded armeabi reference in the loader).
I've been using my Kinesis for 7 years now (on the nose, even) and I must say it's more than just the thumbs for 3 keys that make it so helpful. It's also bs/del, space/enter and the pits. I can't say enough about it being pitted.
And it's well worth the money. I've only had one problem, esc/F-keys are on a separate, and as of when mine was made, slightly more flimsy connection. But after I broke the escape key (vim user), and got tired of using a remapped capslock, I got mine fixed, for a reasonable price, and haven't looked back.
My point wasn't that it was standard everywhere, only that the costs in implementing it would be negligible.I'll admit that I don't work in embedded systems, so I'm not all that familiar with the market, but I assume that the motherboards can be customized to the application. Assuming this is the case, why not add it?
On PCs, it's just part of the South Bridge, e.g (from lspci):
0000:00:07.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ISA (rev 01)
0000:00:07.1 IDE interface: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 IDE (rev 01)
0000:00:07.2 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 USB (rev 01)
0000:00:07.3 Bridge: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ACPI (rev 01)
(The handy example from my old box). The 'extras' bundled on XScale/MIPS/PowerPC/SH/other don't yet include USB2 (some do now, but I'd guess the Pepper Pad has been in development for a bit) nor Firewire. So it would have ment adding in another chip, finding room on the board, etc, etc.
USB2.0 might be bog-standard on ever PeeCee motherboard available today, but that's not yet the case for every XScale, MIPS, or PowerPC System-On-a-Chip (SoC) eval board. A similar point should be made for IEEE1394 support as well.
I think the main thing which can be gained (and, FWIW I'm a Mail.app user too for some of my accounts) is that maybe the next version of Mail.app will be more effective at catching things. I've been doing an unscientific comparison of spamassassin (+ razor) on my main account, and bouncing spam to both a bogofilter (0.9'ish) and Mail.app account and seeing who catches what. So far I've had a few more false negatives with Mail.app than bogofilter and spamassassin + razor. So there is room to improve.
The other noteworthy part here is that as time has gone on (and spam evolved a bit) Mail.app has had more false negatives than the other combinations, so there is room to improve.
Did anyone else notice that at the begining of the show, the claim to have based it on "the law of evolution" ? Last I checked, it was still a theory, but maybe in 5 million years it will be a law.:)
If you want a PowerPC system, and you don't mind paying a good bit for it, Motorola has numerous systems that run in Linux which you can sometimes get Motorola to admit that they sell, and then sell you one. There's a few other vendors which sell systems as well (Force, SBS, IBM). All of these have a PCI slot of some sort so you might be able to get a video card.
I just tried this in my PowerBook G4 (800MHz), and got roughly 20MB/s. Semi-cold: $ time dd if=/dev/zero of=testfile bs=1024 count=102400 102400+0 records in 102400+0 records out 104857600 bytes transferred in 5.325558 secs (19689505 bytes/sec)
real 0m5.569s user 0m0.190s sys 0m3.840s
And the best of 3 runs in a row was: 104857600 bytes transferred in 4.984686 secs (21035949 bytes/sec)
Seriously 'tho, how often does someone writing a Linux app ask why? It's generally more like 'Would anyone else want to try this out?'. And the answer is generally Yes.
The problem does indeed exist in OS9, since the problem is, in general terms, getting the user to download and install malicious software, since there's no way of verifying the authenticity of the update.
It's also the building of expectations that are too high or just plain wrong. There've been at least a few MacWorlds where what Steve did present wasn't nearly as big as what the rumor sites had been saying. I think the 'new' iMac had been expected at least a few events prior to its appearence, and DDR pmacs have been rumored about since shortly after they first hit the PC market.
Well, having just looked at a family history one of my cousins put together, I would love to see a whole bunch of random snapshots of my grand parents, great aunts and uncles and things like that.
Any picture of family members will be useful to someone else in their lineage someday.
I think idea that asm programmers are "wham-bam-that's-the-end-of-that-non-maskable-
interrupt-where's-the-remote-control-honey-can-you -get
-me-a-beer" is completly backwards. Assmebly people have to know just how to push the buttons on a computer, so to speak, and it extends quite well into the bedroom (or living room, or dining room, or kitchen really).
I've been playing with an older version of the KVM on my Visor, and for me the biggest problem has been that it's a battery hog. Playing with the 'Many Balls' demo for a few minutes will take a noticble chunk out of the battery.
Why oh why does slashdot post 2.5. releases
on
2.5.4 Kernel Out
·
· Score: 0, Redundant
Could we please stop posting 2.5.x kernel announcements for a while? It's still quite happy to currupt filesystems (depending on driver) and not compile for most things, and otherwise be totally useless except to the people who knew it was out anyhow (or read l-k or even l-k-announce).
Once 2.5.x becomes "stable" and is out of rewrite big chunks mode, then maybe we should post on slashdot again...
If you BTO one of the dual 1GHz machines and select an ATI Radeon 7500 (better chance of working in Linux) and don't get a 56k modem, you can get it for just $2870.
Well, aside from any TOS preventing it, it should work just fine. I've got a real VPN box here that I use from time to time, but an ssh tunnel + squid on both sides works for 95% of what I need.
This sort-of sounds like Sprint BroadBand direct, except they're not trying to claim it will be as fast. When I got Sprint BBD, they claimed 5MBit down, 256kbit up. And I still can get ~5MBit down (apt-get'ing from http.us and non-us), but I've never gotten more than 10kB/s upload.
I've seen lots of posts about 'We need to QA this!'
and 'Are there any projects to try and QA the kernel releases?' Both of these miss the point. While we do need more people running the tests which do exist on the -pre releases, it comes down to Linus having an itchy trigger finger, so to speak. 2.4.15 in it's final form did exist for a little while, but it wasn't long enough for anyone to go and give it a good test. There's often been requests for Linus to wait a few days from the last -pre to -final so other arches and sync up (2.4.15 only compiles on x86/sparc64/arm and alpha). If this was released on monday, none of this would happen.
Slashdot Mirror
Just remember, it wasn't WikiLeaks that released the cable, it was one of the major news organizations that WikiLeaks partnered with that redacted and chose to release the cable. WikiLeaks has only released the same cables that their partners did...
I've tried using my G1 as just a GPS, and yeah, battery life sucked. If you want a GPS for hunting and camping (I was tooling around in places where I could easily charge this up), just buy a real GPS unit, it's probably going to be on par for cost and as others have noted, use standard batteries, which is a major thing if you're out in the wild.
Android apps are Java, and allow for JNI. So the answer is that yes, non-JNI using apps work just fine. In the future, JNI using apps could work so long as native libraries are provided for all hardware architectures that are supported (today there's a hardcoded armeabi reference in the loader).
I've been using my Kinesis for 7 years now (on the nose, even) and I must say it's more than just the thumbs for 3 keys that make it so helpful. It's also bs/del, space/enter and the pits. I can't say enough about it being pitted.
And it's well worth the money. I've only had one problem, esc/F-keys are on a separate, and as of when mine was made, slightly more flimsy connection. But after I broke the escape key (vim user), and got tired of using a remapped capslock, I got mine fixed, for a reasonable price, and haven't looked back.
0000:00:07.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ISA (rev 01)
0000:00:07.1 IDE interface: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 IDE (rev 01)
0000:00:07.2 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 USB (rev 01)
0000:00:07.3 Bridge: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ACPI (rev 01)
(The handy example from my old box). The 'extras' bundled on XScale/MIPS/PowerPC/SH/other don't yet include USB2 (some do now, but I'd guess the Pepper Pad has been in development for a bit) nor Firewire. So it would have ment adding in another chip, finding room on the board, etc, etc.
USB2.0 might be bog-standard on ever PeeCee motherboard available today, but that's not yet the case for every XScale, MIPS, or PowerPC System-On-a-Chip (SoC) eval board. A similar point should be made for IEEE1394 support as well.
It's listed on http://store.pepper.com/pepper_pad/specification.h tml
I think the main thing which can be gained (and, FWIW I'm a Mail.app user too for some of my accounts) is that maybe the next version of Mail.app will be more effective at catching things. I've been doing an unscientific comparison of spamassassin (+ razor) on my main account, and bouncing spam to both a bogofilter (0.9'ish) and Mail.app account and seeing who catches what. So far I've had a few more false negatives with Mail.app than bogofilter and spamassassin + razor. So there is room to improve.
The other noteworthy part here is that as time has gone on (and spam evolved a bit) Mail.app has had more false negatives than the other combinations, so there is room to improve.
Did anyone else notice that at the begining of the show, the claim to have based it on "the law of evolution" ? Last I checked, it was still a theory, but maybe in 5 million years it will be a law. :)
If you want a PowerPC system, and you don't mind paying a good bit for it, Motorola has numerous systems that run in Linux which you can sometimes get Motorola to admit that they sell, and then sell you one. There's a few other vendors which sell systems as well (Force, SBS, IBM). All of these have a PCI slot of some sort so you might be able to get a video card.
I just tried this in my PowerBook G4 (800MHz), and got roughly 20MB/s.
Semi-cold:
$ time dd if=/dev/zero of=testfile bs=1024 count=102400
102400+0 records in
102400+0 records out
104857600 bytes transferred in 5.325558 secs (19689505 bytes/sec)
real 0m5.569s
user 0m0.190s
sys 0m3.840s
And the best of 3 runs in a row was:
104857600 bytes transferred in 4.984686 secs (21035949 bytes/sec)
Isn't that a bit of a flamebait?
Seriously 'tho, how often does someone writing a Linux app ask why? It's generally more like 'Would anyone else want to try this out?'. And the answer is generally Yes.
The problem does indeed exist in OS9, since the problem is, in general terms, getting the user to download and install malicious software, since there's no way of verifying the authenticity of the update.
It's also the building of expectations that are too high or just plain wrong. There've been at least a few MacWorlds where what Steve did present wasn't nearly as big as what the rumor sites had been saying. I think the 'new' iMac had been expected at least a few events prior to its appearence, and DDR pmacs have been rumored about since shortly after they first hit the PC market.
Well, having just looked at a family history one of my cousins put together, I would love to see a whole bunch of random snapshots of my grand parents, great aunts and uncles and things like that.
Any picture of family members will be useful to someone else in their lineage someday.
And here in Tucson AZ we also have KXCI!
I think idea that asm programmers are "wham-bam-that's-the-end-of-that-non-maskable- interrupt-where's-the-remote-control-honey-can-you -get
-me-a-beer" is completly backwards. Assmebly people have to know just how to push the buttons on a computer, so to speak, and it extends quite well into the bedroom (or living room, or dining room, or kitchen really).
I've been playing with an older version of the KVM on my Visor, and for me the biggest problem has been that it's a battery hog. Playing with the 'Many Balls' demo for a few minutes will take a noticble chunk out of the battery.
Could we please stop posting 2.5.x kernel announcements for a while? It's still quite happy to currupt filesystems (depending on driver) and not compile for most things, and otherwise be totally useless except to the people who knew it was out anyhow (or read l-k or even l-k-announce).
Once 2.5.x becomes "stable" and is out of rewrite big chunks mode, then maybe we should post on slashdot again...
If you BTO one of the dual 1GHz machines and select an ATI Radeon 7500 (better chance of working in Linux) and don't get a 56k modem, you can get it for just $2870.
Well, aside from any TOS preventing it, it should work just fine. I've got a real VPN box here that I use from time to time, but an ssh tunnel + squid on both sides works for 95% of what I need.
This sort-of sounds like Sprint BroadBand direct, except they're not trying to claim it will be as fast. When I got Sprint BBD, they claimed 5MBit down, 256kbit up. And I still can get ~5MBit down (apt-get'ing from http.us and non-us), but I've never gotten more than 10kB/s upload.
FYI, I ended up getting one mfr'ed July 2000 and it booted the M17N.org CD just fine.
I've seen lots of posts about 'We need to QA this!'
and 'Are there any projects to try and QA the kernel releases?' Both of these miss the point. While we do need more people running the tests which do exist on the -pre releases, it comes down to Linus having an itchy trigger finger, so to speak. 2.4.15 in it's final form did exist for a little while, but it wasn't long enough for anyone to go and give it a good test. There's often been requests for Linus to wait a few days from the last -pre to -final so other arches and sync up (2.4.15 only compiles on x86/sparc64/arm and alpha). If this was released on monday, none of this would happen.
The Toys'R'Us near me is still selling them for $79.99, so you might want to call ahead and ask.