I'm awaiting delivery of an rx3715, but I'm not holding my breath for Linux support. Older models are still a long way from being finished and this one has a LOT of features to code for.
One of the things that really peeves me about it is the DRM of Windows that is forced into it. It seems that the only technology anyone really works on these days is for restriction, not enablement.
I had to edit the Prefs.js file to stop it doing it a third time. I know that Session Saver will throw up an error eventually telling you that one of your pages is screwing things, but I didn't want to wait.
OUR stupidity is squared. I wonder how many gurus are getting tech support calls right now with this?
If your MOT is out of date, your insurance isn't valid.
If you're a pre-booked only cab driver and you pick someone up that hasn't booked through the operator, your insurance is invalid.
If you're delivering pizza in your own motor, your insurance is invalid.
If you're doing a little courier work in your SDP insured car, you're not covered.
You're not covered if you've made modifications to the vehicle, even by putting bigger (safer) tyres on with your alloy wheels, upgrading the brakes or adding a roll cage.
There are many more instances where your friendly neighbourhood insurance company will wriggle out of paying a claim, so why should this one be any different? Speeding or driving without due care and attention has been used to negate liability in the past, although those of us who won't accept that can usually make the company pay with legal threats.
I've just got an iPaq rx3715 and I'd like to be able to run Linux on it. I have checked out the Handhelds.org pages to see if I can do it, but the man from Del Monte says No.
Are there any other wonderful resources for iPaq Linux?
Worse than that, if you have an accident and it can be proven that you were doing 38 in a 30 zone, your insurance will use that as a get out clause and the police will have you in court for driving without insurance and give you a wonderful 8 points to go on your wonderful new license.
If you get those 8 points (or anything 6+) in the first few years of driving, you're banned my son.
Funny you should mention that, but this whole "Internet as history" thing has me wound up tight.
Books cannot be changed. They can be destroyed, reprinted and banned but the first edition will always exist in a collection.
The first edition of a website only exists in digital form and there is no way to stop the original from being edited and timestamped back to the expected date.
The IA is the MiniTruth's dream come true.
But who cares? History has always been written by the victorious, hasn't it?
There is also the option of going out and picking up a disposable computer with your software which will run cold, won't be very good, will be sold to you by brainless muppets and will have such a bad impact on the environment that people will queue up to stop them from being sold... Welcome to the MacTrino!
I have a watch very much like the ThinkGeek one (have they stopped selling it?), and on it I have a copy of KeePass that will generate, store and encrypt your password list.
This solution is great when you're working on a machine you know to be clean, but I wouldn't plug it into a cafe/library system.
What occurs to me is that maybe it is time for someone to start taking OSS projects and go guerilla with them, releasing one major version of each project that says "screw you" to all patents and show the world just how much development is being held back by patents.
To actually take a step forward and use all these methods and technologies that the human race has thus far invented instead of hiding them away from the world and licensing them out to those with the money rather than those who would actually use them for the benefit of us lowlies that have to use computers.
Take the Stacker code that MS included with DOS 6. I know this was code and not method, but the idea works for this argument, I think.
Without the ability to Doublespace the tiny hard drives we had back then (mine was 30MB), how many people would have had to spend a lot more money on IDE devices; pushing up production, creating more pollution, making the home acceptance of PCs even slower than it already was? I know there were alternatives, Superstore and Stacker, but MS did the world a favour by including the technology in the [D]OS that came with the computer for most people.
MS ripped off the code owners, but not a lot of people cared because they were getting the benefit of some great coding from a company that could afford to rip off the smaller companies.
Now the tables have turned, there are people willing to give code away for free if they are given the chance. If people weren't too fussed about the credit for these submissions/releases then accountability would have to rest with the end user.
Admittedly this could lead to RIAA type prosecution of the end user, i.e. everyone who runs WINE, but if they have to prosecute everyone who has a Linux distribution with WINE included then it is the system that is at fault, rather than the users. Government by the corporations, for the corporations and all that.
I know this is an irresponsible post, but damnit Jim, I'm a programmer, not a lawyer!
I just want to write software without having to worry about using the morse code button for user input because some corporation wants to price my product out of the market by owning the API call to take keyboard input.
Both countries are run by tyrannical manipulative dictators who haven't any respect for law or democracy.
I apologise to any North Koreans reading this.
Re:So once google owns the entire internet...
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they can't really 'own' the internet until this web accelerator can stop you from accessing certain sites
What happens when a site changes their content to something GOOG (or their sponsors) don't like and they conveniently forget to update their cached version?
It would be a little like the MiniTruth*, wouldn't it?
I fear for the freedom of information in the digital age, bits and bytes are a lot easier than print to manipulate.
* 1984, George Orwell: The Ministry of Truth, the government department responsible for adjusting historical documents and books to conform to today's version of history.
If that happens, it's trivial to switch to a competitor
JohnBoy, can you grab that stable door please? I'm going to go look for that darned horse =/
If they started using the information evilly we would all have to change our names, our SS numbers, our vehicles, our email addresses, phone numbers, CC details and who we bank with, our online chat services, friends' URLs, and in fact everything that we use the internet for.
How much of your life can be gleaned from the information in and out of your modem in one week? Emails can be included in this because most of us have Gmail addresses, don't we?
In one week how much would GOOG know about you?
I think anyone having this much information is too much of a risk. They may be evil already but biding their time.
lets give google the benefit of the doubt until they do start behaving evily
Those cheeky North Koreans have funny little nucular[sic] weapons, let's give them the benefit of the doubt too, at least until they start launching them.
What happens when there is a hostile takeover of Google, Inc. by Microsoft, Claria, Yahoo or even a spam queen? Will it be too late to think of an archive of information with proportions like that in terms of risk then?
The risk is now, the risk is here. Denial is a river in Egypt, not a way to live.
You could always email "pater" at the site and ask him to post a reply to your comment.
I think I remember another site posting an interview with him saying that he wouldn't give the information out, but I have had a few beers, so don't take this as gospel.
In fact don't take it at all, just email him and get your own information, mine is worthless. I can't even remember his name at the moment (hands in geek membership badge and commits hari-kari).
Slashdot Mirror
I think it's #CC7700. Apparently Netscape call it dark orange, and SAS call it Frontier.
HTH.
"CptNerd Johnson is right about Howard Johnson being right!"
I'm awaiting delivery of an rx3715, but I'm not holding my breath for Linux support. Older models are still a long way from being finished and this one has a LOT of features to code for.
One of the things that really peeves me about it is the DRM of Windows that is forced into it. It seems that the only technology anyone really works on these days is for restriction, not enablement.
Oh, you too?
I had to edit the Prefs.js file to stop it doing it a third time. I know that Session Saver will throw up an error eventually telling you that one of your pages is screwing things, but I didn't want to wait.
OUR stupidity is squared. I wonder how many gurus are getting tech support calls right now with this?
If your MOT is out of date, your insurance isn't valid.
If you're a pre-booked only cab driver and you pick someone up that hasn't booked through the operator, your insurance is invalid.
If you're delivering pizza in your own motor, your insurance is invalid.
If you're doing a little courier work in your SDP insured car, you're not covered.
You're not covered if you've made modifications to the vehicle, even by putting bigger (safer) tyres on with your alloy wheels, upgrading the brakes or adding a roll cage.
There are many more instances where your friendly neighbourhood insurance company will wriggle out of paying a claim, so why should this one be any different? Speeding or driving without due care and attention has been used to negate liability in the past, although those of us who won't accept that can usually make the company pay with legal threats.
I've just got an iPaq rx3715 and I'd like to be able to run Linux on it. I have checked out the Handhelds.org pages to see if I can do it, but the man from Del Monte says No.
Are there any other wonderful resources for iPaq Linux?
Worse than that, if you have an accident and it can be proven that you were doing 38 in a 30 zone, your insurance will use that as a get out clause and the police will have you in court for driving without insurance and give you a wonderful 8 points to go on your wonderful new license.
If you get those 8 points (or anything 6+) in the first few years of driving, you're banned my son.
Ain't the UK great?
I'd been expecting it on Slashdot but it never came
...
You didn't think to Submit it? You get mega Karma for an accepted submission you know
(and not in the bad newspeak ingsoc way either)
Funny you should mention that, but this whole "Internet as history" thing has me wound up tight.
Books cannot be changed. They can be destroyed, reprinted and banned but the first edition will always exist in a collection.
The first edition of a website only exists in digital form and there is no way to stop the original from being edited and timestamped back to the expected date.
The IA is the MiniTruth's dream come true.
But who cares? History has always been written by the victorious, hasn't it?
There is also the option of going out and picking up a disposable computer with your software which will run cold, won't be very good, will be sold to you by brainless muppets and will have such a bad impact on the environment that people will queue up to stop them from being sold ... Welcome to the MacTrino!
Slashdot removes brackets :(
Try using < and > =)
I think it is the 90s version of the 80s hit VZones, or something.
I remember trying it out when it first came about, thought it was another Alysma.
Although for all I know it might have been an attempt to take market share away from EQ?
I have a watch very much like the ThinkGeek one (have they stopped selling it?), and on it I have a copy of KeePass that will generate, store and encrypt your password list. This solution is great when you're working on a machine you know to be clean, but I wouldn't plug it into a cafe/library system.
I have never seen the Acid2 test before, but under IE (whatever the latest is) and Firefox 1.0.4 it still renders incorrectly.
Can't we figure out what the users need, and then deliver excellently written software to do that?
Not really, you usually find a patent in the way.
What occurs to me is that maybe it is time for someone to start taking OSS projects and go guerilla with them, releasing one major version of each project that says "screw you" to all patents and show the world just how much development is being held back by patents.
To actually take a step forward and use all these methods and technologies that the human race has thus far invented instead of hiding them away from the world and licensing them out to those with the money rather than those who would actually use them for the benefit of us lowlies that have to use computers.
Take the Stacker code that MS included with DOS 6. I know this was code and not method, but the idea works for this argument, I think.
Without the ability to Doublespace the tiny hard drives we had back then (mine was 30MB), how many people would have had to spend a lot more money on IDE devices; pushing up production, creating more pollution, making the home acceptance of PCs even slower than it already was?
I know there were alternatives, Superstore and Stacker, but MS did the world a favour by including the technology in the [D]OS that came with the computer for most people.
MS ripped off the code owners, but not a lot of people cared because they were getting the benefit of some great coding from a company that could afford to rip off the smaller companies.
Now the tables have turned, there are people willing to give code away for free if they are given the chance. If people weren't too fussed about the credit for these submissions/releases then accountability would have to rest with the end user.
Admittedly this could lead to RIAA type prosecution of the end user, i.e. everyone who runs WINE, but if they have to prosecute everyone who has a Linux distribution with WINE included then it is the system that is at fault, rather than the users. Government by the corporations, for the corporations and all that.
I know this is an irresponsible post, but damnit Jim, I'm a programmer, not a lawyer!
I just want to write software without having to worry about using the morse code button for user input because some corporation wants to price my product out of the market by owning the API call to take keyboard input.
Being a Brit, it hasn't changed one bit.
Both countries are run by tyrannical manipulative dictators who haven't any respect for law or democracy.
I apologise to any North Koreans reading this.
they can't really 'own' the internet until this web accelerator can stop you from accessing certain sites
What happens when a site changes their content to something GOOG (or their sponsors) don't like and they conveniently forget to update their cached version?
It would be a little like the MiniTruth*, wouldn't it?
I fear for the freedom of information in the digital age, bits and bytes are a lot easier than print to manipulate.
* 1984, George Orwell: The Ministry of Truth, the government department responsible for adjusting historical documents and books to conform to today's version of history.
If that happens, it's trivial to switch to a competitor
JohnBoy, can you grab that stable door please? I'm going to go look for that darned horse =/
If they started using the information evilly we would all have to change our names, our SS numbers, our vehicles, our email addresses, phone numbers, CC details and who we bank with, our online chat services, friends' URLs, and in fact everything that we use the internet for.
How much of your life can be gleaned from the information in and out of your modem in one week? Emails can be included in this because most of us have Gmail addresses, don't we?
In one week how much would GOOG know about you?
I think anyone having this much information is too much of a risk. They may be evil already but biding their time.
Frankly I doubt that even google can provide the infrastructure to become a global centralized proxy
Well it just so happens that Google just got a few Trillion dollars from Scott Richter for the whole Gmail accounts database.
Apparently Larry and Sergey were thinking about buying Switzerland, but someone said that this idea was more geeky and only cost $5.00 more.
lets give google the benefit of the doubt until they do start behaving evily
Those cheeky North Koreans have funny little nucular[sic] weapons, let's give them the benefit of the doubt too, at least until they start launching them.
What happens when there is a hostile takeover of Google, Inc. by Microsoft, Claria, Yahoo or even a spam queen? Will it be too late to think of an archive of information with proportions like that in terms of risk then?
The risk is now, the risk is here. Denial is a river in Egypt, not a way to live.
Can't you plug in a Keychain?
I know where my wife works they won't let her use USB ports, which is a real bind when it comes to taking files to work sometimes.
Probably not.
If we're savvy enough to need a kernel tarball, we're savvy enough to run AdBlock, no?
To quote a .SIG I read somewhere,
One man's +1 Funny is another man's -1 Flamebait.
Or as someone in my family used to put it,
It wouldn't do for us all to like t'same.
You could always email "pater" at the site and ask him to post a reply to your comment.
I think I remember another site posting an interview with him saying that he wouldn't give the information out, but I have had a few beers, so don't take this as gospel.
In fact don't take it at all, just email him and get your own information, mine is worthless. I can't even remember his name at the moment (hands in geek membership badge and commits hari-kari).