I disagree. There are umptimillion inexpensive Mini-ITX boards out there running servers, large and small. You don't need a lot of CPU to chug bits over a network.
Mini-ITX boards drive the Internet Archive, for instance:
Easy tiger - for this to work, you have to click a button on each and every page you want to temporarily create these links on. It took 3 minutes to confirm that. Is the art of journalism dead?
This is an opt-in feature designed to help people who want it. Google aren't ramming this down people's throats.
There is also the option to change the default mapping app - you can switch between Mapquest and Yahoo maps in addition to Google's offering. A nice touch - google didn't have to do that. It's just a shame this only works for US addresses right now.
Of course, this is all academic. It runs on IE, and the average/. reader won't touch that with a bargepole.
I of course detonated the PC I used to test the toolbar in a controlled explosion a few minutes ago.
OK - tell me this one thing, how are they going to fit the barcodes on the really small animals?
And a barcode on a whale would just get lost - you'd need a correspondingly large barcode (waterproof I assume). And correspondingly large readers? Attached to submarines I suppose? I think not.
They just haven't thought this through. Frikkin so called "scientists".
Mozilla plug in that traps HTML anchors, and if they don't match what they are linking to, shows a popup -
"Are you sure you want to click this link? Because it really points to here..."
It could even attach a danger level to the popup. e.g. a mouseover status bar change to another URL would be questionable, as would dodgy characters in the URL to cause problems (there was one with a % in it floating around a while ago). Maybe even a database of fraudulent websites? It would have to remember the false positives to prevent annoyance.
Just an idea. Somebody might have already done it. I wouldn't know where to start to write it, but if this was a software patent - it wouldn't matter.. snigger
"This guy must be laughing all the way to the bank. Every minute this is on the front page suckers are sending this guy money..."
Would be my immediate comment. But I'll back it up with some quick detective work.
Let's view the source on the payment page and start with some PayPal background checks. You need a PayPal account for this:
Seller Reputation: New Member* Account Status: Unverified Account Type: French Business Account Creation Date: 28 Jun. 2004 PayPal Member For: 15 days Cust. Service Email: lafouchardiere@novinit.com
An unverified account rings an alarm bell immediately. It doesn't take long to do this, just a week or two to wait for a code on a bank statement. It's another sign that you are who you say you are. Any reputable retailer does this. Maybe he's just about to.
Now a whois search on the novinit domain:
Arnaud de La Fouchardiere
66 bis avenue Jean Moulin
Paris, 75014
FR
Phone: 06 07 61 23 36
Alarm bell 2 - the name "Arnaud de La Fouchardiere" itself is registered to another address. You can determine that with a search here:
http://wfa.pagesjaunes.fr/pb.cgi?lang=en
I won't paste it in case I'm barking up the wrong alley. But it certainly isn't the one from the whois result. Perhaps he moved recently, or this is his office address. Or perhaps he's a clever scammer syphoning away our money as we speak.
Alarm bell 3 - from comparisons with the above site, Parisien phone numbers should begin 01 4.
Alarm bell 4 - The whois address given appears to have rather too many companies using it for my liking. It may be a rented service.
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8& sa fe=off&q=%2266+bis+avenue+Jean+Moulin%22&btnG=Sear ch
Alarm bell 5 - he wants us to wait 90 days?!?
If you check PayPal's policies, it's increasingly difficult after 30 days to retrieve funds on items that aren't received. This guy is expecting us to wait 90 days before he despatches?
So what we have is a site that seems a little too good to be true, appears to invent technology, and has some large information holes that many other people have pointed out.
Maybe it's genuine. Send us an email Arnaud, we'd love an exclusive interview!
I'll wait for the first million.
Perhaps "Arnaud" could make a better living designing websites? I'd be glad to throw him 600 bucks to redesign mine...
Having said how much I luuurve Linedrive, I shall contradict myself...
It would be useful to be able to go "VIA" a location to miss out traffic-heavy areas, congestion charge zones etc. e.g. Docklands to Clapham (both in London) - it's often better to go South of the River to do this route, but LineDrive will plot a path through the centre of London.
Slashdot Mirror
Here's some design hints:
http://www.mini-itx.com/projects/underwood/
The cool thing about Erik Fitzpatrick's one is it still functions as a typewriter.
It's not blocking the huge Lik-Sang advert on the front page of slashdot.
Is there a setting I missed?
What do Ebay, Google (let's insert Amazon in there too) and Microsoft's web sites actually use?
(I don't know.. I'm just asking...)
Doesn't this describe cafepress?
This is not the first time check boxes and radio buttons have been "conquered".
boo.com had quite groovy code if I remember rightly.
Suggestion to improve your version: onFocus="blur(this)"
Mini-ITX boards drive the Internet Archive, for instance:
http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/06/22/ 0418253&tid=198&tid=126&tid=137&tid=106
Parent comment is not offtopic at all. Bah!! ;-)
http://www.bugmenot.com/view.php?url=www.nytimes.c om
http://maps.google.com/maps?q=Kennedy+Space+Center +Florida&ll=28.617153,-80.677242&spn=0.096542,0.16 2100&t=k&hl=en
Type anything* into google and invariably all the results are price comparison sites anyway.
I often put "-compare" as an additional search term to remove most of these, if I'm looking for just the specifications for something, for instance.
*Computer kit, obviously.
I'm surprised the article didn't link to old-computers.com:
http://www.old-computers.com/news/default.asp
Plenty of "Replica"-esque machines on mini-itx. The best two are probably
http://mini-itx.com/projects/bbcitxb/
http://mini-itx.com/projects/sx64/
Easy tiger - for this to work, you have to click a button on each and every page you want to temporarily create these links on. It took 3 minutes to confirm that. Is the art of journalism dead?
/. reader won't touch that with a bargepole.
This is an opt-in feature designed to help people who want it. Google aren't ramming this down people's throats.
There is also the option to change the default mapping app - you can switch between Mapquest and Yahoo maps in addition to Google's offering. A nice touch - google didn't have to do that. It's just a shame this only works for US addresses right now.
Of course, this is all academic. It runs on IE, and the average
I of course detonated the PC I used to test the toolbar in a controlled explosion a few minutes ago.
Thanks for that Zonk... The first GamesIndustry.biz link kept me happy with Adblock for a good few minutes.
I'd dread to think what it looks like in IE.
OK - tell me this one thing, how are they going to fit the barcodes on the really small animals?
And a barcode on a whale would just get lost - you'd need a correspondingly large barcode (waterproof I assume). And correspondingly large readers? Attached to submarines I suppose? I think not.
They just haven't thought this through. Frikkin so called "scientists".
Not where I am it isn't... :-)
Are you airing a grievance?
Wasn't it on the 23rd?
Happy Festivus!
There's a few of these self-build projects around.
Mini-ITX had a nice looking one (from the front at least) almost 2 years ago:
http://www.mini-itx.com/projects/pictureframepc/
Didn't Mr. Gates put something similar in MSXanadu?
mini-itx.com - many of the projects on there are very inventive...
Here's an idea:
Mozilla plug in that traps HTML anchors, and if they don't match what they are linking to, shows a popup -
"Are you sure you want to click this link? Because it really points to here..."
It could even attach a danger level to the popup. e.g. a mouseover status bar change to another URL would be questionable, as would dodgy characters in the URL to cause problems (there was one with a % in it floating around a while ago). Maybe even a database of fraudulent websites? It would have to remember the false positives to prevent annoyance.
Just an idea. Somebody might have already done it. I wouldn't know where to start to write it, but if this was a software patent - it wouldn't matter.. snigger
Short version: $50 million invested. And they use PayPal?
"This guy must be laughing all the way to the bank. Every minute this is on the front page suckers are sending this guy money..."
& sa fe=off&q=%2266+bis+avenue+Jean+Moulin%22&btnG=Sear ch
Would be my immediate comment. But I'll back it up with some quick detective work.
Let's view the source on the payment page and start with some PayPal background checks. You need a PayPal account for this:
Seller Reputation: New Member*
Account Status: Unverified
Account Type: French Business
Account Creation Date: 28 Jun. 2004
PayPal Member For: 15 days
Cust. Service Email: lafouchardiere@novinit.com
An unverified account rings an alarm bell immediately. It doesn't take long to do this, just a week or two to wait for a code on a bank statement. It's another sign that you are who you say you are. Any reputable retailer does this. Maybe he's just about to.
Now a whois search on the novinit domain:
Arnaud de La Fouchardiere
66 bis avenue Jean Moulin
Paris, 75014
FR
Phone: 06 07 61 23 36
Alarm bell 2 - the name "Arnaud de La Fouchardiere" itself is registered to another address. You can determine that with a search here:
http://wfa.pagesjaunes.fr/pb.cgi?lang=en
I won't paste it in case I'm barking up the wrong alley. But it certainly isn't the one from the whois result. Perhaps he moved recently, or this is his office address. Or perhaps he's a clever scammer syphoning away our money as we speak.
Alarm bell 3 - from comparisons with the above site, Parisien phone numbers should begin 01 4.
Alarm bell 4 - The whois address given appears to have rather too many companies using it for my liking. It may be a rented service.
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8
Alarm bell 5 - he wants us to wait 90 days?!?
If you check PayPal's policies, it's increasingly difficult after 30 days to retrieve funds on items that aren't received. This guy is expecting us to wait 90 days before he despatches?
So what we have is a site that seems a little too good to be true, appears to invent technology, and has some large information holes that many other people have pointed out.
Maybe it's genuine. Send us an email Arnaud, we'd love an exclusive interview!
I'll wait for the first million.
Perhaps "Arnaud" could make a better living designing websites? I'd be glad to throw him 600 bucks to redesign mine...
Excellent idea! We'd burn the models after testing..
In my Patent Office, people would have to bring in what they had invented and show it actually working.
Leonardo *drew* a helicopter, he didn't make it.
Having said how much I luuurve Linedrive, I shall contradict myself...
It would be useful to be able to go "VIA" a location to miss out traffic-heavy areas, congestion charge zones etc. e.g. Docklands to Clapham (both in London) - it's often better to go South of the River to do this route, but LineDrive will plot a path through the centre of London.