ACPI... Advanced Configuration and Power Interface
This is the biggest difficulty right now with Linux and laptops. I've had an Inspiron 8600 for months now and it still can't suspend (to memory or to disk).
If you want to get ACPI working correctly a kernel recompile is necessary and I'm sorry but users aren't going to do this.
Either we step forward and fix these issues or we can't expect users or vendors to take Linux seriously as a desktop operating system.
We're so close but 20% of the remaining functionality is 80% of the work.
I've been pretty down on the whole concept of voice recognition for a while now.
After NASA announced their subvocalization project (I'm too lazy to find the slashdot URL... someone earn karma for it!) I became excited again.
The problem is if you're in an office you can't just start talking. Right now there are 10 people around me and most people are silently working on there computers. If they all started barking commands it would be loud as hell in here. It just doesn't scale.
If you add the subvocalization work this totally changes the equation. Now I can silently tell my computer to do things while my hands type away.
This is going to ROCK. Talk about multitasking... I can be typing out this slashdot post and without stopping I could launch gaim, ymessenger, make sure I'm on IRC... startup Emacs in the background , etc.
w00t!
Gimme gimme! $100 says the Mac has this next year and Linux has it sometime around 2015.:)
And so the beast became agile. The unbelievers fell silent and the followers of Mammon were left behind. The beast had been improved and awaited the release of the great FireFox.
from The Book of Mozilla, 1:7b
(Red Letter Edition)
This was just published an hour ago: IBM on Wednesday sent an open letter to Sun Microsystems urging Sun to make Java technology open source, CNET News.com has learned.
In a letter sent by Rod Smith, IBM's vice president of emerging technology, IBM offered to work with Sun to create a project that would shepherd development of Java through an open-source development model. If implemented, portions of Sun's most valuable software asset--Java--would be freely available, and contributors ranging from volunteer programmers to large corporations would submit changes to the Java software. http://news.com.com/2100-1007_3-5165427.html
Granted I have no idea if it's legal but who cares... it's all fun:)
So in this case you could hack the bookmarklet to replace the EULA with something like:
"All Your Base are not belong to Central Pacific"
and then hit the "I Agree" button.
It doesn't work for everything but at the very minimum you could search the page for "I Agree" and replace it with "I DON'T AGREE YOU INSENSITIVE CLOD!"
Gotta love the DOM!
Of course this will only work if they are checking CGI params but most web monkey's assume their HTML is readonly.
Caffeine is hacker fuel! The major problem I have is how do I get MORE caffeine!
Right now my vector is the coffee bean. I drink two double lattes a day.. That's 4 shots of espresso!
The major problem I have is how do I get more caffeine into my diet. Coffee stains your teeth and it's just not very good for you. I'm also pretty picky about where I get my fix and I WON'T go to Starbucks.
If you haven't had REAL espresso you have't lived. San Francisco and New York are the only places I've been where you can get decent coffee at a moments notice.
If you live in San Francisco head up to North Beach and you can't go wrong.
I've actually thought about taking caffeine pills with me when I leave SF or got to a conference. Either that or I can just take my own espresso machine and my own coffee and get my fix that way... hard to lug around though.
ThinkGeek also has a number of products that include caffeine:
Palestinians also announced migration to both Open Office and KOffice.
When asked for comment Mr Arafat said "the Israeli and Palestinian people can't agree on much but one thing we see eye to eye on is that Microsoft is an evil behemoth and needs to be stopped."
Many are optimistic that the new Open Source philsophy in the Middle East could one day help bridge the gap between two peoples and lead to peace.
> In Mozilla, you need to download the newest CVS > build. Then, apply the patch described in > attachment #15 to bug #1378805. Then recompile > with the APPLET_EXP_SUPPORT flag turned on. Run > the moztest_applet_enable program to fix the > resultant binary, and you're all set!
The form factor of this is very unique in the PDA space.
My NewsMonster RSS aggregator already runs on my SL-5500 and the enhanced res and size of the C760 should really make for a great newspaper/memex style device.
NewsMonster supports the ability to export an article for PDA readability and strips out all non-format compliant content (no tables, images, etc.) All you're left with is just the raw article.
This would be my dream device... add a Sprint CF card with 128k wireless data and I will be in heaven!
Not that I don't like this new Zaurus... it's just too small for me.
Cheating was the first thing I thought of actually.
Lets call this warcoking:)
If they want to track you that means they have transmit which means I can potentially receive the signal.
An easy way to game this would be to hang outside a Coke distribution center with antenna and a decent laptop.
You just sit in your car and try to find coke machines that are leaving the facility and are transmiting.
Then you follow the truck until it stops its xmit and you found your store. Then you go in and scan the shelves with the laptop until you find the right can.
Bingo...
What would be really funny to do is the money from the contest to buy another GPS;)
Slashdot Mirror
That's not a troll... mod that up as FUNNY. You guys need a sense of humor! :)
than all the worms that have been infecting the the Windows worm that has been infecting computers for years.
Last time I checked that stupid Windows worm has infected nearly every damn computer on the planet.
I agree that these stupid worm writers (Microsoft) need to improve their security so that they don't become hosts to yet more worms.
ACPI... Advanced Configuration and Power Interface
This is the biggest difficulty right now with Linux and laptops. I've had an Inspiron 8600 for months now and it still can't suspend (to memory or to disk).
If you want to get ACPI working correctly a kernel recompile is necessary and I'm sorry but users aren't going to do this.
Either we step forward and fix these issues or we can't expect users or vendors to take Linux seriously as a desktop operating system.
We're so close but 20% of the remaining functionality is 80% of the work.
Sad..
Suspend is NOT an optional feature on a laptop...
It premiered on Bittorrent weeks ago!
I've been pretty down on the whole concept of voice recognition for a while now.
:)
After NASA announced their subvocalization project (I'm too lazy to find the slashdot URL... someone earn karma for it!) I became excited again.
The problem is if you're in an office you can't just start talking. Right now there are 10 people around me and most people are silently working on there computers. If they all started barking commands it would be loud as hell in here. It just doesn't scale.
If you add the subvocalization work this totally changes the equation. Now I can silently tell my computer to do things while my hands type away.
This is going to ROCK. Talk about multitasking... I can be typing out this slashdot post and without stopping I could launch gaim, ymessenger, make sure I'm on IRC... startup Emacs in the background , etc.
w00t!
Gimme gimme! $100 says the Mac has this next year and Linux has it sometime around 2015.
And so the beast became agile. The unbelievers fell silent and the followers of
Mammon were left behind. The beast had been improved and awaited the release of
the great FireFox.
from The Book of Mozilla, 1:7b
(Red Letter Edition)
Too late! I was thinking about having your girlfriend work at my tech company!
If I had a girlfriend... I would be happy mixing her with anything...
This is why coffee is good
Warning
This was just published an hour ago:
IBM on Wednesday sent an open letter to Sun Microsystems urging Sun to make Java technology open source, CNET News.com has learned.
In a letter sent by Rod Smith, IBM's vice president of emerging technology, IBM offered to work with Sun to create a project that would shepherd development of Java through an open-source development model. If implemented, portions of Sun's most valuable software asset--Java--would be freely available, and contributors ranging from volunteer programmers to large corporations would submit changes to the Java software.
http://news.com.com/2100-1007_3-5165427.html
I actually wrote a bookmarklet to bypass EULAs.
3 /K illThatEULA/
:)
It just finds he first 'textarea' and replaces the content with a given payload.
Then when you click "I Agree" you aren't actually agreeing to their EULA.
http://www.peerfear.org/rss/permalink/2004/01/0
Granted I have no idea if it's legal but who cares... it's all fun
So in this case you could hack the bookmarklet to replace the EULA with something like:
"All Your Base are not belong to Central Pacific"
and then hit the "I Agree" button.
It doesn't work for everything but at the very minimum you could search the page for "I Agree" and replace it with "I DON'T AGREE YOU INSENSITIVE CLOD!"
Gotta love the DOM!
Of course this will only work if they are checking CGI params but most web monkey's assume their HTML is readonly.
Kevin
Quit your bitching ...
It's FREE!
If you don't want to run RealPlayer run HELIXPLAYER.
It's Open Source and runs on Linux!
probably doesn't stand for "Currency Stealer"
Not true... they are just dark archives.
;)
;)
4 /1 039905788-Scientology_and_the_Blocked_Internet_Arc hive.shtml
k ed own.html
The content is still there it's just not available to the CURRENT generation.
Future researchers and generations will still have this data.
If you want the latest just go to xenu.net..
For the record I support Brewster's and the Archives position on this. It's hard to know who is more evil... the CoS of the anti-CoS folks
(quick answer... the CoS is pure evil!
I've had a few fights with the CoS myself:
http://www.peerfear.org/rss/permalink/2002/12/1
http://www.peerfear.org/download/scientology-ta
Kevin
... cranks it up to 200G..
Ouch!
Excuse me?
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Caffeine is hacker fuel! The major problem I have is how do I get MORE caffeine!
Right now my vector is the coffee bean. I drink two double lattes a day.. That's 4 shots of espresso!
The major problem I have is how do I get more caffeine into my diet. Coffee stains your teeth and it's just not very good for you. I'm also pretty picky about where I get my fix and I WON'T go to Starbucks.
The Coders guide to coffee is pretty good.
http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2002/4/25/13272/5
If you haven't had REAL espresso you have't lived. San Francisco and New York are the only places I've been where you can get decent coffee at a moments notice.
If you live in San Francisco head up to North Beach and you can't go wrong.
I've actually thought about taking caffeine pills with me when I leave SF or got to a conference. Either that or I can just take my own espresso machine and my own coffee and get my fix that way... hard to lug around though.
ThinkGeek also has a number of products that include caffeine:
http://www.thinkgeek.com/caffeine/
> If all goes according to plan, a new product the
> company dubs Core System Software (CSS) will serve
> as the foundation of PC architecture.
Thank GOD we already have DeCSS!!!
I blogged about this a few weeks ago...
3 /S printPCSDataServices/
http://www.peerfear.org/rss/permalink/2003/09/2
It turns out that most Sprint PCS Vision phones support wireless over USB... that and it works just fine over Linux.
All and all this means you can get wireless on your Linux box for only a few bucks a month (if you have an existing sprint phone and account).
Edge might amazing but it's hard to beat this price...
Palestinians also announced migration to both Open Office and KOffice.
When asked for comment Mr Arafat said "the Israeli and Palestinian people can't agree on much but one thing we see eye to eye on is that Microsoft is an evil behemoth and needs to be stopped."
Many are optimistic that the new Open Source philsophy in the Middle East could one day help bridge the gap between two peoples and lead to peace.
It was a joke ;) ... and I meant Iraq not the US should get the ethernet.
Bush has so far wasted 160 billion on Iraq...
For that price we could have covered the entire country TWICE with 10Mbit Ethernet!
It's all about perspective man!
Down with Bush! Up with 100Mbit ethernet!
> In Mozilla, you need to download the newest CVS
:)
> build. Then, apply the patch described in
> attachment #15 to bug #1378805. Then recompile
> with the APPLET_EXP_SUPPORT flag turned on. Run
> the moztest_applet_enable program to fix the
> resultant binary, and you're all set!
Or... you could just download Mozilla 1.5 and then click on one of these XPIs that install java from one click.
But maybe you're a masochist
Java support on Mozilla COULD be better. It really isn't Mozilla's problem... mostly SUNs.
That said a lot of us are trying to push for better Java support within Mozilla. This is why we created the java.mozdev.org project.
My real goal right now is to purchase a C760...
IMO this is the Porsche of Linux PDAs.
The form factor of this is very unique in the PDA space.
My NewsMonster RSS aggregator already runs on my SL-5500 and the enhanced res and size of the C760 should really make for a great newspaper/memex style device.
NewsMonster supports the ability to export an article for PDA readability and strips out all non-format compliant content (no tables, images, etc.) All you're left with is just the raw article.
This would be my dream device... add a Sprint CF card with 128k wireless data and I will be in heaven!
Not that I don't like this new Zaurus... it's just too small for me.
Kevin
In other news... Amazon announced that the USPTO has granted them a patent on their proprietary "one click search" technology.
When questioned for comment Google CEO Eric Schmidt said "ug".
Cheating was the first thing I thought of actually.
:)
;)
Lets call this warcoking
If they want to track you that means they have transmit which means I can potentially receive the signal.
An easy way to game this would be to hang outside a Coke distribution center with antenna and a decent laptop.
You just sit in your car and try to find coke machines that are leaving the facility and are transmiting.
Then you follow the truck until it stops its xmit and you found your store. Then you go in and scan the shelves with the laptop until you find the right can.
Bingo...
What would be really funny to do is the money from the contest to buy another GPS
ha
Kevin