Well, having hooked a WinXP puter up, and wondering the same thing (I run linux, sis runs XP), I have a feeling that it does it all through User-Agent stuff. The thought crossed my mind to try to get Moz on a Windows box w/ the User-Agent-Switcher and try to *spoof* a linux or mac machine to see if this was the case. The reason they would go this route, as far as I can tell, is most students will first pop open a web browser. At that time, they are greeted w/ the lovely warning from the university, and all the proceeding steps need to be completed.
I've actually run into this *problem* for the first time this year, multiple times. First, there was my sister moving into college. They forced a virus scan and forced an install of all of the security updates before allowing the computer onto the web. Everything you did on that network was looped back right to your machine.
One of my friends just moved back into her dorm, and her uni is also forcing an install of SP2 and doing a virus scan. The worst thing was that the virus scanner they provided (f-prot) did not detect the virus that was on her system, or at least it did not remove it. I was admin'ing her computer over the phone and AIM, but she would get a message that the Briss virus had infected her machine. It required a download of Norton Trial Scanner to rid the machine.
I think it's a good move on the universities part to try to limit stuff, but the steps they are taking are still not good enough to cover everything. It's sad really that it has gotten to the level that it has.
The BT profiles do not exist on the phone. That's why it doesn't work. If you could write the profiles, add it to the firmware, then flash the phone, you'd be set.
You can very easily use the phone as a modem for Laptops and PDAs over bluetooth. I've successfully browsed the web w/ a Tungsten T3 without a hitch. That particular profile is included in the BT setup of the phone right now.
Actually, he seems pretty dead serious. Check out the MIT videos on his site. He participates in a quasi-debate session w/ some professors and students. Pretty interesting, though the guy seems dumber than bricks.
Choose not to install it. Then, Gaim, and others, won't sync up with it. You just build it without a requirement for it. Choose whatever you want instaed.
Well, sure they'll come in, and drive song prices down. See, Microsoft has lots of money. They can afford to lose money on selling music until the rest of the competitors are run out of business. After they are gone, then they will start to raise prices again, and it will end up costing more than ever. Now, you might say that I'm just a MS hater and a huge linux zealot. If you think this, then I would like to know what the impetus is behind Microsoft selling each X-box at a loss.
IIRC, this particular hole dates back to over a year ago, when IE had the same exact hole. They fixed it, but it only looks like they fixed it part way. They prevented IE from exploiting the hole, but they left the hole there, potentially allowing programs in the future to exploit it.
No. Caller ID "spoofing" has legitmate uses. If I am calling from inside my company to an outside number, and I don't want that outside number to have the number for the phone at my desk, I would have this system send out the main company line to show up as my number. Interestingly enough, this has been done for years, and is definitely legal. Notice how almost every large corporation has something going on like this? It's because of a piece of equipment known as a PBX, and there's nothing too new about them.
No, it doesn't. This has been possible for YEARS. Normally it would require the use of a very expensive piece of equipment known as a PBX. It's able to display caller-id however they want it to. Notice how when you receive calls from very large companies, the number always comes back as the main line, instead of the individuals desk number? That's the PBX working. This is nothing new, and it's not illegal.
I'll agree. Looking glass blew me away when I first saw it. And I also agree that it looked like they could've released it the very next day. You actually now can download it if you want, and they've even gone so far as to open source it. Here's some linakge:
https://lg3d-core.dev.java.net/lg3d-getting-starte d.html
Well, as you said, a discman laser is pretty low power, yet those are able to read the pits in a CD. Seeing as how you can't see the pits, and CDs look like a mirror, I'd imagine that a discman laser would work wonderfully.
At my old job at the science center, we had a large format screen (not Imax but Iwerks, pretty much the same thing). We had one week each summer that was something like "The Science of Video Games" or some shit. Each day, a different video game system would be set up on the screen. There was the very large video projector that went to the center. But, since it didn't fill the entire screen, some other projectors were setup much, much closer, so two other systems could be playes on the sides of the much larger system. I also came in before work multiple times and brought my PS2. The theater tech and I would then hook it up and play for about an hour before we opened. It rocked.
I would say that in the next few years, Linux and Apple will be releasing stuff that will just blow us all away. We know that Microsoft is going to try to have an OpenGL GUI. We know that they were wanting meta-data searches. And there are other things that we probably don't know about. It seems like Apple does a yearly release, and each year they are rolling out one or two new things each time that are not huge, but they are very cool things. Expose, the new widget system, etc are all good examples. The freedesktop project and xorg should be gaining steam and I wouldn't be surprised if we see OpenGL desktop rendering in Linux within a year or year and a half. As you mentioned, the Beagle project for Gnome is already doing meta-data searches (and it's of course being worked on currently). If you look at what's going on right now, Apple/Linux either currently have, will have shortly, or will have perfected everything that Microsoft has said they will have in 2 years. So when Microsoft comes out, there is not going to be any "catching up" really, except from the Microsoft camp. When Longhorn ships, I would be willing to bet that there are some new/exciting things in Apple/Linux that Microsoft won't be able to implement until the release thereafter.
The one area that I would say Microsoft is at a disadvantage is the very rabid and outspoken communities that other OSes have. Linux has an advantage due to sheer numbers of how many programmers work on various components at any one time. Apple has users that are creating some very cool software (Konfabulator) and then Apple takes that idea and runs with it (yes, i know the story behind the new widget system). Microsoft is very seperated from the user base and what it's users want/need. Apple listens to its users, and Linux is the users. I would say there is a clear advantage there.
If I've been following everything correctly, Linux even has these programs being created. Check out the Dashboard and Beagle projects for Gnome:
http://www.gnome.org/projects/beagle/
Don't forget that even Linux, Gnome, KDE, and other apps are adding some of these features in as we speak. Before Apple's Dashboard was unveiled, there were some Linux pages up on something called Dashboard and Beagle back in 2003. Not saying Apple stole from Linux, but both will have these features long before windows.
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The other nice thing about using a web browser as a terminal is that HTML is very, very easy to write. I'd put it on par with creating a Windows form in VB. The other plus side to an HTML interface is that you now have a "program" that is mutli-platform. Mac, Windows, Linux can all view the page and get the program to do whatever it is supposed to. It's almost like Java, but I would think it is a lot lighter.
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The Beagle and Dashboard projects actually have been around since about Nov/Dec of 2003. That's a little more than 3 weeks.
Well, having hooked a WinXP puter up, and wondering the same thing (I run linux, sis runs XP), I have a feeling that it does it all through User-Agent stuff. The thought crossed my mind to try to get Moz on a Windows box w/ the User-Agent-Switcher and try to *spoof* a linux or mac machine to see if this was the case. The reason they would go this route, as far as I can tell, is most students will first pop open a web browser. At that time, they are greeted w/ the lovely warning from the university, and all the proceeding steps need to be completed.
I've actually run into this *problem* for the first time this year, multiple times. First, there was my sister moving into college. They forced a virus scan and forced an install of all of the security updates before allowing the computer onto the web. Everything you did on that network was looped back right to your machine.
One of my friends just moved back into her dorm, and her uni is also forcing an install of SP2 and doing a virus scan. The worst thing was that the virus scanner they provided (f-prot) did not detect the virus that was on her system, or at least it did not remove it. I was admin'ing her computer over the phone and AIM, but she would get a message that the Briss virus had infected her machine. It required a download of Norton Trial Scanner to rid the machine.
I think it's a good move on the universities part to try to limit stuff, but the steps they are taking are still not good enough to cover everything. It's sad really that it has gotten to the level that it has.
The BT profiles do not exist on the phone. That's why it doesn't work. If you could write the profiles, add it to the firmware, then flash the phone, you'd be set.
You can very easily use the phone as a modem for Laptops and PDAs over bluetooth. I've successfully browsed the web w/ a Tungsten T3 without a hitch. That particular profile is included in the BT setup of the phone right now.
Actually, he seems pretty dead serious. Check out the MIT videos on his site. He participates in a quasi-debate session w/ some professors and students. Pretty interesting, though the guy seems dumber than bricks.
Ah...you too are a firm believe in The Time Cube. But, if you believed, you should know that you cannot fully understand the Time Cube! :-)
Choose not to install it. Then, Gaim, and others, won't sync up with it. You just build it without a requirement for it. Choose whatever you want instaed.
Well, sure they'll come in, and drive song prices down. See, Microsoft has lots of money. They can afford to lose money on selling music until the rest of the competitors are run out of business. After they are gone, then they will start to raise prices again, and it will end up costing more than ever. Now, you might say that I'm just a MS hater and a huge linux zealot. If you think this, then I would like to know what the impetus is behind Microsoft selling each X-box at a loss.
IIRC, this particular hole dates back to over a year ago, when IE had the same exact hole. They fixed it, but it only looks like they fixed it part way. They prevented IE from exploiting the hole, but they left the hole there, potentially allowing programs in the future to exploit it.
Because there is a perfectlly good reason for having caller id info that is not 100% accurate
Just don't buy caller-id with your phone service if you don't care about receiving caller-id info.
No. Caller ID "spoofing" has legitmate uses. If I am calling from inside my company to an outside number, and I don't want that outside number to have the number for the phone at my desk, I would have this system send out the main company line to show up as my number. Interestingly enough, this has been done for years, and is definitely legal. Notice how almost every large corporation has something going on like this? It's because of a piece of equipment known as a PBX, and there's nothing too new about them.
No, it doesn't. This has been possible for YEARS. Normally it would require the use of a very expensive piece of equipment known as a PBX. It's able to display caller-id however they want it to. Notice how when you receive calls from very large companies, the number always comes back as the main line, instead of the individuals desk number? That's the PBX working. This is nothing new, and it's not illegal.
Actually, from what I've been reading, they sorta-kinda are ripping it off from BeOS. They've got one of the old Be guys working for them now.
I'll agree. Looking glass blew me away when I first saw it. And I also agree that it looked like they could've released it the very next day. You actually now can download it if you want, and they've even gone so far as to open source it. Here's some linakge: https://lg3d-core.dev.java.net/lg3d-getting-starte d.html
Well, as you said, a discman laser is pretty low power, yet those are able to read the pits in a CD. Seeing as how you can't see the pits, and CDs look like a mirror, I'd imagine that a discman laser would work wonderfully.
At my old job at the science center, we had a large format screen (not Imax but Iwerks, pretty much the same thing). We had one week each summer that was something like "The Science of Video Games" or some shit. Each day, a different video game system would be set up on the screen. There was the very large video projector that went to the center. But, since it didn't fill the entire screen, some other projectors were setup much, much closer, so two other systems could be playes on the sides of the much larger system. I also came in before work multiple times and brought my PS2. The theater tech and I would then hook it up and play for about an hour before we opened. It rocked.
I could be mistaken, but I thought there was a counterpart to cdrecord called dvdrecord.
The one area that I would say Microsoft is at a disadvantage is the very rabid and outspoken communities that other OSes have. Linux has an advantage due to sheer numbers of how many programmers work on various components at any one time. Apple has users that are creating some very cool software (Konfabulator) and then Apple takes that idea and runs with it (yes, i know the story behind the new widget system). Microsoft is very seperated from the user base and what it's users want/need. Apple listens to its users, and Linux is the users. I would say there is a clear advantage there.
If I've been following everything correctly, Linux even has these programs being created. Check out the Dashboard and Beagle projects for Gnome:
http://www.gnome.org/projects/beagle/
Just like the google search, you click the "O" at the level you want to get off at.
It's not a broken window. It's a piece of stained glass. Look closer.
Don't forget that even Linux, Gnome, KDE, and other apps are adding some of these features in as we speak. Before Apple's Dashboard was unveiled, there were some Linux pages up on something called Dashboard and Beagle back in 2003. Not saying Apple stole from Linux, but both will have these features long before windows.
The other nice thing about using a web browser as a terminal is that HTML is very, very easy to write. I'd put it on par with creating a Windows form in VB. The other plus side to an HTML interface is that you now have a "program" that is mutli-platform. Mac, Windows, Linux can all view the page and get the program to do whatever it is supposed to. It's almost like Java, but I would think it is a lot lighter.