"The fact that you grew up in England is only relevant in that that's the way other people there pronounce it that way"
seems like maths would be the correct term to use in relation to an article about the Lucasian Chair of Mathematics. By the way Colour has got a "u" in it.
Hawking bet against himself so he would have a consolation prize if he lost. Some time in the intervening years the bet changed a bit.
"Whereas Stephen Hawking has such a large investment in general relativity and black holes and desires an insurance policy, and wheras Kip Thorne likes to live dangerously without an insurance policy.
Therefore be it resolved that Stephen Hawking bets one years subscription to PENTHOUSE as against Kip Thorne's wager of a 4-year subscription to PRIVATE EYE, that Cygnus X-1 does not contain a black hole of mass above Chandrasekhar limit."
It was signed by Stephen Hawking and Kip Thorne.
for those not of these shores Penthouse is a top shelf soft porn mag and Private eye is a current affairs/political satyrical publication.
yes the java client is supported in Linux, also there are a couple of other clients that work, look at http://meanwhile.sourceforge.net and also this plugin for trillian. http://sourceforge.net/projects/stplugin.
IBM community tools http://community.ngi.ibm.com/ also works on Linux and that is Sametime under the covers. You should be able to point the buddy list at any sametime server, by default it points to an IBM public sametime server at messaging.ngi.ibm.com The Lotus notes client also is a sametime client. I haven't got awareness working under Linux+WINE yet but I haven't tried that hard. There are a couple of other java clients people have written but if you want a C app I guess the meanwhile source would be a good start.
Lotus Sametime is a corporate internal IM/web conferencing tool. Templates for dicussion databases with place based awareness were included in previous versions however in the latest version these have been dropped, presumably because nobody ever used them. You can still use the templates from the old version or roll your own from the API should you wish.
doesn't work for distributed and disconnected systems which don't rely on security by obscurity. To take a system I am familiar with the Lotus Notes ID file contains your private key which is used for authentication and encryption etc. This is unlocked on the client using your password. The unlocking process is fully documented (it isn't Open Source but it isn't a great big secret either) and there is no lockout because you don't know what code is going to be doing the unlocking. In the standard code that users type their password into there is a delay between attempts which increases, probably exponentially, however there is nothing to stop you writing a brute force tool to work that algorithm as fast as your processor will go. The starting point of this attack is getting hold of the ID file, hence people should be careful to protect these files, however brute forcing an ID file is generally easier than brute forcing the encryption performed once the ID is unlocked. If your ID file is unlocked by a smartcard then the bruteforcing task is equivalent to guessing a 128 random character password.
SMS =160 chars max
*100,000 messages per hour
*11 hours
176,000,000 bytes/11/60/60
=4444 bytes per second
*8
=35555 bits per second
= about the speed of a modem.
As I understand it, (I don't work for IBM) the workplace client uses the Eclipse framework (as does websphere studio which started Eclipse). Eclipse is an IDE for everything and nothing in particular, in this instance there would be an editor pluging for 'developing' spreadsheets etc. The replication technology comes from Domino and the back end is Websphere with DB2 as the data store, probably with an object layer like the Domino 7 Beta DB2 integration. i.e. the schema will be an incomprehensible mess, access through the API or specifying access tables for DB2 level manipulation.
that would be e-Suite, it was a lot of very nice java applets, designed to do 80% of what a full office app would do, however it got shelved eventually (after I put a fair amount of effort into groking the API) I think because 80% was not enough, Java was too slow at the time and the customers just weren't there for it.
it is the energy that you need to start and maintain a reaction. imagine if you will starting a barbie with a blowtorch, only this coal goes out the moment you take away the blowtorch. we can see that it burns, and one day we might be able to sustain a reaction but at the moment we spend more on gas for the blowtorch than we get from the charcoal.
Important note: Nuclear Fusion is not for cooking sausages with.
The R6 interface is better than R5, which as you correctly state sucked less than 4.6. The current release is 6.5 which sucks even less than that. Bitching about an old version of software X when a new version exists which sucks less is a bit pointless IMHO.
IBM did a lot of the development for Eclipse, most of the underpinnings of Websphere studio are Eclipse. IBM then "donated" the code, by founding the Eclipse organisation and releasing the code under the Common Public License (IBM's Free license). Eclipse will be the basis of the new Rich client which is a part of the IBM Workplace strategy. Future versions of Notes may well be more like Eclipse and future rich clients built on Eclipse may have more features from Notes in them. FYI the code name for the Eclipse rich client is Moscow.
working in multiple timezones is a PITA. Lots of applications assume one timezone, Notes has a native datatype for datetimes which is the best I have come across. Timezones can be confusing, but that just reflects real life.
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it was a long time ago. he only started to deterioate at about 20.
now I look at it in more detail, never mind though. Here is a link to the original bet.
"Whereas Stephen Hawking has such a large investment in general relativity and black holes and desires an insurance policy, and wheras Kip Thorne likes to live dangerously without an insurance policy.
Therefore be it resolved that Stephen Hawking bets one years subscription to PENTHOUSE as against Kip Thorne's wager of a 4-year subscription to PRIVATE EYE, that Cygnus X-1 does not contain a black hole of mass above Chandrasekhar limit."
It was signed by Stephen Hawking and Kip Thorne.
for those not of these shores Penthouse is a top shelf soft porn mag and Private eye is a current affairs/political satyrical publication.
the article
yes the java client is supported in Linux, also there are a couple of other clients that work, look at http://meanwhile.sourceforge.net and also this plugin for trillian. http://sourceforge.net/projects/stplugin. IBM community tools http://community.ngi.ibm.com/ also works on Linux and that is Sametime under the covers. You should be able to point the buddy list at any sametime server, by default it points to an IBM public sametime server at messaging.ngi.ibm.com The Lotus notes client also is a sametime client. I haven't got awareness working under Linux+WINE yet but I haven't tried that hard. There are a couple of other java clients people have written but if you want a C app I guess the meanwhile source would be a good start.
they have lots of solar cells but they don't work as well as they might when covered in a layer of sticky redish sand.
Lotus Sametime is a corporate internal IM/web conferencing tool. Templates for dicussion databases with place based awareness were included in previous versions however in the latest version these have been dropped, presumably because nobody ever used them. You can still use the templates from the old version or roll your own from the API should you wish.
doesn't work for distributed and disconnected systems which don't rely on security by obscurity. To take a system I am familiar with the Lotus Notes ID file contains your private key which is used for authentication and encryption etc. This is unlocked on the client using your password. The unlocking process is fully documented (it isn't Open Source but it isn't a great big secret either) and there is no lockout because you don't know what code is going to be doing the unlocking. In the standard code that users type their password into there is a delay between attempts which increases, probably exponentially, however there is nothing to stop you writing a brute force tool to work that algorithm as fast as your processor will go.
The starting point of this attack is getting hold of the ID file, hence people should be careful to protect these files, however brute forcing an ID file is generally easier than brute forcing the encryption performed once the ID is unlocked. If your ID file is unlocked by a smartcard then the bruteforcing task is equivalent to guessing a 128 random character password.
yes but the bottom line is that the total size of all transmissions and the throughput achieved is not particularly astonishing.
SMS =160 chars max *100,000 messages per hour *11 hours 176,000,000 bytes /11 /60 /60
=4444 bytes per second
*8
=35555 bits per second
= about the speed of a modem.
As I understand it, (I don't work for IBM) the workplace client uses the Eclipse framework (as does websphere studio which started Eclipse). Eclipse is an IDE for everything and nothing in particular, in this instance there would be an editor pluging for 'developing' spreadsheets etc. The replication technology comes from Domino and the back end is Websphere with DB2 as the data store, probably with an object layer like the Domino 7 Beta DB2 integration. i.e. the schema will be an incomprehensible mess, access through the API or specifying access tables for DB2 level manipulation.
that would be e-Suite, it was a lot of very nice java applets, designed to do 80% of what a full office app would do, however it got shelved eventually (after I put a fair amount of effort into groking the API) I think because 80% was not enough, Java was too slow at the time and the customers just weren't there for it.
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0060 012331/002-9510878-3940014?v=glance
http://www.readingmatters.co.uk/books/mrs-frisby-n imh.htm
it is the energy that you need to start and maintain a reaction. imagine if you will starting a barbie with a blowtorch, only this coal goes out the moment you take away the blowtorch. we can see that it burns, and one day we might be able to sustain a reaction but at the moment we spend more on gas for the blowtorch than we get from the charcoal.
Important note: Nuclear Fusion is not for cooking sausages with.
as run on the AS/400 or iSeries as it is now known. Odd really as there is a PPC of sorts under the hood of an iSeries.
get the book
which will be cross platform but initially there will be some plugin components that only run on windows.
The R6 interface is better than R5, which as you correctly state sucked less than 4.6. The current release is 6.5 which sucks even less than that. Bitching about an old version of software X when a new version exists which sucks less is a bit pointless IMHO.
Alan.
IBM did a lot of the development for Eclipse, most of the underpinnings of Websphere studio are Eclipse. IBM then "donated" the code, by founding the Eclipse organisation and releasing the code under the Common Public License (IBM's Free license). Eclipse will be the basis of the new Rich client which is a part of the IBM Workplace strategy. Future versions of Notes may well be more like Eclipse and future rich clients built on Eclipse may have more features from Notes in them. FYI the code name for the Eclipse rich client is Moscow.
coz I am a developer. Who cares if developers love Linux? answer - the developers.
please read my post.
Notes is fun to program, you can very quickly and easily built a fully functional application that works both in the notes client and web browsers.
working in multiple timezones is a PITA. Lots of applications assume one timezone, Notes has a native datatype for datetimes which is the best I have come across. Timezones can be confusing, but that just reflects real life.