WiFi support for OpenMoko is in the works. Current Neo1973 GTA01 does not include a wireless LAN chip, but the upcoming Neo1973 GTA02 is going to have one: Atheros AR6K 802.11 b/g.
http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/WiFi_support_in_OpenMoko
if you want a Linux based, good looking, feature full and open phone then have a look at Open Moko it is probably going to be capable of multitouch (the touchscreen hardware can do it but the software does not take advantage yet) it will come without a contract so I will be getting an O2 sim only contract when they come out next month. OpenMoko in October, OLPC in November, wow, I am going to be skint by Christmas.
lkml has always had robust arguments bounced about. This is not new, but new people are reading it all the time and sometimes it hits the mainstream.
TFA is mainly not about lkml flamewars, but about a review by Walt Mossberg which might be important to a certain readership in the USA. He isn't very important to readers in the rest of the world. I read the review. It was fairly balanced, he found good points and areas for improvement. The fact that he reviewed it at all is more significant than any findings or conclusions he made.
I am amazed at the number of meta-articles about this one review that I have seen. Journalists - do your own flipping review. Don't write articles reflecting on someone else's reflections.
Notes 8 is a major architectural change for the Notes client, it is now presented through an Eclipse framework where it can live alongside other applications in the same Eclipse instance. The Notes 8 client has a bunch of "productivity editors" wordprocessor, presentation tool, spreadsheet, and these live in the same Eclipse instance as the regular Notes client bit. Symphony is the exact same code without the Notes client part. At the moment it is based on a fork of OpenOffice.org 1.x from before the SISL license change, however in the next release (or thereabouts) it will be based on a new LGPL cut of OpenOffice.org.
This is really cool, it isn't quite competing with OpenOffice.org, improvements and contributions will flow in both directions. It is competing with Microsoft Office and the branding, packaging, support etc from IBM might go down quite well in some companies.
I am not quite sure what the business model is for IBM, I guess they will do OK on the support and consultancy and it is a bit of a loss leader for the Notes client. Plus there is the bonus of screwing over Microsoft which has got to be worth a lot.
I went to PC World Farnborough last week to get a new webcam. I was comparing a few and a helpful looking chap came up and asked if i wanted any help. I said I was just looking for a good webcam to run with Ubuntu Linux. He said he didn't know anything about Linux, asked me to spell Ubuntu, then went and had a chat with "The Tech Guys" (like Geek Squad in america) four of them went into a huddle, then came back to me. "None of our products work with Linux" was the verdict. I laughed and said that was ridiculous, most of them work with Linux just fine. He stuck to his guns and insisted that if it didn't say Linux on the box (and he was certain that nothing in the store did) then it wouldn't work with Linux. "We only have products for mainstream computers, you will have to go somewhere else." So I did. I did point out that Dell were pre-installing Linux and it really is a mainstream operating system now. I said that they would do well to figure out what does actually work and put stickers on the products worth buying.
I am thinking of going to a different PC world every week and picking up a random product and asking "does it work with Linux?" If everyone did that they might get the message. Too many geeks research first and just buy what they know works. This doesn't help stores respond to our needs.
Blair/Brown might be to the right of me and you, but our Conservatives are way to the left of the US Democrats. Heck even the BNP is to the left of all the US parties.
to give you an example of something built in Erlang take a look at http://www.couchdb.com/
CouchDB is an Open Source (GPL) database back end. It is in some ways inspired by the database architecture of Lotus Notes, it is a non-relational document based store with strong replication ability.
Don't bother bitching about Notes, the new UI is quite different to the old look (personally I liked the old style) but CouchDB doesn't have a UI, it has similarities at the architecture level which is where Notes is very very good indeed, and CouchDB is better.
did you see Microsoft win that vote yesterday?
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or such is the Myth they are trying to manipulate.
http://www.couchdb.com/ is a distributed replicable non-relational database written in Erlang. It is a very clever system and I was impressed with the language choice of the developer.
start by being clear about what you want to achieve. If it is HA then you want to look at clustering, failover, network topology, DR plans etc. If it is HP then look for the bottlenecks in the process, don't waste time shaving nanoseconds off something that wasn't bothering anyone. At infrastructure level you might think about cacheing some stuff, or putting a reverse proxy in front of a cluster of responding servers. In general disk reads are expensive but easily cached, disk writes are very expensive and normally you don't want to cache them, at least not for very long. Network bandwidth may be fast or slow, latency might be an issue if you have a chatty application.
FON sell cheap routers called La Fonera with dual SSID. One is secure and for your own use, one is open and for the benefit of other people who share their bandwidth with a Fonera router. Guests who don't share their bandwidth can also connect for $3 per day. There are a few other permutations including a revenue sharing model, go read about it.
Most ISPs in the UK don't let you share your bandwidth, however Fondoo.net do.
but the car manufacturers are not so keen because it requires some very scary pressures. They tend not to like customers to blow up when they crash (because then the customers can't come back and buy another car)
which is available from http://www.fon.com/ and is basically a little WiFi router which provides two SSIDs one is for your private use and is encrypted, one is for sharing and is not encrypted but you do have to authenticate with your FON ID to use it. If you have a FON hotspot which you share for free you can use anyone elses FON hotspot for free, or if you want to charge people who don't do the same you can collect a portion of the revenue they pay to FON (they pay 3 euros or dollars and you get about 1 euro or dollar per day after tax) If you are in the UK and think that sharing your bandwidth is in breach of your ISP terms and conditions then you should check out http://www.fondoo.net/ which explicitly permits FON hotspots in the T&Cs.
for a Japanese company obviously. The thing you need to know is that the law itself is impenetrable in the US and Japan. Don't worry about it. Look for the document from COSO on internal controls (nasty - send this to the accounts department) and the COBIT framework (nice - keep this one in IT) COBIT is really really friendly and structured (34 chapters with loads of specific guidance on each), if you have been working with ISO 9000 and related things then you are going to like COBIT. COSO is woolly and unstructured, it sort of breaks down into 4 elements and J-SOX adds an extra one for IT controls, which as I understand it, probably just means that to do COSO you need to do COBIT. Just remember when they are handing out the responsibilities: COBIT = nice COSO = nasty
actually a £2000 laptop, but that doesn't sound as much. It is a Novatec Blazer. It has a 1920x1200 screen, 2 gig ram, core 2 duo and 160gig sata hdd. There are not many laptops that meet this spec. It came down to a Dell XPS or the Novatec (actually a rebadged Clevo). The deciding factor was that the Novatec came without an operating system so I could run Ubuntu on it without paying Microsoft for not using their operating system. Dell just lost a sale because they didn't have a Linux option.
mail file size used to be limited to 64GB on Domino, the limit has since been lifted. I haven't seen a monster like that in the wild, however 2GB is nothing special. Exchange sites often have restrictive quotas, Domino does have quotas available as a feature, but not so many people use them. Disk space is about the cheapest commodity a company can purchase (ok, so backup time and tape may be more of an issue) so why should companies get their employees to spend their expensive time trying to save a few gig of disk space? I think the architectural problems of Exchange mean that it does not really scale. As I understand it all the mail is in one big shared file rather than independent per user files which can be backed up/restored/compacted/fixed as individuals without screwing up other people's mail.
a small bit of junk will go straight through the wall, this creates a hole, and a presure imbalance. The next layer in will be rapidly sucked towards the hole, but because the imact is unlikely to be exactly normal (90 degrees) to the surface the hole made in the inner layer won't line up with the hole in the outer layer, so it will make a seal. You could probably use the pressure imbalance to hold them together or have some magic glue on the inner walls. They can have lots of layers too. I imagine the walls could be a cellular foam like structure, maybe 10cm thick. Inflating the walls is also done by exploiting the pressure imbalance, each cell basically acting as a valve. The walls don't have to be inflated to a higher pressure than the internal pressure, from the inside they would feel spongy and soft, they would kind of self inflate like those camping mattresses.
but if it is "web services" you want which is the XML passing thing with WSDL and so on then Notes does support that natively, you can add web services design elements to applications for consumers to consume. If you want to know more about NRPC which is the native Notes protocol over port 1352 then that is pretty well documented already. It is a decent enough protocol, but perhaps a bit dated now. The fashion these days is for bloated XML based protocols which then get compressed for transit rather than tight efficient binary protocols which can also get compressed and encrypted. GPL Notes client really isn't going to happen from IBM, however check out CouchDB which is being developed by Damien Katz, a former IBM developer who wrote the new formula language engine.http://damienkatz.net/
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WiFi support for OpenMoko is in the works. Current Neo1973 GTA01 does not include a wireless LAN chip, but the upcoming Neo1973 GTA02 is going to have one: Atheros AR6K 802.11 b/g. http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/WiFi_support_in_OpenMoko
if you want a Linux based, good looking, feature full and open phone then have a look at Open Moko it is probably going to be capable of multitouch (the touchscreen hardware can do it but the software does not take advantage yet) it will come without a contract so I will be getting an O2 sim only contract when they come out next month. OpenMoko in October, OLPC in November, wow, I am going to be skint by Christmas.
lkml has always had robust arguments bounced about. This is not new, but new people are reading it all the time and sometimes it hits the mainstream. TFA is mainly not about lkml flamewars, but about a review by Walt Mossberg which might be important to a certain readership in the USA. He isn't very important to readers in the rest of the world. I read the review. It was fairly balanced, he found good points and areas for improvement. The fact that he reviewed it at all is more significant than any findings or conclusions he made. I am amazed at the number of meta-articles about this one review that I have seen. Journalists - do your own flipping review. Don't write articles reflecting on someone else's reflections.
Notes 8 is a major architectural change for the Notes client, it is now presented through an Eclipse framework where it can live alongside other applications in the same Eclipse instance. The Notes 8 client has a bunch of "productivity editors" wordprocessor, presentation tool, spreadsheet, and these live in the same Eclipse instance as the regular Notes client bit. Symphony is the exact same code without the Notes client part. At the moment it is based on a fork of OpenOffice.org 1.x from before the SISL license change, however in the next release (or thereabouts) it will be based on a new LGPL cut of OpenOffice.org. This is really cool, it isn't quite competing with OpenOffice.org, improvements and contributions will flow in both directions. It is competing with Microsoft Office and the branding, packaging, support etc from IBM might go down quite well in some companies. I am not quite sure what the business model is for IBM, I guess they will do OK on the support and consultancy and it is a bit of a loss leader for the Notes client. Plus there is the bonus of screwing over Microsoft which has got to be worth a lot.
I went to PC World Farnborough last week to get a new webcam. I was comparing a few and a helpful looking chap came up and asked if i wanted any help. I said I was just looking for a good webcam to run with Ubuntu Linux. He said he didn't know anything about Linux, asked me to spell Ubuntu, then went and had a chat with "The Tech Guys" (like Geek Squad in america) four of them went into a huddle, then came back to me. "None of our products work with Linux" was the verdict. I laughed and said that was ridiculous, most of them work with Linux just fine. He stuck to his guns and insisted that if it didn't say Linux on the box (and he was certain that nothing in the store did) then it wouldn't work with Linux. "We only have products for mainstream computers, you will have to go somewhere else." So I did. I did point out that Dell were pre-installing Linux and it really is a mainstream operating system now. I said that they would do well to figure out what does actually work and put stickers on the products worth buying. I am thinking of going to a different PC world every week and picking up a random product and asking "does it work with Linux?" If everyone did that they might get the message. Too many geeks research first and just buy what they know works. This doesn't help stores respond to our needs.
Blair/Brown might be to the right of me and you, but our Conservatives are way to the left of the US Democrats. Heck even the BNP is to the left of all the US parties.
to give you an example of something built in Erlang take a look at http://www.couchdb.com/ CouchDB is an Open Source (GPL) database back end. It is in some ways inspired by the database architecture of Lotus Notes, it is a non-relational document based store with strong replication ability. Don't bother bitching about Notes, the new UI is quite different to the old look (personally I liked the old style) but CouchDB doesn't have a UI, it has similarities at the architecture level which is where Notes is very very good indeed, and CouchDB is better.
or such is the Myth they are trying to manipulate.
my guess is that they were suckered in to upgrading, then actually read some of the spec and commentary.
http://www.couchdb.com/ is a distributed replicable non-relational database written in Erlang. It is a very clever system and I was impressed with the language choice of the developer.
start by being clear about what you want to achieve. If it is HA then you want to look at clustering, failover, network topology, DR plans etc. If it is HP then look for the bottlenecks in the process, don't waste time shaving nanoseconds off something that wasn't bothering anyone. At infrastructure level you might think about cacheing some stuff, or putting a reverse proxy in front of a cluster of responding servers. In general disk reads are expensive but easily cached, disk writes are very expensive and normally you don't want to cache them, at least not for very long. Network bandwidth may be fast or slow, latency might be an issue if you have a chatty application.
FON sell cheap routers called La Fonera with dual SSID. One is secure and for your own use, one is open and for the benefit of other people who share their bandwidth with a Fonera router. Guests who don't share their bandwidth can also connect for $3 per day. There are a few other permutations including a revenue sharing model, go read about it. Most ISPs in the UK don't let you share your bandwidth, however Fondoo.net do.
but the car manufacturers are not so keen because it requires some very scary pressures. They tend not to like customers to blow up when they crash (because then the customers can't come back and buy another car)
which my kids use. Squeak is based on smalltalk and is a gentle introduction to object oriented programming concepts
which is available from http://www.fon.com/ and is basically a little WiFi router which provides two SSIDs one is for your private use and is encrypted, one is for sharing and is not encrypted but you do have to authenticate with your FON ID to use it. If you have a FON hotspot which you share for free you can use anyone elses FON hotspot for free, or if you want to charge people who don't do the same you can collect a portion of the revenue they pay to FON (they pay 3 euros or dollars and you get about 1 euro or dollar per day after tax) If you are in the UK and think that sharing your bandwidth is in breach of your ISP terms and conditions then you should check out http://www.fondoo.net/ which explicitly permits FON hotspots in the T&Cs.
for a Japanese company obviously. The thing you need to know is that the law itself is impenetrable in the US and Japan. Don't worry about it. Look for the document from COSO on internal controls (nasty - send this to the accounts department) and the COBIT framework (nice - keep this one in IT) COBIT is really really friendly and structured (34 chapters with loads of specific guidance on each), if you have been working with ISO 9000 and related things then you are going to like COBIT. COSO is woolly and unstructured, it sort of breaks down into 4 elements and J-SOX adds an extra one for IT controls, which as I understand it, probably just means that to do COSO you need to do COBIT.
Just remember when they are handing out the responsibilities:
COBIT = nice
COSO = nasty
actually a £2000 laptop, but that doesn't sound as much. It is a Novatec Blazer. It has a 1920x1200 screen, 2 gig ram, core 2 duo and 160gig sata hdd. There are not many laptops that meet this spec. It came down to a Dell XPS or the Novatec (actually a rebadged Clevo). The deciding factor was that the Novatec came without an operating system so I could run Ubuntu on it without paying Microsoft for not using their operating system. Dell just lost a sale because they didn't have a Linux option.
http://advance.quote.nomura.co.jp/meigara/nomura2/ quote.cgi?F=english/edchart&QCODE=4568&MKTN=T
it would appear that they have the patent on PPAR-gamma modulator
http://www.freepatentsonline.com/20030134859.html
thats pretty much spot on. The only thing I can add is a link to the IETF draft spec for the VP protocol http://meanwhile.sourceforge.net/docs/draft-houri- sametime-community-client-00.txt
just need to snap it again with the reference object in it. http://btc.montana.edu/ceres/html/Universe/images/ cobe.gif
mail file size used to be limited to 64GB on Domino, the limit has since been lifted. I haven't seen a monster like that in the wild, however 2GB is nothing special. Exchange sites often have restrictive quotas, Domino does have quotas available as a feature, but not so many people use them. Disk space is about the cheapest commodity a company can purchase (ok, so backup time and tape may be more of an issue) so why should companies get their employees to spend their expensive time trying to save a few gig of disk space? I think the architectural problems of Exchange mean that it does not really scale. As I understand it all the mail is in one big shared file rather than independent per user files which can be backed up/restored/compacted/fixed as individuals without screwing up other people's mail.
a small bit of junk will go straight through the wall, this creates a hole, and a presure imbalance. The next layer in will be rapidly sucked towards the hole, but because the imact is unlikely to be exactly normal (90 degrees) to the surface the hole made in the inner layer won't line up with the hole in the outer layer, so it will make a seal. You could probably use the pressure imbalance to hold them together or have some magic glue on the inner walls. They can have lots of layers too. I imagine the walls could be a cellular foam like structure, maybe 10cm thick. Inflating the walls is also done by exploiting the pressure imbalance, each cell basically acting as a valve. The walls don't have to be inflated to a higher pressure than the internal pressure, from the inside they would feel spongy and soft, they would kind of self inflate like those camping mattresses.
but if it is "web services" you want which is the XML passing thing with WSDL and so on then Notes does support that natively, you can add web services design elements to applications for consumers to consume. If you want to know more about NRPC which is the native Notes protocol over port 1352 then that is pretty well documented already. It is a decent enough protocol, but perhaps a bit dated now. The fashion these days is for bloated XML based protocols which then get compressed for transit rather than tight efficient binary protocols which can also get compressed and encrypted. GPL Notes client really isn't going to happen from IBM, however check out CouchDB which is being developed by Damien Katz, a former IBM developer who wrote the new formula language engine.http://damienkatz.net/
developers will be temporarily left in the cold again. That said, a prototype of designer in Eclipse has been done, and in principal that is a major step towards it working in Linux http://mvgirl.blogspot.com/2006/05/my-working-hear ts-desire.html