Palm separated into hardware and software divisions in 2002 and split in 2003. Last year it seemed like Palm (the hardware company) was trying to buy back PalmSource (the software company), but they were beaten to it. The split happened originally because it seemed like it would most benefit the software side as the Palm OS could be licensed to multiple hardware vendors. Now Palm is the only major company using the Palm OS and the platform is hurting. The next Palm OS is supposed to be built on top of Linux but from the recent news it seems that the project has not yet gotten off the ground. There was a lot of comparison between this strategy and Apple's original strategy to transition to OS X. The main difference between Palm and Apple here is that Apple controlled both the hardware and software and was able to effectively control the entire platform while right now the hardware and software of the Palm platform is fragmented. I think everyone is realizing that the split was a terrible idea and that complete integration would have been ideal.
From Wikipedia:
In January 2002, Palm, Inc. set up a wholely owned subsidiary to develop and license Palm OS, which was named PalmSource in February. In October 2003, PalmSource was spun off from Palm as an independent company, and Palm renamed itself palmOne. palmOne and PalmSource set up a holding company that owned the Palm trademark.
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In May 2005, palmOne purchased PalmSource's share of the Palm trademark and two months later renamed itself Palm, Inc. As part of the agreement, palmOne granted PalmSource certain rights to Palm trademarks to PalmSource and licensees for a four-year transition period. Later that year, ACCESS, which specializes in mobile and embedded web browser technologies, including NetFront, acquired PalmSource for US$324 million. In October 2006, PalmSource announced that it would rename itself to ACCESS, to match its parent company's name.
The day that Apple released iTunes 4 back in April 2003 I of course set it up there were already several dozen Mac users sharing music. This was the same month that a sophomore on my campus was sued by the RIAA for $97.8 billion. So I immediately set up my own shared music library, calling it ***FUCK RIAA*** (with the asterisks so it would be at the top) and shared only free music.
Pismo (G3 Firewire) - built like TANKS. TANKS I SAY. Slap a Lombard power brick on them to replace the POS yo-yo (I went through four yoyos in four years) and you're ready for the bomb to drop- the brick is the only part I've ever needed to replace.
Lombard power bricks were recalled because there was a fire risk. Stick with the yoyo or buy a third party adapter.
I've had very good luck with my Pismo, with some exceptions. I had a strange logic board problem in April 2001 that caused the weirdest problems and was difficult for Apple to diagnose (minimizing any window in OS X would crash all apps, playing any mp3 in OS 9 would crash the player app) and they kept sending back my PowerBook still broken, with the hard drive downgraded to OS 9.0 (current at the time was 10.0 and 9.1). Both my DVD drive and battery died just over the 1 year mark, out of warrantee, but I was able to scrounge up replacements from a dead Lombard where I worked. Other than that the machine has been a trooper. I used it for over three years as my primary machine at school and then as a secondary "loft" computer for another year. It is currently running as my home server.
Isn't the southern hemisphere better suited for a large telescope? It's my understanding that the southern face of the earth looks more towards the center of the galaxy and the sky is much clearer down there, which means a better look at the sky. If I'm not mistaken, most of the largest telescopes today are in the southern hemisphere.
AirTrain JFK runs for 6 miles above the Van Wyck Expressway. It connects JFK Airport to Jamaica train station in Queens, connecting the airport to the subway and Long Island Rail Road. I always thought it was amusing that they were building this thing back in 2000 or so. It felt like Disney World with this monorail overhead. I didn't appreciate the traffic that the construction caused on the Van Wyck, one of the most congested highways in the city. I believe the original plan was to create a hybrid train vehicle that could run on both the LIRR rails and the monorail track but that never happened. Therefore it still requires a transfer to get to Manhattan. I haven't actually rode this AirTrain, but I have been on the one at Newark.
Inquisitor puts Google Suggest into the search field in the Safari toolbar. You can also map different key commands (such as control-enter) to different search sites. I often will use Google Suggest's autocomplete to help me type something but search for the term in wikipedia.
Right now this software is free but this same author used a bait-and-switch model with his RSS reader software, NewsFire. NewsFire was free until version 1.0, which became nagware, after myself and many others got hooked on the software. I am not averse to paying for shareware but I feel like the expectations of the software should be properly set up front. I thought more highly of the software because it was free, which lowers the standard by which I would evaluate such software. Regardless, I still like NewsFire and have paid for my copy. This author has also been accused of selling GPL'd code as part of his Acquisition gnutella software. This guy makes some good stuff but I question his morals.
I had the nVIR A virus on my LC II running System 7.0 in 1993. I got it from a floppy disk with a game on it given to me by a relative. It would screw up the System so that you couldn't launch any apps but it wouldn't harm your data. If you read the above info you'll see that most of these viruses are benign.
The upgrade to MacOS 8 broke most of these threats. Even the 1995 autostart worm if I remember correctly. Considering that The OS X classic environment requires Mac OS 9.1 there is no chance that any of these threats can infect a computer running Mac OS X.
Kernighan was my professor at Princeton and my advisor for my senior independent work here. I interviewed him for an anthropology paper in 2002 and he made it very clear that he did not create Unix and wasn't very involved in the creation process. The same goes for the C language, which is often attributed to him as well.
What Brian Kernighan DID do is write the book on Unix and C, literally. He co-wrote both books. (The Unix book is in Wayne's World 2.) He is also responsible for awk (a favorite tool of mine) and AMPL. He told me back then that he would go down to Bell on Fridays so he wasn't completely removed from the process.
A couple years ago when I was a senior I was at a recruiting event in the CS department and a couple guys from Bell Labs were there. They seemed really depressed about the state of everything, complaining about how the company no longer maintains the think tank for the purpose of increasing knowledge and all of their efforts were being focused towards creating phone switches. Needless to say that didn't peak the interest of any of the students in the room.
I believe that the U-Store owns their building and the land but I am not sure,
The University does not have the ability to dictate what the store sells as it is independent in that sense. This has been going on for years.
It is the IT department's fault for not publicizing its software sales but the IT department is a service organization and is not out to make a profit, so it isn't designed to market and sell. I believe this has improved since I've graduated.
The Princeton U-Store operates independently of the University. While they are certainly affiliated, the University cannot control them. There have been many disagreements between the U-Store and the University in recent years.
For example, the U-Store sells computers and software, but the University's IT department works closely with computer vendors to offer customized machines for Princeton students, yet the U-Store refuses to stop selling machines in competition.
The U-Store also sells Microsoft software at standard academic prices while the University sells software to students (out of an office, there is no storefront) at their cost, which is a significantly discounted price. The U-Store also sells XP Home which is not recommended by the IT department due to it's inability to join the campus domain which is required to print to campus printers.
So don't assume that just because it is affiliated that the University can stop this or had any say in the matter.
I am amused that XP still requires you to reboot in order to join an Active Directory domain. The NT domain system has been around for how many years now and you still need to restart just to join a domain?
I am more amused that Mac OS X can join an Active Directory domain without restarting. In fact, a Mac OS X client can join several Active Directory domains simultaneously (plus multiple other LDAP-based directories), without restarting, while Windows clients can still only be part of one directory system.
Why do you care that floppy disks cost so much? Why are you even using them? The floppy has been dead since 1998.
And there is a good reason that the floppy costs more than the CD-R. Take a floppy apart and look at all the different pieces involved. The CD-R is one piece of plastic. It is far cheaper to produce.
I was capped. You have to call them to remove the cap and they threaten you that if you do it three more times they will discontinue your service. I had read the OOL terms, as I always do, and I certainly was not abusing the service. I don't download illegal software. However I upload large files for work. That seems to have done me in. Pretty ridiculous. I can't wait to move to fios.
The MacOS has always been able to do this. OS X does one better than just mixing live audio through one audio input and actually allows you to direct the audio output of different applications to different devices. The OS supports this but there is very little GUI to control it. The application Detour will give you a more complete GUI for it.
My alma mater, Princeton University, was founded in 1746. We have been known as "the tigers" since before 1900, but the exact year that the mascot began is uncertain.
The Xserve is a fraction of the price. The clock speed of the G5 is considerably higher, so it should compensate at least partially for the differences between the POWER5 and the G5.
An Xserve seems like the most economical way to build the machine described, but don't buy all that RAM from Apple.
You can also get Xserves running linux from Terrasoft for the same price that Apple charges for Xserves running OS X.
Along the same lines, back in college this girl was telling me how she taught computer science concepts to little kids (I forgot what age).
She was the computer and her task was to make a peanut butter and jelly sandwich. She stood up in the front of the classroom and took instructions from the students. When they told her to "put the peanut butter on the bread" she picked up the jar of peanut butter and sat it on top of the loaf of bread. She also at one point dunked her hand into the jar of peanut butter I think.
This kind of activity seems best if you have an entire class of kids to watch you for a period of time, but if this is a fair then it might not work.
The New York Metro Transit Authority is so screwed up. Such a bloated fat government-subsidized monopoly such as them, which is constantly raising fares and cutting back service because they are hemorrhaging cash, would be wise to roll out services like this. I would pay good money for WiFi on my daily commute on the Long Island Rail Road.
I have long thought of starting a committee or PAC to try and make this happen. I would create a web site like LIRRWiFi.org and get people involved by posting flyers on trains and in Penn Station. Too bad I'm about to take a new job where I won't be commuting by train every day. Can't really do WiFi while driving...
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Palm separated into hardware and software divisions in 2002 and split in 2003. Last year it seemed like Palm (the hardware company) was trying to buy back PalmSource (the software company), but they were beaten to it. The split happened originally because it seemed like it would most benefit the software side as the Palm OS could be licensed to multiple hardware vendors. Now Palm is the only major company using the Palm OS and the platform is hurting. The next Palm OS is supposed to be built on top of Linux but from the recent news it seems that the project has not yet gotten off the ground. There was a lot of comparison between this strategy and Apple's original strategy to transition to OS X. The main difference between Palm and Apple here is that Apple controlled both the hardware and software and was able to effectively control the entire platform while right now the hardware and software of the Palm platform is fragmented. I think everyone is realizing that the split was a terrible idea and that complete integration would have been ideal.
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From Wikipedia:
In January 2002, Palm, Inc. set up a wholely owned subsidiary to develop and license Palm OS, which was named PalmSource in February. In October 2003, PalmSource was spun off from Palm as an independent company, and Palm renamed itself palmOne. palmOne and PalmSource set up a holding company that owned the Palm trademark.
In May 2005, palmOne purchased PalmSource's share of the Palm trademark and two months later renamed itself Palm, Inc. As part of the agreement, palmOne granted PalmSource certain rights to Palm trademarks to PalmSource and licensees for a four-year transition period. Later that year, ACCESS, which specializes in mobile and embedded web browser technologies, including NetFront, acquired PalmSource for US$324 million. In October 2006, PalmSource announced that it would rename itself to ACCESS, to match its parent company's name.
The day that Apple released iTunes 4 back in April 2003 I of course set it up there were already several dozen Mac users sharing music. This was the same month that a sophomore on my campus was sued by the RIAA for $97.8 billion. So I immediately set up my own shared music library, calling it ***FUCK RIAA*** (with the asterisks so it would be at the top) and shared only free music.
People don't like itunes because it's essentially a gateway to the itunes store.
You can turn off the music store in iTunes very easily. Preferences: Parental: Disable Music Store.
The feature has been there since the addition of the music store in 2003.
Pismo (G3 Firewire) - built like TANKS. TANKS I SAY. Slap a Lombard power brick on them to replace the POS yo-yo (I went through four yoyos in four years) and you're ready for the bomb to drop- the brick is the only part I've ever needed to replace.
Lombard power bricks were recalled because there was a fire risk. Stick with the yoyo or buy a third party adapter.
I've had very good luck with my Pismo, with some exceptions. I had a strange logic board problem in April 2001 that caused the weirdest problems and was difficult for Apple to diagnose (minimizing any window in OS X would crash all apps, playing any mp3 in OS 9 would crash the player app) and they kept sending back my PowerBook still broken, with the hard drive downgraded to OS 9.0 (current at the time was 10.0 and 9.1). Both my DVD drive and battery died just over the 1 year mark, out of warrantee, but I was able to scrounge up replacements from a dead Lombard where I worked. Other than that the machine has been a trooper. I used it for over three years as my primary machine at school and then as a secondary "loft" computer for another year. It is currently running as my home server.
The sun sets around 3 PM in New York this time of year.
Isn't the southern hemisphere better suited for a large telescope? It's my understanding that the southern face of the earth looks more towards the center of the galaxy and the sky is much clearer down there, which means a better look at the sky. If I'm not mistaken, most of the largest telescopes today are in the southern hemisphere.
Yes, it expired. Won't launch unless you set your clock back.
AirTrain JFK runs for 6 miles above the Van Wyck Expressway. It connects JFK Airport to Jamaica train station in Queens, connecting the airport to the subway and Long Island Rail Road. I always thought it was amusing that they were building this thing back in 2000 or so. It felt like Disney World with this monorail overhead. I didn't appreciate the traffic that the construction caused on the Van Wyck, one of the most congested highways in the city. I believe the original plan was to create a hybrid train vehicle that could run on both the LIRR rails and the monorail track but that never happened. Therefore it still requires a transfer to get to Manhattan. I haven't actually rode this AirTrain, but I have been on the one at Newark.
http://www.inquisitorx.com/
Inquisitor puts Google Suggest into the search field in the Safari toolbar. You can also map different key commands (such as control-enter) to different search sites. I often will use Google Suggest's autocomplete to help me type something but search for the term in wikipedia.
Right now this software is free but this same author used a bait-and-switch model with his RSS reader software, NewsFire. NewsFire was free until version 1.0, which became nagware, after myself and many others got hooked on the software. I am not averse to paying for shareware but I feel like the expectations of the software should be properly set up front. I thought more highly of the software because it was free, which lowers the standard by which I would evaluate such software. Regardless, I still like NewsFire and have paid for my copy. This author has also been accused of selling GPL'd code as part of his Acquisition gnutella software. This guy makes some good stuff but I question his morals.
You can still download those viruses here:t ml
- faq/
http://www.hackcanada.com/whacked/filelists/aol.h
Read more about them here:
http://www.faqs.org/faqs/computer-virus/macintosh
http://www.nd.edu/~madmacs/virus.html
I had the nVIR A virus on my LC II running System 7.0 in 1993. I got it from a floppy disk with a game on it given to me by a relative. It would screw up the System so that you couldn't launch any apps but it wouldn't harm your data. If you read the above info you'll see that most of these viruses are benign.
The upgrade to MacOS 8 broke most of these threats. Even the 1995 autostart worm if I remember correctly. Considering that The OS X classic environment requires Mac OS 9.1 there is no chance that any of these threats can infect a computer running Mac OS X.
The subject of this thread is not correct for the Slashdot audience. A more appropriate subject would be "Linux cures diabetes."
Kernighan was my professor at Princeton and my advisor for my senior independent work here. I interviewed him for an anthropology paper in 2002 and he made it very clear that he did not create Unix and wasn't very involved in the creation process. The same goes for the C language, which is often attributed to him as well.
What Brian Kernighan DID do is write the book on Unix and C, literally. He co-wrote both books. (The Unix book is in Wayne's World 2.) He is also responsible for awk (a favorite tool of mine) and AMPL. He told me back then that he would go down to Bell on Fridays so he wasn't completely removed from the process.
A couple years ago when I was a senior I was at a recruiting event in the CS department and a couple guys from Bell Labs were there. They seemed really depressed about the state of everything, complaining about how the company no longer maintains the think tank for the purpose of increasing knowledge and all of their efforts were being focused towards creating phone switches. Needless to say that didn't peak the interest of any of the students in the room.
I believe that the U-Store owns their building and the land but I am not sure, The University does not have the ability to dictate what the store sells as it is independent in that sense. This has been going on for years. It is the IT department's fault for not publicizing its software sales but the IT department is a service organization and is not out to make a profit, so it isn't designed to market and sell. I believe this has improved since I've graduated.
The Princeton U-Store operates independently of the University. While they are certainly affiliated, the University cannot control them. There have been many disagreements between the U-Store and the University in recent years.
For example, the U-Store sells computers and software, but the University's IT department works closely with computer vendors to offer customized machines for Princeton students, yet the U-Store refuses to stop selling machines in competition.
The U-Store also sells Microsoft software at standard academic prices while the University sells software to students (out of an office, there is no storefront) at their cost, which is a significantly discounted price. The U-Store also sells XP Home which is not recommended by the IT department due to it's inability to join the campus domain which is required to print to campus printers.
So don't assume that just because it is affiliated that the University can stop this or had any say in the matter.
QuickTime Pro 7 now includes the ability to record video from a DV source with one click. Very simple and in my experience works well.
I am amused that XP still requires you to reboot in order to join an Active Directory domain. The NT domain system has been around for how many years now and you still need to restart just to join a domain? I am more amused that Mac OS X can join an Active Directory domain without restarting. In fact, a Mac OS X client can join several Active Directory domains simultaneously (plus multiple other LDAP-based directories), without restarting, while Windows clients can still only be part of one directory system.
Why do you care that floppy disks cost so much? Why are you even using them? The floppy has been dead since 1998. And there is a good reason that the floppy costs more than the CD-R. Take a floppy apart and look at all the different pieces involved. The CD-R is one piece of plastic. It is far cheaper to produce.
I was capped. You have to call them to remove the cap and they threaten you that if you do it three more times they will discontinue your service. I had read the OOL terms, as I always do, and I certainly was not abusing the service. I don't download illegal software. However I upload large files for work. That seems to have done me in. Pretty ridiculous. I can't wait to move to fios.
I wrote about this last month upon the release of DMB's new album, Stand Up.
You can read all about it here
The MacOS has always been able to do this. OS X does one better than just mixing live audio through one audio input and actually allows you to direct the audio output of different applications to different devices. The OS supports this but there is very little GUI to control it. The application Detour will give you a more complete GUI for it.
My alma mater, Princeton University, was founded in 1746. We have been known as "the tigers" since before 1900, but the exact year that the mascot began is uncertain.
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http://www.princeton.edu/~paw/archive_old/PAW98-9
The Xserve is a fraction of the price. The clock speed of the G5 is considerably higher, so it should compensate at least partially for the differences between the POWER5 and the G5.
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An Xserve seems like the most economical way to build the machine described, but don't buy all that RAM from Apple.
You can also get Xserves running linux from Terrasoft for the same price that Apple charges for Xserves running OS X.
http://www.terrasoftsolutions.com/products/appl
Along the same lines, back in college this girl was telling me how she taught computer science concepts to little kids (I forgot what age). She was the computer and her task was to make a peanut butter and jelly sandwich. She stood up in the front of the classroom and took instructions from the students. When they told her to "put the peanut butter on the bread" she picked up the jar of peanut butter and sat it on top of the loaf of bread. She also at one point dunked her hand into the jar of peanut butter I think. This kind of activity seems best if you have an entire class of kids to watch you for a period of time, but if this is a fair then it might not work.
About a year ago Dr. Ernest Prabhakar, the Product Manager for UNIX and Open Source at Apple, gave a speech at Penn on this very topic.
He described Apple's model and the benefits from combining open source and proprietary systems to add value. I thought it was very interesting
The New York Metro Transit Authority is so screwed up. Such a bloated fat government-subsidized monopoly such as them, which is constantly raising fares and cutting back service because they are hemorrhaging cash, would be wise to roll out services like this. I would pay good money for WiFi on my daily commute on the Long Island Rail Road.
I have long thought of starting a committee or PAC to try and make this happen. I would create a web site like LIRRWiFi.org and get people involved by posting flyers on trains and in Penn Station. Too bad I'm about to take a new job where I won't be commuting by train every day. Can't really do WiFi while driving...