Like cattle. Then you could really be accounted for. No problemo.
It's the old issue of "polling" vs automatic "interrupts". In this case, the polling solution would appear to have less impact on personal privacy. Anything that could generate an "interrupt" when you moved away from your computer could just as well track you as you moved eleswhere. As I said, cattle tags.
I think I'd rather put up with the minor annoyance of having my systems periodically time out on me.
I love to jump in two days late... Anyway, who says REGULAR email is confidential? To quote Wikipedia: "e-mail messages have to go through intermediate computers before reaching their destination, meaning it is relatively easy for others to intercept and read messages". People stopped fretting about that years ago and basically accept the risk of interception of email en route. Risks of trusting Google are probably LESS than those resulting from routine use of unencrypted email, which is basically universal today in business and the professions. The vail of confidentiality is already fairly thin and I don't think using gmail or Google Docs makes it qualitatively any worse. If you have anything TRULY confidential you'd be nuts to put it in an email or for that matter any other electronic document, for a variety of reasons.
I had, IIRC, an Equity II. It had (again IIRC) an 8086 and a 20 meg drive and not quite the same OS as IBM. It was a great machine in its day, but it's not the model you have.
The Equity I, I believe had an 8088 and was closer to an original PC in architecture.
I would take the "B" 5 1/4 inch floppy drive and its cable temporarily out of the Epson and plug it into a modern machine (which I assume does not have a floppy of its own, but a header for it on the motherboard and a compatible free power connector). Boot up the modern machine with some 16-bit DOS variant. Insert a fresh floppy disk into the transplanted drive and FORMAT A:/S (which writes the two system files needed to boot) and then copy COMMAND.COM to the floppy. Then see if the Epson will boot off of this floppy from its A drive. If so, power down and return the B drive to the Epson, and from there you should be able to run DOS software that you find.
Yeah, I got a ticket because someone who was driving a car with my plate number went through a light and the plate was automatically photographed. Now I have an airtight defense! Whoopee!
Linux has great desktops - at least when you get away from the proprietary Xandros yuk garbage that some of these Netbooks came with. Windows users can feel comfortable with Gnome pretty fast. But he early netbooks used things like that Xandros setup, which was a real problem. Another problem is the perennial one of being not quite workalike and file-interchangeable with MS Office. You want to be able to edit a doc, xls or ppt file and know it will look the same to the person you email it to, and OpenOffice and the other alternatives just fall a little short on this. Also, if you're used to MS Office, OpenOffice seems quite alien at first. This picture may change if cloud-based office apps take hold. Good cloud apps could get around Microsoft's Office edifice dominating the desktop.
Here's a clue: "in a manner that is completely transparent" is NOT part of the claims. It is verbiage in the abstract and written description. Read the CLAIMS if you want a handle on what the patent actually covers.
Totally agree. My eeePC came with a PLUG UGLY Xandros (IIRC) distro, which I promptly replaced with eeeXubuntu. The fonts were a little teentsy on a 7 inch screen, which is probably why Asus felt they could not do something like that. However, with 10 inch screens at 1024x600 (and better to come) this is a different story. The newer machines can simply run plain Gnome Ubuntu. I confess I ditched the eee for a used IBM X40 (running, yes, yech, Windows XP), but would be willing to go back to a pure "netbook" with Linux now that those machines are getting more powerful. While Linux is viable, the average retail buyer still thinks Windows is the Name Brand and Linux some kind of generic schlock, and wants Word and Excel, not some OpenOffice weirdness. MS Office is really MS's sustaining crown jewel. When the FOSS world comes up with something that kicks MS Office's butt in every substantial way, THAT will be a major threat to MS. I actually prefer LaTex/gedit, which works swell on laughably wimpy hardware, and produces nicer documents with less work than MS Word - but since it is not WYSIWYG it will never make it with the Wal Mart or Best Buy crowds, and in addition, with Latex you tend to come up short when someone needs your.doc file to edit, rather than the output PDF. Perhaps a good "cloud" office suite (offering every conceivable format import and export) will really solve the problem - but even that will still will need a robust workalike offline solution in order to be viable, because you just can't be online with a laptop all the time, even with an aircard. Well, maybe if the magic tricks were done in the client-side Javascript (or other FOSS client-side modules), something like a cloud office solution with a good offline mode could really work. But is going to take something like that to displace Windows.
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Every time I looked at Drupal I found it too complex for whatever simple site I was setting up. I have used Joomla, which was easier to jump into, but simplistic and inflexible. Honestly, SharePoint 2007 is much easier to use and fairly powerful and flexible. If you don't want to set up and administer the swerver, you can buy hosting or even get it free (with limitations) from a number of providers.
First of all, posting a question like this on a public forum such as Slashdot isn't going to get you any answers you can have confidence in. In fact, the posting itself, though made on a "no name" basis, does provide a few clues, is traceable to whoever posted it initially, and could come back to haunt you, as evidence of your timing and intent, if nothing else. Are you sure no one could ever link this up to you? Are you sending emails like this to each other as well? Pretty dumb, if you are. Find a lawyer and get some competent (and confidential) advice before you make indelible records of your deliberations and footprints.
If you RTFA you will see some good free advice from the analysts - produce a truly modular OS and extensively use virtualization to support a range of OS functionality. Sounds like a pretty good idea, and I see no reason why it has to be Microsoft that picks up and runs with this.
The jobs they offer only require a small amount of training which doesn't require much intelligence or academic ability, and doesn't offer much other than tedium. . ..I'm in my final year of university now and at the beginning of the year I got a part-time (and damn well-paid, for a student at least) job as a PHP developer . . ..
Absolutely. Put a couple of 500G drives in an old Linux machine with LVM so they appear as a single 1TB volume (expandable at will just by adding more drives to the volume) and use BackupPC to back up every machine in your house, including Windows well as Linux machines. Very robust and foolproof. Been doing this for about a year and it has saved me from data loss a few times already.
OK, flame me and mod me -1, but if the Slashdot editors had good reason to believe this was actually confidential (and based on the translation of this article, this pretty plainly appears to be the case), and an unauthorized disclosure, why the editors here decide to carry the story? If someone submitted a story that said, "Here are documents I STOLE from Microsoft by breaking into the building" would Slashdot carry that? Where do you draw the line? Why does AMD's stuff have to be outed like this as a consequence of someone violating their confidence? Or maybe it's a deliberate leak (???)
Right, expires in 2008, and after the eBay case, it's tougher to get an injunction for this kind of infringement, even if all the other pieces of the suit were to fall into line.
Well, just referring to the first claim, I think you also have to account for the language at the end: "the display object means generating the first and second display objects so that the second display object is perceptible as the same tool as the first display object when the second workspace is presented after the first workspace."
In other words (quoting again, this time from the description): "A display system object can be linked to more than one workspace, to provide a respective tool in each of those workspaces. If the user provides signals causing a switch from one of those workspaces to another, the respective tools share features so that the user perceives them as the same tool, and the state of the display system object maintains continuity."
Simply speaking, it is illustrated (I think) by the multiple workspaces in Gnome, coupled with the ability to right click on a running window on the task panel and designate the window as "Always on Top". So, it appears to be (indeed, IS) the "same tool" as you switch from one workspace to the next.
Looks like this is not specific to Red Hat and Novell, although it might be an easy workaround to disable this feature if necessary.
Lucene is strictly an indexing engine. It wants to index text. It can index metadata as well as full text. Your surrounding application gets the files to index from wherever (local hard drive, database BLOBS, remote Windows shares or what have you). We don't care if the files are Word, PDF, Powerpoint, HTML, or whatever. A parser (many free ones available) extracts the text. We also don't care what web server you are using - using the index to identify and retrieve files is a totally separate process. Lucene indexes the text stream one-by-one and stores the results in a very efficiently organized index. It has been ported to a bunch of languages, including dotNET. I haven't tried it on terabytes of data but it rips through gigabytes very fast. Assuming all 8 terabytes don't change between runs the scale should be no problem.
If you needed to run, say 100 indexing engines in parallel and merge the indexes, you'd have to research that. Somebody's probably done it.
Especially components. Why write a parser, for example (say, an XML parser), or get a budget for licensing one, when you can grab a FOSS one under a permissive license and dynamically link it as a library (hopefully without compromising your company's proprietary product)? This type of thing is happening all over. Already. So is corporate participation in open source projects, purely out of a self-interested economic calculation.
The "defense" aspect just concerns procedural stuff - who has the burden of proof, etc. So what? It remains the case that free speech is very much your "right" and that copyright law does (and must) have an exception (called "fair use") to allow for the exercise of that right.
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Like cattle. Then you could really be accounted for. No problemo.
It's the old issue of "polling" vs automatic "interrupts". In this case, the polling solution would appear to have less impact on personal privacy. Anything that could generate an "interrupt" when you moved away from your computer could just as well track you as you moved eleswhere. As I said, cattle tags.
I think I'd rather put up with the minor annoyance of having my systems periodically time out on me.
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I love to jump in two days late... Anyway, who says REGULAR email is confidential? To quote Wikipedia: "e-mail messages have to go through intermediate computers before reaching their destination, meaning it is relatively easy for others to intercept and read messages". People stopped fretting about that years ago and basically accept the risk of interception of email en route. Risks of trusting Google are probably LESS than those resulting from routine use of unencrypted email, which is basically universal today in business and the professions. The vail of confidentiality is already fairly thin and I don't think using gmail or Google Docs makes it qualitatively any worse. If you have anything TRULY confidential you'd be nuts to put it in an email or for that matter any other electronic document, for a variety of reasons.
I had, IIRC, an Equity II. It had (again IIRC) an 8086 and a 20 meg drive and not quite the same OS as IBM. It was a great machine in its day, but it's not the model you have.
The Equity I, I believe had an 8088 and was closer to an original PC in architecture.
I would take the "B" 5 1/4 inch floppy drive and its cable temporarily out of the Epson and plug it into a modern machine (which I assume does not have a floppy of its own, but a header for it on the motherboard and a compatible free power connector). Boot up the modern machine with some 16-bit DOS variant. Insert a fresh floppy disk into the transplanted drive and FORMAT A: /S (which writes the two system files needed to boot) and then copy COMMAND.COM to the floppy. Then see if the Epson will boot off of this floppy from its A drive. If so, power down and return the B drive to the Epson, and from there you should be able to run DOS software that you find.
Yeah, I got a ticket because someone who was driving a car with my plate number went through a light and the plate was automatically photographed. Now I have an airtight defense! Whoopee!
Yeah but you're just trolling, I get it.
This is not thought through in the slightest.
Who is going to PAY to read the NY Post online???
Linux has great desktops - at least when you get away from the proprietary Xandros yuk garbage that some of these Netbooks came with. Windows users can feel comfortable with Gnome pretty fast. But he early netbooks used things like that Xandros setup, which was a real problem. Another problem is the perennial one of being not quite workalike and file-interchangeable with MS Office. You want to be able to edit a doc, xls or ppt file and know it will look the same to the person you email it to, and OpenOffice and the other alternatives just fall a little short on this. Also, if you're used to MS Office, OpenOffice seems quite alien at first. This picture may change if cloud-based office apps take hold. Good cloud apps could get around Microsoft's Office edifice dominating the desktop.
Here's a clue: "in a manner that is completely transparent" is NOT part of the claims. It is verbiage in the abstract and written description. Read the CLAIMS if you want a handle on what the patent actually covers.
Totally agree. My eeePC came with a PLUG UGLY Xandros (IIRC) distro, which I promptly replaced with eeeXubuntu. The fonts were a little teentsy on a 7 inch screen, which is probably why Asus felt they could not do something like that. However, with 10 inch screens at 1024x600 (and better to come) this is a different story. The newer machines can simply run plain Gnome Ubuntu. I confess I ditched the eee for a used IBM X40 (running, yes, yech, Windows XP), but would be willing to go back to a pure "netbook" with Linux now that those machines are getting more powerful. While Linux is viable, the average retail buyer still thinks Windows is the Name Brand and Linux some kind of generic schlock, and wants Word and Excel, not some OpenOffice weirdness. MS Office is really MS's sustaining crown jewel. When the FOSS world comes up with something that kicks MS Office's butt in every substantial way, THAT will be a major threat to MS. I actually prefer LaTex/gedit, which works swell on laughably wimpy hardware, and produces nicer documents with less work than MS Word - but since it is not WYSIWYG it will never make it with the Wal Mart or Best Buy crowds, and in addition, with Latex you tend to come up short when someone needs your .doc file to edit, rather than the output PDF. Perhaps a good "cloud" office suite (offering every conceivable format import and export) will really solve the problem - but even that will still will need a robust workalike offline solution in order to be viable, because you just can't be online with a laptop all the time, even with an aircard. Well, maybe if the magic tricks were done in the client-side Javascript (or other FOSS client-side modules), something like a cloud office solution with a good offline mode could really work. But is going to take something like that to displace Windows.
Every time I looked at Drupal I found it too complex for whatever simple site I was setting up. I have used Joomla, which was easier to jump into, but simplistic and inflexible. Honestly, SharePoint 2007 is much easier to use and fairly powerful and flexible. If you don't want to set up and administer the swerver, you can buy hosting or even get it free (with limitations) from a number of providers.
First of all, posting a question like this on a public forum such as Slashdot isn't going to get you any answers you can have confidence in. In fact, the posting itself, though made on a "no name" basis, does provide a few clues, is traceable to whoever posted it initially, and could come back to haunt you, as evidence of your timing and intent, if nothing else. Are you sure no one could ever link this up to you? Are you sending emails like this to each other as well? Pretty dumb, if you are. Find a lawyer and get some competent (and confidential) advice before you make indelible records of your deliberations and footprints.
If you RTFA you will see some good free advice from the analysts - produce a truly modular OS and extensively use virtualization to support a range of OS functionality. Sounds like a pretty good idea, and I see no reason why it has to be Microsoft that picks up and runs with this.
The jobs they offer only require a small amount of training which doesn't require much intelligence or academic ability, and doesn't offer much other than tedium. . . .I'm in my final year of university now and at the beginning of the year I got a part-time (and damn well-paid, for a student at least) job as a PHP developer . . . .
Come, on, PHP isn't THAT bad!
Absolutely. Put a couple of 500G drives in an old Linux machine with LVM so they appear as a single 1TB volume (expandable at will just by adding more drives to the volume) and use BackupPC to back up every machine in your house, including Windows well as Linux machines. Very robust and foolproof. Been doing this for about a year and it has saved me from data loss a few times already.
BackupPC is great!
OK, flame me and mod me -1, but if the Slashdot editors had good reason to believe this was actually confidential (and based on the translation of this article, this pretty plainly appears to be the case), and an unauthorized disclosure, why the editors here decide to carry the story? If someone submitted a story that said, "Here are documents I STOLE from Microsoft by breaking into the building" would Slashdot carry that? Where do you draw the line? Why does AMD's stuff have to be outed like this as a consequence of someone violating their confidence? Or maybe it's a deliberate leak (???)
Of course he has a patent application: (A http://appft1.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-adv.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&d=PG01&S1=20070171825.PGNR.&OS=DN/20070171825&RS=DN/20070171825
Right, expires in 2008, and after the eBay case, it's tougher to get an injunction for this kind of infringement, even if all the other pieces of the suit were to fall into line.
Well, just referring to the first claim, I think you also have to account for the language at the end: "the display object means generating the first and second display objects so that the second display object is perceptible as the same tool as the first display object when the second workspace is presented after the first workspace."
In other words (quoting again, this time from the description): "A display system object can be linked to more than one workspace, to provide a respective tool in each of those workspaces. If the user provides signals causing a switch from one of those workspaces to another, the respective tools share features so that the user perceives them as the same tool, and the state of the display system object maintains continuity."
Simply speaking, it is illustrated (I think) by the multiple workspaces in Gnome, coupled with the ability to right click on a running window on the task panel and designate the window as "Always on Top". So, it appears to be (indeed, IS) the "same tool" as you switch from one workspace to the next.
Looks like this is not specific to Red Hat and Novell, although it might be an easy workaround to disable this feature if necessary.
Lucene is strictly an indexing engine. It wants to index text. It can index metadata as well as full text. Your surrounding application gets the files to index from wherever (local hard drive, database BLOBS, remote Windows shares or what have you). We don't care if the files are Word, PDF, Powerpoint, HTML, or whatever. A parser (many free ones available) extracts the text. We also don't care what web server you are using - using the index to identify and retrieve files is a totally separate process. Lucene indexes the text stream one-by-one and stores the results in a very efficiently organized index. It has been ported to a bunch of languages, including dotNET. I haven't tried it on terabytes of data but it rips through gigabytes very fast. Assuming all 8 terabytes don't change between runs the scale should be no problem.
If you needed to run, say 100 indexing engines in parallel and merge the indexes, you'd have to research that. Somebody's probably done it.
Especially components. Why write a parser, for example (say, an XML parser), or get a budget for licensing one, when you can grab a FOSS one under a permissive license and dynamically link it as a library (hopefully without compromising your company's proprietary product)? This type of thing is happening all over. Already. So is corporate participation in open source projects, purely out of a self-interested economic calculation.
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Gee. Maybe the SECOND amendment supersedes the FIRST amendment. Maybe that's what he meant...
What in the world are you talking about? Fair use is based on the constitutional RIGHT of free speech. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_use.
The "defense" aspect just concerns procedural stuff - who has the burden of proof, etc. So what? It remains the case that free speech is very much your "right" and that copyright law does (and must) have an exception (called "fair use") to allow for the exercise of that right.