I keep my car service schedule in Google Spreadsheets so my mechanic can log in and see when core parts were last changed or maintained. I use Writely to compose blog posts and note down useful information for later retrieval. I use Google Calendar so I can add events whenever I get a message rather than just at home.
Thats what Onlline apps are for. use-anywhere.
My 2000 iBook 366mhz is exactly what you need. ABS+rubber casing, up to 576mb RAM, G3 CPU - just works and droppable without incident. 6hrs battery life with Airport switched off and a new battery.
Google already rents out servers that can index local networks. In time I am sure these boxes will optionally have Google productivity apps on them too.
Slow on consumer broadband doesn't necessarily mean slow on 100mb ethernet!
I have a s/sheet with my cars entire service history on it which my favourite mechanic can access to check when parts were replaced. All he needs is the net and a browser, and he has both.
Use of energy - however produced - usually creates residual heat due to the inefficiency of our machinery and circuitry.
Free electricity could actually cause global warming this way...
I recall around the time that it became clear Apple was poaching members of the Sony Vaio dev teams, a rumour saying that there was some really special stuff coming. It hasn't come.
the white G3 iBook was revolutionary 5 yyears ago, but everyone does white laptops now and the MacBook just doesn't stand out in design terms. Frankly, the G5/MPro case isn't that special either.
I want to have a computer that I can love - which is why I'm still using a Clamshell G3 and a (seriously upgraded) PMG4
It would be insane to think that the purpose of the Numbers Station is to distribute new One Time Pads to agents using other form of communication - maybe so insane that nobody is checking for it....
What might be smart is an extension hooking into the security subsystems in Firefox to allow the browser to do into "Paranoid Mode" when browsing any site not on the user's favourites or safe-list.
Paranoid Mode would block all plugins, cookies and javascript, and optionally have a "click-to-load" button in place of content from other servers
For about a year now I routinely install a whitelisting firefox extension called NoScript
It blocks javascript per-site until I choose to whitelist the site: Not only do I get a great deal fewer annoyances interrupting my browsing, but it also cuts out a lot of web advertising (the AdBlock extension makes my browser drag when fully loaded with filters)
This fictional novel covers the sufferings of the crew of a ship affected by Ergotism, caused indirectly by a sailors fight which led to all the ship's supplies save a small amount of old Rye flour being destroyed..
Worth a read if you like fiction and are amused by rye-borne contagions..
Seems to me the big makers don't always listen, so here goes:
Keyboard and IBM-style nipple-mouse instead of a wand and touchscreen.
Foldover format like a Psion 5 - should fit inside a suit inner pocket
Inbuilt Bluetooth and WiFi
Proper POP/IMAP client that handles SSL and StarTLS
office-style apps that read either MS formats or Opendocument
web browser than handles AJAX properly
ability to either add a SD card or similar for storage
O/S irrelevant. I just need the features, I don't think anyone offers this. the nearest I could find was various HP Jornadas which don't have WiFi or Bluetooth by default and because they rely on PCMCIA expension cards, can only have one or the other at a time.
I'll be really impressed when someone comes up with an actual executable binary that contains code to run the appropriate installer on Linux or Windows - a cross-platform version of a Universal Binary
On a Pentium-class 300mhz chip, XP is perfectly happy and usable, provided the time-waster services (Themes, Messenger (off by default in SP2 anyway), Error Reporting Service etc are disabled) - although its much happier with 256mb than 128mb.
Obviously you'd never pay duke nukem forever on a rig like that but for most users needs it's not a problem. As a Mac convert from Windows with a 366mhz iBook I can honestly say that XP scales down to older hardware better than the competition.
you suggest that people should value the politics of their software higher than the quality of it? So why has all Linux advertising/PR/etc concentrated on the quality of the code produced by the OSS model?
If the OSS movement is right, Who da'punk is an irrelevance. If you're right, OSS is already doomed to failure.
this story gets "discovered" every few years by journalists looking for copy to fill blank pages.. I can recall it being "reported" 3 or 4 times spread over the last 10 years
start linux, start vmware in linux, start XP, start vmware in XP, start linux on vmware on xp on vmware on linux, then you can unplug the iMac and carry it off leaving the operating syatems hanging in mid-air in an endlessly self-supporting loop.
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I keep my car service schedule in Google Spreadsheets so my mechanic can log in and see when core parts were last changed or maintained. I use Writely to compose blog posts and note down useful information for later retrieval. I use Google Calendar so I can add events whenever I get a message rather than just at home. Thats what Onlline apps are for. use-anywhere.
- please meet our chairman
.. Groklaw will cover ths in due course
My 2000 iBook 366mhz is exactly what you need. ABS+rubber casing, up to 576mb RAM, G3 CPU - just works and droppable without incident. 6hrs battery life with Airport switched off and a new battery.
Google already rents out servers that can index local networks. In time I am sure these boxes will optionally have Google productivity apps on them too. Slow on consumer broadband doesn't necessarily mean slow on 100mb ethernet!
I have a s/sheet with my cars entire service history on it which my favourite mechanic can access to check when parts were replaced. All he needs is the net and a browser, and he has both.
Use of energy - however produced - usually creates residual heat due to the inefficiency of our machinery and circuitry. Free electricity could actually cause global warming this way...
It'll probably be evolutionary biologists or climate scientists who get left out...
I agree whole-heartedly
I recall around the time that it became clear Apple was poaching members of the Sony Vaio dev teams, a rumour saying that there was some really special stuff coming. It hasn't come.
the white G3 iBook was revolutionary 5 yyears ago, but everyone does white laptops now and the MacBook just doesn't stand out in design terms. Frankly, the G5/MPro case isn't that special either.
I want to have a computer that I can love - which is why I'm still using a Clamshell G3 and a (seriously upgraded) PMG4
Or a bad thing. After all, MacBooks develop yellow patches, so why shouldn't the install disk develop black ones?
It would be insane to think that the purpose of the Numbers Station is to distribute new One Time Pads to agents using other form of communication - maybe so insane that nobody is checking for it....
What might be smart is an extension hooking into the security subsystems in Firefox to allow the browser to do into "Paranoid Mode" when browsing any site not on the user's favourites or safe-list.
Paranoid Mode would block all plugins, cookies and javascript, and optionally have a "click-to-load" button in place of content from other servers
For about a year now I routinely install a whitelisting firefox extension called NoScript
It blocks javascript per-site until I choose to whitelist the site: Not only do I get a great deal fewer annoyances interrupting my browsing, but it also cuts out a lot of web advertising (the AdBlock extension makes my browser drag when fully loaded with filters)
With F/Fox, AbiWord, OOo, HandBrake (DVD ripper), VLC (media player) and aMule, the Mac's a very happy place to be these days...
Link to Amir's profile Amir has done this before.. and how typical that the only positive feedback comes from someone called Nick Tofang.....
This fictional novel covers the sufferings of the crew of a ship affected by Ergotism, caused indirectly by a sailors fight which led to all the ship's supplies save a small amount of old Rye flour being destroyed..
Worth a read if you like fiction and are amused by rye-borne contagions..
The 4-cylinder turbo-diesel engine in my Ford Mondeo is quite happily roling along well below 1000rpm, and I never have to take it above 3000rpm
Seems to me the big makers don't always listen, so here goes:
Keyboard and IBM-style nipple-mouse instead of a wand and touchscreen.
Foldover format like a Psion 5 - should fit inside a suit inner pocket
Inbuilt Bluetooth and WiFi
Proper POP/IMAP client that handles SSL and StarTLS
office-style apps that read either MS formats or Opendocument
web browser than handles AJAX properly
ability to either add a SD card or similar for storage
O/S irrelevant. I just need the features, I don't think anyone offers this. the nearest I could find was various HP Jornadas which don't have WiFi or Bluetooth by default and because they rely on PCMCIA expension cards, can only have one or the other at a time.
In soviet russia, rusty 386 beowulf clustered overlords, for one, welcome donations of old hardware!
The puns in the title really, you didn't need to click this far...
I'll be really impressed when someone comes up with an actual executable binary that contains code to run the appropriate installer on Linux or Windows - a cross-platform version of a Universal Binary
On a Pentium-class 300mhz chip, XP is perfectly happy and usable, provided the time-waster services (Themes, Messenger (off by default in SP2 anyway), Error Reporting Service etc are disabled) - although its much happier with 256mb than 128mb.
Obviously you'd never pay duke nukem forever on a rig like that but for most users needs it's not a problem. As a Mac convert from Windows with a 366mhz iBook I can honestly say that XP scales down to older hardware better than the competition.
you suggest that people should value the politics of their software higher than the quality of it? So why has all Linux advertising/PR/etc concentrated on the quality of the code produced by the OSS model?
If the OSS movement is right, Who da'punk is an irrelevance. If you're right, OSS is already doomed to failure.
this story gets "discovered" every few years by journalists looking for copy to fill blank pages.. I can recall it being "reported" 3 or 4 times spread over the last 10 years
start linux, start vmware in linux, start XP, start vmware in XP, start linux on vmware on xp on vmware on linux, then you can unplug the iMac and carry it off leaving the operating syatems hanging in mid-air in an endlessly self-supporting loop.