I still have a CPM card for the Apple IIe made by a little company known as Microsoft. The logo on the manual is nothing like the normal Microsoft logo that we all now know.
2003 DHL cargo plane taking off from Iraq was hit by a Surface to Air Missile (SAM). They definitely could have used this system. There is a wonderful episode of Mayday featuring this story.
"Actually what you don't know about Primus, is that its not their fault; but Bell Canada who hasn't been maintaining their ATM cloud that interconnects YOU and Primus together."
I agree that a good number of complaints about ADSL ISPs can be caused by the phone carrier.
One thing you might try is to lower the provisioning for ADSL uplink speed a bit.
Voip uses a lot of uplink bandwidth compared to regular surfing and will show up provisioning faults.
The other thing you might want to check is your router. I've seen some cheap routers fail specifically when dealing with the demands of voip traffic.
When I was in grade school, my father brought us these fun watches he was thinking of importing. They were stainless steel, 1/4" thick with a small plastic rectangle on the face. You pushed a button on the side and the time appeared as red led digits. Let go of the button and the led went dark.
I stopped wearing it because everywhere I went people wanted to push the button, and my arn was sore from twisting my wrist around to show people.
"This doesn't mean they will run a standard BIOS. Surely they will not. But it looks an awful lot like they want their solution to be an Intel showboat."
Given that the Developer Transition Kit appears not to contain hardware, I'm guessing that the preview release will run on standard Intel hardware.
I could be wrong but usually am too stubborn to admit it.
"Support for profile "temp" directory on local filesystem
It is now possible to store the network cache (copies of visited webpages) and the XUL fastload cache (precompiled user interface code) on a local disk, while keeping the rest of the profile data on a network drive. This will increase performance and reduce network traffic for users in a network environment. "
Will make my life better in many ways.
Thanks again Mozilla team.
trackpoint integration would be my preference
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I'm a pretty good touch typist. The thing that slows me down the most is having to reorient my hands on the home row after having used the mouse. So my vote for the best keyboard would be one that has an integrated trackpoint, with function keys, navigation keys and numberpad placed consistently, and most importantly keys with decent travel and feel.
My current keyboard has function keys grouped in threes; drives me crazy. The function keys default to FLOCK mode which assigns them office type functions. for instance F2 is Undo, F10 is spell. To use them as regular function keys I have to first press FLOCK every time the machine boots.
My keyboard has a double sized Delete key quite close to the Enter key. Not a good place for it.
One final gripe is that this keyboard has a sleep button exactly where my thumb naturally goes when I pick up the keyboard.
Just saying that I have not yet found any keyboard I really like yet.
I am currently taking experimental treatment that I had read of and researched on the Internet.
My Doctors here in Canada were happy to go along with the treatment as there is no other satisfactory treatment for Crohn's disease. I presented them with my research and suggested the dosage and duration of the trial. That was in January of this year. As a result, I've been able to stop taking some other really nasty medication and feel considerably better.
The American system is just too broken in my opinion. Maybe someone can explain to me why it is impossible to get needles and syringes for injectible treatments such as B12, Iron, steroids, and in some states insulin without a doctors prescription.
A few years ago, I needed to get some prednisone while in Florida. The process involved seeing a Doctor at a walk-in clinic. For $175 he glanced at me for half a second and had a nurse write the script which he signed while on his way between patients. The medicine itself cost $30 half of which half was the dispensing fee.
I guess that visitors to Canada have similar stories to tell.
Later while in the Bahamas I needed more Prednisone. The process was to find any public nurse and pay here fee of $3.50 which was what the meds cost.
As an aside, the experimental treatment involves taking high doses of Mycobutin and Biaxin for the treatment of (MAP) Micobacterium Avium Paraturbulosis which is found in quantity in North American milk supply. MAP is the cause of Johne's disease in cows, is the cause of death for many AIDS sufferers, and may be better known to most of you as Tuberculosis. Oh and pasteurization isn't very effective against it.
"why is the level of participation by women so low?"
The most obvious reason why women may be discouraged from writing software is the attitude they face from a predominantly male group.
Have you ever wandered into one of those D&D gaming stores just to see what the fuss is all about. In general, these places make you feel about as welcome as George Bush in Canada. Well that is basically the reception women get from any technical gathering.
Many people have used GPS to locate their car on a moving map display. If the powerbooks accelerometers can be fine tuned for at least two dimensional inertial navigation, this data could be used to augment and fill in navigation data.
GPS is not very accurate. Not accurate enough to say park your car or guide a cruise ship into a dock and stationkeep.
Another possible use could be in the home built robotics market.
Self balancing devices similar to the segwey all rely on accelerometers.
or how about theft alarms. Set you laptop to sound an alarm if it is moved out of a certain area without the pass code.
or how about for automatic screen orientation. Tilt you powerbook on it's side and the display rotates 90 degrees to portrait mode. Would be killer for presentations / demonstrations to small groups.
Yeah, you can probably get an external device to do these things, but it's way cool to have it built in.
eMachines laptops have a known overheating problem which causes these machines to simply power down when they reach a certain temperature.
Overheating is caused by two factors on these machines: First unsufficient air flow through the cpu heatsink and fan caused by poor engineering. Second, dust buildup behind the heat sink.
The issue with dust buildup and system overheating is well known, see [http://www.dexplor.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=171 ].
The solution to your problem involves periodicly clearing the heat sink of dust, and running a freeware cpu throttling program such as speedswitchxp. There is also a patch from Microsoft here [http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?f amilyid=2898f8dd-10f8-4107-9f7b-16c5a525de1e&displ aylang=en] for XP which provides some cpu scaling support for AMD Powernow processors.
If you can get support from eMachines, send them your laptop and have them install a more powerfull fan for you.
eMachines did not manufacture these laptops. They were designed and manufactured by a company in Taiwan called Arima and were branded eMachines in North America. In Europe they were sold under the Medion label, and in Australia under TPG Online.
If I remember correctly, these machines do not reliably provide sensor data to any programs including MBM5. I don't think that has ever been fixed by eMachines.
As a further annoyance, eMachines' stock bios is full of errors, the most significant of which is that the cpu tables are incorrect. You will notice this if you try to install ACPI under linux.
To clarify, The machine I was working on came with factory restore cds. I purchased this machine in October 2003.
The date that I tried to activate was February 20th, 2005 mid day and lasting a few hours.
This laptop ships with a bios with broken cpu codes for power management, so I had flashed the bios using firmware from a different company that sells an identical machine. Mostly to get apci working under linux dual boot.
On first boot after doing the cd restore, Windows indeed forced an activation before it would let me log in, so no network settings; and No, no 30 to 45 days grace period.
--- are you sure you were on the phone with MS
Yes, I called the number given by xp on the activation screen. After MS' IVR repeated "invalid key" for the 10th time or so, I pressed 0# and was transferred to a human with a strong Indian accent. (I'm not racist just stating facts of the situation)
--- MS has written policy for its tech and activation people to never ever ask the customer to restore from disc.
The exact wording they used was "uninstall and reinstall". When I challenged them on how exactly one uninstalls an OS, I was rewarded with silence, so I guess they did follow guidelines.
--- First, the policy is that activation issues are always free, period. Second, every copy of XP has two free support incidents included with it, even most OEMs copys.
I was given the option to contact the OEM. They gave me a Vancouver (604) number which they insisted was toll free and which I insisted was not toll free. I refused to call the OEM as 1. this is not a hardware or OS issue and 2. the laptop is out of warranty but Windows was still actively being supported. Besides, I knew that this was just another punt.
By the way since I mentioned punting;
The first tech responded that I should shut the machine down for 10 to 15 minutes and then call back. I knew it wouldn't make a difference but did it anyway.
The second tech gave me the OEM number. I then asked for a manager. The manager told me to do the "uninstall and reinstall". Again, I knew it would make no difference but did it anyway. The managers name was Roger I think.
The third call I asked for "Roger" the manager immediately after breaking out of the IVR. I got a different manager who told me that Roger had left ten minutes ago. I could have sworn that I had talked to him less than 10 minutes ago. Anyway, this manager asked me to regenerate my activation ID by entering my Windows key. Same situation arose. After much back and forth, I was offered free online support or paid $35 US telephone support. When I complained I was told to read the restore cds and look for wording stating that all tech support is the responsibility of the OEM.
I finally resolved the problem by reverting to the broken bios firmware and then doing the factory restore.
Interestingly, a few months ago, I flashed the bios on this machine. It did want me to reactivate but since it was a running install, was able to do an Internet activation.
If anyone at MS or the media wants to see all this in action, I'd happily go through it all with them.
"There is never, and has never been a charge associated with activation."
A few days ago, I did a factory reinstall of XP from CD's provided by the computer manufacturer on a laptop which had had a BIOS update. On start up Windows wanted to activate since it believed that sufficient hardware had changed.
I was forced to telephone Microsoft for activation since the computer had not yet figured out networking before barking for activation.
The fine folks at MS did the usual punt and delay until I finally spoke with a manager. With the manager I typed in the valid and legal product key to generate an activation id. We did this twice, with the second time involving a complete cd restore.
The MS activation center manager informed me that the activation ID my machine was generating was invalid and referred me to technical support for which they required $35.
So I may not have researched MS' policies but from experience I can tell you that YES, MS wants Money to resolve activation issues.
CherryOS.com is down so I can't check for sure, but from what I've read so far, CherryOS does not support sound. I find it odd that PearPC and CherryOS would have this particular feature in common.
I've just spent a few days playing around with PearPC on an AMD 2400+ laptop with 512 Mb memory. OSX runs fine but a bit slow, kind of like a 233 Mhz machine running XP. Network and CDRom access work great, but of course no sound yet.
Honestly if I worked for Apple, I wouldn't mind PearPC as long as it did not become fast enough to be a proper alternative to actually buying a Mac. From the forum on PearPC's site, many people have posted that getting this taste of OSX has helped them to "make the switch".
For those of you who want to play with Mac emulation, have a look at http://www.emaculation.com/ .
I was on my boat anchored in a nice quiet place in Florida with my laptop nicely perched on the pilot house dash, when some goof comes flying past in a wake boat. His wake slams into my boat sending the laptop flying down the companionway about 20 feet.
Fortunately it was not on at the time so damage was structural. A whole lot of epoxy and duct tape later and it worked again.
Sadly, it did not work for very long, as it wound up in the water in the Bahamas. Salt air and the constant motion of the boat was killing the hard drive anyway so everything was backed up.
Next trip I'll probably use a nice low power Via Mini ITX with daylight viewable screen, all properly shock mounted.
Amazingly, after a few hours of tinkering, I just got onto slashdot using a Broadcom BCM5406 g card. Guess what the first article I read is.
Broadcom won't release drivers or specs for their wireless chipset and prevent any OEMs who use thier chipset from doing so. So there are only really two choices, other than throwing their hardware in the trash, or using Windows, and those are Linuxxant WLAN Driverloader or open source NdisWrapper.
I chose NdisWrapper because it is OS and I did not have to pay for it.
In the future I will simply refuse to purchase any hardware from companies who will not release driver specifications.
A lot of people are saying "organs should have gone to different kids." While this may be true, this is also a test bed for future technologies.
I have to agree that Dr. Tzakis' work is worthwhile.
Our Doctors are hobbled by "religious, moral and ethical" constraints to the point where many of them are simply giving up on medicine in North America. Just think about what equipment the modern Doctor has in their clinics; a stick, a tube and a light. Beyond that, they have the option to send you elsewhere, or to prescribe you medication, which usually will counter symptoms without curing the disease. Case in point is Helicobactor Pylori.
As to the decision that a person requires too much medical care to be allowed to continue living, who will make that distinction, on what grounds, and by who's morallity? Before you answer take a look at your vaccination / appendectomy / cesarean / kidney / gall / hysterectomy scar, or recall your tonsillitis / cardiovascular / hernia surgeries, and of course that little pain where you broke your arm.
For the record, I also choose not to add my biological distinctiveness to the gene pool due to health reasons.
"Why doesn't someone just register a generic Slashdot account? Like username: slashdot and password: slashdot. Over at bluesnews someone registered a generic bluesnews account in that kind of way so that everyone could just log in using that to read the articles."
Someone did just that. It lasted all of 1 day before that account stopped working.
Google returns search results with links that take you directly to the site whereas yahoo's links point to a yahoo script which then redirects you to the correct url. I have to presume that there is some sort of data kept about which links are clicked on. To see what I mean, hover over a google search result link and look at the url in the status bar, now do the same on Yahoo.
Now if this is used in agragate only to improve search result effectiveness, I'm all for it, but somehow a little warning bell goes off saying otherwise.
I also see tremendous potential for missuse here. Companies wishing their site to appear on top for certain key words can figure out the yahoo redirect get script. For instance:
Slashdot Mirror
I still have a CPM card for the Apple IIe made by a little company known as Microsoft. The logo on the manual is nothing like the normal Microsoft logo that we all now know.
2003 DHL cargo plane taking off from Iraq was hit by a Surface to Air Missile (SAM). They definitely could have used this system. There is a wonderful episode of Mayday featuring this story.
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Have a look at some of the damage and more information here http://www.strategypage.com/military_photos/DHL_S
"Actually what you don't know about Primus, is that its not their fault; but Bell Canada who hasn't been maintaining their ATM cloud that interconnects YOU and Primus together."
I agree that a good number of complaints about ADSL ISPs can be caused by the phone carrier.
One thing you might try is to lower the provisioning for ADSL uplink speed a bit.
Voip uses a lot of uplink bandwidth compared to regular surfing and will show up provisioning faults.
The other thing you might want to check is your router. I've seen some cheap routers fail specifically when dealing with the demands of voip traffic.
Apple has just released OSX 10.4.5.
= 9086
According to
http://www.thinksecret.com/news/0602briefly2.html
and
http://forum.osx86project.org/index.php?showtopic
Get it at http://www.apple.com/support/downloads/
Timing is quite interesting here.
" How about a clock based on LED's"
When I was in grade school, my father brought us these fun watches he was thinking of importing. They were stainless steel, 1/4" thick with a small plastic rectangle on the face. You pushed a button on the side and the time appeared as red led digits. Let go of the button and the led went dark.
I stopped wearing it because everywhere I went people wanted to push the button, and my arn was sore from twisting my wrist around to show people.
lcd watches took another three years to arrive.
"This doesn't mean they will run a standard BIOS. Surely they will not. But it looks an awful lot like they want their solution to be an Intel showboat."
Given that the Developer Transition Kit appears not to contain hardware, I'm guessing that the preview release will run on standard Intel hardware.
I could be wrong but usually am too stubborn to admit it.
" Will it install Malware, adware, nagware like Kazaa? I still stick with Unet groups."
/. stating that no one will make mention of unet^H^H^H^H, um, never mind
Shhh!!!, there's an unwritten rule on
Yes,
"Support for profile "temp" directory on local filesystem
It is now possible to store the network cache (copies of visited webpages) and the XUL fastload cache (precompiled user interface code) on a local disk, while keeping the rest of the profile data on a network drive. This will increase performance and reduce network traffic for users in a network environment. "
Will make my life better in many ways.
Thanks again Mozilla team.
I'm a pretty good touch typist. The thing that slows me down the most is having to reorient my hands on the home row after having used the mouse. So my vote for the best keyboard would be one that has an integrated trackpoint, with function keys, navigation keys and numberpad placed consistently, and most importantly keys with decent travel and feel.
My current keyboard has function keys grouped in threes; drives me crazy. The function keys default to FLOCK mode which assigns them office type functions. for instance F2 is Undo, F10 is spell. To use them as regular function keys I have to first press FLOCK every time the machine boots.
My keyboard has a double sized Delete key quite close to the Enter key. Not a good place for it.
One final gripe is that this keyboard has a sleep button exactly where my thumb naturally goes when I pick up the keyboard.
Just saying that I have not yet found any keyboard I really like yet.
I am currently taking experimental treatment that I had read of and researched on the Internet.
My Doctors here in Canada were happy to go along with the treatment as there is no other satisfactory treatment for Crohn's disease. I presented them with my research and suggested the dosage and duration of the trial. That was in January of this year. As a result, I've been able to stop taking some other really nasty medication and feel considerably better.
The American system is just too broken in my opinion. Maybe someone can explain to me why it is impossible to get needles and syringes for injectible treatments such as B12, Iron, steroids, and in some states insulin without a doctors prescription.
A few years ago, I needed to get some prednisone while in Florida. The process involved seeing a Doctor at a walk-in clinic. For $175 he glanced at me for half a second and had a nurse write the script which he signed while on his way between patients. The medicine itself cost $30 half of which half was the dispensing fee.
I guess that visitors to Canada have similar stories to tell.
Later while in the Bahamas I needed more Prednisone. The process was to find any public nurse and pay here fee of $3.50 which was what the meds cost.
As an aside, the experimental treatment involves taking high doses of Mycobutin and Biaxin for the treatment of (MAP) Micobacterium Avium Paraturbulosis which is found in quantity in North American milk supply. MAP is the cause of Johne's disease in cows, is the cause of death for many AIDS sufferers, and may be better known to most of you as Tuberculosis. Oh and pasteurization isn't very effective against it.
" I personally think DST is idiotic and pointless."
[begin rant]
You know the Governments can just shove their Daylight Savings Time where the Daylight don't shine!
No, Seriously.
It seems like they have nothing to do but make assinine laws and interfere in the minutiae of it's citizens' lives.
HEY! lawmakers! stop writing stupid high profile, expensive laws just to quantify your existence.!!
[end rant]
"why is the level of participation by women so low?"
The most obvious reason why women may be discouraged from writing software is the attitude they face from a predominantly male group.
Have you ever wandered into one of those D&D gaming stores just to see what the fuss is all about. In general, these places make you feel about as welcome as George Bush in Canada. Well that is basically the reception women get from any technical gathering.
Seriously, who wouldn't walk away from that.
Well for starters inertial navigation.
Many people have used GPS to locate their car on a moving map display. If the powerbooks accelerometers can be fine tuned for at least two dimensional inertial navigation, this data could be used to augment and fill in navigation data.
GPS is not very accurate. Not accurate enough to say park your car or guide a cruise ship into a dock and stationkeep.
Another possible use could be in the home built robotics market.
Self balancing devices similar to the segwey all rely on accelerometers.
or how about theft alarms. Set you laptop to sound an alarm if it is moved out of a certain area without the pass code.
or how about for automatic screen orientation. Tilt you powerbook on it's side and the display rotates 90 degrees to portrait mode. Would be killer for presentations / demonstrations to small groups.
Yeah, you can probably get an external device to do these things, but it's way cool to have it built in.
There is a free Canadian tax filing software called Taxman. Can't vouch for it as I've never tried it.
http://pacificcoast.net/~gthompson/
If you have a business in Canada you may write off tax preparation fees and expenses. I don't know if non business owners can do the same.
eMachines laptops have a known overheating problem which causes these machines to simply power down when they reach a certain temperature.
1 ].
f amilyid=2898f8dd-10f8-4107-9f7b-16c5a525de1e&displ aylang=en] for XP which provides some cpu scaling support for AMD Powernow processors.
Overheating is caused by two factors on these machines: First unsufficient air flow through the cpu heatsink and fan caused by poor engineering. Second, dust buildup behind the heat sink.
The issue with dust buildup and system overheating is well known, see [http://www.dexplor.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=17
The solution to your problem involves periodicly clearing the heat sink of dust, and running a freeware cpu throttling program such as speedswitchxp. There is also a patch from Microsoft here [http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?
If you can get support from eMachines, send them your laptop and have them install a more powerfull fan for you.
eMachines did not manufacture these laptops. They were designed and manufactured by a company in Taiwan called Arima and were branded eMachines in North America. In Europe they were sold under the Medion label, and in Australia under TPG Online.
If I remember correctly, these machines do not reliably provide sensor data to any programs including MBM5. I don't think that has ever been fixed by eMachines.
As a further annoyance, eMachines' stock bios is full of errors, the most significant of which is that the cpu tables are incorrect. You will notice this if you try to install ACPI under linux.
To clarify, The machine I was working on came with factory restore cds. I purchased this machine in October 2003.
The date that I tried to activate was February 20th, 2005 mid day and lasting a few hours.
This laptop ships with a bios with broken cpu codes for power management, so I had flashed the bios using firmware from a different company that sells an identical machine. Mostly to get apci working under linux dual boot.
On first boot after doing the cd restore, Windows indeed forced an activation before it would let me log in, so no network settings; and No, no 30 to 45 days grace period.
--- are you sure you were on the phone with MS
Yes, I called the number given by xp on the activation screen. After MS' IVR repeated "invalid key" for the 10th time or so, I pressed 0# and was transferred to a human with a strong Indian accent. (I'm not racist just stating facts of the situation)
--- MS has written policy for its tech and activation people to never ever ask the customer to restore from disc.
The exact wording they used was "uninstall and reinstall". When I challenged them on how exactly one uninstalls an OS, I was rewarded with silence, so I guess they did follow guidelines.
--- First, the policy is that activation issues are always free, period. Second, every copy of XP has two free support incidents included with it, even most OEMs copys.
I was given the option to contact the OEM. They gave me a Vancouver (604) number which they insisted was toll free and which I insisted was not toll free. I refused to call the OEM as 1. this is not a hardware or OS issue and 2. the laptop is out of warranty but Windows was still actively being supported. Besides, I knew that this was just another punt.
By the way since I mentioned punting;
The first tech responded that I should shut the machine down for 10 to 15 minutes and then call back. I knew it wouldn't make a difference but did it anyway.
The second tech gave me the OEM number. I then asked for a manager. The manager told me to do the "uninstall and reinstall". Again, I knew it would make no difference but did it anyway. The managers name was Roger I think.
The third call I asked for "Roger" the manager immediately after breaking out of the IVR. I got a different manager who told me that Roger had left ten minutes ago. I could have sworn that I had talked to him less than 10 minutes ago. Anyway, this manager asked me to regenerate my activation ID by entering my Windows key. Same situation arose. After much back and forth, I was offered free online support or paid $35 US telephone support. When I complained I was told to read the restore cds and look for wording stating that all tech support is the responsibility of the OEM.
I finally resolved the problem by reverting to the broken bios firmware and then doing the factory restore.
Interestingly, a few months ago, I flashed the bios on this machine. It did want me to reactivate but since it was a running install, was able to do an Internet activation.
If anyone at MS or the media wants to see all this in action, I'd happily go through it all with them.
A few days ago, I did a factory reinstall of XP from CD's provided by the computer manufacturer on a laptop which had had a BIOS update. On start up Windows wanted to activate since it believed that sufficient hardware had changed.
I was forced to telephone Microsoft for activation since the computer had not yet figured out networking before barking for activation.
The fine folks at MS did the usual punt and delay until I finally spoke with a manager. With the manager I typed in the valid and legal product key to generate an activation id. We did this twice, with the second time involving a complete cd restore.
The MS activation center manager informed me that the activation ID my machine was generating was invalid and referred me to technical support for which they required $35.
So I may not have researched MS' policies but from experience I can tell you that YES, MS wants Money to resolve activation issues.
CherryOS.com is down so I can't check for sure, but from what I've read so far, CherryOS does not support sound. I find it odd that PearPC and CherryOS would have this particular feature in common.
I've just spent a few days playing around with PearPC on an AMD 2400+ laptop with 512 Mb memory. OSX runs fine but a bit slow, kind of like a 233 Mhz machine running XP. Network and CDRom access work great, but of course no sound yet.
Honestly if I worked for Apple, I wouldn't mind PearPC as long as it did not become fast enough to be a proper alternative to actually buying a Mac. From the forum on PearPC's site, many people have posted that getting this taste of OSX has helped them to "make the switch".
For those of you who want to play with Mac emulation, have a look at http://www.emaculation.com/ .
I was on my boat anchored in a nice quiet place in Florida with my laptop nicely perched on the pilot house dash, when some goof comes flying past in a wake boat. His wake slams into my boat sending the laptop flying down the companionway about 20 feet.
Fortunately it was not on at the time so damage was structural. A whole lot of epoxy and duct tape later and it worked again.
Sadly, it did not work for very long, as it wound up in the water in the Bahamas. Salt air and the constant motion of the boat was killing the hard drive anyway so everything was backed up.
Next trip I'll probably use a nice low power Via Mini ITX with daylight viewable screen, all properly shock mounted.
Amazingly, after a few hours of tinkering, I just got onto slashdot using a Broadcom BCM5406 g card. Guess what the first article I read is.
Broadcom won't release drivers or specs for their wireless chipset and prevent any OEMs who use thier chipset from doing so. So there are only really two choices, other than throwing their hardware in the trash, or using Windows, and those are Linuxxant WLAN Driverloader or open source NdisWrapper.
I chose NdisWrapper because it is OS and I did not have to pay for it.
In the future I will simply refuse to purchase any hardware from companies who will not release driver specifications.
An excellent thought pubjames.
If you wish to put together some type of RFC, I'd be willing to lend a hand.
A lot of people are saying "organs should have gone to different kids." While this may be true, this is also a test bed for future technologies.
I have to agree that Dr. Tzakis' work is worthwhile.
Our Doctors are hobbled by "religious, moral and ethical" constraints to the point where many of them are simply giving up on medicine in North America. Just think about what equipment the modern Doctor has in their clinics; a stick, a tube and a light. Beyond that, they have the option to send you elsewhere, or to prescribe you medication, which usually will counter symptoms without curing the disease. Case in point is Helicobactor Pylori.
As to the decision that a person requires too much medical care to be allowed to continue living, who will make that distinction, on what grounds, and by who's morallity? Before you answer take a look at your vaccination / appendectomy / cesarean / kidney / gall / hysterectomy scar, or recall your tonsillitis / cardiovascular / hernia surgeries, and of course that little pain where you broke your arm.
For the record, I also choose not to add my biological distinctiveness to the gene pool due to health reasons.
Google returns search results with links that take you directly to the site whereas yahoo's links point to a yahoo script which then redirects you to the correct url. I have to presume that there is some sort of data kept about which links are clicked on. To see what I mean, hover over a google search result link and look at the url in the status bar, now do the same on Yahoo.
l =WS1/R=6/SS=7079471/H=1/*-http://slashdot.org/
l =WS1/R=6/SS=7079471/H=1/*-http://slashdot.org/
Now if this is used in agragate only to improve search result effectiveness, I'm all for it, but somehow a little warning bell goes off saying otherwise.
I also see tremendous potential for missuse here. Companies wishing their site to appear on top for certain key words can figure out the yahoo redirect get script. For instance:
a search for the word slash currently returns slashdot.org as link number 6. If someone hammers yahoo with a url like
http://rds.yahoo.com/S=2766679/K=slash/v=2/SID=e/
then yahoo will probably asume that slash should move up in the ranks.
But say we search for "asdfg" where slashdot does not appear. We then make a url to put slashdot in the listing something like
http://rds.yahoo.com/S=2766679/K=asdfg/v=2/SID=e/
we can probably put slashdot in a category where it really has no relevance.
Sex