Not sure of the app name, it may have be an old version of LogoManager for Nokia Phones, either way, IIRC SMS messages are just sent via a convoluted AT command on the serial port of the phone its self, and there's a flag that determines what type of message it is.
I'm sure there's an RFC on it somewhere.
But you are right, you need direct access to the SMSC, and here in the UK (and Europe too I believe) that's publicly available information.
Of course to send SMSs properly you need a GSM datacard or Mobile Phone with a valid SIM in it, hooked up to your PC - Using any ather method (internet gateway et al.) is sure to end up in frustration.
Phone numbers are like domain names, they are a translation layer for us humans, the real address is the IMEI number, which is actually where the SMS's get sent. So even if you replace the SIM card, the SMS message can still be sent to the stolen phone.
The kill signal will probably be in the format of a special (Operator) SMS text message. Much in the same way your Internet settings can be sent by your provider over the air (OTA) to your phone.
However, I had an app a while back that could 'build' Operator SMS messages and send them out to peoples phones, so yeah, unless the Operator takes serious steps to secure this system, it's gonna be hacked in no time. Once hacked, the concept will be useless, and the manufacturers will stop including the kill-system in the firmware...
They won't of course. We exist to serve Slashdot, not the the other way around.
Many Many Years Ago it was the trend to adapt the AIDS.GIF red ribbon into a variety of colours, including pink and put it somewhere prominent on your website for the duration of the awareness day/week/month. Alas now that sites are all shrink-wrapped copyrighted designs, there's no scope for that now. Which is a shame....
I'm a bloke, and on the denim jacket that I'm kinda addicted to wearing, is always the current Breast Cancer ribbon badge (or 'button' if you are from the US*), along with a large Star Trek insignia, a SuSe Tux, an Aids Ribbon, and a Scottish Flag. Yes.... I'm [very] Sad.
-Jar.
*What IS that all about? Buttons are the things that hold your shirt closed....
In Europe this concept has already been proved previously using the SCART or Peritel connector. Devices with these sockets tradtionally have two of them, and when the device is off the signal is passed through from one socket to the other with supposedly no degradation.
I can tell you now, MOST homes in the UK are currently daisy chaining their Cable/Sky box through their DVD player/recorder into their TVs via several SCART cables.
So, no, HDMI chaining isn't silly, it's a damn good idea.
On a personal note, I have a very large and powerful A/V Amp - all my devices connect to that with one cable going from it to my output device (a Panasonic Projector). The Amp does all the video/audio switching for me ( as well as providing 7.1 DD/DTS kick ass sound:) ).
I clicked on your sig, thinking it was a proper 'expand replies' link, yes I'm an idiot, but in my defence, the current slashdot layout sucks so badly that this mistake is easy to do, and you agree I guess, else you wouldn't have made your sig that way. Anyway... as a public information exercise:
Warning, Clicking on Parents sig logs you out of Slashdot.
I know technically y'all like saying 'cancelled' but on the basis that SG-1 ran for 10 seasons, I'd hardly call that 'cancelled'. It's more accurate to state that 'it ended it's run' or 'completed' or simply just 'finished'.
When something gets canned after just the first season (Firefly), then THAT'S 'cancelled'.;)
I have actually looked on source of some programs, but not to search shit. This programs had some silly limitations, so I changed them. With closed source programs i couldn't do that, and this would really discard program for me.
Sounds like you are (sometime) programmer. If so, instead of bitching about closed source programs, just sit down and actually write something useful from scratch......and then like the rest of us, who have done this, think 'Shit, this is a good app, I'm going to release it to the world'... followed by... 'Um, while I'm at it, I'll charge or request donations, because, hey, I have to eat'......and then maybe you wont be so derisory of other peoples (closed source) work.
ebugging HTML/PHP/etc files: UltraEdit-32. $40 for the single best Swiss Army Editor I've ever found.
Seeing as you got flamed for this opinion, I thought I'd help you out.
UltraEdit-32 is damn good, I'm sure it's not as slick as some of the other Editors out there, but it has good syntax highlighting, tabs, and the ability to run macros or spawn sub processes and capture the output. Yes you have to put a bit of work in to get it how you like it, but overall it fits the bill, and if you can actually write code without needing noobie popup helps all the time, then it's a good editor.
Yes, an Editor. It's NOT an IDE. Good for many things, although master of none. Your mileage may vary however.
... They're coworkers. I involve myself in the dynamics of the job and the personalities of my coworkers. Anything less is... well, not doing your job....
Suddenly I thought I was reading a comment from an altogether different Slashdot. How did this post get through Slashdots lame-posts-only filter?
Fordiman, your view is truely insightful, <cliché> had I mod points I would mod you up </cliché>.
My office has a 60/40 male to female ratio. Not that anyone is counting; as you say, we're all co-workers, and as is right in this elightened millienium, gender is irrelevent. We all get on with each other, and even socially it's a complete mix of genders (and orientation).
Maybe this gender divide thing is only prevalent in US offices?
I am happily married so I am not in to the whole pr0n thing.
Whereas I agree with most of your post, I feel the above statement is illogical. How does 'happily married' equate to not being 'into' pr0n ? Plenty of people are happily married and also enjoy a healthy (for that is what it is) interest in pr0nography. For most non-single people good pr0n can augment and enhance their sex life.
I am also happily married, but I also have a pr0n thing going. It's wrong to co-join the two. I therefore posulate that what you meant to say was, quite simply:
I am not in to the whole pr0n thing
Sorry, but it just gets my goat when people try to claim that being 'happily married' means they no longer have sexual desires what so ever beyond the desire that they have for their partner.
In my pocket, is a PocketPC (cmon, no one calls it WinCE anymore) based phone PDA. It's an I-mate JAM, made by HTC.
Yeah, I have to reboot it a couple of times a month. Yeah, It has memory leaks. However, I have NEVER lost data. Overall it does the PDA things very well, and the phone bits (which I use less than the PDA bits) adequately. PocketPC suffers from the mis-conception that it's a just a PDA platform. It's not, it's a full Computer OS, with all the pitfalls, and all the benefits.
VMWare supports x64.. but not by providing x64 binaries, just by insuring their code runs under Windows on Windows.
Elaborating on the Parent further, WMWare Workstation (5.5.1 if anyones keeping track, not tried Server or had the luck to get grubby with ESX) does run as a 32-bit process on x64 Windows, BUT on x64 it allows you to also have x64 Guest OSs, whereas if you run it on a 32 bit host OS, you are (obviously) restricted to to 32-bit only Guest OSs.
The thing I don't get is, how can a 32-bit Application (VMWare), host 64-bit Operating Systems?
Anyway, I have x64 Windows (Svr 2003 SP1), VMWare, and Citrix hosted in a 32-bit Guest OS . It all runs quite happily, albeit slightly sluggish.
I'm sure thats sarcasm right? Although I always knew that Billy did more than one voice, I never ever during an episode think, 'hang on that's just one guy doing all the talking'.
If you seriously think they all just sound like Billy, then you obivously can't see the show for the voices, and should move on to watching something a little less complex.
-Jar.
NB. Family Guy/Futurama always jointly held my No. #1 Comedy-Animation slot, but recently I feel that Drawn Together should be up there too...
However there is a worrying trend starting to evolve. As you state they can now detect problems that years ago they'd just either not be worried about or not even notice. But now with all those extra detectors, alarms, and contingency plans, the slightest hint of something wrong, and it's abort mission time....
"This is Discovery, we've um, er, noticed that Jims biro is missing it's lid. Request permission to abort landing and commence immediate crew evacuation onto the ISS?"
NASA is obsessed with keeping it's crews alive. As previous posters have said, you can't make a shuttle omlette without breaking some astronaut eggs, and so far the death rate has been remarkably low for such an untested vehicle, in the ultimate hostile environment.
If directly after Columbia, NASA had done Astronaut Idol (complete with Ryan Seabreeze in a space suit), they'd still have people queuing across the US just for a chance to go up. With all the risks considered, I know I'd still chance it*.
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Not sure of the app name, it may have be an old version of LogoManager for Nokia Phones, either way, IIRC SMS messages are just sent via a convoluted AT command on the serial port of the phone its self, and there's a flag that determines what type of message it is.
I'm sure there's an RFC on it somewhere.
But you are right, you need direct access to the SMSC, and here in the UK (and Europe too I believe) that's publicly available information.
Of course to send SMSs properly you need a GSM datacard or Mobile Phone with a valid SIM in it, hooked up to your PC - Using any ather method (internet gateway et al.) is sure to end up in frustration.
-Jar.
Phone numbers are like domain names, they are a translation layer for us humans, the real address is the IMEI number, which is actually where the SMS's get sent. So even if you replace the SIM card, the SMS message can still be sent to the stolen phone.
pfft.
-Jar.
The kill signal will probably be in the format of a special (Operator) SMS text message. Much in the same way your Internet settings can be sent by your provider over the air (OTA) to your phone.
However, I had an app a while back that could 'build' Operator SMS messages and send them out to peoples phones, so yeah, unless the Operator takes serious steps to secure this system, it's gonna be hacked in no time. Once hacked, the concept will be useless, and the manufacturers will stop including the kill-system in the firmware...
-Jar.
Yup. Seconded.
...
They won't of course. We exist to serve Slashdot, not the the other way around.
Many Many Years Ago it was the trend to adapt the AIDS.GIF red ribbon into a variety of colours, including pink and put it somewhere prominent on your website for the duration of the awareness day/week/month. Alas now that sites are all shrink-wrapped copyrighted designs, there's no scope for that now. Which is a shame.
I'm a bloke, and on the denim jacket that I'm kinda addicted to wearing, is always the current Breast Cancer ribbon badge (or 'button' if you are from the US*), along with a large Star Trek insignia, a SuSe Tux, an Aids Ribbon, and a Scottish Flag. Yes.... I'm [very] Sad.
-Jar.
*What IS that all about? Buttons are the things that hold your shirt closed....
Only in your country, dude. The rest of the world didn't give a fig.
-Jar.
C'mon, they've made the effort to post to slashdot*, it's assumed they've exhaused all other avenues.
;)
-Jar.
*Because we all know how easy it is to get a submission accepted.
How so ? Last time I checked, one needed a licence to broadcast on the FM frequencies.
-Jar.
In Europe this concept has already been proved previously using the SCART or Peritel connector. Devices with these sockets tradtionally have two of them, and when the device is off the signal is passed through from one socket to the other with supposedly no degradation.
:) ).
I can tell you now, MOST homes in the UK are currently daisy chaining their Cable/Sky box through their DVD player/recorder into their TVs via several SCART cables.
So, no, HDMI chaining isn't silly, it's a damn good idea.
On a personal note, I have a very large and powerful A/V Amp - all my devices connect to that with one cable going from it to my output device (a Panasonic Projector). The Amp does all the video/audio switching for me ( as well as providing 7.1 DD/DTS kick ass sound
-Jar.
I clicked on your sig, thinking it was a proper 'expand replies' link, yes I'm an idiot, but in my defence, the current slashdot layout sucks so badly that this mistake is easy to do, and you agree I guess, else you wouldn't have made your sig that way. Anyway... as a public information exercise:
Warning, Clicking on Parents sig logs you out of Slashdot.
-Jar.
I know technically y'all like saying 'cancelled' but on the basis that SG-1 ran for 10 seasons, I'd hardly call that 'cancelled'. It's more accurate to state that 'it ended it's run' or 'completed' or simply just 'finished'.
When something gets canned after just the first season (Firefly), then THAT'S 'cancelled'.
-Jar.
There's also a decent Wikipedia entry on Arachne, complete with screenshots (which unfortunately, the Arachne homepage doesn't have).
-Jar.
Sounds like you are (sometime) programmer. If so, instead of bitching about closed source programs, just sit down and actually write something useful from scratch...
-Jar.
Seeing as you got flamed for this opinion, I thought I'd help you out.
UltraEdit-32 is damn good, I'm sure it's not as slick as some of the other Editors out there, but it has good syntax highlighting, tabs, and the ability to run macros or spawn sub processes and capture the output. Yes you have to put a bit of work in to get it how you like it, but overall it fits the bill, and if you can actually write code without needing noobie popup helps all the time, then it's a good editor.
Yes, an Editor. It's NOT an IDE. Good for many things, although master of none. Your mileage may vary however.
-Jar.
Suddenly I thought I was reading a comment from an altogether different Slashdot. How did this post get through Slashdots lame-posts-only filter?
Fordiman, your view is truely insightful, <cliché> had I mod points I would mod you up </cliché>.
My office has a 60/40 male to female ratio. Not that anyone is counting; as you say, we're all co-workers, and as is right in this elightened millienium, gender is irrelevent. We all get on with each other, and even socially it's a complete mix of genders (and orientation).
Maybe this gender divide thing is only prevalent in US offices?
-Jar.
Whereas I agree with most of your post, I feel the above statement is illogical. How does 'happily married' equate to not being 'into' pr0n ? Plenty of people are happily married and also enjoy a healthy (for that is what it is) interest in pr0nography. For most non-single people good pr0n can augment and enhance their sex life.
I am also happily married, but I also have a pr0n thing going. It's wrong to co-join the two. I therefore posulate that what you meant to say was, quite simply:
Sorry, but it just gets my goat when people try to claim that being 'happily married' means they no longer have sexual desires what so ever beyond the desire that they have for their partner.
-Jar.
Make them sterile, so that there's no fertilization outside of the lab
That didn't really work for Jurassic Park though did it ?
-Jar.
Hmmm nice idea. However, almost ALL commercial piercing metals are non-magnetic, such as titatanium, niobium, and um... adamantium.
-Jar.
You are single aren't you ?
-Jar.
Thanks to Windows Update, yes. A small price to pay for a well protected machine. ;)
Unlike my PC, my phone/pda reboots in under 30 seconds, it's hardly an inconvenience.
-Jar.
Wow, I wasn't aware that RealDolls could be upgraded in that way. ;)
-Jar.
In my pocket, is a PocketPC (cmon, no one calls it WinCE anymore) based phone PDA. It's an I-mate JAM, made by HTC.
Yeah, I have to reboot it a couple of times a month. Yeah, It has memory leaks. However, I have NEVER lost data. Overall it does the PDA things very well, and the phone bits (which I use less than the PDA bits) adequately. PocketPC suffers from the mis-conception that it's a just a PDA platform. It's not, it's a full Computer OS, with all the pitfalls, and all the benefits.
-Jar.
Like crack-cocaine ?
-Jar.
Elaborating on the Parent further, WMWare Workstation (5.5.1 if anyones keeping track, not tried Server or had the luck to get grubby with ESX) does run as a 32-bit process on x64 Windows, BUT on x64 it allows you to also have x64 Guest OSs, whereas if you run it on a 32 bit host OS, you are (obviously) restricted to to 32-bit only Guest OSs.
The thing I don't get is, how can a 32-bit Application (VMWare), host 64-bit Operating Systems?
Anyway, I have x64 Windows (Svr 2003 SP1), VMWare, and Citrix hosted in a 32-bit Guest OS . It all runs quite happily, albeit slightly sluggish.
-Jar.
I'm sure thats sarcasm right? Although I always knew that Billy did more than one voice, I never ever during an episode think, 'hang on that's just one guy doing all the talking'.
If you seriously think they all just sound like Billy, then you obivously can't see the show for the voices, and should move on to watching something a little less complex.
-Jar.
NB. Family Guy/Futurama always jointly held my No. #1 Comedy-Animation slot, but recently I feel that Drawn Together should be up there too...
However there is a worrying trend starting to evolve. As you state they can now detect problems that years ago they'd just either not be worried about or not even notice. But now with all those extra detectors, alarms, and contingency plans, the slightest hint of something wrong, and it's abort mission time....
"This is Discovery, we've um, er, noticed that Jims biro is missing it's lid. Request permission to abort landing and commence immediate crew evacuation onto the ISS?"
NASA is obsessed with keeping it's crews alive. As previous posters have said, you can't make a shuttle omlette without breaking some astronaut eggs, and so far the death rate has been remarkably low for such an untested vehicle, in the ultimate hostile environment.
If directly after Columbia, NASA had done Astronaut Idol (complete with Ryan Seabreeze in a space suit), they'd still have people queuing across the US just for a chance to go up. With all the risks considered, I know I'd still chance it*.
-Jar.
*Cept I can't coz I'm a Brit.