If they did it with any kind of sense, they would not tag pictures they weren't confident enough of. But of course, i didn't read the fine article. This is/. after all:)
Marillion did the same thing to a whole album (Anoraknophobia) as a competition a few years back and released the best remixes as the CD Remixomatosis (and the nearly-best-remixes as a "free" fan club CD). Winners also got cash prices, and many of the remixes sound really, really excellent.
Cool. Then he might be interested in fighting malaria. Providing people with mosquito nets impregnated with mozzie repellant is cheap compared to having nations on malaria. Same goes for dengue.
I think the Red Cross should allow for the red cross symbol to appear anywhere where it supports the Red Cross. It's free PR. It's putting the Red Cross in positive light. It is imprinting a symbol in the mids of youths that play videogames but don't have a clue on what the real Red Cross does or what they work for.
They should take the advantage of the fact that people are making the connection between the symbol and "Red Cross". They shouldn't defend their symbol like a brand. I can go that far that Red Cross would demand that game and movie producers ask for permission to use the symbol, but that they would allow producers to use the symbol free of charge as long as it's done in a way that's in line with the Red Cross. Heck, it's free advertising. Many companies would pay for that!
Well, that's why you have Erlang's queue theories. The idea is that not all users should have a sustained need to 100 Mbps (yes i know Bittorrent is a thorn in the model). You can put a whole bunch of 100 Mbps users behind a 1 Gbps uplink, provided they behave, and everybody will feel they have a tremendous network experience.
At my previous work, we had some Windows servers, and they were all behind a KVM. One way to help the poor sysadmin (me) to remember which box he was on was to rename the My Computer icon into the hostname of that computer.
The trend caught on with the more computer-savvy people, but the downside was that there was no consistent "My Computer" icon to click when some of the more computer-savvy people turned out to be less computer-savvy after all. "Huh? I don't have an icon that says My Computer...". We solved this by instructing users to get to the disks through Explorer and the Control panel through the Start menu, and everything was nice and kentucky again.
Even if you hire a contractor, you will need to be a Customer With A Clue. Thus, it makes perfect sense that papaia would first do some initial probing and specsing, and i don't see/. a bad forum for that. If you don't do some initial "research" and check for input from your geekly peers, you'll have no idea what the contractor is talking about and how good, bad or worthless his/her suggestions are.
Btw, you should also make the conference room look and sound cool, to enhance the impression that this really is something worthy. You're supposed to do work in the room and everything in the design should support that, and the image thereof. The picture of the distance learning class on Wikipedia shows as a warning example: lots of dosh has probably been poured into the big screens and projectors, but you don't get the feel that this is something nifty, and the hard surfaces and unforgiving lightning will not be good for a classy meeting. Use clever and dimmable mixed lightning (fluorecent for utility, halos for nift), discreet carpentry to make it look and sound worthy, good but quiet air conditioning, and a couple of real plants.
Use noise dampening material in walls and door. Even if a meeting is hilarious on the inside, it can be hell to listen to it from the outside, and it feels a lot more secure to talk when you know that all you say isn't heard on the outside.
Install discrete speakers. Mount them into the walls or roof if you can. The meeting room will double as a movie theater and Quake arena after hours, so make sure it has proper oomph. Again, the echo/noise cancelling carpentry plays an important role here. Put plant on subwoofer:)
Put the video projectors and all other noisy equipment in a separate room, and shoot the picture through a high window from it. Or at least make sure your video projector is roof-mounted or laptop covers will obscure the picture, the picture will be distorted ("unstraight"), somebody always needs to focus the damn projector, and the people sitting next to the projector will hear less because of the fan. And it looks unsexy.
Get a slightly oval table so that everyone can see each other. Use old-tech flap boards for local work. They make easier giant-size printouts than the high tech computerized variety, even if they're not as sexy. Whiteboards are always useful, and the idea of having a whole wall that's a whiteboard is temptind but make sure you don't get a noisy environment by having such a large and reflective surface. Make sure that magnets stick to your whiteboard, and even more importantly, see that there are always a host of whiteboard markers and clean erasers available. As soon as one marker shows decay, throw it away. Clean the accumulated thin layer of whiteboard marker markings with a damp cloth daily, so that the whiteboard doesn't become a greyboard.
Get chairs that are confortable but not drowse-inducing, and do not squeak. Beta test chairs on real meeings before buying anything. Instead of having a more pronounced "chairperson's chair", have one end of the table looking slightly more pronounced. The table we had in our "top" meeting room was like an oval with the "pointy" ends cut off, only one end was cut off a little more than the other, so that the straight part on that one side was a little bit wider. This creates an illusion that it's the place of the chairperson.
As suggested in a previous article, have electrical and Ethernet outlets in the table. We've had solutions both above (actually, inside, but accessed from above) and under the table, and it is easier for everyone to plug into something they can see, rather than have everyone do an under-the-table excercise before the meeting, even if it looks nicer without the cables going over the conf room table. If you want to be insanely nifty, draw the Ethernet and power connectors into small groups between every two participant spots. Won't cost much extra, and you're preparing for microphone
I'm sure it will come with a video output. Even the iPod photo does. Sure, BSG won't look too impressive on 2½ inch but who says Steve won't just push an iPod with a touch sensitive screen covering the whole front plate of the iPod.
Me, i'm waiting for a media player with iPod's usability that has a big capacity and can play oggs. Sure, i will have Moving Pictures on this player, but this will be
an album by Rush.
Meters to feet is bad enough but i can more or less approximate it, but these square feet kill me (npi). I read these nice/. posts about new offices and they measure things in fifteen thousand square feet and i have absolutely no mental image of how it relates to square meters. Not nice.
Now if you added collaborative filtering (see Amphetarate) we would have something infinitely cool. A TV viewer/recorder/broadcast station that "tivo-recommends" shows you'd want to see. Whoa.
What's needed now is something that looks and works like an iPod, but is actually an RF remote control for AirTunes...
What's needed now is an iPod with WLAN that can control that iTunes/AirTunes thingy. Oh, that's right, it's called a pokketpc browsing the Slimp server (or wwwinamp) web interface. Still an iPod with WLAN makes sense in some weird way.
I wonder which gets rolled out on a large scale first; IPv6 or BIC-TCP?
~llauren
Yes, but a nail file? (or "why integrate these?"
on
USB Swiss Army Knife
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· Score: 2, Interesting
Sure is nice with this combination, but a nail file?! I mean, which geek out there regularily needs and uses a nail file? I would much rather have those small pliers to pull jumper tabs with.
Truth is, my combo of choise is a Swiss army knife, Space Pen (HP schwag), a LED Lenser flash lite and a USB memory fob that plays music. The USB memory will be outdated in about a year and a half and the flash light has already dropped the little rubber thingy on the switch. But i have had that same Swiss army knife for ten years, used it and abused it (and happily pulled little jumper tabs with the small pliers) and i won't leave home without it. Well, except for the plane.
The babelfish translation makes a humourous point as is says:
Mandrake, editor French of the distribution Linux eponyme, was condemned by the TGI of Paris,
to pour 70 000 Euro at the American companies Hearst Holdings and King Fearture Syndicate (...)
Ah! Sun Tzu! An excellent book which i higly recommend to my fellow/. readers!
But anyway, don't you think tose babylonians, egyptians and cavemen were even earlier than Chau(n)cer? (Ugh. So kill mammut. Find one mammut. With many men and many spears, kill mammut. Then feast. Ugh.)
OK, maybe i should have RTFA just one more time before posting... HOWEVER, the test page did said something like "if you can see this, you are spoofed", so.. (maybe i should stop talking now:)
Is the "@-spoof" really a spoof? According to RFC2396, section 3.2.2 "Server-based Naming Authority", this is a feature of the URI and not a bug or a spoof.
Certainly it can be made to fool even an enlightened user, but isn't it wrong to cripple a browser's ability to adhere to the "Uniform Resource Identifiers (URI): Generic Syntax" RFC -- and even more so with spyware;)
Browsing the
"test page" at Openwares with my Konqueror gives me the spoof page. Good. That just means that Konqueror is RFC2396-compliant (but should i patch anyway?;).
I first came across this "bug" about two years ago when i was forwarded an
"authentic" page from Microsoft Support: Q209354 - HOWTO (mirror). It took me a while to realize that nobody at M$ was going to be fired for this type of creativity.
See
The Reg for an article for some coverage -- although the host hwnd.net is off the net, so you can't really try to get spoofed.
Number portability has been possible since this summer in Finland. We moved from one operator to another one with our company and i was the primus motor behind the transfer.
The transfer was relatively painless. Trying to understand the cost structure behind a call was much harder. We called a couple of companies for quotes and went for the cheapest (reputable) one, RSL Com, who works with Finnet, who, in turn, is a notable player in the Finnish field.
When the Great GSM Changeover finally happened, the sales guy from RSL Com came around with a truckload of beer (it was a part of the deal, thanks to my excellent negotiation;) and was at the office to personally see that things actually worked. And they did. Though it was kind of fun (in a geeky way) to see that both my old and new connection worked at the same time, and i could call my new connection with my old connection and see that it was me calling:).
Our phone costs have gone down enough to keep the bosses happy. Heck, my chief even said i could take my wife and the company credit card out to dinner. Not bad!
There was an article, featured on Slashdot, quite some time ago, which could be applied here. The thought was that if an identified spammer tries to send to your SMTP server, the service would be slowed down.
To protect both the ISP and the innocent, they could implement a feature where after 20 mails in 10 minutes, mails would only be processed at the speed of, say, one mail per 30 seconds, and maybe slowing progressively after each 100 mails. When the mail pipe has been silent for a given amout of time, say ten minutes, the "mail slower" would be reset.
This wouldn't make much difference for the legit home user but for the spammer (and for a business connection) it would be a tar pit to avoid.
This could probably be implemented just by installing a crappier mail server;)
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Unless you want to serve a semicircular pi, make it round and call it what it is, a 2 pi.
If they did it with any kind of sense, they would not tag pictures they weren't confident enough of. But of course, i didn't read the fine article. This is /. after all :)
Marillion did the same thing to a whole album (Anoraknophobia) as a competition a few years back and released the best remixes as the CD Remixomatosis (and the nearly-best-remixes as a "free" fan club CD). Winners also got cash prices, and many of the remixes sound really, really excellent.
Cool. Then he might be interested in fighting malaria. Providing people with mosquito nets impregnated with mozzie repellant is cheap compared to having nations on malaria. Same goes for dengue.
I think the Red Cross should allow for the red cross symbol to appear anywhere where it supports the Red Cross. It's free PR. It's putting the Red Cross in positive light. It is imprinting a symbol in the mids of youths that play videogames but don't have a clue on what the real Red Cross does or what they work for.
They should take the advantage of the fact that people are making the connection between the symbol and "Red Cross". They shouldn't defend their symbol like a brand. I can go that far that Red Cross would demand that game and movie producers ask for permission to use the symbol, but that they would allow producers to use the symbol free of charge as long as it's done in a way that's in line with the Red Cross. Heck, it's free advertising. Many companies would pay for that!
~rL
The flag of Japan?
Well, that's why you have Erlang's queue theories. The idea is that not all users should have a sustained need to 100 Mbps (yes i know Bittorrent is a thorn in the model). You can put a whole bunch of 100 Mbps users behind a 1 Gbps uplink, provided they behave, and everybody will feel they have a tremendous network experience.
~rL
Heck, he even designed a keyboard with all the keys in the wrong places :)
At my previous work, we had some Windows servers, and they were all behind a KVM. One way to help the poor sysadmin (me) to remember which box he was on was to rename the My Computer icon into the hostname of that computer.
The trend caught on with the more computer-savvy people, but the downside was that there was no consistent "My Computer" icon to click when some of the more computer-savvy people turned out to be less computer-savvy after all. "Huh? I don't have an icon that says My Computer...". We solved this by instructing users to get to the disks through Explorer and the Control panel through the Start menu, and everything was nice and kentucky again.
~rL
Even if you hire a contractor, you will need to be a Customer With A Clue. Thus, it makes perfect sense that papaia would first do some initial probing and specsing, and i don't see /. a bad forum for that. If you don't do some initial "research" and check for input from your geekly peers, you'll have no idea what the contractor is talking about and how good, bad or worthless his/her suggestions are.
Btw, you should also make the conference room look and sound cool, to enhance the impression that this really is something worthy. You're supposed to do work in the room and everything in the design should support that, and the image thereof. The picture of the distance learning class on Wikipedia shows as a warning example: lots of dosh has probably been poured into the big screens and projectors, but you don't get the feel that this is something nifty, and the hard surfaces and unforgiving lightning will not be good for a classy meeting. Use clever and dimmable mixed lightning (fluorecent for utility, halos for nift), discreet carpentry to make it look and sound worthy, good but quiet air conditioning, and a couple of real plants.
Use noise dampening material in walls and door. Even if a meeting is hilarious on the inside, it can be hell to listen to it from the outside, and it feels a lot more secure to talk when you know that all you say isn't heard on the outside.
Install discrete speakers. Mount them into the walls or roof if you can. The meeting room will double as a movie theater and Quake arena after hours, so make sure it has proper oomph. Again, the echo/noise cancelling carpentry plays an important role here. Put plant on subwoofer :)
Put the video projectors and all other noisy equipment in a separate room, and shoot the picture through a high window from it. Or at least make sure your video projector is roof-mounted or laptop covers will obscure the picture, the picture will be distorted ("unstraight"), somebody always needs to focus the damn projector, and the people sitting next to the projector will hear less because of the fan. And it looks unsexy.
Get a slightly oval table so that everyone can see each other. Use old-tech flap boards for local work. They make easier giant-size printouts than the high tech computerized variety, even if they're not as sexy. Whiteboards are always useful, and the idea of having a whole wall that's a whiteboard is temptind but make sure you don't get a noisy environment by having such a large and reflective surface. Make sure that magnets stick to your whiteboard, and even more importantly, see that there are always a host of whiteboard markers and clean erasers available. As soon as one marker shows decay, throw it away. Clean the accumulated thin layer of whiteboard marker markings with a damp cloth daily, so that the whiteboard doesn't become a greyboard.
Get chairs that are confortable but not drowse-inducing, and do not squeak. Beta test chairs on real meeings before buying anything. Instead of having a more pronounced "chairperson's chair", have one end of the table looking slightly more pronounced. The table we had in our "top" meeting room was like an oval with the "pointy" ends cut off, only one end was cut off a little more than the other, so that the straight part on that one side was a little bit wider. This creates an illusion that it's the place of the chairperson.
As suggested in a previous article, have electrical and Ethernet outlets in the table. We've had solutions both above (actually, inside, but accessed from above) and under the table, and it is easier for everyone to plug into something they can see, rather than have everyone do an under-the-table excercise before the meeting, even if it looks nicer without the cables going over the conf room table. If you want to be insanely nifty, draw the Ethernet and power connectors into small groups between every two participant spots. Won't cost much extra, and you're preparing for microphone
I'm sure it will come with a video output. Even the iPod photo does. Sure, BSG won't look too impressive on 2½ inch but who says Steve won't just push an iPod with a touch sensitive screen covering the whole front plate of the iPod.
Me, i'm waiting for a media player with iPod's usability that has a big capacity and can play oggs. Sure, i will have Moving Pictures on this player, but this will be an album by Rush.
~rL
Come on, the Cube was nifty. It just didn't sell well. If it was a flop, then it was a marketing flop, not a technological one.
:)
Thinking of it, you could recreate some of the cube spirit using two or three minimacs
~rL
Meters to feet is bad enough but i can more or less approximate it, but these square feet kill me (npi). I read these nice /. posts about new offices and they measure things in fifteen thousand square feet and i have absolutely no mental image of how it relates to square meters. Not nice.
~llauren
Now if you added collaborative filtering (see Amphetarate) we would have something infinitely cool. A TV viewer/recorder/broadcast station that "tivo-recommends" shows you'd want to see. Whoa.
~llauren
What's needed now is an iPod with WLAN that can control that iTunes/AirTunes thingy. Oh, that's right, it's called a pokketpc browsing the Slimp server (or wwwinamp) web interface. Still an iPod with WLAN makes sense in some weird way.
~llauren
All they now need is a toilet-robot.
~llauren
I wonder which gets rolled out on a large scale first; IPv6 or BIC-TCP?
~llauren
Sure is nice with this combination, but a nail file?! I mean, which geek out there regularily needs and uses a nail file? I would much rather have those small pliers to pull jumper tabs with.
Truth is, my combo of choise is a Swiss army knife, Space Pen (HP schwag), a LED Lenser flash lite and a USB memory fob that plays music. The USB memory will be outdated in about a year and a half and the flash light has already dropped the little rubber thingy on the switch. But i have had that same Swiss army knife for ten years, used it and abused it (and happily pulled little jumper tabs with the small pliers) and i won't leave home without it. Well, except for the plane.
The babelfish translation makes a humourous point as is says:
(emphasis mine)
~llauren
Ah! Sun Tzu! An excellent book which i higly recommend to my fellow /. readers!
But anyway, don't you think tose babylonians, egyptians and cavemen were even earlier than Chau(n)cer? (Ugh. So kill mammut. Find one mammut. With many men and many spears, kill mammut. Then feast. Ugh.)
~llauren
(*embarrassed*)
OK, maybe i should have RTFA just one more time before posting... HOWEVER, the test page did said something like "if you can see this, you are spoofed", so .. (maybe i should stop talking now :)
~llauren
Is the "@-spoof" really a spoof? According to RFC2396, section 3.2.2 "Server-based Naming Authority", this is a feature of the URI and not a bug or a spoof.
Certainly it can be made to fool even an enlightened user, but isn't it wrong to cripple a browser's ability to adhere to the "Uniform Resource Identifiers (URI): Generic Syntax" RFC -- and even more so with spyware ;)
Browsing the "test page" at Openwares with my Konqueror gives me the spoof page. Good. That just means that Konqueror is RFC2396-compliant (but should i patch anyway? ;).
I first came across this "bug" about two years ago when i was forwarded an "authentic" page from Microsoft Support: Q209354 - HOWTO (mirror). It took me a while to realize that nobody at M$ was going to be fired for this type of creativity.
See The Reg for an article for some coverage -- although the host hwnd.net is off the net, so you can't really try to get spoofed.
Number portability has been possible since this summer in Finland. We moved from one operator to another one with our company and i was the primus motor behind the transfer.
The transfer was relatively painless. Trying to understand the cost structure behind a call was much harder. We called a couple of companies for quotes and went for the cheapest (reputable) one, RSL Com, who works with Finnet, who, in turn, is a notable player in the Finnish field.
When the Great GSM Changeover finally happened, the sales guy from RSL Com came around with a truckload of beer (it was a part of the deal, thanks to my excellent negotiation ;) and was at the office to personally see that things actually worked. And they did. Though it was kind of fun (in a geeky way) to see that both my old and new connection worked at the same time, and i could call my new connection with my old connection and see that it was me calling :).
Our phone costs have gone down enough to keep the bosses happy. Heck, my chief even said i could take my wife and the company credit card out to dinner. Not bad!
~llauren
There was an article, featured on Slashdot, quite some time ago, which could be applied here. The thought was that if an identified spammer tries to send to your SMTP server, the service would be slowed down.
To protect both the ISP and the innocent, they could implement a feature where after 20 mails in 10 minutes, mails would only be processed at the speed of, say, one mail per 30 seconds, and maybe slowing progressively after each 100 mails. When the mail pipe has been silent for a given amout of time, say ten minutes, the "mail slower" would be reset.
This wouldn't make much difference for the legit home user but for the spammer (and for a business connection) it would be a tar pit to avoid.
This could probably be implemented just by installing a crappier mail server ;)
~llauren
OK. As long as an article is presented with a typo, it's not very credible either, now is it...
~llauren