For email hosting, I'd have to recommend Securenym. I signed up with them initially because I got tired of changing email addresses every time I switched to a new ISP, and it has been well worth the $5 a month it costs. (And about $3/month for additional addresses, I believe.) The big seller for me, though, was the fact that all communications can be encrypted. IMAP, POP3, SMTP, their SquirrelMail client are all protected by SSL. This is highly important to me since I want to be able to read my email from any foreign network (even wireless) without worrying whether my traffic is being sniffed or not.
Google Image search also gives much more hits than the MSN equivalent.
I noticed this... MSN's image search so far seems rather weak. Additionally, I heard awhile ago that Google's image search was next to useless since it hadn't been updated in over a year. Has this changed?
Er, I thought all open source project managers were rather selective about who gets commit authority on the source tree?
Could someone point me to a high-profile open-source project that gives CVS commit privileges to any old bloke who comes along? I intend to use this information so that I know which projects to avoid in the future. Thank you.
This has been a big thing holding me back from the 17" powerbook. There's plenty of room for a full-sized keyboard and whenever I stand back and look at the machine, all I can think of is damn that's a lot of wasted space. There are 17" HPs and Compaqs that just look far better than the 17" powerbook... such a shame, especially since it's Apple we're talking about here. I'll be an Apple customer the very second they update the 17" powerbook to look less ugly and throw in an actual numberpad.
To those who might have skipped over the link in the parent, go back and click on it. Microsoft wasn't feeling charitable today: the European Union is very close to deciding whether to support either OpenDocument (developed by the OpenOffice and KOffice teams) or Microsoft XML as their "official" document format and OpenDocument had the lead, but not by much... Microsoft's XML formats were technically superior, the biggest drawback was that their schema were closed.
So, the fact that they're now open is not particularly good news for the open source community. It's like the browser wars all over again...
You think a one-year arc was a bad idea, how about 7? That was what sucked most about Voyager. You knew from the very first episode how the entire series was going to play out. They'd be cruising their way home, encountering hostile life-forms, occasionally saving themselves a few decades worth of time, picking up a new crew member here and there...
My theory on why calculators and computer keyboard number pads are "upside down" is because this puts the 0 key underneath the thumb at all times, whereas you have to travel a bit for all the numbers and operators. The 0 key is probably the most-often struck key when entering monetary values, although I'd probably rather have my thumb under the decimal point most often for both monetary values and IP addresses.
Er, I thought the newer realplayer releases were based on some kind of open-source Helix player?
Slashdot readers, if you're going to bash Real for wanting to distribute "proprietary" products that are based on open-source projects that they help develop or fund, then please also do not endorse the following:
* OpenOffice (Sun) * Mozilla (Netscape) * Evolution, Gaim (Novell) * Quanta (TheKompany) * Perl, Python, Tcl (ActiveState) * Red Hat, SuSE, and most other commercial Linux distributions
No idea if this has been mentioned yet, but I ran across an article yeterday that says that IBM is donating 500 of its software patents to the open source community.
Here's hoping this ends up being more than the symbolic public affairs move it resembles on the surface.
unless you're stepping onna commercial station's signal, who is really going to complain?
This is what I thought too, but wasn't really sure. Thanks for the info! Are there any other FM transmitters that you know of or recommend? I'm good with electronics, but not so much with radio per se and have been considering tinkering with a few side projects in the near future.
I see a lot of posts here about how this transmitter could possibly get one into a lot of trouble with the FCC. My question is: how are they going to know if I'm broadcasting a technically illegal FM signal that only travels a very small distance like a block or so? Do they have undercover listening stations set up every 1/2 mile in the city? Do they patrol the streets daily in black vans looking for unlicensed signals? Or do they only rely on complaints from citizens? (In the latter case, few are going to be smart enough to tell the difference between my private household MP3 station and bona-fide radio...)
Have they gone mad? How can I possibly bring myself to shell out for a new Quake title that Carmack himself didn't lovingly craft with his own hand and sick, twisted brain?
When I was upgrading it a week or two ago to FreeBSD 5.3, I thought about making the switch to Apache 2.0. But then I thought... What is that going to bring me?
Supported software. Apache 1.x is legacy code. Use it while you can, but you're really only putting off the inevitable switch to 2.x. Maybe this is your preference, I dunno. But I'd rather switch now so I don't have to rush through a conversion when my applications finally break or get hacked... and users/boss are jumping down my throat to hurry up and get it switched over.
This must be a tricky political situation for Apache. PHP users are some of their main customers so if ASF declares one day that 1.x will receieve no further bugfixes, the PHP crowd would likely fork Apache. (And from the looks of it, they just might anyway.) On the other hand, they really want to push Apache 2.x to the forefront because it's so much more powerful. They want to focus on making Apache 2 even better rather than constantly patching up the latest 1.3.x vulnerabilities.
I never have 10 Mozilla windows open, but even a high number of tabs doesn't seem to bother my Mozilla very much. They sometimes slow it down considerably, though.
Also, Mozilla suite has a higher version number which, for some reason, keeps ignorant IT managers more at ease.
Mozilla is also more stable. I had tried Firefox throughout the pre-1.0 milestones and never had any sort of luck with stability. When 1.0 came out there was all this hype around it, so I decided to try it for a week on my home network. Installed it on my Linux laptop, my FreeBSD workstation, and my wife's WinXP machine. Firefox 1.0 crashed about once daily on each and every machine. Even more frequently when very large pages were being loaded (e.g., 5MB of HTML tables) or if there were something on the order of 15 or more tabs open. I also ran into problems with certain Flash and Java crashing the browser. On FreeBSD, 1.0 crashes reproducibly when you try to open the print dialog. Last time I checked, there was no fix planned, only an obscure workaround that hasn't yet been published anywhere but the mailing list archives.
I can't remember the last time Mozilla has crashed on me, and it's been a very long time since Mozilla has had any issues with plugins, printing or anything else.
As a result of my experiences with Firefox, I have managed to dissuade several friends from using it in lieu of the much more mature of featureful Mozilla suite. Having a stable mail client built-in is a big draw, too. If they use Firefox instead of Mozilla, they have to search for a standalone email client or just go with Mozilla, which kinda defeats the purpose of having the stand-alone Firefox in the first place.
Sure, there's Thunderbird, but it's even worse off than Firefox in the maturity and stability department and most of my family tends to rate email as more important than web browsing.
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this is more analagous to being able to tap everybody's cell phone, hoping to find one or two people selling drugs.
Um, sorry, but they already do this. It is (or was) called Echelon.
Is somebody else using "Thunderbird" for a software project?
Had to chuckle when reading this on the main page:
At the moment the "Sunbird" name is a project name. It is not official and may change in the future.
At least they got that out of the way from the get-go.
That's what I feared... oh well.
For email hosting, I'd have to recommend Securenym. I signed up with them initially because I got tired of changing email addresses every time I switched to a new ISP, and it has been well worth the $5 a month it costs. (And about $3/month for additional addresses, I believe.) The big seller for me, though, was the fact that all communications can be encrypted. IMAP, POP3, SMTP, their SquirrelMail client are all protected by SSL. This is highly important to me since I want to be able to read my email from any foreign network (even wireless) without worrying whether my traffic is being sniffed or not.
Google Image search also gives much more hits than the MSN equivalent.
I noticed this... MSN's image search so far seems rather weak. Additionally, I heard awhile ago that Google's image search was next to useless since it hadn't been updated in over a year. Has this changed?
Er, I thought all open source project managers were rather selective about who gets commit authority on the source tree?
Could someone point me to a high-profile open-source project that gives CVS commit privileges to any old bloke who comes along? I intend to use this information so that I know which projects to avoid in the future. Thank you.
This has been a big thing holding me back from the 17" powerbook. There's plenty of room for a full-sized keyboard and whenever I stand back and look at the machine, all I can think of is damn that's a lot of wasted space. There are 17" HPs and Compaqs that just look far better than the 17" powerbook... such a shame, especially since it's Apple we're talking about here. I'll be an Apple customer the very second they update the 17" powerbook to look less ugly and throw in an actual numberpad.
To those who might have skipped over the link in the parent, go back and click on it. Microsoft wasn't feeling charitable today: the European Union is very close to deciding whether to support either OpenDocument (developed by the OpenOffice and KOffice teams) or Microsoft XML as their "official" document format and OpenDocument had the lead, but not by much... Microsoft's XML formats were technically superior, the biggest drawback was that their schema were closed.
So, the fact that they're now open is not particularly good news for the open source community. It's like the browser wars all over again...
The 1 year arc was just a bad idea.
You think a one-year arc was a bad idea, how about 7? That was what sucked most about Voyager. You knew from the very first episode how the entire series was going to play out. They'd be cruising their way home, encountering hostile life-forms, occasionally saving themselves a few decades worth of time, picking up a new crew member here and there...
My theory on why calculators and computer keyboard number pads are "upside down" is because this puts the 0 key underneath the thumb at all times, whereas you have to travel a bit for all the numbers and operators. The 0 key is probably the most-often struck key when entering monetary values, although I'd probably rather have my thumb under the decimal point most often for both monetary values and IP addresses.
Er, I thought the newer realplayer releases were based on some kind of open-source Helix player?
Slashdot readers, if you're going to bash Real for wanting to distribute "proprietary" products that are based on open-source projects that they help develop or fund, then please also do not endorse the following:
* OpenOffice (Sun)
* Mozilla (Netscape)
* Evolution, Gaim (Novell)
* Quanta (TheKompany)
* Perl, Python, Tcl (ActiveState)
* Red Hat, SuSE, and most other commercial Linux distributions
Thank you.
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Here's a better picture of the stone crab on a black background. Just a little bigger and it would make one awesome wallpaper.
http://www.oceans.gov.au/norfanz/images/creature_
All hail Spiky Ubercrab!
No idea if this has been mentioned yet, but I ran across an article yeterday that says that IBM is donating 500 of its software patents to the open source community.
Here's hoping this ends up being more than the symbolic public affairs move it resembles on the surface.
Next time, try more sarcasm.
But with the extra CPU horsepower we have today I'm surprised fractal image compression hasn't become more prevailant.
Bear in mind also that hard disk space has become more prevalient as well. 50k bytes for an image is a drop in the bucket for most people these days.
I always thought the main danger to radiation (low-intensity, long-term at any rate) was that it was known to damage DNA.
unless you're stepping onna commercial station's signal, who is really going to complain?
This is what I thought too, but wasn't really sure. Thanks for the info! Are there any other FM transmitters that you know of or recommend? I'm good with electronics, but not so much with radio per se and have been considering tinkering with a few side projects in the near future.
I see a lot of posts here about how this transmitter could possibly get one into a lot of trouble with the FCC. My question is: how are they going to know if I'm broadcasting a technically illegal FM signal that only travels a very small distance like a block or so? Do they have undercover listening stations set up every 1/2 mile in the city? Do they patrol the streets daily in black vans looking for unlicensed signals? Or do they only rely on complaints from citizens? (In the latter case, few are going to be smart enough to tell the difference between my private household MP3 station and bona-fide radio...)
No, you missed the point. You're supposed to take the game out of it's cellophane and cardboard packaging and play it on your computer.
Have they gone mad? How can I possibly bring myself to shell out for a new Quake title that Carmack himself didn't lovingly craft with his own hand and sick, twisted brain?
Heresy, I say!
When I was upgrading it a week or two ago to FreeBSD 5.3, I thought about making the switch to Apache 2.0. But then I thought
Supported software. Apache 1.x is legacy code. Use it while you can, but you're really only putting off the inevitable switch to 2.x. Maybe this is your preference, I dunno. But I'd rather switch now so I don't have to rush through a conversion when my applications finally break or get hacked... and users/boss are jumping down my throat to hurry up and get it switched over.
This must be a tricky political situation for Apache. PHP users are some of their main customers so if ASF declares one day that 1.x will receieve no further bugfixes, the PHP crowd would likely fork Apache. (And from the looks of it, they just might anyway.) On the other hand, they really want to push Apache 2.x to the forefront because it's so much more powerful. They want to focus on making Apache 2 even better rather than constantly patching up the latest 1.3.x vulnerabilities.
I never have 10 Mozilla windows open, but even a high number of tabs doesn't seem to bother my Mozilla very much. They sometimes slow it down considerably, though.
Also, Mozilla suite has a higher version number which, for some reason, keeps ignorant IT managers more at ease.
Mozilla is also more stable. I had tried Firefox throughout the pre-1.0 milestones and never had any sort of luck with stability. When 1.0 came out there was all this hype around it, so I decided to try it for a week on my home network. Installed it on my Linux laptop, my FreeBSD workstation, and my wife's WinXP machine. Firefox 1.0 crashed about once daily on each and every machine. Even more frequently when very large pages were being loaded (e.g., 5MB of HTML tables) or if there were something on the order of 15 or more tabs open. I also ran into problems with certain Flash and Java crashing the browser. On FreeBSD, 1.0 crashes reproducibly when you try to open the print dialog. Last time I checked, there was no fix planned, only an obscure workaround that hasn't yet been published anywhere but the mailing list archives.
I can't remember the last time Mozilla has crashed on me, and it's been a very long time since Mozilla has had any issues with plugins, printing or anything else.
As a result of my experiences with Firefox, I have managed to dissuade several friends from using it in lieu of the much more mature of featureful Mozilla suite. Having a stable mail client built-in is a big draw, too. If they use Firefox instead of Mozilla, they have to search for a standalone email client or just go with Mozilla, which kinda defeats the purpose of having the stand-alone Firefox in the first place.
Sure, there's Thunderbird, but it's even worse off than Firefox in the maturity and stability department and most of my family tends to rate email as more important than web browsing.