interestingly I had a run in with a spam nightmare at work. I get a lot through MSN, almost none from either of my pop accounts, a few with my work (exchange server). My boss however gets hundreds a day, (which speaks loads about his online habits). I ended up installing a bayesian filter for email on the exchange server, using a spamassasin based tool. works wonders, but no one but he really needed it.
gain I agree, I don't like the idea of playing 3D games with a D pad and on a small screen. Having played tomb raider on a friends N-Gage I was even more sceptical. However I have been hearing good things about Mario 64 on the DS and the racing games on the PSP. I can't afford any new consoles this year so I can take the time will tell attitude.
except that the PSP has an analog stick as well... (that's what the little nondescript knob is to the right of the d-pad)
Most programmers, coders and engineers are male; IMHO this is due to the largely redundant and linear thinking process that is required. For a good coder or engineer, you have to be able to consistently trace a single logic path, and find it's breakdown or completion. Women think differently than men, in a more 'explosive' pattern really, giving them distinct advantages in group management, project leadership, etc. men tend to think in this sequence A goes to B goes to C goes to D (etc.) and women tend to try to approach things like this: A,B,C are all reachable from D, so where do I need to go first? Both styles have perfectly viable reasoning, but some are better suited for certain roles than others. I think women should be more involved in computer sciences, and I do think that current attitudes derail that frequently. However I think that a womans perspectives would be best utilized from operational aspects, and usability. Most software could certainly use a woman's touch, especially in the UI department. I wouldn't subject a woman to coding, (it would drive her nuts) but QC would be great. Her attention to detail (men are generally bad at this, I know I am, with the exception of grammar) and ability to check interellation would be invaluable in this kind of position. Hell it might reduce bad coding (thanks to all those dyslexic coders) to an absolute minimum...
They are just baring their teeth because the MPAA has been talking to them. Seriously, most of the big studios know that they have many freinds in the fansubber market. They know that when they finally do release Naruto in the states it will make a an a$$-ton of money (which I can only assume is why it hasn't been released here yet, they can't get enough money for it yet). I don't know about you but the largest most popular torrent ever has been listed as Naruto, every week like clockwork. Because not one episode has been licensed for use in north america. not one. 119 episodes later. how many anime fans do you know in the us that haven't heard of naruto? not many i would wager. how many will buy it on dvd regardless of the high quality fansubs out there? most. because the point is anime fans are fan(boys/girls) fanboys (girls) will spend inordinate amounts of money on anything to do with anime if it is good. it is an evolutionary thing. good stuff survives (thrives) crap dies.
in this space the most effective thing i can think of is if there were an alliance of those people who are able to cripple networks... those who we do not speak of. Who were to put together a rally with DDOS attacks in sequence on the websites using SPAM as a solution. or the spammers servers directly. I know that many of them are using zombie networks, but they have servers somewhere. shut them down for a while, then keep shutting them down. hack them, crack them obliterate them. what are they going to do? arrest you? christ these guys are illegal to, in your home country. maybe what REALLY needs to happen is what happened back in the early days of real piracy. Maybe the government needs to issue a 'privateering letter' absolving hackers of legal damages for hurting spammers servers, or advertisers who use spammers services.
the term would be paranoid, not schizophrenic. But he's right; O'Reilly really is damn near prescient in IT circles. He was around in the early WELL days and has been on top of it since. The guy is ancient (in tech terms) but still completely on his game.
you know i was on ebay the other day looking at cubes... it seems to me that there are some really distinct similarities in the motherboard design (obviously updated a bit) but really I think this is just a hibrid board, taken from cube specs, and flattened out a bit... just an opinion. Also I noted that cubes are going for around the same price as a new mini these days... with similar specs even since they are both g4's...
some people like to be able to look up recipes on line, shop while they go through there cupboards etc. also since a lot of people listen to music while they cook (or watch tv) then multimedia in the kitchen makes sense. I have occasionally been known to perch a laptop on the kitchen counter if i was going to be in their for a few hours (christmas, thanksgiving etc.) And as for your assumption about music, I don't think I have all that much music but it is easily pushing 25+gbs and climbing rapidly.(encoding my 250-350 cd's and 130+ tapes takes a while, but it pays off with my ipod clone). I will be buying one of these, but not for the kitchen (computer room replaced the dining room in the new apartment) but for my wife who hates the fact that i can't just build her a working computer and leave it the hell alone.
well there are more strip clubs per capita than anywhere else in the country, (portland that is) and beaverton is, of course, a major component in the portland metro area, frequently called PDX, which for a while i thought stood for Perverted Decentralization Crossing... but that could just be my mind trying to rationalize the 'logic' of airports.
Scientists using molds derived from carbon nanotubes have approached the ultimate resolution - defined by molecular scale dimensions - in a widely used polymer nanoimprinting technique. By accurately replicating features with nanometer dimensions, the technique could play future roles in fabricating structures in fields as diverse as microelectronics, nanofluidics and biotechnology.
Polymer nanoimprint lithography works by pressing a mold with embossed relief structures against a thin polymer film. Little is known, however, of the basic physics and chemistry that operate between the two surfaces at the molecular level, let alone how these interactions relate to resolution. [snip]
The ability to mold nano-scale features can benefit many fields, from semiconductor device manufacturing to emerging areas of biotechnology. For example, polymer nanoimprint lithography could help the electronics industry achieve the resolution requirements needed for next-generation devices. By structuring materials with dimensions smaller than the wavelength of light, the technique also could create photonic devices whose optical properties are defined by the geometry of the relief structures embossed on them.
seems obvious where eveyone is heading... plastic or optic transistors, imprinted at the nano-level for mold-making, to make disposable, tiny, (implantable) devices...
is it any suprise that software developement is starting to closely mimic nature? that parallel development leads to specializiation and survivalism? Weaker products either find a survival niche (something that they are really good at, akin to giraffes) or become overall a stronger competitor than everything else, not neccessarily the strongest, fastest, or anything but the most flexible (Linux is, Windows trys, kind of like the early stages of human development). Remember, there were two branches of development in our evolution too. Homo-Erectus killed off it's competitors, by being more aggressive (effective). So... do you think that Windows-E-Rectus will manage to kill off Linux-Superiorus?? Really though this shouldn't be any huge suprise to anyone, as software is a direct descendant of our own creativity, so it will mimic those patterns in life as we understand them. It is hard-coded into our BIOS you might say. Anyone watch the movie Pi?
The english language isn't dead... just evolving. Check out Jeff Noon's Cobralingus [ISBN: 1899598162](or really any of his stuff, he is an excellent writer). He has a very...organic... view of language. needle in the groove doesn't even use standard punctuation. lots of "/"s to indicate pauses etc... in fact i don't think there is a single period or comma in the whole damn book. Nymphomation is my personal favorite.
I mean seriously, does your wife need any more geek cred than that she married you? My wife is pretty literate from a computer perspective, but really she likes the small form, and the fact that it 'just works' and that I am particularly unlikely to do anything to it. It is quite possible that your wife's reasoning is similar... and hell if she wants to get her geek on she can just start running BSD scripts from a command prompt. How do you get geekier than BSD?? BeOS??? AmigaOS???
this http://sastools.com/b2/post/79394249/ seems to be the closest answer to a windows version. also notes that it is based on top of IRC protocols (suprise suprise), and is supposed to work on 'nix as well. some kind of java mumbo-jumbo...
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If you are serious about this I would STONGLY suggest that you talk to the guys at the OSDL, so that you can discuss possibilities of combining it into the kernel source or at least if you are looking at api layer, getting some of the best input available about linux. It is free to join the OSDL, and, as you are a/. user, I am sure you are aware of who they hired recently...
Also, you may just want to talk to the guys who coded X in the first place; don't duplicate what you don't need to. Try to find out what they did or didn't do and why. IMHO the biggest mistake developers make is not asking what has gone before, and maybe why things were done the way they were. And since a great deal of software is written for X, you may want to consider compatability with those or at least emulation of X handlers.
of course they made outrageous claims, that's what maketing people are for. Did they make a 'killer app'? Yes. there is no doubt that the ps2 is THE dominant console, even if it is an aging unit. here in the US you can make the claim that the xbox is better but the numbers don't lie: units are higher on the ps2 even here where the xbox is strongest. in Japan the xbox has never even hit its target numbers, in fact they barely made 10% of their projected numbers in Japan. And the thing is, if it doesn't fly in Japan it won't fly in the console market. Japan is what killed the Dreamcast after all. is the xbox more powerful? maybe, but not by much. can a pc do what a ps2 does? not yet, and here we are 6 years later... sounds pretty close to on the money to me. when a pc can succesfully emulate a console, then it has surpassed it. Dreamcast is doable, so is the Playstation; they are close on the ps2 and just as close on xbox. The other thing is this; developers for a console need one really important thing: support. Sony has bald faced stated that this console will be much easier to develop content for. This statement says two things in my mind: 1. They recognize that they unintentionally made development difficult on the PS2; 2.They have a plan in mind to avoid it (I have had rumors of special developer kits already shipping, though this is all software based, running on pc's, which means that a relatively standard architecture is being used on some level. possibly it is a self-coding development tool that ports code to the cell processes, or they are modelling their cpu-software interface on clustered computing projects. Maybe there is just a simple interface layer that is involved (hardware) that makes the multiple cpu's appear as one RISC chip to the software... after all in the early development materials they did say that it could 'share' workload with other Cell devices on a network... the materials made it sound as if all the process workload was divided at hardware level not software. maybe coding for paralell processes won't even be necessary. could be we are taking SMP assumptions into a MMP world?
there is a group on yahoo for the vx4400 as well (bitpim was originally written for this phone); I have found a great deal of useful information there as well, and it seems to work on pretty much all of the Verizon phones (my wife uses a VX4500, and it works really well there too, except the calender is buggy; that is due to it's speakerphone thing though). The group has either a faq or a link to a faq about proper formats for the mp3 ringtones too, as I made a couple for my wife's phone (the 4400 doesn't support them).
The OSDL is an actual place; the lab itself is in Beaverton, OR (a suburb of Portland). There is a map of the layout of different areas in the OSDL as well. Somewhere anyway... i think i ran across it on their site.
All big providers have some benefits and some negatives; I am lucky with Comcast actually; I have gotten excellent service, very few outages (1 that had anything to do with them in the last 6 months) I have never recieved any nasty letters from them at all (regardless of how much bandwidth I was using, though I was not stupid enough to uncap my modem). I have had speeds exceeding 400kb down and well over 180k up (yes i use bit-torrent, and yes Naruto is a REALLY popular torrent...). I have been with Earthlink, Verizon and now Comcast. Earthlink was very solid, but nowhere near as fast. Verizon's service and speed were awful. I had them for 4 months; I had 7 outages, atrocious speeds, and at first they told me that service wasn't available in my area (though my neighbor had it). I went with Earthlink at that address at first, then Verizon offered a cheaper deal right as my contract ended with Earthlink. Big mistake. I have gone with Comcast, got digital cable and got my internet for $40 a month; ditched my phone (saving me another $25 a month, or more) so even though I paid more for cable i ended up saving money. it isn't exactly like any of these guys are all for the little guy. of all of the providers i think Earthlink is probably the most geek-centric of them, (the have extensive and very helpful how-to articles, that I still use).
Actually they use the modem in your house to cap you... there are extensive articles about 'uncapping' your modem. I STRONGLY advise against it however as that is what the bandwidth police are actually looking for. The Motorola surfboard modems are known to be uncappable because they can be forced to pull their config file from a local lan as opposed to the head end of the network (Co-Ax). As is obvious, the hardware is capable of even higher speeds than they advertise, but it is a cost issue for Comcast. (I am with them, so have looked at it) they stepped up our cap months ago, and you have to reboot your modem to get the speed increase, lending truth to the belief that the modem is the source of your speed cap.
Judging by the verbage on the website (and ancillary KB articles) it appears that it is supposed to be automatic... both in its update and running procedures. It appears to run transparently via command line/(service??? can you guys running this check to see if there is a new service running??) It can be told to log output to a file however, so yeah. It looks pretty F$cking lame to me all told.
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first of all google cwshredder; run this program as well as spybot search and destroy (http://security.kolla.de)... then, if you are serious about running linux to talk to AOL, try this site:http://www.yolinux.com/TUTORIALS/LinuxTutoria lAOL.html
(I think it is using red hat packages, but most common distros can work with that)
good luck... oh and you might want to look at using Tiny Personal Firewall or something like that...
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interestingly I had a run in with a spam nightmare at work. I get a lot through MSN, almost none from either of my pop accounts, a few with my work (exchange server). My boss however gets hundreds a day, (which speaks loads about his online habits). I ended up installing a bayesian filter for email on the exchange server, using a spamassasin based tool. works wonders, but no one but he really needed it.
gain I agree, I don't like the idea of playing 3D games with a D pad and on a small screen. Having played tomb raider on a friends N-Gage I was even more sceptical. However I have been hearing good things about Mario 64 on the DS and the racing games on the PSP. I can't afford any new consoles this year so I can take the time will tell attitude. except that the PSP has an analog stick as well... (that's what the little nondescript knob is to the right of the d-pad)
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the term would be paranoid, not schizophrenic. But he's right; O'Reilly really is damn near prescient in IT circles. He was around in the early WELL days and has been on top of it since. The guy is ancient (in tech terms) but still completely on his game.
you know i was on ebay the other day looking at cubes... it seems to me that there are some really distinct similarities in the motherboard design (obviously updated a bit) but really I think this is just a hibrid board, taken from cube specs, and flattened out a bit... just an opinion. Also I noted that cubes are going for around the same price as a new mini these days... with similar specs even since they are both g4's...
some people like to be able to look up recipes on line, shop while they go through there cupboards etc. also since a lot of people listen to music while they cook (or watch tv) then multimedia in the kitchen makes sense. I have occasionally been known to perch a laptop on the kitchen counter if i was going to be in their for a few hours (christmas, thanksgiving etc.) And as for your assumption about music, I don't think I have all that much music but it is easily pushing 25+gbs and climbing rapidly.(encoding my 250-350 cd's and 130+ tapes takes a while, but it pays off with my ipod clone). I will be buying one of these, but not for the kitchen (computer room replaced the dining room in the new apartment) but for my wife who hates the fact that i can't just build her a working computer and leave it the hell alone.
well there are more strip clubs per capita than anywhere else in the country, (portland that is) and beaverton is, of course, a major component in the portland metro area, frequently called PDX, which for a while i thought stood for Perverted Decentralization Crossing... but that could just be my mind trying to rationalize the 'logic' of airports.
The ability to mold nano-scale features can benefit many fields, from semiconductor device manufacturing to emerging areas of biotechnology. For example, polymer nanoimprint lithography could help the electronics industry achieve the resolution requirements needed for next-generation devices. By structuring materials with dimensions smaller than the wavelength of light, the technique also could create photonic devices whose optical properties are defined by the geometry of the relief structures embossed on them.
seems obvious where eveyone is heading... plastic or optic transistors, imprinted at the nano-level for mold-making, to make disposable, tiny, (implantable) devices...
is it any suprise that software developement is starting to closely mimic nature? that parallel development leads to specializiation and survivalism? Weaker products either find a survival niche (something that they are really good at, akin to giraffes) or become overall a stronger competitor than everything else, not neccessarily the strongest, fastest, or anything but the most flexible (Linux is, Windows trys, kind of like the early stages of human development). Remember, there were two branches of development in our evolution too. Homo-Erectus killed off it's competitors, by being more aggressive (effective). So... do you think that Windows-E-Rectus will manage to kill off Linux-Superiorus?? Really though this shouldn't be any huge suprise to anyone, as software is a direct descendant of our own creativity, so it will mimic those patterns in life as we understand them. It is hard-coded into our BIOS you might say. Anyone watch the movie Pi?
The english language isn't dead... just evolving. Check out Jeff Noon's Cobralingus [ISBN: 1899598162](or really any of his stuff, he is an excellent writer). He has a very ...organic... view of language. needle in the groove doesn't even use standard punctuation. lots of "/"s to indicate pauses etc... in fact i don't think there is a single period or comma in the whole damn book. Nymphomation is my personal favorite.
I mean seriously, does your wife need any more geek cred than that she married you? My wife is pretty literate from a computer perspective, but really she likes the small form, and the fact that it 'just works' and that I am particularly unlikely to do anything to it. It is quite possible that your wife's reasoning is similar... and hell if she wants to get her geek on she can just start running BSD scripts from a command prompt. How do you get geekier than BSD?? BeOS??? AmigaOS???
yfoo= Yellowdog (which seems redundant, since there is no devoted window manager for ydl)??
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Also, you may just want to talk to the guys who coded X in the first place; don't duplicate what you don't need to. Try to find out what they did or didn't do and why. IMHO the biggest mistake developers make is not asking what has gone before, and maybe why things were done the way they were. And since a great deal of software is written for X, you may want to consider compatability with those or at least emulation of X handlers.
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The OSDL is an actual place; the lab itself is in Beaverton, OR (a suburb of Portland). There is a map of the layout of different areas in the OSDL as well. Somewhere anyway... i think i ran across it on their site.
All big providers have some benefits and some negatives; I am lucky with Comcast actually; I have gotten excellent service, very few outages (1 that had anything to do with them in the last 6 months) I have never recieved any nasty letters from them at all (regardless of how much bandwidth I was using, though I was not stupid enough to uncap my modem). I have had speeds exceeding 400kb down and well over 180k up (yes i use bit-torrent, and yes Naruto is a REALLY popular torrent...). I have been with Earthlink, Verizon and now Comcast. Earthlink was very solid, but nowhere near as fast. Verizon's service and speed were awful. I had them for 4 months; I had 7 outages, atrocious speeds, and at first they told me that service wasn't available in my area (though my neighbor had it). I went with Earthlink at that address at first, then Verizon offered a cheaper deal right as my contract ended with Earthlink. Big mistake. I have gone with Comcast, got digital cable and got my internet for $40 a month; ditched my phone (saving me another $25 a month, or more) so even though I paid more for cable i ended up saving money. it isn't exactly like any of these guys are all for the little guy. of all of the providers i think Earthlink is probably the most geek-centric of them, (the have extensive and very helpful how-to articles, that I still use).
Actually they use the modem in your house to cap you... there are extensive articles about 'uncapping' your modem. I STRONGLY advise against it however as that is what the bandwidth police are actually looking for. The Motorola surfboard modems are known to be uncappable because they can be forced to pull their config file from a local lan as opposed to the head end of the network (Co-Ax). As is obvious, the hardware is capable of even higher speeds than they advertise, but it is a cost issue for Comcast. (I am with them, so have looked at it) they stepped up our cap months ago, and you have to reboot your modem to get the speed increase, lending truth to the belief that the modem is the source of your speed cap.
uh this exception maybe. but why is that? because on ly two people, who couldn't/wouldn't run Samba needed it??
Judging by the verbage on the website (and ancillary KB articles) it appears that it is supposed to be automatic... both in its update and running procedures. It appears to run transparently via command line/(service??? can you guys running this check to see if there is a new service running??) It can be told to log output to a file however, so yeah. It looks pretty F$cking lame to me all told. X- [obey the sig...]
first of all google cwshredder; run this program as well as spybot search and destroy (http://security.kolla.de)... then, if you are serious about running linux to talk to AOL, try this site:http://www.yolinux.com/TUTORIALS/LinuxTutoria lAOL.html
(I think it is using red hat packages, but most common distros can work with that)
good luck... oh and you might want to look at using Tiny Personal Firewall or something like that...
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