Faxes and modems can work reliably over VOIP if the on ramp uses V150.1 Modem Over IP. I am familiar with an application that depends on this and it works quite well with our modem equipped devices.
Cisco has a gateway with V150.1 and it works well.
I do not expect this to be widely implemented until people demand it once they know it can work.
I remember the glory days of the Republican opposition to Bill Clinton where every federal law that imposed a requirement on local governments was termed an unfunded mandate. This is an unfunded mandate on all of us. Besides being just plan stupid.
Is this from the same guy that said the Internet was just a series of pipes? Heck, I don't think my shower keeps track of my water use, should it be doing that too?
Bankers turned out to incompetent crooks, the auto companies just plan fools, and too many Americans are out of work. But, what does congress worry about? Dumb asses.
I've always known my 2 year old 42" LG TV uses a lot of energy for the TV Guide On Screen feature since the processor is never off. Reading this story made me find the box to see if it claimed an Energy Star rating, and to my surprise, LG was honest and there is none.
This model comes with a built-in DVR and its disk drive never spins down, you can always hear the hum when it is quiet. But, I figure it is no more wasteful than the DVR in my previous set top boxes.
Nice thing about it being always on is that I have my computer turn the TV on and off with its wake up, shutdown, and sleep modes using the serial port control. Can't have everything.
Coding should not be more than 30% of a job. We need people than can read specifications, turn them into requirements, design an architecture, model solutions, code, integrate, document, and debug. I am sorry, but the talented and rewarded people are the ones that can do it all. The ones that can't code and prefer to administer systems are the easiest to replace.
Where I work, we do embedded software that runs close the hardware, operates in critical environments, must work every time, run for years, and be secure. The guys I give the highest performance ratings (raises) to are the ones that can design, code, re-use code, and solve problems.
I haven't coded in 5 years and miss it, so I came up with a project for home to keep me current and have fun with. I can see not wanting to do it 8 hours a day, but any true CS geek deep down enjoys it like solving puzzles and playing games. Coding is problem solving. It should be enjoyed and done well or not at all.
More about using a face photo and fake tag for tripping up someone else at a speed camera...
There was an episode of the old TV show Columbo (I think) where a murderer used their image from a speed camera as an alibi to prove they could not have committed the crime. Am accomplice held up the photo over their face as they triggered the speed camera while the crime was taking place. Columbo saw that the photo lighting wasn't right and as always nabbed the bad guy.
Still, the combination of a fake license and a holding a photo up over your own is a great way to mess up the process.
Gotta give it to the kids to come up with something. Now if only such thinking would make a new product we could have the.com days all over again.
If you want to see people complaining about Apple, go to the Apple Discussions board. When there is a problem with a new release of software or a product, you will find open discussion there.
Of course, beyond a limit Apple will step in a squash a discussion. That's what freedom is all about in the 21st century.
That is why the CIA did the right thing by destroying those tapes of the interrogations. I am a liberal, but I agree with getting rid of those tapes to keep them off YouTube. Still, we have to make life as miserable as possible for the administration by investigating it. Just like they acted asses when Clinton was in office. It is just a game. A rotten game.
I don't see any problems with connectivity. The problem with COMCAST is pricing and customer service. COMCAST controls too much programming, charges too much, and their customer service is lacking. I've had no problems with broadband, don't trust them for telephone, and find their TV support is poor. Just try and use QAM without a STB. The service technicians I have dealt with at my home were fine.
The question is how different Verizon will be once they have you on contract. I expect to have the option of going FIOS by the end of the year. I keep my expectations low so I won't be disappointed when they come.
Will I switch, price may drive the change.
Re:OS X != Darwin == OS X 1.0 (1A543a)
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My iPhone upon sync wants me to send a file to Apple containing the following information:
Auto Submit = Yes
Bug Type = 109
Process = Mobile Mail
OS Version = OS X 1.0 (1A543a)
SysInfoMachineConfigKey = iPhone1,1
SysInfoOSVersionKey = 1.0:aA543a
I am no OS X expert, but, well yoiu decide what the iPhone is running.
I had to truncate the file due the/. junk in the trunk detector going off..
Details (I hope Apple is right and there is no personal information in this:
Process: MobileMail [31]
Path:/Applications/MobileMail.app/MobileMail
Version: N/A (N/A)
Code Type: 0000000C (Native)
Effective UID: 0
Parent Process: SpringBoard [15]
Date/Time: 2007-07-15 06:13:12.693 -0400
OS Version: OS X 1.0 (1A543a)
Report Version: 6
Exception Type: EXC_BAD_ACCESS
Exception Codes: KERN_INVALID_ADDRESS at 0xe7ffe405
Crashed Thread: 0
Thread 0 Crashed:
0 libobjc.A.dylib
1 Message
2 Message
3 Message
4 Message
5 Foundation
6 CoreFoundation
7 Foundation
8 Foundation
9 MobileMail
10 UIKit
11 CoreFoundation
12 CoreFoundation
13 CoreFoundation
14 CoreFoundation
15 GraphicsServices
16 UIKit
17 UIKit
18 UIKit
19 MobileMail
20 MobileMail
Thread 1:
0 libSystem.B.dylib
1 libSystem.B.dylib
2 GraphicsServices
3 libSystem.B.dylib
Thread 2:
0 libSystem.B.dylib
1 libSystem.B.dylib
2 CoreFoundation
3 CoreFoundation
4 WebCore
5 libSystem.B.dylib
Thread 3:
0 libSystem.B.dylib
1 libSystem.B.dylib
2 libSystem.B.dylib
Thread 4:
0 libSystem.B.dylib
1 libSystem.B.dylib
2 CoreFoundation
3 libSystem.B.dylib
got tired of snipping here.
It'll plug into to my car's iPod dock connector. But then I won't be able to use the phone, it'll be in glove box.
It'll be a nice iPod when in my car. So how do I get them directions? Great idea BMW and Apple.
Still, I'd love to have one and may stand in line for one on Friday, or just wait and buy one on-line.
I have two DirecTV Tivo units and I will keep them until they die unless the replacement offered has a way to transfer my saved videos to it. All I ask for is a one time transfer. Through a software download update, they enable a USB to Ethernet or USB to USB way to connect my old machines to the new one and transfer my videos. They can even be deleted from the old machine as they are copied.
Of course having some decent HD content would also help.
Letting me get files from the DCR to my computer would be nice, but is not realistic.
My 1st Gen iPod lasted 4.5 years before it succumbed to the FIreWire port solder failure.
I was always careful with it, and never treated it like a rock or like toy. Like so many do.
Now, Microsoft is going to pull the old marketing trick, we can beat them on every specification.
Bigger screen (I'd like that too, but not a bigger package).
Wireless downloads (I'd like that too, I was hoping to keep my old iPod until Apple had this, but alas, it was not to be. I had to get a new slim video iPod last month or suffer the silent commute in shame.
A new Microsoft music and video store (Oh joy, maybe they copied iTunes right this time).
I go the Apple support pages for iTunes and iPod and see what regular people are up to. They are up to crazy stuff man, they do dumb things. Delete music, wipe out folders, drop stuff in toilets.
I don't understand how Apple is able to sell these things and not loose their shirts on support and warranty support. People are idiots.
When I bough the 1st Gen iPod it came with a 90 day warranty. That was it. Now they sell to morons and it comes with a year warranty extensible to 3 for a modest fee. I realize that Apple has to stay in this business now, but it amazes me that these things last as long as they do and that they make (so much) money on it.
One weakness in many defense organizations is that so much of policy (IA) is a pain in the ass, but you learn to live with the pain as part of the job. If the people administering accounts, policy, and systems do not appreciate the reasons why the policies exit, they will not enforce them. If you are handed a 150 page procedure to read and sign that you have read it and you need the information access now, what are the chances you skipped the page that says you must do X to do Y? They are very high.
Also, we have loss of experienced cold war people (retirement, lay off, etc) means there is little continuity in the business process worsened by the tremendous growth in the programs and pressure to produce something now. Large programs require a large support staff.
Aerospace work is challenging and offers a low risk of being outsourced, or at least I hope it has a low chance of being outsourced.
Then, you have cases where companies "accidently" give advanced technology to foreign companies to gain some advantage. Examples are Iridium contractors giving advanced rocket technology to China and Toshiba improperly selling the machines and technology to make submarines quiet to the Soviets back when we were in cold war.
All this comes down to every engineer and manager enforcing policy.
Get a Macintosh, they come with all the Developer Tools you need. XCode is an outstanding and powerful shell around the Gnu tools. The Mac OS X environment is feature rich with forward looking tools. The Macintosh world is not crowded like the PC world, so if you find a great idea, it might get noticed. At least take a look at it.
I've no plans to buy PC or Mac hardware until I see the value proposition Apple offers in its future products. I am all Mac PowerPC now, but I keep eyeing those cheap Wintel boxes (today it is $299.00 after mail in rebate for an HP with 15" LCD). Hard to resist a bargain.
I don't need new hardware, but if the Mactels allow me to run PC application via Wine or some other software, I'll go for it real fast.
What I would really like to is have one drive boot into MacOS and another with an alternative OS. I would like the Apple computer to boot any PC OS. I don't care if Mac OS X never boots on standard PC hardware.
Mostly I am just curios as to how Apple will engineer these machines.
I worked for the Lunar & Planetary Lab many years ago when we recieved hundreds of such tapes from Pioneer. At the time they were stored in racks in the computer room with an IBM 1130 system. Track density in those days was either 556 bpi or 800 bpi on 1 inch tape (memory) and recording technology was crude at best. Even then the fear was that the data would be irrecoverable in years. At the time, the lab was run by Dr. Sonnett who credited with the discovery that CMOS circuits were static sensitive. He came up with idea of grounding workers. This paved the way for low power electonics on some of these payloads. They were interesting days.
After reading "No more mysteries: Apple's G5 versus x86, Mac OS X versus Linux" in the "G5 vs. x86 and Mac OS X vs. Linux" thread, this is teling article. I mostly have questions.
Is Apple going to make up for the slow speeds of OS X by using faster chips?
Will future versions of OS X run on regular WinTel boxes or will Apple hardware be unique? Is Gil Amelio back at Apple?
Or, are they just looking at a way to kill their stock price... Inventories are going to go nowhere if the hardware in the stores is going to be obsolete in one year.
No flames, I have 5 Macintosh computers and no PCs in the house. They run from older G3 powerbooks and iMacs to G5 stuff.
I applaud the university for this study. Academic research is all about how to get more funding. This study shows they have been taught well. Getting more funding is more important than the study itself. I see follow up studies.
I once installed OS X 10.1 on my 1st generation iPod (when it came out).
I booted it a couple of times and used it a bit and later decided to use the disk space for something else (like backup storage).
The 5 GB drive still works fine more than three years os almost daily use later.
While those tiny disks may not have the stamina of a larger disk, it lasts longer than I thought it might. Back then, iPods came with a 90 warrenty. I really want to see how many years it is good for.
May be I will put Panther on it (will it fit) or have it die trying.
I used to work for SAIC and I have to hear about this on/. almost 3 weeks after the fact.
I've already googled what I need to do. I was disappointed with SAIC as a company, but they were reasonably generous back when I worked for them. Oh well.
This is not new or innovative. Back in the late 70's and early 80's Calcomp used a system where an arbitrary radix (MS uses a fixed radix of 30) and an arbitrary base would allow computers to communicate with thier plotters very efficiently over serial lines. This allowed numbers to be encoded as ASCII text.
There were many reasons why Calcomp did this, all having to do with the many limitations vendors imposed on serial ports and terminal devices at the time.
I asked myself the same question when I started looking at the mini. Here is one I found, I think it fills the bill for PC owners getting a Mac mini. Not an endorsement nor a test, just a guess!
This appears to work with one PS/2 and one USB computer.
TRENDnet TK-209i 2-Port USB & PS/2 KVM Switch with Audio
Slashdot Mirror
This looks like an application specific front end (with compass) like APRS works for ham radio.
See aprs.fi and enter the call sign of a ham radio equipped with a GPS (like the Yaesu VX-8R).
It just opens the door to anyone and maybe adds a friends list.
Faxes and modems can work reliably over VOIP if the on ramp uses V150.1 Modem Over IP. I am familiar with an application that depends on this and it works quite well with our modem equipped devices.
Cisco has a gateway with V150.1 and it works well.
I do not expect this to be widely implemented until people demand it once they know it can work.
I remember the glory days of the Republican opposition to Bill Clinton where every federal law that imposed a requirement on local governments was termed an unfunded mandate. This is an unfunded mandate on all of us. Besides being just plan stupid.
Is this from the same guy that said the Internet was just a series of pipes? Heck, I don't think my shower keeps track of my water use, should it be doing that too?
Bankers turned out to incompetent crooks, the auto companies just plan fools, and too many Americans are out of work. But, what does congress worry about? Dumb asses.
I've always known my 2 year old 42" LG TV uses a lot of energy for the TV Guide On Screen feature since the processor is never off. Reading this story made me find the box to see if it claimed an Energy Star rating, and to my surprise, LG was honest and there is none.
This model comes with a built-in DVR and its disk drive never spins down, you can always hear the hum when it is quiet. But, I figure it is no more wasteful than the DVR in my previous set top boxes.
Nice thing about it being always on is that I have my computer turn the TV on and off with its wake up, shutdown, and sleep modes using the serial port control. Can't have everything.
Coding should not be more than 30% of a job. We need people than can read specifications, turn them into requirements, design an architecture, model solutions, code, integrate, document, and debug. I am sorry, but the talented and rewarded people are the ones that can do it all. The ones that can't code and prefer to administer systems are the easiest to replace.
Where I work, we do embedded software that runs close the hardware, operates in critical environments, must work every time, run for years, and be secure. The guys I give the highest performance ratings (raises) to are the ones that can design, code, re-use code, and solve problems.
I haven't coded in 5 years and miss it, so I came up with a project for home to keep me current and have fun with. I can see not wanting to do it 8 hours a day, but any true CS geek deep down enjoys it like solving puzzles and playing games. Coding is problem solving. It should be enjoyed and done well or not at all.
More about using a face photo and fake tag for tripping up someone else at a speed camera...
There was an episode of the old TV show Columbo (I think) where a murderer used their image from a speed camera as an alibi to prove they could not have committed the crime. Am accomplice held up the photo over their face as they triggered the speed camera while the crime was taking place. Columbo saw that the photo lighting wasn't right and as always nabbed the bad guy.
Still, the combination of a fake license and a holding a photo up over your own is a great way to mess up the process. Gotta give it to the kids to come up with something. Now if only such thinking would make a new product we could have the .com days all over again.
If you want to see people complaining about Apple, go to the Apple Discussions board. When there is a problem with a new release of software or a product, you will find open discussion there. Of course, beyond a limit Apple will step in a squash a discussion. That's what freedom is all about in the 21st century.
That is why the CIA did the right thing by destroying those tapes of the interrogations. I am a liberal, but I agree with getting rid of those tapes to keep them off YouTube. Still, we have to make life as miserable as possible for the administration by investigating it. Just like they acted asses when Clinton was in office. It is just a game. A rotten game.
I don't see any problems with connectivity. The problem with COMCAST is pricing and customer service. COMCAST controls too much programming, charges too much, and their customer service is lacking. I've had no problems with broadband, don't trust them for telephone, and find their TV support is poor. Just try and use QAM without a STB. The service technicians I have dealt with at my home were fine.
The question is how different Verizon will be once they have you on contract. I expect to have the option of going FIOS by the end of the year. I keep my expectations low so I won't be disappointed when they come.
Will I switch, price may drive the change.
My iPhone upon sync wants me to send a file to Apple containing the following information: Auto Submit = Yes Bug Type = 109 Process = Mobile Mail OS Version = OS X 1.0 (1A543a) SysInfoMachineConfigKey = iPhone1,1 SysInfoOSVersionKey = 1.0:aA543a I am no OS X expert, but, well yoiu decide what the iPhone is running. I had to truncate the file due the /. junk in the trunk detector going off..
Details (I hope Apple is right and there is no personal information in this:
Process: MobileMail [31]
Path: /Applications/MobileMail.app/MobileMail
Version: N/A (N/A)
Code Type: 0000000C (Native)
Effective UID: 0
Parent Process: SpringBoard [15]
Date/Time: 2007-07-15 06:13:12.693 -0400
OS Version: OS X 1.0 (1A543a)
Report Version: 6
Exception Type: EXC_BAD_ACCESS
Exception Codes: KERN_INVALID_ADDRESS at 0xe7ffe405
Crashed Thread: 0
Thread 0 Crashed:
0 libobjc.A.dylib
1 Message
2 Message
3 Message
4 Message
5 Foundation
6 CoreFoundation
7 Foundation
8 Foundation
9 MobileMail
10 UIKit
11 CoreFoundation
12 CoreFoundation
13 CoreFoundation
14 CoreFoundation
15 GraphicsServices
16 UIKit
17 UIKit
18 UIKit
19 MobileMail
20 MobileMail
Thread 1:
0 libSystem.B.dylib
1 libSystem.B.dylib
2 GraphicsServices
3 libSystem.B.dylib
Thread 2:
0 libSystem.B.dylib
1 libSystem.B.dylib
2 CoreFoundation
3 CoreFoundation
4 WebCore
5 libSystem.B.dylib
Thread 3:
0 libSystem.B.dylib
1 libSystem.B.dylib
2 libSystem.B.dylib
Thread 4:
0 libSystem.B.dylib
1 libSystem.B.dylib
2 CoreFoundation
3 libSystem.B.dylib
got tired of snipping here.
It'll plug into to my car's iPod dock connector. But then I won't be able to use the phone, it'll be in glove box. It'll be a nice iPod when in my car. So how do I get them directions? Great idea BMW and Apple. Still, I'd love to have one and may stand in line for one on Friday, or just wait and buy one on-line.
I have two DirecTV Tivo units and I will keep them until they die unless the replacement offered has a way to transfer my saved videos to it. All I ask for is a one time transfer. Through a software download update, they enable a USB to Ethernet or USB to USB way to connect my old machines to the new one and transfer my videos. They can even be deleted from the old machine as they are copied.
Of course having some decent HD content would also help.
Letting me get files from the DCR to my computer would be nice, but is not realistic.
My 1st Gen iPod lasted 4.5 years before it succumbed to the FIreWire port solder failure. I was always careful with it, and never treated it like a rock or like toy. Like so many do.
Now, Microsoft is going to pull the old marketing trick, we can beat them on every specification.
Bigger screen (I'd like that too, but not a bigger package).
Wireless downloads (I'd like that too, I was hoping to keep my old iPod until Apple had this, but alas, it was not to be. I had to get a new slim video iPod last month or suffer the silent commute in shame.
A new Microsoft music and video store (Oh joy, maybe they copied iTunes right this time).
I go the Apple support pages for iTunes and iPod and see what regular people are up to. They are up to crazy stuff man, they do dumb things. Delete music, wipe out folders, drop stuff in toilets. I don't understand how Apple is able to sell these things and not loose their shirts on support and warranty support. People are idiots.
When I bough the 1st Gen iPod it came with a 90 day warranty. That was it. Now they sell to morons and it comes with a year warranty extensible to 3 for a modest fee. I realize that Apple has to stay in this business now, but it amazes me that these things last as long as they do and that they make (so much) money on it.
All I can say to Microsoft is, are you nuts?
One weakness in many defense organizations is that so much of policy (IA) is a pain in the ass, but you learn to live with the pain as part of the job. If the people administering accounts, policy, and systems do not appreciate the reasons why the policies exit, they will not enforce them. If you are handed a 150 page procedure to read and sign that you have read it and you need the information access now, what are the chances you skipped the page that says you must do X to do Y? They are very high.
Also, we have loss of experienced cold war people (retirement, lay off, etc) means there is little continuity in the business process worsened by the tremendous growth in the programs and pressure to produce something now. Large programs require a large support staff.
Aerospace work is challenging and offers a low risk of being outsourced, or at least I hope it has a low chance of being outsourced.
Then, you have cases where companies "accidently" give advanced technology to foreign companies to gain some advantage. Examples are Iridium contractors giving advanced rocket technology to China and Toshiba improperly selling the machines and technology to make submarines quiet to the Soviets back when we were in cold war.
All this comes down to every engineer and manager enforcing policy.
Get a Macintosh, they come with all the Developer Tools you need. XCode is an outstanding and powerful shell around the Gnu tools. The Mac OS X environment is feature rich with forward looking tools. The Macintosh world is not crowded like the PC world, so if you find a great idea, it might get noticed. At least take a look at it.
I would put "Forbidden Planet" ahead of any of the Star Trek and Star Wars movies.
I've no plans to buy PC or Mac hardware until I see the value proposition Apple offers in its future products. I am all Mac PowerPC now, but I keep eyeing those cheap Wintel boxes (today it is $299.00 after mail in rebate for an HP with 15" LCD). Hard to resist a bargain.
I don't need new hardware, but if the Mactels allow me to run PC application via Wine or some other software, I'll go for it real fast.
What I would really like to is have one drive boot into MacOS and another with an alternative OS. I would like the Apple computer to boot any PC OS. I don't care if Mac OS X never boots on standard PC hardware.
Mostly I am just curios as to how Apple will engineer these machines.
Change is good.
I worked for the Lunar & Planetary Lab many years ago when we recieved hundreds of such tapes from Pioneer. At the time they were stored in racks in the computer room with an IBM 1130 system. Track density in those days was either 556 bpi or 800 bpi on 1 inch tape (memory) and recording technology was crude at best. Even then the fear was that the data would be irrecoverable in years. At the time, the lab was run by Dr. Sonnett who credited with the discovery that CMOS circuits were static sensitive. He came up with idea of grounding workers. This paved the way for low power electonics on some of these payloads. They were interesting days.
After reading "No more mysteries: Apple's G5 versus x86, Mac OS X versus Linux" in the "G5 vs. x86 and Mac OS X vs. Linux" thread, this is teling article. I mostly have questions.
Is Apple going to make up for the slow speeds of OS X by using faster chips?
Will future versions of OS X run on regular WinTel boxes or will Apple hardware be unique? Is Gil Amelio back at Apple?
Or, are they just looking at a way to kill their stock price... Inventories are going to go nowhere if the hardware in the stores is going to be obsolete in one year.
No flames, I have 5 Macintosh computers and no PCs in the house. They run from older G3 powerbooks and iMacs to G5 stuff.
What choices will this leave their customer base?
I applaud the university for this study. Academic research is all about how to get more funding. This study shows they have been taught well. Getting more funding is more important than the study itself. I see follow up studies.
I once installed OS X 10.1 on my 1st generation iPod (when it came out). I booted it a couple of times and used it a bit and later decided to use the disk space for something else (like backup storage). The 5 GB drive still works fine more than three years os almost daily use later. While those tiny disks may not have the stamina of a larger disk, it lasts longer than I thought it might. Back then, iPods came with a 90 warrenty. I really want to see how many years it is good for. May be I will put Panther on it (will it fit) or have it die trying.
I used to work for SAIC and I have to hear about this on /. almost 3 weeks after the fact.
I've already googled what I need to do. I was disappointed with SAIC as a company, but they were reasonably generous back when I worked for them. Oh well.
This is not new or innovative. Back in the late 70's and early 80's Calcomp used a system where an arbitrary radix (MS uses a fixed radix of 30) and an arbitrary base would allow computers to communicate with thier plotters very efficiently over serial lines. This allowed numbers to be encoded as ASCII text.
There were many reasons why Calcomp did this, all having to do with the many limitations vendors imposed on serial ports and terminal devices at the time.
So, this is nothing new.
I asked myself the same question when I started looking at the mini. Here is one I found, I think it fills the bill for PC owners getting a Mac mini. Not an endorsement nor a test, just a guess! This appears to work with one PS/2 and one USB computer. TRENDnet TK-209i 2-Port USB & PS/2 KVM Switch with Audio