An idle GUI (even a hog like OS-X) doesn't burn a lot of cycles in the scheme of things. Especially if you kill the 'loginwindow' process and it just sits at the console...no need to install a special kernel (linux) or remove software (darwin), just don't run it.
Camcorders would be a horrible use of Microdrives. A single hour of DV runs toward 12-13GB. Spending ~$200-$400 for 20 minutes of video just for (mostly unused) random access rather than ~$8 for 60 or 90 minutes of sequential would be idiotic.
Anyway, full text index searching isn't something I see as viable for a home platform
Well, I may not be the typical home user, but full text indexing is something I would not want to live without. You claim that "your email storage files (psts or whatnot) are already a database", isn't true in most cases. At least not a fully indexed keyword database. With a (un?)reasonable amount of email, a local keyword index isn't going to shave 0.3ms off a search, it'll save hours; especially vs. going to the server for every piece of email and searching through each one. If you're keeping a local cache of all the messages, adding 10% for an index is a no-brainer.
Mony _is_ important, but without a good reputation and a network (which writing good FOSS can get you), it can be hard to make. A good network of people, both friends and professional, can help ensure you and your kids don't go hungry, even if you're short of money temporarily.
Yeah, I publish to my Zope (webdav enabled) server, but I'd like to make it available via just a web browser as well. Someone else pointed out a PHP module for converting the iCal format to straight HTML, but I'm hoping to find something for Zope.
I publish some Apple iCal calendars on my webserver and they're great for anyone who uses OS-X and iCal, they can subscribe. But what about when people just have a web browser and want to take a look at my calendar? Any iCal->HTML (or Zope) translators out there?
Actually, it is the government. They are making the laws. The citizens (police, DAs, etc) are enforcing those laws. You can call them accessories, but they aren't leading the charge.
There's two ways the zombie machine could send mail. Either directly to the intended recipient's SMTP servers, in which case, the IP of the zombie machine would need to be listed in the 'mail from:'s DNS records as an authorized sender. If the zombie machine sends to the user's ISP to send mail, then the ISP (who has an interest in not sending SPAM) can throttle/reject the spam.
One without an attached VGA cable. Cables go bad all the time for all kinds of reasons. Sometimes you want a longer cable that the monitor came with. On the cat, well I haven't had trouble with our puppy chewing on cables since she got the juice out of a 12v line running to the hub at work.
I bought a Sony SA Tivo years ago and loved the remote. The natural curve that fits the hand well, the easy accesibility of the buttons, the select in the center of the 4 arrows. All the most-used buttons are close at hand, and the power buttons are at the top above the number keys (also seldom used, at least by me). It was great. As a gift, we gave our friends a Philips DirecTivo, and it had the 'peanut' shaped remote (the one the article profiled). Simply horrible! The navigation arrows were near the very top, nearly impossible to reach with your thumb, the number keys are very accessible, but unnecessarily. It's very easy to pick up the remote and point the ass end of it at the TV, either doing nothing, or fast-forwarding when you meant to rewind if the signal happens to reflect off a white T-shirt or something. Then we moved 8 months ago, and _we_ got Philips DirecTivo. Nearly the same crappy remote, but still better than our friends. At least it's got a 'live tv' button to easily switch between the two tuners, and a few other things were cleaned up as well.
Agreed. I believe in California, you can get a DUI when the officer wakes you up from sleeping on the back seat while the keys are 'under your control'.
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just plain spamming - maybe it's time we start bouncing un(cryptographically)signed mails
Sure, you start doing that. I'm sure all the people who want to contact you will figure out what cryptographic signature you require, download the software, install it, figure out how to use it, and still remember why they wanted to send you mail.
Of course, given the overhead, it might be more worth it for a spammer to sign one email and send it to a million people...
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There's no reason for POP/IMAP passwords to go in the clear. Mine don't and I wouldn't use an ISP that didn't support SSL for all my passwords (at the least, content is optional I suppose). SSL support is pretty standard these days, and given CPU speeds the extra overhead for email connections is well worth it.
Yes, but most likely if you're doing programming on an x86 you won't be using assembly except to read the compiler output when you think it has a problem.
and 68HC11 chips may not be the latest and greatest, but I'd bet they still get spec'd in lots of embedded products (where you would be using assembly)
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their copy, then send them links to tub-girl instead.
Remember though, you don't have to get it from them. You can get it anywhere they use IIS!
An idle GUI (even a hog like OS-X) doesn't burn a lot of cycles in the scheme of things. Especially if you kill the 'loginwindow' process and it just sits at the console...no need to install a special kernel (linux) or remove software (darwin), just don't run it.
Camcorders would be a horrible use of Microdrives. A single hour of DV runs toward 12-13GB. Spending ~$200-$400 for 20 minutes of video just for (mostly unused) random access rather than ~$8 for 60 or 90 minutes of sequential would be idiotic.
Oh yeah, I just don't want to pay the $100/year for Dot-Mac just for the calendar...
Anyway, full text index searching isn't something I see as viable for a home platform
Well, I may not be the typical home user, but full text indexing is something I would not want to live without. You claim that "your email storage files (psts or whatnot) are already a database", isn't true in most cases. At least not a fully indexed keyword database. With a (un?)reasonable amount of email, a local keyword index isn't going to shave 0.3ms off a search, it'll save hours; especially vs. going to the server for every piece of email and searching through each one. If you're keeping a local cache of all the messages, adding 10% for an index is a no-brainer.
So, you're planning on uudecoding the error output from 'cat'? Wow, that's some wierd fetish you've got there...
Mony _is_ important, but without a good reputation and a network (which writing good FOSS can get you), it can be hard to make.
A good network of people, both friends and professional, can help ensure you and your kids don't go hungry, even if you're short of money temporarily.
Yeah, I publish to my Zope (webdav enabled) server, but I'd like to make it available via just a web browser as well. Someone else pointed out a PHP module for converting the iCal format to straight HTML, but I'm hoping to find something for Zope.
Thanks, I'll take a look at it, though I'd like something that doesn't rely on Apache/PHP, if only because it's something I'm not familiar with yet...
I publish some Apple iCal calendars on my webserver and they're great for anyone who uses OS-X and iCal, they can subscribe. But what about when people just have a web browser and want to take a look at my calendar? Any iCal->HTML (or Zope) translators out there?
the florescent backlighting (high-voltage) as a theft deterent?
http://www.vonage.com/features_fax.php
vonage works with FAX machines.
Actually, it is the government. They are making the laws. The citizens (police, DAs, etc) are enforcing those laws. You can call them accessories, but they aren't leading the charge.
There's two ways the zombie machine could send mail. Either directly to the intended recipient's SMTP servers, in which case, the IP of the zombie machine would need to be listed in the 'mail from:'s DNS records as an authorized sender. If the zombie machine sends to the user's ISP to send mail, then the ISP (who has an interest in not sending SPAM) can throttle/reject the spam.
So, upgrading from my 233MHz G3 (beige) to a new Dual-2.0 G5 would be noticible? :-)
One without an attached VGA cable. Cables go bad all the time for all kinds of reasons. Sometimes you want a longer cable that the monitor came with.
On the cat, well I haven't had trouble with our puppy chewing on cables since she got the juice out of a 12v line running to the hub at work.
You should have got a better lawyer. A coworker of mine got $250K out of the City of Los Angeles after being arrested for being black...
I bought a Sony SA Tivo years ago and loved the remote. The natural curve that fits the hand well, the easy accesibility of the buttons, the select in the center of the 4 arrows. All the most-used buttons are close at hand, and the power buttons are at the top above the number keys (also seldom used, at least by me). It was great.
As a gift, we gave our friends a Philips DirecTivo, and it had the 'peanut' shaped remote (the one the article profiled). Simply horrible! The navigation arrows were near the very top, nearly impossible to reach with your thumb, the number keys are very accessible, but unnecessarily. It's very easy to pick up the remote and point the ass end of it at the TV, either doing nothing, or fast-forwarding when you meant to rewind if the signal happens to reflect off a white T-shirt or something.
Then we moved 8 months ago, and _we_ got Philips DirecTivo. Nearly the same crappy remote, but still better than our friends. At least it's got a 'live tv' button to easily switch between the two tuners, and a few other things were cleaned up as well.
Agreed. I believe in California, you can get a DUI when the officer wakes you up from sleeping on the back seat while the keys are 'under your control'.
32 bit internal registers, 24-bit addresses, 16-bit memory bus.
You are a very very evil man.
I like the idea!
just plain spamming - maybe it's time we start bouncing un(cryptographically)signed mails
Sure, you start doing that. I'm sure all the people who want to contact you will figure out what cryptographic signature you require, download the software, install it, figure out how to use it, and still remember why they wanted to send you mail.
Of course, given the overhead, it might be more worth it for a spammer to sign one email and send it to a million people...
There's no reason for POP/IMAP passwords to go in the clear. Mine don't and I wouldn't use an ISP that didn't support SSL for all my passwords (at the least, content is optional I suppose).
SSL support is pretty standard these days, and given CPU speeds the extra overhead for email connections is well worth it.
Yes, but most likely if you're doing programming on an x86 you won't be using assembly except to read the compiler output when you think it has a problem.
and 68HC11 chips may not be the latest and greatest, but I'd bet they still get spec'd in lots of embedded products (where you would be using assembly)