After the rootkit fisaco, Sony has done nothing to elevate themselves. Patenting some feature-limiting systems sounds like classic Sony.
In other Sony Stupidity, it seems they recently stole part of a popular Amsterdam landmark, to attract publicity towards one of their games. You'd have thought they would have learned from widely-publicized mistakes of others.
It is hard to believe Sony Marketing would really steal these huge, heavy steel letters without SOME kind of permit issued by the city, but I haven't been able to locate anything other than clues to Sony's breaking laws for $elf--promotion. If this marketing stunt really is true, that Sony had no city permit, I am very Angry with any corporation that would do this.
The classic quote I read in Dutch was: 'Can I reference this theft also, once Sony takes me to court for copying music CDs?'
Microsoft. Who only licenses XP Home for use on machines below a certain screen size and spec.
Seriously, and I'll never buy a Dell! A client gave me a Dell Inspiron Mini 10 to upgrade to Ubuntu 9.10. What Hell!
See this video, at the end of all this disassembly, just to add a freaking RAM module, to upgrade from 1gb to 2gb? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_jUFbxHoAU This video is great, and kudos to the guy that made it. Problem is, when I got all the way to the end, and flipped out the mobo away from the netbook shell, I learned the 1GB RAM was soldered on. This takes the M$ tax to extreme I figure.
Lest I fail to mention, M$ limits display resolution to 800x600. I think it can really do 1368x768 or something like that. My Asus Eee 1000HE w 2gb RAM does great video. Even full-screen Flash from YouTube. I followed these instructions, to ensure I had full disk encryption with my Netbook Remix. http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=7489558&postcount=13. Even so, I think I need to build the PSB kernel video drivers from source to fix the Dell mini graphics properly according to my google-study of the problem so far.
If all that weren't bad enough. The paltry 160Gb drive gave me S.M.A.R.T. errors (too many bad sectors) last night. It is easier to swap in a 500gb 70euro drive than deal with Dell, fsck the warranty at this point. M$ got their tax too.
Extra effort is required to enjoy the Premium Ubuntu flavor.
I was thinking of being able to run a cool linux distro like Backtrack, inside the corporate firewall, using known and approved IP addresses, etc. To SOME people, this is a feature; to others a threat. Regardless, i want to know about the possibilities to do my job better.
Microsoft is making a big deal in Windows 7 about being able to lockdown USB drives in the enterprise. But with this info, they should also considering locking-down web-browsers.
Oh, wait. Nevermind I just said that about Microsoft.
As I recall, Microsoft agreed to 'fully-support' the operation. If that meant Dev-Level folks to test & crush London Stock Exchange Bugs, then MS had the responsibility along with Accenture to ensure such a thing didn't happen.
It seems to me that even in a support-role, MS would have been involved directly in the on-going data-center architecture, for example.
In the US, T-mobile sells uncapped (AFAIK) mobile internet for $40 a month. Another 'perk' under such a plan is A-GPS (combined cell-tower plus true GPS for speed).
This makes your mobile device much closer to being a standardized 'client' to web services. In fact I even turn my N95 into a 3g router, using www.joikuspot.com (so I don't have to swap the SIM with my USB modem).
Actually this type of exploit has been known to effect Nokia phones for awhile already. It seems only normal someone would figure out how to do it to an iPhone, (unless Apple was proactive in thwarting such an attack, which hasn't been the case)
Maps tend to be more useful with vector data, as opposed to consisting of a raster image. Databases are then much smaller, and all kinds of calculations become possible.
FYI, I now own nearly identical spec. Logitech mice. A bluetooth and another with a little USB thing to go with it.
As an Ubuntu user, I first found www.hidpoint.com that promised to provide drivers to get my proprietary mouse to function. To date, they've never delivered a driver I can use, say in 64bit.
However to my shock and amazement, sometime a few months ago, the proprietary unit Just Worked! Seemingly it was some Ubuntu patch. I had to try on several boxes and it worked consistently. I think those hidpoint folks might redirect support accordingly perhaps, just to save everyone's time?
BUT, before this happened, because I really needed a wireless mouse, I bought a bluetooth since I used Ubuntu which Logitech CLEARLY does NOT support. Battery life sucks thick canal water!!! Like daily recharge? WTF!?
meanwhile months after the fact, I am still using the free El Cheapo batteries that came with my proprietary Logitech USB mouse, while the bluetooth mouse that costs about 175% of the proprietary model sits idle for this reason.
Your HSDPA drops the connection after being solid for about a day? This sounds like my situation too, but I'm no radio engineer.
I'm not really complaining. The only thing is: My Nokia n95 will be connected via 3 or 3.5G (the indicator changes between these) and my imap email connection will be fine, but eventually will break its (I think) TSL connection forcing me to manually reconnect to check email. Kind of a bummer, but not always.
The SIP connection will seemingly reconnect just fine to the Asterisk PBX when/if this happens. This works great. I lease 768down/365up 3g and it does indeed rock.
Tip: Nokia sells these $20 AA size battery-boxes on a cord, which provide 'hot-swappable' power. So configured, the cell phone provides shared internet to the laptop on the train, during commutes.
This setup is preferable to swapping out the delicate SIM and transferring it back/forth to a USB modem connected to the laptop, just so the laptop can use the same 3g acct.
An added perk is scale: friends traveling together can share the same wifi acct. Not to mention that in the Netherlands, up to three other passengers enjoy the same discount currently being enjoyed by the RailAktief card holder (a 40 euro annual discount card, offering 40% reduction BUT not possible before 9am, M-F)
Once I shared my wifi with another passenger and when the coffee trolley passed by, he was so pleased with the service, he bought me coffee and a sandwich. You can see shared 3g wifi can be a potential ice-breaker in such an environment, with good karma possibilities. (and I suppose the nefarious with a neopwn could sniff passwords, so be forewarned).
Note that even here in where coverage is dense in the city centers, and the train passes through farms and stuff, there's a few spots where no signal is possible. Still, on my regular commutes, web pages pretty much load the whole trip, but streaming internet radio fails.
$59.95 for 20 mbps UP AND DOWN? 2UP? And they do this profitably right? Then is it possible everyone else is getting screwed over by their ISP Monopolies/Duopolies?
"The 20Mbps speed includes both uploads and downloads and is the fastest residential speed available anywhere in North Carolina."
Go Greenlight go! I wonder what the real estate is like in the area served.
www.icanlocalize.com has some interesting offerings in the way of workflow & price, especially if you are already using a CMS like Drupal 6.
If you use Drupal for example, you can set it up so as soon as you 'publish' (or at least advance the content in the workflow-process) it is made available for professional translators to begin working on.
The pro translators have their own web-enabled interface and toolset (I think) which is similar to www.trados.com in translation memory function.
If you are a non-profit, the iCanLocalize allows your org. to use the translation interface yourself for free. Otherwise it costs.05 USD per word to use if you do it yourself. Translation in comparison is dirt cheap I think, at.07 per word. The last time I checked a few years ago, the same thing (less elegant workflow) cost.16 euro per word, in Northern Europe.
It's like when you walk into a Tube station and see ten of the Met's finest standing there. In theory you ought to feel safer, but in practice you wonder what's happening that you don't know about.
Oh, I was thinking like Tom Seaver and a bunch of other guys I hardly ever heard of. I couldn't figure out why a bunch of baseball players would make a difference in perceived safety either. (Unless they had big wooden bats too).
In the future, just as we have various chess simulators now, we'll have some kind of pool-stick playing bot to match our own pool-playing skillz against, mano a mano.
Let this initial implementation serve as prior art.
These folks do seem relatively enlightened about their stance on DRM; and having been bitten by the downsides, seem to be spinning their plight and position rather positively in the internet press for the last few days.
They certainly seem realistic, and willing to adapt. I'm going to pay attention to them now. I don't game much at all, but I'd consider being their customer for sure, just because they are interesting.
It doesn't matter, really. The maximum length specified for cat5, cat5e, or even cat6 cable is only 100 meters. Beyond that, you'd need to add hubs to connect the lengths.
Neopwn runs on an optimized FULL custom Debian operating system that boots off of a microSD card with a custom Linux kernel, with a vast support range for module drivers, allowing the network security tester the ability to perform various network penetration auditing tasks that are normally carried out on a notebook or desktop workstation.
We offer complete hardware setups as well as a standalone customized operating system (with custom driver module and kernel support). We can also deliver custom features and support options upon request for hardware or software that isn't standard with our systems.
Yes, and for $10 annually, you can setup a DNS round-robin, so that if one of the servers doesn't respond by delivering the precise web page as expected by zoneedit, zoneedit removes that particular server from the DNS pool until it works as-expected.
I'm sure other firms can do this also; and I'd like to know who they are. For the functionality, given cheap hosting and a little rsync love, this affords Cheap Redundancy.
"Hyperspace ain't like dustin' crops, boy! Without precise calculations you could blast yourself into a star, or bounce of a supernova; and that'd end your journey Real Quick."
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After the rootkit fisaco, Sony has done nothing to elevate themselves. Patenting some feature-limiting systems sounds like classic Sony.
In other Sony Stupidity, it seems they recently stole part of a popular Amsterdam landmark, to attract publicity towards one of their games. You'd have thought they would have learned from widely-publicized mistakes of others.
http://www.rnw.nl/english/article/press-review-wednesday-24-february
http://playstationlifestyle.net/2010/02/24/heavy-rain-washes-away-amsterdam-landmark
http://news.google.com/news/more?um=1&cf=all&ned=us&hl=nl&cf=all&ncl=dQbgbhcNvNSes9Mf7y66XftD669lM
It is hard to believe Sony Marketing would really steal these huge, heavy steel letters without SOME kind of permit issued by the city, but I haven't been able to locate anything other than clues to Sony's breaking laws for $elf--promotion. If this marketing stunt really is true, that Sony had no city permit, I am very Angry with any corporation that would do this.
The classic quote I read in Dutch was: 'Can I reference this theft also, once Sony takes me to court for copying music CDs?'
Seriously, and I'll never buy a Dell! A client gave me a Dell Inspiron Mini 10 to upgrade to Ubuntu 9.10. What Hell!
See this video, at the end of all this disassembly, just to add a freaking RAM module, to upgrade from 1gb to 2gb? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_jUFbxHoAU This video is great, and kudos to the guy that made it. Problem is, when I got all the way to the end, and flipped out the mobo away from the netbook shell, I learned the 1GB RAM was soldered on. This takes the M$ tax to extreme I figure.
Lest I fail to mention, M$ limits display resolution to 800x600. I think it can really do 1368x768 or something like that. My Asus Eee 1000HE w 2gb RAM does great video. Even full-screen Flash from YouTube. I followed these instructions, to ensure I had full disk encryption with my Netbook Remix. http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=7489558&postcount=13. Even so, I think I need to build the PSB kernel video drivers from source to fix the Dell mini graphics properly according to my google-study of the problem so far.
If all that weren't bad enough. The paltry 160Gb drive gave me S.M.A.R.T. errors (too many bad sectors) last night. It is easier to swap in a 500gb 70euro drive than deal with Dell, fsck the warranty at this point. M$ got their tax too.
Extra effort is required to enjoy the Premium Ubuntu flavor.
Seriously, this is enlightenment from the Norwegian fjords!
I was thinking of being able to run a cool linux distro like Backtrack, inside the corporate firewall, using known and approved IP addresses, etc. To SOME people, this is a feature; to others a threat. Regardless, i want to know about the possibilities to do my job better.
Microsoft is making a big deal in Windows 7 about being able to lockdown USB drives in the enterprise. But with this info, they should also considering locking-down web-browsers.
Oh, wait. Nevermind I just said that about Microsoft.
As I recall, Microsoft agreed to 'fully-support' the operation. If that meant Dev-Level folks to test & crush London Stock Exchange Bugs, then MS had the responsibility along with Accenture to ensure such a thing didn't happen.
It seems to me that even in a support-role, MS would have been involved directly in the on-going data-center architecture, for example.
Epic-Failure for sure.
Please don't promote skype in this space. It is too proprietary, and consumes too much battery power running as a 3rd party app.
Why not buy a true SIP phone? Then you can set it up like an extension at your office/PBX, or configure it directly to a service like www.voipcheap.com. Personally, I won't buy a phone unless it is supported on a list like this one:
http://www.forum.nokia.com/Technology_Topics/Mobile_Technologies/VoIP/Nokia_VoIP_Framework/VoIP_support_in_Nokia_devices.xhtml
In the US, T-mobile sells uncapped (AFAIK) mobile internet for $40 a month. Another 'perk' under such a plan is A-GPS (combined cell-tower plus true GPS for speed).
This makes your mobile device much closer to being a standardized 'client' to web services. In fact I even turn my N95 into a 3g router, using www.joikuspot.com (so I don't have to swap the SIM with my USB modem).
Actually this type of exploit has been known to effect Nokia phones for awhile already. It seems only normal someone would figure out how to do it to an iPhone, (unless Apple was proactive in thwarting such an attack, which hasn't been the case)
http://www.google.com/search?q=nokia+malformed+sms&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=com.ubuntu:en-US:unofficial&client=firefox-a
Maps tend to be more useful with vector data, as opposed to consisting of a raster image. Databases are then much smaller, and all kinds of calculations become possible.
TFA explains that HCL Technologies is an "Indian outsourcing giant".
Good luck with your new career.
Mandrake. Mandrake, have you never wondered why I drink only distilled water, or rain water, and only pure grain alcohol?
Listen, am I the first person to explain to you that Real girls do not have beards? Have a clue buddy.
FYI, I now own nearly identical spec. Logitech mice. A bluetooth and another with a little USB thing to go with it.
As an Ubuntu user, I first found www.hidpoint.com that promised to provide drivers to get my proprietary mouse to function. To date, they've never delivered a driver I can use, say in 64bit.
However to my shock and amazement, sometime a few months ago, the proprietary unit Just Worked! Seemingly it was some Ubuntu patch. I had to try on several boxes and it worked consistently. I think those hidpoint folks might redirect support accordingly perhaps, just to save everyone's time?
BUT, before this happened, because I really needed a wireless mouse, I bought a bluetooth since I used Ubuntu which Logitech CLEARLY does NOT support. Battery life sucks thick canal water!!! Like daily recharge? WTF!?
meanwhile months after the fact, I am still using the free El Cheapo batteries that came with my proprietary Logitech USB mouse, while the bluetooth mouse that costs about 175% of the proprietary model sits idle for this reason.
Your HSDPA drops the connection after being solid for about a day? This sounds like my situation too, but I'm no radio engineer.
I'm not really complaining. The only thing is: My Nokia n95 will be connected via 3 or 3.5G (the indicator changes between these) and my imap email connection will be fine, but eventually will break its (I think) TSL connection forcing me to manually reconnect to check email. Kind of a bummer, but not always.
The SIP connection will seemingly reconnect just fine to the Asterisk PBX when/if this happens. This works great. I lease 768down/365up 3g and it does indeed rock.
Tip: Nokia sells these $20 AA size battery-boxes on a cord, which provide 'hot-swappable' power. So configured, the cell phone provides shared internet to the laptop on the train, during commutes.
This setup is preferable to swapping out the delicate SIM and transferring it back/forth to a USB modem connected to the laptop, just so the laptop can use the same 3g acct.
An added perk is scale: friends traveling together can share the same wifi acct. Not to mention that in the Netherlands, up to three other passengers enjoy the same discount currently being enjoyed by the RailAktief card holder (a 40 euro annual discount card, offering 40% reduction BUT not possible before 9am, M-F)
Once I shared my wifi with another passenger and when the coffee trolley passed by, he was so pleased with the service, he bought me coffee and a sandwich. You can see shared 3g wifi can be a potential ice-breaker in such an environment, with good karma possibilities. (and I suppose the nefarious with a neopwn could sniff passwords, so be forewarned).
Note that even here in where coverage is dense in the city centers, and the train passes through farms and stuff, there's a few spots where no signal is possible. Still, on my regular commutes, web pages pretty much load the whole trip, but streaming internet radio fails.
So this is what they are offering, at a profit right? (No govt. subsidies putting TWC out of business in the area, right?)
http://www.greenlightnc.com/home/internet/internetonly/
$59.95 for 20 mbps UP AND DOWN? 2UP? And they do this profitably right? Then is it possible everyone else is getting screwed over by their ISP Monopolies/Duopolies?
"The 20Mbps speed includes both uploads and downloads and is the fastest residential speed available anywhere in North Carolina."
Go Greenlight go! I wonder what the real estate is like in the area served.
www.icanlocalize.com has some interesting offerings in the way of workflow & price, especially if you are already using a CMS like Drupal 6.
If you use Drupal for example, you can set it up so as soon as you 'publish' (or at least advance the content in the workflow-process) it is made available for professional translators to begin working on.
The pro translators have their own web-enabled interface and toolset (I think) which is similar to www.trados.com in translation memory function.
If you are a non-profit, the iCanLocalize allows your org. to use the translation interface yourself for free. Otherwise it costs .05 USD per word to use if you do it yourself. Translation in comparison is dirt cheap I think, at .07 per word. The last time I checked a few years ago, the same thing (less elegant workflow) cost .16 euro per word, in Northern Europe.
Oh, I was thinking like Tom Seaver and a bunch of other guys I hardly ever heard of. I couldn't figure out why a bunch of baseball players would make a difference in perceived safety either. (Unless they had big wooden bats too).
Wouldn't a certain percetange of the general population be susceptible to such an addiciton anyway?
So now we're trying to measure the impact.
In the future, just as we have various chess simulators now, we'll have some kind of pool-stick playing bot to match our own pool-playing skillz against, mano a mano.
Let this initial implementation serve as prior art.
These folks do seem relatively enlightened about their stance on DRM; and having been bitten by the downsides, seem to be spinning their plight and position rather positively in the internet press for the last few days.
They certainly seem realistic, and willing to adapt. I'm going to pay attention to them now. I don't game much at all, but I'd consider being their customer for sure, just because they are interesting.
Whoosh! Do you fail to see any humor in what I wrote as well?
Rough day on the slashdots I guess, and I am not a CCNA you insensitive clod! I used Wikipedia to be precise.
It doesn't matter, really. The maximum length specified for cat5, cat5e, or even cat6 cable is only 100 meters. Beyond that, you'd need to add hubs to connect the lengths.
Yes, and for $10 annually, you can setup a DNS round-robin, so that if one of the servers doesn't respond by delivering the precise web page as expected by zoneedit, zoneedit removes that particular server from the DNS pool until it works as-expected.
http://www.zoneedit.com/
I'm sure other firms can do this also; and I'd like to know who they are. For the functionality, given cheap hosting and a little rsync love, this affords Cheap Redundancy.
"Hyperspace ain't like dustin' crops, boy! Without precise calculations you could blast yourself into a star, or bounce of a supernova; and that'd end your journey Real Quick."
Ascii flash?
as in ascii-flash-poniez?
Or, as Homer says, "Ummmmm, ascii-flash-poniez!