Calendar Contacts Collection of reference documents I need daily ebook reader wireless e-mail when not near a PC Wireless web browsing ditto (for a few PDA friendly sites, due to browser limitations - BBC news and slashdot the usual things I visit) games for dull moments WiFi network scanner (I love walking down the street finding all the open APs) Alarm Clock Integrates with my call logger system so I have a list of open calls with me all the time. Shopping lists quick notes of patch numbers, etc. Lists of music I've heard on the Radio and would like to buy World clock so I know if I'm waking my Canadian colleagues up or not when I call them Calculator and currency convertor review the photos on my digital camera (via SD card) Eat Watch, the weight tracking tool for the Hackers diet ssh/VNC/RDP/Telnet clients for emergency PC access.
Not entirely Dell's fault either. All LCD's look a bit crap at less than their maximum res, because they can only display at that maximum res; to see 800x600 the monitor has to scale that up to 1024x768 on the fly. The quality of your image depends on the scaling.
You should buy an 800x600 LCD panel for best results, although I doubt Dell will sell you one.
Actually Echelon (if we were to hypothetically assume it exists, eh Mr Blunkett?) is entirely different from what this article is discussing.
The article is about the extraordinary number of cameras used to watch streets in the UK.
Echelon concievably might be a US system (in association with a few other countries of which Britain is the most important since we are the one nearest to Europe) that intercepts and listens (via computer analysis, obviously) to international telephone calls etc, to find terrorists and spys and definitely not for insustrial espionage to stuff up French companies, oh no.
Then you're stuffed anyway, because internet e-mail is not guaranteed.
It is difficult. We're swatting away a million of the damn things a week and still our users complain. They also complain when we get false positives. And when, next week, we turn on the system that lets them see what we have blocked that was addressed to them, they'll complain too.
I think the one solution they would find acceptable is for me to personally read every one of those million messages and mark it as good or bad. I hope our VP doens't read slashdot....
It's in the Linux category, because if you RTFA you'll see the story is not announcing the hardware, but announcing a call from Bruce Perens for a Linux driver.
Alas, the method it uses to provide that notification is an automatic slashdot submission, so there's more of this sort of story to come.
Where's the new iTunes though? I'd like one that isn't broken.
Please don't post replies saying that your iTunes isn't broken, I know most people's isn't, but mine is and it's not my computer's fault (unless you want to blame it for running Windows XP, which you probably do)
I'm not a photonic engineer, although I play one on television, but haven't they been using this sort of tool for a very long time? 1 quick google shows researchers at kyoto university doing this in April 2002.
My beloved old Thinkpad fell apart from old age before I got Linux working properly on it. I still keep looking at the shelf and wondering if Fedora Core 2 might detect the sound card properly.
Heh, and some people say Linux isn't ready for the desktop.;-)
Seriously though, don't you love an OS where you *can* do stuff like this if you have to?
I spent an hour yesterday spitting at Excel's inability to deal with a file longer than about 64,000 lines; in the end grep, sort and uniq got me there.
~For further proof that the true geek uses the bluetooth Phone option, I point out that the Z600 mentioned above has a BT controlled toy car available as well.
For goodness sake, there may be no significant change in your usage, but the hardware needs enormously extra ammounts of power! You've got a 320x320x65K color screen in it for one thing, even before we start to talk about the vastly increased RAM and CPU speed.
General concensus is that the Sony Ericsson P900 (running Symbian) is the best of the current crop of smart phones.
However, not wanting a camera is going to restrict your choices... Perhaps something like an old Treo 270? Or if you want something newer one of the Samsungs.
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Calendar
Contacts
Collection of reference documents I need daily
ebook reader
wireless e-mail when not near a PC
Wireless web browsing ditto (for a few PDA friendly sites, due to browser limitations - BBC news and slashdot the usual things I visit)
games for dull moments
WiFi network scanner (I love walking down the street finding all the open APs)
Alarm Clock
Integrates with my call logger system so I have a list of open calls with me all the time.
Shopping lists
quick notes of patch numbers, etc.
Lists of music I've heard on the Radio and would like to buy
World clock so I know if I'm waking my Canadian colleagues up or not when I call them
Calculator and currency convertor
review the photos on my digital camera (via SD card)
Eat Watch, the weight tracking tool for the Hackers diet
ssh/VNC/RDP/Telnet clients for emergency PC access.
Not entirely Dell's fault either. All LCD's look a bit crap at less than their maximum res, because they can only display at that maximum res; to see 800x600 the monitor has to scale that up to 1024x768 on the fly. The quality of your image depends on the scaling.
You should buy an 800x600 LCD panel for best results, although I doubt Dell will sell you one.
As a Spike Milligna fan, mine must read:
"I told you I was ill."
Ah, but be fair, it's not at 1.0 quite yet.
Actually Echelon (if we were to hypothetically assume it exists, eh Mr Blunkett?) is entirely different from what this article is discussing.
The article is about the extraordinary number of cameras used to watch streets in the UK.
Echelon concievably might be a US system (in association with a few other countries of which Britain is the most important since we are the one nearest to Europe) that intercepts and listens (via computer analysis, obviously) to international telephone calls etc, to find terrorists and spys and definitely not for insustrial espionage to stuff up French companies, oh no.
You are thinking of the excellent Mark Thomas. He mixes comedy with investigative journalism - it;s an interesting and entertaining mix.
So, the next step will be getting Linux on it. Should be do-able; isn't there a new X server for LED displays out?
I'm sorry? What do you mean you don't want to run Linux on it? This is Slashdot mate, we put Linux on everything.
I found one of those hooked up to my waste disposal only last week!
It's a Sophisticated Soviet Listening Device!
Then you're stuffed anyway, because internet e-mail is not guaranteed.
It is difficult. We're swatting away a million of the damn things a week and still our users complain. They also complain when we get false positives. And when, next week, we turn on the system that lets them see what we have blocked that was addressed to them, they'll complain too.
I think the one solution they would find acceptable is for me to personally read every one of those million messages and mark it as good or bad. I hope our VP doens't read slashdot....
It's in the Linux category, because if you RTFA you'll see the story is not announcing the hardware, but announcing a call from Bruce Perens for a Linux driver.
Sigh....
Alas, the method it uses to provide that notification is an automatic slashdot submission, so there's more of this sort of story to come.
Where's the new iTunes though? I'd like one that isn't broken.
Please don't post replies saying that your iTunes isn't broken, I know most people's isn't, but mine is and it's not my computer's fault (unless you want to blame it for running Windows XP, which you probably do)
I'm not a photonic engineer, although I play one on television, but haven't they been using this sort of tool for a very long time? 1 quick google shows researchers at kyoto university doing this in April 2002.
Are you new here?
My beloved old Thinkpad fell apart from old age before I got Linux working properly on it. I still keep looking at the shelf and wondering if Fedora Core 2 might detect the sound card properly.
I saw a DVD the other day that said it has "deleted scenes shot specially for this release". Eh?
The sequels are odd though. I think if you had:
Matrix + (animatrix / 2) + (Reloaded + EnterFMV - rave) + (revolutions / 8)
It'd not be half bad, so this box set is a step on the way.
Heh, and some people say Linux isn't ready for the desktop. ;-)
Seriously though, don't you love an OS where you *can* do stuff like this if you have to?
I spent an hour yesterday spitting at Excel's inability to deal with a file longer than about 64,000 lines; in the end grep, sort and uniq got me there.
Well, I say that whatever your plan is, damaging Canada is always going to be a bonus.
~For further proof that the true geek uses the bluetooth Phone option, I point out that the Z600 mentioned above has a BT controlled toy car available as well.
For goodness sake, there may be no significant change in your usage, but the hardware needs enormously extra ammounts of power! You've got a 320x320x65K color screen in it for one thing, even before we start to talk about the vastly increased RAM and CPU speed.
And the common denominator would be.... built in the last 200 years, perhaps?
Heh, once you can change the packets themselves you will be The One, Neo.
The fact that, as you say, the band's logo is on the ammo boxes for the nailgun would suggest a causal link, don;t you think?
General concensus is that the Sony Ericsson P900 (running Symbian) is the best of the current crop of smart phones.
However, not wanting a camera is going to restrict your choices... Perhaps something like an old Treo 270? Or if you want something newer one of the Samsungs.
Another reason for not switching - the need to access an Exchange server - bites the dust.
Ah, there is no switching costs if you take the switching costs and book them as operating costs?
Accountancy, it's such fun!
But I have a better idea - put your switching costs on the books as ice cream purchases! Everyone loves ice cream.