They used to say all editors evolve until they can send e-mail. Now you tell us that EMACS can make phone calls. This leads us to ponder future developments.
Well, I've seen The Matrix, and I reckon there's no way vi can put us all in pods with wires in the back of our heads, so I'm sticking with that for the moment.
Ah, but if he'd faked the browser headers, those of us who managed to read the article might have been a little suspicious of someone running a web server on an OS that doesn't have any networking support at all....
Now, in fact I don't really sync them as I only keep a few numbers on my phone, and mostly use the psion to dial a land line.
But, there is great software called PhoneManPro that you can use to manipulate the phone from the Psion. Not only can you edit the phone book, (or import from CSV etc) but it also lets you send SMS messages, edit the ringtones, etc. all of which is about 2000% easier with a Psion 5 keyboard!
The ultimate goal will be for pc's to be a commodity like ballpoint pens are, where if you need a new one you go and fetch it from the stationary cupboard.;-)
Actually this is probably more a requirement for wireless computer terminals in various form factors being like that, so you have multiple ways in to your PC, some of which are almost disposable.
OWA is avaialble for Exchange 5.0, 5.5, and 2K. USeful tip: use the 5.5 verson of OWA on 5.0, BTW,as it is better. The 2K version is better still, but only wokrs with 2K as it is an entirely different thin internally. (OWA 5.5 is a web based CDO application that you can install on any IIS server. OWA 2K is basically the exposure of the Exchange message store as HTML.
It's pretty good - being able to get at your e-mail from anywhere on the net is so useful, and has dramatically cut down how often I need to lug my laptop about.
However, my own preference is to use the superb rdesktop software to access a Win2K Terminal Server and run real Outlook (and my various Win32-only database clients) from there. Between that and pointing native Linux clients at the exchange server's POP3/SMTP/IMAP services I find I can pretty much read my exchange email from anything.
How are we gonna keep the net an exclusive club if you keep telling people about the best bits of it?;-)
If anyone here reading this hasn't tried seanbaby out, do so now! I've had co-workers look at me oddly because the super-friends page has made me burst out with laughter while I'm meant to be working.
So, the challenge is down, what other web pages are indispensible? Is everyone fmailiar with www.superosity.com? What about www.redmeat.com? What others are there, suggestions please!
Yes, the sucess of half-life and the mods for that show that the genre has a lot to give in it yet.
ID has always been in the position of the best graphical engines imaginable. But their story work has always seemed almost tacked onto the engine afterwards.
You'll never manage it... Laptops are always beghind desktops in terms of raw capacity. By the time ther are laptops with that sort of power, your desktops will be so much further forward you won't want it any more.
I liked his observation that this has been turned into good PR by MS. "Code Red is awful, but don't worry, we'll save you! The FBI ae behind us on this, so don't worry"
and give us an opinion as to whether it is sufficently detailed to break the DCMA?
It looked quite generic to me... "you can break this particular product with brute force in a day", for example, or "key is included as a plain text in the document" (!) or "uses same key in each document"
Not entrapment, true, but if the FBI have evidence that someone is about to commit a crime aren't they meant to try and stop it being committed? i.e. shouldn't they have gone up to him before his presentation, identified themselves, and said "Adobe say you're going to break the DMCA in this presentation. We will arrest you if you do"
Or is it instead the case that the presentation wasn't the crime, but merely evidence that he had committed the crime - i.e. broken Adobe's encryption? In which case, surely the FBI do not have any juristiction over a non-US citizen breaking a US law in another country?
True, PsiWin is sucky. Us psion users have been complaining for a long time about that. A lack of good customer focus I think - look at e.g. MS Active Sync - I've played with that and it is impressive. I shouldn't still be waiting for a new PsiWin that can work with IR under Win2K. OK, that is MS's fault for dropping IRCOMM support - "it confuses our customers" - thanks! But Palm didn't hang about wining - they rewrote their software to use the win2K approved IR protocols.
However, should point out that the problem with Outlook thinking it is a macro virus is also a Microsoft one - it's part of their ridiculous SP2 security features. It assumes anything trying to access your address book is a virus.
Sad, but kinda expected. It seems people just don't want the extra bulk of a keyboard. I have to admit that when I replace my beloved 5MX it'll be with a palm-sized unit. I was hoping that when I did it'd be a choice between Palm and CE and EPOC6, which looked tasty, if a bit phone-based (see below).
Psion's engineers made great hardware, but the comapny had a couple of problems:
They saw the way forward as integrated phones inside PDAs and vice versa. I still think this is possibly an accurate picture of the future, but it took them too damn long to get anywhere. The phone companies they partnered with were genuine about EPOC's potential, I think, but diluted their focus by also partnering with the big boys, Palm and Microsoft. The new Nokia communicator is a sexy bit of kit, but it still looks like a big clunky 90's phone. Perhaps the true answer is a phone-sized phone and a Palm V- sized PDA with a PAN connection between them - i.e. Bluetooth.
Microsoft also got a kind of boost from the crapness of CE. TO make CE run well, you've got to make incredibly powerful handhelds, with big fast processors and oodles of RAM. This led them to a surprising market in the "worlds most powerful PDA" area - e.g. IpaQ.
And palm is palm; the best OS for a "connected organizer" if that's what you want, and not a full pocket sized computer - which is where the 5MX lived.
The Revo fell between market segments. Their aim was a product for people who - like me - found the 5MX too bulky. But it still wasn't as small as a Visor edge.
Psion will still make hardware I guess- their industrial hand-helds make a tidy living for them. But it is a little sad. Now the onus is on you open source people to go against CE as the people who make real pocket computers. Good luck!
...that I can't get Debian to use sound on my boring old Stinkpad 600E.
Crystal 4280/461x + AC97 Audio, version 0.13, 10:39:21 Feb 27 2001
cs461x: Card found at 0x50100000 and 0x50000000, IRQ 11
cs461x: Thinkpad 600E (unsupported) at 0x50100000/0x50000000, IRQ 11
cs461x: Unsupported configuration due to lack of documentation.
In Nikita, Reno plays a character called the cleaner, who is the expert called in to clean up a assasinations. Reno totally stole the scene and Besson expanded the character to make Leon.
Meanwhile, Keitel plays the same character in the US remake.
Then, Tarantino writes someone called Mr Wolf into Pulp Fiction whose job is the same - cleaning up botched crimes. And casts Kietel in that role, although the two characters are very different.
Well put, so our question to the questioner is - since your current app works fine, why not put the effort into finding something that'll make the text files it needs from the data sources you are using.
This gluing together of things is of course the unix way. In fact, what the poster above was joking about perl may turn out to be true; it is probably surprisingly simple to make a little perl script that takes the XML or connects to the SQL server, and turns it into the kind of text file your crack-addled mail merger wants.
Nonsense! Take Music. Mozart's requiem. It's just dots on paper - information - and so, like all information, infinitely copiable. I can take the sheet music, and photcopy it a thousand times.
Perhaps you argue that the performer adds something to each performance to make it unique. Fair enough. Many a Mozart lover will have differnet recordings of the same piece.
But one can take the sheet music, and convert it into a midi. Here's one here of the Kyrie. No artistic contribution to the work at all by the performer, my PC is converting numbers into sounds.
So Mozart's work, becomes, by your argument, becomes worthless, and not art, because I can make a zillion copies of this?
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OK, we're geeks people. That makes us sooooooo unqualified to comment on peoples taste.
Hey, could that be an ask slahsdot submission? "What kind of music does geekdom prefer?"
They used to say all editors evolve until they can send e-mail. Now you tell us that EMACS can make phone calls. This leads us to ponder future developments.
Well, I've seen The Matrix, and I reckon there's no way vi can put us all in pods with wires in the back of our heads, so I'm sticking with that for the moment.
Ah, but if he'd faked the browser headers, those of us who managed to read the article might have been a little suspicious of someone running a web server on an OS that doesn't have any networking support at all....
...I always remember the joke Freud used as an example in one of his works.
Why is a wife like an umbrella?
Because some days you want to take a cab.
Hmmmm.
Now, in fact I don't really sync them as I only keep a few numbers on my phone, and mostly use the psion to dial a land line.
But, there is great software called PhoneManPro that you can use to manipulate the phone from the Psion. Not only can you edit the phone book, (or import from CSV etc) but it also lets you send SMS messages, edit the ringtones, etc. all of which is about 2000% easier with a Psion 5 keyboard!
The ultimate goal will be for pc's to be a commodity like ballpoint pens are, where if you need a new one you go and fetch it from the stationary cupboard. ;-)
Actually this is probably more a requirement for wireless computer terminals in various form factors being like that, so you have multiple ways in to your PC, some of which are almost disposable.
Sorry, I'm a TOS - trekkie, so all I can suggest is to reverse the polarity from positive to negative.
OWA is avaialble for Exchange 5.0, 5.5, and 2K. USeful tip: use the 5.5 verson of OWA on 5.0, BTW,as it is better. The 2K version is better still, but only wokrs with 2K as it is an entirely different thin internally. (OWA 5.5 is a web based CDO application that you can install on any IIS server. OWA 2K is basically the exposure of the Exchange message store as HTML.
It's pretty good - being able to get at your e-mail from anywhere on the net is so useful, and has dramatically cut down how often I need to lug my laptop about.
However, my own preference is to use the superb rdesktop software to access a Win2K Terminal Server and run real Outlook (and my various Win32-only database clients) from there. Between that and pointing native Linux clients at the exchange server's POP3/SMTP/IMAP services I find I can pretty much read my exchange email from anything.
How are we gonna keep the net an exclusive club if you keep telling people about the best bits of it? ;-)
If anyone here reading this hasn't tried seanbaby out, do so now! I've had co-workers look at me oddly because the super-friends page has made me burst out with laughter while I'm meant to be working.
So, the challenge is down, what other web pages are indispensible? Is everyone fmailiar with www.superosity.com? What about www.redmeat.com? What others are there, suggestions please!
Yes, the sucess of half-life and the mods for that show that the genre has a lot to give in it yet.
ID has always been in the position of the best graphical engines imaginable. But their story work has always seemed almost tacked onto the engine afterwards.
I vote for "Attack of the Algorithms"
You'll never manage it... Laptops are always beghind desktops in terms of raw capacity. By the time ther are laptops with that sort of power, your desktops will be so much further forward you won't want it any more.
I liked his observation that this has been turned into good PR by MS. "Code Red is awful, but don't worry, we'll save you! The FBI ae behind us on this, so don't worry"
and give us an opinion as to whether it is sufficently detailed to break the DCMA?
It looked quite generic to me... "you can break this particular product with brute force in a day", for example, or "key is included as a plain text in the document" (!) or "uses same key in each document"
Not entrapment, true, but if the FBI have evidence that someone is about to commit a crime aren't they meant to try and stop it being committed? i.e. shouldn't they have gone up to him before his presentation, identified themselves, and said "Adobe say you're going to break the DMCA in this presentation. We will arrest you if you do"
Or is it instead the case that the presentation wasn't the crime, but merely evidence that he had committed the crime - i.e. broken Adobe's encryption? In which case, surely the FBI do not have any juristiction over a non-US citizen breaking a US law in another country?
True, PsiWin is sucky. Us psion users have been complaining for a long time about that. A lack of good customer focus I think - look at e.g. MS Active Sync - I've played with that and it is impressive. I shouldn't still be waiting for a new PsiWin that can work with IR under Win2K. OK, that is MS's fault for dropping IRCOMM support - "it confuses our customers" - thanks! But Palm didn't hang about wining - they rewrote their software to use the win2K approved IR protocols.
However, should point out that the problem with Outlook thinking it is a macro virus is also a Microsoft one - it's part of their ridiculous SP2 security features. It assumes anything trying to access your address book is a virus.
Although a terrorist organization is more likely to go for B or C, rather than A - i.e. Biological or Chemicla weapons.
Mix the two - have a Tetris-based debugger.
;-)
Reminds me of that Doom-based interface to kill
(That's slashdot.org/articles/99/10/20/1110242.shtml for the nervous.)
Sad, but kinda expected. It seems people just don't want the extra bulk of a keyboard. I have to admit that when I replace my beloved 5MX it'll be with a palm-sized unit. I was hoping that when I did it'd be a choice between Palm and CE and EPOC6, which looked tasty, if a bit phone-based (see below).
Psion's engineers made great hardware, but the comapny had a couple of problems:
They saw the way forward as integrated phones inside PDAs and vice versa. I still think this is possibly an accurate picture of the future, but it took them too damn long to get anywhere. The phone companies they partnered with were genuine about EPOC's potential, I think, but diluted their focus by also partnering with the big boys, Palm and Microsoft. The new Nokia communicator is a sexy bit of kit, but it still looks like a big clunky 90's phone. Perhaps the true answer is a phone-sized phone and a Palm V- sized PDA with a PAN connection between them - i.e. Bluetooth.
Microsoft also got a kind of boost from the crapness of CE. TO make CE run well, you've got to make incredibly powerful handhelds, with big fast processors and oodles of RAM. This led them to a surprising market in the "worlds most powerful PDA" area - e.g. IpaQ.
And palm is palm; the best OS for a "connected organizer" if that's what you want, and not a full pocket sized computer - which is where the 5MX lived.
The Revo fell between market segments. Their aim was a product for people who - like me - found the 5MX too bulky. But it still wasn't as small as a Visor edge.
Psion will still make hardware I guess- their industrial hand-helds make a tidy living for them. But it is a little sad. Now the onus is on you open source people to go against CE as the people who make real pocket computers. Good luck!
Ah, I was of the opinion that mine was a late-model 600E and so was using a later
But you're right, it is reporting a 4280 not a 461x
...that I can't get Debian to use sound on my boring old Stinkpad 600E.
Crystal 4280/461x + AC97 Audio, version 0.13, 10:39:21 Feb 27 2001
cs461x: Card found at 0x50100000 and 0x50000000, IRQ 11
cs461x: Thinkpad 600E (unsupported) at 0x50100000/0x50000000, IRQ 11
cs461x: Unsupported configuration due to lack of documentation.
Kinda, it's complicated.
In Nikita, Reno plays a character called the cleaner, who is the expert called in to clean up a assasinations. Reno totally stole the scene and Besson expanded the character to make Leon.
Meanwhile, Keitel plays the same character in the US remake.
Then, Tarantino writes someone called Mr Wolf into Pulp Fiction whose job is the same - cleaning up botched crimes. And casts Kietel in that role, although the two characters are very different.
No no no, titanium! That's what's needed!
I quite enjoyed this page, because unlike most of the pages out there describing customization etc. etc. , this is going really badly.
Well put, so our question to the questioner is - since your current app works fine, why not put the effort into finding something that'll make the text files it needs from the data sources you are using.
This gluing together of things is of course the unix way. In fact, what the poster above was joking about perl may turn out to be true; it is probably surprisingly simple to make a little perl script that takes the XML or connects to the SQL server, and turns it into the kind of text file your crack-addled mail merger wants.
Nonsense! Take Music. Mozart's requiem. It's just dots on paper - information - and so, like all information, infinitely copiable. I can take the sheet music, and photcopy it a thousand times.
Perhaps you argue that the performer adds something to each performance to make it unique. Fair enough. Many a Mozart lover will have differnet recordings of the same piece.
But one can take the sheet music, and convert it into a midi. Here's one here of the Kyrie. No artistic contribution to the work at all by the performer, my PC is converting numbers into sounds.
So Mozart's work, becomes, by your argument, becomes worthless, and not art, because I can make a zillion copies of this?