Surprised nobody has mentioned Gitso:
http://code.google.com/p/gitso/
"Gitso is a frontend to reverse VNC connections. It is meant to be a simple two-step process that connects one person to another's screen. First, the support person offers to give support. Second, the person who needs help connects and has their screen remotely visible. Because Gitso is cross-platform (Linux, OS X and Windows) and uses a reverse VNC connection, it greatly simplifies the process of getting support."
Re:The iPad is original Apple Redux
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The Apple Two
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Though, I can't imagine using it as my only computer as a student, blech
Well, duh! That's not what it's for!
You obviously didn't bother reading the article. Woz is the one who suggested it:
"The iPad could lower the cost of acquiring computers for students. I think it's going to be huge in the education market. Think about students going off to college." Woz insisted. "They want an Apple product, but their parents don't want to spend that much. Now they have the ideal thing. They can go to college and someone may have a whacked-out $6,000 laptop, but the guy with the iPad will get all the attention."
Did the same thing with just a single camera
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The DIY Book Scanner
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· Score: 3, Informative
I'm amazed at how good OCR has gotten. I did the same thing without building anything: just connected my Canon PowerShot A540 to a tripod, lay the tripod on a coffee table, put the book on the floor, and started snapping away. Fed the JPGs to ABBYY FineReader 10, and it spit out plain text that was *at least* 97-98% accurate on every page. I did not use any special lights, do not know anything about photography, and frankly thought I'd have to buy all sorts of special equipment. The only other thing I added for convenience sake was Dirk's CanoRemote so that I would not move the camera (however imperceptibly) every time I pressed the shutter.
As many have pointed out, the blog post does not offer sufficient detail, but does offer the rather sensational headline "SQL injection attack claims 132,000+". The Google Safe Browsing diagnostic page for 318x.com has it closer to 1200 or so:
Has this site acted as an intermediary resulting in further distribution of malware? Over the past 90 days, 318x.com appeared to function as an intermediary for the infection of 1202 site(s) including 37y.org/, jxagri.gov.cn/, glojj.com/.
Has this site hosted malware? Yes, this site has hosted malicious software over the past 90 days. It infected 1269 domain(s), including 37y.org/, cec.org.cn/, jxagri.gov.cn/.
I recently had the exact same question. After an exhaustive search, I found these guys who specialize in ESD control packaging:
http://www.protektivepak.com/
I ordered their 37305 In-Plant Handler (which accommodates up to forty 3.5" hard drives and PCI cards beautifully) from these guys (the only ones I could find who would ship outside the continental U.S.):
http://oemmaterials.com/
I swap hard drives / PCI cards regularly and am very happy with this solution.
Not sure why this was modded down - very important point. Why was an entire site by volunteers simply shuttered with no time to move the donated content elsewhere? It was a goldmine of anti-malware tips and techniques generously given by hundreds, if not thousands, of users over the years. Geeks (even more than most people perhaps) generally abhor having to figure something out that has already been solved. It is simply a waste of brain power (which God knows is in rather short supply). Now with this repository of valuable information gone, much of it will have to be solved anew unless archives can be found.
CrashPlan is an excellent option: supports Windows, OS X, and Linux, backups to other computers you own or trust (or even to CrashPlan servers, if you prefer), everything is encrypted, responsive dev team, etc, etc. Check out the video.
The Ninth Circuit's opinion concerns Lexmark's "Prebate" program, in which customers are given a $30 discount on their printer cartridge in exchange for their agreement to return the used cartridge to Lexmark when they are done with it. That's an enforceable contract, plain and simple. Customers had the option of paying $30 more for a cartridge, without being obligated to send it back to Lexmark when they were finished with it.
The Ninth Circuit simply held that, in exchange for paying less for the cartridge, customers could be contractually bound to return it to Lexmark.
If you boot up from your Knoppix CD where do you plan on saving your data when you recover?
1. Any USB/Firewire device 2. Another internal hard drive 3. Any other PC connected through virtually any connection (serial, parallel, cross-over cable, SSH, FTP, etc) 4. Floppy!
Sorry to reply to my own post, but after watching the video, it seems there would be at least two advantages over Knoppix:
1. A USB Flash drive/MP3 player is somthing you might be carrying anyway.
2. It looks as if you can mirror your internal drive to the USB device as a precautionary measure and then boot off the USB drive when the interal one fails. I do this with my iBook and iPod using CCC or SuperDuper!
Of course, your laptop must support booting from USB/Firewire as well.
In this CRN news article, Steven Welch, an "IBM distinguished Engineer", is quoted as saying, "One-touch IBM Rescue & Recovery On Linux all wrapped up in a portable media device under $300. Priceless. That is music to my ears."
I wonder how his ears would respond to a free Knoppix CD?
The book was released under the GNU Free Documentation License, and it can be downloaded for free (in PDF format) from: http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/pgubook/ .
In response...
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Tiny Apps
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· Score: 5, Informative
to some excellent comments and feedback, I'd like to offer the following:
1. Yes, 1.44mb can hardly be called "tiny". To be honest, the reason it was chosen is that I just *had* to include the QNX Demo Disk and the OffByOne Web Browser. But much of the site is dedicated to apps in the 2 to 200kb range, which I think can fairly be called "tiny". One example is EVE, a very cool vector graphics editor whose executable is a mere 39k. There are many more listed along these lines.
2. Yes, Windows is very bloated, but by customizing the shell, removing IE, and performing a host of other surgeries, it can actually be quite a nice little OS. I just received an email reply from the author of Optimizing Windows (published by O'Reilly). His book explains (among many other things) how to get Windows 95 down to 17 mb.
3. I realize that Slashdot is generally geared towards *nix users and want to thank you for being kind enough to list a site mainly covering DOS/Windows apps. As I mention on the home page, folks (from any OS) interested in contributing to the site or having a link posted are more than welcome to contact me.
Also, many thanks to those responsible for the mirror mentioned in one of the posts.
Slashdot Mirror
Surprised nobody has mentioned Gitso: http://code.google.com/p/gitso/ "Gitso is a frontend to reverse VNC connections. It is meant to be a simple two-step process that connects one person to another's screen. First, the support person offers to give support. Second, the person who needs help connects and has their screen remotely visible. Because Gitso is cross-platform (Linux, OS X and Windows) and uses a reverse VNC connection, it greatly simplifies the process of getting support."
Though, I can't imagine using it as my only computer as a student, blech
Well, duh! That's not what it's for!
You obviously didn't bother reading the article. Woz is the one who suggested it: "The iPad could lower the cost of acquiring computers for students. I think it's going to be huge in the education market. Think about students going off to college." Woz insisted. "They want an Apple product, but their parents don't want to spend that much. Now they have the ideal thing. They can go to college and someone may have a whacked-out $6,000 laptop, but the guy with the iPad will get all the attention."
I bought an iPhone this year. This is one asset that is so important that I just want it to WORK. I don't want to worry about viruses
Start worrying:
Malware Could Grab Data From Stock iPhones
I'm amazed at how good OCR has gotten. I did the same thing without building anything: just connected my Canon PowerShot A540 to a tripod, lay the tripod on a coffee table, put the book on the floor, and started snapping away. Fed the JPGs to ABBYY FineReader 10, and it spit out plain text that was *at least* 97-98% accurate on every page. I did not use any special lights, do not know anything about photography, and frankly thought I'd have to buy all sorts of special equipment. The only other thing I added for convenience sake was Dirk's CanoRemote so that I would not move the camera (however imperceptibly) every time I pressed the shutter.
As many have pointed out, the blog post does not offer sufficient detail, but does offer the rather sensational headline "SQL injection attack claims 132,000+". The Google Safe Browsing diagnostic page for 318x.com has it closer to 1200 or so:
http://google.com/safebrowsing/diagnostic?site=318x.com/
Has this site acted as an intermediary resulting in further distribution of malware?
Over the past 90 days, 318x.com appeared to function as an intermediary for the infection of 1202 site(s) including 37y.org/, jxagri.gov.cn/, glojj.com/.
Has this site hosted malware?
Yes, this site has hosted malicious software over the past 90 days. It infected 1269 domain(s), including 37y.org/, cec.org.cn/, jxagri.gov.cn/.
I recently had the exact same question. After an exhaustive search, I found these guys who specialize in ESD control packaging:
http://www.protektivepak.com/
I ordered their 37305 In-Plant Handler (which accommodates up to forty 3.5" hard drives and PCI cards beautifully) from these guys (the only ones I could find who would ship outside the continental U.S.):
http://oemmaterials.com/
I swap hard drives / PCI cards regularly and am very happy with this solution.
Not sure why this was modded down - very important point. Why was an entire site by volunteers simply shuttered with no time to move the donated content elsewhere? It was a goldmine of anti-malware tips and techniques generously given by hundreds, if not thousands, of users over the years. Geeks (even more than most people perhaps) generally abhor having to figure something out that has already been solved. It is simply a waste of brain power (which God knows is in rather short supply). Now with this repository of valuable information gone, much of it will have to be solved anew unless archives can be found.
I am a very occasional (though appreciative!) user of Nmap, but after reading this:
So I dumped the potential publisher and added the screen shots anyway
I immediately bought a copy via the Amazon link. Fyodor, well done, sir!
CrashPlan is an excellent option: supports Windows, OS X, and Linux, backups to other computers you own or trust (or even to CrashPlan servers, if you prefer), everything is encrypted, responsive dev team, etc, etc. Check out the video.
Here's the scoop from the man who made it happen, Harald Welte.
Perhaps the most exciting news of all (besides saving over $100) is that Virtual PC 2004 runs BeOS beautifully!
If you boot up from your Knoppix CD where do you plan on saving your data when you recover?
1. Any USB/Firewire device
2. Another internal hard drive
3. Any other PC connected through virtually any connection (serial, parallel, cross-over cable, SSH, FTP, etc)
4. Floppy!
Sorry to reply to my own post, but after watching the video, it seems there would be at least two advantages over Knoppix:
1. A USB Flash drive/MP3 player is somthing you might be carrying anyway.
2. It looks as if you can mirror your internal drive to the USB device as a precautionary measure and then boot off the USB drive when the interal one fails. I do this with my iBook and iPod using CCC or SuperDuper!
Of course, your laptop must support booting from USB/Firewire as well.
In this CRN news article, Steven Welch, an "IBM distinguished Engineer", is quoted as saying, "One-touch IBM Rescue & Recovery On Linux all wrapped up in a portable media device under $300. Priceless. That is music to my ears."
I wonder how his ears would respond to a free Knoppix CD?
The book was released under the GNU Free Documentation License, and it can be downloaded for free (in PDF format) from: http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/pgubook/ .
to some excellent comments and feedback, I'd like to offer the following:
1. Yes, 1.44mb can hardly be called "tiny". To be honest, the reason it was chosen is that I just *had* to include the QNX Demo Disk and the OffByOne Web Browser. But much of the site is dedicated to apps in the 2 to 200kb range, which I think can fairly be called "tiny". One example is EVE, a very cool vector graphics editor whose executable is a mere 39k. There are many more listed along these lines.
2. Yes, Windows is very bloated, but by customizing the shell, removing IE, and performing a host of other surgeries, it can actually be quite a nice little OS. I just received an email reply from the author of Optimizing Windows (published by O'Reilly). His book explains (among many other things) how to get Windows 95 down to 17 mb.
3. I realize that Slashdot is generally geared towards *nix users and want to thank you for being kind enough to list a site mainly covering DOS/Windows apps. As I mention on the home page, folks (from any OS) interested in contributing to the site or having a link posted are more than welcome to contact me.
Also, many thanks to those responsible for the mirror mentioned in one of the posts.
Much aloha,
Miles Wolbe
miles@tinyapps.org
http://www.TinyApps.org/