I don't have the LC-11M but I did buy the LC-11 in silver for my MythTV box and it's amazing. The build quality is top-notch with thick quality aluminum and construction. The only negative I have on the case is that the mATX motherboard layout means that the CPU is right next to one of the case exhaust fans which limits the size of the CPU fan. It meant putting in something a bit noiser than I would have liked but it's running great in the living room!
There's also a
Plus Pack available for Outlook Web Access that adds a bunch of features that make it work just as well as the desktop version (e.g. Rolodex/Address Book, Spell Checking, new email notification, Secure Logoff). This software is provided by a company called Messageware.
<Disclaimer>I built the website for messageware.net but don't make any money off the software:) </Disclaimer>
Oh boy! I get to plug a couple of programs of mine that were published in Nibble way back in the early 80s! Apple M.A.T. was a database program to keep track of interesting articles in various magazines. Also an ASCII game called Idol of Monterey -- a very simple dungeons n' dragons turn-based game. I was young enough (and from Canada) that I didn't even know Monterey was someplace in California:-)
Interestingly, I recently found a "What Ever Happened To..." article on Mike Harvey who was the publisher of Nibble. It doesn't have his email address or anything which is too bad because I'd really like to thank him for giving me a break all those years ago as a kid.
A week or so ago there was a story on CBC Radio (http://www.cbc.ca) about Inco (large nickel miner) using Alyssum plants on nickel-rich soil. Apparently, this plant just sucks nickel up to the point where nickel amounts to 2% of the biomass at harvest!
There's a short article on the findings and also some mention of the concept of phytomining.
Since every developer needs write permission on the repository's network share, you don't even need the malicious client - just have an idiot on your team!
One project I worked on lost two days of work because someone got the bright idea that it would be neat to see what was inside the repo. Fire up Explorer, a few mouse clicks and...hmmm...anyone seen the backup tape?
I just find it sad that MS still insists on selling braindead file-based apps when it's so fricking obvious that IP-based client/server works better.
> scientists have gotten rats to control a simple robot arm through the activity of brain cells.... and the obvious applications are for paralyzed people.
Jeez, I don't know, the last thing I'd want is to have to carry around my own rat to control my body.:)
I'm basing this on preliminary reports (e.g. http://www.zdnet.com/pcweek/stories/news/0,4153,22 41138,00.html) which describe how there are relatively minor problems moving between the existing proprietary file formats and HTML-based (stored as CSS and XML). Obviously, Microsoft is going to muck it around such that it's only 98% standards compliant but that would be sufficient for me.
With the freely available XML parsers and other tools (e.g. http://alphaworks.ibm.com) out there, there is *lots* of interesting things that could be done to MSOffice docs!
1) "limited to simple apps like word processing and spreadsheets" is a simply bizarre statement to make. Unless he means real word processors as opposed to MS's VB macro-laden behomeths.
2) "Browsers were free". NSCA Mosaic was free but everyone else (Netscape, Spyglass) charged for their browser. Browsers became free when MS started giving it away, relying on their monopoly-protected cash flow to bury their competition.
On another point, it would seem that Gates is contradicting the view put forth in the DOJ trial; namely that he's calling them "modern browsers" rather than pushing the integrated OS line.
3) Five window systems. The world is changing. The old belief that everything had to look the same and act the same from window to window or app to app is getting stale. The Web changed all that; users are used to encountering radically different navigation schemes and visuals as they hop from site to site. As long as the basics work the same (links are highlighted, buttons push, etc), the look can change. This behaviour has spread into the proliferation of "skins" for s/w like Winamp and the new chrome on Mozilla.
Better to have some choices in a window environment than be stuck with one that's locked into a proprietary OS.
4) "people want something that's been tested". Well, he got that one right! Too bad his company hasn't been able to deliver -- unpredictable and long delivery times between patches, charging users for support to find out why something is broken, forcing users to register, and give personal information to even report a problem. MS has a long way to go before he can start criticing the Open Source model. Linux and Mozilla have led the way by putting bug reporting systems up front and available to users.
Actually, with Office 2000 documents supposedly based on XML, we can finally start writing Open Source apps that read/write MSOffice files with a high degree of fidelity.
It's not; that's why Intel has invested in Red Hat.
Intel is pursuing a sensible business strategy by supporting any and all efforts by OS vendors to use their chips instead of rivals AMD and Cyrix. If "Embedded NT" can sell a few thousand Celerons, so be it.
The Red Hat investment ensures that any customer who wants Linux will run reliably on PIII, PII, Merced, etc.
I too have been glad to participate in d.net but we've proven our point; now we need something interesting to solve that isn't so esoteric as a "Goloomb ruler". Finding space aliens does it for me!
I'm moving over; if S@H could get a team stats engine going, I'll bet a lot of/.'ers will move to.
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I don't have the LC-11M but I did buy the LC-11 in silver for my MythTV box and it's amazing. The build quality is top-notch with thick quality aluminum and construction. The only negative I have on the case is that the mATX motherboard layout means that the CPU is right next to one of the case exhaust fans which limits the size of the CPU fan. It meant putting in something a bit noiser than I would have liked but it's running great in the living room!
There's also a Plus Pack available for Outlook Web Access that adds a bunch of features that make it work just as well as the desktop version (e.g. Rolodex/Address Book, Spell Checking, new email notification, Secure Logoff). This software is provided by a company called Messageware.
:) </Disclaimer>
<Disclaimer>I built the website for messageware.net but don't make any money off the software
Oh boy! I get to plug a couple of programs of mine that were published in Nibble way back in the early 80s! Apple M.A.T. was a database program to keep track of interesting articles in various magazines. Also an ASCII game called Idol of Monterey -- a very simple dungeons n' dragons turn-based game. I was young enough (and from Canada) that I didn't even know Monterey was someplace in California :-)
Interestingly, I recently found a "What Ever Happened To..." article on Mike Harvey who was the publisher of Nibble. It doesn't have his email address or anything which is too bad because I'd really like to thank him for giving me a break all those years ago as a kid.
There's a short article on the findings and also some mention of the concept of phytomining.
Since every developer needs write permission on the repository's network share, you don't even need the malicious client - just have an idiot on your team!
One project I worked on lost two days of work because someone got the bright idea that it would be neat to see what was inside the repo. Fire up Explorer, a few mouse clicks and...hmmm...anyone seen the backup tape?
I just find it sad that MS still insists on selling braindead file-based apps when it's so fricking obvious that IP-based client/server works better.
> scientists have gotten rats to control a simple robot arm through the activity of brain cells.
Jeez, I don't know, the last thing I'd want is to have to carry around my own rat to control my body.
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I'm basing this on preliminary reports (e.g. http://www.zdnet.com/pcweek/stories/news/0,4153,22 41138,00.html) which describe how there are relatively minor problems moving between the existing proprietary file formats and HTML-based (stored as CSS and XML). Obviously, Microsoft is going to muck it around such that it's only 98% standards compliant but that would be sufficient for me.
With the freely available XML parsers and other tools (e.g. http://alphaworks.ibm.com) out there, there is *lots* of interesting things that could be done to MSOffice docs!
1) "limited to simple apps like word processing and spreadsheets" is a simply bizarre statement to make. Unless he means real word processors as opposed to MS's VB macro-laden behomeths.
2) "Browsers were free". NSCA Mosaic was free but everyone else (Netscape, Spyglass) charged for their browser. Browsers became free when MS started giving it away, relying on their monopoly-protected cash flow to bury their competition.
On another point, it would seem that Gates is contradicting the view put forth in the DOJ trial; namely that he's calling them "modern browsers" rather than pushing the integrated OS line.
3) Five window systems. The world is changing. The old belief that everything had to look the same and act the same from window to window or app to app is getting stale. The Web changed all that; users are used to encountering radically different navigation schemes and visuals as they hop from site to site. As long as the basics work the same (links are highlighted, buttons push, etc), the look can change. This behaviour has spread into the proliferation of "skins" for s/w like Winamp and the new chrome on Mozilla.
Better to have some choices in a window environment than be stuck with one that's locked into a proprietary OS.
4) "people want something that's been tested". Well, he got that one right! Too bad his company hasn't been able to deliver -- unpredictable and long delivery times between patches, charging users for support to find out why something is broken, forcing users to register, and give personal information to even report a problem. MS has a long way to go before he can start criticing the Open Source model. Linux and Mozilla have led the way by putting bug reporting systems up front and available to users.
Actually, with Office 2000 documents supposedly based on XML, we can finally start writing Open Source apps that read/write MSOffice files with a high degree of fidelity.
It's not; that's why Intel has invested in Red Hat.
Intel is pursuing a sensible business strategy by supporting any and all efforts by OS vendors to use their chips instead of rivals AMD and Cyrix. If "Embedded NT" can sell a few thousand Celerons, so be it.
The Red Hat investment ensures that any customer who wants Linux will run reliably on PIII, PII, Merced, etc.
I too have been glad to participate in d.net but we've proven our point; now we need something interesting to solve that isn't so esoteric as a "Goloomb ruler". Finding space aliens does it for me!
/.'ers will move to.
I'm moving over; if S@H could get a team stats engine going, I'll bet a lot of