Win4Lin is unlike the others in that it's not an x86 emulator. It's just (albeit a ingenious) method to run windows and ONLY windows (even more specifically, the windows 4 series) under linux. On the others mentioned, you can install ANY OS.
I believe that's why it wasn't included in the comparison.
"It is the same principle as hovercraft but the height of a Flightship above waves is much greater and less engine power is needed" [from page]
Hrmmm.... um, well, maybe, but if so, the main picture on the featured site is NOT what the site is talking about.
A hovercraft has a plenum chamber, i.e. a cushion of air created by a vacuum or fan blowing DOWN into an enclosed, flexible area, usually called the "skirt". See this picture or these for the typical setup.
What this seems to be is simply an airplane without landing gear. Wow.
note: you can read more about hovercrafts here - though it's aimed for a younger audience.
Me and a couple physics teachers tried it in high school, in 1997 back when my high school was still a decent place and still had some good teachers. Anyway, it turned out anyone walking anywhere in the pretty large building disrupted the experiment significantly. As did cars passing outside (c. 200 meters [=660 ft] away). We finally got it to work reliably during a holiday period when the roads had been blocked off for some reason i forget. We set up video cams so we could observe without walking in the building, and it took long while to get going properly, but IT WORKED!:) We of course, used a laser and mirror accross the room so we could magnify the movement and measure it linearly on the wall.
Of course, this was back when we had really cool, interesting, knowledgeable teachers, not just dick-cheese student-copyright infringing bastards like SERGEI HAZANOV (feed on it, spammobile!) that STEAL prototype graphics by a student willing to trade for an administration job. Grrrr. Of course, this is switzerland and i wasn't a citizen and couldn't prove good enough damages to build a case against him.
" I read about a fifth of the licenses and TOS agreements I agree to"
Look, man, you did not agree to them. At worst, you accepted them - i take that to mean that I accept that they exist as a collection of words, electronic or ink. Just because an EULA says so-and-so does NOT mean that you're bound by it legally, even if it says you are. EULAS have never (TTBOMK - IANAL) been held up in court (i'm not sure if it's even been tried, so they probably havent been invalidated either) - but at worst, it's ambiguous, at best, frivolous. TOS is different slightly, because usually all they say they can do is terminate your service and cooperate with the cops, and they usually reserve the right to terminate at any time for any reason without notice, anyway. So an enforcement of the TOS is in my opinion not that ugly, most EULAs on the other hand can go stuff themselves. I'll agree not to sue them if they unintentionally kill my computer if they are free but otherwise.......
I can't hang a sign on my gate saying: "TRESPASSERS WILL BE SHOT. UNLESS YOU AGREE TO GIVE ME YOUR LIFE SAVINGS, ENTERING MY PROPERTY WILL BE CONSTRUED AS TRESSPASSING" not only will murder still be illegal, tresspassing would not be construed as agreement to giving their life savings away. The whole concept of "by doing so-and-so you agree to this-and-that" is completely ridiculous unless you have been sat down, explained everything and SIGNED something!
This is so so so beautiful to see. Caution: it's pretty deadly if mistreated, though (you're playing with 15 - 30 kV ). On a relatively dry day, the "spark" that's produced is like a sheet of blue-ish electricity, traveling up the wires and bulging/shooting off the end with a really cool, audible buzz. If you place a piece of paper in between the wires (UNPLUG FIRST!), it will ignite dramatically too. Here is a text file with instructions and ascii art. Here's a cooler html file with a decent picture. Here's a site devoted to one guy's JL, and it has some cool gifs and a movie or two (both c. 700kB)- these are kind of disappointing though - the arc is whiter and kind of pathetically small.
What happens is that the air is broken down TO PLASMA between the wires so that it conducts electricity, just like lightning 8-D. The spark then convects upwards due to the very hot air. After it's shot off, air is broken down at the bottom again, and another spark is started.
The best photos are probably HERE, but they're yellow sparks (i think that's to do with the gas) which isn't in my opinion as cool as brilliant blue ones:). TechTV also has a page on it and a cool-ish video if you can view asx files. Their JL is pretty weak though, because it stops before the spark "falls off" the end - meaning the wires are too far apart for the voltage to be that small to be able to turn the air in between into plasma.
wrong... there have been a couple C64 webservers in the past. All of which, to my knowledge, were shown on slashdot, and all of which died after a few seconds. just check the archives:)
Absolutely despicable. Hell, forget manually doing this for each site - I'm going to write a nice little web crawler to do it, and post it on my site. Maybe we can get a million denounces a day.
Why do people do this? What could possibly be their true motivation? Yeah, more i think about it, more I love the crawler idea.
Arghh... as always, i fsck up in something important. Of course, the correct address should have been "jacobb at kmfms dot [commercial]" (instead of org).
Suffice to show my stupidity in this regard. Please don't hold it against my knowledge -- stupidity and ignorance are often different. I hope.
Moderators: sorry - i had to respond to this. If you must mod this post down, so be it. consider, however, mod'ing down that stupid "mod parent up" post.
I HATE that type of post. grrrh. usually, i browse filtering out AC's. but unfortunately, i read all replies to my posts.
That's precisely why I said that the main problem with the Freenet scenario is data expiration (as you correctly quoted).
Unfortunately ("unfortunate", because i think it strengthens my argument), your qualifying statement of "the data may reside *only* on your node, but it will be as available (to the public) as your node is" is in my opinion incorrect, because as far as I understand the freenet protocol, no node knows what it is storing. You therefore cannot, by definition, decide to store your own information.
I agree with the statement that "expecting somebody else to make your data available *forever* is an unrealistic expectation" is completely ludicrous, but that's exactly _why_ you need distributed storage. Again, as far as I understand, data on freenet does not usually reside on only one node. The more it's requested, (statistically speaking) the more nodes it's stored on. Please correct me if I'm wrong... but i doubt I am. [this holds for all assertions I am making]
The ONLY problem I see with storing data such as this on freenet is, to coin a new word, "fail-ability", the main aspect of which is data expiration. There are countermeasures one can take, such as (very) regularly requesting your data. On the other hand, i can't think of one that does not sacrifice security-of-availability for anonymity. And, as I see it, anonymity is a key issue for my view of the ideal data storage.
As I said in my earlier post, PLEASE reply and/or contact me about this, as i find it extremely interesting. If I'm wrong about anything, PLEASE correct me, either in person (jacobb at kmfms dot [organization]) or by a post. I'd be extremely happy to follow up this conversation by email. Cheers.
I read your privacy policy, but some questions remained unanswered:
-Who owns the information? -Are there any cases where a user must agree to release info?-How do you make money / pay for site+bandwidth? I saw no advertising (this may be the scariest part) -"The site www.onumber.net is running Microsoft-IIS/5.0 on Windows 2000." (uptime.Netcraft.com). ooooh. baaad. Sorry... Must... resist... hating... Microsoft... -but seriously, how protected are you? What firewalls/encryption do you use? -I didn't go to the main account thing, but do you use SSL?
Well, first of all, "truly secure" is impossible. All we can do is aproach secure and hope.
It's difficult to tell what will be the attributes of any method that will exist, but it's not hard to give requirements. I'll use the word "spyee" to mean the person whose data is being stored.
* First of all, it cannot be done without people's permission. Every single piece of info that is stored MUST be there with the spyee's knowledge and consent. If someone wants to store their sexual preference or medical records, etc. etc. let them, but don't reqiure me to tell you my SSN / Credit Card info.
* Second: It MUST be distributed. This is because it can work iff (if and only if) the spyee retains ownership and complete rights to his data. Nobody else can even think for a minute that they own it. Even if they store it. It's paramount that each spyee's info be broken up and different chunks stored on different computers. In this sence, it would work like The Eternity Service (here's even more info) or (my favorite), Freenet.
*Third, Every piece of info must be stored encrypted. Let the user's browser have a session keys. Let the user have a few keys. That way, the user can access his data (with the help of front-end programs) and he can have a stupid form filler, but the company or Skriptkidd1e can't use it.
*This MUST be a subscription service. I believe that it would be far too expensive for advertising to be the source of driving revenue. The storer MUST NOT be able to sell the data, thus depriving him of that form of revenue as well.
*The user can pay the same way as payment worked in ZKSFREEDOM - The user bought an activation number and used it to buy the service - but the end user name _cannot_ be traced to the person who bought it (Hence "zeroknowledge"). It was awesome!
This can be accomplished quite easily, and built in to any UI so that working it requires minimal gray matter. I think that the best way would be to store it on freenet. It takes care of all the above problems, but introduces one of its own: data expiration. Reply and tell me what you think, this topic is fascinating.
I used jabber extensively for a while about a year and a half to a year ago. Only on my Windows partition, however.
Well, apart from WinJab being clunky and having memory leaks, etc.... My problem with jabber was that both the ICQ and AIM transports were always broken. Occasionally one would work, but it would usually break in less than an hour!
I hear that they've taken the main server's transports off - can anyone tell me the performance of other servers' transports that I've heard about. How about the best small, simple windows client. I'm looking for something that starts up immediately, is small, elegant and doesn't vacuum up my memory.
Always go to the Roadmap for this type of information. In the past, it lagged seriously but it's kept pretty much up to date these days.
You can find the link on the mozilla site by following the home page to the Mozilla 0.9.9 link (it's updated with every release, always in the same position) that points to the Releases page. Then, just above the [bold,italic] export notice, you'll see the roadmap link. Scroll down and you'll see a cool graphic, near which there's a grayish table with the tentative schedule for the near future - with all sorts of cool "insider"-type info & dates.
Cheers. And know that 0.9.9 is almost perfectly fine, and you don't really need to wait for 1.0. I've never had a crash or even a problem since way back when (0.9.3-ish)
True. And the vast majority are perfect. BUT the single disaster I had with a nightly was when it nuked my mail settings. I didn't loose any mail, but over 8,000 organized pieces of email ended up just sorted by date in my inbox and my other folders (now empty) were nuked. There were some _wierd_ unexplainable phenomena with bookmarks, too.
Of course, i had backups, but "Once burned, twice shy". Now, I only download nightlies if they've fixed a bug that either: I reported or I'm on the list for.
that's like telling a smoker that if he quits every other day, each time he lights up it will be that much better.
Sorry, pal. It don't work that way:)
On another note, it's getting so fantastically good right now (not to mention all of the bugs that were marked for 1.0 will be fixed [Note: copy & paste URL - can't link to bugzilla from slashdot]) that it will probably be that much less noticable. Think of the differences between the linux kernel between the beginning and 1.0 and the more recent changes. Or pick any of the distributions. Or apps. I think you'll see a trend. (Of course, there are exceptions, every so often radical changes take place - usually in apps - but they are quite rare)
I use mozilla only, so I may be a bit biased. I love it. I have a Fat32 partition with my stuff (mail, bookmarks, etc.) and so can use Mozilla on linux, openbsd and windows without having to copy anything back and forth:-D
Anyway, now that the tree has branched (which is really cool, by the way) the only drawback that I see is that I won't get my Mozilla fix every 5 weeks (5 weeks in Mozilla development-speak is more like 7:o). Their release schedule has changed to 13 weeks. Well, hopefully it will be 13 chronological weeks rather than 13 mozilla release weeks, hehe.
But anyway, once I've been weened off my Install-Newest-Version-of-Mozilla addiction, I guess I'll appreciate that all the serious bugs have been ironed out (i haven't noticed a single one since an early 0.9.x), it's so fscking customizable, and the performance is far better than anything except perhaps Opera. [I'm not even going to mention lynx - whoops. Damn]
I agree that it is somewhat difficult and unsavory to legislate the internet, it's not possible to filter out all spam. And even if you magically succeed in filtering, spam is a very significant portion of overall net bandwidth. Figures I have heard range from 5% to 15% (ignoring ridiculous >50% claims). This is of course because filtering is done by the end-user (or very close thereto), not relays.
This costs money! Spammers freeload, use other people's (usually) accidentally open relays, take up bandwidth and waste time. It's extremely offensive, not opt-in, deceitful (NEVER click remove, they just sell the address) and mostly false advertising.
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I believe that's why it wasn't included in the comparison.
See, the swiss don't do their entire military service at one time, they can do it over the span of a decade or two - a couple weeks at a time.
A quick look at the crime statistics in switzerland will show that it's obviously NOT guns that cause crime!
Hrmmm.... um, well, maybe, but if so, the main picture on the featured site is NOT what the site is talking about.
A hovercraft has a plenum chamber, i.e. a cushion of air created by a vacuum or fan blowing DOWN into an enclosed, flexible area, usually called the "skirt". See this picture or these for the typical setup.
What this seems to be is simply an airplane without landing gear. Wow.
note: you can read more about hovercrafts here - though it's aimed for a younger audience.
Of course, this was back when we had really cool, interesting, knowledgeable teachers, not just dick-cheese student-copyright infringing bastards like SERGEI HAZANOV (feed on it, spammobile!) that STEAL prototype graphics by a student willing to trade for an administration job. Grrrr. Of course, this is switzerland and i wasn't a citizen and couldn't prove good enough damages to build a case against him.
Look, man, you did not agree to them. At worst, you accepted them - i take that to mean that I accept that they exist as a collection of words, electronic or ink. Just because an EULA says so-and-so does NOT mean that you're bound by it legally, even if it says you are. EULAS have never (TTBOMK - IANAL) been held up in court (i'm not sure if it's even been tried, so they probably havent been invalidated either) - but at worst, it's ambiguous, at best, frivolous. TOS is different slightly, because usually all they say they can do is terminate your service and cooperate with the cops, and they usually reserve the right to terminate at any time for any reason without notice, anyway. So an enforcement of the TOS is in my opinion not that ugly, most EULAs on the other hand can go stuff themselves. I'll agree not to sue them if they unintentionally kill my computer if they are free but otherwise .......
I can't hang a sign on my gate saying: "TRESPASSERS WILL BE SHOT. UNLESS YOU AGREE TO GIVE ME YOUR LIFE SAVINGS, ENTERING MY PROPERTY WILL BE CONSTRUED AS TRESSPASSING" not only will murder still be illegal, tresspassing would not be construed as agreement to giving their life savings away. The whole concept of "by doing so-and-so you agree to this-and-that" is completely ridiculous unless you have been sat down, explained everything and SIGNED something!
If you place a piece of paper in between the wires (UNPLUG FIRST!), it will ignite dramatically too. Here is a text file with instructions and ascii art. Here's a cooler html file with a decent picture. Here's a site devoted to one guy's JL, and it has some cool gifs and a movie or two (both c. 700kB)- these are kind of disappointing though - the arc is whiter and kind of pathetically small.
What happens is that the air is broken down TO PLASMA between the wires so that it conducts electricity, just like lightning 8-D. The spark then convects upwards due to the very hot air. After it's shot off, air is broken down at the bottom again, and another spark is started.
The best photos are probably HERE, but they're yellow sparks (i think that's to do with the gas) which isn't in my opinion as cool as brilliant blue ones :). TechTV also has a page on it and a cool-ish video if you can view asx files. Their JL is pretty weak though, because it stops before the spark "falls off" the end - meaning the wires are too far apart for the voltage to be that small to be able to turn the air in between into plasma.
QC is an extension of One Time Pads - it makes OTP practical and fast. Search google for Quantum Cryptography, and you'll see.
As of 17:22 Tuesday (PDT) it's not on:
Creative's online shop
Amazon's "Nomad Jukebox"... All Results page
Any even of my local retailers (check here).
I'd really be interested if anyone could tell me where to get one online.
Cheers!
Cheers. Point taken.
Cheers!
Here's a pic i took of it when there were still 0 comments, and it wasn't /.'ed yet.
Yeah, i know the gray sucks, but i had to do this quick.
Yeah, on /. posts, i tend to make a complete idiot out of myself. *sigh*
Why do people do this? What could possibly be their true motivation?
Yeah, more i think about it, more I love the crawler idea.
Makes me wonder
Suffice to show my stupidity in this regard. Please don't hold it against my knowledge -- stupidity and ignorance are often different. I hope.
Moderators: sorry - i had to respond to this. If you must mod this post down, so be it. consider, however, mod'ing down that stupid "mod parent up" post.
I HATE that type of post. grrrh. usually, i browse filtering out AC's. but unfortunately, i read all replies to my posts.
Unfortunately ("unfortunate", because i think it strengthens my argument), your qualifying statement of "the data may reside *only* on your node, but it will be as available (to the public) as your node is" is in my opinion incorrect, because as far as I understand the freenet protocol, no node knows what it is storing. You therefore cannot, by definition, decide to store your own information.
I agree with the statement that "expecting somebody else to make your data available *forever* is an unrealistic expectation" is completely ludicrous, but that's exactly _why_ you need distributed storage.
Again, as far as I understand, data on freenet does not usually reside on only one node. The more it's requested, (statistically speaking) the more nodes it's stored on. Please correct me if I'm wrong... but i doubt I am. [this holds for all assertions I am making]
The ONLY problem I see with storing data such as this on freenet is, to coin a new word, "fail-ability", the main aspect of which is data expiration.
There are countermeasures one can take, such as (very) regularly requesting your data. On the other hand, i can't think of one that does not sacrifice security-of-availability for anonymity.
And, as I see it, anonymity is a key issue for my view of the ideal data storage.
As I said in my earlier post, PLEASE reply and/or contact me about this, as i find it extremely interesting. If I'm wrong about anything, PLEASE correct me, either in person (jacobb at kmfms dot [organization]) or by a post. I'd be extremely happy to follow up this conversation by email. Cheers.
-Who owns the information?
-Are there any cases where a user must agree to release info?-How do you make money / pay for site+bandwidth? I saw no advertising (this may be the scariest part)
-"The site www.onumber.net is running Microsoft-IIS/5.0 on Windows 2000." (uptime.Netcraft.com). ooooh. baaad. Sorry... Must... resist... hating... Microsoft...
-but seriously, how protected are you? What firewalls/encryption do you use?
-I didn't go to the main account thing, but do you use SSL?
It's difficult to tell what will be the attributes of any method that will exist, but it's not hard to give requirements. I'll use the word "spyee" to mean the person whose data is being stored.
* First of all, it cannot be done without people's permission. Every single piece of info that is stored MUST be there with the spyee's knowledge and consent. If someone wants to store their sexual preference or medical records, etc. etc. let them, but don't reqiure me to tell you my SSN / Credit Card info.
* Second: It MUST be distributed. This is because it can work iff (if and only if) the spyee retains ownership and complete rights to his data. Nobody else can even think for a minute that they own it. Even if they store it. It's paramount that each spyee's info be broken up and different chunks stored on different computers. In this sence, it would work like The Eternity Service (here's even more info) or (my favorite), Freenet.
*Third, Every piece of info must be stored encrypted. Let the user's browser have a session keys. Let the user have a few keys. That way, the user can access his data (with the help of front-end programs) and he can have a stupid form filler, but the company or Skriptkidd1e can't use it.
*This MUST be a subscription service. I believe that it would be far too expensive for advertising to be the source of driving revenue. The storer MUST NOT be able to sell the data, thus depriving him of that form of revenue as well.
*The user can pay the same way as payment worked in ZKS FREEDOM - The user bought an activation number and used it to buy the service - but the end user name _cannot_ be traced to the person who bought it (Hence "zeroknowledge"). It was awesome!
This can be accomplished quite easily, and built in to any UI so that working it requires minimal gray matter. I think that the best way would be to store it on freenet. It takes care of all the above problems, but introduces one of its own: data expiration.
Reply and tell me what you think, this topic is fascinating.
Well, apart from WinJab being clunky and having memory leaks, etc....
My problem with jabber was that both the ICQ and AIM transports were always broken. Occasionally one would work, but it would usually break in less than an hour!
I hear that they've taken the main server's transports off - can anyone tell me the performance of other servers' transports that I've heard about. How about the best small, simple windows client.
I'm looking for something that starts up immediately, is small, elegant and doesn't vacuum up my memory.
Cheers!
You can find the link on the mozilla site by following the home page to the Mozilla 0.9.9 link (it's updated with every release, always in the same position) that points to the Releases page. Then, just above the [bold,italic] export notice, you'll see the roadmap link. Scroll down and you'll see a cool graphic, near which there's a grayish table with the tentative schedule for the near future - with all sorts of cool "insider"-type info & dates.
Cheers. And know that 0.9.9 is almost perfectly fine, and you don't really need to wait for 1.0. I've never had a crash or even a problem since way back when (0.9.3-ish)
BUT the single disaster I had with a nightly was when it nuked my mail settings. I didn't loose any mail, but over 8,000 organized pieces of email ended up just sorted by date in my inbox and my other folders (now empty) were nuked. There were some _wierd_ unexplainable phenomena with bookmarks, too.
Of course, i had backups, but "Once burned, twice shy".
Now, I only download nightlies if they've fixed a bug that either: I reported or I'm on the list for.
Sorry, pal. It don't work that way :)
On another note, it's getting so fantastically good right now (not to mention all of the bugs that were marked for 1.0 will be fixed [Note: copy & paste URL - can't link to bugzilla from slashdot]) that it will probably be that much less noticable. Think of the differences between the linux kernel between the beginning and 1.0 and the more recent changes. Or pick any of the distributions. Or apps. I think you'll see a trend.
(Of course, there are exceptions, every so often radical changes take place - usually in apps - but they are quite rare)
Anyway, now that the tree has branched (which is really cool, by the way) the only drawback that I see is that I won't get my Mozilla fix every 5 weeks (5 weeks in Mozilla development-speak is more like 7 :o). Their release schedule has changed to 13 weeks.
Well, hopefully it will be 13 chronological weeks rather than 13 mozilla release weeks, hehe.
But anyway, once I've been weened off my Install-Newest-Version-of-Mozilla addiction, I guess I'll appreciate that all the serious bugs have been ironed out (i haven't noticed a single one since an early 0.9.x), it's so fscking customizable, and the performance is far better than anything except perhaps Opera. [I'm not even going to mention lynx - whoops. Damn]
Hey, I said I was biased (^&
This costs money!
Spammers freeload, use other people's (usually) accidentally open relays, take up bandwidth and waste time. It's extremely offensive, not opt-in, deceitful (NEVER click remove, they just sell the address) and mostly false advertising.
It is and should be legislated.