No. Apple's iSync is basically a conduit for iCal, Address Book and Mail apps. All you really need from Palm is the Hotsync app I believe. You may have to install Palm Desktop because of the way palm has the software setup.
What proprietary plugins? You download shockwave and it works. Download and install a JVM and it works. What else is there now adays except some ActiveX specific BS that some pages insist on using? With just those 2 plugins, I get most of my browsing done.
This hits the nail on the head. Our local transit authority here has some IE specific BS in their fornt page. It won't even work in Safari, but it does work in Mozilla Firefox. I have not tried it with Konquerer yet, but my bet is it would not work there either. What's funny is I used IE and found a link for the schedule and trip planner page, copied it into Safari and it work just fine. Firefox is great. Is Camino as good?
While I won't say that sending a file to your company or another company is the wrong thing to do, sometimes in cases such as this it is unavoidable. Case in point, I work with Xerox day in, day out. Xerox is VERY careful with the data I send them. In fact, if a problem crops up again, I invariably have to resend the data to them. Soemtimes, all I do is send the code, and a obfsucated copy of the data that follows it. Sometimes, though, the obfuscation of the data DOES get rid of the bug. You GOT to send the file. Sometimes I wish encrypting your mail could be easier (as in not having to think about it). This points out...SMTP really needs to be changed. SO does POP3 and other mail protocols. Eevn the ARRL uses certificates for signing data for the LOTW and thats just to make sure your not sending a bogus file.
And that port scan would not work as these are CLOSED ports. It would not show any different then any other closed port. This would be hard to break. Even if you could break it, you could design a algorithm to cycle the ports every hour or so. Definitely a crazy/neat idea.
What employer would buy you a gig card for your desktop? Only stupid ones right now. The desktop at work is off limits for modification as well. This is a COMPANY machine man! When firewire machines come on campus, it would be far easier to setup firewire for sharing internet access.
Um...there's this thign thats nice to have on OS level and browser level called a cache. Those are hard to do without DISK! The amount of RAM you'd have to have to have it never need a disc cache is too expensive for this case. Now there are ways of deleting this data and also not allowing access beyond what they need in the cafe. A PROPERLY configured XP machine should last days between reboots. If a machine is unstable in XP, many times, it would be WORSE in Linux.
You DO realize your quibbling over INCHES! You can still stuff these in a breast pocket in a coat. The iPod hase alot of superflous junk you have to carry like a LCD and headphone jack.....etc. Oh ans Lacie has had drives like these out for a while. They may have been a BIT bigger, but for what was needed, they still would have been a better and cheaper choice.
ANY smart cafe operator would lock down rebooting, not install a cd drive, or not allow access to the system case at all. So your knoppix idea holds no water.
Geesh! LOOK AT http://www.lacie.com and TELL me the slim 40 GB and the bigger, yet still portable drive they have on their and tell me they are BULKY! Yes, they ARE bigger then a iPod, but they are not that much bigger. BOTH are very easy to stuff in a pocket on your laptop bag. The portable HD's are just cheaper then the iPods by many factors. They are also alot of times much faster then a iPod. The fact that Jackson used thes for ROTK is just saying "Hi....I'm Peter Jackson, director of ROTK and have scads of money and bought 100 iPods for sending my dailies back and forth." Jackson has money. We know that. He could have easily used DVD-RW's, firewire hard disks, hot swappable SCSI discs....
He had money and he used the iPod. He used the iPod because it was what he knew. He looked no further to see if something could be better and have more space and could do cheaper then a iPod. Any geek could have told you it could have been done cheaper and faster with a 160 GB firewire hard disc.
Somewhat agree with you. The article is stupid. It would gain more credit with me if Apple had a iPod with a 4 inch color screen on it. That would make a bit more sense then.
Agree with you on Garage Band. You can make music, but in order to make good music you have to have some talent. Garage Band ain't going to give ya that!;)
I don't agree on the advertising end. First, except during the super bowl and other events, it's RARE that I see a commercial for anything Apple. Apple makes very fine hardware and I finally have a Mac and let me tell you it IS the best comptuer I have owned. It is not without bugs. The battery indicator is not always consistent(yes I have calibrated my battery). My BEFW11S4 siwtch only works with it when I slow it down to 1-2MBps (need more bandwidth on my LAN). Ther e are other issues, but those are the big two that btoher me most....that and iSync does not work with anything but iPods and Palms without buying the missing sync (but thats mostly a Microsoft thing). My point is Apple DOES make good hardware. Hardware worthy of praise. They DO need to make some changes. If they made them perfect, they'd never sell another Mac, iPod, or OS.
Size matters? How about this or this? An iPod, while nice, and a small size, these drives from LaCie also fit the bill and are much cheaper and possibly faster as well. Lesseee.....40 GB for 499 or 139....what do I want? I could see if these iPods were capable of showing the video as well, but since they can't...YET...it's just stupid.
Switches and hubs are a no no. Yes they can tell. I can make it hard by natting the to and spoofing the MAC address of the PC on the switch...but that wasn't the point of the post. I need to move massive amounts of files. Sharing works ethernet jack over the firewire is just an extra item. The primary is I want to move stuff....really fast. Firewire beats a 10/100 switch.
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Because it IS! You just view the TV guide and press a button. It's GUNNA record! You want to record every NEW Simpson's? Easy! Tivo is infinitely easier then doign it on a VCR. Also, she can just watch TV and thumbs up and thumbs down and it will records things she likes. Then it's just a matter of scrolling through the TEXT list of what was recorded! DAMN easy.
IE never bugs me after I checked the box not to bug me. I also think it's decent, but Safari kicks it's butt! I agree that idiot web designers who design only for IE should be SHOT! I'd LOVE to listen to my favorite radio stations stream on my Mac, but Clear Channel insisted on making it specific to Windows with a goofy plugin. The plugin pushes an ad down (just an Active X thing..only runs during the stream) while the stream plays in Windows Media player. If I everfind the URL for the streaming server....heh heh.
Office vX is great. If I had my request it would be to NOT just have the Mac Address book importable, but also iCal. I LOVE iCal for some things but sometimes I need Entourage.
Correct me if I am wrong, but I thought that Steve Job's himself had already said this in his Macworld Keynote. An excerpt from someone's notes:
Jobs talks about the G5 processor and Virginia Tech SuperComputer, who wanted "the first" 1,100 dual-2GHz Power Mac G5s. ("We pissed off a few people" getting them the first ones.") Cost them only $5.2 million and sending ripples through Supercomputer world. Jobs shows Virginia Tech Supercomputer video. It uses Infiniband networking; it took less than 3 weeks to assemble. Now in the top 3 Supercomputers. First academic machine to break the 10 teraflop barrier. The entire system runs on Mac OS X. Jobs says he expects to see a few more [Supercomputers] popping up hear and there
So VT is probably going to be THE FIRST to recieve G5 Xserve's.
I thought Nemesis was really good. Data's death scene made me cry! Anyway, one thning in my area that would help out UPN was if the local affiliate had any pride in their signal. Of all of the local channels, UPN has THE WORST signal. Is UPN like that where you are?
If MY state sponsered school spent money for a few TB of diskspace JUST for Napster content, I WOULD BITCH! Forget about the old hag down the street. We'd never get away with thi at the college I work at. Of course they could have had a inside way of getting a couple of those 1 TB firewire hard drives, but even so you'd need a beefy server to serve the students.
Not to mention the fact that if I was handed such a bill, it would probably not be on the right paper or even feel right. It's a CHEAP counterfitter that uses Photoshop. Real ones ether create their own or steal printing plates and try to find the paper and everything else to create a reasonable facsimile that would be difficult for us to determine if it was real or not. I ain't saying that they won't USE Photoshop at all...they may find a photoshop artist good enough to edit a scanned image to create the plates. Even so, the TOOL being used in counterfitting is the problem....not the TOOL itself. Ink can be used to print money and documents. Since we can print money with ink should we make it illegal? P2P software can be used to steal music as well as for sharing legal files....should we outlaw it or fix it so it won't pass MP3's? Yeah...thats what I thought. I can also think of at least 10-15 different projects where I may want to scan a bill that does nto include counterfitting.
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No. Apple's iSync is basically a conduit for iCal, Address Book and Mail apps. All you really need from Palm is the Hotsync app I believe. You may have to install Palm Desktop because of the way palm has the software setup.
What proprietary plugins? You download shockwave and it works. Download and install a JVM and it works. What else is there now adays except some ActiveX specific BS that some pages insist on using? With just those 2 plugins, I get most of my browsing done.
You and me both! Especially if I know I wanted to run it right away but still saqve the binary I downloaded.
This hits the nail on the head. Our local transit authority here has some IE specific BS in their fornt page. It won't even work in Safari, but it does work in Mozilla Firefox. I have not tried it with Konquerer yet, but my bet is it would not work there either. What's funny is I used IE and found a link for the schedule and trip planner page, copied it into Safari and it work just fine. Firefox is great. Is Camino as good?
While I won't say that sending a file to your company or another company is the wrong thing to do, sometimes in cases such as this it is unavoidable. Case in point, I work with Xerox day in, day out. Xerox is VERY careful with the data I send them. In fact, if a problem crops up again, I invariably have to resend the data to them. Soemtimes, all I do is send the code, and a obfsucated copy of the data that follows it. Sometimes, though, the obfuscation of the data DOES get rid of the bug. You GOT to send the file. Sometimes I wish encrypting your mail could be easier (as in not having to think about it). This points out...SMTP really needs to be changed. SO does POP3 and other mail protocols. Eevn the ARRL uses certificates for signing data for the LOTW and thats just to make sure your not sending a bogus file.
And that port scan would not work as these are CLOSED ports. It would not show any different then any other closed port. This would be hard to break. Even if you could break it, you could design a algorithm to cycle the ports every hour or so. Definitely a crazy/neat idea.
What employer would buy you a gig card for your desktop? Only stupid ones right now. The desktop at work is off limits for modification as well. This is a COMPANY machine man! When firewire machines come on campus, it would be far easier to setup firewire for sharing internet access.
Um...there's this thign thats nice to have on OS level and browser level called a cache. Those are hard to do without DISK! The amount of RAM you'd have to have to have it never need a disc cache is too expensive for this case. Now there are ways of deleting this data and also not allowing access beyond what they need in the cafe. A PROPERLY configured XP machine should last days between reboots. If a machine is unstable in XP, many times, it would be WORSE in Linux.
You DO realize your quibbling over INCHES! You can still stuff these in a breast pocket in a coat. The iPod hase alot of superflous junk you have to carry like a LCD and headphone jack.....etc. Oh ans Lacie has had drives like these out for a while. They may have been a BIT bigger, but for what was needed, they still would have been a better and cheaper choice.
I can answer my 120e when locked. I just press the button. Works great.
ANY smart cafe operator would lock down rebooting, not install a cd drive, or not allow access to the system case at all. So your knoppix idea holds no water.
Geesh! LOOK AT http://www.lacie.com and TELL me the slim 40 GB and the bigger, yet still portable drive they have on their and tell me they are BULKY! Yes, they ARE bigger then a iPod, but they are not that much bigger. BOTH are very easy to stuff in a pocket on your laptop bag. The portable HD's are just cheaper then the iPods by many factors. They are also alot of times much faster then a iPod. The fact that Jackson used thes for ROTK is just saying "Hi....I'm Peter Jackson, director of ROTK and have scads of money and bought 100 iPods for sending my dailies back and forth." Jackson has money. We know that. He could have easily used DVD-RW's, firewire hard disks, hot swappable SCSI discs....
He had money and he used the iPod. He used the iPod because it was what he knew. He looked no further to see if something could be better and have more space and could do cheaper then a iPod. Any geek could have told you it could have been done cheaper and faster with a 160 GB firewire hard disc.
Somewhat agree with you. The article is stupid. It would gain more credit with me if Apple had a iPod with a 4 inch color screen on it. That would make a bit more sense then.
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Agree with you on Garage Band. You can make music, but in order to make good music you have to have some talent. Garage Band ain't going to give ya that!
I don't agree on the advertising end. First, except during the super bowl and other events, it's RARE that I see a commercial for anything Apple. Apple makes very fine hardware and I finally have a Mac and let me tell you it IS the best comptuer I have owned. It is not without bugs. The battery indicator is not always consistent(yes I have calibrated my battery). My BEFW11S4 siwtch only works with it when I slow it down to 1-2MBps (need more bandwidth on my LAN). Ther e are other issues, but those are the big two that btoher me most....that and iSync does not work with anything but iPods and Palms without buying the missing sync (but thats mostly a Microsoft thing). My point is Apple DOES make good hardware. Hardware worthy of praise. They DO need to make some changes. If they made them perfect, they'd never sell another Mac, iPod, or OS.
Size matters? How about this or this? An iPod, while nice, and a small size, these drives from LaCie also fit the bill and are much cheaper and possibly faster as well. Lesseee.....40 GB for 499 or 139....what do I want? I could see if these iPods were capable of showing the video as well, but since they can't...YET...it's just stupid.
Switches and hubs are a no no. Yes they can tell. I can make it hard by natting the to and spoofing the MAC address of the PC on the switch...but that wasn't the point of the post. I need to move massive amounts of files. Sharing works ethernet jack over the firewire is just an extra item. The primary is I want to move stuff....really fast. Firewire beats a 10/100 switch.
Works fine on my DVI LCD Panel. Must be you.
Because it IS! You just view the TV guide and press a button. It's GUNNA record! You want to record every NEW Simpson's? Easy! Tivo is infinitely easier then doign it on a VCR. Also, she can just watch TV and thumbs up and thumbs down and it will records things she likes. Then it's just a matter of scrolling through the TEXT list of what was recorded! DAMN easy.
IE never bugs me after I checked the box not to bug me. I also think it's decent, but Safari kicks it's butt! I agree that idiot web designers who design only for IE should be SHOT! I'd LOVE to listen to my favorite radio stations stream on my Mac, but Clear Channel insisted on making it specific to Windows with a goofy plugin. The plugin pushes an ad down (just an Active X thing..only runs during the stream) while the stream plays in Windows Media player. If I everfind the URL for the streaming server....heh heh.
Office vX is great. If I had my request it would be to NOT just have the Mac Address book importable, but also iCal. I LOVE iCal for some things but sometimes I need Entourage.
Correct me if I am wrong, but I thought that Steve Job's himself had already said this in his Macworld Keynote. An excerpt from someone's notes:
Jobs talks about the G5 processor and Virginia Tech SuperComputer, who wanted "the first" 1,100 dual-2GHz Power Mac G5s. ("We pissed off a few people" getting them the first ones.") Cost them only $5.2 million and sending ripples through Supercomputer world. Jobs shows Virginia Tech Supercomputer video. It uses Infiniband networking; it took less than 3 weeks to assemble. Now in the top 3 Supercomputers. First academic machine to break the 10 teraflop barrier. The entire system runs on Mac OS X. Jobs says he expects to see a few more [Supercomputers] popping up hear and there
So VT is probably going to be THE FIRST to recieve G5 Xserve's.
What's worse is that this one bad channel bleeds it interference into the others....and this is on CABLE!
I thought Nemesis was really good. Data's death scene made me cry! Anyway, one thning in my area that would help out UPN was if the local affiliate had any pride in their signal. Of all of the local channels, UPN has THE WORST signal. Is UPN like that where you are?
If MY state sponsered school spent money for a few TB of diskspace JUST for Napster content, I WOULD BITCH! Forget about the old hag down the street. We'd never get away with thi at the college I work at. Of course they could have had a inside way of getting a couple of those 1 TB firewire hard drives, but even so you'd need a beefy server to serve the students.
Ok, just checkout MySQL's web page it is freely downloadable as well a the source. Making MySQL run under cygwin is a WASTE of time.
Mysql is available for Windows already. It's running right now on my machine. DOn't waste the time putting it in cygwin.
Not to mention the fact that if I was handed such a bill, it would probably not be on the right paper or even feel right. It's a CHEAP counterfitter that uses Photoshop. Real ones ether create their own or steal printing plates and try to find the paper and everything else to create a reasonable facsimile that would be difficult for us to determine if it was real or not. I ain't saying that they won't USE Photoshop at all...they may find a photoshop artist good enough to edit a scanned image to create the plates. Even so, the TOOL being used in counterfitting is the problem....not the TOOL itself. Ink can be used to print money and documents. Since we can print money with ink should we make it illegal? P2P software can be used to steal music as well as for sharing legal files....should we outlaw it or fix it so it won't pass MP3's? Yeah...thats what I thought. I can also think of at least 10-15 different projects where I may want to scan a bill that does nto include counterfitting.