You know, the reason they may be carrying palms/pocketpcs around with them is so that they can get an internet connection with them via bluetooth. I was able to get mine working perfectly with the BlueZ tools and pppd... I could dial into GPRS and use internet just about anywhere the phone has reception. Makes it nice... I can keep the phone in my pocket, and the pocketpc in my hand and surf the web without expensive services!
Why couldn't you make that feature? It already has GPRS, a camera, and a decent OS that someone has even made a networkable doom game for it. How difficult would it be to make some webcam software?
I'll also add that I don't have a small address book either. Mine contains 150 something addresses. I transferred all of them from my palm. It's pretty much "instant" when I browse the addresses...
I agree that the T68 takes 2-3 seconds just to open the address book. However, this is not the case on the T68i model. The 'i' model is considerably faster for all the menu operations, typing, and just about everything else. I don't know whether they improved the software or the hardware, but I like it much more than the old T68.
However, the reason I blog (and I am sure I am not the only one) is mainly to keep distant friends updated with my life, and the happenings in my city. I don't want millions of people viewing my site because none of my ramblings would mean anything to them. However, it would mean something to those who know me personally. For example if I were to say friend X got married to friend Y, that would mean something to a friend of friend Y, who happens to be in our circle of friends. Think about the close knit of friends you may have had during your college years, but after moving out of college, you lost touch. This is a way for people to still keep track of what friends are up to without mass emailing everyone what is happening all the time. My life generally consists of useless stuff that most people couldn't care less about, but means a lot to those in my close knit of friends.
ummm... this doesn't work in the real world. Have you ever worked at a software company with a PHB?? We get projects like, design a new object-oriented programming language that is easy to use for statisticians (ie non-programmers) and create all the development tools necessary for it in 3 months time. It needs to be production ready in 3 months because we've already told other companies it will be ready in 3 months. Well lets see, our development team is a total size of 2 people..... ring any bells??
Life is going to be unfair. There are lazy people at every company that just get lost in the paperwork and never get fired. The lazy people aren't going to be working overtime either.... it's the hard working people that actually worry about their jobs that care.
actually he didn't manage to steal much. Because he stole data on a 2.4Ghz computer, it was the equivalent of stealing $2000. All he did was steal notepad.exe from the computer.
Yeah definitely. In the mailing list, it seems like Johan Van den Rande (author of the EuroTV stuff) is the one getting sued when really the ones causing the abuse is from the MisterHouse home automation list. I'm pretty sure if they brought the suit to court, the case would be dismissed. It's like suing all the computer manufacturers who designed the computer to be possibly be "insecure".
And what's worse is that those sites with flash content can STILL be stolen. Yeah it's more work, but just like all those useless encryption mechanisms with DVDs and CDs, if you can see it with your own eyes, it can be stolen.
They haven't cared for me. I run 3 Linux desktop stations and I've even asked for 3 static ip addresses and they didn't care. They sent this IT support guy to help me configure my static ip addresses but was completely dumbfounded when he sat at my terminal (which was running blackbox). You shoulda seen his face.... he's like where's "My Computer??"
My company technically only supports Windows95, NT, and 2000. (Believe it or not, but 90% of the company still uses that 8 year old operating system win95)
I don't think it's a mistake. This morning msn.com sent my opera browser the site.css file, now it sends a site-win-ie5.css instead. So someone obviously made this change recently, and it doesn't send an ie6 stylesheet, it gives opera an older one.
how could someone mistakenly rename site-win-ie5.css into site.css for specifically targeting the opera browser??
Yeah I know you're trying to be funny and it's always easy to crack on Microsoft. But then there are actually other people doing the same kind of work. I remember doing a few small projects for this home. They have small video cameras on the ceilings of all the walls pointed straight down to track every single person's movement.
Checkout Georgia Tech's <a href="http://www.cc.gatech.edu/fce/ahri/">Aware Home Project</a>.
Yes. But discussing Xine may help solve the Mplayer problems. See how Arpi states it in this thread: http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2003/debian-devel-200301/msg01840.html
Here's an excerpt:
The problems are the same, and xine is a live, existing example while we're only "dreaming" about the mplayer case. So, if we discuss XIne case, we'll get the answer to mplayer problems too. But I agree, it's boring to discuss xine, let's talk about mplayer then. We don't want that an unusable crppled-down version of mpleyer be included in debian. Take it as-is or don't take it. We have no problems with source distrubition, nor with binary distribution if done well.
It seems like this thread explains lots of the issues regarding mplayer and it's inclusion in debian: http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2003/debian-devel-200301/msg01772.html
The message basically outlines this:
xineplug_decode_ff.so 829032 - this is libavcodec, the MPEG4/DivX decoder Did you pay the royalty to the MPEG Group? They can come any time...
xineplug_decode_faad.so 164048 - this is the FAAD audio decoder, which is just as illegal as libavcodec
Vidix - unusable ballast without libdha, which is not packaged
nvidia_vid.so - part of Vidix.. Instead it is a placeholder:) Just contains printf("TODO"):)) Nice to know xine was packaged by people who knew what they were doing:)))))))
xineplug_decode_w32dll.so - code (from Wine) to load win32 DLLs It's total legal isn't it..?
ASF demuxer - Microsoft already forced a GPL project to remove it (VirtualDub) I hope Debian is also ready to face this:)
xineplug_decode_gsm610.so - xine's gsm610 is GPL, MPlayer's is not?:) Nice. WE say it's GPL. Its original author says it's GPL. Debian-legal says we are all wrong??:)) Make me laugh.
why play that dinky little game over GPRS when you can use connect your computer via bluetooth and use your phone as a GPRS modem and play better games across the network? I use a T68i too, and it's nice feeling to know you can be anywhere with GPRS access and have direct connectivity.
well, according to issac of mythtv fame, he was able to record video just fine using the lower resolution (300x240?). It does use the libavcodecs from mplayer fame so it can be pretty fast and highly configurable in terms of quality, speed, and cpu load.
perhaps something is wrong with your mythtv setup? mythtv runs nice and smooth on mine! When I added an additional 512MB, it runs great! Although my setup might be a bit more complex (using TwinView xinerama) but it still runs perfectly fine on a normal monitor without TV-out. (besides, I just use the xinerama clone function anyway)
There was a slashdot article sometime back that mentioned MythTV. Last weekend, I loaded up the debian packages (although I had to manually install xmltv since the deb packages were old) and all I can say is wow! It's been running stable for the last 4 days and I've already recorded more than 20 programs. It does that Tivo-ish time-shifting stuff which I find really cool, but somewhat useless for my purposes since I use MythTV mostly for recording stuff. Plus, it's got a pretty nice web interface so I can still start the recording even when i'm away from the computer.... (just by accessing the mythweb frontend through apache/php)
So far it allows you to use two codecs (nuppelvideo and mpeg4) but for some reason I get a bit better performance with the nuppelvideo stuff so I stuck with that. But I think the really big selling point of MythTV isn't the ability to record, do timeshifting, or access via the web... it's about it's really, really nice graphical interface. You just really have to see for yourself to believe it. I feel like a born-again couch potato!
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You know, the reason they may be carrying palms/pocketpcs around with them is so that they can get an internet connection with them via bluetooth. I was able to get mine working perfectly with the BlueZ tools and pppd... I could dial into GPRS and use internet just about anywhere the phone has reception. Makes it nice... I can keep the phone in my pocket, and the pocketpc in my hand and surf the web without expensive services!
I'm guessing you use AT&T with your T68i. I don't get your reception problems with T-Mobile....
Why couldn't you make that feature? It already has GPRS, a camera, and a decent OS that someone has even made a networkable doom game for it. How difficult would it be to make some webcam software?
I'll also add that I don't have a small address book either. Mine contains 150 something addresses. I transferred all of them from my palm. It's pretty much "instant" when I browse the addresses...
I agree that the T68 takes 2-3 seconds just to open the address book. However, this is not the case on the T68i model. The 'i' model is considerably faster for all the menu operations, typing, and just about everything else. I don't know whether they improved the software or the hardware, but I like it much more than the old T68.
True.
However, the reason I blog (and I am sure I am not the only one) is mainly to keep distant friends updated with my life, and the happenings in my city. I don't want millions of people viewing my site because none of my ramblings would mean anything to them. However, it would mean something to those who know me personally. For example if I were to say friend X got married to friend Y, that would mean something to a friend of friend Y, who happens to be in our circle of friends. Think about the close knit of friends you may have had during your college years, but after moving out of college, you lost touch. This is a way for people to still keep track of what friends are up to without mass emailing everyone what is happening all the time. My life generally consists of useless stuff that most people couldn't care less about, but means a lot to those in my close knit of friends.
ummm... this doesn't work in the real world. Have you ever worked at a software company with a PHB?? We get projects like, design a new object-oriented programming language that is easy to use for statisticians (ie non-programmers) and create all the development tools necessary for it in 3 months time. It needs to be production ready in 3 months because we've already told other companies it will be ready in 3 months. Well lets see, our development team is a total size of 2 people..... ring any bells??
Life is going to be unfair. There are lazy people at every company that just get lost in the paperwork and never get fired. The lazy people aren't going to be working overtime either.... it's the hard working people that actually worry about their jobs that care.
actually he didn't manage to steal much. Because he stole data on a 2.4Ghz computer, it was the equivalent of stealing $2000. All he did was steal notepad.exe from the computer.
Yeah definitely. In the mailing list, it seems like Johan Van den Rande (author of the EuroTV stuff) is the one getting sued when really the ones causing the abuse is from the MisterHouse home automation list. I'm pretty sure if they brought the suit to court, the case would be dismissed. It's like suing all the computer manufacturers who designed the computer to be possibly be "insecure".
And what's worse is that those sites with flash content can STILL be stolen. Yeah it's more work, but just like all those useless encryption mechanisms with DVDs and CDs, if you can see it with your own eyes, it can be stolen.
They haven't cared for me. I run 3 Linux desktop stations and I've even asked for 3 static ip addresses and they didn't care. They sent this IT support guy to help me configure my static ip addresses but was completely dumbfounded when he sat at my terminal (which was running blackbox). You shoulda seen his face.... he's like where's "My Computer??"
My company technically only supports Windows95, NT, and 2000. (Believe it or not, but 90% of the company still uses that 8 year old operating system win95)
I don't think it's a mistake. This morning msn.com sent my opera browser the site.css file, now it sends a site-win-ie5.css instead. So someone obviously made this change recently, and it doesn't send an ie6 stylesheet, it gives opera an older one.
how could someone mistakenly rename site-win-ie5.css into site.css for specifically targeting the opera browser??
yeah, everytime I see the three letters "TSP" I think of the traveling salesman problem for some reason...
Stupid me posts as code... this is the LINKY
Yeah I know you're trying to be funny and it's always easy to crack on Microsoft. But then there are actually other people doing the same kind of work. I remember doing a few small projects for this home. They have small video cameras on the ceilings of all the walls pointed straight down to track every single person's movement.
:-)
Checkout Georgia Tech's <a href="http://www.cc.gatech.edu/fce/ahri/">Aware Home Project</a>.
Fortunately, their home has a bathroom in it.
Yes. But discussing Xine may help solve the Mplayer problems. See how Arpi states it in this thread:3 /debian-devel-200301/msg01840.html
http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/200
Here's an excerpt:
The problems are the same, and xine is a live, existing example while
we're only "dreaming" about the mplayer case.
So, if we discuss XIne case, we'll get the answer to mplayer problems too.
But I agree, it's boring to discuss xine, let's talk about mplayer then.
We don't want that an unusable crppled-down version of mpleyer be included
in debian. Take it as-is or don't take it.
We have no problems with source distrubition, nor with binary distribution
if done well.
It seems like this thread explains lots of the issues regarding mplayer and it's inclusion in debian:3 /debian-devel-200301/msg01772.html
:) Just contains :)) :)))))))
:)
:) :))
http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/200
The message basically outlines this:
xineplug_decode_ff.so 829032 - this is libavcodec, the MPEG4/DivX decoder
Did you pay the royalty to the MPEG Group?
They can come any time...
xineplug_decode_faad.so 164048 - this is the FAAD audio decoder, which is
just as illegal as libavcodec
Vidix - unusable ballast without libdha, which is
not packaged
nvidia_vid.so - part of Vidix.. Instead it is a
placeholder
printf("TODO")
Nice to know xine was packaged by people
who knew what they were doing
xineplug_decode_w32dll.so - code (from Wine) to load win32 DLLs
It's total legal isn't it..?
ASF demuxer - Microsoft already forced a GPL project
to remove it (VirtualDub)
I hope Debian is also ready to face this
xineplug_decode_gsm610.so - xine's gsm610 is GPL, MPlayer's is not?
Nice.
WE say it's GPL.
Its original author says it's GPL.
Debian-legal says we are all wrong??
Make me laugh.
why play that dinky little game over GPRS when you can use connect your computer via bluetooth and use your phone as a GPRS modem and play better games across the network? I use a T68i too, and it's nice feeling to know you can be anywhere with GPRS access and have direct connectivity.
We can try a number of the most popular passwords such as love, sex, and god!
I wonder if it's because there are less brain-dead jobs in the US than the UK? ;-)
well, according to issac of mythtv fame, he was able to record video just fine using the lower resolution (300x240?). It does use the libavcodecs from mplayer fame so it can be pretty fast and highly configurable in terms of quality, speed, and cpu load.
perhaps something is wrong with your mythtv setup? mythtv runs nice and smooth on mine! When I added an additional 512MB, it runs great! Although my setup might be a bit more complex (using TwinView xinerama) but it still runs perfectly fine on a normal monitor without TV-out. (besides, I just use the xinerama clone function anyway)
There was a slashdot article sometime back that mentioned MythTV. Last weekend, I loaded up the debian packages (although I had to manually install xmltv since the deb packages were old) and all I can say is wow! It's been running stable for the last 4 days and I've already recorded more than 20 programs. It does that Tivo-ish time-shifting stuff which I find really cool, but somewhat useless for my purposes since I use MythTV mostly for recording stuff. Plus, it's got a pretty nice web interface so I can still start the recording even when i'm away from the computer.... (just by accessing the mythweb frontend through apache/php)
So far it allows you to use two codecs (nuppelvideo and mpeg4) but for some reason I get a bit better performance with the nuppelvideo stuff so I stuck with that. But I think the really big selling point of MythTV isn't the ability to record, do timeshifting, or access via the web... it's about it's really, really nice graphical interface. You just really have to see for yourself to believe it. I feel like a born-again couch potato!
MythTV debian packages are here.
Why in the world are moderators moderating this as flamebait? I think it's a perfectly valid question....
He's trying to make false, negative claims to my one and only HEROINE!