Software should be free to those who cannot afford to buy it. Let the big fish at the top of the stock ladder pay for it. They collectively make enough money to pay for development of all Open Source software indefinitely.
Lets face it, if you can't afford to buy software in the first place, you are only going to:- 1) Pirate it 2) Not use it 3) Use Open Source clone of application
I defend the right of Microsoft to sell their software, even if they have a policy of bend-over-and-take-it pricing. I also defend the right for Ballmer to not say the "dreaded" Free word, we are all entitled to our views, and MS's view is one of "make money - fast". If People want to keep paying MS for their software, then MS are going to keep selling it.
I am quite surprised no one has mention Command and Conquer; I play these to let off steam. Nothing like sending in hundreds on tanks and obliterating something.
In order, top 5 C&C:
1) Command and Conquer generals + addon pack 2) Command and Conquer red alert 3) Command and Conquer tiberian sun 4) Command and Conquer 5) Command and Conquer Red alert 2
so you are saying a PDA cannot address external hardware? heard of bluetooth or USB? Even if they wanted to tie it directly to the PCI bus, it would be a trivial mod.
I know it's not actually a PDA, but the technology is so closely related I would of thought anyone would be able to read between the lines and see it for what it is.
Glue a PDA to the top of your laptop. If you want to go the whole hog then make a fibreglass holder for it. If you do it right, it'll look exactly like that laptop.
If you look carefully, it looks a lot like thats exactly what they did, you can even see where the sides champfer upwards to the embedded PDA. I'm willing to bet it's an offshoot of the PDA R&D. Look at the features:- doesn't use laptop battery, has own wifi and processor, "d pad" and buttons, arranged like a PDA. It's a PDA.
I mod the idea:- -1 pointless If you want this bad, then buy a PDA and some superglue.
The RFID destroyer would be no larger than a small matchbox. There is no need for a MASSIVE (as in size) electromagnet, only a small, strong, directed em pulse.
The RFID-Zapper project uses a camera flash coil to induce enough current in the aerial to kill the silicon. I have tested something similar using a CCFL backlight inverter coil.
A place I worked at a couple years ago had problems with people "deactivating" the RFID tags on sales tags using a similar device to a bulk eraser. As long as you can induce sufficient current to destroy the aerial traces, or the silicon you are fine. I don't think it would do much for any electronics nearby though. The CD should be fine!
1) Cover the disk in foil 2) snip the RFID reader in the player making it recognise legacy disk 3) destroy the RFID tag in the disk using LARGE electromagnet 4) refuse to buy one
thinking about point 3... I have used the technique before to destroy a RFID tag on thing I purchased. Aside from the problems of small popping when the foil in the tag melts, it seems to be a good way of destroying lots of tags. A strategically placed electromagnet and a sensor and you could hit every one that passed!
Welcome to Slashdot. Prepare to spend lots of time reading meaningless articles such as these.
As for your comment... No, users don't care as long as it works. Most people I know with ie as their main browser have all kinds of crap installed. Those annoying toolbars, flashing smileys, and popups all over the place. There is no educating these people, as they don't care to be educated. They see the windows box as a magic device that "should just work" regardless of how reckless they are with their browsing habits.
Um... I don't really know where I am going with this comment, but your point that the user must be alert is a moot point. Users don't care enough to be interested in these alerts, and presented with this information wouldn't care to do anything about it. I guess it is ultimately MS's problem, and they should fix it. If users are too ignorant to get the latest patches, then more fool them.
I didn't create a liveCD for the clients, just a server livecd.
As we have been mirroring all data to an external USB device on the Win2003 server, if the server fails, we can use the data on any workstation along with the failover LiveCD.
The Windows server constantly stored it's full configuration on a USB key, or eternal hard disk, so we could pull the server, and have a good state backup.
Sufficed to say, it didn't work out too well, as the LiveCD had some trouble reconfiguring itself to work with the host system with any real accuracy. It caused more problems than telling a client to sit and wait for the backup to restore.
This is possibly the most vague article I have ever read.
I didn't manage to learn any more from this article that the Slashdot summary didn't provide.
Although there are sections describing what each tehnology is, and how it would be used, the summaries are vague, and lack any real content.
I have written similar non-technical summaries for executive types, and it looked vaguely similar to this.
Reading the README of any AJAX application will tell you 80% of what the IBM article goes into.
The only information I can as being useful is the resource list cited at the end of the article.
Now the key components for processing light have been miniturised, it should be possible to use this for the basis of a simple optical computer.
From the sources below:
The design also eliminates problems of wavelength interference, which means that although the crystal is tiny, it will work at very high resolutions - between 64 and 100 microns.
So... it seems like the photonics are ready. We just need engineers to step up to the challenge.
As well as mkinitrd, there are some cool tools coming along that help build an initrd.
Here is one I have used, and although it's very early in it's development cycle.
http://yaird.alioth.debian.org/
Slashdot Mirror
Don't like Copilot, eh?
While not a fan of their Copilot software, it is available though GPL.
https://www.copilot.com/faq/#28
If you don't like it, do something about it, you have the code.
Agreed.
Software should be free to those who cannot afford to buy it. Let the big fish at the top of the stock ladder pay for it. They collectively make enough money to pay for development of all Open Source software indefinitely.
Lets face it, if you can't afford to buy software in the first place, you are only going to:-
1) Pirate it
2) Not use it
3) Use Open Source clone of application
I defend the right of Microsoft to sell their software, even if they have a policy of bend-over-and-take-it pricing. I also defend the right for Ballmer to not say the "dreaded" Free word, we are all entitled to our views, and MS's view is one of "make money - fast". If People want to keep paying MS for their software, then MS are going to keep selling it.
China called, and it wants it's PR dept back. (I'm prime too)
Yeah, thats a decent progam.
Good call.
I am quite surprised no one has mention Command and Conquer; I play these to let off steam. Nothing like sending in hundreds on tanks and obliterating something.
In order, top 5 C&C:
1) Command and Conquer generals + addon pack
2) Command and Conquer red alert
3) Command and Conquer tiberian sun
4) Command and Conquer
5) Command and Conquer Red alert 2
Hey, not saying it's a bad thing to have, but wouldn't it be just that much cooler it the laptop hardware could be accessed using a PDA?
so you are saying a PDA cannot address external hardware? heard of bluetooth or USB? Even if they wanted to tie it directly to the PCI bus, it would be a trivial mod.
I know it's not actually a PDA, but the technology is so closely related I would of thought anyone would be able to read between the lines and see it for what it is.
Glue a PDA to the top of your laptop. If you want to go the whole hog then make a fibreglass holder for it. If you do it right, it'll look exactly like that laptop.
If you look carefully, it looks a lot like thats exactly what they did, you can even see where the sides champfer upwards to the embedded PDA. I'm willing to bet it's an offshoot of the PDA R&D. Look at the features:- doesn't use laptop battery, has own wifi and processor,
"d pad" and buttons, arranged like a PDA. It's a PDA.
I mod the idea:- -1 pointless
If you want this bad, then buy a PDA and some superglue.
I don't see any drives with the static RAM in there. With the advent of Vista, you would think that they would think about those.
Does anyone have detailed stats of the new dual storage drives?
The RFID destroyer would be no larger than a small matchbox. There is no need for a MASSIVE (as in size) electromagnet, only a small, strong, directed em pulse.
The RFID-Zapper project uses a camera flash coil to induce enough current in the aerial to kill the silicon. I have tested something similar using a CCFL backlight inverter coil.
RFID-Zapper
yeah, that should do it.
A place I worked at a couple years ago had problems with people "deactivating" the RFID tags on sales tags using a similar device to a bulk eraser. As long as you can induce sufficient current to destroy the aerial traces, or the silicon you are fine. I don't think it would do much for any electronics nearby though. The CD should be fine!
Options:-
1) Cover the disk in foil
2) snip the RFID reader in the player making it recognise legacy disk
3) destroy the RFID tag in the disk using LARGE electromagnet
4) refuse to buy one
thinking about point 3... I have used the technique before to destroy a RFID tag on thing I purchased. Aside from the problems of small popping when the foil in the tag melts, it seems to be a good way of destroying lots of tags. A strategically placed electromagnet and a sensor and you could hit every one that passed!
Welcome to Slashdot. Prepare to spend lots of time reading meaningless articles such as these.
As for your comment... No, users don't care as long as it works. Most people I know with ie as their main browser have all kinds of crap installed. Those annoying toolbars, flashing smileys, and popups all over the place. There is no educating these people, as they don't care to be educated. They see the windows box as a magic device that "should just work" regardless of how reckless they are with their browsing habits.
Um... I don't really know where I am going with this comment, but your point that the user must be alert is a moot point. Users don't care enough to be interested in these alerts, and presented with this information wouldn't care to do anything about it. I guess it is ultimately MS's problem, and they should fix it. If users are too ignorant to get the latest patches, then more fool them.
990887: 990887
woot!
http://www.headfuzz.co.uk/?q=node/72 These are fairly old too. Doesn't mean it's a new problem
I have at least 4 hard disks that have burned out in the same way. I have seen this happen many, many times.
I don't see what the fuss is all about. the guy probably shorted +5 with +12V
This is not a widespread problem. It just happens. You don't see posts on slash about frozen platters, or odd click noises.
I can take pictures if need be.
Been there, done that
http://www.headfuzz.co.uk/?q=node/30
I didn't create a liveCD for the clients, just a server livecd.
As we have been mirroring all data to an external USB device on the Win2003 server, if the server fails, we can use the data on any workstation along with the failover LiveCD.
The Windows server constantly stored it's full configuration on a USB key, or eternal hard disk, so we could pull the server, and have a good state backup.
Sufficed to say, it didn't work out too well, as the LiveCD had some trouble reconfiguring itself to work with the host system with any real accuracy. It caused more problems than telling a client to sit and wait for the backup to restore.
It would appear to be slashdotted already.
They should have invested in some more bandwidth and better servers to cope with all that AJAX overhead.
What is this "girl" thing you speak of?
This is possibly the most vague article I have ever read.
I didn't manage to learn any more from this article that the Slashdot summary didn't provide.
Although there are sections describing what each tehnology is, and how it would be used, the summaries are vague, and lack any real content. I have written similar non-technical summaries for executive types, and it looked vaguely similar to this.
Reading the README of any AJAX application will tell you 80% of what the IBM article goes into.
The only information I can as being useful is the resource list cited at the end of the article.
"640K should be enough for anybody"
Now the key components for processing light have been miniturised, it should be possible to use this for the basis of a simple optical computer.
From the sources below:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/08/03/photonic_
So... it seems like the photonics are ready. We just need engineers to step up to the challenge.
This looks to be a pretty good tutorial.
As well as mkinitrd, there are some cool tools coming along that help build an initrd.
Here is one I have used, and although it's very early in it's development cycle.
http://yaird.alioth.debian.org/
Are there any more that are actually easy to use?
heh. Should have guessed really.