So how do we get all these commodore user groups to persuade someone to start manufacturing 6582A SID chips again? I want to build an 8 SID Midibox without having to take out a mortgage...
Hopefully one of the things they will do is remove abominations such as MotoBlur, including from existing handsets. This will cause motorola owners to colletively cheer and tempt people away from other manufacturers.
A light hearted romp with a storyline where a corporation artificially increases the value of something some kid stole from a badly protected system, much like the busts of the early 90s from what I gather, and it has been a while since I read about it so my memory may be sketchy, started off because AT&T needed a scapegoat for a massive cascade failure causes by a dodgy update to their System V telephone exchanges, and went after Phrack magazine by telling the secret service the stolen document they published was worth many thousands of dollars by including the cost of the computer it was written on plus the cost of the time of the person writing it, despite a different department of the same company selling the similar documents for 20 dollars to anyone that asked. If this is what the script writer was basing the story line on that would explain why the tech references in the film were massively out of date years before the film was released and ended up being entertaining to us now.
Someone at my uni when I was studying compsci stole my Hackers OST CD. That was some good music they had with the film too so I'm still pissed off about that 10 years later...
... features a group of exploration ships discovering a new form of life, just before Starfleet Dental (aka Goonswarm) crashes into them for fun and starts both a war with the creatures and a monolithic threadnaught on the forums...
I work just around the corner from the C-net offices in Southwark, and walk around the whole area listening to internet radio (mp3/shoutcast) using 3g on my N95 so I know the 3g signal is pretty good. This is using T-mobile. I'm considering this device when I get my upgrade in December. The 02 signal WILL be pretty good in that area too as it is just on the other side of the river from the City of London (i.e. the city centre/finance district for the merkins reading this)
If they wanted to test it on Wifi there is free wifi access at the Island Cafe which is a 2 minute walk from their offices, and do a rather nice full english breakfast to make the most of their testing. I use it to test the VPN software for my end users and naturally I have to have a full english when i'm there, it's only fair;)
The App store on Symbian, at least Nokia ones is called "Download!" and is found in Utilities in the menu. This is on the generic Nokia software as well as the telco provided version. Since Symbian is nice and allow you to install whatever you like, albeit with sometimes having to sign your own applications with certificates that symbian are happy to provide, and can sign it on the device itself before installing, I will in all likelihood be looking at another nokia to if the G1 turns out to be as locked down as Apple is.
They reportedly send letters and eventually drop you to 2g speed when you go over, unlike most of the other providers in the UK which let you rack up thousands of pounds of bills before they cut the service...
Yes it works out of the box. My colleague tried it on his before he replaced xandros with a proper distro.
T-mobile's monthly rate for the same service is usually pretty good as well, although you need to pay a little extra for their top spec package before they allow VOIP services.
I was looking into this as an option but decided it was cheaper to add the services to my phone and use bluetooth dialup instead.
We're currently rolling out software to shut down all our machines enterprise wide if they are left logged off, or if users do not respond to a prompt after 7PM. The main reason for doing this is saving power. There are AD groups for certain machines that need to be excepted from this as we have developers and such that do overnight compiles and so on. Seems to be one of those rare good ideas the company has done.
While it may be currently something that generally makes people look like idiots, wearables facinate me. I've considered raiding ebay for broken camcorder viewfinders to make one but realise there is no point making something I won't use as i'd look like a sad reject from splinter cell. As already said the main thing they need to do is stop trying to make them look like some futuristic fashion statement and start making them look like something ordinary. Once you make them discrete then people can actually use the for their intended purpose such as watching things on the train without being bothered or get contact informaiton for someone you are speaking on the fly so you can figure out who the hell they are before you run out of bluff.
Platform wise most people seem to be trying to go down the route of displaying either just media on a portable device like an iPod or trying to integrate full on i386 portable PCs into the things. Has anyone tried something simpler like a smartphone? The one I currently have lets me type on very few keys using predictive text without necessarily looking at it (I IRC from it a lot and can type fairly fast on it), lets me navigate and perform pointing tasks with a D-pad style control, has composite video/audio out and has a load of support for making your own applications. It also clips on to my belt with its own power source and is very discrete. This sort of thing would be ideal for a wearable and it even turns into a normal PDA/Phone if you don't want to use the headgear unlike most of the other HMD or HUD driven tech i've seen, ipod accessories aside. It is ideal for basing something like this on if someone produced affordable discrete HUD glasses.
Contact information -
Medison Europe Limited
27 Ruffets Wood
Gravesend, Kent
DA12 5JQ England
Hmm based out of the UK? We are pricegouged for technology here so it costs twice as much as in the US, plus the local currency is so strong we can't export anything.
http://www.multimap.com/maps/#t=l&map=51.41172,0.3 7755|17|32&loc=GB:51.41172:0.37755:16|DA12%205JQ|D A12%205JQ
Aerial photo of the area looks a residential area in the middle of Singlewell. There is a hotel and a primary school very close and you dont often find those in industrial estates, even small ones. Some of the buildings look a little unhouselike so could be a small ind. est. as you find in some small places. It does mention that the company is a startup so this kind of tallies in but does not suggest premesis that can organise worldwide shipping of laptops. Rates about 8 out of 10 on the scamorama probability scale in that alone, probably 10 in 10 with the other things already said
I did actually divide that into paragraphs when I was typing it but for some reason after submitting it the line returns were gone. I also had a pseudo HTML tag containing/rant at the end that seems to be missing. No idea what happened there...
On a sidenote, I regularly speak to people who take measures to remove their ABS and traction control. A properly driven car without ABS can out-brake a car of the same spec with it fitted. People complain that ABS kicks in too early when they are cornering, or kicks in because they went over a small bump that otherwise they would have ignored and make them start skidding in that lumpy treacle way that ABS feels like. ABS can get you out of trouble in certain cases but for the most part it is there for people who drive while doing their make-up.
I've driven cars where the power steering and power brakes are so over assisted you cannot feel the road through your controls. In one case the electric power steering auto cut off at 60MPH to prevent sensitive steering at motorway speed making it feel like I was trying to steer through a mechanism that involved porridge and was downright dangerous.
This is why any car manufacturer making a car aimed at someone who might actually be interested in driving it lets you turn the numpty aids off or just doesnt fit them in the first place.
Back to Microsoft, they seem to be designing their OS for the aforementioned driver that does make-up. They fill their products with wizards when you just want a form to put settings in and have the whole thing done in 30 seconds, like the sharing and security wizard that defaults on a fresh install instead of the security tab on the directory. The wizard IIRC has no immediate disable option and requires tinkerage to remove. It is one thing to make your software easy to use but it is too much when that helpfulness gets overinflated to the point of obstructing you.
Another example of this is when someone sends you a file in MSN messagner, usually a wav or a short video file. The minute you try to click on it you get the security centre popping up telling me it is preventing me from opening this file to protect my system, and if i click OK without fishing it out first, deletes the file. When I click for more information it tells me I can enable recieving of these files with options that upon further investigation do not exist. It also tells me that it is doing it to prevent spreading of malicious software (in those newfangled executable PCM wav files no doubt). This wonderful feature is really getting on my nerves, an OS isnt supposed to do things you dont tell it to and cannot disable, it is almost as though MS are making a moral decision on my behalf on the offchance I might be pirating something. This would be like a car that doesnt start after 11pm on a friday in case you've been drinking.
Cars are also not averse to having things moved but at least they seem to be following a standard. Heater controls are almost always the Mercedes style with 3 large knobs for fan, heat and which vents across most marques, Indicator stalks are now always on the left whereas cars designed in RHD countries tended to have them on the right - Austins often had this and my 80s toyota has this. It seems MS is makign special efforts to move things around. For example, configuring outlook in office 97 you went to services in tools. This worked really well and you could config outlook to talk to the exchange server really quickly and could connect PST files while you are there. In outlook 2003 this was considered far too easy so they put the exchange config in email settings after going through a wizard to get what you want, and put the PST config in a completely different place in "data files" for no apparent reason other than to make techs need to go hunting for wherever this feature had relocated itself to after the typical introduction to any new application by management of it suddenly arriving with no warning and them pointing at the broken thing.
Then we come to your typical end user. Techs like me are able to fix that new application because we learn how to work and configure it on the fly by exploring menus and hunting for those relocated options. We improvise and devise fixes based on what we find and remember it for next time. End users on the other hand s
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The newly hatched spiders had to go somewhere after emerging from the beanie babies...
The city of Turin became interested in upgrading to a more secure IT infrastructure after they lost 4 million dollars through a traffic jam...
So how do we get all these commodore user groups to persuade someone to start manufacturing 6582A SID chips again? I want to build an 8 SID Midibox without having to take out a mortgage...
The UK also has them on some military bases, although I am at work so don't currently have the google maps link for an example to hand.
So is this going to be anything like the Fatal Frame series?
Hopefully one of the things they will do is remove abominations such as MotoBlur, including from existing handsets. This will cause motorola owners to colletively cheer and tempt people away from other manufacturers.
A light hearted romp with a storyline where a corporation artificially increases the value of something some kid stole from a badly protected system, much like the busts of the early 90s from what I gather, and it has been a while since I read about it so my memory may be sketchy, started off because AT&T needed a scapegoat for a massive cascade failure causes by a dodgy update to their System V telephone exchanges, and went after Phrack magazine by telling the secret service the stolen document they published was worth many thousands of dollars by including the cost of the computer it was written on plus the cost of the time of the person writing it, despite a different department of the same company selling the similar documents for 20 dollars to anyone that asked. If this is what the script writer was basing the story line on that would explain why the tech references in the film were massively out of date years before the film was released and ended up being entertaining to us now. Someone at my uni when I was studying compsci stole my Hackers OST CD. That was some good music they had with the film too so I'm still pissed off about that 10 years later...
Well LOIC is technically an "attack toolkit" and has been getting a lot of press lately...
...is gonna change everything. ;)
... features a group of exploration ships discovering a new form of life, just before Starfleet Dental (aka Goonswarm) crashes into them for fun and starts both a war with the creatures and a monolithic threadnaught on the forums...
...kudasai I came for the chobits references, was disappointed...
They could upgrade the suspect to level 3 if they have enough metal...
Should probably be hellbent for leather. Put a tight-fitting leather case around the computer.
Also, carry a riding crop. Show her you mean business!
Gimp my ride...
I work just around the corner from the C-net offices in Southwark, and walk around the whole area listening to internet radio (mp3/shoutcast) using 3g on my N95 so I know the 3g signal is pretty good. This is using T-mobile. I'm considering this device when I get my upgrade in December. The 02 signal WILL be pretty good in that area too as it is just on the other side of the river from the City of London (i.e. the city centre/finance district for the merkins reading this) If they wanted to test it on Wifi there is free wifi access at the Island Cafe which is a 2 minute walk from their offices, and do a rather nice full english breakfast to make the most of their testing. I use it to test the VPN software for my end users and naturally I have to have a full english when i'm there, it's only fair ;)
The App store on Symbian, at least Nokia ones is called "Download!" and is found in Utilities in the menu. This is on the generic Nokia software as well as the telco provided version. Since Symbian is nice and allow you to install whatever you like, albeit with sometimes having to sign your own applications with certificates that symbian are happy to provide, and can sign it on the device itself before installing, I will in all likelihood be looking at another nokia to if the G1 turns out to be as locked down as Apple is.
They reportedly send letters and eventually drop you to 2g speed when you go over, unlike most of the other providers in the UK which let you rack up thousands of pounds of bills before they cut the service...
Yes it works out of the box. My colleague tried it on his before he replaced xandros with a proper distro. T-mobile's monthly rate for the same service is usually pretty good as well, although you need to pay a little extra for their top spec package before they allow VOIP services. I was looking into this as an option but decided it was cheaper to add the services to my phone and use bluetooth dialup instead.
We're currently rolling out software to shut down all our machines enterprise wide if they are left logged off, or if users do not respond to a prompt after 7PM. The main reason for doing this is saving power. There are AD groups for certain machines that need to be excepted from this as we have developers and such that do overnight compiles and so on. Seems to be one of those rare good ideas the company has done.
While it may be currently something that generally makes people look like idiots, wearables facinate me. I've considered raiding ebay for broken camcorder viewfinders to make one but realise there is no point making something I won't use as i'd look like a sad reject from splinter cell. As already said the main thing they need to do is stop trying to make them look like some futuristic fashion statement and start making them look like something ordinary. Once you make them discrete then people can actually use the for their intended purpose such as watching things on the train without being bothered or get contact informaiton for someone you are speaking on the fly so you can figure out who the hell they are before you run out of bluff.
Platform wise most people seem to be trying to go down the route of displaying either just media on a portable device like an iPod or trying to integrate full on i386 portable PCs into the things. Has anyone tried something simpler like a smartphone? The one I currently have lets me type on very few keys using predictive text without necessarily looking at it (I IRC from it a lot and can type fairly fast on it), lets me navigate and perform pointing tasks with a D-pad style control, has composite video/audio out and has a load of support for making your own applications. It also clips on to my belt with its own power source and is very discrete. This sort of thing would be ideal for a wearable and it even turns into a normal PDA/Phone if you don't want to use the headgear unlike most of the other HMD or HUD driven tech i've seen, ipod accessories aside. It is ideal for basing something like this on if someone produced affordable discrete HUD glasses.
So how would my company work out which of the circa 60k members of "Anonymous" I am? By the way I'm the one in the suit with the afro wig...
Contact information - Medison Europe Limited 27 Ruffets Wood Gravesend, Kent DA12 5JQ England Hmm based out of the UK? We are pricegouged for technology here so it costs twice as much as in the US, plus the local currency is so strong we can't export anything. http://www.multimap.com/maps/#t=l&map=51.41172,0.3 7755|17|32&loc=GB:51.41172:0.37755:16|DA12%205JQ|D A12%205JQ
Aerial photo of the area looks a residential area in the middle of Singlewell. There is a hotel and a primary school very close and you dont often find those in industrial estates, even small ones. Some of the buildings look a little unhouselike so could be a small ind. est. as you find in some small places. It does mention that the company is a startup so this kind of tallies in but does not suggest premesis that can organise worldwide shipping of laptops. Rates about 8 out of 10 on the scamorama probability scale in that alone, probably 10 in 10 with the other things already said
I did actually divide that into paragraphs when I was typing it but for some reason after submitting it the line returns were gone. I also had a pseudo HTML tag containing /rant at the end that seems to be missing. No idea what happened there...
On a sidenote, I regularly speak to people who take measures to remove their ABS and traction control. A properly driven car without ABS can out-brake a car of the same spec with it fitted. People complain that ABS kicks in too early when they are cornering, or kicks in because they went over a small bump that otherwise they would have ignored and make them start skidding in that lumpy treacle way that ABS feels like. ABS can get you out of trouble in certain cases but for the most part it is there for people who drive while doing their make-up. I've driven cars where the power steering and power brakes are so over assisted you cannot feel the road through your controls. In one case the electric power steering auto cut off at 60MPH to prevent sensitive steering at motorway speed making it feel like I was trying to steer through a mechanism that involved porridge and was downright dangerous. This is why any car manufacturer making a car aimed at someone who might actually be interested in driving it lets you turn the numpty aids off or just doesnt fit them in the first place. Back to Microsoft, they seem to be designing their OS for the aforementioned driver that does make-up. They fill their products with wizards when you just want a form to put settings in and have the whole thing done in 30 seconds, like the sharing and security wizard that defaults on a fresh install instead of the security tab on the directory. The wizard IIRC has no immediate disable option and requires tinkerage to remove. It is one thing to make your software easy to use but it is too much when that helpfulness gets overinflated to the point of obstructing you. Another example of this is when someone sends you a file in MSN messagner, usually a wav or a short video file. The minute you try to click on it you get the security centre popping up telling me it is preventing me from opening this file to protect my system, and if i click OK without fishing it out first, deletes the file. When I click for more information it tells me I can enable recieving of these files with options that upon further investigation do not exist. It also tells me that it is doing it to prevent spreading of malicious software (in those newfangled executable PCM wav files no doubt). This wonderful feature is really getting on my nerves, an OS isnt supposed to do things you dont tell it to and cannot disable, it is almost as though MS are making a moral decision on my behalf on the offchance I might be pirating something. This would be like a car that doesnt start after 11pm on a friday in case you've been drinking. Cars are also not averse to having things moved but at least they seem to be following a standard. Heater controls are almost always the Mercedes style with 3 large knobs for fan, heat and which vents across most marques, Indicator stalks are now always on the left whereas cars designed in RHD countries tended to have them on the right - Austins often had this and my 80s toyota has this. It seems MS is makign special efforts to move things around. For example, configuring outlook in office 97 you went to services in tools. This worked really well and you could config outlook to talk to the exchange server really quickly and could connect PST files while you are there. In outlook 2003 this was considered far too easy so they put the exchange config in email settings after going through a wizard to get what you want, and put the PST config in a completely different place in "data files" for no apparent reason other than to make techs need to go hunting for wherever this feature had relocated itself to after the typical introduction to any new application by management of it suddenly arriving with no warning and them pointing at the broken thing. Then we come to your typical end user. Techs like me are able to fix that new application because we learn how to work and configure it on the fly by exploring menus and hunting for those relocated options. We improvise and devise fixes based on what we find and remember it for next time. End users on the other hand s
Only if the kid gets caught with the tinfoil ;)
...because GPS cannot get a signal through tinfoil. Even if the device reports you for cutting its power how will it know where it is going?