Comment Hypercard? (Score 2, Interesting) 175
Once Hypercard is open source then the world will be complete.
Comment Droid Does... (Score 5, Funny) 757
Does your phone self destruct if you mod it? Where others don't... Droid does!
Comment Re:Staying on XP... (Score 1) 1213
Ok. Too literal people. The admins can have a provisioning PC/Mac without the employees having a computer.
Comment Re:Staying on XP... (Score 1) 1213
For employees that access everything through a web browser, email, and jabber the iPad with a keyboard dock will be the perfect client. I've been using mine for a month now and haven't found a situation where I've needed to use a desktop. The iPad also has the added functionality that if we don't give them the password to the app store, we control what they can install on it and with no flash support they won't be spending all day playing games.
Comment Staying on XP... (Score 1) 1213
right up until we can get iPads and then everyone gets an iPad. No more desktop computers.
Comment Re:Who cares? (Score 4, Insightful) 306
I believe it is more accurate to say that they are not raising the price on everyone to keep an outdated service active for a few.
Comment Re:Microsoft (Score 1) 896
I would also have to recommend MSE. It was the only program to completely clean a co-worker's PC that was used very promiscuously.
Comment ipfw (Score 5, Informative) 403
You can configure a firewall rate limiting statement based on source ip address using ipfw. Then just have an applescript that toggles this than can be run as soon as you notice the computer getting slow.
Directed Energy Weapon Downs Mosquitos 428
wisebabo writes "Nathan Myhrvol demonstrated at TED a laser, built from parts scrounged from eBay, capable of shooting down not one but 50 to 100 mosquitos a second. The system is 'so precise that it can specify the species, and even the gender, of the mosquito being targeted.' Currently, for the sake of efficiency, it leaves the males alone because only females are bloodsuckers. Best of all the system could cost as little as $50. Maybe that's too expensive for use in preventing malaria in Africa but I'd buy one in a second!" We ran a story about this last year. It looks like the company has added a bit more polish, and burning mosquito footage to their marketing.
Comment Re:Answers (Score 1) 671
Does the iPad support Microsoft Exchange email?
The iPhone/iPod does. Why wouldn't the iPad which runs the same OS?
Does the iPad support VPN and configuration management?
The iPhone/iPod does. Why wouldn't the iPad which runs the same OS?
Google To Challenge Facebook Again 197
Hugh Pickens writes "Google is set to make a fresh attempt to gain a foothold in the booming social networking business, seeking to counter the growing threat that Facebook poses to some of its core services. USA Today reports that the search giant is upgrading Gmail to add social-media tools similar to those found on Facebook, including photo and video sharing within the Gmail application, along with a new tool for status updates. According to reports, Google is planning to give Gmail users a way to aggregate the updates of their various contacts on the service, creating a stream of notifications that would echo the similar real-time streams from Facebook and Twitter. Google's decision to exploit the heavily-used Gmail service as the basis for its latest assault on the social networking business partly reflects the failure of Google's previous stand-alone efforts to enter the social networking sector. Its Orkut networking service, though launched before Facebook, has failed to gain a mass following in most parts of the world, despite success in Brazil, and its acquisition of Twitter rival Jaiku ended in failure after it scrapped development of the service." Update: 02/09 19:32 GMT by KD : It's been announced as Google Buzz; CNET has a detailed writeup.
GIMP 2.8 Will Sport a Redesigned UI 401
ceswiedler writes "Ars Technica's Ryan Paul previews the upcoming release of the GIMP. It will include a single-window mode where the user can dock toolbar windows and switch between images via tabs. There are other improvements as well, including docking support in multi-window mode and improvements to the text tool." To get this early preview, Paul compiled version 2.7.1 from the active development branch, along with its dependencies.
Comment Re:Dear FSF (Score 1) 1634
Okay great but why won't my wife's macbook pro mount my ext3 backup disk? There are ext[23] drivers in netbsd and freebsd for the taking.
This should do the trick: http://code.google.com/p/macfuse/
It really is a shame that you have to install a driver for a non-native file system. It's like trying to use HFS+(or ext2,3 for that matter) in Windows. Apple has chosen those file systems that they feel best meshes with OS X's feature/security sets. BSD chose theirs.
Comment Re:Dear FSF (Score 1) 1634
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Serial_Bus
USB adoption was slow prior to the release of the Apple iMac which spurred the growth of USB devices.
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/power/library/pa-spec7.html
The iMac presented a ready-made market of users who chose the Mac line for its graphics capability. In turn, the iMac offered a captive audience of users who would buy a USB peripheral but would not buy any other kind of peripheral. These users provided a market for USB peripherals that wasn't facing competition from other port choices. The result was a flood of USB devices in white-and-blue plastic. This was a crucial turning point that created a reason (tied to a proven system choice) to prefer USB to non-USB ports.
Comment Re:Dear FSF (Score 2, Informative) 1634
How did USB for input devices work out for you? If the iMac hadn't adopted usb as the primary connection for peripherals we'd still be stuck with the PC's multitude of incompatible interfaces.
And Firewire... At the time that USB 1.1 was popular, it was inadequate for doing serious data transfer. I still use my Firewire 800 connection for any data I need to have quick access to and my USB 2.0 ports for data that is archived or not speed sensitive.
