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[Tech News] Interesting technology

Ingo
24-Oct-2007
[2672]
You need to activate IMAP before use, in Setting, "Forwarding adn 
POP/IMAP". At the moment it seems not to be available for all accounts, 
not for mine for example ;-(
Sunanda
24-Oct-2007
[2673]
I don't have it either.
Looks like they are rolling it out slowly.
Henrik
24-Oct-2007
[2674]
one needs to select US English as language. that helped for me.
Ingo
24-Oct-2007
[2675]
Well, I have switched away and back to US English with no change 
...
Graham
24-Oct-2007
[2676]
the instructions I looked at say to use the ssl imap ports
Terry
24-Oct-2007
[2677]
 Take a peek under your Settings in Gmail, and click into your 'Forwarding 
 and POP IMAP' tab to see if you are one of the lucky ones who got 
 IMAP first.
Tomc
24-Oct-2007
[2678]
nope
Graham
24-Oct-2007
[2679]
Do I want it?
Terry
24-Oct-2007
[2680]
Don't think i need it... Who wants mine? :)
Tomc
25-Oct-2007
[2681]
it is there now and it works
Pekr
31-Oct-2007
[2682x2]
Mozilla Prism - an attempt to bring best of both world together - 
web apps, and rich apps - http://labs.mozilla.com/2007/10/prism/
hmm, forget it, web model got slashed in discussion following the 
newspost  :-) http://www.osnews.com/comment.php?news_id=18849
Pekr
2-Nov-2007
[2684]
Hecl - scripting language for cell phones - http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/articles/creating_a_simple_application_with_hecl
btiffin
3-Nov-2007
[2685x2]
So what does everyone think about the Everex/Wal-Mart gOS $200 Green 
PC?   GNU/Linux getting into the homes of people that can afford 
a $200 PC (sans tube).  Tech support - here we come  :)  And it's 
weird; that's like 50 bucks Canadian now.  A true reversal of fortunes 
is upon us...can you feel it?


http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,139196-c,fullfeaturednotebooks/article.html


I like the part about "...Vista has done a lot of damage to the low-end 
PC market..."   Yeah!  I want to be the tech support guy for the 
low-end market.  Yeah!  Nothing beats working for cigarettes and 
beer.
I shouldn't joke too loud.  The working poor have always been the 
people I feel the most comfortable hanging out with.  I think it's 
why I spew so much here on Altme.  Day to day it's the only place 
I can talk nerd and not risk a wedgie.  :)
Graham
3-Nov-2007
[2687]
I can imagine users dialing up MS for support on their new ubuntu 
desktops :)
Kaj
3-Nov-2007
[2688]
Weren't they in Wal-Mart years ago, with Lindows on them?
Graham
5-Nov-2007
[2689]
Googles open handset alliance ( linux as the OS for phones ) http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=6887&tag=nl.e589
btiffin
5-Nov-2007
[2690]
Kaj;  Some of the articles mention that Everex tried with a sub $400 
Vista machine.  (Same hardware, but with Windows license fees bumping 
the price).  Too many returns...which is where I think the "low-end 
PC market" quote originated.
DaveC
8-Nov-2007
[2691]
http://www.buglabs.net/productsMay not be all that new, but looks 
like a great platform for embedded R3!
Gabriele
8-Nov-2007
[2692]
no external dependencies

 - are they starting to get it? http://www.mechanicalcat.net/richard/log/Python/Say_hello_to_pyglet
BrianW
8-Nov-2007
[2693]
nearly. Now they just need to make Python a 600K download and we're 
set.
Pekr
8-Nov-2007
[2694x2]
hmm, I downloaded Python 2.5.1, and Installed Pyglet too. Well, I 
was surprised, how small their code can be. Python is imo even much 
more readable than REBOL. REBOL is simply - different.
Pyglet has sound, opengl link, there is nice asteroid game in 27kb 
of source!
Henrik
8-Nov-2007
[2696]
don't you still need to install the entire 10 MB of python?
BrianW
8-Nov-2007
[2697]
Python's a nice language, but its kitchen sink approach to libraries 
is both a blessing and a burden :-)
Pekr
8-Nov-2007
[2698x3]
Python, installed has 36MB here :-) Well, but there is tcl, docs, 
etc ...
Henrik - you have to, but your final app is around 2MB. Well, we 
still can rock in the form of browser plug-in. I think that we should 
push that advantage. Noone else except REBOL can compete to Flash 
there ...
I hope R3 in combination with VID3 will show ppl, that FLASH is wrong 
aproach to app development and that they should adopt REBOL instead 
:-)
Oldes
8-Nov-2007
[2701]
What we should take a look at  is the AVbin http://code.google.com/p/avbin/
Pekr
12-Nov-2007
[2702]
Google releases Android - platform for phones and mobile devices, 
fully open-sourced. Linux kernel plus full java under that plus API. 
You can code your devices and use its functions - http://code.google.com/android/
Graham
12-Nov-2007
[2703]
Pekr, I posted this news a week ago :)
Pekr
12-Nov-2007
[2704]
Hmm, maybe it was me? :-) I got to that site, well, not actually 
that, via Bill Buck's blog, but it does not matter :-)
Henrik
13-Nov-2007
[2705]
yuck, what a mess of XML files
Graham
15-Nov-2007
[2706]
Interesting that they think a virtual colossus on Pentium II laptop 
( are there such things still? ) would run at the same speed as the 
original at Bletchley Park http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7094881.stm
Sunanda
17-Nov-2007
[2707]
I remember when Pentiums were the new Black, it was said the Colossus 
emulator (in C under windows, I guess) was far slower than the real 
thing (specialist hardware designed for the task on a war economy 
budget).

Looks like better languages, more modern hardware and (crucially) 
more recent algorithms means the Colossus can be finally retired:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/11/16/german_code_breaker_defeats_colossus/
Terry
17-Nov-2007
[2708]
Reichart won't like this one... 
http://www.papervision3d.org/
btiffin
17-Nov-2007
[2709]
Have you seen the Canadian fembot?  http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=78krbfy9hh0
  I haven't looked to see if there is a vid where the inventor doesn't 
demonstrate her abilities to detect someone touching her breasts...but 
oh well.  Pretty cool nonetheless; even with the poor grammar.
Pekr
21-Nov-2007
[2710]
FireFox 3.0 Beta - http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/3.0b1/releasenotes/
- many new enhancements, Gecko 1.9 based, rewritten engine, more 
standard compiant ....
Henrik
29-Nov-2007
[2711]
NASA plans to land on Mars in 2031. Something tells me that they 
may not be the first to land there.
Pekr
29-Nov-2007
[2712]
and who is going to?
Henrik
29-Nov-2007
[2713]
China?
Kaj
29-Nov-2007
[2714]
Richard Branson?
Pekr
5-Dec-2007
[2715]
Preview of HTML 5 - http://www.alistapart.com/articles/previewofhtml5
Oldes
5-Dec-2007
[2716]
isn't it funny? Before thay said, that we have to use <div align=center> 
instead of tag <center> and now we will be allowed to use tags like 
<article> <footer> ... :-)
Alek_K
5-Dec-2007
[2717]
<center>, <b>, <i> is for perception - and <article>, <footer> is 
for meaning. It makes sense for me.
Chris
5-Dec-2007
[2718x2]
It seems a short-sighted attempt at paving the cowpaths.  I appreciate 
the want to hardwire some of this stuff, but who decides and where 
does it stop?  I'd far rather xhtml was cleaned up, that there is 
one markup language that allows for a lot with a basic set of building 
blocks.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/radiolabs/2007/11/urls.shtml- this article 
was going well 'til they actually revealed their urls.  Try reading 
the music centre urls over the phone...
Oldes
5-Dec-2007
[2720]
I thougth the trend is to make the urls human friendly
Chris
5-Dec-2007
[2721]
That should read 'that there is *at least* one markup language...', 
not that there is only one markup language.  One of the commenters 
suggested instead of inventing new tags for roles, why not have a 
'role' attribute that serves the same function?  That way you can 
expand the list of roles without brewing tag soup...