Recent Posts
Hey! what about me?!I'd still do her......-Renegade (January 11, 2013, 10:04 PM)-Tinman57 (January 12, 2013, 06:55 PM)
Pretty much the bluntest thing I have ever read on DC...-Stephen66515 (January 13, 2013, 06:35 PM)
Nah, between Renegade and Fodder, I think they have me beat.....-Tinman57 (January 13, 2013, 07:51 PM)
The release was a mess... I think I just got lucky, ordered early and got in with the first wave of preorders. Did you get a choice of color?oh yeah. i was NOT going to get anything other than black no matter what. funny too...the whole att store thing is 100% bullshit. they had, no joke, about 15 people working in the store, with maybe 10 customers in there. yet they made everyone log in to the ipads, and then each customer had to wait minimum 15 minutes before getting served. so while waiting, i was wondering how come the wait was so long? well, of the 15 employees there, only 2 were able to help you buy something, the rest of them do nothing...i mean, except write your name on the ipad.-allen (January 11, 2013, 10:50 PM)
Mine, shockingly, came in the mail with the phone!what?! why wouldn't they mail mine to me?? i went to 4 stores, and called them. told me i had to go pick it up in the store. sheesh.-allen (January 11, 2013, 10:19 PM)
I will never buy another phone that doesn't have wireless charging.yea, seriously. question: did you also feel like you were getting a vip backroom treatment when getting your first one? i did. it was supposed to be free, but they didn't have it right when the phone was available. so you had to go back a few weeks later to the store and say you wanted one. then they ordered one, and it arrives a week or so later. then they call you to pick it up. then you go in and have to talk to the store manager, who brings it out from the back.-allen (January 11, 2013, 08:26 PM)
very involved process. they must have REALLY limited supplies of them or something. you have to really want one to get it in your hands.
Man, you guys sure know a lot about this stuff. Now I feel inadequate.
-superboyac (January 10, 2013, 08:47 AM)
Don't be. Nobody is an 'expert' on system security these days unless it's their full-time job. There's just too much going on and far too much to know to do it part-time any more. I'm sure I'd be much happier, and sleep better most nights, if I didn't know what relatively little I do know about this topic.-40hz (January 10, 2013, 12:59 PM)
+1 - I too occasionally yearn for blissful ignorance.-Stoic Joker (January 10, 2013, 03:49 PM)
I was just having this philosophical discussion with my friends this weekend. Up until recently, I was always opposed to "ignorance is bliss". But with the rampant paranoia around these parts currently, I'm starting to change my tune. Plus, I find it to be paralyzing on some level, and that is so not me..I'll take that as a no.are you saying it's not a good idea to enable upnp on residential routers?-superboyac (January 09, 2013, 05:48 PM)
Dear god man, please add a smiley, sarcasm tag, or something to that.. (you're scaring the hell outta me)
-Stoic Joker (January 09, 2013, 05:54 PM)
are you saying it's not a good idea to enable upnp on residential routers?I went ballistic over ePrint the first time I saw it. I'm constantly warning clients about this sort of thing and the risk it presents.-40hz (January 09, 2013, 01:47 PM)
I grilled the HP rep (at one of their tech shows) for an hour about that when it first came out. It works via passive polling, so the printer just checks its own Email address via the HP cloud server (which is where your print jobs are actually sent (eek!)). so over all it (ePrint) isn't really that bad.-Stoic Joker (January 09, 2013, 02:09 PM)
Yeah, it was "explained" that way to me too, and I wasn't all that concerned at that point. Just annoyed. What I really took issue with was what it represented since I figured it was just the tip of the iceberg if it went over well on the consumer level. The concerns with Ricoh over their big networked scanners were a lot more serious since about half my clients use those. I still have to argue with clients about why they really needed to put up with the "hassle" of using passwords on those. Especially when the big boss's assistant keeps bitching about having to enter a 4-dgit PIN ("It's soooo hard to remember those things!") to scan or make a copy - which is much the same thing on these devices. Even worse is fighting with them about why they really do want to require a PIN in order to directly e-mail something from one of these puppies.
It most likely requires/leverages UPnP which is another insanely dangerous idea that I immediately disable on sight.-Stoic Joker (January 09, 2013, 02:09 PM)
+1. Don't even get me going on that bit of software engineering brilliance.-40hz (January 09, 2013, 02:29 PM)
ok good. hopefully the kid is not just strumming chords on that thang.you just raised the bar for godfathers!-superboyac (January 05, 2013, 01:10 PM)
More like the bar for godmothers.-40hz (January 05, 2013, 01:19 PM)
God plays a 6-string!-Renegade (January 04, 2013, 12:21 AM)
My personal "deity" alternates between her 50th Anniversary Strat, her G&L Classic Bluesboy and her newest crush - an Epi Ultra-339. She owns a vintage Les Paul Custom too. But that's out on "indefinite loan" to our pro-musician godson.-40hz (January 04, 2013, 11:02 AM)
whoa! you just raised the bar for godfathers! shoot...i hope my nieces don't get into music now! j/k...what am i saying?!!If I ever am able to pull this off...it will be a dream come true for me.Cartoons? I LOVE cartoons!!-Edvard (January 03, 2013, 05:50 PM)
Me too.-40hz (January 03, 2013, 06:03 PM)
Telecommunications and the radio spectrum are highly regulated in most parts of the world - both under local law and international treaty.ah...screw it all. i honestly don't even care anymore.
So while you can easily build any hardware device you like, there's no guarantee it will ever be allowed to access the telcom grid or legally use the airwaves. Because in such a highly regulated environment, all unrestricted devices (and most real innovations) are viewed as potential threats to the stability and security of the network. So a completely open and unlocked smartphone is the last thing that government regulators and telco network security departments want to see come onto the market. Or even be allowed.
And like the TV ad (Verizon?) says: a phone is only as good as the network it's on. Or more correctly: is allowed on.
And with all the patent trolling, vendor lock-in, and infighting going on in the smartphone market, I don't see any of the real players (AT&T, Verizon, Metro Mobile, Sprint, et al.) looking to add to their line of sanctioned smartphones.
To be frank, Canonical is completely out of its league here. And probably more than a little guilty of falling for the "better mousetrap" fallacy.
Exciting? Yes! But as my niece says : This is so not gonna happen.
-40hz (January 03, 2013, 03:27 PM)
I really don't see the need, business case, user interest (apart from a few hardcore geeks), or anything else, really.Anything to make it more hacker friendly. anything to divorce the marriage between phone models and carrier. more choices, more software/apps, more options. ability for smaller companies to build their own cellphones, and not just the huge brands like apple, ms, samsung, htc. how about a ubuntu phone made by kingston, that i take to at&t and activate. stuff like that.
Android is already running a linux kernel, and android apps can include native code. I don't really see why you'd want something that's probably closer to a normal distro on neither phones (perhaps on tablets, but even there I'm not convinced). If it runs traditional linux applications with no sandboxing, it's going to be a security nightmare, and if it adds sandboxing it'll be duplicating android functionality.
So, what's the deal? Sell it to me.-f0dder (January 02, 2013, 05:55 PM)
yeth!!Ubuntu Linux smarthphone coming this year?
Smarthphone?-Stephen66515 (January 02, 2013, 05:59 PM)
go get it!Update: PowerDesk Pro 9 is out!
OK, disclaimer: I know[/] that this is a thread about Expert PDF 8 Pro...-Darwin (December 26, 2012, 05:22 PM)
And ???-Carol Haynes (December 26, 2012, 06:07 PM)
Yes! I moved from powerdesk to dopus in 2002 and never looked back!man...powerdesk still doing it, eh? my first alternative file manager over 10 years ago.-superboyac (December 23, 2012, 12:11 AM)
tom told me about Directory Opus which i just purchased after my 60 day trial, i purchased the light version but i may upgrade to pro! i love it-relipse (December 23, 2012, 12:26 AM)
