Got an i-opener finally. Out of 5 ordered, only 1 1/2 months later, I get one. Manager swore up and down that I couldn't get any, they weren't carrying them at all anymore, and yet when I asked for a copy of my receipt to be printed, the store clerks said "well, we have one in stock, would you like that one?" Duh.
Luckily, all of the bugs are worked out of hacking it, it's a simple qnx flashbios, install linux flashOS, and bingo: xterm for $99 + usb ethernet ($39 - bought for espresso also). Not bad for under $150. Now I just have to actually do that... I just unpacked it.
I'll post a complete review of the Espresso in the next few days. Still working on it. I want to build a battery pack for it.
Satan: I have prior art on the following: death, spam, commercial airlines, puns, red kryptonite, and slaying of the first born. Get in line. Maybe we can cross license.
Schoen:
I also came up with 21 right away, and according to the Sloane's
On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences, that is the
only
number that works well. There is one similar sequence that
differs by a second 1 at the start, and it diverges only
later at 110/111 - very interesting. Wonder how many of
those there are.
grepmail: David posted a new version, and credited me with some work. Nothing like the feeling of contributing to something. Powerful. I've missed it.
Lubbock: Decided (pretty much unilaterally, though nobody piped up otherwise) that Lubbock will use .deb as it's package format. .debs just have so much to offer compared to rpms. Current cvs burns into a disc, now we rip the whole thing apart and start making massive changes.
Voice over IP:
Went to see some demos at Cisco. Cisco is far and away the
choice here, due to embracing open standards. They don't
want to sell phones or servers, they want to sell routers
and gateways, and the product demos stress that. But they
too suffer from vaporware: everything 'next quarter or
later' for all of the useful features that we need.
Microsoft's got em snowed:
At the Cisco demo, I asked the engineer what other platforms
besides NT they would be running on, and his answer: "well,
2000"
as if Windows 2000 isn't NT5 really... but something
completely different. M$ marketing success story. (They
did say Linux or Unix, based on market demand eventually)
Ciphersaber:
working on something evil but fun: Word Macro based.
Encrypt/Decrypt from within a Word document (including
uucode if needed) Should be released in a few days...