What Are The Risks Of Pervasive Computing?

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Speckle project the tool behind
pervasive computing

Speckle project the tool behind
pervasive computing 12/11/2003 09:43 PM
The Hindu Business Line Dec 11 2003 8:25PM ET

Research and Markets: Nanotechnology to
Play a Major Role in Moving the Concept
of Pervasive Computing

Research and Markets: Nanotechnology to
Play a Major Role in Moving the Concept
of Pervasive Computing 03/25/2005 08:36 AM
Investors Business Daily Mar 25 2005 11:28AM GMT

Microsoft Search to be Pervasive

Microsoft Search to be Pervasive 12/24/2004 12:15 PM

Political Split Is Pervasive
(washingtonpost.com)

Political Split Is Pervasive
(washingtonpost.com) 04/25/2004 08:24 AM
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Pervasive Usability - Planning For an
Uncertain Future

Pervasive Usability - Planning For an
Uncertain Future 01/08/2003 11:14 PM
WebmasterBase Jan 8 2003 10:27PM ET

Techworld: Pervasive Posts Rival to
MySQL

Techworld: Pervasive Posts Rival to
MySQL 02/01/2005 09:06 PM
"Pervasive Software, best known for embedded databases aimed at medium-sized businesses, is making the leap into the enterprise with a customised version of the open-source PostgreSQL database..."

New Magic, Pervasive Tools Optimize
Integration

New Magic, Pervasive Tools Optimize
Integration 04/12/2004 12:54 AM
Business process newcomers Magic Software Enterprises and Pervasive Software are expanding enterprise packages with vertical-market optimizations and integration tools.

Study Finds Pervasive Chinese Internet
Controls

Study Finds Pervasive Chinese Internet
Controls 04/14/2005 09:46 PM
Reuters Apr 15 2005 1:31AM GMT

Microsoft Great Plains Dynamics on
Pervasive SQL.2000 data repair -
overview for Database Administra

Microsoft Great Plains Dynamics on
Pervasive SQL.2000 data repair -
overview for Database Administra 09/07/2004 07:33 PM
WebDevInfo Sep 8 2004 0:02AM GMT

BEA presents liquid computing vision,
products and services, for simplified
enterprise computing

BEA presents liquid computing vision,
products and services, for simplified
enterprise computing 09/16/2004 07:18 AM
AME Info Sep 16 2004 10:56AM GMT

WiFi, Cellular, and Wired Networks
Merging To Form Pervasive Networks in
Homes and Offices, Says INSIGHT Research

WiFi, Cellular, and Wired Networks
Merging To Form Pervasive Networks in
Homes and Offices, Says INSIGHT Research 12/22/2004 01:46 AM
Pervasive networks—a ubiquitous “fabric” of computing, information, entertainment, and telemetry capability tied together by high-speed wired and wireless networks—are emerging from a flurry of new communication technologies now being used in home and office networks. Though communications carriers do not offer this type of continuous communication as a service today, the piece parts are already in place. [PRWEB Dec 20, 2004]

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USB risks (continued)

USB risks (continued) 06/18/2004 09:00 PM
Gadi Evron (Jun 18 2004)

McCaw's Risks

McCaw's Risks 05/17/2004 01:17 PM
Business Week does a decent job of looking at Craig McCaw's recent purchases in the broadband wireless space: McCaw recently bought a company that owns spectrum that would be ideal for rolling out broadband wireless. He also bought NextNet, an equipment maker. The story takes a broad look at McCaw's history and places this move among McCaw's success and failures. This recent foray is risky just like McCaw's other ventures so it could become quite successful like Nextel or McCaw Cellular or it could fail or stall like XO or Teledesic. This story notes that the first WiMax equipment will appear next year. While that's accurate and exactly what most of the folks in the WiMax movement will tell you, I think the WiMax folks are remiss to not clarify that statement. The first equipment will operate in licensed bands internationally--it can't be used in the United States. Some experts say that the first gear to become available here won't surface for another couple of years. The story quotes our pal Steve Stroh, the editor of Focus on Broadband Wireless Internet Access. Steve wrote a detailed report of McCaw's moves when these recent purchases first came to light....

Little Learning, Big Risks

Little Learning, Big Risks 03/19/2005 03:23 AM
Given the way this smells, it is only a matter of time before Hersh or his clone will write up a story for the New Yorker that turns it into a PR nightmare.The insurgents featured on these shows are likely detainees captured by the US.  Also, the network airing the program is funded by the Pentagon (it is broadcast from the Green Zone).  We have our fingerprints all over this (at high levels).  Do the people in the Green Zone actually think things through?

Identifying ICT risks

Identifying ICT risks 06/26/2004 01:18 AM
Sunday Times South Africa Jun 26 2004 5:18AM GMT

Ballmer: Take risks

Ballmer: Take risks 07/15/2004 12:17 AM
Monkeyboy gives an interview.

Re: USB risks (continued)

Re: USB risks (continued) 06/19/2004 01:49 PM
RSnake (Jun 18 2004)

"Case-Sensitive HFS" And The Risks Of
Using It

"Case-Sensitive HFS" And The Risks Of
Using It 11/05/2003 08:37 AM
Implementing a case-sensitive file system in OS X has some significant hurdles, the most compelling being that many current Mac OS applications that work with files will need to be updated to provide case-sensitivity themselves. (MacFixIt via MyAppleMenu)

GPL 3 Forking Risks Discussed

GPL 3 Forking Risks Discussed 03/25/2005 06:26 AM

FAQ | The possible risks of disk
labeling

FAQ | The possible risks of disk
labeling 07/04/2004 04:03 AM
Philadelphia Inquirer Jul 4 2004 7:34AM GMT

An easier way to share risks

An easier way to share risks 08/10/2004 07:32 PM
Computer Times Aug 10 2004 11:37PM GMT

Parents 'underestimate' net risks

Parents 'underestimate' net risks 07/22/2004 08:07 AM
BBC Jul 22 2004 12:09PM GMT

Bluetooth Risks Security

Bluetooth Risks Security 12/17/2003 03:46 PM
Unstrung.com Dec 17 2003 12:35PM ET

Calculating Health Risks

Calculating Health Risks 02/10/2004 02:45 AM
This week's question: Which increases health risks more, smoking or obesity?

The Risks and Demands of Pregnancy After
20

The Risks and Demands of Pregnancy After
20 05/10/2004 05:46 PM
Biologically speaking, the ideal age at which to have a baby is between 18 and 20. Today, American women are postponing childbearing until their 30's.

Weighing the Risks of New Plumage

Weighing the Risks of New Plumage 06/14/2004 09:32 PM
Surgeons say transplant surgery for hair loss should be considered only after a doctor's evaluation and a months-long test of less drastic remedies.

Sunbed risks ' go unexplained'

Sunbed risks ' go unexplained' 06/04/2004 06:56 PM
Tanning clubs and shops are failing to give proper advice to people who use sunbeds, a study has found.

Taking Creative Risks

Taking Creative Risks 05/14/2004 10:27 PM
CBS News May 15 2004 2:41AM GMT

Balancing the risks in holy Najaf

Balancing the risks in holy Najaf 08/20/2004 10:06 AM
Iraqi PM indicates he is wary of potential fallout from desecrating Imam Ali shrine and 'martyring' rebel cleric.

3G technology may pose risks to kids

3G technology may pose risks to kids 11/14/2003 01:19 AM
Irish Times Nov 14 2003 0:39AM ET

Gadget bandwagon loaded with risks

Gadget bandwagon loaded with risks 11/06/2003 11:10 AM
ZDNet Nov 6 2003 9:24AM ET

An Accord for Now, But Risks Ahead
(washingtonpost.com)

An Accord for Now, But Risks Ahead
(washingtonpost.com) 08/27/2004 10:42 PM
washingtonpost.com - The Najaf deal may bring short-term peace to the ravaged holy city after three weeks of urban warfare, but the cease-fire terms could pose a long-term danger to U.S. troops and interests in Iraq, U.S. officials and Middle East experts said yesterday. The issues underlying the bloody showdown have not been resolved, they warned.

Parents 'under-estimate' net risks

Parents 'under-estimate' net risks 07/20/2004 06:10 PM
Parents still do not realise what their children do or see while they are on the net, a report suggests.

Privacy risks in a digitized world

Privacy risks in a digitized world 03/28/2005 08:39 AM
Canadian Press via Canada.com Mar 28 2005 12:29PM GMT

Audacious Mission, Awesome Risks

Audacious Mission, Awesome Risks 03/16/2003 06:03 AM
far more ambitious mission .. what might happen

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Parents underestimate internet risks

Parents underestimate internet risks 07/21/2004 05:58 AM
Guardian Unlimited Jul 21 2004 10:31AM GMT

Racing Its Rivals, I.B.M. Risks Tripping
Itself Up

Racing Its Rivals, I.B.M. Risks Tripping
Itself Up 04/15/2005 11:14 PM
I.B.M.'s disappointing earnings report points to the risk in the company's strategy for its corporate services business.
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omniORBpy 2.6 (Default branch)

omniORBpy 2.6 (Default branch) 04/16/2005 03:08 PM
omniORBpy is a high-performance CORBA 2.6 ORB for Python. It consists of an interface between Python and the omniORB C++ library. IDL is compiled into pure Python code, so new IDL interfaces can be used without involving the C++ compiler.

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Changes:
This release contains minor bugfixes and minor new features.

Ubiquitous? Omniscient? It must be
Google

Ubiquitous? Omniscient? It must be
Google 11/01/2003 08:41 PM
Electronic Telegraph Nov 1 2003 7:12PM ET

The ubiquitous Nick Popaditch.

The ubiquitous Nick Popaditch. 04/10/2004 09:01 AM
The ubiquitous Nick Popaditch. A year ago, Staff Sgt. Nick Popaditch was in Baghdad's Al-Firdaws Square, cele brating with a cigar shortly before his tank toppled the statue of Saddam Hussein.
A year later in Falluja, cameras were there again, capturing the scene shortly after his tank was hit by an RPG near Fallujah. Staff Sgt. Popaditch lost his right eye as a result of his injuries. Meanwhile, Al-Firdaws Square was being closed to the Iraqi public, after posters of Muqtada Al-Sadr were plastered on the statue which replaced that of Saddam Hussein.

Python and XML: XML Namespaces Support
in Python Tools, Part Three

Python and XML: XML Namespaces Support
in Python Tools, Part Three 06/30/2004 07:31 PM
In this month's Python and XML column Uche Ogbuji examines the namespace support in ElementTree, PyRXPU, and libxml.

Python and XML: XML Namespaces Support
in Python Tools, Part Two

Python and XML: XML Namespaces Support
in Python Tools, Part Two 05/13/2004 07:55 PM
In his latest Python and XML column, Uche Ogbuji continues his tour of XML namespaces support in Python tools, focusing this time on 4Suite.

Ubiquitous, Buzzword at
Information-Telecom Fair

Ubiquitous, Buzzword at
Information-Telecom Fair 09/07/2004 05:01 AM
Hankooki Sep 7 2004 8:43AM GMT

International Conference on Embedded and
Ubiquitous Computing

International Conference on Embedded and
Ubiquitous Computing 02/15/2004 05:38 AM
NetLib Feb 15 2004 9:12AM GMT

Customer demand for a ubiquitous
InfoPath runtime

Customer demand for a ubiquitous
InfoPath runtime 04/09/2004 03:56 PM
The last time I asked Microsoft why there's no plan to make the InfoPath runtime ubiquitous, the answer I got was: "We don't hear customers asking for it." Well, I do. Here's a typical rant from one customer who, because his company has a relationship with Microsoft that he doesn't want to jeopardize, asked me to anonymize his comments:

I believe a primary requirement of a forms application is to make it possible for the form to be completed by a wide audience of people from whom I wish to gather data. A key driver, at least in the world of my customers, is to be able to distribute the form widely to people who aren't necessarily connected to the network and get them to fill it in and return it. I don't want to authenticate these people in my network. They won't install software on their computers just to fill out my form. They don't want to learn a new application.

It seems InfoPath has completely ignored the question of how the form will actually be filled in by the responder. There is no free viewer as there is with Adobe Acrobat. There is no ability to save the form template as an ASP.NET web form. It appears that Microsoft expects everyone to purchase a full copy of InfoPath--the complete form design application--just so they can fill out a form. They can't possibly believe the product will gain any traction with this licensing and deployment model, can they? [1] What are they thinking? [2]

So my main question is, is there any way to deploy InfoPath forms without putting full InfoPath on every desktop? [3] Do you know whether Microsoft understands this issue and are planning anything to address it? [4] The two applications that are widely available on everyone's desktop are a web browser and Adobe Acrobat, and it seems like it would be a good idea for InfoPath to support forms deployment via one of those means. Am I missing something here? [5]

...

Ubiquitous Chemical Associated with
Abnormal Human Reproductive Development

Ubiquitous Chemical Associated with
Abnormal Human Reproductive Development 06/05/2005 11:02 PM

Last of Ubiquitous Dacia Sedans Rolls
Off Assembly Line in Romania

Last of Ubiquitous Dacia Sedans Rolls
Off Assembly Line in Romania 07/21/2004 04:28 PM

Companies team on ubiquitous, secure
mobile/wireless system

Companies team on ubiquitous, secure
mobile/wireless system 04/27/2004 11:54 AM
Users of notebooks and other mobile data devices could benefit from a new chip-card based system offering ubiquitous, secure connectivity between mobile and wireless LAN (WLAN) networks.

Expert forum for knowledge presentation:
Resources for communication & Forum for
discussion, planning, and collaboration

Expert forum for knowledge presentation:
Resources for communication & Forum for
discussion, planning, and collaboration 12/04/2003 07:14 AM

Forum Systems Previews Forum XWall(TM)
3.0 Data-Level Networking for The
XML-Internet at NetWorld + Interop

Forum Systems Previews Forum XWall(TM)
3.0 Data-Level Networking for The
XML-Internet at NetWorld + Interop 05/10/2004 02:46 PM
XMLMania.com May 10 2004 6:43PM GMT

Member Forum Spotlight: Photography
Forum

Member Forum Spotlight: Photography
Forum 02/05/2005 10:11 PM
dmullins's Member Forum is a "place for photographers young and old to explore their craft or hobby. To analyze technique, equipment, backgrounds, traditions, effects, explorations, war stories, failures, perceptions, and whatever the creative photographers of the world can come up with." Check it out!

Backporting from Python 2.3 to Python
2.2

Backporting from Python 2.3 to Python
2.2 06/08/2004 11:18 PM

We have a home-grown templating system at work, which I intend to dedicate an entry to some time in the future. We originally wrote it in Python 2.2, but upgraded to Python 2.3 a while ago and have since been evolving our code in that environment. Today I found a need to load the most recent version of our templating system on to a small, long neglected application that had been running the original version ever since it had enough features to be usable.

Unfortunately, this application was running on a server that only had Python 2.2. Installing Python 2.3 would have been somewhat more painful here than on other servers we run for reasons I won't go in to, so I decided to have a go at getting our current code to run under the older Python version.

In the end, I only had to make three minor changes, all at the top of the file in question.

1. I added from __future__ import generators as the very first line of the file. We use generators (with the yield statement) in a few places - this feature was only properly added in Python 2.3, but was made available in Python 2.2 as a "future enhancement" through the aforementioned obscure import.

2. I added True, False = 1, 0 on the next line down. Surprisingly, Python 2.2 had no support for a boolean type and instead used a test for non-zero instead. The above line defines constants that behave enough like Python 2.3's True and False to avoid any problems.

3. I defined an enumerate function, which was introduced for real in Python 2.3. Here's the code I used:

   
   def enumerate(obj):
       for i, item in zip(range(len(obj)), obj):
           yield i, item 
   

All in all it only took around ten minutes to put the above together, after which the script worked just fine. It was interesting to see how our code had grown to rely on Python 2.3 features without us realising it.

Python-SIP 4.1.1

Python-SIP 4.1.1 09/24/2004 03:30 PM
A tool to generate Python bindings from C++ code.

Python 2.3.3

Python 2.3.3 12/30/2003 05:13 PM
A high-level scripting language.

Python 2.3

Python 2.3 10/28/2003 11:06 PM
Python 2.3 was released yesterday... and not a moment too soon. I was just swearing under my breath about this sort of nonsense:

>>> cosmos = technorati.cosmos('http://diveintomark.org/')
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
  File "technorati.py", line 214, in cosmos
    xmldoc = minidom.parseString(rawdata)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/_xmlplus/dom/minidom.py", 
    line 1605, in parseString
    return expatbuilder.parseString(string)
, in parseString
    return builder.parseString(string)
  File
"/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/_xmlplus/dom/expatbuilder.py", 
    line 187, in parseString
    parser = self.getParser()
  File
"/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/_xmlplus/dom/expatbuilder.py", 
    line 119, in getParser
    self._parser = self.createParser()
  File
"/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/_xmlplus/dom/expatbuilder.py", 
    line 734, in createParser
    parser.namespace_prefixes = True
AttributeError: namespace_prefixes

OS X users, don't be discouraged by the mention of there being no MacPython version yet or daunted by the task of compiling it from source -- MacP ython 2.3 lives and is just a few glorious GUI installer clicks away.

Another look at PHP and Python

Another look at PHP and Python 02/10/2004 02:46 AM
Postscript: Some people have got the impression from this article that I am moving away from PHP. That is far from the truth. I will continue to use PHP extensively today, tomorrow and for the forseeable future.

I find Python harder than PHP.

It could be because we are programming multi-threaded networked servers in Python, and that could be inherently harder than coding dynamic web-sites. Another reason could be lack of familiarity with Python. For example, I couldn't find the equivalent of htmlspecialchars and other functions, so i had to roll my own.

Despite all these issues, we are continuing to develop this in Python because (AFAIK) PHP does not have stable networking frameworks.

So what do I like about Python?

- Neat Syntax

The use of indentation for compound statements discourages deep nesting, and thus more modular code.

- More Safety Checks

In PHP, when you search using a regular expression, an associative array is returned. In Python, a typed object, "match" is returned when a regular expression search is performed, and not a generic dictionary. You cannot perform arithmetic on strings, an explicit cast is required; neither can you concatenate numbers with strings, explicit typecasts are needed.

- Supports Multi-Threaded Apps

There exists a global lock in Python that prevents multi-threading from working effectively on multiple processors - nevertheless Python has reasonable thread support and allows me to develop reasonably responsive servers.

- Python's Compiler is Standard

Python has a standard compiler and byte-code format. There is no such standard in the PHP world, and most ISP's don't support Zend or Turck MMCache encoded PHP. Better still, a debugger is included in the package too.

- Python Fully Supports Unicode

Python 2.0 and later has full support for unicode. For example to convert big5 to unicode is the simple:

    unicode_str = unicode(tw_chinese_string, 'big5')

In contrast, see how complicated it is to perform double-byte to unicode conversions in PHP (see User Notes).

The only issue i had with the unicode support is that it doesn't come with a complete set of double-byte decoders (eg. big5, gb). After a 20 minute google search, i found this set of python cjk decoders.

And what I dislike about Python

- Python Is Not Rapid Enough?

I think that PHP is a better tool for rapid application development, especially for web-sites. Minor type issues are handled for you transparently in PHP. In Python, once a variable is set, stricter type-checking is performed on most operations.

So you can argue that Python is safer. But PHP coding is definitely more rapid.

Another thing i dislike is that Python's import/load facility does not check .py file modification dates. If i modify a .py file, Python's run-time environment will not recompile it until i restart Python, or perform a reload manually from the command-line interpreter.

- Database Access

Python does not have official database drivers, and you have to select and download these drivers yourself. It's easy to get it wrong. For example, only after coding the adodb_odbc module using PythonWin odbc extension did i realize how awful PythonWin odbc was. I then found the mxODBC extension - unfortunately the mxODBC requires commercial licensing ($75 per CPU).

- Python is Not That Popular

Popularity is relative. There are lots of Python programmers - but there are perhaps 3 times more PHP programmers than Python ones. In Malaysia, the ratio of PHP to Python programmers is probably much worse (10:1?). And there are many training centers offering PHP courses. AFAIK, there are no centers in Malaysia offering Python training. A quick search in monster.com reveals the following (numbers might change over time):

PHP: 131 jobs
http://jobsearch.monster.com/jobsearch.asp?q=php&re=0&sort=rv&tm=&fn=6 60&vw=b&cy=US&brd=1%2C1862%2C1863

Python: 41 jobs
http://jobsearch.monster.com/jobsearch.asp?q=python&re=0&sort=rv&t m=&fn=660&vw=b&cy=US&brd=1%2C1862%2C1863

What Are The Risks Of Pervasive Computing?

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