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and a pretty poor one at that given El Jobso already indicated the PA Semi bunch are working on mobile applications.
When a European Intel exec was recently said to have claimed future iPhones will use the chip giant's Atom processor, the company quickly stated the fellow alleged no such thing. But now someone else has made that very claim. JoAnne Feeney, an analyst with US investment hours FTN Midwest Securities, recently told clients that …
These dopes have more doping than a 32nm Moorestown. They read macrumors, thereg and appleinsider. Then they're called analysts. I used to wonder what researchers at investment banks did. They google and rfead. Great, eh! Analyse my arse.
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"Of course, what's not clear is why Feeney thinks Apple would migrate its Arm-based iPhone over to the x86 platform." ..... It is as clear as FUD, Tony ....... they are trying to maintain a cash cow which is way past its sell-by date, having been outsmarted by SMARTer Advanced Risc Theories/Methodologies ...... Hot Intellectual Property.
Intel inside have been ......"cloned" and now have a next generation rival/quantum leap architecture, which it cannot recognise because of a)the ARM way of doing business .... and b) a new way of providing Real Time, Future Security in Present Environments.
Only if you don't mind having a laptop size battery.
ARM licensees can sandwich the RAM and FLASH inside the regular CPU BGA package as the heat is so low. No heatsink. 633MHz today.
In 2010 an ARM will be similar power consumption and 2GHz. Or 1Ghz and about 1/4 current consumption.
Today an Atom SYSTEM inc chipset is about x5 to x10 the power consumption of an ARM based SYSTEM, which can be one 17mm x 17mm x 3mm "Module". Atom needs 4 to 5 packages to do the same thing.
Also for SAME clock speed ARM can do some common things x4 faster and usually the SoC has separate HW for MPEG2, MPEG4 (code or decode) , BitBlit, video Rotate, LCD and TV drive etc... Typically an x86 uses the CPU for many of these. Some ARM 533MHz SOC can outperform desktop P4 CPUS @ 2.4GHz doing MPEG.
I can't see any reason for Apple putting an Atom processor in a next-generation iPhone. Compared to ARMs at similar compute power, Atoms are costly and power-hungry.
Some people claim that it would allow Apple to focus on a single processor architecture over all platforms (desktop, laptop, phone, MP3), but I don't buy that. Apple has (from previous bad experiences) made sure the are not tied to a single processor. Being largely processor-independent allows Apple to choose the processors best suited for each individual platform and to change this at short notice, should something better show up. And I don't for a second believe Atom is something better than ARM showing up. On the contrary, I would expect Apple to use ARM in more systems, from iPods up to Eee-style laptots.
Given the popularity of laptots, it seems inevitable that Apple will try to redife them as they did with MP3 players, smartphones and laptops (the now almost universal laptop design originated in a MacBook). And I can imagine it would sell very well due to the coolness factor and brand recognition.
I hope she signs up to help with the engineering...
She is pulling this out of her bottom as she clearly does not understand anything about hardware or software design.
For every move that Atom can do to save power (voltage reduction, process improvement...) ARM can do the same and just move the game. Atom will never catch ARM. While Atom is whooping about 4W, ARM is running at welll under 1W.
If anything, I expect to see the move go the other way: ARM displacing x86 from laptots. The only real reason to use x86 in laptots is to run Windows. Linux, OSX etc run perfectly well on a wide variety of architectures, including ARM, and if vendors don't want to run Windows they can cut x86 loose, getting cheaper, smaller, lighter systems.


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It has been said that golf is a rich man's sport, but times have changed. A Google search of the term "cheap golf" returns hundreds of thousands of results, some of which lead to courses with green fees as low as $17 a player.
Clearly, the game is no longer the exclusive province of the wealthy. But that doesn't mean that sellers of golf-related luxury items have gone all wobbly, nor does it mean that their customers have, either. Golfers with extravagant tastes are still vital to the game's culture, and upmarket brands such as MGM Resorts and Ferrari have the goods to sell them, at top dollar.
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(AP) -- Joe Johnson scored 26 points, including five 3-pointers, C.J Watson added 25 points and five 3s, and the Brooklyn Nets came away with a 119-108 victory over the Denver Nuggets on Wednesday night.
All-Star center Brook Lopez had 23 points and eight rebounds and Kris Humphries chipped in 14 points for Brooklyn.
The 119 points were a season high for the Nets. They also tied a season-high with 16 3-pointers.
Brooklyn is now 2-1 in games played without star point guard Deron Williams, who has sat out the last two games due to sore ankles.
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The teams traded baskets in the first half. Denver shot 23 for 41 (56.1 percent) from the field and hit 4 of 5 behind the 3-point line while the Nets made 20 of 40 from the field (50 percent) while hitting 9-of-14 3-point attempts.
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To my mind, software goes from a development build, to a milestone build and finally to a release build.
Each of those stages needs more rigorous QA than the previous level. I can imagine a team that would produce a development build every day. I can't imagine a milestone build every day, and a full release, every day, is ridiculous.
For me, agile development means that you can get a framework of the application up in a few days or weeks, and that bugs can be fixed and new features can be added fairly easily. It doesn't mean daily releases.
The only exception to this that I can imagine is if you have some kind of rolling development going on, where teams leapfrog each other, and the releases are from alternating teams. I'm not sure that's practical in the field of software development.
This sounds like some CIO's 'idea' of what agile is -- someone who hasn't done actual development in 5-10 years, or maybe has never done software development, but 'knows' what the right approach is.
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LITCHFIELD >> In a letter dated Oct. 5, PLAN Litchfield, a citizens group opposing a bigger new Stop & Shop grocery store proposed for real estate developer Mark Greenberg's Village Green Plaza, withdrew their proposal to limit the size to 12,000 square-feet of new retail buildings in town to Planning & Zoning Commission.
The Planning & Zoning Commission told the group at their meeting last week they had to pay nearly $10,000 in fees by last Friday for consideration of the proposed amendment to move forward.
If payment wasn't received, the land-use board said, the application would be considered incomplete and a public hearing scheduled for Nov. 5 would not occur.
"The commission's requirement of a deposit of $9,080 to fund consultants' review of the application, while intended to treat all applicants equally effectively favors large corporations while imposing an undue hardship on a local citizens' groups," said Michele Crow, on behalf of PLAN Litchfield.
Crow told the Planning & Zoning Commission in the letter that their attorney had advised them that consultant services of the nature and extent contemplated by the Planning & Zoning Commission are not needed, are excessive and are not appropriate for an application filed by citizens.
"A $9,080 fee is inconsistent with the legislative nature of an amendment and it confuses a request for an amendment with an application for a private license such as the town might receive from a developer," said Crow.
Crow said that the group is not asking the town to grant a privilege such as developing a shopping center or condominium project,or asking the town to review the pages of technical and complex site plans, engineering plans, watercourse plans or parking lot plans.
Instead she said, they asked the Planning & Zoning Commission to exercise its legislative power to make a change consistent with the town's Plan of Conservation and Development.
This summer, Greenberg, in conjunction with Stop & Shop, proposed building one of the chain's supermarkets in the Village Green plaza, to replace the existing supermarket in an adjacent plaza on West Street (Route 202).
Crow said last month that the current zoning regulations would allow a new building of up to 52,000 square feet.
She said her group chose as a limit square footage that is consistent with the existing buildings in town.
Discussion of the type and scale of new development that is appropriate in historic Litchfield are not without precedent, having taken place in the past when Talbots sought to open a now defunct store on West Street in the town center, when a CVS pharmacy came to town, when the state was attempting to find a Litchfield site for a new Litchfield County Courthouse and when the Litchfield Borough's Historic District Commission weighed a plan from Chabad Lubavitch of Northwest Connecticut to expand a West Street building for use as a Jewish community center and synagogue.
The Chabad plan was denied because of concerns about the scale of the expansion.
Among the compliance problems identified with the initial Stop & Shop proposal were that it had too small of a rear yard, an improper drainage plan and insufficient parking.
"Our request was simply to change the number of square feet in a regulation that is already in place, we fail to see the need for review of the original regulation," said Crow.
Last week, The Litchfield County Times sent a story recounting what was said at the Planning & Zoning Commission meeting, Kenneth Slater, a prominent land-use attorney with Halloran and Sage, confirmed that Connecticut law does authorize a Planning and Zoning Commission to require applicants to pay filing fees to be used by the commission to retain experts to assist in the processing of applications.
However, he said in an e-mail, "Those fees are typically used to retain experts such as civil engineers, traffic engineers or environmental consultants to review proposed development projects," and went on to add, "It is unusual that extensive expert review would be required to process a proposed regulation text amendment."
Despite the "unusual" declaration, Slater noted that "there is nothing in the statutes that would bar a regulation from requiring such a fee for a regulation change as long as it is reasonable for the processing of the particular application."
Members of the citizens group, whose acronym stands for Protect Litchfield Action Network, proposed the amendment in September, and have even raised the idea of a moratorium on new retail buildings so that the larger issues can be considered before Greenberg resubmits the Stop & Shop plan.
Crow told commission members in the letter that in speaking with friends in Litchfield about the big box proposal that recently came before the commission, the opposition was overwhelming - across the political and economic spectrum.
"Virtually no one aside from those seeking to develop such properties believes that a 39,000 square-foot store or a 52,000 square-foot store in the middle of Litchfield is a good idea," said Crow. "Almost 1,000 people have signed our paper and online petitions and signatures and checks from the public continue to arrive daily."
According to PLAN Litchfield member Joan Spear, the petition wasn't against Stop & Shop per se, it was against the building of large "traffic magnets"
"People don't want this kind of building our town, this kind of commercial space, we started to ask what do you want," Spear said.
Litchfield residents have easy access to 14 nearby Super Stop & Shops in other towns, according to the petition.
"People having signed this, signed something that was very broad, it's not that we don't want Stop & Shop, we don't want big stores," said Spear.
The petition was signed by Litchfield and area residents, according to Spear.
Crow said their group is concerned that this type of development would be an irreversible blow to Litchfield -- even one big box store would be devastating to the town: corrosive to the town's historic character, destructive of its status as a prime tourist destination and fatal to many of the small local businesses, she said.


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The Rev. Sean Connor's eyes burned with tears as he stared at the small sign temporarily marking the grave of his close friend, Brian Smith, a 45-year-old priest who died of colon cancer weeks after diagnosis. It had a picture of the young cleric and an inscription echoing his favorite catchphrase: "Isn't God so good?"
Connor buried him in June, in the pouring rain. Two days later, he said the memorial Mass for Martin Richard, a parishioner and the youngest victim of the Marathon bombings, on what would have been the boy's ninth birthday. The 47-year-old priest had spent much of the spring shuttling between hospitals, caring for Martin's devastated family and for his own dying friend.
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"How come he gets to go home early?" he quipped about his departed colleague to another priest friend who had accompanied him to the cemetery, as they wept.
Connor had been a police officer like his father and his older brother, Jamie, a state trooper. He was 29 when, kneeling on the floor of an empty chapel during a Catholic retreat, he heard God call him to the priesthood. In time, he sheepishly confessed his new vocation to his co-workers and broke the news to his girlfriend.
A few years ago, he officiated at a wedding on the Cape. The groom's uncle, a policeman, had known Connor's father. At the reception, over drinks and a smoke, he pulled Connor aside.
"You know," he told the priest, "you weren't that good of a cop."
"You tried really hard . . . But it's not what you were meant to be."
Yet Connor's time in uniform shaped his ministry. The clergy sexual abuse crisis shook the church shortly after his ordination; he spent six years running abuse investigations for the archdiocese and ensuring the church was in compliance with new regulations. In 2008, he became pastor of St. Ann Parish in Neponset, a section of Dorchester that is home to many of Boston's first responders.
And for nearly a decade he has served as a Boston Police Department chaplain, tending to officers and their families beset by suicide, illness, and accidents. "A lot of times you get the tough-guy, 'No, I'm all right, I'm all right,' but we can lean in and whisper, 'He's one of us,' " said Officer Jack McCarthy, who works with Connor in the Family Assistance Unit.
Still, nothing quite prepared him for Marathon Day, or the days that followed.
Consoling the Richards
Connor and his brother had spent the morning cleaning out their childhood home in Marshfield; their mother had just moved to a nursing home in Weymouth. He was sweating, unshaven, wearing jeans and a T-shirt when his pager went off, summoning him to police headquarters. He made it to downtown Boston in 20 minutes.
Connor and McCarthy met up at Massachusetts General Hospital, where they helped an officer with minor injuries get home. They drove by Copley Square, an experience Connor won't recount. He called his brother later and told him, "It was like I was a wartime chaplain."
At first, there was no cell service, then his phone would not stop ringing: Bill and Denise Richard and their three children, active members of St. Ann and pillars of the community in Dorchester, had suffered unimaginably. Little Martin was dead, and his mother and sister were badly injured.
Connor visited Denise Richard's extended family at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, then made his way to Boston Children's Hospital, where Jane was in surgery, to find Bill.
The triage center was packed, but sounds seemed strangely muffled. Time seemed to slow.
"You have all of these frantic parents clinging to their children, some of them not knowing what was wrong yet, people that were bloodied, bandaged, startled," Connor recalled. "Besides what afflicted them — they saw . . . the innocence is taken away."
Fiercely protective of the Richard family's privacy, Connor will say little about his work with them. But Bill Richard, in an e-mail, said that in the blur of that day, he remembers being surprised but relieved to see Connor walking toward him.
"There were no words, just a hug," he said. "I think he was at a loss for words, which isn't him. For the first few days, nobody knew what to say — everything was so horrific.
"But like others who have been there for us, he was simply present — and just being there meant everything to us."
McCarthy, who was there, vividly recalls that moment.
"You could see the comfort come to Bill Richard," he said. "He needed to see Sean. There were homicide detectives who were there, so deeply moved by what the family was facing, they were moved to tears, just standing there. And Sean reached out and said a little prayer with them."
Connor called one of the police supervisors at the blast site to assure the Richard family that a Boston police captain would stand beside their son's body until it could be removed by the medical examiner's office early the next morning.
Late that night, Connor drove Larry Marchese, one of Bill Richard's best friends, back to where he had left his car. Marchese, who would become the Richard family spokesman, said Connor offered two invaluable pieces of advice: Keep saying Martin's name. And do not, in the rush to help, make decisions for the family.
Connor became one of the small circle of close friends and relatives who devoted themselves to helping the Richards in the weeks that followed. He helped make arrangements for Martin's funeral, ensuring the small group of mourners had total privacy. Connor knew which florist, which bus company, which funeral home could be depended upon to be discreet, Marchese said.
He became the group's conscience and ethical guide. When someone put up a website advertising T-shirts for sale bearing Martin's photograph, for example, he helped the frustrated and sleep-deprived Marchese see that the intention was a good one. Marchese reached out to the overeager fund-raiser and politely asked that Martin's face and words not be used.
And Connor stayed by the family's side, day in and day out. "I have never asked him why this has all happened to us," Richard said in the e-mail, "maybe because in my heart, I know he doesn't know the answer. But we have relied on him more to comfort us, our family, and friends. To be there to talk, or maybe just listen."
Divided between hospitals
At night, Connor would go back to the rectory in Dorchester, heat up dinner in the microwave, and run upstairs to the third floor, where another tragedy was unfolding. The Rev. Brian Smith, the parochial vicar of St. Mary's Church in Foxborough, had been diagnosed in March with colon cancer. Doctors thought it would be easily treated. After his surgery, which came shortly before the bombings, Connor invited him to stay at St. Ann to recuperate.
Smith was Connor's first friend at seminary. A brilliant listener, he loved music and poetry and had a boyish innocence. He played straight man to Connor's wise guy. When they were assigned to minister to inmates at the women's prison in Framingham, Smith quaked in his boat shoes as Connor spirited contraband flowers for the chapel through security in his jacket — and presented them, with a grand flourish, to the sternest guard.
Smith would often be awake when Connor came home from the hospital. Connor would bring him warm ginger ale, clear his plates, and, sometimes, pour out the grief in his heart.
Instead of recovering, Smith lost weight, and his skin grew sallow. He went back to the hospital. The cancer was everywhere.
As April turned into May, Connor shuttled between hospitals, sometimes chatting, sometimes praying, sometimes just playing Angry Birds on his phone while Smith slept. And sometimes he kidded around.
"Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit smoking!" he would declare, quoting Lloyd Bridges's character in "Airplane," a movie he and Smith had loved to watch in seminary. "Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit drinking! Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit sniffing glue!"
The levity made things more bearable.
"Brian would just look at him and say, 'Oh, no, here he comes again!' " said Smith's mother, Virginia. "There was always a crowd in the room with Brian, and [Connor] . . . sort of worked the crowd. He was larger than life. He was such a good friend."
Connor fretted when he left one bedside for another, or when he left everyone, just because he needed a break. He worried he did not visit his mother enough.
He was there just before Smith died, joining his mother and brother and father in telling him it was OK to let go, that Jesus was waiting. He coordinated every detail of Smith's wakes and funeral, attended by more than 3,000 people. As Smith requested, he preached the homily at the Mass, which was said by Cardinal Sean P. O'Malley.
Embracing a new beginning
At Martin's birthday Mass the same weekend, the homily was a conversation between Connor and the children; he sat down on the floor and spoke with them gathered around. Jane hopped over to Connor and sat beside him. On the way out, the little girl wheeled herself over to the priest, who pushed her out of the sanctuary as the congregation gave her a standing ovation.
Three days later, Connor went into surgery for the neck pain that had tormented him since his car was rear-ended last November. All spring, he suffered pain and numbness, and one hand was so weak he could not open a soda can without help. He emerged from surgery woozy and immobilized, but his brother and other close family and friends were there to care for him.
When he could finally focus, he said with a laugh, he found he could not bear to watch his favorite police shows. He tuned into HGTV.
More challenges lay ahead. His six-year term at St. Ann was slated to be up next year, and the archdiocese was beginning a massive reorganization. An opening had emerged at Sacred Heart in Weymouth, the parish where he had been a deacon, in the town where his mother now lived and not far from his brother's family. The archdiocese's personnel committee wanted him to go. He agreed it made sense.
That did not make it easier to leave a parish he loved, and had walked with through an inconceivable tragedy — or, for his parishioners, deeply scarred by the Marathon bombings, to say goodbye to him.
Bill Richard said the family has shared meals and sailing trips with Connor since returning home, and now "hope to spend time with him as much as a friend as a pastor."
On a cool, sunny day last week, Connor stood outside Sacred Heart's elementary school, welcoming children and parents on the first day of classes. A quartet of fourth-grade girls clammed up when he tried to coax them into conversation.
"It's like, 'I don't know you,' " he said later in his office, with a rueful smile. "You're the stranger. And this work is all about relationship."
But a parish priest, he said, does not stay put. He serves the whole church, a few people at a time, following the example of Jesus, who went from village to village, preaching. Getting to know people takes time. And some of his new parishioners are not strangers — like Smith's parents, and Marchese.
Sometimes, God had seemed absent in this devastating year, he would acknowledge that. But after a visit to Smith's grave, just down the road from Sacred Heart, he said he felt no irony when considering his friend's rhetorical question, posted on the grave marker.
On the wall of his new office is a photo of a candlelight vigil in Dorchester for Martin Richard, held the day after the bombings. It is early evening, but there is enough light "to scatter the darkness," the priest said.
"The answer is, yeah," he said. "God is so good."
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Correction: Because of a reporting error, an earlier version of this story about the Rev. Sean Connor misstated the position of the late Rev. Brian Smith of St. Mary's Church in Foxborough. Smith was the parochial vicar of St. Mary's.


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Still has a bit of a veiled dig in his apology, doesn't he?
"it was not only insulting and demeaning to a decent man and sporting professional in Bilal Shafayat, and anyone else who faces ridicule on the basis of their appearance"
Suggesting that he thinks Shafayat's appearance is the type likely to provoke ridicule.
&, ftr, the "fat pom" is actually a crim himself.
Cricket Web's current Premier League Tipping Champion
- As featured in The Independent.
"Ben Stokes, that most unlikely saint, worked the second of the two miracles he needs for his canonisation." - The Guardian's Andy Bell on the England all-rounder's Headingley ton
fuking ignorant low life racist people..pethatic stuff here..just when u think cricket is a clean game for everyone from all religions and background.. things like this come up..
pathetic. This guy should get fired over this. But I'm sure he wont.
Good for the player to donate the damages to a charity.
-My beliefs summarized in words much more eloquent than I could come up with
How the Universe came from nothing
What a complete pillock. His attempt at an "explanation" was nonsense too.
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Nosa Igiebor
In January, the federal government announced that Igiebor was being held under Decree 2 of 1984 for acts prejudicial to state security. In February, police arrested Igiebor's lead attorney without charge shortly after he filed a US$1,400,000 lawsuit against the government challenging the confiscation of an additional 100,000 copies of Tell.
At this writing, Igiebor remains in solitary confinement and has been denied visits with family and legal counsel as well as access to medical care.
On March 18, CPJ announced the launch of its media and letter-writing campaign to aid Igiebor and his colleagues. In addition to sending out a sign-on letter of protest on Igiebor's behalf to hundreds of human rights and free press advocates around the world, CPJ representatives continue to send out up-to-date media information kits and meet with U.S. State Department officials and policy-makers to draw attention to the dire situation for the Nigerian independent press. The Committee is also working to put Lagos-based journalists in direct contact with colleagues from international media outlets and other press freedom organizations.
|Fred M'membe
M'membe, a 1995 recipient of CPJ's International Press Freedom Award, is fighting a barrage of sedition and criminal libel suits in Zambia's Supreme Court, where colonial-era laws are being used to enforce the government's case. Using criminal law as a form of censorship to protect Chiluba from unfavorable coverage, the government has hauled employees of the Post into court so often that M'membe and his colleagues have lost count of the numerous charges filed against them.
The confrontation between the Post and the government climaxed when Chiluba banned the Feb. 5 issue of the newspaper as well as that day's on-line edition, making it the first ban of an Internet publication in Africa.
Later in the month, M'membe and two colleagues were forced into hiding after being charged with contempt of parliament for publishing articles critical of proclamations issued by members of parliament. The journalists had been sentenced by The National Assembly Standing Orders Committee, not a court of law, to indefinite detention until they publicly apologized. After subsequently surrendering to the authorities, M'membe was put in a maximum security prison where he was held until a judge ordered his conditional release in March.
With elections scheduled for October, journalists anticipate that the Chiluba government's efforts to silence them will continue, with manipulation of the judiciary being just one of the methods employed.
As with Nigeria, CPJ launched a Zambia campaign in March to bring world attention to the abuse directed against the country's independent press.
Write to the Nigerian and Zambian governments and to their U.S representatives to register your protest of the abusive treatment these journalists have received from authorities in retaliation for their work. For letters of appeal, please contact: CPJ's Africa desk


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Kindly grade this essay. Your opinion is most appreciated. I will be sitting for my GCE O level soon.
My shot grazed past the right hand post. The clock was ticking. We needed just a goal to win the prestigious UEFA Champions League trophy. My heart pounded with a ferocity I had never felt before. My breathing grew quick and hurried. Full-blown adrenaline was coursing through my veins. It was now or never.
I woke up with a start. My eyes were as wide as circles; the dream was still etched vividly in my mind. Even my breathing was flustered. My fingertips massaged the tense, serious expression on my countenance, calming me down. I have always had the single dream of becoming a world-renowned footballer, and I had told myself that I would risk all I had to do what I loved playing the beautiful game, football, professionally.
I had been training faithfully every Saturday at the park near my home, with a team in the Sunday Leagues second division and we were challenging for major honours this season. The regular cup tournament was due to begin very soon and there were likely rumours that a national scout would be present in every game of the tournament. I wanted to give myself a chance to succeed. I needed to impress.
Hours turned into days. Days turned into weeks. I found myself suiting up for the match. With a final pull of my socks, I sprinted onto the field, kissing the luscious green turf as I always did. It was my ritual. It turned out to be working that day as I was more than impressive, setting up my teammates for the first two goals, and added one to my tally as well. Needless to say, I went back a happy man that day.
The next day I was awoken by the sweet incessant ring of the phone. I had been selected to try out for the national under-18 squad and was due to train with them the following week! There was a strange aftertaste in my tongue after that. It felt like the taste of sweet success.
The trial match was fiercely contested by the selected players who had the same mindset I had. We had sought out to achieve that dream we all shared. Before we knew it, dangerous, over-enthusiastic tackles had flown in one after the other. The atmosphere was tense. It was driving us me insane, but I only knew the true meaning of the word when I received a brutal tackle. I tossed and turned like a man possessed on the muddy brown surface, the pain was insanely impossible to bear. My knee had been dealt the full brunt of the blow. Dread filled me. Dread had never filled me before.
The doctor told me I needed an operation on my knee and that I would most likely never be able to kick a ball the same way ever again. My anterior cruciate ligament had ruptured, and the surgery would cost a few hundred thousand dollars. I did not have that much money, and my parents in heaven certainly did not leave that amount behind for me here on earth. A lone tear made its way down my cheeks. The rain that ensured outside the hospital walls convinced me that my parents were crying for me as well.
Yet, I would not give in. The nights in the hospital gave me a new dream. A dream that I would go on to fulfill.
I glanced at my watch. There were only a few minutes left. We needed just a goal to win the prestigious UEFA Champions League trophy. My heart pounded with a ferocity I had never felt before. My breathing grew quick and hurried. I was the manager of Chelsea Football Club, one of the most glorious football clubs in the world. I had fulfilled my dream.
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To Import Sites to Your Managed VPS Using cPanel
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- 1 OWASP Atlanta
- 2 Participation
- 3 Sponsorship/Membership
- 4 Meetup Group
- 5 Atlanta Georgia OWASP Chapter Leaders
- 6 Becoming a Member or Sponsor
- 7 Thank You to Our 2012 Supporters
- 8 2011 OWASP Atlanta Member Survey
- 9 Future Meetings
- 10 Past Meetings (2011 & Before)
OWASP Atlanta
Welcome to the Atlanta chapter homepage. The chapter leader is Tony UcedaVelez
OWASP Foundation (Overview Slides) is a professional association of global members and is open to anyone interested in learning more about software security. Local chapters are run independently and guided by the Chapter_Leader_Handbook. As a 501(c)(3) non-profit professional association your support and sponsorship of any meeting venue and/or refreshments is tax-deductible. Financial contributions should only be made online using the authorized online chapter donation button. To be a SPEAKER at ANY OWASP Chapter in the world simply review the speaker agreement and then contact the local chapter leader with details of what OWASP PROJECT, independent research or related software security topic you would like to present on.
to this chapter or become a local chapter supporter. Or consider the value of Individual, Corporate, or Academic Supporter membership. Ready to become a member?
Meetup Group
From Jan 2012, we have moved to a Meetup group. Click on the following link to visit our meetup page.
Atlanta Georgia OWASP Chapter Leaders
- Tony UcedaVelez - Chapter Leader
- Steven Schwartz - Chapter Lead
- Shauvik Choudhary - Chapter Lead
- Jon Bango - Chapter Lead
- Russell Eubanks - Chapter Lead
Becoming a Member or Sponsor
On behalf of the entire organization, I would like to solicit your financial support of our chapter via a tax deductible membership for OWASP as a great non-profit organization which aims to elevate web application security. We hope that you find historical and future meetings to be of value and show support via a member based contribution.
To contribute to OWASP-Atlanta, sign up as an individual member, or support us as a corporate sponsor, please visit: http://www.owasp.org/index.php/Membership. If you are already a member, please don't forget to renew your membership!! The same link will serve both purposes.
Thank You to Our 2012 Supporters
We're looking for sponsors in 2012. Thanks to the following list of chapter level supporters for their financial contributions and/ or hosting our chapter meetings in 2012.
2011 OWASP Atlanta Member Survey
The Atlanta OWASP Member Survey has come and gone. Thanks to all those that responded. A subset of the results is shown below in the form of top ranking security topics that members wish to see in 2011.
Chapter Meetings
Future Meetings
January 2012 Meeting
WHAT:: 'Ninja Assessments: Stealth Security Testing for Organizations'
WHEN:: January 19, 2012. 6-8pm
WHERE:: 1100 Abernathy Road, Bldg 500, Ste 200, Atlanta, GA 30328
WHO:: Kevin Johnson is a security consultant with Secure Ideas. Kevin came to security from a development and system administration background. He has many years of experience performing security services for fortune 100 companies, and in his spare time he contributes to a large number of open source security projects. Kevin's involvement in open-source projects is spread across a number of projects and efforts. He is the founder of many different projects and has worked on others. He founded BASE, which is a Web front-end for Snort analysis. He also founded and continues to lead the SamuraiWTF live DVD. This is a live environment focused on Web penetration testing. He also founded Yokoso and Laudanum, which are focused on exploit delivery. Kevin is a senior instructor for SANS and the author of Security 542: Web Application Penetration Testing and Ethical Hacking. He also presents at industry events, including DEFCON and ShmooCon, and for various organizations, like Infragard, ISACA, ISSA, and the University of Florida.
ABSTRACT:: Organizations today need to be able to easily integrate security testing within their existing processes. In this talk, Kevin Johnson of Secure Ideas will explore various techniques and tools to help organizations assess the security of the web applications. These techniques are designed to be implemented easily and with little impact on the work load of the staff.
RSVP: All RSVP is done now via our meetup.com site. Visit and register at www.meetup.com/owasp-atlanta.
COST: Free to all. Bring a Friend. However, please look to join our chapter. Only $50. No pressure, but greatly appreciate. Non-profit and good cause.
February 2012 Meeting
WHAT:: 'Scanning Web2.0 – web applications aren't web sites anymore'
WHEN:: February 16, 2012. 6-8pm
WHO:: Kirill Mendelev is a researcher and an architect at HP Enterprise Security Products (specifically ex-SPI Dynamics part of it). He has been with HP for 7 years now, focusing on Web technologies for load-testing (LoadRunner) and security testing (WebInspect) purposes. I've lead research projects aiming to remedy threat of evolving Web technologies to both products.
ABSTRACT:: Kirill is going to speak about problems we encountered while scanning modern web applications, and how we're planning to solve them.
RSVP: All RSVP is done now via our meetup.com site. Visit and register at www.meetup.com/owasp-atlanta.
COST: Free to all. Bring a Friend. However, please look to join our chapter. Only $50. No pressure, but greatly appreciate. Non-profit and good cause.
Google Calendar
Past Meetings (2011 & Before)
December 2011 - Preventing Data Breaches using Provenance-aware Firewalls (Anirudh Ramachandran, Nouvou Inc)
November 2011 - HowTo Talk on Assessing Mobile Apps
October 2011 - Fuzzin' w/ JBroFuzz (Tony UV)
August 2011 - Mobile Security for the Enterprise (Billy Graham)
May 2011 - Don't Teach Your Developers Security (Caleb Sima, Armorize)
Apr 2011 - Demystifying WAFs (members from Imperva, Accuvant, WhiteHat Security Presenting)
Mar 2011 - Online Privacy (Samy Kamkar)
Feb 2011 - Separated by a Common Language (Business-Geek Communication)
Jan 2011 - OWASP Tool Medley (Tony UV
Dec 2010 - December Social Event
Oct 2010 - Rapid Development of Web Security Tools using SpiderSense
Sep 2010 - Search Engine Hacking
Aug 2010 - OWASP Guided Tour & Using the O2 Platform
Jun 2010 - Security Six Flags Outing
May 2010 - Clubbing WebApps with Botnets
Mar 2010 - Panel on Static & Dynamic Analysis for Web Apps
Feb 2010 - Embedded Malicious JavaScript
Jan 2010 - Owasp Top 10 (Tony UV)
Oct 2009 - Security Religions & Risk Windows (Jeremiah Grossman)
Sept 2009 - Securing WebServices (Tony UV)
June 2009 - OWASP LIVE CD Workshop
Apr 2009 - Filter Evasion Techniques (Workshop)
Apr 2009 - Chapter Rebirth meeting
Atlanta ISACA OWASP Meeting 03.27.09
Atlanta Leadership Meeting 03.05.09
Atlanta Leadership Meeting 02.26.09
Atlanta OWASP May 2007 Meeting
Atlanta OWASP December 06 Social
Chapter Meeting March 29th 2006
April 27th, Chapter meeting a SUCCESS!


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British Jennifer
At last! Jennifer Government hits bookstores across the UK today, in "ridiculously large paperback" format. It's been a while coming, mainly for legal reasons associated with using real company names in a work of not-so-flattering fiction. Abacus, the British publisher, got several different lawyers to carefully study the book and devise a strategy for minimizing any potential legal exposure; they came up with: "Wait six months and see if anyone sues the American publisher." (Nobody has.)
Since Syrup hasn't been published in the UK yet, Jennifer Government is my debut novel there. It's nice to be a first-time novelist again. I feel all clean and innocent.


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Bank Secrecy Act/Anti-Money Laundering: Advisory warns financial institutions of North Korean front companies: FinCEN guidance
Chief Executive Officers and Compliance Officers of All National Banks, Federal Branches and Agencies, Department and Division Heads, and All Examining Personnel
This bulletin transmits an advisory from the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN). FinCEN's advisory warns U.S. financial institutions that the U.S. Department of the Treasury has concerns that government agencies of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea) and associated front companies1 engaged in illicit activities may be seeking banking services elsewhere following the finding of Banco Delta Asia SARL to be a financial institution of "primary money laundering concern" pursuant to Section 311 of the USA PATRIOT Act. The FinCEN advisory is consistent with the U.S. Department of the Treasury's efforts to ensure that the U.S. financial institutions are not used as a conduit for the laundering of proceeds from such illicit activities as currency counterfeiting, narcotics trafficking, counterfeit cigarette smuggling, and the financing of and involvement in weapons of mass destruction and missile proliferation.
Per the advisory, the Department of the Treasury is actively monitoring this situation and will take any further action as appropriate, including providing updated information to the financial industry as warranted. Currently, the known entities have been added to the Office of Foreign Assets Control's Specially Designated Nationals (SDN) list.
You may direct any questions to your supervisory office or OCC Compliance Division (202) 649-5470.
Ann F. Jaedicke
Deputy Comptroller for Compliance Policy
1 On October 25, 2005, a joint statement between the White House and the U.S. Department of the Treasury enacted a prohibition on all transactions between any U.S. person and eight designated North Korean entities pursuant to Executive Order 13382, an authority aimed at freezing the assets of proliferators of weapons of mass destruction (WMD) and their delivery vehicles. The prohibition also includes freezing any assets the entities may have under U.S. jurisdiction as detailed in the OFAC bulletin dated October 21, 2005. Please refer to the release.


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MADISON, Wis. (AP) -- Organizers behind an effort to recall Gov. Scott Walker have filed more than 1 million petition signatures they collected to force an election.
Recall circulators lined up around a U-Haul truck Tuesday filled with boxes of signatures. They later brought them into the Government Accountability Board office near the Capitol.
Volunteers formed a line leading to the office as others marched inside with the boxes covered in blue tape.
Additional petition signatures were also filed to force recall elections for Lt. Gov. Rebecca Kleefisch and four Republican senators.
The recall efforts began last year in response to Walker's push to end collective bargaining rights for public sector unions.
MADISON, Wis. (AP) -- Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker says he expects voters to stand by him in any recall election and will campaign on his record.
The Republican governor made the statement Tuesday in response to Democrats and others who filed petitions with what they say are more than 1 million signatures calling for his recall in an election that could come later this year.
Walker took office a year ago and quickly angered some in the state with aggressive moves that included effectively ending collective bargaining rights for nearly all public workers.
The governor defended his actions, saying they needed to be taken to help control government spending, balance the budget and hold the line on taxes.
MADISON, Wis. (AP) -- Organizers of an effort to oust Wisconsin's Republican Gov. Scott Walker say they are submitting 1 million petition signatures, almost double the number needed to force a recall election.
Their effort was spurred by anger over Walker's moves his first year in office, particularly his fight against public sector unions.
The Wisconsin elections board now must verify that there are enough valid signatures, a process expected to take months. An election may not happen until June or later.
Organizers also turned in on Tuesday about 305,000 more signatures than needed to force a recall election of Lt. Gov. Rebecca Kleefisch.
Separate efforts to recall the Republican leader in the state Senate and three other GOP senators also are turning in more than enough signatures to require elections
By SCOTT BAUER
Associated Press
MADISON, Wis. (AP) -- Supporters of an unprecedented effort to oust Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker from office said they will turn in more than enough signatures Tuesday to force the Republican into a recall election barely a year into his first term.
Walker, however, has no plans to be anywhere near the Capitol when recall organizers turn in the signatures by Tuesday's deadline. The governor is scheduled to be in New York when organizers say they will be unloading the stacks of petitions, weighing a ton, from a truck and hauling them into the state election board's offices.
The signature drive started two months ago, largely in reaction to a law pushed by the governor last year that ended nearly all collective bargaining rights for most public workers. Organizers say they have gathered far more than the 540,208 signatures required to force the election against both Walker and GOP Lt. Gov. Rebecca Kleefish. If so, it would mark the first time such a recall campaign has been mounted against a Wisconsin governor.
Organizers say they also will turn in enough signatures targeting the Wisconsin Senate majority leader and three other GOP senators.
Once the recall petitions are in, the Government Accountability Board must certify that organizers have gathered enough signatures.
Walker, meanwhile, has been aggressively raising money and blanketing the airwaves with campaign ads, starting the night before recall petitions hit the streets in mid-November. He's also crisscrossed the country raising millions of dollars, taking full advantage of both the conservative rock star persona built as he put Wisconsin at the center of the national labor rights debate and a quirk in state law allowing those targeted for recall to ignore normal contribution limits until an election date is set.
There have been just two successful gubernatorial recalls in the nation's history -- against California Gov. Gray Davis in 2003 and North Dakota Gov. Lynn Frazier in 1921.
But recalls have become common in Wisconsin since the political tumult of 2011 that saw Walker and Republicans pass a law effectively ending collective bargaining rights for most public workers. The opposition started with massive protests and then grew into organized campaigns first to recall state senators and then Walker himself.
Last summer, six Republican state senators and three Democrats faced recall elections. Two Republicans lost, leaving the party with a narrow one-vote majority in the Senate.
The Walker recall couldn't officially be filed until after he had served a year in office, an anniversary that was hit earlier this month. The four senators targeted this year include Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald, who served as a staunch defender of Walker's agenda and critic of 14 Senate Democrats who fled the state in an unsuccessful attempt to block the union bill. The three other Republican lawmakers targeted are all midway through their first terms.
On Tuesday, petitioners said more than enough signatures are being submitted to force a recall election against Scott Fitzgerald of Juneau.
Organizers said that they are turning in 20,600 signatures on Tuesday. At least 16,742 must be valid in order for there to be an election.
Walker argues that while some of the decisions he made last year to balance a $3.6 billion state budget shortfall were difficult, the state is in a better financial position and will prosper in the long run. The state Republican Party has hit on the same theme, portraying Walker as a "do something" governor. "It's not always popular," the mailing says, "but it's working."
Walker reported in mid-December that he'd already raised $5.1 million, with about half of that coming from out of state. He received $250,000 alone from Bob Perry, the Texas conservative who was one of the main financial backers behind the Swift Boat Veterans ads that attacked Sen. John Kerry during the 2004 presidential campaign.
Democrats don't know who will challenge Walker. Party and union leaders say they're not concerned about not having someone actively running against Walker and trying to match his fundraising. In fact, they say it was part of their strategy.
"It forced Walker and his minions to run on their record and issues rather than to run against an announced Democratic candidate," said Marty Beil, president of the Wisconsin State Employees Union, the largest union of state workers. "That was part of the rationale through the whole recall petition collection process."
Walker's campaign spokeswoman Ciara Matthews said in a statement that the governor's record will "stand in stark contrast to whoever the eventual Democratic nominee is."
Numerous prominent Democrats have said they're considering a run, but the two highest profile ones -- former Sen. Russ Feingold and retiring Sen. Herb Kohl -- have repeatedly said they aren't interested.
Moderate Democrat state Sen. Tim Cullen has said he intends to take on Walker but has not made a formal announcement or been actively campaigning. He said he expects and welcomes a Democratic primary, which likely would be held in May, although the timing will be unclear until possible delays related to the signature verification process and any legal challenges are resolved.
"If there's not a primary, then who's actually deciding this?" Cullen said.
Walker and his allies say organized labor will decide the Democratic candidate. Public workers and their unions have been a driving force behind the recall, helping provide the manpower needed to circulate petitions.
(Copyright 2012 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)
EAU CLAIRE, Wis. (WEAU) -- Two months of knocking on doors and standing out in the harsh winter weather and it has all come down to this.
Democrats are gearing up to submit hundreds of thousands of signatures to the state of Wisconsin, hoping to launch an election to recall Governor Scott Walker.
Wisconsin Democrats say they've collected more than the 540,000 signatures required to recall Walker.
After Democrats hand over the signatures to the Government Accountability Board on Tuesday, it could take up to two months to certify them all.
But the Republicans are saying "not so fast" and that several lawsuits are waiting to be filed.
"What we're hearing from the party is not only have we met the threshold, we've reached the safety goal which is challenge proof," said Kristen Dexter, the Chair of the Eau Claire County Democratic Party.
Since launching November 15, 2011, Dexter said volunteers across Wisconsin have reached the safety goal, which is believed to be at 720,000 signatures.
If you've signed a recall Walker petition in the Chippewa Valley, Dexter said it's already made its way to Madison.
"We've been sending them as we get them so that the counting can be a continuous process so they're not counting hundreds of boxes of petitions," Dexter said.
After they're handed over Tuesday afternoon, Dexter said the GAB has requested 60 days to certify each and every "John Hancock".
She said she's proud of the thousands of volunteers in the Chippewa Valley who knocked on doors and stood on the street over the past two months to collect signatures.
"It was really run well and efficient and process that was full of integrity. It was grassroots at its finest," Dexter said.
But Brian Westrate of the Eau Claire County Republican Party said he was surprised to see how volatile things got during the petition process.
"It's just sheer nastiness that appears to exist; certainly there is some on both sides. Go back to having civil conversations about policies and procedures instead of flipping off the governor while he's outside shoveling his sidewalk," Westrate said.
"There were occasional stories of bad behavior but I'd have to say that was a very small number," Dexter said.
Under fire since he took office a year ago, Westrate said the republican governor has handled the criticism gracefully.
"Governor Walker has said from the beginning, this is a constitutional right of the people, and that he's looked forward to proving to the state he can earn their votes and continue on in his job as governor," Westrate said.
Dexter said while it's too early to know who will run against Walker, there will be a democratic primary.
"I anticipate a primary at this point. There's going to be people vying for the governorship," Dexter said.
Democrats will also hand over signatures to recall republican State Senator Terry Moulton of Chippewa Falls.
Recall organizers said Tuesday they are submitting more than 21,000 signatures. They said they're still counting.
Organizers need at least 14,958 valid signatures. They said their current count represents 140 percent of the signatures required to force a recall election.
And although it isn't official, Dexter told WEAU 13 News that she's considering running against Moulton if a recall election happens.


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=== UI Designer ===
=== UI Designer ===
Revision as of 12:19, 29 March 2007
This article is a place to collect various thoughts about the future of the OpenMoko software platform.
Painless SDK installation & Setup
Our goal should be a completely painless setup for somebody wanting to develop using OpenMoko
- one command for installation (apt-get install openmoko)
- one command to start Xnest (openmoko-xephyr?)
- one command to start an i386 shell (openmoko-386-shell)
- one command to start an armel shell (openmoko-armel-shell)
No extra configuration required.
IDE Plugins
People like to see plugins for
evaluate eclipse project Device Software Development Platform Project from eclipse and subprojectTool for Mobile Linux
UI Designer
Glade code generation is deprecated, so we don't want to use it. The Gtk+ powers told me that the plan is to have gtk 2.12 (out early 2007) with support for GtkBuilder, a libglade derivative which breaks a bit the XML definition in order to support all the new widgets and properties; as soon as it's in the other ui builders will add support for this format. See also the relevant bug entry
- Possibly a Landscape (rotated) view for the screen (480x640 *or* 640x480)?
Community Support
Infrastructure for developers with
- One bugzilla for all projects (makes moving bugs forth and backwards between projects very easy)
- One mailing list for project
Community Images
In the future there could be complete, unofficial "product images" that are created by the community, for example maybe one that incorporates only free software (in the GNU or OSI sense). Or images build with a particular niche market in mind -- a student for example.
Software: Additional features
Text Messaging
There are many useful options that now can be used to full capacity:
- In GSM networks so-called acknowledge-sms are sent back to the sms's dispatcher in order to indicate that the primal sms was recieved (as message delivery is only best effort and is not guaranteed). So in the SMS dialog there could be equal sized buttons with captions as 'send only', 'send and receive delivery status message' and 'send and notify (e.g. ring) when delivery succeeded'.
- Related to the previous entry, these acknwolement-sms' should be handled in a different way than normal sms'. I've seen one phone - some old mitsubishi from the 5110 era - do this, it stored these delivery notifications in a separate menu so they didn't bloat the received-folder and you were able to quickly review the status of the messages you had sent.
- You could be able to set up messages that are sent at a certain time/date
- Send binary sms. Could be used to feign wap pushes. [1] See:
- Resource for SMS encoding: [2] [3] [4] [5]
- Resource for SMS encoding (German): http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/SMS-Kodierung
- The infamous pocketpc-attack: http://www.mulliner.org/pocketpc/
- SMS that start with a certain code word override the silent profile and have the phone ring. So someone could alert you in case of some emergency.
- Implement a script that de-abbreviates: "hi m8 u k?-sry i 4gt 2 cal u lst nyt-y dnt we go c film 2moz" becomes "Hi mate. Are you okay? I am sorry that I forgot to call you last night. Why don't we go and see a film tomorrow?" (taken from: [6])
- Implement a script that abbreviates :-)
- Remind: T9 cannot be included in the phone. http://www.tegic.com/about/patent-list.asp it may be legally addable by users in some countries.
- Dutton Speedwords. Maybe helpful?
- GPS fun. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gps2sms
- Why should we use SMS for that task? Jabber or something similar would be much better and cheaper
- Input help (which as a matter of fact does not belong to text messaging but input in general): I guess there won't be any T9 as it's not open. Alternatives? (Let's make the worlds most convenient input method for mobiles :-) See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Predictive_text
- Anti-Spam feature for SMS. May be it's possible to port some Bayesian based application like bogofilter.
- Rule based authorizations for received messages. For example, delete messages from one source between 9h00 and 18h00 (workday) allow them otherwise (to get alerting messages).
- Leverage every email app in the universe by having an SM-email gateway on the phone:
- SMS comes in, gets forward to your inbox, like any other piece of mail. Appropriate alerts and etc occur - again, just like for email.
- simple SMTPD running on 127.0.0.1 that is hooked to an email-to-SMS translator that will send email addressed to 'SMS@localhost' (or whatever special address) out via SMS
Address Book
- Option to search not just the stored list of addresses, but one or more of the online phonebooks. Probably should be modular to make adding/changing phonebook sites easy. Also allows for future integration with LDAP
servers or whatever.
- Web-based map-lookup. 'How do I get there from here? (here = current GPS location)' This could also be done
by integrating with whatever on-phone GPS mapping software the Neo ends up using.
- Random text input 'notes' about a contact
- Overall, this should more resemble a Palm-pilot's addressbook than your average cellphone's
Text input
Something like HexInput would be very interesting to try. Especially versions of the QUONG layout. Different variations for different languages will be needed.
Another possibility would be to use Dasher along with the touchpad interface.
Multiboot Support
I'd like to see U-Boot being enhanced to support a boot menu that allows to boot a complete image from the MMC. This way we have a simple way for part-time developers (aka people actually using their phone or people not having a separate phone for development) to experiment with new OpenMoko releases or custom images.
Please see the games page.
Reading Support
It would be really great to be able to read :
- Open Office
- Text files
- ...
in both landscape and portrait
Printing Support
It would be really neat to be able to print over either bluetooth or USB. I can imagine wanting to print:
- Notes
- Maps
- Calendars
- ...
Cups contains a bluetooth printing backend, so (in theory) once you have your data in postscript format, you could hand it to cups and it'll do the rest. In practice, it depends on
- GTK+'s printing support
- Making cups run on a really small system
|NOTE: GTK+'s printing support seems to be very immature in 2.6 (which we need to use for some time). Gtk+ 2.10 contains much better printing support -- once we can use this, it should be more easy.
There's always the possibility to render postscript ourselves, but this is not a piece of cake -- in general, printing is much harder than one would imagine.
Further details:
PalmOS Emulator
The Access group is probably coming out with their Linux platform any time soon. One of the components is a PalmOS emulator which I'd like to see working on OpenMoko as well. There are literally millions of PalmOS apps.
Special Profiles
After reading something about too much features in mobile phones I thought about the following. It would be nice to have the possibility to choose from several profiles when starting the phone the first time. Every user profile is defined for special kinds of user behaviour. Let me define some example profiles:
- Beginner: Only basic functionality like, telephone and sms
- Advanced: included "Beginner" profile and let me say e-mail, pim functions
- Geek: every functionality you can get
- Granny: a minimum of functionality
etc. In addition the user should be able to create his own profiles. The advantage is that the user gets not frustrated by thousands of menus. What do you think about such a feature?
Bluetooth Walkie Talkie
Let OpenMoko devices connect to one another via bluetooth and hold a conversation. Depending on the effective range between two devices, this might be a very silly thing to do, so maybe it's only purpose is as a fun toy application.
GPS Assisted Bluetooth Management
Allow Bluetooth to automatically turn off after loosing connectivity and to automatically turn back on based upon GPS location.
A Bluetooth device is configured for automatic reacquisition based on the following profiles:
- Manual - only when Bluetooth is on
- Non-mobile - the target device is not mobile, periodically attempt reacquisition when in the general area of the device.
- Mobile - the target device is mobile, periodically attempt reacquisition when in the general area of the device.
Each target device is configured as follows:
- Automatic acquisition at last known location: enable/disable
- Automatic acquisition at these locations: list of nickname + coordinates + range
Non-mobile devices
Examples devices include: computers
The location and range of the target device is determined via training. Periodically, the current GPS coordinates and Bluetooth signal strength are logged. Additionally, connectivity loss events are logged. An algorithm uses these logs to determine the device location and range.
Connection attempts are made when in a configurable proximity to the device. The first attempt when entering the proximity and further attempts at a configurable interval.
Mobile devices
Example devices include: automobiles
Mobile devices are configured to have two types of locations:
- Last known location
- Non-mobile locations (homes)
Last known location
A car is mobile, ideally, when you leave your car, the phone should note the car's location when connectivity is lost and then attempt to reacquire the car when you return to the location of the car.
Non-mobile locations (homes)
As mobile devices may have multiple users, it is not sufficient to always use the last known location. In this case, the device may additionally have multiple homes. For example, a car might have as its homes: home garage and work parking lot.
Bluetooth neighbor detection and multiuser apps
Like the one laptop per child (OLPC) interface, keep a number in the status bar that represents a count of other openmoko or compatible bluetooth devices in the area. Allow for the spontaneous initiation of a chatroom or multiplayer game or file trading with any moko in the area.
Bluetooth Car Connection
Have a deeper connection to the car than just handsfree speakerphone. For instance a transciever with challenge/response systems to open, possibly even start the car. Possibly go as far as OBD connection to monitor car status on screen/log for later.
Ambient Noise Detection
Using the microphone to detect ambient noise the ringtone volume could be adjusted automatically.
Ignore-Call Button
Shut up a ringing phone, without rejecting the call.
Another alternative might be to use microphone to recognize when the user gives an audible "Shhh!" command. This could prove difficult to determine with the simultaneous ringing, and possible in-pocket shuffling noises.
Mute Button
Button to temporarily disable microphone while talking.
Hold Button
Similar to mute, but plays a sound file for the user on the other end while they wait. The sound file could be chosen in some setup beforehand.
Silent mode timeout
With a "silent mode" timeout, there is no need to turn the ringer back on if you previously know how long will be the film/meeting/...
Context based TO-DO list
I arrives to home and there is some "@home" things in the to-do list, the Context based to-do list reminds me that.
Exchange Integration
Once there is good TCP/IP connectivity on this phone, integration with corportate email/calendar/todo/etc servers would be a big advantage... near-real-time automatic email downloads and automatic bi-directional syncing are productivity boosters that you have to experience to appreciate. It turns your phone from a 'nice gadget to fiddle with' to a natural-feeling extension of your day-to-day life.
Vibrate Pattern Recorder
An application that would allow the user to define their own vibration patterns, and possibly link them to audio files. Recording would be done in real time initiated with a "Record" button, optionally playing the associated sound file in sync with recording). While recording, the user would press and hold a button to define the timing and duration of vibration. The user would press "Stop" when finished. Vibration patterns would have the option of being looped(would terminate at some global ringtone length maximum).
One simple suggested vibration file format would be a sort of run-length encoding: First byte defines the length of a "time-slice" in milliseconds, which would determine the overall tempo(actually the inverse of tempo). The next byte would define the number of time-slices to leave the vibration on, and then another byte for how long to pause after. Continue alternating these on/off bytes until the entire pattern is defined.
PC Input Device
Provide a method to use the touchscreen as input device for a nearby desktop machine. Could connect over USB or bluetooth.
Advanced Notification And Ringtone Manager
ANARM would be an application for handling all event-based audible notifications from an OpenMoko device.
Conversation Recorder
An option to record phone conversations. Would be helpful to have the device always recording for every call, with the sound data encoded to low quality Ogg Vorbis or SPEEX and stored in RAM. At the end of the conversation the user would have the option to save to flash or discard the conversation. This idea could also be applied to voicemail so you could save voicemails locally.
Location based reminders
Location based reminders can be used to notify users of various events or reminders that are location based.
Sport tracker
Sport tracker can be used to measure the distance/velocity from point A to point B (or it could have several intermediate stopping points) using GPS. This would be extremely useful for running, biking, hiking, etc.
Standby clock
A quick way to see what time it is.
Cycle Computer
As already mentioned by Technil, a cycle computer could be created using gps. The sensor at the bike's wheel could transmit data via bluetooth or some cable that would be attached to an openmoko device. In order to save power, one could switch off the gps and only use the bike's sensor.
Internet Connection Management
An application that automatically chooses the best available connection method, between Bluetooth, USBnet, Wifi, GPRS, etc. For GPRS or other services where the user may be paying per kb, there should be options to limit data transfer. The user could be asked permission to transfer data: per connection, per process, per process for a specific time limit, per process for a specific data size limit, etc.
Software: Language bindings
Python bindings
Python bindings seem to be a commonly requested feature.
User:Mickey says, "They are kind of usable on the Nokia 770, but it's at the lower end of being bearable. We should keep this in mind -- Gtk+ already comes with Python Bindings, so we "just" would need to wrap libmoko*. I would prefer to leave this to the community do though, since it doesn't make sense to start wrapping the API until we have a stable API -- and I can imagine it will take us a couple of months after going open until we can start with stabilizing the libmoko API."
C++ bindings
There is a whole skilled C++ community coming from the Qtopia and Opie projects. If we would consider basing OpenMoko C++ Bindings on Gtkmm, then we could drag these guys in.
Other bindings
- Perl
- Ruby
- I think you could skip a bunch of these by binding to Dbus; most languages already have Dbus bindings
Software: Foreign Widget Set Bindings
Qt Integration
The Trolltech folks have a great widget library. I'd like to interface OpenMoko with Qt4, so that we can write Qt4 applications for the phone which don't look alienated.
Maemo Integration
The Maemo folks have created a successful standard for Webpad applications. I'd like to have a set of MaemoMoko and MokoMaemo wrapper classes that allow me add support for running OpenMoko applications on Maemo and vice versa. Perhaps we can get help from the Nokia OSS folks for that.
wxWidgets Integration
wxWidgets is a cross-platform application framework that's very popular (I'd say, #3 after Qt and Gtk+). On Linux, wxWidgets uses Gtk+ to implement the widgets. It shouldn't be hard to add support for the additional OpenMoko classes to wxWidgets hence supporting the native OpenMoko look and feel for wxWidgets applications.
wxWidgets team wants OpenMoko classes too and we (wxWidgets) plan to include this project as one of our ideas for GSoC 2007
SDL Integration
SDL is the game developer library. There are tons of SDL games out there. We should add OpenMoko support into SDL.