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move along nothing happening here.

I do a search for G4 Tech TV and get useful blogs like this! The web gets better and better every day.

You mean the U of Wash prof, Sandeep Krishnamurthy, http://sandeepworld.blogspot.com/ who criticized MS Word's grammar checker in March http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/03/28/192323 1/ http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/217802_gram mar28.asp/ hasn't done it already? He made it sound so easy.

Well, his profile on his blog says he is a network administrator, so I'm betting he writes game reviews only on said blog. Here's a sample sentence from his review of the latest Harry Potter book:

"What I find myself thinking through this one is if only all of the series had been written as this one, just how much better they could have been."

Pure poetry. Here's another from "Buying a Game Cube."

"Mario Party 5 was the first to get some action and it was a fun time, I was a bit lucky and still trounced her but it was as competitive, even, and fun a non-gamer and a hardcore gamer can have together."

Mr. Pot, meet Mr. Kettle.

... compared to my favourite new game.

Nintengirls!

Japanese Product Page
Some blog
English Box Shot

> from the perspective of most web users, BLOGGERS ARE SPAMMERS

Rubbish. Blogs are often full of excellent content you won't find anyplace else. Daily Kos/Instapundit (take your poison). Tech blogs: Tim Bray, Sam Ruby as well as my current favorite: Derrick Coetzee. Journalists: go see Michael Yon does on his blog and wonder what a sad state journalism has come to today that none of the mainstream media can do what he does.

And oh, if by your so-very-high standards bloggers are /still/ spammers, then Slashdot should close down its comments, because what we seen here is unadulterated dreck compared to the content above. At least we'd get less incoherent idiots like you polluting the intarweb (Google indexes Slashdot comments too, after all).

Yes, and no. I would say the main difference is in the formality. There's less corporate/shareholder speak than press releases contain. And, it'll contain things that are most certainly not press releases.

Example: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2005/08/powered-by- google.html

It's a story about the company participating in a relay race.

But, on all the other points, I whole heartedly agree with you. With Google, however, I am a fan, and enjoy reading all news coming out of them. Doesn't matter what spin they put on a new feature, the new feature will be covered there first. It's the same as reading gaming websites to get trailers, demo's, and news from companies like iD. Sure, they'll make themselves look like the best thing since sliced bread. But, that makes the core of the news itself no less appealing to its audience.

But, on the other hand, I don't think someone like Colgate has a ton of toothpaste fans reading whatever blog they have... well, maybe dentists.

When I was young, we used to call a "corporate blog" the "press release page." They're functionally equivalent, it's just that the web log has a more casual tone than your typical press release which usually follows a strict format.

Actually, they're not functionally equivalent. A press release necessarily contains information to help the press cover a company's announcement, such as the contact information for the company media contact, times, dates, brief company overview, pictures, etc.

You can see Google's press releases here:

http://googlepress.blogspot.com/

As I write this, there is nothing up there about Lee, nor many of the other notices posted to the Google Blog. That should be another clue to the fact that the Google Blog is not a Press Release center. It contains info on many things that the general public don't, but Google fans do, care about.

When are y'all going to realize that crap on a stick is still crap on a stick, even if you call it "aromatic material on a thin rod"?

Why is a press release "crap on a stick"? How do you propose companies release information to the press or the public in general?

They are obviously just a release of information intended as a starting point for the press (i.e. a member of the public that is good at research/writing/reporting). If you want more information, you contact the spokesman listed at the bottom of the release.

Then the job of the press is to take the release and write about it, hopefully verifying claims, gathering more information, presenting alternate viewpoints, in an unbiased way.

Google Blog link.

Blocks are an interesting feature in Smalltalk. They are implemented for Objective-C in the Portable Object Compiler, but the author of that is somewhat hostile to GNUstep.

[1] GNUstep Object Relational Modeller - the GNUstep equivalent of Interface builder. Named to reflect the fact that it can be use to build any kind of serialised object graph, not just those used to create interfaces.

Geeking out about technology is fine, but real creativity and bravery happen when you pick up a video camera and start shooting.

I've just looked at "2001: a Space Odyssey", Kubrick's masterpiece, again recently, and although it was made in 1968--a time when these fancy computer-aided motion-picture tools were not available--the special effects still look spectacular. Yeah, 1968, when Steve Jobs and Bill Gates were both only 13 years old. Indeed, in "2001", you cannot spot a keyboard, a mouse, or a laptop, and guess what? A computer (HAL-9000) is one of the leading characters. I've written a re-review of "2001" (at http://sunandfun.blogspot.com/2005/09/2001-space-o dyssey-by-stanley-kubrick.html) on my blog (http://sunandfun.blogspot.com/), if anyone's interested.

Geeking out about technology is fine, but real creativity and bravery happen when you pick up a video camera and start shooting.

I've just looked at "2001: a Space Odyssey", Kubrick's masterpiece, again recently, and although it was made in 1968--a time when these fancy computer-aided motion-picture tools were not available--the special effects still look spectacular. Yeah, 1968, when Steve Jobs and Bill Gates were both only 13 years old. Indeed, in "2001", you cannot spot a keyboard, a mouse, or a laptop, and guess what? A computer (HAL-9000) is one of the leading characters. I've written a re-review of "2001" (at http://sunandfun.blogspot.com/2005/09/2001-space-o dyssey-by-stanley-kubrick.html) on my blog (http://sunandfun.blogspot.com/), if anyone's interested.

Dearest all,

I am a Singaporean. To be frank I am quite shocked by what I read in the papers. However I do find some remarks posted here about my country offending.

Singapore maybe a 'FINE' country where you throw a litter, you will be fined, but you can't blame us. How we can succeed today is because of all our leaders had done. To keep peace, law and order and maintain our economy. Lets say the US. If US follow our style, would there be any more black racist? Would there be terrorist attacks on them?

It is also true that Singapore is a strict country. A place where you break a law, prepare to be jailed. And because of this. Our country now has one of the lowest crime rate in the world. I know many of you will say, its unfair for Michael Fay who was caned in Singapore for vandalism even when he is not a Singaporean. But keep this is mind. He broke a law, and he deserved to be caned. And that is to send a message to all other foreigners out there, you come to our country, you abide our laws.

I lived in Singapore for years now. I am borned here, raised here and I don't feel suffocated by all this restriction. The life here is good, great! Unlike the US, where everyday you must always fear whether will you be the next victims of bombings or lets say a victim of random slainings!

In Singapore we do have the freedom of speech, however there is always a limit and I think the two bloggers who were charged had crossed it.

If you look at MrBrown's (http://www.mrbrown.com/ blog, a popular singaporean blogger, you will get what I mean. Another example will be Talkrock (http://www.rockson.blogspot.com./ Though his blog is filled with FOUL LANGUAGE, we never see him charged in court. He knows the limits and the two charged in court doesn't

So I hope guys, stop posting rude remarks about my country. Come here if you don't believe what I said.

Yeah...there is a problem with Singaporeans and their attitude in general, they even admit it themselves, they are the worst travellers and tend to look down on other races/countries.

It's known as the 'Ugly Singaporean', some references here:

http://www.asiaweek.com/asiaweek/magazine/2000/021 8/as.singapore.html

http://sg.polls.yahoo.com/public/archives/95900098 /p-sg-57?m=r

http://www.singapore-window.org/sw03/031120af.htm

Along with Mr Miyagi, other famous singaporean Bloggers are Mr Brown and Xia Xue (Another new one is http://rockson.blogspot.com/).

I recently got into a massive blogwar (almost 600 comments) because of this very attitude, potrayed on her blog by Xia Xue (She called someone a malay fucker, said she wanted to slap them with a pig and 'laughed' at the way Arabic people dressed amongst other things). Her post can be found here: KL Pretty much sucked! This should give you an insight into the common attitude there..

Yeah...there is a problem with Singaporeans and their attitude in general, they even admit it themselves, they are the worst travellers and tend to look down on other races/countries.

It's known as the 'Ugly Singaporean', some references here:

http://www.asiaweek.com/asiaweek/magazine/2000/021 8/as.singapore.html

http://sg.polls.yahoo.com/public/archives/95900098 /p-sg-57?m=r

http://www.singapore-window.org/sw03/031120af.htm

Along with Mr Miyagi, other famous singaporean Bloggers are Mr Brown and Xia Xue (Another new one is http://rockson.blogspot.com/).

I recently got into a massive blogwar (almost 600 comments) because of this very attitude, potrayed on her blog by Xia Xue (She called someone a malay fucker, said she wanted to slap them with a pig and 'laughed' at the way Arabic people dressed amongst other things). Her post can be found here: KL Pretty much sucked! This should give you an insight into the common attitude there..

Yeah...there is a problem with Singaporeans and their attitude in general, they even admit it themselves, they are the worst travellers and tend to look down on other races/countries.

It's known as the 'Ugly Singaporean', some references here:

http://www.asiaweek.com/asiaweek/magazine/2000/021 8/as.singapore.html

http://sg.polls.yahoo.com/public/archives/95900098 /p-sg-57?m=r

http://www.singapore-window.org/sw03/031120af.htm

Along with Mr Miyagi, other famous singaporean Bloggers are Mr Brown and Xia Xue (Another new one is http://rockson.blogspot.com/).

I recently got into a massive blogwar (almost 600 comments) because of this very attitude, potrayed on her blog by Xia Xue (She called someone a malay fucker, said she wanted to slap them with a pig and 'laughed' at the way Arabic people dressed amongst other things). Her post can be found here: KL Pretty much sucked! This should give you an insight into the common attitude there..

Hayabusa includes the Minerva hopper - gravity on asteroids is so slight that you can get around on springs - no rockets or NASA rovers required. That's the key - that's why planetary exploration makes so little sense - when you can get to an asteroid and mine it - and return for a small fraction of the delta-V required to get back from the moon, or Mars.

I'm particularly interested in the mesh mode of 802.16a, where each 802.16a node is able to operate as both the subscriber and base station. This forms a wireless mesh network, and this is largely different from the usual point-to-multipoint mode. A wireless mesh enables wireless coverage to areas not reached by the base station but can be reached by the other client nodes.

There are a lot of publications on 802.16a at the IEEE 802.16 Task Group A. I find the tutorial presentation slides particularly helpful in explaining the 802.16a mesh mode, although it gets really technical towards the end.

Here's a good technical introduction to WiMAX.

I am doing performance studies on the WiMAX network. Please contact me if you are interested in sharing your views, tips and experiences of deploying a WiMAX network.

Microsoft Employees themselves are saying that open office formats (at least partially, or for old versions) are a good thing. Others are saying they want to quit soon. Note that this open revolt against their management is being spearheaded by the mysterious Mini-Microsoft.

Will these attitudes finally change MSFT from the bottom up, or just get these guys fired? I suspect the latter, but hey, we live in interesting times...

Only one of the accused was a blogger. The other was posting to a forum. The sites are http://www.doggiesite.com/ and http://www.upsaid.com/.

The racist posts in question have been deleted but the fallout can be seen here and here. The deleted blog used to be found here. A nice aggregation of analysis and comments can be found here http://singaporeangle.blogspot.com/2005/09/two-cha rged-with-sedition-for-racist.html.

The backstory according to the report is that on June 14, ST Forum Page published a letter asking if "cab companies allowed uncaged pets to be transported in taxis, after she saw a dog standing on a taxi seat next to its owner." The concern is that the animals pay "drool on the seats or dirty them with their paws"--and for most of the Muslims in Singapore (which subscribe to the Syafie school of thought on the issue), they are prohibited by religion "to touch dogs which are wet, which would include a dog's saliva".
Enter the duo Nicholas Lim Yew, 25, and Benjamin Koh Song Huat, 27. The first "allegedly responded [to the Forum Page letter] by twice posting anti-Muslim remarks on an online forum for dog lovers, www.doggiesite.com," allegedly criticising "certain aspects of Islamic law." The latter "was said to have made similar racist comments on his blog, Phoenyx Chronicles, on www.upsaid.com on three occasions."

" Should we take this as the final sign that Sun is giving up on Sparc?"

Hardly! See Rich Teer's blog for more information on Niagra or The Register. Apparently the GHz ware is finally is over.

My favorite so far ...

http://shed-skin.blogspot.com/

Uses type inferencing to create pure C++ code and make files that compiled to a tiny stand alone executable with no Python dependencies at all and reportedly runs upto 10 times faster than running on VM.

Not a magic solution yet but has a lot of potential.

"However, the Scientific Method that is at the core of science demands claims to be independently verifiable and falsifiable. Most Christian claims do not meet that criterion and thus do not qualify as scientific."

I think you are confusing Creationism and Intelligent Design. Creationism is a philosophical presupposition, much like the secular humanism, or the philosophical impetus of the Big Bang. As Hawking and Ellis say, you simply cannot do cosmology without mixing in philosophy.

Intelligent Design is simply identifying the characteristics of intelligent action. It is trying to determine a mathematical methodology to apply in order to do this. ID explicitly separates scientific claims of design from religious claims of who the designer is, or whether or not the designer is natural or supernatural.

"You might argue that science is religious too somehow, but you cannot argue that religion is scientific."

I never claimed the latter, though you can do scientific research on certain claims of faith, or using them as a starting point. The former is true of anyone who does cosmology at all. What is happening now is that although those who do cosmology readily admit that they do have a philosophic bias, they reject the philosophic biases of others who start from different places.

Now, perhaps cosmology should be excluded from science entirely -- I'm certainly open to that. But creationism is just as scientific (or unscientific) as any other cosmology, as neither are experimental or observable exercises (which are the characteristics of science). Intelligent Design is much more of a science than either one, because it is not cosmological -- it is simply a measurement.

You might be interested in a summary of Intelligent Design I wrote awhile back:

http://crevo.blogspot.com/2005/03/setting-facts-st raight-on-intelligent.html

"We can see that naturalism gives us the most practical tools and predictive powers."

Incorrect. Experimentation and observation give us those things. Naturalism is the abandonment of reason, and is akin to admitting effects without a cause.

"Supernatural claims are almost always circular and can only predict after the fact"

Three things: (1) Intelligent Design differs from Creationism in that ID does not suppose that anything supernatural has occurred. It simply says that intelligence is a causitive force that is different from, but limitted by, natural law. And thus, reducing everything to material causes leaves out a great amount of what is occurring even in every day life. When I write a computer program, I am limitted to what can be done with natural law, but nonetheless creativity and intelligence act as a causitive force of their own to produce something novel. 2) In the case of historical reconstruction (i.e. cosmology), the point isn't practicality anyway. The point is to determine what happened. That is the question, isn't it? What happened. What practical value do we get from Hawking telling us that we formed from a singularity? Can we recreate the singularity? No. So, cosmology itself is different from observational/experimental science in this regard as a whole subject. 3) However, you are still missing the ultimate practical reason -- if we know who we are, how we were made, and why we were made, it then tells us what and how we should then live. Does God exist? Does He care about us? How does He want us to live? Do His wishes matter, or is God merely an illusion? These questions have more practical import than all that science has given us in the last 1,000 years. To answer them wrong because we have assumed the answer before starting is simply ludicrous.

"It's good that you agree that support of Darwin's theory of evolution is not based on what you call "secular assumptions""

Actually, I do. The Christian Church in America gave itself over to secularism quite a while

Knowing the DC public school system this doesn't surprise me one bit. I have a post up at the DC Education Blog about just this matter.

As best as I can tell from the article either the Post completely hashed up something in its reporting and misquoted the CIO, the CIO doesn't have much of a clue about anything technical, or the CIO does have a clue about technical matters, yet built a system on years-old and completely incapable technology.

Its not as if DCPS hasn't wasted lots of its residents time and money with expensive, non functioning systems before.

Knowing the DC public school system this doesn't surprise me one bit. I have a post up at the DC Education Blog about just this matter.

As best as I can tell from the article either the Post completely hashed up something in its reporting and misquoted the CIO, the CIO doesn't have much of a clue about anything technical, or the CIO does have a clue about technical matters, yet built a system on years-old and completely incapable technology.

Its not as if DCPS hasn't wasted lots of its residents time and money with expensive, non functioning systems before.

Microsoft is doomed, only they don't know it yet.

http://minimsft.blogspot.com/

These are a few sites that I found helpful. Some are a little old but I got something out of all of them.

http://www.xulplanet.com/
http://kb.mozillazine.org/Dev_:_Extensions
http://roachfiend.com/archives/2004/12/08/how-to-c reate-firefox-extensions/
http://businesslogs.com/technology/firefox_extensi on_tutorial.php
http://www.bengoodger.com/software/mb/extensions/p ackaging/extensions.html
http://mozilla-firefox-extension-dev.blogspot.com/
http://books.mozdev.org/index.html
http://www.mozilla.org/xpfe/gettingstarted.html

Of course another good way to learn about extensions is to download a few and look at the code. That has probably been the biggest help to me once the tutorials, etc. gave me the basic idea of what is going on.

Just shut down immigration and provide incentives for those hostile to the nation's culture to emigrate. This is where eminent domain can be used with justification.

Actually, you know very-well how much easier it has been to corrupt a windows machine via normal web surfing: Because of ActiveX and the browser's tight integration with the operating system.

microsoft shipped a long time ago the ability to run and install software from a web document without thoroughly thinking through the vast array of possible social engineering exploits this would open hapless end-users to. For one, an ActiveX warning box would show-up each and every single time you'd load a web document. Navigating through sites overzealous ad banners instantly becomes hell, and many people WILL click "Yes" to "make those annoying messages go away". In those instances, installing and running software on one's computer is no-longer a conscious, educated choice. It is a byproduct of trying to improve one's browsing experience.

Not to mention the many security flaws that were found throughout the years to completely bypass ActiveX warning dialogs.

Saying "Don't download and install random shit off the 'Net" has actually far better chances of being a successful message to keep Mac users out of trouble, because Apple has worked very hard to make the only way to "install and run shit" the result of an effectively educated, conscious choice. When you "install and run shit" on a Mac, you know you're "installing and running shit".

On Windows, there have been, and continue to be, a number of user interface and security flaws that make the message you outline an ineffective message to most average/novice users. Granted, throughout recent Windows XP patches, a lot of these issues are slowly going away. I still think ActiveX needs to die or far more seriously rethought.

A couple years ago I was in Chicago at the federal courthouse to file some paperwork (ironicly in a free speech case i lost; judge posner said it's ok to put people in jail for speech of the "Vote for Smith" variety. http://majors.blogspot.com./ )
  Outside the courthouse were some Fulan Gong folks, providing information about the torture and oppression they face in China. I found them persuasive and reasonable - basically nice little old ladies, with solid evidence supporting their claims. Possibly I was just taken in - I can be gullible - but they seemed to be in the right, and China in the wrong. Meanwhile the courthouse guards didn't want to let me in to file the paperwork because I didn't have a state-issued ID with me, and were unreasonable jerks. Take away the few checks and balances we have here, give the unreasonable jerks unlimited power to torture and kill those they don't understand, and you have the China-Fulang Gong situation.
It's been a couple of years and I've never been able to do anything effective to help them, and that frustrates me.

Sounds to me like they think information is such an important resource that they want to control it. This radio station sounds like it might not be run by Clearchannel, and it might put out some information that might sound bad, so they have to clamp down on it right away to limit media outlets to government controlled spin.

Kind of like how the National Guard is preventing people from photographing the reportedly huge number of corpses in East NOLA.

http://organicwarfare.blogspot.com/

Did you know that nuclear fusion is only 20 years away? Just like it was in 1950! (No, I'm not skeptical. Not at all.)

When I wrote my article and its follow-up on directions I think a Linux Distribution could take, I expected that there would be some controversy. However, I hardly expected the shear number of responses to the effect of, "Linux is great as it is! Never change it!"

Which is surprising, because the very point of the Linux design is that different distributions were supposed to be able to explore completely different tracks. There shouldn't be any "one distro to rule them all", yet many of the respondants demanded exactly that! (Amusingly, they couldn't agree on *which* distro to rule them all.)

When I pointed this out to many responders, and mentioned the fact that I'm merely attempting to suggest a Desktop environment that would help Linux adoption, I got another surprising response: "Who said we wanted regular users? Linux is for the elite. If you're too stupid to recompile your kernel or read all the scattered HOWTOs, you're too stupid to use Linux!"

I understand that the Linux community is wide and varied, but this sort of attitude is not helping anyone. In fact, this sort of attitude causes Linux to take two steps back for every one step forward it takes in the market.

It's normal that Linux users will disagree. That's why Linux is just a kernel, KDE/GNOME are just desktop environments, and the GNU System is just a collection of Unix utilities. It's so the end distributions can build the OS necessary to meet their users. But such a design DOES NOT require that users berate each other! Rather, Linux users should understand that "idiot" users using an "idiot" distribution is okay. Gentoo users can still recompile Gentoo to their hearts content even though Ubuntu exists. Ubuntu users can still use Ubuntu workstations even though Fedora exists. Fedora users can still a have 100% "Free as in socks and gun ownership" OS even though SuSE exists.

There's no reason for this OS bigotry. It's causing confusion in the marketplace, and generally turning the public off to Linux. Just pick the distro you like, and be happy for other people who use something that works for them. K?

Did you know that nuclear fusion is only 20 years away? Just like it was in 1950! (No, I'm not skeptical. Not at all.)

When I wrote my article and its follow-up on directions I think a Linux Distribution could take, I expected that there would be some controversy. However, I hardly expected the shear number of responses to the effect of, "Linux is great as it is! Never change it!"

Which is surprising, because the very point of the Linux design is that different distributions were supposed to be able to explore completely different tracks. There shouldn't be any "one distro to rule them all", yet many of the respondants demanded exactly that! (Amusingly, they couldn't agree on *which* distro to rule them all.)

When I pointed this out to many responders, and mentioned the fact that I'm merely attempting to suggest a Desktop environment that would help Linux adoption, I got another surprising response: "Who said we wanted regular users? Linux is for the elite. If you're too stupid to recompile your kernel or read all the scattered HOWTOs, you're too stupid to use Linux!"

I understand that the Linux community is wide and varied, but this sort of attitude is not helping anyone. In fact, this sort of attitude causes Linux to take two steps back for every one step forward it takes in the market.

It's normal that Linux users will disagree. That's why Linux is just a kernel, KDE/GNOME are just desktop environments, and the GNU System is just a collection of Unix utilities. It's so the end distributions can build the OS necessary to meet their users. But such a design DOES NOT require that users berate each other! Rather, Linux users should understand that "idiot" users using an "idiot" distribution is okay. Gentoo users can still recompile Gentoo to their hearts content even though Ubuntu exists. Ubuntu users can still use Ubuntu workstations even though Fedora exists. Fedora users can still a have 100% "Free as in socks and gun ownership" OS even though SuSE exists.

There's no reason for this OS bigotry. It's causing confusion in the marketplace, and generally turning the public off to Linux. Just pick the distro you like, and be happy for other people who use something that works for them. K?

As I stated in my blog "traditional" Palm OS development is being done by Palm (then palmOne). PalmSource is focused on Palm OS on Linux and providing an API to improve navigation of Palm OS-based applications on non-touchscreen phones. Recent management moves had them ripe for a takeover. Access has some pretty sharp minds, which is what PalmSource is in deperate need.

And a database file system would give you the best of both worlds. One message per file, yet the ability to quickly query for messages, and organize with a label system similar to GMail.

I think it's the only pun he knows though. ;-)

well here is some more reading on the subject of how systemtap is flawed http://uadmin.blogspot.com/2005/08/systemtap-vs-dt race-debate-continues.html> systemtap debate

RUNTIME issues:
how do you sudgest you solve the halting problem?
do you have a solution for errant pointers?
and many more.

compile time issues:

You should read this latest tidbit from the systemtap mailing list, basicly it says that systemtap will not understand include files, so if you want to track data in a userland or kernel based struct. So you are then forced to use premade tapsets or expose your system to the unsafe mode. If and when userland probes are created there won't be anytap sets for your apps you created your self.

from the systemtap mailing list

> [...] Shouldn't systemtap be able to handle all of the standard
> include files in /usr/include and the includes in a 2.6.x kernel so
> users can monitor the system? [...]

The debugging information associated with the kernel (and in the
future, user-land applications) contains a form of that information.
We already expose it to some extent, and will probably do so more as
we gain experience. It is unlikely for systemtap to ever have to
directly parse C files such as kernel headers.

These are just a few of the issues, that systemtap faces. currently they are using work arounds that involve using "guru mode" for stuff that should of been dealt with from day one.

The strategy behind this is for him to make his own ideas for Google. you don't hire a pioneer of the internet and tell him what to do.

By the way, he has posted at Googleblog... hard at work already ;)

- Sigs are so 1900's, read my blog.

Advice: If you want the latest Google news before Slashdot posts it, read the Google blog.

Vint has released a statement on the Google Blog.

kprobes is not comparable to dtrace, to see a comparison between dtrace and kprobes check out
dtrace vs. krpobes

systemtap is in its infancy and being designed without safety as a priority, dtrace was created to be 100% safe to run anytime, even in production. systemtap is being made for the kernel hacker to debug the kernel. With possibly some userland probes and safety as an after thought. Sure they talk about safety as a goal. But as documented dtrace_usenix.pdf
dtrace was created from the start to be safe and secure. They even sacrafice some functionality to keep production servers safe. Systemtap is like building a bank they build the building, bring in the money, and desks, and machines, and promise that top of the line doors, windows and safe will top of the line and installed any day now.

Yes, there is: SystemTap by Red Hat, IBM and Intel.

Perhaps you should read

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/solarisx86/message/2 7818

and

http://milek.blogspot.com/2005/08/linux-and-solari s.html

Two discussions on some differences between SystemTap and Dtrace. (And yes, both links are in favor of Dtrace, and for good reason it appears.)

To add insult to injury, there is absolutely no technical reason why the site could not work with all browsers. To prove the theory, I tried Opera masquerading as IE 6 and got through the registration process without a hitch. Whoever designed that site should be fired instantly.

As usual, Slashdot is late by several days with this story. Read FEMA website doesn't work with any browser except IE 6 at The CDCer.

I agree with u. Isn't our email client enough and even better for such works. Then why to spend HUGE amount on a silly mouse. By the u can if u have the money like bill gates ------ Visit my blog for more or Visit this

Or an instant messenger :-) Email is always risky and one is asking for trouble.

Tarry
http://tarrysingh.blogspot.com/