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They want everything to work seemlessly

I think you meant to say that they want everything to work seamlessly. MS are the ones who make software work seemlessly. :)

They want everything to work seemlessly

I think you meant to say that they want everything to work seamlessly. MS are the ones who make software work seemlessly. :)

My question is, why isn't there any sort of versioning system? after all, that was implemented in systems back in the 70's.

Ok, the article is light on technical details, but it seems that they are using guard pages. Guard pages aren't exactly shiny new. Efence has been using them since a long long time.

Expensive option:Empirx Hammer XMS. It does all of the above with a nice web interface plus it gives you RTP quality metrics like r-factor and MOS. It's not cheap, but I've used and it does a good job (it is basically a SuSE Linux box with some networking gear running their network monitoring software).

All of the above I have tested only with SIP/RTP traffic. If you youse MGCP or H.323, I can't personally vouch for either of the above solutions, though both support them.

Yeah, but relevance is really hard too quantify over a large collection of web pages. It depends not only on the pages you've indexed, but also who your target audience is. For example, what's relevant to the average web surfing teenager is not at all relevant to an Oracle DBA trying to looking into some problematic query, and the stuff that's relevant to the Oracle DBA is probably not relevant to someone in the Marketing dept. of a luxury car company.

In contrast, quantity is really easy to quantify and allows you to put out buzz generating press releases stating how you now have X many billion more pages than you're closest competitor. It doesn't really matter in terms of the press release whether your X many billion pages were generated by a spider trap, or not.

Maybe it will peak some interest but...

Sorry to be a pedant, but the word is pique.

• restricted Bash
• ulimits
• iptables owner module w/ the DROP target
• chroot jail

Bah! Obviously you haven't tried strace and ltrace yet. It like "process explorer" on steroids. With a big robotic claw. And super mystical monkey powers. :) It'll show file handles, individual read/writes, mallocs... anything that requires a system or library call (even strcpy!).

Bah! Obviously you haven't tried strace and ltrace yet. It like "process explorer" on steroids. With a big robotic claw. And super mystical monkey powers. :) It'll show file handles, individual read/writes, mallocs... anything that requires a system or library call (even strcpy!).

"untuitive"

Assuming you meant "intuitive", I do not think it means what you think it means.

It means "obvious" and "natural", something discovered through intuition rather than reasoning. It does not mean "practical".

A little notification can easily be missed, and is thus not intuitive, even if it might be more practical.

The popup asking you what to do can't be missed and is fairly obvious, making it intuitive, but maybe a little annoying.

There is sometimes a trade-off between practical and intuitive. It is normally better to annoy some power-users a little bit rather than baffle newbies.

I would like to offer a descenting opinion

While I realize you may thing GP's opinion stinks, I think the word you want is dissenting.

For those of you interested, I'm happily synching the Treo 650 with JPilot over a bluetooth connection to my Laptop running Ubuntu Linux. This article was helpful getting this setup:

http://howto.pilot-link.org/bluesync/fb.html

The keyring software I run to securely store passwords also happily syncs with Jpilot.

oh, there's usually plenty of editorializing. it's the lack of editing that seems to be the problem.

Right, and the Sinclair ZX80 could use its 1 KB of RAM to control a nuclear power station.

The definitions of words change. Gay is no longer just 'Happy' and a Faggot is no longer just a 'bundle of sticks'. Don't forget Cunt!

The definitions of words change. Gay is no longer just 'Happy' and a Faggot is no longer just a 'bundle of sticks'. Don't forget Cunt!

We most likely will not know if God does or does not exist. But intelligent design cannot be considered part of science until and unless every facet of the theory is held up to scientific investigation, which God can't be, as of yet.

I think that you're onto something, but I have one minor exception: creationists and ID folks use of the term "theory" is not applicable in a scientific sense and tends to blur the discussion. Intelligent Design is not a theory in the scientific sense. A theory is a scientific hypothesis that stands up to experimental testing, but has not been directly observed. As far as I know, Intelligent Design is not a theory, it's still a hypothesis.

Modern/popular use of English has frequently (and mistakenly) interchanged the use of the words theory and hypothesis. While theory can have both meanings, the use of the two different meanings are not interchangable in a scientific context -- which only blurs meanings. It further shows that the people pushing the "theory" of ID (and putting notices in biology school books that there are other "theories" about our origins) are just ignorant of scientific principles. I don't have a problem with people learning about creationism or ID...I just have a problem with it being taught in a scientific context. It's simply not science.

a prejudiced person who is intolerant of any opinions differing from his own.

Admittedly what is on display is a more specialized form of bigotry - intolerant of the opinions of the religious right.

It would help if you were to quote a correct definition of Guilt by Association.

And in case one refutation of your BS isn't enough, here's another.

Nice try, though.

You're quoting definitions, but have left out a definition for theft.

1. (Law) The act of stealing; specifically, the felonious taking and removing of personal property, with an intent to deprive the rightful owner of the same; larceny.

n : the act of taking something from someone unlawfully; "the thieving is awful at Kennedy International" [syn: larceny, thievery, thieving, stealing]

Personally, I find both arguments here flawed. Property is a concept, and can be extended to intellectual property. Semantically, however, unauthorized copying of IP does not fit the dictionary definition of theft. It may be a breach of agreement, or it may dilute the value of IP, but it simply doesn't fit any definition of 'theft' that I've ever seen. When a con artist is tried, are they tried for theft or fraud? There is a difference (especially in the common case of a dirty salesperson and the issue in question is 'fradulent conveyence'). Someone is deprived of property, but no theft has occured.

I suppose to quell the ./ blow-hards, I have to drop a disclaimer in here as well. My objections to the aforementioned definition does not necessarily imply that I condone IP piracy.

Ummm no. Package management is about installing, removing and updating software. We're not talking about Mac app wrappers here. Synaptic is just a front end to apt-cache and apt-get. The apt-get man page makes it pretty damn clear that the operations you perform with it are install, upgrade and remove. That's what you're doing and that's what the menu option should offer the user.

It is a CGI designed to look like an infinitely deep tree of static pages, each with unique content. The text is generated from a word frequency table based on a bunch of sample text I had lying around at the time, but picks "topic" words that it throws in more often and then adds punctuation at a normal-looking frequency. It looks normal enough that your brain tries to parse it, but just fails. Here's a sample.

It is a CGI designed to look like an infinitely deep tree of static pages, each with unique content. The text is generated from a word frequency table based on a bunch of sample text I had lying around at the time, but picks "topic" words that it throws in more often and then adds punctuation at a normal-looking frequency. It looks normal enough that your brain tries to parse it, but just fails. Here's a sample.

Linux does indeed have the capability.

Just a few points about the prior posts:

1) To consider that the Seperation of Church and State is a Constitutional fact is a huge mistake. Nowhere in the Constitution or any of it's 27 Ammendments does the proclimation of this Urban Myth hold true.

Constitution: http://www.archives.gov/national_archives_experien ce/charters/constitution.html

Bill of Rights: http://www.archives.gov/national_archives_experien ce/charters/bill_of_rights.html

Ammendments 11-27: http://www.archives.gov/national_archives_experien ce/charters/constitution_amendments_11-27.html

It turns out the idea of Seperation of Church and State was from a simple corrispondence letter by Thomas Jefferson and the concerns that endorsing a particular sect of the Christian Church could cause problems, as most of the colonies were created for religious reasons and persecution from the then indocrination of the Catholic and Angilican (Church of England) churches.

Learn more here: http://www.noapathy.org/tracts/mythofseparation.ht ml

2) There's also some things to note about the different opinions of Evolution. Most will argue the micro/macro evolution chain (if a small change can happen in a short time then a large change can happen in a long time) is a logical fallacy. It has been observed that a species can make small genetic changes within the genome, but there is no conclusive evidence to support large inter-species changes (paradoxies like the chicken and the egg) make this quite a chore for even the best of debaters (master debators?!), the geological record shows large jumps between species, but no interum species. Most genetic changes that have been observed are usually fatal to the species in question or have a detrimental impact instead of a positive impact.

3) Any religious ideology requires a faith element to it (takes just as much faith to believe there is no God as to believe that there is a God), and by definition faith cannot be scientifically analyzed, however science can assist in the proof (or disproof) of historical references for that said faith.

http://dict.die.net/faith/

Keeping an open mind can be good, but too often it can be cluttered with inaccuricies and FUD, it's best to be skeptical with what you read/hear until you can cross-reference them with reliable sources.

The toaster term was applied to O2s by marketing folks trying to signal that it could act equivalently to the conventional definition of a video toaster, an Amiga running NewTek stuff.

When a linux user defects to a using windows...

Except that "cat" and "man" mean something entirely different to a Linux user.

playfair was first. Jon didn't write playfair. in fact, the usage notes for deDRMS mention you need to use VLC to get your "user key"; a feature that was part of the original playfair which was later integrated into VLC.

* drms.c : DRMS
* Copyright (C) 2004 VideoLAN
* $Id: drms.c,v 1.2 2004/04/01 19:48:01 play_fair Exp $
*
* Author: Jon Lech Johansen

Jon is the person who first reverse-engineered the FairPlay DRM scheme.

* drms.c : DRMS
* Copyright (C) 2004 VideoLAN
* $Id: drms.c,v 1.1 2004/01/05 12:37:52 jlj Exp $
* Author: Jon Lech Johansen

Similarly, we've got no evidence he's done anything except compile the freely available VC-1 code in this latest iteration.

Perhaps you don't have mount(8)'s file system detection (stored in /etc/fstab) configured correctly. Try forcing ISO 9660 file system (RTFM) when mounting the disc. Also try reading the first few hundred KB manually with dd(1) (RTFM) to see whether the corruption is physical (CD level) or logical (file system level) in nature.

Or is it an audio CD? I don't subscribe to Wired so I can't just look for myself.

Perhaps you don't have mount(8)'s file system detection (stored in /etc/fstab) configured correctly. Try forcing ISO 9660 file system (RTFM) when mounting the disc. Also try reading the first few hundred KB manually with dd(1) (RTFM) to see whether the corruption is physical (CD level) or logical (file system level) in nature.

Or is it an audio CD? I don't subscribe to Wired so I can't just look for myself.

And don't be such a snobb...

snob

;-P

It makes me sad to see a good point brought down by horrific spelling/typing. A true artist would make an effort to master his medium, be it computers, paint, or (in this case) words.

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Africa
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It makes me sad to see a good point brought down by horrific spelling/typing. A true artist would make an effort to master his medium, be it computers, paint, or (in this case) words.

hubris
machinist
Africa
bulwark
junta
expansionist
meat

It makes me sad to see a good point brought down by horrific spelling/typing. A true artist would make an effort to master his medium, be it computers, paint, or (in this case) words.

hubris
machinist
Africa
bulwark
junta
expansionist
meat

It makes me sad to see a good point brought down by horrific spelling/typing. A true artist would make an effort to master his medium, be it computers, paint, or (in this case) words.

hubris
machinist
Africa
bulwark
junta
expansionist
meat

It makes me sad to see a good point brought down by horrific spelling/typing. A true artist would make an effort to master his medium, be it computers, paint, or (in this case) words.

hubris
machinist
Africa
bulwark
junta
expansionist
meat

It makes me sad to see a good point brought down by horrific spelling/typing. A true artist would make an effort to master his medium, be it computers, paint, or (in this case) words.

hubris
machinist
Africa
bulwark
junta
expansionist
meat

It makes me sad to see a good point brought down by horrific spelling/typing. A true artist would make an effort to master his medium, be it computers, paint, or (in this case) words.

hubris
machinist
Africa
bulwark
junta
expansionist
meat

Heres a quite interesting story on the power of mlats and what we will have to look forward to with the COE treaty :

A cop car was broken into in Quebec and a security doc relating to measures for the Free Trade Area of the Americas summit protests was stolen and posted in the net in Seattle. At the behest of the RCMP, a magistrate judge issued an order to grab the records from a Seattle web site called the 'independent media center' using the US/CAN mlat. They were then visited by the FBI/Secret Service. They then had a gag order on this for several days before it was released today.

Great precedent. I wonder if when my car gets broken into again, I can use the cybercrime treaty to find my stereo again...

BLAG Linux (no they're not slashdotted, just gotta wait for the new location to go through the DNS) too suffered from this, as they were hosted on the same server. WHY SHOULD A TOTALLY UNRELATED SITE END UP SUFFERING FROM THIS?!?! I don't exactly like what happened at Indymedia either with FBI, etc. etc. Sheesh, you ever notice that if you rearange the letters in FBI, you get fib?

A newspaper being located in a candidates home town is not "a sequence of events".

Nope -- you're right. It's a part of a sequence of events -- one that plays into expectations. I'm still failing to understand your point. Here's another definition

2: characterized by often poignant difference or incongruity between what is expected and what actually is; "madness, an ironic fate for such a clear thinker"; "it was ironical that the well-planned scheme failed so completely"

Again, I would expect that the clear endorsement from the paper representing our President's spiritual hometown would be Bush. The outcome is not what was expected, and it need not be more complicated or drawn out for it to fit the definition of irony. Maybe you expected this outcome, or maybe you weren't able to make a reasonable inference using no more than a location of a paper/town...but clearly the poster of the original story, the moderators who accepted the story, myself, and (what appears to be) a large portion of the readers here disagree with you. We would likely all expect the local Crawford press to either be silent or endorse Bush...ironic.

The larger discussion aside, this brings up an interesting point. Assuming that you're right just for a second -- what if popular culture dictates a different use for a word, is it incorrect because it is not in the dictionary? Especially in slang -- calling someone a bitch, its definition in this case, would not be found in the OED. Is its use invalid because it does not fall into the OED, even though we all understand what is being conveyed? Does it show that popular culture's evolution of language moves faster than OED? Can culture not change language unless the OED approves it?

"This begs the question..."

beg the question

to beg the question - definition by dict.die.net

How to (and how not to) Beg the Question. From "On Language: Semantitheft," by William Safire. The New York Times, May 13, 2001

BUGS
It's too big and too slow.

"the performance hit is due to bounds checking in the code, so it begs the question: Would you prefer a slower app that has more security..."

NO, IT DOESN'T:

beg the question

to beg the question - definition by dict.die.net

How to (and how not to) Beg the Question. From "On Language: Semantitheft," by William Safire. The New York Times, May 13, 2001

interestingly motd ~ works like this with /etc/issue and /etc/motd... you can edit your /etc/rc.d file as shown in the link but I just leave 2 lines blank.

• $ vi /etc/motd
  # commented newline 1
  # commented newline 2
  this is your motd message here
  :wq! (to save & quit)
  $

this should allow your motd to appear next boot into bash.

graph.

Besides, are you trying to say that Bush's *triple dip* recession was due to the bubble? What sort of wierd tripple-burst bubble are you claiming that we had?

Ongoing wars? He started them! Afghanistan was arguably justified, but the biggest economic damage - Iraq - was soley the neocon's doing.

I'll agree with your last point, though. The situation is a big disaster that will be hard to recover from.

"When did the term "X-Windows" come into play?"

About ten years ago when a large number of people who did not read this started being exposed to Linux and friends.

For those of our readers who didn't catch it, there is no "X-Windows". There are several permutations on the X Window System name, but the plural of "window" is not, and has never been, one of them.

For the record, I was just as guilty as the rest of calling the X Window System "X-Windows" until I was pointed to the man page once or twice.

Or you could just use Kudzu

First, the win32 functions look a lot longer because you made a new line for each parameter, and the standard headers use typedefs in all caps. Second, use MapViewOfFileEx if you want to specify a start address.
mmap has 6 parameters. CreateFileMapping has 7 parameters, and MapViewOfFileEx has 5. Minus the extra parameters each for offset in win32(as dumb as it is) posix takes 6 and win32 takes 10 parameters.
mmap:fd = CreateFileMapping:hFile
mmap:start = MapViewOfFileEx:lpBaseAddress
mmap:prot = CreateFileMapping:flProtect
mmap:length = MapViewOfFileEx:dwNumberOfBytesToMap
mmap:offset = MapViewOfFileEx:FileOffsetHigh and Low, as two seperate values to create a 64 bit offset
mmap:return value = MapViewOfFile:return value
CreateFileMapping:dwMaximumSizeHigh and Low have no equvalent in mmap; they can be used to expand the size of the file
CreateFileMapping:lpAttributes has no equivalent in mmap; CreateFileMapping creates a section object in the kernel: it has its own ACL. mmap always uses the file's permissions. This also controls if child processes inherit the section object.
CreateFileMapping:lpName(optional) has no exact equivalent in mmap since the original file(if there was one) had a name. This section of shared memory does not. This specifies a name for the section that will be placed in the object manager namespace, if you want one.

In Windows shared and mapped memory is accomplished through a section object. UNIX considers shared memory another type of file. Since in Windows a section != a file, an extra step is needed to create a section from a file. Both can create a memory section that is not connected to a specific file.
So UNIX is a little more convient since it can do two steps in one. If that was a common task in a program you could easily write a function to combine the two steps into one.
As for the asthetic state of win32, I think that the all caps typedefs and variable type prefixes (dw, h, lp) are hideous; but they don't have much of an impact on the api's actual usability.

Overall, this isn't a very good example of POSIX's superiority; win32 provides more functionaility in this case and the extra parameters can be out of the way using one extra function.

Sources:
mmap
CreateFileMapping
MapViewOfFileEx
MapViewOfFile
See also:
NtCreateSection
NtMapViewOfSection