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And rather than read the article, you're posting here. It's only when running the 64-bit version of Windows, not when using a 64-bit processor.

Your Athlon64 is running in 32-bit mode only right now, which is why you don't have a problem.

You're exactly the type of end-user I don't like to deal with. You're in the know enough to know a few things about computers, but not enough to put aside pride or hubris or fear of embarrassment to get the right answers. Instead you flounder like a fish out of water in the hopes you might flop into the sea of right answers.

You think you know the answer but lack the capability or capacity to know the answer. How do I know this? The answer was in the article. You either didn't read the article or lack the ability to digest the material in the article. Either way, this is the deep end of the pool (and can you believe we're talking about XP?). The kiddie pool is over there.

just like file sharing and terrorism ?

And it was a clever rewording of a section of a story published in Kuro5hin ages ago! And the original story had more religio-philosophical values in it, too!

The only day of the year where I'd rather be at K5 than here.

tis one of those days where I'd rather be at K5 than at /.

Height can be somewhat indicative of good health. There was an interesting MLP on K5 about this subject.

It's this perceived superior health that leads to higher sex appeal and respect.

I'm aware of the various obvious reasons (unrealistic deadlines/expectations, poorly defined requirements, scope changes, staff shortages, sabotage and other "real-world" issues, etc.), but I'm curious to know peoples' thoughts on a couple things:

First, how much of an effect does the fact that many universities/colleges in North America are pumping out rather mediocre, assembly-line Java programmers have on a project's changes of success?

Second, I've seen a lot of hype over offshore outsourcing, but not much in the way of actual case studies showing its success compared to in-house or traditional regional outsourcing. Anyone have any good anecdotal info here or maybe a few links that cut through the marketing hype (which is why Google wasn't of much help here when last I looked)?

not sure what part you're referring to exactly. if you do an allinurl:yourdomain.com and someotherdomain.com/whatever?whatever.com comes up with your exact title and description, isn't that what page jacking is?

another place i mentioned allinurl is here, but i think that's right too.

or are you talking about one of the pages i link to from the story?

lemme know (email, whatever...) you think is wrong and i'll see if i can't get it corrected.

thanks again,
kpaul

here's my write-up on the problem from early February called Google and the Mysterious Case of the 1969 Pagejackers. the problem has been around for a long, long time.

personally, i'm ready to give up google maps or something else (autolink?) if they would 'fix' this or at least be more transparent about what's going on. ;)

btw, the word on the net is that the googleguy posting here isn't the real one. anybody have details on this?

-kpaul

You must be kidding. K5's articles are a totally different league: they're original, thoughtful, and interesting. Plus, the articles are not only moderated by the readers, there's also an editing queue. Sure, they don't post a story for every minor kernel update or gnome release. But Kuro5hin is what I actually read, as opposed to casually browsing /.

Hacking Google Print article on kuro5hin.org, explains how Google Print uses cookies to track your access and ensure you don't look at too many pages. Solution: acquire lots of cookies.
Firefox GreaseMonkey scripts -- scroll to "Google Butler"; it will make saving Google Print pages work without extra effort in Firefox.

There is an interesting k5 article caled Hacking Google Print.
Check it out.

Something like ReiserFS's plug-ins might be useful here. See this example of how /etc/passwd could be split up to improve privilege granularity (search for "Take /etc/passwd for example"), all without breaking existing programs. This would also give you finer-grained modification timestamps, which would help you figure out what that pesky installer just did.

Here's the story of how some dude learned French in a year.

Getting some good software is another helpful tactic you can try. Firstly, software is very interactive and so it's an engaging way to learn. It's a refreshing change from reading a book or even listening to an audio course, and can use teaching methods that aren't available in these other formats. With software, it's usually easy to set your own pace.

In my experience the best software you can get is The Rosetta Stone. Rosetta Stone teaches you a foreign language the way you learned your first language. Using pictures, text and audio, it associates the foreign word with a concept and then gradually builds up new words and concepts based on the ones you already know. It starts with "boy", "girl", "man", "woman" and builds up from there: "A boy and a girl", "A boy and a table", "The boy is on the table". It feels strange at first, but it works. It sticks. It's fun.

Hey, you know that by making your stats available on the web you are doing the following:

You are helping (referer) spammers!

1. Thousands, if not millions of websites are beginning to experience real problems with Referer spam
2. The prime motivation for referer spam is PageRank whoring
3. Web sites that publish refererers, give spammers the illusion referrer spamming helps.

So, for the love of [insert deity here], would you please password protect such pages

Yeah! Then rename the site something like... kuro5hin.org!

And the worst part is, we're addicted to it now in Canada. So much of our trade is directly between us and the U.S. that we've become dependent on it, Canada is treated terribly unfair to the expense of Canadian producers and consumers alike, but the sheer amount of business means that the price of breaking off would be prohibitively expensive. It's an abusive relationship we've trapped ourselves in. (Though I feel a bit odd phrasing things the way I do, having dual-citizenship and all . . . the "them" and "us" tend to differ from occasion to occasion for me. I could just as easily rephrase the above as remorse over how abysmally "we" treat "them"). But, yes. The icing on the cake, of course, is that the arbitration in NAFTA invariably falls in favour of the States, so even having binding arbitration wouldn't help Canada much. I've heard it remarked that much of Australia's history is a result of trying to pretend it's part of Europe and the Western countries, while in reality it sits right alonside Asia. This may be a better way to go; ignore free trade with the states, start making use of the fact that they're within sight of Japan and China and so on. Though from all the things I can remember reading about the state of these ideas in Australia, and the current politics, I suppose that isn't all that likely to happen. Oh well. People will realize; probably too late, though. Canada and Australia can go out for drinks and bitch to eachother about how crappy the States treat them, and then cave in again the next time the U.S. comes around.

Its advocates desperately need to prove that amateurs can do just as good a job as experts who really know what they're talking about - or editors who can write a readable entry. 'Cos it's Emergent, dude!

As the co-founder of the project wrote, Wikipedia needs to embrace real experts.

I can't see Wikipedia escaping from this death-spiral because of the fundamental philosophical error - that you can vote for the truth. Even Wikipedia has an entry for this ;-)

The much deeper problem is the backlash. Kid goes to Google, finds a garbage Wikipedia entry, fucks up. It would have been nice to have some real quality information on the internet, while it lasted.

...reviews along the lines of this one that I've written over the years that I've been meaning to collect together on a web site. (Inspired by Stanislaw Lem.) But this review shows that someone has beaten me to it!

There are some interesting posts. Check it out here.

There are some interesting posts. Check it out here.

I agree. They should probably post real stories like this.

• Most software fails because it is designed to fail
  
• Make sure architecture assigns blame clearly
  
• Managers don't want to know the truth: keep it from them.
  
• Overtime only counts when people see it
  

A lot less than the $0 I paid them to try to get this posted.

I know, but the thread had the word "shameless" in it, mod me down if you must.

Nike would disagree with you, all the way to the Supreme Court...http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2003/7/9/115 822/8110

Microsoft used the BSD networking code in the kernel for its first version of Windows NT. Starting with NT v3.5 in 1994, the TCP/IP stack was completely rewritten from scratch by Microsoft using no BSD code. There is still some BSD code in use in the userspace utilities, like ping, telnet, et cetera.

Can we PLEASE put to rest this notion that any version of Windows made in the last 10 years has any kind of BSD TCP/IP stack code in it?

SOURCE

I think his point is that modern-day *nix code is preprocessor-happy, not necessarily slower to compile, because it has too broad a potential audience (different architectures, cpus, distros) and code is too cumbersome to write in that situation.

I disagree, but I do love the digs at C James Joyce made in his k5 rant. :)

You can build something like this for any laptop. The parts would be something like a USB module like this ($20 unless you're happy just using a regular serial port), an Atmel AVR microcontroller (this ($30 for the development board which is easier to use than just the component). The accelerometer outputs a pulse with a width that varies linearly with acceleration you can just write a simple loop on the AVR (using avr-gcc) to count the pulse length and then report back via the USB (or serial port). Total cost: probably well under $100 including building an AVR programmer.

• How to Get Control of Your Time and Your Life by Alan Lakein
• Buy at Amazon
• Buy at Powells

The first thing Lakein says to do is to write down your goals. First your goals for your entire life, then your goals for the next five years, and then what your goals would be if you knew you only had six months to live.

Then he explains how to prioritize the activities and tasks you spend time on each day based on how they advance you towards these goals. Any activities that don't advance you to your own goals for your own life are to be considered low priority, and unless you have a lot of spare time, not performed at all.

Now for the reason your boss doesn't want you to read this time management book: Lakein seems pretty businesslike throughout most of the book, but in discussing how activities should advance one's goals, he comes right out and explicitly says that if your job isn't helping you to achieve your goals, then you should quit it and get a better one.

Works for me. I'm still working as a software consultant, but that's just a means to an end. A goal I'm working towards, presently by spending two hours a day practicing on my piano, is to quit working altogether and to go back to school to major in musical composition. I want to be a composer someday.

Well, I am already am, I guess. Here are some MP3s of my playing my own piano compositions:

• Geometric Visions

I also have more to say about Lakein's book in my k5 diary: Time Management.

Anyone modding up the above will be spanked in metamod.

I guess it's time to give kuroshin another, nother go. Just wish it had better news stories.

In light of this article for post-reelection U.S. citizens who want a country to deport themselves to.

To quote this article:
Costa Rica: This little country has been overrun by Blue Staters, all of whom are fervently stroking their crystals while holding the lotus position meditating upon their auras. Costa Rica is the Starbucks of Central America. Costa Ricans are nice, polite people, who dislike conflict (they have no military even), and who are generally well educated but who are becoming, well, a bit bemused and perhaps alarmed about all these gringos pouring into their country.

<tongue in=cheek>
It sounds like a good portion of their economy is based around long distance phone calls from the gringos to their families and friends back home. VoIP would devastate them.
</tongue>

Do you think your processor should contain open microcode as well?

As a matter of fact, yes. I do.

And, I know for a fact I'm not the only one.

Open Operating System, Open BIOS, and Open Microcode. Fine!!

I wrote this on K5 to explain how to hack the college admissions system through sports, so that you can still get into college no matter how bad your school is. This is based on my own personal experience, but I have tried to make it as geek friendly as possible.

Anyone who wants to put some of their music out under a CCL is also welcome to do it at muzik.agnula.org. Yeah, an awful lot of it up there is crap. I like to think our stuff is good, but hey, you can do what you like with it to improve it if you want to. That's freedom of the kind that used to be around before the RIAA and the Happy Birthday silliness was enshrined.

I realize I am off-topic and complaining, but I wanted to see if we couldn't get a discussion going about a smarter, more democratic way to elect submissions to go live.

Well, at least that's what makes GMail, et. al. different/innovative.

What makes GMail etc innovative? I've just finished explaining that these techniques have been in use for years. For instance, here's a story on Kuro5hin from 2002 that mentions a dynamic threading mode that can be used to display new information from the server without reloading the page.

But the browser wars/innovation have been over for 5 years. They decided to focus on usability and leave the non-compliant browsers at the station.

This isn't about "non-compliant browsers". Catering to browsers with different capabilities without resorting to highest common factor design is something web developers do all the time. It's not something that went out when people stopped supporting "both" browsers, and it's certainly not some kind of Netscape 4.x legacy. It's a general principle that the web relies on, and is unrelated to usability - apart from the fact that it is a method that avoids breaking things completely for some people.

The marketplace apparently approves.

I hope you aren't trying to imply that this means they are writing high quality code.

Today there are basically 3 categories of browsers: lynx, modern, and old-and-busted.

That's a ridiculous, superficial analysis. There are many ways in which user-agents can differ, and they can be quite independent. For instance, only the very latest betas of (modern) Opera support XMLHttpRequest, somebody might switch off images if they are surfing on their (modern) laptop over their (modern) mobile phone, or a business might follow (modern) CERT's advice and disable client-side scripting on their employee's (modern) browsers.

If you can measure an appreciable productivity increase for a good UI, how much of that is worth sacrificing for lynx? Graceful degradation may have outlived its usefulness.

Jesus H. Christ on a skateboard! You are replying to a comment that explains what graceful degradation is. How about you try reading it. It does not entail sacrificing any functionality whatsoever, for Lynx or any other browser. Sacrificing functionality is mutually incompatible with graceful degradation, so I fail to see how you could possibly confuse them.

After a quick web search, all I was able to find was this site, which has a pretty sketchy TOS agreement.

(Source)

Holy smokes, someone on slashdot who actually knows what they're talking about, and is willing to submit themselves to the moderation and redicule of random 15 year olds. It's too bad there's not a better way to recognize people for being actually knowledgable in their field, beyond avid armchair lawyers that seem to proliferate on slashdot.

I wrote a little something about this a while back; let me know if you find it amusing (or distressing (or both)).

This article investigating dubious comments appeared shortly after the Win2k source code was leaked.

http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2004/2/15/71552/7795

Not to mention how many times "Hack" and "Ugly Hack" are used like it tells here

Thanks to Kuro5hin.org.

Having a colony on Mars would not save the human race were the sun to be destroyed, for example. While scientists can /predict/ its heat death several billions of years into the future, that is a prediction and who knows how long it will /really/ burn. Additionally, large enough collisions could destroy the sun, and if a large enough scattering of asteroids passed through the solar system, both Mars and Earth could be wiped out.

If this kind of thinking interests you, you might be interested in some fiction over at kuro5hin.org:
Passages in the Void
The Passage Home
Mortal Passage

Having a colony on Mars would not save the human race were the sun to be destroyed, for example. While scientists can /predict/ its heat death several billions of years into the future, that is a prediction and who knows how long it will /really/ burn. Additionally, large enough collisions could destroy the sun, and if a large enough scattering of asteroids passed through the solar system, both Mars and Earth could be wiped out.

If this kind of thinking interests you, you might be interested in some fiction over at kuro5hin.org:
Passages in the Void
The Passage Home
Mortal Passage

Having a colony on Mars would not save the human race were the sun to be destroyed, for example. While scientists can /predict/ its heat death several billions of years into the future, that is a prediction and who knows how long it will /really/ burn. Additionally, large enough collisions could destroy the sun, and if a large enough scattering of asteroids passed through the solar system, both Mars and Earth could be wiped out.

If this kind of thinking interests you, you might be interested in some fiction over at kuro5hin.org:
Passages in the Void
The Passage Home
Mortal Passage

Having a colony on Mars would not save the human race were the sun to be destroyed, for example. While scientists can /predict/ its heat death several billions of years into the future, that is a prediction and who knows how long it will /really/ burn. Additionally, large enough collisions could destroy the sun, and if a large enough scattering of asteroids passed through the solar system, both Mars and Earth could be wiped out.

If this kind of thinking interests you, you might be interested in some fiction over at kuro5hin.org:
Passages in the Void
The Passage Home
Mortal Passage