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Bus Master IDE FAQ

Bus Mastering IDE technology implements logic circuitry on your motherboard to reduce CPU's work of retrieving and storing data on your hard disk drive. This technology can potentially "free up the CPU" to do other tasks in a multitasking operating system environment such as Windows* 95, Windows NT*, OS/2* etc.

>You want VPN software? Go write it and GPL it.

Why should I?

Sun has already done this. It is called SKIP.

And it is under a BSD-esque license.

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person
obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation
files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without
restriction, including without limitation the rights to use,
copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell
copies of the Software or derivatives of the Software, and to
permit persons to whom the Software or its derivatives is furnished
to do so, subject to the following conditions:

http://skip.incog.com/src-form.html is the link in my old code version.
http://www.mirr or.ac.uk/sites/ftp.zedz.com/pub/crypto/programs/sk ip/ is the link to the code in case you don't have this laying about.

The code works between Unix boxen and between unix and windows. And, it has been rumored to work with IPsec, but given I do not have a windows box doing ipsec, I can neither confirm nor deny it.

So:
1) Sun DOES release code.
2) The world does not revolve about the GPL.

I don't know which window manager came out first with it

the Win dowShade system extension on the Mac, 1989.

This may be seen as a feature, not a bug by some ;-) However there's no denying the fact that the web needs animated pictures, if only so advertisers can annoy us so much that we buy their product :-o

The fact is, the lack of animation in PNG is going to be the biggest obstacle to eliminating GIF. Browser support is no longer really a problem, as soon as Mozilla ships - as Microsoft provides enough PNG support to get by (though both have trouble with alpha right now, a sexy feature that gif never supported anyway). What to do? What we really should have done is be ready with MNG, the animated network graphics format, but it just didn't happen - I suppose it's still not ready, for some reason completely incomprehsible to me, and even if it were it's not supported in Mozilla (yet:) and certainly not in in IE.

What then to do? It's possible to use javascript to animate PNGs, but (1) not everybody surfs with Javascript enabled (2) that's not exactly a trivial change to make to a web page. Ideally we'd just want to replaces GIFs by equivalent PNGs but that's just not possible with animated GIFs.

At the risk of sounding like a broken record, what to do??? I sure don't know the answer to this, but I know something needs to be done. Not only does Unisys suck with it's abusive royalty policy and sleazy submarine tactic, GIFs suck too: (1) only 256 colors (2) poor compression (3) very difficult to scale dynamically.

Suggestions?
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In Opera 3.62 ß6 under Windoze 4.10.1998, it shows the date as 29, That's all - no month, no year.

Check out http://linux berg.mirror.ac.uk</a> in Netscrape 4.x for Linux. Look for the big date in red.... doesn't happen in IE, or in Netscrape for non-Linux platforms (Windoze and AIX tested so far). Silly javascript :)