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Named pipes are not |'s.

Named pipes are...well..."named" FIFO structures on the filesystem whose contents reside in memory. Check this article for some more information.

If he were using just a pipe, he'd be doing something like....

mplayer blah blah | lame foo blargh

That's not what he's suggesting here - he's suggesting using a named pipe as a temporary repository for your data stream, which is a bad idea, both for the strain on your memory, and the lack of integrity should your computer burp.

9600 baud is the limit of copper, and we haven't crossed it. The 33.6 is BPS or bits per second. Every speed increase over 9600 was obtained by compression (this is why you don't hear of a 33.6k baud modem).

Compression in the form of v.42bis or v.44 is not generally factored into the speed rating of the modem, since its effectiveness depends on the data being transmissted.

See these tables for a better idea how these speed increases above the actual signalling rate (baud). There is a combination between faster signalling rates (note that none of these appear to have reached 9600 baud) and cramming more and more information into the signals using advanced modulation techniques.

Compression is on TOP of this.

I was thinking it was more like Schrodinger's cat. In this case, the cyanide capsule being the indication that the project could fail.

I'd rather read BLOBs

Well I'm a little biased having worked for a disk-as-backup company for over 4 years... so...

here's some links:

Scroll down about half way

This will give you a good overview of TCO for tape vs. Disk

Do your own research... you'll see the facts for yourself...

or go here to see the future of backup and restore:

Avamar Technologies

No, I've never heard of CP/M; I'll look it up. Which I've just done, and although it may not exactly support MY standpoint, it in no way supports yours. http://www.maxframe.com/CPM.HTM has a quick synopsis.
What, then, is a "first mover"? According to http://searchcio.techtarget.com/sDefinition/0,,sid 19_gci509397,00.html , "In the business world, a first mover is a company that aims to gain an advantageous and perhaps insurmountable market position by being the first to establish itself in a given market."

Now, I'm the last person to assert that if a company, paradigm, orgamism, WHATEVER has an advantage, or even a HUGE advantage over its competitors, that it's ALWAYS going to be on top; "insurmountable" is never, or rarely, literally that. However, very few people are going to argue with Microsoft's huge dominance of software these days, or with Intel's position in microprocessors (embedded ones, too). You may argue with the fact that some of the companies in the list were actually not the VERY first to go into their respective markets (but some of them were!); however, as my links show, the companies were, in many cases, the first to popularize their technologies, and popularizing, whether through advertisement, word-of-mouth, or even by locking the market onto whatever "standard" you're working on is just as important as having a truly useful, innovative product (fortunately or unfortunately).

I apologize for the term "knee-jerk reaction" I used in my original posts, and realize that you have some good points. However, in your first post you gave no evidence to back up your "insight", which was, essentially, that the winners get to write the history books. I have the feeling that we'll not agree on these points, but thank goodness the internet is anonymous, eh? And truly, debates, even dumb ones, make life interesting. :)

OS X (with 10.3) makes encrypting your entire hard drive (or home directory) very easy. Just a few clicks to encryption. Windows makes it fairly easy. Not too hard either. There are options for the BSDs and Linuxes that vary in easiness based on how the distro has been designed.

If that's not hard enough, there's plenty of applications to encrypt specific files with higher level security.

Yes, with enough time and processing power, just about all of them can be cracked. How likely is it that anyone's going to spend that amount of effort on you? If you just want to keep your bank balance private if someone steals your laptop, you're fine. If you're suspected of being an Al Qaida operative, then the NSA might turn its acres of processors on you.

EAL 3. Now I just need a link to know what that means.

Yes, Suse Linux Enterprise Server 8 has

When the user demanding access to the box I support because he's the "IT" person and he's had a unix class so he knows what he's doing and knows nothing about our applications and when supporting him on a different box that isn't ours to support (just to be nice) and he's told to press control-c asks if that is "capital control-c?", he's not getting access.

Now submitter anomaly isn't that confused, but the point for needing external support is that he can't support it himself. Maybe there's reasons the product has to work the way it does. If not, like everyone says, get a different vendor.

Or ... get an open source application and change it to do what you want, that's the beauty of open source!

IIRC, for each qubit you add, the computing power doubles. So while we're not into the really powerful stuff yet, progress should be pretty rapid. I've dug up a little info from google and this seems to be a great place to learn as to how it all works. Because of superposition (read the link), "the number of computations that a quantum computer could undertake is 2^n, where n is the number of qubits used. A quantum computer comprised of 500 qubits would have a potential to do 2^500 calculations in a single step. This is an awesome number - 2^500 is infinitely more atoms than there are in the known universe (this is true parallel processing - classical computers today, even so called parallel processors, still only truly do one thing at a time: there are just two or more of them doing it)". 7 doesn't seem like much, but a few times more and you have an extremely powerful computer. As for the price, I haven't got a clue, Google it.

It's called SET, and has been around in one form or another for over a decade. But the credit card companies obviously decided it was cheaper to deal with the fraud than to implement it.

RAD = Rapid Application Development

but does it moo when you turn it upside down?

At Microsoft they're not using Waterfall model but Synchronize and stabilize model to drive their software processes. In many studying materials for basics of software engineering in colleges it's also often called the Microsoft model.

I have found this site to be a good place to lookup acronyms. CrownRai

• >You deliberately use exclusive or, indicating that what you linked to ought to make things either clear or clearer but not both.

• >You probably should stick with something like "that ought to make things clear, or at least clearer".

  AND

  >Your logic is incorrect

One would need many minutes long work to open the cases and reset the bioses especially if they don't know the specific mobo.

They wouldn't even have to open the case if they know some BIOS override passwords.

Besides, according to WhatIs.com and Anti-Cybersquatting Consumer Protection Act you are incorrect. Cybersquatting is defined as I defined it in the parent post, for profit.

History lesson.

Microsoft purchased the rights to QDOS from Seattle Computer Products (SCP) for $50K. MS did not steal, nor reverse engineer anything to get MS-DOS. They licensed PC-DOS to IBM and per agreeement with IBM, MS was allowed to sell their own version of DOS as MS-DOS. IBM re-wrote lots of the code due to numerous bugs in MS-DOS, naming their version PC-DOS.

SCP also retained the rights to license MS-DOS as well as long as it was done in conjunction with a computer purchase. You even saw magazines ads to but a copy of DOS bundled with a naked CPU chip.

Tim Patterson of SCP has been know to say he was glad to get $50K from MS for this deal. MS did not inform SCP of their deal with IBM (would you?). Now, although one may feel MS should have been more generous, or SCP should have been wiser, this was at least a legitimate and mutually acceptable arrangement between MS and SCP. Tim later became an MS employee.

IBM is generally considered to have screwed up on this deal as well, letting the fox inside the chicken coup.

See history of MS-DOS or another one for this.

Life is often stranger than imagination.

In related news...(from 2003), for those interested.

RHEL is LSB compliant I thought...

I most certainly like how slashdot provides links in its articles

Actually, you both are correct. PeopleSoft is an applications vendor, so we help companies keep track of their stuff (money, employees, customers, etc.) which is not easy to do when the company gets large (this is an admittedly very simplified explanation of what we do). On the surface, Oracle seeks to acquire Psoft, kill the product off (bug fixes only), and convert its customers over to Oracle applications on Oracle's database. For a very large segment of ERP customers world-wide, this will mean that they will need an Oracle database and support staff in house (expensive) ... and once they have one Oracle DB, others will follow. So, one reason they want to acquire Psoft, and there are many, is that they need some way to keep their DB market share from eroding (the database market is, I'm guessing, probably 70% of their revenue). Oracle's DB market share is and has been eroding (there is an IDC report on it here: http://searchoracle.techtarget.com/originalContent /0,289142,sid41_gci910853,00.html ) for some time and it will continue until Oracle lowers its prices to meet comparable products like DB2/UDB, MSSQL, and Sybase. In either case (lower prices or fewer units sold) they will be losing money as time rolls on ... and they know it. Acquiring Psoft and shutting it down will corral customers into running Oracle DB whether they like it or not and provide applications revenue assuming they don't go with SAP. Also, the victims, I mean customers, will be paying higher prices because they don't have a choice of going with PeopleSoft on DB2/Linux, or MSSQL/Windows, or whatever.

It's been mentioned before.

Sybase is great at replication and has had it for a long time. It can replicate data from non-Sybase databases too. I've used it in production. (Ironically, my company is moving to MS SQL Server to take advantage of better support from our hosting provider, but frankly, I'm not religious about it.)

Here's the product sheet, a white paper from Sybase, a quick intro, a slightly old quick reference guide, and a performance and tuning guide.

Note that Sybase isn't giving away the replication server for free though. So I'm not sure it'll solve your MySQL problem.

--LP

Start from a page, e.g. slashdot, and try to reach a certain other page, say somethingawful.com, by just selecting text and middle-clicking.

Try to reach your target with no more than, say... 6 clicks? ;)

According to this site, the LOC is 10 terebytes. So then, 6.63 GB/s = .00663 TB/s = .000663 LOC/s = 1508.296 s/LOC = 25.138 min/LOC. Oh well.

Short description of ASN.1:
http://searchsmallbizit.techtarget.com/sDefinition /0,,sid44_gci213786,00.html/

I personally don't believe in the current XML for everything dogma. I also think that standardizing on descriptions of binary formats is a good thing. ASN.1 seems like a decent idea to me, but there are virtually no free tools available (at least not supporting the more efficient PER encoding).

I also don't think it's quite fair to compare a text editor to an ASN.1 (or similar) aware editor. Writing a text editor is significantly easier.

Corporations have intranets, but they may also have inter-networks with various vendors and customers -- these may not always be part of the Internet. So, as long as it is possible to have an internet that is not the Internet, the proper version should be capitalized.

I believe the proper 90's buzzword for these inter-networks is "extranet". So really, you can have an extranet that is not part of the internet, but there is only one internet, and the internet is really an extranet.

Now if you can excuse me, I need to go think outside the box and shift some paradigms to enhance my time utilization.

steganography: the hiding of a secret message within an ordinary message and the extraction of it at its destination.

success story here, sorry

outside of the Linus quote "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many to choose from"

I think you may be mis-attributing that quote. At least 3 sources name Dr Andrew Tanenbaum...

Here
Here
and here

While it's possible he was quoting someone else, I suspect is wasn't Linus...

According to that msfn.org site, Microsoft has now announced that SP2 will install on all but the PCs that were also blocked from SP1.

So, if SP1 will install, so will SP2.

In the interest of preventing other people from getting their computers hacked into to form a botnet and DDOS the planet, check out how to change the CD key and a list of CD keys.

I don't think so.

PS3 plays PS2 games: PS3 is backwards compatible.

PS2 plays PS3 games: PS2 is forward compatible.

See http://whatis.techtarget.com/definition/0,,sid9_gc i283965,00.html

Of course, if you have an authoritative link which shows the rest of the world being wrong, I'd be very happy to see it :)

In terms of just the word "compatible", I'd say that the PS3 is compatible with PS2 games.

Ah this is when their terminology really starts hurting us.

1 terabyte = 1,000,000,000,000 bytes

Try 1024^4 = 1,099,511,627,776.. wait, where'd my 100 gigs go?

Due to the exponential nature this little white lie hurts a bit more for every increment, here sacrificing just about 10% of the storage. I'm surprised they don't say 1000 gigs just to dodge the 10% mark.

For those who insist that tera means one trillon for bytes, I reference
Here, here , here, here, here, and how about here. Now I'll admit the wikipedia entry has the trillion byte definition, but they basically said it is used in storage advertising.

It looks like in California, at least, there might be a real legal issue if your server gets hacked, and you do need to notify everyone.

When my (former) ISP got hacked and all our passwords were stolen, they sent us all an e-mail (a month later) telling us about it, as a CYA for this law.

• http://www.thestreet.com/tech/internet/761537.html
  
• http://news.com.com/Yahoo+Mail,+Amazon+suffer+outa ges/2100-1017_3-216131.html
  
• http://searchsecurity.techtarget.com/originalConte nt/0,289142,sid14_gci876675,00.html
  

No, I clearly remember him using the definition Broadband Integrated Services Digital Network. I just googled it to make sure I'm not crazy.

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I wrote Linux. It's true! Or rather, God did. And he coded it in Hebrew and Greek. I discovered this while working on a secret research project, to discover -- using Bible code -- the true cause of the sinking of the Titanic.

Try it yourself! Take every 1,342nd character from the King James Bible beginning Exodus 14:32, transliterate into the 8-bit bytes using a base26 algorithm, and you have a tar file containing the Linux 2.2.12 source code.

I wrote Linux. It's true! Or rather, God did. And he coded it in Hebrew and Greek. I discovered this while working on a secret research project, to discover -- using Bible code -- the true cause of the sinking of the Titanic.

Try it yourself! Take every 1,342nd character from the King James Bible beginning Exodus 14:32, transliterate into the 8-bit bytes using a base26 algorithm, and you have a tar file containing the Linux 2.2.12 source code.

What the poster really wants is anti-sound.
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If you've got solar or some other kind of distributed power generation, you can do it, too. It's called net metering. And yes, people with solar energy have the advantage, as their equipment usually produce the most during the peak times of the day, whereas they fall short during the off-peak times. At least a few people have ended up drawing more than they produce, but still ended up with a check from the electric company, because the peak-time contribution more than made up for the off-peak consumption.

On the one hand, virus writers are aggressively pursued and prosecuted with claimed damages of billions of dollars; on the other hand, these losses are not included in the TCO of Windows! What gives?

Or more importantly, does the average /.'er need to worry about Van Eck Phreaking?

(The closest I've ever come to worrying about this was my old college girlfriend who would say (while we were ensconced in the back of my van), "Eck! Freak!"

In every case where there has been a problem with Windows security, it's been AFTER they released a patch for the vulnerability. Every one!

- "Microsoft issued a software patch, MS03-032, on Aug. 20 that was supposed to fix the problem. However, that patch failed to close the hole on Windows machines running Internet Explorer Versions 5.01, 5.5 or 6.0.
On Sept. 8, Microsoft acknowledged problems with the MS03-032 patch and promised to issue a fix as soon as possible. Since that time, no changes have been made to the MS03-032 patch. In the succeeding weeks, hackers moved quickly to take advantage of the company's slow response." ( Computerworld.com )

- "Two vulnerabilities have been reported in Internet Explorer, which in combination with other known issues can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a user's system.
1) A variant of the "Location:" local resource access vulnerability can be exploited via a specially crafted URL in the "Location:" HTTP header to open local files. ...
2) A cross-zone scripting error can be exploited to execute files in the "Local Machine" security zone.
Secunia has confirmed the vulnerabilities in a fully patched system with Internet Explorer 6.0. It has been reported that the preliminary SP2 prevents exploitation by denying access.
Successful exploitation requires that a user can be tricked into following a link or view a malicious HTML document.
NOTE: The vulnerabilities are actively being exploited in the wild to install adware on users' systems." ( Secunia )

- "The flaw, which is different from RPC DCOM flaw that spawned the Blaster and Nachi worms, makes Windows XP and 2000 servers vulnerable to denial-of-service attacks because of a multi-threaded race condition that exists. A remote attacker could crash the RPC service simply by sending multiple RPC requests. The vulnerability occurs if two threads process the same request, thereby corrupting memory.
Microsoft still has not released a patch for the flaw, leaving nearly every Windows XP and 2000 system exposed to potential exploits. Microsoft may, however, be preparing an all-encompassing RPC patch that would address this issue and previous flaws surrounding the network service, said Gerhard Eschelbeck, chief technology officer with Qualys Inc., at RSA Conference 2004. RPC is a protocol that one program can use to request a service from another program located elsewhere on a network." - ( searchsecurity.com )

- "Attackers are taking advantage of a security hole in Internet Explorer not immediately patched by Microsoft
Security experts have warned that a vulnerability that has apparently been left un-patched by Microsoft is being exploited by attackers "in the wild".
The "object type" vulnerability, which was first acknowledged publicly by Microsoft on 20 August this year, allows an attacker to take control of a system by embedding malicious code in a Web-page. If the Web page is viewed by an Internet Explorer browser - even a fully patched browser - the malicious code embedded in the Web-page will execute, experts say. Despite Microsoft acknowledging the patch doesn't work, it evidently has not yet issued a working fix for the vulnerability.
US-based information security company iDefense released a statement over the weekend claiming the vulnerability is being actively exploited "in the wild".
"Whether you are patched or not, attackers can execute code on your computer at will when you visit a hostile website when using vulnerable versions of Internet Explorer," the statement read.
The relevant Microsoft bulletin was issued on 20 August and last updated on 8 September." - ( ZDnet - but then again, you didn't say "...after

Here is a link that made me laugh..

This morning, however, McBride had to face the music with shareholders during the Unix vendor's quarterly earnings call, where he reported sharply reduced earnings and sparse revenue from its licensing business.

McBride put the blame squarely on his rivals for raising doubts in the minds of potential licensees about the legitimacy of SCO's ownership of System V Unix. SCO alleges that IBM illegally contributed Unix code to the Linux kernel and has levied a $5 billion suit against Big Blue.

http://labmice.techtarget.com/windowsxp/articles/c hangeID.htm

"Despite urging from competitors and open source advocates, Sun Microsystems Inc. of Santa Clara, Calif., will not open the source to its Java programming language anytime soon, said Sun CEO Scott McNealy during a news conference at the 2004 FOSE conference. "We're trying to understand what problem does it solve that is not already solved," McNealy said."

If I didn't know better, it would seem that Sun is flailing pretty badly at this point.