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Tablet PC Rorschach Inkblot Test
LPH writes "ESC Technologies just put up a funny series of images that they ran through the Tablet PC recognition software." Perhaps these tablets need a "doodle" setting.
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i can't feel my legs
First post, ha ha, trolls suck. I rule. Blah
I'm delighted I could have the honor of posting the first comment to this important headline. If anyone deserves this distinction, I'm glad it was me. I earned it through hours of hard work and dedication. Perhaps you're wondering why I'm writing so much. I'm doing this simply to piss you off, and to parade around the fact that I could write out this whole saga faster than you could write a pathetic little "first post"! Hah hah hah, losers!
Question : Has Microsoft EVER released an OS that had a data loss bug?
Answer : NO!
Read on.
Data-loss bug afflicts Linux
Programmers have found a bug in newer versions of the Linux operating system that, under common circumstances, could cause systems to drop data.
The data-loss bug afflicts the newest 2.4.20 version of the heart, or kernel, of Linux. The new kernel was released Nov. 28 in Linux companies' updates but is not yet a part of their packaged products.
Although the bug was reported while the 2.4.20 version was still in testing, it wasn't fixed until early Friday morning, two weeks after final release.
To counteract such tracking problems in the future, Linux programmers have begun using more formal bug-tracking tools. Bugs and security problems are big issues today because of the ever-wider use of computer networks and the increasing importance of corporate data. Microsoft, Sun Microsystems, Linux fans and others all are keenly aware of the publicity benefits of crash-proof code, and the perils of problems.
Data-loss problems are dire--companies devote much of their computing budgets to keeping their information from vanishing into the ether.
However, the risks of the recent Linux data-loss bug are reduced because it only appears in a particular circumstance: First, an administrator has to select an unusual mode for Linux's ext3 file system software, which controls how data is stored on hard drives; then the administrator must disconnect the file system where the data is saved. In that case, all data that should have been saved on the hard drive in the previous 30 seconds could be lost.
The data-loss problem is "not very severe," said programmer Andrew Morton in an e-mail interview. It was Morton who pointed out Sunday that the bug hadn't been fixed and who posted a patch Friday.
Morton added that the bug is contingent on using ext3 in "a specialized mode, which in practice is rather slow. It doesn't offer any realistic advantages over the default...mode, and nobody uses it much. This is why the bug lay dormant for three months."
Red Hat, the top Linux seller, said its customers are only affected by the bug if they downloaded Red Hat updates that incorporate version 2.4.18-17 or later of the Linux kernel. The company made those updates available for versions 7.1, 7.2, 7.3 and 8.0 of Red Hat Linux. Its Advanced Server product isn't affected.
The most recent updates from No. 2 Linux seller SuSE also are affected, the SuSE said. However, SuSE by default uses a different file system, ReiserFS, that isn't affected.
The data-loss problem was originally found by programmer Nick Piggin, who said it may have affected all 2.4.19 kernels in addition to version 2.4.20. Morton, however, believes Piggin's first bug report in July for preliminary versions of 2.4.19 is likely a different--but related--bug that's harder to trigger.
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now your PDA can tell you if you are crazy or not... seems like eventually they will be able to manage our ENTIRE lives, mentally, physically, emotionally, digitally, socially, etc-ially.
must... resist... impulse... to... buy... one...
"The definition of insanity is continuing to do the same thing and hoping for different results"
Palestinians are terrorists.
Nuff said.
I just heard this on talk radio. Apparently Scott Lockwood was found dead this morning. No matter what your feelings are about his writing, you have to agree that he was an icon. He will be sorely missed.
Reza is still fat though.
anyone know where to buy a cheap tablet pc other than ebay? used or new...
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"revealing the unrevealed since 2002"
Since this one is slashdotted, I went searching and found another test that was thrown at the Tablet PCs:
Tablet PC Horshack Test
Mordor...a magical, mythical land where women are more rare than dragons--but where every man would rather find a dragon