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Gobe Productive GPL Release In Danger
Elliot writes "Gobe, developers of Gobe Productive, a fast and lightweight office suite initally developed for the BeOS and later ported to Windows and Linux (which never made it past beta stage), announced in August that they would be open sourcing Gobe Productive under the GPL. Unfortunately, it appears that financial issues might prevent this from happening. A shame to see yet another wonderful piece of software [possibly] fail."
Q: Hello, I have just recently bought an Electric Blue Lobster , and I am trying to find out how to care for it better. The pet store in which I bought him at was not very helpful. I have him in a 5 gallon tank filled with water (I got the gallon sized bottled water) with some rocks, and his food, which are some shrimp (go shrinp) and a feeder fish. I got the e-care book, but it only gives refernce to Crabs. What size tank should I get, does he need heated water, a misting bottle, air pump. I don't know much from what they told me at the pet stor. What is molting also. I know this seems like a lot but, I have been everywhere for this kind of information. Please help. Thank you. Happy Holidays!!
Dear Gentle Sir--
Generally, the larger an area you can give your Electric Blue Lobster (probably actually either a procamabrus alleni or an oronectes immunis), the better. That being said, for practical purposes a 10 gallon take will suffice for the single specimen and a 20 gallon tank would be ample.
The water in the tank, which optimally should be seasoned for a few weeks before you introduce the cray, must be free of all sanitary chemicals. Chlorine and chloramine, often found in tap water, are cray-killers. A temperature of 70 degrees with a Ph of 7.0, or neutral, will make for a very stable and comfortable environment for your blue lobster. An air pump of some sort should be used in the tank, if not a substratum filter. Oxygen is important to crayfish.
As for molting, good sir, it is the natural process by which crayfish (as well as other crustaceans) shed their hard exo-skeleton in order to grow. The process is preceded by strange eating behaviors and activity patterns. The shell will split at the carapace and the cray usually escapes through the top of the tail. During this stage the lobster is vulnerable and will hide for a few days, and this is why it is important that there is plenty of space and hiding places in the tank-- predacious fish species as well as other crays will consider the molted lobster as prey! After hardening the new, larger exo-skeleton, the crayfish should begin eating normally. You may also notice that any missing or injured limbs have reappeared in some manner after the molt.
Thank you.
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"revealing the unrevealed since 2002"
I think I read about this on about.com once.
Found this link. http://www.druglordsgame.com/index.php?ref=9737
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damn, that's good
You Are In Danger
Software fails because it lacks that special something that provokes everyone to switch. As of yet, there have been no office suites that offer a better experience than Microsoft Office. They've only been advantagous in pricing and openness, and that isn't such a great advantage that people are willing to switch. As a student, I'd spent a couple of years using non-Microsoft suites and always been disappointed. I first used Corel WordPerfect, then Star Office. I finally shelled out the cash and purchased Microsoft Office after being disappointed.
That's right. Just stick 'em in your mouth, and choke on them.
November 26, 2002 | Paul Thurrott
According to a new Aberdeen Group report, open-source solution Linux has surpassed Windows as the most vulnerable OS, contrary to the high-profile press Microsoft's security woes receive. Furthermore, the Aberdeen Group reports that more than 50 percent of all security advisories that CERT issued in the first 10 months of 2002 were for Linux and other open-source software solutions. The report muddles the argument that proprietary software such as Windows is inherently less secure than open solutions. And here's another blow to the status quo: Proprietary UNIX solutions were responsible for just as many security advisories as Linux in the same time period. Could Windows be the most secure mainstream OS available today?
"Open-source software, commonly used in many versions of Linux, UNIX, and network routing equipment, is now the major source of elevated security vulnerabilities for IT buyers," the report reads. "Security advisories for open-source and Linux software accounted for 16 out of the 29 security advisories--about one of every two advisories--published for the first 10 months of 2002. During this same time, vulnerabilities affecting Microsoft products numbered seven, or about one in four of all advisories."
The stunning report makes several claims that seem to fly in the face of widely accepted beliefs. First, the Aberdeen Group says that Windows-based Trojan horse attacks peaked in 2001, when CERT released six such advisories, then bottomed out this year, when CERT didn't issue any alerts. However, Trojan horse-based attacks on Linux, UNIX, and open-source projects jumped from one in 2001 to two in 2002. The Aberdeen Group says this information proves that Linux and UNIX are just as prone to Trojan horse attacks as any other OS, despite press reports to the contrary, and that Mac OS X, which is based on UNIX, is also vulnerable to such attacks. Even more troubling, perhaps, is the use of open-source software in routers, Web servers, firewalls, and other Internet-connected solutions. The Aberdeen Group says that this situation sets up these devices and software products to be "infectious carriers" that intruders can easily usurp.
According to the Aberdeen Group, the open-source community's claim that it can fix security vulnerabilities more quickly than proprietary developers can means little. The group says that the open-source software and hardware solutions need more rigorous security testing before they're released to customers. This statement is particularly problematic because many Linux distributions lack the sophisticated automatic-update technologies modern Windows versions contain.
We can rail against Microsoft and its security policies, but far more people and systems use Microsoft's software than the competition's software. I believe that we'll never know how secure Linux is, compared with Windows, until a comparable number of people and systems use Linux. But despite the fact that Linux isn't as prevalent as Windows, we're still seeing a dramatic increase in Linux security advisories today. I think the conclusion is obvious.
Amiga des PC, euh non
Juste les carte 3D qui sont des carte PC (Et puis le PCI c'est pas un truc de PC au debut) (et la RAM, c'est des barrete EDO souvent mais bon), sinon tous le reste est special.
A la rigeur les Pegasos qui sont pas des vrai Amiga (y a même pas de 68k dedans), mais resemble plus a un Mac : CPU : G3 600MHz a 2xG4 1.13GHz, sur eux y a un port AGP (Voodoo et Radeon only pour l'instant), et un controleur son Creative Labs
Oui le CPC que de souvenir C'est le meilleur ordinateur jamais inventée !!!!!! (Et dire que le PC c'ets vraiment impose garce a Amstrad, ils ont etais a faire des PC vraiment abordable)
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Athlon XP 1800+ / ATI 3D Rage Pro 4Mo + Diamond Monster 3D 2 Voodoo 2 8Mo o/c 115MHz / 256Mo SDRAM.
Vous avez dit disproportioner ?
Diakatana was awful! The graphics were really bad and the AI was pitiful.
Wha'd he say? Was that about me?
Now the cluster sits silent and lonely
No lights blink; no beeps issue forth from it
Beowulf, dost thou do one thing only?
Alas, crunching numbers is such bullshit.
Such's the fate of all clusters, sad to tell
Built for one goal, then comes obsolescence
But do I care? Like bloody fucking hell.
A tragic loss of Beowulf's essence.
MOSIX and DaVinci are less by far
Verily, Beowulf reigns o'er the land
News of its deeds rise to the highest star
You, sir, in truth deserve to be kick-banned
To thee who thinks not that this post has class
If I ever meet you I'll kick your ass.
Don't give me none of this "nature theme" business.
Man, that's fucking brilliant!
Saturday, December 7, 2002
Professor breaks own record -- for thrill of pi
Calculation to 1.24 trillion places is 'enormous feat of computing'
By AUDREY MCAVOY
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
TOKYO -- To most people, it's a funny-looking Greek letter that has something to do with circles. To Professor Yasumasa Kanada, however, pi is an obsession.
Kanada and a team of researchers set a new world record by calculating the value of pi to 1.24 trillion places, project team member Makoto Kudo said yesterday. The previous record, set by Kanada in 1999, was 206.158 billion places.
Figuring out pi to much more than about 1,000 decimal places serves little purpose in math or engineering, but researchers say it helps push computing power to a new level and can test the accuracy of supercomputers.
"It's an enormous feat of computing -- not only for the sheer volume, but it's an advance in the technique he's using," said David Bailey, the chief technologist at the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in California.
Kanada and his team at the Information Technology Center at Tokyo University figured out the value for pi using a Hitachi supercomputer for 400 hours in September.
Pi, usually given as 3.14, is the ratio of the circumference to the diameter of a circle and has an infinite number of decimal places. The number is the subject of numerous books -- from "The Joy of Pi" to "Sir Cumference and the Dragon of Pi: A Math Adventure" -- and has fascinated and confounded mathematicians for centuries.
"It's been a fellow traveler in mathematical history," said Peter Borwein, a mathematics professor at Simon Fraser University in Burnaby, British Columbia, who once held the record for calculating pi to about 2 billion decimal places.
"It isn't so much, 'Does anyone really care what the 1.24 trillionth decimal place is?' -- probably not -- but the stuff that's been discovered in the process."
Among the most puzzling mysteries: Mathematicians are pretty sure, but still cannot prove conclusively, that the numbers following 3.141592 occur randomly.
"I don't think we're any closer to answering this question than the Greeks were 2,500 years ago," Borwein said.
Kanada's team spent five years designing the program used in the September experiment, Kudo said. But it could be a while before the record appears in the Guinness Book of World Records.
"We would need to verify it, but it sounds like Professor Kanada has broken his own record," Guinness World Records spokesman Neil Hayes said.
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I may be totally oblivious to the answer but when and how did this "in soviet russia" shit start?
- The early worm gets eaten by the bird.
74 years, to be exact.