Remember that US patents are given to the first to file for a patent and not the first to invent, as can be demonstrated by the US patent for the incandescent lightbulb: http://www.coolquiz.com/trivia/explain/docs/edison.asp or the telephone: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invention_of_the_telephone
Of course, the first one shows that the US patent office can issue a patent for something already patented elsewhere in the world.
When I first read the name I thought that maybe the British actress of the same name, notorious for (tasteful) nude scenes in 1990s films. Obviously not.
So, maybe this is all made up and the woman's real name isn't Tara Fitzgerald at all?
Before anyone jumps up and shouts make sure that you're not being taken in by lobbyists who are trying to either support specific companies or jobs in specific states. They are apt to shout out about the sky falling before the real information is known.
Sit back, relax and wait until the report is actually published, read it and make up your own mind. Don't believe what has been filtered through potentially biased news media companies.
Merely prescribe that your clients use port 587 (Submission) with a username and password. Even merely using the submission port would cut practically all the bots out of the equation (for a short while).
For those in the UK who were around in the early 80s then I'm sure that you remember the most spectacular failure of a games company (and the games it was producing). i.e. Imagine Software and the game Bandasnatch:
Surely it depends upon what you mean by "support?"
OpenSolaris is backed by one of the big UNIX developers and is a true, direct lineage UNIX. You can also pay Sun for full enterprise OS support, which could include getting their programmers to fix a particular kernel or core OS bug for you within days.. if you're rich enough to afford the Platinum Support.
The operating system which practically powered the core of the British pre-Internet academic network was (SERCnet/JANET) GEC OS4000,which run upon GEC minicomputers.
The strangest thing about it was that half of the OS was implemented in hardware as part of the CPU.
So, we have a Slashdot story speculating about the outcome of a story on another site which uses unknown, and not necessarily reliable source, about a possible feature in an unreleased OS.
Can we please wait until there is real evidence before shouting that the sky's falling please.
Oh, sorry, this is Slashdot!;-)
As for the article: *IF* it is true, fine! Who cares what anti-virus engine it uses as long as it works and is ready for any dangerous malware which does come along for MacOS?
(And for those who wish to gloat, no OS is fully immune, especially from the security hole at the keyboard. Why does Linux need an anti-virus product like ClamAV?! Linux doesn't have any viruses....;-))
The last episode did seem to be a re-imagining of the end of the Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy (TV and (first) Radio series, it's the end of the Book "The Restaurant at the End of the Universe").
Just think of the parallels:
A man in a bath steers the last remnants of a dying race to their final destination planet, Earth, in a ship who's name starts with the letter 'B' ("B Ark" vs. "Battlestar Galactica").
They land in pre-historic times and out-compete the indigenous pre-agricultural humanoids, supplanting them in the ecosystem. These, and not the original inhabitants become the human race as we know them today.
The episode closes with the playing of a classic music track (Louis Armstrong vs. Jimmy Hendrix).;-)
As for tabbed browsing, I've never needed more than ten at any one time. In fact that's too many most of the time.
It's all a matter of tidying up the mess and only keeping open those web pages that you absolutely need. For everything else there are bookmarks and page history in the URL entry box (which awesome bar breaks).
One man's manner from heaven is another's deadly plague.
Actually, multi-homing shouldn't be an application problem at all, it's a system level one.
i.e. It should be moved to the network stack. The application could talk to a virtual interface which the network stack then passes through the most appropriate interface.
Fail-over is also a system-level problem, not an application-level one.
Just read up on clustering. (Not HPC clustering such as Beowulf, high-availability clustering.)
(b) The Internet (as such) didn't exist, it was ARPAnet and restricted to research and US military sites (with a few places outside the USA, such as UCL, having a link).
It did have a serial port, which meant that it COULD be used as a communications device, just as any other personal computer of its day.
Oolite (the Elite re-implementation, http://oolite.org/) already allows you to use your iTunes database for docking music and has done so for many years.
It is fairly likely that, unless astonishingly carefully drafted by public spirited experts, the USO will underspecifiy what is actually required to access the internet pleasantly. You'll be able to satisfy the requirements by demonstrating the availability of an X megabit connection from at least one top floor flat per postcode, while saving money and/or upselling hard, by blocking like crazy anything that isn't vanilla port 80, and not really bothering about latency, packet loss, and spotty connections among your less preferred customers.
You have to be aware that "mobile broadband" already has quite a few restrictions and you're not getting a direct feed. For a start, all images are filtered and re-rendered at a far lower resolution, at least on O2 and T-Mobile in the UK.
Because it's a broadcast technology, just like the old 10Base2 and 10Base5 ethernet, the performance due to collisions will drop like a stone when there is more than 70% usage of the bandwidth. When this happens will very much depend upon the usage of those connected at the time. A couple of people downloading files at the same time will saturate the link (unless their connections are severely throttled).
What is also not mentioned is that, from my personal experience, the speed drops off quickly with the signal strength.
Actually, OOP is a bit rubbish for number crunching, far too much overhead.
What is disappointing is that there isn't a high performance FORTRAN compiler. That's where most scientific number crunching is done. (After all, that's what the language was designed for.)
The instructions to accept the certificate are right there on the screen. You don't even have to dig through a bunch of menus, just click where it tells you to click.
Yes, you have to click several times (as opposed to once in FF2). Unfortunately a great number of embedded control devices generate a new self-signed cert. every time they boot, which makes FF3 basically unusable for operating this sort of thing.
Slashdot Mirror
Remember that US patents are given to the first to file for a patent and not the first to invent, as can be demonstrated by the US patent for the incandescent lightbulb: http://www.coolquiz.com/trivia/explain/docs/edison.asp or the telephone: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invention_of_the_telephone
Of course, the first one shows that the US patent office can issue a patent for something already patented elsewhere in the world.
When I first read the name I thought that maybe the British actress of the same name, notorious for (tasteful) nude scenes in 1990s films. Obviously not.
So, maybe this is all made up and the woman's real name isn't Tara Fitzgerald at all?
Daniel Cuthbert, who "hacked" the DEC charity website by using '../' in the URL. Convicted 2005.
http://www.samizdata.net/blog/archives/008118.html
Before anyone jumps up and shouts make sure that you're not being taken in by lobbyists who are trying to either support specific companies or jobs in specific states. They are apt to shout out about the sky falling before the real information is known.
Sit back, relax and wait until the report is actually published, read it and make up your own mind. Don't believe what has been filtered through potentially biased news media companies.
Merely prescribe that your clients use port 587 (Submission) with a username and password. Even merely using the submission port would cut practically all the bots out of the equation (for a short while).
If you check out the statistics I've been collecting at work then you'll see the figure is quite correct.
You should be able to see the stats here:
http://www.earth.ox.ac.uk/~steve/spamstats/
For those in the UK who were around in the early 80s then I'm sure that you remember the most spectacular failure of a games company (and the games it was producing). i.e. Imagine Software and the game Bandasnatch:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bandersnatch_%28video_game%29
Ah, but OpenSolaris isn't a clone, it's one of the true heirs to the throne, a direct descendent of the original UNIX lineage.
The *BSD family are now cousins to the original UNIX as all the original code was excised to make the 4.3BSD-lite codebase.
Surely it depends upon what you mean by "support?"
OpenSolaris is backed by one of the big UNIX developers and is a true, direct lineage UNIX. You can also pay Sun for full enterprise OS support, which could include getting their programmers to fix a particular kernel or core OS bug for you within days.. if you're rich enough to afford the Platinum Support.
The operating system which practically powered the core of the British pre-Internet academic network was (SERCnet/JANET) GEC OS4000,which run upon GEC minicomputers.
The strangest thing about it was that half of the OS was implemented in hardware as part of the CPU.
They *DID* try the DVD format and selling it at that price. It was called DVD-Audio. It flopped.
The reason?
CD is "good enough", just like MP3 is often "good enough" to the majority of people.
Long live mediocrity.
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ok power-off
Rather.... Slashdot ate my chevrons!
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ok power-off
So, we have a Slashdot story speculating about the outcome of a story on another site which uses unknown, and not necessarily reliable source, about a possible feature in an unreleased OS.
Can we please wait until there is real evidence before shouting that the sky's falling please.
Oh, sorry, this is Slashdot! ;-)
As for the article: *IF* it is true, fine! Who cares what anti-virus engine it uses as long as it works and is ready for any dangerous malware which does come along for MacOS?
(And for those who wish to gloat, no OS is fully immune, especially from the security hole at the keyboard. Why does Linux need an anti-virus product like ClamAV?! Linux doesn't have any viruses.... ;-))
The last episode did seem to be a re-imagining of the end of the Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy (TV and (first) Radio series, it's the end of the Book "The Restaurant at the End of the Universe").
Just think of the parallels:
A man in a bath steers the last remnants of a dying race to their final destination planet, Earth, in a ship who's name starts with the letter 'B' ("B Ark" vs. "Battlestar Galactica").
They land in pre-historic times and out-compete the indigenous pre-agricultural humanoids, supplanting them in the ecosystem. These, and not the original inhabitants become the human race as we know them today.
The episode closes with the playing of a classic music track (Louis Armstrong vs. Jimmy Hendrix). ;-)
Yes, and the mice were furious!
And flippin' annoying it is too!
As for tabbed browsing, I've never needed more than ten at any one time. In fact that's too many most of the time.
It's all a matter of tidying up the mess and only keeping open those web pages that you absolutely need. For everything else there are bookmarks and page history in the URL entry box (which awesome bar breaks).
One man's manner from heaven is another's deadly plague.
Actually, multi-homing shouldn't be an application problem at all, it's a system level one.
i.e. It should be moved to the network stack. The application could talk to a virtual interface which the network stack then passes through the most appropriate interface.
Fail-over is also a system-level problem, not an application-level one.
Just read up on clustering. (Not HPC clustering such as Beowulf, high-availability clustering.)
Well, it would be tricky to have those seeing as:
(a) The web hadn't been invented yet.
and,
(b) The Internet (as such) didn't exist, it was ARPAnet and restricted to research and US military sites (with a few places outside the USA, such as UCL, having a link).
It did have a serial port, which meant that it COULD be used as a communications device, just as any other personal computer of its day.
Oolite (the Elite re-implementation, http://oolite.org/) already allows you to use your iTunes database for docking music and has done so for many years.
You say:
It is fairly likely that, unless astonishingly carefully drafted by public spirited experts, the USO will underspecifiy what is actually required to access the internet pleasantly. You'll be able to satisfy the requirements by demonstrating the availability of an X megabit connection from at least one top floor flat per postcode, while saving money and/or upselling hard, by blocking like crazy anything that isn't vanilla port 80, and not really bothering about latency, packet loss, and spotty connections among your less preferred customers.
You have to be aware that "mobile broadband" already has quite a few restrictions and you're not getting a direct feed. For a start, all images are filtered and re-rendered at a far lower resolution, at least on O2 and T-Mobile in the UK.
Because it's a broadcast technology, just like the old 10Base2 and 10Base5 ethernet, the performance due to collisions will drop like a stone when there is more than 70% usage of the bandwidth. When this happens will very much depend upon the usage of those connected at the time. A couple of people downloading files at the same time will saturate the link (unless their connections are severely throttled).
What is also not mentioned is that, from my personal experience, the speed drops off quickly with the signal strength.
They merely need to send up Kaylee to cherish it and then it'll work fine... as long as they spend month on spare parts.
Actually, OOP is a bit rubbish for number crunching, far too much overhead.
What is disappointing is that there isn't a high performance FORTRAN compiler. That's where most scientific number crunching is done. (After all, that's what the language was designed for.)
self-signed certificates
The instructions to accept the certificate are right there on the screen. You don't even have to dig through a bunch of menus, just click where it tells you to click.
Yes, you have to click several times (as opposed to once in FF2). Unfortunately a great number of embedded control devices generate a new self-signed cert. every time they boot, which makes FF3 basically unusable for operating this sort of thing.