to get energy from the vibrations of raindrops. Seems like a source of renewable energy we're missing out on, and in the UK it's somewhat more plentiful than solar and more practical in urban environments than wind...
Or it could really be an update, basically figuring out exactly how the cheap DVD players play discs, and making these DVDs playable in that, but still a PITA for something like dd.
I think this is exactly what they will have done. Most likely they will have moved the defective sectors further away from the real data the players ought to be reading, so they don't get caught up in the read-ahead buffers of the simpler players.
Eventually all that will be frustrated is someone trying to copy the.VOB files as a whole, as you say.
Given the number of spam messages I get... which have unreplaced template text in them, I'd have to say it's just incompetence.
That was certainly my first thought - the block of text is supposed to be hidden / in addition to a text/html part with the actual spam in it; but these spam-kiddies can't even use their VB point and click spamatrons properly.
I get loads to my work address where the to address is a colleague's name rather than mine, but one beginning with the same initial letter - fence-post error or the result of corruption due to sorting.
The most blatant bit of spam I ever got was this:
Date: Sun, 30 Oct 2005 15:20:14 -0600 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook, Build 10.0.4510 Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1081 X-AntiVirus: checked by AntiVir MailGate (version: 2.0.1.5; AVE: 6.17.0.2; VDF: 6.17.0.5; host: user-0c9957d.cable.mindspring.com)
to all those embattled European software companies whose fabulous operating systems and really whizzo word processors and spreadsheets have been viciously kept down by the evil Microsoft. Hmm.
As a European tax-payer, do I get any of this windfall?
That is, he told Altair that he had a working BASIC port, so that others wouldn't try to do BASIC for the Altair, when neither he nor anyone else at Microsoft had a single line of code written?
They didn't even have a single line of code fished out of the dumpster at that stage...
No, no it's not. As has been pointed out, it's an upgrade. It's not even the original upgrade that was promised for 2003, and it doesn't have many of the new vapour-ware features which have been touted along the way (WinFS, Monad, Trusted Computing Base) and isn't even 'largely' rewritten to use.NET internally.
Like Windows XP to Windows 2000, this is largely a GUI re-design. KDE and Gnome knock one of those out about once every six months. Apple's releases evolve rather than revolutionise, but they tend to over-deliver on their promises.
Did you believe this 'new operating system' shtick when Windows 95 came out? 98? ME? NT3.51? NT4? W2K, XP? W2K3? It's getting old. Bill needs to learn a new mantra.
The last new (PC) operating system Microsoft released was Windows NT 3 (largely based on the work of IBM and ex-DEC employees) and it took them over 7 years to phase out the old DOS based Windows and get back to one offering which wasn't a complete piece of poo.
When are you going to stop believing the marketing?
I don't know about all countries, but certainly in the UK you can usually change both your debit and credit card PINs.
It looks like you can, but in reality you can't. Generally the bank creates PINs which are fixed for the life of the account. What you receive is that PIN xor'd with a random mask. You can change this random mask. The banks can verify whether PINs are what they should be for a given account.
Lots of information about PIN security can be found in articles about decimalisation table attacks, for example this paper.
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"That's 3/4 of my real RAM used by a single non-computational-heavy application"
Yes, but were you doing anything else with the rest of it? If not, why do you want more than 1/4 of the RAM you paid good money to buy, to be doing nothing? It's there to be used!
Enterprise Distributed Technologies do outsourced development and their EDTftpj library is very usable. I've got no other connection with the organisation.
312227 being fixed is fantastic, I was constantly considering going back to 1.06 or 1.05, security issues notwithstanding, as it was massively irritating on WinXP. Every time I clicked on an attachment in our issue tracking app, the focus went screwy, cut-and-paste stopped working, sometimes textbox entry wouldn't work and the search bar started popping up if you hit / ' or ?
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That's the DROP TABLE support.
BBC radio 4 newsreader Charlotte Green can be heard trying to contain her amusement when the clip was played this morning, here
"Doesn't it look tired these days?"
to get energy from the vibrations of raindrops. Seems like a source of renewable energy we're missing out on, and in the UK it's somewhat more plentiful than solar and more practical in urban environments than wind...
I think this is exactly what they will have done. Most likely they will have moved the defective sectors further away from the real data the players ought to be reading, so they don't get caught up in the read-ahead buffers of the simpler players.
Eventually all that will be frustrated is someone trying to copy the
All praise the Most-High!
Not in Soviet Russia!
I feel dirty
I was thinking, of course your massive isn't your third home. It's your one true home, innit?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Staines_Massiv
Yup, even opening the window tends to get you some funny looks.
This time, let's decide whether all the CO2 scrubbers should be round or square, before take-off?
That was certainly my first thought - the block of text is supposed to be hidden / in addition to a text/html part with the actual spam in it; but these spam-kiddies can't even use their VB point and click spamatrons properly.
I get loads to my work address where the to address is a colleague's name rather than mine, but one beginning with the same initial letter - fence-post error or the result of corruption due to sorting.
The most blatant bit of spam I ever got was this:
to all those embattled European software companies whose fabulous operating systems and really whizzo word processors and spreadsheets have been viciously kept down by the evil Microsoft. Hmm.
As a European tax-payer, do I get any of this windfall?
No, I've used them both extensively. If you turn off the WinXP theme and go back to the 'classic' start menu you have: W2K - with driver updates.
Like Windows XP to Windows 2000, this is largely a GUI re-design. KDE and Gnome knock one of those out about once every six months. Apple's releases evolve rather than revolutionise, but they tend to over-deliver on their promises.
Did you believe this 'new operating system' shtick when Windows 95 came out? 98? ME? NT3.51? NT4? W2K, XP? W2K3? It's getting old. Bill needs to learn a new mantra.
The last new (PC) operating system Microsoft released was Windows NT 3 (largely based on the work of IBM and ex-DEC employees) and it took them over 7 years to phase out the old DOS based Windows and get back to one offering which wasn't a complete piece of poo.
When are you going to stop believing the marketing?
Not sure how we got on to it, but Big Ben isn't a building, it's a bell. The thing the bell is housed in is St. Stephen's tower
Think Eric Idle sums it up best.
I don't know about all countries, but certainly in the UK you can usually change both your debit and credit card PINs.
It looks like you can, but in reality you can't. Generally the bank creates PINs which are fixed for the life of the account. What you receive is that PIN xor'd with a random mask. You can change this random mask. The banks can verify whether PINs are what they should be for a given account.
Lots of information about PIN security can be found in articles about decimalisation table attacks, for example this paper.
"That's 3/4 of my real RAM used by a single non-computational-heavy application"
Yes, but were you doing anything else with the rest of it? If not, why do you want more than 1/4 of the RAM you paid good money to buy, to be doing nothing? It's there to be used!
Is his middle name Sand? ... I'll get me coat.
Enterprise Distributed Technologies do outsourced development and their EDTftpj library is very usable. I've got no other connection with the organisation.
312227 being fixed is fantastic, I was constantly considering going back to 1.06 or 1.05, security issues notwithstanding, as it was massively irritating on WinXP. Every time I clicked on an attachment in our issue tracking app, the focus went screwy, cut-and-paste stopped working, sometimes textbox entry wouldn't work and the search bar started popping up if you hit / ' or ?
I could never work out what was causing it.
Thanks guys!
Many Doctor Whos (not the Big Finnish plays mentioned elsewhere), but also Fawlty Towers, Tolkien, Hitchhiker's Guide...
Try searching for mp3cd on play.com (slashdot ate my url)
No DRM, no problem - just annoying gaps between tracks, and the HHG one seems to have been badly encoded and never repressed, so avoid.