Look at the height records, for example. Humans today tend to be much taller than their fifteenth century counterparts. Even taller than just the 1950s generation, in fact.
Quoth the AC: Unfortunatelly 'works for me' is not a valid bug report resolution. I'd like to know what company you work for so I can avoid their (obviously) shitty software.
I don't know where it originated, but the first time I saw 'works for me' as a bug report resolution was in Mozilla.
Let's see, Win2K was said to have about 60k bugs, right?
60K bug *reports*. Of which probably 35K got filed away as duplicates, 10K got filed as "works for me", 5K were rejected UI suggestions, 5K were quickly fixed errors in spelling/grammar, and another 4K were filed away as "cool feature suggestion -- let's put this into the next version".
I get all sorts of email advertising bachelors degrees from "prestigious non-accredited universities" -- no use to me since I already have a *real* degree -- offers for credit cards and mortgages which are only available in the US -- I'm a Canadian -- and all sorts of other untargetted spam.
Anyone with minimal competance could do some basic filtering -- a.ca email address isn't likely to belong to a US resident, for example -- and I'm sure that these "privacy infringing" companies know about my university degree.
I don't really mind getting unsolicited commercial email. It's when I get email which is very obviously of no value to me that I get annoyed.
FreeBSD has had a syncache for quite some time now; it has never been clear which of the two is technically superior.
Now FreeBSD implements both commonly accepted solutions; I haven't looked at the code enough to say for certain, but I'd assume that syn cookies would be used in order to avoid connection loss only during *very* high packet rates (10^5+ SYN packets/second) since the syn cache works fine up to those levels.
From that, he goes on to point out that people tend to have a small group of people they work well with and trust; perhaps 5 - 10 people. So, in essence, if Linus appoints 5 - 10 maintainers of major subsystems (which he has), and each of them has 5 - 10 people the trust to maintain specific aspects of their subsystem, then there is no problem.
Except that there is a problem. Even patches from designated maintainers are being dropped on the floor.
With CVS, those maintainers would be able to check in the patches themselves.
I know Linus doesn't like it...
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but is there really anything wrong with using CVS?
It's our money, shouldn't we have a say as to what it should be spent on?
No. Not unless you have a clue what you're deciding about. This is one of the major problems inherent in democracy: Nobody (apart from the Emperor himself) knows how long the Emperor of China's nose is, but everyone has an opinion. The one person who knows gets outvoted by the billion who don't.
7) if/when we encounter alien life, should they be protected by "human rights" law? (a) yes (b) no (c) yes, but only to the same extent as the other non-citizens.
am I the only one who thinks that securelevels stink?
Nope. Every time the topic came up in freebsd-security, Kris used to lead the "securelevels are broken, don't use them" charge.
To be fair, they could be a useful security feature (although a more fine-grained control would of course be superior), but you'd have to do all sorts of stuff in order for that to happen. They are still quite useful as an anti-foot-shooting device, however.
Sounds like something that could easily be done using CVS.
I'm not sure about CVS here... most files are going to be binary (since word/excel/powerpoint are going to be the majority of the files). But even without CVS it isn't going to be hard; most useful things aren't hard.
It's a bit hard to make suggestions without knowing what your budget is and what you already have, but I'll give it a shot.
Other posters have suggested a file server so that people can access their files from anywhere in the university. I'd extend this by adding an automated backup and recovery system.
Make your daily/weekly/monthly backups as you normally would, but store the backups in a random-access form. Set up a web interface to allow people to browse the backed-up copies of their files and retrieve them.
It might sound like a small thing, but I've found many times that I'd like to look at an old version of a file, and I'm sure other students are no different; the point isn't so much to provide a backup service as it is to provide a file rollback service.
The company argued that it was entitled to charge more because, since a DVD - unlike a video-tape - is digitally recorded and is played on a machine containing a processor, it should be treated like a computer program and subject to copyright law.
The company argued that [...] a DVD [...] should be treated like a computer program and subject to copyright law.
The courts rejected the company's claim.
Does that mean that DVDs aren't subject to copyright law?
(yes, I know this is a silly conclusion; but I really can't work out what the quoted paragraph is supposed to mean.)
It seems, however, that he is a shadow of what he once was.
And you're surprised? Nash was a mathematician. Mathematicians tend to do their best work before the they are 25 years old, and it's rare for a mathematician to make major discoveries after 40.
Mathematicians have also had a long history of mental disorders; as my supervisor once said, "you can count on your fingers the number of sane great 20th century mathematicians". (which is just slightly worrying...)
As far as netfiling goes, I don't think Canada is any better than the US: You must use approved software, and almost all of it costs money. (The only exceptions I know of are places which don't charge you if your total income is below a threshold).
Filing by telephone, however, has been available for a number of years (quite a bit longer than netfiling) and is free. Of course, punching all those numbers in by telephone is a bit irritating.
"This overexposure to pulsed microwaves has been a personal tragedy for me," Wagner said in an e-mail interview. "I'm left hypersensitive -- even my mouse burns my hand when I use my computer now."
Am I the only person who doesn't understand this? Why did he give an *email* interview if using computers is so painful to him?
So if Red Hat is bought by AOL, I expect much of their user base will move to Mandrake, Debian, and Suse.
Mandrake I could perhaps understand, but I doubt Debian or Suse would pick up a large share. Remember that there's a large number of people who are running Red Hat on servers because it has a reputation for being user friendly -- many (most?) servers are run by people who really haven't a clue.
I wouldn't be surprised if quite a few people (gasp!) return to using Windows.
Maybe I'm mistaken, but all IP based protocalls I'm familiar require an upstream SYN and a down stream SYN/ACK before you can send any data.
ITYM all TCP based protocols. Multicast UDP is a good example of a case where "useful data" is communicated without any return packets. While it makes no provision for retransmitting errored packets, for real-time broadcasting it's probably better to lose part of an image than to have the video feed stop for two seconds while it retransmits the lost packets.
Quite a few people have considered it. However, most Canadians have too much respect for human rights and international law to join a nation which routinely ignores both.
(And if Canada did merge with the US, it would do so as 13 new states, not as one. Without the unifying influence of being "not American" Canada would fall apart entirely.)
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Look at the height records, for example. Humans today tend to be much taller than their fifteenth century counterparts. Even taller than just the 1950s generation, in fact.
Um. That's not evolution. That's *food*.
Quoth the AC: Unfortunatelly 'works for me' is not a valid bug report resolution. I'd like to know what company you work for so I can avoid their (obviously) shitty software.
I don't know where it originated, but the first time I saw 'works for me' as a bug report resolution was in Mozilla.
He wasn't talking about *that* wu-ftp remote root hole. He was talking about all the other wu-ftp remote root holes.
Let's see, Win2K was said to have about 60k bugs, right?
60K bug *reports*. Of which probably 35K got filed away as duplicates, 10K got filed as "works for me", 5K were rejected UI suggestions, 5K were quickly fixed errors in spelling/grammar, and another 4K were filed away as "cool feature suggestion -- let's put this into the next version".
When I saw this story, my first thought was "how did they design robots which could travel across Antarctic terrain?".
The idea that the "wearable computer expedition" actually included people somehow didn't occur to me.
Targetting is the problem.
.ca email address isn't likely to belong to a US resident, for example -- and I'm sure that these "privacy infringing" companies know about my university degree.
I get all sorts of email advertising bachelors degrees from "prestigious non-accredited universities" -- no use to me since I already have a *real* degree -- offers for credit cards and mortgages which are only available in the US -- I'm a Canadian -- and all sorts of other untargetted spam.
Anyone with minimal competance could do some basic filtering -- a
I don't really mind getting unsolicited commercial email. It's when I get email which is very obviously of no value to me that I get annoyed.
Citylink uses a generic computer running Debian Linux and SMTP management software
Somehow I don't think they're sending email messages to their routers in order to alter network behaviour.
FreeBSD has had a syncache for quite some time now; it has never been clear which of the two is technically superior.
Now FreeBSD implements both commonly accepted solutions; I haven't looked at the code enough to say for certain, but I'd assume that syn cookies would be used in order to avoid connection loss only during *very* high packet rates (10^5+ SYN packets/second) since the syn cache works fine up to those levels.
If integrating the pre-empt patch will cause bugs in other systems to become visible, why didn't it go in ages ago?
Surely finding and fixing these bugs is better than discarding improvements and hoping that the bugs will go away on their own.
From that, he goes on to point out that people tend to have a small group of people they work well with and trust; perhaps 5 - 10 people. So, in essence, if Linus appoints 5 - 10 maintainers of major subsystems (which he has), and each of them has 5 - 10 people the trust to maintain specific aspects of their subsystem, then there is no problem.
Except that there is a problem. Even patches from designated maintainers are being dropped on the floor.
With CVS, those maintainers would be able to check in the patches themselves.
but is there really anything wrong with using CVS?
It's our money, shouldn't we have a say as to what it should be spent on?
No. Not unless you have a clue what you're deciding about. This is one of the major problems inherent in democracy: Nobody (apart from the Emperor himself) knows how long the Emperor of China's nose is, but everyone has an opinion. The one person who knows gets outvoted by the billion who don't.
7) if/when we encounter alien life, should they be protected by "human rights" law? (a) yes (b) no (c) yes, but only to the same extent as the other non-citizens.
am I the only one who thinks that securelevels stink?
Nope. Every time the topic came up in freebsd-security, Kris used to lead the "securelevels are broken, don't use them" charge.
To be fair, they could be a useful security feature (although a more fine-grained control would of course be superior), but you'd have to do all sorts of stuff in order for that to happen. They are still quite useful as an anti-foot-shooting device, however.
Sounds like something that could easily be done using CVS.
I'm not sure about CVS here... most files are going to be binary (since word/excel/powerpoint are going to be the majority of the files). But even without CVS it isn't going to be hard; most useful things aren't hard.
It's a bit hard to make suggestions without knowing what your budget is and what you already have, but I'll give it a shot.
Other posters have suggested a file server so that people can access their files from anywhere in the university. I'd extend this by adding an automated backup and recovery system.
Make your daily/weekly/monthly backups as you normally would, but store the backups in a random-access form. Set up a web interface to allow people to browse the backed-up copies of their files and retrieve them.
It might sound like a small thing, but I've found many times that I'd like to look at an old version of a file, and I'm sure other students are no different; the point isn't so much to provide a backup service as it is to provide a file rollback service.
The company argued that it was entitled to charge more because, since a DVD - unlike a video-tape - is digitally recorded and is played on a machine containing a processor, it should be treated like a computer program and subject to copyright law.
The company argued that [...] a DVD [...] should be treated like a computer program and subject to copyright law.
The courts rejected the company's claim.
Does that mean that DVDs aren't subject to copyright law?
(yes, I know this is a silly conclusion; but I really can't work out what the quoted paragraph is supposed to mean.)
It seems, however, that he is a shadow of what he once was.
And you're surprised? Nash was a mathematician. Mathematicians tend to do their best work before the they are 25 years old, and it's rare for a mathematician to make major discoveries after 40.
Mathematicians have also had a long history of mental disorders; as my supervisor once said, "you can count on your fingers the number of sane great 20th century mathematicians". (which is just slightly worrying...)
As far as netfiling goes, I don't think Canada is any better than the US: You must use approved software, and almost all of it costs money. (The only exceptions I know of are places which don't charge you if your total income is below a threshold).
Filing by telephone, however, has been available for a number of years (quite a bit longer than netfiling) and is free. Of course, punching all those numbers in by telephone is a bit irritating.
It has been a pipe-dream of inventors since Leonardo da Vinci...
... and, apparently, it still is.
This depends on the switch. Some switches do or can be configured to route based on IP.
If a switch starts routing, it ceases to be a switch and becomes a router instead.
"This overexposure to pulsed microwaves has been a personal tragedy for me," Wagner said in an e-mail interview. "I'm left hypersensitive -- even my mouse burns my hand when I use my computer now."
Am I the only person who doesn't understand this? Why did he give an *email* interview if using computers is so painful to him?
So if Red Hat is bought by AOL, I expect much of their user base will move to Mandrake, Debian, and Suse.
Mandrake I could perhaps understand, but I doubt Debian or Suse would pick up a large share. Remember that there's a large number of people who are running Red Hat on servers because it has a reputation for being user friendly -- many (most?) servers are run by people who really haven't a clue.
I wouldn't be surprised if quite a few people (gasp!) return to using Windows.
Maybe I'm mistaken, but all IP based protocalls I'm familiar require an upstream SYN and a down stream SYN/ACK before you can send any data.
ITYM all TCP based protocols. Multicast UDP is a good example of a case where "useful data" is communicated without any return packets. While it makes no provision for retransmitting errored packets, for real-time broadcasting it's probably better to lose part of an image than to have the video feed stop for two seconds while it retransmits the lost packets.
statehood?
Quite a few people have considered it. However, most Canadians have too much respect for human rights and international law to join a nation which routinely ignores both.
(And if Canada did merge with the US, it would do so as 13 new states, not as one. Without the unifying influence of being "not American" Canada would fall apart entirely.)