There are no write-ins on primary elections in Montgomery County (and probably all of Maryland), so this is not an issue here. Write-ins are only allowed for the general election. However the voting machine is NOT supposed to mark unopposed candidates by default, at least it didn't for me.... but this is Diebold so all bets are off.
Opera (the unregistered version with the ads) also uses Google to provide advertising, so anybody who browses to your site using Opera will make Google aware of your site. I had a page on my website that was linked to only from my IM profile, and I was looking through the logs and noticed someone use Opera to view my site, followed one second later by a bunch of hits from Google (probably trying to figure out what sort of ad to show.) Not linking to a page doesn't keep it secret in today's world - you need a password, period.
Remember that Wikipedia is subject to change at any time... at the time I read the Fox News story, it mentioned the Fox News programming lineup as of January 3, 2005 (i.e. today.) So it's quite possible that in the time between the story was posted and the time you read the link, whatever the poster found "really wrong" was removed. Possibly by someone who followed the link from here on Slashdot.
If you're confused now, imagine what it would be like if you were a college TA trying to check the sources for someone's paper that cited Wikipedia... Just one of the many problems with such a highly dynamic work.
I've been doing some work with FFmpeg recently and I noticed it's licensed under the LGPL, not the GPL. (There are some optional modules you can include that put the package under the GPL, but they are not compiled in unless you explicitly request them to be.) The LGPL permits the software to be included without modification as part of a product that is not under the GPL. So there's no GPL violation here.
The 80186 still isn't dead - you can still buy them. I have a 186 single board computer sitting in a box on my desk that I assembled and programmed last year for a microprocessors course. The chips are still sold by DigiKey and the other usual suspects. I have a copy of the 186 datasheet here that actually says "updated June 2002" on it. Old hardware never dies...
Burning and re-ripping is slow and a pain in the ass
Yes, he does realize that tracks can be burned to CD-R and ripped back into MP3 form all without leaving iTunes. He doesn't find that an acceptable solution - probably because it's not a solution, it's a kludge.
when Apple attempted to license its OS, it sales were immediately cannibalized by its licensees
That's because Apple attempted to license their OS sometime around 1995... about ten years too late. By that point, Macs were pretty much already a niche market. And you're right - the Mac clones that were released did not attract new users to the Mac platform. The clones were priced lower than Apple's own equipment, and many Mac users bought clone machines when it came time to upgrade. PC users, however, kept buying PCs. As a result, Apple's market share decreased some. (Incidentally, many of the clone machines had half the internal parts made by Apple - I have an old PowerComputing PowerTower and all the big chips on the motherboard say "(C) APPLE" on them. So Apple was making some money off parts sales to the clone makers in addition to OS licensing.)
Now imagine what could have happened if Apple started licensing their system in, say, 1985, before the PC clone market took off. Around that time, PCs were not very entrenched in the market. If Apple licensed their system, when people went to buy computers they'd have a choice between many different models of Mac machine and many different models of DOS machines all at different price points with different features. It's a good bet many would have chosen the Mac. Instead, people had the choice between a limited selection of Macs from one company or DOS boxes from a good many companies. The rest, as they say, is history. (As an exercise, imagine what would happen if, in addition to Apple licensing their system, Microsoft decided to only supply MS-DOS to IBM and not license it to Compaq and others. Then where do you think the two companies would be today?)
Way back when, Apple was the #1 maker of personal computers and Microsoft wrote BASIC interpreters. Today Apple has something like 3% of the market and systems running Microsoft software have over 90%. Netscape once had 70% of the market for web browsers, and Microsoft had a cruddy browser with a miniscule market share. Today Microsoft has over 90%. Today Apple has about 70% of the MP3 player and online music market and Microsoft and its partners have a bunch of cruddy products with miniscule market share. Where will we be five years from now? In the tech world, nobody stays at #1 forever - except maybe Microsoft. I'd think if Apple had a bit of a more open mind towards interoperability, it would be a great benfit when the Redmond assault inevitably comes.
And regarding Palm - last I checked, while Palm of course lost some of the Palm OS PDA market to other companies making Palm OS PDAs, the platform is still the market leader. Do you think the same would be true if Palm never licensed their software?
Easy... just have the app inside the fake MP3 file display something like "This file is in a newer version of the MP3 format that is not supported in this version of iTunes. iTunes can automatically download an update that will give you the ability to play this file. Please enter your password to install the update."
Bam, instant administrator access. Wouldn't fool everybody, but if there are Windows users who will open a password-protected zip and run the virus inside, there are similarly-minded Mac users who would fall for a trick like this. Never underestimate the power of social engineering.
Apple uses Akamai to do the heavy lifting for their website. The big selling point of Akamai's content delivery service is that it uses various DNS tricks and the like to serve up pages from servers close to the client. So your download probably isn't actually coming from Japan, and the slashdotting doesn't have much of an effect either because Akamai has lots of bandwidth to handle just this kind of situation.
While Link 1 is the admittedly useful "Television Antenna Frequently Asked Questions", Links 2, 3, and 4 are spam, link 5 is a press release, link 6 is more spam, and the useful links start somewhere after that. From this end, it seems like nothing much has changed...
It depends on what you're doing. I recently gave myself a 1.8 GHz Opteron system for Christmas and have been running some performance tests comparing 32 and 64 bit versions of the same applications.
Using LAME compiled from source with the default compiler options and "--alt-preset standard" encoding settings, it took 4m20s to encode an 11 minute MP3 with the 32 bit version and 2m51s to encode using the 64 bit version - about 30% faster. However, comparing some of the filters in a 64 bit GIMP 1.3.23 compiled from source with default settings to the GIMP 1.3.23 from the Debian distribution was quite different - running the "Diffraction Patterns" filter with default options on a 512x512 image took 11 seconds with the 32 bit version and 16 seconds with the 64 bit version - about 50% slower!
Of the other tests I ran, MP3 decoding with mpg123, bzip2 compression and AES encryption with OpenSSL were faster in 64 bit mode, and 3DES encryption with OpenSSL was faster in 32 bit mode. Of course, one of the advantages of having a hybrid 32/64 bit processor is that you can run whichever version is faster for a given task, onlike on the Itanium which until recently had only software emulation for 32 bit code.
I have also heard that 64 bit Windows on Opteron is slower at running 32 bit code than 32 bit Windows on Opteron, which has made me want to rerun my 32 bit tests under a 32 bit kernel. I also want to run the same tests on a Mac G5 and a Pentium 4 for comparison. Some other time...
If what you saw was called "Windows XP 64-Bit Edition", then it was for IA64 (Intel Itanium.) The version of Windows XP for AMD64 (AMD Opteron/Athlon 64) will be called "Windows XP 64-Bit Edition for 64-Bit Extended Systems" or "Windows Elements" depending on who you ask (Windows Elements is probably a codename...) Last I heard the AMD version is currently in beta testing, so it's probably on MSDN also. Maybe you did in fact see the Opteron version. However, you need to be careful not to get the versions mixed up or you'll end up with something that doesn't run on your system as AMD64 and IA64 are quite incompatible.
And a compiler that improves the performance of programs by 50% IS an achievement, no matter how much you try to put it as something common.
It's a new architecture - big advances in compiler performance are very much to be expected. On the x86, people have had 20+ years experience writing optimizing compilers. Most of the tweaks that can be made have already been made. As a result, recent advances in x86 compiler technology do not produce spectacular results. The PPC970 has been around for a lot less time, so they haven't had as much experience with the compilers and can find ways to tweak for major performance increases. Several years down the road, you aren't going to be seeing 50% performance increases from new compilers. This is true with any new architecture - the poor performance of the first generation Itanium was blamed on lousy compilers, and it's gotten much better now.
(I'm asking for it tonight, I've tried to inject sanity into TWO slashdot mac/pc flamewars. I should go to bed before I get hurt.)
I think you're missing part of the story here - megahertz for megahertz, the Pentium III outperforms a Pentium 4! The P4's "NetBurst Microarchitecture" or whatever is the ultimate incarnation of the megahertz myth - Intel made a bunch of design decisions to boost the clock speed at the expense of slowing down the number of instructions that could be processed per clock cycle compared to the P3. Why? Because Joe Consumer goes to Best Buy and looks at "how many megahertz it does" to make the decision about what to buy. Joe Consumer doesn't know what SPEC is. Heck, Joe Consumer probably doesn't know what a benchmark is.
The new Pentium M processors (used in Centrino laptops), based on the old Pentium III design, clock for clock outperform the Pentium 4. An AMD Athlon 64 3000+ runs at 2.17 GHz, yet AMD claims it runs like a 3 GHZ Pentium 4. AMD uses these model numbers because of the "megahertz myth." An Opteron or Athlon 64 at 2 GHz performs on par with a P4 at 3.2 GHz, thanks in part to a better cache design and higher memory bandwidth. The world's #2 supercomputer runs on 1.25 GHz Alpha processors. (ok, there's 8192 of them) and the #8 and #9 computers run on (8192 and 6656) Power3s at 375 whole megahertz!
The megahertz myth is alive and well. Trying to sum everything up with a single number is arguably a bad thing, but Joe and Jane Consumer want their single number. Look at digital cameras - before they became a mass market consumer item, companies said their camera had XGA resolution, or 1280x1024 resolution, or 640x480 VGA resolution, or whatever. Now you have megapixels.
But don't worry, by next summer, you'll be seeing 3 GHz Athlon 64s and Opterons along with the 3 GHz G5s. (AMD says they are going to start volume production of 90nm chips in Q3 2004 - i.e. the end of next summer.) If patterns hold, these will probably all perform about the same as a 4.5 GHz P4 (extrapolating from today's numbers.) And who knows what Intel will have by then? Rumors of an Intel 32/64 bit CPU a la Opteron have been flying lately. And even if they just could scale the Pentium M design up to around 3 GHz, it could be quite formidable...
It's all because of the Canopy Group - a holding company started by the guy who used to run Caldera. They own portions of a whole lot of companies, including Caldera/SCO, Troll Tech, Altiris, Linux Networx, and others. Go to www.canopy.com to see the list. Interestingly, Novell used to be on their list of "portfolio companies", but not anymore. A while back, Novell started yelling at SCO about unix licensing issues (they used to own the System V rights that SCO has now)... maybe that's why they're gone?
It's not suprising that people on the board of one Canopy Group company are on the board of some of the others - it's fairly typical for investment companies and venture capitalists to request seats on the board of the companies they fund.
Whether or not Canopy Group as a whole is bent on world domination, or whether it's just SCO, is left as an exercise to the reader. I've seen evidence on both sides, but can't really recall it now.
The Rio line of MP3 players is made by Digital Networks (used to be made by SonicBlue, before that, by Diamond.) Creative Labs makes Nomads. Try again.
Raw sockets are a part of the standard Berkeley socket APIs, useful for writing things like, oh, ping programs. (I had to write a Windows ping program for work, and the sample ping code in MSDN used raw sockets. There might be some other way to do this, but I couldn't find it documented anywhere.) And you have to be an Administrator to use them anyway. Linux (and probably every other unix) has raw sockets also, and you have to be root to use them. (ping is, incidentally, setuid root.)
As usual, Steve Gibson is making a mountain out of a molehill with this raw sockets issue to get himself more PR...
I for one will be sticking to Regular Tv/DVD combo, At least untill the FCC decides to make THAT illegal too.
There are no plans in the works to make your NTSC TV and TiVo illegal per se, but there are plans to make it useless. The FCC's ultimate goal is to shift all broadcast TV stations over to digital and discontinue analog broadcasts by the end of 2006 (assuming enough people are able to receive the digital broadcasts.) Their motivation is that digital TV uses less spectrum than analog TV, so they will be able to repurpose the old analog TV spectrum for other uses and no doubt make a pretty penny by auctioning the licenses. Broadcasters have been rather slow to switch over, and it makes sense that the FCC would give them stuff like the broadcast flag to encourage them to switch over faster. So in a few years, if the FCC gets their way, you won't have a choice other than digital TV with the broadcast flag.
Of course, this ignores some pretty tough facts: something like 98-99% of Americans have a television. More Americans have a TV than have telephone service at home. A sizable number of these folks probably don't have the money to just run out to Best Buy and buy a new television because the FCC says they have to. I expect to see a bunch of noise made in the news about this once the deadline approaches, followed by lots of Congressional campaigns running on the "The big bad federal government wants to take away your TV... over my dead body!" platform. This will likely lead to the analog/digital cutover deadline being pushed back significantly.
Actually, that's probably not a typo. Since grep is by default case sensitive, grepping for "assword" you will find occurrences of both "Password" and "password". Of course, "grep -i password" would do the same thing, but it's more keystrokes, so why bother?
The macworld link is to an article talking about the old toilet-seat iBooks... those were tanks. We have a bunch of those at my old high school (I still volunteer there, so I know what's going on) and we had hardly any problems with them. Not so with the new iBooks... the CD trays stop staying closed, the case latch breaks, the power supply connectors break (a lot!) and we've had some that stopped charging the batteries (and no, it's not a problem with the batteries, the same batteries work fine in other computers.) The construction has definitely gotten cheaper. Probably the same with Dell. And keep in mind this is with 9th-12th graders... with sixth graders, things are bound to be much worse. The parent posters have a point- Michigan better have a large maintenance budget! (Or they could decide to buy toilet seat iBooks off of eBay, but finding 130,000 of those could be a challenge.)
I think you're confusing two things here. One of my friends bought a Multia many years back when they were still current, supported systems and was running Windows NT on it. NT for Alpha came with an x86 emulator built in. In NT 3.51 it was a 286 emulator and in NT 4 it was a 486 emulator. I remember running Norton SysInfo on the x86 emulation in NT 3.51, and for the BIOS info or something like that it said "Insignia Solutions".
DEC later came out with a product called FX!32 which is probably what you are thinking of here. FX!32, which was a free download from DEC and not included with Windows, basically attempted to translate the x86 binary code to native Alpha code using various techniques. It could do the translation on the fly or do it offline before the program was started. FX!32 had higher performance than the Microsoft/Insignia emulation, but still paled in comparison with running native code.
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If somebody watches a pirated film, gets a headache, sues the RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America, which obviously has nothing to do with film piracy), and still manages to win... then it's really time to move to Canada.
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There are no write-ins on primary elections in Montgomery County (and probably all of Maryland), so this is not an issue here. Write-ins are only allowed for the general election. However the voting machine is NOT supposed to mark unopposed candidates by default, at least it didn't for me.... but this is Diebold so all bets are off.
Yes.
Opera (the unregistered version with the ads) also uses Google to provide advertising, so anybody who browses to your site using Opera will make Google aware of your site. I had a page on my website that was linked to only from my IM profile, and I was looking through the logs and noticed someone use Opera to view my site, followed one second later by a bunch of hits from Google (probably trying to figure out what sort of ad to show.) Not linking to a page doesn't keep it secret in today's world - you need a password, period.
Remember that Wikipedia is subject to change at any time... at the time I read the Fox News story, it mentioned the Fox News programming lineup as of January 3, 2005 (i.e. today.) So it's quite possible that in the time between the story was posted and the time you read the link, whatever the poster found "really wrong" was removed. Possibly by someone who followed the link from here on Slashdot.
If you're confused now, imagine what it would be like if you were a college TA trying to check the sources for someone's paper that cited Wikipedia... Just one of the many problems with such a highly dynamic work.
I've been doing some work with FFmpeg recently and I noticed it's licensed under the LGPL, not the GPL. (There are some optional modules you can include that put the package under the GPL, but they are not compiled in unless you explicitly request them to be.) The LGPL permits the software to be included without modification as part of a product that is not under the GPL. So there's no GPL violation here.
The 80186 still isn't dead - you can still buy them. I have a 186 single board computer sitting in a box on my desk that I assembled and programmed last year for a microprocessors course. The chips are still sold by DigiKey and the other usual suspects. I have a copy of the 186 datasheet here that actually says "updated June 2002" on it. Old hardware never dies...
Can you read? It says in the post you replied to:
Burning and re-ripping is slow and a pain in the ass
Yes, he does realize that tracks can be burned to CD-R and ripped back into MP3 form all without leaving iTunes. He doesn't find that an acceptable solution - probably because it's not a solution, it's a kludge.
when Apple attempted to license its OS, it sales were immediately cannibalized by its licensees
That's because Apple attempted to license their OS sometime around 1995... about ten years too late. By that point, Macs were pretty much already a niche market. And you're right - the Mac clones that were released did not attract new users to the Mac platform. The clones were priced lower than Apple's own equipment, and many Mac users bought clone machines when it came time to upgrade. PC users, however, kept buying PCs. As a result, Apple's market share decreased some. (Incidentally, many of the clone machines had half the internal parts made by Apple - I have an old PowerComputing PowerTower and all the big chips on the motherboard say "(C) APPLE" on them. So Apple was making some money off parts sales to the clone makers in addition to OS licensing.)
Now imagine what could have happened if Apple started licensing their system in, say, 1985, before the PC clone market took off. Around that time, PCs were not very entrenched in the market. If Apple licensed their system, when people went to buy computers they'd have a choice between many different models of Mac machine and many different models of DOS machines all at different price points with different features. It's a good bet many would have chosen the Mac. Instead, people had the choice between a limited selection of Macs from one company or DOS boxes from a good many companies. The rest, as they say, is history. (As an exercise, imagine what would happen if, in addition to Apple licensing their system, Microsoft decided to only supply MS-DOS to IBM and not license it to Compaq and others. Then where do you think the two companies would be today?)
Way back when, Apple was the #1 maker of personal computers and Microsoft wrote BASIC interpreters. Today Apple has something like 3% of the market and systems running Microsoft software have over 90%. Netscape once had 70% of the market for web browsers, and Microsoft had a cruddy browser with a miniscule market share. Today Microsoft has over 90%. Today Apple has about 70% of the MP3 player and online music market and Microsoft and its partners have a bunch of cruddy products with miniscule market share. Where will we be five years from now? In the tech world, nobody stays at #1 forever - except maybe Microsoft. I'd think if Apple had a bit of a more open mind towards interoperability, it would be a great benfit when the Redmond assault inevitably comes.
And regarding Palm - last I checked, while Palm of course lost some of the Palm OS PDA market to other companies making Palm OS PDAs, the platform is still the market leader. Do you think the same would be true if Palm never licensed their software?
Easy... just have the app inside the fake MP3 file display something like "This file is in a newer version of the MP3 format that is not supported in this version of iTunes. iTunes can automatically download an update that will give you the ability to play this file. Please enter your password to install the update."
Bam, instant administrator access. Wouldn't fool everybody, but if there are Windows users who will open a password-protected zip and run the virus inside, there are similarly-minded Mac users who would fall for a trick like this. Never underestimate the power of social engineering.
Apple uses Akamai to do the heavy lifting for their website. The big selling point of Akamai's content delivery service is that it uses various DNS tricks and the like to serve up pages from servers close to the client. So your download probably isn't actually coming from Japan, and the slashdotting doesn't have much of an effect either because Akamai has lots of bandwidth to handle just this kind of situation.
While Link 1 is the admittedly useful "Television Antenna Frequently Asked Questions", Links 2, 3, and 4 are spam, link 5 is a press release, link 6 is more spam, and the useful links start somewhere after that. From this end, it seems like nothing much has changed...
It depends on what you're doing. I recently gave myself a 1.8 GHz Opteron system for Christmas and have been running some performance tests comparing 32 and 64 bit versions of the same applications.
Using LAME compiled from source with the default compiler options and "--alt-preset standard" encoding settings, it took 4m20s to encode an 11 minute MP3 with the 32 bit version and 2m51s to encode using the 64 bit version - about 30% faster. However, comparing some of the filters in a 64 bit GIMP 1.3.23 compiled from source with default settings to the GIMP 1.3.23 from the Debian distribution was quite different - running the "Diffraction Patterns" filter with default options on a 512x512 image took 11 seconds with the 32 bit version and 16 seconds with the 64 bit version - about 50% slower!
Of the other tests I ran, MP3 decoding with mpg123, bzip2 compression and AES encryption with OpenSSL were faster in 64 bit mode, and 3DES encryption with OpenSSL was faster in 32 bit mode. Of course, one of the advantages of having a hybrid 32/64 bit processor is that you can run whichever version is faster for a given task, onlike on the Itanium which until recently had only software emulation for 32 bit code.
I have also heard that 64 bit Windows on Opteron is slower at running 32 bit code than 32 bit Windows on Opteron, which has made me want to rerun my 32 bit tests under a 32 bit kernel. I also want to run the same tests on a Mac G5 and a Pentium 4 for comparison. Some other time...
If what you saw was called "Windows XP 64-Bit Edition", then it was for IA64 (Intel Itanium.) The version of Windows XP for AMD64 (AMD Opteron/Athlon 64) will be called "Windows XP 64-Bit Edition for 64-Bit Extended Systems" or "Windows Elements" depending on who you ask (Windows Elements is probably a codename...) Last I heard the AMD version is currently in beta testing, so it's probably on MSDN also. Maybe you did in fact see the Opteron version. However, you need to be careful not to get the versions mixed up or you'll end up with something that doesn't run on your system as AMD64 and IA64 are quite incompatible.
And a compiler that improves the performance of programs by 50% IS an achievement, no matter how much you try to put it as something common.
It's a new architecture - big advances in compiler performance are very much to be expected. On the x86, people have had 20+ years experience writing optimizing compilers. Most of the tweaks that can be made have already been made. As a result, recent advances in x86 compiler technology do not produce spectacular results. The PPC970 has been around for a lot less time, so they haven't had as much experience with the compilers and can find ways to tweak for major performance increases. Several years down the road, you aren't going to be seeing 50% performance increases from new compilers. This is true with any new architecture - the poor performance of the first generation Itanium was blamed on lousy compilers, and it's gotten much better now.
(I'm asking for it tonight, I've tried to inject sanity into TWO slashdot mac/pc flamewars. I should go to bed before I get hurt.)
I think you're missing part of the story here - megahertz for megahertz, the Pentium III outperforms a Pentium 4! The P4's "NetBurst Microarchitecture" or whatever is the ultimate incarnation of the megahertz myth - Intel made a bunch of design decisions to boost the clock speed at the expense of slowing down the number of instructions that could be processed per clock cycle compared to the P3. Why? Because Joe Consumer goes to Best Buy and looks at "how many megahertz it does" to make the decision about what to buy. Joe Consumer doesn't know what SPEC is. Heck, Joe Consumer probably doesn't know what a benchmark is.
The new Pentium M processors (used in Centrino laptops), based on the old Pentium III design, clock for clock outperform the Pentium 4. An AMD Athlon 64 3000+ runs at 2.17 GHz, yet AMD claims it runs like a 3 GHZ Pentium 4. AMD uses these model numbers because of the "megahertz myth." An Opteron or Athlon 64 at 2 GHz performs on par with a P4 at 3.2 GHz, thanks in part to a better cache design and higher memory bandwidth. The world's #2 supercomputer runs on 1.25 GHz Alpha processors. (ok, there's 8192 of them) and the #8 and #9 computers run on (8192 and 6656) Power3s at 375 whole megahertz!
The megahertz myth is alive and well. Trying to sum everything up with a single number is arguably a bad thing, but Joe and Jane Consumer want their single number. Look at digital cameras - before they became a mass market consumer item, companies said their camera had XGA resolution, or 1280x1024 resolution, or 640x480 VGA resolution, or whatever. Now you have megapixels.
But don't worry, by next summer, you'll be seeing 3 GHz Athlon 64s and Opterons along with the 3 GHz G5s. (AMD says they are going to start volume production of 90nm chips in Q3 2004 - i.e. the end of next summer.) If patterns hold, these will probably all perform about the same as a 4.5 GHz P4 (extrapolating from today's numbers.) And who knows what Intel will have by then? Rumors of an Intel 32/64 bit CPU a la Opteron have been flying lately. And even if they just could scale the Pentium M design up to around 3 GHz, it could be quite formidable...
It's all because of the Canopy Group - a holding company started by the guy who used to run Caldera. They own portions of a whole lot of companies, including Caldera/SCO, Troll Tech, Altiris, Linux Networx, and others. Go to www.canopy.com to see the list. Interestingly, Novell used to be on their list of "portfolio companies", but not anymore. A while back, Novell started yelling at SCO about unix licensing issues (they used to own the System V rights that SCO has now)... maybe that's why they're gone?
It's not suprising that people on the board of one Canopy Group company are on the board of some of the others - it's fairly typical for investment companies and venture capitalists to request seats on the board of the companies they fund.
Whether or not Canopy Group as a whole is bent on world domination, or whether it's just SCO, is left as an exercise to the reader. I've seen evidence on both sides, but can't really recall it now.
The Rio line of MP3 players is made by Digital Networks (used to be made by SonicBlue, before that, by Diamond.) Creative Labs makes Nomads. Try again.
Raw sockets are a part of the standard Berkeley socket APIs, useful for writing things like, oh, ping programs. (I had to write a Windows ping program for work, and the sample ping code in MSDN used raw sockets. There might be some other way to do this, but I couldn't find it documented anywhere.) And you have to be an Administrator to use them anyway. Linux (and probably every other unix) has raw sockets also, and you have to be root to use them. (ping is, incidentally, setuid root.)
As usual, Steve Gibson is making a mountain out of a molehill with this raw sockets issue to get himself more PR...
Because Apple says so, of course!
I for one will be sticking to Regular Tv/DVD combo, At least untill the FCC decides to make THAT illegal too.
There are no plans in the works to make your NTSC TV and TiVo illegal per se, but there are plans to make it useless. The FCC's ultimate goal is to shift all broadcast TV stations over to digital and discontinue analog broadcasts by the end of 2006 (assuming enough people are able to receive the digital broadcasts.) Their motivation is that digital TV uses less spectrum than analog TV, so they will be able to repurpose the old analog TV spectrum for other uses and no doubt make a pretty penny by auctioning the licenses. Broadcasters have been rather slow to switch over, and it makes sense that the FCC would give them stuff like the broadcast flag to encourage them to switch over faster. So in a few years, if the FCC gets their way, you won't have a choice other than digital TV with the broadcast flag.
Of course, this ignores some pretty tough facts: something like 98-99% of Americans have a television. More Americans have a TV than have telephone service at home. A sizable number of these folks probably don't have the money to just run out to Best Buy and buy a new television because the FCC says they have to. I expect to see a bunch of noise made in the news about this once the deadline approaches, followed by lots of Congressional campaigns running on the "The big bad federal government wants to take away your TV... over my dead body!" platform. This will likely lead to the analog/digital cutover deadline being pushed back significantly.
Actually, that's probably not a typo. Since grep is by default case sensitive, grepping for "assword" you will find occurrences of both "Password" and "password". Of course, "grep -i password" would do the same thing, but it's more keystrokes, so why bother?
The macworld link is to an article talking about the old toilet-seat iBooks... those were tanks. We have a bunch of those at my old high school (I still volunteer there, so I know what's going on) and we had hardly any problems with them. Not so with the new iBooks... the CD trays stop staying closed, the case latch breaks, the power supply connectors break (a lot!) and we've had some that stopped charging the batteries (and no, it's not a problem with the batteries, the same batteries work fine in other computers.) The construction has definitely gotten cheaper. Probably the same with Dell. And keep in mind this is with 9th-12th graders... with sixth graders, things are bound to be much worse. The parent posters have a point- Michigan better have a large maintenance budget! (Or they could decide to buy toilet seat iBooks off of eBay, but finding 130,000 of those could be a challenge.)
You do know you can configure LILO to require entry of a password before accepting boot arguments, right?
No no no!
It's
10 ? "Bryan loves Sheila"; CHR$(7);
20 goto 10
This way it beeps and it's sure to get everybody's attention...
I think you're confusing two things here. One of my friends bought a Multia many years back when they were still current, supported systems and was running Windows NT on it. NT for Alpha came with an x86 emulator built in. In NT 3.51 it was a 286 emulator and in NT 4 it was a 486 emulator. I remember running Norton SysInfo on the x86 emulation in NT 3.51, and for the BIOS info or something like that it said "Insignia Solutions".
DEC later came out with a product called FX!32 which is probably what you are thinking of here. FX!32, which was a free download from DEC and not included with Windows, basically attempted to translate the x86 binary code to native Alpha code using various techniques. It could do the translation on the fly or do it offline before the program was started. FX!32 had higher performance than the Microsoft/Insignia emulation, but still paled in comparison with running native code.
If somebody watches a pirated film, gets a headache, sues the RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America, which obviously has nothing to do with film piracy), and still manages to win... then it's really time to move to Canada.