They surmise that the mutation might have been allowed by human precurosors going from eating leaves to eating meat, etc. and using tools (since both occurred at about the same time).
I wonder, however, if it happened the other way 'round.... The mutation may have caused the 'mutants' to change their diet and their methods of obtaining food -- forcing proto-humanity into using tools.
Remember what happened to Israel.. They offered MS something like $7M to fix the Hebrew support for OSX Office. Microsoft basically wouldn't give Israel the time of day until they were halfway through porting OpenOffice to OSX.
If it's not in line with Microsoft's business objectives to fix your bug, you might as well just go hang yourself. With Open Source, youalways have the option of providing the needed support yourself.
A friend of mine worked for a rather large company and his users were having problems with excel corrupting files in a wierd, almost viral, way.
His Microsoft account rep kept on telling him that the problem must be with something that he was doing, because nobody else seemed to be having that problem.
Then my friend found out that someone at another company was having the same problem, and my friend had the following conversation with his MS account rep:
friend: I was talking to Mr. X at Ycorp the other day and,... MS: Oh yeah, Mr. X. I talk to him all the time.. YCorp is one of my accounts, you know... friend: Ah, then you'll know that, for the last couple of months, he's having the same problem with excel that I've been having!. MS: <guilty silence>.
One thing that you rarely get in the Open Source world is people lying about the existence of a bug.
At this point, I really don't care if ICBM guidance systems work.. Consider the two possibilities:
They don't get used... the fact that an guidance system is bogus is pretty much an academic question
They do get used.. If people start launching ICBMs, I really don't care where they land... I'f I'm still alive 8 hours later, I'll be too busy, between thanking/cursing god that I'm alive and digging for survivors, to care about who "won". I expect that it will be the same no the other side, too.
"I don't know what weapons WW3 will be fought with, but I can say that WW4 will be fought with clubs and rocks."
Albert Einstein
The computer Science Facility won't be bulging at the seams any more, and the people going in will be mostly people who are genuinely intereested in the computer science field.
This might actually result in a higher quality crop of students in the next few years.
This is a BIG deal in my view... Companies can now easily put Linux boxes in 'low risk' environments, and see how they work... If they see that Linux is not only cheaper, but also more efficient, easier to install and use safer and functionally incapable of coming up with arbitrary 'license violation' warnings, They may start to expand Linux use to other areas of the office too.
Then, when most of a company's machines are running Linux, employees will be more likely to take a copy home and install it there (and it's free too!). In a nother few years, Microsoft will be a nich marketer, and Linus will RULE THE WORLD!!!!!!!.
One of the things that I really like about the swiss law is that it does attack the economic base of spamming -- the people who profit from it... The fact that I could (If I lived there) not only sue the spammers themselves, but also the people who are trying to get me to enlarge my penis (it's big enough for my liking, thank you) means that I can pull the financial rug out from under the apammers, and then kick them while they're down (in a legal sense, that is).
It's a really beautiful, pleasant, clean, functional and well-run place to live, and that sort of spoils you over time.
Consider the possibility that this may be a result of the Swiss weirdnesses you've described as opposed to being in spite of them as you seem to suggest.
64 bit computers can have up to 18Tb of RAM, but with motherboard physical limitationss it iss not possible.
yep, yep.. Reminds me of when the MacII first came out. Based on the 68020, it would be, in theory, capable of addressing 2GB of ram. (one bit was used to switch between RAM and I/O space) I did some napkin math and figured that you could camoflage a 2GB memory unit as a desk. The memory would fit in the lid of the desk, with one pillar being a cooling unit, and the other a 16Kilowatt power supply).
I figured we could even revert back to a form of bank switched memory (if you would allow the pun)... with banks of memory being switched off if you weren't using them. This would be a good bit worse, but roughly the same idea.
it always amazed me how the top downloads at SF were either MS apps or cross-platform apps.
Makes sense to me... Anything that's really good, someone is going to find a way to port it to Windows. It's a little bit harder to pull Windows products to Linux -- especially if they're closed source.
Just because tomatoes are vegtables doesn't mean that they're not fruits (1800's US Supreme Court aside). "Vegtable" is a really generic definition that doesn't have much of a basis in science. Fruits are a little bit better defined.
Unless you want to say that a vegtable is any sort of large plant product that doesn't classify as a fruit, I'd say that the Tomatoe can reasonably classify as both.
We're talking dual 2Gz Pentiums... I doubt that you could find dimms that could fit into those boxes that held less than 64Meg without special ordering (( That's right -- for the price of 512Meg of ram, we can give you a whopping 6Megabytes!)).
Possible sane explanations would include:
6 Meg cache
6Gig of RAM
6Gig if Disks (a bit too small to believed)
6Meg video cards. (again, a bit small these days)
I'd be betting on #1 ir #2.
6 gig disks are hard to come by, these days., and with 6 meg of RAM, you could cache the entire OS in a ramdisk and obviate the need for a real disk altogether -- and make a nice, fast box, once it's loaded over the 'net (Memory to memory, you could transfer a 1GB OS image in about 10 seconds with a gigabit ethernet link).
Similarly, a 6meg video card doesn't make much sense... The only reason to have a vidwo card in one of these boxes would be to take advantage of hardware rendering tricks. I can't see getting a video card fast enough to be worth programming for that didn't have at least 32Meg of ram.
If that wasn't enough, he emailed the info to NBCi. Why do these people think that they're the "good guys" when they do this
Lemme se now, NBCi probably deals with MSNBC on a regular basis... Think that the guys at MSNBC would pass on info about the big boss's credit card being hacked????
All this really proves is that intelligence and wisdom really are two entirely separate attributes.
The reason most (or all) viruses are written for Windows is because that's where they'll do the most damage, since most people use Windows.
That's part of the answer... but the other part of the answer is that Microsoft products are such an easy target. Major design and architectural decisions about Windows appear to have been made by the marketing department -- that includes boob-traps put in to sabotage MS competitors. Those decisions are coming back to bite Microsoft now that they're fighting to secure the system.
So, is this a 32 bit CPU that can act like a 64 bit CPU or a 16 bit CPU (based on it's 8 bit predecessor) or
is it a 64bit CPU that can act like a 32 bit CPU or it's 16bit predecessor (which is, itself based on an 8 bit design).?
I can understand why Intel wanted to go to a clean 64bit CPU implementation, but It's a bit late in the game for them.
I don't see anything wrong with Linux' Netfilter or Open BSD's packet filter.
It is, in theory possible that you could find a similar exploit for them -- but they do have the advantage of many of the best eyes in the industry looking at them.
In my case, I have a hardware (OK: BSD) firewall, and my Linux boxes behind them run IPTables. My theory is that some people may be able to breach one of the two, but it's unlikely that both will be exploitable at the same time (layered security). I'd suggest the same thing for Windows users... put stuff like BlackICE behind a firewall. Don't trust it as your only security.
Software firewalls will, if nothing else, help you when your roommate's computer(s) swallow a web or email virus which gets past the outside perimiter, while the hardware unit will protect you from most externally sourced issues that don't subvert the firewall.
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.As for the destroyed disks, depending on how much was overwritten, you might be able to recover the secondary FAT table... Just stomp on the trashed data with enough info for dosfsck to not reject the drive as fat32 and then have it recover the secondary FAT data (( I've used this trick to recover a friend's disk that had seen similar breakage about a year ago)).
This does, however presume that you have a Linux boot CD floating around (Knoppix, or a Fedora/RH8 boot disk or any other recent Linux distribution with DOS recovery tools will probably help for people with FAT32 filesystems (( repairing NT is going to be a good bit more work, since the FS is nowhere near as well defined)).
Groklaw is reporting that they simply recieved the same December letter that eeverybody else did, and a lawyer representing other recipients got holdo of it via a Freedom of Information Act request.
About the only interesting things here are that we now know they've been sending these letters to (pseudo) government organizations, and they've managed to threaten the Regents of the University of California ( thus re-igniting USL vs BSD).
It's also increasingly unlikely that they did any sort of vetting in terms of who they sent the letters to. Dead Tree SPAM.
I'd say it's more liker firing a '22 at a grizzly... It *IS* possible to kill it, but chances are it's gonna be spitting up the spare bullets you have (had) in your back pocket.
If they're not willing to make an exception for you, then tell them that they're responsible for coming up with a solution that gives fast access and support times without forcing you to pay cell charges or, for that matter, necessitating that you even keep your own cell phone.
If they're expecting you to stay on call, then it's their responsibility to make sure that you can do your job while you're on the job.
There's also the issue of what happens when you're on vacation, sick or handling a personal emergency situation.. If the system is sending pagers to your cell phone, I don't think that you should be expected to hand your personal cell phone to someon else.
When I worked for BC-Tel, I signed on to ADSL, and BC-Tel wasn't willing to pay for ADSL (even though it supported me doing my job), so my staff account became my personal account too.
When I left, it probably took a few months to get the last couple of alert messages directed to the right places. Once in a while (5 years later now), I still see little, innocuous, vestigal evidence of the work setup in my email box (mostly in the form of spam).
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I wonder, however, if it happened the other way 'round.... The mutation may have caused the 'mutants' to change their diet and their methods of obtaining food -- forcing proto-humanity into using tools.
The rest,as they say, is (pre-)history.
Remember what happened to Israel.. They offered MS something like $7M to fix the Hebrew support for OSX Office. Microsoft basically wouldn't give Israel the time of day until they were halfway through porting OpenOffice to OSX.
If it's not in line with Microsoft's business objectives to fix your bug, you might as well just go hang yourself. With Open Source, youalways have the option of providing the needed support yourself.
A friend of mine worked for a rather large company and his users were having problems with excel corrupting files in a wierd, almost viral, way.
His Microsoft account rep kept on telling him that the problem must be with something that he was doing, because nobody else seemed to be having that problem.
Then my friend found out that someone at another company was having the same problem, and my friend had the following conversation with his MS account rep:
One thing that you rarely get in the Open Source world is people lying about the existence of a bug."I don't know what weapons WW3 will be fought with, but I can say that WW4 will be fought with clubs and rocks."
Albert Einstein
This might actually result in a higher quality crop of students in the next few years.
Then, when most of a company's machines are running Linux, employees will be more likely to take a copy home and install it there (and it's free too!). In a nother few years, Microsoft will be a nich marketer, and Linus will RULE THE WORLD!!!!!!! .
(Oops.. sorry. Got a bit away on myself there.)
One of the things that I really like about the swiss law is that it does attack the economic base of spamming -- the people who profit from it... The fact that I could (If I lived there) not only sue the spammers themselves, but also the people who are trying to get me to enlarge my penis (it's big enough for my liking, thank you) means that I can pull the financial rug out from under the apammers, and then kick them while they're down (in a legal sense, that is).
Consider the possibility that this may be a result of the Swiss weirdnesses you've described as opposed to being in spite of them as you seem to suggest.
I understand that ESR uses something similar -- but be real careful When you've got those things between you and the keyboard, a typo can be deadly.
- $ units 2^64 tera
(commas mine)* 18,446,744
Q: Mac Classic, Classic Mac -- What's the difference?????
A: ... about a decade.
yep, yep.. Reminds me of when the MacII first came out. Based on the 68020, it would be, in theory, capable of addressing 2GB of ram. (one bit was used to switch between RAM and I/O space) I did some napkin math and figured that you could camoflage a 2GB memory unit as a desk. The memory would fit in the lid of the desk, with one pillar being a cooling unit, and the other a 16Kilowatt power supply).
I figured we could even revert back to a form of bank switched memory (if you would allow the pun) ... with banks of memory being switched off if you weren't using them. This would be a good bit worse, but roughly the same idea.
Makes sense to me... Anything that's really good, someone is going to find a way to port it to Windows. It's a little bit harder to pull Windows products to Linux -- especially if they're closed source.
Unless you want to say that a vegtable is any sort of large plant product that doesn't classify as a fruit, I'd say that the Tomatoe can reasonably classify as both.
We're talking dual 2Gz Pentiums... I doubt that you could find dimms that could fit into those boxes that held less than 64Meg without special ordering (( That's right -- for the price of 512Meg of ram, we can give you a whopping 6Megabytes!)).
Possible sane explanations would include:
- 6 Meg cache
- 6Gig of RAM
- 6Gig if Disks (a bit too small to believed)
- 6Meg video cards. (again, a bit small these days)
I'd be betting on #1 ir #2.6 gig disks are hard to come by, these days., and with 6 meg of RAM, you could cache the entire OS in a ramdisk and obviate the need for a real disk altogether -- and make a nice, fast box, once it's loaded over the 'net (Memory to memory, you could transfer a 1GB OS image in about 10 seconds with a gigabit ethernet link).
Similarly, a 6meg video card doesn't make much sense... The only reason to have a vidwo card in one of these boxes would be to take advantage of hardware rendering tricks. I can't see getting a video card fast enough to be worth programming for that didn't have at least 32Meg of ram.
Lemme se now, NBCi probably deals with MSNBC on a regular basis... Think that the guys at MSNBC would pass on info about the big boss's credit card being hacked????
All this really proves is that intelligence and wisdom really are two entirely separate attributes.
Yep.. and the people who pretty much kicked USL's legal butt back when USL sued them over BSD.
Shoot foot, limp home.
That's part of the answer... but the other part of the answer is that Microsoft products are such an easy target. Major design and architectural decisions about Windows appear to have been made by the marketing department -- that includes boob-traps put in to sabotage MS competitors. Those decisions are coming back to bite Microsoft now that they're fighting to secure the system.
is it a 64bit CPU that can act like a 32 bit CPU or it's 16bit predecessor (which is, itself based on an 8 bit design).?
I can understand why Intel wanted to go to a clean 64bit CPU implementation, but It's a bit late in the game for them.
It is, in theory possible that you could find a similar exploit for them -- but they do have the advantage of many of the best eyes in the industry looking at them.
In my case, I have a hardware (OK: BSD) firewall, and my Linux boxes behind them run IPTables. My theory is that some people may be able to breach one of the two, but it's unlikely that both will be exploitable at the same time (layered security). I'd suggest the same thing for Windows users... put stuff like BlackICE behind a firewall. Don't trust it as your only security.
Software firewalls will, if nothing else, help you when your roommate's computer(s) swallow a web or email virus which gets past the outside perimiter, while the hardware unit will protect you from most externally sourced issues that don't subvert the firewall.
____
.As for the destroyed disks, depending on how much was overwritten, you might be able to recover the secondary FAT table... Just stomp on the trashed data with enough info for dosfsck to not reject the drive as fat32 and then have it recover the secondary FAT data (( I've used this trick to recover a friend's disk that had seen similar breakage about a year ago)).
This does, however presume that you have a Linux boot CD floating around (Knoppix, or a Fedora/RH8 boot disk or any other recent Linux distribution with DOS recovery tools will probably help for people with FAT32 filesystems (( repairing NT is going to be a good bit more work, since the FS is nowhere near as well defined)).
About the only interesting things here are that we now know they've been sending these letters to (pseudo) government organizations, and they've managed to threaten the Regents of the University of California ( thus re-igniting USL vs BSD).
It's also increasingly unlikely that they did any sort of vetting in terms of who they sent the letters to. Dead Tree SPAM.
Sure, you can inspect our servers, However, when you leave, you will be submitted to anal probe and mind wipe procedures.
I'd say it's more liker firing a '22 at a grizzly... It *IS* possible to kill it, but chances are it's gonna be spitting up the spare bullets you have (had) in your back pocket.
I have a web page on my website describing how to make popcorn the oldfashioned way. (i.e. oil, and a big pot). Includes some flavouring suggestions, too.
If they're expecting you to stay on call, then it's their responsibility to make sure that you can do your job while you're on the job.
There's also the issue of what happens when you're on vacation, sick or handling a personal emergency situation.. If the system is sending pagers to your cell phone, I don't think that you should be expected to hand your personal cell phone to someon else.
When I worked for BC-Tel, I signed on to ADSL, and BC-Tel wasn't willing to pay for ADSL (even though it supported me doing my job), so my staff account became my personal account too.
When I left, it probably took a few months to get the last couple of alert messages directed to the right places. Once in a while (5 years later now), I still see little, innocuous, vestigal evidence of the work setup in my email box (mostly in the form of spam).