People have been looking for microlensing events caused by IIRC the transit that yielded the first atmosheric compostition numbers, last year, had already been found by the parallax ("wobbly star") method used to find 99% of other known extra-solar planets. The orbital plane was already known to be in line with us, and indeed the event's timing was predicted using the wobbling parent star. The point is that this technique (which is really a hack in the original sense) is only any use in those rare cases where the orbital plane intersects line of sight from the parent star to earth. Calculation of the percentage of orbits for which this is true is left as an exercise for the reader (cos I haven't the maths;) [Source: Astronomy magazine.)
You say that Microsoft will lose when they make a fatal mistake. I suggest that they have *already* mad a fatal mistake in failing to buy laws to crush Open/Free software, in failing to move away from their pyramid scheme finacial model, and in continuing to base their business model on the idea of selling shrink-wrapped software. Take away their illegal sources of income, and they're finished. Hahahaha!:)
4.x sucks, 6.x is worse, and IE is quite usable. Throw the politics out - which would you prefer?
I'd prefer the secure, standards compliant one which renders the most sites. I'm not that bothered about performance, one browser opening half a second quicker than the other makes no odds when mandatory antivirus locks the whole machine up every now and then. (Not that this makes a difference, Mozilla opens and renders faster than IE these days anyway.) I'd like tabbed browsing, and I'd like the thing to stay up for, say, ten days without crashing. Looks like Mozilla's a clear winner then.
And whatever happened to SparQ? I bought an excellent 1Gb drive with some free carts thrown in, about a month before the entire firm went bust. (approx) three years later, it's still my primary backup device - yet it cost about the same price as 10 or 100Mb Jaz drives... and we're still using them (Jaz) at work(!) I guess it's just another VHS/Beta situation...
Six months ago, most Americans were stunned to discover how differently others in the world regard us from the way we see ourselves.
Speaking as a Euro-weenie, I must say I was depressed by how/little/ an impression it seems to have made. Most of your countrymen and women don't read Slashdot, or consume much other non-domestic media. Even more depressing were the "nuke 'em tuil they glow!" types who crawled out of the woodwork on places like NANOG and ruined their credibility with me (although full marks and $credibility++ to Randy Bush and a couple of others for having the courage to speak up and make themselves very, very unpopular for disagreeing with the consensus opinion.)
But when even k5 and Slashdot are still full of musclehead morons and well-meaning but appallingly informed "liberal" types (I use that in the Uk sense of "somewhat fair-minded and prepared to listen to other points of view" rather than your weird "practically a Marxist" connotations) , it's hard to feel good about the prospects whilst Bush is in office, at least. Rather like the Israel/Palestine situation. Too damn depressing.
We're just spec'ing out a 40-ish machine rack at work for CPU intensive processing. The existing rig uses cheap no-name PC parts from a relatively local company, since we bought those a few years ago they've moved to the 1U form factor - these units (which tons of people make) are just the bee's chalfonts , whoever makes 'em;)
Slightly off-topic - the DHTML is b0rked in mozilla; a quick search at bugzilla.mozilla.org shows no-one else has logged this so I've done so myself. (Hmmm, actually I was just searching against the URL to find the bug I just logged and it didn't turn up... oddness... ) (And now I get the error "Sorry, bugzilla links from Slashdot are not allowed." heh!:) http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/slashdot/index.html?id =134931 is the one, anyway... ) Yes folks, you can file mozilla bugs against the "tech evangelism" component to sic the mozilla wranglers onto the site's designers and get them to fix non-standard HTML for the non-IE world's benefit. (Remember when sites were designed only for Netscape, and we used to complain that they should test on mionirty products such as IE? Ah, happy days...) </ot>
Java has a better library structure than perl, with each package being in a well defined place in the classpath.
Fiddlesticks! Perl's namespace is far more flexible than the clumsy, bloated directory hierarchy used in Java. I just wrote my first CPAN module (not QA'd yet, no install scripts etc, so it's not uploaded yet) and it'll be something like called Net::Bookmark.pm. If it was java it would be "comp.string.app.multi.browser.plugins.bookmarks.m ung.utils" or something equally atrocious. Java is good news for makers of ergonomics keyboards, bad news for those of us nursing incipient RSI!:)
I find it very sad, that companies will trick the user into installing the software without the knowledge I find it very sad, that companies will trick the user into installing the software without the knowledge
Who's been tricked? It's right there in the license agreement. Read the fscking article.
Just shows that you should read the license before installing your free lunch... otherwise, you get what you deserve. I've no sympathy with anyone wailing "but I didn't/realise/ that's what "Read the small print" meant!"
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Lemmings is right. This trend to IIS from Apache started showing up right about the time Code Red and Nimda made it clear what a joke IIS is as a web server (as a paperweight, the box & CDs work great!) I can only conclude that pointy-haired bosses all over the world have simultaenously decided that if the thing's been trashed by three successive waves of malware, that all the bugs have been ironed out of the codebase by now. In other words, management are mindless cretins who deserve nothing but poking with sharp sticks, ridicule, and high-velocity custard pies.
Follow-up to the Larsen ice-shelf disintegrating story: another BBC report says Cambridge scientists have discovered that the ice-caps (those that float on the sea, anyway) are melting from beneath - due to warmer sea-water - as well as from above, due to warmer air temperatures. The sea-level won't rise just because floating sea-ice melts - obviously - but glaciers and icesheets on land that are propped up by sea ice will slide into the ocean more quickly without them, which willraise sea levels. And of course Larsen is just another canary data-point pointing the same way as most studies from the last 15 years.
Sadly, you are correct. The amusing thing about all of this is that we actually know what we have to do to crush the enemy who will attack us again.
Well you read a whole lot into my comment that wasn't there. What's this "WE", who are "US" ? It was an attack on America, not me or my country (despite my "leader"'s pathetic lewinski-like approach to Gee-Dubya since; don't confuse what Blair says for what the UK population thinks!) Al Qaeda are YOUR enemies, not mine. Pardon my cynicism.
"You can't have a military solution to a political problem", eh? That is just bull bleep. The political machinery of Germany and Japan set off WW II, not their armed forces on their own initialtive. That was a political problem. And you know what? It was bloody well solved militarily, by pounding them into the ground using overwhelming military might.
That, my friend, is because they represented a MILITARY PROBLEM. DURRRR...
I'm breaking a self-imposed rule by answering on a katz story. But... do you/really/ think more computers and software will help protect you from more low-tech terrorism? If so, you're even more stupid than you seem.
Sorry for the language, but it's what I (any most European anti-terrorist experts, which is to say, those who have some experience and understanding of what they're dealing with) think.
The only way you'll stop it happening again -- IMHO -- is to stop funding Israel and get the fsck out of the economies and political systems of supposedly "independent" states that don't want you there (the people, that is, not the rulers), and to stop backing dictatorships like Saudi Arabia just because they're "on your side". In Ireland they used to say: "You cannot have a military solution to a political problem." Guess what? They were right.
*sigh* now I'm going to get flamed to fuck. Well hopefully someone might be prompted to think... I just hope you don't wait until you're up to your waist with dead Americans and "collateral damage" (I know, they're barely human but they still count... )
Would that be rather like neutron stars? My understanding is that current orthodox astrophysics models meutron stars as either a Bose-Einstein state, or as (in effect) a single, very big, neutron. (Or, er, are those the same things?) C'mon astrophysicists, enquiring idiots want to know!;)
NTLM is total shit though, I wouldn't authenticate the milkman using it, let alone someone on my network... it's the reason why l0phtcrack goes through SAM account databases like a knife through butter.
My mirror's been here since I read the original story on Jon Johansen's bust here on Slashdot, in late 1999. Along with tens of other people I posted the mirror URL to the story, as you do. I also subscribed to a deCSS list at (IIRC) the EFF. I set up some clumsy rules to filter stuff into a separate folder, and took my three weeks Y2K holiday. When I got back (as the world had failed to end), it took me a while to go through the mai backlog, and it was IIRC two or three months later that I found what appeared to be a writ, served on me by mail, announcing I was "John Doe #13" in the DVD/CCA case (the Californian case, not the 2600 NYC case.)
Well after I stopped laughing, and found my humble vanity URL listed in the official legal docs on the web, I wondered for a while whether I should pull it. Eventually I bought a couple of Copyleft T shirts (hey! where did they go - the site's gone!)... with the source on, and haven't heard anything more about it. As I'm a UK citizen, and my mirror physcially resides in the UK, I don't reckon I ned worry until they start throwing Brits into jail... so far, so good. But as they must have trawled my URL from the Slashdot story (the only place I posted it), perhaps they'll read this and order a 6am raid.
Little known fact, but according to the Lawrence Livermore Nat'l lab, coal power realeases more radiation than nuclear power. Coal naturally contains some thorium and uranium. When you burn coal, this is realesed into the air. We burn so much fscking coal that we realease around 150 thousand tons of uranium and 350 thousand tons of thorium into the atmosphere!!!
*sigh* That's an argument AGAINST COAL, not an argument FOR NUCLEAR.
This won't solve our energy problems. It will help some though. It is only worth putting tidal plants in areas with large differences between high and low tide. These places are few and far between.
Let me stop you there & pre-empt your nuclear argument. If you examine a map you will see that some areas have long coastlines relative to their landmass (check out the Dalmation coast of Croatia and Bosnia, for example, or Scotland, or indeed the whole of Europe, in commparison to the USA.) in Europe, we have long coastlines relative to our populations. You have much less (relative to your population.) Although I believe the north-west gets a bit baroque in places? Obviously the higher the ratio of coastline to people, the greater the benefit to be had from tidal energy.
Of course, tidal on it's own won't replace fossil fuels. We need solar, wind, other forms of off-shire generation (submerged turbines powered by currents; wave-powered generators such as the trials that were built in Scotland; fuel cells; and hey, those nuclear plants are all so safe and cheap to run that we can rely on them for everything else. Well, we will be able to in a few decades time, when no-one much is running oil-burning personal transport.
I had heard something about this on NPR. I do not believe they indeed on trying to use the power to power homes and such, but instead, to run a desalinization plant to provide freshwater to remote places.
No. The power generated is fed into the national or local grid, so it's keeping lights on and computers running.
it's excellent to hear that some medium scale implementations are going though.
After years of low funding and inertia, alternative energy is really taking off in the UK. I can choose to take all my domestic electricity from wind power if I want just by ticking a box on the quarterly bill - it costs the same (to me at any rate, presumably the genco's will be making bigger profits once the capital outlaw is covered, than from fossil fuel generators which need constant money shovelled into them.) We're also building several largeoffshore windfarms, one off the scottish coast, one off Norfolk (eastern English coast.) Looks like we'll clean up when the Middle East goes up in smoke and the price of oil quadruples on the international spot market. I'm glad I've got stock in Ballard fuel-cell manufacturers, too. Lots of people were calling me names on the Larsen break-up story I submitted the other day - well I might be a lily-livered pinko commie shirt-lifting museli muncher, who wears sandals, but at least I'll be rich =)
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You say that Microsoft will lose when they make a fatal mistake. I suggest that they have *already* mad a fatal mistake in failing to buy laws to crush Open/Free software, in failing to move away from their pyramid scheme finacial model, and in continuing to base their business model on the idea of selling shrink-wrapped software. Take away their illegal sources of income, and they're finished. Hahahaha! :)
I'd prefer the secure, standards compliant one which renders the most sites. I'm not that bothered about performance, one browser opening half a second quicker than the other makes no odds when mandatory antivirus locks the whole machine up every now and then. (Not that this makes a difference, Mozilla opens and renders faster than IE these days anyway.) I'd like tabbed browsing, and I'd like the thing to stay up for, say, ten days without crashing. Looks like Mozilla's a clear winner then.
Are those reasons political?
"I suppose you expect me to talk now?"
"No, Mr Bond - I expect you to die!"
And whatever happened to SparQ? I bought an excellent 1Gb drive with some free carts thrown in, about a month before the entire firm went bust. (approx) three years later, it's still my primary backup device - yet it cost about the same price as 10 or 100Mb Jaz drives... and we're still using them (Jaz) at work(!) I guess it's just another VHS/Beta situation...
Speaking as a Euro-weenie, I must say I was depressed by how
But when even k5 and Slashdot are still full of musclehead morons and well-meaning but appallingly informed "liberal" types (I use that in the Uk sense of "somewhat fair-minded and prepared to listen to other points of view" rather than your weird "practically a Marxist" connotations) , it's hard to feel good about the prospects whilst Bush is in office, at least. Rather like the Israel/Palestine situation. Too damn depressing.
Slightly off-topic - the DHTML is b0rked in mozilla; a quick search at :) http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/slashdot/index.html?id =134931 is the one, anyway... ) Yes folks, you can file mozilla bugs against the "tech evangelism" component to sic the mozilla wranglers onto the site's designers and get them to fix non-standard HTML for the non-IE world's benefit. (Remember when sites were designed only for Netscape, and we used to complain that they should test on mionirty products such as IE? Ah, happy days...) </ot>
bugzilla.mozilla.org shows no-one else has logged this so I've done so myself. (Hmmm, actually I was just searching against the URL to find the bug I just logged and it didn't turn up... oddness... ) (And now I get the error "Sorry, bugzilla links from Slashdot are not allowed." heh!
Fiddlesticks! Perl's namespace is far more flexible than the clumsy, bloated directory hierarchy used in Java. I just wrote my first CPAN module (not QA'd yet, no install scripts etc, so it's not uploaded yet) and it'll be something like called Net::Bookmark.pm. If it was java it would be "comp.string.app.multi.browser.plugins.bookmarks.
Who's been tricked? It's right there in the license agreement. Read the fscking article.
Just shows that you should read the license before installing your free lunch... otherwise, you get what you deserve. I've no sympathy with anyone wailing "but I didn't /realise/ that's what "Read the small print" meant!"
Lemmings is right. This trend to IIS from Apache started showing up right about the time Code Red and Nimda made it clear what a joke IIS is as a web server (as a paperweight, the box & CDs work great!) I can only conclude that pointy-haired bosses all over the world have simultaenously decided that if the thing's been trashed by three successive waves of malware, that all the bugs have been ironed out of the codebase by now. In other words, management are mindless cretins who deserve nothing but poking with sharp sticks, ridicule, and high-velocity custard pies.
Follow-up to the Larsen ice-shelf disintegrating story: another BBC report says Cambridge scientists have discovered that the ice-caps (those that float on the sea, anyway) are melting from beneath - due to warmer sea-water - as well as from above, due to warmer air temperatures. The sea-level won't rise just because floating sea-ice melts - obviously - but glaciers and icesheets on land that are propped up by sea ice will slide into the ocean more quickly without them, which willraise sea levels. And of course Larsen is just another canary data-point pointing the same way as most studies from the last 15 years.
Well you read a whole lot into my comment that wasn't there. What's this "WE", who are "US" ? It was an attack on America, not me or my country (despite my "leader"'s pathetic lewinski-like approach to Gee-Dubya since; don't confuse what Blair says for what the UK population thinks!) Al Qaeda are YOUR enemies, not mine. Pardon my cynicism.
That, my friend, is because they represented a MILITARY PROBLEM.
DURRRR...
Sorry for the language, but it's what I (any most European anti-terrorist experts, which is to say, those who have some experience and understanding of what they're dealing with) think.
The only way you'll stop it happening again -- IMHO -- is to stop funding Israel and get the fsck out of the economies and political systems of supposedly "independent" states that don't want you there (the people, that is, not the rulers), and to stop backing dictatorships like Saudi Arabia just because they're "on your side". In Ireland they used to say: "You cannot have a military solution to a political problem." Guess what? They were right.
*sigh* now I'm going to get flamed to fuck. Well hopefully someone might be prompted to think... I just hope you don't wait until you're up to your waist with dead Americans and "collateral damage" (I know, they're barely human but they still count... )
Would that be rather like neutron stars? My understanding is that current orthodox astrophysics models meutron stars as either a Bose-Einstein state, or as (in effect) a single, very big, neutron. (Or, er, are those the same things?) C'mon astrophysicists, enquiring idiots want to know! ;)
NTLM is total shit though, I wouldn't authenticate the milkman using it, let alone someone on my network... it's the reason why l0phtcrack goes through SAM account databases like a knife through butter.
Er, are you asking where the Unix POP3, SMTP and LDAP clients are? I suggest you start here or here. Have fun...
oh .net - of course - I checked .org and .com and then gave up. Shame on them for using an inappropriate TLD ;p
My mirror's been here since I read the original story on Jon Johansen's bust here on Slashdot, in late 1999. Along with tens of other people I posted the mirror URL to the story, as you do. I also subscribed to a deCSS list at (IIRC) the EFF. I set up some clumsy rules to filter stuff into a separate folder, and took my three weeks Y2K holiday. When I got back (as the world had failed to end), it took me a while to go through the mai backlog, and it was IIRC two or three months later that I found what appeared to be a writ, served on me by mail, announcing I was "John Doe #13" in the DVD/CCA case (the Californian case, not the 2600 NYC case.)
... with the source on, and haven't heard anything more about it. As I'm a UK citizen, and my mirror physcially resides in the UK, I don't reckon I ned worry until they start throwing Brits into jail... so far, so good. But as they must have trawled my URL from the Slashdot story (the only place I posted it), perhaps they'll read this and order a 6am raid.
Well after I stopped laughing, and found my humble vanity URL listed in the official legal docs on the web, I wondered for a while whether I should pull it. Eventually I bought a couple of Copyleft T shirts (hey! where did they go - the site's gone!)
*sigh* That's an argument AGAINST COAL, not an argument FOR NUCLEAR.
Let me stop you there & pre-empt your nuclear argument. If you examine a map you will see that some areas have long coastlines relative to their landmass (check out the Dalmation coast of Croatia and Bosnia, for example, or Scotland, or indeed the whole of Europe, in commparison to the USA.) in Europe, we have long coastlines relative to our populations. You have much less (relative to your population.) Although I believe the north-west gets a bit baroque in places? Obviously the higher the ratio of coastline to people, the greater the benefit to be had from tidal energy.
Of course, tidal on it's own won't replace fossil fuels. We need solar, wind, other forms of off-shire generation (submerged turbines powered by currents; wave-powered generators such as the trials that were built in Scotland; fuel cells; and hey, those nuclear plants are all so safe and cheap to run that we can rely on them for everything else. Well, we will be able to in a few decades time, when no-one much is running oil-burning personal transport.
No. The power generated is fed into the national or local grid, so it's keeping lights on and computers running.
After years of low funding and inertia, alternative energy is really taking off in the UK. I can choose to take all my domestic electricity from wind power if I want just by ticking a box on the quarterly bill - it costs the same (to me at any rate, presumably the genco's will be making bigger profits once the capital outlaw is covered, than from fossil fuel generators which need constant money shovelled into them.) We're also building several large offshore windfarms, one off the scottish coast, one off Norfolk (eastern English coast.) Looks like we'll clean up when the Middle East goes up in smoke and the price of oil quadruples on the international spot market. I'm glad I've got stock in Ballard fuel-cell manufacturers, too. Lots of people were calling me names on the Larsen break-up story I submitted the other day - well I might be a lily-livered pinko commie shirt-lifting museli muncher, who wears sandals, but at least I'll be rich =)