What the poster meant is that if Nokia forked it they would have to pay thier developers, full developer rate + deal with the employees etc, to, err, develop it. And they would have to release all thier hard work afterwards.
This way they make a sizable, but less than actually employing developers would cost them in real terms, investment in Mozilla, which get the Mozilla developer's attention, who now get all motivated to work with Nokia to make the changes Nokia wants, without Nokia having to actually employ them.
Don't know what the process is like where you are, but surely there is a standard book with the applicable rules?
Here we have 'The Road Code', which after studying the learner should have no trouble passing the written & oral tests required to get a learners licence.
After that then there is no substitute for just doing it, hire a professional instructor with a dual control car, it should only take a few hour long lessons before you are happy to let the learner drive your car (with you).
But DON'T go driving with the learner if you can't be calm, positive and appear completly relaxed, last thing they need is a nervous passenger making them self concious!
3. The patch, at this point, requires a kernel recompile. Not everyone running linux knows how to do that. Many who do are too lazy. Don't give me some shit about how everyone running linux is so 1337 that they will be sure the have already patched their system. I know you. You aren't that 1337.
As others have pointed out to you, you realistically need shell access to use the exploit.
If somebody is providing shell access to untrusted users, then one hopes that they know about server administration, which includes recompiling a kernel!
This is NOT a problem for Joe User, this is a problem for Sam Serveradmin.
Flight allows the animal to increase it's range greatly, more range = more available food sources.
At a time when food is scarce, small winged animals who don't need much food have a distinct advantage over huge behemoths who eat a truckload with every mouthfull.
Except that the images ("turing numbers" as they are often called) are dynamically generated from random character sequences, and probably with equally random distortions.
You'd be pretty lucky to hit the exact same image twice.
Do you have any idea of how much money Telecom makes each year???? Do you really think that $2000 or even $20000 is going to phase them in the slightest.
The very clear description of the first product reads....
Application: USB ADAPTER for USB A Type Male to Mini Din 6 Pin Female ***IMPORTANT NOTE***: 10160 is the adapter ONLY, without chips and any software. If you do NOT have the related chips and software on your computer, we strongly recommend you to by the whole convertor
Did you *buy* the whole convertor, or do you have the chips & software required to translate PS/2 -> USB already in your PC ( pretty damn unlikely! ).
The outpost convertor looks to be the same dealie.
Yes, but most people would be hard pressed to find somebody else to (help them) do thier taxes for free.
But; for any moderatly sized OSS project there is a quantity of people who are are all to happy to help (provide support) to you for free through mailing lists, bulletin boards, IRC etc...
Support contracts work best (IMHO) targetted at corporate entities who have a hard enough time convincing themselves to use OSS, let alone accept help from the 'unwashed masses' of the community. Coporates like to pay for things, they don't understand free.
I don't know what this software the poster has written does, or if it does it well. But if corporates are not using it, or likely to use it, then i dn't think I'd bother with support contracts - the 'unwashed masses' don't need or want them (generalising, but true).
I'm very soon to implement a 'dead man switch' for my own use. I do freelance programming work and I have a number of return customers who I'm pretty much always working for, as well as a few customers I provide hosting for.
If I'm ever hit by a bus, or crash a plane or whatever other nasty thing which kills, or severely incapacitates me (coma, etc) I want my clients to know about it so that they can do what is necessary.
My system will simply watch for my login activity..
* if I havn't logged in in a week it will send a reminder email to me every day for the next 3 days
* if I havn't logged in 3 days more it will SMS me a warning every day for 3 days (if I can find a good way to send SMS to my server I'll set it up so I can confirm from my phone just incase I'm not near an internet connection for some reason)
* on the 13th day of inactivity it will email & SMS selected people to ask them to confirm my status to the system
* if my status is confirmed, then emails & SMS will go out to technical contacts to advise of the situation, what they need to do (giving passwords required etc), and who they should contact if they have any problems
I *HATE* that so-called feature. For the simple reason that when I am doing data entry into a web form, as I often do by copying data from some other application/legacy wehsite, I want to be using left-select-middle-click-paste for the extra speed.
But, especially if I'm entering lots of data, I'll occasionally miss the input field when I middle click, then, even though what I have pasted looks *nothing* like a URL, firefox will in it's infinite wisdom try to load something, anything, it's not even sensible about it, I get odd pages I havn't been to in months, strange things completely out of the blue. And if I don't hit escape quick enough it'll load the 'supposed' page I wanted and then when I hit back, all the data I entered into my form is gone (because it came from an expired form post and had to be reposted to the server to generate the form again).
I'm sure I've seen at least 2 comments removed/censored on/., at the request of the secret service.
Of course, that just makes me curious as to what the comment was that caused enough of a problem for SS that they would go to the trouble of having/. remove it, *after* a few thousand/.'rs had read it.
Out of interest, any/.'rs remember where the censored comment(s) in question are in the archives, or even better, remember what was in them before the censorship?
Whenever life get you down, Mrs. Brown, And things seem hard or tough. And people are stupid, obnoxious or daft, And you feel that you've had quite enu-hu-hu-huuuuff! Just - re-member that you're standing on a planet that's evolving and revolving at 900 miles an hour, It's orbiting at 19 miles a second, so it's reckoned, the sun that is the source of all our power. The Sun and you and me, and all the stars that we can see, are moving at a million miles a day, In the outer spiral arm, at 40,000 miles an hour, of the Galaxy we call the Milky Way. Our Galaxy itself contains 100 billion stars, it's 100,000 light-years side-to-side, It bulges in the middle, 16,000 light-years thick, but out by us it's just 3000 light-years wide. We're 30,000 light-years from galactic central point, we go round every 200 million years, And our galaxy is only one of millions of billions in this amazing and expanding universe. The universe itself keeps on expanding and expanding, in all of the directions it can whizz, As fast as it can go, at the speed of light you know, twelve million miles a minute, and that's the fastest speed there is. So remember, when you're feeling very small and insecure, how amazingly unlikely is your birth, And pray that there's intelligent life somewhere up in space, because there's bugger all down here on Earth.
Michael Kitz: Your having sent this announcement all over the world may well constitute a breach of national security.
Ellie Arroway: This isn't a person-to-person call. You can't possibly think that a civilization sending this kind of message would intend it just for Americans.
Yes but think of the political price that would command, the *entire world* would go barmy over it, it would be seen as a totally abhorrent act by the military/government of the US.
A *million* people, US citizens no less, tear gassed, having pain inflicted upon them, I imagine quite dangerously, simply because they want thier government to tell the uncensored truth about what thier tax dollars are paying for.
One of my few remotly possible fantasies is something akin to the scene from "Independance Day" where there is a veritable stampede of motor homes barelling across to Area 51.
Just imagine, if you could get a million people (not undoable) to all turn up at once, on foot, and just blatently start walking to the base. What are they gonna do? Start shooting a million civilians of thier own country because they want to go see what thier tax dollars are paying for? Arrest a million people all at once? Pack up and move before a million people get on thier doorstep? Tear gas? Land Mines?
A million people would not be an easy mass of people to stop from doing what they want - especially if they are concentrated into a tight and strong mob, I don't think you could do it without serious bloodshed.
M/D/Y goes in the order you usually say a date in English. Hence, May 14th, 2004 -> 5/14/2004.
Maybe that's an american thing too, here in New Zealand I would say 'The 5th of May 2004', never 'May the 5th 2004', and I think most other people would too.
D/M/Y and Y-M-D make sense, the values ascend or descend in scale, but M/D/Y is just all wrong.
Learn something new every day. I thought that "mufti cars" would be a common thing in police forces worldwide.
Here in New Zealand we have a reasonable contingent of unmarked police vehicles, generally late model sedans and stationwagons, lights are hidden behind the grill, they are driven by uniformed officers though.
So? All you have to do is when installing/upgrading/on first boot is ask
"Is this your first time using GNOME or have you used GNOME before?"
If they are a new user, set the defaults to the new (supposedly) better ways of doing things and don't tell them anything else, of course if later on they decide to change the settings then it should be easy to do so - none of this gconf garbage.
If they are a returning user then ASK them, would you like to use the "current" way of doing things or the "new & improved" way of doing things. And TELL them how they can change the setting later, again none of this gconf stuff, just say "You can change these settings by using the xxxxxx program.".
It's a tiny bit more work but would make it so much clearer.
I used to use Gnome, then one fate full day apt-get upgrade brings a 'new improved' version of gnome. The next day I did apt-get install kde, because it all seemed so completely, well, crap. It just seemed very 'dumbed down' and I HATE things being dumbed down. I didn't like it one bit.
Of course, I'm not a typical target for the gnome user, I wouldn't use nautilus or konq or kfm or any of that stuff - gentoo (the file manager not the dist) and an xterm is all I want.
[doing an apt-get update & upgrade now to see if Gnome has anything to offer me again since this has piqued my curisoity again]
I can't speak for Java (long time ago now), but code folding makes writing OO PHP a whole lot nicer.
PHP has no preprocessor "include" statement, so short of splitting your method bodies into other files using the execution time include statement which brings a performance penalty on every call to the method, you often wind up writing huge monoliothic classes full of relevant methods rather than nicely splitting them into smaller files and using a preprocessor directive to include them.
I have my editing environment (jedit) set so that it folds-on-open down to showing just the class, properties and function headers, i can quickly skip through the file find the method I want to look at and hit my keyboard shortcut to expand the folded code completely, when I'm done with that method, just another keyboard shortcut and I only see the function header again.
Of course, it would be nice if PHP had a preprocessor include directive too, but it doesn't.
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What the poster meant is that if Nokia forked it they would have to pay thier developers, full developer rate + deal with the employees etc, to, err, develop it. And they would have to release all thier hard work afterwards.
This way they make a sizable, but less than actually employing developers would cost them in real terms, investment in Mozilla, which get the Mozilla developer's attention, who now get all motivated to work with Nokia to make the changes Nokia wants, without Nokia having to actually employ them.
almost a whole 800Mb floppy
BIG Floppy!
Don't know what the process is like where you are, but surely there is a standard book with the applicable rules?
Here we have 'The Road Code', which after studying the learner should have no trouble passing the written & oral tests required to get a learners licence.
After that then there is no substitute for just doing it, hire a professional instructor with a dual control car, it should only take a few hour long lessons before you are happy to let the learner drive your car (with you).
But DON'T go driving with the learner if you can't be calm, positive and appear completly relaxed, last thing they need is a nervous passenger making them self concious!
I agree, that was the first thing I thought. For comparison, here is the real Orac
3. The patch, at this point, requires a kernel recompile. Not everyone running linux knows how to do that. Many who do are too lazy. Don't give me some shit about how everyone running linux is so 1337 that they will be sure the have already patched their system. I know you. You aren't that 1337.
As others have pointed out to you, you realistically need shell access to use the exploit.
If somebody is providing shell access to untrusted users, then one hopes that they know about server administration, which includes recompiling a kernel!
This is NOT a problem for Joe User, this is a problem for Sam Serveradmin.
Flight allows the animal to increase it's range greatly, more range = more available food sources.
At a time when food is scarce, small winged animals who don't need much food have a distinct advantage over huge behemoths who eat a truckload with every mouthfull.
Remember - bigger != better.
Except that the images ("turing numbers" as they are often called) are dynamically generated from random character sequences, and probably with equally random distortions.
You'd be pretty lucky to hit the exact same image twice.
Do you have any idea of how much money Telecom makes each year???? Do you really think that $2000 or even $20000 is going to phase them in the slightest.
incredibly_obscene_money - tiny_little_bit == incredibly_onscene_money
Telcom's response to this can be summed up as - 'meh'.
The very clear description of the first product reads....
Application: USB ADAPTER for USB A Type Male to Mini Din 6 Pin Female ***IMPORTANT NOTE***: 10160 is the adapter ONLY, without chips and any software. If you do NOT have the related chips and software on your computer, we strongly recommend you to by the whole convertor
Did you *buy* the whole convertor, or do you have the chips & software required to translate PS/2 -> USB already in your PC ( pretty damn unlikely! ).
The outpost convertor looks to be the same dealie.
The poster wants to use a PS/2 keyboard over USB, not the other way.
Yes, but most people would be hard pressed to find somebody else to (help them) do thier taxes for free.
But; for any moderatly sized OSS project there is a quantity of people who are are all to happy to help (provide support) to you for free through mailing lists, bulletin boards, IRC etc...
Support contracts work best (IMHO) targetted at corporate entities who have a hard enough time convincing themselves to use OSS, let alone accept help from the 'unwashed masses' of the community. Coporates like to pay for things, they don't understand free.
I don't know what this software the poster has written does, or if it does it well. But if corporates are not using it, or likely to use it, then i dn't think I'd bother with support contracts - the 'unwashed masses' don't need or want them (generalising, but true).
I'm very soon to implement a 'dead man switch' for my own use. I do freelance programming work and I have a number of return customers who I'm pretty much always working for, as well as a few customers I provide hosting for.
If I'm ever hit by a bus, or crash a plane or whatever other nasty thing which kills, or severely incapacitates me (coma, etc) I want my clients to know about it so that they can do what is necessary.
My system will simply watch for my login activity..
* if I havn't logged in in a week it will send a reminder email to me every day for the next 3 days
* if I havn't logged in 3 days more it will SMS me a warning every day for 3 days (if I can find a good way to send SMS to my server I'll set it up so I can confirm from my phone just incase I'm not near an internet connection for some reason)
* on the 13th day of inactivity it will email & SMS selected people to ask them to confirm my status to the system
* if my status is confirmed, then emails & SMS will go out to technical contacts to advise of the situation, what they need to do (giving passwords required etc), and who they should contact if they have any problems
I *HATE* that so-called feature. For the simple reason that when I am doing data entry into a web form, as I often do by copying data from some other application/legacy wehsite, I want to be using left-select-middle-click-paste for the extra speed.
But, especially if I'm entering lots of data, I'll occasionally miss the input field when I middle click, then, even though what I have pasted looks *nothing* like a URL, firefox will in it's infinite wisdom try to load something, anything, it's not even sensible about it, I get odd pages I havn't been to in months, strange things completely out of the blue. And if I don't hit escape quick enough it'll load the 'supposed' page I wanted and then when I hit back, all the data I entered into my form is gone (because it came from an expired form post and had to be reposted to the server to generate the form again).
ARGH! I *HATE* THAT "FEATURE".
I'm sure I've seen at least 2 comments removed/censored on /., at the request of the secret service.
/. remove it, *after* a few thousand /.'rs had read it.
/.'rs remember where the censored comment(s) in question are in the archives, or even better, remember what was in them before the censorship?
Of course, that just makes me curious as to what the comment was that caused enough of a problem for SS that they would go to the trouble of having
Out of interest, any
who immediatly thought of....
Whenever life get you down, Mrs. Brown,
And things seem hard or tough.
And people are stupid, obnoxious or daft,
And you feel that you've had quite enu-hu-hu-huuuuff!
Just - re-member that you're standing on a planet that's evolving
and revolving at 900 miles an hour,
It's orbiting at 19 miles a second, so it's reckoned,
the sun that is the source of all our power.
The Sun and you and me, and all the stars that we can see,
are moving at a million miles a day,
In the outer spiral arm, at 40,000 miles an hour,
of the Galaxy we call the Milky Way.
Our Galaxy itself contains 100 billion stars,
it's 100,000 light-years side-to-side,
It bulges in the middle, 16,000 light-years thick,
but out by us it's just 3000 light-years wide.
We're 30,000 light-years from galactic central point,
we go round every 200 million years,
And our galaxy is only one of millions of billions
in this amazing and expanding universe.
The universe itself keeps on expanding and expanding,
in all of the directions it can whizz,
As fast as it can go, at the speed of light you know,
twelve million miles a minute, and that's the fastest speed there is.
So remember, when you're feeling very small and insecure,
how amazingly unlikely is your birth,
And pray that there's intelligent life somewhere up in space,
because there's bugger all down here on Earth.
Michael Kitz: Your having sent this announcement all over the world may well constitute a breach of national security.
Ellie Arroway: This isn't a person-to-person call. You can't possibly think that a civilization sending this kind of message would intend it just for Americans.
Yes but think of the political price that would command, the *entire world* would go barmy over it, it would be seen as a totally abhorrent act by the military/government of the US.
A *million* people, US citizens no less, tear gassed, having pain inflicted upon them, I imagine quite dangerously, simply because they want thier government to tell the uncensored truth about what thier tax dollars are paying for.
Because knowing otherstuff is UNPATRIOTIC.
How dare you think for yourself!!!
One of my few remotly possible fantasies is something akin to the scene from "Independance Day" where there is a veritable stampede of motor homes barelling across to Area 51.
Just imagine, if you could get a million people (not undoable) to all turn up at once, on foot, and just blatently start walking to the base. What are they gonna do? Start shooting a million civilians of thier own country because they want to go see what thier tax dollars are paying for? Arrest a million people all at once? Pack up and move before a million people get on thier doorstep? Tear gas? Land Mines?
A million people would not be an easy mass of people to stop from doing what they want - especially if they are concentrated into a tight and strong mob, I don't think you could do it without serious bloodshed.
I haven't really ever watched a Voyager episode that I enjoyed.
Never saw any episode with the lovely Jeri Ryan huh.
Mmm, I think tonight I shall have, hot Borg.
M/D/Y goes in the order you usually say a date in English. Hence, May 14th, 2004 -> 5/14/2004.
Maybe that's an american thing too, here in New Zealand I would say 'The 5th of May 2004', never 'May the 5th 2004', and I think most other people would too.
D/M/Y and Y-M-D make sense, the values ascend or descend in scale, but M/D/Y is just all wrong.
Learn something new every day. I thought that "mufti cars" would be a common thing in police forces worldwide.
Here in New Zealand we have a reasonable contingent of unmarked police vehicles, generally late model sedans and stationwagons, lights are hidden behind the grill, they are driven by uniformed officers though.
So? All you have to do is when installing/upgrading/on first boot is ask
"Is this your first time using GNOME or have you used GNOME before?"
If they are a new user, set the defaults to the new (supposedly) better ways of doing things and don't tell them anything else, of course if later on they decide to change the settings then it should be easy to do so - none of this gconf garbage.
If they are a returning user then ASK them, would you like to use the "current" way of doing things or the "new & improved" way of doing things. And TELL them how they can change the setting later, again none of this gconf stuff, just say "You can change these settings by using the xxxxxx program.".
It's a tiny bit more work but would make it so much clearer.
I used to use Gnome, then one fate full day apt-get upgrade brings a 'new improved' version of gnome. The next day I did apt-get install kde, because it all seemed so completely, well, crap. It just seemed very 'dumbed down' and I HATE things being dumbed down. I didn't like it one bit.
Of course, I'm not a typical target for the gnome user, I wouldn't use nautilus or konq or kfm or any of that stuff - gentoo (the file manager not the dist) and an xterm is all I want.
[doing an apt-get update & upgrade now to see if Gnome has anything to offer me again since this has piqued my curisoity again]
Blatant karma whoring ahead. See what The Spot was like Wayback When.
I can't speak for Java (long time ago now), but code folding makes writing OO PHP a whole lot nicer.
PHP has no preprocessor "include" statement, so short of splitting your method bodies into other files using the execution time include statement which brings a performance penalty on every call to the method, you often wind up writing huge monoliothic classes full of relevant methods rather than nicely splitting them into smaller files and using a preprocessor directive to include them.
I have my editing environment (jedit) set so that it folds-on-open down to showing just the class, properties and function headers, i can quickly skip through the file find the method I want to look at and hit my keyboard shortcut to expand the folded code completely, when I'm done with that method, just another keyboard shortcut and I only see the function header again.
Of course, it would be nice if PHP had a preprocessor include directive too, but it doesn't.