Not quite, the sex chromosomes form one pair. Females have 2 X chromosomes, while males have one X and one Y. So the sex of a child is determined by which one of the father's sex chromosomes is in the half-set of that particular sperm...
AFAIK, this is also the reason why males live shorter: the X chromosome is big and contains important information, so having 2 of them can be a life-saver, while the Y chromosome containy hardly any information beyond "this is a male".
Well, if its a worm, it spreads, and that spreading consumes resources - oten a lot of resources. This resource usage alone can be declared a crime. Still, if you spread a non-malicious virus and get caught, you'll usually be let off with a much lighter punishment.
However, I guess I can look at the bright side. I've been worried, for a long time, that a virus writer would exploit file dead-space. There's plenty of room at the end of most binary files to tuck a routine or two, then all you'd need is a bootstrap and some way to re-assemble the fragments in the correct order. A trivial task.
But what about the "bootstrap"? The virus has to be started, and the code for that needs to be in a place where stuff is normally executed, and that's where virus scanners are looking. If you hide a virus too well, it never gets executed and is no virus at all.
Before you start downloading, consider your libraries: everyone with glibc older than 2.1 (or libc5!) is shut out for the moment, due to a bug in the libraries. BWAAAHAAAA! I wanna Mozilla, too!
Well, then you were lazier than me. I've been dual booting for over a year, and I'm studying CS and most certainly don't "just dabble" with it. Heck, I recently did my first modification of kernel source code (OK, it was a trivial one).
I'd never use Windows to do serious work, but you just cant live without it, as long as there is hardware that has no Linux drivers (e.g. parlallel port scanners, DVD decoder card. I don't have the money for an SCSI scanner or the Linux-based DVD decoder), and no good movie players, as well as a lot of other stuff.
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Its a contradiction, really. The industry will *never* release anything like all episodes of a series on one disk/cube/whatever, simply because they can sell it easier and for more money in smaller slices.
Of course, every copy protection can be defeated, and then you can make your compilations yourself.
The was a quite unbiased benchmark done by the German c't magazine (unfortunately, it seems they removed that article from their online archive) that showed Linux and NT having pretty much the same performance in static webserving, NT losing disastrously in Perl-based CGI and Linux losing disastrously when serving more than one NICs. Note that this last test is very unrealistic, and Mindcraft basically repeated this with their new benchmark. OK, we know now that Linux doesnt handle more than one NIC well. Big thing.
Either log in remote, over a serial terminal, or (which is probably most feasible for most people) have the Kernel Hotkeys activated (requires re-compilation) which allow you to terminate all processes or synch the filesystems.
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AFAIK, this is also the reason why males live shorter: the X chromosome is big and contains important information, so having 2 of them can be a life-saver, while the Y chromosome containy hardly any information beyond "this is a male".
The problems will start when she discovers that her computer can't run "this really nice new game" a friend gave her...
Considering how dirt-cheap CD-Rs have become, no, that is not expensive for normal people.
Well, if its a worm, it spreads, and that spreading consumes resources - oten a lot of resources. This resource usage alone can be declared a crime. Still, if you spread a non-malicious virus and get caught, you'll usually be let off with a much lighter punishment.
But what about the "bootstrap"? The virus has to be started, and the code for that needs to be in a place where stuff is normally executed, and that's where virus scanners are looking. If you hide a virus too well, it never gets executed and is no virus at all.
Ah, but gloating over MS' incompetence is so much fun!
Before you start downloading, consider your libraries: everyone with glibc older than 2.1 (or libc5!) is shut out for the moment, due to a bug in the libraries. BWAAAHAAAA! I wanna Mozilla, too!
Not really. The prices for those have dropped considerably, to about twice that of normal CD-Rs (at least here in Germany).
I don't see how that could be the case. What did Cygnus make that has been in any way a competition to what RedHat does?
I'd never use Windows to do serious work, but you just cant live without it, as long as there is hardware that has no Linux drivers (e.g. parlallel port scanners, DVD decoder card. I don't have the money for an SCSI scanner or the Linux-based DVD decoder), and no good movie players, as well as a lot of other stuff.
Of course, every copy protection can be defeated, and then you can make your compilations yourself.
Actually, they do mention the full hardware configuration at the bottom of the phase 1-2 part, and yes, its 4 NICs again...
actually, that article is still up, someone else posted the link: http://www.heise.de/ct/english/99/13/18 6-1/.
The was a quite unbiased benchmark done by the German c't magazine (unfortunately, it seems they removed that article from their online archive) that showed Linux and NT having pretty much the same performance in static webserving, NT losing disastrously in Perl-based CGI and Linux losing disastrously when serving more than one NICs. Note that this last test is very unrealistic, and Mindcraft basically repeated this with their new benchmark. OK, we know now that Linux doesnt handle more than one NIC well. Big thing.
I can't see it either, but I'm behind a braindead firewall, so...
Dunno about you, but my system contains many more hours of work than just the installation - mainly configuration, new software, etc.
Everything else needs to come from backup - whenever that was made the last time.
"Data that is not backed up is worthless"
-- the Unix Sysadmin Guide, IIRC
And the backup might contain the dormant virus.
If you spotted the virus, it should not be too difficult to prevent it from spreading again, if you have a clue.
Either log in remote, over a serial terminal, or (which is probably most feasible for most people) have the Kernel Hotkeys activated (requires re-compilation) which allow you to terminate all processes or synch the filesystems.