Watch out when buying third-party PC hardware for use in a Mac - many AGP/PCI video cards and PCI SCSI cards come with some form of on-card BIOS that can only be used with a PC. In some cases, you may be able to flash the BIOS to get Mac-compatibility. Otherwise, go with a card that is specifically indicated to be Mac-compatible.
What's really annoying is when a card with the Mac BIOS is 50% more expensive than its PC equivalent (*cough*Adaptec*cough*)...
Actually, in many countries trespassing isn't trespassing unless there's a sign up saying "Keep out or we sue your ass" (or whatever) OR the owner of the property tells the trespasser to leave and is not obeyed.
Well, seeing as hiw there are only "first posts" up so far (five of them, no less), I guess I'll take a shot at an on-topic post.
The problem here is where do you draw the line at fair use? ebay is providing a publically-accessible database; why should a search of that database (by robot or not) be considered an abuse of their servers? Of course, if the search puts so much strain on their servers that no-one else is able to access them (effectively a DOS), then an injunction would be reasonable, but this search doesn't seem to have caused undue server load.
The point that timothy brings up is not really relevant here, I think - your HD is not a database offered for public access, and should thus be protected from undesired searching, whether or not this injunction is upheld.
There are no (repeat: ZERO) 900MHz Alphas available on the market at the moment. The best you can get is 750MHz, and you'll pay through the nose for that.
Actually, Netscape on the Alpha is only a rpm -i netscape.rpm away - Digital (please dont make me call it Compaq) has.rpms available on their Linux/Alpha page. You have to install some compatiblity libraries first, but they're only a rpm -i away as well. It doesn't do Java very well (read: Crashes faster than a crackbaby driving an 18-wheeler), but otherwise it's quite functional.
There's one point I'd like to bring up here; Raph specifies...software distributed under the terms of any version of the GNU General Public License..., which could leave a potential loophole in the event that the current version of the GPL is invalidated in a court of law, rendering the patents useless (since they almost certainly don't enjoy the protections provided to GPL'd software, where if the GPL is invalidated, all rights revert to the copyright owner and no-one else is allowed to use it). I'm not actually sure how this could be handled; any solution I can think of would either leave open the possibility of the GPL being changed at some future time to a more restrictive license and the patent therefore being usable only for software under that license (this is if you change the wording to read "...under the latest version of the GNU General Public License"), or wouldn't solve the problem anyway (this is if you change it to read "...under version 2, or at the user's choice, any later version, of the GNU General Public License...", which, if I recall correctly, is the standard wording for most GPL'd software).
That has to be the single stupidest argument around for using MS software in education.
What happens to all those people that you've just taught Word to when the next version comes out and the interface has changed? You get a pile of calls to the company help desk asking them where the font settings menu item went.
What you need to teach in schools is concepts, not implementations. Take a look at any decent CS course - do they teach you that "the only way to use a computer is through version X.XX of Yoyodyne's C compiler"? No, they teach you about algorithms, about data structures, about procedural languages and declarative languages, about fundamental concepts that will let you work on any computer system created, past or future.
That's the sort of flexibility that education needs to provide. Otherwise you end up with a workforce that needs retraining three years after graduation.
I thought perjury only applied to testimony taken under oath - even if the DMCA is making these allegations incorrectly, they're probably only open to a class action suit (which would probably be more effective anyway).
Well, of the graphs they provided, the 3D piegraph was definitely superfluous, and everything except the last pie graph could have been done using free software (take a look at gnuplot; it may have been able to do the pie graph as well, I'm not sure), so yes, I'd say he has a point.
I have a Nanao CRT with a total of three "dead spots" - very small points (smaller than pixels on any LCD I've seen) that stay stubbornly black. I've thought about asking Nanao to replace it, but it doesn't really bother me that much.
Since some people have been asking for a translation of the page, here you go:
Construction kits
Product number: 9301001000239 Maker: Wakamatsu Tsusho Product name/model: WAKA-MP3 Ver1.1 Notes: A kit to build your own pocket-size MP3 player. We are very sorry, but any orders made at the present time cannot be filled for more than one month. Price: 9800 yen
A kit to build an MP3 player for leading-edge digital audio. We're proud of the fact that it sounds better than prebuilt products from corporate manufacturers. By using a new deice, it can be run on one AA (AAA) battery.
MP3 decoder (MAS3507D) D/A converter (DAC3550A) MCU (AT90S8515) Printed circuit board (84x64mm) Smartmedia socket A complete kit that includes MCU firmware and programming tools for PCs.
To build this kit, you will need an AT-compatible PC, a tester, a narrow-pointed soldering iron, tweezers and solderwick. It is aimed at people who have experience with embedded MPU (PICs, etc.) devices, and who can handle soldering (technical term for parts that are soldered directly to the circuit board - can't remember the English term, dammit) parts.
PLEASE NOTE: The photograph is only an assembled example. ( larger photo is available here. The Smartmedia, battery, headphones and case are not included.
[I've editied out some pointless stuff here]
Because of demand, shipping is behind schedule. Any orders received at the present time will take more than a month to ship. We apologize for the inconvenience.
We will provide estimates for completed kits, modules, etc., depending on the amount required.
[That's about it. The text box at the bottom is for the number of kits you want to order.]
I'm sure you'll go far with an attitude like that...
BTW, how do you know they "took it aprat"? A thorough security audit of a large application is not something that Redhat does regularly (join the Linux Security mailing list for that sort of thing), so I suspect that someone doing a quick check found it. I mean, anything like a default password is going to scream "security hole!!!!" to even the most cursory examination, while buffer overruns can be much more subtle (many of which are fencepost errors - very hard to catch unless you're looking for them).
Hello? Did you read my post? I was talking about how if the password check section of Piranha has a similar buffer overrun, then it doesn't matter whether or not you've changed the default password - the very act of authentification (whether successful or not) could be a security hole.
Don't bet on it. Buffer overflows are insidious lttle beasts, and they generally pop up because of bad coding habits, which means a program that has one buffer overflow found almost never has only one buffer overflow.
FOr example, in the case of Piranha, what if there's a buffer overflow not only in the password change portion of the code, but also the password check part? You then have a hole that anyone can utilize. Just think of the number of buffer overflows found in programs like Sendmail, and even ssh, and you get an idea of the scale of the problem.
You mean, could "daikatana" be used as a proper noun? Not very likely, as the reading "dai" comes from the Chinese reading of the kanji, while "katana" is a Japanese reading. There are some words that are made up of this combination, but as a rule, it's not very common.
Of course, then there's the fact that he'd be calling his weapon "Bigsword", which would probably seem pretty dorky, even to medieval Japanese warriors. "Fear me, for I shall cut your limbs from your body with my ancient blade Bigsword!" Golly, I know I'd be scared...
Show me one history book that uses the word "daikatana", and I'll happily quit my job at a Japanese publishing company and go back to university for my masters in linguistics.
Let me repeat: there is no such word as Daikatana in Japanese. There is a word "daitou", written using the same characters, but it's rarely used. As I mentioned in my post above, the most common term for such a weapon would be "ootachi" (or "oodachi" in modern Japanese). It describes a sword approximately 140-160 cm in length that's slung over the shoulder (it's also sometimes called a "nodachi", which transliterates to "field large sword").
Why don't you actually study something about the subject before opening your mouth?
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As I said above, the word "daikatana" doesn't actually exist in Japanese. The correct term would be "ootachi", written with three characters - the first is "tai/dai/ookii" (the first character Ion Storm uses on the box), the second is "ta/tai/futoi" (usually meaning "fat") and the third is "tou/katana" (the second character on the box). The combination shown on the box isn't a word any more than "bigsword" is a word in English. I mean, Japanese might get the gist of Daikatana, but it looks strange.
In actual fact, there is no such word as "daikatana" in Japanese. If a Japanese were shown the kanji on the box, they'd most likely read it "oogatana". I have no idea why Romero chose this (although looking at some of the fake Japanese used in the Daikatana site, I have a nasty feeling that Romero's been spending the last four years reading manga).
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Watch out when buying third-party PC hardware for use in a Mac - many AGP/PCI video cards and PCI SCSI cards come with some form of on-card BIOS that can only be used with a PC. In some cases, you may be able to flash the BIOS to get Mac-compatibility. Otherwise, go with a card that is specifically indicated to be Mac-compatible.
What's really annoying is when a card with the Mac BIOS is 50% more expensive than its PC equivalent (*cough*Adaptec*cough*)...
Actually, in many countries trespassing isn't trespassing unless there's a sign up saying "Keep out or we sue your ass" (or whatever) OR the owner of the property tells the trespasser to leave and is not obeyed.
Well, seeing as hiw there are only "first posts" up so far (five of them, no less), I guess I'll take a shot at an on-topic post.
The problem here is where do you draw the line at fair use? ebay is providing a publically-accessible database; why should a search of that database (by robot or not) be considered an abuse of their servers? Of course, if the search puts so much strain on their servers that no-one else is able to access them (effectively a DOS), then an injunction would be reasonable, but this search doesn't seem to have caused undue server load.
The point that timothy brings up is not really relevant here, I think - your HD is not a database offered for public access, and should thus be protected from undesired searching, whether or not this injunction is upheld.
There are no (repeat: ZERO) 900MHz Alphas available on the market at the moment. The best you can get is 750MHz, and you'll pay through the nose for that.
Actually, Netscape on the Alpha is only a rpm -i netscape.rpm away - Digital (please dont make me call it Compaq) has
Screw the PIII - some on-line stores are giving prices for the AMD Spitfire (also known by the moniker of Duron):
600MHz - $US89
650MHz - $US115
700MHz - $US159
Kinda makes the days when a PII/400 was over a thousand dollars seem pretty crazy, huh?
There's one point I'd like to bring up here; Raph specifies
I'm not actually sure how this could be handled; any solution I can think of would either leave open the possibility of the GPL being changed at some future time to a more restrictive license and the patent therefore being usable only for software under that license (this is if you change the wording to read "...under the latest version of the GNU General Public License"), or wouldn't solve the problem anyway (this is if you change it to read "...under version 2, or at the user's choice, any later version, of the GNU General Public License...", which, if I recall correctly, is the standard wording for most GPL'd software).
Anybody got any better ideas?
That has to be the single stupidest argument around for using MS software in education.
What happens to all those people that you've just taught Word to when the next version comes out and the interface has changed? You get a pile of calls to the company help desk asking them where the font settings menu item went.
What you need to teach in schools is concepts, not implementations. Take a look at any decent CS course - do they teach you that "the only way to use a computer is through version X.XX of Yoyodyne's C compiler"? No, they teach you about algorithms, about data structures, about procedural languages and declarative languages, about fundamental concepts that will let you work on any computer system created, past or future.
That's the sort of flexibility that education needs to provide. Otherwise you end up with a workforce that needs retraining three years after graduation.
Where are you getting these from?!
SDRAM = Synchronous Dynamic RAM
Get yer acronyms right
SIMM = Single Inline Memory Module
DIMM = Double Inline Memory Module
I thought perjury only applied to testimony taken under oath - even if the DMCA is making these allegations incorrectly, they're probably only open to a class action suit (which would probably be more effective anyway).
Well, of the graphs they provided, the 3D piegraph was definitely superfluous, and everything except the last pie graph could have been done using free software (take a look at gnuplot; it may have been able to do the pie graph as well, I'm not sure), so yes, I'd say he has a point.
Actually, the Great Wall of China has more in common with Windows than you might think - it didn't work.
I have a Nanao CRT with a total of three "dead spots" - very small points (smaller than pixels on any LCD I've seen) that stay stubbornly black. I've thought about asking Nanao to replace it, but it doesn't really bother me that much.
Try NetBSD.
Since some people have been asking for a translation of the page, here you go:
Construction kits
Product number: 9301001000239
Maker: Wakamatsu Tsusho
Product name/model: WAKA-MP3 Ver1.1
Notes: A kit to build your own pocket-size MP3 player. We are very sorry, but any orders made at the present time cannot be filled for more than one month.
Price: 9800 yen
A kit to build an MP3 player for leading-edge digital audio.
We're proud of the fact that it sounds better than prebuilt products from corporate manufacturers.
By using a new deice, it can be run on one AA (AAA) battery.
MP3 decoder (MAS3507D)
D/A converter (DAC3550A)
MCU (AT90S8515)
Printed circuit board (84x64mm)
Smartmedia socket
A complete kit that includes MCU firmware and programming tools for PCs.
To build this kit, you will need an AT-compatible PC, a tester, a narrow-pointed soldering iron, tweezers and solderwick. It is aimed at people who have experience with embedded MPU (PICs, etc.) devices, and who can handle soldering (technical term for parts that are soldered directly to the circuit board - can't remember the English term, dammit) parts.
PLEASE NOTE: The photograph is only an assembled example. ( larger photo is available here.
The Smartmedia, battery, headphones and case are not included.
[I've editied out some pointless stuff here]
Because of demand, shipping is behind schedule.
Any orders received at the present time will take more than a month to ship.
We apologize for the inconvenience.
We will provide estimates for completed kits, modules, etc., depending on the amount required.
[That's about it. The text box at the bottom is for the number of kits you want to order.]
Hah! I knew about this thing over a week ago.
The shop does have a URL, and I've put it in at the bottom of this post, but it ain't gonna do you any good for two reasons:
1) You almost have to be able to order in Japanese (AFAIK, Wakamatsu doesn't take orders in English).
2) These kits are back-ordered for more than a month in advance; good luck at actually getting your hands on one.
I'll probably drop by the store (it's in the Akihabara district of Tokyo) either tomorrow or the day after, but it looks pretty hopeless.
OK, here's the URL: CL ICK HERE
(Be warned, the above link is in Japanese.)
I'm sure you'll go far with an attitude like that...
BTW, how do you know they "took it aprat"? A thorough security audit of a large application is not something that Redhat does regularly (join the Linux Security mailing list for that sort of thing), so I suspect that someone doing a quick check found it. I mean, anything like a default password is going to scream "security hole!!!!" to even the most cursory examination, while buffer overruns can be much more subtle (many of which are fencepost errors - very hard to catch unless you're looking for them).
Hello? Did you read my post? I was talking about how if the password check section of Piranha has a similar buffer overrun, then it doesn't matter whether or not you've changed the default password - the very act of authentification (whether successful or not) could be a security hole.
Don't bet on it. Buffer overflows are insidious lttle beasts, and they generally pop up because of bad coding habits, which means a program that has one buffer overflow found almost never has only one buffer overflow.
FOr example, in the case of Piranha, what if there's a buffer overflow not only in the password change portion of the code, but also the password check part? You then have a hole that anyone can utilize. Just think of the number of buffer overflows found in programs like Sendmail, and even ssh, and you get an idea of the scale of the problem.
You mean, could "daikatana" be used as a proper noun? Not very likely, as the reading "dai" comes from the Chinese reading of the kanji, while "katana" is a Japanese reading. There are some words that are made up of this combination, but as a rule, it's not very common.
Of course, then there's the fact that he'd be calling his weapon "Bigsword", which would probably seem pretty dorky, even to medieval Japanese warriors. "Fear me, for I shall cut your limbs from your body with my ancient blade Bigsword!" Golly, I know I'd be scared...
Show me one history book that uses the word "daikatana", and I'll happily quit my job at a Japanese publishing company and go back to university for my masters in linguistics.
Let me repeat: there is no such word as Daikatana in Japanese. There is a word "daitou", written using the same characters, but it's rarely used. As I mentioned in my post above, the most common term for such a weapon would be "ootachi" (or "oodachi" in modern Japanese). It describes a sword approximately 140-160 cm in length that's slung over the shoulder (it's also sometimes called a "nodachi", which transliterates to "field large sword").
Why don't you actually study something about the subject before opening your mouth?
Interesting. That actually worked under Mozilla.
Bzzt! Sorry, you lose.
As I said above, the word "daikatana" doesn't actually exist in Japanese. The correct term would be "ootachi", written with three characters - the first is "tai/dai/ookii" (the first character Ion Storm uses on the box), the second is "ta/tai/futoi" (usually meaning "fat") and the third is "tou/katana" (the second character on the box).
The combination shown on the box isn't a word any more than "bigsword" is a word in English. I mean, Japanese might get the gist of Daikatana, but it looks strange.
In actual fact, there is no such word as "daikatana" in Japanese. If a Japanese were shown the kanji on the box, they'd most likely read it "oogatana". I have no idea why Romero chose this (although looking at some of the fake Japanese used in the Daikatana site, I have a nasty feeling that Romero's been spending the last four years reading manga).