Given 4 bytes of [a-zA-Z0-9] gives you 14,776,336 possible combinations while [a-z0-9] only gives you a mere 1,679,616 possible combinations. Assuming they'll eventually up the number of bytes up to six (ie. 4 to 6 bytes), you'll get 57,731,144,752 combinations case sensitive compared to just 2,238,928,128 case insensitive.
Memory unused is memory wasted. Why should you allow your precious DDR3 to just sit there and not be utilized when you could avoid time-consuming disk I/O by buffering data to RAM?
Contrast this with Windows where a lot of things can ONLY be configured with the GUI utilities, which often write their changes to impenetrable, undocumented binary registry keys... very hard to track down. If you try to configure things from the command line in Windows, you'll run into inconsistencies. For example, Windows XP actually has an/etc/hosts file like Linux somewhere under the \winnt\system32 directory... I made the mistake of editing it by hand, and then trying to undo the changes with the GUI. The changes made by the GUI were somehow silently ignored, which led to a mistifying series of DNS problems.
Enough FUD and half-assed anecdotes already. You can use "reg" from the command-line to do any kind of querying/editing/export/import/comparing in the registry. The "reg" command is well documented. So is the API to interface it any way you want.
There is no official "GUI" to edit %windir%\system32\drivers\etc\hosts. You have to do it "by hand" with f.ex. Notepad or with some third-party utility.
Try adding a line to it and type "ipconfig/displaydns". You don't have to/flushdns, the DNS client monitors the hosts-file for changes and will cache any new entries automatically.
It sounds like the OP wants to aquire some sort of web-oriented know-how so I would definitely second your suggestion to compile/install apache, mysql, postgres, php, perl and play with PEAR and CPAN modules. In addition, basic knowledge of UNIX and how shells work is certainly fundamental in this realm of IT.
However, I don't see any reason why you should spend any time trying tp wrap your head around the excentricies of vi(m) and emacs. Chances are that you would be better off with some sort of IDE or editor whose interface resembles the programs you're already familiar with.
You might perhaps need some sort of proficiency in those programs to earn your Geek-Badge, but I think you'd be better of saving that mental energy to something more worthwhile.
I wouldn't call relying on a bug in how IE parses CSS "safe". If you need to override your CSS, a much cleaner and safer way is to use conditional comments:
Whenever I need to implement a design in a site, usually I first get it right in FF/Opera, then I add overrides for the few problematic elements for IE.
I hope it's not the end of Freehand, it's far better for tracing bitmaps to vectors than illustrator.
Have you ever tried Streamline? In this little gem of a program, bitmap tracing actually works! They've discontinued it now though, and merged it with Illustrator CS2.
MySQL, from what I can tell, has an entirely new backtick ("`") operator. I don't even really know what it does, but to me, that seems silly.
If you don't know what it means, please research it before you rush to the conclusion that "it's silly". It's not an operator, it's merely the delimiter MySQL uses for identifiers - and it's not even mandatory in most situations.
Are your cables wired to T568A or T568B standards?
It makes no functional difference which standard you use for a straight-thru cable. You can start a crossover cable with either standard as long as the other end is the other standard. It makes no functional difference which end is which. Despite what you may have read elsewhere, a 568A patch cable will work in a network with 568B wiring and 568B patch cable will work in a 568A network. The electrons couldn't care less.
Google Talk supports a custom XMPP-based signaling protocol and peer-to-peer communication mechanism. We will fully document this protocol. In the near future, we plan to support SIP signaling.
6. Which voice codecs do you support?
Today, Google Talk supports the following standard voice codecs: PCMA, PCMU, G.723, iLBC. We are also evaluating the Speex codec. We also support codecs from Global IP Sound: ISAC, IPCMWB, EG711U, EG711A
You should also be able to use Google Talk at your company, since voice calls should work across any firewall or NAT.
If this is true, then it blows MSN Messenger, AIM, Yahoo Chat, iChat etc. out of the water.
Getting these kinds of applications to work is getting harder and harder due to all the broadband routers out there your NAT-lock you in - and making it pretty damn hard for Joe Sixpack to configure it to properly route incoming UDP and TCP connections.
For me, being on a campus network not allowing incoming UDP nor remotely-initiated TCP connections it's been impossible to you use any kind of voice functionality in IM clients (with the exception of Skype).
Has anyone tested this? Is Google Talk using a P2P approach similar to Skype to make this work?
In order to have slow motion you need alot more frames. Most clips have no more than 25 fps, which will just result in a slide-show bein played any slower...
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It's about keyspace.
Given 4 bytes of [a-zA-Z0-9] gives you 14,776,336 possible combinations while [a-z0-9] only gives you a mere 1,679,616 possible combinations.
Assuming they'll eventually up the number of bytes up to six (ie. 4 to 6 bytes), you'll get 57,731,144,752 combinations case sensitive compared to just 2,238,928,128 case insensitive.
Memory unused is memory wasted. Why should you allow your precious DDR3 to just sit there and not be utilized when you could avoid time-consuming disk I/O by buffering data to RAM?
The whole article reeks of FUD, but at least I got myself a laugh out of it:
:)
> If emails were donuts, Hotmail would be HomerSimpsonMail
Priceless
There was no "complete redesign" between W2K and XP. Just look at the version numbers:
Windows 2000 = NT 5.0
Windows XP = NT 5.1
Windows Server 2003 = NT 5.2
Enough FUD and half-assed anecdotes already. You can use "reg" from the command-line to do any kind of querying/editing/export/import/comparing in the registry. The "reg" command is well documented. So is the API to interface it any way you want.
There is no official "GUI" to edit %windir%\system32\drivers\etc\hosts. You have to do it "by hand" with f.ex. Notepad or with some third-party utility.
Try adding a line to it and type "ipconfig /displaydns". You don't have to /flushdns, the DNS client monitors the hosts-file for changes and will cache any new entries automatically.
I get it! If I were to lose half my body in some freaky accident and someone were to give me $10, I'd actually get $20!
Yes there is: error_reporting(E_STRICT);
I for one would LOVE to see support for mail encyption/signing in M2.
It sounds like the OP wants to aquire some sort of web-oriented know-how so I would definitely second your suggestion to compile/install apache, mysql, postgres, php, perl and play with PEAR and CPAN modules. In addition, basic knowledge of UNIX and how shells work is certainly fundamental in this realm of IT.
However, I don't see any reason why you should spend any time trying tp wrap your head around the excentricies of vi(m) and emacs. Chances are that you would be better off with some sort of IDE or editor whose interface resembles the programs you're already familiar with.
You might perhaps need some sort of proficiency in those programs to earn your Geek-Badge, but I think you'd be better of saving that mental energy to something more worthwhile.
"They" in this case being Microsoft. Not too surprising that Microsoft is using whatever means they have at their disposal to promote and sell Vista.
It's not like every other game developer out there has to do the same.
... you can get a 2GB USB2.0 dongle nowadays for a very reasonable price, so why should I give a damn?
I wouldn't call relying on a bug in how IE parses CSS "safe". If you need to override your CSS, a much cleaner and safer way is to use conditional comments:
Whenever I need to implement a design in a site, usually I first get it right in FF/Opera, then I add overrides for the few problematic elements for IE.
I hope it's not the end of Freehand, it's far better for tracing bitmaps to vectors than illustrator.
Have you ever tried Streamline? In this little gem of a program, bitmap tracing actually works! They've discontinued it now though, and merged it with Illustrator CS2.
MySQL, from what I can tell, has an entirely new backtick ("`") operator. I don't even really know what it does, but to me, that seems silly.
If you don't know what it means, please research it before you rush to the conclusion that "it's silly". It's not an operator, it's merely the delimiter MySQL uses for identifiers - and it's not even mandatory in most situations.
Read the docs. You can configure how MySQL deals with case in my.ini. Case insensitivity is default on Win32 platforms though.
Are your cables wired to T568A or T568B standards?
It makes no functional difference which standard you use for a straight-thru cable. You can start a crossover cable with either standard as long as the other end is the other standard. It makes no functional difference which end is which. Despite what you may have read elsewhere, a 568A patch cable will work in a network with 568B wiring and 568B patch cable will work in a 568A network. The electrons couldn't care less.
rm -rf ~/*
.. :)
Severe enough
... won't GNAA start flooding it with informative content, truths and insights?
Err, replying to myself here :/
5. What protocols are used for voice calls?
Google Talk supports a custom XMPP-based signaling protocol and peer-to-peer communication mechanism. We will fully document this protocol. In the near future, we plan to support SIP signaling.
6. Which voice codecs do you support?
Today, Google Talk supports the following standard voice codecs: PCMA, PCMU, G.723, iLBC. We are also evaluating the Speex codec. We also support codecs from Global IP Sound: ISAC, IPCMWB, EG711U, EG711A
It just looked like YAIM to me until I read this:
You should also be able to use Google Talk at your company, since voice calls should work across any firewall or NAT.
If this is true, then it blows MSN Messenger, AIM, Yahoo Chat, iChat etc. out of the water.
Getting these kinds of applications to work is getting harder and harder due to all the broadband routers out there your NAT-lock you in - and making it pretty damn hard for Joe Sixpack to configure it to properly route incoming UDP and TCP connections.
For me, being on a campus network not allowing incoming UDP nor remotely-initiated TCP connections it's been impossible to you use any kind of voice functionality in IM clients (with the exception of Skype).
Has anyone tested this? Is Google Talk using a P2P approach similar to Skype to make this work?
No, it's metres, not meters! :P
... and add a on-the-fly rewriting to append "nyud.net:8090" to the domainname of all posted links.
;)
Problem solved!
In order to have slow motion you need alot more frames. Most clips have no more than 25 fps, which will just result in a slide-show bein played any slower ...
... at first not get that "POS" stands for "Point Of Sale" .. ? ;p