Nice information, but it has nothing to do what I was talking about.
The term for that is 'non-sequitur', and you've just posted a lovely example of one. Let's go back to my post and see what I was replying too (hint, nothing to do with XP at all) - it's the bit you snipped:
As for '(I belive)2Gb', you are referring to the FAT16 installation of NT4. It doesn't apply to WindowsXP.
That's what I was replying to. I was attempting to clarify that the limit (4GB, not 2GB) also applied to an NT install in which you specified NTFS (your post seemed to imply FAT16 only).
I don't think we're disagreeing. I was clarifying a point you made which could imply something which wasn't the case.
As for '(I belive)2Gb', you are referring to the FAT16 installation of NT4. It doesn't apply to WindowsXP.
AFAIK, the NTFS installation of NT4 won't allow you to have a primary (system) volume > 4GB. This is because NT will install a FAT16 volume and later convert it. This may have been fixed in a service pack, but until you install the OS, how are you going to get a SP on there? Sure, you can grow the partition later, but you're being a bit disingenuous in your specifying that this problem is confined to FAT16 installation on NT4, since an NTFS installation *uses* the FAT16 installation.
Typically, "pig in a poke" implies unforseen trouble or concealed problems that reveal themselves later, kinda like a used car. The term "poke" usually refers to a brown paper bag, like a grocery or shopping bag (back in the days before they all turned plastic), which lends to the image of the problem being just barely contained, and liable to escape at any moment.
Furrfu. 'Poke' is an olde worlde term for sack. It still survives in 'pocket' (little sack). Advice not to buy a pig in a poke means you don't buy something you can't see (cos it'll turn out to be a cat, or a dog, or something). This isn't rocket science.
Obviously not a logician...
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You don't want morals? You don't want politics?
Don't use the GPL
Ah... I see. Apparantly the only way you can have morals is to use the GPL. Righto.
Woah. Time to retake logic 101. Let me rewrite this one for you in terms that you're maybe more familiar with:
"You don't want wheels on your vehicle? Then what are you doing on a skateboard?" "Duh, you're really stupid thinking that only skateboards have wheels!".
I don't disagree with your point on DRM, but getting that bit so wrong then following it up with some "duh, you're so naive" putdowns really makes you look like a schmuck.
I realise that this won't be seen by many, but I thought I'd reply to some points of yours just for information.
[RDP over VNC]
it's much more responsive. screen updates are faster. the mouse movement and cursor changes are handled better.
Have you tried the shim video driver for VNC on windows? The original VNC had to use all sorts of tricks to be able to get screen updates without replacing windows dlls (like PC anywhere has to do). There's now a dummy video driver which intercepts all video calls and passes them to VNC and your 'proper' video driver. This has improved performance a hell of a lot. VNC also now does local cursor handling, so the cursor image isn't passed as it used to be, resulting in smoother cursor movement and less bandwith...
it uses much less bandwidth.
Not much in it, to be honest, if you try some of the compressed versions of VNC.
better handling of different bit-depths. whereas VNC just munges the graphics down to a lower bit depth, RDP actually changes the bit depth of the server so applications use the appropriate bitmaps/palettes.
This is a pro? Many apps won't run in (say) 256 colors, and I don't think the person who's at the other end would be too happy for the display to be downgraded so that somebody can have remote access. Ditto for your next point re resolution, and VNC can scale the viewing window to match the server (not the other way round, which seems a bug). You can tile dozens of VNC viewers on one PC, viewing dozens of servers
the windows key and combos such as 'ctrl-shift-esc' are not supported on VNC
Erm, yes it does. Check the docs for modifier keys. You can send any key combos.
RDP supports piping sound back to the remote client
Ah, now this VNC doesn't do, nor attempt to do. ditto for device sharing. Try doing all that crossplatform and you'll soon see why it hasn't been tried!
Just make close whatever the last tag was. That instantly cuts the size of the files in almost half, and makes them easier to read as well.
Spot the 'lite' user of XML. If you're dealing with anything of any size, complexity or (let's face it) use, then that's a really good idea for unmaintable, buggy XML.
the term 'metaphysics' comes from aristotle, who placed all his books on a shelf in a particular order. those that were about what we call 'metaphysics' were next to his books on physics.
Close! It was Andronicus of Rhodes (Aristole's first editor) who put Aristole's book on what-we-now-call-Metaphysics after the book on Physics in his compilation. 'meta' means 'after' in Greek.
http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=52821 is about removing "Quit" or removing the keyboard shortcut for "Quit".
Having followed the bug for ages, I disagree - there's no consensus on what will be done. In fact, on that exact bug there's an attached patch for giving a confirmation dialog.
I agree that "Quit" should be removed from Mozilla on non-Mac platforms.
I don't. A confirmation dialog would be exactly what I want.
I'm going to go ahead and test my university's bandwidth by mirroring the movies at http://www.public.iastate.edu/~omikron/linux3d/
Don't bother - I've just pulled it across at 220kB/s - they've got bandwidth to spare.
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What's up with Ctrl+Pg{Up,Dn}?;)
The problem with that is that you have to take your hand off the mouse ('scuse the right-handed bias). And that's why they introduced Ctrl+Tab to do the same thing.
I've had the same issue. One way of solving it is to enable exit confirmation. That way, when you hit the main exit button, it will ask if you really want to close or not. Kind of a trade off since that can get annoying too, but at least you won't lose all the browser tabs you have open.
Please take a moment to vote for that bug in Bugzilla. ie, Moz has no confirmation on CTRL-Q for 'close browser', and it's right next to CTRL-W for 'close tab'. The bug's here: http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=52821
(can't make a link cos bugzilla doesn't allow direct slashdot links)
I think it was, to be honest - I read it there before this article appeared on Slashdot. It took me a while to find the link, though - although the article mentioned that the full details were available at the end of the article, getting there was a bit of a drag.
No it's not. Michael, please do a little thinking before you post... just try it, perhaps?
Yes, it is pay-per-view beyond a certain point, but the meat of the story is in the stuff sent back to MicroSoft, which they've updated to be free at this link here: http://www.tecchannel.de/betriebssysteme/1126/14.h tml. It seems to be information on hardware in the machine. I'd like to see MicroSoft's response to this.
Actually, since I'm planning to start up as an "information broker" I should clarify this misconception.
An IB is more like a freelance librarian - you call them up and ask them how many widgets were sold in Thailand over the last five years and they do the research and find out for you.
You mean... people will actually pay you to google?
The name Scrum was chosen because the process is similar in nature to rugby play where success is built upon being quick, adaptive, and self-organizing.
quick, adaptive, and self-organizing?? Have the authors ever met rugby forwards?
Interesting development (from the article on news.com):
Group members can create play lists of 60 songs, or about the equivalent of six CDs. The songs are played from the participant's hard drive, rather than being illegally swapped. Songs can be in Windows Media Audio, MP3 or WAV formats
Now we all know that "played from the participant's hard drive" is irrelevant - obviously the music is 'swapped' or you wouldn't be able to hear it. This means that the files are streamed and that Media Player doesn't let you save them as you play them. Technically, this is no different from the 'illegal sharing' that the RIAA has its knickers in a twist about. It'll be interesting to see if they condone or condemn this, and whether MS have cut a deal beforehand.
Most digital cell phones nowadays actually transmit in the 2.4Ghz area
GSM is 900Mhz, GSM-1800 is (amazingly) 1800Mhz. That covers everything in the world except US (GSM is 1900Mhz, don't know about others) and iMode in Japan. So where where are these "most" phones which run at 2.4Ghz?
Maybe he's confused between mobile cell phones and cordless phones, many of which do use 2.4GHz.
I'd be a silly confusion to make, maybe he's trying to impress chicks like I tried to fool my kid brother with a cordless handset: "like my new mobile?"
Yes you can. It's called a master key. You have to be a locksmith, or be really good at social engineering to get one. And it only works for a subset of models of a specific brand of lock.
No, there's no such thing as a master key for a model of lock. Check out a simple guide to lockpicking such as the MIT Lockpicking guide. Master keys are keyed to a set of locks by the installing locksmith, and involve installing split pins on all the locks you want to share a master. They're never keyed to a model of lock unless some spectacularly cheap rubbish lock manufacturers do this. There's certainly no Yale master keys about, as you claim.
3) There is NOTHING in the XML spec that _requires_ people to open up their schema definitions. Its purely a structure definition in the same way as Microsoft's old Word documents were stored, its just that now the markers are in Text format and any standard XML parser will be able to read the file.
Oh come on, XML 101 - if your document is based on a schema, then it has the uri for the schema right there in the document - else you couldn't validate it. ie - your app has to be able to read the schema. Now maybe they're going to release the documents with a private schema, but that would lose the document about 75% of the point of XML.
So the number of people who would let one of these dangerous mp3s just sit there and be scanned is probably pretty small.
Read the Microsoft Bulletin (which I got yesterday). Opening a shared directory with one of these MP3s in will trigger the attack, or even previewing an email with one of these attached will execute it.
Here's MS own words:
An attacker could seek to exploit this vulnerability by creating
an.MP3 or.WMA file that contained a corrupt custom attribute and then host it on a website, on a network share, or send it via an HTML email. If a user were to hover his or her mouse pointer over the icon for the file (either on a web page or on the local disk), or open the shared folder where the file was stored, the vulnerable code would be invoked. An HTML email could cause the vulnerable code to be invoked when a user opened or previewed the email.
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The term for that is 'non-sequitur', and you've just posted a lovely example of one. Let's go back to my post and see what I was replying too (hint, nothing to do with XP at all) - it's the bit you snipped:
As for '(I belive)2Gb', you are referring to the FAT16 installation of NT4. It doesn't apply to WindowsXP.
That's what I was replying to. I was attempting to clarify that the limit (4GB, not 2GB) also applied to an NT install in which you specified NTFS (your post seemed to imply FAT16 only).
I don't think we're disagreeing. I was clarifying a point you made which could imply something which wasn't the case.
It's been done.
AFAIK, the NTFS installation of NT4 won't allow you to have a primary (system) volume > 4GB. This is because NT will install a FAT16 volume and later convert it. This may have been fixed in a service pack, but until you install the OS, how are you going to get a SP on there? Sure, you can
grow the partition later, but you're being a bit disingenuous in your specifying that this problem is confined to FAT16 installation on NT4, since an NTFS installation *uses* the FAT16 installation.
Furrfu. 'Poke' is an olde worlde term for sack. It still survives in 'pocket' (little sack). Advice not to buy a pig in a poke means you don't buy something you can't see (cos it'll turn out to be a cat, or a dog, or something). This isn't rocket science.
Don't use the GPL
Ah... I see. Apparantly the only way you can have morals is to use the GPL. Righto.
Woah. Time to retake logic 101. Let me rewrite this one for you in terms that you're maybe more familiar with:
"You don't want wheels on your vehicle? Then what are you doing on a skateboard?"
"Duh, you're really stupid thinking that only skateboards have wheels!".
I don't disagree with your point on DRM, but getting that bit so wrong then following it up with some "duh, you're so naive" putdowns really makes you look like a schmuck.
I thought I'd reply to some points of yours just
for information.
[RDP over VNC]
it's much more responsive. screen updates are faster. the mouse movement and cursor changes are handled better.
Have you tried the shim video driver for VNC on windows? The original VNC had to use all sorts of tricks to be able to get screen updates without replacing windows dlls (like PC anywhere has to do). There's now a dummy video driver which intercepts all video calls and passes them to VNC and your 'proper' video driver. This has improved performance a hell of a lot. VNC also now does local cursor handling, so the cursor image isn't passed as it used to be, resulting in smoother cursor movement and less bandwith...
it uses much less bandwidth.
Not much in it, to be honest, if you try some of the compressed versions of VNC.
better handling of different bit-depths. whereas VNC just munges the graphics down to a lower bit depth, RDP actually changes the bit depth of the server so applications use the appropriate bitmaps/palettes.
This is a pro? Many apps won't run in (say) 256 colors, and I don't think the person who's at the other end would be too happy for the display to be downgraded so that somebody can have remote access. Ditto for your next point re resolution, and VNC can scale the viewing window to match the server (not the other way round, which seems a bug). You can tile dozens of VNC viewers on one PC, viewing dozens of servers
the windows key and combos such as 'ctrl-shift-esc' are not supported on VNC
Erm, yes it does. Check the docs for modifier keys. You can send any key combos.
RDP supports piping sound back to the remote client
Ah, now this VNC doesn't do, nor attempt to do. ditto for device sharing. Try doing all that crossplatform and you'll soon see why it hasn't been tried!
Spot the 'lite' user of XML. If you're dealing with anything of any size, complexity or (let's face it) use, then that's a really good idea for unmaintable, buggy XML.
Hmm. I remember the night Regan got elected. I was just about interested. I'm 30. Methinks your history is a bit off. (hint - he was elected in 1980).
Close! It was Andronicus of Rhodes (Aristole's first editor) who put Aristole's book on what-we-now-call-Metaphysics after the book on Physics in his compilation. 'meta' means 'after' in Greek.
What about OeOne's Homebase Desktop?
Having followed the bug for ages, I disagree - there's no consensus on what will be done. In fact, on that exact bug there's an attached patch for giving a confirmation dialog.
I agree that "Quit" should be removed from Mozilla on non-Mac platforms.
I don't. A confirmation dialog would be exactly what I want.
Don't bother - I've just pulled it across at 220kB/s - they've got bandwidth to spare.
The problem with that is that you have to take your hand off the mouse ('scuse the right-handed bias). And that's why they introduced Ctrl+Tab to do the same thing.
Please take a moment to vote for that bug in Bugzilla. ie, Moz has no confirmation on CTRL-Q for 'close browser', and it's right next to CTRL-W for 'close tab'. The bug's here: http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=52821
(can't make a link cos bugzilla doesn't allow direct slashdot links)
I think it was, to be honest - I read it there before this article appeared on Slashdot. It took me a while to find the link, though - although the article mentioned that the full details were available at the end of the article, getting there was a bit of a drag.
They've updated the story to give the full info on what gets sent back here: http://www.tecchannel.de/betriebssysteme/1126/14.h tml
Yes, it is pay-per-view beyond a certain point, but the meat of the story is in the stuff sent back to MicroSoft, which they've updated to be free at this link here: http://www.tecchannel.de/betriebssysteme/1126/14.h tml. It seems to be information on hardware in the machine. I'd like to see MicroSoft's response to this.
What, an urban myth?
An IB is more like a freelance librarian - you call them up and ask them how many widgets were sold in Thailand over the last five years and they do the research and find out for you.
You mean... people will actually pay you to google?
quick, adaptive, and self-organizing?? Have the authors ever met rugby forwards?
Group members can create play lists of 60 songs, or about the equivalent of six CDs. The songs are played from the participant's hard drive, rather than being illegally swapped. Songs can be in Windows Media Audio, MP3 or WAV formats
Now we all know that "played from the participant's hard drive" is irrelevant - obviously the music is 'swapped' or you wouldn't be able to hear it. This means that the files are streamed and that Media Player doesn't let you save them as you play them. Technically, this is no different from the 'illegal sharing' that the RIAA has its knickers in a twist about. It'll be interesting to see if they condone or condemn this, and whether MS have cut a deal beforehand.
GSM is 900Mhz, GSM-1800 is (amazingly) 1800Mhz. That covers everything in the world except US (GSM is 1900Mhz, don't know about others) and iMode in Japan. So where where are these "most" phones which run at 2.4Ghz?
Maybe he's confused between mobile cell phones and cordless phones, many of which do use 2.4GHz.
I'd be a silly confusion to make, maybe he's trying to impress chicks like I tried to fool my kid brother with a cordless handset: "like my new mobile?"
Yes you can. It's called a master key. You have to be a locksmith, or be really good at social engineering to get one. And it only works for a subset of models of a specific brand of lock.
No, there's no such thing as a master key for a model of lock. Check out a simple guide to lockpicking such as the MIT Lockpicking guide. Master keys are keyed to a set of locks by the installing locksmith, and involve installing split pins on all the locks you want to share a master. They're never keyed to a model of lock unless some spectacularly cheap rubbish lock manufacturers do this. There's certainly no Yale master keys about, as you claim.
3) There is NOTHING in the XML spec that _requires_ people to open up their schema definitions. Its purely a structure definition in the same way as Microsoft's old Word documents were stored, its just that now the markers are in Text format and any standard XML parser will be able to read the file.
Oh come on, XML 101 - if your document is based on a schema, then it has the uri for the schema right there in the document - else you couldn't validate it. ie - your app has to be able to read the schema. Now maybe they're going to release the documents with a private schema, but that would lose the document about 75% of the point of XML.
Oh, wait, maybe that's the point...
Read the Microsoft Bulletin (which I got yesterday). Opening a shared directory with one of these MP3s in will trigger the attack, or even previewing an email with one of these attached will execute it.
Here's MS own words: