That's 2 GB or 3 GB per process. So of the 4 gigabytes available in 32-bit mode, each process sees the same view of the kernel memory layout, but have a different userspace layout. Regardless of how much RAM is actually installed.
That would be NT 3.1, the first version of NT that came out in 1993. And yes, Windows NT even came with an OS/2 subsystem that can run OS/2 1.x console applications. Not sure if it's still present in Win2k, WinXP and Vista..
If the tetrachromatic mutation affects a single dominant gene in the X chromosome, why is it that it is only expressed phenotypically in females? Men have a single X chromosome too -- in fact, we are more adversely affected by inherited traits such as colour-blindness for the precise reason that we only have a single copy (thus a recessive mutation would be more likely to be manifested, since there's no "normal" version of the gene to suppress it).
Hmm. Not a directly comparable situation -- arguably the opium traders were acting in Britain's interest (reversing the yawning deficit from the tea trade) while not doing harm to Britain itself (the same way Francis Drake was knighted for acts of piracy against Spanish vessels). The Colombian drug cartels, on the other hand, perpetrated acts of violence in Colombia itself (though as I understand it, most non-governmental actors over there, left and right, finance their operation with drug money too).
But then again, the robber barons of 19th century U.S. certainly became respectable, even though their monopolies arguably harmed their own country..
In these days of global outsourcing, the closest equivalent to the old British trading houses are probably companies like Nike and Disney, that are still partly family-owned and whose benefits to the countries they outsource manufacturing to are questionable*
Twitter lets you turn off phone notification completely, or just between certain hours of the day. I personally just check the updates online, or through IM.
Also, Red Hat's Mugshot service lets you aggregate disparate social networking services and get them from a single interface. Makes it much less of a hassle to keep track of friends in various networks.
Indeed; you'd be surprised to find out how many Hong Kongers actually think HSBC is Chinese/HK-owned. It probably does not do their retail presence there any harm.
It is true, though, that until recently HSBC has no retail presence in the UK itself; their acquisition of Midland Bank plc in 1999 brought them that. On the other hand, they have had presence in other Asian countries; there's been an HSBC in Jakarta, Indonesia, since at least the late '80s.
I did not realize that both HSBC and Jardine Matheson (a substantial HK-based trading company) were historically Scottish - interesting. The latter still hands out university scholarships to Commonwealth citizens, due to their historical connections.
.. if you do this, make sure not to install any new software on the Nokia tablet. Or bring a Linux live CD and a thumbdrive containing the flasher tool and the latest firmware. Installing new apps have been known to cause problems on these devices that you'd need the flasher tool to fix (most of the time you don't really need to wipe the data, just toggle some settings)
Neat devices though. With a proper case for it, I'd take the N800 over 770; the latter is too anemic RAM-wise to browse enjoyably.
Not sure this is the place to hand out computer phreaking tips, but considering the prices in Japan, hmm.
Related to this, in South Korea's Seoul-Incheon int'l airport, the Internet cafés also cost a fortune, but there's a free wireless hot-spot at the transit lounge. The PC's there are crappy, on the other hand, so having a small laptop or preferably wireless PDA would be nice.
Note that some free wi-fi hotspots that redirect you to a login page where you have to accept an agreement might not work with PDAs -- people've had problems with such hot-spots in hotels.
Have we in the Western world become so enamored by political correctness that we cannot even take a joke for what it is? A similar double standard is happening in Britain right now: racism by the majority is rightfully condemned, but some minorities seem to be able to get away with inciting hatred (The Observer)
There have been FEWER wars amongst big countries in the past few hundred years, than little countries. Just the big ones (Napoleonic, Franco-Prussian, WWI, WWII, Korea, Vietnam, Gulf) tend to be noticed more.
Some of the wars you cite (WWI, Korea, First Gulf War) started out as regional conflicts triggered by minor players that snowballed into larger conflicts too.
I'm not sure, to be honest. Wikipedia claims that it does, and from Kerneltrap it seems that since 3.8 even malloc would return a random address each time (). Someone commented there that OBSD also does ASLR, but I could not find a hard reference yet (they probably call it something else)
This is pathetic. The OS vendor is so inept that they can't keep hostile code from changing kernel data space, and their answer to this is to randomly move kernel code around?
No - this targets userspace security. If everytime a DLL is loaded it starts at a different base address, then you cannot write a worm that has the addresses hardcoded, so buffer overflow attacks will be much less effective. OpenBSD started doing this several years ago, and Linux has also had it for some time.
Microsoft is also introducing "kernel patch protection" that, I'd guess, would probably block unsigned kernel modules from being loaded. Even in the Unix world, if you're a superuser you can load kernel modules at runtime. The security risk in Windows currently is that everyone is an Administrator by default.
And having the area around you melt away why trying to ahve a regular town is not a good thing. Yes I KNOW there is land undernither, I'm talking about the ice bits.
Considering the ice cap is on average ~2,000m thick, having it melting underneath you is a *very bad* thing. Especially since the land underneath most accessible parts of Antarctica would be under water if the ice melts, so you either gradually move the settlements inland or build it far in from the start and suffer the logistical problems.
My mistake, the parent thread was collapsed by Slashdot (yay new threading system) and I did not notice it when replying. I quite agree - history does tend to repeat itself, and there are parallels between the situation, but not if one gets complacent and sit around doing nothing (even though it might seem to naive eyes that that's what non-obedience means)
It's Gandhi, and he did win in the end.. more or less, despite the partition. If the Linux community ends up being split into pro- and anti-Novell camp, the parallel is even more ironic, though, since Gandhi's dream of a united Indian subcontinent was also shattered to bits.
This means that if software is written in 4 years, 300 days that is shipped with SUSE it would be covered forever for any Novell customers. Surely that can't include additions to the code made after the agreement expired (even if the coverage is non-recoverable). Microsoft is not stupid.
If they claim that an addition made to OSS project Foo version x.y violates their patents, then the solution is still to either rewrite the violating code, challenge the patent or acquire the rights to it.
Red Hat would acquire the right to use the patent if absolutely necessary. That sounds different to me to paying someone for patent coverage protection.
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That's 2 GB or 3 GB per process. So of the 4 gigabytes available in 32-bit mode, each process sees the same view of the kernel memory layout, but have a different userspace layout. Regardless of how much RAM is actually installed.
That would be NT 3.1, the first version of NT that came out in 1993. And yes, Windows NT even came with an OS/2 subsystem that can run OS/2 1.x console applications. Not sure if it's still present in Win2k, WinXP and Vista..
If the tetrachromatic mutation affects a single dominant gene in the X chromosome, why is it that it is only expressed phenotypically in females? Men have a single X chromosome too -- in fact, we are more adversely affected by inherited traits such as colour-blindness for the precise reason that we only have a single copy (thus a recessive mutation would be more likely to be manifested, since there's no "normal" version of the gene to suppress it).
Hmm. Not a directly comparable situation -- arguably the opium traders were acting in Britain's interest (reversing the yawning deficit from the tea trade) while not doing harm to Britain itself (the same way Francis Drake was knighted for acts of piracy against Spanish vessels). The Colombian drug cartels, on the other hand, perpetrated acts of violence in Colombia itself (though as I understand it, most non-governmental actors over there, left and right, finance their operation with drug money too).
But then again, the robber barons of 19th century U.S. certainly became respectable, even though their monopolies arguably harmed their own country..
In these days of global outsourcing, the closest equivalent to the old British trading houses are probably companies like Nike and Disney, that are still partly family-owned and whose benefits to the countries they outsource manufacturing to are questionable*
* http://www.thecorporation.com/
Twitter lets you turn off phone notification completely, or just between certain hours of the day. I personally just check the updates online, or through IM.
Also, Red Hat's Mugshot service lets you aggregate disparate social networking services and get them from a single interface. Makes it much less of a hassle to keep track of friends in various networks.
Indeed; you'd be surprised to find out how many Hong Kongers actually think HSBC is Chinese/HK-owned. It probably does not do their retail presence there any harm.
It is true, though, that until recently HSBC has no retail presence in the UK itself; their acquisition of Midland Bank plc in 1999 brought them that. On the other hand, they have had presence in other Asian countries; there's been an HSBC in Jakarta, Indonesia, since at least the late '80s.
I did not realize that both HSBC and Jardine Matheson (a substantial HK-based trading company) were historically Scottish - interesting. The latter still hands out university scholarships to Commonwealth citizens, due to their historical connections.
.. if you do this, make sure not to install any new software on the Nokia tablet. Or bring a Linux live CD and a thumbdrive containing the flasher tool and the latest firmware. Installing new apps have been known to cause problems on these devices that you'd need the flasher tool to fix (most of the time you don't really need to wipe the data, just toggle some settings)
Neat devices though. With a proper case for it, I'd take the N800 over 770; the latter is too anemic RAM-wise to browse enjoyably.
Not sure this is the place to hand out computer phreaking tips, but considering the prices in Japan, hmm.
Related to this, in South Korea's Seoul-Incheon int'l airport, the Internet cafés also cost a fortune, but there's a free wireless hot-spot at the transit lounge. The PC's there are crappy, on the other hand, so having a small laptop or preferably wireless PDA would be nice.
Note that some free wi-fi hotspots that redirect you to a login page where you have to accept an agreement might not work with PDAs -- people've had problems with such hot-spots in hotels.
Have we in the Western world become so enamored by political correctness that we cannot even take a joke for what it is? A similar double standard is happening in Britain right now: racism by the majority is rightfully condemned, but some minorities seem to be able to get away with inciting hatred (The Observer)
In what way is a clone of the Windows kernel innovative?
Sounds almost like the Star Trek communicator (how do they make private calls using that anyway? Anyone nearby could overhear what's being said)
Some of the wars you cite (WWI, Korea, First Gulf War) started out as regional conflicts triggered by minor players that snowballed into larger conflicts too.
I'm not sure, to be honest. Wikipedia claims that it does, and from Kerneltrap it seems that since 3.8 even malloc would return a random address each time (). Someone commented there that OBSD also does ASLR, but I could not find a hard reference yet (they probably call it something else)
Probably does. I boot my system in permissive mode so I've not had any problem loading self-compiled kernel modules.
No - this targets userspace security. If everytime a DLL is loaded it starts at a different base address, then you cannot write a worm that has the addresses hardcoded, so buffer overflow attacks will be much less effective. OpenBSD started doing this several years ago, and Linux has also had it for some time.
Microsoft is also introducing "kernel patch protection" that, I'd guess, would probably block unsigned kernel modules from being loaded. Even in the Unix world, if you're a superuser you can load kernel modules at runtime. The security risk in Windows currently is that everyone is an Administrator by default.
Information deserves to be free =)
Considering the ice cap is on average ~2,000m thick, having it melting underneath you is a *very bad* thing. Especially since the land underneath most accessible parts of Antarctica would be under water if the ice melts, so you either gradually move the settlements inland or build it far in from the start and suffer the logistical problems.
My mistake, the parent thread was collapsed by Slashdot (yay new threading system) and I did not notice it when replying. I quite agree - history does tend to repeat itself, and there are parallels between the situation, but not if one gets complacent and sit around doing nothing (even though it might seem to naive eyes that that's what non-obedience means)
I've seen it in quotation sites as well, but you're quite right, there's no cited source (even in the Wikiquote entry).
.. it does seem very suspect indeed.
The GandhiCon entry is really weird. Granted that I'm not familiar with the subculture, but
It's Gandhi, and he did win in the end.. more or less, despite the partition. If the Linux community ends up being split into pro- and anti-Novell camp, the parallel is even more ironic, though, since Gandhi's dream of a united Indian subcontinent was also shattered to bits.
This means that if software is written in 4 years, 300 days that is shipped with SUSE it would be covered forever for any Novell customers.
Surely that can't include additions to the code made after the agreement expired (even if the coverage is non-recoverable). Microsoft is not stupid.
If they claim that an addition made to OSS project Foo version x.y violates their patents, then the solution is still to either rewrite the violating code, challenge the patent or acquire the rights to it.
Red Hat would acquire the right to use the patent if absolutely necessary. That sounds different to me to paying someone for patent coverage protection.
Interesting, didn't know that. Thanks!
Presumably the second brain is the electronic computer.
Soviet bloc. "Soviet citizen" would be understood as referring to someone from the USSR.