Actually, if you're using a Pentium 4, Intel Atom is also an upgrade. I recently went from Pentium 4 HT 540 (Prescott, 3.2GHz) to Atom 330 (1.6GHz, dual core, HT, D945GCLF2 motherboard) on my home media server and noticed a performance increase (of about 20% with the things I cared to measure, but never the less - an increase) while the power usage dropped to 20% of what it used to be.
No, in real world the seller will _try_ to retract the offer, you will sue them and the judge will force them to sell the item for the price listed. Once you made a binding offer, it's done.
Happened quite a few times on various auctioning services.
"SyFy" sounds like a pet name for a syphillis infection
'Syf' _IS_ the name of the syphillis infection in Polish. 'Syfy' is a plural form of it, often used in colloquial speech. It roughly translates as 'useless shit'.
Polish Telecom (TP S.A.) started using such blacklist on 20th December 2008. One of the first things that got blocked was gimp.org, which is on the same machine as irc.gimp.org, which in turn apparently is used by botnet controlers. Or used to be used.
Net effect - gimp.org is unreachable, botnet traffic volume did not drop (the worms just switched to SSL encrypted communication instead of IRC).
Even stranger - in many European countries, including Poland where I currently live, you _can not_ release you work this way. People still have to pay money to ZAIKS (our equivalent of RIAA) even when then use supposedly public domain / creative commons content.
Most of those things are already available in other managed libraries. In case of opening the file, System.IO.File.Open() in mscorlib. I'm sure you aren't invoking operating system functions directly in Python to read some text from disk? Otherwise, what's the point in having libraries?
The legitimate reason to call system API is building new features. In case of Silverlight (and WPF, with which it is coupled) it's a new way of rendering controls that could not be done atop System.Windows.Form. It is necessity, not bad design that Silverligth resorts to direct OS interaction - but that prevents the libraries from being easily portable.
The first one. Like most Microsoft-shipped.Net libraries, Silverlight class library is heavy with Windows API calls.
Also, the sound and video codecs are native binaries, not managed code.
If it all was 100% managed code AND Microsoft licensing would allow it to be run outside Windows, you'd only need to package Mono as a browser plugin - which itself was not a trivial task because of various Mozilla quirks.
Fuck academic sanctions. My Operating Systems teacher (professor on PUT, Poland) _encouraged_ us to try and break into university computers. His assistant (Ph.D.) told us that he uploaded exam questions into his account a week before the exam date, they were up for reading for anyone who was able to get to them and document how he did this (AFAIK only a single person in 6 years managed to get in, those guys knew what they were doing). University is for learning and documenting what you know for others to use, not for fearing that you might anger some incompetent sysadmin.
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I especially like how this is modded "+5 Insightful" :-)
WTF is parent rated funny?
Actually, if you're using a Pentium 4, Intel Atom is also an upgrade. I recently went from Pentium 4 HT 540 (Prescott, 3.2GHz) to Atom 330 (1.6GHz, dual core, HT, D945GCLF2 motherboard) on my home media server and noticed a performance increase (of about 20% with the things I cared to measure, but never the less - an increase) while the power usage dropped to 20% of what it used to be.
A year ago, [...] (this was before the Ubuntu Live CD existed) [...] machine booted without any problems and has been in service for a few years now.
A year ago, before Ubuntu Live CD existed...
No, in real world the seller will _try_ to retract the offer, you will sue them and the judge will force them to sell the item for the price listed. Once you made a binding offer, it's done.
Happened quite a few times on various auctioning services.
Yes. 39 Euro for 3 months.
"SyFy" sounds like a pet name for a syphillis infection
'Syf' _IS_ the name of the syphillis infection in Polish. 'Syfy' is a plural form of it, often used in colloquial speech. It roughly translates as 'useless shit'.
"ahs"? "ahve"? Is this some kind of a new meme that I'm missing?
Really?
http://www.indeed.com/jobtrends?q=linux+.NET%2C+silverlight%2C+ruby&l=
This search is moot, the querry ignores the '.', you just searched for Linux network-related jobs.
Polish Telecom (TP S.A.) started using such blacklist on 20th December 2008. One of the first things that got blocked was gimp.org, which is on the same machine as irc.gimp.org, which in turn apparently is used by botnet controlers. Or used to be used. Net effect - gimp.org is unreachable, botnet traffic volume did not drop (the worms just switched to SSL encrypted communication instead of IRC).
And by the way, walking beats the pants off crawling with both your legs broken. What was your point?
Even stranger - in many European countries, including Poland where I currently live, you _can not_ release you work this way. People still have to pay money to ZAIKS (our equivalent of RIAA) even when then use supposedly public domain / creative commons content.
Can I get a CPU that I can plug Cat-5 wire into? I promise to only install Linux on it!
You are using RAID0, and on four drives at once? Is you data really that disposable?
Strange, in Poland Paypal withdraws money from your credit card to verify that you are indeed the holder...
That's because if you don't have a keyboard, your PC is kind of useless. (not counting headless systems operated by SSL)
I may be strange, but I prefer SSH...
Most of those things are already available in other managed libraries. In case of opening the file, System.IO.File.Open() in mscorlib. I'm sure you aren't invoking operating system functions directly in Python to read some text from disk? Otherwise, what's the point in having libraries?
The legitimate reason to call system API is building new features. In case of Silverlight (and WPF, with which it is coupled) it's a new way of rendering controls that could not be done atop System.Windows.Form. It is necessity, not bad design that Silverligth resorts to direct OS interaction - but that prevents the libraries from being easily portable.
The first one. Like most Microsoft-shipped .Net libraries, Silverlight class library is heavy with Windows API calls.
Also, the sound and video codecs are native binaries, not managed code.
If it all was 100% managed code AND Microsoft licensing would allow it to be run outside Windows, you'd only need to package Mono as a browser plugin - which itself was not a trivial task because of various Mozilla quirks.
mis-moderated, sorry
Fuck academic sanctions. My Operating Systems teacher (professor on PUT, Poland) _encouraged_ us to try and break into university computers. His assistant (Ph.D.) told us that he uploaded exam questions into his account a week before the exam date, they were up for reading for anyone who was able to get to them and document how he did this (AFAIK only a single person in 6 years managed to get in, those guys knew what they were doing). University is for learning and documenting what you know for others to use, not for fearing that you might anger some incompetent sysadmin.
Maybe you should try EVE Online then?
I know that - but I had no mod points available, and responding to a post increases it's chances of getting upmoded :-)
You can still run *starcraft* on vista. Starcraft from *1995*.
And guess what? You can still play it on Linux!
+1 Insightful or +1 Funny? Tough call..
May I get some of this too?