You might be on to something there... maybe someone should write a 'gator poisoner' which sends crap back to their servers, making their marketing data useless (90% of people visit 'gatorsucks.org' at least 10 times a day, honest!)
Terrorist = One who uses terror to achieve their ends.
It also depends on your point of view - to much of the world the US armed forces *are* terorrists. Also to imply what the isreili (can't spell it) army are doing when they shoot children 'because they might grow up into terrorism' is not an act of terrorism in itself you must be living in a different world to the rest of us.
Your definition also doesn't work - the IRA are/were terorrists and they actually tried very hard to avoid casualties - mostly they just blew up buildings (they also killed a lot of people - I'm not describing saints here). The primary thing that they caused was terror, which is what made them terrorists.
When the french government blew up the greenpeace boat a few years back that was universally regarded as an act of terorrism.
TBH that's a showstopper for me. The camera on the P800 just plain sucks (it's *much* worse than the Nokia I had before that) - I was expecting at least a 1.3MPixel camera.
The claimed battery life is a bunch of dingos kidneys.
If you don't use it, and kill every app you don't use (with switcher) you can get 5-7 days of standby time.
If you use it for the occasional phone call that'll drop quite rapidly. A regular user (I call about 10-15 minutes a day) can expect to get up to 72 hours battery life.
If you forget to terminate the apps (or you haven't downloaded switcher) the standby time will rapidly degrade - my wifes hit 3 hours at one point (you could actually watch the battery indicator falling!). Basically the P800 sucks power for every app you've ever run (there's no 'close' in most apps)... I really hope they've fixed that bug!
I've never heard of anyone claiming to get 400 hours out of the thing... I'm surprised they get away with claiming that.
It's a side-effect of the DOS legacy that still hangs over Win2000/XP. Unix separates files and inodes, so you can delete a file and replace it with a new one whilst the existing services are still using it, then restart the services to pick up the update. Windows has no such split, which means if a file is 'in use' you can't delete/overwrite it - this is what requires a reboot.
They could have fixed this in NTFS but chose not to, presumably to keep compatibility with DOS. TBH it's about time they sorted it out.
There was one patch about 6 months ago that broke the login prompt on about a dozen machines here... they just wouldn't log in - had to reinstall them from scratch & lost 2 days work over it.
Now we have a junk machine that gets the patches first and if it breaks anything we don't roll it out - no matter what it claims to fix (a lot of recent patches haven't actually fixed the bugs they claim to fix... MS don't seem to test them before releasing them).
The first network I ever configured was a token ring... the cards for it were about $150 a piece new (we got them dirt cheap though) and the cables plugged into a whopping great hub that could double as a coffee table.
We had to get specific cards, because the 2.0.12 kernel only had support for a single IBM card.... It worked though.
Tape backup is only dying because it's so damned expensive - my DDS3 cost more than twice the cost of the computer it's backing up... It'd better last 10 years or more for that kind of money.
There's no backup solutions for good money - even DVD-R has only a 4.7GB capacity - I'd need to burn 3 a night (and it's enough hassle changing the tape every day, never mind swapping CDs).
At work we backup only a small part (~1%) of the network - the cost to buy backup for more than that would have blown the entire IT budget for a year...
If someone comes up with a backup that can store eg. 100GB and price it right (about the same as a 100GB hard drive) then they'll make loads.
If client/server is dying,.NET is in for a hell of a rough ride:)
I'd say the opposite - everyone's going back to the server because it's a complete 'mare to configure thousands of clients to do the same thing (users keep mucking it up)... the new stuff just uses the client as a souped up web browser.
Tell me how to enable it in Windows first.. I'm bl$$dy sick of having to take my hand off the mouse, go to the keyboard, and press Ctrl-V (I invariably miss and hit Ctrl-C, thereby destroying the clipboard).
Actually Heroin is relatively harmless in controlled doses. The problem is with distribution and purity. You often hear of doctors who've been on Heroin for years with nobody noticing, until an audit catches them out and they wind up in jail...
The *major* issue with hard drugs is hygene and dosage. The crime/poverty thing is caused largely by the systems we put around it (criminalising the drug taker, for example, who never gets help because to ask for help would be to get sent to jail for being in posession of the drug!).
'Interesting' would have been better... water doesn't contain any energy, so where's it coming from? It sounds like you're putting more energy in than taking out, since you have to force the water under pressure (which takes pumps, etc.) therefore you're not generating anything.
There's already a universal standard. It's called IPP, and it's supported by CUPS on Linux and also on Win2000 and XP.
There's really no need to fart around with samba to print over a network any more... CUPS is easy to configure too (anyone who can use a web browser can work it out).
mplayer uses win32 codecs to provide seamless support for (most of) the same formats that windows media player does. It's doing the same thing as the device driver layer in the article, but in userspace.
Once the compatibility is there, reverse engineering becomes a lot easier - you can monitor the inputs and outputs and for a lot of devices that's enough. Printers, certainly, because they're just serial devices.
The linux kernel is preemptable as of 2.6 (more so than Windows, which has a lot of kernel locks in it - read up on the it sometime... there are lots of Win32 calls that'll completely disable premption until it completes - ever noticed how the system will appear to hang if you access a floppy with an empty drive? VS.NET makes a lot of these calls, which is why when it's compiling even your mouse will stop moving sometimes.. that's why we mandate dual-processor at work so we can actually keep using the machines while compiling).
I've had Windows BSOD for the strangest of reasons... With 2000/XP it's down to once a month or so anyway, which is acceptable for a desktop, if annoying. It automatically reboots once a day for Windows Update anyway.
Yeah that'll make a difference. I'll fly to brussels now.. I'm sure they'll ignore the massed ranks of MS lawyers for a geek from Manchester.
It's a done deal... politicians do what they want - they days that they actually listened to the people are long gone (and they wonder why voting turnout was 20%* in some constituencies.. sigh...).
(* 20% of *registered* voters. Never met anyone who's actually registered yet...)
IT in the US seems to have survived... mind you I wouldn't want to live there... couldn't afford to pay a patent lawyer every time I wanted to write anything.
Certainly I can see a lot of the smaller companies going bust when (not if... since when have politicians made sane decisions?) this becomes law - you'll get the pacman-like behaviour that seems to be common in the US where one company comes out of nowhere, patents something bleeding obvious then goes around closing down small companies and gettng large fees off the larger ones.
My own job would disappear relatively quickly in such an environment.. I've been unable to persuade my bosses that patenting our stuff (which *is* unique - 15 years in development) would be a good idea, especially since we've coincidently just been taken over by a bunch of americans who have a history of asset stripping...
What's worse is it doesn't use SSL beyond the first couple of packets... I wrote a proxy for MSN6 (needed to block file transfers through the firewall) and was amazed to find that after the initial SSL negotiation to establish identity, the entire protocol is still plaintext... certainly made writing the proxy easier:)
Sating that XP64 is a 'throwback' when the only version available is the first beta that doesn't have any useful device drivers, doesn't run directx or even.net is a bit premature... Wait until a version is released that's more than a 'hey look we've got a 64bit OS too, honest!' release.
Anyway the first thing anyone does when they install XP is switch off all the crappy eye candy and go back to the Win2000 'throwback' look because that was actually useful.
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You might be on to something there... maybe someone should write a 'gator poisoner' which sends crap back to their servers, making their marketing data useless (90% of people visit 'gatorsucks.org' at least 10 times a day, honest!)
Terrorist = One who uses terror to achieve their ends.
It also depends on your point of view - to much of the world the US armed forces *are* terorrists. Also to imply what the isreili (can't spell it) army are doing when they shoot children 'because they might grow up into terrorism' is not an act of terrorism in itself you must be living in a different world to the rest of us.
Your definition also doesn't work - the IRA are/were terorrists and they actually tried very hard to avoid casualties - mostly they just blew up buildings (they also killed a lot of people - I'm not describing saints here). The primary thing that they caused was terror, which is what made them terrorists.
When the french government blew up the greenpeace boat a few years back that was universally regarded as an act of terorrism.
TBH that's a showstopper for me. The camera on the P800 just plain sucks (it's *much* worse than the Nokia I had before that) - I was expecting at least a 1.3MPixel camera.
The claimed battery life is a bunch of dingos kidneys.
If you don't use it, and kill every app you don't use (with switcher) you can get 5-7 days of standby time.
If you use it for the occasional phone call that'll drop quite rapidly. A regular user (I call about 10-15 minutes a day) can expect to get up to 72 hours battery life.
If you forget to terminate the apps (or you haven't downloaded switcher) the standby time will rapidly degrade - my wifes hit 3 hours at one point (you could actually watch the battery indicator falling!). Basically the P800 sucks power for every app you've ever run (there's no 'close' in most apps)... I really hope they've fixed that bug!
I've never heard of anyone claiming to get 400 hours out of the thing... I'm surprised they get away with claiming that.
..and losing a machine for 8 hours because there's a new KDE available isn't my idea of fun :)
It's a side-effect of the DOS legacy that still hangs over Win2000/XP. Unix separates files and inodes, so you can delete a file and replace it with a new one whilst the existing services are still using it, then restart the services to pick up the update. Windows has no such split, which means if a file is 'in use' you can't delete/overwrite it - this is what requires a reboot.
They could have fixed this in NTFS but chose not to, presumably to keep compatibility with DOS. TBH it's about time they sorted it out.
There was one patch about 6 months ago that broke the login prompt on about a dozen machines here... they just wouldn't log in - had to reinstall them from scratch & lost 2 days work over it.
Now we have a junk machine that gets the patches first and if it breaks anything we don't roll it out - no matter what it claims to fix (a lot of recent patches haven't actually fixed the bugs they claim to fix... MS don't seem to test them before releasing them).
The first network I ever configured was a token ring... the cards for it were about $150 a piece new (we got them dirt cheap though) and the cables plugged into a whopping great hub that could double as a coffee table.
We had to get specific cards, because the 2.0.12 kernel only had support for a single IBM card.... It worked though.
Tape backup is only dying because it's so damned expensive - my DDS3 cost more than twice the cost of the computer it's backing up... It'd better last 10 years or more for that kind of money.
There's no backup solutions for good money - even DVD-R has only a 4.7GB capacity - I'd need to burn 3 a night (and it's enough hassle changing the tape every day, never mind swapping CDs).
At work we backup only a small part (~1%) of the network - the cost to buy backup for more than that would have blown the entire IT budget for a year...
If someone comes up with a backup that can store eg. 100GB and price it right (about the same as a 100GB hard drive) then they'll make loads.
If client/server is dying, .NET is in for a hell of a rough ride :)
I'd say the opposite - everyone's going back to the server because it's a complete 'mare to configure thousands of clients to do the same thing (users keep mucking it up)... the new stuff just uses the client as a souped up web browser.
Tell me how to enable it in Windows first.. I'm bl$$dy sick of having to take my hand off the mouse, go to the keyboard, and press Ctrl-V (I invariably miss and hit Ctrl-C, thereby destroying the clipboard).
Actually Heroin is relatively harmless in controlled doses. The problem is with distribution and purity. You often hear of doctors who've been on Heroin for years with nobody noticing, until an audit catches them out and they wind up in jail...
The *major* issue with hard drugs is hygene and dosage. The crime/poverty thing is caused largely by the systems we put around it (criminalising the drug taker, for example, who never gets help because to ask for help would be to get sent to jail for being in posession of the drug!).
It's a pity wind turbines are butt ugly and you need thousands of them... in the UK we're going down that road and the protests have started already :)
The truth is all power generation has tradeoffs somewhere, and there's not 'perfect' way to do it, short of using less power.
'Interesting' would have been better... water doesn't contain any energy, so where's it coming from? It sounds like you're putting more energy in than taking out, since you have to force the water under pressure (which takes pumps, etc.) therefore you're not generating anything.
..and for those users without soundcards? (eg. most corporate users)...
There's already a universal standard. It's called IPP, and it's supported by CUPS on Linux and also on Win2000 and XP.
There's really no need to fart around with samba to print over a network any more... CUPS is easy to configure too (anyone who can use a web browser can work it out).
mplayer uses win32 codecs to provide seamless support for (most of) the same formats that windows media player does. It's doing the same thing as the device driver layer in the article, but in userspace.
Once the compatibility is there, reverse engineering becomes a lot easier - you can monitor the inputs and outputs and for a lot of devices that's enough. Printers, certainly, because they're just serial devices.
The linux kernel is preemptable as of 2.6 (more so than Windows, which has a lot of kernel locks in it - read up on the it sometime... there are lots of Win32 calls that'll completely disable premption until it completes - ever noticed how the system will appear to hang if you access a floppy with an empty drive? VS.NET makes a lot of these calls, which is why when it's compiling even your mouse will stop moving sometimes.. that's why we mandate dual-processor at work so we can actually keep using the machines while compiling).
I've had Windows BSOD for the strangest of reasons... With 2000/XP it's down to once a month or so anyway, which is acceptable for a desktop, if annoying. It automatically reboots once a day for Windows Update anyway.
Yeah that'll make a difference. I'll fly to brussels now.. I'm sure they'll ignore the massed ranks of MS lawyers for a geek from Manchester.
It's a done deal... politicians do what they want - they days that they actually listened to the people are long gone (and they wonder why voting turnout was 20%* in some constituencies.. sigh...).
(* 20% of *registered* voters. Never met anyone who's actually registered yet...)
Microsoft, Sun, etc. have a lot of money to spend on lobbyists.
:)
We basically have Alan Cox..
Not surprising the laws are a bit biased
IT in the US seems to have survived... mind you I wouldn't want to live there... couldn't afford to pay a patent lawyer every time I wanted to write anything.
Certainly I can see a lot of the smaller companies going bust when (not if... since when have politicians made sane decisions?) this becomes law - you'll get the pacman-like behaviour that seems to be common in the US where one company comes out of nowhere, patents something bleeding obvious then goes around closing down small companies and gettng large fees off the larger ones.
My own job would disappear relatively quickly in such an environment.. I've been unable to persuade my bosses that patenting our stuff (which *is* unique - 15 years in development) would be a good idea, especially since we've coincidently just been taken over by a bunch of americans who have a history of asset stripping...
your IMs are encrypted with a strong algorithm and cannot easily be read by people with NICs in promiscuous mode on your network hardware.
Umm... No.
Only the authentication uses SSL. The IMs still travel plaintext (go grab a packet sniffer if you don't believe me).
What's worse is it doesn't use SSL beyond the first couple of packets... I wrote a proxy for MSN6 (needed to block file transfers through the firewall) and was amazed to find that after the initial SSL negotiation to establish identity, the entire protocol is still plaintext... certainly made writing the proxy easier :)
The beta 1 seemed to run legacy stuff just fine.
.net is a bit premature... Wait until a version is released that's more than a 'hey look we've got a 64bit OS too, honest!' release.
Sating that XP64 is a 'throwback' when the only version available is the first beta that doesn't have any useful device drivers, doesn't run directx or even
Anyway the first thing anyone does when they install XP is switch off all the crappy eye candy and go back to the Win2000 'throwback' look because that was actually useful.