Even if itanic is better (and that's arguable, at this point) it won't do as well. We're back to VHSvsBeta again. Beta was a better technology, was first to market indeed... it failed. Simply because it had 1 hour tapes and VHS had 2 hour ones. [yes I know they both got 3 hour later but that was much later]
The product that wins the battle is the one that has the features the consumer wants, at the price they want. At the moment athlon64 wipes the floor with itanium on price, backward compatibility, availablility of motherboards, etc. AMD have done the right thing - given copies to the benchmarkers and let them test games on it, where it trounces the P4 in 32bit mode. 64bit will be a selling point in a year or two - for now they're pushing the fact that these things are about the fastest out there.
It's fixed in debian unstable.. I guess Redhat,Mandrake, etc. will release the fix in the next day or so if they haven't already (it'd be nice if security.debian.org got it too for all the uber stable machines out there).
You can download the patch from the ISC website and compile yourself if you want, too.
Also debian unstable now has the patched bind9 available. You have to upgrade bind9 and a couple of libiscc{mumble} files for it to work (the maintainer forgot to add the dependency in the rush to get it out...)
I've upgraded all the servers I have access to and the internet is behaving normally again:)
You wouldn't need to shrink the budgets by anything like that to feed the entire world, theoretically... there's no political (or social) will to do it, though. The fact is, once we have something (eg. a space program, food mountain, etc.) we're simply not going to let it go... altruism just isn't a part of the human condition (witness Cancun, where the key question on all sides was 'what's in it for me?' not 'how do we feed the poor').
We couldn't do anything anyway... it's more than likely we wouldn't even see an asteroid until it was pretty close to us, by which time it'd need a huge change in trajectory to make it miss us... we just don't have the technology to do that.
All of this isn't an argument for a space program, just more scientific research into how to deal with the threat (tractor beams would be damn cool.. I just doubt their possibility somehow).
(Anyway last I heard there were only about a dozen people paid to track asteroids... it's not as if it's being taken seriously).
Abandonment of Win32 and drive letters? Yeah, I'll believe it when I see it...
Heck, there are still enough DOS apps out there that Windows still needs to support it, let alone Win32 apps - it'll take decades to get to the point that they can get rid of Win32 (not that it makes any sense to do so -.NET is a pseudocode language that runs on top of Win32, not a replacement).
If you have committed a crime it's much better to refuse to give them the keys (=2 years) than to admit to a worse crime that could be 10 years or more... it's like a 'get out of jail (almost) free' card.
A movie has a certain amout of percieved value to the consumer - it's 'worth' 4 to rent the DVD so the video shops succeed. However is a web page 'worth' 0.001p? The value is too small to have much meaning, but there's still the idea that you're paying for it, which is offputting.
Also there's basic supply and demand - if slashdot started charging it'd quickly be replaced be a free alternative... after all coming up with a dozen 'microsoft sux' articles a day can't be that hard:)
In a similar vein if a mailing list started charging I'd simply not subscribe (or, better.. get someone who already subscribes to relay it to me for free).
How can importing be a violation of copyright? You're not copying them!
Multiregion is perfectly legal, despite what the movie companies would have you believe (in fact over here only a complete clutz would but a single-region player... even the cheap supermarket brands are multiregion).
I get most of my stuff from play.com imported from the US.. you can get a an even cheaper deal if you import from australia (although there's less choice) although I forget the URL.
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Even if itanic is better (and that's arguable, at this point) it won't do as well. We're back to VHSvsBeta again. Beta was a better technology, was first to market indeed... it failed. Simply because it had 1 hour tapes and VHS had 2 hour ones. [yes I know they both got 3 hour later but that was much later]
The product that wins the battle is the one that has the features the consumer wants, at the price they want. At the moment athlon64 wipes the floor with itanium on price, backward compatibility, availablility of motherboards, etc. AMD have done the right thing - given copies to the benchmarkers and let them test games on it, where it trounces the P4 in 32bit mode. 64bit will be a selling point in a year or two - for now they're pushing the fact that these things are about the fastest out there.
That's because the slashdot editors didn't check the story... nothing new there.
The correct link is here
It's not even on the books for treason any more - we had to give it up to be eligibable to sign the human rights treaties.
Standardising a byte on 8 bits was a later invention.. some early computers had 10 or 12 bits, so 64Kbit would be much smaller than it looked.
The workarounds are starting to filter onto the live 'net now... hopefully give it a week or two it'll all be over whether vericrap give it up or not.
You can see if your DNS is patched by trying a host lookup on some random domain using dig and seeing if you get a proper NXDOMAIN response.
It's fixed in debian unstable..
I guess Redhat,Mandrake, etc. will release the fix in the next day or so if they haven't already (it'd be nice if security.debian.org got it too for all the uber stable machines out there).
You can download the patch from the ISC website and compile yourself if you want, too.
Also debian unstable now has the patched bind9 available. You have to upgrade bind9 and a couple of libiscc{mumble} files for it to work (the maintainer forgot to add the dependency in the rush to get it out...)
:)
I've upgraded all the servers I have access to and the internet is behaving normally again
You wouldn't need to shrink the budgets by anything like that to feed the entire world, theoretically... there's no political (or social) will to do it, though. The fact is, once we have something (eg. a space program, food mountain, etc.) we're simply not going to let it go... altruism just isn't a part of the human condition (witness Cancun, where the key question on all sides was 'what's in it for me?' not 'how do we feed the poor').
Well there's the one that's supposed to be going to hit us around 2700 or so... that leaked out :)
TBH in a real emergency I doubt we'd get enough warining for the news agencies to do anything about it.
We couldn't do anything anyway... it's more than likely we wouldn't even see an asteroid until it was pretty close to us, by which time it'd need a huge change in trajectory to make it miss us... we just don't have the technology to do that.
All of this isn't an argument for a space program, just more scientific research into how to deal with the threat (tractor beams would be damn cool.. I just doubt their possibility somehow).
(Anyway last I heard there were only about a dozen people paid to track asteroids... it's not as if it's being taken seriously).
How can a space program be there for our safety?
Maybe GWB thinks it's full of Weapons of Mass Destruction? (the little pixies told him so...)
If your machine is really slow you wouldn't use .NET anyway... it sucks for CPU intensive tasks. Luckily you can call back into C++ for the good stuff.
Abandonment of Win32 and drive letters? Yeah, I'll believe it when I see it...
.NET is a pseudocode language that runs on top of Win32, not a replacement).
Heck, there are still enough DOS apps out there that Windows still needs to support it, let alone Win32 apps - it'll take decades to get to the point that they can get rid of Win32 (not that it makes any sense to do so -
Sega was always the black sheep of the console wars... that's why I have over 200 SNES roms and 4 Genesis roms on my computer now.
The megadrive was defacto standard for several years.. even Nintendo didn't get much of a look in back then.
Unfortunately they screwed it up, and lost all their market share.
Cool idea.... how much *does* 100 tonnes of bullsh*t cost, anyway?
If you have committed a crime it's much better to refuse to give them the keys (=2 years) than to admit to a worse crime that could be 10 years or more... it's like a 'get out of jail (almost) free' card.
A movie has a certain amout of percieved value to the consumer - it's 'worth' 4 to rent the DVD so the video shops succeed. However is a web page 'worth' 0.001p? The value is too small to have much meaning, but there's still the idea that you're paying for it, which is offputting.
:)
Also there's basic supply and demand - if slashdot started charging it'd quickly be replaced be a free alternative... after all coming up with a dozen 'microsoft sux' articles a day can't be that hard
In a similar vein if a mailing list started charging I'd simply not subscribe (or, better.. get someone who already subscribes to relay it to me for free).
With an unsigned int they'd have been able to block the entire ipv4 address space! No more spam! ..until the spammers discover ipv6...
Insightful??? Mods on crack or have they never actually seen SouthPark :)
Um, yes. Did you even bother to READ the story?
This is slashdot, remember?
How can importing be a violation of copyright? You're not copying them!
Multiregion is perfectly legal, despite what the movie companies would have you believe (in fact over here only a complete clutz would but a single-region player... even the cheap supermarket brands are multiregion).
I get most of my stuff from play.com imported from the US.. you can get a an even cheaper deal if you import from australia (although there's less choice) although I forget the URL.
Hmm that's an old SA you have there..
try this:
score RCVD_IN_OSIRU 0
score RCVD_IN_OSIRU_DIALUP 0
score RCVD_IN_OSIRU_PROXY 0
score RCVD_IN_OSIRU_RELAY 0
score RCVD_IN_OSIRU_SPAMWARE 0
score RCVD_IN_OSIRU_SPAM_SRC 0
If you look at the screebshots it's not AAlib at all. Looks like svgalib actually.
I'm not sure how this is an advance... it looks crapper than X but you have to configure the notoriously buggy svgalib first...
Thawte have it... way to run a secure certificate service guys!
Message for them... GET A BL$$DY FIREWALL!
So how are you reading this? :)