I'm pretty sure it's more like the BBC rashly accuse both sides at once, and somewhere in the mess the truth comes out... They like to stir things up sometimes (which leads them to be accused of bias, usually by both sides of an argument simutaneously... which sounds pretty unbiased to me:)
The alternative - never saying anything in case someone gets upset - leads to the kind of insipid 'reporting' that you often see in other countries...
I think Alastair Campbell was being setup as the fall guy for the 'dodgy dossier', as is normal with British politics (someone takes all the blame, everyone else comes out squeaky clean). To get himself at least partly out of the mess he tried to pass some of the heat onto the BBC - not entirely unsuccessfully. Personally I think Jack Straw is probably behind the irregularities in the dossier (at least in as much has he probably pressurised the author to 'make it sound scary'), but he's well protected and will probably never end up accused of anything.
The ssh-krb5 package has been in debian for, well, years... it works OK.. ironically I'm ditching kerberos soon because it's a lot of hassle, since the token keeps expiring at precisely the wrong moment just as I want to do something, plus it's difficult to switch users since you can only have one ticket at a time - PKI with forwarding is a lot easier.
I'd like it if they compared on equivalent price (since that's what many people including me are limited by... there's only so much I'll pay for a processor).
It would cost more than that... to buy what is currently $66M of shares, it might conservatively cost you $300M..$1BN... controlling interest in a company isn't cheap, especially hostile takeovers (which is what this would be).
...which is why I can't use it - (a) I use debian, which they don't support, and (b) I like to run my own kernels (there's stuff I use that tends not to be in the default kernels). Win4Lin is useless to me as their kernel modules are binary only so you can't recompile them to work on your system - you have to be running a stock Redhat/Mandrake system to use it.
VMWare give the source to their kernel modules, which means you can adapt it to your kernel... much more useful.
Obviously 64bit pci will be popular in the long run - many x86 boards actually have at least one 64bit slot, and I'd expect the Athlon64 boards to have several of them. Long term, however, something else (possibly this, possibly something else) will replace it.
They don't have to legally gag them, just strongly hint that anyone who speaks to the press will be first for the next round of downsizing.
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The best advice I ever got when I was depressed was - don't go near a doctor, they'll just fill you full of pills. Deal with it yourself.
Antidepressants just hide the problem, so you never recover - still taking them for 10 years? You'd probably so adicted now you'll never get off them.. whereas without them you could probably have recovered completely by now.
jittery and unable to pay attention sounds like a normal child to me...:)
It's still quite common (at least in europe) to blame such behaviour on 'fizzy drinks'. Informed opinion has it that it has nothing to do with the drinks being fizzy, but the suger content in an average can of coke is massively too high for a child to cope with... it sounds like a good explanation to me (the few parents I know don't give their children sweet drinks for this reason).
It's perfectly normal to get distracted when doing stuff... heck, I do it all the time (I'm sat here writing on slashdot while simultaneously thinking about some code I'm working on).
My wife is really mad at this - she has like 20 ICQ sessions going on at once *and* plays ATITD in the background, without breaking into a sweat (let down by the fact that she's too much of a stress head to do anything useful with it, otherwise she'd be rich by now, instead of unemployed).
God help a world that pumps people full of drugs just because they can multitask.
They have different purposes... With SHTTP the client isn't (usually) authenticated, just the server, so the traffic server->client is trusted, but not necessarily client->server (other than being encrypted).
IPSEC also verifies the endpoints and uses preshared keys, so it's secure enough for joining two LANs. PPTP/MPPE is good enough for picking up your email and stuff, but because there's no endpoint authentication it's not considered really secure.
SSH itself isn't a VPN but you can create one by running (for example) PPP across it.
Not really... Example: We're restructuring the network to setup the US office of our company. As usual they asked me - I didn't explicitly mention Linux (primarily because the resident admin is a microsoftie, and wouldn't be able to admin it properly) but just said what we need in general terms. They thought about it and specced out a set of Linux boxes (SOHO jobbies with web interfaces, etc. but still Linux underneath).
These are people who know all about the SCO fun... heck, the CEO is an ex Lawyer. Linux is just too damned useful for it to matter to small companies.
I'd expect in larger companies it might affect things (but then they've already got other hardware that can do the job)... I can't see I've heard much evidence of it, though.
It works quite well... I keep 5 machines fed from Unstable through it.
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4MB at 13,000 feet is about the same as standard ADSL (in fact my ISP offers such a package relatively cheaply).
4MB at 130,000 feet would be impressive, though...
The top speed at 1000 feet sounds good, too, until you remember that at that distance you could run cat5e at 100MB (maximum distance for cat5e is about 1100 feet, cat7 goes about a mile... don't see much of that on sale though).
Symantec have done zip to stop the spammers using their name... like stop supplying the spammers with copies of their software! Why should they? It gets them more sales.
I've received a lot of "Opt In" spam. Some of it from otherwise legitimate companies... Most of the time I'm supposed to have 'opted in' using email addresses I've not used for several years (in one case from a mailing list address).
Unless it's a confirmed opt-in then I treat it in the same way as all other spam.
It's their responsibility to know who they're sending spam to, just like in the real world if someone orders porn through the mail and a minor opens the letter they can be prosecuted (max. 10 year jail sentence over here).
Doesn't matter if you don't like it, or if it didn't work on your system, or what - if it's open, it's yours. EB isn't the only place locally with a return policy like that. This makes it vitally important to try software out before purchasing it.
Luckily I live in a country where that kind of sharp practice is illegal.... I'm actually surprised it's legal in the US - don't you have consumer protection over there?
Mine has never crashed, and has a slightly better battery life than the couple of SPVs we have around the office (I can get 3/4 days with a following wind). With normal use (GPRS browsing an hour a day plus a few phone calls) I can get two days. A decent phone, really. Sure, it doesn't have the battery life of the 8310 (about two weeks most of the time between charges) but that's the problem with backlit displays... wait until the new organic displays start appearing if you want long battery life (they're phosphorescent and hardly draw any power).
For a new phone you're looking at the 7250i, or the 3300 which has 64MB MMC memory (the mobile version of Opera should run OK on it).
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I'm pretty sure it's more like the BBC rashly accuse both sides at once, and somewhere in the mess the truth comes out... They like to stir things up sometimes (which leads them to be accused of bias, usually by both sides of an argument simutaneously... which sounds pretty unbiased to me :)
The alternative - never saying anything in case someone gets upset - leads to the kind of insipid 'reporting' that you often see in other countries...
I think Alastair Campbell was being setup as the fall guy for the 'dodgy dossier', as is normal with British politics (someone takes all the blame, everyone else comes out squeaky clean). To get himself at least partly out of the mess he tried to pass some of the heat onto the BBC - not entirely unsuccessfully. Personally I think Jack Straw is probably behind the irregularities in the dossier (at least in as much has he probably pressurised the author to 'make it sound scary'), but he's well protected and will probably never end up accused of anything.
The ssh-krb5 package has been in debian for, well, years... it works OK .. ironically I'm ditching kerberos soon because it's a lot of hassle, since the token keeps expiring at precisely the wrong moment just as I want to do something, plus it's difficult to switch users since you can only have one ticket at a time - PKI with forwarding is a lot easier.
23TB? Nowhere near the right size, even zipped...
I'd like it if they compared on equivalent price (since that's what many people including me are limited by... there's only so much I'll pay for a processor).
Athlon XP 3000 (Barton) = £175
P4 2.8Ghz Northwood 533Mhz = £175
A benchmark comparing to two would be interesting.... not entirely equal as P4 mobos are a bit more expensive than AMD ones.
Once you get into dual processor of course, it gets silly:
Athlon MP 2600+ Tbread x2 = £292
Xeon 2.0ghz Prestonia x2 = £304
It's obvious in that comparison the AMD would crap all over the Xeon.
It would cost more than that... to buy what is currently $66M of shares, it might conservatively cost you $300M..$1BN... controlling interest in a company isn't cheap, especially hostile takeovers (which is what this would be).
...which is why I can't use it - (a) I use debian, which they don't support, and (b) I like to run my own kernels (there's stuff I use that tends not to be in the default kernels). Win4Lin is useless to me as their kernel modules are binary only so you can't recompile them to work on your system - you have to be running a stock Redhat/Mandrake system to use it.
VMWare give the source to their kernel modules, which means you can adapt it to your kernel... much more useful.
Do we get the option of PCI-Hut and Domino-PCI too?
Obviously 64bit pci will be popular in the long run - many x86 boards actually have at least one 64bit slot, and I'd expect the Athlon64 boards to have several of them. Long term, however, something else (possibly this, possibly something else) will replace it.
They don't have to legally gag them, just strongly hint that anyone who speaks to the press will be first for the next round of downsizing.
The best advice I ever got when I was depressed was - don't go near a doctor, they'll just fill you full of pills. Deal with it yourself.
Antidepressants just hide the problem, so you never recover - still taking them for 10 years? You'd probably so adicted now you'll never get off them.. whereas without them you could probably have recovered completely by now.
jittery and unable to pay attention sounds like a normal child to me... :)
It's still quite common (at least in europe) to blame such behaviour on 'fizzy drinks'. Informed opinion has it that it has nothing to do with the drinks being fizzy, but the suger content in an average can of coke is massively too high for a child to cope with... it sounds like a good explanation to me (the few parents I know don't give their children sweet drinks for this reason).
It's perfectly normal to get distracted when doing stuff... heck, I do it all the time (I'm sat here writing on slashdot while simultaneously thinking about some code I'm working on).
My wife is really mad at this - she has like 20 ICQ sessions going on at once *and* plays ATITD in the background, without breaking into a sweat (let down by the fact that she's too much of a stress head to do anything useful with it, otherwise she'd be rich by now, instead of unemployed).
God help a world that pumps people full of drugs just because they can multitask.
Have you read the comments? There's even one from a doctor explaining what would really happen and why the story is full of holes.
Nice idea, but alas, untrue.
They have different purposes... With SHTTP the client isn't (usually) authenticated, just the server, so the traffic server->client is trusted, but not necessarily client->server (other than being encrypted).
IPSEC also verifies the endpoints and uses preshared keys, so it's secure enough for joining two LANs. PPTP/MPPE is good enough for picking up your email and stuff, but because there's no endpoint authentication it's not considered really secure.
SSH itself isn't a VPN but you can create one by running (for example) PPP across it.
Not really... Example: We're restructuring the network to setup the US office of our company. As usual they asked me - I didn't explicitly mention Linux (primarily because the resident admin is a microsoftie, and wouldn't be able to admin it properly) but just said what we need in general terms. They thought about it and specced out a set of Linux boxes (SOHO jobbies with web interfaces, etc. but still Linux underneath).
These are people who know all about the SCO fun... heck, the CEO is an ex Lawyer. Linux is just too damned useful for it to matter to small companies.
I'd expect in larger companies it might affect things (but then they've already got other hardware that can do the job)... I can't see I've heard much evidence of it, though.
I'll use 2.5.x when the damn framebuffer works... I like my console to be nice and wide.
2.5.70 just locks hard if you enable the framebuffer... doesn't even start to boot properly.
Also, my network card isn't supported yet (they have a driver but it's been broken since 2.5. and nobody seems to care about fixing it).
Yup, it's called apt-proxy.
It works quite well... I keep 5 machines fed from Unstable through it.
4MB at 13,000 feet is about the same as standard ADSL (in fact my ISP offers such a package relatively cheaply).
4MB at 130,000 feet would be impressive, though...
The top speed at 1000 feet sounds good, too, until you remember that at that distance you could run cat5e at 100MB (maximum distance for cat5e is about 1100 feet, cat7 goes about a mile... don't see much of that on sale though).
A 14" penis would have more problems 'fitting in' than a standard size one...
Symantec have done zip to stop the spammers using their name... like stop supplying the spammers with copies of their software! Why should they? It gets them more sales.
I've received a lot of "Opt In" spam. Some of it from otherwise legitimate companies... Most of the time I'm supposed to have 'opted in' using email addresses I've not used for several years (in one case from a mailing list address).
Unless it's a confirmed opt-in then I treat it in the same way as all other spam.
It's their responsibility to know who they're sending spam to, just like in the real world if someone orders porn through the mail and a minor opens the letter they can be prosecuted (max. 10 year jail sentence over here).
Doesn't matter if you don't like it, or if it didn't work on your system, or what - if it's open, it's yours. EB isn't the only place locally with a return policy like that. This makes it vitally important to try software out before purchasing it.
Luckily I live in a country where that kind of sharp practice is illegal.... I'm actually surprised it's legal in the US - don't you have consumer protection over there?
So, you leave stuff around, and provided it doesn't get stolen by the local pondlife, someone who knows where it is picks it up and takes it anyway.
If I want to give my stuff away I don't have to put its location on the internet, I just turn my back for 5 minutes...
7650 is ancient tech now...
Mine has never crashed, and has a slightly better battery life than the couple of SPVs we have around the office (I can get 3/4 days with a following wind). With normal use (GPRS browsing an hour a day plus a few phone calls) I can get two days. A decent phone, really. Sure, it doesn't have the battery life of the 8310 (about two weeks most of the time between charges) but that's the problem with backlit displays... wait until the new organic displays start appearing if you want long battery life (they're phosphorescent and hardly draw any power).
For a new phone you're looking at the 7250i, or the 3300 which has 64MB MMC memory (the mobile version of Opera should run OK on it).