Online banking won't touch it for years... The average punter has the OS they bought their PC with - for the vast majority that means Win95/98 (probably unpatched) (the last survey I read estimated Win9x is still >60% of connected computers).
For the DRM stuff to work it'll need >95% of people to upgrade to XP, which means that their existing machines have to stop working (average joe doesn't upgrade a PC because it's 'cool' like many slashdotters do). That aint going to happen for several years.
Don't be so sure... round here you can't buy -RW drives on the high-street any more. *All* the major stores have gone exclusively +RW... No idea why, but that's what is being sold to joe public.
I got a dual format drive because DVD-R is slightly cheaper (and +RW is faster to write), plus I'm not as sure as the high street stores that the format battle is over yet.
So if an employee does something good, they are representing the company, but if they do something bad, they're not?
Lucky the law doesn't agree with you... that's why many countries can have corporatem manslaughter laws (employee fucks up, CEO goes to jail) - (the exception being the US where you have employee fucks up, CEO gets huge payrise).
I paid £50 + £12/mo 1 year contract (~3 months to go) - £194... it was a cheaper deal than buying one (never used the SIM since I have a better per-minute deal with my existing provider).
If you have multiple IPs then they pretty much already have it - RIPE rules state that the contact address for any netblock must be valid. Not that I care - my life isn't interesting enough for it to matter.
Even for a single static IP it's trivially traceable - PC Plod calls ISP, ISP releases your contact details...
Dynamic IP is only slightly harder - you just need a reasonably accurate time of day.
AFAIK, EMI UK aren't using the Cactus "protection" yet (the official UK 100th Window wasn't)
Their first attempt was a disaster - many returns and the record stores nearly got sued, so they took the easy way out and cleared the shelves of the offending CD (Celine Dion IIRC).
They have been trying to dump small numbers of these broken CDs in the stores - if you look carefully at some of the cases you'll see 'protected by catus data shield' in small writing at the back (or occasionally buried in the inlay). Sometimes it doesn't even say that - there'll just be a millimetre square cactus logo in the corner, with no other indication. Often if you look around you'll find they've released both copy protected and non copy protected versions in the same rack.
It's true in the UK too - I suspect it's part of European law somewhere - it goes are far as companies aren't allowed to have caller ID at all (so such software is useless), only home users have it.
Firstly, when gentoo boots you have to wing it to work out how to get online to read the damned thing. Then it tells you to set your USE variables, with *no* documentation about what any of them do (not that it matters, half of the packages ignore them anyway). I also found several factual errors in it (for example stating that files are on the CD that aren't there).
emerge doesn't pick the latest versions of stuff either... you end up installing from source anyway. eg. I need the kerberos enabled ssh to work with my network. I had krb5 in my USE but it didn't build with kerberos. It also built an out of date version. I had to manually go in to the package directory and force it to build the latest version (which emerge insisted didn't exist).. which still didn't build with kerberos, so I gave up on it and ftp'd a prebuilt one from a debian machine.
Also the dependencies suck rocks. I wanted to build a minimal setup and get it working, so I decided to install links. Bad move. It pulled in svgalib (??), most of X and about a million fonts - for a *text mode* browser.
12 hours is also a bit optimistic - On a dual processor machine I had it building for 3 days.. and at the end half the stuff didn't work anyway. Luckily I can get a debian install on in 20 minutes with a following wind, so I got my machine back without much hassle.
The CLR is really very slow. When I first came across it at an MSDN demo they were running it on really fast machines and it still obviously dragged on the simple app they were writing. I've got the misfortune of having to do some stuff in it (mostly a frontend to the C++ backend because we *need* speed) and I'd estimate it goes between 10 and 20 times slower than native code (~5 seconds to generate a single web page on a Dual P4).
Iraq apparently had a very low crime rate before SH was sent on a permanent holiday in the bahamas.
At one time the safest city in the world was Belfast - because every street was crawling with soldiers, and even joyriders didn't reoffend (since they tended to end up shot in the head).
As a society we need to define how far we're going to go to prevent crime... ultimately being free involves being free to do wrong, otherwise it isn't freedom at all.
What if you wake up in the middle of the night and find someone in your house hurting a family member. You approach the situation and the person starts running away.
I if you chase after him and cause him damage you will go to jail whatever the motivation - the same law applies to you, too.
You have to be joking - try going to any consumer hifi shop... they're selling like hot cakes. I can't see why audiophiles would use them (except the pro. models which are stupidly expensive).. but for the average punter they're great. 8 hours per disk, very very long battery life (mine is only on its second battery after 12 months, and I use if every day) and none of the disadvantages of mp3 (like needing a £1000 computer to actually get songs onto it).
Archer even uses something like that terminology at the end (in one of those sickly holier-than-thou speaches that star trek captains seem to give every second episode).
Personally Enterprise has grown on me (I fast forward past the opening music though that makes my flesh creep). The series has finished over here already [they cancelled it after 'dawn' AFAIK] (*and* stargate. Nothing to watch at the moment aargh!).
At MDLP4 (which is the lowest quality recording I can record at) it's perfectly listenable, even when put through external speakers.. Probably wouldn't put it through a hifi though (but then I wouldn't do that with MP3 - tried it once and almost cried at the mess it had made of the recording).
I get a lot of Norton spam (in fact bayes now has the word 'Norton' at about 0.8). I don't think it's symantec sending it, but they sure as hell should try to do something about it (like not supplying the spammers with product), since their reputation is going down the toilet.
Either they're lying and the boxes haven't been up that long, or they're so full of security holes they're just waiting to spread the next internet-wide virus.
To keep a Windows (indeed, any) box secure you have to update it regularly. In Windows you can't do that without rebooting (which is one of the legacy bugs they've kept from the FAT days - you can't update system files while the system is running).
Slashdot Mirror
The site is slashdotted, as usual...
From what I gather from the threads it's got something to do with replacing GPS but no details.
People leaving squid servers lying around or what?
The linked site is slashdotted so no help there...
Online banking won't touch it for years... The average punter has the OS they bought their PC with - for the vast majority that means Win95/98 (probably unpatched) (the last survey I read estimated Win9x is still >60% of connected computers).
For the DRM stuff to work it'll need >95% of people to upgrade to XP, which means that their existing machines have to stop working (average joe doesn't upgrade a PC because it's 'cool' like many slashdotters do). That aint going to happen for several years.
There's dvdrecord, dvd+rw-tools, etc. There's also a commercial version of cdrecord that does DVD record also (no idea of pricing, though.).
:(
There's nothing that will convert a DVD9 to DVD5... still have to boot into windows for that
Don't be so sure... round here you can't buy -RW drives on the high-street any more. *All* the major stores have gone exclusively +RW... No idea why, but that's what is being sold to joe public.
I got a dual format drive because DVD-R is slightly cheaper (and +RW is faster to write), plus I'm not as sure as the high street stores that the format battle is over yet.
Sounds secure to me. If a 'doze box can't access the internet, nobody can hack it...
So if an employee does something good, they are representing the company, but if they do something bad, they're not?
Lucky the law doesn't agree with you... that's why many countries can have corporatem manslaughter laws (employee fucks up, CEO goes to jail) - (the exception being the US where you have employee fucks up, CEO gets huge payrise).
You were ripped.
I paid £50 + £12/mo 1 year contract (~3 months to go) - £194... it was a cheaper deal than buying one (never used the SIM since I have a better per-minute deal with my existing provider).
The point he was trying to make was "drink guiness, get drunk." Very simple concept really
I've written code like that after one too many guinesses (guinii?? no, let's not go there..)
Strange thing is, it compiled at the time...
If you have multiple IPs then they pretty much already have it - RIPE rules state that the contact address for any netblock must be valid. Not that I care - my life isn't interesting enough for it to matter.
Even for a single static IP it's trivially traceable - PC Plod calls ISP, ISP releases your contact details...
Dynamic IP is only slightly harder - you just need a reasonably accurate time of day.
AFAIK, EMI UK aren't using the Cactus "protection" yet (the official UK 100th Window wasn't)
Their first attempt was a disaster - many returns and the record stores nearly got sued, so they took the easy way out and cleared the shelves of the offending CD (Celine Dion IIRC).
They have been trying to dump small numbers of these broken CDs in the stores - if you look carefully at some of the cases you'll see 'protected by catus data shield' in small writing at the back (or occasionally buried in the inlay).
Sometimes it doesn't even say that - there'll just be a millimetre square cactus logo in the corner, with no other indication. Often if you look around you'll find they've released both copy protected and non copy protected versions in the same rack.
It's true in the UK too - I suspect it's part of European law somewhere - it goes are far as companies aren't allowed to have caller ID at all (so such software is useless), only home users have it.
Firstly, when gentoo boots you have to wing it to work out how to get online to read the damned thing. Then it tells you to set your USE variables, with *no* documentation about what any of them do (not that it matters, half of the packages ignore them anyway). I also found several factual errors in it (for example stating that files are on the CD that aren't there).
emerge doesn't pick the latest versions of stuff either... you end up installing from source anyway. eg. I need the kerberos enabled ssh to work with my network. I had krb5 in my USE but it didn't build with kerberos. It also built an out of date version. I had to manually go in to the package directory and force it to build the latest version (which emerge insisted didn't exist).. which still didn't build with kerberos, so I gave up on it and ftp'd a prebuilt one from a debian machine.
Also the dependencies suck rocks. I wanted to build a minimal setup and get it working, so I decided to install links. Bad move. It pulled in svgalib (??), most of X and about a million fonts - for a *text mode* browser.
12 hours is also a bit optimistic - On a dual processor machine I had it building for 3 days.. and at the end half the stuff didn't work anyway. Luckily I can get a debian install on in 20 minutes with a following wind, so I got my machine back without much hassle.
The CLR is really very slow. When I first came across it at an MSDN demo they were running it on really fast machines and it still obviously dragged on the simple app they were writing. I've got the misfortune of having to do some stuff in it (mostly a frontend to the C++ backend because we *need* speed) and I'd estimate it goes between 10 and 20 times slower than native code (~5 seconds to generate a single web page on a Dual P4).
Iraq apparently had a very low crime rate before SH was sent on a permanent holiday in the bahamas.
At one time the safest city in the world was Belfast - because every street was crawling with soldiers, and even joyriders didn't reoffend (since they tended to end up shot in the head).
As a society we need to define how far we're going to go to prevent crime... ultimately being free involves being free to do wrong, otherwise it isn't freedom at all.
What if you wake up in the middle of the night and find someone in your house hurting a family member. You approach the situation and the person starts running away.
I if you chase after him and cause him damage you will go to jail whatever the motivation - the same law applies to you, too.
But the Opteron is running at 1.8Ghz
The Xeon is running at 3Ghz.
I'd like to see a benchmark vs a 1.8Ghz Xeon with 2GB RAM... I guess the Opteron would slaughter it.
Get one from ebay.
Not sure about the 'I can program my times in myself' comment... that would defeat the object of Tivo, surely?
MD did nothing?
You have to be joking - try going to any consumer hifi shop... they're selling like hot cakes. I can't see why audiophiles would use them (except the pro. models which are stupidly expensive).. but for the average punter they're great. 8 hours per disk, very very long battery life (mine is only on its second battery after 12 months, and I use if every day) and none of the disadvantages of mp3 (like needing a £1000 computer to actually get songs onto it).
"Posted by timothy on Wed April 02, 01:08 AM"
April fools jokes are supposed to finish at lunchtime on april 1st, not 1am the *next day*.
Archer even uses something like that terminology at the end (in one of those sickly holier-than-thou speaches that star trek captains seem to give every second episode).
Personally Enterprise has grown on me (I fast forward past the opening music though that makes my flesh creep). The series has finished over here already [they cancelled it after 'dawn' AFAIK] (*and* stargate. Nothing to watch at the moment aargh!).
At MDLP4 (which is the lowest quality recording I can record at) it's perfectly listenable, even when put through external speakers.. Probably wouldn't put it through a hifi though (but then I wouldn't do that with MP3 - tried it once and almost cried at the mess it had made of the recording).
'Quaoar'?
That sounds like the noise a geek makes when a good looking female walks past the window...
I get a lot of Norton spam (in fact bayes now has the word 'Norton' at about 0.8). I don't think it's symantec sending it, but they sure as hell should try to do something about it (like not supplying the spammers with product), since their reputation is going down the toilet.
Either they're lying and the boxes haven't been up that long, or they're so full of security holes they're just waiting to spread the next internet-wide virus.
To keep a Windows (indeed, any) box secure you have to update it regularly. In Windows you can't do that without rebooting (which is one of the legacy bugs they've kept from the FAT days - you can't update system files while the system is running).