MY boss does this using nursery rhymes. Sometimes when he's on holiday we have to get into his machine... you end up with half a dozen geeks reciting nursery rhymes to each other until the correct permutation is reached.
As someone who has spent many hours staring at code trying to fix double-free bugs in Windows, I can definately say that it does *not* do any checking in release mode, and in debug it misses it half the time (usually failing a couple of minutes later on a completely unrelated allocation). If course the debug checking never gets used because anyone who wants to keep their sanity uses Purify anyway.
Therefore Windows is vulnerable. Applications aren't distributed with debugging enabled anyway (it's a license violation - gotta love closed source) so bleating 'there's checking in debug mode' is not helpful.
I have *never* 'opted in' to any spammers lists. I'm very careful to click the 'sod off don't email me' button when I register for a site (not that I consider registering for a website 'opt in').
I personally get about 30-50 spams a day. All of them say I have 'opted in'. A large percentage of them are get rich quick schemes and porn.
Anyone who believes the 'opt in' rubbish must have been born retarted or something.
If doubleclick want to be spamming scum, then I'll be very happy when they go bankcrupt. I'll certainly be blocking all their IPs at my router from now on.
Newspapers over here have a habit of taking something suggested by a government worker on his lunch break and calling it government policy. The british press are almost as untrustworthy as the politicians they write about.
The government has been trying (unsuccessfully) to reduce car use ever since it was elected... It's been fighting a running battle with the press over this. The problem is they're unlikely to succeeed. Everyone can see the reason why 'someone else' doesn't need to drive to work, but they always seem to have a reason why their particular use of the car is so essential. It's going to take a real change in attitude to make it work, and I just don't see it in the near future.
Personally I don't have a need for a car... I couldn't afford one, either - a new car costs about £10,000 or about $15,000. A second hand one would be about £2000 or about $3000. Insurance could easily double the price of a second hand car. A year travelling to work by public transport costs me £372. No contest, really.
I saw that one... It would be a great technology for use at rock concerts, nightclubs, etc. Zero noise pollution - if you're outside the target area it's completely silent.
Hell, I'd like one for my living room... the neigbours would probably pay me to use it:-)
After all, houses with pools generally don't sell for much less than half a million, so if you can afford something like that you can afford to hire a human to do the work of cleaning it for you (hell, you can probably afford to hire an army of topless models to do the cleaning for you!).
At last an affordable replacement to the (RIP) Tivo (although I think they still sell them in the US... more extremely rich geeks there I suppose).
It's a bit before its time, though. Home users haven't really got the bandwidth to use this (ADSL penetration in the UK is at something like 1.5% of households... the rest are on 56K). The kind of people who have broadband & don't mind waiting 3 hours for an episode of star trek to download can already get all this by trawling Usenet, and the rest haven't got the patience or the hardware.
I thought the idea of putting your favourite programs on an IPAQ was amusing... 32MB wouldn't get you much video (about a minute if you're lucky, more if you don't give a crap about the quality).
pbskids.org works fine in Mozilla, and I would have thought it would work in NS 6.2 too (I tried browsing through a few pages to see if I could break it, but it looked OK).
The only thing you need is the flash plugin, which is freely downloadable.
Philips do a consumer DVD-RW that'll probably do the job... You'd probably be going over SCART but the drop in quality shouldn't be too great (unless you're a prefectionist).
The downside is it costs about £1000 (roughly $1600).
Why isn't Steve Irwin dead yet? Anyone who can one minute say 'This is one of the deadliest snakes in the world' and the next minute say 'Lets pick him up and have a look at him' has definate suicidal tendencies...
Luckily I never load Render & I never intend to - after about 5 minutes of looking at KDE with it enabled I had a bad headache. That font smoothing stuff is *really* hard on the eyes.
I remember when the old archimedes did the same thing... it kinda worked there because they were crappy monitors anyway. With a sharp 17" it's not an improvement.
Codeless players aren't expensive - mine was one of the cheapest ones available about a year ago (REC R800C - £180). And it easily plays RCE 'protected' DVDs too.
Most players in the UK output PAL (not all - especially the japanese models that are dual PAL/NTSC) but the scan rate is matched to the DVD. A region 1 dvd only runs at 50fps, so it outputs PAL/50 rather than PAL/60. Sometimes you'll find especially with older TVs that they can't handle the lower scan rate and don't work.
My own player uses NTSC by default (all the menus are in black & white if you view it through the tuner), but using an RGB cable fixes that.
I once read a sci-fi story about some stuff called 'slow glass' which did something like this... it slowed down the light so the photons took about 6 months to get through the glass. The upshot was that you could have a window which looked out onto a midsummer garden in the middle of winter. I never thought they'd actually work out how to do it, though.
Heck, even if they could make it delay only a few seconds it'd make a cool effect!
I went the same way. I struggled with LDAP for weeks and eventually went back to NIS which does exactly what I need. The LDAP tools suck rocks at the moment... I virtually gave up trying to get samba to integrate with it (I actually ended up replacing 'passwd' with a shell script that modifed 3 different versions of the password!), and as far as getting Win2k to login through it forget it (it's hardcoded to active directory, basically).
I'm sure it's really good if you're trying to manage 50,000 users and a masochistic enough to like constantly editing ldif files but otherwise steer clear.
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In general the majority of the british population see the 'foreigners' as either peasants/pig farmers or 'militant french farmers' (who for some bizarre reason every time they have a problem with their government they blockade calais... I suspect they don't like us either...)
Also one of the most powerful countries in the EU is Germany. British people don't trust germans - even the under 30's who you wouldn't think would bother about a war fought 60 years ago have this inherited distrust from their parents and grandparents.
And, well, *everybody* hates the French:-)
Personally I can't see it happening in my lifetime. Heck it took us 200 years to decimalize...
It's called 'percieved value'. People see Adobe Photoshop as a professional product precisely because it is $500 not $50. Since the average PHB has never used Photoshop (or even probably understands fully what it does... he only balances the budget) he assumes it is good because it costs $500 (in this case he would actually be correct for once).
This is part of the problem Linux has sometimes: 'If it's free, how can it be any good?' This is only offset by reputation, which takes years to build up.
It's also the reason why Win2000 Server costs many times more than Win2000 Professional, even though they are basically the same product.
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MY boss does this using nursery rhymes. Sometimes when he's on holiday we have to get into his machine... you end up with half a dozen geeks reciting nursery rhymes to each other until the correct permutation is reached.
Why do you want a kernel module to do this? You could knock up a perl script to do it in a few minutes.
As someone who has spent many hours staring at code trying to fix double-free bugs in Windows, I can definately say that it does *not* do any checking in release mode, and in debug it misses it half the time (usually failing a couple of minutes later on a completely unrelated allocation). If course the debug checking never gets used because anyone who wants to keep their sanity uses Purify anyway.
Therefore Windows is vulnerable. Applications aren't distributed with debugging enabled anyway (it's a license violation - gotta love closed source) so bleating 'there's checking in debug mode' is not helpful.
I'll add his domain to my blacklist.
I suppose he leaves his front door unlocked too so his friends can watch cable whenever they like?
You're shitting me... there are .NET users?
Wow.
No need for multiple accounts, just use '+' instead...
spam+real@you.com
spam+ebay@you.com
etc...
All get delivered to spam@you.com, but you can check the 'from' to find out who doesn't get your business any more.
If I didn't write to you SPECIFICALLY ASKING to know about your porn/get rich quick scheme you are just a filthy SPAMMER.
Just because I happen to browse a web site does NOT mean I have to here about your cheap and nasty wares.
Die, scum.
Hmm... Did it have anything identifiable I can make a spamassassin rule out of?
Uh sorry, b*ll*cks.
I have *never* 'opted in' to any spammers lists. I'm very careful to click the 'sod off don't email me' button when I register for a site (not that I consider registering for a website 'opt in').
I personally get about 30-50 spams a day. All of them say I have 'opted in'. A large percentage of them are get rich quick schemes and porn.
Anyone who believes the 'opt in' rubbish must have been born retarted or something.
If doubleclick want to be spamming scum, then I'll be very happy when they go bankcrupt. I'll certainly be blocking all their IPs at my router from now on.
Newspapers over here have a habit of taking something suggested by a government worker on his lunch break and calling it government policy. The british press are almost as untrustworthy as the politicians they write about.
The government has been trying (unsuccessfully) to reduce car use ever since it was elected... It's been fighting a running battle with the press over this. The problem is they're unlikely to succeeed. Everyone can see the reason why 'someone else' doesn't need to drive to work, but they always seem to have a reason why their particular use of the car is so essential. It's going to take a real change in attitude to make it work, and I just don't see it in the near future.
Personally I don't have a need for a car... I couldn't afford one, either - a new car costs about £10,000 or about $15,000. A second hand one would be about £2000 or about $3000. Insurance could easily double the price of a second hand car. A year travelling to work by public transport costs me £372. No contest, really.
I saw that one... It would be a great technology for use at rock concerts, nightclubs, etc. Zero noise pollution - if you're outside the target area it's completely silent.
:-)
Hell, I'd like one for my living room... the neigbours would probably pay me to use it
After all, houses with pools generally don't sell for much less than half a million, so if you can afford something like that you can afford to hire a human to do the work of cleaning it for you (hell, you can probably afford to hire an army of topless models to do the cleaning for you!).
At last an affordable replacement to the (RIP) Tivo (although I think they still sell them in the US... more extremely rich geeks there I suppose).
It's a bit before its time, though. Home users haven't really got the bandwidth to use this (ADSL penetration in the UK is at something like 1.5% of households... the rest are on 56K). The kind of people who have broadband & don't mind waiting 3 hours for an episode of star trek to download can already get all this by trawling Usenet, and the rest haven't got the patience or the hardware.
I thought the idea of putting your favourite programs on an IPAQ was amusing... 32MB wouldn't get you much video (about a minute if you're lucky, more if you don't give a crap about the quality).
pbskids.org works fine in Mozilla, and I would have thought it would work in NS 6.2 too (I tried browsing through a few pages to see if I could break it, but it looked OK).
The only thing you need is the flash plugin, which is freely downloadable.
Philips do a consumer DVD-RW that'll probably do the job... You'd probably be going over SCART but the drop in quality shouldn't be too great (unless you're a prefectionist).
The downside is it costs about £1000 (roughly $1600).
Why isn't Steve Irwin dead yet? Anyone who can one minute say 'This is one of the deadliest snakes in the world' and the next minute say 'Lets pick him up and have a look at him' has definate suicidal tendencies...
Whoopee.... blurry text, just what I needed.
Luckily I never load Render & I never intend to - after about 5 minutes of looking at KDE with it enabled I had a bad headache. That font smoothing stuff is *really* hard on the eyes.
I remember when the old archimedes did the same thing... it kinda worked there because they were crappy monitors anyway. With a sharp 17" it's not an improvement.
Codeless players aren't expensive - mine was one of the cheapest ones available about a year ago (REC R800C - £180). And it easily plays RCE 'protected' DVDs too.
Most players in the UK output PAL (not all - especially the japanese models that are dual PAL/NTSC) but the scan rate is matched to the DVD. A region 1 dvd only runs at 50fps, so it outputs PAL/50 rather than PAL/60. Sometimes you'll find especially with older TVs that they can't handle the lower scan rate and don't work.
My own player uses NTSC by default (all the menus are in black & white if you view it through the tuner), but using an RGB cable fixes that.
This is quite literally how cults work - any deviation from the 'norm' is punished because it affects the group not because it is in any sense wrong.
That tends to lead into punishmnent because of a percieved deviation ('he must be X because Y says he is') which rapidly degenerates into tyranny.
I once read a sci-fi story about some stuff called 'slow glass' which did something like this... it slowed down the light so the photons took about 6 months to get through the glass. The upshot was that you could have a window which looked out onto a midsummer garden in the middle of winter. I never thought they'd actually work out how to do it, though.
Heck, even if they could make it delay only a few seconds it'd make a cool effect!
I went the same way. I struggled with LDAP for weeks and eventually went back to NIS which does exactly what I need. The LDAP tools suck rocks at the moment... I virtually gave up trying to get samba to integrate with it (I actually ended up replacing 'passwd' with a shell script that modifed 3 different versions of the password!), and as far as getting Win2k to login through it forget it (it's hardcoded to active directory, basically).
I'm sure it's really good if you're trying to manage 50,000 users and a masochistic enough to like constantly editing ldif files but otherwise steer clear.
In general the majority of the british population see the 'foreigners' as either peasants/pig farmers or 'militant french farmers' (who for some bizarre reason every time they have a problem with their government they blockade calais... I suspect they don't like us either...)
:-)
Also one of the most powerful countries in the EU is Germany. British people don't trust germans - even the under 30's who you wouldn't think would bother about a war fought 60 years ago have this inherited distrust from their parents and grandparents.
And, well, *everybody* hates the French
Personally I can't see it happening in my lifetime. Heck it took us 200 years to decimalize...
Then again, the figure would have been more like 50% in that case...
It's called 'percieved value'. People see Adobe Photoshop as a professional product precisely because it is $500 not $50. Since the average PHB has never used Photoshop (or even probably understands fully what it does... he only balances the budget) he assumes it is good because it costs $500 (in this case he would actually be correct for once).
This is part of the problem Linux has sometimes: 'If it's free, how can it be any good?' This is only offset by reputation, which takes years to build up.
It's also the reason why Win2000 Server costs many times more than Win2000 Professional, even though they are basically the same product.