A word isn't a fixed value, it's a description of the with of the bus on the processor. At the moment on intel a word is 32 bits (4 bytes), but give it a couple of years and we'll all be using 64 bit words.
It isn't helped by MS hardcoding the definition of WORD and DWORD to two bytes and four bytes back in the windows 3.1 days (when a 16 bit word made sense).
I've been using Moz for 90% of the sites I browse these days. It has some annoying rendering bugs on some sites (one of these days the barclaycard website will render correctly... it used to render like shit; with recent builds it goes into a loop reloading the page).
Netscape 4 is still useful for these sites though.
They're almost there. Took a hell of a long time, though.
Europe is just about to completely ban Spam. Around January/February the law is likely to be passed (it's been through all the consultation etc. so it's just a formality now).
I'm not 100% certain how it works but I think the regional governments then have to pass laws based on their interpretation (more/less severe) of this ruling.
Not sure how much this will affect the general spam output - I don't get much spam from Europe... 90% is from the US, with the rest from Korea/Malaysia.
I did something similar... I installed spamassassin and because I didn't entirely trust it, configured it to redirect everything marked 'spam' to a separate email address.
It was so successful at home (100% hitrate!) I installed it on the gateway at work. It only mis-diagnoses about one message a week (for some reason it doesn't like sports related e-magazines) but I can whitelist the domains where required. I've only had one spam in my inbox since (mutated nigerian scam) & people keep saying 'what spam problem... I haven't had a spam for weeks!'.
The spam trap has approx. 2000 emails in it so far.. I keep them all out of morbid fascination. Perhaps one day I'll find a spammer I really hate and sent the lot to them!
At last... someone else who thinks the same as me.
There is *nothing* substantial on that website... if they think they're going to release soon where are the compatibility statistics? screenshots? For fscks sake what about an approximate price???
They're probably doing this because bankcruptcy is looming and they need to make some cash. They're probably not selling too many... $600 is a hell of a lot of money for something that 'pauses live tv' (for the life of me I can't imagine why I would want to do that). I asked what it could do for me and was amazed to be told it could only record off analogue channels... no digital, no satellite, no cable (to be fair most other videos have this problem, although at least they can play rental videos and cost $100).
Never heard of the Replay TV - they don't sell them around here. Hope it's a bit better (and a lot cheaper).
In the UK we have legally enforcable telemarketing opt-out lists (http://www.tpsonline.co.uk). They seem to mostly work, apart from a few lamers.
A couple of weeks ago we had a call from a bunch of idiots who'd obviously just gone through the telephone directory.
Phone rings. My wife answers, and after listening to the speil asks for the callers name. He gives it. She then asks for the callers address... He gives it! Then she asks for the callers telephone number. At this point he gets suspicious and asks why. "Because I need the information to report you to the TPS". Amazingly, this satisfied him & he asked his collegue for the phone number!
It gets better. He couldn't find the number but promised to call back.
10 minutes later - he called back! With the correct number!
15 minutes later he called *again* and starts all over again - this time asking for me... it hadn't clicked that there are two people living in this house with the same last name & telephone number.
Given the level of the fines that the TPS can levy (Minimum of £10,000 per call) I suspect the guy is currently unemployed...
I know how he feels... users all seem to thing that they are the first people to find the 'bug' and that they are entitled to an instant fix. Over the last 3 days I've answered the same question over a dozen times to different people all who can't be bothered to read the documention *or* the list archives.
Not to mention the 'you must have a virus because symantec antivirus is never wrong' trolls (symantec antivirus thinks that installshield is the nimda virus).
Luckily there are enough supportive users who make it worthwhile.
Just because a couple of people used cheap CDRs and produced a couple of coffee mats they put the CD on the list... The DC Talk album mentioned is something like two years old - it predates the invention of this protection! (And I've played it on my computer dozens of times).
I was getting worried what would happen with alan not looking after 2.4.x once 2.5.x started... I've been running -ac kernels mainly to get the ext3 support (I've had no luck with reiserfs... I don't trust it any more - no machine I've ever used it on has survived more than a month).
On one machine I had a scary moment when I had to drop to a linus kernel since the latest -ac seemed to have a crashing bug in it. ext2/3 worked as advertised (I didn't even have to change fstab) & everything just worked as ext2.
A good MD will take the track and title data off the CD automatically anyway. Even if you use analogue transfer they do a good job of automatically finding the tracks. As far as 'a lot of manual intervention' goes, in the worst case where you've used analogue to transfer the data just find the odd occasion where the automatic detection has got it wrong and add/remove the track mark. Takes about 3 seconds.
Best thing about MD for me is 320 minutes per disk (MDLP4). At that compression I wouldn't plug it into a hifi but you can't hear the difference with a pair of bog standard headphones.
MP3 isn't a win really. Price-wise I can get a cheapish MD recorder for £79. The cheapest 64MB MP3 player is £230 (32MB players are pretty useless as they only store 30 minutes of music unless you compress it so much as to be unrecognisable).
Plus with MD I can carry around half a dozen albums in my pocket and switch them over when I get bored with what I'm listening to. With MP3 I have to get home, boot into Windows (another disadvantage as I don't normally use Windows), and upload the tracks - that's assuming I've ripped them first.
The disadvantage of MD is that it's susceptible to motion, so if you're walking down the street it'll probably jump - I abandoned portable CDs largely because of this... I had to stand unnaturally still to listen to the good bits of any albums I had!
Provided the motion problems of MD aren't too bad I'll probably be purchasing an MD player in the near future (mp3 is outside my price range anyway). I just need to get my hands on one to test it...
...but since on Win9x the GDI is a Win16 DLL you don't get any advantage because you keep running out of resources & anything which crashes GDI brings the whole system down.
You can't actually *do* anything in it... it's locked into 'spectator mode'. This isn't made clear in the article (you do get to watch all the windows users killing each other though).
I wasn't impressed anyway... it's just counterstrike by another name, except it's stupidly CPU hungry - certainly my Dual Proc 800 + Geforce couldn't handle it without grinding to a halt every few seconds.
I gave up trying to use the 'quality' argument years ago... companies aren't out to produce a quality product, they exist solely to make lots of money for their shareholders.
The great mystery is how managers can shout at programmers for producing buggy software, then shout at them for missing their (unrealistic) deadlines by only 24 hours (and this is after pulling a week of all-nighters).
To management it's a simple equation - product=customers=money. Quality doesn't come into it - in the real world if a program works for 24 hours you've probably made the sale... and if it breaks after they you can charge them for the upgrade too!
So next time you find yourself in the middle of a block of 15 year old code that didn't even work then, let alone now, that management won't let you touch, take solace in the fact that every other programmer is probably going through something similar...
The appearence of 2.1 sucked badly... 2.2 beta looks a lot nicer. The only problems I have found:
Java over https *still* doesn't work on Konqueror properly - you get an error on the console about SSL V2 not being supported, even though I have enabled V2 in the preferences.
Whatever fonts you select it always uses courier? I assume this is just a beta bug...
It doesn't crash nearly so much as the other versions I've tried. It crashes when scanning for netscape plugins (I guess that's fixed in the release) but It's been stable for a couple of hours now - which is a record IME. Definately worth a try when it's released.
PPPoE always seemed to be a hack to me... basically it's just got too many layers... PPP over Ethernet over ATM. At least PPPoA (which is what is used exclusively over here) cuts out the middle layer... you get *some* of your bandwidth back.
I don't see what the argument has to do with dynamic IP though. The Static/Dynamic IP question is totally different - I have always-on static IP as part of my basic package... the underlying technology used to deliver that is irrelevant.
I missed the program... the media hystreria over here was quite shocking - the same media that supported the beating up of a peadiatrician and the assaults of several people who just happend to look vaguely like the fuzzy photographs they published...
When you get politicians and popstars making stupid statements without ever even thinking whether what they were saying made *sense* (and no, none of them were in on the joke) it makes you wonder what other kinds of crap they're saying in supposedly 'serious' programs.
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A word isn't a fixed value, it's a description of the with of the bus on the processor. At the moment on intel a word is 32 bits (4 bytes), but give it a couple of years and we'll all be using 64 bit words.
It isn't helped by MS hardcoding the definition of WORD and DWORD to two bytes and four bytes back in the windows 3.1 days (when a 16 bit word made sense).
I've been using Moz for 90% of the sites I browse these days. It has some annoying rendering bugs on some sites (one of these days the barclaycard website will render correctly... it used to render like shit; with recent builds it goes into a loop reloading the page).
Netscape 4 is still useful for these sites though.
They're almost there. Took a hell of a long time, though.
Europe is just about to completely ban Spam. Around January/February the law is likely to be passed (it's been through all the consultation etc. so it's just a formality now).
I'm not 100% certain how it works but I think the regional governments then have to pass laws based on their interpretation (more/less severe) of this ruling.
Not sure how much this will affect the general spam output - I don't get much spam from Europe... 90% is from the US, with the rest from Korea/Malaysia.
I did something similar... I installed spamassassin and because I didn't entirely trust it, configured it to redirect everything marked 'spam' to a separate email address.
It was so successful at home (100% hitrate!) I installed it on the gateway at work. It only mis-diagnoses about one message a week (for some reason it doesn't like sports related e-magazines) but I can whitelist the domains where required. I've only had one spam in my inbox since (mutated nigerian scam) & people keep saying 'what spam problem... I haven't had a spam for weeks!'.
The spam trap has approx. 2000 emails in it so far.. I keep them all out of morbid fascination. Perhaps one day I'll find a spammer I really hate and sent the lot to them!
At last... someone else who thinks the same as me.
There is *nothing* substantial on that website... if they think they're going to release soon where are the compatibility statistics? screenshots? For fscks sake what about an approximate price???
This is complete vapour.
They're probably doing this because bankcruptcy is looming and they need to make some cash. They're probably not selling too many... $600 is a hell of a lot of money for something that 'pauses live tv' (for the life of me I can't imagine why I would want to do that). I asked what it could do for me and was amazed to be told it could only record off analogue channels... no digital, no satellite, no cable (to be fair most other videos have this problem, although at least they can play rental videos and cost $100).
Never heard of the Replay TV - they don't sell them around here. Hope it's a bit better (and a lot cheaper).
Oops that's www.tpsonline.org.uk The co.uk has been grabbed by a particulaly lame squatter.
In the UK we have legally enforcable telemarketing opt-out lists (http://www.tpsonline.co.uk). They seem to mostly work, apart from a few lamers.
A couple of weeks ago we had a call from a bunch of idiots who'd obviously just gone through the telephone directory.
Phone rings. My wife answers, and after listening to the speil asks for the callers name. He gives it. She then asks for the callers address... He gives it! Then she asks for the callers telephone number. At this point he gets suspicious and asks why. "Because I need the information to report you to the TPS". Amazingly, this satisfied him & he asked his collegue for the phone number!
It gets better. He couldn't find the number but promised to call back.
10 minutes later - he called back! With the correct number!
15 minutes later he called *again* and starts all over again - this time asking for me... it hadn't clicked that there are two people living in this house with the same last name & telephone number.
Given the level of the fines that the TPS can levy (Minimum of £10,000 per call) I suspect the guy is currently unemployed...
There's no fair use law in the UK, so it's probably not that.
Stores *care* about the consumer backlash, especially if the chattering classes get wind of it - uncomfortable interviews on Watchdog to follow!
I know how he feels... users all seem to thing that they are the first people to find the 'bug' and that they are entitled to an instant fix. Over the last 3 days I've answered the same question over a dozen times to different people all who can't be bothered to read the documention *or* the list archives.
Not to mention the 'you must have a virus because symantec antivirus is never wrong' trolls (symantec antivirus thinks that installshield is the nimda virus).
Luckily there are enough supportive users who make it worthwhile.
Just because a couple of people used cheap CDRs and produced a couple of coffee mats they put the CD on the list... The DC Talk album mentioned is something like two years old - it predates the invention of this protection! (And I've played it on my computer dozens of times).
I was getting worried what would happen with alan not looking after 2.4.x once 2.5.x started... I've been running -ac kernels mainly to get the ext3 support (I've had no luck with reiserfs... I don't trust it any more - no machine I've ever used it on has survived more than a month).
On one machine I had a scary moment when I had to drop to a linus kernel since the latest -ac seemed to have a crashing bug in it. ext2/3 worked as advertised (I didn't even have to change fstab) & everything just worked as ext2.
A good MD will take the track and title data off the CD automatically anyway. Even if you use analogue transfer they do a good job of automatically finding the tracks. As far as 'a lot of manual intervention' goes, in the worst case where you've used analogue to transfer the data just find the odd occasion where the automatic detection has got it wrong and add/remove the track mark. Takes about 3 seconds.
Best thing about MD for me is 320 minutes per disk (MDLP4). At that compression I wouldn't plug it into a hifi but you can't hear the difference with a pair of bog standard headphones.
If this is true then Bugtraq is in *big* trouble. They'll have to at the very least unsubscribe all their US members.
MP3 isn't a win really. Price-wise I can get a cheapish MD recorder for £79. The cheapest 64MB MP3 player is £230 (32MB players are pretty useless as they only store 30 minutes of music unless you compress it so much as to be unrecognisable).
Plus with MD I can carry around half a dozen albums in my pocket and switch them over when I get bored with what I'm listening to. With MP3 I have to get home, boot into Windows (another disadvantage as I don't normally use Windows), and upload the tracks - that's assuming I've ripped them first.
The disadvantage of MD is that it's susceptible to motion, so if you're walking down the street it'll probably jump - I abandoned portable CDs largely because of this... I had to stand unnaturally still to listen to the good bits of any albums I had!
Provided the motion problems of MD aren't too bad I'll probably be purchasing an MD player in the near future (mp3 is outside my price range anyway). I just need to get my hands on one to test it...
...but since on Win9x the GDI is a Win16 DLL you don't get any advantage because you keep running out of resources & anything which crashes GDI brings the whole system down.
I used to use it to uncompress the documents I got sent so I could have a peek at them... It uncompresses itself into 'Recycled'.
You can't actually *do* anything in it... it's locked into 'spectator mode'. This isn't made clear in the article (you do get to watch all the windows users killing each other though).
I wasn't impressed anyway... it's just counterstrike by another name, except it's stupidly CPU hungry - certainly my Dual Proc 800 + Geforce couldn't handle it without grinding to a halt every few seconds.
I gave up trying to use the 'quality' argument years ago... companies aren't out to produce a quality product, they exist solely to make lots of money for their shareholders.
The great mystery is how managers can shout at programmers for producing buggy software, then shout at them for missing their (unrealistic) deadlines by only 24 hours (and this is after pulling a week of all-nighters).
To management it's a simple equation - product=customers=money. Quality doesn't come into it - in the real world if a program works for 24 hours you've probably made the sale... and if it breaks after they you can charge them for the upgrade too!
So next time you find yourself in the middle of a block of 15 year old code that didn't even work then, let alone now, that management won't let you touch, take solace in the fact that every other programmer is probably going through something similar...
The Promise RAID *is* software RAID. All the kernel can give you is access to the extra IDE ports (which is does).
SirCam scans the *outlook* address book using *outlook* activex calls. It has a hell of a lot to do with Outlook.
The appearence of 2.1 sucked badly... 2.2 beta looks a lot nicer. The only problems I have found:
Java over https *still* doesn't work on Konqueror properly - you get an error on the console about SSL V2 not being supported, even though I have enabled V2 in the preferences.
Whatever fonts you select it always uses courier? I assume this is just a beta bug...
It doesn't crash nearly so much as the other versions I've tried. It crashes when scanning for netscape plugins (I guess that's fixed in the release) but It's been stable for a couple of hours now - which is a record IME. Definately worth a try when it's released.
PPPoE always seemed to be a hack to me... basically it's just got too many layers... PPP over Ethernet over ATM. At least PPPoA (which is what is used exclusively over here) cuts out the middle layer... you get *some* of your bandwidth back.
I don't see what the argument has to do with dynamic IP though. The Static/Dynamic IP question is totally different - I have always-on static IP as part of my basic package... the underlying technology used to deliver that is irrelevant.
3d Monster Maze on the ZX81... predates DOOM (an Wolfenstein - why isn't that on there too?) by several years.
I used to play that one for hours... I jumped out of my skin when the monster got me!
I missed the program... the media hystreria over here was quite shocking - the same media that supported the beating up of a peadiatrician and the assaults of several people who just happend to look vaguely like the fuzzy photographs they published...
When you get politicians and popstars making stupid statements without ever even thinking whether what they were saying made *sense* (and no, none of them were in on the joke) it makes you wonder what other kinds of crap they're saying in supposedly 'serious' programs.