Netscape 6 renders sites with many multiple nested tables at about 1/2 the speed (or worse) of IE. The rendering is so bad when I visit one table-intensive site that there is about a one second delay between the time you press pagedown and the time the window actually scrolls. If I switch away from the Netscape 6 window and then switch back to it, it takes 3 or 4 seconds to paint the screen. While this may be an improvement over the prior versions of Navigator (I just tried 4.7 and it locked on the page) it definitely isn't comparable to IE in this respect.
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First off, the registered voters all saw the ballot in advance, and none of them complained *then*.
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The problem did not become evident until the ballet was inserted into the voting machine. And voters WERE protesting AS SOON AS THEY GOT INTO THE MACHINE. I live in Palm Beach County and we heard about the problem on Tuesday at noon. This is not about sour grapes or after-the-fact realization. This is about people who were IN THE BOOTH trying to figure out which hole to punch for the candidate they wanted. These people were asking for help and no one was able to respond (due to laws against "electioneering"). These people's voice was not heard in our electoral process. Something must be done. I don't have any brilliant ideas.
IIS is not integrated into the kernel. IIS supposedly serves static content faster than Apache because it does not spawn one process per connection. This eliminates the overhead associated with a large number of processes and also allows for global caching across all connections. Unfortunately, this also means that (unless you run each site in its own process space) one script error can take the whole IIS server down.
Jukeboxes have a special negotiated license held by the owner of the jukebox. This license covers the place where the jukebox is installed but only applies to songs output by the jukebox. If a bar has a jukebox, the bar will be covered by the jukebox's license, unless the bar also has live bands, in which case the bar will require separate licensing for that.
Numbers two, three, and five would only help if the US were the only country with net access.
As for items 1 and 4, the damn.jp admins can't even close their open mail relays, so I don't think items 1 and 4 will be happening on a global basis either.
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crashes - it takes itself out. When IE crashes (even as late as v5.5), it usually takes out the whole OS (Win 98SE or Win2K - happens with both).
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You had better check your hardware. I use IE 5 and 5.5 extensively on 5 different machines, some running win98 and some running win2K, usually with about 15 browser windows open at once, and have never once had a browser crash take the whole OS down. Browser crashes in general are few and far between.
Maybe if you have active desktop or something lame like that enabled, then I suppose it could lock the desktop shell, but no sane person would use that crap.
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This means, the "individual" gets a gentle slap on the wrist (if that), and they go about their business. PSI, UUNet, and all the big ISPs don't give a rat's ass about spammers. That's why a *very* good percentage of spam you get has 38.x.x.x or 63.x.x.x in the headers. 38 being PSI, and 63 being UUNet. Try it sometime. It'll suprise you.
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PSINet sells nationwide dialup service to ISPs, *that* is why so much spam originates from their network.
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On the other hand, it can bring about two major application uses: shoplifting is one, as this type of id would be harder to tear off compared to the various tags they have now.
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How do you draw this conclusion? Current antitheft systems, such as those offered by sensormatic or checkpoint, utilize small adhesive rectangles that are stuck somewhere on a piece of merchandise its package. They are plastic and are highly adhesive and can be difficult to remove. The IPC/Motorola offering sounds identical in that it will also be a small, adhesive package. I do not see the difference between current technology and and IPC/Motorola system when applied to loss prevention.
I believe that your closing statement, "criminals are always the first to adopt new technologies", has no factual basis. I think your entire post is based around this erroneous assumption. With that in mind, your post seems quite absurd.
How do you "work around" lack of transactional support (as quoted from the original post) aside from just not using transactions? When multiple updates must all complete in order to maintain data integrity and your code craps out after the first x, what mechanism is going to prevent the subsequent mess? Back in the late days of dbase there was code that tried to mimic transaction support using exception handlers and such, but if your code flat-out craps completely out, you are screwed.
Oh man, TGI Friday's has those at their bar and I did get addicted to NTN and those bowl-sized margaritas Friday's has. The poster who said that the questions get harder as the night goes on is right!
There is a really cool book titled "The Rise and Fall of Atari" that explains exactly why Atari went down the shitter. Of course, Nolan was well out of there by that point.
Hey, what about the poor slobs who have to support NT and its crappy array of applications? There is no hope for stability there, configure as you will.
Maru
Re:MAPS use is voluntary, what's the beef?
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Because, in most cases, it's the users that are paying for the bandwidth, expecting full access to the internet. And just because one of the offending places might have an open mail relay, that doesn't mean that an ISP's customer doesn't want to communicate with the other ISP's customer.
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If you ever saw what happened to an email server intended to handle x messages per day when it gets hit by a 50,000 piece spam run sent courtesy of someone else's improperly configured open mail relay you may have more of an understanding of why ISPs like the MAPS offerings.
Good thing you run technical operations and not the legal department. Your organization is paying for broadcast rights. However there are still (at least) two other rights associated with a musical work, recording rights and performance rights. By downloading music off Napster, you would be violating the recording rights, as you do not have the right to duplicate that recording.
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Face it, folks. Red Hat is in it for the good of the community, but they also know that there is money to be had. Who would've thought a company could get rich from selling free software?
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You seem to have a feeble understanding of how free enterprise works. I really doubt if, for any publicly-traded company, making money is a secondary concern. Red Hat is in it to make money and the only reason they give back to the community is to keep that free software development coming. They can either pay X for a team of developers to develop the stuff, or they can give a fraction of X back to the "community" in some form and get the development at a bargain. It's the perfect formula to make oodles of money, it should come as no surprise, they have very low costs associated with the manufacture and development of what they sell.
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the spdif (true digital) cards don't suck. the midiman series of spdif cards (DiO 2448, 2496) are 100% perfect - as long as you use an external DAC (digital to analog converter). fyi.
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The Soundblaster AWE had spdif also, it's not like this is some sort of advanced interface whose presence represents some degree of quality. The availability of this interface does not preclude the introduction of jitter and other forms of digital distortion into the bitstream, particularly on low-end sound cards. For those who connect a $300 external DAC to their $25 Mitsumi CDROM and think they are hearing accurate signal reproduction... it might be time to analyze the entire signal path, digital inclusive.
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10. Write a device driver that emulates a soundcard. Dump output to disk. Optional - sending to the real soundcard. Bonus points if you use DirectSound.
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This has been around for years, it's a driver called "virtual audio cable". Of course, with the 24 bit 8 in/8 out sound hardware I have sitting here, VAC doesn't get much use on my system.
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Its amusing how the readership of this site hangs on the words of Linus, Alan, ESR, Larry Wall, etc.
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Obviously every movement will have leaders. Whose words would you prefer the Slashdot community hold in high respect? Yours? Mine? Compare what you and I have done for this community to what those named above have done and perhaps then you will be less amused by their following and more informed from their statements.
If you follow Bugtraq closely you would have to have skipped a lot of the messages that have appeared there in the last two months to have not seen at least 75 messages discussing format string vulnerabilities in some form. The little letters in the messages are there to read.
The parent message is a piece of crap, instead moderate that first reply way up there. We are not talking about thinking inside or outside the box or RMS or blah blah blah. We are talking about willfully violating a law. Do you choose to ignore every law that you do not agree with? That is not the way our country operates, for better or for worse.
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servers as mp3s opens up the can of worms of the legality of -anybody- ripping CDs that they own to their hard drive as mp3s
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I am pretty certain that prior law suggests that copies made for your own private use would be covered under fair use. mp3.com made their copies for public and commercial use, eliminating any chance of it being perceived as fair use.
mp3.com committed serious infringement of reproduction (recording) rights, which is the right to reproduce the recording of the music in any form. The law is very clear and there is plenty of case history, mp3.com was insane for reproducing those CDs and thinking they would not get sued. Rememeber, the violation did not occur when the song was streamed to the end user (that's a different violation, broadcast rights), the violation occurred when mp3.com copied the songs onto their system in the mp3 format. This wss not a surprise ruling that invoked some obscure law. This ruling should have been expected, mp3.com thought they were above the law because the magical internet was involved.
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Netscape 6 renders sites with many multiple nested tables at about 1/2 the speed (or worse) of IE. The rendering is so bad when I visit one table-intensive site that there is about a one second delay between the time you press pagedown and the time the window actually scrolls. If I switch away from the Netscape 6 window and then switch back to it, it takes 3 or 4 seconds to paint the screen. While this may be an improvement over the prior versions of Navigator (I just tried 4.7 and it locked on the page) it definitely isn't comparable to IE in this respect.
Maru
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First off, the registered voters all saw the ballot in advance, and none of them complained *then*.
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The problem did not become evident until the ballet was inserted into the voting machine. And voters WERE protesting AS SOON AS THEY GOT INTO THE MACHINE. I live in Palm Beach County and we heard about the problem on Tuesday at noon. This is not about sour grapes or after-the-fact realization. This is about people who were IN THE BOOTH trying to figure out which hole to punch for the candidate they wanted. These people were asking for help and no one was able to respond (due to laws against "electioneering"). These people's voice was not heard in our electoral process. Something must be done. I don't have any brilliant ideas.
Maru
IIS is not integrated into the kernel. IIS supposedly serves static content faster than Apache because it does not spawn one process per connection. This eliminates the overhead associated with a large number of processes and also allows for global caching across all connections. Unfortunately, this also means that (unless you run each site in its own process space) one script error can take the whole IIS server down.
Maru
Jukeboxes have a special negotiated license held by the owner of the jukebox. This license covers the place where the jukebox is installed but only applies to songs output by the jukebox. If a bar has a jukebox, the bar will be covered by the jukebox's license, unless the bar also has live bands, in which case the bar will require separate licensing for that.
Maru
Numbers two, three, and five would only help if the US were the only country with net access.
As for items 1 and 4, the damn
Maru
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I stand by my opinion that IE and Win2k are excellent products
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I can only hope that you are talking about Win2K Pro and not the server-centric versions...
Maru
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crashes - it takes itself out. When IE crashes (even as late as v5.5), it usually takes out the whole OS (Win 98SE or Win2K - happens with both).
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You had better check your hardware. I use IE 5 and 5.5 extensively on 5 different machines, some running win98 and some running win2K, usually with about 15 browser windows open at once, and have never once had a browser crash take the whole OS down. Browser crashes in general are few and far between.
Maybe if you have active desktop or something lame like that enabled, then I suppose it could lock the desktop shell, but no sane person would use that crap.
Maru
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This means, the "individual" gets a gentle slap on the wrist (if that), and they go about their business. PSI, UUNet, and all the big ISPs don't give a rat's ass about spammers. That's why a *very* good percentage of spam you get has 38.x.x.x or 63.x.x.x in the headers. 38 being PSI, and 63 being UUNet. Try it sometime. It'll suprise you.
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PSINet sells nationwide dialup service to ISPs, *that* is why so much spam originates from their network.
Maru
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On the other hand, it can bring about two major application uses: shoplifting is one, as this type of id would be harder to tear off compared to the various tags they have now.
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How do you draw this conclusion? Current antitheft systems, such as those offered by sensormatic or checkpoint, utilize small adhesive rectangles that are stuck somewhere on a piece of merchandise its package. They are plastic and are highly adhesive and can be difficult to remove. The IPC/Motorola offering sounds identical in that it will also be a small, adhesive package. I do not see the difference between current technology and and IPC/Motorola system when applied to loss prevention.
Maru
I believe that your closing statement, "criminals are always the first to adopt new technologies", has no factual basis. I think your entire post is based around this erroneous assumption. With that in mind, your post seems quite absurd.
Maru
How do you "work around" lack of transactional support (as quoted from the original post) aside from just not using transactions? When multiple updates must all complete in order to maintain data integrity and your code craps out after the first x, what mechanism is going to prevent the subsequent mess? Back in the late days of dbase there was code that tried to mimic transaction support using exception handlers and such, but if your code flat-out craps completely out, you are screwed.
Maru
Oh man, TGI Friday's has those at their bar and I did get addicted to NTN and those bowl-sized margaritas Friday's has. The poster who said that the questions get harder as the night goes on is right!
Maru
There is a really cool book titled "The Rise and Fall of Atari" that explains exactly why Atari went down the shitter. Of course, Nolan was well out of there by that point.
Maru
Nolan founded Chuck E. Cheese but somehow I don't think that's the company you are referring to.
Maru
Hey, what about the poor slobs who have to support NT and its crappy array of applications? There is no hope for stability there, configure as you will.
Maru
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Because, in most cases, it's the users that are paying for the bandwidth, expecting full access to the internet. And just because one of the offending places might have an open mail relay, that doesn't mean that an ISP's customer doesn't want to communicate with the other ISP's customer.
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If you ever saw what happened to an email server intended to handle x messages per day when it gets hit by a 50,000 piece spam run sent courtesy of someone else's improperly configured open mail relay you may have more of an understanding of why ISPs like the MAPS offerings.
Maru
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Good thing you run technical operations and not the legal department. Your organization is paying for broadcast rights. However there are still (at least) two other rights associated with a musical work, recording rights and performance rights. By downloading music off Napster, you would be violating the recording rights, as you do not have the right to duplicate that recording.
Maru
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Face it, folks. Red Hat is in it for the good of the community, but they also know that there is money to be had. Who would've thought a company could get rich from selling free software?
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You seem to have a feeble understanding of how free enterprise works. I really doubt if, for any publicly-traded company, making money is a secondary concern. Red Hat is in it to make money and the only reason they give back to the community is to keep that free software development coming. They can either pay X for a team of developers to develop the stuff, or they can give a fraction of X back to the "community" in some form and get the development at a bargain. It's the perfect formula to make oodles of money, it should come as no surprise, they have very low costs associated with the manufacture and development of what they sell.
Maru
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the spdif (true digital) cards don't suck. the midiman series of spdif cards (DiO 2448, 2496) are 100% perfect - as long as you use an external DAC (digital to analog converter). fyi.
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The Soundblaster AWE had spdif also, it's not like this is some sort of advanced interface whose presence represents some degree of quality. The availability of this interface does not preclude the introduction of jitter and other forms of digital distortion into the bitstream, particularly on low-end sound cards. For those who connect a $300 external DAC to their $25 Mitsumi CDROM and think they are hearing accurate signal reproduction... it might be time to analyze the entire signal path, digital inclusive.
Maru
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10. Write a device driver that emulates a soundcard. Dump output to disk. Optional - sending to the real soundcard. Bonus points if you use DirectSound.
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This has been around for years, it's a driver called "virtual audio cable". Of course, with the 24 bit 8 in/8 out sound hardware I have sitting here, VAC doesn't get much use on my system.
Maru
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Its amusing how the readership of this site hangs on the words of Linus, Alan, ESR, Larry Wall, etc.
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Obviously every movement will have leaders. Whose words would you prefer the Slashdot community hold in high respect? Yours? Mine? Compare what you and I have done for this community to what those named above have done and perhaps then you will be less amused by their following and more informed from their statements.
Maru
If you follow Bugtraq closely you would have to have skipped a lot of the messages that have appeared there in the last two months to have not seen at least 75 messages discussing format string vulnerabilities in some form. The little letters in the messages are there to read.
Maru
The parent message is a piece of crap, instead moderate that first reply way up there. We are not talking about thinking inside or outside the box or RMS or blah blah blah. We are talking about willfully violating a law. Do you choose to ignore every law that you do not agree with? That is not the way our country operates, for better or for worse.
Maru
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servers as mp3s opens up the can of worms of the legality of -anybody- ripping CDs that they own to their hard drive as mp3s
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I am pretty certain that prior law suggests that copies made for your own private use would be covered under fair use. mp3.com made their copies for public and commercial use, eliminating any chance of it being perceived as fair use.
Maru
mp3.com committed serious infringement of reproduction (recording) rights, which is the right to reproduce the recording of the music in any form. The law is very clear and there is plenty of case history, mp3.com was insane for reproducing those CDs and thinking they would not get sued. Rememeber, the violation did not occur when the song was streamed to the end user (that's a different violation, broadcast rights), the violation occurred when mp3.com copied the songs onto their system in the mp3 format. This wss not a surprise ruling that invoked some obscure law. This ruling should have been expected, mp3.com thought they were above the law because the magical internet was involved.
Maru