No, that was when Dave Cutler was pushed aside and the kode kiddies from Windows 95 were allowed to dump their stuff into the NT kernel. This made NT "work like" Win95, so that broken apps that ran on Windows 95 but didn't conform to the Win32 specification would run.
We're still dealing with the fallout from that decision.
The real reason for this is that as densities go up, the number of bits affected by a bad spot goes up. So it's desirable to error correct over longer bit strings. The issue is not the size of the file allocation unit; that's up to the file system software. It's the size of the block for error correction purposes. See Reed-Solomon error correction.
Google: Results 1 - 10 of about 613,000 for sendmail exploit.
I mean, really. People have been struggling with Sendmail exploits since the 1980s. Dump the turkey. And pull it from every Linux distro. It's time to kill this thing off.
Two gas stations near me now have 17 inch flat-panel displays near each gas pump, running news and ads. With loud audio.
It's so annoying that I switched gas stations.
Very nice. Reasonable design. And roughly comparable to the Atlas ICBM booster of half a century ago.
The proposed bigger model, the Falcon 9-S5, is comparable to the modern Atlas V. 6 launches to date, 100% success rate. About 2x the price the new guys claim, but then, the Atlas is a proven product.
But the commercial launch market has collapsed. Iridium is done, and nobody wants to launch that many sats again. The geosync comsat market is saturated; everybody is going fibre optic. There's just not that much going up.
Unlike the Sun Grid, which is a commercial flop, ResPower's render farm is busily working away right now. Over 700 machines. Over 11 million frames rendered. Anyone can use it. They accept credit cards. Good pricing, too.
7054 frames in the rendering queue.
7036 frames in the rendering queue.
7001 frames in the rendering queue....
Automated dump analysis is an old idea in the mainframe world, but almost unknown outside it. The microprocessor world grew up with interactive debuggers and an early user-as-programmer assumption. This hasn't translated well to the modern software world.
In the mainframe world, there have even been mainframes that recorded the last 64 or so branches using dedicated hardware, so that after a crash, the control path could be recovered.
What does the Mozilla project do with the data from their "quality feedback agent", anyway?
What this is really about is "refund anticipation loans", which are incredibly profitable. Right now, the tax preparer can only sell those if they're "affiliated" with the lender. Under the new rules, any tax preparer can use any lender.
Technically, the problem is that what you usually need is a subroutine call, but what the OS usuallly gives you is an I/O operation. Constructing a subroutine call from an I/O operation requires another layer of software.
The UNIX/Linux world has many implementations of such a layer. They usually require some privileged server to handle the intercommunication, such as a CORBA server, an OpenRPC server, a Java RMI server, or a SOAP server. You can't be sure that any one of those will be present, and
you can't just go and install one during an application install, for fear of conflicts with one already present. (Plus there's a security issue with allowing an application to install a privileged server.)
That's the real problem. In the Windows world, you're certain to have COM and its friends available to every application. It's not perfect, but it's universal. The UNIX/Linux world has no comparably pervasive intercommunication mechanism. And most of the ones it does have assume a client/server system; they're not a good way for your calendar to talk to your e-mail program, which is more peer to peer.
One huge problem in the Linux world is that there's no standard approach to inter-application communication. The Windows world has had a single solution for fifteen years. (One can argue that COM isn't very good, but it's always there.) OpenOffice uses their own implementation of CORBA. Firefox and Mozilla have some private intercommunication scheme. Most other programs don't talk well at all.
This is an old, old problem with UNIX. In the beginning, there were pipes, which are unidirectional. There were signals, which were badly botched in early UNIX, resulting in several redesigns, all different, with the end result that nobody could trust signals. Then came sockets, which were bidirectional but oriented towards talking to services on remote machines, not interprocess peer to peer communication locally.
There's still no standard, always-there way for one program in the UNIX world to call another and get an answer back. There are about five
CORBA implementations, there's OpenRPC, there's Java RMI, and there are a few other schemes not used much. But mostly, there's not much talking back and forth, other than at the file and pipe level or to a remote server.
I often wonder how UNIX history might have been different if a facility for this had been there from the early days. In UNIX, one program can invoke another, passing a set of command line arguments and environment variables. But all that comes back is a return code. How different it might have been if you got back output arguments. Then programs could have called other programs as subroutines.
Or if UNIX/Linux had had good interprocess communication from the early days.
Me too. I also used the Direct Marketing Association's "opt out" feature to get rid of most paper junk mail. For the rest of it, the "mixed paper recycling" bin lives next to the mailbox.
And I'm looking into having the people who throw free "newspapers" on my lawn prosecuted for littering. (It's really annoying. I live on a corner, and I have to pick up their crap from both entrances.)
We already have that patent. For some years, we were locked into a licensing and noncompete agreement, which is why we haven't done much in that area for a while except cash the checks. But that noncompete period is now over.
Stay tuned for further developments.
Our approach produces better-looking movement than the low-end physics packages. We don't have the "boink problem", where everything bounces as if it were very light. Heavy objects look heavy. Our physics has "ease in" and "ease out" in collisions, as animators put it, derived directly from the real physics. When we first did this, back in the 200MHz era, it was slow for real time (a two-player fighter was barely possible) but now, game physics can get better.
Take a look at our videos. Few if any other physics systems can even do the spinning top correctly, let alone the hard cases shown.
You're not finding the good stuff yet. Some hints.
Click on the tree stumps on the first page. Some of the squares will then reveal extra options.
Try the dark blue square on the upper right of the first page. Go through the intros to "Heaven and Hell Dimension". Scroll around on the big page until you find "Game". Then try to collect the four keys...
Hey, not everyone is allowed to buy this stuff, you know.
Marithe Francois Girbaud, which sells good jeans, has an artistically beautiful web site. Interactive Flash pictures of jeans, with pop-up detail insets and info. Video of fashion shows. A long flash intro. Flash intros for each section. Cute animations. Menus of blank colored squares that display text only when the mouse is over them. Menus that move one way when you move the mouse the other way. A countries menu that starts out with a rotating 3D cube view of the world. Very cool, in an 1980s way.
Can you figure out how to order something? How long did it take you? Keep trying. They really do sell online. Can you find the link? You'll find it quickly with Google (they have an ordinary Yahoo Store site), but can you find it on their main site? Don't give up. It will be worth it.
Show me anywhere in history that lack of freedom has corresponded to scientific achievement.
We never would have made it into space without Nazis:
SS-Sturmbannführer Werner von Braun ("I aim at the stars, but sometimes I hit London."), Major-General Dr Walter Robert Dornberger,
Konrad Dannenberg (deputy program manager, Saturn booster), Kurt Debus (first head of Kennedy Space Center), Guenter Wendt ("The Fuhrer of the Pad"), and over a hundred others from the Nazi rocket program. Those were the people who created the Space Age.
Since all the old Nazis died off, NASA hasn't designed and built a single successful new launch vehicle.
The Soviet atomic bomb program was headed by Lavrenty Pavlovich Beria, Stalin's head of the secret police. Even though they had some help from espionage, they did have a successful project. And the Soviet H-bomb was original, not a copy of a US design. Accounts by people from the Soviet bomb project indicate that he was a terrifying boss, but neither stupid nor unnecessarily brutal.
He's an old hippie and he don't know what to do
Should he hang on to the old
Should he grab on to the new
He's an old hippie...his new life is just a bust
He ain't trying to change nobody
He's just trying real hard to adjust
-- Bellamy Brothers
Sat Cong Village, the big paintball park near LA does that kind of thing. They have theme areas: Beruit, Kosevo, Serbia.
SC Village gets many military vets, and even some active duty Marines from Camp Pendleton. You have to learn real small unit tactics or get clobbered. Yelling and charging across an open space in a big group will not work there.
I think this is coming out as a movie soon.
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I just saw a trailer for some film based on that concept.
We're still wondering why RS is having a fire sale - two local stores were cleaned out as of Friday night.
Probably because the store is closing.
Radio Shack is having big problems. Profit is down 62% for the quarter, the CEO lied on his resume and was fired, and they're closing 400 to 700 stores.
Apparently most of Radio Shack's profits come from selling cell phone contracts.
What keyword did Kinderstart expect to get hits from, anyway? "Daycare"? "child care"? What they're probably unhappy about is that "daycare.com" is #1 for "daycare", and Kinderstart is nowhere.
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We're still dealing with the fallout from that decision.
The real reason for this is that as densities go up, the number of bits affected by a bad spot goes up. So it's desirable to error correct over longer bit strings. The issue is not the size of the file allocation unit; that's up to the file system software. It's the size of the block for error correction purposes. See Reed-Solomon error correction.
I mean, really. People have been struggling with Sendmail exploits since the 1980s. Dump the turkey. And pull it from every Linux distro. It's time to kill this thing off.
You're allowed to turn off the thoughscreen? The ones here don't have that. Maybe you have to be an Inner Party member.
Two gas stations near me now have 17 inch flat-panel displays near each gas pump, running news and ads. With loud audio. It's so annoying that I switched gas stations.
The proposed bigger model, the Falcon 9-S5, is comparable to the modern Atlas V. 6 launches to date, 100% success rate. About 2x the price the new guys claim, but then, the Atlas is a proven product.
But the commercial launch market has collapsed. Iridium is done, and nobody wants to launch that many sats again. The geosync comsat market is saturated; everybody is going fibre optic. There's just not that much going up.
7054 frames in the rendering queue.
7036 frames in the rendering queue.
7001 frames in the rendering queue....
"Now, from the makers of the Itanic! The Pentium Maximum Extreme III!"
Of course, the real question is the color of the cooling fins. It has to have exotic cooling fins, or it won't sell.
Do the Intel Macs have the virtualization hardware needed to run Xen properly?
Automated dump analysis is an old idea in the mainframe world, but almost unknown outside it. The microprocessor world grew up with interactive debuggers and an early user-as-programmer assumption. This hasn't translated well to the modern software world.
In the mainframe world, there have even been mainframes that recorded the last 64 or so branches using dedicated hardware, so that after a crash, the control path could be recovered.
What does the Mozilla project do with the data from their "quality feedback agent", anyway?
They already do. And they've been in serious trouble for it.
What this is really about is "refund anticipation loans", which are incredibly profitable. Right now, the tax preparer can only sell those if they're "affiliated" with the lender. Under the new rules, any tax preparer can use any lender.
That's the real problem. In the Windows world, you're certain to have COM and its friends available to every application. It's not perfect, but it's universal. The UNIX/Linux world has no comparably pervasive intercommunication mechanism. And most of the ones it does have assume a client/server system; they're not a good way for your calendar to talk to your e-mail program, which is more peer to peer.
By now, it should be stable and static. Really, it doesn't do all that much.
This is an old, old problem with UNIX. In the beginning, there were pipes, which are unidirectional. There were signals, which were badly botched in early UNIX, resulting in several redesigns, all different, with the end result that nobody could trust signals. Then came sockets, which were bidirectional but oriented towards talking to services on remote machines, not interprocess peer to peer communication locally. There's still no standard, always-there way for one program in the UNIX world to call another and get an answer back. There are about five CORBA implementations, there's OpenRPC, there's Java RMI, and there are a few other schemes not used much. But mostly, there's not much talking back and forth, other than at the file and pipe level or to a remote server.
I often wonder how UNIX history might have been different if a facility for this had been there from the early days. In UNIX, one program can invoke another, passing a set of command line arguments and environment variables. But all that comes back is a return code. How different it might have been if you got back output arguments. Then programs could have called other programs as subroutines.
Or if UNIX/Linux had had good interprocess communication from the early days.
Me too. I also used the Direct Marketing Association's "opt out" feature to get rid of most paper junk mail. For the rest of it, the "mixed paper recycling" bin lives next to the mailbox. And I'm looking into having the people who throw free "newspapers" on my lawn prosecuted for littering. (It's really annoying. I live on a corner, and I have to pick up their crap from both entrances.)
Our approach produces better-looking movement than the low-end physics packages. We don't have the "boink problem", where everything bounces as if it were very light. Heavy objects look heavy. Our physics has "ease in" and "ease out" in collisions, as animators put it, derived directly from the real physics. When we first did this, back in the 200MHz era, it was slow for real time (a two-player fighter was barely possible) but now, game physics can get better.
Take a look at our videos. Few if any other physics systems can even do the spinning top correctly, let alone the hard cases shown.
Hey, not everyone is allowed to buy this stuff, you know.
With this announcement from nVidia, the Ageia guys are probably toast. They're not that far along.
Can you figure out how to order something? How long did it take you? Keep trying. They really do sell online. Can you find the link? You'll find it quickly with Google (they have an ordinary Yahoo Store site), but can you find it on their main site? Don't give up. It will be worth it.
We never would have made it into space without Nazis: SS-Sturmbannführer Werner von Braun ("I aim at the stars, but sometimes I hit London."), Major-General Dr Walter Robert Dornberger, Konrad Dannenberg (deputy program manager, Saturn booster), Kurt Debus (first head of Kennedy Space Center), Guenter Wendt ("The Fuhrer of the Pad"), and over a hundred others from the Nazi rocket program. Those were the people who created the Space Age.
Since all the old Nazis died off, NASA hasn't designed and built a single successful new launch vehicle.
The Soviet atomic bomb program was headed by Lavrenty Pavlovich Beria, Stalin's head of the secret police. Even though they had some help from espionage, they did have a successful project. And the Soviet H-bomb was original, not a copy of a US design. Accounts by people from the Soviet bomb project indicate that he was a terrifying boss, but neither stupid nor unnecessarily brutal.
He's an old hippie and he don't know what to do
Should he hang on to the old
Should he grab on to the new
He's an old hippie...his new life is just a bust
He ain't trying to change nobody
He's just trying real hard to adjust
-- Bellamy Brothers
SC Village gets many military vets, and even some active duty Marines from Camp Pendleton. You have to learn real small unit tactics or get clobbered. Yelling and charging across an open space in a big group will not work there.
I just saw a trailer for some film based on that concept.
Probably because the store is closing. Radio Shack is having big problems. Profit is down 62% for the quarter, the CEO lied on his resume and was fired, and they're closing 400 to 700 stores.
Apparently most of Radio Shack's profits come from selling cell phone contracts.
What keyword did Kinderstart expect to get hits from, anyway? "Daycare"? "child care"? What they're probably unhappy about is that "daycare.com" is #1 for "daycare", and Kinderstart is nowhere.