If only, i only ever managed to put two encrypted partitions on the same disk before i ran into trouble. just the presence of stenographic software to reveal the 1st partition will almost certainly get you tortured until you reveal a second.
yeah but your the only one, Chrome market share died fairly quickly. Don't get me wrong, its a good browser with a nice rendering engine, but firefox has taken years to get where it is and chrome is not there yet. * most people have a browser open all the time, so the start speed isnt that impressive * it has quite a few little bugs (svgs cant zoom) * plugin support is completely lacking * its only out on windows (a lot linux users want a fast light browser, maybe when the release on linux it will take off)
Others have claimed that there were no, or very few, critical problems to begin with, and that correcting the few minor mistakes as they occurred (the 'fix on failure' approach) would have been the most efficient and cost effective way to solve the problem. Editorial writing in the Wall Street Journal called Y2K an end-of-the-world cult and the hoax of the century.[27] The opposing view was bolstered by a number of observations.
* The lack of Y2K-related problems in schools, many of which undertook little or no remediation effort. By September 1, 1999 only 28 percent of US schools had achieved compliance for mission critical systems, and a government report predicted that "Y2K failures could very well plague the computers used by schools to manage payrolls, student records, online curricula, and building safety systems".[28]
* The lack of Y2K-related problems in an estimated 1.5 million small businesses that undertook no remediation effort. On 3 January 2000 (the first weekday of the year) the Small Business Administration received an estimated 40 calls from businesses with computer problems, similar to the average. None of the problems were critical.[29]
* The lack of Y2K-related problems in countries such as Italy, which undertook a far more limited remediation effort than the United States. In an October 22, 1999, report, a US Senate Committee expressed concern about safe travel outside of the United States. The report stated that overseas public transit systems were considered vulnerable because many did not have an aggressive response plan in place for any problems. Internationally, the report singled out Italy, China and Russia as poorly prepared. The Australian government evacuated all but three embassy staff from Russia.[30] None of these countries experienced any Y2K problems regarded as worth reporting.[31]
* The absence of Y2K-related problems occurring before January 1, 2000, even though the 2000 financial year commenced in 1999 in many jurisdictions, and a wide range of forward-looking calculations involved dates in 2000 and later years. Estimates undertaken in the leadup to 2000 suggested that around 25% of all problems should have occurred before 2000.[32] Critics of large-scale remediation argued, during 1999, that the absence of significant problems, even in systems that had not been rendered compliant, suggested that the scale of the problem had been overestimated.[33]
a few sites displaying an incorrect date is hardly a major problem.
As for Linux using 64-bit time, that's great, but many applications still were compiled with a 32-bit time_t
Some time near 2025 redhat or whoever is putting out business distros will announce there entire repo is compiled with 64bit time_t with all databases will use 64bit integers for dates by default.
They'll have issues just like the Year 2000 issues that were a problem 10 years ago.
Erm where there any Y2k issues? most of the world ignored them and got by fine
can't this be used in gfx cards, i mean with anti-aliasing and high resolutions it doesn't really matter so much if 1/2 a pixel is #ffffff or #f8f4f0 , hell you can probably even get a pixel entirely wrong for one frame and nobody will care (as long as it doesn't happen too often).
If nobody wants the power ERCOT has to do the equivalent of running a giant toaster to get rid of it or the voltage and frequency would get out of wack).
If your talking about global cooling, caused by smoke/vapor trails, then you should be aware that the study found that the effect has been masking global warming. Meaning the effect of greenhouse gasses is more than what has been measured and as airplanes get cleaner, global warming is set to get worse.
informative and you couldn't be more wrong. scienists (well all that aren't to making a dodge c4 documentary ) agree: 1) global warming is real 2) serious bad shit will happen if we don't do something. 3) humans are having an effect, defiantly not all of it but defiantly not none of it. 4) the global climate is not a chaotic system.
Do you have any links to reputable sources on
the jury's still out on whether CO2 leads or lags temperature rises
As i only saw this on the afor mentioned 'documentary' that c4 got bitch slapped for, and keep hearing people repeat it since, is there much serious science behind this claim?
OSS lacks QA - show me a OSS project that government is likely to use that has any quality assurances. the big font stating "use at own risk" is a massive turn off for government and rightly so.
on your home version yes. a customer as big as the uk government? they have bulk licensing terms that ensure security fixes (provided they stay on the upgrade tread mill of course).
such security fixes could dry up overnight on a OSS project. that's the whole point i'm trying to get through to people, start thinking like you've got 100 million dollar projects relying on this stuff. who are you going to trust this to, some guy called bob on sourceforge, or a multi billion dollar company with resources to get you out of the shit?
Well i know for a fact that a lot of the software government departments use is home* rolled, so if the OSS support for a project did dry up, and for whatver reason there was no major vendor supporting it, they could support it themselves.
*by home rolled i ofc mean they get the lowest bidder to build it.
start thinking like you've got 100 million dollar projects relying on this stuff. who are you going to trust this to, some guy called bob on sourceforge,
hummor me troll, why is a closed patch from some guy at microsoft better than an open patch by some guy at redhat/canonical/novell/sun/etc
my only point that i have consistently been making is that the failure of Europe to strike early mainly political, we didn't have the weapons granted, but we quite liked letting Hitler get strong while he was protecting us from the commies.
My only point regarding America was that they (as a nation, obviously just like in the Spanish civil war individuals were free to get involved on personal grounds) only got involved when it was in their interest, they did not come gallivanting over and save everybody. the Ruben James is an interesting incident, but despite Roosevelt's support for the war there was enough political inertia in the US that even if you were fully armed you still probably wouldn't have joined until after PH, the situation was similar here, we liked a strong buffer between us and the dirty communists.
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hey i can offer Microsoft investors old degraded versions of a non complaint browser and office suite, you think that'll keep them interested?
Hey singularity and...well singularity looks cool ok!
Are you trying to say it took 7years and billions of dollars to reinvent java?
looks like slashdot commenters cant be replaced by simple bash scripts, try python.
If only, i only ever managed to put two encrypted partitions on the same disk before i ran into trouble. just the presence of stenographic software to reveal the 1st partition will almost certainly get you tortured until you reveal a second.
I take it you never use jpegs then?
yeah but your the only one, Chrome market share died fairly quickly. Don't get me wrong, its a good browser with a nice rendering engine, but firefox has taken years to get where it is and chrome is not there yet.
* most people have a browser open all the time, so the start speed isnt that impressive
* it has quite a few little bugs (svgs cant zoom)
* plugin support is completely lacking
* its only out on windows (a lot linux users want a fast light browser, maybe when the release on linux it will take off)
Yeah but only insane sysadmins would "do it live", oh wait.
from your own link:
Others have claimed that there were no, or very few, critical problems to begin with, and that correcting the few minor mistakes as they occurred (the 'fix on failure' approach) would have been the most efficient and cost effective way to solve the problem. Editorial writing in the Wall Street Journal called Y2K an end-of-the-world cult and the hoax of the century.[27] The opposing view was bolstered by a number of observations.
* The lack of Y2K-related problems in schools, many of which undertook little or no remediation effort. By September 1, 1999 only 28 percent of US schools had achieved compliance for mission critical systems, and a government report predicted that "Y2K failures could very well plague the computers used by schools to manage payrolls, student records, online curricula, and building safety systems".[28]
* The lack of Y2K-related problems in an estimated 1.5 million small businesses that undertook no remediation effort. On 3 January 2000 (the first weekday of the year) the Small Business Administration received an estimated 40 calls from businesses with computer problems, similar to the average. None of the problems were critical.[29]
* The lack of Y2K-related problems in countries such as Italy, which undertook a far more limited remediation effort than the United States. In an October 22, 1999, report, a US Senate Committee expressed concern about safe travel outside of the United States. The report stated that overseas public transit systems were considered vulnerable because many did not have an aggressive response plan in place for any problems. Internationally, the report singled out Italy, China and Russia as poorly prepared. The Australian government evacuated all but three embassy staff from Russia.[30] None of these countries experienced any Y2K problems regarded as worth reporting.[31]
* The absence of Y2K-related problems occurring before January 1, 2000, even though the 2000 financial year commenced in 1999 in many jurisdictions, and a wide range of forward-looking calculations involved dates in 2000 and later years. Estimates undertaken in the leadup to 2000 suggested that around 25% of all problems should have occurred before 2000.[32] Critics of large-scale remediation argued, during 1999, that the absence of significant problems, even in systems that had not been rendered compliant, suggested that the scale of the problem had been overestimated.[33]
a few sites displaying an incorrect date is hardly a major problem.
As for Linux using 64-bit time, that's great, but many applications still were compiled with a 32-bit time_t
Some time near 2025 redhat or whoever is putting out business distros will announce there entire repo is compiled with 64bit time_t with all databases will use 64bit integers for dates by default.
They'll have issues just like the Year 2000 issues that were a problem 10 years ago.
Erm where there any Y2k issues? most of the world ignored them and got by fine
you think thats bad, i have three terminals open now, but the most interesting was.
>>> def edate(n):
... i=0
... while i != n :
... d = "date -d@" + str(2**i)
... print n, " ->", os.popen(d).readline(),
... i+=1
produced an interesting bug at 56 because the year is bigger than 2^32
I think it is infact ME thats wated my life
it is, you need watch --interval=1 date +"%s" or the interval could be anything
Stop spreading this FUD, there are some fairly big companies you can pay to take the risk, or have you been living under a rock since 1995.
can't this be used in gfx cards, i mean with anti-aliasing and high resolutions it doesn't really matter so much if 1/2 a pixel is #ffffff or #f8f4f0 , hell you can probably even get a pixel entirely wrong for one frame and nobody will care (as long as it doesn't happen too often).
how does using energy efficient products send technology back 10 years?
If nobody wants the power ERCOT has to do the equivalent of running a giant toaster to get rid of it or the voltage and frequency would get out of wack).
Or they could store it using a large hydro plant.
Dam something up, when there is not wind kick in hydros, when there is lots of wind pump the water up to the top again.
If your talking about global cooling, caused by smoke/vapor trails, then you should be aware that the study found that the effect has been masking global warming. Meaning the effect of greenhouse gasses is more than what has been measured and as airplanes get cleaner, global warming is set to get worse.
informative and you couldn't be more wrong. scienists (well all that aren't to making a dodge c4 documentary )
agree:
1) global warming is real
2) serious bad shit will happen if we don't do something.
3) humans are having an effect, defiantly not all of it but defiantly not none of it.
4) the global climate is not a chaotic system.
Do you have any links to reputable sources on
the jury's still out on whether CO2 leads or lags temperature rises
As i only saw this on the afor mentioned 'documentary' that c4 got bitch slapped for, and keep hearing people repeat it since, is there much serious science behind this claim?
damn security patches!
oh noes a patched vulnerability, good thing no software i use has those.
Because there is no other way to share the music than to permanently run a deamon in the background?
its all fun and games till an AC gets modded flamebait
OSS lacks QA - show me a OSS project that government is likely to use that has any quality assurances. the big font stating "use at own risk" is a massive turn off for government and rightly so.
on your home version yes. a customer as big as the uk government? they have bulk licensing terms that ensure security fixes (provided they stay on the upgrade tread mill of course).
funny, because if you wern't trolling you might be aware of these guys: ...
http://www.redhat.com/products/
http://www.canonical.com/services/support
http://www.novell.com/support/microsites/microsite.do
such security fixes could dry up overnight on a OSS project. that's the whole point i'm trying to get through to people, start thinking like you've got 100 million dollar projects relying on this stuff. who are you going to trust this to, some guy called bob on sourceforge, or a multi billion dollar company with resources to get you out of the shit?
Well i know for a fact that a lot of the software government departments use is home* rolled, so if the OSS support for a project did dry up, and for whatver reason there was no major vendor supporting it, they could support it themselves.
*by home rolled i ofc mean they get the lowest bidder to build it.
start thinking like you've got 100 million dollar projects relying on this stuff. who are you going to trust this to, some guy called bob on sourceforge,
hummor me troll, why is a closed patch from some guy at microsoft better than an open patch by some guy at redhat/canonical/novell/sun/etc
my only point that i have consistently been making is that the failure of Europe to strike early mainly political, we didn't have the weapons granted, but we quite liked letting Hitler get strong while he was protecting us from the commies.
My only point regarding America was that they (as a nation, obviously just like in the Spanish civil war individuals were free to get involved on personal grounds) only got involved when it was in their interest, they did not come gallivanting over and save everybody. the Ruben James is an interesting incident, but despite Roosevelt's support for the war there was enough political inertia in the US that even if you were fully armed you still probably wouldn't have joined until after PH, the situation was similar here, we liked a strong buffer between us and the dirty communists.