Anyway, I just find it appalling that MS would release a product that they expect people to use for commerce and "real" applications with a hole like this.
Yeah, lord knows Red Hat would never do that. You're not running 6.x, are you?
Or BIND. BIND is the single most important infrastructure software service on the Internet. It would NEVER be released with any sort of hole or exploit, let alone a root one.
By the way, that looks like Sadmind to me.
IIRC, NT was originally (and I mean REALLY originally) designed to be bytecode-based; you'd create a kernal and HAL for your platform of choice, and any NT app would run, because it's not compiled for the platform, but for the NT virtual machine, a-la Java.
Problem was, they were ahead of their time.
Easy.
Windows Advanced XP Server is a 64 bit compilation of a 32 bit patch to a 16 bit GUI running on an 8 bit operating system designed for a 4 bit processor created by a 2 bit company who cannot stand 1 bit of competition.
Although I will point out that the NT and XP lines were 32bit from the getgo.
Windows 9x on the other hand, yes, it's a 32 bit layer over a 16 bit kernal. Except for ME, which does away with the dos bootstrap.
Sticks and stones may break your bones but words will never hurt you
Faugh. Get a psychologist and a doctor in the same room and they'll both agree that a sharp comment can do far more, and far longer lasting, damage than a sharp knife.
Humans are social animals, and rely on peer acceptance. Go watch the dynamics in any group; physical abuse is for fun and for getting somebody to do something, but social abuse is for utterly crushing somebody.
Of course you'd be fighting an uphill struggle to get chip makers to publish the standard code
Why would you want to? The reason the AMD 1.4Ghz spanks the P4 1.8Ghz is because the code being used isn't written for the P4; it's written for the Pentium Pro, which the AMD then built upon.
What makes you think they need to release their modifications?
All the GPL requires is that if they redistribute, they offer the source as well as the binaries. They're under absolutely no compulsion to release either.
Here in Canada, ATM 'Interac' cards have taken off; debit cards that go directly to your bank accounts.
Wireless terminals are commonplace; you can find them in taxis, grocery deliverypeople bring them to your front door, and so on.
At one point, Toronto was considering giving wireless Interac terminals to homeless people, as 'I don't carry money' is a common response to panhandling.:-)
The problem with Fallout Tactics is that it's monkey. Let me explain.
In one of the early levels, you need to get to the roof of a building. So you go in, and there's a staircase, with a pile of sandbags at the base.
Can you move the sandbags? No. Can you blow them up with dynamite? No. Can you climb over them? No. Can you cut them open with a knife and let all the sand out? No.
After you realize that you need to literally go around the entire circumference of the map and climb up a ladder, you can just hear the game yelling 'silly monkey! Dance! Dance!' at you.
Good thing He didn't use Java; I don't think humanity would survive the garbage collection process. And lets face it, we're leaking resources and the Earth's going to GPF real soon now.
computers and technology are pretty much regarded as witches by most folks out in the world
This is more true than you know. The average person regards a computer as a magic box into which you must insert the Holy Offering (CD) begin the ritual incantation (run the installer,) hope that you've appeased it (pre-requisites) and pray for it to work (how many times have you seen somebody say something like "Please work, please work, come on, please work, oh God please work!") and, when things don't work, call upon the Holy Priesthood (sys admins and the like) who then do things which are beyond the ken of mere mortals.
And how many people regard their computers as sentient and malevolent?
Nope, they haven't figured out the file format yet.
But I'm thinking (gotta check if their guide works in Canada, otherwise I'd have a tivo by now) about getting a Hauppage WinTV PVR which has the ability to archive recorded stuff onto CD-RW in VideoCD format for playback in your average DVD player.
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Seems like he'd at least take a little bit of advantage in a forced stay in NorCal
I was illegally arrested and held in Northern California for breaking a stupid law and all I got was this lousy tee shirt.
Nah, there'll always be the concept of 'use once' cards. Buy a card worth, say, 500 bucks, and all your card shows is that you bought a card worth 500 bucks. The new card isn't connected to your old in any way. You hand the new card to somebody, and they get 500 bucks out of 'nowhere' as far as the tracking programs are concerned.
I'm impressed. You even got the terminology right.
For anybody who wants to try this, and has two UNIX machines, here's a quick and easy way.
Log onto your own machine. Use a command like this:
# xhost +192.168.1.100
where the IP address is the IP address of another linux machine.
Telnet into the other linux machine. Log in. Set an env variable called DISPLAY to your desktop machine with a:0.0 attached. Thusly:
$ DISPLAY=192.168.1.10:0.0;export DISPLAY
Then, run something that requires a GUI.
$ xclock &
and assuming everything worked, it should run on the second machine, but the output will show up in the windowing environment of your desktop.
Basically the way it works is that with Windows, or MacOS, anything that wants to draw graphics sends data to the video card. With X, anything that wants to draw graphics sends data to a TCP/IP socket. It just defaults to sending it to a socket on localhost; there's no reason it needs to be on localhost.
Yes, and X is incredibly network intensive, and these things'll be on ISA 10 meg ethernet, and your average 486 is going to be using ISA or VLB video cards, and will NOT be able to do 800 by 600 worth a damn.
And don't talk to me about low bandwidth X, because if you do, there goes your ability to use anything less than a pentium.
Yes, a Pentium anything would be much better; find some old ATI Mach64s, PCI network cards, and you're off and running.
If ye want a real laugh, go read capalert, a 'Christian' movie review site. If this guy rated his own bible the way he rates movies, humans wouldn't be allowed to read it.
This movie is mainly a continuation of Chasing Amy, and tries to tie up the rest of the movies; Clerks, Mallrats and Dogma.
It will also be the last live-action movie featuring these characters. There is, however, a new animated movie on the way, supposedly. Clerks: Sellout, the story of Dante and Randall being offered lots of money to make a movie about a day in their lives.
As with a lot of Smith stuff, you'll either love it or hate it, and a lot of it is fan service for people who've seen his previous movies.
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IIRC, NT was originally (and I mean REALLY originally) designed to be bytecode-based; you'd create a kernal and HAL for your platform of choice, and any NT app would run, because it's not compiled for the platform, but for the NT virtual machine, a-la Java. Problem was, they were ahead of their time.
Easy. Windows Advanced XP Server is a 64 bit compilation of a 32 bit patch to a 16 bit GUI running on an 8 bit operating system designed for a 4 bit processor created by a 2 bit company who cannot stand 1 bit of competition. Although I will point out that the NT and XP lines were 32bit from the getgo. Windows 9x on the other hand, yes, it's a 32 bit layer over a 16 bit kernal. Except for ME, which does away with the dos bootstrap.
Oh bugger. You meant the code the benchmarks rates the processor at, not the code the benchmark uses. I'm going back to the corner now.
I stand corrected. Thanks for the update; I'm off to look up this distro and see what it changes.
What makes you think they need to release their modifications? All the GPL requires is that if they redistribute, they offer the source as well as the binaries. They're under absolutely no compulsion to release either.
Here in Canada, ATM 'Interac' cards have taken off; debit cards that go directly to your bank accounts. Wireless terminals are commonplace; you can find them in taxis, grocery deliverypeople bring them to your front door, and so on. At one point, Toronto was considering giving wireless Interac terminals to homeless people, as 'I don't carry money' is a common response to panhandling. :-)
Georgian?
Try Fallout Tactics; real time combat.
The problem with Fallout Tactics is that it's monkey. Let me explain.
In one of the early levels, you need to get to the roof of a building. So you go in, and there's a staircase, with a pile of sandbags at the base.
Can you move the sandbags? No. Can you blow them up with dynamite? No. Can you climb over them? No. Can you cut them open with a knife and let all the sand out? No.
After you realize that you need to literally go around the entire circumference of the map and climb up a ladder, you can just hear the game yelling 'silly monkey! Dance! Dance!' at you.
Most of the Native American beliefs view Tobacco as a way of being with the Spirits.
The reason this is interesting is because we all now that if tobacco went up before the FDA today, it would never be approved for human consumption.
Good thing He didn't use Java; I don't think humanity would survive the garbage collection process. And lets face it, we're leaking resources and the Earth's going to GPF real soon now.
This is more true than you know. The average person regards a computer as a magic box into which you must insert the Holy Offering (CD) begin the ritual incantation (run the installer,) hope that you've appeased it (pre-requisites) and pray for it to work (how many times have you seen somebody say something like "Please work, please work, come on, please work, oh God please work!") and, when things don't work, call upon the Holy Priesthood (sys admins and the like) who then do things which are beyond the ken of mere mortals.
And how many people regard their computers as sentient and malevolent?
I stand corrected.
Nope, they haven't figured out the file format yet. But I'm thinking (gotta check if their guide works in Canada, otherwise I'd have a tivo by now) about getting a Hauppage WinTV PVR which has the ability to archive recorded stuff onto CD-RW in VideoCD format for playback in your average DVD player.
Nah, there'll always be the concept of 'use once' cards. Buy a card worth, say, 500 bucks, and all your card shows is that you bought a card worth 500 bucks. The new card isn't connected to your old in any way. You hand the new card to somebody, and they get 500 bucks out of 'nowhere' as far as the tracking programs are concerned.
And all the users see is that their hardware fails, the techs spend a few minutes scratching their heads, then replacing it. Great.
I'm impressed. You even got the terminology right.
:0.0 attached. Thusly:
For anybody who wants to try this, and has two UNIX machines, here's a quick and easy way.
Log onto your own machine. Use a command like this:
# xhost +192.168.1.100
where the IP address is the IP address of another linux machine.
Telnet into the other linux machine. Log in. Set an env variable called DISPLAY to your desktop machine with a
$ DISPLAY=192.168.1.10:0.0;export DISPLAY
Then, run something that requires a GUI.
$ xclock &
and assuming everything worked, it should run on the second machine, but the output will show up in the windowing environment of your desktop.
Basically the way it works is that with Windows, or MacOS, anything that wants to draw graphics sends data to the video card. With X, anything that wants to draw graphics sends data to a TCP/IP socket. It just defaults to sending it to a socket on localhost; there's no reason it needs to be on localhost.
SparcStation 4s and 5s and the like make wonderful X terminals.
Yes, and X is incredibly network intensive, and these things'll be on ISA 10 meg ethernet, and your average 486 is going to be using ISA or VLB video cards, and will NOT be able to do 800 by 600 worth a damn.
And don't talk to me about low bandwidth X, because if you do, there goes your ability to use anything less than a pentium.
Yes, a Pentium anything would be much better; find some old ATI Mach64s, PCI network cards, and you're off and running.
These days, 10 meg ethernet cards qualify as 'antique' and probably go for more than a decent 100 megger would.
Remember the good old days when you actually had to worry about things like 'ethernet collisions' when hubs were dumb?
If ye want a real laugh, go read capalert, a 'Christian' movie review site. If this guy rated his own bible the way he rates movies, humans wouldn't be allowed to read it.
This movie is mainly a continuation of Chasing Amy, and tries to tie up the rest of the movies; Clerks, Mallrats and Dogma.
It will also be the last live-action movie featuring these characters. There is, however, a new animated movie on the way, supposedly. Clerks: Sellout, the story of Dante and Randall being offered lots of money to make a movie about a day in their lives.
As with a lot of Smith stuff, you'll either love it or hate it, and a lot of it is fan service for people who've seen his previous movies.