Why traceroute, like ping, runs suid root.
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AFAIK, both ping and traceroute use ICMP (internet control message protocol). On most systems, the ICMP socket is privileged such that only root can use it. Some systems tend to have sophisticated access control lists, for instance giving ping.exe and traceroute.exe access to a certain number of ICMP packets per minute. Tetris on drugs, NES music, and GNOME vs. KDE Bingo.
Next time, link "OGG VORBIS encoder" to your OSDN SourceForge project page.
The compiled C language encoder for OggVorbis doesn't even encode at 128 kbps in real time; how do you expect an interpreted Perl or Java language version to perform better?
Is tacking a Copyleft (GPL) in the header of your code a real way to protect it? Shouldn't it actually be copyrighted and released under the GPL, et al?
Correct. Code licensde under the GNU General Public License contains a comment at the top containing a copyright notice, a permission statement that places the program under GPL, a warranty disclaimer, and where to find a copy of the License. A shorter notice is commonly used in interactive programs' about boxes and in the "verbose" mode of command-line programs. For more information, read the end of the GNU GPL to see how to apply the License to your own code.
I read somewhere that Microsoft is committed to interoperability with IETF standards. Jabber's protocol is based on an IETF draft. If AOL opens AIM to MSN, this may produce a more reliable AIM/Jabber gateway. Tetris on drugs, NES music, and GNOME vs. KDE Bingo.
No, MOS Technologies made the original 6500 series.
The 6502 was an 8-bit processor with a 16-bit address bus. The 6507 was the exact same processor with two modifications -- a 13-bit address bus and it had no interrupt lines.
More Atari 2600 specs: The system had two 1-bit sprites and three rectangular sprites. It also had only 128 bytes of RAM and half a scanline's worth of video RAM. Even making Tetris is close to impossible, as Tetris uses a 10x20 field which at first glance does not fit into 128 bytes.
Also, what about those great TI calcs? Aren't they 8-bit?
The TI-82, -83, -85, and -86 use an 8-bit Z80 processor. (The Game Boy uses a Z80 clone.) The TI-89, on the other hand, uses the same 68000 processor that the Sega Genesis console and early Macintosh computers used.
my 86 has Zelda, Lemmings, Mario, Tetris, and various other things on it
Didn't Nintendo sue TICalc.org for infringing on Nintendo's trademarks and copyrighted character likenesses? If not, they probably will soon.
The NES uses a modified 6502 processor that loses the binary coded decimal instructions and adds on-die sound hardware. The SMS (and its portable cousin Game Gear) uses the Z80 processor, which has a set of rollback registers remarkably similar to the Crusoe CPU's. But it still wouldn't be hard for One80 to port the 8-bit JVM to other 8-bit CPUs.
in practice, most people don't write their programs in 6502 assembler.
(ICK! The language is called assembly, not assembler. Would you like it if I called the C++ language "compiler"?)
That's because most people don't develop for C=64, Apple II, or NES. I still write NES software in assembly because I haven't yet taken the time to get CC65 working and get a C library written. But handcoded assembly does give you the tightest code if you know what you're doing with respect to the pipeline (6502 has one short pipeline so it's easier here).
I actually applaud and am amazed that there even exists a GNU compiler, but then again from what I've read about it, its pretty outdated as far as front and back-end optimizations and intermediate languages.
You're referring to the GCC 2.95.2 release, which already generates code of the same quality as Watcom's. GCC 2.97, OTOH, employs some pretty sneaky optimizations, making code run fast (especially on x86). However, Alpha generated code is still slow because the Alpha architecture has never been optimized for inter-module jumps; the expensive compilers store RTL in object files and actually generate code during linking. Is this patented?
Speaking for my company (a games company) if we released a game which was only "fairly fast" we wouldn't last long;)
When a game of Tetanus (a popular Tetris clone) first starts, it is quite literally running at two frames per second. Two! The graphics are simplistic but easy to parse. But once Alice makes lines, it starts speeding up until her brain explodes.
Some of us still want gameplay, not graphics. If we wanted graphics, we'd be playing GIMP or POV-Ray.
There is a difference. Fanfic is textual and static; most pop games are graphical and interactive. Fanfic would not include likenesses of the characters; game mods do. Tetris on drugs, NES music, and GNOME vs. KDE Bingo.
They should just do a 'clean room' implementation of all the skins and models
This is called "creating your own cartoon environment, based on the same character stereotypes that the DBZ creators used, and making a mod about it." This would work and would be legal, but you'd need to pay lots of animators. Character stereotypes are uncopyrightable (see also Capcom v. Data East), but implementations of those stereotypes in any commercialized cartoon (Draggin'BallZ, PokeMoney, etc.) are trademarks of their respective companies; trademark infringement is unfair competition under the Lanham Act. And don't count on waiting for trademarks to expire; USPTO trademark registrations are renewable for an unlimited number of 10-year terms, and copyright is already perpetual.
and I do have the choice of going to an ISP that doesn't use it
Consider this: DSL generally requires customers to live within 12,000 wire feet of the central switch, making it nearly impossible to service a whole city or large town. AOL Time Warner Inc., the cable provider, obfuscates its login/password to force customers to use its client software, which is not compatible with your FreeBSD, BeOS, or GNU/Linux system. T1 is priced out of reach of most residential consumers. What other broadband solution is there other than to pack up your belongings and move?
Lotus also lost a lawsuit against Borland involving Borland's Quattro spreadsheet (vs. Lotus 123) over the fact that Quattro had a macro system that enabled you to load in and make Quattro exactly emulate 123's keystroke sequences
Even if ICANN was to come out with a new TLD, it should be.parody . That way, the corporations can still sue everyone with a com/net/whatever for "false representation of their trademark"
Besides, if you have a company, or product that is say, the "netshredder". Nowadays, people look for you automatically at netshredder.com. Where do they go now? netshredder.ustm?.gtm?.com?.product? I personally think that we need a *better* way of handling domains that is "product" friendly
The people at RealNames thought of this too and created RealNames Internet Keywords.
but why is the Linux kernel compressed? Wouldn't that make the loading process longer because it must be uncompressed?
Rotating storage is slow. Executable compression products such as free UPX take advantage of the fact that loading a compressed file and unzipping it on a modern CPU-memory system is often faster than loading the same file, uncompressed, from rotating storage media such as hard drives or {C|DV}D-ROM drives.
Also, I wish that Linux could have a much smaller text editor. Windows Notepad is only 34KB in Windows 95
You could:
Use pico. It's said to be much easier to learn than vim and still much more powerful than Notepad, especially taking into account all the DLLs that Notepad loads.
Keep an Emacs session running in the background (C-z). Parts of Emacs will be swapped in as necessary.
Use one of the hundreds of text editors available on OSDN Freshmeat.
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Tetris on drugs, NES music, and GNOME vs. KDE Bingo.
AFAIK, both ping and traceroute use ICMP (internet control message protocol). On most systems, the ICMP socket is privileged such that only root can use it. Some systems tend to have sophisticated access control lists, for instance giving ping.exe and traceroute.exe access to a certain number of ICMP packets per minute.
Tetris on drugs, NES music, and GNOME vs. KDE Bingo.
Look at the link in the follow-up post. It's one of those that fills your screen with pop-up porn.
In this case, the follow-up should have been moderated down instead.
Tetris on drugs, NES music, and GNOME vs. KDE Bingo.
Tetris on drugs, NES music, and GNOME vs. KDE Bingo.
Is tacking a Copyleft (GPL) in the header of your code a real way to protect it? Shouldn't it actually be copyrighted and released under the GPL, et al?
Correct. Code licensde under the GNU General Public License contains a comment at the top containing a copyright notice, a permission statement that places the program under GPL, a warranty disclaimer, and where to find a copy of the License. A shorter notice is commonly used in interactive programs' about boxes and in the "verbose" mode of command-line programs. For more information, read the end of the GNU GPL to see how to apply the License to your own code.
Tetris on drugs, NES music, and GNOME vs. KDE Bingo.
I read somewhere that Microsoft is committed to interoperability with IETF standards. Jabber's protocol is based on an IETF draft. If AOL opens AIM to MSN, this may produce a more reliable AIM/Jabber gateway.
Tetris on drugs, NES music, and GNOME vs. KDE Bingo.
unfortunately, I do not have any points left
Come to Everything, where (once you get 50 xp) you get modpoints every day.
Tetris on drugs, NES music, and GNOME vs. KDE Bingo.
Motorola 6507 CPU
No, MOS Technologies made the original 6500 series.
The 6502 was an 8-bit processor with a 16-bit address bus. The 6507 was the exact same processor with two modifications -- a 13-bit address bus and it had no interrupt lines.
More Atari 2600 specs: The system had two 1-bit sprites and three rectangular sprites. It also had only 128 bytes of RAM and half a scanline's worth of video RAM. Even making Tetris is close to impossible, as Tetris uses a 10x20 field which at first glance does not fit into 128 bytes.
Tetris on drugs, NES music, and GNOME vs. KDE Bingo.
Also, what about those great TI calcs? Aren't they 8-bit?
The TI-82, -83, -85, and -86 use an 8-bit Z80 processor. (The Game Boy uses a Z80 clone.) The TI-89, on the other hand, uses the same 68000 processor that the Sega Genesis console and early Macintosh computers used.
my 86 has Zelda, Lemmings, Mario, Tetris, and various other things on it
Didn't Nintendo sue TICalc.org for infringing on Nintendo's trademarks and copyrighted character likenesses? If not, they probably will soon.
Tetris on drugs, NES music, and GNOME vs. KDE Bingo.
The NES uses a modified 6502 processor that loses the binary coded decimal instructions and adds on-die sound hardware. The SMS (and its portable cousin Game Gear) uses the Z80 processor, which has a set of rollback registers remarkably similar to the Crusoe CPU's. But it still wouldn't be hard for One80 to port the 8-bit JVM to other 8-bit CPUs.
Tetris on drugs, NES music, and GNOME vs. KDE Bingo.
in practice, most people don't write their programs in 6502 assembler.
(ICK! The language is called assembly, not assembler. Would you like it if I called the C++ language "compiler"?)
That's because most people don't develop for C=64, Apple II, or NES. I still write NES software in assembly because I haven't yet taken the time to get CC65 working and get a C library written. But handcoded assembly does give you the tightest code if you know what you're doing with respect to the pipeline (6502 has one short pipeline so it's easier here).
Tetris on drugs, NES music, and GNOME vs. KDE Bingo.
BSI's Everything 2 BBS is profusely linked in much the same way. But are you trying to link to Goats (a comic strip) or Goatse (the One True Ass Pic)?
Tetris on drugs, NES music, and GNOME vs. KDE Bingo.
I actually applaud and am amazed that there even exists a GNU compiler, but then again from what I've read about it, its pretty outdated as far as front and back-end optimizations and intermediate languages.
You're referring to the GCC 2.95.2 release, which already generates code of the same quality as Watcom's. GCC 2.97, OTOH, employs some pretty sneaky optimizations, making code run fast (especially on x86). However, Alpha generated code is still slow because the Alpha architecture has never been optimized for inter-module jumps; the expensive compilers store RTL in object files and actually generate code during linking. Is this patented?
Tetris on drugs, NES music, and GNOME vs. KDE Bingo.
If you like the links in the article, you'll love Everything 2, BSI's collaboratively filtered, profusely linked database of, well, everything.
Tetris on drugs, NES music, and GNOME vs. KDE Bingo.
Speaking for my company (a games company) if we released a game which was only "fairly fast" we wouldn't last long ;)
When a game of Tetanus (a popular Tetris clone) first starts, it is quite literally running at two frames per second. Two! The graphics are simplistic but easy to parse. But once Alice makes lines, it starts speeding up until her brain explodes.
Some of us still want gameplay, not graphics. If we wanted graphics, we'd be playing GIMP or POV-Ray.
Tetris on drugs, NES music, and GNOME vs. KDE Bingo.
they're not an isp, they provide dynamic dns services
ISP == Internet service provider. Are you claiming that "dynamic dns services" do not fall under the category "Internet service"?
Tetris on drugs, NES music, and GNOME vs. KDE Bingo.
There is a difference. Fanfic is textual and static; most pop games are graphical and interactive. Fanfic would not include likenesses of the characters; game mods do.
Tetris on drugs, NES music, and GNOME vs. KDE Bingo.
"Gangsta's Paradise" by Coolio borrowed its track from "Pastime Paradise" by Stevie Wonder. Time to go get the MP3 off Napster...
Tetris on drugs, NES music, and GNOME vs. KDE Bingo.
They should just do a 'clean room' implementation of all the skins and models
This is called "creating your own cartoon environment, based on the same character stereotypes that the DBZ creators used, and making a mod about it." This would work and would be legal, but you'd need to pay lots of animators. Character stereotypes are uncopyrightable (see also Capcom v. Data East), but implementations of those stereotypes in any commercialized cartoon (Draggin'BallZ, PokeMoney, etc.) are trademarks of their respective companies; trademark infringement is unfair competition under the Lanham Act. And don't count on waiting for trademarks to expire; USPTO trademark registrations are renewable for an unlimited number of 10-year terms, and copyright is already perpetual.
Tetris on drugs, NES music, and GNOME vs. KDE Bingo.
you can have one window be focused by mouse 1 and one window focused by mouse 2
And to which text editor window would keyboard input go? Mouse 1 focus or mouse 2 focus?
Tetris on drugs, NES music, and GNOME vs. KDE Bingo.
and I do have the choice of going to an ISP that doesn't use it
Consider this: DSL generally requires customers to live within 12,000 wire feet of the central switch, making it nearly impossible to service a whole city or large town. AOL Time Warner Inc., the cable provider, obfuscates its login/password to force customers to use its client software, which is not compatible with your FreeBSD, BeOS, or GNU/Linux system. T1 is priced out of reach of most residential consumers. What other broadband solution is there other than to pack up your belongings and move?
Tetris on drugs, NES music, and GNOME vs. KDE Bingo.
Lotus also lost a lawsuit against Borland involving Borland's Quattro spreadsheet (vs. Lotus 123) over the fact that Quattro had a macro system that enabled you to load in and make Quattro exactly emulate 123's keystroke sequences
Does this remind you in any way of the Tetris Company cases? Copyright on a general look and feel copyright is dead. But doesn't the Aqua theme remind you a bit of Dr. Mario?
Tetris on drugs, NES music, and GNOME vs. KDE Bingo.
Even if ICANN was to come out with a new TLD, it should be .parody . That way, the corporations can still sue everyone with a com/net/whatever for "false representation of their trademark"
That's why OpenNIC created the .parody domain. Install OpenNIC nameservers in resolv.conf (or the Windoze equivalent) and learn more at http://www.parody. (Note that you have to know somebody who has root on your mailserver to be able to send a registration request to hostmaster@parody.)
Tetris on drugs, NES music, and GNOME vs. KDE Bingo.
Besides, if you have a company, or product that is say, the "netshredder". Nowadays, people look for you automatically at netshredder.com. Where do they go now? netshredder.ustm? .gtm? .com? .product? I personally think that we need a *better* way of handling domains that is "product" friendly
The people at RealNames thought of this too and created RealNames Internet Keywords.
Tetris on drugs, NES music, and GNOME vs. KDE Bingo.
but why is the Linux kernel compressed? Wouldn't that make the loading process longer because it must be uncompressed?
Rotating storage is slow. Executable compression products such as free UPX take advantage of the fact that loading a compressed file and unzipping it on a modern CPU-memory system is often faster than loading the same file, uncompressed, from rotating storage media such as hard drives or {C|DV}D-ROM drives.
Also, I wish that Linux could have a much smaller text editor. Windows Notepad is only 34KB in Windows 95
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