How's that? Do you have $500? If not, what's the security vulnerability that the author refuses to acknowledge?
I remember that there was an integer overflow DJB didn't want to acknowledge some time ago. IIRC it could only be exploited on machines with more than 4GB of RAM, not sure though. I know someone who did an audit on some DJB code, and it drove him mad. There are many dirty and dangerous constructions, but they're all done in such a way, that they're just exactly safe, or at least not dangerous. Continuously walking on the edge, but never falling off.. So far...
It's kind of annoying that DJB thinks his software is so superior that he refuses to update it for years already, even though there are enough problems with it. (Considering the amount of patches that most of the QMail users have to apply before they can use (or even compile) it...)
BTW, Grendel, aren't you the one whose survey-system I kind-of beta tested a couple of years ago?;-)
Actually, in the Dutch version of Windows it's called "Deze Computer", which indeed means "This Computer".
And indeed in this case it sounds slightly more sane to me. Just "Computer" sounds a bit odd to me, if you ask me they should change it into the machine's hostname.
I think it's more that lazy/ignorant admins are right now really glad that IE doesn't care about MIME-types, because they think it's very convenient that IE can handle their badly configured webservers...:-(
At least the version of Mozilla I got here doesn't behave as described by CSS3. When you specify two values, it doesn't use those correctly. You can see that very well because the top-left and bottom-right borders are okay, but the bottom-left and top-right seem to use the opposite values.
I use OO.o myself at school, and get all kinds of small problems. Things that end up on the wrong page, numbered lists with wrong numbering, things like that.
Upgrading from 1.1.1 to something more recent helped a lot already, but the problems aren't over. Especially PowerPoint (*sigh*) files aren't read very well at all.:-(
2. OpenOffice fully supports Microsoft Office file formats.
I just wish this were true... It gets close, but there are still many, many problems.:-(
Re:just when OpenBSD i386 started to move to 3.x
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The story about bad performance of GCC 3.x is completely true. I myself wondered some time ago why my dual P3-550 was hardly faster at compiling kernels, compared to my old single P2-350. Actually, if there was only one P3 in it it would've been slower! (And yes, the machine had more RAM...)
After a while I found out that the P2 ran Debian Woody with gcc 2.95 used by default and the P3 ran testing with gcc 3.3 (?) used by default. Another compile with the same gcc versions gave better results.
I really wonder what kind of Debian installation he runs. Just a couple of weeks ago I had to reboot my Debian box after some experimenting with an obfuscated fork bomb. Won't work again now that I set some ulimits, but they're not there by default.
In case anyone is interested, here's the obfuscated fork bomb::(){:&:;};:
The difference is that recoding the file to MP3 will make it "lossier". PyMusique will get the file without DRM and without changing anything to the encoding.
Your solution is lossy. PyMusique is not. That's the difference.
Re:Ahhhhh... Time to start compiling all overagain
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Why would you have to use GCC 4.0 for those platforms? I used GCC-3.x for the AVR platform and it did everything I needed... (Which isn't a lot on those machines, I'd say.)
If you mean Safari 2.0 will be in Tiger, that sounds unlikely to me. If they want to release in less than a month, I'd be very surprised if they wouldn't have the gold CD images ready already.
IIRC it doesn't have to go through their servers (although it probably happens a lot now that so many people have NAT setups at home), and well, if it does, let them block it and try to get people to use Jabber instead.:-)
What the parent says. It's a nice idea, but it's probably not worth implementing. Just how is an operating system supposed to know which task should be executed on which CPU? Should processed have a "heavy FPU dependency" or "integer madness" flag? Should it do some nifty statistics?
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How's that? Do you have $500? If not, what's the security vulnerability that the author refuses to acknowledge?
;-)
I remember that there was an integer overflow DJB didn't want to acknowledge some time ago. IIRC it could only be exploited on machines with more than 4GB of RAM, not sure though. I know someone who did an audit on some DJB code, and it drove him mad. There are many dirty and dangerous constructions, but they're all done in such a way, that they're just exactly safe, or at least not dangerous. Continuously walking on the edge, but never falling off.. So far...
It's kind of annoying that DJB thinks his software is so superior that he refuses to update it for years already, even though there are enough problems with it. (Considering the amount of patches that most of the QMail users have to apply before they can use (or even compile) it...)
BTW, Grendel, aren't you the one whose survey-system I kind-of beta tested a couple of years ago?
Not to mention seek time, I doubt if he can give you the 19482th and 32821th digit of Pi very quicklywhen you ask him. ;-)
That might be the reason why it only pays six cents per machine... It could be more if all the installations would generate revenue.
Yes, all kinds of images can be found here, and for DVD BitTorrents (x86) you can look here.
Actually, in the Dutch version of Windows it's called "Deze Computer", which indeed means "This Computer".
And indeed in this case it sounds slightly more sane to me. Just "Computer" sounds a bit odd to me, if you ask me they should change it into the machine's hostname.
And if anyone wonders what it would be in Latin:
:-)
Predostavlenie dostupa k ishodnomu kodu
It's been a while since my last time to read cyrillic, so I hope I didn't mess up.
And how is that somebody else going to make Linus accept the patch?
Where do they describe this tweak? I have no idea how they would do this and how this would make things any faster.
I think the hard disk inside the MP3 player is considered the blank medium here.
I'm not 100% sure, but I remember reading somewhere that Opera employs a Debian Developer. Might help a lot for sure. :-)
I think it's more that lazy/ignorant admins are right now really glad that IE doesn't care about MIME-types, because they think it's very convenient that IE can handle their badly configured webservers... :-(
At least the version of Mozilla I got here doesn't behave as described by CSS3. When you specify two values, it doesn't use those correctly. You can see that very well because the top-left and bottom-right borders are okay, but the bottom-left and top-right seem to use the opposite values.
I use OO.o myself at school, and get all kinds of small problems. Things that end up on the wrong page, numbered lists with wrong numbering, things like that.
:-(
Upgrading from 1.1.1 to something more recent helped a lot already, but the problems aren't over. Especially PowerPoint (*sigh*) files aren't read very well at all.
2. OpenOffice fully supports Microsoft Office file formats.
:-(
I just wish this were true... It gets close, but there are still many, many problems.
The story about bad performance of GCC 3.x is completely true. I myself wondered some time ago why my dual P3-550 was hardly faster at compiling kernels, compared to my old single P2-350. Actually, if there was only one P3 in it it would've been slower! (And yes, the machine had more RAM...)
After a while I found out that the P2 ran Debian Woody with gcc 2.95 used by default and the P3 ran testing with gcc 3.3 (?) used by default. Another compile with the same gcc versions gave better results.
I guess you haven't heard the Free Software Song so far? :-)
And since when is something you broke yourself on purpose warrantable?
How does this exactly help solving the spam problem when the machine sending the spam is not owned (but "0wned") by the spammer?
Or do they plan to DDoS the spam-zombies?
I really wonder what kind of Debian installation he runs. Just a couple of weeks ago I had to reboot my Debian box after some experimenting with an obfuscated fork bomb. Won't work again now that I set some ulimits, but they're not there by default.
:(){ :&:;};:
In case anyone is interested, here's the obfuscated fork bomb:
The difference is that recoding the file to MP3 will make it "lossier". PyMusique will get the file without DRM and without changing anything to the encoding.
Your solution is lossy. PyMusique is not. That's the difference.
Why would you have to use GCC 4.0 for those platforms? I used GCC-3.x for the AVR platform and it did everything I needed... (Which isn't a lot on those machines, I'd say.)
If you mean Safari 2.0 will be in Tiger, that sounds unlikely to me. If they want to release in less than a month, I'd be very surprised if they wouldn't have the gold CD images ready already.
IIRC it doesn't have to go through their servers (although it probably happens a lot now that so many people have NAT setups at home), and well, if it does, let them block it and try to get people to use Jabber instead. :-)
What the parent says. It's a nice idea, but it's probably not worth implementing. Just how is an operating system supposed to know which task should be executed on which CPU? Should processed have a "heavy FPU dependency" or "integer madness" flag? Should it do some nifty statistics?