Can anyone tell me why it bothers to try connecting to the internet so hard?
Sure. It only does that if it's on a financial institution computer. It tries to contact the virus author and make a network connection to that computer.
Obviously someone's figured it out.
Write virus.
Have virus infect financial institutions and call home.
I actually brought my personal laptop, some lengths of Cat5 cable and a tiny Linksys 4-port 10/100 switch to work. I did work stuff on my work computer and personal stuff on my personal laptop (which just happened to be at work). Then I used ppp-over-ssh to connect to my home network (long before anyone had nice scripts to do this for you; I had to roll my own script, get it through the SOCKS firewall, etc).
Literally everything I did on the personal laptop in this arrangement, Web browsing, mail, everything, ran through the ppp-over-ssh connection. And nobody complained.
Some guy asked a better 'what if' recently in another discussion on Palladium. What if systems using this technology are required to access the Internet?
I can't really see that happening anytime soon. The Internet was designed to be open, for anyone to be able to connect to it. Palladium and the Internet Protocol are quite incompatible, in purpose if not in technology, and any attempt to graft one onto the other is going to be messy at best.
Besides, with so many Unix/Apache servers out there, many being run by people who would never allow MS Palladium near their computers, it would take an act of God (or Congress) to get them to install it.
Looking through these files, it seems as though some SCO employees have contributed code to Linux directly, and some other code was lifted more or less directly from SCO source code. I don't know what the legal status of any of this code is, but it could make a good starting point for taking a serious look at SCO's claims.
I also don't know what impact it would have on the kernel if all this code had to be removed or rewritten. Everytime I've tried to hack on the kernel, I've managed to get completely lost.
Seems the reviewer thought the phone was sluggish at times. I'm not surprised at this; Microsoft certainly has lost the art of writing solid, efficient code. As have most of us, unfortunately. And apparently the signal quality sucks, the audio sucks, and the buttons are too small.
My big complaint about the GNOME/Gtk file selection dialog is it looks almost exactly like the Motif file selection dialog, which I hate. I haven't heard a good reason for separating directories from files, and neither does the dialog explain to a new user just what a directory is, anyway. Add in a generic "folder" and "document" icon to each side of the dialog, and it will be a lot easier to use. Then remove the "./" entry, and replace "../" with something like "parent" or "up one folder", or get rid of it entirely.
KDE 3's file selection dialog looks almost identical to the dialog in Windows 2000/XP, and it's blatantly obvious what's what, when you look at it.
Gtk/GNOME still has a lot of catching up to do in the usability field. Ximian's new release will help a lot, but the problems go all the way to the core, and I haven't seen anything here that indicates that these problems will be addressed.
If 1 TB is only going @ 120 K / sec, it doesnt cost anything. We have a full T1, and there are no bandwidth restrictions on it at all.
OK OK you're right. But there are two other things. First is time, like the previous poster rightly mentioned. Do you want your T1 saturated for two hours? The second is your server. Can your server handle 300,000 requests for a 3MB file in two hours? My (very bad) math works that out to ~40 requests a second. Your typical Big-Ass Honkin' Server isn't going to have any problem with this. But the Little Linux-Box That Could might. Obviously these are worst-case figures, but for a really popular file, they aren't TOO far out in left field.
With 10 characters, it can represent a specific area measuring one square metre. . . . For example, NAC Geographic Products' address in Toronto would be 8CNB5 Q8Z4R.
Is it just me, or does that look like part of a Microsoft product key?
Sure, using GPS for location is nicer, but this provides a much more compressed form of basically the same data. Just think, now you can be stranded on a deserted island in the middle of the south Pacific and still get your mail.
IANAL but I don't think that Roadrunner's AUP would apply in this case since all the "prizes" they are giving away are non-cash. If they were paying you in cash, you'd definitely be in violation, but since they aren't claiming to "pay" you anything, just giving you "points" redeemable for prizes, it's not too different than playing online games where you can win (again, non-cash) prizes.
...that it would be easier to just host the content themselves. The real value is in getting listed in the search results, and bandwidth is relatively cheap compared to the complexity of a system that tracks and pays random idiots on the net. Of course, I am probably wrong.
If you have 300 people downloading a 3MB file, that's 900MB you've got to move. Few people can afford to have that much bandwidth on demand. This is why things like BitTorrent exist. Now that I think about it, this system could do for small files what BitTorrent does for big ones.
Either way, this will save the content provider quite a bit of money in bandwidth. How much does 1GB of bandwidth cost these days? Suppose 300,000 people want that 3MB file? How much does 1TB of bandwidth cost?
You can easily find numerous claims that one service is better than the rest and will change your life - with no evidence beyond the new ring tones you can get for your mobile phone.
The marketers are going after the mass audience. Most people really don't care whether their phone is 3G or how fast it will browse pr0n and display it on screen. They are little sheep who are wowed by bells and whistles like ring tones and silly full-color games on their phone. Aside from those sorts of things, most people don't care, as long as it makes and receives calls and gives them caller ID (in the U.S. anyway) and voice mail.
Then again, most people can't make sense out of mobile phone calling plans, either.
It varies depending on the telco and type of service. Generally you can get ADSL out to 17500 feet (about 5300 meters). Depending on the conditions of the specific line you can go farther than the given limits, or not quite as far. But telcos don't want to exceed the limits they give because it usually causes them support issues.
Now, this is what I find interested: I couldn't find any other GPL software on the site, just stuff under some custom-written clickthrough redistribution allowed licences.
Anyway, I'm glad to see Java finally getting generics. This will make it a little easier to manage very large projects in Java. The only problem I see is that generic java usually sucks compared to the brand-name stuff (e.g. Lavazza).
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Dunno where you live, but in this country, Voicestream became T-Mobile.
No, I'm not smart enough to play video games. That's why I run Linux.
Sure. It only does that if it's on a financial institution computer. It tries to contact the virus author and make a network connection to that computer.
Obviously someone's figured it out.
Literally everything I did on the personal laptop in this arrangement, Web browsing, mail, everything, ran through the ppp-over-ssh connection. And nobody complained.
I can't really see that happening anytime soon. The Internet was designed to be open, for anyone to be able to connect to it. Palladium and the Internet Protocol are quite incompatible, in purpose if not in technology, and any attempt to graft one onto the other is going to be messy at best.
Besides, with so many Unix/Apache servers out there, many being run by people who would never allow MS Palladium near their computers, it would take an act of God (or Congress) to get them to install it.
Looking through these files, it seems as though some SCO employees have contributed code to Linux directly, and some other code was lifted more or less directly from SCO source code. I don't know what the legal status of any of this code is, but it could make a good starting point for taking a serious look at SCO's claims.
I also don't know what impact it would have on the kernel if all this code had to be removed or rewritten. Everytime I've tried to hack on the kernel, I've managed to get completely lost.
Since when do the good guys use Windows?
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Oh well, there goes my karma.
So why would anyone buy this phone at all?
KDE 3's file selection dialog looks almost identical to the dialog in Windows 2000/XP, and it's blatantly obvious what's what, when you look at it.
Gtk/GNOME still has a lot of catching up to do in the usability field. Ximian's new release will help a lot, but the problems go all the way to the core, and I haven't seen anything here that indicates that these problems will be addressed.
Here is a site you will really hate.
Careful what you wish for. She probably will blow you.
OK OK you're right. But there are two other things. First is time, like the previous poster rightly mentioned. Do you want your T1 saturated for two hours? The second is your server. Can your server handle 300,000 requests for a 3MB file in two hours? My (very bad) math works that out to ~40 requests a second. Your typical Big-Ass Honkin' Server isn't going to have any problem with this. But the Little Linux-Box That Could might. Obviously these are worst-case figures, but for a really popular file, they aren't TOO far out in left field.
Santa's new address will be H0H0H 0H0H0. I think we can manage the conversion.
Is it just me, or does that look like part of a Microsoft product key?
Sure, using GPS for location is nicer, but this provides a much more compressed form of basically the same data. Just think, now you can be stranded on a deserted island in the middle of the south Pacific and still get your mail.
IANAL but I don't think that Roadrunner's AUP would apply in this case since all the "prizes" they are giving away are non-cash. If they were paying you in cash, you'd definitely be in violation, but since they aren't claiming to "pay" you anything, just giving you "points" redeemable for prizes, it's not too different than playing online games where you can win (again, non-cash) prizes.
If you have 300 people downloading a 3MB file, that's 900MB you've got to move. Few people can afford to have that much bandwidth on demand. This is why things like BitTorrent exist. Now that I think about it, this system could do for small files what BitTorrent does for big ones.
Either way, this will save the content provider quite a bit of money in bandwidth. How much does 1GB of bandwidth cost these days? Suppose 300,000 people want that 3MB file? How much does 1TB of bandwidth cost?
The marketers are going after the mass audience. Most people really don't care whether their phone is 3G or how fast it will browse pr0n and display it on screen. They are little sheep who are wowed by bells and whistles like ring tones and silly full-color games on their phone. Aside from those sorts of things, most people don't care, as long as it makes and receives calls and gives them caller ID (in the U.S. anyway) and voice mail.
Then again, most people can't make sense out of mobile phone calling plans, either.
It varies depending on the telco and type of service. Generally you can get ADSL out to 17500 feet (about 5300 meters). Depending on the conditions of the specific line you can go farther than the given limits, or not quite as far. But telcos don't want to exceed the limits they give because it usually causes them support issues.
Then we said, "NYNEX sucks."
Then we said, "Bell Atlantic sucks."
Now we say, "Verizon sucks."
The name may change, but the suck remains the same.
They have two employees, him and his live-in, uh, well you be the judge.
Anyone got mirrors yet?
NSIS is under a BSD-style license, as is JNetLib, WWWinAmp, NetMon, Beep, NSCopy, SafeSex, Plush, and ASS I/O. Actually they admit on one of those pages to borrowing the license for (all of) the above from zlib.
5645d0378b5bca6d2cf337686dca9a4d waste-source.tar.gz
Because no language is complete without printf.
Anyway, I'm glad to see Java finally getting generics. This will make it a little easier to manage very large projects in Java. The only problem I see is that generic java usually sucks compared to the brand-name stuff (e.g. Lavazza).
You forgot xclock, xload and xeyes!