But does Ubuntu's automatic updates fix this? on an already installed system (ie, delete the relevant part from the log, test to see if that password is still current, and prompt the user to change their password. I really think it should.
There should be a "security-reconfiguration" pseudo package who's post-install script does whatever checks are due for this sort of thing.
No, the OP wasn't any where near as strong. The OP said suggested that rather than know what Microsoft is like, Joe Pack Simply doesn't know. I suggest that Joe Six Pack's opinion is actually the polar opposite of the truth.
> Strange as it may seem Joe Six Pack probably does not have the Slashdot crowd's contempt for Micro$oft's ability to deliver secure products
Quite the opposite, Joe Six Pack is absolutely certain that Microsoft is the one and *only* software producer that can reliably produce secure, high quality software.
I think they should start with haskell, but only very basic function composition stuff, and do putStrLn... hand hold through typing errors.
Then move them on to python, showing function composition there, and quickly adding in imperative/OO style and more complex I/O.
Then move on to Java to introduce the concept of fully specified interfaces, and demonstrate the usefulness of static checking. Introduce the GUI.
Then move on to C++, introduce memory management, explaining the leaky behaviours of the above languages. Cover interface design and binary interfaces/serialisation. Introduce generic programming and boost. Introduce assembler and machine code.
Go full circle back to Haskell showing more advanced haskell stuff building on the C++ generics. Add template haskell.
Move on to prolog show some techniques that the prolog compiler can use for optimisation.
I saw it under email loads, so it could well only be syncing for important data (ie, ensuring the email is in the queue folder an on disk before telling the SMTP client that it has queued it).
On W2K3 there is an option for enabling proper syncing (if your hard disk is enterprise suitable). It is enabled by default and the performance drop from W2K to W2K3 is shocking, until you disable it. Which means: don't use W2K for anything important - upgrade your servers to W2K3, take the performance hit, but keep your data safe. Microsoft ought to give you a refund on your W2K Server purchase as it is not fit for the purpose for which it is sold.
Having flash in front of the platters will allow this same robustness but without the poor performance.
> Because that's the single most precious asset the anti-virus makers have.
I hear that they actually communicate the information to each other (after they've released their own identities). The anti-virus world is still very academic. The AV companies have a handful of virus analysts in various timezones and analysing viruses is a very small cost compared to producing the AV frontends/engine/management tools. Ever wondered why your domestic subscription is so much cheaper than the business subscriptions? You don't get the management tools with it.
Photo's of food on food packaging in the UK is required to actually be acheivable by following the cooking instructions with no additional ingredients. If they say "*serving suggestion" near the picture, they can put other food alongside it or minimal sprinkling/condiments (such as cheese or worcestershire sauce) as long as it is clear from the written label what is contained in the package (or if it is mostly transparent, obviously).
AFAIK, it is illegal to cover the food in inedible chemicals or to use artifical food substitutes in order to make it look better. I am unsure if takeaway ketchup counts as an inedible chemical, but macdonalds actually puts it on the food you buy anyway, so I suppose that's okay.
The inventor's web site (amateurish though it is) makes no claim of over-unity. It is just the dumbarses at OSEN who said "The technology claims to be able to increase magnet motor efficiency substantially, even over the 100% barrier."
Notice who they said *made* that claim... The motors themselves. That's right, OSEN thinks magnets have acheived sentience - perhaps they have harnessed the untapped self-awareness in the cosmic microwave background...
As far as I can see, the inventor merely claims that the new motor design is much more efficient than old motors. From a cursory and naive appraisal, I think the inventor is suggesting that you could take an electric motor from about 88% efficient to about 97%, theoretically, of course.
> How do I use that with Ubuntu instead of OpenSuSE?
Install Ubuntu Dapper (now in stabilisation to prepare for release in April). Xgl is in the "universe" repository, and instructions for enabling it are around somewhere.
Not very long ago, when the Kama Sutra (Nyxem.E, MyWife, whatever) worm was released to the world it seemed to take absolutely forever to find anyone with a solution for the removal or even the detection of the thing.
The virus is reported to have first emerged on the 16th January 2006. Sophossays they provided protection from 16:03:20 GMT on that day. So while it may have taken ages for you to find an anti-virus vender with detection or removal, there *were* solutions on the same day. Trend Micro also says their pattern file was release on the 16th, and they give the time when the description on their website was written as 14:23:21 GMT, but they don't say what time their pattern file was released. Mcafee even claims that they detected the virus from 2nd December 2005 - presumably since this was a variation of an existing worm that their existing detection happened to also detect. I don't know how many of the other AV vendors *also* detected it due to happenstance before it even existed.
There was also detection officially available from some other AV vendors on the 17th:
> Interesting about the syphillis though. Never thought of it that way, and never encountered it in my readings of history.
I could be mistaken, but I thought European aristocrats would paint their lesions black to make them look acceptable, people would paint similar black blobs on themselves to look like the powerful.
> I think right now we're in an anti-intellectual period in the United States
It is normal for the dominant fashion of a nation to be modelled on its leader (eg making yourself look like you've got syphillis was popular hundreds of years ago, when the rich and powerful all had syphillis).
Bollocks my arse. The web site is "easy reading", go read the statutes - at least a couple of years ago, they explained in much more detail in their "YOU COULD BE FINED!!!!!111oneoneone" letters. Unless they relaxed the conditions so far as to make collection impossible ("No, I don't *use* it, honest").
> Wouldn't all pointer references then have to go through some kind of lookup table, so that the objects could be relocated by the runtime without breaking them?
Only on a computer without virtual memory. In a PC (which *has* virtual memory), you just punch holes in the memory.
What happens is a process gets an "address space", into which pointers can point, but any given address may not map onto some real storage. The process asks the operating system to map a range of addresses onto real storage which the operating system will try to map to real fast memory when it thinks it will be used at any moment. When the OS figures the memory wont be needed for a while, and something else needs some memory, the OS copies the data to disk and redirects the mapping to a proxy that will pull the data back into memory when the process tries to use it again.
When a process knows that it won't need a section of that real storage, it can tell the operating system to unmap it from the address space.
There are various other things that go on, but that's the simple story. From a figure posted in an earlier message, it seems that opera does pretty damned well (in comparison to most modern programs) with just the simple story, not having to rely much on nasty unreliable heuristics. Of that I am impressed.
> Therefore.... you, and everyone else who's online, owes me money for being able to view my web site. My content doesn't pay for itself through advertising either.
Will you operate it non-profit (ie, spend everything you get on the service), will you put a lot of effort into ensuring you have a wide range of stuff available (not just what you'd like to see on the web). Those are just a fraction of the criteria that the BBC are subject to, that makes the BBC so important culturally.
The BBC also play a valuable role in the outward representation of the country, being one of the very highest regarded websites on the internet (check the stats on the netcraft toolbar sometime), and providing some of the most balanced news reporting out there. Some BBC radio stations are also available on satellite radio in the USA (eg BBC Radio 1). The BBC are excellent ambassadors for Britain and the British people (even lots of news in various languages - you don't get much of that on commercial services), showing us at our very best. all for just about £120 per year (a tenner a month - that's less than four pints of Stella).
You would have to try very, very hard to convince me that the way the BBC is funded is a bad idea (variations on the theme excepted).
> The priceless part was excluding headless, internet-less PCs with poor connectivity or missing software (that virtually any PC sold today for more than $300 would have).
My microwave has a computer in it. You think I should have said that having a microwave oven should make the fee payable?
> Well as it already stands, a license fee isn't payable on owning a TV. It's payable on use of a TV to view broadcast TV.
No, it is on having a mains operated device capable of displaying freshly broadcast TV. If you have a TV card, for example, you owe them for a TV license.
AFAIK it is not predicated on ownership, nor on usage, but on residency and availability of service.
> PBS, you pay if you like the content otherwise they switch content to something more people pay money for. HBO & ShowTime work basically them same but charge up front and are usually focused on showing movies and a few original shows.
Exactly, if only a few people like a particular sort of programme, they can't get it.
> I'd think most Pentium level computers can view an MPG or webstreaming programming. So according to your definition almost every internet connected computer in Britian should have to have a BBC Tax associated with it except cluster computers.
I have a TV in my house, so I already pay for the BBC TV content, I wouldn't expect to pay three more times (once for each powerful enough computer). Of course, not all BBC TV content is available yet, and none of it is at a high enough quality to warrant paying for yet.
My other computers aren't powerful enough (one of them can display very low quality streams - and its a bit spotty at that).
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But does Ubuntu's automatic updates fix this? on an already installed system (ie, delete the relevant part from the log, test to see if that password is still current, and prompt the user to change their password. I really think it should.
There should be a "security-reconfiguration" pseudo package who's post-install script does whatever checks are due for this sort of thing.
oooohhhh... shiny.... :)
I completely failed to notice the pointer.
In that case, either Opera does not pass the ACID2 test, or the screenshot is faked.
It's supposed to be blue when the mouse pointer is hovered over it. We don't know the location of the mouse pointer in the Opera screenshot.
No, the OP wasn't any where near as strong. The OP said suggested that rather than know what Microsoft is like, Joe Pack Simply doesn't know. I suggest that Joe Six Pack's opinion is actually the polar opposite of the truth.
But I see how I was ambiguous.
> Strange as it may seem Joe Six Pack probably does not have the Slashdot crowd's contempt for Micro$oft's ability to deliver secure products
Quite the opposite, Joe Six Pack is absolutely certain that Microsoft is the one and *only* software producer that can reliably produce secure, high quality software.
> a game would have to be patently offensive to prevailing community standards, among other things, to be considered extremely violent.
So just put the main character in a Uniform, and call it "Grand Theft Iraqi".
I think they should start with haskell, but only very basic function composition stuff, and do putStrLn ... hand hold through typing errors.
Then move them on to python, showing function composition there, and quickly adding in imperative/OO style and more complex I/O.
Then move on to Java to introduce the concept of fully specified interfaces, and demonstrate the usefulness of static checking. Introduce the GUI.
Then move on to C++, introduce memory management, explaining the leaky behaviours of the above languages. Cover interface design and binary interfaces/serialisation. Introduce generic programming and boost. Introduce assembler and machine code.
Go full circle back to Haskell showing more advanced haskell stuff building on the C++ generics. Add template haskell.
Move on to prolog show some techniques that the prolog compiler can use for optimisation.
I saw it under email loads, so it could well only be syncing for important data (ie, ensuring the email is in the queue folder an on disk before telling the SMTP client that it has queued it).
On W2K3 there is an option for enabling proper syncing (if your hard disk is enterprise suitable). It is enabled by default and the performance drop from W2K to W2K3 is shocking, until you disable it. Which means: don't use W2K for anything important - upgrade your servers to W2K3, take the performance hit, but keep your data safe. Microsoft ought to give you a refund on your W2K Server purchase as it is not fit for the purpose for which it is sold.
Having flash in front of the platters will allow this same robustness but without the poor performance.
> Because that's the single most precious asset the anti-virus makers have.
I hear that they actually communicate the information to each other (after they've released their own identities). The anti-virus world is still very academic. The AV companies have a handful of virus analysts in various timezones and analysing viruses is a very small cost compared to producing the AV frontends/engine/management tools. Ever wondered why your domestic subscription is so much cheaper than the business subscriptions? You don't get the management tools with it.
Photo's of food on food packaging in the UK is required to actually be acheivable by following the cooking instructions with no additional ingredients. If they say "*serving suggestion" near the picture, they can put other food alongside it or minimal sprinkling/condiments (such as cheese or worcestershire sauce) as long as it is clear from the written label what is contained in the package (or if it is mostly transparent, obviously).
AFAIK, it is illegal to cover the food in inedible chemicals or to use artifical food substitutes in order to make it look better. I am unsure if takeaway ketchup counts as an inedible chemical, but macdonalds actually puts it on the food you buy anyway, so I suppose that's okay.
The inventor's web site (amateurish though it is) makes no claim of over-unity. It is just the dumbarses at OSEN who said "The technology claims to be able to increase magnet motor efficiency substantially, even over the 100% barrier."
Notice who they said *made* that claim... The motors themselves. That's right, OSEN thinks magnets have acheived sentience - perhaps they have harnessed the untapped self-awareness in the cosmic microwave background...
As far as I can see, the inventor merely claims that the new motor design is much more efficient than old motors. From a cursory and naive appraisal, I think the inventor is suggesting that you could take an electric motor from about 88% efficient to about 97%, theoretically, of course.
> How do I use that with Ubuntu instead of OpenSuSE?
Install Ubuntu Dapper (now in stabilisation to prepare for release in April). Xgl is in the "universe" repository, and instructions for enabling it are around somewhere.
The virus is reported to have first emerged on the 16th January 2006. Sophos says they provided protection from 16:03:20 GMT on that day. So while it may have taken ages for you to find an anti-virus vender with detection or removal, there *were* solutions on the same day. Trend Micro also says their pattern file was release on the 16th, and they give the time when the description on their website was written as 14:23:21 GMT, but they don't say what time their pattern file was released. Mcafee even claims that they detected the virus from 2nd December 2005 - presumably since this was a variation of an existing worm that their existing detection happened to also detect. I don't know how many of the other AV vendors *also* detected it due to happenstance before it even existed.
There was also detection officially available from some other AV vendors on the 17th:
> Interesting about the syphillis though. Never thought of it that way, and never encountered it in my readings of history.
I could be mistaken, but I thought European aristocrats would paint their lesions black to make them look acceptable, people would paint similar black blobs on themselves to look like the powerful.
> I think right now we're in an anti-intellectual period in the United States
It is normal for the dominant fashion of a nation to be modelled on its leader (eg making yourself look like you've got syphillis was popular hundreds of years ago, when the rich and powerful all had syphillis).
Bollocks my arse. The web site is "easy reading", go read the statutes - at least a couple of years ago, they explained in much more detail in their "YOU COULD BE FINED!!!!!111oneoneone" letters. Unless they relaxed the conditions so far as to make collection impossible ("No, I don't *use* it, honest").
> You're hugely confused and/or misinformed, or you replied to the wrong post.
:)
I replied to the wrong post. The parent didn't quote the context properly and I forgot what we were talking about
> Wouldn't all pointer references then have to go through some kind of lookup table, so that the objects could be relocated by the runtime without breaking them?
Only on a computer without virtual memory. In a PC (which *has* virtual memory), you just punch holes in the memory.
What happens is a process gets an "address space", into which pointers can point, but any given address may not map onto some real storage. The process asks the operating system to map a range of addresses onto real storage which the operating system will try to map to real fast memory when it thinks it will be used at any moment. When the OS figures the memory wont be needed for a while, and something else needs some memory, the OS copies the data to disk and redirects the mapping to a proxy that will pull the data back into memory when the process tries to use it again.
When a process knows that it won't need a section of that real storage, it can tell the operating system to unmap it from the address space.
There are various other things that go on, but that's the simple story. From a figure posted in an earlier message, it seems that opera does pretty damned well (in comparison to most modern programs) with just the simple story, not having to rely much on nasty unreliable heuristics. Of that I am impressed.
If it says its a laptop, no amount of cautions should count. If it can become too hot to keep on your lap, it should be called something else.
PHB: "So, you're persuing technical excellence today?"
DR: "Yep"
PHB: "Same as yesterday?"
DR: "Yep"
PHB: "Still compiling is it?"
> Therefore.... you, and everyone else who's online, owes me money for being able to view my web site. My content doesn't pay for itself through advertising either.
Will you operate it non-profit (ie, spend everything you get on the service), will you put a lot of effort into ensuring you have a wide range of stuff available (not just what you'd like to see on the web). Those are just a fraction of the criteria that the BBC are subject to, that makes the BBC so important culturally.
The BBC also play a valuable role in the outward representation of the country, being one of the very highest regarded websites on the internet (check the stats on the netcraft toolbar sometime), and providing some of the most balanced news reporting out there. Some BBC radio stations are also available on satellite radio in the USA (eg BBC Radio 1). The BBC are excellent ambassadors for Britain and the British people (even lots of news in various languages - you don't get much of that on commercial services), showing us at our very best. all for just about £120 per year (a tenner a month - that's less than four pints of Stella).
You would have to try very, very hard to convince me that the way the BBC is funded is a bad idea (variations on the theme excepted).
> The priceless part was excluding headless, internet-less PCs with poor connectivity or missing software (that virtually any PC sold today for more than $300 would have).
My microwave has a computer in it. You think I should have said that having a microwave oven should make the fee payable?
> Well as it already stands, a license fee isn't payable on owning a TV. It's payable on use of a TV to view broadcast TV.
No, it is on having a mains operated device capable of displaying freshly broadcast TV. If you have a TV card, for example, you owe them for a TV license.
AFAIK it is not predicated on ownership, nor on usage, but on residency and availability of service.
> PBS, you pay if you like the content otherwise they switch content to something more people pay money for. HBO & ShowTime work basically them same but charge up front and are usually focused on showing movies and a few original shows.
Exactly, if only a few people like a particular sort of programme, they can't get it.
> I'd think most Pentium level computers can view an MPG or webstreaming programming. So according to your definition almost every internet connected computer in Britian should have to have a BBC Tax associated with it except cluster computers.
I have a TV in my house, so I already pay for the BBC TV content, I wouldn't expect to pay three more times (once for each powerful enough computer). Of course, not all BBC TV content is available yet, and none of it is at a high enough quality to warrant paying for yet.
My other computers aren't powerful enough (one of them can display very low quality streams - and its a bit spotty at that).