I think you need to learn what a hoax is. Here's what Merriam-Webster says:
Main Entry: 2hoax
Function: noun
Date: 1808 1 : an act intended to trick or dupe : IMPOSTURE 2 : something accepted or established by fraud or fabrication
Where do you get the idea that Linux is involved in any of this? Do you see the guy claiming to be running anything other than QNX?
BTW, apparently what happened is that ZoneAlarm's vsdatant.sys was causing a lot of BSODs, so it was added to the buggy driver list in RC2. Again, driver blocking is not a new feature that was just added--it's been there for ages. Blocking old versions of ZoneAlarm is what's new. I'm guessing that some clueless ZoneAlarm user noticed that RC2 made ZoneAlarm not work and reported it to The Reg saying MS just added this feature just to annoy them.
P.S. ZoneAlarm 2.6.214 and later work fine with XP. Current version is 2.6.231. If you have 2.6.88, it's time to upgrade.
I would not say that adding a major feature that breaks competitors' software in the SECOND RELEASE CANDIDATE is kosher in ANY sense of the word.
I don't know where The Reg got their information, but it's wrong. Driver blocking is not new to RC2. In fact, the Microsoft whitepaper linked to in the article (did anyone actually bother to read it?) says [emphasis mine]:
Since the release of Windows 2000, Windows has had the ability to block installation of a driver through a Setupapi.dll check of known problem drivers. Windows XP adds the capability to update the list of problem drivers from Windows Update. Windows Update, independent of the access mechanism described above, automatically downloads this information.
This isn't even new to XP! I haven't seen any drivers blocked in 2000, but I have XP RC1 on a machine, and if you install Norton Antivirus 2001, it tells you that the Autoprotect service won't work and stops it from running.
That's not a chemical reaction--that's just the temperature of the dry ice. The acetone is used to facilitate heat transfer between the dry ice and whatever it is you're trying to cool. Acetone freezes at -95C, so it stays liquid at dry ice temperatures.
I suspect -80 beer wouldn't be fun to drink though:)
will recover the original document. A couple of these got sent to a mailing list I'm on, and one of them contained an Excel spreadsheet with all the guy's logins/passwords for various websites! (Seems like a bad idea to keep those around in a file in the first place... I'd at least encrypt 'em).
But... Decathlon is a Microsoft product!:) BTW, MS has declared Decathlon obsolete and will no longer be providing support for it... awww:) See what else is on their list of obsolete products.
But the rest of the world knew that gets() was bad before Microsoft even knew what the WWW was. Or before anyone knew what the WWW was, since it didn't exist at the time. Robert T. Morris's Internet Worm, 1988.
For large or distributed entities, such as large corporations with multiple facilities in several cities or states, the corporate headquarters locality should be used. The corporation can then manage its own structure under this domain name. For example:
IBM.Armonk.NY.US
Microsoft.Redmond.WA.US
no good for individuals (since you'd have to change domains every time you moved)
From the same page:
There is no requirement, as far as the overall US domain administration is concerned, that the user of a "locality" US domain name actually be in or have any connection with that locality. For example, the user of Smith.Boston.MA.US could actually reside in New Hampshire. However, please note that the organization information must match the domain name.
no good for projects and organizations either (who wants to make people remember what city and state you lived in when you started a site for exchanging vegetarian recipes or whatever?)
Well, there is the statewide.gen.state.us domain, so people would only have to know the state.
But yeah, in general, the forced geographical naming does make things inconvenient for anyone other than state/city governments and individual users.
I have a domain under austin.tx.us, and luckily, austin.tx.us was delegated over a decade ago to a guy who has plenty of clue. No hassles with Network Solutions, and no registration fees:)
The advantage is that, if you have digital speakers, there's no unnecessary D-to-A conversion.
Where's the unnecessary D/A conversion if you don't have digital speakers, or if your OS uses analog CD audio? In all cases, there's exactly one D/A conversion--either at the CD-ROM drive, at the sound card, or at the speakers.
You can still get it in Thailand and many asian markets here in the US. You can get it in 200ml gold cans, 250ml gold cans, and 150ml tinted glass bottles. It's sold under the name Theoplex-L.
No, it's called Kratingdaeng-L (which means "red bull-L"... I don't know what the "L" is supposed to mean:) Was it really invented in Thailand though? I had seen it in Thailand years ago, but just assumed it was originally from some other country...
Or you could just double-click on the clock in the status bar to open Date & Time Properties, and go to the Internet Time tab.
And I haven't had any trouble getting ntpd working with Windows XP's SNTP client. Neither have I had any trouble using time.windows.com as a server for my local ntpd.
I don't know about the 1GHz version, but I have an 850MHz Inspiron 8000, and it stays amazingly cool. All the heat seems to go out the vents in the back. The top and bottom stay comfortably cool.
Actually, my Inspiron 8000 has a gorgeous 15" screen, better 3D graphics, built-in Firewire port, built-in wireless antenna, 802.11 MiniPCI card, built-in TV out, built-in S/PDIF out, and is a desktop replacement:)
Not that I dislike the iBook or anything--the Dell just has more features than you claim it does. (And the iBook's memory capacity isn't that much higher than the Inspiron's... 512MB vs. 640MB. I wonder if the Inspiron will work with 512MB SO-DIMMs, despite Dell's claim; my previous laptop was a WinBook XLi, which worked fine with 128MB SO-DIMMs, even though WinBook said 64MB was the max).
It stands to reason that anyone who is competent enough to step through machine code in a debugger looking for a hack is competent enough to turn MacsBug back on
Indeed, the nice folks at Bare Bones Software have made DVD Player Helper, which lets Apple's DVD Player run even with MacsBug installed.
I never saw the page, but a Fresnel lens is an insanely huge magnifying lens, packaged in a conveniently flat and lightweight form:) You can get 'em just about any place that sells educational scientific gadgets... Edmund Scientific, for example.
Not ad-related, but another annoyance is Javascript that mucks with the status bar (especially the scripts that display some scrolling message there). To disable that, use:
Yes. That's how you get people to help out with an open source project. If you kept it quiet until it was done, it would never be done.
That's how people seem to be doing it now, but that's not how it used to be, or how it should be. Too many open source projects have "version 0.0.1" or something that does absolutely nothing except put up a window and crash if you try to actually do anything. The menu items are there though, so you know what the "author" expects others to write for him.
Compare that to the CSRG guys, or Linus Torvalds... they didn't announce a new OS [that didn't actually work] and then expect people to write all their code for them, they released working code, which people could then add to, or improve on.
"Open Source" isn't supposed to be a way to get people to write your program for you.
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Main Entry: 2hoax
Function: noun
Date: 1808
1 : an act intended to trick or dupe : IMPOSTURE
2 : something accepted or established by fraud or fabrication
Where do you get the idea that Linux is involved in any of this? Do you see the guy claiming to be running anything other than QNX?
The Japan Victor Company would be surprised to hear that :)
Really, it only plays GBA games. It's just the shell of a Wonderswan. Take a French class, then go read the article :)
P.S. ZoneAlarm 2.6.214 and later work fine with XP. Current version is 2.6.231. If you have 2.6.88, it's time to upgrade.
2.6.214 or later should work with XP. The current version on their web site is 2.6.231. Check the download page.
I don't know where The Reg got their information, but it's wrong. Driver blocking is not new to RC2. In fact, the Microsoft whitepaper linked to in the article (did anyone actually bother to read it?) says [emphasis mine]:
This isn't even new to XP! I haven't seen any drivers blocked in 2000, but I have XP RC1 on a machine, and if you install Norton Antivirus 2001, it tells you that the Autoprotect service won't work and stops it from running.The Internet is much more diverse these days.
I suspect -80 beer wouldn't be fun to drink though :)
dd if=somefile.doc.pif of=somefile.doc bs=137216 skip=1
will recover the original document. A couple of these got sent to a mailing list I'm on, and one of them contained an Excel spreadsheet with all the guy's logins/passwords for various websites! (Seems like a bad idea to keep those around in a file in the first place... I'd at least encrypt 'em).
But... Decathlon is a Microsoft product! :) BTW, MS has declared Decathlon obsolete and will no longer be providing support for it... awww :) See what else is on their list of obsolete products.
But the rest of the world knew that gets() was bad before Microsoft even knew what the WWW was. Or before anyone knew what the WWW was, since it didn't exist at the time. Robert T. Morris's Internet Worm, 1988.
From http://www.nic.us/overview/locality.html:
no good for individuals (since you'd have to change domains every time you moved)From the same page:
no good for projects and organizations either (who wants to make people remember what city and state you lived in when you started a site for exchanging vegetarian recipes or whatever?)Well, there is the statewide .gen.state.us domain, so people would only have to know the state.
But yeah, in general, the forced geographical naming does make things inconvenient for anyone other than state/city governments and individual users.
I have a domain under austin.tx.us, and luckily, austin.tx.us was delegated over a decade ago to a guy who has plenty of clue. No hassles with Network Solutions, and no registration fees :)
Where's the unnecessary D/A conversion if you don't have digital speakers, or if your OS uses analog CD audio? In all cases, there's exactly one D/A conversion--either at the CD-ROM drive, at the sound card, or at the speakers.
No, it's called Kratingdaeng-L (which means "red bull-L"... I don't know what the "L" is supposed to mean :) Was it really invented in Thailand though? I had seen it in Thailand years ago, but just assumed it was originally from some other country...
Hmm, either clueless, or an excellent troll :) One usually doesn't prove anyone wrong by making a string of factually incorrect statements :)
And I haven't had any trouble getting ntpd working with Windows XP's SNTP client. Neither have I had any trouble using time.windows.com as a server for my local ntpd.
I don't know about the 1GHz version, but I have an 850MHz Inspiron 8000, and it stays amazingly cool. All the heat seems to go out the vents in the back. The top and bottom stay comfortably cool.
Too bad you're not an American--if you were, you'd know how to speak English, and know that people put knives in a drawer, not a draw.
Didn't seem hard to find to me... try this link.
Not that I dislike the iBook or anything--the Dell just has more features than you claim it does. (And the iBook's memory capacity isn't that much higher than the Inspiron's... 512MB vs. 640MB. I wonder if the Inspiron will work with 512MB SO-DIMMs, despite Dell's claim; my previous laptop was a WinBook XLi, which worked fine with 128MB SO-DIMMs, even though WinBook said 64MB was the max).
Indeed, the nice folks at Bare Bones Software have made DVD Player Helper, which lets Apple's DVD Player run even with MacsBug installed.
I never saw the page, but a Fresnel lens is an insanely huge magnifying lens, packaged in a conveniently flat and lightweight form :) You can get 'em just about any place that sells educational scientific gadgets... Edmund Scientific, for example.
Not ad-related, but another annoyance is Javascript that mucks with the status bar (especially the scripts that display some scrolling message there). To disable that, use:
user_pref( "capability.policy.default.Window.status", "noAccess");
I suspect they'd use a noise-cancelling microphone... they work rather well, and really help with voice recognition software's accuracy.
That's how people seem to be doing it now, but that's not how it used to be, or how it should be. Too many open source projects have "version 0.0.1" or something that does absolutely nothing except put up a window and crash if you try to actually do anything. The menu items are there though, so you know what the "author" expects others to write for him.
Compare that to the CSRG guys, or Linus Torvalds... they didn't announce a new OS [that didn't actually work] and then expect people to write all their code for them, they released working code, which people could then add to, or improve on.
"Open Source" isn't supposed to be a way to get people to write your program for you.