Actually, this looks to be a new version of the "helix-update" package that already comes with helix-gnome. It's nice to have LESS information on one screen- It's very uncluttered, and while you may have to scroll a bit it doesn't take much time. It would be nice to be able to turn off the blurbs about each package, but I find the interface fairly easy to use.
The x86 chips that are being released these days are immensely complicated. Windows is
buggy, yes, but if someone wrote a less buggy clone of Windows, it is still going to be an overly complex piece of software
that I would not stake my life on. AMD is prone to exactly the same issues. It's not like AMD chips are orders of magnitude
simpler than what Intel is working on. AMD could easily stumble at any moment, as could anyone working on something so
complex.
Hmm, that's funny- I don't remember any recall-worthy bugs in CPU's in the past couple years. Sure, CPU's are complex, and there will be floating point errors, f00f bugs, etc- but selling a CPU that doesn't work at all? Come on now. It's painfully obvious intel is really trying to keep up with AMD here, and they're failing miserably. If you can't even compile a kernel cleanly on 3 of 3 samples, something is wrong here. While AMD may be prone to exactly the same issues, they're not about to ship a CPU that is that broken. Unfortunately I've been in a similar situation to intel's engineers, on a smaller scale- marketing sets hard deadlines that are a joke. What do they care if the technical department has to work 18 hour days?
no, no- by far my favorite are the garish flashing ads that say "CLICK HERE TO MAKE THIS AD GO AWAY". No, I am *NOT* going to by your product if you annoy the crap out of me.:)
I'm surprised process tree didn't get mentioned in the article. they're not quite live yet, but you can join their beta group. check out www.processtree.com.
I use netscape 4.73 to surf the web, and I can't say I find it to be 100% reliable. The same can be said about just any browser I suppose, but is someone not familiar with computers going to figure out how to pop open a terminal and type 'killall -9 netscape'? Other than that, I'm bout ready to buy one myself!
I was very fortunate to have an excellent AP CS teacher in high school. We moved fairly quickly, and by the end of the year we had studied all the common sorting algorithms, and most of the common data structures. We looked at bubblesort, quicksort, merge sort, stacks, queues, linked lists, doubly linked lists, binary trees, etc. On top of all that we did some GUI projects for kicks, like a calculator, and an application of our choice. I didn't bring away much from the projects, but all the basics- that helped me more than anything.
By the time I hit data structures in college, it was a breeze- I had already learned the stuff a couple years back. The best advice I can give is to nail all of those topics before doing any projects. It was fairly interesting, but I didn't realize the full benefit of the stuff until much later.
Similar technologies have been around for a few years that could reconstruct the data stored on a disk from magnetic "shadows". This technology just gives them a much higher resolution method to do the same thing.
At any rate, the one true way to prevent anyone from seeing what's on your disk is to encrypt it- even if they recover the data, there's not much that can be done with it!
I got stuck on this list for having an open relay. At first I was extremely pissed that this rogue group was preventing me from sending mail! Once I found the hole and fixed it, I called the phone number on their site and it was fixed within 15 minutes. The ONLY way you get on this list is if you are "nominated" by someone since they recieved spam that passed through your servers. Sure, it can be a hassle- but there's _no_ reason anyone should have an open relay. As a cursory check, I scan the headers of all the spam I get, and check it against the RBL. Invariably the servers are on the list already- sometimes they've been there for months!
I can see how some people might go as far as to take them to court for it, but that takes a lot longer than 15 minutes!
once again I am apalled at tom's blatant attempt at getting more banner ad impressions. He broke down what could have been 2 pages of content into no less than EIGHT pages. On each of those eight pages, there are 2 banner ads, plus 2 plugs for cnet.com... I understand his desire to profit from his web site, but this is rediculous!
that all these sites make their pages incredibly tiny so that they can get more banner hits? It's gotten to the point on tom's hardware where there is about one paragraph of content, and an image. Obviously it's nice to break the content up into groups, but this is rediculous!
yes, but those are places with tons of metal and concrete, and lots of sharp angles to deflect any radio signals. In an airplane, you're 6-7 miles straight up- it doesn't get more "line of sight" than that!!! there's nothing between you and the cell tower except the shell of the airplane, and air.
Another reason the airlines are _perfectly_ happy to tell you not to use your phone is their in-flight GTE "airfones" for $3/min... they would hate to see you use your own phone instead.;)
Hmm... kinda makes me want to get in the proxy server business in canada! Really now, there's no way to _really_ verify where the end-user is sitting. Sure, checking the IP address against ARIN is a nice preliminary check, but there are plenty of ways around that.
Regardless of what language is the fastest, I use perl because it's the fastest for me to develop in. My time is more valuable than the marginal performance gain you would get in applications like web stuff. Of course, it all sort of falls under "use the right tool for the job."
Yeah, that's one way to look at it. Another way to look at it is that we are getting a choice. Do I want to go buy a paperback book in the store that I'll read once and let sit on my bookshelf, or do I want a digital copy that I can have _right now_ and not kill any trees getting it? Sure, books are arguably the most recycled paper there is, but still- the convenience factor is not quite there.
The real problem is, well, what IS the problem? Is it people sitting at home and being hermits instead of going to the bookstore? Is it megacorps trying to sell us anything and everything over the 'net? Is it book piracy?
Personally I think it's a great thing to see a new distribution medium. The public will vote with their dollars... if people don't like it (DIVX anyone?) it will die a quick death. If people like it, it will thrive and you'll probably be praising it the next week as the next best thing to hit the 'net.
Have you checked out the site _at_all_? Perhaps you should read the instructions on how to make etexts where it goes over in detail how to correctly use a scanner and OCR to create one. Stick your foot in your mouth and start reading before spouting off!
Uh, bzzzzzt... this books is available *ONLY* in electronic form. You can't go buy a paper copy unless someone prints it out. Maybe you should read a little more carefully before you try to get that "first post" out there.:)
Huh, if you don't like it, why don't you set your threshold higher? With the threshold set at 1, there are only ~45 comments for this post, and all of them are on topic. You suggest shifting the scale so that you won't see these bogus posts... well why don't you shift the scale yourself? That's the beauty of the system... it already does what you want it to do!
adforce seems to have been taken out all day.... and since a bunch of sites reference adforce or doubleclick in their banners, they are effectively dead. banners usually appear at the top of the page, they fail to load and people don't bother to wait for the rest of the page.
the easy way around this is to uniquely identify the dvd somehow... perhaps it could have a red coating, sort of like a blue cdr but it would be immediately noticeable that this was a "self-destruct" dvd.
#1: Consider that the volumes of spam we're talking about - probably gigabytes upon gigabytes - would easily paralyze a cable modem connection, particularly when, for most @Home users, the upload cap is approximately 128Kbps (approx. ISDN speed). For anyone to make use of this exploit would require probably a dozen cracked systems per spammer.
I've got one word for you: Crossposting. If you can hit 10-20 newsgroups with one 5k post of text, do that 1000 times- you've just posted to 10,000 newsgroups with about 5 meg of upload traffic. At 128k, that doesn't take _that_ long. Besides, they probably do it at 3am when the cable modem user is asleep anyways.
#2 Every one of those systems is already being used by a human being (scratch that - several human beings; we are talking about a proxy here), who are going to complain to @Home, at which point they would have put a stop to the spamming.
Uh,hello? if they set up the proxy incorrectly that probably means they're not exactly the most clue-ful internet users. All they know is that their service is slowing down- and based on previous posts, @home doesn't give a rat's ass about slow service.
WHAT?!?!? a dry night on your 21st? that's horrible. All you gotta do is call in sick... they will give you a new date to appear for jury duty. Unless you're _on_ the jury, they don't have a problem with you rescheduling. I totally _forgot_ to go to jury duty once, and they just rescheduled it- WHEN IT WAS CONVENIENT FOR ME. I'm in CA, so I don't know what the situation is like where you are... but you _gotta_ do something fun for your bday.
Seriously though, it's nice to see that the editorial staff is checking for older stories. It's a waste of bandwidth and reading time for me to download a story I've already read.
I highly doubt that they are waiting to release it on dvd. Rule number one in public relations is to not piss off your audience... if Lucas really wanted to make it a phenomenal DVD, he would say "we will release the dvd, but later." As it stands, I think he's a friggin lunatic... DVD has really come into its own in the past year, and for a movie like TPM to not be released on DVD is a total step backwards at this point.
This would be great, and could spell the end to my use of VM-Ware... would much rather access the programs on the network than have that dsk image on my hd.
IMHO disk space is so cheap, it's almost a non-issue with vmware. I would much prefer vmware to remoted apps... running something remotely imposes some limits on what you can do. There aren't really any problems like this with VMWare, and when all the DRI stuff is done it should be almost as fast as running the apps in straight win95 with no virtual machine.
I also don't want to depend on some flaky NT machine being up so I can run my windows apps... hell, if VMware crashes, you just restart it.
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Actually, this looks to be a new version of the "helix-update" package that already comes with helix-gnome. It's nice to have LESS information on one screen- It's very uncluttered, and while you may have to scroll a bit it doesn't take much time. It would be nice to be able to turn off the blurbs about each package, but I find the interface fairly easy to use.
The x86 chips that are being released these days are immensely complicated. Windows is
buggy, yes, but if someone wrote a less buggy clone of Windows, it is still going to be an overly complex piece of software
that I would not stake my life on. AMD is prone to exactly the same issues. It's not like AMD chips are orders of magnitude
simpler than what Intel is working on. AMD could easily stumble at any moment, as could anyone working on something so
complex.
Hmm, that's funny- I don't remember any recall-worthy bugs in CPU's in the past couple years. Sure, CPU's are complex, and there will be floating point errors, f00f bugs, etc- but selling a CPU that doesn't work at all? Come on now. It's painfully obvious intel is really trying to keep up with AMD here, and they're failing miserably. If you can't even compile a kernel cleanly on 3 of 3 samples, something is wrong here. While AMD may be prone to exactly the same issues, they're not about to ship a CPU that is that broken. Unfortunately I've been in a similar situation to intel's engineers, on a smaller scale- marketing sets hard deadlines that are a joke. What do they care if the technical department has to work 18 hour days?
no, no- by far my favorite are the garish flashing ads that say "CLICK HERE TO MAKE THIS AD GO AWAY". No, I am *NOT* going to by your product if you annoy the crap out of me. :)
I'm surprised process tree didn't get mentioned in the article. they're not quite live yet, but you can join their beta group. check out www.processtree.com.
I use netscape 4.73 to surf the web, and I can't say I find it to be 100% reliable. The same can be said about just any browser I suppose, but is someone not familiar with computers going to figure out how to pop open a terminal and type 'killall -9 netscape'? Other than that, I'm bout ready to buy one myself!
I was very fortunate to have an excellent AP CS teacher in high school. We moved fairly quickly, and by the end of the year we had studied all the common sorting algorithms, and most of the common data structures. We looked at bubblesort, quicksort, merge sort, stacks, queues, linked lists, doubly linked lists, binary trees, etc. On top of all that we did some GUI projects for kicks, like a calculator, and an application of our choice. I didn't bring away much from the projects, but all the basics- that helped me more than anything.
By the time I hit data structures in college, it was a breeze- I had already learned the stuff a couple years back. The best advice I can give is to nail all of those topics before doing any projects. It was fairly interesting, but I didn't realize the full benefit of the stuff until much later.
Similar technologies have been around for a few years that could reconstruct the data stored on a disk from magnetic "shadows". This technology just gives them a much higher resolution method to do the same thing.
At any rate, the one true way to prevent anyone from seeing what's on your disk is to encrypt it- even if they recover the data, there's not much that can be done with it!
I got stuck on this list for having an open relay. At first I was extremely pissed that this rogue group was preventing me from sending mail! Once I found the hole and fixed it, I called the phone number on their site and it was fixed within 15 minutes. The ONLY way you get on this list is if you are "nominated" by someone since they recieved spam that passed through your servers. Sure, it can be a hassle- but there's _no_ reason anyone should have an open relay. As a cursory check, I scan the headers of all the spam I get, and check it against the RBL. Invariably the servers are on the list already- sometimes they've been there for months!
I can see how some people might go as far as to take them to court for it, but that takes a lot longer than 15 minutes!
once again I am apalled at tom's blatant attempt at getting more banner ad impressions. He broke down what could have been 2 pages of content into no less than EIGHT pages. On each of those eight pages, there are 2 banner ads, plus 2 plugs for cnet.com... I understand his desire to profit from his web site, but this is rediculous!
that all these sites make their pages incredibly tiny so that they can get more banner hits? It's gotten to the point on tom's hardware where there is about one paragraph of content, and an image. Obviously it's nice to break the content up into groups, but this is rediculous!
here's a mirror
enjoy...
yes, but those are places with tons of metal and concrete, and lots of sharp angles to deflect any radio signals. In an airplane, you're 6-7 miles straight up- it doesn't get more "line of sight" than that!!! there's nothing between you and the cell tower except the shell of the airplane, and air.
;)
Another reason the airlines are _perfectly_ happy to tell you not to use your phone is their in-flight GTE "airfones" for $3/min... they would hate to see you use your own phone instead.
Hmm... kinda makes me want to get in the proxy server business in canada! Really now, there's no way to _really_ verify where the end-user is sitting. Sure, checking the IP address against ARIN is a nice preliminary check, but there are plenty of ways around that.
Regardless of what language is the fastest, I use perl because it's the fastest for me to develop in. My time is more valuable than the marginal performance gain you would get in applications like web stuff. Of course, it all sort of falls under "use the right tool for the job."
Yeah, that's one way to look at it. Another way to look at it is that we are getting a choice. Do I want to go buy a paperback book in the store that I'll read once and let sit on my bookshelf, or do I want a digital copy that I can have _right now_ and not kill any trees getting it? Sure, books are arguably the most recycled paper there is, but still- the convenience factor is not quite there.
The real problem is, well, what IS the problem? Is it people sitting at home and being hermits instead of going to the bookstore? Is it megacorps trying to sell us anything and everything over the 'net? Is it book piracy?
Personally I think it's a great thing to see a new distribution medium. The public will vote with their dollars... if people don't like it (DIVX anyone?) it will die a quick death. If people like it, it will thrive and you'll probably be praising it the next week as the next best thing to hit the 'net.
Have you checked out the site _at_all_? Perhaps you should read the instructions on how to make etexts where it goes over in detail how to correctly use a scanner and OCR to create one. Stick your foot in your mouth and start reading before spouting off!
Uh, bzzzzzt... this books is available *ONLY* in electronic form. You can't go buy a paper copy unless someone prints it out. Maybe you should read a little more carefully before you try to get that "first post" out there. :)
Huh, if you don't like it, why don't you set your threshold higher? With the threshold set at 1, there are only ~45 comments for this post, and all of them are on topic. You suggest shifting the scale so that you won't see these bogus posts... well why don't you shift the scale yourself? That's the beauty of the system... it already does what you want it to do!
adforce seems to have been taken out all day.... and since a bunch of sites reference adforce or doubleclick in their banners, they are effectively dead. banners usually appear at the top of the page, they fail to load and people don't bother to wait for the rest of the page.
the easy way around this is to uniquely identify the dvd somehow... perhaps it could have a red coating, sort of like a blue cdr but it would be immediately noticeable that this was a "self-destruct" dvd.
#1: Consider that the volumes of spam we're talking about - probably gigabytes upon gigabytes - would easily paralyze a cable modem connection, particularly when, for most @Home users, the upload cap is approximately 128Kbps (approx. ISDN speed). For anyone to make use of this exploit would require probably a dozen cracked systems per spammer.
I've got one word for you: Crossposting. If you can hit 10-20 newsgroups with one 5k post of text, do that 1000 times- you've just posted to 10,000 newsgroups with about 5 meg of upload traffic. At 128k, that doesn't take _that_ long. Besides, they probably do it at 3am when the cable modem user is asleep anyways.
#2 Every one of those systems is already being used by a human being (scratch that - several human beings; we are talking about a proxy here), who are going to complain to @Home, at which point they would have put a stop to the spamming.
Uh,hello? if they set up the proxy incorrectly that probably means they're not exactly the most clue-ful internet users. All they know is that their service is slowing down- and based on previous posts, @home doesn't give a rat's ass about slow service.
WHAT?!?!? a dry night on your 21st? that's horrible. All you gotta do is call in sick... they will give you a new date to appear for jury duty. Unless you're _on_ the jury, they don't have a problem with you rescheduling. I totally _forgot_ to go to jury duty once, and they just rescheduled it- WHEN IT WAS CONVENIENT FOR ME. I'm in CA, so I don't know what the situation is like where you are... but you _gotta_ do something fun for your bday.
Seriously though, it's nice to see that the editorial staff is checking for older stories. It's a waste of bandwidth and reading time for me to download a story I've already read.
I highly doubt that they are waiting to release it on dvd. Rule number one in public relations is to not piss off your audience... if Lucas really wanted to make it a phenomenal DVD, he would say "we will release the dvd, but later." As it stands, I think he's a friggin lunatic... DVD has really come into its own in the past year, and for a movie like TPM to not be released on DVD is a total step backwards at this point.
This would be great, and could spell the end to my use of VM-Ware... would much rather access the programs on the network than have that dsk image on my hd.
IMHO disk space is so cheap, it's almost a non-issue with vmware. I would much prefer vmware to remoted apps... running something remotely imposes some limits on what you can do. There aren't really any problems like this with VMWare, and when all the DRI stuff is done it should be almost as fast as running the apps in straight win95 with no virtual machine.
I also don't want to depend on some flaky NT machine being up so I can run my windows apps... hell, if VMware crashes, you just restart it.