Re:I have a question about this - seriously
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IE7 Bugs and Reviews
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What you're missing is that IE7 is Windows only (yes, there's a mac version, but its hardly supported as well - and I doubt there's IE7 for Mac any time soon).
If you can ensure that 90% of users on the net need IE7 to view a decent quantity of content properly, you can maintain your Windows monopoly - they need IE, they need a Windows box to run it on.
As you say, there's no money in the browser - however, there's more to web marketing than popup ads.
There was a proposal to tack a $4 or so dollar a month fee onto broadband connections to pay licensing for any music downloaded. That would have been nice.
Thats a clusterfuck.
Why should everybody have to pay for downloading music tracks, when they don't necessarily download music?
Example: I don't download audio tracks, not because I'm necessarily opposed to it, but simply because there's very little media that I actually want to waste my time and bandwidth on... there's even less incentive for media companies to bother with original content if they've got a guaranteed source of income via broadband whether people even download it or not...
The thing is, placing a "tax" on broadband connections for a un-related service is wrong. Why don't we add a movie tax, a gaming tax, and a newspaper tax while we're at it, for all the other media companies who are "losing" money?
But yeah, price tracks reasonably, and online sales will skyrocket.
I agree with another poster. The recording industry is due for one hell of a shake up... in future its likely to be buy direct from the artist...
smash.
Re:Little Point Learning Perl If Not Already Learn
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Learning Perl, 4th Ed.
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Erm.... I just started learning perl this week to administer active directory.
The win32 modules shit all over vbscript or command scripts for messing with AD:D
So there's a use for people who don't know it yet - i'm sure there's plenty more.
Did the benchmarker play with make -j arguments to enable the compile to take advantage of multiple cores?
Did the reviewer try splitting the povray renders into sections, to render concurrently on multiple cores (as povray has been able to do since at least 1993).
Picking, or limiting benchmarks to a single thread when testing multiple core/multiple virtual cpus per core is retarded.
My Bank (NAB australia) uses cross platform banking software. It does warn that it *may not* work if you aren't using netscape or IE, but it will still let you run it anyway, and it does work in other browsers.
I don't see anything that would preclude the ATO software from running on an open platform as well.
Just because your home/personal use gentoo machine is not targetted by anyone serious, and therefore has not been hacked, doesn't mean that no one else:
needs NFS, telnet, and other insecure protocols to support applications required to conduct their business
In reality, software is buggy. "So i'll just go open source then, and fix it myself" you say...
Good luck. There's still plenty of holes in Linux, the BSDs, etc found every year.... and thats not even taking into account configuration errors.
I think of it like this: In theory, seat belts and airbags on your car should not be required, because people should be able to drive, your brakes should work, and your car should be 100% reliable. In reality, that just doesn't happen.
And no, i'm not talking about memory usage - 4 CDs worth, and it didn't even detect/include apps for power management on my laptop.
Wtf? This is 2005...
Ubuntu detected everything, gave me fully working power management, etc as standard.
The package manager is brain-damaged... rather than installing from CDs in sequence, adding/removing packages after install results in swapping CDs several times (ie, CD1 is requested 2-3 times or more), rather than loading everything it needs from CD1 first, etc.
It looks pretty, but as far as use goes, its crap, imho.
Actually.... my BSD/Linux firewall machines *dont* pass requests directly through to IIS. They're run through a few regex rules in squid reverse proxy first:)
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This is exactly why the church is so against stuff like this.
Don't get me wrong, I think religion had its place back when people couldn't read or write and needed a story with morals to keep them on the straight and narrow.
But thats all religion is. A *story* with *morals* that was easy to pass from generation to generation as a guide on how to live.
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If you can ensure that 90% of users on the net need IE7 to view a decent quantity of content properly, you can maintain your Windows monopoly - they need IE, they need a Windows box to run it on.
As you say, there's no money in the browser - however, there's more to web marketing than popup ads.
smash.
smash.
Why should everybody have to pay for downloading music tracks, when they don't necessarily download music?
Example: I don't download audio tracks, not because I'm necessarily opposed to it, but simply because there's very little media that I actually want to waste my time and bandwidth on... there's even less incentive for media companies to bother with original content if they've got a guaranteed source of income via broadband whether people even download it or not...
The thing is, placing a "tax" on broadband connections for a un-related service is wrong. Why don't we add a movie tax, a gaming tax, and a newspaper tax while we're at it, for all the other media companies who are "losing" money?
But yeah, price tracks reasonably, and online sales will skyrocket.
I agree with another poster. The recording industry is due for one hell of a shake up... in future its likely to be buy direct from the artist...
smash.
The win32 modules shit all over vbscript or command scripts for messing with AD :D
So there's a use for people who don't know it yet - i'm sure there's plenty more.
smash.
Picking, or limiting benchmarks to a single thread when testing multiple core/multiple virtual cpus per core is retarded.
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You buy them for the engine, and the mods.
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Oh, ok. :D
Granted, apache may not have been the best example though...
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My Bank (NAB australia) uses cross platform banking software. It does warn that it *may not* work if you aren't using netscape or IE, but it will still let you run it anyway, and it does work in other browsers.
I don't see anything that would preclude the ATO software from running on an open platform as well.
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In reality, software is buggy. "So i'll just go open source then, and fix it myself" you say...
Good luck. There's still plenty of holes in Linux, the BSDs, etc found every year.... and thats not even taking into account configuration errors.
I think of it like this: In theory, seat belts and airbags on your car should not be required, because people should be able to drive, your brakes should work, and your car should be 100% reliable. In reality, that just doesn't happen.
smash.
I don't trust *any* o/s to *never* be hacked - given that, it makes sense to make sure that *when* it is... the damage is contained...
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Then again, none of those who go to church that I know of are "truly" happy either.
Murder, rape, etc has nothign to do with religion. I've seen just as many religious murderers/rapists/etc as not.
Religion isn't vital. Its just what you've been conditioned to believe.
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NOT inter-twined, i mean...
Don't get me wrong, I think it probably *does* belong in the Kernel.
My point isn't that its so inter-twined with IP that its impossible...
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ICMP is not sent at the rate that TCP or UDP are.
How about you get less aggressive, and go get laid or something.
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Put IP in the kernel, put TCP and UDP in the kernel (also layer 4, but performance intensive), move ICMP out?
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ICMP isn't.
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And no, i'm not talking about memory usage - 4 CDs worth, and it didn't even detect/include apps for power management on my laptop.
Wtf? This is 2005...
Ubuntu detected everything, gave me fully working power management, etc as standard.
The package manager is brain-damaged... rather than installing from CDs in sequence, adding/removing packages after install results in swapping CDs several times (ie, CD1 is requested 2-3 times or more), rather than loading everything it needs from CD1 first, etc.
It looks pretty, but as far as use goes, its crap, imho.
smash (Linux user since 1996)
Actually.... my BSD/Linux firewall machines *dont* pass requests directly through to IIS. They're run through a few regex rules in squid reverse proxy first :)
smash.
Don't get me wrong, I think religion had its place back when people couldn't read or write and needed a story with morals to keep them on the straight and narrow.
But thats all religion is. A *story* with *morals* that was easy to pass from generation to generation as a guide on how to live.
Its largely obsolete now.
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Fine, don't expect any medical treatment for severe injuries or disease.
Don't expect CPR.
Because after all... medical treatment is messing with life and death.
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Yay. Where did the other 4 years of development go?
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