This sounds like a design issue on Samsung's part. The firmware should not have been allowed to be altered to a state that the machines can no longer boot. Anyone remembers the notorious CIH virus back in the days? Now all you need is just a Ubuntu memory stick and you can render all those Samsung laptops inoperable...
Ironically, the concept of "desktop as an application" is nothing but new. If you go to your task manager and kill the explorer process, you can get your full desktop without the task bar in pretty much any versions of Windows. Hack, this sometimes happens automatically when I had to kill the unresponsive desktop.
It's sad to see how much money Wall Street firms were able to generate using this open source platform. We have yet to see what the open source communities get from these welches!
Just tried on my home machine (Ubuntu 10.04 64 bit) and it couldn't get the root shell. It's running 2.6.32-25-generic. [*] Linux kernel >= 2.6.30 RDS socket exploit [*] by Dan Rosenberg [*] Resolving kernel addresses...
[+] Resolved rds_proto_ops to 0xffffffffa0bc4860
[+] Resolved rds_ioctl to 0xffffffffa0bbd000
[+] Resolved commit_creds to 0xffffffff8108aee0
[+] Resolved prepare_kernel_cred to 0xffffffff8108b2c0 [*] Overwriting function pointer... [*] Triggering payload... [*] Restoring function pointer... [*] Exploit failed to get root.
There is nothing new to the fact that the power factors of the fluorescent lights are less than ideal. I wrote an article on this a few months ago.
From a consumer's perspective though, he/she is not paying more due to the poor power factor, as we pay the utility companies by KWh not VAh. For the power companies though, it is desirable to have the end users' power factors as close to 1 as possible since otherwise electricity is wasted on the power line.
This does not make any sense. Historically, all the major Windows version numbers were reflected in the ver command. I doubt that the driver compatibility is the true reason behind it.
The main reason people sticked to proprietary software during economic boom time is that that is something that they have gotten used to and there was no reason to look anywhere else. Now it is a totally different story. May be people will start looking at open source software.
Sure, while certain functions people got used to in MS office are not present in OpenOffice, but all this is just superficial and when dollars matter, I think the decision is clear and people will get used to working with open source applications.
It might be a slow process, but once people start to realize that open source software can do what proprietary software offered them they will not look back...
To me, there shouldn't be much a fuss about big corporates supporting open source. In fact, I think there should be more involvement (financially) for those big companies who no doubt have benefited from the open source community. As long as the licensing remains open source, everything is transparent...
The author obviously ignored the fact that geeks think differently than the majority of "normal" people. We write code for fun, not for money. And writing code for free does not necessarily interfere with other things.
Since harddrives are much slower than main memory. It is always desireable to have as much physical memory as possible. Having a larger physical memory is always better than having to resort to swap partition. And if your physical memory is large enough (e.g. 16 GB), you might not even need a swap partition at all.
I found http://www.freecomputerbooks.com/ the most useful. It aggregates information from a lot of sites. And has pretty much tutorials/references for all the languages (C, C++, C#, Shell Script, PASCAL, PHP...).
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I mean, does this self-assembled car pass any government mandated crash tests? Is it actually legal to drive it around?
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This sounds like a design issue on Samsung's part. The firmware should not have been allowed to be altered to a state that the machines can no longer boot. Anyone remembers the notorious CIH virus back in the days? Now all you need is just a Ubuntu memory stick and you can render all those Samsung laptops inoperable...
5/18 in Chinese rhythms with "I am gonna be rich". I am wondering if this has anything to do with Mark's girlfriend...
I heard they just upgraded to the latest Windows 8 Servers?
Ironically, the concept of "desktop as an application" is nothing but new. If you go to your task manager and kill the explorer process, you can get your full desktop without the task bar in pretty much any versions of Windows. Hack, this sometimes happens automatically when I had to kill the unresponsive desktop.
It's sad to see how much money Wall Street firms were able to generate using this open source platform. We have yet to see what the open source communities get from these welches!
Just tried on my home machine (Ubuntu 10.04 64 bit) and it couldn't get the root shell. It's running 2.6.32-25-generic.
[*] Linux kernel >= 2.6.30 RDS socket exploit
[*] by Dan Rosenberg
[*] Resolving kernel addresses...
[+] Resolved rds_proto_ops to 0xffffffffa0bc4860
[+] Resolved rds_ioctl to 0xffffffffa0bbd000
[+] Resolved commit_creds to 0xffffffff8108aee0
[+] Resolved prepare_kernel_cred to 0xffffffff8108b2c0
[*] Overwriting function pointer...
[*] Triggering payload...
[*] Restoring function pointer...
[*] Exploit failed to get root.
But Indeed No Google.
Not true, the debug command is in Windows Vista (at least the Ultimate version)
There is nothing new to the fact that the power factors of the fluorescent lights are less than ideal. I wrote an article on this a few months ago. From a consumer's perspective though, he/she is not paying more due to the poor power factor, as we pay the utility companies by KWh not VAh. For the power companies though, it is desirable to have the end users' power factors as close to 1 as possible since otherwise electricity is wasted on the power line.
This does not make any sense. Historically, all the major Windows version numbers were reflected in the ver command. I doubt that the driver compatibility is the true reason behind it.
From the version number it looks like Windows 7 is just a minor update to Windows Vista (6.1 versus 6.0).
The main reason people sticked to proprietary software during economic boom time is that that is something that they have gotten used to and there was no reason to look anywhere else. Now it is a totally different story. May be people will start looking at open source software. Sure, while certain functions people got used to in MS office are not present in OpenOffice, but all this is just superficial and when dollars matter, I think the decision is clear and people will get used to working with open source applications. It might be a slow process, but once people start to realize that open source software can do what proprietary software offered them they will not look back...
To me, there shouldn't be much a fuss about big corporates supporting open source. In fact, I think there should be more involvement (financially) for those big companies who no doubt have benefited from the open source community. As long as the licensing remains open source, everything is transparent...
The author obviously ignored the fact that geeks think differently than the majority of "normal" people. We write code for fun, not for money. And writing code for free does not necessarily interfere with other things.
Since harddrives are much slower than main memory. It is always desireable to have as much physical memory as possible. Having a larger physical memory is always better than having to resort to swap partition. And if your physical memory is large enough (e.g. 16 GB), you might not even need a swap partition at all.
I found http://www.freecomputerbooks.com/ the most useful. It aggregates information from a lot of sites. And has pretty much tutorials/references for all the languages (C, C++, C#, Shell Script, PASCAL, PHP...).
I mean, does this self-assembled car pass any government mandated crash tests? Is it actually legal to drive it around?