Weird discussion, as I just got a cable modem and a router. I went with the Linksys BEFSR11 router because it had the features I wanted and was 79$ as an open item at Best Buy. The main feature I wanted for my cable modem was MAC address cloning. I know some cable companies (MediaOne) lock a cable modem down to the MAC address of the NIC they install in your computer. I don't know if Charter does this but I decided I wanted the functionality just in case. The Linksys also supports port forwarding, access/deny lists and will allow for PPTP and IPSec pass throughs. Oh yeah and one of the most important, DMZ hosting so I can play games and whatnot. I don't plan to stick Linux on it because I just don't have the fetish desire to hack Linux onto everything I own. If you plan on getting one make sure you stay away from the BEFSRU31 model instead of connecting to your LAN/PC by Ethernet is uses USB. Even under Windows I've yet to have a USB device work properly.
Several thousand people died today in the course of a few hours. Tonight someone's got to explain to some 5 year old why their mommy or daddy isn't coming home. Rescue workers that rushed to help people evacuate the first building were trapped under the debris of the second building when the second plane hit. 233 people boarded planes this morning along with 25 attendants and 6 command crew members. They thought they were going to suffer jet lag after landing in LA and San Fransisco. Instead they were turned into human bombs. Go fuck yourself you goddamned piece of shit.
You've already encountered this sort of strategy before. Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Beyers is one of if not the biggest name in the venture capital business. They have funded companies ranging from Yahoo! to Amazon to Netscape. Most of the internet revolution rests on the cash they infused into the market (which by the way didn't exist before the companies they backed created it). Complaining that companies all shouldn't own the same thing is a moot fucking argument. Corporations have been scratching each other's backs for years which pretty much amounts to a monopoly if not in name. Stop bitching about one company owning everything you see and hear. Your new Nikes are made in the same factory as Silver Series velcro strap shoes Wal-Mart sells for nine bucks. Tommy Hilfiger shit is made in the same factory that makes Guess shit. A good portion of the stock photography you see in just about everything from advertisements to brochures to magazines are all from a handful of private collections. Stop giving a shit whether your broadband has an AT&T label or a AOL Time Warner label, they're both existing to take your money and then make you thank them for it. Assuming they're going to fuck you over or make you install Windows on your computer is ridiculous, they want the biggest market share they can. Pissing off all the non-Windows users in a given market is not high on their agenda. Besides which if you're not forking over heavy wads of cash for a T1 you should just be happy you've got a broadband connection. Bitching you can't abuse a network service in breech of the service contract is retarded. Besides communication monopolies aren othing new. Silly slashdotters don't remember that AT&T used to own the entire national telephone system. The only competition to corporate giants is municipally owned services (yes that's right kids, low fat socialism) or other corporate giants.
A handful of municipalities in California already do this with regards to electricity and water. For instance Riverside California's been generating it's own power since the 20's when it decided getting power from a neighboring city wasn't in their best interest. Sacremento is another of these cities who maintains their own municipal electrical utilities (I don't know for sure if they own water as well as power). Sactown not having to cow to private power companies' economical whims is probably one of the reasons California got themselves into such a power mess. I don't think that's a bad idea at all for municipalities to buy back their own utilities. I'd much rather have a semi-compitent citizens board in charge of my electricity bill than a bunch of shareholders. Though I suppose the citizen's board could be seen as a group of shareholders though they are more in tune with the effects of their policies on their markets.
If you're slinking around going to work just to get a paycheck, why not just fucking work at McDonalds? Isn't the whole point of working in the tech industry to do something you enjoy? If you don't take any pride in your work it shows you ain't got no self respect. When I do a job I like to think that it's been done right. You're lucky that dude who installed the last elevator you rode in or designed the last bridge you drove over took some pride in his work or else your stupid ass wouldn't be sitting here spouting about shit work ethics and defending a lack of pride in anything.
Did that make sense to you before you pressed the submit button? It sure seems pretty silly now. You're suggesting updating an old version to new standards. That is what the entire concept of versioning is based around! You cap old versions and start anew for the entire purpose of keeping your applications up to date.
Just because silicon has a similar valence shell to carbon does not make it a suitable basis for living organisms. Silicon oxides behave very differently from carbon oxides in fact IIRC Silicon Monoxide isn't even a stable compound. The fact DNA even exists is due to the chemical properties of carbon based compounds, similar structures are not possible using a silicon base. The postulate that silicon based organisms could even exist was formed in a period when organic chemistry was a fairly young science and some engineer somewhere got ahold of a periodic table and concluded that a similar valence shell means that two completely unalike elements might be the basis for some form of life. Indeed maybe somewhere some sentient clay feeds off the UV radiation of a blue giant star but we'd have so very little in common with such an organism we probably couldn't event recognize it as an organism. Learn to trust chemistry a little bit more when theorizing about the existance of extra terrestrial life. We're a not terribly unique planet around a not terribly unique star. Earth has probably a fairly broad spectrum of indiginous life forms compared to the rest of the universe.
In publishing there are few editions of a manuscript ever printed that contain no errors. When enough errors exist in a given edition the publisher will often times issue a reprint with errors corrected. This used to be a big problem of publishers before the advent of computers when legions of people hand take a handwritten manuscript and pre-press it all by hand. Things in the books also get changed by the author or rights holder of the manuscript. Sometimes the book you read is not the same one the author originally wrote. If you want to do a little homework to see how drastic this can be sometimes, pick up a copy of the original draft of John Locke's Treatise on Government and then read the touched up copy they give you in a US government class. There's several major editions all with several large variances because when Locke originally wrote the treatises he wrote under a pen name with little to no fear of reprisal but later editions left things out because it was figured he was the author, then later after certain revolutions took place those things were re-added. For a second project look into a comparison between old or middle English copies of the Bible and the modern King James edition. A good deal of the passages lose a bit of their meaning when you read the archaic copies. The modern language does not mesh very well contextually with the archaic language though the mechanics are similar.
Now skip ahead to the modern times when books are often times written on word processors and a single editor reviews the work accepts and suggests changes then finalizes the draft and sends it to an electronic pre-press. There's far fewer human based errors in modern print books so there's fewer editions from the same publisher printed. The only big changes are the one the author or editor decides to make in terms of actual content of the book. This is perfectly legal and fine for them to do. It is fine because most often if there was an original print of the book it ended up in some library or catalog somewhere. A hardcopy exists of the original work. Say someone actually got a copy of Catcher in the Rye printed with fewer profanities and got it out to the public at large. You'd know it was an edited work because you could go find an original print of the book if you really wanted one. As long as a group of extremists went and burned the original copies of the book you couldn't pass the profanity free copy off as the real thing. Hard copies of things can be difficult to get rid of because they are so entirely physical.
Enter e-books. Ahead fifty years from now, the printing of hard copy paper books is passe so all books are published electronically. Books are are now ethereal constructs. They can be transmitted in less than a fraction of a second to thousands of people and a library of them can be stored in a square inch of physical space. Man how revolutionary! They can also be wiped out by a single keystroke. The ethereal entities that books are can be wiped out or changed with the same whim it takes to transmit or store them in come digital medium. A scratched optical disk or pulled power plug can wipe out an entire strata of contemporary society. Was I the only one who read and understood 1984? Most of the shit you know or think you know is what you've been told. If someone is teeling you bullshit, all you know is bullshit. The books that did exist in Winston Smith's world were rewritten en masse to accord themselves with the contemporary situation at hand. You don't need to be a wild conspiracy theorist to think up some situations where the metaphysical nature of literature is abused. Shit, in computer terms, if a bug exists in code put into a CVS root the rest of the servers pulling from that root will get the same bug. Fouling the source fouls up everything. It's fairly easy to foul up the source if the only source is electronic. How many Gutenburg books have you seen with major typos in them, in fifty years literature students might discuss the poetic use of bad grammar in a work just because the only copy of the book in existance has been a fouled up copy with a typo from some text file that ran afoul of gzip. I'll stick with real paper.
That's exactly what I said you dumb piece of shit. Your mom must have shit the best part of you out during a contraction. An object browser lets you browse the functions in the code (especially big libraries of source files) very easily so you can quickly accustome yourself to the functions in question. The sort of questions that are important like what sort of value the function returns and what arguments it expects. Far too many times have the bugs I've run into in other people's code are where a second programmer didn't call the first programmer's functions correctly so shit died unexpectedly when some special case came up that some obscure boolean argument would have handled (is device0 active, if none given assume true sort of situations) but was not required by the function. It's anonymous cowards like you that make me dislike anonymous cowards in general.
You make good points but none of them are worth a shit. You do not take into account all of the people who watch TechTv and were told by Leo Laporte that running Linux was a cool and smart thing to do. These people know shit about computers but found themselves a Linux for Dummies book and actually got RedHat or Mandrake installed on their system. I don't give a fuck about this particular trojan but I was making a point about all of the linux users that DON'T know something odd is happening. Do you really know what every single line in/var/log/messages actually means? And saying the linux community is well informed is the most bullshit thing I have ever heard of. The people that run around in root will find a way to run some foreign program that they got in their mail. The next trojan will be sent as an RPM or be in a tar.gz that gets included by a rogue header. You wouldn't recognize a trojan out of thousands of lines of code, don't give yourself that much credit. The Linux community is the most pompous overzealous group of computer users I have seen in a long time. They are NOT well informed they are well hyped.
One thing I haven't seen mentioned so far is that a good IDE will not only help you navigate your own complex code but it will also help you navigate other people's complex code. I've seen some well documented source before (usually CIS student's work) but for the most part I've found commenting VERY lacking on alot of projects. A good IDE with an object browser is great for browsing functions that aren't very well documented or commented.
The problem with saying "oh yeah this is easy to detect/fix" is that you're not looking from the standpoint of non-linux geeks. I've never really had a problem with trojans or virii on any of my Windows machines because I know how not to pick them up. They're headaches because most people don't know how to avoid them. The same goes with all the people who picked up a copy of RedHat and run around as root because they don't know any better. Linux is only as secure and efficient as the people using it. Weenie.
Well since you've decided to go into the realm of complete probability, calculate the probability that a particle/anti-particle pair will pop into existance in the exact Shwartzchild radius from the center of the black hole to do what you mentioned. Limit your timespan to the 50 or so billion postulated years the universe will remain in existance. You're also assuming that particle/anti-particle mechanics works the same way inside of the event horizon as it does outside of it. If a particle is stretched to infinity inside the gravity well of the black hole spin would become meaningless and thus the anti-particle would become just more electrically inert matter warping space-time. Basil, I seem to have gone all cross eyed.
Where do you get that a black holewill dissipate if it isn't eating up new matter? It is collapsed matter, it won't just disappear if given enough time. Besides the singularities themselves don't give off x-rays and gamma rays (nothing gets past the event horizon) it is matter accelerating towards the "surface" of the hole at crazy fast deltas and being stretched nearly infinitely by the tidal forces that emits said radiation. I just moved so I don't know what box my old cosmology notes are in but if you're interested I can find the equations that demonstrate all this.
Before you ask if StarOffice/OpenOffice can take the place of MS Office (from 95 to XP) take a MOUS certification course. Office 2k and XP both allow you to write your own utility bars and whatnot so you can get a ton of work done at the touch of a button. A VB macro and some document templates and you can send out a form letter with database derived data to thousands of people by clicking a single button. If you're a smart office manager you'll completely customize Office for people's specific needs so they can click a few buttonsand have their work done for them. Opening Word documents and editing them is nothing compared to the real capabilities of Word. Microsoft's corporate masters may be a handful of jackasses but I think the Office dev team is a pretty sharp group of people. I really don't think open source groups have yet to release an Office suite that would impress me in the slightest. What ever happened to Applix? Oh yeah, Linux folk can't imagine using software they might have to pay for. Cheap fuckers.
All the bitching. Oi. Some of the heaviest anti-armour munitions in use by NATO members are big solid chunks of depleted uranium. When these big solid chunks smash into the side of an armoured vehicle to do the damage they're intended to do portions on them vaporize. Then when friendly soldiers go through the area they're beathing in lungfuls of not quite unradiactive uranium. Same thing goes for heavily leaded munitions. Besides being bad for friendly soldiers these sorts of munitions are bad for limited engagements in an area where civilians are going to be moved into at some point. If you've got a strip of land that a tank battle took place on with lead and uranaium dust and bits flying everywhere you're not exactly apt to move children and livestock onto it later because it's so contaminated. Look at the Gaza strip, that track of land is so wasted from the constant fighting there, even if Isreal and Palestine stopped fighting people could never live there again.
Intel is finally letting its vendors get into the REAL high-end games. I'm curious now to see how Itanium fares against both the USPARC3 and POWER3/4 in real world performance. Does Intel really have a chance here by deviating from the RISC-like quo of the market? Well I suppose Intel will only be making the chips and everyone else will be building the boxes. This raises another question; what are Sun and IBM going to do to compete? Sun and IBM are both in charge of production of their high end chips and thus have fairly fine control over the margins. Other OEMs on the other hand like HP and (let's say) Dell are getting their chips from an outside producer whose producing them in much higher quantities than IBM or Sun. This puts Intel in the position of eventually cheapening their chips enough to where HP and Dell can undercut Sun and IBM in price/performance. So anybody have access to a high end workstation they can jam a Red Hat install onto for a little for some Mindcraft style tests? Mindcraft in the sense they are simulated real world tests as opposed to pure benchmarking.
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Considering the chip is marketed towards high end servers and workstations it will probably never see Windows 95 installed on or around it. There is no need for Windows 95 on Itanium based systems. Check out SGI's 750 or the HP i2000, SGI only offers Linux as of yet on theirs while HP offers HP-UX Linux and WindowsXP on theirs. DOS is nowhere to be seen on these boxes and will not be seen on them.
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If you want to know why this is off topic look up the specs of an UltraSPARC III or POWER3 processor and figure out how many watts of power they each up. An Itanium is right up there in line with them. A bajillion registers and 6 megs of on chip cache lends to sucking down a whole bunch of amperage. It isn't like Athlons plus the Golden Orb fan you've got on top doesn't suck down its fair amount of power.
Aw fuck man are you telling me all the Ports I have running on Darwin right now don't really work? You're a life saver, I don't know what would have happened if someone didn't come along to tell me that my software was tricking me. It's good to know all those man pages talking about BSD Unix are fakes. Phew. In a world of bad apples you're a dumb piece of shit.
I love the theory at the end. "If hell freezez over and a Linux virus installs itself on every PC in the world and makes people whiny open source zealots with no tolerance for anyone not serving their interests Trident will be fucked in the consumer market!" That's like waiting for Netscape to release a stable browser.
Tough words for an anonymous coward. Just to make you look dumb, the technology I was talking about in IA's is displays and memory. I bought a Trinitron about five years ago (Sony was the only manufacturer of them then) and it set me back a couple hundred bucks. Even a regular 15'" monitor would set you back a pretty penny, now they're practically disposable. I also don't see how saying the internet holding little appeal for the masses doesn't relate to people not knowing what the fuck it was. You must be the same little kid who tried to flame me a couple days ago. Here's hoping your mommy takes away your computer privilages.
I'm starting to think that Internet Appliances are the bastard child of the PC revolution of the 90's. If the Audrey, eVilla, or iPaq were released five years ago when the cheapest PC you could buy was around two grand they would have sold like mad. However five years ago the internet was small and held little appeal for the masses and the connectivity and technology in new IAs didn't exist. Now such technology is abundant and cheap and you've got full fledged PCs selling for the price of one of these toys. You can get a laptop with the capabilities of a PC for less than a thousand dollars now. With IAs you're also stuck functionality wise. Often times they're designed around the vendor's website which they navigate well but fair poorly when you want to visit any other set of web pages. It's pretty evident IAs aren't well liked as-is because there's always such a big drive to hack them to make them into X terminals or just use a different set of software on them. Too bad the coolest thing about the eVilla was the look of it.
This is a rad idea for a well funded open source project. It is the sort of thing that inspires people to get excited about helping out with a project. It's nice to be a volunteer and get your name in the credits but it's even nicer to get something tangible for spending some of your time and effort. Now if Ximian will just change their name back that would be even cooler.
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Weird discussion, as I just got a cable modem and a router. I went with the Linksys BEFSR11 router because it had the features I wanted and was 79$ as an open item at Best Buy. The main feature I wanted for my cable modem was MAC address cloning. I know some cable companies (MediaOne) lock a cable modem down to the MAC address of the NIC they install in your computer. I don't know if Charter does this but I decided I wanted the functionality just in case. The Linksys also supports port forwarding, access/deny lists and will allow for PPTP and IPSec pass throughs. Oh yeah and one of the most important, DMZ hosting so I can play games and whatnot. I don't plan to stick Linux on it because I just don't have the fetish desire to hack Linux onto everything I own. If you plan on getting one make sure you stay away from the BEFSRU31 model instead of connecting to your LAN/PC by Ethernet is uses USB. Even under Windows I've yet to have a USB device work properly.
Several thousand people died today in the course of a few hours. Tonight someone's got to explain to some 5 year old why their mommy or daddy isn't coming home. Rescue workers that rushed to help people evacuate the first building were trapped under the debris of the second building when the second plane hit. 233 people boarded planes this morning along with 25 attendants and 6 command crew members. They thought they were going to suffer jet lag after landing in LA and San Fransisco. Instead they were turned into human bombs. Go fuck yourself you goddamned piece of shit.
You've already encountered this sort of strategy before. Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Beyers is one of if not the biggest name in the venture capital business. They have funded companies ranging from Yahoo! to Amazon to Netscape. Most of the internet revolution rests on the cash they infused into the market (which by the way didn't exist before the companies they backed created it). Complaining that companies all shouldn't own the same thing is a moot fucking argument. Corporations have been scratching each other's backs for years which pretty much amounts to a monopoly if not in name. Stop bitching about one company owning everything you see and hear. Your new Nikes are made in the same factory as Silver Series velcro strap shoes Wal-Mart sells for nine bucks. Tommy Hilfiger shit is made in the same factory that makes Guess shit. A good portion of the stock photography you see in just about everything from advertisements to brochures to magazines are all from a handful of private collections. Stop giving a shit whether your broadband has an AT&T label or a AOL Time Warner label, they're both existing to take your money and then make you thank them for it. Assuming they're going to fuck you over or make you install Windows on your computer is ridiculous, they want the biggest market share they can. Pissing off all the non-Windows users in a given market is not high on their agenda. Besides which if you're not forking over heavy wads of cash for a T1 you should just be happy you've got a broadband connection. Bitching you can't abuse a network service in breech of the service contract is retarded. Besides communication monopolies aren othing new. Silly slashdotters don't remember that AT&T used to own the entire national telephone system. The only competition to corporate giants is municipally owned services (yes that's right kids, low fat socialism) or other corporate giants.
A handful of municipalities in California already do this with regards to electricity and water. For instance Riverside California's been generating it's own power since the 20's when it decided getting power from a neighboring city wasn't in their best interest. Sacremento is another of these cities who maintains their own municipal electrical utilities (I don't know for sure if they own water as well as power). Sactown not having to cow to private power companies' economical whims is probably one of the reasons California got themselves into such a power mess. I don't think that's a bad idea at all for municipalities to buy back their own utilities. I'd much rather have a semi-compitent citizens board in charge of my electricity bill than a bunch of shareholders. Though I suppose the citizen's board could be seen as a group of shareholders though they are more in tune with the effects of their policies on their markets.
If you're slinking around going to work just to get a paycheck, why not just fucking work at McDonalds? Isn't the whole point of working in the tech industry to do something you enjoy? If you don't take any pride in your work it shows you ain't got no self respect. When I do a job I like to think that it's been done right. You're lucky that dude who installed the last elevator you rode in or designed the last bridge you drove over took some pride in his work or else your stupid ass wouldn't be sitting here spouting about shit work ethics and defending a lack of pride in anything.
Did that make sense to you before you pressed the submit button? It sure seems pretty silly now. You're suggesting updating an old version to new standards. That is what the entire concept of versioning is based around! You cap old versions and start anew for the entire purpose of keeping your applications up to date.
Just because silicon has a similar valence shell to carbon does not make it a suitable basis for living organisms. Silicon oxides behave very differently from carbon oxides in fact IIRC Silicon Monoxide isn't even a stable compound. The fact DNA even exists is due to the chemical properties of carbon based compounds, similar structures are not possible using a silicon base. The postulate that silicon based organisms could even exist was formed in a period when organic chemistry was a fairly young science and some engineer somewhere got ahold of a periodic table and concluded that a similar valence shell means that two completely unalike elements might be the basis for some form of life. Indeed maybe somewhere some sentient clay feeds off the UV radiation of a blue giant star but we'd have so very little in common with such an organism we probably couldn't event recognize it as an organism. Learn to trust chemistry a little bit more when theorizing about the existance of extra terrestrial life. We're a not terribly unique planet around a not terribly unique star. Earth has probably a fairly broad spectrum of indiginous life forms compared to the rest of the universe.
In publishing there are few editions of a manuscript ever printed that contain no errors. When enough errors exist in a given edition the publisher will often times issue a reprint with errors corrected. This used to be a big problem of publishers before the advent of computers when legions of people hand take a handwritten manuscript and pre-press it all by hand. Things in the books also get changed by the author or rights holder of the manuscript. Sometimes the book you read is not the same one the author originally wrote. If you want to do a little homework to see how drastic this can be sometimes, pick up a copy of the original draft of John Locke's Treatise on Government and then read the touched up copy they give you in a US government class. There's several major editions all with several large variances because when Locke originally wrote the treatises he wrote under a pen name with little to no fear of reprisal but later editions left things out because it was figured he was the author, then later after certain revolutions took place those things were re-added. For a second project look into a comparison between old or middle English copies of the Bible and the modern King James edition. A good deal of the passages lose a bit of their meaning when you read the archaic copies. The modern language does not mesh very well contextually with the archaic language though the mechanics are similar.
Now skip ahead to the modern times when books are often times written on word processors and a single editor reviews the work accepts and suggests changes then finalizes the draft and sends it to an electronic pre-press. There's far fewer human based errors in modern print books so there's fewer editions from the same publisher printed. The only big changes are the one the author or editor decides to make in terms of actual content of the book. This is perfectly legal and fine for them to do. It is fine because most often if there was an original print of the book it ended up in some library or catalog somewhere. A hardcopy exists of the original work. Say someone actually got a copy of Catcher in the Rye printed with fewer profanities and got it out to the public at large. You'd know it was an edited work because you could go find an original print of the book if you really wanted one. As long as a group of extremists went and burned the original copies of the book you couldn't pass the profanity free copy off as the real thing. Hard copies of things can be difficult to get rid of because they are so entirely physical.
Enter e-books. Ahead fifty years from now, the printing of hard copy paper books is passe so all books are published electronically. Books are are now ethereal constructs. They can be transmitted in less than a fraction of a second to thousands of people and a library of them can be stored in a square inch of physical space. Man how revolutionary! They can also be wiped out by a single keystroke. The ethereal entities that books are can be wiped out or changed with the same whim it takes to transmit or store them in come digital medium. A scratched optical disk or pulled power plug can wipe out an entire strata of contemporary society. Was I the only one who read and understood 1984? Most of the shit you know or think you know is what you've been told. If someone is teeling you bullshit, all you know is bullshit. The books that did exist in Winston Smith's world were rewritten en masse to accord themselves with the contemporary situation at hand. You don't need to be a wild conspiracy theorist to think up some situations where the metaphysical nature of literature is abused. Shit, in computer terms, if a bug exists in code put into a CVS root the rest of the servers pulling from that root will get the same bug. Fouling the source fouls up everything. It's fairly easy to foul up the source if the only source is electronic. How many Gutenburg books have you seen with major typos in them, in fifty years literature students might discuss the poetic use of bad grammar in a work just because the only copy of the book in existance has been a fouled up copy with a typo from some text file that ran afoul of gzip. I'll stick with real paper.
That's exactly what I said you dumb piece of shit. Your mom must have shit the best part of you out during a contraction. An object browser lets you browse the functions in the code (especially big libraries of source files) very easily so you can quickly accustome yourself to the functions in question. The sort of questions that are important like what sort of value the function returns and what arguments it expects. Far too many times have the bugs I've run into in other people's code are where a second programmer didn't call the first programmer's functions correctly so shit died unexpectedly when some special case came up that some obscure boolean argument would have handled (is device0 active, if none given assume true sort of situations) but was not required by the function. It's anonymous cowards like you that make me dislike anonymous cowards in general.
You make good points but none of them are worth a shit. You do not take into account all of the people who watch TechTv and were told by Leo Laporte that running Linux was a cool and smart thing to do. These people know shit about computers but found themselves a Linux for Dummies book and actually got RedHat or Mandrake installed on their system. I don't give a fuck about this particular trojan but I was making a point about all of the linux users that DON'T know something odd is happening. Do you really know what every single line in /var/log/messages actually means? And saying the linux community is well informed is the most bullshit thing I have ever heard of. The people that run around in root will find a way to run some foreign program that they got in their mail. The next trojan will be sent as an RPM or be in a tar.gz that gets included by a rogue header. You wouldn't recognize a trojan out of thousands of lines of code, don't give yourself that much credit. The Linux community is the most pompous overzealous group of computer users I have seen in a long time. They are NOT well informed they are well hyped.
One thing I haven't seen mentioned so far is that a good IDE will not only help you navigate your own complex code but it will also help you navigate other people's complex code. I've seen some well documented source before (usually CIS student's work) but for the most part I've found commenting VERY lacking on alot of projects. A good IDE with an object browser is great for browsing functions that aren't very well documented or commented.
The problem with saying "oh yeah this is easy to detect/fix" is that you're not looking from the standpoint of non-linux geeks. I've never really had a problem with trojans or virii on any of my Windows machines because I know how not to pick them up. They're headaches because most people don't know how to avoid them. The same goes with all the people who picked up a copy of RedHat and run around as root because they don't know any better. Linux is only as secure and efficient as the people using it. Weenie.
Well since you've decided to go into the realm of complete probability, calculate the probability that a particle/anti-particle pair will pop into existance in the exact Shwartzchild radius from the center of the black hole to do what you mentioned. Limit your timespan to the 50 or so billion postulated years the universe will remain in existance. You're also assuming that particle/anti-particle mechanics works the same way inside of the event horizon as it does outside of it. If a particle is stretched to infinity inside the gravity well of the black hole spin would become meaningless and thus the anti-particle would become just more electrically inert matter warping space-time. Basil, I seem to have gone all cross eyed.
Where do you get that a black holewill dissipate if it isn't eating up new matter? It is collapsed matter, it won't just disappear if given enough time. Besides the singularities themselves don't give off x-rays and gamma rays (nothing gets past the event horizon) it is matter accelerating towards the "surface" of the hole at crazy fast deltas and being stretched nearly infinitely by the tidal forces that emits said radiation. I just moved so I don't know what box my old cosmology notes are in but if you're interested I can find the equations that demonstrate all this.
Before you ask if StarOffice/OpenOffice can take the place of MS Office (from 95 to XP) take a MOUS certification course. Office 2k and XP both allow you to write your own utility bars and whatnot so you can get a ton of work done at the touch of a button. A VB macro and some document templates and you can send out a form letter with database derived data to thousands of people by clicking a single button. If you're a smart office manager you'll completely customize Office for people's specific needs so they can click a few buttonsand have their work done for them. Opening Word documents and editing them is nothing compared to the real capabilities of Word. Microsoft's corporate masters may be a handful of jackasses but I think the Office dev team is a pretty sharp group of people. I really don't think open source groups have yet to release an Office suite that would impress me in the slightest. What ever happened to Applix? Oh yeah, Linux folk can't imagine using software they might have to pay for. Cheap fuckers.
All the bitching. Oi. Some of the heaviest anti-armour munitions in use by NATO members are big solid chunks of depleted uranium. When these big solid chunks smash into the side of an armoured vehicle to do the damage they're intended to do portions on them vaporize. Then when friendly soldiers go through the area they're beathing in lungfuls of not quite unradiactive uranium. Same thing goes for heavily leaded munitions. Besides being bad for friendly soldiers these sorts of munitions are bad for limited engagements in an area where civilians are going to be moved into at some point. If you've got a strip of land that a tank battle took place on with lead and uranaium dust and bits flying everywhere you're not exactly apt to move children and livestock onto it later because it's so contaminated. Look at the Gaza strip, that track of land is so wasted from the constant fighting there, even if Isreal and Palestine stopped fighting people could never live there again.
Intel is finally letting its vendors get into the REAL high-end games. I'm curious now to see how Itanium fares against both the USPARC3 and POWER3/4 in real world performance. Does Intel really have a chance here by deviating from the RISC-like quo of the market? Well I suppose Intel will only be making the chips and everyone else will be building the boxes. This raises another question; what are Sun and IBM going to do to compete? Sun and IBM are both in charge of production of their high end chips and thus have fairly fine control over the margins. Other OEMs on the other hand like HP and (let's say) Dell are getting their chips from an outside producer whose producing them in much higher quantities than IBM or Sun. This puts Intel in the position of eventually cheapening their chips enough to where HP and Dell can undercut Sun and IBM in price/performance. So anybody have access to a high end workstation they can jam a Red Hat install onto for a little for some Mindcraft style tests? Mindcraft in the sense they are simulated real world tests as opposed to pure benchmarking.
Considering the chip is marketed towards high end servers and workstations it will probably never see Windows 95 installed on or around it. There is no need for Windows 95 on Itanium based systems. Check out SGI's 750 or the HP i2000, SGI only offers Linux as of yet on theirs while HP offers HP-UX Linux and WindowsXP on theirs. DOS is nowhere to be seen on these boxes and will not be seen on them.
If you want to know why this is off topic look up the specs of an UltraSPARC III or POWER3 processor and figure out how many watts of power they each up. An Itanium is right up there in line with them. A bajillion registers and 6 megs of on chip cache lends to sucking down a whole bunch of amperage. It isn't like Athlons plus the Golden Orb fan you've got on top doesn't suck down its fair amount of power.
Aw fuck man are you telling me all the Ports I have running on Darwin right now don't really work? You're a life saver, I don't know what would have happened if someone didn't come along to tell me that my software was tricking me. It's good to know all those man pages talking about BSD Unix are fakes. Phew. In a world of bad apples you're a dumb piece of shit.
I love the theory at the end. "If hell freezez over and a Linux virus installs itself on every PC in the world and makes people whiny open source zealots with no tolerance for anyone not serving their interests Trident will be fucked in the consumer market!" That's like waiting for Netscape to release a stable browser.
Tough words for an anonymous coward. Just to make you look dumb, the technology I was talking about in IA's is displays and memory. I bought a Trinitron about five years ago (Sony was the only manufacturer of them then) and it set me back a couple hundred bucks. Even a regular 15'" monitor would set you back a pretty penny, now they're practically disposable. I also don't see how saying the internet holding little appeal for the masses doesn't relate to people not knowing what the fuck it was. You must be the same little kid who tried to flame me a couple days ago. Here's hoping your mommy takes away your computer privilages.
You could kill any offspring you may have and then shoot yourself in the face :D
I'm starting to think that Internet Appliances are the bastard child of the PC revolution of the 90's. If the Audrey, eVilla, or iPaq were released five years ago when the cheapest PC you could buy was around two grand they would have sold like mad. However five years ago the internet was small and held little appeal for the masses and the connectivity and technology in new IAs didn't exist. Now such technology is abundant and cheap and you've got full fledged PCs selling for the price of one of these toys. You can get a laptop with the capabilities of a PC for less than a thousand dollars now. With IAs you're also stuck functionality wise. Often times they're designed around the vendor's website which they navigate well but fair poorly when you want to visit any other set of web pages. It's pretty evident IAs aren't well liked as-is because there's always such a big drive to hack them to make them into X terminals or just use a different set of software on them. Too bad the coolest thing about the eVilla was the look of it.
This is a rad idea for a well funded open source project. It is the sort of thing that inspires people to get excited about helping out with a project. It's nice to be a volunteer and get your name in the credits but it's even nicer to get something tangible for spending some of your time and effort. Now if Ximian will just change their name back that would be even cooler.