One annoyance I had with 2.0 were the number of kdeinit/kio processes started up with Konqueror, that would persist even after it was terminated. (Which also made memory usage comparisons with NS4 a rather tricky affair)
I'm pretty sure I saw on the KDE mailing lists that a patch had been added to fix this, closing kdeinit processes when no active apps were running. It'll be in 2.1, or the current CVS head.
Whoa there, this is already patented.... See patent 5,878,155
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This however draws itself on various sci-fi/comic novels, such as Robert Rankin's "East of Ealing", to name just one. New Scientist had some correspondence relating to this a while ago...
Check out mosix.org, they've got some (free, GPL iirc) software which splits the CPU load amongst a network of machines. You don't have to recompile your software you're running, any software which supports multiprocessor (ie threads i think) will work. Could be a nice addition of a bit of speed for CPU intensive tasks.
Of course the power bills might be a bit high.....
Hmmm. Recently a fair few posts have all been about "in econs 101....." Has slashdot been morphing into a more economic forum, or just 'nerds' are more interested in money??
(I agree with the above poster though, good points).
I think the best strategy is gather as many as you can, neuter them, then box them up and send them to China or India where I'm sure there are lots of aspiring entrepenuers who find lots of uses for them.
Please, send them to Australia, I'm sure we can find some use for them here.....
I also thought of that, it would be excellent. I've got around 100 assorted poxy CDs, some of which are AOL (and I'm not even in America!!!). We've got heaps of sun here in Oz, see how it goes.....
On a network such as efnet, which is generally fairly full of general chat, netsplits and the like are all part of the fun. It adds to the "conversation" and pranks, which make irc so interesting. Sure, for more serious channels it is a bit of a pain, but for channels where people are just stuffing about, like most of efnet and dalnet, there isn't a real problem.
When the US govt turned off the "fuzzification" on GPS, increasing its accuracy, there was an interesting thread of discussion on usenet sci.crypt about the plausibility of someone faking the GPS signal, and misdirecting aircraft. (look on deja or something) IIRC there is no real secure verification of the signal, which could cause problems...
You can't even be a decent gamer on that setup - what kind of comp sci students are they raising these days?
Our comp sci involves learning to program in java (fair enough), using an IDE written in Java (bleh). It eats huge amounts of memory, slowest response, and is horrible. See BlueJ.
Has everyone else noticed that they get a strange sensation of deja-vu whenever reading slashdot. It is rare to find something which is actually news (and new). Perhaps the geeks of the world need to create some more news, to keep slashdot fed and healthy......
An impractical idea, but sound card manufacturers could always monitor voltage drop on their boards and shut down if it increased suspiciously. Don't think anyone's seriously going to do this though, not in mass quantities.
From experiences with DVD region encoding etc, it is likely that manufacturers will take as few steps as possible, to keep their profit margins as large as possible. Somewhere along the line a manufacturer will slip up, and will let the proverbial cat out of the bag.
Whilst it is fine and good for US people to get their free CueCats, other countries miss out.
There is surely a market for these (cataloging etc), so how much would these cost to actually produce. If the price was right, then I'm sure that some company with a bit more grey matter than DC could come up with a good product, and be successful.
Is there anyone reading with experience on how much something like this would cost to produce??
Down here in Oz, 2600, the "hacker" group has a mailing list for old hardware (see 2600 Australia). Anyone with old hardware is encouraged to post, a reasonable amount of stuff goes through the list. Most is free, some is traded for a few beers etc.
What I'm wondering is, how can more businesses be encouraged to participate in this kind or recycling. Obviously they have the most disposable hardware, but its often hard to find it. They're probably prefer to give it away than have people take it from their dumpster......
I agree that in an ideal situation, it items such as this _should_ be hidden from the user if possible. However, I don't think that Office has progressed to the stage where it is possible for the user to do certain tasks without using the "hidden" menus.
Before the interface is "simplified", designers must ensure that it is still possible to do what was previously possible.
"Chinese Walls" is a term used to refer to barriers within say a company or department (govt.)
An example is in a law firm, where different lawyers may be working on opposing cases (maybe not directly, but related), so they should be seperated by some means to avoid conflicts.
afaik, it would not be possible to make the message appear different depending on the key used. The message is only encrypted once with conventional encryption, hence only one message. The conventional key is then encrypted with each public key, so you couldn't produce different messages for different keys (unless there is another flaw in PGP somehow).
It seems that the latest windows ME beta was just sent to interested people. And somehow i got a copy. Didn't work. And in typical microsoft fashion, there wasn't even an option on their survey "it didn't even install" hehe.
Interesting that this/. article follows another KDE2 announcement. I'd have to say that I've given up on Mozilla and Netscape, and switched to Konqueror (KDE's browser). Once it is fully compliant, Netscape will no longer need to be installed, and neither will Mozilla. Suck seems to have got it right.
A few months ago, having seen about 3 irritating Coke ads with annoying music in about 15 minutes on TV, I vowed to never purchase a coke product again. So a huge brand isn't always good. Or maybe i'm unusual.
Looking through http://cryptome.org/cia-iran.htm, the email address of a John Markoff appears various times. Its interesting to note that this was the journalist who was supposedly very skillful in catching "uberhacker" kevin mitnick.
Doesn't look like he was very skillful this time.... (if he was actually involved in the stuff up).
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I'm pretty sure I saw on the KDE mailing lists that a patch had been added to fix this, closing kdeinit processes when no active apps were running. It'll be in 2.1, or the current CVS head.
Umm, what email address in particular were you looking at? I don't get what you're pointing at.
http://partners.ny tim es.com/2000/11/02/technology/02COMP.html
This however draws itself on various sci-fi/comic novels, such as Robert Rankin's "East of Ealing", to name just one. New Scientist had some correspondence relating to this a while ago...
Of course the power bills might be a bit high.....
(I agree with the above poster though, good points).
Please, send them to Australia, I'm sure we can find some use for them here.....
I also thought of that, it would be excellent. I've got around 100 assorted poxy CDs, some of which are AOL (and I'm not even in America!!!). We've got heaps of sun here in Oz, see how it goes.....
On a network such as efnet, which is generally fairly full of general chat, netsplits and the like are all part of the fun. It adds to the "conversation" and pranks, which make irc so interesting. Sure, for more serious channels it is a bit of a pain, but for channels where people are just stuffing about, like most of efnet and dalnet, there isn't a real problem.
http://partners.nytim es.com/2000/09/25/technology/25PALM.html
When the US govt turned off the "fuzzification" on GPS, increasing its accuracy, there was an interesting thread of discussion on usenet sci.crypt about the plausibility of someone faking the GPS signal, and misdirecting aircraft. (look on deja or something) IIRC there is no real secure verification of the signal, which could cause problems...
Our comp sci involves learning to program in java (fair enough), using an IDE written in Java (bleh). It eats huge amounts of memory, slowest response, and is horrible. See BlueJ.
Has everyone else noticed that they get a strange sensation of deja-vu whenever reading slashdot. It is rare to find something which is actually news (and new). Perhaps the geeks of the world need to create some more news, to keep slashdot fed and healthy......
From experiences with DVD region encoding etc, it is likely that manufacturers will take as few steps as possible, to keep their profit margins as large as possible. Somewhere along the line a manufacturer will slip up, and will let the proverbial cat out of the bag.
There is surely a market for these (cataloging etc), so how much would these cost to actually produce. If the price was right, then I'm sure that some company with a bit more grey matter than DC could come up with a good product, and be successful.
Is there anyone reading with experience on how much something like this would cost to produce??
What I'm wondering is, how can more businesses be encouraged to participate in this kind or recycling. Obviously they have the most disposable hardware, but its often hard to find it. They're probably prefer to give it away than have people take it from their dumpster......
I agree that in an ideal situation, it items such as this _should_ be hidden from the user if possible. However, I don't think that Office has progressed to the stage where it is possible for the user to do certain tasks without using the "hidden" menus. Before the interface is "simplified", designers must ensure that it is still possible to do what was previously possible.
"Chinese Walls" is a term used to refer to barriers within say a company or department (govt.) An example is in a law firm, where different lawyers may be working on opposing cases (maybe not directly, but related), so they should be seperated by some means to avoid conflicts.
afaik, it would not be possible to make the message appear different depending on the key used. The message is only encrypted once with conventional encryption, hence only one message. The conventional key is then encrypted with each public key, so you couldn't produce different messages for different keys (unless there is another flaw in PGP somehow).
It seems that the latest windows ME beta was just sent to interested people. And somehow i got a copy. Didn't work. And in typical microsoft fashion, there wasn't even an option on their survey "it didn't even install" hehe.
Interesting that this /. article follows another KDE2 announcement. I'd have to say that I've given up on Mozilla and Netscape, and switched to Konqueror (KDE's browser). Once it is fully compliant, Netscape will no longer need to be installed, and neither will Mozilla. Suck seems to have got it right.
A few months ago, having seen about 3 irritating Coke ads with annoying music in about 15 minutes on TV, I vowed to never purchase a coke product again. So a huge brand isn't always good. Or maybe i'm unusual.
Looking through http://cryptome.org/cia-iran.htm, the email address of a John Markoff appears various times. Its interesting to note that this was the journalist who was supposedly very skillful in catching "uberhacker" kevin mitnick.
Doesn't look like he was very skillful this time.... (if he was actually involved in the stuff up).