I like the nice veiled suggestions put forth to slashdot geeks from time to time. I suppose I can buy that color laser printer now, it'll cover its price in no time.
Banknotes should include security features that cannot easily be copied. In short, they should build notes that would cost more than its value in fabrication, should it be made fake. There are see-through sections, tiny cutouts, plastic parts, different materials, thickness, ink and smell that should really differentiate bills even in low-light conditions. Its much better than rigging drivers or chips to detect bills, which I'm sure I can bypass simply by laying the bill diagonally and cutting out the result appropriately.
Could you please explain why sendmail had over a decade of exploitable security bugs?
Yeah. there were'nt enough eyes on it, and Sendmail Inc really left debugging to the community. Dont forget it was eventually fixed. Noone is claiming Windows 3.1 is not buggy.. all software contains bugs somewhere. Only some sendmail bugs happened to live so long and were eventually fixed. That bug became famous because sendmail is so commonly used because its so stable.
I guess some other eye will need to report those bugs...
My pair are included in the many eyeballs working on free software. Expect bugs in redhat's own applications since they belong to one company and their profits. And then, compare OpenBSDs stability with anything else out there.
I understand your time limitations and lack of enthusiasm towards free software, I was submitting bugs and porting network drivers between linux kernel versions when I was working at the factory as general labour. Nowadays I'm working as tech support and busy with a bunch of cisco routers for certifications; building a future and making sure I somehow get paid for my efforts, but I respect and admire the free software movement. I will not be removing my eyeballs from that pool. And you can expect Linux to keep growing without a paid testing department.
Having a monolithic kernel + garbage, monolithic reigstery, no way to control the revisions of DLLs, worse than RPM package management etc is what NT is all about. The UNIX model is making small highly useable tools that you understand perfectly, and making them work together. In win32, if you cant work with an API, you make a new API, and we now have several generations of APIs to deal with just to access the screen, resources, widgets etc in windows. You have a standard API that has worked for over a decade for most UNIXen, and the ones that do change their API purge the last version and replace it with a similar system.... think sysv vs BSD, Solaris sysctls vs Linux sysctls.
Thats why the win32 system spirals into complexity, no matter how much money is pumped into development or testing. Of course one of the best things about windows is also one of the worst, that vendors developing their own drivers for their hardware might make incompatible or bad drivers, or ones that step on the feet of other installed drivers in the system. In the Linux kernel, all the drivers are present before the testers and are considered while any major change takes place.. such as the VM or switching to 64-bit cpu. This is true for most other UNIXen where drivers are sent to the unix vendor for testing as well, but thats not as efficient as the Linux model.
And then the number of eyeballs testing Linux and FreeBSD is a phenomenon Microsoft cant copy. The free software community does not work for a paycheck, but theres more sincerity towards the software than there would be for a proprietary software. Free Software can be a matter of ego and gives a sense of competition with Microsoft. You cant buy that. This I believe is the biggest reason why colossal manhours are poured into free software development, while some of these developers work the rest of their days as data entry or office clerks, even mcdonalds.
If speed is reduced, why should there be a third standard now? Some companies are coming close to implementing the a and b in the same chip, which should nicely standardize WLANs but the addition of g for no useful reason is a pain for this market.
Perhaps there should be one standard that covers both frequencies and enforces the implementation of both by vendors.
Every portion of the market has been hit, from TVs to mainframes. People will buy lower cost machines in far greater numbers now, and 'elite' machine companies are going out of business. Sun has realized this late, and are now releasing cheaper workstations, but their ultrasparc offerings are still a bit too high in cost. IBM got it down just right and started competing with DELL early. Compaq simply lost it.
Apples been bit, and brought out the eMac, and are now making it cheaper. SGI needs to cheapen up too, so it doesnt go the way of the dodo. Especially with such competition from nVidia and ATI on the x86 platform, and the Apple's offerings. We need SGI workstations that do not kill the wallet, beat the ATI radeon 9800 hands down, come with good modelling, file format, rendering software and is Linux-compatible; possibly using Linux. They should do these things before they have to file for Chapter 11.
Microsoft should be really grateful if the market really picks up C#. Instead theyre introducing competition to themselves. Good programmers choose C, C++ or java and stick to it for the rest of their lives. Microsoft stooges however would look up to Microsoft and take whatevers thrown to them, but its the good programmers Microsoft should be going after. They did claim theyve learned alot from Linux's loyal developer community, they obviously lied.
It says process twice as much information. Information tends to mean data such as mp3-encoded data, jpeg-encoded data, undecoded tcp data etc. Now process could mean many things. Sending it out to ram, to harddisk etc would be of the same speed , but doing a xor for finding flags from a network packet header would be faster since more of the packet is in the registers, assuming the information to be extracted is in more than 32 bits of the source data.
Process generally means WORK on it, which means the data in question that might be over 32 bits will be processed twice as fast, unless its already being processed by MMX, SSE(2) et al, in which case, it depends on whether these extensions have been improved too. (dont know about powerpc).
So doctors would have a better control over its locomotion all over the place. Heck it could be armed with scalpels and stitches and needles to perform in-house surgery, but I suppose it would be the size of a baseball, and require its own surgery to remove.
People crash Everyday. I wonder if GOD looks like Gates. No thats too scary, but with all these diseases and weather problems... hmmm...
<i>they're buggy</i> Weve got millions of bugs in us, some even for our health. I wonder if theres a java-based or AS400-based human with fewer errors..
<i>they dont have a development team working on them</i> They usually have two developers who develop but rarely debug the programs. Sadly theres no project manager and really no incentive. But the programs are still branded proprietary and not given out to the public until it leaks out.
<i>Computers crash because people cant catch that one little fatal error in 10,000 lines of code</i> Look at the human genome. Can you debug that? We dont even have an editor for it yet.
<i>Yes, it's getting better with more and more people working on something at once</i> Yeah but thats college and it doesnt usually produce a program (to my knowledge). You cant say its getting better, too many cooks spoil the broth. But the cooks love it.
<i>But even with that in place, there is always that small human error, that will screw something up</i>Ive got over 6 billion examples of that.
Maybe GTA4 will come out to show the player a cop getting the bad guys... and just a small mod ~200kb leaked would flip the cops and the bad guys.
Violence is there and has its effect no matter what direction its in, shoot Osama or driver over newyorkers, its the same thing, gives the same thrills and offers the same suggestions to frustrated kids.
There are simply too many possible jokes to be made for this, but it would be nice to pour sugar into your gas tank and drive till the next utility store.
Couple this with cold fusion and you have germs passing gas and powering entire cities.
Neither opera nor phoenix(firebird) supports x86 Solaris. Ive tried building it but I'm still in the process of downloading yet another library to build successfully. My Solaris machine is a Pentium 133 with 64mb ram, so mozilla is not an option in its entireity, I'd rather use the ancient netscape communicator that comes with Solaris.
It would be nice if they can spend some time with the code to make it build once for Solaris x86. There are plenty of us around ready to buy the first browser for x86 Solaris that is NOT big and slow.
Ive always enjoyed older technologies, seeing them run again. I have XT PCs, commodore 64, and am thinking of some really old larger-than-fridge AS/400 systems etc, to setup and network together. My home network is already arcnet and tokenring, but I'd love to go into larger and older machines, especially if they can be networked and some version of apache run off it. That could almost beat that cluster of Linux PDAs as a web server.
Get cats or dogs. Imagine if the brain cavity of your kids were of the same resonance as the ultrasonic transmitter, or of some natural predator of those rodents.
Better yet rebuild the walls. Being geeky isnt always being smart.
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The SCO spokesman said something was added to Linux by vendors that was proprietary code. That sounds like the kernel is out of the picture, in which case, we cant say their aim is on "Linux" no matter what the intention. So it could be something like YaST or even some fancy scripting. How hard can it be to replace something thats not the kernel in a distro? And this wouldnt affect the other distros either.
Theyre really kicking up dust in the face of Linux and not clarifying why. Everyone has been blindly mounting defence for Linux without even knowing what code came from UNIX by IBM at all. By the time they 'reveal' their little blame, all this wall of defence would have strengthened the case for Linux being really free.. and we needed a phreak losing case like this to give a reminder to the community not to use tainted code anywhere in the distros at all. No other Operating System grew up with so much licensing issues in mind; and Linux is bulletproof now. It is precisely this reason why Linux took the lead over BSD.
The Boss will either just fire the employee or call the cops herself. Regardless, you should call the cops too, especially in the case of child porn which is quite serious.
Ideally you should alert the boss first to prepare for the embarassment and have the spokesman prepare statements before the employee is carried away. Tell her, I intend to notify the cops, she wont be able to stop you then. If she tries to stop you, and you tell the cops, and get fired, youd have a lot against the boss too.
Winds should not be a problem at higher altitudes, and since the first pathfinder flight, technologys improved. I read somewhere on slashdot 2 months ago of some solar panels taking in 250% more energy per area. I wouldnt take dust as a problem on smooth wings, salt, ice maybe, but not dry dust. Theres also no ozone there, which might let in more sunlight energy.
Such a pathfinder would be released from a spacecraft and wouldnt need landing gears or booster batteries for takeoff, that should kill more weight, but then again, I'm sure I'm pushing the luck there. It could just as well go plop like the last great idea for mars.
With the lack of clouds, I think a pathfinder, like the two that NASA created, could be possible. A pathfinder would work well in that low gravity, despite the air density, and we could have a continuous stream of data forever (Or till the pathfinder warranty expires). They should ideally have highres cams pointing downwards for high res ground pictures and could occasionally swoop real low and detect moisture and other chemicals.
Heck they could release many pathfinders in the atmosphere, let em interconnect with long wave radio, and allow them to provide GPS-like location radio for ground machines. If they could act like ipv6 routers between themselves, we would have a mars internet started with ipv6 from ground up.. aliens would be tempted to login and try to crack the pentagon honeypots. Who wants the domain internic.mars?
Modern electronics rely on fibreglass boards, solder,silicon and ceramics. We could lose the solder and fibreglass, and change the ceramics I guess but circuits work badly under a lot of heat... most metals start losing their conductivity at higher temps, so more research. I doubt detectors would work too hot, certainly not infrared piles. Thermometers can work hot.
Most communications and detection would be done with radio waves I think. This also means there should be a way to transmit through all the iron, else use something else that allows radio waves through.
Hawaii is really a network of underground lava streams that come out of the cracks, or rather seeps out. Should the hole be big enough, we'd have a fountain like we have close to some unfortunate villages.
An easier idea might be the deep sea abyss, but heating iron there is tough without nuclear weapons.
Firstly the probe will have to have all its parts be heat resistant, else should have an internal cooling method, and not just one of those Duron fans. And then the probes net density should be the same as the molten iron, so it doesnt float over it and touch the lava. Better yet it should have a way to adjust its own density, maybe eject some ballasts. Since most electronics are less dense than iron, to balance it, the probe should have material that has more density. I wonder if lead would do, or should we try Uranium.
I think the biggest problem will be the earths crust. Where can we find or drill a hole large enough vertically straight?? Hawaii?? Mount Fuji should be a better place but do we really want to drill a hole in that given its history?
And finally the idea that most of the space under the crust is molten mantle is still just a theory. Maybe 100 meters down the iron will just sit on another mass of rock that just happens to be there. And I dont know how will it find and go through cracks. If like water its allowed to drain, it will spread thin enough to damage the probe, so LOTS and LOTS of molten iron should be used on a vertical shaft like mount fuji.
I think radio waves of the right freq can travel within the mantle, so we could have large satellite dishes pointed into the ground. Heck we could even send bombs to China. Designer earthquakes!
In some browsers like opera, you can change the Client string so it looks like IE6. I did that with the opera browsers on some public Pentium2 computers and the clients have been happy to my knowledge. Opera is also more robust, low on resources and fast.
I'm tempted to think something like cygwin rsync would work on windows machines to update opera. Of course, if you dont have apps that require win32, you can move to linux completely, possibly using xpde for naive clients.
I host maybe 7 domains, an email server, and several other things from my dynamic-ip DSL connection. Have been maintaining it for over a year with reasonable uptimes. I cant have PTR records or reverse resolution to my domain... but I dont send spam.
Many cottage-industry websites will be closed and not everyone can afford professional hosting services that use Jboss, postgresql, php4, ldap etc. Least fan sites that can make no money, and homepages.
Long time ago, when I was little, I hooked some 5.25" drive stepper motors through a multiplexer to the parallel port and controlled it through a program in slackware. But this was a long time ago.
Now I wonder whats with this news over here? Next week: guess what! A serial port can be connected to another to transfer data!!!
Further mutations of the virus might enhance Tumors, even kill ordiniary cells. I wonder if these experiments are being carried out in China and HongKong...
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I like the nice veiled suggestions put forth to slashdot geeks from time to time. I suppose I can buy that color laser printer now, it'll cover its price in no time.
Banknotes should include security features that cannot easily be copied. In short, they should build notes that would cost more than its value in fabrication, should it be made fake. There are see-through sections, tiny cutouts, plastic parts, different materials, thickness, ink and smell that should really differentiate bills even in low-light conditions. Its much better than rigging drivers or chips to detect bills, which I'm sure I can bypass simply by laying the bill diagonally and cutting out the result appropriately.
Could you please explain why sendmail had over a decade of exploitable security bugs? Yeah. there were'nt enough eyes on it, and Sendmail Inc really left debugging to the community. Dont forget it was eventually fixed. Noone is claiming Windows 3.1 is not buggy.. all software contains bugs somewhere. Only some sendmail bugs happened to live so long and were eventually fixed. That bug became famous because sendmail is so commonly used because its so stable. I guess some other eye will need to report those bugs... My pair are included in the many eyeballs working on free software. Expect bugs in redhat's own applications since they belong to one company and their profits. And then, compare OpenBSDs stability with anything else out there. I understand your time limitations and lack of enthusiasm towards free software, I was submitting bugs and porting network drivers between linux kernel versions when I was working at the factory as general labour. Nowadays I'm working as tech support and busy with a bunch of cisco routers for certifications; building a future and making sure I somehow get paid for my efforts, but I respect and admire the free software movement. I will not be removing my eyeballs from that pool. And you can expect Linux to keep growing without a paid testing department.
Having a monolithic kernel + garbage, monolithic reigstery, no way to control the revisions of DLLs, worse than RPM package management etc is what NT is all about. The UNIX model is making small highly useable tools that you understand perfectly, and making them work together. In win32, if you cant work with an API, you make a new API, and we now have several generations of APIs to deal with just to access the screen, resources, widgets etc in windows. You have a standard API that has worked for over a decade for most UNIXen, and the ones that do change their API purge the last version and replace it with a similar system.... think sysv vs BSD, Solaris sysctls vs Linux sysctls.
Thats why the win32 system spirals into complexity, no matter how much money is pumped into development or testing. Of course one of the best things about windows is also one of the worst, that vendors developing their own drivers for their hardware might make incompatible or bad drivers, or ones that step on the feet of other installed drivers in the system. In the Linux kernel, all the drivers are present before the testers and are considered while any major change takes place.. such as the VM or switching to 64-bit cpu. This is true for most other UNIXen where drivers are sent to the unix vendor for testing as well, but thats not as efficient as the Linux model.
And then the number of eyeballs testing Linux and FreeBSD is a phenomenon Microsoft cant copy. The free software community does not work for a paycheck, but theres more sincerity towards the software than there would be for a proprietary software. Free Software can be a matter of ego and gives a sense of competition with Microsoft. You cant buy that. This I believe is the biggest reason why colossal manhours are poured into free software development, while some of these developers work the rest of their days as data entry or office clerks, even mcdonalds.
If speed is reduced, why should there be a third standard now? Some companies are coming close to implementing the a and b in the same chip, which should nicely standardize WLANs but the addition of g for no useful reason is a pain for this market.
Perhaps there should be one standard that covers both frequencies and enforces the implementation of both by vendors.
Every portion of the market has been hit, from TVs to mainframes. People will buy lower cost machines in far greater numbers now, and 'elite' machine companies are going out of business. Sun has realized this late, and are now releasing cheaper workstations, but their ultrasparc offerings are still a bit too high in cost. IBM got it down just right and started competing with DELL early. Compaq simply lost it.
Apples been bit, and brought out the eMac, and are now making it cheaper. SGI needs to cheapen up too, so it doesnt go the way of the dodo. Especially with such competition from nVidia and ATI on the x86 platform, and the Apple's offerings. We need SGI workstations that do not kill the wallet, beat the ATI radeon 9800 hands down, come with good modelling, file format, rendering software and is Linux-compatible; possibly using Linux. They should do these things before they have to file for Chapter 11.
Microsoft should be really grateful if the market really picks up C#. Instead theyre introducing competition to themselves. Good programmers choose C, C++ or java and stick to it for the rest of their lives. Microsoft stooges however would look up to Microsoft and take whatevers thrown to them, but its the good programmers Microsoft should be going after. They did claim theyve learned alot from Linux's loyal developer community, they obviously lied.
It says process twice as much information. Information tends to mean data such as mp3-encoded data, jpeg-encoded data, undecoded tcp data etc. Now process could mean many things. Sending it out to ram, to harddisk etc would be of the same speed , but doing a xor for finding flags from a network packet header would be faster since more of the packet is in the registers, assuming the information to be extracted is in more than 32 bits of the source data.
Process generally means WORK on it, which means the data in question that might be over 32 bits will be processed twice as fast, unless its already being processed by MMX, SSE(2) et al, in which case, it depends on whether these extensions have been improved too. (dont know about powerpc).
So the article is right.
So doctors would have a better control over its locomotion all over the place. Heck it could be armed with scalpels and stitches and needles to perform in-house surgery, but I suppose it would be the size of a baseball, and require its own surgery to remove.
People crash
Everyday. I wonder if GOD looks like Gates. No thats too scary, but with all these diseases and weather problems... hmmm...
<i>they're buggy</i>
Weve got millions of bugs in us, some even for our health. I wonder if theres a java-based or AS400-based human with fewer errors..
<i>they dont have a development team working on them</i>
They usually have two developers who develop but rarely debug the programs. Sadly theres no project manager and really no incentive. But the programs are still branded proprietary and not given out to the public until it leaks out.
<i>Computers crash because people cant catch that one little fatal error in 10,000 lines of code</i>
Look at the human genome. Can you debug that? We dont even have an editor for it yet.
<i>Yes, it's getting better with more and more people working on something at once</i>
Yeah but thats college and it doesnt usually produce a program (to my knowledge). You cant say its getting better, too many cooks spoil the broth. But the cooks love it.
<i>But even with that in place, there is always that small human error, that will screw something up</i>Ive got over 6 billion examples of that.
Maybe GTA4 will come out to show the player a cop getting the bad guys... and just a small mod ~200kb leaked would flip the cops and the bad guys.
Violence is there and has its effect no matter what direction its in, shoot Osama or driver over newyorkers, its the same thing, gives the same thrills and offers the same suggestions to frustrated kids.
There are simply too many possible jokes to be made for this, but it would be nice to pour sugar into your gas tank and drive till the next utility store.
Couple this with cold fusion and you have germs passing gas and powering entire cities.
Neither opera nor phoenix(firebird) supports x86 Solaris. Ive tried building it but I'm still in the process of downloading yet another library to build successfully. My Solaris machine is a Pentium 133 with 64mb ram, so mozilla is not an option in its entireity, I'd rather use the ancient netscape communicator that comes with Solaris.
It would be nice if they can spend some time with the code to make it build once for Solaris x86. There are plenty of us around ready to buy the first browser for x86 Solaris that is NOT big and slow.
Ive always enjoyed older technologies, seeing them run again. I have XT PCs, commodore 64, and am thinking of some really old larger-than-fridge AS/400 systems etc, to setup and network together. My home network is already arcnet and tokenring, but I'd love to go into larger and older machines, especially if they can be networked and some version of apache run off it. That could almost beat that cluster of Linux PDAs as a web server.
Get cats or dogs. Imagine if the brain cavity of your kids were of the same resonance as the ultrasonic transmitter, or of some natural predator of those rodents.
Better yet rebuild the walls. Being geeky isnt always being smart.
The SCO spokesman said something was added to Linux by vendors that was proprietary code. That sounds like the kernel is out of the picture, in which case, we cant say their aim is on "Linux" no matter what the intention. So it could be something like YaST or even some fancy scripting. How hard can it be to replace something thats not the kernel in a distro? And this wouldnt affect the other distros either.
Theyre really kicking up dust in the face of Linux and not clarifying why. Everyone has been blindly mounting defence for Linux without even knowing what code came from UNIX by IBM at all. By the time they 'reveal' their little blame, all this wall of defence would have strengthened the case for Linux being really free.. and we needed a phreak losing case like this to give a reminder to the community not to use tainted code anywhere in the distros at all. No other Operating System grew up with so much licensing issues in mind; and Linux is bulletproof now. It is precisely this reason why Linux took the lead over BSD.
The Boss will either just fire the employee or call the cops herself. Regardless, you should call the cops too, especially in the case of child porn which is quite serious.
Ideally you should alert the boss first to prepare for the embarassment and have the spokesman prepare statements before the employee is carried away. Tell her, I intend to notify the cops, she wont be able to stop you then. If she tries to stop you, and you tell the cops, and get fired, youd have a lot against the boss too.
Winds should not be a problem at higher altitudes, and since the first pathfinder flight, technologys improved. I read somewhere on slashdot 2 months ago of some solar panels taking in 250% more energy per area. I wouldnt take dust as a problem on smooth wings, salt, ice maybe, but not dry dust. Theres also no ozone there, which might let in more sunlight energy.
Such a pathfinder would be released from a spacecraft and wouldnt need landing gears or booster batteries for takeoff, that should kill more weight, but then again, I'm sure I'm pushing the luck there. It could just as well go plop like the last great idea for mars.
With the lack of clouds, I think a pathfinder, like the two that NASA created, could be possible. A pathfinder would work well in that low gravity, despite the air density, and we could have a continuous stream of data forever (Or till the pathfinder warranty expires). They should ideally have highres cams pointing downwards for high res ground pictures and could occasionally swoop real low and detect moisture and other chemicals.
Heck they could release many pathfinders in the atmosphere, let em interconnect with long wave radio, and allow them to provide GPS-like location radio for ground machines. If they could act like ipv6 routers between themselves, we would have a mars internet started with ipv6 from ground up.. aliens would be tempted to login and try to crack the pentagon honeypots. Who wants the domain internic.mars?
Modern electronics rely on fibreglass boards, solder,silicon and ceramics. We could lose the solder and fibreglass, and change the ceramics I guess but circuits work badly under a lot of heat... most metals start losing their conductivity at higher temps, so more research. I doubt detectors would work too hot, certainly not infrared piles. Thermometers can work hot.
Most communications and detection would be done with radio waves I think. This also means there should be a way to transmit through all the iron, else use something else that allows radio waves through.
Hawaii is really a network of underground lava streams that come out of the cracks, or rather seeps out. Should the hole be big enough, we'd have a fountain like we have close to some unfortunate villages.
An easier idea might be the deep sea abyss, but heating iron there is tough without nuclear weapons.
Firstly the probe will have to have all its parts be heat resistant, else should have an internal cooling method, and not just one of those Duron fans. And then the probes net density should be the same as the molten iron, so it doesnt float over it and touch the lava. Better yet it should have a way to adjust its own density, maybe eject some ballasts. Since most electronics are less dense than iron, to balance it, the probe should have material that has more density. I wonder if lead would do, or should we try Uranium.
I think the biggest problem will be the earths crust. Where can we find or drill a hole large enough vertically straight?? Hawaii?? Mount Fuji should be a better place but do we really want to drill a hole in that given its history?
And finally the idea that most of the space under the crust is molten mantle is still just a theory. Maybe 100 meters down the iron will just sit on another mass of rock that just happens to be there. And I dont know how will it find and go through cracks. If like water its allowed to drain, it will spread thin enough to damage the probe, so LOTS and LOTS of molten iron should be used on a vertical shaft like mount fuji.
I think radio waves of the right freq can travel within the mantle, so we could have large satellite dishes pointed into the ground. Heck we could even send bombs to China. Designer earthquakes!
In some browsers like opera, you can change the Client string so it looks like IE6. I did that with the opera browsers on some public Pentium2 computers and the clients have been happy to my knowledge. Opera is also more robust, low on resources and fast.
I'm tempted to think something like cygwin rsync would work on windows machines to update opera. Of course, if you dont have apps that require win32, you can move to linux completely, possibly using xpde for naive clients.
I host maybe 7 domains, an email server, and several other things from my dynamic-ip DSL connection. Have been maintaining it for over a year with reasonable uptimes. I cant have PTR records or reverse resolution to my domain... but I dont send spam.
Many cottage-industry websites will be closed and not everyone can afford professional hosting services that use Jboss, postgresql, php4, ldap etc. Least fan sites that can make no money, and homepages.
Long time ago, when I was little, I hooked some 5.25" drive stepper motors through a multiplexer to the parallel port and controlled it through a program in slackware. But this was a long time ago.
Now I wonder whats with this news over here? Next week: guess what! A serial port can be connected to another to transfer data!!!
Please keep my slashdot interesting.
Further mutations of the virus might enhance Tumors, even kill ordiniary cells. I wonder if these experiments are being carried out in China and HongKong...