Don't write your thesis in Word. I tried to do it a couple of years ago...I had about 50 pages of draft done, all my notes (that's footnotes or endnotes) went haywire. Word started putting them on different pages than the references (and not just one or two--I'm talking about nearly all). It showed up on the MS Knowledge Base as a "known issue" but none of their fixes worked. This was right after Word 2000 came out.
Luckily, I know a thing or two about LaTeX, so I spent (wasted? should have LaTeX'ed it in the first place) a weekend and converted it.
Funny thing, when the new StarOffice 6 beta came out I opened up that old draft...at least from the Print Preview, it looked correct. So maybe StarOffice is OK. Just not Word. Don't trust it.
For example, a 30MB clip art gallery. And the latest java, whether you need it or not (you can choose not to install it, but it downloads anyway). And the BTW, those jpgs and gifs don't compress too well, which is why the StarOffice download is 3x bigger.
I think not all features are available in all the platforms. I downloaded the Windows version and the Toolbar Configuration that he mentioned doesn't function.
Also, for those asking about the difference between StarOffice and OpenOffice, the former comes with a big clip-art gallery, for example. But, it's also 30% of that 100MB download...that's why OpenOffice downloads are so much smaller.
Anyone else thing the
From password-protected source downloads
is a bit silly?
Accessing the pages below requires a username/password.
Username: The name of the network scanning software shown on page 123.
Password: The kernel module listed on the first line of page 353. (begins with the lower case letter 'i')
Sheesh, I just wanted to see what their spam.txt was.
We use CD-Rs for short-term backups. Let's see...one per weekday on 3 machines=15 per week,
60 per month, over 700 per year! If they put, say, a $.20 surcharge on CD-Rs, we'd be giving the RIAA about $140 a year. That's not that much, granted, but $140 * (large number of people) turns into pretty good income.
That hundreds of thousands of machines weren't effected just because they thought that having a web site sounded cool and a friend has a copy of Win2k Server. "I already use Windows, how hard can it be?"
Or that no UNIX vendor runs apache as root by default just so you can use some authentication if necessary (that's basically what IIS does--please, MS, put it in user-space!), leaving machines wide open to stuff like Code Red II(+) that gives anyone full control.
McKee's choice of material is fortuitous for another reason: perovskite oxides can retain internal electric fields for 15 years whenever the power is cut. That could allow a processor based on the material to retain its exact state whenever the power fails. Put the power back on, and the chip picks up where it left off.
I might add that it's been far easier to correct problems with my Linux servers when setting them up. I just grab the newest RPMs, uninstall/reinstall or upgrade the full openssh/apache/bind/etc installations. With MS, I have to get the latest Service Pack PLUS however many outstanding updates there are.
My favourite personal IIS horror story is the time we started hosting a NT Server for someone (I work at a small ISP). This was last month. Any idea what security updates were installed? Did you guess none? I had to go through about 25 separate MS "TechNet Security Advisories"--average of three web pages each (description, license, download). I broke the rules and installed 5 at a time before rebooting to save a little time. Luckily nothing broke, although the 2002 Frontpage Extensions won't install. I cursed MS for not making IIS security updates as easy as windowsupdate.ms.com (IMHO, MS's strong point on the Desktop is how easy things are to do without knowing anything. This is why their servers suck--you have to know something!)
Correct me if I'm wrong, but doesn't Konqeror/Embedded sound perfect for configuring all those 3rd-party apps on servers? You know, the ones that provide a "easy-to-use web interface" for configuration but won't work in lynx/links/w3m (because of frames, tables, graphics, etc)? I usually slog through the raw HTML rather than fire up X on a server, but a small graphical browser might not be any problem.
Not to mention my tech computer, where I have to start X just to read slashdot...
Qwest and Verizon are NOT Baby Bells. The article
goes into depth about how AT&T, MCI, Sprint lost
out in the local market but doesn't discuss what
happened to the real Baby Bells--the ones that
resulted from the original breakup of the AT&T
Bell System. SBC is the only Baby Bell mentioned
in the article that survives as such to my
knowledge, though they tried to merge with AT&T
a few years back, and come to think of it used
to be BellSouth and SouthWestern Bell if I remember correctly.
First, Qwest. The article actually mentions
that Qwest was a startup. They're now one of the
major local phone companies becuase they succeeded
in BUYING USWest, a Baby Bell. Getting bought out
by a startup is usually considered losing, not
winning. No comment on the kind of company Qwest
is, but regardless they are not a Baby Bell.
Verizon. Verizon actually is sort-of a Baby
Bell, since it was created by a merger
between one of the Baby Bells, BellAtlantic, and
GTE. GTE is the problem. They've been around as a
local carrier about as long as the AT&T Bell
System as a COMPETITOR; after the breakup, they
were heavily regulated but (unlike AT&T or the
Baby Bells) allowed to keep both local and long
distance services.
My experience is mainly with
these two companies since they're both active in
the Portland, Oregon, market. (Yes, that's right,
competition.)
I've noticed Win2k has a lot more CLI-accessible utilities--one might think people were actually
using the command prompt. So, my question is:
Are there future plans for providing a *NIX-style
interface (i.e., shell and appropriate tools)?
I know such things are available (MKS Toolkit,
Cygwin) and popular, but one can't rely on them being present. There have been rumors that various
public domain TCP/IP stuff found its way into Windows--how about pdksh (the public domain Korn shell). Besides, it would help you at MS keep up--people are using grep grep and sed from MacOS X!
Any other remotely related patent will be considered prior art just because of the vast amount of money involved. These things aren't all technical, people--especially in a juried trial.
Even that solution doesn't make any sense--NCR
is obviously after some royalties, right? Shouldn't they be suing HP, Compaq, etc., too?
This is destined for the same place as BT's
patents of hyperlinking or whatever it was.
The author is Darek Mihocka, "President and Founder, Emulators Inc." according to the
article. Their main product is a Mac emulator
for the PC. The corp shares his ego:
"Our Macintosh and Atari emulators are simply the fastest on the planet. Period."
Slashdot featured another of his
rants earlier this year.
That said, the reason SoftMac is fastest is because it's written in assembly (and
even some machine code!). When it comes to code execution speed, he knows what he's
talking about.
As for the P4, read the article closely.
He realizes Intel is going for a brute-force,
high-clock chip (compares to RISC). He admits it performs faster for
some tasks, just far less efficiently. He just thinks Intel should have
concentrated on better design (like AMD) instead
of getting the big marketing win: a new chip with
a huge clock speed. What's the point? Don't spend the big money on the P4 now since AMD has better design and will scale better beyond 1.5GHz
A more complete table of contents is at the
publisher's site here. It's got a breakdown of the
topics in each chapter. Also the preface ; and the
sample chapter (pdf) which is Chapter 1 (Where to Start).
By the way, does a new edition mean old ones
will be available cheaper? Anyone want to give
away a Red Book?
Note that WinAmp does not do any ripping itself anyway. What's the worst thing that could happen? They're not taking out mp3 support, so you can still listen to all your mp3s (which were ripped with something else anyway), CDs, etc... Seems to me that it's more just AOL wanting WinAmp to support more file formats. It would be nice to have the code, sure, but this isn't an "extension" situation.
And by the way, if people like buying major-label CDs for the cover art etc., why wouldn't they also like buying indie CDs for the same reason? It might not be as shiny and new looking, but I like Billy Corgan's "typed letter" in Pisces Iscariot more than all the pictures in Superunknown. Small bands can be a lot more personal with their album inserts--you can't get that on Napster.
I always thought it was just that in any project (programming or otherwise) there are always at least a few people with poor [programming] habits. This hurts the whole project
I'm in fact encouraging the judge to do this, or another "compromise" solution like mp3.com handing over a portion of its advertising revenue for the site. The judge can be contacted here: Hon. Jed S. RAKOFF United States District Judge United States Courthouse 500 Pearl Street, Room 1340 New York, New York 10007-1312 (212) 805-0401 Deputy (212) 805-0129 Courtroom 14B
I'm not sure if it will do any good, of course, but they say it never hurt to snail mail Congress... By the way, the RIAA can also be written to here: The Recording Industry Association of America, Inc. 1330 Connecticut Ave., NW Suite 300 Washington, DC 20036
Slashdot Mirror
They've killed ars!
Making HTTP connection to arstechnica.com
Alert!: Unable to access document.
"The word politics is derived from the words "poly" meaning many and "ticks" meaning blood sucking parasites"
--Dave Barry
Don't write your thesis in Word. I tried to do it a couple of years ago...I had about 50 pages of draft done, all my notes (that's footnotes or endnotes) went haywire. Word started putting them on different pages than the references (and not just one or two--I'm talking about nearly all). It showed up on the MS Knowledge Base as a "known issue" but none of their fixes worked. This was right after Word 2000 came out.
Luckily, I know a thing or two about LaTeX, so I spent (wasted? should have LaTeX'ed it in the first place) a weekend and converted it.
Funny thing, when the new StarOffice 6 beta came out I opened up that old draft...at least from the Print Preview, it looked correct. So maybe StarOffice is OK. Just not Word. Don't trust it.
For example, a 30MB clip art gallery. And the latest java, whether you need it or not (you can choose not to install it, but it downloads anyway). And the BTW, those jpgs and gifs don't compress too well, which is why the StarOffice download is 3x bigger.
I think not all features are available in all the platforms. I downloaded the Windows version and the Toolbar Configuration that he mentioned doesn't function.
Also, for those asking about the difference between StarOffice and OpenOffice, the former comes with a big clip-art gallery, for example. But, it's also 30% of that 100MB download...that's why OpenOffice downloads are so much smaller.
From
password-protected source downloads
is a bit silly?
Sheesh, I just wanted to see what their spam.txt was.
This is the kind of info that should be IN THE REVIEW.
We use CD-Rs for short-term backups. Let's see...one per weekday on 3 machines=15 per week,
60 per month, over 700 per year! If they put, say, a $.20 surcharge on CD-Rs, we'd be giving the RIAA about $140 a year. That's not that much, granted, but $140 * (large number of people) turns into pretty good income.
Or that no UNIX vendor runs apache as root by default just so you can use some authentication if necessary (that's basically what IIS does--please, MS, put it in user-space!), leaving machines wide open to stuff like Code Red II(+) that gives anyone full control.
But only if you turn it back on within 15 years!!
My favourite personal IIS horror story is the time we started hosting a NT Server for someone (I work at a small ISP). This was last month. Any idea what security updates were installed? Did you guess none? I had to go through about 25 separate MS "TechNet Security Advisories"--average of three web pages each (description, license, download). I broke the rules and installed 5 at a time before rebooting to save a little time. Luckily nothing broke, although the 2002 Frontpage Extensions won't install. I cursed MS for not making IIS security updates as easy as windowsupdate.ms.com (IMHO, MS's strong point on the Desktop is how easy things are to do without knowing anything. This is why their servers suck--you have to know something!)
In case anyone is wondering, that's because the Chinese character for "4" is pronounced the same as the one for "death"...
Not to mention my tech computer, where I have to start X just to read slashdot...
600 Canadian Dollar = 457.995 Euro
600 Canadian Dollar = 391.139 US Dollar
After an insult like that, no wonder they're going with Linux.
First, Qwest. The article actually mentions that Qwest was a startup. They're now one of the major local phone companies becuase they succeeded in BUYING USWest, a Baby Bell. Getting bought out by a startup is usually considered losing, not winning. No comment on the kind of company Qwest is, but regardless they are not a Baby Bell.
Verizon. Verizon actually is sort-of a Baby Bell, since it was created by a merger between one of the Baby Bells, BellAtlantic, and GTE. GTE is the problem. They've been around as a local carrier about as long as the AT&T Bell System as a COMPETITOR; after the breakup, they were heavily regulated but (unlike AT&T or the Baby Bells) allowed to keep both local and long distance services.
My experience is mainly with these two companies since they're both active in the Portland, Oregon, market. (Yes, that's right, competition.)
Are there future plans for providing a *NIX-style interface (i.e., shell and appropriate tools)?
I know such things are available (MKS Toolkit, Cygwin) and popular, but one can't rely on them being present. There have been rumors that various public domain TCP/IP stuff found its way into Windows--how about pdksh (the public domain Korn shell). Besides, it would help you at MS keep up--people are using grep grep and sed from MacOS X!
Any other remotely related patent will be considered prior art just because of the vast amount of money involved. These things aren't all technical, people--especially in a juried trial. Even that solution doesn't make any sense--NCR is obviously after some royalties, right? Shouldn't they be suing HP, Compaq, etc., too? This is destined for the same place as BT's patents of hyperlinking or whatever it was.
The author is Darek Mihocka, "President and Founder, Emulators Inc." according to the article. Their main product is a Mac emulator for the PC. The corp shares his ego: "Our Macintosh and Atari emulators are simply the fastest on the planet. Period." Slashdot featured another of his rants earlier this year. That said, the reason SoftMac is fastest is because it's written in assembly (and even some machine code!). When it comes to code execution speed, he knows what he's talking about.
As for the P4, read the article closely. He realizes Intel is going for a brute-force, high-clock chip (compares to RISC). He admits it performs faster for some tasks, just far less efficiently. He just thinks Intel should have concentrated on better design (like AMD) instead of getting the big marketing win: a new chip with a huge clock speed. What's the point? Don't spend the big money on the P4 now since AMD has better design and will scale better beyond 1.5GHz
By the way, does a new edition mean old ones will be available cheaper? Anyone want to give away a Red Book?
The Loppi have been there for years, and are already used for selling concert tickets, movie passes, etc. They're not being bought now.
Note that WinAmp does not do any ripping itself anyway. What's the worst thing that could happen?
They're not taking out mp3 support, so you can still listen to all your mp3s (which were ripped with something else anyway), CDs, etc... Seems to me that it's more just AOL wanting WinAmp to support more file formats. It would be nice to have the code, sure, but this isn't an "extension" situation.
And by the way, if people like buying major-label CDs for the cover art etc., why wouldn't they also like buying indie CDs for the same reason? It might not be as shiny and new looking, but I like Billy Corgan's "typed letter" in Pisces Iscariot more than all the pictures in Superunknown. Small bands can be a lot more personal with their album inserts--you can't get that on Napster.
I always thought it was just that in any project (programming or otherwise) there are always at least a few people with poor [programming] habits. This hurts the whole project
I'm in fact encouraging the judge to do this, or another "compromise" solution like mp3.com handing over a portion of its advertising revenue for the site. The judge can be contacted here:
Hon. Jed S. RAKOFF
United States District Judge
United States Courthouse
500 Pearl Street, Room 1340
New York, New York 10007-1312
(212) 805-0401
Deputy (212) 805-0129
Courtroom 14B
I'm not sure if it will do any good, of course, but they say it never hurt to snail mail Congress... By the way, the RIAA can also be written to here:
The Recording Industry Association of America, Inc.
1330 Connecticut Ave., NW
Suite 300
Washington, DC 20036