I have an unpatched Windows with personal firewall. Every now and then I turn the firewall off to see if msblast is still out there. Two days ago it took about one minute to get my scvhost.exe process crashed.
TeliaSonera has mostly been lying to customers. They have some huge problems with their email system, and they try to explain this in various ways. I received an email two weeks ago from a friend that is using Sonera as his ISP. It arrived two days after it was sent, and to this day I've received that same mail 21 times. That can't be explained by black lists of traffic generated by spam or viruses.
First they said it was the black lists, but the symptoms didn't match. Messages just didn't arrive, and sender was not given any feedback about it. Next they said it was spam and traffic generated mostly by Swen. Other ISPs are not facing this problem, so it seems that they just have messed up their whole system and are too ashamed to admit it.
Impossible Mission on the 2600 is not the only game to have shipped that was inadvertently impossible to beat, and as the article notes, it was otherwise a decent product.
This was about worst titles, not about worst games.
OS X. Totally rewritten operating system that has tried to keep (some sort of) backwards compatibility also. We'll see, how that succeeds in the future.
I totally agree. I don't want to carry that kind of device all the time. Ideal situation for me would be separate phone and PDA. You can use the phone and PDA to read your email, maybe check your calendar etc. Outside business hours you only have to carry the phone, which these days can be so small that it's almost invisible in your pocket.
What's that thing in your pocket. It's my PDA. Yeah, for sure...
Lot's of people don't understand the administration part of Windows at all. They just use office and some web browser.
On the other hand when you start figuring out what's behind gui, Linux is much more simpler system.
With stuff like Amazon is doing, you really don't need to patch your Linux box that often. You obviously do not run a recent version of kernel or any software, which makes your system stable. Of course, security holes are found and fixed every now and then, and Linux distributions have (also automated)tools for that - though it might not be that good idea to run automated updates to systems running on production.
For some reason Netscape 4.x seems to be much more unstable on *NIX machines than on Windoze. Disabling Javascript helps, but unfortunately it has come very popular, and many sites just don't work without it. Ok, you already knew all this, but I'm gonna submit anyway..:)
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Mod this guy up! At my school first programming course was pure Scheme. Syntax is really simple, and students don't need to waste their time in learning that. No loops, so everything was done by iteration, and a LOT of attention was paid to (simple) algorithms. Benefits of recursive and iterative solutions we're teached, and often we first solved some problem in O(n) way, and after that we did it O(log n). People who had been coding 10 years we're really learning. Also streams we're introduced, and at the end of the course student's we're making changes to a metacircular evaluator(Scheme evaluator made with Scheme). Haven't run into other language that makes this possible. Enough Sheme hype, but if you want to open your mind, this is a really good book: The MIT Press, Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs.
How about rot13? I guess you can only break that one with brute force, so using it would be illegal!!
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Something like a uniform word processor that uses the XML standard.
Does enyone know if there is a promising DTD(maybe already used in few word processors) for word processing. Ok, RTF is easy to convert to XML, but I guess that is not enough. With XML it would also be easy to add product specific stuff without infecting the way document is handled by other programs.
Should have also pointed out that Tomcat 3.x was only capable of reading ISO-8859-1. Don't know about you, but all browsers that I use can send and recieve UTF-8, though they are too stupid to recognice which charset to use when showing text.
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I have an unpatched Windows with personal firewall. Every now and then I turn the firewall off to see if msblast is still out there. Two days ago it took about one minute to get my scvhost.exe process crashed.
TeliaSonera has mostly been lying to customers. They have some huge problems with their email system, and they try to explain this in various ways. I received an email two weeks ago from a friend that is using Sonera as his ISP. It arrived two days after it was sent, and to this day I've received that same mail 21 times. That can't be explained by black lists of traffic generated by spam or viruses.
First they said it was the black lists, but the symptoms didn't match. Messages just didn't arrive, and sender was not given any feedback about it. Next they said it was spam and traffic generated mostly by Swen. Other ISPs are not facing this problem, so it seems that they just have messed up their whole system and are too ashamed to admit it.
Yeah! From the picture gallery(Kuvaloota) where people are playing GO. It has to be a girl.
1. Get your self few smoke grenades.
2. Now, make a nice light smoke screen around you.
3. Spin your self around like a maniac.
If your frame rate drops dramatically, it's time to call your Matrix administrator.
This was about worst titles, not about worst games.
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This is also very good for laptops. Many companies do not allow empoyees to have laptops that are not encrypted.
Actually this is a bad thing for trolls, cause pages are unreadable if you don't filter out -1 posts.
This dude really makes me all other debian users proud!! Way to go!
OS X. Totally rewritten operating system that has tried to keep (some sort of) backwards compatibility also. We'll see, how that succeeds in the future.
I totally agree. I don't want to carry that kind of device all the time. Ideal situation for me would be separate phone and PDA. You can use the phone and PDA to read your email, maybe check your calendar etc. Outside business hours you only have to carry the phone, which these days can be so small that it's almost invisible in your pocket.
What's that thing in your pocket. It's my PDA. Yeah, for sure...
Is everyone downloading the 1MB flash demo, or why can't I get to the site..?
Don't give too much credit to Douglas Adams. Actually Babel fish was already in the Bible.
Lot's of people don't understand the administration part of Windows at all. They just use office and some web browser.
On the other hand when you start figuring out what's behind gui, Linux is much more simpler system.
The dude, Marcelo I mean, looks normal. Not geekish at all.
With stuff like Amazon is doing, you really don't need to patch your Linux box that often. You obviously do not run a recent version of kernel or any software, which makes your system stable. Of course, security holes are found and fixed every now and then, and Linux distributions have (also automated)tools for that - though it might not be that good idea to run automated updates to systems running on production.
For some reason Netscape 4.x seems to be much more unstable on *NIX machines than on Windoze. Disabling Javascript helps, but unfortunately it has come very popular, and many sites just don't work without it. Ok, you already knew all this, but I'm gonna submit anyway.. :)
So, when will we have that one..?
Most interesting news in Slashdot seems to be about Slashdot.
Actually, the book (which is great) is about programming - Scheme just is the used language, and a good choice for this purpose.
Mod this guy up! At my school first programming course was pure Scheme. Syntax is really simple, and students don't need to waste their time in learning that. No loops, so everything was done by iteration, and a LOT of attention was paid to (simple) algorithms. Benefits of recursive and iterative solutions we're teached, and often we first solved some problem in O(n) way, and after that we did it O(log n). People who had been coding 10 years we're really learning. Also streams we're introduced, and at the end of the course student's we're making changes to a metacircular evaluator(Scheme evaluator made with Scheme). Haven't run into other language that makes this possible. Enough Sheme hype, but if you want to open your mind, this is a really good book: The MIT Press, Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs.
How about rot13? I guess you can only break that one with brute force, so using it would be illegal!!
Does enyone know if there is a promising DTD(maybe already used in few word processors) for word processing. Ok, RTF is easy to convert to XML, but I guess that is not enough. With XML it would also be easy to add product specific stuff without infecting the way document is handled by other programs.
Should have also pointed out that Tomcat 3.x was only capable of reading ISO-8859-1. Don't know about you, but all browsers that I use can send and recieve UTF-8, though they are too stupid to recognice which charset to use when showing text.