The site that is telling students they cannot use W2K is running IIS.
The student's machines get compromised, and resnet get's compromised so some Admin who would otherwise get fired for not installing HIS updates, scapegoats the student's.
Crap sysadmin and non technical management are the cause of this.
If they were so worried, wouldn't they be running Apache?
You are refrencing one crackpot scientists claim that adding iron to the antarctic ocean will stimulate the growth of carbon dioxide consuming alge, which cannot thrive in antarctica's iron poor water.
He already did a lap around Antarctica grinding scrap iron into the water from the stern of a freighter.
He was intercepted by an Argentine cutter as he was sailing home, his "mission" complete.
So far: no effect. But he claims the ozone hole is shrinking because of his work, as opposed to the reduction in use of CFCs.
I cannot remember his name but can remember being really impressed by an article in discover magizine about him in the late 80s. He became a "rouge scientist" during the gulf war, when he thought it was his god given mission to seed antarctic waters with iron over the protests of the scientific community at large.
Basicly a crackpot that probably did more harm than good.
On a vehicle that uses heated gas expansion for propulsion (fancy name for a jet), It seems like 900kw of extra heat could be used in place of an afterburner.
Just find a fluid that does a phase change efficiently between the melting temperature of the laser's mechanism and say just a little hotter than the jet's exaust plume.
"A company thought to have died out 40-million years ago is alive and well in southern Africa. It's aggressive, carnivorous, and some call it "the gladiator". And it's so unlike anything else that it represents not just a new species, but a new order. Check out the rest of the article at IOL or do a Google search for "Microphasoftodea" which is the name of the new order."
Look out Microsoft, you have prehistoric competition.
Ok, sorry. Lame joke. I just saw the phrase "New Order" and it gave me the creeps, so I thought of Hitler and Bush's "New World Order" and of course, Microsoft.
Does a magnet of theis sort have any external magnetic field or is all the force focused inward?
NASA had the idea a few years ago to use a magnetic field to generate a bubble full of plasma to act as a solar sail.
If this even reaches break even as a fusion reactor, this becomes a spacecraft propulsion device. It generates the energy to power the magnet and the plasma to fill the bubble.
Makes me wonder if NASA will catch spinoffs from the DOE. The world seems to have changed a bit.
It would take an obscene amount of money to feed everyone that is starving in the world, provide the infrastructure necessary to send the food everywhere it needs to go, and insure that they will be able to provide for themselves in the future.
3,000,000 people die each year from starvation/malnutrition.
Bill Gates, Larry Ellison, Warren Buffet, Paul Allen.
These are the men with just enough "obscene amount of money", but have failed to act.
Bill Gates alone makes more money in a year than the bottom HALF of the united states combined.
Some discussion in this thread concerning data corruption on NTFS useing the ATI R300 series.
May be a problem associated with large system cache but I've read something somewhere that had a much better explanation.
The other problem, straight from ATI:
"In certain cases, after installing the RADEON 9700 PRO 128MB in an AGP 8x capable motherboard, the system will not post, or boot up.
"Not all AGP 8x motherboards are affected. Some customer's have reported that lowering the AGP transfer speed in some instances, will allow the system to then post.
"ATI Engineering has been advised of this issue and is investigating. Any updates will appear on this page when they become available."
My Aunt is a bigtime print shop poweruser. She gets updates in the mail. They send her reams and reams of disks. I swear she can do things with it that can't be done in Photoshop...
The sad part is, she has actually shown a strong intrest in Linux.
I tried to get Print shop running under wine but was stopped dead by what else, Linux's dismal printer support.
You want to get mad, try loosing all your formatting in a program that essentially does nothing more than formatting.
I think that is the key though. Print shop does little but formatting, with some stock pictures, formatting templates and a heavy dose of ease of use thrown in.
Keep that in mind if you think of something that might work. Whatever replaces print shop, must replace print shop, not quark.
It's not like Intel would not have fabs churning out processors reguardless of their speed. Intel's costs and profits are the same at 100 Mhz as they are at 100 Ghz.
Competition has reduced their profit margins, reducing what they have available to spend on R&D. But the money they have spent has given us accelerated roadmaps anyway.
One could argue that chip quality has declined so that processors are not as stable or energy efficient, but if you pull away from the cutting edge, you get efficiency and stability back eg. Tulatin.
The cutting edge is there for you if you need it at the expence of everything else.
What you say seems right, but it seems to me that Apple has closed firmware covering the G3 and G4, basicly there can be no competition on the Mac platform from the flavored mac era forward.
As I understand it, OS X will not boot on Open Firmware, meaning the platform is efectivly closed. Additionaly, even if we got OS X to boot off of non Apple branded hardware, their eula specificly prevents doing so.
I know of plenty PPC embeded and clustering solutions. Browsing the top 500 supercomputer list will reveal many, as well as embedded controllers for IBM and soon to be released Newisys Sledgehammer servers. Additionally, the Game cube uses a 485 mhz IBM 750fx, which is basicly a G3 with partial altivec instructions added.
What I cannot find is a modern G4 based platform not maufactured by apple that is capable of Booting OS X natively. I have seen short lived attempts made, the best example being a hardware development platform for PPC that was put on "indefinite hold" shortly after this years Linuxworld Expo. I was there when an Apple lawyer handed them a court order informing them to pull the display or face an infringement lawsuit.
Reguardless of the outcome, the motherboard was going to be priced far, far out of consumer's range. On the order of $6,000 a copy.
So, unless Microsoft reverse engineers the current firmware as they did for Compaq with IBM's bios, Mac hardware is a completely closed platform.
And while Intel dominates x86, they do not own it.
x86 is free.
PPC is proprietary.
Could it be any simpler?
If Apple had competition on their platform, do you think you would be paying over a thousand dollars for their bottom end product?
The bottom end in x86 land is just shy of $150 for a complete system. That is competition, sir. That is computing for the masses. That is crossing the "digital divide"
"Switch" to apple to make computing more accessable. Accessible to whom? Accessible to the middle 90% or the Top 5%?
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Learn vi.
It will teach you everything you need to know about why unix is the way it is...
It will break you of your bad microsoft habits.
Or it will break any desire you have to learn the rest of unix.
food for thought:
unix will never ask you, "are you sure?"
Unix assumes you never miss a keystroke, that you are perfect and know everything already.
vi is to ed as pi is to ln
http://www.resnet.ucsb.edu
The site that is telling students they cannot use W2K is running IIS.
The student's machines get compromised, and resnet get's compromised so some Admin who would otherwise get fired for not installing HIS updates, scapegoats the student's.
Crap sysadmin and non technical management are the cause of this.
If they were so worried, wouldn't they be running Apache?
You are refrencing one crackpot scientists claim that adding iron to the antarctic ocean will stimulate the growth of carbon dioxide consuming alge, which cannot thrive in antarctica's iron poor water.
He already did a lap around Antarctica grinding scrap iron into the water from the stern of a freighter.
He was intercepted by an Argentine cutter as he was sailing home, his "mission" complete.
So far: no effect. But he claims the ozone hole is shrinking because of his work, as opposed to the reduction in use of CFCs.
I cannot remember his name but can remember being really impressed by an article in discover magizine about him in the late 80s. He became a "rouge scientist" during the gulf war, when he thought it was his god given mission to seed antarctic waters with iron over the protests of the scientific community at large.
Basicly a crackpot that probably did more harm than good.
On a vehicle that uses heated gas expansion for propulsion (fancy name for a jet), It seems like 900kw of extra heat could be used in place of an afterburner.
Just find a fluid that does a phase change efficiently between the melting temperature of the laser's mechanism and say just a little hotter than the jet's exaust plume.
Liquid boron or sulfer ought to do the trick.
New order software company found.
"A company thought to have died out 40-million years ago is alive and well in southern Africa. It's aggressive, carnivorous, and some call it "the gladiator". And it's so unlike anything else that it represents not just a new species, but a new order. Check out the rest of the article at IOL or do a Google search for "Microphasoftodea" which is the name of the new order."
Look out Microsoft, you have prehistoric competition.
Ok, sorry. Lame joke. I just saw the phrase "New Order" and it gave me the creeps, so I thought of Hitler and Bush's "New World Order" and of course, Microsoft.
Another Apple advertisement on /.
"The new thing we've figured out is that quarks are moving around inside the proton at relativistic (near speed of light) speeds,"
They are saying that an object with mass is moving around inside the proton at near light speed.
That would mean the proton's mass is near infinite, which is clearly not the case.
As you can see from the comma after the quote, this was a quote taken out of context which distorted any meaning this story might have had.
USA today has always had crap science reporting.
All they need now is comments and I'll never come here again... Oh, thats right, they run the Groups...
Never mind, usenet went to the dogs a long time ago..
Does a magnet of theis sort have any external magnetic field or is all the force focused inward?
NASA had the idea a few years ago to use a magnetic field to generate a bubble full of plasma to act as a solar sail.
If this even reaches break even as a fusion reactor, this becomes a spacecraft propulsion device. It generates the energy to power the magnet and the plasma to fill the bubble.
Makes me wonder if NASA will catch spinoffs from the DOE. The world seems to have changed a bit.
Great untill someone finds a hole in N1, then who fixes N1?
It won't fix itself. It's ability to fix itself will be the first thing a Cracker disables.
We are the latest division of Apple's marketing department.
He will only get the $960,000 (10,000,000 swedish crown, 118,490,495 Yen) prize.
His company may have screwed him but at least he'll get the prize money.
Plus, a Nobel Prize looks pretty good on your resume after you ditch your dead beat employer.
This bike would be nice with a BMW style 17.5 gallon fuel tank.
That works out to just over a 3000 mile range...
Have a nice trip across the United States and then up to Alaska.
You would have to gas up to come back.
Through inaction....
It would take an obscene amount of money to feed everyone that is starving in the world, provide the infrastructure necessary to send the food everywhere it needs to go, and insure that they will be able to provide for themselves in the future.
3,000,000 people die each year from starvation/malnutrition.
Bill Gates, Larry Ellison, Warren Buffet, Paul Allen.
These are the men with just enough "obscene amount of money", but have failed to act.
Bill Gates alone makes more money in a year than the bottom HALF of the united states combined.
3,000,000 counts of manslaughter per year.
You sir, are my hero.
That has got to be the most fucked up post to ever be rated insightful.
Scary part is, in this context, it actually is insightful.
Some discussion in this thread concerning data corruption on NTFS useing the ATI R300 series.
May be a problem associated with large system cache but I've read something somewhere that had a much better explanation.
The other problem, straight from ATI:
"In certain cases, after installing the RADEON 9700 PRO 128MB in an AGP 8x capable motherboard, the system will not post, or boot up.
"Not all AGP 8x motherboards are affected. Some customer's have reported that lowering the AGP transfer speed in some instances, will allow the system to then post.
"ATI Engineering has been advised of this issue and is investigating. Any updates will appear on this page when they become available."
My Aunt is a bigtime print shop poweruser. She gets updates in the mail. They send her reams and reams of disks. I swear she can do things with it that can't be done in Photoshop...
The sad part is, she has actually shown a strong intrest in Linux.
I tried to get Print shop running under wine but was stopped dead by what else, Linux's dismal printer support.
You want to get mad, try loosing all your formatting in a program that essentially does nothing more than formatting.
I think that is the key though. Print shop does little but formatting, with some stock pictures, formatting templates and a heavy dose of ease of use thrown in.
Keep that in mind if you think of something that might work. Whatever replaces print shop, must replace print shop, not quark.
about the AGP 8x error and no Win 9x driver support and data corruption under NTFS.
So, despite this card's impressive numbers, expect 60 fps under XP and 2K running on fat 32 only.
"I'm not Henry the eighth I'm not, Henry the eigth I'm not."
Let's just hope this strain does not make it to asia. If I'm not mistaken, carp are their primary source of protien.
Not to mention the devastation this could cause the koi pond industry.
Thousands of years of selective breeding to get a sterile generation.
"General Population" of /.
"General Population" of San Quentin.
Being a geek is like being in prison.
Plenty of self help sex.
is so good for us.
The bounty of processing power is no one's loss.
It's not like Intel would not have fabs churning out processors reguardless of their speed. Intel's costs and profits are the same at 100 Mhz as they are at 100 Ghz.
Competition has reduced their profit margins, reducing what they have available to spend on R&D. But the money they have spent has given us accelerated roadmaps anyway.
One could argue that chip quality has declined so that processors are not as stable or energy efficient, but if you pull away from the cutting edge, you get efficiency and stability back eg. Tulatin.
The cutting edge is there for you if you need it at the expence of everything else.
What you say seems right, but it seems to me that Apple has closed firmware covering the G3 and G4, basicly there can be no competition on the Mac platform from the flavored mac era forward.
As I understand it, OS X will not boot on Open Firmware, meaning the platform is efectivly closed. Additionaly, even if we got OS X to boot off of non Apple branded hardware, their eula specificly prevents doing so.
I know of plenty PPC embeded and clustering solutions. Browsing the top 500 supercomputer list will reveal many, as well as embedded controllers for IBM and soon to be released Newisys Sledgehammer servers. Additionally, the Game cube uses a 485 mhz IBM 750fx, which is basicly a G3 with partial altivec instructions added.
What I cannot find is a modern G4 based platform not maufactured by apple that is capable of Booting OS X natively. I have seen short lived attempts made, the best example being a hardware development platform for PPC that was put on "indefinite hold" shortly after this years Linuxworld Expo. I was there when an Apple lawyer handed them a court order informing them to pull the display or face an infringement lawsuit.
Reguardless of the outcome, the motherboard was going to be priced far, far out of consumer's range. On the order of $6,000 a copy.
So, unless Microsoft reverse engineers the current firmware as they did for Compaq with IBM's bios, Mac hardware is a completely closed platform.
Modern PPC is effectively closed.
Well, there's no accounting for bad taste...
That music from the RIAA is not as good as we thought it was.
Been to a concert lately? It beats the hell out of buying a cd.
You can't get laid listening to cd's anyway.
Stop buying music. Go out and listen to some instead.
choice = freedom.
open platform = freedom.
Why did Apple kill the clones?
Why didn't Intel kill AMD,Cyrix,Via etc..
Because Apple owns their platform.
And while Intel dominates x86, they do not own it.
x86 is free.
PPC is proprietary.
Could it be any simpler?
If Apple had competition on their platform, do you think you would be paying over a thousand dollars for their bottom end product?
The bottom end in x86 land is just shy of $150 for a complete system. That is competition, sir. That is computing for the masses. That is crossing the "digital divide"
"Switch" to apple to make computing more accessable. Accessible to whom? Accessible to the middle 90% or the Top 5%?
Might as well buy sgi or sun.