Stainless is the only Chromium-based browser so-far that does what I hoped Chrome would do: let me have true separate sessions in each tab or window. To be clear: I can be logged in to every one of my gmail accounts in different tabs at the same time. It's still fairly immature, but hopefully it'll get to the point where I can use no-script and be done with FF.
Despite our hopes, FF is not immune to the Mozilla disease, that almost lupus-like systemic breakdown over time, inflicting its greatest damage just at its most critical point in life, when its every extremity is needed to fend off competitors but each slowly degenerating to useless dead weight easily torn, eaten, spat out on the remains of its predecessors.
Simplest, quickest way to do it, and does everything you're looking to do.
They put a relatively decent shell interface on top of linux that hides a lot of the complexity, and also have a good GUI management utility (I don't use it myself, but it can do everything the shell can).
It'll run on most hardware, including x86. You'd have to buy a license, $45, but it's worth the time saved figuring out how to get all the different parts tied in together.
And there is an active community forum with helpful people in case you run in to trouble.
The best you can do is come up with a realistic schedule for the actual timeframe you have available. And by realistic, I mean working off-hours. Then whomever is at the top of the chain tells everyone else that the upgrade happens at this time, and that's that.
I realize there's a large leftist population here, but why must there be such constant disparaging of the US, especially when there's opportunity to suck off the EU? Even to the point that an article's meaning is subtley twisted in the headline to change its scope from an entire *region* (EMEA) to a (comparatively) much smaller grouping (the EU).
They're no better than we are; some in fact are much worse when it comes to most things that boil the blood of the common slashdotter (try reading a bit about those member countries everyone here loves so much).
Error reporting, as I understand it, is a catchall function of SEH for unhandled exceptions. Most buffer-overflow attacks I've seen hijack SEH, specifically this default handler that is always present at a known address, to execute a payload.
Does MS receive a lot of feedback via this mechanism? What does it do with that information? Has MS looked into alternatives to this implementation (say, by dynamically loading a default handler into a process's address space at load time, instead of using a system handler with a predictable memory location)?
Real systems seperate executable code and data effectively without resorting to things like NX
These memory segments are separate, but nothing will prevent a CPU from executing valid code in a data segment. Overflow exploits work by diverting execution to code stored in data. The whole point behind NX is to prevent that.
my information could be wrong, out of date or otherwise inaccurate
...or completely irrelevant. Gates's book from a few years ago (Business @ the Speed of Thought) is all about collecting as much information as possible and leveraging it to your (company's) advantage. To that end, MS's software is built to create, manage and make accessible piles of information. His comments could be nothing more than trumpeting MS's line that the more info the better -- cutting back is not in their best interest after all.
And it's not necessarily that people think he's an expert at neurology or informatics or cognitive science -- he's just a highly successful business man and technologist, and his thoughts on a given topic could prove useful or inspiring to others with similar aspirations.
A complete and total guess: inflating stretches the material most at the end opposite that of the opening; that being the weakest point, it gives way first, with the pieces resulting from tears following the initial pop.
With the air inside a closed balloon exerting equal pressure at all points, reducing the outside pressure would result in simultaneous breaks at multiple points in the material.
Again, a guess. I really don't have much of any physics education...
"In 2003, the society collected some 150 million euros ($185 million) in levies on hard disks and blank media sales on behalf of artists and other rights holders."
Seems it's more a surcharge than a tax -- a 'piracy insurance', protection against loss of royalties. Looking at is as insurance, it's something a state can require, but not directly benefit from.
Either way, it doesn't take the 'illegal' out of 'illegal downloads'.
Why should anyone else have a clue? What does an embattled Linux really mean to the rest of the world? To us, yes it matters - Linux represents a great deal more than the face value of its Unix heritage. The "reality" for us is having our ideals challeged in court, in a system where ideals matter not versus codified law. The "reality" to a CEO, on the other hand, is his/her company being threatened with a lawsuit, and their concern goes no further than that. "Reality" is always going to be a localized thing - what matters to you is probably very different from what matters to me. And what matters to 'Decision Makers' is definately very different from what matters to this community. The unfortunate thing here is in most cases educating the higher-ups won't make a difference because it's ideals vs. law.
Content industry groups complain most often about millions in lost sales over the past 4 years and blame piracy for those losses. Most other industries experienced loss on a similar scale, but have no technology phenom (i.e. Napster, Kazaa) to blame it on.
It seems content owners (and to some degree, software companies) are successfully leaning on the law to prop up bottom lines from a bygone era.
Do you see the IP-related laws cases are currently prosecuted under as legitamtely applying to IP issues? Is it possible that many of the high-loss cases are more attributable to economic factors than IP violations? Have the content owners rendered the economy null (vs. piracy), as far as its effect on profits?
While sci-fi, fantasy, tech books, etc... are fun to read, it's important to read about other things as well. You may spark interest in things that might never have crossed your path, or gain insight into your life and the world you live in. there's alot to gain from a book - more than what's on the page. The following books cover a breadth of subjects: music, art, philosophy, the mind, mathematics, society, history - not as individual topics, but instead linked together in ways that aren't very obvious. That alone would make you think some more, and the more fuel you have for that, the better off you'll be. </lecture>
Gödel, Escher, Bach (Douglas R. Hofstadtler) Take multi-level music (bach), recursive art (escher), and incomplete systems (gödel), string it together along the lines of reasoning, logic, computer science, and a good story and you'll eventually end up talking about Artificial Intelligence. Not a 'light' read, but challenging and satisfying in all it covers.
Gravity's Rainbow (Thomas Pynchon) I just like this book a lot. There's quite a few different themes running independantly, touching every now and then, eventually converging. The most top-level theme is the search for an officer who is distantly related (in every sense of the word) to the German V2 rocket bomb. it's funny and has a lot going on in it. Pynchon's writing takes a bit to get used to, but it's worth the effort.
The Mind Within the Net (Manfriend Spitzer) An intro to neural networks and how they are used to test theories on the biological functions of the brain.
Synaptic Self (Joseph LeDoux) This book begins with the brain's biochem/electric functions. As it progresses, you'll find it parallels Spitzer's book from a biological perspective - alot of the technical aspects presented by Spitzer (i.e. modules, networks, systems) are realized in terms of physical biology.
The Metaphysical Club (Louis Menand) Basically a history of the most prominent ideals in our society. It's interesting reading, and, considering most of the players date to the Civil War, surprisingly relevant in today's society.
Catch-22 (Joseph Heller) This is a fun book to read, good story. There's also quite a bit going on, but i've only read it once so i can't really give a revealing opinion of it.
Computers making modern cars un-hackable? That's a bit far-fetched. For just about any car there's dozens of custom mods for them that can be installed by any mechanic. There are still 3rd-party performance chips you can put in. You can still change just about everything in a car, the only thing different is that it's a little harder to do. You can go get all the computers that a dealer uses and do all the tweaks yourself. Yeah it's more expensive, but so are cars and so are the parts inside them.
And I wouldn't go around comparing cars from the past to open-source and modern cars to microsoft - that's essentially saying open-source software, though infinitely hackable, is inefficient, outdated, and insecure. Drawing a parellel between Microsoft (closed-source) and modern cars would in effect say MS software is clean, efficient, secure, and performs well out of the box.
If modern cars are less "hackable" than older cars, why are there thousands of custom shops dotting the country, hooking up modern cars? Why are there still car shows for people to show off their mods (some of which leaving the original car nearly unrecognizable)?
Cars aren't getting less hackable, you just have to do it differently than before.
I bought a 6035 back in may thinking it would be great to have both cell and palm in one device, but Kyocera must've skipped usability testing on the thing. The buttons on the flip part are flimsy, navigating the address book with one hand is kludgy (i can't always flip it open and use the pen for the address book), the damn screen doesn't light up when a call comes in so i can't see the caller id when it's dark (like in the car). Oh lets not forget the thing is the size of a brick, so unless I'm wearing jeans or a coat with pockets that can hold a 40, i don't know where to put this thing...
To be fair, it's a neat toy and the integration of phone+pda is definately the way to go, but I'm not going anywhere near another one of these "convergence" devices until i see something than can function just as ably as a normal cellphone (with good one-hand usability) as well as a PDA...
actually, i prefer to walk backwards with my eyes closed relying on the way the hairs on the back of my head move for direction-finding and speed sensing.
Making administration easier by hiding the "gory details" of what's actually going on has a tendency to reduce the knowledge needed to properly administer a system to nearly nothing. What you end up with is people who setup a system and then call themselves SA's or something of that ilk, when in reality all they know how to do is fill in a few fields and click some icons.
This is probably the single most irritating trait of most NT/2k administrators (and increasingly, linux/unix admins) - they know what to do with their admin tools, but the majority have no clue as to what their actions are doing.
I'm a CLI jockey - i like to know what is happening and why, so if something breaks i can have some idea as to what is going. i like to know the capabilities of my tools, so if i need to do a non-standard config, i know how to do it. only after i have a solid understanding of what a particular tool does do I look for a quick and easy, point and click interface to it - but i always check the end result at the command line.
I've followed DTV hacking for the past year (losing interest after a while as i figured it was a fruitless endeavor requiring updating every week or so, as well as aquiring an H card and card writers/unloopers).
It was fun learning how the crackers were able to beat each and every one of DTV's attempts at curtailing their efforts - seeing the creative ways around the weekly updates, seeing how the crack scripts worked - it was some cool stuff.
and now here's DTV with a move that can only be described, on a purely tactical and technical level, as masterful - a brilliant move on the part of DTV's techs, with icing on the cake to boot: GAME OVER - those two words make this DTV offensive (in the battle sense) against the cracking community more than just an anti-piracy advance; it says "we're not as stupid as you think, we do have the same minds as you and, corporate tho we may be, our technical abilities match yours - here's the final knell, hear it and know, your game is over."
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Stainless is the only Chromium-based browser so-far that does what I hoped Chrome would do: let me have true separate sessions in each tab or window. To be clear: I can be logged in to every one of my gmail accounts in different tabs at the same time. It's still fairly immature, but hopefully it'll get to the point where I can use no-script and be done with FF.
Despite our hopes, FF is not immune to the Mozilla disease, that almost lupus-like systemic breakdown over time, inflicting its greatest damage just at its most critical point in life, when its every extremity is needed to fend off competitors but each slowly degenerating to useless dead weight easily torn, eaten, spat out on the remains of its predecessors.
Simplest, quickest way to do it, and does everything you're looking to do.
They put a relatively decent shell interface on top of linux that hides a lot of the complexity, and also have a good GUI management utility (I don't use it myself, but it can do everything the shell can).
It'll run on most hardware, including x86. You'd have to buy a license, $45, but it's worth the time saved figuring out how to get all the different parts tied in together.
And there is an active community forum with helpful people in case you run in to trouble.
This is a political problem.
The best you can do is come up with a realistic schedule for the actual timeframe you have available. And by realistic, I mean working off-hours. Then whomever is at the top of the chain tells everyone else that the upgrade happens at this time, and that's that.
I realize there's a large leftist population here, but why must there be such constant disparaging of the US, especially when there's opportunity to suck off the EU? Even to the point that an article's meaning is subtley twisted in the headline to change its scope from an entire *region* (EMEA) to a (comparatively) much smaller grouping (the EU).
They're no better than we are; some in fact are much worse when it comes to most things that boil the blood of the common slashdotter (try reading a bit about those member countries everyone here loves so much).
Error reporting, as I understand it, is a catchall function of SEH for unhandled exceptions. Most buffer-overflow attacks I've seen hijack SEH, specifically this default handler that is always present at a known address, to execute a payload.
Does MS receive a lot of feedback via this mechanism? What does it do with that information? Has MS looked into alternatives to this implementation (say, by dynamically loading a default handler into a process's address space at load time, instead of using a system handler with a predictable memory location)?
Visto doesn't have a messaging device like the BlackBerry.
It is a direct competitor to RIM only in conjunction with a wireless device manufacturer.
The best, the original, Manhattan Special.
Real systems seperate executable code and data effectively without resorting to things like NX
These memory segments are separate, but nothing will prevent a CPU from executing valid code in a data segment. Overflow exploits work by diverting execution to code stored in data. The whole point behind NX is to prevent that.
my information could be wrong, out of date or otherwise inaccurate
...or completely irrelevant. Gates's book from a few years ago (Business @ the Speed of Thought) is all about collecting as much information as possible and leveraging it to your (company's) advantage. To that end, MS's software is built to create, manage and make accessible piles of information. His comments could be nothing more than trumpeting MS's line that the more info the better -- cutting back is not in their best interest after all.
And it's not necessarily that people think he's an expert at neurology or informatics or cognitive science -- he's just a highly successful business man and technologist, and his thoughts on a given topic could prove useful or inspiring to others with similar aspirations.
That book, btw, is terrible.
mobile.answers.com
Answers.com queries wikipedia. I don't know if you get full article text, but it's great for quick lookups.
A complete and total guess: inflating stretches the material most at the end opposite that of the opening; that being the weakest point, it gives way first, with the pieces resulting from tears following the initial pop.
With the air inside a closed balloon exerting equal pressure at all points, reducing the outside pressure would result in simultaneous breaks at multiple points in the material.
Again, a guess. I really don't have much of any physics education...
75gb
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...i always said 'thank god there's only one new jersey'
"In 2003, the society collected some 150 million euros ($185 million) in levies on hard disks and blank media sales on behalf of artists and other rights holders."
Seems it's more a surcharge than a tax -- a 'piracy insurance', protection against loss of royalties. Looking at is as insurance, it's something a state can require, but not directly benefit from.
Either way, it doesn't take the 'illegal' out of 'illegal downloads'.
Not me, I deploy the subs on a shock & awe campaign....
Why should anyone else have a clue? What does an embattled Linux really mean to the rest of the world?
To us, yes it matters - Linux represents a great deal more than the face value of its Unix heritage. The "reality" for us is having our ideals challeged in court, in a system where ideals matter not versus codified law.
The "reality" to a CEO, on the other hand, is his/her company being threatened with a lawsuit, and their concern goes no further than that.
"Reality" is always going to be a localized thing - what matters to you is probably very different from what matters to me. And what matters to 'Decision Makers' is definately very different from what matters to this community.
The unfortunate thing here is in most cases educating the higher-ups won't make a difference because it's ideals vs. law.
Hell no... look at the fed gov't: nothing works together
Content industry groups complain most often about millions in lost sales over the past 4 years and blame piracy for those losses. Most other industries experienced loss on a similar scale, but have no technology phenom (i.e. Napster, Kazaa) to blame it on.
It seems content owners (and to some degree, software companies) are successfully leaning on the law to prop up bottom lines from a bygone era.
Do you see the IP-related laws cases are currently prosecuted under as legitamtely applying to IP issues? Is it possible that many of the high-loss cases are more attributable to economic factors than IP violations? Have the content owners rendered the economy null (vs. piracy), as far as its effect on profits?
While sci-fi, fantasy, tech books, etc... are fun to read, it's important to read about other things as well. You may spark interest in things that might never have crossed your path, or gain insight into your life and the world you live in. there's alot to gain from a book - more than what's on the page. The following books cover a breadth of subjects: music, art, philosophy, the mind, mathematics, society, history - not as individual topics, but instead linked together in ways that aren't very obvious. That alone would make you think some more, and the more fuel you have for that, the better off you'll be.
</lecture>
Gödel, Escher, Bach (Douglas R. Hofstadtler)
Take multi-level music (bach), recursive art (escher), and incomplete systems (gödel), string it together along the lines of reasoning, logic, computer science, and a good story and you'll eventually end up talking about Artificial Intelligence. Not a 'light' read, but challenging and satisfying in all it covers.
Gravity's Rainbow (Thomas Pynchon)
I just like this book a lot. There's quite a few different themes running independantly, touching every now and then, eventually converging. The most top-level theme is the search for an officer who is distantly related (in every sense of the word) to the German V2 rocket bomb. it's funny and has a lot going on in it. Pynchon's writing takes a bit to get used to, but it's worth the effort.
The Mind Within the Net (Manfriend Spitzer)
An intro to neural networks and how they are used to test theories on the biological functions of the brain.
Synaptic Self (Joseph LeDoux)
This book begins with the brain's biochem/electric functions. As it progresses, you'll find it parallels Spitzer's book from a biological perspective - alot of the technical aspects presented by Spitzer (i.e. modules, networks, systems) are realized in terms of physical biology.
The Metaphysical Club (Louis Menand)
Basically a history of the most prominent ideals in our society. It's interesting reading, and, considering most of the players date to the Civil War, surprisingly relevant in today's society.
Catch-22 (Joseph Heller)
This is a fun book to read, good story. There's also quite a bit going on, but i've only read it once so i can't really give a revealing opinion of it.
Computers making modern cars un-hackable? That's a bit far-fetched. For just about any car there's dozens of custom mods for them that can be installed by any mechanic. There are still 3rd-party performance chips you can put in. You can still change just about everything in a car, the only thing different is that it's a little harder to do. You can go get all the computers that a dealer uses and do all the tweaks yourself. Yeah it's more expensive, but so are cars and so are the parts inside them.
And I wouldn't go around comparing cars from the past to open-source and modern cars to microsoft - that's essentially saying open-source software, though infinitely hackable, is inefficient, outdated, and insecure. Drawing a parellel between Microsoft (closed-source) and modern cars would in effect say MS software is clean, efficient, secure, and performs well out of the box.
If modern cars are less "hackable" than older cars, why are there thousands of custom shops dotting the country, hooking up modern cars? Why are there still car shows for people to show off their mods (some of which leaving the original car nearly unrecognizable)?
Cars aren't getting less hackable, you just have to do it differently than before.
I bought a 6035 back in may thinking it would be great to have both cell and palm in one device, but Kyocera must've skipped usability testing on the thing. The buttons on the flip part are flimsy, navigating the address book with one hand is kludgy (i can't always flip it open and use the pen for the address book), the damn screen doesn't light up when a call comes in so i can't see the caller id when it's dark (like in the car). Oh lets not forget the thing is the size of a brick, so unless I'm wearing jeans or a coat with pockets that can hold a 40, i don't know where to put this thing...
To be fair, it's a neat toy and the integration of phone+pda is definately the way to go, but I'm not going anywhere near another one of these "convergence" devices until i see something than can function just as ably as a normal cellphone (with good one-hand usability) as well as a PDA...
why is that so hard to believe? or what part of that paragraph is so hard to believe?
actually, i prefer to walk backwards with my eyes closed relying on the way the hairs on the back of my head move for direction-finding and speed sensing.
I personally hate things like this.
Making administration easier by hiding the "gory details" of what's actually going on has a tendency to reduce the knowledge needed to properly administer a system to nearly nothing. What you end up with is people who setup a system and then call themselves SA's or something of that ilk, when in reality all they know how to do is fill in a few fields and click some icons.
This is probably the single most irritating trait of most NT/2k administrators (and increasingly, linux/unix admins) - they know what to do with their admin tools, but the majority have no clue as to what their actions are doing.
I'm a CLI jockey - i like to know what is happening and why, so if something breaks i can have some idea as to what is going. i like to know the capabilities of my tools, so if i need to do a non-standard config, i know how to do it. only after i have a solid understanding of what a particular tool does do I look for a quick and easy, point and click interface to it - but i always check the end result at the command line.
I've followed DTV hacking for the past year (losing interest after a while as i figured it was a fruitless endeavor requiring updating every week or so, as well as aquiring an H card and card writers/unloopers). It was fun learning how the crackers were able to beat each and every one of DTV's attempts at curtailing their efforts - seeing the creative ways around the weekly updates, seeing how the crack scripts worked - it was some cool stuff. and now here's DTV with a move that can only be described, on a purely tactical and technical level, as masterful - a brilliant move on the part of DTV's techs, with icing on the cake to boot: GAME OVER - those two words make this DTV offensive (in the battle sense) against the cracking community more than just an anti-piracy advance; it says "we're not as stupid as you think, we do have the same minds as you and, corporate tho we may be, our technical abilities match yours - here's the final knell, hear it and know, your game is over."