Yup. I've seen the same thing with 2.6.3. When there's a CPU intensive process running, the mouse becomes very jerky. It doesn't seem to make a difference whether it's on the mouse port or USB.
I've also seen a problem where the Web browser (either Mozilla or Firefox) pegs the CPU. Bad Javascript in a Webpage soemwhere? Never saw this on my old 2.4.23 kernel.
So Who's the Opposition?
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Looks to me like another boondoggle to Protect Us From the Soviet Union. A bunch of Republican campaign contributers get a whole pile of tax money and the military gets some more expensive, useless toys.
All the serious analyses of future warefare that I've seen have third-world "rogue states" and semi-organized terrorists as opponents. How do space weapons help here? I don't think we have to worry about some future Saddam Hussein's space capabilities.
Note also that, given high-tech opposition (from who? I dunno.) the US has a *lot* more to lose than anybody else. Check out what a Keyhole satellite costs...
You can use the DisplaySize option in XF86Config to specify the physical display size, and X will automatically adjust all point values to values appropriate for your screen size.
Huh! That's a new one on me. I'll have to give it a try...
It's time for pixels to go away. With displays running from cellphones to graphic arts workstations, the concept just isn't useful any more above the renering level. I look forward to replacing as many as possible of the old pixel-based graphics format with something I can see at more than one display resolution.
Now if we can just get the Xwindows folks on board! When I say "12-point type", I mean a height of 6 lines per inch, not 12 pixels (enormous on the cellphone; invisible on the workstation).
... that all of the elections officials answer criticisms of electronic voting with descriptions of how easy it is to hack manual elections.
Seems to me that they are a little too familiar with the subject. Perhaps reporters should ask some questions here. "That's interesting. Could you give me some details of how a recent Georgia election was 'fixed'? What was your part in that election?"
A cellular automaton is simply a description of a discrete differential equation. Since physical laws are described in terms of differential equations to start with, it's not surprising that a cellular automaton can model a physical process.
So what's the deal? Outside of Wolfram's ego, of course.
Simplest thing in the world. When you find one of your videos on the Net, sue the arse off of the last known receiver of that serial number. This gives everybody in the supply chain an incentive to keep track of things.
Remember, your customers are your enemies.
Also, when President Buchannon raises the minimum age definition for kiddie pR0n to 65, the Gov't will be able to haul in all the new criminals...
Just have the pR0n suppliers encode a serial number in each copy of each video they sell. Then, if a copy got illegally distributed on the Net, they'd know who to go after.
A big job? Yes. But so is the "fingerprint database".
And this way, they'd be responsible for their own content, instead of requiring Big Daddy Government do it all for them.
Since they claim to be losing billions of dollars to "piracy", it should certainly be worth their while to charge a few bucks more for each video in order to increase their sales by (according to some numbers I've seen) an order of magnitude.
It's called the Space Elevator. Problem is that it would take a mindboggling amount of capital expenditure (with no guarantees of success) before you launch your first load. After that, it's essentially free. Like anything else in the space business, that first step's a killer.
And of course it isn't rocket science. That's the whole point.
For the NYTimes: Username = nypost Password = nypost
Most of the news sites that require registration have a similar combination. For example, to get to the LA Times, the username/password is "laexaminer".
No, I didn't put these in; I just found them.
And remember, there's no law (yet) that says you have to fill out their little questionnaires truthfully.
Re:Not the source, really
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Besides being offensive, this scenario is, 99.5% of the time, blatently untrue. The security professionals are very much aware that the password systems don't work...
Any "security professional" who weakens security at the behest of "management" is no more a "professional" than a burger flipper is. Real professionals get paid to do things right, not just apply random garbage because some pointy-haired boss needs to feel like he's doing something.
My experience of "security professionals" is, if anything, even worse than Tog's. About 2% of them know what they're doing; the rest are either totally clueless or are selling snake oil. (And that 2% is an improvement from 5 years ago...)
I watch a number of political sites; it's amazing how, when Congressman Sludgepump says something stupid, it tends to disappear from his Website with no indication that it has ever changed. Occasionally, it even changes to show that he said the opposite of what was originally there.
Checksums/digital signatures are potentially a solution, but the problem of doing it right can be quite difficult when you include real-world constraints. PDFs are a pain in the arse, but at least you can do a decent checksum on them.
"A quote from the lead engineer: Why on earth should (voters) have to trust me...
Come to think of it, in the Diebold hoohah, I have never seen any quotes from any of the Diebold people who actually worked on the system. I'd expect to see some -- if no more than expressions of hurt feelings because people don't trust them.
Hmm. Want to bet it's because the programmers are overseas? My bet is on Russia...
We need to check, not only that the software has no obvious backdoors, but that
The source code that is used corresponds to the source code that is audited (no "last minute fixes")
The object code that is linked corresponds to the source code
The executable that is in the machine is the same as the code that has been autited
The compiler hasn't been screwed with
The system libraries haven't been screwed with
The OS hasn't been screwed with
The BIOS hasn't been screwed with
The hardware hasn't been screwed with
There isn't any extra info hidden in any nonvolatile memory
I'm not that paranoid; there are probably any number of other things that could be screwed with and still have the code pass any kind of review with flying colors.
Let's start by putting one in every car driven my a Government minister, Member of Parliament and policeman, and by their families. If that works, we'll extend it to media people and sports stars.
If they approve after that, we can extend it to the peons.
The most popular free software source management tool (CVS) is a complete p-o-s in many respects and unsuitable for large projects and for those with automated builds.
A proper comparison would be with Subversion. CVS, while certainly not a POS, is showing its age. Subversion is supposedly "CVS brought up to date".
A few years back, there was an item on the news about a guy who heated his house through a New England winter with junk mail. He was getting several mailbags a day of junk.
The Post Office was not amused.
Note -- if you try this, be sure to get bills and other important correspondence sent to a PO box...
Lately, I'd say at least half of the telemarketing calls I get seem to be from India. Or at least the callers have strong Indian accents (sometimes to the point of incomprehensibility).
Unfortunately, the laws are gimmicked so that, if they call you, it's legal advertising but if you call them, it's illegal harassment.
It's not just software complexity that causes crashes, it's *real-mode* complexity.
It's an unpleasant fact that real-mode (unmapped) code runs faster than protected-mode code. Therefore, to get that extra speed for their application, designers try to move as much code into real-mode, kernel mode, or whatever the particular OS calls it. Result is that the errors that sneak in are errors that can crash the OS, rather than just crash the application. To make it even worse, real-mode bugs tend to be things like race conditions that are monsters to debug.
Solution -- don't use real-mode code unless you're actually stuffing bits into device registers. Ideally, you can get your whole kernel (technically, a microkernel or exokernel) small enough to use formal verification techniques.
This will happen in the Windows, Linux, and BSD worlds sometime after hell freezes over. It is, however, common practice in the embedded computing industry, and has been for some time.
Application crashes? Assuming it's not just sloppy programming (all too common, alas!), usually it's an undocumented initialization problem somewhere down deep inside a library (MFC is notorious for this).
First rule -- spammers lie. And there are a bunch of inconsistancies in the article that make me wonder.
I'd want to take a look at his books, and his bank account. Get a list of his clients, and see how much stuff they're actually selling. "Spam on commission" sounds seriously odd.
Also keep in mind that $1000/week is $50,000/year -- not all that impressive.
Högaffla Hage is the Web page of a Swedish childrens' TV show. It explains why we're losing the international weirdness race.
Requires Flash and Shockwave. Heavy scatological content (I like the squeeze-the-sheep drawing program.). It's in Swedish, but that shouldn't be a problem if you've ever dealt with the documentation on the typical Open Source project.
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Yup. I've seen the same thing with 2.6.3. When there's a CPU intensive process running, the mouse becomes very jerky. It doesn't seem to make a difference whether it's on the mouse port or USB.
I've also seen a problem where the Web browser (either Mozilla or Firefox) pegs the CPU. Bad Javascript in a Webpage soemwhere? Never saw this on my old 2.4.23 kernel.
Looks to me like another boondoggle to Protect Us From the Soviet Union. A bunch of Republican campaign contributers get a whole pile of tax money and the military gets some more expensive, useless toys.
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All the serious analyses of future warefare that I've seen have third-world "rogue states" and semi-organized terrorists as opponents. How do space weapons help here? I don't think we have to worry about some future Saddam Hussein's space capabilities.
Note also that, given high-tech opposition (from who? I dunno.) the US has a *lot* more to lose than anybody else. Check out what a Keyhole satellite costs
You can use the DisplaySize option in XF86Config to specify the physical display size, and X will automatically adjust all point values to values appropriate for your screen size.
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Huh! That's a new one on me. I'll have to give it a try
It's time for pixels to go away. With displays running from cellphones to graphic arts workstations, the concept just isn't useful any more above the renering level. I look forward to replacing as many as possible of the old pixel-based graphics format with something I can see at more than one display resolution.
Now if we can just get the Xwindows folks on board! When I say "12-point type", I mean a height of 6 lines per inch, not 12 pixels (enormous on the cellphone; invisible on the workstation).
They overlap. The "venture capital" death spiral went like this:
Note that the "product", or other boring things like cash flow, are irrelevant. If the company goes bust at any point, the VC has his profit.
During the boom, everybody pretty much knew this. However, the possibility of becoming a stock-option millionaire warped a lot of peoples' minds.
Seems to me that they are a little too familiar with the subject. Perhaps reporters should ask some questions here. "That's interesting. Could you give me some details of how a recent Georgia election was 'fixed'? What was your part in that election?"
A cellular automaton is simply a description of a discrete differential equation. Since physical laws are described in terms of differential equations to start with, it's not surprising that a cellular automaton can model a physical process.
So what's the deal? Outside of Wolfram's ego, of course.
Simplest thing in the world. When you find one of your videos on the Net, sue the arse off of the last known receiver of that serial number. This gives everybody in the supply chain an incentive to keep track of things.
...
Remember, your customers are your enemies.
Also, when President Buchannon raises the minimum age definition for kiddie pR0n to 65, the Gov't will be able to haul in all the new criminals
Just have the pR0n suppliers encode a serial number in each copy of each video they sell. Then, if a copy got illegally distributed on the Net, they'd know who to go after.
A big job? Yes. But so is the "fingerprint database".
And this way, they'd be responsible for their own content, instead of requiring Big Daddy Government do it all for them.
Since they claim to be losing billions of dollars to "piracy", it should certainly be worth their while to charge a few bucks more for each video in order to increase their sales by (according to some numbers I've seen) an order of magnitude.
It's called the Space Elevator. Problem is that it would take a mindboggling amount of capital expenditure (with no guarantees of success) before you launch your first load. After that, it's essentially free. Like anything else in the space business, that first step's a killer.
And of course it isn't rocket science. That's the whole point.
For the NYTimes:
Username = nypost
Password = nypost
Most of the news sites that require registration have a similar combination. For example, to get to the LA Times, the username/password is "laexaminer".
No, I didn't put these in; I just found them.
And remember, there's no law (yet) that says you have to fill out their little questionnaires truthfully.
Any "security professional" who weakens security at the behest of "management" is no more a "professional" than a burger flipper is. Real professionals get paid to do things right, not just apply random garbage because some pointy-haired boss needs to feel like he's doing something.
My experience of "security professionals" is, if anything, even worse than Tog's. About 2% of them know what they're doing; the rest are either totally clueless or are selling snake oil. (And that 2% is an improvement from 5 years ago ...)
Bingo!
I watch a number of political sites; it's amazing how, when Congressman Sludgepump says something stupid, it tends to disappear from his Website with no indication that it has ever changed. Occasionally, it even changes to show that he said the opposite of what was originally there.
Checksums/digital signatures are potentially a solution, but the problem of doing it right can be quite difficult when you include real-world constraints. PDFs are a pain in the arse, but at least you can do a decent checksum on them.
"A quote from the lead engineer: Why on earth should (voters) have to trust me ...
...
Come to think of it, in the Diebold hoohah, I have never seen any quotes from any of the Diebold people who actually worked on the system. I'd expect to see some -- if no more than expressions of hurt feelings because people don't trust them.
Hmm. Want to bet it's because the programmers are overseas? My bet is on Russia
Not the whole answer, at least.
We need to check, not only that the software has no obvious backdoors, but that
I'm not that paranoid; there are probably any number of other things that could be screwed with and still have the code pass any kind of review with flying colors.
Paper ballots are the only answer.
And exactly how many of these do you think drive their own cars?
Doesn't matter, remember. It's their car, it's their responsibility.
Let's start by putting one in every car driven my a Government minister, Member of Parliament and policeman, and by their families. If that works, we'll extend it to media people and sports stars.
If they approve after that, we can extend it to the peons.
The most popular free software source management tool (CVS) is a complete p-o-s in many respects and unsuitable for large projects and for those with automated builds.
A proper comparison would be with Subversion. CVS, while certainly not a POS, is showing its age. Subversion is supposedly "CVS brought up to date".
Why did Linus go to BitKeeper in the first place?
A few years back, there was an item on the news about a guy who heated his house through a New England winter with junk mail. He was getting several mailbags a day of junk.
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The Post Office was not amused.
Note -- if you try this, be sure to get bills and other important correspondence sent to a PO box
Lately, I'd say at least half of the telemarketing calls I get seem to be from India. Or at least the callers have strong Indian accents (sometimes to the point of incomprehensibility).
Unfortunately, the laws are gimmicked so that, if they call you, it's legal advertising but if you call them, it's illegal harassment.
It's not just software complexity that causes crashes, it's *real-mode* complexity.
It's an unpleasant fact that real-mode (unmapped) code runs faster than protected-mode code. Therefore, to get that extra speed for their application, designers try to move as much code into real-mode, kernel mode, or whatever the particular OS calls it. Result is that the errors that sneak in are errors that can crash the OS, rather than just crash the application. To make it even worse, real-mode bugs tend to be things like race conditions that are monsters to debug.
Solution -- don't use real-mode code unless you're actually stuffing bits into device registers. Ideally, you can get your whole kernel (technically, a microkernel or exokernel) small enough to use formal verification techniques.
This will happen in the Windows, Linux, and BSD worlds sometime after hell freezes over. It is, however, common practice in the embedded computing industry, and has been for some time.
Application crashes? Assuming it's not just sloppy programming (all too common, alas!), usually it's an undocumented initialization problem somewhere down deep inside a library (MFC is notorious for this).
First rule -- spammers lie. And there are a bunch of inconsistancies in the article that make me wonder.
I'd want to take a look at his books, and his bank account. Get a list of his clients, and see how much stuff they're actually selling. "Spam on commission" sounds seriously odd.
Also keep in mind that $1000/week is $50,000/year -- not all that impressive.
Fine. Build it. If it really is an improvement, people will use it. Remember the mantra of the IETF: "Rough consensus and working code".
Oh, and if you REALLY want it, drop me a line and I'll pass it on to the client I wrote it for. I'm sure they'd be happy to deal.
Högaffla Hage is the Web page of a Swedish childrens' TV show. It explains why we're losing the international weirdness race.
Requires Flash and Shockwave. Heavy scatological content (I like the squeeze-the-sheep drawing program.). It's in Swedish, but that shouldn't be a problem if you've ever dealt with the documentation on the typical Open Source project.
Anyone knows if TaxCut makers are known for some dishonest practices
Dunno about dishonest practices, but I used it last year and I'll never use it again. Does flamingly incompetent programming count?
For more gory details than you probably want, see my rant on the subject.