Either you're a troll or yes, you're overlooking somthing. Linux most certainly does not 'run on' FAT32. If anything it usually runs on ext3, which is as good as NTFS in stability, performance, features, etc. Linux does support FAT32, but that's different. If you set up your root partition as FAT32, then you're simply masochistic.
Of course, there's a chicken-and-egg problem there, but fortunately there's a pretty stable read-only Linux driver for NTFS. So Knoppix would use the free Linux NTFS driver to load the writeable NTFS driver from your NTFS partition...Yes, that would be very cool, because it could happen very automatically.
Huh? As I understood the LGPL, it was the same as the GPL, but allowing linking. So you can't redistribute a binary-only glibc, but you can link your app to it and distribute that. So what's the difference between the LGPL and the GPL with a linking exception?
It seems to me that dynamic linking versus static linking should be important. If I dynamically link with glibc, and distribute my app, then YOU have to provide the actual glibc shared libraries for the app to run--and therefore it's your responsibility to have a license to glibc (by being provided / willing to provide the source).
Same thing with Linux. Everyone agrees that writing an app which uses Linux system calls is not creating a derivative work. But writing a prepackaged all-in-one system/application which DOESN'T require you to have Linux installed would be a violation.
Are you saying that glibc is pure GPL? That would mean that every program ever linked under Linux would have to be GPL'd, which obviously isn't true. Perhaps I'm misunderstanding?
Flat-fee streaming is what I really wish iTunes had. I use Rhapsody because it lets me listen to anything they have through my computer for a flat monthly fee. Since my PC is hooked up to my stereo and I have a DSL connection, it's basically indistinguishable from playing local ripped tracks or CDs. But it won't rip tracks directly to MP3s (it requires you to burn a CD directly), won't play any local files, and is very Windows-only. If iTunes let me do the same streaming thing, I would not only sign up, but it would be one of the last reasons for me to give up my Windows desktop and get a Mac.
Napster 2.0 seems to have something similar, but I don't like the fact that some songs are download-only. Perhaps I'll check it out though.
Are people using 2.0 much yet? I remember all of the blowup over how 2.0 didn't really add anything unless you wanted to run it on Windows, and it caused a lot of problems for modules like mod_perl. Is everyone still sticking with 1.3?
Resurrection was one of the very worst movies I've ever seen in my life. Aliens (#2) is one of my favorite of all time, so I really couldn't (respectfully) disagree with you more.
At the beginning of Resurrection, they say something about how they're on a distant space station, hundreds of light years away from civilization. Then at the end, after something like 6 hours of travel, they crash into Earth. If it takes six hours to get somewhere, then it isn't distant.
No matter how much tuning he DID do, there would always be more to do (and more experts on each system pointing out what he could do). Obviously he tried, and is willing to re-run the tests if anyone has a suggestion. So, contribute instead of criticizing, and send him an email explaining how to better tune FreeBSD.
Modern processors already use massive register renaming tricks internally, so it's not as if these extra registers will be completely unused. There is an advantage to letting the compiler (as opposed to just the processor) pick registers, and in 32-bit mode, that will be lost.
According to the BBC, it's Cleese/Chapman. I do agree that it's one of the absolute best Python moments.
A: I'm sorry, but I'm not allowed to argue anymore. M: What?! A: If you want me to go on arguing, you'll have to pay for another five minutes. M: Yes, but that was never five minutes, just now. Oh come on! A: (Hums) M: Look, this is ridiculous. A: I'm sorry, but I'm not allowed to argue unless you've paid! M: Oh, all right.
(pays money) A: Thank you. short pause M: Well? A: Well what? M: That wasn't really five minutes, just now. A: I told you, I'm not allowed to argue unless you've paid. M: I just paid! A: No you didn't. M: I DID! A: No you didn't. M: Look, I don't want to argue about that. A: Well, you didn't pay. M: Aha. If I didn't pay, why are you arguing? I Got you! A: No you haven't. M: Yes I have. If you're arguing, I must have paid. A: Not necessarily. I could be arguing in my spare time. M: Oh I've had enough of this. A: No you haven't. M: Oh Shut up.
Gee...if only Eric Idle weren't my least favorite Python. Seriously, his stuff on the show and movies was so-so at best. Do any of the really classic Python quotes or scenes have Idle in them?
(Michael Palin, of course, being the best, with Terry Jones as Most Underrated).
The company could pay people to stand on street corners to express opinions. In the US we have a right to speak, but no one has any duty to listen.
A similar analogy: the people can stipulate that one company can't hire enough people to speak so loudly (or at all possible frequencies) in a way which will drown out other free speech.
At this point basically no one (publically) seems to know what the exploit is. If you want to find out about exploits THIS early, then you should be reading those mailing lists yourself. I appreciate it when Slashdot informs me of a patch I need to apply, but really, I'd rather hear about it once the exploit is actually understood and the patch is available.
What's the next article going to be: "Linus Torvalds is in the MIDDLE OF A SENTENCE describing the future for 2.6! In four seconds, we'll finish hearing what he has to say!"
I want space exploration as much as the next guy (on Slashdot), but what about this:
Clearly, colonization of other worlds should be driven by population needs, not technology. I.e., simply because we've gotten the technology to travel to and colonize other planets, does that mean we need to do so immediately?
We should consider ourselves lucky we haven't reached the complete overpopulation limit of the Earth before acquiring that technology.
Apart from the romantic aspects of colonizing Mars, is there a real reason why we shouldn't focus on utilizing Earth's resources properly, and wait to colonize other planets until we really need to do so?
How do these numbers relate to the number of servers which are 'attackable' by hackers?...even assuming (as they do) that home desktop machines on DSL/cable modems which are compromised (by worms or hackers) are not considered 'server attacks'.
Well, they don't say that, but if you include the number of infected Windows desktops this year, I have a pretty good feeling it would be a LOT more than 12,000, even if you only include infections designed to give control to an outside party (as opposed to simply spreading).
The article points out, and I agree, that it's unlikely DRM will be applied to documents by default, since implementing it requires configuring Windows Server 2003 and ensuring both the creator and reader of the document have access/accounts on the Rights server.
It's really targeted at businesses which make heavy use of Active Directory already (or would switch to doing so), so that Finance people can restrict access to sensitive salary documents and such. Most people, even if they can apply DRM to a document, won't choose to do so. How many people change the rights for their local drives to remove access for 'Everyone'?
AMD's Hypertransport is basically (exactly?) the same thing. For the same reason, SMP on x86-64 is very efficient. So we might see an increase in SMP desktops for the PC architecture, in the same way that Apple has been pushing them.
I'd be interested in looking at this or working on it. Email me at ceswiedler@mindspring.com and let me know what's going on with development, maybe I can contribute.
They just need to pursue binary encoding of XML. The performance is as good as many binary formats, and much more flexible. W3C is holding a workshop on the subject in a month.
Hmm...the page you linked to is extremely interesting. They have an open-source reference implementation, which hopefully will go a long way in establishing this as a standard. If this were well-supported, as a developer I wouldn't see much reason to use anything else for binary formats. The ability to translate a structured-binary file into an equivalent structured-text file would be extremely useful.
They don't mention it in the article, but of course, BXML could be applied to HTML documents, which would greatly speed up transfer and parsing time. It shouldn't be difficult to add mod_bxml to Apache and client-side BXML support to your favorite open source web browser. They include support for adding arbitrary indexes at the end of the file, which if I understand correctly could be used to index image, css, and javascript links, so the browser could submit requests for those files before it's parsed the page.
On a completely unrelated note--is anyone else having problems getting to slashdot.org? Four out of five page requests seem to be dropped somewhere, but the fifth will fetch the page immediately.
IMO, the best way to go with spam is to combine a heuristic filter with a text/baysian filter, in my case SpamAssassin and SpamProbe. I run them both, and it does a noticably better job than either running alone.
SpamProbe can be fooled by clever spammers who insert lots of common words in non-visible html. A Baysian filter can't really catch that, but a heuristic filter can be written to notice the pattern.
Also, set up your Baysian filter to re-learn regularly from your spam folder. SpamProbe adds a unique ID to each message, so it won't process a message twice. Therefore, you can just manually move any false negative spams into the folder, and they'll be learned from.
Something I wish FPS games would do more of is allow you to start playing the game at the hardest level. Often, they expect you to beat the game at 'easy' before letting you play it through (again) at 'medium' and then 'hard', where there are more goals, more monsters, etc. But I usually don't like to play the game again--once I've played the basic idea of every level, I don't want to go back again (in single-player mode) and beat them again.
I would much rather play the game at 'medium' or 'hard' to begin with, so that beating the levels the FIRST time takes a lot of work. That way, the game lasts a lot longer. Quake2 was the last FPS game which I played where I could do this (though admittedly recently I haven't played many).
The sister asks her kid brother and his friend where they are going. They say they're going to watch 3 Star Wars movies. She says, "All three? back-to-back?" They reply, "No, all three...three times in a row."
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Either you're a troll or yes, you're overlooking somthing. Linux most certainly does not 'run on' FAT32. If anything it usually runs on ext3, which is as good as NTFS in stability, performance, features, etc. Linux does support FAT32, but that's different. If you set up your root partition as FAT32, then you're simply masochistic.
Of course, there's a chicken-and-egg problem there, but fortunately there's a pretty stable read-only Linux driver for NTFS. So Knoppix would use the free Linux NTFS driver to load the writeable NTFS driver from your NTFS partition...Yes, that would be very cool, because it could happen very automatically.
The Ultimate Backdoor, if anyone hasn't read about it:
Reflections on Trusting Trust.
You might want to doublecheck that gcc code you're compiling the kernel with...
Huh? As I understood the LGPL, it was the same as the GPL, but allowing linking. So you can't redistribute a binary-only glibc, but you can link your app to it and distribute that. So what's the difference between the LGPL and the GPL with a linking exception?
It seems to me that dynamic linking versus static linking should be important. If I dynamically link with glibc, and distribute my app, then YOU have to provide the actual glibc shared libraries for the app to run--and therefore it's your responsibility to have a license to glibc (by being provided / willing to provide the source).
Same thing with Linux. Everyone agrees that writing an app which uses Linux system calls is not creating a derivative work. But writing a prepackaged all-in-one system/application which DOESN'T require you to have Linux installed would be a violation.
Are you saying that glibc is pure GPL? That would mean that every program ever linked under Linux would have to be GPL'd, which obviously isn't true. Perhaps I'm misunderstanding?
Flat-fee streaming is what I really wish iTunes had. I use Rhapsody because it lets me listen to anything they have through my computer for a flat monthly fee. Since my PC is hooked up to my stereo and I have a DSL connection, it's basically indistinguishable from playing local ripped tracks or CDs. But it won't rip tracks directly to MP3s (it requires you to burn a CD directly), won't play any local files, and is very Windows-only. If iTunes let me do the same streaming thing, I would not only sign up, but it would be one of the last reasons for me to give up my Windows desktop and get a Mac.
Napster 2.0 seems to have something similar, but I don't like the fact that some songs are download-only. Perhaps I'll check it out though.
Are people using 2.0 much yet? I remember all of the blowup over how 2.0 didn't really add anything unless you wanted to run it on Windows, and it caused a lot of problems for modules like mod_perl. Is everyone still sticking with 1.3?
Resurrection was one of the very worst movies I've ever seen in my life. Aliens (#2) is one of my favorite of all time, so I really couldn't (respectfully) disagree with you more.
At the beginning of Resurrection, they say something about how they're on a distant space station, hundreds of light years away from civilization. Then at the end, after something like 6 hours of travel, they crash into Earth. If it takes six hours to get somewhere, then it isn't distant.
No matter how much tuning he DID do, there would always be more to do (and more experts on each system pointing out what he could do). Obviously he tried, and is willing to re-run the tests if anyone has a suggestion. So, contribute instead of criticizing, and send him an email explaining how to better tune FreeBSD.
Modern processors already use massive register renaming tricks internally, so it's not as if these extra registers will be completely unused. There is an advantage to letting the compiler (as opposed to just the processor) pick registers, and in 32-bit mode, that will be lost.
According to the BBC, it's Cleese/Chapman. I do agree that it's one of the absolute best Python moments.
A: I'm sorry, but I'm not allowed to argue anymore.
M: What?!
A: If you want me to go on arguing, you'll have to pay for another
five minutes.
M: Yes, but that was never five minutes, just now. Oh come on!
A: (Hums)
M: Look, this is ridiculous.
A: I'm sorry, but I'm not allowed to argue unless you've paid!
M: Oh, all right.
(pays money)
A: Thank you.
short pause
M: Well?
A: Well what?
M: That wasn't really five minutes, just now.
A: I told you, I'm not allowed to argue unless you've paid.
M: I just paid!
A: No you didn't.
M: I DID!
A: No you didn't.
M: Look, I don't want to argue about that.
A: Well, you didn't pay.
M: Aha. If I didn't pay, why are you arguing? I Got you!
A: No you haven't.
M: Yes I have. If you're arguing, I must have paid.
A: Not necessarily. I could be arguing in my spare time.
M: Oh I've had enough of this.
A: No you haven't.
M: Oh Shut up.
Evil Dead 3? As in Army of Darkness? That's an absolute classic, and the source for Duke Nukem's one-liners.
"Hail to the King, baby."
Gee...if only Eric Idle weren't my least favorite Python. Seriously, his stuff on the show and movies was so-so at best. Do any of the really classic Python quotes or scenes have Idle in them?
(Michael Palin, of course, being the best, with Terry Jones as Most Underrated).
The company could pay people to stand on street corners to express opinions. In the US we have a right to speak, but no one has any duty to listen.
A similar analogy: the people can stipulate that one company can't hire enough people to speak so loudly (or at all possible frequencies) in a way which will drown out other free speech.
At this point basically no one (publically) seems to know what the exploit is. If you want to find out about exploits THIS early, then you should be reading those mailing lists yourself. I appreciate it when Slashdot informs me of a patch I need to apply, but really, I'd rather hear about it once the exploit is actually understood and the patch is available.
What's the next article going to be: "Linus Torvalds is in the MIDDLE OF A SENTENCE describing the future for 2.6! In four seconds, we'll finish hearing what he has to say!"
Is there any way to configure BIND to return DNS errors if the address resolves to this Verisign fucknut of a page?
;-)
If not, is there a good DNS package which can be configured this way? My grandpa keeps telling me there's holes in BIND anyway.
I want space exploration as much as the next guy (on Slashdot), but what about this:
Clearly, colonization of other worlds should be driven by population needs, not technology. I.e., simply because we've gotten the technology to travel to and colonize other planets, does that mean we need to do so immediately?
We should consider ourselves lucky we haven't reached the complete overpopulation limit of the Earth before acquiring that technology.
Apart from the romantic aspects of colonizing Mars, is there a real reason why we shouldn't focus on utilizing Earth's resources properly, and wait to colonize other planets until we really need to do so?
How do these numbers relate to the number of servers which are 'attackable' by hackers? ...even assuming (as they do) that home desktop machines on DSL/cable modems which are compromised (by worms or hackers) are not considered 'server attacks'.
Well, they don't say that, but if you include the number of infected Windows desktops this year, I have a pretty good feeling it would be a LOT more than 12,000, even if you only include infections designed to give control to an outside party (as opposed to simply spreading).
The article points out, and I agree, that it's unlikely DRM will be applied to documents by default, since implementing it requires configuring Windows Server 2003 and ensuring both the creator and reader of the document have access/accounts on the Rights server.
It's really targeted at businesses which make heavy use of Active Directory already (or would switch to doing so), so that Finance people can restrict access to sensitive salary documents and such. Most people, even if they can apply DRM to a document, won't choose to do so. How many people change the rights for their local drives to remove access for 'Everyone'?
AMD's Hypertransport is basically (exactly?) the same thing. For the same reason, SMP on x86-64 is very efficient. So we might see an increase in SMP desktops for the PC architecture, in the same way that Apple has been pushing them.
I'd be interested in looking at this or working on it. Email me at ceswiedler@mindspring.com and let me know what's going on with development, maybe I can contribute.
They just need to pursue binary encoding of XML. The performance is as good as many binary formats, and much more flexible. W3C is holding a workshop on the subject in a month.
Hmm...the page you linked to is extremely interesting. They have an open-source reference implementation, which hopefully will go a long way in establishing this as a standard. If this were well-supported, as a developer I wouldn't see much reason to use anything else for binary formats. The ability to translate a structured-binary file into an equivalent structured-text file would be extremely useful.
They don't mention it in the article, but of course, BXML could be applied to HTML documents, which would greatly speed up transfer and parsing time. It shouldn't be difficult to add mod_bxml to Apache and client-side BXML support to your favorite open source web browser. They include support for adding arbitrary indexes at the end of the file, which if I understand correctly could be used to index image, css, and javascript links, so the browser could submit requests for those files before it's parsed the page.
On a completely unrelated note--is anyone else having problems getting to slashdot.org? Four out of five page requests seem to be dropped somewhere, but the fifth will fetch the page immediately.
IMO, the best way to go with spam is to combine a heuristic filter with a text/baysian filter, in my case SpamAssassin and SpamProbe. I run them both, and it does a noticably better job than either running alone.
SpamProbe can be fooled by clever spammers who insert lots of common words in non-visible html. A Baysian filter can't really catch that, but a heuristic filter can be written to notice the pattern.
Also, set up your Baysian filter to re-learn regularly from your spam folder. SpamProbe adds a unique ID to each message, so it won't process a message twice. Therefore, you can just manually move any false negative spams into the folder, and they'll be learned from.
Something I wish FPS games would do more of is allow you to start playing the game at the hardest level. Often, they expect you to beat the game at 'easy' before letting you play it through (again) at 'medium' and then 'hard', where there are more goals, more monsters, etc. But I usually don't like to play the game again--once I've played the basic idea of every level, I don't want to go back again (in single-player mode) and beat them again.
I would much rather play the game at 'medium' or 'hard' to begin with, so that beating the levels the FIRST time takes a lot of work. That way, the game lasts a lot longer. Quake2 was the last FPS game which I played where I could do this (though admittedly recently I haven't played many).
Reminds me of an old Foxtrot cartoon....
The sister asks her kid brother and his friend where they are going. They say they're going to watch 3 Star Wars movies. She says, "All three? back-to-back?" They reply, "No, all three...three times in a row."