What we're going to be doing at Shop@AOL now is combining a lot of elements of Amazon's shopping platform to enhance the experience of the users of Shop@AOL
So they're getting '1 Click Shopping' then?
Rather confused why Amazon would want AOL search technology too - it's search facilities are the best of the online book stores...
The Duke's normal quality of article. I could pick it apart but i'll just list one example fo the guy's clueslessness:
Pros, Top-notch Secutity... doesn't tend to double up on applications (like installing 3 calculators). The less applications... that there will be less holes in applications (and thus, the system) to exploit.
Wierd in the extreme. When using Google with IE5.5 all URLs were redirected through their site. Trying again with Netscape on Linux this didn't happen, ditto for other browsers/OSs and other folks installations of IE.
After clearing out my cache and cookies this behaviour no longer occurs...
Are Google doing selective logging of some of their users? Frequent users?
Does anyone else get their links redirected through 'http://www.google.com/url'?
Well seen as it's the 4th I'll allow myself to go off on this tangent...
Yeah, that's when we kicked the English's butt.:)
It wasn't the English the American Colonials were fighting, it was the British.
In many ways it was a British Cival War, the Americans were holding to the ideals which were fought over in the English Civil War (Cromwell and all that).
first sightings (apparent) were 50 years ago.. is this beast still alive?
I think you should read-up a bit more... Legend goes back as far as the 7th century (at least) when it was spotted by St. Columba (you know, the guy who brought Christianity to the Scots).
I don't think the search for Nessie will ever end. For one thing, it's too big of a local cash cow, like Roswell. Each have become tourist attractions and spawned several books and t.v. shows. For another thing, it's just a lot more fun to imagine that a leftover relic from the Mesozoic era managed to survive millions of years undetected. Earthquake and weather balloon explanations aren't quite as ripe for mass consumption.
The only way the legend of Nessie could ever be squashed was if the loch was drained...
But this scientists explaination seems a tad overstated. Yes, Loch Ness does sit slap-bang on top of the Great Glen Fault - but an earthquake in Scotland means about 1R... Hardly an event that's felt, never mind the frequency of these (non)events.
Still, it's been a while since the last madcap explanation!
It's not like there is much difference between Solaris code and generic UNIX code for the majority of applications. Since Solaris has POSIX Threads libraries too, wouldn't be a good idea just to recode your application to use pthreads (and thus allow it to run on AIX, *BSD,...) rather than extend the life of an old API?
The wite paper hints at differences between the APIs that may make porting complicated, but in 98% of cases i'm sure the hastle is minimal.
I used to run a mail-only Fidonet node (Koosliam, 2:259/7) - it was only online from 23:30 to 07:30 GMT. However punters wouldn't recognise this even thou it was stated in the nodelist and it had no BBS online, and no files anyway.
My parents still get the occasional 'hen scratching' on the phone in the middle of the night... Quality.
A good example of this is older versions of Purify that offer you a "free mug" if you fill in a questionare... Naturally the number of users didn't tie in with the number of licences when some idiot did this at my work...
Is there a way you could only use the power managment at night though?
Pray tell, when is "night" on the Internet?
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Pretty poorly written article that comments on the improvements in SCSI are shown in the results, then
gives you a graph showing a performace decrease...
While I agree it's a poor article, the chart you mention is acurate. The "Hard Disk Performance" chart is shown in terms of MB/second so bigger is better...
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Oh, come on! It's piss poor...
For example can you translate the following:
While all of these new updates are fine and dandy, the inner-workings on Linux are the things that probably need the most
updating. Yes, Linux is working its way up, but its way of doing many things are a rather abstract way at times or often very
close to that of its older brother UNIX. One rather non-standard way Linux handled memory was an old UNIX way, which is
very obviously proprietary. Linux is now in the future of memory and works in a more standards-compliant way of doing
things -- which is what Linux is all about if you ask me. Although, Linux still remains compatible with the old UNIX-style
way of managing memory, just as it does with the new controversial filesystem, DevFS.
So where's this guy's clue? Standard way of doing memory? Kernel 2.2 had "proprietary" memory code?? Compatible with the 'old way' of memory??
This guy should stick to sitting in the dunny with a copy of Penthouse...
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Rather confused why Amazon would want AOL search technology too - it's search facilities are the best of the online book stores...
I develop servlet and applet solutions to deliver results to some of the Oil Majors - to get software installed in these environments is a nightmare!
Also the Java Plugin doesn't work correctly when there is no DNS access (i.e. all lookups are done by the proxy)...
Also the Java Plugin 1.3.1 auto-download crashes...
Yeah, as you said easy...
After clearing out my cache and cookies this behaviour no longer occurs...
Are Google doing selective logging of some of their users? Frequent users?
Does anyone else get their links redirected through 'http://www.google.com/url'?
But this scientists explaination seems a tad overstated. Yes, Loch Ness does sit slap-bang on top of the Great Glen Fault - but an earthquake in Scotland means about 1R... Hardly an event that's felt, never mind the frequency of these (non)events.
Still, it's been a while since the last madcap explanation!
The wite paper hints at differences between the APIs that may make porting complicated, but in 98% of cases i'm sure the hastle is minimal.
It had quite a few wierd differences, and setting up Voyager/TCPIP on my Amiga for it was interesting...
However after doing a quick search it's good to see that it still lives in todays world of free ISPs... www.spuddy.org - Spud's Xanadu.
I used to run a mail-only Fidonet node (Koosliam, 2:259/7) - it was only online from 23:30 to 07:30 GMT. However punters wouldn't recognise this even thou it was stated in the nodelist and it had no BBS online, and no files anyway.
My parents still get the occasional 'hen scratching' on the phone in the middle of the night... Quality.
A good example of this is older versions of Purify that offer you a "free mug" if you fill in a questionare... Naturally the number of users didn't tie in with the number of licences when some idiot did this at my work...
Exactly, only a few comments and the IETF is already slashdotted! So, in the best whoring fashion:
Seriously the parent comment is anything but redundant!
Well police regulations and laws are different in Scotland/England, and I'd presume this one only applies to England & Wales - so it's not the UK.
For example can you translate the following:
So where's this guy's clue? Standard way of doing memory? Kernel 2.2 had "proprietary" memory code?? Compatible with the 'old way' of memory??This guy should stick to sitting in the dunny with a copy of Penthouse...
Netscape had the -install option to install a custom colormap, and IE autdetects this...
This really makes Mozilla unusable on 8 bit displays (i.e. like on my Ultra 5).
More votes on bug #22337 might help...