It matters to anyone intending to download themes containing such icons over a dialup line.:-p ---
Where can the word be found, where can the word resound? Not here, there is not enough silence.
It might require less energy to keep the platters spinning, but beyond that I can't think of any improvements from zero-g. ---
Where can the word be found, where can the word resound? Not here, there is not enough silence.
The diagrams and pictures mentionned don't seem to be available... Maybe discovery.com is doing a little preemptive correction for the slashdot effect.:-P ---
Where can the word be found, where can the word resound? Not here, there is not enough silence.
If you don't like to change an operating system much at all, what are you doing trying to install programs to irregular locations?;) ---
Where can the word be found, where can the word resound? Not here, there is not enough silence.
Not if you expect the content you're requesting to actually reach you. ---
Where can the word be found, where can the word resound? Not here, there is not enough silence.
Looks like it was developed with their eCase product in mind. That tiny display on the ecase doesn't even look comfortable viewing in their ad (look at that squinty guy!).
A pcmcia interface was probably a natural step to broaden the product's market if it was already being designed for an ecase flashcard interface.
---
Where can the word be found, where can the word resound? Not here, there is not enough silence.
We'd have to use something other than lasers to read/write on electrons. Lasers are still waves; they can't "see" anything that would fall between their peaks and valleys, and electrons are many orders of magnitude too small. ---
Where can the word be found, where can the word resound? Not here, there is not enough silence.
Are generalizations about the people on slashdot any better than those same 'carpet-bombing' reactions, though?
I try not to get too discouraged by knee-jerk posts. Some contain interesting points, and those that don't... well... the posts I see don't neccessarily represent the views of the majority, just the more vocal slashdotters.
I believe algorithms fall under unique mathematical procedures (I could be wrong about this reason) and are therefore patentable. As for insightful concepts, I see nothing wrong with patenting an innovative (real definition, not the "tack on an extra feature" application definition) procedure using software... just not broad coding concepts or processes, or pieces of software themselves. ---
Where can the word be found, where can the word resound? Not here, there is not enough silence.
Copyright != patent
Software license != patent
Patents are quite a different beast.
Applying patents to particular combinations of code or even resemblance to such would make for a bleak future. How meager our literature would be if, rather than programs constructed of computer language, it were possible to patent stories or genres constructed of written language?
Copyrights and laws against plagarism are used to protect creative works, because patents have horrifyingly destructive long-term effects in such cases.
You shouldn't be so quick to assume nobody around here thinks before taking a stance on something they strongly disagree with. ---
Where can the word be found, where can the word resound? Not here, there is not enough silence.
Actually, a computer's processor does work like that.:p
The CPU can't concentrate on more than one task at a time; so dividing everything up into tasks and rapidly switching between them makes practical sense.
An agent system would be a layer of abstraction between the system's native task-based processing and the OS/GUI. Abstraction and translation comes at a usually hefty price in performance, though. ---
Where can the word be found, where can the word resound? Not here, there is not enough silence.
I saw a couple "You have killed whatsisname" messages on the screen. The trailer's visual quality stinks though so it's hard to make out... not to mention the instance where the player being observed gets fragged, and then the gratuitous gibbing at the end of the trailer. ---
Where can the word be found, where can the word resound? Not here, there is not enough silence.
Step 1: Obtain pre-made buffer overflow tool of the week.
Step 2: Sweep blocks of IP addresses for vulnerable machines (it's frighening how many publically accessible boxes aren't hardened).
Step 3: Gain access to vulnerable machines by "rooting" them, usually with a premade rootkit (most malicious attackers actually have no idea how most of the tools they use or the systems they're breaking into, work).
Step 4: With this newfound access to often many machines in a single sweep, install whatever you want (eg: Trinity) on them all.
Once the attacker has amassed enough machines to be his or her zombies, the attacker can trigger DDoS software on them all to hammer a specific site.
I don't know what's more frightening; the number of neglected servers running old, vulnerable services... or the growing number of home desktops with megabit+ net connections infected with remote administration trojans. ---
Where can the word be found, where can the word resound? Not here, there is not enough silence.
Does this judge not know what an IP address is? THAT is the designation akin to a phone number.
The domain name is more like the sign on the front of the store. ---
Where can the word be found, where can the word resound? Not here, there is not enough silence.
Just for shits&giggles, I threw together a few lines of code to prove a point. It does something really simple; you feed the program two numbers at the command line, it divides them and then attempts to insert the result into a plain-jane ascii file. This is on a kernel 2.2.16 linux box. Also, I purposely left out sanity checking.
Test 1: I enter 5 and 2. Ascii file gains a line reading 2.5, OS is unaffected.
Test 2: I enter 65535 and 15. Ascii file gains a line reading 4369, OS is unaffected.
Test 3: I enter 12 and "badabing", the program segfaults. Nothing new is added to the ascii file, OS is unaffected.
Test 4: I enter 50 and -5, Ascii file gains a line reading -10, OS is unaffected.
Test 5: I enter 2000 and 0, the program segfaults. Nothing new is added to the ascii file, OS is unaffected.
Now, the lack of sanity checking is clearly an application error... but if the app's supposed to be at fault for bringing down an entire LAN why didn't my little divide by zero experiment even scratch the running kernel?:) ---
Where can the word be found, where can the word resound? Not here, there is not enough silence.
I might as well share my own install experience for what it's worth... times are to the nearest "clean" number for simplicity's sake
Starting with Red hat 6.2:
20 mins to install (I used "select individual packages". What can I say? I'm picky).
5 mins to download the latest stable kernel and do the menuconfig dance.
10 mins to recompile kernel, during which I got the drivers for my soundblaster live and nvidia geforce.
1 minute to shut down and reboot into the new kernel.
10 mins to install Xfree86 4.0.1 binaries via ftp; I compiled and installed the sound/video drivers in the meantime as well as nuked a couple of mesa's symlinks to make sure they don't step on the vid driver's toes.
2 mins to run Xfree86 -Configure and tweak the config by hand to make it perfect (as a side note, the config provided by xfree would have run fine).
5 mins to install Unreal Tournament.:-D
1 minute to log root out, log in as a user, load up X (w/blackbox if anyone wanted to know) and start playing UT.
54 minutes from sticking the redhat CD in the drive to being a sniping bastard. Hell, assume I went to get a coffee and some doughnuts and make it 1 hour. An hour well spent I might add- My machine positively purrs.:) ---
Where can the word be found, where can the word resound? Not here, there is not enough silence.
There are too many articles about java popping up on slashdot lately. It's ONE programming language, and it's starting to give us all caffeine poisonning.:-P ---
Where can the word be found, where can the word resound? Not here, there is not enough silence.
To whom is the name so terribly important?
Sawmill to Sawfish, Linux to Looneyix, big whoop. ---
Where can the word be found, where can the word resound? Not here, there is not enough silence.
Eliminate the support costs and even turn a (if somewhat reduced) profit per unit. Whatever have other companies been thinking to replace defective products for FREE when they could just downplay the problem long enough for them to become all "old and worn out anyway"?:-P ---
Where can the word be found, where can the word resound? Not here, there is not enough silence.
but I'm just as interested in how big the memory footprint is, and how many cpu cycles it consumes while looping away. I only have a MERE 64mb of ram in my aging celeron 333, after all.
Speaking of such, does anyone know of anyplace with stats on just how many resources these "next-gen" interfaces use? ---
Where can the word be found, where can the word resound? Not here, there is not enough silence.
N2 isn't totally inert, but it DOES require some not unsubstantial chemical acrobatics to get it to react. As far as gasses go it's mighty safe. ---
Where can the word be found, where can the word resound? Not here, there is not enough silence.
The point is that the people with money can't corner the market on biofuels, so they don't invest in the development of engines to run off it.
Nearly every biofuel engine I have ever heard of has been produced by universities&colleges and not major companies, likely for this very reason. ---
Where can the word be found, where can the word resound? Not here, there is not enough silence.
Assuming that adults are unaffected by pollution is naive. Adult bodies are merely fully developed and healthy enough to withstand the effects of pollution without showing obviously debilitating signs... but eventually it will catch up to even the healthiest adult.
Keep drawing in the smog and by age 50 you'll wish you had a body as healthy as your 80-year old country-living uncle. ---
Where can the word be found, where can the word resound? Not here, there is not enough silence.
The only problem is that unless someone can obtain the sole rights to bottle and sell the stuff, they won't invest the money and energy into developing the technology to cheaply "harvest" mass quantities, nor the engines to use it as fuel.
Why do you think we're still running our vehicles off fossil fuels? Hell, the amount of energy in fresh animal fats makes hi-octane gasoline look absolutely puny.:) ---
Where can the word be found, where can the word resound? Not here, there is not enough silence.
Slashdot Mirror
It matters to anyone intending to download themes containing such icons over a dialup line. :-p
---
Where can the word be found, where can the word resound? Not here, there is not enough silence.
It might require less energy to keep the platters spinning, but beyond that I can't think of any improvements from zero-g.
---
Where can the word be found, where can the word resound? Not here, there is not enough silence.
The diagrams and pictures mentionned don't seem to be available... Maybe discovery.com is doing a little preemptive correction for the slashdot effect. :-P
---
Where can the word be found, where can the word resound? Not here, there is not enough silence.
If you don't like to change an operating system much at all, what are you doing trying to install programs to irregular locations? ;)
---
Where can the word be found, where can the word resound? Not here, there is not enough silence.
Not if you expect the content you're requesting to actually reach you.
---
Where can the word be found, where can the word resound? Not here, there is not enough silence.
Looks like it was developed with their eCase product in mind. That tiny display on the ecase doesn't even look comfortable viewing in their ad (look at that squinty guy!).
A pcmcia interface was probably a natural step to broaden the product's market if it was already being designed for an ecase flashcard interface.
---
Where can the word be found, where can the word resound? Not here, there is not enough silence.
We'd have to use something other than lasers to read/write on electrons. Lasers are still waves; they can't "see" anything that would fall between their peaks and valleys, and electrons are many orders of magnitude too small.
---
Where can the word be found, where can the word resound? Not here, there is not enough silence.
Are generalizations about the people on slashdot any better than those same 'carpet-bombing' reactions, though?
I try not to get too discouraged by knee-jerk posts. Some contain interesting points, and those that don't... well... the posts I see don't neccessarily represent the views of the majority, just the more vocal slashdotters.
I believe algorithms fall under unique mathematical procedures (I could be wrong about this reason) and are therefore patentable. As for insightful concepts, I see nothing wrong with patenting an innovative (real definition, not the "tack on an extra feature" application definition) procedure using software... just not broad coding concepts or processes, or pieces of software themselves.
---
Where can the word be found, where can the word resound? Not here, there is not enough silence.
Copyright != patent
Software license != patent
Patents are quite a different beast.
Applying patents to particular combinations of code or even resemblance to such would make for a bleak future. How meager our literature would be if, rather than programs constructed of computer language, it were possible to patent stories or genres constructed of written language?
Copyrights and laws against plagarism are used to protect creative works, because patents have horrifyingly destructive long-term effects in such cases.
You shouldn't be so quick to assume nobody around here thinks before taking a stance on something they strongly disagree with.
---
Where can the word be found, where can the word resound? Not here, there is not enough silence.
Actually, a computer's processor does work like that. :p
The CPU can't concentrate on more than one task at a time; so dividing everything up into tasks and rapidly switching between them makes practical sense.
An agent system would be a layer of abstraction between the system's native task-based processing and the OS/GUI. Abstraction and translation comes at a usually hefty price in performance, though.
---
Where can the word be found, where can the word resound? Not here, there is not enough silence.
I saw a couple "You have killed whatsisname" messages on the screen. The trailer's visual quality stinks though so it's hard to make out... not to mention the instance where the player being observed gets fragged, and then the gratuitous gibbing at the end of the trailer.
---
Where can the word be found, where can the word resound? Not here, there is not enough silence.
For the most part it's a script kiddie effort.
Step 1: Obtain pre-made buffer overflow tool of the week.
Step 2: Sweep blocks of IP addresses for vulnerable machines (it's frighening how many publically accessible boxes aren't hardened).
Step 3: Gain access to vulnerable machines by "rooting" them, usually with a premade rootkit (most malicious attackers actually have no idea how most of the tools they use or the systems they're breaking into, work).
Step 4: With this newfound access to often many machines in a single sweep, install whatever you want (eg: Trinity) on them all.
Once the attacker has amassed enough machines to be his or her zombies, the attacker can trigger DDoS software on them all to hammer a specific site.
I don't know what's more frightening; the number of neglected servers running old, vulnerable services... or the growing number of home desktops with megabit+ net connections infected with remote administration trojans.
---
Where can the word be found, where can the word resound? Not here, there is not enough silence.
Does this judge not know what an IP address is? THAT is the designation akin to a phone number.
The domain name is more like the sign on the front of the store.
---
Where can the word be found, where can the word resound? Not here, there is not enough silence.
This seems a little much just to get data from RCMP databases.
:-P
They could have saved themselves a lot of time and effort had they realized that the RCMP provides this information on request.
Yes, they could have just asked for it.
---
Where can the word be found, where can the word resound? Not here, there is not enough silence.
Just for shits&giggles, I threw together a few lines of code to prove a point. It does something really simple; you feed the program two numbers at the command line, it divides them and then attempts to insert the result into a plain-jane ascii file. This is on a kernel 2.2.16 linux box. Also, I purposely left out sanity checking.
:)
Test 1: I enter 5 and 2. Ascii file gains a line reading 2.5, OS is unaffected.
Test 2: I enter 65535 and 15. Ascii file gains a line reading 4369, OS is unaffected.
Test 3: I enter 12 and "badabing", the program segfaults. Nothing new is added to the ascii file, OS is unaffected.
Test 4: I enter 50 and -5, Ascii file gains a line reading -10, OS is unaffected.
Test 5: I enter 2000 and 0, the program segfaults. Nothing new is added to the ascii file, OS is unaffected.
Now, the lack of sanity checking is clearly an application error... but if the app's supposed to be at fault for bringing down an entire LAN why didn't my little divide by zero experiment even scratch the running kernel?
---
Where can the word be found, where can the word resound? Not here, there is not enough silence.
I might as well share my own install experience for what it's worth... times are to the nearest "clean" number for simplicity's sake :-D
:)
Starting with Red hat 6.2:
20 mins to install (I used "select individual packages". What can I say? I'm picky).
5 mins to download the latest stable kernel and do the menuconfig dance.
10 mins to recompile kernel, during which I got the drivers for my soundblaster live and nvidia geforce.
1 minute to shut down and reboot into the new kernel.
10 mins to install Xfree86 4.0.1 binaries via ftp; I compiled and installed the sound/video drivers in the meantime as well as nuked a couple of mesa's symlinks to make sure they don't step on the vid driver's toes.
2 mins to run Xfree86 -Configure and tweak the config by hand to make it perfect (as a side note, the config provided by xfree would have run fine).
5 mins to install Unreal Tournament.
1 minute to log root out, log in as a user, load up X (w/blackbox if anyone wanted to know) and start playing UT.
54 minutes from sticking the redhat CD in the drive to being a sniping bastard. Hell, assume I went to get a coffee and some doughnuts and make it 1 hour. An hour well spent I might add- My machine positively purrs.
---
Where can the word be found, where can the word resound? Not here, there is not enough silence.
There are too many articles about java popping up on slashdot lately. It's ONE programming language, and it's starting to give us all caffeine poisonning. :-P
---
Where can the word be found, where can the word resound? Not here, there is not enough silence.
To whom is the name so terribly important?
Sawmill to Sawfish, Linux to Looneyix, big whoop.
---
Where can the word be found, where can the word resound? Not here, there is not enough silence.
Eliminate the support costs and even turn a (if somewhat reduced) profit per unit. Whatever have other companies been thinking to replace defective products for FREE when they could just downplay the problem long enough for them to become all "old and worn out anyway"? :-P
---
Where can the word be found, where can the word resound? Not here, there is not enough silence.
And "cheap" is relative.
---
Where can the word be found, where can the word resound? Not here, there is not enough silence.
but I'm just as interested in how big the memory footprint is, and how many cpu cycles it consumes while looping away. I only have a MERE 64mb of ram in my aging celeron 333, after all.
Speaking of such, does anyone know of anyplace with stats on just how many resources these "next-gen" interfaces use?
---
Where can the word be found, where can the word resound? Not here, there is not enough silence.
N2 isn't totally inert, but it DOES require some not unsubstantial chemical acrobatics to get it to react. As far as gasses go it's mighty safe.
---
Where can the word be found, where can the word resound? Not here, there is not enough silence.
The point is that the people with money can't corner the market on biofuels, so they don't invest in the development of engines to run off it.
Nearly every biofuel engine I have ever heard of has been produced by universities&colleges and not major companies, likely for this very reason.
---
Where can the word be found, where can the word resound? Not here, there is not enough silence.
Assuming that adults are unaffected by pollution is naive. Adult bodies are merely fully developed and healthy enough to withstand the effects of pollution without showing obviously debilitating signs... but eventually it will catch up to even the healthiest adult.
Keep drawing in the smog and by age 50 you'll wish you had a body as healthy as your 80-year old country-living uncle.
---
Where can the word be found, where can the word resound? Not here, there is not enough silence.
The only problem is that unless someone can obtain the sole rights to bottle and sell the stuff, they won't invest the money and energy into developing the technology to cheaply "harvest" mass quantities, nor the engines to use it as fuel.
:)
Why do you think we're still running our vehicles off fossil fuels? Hell, the amount of energy in fresh animal fats makes hi-octane gasoline look absolutely puny.
---
Where can the word be found, where can the word resound? Not here, there is not enough silence.