Ariane ref was the Ariane 5. Wan't Russian, but pseudo pan-European, with no Russian support I believe.
The story was passed around on the net as a "this is how one bug can cost billions" thing, where there was a float that was trying to be pushed into a place with fewer bits than necessary. Core dumps in rockets aren't good.
There was an article in scientific american a while back (can't find the link) talking about the Soviet space program at the time. They were fiendishly trying to get to the moon before us (if you watched From The Earth to the Moon on HBO you might remember the folks worried about the russians beating them to a lunar flyby, that was true).
Problem is they didn't have cash for testing. Sure they'd unit test stuff, but never be able to do a system test. One time a huge booster exploded and killed 60 folks at the launch site. I think they had a couple cosmonauts killed on re-entry too but that may just be the voices in my head.
NFS allows you to share files on your computer, so technically you could use that to download illegal MP3s as well, but NFS is so ubiquitous that banning it is absurd.
Mozilla allows you to do this as well, block cookies and images (banners and web bugs) from sites. Even though I'm posting this from Mozilla, it's still pretty unstable (Flames off, I'm just saying what I see, In don't want d00dz saying how Mozilla 0\/\/nz m3).
there's are also proxy ad blocking software. Much more flexible than fake DNS entries. Can block a regular expression, so you can say block ads*.com. If you're interested, check out http://www.junkbusters.com
Just realize that a lot of sites pay for bandwidth with advertising dollars. Not a moral thing, just a practical one. Do you wanna kill a site you visit?
Well, the 2.5 kernel will be based on 2.4 once it becomes stab,e, meaning when the x.x.1 and x.x.2 releases hit. It'll be a fork, and once it forks, any stability updates to 2.4 willl be (judiciously) ported into 2.5.
I kinda see your point, although not clear in the first post. If this thing deeply affects the kernel and makes it fundamentally unstable, then other stuff (like drivers and possibly userland stuff) will suffer, and you don't want that affecting development.
Trick is, if it is that destabilizing, don't you want to know at the earlist possible moment? This way you have a chance to fix stuff without holding up a ship date. If they waited til all the other 2.5 stuff was done, then did this, it'd never ship.
Yeah, pretty much everything you said is right, at least from what I remember (for me it was Freshman Psych).
There are other issues too, the human eye is very perceptive to green, more so than red and much more so than blue A truly good palette must take this into account. The thing is, once you get a palette, their always the same size (256 * 3) so you could tune it if you wanted.
As far as the color of "white" light goes, ask any photographer what a pain that is. The human eye adjusts to the holes in the light (not enough blue to be white for example) but the camera doesn't.
I used to be webmaster for my school, for the computer store. At that time, site was only a bunch of price lists, so do some reg expr. substitutions (in Mac BBEdit) on some csv and I was ready.
School also had an IBM VM/CMS mainframe as it's primary big machine (now since retired). It ran a terminal based web browser named Charlotte. Trust me, I heard it when professors couldn't browse the lists in charlotte.
Is it just me (and I don't know that much about color theory, just some perception) but an equal distribution of numbers in a color palette is horrible.
Gamma kinda goes like this, perception of differences isn't based on an absolute difference, but a percentage different. I can feel the difference between one ounce and two ounces much better than I can feel it between 30 punds and 30 pounds 1 ounce. The absolute difference is still 1 ounce, but the percentage is radically different. The perception curve is based on an exponential, and that exponent is named gamma.
The percieved color difference between 0x00 and 0x33 is radically different between 0xCC and 0xFF. You actually want a perceptually equidistant color space, not mathematically. Ever wonder why dark gifs look so bad? because there is too much spacing (perceptually) between colors at the bottom end.
As we said, computers like mathematical simplicity,
BS, programmers who don't understand color theory or are too lazy to program it right liked the mathematical simplicity.
Dunno, for some reason the significance of the story for me (I don't follow high energy physics that much since I stopped playing basketball with a high energy physics professor) is CERN and the WWW and their intertwined history.
Isn't the story that Tim Berners Lee invented HTTP.9 to disseminate physics papers? Now I'm writing a post about a physics paper on the WWW, on a web site, who's business model is entirely web advertising (and the occasional Slashdot mug sale).
For some reason just came as a "You've come a long way baby" story for me.
My guess is LinuxPPC doesn't have the units to "save" apple. I'd like to see the numbers here.
The problem right now with chips is that Apple went with the G4 Altivecs in order to get a qualitative edge on the competition. The Altivecs run rings out of anything Intel has when it comes to graphics processing. But folks buy numbers. . Problem is it doesn't push out at high clockrates (I think pipeline is too short, I may be wrong, probably actually).
Since IBM will be the main supplier of G5 chips, and
Has licensed the Altivec technology for G4's, I don't think you need Linux to save Apple just yet.
Typo? Or Fruedian slip? I think they meant Mach here.
Never translate something important into a language not your native one. Nevre have a non-geek transcribe a geek talk without a geek checking it.
As I recall, 7.1.2 (or was it 7.1.1) was a P.O.S rushed to get PowerPC support in. It also was one of the first OS with shudder a system enabler. The enablers was an idea to put the system specific stuff into a special extension, called an enabler. In theory it would make the core kernel cleaner and shove specific stuff out, in practice it made it real hard to make a boot disk.
7.1.3 stabled things out a bit.
7.5 was better, basically a cleanup with soem new shareware bundled into the OS. Also killed the enablers (wooHoo!) 7.5.1 was the model for stability for a while, though there were 7.5.2 and 7.5.3 releases. I was out of macs (had to get a real job) when later releases came out.
Yes, they do make software, but they've proven quite thoroughly that it is not at all core to their business, since they are abandoning MacOS and switching to a highly modified BSD.
They're not abandoning MacOS. They're coming up with a new micro-kernel (Mach 2.5 based) which has libs for MacOS classic back-end (Classic), a NeXT like back end (Cocoa) and the new whiz-bang Aqua UI on modified NetBSD/FreeBSD back end (Carbon).
SLightly off topic, but will Apple be the first user of a Microkernel with multiple "environments" like this? I know NT had in theory POSIX and OS/2 (character based) environments, but those were never realistic, just checkbox marketing.
Linux dude: OK, today I'm gonna teach you how to read mail. Newbie: Cool!! Linux dude: It's pronounced "K3wl" Newbie: Sorry. Linux dude: Now, some people use pine, mutt, elm, or even mail to
check mail, but I can tell you want to be 3l33t, so I'll teach you about readmail. Newbie: Wow thanks, you're all right. I never heard of that one. Linux dude: No, all the cool sysadmins know all about readmail
now you know that UNIX folks don't like to type, right? Newbie: Yeah, I heard that. Linux dude: So readmail is usually abbreviated rm. Newbie: Yeah, I saw rm in a book someplace. Linux dude: So to read your mail, you type rm. But don't do that yet. Newbie: Ohh, OK. Whoops, I did it, what's this 'unlink' mean? Linux dude: Don't worry about that, readmail temporarily unlinks you from your mail while reading it, so you're sorta reading a copy. Newbie: Ohh, OK. Thanks so much for teaching me. I must seem so stupid. Linux dude: Don't worry about that. Us Linux boys always do this to newbies.
We even have a technical name for y'all, ID10T's.
When a Linux boy calls you that, it means you're special. Newbie: Wow, cool... Linux dude: Us Linux boys are really keen on taking someone under our wing,
just wait til you get owned, pronounced o\/\/n3d Newbie: Wow cool. Linux dude: Yeah, you won't forget that
So in UNIX, we have what are called flags to commands. readmail, or rm has some special flags. The coolest ones are the -rf flags,
they stand for really fast. You should see, it really changes the way rm works.
But don't use it yet. Newbie: Ohh, OK. I won't. Linux dude: See, in UNIX, you have these things called accounts.
Remember when you installed, and you got a root account? Newbie: Yeah. Linux dude: Well he gets a lot of mail, and you need to check it to see how your system is running. Newbie: That makes sense. Linux dude: So I need you to type the su command to become root. Then type that password. Newbie: OK, done. Linux dude: Now, to read mail for root, you have to tell rm where the mail files are.
For root, it's in the root directory. Newbie: That sounds logical. Linux dude: OK, so to read mail, really fast, for root, it's rm -rf / Newbie: OK. Typing it. Linux dude: OK bye... Newbie: Wait, what do I do next...? Linux dude: Just sit back and relax. Realize how much better your system is without
all those pesky files and devices lying around... Newbie: Wow, thanks!!
1) there are other size banners out there. Check the home page for MSN and you'll see a small banner tucked in the right corner, tough to even see some days. Check the right side of any portal page and you'll see odd size ones there too.
2) oddly enough, there was a study on wired I think where people do look at the ads, 45% of folks do, they just ignore them. The ads must suck then, because they are being watched, not clicked.
3) The new mozilla allows you to easily block a site (say.doubleclick.net) with a simple right-click. Yeah there were proxies before, but too hard for normal folks to set up. Imagine the pressure on advertisers if everybody does this? Wonder how long this will last, both the big boy browser guys have ad supported portals. Not good for corporate bottom line.
3) Someone sent me an ad that was some CSS thingy that popped under my mouse when I let it rest. Geez was that irritating.
People just have to realize this is a brand new medium. We're still finding out what works. I see a local hardware store with a web site. What, to sell a $2 box of nails to China? WE're still learning folks, and people will lose money until we gain that wisdom.
There are a bunch, try em out. as far as newer shells, ash or zsh are the "newest' so may/may not be what you need. Also is an XML shell (check on www.freshmeat.net) and you may find it.
Saying you don't like the UNIX shells is ironic to me, I can't stand any dos shell, and I have bash on the NT box, very nice.
You mean the hurd? shown as what it's been, vaporware. Not to be flamebait (which this will be marked at) But RMS hasn't produced a real end-user usable OS yet.
There exists the potential that SAMBA will be presented as an American attempt to attack German corporate interests. Given that German nationalism (and EU federalism) is very strong there, . ..
I can't get to the site to check, but wasn't Samba started in Australia? Also, the entity with most to lose from Samba is good ol US Mickeysoft, not some German corporation.
It would be really stupid to use anti-Americanism as an excuse to squash Samba. Not that it won't be done, but when it is, it will be stupid.
My two favorites: We wanted pictures of thumbs for a product, did image:thumb on altavista. Wondered why we got porn ads until we clicked on the first, a porn Thumbnail site.
Also looked for an old mp3 called Fantasy Girl on lycos, can you guess what kind of ads they showed me?
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The story was passed around on the net as a "this is how one bug can cost billions" thing, where there was a float that was trying to be pushed into a place with fewer bits than necessary. Core dumps in rockets aren't good.
Problem is they didn't have cash for testing. Sure they'd unit test stuff, but never be able to do a system test. One time a huge booster exploded and killed 60 folks at the launch site. I think they had a couple cosmonauts killed on re-entry too but that may just be the voices in my head.
Who wants to be a charcoal briquette?
Don't worry, we can always sniff them out with dogs.
NFS allows you to share files on your computer, so technically you could use that to download illegal MP3s as well, but NFS is so ubiquitous that banning it is absurd.
there's are also proxy ad blocking software. Much more flexible than fake DNS entries. Can block a regular expression, so you can say block ads*.com. If you're interested, check out http://www.junkbusters.com
Just realize that a lot of sites pay for bandwidth with advertising dollars. Not a moral thing, just a practical one. Do you wanna kill a site you visit?
I kinda see your point, although not clear in the first post. If this thing deeply affects the kernel and makes it fundamentally unstable, then other stuff (like drivers and possibly userland stuff) will suffer, and you don't want that affecting development.
Trick is, if it is that destabilizing, don't you want to know at the earlist possible moment? This way you have a chance to fix stuff without holding up a ship date. If they waited til all the other 2.5 stuff was done, then did this, it'd never ship.
In the immortal word of Foghorn Leghorn:
I say I say it's a joke son.
There are other issues too, the human eye is very perceptive to green, more so than red and much more so than blue A truly good palette must take this into account. The thing is, once you get a palette, their always the same size (256 * 3) so you could tune it if you wanted.
As far as the color of "white" light goes, ask any photographer what a pain that is. The human eye adjusts to the holes in the light (not enough blue to be white for example) but the camera doesn't.
School also had an IBM VM/CMS mainframe as it's primary big machine (now since retired). It ran a terminal based web browser named Charlotte. Trust me, I heard it when professors couldn't browse the lists in charlotte.
Gamma kinda goes like this, perception of differences isn't based on an absolute difference, but a percentage different. I can feel the difference between one ounce and two ounces much better than I can feel it between 30 punds and 30 pounds 1 ounce. The absolute difference is still 1 ounce, but the percentage is radically different. The perception curve is based on an exponential, and that exponent is named gamma.
The percieved color difference between 0x00 and 0x33 is radically different between 0xCC and 0xFF. You actually want a perceptually equidistant color space, not mathematically. Ever wonder why dark gifs look so bad? because there is too much spacing (perceptually) between colors at the bottom end.
BS, programmers who don't understand color theory or are too lazy to program it right liked the mathematical simplicity.
Isn't the story that Tim Berners Lee invented HTTP .9 to disseminate physics papers? Now I'm writing a post about a physics paper on the WWW, on a web site, who's business model is entirely web advertising (and the occasional Slashdot mug sale).
For some reason just came as a "You've come a long way baby" story for me.
The problem right now with chips is that Apple went with the G4 Altivecs in order to get a qualitative edge on the competition. The Altivecs run rings out of anything Intel has when it comes to graphics processing. But folks buy numbers. . Problem is it doesn't push out at high clockrates (I think pipeline is too short, I may be wrong, probably actually).
Since IBM will be the main supplier of G5 chips, and Has licensed the Altivec technology for G4's, I don't think you need Linux to save Apple just yet.
Typo? Or Fruedian slip? I think they meant Mach here.
Never translate something important into a language not your native one. Nevre have a non-geek transcribe a geek talk without a geek checking it.
7.1.3 stabled things out a bit.
7.5 was better, basically a cleanup with soem new shareware bundled into the OS. Also killed the enablers (wooHoo!) 7.5.1 was the model for stability for a while, though there were 7.5.2 and 7.5.3 releases. I was out of macs (had to get a real job) when later releases came out.
They're not abandoning MacOS. They're coming up with a new micro-kernel (Mach 2.5 based) which has libs for MacOS classic back-end (Classic), a NeXT like back end (Cocoa) and the new whiz-bang Aqua UI on modified NetBSD/FreeBSD back end (Carbon).
SLightly off topic, but will Apple be the first user of a Microkernel with multiple "environments" like this? I know NT had in theory POSIX and OS/2 (character based) environments, but those were never realistic, just checkbox marketing.
Linux dude: OK, today I'm gonna teach you how to read mail.
Newbie: Cool!!
Linux dude: It's pronounced "K3wl"
Newbie: Sorry.
Linux dude: Now, some people use pine, mutt, elm, or even mail to
check mail, but I can tell you want to be 3l33t, so I'll teach you about readmail.
Newbie: Wow thanks, you're all right. I never heard of that one.
Linux dude: No, all the cool sysadmins know all about readmail
now you know that UNIX folks don't like to type, right?
Newbie: Yeah, I heard that.
Linux dude: So readmail is usually abbreviated rm.
Newbie: Yeah, I saw rm in a book someplace.
Linux dude: So to read your mail, you type rm. But don't do that yet.
Newbie: Ohh, OK. Whoops, I did it, what's this 'unlink' mean?
Linux dude: Don't worry about that, readmail temporarily unlinks you from your mail while
reading it, so you're sorta reading a copy.
Newbie: Ohh, OK. Thanks so much for teaching me. I must seem so stupid.
Linux dude: Don't worry about that. Us Linux boys always do this to newbies.
We even have a technical name for y'all, ID10T's.
When a Linux boy calls you that, it means you're special.
Newbie: Wow, cool...
Linux dude: Us Linux boys are really keen on taking someone under our wing,
just wait til you get owned, pronounced o\/\/n3d
Newbie: Wow cool.
Linux dude: Yeah, you won't forget that
So in UNIX, we have what are called flags to commands.
readmail, or rm has some special flags. The coolest ones are the -rf flags,
they stand for really fast. You should see, it really changes the way rm works.
But don't use it yet.
Newbie: Ohh, OK. I won't.
Linux dude: See, in UNIX, you have these things called accounts.
Remember when you installed, and you got a root account?
Newbie: Yeah.
Linux dude: Well he gets a lot of mail, and you need to check it to see how your system is running.
Newbie: That makes sense.
Linux dude: So I need you to type the su command to become root. Then type that password.
Newbie: OK, done.
Linux dude: Now, to read mail for root, you have to tell rm where the mail files are.
For root, it's in the root directory.
Newbie: That sounds logical.
Linux dude: OK, so to read mail, really fast, for root, it's rm -rf /
Newbie: OK. Typing it.
Linux dude: OK bye...
Newbie: Wait, what do I do next...?
Linux dude: Just sit back and relax. Realize how much better your system is without
all those pesky files and devices lying around...
Newbie: Wow, thanks!!
2) oddly enough, there was a study on wired I think where people do look at the ads, 45% of folks do, they just ignore them. The ads must suck then, because they are being watched, not clicked.
3) The new mozilla allows you to easily block a site (say .doubleclick.net) with a simple right-click. Yeah there were proxies before, but too hard for normal folks to set up. Imagine the pressure on advertisers if everybody does this? Wonder how long this will last, both the big boy browser guys have ad supported portals. Not good for corporate bottom line.
3) Someone sent me an ad that was some CSS thingy that popped under my mouse when I let it rest. Geez was that irritating.
People just have to realize this is a brand new medium. We're still finding out what works. I see a local hardware store with a web site. What, to sell a $2 box of nails to China? WE're still learning folks, and people will lose money until we gain that wisdom.
Saying you don't like the UNIX shells is ironic to me, I can't stand any dos shell, and I have bash on the NT box, very nice.
You mean the hurd? shown as what it's been, vaporware. Not to be flamebait (which this will be marked at) But RMS hasn't produced a real end-user usable OS yet.
FreeBSD 4.1 just came out too. I guess any thing graphing a snapshot can get outdated quick
Not anymore, they sold UNIX to SCO years ago.
I can't get to the site to check, but wasn't Samba started in Australia? Also, the entity with most to lose from Samba is good ol US Mickeysoft, not some German corporation.
It would be really stupid to use anti-Americanism as an excuse to squash Samba. Not that it won't be done, but when it is, it will be stupid.
apache is at 2.0 beta... 1.3.12 official.
We wanted pictures of thumbs for a product, did image:thumb on altavista. Wondered why we got porn ads until we clicked on the first, a porn Thumbnail site.
Also looked for an old mp3 called Fantasy Girl on lycos, can you guess what kind of ads they showed me?