Logan is where 10 of the 19 terrorists boarded the flights that were later hijacked Sept. 11, 2001.
"Tyranny" of Left to Right Format long broken
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The Rebirth of Comics
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Bill Watterson broke this a while back in the later years of his Calvin and Hobbes strips. Once he got popular enough to be able to dictate some things for artistic sake, he declared that his comics will only be published in a rectangular area where he has free rein inside, free from panels or any other limitation within. Most papers required all comics to be broken into panels so they can be arranged how they saw fit. Watterson hated those limitations, especially for a strip that was so involved with fantasy and imagination. Some papers had to actually shrink his area in order to keep the proportions right and for other comics to flow right around it, but he remained steadfast, and thats how the sunday strips were presented until he ended the strip, a strip still sorely missed by me and many others.
there is Darwin (Apple's BSD clone) or OS X Darwin *is* OS X, or more specifically, the kernel and the command line userland stuff. OS X includes the GUI and all the cool GUI apps. Its not really a BSD clone either, its a melding of actual BSD (FreeBSD and NetBSD) and a microkernel.
As an aside, IBM has been supporting SuSE on Power based pSeries boxes for a while. I'm sure they have the Linux on G5 thing well solved by now.
The original BSD lawsuit was "won" this way. AT&T sued BSD for releasing Net/2 ( I think, or Net/1). BSD showed that AT&T violated their copyright, and their requirements were a bitter pill for AT&T to swallow. Novell bought out the UNIX trademark, and decided to kill a pretty silly lawsuit - AT&T was suing BSD for releasing BSD UNIX, but a lot of functionality that made UNIX so valuable to AT&T ws developed in Berkely.
1) neither the article nor the story tell you why you should upgrade, or care at all for that matter. I actually downloaded gettext, looked at the changelog; a very cursory glance makes it seem to be build and packaging changes, and a couple new platforms. 2) gettext() works by you sending it a message, usually english, and it returning that phrase translated to your natural language. If it can't find one, it returns the original text. Since the text is usually english, and I is uh nativ English speeker, this doesn't seem that critical for me.
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FreeBSD 4.9 Code Freeze
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From what I saw, the big news will be PAE (> 4Gb on Intel boxes) support, which good for commercial uses (we have a bunch of 8Gb Linux boxes that use PAE) but not likely a lot of folks have it on the desktop.
If a mission critical application can't communicate orders to a manufacturing site in a timely manner because network traffic has hosed the infrastructure, orders get lost, money gets lost...
We got nailed by Blaster... someone took a laptop in, under the firewall. It nailed some services on some NT servers, and kicked a bunch off developers of Terminal servers. It cost a lot of money, probably towards the $1000 range.
I know it's not really Microsoft's fault, since they had a patch They have at least a partial responsilbility in the fact that their email product has major design flaws, and is a service that takes unknown input from anonymous sources and processes it. How many emails have been vectored through Netscape or Eudora? None. Not even "well, less since they have a lower percentage of market penetration". No, none.
For those that still use hotmail (I still do; getting to work on my own box/domain but too lazy to get it working quickly) MS's limits seem pretty small compared to this onslaught. Kind of bad for all the people that pay (for the bigger mailboxes) to have legitimate email deleted because of a MS vectored virus.
Their customers will go away in droves......because they'll be harmed by this action. Don't take out other people just to harm SCO/Caldera. And don't say "just move to Linux" unless you have some solution to their porting costs. The "good" DCOM worm taking out networks, and the large number of people mistakenly put on Email black holes and not able to send email because of erroneous info should teach us something.
True, nothing is totally secure, but MacOS <= 9.x was pretty secure. Simply because it had no services. For a long time, macs were relatively uncommon on the internet. No exposure, no risk. Even when they did come online, mac had no exploitable command shell. The closest thing would be AppleScript, and i never heard of any exploits for it. Part of it may be the fact that you have to construct and manipulate objects, not just hand some command line text off to a shell, part of it due to the fact that exploit code on PowerPCs is a lot harder to write than for x86 (or 68K for that matter).
For years, mac viruses numbered in the in the tens while viruses for Windows numbered in the thousands. It was just harder to write good mac viruses, the barrier to entry was higher. In fact, there were so few viruses, the only needed anti-virus code was developed and maintainmed by a single person (go stomping foot!!).
Now that MacOS has entered the 90s (protected memory, an actual VM, preemptive multitasking) by using a descendent of the 70s (UNIX) a wakeup call for some folks is needed. The chance for work exploits is there (the apache worm) but they'll be insulated somewhat by the fact people will target x86 first, and that Apple has been fairly good about security updates.
The Canon XL1 was designed (poorly) to be able to do digital stills. With an adaptor it can take a Canon EX flash unit. I doubt if anyone used it as such except for the novelty of it. Very poor design as still cam: huge, bulky, nonstandard (as far as still cams goes) media. It does allow you (with the purchase of an adaptor) to use Canon EF lenses, but with a 6x zoom factor.
For someone who's so goofy about naming (insisting on adding the GNU part) RMS doesn't seem too worried about changing a different trademark - Linux. Wonder what Linus has to say about this, but my guess is he doesn't mind too much, he seems very pragmatic about all the GNU naming thing.
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They aren't at the stage yet where machines can recognize people based on gait ....
So the Minister of Funny Walks is still safe.
From the linked article...
Logan is where 10 of the 19 terrorists boarded the flights that were later hijacked Sept. 11, 2001.
Bill Watterson broke this a while back in the later years of his Calvin and Hobbes strips. Once he got popular enough to be able to dictate some things for artistic sake, he declared that his comics will only be published in a rectangular area where he has free rein inside, free from panels or any other limitation within. Most papers required all comics to be broken into panels so they can be arranged how they saw fit. Watterson hated those limitations, especially for a strip that was so involved with fantasy and imagination. Some papers had to actually shrink his area in order to keep the proportions right and for other comics to flow right around it, but he remained steadfast, and thats how the sunday strips were presented until he ended the strip, a strip still sorely missed by me and many others.
Thats 16 cheap licenses, remember they're gonna double it after Oct 15th...
... the KDE Kontributor Konference abbreviation wouldn't go very well. Just ask Krusty how well his Krusty Komedy Klassics went over at the Apollo...
These people looked deep within my soul and assign me a number based on the order in which I joined.
-- Homer J. Simpson.
1) (*)BSD is dying.
2) The Internet was built on BSD.
3) The Internet is dying.
there is Darwin (Apple's BSD clone) or OS X
Darwin *is* OS X, or more specifically, the kernel and the command line userland stuff. OS X includes the GUI and all the cool GUI apps.
Its not really a BSD clone either, its a melding of actual BSD (FreeBSD and NetBSD) and a microkernel.
As an aside, IBM has been supporting SuSE on Power based pSeries boxes for a while. I'm sure they have the Linux on G5 thing well solved by now.
"People don't want a slice of life, they want a slice of pie"
-- Alfred Hitchcock.
The original BSD lawsuit was "won" this way. AT&T sued BSD for releasing Net/2 ( I think, or Net/1). BSD showed that AT&T violated their copyright, and their requirements were a bitter pill for AT&T to swallow. Novell bought out the UNIX trademark, and decided to kill a pretty silly lawsuit - AT&T was suing BSD for releasing BSD UNIX, but a lot of functionality that made UNIX so valuable to AT&T ws developed in Berkely.
1) neither the article nor the story tell you why you should upgrade, or care at all for that matter. I actually downloaded gettext, looked at the changelog; a very cursory glance makes it seem to be build and packaging changes, and a couple new platforms.
2) gettext() works by you sending it a message, usually english, and it returning that phrase translated to your natural language. If it can't find one, it returns the original text. Since the text is usually english, and I is uh nativ English speeker, this doesn't seem that critical for me.
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From what I saw, the big news will be PAE (> 4Gb on Intel boxes) support, which good for commercial uses (we have a bunch of 8Gb Linux boxes that use PAE) but not likely a lot of folks have it on the desktop.
Check the FreeBSD open issues list to get a snapshot.
sometimes subtlety doesn't work when what you say is the same that a lot of fanboys say... =)
For me, it's the best tool for the job. Outlook is a horrible email tool. I use IMAP whenever possible.
If a mission critical application can't communicate orders to a manufacturing site in a timely manner because network traffic has hosed the infrastructure, orders get lost, money gets lost...
We got nailed by Blaster... someone took a laptop in, under the firewall. It nailed some services on some NT servers, and kicked a bunch off developers of Terminal servers. It cost a lot of money, probably towards the $1000 range.
I know it's not really Microsoft's fault, since they had a patch
They have at least a partial responsilbility in the fact that their email product has major design flaws, and is a service that takes unknown input from anonymous sources and processes it. How many emails have been vectored through Netscape or Eudora? None. Not even "well, less since they have a lower percentage of market penetration". No, none.
For those that still use hotmail (I still do; getting to work on my own box/domain but too lazy to get it working quickly) MS's limits seem pretty small compared to this onslaught. Kind of bad for all the people that pay (for the bigger mailboxes) to have legitimate email deleted because of a MS vectored virus.
Their customers will go away in droves... ...because they'll be harmed by this action. Don't take out other people just to harm SCO/Caldera. And don't say "just move to Linux" unless you have some solution to their porting costs. The "good" DCOM worm taking out networks, and the large number of people mistakenly put on Email black holes and not able to send email because of erroneous info should teach us something.
I used to read http://www.apacheweek.com/ fairly regularly. Now seems to be not maintained as well.
True, nothing is totally secure, but MacOS <= 9.x was pretty secure. Simply because it had no services. For a long time, macs were relatively uncommon on the internet. No exposure, no risk. Even when they did come online, mac had no exploitable command shell. The closest thing would be AppleScript, and i never heard of any exploits for it. Part of it may be the fact that you have to construct and manipulate objects, not just hand some command line text off to a shell, part of it due to the fact that exploit code on PowerPCs is a lot harder to write than for x86 (or 68K for that matter).
For years, mac viruses numbered in the in the tens while viruses for Windows numbered in the thousands. It was just harder to write good mac viruses, the barrier to entry was higher. In fact, there were so few viruses, the only needed anti-virus code was developed and maintainmed by a single person (go stomping foot!!).
Now that MacOS has entered the 90s (protected memory, an actual VM, preemptive multitasking) by using a descendent of the 70s (UNIX) a wakeup call for some folks is needed. The chance for work exploits is there (the apache worm) but they'll be insulated somewhat by the fact people will target x86 first, and that Apple has been fairly good about security updates.
and discovered dozens of entries from all over the globe probing my box to see if it was an insecure IIS server.
Maybe they were looking for a secure IIS server. Ripley's "Believe it or not" is starting production again, maybe they needed material?
Sweet. 1200 f/5.6, then with an extender. Yikes.
The Canon XL1 was designed (poorly) to be able to do digital stills. With an adaptor it can take a Canon EX flash unit. I doubt if anyone used it as such except for the novelty of it. Very poor design as still cam: huge, bulky, nonstandard (as far as still cams goes) media. It does allow you (with the purchase of an adaptor) to use Canon EF lenses, but with a 6x zoom factor.
Fuji color film essentially has this. 4th color layer that renders tones better, especially in non-optimal light. I think Agfa has this as well.
Would be interesting to find out if this becomes widespread enough, if PhotoShop would allow manipulation of this layer someday. Would be interesting.
and this is the first time you noticed the BSD is dying troll?
Troll me once, shame on you. Troll me twice, shame on me?
-- WWSS (What Would Scottie Say)
For someone who's so goofy about naming (insisting on adding the GNU part) RMS doesn't seem too worried about changing a different trademark - Linux. Wonder what Linus has to say about this, but my guess is he doesn't mind too much, he seems very pragmatic about all the GNU naming thing.