Whenever I use a floppy, I'll zip up the contents even if it's only a 30kb Word file. CRCs are a godsend, especially when a quick visual inspection of the file won't necessarily reveal corruption. (I wonder how many flaky ll3.exe's are lying around...).
Is it just me or have they dropped in reliability? I mean, they were never perfect, but 10 years ago I could copy something onto floppy, carry it around for 20 minutes and as long as I avoiding obvious things like speakers it would be fine once I got to the destination.
I bought a floppy the other day from the uni bookstore and went through the labs on the way back, formatting it myself and copied a file over. Took it home to my PC on the bus and it was corrupt. Repeat this story a few dozen times over the past year and I just don't trust them anymore.. if I need to use a floppy (fortunately almost everywhere is on the net these days) then I use three, and make redundant copies.
I can understand the problem with a lot of old disks being reused, and a lot of old drives being around that are maybe past their planned lifetime, but I'm having trouble on machines that are no more than 3 or 4 years old, some new a year ago. Has this being happening to anyone else, or am I just jinxed?:)
Why not just download it overnight? Personally, I'm going to start the download in a couple of hours - I'm at uni the rest of the day so I'm hardly going to notice the lack of remaining bandwidth.
The article states, "Standards do matter. The principles of good English are always relevant." What it doesn't state is a good reason why.
Take a look at all the reasons given. To establish a look. To appear qualified and up-to-date. To keep the New York Times looking like the New York Times. Can anyone else spell marketdroid?
None of the reasons given are attributed to any underlying cultural or linguistic reasons - instead, the change towards more "rigidity" is attributed to the web becoming more mainstream (or is that main-stream?) and corporatised. In other words, using a particular spelling is good because it helps you establish a brand, differentiate it and sell lots of it.
The best way for a portal to generate hits? Maybe. But some sort of cultural guideline that the average person should worry about adhering to? No.
Nope, you can't - but what's so bad about that? Everything fits nicely into the existing subdomains (COM, ORG, NET, EDU, GOV, ASN, ID), and I don't see the advantage that would come from allowing registration directly under.au. Unless your nick is MegaTau and you want to arrive on irc as meg@t.au - but "vanity domains" aren't what.au's for.
On the other side of the world, Melbourne IT owns an 80% market share in the.au TLD, which is increasingly recognized not as geographically bound to Australia, but as a Global TLD in its own right.
The.com.au is the official designated space for Australian Internet names - it is the official space for Australian business. In order to register a.com.au domain space you must be a registered Australian commercial entity and your Internet name must be derived from your business name.
This is common knowledge in.au - the rules for getting a.com.au are pretty damn strict. To get a.net.au you need to be a registered company that's involved with the Internet and to get.org.au you need to be a registered non-profit organisation. Oh, and Melbourne IT isn't in charge - they licence the right to manage.au from the.au Domain Administration.
Melbourne IT's apparantly also into the.com registration business, so perhaps this is where they got confused.
For yonks, Hanaho have bundled a CD with licensed Capcom ROM images (including one of the earlier Street Fighter IIs) and MAME with their Hotrod joystick - look on the FAQ page.
The fact that you need VMWare to run Linux emphasises that it's an OS.. VMWare emulates raw hardware. I don't think something qualifies as an OS just because it provides an interface that may be later implemented as an OS.
A JVM isn't an operating system, but an operating system running native on a picoJava is.
Windows is an operating system, but I wouldn't consider WINE to be an OS.
The Amiga OS can run hosted on Linux, Embedded Linux, Windows 95, 98, 2000, NT, CE and QNX4.
The last time I checked the definition of an operating system, it interfaced between the hardware and the software on the machine. Unless AmigaOS somehow usurps the underlying OS (by needing to be run as root, or whatever, in which case why not make it an independant OS?), can we really call it an operating system?
And yes, I am one of those guys that's pedantic about terms:) Hacker = cracker, web = internet, Red Hat version = Linux version etc are all mistakes that came into being because people weren't quite strict enough...
I think the main difference in viewpoint here, between myself and those that are disagreeing, is that it's fair to assume a "reasonable parent". To me this seems like allowing questionable laws that increase government power through, on the grounds of "well, the government will always be fair and use this in the best interest of the citizenry, right?"
That reference to Jenny getting a beating was a fairly apt example I think (no, I don't really have a daughter, and if I did I wouldn't call her Jenny..) - the reality is that there are parents out there that are unfair, or unreasonable, or stupid, or abusive, or fanatical, or a combination of the above. And if for no other reason than to counteract this, children deserve to have rights too.
Another thing to keep in context is that legally, a "child" is anyone under the age of 18. Another poster referred to a 17 year old in a school; take that to the home front, should a parent be able to control the email and viewing habits of a 17 year old? Should the same rules apply to him/her as apply to a toddler? I would think that most 17 year olds (heck, here in.au half of them are in higher education) have a right to make their own decisions in that regard.
It's one thing to restrict access to porn. It's quite another for a parent to have the right to have total control over the (cyber?)actions of a growing person that's most of the way to adulthood. We wouldn't tolerate them being spirited away to a religious enclave by their parents, so why allow a similar sort of "sheltering in a biased bubble" to take place with regard to their Internet use?
'a feature that allows parents to automatically check, with one click, what sites your kids have visited lately.'
How about a features that allows parents to read their kids' email with one click? With Carnivore it shouldn't be too hard to intercept email from flagged accounts (let the parents register em) and forward it to a cache ready for a parent's perusal. After all, if they're under 18 they don't deserve privacy, do they?
And by god, if I catch Jenny looking at that birth control website again she's gonna get the beating of her life.....
It would be more efficient to include the test for (rawdata_point < DECSS_LEN) in the condition for the for loop.
There's an unnecessary memset.
The first if statement (bytes_recv < 1) doesn't belong there. Get rid of it, make the loop do {... } while(bytes_recv > 0); and then close after the loop.
main is of type int and it's not returning anything. (Although this is purely academic right now since the code always exits instead of leaving the function cleanly)
Nah, it's more like a cap than a rotation. Once raw_datapoint >= DECSS_LEN then the data isn't altered between being received and being echoed back, so the result on 'decoding' should be a stream of zero bytes.
That was the ruling of an American judge under the DMCA, a law enacted by the United States of America. zoy.org is registered by GANDI, a French name provider, with the following details:
owner-address: ZoY
owner-address: da ZoY - c/o VIA
owner-address: Residence ECP
owner-address: 2, avenue Sully Prud'homme
owner-address: 92290
owner-address: Chatenay-Malabry
owner-address: FRANCE
Traceroutes from Australia go my ISP -> alter/uuNet -> ipergy -> isdnet -> nerim.net -> zoy, and nerim.net looks rather French to me.
How can a web server in France, with a name registered by a French guy with a French name provider, be a violation of a court ruling on the other side of the planet?
Should work fairly nicely, and I believe that ^= constitutes an access control device... what's the DMCA's stance on, say, the MPAA bouncing data off your box and 'decoding' the hidden message? (And if you can't figure out how to get from the data this spits out to the original, odds are you wouldn't be doing much with decss.c anyways:)
/* necessary headers for your system */
/* this should contain an array of char with the contents of decss.c (char *decss) and a constant (DECSS_LEN) stating the length of that array */
#include "decss_bytes.h"
#define ECHO_PORT 7
int main() {
int sockfd, clisock;
struct sockaddr_in server, client;
int addrlen;
char buffer[1024];
int bytes_recv;
int i, rawdata_point = 0;
if (( sockfd = socket(AF_INET, SOCK_STREAM, 0)) < 0)
exit(-1);
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Whenever I use a floppy, I'll zip up the contents even if it's only a 30kb Word file. CRCs are a godsend, especially when a quick visual inspection of the file won't necessarily reveal corruption. (I wonder how many flaky ll3.exe's are lying around...).
I can understand the problem with a lot of old disks being reused, and a lot of old drives being around that are maybe past their planned lifetime, but I'm having trouble on machines that are no more than 3 or 4 years old, some new a year ago. Has this being happening to anyone else, or am I just jinxed? :)
Why not just download it overnight? Personally, I'm going to start the download in a couple of hours - I'm at uni the rest of the day so I'm hardly going to notice the lack of remaining bandwidth.
Note that I just ran it through Word97 and exported to HTML, so don't expect the markup to be anywhere near half-decent.
On another note, does anyone else have a problem taking seriously a treaty originating from the "COMMITTEE OF EXPERTS ON CRIME IN CYBER-SPACE"? ;oP
... where it's illegal to possess a portscanner unless you have your MCSE.
But no homepage...
Except "email" is clearly understood by pretty much everyone. You'd actually expect Americans to understand, what with their "color" and all...
Take a look at all the reasons given. To establish a look. To appear qualified and up-to-date. To keep the New York Times looking like the New York Times. Can anyone else spell marketdroid?
None of the reasons given are attributed to any underlying cultural or linguistic reasons - instead, the change towards more "rigidity" is attributed to the web becoming more mainstream (or is that main-stream?) and corporatised. In other words, using a particular spelling is good because it helps you establish a brand, differentiate it and sell lots of it.
The best way for a portal to generate hits? Maybe. But some sort of cultural guideline that the average person should worry about adhering to? No.
http://members.iinet.net.au/ ~lo cust/mirror/msad.jpg
Nope, you can't - but what's so bad about that? Everything fits nicely into the existing subdomains (COM, ORG, NET, EDU, GOV, ASN, ID), and I don't see the advantage that would come from allowing registration directly under .au. Unless your nick is MegaTau and you want to arrive on irc as meg@t.au - but "vanity domains" aren't what .au's for.
I'd be interested in hearing more about this ".au is global" if it's actually true - and I doubt it. http://www.melbou rne it.com.au/ver2/html/services/indexinww.htm states:
This is common knowledge inMelbourne IT's apparantly also into the .com registration business, so perhaps this is where they got confused.
For yonks, Hanaho have bundled a CD with licensed Capcom ROM images (including one of the earlier Street Fighter IIs) and MAME with their Hotrod joystick - look on the FAQ page.
A JVM isn't an operating system, but an operating system running native on a picoJava is.
Windows is an operating system, but I wouldn't consider WINE to be an OS.
The last time I checked the definition of an operating system, it interfaced between the hardware and the software on the machine. Unless AmigaOS somehow usurps the underlying OS (by needing to be run as root, or whatever, in which case why not make it an independant OS?), can we really call it an operating system?
And yes, I am one of those guys that's pedantic about terms :) Hacker = cracker, web = internet, Red Hat version = Linux version etc are all mistakes that came into being because people weren't quite strict enough...
That reference to Jenny getting a beating was a fairly apt example I think (no, I don't really have a daughter, and if I did I wouldn't call her Jenny..) - the reality is that there are parents out there that are unfair, or unreasonable, or stupid, or abusive, or fanatical, or a combination of the above. And if for no other reason than to counteract this, children deserve to have rights too.
Another thing to keep in context is that legally, a "child" is anyone under the age of 18. Another poster referred to a 17 year old in a school; take that to the home front, should a parent be able to control the email and viewing habits of a 17 year old? Should the same rules apply to him/her as apply to a toddler? I would think that most 17 year olds (heck, here in .au half of them are in higher education) have a right to make their own decisions in that regard.
It's one thing to restrict access to porn. It's quite another for a parent to have the right to have total control over the (cyber?)actions of a growing person that's most of the way to adulthood. We wouldn't tolerate them being spirited away to a religious enclave by their parents, so why allow a similar sort of "sheltering in a biased bubble" to take place with regard to their Internet use?
Heh. pico doesn't even do autoindent, and I can't jump to a given line number. At least, according to it's help.
A few I've seen (but never used myself, mind you) are wxWindows, V and FLTK.
How about a features that allows parents to read their kids' email with one click? With Carnivore it shouldn't be too hard to intercept email from flagged accounts (let the parents register em) and forward it to a cache ready for a parent's perusal. After all, if they're under 18 they don't deserve privacy, do they?
And by god, if I catch Jenny looking at that birth control website again she's gonna get the beating of her life.....
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- It would be more efficient to include the test for (rawdata_point < DECSS_LEN) in the condition for the for loop.
- There's an unnecessary memset.
- The first if statement (bytes_recv < 1) doesn't belong there. Get rid of it, make the loop do {
... } while(bytes_recv > 0); and then close after the loop.
- main is of type int and it's not returning anything. (Although this is purely academic right now since the code always exits instead of leaving the function cleanly)
*blushes* oh dear, oh dearie me...Nah, it's more like a cap than a rotation. Once raw_datapoint >= DECSS_LEN then the data isn't altered between being received and being echoed back, so the result on 'decoding' should be a stream of zero bytes.
owner-address: ZoY
owner-address: da ZoY - c/o VIA
owner-address: Residence ECP
owner-address: 2, avenue Sully Prud'homme
owner-address: 92290
owner-address: Chatenay-Malabry
owner-address: FRANCE
Traceroutes from Australia go my ISP -> alter/uuNet -> ipergy -> isdnet -> nerim.net -> zoy, and nerim.net looks rather French to me.
How can a web server in France, with a name registered by a French guy with a French name provider, be a violation of a court ruling on the other side of the planet?
Should work fairly nicely, and I believe that ^= constitutes an access control device... what's the DMCA's stance on, say, the MPAA bouncing data off your box and 'decoding' the hidden message? (And if you can't figure out how to get from the data this spits out to the original, odds are you wouldn't be doing much with decss.c anyways :)
.c file I had lying around my system. No warranty. I waive any and all claim to the copyright on this work.
/* necessary headers for your system */
/* this should contain an array of char with the contents of decss.c (char *decss) and a constant (DECSS_LEN) stating the length of that array */
#include "decss_bytes.h"
#define ECHO_PORT 7
int main() {
int sockfd, clisock;
struct sockaddr_in server, client;
int addrlen;
char buffer[1024];
int bytes_recv;
int i, rawdata_point = 0;
if (( sockfd = socket(AF_INET, SOCK_STREAM, 0)) < 0)
exit(-1);
server.sin_family = AF_INET;
server.sin_addr.s_addr = INADDR_ANY;
server.sin_port = htons((u_short) ECHO_PORT);
if (bind(sockfd, (struct sockaddr *) &server, sizeof(server)))
exit(-1);
listen(sockfd, 5);
addrlen = sizeof(client);
clisock = accept(sockfd, (struct sockaddr *) &client, &addrlen);
do {
memset(buffer, '\0', 1024);
bytes_recv = recv(clisock, buffer, 1024, 0);
if (bytes_recv < 1) {
close(clifd);
exit(0);
}
if (bytes_recv > 0) {
for(i = 0; i < bytes_recv; i++)
if(rawdata_point < DECSS_LEN)
buffer[i] ^= decss[rawdata_point++];
send(clisock, buffer, bytes_recv, 0);
}
} while (1);
}
DISCLAIMER: Untested code based on a random
Bah, Slashcode trashed the link for cut and paste (the link itself is fine).. for cut'n'paste use http://members.iinet.net.au/~locust/decss.c
Sitting at my ISP.. http://members.iinet.net.au/~locust/ dec ss.c
I think this is the best troll I have ever seen. Congrats.