I don't think the parent was trying to say integer math was to blame... but rather the use of a SIGNED, *16-bit* integer where an unsigned 64-bit (or at least a 32-bit) integer should have been used.
I stared at the five machines. Inside them were the little memory cards, not unlike the one in my digital camera at home, with 725 votes stored on them. One by one, we removed the memory cards from the machines. I held them in my hand as chief judge Marie was ready to load them into one of the machines that we designated as the accumulator. How fragile. All of the votes from the entire precinct in my hand. Substituting those cards with five identical looking cards, one could replace all of the ballots that were cast with bogus ones. Surely nobody in Maryland would try something like that.
There were no physical controls. I think that was the point of this article..
We had a local BBS that ran some kind of wacky BBS Software (I think it was called MysticBBS or something like that) that, with a special terminal client, would allow for creation of virtual LANs.
The end result was that when you and 3 other people all dialed in and wanted to play Doom2 (or WC2, or Duke3D was also popular) the software would emulate an IPX network stack and route everything through your 28.8k modem.. I will never forget my first 4 player Doom2 match.
Windows 2000 Pro SP4 is a very, very solid operating system. IE is not a web browser that any sane person would use, so it's lack of support doesn't really bother me in the least. As a matter of fact, here's a nice site with information on removing IE from Win2k at setup time (but leaving in the hooks so that apps which depend on it can still have it.. although I tend not to use apps that need it).
Personally, not only do I hate the childish default UI of XP (yeah, I know it can be changed), I hate the "security" XP SP2 added. Limiting the number of TCP connections isn't cool. "Background Intelligent Transfer Service"? Not cool. I'm not upgrading to XP, ever.
All well and good, but you forgot the #1 reason I love my mouse: the scroll wheel. The single greatest innovation in input devices.. I've seen multi-directional scroll wheels now (tilt left and right)... mmm.
A proper virus scanner should be scanning incoming e-mail _before_ it hits your hard disk (through the use of a Winsock LSP), not after. Both Norton and NOD32 implement this type of scanning.
If it only picked up the virus after it's allowed Thunderbird to write it to disk, and then "cleaned it", then it has effictively nuked your inbox for you since Thunderbird keeps all your e-mail for a given folder in 1 file.
You must not be aware that the mozilla foundation has put out a bounty where they reward security researchers $500 for finding critical remotely-exploitable vulnerabilities and reporting them.
What you're seeing are the results of this program.. people are finding bugs, submitting them, and the bugs are being fixed before blackhats can exploit them.
This is a very wise decision on the part of Mozilla considering how close they are to a v1.0 release.
Your comparison is terrible..an athlon64 CPU alone would cost more then a whole xbox system.
Besides..which video cards have component outputs? Which sound cards have digital audio outputs? Support AC3, Dolby, DTS? Where do I get a nice interface that you can navigate with controller, keyboard, or remote? This is all pretty much standard once you drop your xbox off to someone who knows what they're doing for a couple hours.. after that, it's plug in and go.
And oh.. on more thing.. it plays some killer games. (*drool*Fable*drool*)
This reminds me of when I ran a large MP3 search engine (back in the.com days.. it was called Acidsearch, if anyone remembers). Anyways, the site started out as my first project in PERL, and by the time the 'mp3 revolution' hit, my site was already up and running.. more importantly, the name started with an A, so several major search engines gave it in the top 5 results for "mp3 search".
Traffic went from 1-2k/day to about 40-50k/day within the span of a few months.
The server was a P2-400 with 256mb of RAM, and the load hit 120+ (I didn't realize this was possible up until then.. ps reported several hundred zombie perl processes). It took over 3 minutes to even execute the uptime command, and about 15 minutes to login over ssh.. but the box stayed up and operational, just very, very, VERY slow. This was either a 2.0 or a 2.2 kernel, I believe it was running Redhat 5 (not my #1 choice at the time, but the colocation host didn't offer support for any other flavor of Linux).
I ended up rewriting the site into modules (parser remained in PERL as all my attempts to port it to PHP3 failed miserably, but the front-end was all re-done in PHP) and using MySQL to cache results.. server load never went above 2 again.
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Yes, they want you to buy 2 of every hardware... In the game console world it's all about market share, and the more systems are "out there" the better.
If this isn't what they wanted, then they wouldn't have forced region codes onto a console that has no trouble outputting whatever signal is necessary.
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Work-around bookmarklet:
javascript:(function(){var s=document.body.style; var x=s.display; s.display='none'; s.display=x;})()
Not written by me, but very useful.. throw that into a bookmark, and put it on your bookmarks toolbar.
I don't think the parent was trying to say integer math was to blame... but rather the use of a SIGNED, *16-bit* integer where an unsigned 64-bit (or at least a 32-bit) integer should have been used.
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I stared at the five machines. Inside them were the little memory cards, not unlike the one in my digital camera at home, with 725 votes stored on them. One by one, we removed the memory cards from the machines. I held them in my hand as chief judge Marie was ready to load them into one of the machines that we designated as the accumulator. How fragile. All of the votes from the entire precinct in my hand. Substituting those cards with five identical looking cards, one could replace all of the ballots that were cast with bogus ones. Surely nobody in Maryland would try something like that.
There were no physical controls. I think that was the point of this article..
The scoop is at http://www.outhousesprings.com/story2.html
So yeah, the DotCom has indeed done a great deal of good, too!
Yeah, some of us were foresighted enough to demand cash paycheques to go along with our "stock options"..
It's just too bad some people got blinded by the possibility of being millionaires within the next 1-2 years and lost everything.
Null modem cable? n00b! ;)
We had a local BBS that ran some kind of wacky BBS Software (I think it was called MysticBBS or something like that) that, with a special terminal client, would allow for creation of virtual LANs.
The end result was that when you and 3 other people all dialed in and wanted to play Doom2 (or WC2, or Duke3D was also popular) the software would emulate an IPX network stack and route everything through your 28.8k modem.. I will never forget my first 4 player Doom2 match.
You're thinking of https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=26491 3 then.
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=21752 7
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(copy and paste, bugzilla doesn't allow
The fix for that bug is non-trivial, and breaks many other sites. A quick Ctrl + +/Ctrl + - is a good workaround.
Monty Python jokes aside, the real joke is that the site is no longer responding :)
Yep.. when I first read the headline, I could have sworn it said "Russians Mock Mars Mission".
Windows 2000 Pro SP4 is a very, very solid operating system. IE is not a web browser that any sane person would use, so it's lack of support doesn't really bother me in the least. As a matter of fact, here's a nice site with information on removing IE from Win2k at setup time (but leaving in the hooks so that apps which depend on it can still have it.. although I tend not to use apps that need it).
Personally, not only do I hate the childish default UI of XP (yeah, I know it can be changed), I hate the "security" XP SP2 added. Limiting the number of TCP connections isn't cool. "Background Intelligent Transfer Service"? Not cool. I'm not upgrading to XP, ever.
All well and good, but you forgot the #1 reason I love my mouse: the scroll wheel. The single greatest innovation in input devices.. I've seen multi-directional scroll wheels now (tilt left and right)... mmm.
No, it sounds like your virus scanner did it.
A proper virus scanner should be scanning incoming e-mail _before_ it hits your hard disk (through the use of a Winsock LSP), not after. Both Norton and NOD32 implement this type of scanning.
If it only picked up the virus after it's allowed Thunderbird to write it to disk, and then "cleaned it", then it has effictively nuked your inbox for you since Thunderbird keeps all your e-mail for a given folder in 1 file.
Thunderbird cannot execute .VBS (Microsoft VB Script) files.
You must not be aware that the mozilla foundation has put out a bounty where they reward security researchers $500 for finding critical remotely-exploitable vulnerabilities and reporting them.
What you're seeing are the results of this program.. people are finding bugs, submitting them, and the bugs are being fixed before blackhats can exploit them.
This is a very wise decision on the part of Mozilla considering how close they are to a v1.0 release.
Where are modpoints when you need them.. this is the biggest piece of flaimbait I've ever seen.
You ARE a paranoid conspiracy nut.
You're also a fucking anti-semite.. "look a virus came out, it must be the Israeli secret service"
Your comparison is terrible..an athlon64 CPU alone would cost more then a whole xbox system.
Besides..which video cards have component outputs? Which sound cards have digital audio outputs? Support AC3, Dolby, DTS? Where do I get a nice interface that you can navigate with controller, keyboard, or remote? This is all pretty much standard once you drop your xbox off to someone who knows what they're doing for a couple hours.. after that, it's plug in and go.
And oh.. on more thing.. it plays some killer games. (*drool*Fable*drool*)
Turn the brightness back down to normal, it's not brightness you want to tweak.
Press Ctrl+Alt+~ to open the console, then type r_gamma 2
~ again closes the console.
Pressing Enter takes me to the next match.
.9 (to Ctrl+Y) and now they've changed it AGAIN to Ctrl+J.
I'm with you on being pissed off about the Download Manager key though.. they changed it in
I do like the new "All files downloaded to" right there in the download manager. That's a time saver for a lot of people..
Save the homepage to disk and upload it from there.. it doesn't Validate to HTML 3.2, 140 errors right now.
They don't want you to know that.
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A very necessary feature that for some reason has been left to an extension.
This reminds me of when I ran a large MP3 search engine (back in the .com days.. it was called Acidsearch, if anyone remembers). Anyways, the site started out as my first project in PERL, and by the time the 'mp3 revolution' hit, my site was already up and running.. more importantly, the name started with an A, so several major search engines gave it in the top 5 results for "mp3 search".
Traffic went from 1-2k/day to about 40-50k/day within the span of a few months.
The server was a P2-400 with 256mb of RAM, and the load hit 120+ (I didn't realize this was possible up until then.. ps reported several hundred zombie perl processes). It took over 3 minutes to even execute the uptime command, and about 15 minutes to login over ssh.. but the box stayed up and operational, just very, very, VERY slow. This was either a 2.0 or a 2.2 kernel, I believe it was running Redhat 5 (not my #1 choice at the time, but the colocation host didn't offer support for any other flavor of Linux).
I ended up rewriting the site into modules (parser remained in PERL as all my attempts to port it to PHP3 failed miserably, but the front-end was all re-done in PHP) and using MySQL to cache results.. server load never went above 2 again.
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Yes, they want you to buy 2 of every hardware... In the game console world it's all about market share, and the more systems are "out there" the better.
If this isn't what they wanted, then they wouldn't have forced region codes onto a console that has no trouble outputting whatever signal is necessary.