No. Microsoft is a corporation.. lets see what that means, shall we?
A legal entity created under the laws of a state to carry on some business or other authorized activity. The principal distinction between a business corporation and other forms of business organization (i.e., proprietorship or partnership) is the fact that the liability of the owners is limited to the capital of the subject corporation.
What is a company but a collection of individuals.
It's a collection of individuals who are not liable for their actions in any way other then financially, and even this is limited by the ammount of money the corporation has. This creates a whole world of loopholes and abuse, and the gouvernment is clearly unable to make a dent.
Destroying Microsoft is a valid goal. They will pay any fines as a cost of doing business, and no regulatory agency seems to have the balls to force them to break up, which is what should have happened already.
They have a history of leveraging their monopoly to destroy competition, but they're scared of Linux.. There's no company to buy and their competing products (especially in the server market) are loosing foothold in their markets. FUD is their weapon of last resort.. there was an article a few days ago about a whole bunch of "independent" reports funded by Microsoft.
The level design was so simple because the levels were all laid out in 2D. The game engine pulled some fancy tricks to make the game "appear" 3D..
However I agree that multiplayer Duke3D.. I remember playing 4 player dukematches on a local BBS, it ran special BBS software with a special terminal client that set up some kinda LAN-over-Modem deal... it was my first taste of multiplayer (n>2) gaming..
Linux software, more then often then not, comes with source. There's less of a need to worry about backwards compatibility, as apps can always be rebuilt from source using the development tools that come with the OS. Not to mention that on a linux system you can keep several versions of core system libraries at the same time, something Windows does not allow.
We don't bother with files smaller than 5MB, as the saved bandwidth does not outweight the protocol overhead in those cases.
I know how to make a freecache link all by myself, but the PDF is only 1mb.. that's why I asked people to mirror it. It's too small to bother with a torrent, too small for freecache, but just the right size to throw up on your ISP webspace.
1) I think the requirement for caching sets of 4 byte IP addresses and 4 GB movies are quite different. Just because a system is good at one, doesn't mean it will automatically be good at the other. When I RTFA, the author made it quite clear that there was a 512-byte packet size limit, of which only around 50% could be useful for actual data. By the author's own estimation, it would take 35,000 DNS servers to host a single 700mb Knoppix image.
2) DNS is already an overloaded system, and his idea uses recursion, so it would place even more load on top of it.
If you think this is going to replace BitTorrent, you're off your rocker.
I know Delphi does funky stuff at startup, but if the APIs stayed consistent then you'd think it wouldn't be a problem. I've looked for and could not find a patch (I don't care if it's source or binary, like the Turbo Pascal fix). You don't happen to have a link handy do you?
The issue goes away entirely if you disable HyperThreading, so I don't think it's entirely Microsoft's or Borland's fault, but Intel has something to do with it as well. I've reported the issue to Intel, got a promise that they'd look into it. This was 3 months ago and I've heard nothing back, I'm not holding my breath.
Not quite.. driving a car is closer to browsing the resultant webpage.
Creating a page without knowing HTML/CSS is like assembling an entire car without knowing how any of the pieces work. It may work for very, very simple cars but if something goes wrong, or happens not the way you expect, you have no idea what's wrong or how to fix it.
Where's the hole? Paste the above URL into a browser, and view source on the resulting page:
No account found for the e-mail address: fdgdfs<script></script>window.alert(document.cooki e);</ script>
The attempt at injecting a <script> was foiled by insertion of a </script> immediately following it. The original </script> was rewritten to </ script> (which FireFox sees as a comment).
Or, maybe they read/. and have patched the hole in the last 6 hours..
Their toolkits are well documented and very easy to get started in
Which toolkits are you referring to? VB? VC++?
The toolkit itself may be well documented (in the "this is how you place a button widget" or "this is how you write a click event handler" sort of way), but the actual Windows APIs for doing anything are fucking terrible.
Different portions of it (interfaces to different.DLLs) were clearly written by teams that had never talked to one another. And don't even get me started on compatibility.. write code for one microsoft OS, and pray to god it runs on the others.
For example, running any Delphi-written application on XP (with SP1, this problem does not occur pre-SP1) with a P4 processor with HyperThreading enabled causes the app to crash on startup.. (placing it in Win98/ME "compatibility" mode makes the mysterious crash go away, but it took a lot of snopping to find that workaround)
I'm getting REALLY fed up with windows programming. I don't use Microsoft's toolkits because VB is too simple and VC++ is too complex, but I'm still forced to use their shitty APIs. In fact, I'm so sick of it, that I'm currently learning python, and plan to move most of my development to an OS-neutral platform.. let someone else fight with the Win32 API for days on end.
If this is a problem for you - trying to get poorly-seeded torrents - you might want to try out Azureus. It preferentially grabs complete files inside a torrent first, and you can tell it which files to try for.
Conincidentally, being able to prefer one file over another is one of the reasons that we have poorly-seeded torrents to begin with.
The mainline BT client does not support this becuase it interferes with it's rarest-first algorithms. It will download the pieces that are in danger of falling off the network before it will download a more common piece.
I agree that preferring files may be a useful feature from the user's point of view, but it's still a selfish thing to do, and makes the 99%-and-no-seed problems worse and more frequent with it's use.
My old Hauppauge WinTV card can only do any worthwhile recording quality when using Virtual Dub. The included software is terrible.
Agreed.
I own one of these cards, and the included software is only good for one thing: watching TV. VirtualDUB does a great job with it though.. I could do 15fps 320x240 caps into 1mbit divx5.. on a P3-500! (Why 15fps? I was mostly capping cartoons for a ripping group, which don't need the extra frame rate anyway)
PS: Not that I suggest you use a P3-500 for an encoding machine, give it at least 800mhz so you don't loose the odd frame, and much more then that if you plan on using a higher resolution or a better codec. And get yourself a good, fast UltraATA drive.
The next versions? I've been using this program since the first DRM'd CD (Scooter - Push the Beat Back for this Jam, an import from Germany) hit my CDRom.
I've yet to come across a CD that cannot be copied with it, most show either a DATA track for #1, or in the case of a 'corrupt' TOC the CD just shows up the way it's supposed to be.
I remember being slightly hungry before I started watching the movie.. I figured I'd watch some of it, then go get a snack half way through.
That plan fell apart very quickly. By half way through the movie, I was so hooked not only could I not move to get a snack, but I was no longer hungry, and could not move my eyes off the screen or my jaw from the floor.. the movie literally blew me away.
A Scanner Darkly is the first PKD book I ever read. I first heard about it here on/., and decided that it was the sort of thing I'd enjoy. I got the book out of the library, and devoured it in one 5 hour sitting... same effect, I was glued, I could not move, I could not stop reading.
If the movie is half as good as the book, I will enjoy it thoroughly.
nglayout.initialpaint.delay will make it seem faster, but actually be slower.
It will not be "slower", it will use more CPU to render a page (as it has to be rendered more then once). That's fine with most of us, we have lots of CPU to spare.
The tradeoff is that pages begin to load instantly, greatly increasing the interactive response (or, as you put it, seeming faster).
Since the web browser is a highly interactive application that we all use daily, saving yourself that 250ms delay on every page pays off quickly.
IEPatcher is a tool to scan an executable or DLL and patch it to replace instances of the IE control with the Mozilla control. Since both controls are binary compatible, this is just a matter of replacing the CLSID_WebBrowser with CLSID_MozillaBrowser. If you have built the Mozilla browser, try running the patcher on an app that uses IE and see if it works!
I've yet to try it, but it sounds like exactly what I wanted.
Want even more speed? (I did not come up with this, I read it on a forum).
Enter about:config into the title bar.
Set network.http.pipelining to True Set network.http.pipelining.firstrequest to True Set network.http.pipelining.maxrequests to 8 (I'm told higher values get ignored). Finally and most important, set nglayout.initialpaint.delay to 0
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No. Microsoft is a corporation.. lets see what that means, shall we?
A legal entity created under the laws of a state to carry on some business or other authorized activity. The principal distinction between a business corporation and other forms of business organization (i.e., proprietorship or partnership) is the fact that the liability of the owners is limited to the capital of the subject corporation.
It's a collection of individuals who are not liable for their actions in any way other then financially, and even this is limited by the ammount of money the corporation has. This creates a whole world of loopholes and abuse, and the gouvernment is clearly unable to make a dent.
Destroying Microsoft is a valid goal. They will pay any fines as a cost of doing business, and no regulatory agency seems to have the balls to force them to break up, which is what should have happened already.
They have a history of leveraging their monopoly to destroy competition, but they're scared of Linux.. There's no company to buy and their competing products (especially in the server market) are loosing foothold in their markets. FUD is their weapon of last resort.. there was an article a few days ago about a whole bunch of "independent" reports funded by Microsoft.
Duke Nukem 3D was not actually 3D. It was 2.5D ..
.. I remember playing 4 player dukematches on a local BBS, it ran special BBS software with a special terminal client that set up some kinda LAN-over-Modem deal... it was my first taste of multiplayer (n>2) gaming..
The level design was so simple because the levels were all laid out in 2D. The game engine pulled some fancy tricks to make the game "appear" 3D..
However I agree that multiplayer Duke3D
Amen!
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Isn't 3) Sell book for $34.95 ?
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That brings back WAY too many memories.. although I eventually switched to Telegard because of it's built-in scripting language.
Linux software, more then often then not, comes with source. There's less of a need to worry about backwards compatibility, as apps can always be rebuilt from source using the development tools that come with the OS. Not to mention that on a linux system you can keep several versions of core system libraries at the same time, something Windows does not allow.
Not another one of you people.
Please read the FreeCache FAQ:
We don't bother with files smaller than 5MB, as the saved bandwidth does not outweight the protocol overhead in those cases.
I know how to make a freecache link all by myself, but the PDF is only 1mb.. that's why I asked people to mirror it. It's too small to bother with a torrent, too small for freecache, but just the right size to throw up on your ISP webspace.
Where's the bad part of this idea?
1) I think the requirement for caching sets of 4 byte IP addresses and 4 GB movies are quite different. Just because a system is good at one, doesn't mean it will automatically be good at the other. When I RTFA, the author made it quite clear that there was a 512-byte packet size limit, of which only around 50% could be useful for actual data. By the author's own estimation, it would take 35,000 DNS servers to host a single 700mb Knoppix image.
2) DNS is already an overloaded system, and his idea uses recursion, so it would place even more load on top of it.
If you think this is going to replace BitTorrent, you're off your rocker.
PDF Conversion of powerpoint presentation
On my ISP's very fast webspace, but please post mirrors in case they decide to pull the plug.
I know Delphi does funky stuff at startup, but if the APIs stayed consistent then you'd think it wouldn't be a problem. I've looked for and could not find a patch (I don't care if it's source or binary, like the Turbo Pascal fix). You don't happen to have a link handy do you?
The issue goes away entirely if you disable HyperThreading, so I don't think it's entirely Microsoft's or Borland's fault, but Intel has something to do with it as well. I've reported the issue to Intel, got a promise that they'd look into it. This was 3 months ago and I've heard nothing back, I'm not holding my breath.
Not quite.. driving a car is closer to browsing the resultant webpage.
Creating a page without knowing HTML/CSS is like assembling an entire car without knowing how any of the pieces work. It may work for very, very simple cars but if something goes wrong, or happens not the way you expect, you have no idea what's wrong or how to fix it.
Nevermind, the hole does indeed still exist.. I missed a space when pasting the URL in (please, use anchors when posting URLs!).
The interesting part is that their site *does* add a </script> to the input, but only if it's not already there?
Where's the hole? Paste the above URL into a browser, and view source on the resulting page:
i e);</ script>
/. and have patched the hole in the last 6 hours..
No account found for the e-mail address: fdgdfs<script></script>window.alert(document.cook
The attempt at injecting a <script> was foiled by insertion of a </script> immediately following it. The original </script> was rewritten to </ script> (which FireFox sees as a comment).
Or, maybe they read
Their toolkits are well documented and very easy to get started in
.DLLs) were clearly written by teams that had never talked to one another. And don't even get me started on compatibility.. write code for one microsoft OS, and pray to god it runs on the others.
Which toolkits are you referring to? VB? VC++?
The toolkit itself may be well documented (in the "this is how you place a button widget" or "this is how you write a click event handler" sort of way), but the actual Windows APIs for doing anything are fucking terrible.
Different portions of it (interfaces to different
For example, running any Delphi-written application on XP (with SP1, this problem does not occur pre-SP1) with a P4 processor with HyperThreading enabled causes the app to crash on startup.. (placing it in Win98/ME "compatibility" mode makes the mysterious crash go away, but it took a lot of snopping to find that workaround)
I'm getting REALLY fed up with windows programming. I don't use Microsoft's toolkits because VB is too simple and VC++ is too complex, but I'm still forced to use their shitty APIs. In fact, I'm so sick of it, that I'm currently learning python, and plan to move most of my development to an OS-neutral platform.. let someone else fight with the Win32 API for days on end.
If this is a problem for you - trying to get poorly-seeded torrents - you might want to try out Azureus. It preferentially grabs complete files inside a torrent first, and you can tell it which files to try for.
Conincidentally, being able to prefer one file over another is one of the reasons that we have poorly-seeded torrents to begin with.
The mainline BT client does not support this becuase it interferes with it's rarest-first algorithms. It will download the pieces that are in danger of falling off the network before it will download a more common piece.
I agree that preferring files may be a useful feature from the user's point of view, but it's still a selfish thing to do, and makes the 99%-and-no-seed problems worse and more frequent with it's use.
My old Hauppauge WinTV card can only do any worthwhile recording quality when using Virtual Dub. The included software is terrible.
.. on a P3-500! (Why 15fps? I was mostly capping cartoons for a ripping group, which don't need the extra frame rate anyway)
Agreed.
I own one of these cards, and the included software is only good for one thing: watching TV. VirtualDUB does a great job with it though.. I could do 15fps 320x240 caps into 1mbit divx5
PS: Not that I suggest you use a P3-500 for an encoding machine, give it at least 800mhz so you don't loose the odd frame, and much more then that if you plan on using a higher resolution or a better codec. And get yourself a good, fast UltraATA drive.
The next versions? I've been using this program since the first DRM'd CD (Scooter - Push the Beat Back for this Jam, an import from Germany) hit my CDRom.
I've yet to come across a CD that cannot be copied with it, most show either a DATA track for #1, or in the case of a 'corrupt' TOC the CD just shows up the way it's supposed to be.
Agreed about Requiem for a Dream.
/., and decided that it was the sort of thing I'd enjoy. I got the book out of the library, and devoured it in one 5 hour sitting... same effect, I was glued, I could not move, I could not stop reading.
I remember being slightly hungry before I started watching the movie.. I figured I'd watch some of it, then go get a snack half way through.
That plan fell apart very quickly. By half way through the movie, I was so hooked not only could I not move to get a snack, but I was no longer hungry, and could not move my eyes off the screen or my jaw from the floor.. the movie literally blew me away.
A Scanner Darkly is the first PKD book I ever read. I first heard about it here on
If the movie is half as good as the book, I will enjoy it thoroughly.
Confirmed, I've seen this in the wild. I'm moving away from NAV, it seems they care more about money then protecting their customers these days.
I'm running Win2k.
Those 2 options seem to only appear if you install 0.9 over an existing 0.8.
It will not be "slower", it will use more CPU to render a page (as it has to be rendered more then once). That's fine with most of us, we have lots of CPU to spare.
The tradeoff is that pages begin to load instantly, greatly increasing the interactive response (or, as you put it, seeming faster).
Since the web browser is a highly interactive application that we all use daily, saving yourself that 250ms delay on every page pays off quickly.
The pipelining options are there in .9, but it seems the only way to get the initial paint delay option to appear is to install .9 over .8 ..
(Once it's set, it still works)
This page has an application called IEPatcher:
IEPatcher is a tool to scan an executable or DLL and patch it to replace instances of the IE control with the Mozilla control. Since both controls are binary compatible, this is just a matter of replacing the CLSID_WebBrowser with CLSID_MozillaBrowser. If you have built the Mozilla browser, try running the patcher on an app that uses IE and see if it works!
I've yet to try it, but it sounds like exactly what I wanted.
Want even more speed? (I did not come up with this, I read it on a forum).
Enter about:config into the title bar.
Set network.http.pipelining to True
Set network.http.pipelining.firstrequest to True
Set network.http.pipelining.maxrequests to 8 (I'm told higher values get ignored).
Finally and most important, set nglayout.initialpaint.delay to 0
Enjoy the snappyness that results.
No more reloading poorly rendered Slashdot pages!
I'm glad it wasn't just me.
Fortunately, this hasn't reared it's ugly head since I've made the move to 0.9, so far so good.
It also seems the cache corruption bug is fixed, yay.