Limiting foam piece size does not seem to be a solution: micrometeor collisions happen quite often, there said to be several occurences with Mir station. Probably systems like shuttle should be tolerant to a single pointary fail or damage.
Also this part was quite funny:
NASA has been firing pieces of foam from a nitrogen-powered cannon into reinforced carbon carbon.
In fact, Dr. Curry said, NASA has not been able to conduct impact tests on pieces of foam lighter than six-hundredths of a pound, because the cannon destroys the foam, and so the potential damage caused by the lighter, smaller pieces has been extrapolated from computer models.
What about just dropping them on? This was the problem after all.
Well, how do we call massive broadcast of irrelevant unrequested e-mails? According to some (fortunately I don't live in US) sources messages like this should at least contain valid return address. So why don't just sue whoever sends this? After adding his IP to all known realtime blackhole lists of course.
Should I expect my applications just stop working some very nice day? Where should I enter my credit card number for my (say) MS Office95 to be automatically upgraded? Oh, yes, that's what MS Passport for.
Unfortunately spam has no borders and they still insist I'm tired of spoiled american women and need to meet beautiful russian wives even though I live in Moscow and already fed up of the latter ones.
But American Language Center is really one of the baddest spammers here. I can't wait to see them spamming FSB (current name of KGB) or other security service senior official one day.
Have you noticed that image thumbnail is faked?
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It states Click to see the full resolution image (1086x1058) but the full resolution image (407 kilos) was already loaded to show you a thumbnail. Funny to see this bad web-design on IBM's page about new graphic system (kind of marketing?). Or people just forgot why it's polite to use thumbnails in the Net?
Vacooming creates a lot of static electricity. Probably same for slide projector though I don't know how. I know (not properly grounded) ATX computers that sometimes turn on by just a static discharge after touching them.
Probably it's receiving some nonsence data when you switch on the lamp. Also, UPS might be trying to tell you something via it's COM port connection or whatever. Network interference via switch is also possible. Plug out one by one and check.
My PC turned on after any phone ring (very disturbing while installing some new hardware:( ) though they was not 'Wake up on ring' option in BIOS. Turned out that 'Wake up on LAN' also works as 'Wake up on ring'.
BTW does you mac have external modem? Probably your modem tells RING each time you turn on the lamp. Easy to check with any terminal program.
Unable to give URL, probably it even was a paper interview. Anyway it was in russian - you see, pen input interface was developed by Russians. The interview was after the second version is out and it is clear that PDA have selling problems. Public opinion was that PDA is selling bad because of the pen input problems.
Developers told that the product software (and probably hardware too) was build in extreme hurry: people worked 24 hours a day to meet deadline because such was the company policy. Consequently not everything was perfect in the first release. This was fixed later but generally good product already got a bad fame.
Also all magazines repeatedly told the PDA is selling bad without naming any sources or reasons. No doubt it started to sell bad - who would buy such a product? I see a hand of Evil Empire here because WinCE 1.0 was already ready to start.
Particulary concerning pen interface developers said they were often blamed for a bad quality of input though it was caused not by a bug in their program but by lack of resources and bad resource management. You see, if the thing starts garbage collection or something right while you are writing no doubt you'll get bad results. Hovewer user had no means to say one from another.
Developers had not time to negotiate this problem and was forced to release 'as is'. And, probably, Apple had not tested it throughoutly before first release because of the deadlines. Knowing how IBM is working inside I well believe it though it's pity there's so little difference because Apple always claimed to be 'Not IBM'.
Sorry, but the question is a bit stupid
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I also visit a cars webboard in the net and it's often asked something like this:
Q: I noticed some strange noice while car is moving - what could be the source?
A: ANYTHING!
You've got an office with 4 computers and lan. But instead of borrowing a UPS for a time or testing a monitor out of the office you just ask slashdot: could this be a power supply problem? Probably could and probably could not. Probably it's just visual interference with lamps, or a software problem (various versions of Windows tend to be very weird about monitor specs).
Even the producer of monitors is unknown. I doubt power supply will cause bad image on a new digital NEC and probably the best UPS would not help 15 years old samtron or like. You have much better chances to locate the problem where you are than we here.
The work is going on for porting OS/2 to ReactOS (Freeware NT clone). For me this seems to be the most promising project. There're already a lot of developers for OS/2 subsystem as well as horde of them for the OS itself. Site is under construction but mailing list is >20 messages a day.
For all who wonder - there's still life in OS/2 though not too much of it. OS/2 links:
Just captured 800x600 Netscape window with slashdot and saved as bmp(rle), gif, jpg and tif (every format have it's flaws; sorry, no png here). Results (assuming we've got 11 Mbit/s):
24 fps is pretty playable. Gif discards true color but lcd are not good at displaying colors anyway. Translating delta and few tricks with remote GDI, MPEG and 3D will make it absolutely smooth.
They said there are only two real perverses
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(1) Ice ballet and (2) dial-up through IP-telephony. I believe VGA digitizing qualifies as third although it's very like the second.
Adding more keywords to Java (yes, Java programmers paid 20% better) without much reasoning (you can easily do the same things without new keywords). All ideas realized was sure met by language designers and was sure discarded for simplicity. Modulizing? Module structure cannot be defined by language itself unless language includes project management. Java don't.
Publishing you work in popular journal instead of specialized magazine. Word's like "higher productivity, improved quality" instead of clear evolution of new ideas. I don't like it. Point.
Fsck! Why not a Hex Watch
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My favorite time format is d2x(date('B'))'.'d2x((time('S')*65536%86400),4) (this is REXX). Currently it's B26C9.AA7F A.D.
Grand prix: for coordinates of DeCSS code[1] on the sky in the visible range. First award: for coordinates of slashdot.org letters[1] on the sky in any observable range. Second award: for coordinates of Linux penguin or MS Windows logo.
[1] Text should be OCR capable. --- Every secretary using MSWord wastes enough resources
Unfortunately your example is incorrect: notepad replaces all zero characters by spaces (verified just now) and MZ (.EXE) executables seem to contain zero characters in header. Don't think it would work after that.
I agree to the point anyway: naked system contains enough tools to hack anything (even without DOS debug utility). And REXX or Perl command line is also enough if you really need to hack something. And you can always use gcc to create hacking environment in several hours. It is legal to keep it in mind, isn't it? --- Every secretary using MSWord wastes enough resources
Knowing there's a security hole is enough for many. So saying "MS Outlook Express has a security bug in date header parsing" to be illegal. Subj! --- Every secretary using MSWord wastes enough resources
This comment looks like a hoax. It contains fake url in it. It claims nonsence clear to enyone knows that light frequency's 1E12 times greater than one of sound. Nevertheless it's moderated Interesting and Insightful, by two different moderators I suppose.
I believe Sig11 is right:/. moderation is broken. --- Every secretary using MSWord wastes enough resources
While the concept of matrix is nice and clear, it made whole discussion unreadable in light mode in my 800x600 NS6PR3 (discussion become 10% large than window so I have to scroll to read each line's end).
--- Every secretary using MSWord wastes enough resources
Slashdot Mirror
Also this part was quite funny:
What about just dropping them on? This was the problem after all.
Well, how do we call massive broadcast of irrelevant unrequested e-mails? According to some (fortunately I don't live in US) sources messages like this should at least contain valid return address. So why don't just sue whoever sends this? After adding his IP to all known realtime blackhole lists of course.
Should I expect my applications just stop working some very nice day? Where should I enter my credit card number for my (say) MS Office95 to be automatically upgraded? Oh, yes, that's what MS Passport for.
Since power and probably complexity to program increases exponentially.
history repeats
Unfortunately spam has no borders and they still insist I'm tired of spoiled american women and need to meet beautiful russian wives even though I live in Moscow and already fed up of the latter ones.
But American Language Center is really one of the baddest spammers here. I can't wait to see them spamming FSB (current name of KGB) or other security service senior official one day.
It states Click to see the full resolution image (1086x1058) but the full resolution image (407 kilos) was already loaded to show you a thumbnail. Funny to see this bad web-design on IBM's page about new graphic system (kind of marketing?). Or people just forgot why it's polite to use thumbnails in the Net?
Doubtly they'll strip it in Netscape thus you'll soon have it in Netscape 7 or whatever. BTW why not to install mozilla right now?
Vacooming creates a lot of static electricity. Probably same for slide projector though I don't know how. I know (not properly grounded) ATX computers that sometimes turn on by just a static discharge after touching them.
Probably it's receiving some nonsence data when you switch on the lamp. Also, UPS might be trying to tell you something via it's COM port connection or whatever. Network interference via switch is also possible. Plug out one by one and check.
:( ) though they was not 'Wake up on ring' option in BIOS. Turned out that 'Wake up on LAN' also works as 'Wake up on ring'.
My PC turned on after any phone ring (very disturbing while installing some new hardware
BTW does you mac have external modem? Probably your modem tells RING each time you turn on the lamp. Easy to check with any terminal program.
My wife said this right now after I cited your message to her. She is not a computer person but have to work with M$ Office. IMHO this is perfect.
Unable to give URL, probably it even was a paper interview. Anyway it was in russian - you see, pen input interface was developed by Russians. The interview was after the second version is out and it is clear that PDA have selling problems. Public opinion was that PDA is selling bad because of the pen input problems.
Developers told that the product software (and probably hardware too) was build in extreme hurry: people worked 24 hours a day to meet deadline because such was the company policy. Consequently not everything was perfect in the first release. This was fixed later but generally good product already got a bad fame.
Also all magazines repeatedly told the PDA is selling bad without naming any sources or reasons. No doubt it started to sell bad - who would buy such a product? I see a hand of Evil Empire here because WinCE 1.0 was already ready to start.
Particulary concerning pen interface developers said they were often blamed for a bad quality of input though it was caused not by a bug in their program but by lack of resources and bad resource management. You see, if the thing starts garbage collection or something right while you are writing no doubt you'll get bad results. Hovewer user had no means to say one from another.
Developers had not time to negotiate this problem and was forced to release 'as is'. And, probably, Apple had not tested it throughoutly before first release because of the deadlines. Knowing how IBM is working inside I well believe it though it's pity there's so little difference because Apple always claimed to be 'Not IBM'.
You've got an office with 4 computers and lan. But instead of borrowing a UPS for a time or testing a monitor out of the office you just ask slashdot: could this be a power supply problem? Probably could and probably could not. Probably it's just visual interference with lamps, or a software problem (various versions of Windows tend to be very weird about monitor specs).
Even the producer of monitors is unknown. I doubt power supply will cause bad image on a new digital NEC and probably the best UPS would not help 15 years old samtron or like. You have much better chances to locate the problem where you are than we here.
90% of rejected people had IQ measured after rejection lower than normal. Probably this's a rejection that made them so.
(I read the article but could not resist. Actually I beleive the article is trivial considering people's condition right after rejection.)
The work is going on for porting OS/2 to ReactOS (Freeware NT clone). For me this seems to be the most promising project. There're already a lot of developers for OS/2 subsystem as well as horde of them for the OS itself. Site is under construction but mailing list is >20 messages a day.
For all who wonder - there's still life in OS/2 though not too much of it. OS/2 links:
Just captured 800x600 Netscape window with slashdot and saved as bmp(rle), gif, jpg and tif (every format have it's flaws; sorry, no png here). Results (assuming we've got 11 Mbit/s):
Size Extfps
190490 bmp 7.2
57274 gif 24.0
254061 jpg 5.4
82080 tif 16.8
24 fps is pretty playable. Gif discards true color but lcd are not good at displaying colors anyway. Translating delta and few tricks with remote GDI, MPEG and 3D will make it absolutely smooth.
(1) Ice ballet and (2) dial-up through IP-telephony. I believe VGA digitizing qualifies as third although it's very like the second.
Adding more keywords to Java (yes, Java programmers paid 20% better) without much reasoning (you can easily do the same things without new keywords). All ideas realized was sure met by language designers and was sure discarded for simplicity. Modulizing? Module structure cannot be defined by language itself unless language includes project management. Java don't.
Publishing you work in popular journal instead of specialized magazine. Word's like "higher productivity, improved quality" instead of clear evolution of new ideas. I don't like it. Point.
My favorite time format is
d2x(date('B'))'.'d2x((time('S')*65536%86400),4)
(this is REXX). Currently it's B26C9.AA7F A.D.
Just an idea, sure it'll be lost in discussion.
First award: for coordinates of slashdot.org letters[1] on the sky in any observable range.
Second award: for coordinates of Linux penguin or MS Windows logo.
[1] Text should be OCR capable.
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Every secretary using MSWord wastes enough resources
I agree to the point anyway: naked system contains enough tools to hack anything (even without DOS debug utility). And REXX or Perl command line is also enough if you really need to hack something. And you can always use gcc to create hacking environment in several hours. It is legal to keep it in mind, isn't it?
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Every secretary using MSWord wastes enough resources
Knowing there's a security hole is enough for many. So saying "MS Outlook Express has a security bug in date header parsing" to be illegal. Subj!
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Every secretary using MSWord wastes enough resources
This comment looks like a hoax. It contains fake url in it. It claims nonsence clear to enyone knows that light frequency's 1E12 times greater than one of sound. Nevertheless it's moderated Interesting and Insightful, by two different moderators I suppose.
I believe Sig11 is right: /. moderation is broken.
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Every secretary using MSWord wastes enough resources
While the concept of matrix is nice and clear, it made whole discussion unreadable in light mode in my 800x600 NS6PR3 (discussion become 10% large than window so I have to scroll to read each line's end).
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Every secretary using MSWord wastes enough resources