Our whole company uses mutt;). Anyway, somebody made statistics from a LUG-mailinglist a year ago or something. Mutt came up with 50%, pine 20%, the rest sylpheed, evolution, mozilla, and various other ones. --
Sense of Humor? "Stealing software us not a crime -- in Iraq and parts of France". This is not funny, this is just plain insulting for everyone, including iraqi and french people. --
Yeah, decoffeinated coffee is for idiots. Who on slashdot should need such bullshit? We want more coffeine, not less! Also soon on Slashdot: Beer without alcohol, butter without fat...
I mean, who is fucked up enough to want such products? Whats the next glorious "light"-idea? Castrated husbands?
--
Netscape crashing: The problem most probably isn't
a Motif one. While Motif makes Netscape bloated,
the bugs stem most probably from the fact of a different memory-management on Solaris (where
Netscape is developed on), which is very forgiving
and uses different alignment. Other operating
systems aren't. So there..
Don't develop on Solaris if you want your code
to run on other systems. A lot of bugs won't
turn up on Solaris.
Systems from the middle ages
on
First Arcology?
·
· Score: 1
Would you mind to use the metric system?
The NASA lost already a satellite because
some dork used feet instead of meters.
No there aren't any Swiss coal mines. There is a salt-mine, and there used to be some gold in some rivers. That's it. The rest is granite.
For the language: Koks (german for the "coal"-coke) is indeed used as word for cocaine, but not Coca-Cola (this is "Cola" in germany, and "Coci" in Switzerland -- however "Coci" is used for cocaine as well;))
microsoft.com: smells of course after some large predator. Probably an alligator or some lion.
The Red Herring: It smells fishy, but it's NOT Herring.
Mozilla.org: Some burning aerosole, petroleum probably.
Sourceforge: Burning coal and iron.
slashdot: what about napalm? For all the religious warriors...
freshmeat.net: smells like a newly opened box
www.tikon.ch: Smell like a Chicha (erm.. in german, thats Wasserpfeife, that Oriental Pipe where you smoke wet tabacco with coal through water, whith one or more hoses attached to it)
A method for invoking a user interface for use with an application operating in a computer system which involves providing in the computer system a generic object class that corresponds to a class of function that is to be performed using the user interface; specifying in the application instance data in the form of a generic object specification that corresponds to the generic object class, the instance data including attribute criteria and hint criteria; providing in the computer system at least one specific user interface toolbox and controller that operates in the computer system to provide a selection of possible specific user interface implementations for use in performing the class of function; and providing in the computer system at least one interpreter that corresponds to the at least one specific user interface toolbox and controller. A method for invoking a user interface for use with an application operating in a computer system which involves providing in the computer system a generic object class that corresponds to a class of function that is to be performed using the user interface; specifying in the application instance data in the form of a generic object specification that corresponds to the generic object class, the instance data including attribute criteria and hint criteria; providing in the computer system at least one specific user interface toolbox and controller that operates in the computer system to provide a selection of possible specific user interface implementations for use in performing the class of function; and providing in the computer system at least one interpreter that corresponds to the at least one specific user interface toolbox and controller.
Can anyone understand this? This is IMHO pure, 100% lawspeak-trash. Nuke 'em.
I'm sysadmin of an ISP, and I made perfectly clear that I wouldn't be working on new years eve. I _knew_ my Linux-systems would be working like a charm, so why bother? I still don't understand my boss, who actually was logged in remotely "just if something goes wrong", while I was drinking champagne, playing bombard and fire-eating (btw: a good idea, draws more attention than rockets).
Applied immediately the 0.02c ext3-patch, patch had no problems (except two obvious rejects of 2 lines of code in the kdb-patch, and further 2 lines in the ext3 patch), but it failed to compile... I guess I'll have to wait until Stephen Tweedie fixes this. And of course, the missing ext3 is the sole reason that keeps me from trying out 2.3.x-kernels.
I'm swiss. That means I live in a state where nearly everyone gets an assault gun to take home, everyone in the army that is, and we have a law which states that every man pysically and psychologically able to bear a weapon has to be in the army.
So about every household has an assult-gun. Interesting is that Switzerland's crime rate in regard of violent crimes (murder, shootings, armed robbery etc.) is ONE TENTH OF THAT OF THE USA. I guess this is a US-problem, not one of availability of weapons in general.
Abstract: A method for recovering from software fault in a fault tolerant computing system includes a system status recording step to record the system status at the occurrence of the above software fault when the above fault is judged to be a software fault by a fault identifying step, a software fault factor diagnosing step to diagnose the fault factor of the above software fault, a software fault recovery action determining step to determine a recovery action to the above fault factor of the above software fault, and a software fault recovery action executing step to execute the recovery action the above fault factor of the above software fault determined by the above software fault recovery action determining step after roll back.
What's this? I'd say this is called exception handling since about 1985. And it features an exceptionally obfuscated choice of words. It's been the first I found when searching for "software" in IBMs patent server.
Some guys at PWC have been pressuring us to turn off DNS zone-transfers for PWC-Domains. Noteably these domains contained 2 IP's each (mail and www), but that's not the point. Evidently some maroon at PWC has decided that disallowing zone-transfers is good for security, completely ignoring the fact that you cannot only transfer zones by domainname but by in-addr-arpa too.
The same bahaviour is exhibited by various half-witted "security" companies. If you have no idea what can happen, you don't care. If you really understand what can happen, you're prepared and confident. But if you know only half of it, then it makes you frightened. That's why some companies are so sensible when it comes to portscans, while I just don't care.
Actually the correct term for 'Jurassic Park Unix' is Irix which is the standard SGI operating system.
And a Unix, of course. "I know this, this is a Unix system". The german translation is even better: "Das ist ein Unix-System, damit kenne ich mich aus".
The computer in Jurassic Park is definitely an SGI.
An SGI Indigo AFAIK.
Flying around your file system is actually possible with the software that came with our SGI Indigo2 workstations. I think it is called 'File Flyer' but I'm not 100% sure.Flying around your file system is actually possible with the software that came with our SGI Indigo2 workstations. I think it is called 'File Flyer' but I'm not 100% sure.
The Program's called fsn and it's available here at SGI. Sadly, it only works on Irix 5.3 and below.
>"should the IETF develop new protocols or modify existing protocols > to support mechanisms whose primary purpose is to support wiretapping > or other law enforcement activities"
translates to: "should the IETF develop new protocols or modify existing protocols to support mechanisms whose primary purpose is to support wiretapping or other industrial espionage activities"
And the Statement to the following is of course:
>"what should the IETF's position be on informational documents that > explain how to perform message or data-stream interception without > protocol modifications".
Mysql handles some database with files near 2GB at my site. 10 million records. No Problem, speed is adequate (some 0.01 seconds for _complicated_ queries. Also, since it's running on Alpha it won't have Problems with the 2Gig Limit. - Speed isn't a problem. - Large Files aren't a problem.
But: - MySQL on Alpha isn't very stable. I've had some months problems until a version came out which would even compile properly. It compiles now out of the box, but still, isn't stable - LOCKING. Locking a table with 10M records sucks, because nobody will even be able to read it while it's locked.
They are strictly forbidden from intercepting any communication involving at least one "US person" (which include all US citizens and any private citizen within the US regardless of nationality) and this is honored, at least in my experience. This, by the way, is in accordance with an Executive Order signed by none other than Richard M. Nixon. They are strictly forbidden from intercepting any communication involving at least one "US person" (which include all US citizens and any private citizen within the US regardless of nationality) and this is honored, at least in my experience. This, by the way, is in accordance with an Executive Order signed by none other than Richard M. Nixon.
As a European citizen I sure think this is funny. So my communication gets intercepted and my trade secrets are sold to US companies.
Avalon Hill, famous for hardcore strategy games and the Role Playing Game "RuneQuest" had been bought by Hasbro too, RuneQuest has been dumped, information on Avalon Hills Strategy games are not to be found anymore on AH's webpage.
Slashdot Mirror
one wonders...
--
Our whole company uses mutt ;). Anyway, somebody made statistics from a LUG-mailinglist a year ago or something. Mutt came up with 50%, pine 20%, the rest sylpheed, evolution, mozilla, and various other ones.
--
Its a very old text, found on some MIT-computerroom, I think. Anyway, it doesn't even sound german, but more like dutch.
--
Sense of Humor? "Stealing software us not a crime -- in Iraq and parts of France". This is not funny, this is just plain insulting for everyone, including iraqi and french people.
--
I mean, who is fucked up enough to want such products? Whats the next glorious "light"-idea? Castrated husbands?
--
Netscape crashing: The problem most probably isn't
a Motif one. While Motif makes Netscape bloated,
the bugs stem most probably from the fact of a different memory-management on Solaris (where
Netscape is developed on), which is very forgiving
and uses different alignment. Other operating
systems aren't. So there..
Don't develop on Solaris if you want your code
to run on other systems. A lot of bugs won't
turn up on Solaris.
Would you mind to use the metric system?
The NASA lost already a satellite because
some dork used feet instead of meters.
No there aren't any Swiss coal mines. There is
;))
a salt-mine, and there used to be some gold in
some rivers. That's it. The rest is granite.
For the language: Koks (german for the
"coal"-coke) is indeed used as word for cocaine,
but not Coca-Cola (this is "Cola" in germany,
and "Coci" in Switzerland -- however "Coci"
is used for cocaine as well
And your proposal is brilliant.
Kirth
Go to http://www.siug.ch (all german, though),
the Swiss Internet User Group. There's a paper
on this: http://www.siug.ch/positionen/SIUG-Domain.shtml
Furthermore, the SIUG might take a look at this,
and can probably do something.
Depending on the case, this is probably a blatant
act of domain-piracy through law on Coca-Colas
side or an act of cybersquatting on yours.
Kirth
Alfred Bester: The Dark Side Of The Earth
Pointy Short Stories. Exceptionally great and funny
William Gibson: Neuromancer
Nothing to add
John Brunner: Shockwave Rider
One of the first and best cyberpunk novels.
Jack Vance: The killing machine
Space opera at its best.
Storm Constantine: Hermetech
Post-apocalyptic cyberpunk about life, love and everything else. Something for teens. Sweet.
Jack Womack: Terraplane
Completely crazy cyberpunk/parallel-world story. Also funny and sarcastic.
Friedrich Kabermann: Moira
A science-fiction and fantasy fairy tale. With spaceships and talking animals. wonderful.
Kirth
--
Some already been said, but anyway.
microsoft.com: smells of course after some large
predator. Probably an alligator or some lion.
The Red Herring: It smells fishy, but it's NOT
Herring.
Mozilla.org: Some burning aerosole, petroleum
probably.
Sourceforge: Burning coal and iron.
slashdot: what about napalm? For all the religious
warriors...
freshmeat.net: smells like a newly opened box
www.tikon.ch: Smell like a Chicha (erm.. in
german, thats Wasserpfeife, that Oriental Pipe
where you smoke wet tabacco with coal through
water, whith one or more hoses attached to it)
www.junkbusters.com: Smells like detergents
quake.org: fresh blood.
Kirth
I just did. Please do the same.
http://www.patents.ibm.com/details?pn=US05327529__
States:
A method for invoking a user interface for use with an application operating in a
computer system which involves providing in the computer system a generic object
class that corresponds to a class of function that is to be performed using the user
interface; specifying in the application instance data in the form of a generic object
specification that corresponds to the generic object class, the instance data including
attribute criteria and hint criteria; providing in the computer system at least one specific
user interface toolbox and controller that operates in the computer system to provide a
selection of possible specific user interface implementations for use in performing the
class of function; and providing in the computer system at least one interpreter that
corresponds to the at least one specific user interface toolbox and controller.
A method for invoking a user interface for use with an application operating in a
computer system which involves providing in the computer system a generic object
class that corresponds to a class of function that is to be performed using the user
interface; specifying in the application instance data in the form of a generic object
specification that corresponds to the generic object class, the instance data including
attribute criteria and hint criteria; providing in the computer system at least one specific
user interface toolbox and controller that operates in the computer system to provide a
selection of possible specific user interface implementations for use in performing the
class of function; and providing in the computer system at least one interpreter that
corresponds to the at least one specific user interface toolbox and controller.
Can anyone understand this? This is IMHO pure,
100% lawspeak-trash. Nuke 'em.
Kirth
I'm sysadmin of an ISP, and I made perfectly clear
that I wouldn't be working on new years eve. I
_knew_ my Linux-systems would be working like a
charm, so why bother? I still don't understand my
boss, who actually was logged in remotely "just
if something goes wrong", while I was drinking
champagne, playing bombard and fire-eating (btw:
a good idea, draws more attention than rockets).
Kirth
--
I'm an ENTP, but then, I'm Sysadmin and definitly
no programmer (though I sometimes try to..)
Kirth
Applied immediately the 0.02c ext3-patch, patch
had no problems (except two obvious rejects of
2 lines of code in the kdb-patch, and further
2 lines in the ext3 patch), but it failed to
compile... I guess I'll have to wait until
Stephen Tweedie fixes this. And of course, the
missing ext3 is the sole reason that keeps me
from trying out 2.3.x-kernels.
Kirth
I'm swiss. That means I live in a state where
nearly everyone gets an assault gun to take home,
everyone in the army that is, and we have a law
which states that every man pysically and
psychologically able to bear a weapon has to be
in the army.
So about every household has an assult-gun.
Interesting is that Switzerland's crime rate
in regard of violent crimes (murder, shootings,
armed robbery etc.) is ONE TENTH OF THAT
OF THE USA. I guess this is a US-problem,
not one of availability of weapons in general.
Kirth
For instance:
US1997000820718
Abstract:
A method for recovering from software fault in a fault tolerant computing system includes a
system status recording step to record the system status at the occurrence of the above
software fault when the above fault is judged to be a software fault by a fault identifying step,
a software fault factor diagnosing step to diagnose the fault factor of the above software
fault, a software fault recovery action determining step to determine a recovery action to the
above fault factor of the above software fault, and a software fault recovery action executing
step to execute the recovery action the above fault factor of the above software fault
determined by the above software fault recovery action determining step after roll back.
What's this? I'd say this is called exception handling since about 1985. And it features an exceptionally obfuscated choice of words. It's been the first I found when searching for "software" in IBMs patent server.
Kirth
Well yes.
Some guys at PWC have been pressuring us to turn
off DNS zone-transfers for PWC-Domains. Noteably
these domains contained 2 IP's each (mail and www),
but that's not the point. Evidently some maroon
at PWC has decided that disallowing zone-transfers
is good for security, completely ignoring the fact
that you cannot only transfer zones by domainname
but by in-addr-arpa too.
The same bahaviour is exhibited by various half-witted
"security" companies. If you have no idea what
can happen, you don't care. If you really understand what
can happen, you're prepared and
confident. But if you know only half of it, then
it makes you frightened. That's why some companies
are so sensible when it comes to portscans, while
I just don't care.
Kirth
Actually the correct term for 'Jurassic Park Unix' is Irix which is the standard SGI operating system.
And a Unix, of course. "I know this, this is a Unix system". The german translation is even better: "Das ist ein Unix-System, damit kenne ich mich aus".
The computer in Jurassic Park is definitely an SGI.
An SGI Indigo AFAIK.
Flying around your file system is actually possible with the
software that came with our SGI Indigo2 workstations. I think it is called 'File Flyer' but I'm not 100% sure.Flying around your file system is actually possible with the
software that came with our SGI Indigo2 workstations. I think it is called 'File Flyer' but I'm not 100% sure.
The Program's called fsn and it's available here at SGI. Sadly, it only works on Irix 5.3 and below.
Kirth
>"should the IETF develop new protocols or modify existing protocols
> to support mechanisms whose primary purpose is to support wiretapping
> or other law enforcement activities"
translates to:
"should the IETF develop new protocols or modify existing protocols
to support mechanisms whose primary purpose is to support wiretapping
or other industrial espionage activities"
And the Statement to the following is of course:
>"what should the IETF's position be on informational documents that
> explain how to perform message or data-stream interception without
> protocol modifications".
"Please teach me how to hack".
Mysql handles some database with files near 2GB
at my site. 10 million records. No Problem, speed
is adequate (some 0.01 seconds for _complicated_
queries. Also, since it's running on Alpha it
won't have Problems with the 2Gig Limit.
- Speed isn't a problem.
- Large Files aren't a problem.
But:
- MySQL on Alpha isn't very stable. I've had some
months problems until a version came out which
would even compile properly. It compiles now out
of the box, but still, isn't stable
- LOCKING. Locking a table with 10M records sucks,
because nobody will even be able to read it while
it's locked.
In the end: I wouldn't do it again this way.
As a European citizen I sure think this is funny. So my communication gets intercepted and my trade secrets are sold to US companies.
Bastards.
Kirth
Name: Roy Boldt
Adresse: Channel One GmbH
Gerhofstrasse 40
D-20354 Hamburg
Germany
Telefon: +49 40 35710650
Telefax: +49 40 35719786
NIC-Handle: RB53-RIPE
Domains: channelone.de , channel-one.de
They (http://www.channelone.de) actually recommend
Linux to their customers; their webserver seems to
be a Solaris, though.
Maybe one should phone this guy and ask what's
going on.
Avalon Hill, famous for hardcore strategy games
and the Role Playing Game "RuneQuest" had been
bought by Hasbro too, RuneQuest has been dumped,
information on Avalon Hills Strategy games are
not to be found anymore on AH's webpage.