How does this relate in any way to Microsoft Chrome, of which I remember hearing quite a bit about a very long time ago?
I remember it was supposed to be the VRML killer, and the Flash killer, and that nobody was quite certain what it was. Has it mutated into this? Or is this just a simple namespace collision?
but some previous IE holes left the computer vulnerable whether or not you actually used IE at all!
The Nimda worm that went around flooded all directories on the system/network with.eml/.nws files. These were basically Outlook Express Email and Newsgroup files. Even just clicking on them to delete them actually opened the file for reading in the preview pane, thereby infecting your system!
And, of course, many programs simply embed the Internet Explorer rendering engine, and would be considered vulnerable.
...but as with any non-Microsoft OS trying to use a proprietary Microsoft "standard," it's going to be awkward.
And this is becoming untrue. As of the latest Panther build, Mail.app supports Exchange. Granted, it seems to use Outlook Web Access, but I still have access to all of the folders that people who pay much more for "Outlook" see. Address Book and iSync are supposed to support syncing with an Exchange server as well, but I have yet to get this to work.
The original version of Unreal had a section in the third level where, upon hitting a switch, the music would slowly fade out. Then, *click*, *click*, *click*, one by one the lights in the hallway would turn off.
You'd sit a moment in the dark, before all hell broke loose: An alarm went off, lights started blaring, the music changed to a thumping, adrenaline-pulsing pattern, and one or two Skaarj would roll out and begin attacking you.
In short, the click of the lights, silence, and then blaring alarms and music, was certainly one of the most memorable gaming experiences I've experienced.
I agree with people here in that the points raised by the article are somewhat FUDful. However, I do have a MAJOR problem with Google.
I develop in Perl. If you've ever seen Perl code, (as I'm sure many here have,) you know {it=>"isn\'t"} @the=("most", "friendly"); of languages, syntactically. However, with Google, searching for information is a moot point. Try searching for "$|++" (Search Link). For those who don't want to click on the link, I'll tell you what happens: Google does nothing. That's because it doesn't accept punctuation.
This was particularly annoying when I wanted to do research on URThere's (awful) PDA: the @migo. When I searched for "@migo", I got lots of spanish sites, but nothing relative. Google had internally stripped my "@" symbol. Granted, I will continue to use Google, as it is the most incredible search engine available right now, but because of these flaws, searching is severely limited.
I am sure these dvd playing large Apple Newtons, grrr I mean pocket pc's have shitty battery life if you try watch mpegs all day with
I've successfully run the following on my desktop with the Newton unplugged running a webserver with a wireless card and the backlight on: while true; do wget http://newton.my.tld/; done
Six hours later, the sucker died. My Jornada dies after an hour just being on:)
It's good to see the latest and greatest come out. It shows that the market's not dead. Granted, I don't ever see myself needing a 2MP camera on my PDA, nor do I even see the need for a color screen.
So what?
Someday, there may be a feature these contain that I just can't pass up. When that day comes, competition will have created the perfect PDA for me. For now, as odd as it is, I like the Newton.
There's usually one post in every PDA stories about the Newton, and I figure I might as well be that post.
Until I can get a PDA with handwriting recognition that WORKS WELL, and at least gives me some semblence of decent multitasking, I'll be sticking with my MP2100.
PalmOS is nice: it does what it needs to do, and little more. It makes an excellent organizer, and it's even nice to have buttons on the device. And I'll agree, Sony's design is quite asthetically pleasing.
The Zaurus is much nicer, except the current OpenZaurus/Sharp ROMs are about as stable as a deck of cards. Still, it's very refreshing when I've managed to break it to the point of Qtopia not starting to be able to pull up a console, use SSH, download the latest image to a flash card, and reflash my device.
Windows CE, while multitasking, is the worst of the bunch. It's not fast like PalmOS or NewtonOS, it's not powerful like the Zaurus. It just... is. It's not intuitive (if you don't bring up the keyboard and type "Control-Q", you can't quit programs, and eventually the device will slow down,) handwriting recognition is the worst of the bunch (well, it's on par with the Zaurus, and no, the "Recognizer" in WinCE 3.5 doesn't work well at all,).
PalmOS 6 should be sweet, especially if they borrow liberally from the code they purchased from Be. The target system of BeOS was slower clock-wise than the top-end of the PDA market right now. The next PDA I buy, depending on how it turns out, may very well be a PalmOS 6-based device.
This is something I would be interested in: Working Mainframes. I'm in their target range (20 years old), and would love to at least get some experience in the mainframe arena. Trouble is, I can't just pick one up and play around with it like I do with all of the other technologies I know.
I am currently a college student, and there is no course on how to run a mainframe. They will teach you the latest and greatest advances in object oriented programming, but when it comes down to how to work mainframes, I'm in the dark.
So, in short, what can I do to learn? They mention having training programs in the article, but where do I go? And how does one "break in" to the mainframe operator industry?
Right now, I have XDarwin running rootless with Blackbox as the window manager. I'm running XMMS, and it's playing an OGG. It's using between 2% and 5%, with ESD using up 4-5%. It's free, open-source, supports OGG, and gives me X running when I need it!
At a website I used to work at, they decided they needed to use Windows 2000 Advanced Server for web clustering. That is, quite possibly, the worst decision they ever made (aside from going with Windows 2000; trust me on this one.)
Win2k AS Load Balancing (aka WLBS: Windows Load Balancing Service) works by detecting other computers on the network with the same service, and they decide who will handle what request. They both have a primary IP, which is unique, in addition to a "virtual" address, which is the same on all of them. They also have a fake MAC address which is identical on both (makes for interesting ping responses.)
An interesting thing we noticed about WLBS is that, unless a computer is off the network, it will still be in the cluster. I.e. if IIS fails on one machine, as long as you can ping it, it will still get traffic.
When we moved from WLBS to LVS, we noticed a 50% drop in average CPU usage. This is probably due to the fact that now the clustering horsepower was moved off the web servers, but still, a free product versus a rather expensive one. And we've had better uptime now than ever before.
Aside: Is there any open source software that manages session affinity yet?
Yes. Linux Virtual Server is an incredible project. You put your web servers behind it and (in the case of simple NAT balancing) you set the gateway of those computers to be the address of your LVS server. You then tell LVS to direct all IPs of a certain netmask to one server (i.e. if you set for 255.255.255.0, 192.168.1.5 and 192.168.1.133 will connect to the same server).
The only problem I had with it was that it does not detect downtime. However, I wrote a quick script that used the checkhttp program from Nagios to pull a site out of the loop when it went down (these were Windows 2000 servers: it happened quite frequently, and our MCSE didn't know why:)
There are higher performance ways to set up clustering using LVS, but since I was lazy, that's what I did.
I want that job! Boss: Johnson! What are you doing? Jonhson: Reading Slashdot, sir! Boss: Good! I want your report on it by 5:00 tonight. And for the love of god, stop trolling those newbies!
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I agree. I used to be an avid gamer, possibly the best at Unreal Tournament, Quake I[I], and (Star|War)craft, but then it all sort of stopped being fun. I'm 19 right now, but I found gaming becoming such a small part of my life that I bought a Mac (while I know there are games for it [I have all of the games mentioned above], the popular games are always a short ways behind [like UT2003]). Granted, I'm very happy with the purchase, but I just don't see the attraction of gaming that I used to have.
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Besides that, at 88mph, it will begin to travel through time.
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Here's a nickel kid. Go buy yourself a shift key.
How does this relate in any way to Microsoft Chrome, of which I remember hearing quite a bit about a very long time ago?
I remember it was supposed to be the VRML killer, and the Flash killer, and that nobody was quite certain what it was. Has it mutated into this? Or is this just a simple namespace collision?
The Nimda worm that went around flooded all directories on the system/network with
And, of course, many programs simply embed the Internet Explorer rendering engine, and would be considered vulnerable.
They had cooler names, too!
At one point, a machine I worked with got the Empire Monkey virus! IIRC, the virus didn't do anything beyond replicate.
Still, I want to turn on the news today and see the anchor talking about the "latest Internet worm, dubbed 'Empire Monkey' by experts...".
And this is becoming untrue. As of the latest Panther build, Mail.app supports Exchange. Granted, it seems to use Outlook Web Access, but I still have access to all of the folders that people who pay much more for "Outlook" see. Address Book and iSync are supposed to support syncing with an Exchange server as well, but I have yet to get this to work.
The original version of Unreal had a section in the third level where, upon hitting a switch, the music would slowly fade out. Then, *click*, *click*, *click*, one by one the lights in the hallway would turn off.
You'd sit a moment in the dark, before all hell broke loose: An alarm went off, lights started blaring, the music changed to a thumping, adrenaline-pulsing pattern, and one or two Skaarj would roll out and begin attacking you.
In short, the click of the lights, silence, and then blaring alarms and music, was certainly one of the most memorable gaming experiences I've experienced.
Those blinkenlights were installed so you could monitor those bits: off and on. NOT so you could throw memory raves!
Oh, so you mean like KaZaA?
I do actually have a copy of the Microsoft Wine Guide sitting on my desk.
I did a double-take when I saw it at the library.
(It's not on Microsoft's site anymore, but the first Google hit was a review of it).
The world needs no more than one computer, it's just very spread out.
I agree with people here in that the points raised by the article are somewhat FUDful. However, I do have a MAJOR problem with Google.
I develop in Perl. If you've ever seen Perl code, (as I'm sure many here have,) you know {it=>"isn\'t"} @the=("most", "friendly"); of languages, syntactically. However, with Google, searching for information is a moot point. Try searching for "$|++" (Search Link). For those who don't want to click on the link, I'll tell you what happens: Google does nothing. That's because it doesn't accept punctuation.
This was particularly annoying when I wanted to do research on URThere's (awful) PDA: the @migo. When I searched for "@migo", I got lots of spanish sites, but nothing relative. Google had internally stripped my "@" symbol.
Granted, I will continue to use Google, as it is the most incredible search engine available right now, but because of these flaws, searching is severely limited.
I've successfully run the following on my desktop with the Newton unplugged running a webserver with a wireless card and the backlight on:
while true; do wget http://newton.my.tld/; done
Six hours later, the sucker died. My Jornada dies after an hour just being on
It's good to see the latest and greatest come out. It shows that the market's not dead. Granted, I don't ever see myself needing a 2MP camera on my PDA, nor do I even see the need for a color screen.
So what?
Someday, there may be a feature these contain that I just can't pass up. When that day comes, competition will have created the perfect PDA for me. For now, as odd as it is, I like the Newton.
There's usually one post in every PDA stories about the Newton, and I figure I might as well be that post.
Until I can get a PDA with handwriting recognition that WORKS WELL, and at least gives me some semblence of decent multitasking, I'll be sticking with my MP2100.
PalmOS is nice: it does what it needs to do, and little more. It makes an excellent organizer, and it's even nice to have buttons on the device. And I'll agree, Sony's design is quite asthetically pleasing.
But watching someone's Clié take its time drawing a single JPEG image is an amusing. And running programs like ICQ is still a futile endevor, because unless you want to manually poll the ICQ program, you can't use your PDA for anything but one task.
The Zaurus is much nicer, except the current OpenZaurus/Sharp ROMs are about as stable as a deck of cards. Still, it's very refreshing when I've managed to break it to the point of Qtopia not starting to be able to pull up a console, use SSH, download the latest image to a flash card, and reflash my device.
Windows CE, while multitasking, is the worst of the bunch. It's not fast like PalmOS or NewtonOS, it's not powerful like the Zaurus. It just... is. It's not intuitive (if you don't bring up the keyboard and type "Control-Q", you can't quit programs, and eventually the device will slow down,) handwriting recognition is the worst of the bunch (well, it's on par with the Zaurus, and no, the "Recognizer" in WinCE 3.5 doesn't work well at all,).
As with the other platforms, I think that PDAs are in a state of transition. PalmOS 6 should be an excellent operating system, and the PDA companies know that. Right now, they're loading propriotary extensions into the operating system for their whiz-bang features, like the Clié's audio, the 320x320 resolution (which, IIRC PalmOS5 supports natively now,) and the camera.
PalmOS 6 should be sweet, especially if they borrow liberally from the code they purchased from Be. The target system of BeOS was slower clock-wise than the top-end of the PDA market right now. The next PDA I buy, depending on how it turns out, may very well be a PalmOS 6-based device.
For now, while these Cliés are nice, there's always something that's slightly better just hanging on the horizon, and the longer I hold out, the better it will be.
"...the creative you build is what gets shown,..."
Run that by me again?
This is something I would be interested in: Working Mainframes. I'm in their target range (20 years old), and would love to at least get some experience in the mainframe arena. Trouble is, I can't just pick one up and play around with it like I do with all of the other technologies I know.
I am currently a college student, and there is no course on how to run a mainframe. They will teach you the latest and greatest advances in object oriented programming, but when it comes down to how to work mainframes, I'm in the dark.
So, in short, what can I do to learn? They mention having training programs in the article, but where do I go? And how does one "break in" to the mainframe operator industry?
My fist thought was:
I didn't know Steve Gibson played guitar!
Does that mean this story will get posted three times instead of two?
At the rate it's going, "Mozilla BIOS" isn't too far off.
Right now, I have XDarwin running rootless with Blackbox as the window manager. I'm running XMMS, and it's playing an OGG. It's using between 2% and 5%, with ESD using up 4-5%. It's free, open-source, supports OGG, and gives me X running when I need it!
At a website I used to work at, they decided they needed to use Windows 2000 Advanced Server for web clustering. That is, quite possibly, the worst decision they ever made (aside from going with Windows 2000; trust me on this one.)
Win2k AS Load Balancing (aka WLBS: Windows Load Balancing Service) works by detecting other computers on the network with the same service, and they decide who will handle what request. They both have a primary IP, which is unique, in addition to a "virtual" address, which is the same on all of them. They also have a fake MAC address which is identical on both (makes for interesting ping responses.)
An interesting thing we noticed about WLBS is that, unless a computer is off the network, it will still be in the cluster. I.e. if IIS fails on one machine, as long as you can ping it, it will still get traffic.
When we moved from WLBS to LVS, we noticed a 50% drop in average CPU usage. This is probably due to the fact that now the clustering horsepower was moved off the web servers, but still, a free product versus a rather expensive one. And we've had better uptime now than ever before.
Yes. Linux Virtual Server is an incredible project. You put your web servers behind it and (in the case of simple NAT balancing) you set the gateway of those computers to be the address of your LVS server. You then tell LVS to direct all IPs of a certain netmask to one server (i.e. if you set for 255.255.255.0, 192.168.1.5 and 192.168.1.133 will connect to the same server).
The only problem I had with it was that it does not detect downtime. However, I wrote a quick script that used the checkhttp program from Nagios to pull a site out of the loop when it went down (these were Windows 2000 servers: it happened quite frequently, and our MCSE didn't know why
There are higher performance ways to set up clustering using LVS, but since I was lazy, that's what I did.
Then again, if you get access to copyrighted_file.txt, the technological measure wasn't very "effective", now was it?
I want that job!
Boss: Johnson! What are you doing?
Jonhson: Reading Slashdot, sir!
Boss: Good! I want your report on it by 5:00 tonight. And for the love of god, stop trolling those newbies!
I agree. I used to be an avid gamer, possibly the best at Unreal Tournament, Quake I[I], and (Star|War)craft, but then it all sort of stopped being fun. I'm 19 right now, but I found gaming becoming such a small part of my life that I bought a Mac (while I know there are games for it [I have all of the games mentioned above], the popular games are always a short ways behind [like UT2003]). Granted, I'm very happy with the purchase, but I just don't see the attraction of gaming that I used to have.
Besides that, at 88mph, it will begin to travel through time.