It merely doesn't do anything that is immediately useful to the typical non-techie user.
Give it a few days and I'm sure we'll have something more non-techie like.:-)
And speaking of music, if you're a Machinae Supremacy fan (and who isn't?) you can get the new live-footage of them doing the tune from The Great Gianna Sisters from this torrent.
You mean there's a cache in browsers? That's absolutely mindboggling. Why, I had no idea. </stewie>
I think you'll find that even with caching there's a real load from serving images. Caches aren't perfect, people force-reload all the time, etc.
Since using png is a zero-effort kind of think, it's pretty hard to argue against, especially when you factor in the actual technical benefits; like images with proper alpha (users could use some other BG color except for white) and the possibility to have actually nicer looking images.
Slashdot isn't an image-heavy site. I've done this same experiment for a review at HardOCP and the savings there were gigantic (multiple hundred kilobytes). I talked to someone on the crew about it, but as usual, nothing happens.
I save out the front page with images. There was only 19259 in images (no ad) but after a round of 'gif2png -nsO' and 'pngcrush -brute -rem tEXt' we were down 2K to 17006. So with no effort we have a 2K shave of the front page.
It'd be interesting to multiply those savings with the number of images downloads per month.
Actually, you'll have to go back to stuff like Internet Explorer 1.5 and the like to find a browser that doesn't support the basics.
And for the record, PNGs are always smaller, except in a few very special cases which doesn't matter because the absolute size difference is next to nothing in those.
And yes, the PNG-writer in Adobe products is fucking broken last time I checked, and to top it off, many "webdesigners" doesn't understand that PNG supports truecolor, so they'll happily compare their paletted GIF and their GIF saved RGBA and explain the size difference not with "I'm an idiot" but "PNG sucks".
And as for animation.. that's a feature! Personally, I have animated GIFs disabled -- always -- but if you really want to animate pictures you'll use MNG which is animations made out of PNG-images
Got my versions a little mixed up there (oh, my, this has been a bad day), but it doesn't really change things. Jackson has already explained why he cut Saruman, in detail. It makes sense. He probably didn't like it, but the movie is still 3h21m or whatever -- and he probably had to fight to get to go over 3h to begin with.
I think it sucks, but I also don't think there's even a remote possibility of this changing. Jackson is done with the movie. I imagine the reels are already done or close to it.
"Next up: Former SCO employee Jack Craig, now an SDK support engineer at another software company.
[...]
While it was later excised and replaced with UDI code, I wonder how the world would take the news that SCO/Caldera paid a contract house in San Jose over $150,000 to port the NetBSD USB stack to osr5! They sure don't mind stealing open source when it suites them!" -- article here
This should be researched. McBride has been very admant that it doesn't matter if his imagined IP is removed from GNU/Linux, there price must be paid. Surely then his amazing legal understanding must be extended to his own company, in which case SCO could be a veritable GOLDMINE for the BSD Developers.
While I'm sure Darl McPrisonBride would gladly talk about ongoing litigation -- for which we're all very thankful; IBM and SCO lawyers sends their regards -- I think that maybe Szulik will not.
Might want to have backup questions if many RedHat vs SCO ones make the cut.
IE is actively being exploited for this purpose.
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That's already happening. Scrupleless companies are exploiting holes in IE to install software and 'shortcuts' on peoples desktops.
Note that this works on FULLY PATCHED IE! It is reported that a clean install of XP, updated as far as it goes on Windows Update is still vulnerable. Only by disabling "Navigate Sub-frames over different domains" in Security Settings can you stop it and that probably only works because the crap is loaded from a different server in this case!
.. and other asorted folks who danced in the media and declared SCO's case as "strong" based on the continguency, revise their view and update their articles?
No?
Thought not.
Actually, this has been known for a while, so I know that they haven't.
Sure it is, blanket blocking, that is. I pay for an internet connection, not a "web connection".
Just block the fucking machine doing the spamming! Hard to detect one machine sending X/mails per minute? (<-- rethorical question, but feel free to plead stupidity if you want)
Telia is mostly known for their suckage over here. They've made several false starts, including blocking SMTP completely at their border making it impossible to host ones own mail server.
I guess if they've finally given up on that idoicy and actually go after the specific hosts that are a problem -- like we in the community has said for years is the correct solution -- then I'm all for it.
Just sad that it's making news the way it is. I think the news should be that they wasted at least two years reaching this "insight"!
Would be interesting to know if this was because the suits finally listened to their techs, or if it's because the techs finally gained a clue.
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It merely doesn't do anything that is immediately useful to the typical non-techie user.
Give it a few days and I'm sure we'll have something more non-techie like. :-)
And speaking of music, if you're a Machinae Supremacy fan (and who isn't?) you can get the new live-footage of them doing the tune from The Great Gianna Sisters from this torrent.
It's not analogue, it's a DLL that latches on to QT (windows) and intercepts the raw AAC data and writes it to a file.
thread here.
My cousin (hello Dan!) had a TI99 and he show of the voice synthesizer... "wow!". Goes without saying, he was the coolest dude on this planet to me.
Ah, those were the days. Then I spent an eternity in a local maxima on the C64 not learning a gawd damned thing... except 'I love to program'.
Definitely missing the Amiga on that list. Chuck the "APPLE NEWTON MESSAGE PAD".
IMHO
You mean there's a cache in browsers? That's absolutely mindboggling. Why, I had no idea. </stewie>
I think you'll find that even with caching there's a real load from serving images. Caches aren't perfect, people force-reload all the time, etc.
Since using png is a zero-effort kind of think, it's pretty hard to argue against, especially when you factor in the actual technical benefits; like images with proper alpha (users could use some other BG color except for white) and the possibility to have actually nicer looking images.
Slashdot isn't an image-heavy site. I've done this same experiment for a review at HardOCP and the savings there were gigantic (multiple hundred kilobytes). I talked to someone on the crew about it, but as usual, nothing happens.
I save out the front page with images. There was only 19259 in images (no ad) but after a round of 'gif2png -nsO' and 'pngcrush -brute -rem tEXt' we were down 2K to 17006. So with no effort we have a 2K shave of the front page.
It'd be interesting to multiply those savings with the number of images downloads per month.
Actually, you'll have to go back to stuff like Internet Explorer 1.5 and the like to find a browser that doesn't support the basics.
And for the record, PNGs are always smaller, except in a few very special cases which doesn't matter because the absolute size difference is next to nothing in those.
And yes, the PNG-writer in Adobe products is fucking broken last time I checked, and to top it off, many "webdesigners" doesn't understand that PNG supports truecolor, so they'll happily compare their paletted GIF and their GIF saved RGBA and explain the size difference not with "I'm an idiot" but "PNG sucks".
And as for animation.. that's a feature! Personally, I have animated GIFs disabled -- always -- but if you really want to animate pictures you'll use MNG which is animations made out of PNG-images
Got my versions a little mixed up there (oh, my, this has been a bad day), but it doesn't really change things. Jackson has already explained why he cut Saruman, in detail. It makes sense. He probably didn't like it, but the movie is still 3h21m or whatever -- and he probably had to fight to get to go over 3h to begin with.
I think it sucks, but I also don't think there's even a remote possibility of this changing. Jackson is done with the movie. I imagine the reels are already done or close to it.
But the DVDs are already being distributed, and the movie on the [non-extended] DVD and the movie in the theatre is supposed to be the same.
This petition is utterly futile.
Fine, got a little hot-headed there, but it's another nice case of hypocrisy from their side.
Hmm.. not sure if it beats the whole GNU toolchain + Samba thing though.. got to ponder that one.
Check this out:
This should be researched. McBride has been very admant that it doesn't matter if his imagined IP is removed from GNU/Linux, there price must be paid. Surely then his amazing legal understanding must be extended to his own company, in which case SCO could be a veritable GOLDMINE for the BSD Developers.
Just change the name to "Butthead University".
I think we're seeing the results of having a large C64 and then Amiga demo scene.
While I'm sure Darl McPrisonBride would gladly talk about ongoing litigation -- for which we're all very thankful; IBM and SCO lawyers sends their regards -- I think that maybe Szulik will not.
Might want to have backup questions if many RedHat vs SCO ones make the cut.
That's already happening. Scrupleless companies are exploiting holes in IE to install software and 'shortcuts' on peoples desktops.
See this video demonstration.
Note that this works on FULLY PATCHED IE! It is reported that a clean install of XP, updated as far as it goes on Windows Update is still vulnerable. Only by disabling "Navigate Sub-frames over different domains" in Security Settings can you stop it and that probably only works because the crap is loaded from a different server in this case!
I'm not so sure, but then I haven't read the claims (and won't bother either). Password Safe though, is available here.
I just wish someone would implement a treeview instead of a list.
Maybe you should stop talking about it until such time there's an actually working (high quality) implementation?
I use vorbis for everything, but hyping vaporware isn't doing it any favors.
.. and other asorted folks who danced in the media and declared SCO's case as "strong" based on the continguency, revise their view and update their articles?
No?
Thought not.
Actually, this has been known for a while, so I know that they haven't.
two cool animated gif's
This is slashdot, home of geeks and zealots. There is no such thing as "cool" animated GIFs.
There are cool PNGs and cool MNGs, but no cool GIFs
>Blocking SMTP is not idiocy.
Sure it is, blanket blocking, that is. I pay for an internet connection, not a "web connection".
Just block the fucking machine doing the spamming! Hard to detect one machine sending X/mails per minute? (<-- rethorical question, but feel free to plead stupidity if you want)
Maybe a also-dropped-on-the-floor brother or something?
Telia is mostly known for their suckage over here. They've made several false starts, including blocking SMTP completely at their border making it impossible to host ones own mail server.
I guess if they've finally given up on that idoicy and actually go after the specific hosts that are a problem -- like we in the community has said for years is the correct solution -- then I'm all for it.
Just sad that it's making news the way it is. I think the news should be that they wasted at least two years reaching this "insight"!
Would be interesting to know if this was because the suits finally listened to their techs, or if it's because the techs finally gained a clue.
That's just FUD. Ever heard of "apt-get source"?
"Is this political slant common in censorware?"
Oh, my. Seems I/we've accomplished nothing.