I ran GEM on this Athlon 2000+ last month to convert a.img logo to a more modern format. Then I realized that the people publishing that newsletter had been doing it on 15-year-old software, and they were publishing it quite well. As for the save button, &File | &Save works well and is pretty universal, so why not encapsulate that into a button?
So wait... If it squeezes a quarter down to the size of a dime, does the density of the coin increase to fit the same number of atoms in a smaller space, or is some of the matter from the original coin lost/converted in the process?
...wouldn't it be possible in the 24th century to use site-to-site transporter technology to simply *beam* waste out of the body?
There would be severe cavitation issues unless you simutaneously beamed something in to fill the space. And you'd better hope the inertial dampeners are working well...
These are physical disks, they have a set number of sectors. One size and one size only.
Indeed. However, it is quite easy to write incorrect information to file allocation tables and such (for example, to over-report the number of free sectors, or the cluster size, etc) which software trusts as being correct. This happens with some frequency with corrupt floppy disks, which can report hundreds of megabytes of data or free space (or both!) if the FAT is corrupted in the right way.
Editing a FAT12/FAT16 as above using the DOS debug tool, Norton Disk Editor, or other utility is left as an excercise for the reader.
Everyone from Joe Average to Bob Businessman should take notice of this.
Add to that list the front-line TSRs and CSRs who are often the first to hear of new discoveries and ignore them.
Imagine this: a young marginal power-user stumbles upon an unintentional feature that is repeatable. She can either seek approval from the software publisher, whose *SRs who aren't allowed to break from the script to actually respond to the problem properly (or they don't have the time to understand potential exploits/bugs explained in non-technical terms by a kid), or she can tell a slightly more/less skilled user and brag about it. This gathers approval and self-esteem for everyone involved in sharing but keeping the secret, which encourages the finding of more secrets, and the development of skills related to doing so.
This slow and informal spread of the bug itself, and the skills required to see/use/expolit it can go on for *months* before it reaches someone with the correct skillset to recognise the security problem, and is able to communicate that problem to someone who can actually fix it (see: malformed C strings, DOS device names, a number of Hotmail... issues, which were in the wild and reported multiple times before vendors took notice).
So yes, being aware that there are people out there who are seeking popularity, approval, etc by _finding flaws in others' work_ (not an unfamiliar concept in meatspace) is useful to the bottom line.
Indeed, as we don't know what the final xbox2 specs will be.
My guess would be that Power5 would be prefered over the 970 if games don't need the altivec (it seems that most of that functionality would be for graphics and could be covered by the GPU), the omission of which would more die area for L1/L2 cache and such (or make a smaller, cheaper die). Of course that changes if some related CPU with altivec/more FPU comes along at a better volume pricepoint (or someone really really really wants a nifty physics engine for a game, or something).
You forget that MS now owns VPC, which makes running X86 stuff (Xbox) pn Power5 somewhat easier than before. So, backward compatability through an emulation layer isn't out of the question.
Meanwhile the Nanny-state and big-brother get bigger and bigger and harder to stop. Nobody cares, because how can stopping DWI's be a bad thing?
Things you can do: - Encourage supporters of this device to install them in their cars before the law is enacted. They shouldn't object since it's such a good idea for everyone. - Why shouldn't they field-test these things in all government-owned vehicles, including all city, state, and emergency vehicles. (Insert argument about how you must not be drunk when driving as a citizen and how government employees shouldn't be carved out.) After all, if it shouldn't inconvienience private citizens, it shouldn't inconvienience public officials and their employees. - Undue hardship is your friend. People with asthma and other respiratory conditions should get carve outs. - Point out that devoting random 30 second spans to re-blow is as dangerous as devoting random 30 second spans to doing anything but paying full attention to driving. If this argument fails, it could have the side-effect of taking out many of the cell-phone-distraction arguments.
Trading in warez may not be moral, but there are actions that are less moral. Find out why child molesters don't last long in prison.
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One of the sites I'm in charge of gets about 4,500 people hits a day, about 2/3 of which come from the first ten hits on google for any number of search words. The content is dynamically generated, based on magic URI parsing such that/story/nnnn/ pulls item nnnn from a sparsely (50%) populated database that indexes on nnnn. Inktomi (one of MSN's search providers) decided to spider the entire nnnn number space every two days or so starting some months ago, guessing that all nnnn are associated with content, and have continued the practice to this day despite being asked to stop.
Currently, the Inktomi search engine and users who indirectly arrive via that are given special pages which include the regular content below something that explains the above and which also asks Inktomi to stop its dictionary attack against the server. Last month, Inktomi search results for the entire domain were rolled-back to older versions (prior to the addition of the nastygram) after a short version of the nastygram was added to the <title> (which showed up directly on the search results pages), yet Inktomi still insists on fetching the entire numberspace of pages about twice a week.
As the web site is revenue-neutral, we could just drop all connections from the Inktomi IP space and not be harmed, but that would be a disservice to readers who don't know better than to use ad-infested search results provided in one way or another by Inktomi.
"To solve it, one would have to prove something that no one seriously doubts: that, just as there is only one way to bend a two-dimensional plane into a shape without holes -- the sphere -- there is likewise only one way to bend three-dimensional space into a shape that has no holes... And while the equivalent of the Poincare conjecture has already been proven for dimensions four and up..."
Being a non-math person, it seems to me if it has been solved for two dimensions (has it?) and four and up, wouldn't three dimensions just be a special case of the many (four and up) dimensions proof? Or is there something special about that proof that limits it to four and up? Or perhaps something in a form like the two dimension proof?
Perhaps my simple understanding of proofs in euclidian geometry doesn't scale up like this:-)
1. By the standard you gave, MS Paint is a drop-in replacement for Photoshop. Many things are good enough, few things are great.
2. CMYK/LAB are not patent-encumbered. Any press/art text book will describe how they work, and free algorithms are available and implemented in ImageMagick.
3. Colour profle support is a bit harder, though it is less of a requirement in many educational/semi-pro environments.
It's trivial to get a notary to timestamp a copy of the Linux code, including any alleged infringement. Fixing the code now would not change the fact that a copyright violation did or did not occur in the past, so the NDAs give them no to little legal advantage if the case is as they have presented it so far.
The NDAs do prevent companies from fixing their source to remove alleged SCO code (and thereby eliminate any reason for them to buy a license from SCO), a huge financial advantage.
What is MTR? mtr combines the functionality of the 'traceroute' and 'ping' programs in a single network diagnostic tool. As mtr starts, it investigates the network connection between the host mtr runs on and a user-specified destination host. After it determines the address of each network hop between the machines, it sends a sequence ICMP ECHO requests to each one to determine the quality of the link to each machine. As it does this, it prints running statistics about each machine.
You'd have this little tree-graph of all the site's you been to.
Mosaic had this by... '94 or so, except it was in a different (modal?) window from the main browsing window.
And the fast switching was there too because 9,600 and 16,800 bps connections demanded page caching (also, there were few to no dynamically generated pages except for the likes of Yahoo! and Infoseek).
Most stuff (memory, drives, standard interface cards, USB devices and many video cards) is swappable between PC and Mac. Apple stuff (motherboard/CPU) and Win(Modems/Printers) are not. Bootstrapping ROMS on PCI cards don't work on the other platform, but the other functions of the cards generally work if there's a driver for it.
Cooling fans and power supplies were the same as on a PC a couple years ago, but not quite standard now, and the standoffs for mounting the motherboard are different. Also, Xserve drive modules are pain.
That this discussion is even happening says Apple's newest offering has a chance of eventually competing with SUN in the workstation market.
However, until more significant U*IX apps get written/ported to (something compatable with) the OS 10.x software stack, Apple won't be taking away anything from SUN that they would not have lost to comparably configured but less expensive systems (compared to SUN) from HP or IBM anyway.
It will be nice when it happens, but Apple has a lot of reputation to build (how long have DEC, IBM, SUN, SGI, et al. been making workstations?) before widespread adoption outside their current (art, education, media) markets.
Although now that Q6 is out, I gotta go pick up a copy, just to check it out.
Having used it for a week now, faster and more stable are the significant improvements. It's nice of them to fix some of the Qirks, but in the process they seem to have introduced some new ones.
Acrobat 6 rocked my world a few weeks ago (more properer on-screen RIP and non-sucking preflight capabilities) and about an order of magnitude more than Quirk 6.
I understand that they are NOT set up for 2 missions at a time. MC (I've heard) can only handle ONE flight at a time.
I would hope that they have a redundant mission control facility at some geograpically-different location (in case the active one is rendered unusable), which could serve a second shuttle if necessary.
N2H2 looks like it offers opinions of sites with regards to their content. In their opinion, your site contains/is pornography (which includes content in addition to naked people), and there's a means of asking them to reconsider. People trust N2H2's opinion and choose to not go to sites rated badly.
ORBS, RBL (or whatever the modern anti-spam analogues are) offer opinions about hosts on the Internet with regards to their mail output. In their opinions, certain open relays spread spam, and there's a means of asking them to reconsider. People trust ORBS et al.'s opinion and choose not to receive mail from sites rated badly.
Contemplate: Are the opinions of N2H2, ORBS, etc actionable? Do the opinions of these organizations cause the people they review to lose business, do those opinions constitute libel? Do these organizations make mistakes in their opinions?
Now, Microsoft feels extremely threatened by Linux, both on the client and on the server, and they are desparately trying to clone the essence of Linux so that their servers won't become completely irrelevant.
"the essence of Linux" is certainly much more than a few command shells!
I think you ascribe too much of Microsoft's reaction to the contemporary server market to a reaction to Linux. Command shells have been around for ages. Perhaps user demand or the increasing complexity of Microsoft's products finally demanded a better shell than cmd.exe?
Leaving aside the question of what a "very solid GUI" might be or whether Microsoft can even remotely be argued to have one
You didn't leave it aside, so I won't.
I find that the win32 GUI internally-consistant and the userland stuff works well enough that about 95 per cent of its features are congruant with Apple's and Sun's GUI widget behavior specifications. None of the three has come up with something widely accepted as better so far.
Microsoft responds to the market like a leaf in the wind... Java clone.
Is it bad that they are building on the scientific and technical knowledge of others in their field? Is it bad that they're reacting to competitors?
Whether there is a long-term plan or not, responding to current models that work by making your product compatible with those models is a part of the game at all levels from device drivers up to UI details. Advancement doesn't generally happen in isolation and like it or not, Microsoft is a part of the computer industry.
and the usual geek attitude of "if we implement it, it will be better". Nothing could be further from the truth, of course.
The OpenOffice people, the Mozilla people, the KDE people, the GIMP people, etc would probably beg to differ.
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I ran GEM on this Athlon 2000+ last month to convert a .img logo to a more modern format. Then I realized that the people publishing that newsletter had been doing it on 15-year-old software, and they were publishing it quite well. As for the save button, &File | &Save works well and is pretty universal, so why not encapsulate that into a button?
So wait... If it squeezes a quarter down to the size of a dime, does the density of the coin increase to fit the same number of atoms in a smaller space, or is some of the matter from the original coin lost/converted in the process?
...wouldn't it be possible in the 24th century to use site-to-site transporter technology to simply *beam* waste out of the body?
There would be severe cavitation issues unless you simutaneously beamed something in to fill the space. And you'd better hope the inertial dampeners are working well...
These are physical disks, they have a set number of sectors. One size and one size only.
Indeed. However, it is quite easy to write incorrect information to file allocation tables and such (for example, to over-report the number of free sectors, or the cluster size, etc) which software trusts as being correct. This happens with some frequency with corrupt floppy disks, which can report hundreds of megabytes of data or free space (or both!) if the FAT is corrupted in the right way.
Editing a FAT12/FAT16 as above using the DOS debug tool, Norton Disk Editor, or other utility is left as an excercise for the reader.
Everyone from Joe Average to Bob Businessman should take notice of this.
Add to that list the front-line TSRs and CSRs who are often the first to hear of new discoveries and ignore them.
Imagine this: a young marginal power-user stumbles upon an unintentional feature that is repeatable. She can either seek approval from the software publisher, whose *SRs who aren't allowed to break from the script to actually respond to the problem properly (or they don't have the time to understand potential exploits/bugs explained in non-technical terms by a kid), or she can tell a slightly more/less skilled user and brag about it. This gathers approval and self-esteem for everyone involved in sharing but keeping the secret, which encourages the finding of more secrets, and the development of skills related to doing so.
This slow and informal spread of the bug itself, and the skills required to see/use/expolit it can go on for *months* before it reaches someone with the correct skillset to recognise the security problem, and is able to communicate that problem to someone who can actually fix it (see: malformed C strings, DOS device names, a number of Hotmail... issues, which were in the wild and reported multiple times before vendors took notice).
So yes, being aware that there are people out there who are seeking popularity, approval, etc by _finding flaws in others' work_ (not an unfamiliar concept in meatspace) is useful to the bottom line.
Indeed, as we don't know what the final xbox2 specs will be.
My guess would be that Power5 would be prefered over the 970 if games don't need the altivec (it seems that most of that functionality would be for graphics and could be covered by the GPU), the omission of which would more die area for L1/L2 cache and such (or make a smaller, cheaper die). Of course that changes if some related CPU with altivec/more FPU comes along at a better volume pricepoint (or someone really really really wants a nifty physics engine for a game, or something).
You forget that MS now owns VPC, which makes running X86 stuff (Xbox) pn Power5 somewhat easier than before. So, backward compatability through an emulation layer isn't out of the question.
http://smokeping.planetmirror.com/pub/openlinux/Op enLinux/3.1.1/Workstation/
If I have a copy of Linux they distributed (and presumably licensed), and upgraded the kernel by patching up to -current, am I safe?
Meanwhile the Nanny-state and big-brother get bigger and bigger and harder to stop. Nobody cares, because how can stopping DWI's be a bad thing?
Things you can do:
- Encourage supporters of this device to install them in their cars before the law is enacted. They shouldn't object since it's such a good idea for everyone.
- Why shouldn't they field-test these things in all government-owned vehicles, including all city, state, and emergency vehicles. (Insert argument about how you must not be drunk when driving as a citizen and how government employees shouldn't be carved out.) After all, if it shouldn't inconvienience private citizens, it shouldn't inconvienience public officials and their employees.
- Undue hardship is your friend. People with asthma and other respiratory conditions should get carve outs.
- Point out that devoting random 30 second spans to re-blow is as dangerous as devoting random 30 second spans to doing anything but paying full attention to driving. If this argument fails, it could have the side-effect of taking out many of the cell-phone-distraction arguments.
-M5B
There are levels.
Trading in warez may not be moral, but there are actions that are less moral. Find out why child molesters don't last long in prison.
One of the sites I'm in charge of gets about 4,500 people hits a day, about 2/3 of which come from the first ten hits on google for any number of search words. The content is dynamically generated, based on magic URI parsing such that /story/nnnn/ pulls item nnnn from a sparsely (50%) populated database that indexes on nnnn. Inktomi (one of MSN's search providers) decided to spider the entire nnnn number space every two days or so starting some months ago, guessing that all nnnn are associated with content, and have continued the practice to this day despite being asked to stop.
Currently, the Inktomi search engine and users who indirectly arrive via that are given special pages which include the regular content below something that explains the above and which also asks Inktomi to stop its dictionary attack against the server. Last month, Inktomi search results for the entire domain were rolled-back to older versions (prior to the addition of the nastygram) after a short version of the nastygram was added to the <title> (which showed up directly on the search results pages), yet Inktomi still insists on fetching the entire numberspace of pages about twice a week.
As the web site is revenue-neutral, we could just drop all connections from the Inktomi IP space and not be harmed, but that would be a disservice to readers who don't know better than to use ad-infested search results provided in one way or another by Inktomi.
"To solve it, one would have to prove something that no one seriously doubts: that, just as there is only one way to bend a two-dimensional plane into a shape without holes -- the sphere -- there is likewise only one way to bend three-dimensional space into a shape that has no holes ... And while the equivalent of the Poincare conjecture has already been proven for dimensions four and up..."
:-)
Being a non-math person, it seems to me if it has been solved for two dimensions (has it?) and four and up, wouldn't three dimensions just be a special case of the many (four and up) dimensions proof? Or is there something special about that proof that limits it to four and up? Or perhaps something in a form like the two dimension proof?
Perhaps my simple understanding of proofs in euclidian geometry doesn't scale up like this
It's an applet, applets run on the clients computer and not on the server.
It takes bandwidth to collect the results of the applets' work, and time on the same or a different server to record/process/log those results.
1. By the standard you gave, MS Paint is a drop-in replacement for Photoshop. Many things are good enough, few things are great.
2. CMYK/LAB are not patent-encumbered. Any press/art text book will describe how they work, and free algorithms are available and implemented in ImageMagick.
3. Colour profle support is a bit harder, though it is less of a requirement in many educational/semi-pro environments.
-M5B
It's trivial to get a notary to timestamp a copy of the Linux code, including any alleged infringement. Fixing the code now would not change the fact that a copyright violation did or did not occur in the past, so the NDAs give them no to little legal advantage if the case is as they have presented it so far.
The NDAs do prevent companies from fixing their source to remove alleged SCO code (and thereby eliminate any reason for them to buy a license from SCO), a huge financial advantage.
http://www.bitwizard.nl/mtr/
What is MTR?
mtr combines the functionality of the 'traceroute' and 'ping' programs in a single network diagnostic tool.
As mtr starts, it investigates the network connection between the host mtr runs on and a user-specified destination host. After it determines the address of each network hop between the machines, it sends a sequence ICMP ECHO requests to each one to determine the quality of the link to each machine. As it does this, it prints running statistics about each machine.
does everything pathping does, and it looks good.
You'd have this little tree-graph of all the site's you been to.
Mosaic had this by... '94 or so, except it was in a different (modal?) window from the main browsing window.
And the fast switching was there too because 9,600 and 16,800 bps connections demanded page caching (also, there were few to no dynamically generated pages except for the likes of Yahoo! and Infoseek).
Memories...
Most stuff (memory, drives, standard interface cards, USB devices and many video cards) is swappable between PC and Mac. Apple stuff (motherboard/CPU) and Win(Modems/Printers) are not. Bootstrapping ROMS on PCI cards don't work on the other platform, but the other functions of the cards generally work if there's a driver for it.
Cooling fans and power supplies were the same as on a PC a couple years ago, but not quite standard now, and the standoffs for mounting the motherboard are different. Also, Xserve drive modules are pain.
That this discussion is even happening says Apple's newest offering has a chance of eventually competing with SUN in the workstation market.
However, until more significant U*IX apps get written/ported to (something compatable with) the OS 10.x software stack, Apple won't be taking away anything from SUN that they would not have lost to comparably configured but less expensive systems (compared to SUN) from HP or IBM anyway.
It will be nice when it happens, but Apple has a lot of reputation to build (how long have DEC, IBM, SUN, SGI, et al. been making workstations?) before widespread adoption outside their current (art, education, media) markets.
Although now that Q6 is out, I gotta go pick up a copy, just to check it out.
Having used it for a week now, faster and more stable are the significant improvements. It's nice of them to fix some of the Qirks, but in the process they seem to have introduced some new ones.
Acrobat 6 rocked my world a few weeks ago (more properer on-screen RIP and non-sucking preflight capabilities) and about an order of magnitude more than Quirk 6.
I understand that they are NOT set up for 2 missions at a time. MC (I've heard) can only handle ONE flight at a time.
I would hope that they have a redundant mission control facility at some geograpically-different location (in case the active one is rendered unusable), which could serve a second shuttle if necessary.
N2H2 looks like it offers opinions of sites with regards to their content. In their opinion, your site contains/is pornography (which includes content in addition to naked people), and there's a means of asking them to reconsider. People trust N2H2's opinion and choose to not go to sites rated badly.
ORBS, RBL (or whatever the modern anti-spam analogues are) offer opinions about hosts on the Internet with regards to their mail output. In their opinions, certain open relays spread spam, and there's a means of asking them to reconsider. People trust ORBS et al.'s opinion and choose not to receive mail from sites rated badly.
Contemplate: Are the opinions of N2H2, ORBS, etc actionable? Do the opinions of these organizations cause the people they review to lose business, do those opinions constitute libel? Do these organizations make mistakes in their opinions?
See also: Consumer Reports.
It doesn't help, because the system just isn't built for scripting.
Linux isn't built for GUIs but that hasn't stopped people from trying.
Now, Microsoft feels extremely threatened by Linux, both on the client and on the server, and they are desparately trying to clone the essence of Linux so that their servers won't become completely irrelevant.
"the essence of Linux" is certainly much more than a few command shells!
I think you ascribe too much of Microsoft's reaction to the contemporary server market to a reaction to Linux. Command shells have been around for ages. Perhaps user demand or the increasing complexity of Microsoft's products finally demanded a better shell than cmd.exe?
Leaving aside the question of what a "very solid GUI" might be or whether Microsoft can even remotely be argued to have one
You didn't leave it aside, so I won't.
I find that the win32 GUI internally-consistant and the userland stuff works well enough that about 95 per cent of its features are congruant with Apple's and Sun's GUI widget behavior specifications. None of the three has come up with something widely accepted as better so far.
Microsoft responds to the market like a leaf in the wind... Java clone.
Is it bad that they are building on the scientific and technical knowledge of others in their field? Is it bad that they're reacting to competitors?
Whether there is a long-term plan or not, responding to current models that work by making your product compatible with those models is a part of the game at all levels from device drivers up to UI details. Advancement doesn't generally happen in isolation and like it or not, Microsoft is a part of the computer industry.
and the usual geek attitude of "if we implement it, it will be better". Nothing could be further from the truth, of course.
The OpenOffice people, the Mozilla people, the KDE people, the GIMP people, etc would probably beg to differ.
Disbelieving is like /not/ saturating a link. It would take something like this to truly DDoS the great maker.