Linux gets bloated as soon as you install X Windows.
My first (text-only) install ran OK on 4Mb RAM, though 2Mb was the minimum. Now the kernel is bigger and we use SSH, so you'd expect to need a bit more RAM, but otherwise nothing has changed.
Agreed. Life is too short to spend time adding URL re-writing to sites for the 0.01% of people who object to cookies on moral principles.
Besides, you *can* track users from their IP address. It's not very accurate (corporate firewalls, DHCP dialups etc), but you can still do it. Indeed, IP address + User Agent is the *standard* way that unique users are measured in the UK web advertising industry for instance. So you are sill being tracked even if you don't have cookies.
From what I could gather from the article they were moving towards a system whereby suspicious IP addresses that perform wide scans are automatically recorded and perhaps added to a global 'block' list. A sort of reverse distibuted denial of service.
However I'm not sure how a client could tell whether one IP address was 'suspicious' or not, and I can't see it would be feasible to collect all IP addresses that connect to all clients to find those that couldn't possibly be legitimate Kazza clients.
I recently got a Dell inspiron 8500. It feels flimsey, it has a terrible keyboard and it freezes (i.e. stops working completely) after a few hours of use. I'm still trying to get Dell tech support to replace it.
Although the spec is great for the price, I wish I paid more and got an IBM Thinkpad.
Having worked with J2EE for a couple of years, I've been very impressed with what I've seen so far of C#/.NET. I found the level of integration quite staggering. It's just so much easier to develop and deploy a (.NET) web-app within the VS.NET 2003 IDE compared to, say, a similar (J2EE) web-app in JBuilder enterprise. For instance, compare the ease of setting up ADO.Net with ties to data controls to the equivalent EJB pattern in J2EE.
Personally I'm looking to migrate my skills over from J2EE to.NET in the next year as I see a lot of work going to.NET. I expect there will also be some migration work out there porting bodged J2EE apps into.NET -- I know of one such existing project already.
Does anyone know why PNG wasn't designed to do lossy compression as well as lossless so it could be used for photos? Also, why doesn't it have simple animation capabilities?
I think the authors spent too much time worrying about alpha channels and other advanced features that are not much use on a web page. I say ditch it and start again with a new format.
Broadband isn't much faster than dialup for many websites, and being 'always on' does not help much as my home computer is usually switched off. For big files I download to my laptop at work where we have a big leased line.
I read somewhere that BT just wants to test the validity of the patent. They were hinting that it was just a test case they were pursuing for it's own end and no more.
That said, anyone who knows BT knows they would charge customers for the air they breath if they could. For instance, BT still control the local telephone loop through which all of the UK has dial up, and they charge metered local calls for this.
You can make a perfect copy of the source CD however. From there you can encode the data into mp3 (which is lossy) or you could use a lossless compression technique.
Mp3s are a phenomenen that _represent_ a new technology. They are not the only way of storing music. Perhaps using any compression will become unnecessary.
Example: a 100Gb hard drive can store ~200 uncompressed CDs.
Considering the Queen has been using email since 1969, I reckon she knows damn well what OS she's running on her webserver. In fact, she probably configured the whole thing herself! Anyone who has 30 years experience of the Internet deserves a little respect;)
Despite the fact that ESR is a noted gun advocate, I reckon/. is *not* the place to discuss this. Remember that many OSS / Linux advocates are non-US and have genuine disdain for gun-culture etc.
Politics and other shit is best left to the experts, who I can (hopefully) ignore and forget because I read sites like this.
The "redundant" moderation of your comment should have read "off topic".
I remember reading about this story a while ago in an article in a lengthy article on Regan's 'War on Drugs' policy in a UK paper. This might be duplicate story, but the way I heard it was:
The kid was in fact a girl, about 18 or 21. She was asked by federal police at a party whether they could find any LSD. She said no, but said that her boyfriend had some. She was arrested and charged under conspiracy to supply drugs. She was tried in a federal court under the infamous Regan's `War on Drugs' laws, found guilty and received the mandatory sentence of 10 years imprisonment without parole. The judge who sentenced her described it as a miscarriage of justice, but said he was powerless to give any other judgement.
A recent UK court ruled that employees were allowed to make private phone calls at work on company phones --- no URL, sorry. But, extrapolating, this implies that employees *could* be permitted privacy on the net at work, in the UK at least.
Anyhow, if you *really* need privacy, why not use hushmail and/or other encrypted web services?
Apache has got to be the major reason why so many businesses (like the one I work for) use Linux (and other free *nixes). Any minor release of this excellent bit of software is worthy of mention. I'm very interested in seeing the changelog, but it's/.'d at the mo!
I got it slightly wrong: it was a Hawk jet (still made by BAe though), and it was four women (not two). Still, it's a nice story, David & Goliath writ very large. Read it here.
Does anyone remember hearing about the two women who sneaked into the British Aerospace factory (where they make Harriers), climbed into the cockpit of a brand-new jet and smashed the dashboard up with hammers? They caused around £1,000,000 worth of damage, but when their case came to court they were let off on international human rights laws.
They proved the jets were being shipped to Indonesia for President Suhato so that he could bomb the E. Timorean people.
I guess Suharto should have bought some pepsi points instead!
Problem with steganography is that you need a channel with at least an order of magnitude higher sustained bandwith than the secure channel you want to hide.
How about images, video or mp3s as cover for plain text? Sounds reasonable to me.
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7) Carbon dating shows the individual died in the late 15th century. KR3 died in 1485.
This is a disingenuous statement. The service provided by the BBC can't be viewed as "good value" since all its customers are forced to buy it.
Linux gets bloated as soon as you install X Windows.
My first (text-only) install ran OK on 4Mb RAM, though 2Mb was the minimum. Now the kernel is bigger and we use SSH, so you'd expect to need a bit more RAM, but otherwise nothing has changed.
Agreed. Life is too short to spend time adding URL re-writing to sites for the 0.01% of people who object to cookies on moral principles.
Besides, you *can* track users from their IP address. It's not very accurate (corporate firewalls, DHCP dialups etc), but you can still do it. Indeed, IP address + User Agent is the *standard* way that unique users are measured in the UK web advertising industry for instance. So you are sill being tracked even if you don't have cookies.
From what I could gather from the article they were moving towards a system whereby suspicious IP addresses that perform wide scans are automatically recorded and perhaps added to a global 'block' list. A sort of reverse distibuted denial of service.
However I'm not sure how a client could tell whether one IP address was 'suspicious' or not, and I can't see it would be feasible to collect all IP addresses that connect to all clients to find those that couldn't possibly be legitimate Kazza clients.
Back in the days when I registered for slashdot you didn't have to provide an email address.
I recently got a Dell inspiron 8500. It feels flimsey, it has a terrible keyboard and it freezes (i.e. stops working completely) after a few hours of use. I'm still trying to get Dell tech support to replace it.
Although the spec is great for the price, I wish I paid more and got an IBM Thinkpad.
Well said!
.NET 2003 IDE compared to, say, a similar (J2EE) web-app in JBuilder enterprise. For instance, compare the ease of setting up ADO.Net with ties to data controls to the equivalent EJB pattern in J2EE.
.NET in the next year as I see a lot of work going to .NET. I expect there will also be some migration work out there porting bodged J2EE apps into .NET -- I know of one such existing project already.
Having worked with J2EE for a couple of years, I've been very impressed with what I've seen so far of C#/.NET. I found the level of integration quite staggering. It's just so much easier to develop and deploy a (.NET) web-app within the VS
Personally I'm looking to migrate my skills over from J2EE to
Does anyone know why PNG wasn't designed to do lossy compression as well as lossless so it could be used for photos? Also, why doesn't it have simple animation capabilities?
I think the authors spent too much time worrying about alpha channels and other advanced features that are not much use on a web page. I say ditch it and start again with a new format.
Broadband isn't much faster than dialup for many websites, and being 'always on' does not help much as my home computer is usually switched off. For big files I download to my laptop at work where we have a big leased line.
Where I am it is April 2nd.
I read somewhere that BT just wants to test the validity of the patent. They were hinting that it was just a test case they were pursuing for it's own end and no more.
That said, anyone who knows BT knows they would charge customers for the air they breath if they could. For instance, BT still control the local telephone loop through which all of the UK has dial up, and they charge metered local calls for this.
Do you mean mirror the mirrors?
I'm just looking forward to being able to tune the FULLTEXT search function without recompiling the database server!
You can make a perfect copy of the source CD however. From there you can encode the data into mp3 (which is lossy) or you could use a lossless compression technique.
Mp3s are a phenomenen that _represent_ a new technology. They are not the only way of storing music. Perhaps using any compression will become unnecessary.
Example: a 100Gb hard drive can store ~200 uncompressed CDs.
So, if I were a porn site operator, all I'd need to do is disallow access to User-agent: "Mudcrawler" and then kids can surf my site freely.
Not if 'Mudcrawler' pretended to be a legitimate user agent and ignored the robots.txt file.
Do you get the feeling that even the programmers know that their software is pretty much useless?
All the time
Considering the Queen has been using email since 1969, I reckon she knows damn well what OS she's running on her webserver. In fact, she probably configured the whole thing herself! Anyone who has 30 years experience of the Internet deserves a little respect ;)
Mr Gates, do you believe that all cryptographic export restrictions should be scrapped?
Despite the fact that ESR is a noted gun advocate, I reckon /. is *not* the place to discuss this. Remember that many OSS / Linux advocates are non-US and have genuine disdain for gun-culture etc.
Politics and other shit is best left to the experts, who I can (hopefully) ignore and forget because I read sites like this.
The "redundant" moderation of your comment should have read "off topic".
I remember reading about this story a while ago in an article in a lengthy article on Regan's 'War on Drugs' policy in a UK paper. This might be duplicate story, but the way I heard it was:
The kid was in fact a girl, about 18 or 21. She was asked by federal police at a party whether they could find any LSD. She said no, but said that her boyfriend had some. She was arrested and charged under conspiracy to supply drugs. She was tried in a federal court under the infamous Regan's `War on Drugs' laws, found guilty and received the mandatory sentence of 10 years imprisonment without parole. The judge who sentenced her described it as a miscarriage of justice, but said he was powerless to give any other judgement.
Scary.
A recent UK court ruled that employees were allowed to make private phone calls at work on company phones --- no URL, sorry. But, extrapolating, this implies that employees *could* be permitted privacy on the net at work, in the UK at least.
Anyhow, if you *really* need privacy, why not use hushmail and/or other encrypted web services?
Apache has got to be the major reason why so many businesses (like the one I work for) use Linux (and other free *nixes). Any minor release of this excellent bit of software is worthy of mention. I'm very interested in seeing the changelog, but it's /.'d at the mo!
BTW: Win* Apache is excellent! IIS watch out!
I got it slightly wrong: it was a Hawk jet (still made by BAe though), and it was four women (not two). Still, it's a nice story, David & Goliath writ very large. Read it here.
Does anyone remember hearing about the two women who sneaked into the British Aerospace factory (where they make Harriers), climbed into the cockpit of a brand-new jet and smashed the dashboard up with hammers? They caused around £1,000,000 worth of damage, but when their case came to court they were let off on international human rights laws.
They proved the jets were being shipped to Indonesia for President Suhato so that he could bomb the E. Timorean people.
I guess Suharto should have bought some pepsi points instead!
Problem with steganography is that you need a channel with at least an order of magnitude higher sustained bandwith than the secure channel you want to hide.
How about images, video or mp3s as cover for plain text? Sounds reasonable to me.