A safe would be a good investment, most are fire proof which is important too.
Unless it's specifically designed as and designated a "media safe" (costs quite a bit more, too), it'll only keep papers and such safe from fire. Most fire proof safes are lined with a material that is both slightly insulating and has water locked up in the molecular structure (eg gypsum). Heat from a fire slowly drives out the water, which helps soak up some of the heat and replaces the air in the safe with hot water vapor (steam), which prevents the paper from burning.
That steam will just melt most plastic media (or melt the case its in, which is just as bad). With hard drives, even if the temperature never reaches the Curie point, steam could be forced into the drive's vent hole and the condensation when it cools can't be good.
A media safe is made with lots of insulation (think shuttle tiles, although I don't know if any use that specific material) and just keep the contents of the safe cool for as long as possible.
Of course no safe will protect the contents forever, fireproof safes are usually rated in how many minutes (or rarely, hours) the protection will last in a "standard" fire (ie given external temperature).
For a LOT of the hardware on the market, what's important is the chipset used, not wiring around it. And the "hardware manufacturer" has often only done the wiring.
Very true. Many, many of the gadgets and cards out there are basically built around the chip manufacturer's reference implementation circuit from the data sheet, with only minor variations. This is especially true of the cheaper brands or relabeled house brands. It doesn't take much of an engineering team to put together a circuit board design from a reference circuit and have the production of that outsourced.
Then why did Balmer verbally threaten all other Linux distros?
You're joking, right? Either that or this is an exception to the "there are no stupid questions" rule.
Could it be because Balmer is CEO of a company whose major OS competition (especially in the server market) comes from Linux? And that he'd do anything to spread FUD about it?
Even if that FUD doesn't cover Novell but only all the other Linux distros out there, it still (in Microsoft's view) helps reduce the competition from multiple targets to a single target. But that's all it is, FUD.
If no one violated these patents, then why pay for protection?
Follow the money. Microsoft ends up paying Novell a LOT more money on that deal than vice versa. The token royalty that Novell pays to Microsoft is a lot less than the money Microsoft paid to Novell. It was thrown in as a face-saving deal sweetener, which Microsoft spun a lot harder than Novell expected. Microsoft is really really good at PR spin.
if ATI windows drivers were bad - ATI linux drivers were *really* bad.
On the other hand, the free drivers for R200 on Linux are pretty darn good. I get about 30 fps in Flightgear FlightSim with all the effects (haze, lighting, etc) turned on. (glxgears gives 1560 fps, pulsar about 83 fps).
(For those wondering about the significance of R200, that's the last chipset for which ATI released specs before going into proprietary secrets mode, up until AMD's acquisition and recent release of R500/R600 specs. The ATI 9250 is the highest model number based on the R200 chip.)
The ILO password is a variation of the host name and random alphanumeric characters.
That's pretty hard considering the host name isn't assigned until the OS is installed.;-) It's usually the host serial number plus some alphanumerics, but either way it's unique and is printed on a (removable) tag attached to the server.
In fact the station and shuttle programs should be kept around to attract all the pointy haired bosses away from the useful scientific programs...
I believe the term you're looking for is "dinosaur farm". And yes, some of us who were advocating for Shuttle alternatives as long as twenty years ago (shortly post-Challenger) were saying that it might still be worth keeping the Shuttle project around just for this purpose.
What we didn't realize is that even confined to the farm, those damned dinosaurs would eat everyone else's lunch. (See, for example, what happened to DC-X shortly after NASA took over the project from DOD.)
None of the various Creative Commons licenses are listed on OpenSource Initiative's (OSI's) approved license page, so raising it in the context of OSS licenses is a bit of a stretch.
The very points you raise may be why it has not met with OSI approval, but there I'm speculating.
Agreed. But just because a buggy kernel lets an app cause a kernel fault doesn't mean that the app itself is not buggy also. The kernel bug needs to be fixed first, but that's no guarantee that the app will then behave properly.
Your octave answer looks wrong. I don't have octave installed, but checking with bc gives me 3824345300380220. The '0179' ending of the octave result just looks wrong.
> bc bc 1.06 Copyright 1991-1994, 1997, 1998, 2000 Free Software Foundation, Inc. This is free software with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. For details type `warranty'. (55*54*53*52*51*50*49*48*47*46*45*44*43*42*41*40*39*38*37*36*35*34*33*32*31*30*29) / (27*26*25*24*23*22*21*20*19*18*17*16*15*14*13*12*11*10*9*8*7*6*5*4*3*2*1) 3824345300380220
This, BTW, is the same result that OpenOffice.org gives. (No ".5" either.)
That isn't a bug, but well-known floating point representation inaccuracy. FPUs don't work in decimal.
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> That isn't a bug, but well-known floating point representation
Hi. I believe Microsoft still considers it a "Problem." (ie Bug) It affects numbers between 2^15 - 2^16 (32768 - 65536) that end with:
{.098,.223,.348,.473,.598,.723,.848,.973}
(Note: the endings are offset by 1/8)
I just checked and, of course, OOo spreadsheet (oocalc) has no problems with the above numbers, they show correctly (eg 40000.2230000000). Excel must have some really funky internal representations and algorithms, I'm surprised they didn't include a <CalculateLikeExcel> tag in MS-OOXML.
Well, you're right that OO calc has no problem with this calculation.
As to how it fares otherwise, I haven't exhausted testing the problem domain yet. (Although examining the source would probably make more sense - not an option with Excel.)
Yeah...cause the chances of having a number evaluate to 65,535 via multiplication is extremely common.
What are the odds of that bug only affecting that number? It's a symptom that the underlying routine is totally fscked, in ways that could cause nasty surprises.
If it gave the wrong answer all the time you'd know it was crap and would just ignore the whole thing. It's when it only gives wrong answers some of the time that can lead you into a false sense of confidence.
You've also got to wonder, if it worked fine in previous versions of Excel, what the frack they were messing with to hose it up. It's not like somebody changed the rules of arithmetic recently, did they?
How many people do you know who upgrade the coil in their microwave ?
If by "coil" you mean "magnetron", that's actually a tube. And it's not like you can go to the local technology store and buy a magnetron upgrade, unlike the rather large market for PC add-ons and upgrades (both hardware and software).
There must also be some exception that allows news programs to do street interviews.
No, what there is is a production assistant off-camera with a clipboard and a stack of release forms, that they'll ask everyone who is interviewed to sign.
It's the only thing that grants you legal access to the copyrighted material.
There is no such restriction in law. Where's the license that grants you legal access to read this copyrighted material? Every work is copyrighted from the moment of its creation. What grants you legal access to download this website? Or read the newspaper? Or a billboard? Or listen to the radio? Copyright law places restrictions on copying (duh!) not reading/receiving. (Don't bother mentioning satellite broadcasts, they're covered by FCC regulations, not copyright law.)
You certainly have a bizarro-world concept of copyright law. Do you work for SCO?
Where the hell do you get the ridiculous idea that a license is an agreement not to sue? Is my driver's license an agreement between me and the state for the state not to sue me for driving?
A license is a permission, not a contract.
You're either a moron or a troll, or both. Good day, sir.
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A safety deposit box at a bank works pretty well for this.
If you're really worried, get safety deposit boxes at two different banks.
A safe would be a good investment, most are fire proof which is important too.
Unless it's specifically designed as and designated a "media safe" (costs quite a bit more, too), it'll only keep papers and such safe from fire. Most fire proof safes are lined with a material that is both slightly insulating and has water locked up in the molecular structure (eg gypsum). Heat from a fire slowly drives out the water, which helps soak up some of the heat and replaces the air in the safe with hot water vapor (steam), which prevents the paper from burning.
That steam will just melt most plastic media (or melt the case its in, which is just as bad). With hard drives, even if the temperature never reaches the Curie point, steam could be forced into the drive's vent hole and the condensation when it cools can't be good.
A media safe is made with lots of insulation (think shuttle tiles, although I don't know if any use that specific material) and just keep the contents of the safe cool for as long as possible.
Of course no safe will protect the contents forever, fireproof safes are usually rated in how many minutes (or rarely, hours) the protection will last in a "standard" fire (ie given external temperature).
all the other telcos cooperated with the nsa ass well, it's not just at&t
Qwest didn't.
For a LOT of the hardware on the market, what's important is the chipset used, not wiring around it. And the "hardware manufacturer" has often only done the wiring.
Very true. Many, many of the gadgets and cards out there are basically built around the chip manufacturer's reference implementation circuit from the data sheet, with only minor variations. This is especially true of the cheaper brands or relabeled house brands. It doesn't take much of an engineering team to put together a circuit board design from a reference circuit and have the production of that outsourced.
Then why did Balmer verbally threaten all other Linux distros?
You're joking, right? Either that or this is an exception to the "there are no stupid questions" rule.
Could it be because Balmer is CEO of a company whose major OS competition (especially in the server market) comes from Linux? And that he'd do anything to spread FUD about it?
Even if that FUD doesn't cover Novell but only all the other Linux distros out there, it still (in Microsoft's view) helps reduce the competition from multiple targets to a single target. But that's all it is, FUD.
If no one violated these patents, then why pay for protection?
Follow the money. Microsoft ends up paying Novell a LOT more money on that deal than vice versa. The token royalty that Novell pays to Microsoft is a lot less than the money Microsoft paid to Novell. It was thrown in as a face-saving deal sweetener, which Microsoft spun a lot harder than Novell expected. Microsoft is really really good at PR spin.
if ATI windows drivers were bad - ATI linux drivers were *really* bad.
On the other hand, the free drivers for R200 on Linux are pretty darn good. I get about 30 fps in Flightgear FlightSim with all the effects (haze, lighting, etc) turned on. (glxgears gives 1560 fps, pulsar about 83 fps).
(For those wondering about the significance of R200, that's the last chipset for which ATI released specs before going into proprietary secrets mode, up until AMD's acquisition and recent release of R500/R600 specs. The ATI 9250 is the highest model number based on the R200 chip.)
I can't think of much worse than WinME...
There, fixed that for you.
The ILO password is a variation of the host name and random alphanumeric characters.
;-) It's usually the host serial number plus some alphanumerics, but either way it's unique and is printed on a (removable) tag attached to the server.
That's pretty hard considering the host name isn't assigned until the OS is installed.
In fact the station and shuttle programs should be kept around to attract all the pointy haired bosses away from the useful scientific programs...
I believe the term you're looking for is "dinosaur farm". And yes, some of us who were advocating for Shuttle alternatives as long as twenty years ago (shortly post-Challenger) were saying that it might still be worth keeping the Shuttle project around just for this purpose.
What we didn't realize is that even confined to the farm, those damned dinosaurs would eat everyone else's lunch. (See, for example, what happened to DC-X shortly after NASA took over the project from DOD.)
What about a video of a faked screenshot?
None of the various Creative Commons licenses are listed on OpenSource Initiative's (OSI's) approved license page, so raising it in the context of OSS licenses is a bit of a stretch.
The very points you raise may be why it has not met with OSI approval, but there I'm speculating.
Try Asking OOCalc to multiply your numbers by 1.0 and see what it says,
Displays the same (ie, as 40000.2230000000). Why, were you expecting something different?
Agreed. But just because a buggy kernel lets an app cause a kernel fault doesn't mean that the app itself is not buggy also. The kernel bug needs to be fixed first, but that's no guarantee that the app will then behave properly.
Your octave answer looks wrong. I don't have octave installed, but checking with bc gives me 3824345300380220. The '0179' ending of the octave result just looks wrong.
> bc
bc 1.06
Copyright 1991-1994, 1997, 1998, 2000 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
For details type `warranty'.
(55*54*53*52*51*50*49*48*47*46*45*44*43*42*41*40*39*38*37*36*35*34*33*32*31*30*29) / (27*26*25*24*23*22*21*20*19*18*17*16*15*14*13*12*11*10*9*8*7*6*5*4*3*2*1)
3824345300380220
This, BTW, is the same result that OpenOffice.org gives. (No ".5" either.)
I just checked and, of course, OOo spreadsheet (oocalc) has no problems with the above numbers, they show correctly (eg 40000.2230000000). Excel must have some really funky internal representations and algorithms, I'm surprised they didn't include a <CalculateLikeExcel> tag in MS-OOXML.
Well, you're right that OO calc has no problem with this calculation.
As to how it fares otherwise, I haven't exhausted testing the problem domain yet. (Although examining the source would probably make more sense - not an option with Excel.)
1 2 3 4 5 5 6 7 8 9
But I think the Count can manage to count to six without stuttering.
Does the built-in flight simulator still work?
(Yeah, I know, they took it out after Excel 97.)
If an application can cause a kernel fault, it's not only the application that is broken.
There, fixed that for you.
Yeah...cause the chances of having a number evaluate to 65,535 via multiplication is extremely common.
What are the odds of that bug only affecting that number? It's a symptom that the underlying routine is totally fscked, in ways that could cause nasty surprises.
If it gave the wrong answer all the time you'd know it was crap and would just ignore the whole thing. It's when it only gives wrong answers some of the time that can lead you into a false sense of confidence.
You've also got to wonder, if it worked fine in previous versions of Excel, what the frack they were messing with to hose it up. It's not like somebody changed the rules of arithmetic recently, did they?
How many people do you know who upgrade the coil in their microwave ?
If by "coil" you mean "magnetron", that's actually a tube. And it's not like you can go to the local technology store and buy a magnetron upgrade, unlike the rather large market for PC add-ons and upgrades (both hardware and software).
There must also be some exception that allows news programs to do street interviews.
No, what there is is a production assistant off-camera with a clipboard and a stack of release forms, that they'll ask everyone who is interviewed to sign.
Troll or moron, I was right.
It's the only thing that grants you legal access to the copyrighted material.
There is no such restriction in law. Where's the license that grants you legal access to read this copyrighted material? Every work is copyrighted from the moment of its creation. What grants you legal access to download this website? Or read the newspaper? Or a billboard? Or listen to the radio? Copyright law places restrictions on copying (duh!) not reading/receiving. (Don't bother mentioning satellite broadcasts, they're covered by FCC regulations, not copyright law.)
You certainly have a bizarro-world concept of copyright law. Do you work for SCO?
Where the hell do you get the ridiculous idea that a license is an agreement not to sue? Is my driver's license an agreement between me and the state for the state not to sue me for driving?
A license is a permission, not a contract.
You're either a moron or a troll, or both. Good day, sir.