When the google service is running, surfing to www.google.com shows a Desktop choice. When it is not running it doesn't. This works in IE and Firefox -- but not Lynx.
How can www.google.com tell the service is running on the local computer without using activex? I thought maybe it had some javascript that checked http://127.0.0.1:4whateverportituses, but I didn't see that. Must be that.
If it can do that, it can upload data to google!
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One of my favorite idiosyncracies with null is Null = Null is Null (unless you turn that off in the DB), but Group by groups together equal values except it also groups nulls!
The problem is every company and their brother thinks they can get $20-$50/month out of me. Who could have a problem with that? It's just like your cable bill.
The problem is you have to pick and choose which sorts of things you can have, or pretty soon you're buying $500/month of "conveniences."
I don't need to buy convenience for listening to music in the car. I ain't doing it.
I hate HBO, except for the Sopranos. I cancelled all my pay movie channels. Plenty of porn now, do don't need Skinamax. Not a chick, so don't care about watching a bazillion old movies that all suck. If there's a new movie I want to see, I see it.
I cancelled all my pay movie channels, and don't miss them a bit.
If you have 15,000 people in hotel rooms, you have to share rooms. Most all large companies expect you to buddy up -- Microsoft, for example, and they have more money than god and don't much question expenses. But it's ridiculous to put 15000 people in 15,000 unique roomfor a convention -- for one thing, there aren't that many rooms.
I don't come to slashdot for this kind of story. There's no techy or geek angle to this story at all. It's fine for politics./., but it doesn't belong on the front page.
Slashdot... Propaganda for news, spin that doesn't belong.
I realize that probably $150 of the cost of my machine was "Microsoft tax." But, it's far superior to own a legal copy than to a pirated copy. Even though it's evil and I prefer Debian, I still need XP for a while to do business with stupid idiots who can't understand OpenOffice and open standards.
I was pleasantly surprised when I just bought a Compaq Presario laptop: I shopped for three chareristics: 512MB ram, XPPro, and cheap (I bought the R3275US @ $1500).
The XPPro PID is printed on a sticker on the bottom of the device, and the XPSP1a CD not only is a "regular honest to god install CD," it is already branded with the PID and is pre-activated! Way to go HP!
Of course I immediately repartitioned it and made 8GB XP OS Part, 6GB Debian OS Part, and 3 20GB data parts, and use partimage to backup/restore the XP Part. But one still needs XPPro in today's world and I wanted to buy a *legal* copy (even though I used to work at Microsoft and still have a "activation-bypassed-install-as-much-as-you-want" copy from Microsoft.
It'll be interesting to see if I still need longhorn in 2008.
In a book "The Illusion of Technique", an anecdote is told about some Headhunters in a Polynesian island during WWII. GIs would give them one pack of cigarettes for each Japanese head they brought in. One enterprising local broad in 12 heads, and the American counted off 12 packs of cigs. The guy looked confused. So finally they put each pack of cigs next to each head and the headhunter was satisfied. So, he could make pairing associations.
There was an interesting article in the Mercury News about how the Olympics has a different idea of countries than everywhere else. At the Olympics, Puerto Rico and Taiwan compete seperately.
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The cmd.exe social engineering: run this gif through cmd.exe, is a very interesting one. In all my nefarious machinations I'd never thought of that one.
On the contrary I think these are some very interesting bugs.
I worked with some ES7000s when I was at Microsoft. They are a NUMA architecture, and there is very, very high latency across the crossbars: a 32-way is basically 4 8-ways with a very, very, VERY VERY high latency interconnect between them. You need to partition your app so that groups of threads execute on an individual group of 8 processors, NEVER cross the crossbar, or perf blows up.
Once you've done all that work to partition to only run on 8 CPUs, you might as well just scale out like Google does. You can't truly scale up.
Of course things get better all the time, and maybe Linux will be a better NUMA os, but scaling up with Unisys is really just easier and cheaper to do with scaling out.
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Does it work at the network level and look at the useragent? Or does it use a Browser Helper Object or an activeX? How can you do this in Mozilla?
When the google service is running, surfing to www.google.com shows a Desktop choice. When it is not running it doesn't. This works in IE and Firefox -- but not Lynx.
How can www.google.com tell the service is running on the local computer without using activex? I thought maybe it had some javascript that checked http://127.0.0.1:4whateverportituses, but I didn't see that. Must be that.
If it can do that, it can upload data to google!
One of my favorite idiosyncracies with null is Null = Null is Null (unless you turn that off in the DB), but Group by groups together equal values except it also groups nulls!
More power to 'em.
The problem is every company and their brother thinks they can get $20-$50/month out of me. Who could have a problem with that? It's just like your cable bill.
The problem is you have to pick and choose which sorts of things you can have, or pretty soon you're buying $500/month of "conveniences."
I don't need to buy convenience for listening to music in the car. I ain't doing it.
Yeah but I can listen to music other ways. I can't watch TV other ways, I mean I can but not as readily as music.
I got news for you, I subscribe to Cable channels and get tons of commercials on them.
Comedy Channel, History Channel, CNN -- I subscribe to *all* these channels and they *all* have commercials.
I hate HBO, except for the Sopranos. I cancelled all my pay movie channels. Plenty of porn now, do don't need Skinamax. Not a chick, so don't care about watching a bazillion old movies that all suck. If there's a new movie I want to see, I see it.
I cancelled all my pay movie channels, and don't miss them a bit.
I used to be a big Stern fan, and still am, but rarely listen anymore. (Older?)
Anyway, *Stern* is older now too. His schtick is played out. The show just isn't as funny any more. They're all in their 50s.
This is Stern's last gasp. And I'm not signing up for any pay radio service, like a slave. Betcha it'll have ads soon enough.
Yeah, exactly: there are two entries for politics under preferences and neither removes "Politics" from the main page.
It's broke!! I want my post modded back up.
I worked at Microsoft. We doubled up at conferences or group meetings, when 20 to 15,000 people would be attending.
We'd stay in individual rooms when we were travelling on some job, not a conference.
If you have 15,000 people in hotel rooms, you have to share rooms. Most all large companies expect you to buddy up -- Microsoft, for example, and they have more money than god and don't much question expenses. But it's ridiculous to put 15000 people in 15,000 unique roomfor a convention -- for one thing, there aren't that many rooms.
Doubling up is common. Get used to it.
I don't come to slashdot for this kind of story. There's no techy or geek angle to this story at all. It's fine for politics./., but it doesn't belong on the front page.
Slashdot... Propaganda for news, spin that doesn't belong.
I realize that probably $150 of the cost of my machine was "Microsoft tax." But, it's far superior to own a legal copy than to a pirated copy. Even though it's evil and I prefer Debian, I still need XP for a while to do business with stupid idiots who can't understand OpenOffice and open standards.
I was pleasantly surprised when I just bought a Compaq Presario laptop: I shopped for three chareristics: 512MB ram, XPPro, and cheap (I bought the R3275US @ $1500).
The XPPro PID is printed on a sticker on the bottom of the device, and the XPSP1a CD not only is a "regular honest to god install CD," it is already branded with the PID and is pre-activated! Way to go HP!
Of course I immediately repartitioned it and made 8GB XP OS Part, 6GB Debian OS Part, and 3 20GB data parts, and use partimage to backup/restore the XP Part. But one still needs XPPro in today's world and I wanted to buy a *legal* copy (even though I used to work at Microsoft and still have a "activation-bypassed-install-as-much-as-you-want" copy from Microsoft.
It'll be interesting to see if I still need longhorn in 2008.
Spoken as a guy deeply in his companies back pocket.
Don't rely so much on your company. The world is going outsource, open-source, individual.
The paperback versions of the books I bought when I was 13 were Blue, Green, then Red.
Blue for, I don't know blue. Fellowship feels like blue.
Green for the ents.
Red for the war.
Argh! You beat me to it. My computer goes to eleven.
Brother in law gave me an old gateway Pentium MMX 133, 32 mb ram, 4 gb HD. Put two pcmcia net cards in it, and put OpenBSD running PF. Perfect.
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In a book "The Illusion of Technique", an anecdote is told about some Headhunters in a Polynesian island during WWII. GIs would give them one pack of cigarettes for each Japanese head they brought in. One enterprising local broad in 12 heads, and the American counted off 12 packs of cigs. The guy looked confused. So finally they put each pack of cigs next to each head and the headhunter was satisfied. So, he could make pairing associations.
There was an interesting article in the Mercury News about how the Olympics has a different idea of countries than everywhere else. At the Olympics, Puerto Rico and Taiwan compete seperately.
The cmd.exe social engineering: run this gif through cmd.exe, is a very interesting one. In all my nefarious machinations I'd never thought of that one.
On the contrary I think these are some very interesting bugs.
I worked with some ES7000s when I was at Microsoft. They are a NUMA architecture, and there is very, very high latency across the crossbars: a 32-way is basically 4 8-ways with a very, very, VERY VERY high latency interconnect between them. You need to partition your app so that groups of threads execute on an individual group of 8 processors, NEVER cross the crossbar, or perf blows up.
Once you've done all that work to partition to only run on 8 CPUs, you might as well just scale out like Google does. You can't truly scale up.
Of course things get better all the time, and maybe Linux will be a better NUMA os, but scaling up with Unisys is really just easier and cheaper to do with scaling out.
I predict large #s of complaints when the RNC adopts similar strategies.