As I see it, the Jedi don't look too bad compared to any religion. The light side strives for balance which makes it some kind of hyperactive Buddhism while the dark side goes forth and slayeth its enemies and pushes its issues, very much like Christianity or Islam. Now, if you go and actually compare the numers (or even percentage) of violent nutcases in any religion, you'll notice that the Jedi in the real world don't go on crusades on a pure whim, don't cause massive overpopulation in 3rd world countries and don't provide a blanket cover for suicide bombings or killing Palestinians, Pakistani or Kurds (that right?).
So I'll welcome our new Jedi representatives, even though I guess it'll take some time until we get one of those in Germany.
At long last, technology catches up with those really cool printers and fax machines in the movies! We'll be able to print suspect photos in less than a second! Yay!
See bug #9458 from July 1999. (You might have to copy the link and open it by hand since the Mozilla-Bugzilla does a referer-check to filter out requests from slashdot links...)
Technically, there is no "= vs. =="-problem, that's what some languages have =, <- or:= operators for and what computer science theory has been teaching for ages.
Now really, we all know that x86 sucks noodle for various reasons (A20 anyone?), so why does it draw attention when somebody says it out loud? It wasn't so much designed, rather cobbled together with cludge upon cludge to retain backwards compatibility. It's all known!
Granted, if it kills x86 once and for all before yet another actually useable arch like Alpha is eradicated, it's not bad.
... ESR was arrested on Sunday evening, after repeatedly shooting McVoy's office window with an M4 rifle he purportedly grabbed from a trespasser's dead, cold fingers.
Really, the best thing about that whole GNU/Linux stuff is the zealots.
You mean other than Civ3 being a really bad sequel with a bad special resource system (What, you don't have salpeter? Why don't you just start a new game?) and a really bad diplomacy system and an unflexible user interface? In the commercial series, CivNET is still the greatest.
The problem is that something on your end of the line can do little to prevent stuff coming downstream from taking up your bandwidth. The only thing that can try to regulate this a little are the usual congestion mechanisms that are provided by protocols like TCP and on which most if not all QoS scripts are based (delay the ACKs and you'll get fewer packets). To do this properly, you'd need a (configurable) shaper on the remote endpoint.
You're completely missing the point. Everything the router probably does is schedule outbound packets belonging to locally prioritized traffic before other traffic like outbound filesharing. In most cases, this is quite enough to produce a perceptible speedup, although large downloads will still clog up your line. So what you have with this product is a consumer-grade traffic shaper, that may give you some advantages without doing anything to disrupt global internet traffic.
The same thing is possible with some tc and iptables rules.
In some CVS revision quite some time ago (several months, perhaps a year?), that feature had already been introduced. It's not that big an issue, too, since it's only been about four lines of code.
If you need to backup >100GB on tape for personal use, you most likely have a serious legal problem
Yes? I've compressed all my legally bought DVDs and CDs on two 250 GB hard drives.
So you're unlikely. The question however is, whether those movies really are vital data that needs to be backed up in case a big rock hits earth. Sure, it is convenient to back your media library up, but it's not really necessary. And there are 160GB S-DLT drives on the market for you to buy, all you need to do is a split backup. Of course, the drives are a bit expensive at 10k+ Euro, but as far as availability goes, it's not an issue.
It'd be about time for the tape drives and media to become affordable. Capacity isn't really a problem for normal end-users. What's lacking is drives in the 40-80GB range (DAT anyone?) that don't cost an arm and a leg. Tapes are available in sizes that should even be enough for smaller publishing offices.
If you need to backup >100GB on tape for personal use, you most likely have a serious legal problem or a porn collection that I'd want to see (the collection, not the problem).
As much as I might hate Java, I repeatedly have to throw this one thing into the fray: I had exactly zero former experience with network programming, and still, I was able to produce a basic telnet-like application in under 30 minutes, using only the Java API doc and some logical thinking. And I only had a very brief introduction into the language. Transferring this to C (although the basic structure is exactly the same with BSD and Java sockets) took me about a week, with all those damn low-level error conditions.
Actually, OpenGL can be set to output a set of "simple" drawing commands instead of drawing to a display context, that can be converted to pretty much any required output format like PostScript. So theoretically, it's easy to create high-resolution output from any OGL surface.
I hope that will change Sunbird becomes skin-able.
What the hell has become of the notion to just use the fucking OS/DE widget set ferchissake? Hey, look, now the buttons are bright green on bright red and 3 pixels wide! Hey COOL, Winamp looks like a fucking seizure-causing ad banner! It's not cool having to use a magnifying glass to use applications at screen resolutions over 50 DPI!
There are only two valid reasons to include Flash in a web document: sound (for which there should be a global setting in the Flash plugin) and stick fights (SVG anyone?). Everything else does nothing but reduce useability and accessibility. The absolute kicker are flash intros with the skip button embedded instead of a normal link.
And: what do you need flash or MNG/APNG for if all you want is a red/green-annoyance? To make really good fakes of Luna GUI elements?
Has there any real testing be done to "prove" that MS screwed up again? All I can see in the article is that the SP2 firewall bolcked all attacks pointed at it, which means it actually acieved full frickin score in that category!
About the part of the firewall not "stealthing" some ports, I suppose that's the equivalent of an iptables DROP rule which is highly controversial anyway. What remains is the point that the firewall doesn't police outbound traffic, a "flaw" that a proper virus scanner will gladly make unnecessary. I mean, what do you expect of Microsoft? Block access to their precious ports 135, 137-139 outbound? I don't think so. What they delivered is a valid attempt at defending from blaster-style creepers.
And BTW, I don't like Microsoft. But neither do I like biased whining.
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As I see it, the Jedi don't look too bad compared to any religion. The light side strives for balance which makes it some kind of hyperactive Buddhism while the dark side goes forth and slayeth its enemies and pushes its issues, very much like Christianity or Islam. Now, if you go and actually compare the numers (or even percentage) of violent nutcases in any religion, you'll notice that the Jedi in the real world don't go on crusades on a pure whim, don't cause massive overpopulation in 3rd world countries and don't provide a blanket cover for suicide bombings or killing Palestinians, Pakistani or Kurds (that right?).
So I'll welcome our new Jedi representatives, even though I guess it'll take some time until we get one of those in Germany.
Put another thing in perspective: Norway is the only debt-free country in Europe. What about Washington State?
Nah, it probably just installs spyware that f***s you in the a** when you try to rip the disc. That's a pretty common procedure for Windows.
At long last, technology catches up with those really cool printers and fax machines in the movies! We'll be able to print suspect photos in less than a second! Yay!
See bug #9458 from July 1999. (You might have to copy the link and open it by hand since the Mozilla-Bugzilla does a referer-check to filter out requests from slashdot links...)
Technically, there is no "= vs. =="-problem, that's what some languages have =, <- or := operators for and what computer science theory has been teaching for ages.
Now really, we all know that x86 sucks noodle for various reasons (A20 anyone?), so why does it draw attention when somebody says it out loud? It wasn't so much designed, rather cobbled together with cludge upon cludge to retain backwards compatibility. It's all known!
Granted, if it kills x86 once and for all before yet another actually useable arch like Alpha is eradicated, it's not bad.
... ESR was arrested on Sunday evening, after repeatedly shooting McVoy's office window with an M4 rifle he purportedly grabbed from a trespasser's dead, cold fingers.
Really, the best thing about that whole GNU/Linux stuff is the zealots.
You mean other than Civ3 being a really bad sequel with a bad special resource system (What, you don't have salpeter? Why don't you just start a new game?) and a really bad diplomacy system and an unflexible user interface? In the commercial series, CivNET is still the greatest.
The problem is that something on your end of the line can do little to prevent stuff coming downstream from taking up your bandwidth. The only thing that can try to regulate this a little are the usual congestion mechanisms that are provided by protocols like TCP and on which most if not all QoS scripts are based (delay the ACKs and you'll get fewer packets). To do this properly, you'd need a (configurable) shaper on the remote endpoint.
You're completely missing the point. Everything the router probably does is schedule outbound packets belonging to locally prioritized traffic before other traffic like outbound filesharing. In most cases, this is quite enough to produce a perceptible speedup, although large downloads will still clog up your line. So what you have with this product is a consumer-grade traffic shaper, that may give you some advantages without doing anything to disrupt global internet traffic.
The same thing is possible with some tc and iptables rules.
My name is Troy McClure. You know me from movies such as "Blue Rays do it in High Density" or "When Magnetism Becomes Gigantic".
In some CVS revision quite some time ago (several months, perhaps a year?), that feature had already been introduced. It's not that big an issue, too, since it's only been about four lines of code.
So you're unlikely. The question however is, whether those movies really are vital data that needs to be backed up in case a big rock hits earth. Sure, it is convenient to back your media library up, but it's not really necessary. And there are 160GB S-DLT drives on the market for you to buy, all you need to do is a split backup. Of course, the drives are a bit expensive at 10k+ Euro, but as far as availability goes, it's not an issue.
It'd be about time for the tape drives and media to become affordable. Capacity isn't really a problem for normal end-users. What's lacking is drives in the 40-80GB range (DAT anyone?) that don't cost an arm and a leg. Tapes are available in sizes that should even be enough for smaller publishing offices.
If you need to backup >100GB on tape for personal use, you most likely have a serious legal problem or a porn collection that I'd want to see (the collection, not the problem).
'nuff said
Today, we have Python, and whitespace-sensitive code is fucking BACK!
As much as I might hate Java, I repeatedly have to throw this one thing into the fray: I had exactly zero former experience with network programming, and still, I was able to produce a basic telnet-like application in under 30 minutes, using only the Java API doc and some logical thinking. And I only had a very brief introduction into the language. Transferring this to C (although the basic structure is exactly the same with BSD and Java sockets) took me about a week, with all those damn low-level error conditions.
Gabbo Gabbo Gabbo!
Except for 'l's, your tolerance for those is at least ±1.
Actually, OpenGL can be set to output a set of "simple" drawing commands instead of drawing to a display context, that can be converted to pretty much any required output format like PostScript. So theoretically, it's easy to create high-resolution output from any OGL surface.
What the hell has become of the notion to just use the fucking OS/DE widget set ferchissake? Hey, look, now the buttons are bright green on bright red and 3 pixels wide! Hey COOL, Winamp looks like a fucking seizure-causing ad banner! It's not cool having to use a magnifying glass to use applications at screen resolutions over 50 DPI!
Them lawyers are gunna starve!
There are only two valid reasons to include Flash in a web document: sound (for which there should be a global setting in the Flash plugin) and stick fights (SVG anyone?). Everything else does nothing but reduce useability and accessibility. The absolute kicker are flash intros with the skip button embedded instead of a normal link.
And: what do you need flash or MNG/APNG for if all you want is a red/green-annoyance? To make really good fakes of Luna GUI elements?
Has there any real testing be done to "prove" that MS screwed up again? All I can see in the article is that the SP2 firewall bolcked all attacks pointed at it, which means it actually acieved full frickin score in that category!
About the part of the firewall not "stealthing" some ports, I suppose that's the equivalent of an iptables DROP rule which is highly controversial anyway. What remains is the point that the firewall doesn't police outbound traffic, a "flaw" that a proper virus scanner will gladly make unnecessary. I mean, what do you expect of Microsoft? Block access to their precious ports 135, 137-139 outbound? I don't think so. What they delivered is a valid attempt at defending from blaster-style creepers.
And BTW, I don't like Microsoft. But neither do I like biased whining.