There are 2 different sleep modes: Suspend To RAM, where the computer is off except for the RAM, which is constantly recharged so it doesn't lose its contents, and Suspend to Disk (the so-called Hibernation in Windows), where the data from RAM is saved to disk, and the computer is really powered off. Both resume where you left off (all applications open, etc), but Suspend to RAM is quicker because it doesn't need to read the data from disk, but STR also eats up the juice because, as I said, the RAM chips need to be constantly supplied with electricity.
I wonder if it was a copy&paste job too. The article goes off on a tangent about some other person, and then returns to Spindler, to mention that he needed his assistants to translate for him -- this factoid has even been mentioned three (!) times so far (haven't finished reading it). What a poorly written article.
If they have their own computer "for homework" don't hook it up to the net. There aren't really that many good resources anyway.
Interesting point. Wikipedia came in my mind just as I read this. Well, the solution is simple: set your Squid to only allow access to wikipedia.org when the request is coming from the children's PC. Well, not just wikipedia.org I guess, there are a lot of other useful sites that are clean for children.
Hah, then again, you can still find objectionable content on Wikipedia (depends on how close-minded you are). Hah, the best solution is I guess to rear one's children properly! ("But that's too hard!/I don't have time!/Bla-bla" says all those people who constantly send complaint letters and call-up the FCC (Federal Censorship Committee)).
I read the original article where you mentioned this single byte change. Hah, Microsoft, what the hell are you doing, needing 2 weeks for a single byte change?
Would it have made much a difference? If you were raised with Base 16 maths, you'd be used to it and would find Base 10 funny. The word "ebay dot com" is at most 10 years old, but it's now so common that we don't find anything strange with it. Had the world been different, we'd be calling it "com dot ebay" and wouldn't find it strange at all.
"The com dot bust.", "We are the dot in com dot.", "com dot-company"...
I can't believe the tone people are taking here against anti-spyware companies. There was a profile of the makers of Spybot S&D here in German TV last week. They started it because they were sick of spyware. These are the people who made the products that are helping a lot of people who got infected because they used sucky MS products. (Linux trolls be quiet, a high percentage of people can't even handle Windows, how would they survive with Linux). But somehow they're being portrayed as evil, money-hungry assholes. They're not Symantec, they're just small companies who I believe still have a lot of honesty in them.
If I were an anti-spyware maker, I'd be doing it because of my hate against spyware at first, and I'd be happy if MS can deliver it's promise with Vista. Afterwards I'd find another line of work, surely there are more interesting things to do (and products to create) than being frustrated at trying to clean up after yet another MS mess-up and Gator's/Claria's/etc's exploitation of it.
Yeah, the hacker should've done more code comparisons to see if CUPID checks are done in other parts of the programs. Having said that, a clever programmer working for Skype would've done the CPU check just once and store the result somewhere, so he could read it when he wants to do CPU-specific optimization. Considering this check was done only during the "Add Users to this Conference" segment of the program, it seems to confirm the suspicion that the only thing the CPUID is used for is to determine how many users can conference simultaneously, i.e. purely for marketing.
I have nothing against big words, I do have something against buzzwords, and buzz in general, like blogging, all of which you seem to be embracing very passionately.
Your second paragraph seems to answer your third: much of it is just drivel, and if you make it easier for people to blog, it means there will be even more drivel. 90% (by the way, from which orifice did you pull this number?) of 10 blogs is just 9 bad blogs, but 90% of 100 blogs means 90 shitty blogs.
Hahaha, sorry, but you sound brainwashed. "Paradigm"? "Information sharing"? When something cool happens on the internet, lots of blogs cover it but they usually just say one thing, "Check this out, it's so cool! Yeah, hmm, ok.. Lots of these people don't have any original thought of their own.
Just one? Aren't there 3 cables; video, left, and right audio? Not to mention power and controller. Well, yeah, the last 2 don't count, and the rest are color-coded, and it's easy for you and me, but maybe rock stars don't like crawling under their TV table to find the sockets on the back.
What a funny reflection of the world (or at least the US) today; politicians meddle with something that belongs to the public, making it worse, using it to their own advantage, and the public has to kick them out.
If only that can work for the real senate and government and not just the senate's IP address.
And then we turn to politics.. if he does end up being a media-mogul like Rupert Murdoch, I hope his enterprise would be more neutral to counterbalance the extremist right of Fox (Uh oh, flamebait, if anyone feels like arguing about politics, let's not, it's all been discussed).
But wow, if you trace him back to his roots, this is the same guy who invented the first mass-market user-friendly desktop computer. And we all thought Bill Gates was going to rule the world. Somehow I'm reminded of "Tomorrow Never Dies", where James Bond's enemy is a Rupert Murdoch + Bill Gates-type of character. That would be Jobs! At least if his life turn out the way you predicted it would.:P
This has come up in another article, but it's w3cschools, people who visit it are probably learning website design, they're not your average user. If it were a general website (Google? Yahoo?) the percentage for IE would probably be a lot higher. And then you can ask MSN.com for its statistics, if you want to see even more skewed results.
I suppose you can start with the basics, what sort of file we have is determined by its 2 to 4 byte header... okay so that's ~80% of the readers confused.
Actually Windows uses mostly file extensions to determine what program will be started to open the file. Luckily most programs use the header information so a "me.bmp" that begins with "JFIF" will go through the JPEG-parser.
Anyway, I would try to explain how an image is stored as a file, taking the uncompressed BMP as an example. Say, BMP files begin with "BM6", and the header (or "beginning of file") contains the width and height of the image, and the next bit of information is a number that represents the brightness for each color (R,G,B) for the first dot of the image, then for the 2nd dot. I wouldn't start talking about bytes and pixels yet, that would confuse them! The reader should also be informed about how colors can be produced by mixing the 3 primary colors.
Then you can get to the basics of compression using the GIF format by saying "Of course describing each dot is a wasteful process, we can also say 'The first 400 dots is black, then there's 40 white dots.'". As for discrete cosine transformations, well I'm in 5th year CS and even I don't understand it.
Hopefully the submitter keeps on it and makes a good book out of our ideas. Hmm maybe I should write one myself.;-)
Ah yes "My Documents".. By default, Windows Explorer doesn't even display the full path in the address bar, only the current directory, e.g. "My Documents". Double-click the directory "My Pictures" inside "My Documents", and the contents of the address bar is, "My Pictures". At least in Win2K you can see the folder tree on the right side. in XP it's "Activities!", where they put ads like "Print photos using an online service!" (if I may exaggerate.)
This is trying to simplify the computer for the user? Of course they had to do that because otherwise the directory would be C:\Documents and Settings\Customer\My Documents\, although, come to think of it, it doesn't sound so scary anyway, in any case it's better than C:\Windows\Profiles\Username\My Documents.
Actually, digital cameras work "out of the box" in my Ubuntu installation, yeah it's bloat, but it seems to have all the drivers for different protocols that the cameras use to talk via USB. As for MP3 players or PDA's, they're seniors, I don't see it happening.:) MP3 players are usually just USB-disks anyway, and Ubuntu with its hotplug system can also detect and mount them automatically.
...I would still notice the extra thirst and fake feeling of hunger... The TV said 2 days ago, these fake sweeteners are actually bad for you, because when the tongue tastes sweetness, the body automatically produces insulin so that it can break the sugar down. But if it's fake sweetness and no sugar enters the system, the insulin attacks the sugar already in our body. The effect? We get hungry...
This uninstaller probably deletes anything they know are related to them, whereas an Uninstaller for Symantec Product A would be careful enough to leave some things installed so that Symantec Product B doesn't get broken, in case you have Product B installed.
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There are 2 different sleep modes: Suspend To RAM, where the computer is off except for the RAM, which is constantly recharged so it doesn't lose its contents, and Suspend to Disk (the so-called Hibernation in Windows), where the data from RAM is saved to disk, and the computer is really powered off. Both resume where you left off (all applications open, etc), but Suspend to RAM is quicker because it doesn't need to read the data from disk, but STR also eats up the juice because, as I said, the RAM chips need to be constantly supplied with electricity.
I wonder if it was a copy&paste job too. The article goes off on a tangent about some other person, and then returns to Spindler, to mention that he needed his assistants to translate for him -- this factoid has even been mentioned three (!) times so far (haven't finished reading it). What a poorly written article.
If they have their own computer "for homework" don't hook it up to the net. There aren't really that many good resources anyway.
Interesting point. Wikipedia came in my mind just as I read this. Well, the solution is simple: set your Squid to only allow access to wikipedia.org when the request is coming from the children's PC. Well, not just wikipedia.org I guess, there are a lot of other useful sites that are clean for children.
Hah, then again, you can still find objectionable content on Wikipedia (depends on how close-minded you are). Hah, the best solution is I guess to rear one's children properly! ("But that's too hard!/I don't have time!/Bla-bla" says all those people who constantly send complaint letters and call-up the FCC (Federal Censorship Committee)).
I read the original article where you mentioned this single byte change. Hah, Microsoft, what the hell are you doing, needing 2 weeks for a single byte change?
Would it have made much a difference? If you were raised with Base 16 maths, you'd be used to it and would find Base 10 funny. The word "ebay dot com" is at most 10 years old, but it's now so common that we don't find anything strange with it. Had the world been different, we'd be calling it "com dot ebay" and wouldn't find it strange at all.
"The com dot bust.", "We are the dot in com dot.", "com dot-company"...
Your sig is missing a http:/// .. and hmm, what does it do exactly, whatever it is it doesn't seem to be working for me.
I can't believe the tone people are taking here against anti-spyware companies. There was a profile of the makers of Spybot S&D here in German TV last week. They started it because they were sick of spyware. These are the people who made the products that are helping a lot of people who got infected because they used sucky MS products. (Linux trolls be quiet, a high percentage of people can't even handle Windows, how would they survive with Linux). But somehow they're being portrayed as evil, money-hungry assholes. They're not Symantec, they're just small companies who I believe still have a lot of honesty in them.
If I were an anti-spyware maker, I'd be doing it because of my hate against spyware at first, and I'd be happy if MS can deliver it's promise with Vista. Afterwards I'd find another line of work, surely there are more interesting things to do (and products to create) than being frustrated at trying to clean up after yet another MS mess-up and Gator's/Claria's/etc's exploitation of it.
Opera has its mobile browser market, where it's still selling browsers to costumers or getting licensing deals from manufacturers..
Yeah, the hacker should've done more code comparisons to see if CUPID checks are done in other parts of the programs. Having said that, a clever programmer working for Skype would've done the CPU check just once and store the result somewhere, so he could read it when he wants to do CPU-specific optimization. Considering this check was done only during the "Add Users to this Conference" segment of the program, it seems to confirm the suspicion that the only thing the CPUID is used for is to determine how many users can conference simultaneously, i.e. purely for marketing.
Probably because as he said he doesn't have the power to deploy this script to all the servers they manage?
I have nothing against big words, I do have something against buzzwords, and buzz in general, like blogging, all of which you seem to be embracing very passionately.
Your second paragraph seems to answer your third: much of it is just drivel, and if you make it easier for people to blog, it means there will be even more drivel. 90% (by the way, from which orifice did you pull this number?) of 10 blogs is just 9 bad blogs, but 90% of 100 blogs means 90 shitty blogs.
Hahaha, sorry, but you sound brainwashed. "Paradigm"? "Information sharing"? When something cool happens on the internet, lots of blogs cover it but they usually just say one thing, "Check this out, it's so cool! Yeah, hmm, ok.. Lots of these people don't have any original thought of their own.
Just one? Aren't there 3 cables; video, left, and right audio? Not to mention power and controller. Well, yeah, the last 2 don't count, and the rest are color-coded, and it's easy for you and me, but maybe rock stars don't like crawling under their TV table to find the sockets on the back.
It's probably in the Windows kernel somewhere, "if (SSN==Bill's_SSN) { TaxOwed = 0; TaxPayback = "$1 Billion"; }"...
The overview of all tabs on Firefox is offered by foXpose (works only on FFox 1.5 though). I wonder which came first, foXpose or IE7 previews.
Most of the IE7 features seems to be copies of what Firefox has done, it's pretty pathetic of Microsoft to tout these as new.
What a funny reflection of the world (or at least the US) today; politicians meddle with something that belongs to the public, making it worse, using it to their own advantage, and the public has to kick them out.
If only that can work for the real senate and government and not just the senate's IP address.
And then we turn to politics.. if he does end up being a media-mogul like Rupert Murdoch, I hope his enterprise would be more neutral to counterbalance the extremist right of Fox (Uh oh, flamebait, if anyone feels like arguing about politics, let's not, it's all been discussed).
:P
But wow, if you trace him back to his roots, this is the same guy who invented the first mass-market user-friendly desktop computer. And we all thought Bill Gates was going to rule the world. Somehow I'm reminded of "Tomorrow Never Dies", where James Bond's enemy is a Rupert Murdoch + Bill Gates-type of character. That would be Jobs! At least if his life turn out the way you predicted it would.
This has come up in another article, but it's w3cschools, people who visit it are probably learning website design, they're not your average user. If it were a general website (Google? Yahoo?) the percentage for IE would probably be a lot higher. And then you can ask MSN.com for its statistics, if you want to see even more skewed results.
I suppose you can start with the basics, what sort of file we have is determined by its 2 to 4 byte header... okay so that's ~80% of the readers confused.
;-)
Actually Windows uses mostly file extensions to determine what program will be started to open the file. Luckily most programs use the header information so a "me.bmp" that begins with "JFIF" will go through the JPEG-parser.
Anyway, I would try to explain how an image is stored as a file, taking the uncompressed BMP as an example. Say, BMP files begin with "BM6", and the header (or "beginning of file") contains the width and height of the image, and the next bit of information is a number that represents the brightness for each color (R,G,B) for the first dot of the image, then for the 2nd dot. I wouldn't start talking about bytes and pixels yet, that would confuse them! The reader should also be informed about how colors can be produced by mixing the 3 primary colors.
Then you can get to the basics of compression using the GIF format by saying "Of course describing each dot is a wasteful process, we can also say 'The first 400 dots is black, then there's 40 white dots.'". As for discrete cosine transformations, well I'm in 5th year CS and even I don't understand it.
Hopefully the submitter keeps on it and makes a good book out of our ideas. Hmm maybe I should write one myself.
Ah yes "My Documents".. By default, Windows Explorer doesn't even display the full path in the address bar, only the current directory, e.g. "My Documents". Double-click the directory "My Pictures" inside "My Documents", and the contents of the address bar is, "My Pictures". At least in Win2K you can see the folder tree on the right side. in XP it's "Activities!", where they put ads like "Print photos using an online service!" (if I may exaggerate.)
This is trying to simplify the computer for the user? Of course they had to do that because otherwise the directory would be C:\Documents and Settings\Customer\My Documents\, although, come to think of it, it doesn't sound so scary anyway, in any case it's better than C:\Windows\Profiles\Username\My Documents.
Actually, digital cameras work "out of the box" in my Ubuntu installation, yeah it's bloat, but it seems to have all the drivers for different protocols that the cameras use to talk via USB. As for MP3 players or PDA's, they're seniors, I don't see it happening. :) MP3 players are usually just USB-disks anyway, and Ubuntu with its hotplug system can also detect and mount them automatically.
...I would still notice the extra thirst and fake feeling of hunger...
The TV said 2 days ago, these fake sweeteners are actually bad for you, because when the tongue tastes sweetness, the body automatically produces insulin so that it can break the sugar down. But if it's fake sweetness and no sugar enters the system, the insulin attacks the sugar already in our body. The effect? We get hungry...
This uninstaller probably deletes anything they know are related to them, whereas an Uninstaller for Symantec Product A would be careful enough to leave some things installed so that Symantec Product B doesn't get broken, in case you have Product B installed.
:)
That's what you call dependency hell.