For the sake of humanity can the editors please get a grip (sound of karma evapourating) - while this might be a nice fluffy story for the middle pages of a red-top tabloid (just by the agony aunt letters) wtf is it doing as a/. story???
I vaguely recall some old hard drives back when you could position the disk arms using int 21h calls could be positioned outside of their normal bounds... or was that to do with affecting the landing zone so you'd lose data - off for a coffee and to find my old int 21h reference material.
Well you could take the view that the other countries, the UK included (I'm English), have a responsibility for their own borders. Just because you buy a.50 cal machine gun in the US doesn't mean I'm allowed to stick it in the hold and bring it out in the UK (or even drive into Canada with it).
The NRC is US body to regulate activities inside the US so in this case nothing to complain about.
The United State's means the United State owns x not the United States' owns x
Anyway it was China that shot the sat. down not the good ole Uncle Sam... I know I don't like Bush's policies but I'd rather trust the US with space weaponary than China. (Though not by a fat lot....)
Other than the fact servers can server more than just html docs?
I do agree though that sticking it in SEEMS like redundant information/duplication but the two tags serve different roles in life...
The HTML tag tells the browser this is the start of the html section of the document, render everything between here and the closing tag as html. The doctype tag tells the browser what sort of document to expect - HTML, XML, FREDSNEWDOCTYPE etc.
My patent is a system of counting which only uses two discrete values - 1 and 0. These values can be represented by different voltages and so lend themselves perfectly to computing.
Right: Everyone send me all the 1's and 0's in your computers. Or send me 1 cent for every 1 or 0 present in any of your computers or electronic devices. I include lights as 1 or 0 - 1 on, 0 off so I'll need a cent for every light...
At one point PN where probably the best ISP in the UK - sadly after floating on the stock market those days soon came to an end at the alter of shareholder profits and sod the customer:(.
Anyway even while a good ISP one thing PN had going for it was the customer forums - usually had a lot of knowledgable people on so even if you ran some odd software/os/hardware combination or wanted to do something beyond a simple mail form on your website you'd get alot of community help.
It now (just had a browse of the forums today) sadly looks like the community is starting to die on its feet as well.
Of the 40m licences how many are licences which came with a new PC?
Of the ones supplied with a new PC to firms how many firms left Vista on rather than reverting to XP?
Of the remainder how many still have an MS OS on them (we recently had about 10 PC's for a client supplied with vista, they left with Linux on them - I know we could have got them barebones pc's but they wanted a named (not dell) brand)?
The fact that my cellphone reaches me rather than my voicemail is the downside to having one not the plus side;)
Its a private mobile but work seem to think they can call me anytime of the day whether i'm working or not and expect an answer. Recently they've started to get an answer, just not one they enjoy (If I have time I do answer the query but if god forbid I'm doing things like eating or relaxing at home in the evening they get the short answer).
In theory that sounds good - however speed of response would be an issue, how to distribute the index amongst the nodes would be a stumbling block... how many nodes should have the same parts of the index to avoid dead spots when people shut their PC's down...
Things like SETI can be distributed as the data set can be broken down into discrete portions and each client is reporting back to a central point...
I suspect that the next "good" search engine will come from the open source community. When enough people with knowledge and capability group up against google, I'm sure they could come up with just as good or better of an alternative. Again though, they'd have to be motivated to do that to google, which will probably only happen if/when the majority of people shift from believing do no evil to don't get caught doing evil, but do it as much as possible.
While I agree the OSS community could produce a search engine as good or better than google in terms of code etc - the biggest killer for any alternative not from a big company is going to be the server resources, bandwidth and all the other infrastructure type elements that require serious bucks to buy and maintain...
The best we can hope for would be the OSS community to produce the software and firm like IBM to provide the infrastructure elements...
And typing this another issue just occured to me: Google's index has been built up over many years, for any alternative to get to the same level of indexing as google will take a long time to be complete. (Yes, I know the web changes but a certain percentage is going to be static content.)
It has now been turned off but the civil L1 gps (CA code) signal can have a time dither applied to it which has the effect of degrading the accuracy by an unknown amount. So yes, if the US felt the need, the civil GPS signal could be degraded reducing accuracy. Though with GPS now getting into more and more critical applications only an idiot would do so...
In this story the possible theft of nuclear related information is not the critical part of this story. It is the fact that an EX-employee still had access to his former employer's IT systems. Whether this was nuclear related information or (for instance) the companies client lists/pricing model or the canteen menu is irrelevant.
When an employee leaves as soon as they hand their pass or sign the I've gone form IT should be informed immediately and any associated access rights should be revoked without any delay.
Someone in the employer's organisation ought to have a good look at their IT and HR processes...
Some possible ideas as to why it is disliked... 1. Weight 2. Reliability 3. distractions when you don't need them 4. Over-complex solution 5. Power mgt in the field
"In the world of anal retentive ACLs, Stack Dumps, tedious reports, and just plain dumb users, who wouldn't want to just occasionally fantasize about swinging around a 6' sword and lopping someone's head off, or blasting someone into charred oblivion?"
Every time I have to sit through a tedious programme review meeting - or indeed any meeting with programme mis^H^H^Hmanagement.
The OS should have one and only job IMHO (or not so HO): Manage and control access to resources.
The desktop layer and even the command shell should in an ideal world be divorced from the underlying OS core layer. And taking this one stage further if a common OS interface API (something akin to POSIX) existed I should be able to take core-OS and put whatever GUI or CLI (yes CLI is still better for some tasks) I like ontop of the base layer.
The base layer can then concentrate on running the hardware, preventing rogue programmes from compromising the rest of the system etc - ideally:
core-os --> [sandbox 1] --> [desktop gui] --> [sandbox for each app]
With the user/admins being able to define very tightly which files can be shared between sandboxes. Programmes which interact heavily with other programmes could run in their own sandboxes...
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Strangly enough the firehose was where I headed to after reading the navel-fluff which is currently passing as stories
For the sake of humanity can the editors please get a grip (sound of karma evapourating) - while this might be a nice fluffy story for the middle pages of a red-top tabloid (just by the agony aunt letters) wtf is it doing as a /. story???
Err.... aren't SATA drives still IDE drives? SATA and PATA are both attachement technologies which use drives containing integrated drive electronics.
So unless Samsung are pulling out of the either ATA market place they will still be making IDE drives.
Given the average ability of people to move their car correctly in two dimensions I, for one, am glad that flying cars are still not available...
Can't happen these days.
I vaguely recall some old hard drives back when you could position the disk arms using int 21h calls could be positioned outside of their normal bounds... or was that to do with affecting the landing zone so you'd lose data - off for a coffee and to find my old int 21h reference material.
Well you could take the view that the other countries, the UK included (I'm English), have a responsibility for their own borders. Just because you buy a .50 cal machine gun in the US doesn't mean I'm allowed to stick it in the hold and bring it out in the UK (or even drive into Canada with it).
The NRC is US body to regulate activities inside the US so in this case nothing to complain about.
What you mean they are not suposed to have smoke and sparks comming out of them? Why did noone tell me this before...
Wasn't the unabomber a US citizen?
The US citizen != Terrorist logic is false. Like most false logic trusting it leads to trouble.
Which new country is this we're talking about?
The United State's means the United State owns x not the United States' owns x
Anyway it was China that shot the sat. down not the good ole Uncle Sam... I know I don't like Bush's policies but I'd rather trust the US with space weaponary than China. (Though not by a fat lot....)
Other than the fact servers can server more than just html docs?
I do agree though that sticking it in SEEMS like redundant information/duplication but the two tags serve different roles in life...
The HTML tag tells the browser this is the start of the html section of the document, render everything between here and the closing tag as html.
The doctype tag tells the browser what sort of document to expect - HTML, XML, FREDSNEWDOCTYPE etc.
To be fair to Symantec they didn't just destroy Mac products, they've ruined a fair few PC based products...
To high-level,
My patent is a system of counting which only uses two discrete values - 1 and 0. These values can be represented by different voltages and so lend themselves perfectly to computing.
Right: Everyone send me all the 1's and 0's in your computers. Or send me 1 cent for every 1 or 0 present in any of your computers or electronic devices. I include lights as 1 or 0 - 1 on, 0 off so I'll need a cent for every light...
They didn't used to be shite....
:(.
At one point PN where probably the best ISP in the UK - sadly after floating on the stock market those days soon came to an end at the alter of shareholder profits and sod the customer
Anyway even while a good ISP one thing PN had going for it was the customer forums - usually had a lot of knowledgable people on so even if you ran some odd software/os/hardware combination or wanted to do something beyond a simple mail form on your website you'd get alot of community help.
It now (just had a browse of the forums today) sadly looks like the community is starting to die on its feet as well.
RIP Plusnet.
Okay,
Of the 40m licences how many are licences which came with a new PC?
Of the ones supplied with a new PC to firms how many firms left Vista on rather than reverting to XP?
Of the remainder how many still have an MS OS on them (we recently had about 10 PC's for a client supplied with vista, they left with Linux on them - I know we could have got them barebones pc's but they wanted a named (not dell) brand)?
All I will say is lets not go there or open that can of worms...
The fact that my cellphone reaches me rather than my voicemail is the downside to having one not the plus side ;)
Its a private mobile but work seem to think they can call me anytime of the day whether i'm working or not and expect an answer. Recently they've started to get an answer, just not one they enjoy (If I have time I do answer the query but if god forbid I'm doing things like eating or relaxing at home in the evening they get the short answer).
In theory that sounds good - however speed of response would be an issue, how to distribute the index amongst the nodes would be a stumbling block... how many nodes should have the same parts of the index to avoid dead spots when people shut their PC's down...
Things like SETI can be distributed as the data set can be broken down into discrete portions and each client is reporting back to a central point...
It has now been turned off but the civil L1 gps (CA code) signal can have a time dither applied to it which has the effect of degrading the accuracy by an unknown amount. So yes, if the US felt the need, the civil GPS signal could be degraded reducing accuracy. Though with GPS now getting into more and more critical applications only an idiot would do so...
Try ultravnc...
In this story the possible theft of nuclear related information is not the critical part of this story. It is the fact that an EX-employee still had access to his former employer's IT systems. Whether this was nuclear related information or (for instance) the companies client lists/pricing model or the canteen menu is irrelevant.
When an employee leaves as soon as they hand their pass or sign the I've gone form IT should be informed immediately and any associated access rights should be revoked without any delay.
Someone in the employer's organisation ought to have a good look at their IT and HR processes...
Some possible ideas as to why it is disliked...
1. Weight
2. Reliability
3. distractions when you don't need them
4. Over-complex solution
5. Power mgt in the field
Will they also be including an 'any' key to stop clueless users wondering where the any key is when asked to press any key to continue?
Every time I have to sit through a tedious programme review meeting - or indeed any meeting with programme mis^H^H^Hmanagement.
No no and thrice no.
The OS should have one and only job IMHO (or not so HO): Manage and control access to resources.
The desktop layer and even the command shell should in an ideal world be divorced from the underlying OS core layer. And taking this one stage further if a common OS interface API (something akin to POSIX) existed I should be able to take core-OS and put whatever GUI or CLI (yes CLI is still better for some tasks) I like ontop of the base layer.
The base layer can then concentrate on running the hardware, preventing rogue programmes from compromising the rest of the system etc - ideally:
core-os --> [sandbox 1] --> [desktop gui] --> [sandbox for each app]
With the user/admins being able to define very tightly which files can be shared between sandboxes. Programmes which interact heavily with other programmes could run in their own sandboxes...