Either way they're still benchmarking Apple hardware to be released in September versus Intel hardware that was available months ago.
You wanted to say year ago? Month ago Intel released 3 GHz, 800 MGh FSB P4 and new chipset for dual DDR 400 motherboards. Comparing G5 against older 533 MGh FSB processors on old chipset is hypocrisy.
Even 2.6 GHz 800 MGh FSU processor with i875 chipset-based motherboard and dual DDR 400 memory behaves much better than that 2.66 GHz processor.
how do I create a bitpass account anonymous (so that bitpass does not know who I am)?
I could not find a way. And giving my information to a random web site that does not even have a privacy policy posted to the site (at least I could not find it, trust me - I looked hard) seems like a bad idea to me.
by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 26, @09:29PM (#6308662)
Updates to 2.0.x aren't done by Linus anymore, but they are still done! There are still 2.0.x boxes deployed out there, so if someone finds a bug in an ancient kernel, it's not too late to patch it.
Where do I get them?
I just checked RedHat, and the oldest supported release is 7.1 with the end of life December 31, 2003. And it is based on kernel 2.4. For earlier products (kernels 2.0 and 2.2), they don't even provide security fixes.
VB would be good for this except for the required overhead (Visual Studio).
Move to VB.NET - you don't have to use Visual Studio anymore. Microsoft's.NET distribution comes with free (as beer) VB.NET compiler (vbc.exe in frameworks folder) which does not require Visual Studio. You can program in Notepad or any editor.
Of course most people would still like to use VS - VS can generate lots of useful code in minutes, which would take hours to write manually. I've not seen anybody creating complex UI "manually" these day, it just does not make sense. Same with Web Services etc.
But if you have good editor (like SlickEditor) that can perform many of "manual" tasks and don't do UI, you can probably live without VS fine.
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I just realized some time in the future that Visual J++ might become standard-compilant language (without any change, the only change will be in Jave specs). They are planning to add metadata (think attributes) to 1.6, so the only thing left is delegates.
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And the most funny part is Static Imports: it is one of the Microsoft additions to Java back in time when there was no C#, and Microsoft shipped Visual J++. That time Sun sued Microsoft for adding Static Imports to J++ (among other enchancements). Now they are adding Static Imports themselves. They should sue themselves now.
What is the importance of stock exchange assignment?
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i thought the most obvious way to save a file in a text editor was
1)rename existing file to file~
2)write buffer to new file with original name
thats what most unix editors do, and it seems to work pretty well
If they do, I am pretty sorry for Unix. If this is what IBM brought to Linux, I am sorry for Linux too.
A better way to save file is
1) write buffer to new temp file
2) flush this file to disk, so the data is not lost
3) rename temp file to original file
This way in case of crash original file will either contain old content or new content, but you can't end with situation when it does not exist at all (unlike your algorithms).
5200 has the benefit of not having any fan, and thus not producing any noise.
I found that those small GPU fans produce the most noise (and with the highest frequency) in my work PCs, so I am not going to buy any fan-cooled GPU. FX 5200 is the only modern option I know of that does not have fan, so it is on my list if I ever decide to upgrade my GeForce MX 200 (which works fine given I don't play games much).
It is Oracle which uses the "Captive Audience" pricing plan - their user do have sign for service agreement (and pay for it) to download service packs and even security fixes.
The only thing that I found is bunch of Sun ads plus some articles about "Benefits Java offers on smart cards". Turned out that as I said, the main benefit advetised is "write once, run anywhere", not the ability to run untrusted code.
The most interesting discovery is "Java Card API insists that any applet be cryptographically signed by the card issuer". Basically, it sais that if I issued a card, it will only allow to run application I approve. That is too far from the running untrusted applets, discussed in the article.
Good for you. If they exist (they do) and they are being promoted/advertised (they are) then their security considerations are relevant.
I would like to see a reference. I saw couple of smart cards that can be programmed in Java (AMEX Blue is one example), but Java is used there just for its portability and simplicity of programming. All Java code-based security features are not used at all (and probably not implemented). I have not heard of and can't imagine any useful application of a smart card that allows downloading untrusted code.
If you know any, please post a link. "They do" would not work
MSDE (free version of MS SQL) is also free (as in beer), not open source, and has most the best big-guy features. Not many people seem to know about it. But it is the real stuff - hundred miles ahead of MySQL.:)
The training and transition will anyway be considerably more than $100 per OS. Say they pay $20/hour to employee. Adding other costs (taxes, office space, etc), one employee hour costs $50 to company. So if this employee spends just two hours learning new environment, the company is losing money.
They can save more on application software (Office, etc), but to get there XPde will need to clone Office, and all other apps:)
Well, there are already many error-induction attacks agains smart cards (some references in the article), that don't involve JVM running untrusted code.
So if I can break smart card event if is does not run any my [untrusted] code, who cares about attack to smart card that allows to run untrusted code? Besides, I've never seen any smartcard that actually does this stupid thing.
A better target for attack may be a server at a nuclear reactor facility that has natural high rate of memory failures:)
Sure, it has. And as soon as these guns will appear for sale, any one who has a traditional gun will be depicted as murder, just like everybody who does not support war is depicted as terrorist now.
There is no device you can buy to prevent murder. Bruce Schneier. http://www.counterpane.com/commerce-testimony.html
Another possiblity for SCO [management] is to make sure everybody else thinks they are looking for a buy-out and that there is a chance of actually being bought. This raises their stock and the current management can get rid of this stock with better profit.
The goals of corporation and goals of corporation managements don't always coinside. It does not seems as if SCO is any different from Enron in this sense.
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You wanted to say year ago? Month ago Intel released 3 GHz, 800 MGh FSB P4 and new chipset for dual DDR 400 motherboards. Comparing G5 against older 533 MGh FSB processors on old chipset is hypocrisy.
Even 2.6 GHz 800 MGh FSU processor with i875 chipset-based motherboard and dual DDR 400 memory behaves much better than that 2.66 GHz processor.
how do I create a bitpass account anonymous (so that bitpass does not know who I am)?
I could not find a way. And giving my information to a random web site that does not even have a privacy policy posted to the site (at least I could not find it, trust me - I looked hard) seems like a bad idea to me.
I just checked RedHat, and the oldest supported release is 7.1 with the end of life December 31, 2003. And it is based on kernel 2.4. For earlier products (kernels 2.0 and 2.2), they don't even provide security fixes.
Their policy is to provide maintenance for at least 12 months. Microsoft gives you 7 years.
After Linus releases an update for 2.0 series kernel.
Move to VB .NET - you don't have to use Visual Studio anymore. Microsoft's .NET distribution comes with free (as beer) VB .NET compiler (vbc.exe in frameworks folder) which does not require Visual Studio. You can program in Notepad or any editor.
Of course most people would still like to use VS - VS can generate lots of useful code in minutes, which would take hours to write manually. I've not seen anybody creating complex UI "manually" these day, it just does not make sense. Same with Web Services etc.
But if you have good editor (like SlickEditor) that can perform many of "manual" tasks and don't do UI, you can probably live without VS fine.
I just realized some time in the future that Visual J++ might become standard-compilant language (without any change, the only change will be in Jave specs). They are planning to add metadata (think attributes) to 1.6, so the only thing left is delegates.
And the most funny part is Static Imports: it is one of the Microsoft additions to Java back in time when there was no C#, and Microsoft shipped Visual J++. That time Sun sued Microsoft for adding Static Imports to J++ (among other enchancements). Now they are adding Static Imports themselves. They should sue themselves now.
What is the importance of stock exchange assignment?
1)rename existing file to file~
2)write buffer to new file with original name
thats what most unix editors do, and it seems to work pretty well
If they do, I am pretty sorry for Unix. If this is what IBM brought to Linux, I am sorry for Linux too.
A better way to save file is
1) write buffer to new temp file
2) flush this file to disk, so the data is not lost
3) rename temp file to original file
This way in case of crash original file will either contain old content or new content, but you can't end with situation when it does not exist at all (unlike your algorithms).
Wow, thanks a lot for the link! Now I am really interested, this is true dream come true.
I found that those small GPU fans produce the most noise (and with the highest frequency) in my work PCs, so I am not going to buy any fan-cooled GPU. FX 5200 is the only modern option I know of that does not have fan, so it is on my list if I ever decide to upgrade my GeForce MX 200 (which works fine given I don't play games much).
Microsoft advocates Smart client which for them means Windows machine running .NET and using XML Web Services to access miscelaneous servers.
I looked at news.com today and realised maybe Apache did "Slaughtered, wiped out, taken from market dominance to irrelevance" IIS dominance in the market of web server bugs: The Apache Software Foundation has released a patch for its Apache 2.0 HTTP Server to thwart a "significant" denial-of-service vulnerability. I have not heard about IIS vulnerabilities recently.
The stament is blatant lie, but only to demostrate the blatant lie of parent post (that stderr == stdout on Windows).
Microsoft at least releases the fixes free.
And I think on Linux you can't allocate memory at all, which is why it does not experience XP's problem.
You will deploy Linux patches on production machines without testing?
The most interesting discovery is "Java Card API insists that any applet be cryptographically signed by the card issuer". Basically, it sais that if I issued a card, it will only allow to run application I approve. That is too far from the running untrusted applets, discussed in the article.
Good for you. If they exist (they do) and they are being promoted/advertised (they are) then their security considerations are relevant.
I would like to see a reference. I saw couple of smart cards that can be programmed in Java (AMEX Blue is one example), but Java is used there just for its portability and simplicity of programming. All Java code-based security features are not used at all (and probably not implemented). I have not heard of and can't imagine any useful application of a smart card that allows downloading untrusted code.
If you know any, please post a link. "They do" would not work
MSDE (free version of MS SQL) is also free (as in beer), not open source, and has most the best big-guy features. Not many people seem to know about it. But it is the real stuff - hundred miles ahead of MySQL. :)
They can save more on application software (Office, etc), but to get there XPde will need to clone Office, and all other apps :)
So if I can break smart card event if is does not run any my [untrusted] code, who cares about attack to smart card that allows to run untrusted code? Besides, I've never seen any smartcard that actually does this stupid thing.
A better target for attack may be a server at a nuclear reactor facility that has natural high rate of memory failures :)
There is no device you can buy to prevent murder. Bruce Schneier. http://www.counterpane.com/commerce-testimony.html
This is Slashdot, stuff that matters.
Mostly filled with Microsoft these days.
Is it the only thing that matters now?
The goals of corporation and goals of corporation managements don't always coinside. It does not seems as if SCO is any different from Enron in this sense.