The entire Drug War too. Back in the early 1900s, the supreme court ruled that people had a right to decide what went in their own bodies. Somehow that finding of a fundamental human right was ignored 50 years later when Nixon really started pouring on the anti-drug propaganda, and no one seemed to care.
We got a G5 into work, and I can tell you with certainty that a normal IEC power cable will work with it. The connector on the G5 power cable looks different, but it's actually compatible with normal cables.
That's funny, I was just noticing yesterday when I loaded up a NES emulator that used shift keys as controls, that the shift keys are starting to stick on my model M when you hit them at just the right angle. It's not noticable in normal typing, but using them as controls for a game you notice it more.
Might try washing the keyboard, this one's probably pretty dirty.
Opera does that. Click on the identify as Opera text and you can switch on the fly. It's a hotkey too I think. You do have to remember to switch it back when you are done though.
There's no way hardware can keep up with inefficient algorithms. An n^2 algorithm where a nlog(n) algorithm could be used will quickly eat up whatever hardware you throw at it.
Several kernels are available on debian, here's a few:
kernel-image-2.4.16-386 - Linux kernel image for version 2.4.16 on 386. kernel-image-2.4.16-586 - Linux kernel image for version 2.4.16 on 586/K5/5x86/6x86/6x86MX. kernel-image-2.4.16-586t sc - Linux kernel image for version 2.4.16 on Pentium-Classic. kernel-image-2.4.16-686 - Linux kernel image for version 2.4.16 on PPro/Celeron/PII/PIII. kernel-image-2.4.16-686-sm p - Linux kernel image 2.4.16 on PPro/Celeron/PII/PIII SMP. kernel-image-2.4.16-k6 - Linux kernel image for version 2.4.16 on AMD K6/K6-II/K6-III kernel-image-2.4.16-k7 - Linux kernel image for version 2.4.16 on AMD K7 kernel-image-2.4.18-386 - Linux kernel image for version 2.4.18 on 386. kernel-image-2.4.18-586tsc - Linux kernel image for version 2.4.18 on Pentium-Classic. kernel-image-2.4.18-686 - Linux kernel image 2.4.18 on PPro/Celeron/PII/PIII/PIV.
They might not offer multiple optimizations of glibc, that might be what the issue was. I know red hat does offer multiple optimizations of glibc and other more performance critical things.
Like, if you changed your compiler optimization settings such that you compiled for -march=athlonxp instead of 386 or even 686.
You aren't reading, are you? As I said, distros usually already come with kernels optimized for all common arch settings. You install Red Hat on an Athlon, it's going to put in an Athlon kernel.
As it is, gcc doesn't do very much for an Athlon, and as the AC pointed out, the new kernel doesn't even benefit at all from some march settings.
Optimized in what way? Distros all come with kernels compiled for various CPUs, it's not like people are running i386 kernels on a P4.
I'd really love to see some benchmarks that show that you can get much of any performance boost from recompiling your distro kernel. I'd be very surprised to see any difference at all.
There are many facts to support the opinion. You give up some freedom when you buy an Apple computer, that's a fact. You are not free to easily buy an off the shelf replacement motherboard from a manufacturer of your choice, you are not free to install more than one externally accesible internal drive in your shiny new G5, you are not free to choose to get an internal floppy drive, etc etc... The list goes on.
Anyone who chooses Apple has judged that those freedoms are less valuable than convienence, and tight easy integration that comes from a single-vendor proprietary solution.
I've used Macs occasionally, and do support for them a little. There are some advantages (the G5 is damn near silent, the fans go maybe 200RPM normally), but there are some definite tradeoffs as well.
I think it's going to be less popular than you think.
People that buy Apple don't care about freedom, they are willing to sell out freedom to get something that is convienent and works properly with little hassle. Apple has had "hardware DRM" for years by using proprietary hardware that you can only get from them. That's why Apple users are happily sucking down DRM crippled media from ITMS, they are used to making that tradeoff.
Adept PC users are a different bunch. We want more control, even if it means things are a little harder to set up initially. I think that DRM of any sort isn't going to sit well with the adept PC user population, and probably won't be particularly popular with the less-adept PC population either, since they are used to being free to control their own hardware and software.
So you create a huge support burdon, to eliminate one attack vector.
People will still be cracked when they use an insecure web browser and hit a malicious site, or download an email that exploits their client, or open a PDF with malicious code, or any millions of other ways to get broken into.
To be honest, I see many more of those kinds of viruses, like bugbear et al, among home machines, than I see the passive kinds of attacks that simply require ports be exposed.
Besides, if you want companies to do something about this problem, why they hell don't you just ask the OS vendors to not have any ports open by default, that's a much more reasonable request, and accomplishes the same thing. They are also the ones usually responsible for the problems, at least moreso than the ISPs, who are just a third party that happens to provide infrastructure.
It's like saying that the power company should install UPSs on every outlet in your house, because your cheap poorly designed electronics keep dying when lightning hits your house.
Wouldn't "light-absorbing matter" violate conservation of energy? Light might be converted to heat, but eventually those hot things will start glowing once they absorb enough energy.
Hah, that's a good laugh. I remember forgetting about quizzes/exams until the last minute (in classes that were too easy to bother studing for), and walking around campus until I found a pen/pencil on the floor/ground. It usually didn't take more than a few minutes.
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The timeline is more like this:
Big corporate customer with security contract gets broken into in an unknown fashion.
Security company finds messenger flaw, tells their other paying customers, and notifies microsoft.
Microsoft sits on it a month or two at least, then finally comes out with a fix. Only then does the general public find out about the flaw.
Do you feel safer knowing that there are security companies out there that don't support full disclosure? I sure don't.
Even when they choose to act like a tool for our pleasure, we should never treat them like they are.
What of those that enjoy being treated like a tool for pleasure? Who are you to deny them their pleasure?
However alien it may be to you, there are people that enjoy being objectified.
The entire Drug War too. Back in the early 1900s, the supreme court ruled that people had a right to decide what went in their own bodies. Somehow that finding of a fundamental human right was ignored 50 years later when Nixon really started pouring on the anti-drug propaganda, and no one seemed to care.
It doesn't run Unibol/36 or similar, does it?
If so, I can sympathize.
We got a G5 into work, and I can tell you with certainty that a normal IEC power cable will work with it. The connector on the G5 power cable looks different, but it's actually compatible with normal cables.
That's funny, I was just noticing yesterday when I loaded up a NES emulator that used shift keys as controls, that the shift keys are starting to stick on my model M when you hit them at just the right angle. It's not noticable in normal typing, but using them as controls for a game you notice it more.
Might try washing the keyboard, this one's probably pretty dirty.
When you have to comply with the laws of every country and state you do business in, you tend to keep things simpler by limiting your market.
AOL was doing that in 1994. Same with Prodigy etc.
Opera does that. Click on the identify as Opera text and you can switch on the fly. It's a hotkey too I think. You do have to remember to switch it back when you are done though.
Where's my towel?
It's not like pivx was realeasing their own 0-day "sploits". They simply made a list of vulnerabilities that were already disclosed.
There's no way hardware can keep up with inefficient algorithms. An n^2 algorithm where a nlog(n) algorithm could be used will quickly eat up whatever hardware you throw at it.
Several kernels are available on debian, here's a few:
t sc - Linux kernel image for version 2.4.16 on Pentium-Classic.m p - Linux kernel image 2.4.16 on PPro/Celeron/PII/PIII SMP.
kernel-image-2.4.16-386 - Linux kernel image for version 2.4.16 on 386.
kernel-image-2.4.16-586 - Linux kernel image for version 2.4.16 on 586/K5/5x86/6x86/6x86MX.
kernel-image-2.4.16-586
kernel-image-2.4.16-686 - Linux kernel image for version 2.4.16 on PPro/Celeron/PII/PIII.
kernel-image-2.4.16-686-s
kernel-image-2.4.16-k6 - Linux kernel image for version 2.4.16 on AMD K6/K6-II/K6-III
kernel-image-2.4.16-k7 - Linux kernel image for version 2.4.16 on AMD K7
kernel-image-2.4.18-386 - Linux kernel image for version 2.4.18 on 386.
kernel-image-2.4.18-586tsc - Linux kernel image for version 2.4.18 on Pentium-Classic.
kernel-image-2.4.18-686 - Linux kernel image 2.4.18 on PPro/Celeron/PII/PIII/PIV.
They might not offer multiple optimizations of glibc, that might be what the issue was. I know red hat does offer multiple optimizations of glibc and other more performance critical things.
They get money from ad revenue on the site. By visiting the site, you are giving them money.
I hope your affairs are in order if you clicked through to those links.
Life was so boring that people killed themselves more.
Like, if you changed your compiler optimization settings such that you compiled for -march=athlonxp instead of 386 or even 686.
You aren't reading, are you? As I said, distros usually already come with kernels optimized for all common arch settings. You install Red Hat on an Athlon, it's going to put in an Athlon kernel.
As it is, gcc doesn't do very much for an Athlon, and as the AC pointed out, the new kernel doesn't even benefit at all from some march settings.
Optimized in what way? Distros all come with kernels compiled for various CPUs, it's not like people are running i386 kernels on a P4.
I'd really love to see some benchmarks that show that you can get much of any performance boost from recompiling your distro kernel. I'd be very surprised to see any difference at all.
There are many facts to support the opinion. You give up some freedom when you buy an Apple computer, that's a fact. You are not free to easily buy an off the shelf replacement motherboard from a manufacturer of your choice, you are not free to install more than one externally accesible internal drive in your shiny new G5, you are not free to choose to get an internal floppy drive, etc etc... The list goes on.
Anyone who chooses Apple has judged that those freedoms are less valuable than convienence, and tight easy integration that comes from a single-vendor proprietary solution.
I've used Macs occasionally, and do support for them a little. There are some advantages (the G5 is damn near silent, the fans go maybe 200RPM normally), but there are some definite tradeoffs as well.
Maybe so, that's sort of the chaotic-aligned people's extension of the behavior.
Either way, I don't see it flying, at least not as successfully as some predict.
From a corporate stand point you can argue that it is a lot cheaper to pay for excess bandwith to spider spammers
Not if you are the victim of a joe-job by a spammer, or just someone disgruntled who pays a spammer to put your link in a spam.
How much cheaper is the bandwidth going to be when you are unable to conduct business because thousands of people are DoSsing your web site?
Your friend dies often. This is the second time in 20 years!
I think it's going to be less popular than you think.
People that buy Apple don't care about freedom, they are willing to sell out freedom to get something that is convienent and works properly with little hassle. Apple has had "hardware DRM" for years by using proprietary hardware that you can only get from them. That's why Apple users are happily sucking down DRM crippled media from ITMS, they are used to making that tradeoff.
Adept PC users are a different bunch. We want more control, even if it means things are a little harder to set up initially. I think that DRM of any sort isn't going to sit well with the adept PC user population, and probably won't be particularly popular with the less-adept PC population either, since they are used to being free to control their own hardware and software.
So you create a huge support burdon, to eliminate one attack vector.
People will still be cracked when they use an insecure web browser and hit a malicious site, or download an email that exploits their client, or open a PDF with malicious code, or any millions of other ways to get broken into.
To be honest, I see many more of those kinds of viruses, like bugbear et al, among home machines, than I see the passive kinds of attacks that simply require ports be exposed.
Besides, if you want companies to do something about this problem, why they hell don't you just ask the OS vendors to not have any ports open by default, that's a much more reasonable request, and accomplishes the same thing. They are also the ones usually responsible for the problems, at least moreso than the ISPs, who are just a third party that happens to provide infrastructure.
It's like saying that the power company should install UPSs on every outlet in your house, because your cheap poorly designed electronics keep dying when lightning hits your house.
Wouldn't "light-absorbing matter" violate conservation of energy? Light might be converted to heat, but eventually those hot things will start glowing once they absorb enough energy.
Hah, that's a good laugh. I remember forgetting about quizzes/exams until the last minute (in classes that were too easy to bother studing for), and walking around campus until I found a pen/pencil on the floor/ground. It usually didn't take more than a few minutes.