the two companies don't expect to lay off any staff, a representative said
Right, so they'll have 2 PR divisions, 2 marketing divisions,... The key word here is "expect". My former company's management didn't expect layoffs either, but funnily enough they did 6 rounds before sinking completely.
This said, Donald Becker is cool, Penguin Computing is cool (I toyed with an alpha box from them for a while and I was very inpressed), so I reckon the result should be uber-cool.
I have a hotmail account as well, but it seems you can never turn off the spam filter with it. With yahoo, it looks like there's no filter whatsoever as default, and you can tick off the "send bulk mail to junk folder" option.
As for the 4mb limit, that's okay, I run yosucker on it every hour, so it'll never be full.
Parents need to educate their children about the dangers of spam and how they can avoid being exposed to offensive content or becoming innocent victims of online fraud
and when Mom and Dad are done teaching how offensive, disgusting and dangerous spam can be, little Johnny will hurry to the couch to catch Reservoir Dogs. Then when the show is over, he'll go play a little Grand Theft Auto...
Come on, kids today know more about sex and violence than their parents when *they* were kids. I'm thirty-ish and I thought Terminator was pretty cool and clean when it came out. My parents still think it's a gross movie. And today's kid know better about trust on the internet than their parents too, and I doubt they're taken by plain-text spam that easily.
Different generations, different tolerance levels...
My mom's not even a journalist. She's a secretary. But she was able to follow the small A5 instruction sheet in French translated from English translated from japanese that came with the 802.11b card.
I've used reiserfs for years and was always very satisfied with its performance and stability. Recently, I convinced myself that ext3 had gotten as stable as reiserfs. So I switched to ext3, mainly because I ext3 == ext2 + journal, so should the need arise, I can mount my ext3 partition as an ext2 one. I haven't run any test on my new ext3 partition, but they look like they're doing okay and ext3 behaves well in case of a crash.
So fo me, today, in terms of usability ext3 == reiserfs + ext2 backward compatibility. As much as I hate to admit it, I have now given up on reiserfs.
So my questions are : can you compare reiserfs and ext3 in terms of performance and reliability, i.e. are there good reasons to keep using reiserfs ? Do you think ext3 might become the de-facto standard for Linux journaling filesystems ? How would you feel about it, after all the work you've done on reiserfs ?:-)
That's a bunch of money. I didn't realize Oracle was that rich. I don't know Oracle that much, but I thought they basically sold a sequel database on steroid, and did related services : can anybody inform me here ?
When they're done, they'll be mighty proud of themselves, so they'll light up a big BBQ at the center of the model, where the sun should be, and they'll grill models of invading alien motherships in the form of hamburger patties.
So now my cell phone will cause more than noise pollution?
It already does, but you don't see it. Your phone uses electricity that is produced in a power plant that most likely generates smoke or nucler waste. Apart if you live in a country that is well-equipped in renewable energy that is.
With the new fuel cell cell phone (god that's odd to write this), you just move the pollution problem in your pocket, *and* you guarantee that it'll generate 100% fossil fuel pollution, instead of 95%, 90%... whatever, the rest being renewable energy. If you're in the US, it won't make much difference of course...
I had an accident with my bicycle the other day : I landed on my trusted Alcatel cell phone and it splintered into a million pieces. I hate to think what would have happened if the phone contained flamable liquid or gas under pressure.
Then again, I also landed on $.50 my gas lighter, which was in the same pocket as my busted phone : *it* decided against breaking apart and cracked one of my ribs instead. So I guess the fuel cell phone has a chance to be safe, but still...
Also, doesn't such a device emit CO2 and/or water in the process of generating electricity ? where do the exausts go ?
Vincent Weafer, senior director of security response at computer security company Symantec Corp. (nasdaq: SYMC - news - people), said that while detailed articles could be important in raising computer security awareness, they also needed to be handled with care.
"It's something you need to be cautious of, particularly in a broad-based magazine," Weafer said.
"You need to be aware of your audience and what you're saying to them," Weafer said.
In other words Vincent, Symantec is worried that divulging the underlying techniques of a typical worm will demystify viruses somewhat, degrade the "magic bullet against all computer threats" image that antivirus makers enjoy in the general public, and help reduce the fear and panic that compels many computer users to rush to their local software shop to buy the newest and greatest antivirus software when a new virus strikes. After all, a lot of viruses/worms can be avoided if users had sane computer habits, such as never opening executables from an email, but your average computer user doesn't know and Symantec doesn't want him/her to know.
Remember : Symantec, McAfee and the others have no more interest in taking the myth out of viruses than they want Microsoft to release secure products.
Of course Microsoft makes a lot of their software, I'm saying that they nearly never *create* anything new. They didn't invent spredsheets, Visicalc (for Apple IIs) did, but they grabbed the concept, features, cloned them and made them into a successful product. That's their force : know how to shape and sell something well to the mass, and that's not a bad thing in itself. They didn't invent word processing either, nor Basic. As for.NET, it's part of their strategy against Java : undermine Java with specific incompatibilities a while ago, then roll their own offering (.NET is a Java clone at the core). The Xbox ? looks like a dedicated PC to me. NT/XP/2000 ? better products or not, where are the major innovations in those products ?
And yeah, they invented Clippy. I believe that's the extent of their capacity of genuine innovation (i.e. without acquiring novel companies).
I'm not talking about making software, I'm talking about making innovative software. Note that I freely recognize that most opensource zealots don't do any better, including Stallman who couldn't do any better than come up with dotgnu when M$ announced.NET, and that was really pathetic.
The Ballmer response: Microsoft will have to do a better job of producing software whose benefits are clearly apparent to customers
Most of Microsoft's value-add has been stolen^h^h^h^h^h^hcopied or acquired. MSDOS ? bought from the Seattle Computer Company. Windows GUI ? copied from Apple, itself borrowed from Xerox. Flight Simulator ? bought from Sublogic. Stacker ? bought from Stac, etc etc... And for the fun, since it's been talked about much recently : M$ has some 10% stake in SCO:-)
No, Microsoft doesn't create software. It just borrows, enhances and markets better. That memo Ballmer sent means "guys, it's time to look out there again and see what we can copy/purchase and claim our own innovation".
Obviously not, otherwise the entire documentary would be composed of guys turning their back and saying "piss-off I'm busy".
is it only for geeks?
My sister has a NES, she's not a geek.
is it a non-productive use of time
Depends on who's playing:
- If you play for fun once in a while, it's good entertainment. If you play online now and again, you also get to socialize in new interesting ways. If you're a game addict of course, it's no more productive than doing drugs.
- If you're a young lad who wants to get into computers, gaming can teach you a lot. I myself learned a lot about UI designs, sprites, bit blitting, joystick hardware, overscanning... just by playing games, and I also taught myself assembly, the structure of Atari ST diskettes MBRs and much more just because I wanted some great games so bad and didn't have the money to pay for licit copies. Those things I learned due to my interest in games in the eighties are still the base of what makes me a good (I think) engineer.
- If you're not primarily into computers and you play too much, that'll teach you nothing at all. I doubt Einstein could have published anything worthwhile if he was a keen Duke Nukem addict for example.
I'll believe in their AI when I can type "X free" as a search query and it returns a link to www.xfree86.org instead of a million links to pr0n sites. Does this AI learn what people search for usually ? is it able to determine over time that capital-"X" and "free" in my particular searches are about opensource graphical software, unlike the same query by the dirty old man next door ?
By the way Haystack people, when you use titles and phrases containing "universal", "seeks to bring [...] to the average user", "artificial intelligence" , it trips my PR bullshit meter. I was about to bail out when I noticed the download link.
Tracking miles driven by cars isn't the right solution to calculate gas consumption taxes. Assuming privacy rights can be trampled on freely, the right solution for that is having a little transmitter in the car that is read when the car comes to a gas station to refuel, the gas pump logging the amount of gas delivered for each car. That penalizes SUV users and heavy drivers, and gives a break to low-consumption cars and people who don't drive much.
Tracking miles driven by cars is really a solution to figure out road maintenance taxes. For an overall taxe rate per car, the standard odometer can be logged by mechanics at the yearly car checkup and reported to the authorities. No need for exensive computer equipment to do that, just a law to force mechanics to report their findings. If the state wants a better granularity, like who uses the best roads and how much (to know which roads require more maintaining, and to tax users of good roads more), then I guess an onboard GPS would be useful. Otherwise, I reckon it'd be overkill.
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I do, but my coworkers don't know it yet. They still wonder what that Mosix tarball does in their home directories ...
the two companies don't expect to lay off any staff, a representative said
... The key word here is "expect". My former company's management didn't expect layoffs either, but funnily enough they did 6 rounds before sinking completely.
Right, so they'll have 2 PR divisions, 2 marketing divisions,
This said, Donald Becker is cool, Penguin Computing is cool (I toyed with an alpha box from them for a while and I was very inpressed), so I reckon the result should be uber-cool.
I have a hotmail account as well, but it seems you can never turn off the spam filter with it. With yahoo, it looks like there's no filter whatsoever as default, and you can tick off the "send bulk mail to junk folder" option.
As for the 4mb limit, that's okay, I run yosucker on it every hour, so it'll never be full.
Parents need to educate their children about the dangers of spam and how they can avoid being exposed to offensive content or becoming innocent victims of online fraud
...
...
and when Mom and Dad are done teaching how offensive, disgusting and dangerous spam can be, little Johnny will hurry to the couch to catch Reservoir Dogs. Then when the show is over, he'll go play a little Grand Theft Auto
Come on, kids today know more about sex and violence than their parents when *they* were kids. I'm thirty-ish and I thought Terminator was pretty cool and clean when it came out. My parents still think it's a gross movie. And today's kid know better about trust on the internet than their parents too, and I doubt they're taken by plain-text spam that easily.
Different generations, different tolerance levels
My mom's not even a journalist. She's a secretary. But she was able to follow the small A5 instruction sheet in French translated from English translated from japanese that came with the 802.11b card.
to help him bathe his property in 802.11 waves
How many hits per second during a typical slashdotting session again ? Poor Paul Bouttin must have received a good dose of radiation by now.
Paul, the iodine pills are in your left drawer. Good luck buddy !
MSN author Paul Boutin hired a Wi-Fi engineer
Even my mom was able to setup her 802.11b card to use my access card. Are Microsoft employees that daft ?
I've used reiserfs for years and was always very satisfied with its performance and stability. Recently, I convinced myself that ext3 had gotten as stable as reiserfs. So I switched to ext3, mainly because I ext3 == ext2 + journal, so should the need arise, I can mount my ext3 partition as an ext2 one. I haven't run any test on my new ext3 partition, but they look like they're doing okay and ext3 behaves well in case of a crash.
:-)
So fo me, today, in terms of usability ext3 == reiserfs + ext2 backward compatibility. As much as I hate to admit it, I have now given up on reiserfs.
So my questions are : can you compare reiserfs and ext3 in terms of performance and reliability, i.e. are there good reasons to keep using reiserfs ? Do you think ext3 might become the de-facto standard for Linux journaling filesystems ? How would you feel about it, after all the work you've done on reiserfs ?
That's a bunch of money. I didn't realize Oracle was that rich. I don't know Oracle that much, but I thought they basically sold a sequel database on steroid, and did related services : can anybody inform me here ?
When they're done, they'll be mighty proud of themselves, so they'll light up a big BBQ at the center of the model, where the sun should be, and they'll grill models of invading alien motherships in the form of hamburger patties.
Newflash : you can change the batteries in your PDA in a snap.
So now my cell phone will cause more than noise pollution?
... whatever, the rest being renewable energy. If you're in the US, it won't make much difference of course ...
It already does, but you don't see it. Your phone uses electricity that is produced in a power plant that most likely generates smoke or nucler waste. Apart if you live in a country that is well-equipped in renewable energy that is.
With the new fuel cell cell phone (god that's odd to write this), you just move the pollution problem in your pocket, *and* you guarantee that it'll generate 100% fossil fuel pollution, instead of 95%, 90%
I had an accident with my bicycle the other day : I landed on my trusted Alcatel cell phone and it splintered into a million pieces. I hate to think what would have happened if the phone contained flamable liquid or gas under pressure.
...
Then again, I also landed on $.50 my gas lighter, which was in the same pocket as my busted phone : *it* decided against breaking apart and cracked one of my ribs instead. So I guess the fuel cell phone has a chance to be safe, but still
Also, doesn't such a device emit CO2 and/or water in the process of generating electricity ? where do the exausts go ?
Users of cellphones with a fuel-cell battery would carry a cigarette lighter-type fuel container to refuel the battery.
A propane tank with a shoulder strap and you're good to go for 10 years.
with vector capitol support ...
Vincent Weafer, senior director of security response at computer security company Symantec Corp. (nasdaq: SYMC - news - people), said that while detailed articles could be important in raising computer security awareness, they also needed to be handled with care.
"It's something you need to be cautious of, particularly in a broad-based magazine," Weafer said.
"You need to be aware of your audience and what you're saying to them," Weafer said.
In other words Vincent, Symantec is worried that divulging the underlying techniques of a typical worm will demystify viruses somewhat, degrade the "magic bullet against all computer threats" image that antivirus makers enjoy in the general public, and help reduce the fear and panic that compels many computer users to rush to their local software shop to buy the newest and greatest antivirus software when a new virus strikes. After all, a lot of viruses/worms can be avoided if users had sane computer habits, such as never opening executables from an email, but your average computer user doesn't know and Symantec doesn't want him/her to know.
Remember : Symantec, McAfee and the others have no more interest in taking the myth out of viruses than they want Microsoft to release secure products.
June 5, 2003 -- Think of it as a how-to guide to bringing down the Internet.
:
Here's my guide
1 - unplug the network cable
Very effective DoS : nobody will be able to see your server from outside and your network connection will become very slow.
Of course Microsoft makes a lot of their software, I'm saying that they nearly never *create* anything new. They didn't invent spredsheets, Visicalc (for Apple IIs) did, but they grabbed the concept, features, cloned them and made them into a successful product. That's their force : know how to shape and sell something well to the mass, and that's not a bad thing in itself. They didn't invent word processing either, nor Basic. As for .NET, it's part of their strategy against Java : undermine Java with specific incompatibilities a while ago, then roll their own offering (.NET is a Java clone at the core). The Xbox ? looks like a dedicated PC to me. NT/XP/2000 ? better products or not, where are the major innovations in those products ?
.NET, and that was really pathetic.
And yeah, they invented Clippy. I believe that's the extent of their capacity of genuine innovation (i.e. without acquiring novel companies).
I'm not talking about making software, I'm talking about making innovative software. Note that I freely recognize that most opensource zealots don't do any better, including Stallman who couldn't do any better than come up with dotgnu when M$ announced
Internet Explorer was liscenced from Spyglass then given away for free, undercutting Spyglass's liscening so badly that they went out of business.
NT is based on VMS, although some argue this.
I just checked, it looks like I haven't followed the SCO-Microsoft for too long : M$ has no SCO shares anymore, since 2000. Sorry ...
The Ballmer response: Microsoft will have to do a better job of producing software whose benefits are clearly apparent to customers
... And for the fun, since it's been talked about much recently : M$ has some 10% stake in SCO :-)
Most of Microsoft's value-add has been stolen^h^h^h^h^h^hcopied or acquired. MSDOS ? bought from the Seattle Computer Company. Windows GUI ? copied from Apple, itself borrowed from Xerox. Flight Simulator ? bought from Sublogic. Stacker ? bought from Stac, etc etc
No, Microsoft doesn't create software. It just borrows, enhances and markets better. That memo Ballmer sent means "guys, it's time to look out there again and see what we can copy/purchase and claim our own innovation".
is it really anti-social?
:
... just by playing games, and I also taught myself assembly, the structure of Atari ST diskettes MBRs and much more just because I wanted some great games so bad and didn't have the money to pay for licit copies. Those things I learned due to my interest in games in the eighties are still the base of what makes me a good (I think) engineer.
Obviously not, otherwise the entire documentary would be composed of guys turning their back and saying "piss-off I'm busy".
is it only for geeks?
My sister has a NES, she's not a geek.
is it a non-productive use of time
Depends on who's playing
- If you play for fun once in a while, it's good entertainment. If you play online now and again, you also get to socialize in new interesting ways. If you're a game addict of course, it's no more productive than doing drugs.
- If you're a young lad who wants to get into computers, gaming can teach you a lot. I myself learned a lot about UI designs, sprites, bit blitting, joystick hardware, overscanning
- If you're not primarily into computers and you play too much, that'll teach you nothing at all. I doubt Einstein could have published anything worthwhile if he was a keen Duke Nukem addict for example.
I'll believe in their AI when I can type "X free" as a search query and it returns a link to www.xfree86.org instead of a million links to pr0n sites. Does this AI learn what people search for usually ? is it able to determine over time that capital-"X" and "free" in my particular searches are about opensource graphical software, unlike the same query by the dirty old man next door ?
By the way Haystack people, when you use titles and phrases containing "universal", "seeks to bring [...] to the average user", "artificial intelligence" , it trips my PR bullshit meter. I was about to bail out when I noticed the download link.
Tracking miles driven by cars isn't the right solution to calculate gas consumption taxes. Assuming privacy rights can be trampled on freely, the right solution for that is having a little transmitter in the car that is read when the car comes to a gas station to refuel, the gas pump logging the amount of gas delivered for each car. That penalizes SUV users and heavy drivers, and gives a break to low-consumption cars and people who don't drive much.
Tracking miles driven by cars is really a solution to figure out road maintenance taxes. For an overall taxe rate per car, the standard odometer can be logged by mechanics at the yearly car checkup and reported to the authorities. No need for exensive computer equipment to do that, just a law to force mechanics to report their findings. If the state wants a better granularity, like who uses the best roads and how much (to know which roads require more maintaining, and to tax users of good roads more), then I guess an onboard GPS would be useful. Otherwise, I reckon it'd be overkill.
Link this article with that one and you know how the next Korean war will take place (with the 3l337 south koreans this time).
Thank you Slashdot !