THink of it as Windows XP dropping support for older hardware. It comes from the fact that Xfree 4 has a completely new driver design. Each driver can't just remain, it needs to be rewritten for the newer X. It just isn't worth the effort in many cases, but AFAIK many of these older cards are being slowly added back into the supported category. They should certainly not be top priority.
And the new driver design in X 4, which is modular, was certainly worth breaking backwards compatibility.
Both local and remote users may exploit this vulnerability to compromise
the web server and, under certain conditions, to gain privileged access.
So far only the IA32 platform has been verified to be safe from the
execution of arbitrary code. The vulnerability can still be used on IA32
to crash PHP and, in most cases, the web server.
This isn't really a problem on the most widely used platforms for PHP. I was looking to see if the new Debian package had been uploaded yet, but now I'm not even going to bother. I don't care if someone "may" crash the webserver that much.
That's a laugh. Although, perhaps a better way to state it would be well familiar with the topic of interest. Afterall, who better than Slashdot users knows about starting a project on freshmeat, working on it for a few seconds, doing your best to lord the miniscule authority over others, and then abandoning it after the website is (horribly) designed and version.001 is at a buggy stage of completion.
He's actually an excellent programmer. I think everyone agrees that algorithms are important. If you choose a e^x algorithm, you've just killed your scalability. Even the fastest available processor is going to have problems. But most optimizations take more time than they are worth. Writing the same code in Assembly vs Java would be slightly faster, but it would take much more programmer time. Choosing good algorithms usually saves programmer and processor cycles and isn't really relevant to FrostedChaos's points.
It's really just a different bias. Academics are biased in favor of people, think tanks are biased in favor of political ideologies or corporations. I think it's a good bias.
I open my case frequently. To try out a new expansion card, to play around with Xinerama, to compare sound cards, to try out a free funky networking card, install a new hard drive, etc. Easy access is great. As it is, I leave the case open most of the time, destroying the airflow and getting dust in all of the components.
modding his posts "overrated" is a good tactic. no m2. I'm going to take advantage of that when I get some mod points.
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If we weren't so afraid of Communism, we would admit the role of the Russians in winning the war. The Nazis never made it to Moskva! And the Russians sacraficed more of their men than any other country. More Russians died than any other group. Did Bruckheimer make that terribly boring film? I hate Bruckheimer dreck. He loves mis-representing history, like he did with that Somalia pic, Black Hawk Down.
I didn't think so. In that case, a meaningless assertion. Starting one's own business takes time and money (a great deal of both), and is unlikely to handle what appears to be this man's need for a steady income. It's no different from the contracting he's already trying to do.
That is currently reviewing Carnegie Mellon's restricted research policy. I'll bring this up. Just so that you all know, this research must be with one of CMU's "semi-autonomous units," and no students are participating in the research, otherwise it could not have cleared our Provost. At any rate, this is interesting information to have.
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Okay, fess up. How do you do the subject line only posts? I thought they fixed that hole.
It was a linguist joke, but apparently you didn't get it. I did, and I'm not a linguist.
And the new driver design in X 4, which is modular, was certainly worth breaking backwards compatibility.
Principia Mathematica, by Russel and Whitehead. (not the inferior first version by Newton).
Heh, that was actually pretty funny.
; CmdrTaco is Gay Really!; I am not lying...
Here's one reason:
Impact
Both local and remote users may exploit this vulnerability to compromise
the web server and, under certain conditions, to gain privileged access.
So far only the IA32 platform has been verified to be safe from the
execution of arbitrary code. The vulnerability can still be used on IA32
to crash PHP and, in most cases, the web server.
This isn't really a problem on the most widely used platforms for PHP. I was looking to see if the new Debian package had been uploaded yet, but now I'm not even going to bother. I don't care if someone "may" crash the webserver that much.
That's a laugh. Although, perhaps a better way to state it would be well familiar with the topic of interest. Afterall, who better than Slashdot users knows about starting a project on freshmeat, working on it for a few seconds, doing your best to lord the miniscule authority over others, and then abandoning it after the website is (horribly) designed and version .001 is at a buggy stage of completion.
He's actually an excellent programmer. I think everyone agrees that algorithms are important. If you choose a e^x algorithm, you've just killed your scalability. Even the fastest available processor is going to have problems. But most optimizations take more time than they are worth. Writing the same code in Assembly vs Java would be slightly faster, but it would take much more programmer time. Choosing good algorithms usually saves programmer and processor cycles and isn't really relevant to FrostedChaos's points.
Vote Green!
It's really just a different bias. Academics are biased in favor of people, think tanks are biased in favor of political ideologies or corporations. I think it's a good bias.
Yes it is. It's the Debian system ported to run on a new architecture (the Mach Kernel and HURD servers)
a mormon thing?
Best. Troll. Ever.
It's like getting your freak on. Without the freak.
Ironically, you were modded down and I wasn't, while my comment was clearly editorial, not topical. How sad.
If they run WinXP, they need to call Microsoft every time someone gets on or off.
That was a good first karmawhore. I thought it was relatively funny.
That was pretty useless. All we had to do was go to the front page of news.com to find the link. Slut.
I open my case frequently. To try out a new expansion card, to play around with Xinerama, to compare sound cards, to try out a free funky networking card, install a new hard drive, etc. Easy access is great. As it is, I leave the case open most of the time, destroying the airflow and getting dust in all of the components.
modding his posts "overrated" is a good tactic. no m2. I'm going to take advantage of that when I get some mod points.
If we weren't so afraid of Communism, we would admit the role of the Russians in winning the war. The Nazis never made it to Moskva! And the Russians sacraficed more of their men than any other country. More Russians died than any other group. Did Bruckheimer make that terribly boring film? I hate Bruckheimer dreck. He loves mis-representing history, like he did with that Somalia pic, Black Hawk Down.
Thanks for pointing out the redundant, captain redundant.
I didn't think so. In that case, a meaningless assertion. Starting one's own business takes time and money (a great deal of both), and is unlikely to handle what appears to be this man's need for a steady income. It's no different from the contracting he's already trying to do.
In other words, you're wrong. Try again.
That is currently reviewing Carnegie Mellon's restricted research policy. I'll bring this up. Just so that you all know, this research must be with one of CMU's "semi-autonomous units," and no students are participating in the research, otherwise it could not have cleared our Provost. At any rate, this is interesting information to have.