Jeff Garzik posted on LKML on January the 5th a lengthy article about the state of linux Wireless. See here. John W. Linville claimed the responsibility for Wireless support in the kernel. The archive of the LKML thread is available here. Hopefully is this going to improve things...
This is probably going to be marked as offtopic, but it looks like the previous story (MS Windows officially broken) has been removed with 25 comments.
I know it was a dupe (not counting the fact that windows being broken is in itself a dupe), but I'm kind of frustrated not being able to flame the author about it.
[The mystery] relates to a rather subtle mathematical property. In simple terms, there are two ways to define the Mandelbrot set. It is rather like proving that 3+1 and 2+2 give the same result. I have always thought that the two definitions were equivalent. But one is easy to study whereas the other is extremely difficult. So far, the proof has defeated many people. The fact that my conjecture is so simple to state, yet baffles everybody, makes it attractive to mathematicians.
Does anyone know about the conjecture that is "so simple to state"?
I guess the danger comes more from the magnetic field induced by the power lines than the electric field (measured in Tesla), which is far more important than the magnetic field induced by your cell phone
2004 will definitely be the linux desktop year. And IMHO it takes the right direction with Bruce Perens' UserLinux initiative, if he succeeds at convincing linux users/developpers to switch to/work on this new DIY operating system.
It's mission statement would be : Provide businesses with freely available, high quality Linux operating systems accompanied by certifications, service, and support options designed to encourage productivity and security while reducing overall costs.
Well, this is really an excellent news, and I'm glad the Apache team managed to achieve this result.
However, I'm saddened by the declaration of Rasmus Lerdorf published on the UserLinux discuss list, where he claims that Apache 2/PHP integration is a "bad idea" on UNIX systems.
This sounds like an excellent news for all the PHP developpers in the world!
Now it took this guy six pages to explain the difference between 1000 and 1024.
Anyway, anyone who didn't know that 1GB = 2^30B woudn't probably have noticed the loss of their 8 GB, and the manufacturer clearly used that fact to virtually increase the capacity of their disk by using base 10 instead of base 2.
The dot-com graveyard has a special section for companies like Digicash and Cybercent that failed to solve the micropayment puzzle.
So what makes Ron Rivest thinks he might be able to solve this where other failed?
A key success factor of this business is trust. But unfortunaly for non-geeks, trust is hardly based on transaction security, but merely on the wealth of the company. Microsoft tokens won't have the same trust factor as Linux tokens (for example), and customers won't buy tokens that could well be worth less than nothing, if the market decides that way.
Would you really invest a penny (because that's what is's all about : invest money) in peppercoin?
The main problem I encounter with p2p networks is that the same file with 2 different names will be considered as 2 different files.
This is why the file sharing system only works well with audio and video files and not software files.
Hence, such an open content network should include an advanced file recognition system with some sort of checksum or whatever : a blend of p2p and mirrors
There is no point in funding the NASA by taxing the Sci-Fi books. In fact, the Sci-Fi fan mainly wants to dream. He doesn't really care about space travelling being possible or not. The truth is, the guys that should be taxed to fund the NASA ought to be those who have the biggest interest in space travel : Mining companies, settlers, builders, nations, scientists, etc.
In every emerging technology, there will always be a delay between the first appearance and the outcome of an almighty standard. It was the same with SuperVGA (took about 2 years), Internet Protocols (still on going, W3C is struggling for standards) and now OpenGL and DirectX. OpenGL 2.0 seems pretty much like the definitive solution...
This is definitely the "SunOS/BoxPoison.worm" that has infected the veridian server.
It spreads the same way Code red does using one of the multiple IIS backdoors. It creates/overwrites 4 files in each directory (default.asp, default.htm, index.asp, index.htm) of the C: drive containing the HTML code "f**k PoisonBOx".
McAfee merely detect the presence of those files on your system, but you can also verify it by the TCP port 600 being opened.
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Jeff Garzik posted on LKML on January the 5th a lengthy article about the state of linux Wireless. See here.
John W. Linville claimed the responsibility for Wireless support in the kernel. The archive of the LKML thread is available here.
Hopefully is this going to improve things...
Yeah, right...
Kernel APIs change all the time which can occasionnally occur userspace breakage. See the removal ov devfs in favor of udev...
This is probably going to be marked as offtopic, but it looks like the previous story (MS Windows officially broken) has been removed with 25 comments.
I know it was a dupe (not counting the fact that windows being broken is in itself a dupe), but I'm kind of frustrated not being able to flame the author about it.
It was posted last week on WTF
Looks like somebody screwed his editing job again...
I'd like to know who wrote it. Thanks for the info.
This, Mister, would be assuming that the power of a Bomb is proportional to its volume.
This is a blunt assumption!
looks like they decided to block any incoming traffic to the sco.com website, to circumvent the MyDoom effect.
Do they have the right to tamper with the namespaces that way?
Look what my ISP (wanadoo.fr) did to the shop.sco.com namespace :
...
02/23/04 15:09:59 dig shop.sco.com @ 193.252.19.1
Dig shop.sco.com@193.252.19.1
Non-authoritative answer
Recursive queries supported by this server
Query for shop.sco.com type=255 class=1
shop.sco.com A (Address) 127.0.0.1
sco.com NS (Nameserver) ns.wanadoo.fr
sco.com NS (Nameserver) ns2.wanadoo.fr
ns.wanadoo.fr A (Address) 193.252.19.1
ns2.wanadoo.fr A (Address) 193.252.19.2
That's so funny shit!
I guess the danger comes more from the magnetic field induced by the power lines than the electric field (measured in Tesla), which is far more important than the magnetic field induced by your cell phone
2004 will definitely be the linux desktop year.
And IMHO it takes the right direction with Bruce Perens' UserLinux initiative, if he succeeds at convincing linux users/developpers to switch to/work on this new DIY operating system.
It's mission statement would be : Provide businesses with freely available, high quality Linux operating systems accompanied by certifications, service, and support options designed to encourage productivity and security while reducing overall costs.
Well, this is really an excellent news, and I'm glad the Apache team managed to achieve this result.
However, I'm saddened by the declaration of Rasmus Lerdorf published on the UserLinux discuss list, where he claims that Apache 2/PHP integration is a "bad idea" on UNIX systems.
This sounds like an excellent news for all the PHP developpers in the world!
for 512kbps (which is standard) you pay 20-30 Euros.
But one ISP provides 4Mbps for 30 Euros, including VoIP and Television over IP.
one thing that doesn't change from site to site is that their logo still sucks!!
Ahh! German taste!
oh boy, you just stole my sig!!!
Now it took this guy six pages to explain the difference between 1000 and 1024.
Anyway, anyone who didn't know that 1GB = 2^30B woudn't probably have noticed the loss of their 8 GB, and the manufacturer clearly used that fact to virtually increase the capacity of their disk by using base 10 instead of base 2.
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You twat!
So what makes Ron Rivest thinks he might be able to solve this where other failed?
A key success factor of this business is trust. But unfortunaly for non-geeks, trust is hardly based on transaction security, but merely on the wealth of the company.
Microsoft tokens won't have the same trust factor as Linux tokens (for example), and customers won't buy tokens that could well be worth less than nothing, if the market decides that way.
Would you really invest a penny (because that's what is's all about : invest money) in peppercoin?
Wow! That's what I call an online community! I don't play Dark Age of Camelot, but my deepest sympathy goes to his family.
The main problem I encounter with p2p networks is that the same file with 2 different names will be considered as 2 different files.
This is why the file sharing system only works well with audio and video files and not software files.
Hence, such an open content network should include an advanced file recognition system with some sort of checksum or whatever : a blend of p2p and mirrors
I hope that the burning rates will be higher than the actual CD-ROM burning speeds, because at 8x, it takes about 24 hours to burn 100GB!
There is no point in funding the NASA by taxing the Sci-Fi books.
In fact, the Sci-Fi fan mainly wants to dream. He doesn't really care about space travelling being possible or not.
The truth is, the guys that should be taxed to fund the NASA ought to be those who have the biggest interest in space travel : Mining companies, settlers, builders, nations, scientists, etc.
In every emerging technology, there will always be a delay between the first appearance and the outcome of an almighty standard.
It was the same with SuperVGA (took about 2 years), Internet Protocols (still on going, W3C is struggling for standards) and now OpenGL and DirectX.
OpenGL 2.0 seems pretty much like the definitive solution...
This is definitely the "SunOS/BoxPoison.worm" that has infected the veridian server.
It spreads the same way Code red does using one of the multiple IIS backdoors. It creates/overwrites 4 files in each directory (default.asp, default.htm, index.asp, index.htm) of the C: drive containing the HTML code "f**k PoisonBOx".
McAfee merely detect the presence of those files on your system, but you can also verify it by the TCP port 600 being opened.