Even if exactly the same code was used, it still wouldn't crash on the Mac. Why? RTFL, people. It's a null-dereference bug. That means something tried to access memory location zero. Apparently under Winderz, location zero is not mapped to anything and causes a crash from an invalid memory access.
Under Mac OS 9 and earlier, memory location zero was explicitly a real memory location. I wouldn't be surprised if null accesses under OS X also don't cause a crash. So this bug wouldn't cause a crash on a Mac, period.
It's really amazing how many people posting here have stupid conspiracy theories about this, like how it's an intentional mis-feature to test crashing the browser, and how they think the word after 'type' means anything. Look folks, the problem is that 'type' is naked, when it should be 'type="TEXT"' or something similar.
The problem I have is that this is clearly infringing on Apple's iFoo series of trademarks. I mean, c'mon, if Microsoft has a problem with Lindows, Apple should have a problem with iLoo.
This would more properly be called "loo.NET" or "crap.NET", to keep in line with current Microsoft trademark practices. (A few years ago, MS-loo would have been correct.)
Of course, I'm pretty sure that iLoo was the journalist's creation and not Microsoft's fault.
That's what I do at home. I have a static IP range in my "internal" network, and my DHCP server is configured to give fixed IP addresses to the MAC addresses of my main computers. Visitors using either my Ethernet or wireless get a dynamic IP, and also any new computers (actually Ethernet cards) that I'm still tinkering with.
The few times I want to hook up a really old box that doesn't support DHCP, I can still manually configure an address for it.
There's no reason (other than a higher expected bandwidth usage) that this couldn't be done in an apartment/condo environment for users who want fixed IPs.
(160 condos is far too small for a direct assignment from ARIN.)
Really? Then why does the/29 for my SBC DSL have an ARIN record? As did the/29 I had with my previous DSL provider.
FWIW, these aren't independent assignments, but sub-assignments off of the ISP's address assignment. So it really isn't a "direct assignment". But I wouldn't expect any different for a condo with a/24.
That is exactly why I normally leave Flash disabled. One day I opened something into a tab (probably weather.com) and was startled by the sound of an 18-wheeler honking inside my laptop. At that point, Flash was declared to be an on-demand-only plugin.
I simply move it out of whatever directory it belongs in until I want to use it. Then I drop it back in, hit reload, and Mozilla finds that it now exists.
I'm now going to into finding a way to disable Flash plug-ins by the URL of the.swf file and put it in my userContent.css for site-by-site blocking. Or maybe I'll go for a whitelist instead. I might even put Java in a whitelist while I'm at it.
http://www.sbc.com/dsl/ would probably be a good start. Be sure to check the so-called "business" offerings too. Just don't install that Yahoo crapware on your computer if you can help it. It is also recommended you order PPPoE first and upgrade to fixed IP immediately after if possible; if nothing else you get a cheaper modem than you would get otherwise. Be aware that the technician coming to test the line ain't cheap. With what I knew about DSL, I wish I had known to insist on a self-install (I got it working with an old Alcatel 1000 about an hour before he arrived).
About the only bad thing (other than the $160/month) is that they cap it to 6M/384K when the technology goes up to 8M down (my own line tested for the full 8M speed) and a little faster up (400Kbit?), but then most ADSL modems seem to only have a half-duplex 10BT port anyhow.
Hmm... I just noticed they have a new offering with 256K upstream and faster minimum guaranteed downstream for $10-15/month more.
Yes, cable's more vulnerable to that - although with DSL, you're still sharing the backhaul pipe from the DSLAM to the ISP, and of course all the ISP's customers are sharing the ISP's pipe(s) to the rest of the Net. The tradeoff is that cable has much more bandwidth to share.
I think you've got it backwards. With cable, the bandwidth that is shared is in the neighborhood segment. That's the expensive stuff to upgrade, because it requires truck rolls and trenching, and it only has limited bandwidth because there are dozens of TV channels crammed in that same bandwidth.
With DSL, the bandwidth that gets shared is between COs and to the ISP, which is all fiber these days, and easily upgraded. It may be as simple as telling a computer somewhere to allocate more ATM bandwidth along a line, or a little more complicated by switching out a couple of fiber NIC modules to higher speed versions.
The only time that DSL is even equivalent is at the Remote Terminal level, and those are usually fed by at least 155Mbit ATM lines. And it's a plain data fiber, with no TV channels, so it's still easily upgradable by switching out NIC modules.
And that's mostly because of line quality reasons. In SBC territory, if you're lucky enough to be in an area upgraded with a Remote Terminal (or to live really close to a CO), you have the option of paying a rather steep (but still cheaper than T1) price for 6Mbit/384Kbit DSL. The tricky part is that it's much easier to find out where the COs are than to figure out where the RT neighborhoods are.
Of course they put a halt to their upgrading project (Project Pronto) when the economy crashed in late 2000. Now they just upgrade on an as-needed basis.
* There are no compiler bugs in reality. It's always my fault.:) Just this morning, I was staring at a piece of code, convinced I was seeing a compiler bug where it optimized away my if logic. I even showed it to a coworker, and he agreed. Then, later on, I spotted the spurious semicolon...
That only worked with VHS because the "priced for sale" versions weren't manufactured until after the "priced for rental" versions came out. Apparently the way that the laws work, once you've bought it, you can rent it as you damn well please. Availability was apprently the only thing enforcing rental vs sale pricing back in the VHS days.
DVD changed all this by being released at the same time as the "priced for rental" VHS tapes.
To some extent using the mouse gives me much more trouble than typing (so I use a trackball/trackpad when I can), but what's really been giving my right wrist a lot of trouble lately is the freaking N64 controller! Can anyone make one of those that's ergonomic? Please, so I can continue my PSO/Zelda addiction!
FWIW, the placement of the 6 key is exactly why I hate Microsoft's broken keyboard. Actually, I think keyboards like this should put the 6 key on both sides.
As to wierd typing styles, during my first year in college, I had to use 3270 terminals (yes, big, heavy, and IBM) to type on, and some evil person had put the "ENTER" key (the key that sends the whole screen to the mainframe) where the right shift key belongs. Ever since that one semester, I always use the left shift key, shifting my ring finger over for Q, A, and Z, and !.
First of all, do what you can to find yourself a mini-Model M keyboard! This is esentially your trusty friend M, only with that useless number pad chopped off. (I've found four of them over the years.) Then (as previously suggested), get a PS/2 to USB converter.
Unfortunately for me, one of the "features" of the M has a downside. The happily missing Winderz keys are unfortunately the very keys that a Mac needs for its command (aka Apple) keys!
You know, the images displayed don't look all that much like the "real" Strawberry Shortcake. If you take that away, the only thing left are trademarks. "Strawberry Shortcake", and probably the two others. Maybe if they did a "censored" version with black squares over the trademarks and (of course) the explanation of the whole stupid situation?
Of course if PA wants to do a real parody, they need to do one about "American McGreetings"! Parody the strip, changing the one on top into a lawyer, and (heh heh) the one on bottom into Gabe and/or Tycho!
Seems I didn't RTFA enough. You don't want to share the internet connection, just have your DSL-connected computer talk to the rest of your LAN. I don't think this is possible over the same Ethernet interface, since you have a choice of direct connect or PPPoE on a single interface. So you still have to either use a NAT box or get fixed IP and a second interface (whether an Ethernet or AirPort card) as I've outlined above.
One further note: static IP will cost an extra $10/month, but it's worth it, especially if you do any kind of P2P file sharing stuff. And for those of you thinking about singing up with SBC, it might be cheaper to order the PPPoE version first, then upgrade immediately, if for no other reason than getting a cheaper modem.
FWIW, I've been through five SBC DSL installs over a period of three years, originally with a now-defunct 3rd party ISP, and currently have 6M/384K DSL, so I've got a pretty good idea of how to make it all work.
1) Get a NAT box like from Linksys. (I've got my Mom's computer set up that way)
2) Call them up and ask for static IPs. Static IPs on SBC DSL are done using Bridged Ethernet, not PPPoE. Then you just get a hub and manually configure the computer for the fixed IP. In your block of eight IPs, IP+1 through IP+5 are for your computers, IP+6 is your gateway, and IP+0 and IP+7 are unusable because of the way TCP/IP works.
Note that SBC does not support DHCP with either method; you have to configure the PPPoE or fixed IP addresses manually. If you use internet sharing (like to an AirPort card), the shared interface will support DHCP.
If I were coming back from the future in a time machine to score a little cash off of the stock market, 2003 is not the time I'd come back. I'd come back in 1998 or so, start buying like crazy on the leading edge of the bubble, then dump everything in March 2000. And follow it up by a bunch of short trades. Or, without enough appropriately dated seed money, just skip the bubble's rise and go straight for the short trades.
That's not all. I had this explained to me last month. If you don't do things "their way", as in stocking their entire range of stuff, and display it prominently, you'll get demoted to a "C" class retailer. For which you don't get much more of a discount than the average Joe who orders bulk direct from GW.
Basically, GW considers themselves to be an entire hobby, rather than being a part of the hobby of minatures gaming. They'd prefer it if people didn't even have a chance to use them as a "gateway drug" for minatures games from other companies.
Think of Microsoft times ten. Imagine if it wasn't just file formats in Office and site licensing that requires paying for Windows based on the number of PCs and Macs at a site. Imagine if they required stores to stock mostly Microsoft stuff, and to stock the entire Microsoft "hobby" line.
Whew! Just finished downloading the full set via BitTorrent. The kb/s wasn't too impressive.
(Damn, this thing is almost a whole freaking gigabyte?!) You should've sprung for the good pipe, then. Right now I'm getting around 400KBytes/sec. Love that full speed DSL, baby! (I have 6Mb/384Kb.) It also helps when your upload side doesn't choke, because dropped ACKs are a leading cause of sucky bandwidth. (Right now the upload is a little less than half of my max.)
Strangely, now that I'm done, my upload rate is only 2-3 kb/s.
It all depends, but keep in mind that some of the people who are into upload-only mode aren't on asymmetrical pipes, so even the downloading/completed ratio isn't a good indicator. All it takes is a few folks with real T1s to make a torrent zip along. Now this is the kind of slashdot effect that I like to see.
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What do you mean "recently"? This story is almost ten years old.
Too bad it didn't say anything about the number of people who sp33k l33t.
Thank kami-sama that I'm part of a fandom (anime) that learns a real freaking language. Well, two if you count Engrish.
Under Mac OS 9 and earlier, memory location zero was explicitly a real memory location. I wouldn't be surprised if null accesses under OS X also don't cause a crash. So this bug wouldn't cause a crash on a Mac, period.
It's really amazing how many people posting here have stupid conspiracy theories about this, like how it's an intentional mis-feature to test crashing the browser, and how they think the word after 'type' means anything. Look folks, the problem is that 'type' is naked, when it should be 'type="TEXT"' or something similar.
This would more properly be called "loo.NET" or "crap.NET", to keep in line with current Microsoft trademark practices. (A few years ago, MS-loo would have been correct.)
Of course, I'm pretty sure that iLoo was the journalist's creation and not Microsoft's fault.
The few times I want to hook up a really old box that doesn't support DHCP, I can still manually configure an address for it.
There's no reason (other than a higher expected bandwidth usage) that this couldn't be done in an apartment/condo environment for users who want fixed IPs.
Really? Then why does the /29 for my SBC DSL have an ARIN record? As did the /29 I had with my previous DSL provider.
FWIW, these aren't independent assignments, but sub-assignments off of the ISP's address assignment. So it really isn't a "direct assignment". But I wouldn't expect any different for a condo with a /24.
So then what's wrong with just changing all advertising to blipverts?
I simply move it out of whatever directory it belongs in until I want to use it. Then I drop it back in, hit reload, and Mozilla finds that it now exists.
I'm now going to into finding a way to disable Flash plug-ins by the URL of the .swf file and put it in my userContent.css for site-by-site blocking. Or maybe I'll go for a whitelist instead. I might even put Java in a whitelist while I'm at it.
But the local loop isn't bandwidth-limited by other customer's bandwidth habits. When I don't get my full 6Mbits down, it's not my local loop's fault.
About the only bad thing (other than the $160/month) is that they cap it to 6M/384K when the technology goes up to 8M down (my own line tested for the full 8M speed) and a little faster up (400Kbit?), but then most ADSL modems seem to only have a half-duplex 10BT port anyhow.
Hmm... I just noticed they have a new offering with 256K upstream and faster minimum guaranteed downstream for $10-15/month more.
I think you've got it backwards. With cable, the bandwidth that is shared is in the neighborhood segment. That's the expensive stuff to upgrade, because it requires truck rolls and trenching, and it only has limited bandwidth because there are dozens of TV channels crammed in that same bandwidth.
With DSL, the bandwidth that gets shared is between COs and to the ISP, which is all fiber these days, and easily upgraded. It may be as simple as telling a computer somewhere to allocate more ATM bandwidth along a line, or a little more complicated by switching out a couple of fiber NIC modules to higher speed versions.
The only time that DSL is even equivalent is at the Remote Terminal level, and those are usually fed by at least 155Mbit ATM lines. And it's a plain data fiber, with no TV channels, so it's still easily upgradable by switching out NIC modules.
Of course they put a halt to their upgrading project (Project Pronto) when the economy crashed in late 2000. Now they just upgrade on an as-needed basis.
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I just spent two minutes looking at your sig trying to figure out why the semicolon was spurious before I realized it was just your sig!
DVD changed all this by being released at the same time as the "priced for rental" VHS tapes.
To some extent using the mouse gives me much more trouble than typing (so I use a trackball/trackpad when I can), but what's really been giving my right wrist a lot of trouble lately is the freaking N64 controller! Can anyone make one of those that's ergonomic? Please, so I can continue my PSO/Zelda addiction!
As to wierd typing styles, during my first year in college, I had to use 3270 terminals (yes, big, heavy, and IBM) to type on, and some evil person had put the "ENTER" key (the key that sends the whole screen to the mainframe) where the right shift key belongs. Ever since that one semester, I always use the left shift key, shifting my ring finger over for Q, A, and Z, and !.
Unfortunately for me, one of the "features" of the M has a downside. The happily missing Winderz keys are unfortunately the very keys that a Mac needs for its command (aka Apple) keys!
Of course if PA wants to do a real parody, they need to do one about "American McGreetings"! Parody the strip, changing the one on top into a lawyer, and (heh heh) the one on bottom into Gabe and/or Tycho!
In this particular case, I think the best response to this kind of lawyer-based slapdown stupidity is to mirror the picture far and wide.
One further note: static IP will cost an extra $10/month, but it's worth it, especially if you do any kind of P2P file sharing stuff. And for those of you thinking about singing up with SBC, it might be cheaper to order the PPPoE version first, then upgrade immediately, if for no other reason than getting a cheaper modem.
FWIW, I've been through five SBC DSL installs over a period of three years, originally with a now-defunct 3rd party ISP, and currently have 6M/384K DSL, so I've got a pretty good idea of how to make it all work.
2) Call them up and ask for static IPs. Static IPs on SBC DSL are done using Bridged Ethernet, not PPPoE. Then you just get a hub and manually configure the computer for the fixed IP. In your block of eight IPs, IP+1 through IP+5 are for your computers, IP+6 is your gateway, and IP+0 and IP+7 are unusable because of the way TCP/IP works.
Note that SBC does not support DHCP with either method; you have to configure the PPPoE or fixed IP addresses manually. If you use internet sharing (like to an AirPort card), the shared interface will support DHCP.
If I were coming back from the future in a time machine to score a little cash off of the stock market, 2003 is not the time I'd come back. I'd come back in 1998 or so, start buying like crazy on the leading edge of the bubble, then dump everything in March 2000. And follow it up by a bunch of short trades. Or, without enough appropriately dated seed money, just skip the bubble's rise and go straight for the short trades.
Basically, GW considers themselves to be an entire hobby, rather than being a part of the hobby of minatures gaming. They'd prefer it if people didn't even have a chance to use them as a "gateway drug" for minatures games from other companies.
Think of Microsoft times ten. Imagine if it wasn't just file formats in Office and site licensing that requires paying for Windows based on the number of PCs and Macs at a site. Imagine if they required stores to stock mostly Microsoft stuff, and to stock the entire Microsoft "hobby" line.
(Damn, this thing is almost a whole freaking gigabyte?!) You should've sprung for the good pipe, then. Right now I'm getting around 400KBytes/sec. Love that full speed DSL, baby! (I have 6Mb/384Kb.) It also helps when your upload side doesn't choke, because dropped ACKs are a leading cause of sucky bandwidth. (Right now the upload is a little less than half of my max.)
Strangely, now that I'm done, my upload rate is only 2-3 kb/s.
It all depends, but keep in mind that some of the people who are into upload-only mode aren't on asymmetrical pipes, so even the downloading/completed ratio isn't a good indicator. All it takes is a few folks with real T1s to make a torrent zip along. Now this is the kind of slashdot effect that I like to see.