Well, we had the "Protect and Survive" days here rather than the US "Duck and Cover", but I can say from first hand experience, the Russian cars they sold here (clones of Fiats) were utter crap. They may have been built like a tank, but they were built like a very crap tank that corroded easily. Having said that, domestic cars of the era that Ladas sold in great numbers over here were also pretty dreadful. (Morris Marina, anyone?)
The only Russian machinery I would contemplate owning is the single engine Yak light aircraft (such as the Yak-52 or the Yak-50) and the Sukhoi light planes. Relatively inexpensive and genuinely well built, even if they are a bit quirky.
Whilst not clustering, a good use for these low power systems would be for web hosts or budget dedicated servers. I'm sure a server room full of these would require much less airconditioning (and power) than the typical servers. Many people require dedicated servers for security (they are the only one on the box) and don't require fast FPU performance.
The SPF website gives the solution for the 'roving user' and 'mail forwarding' problems.
In summary, the 'roving user' problem can be solved by any of the following: * SASL enabled SMTP on the SPFed SMTP server for the domain. Users then send their mail via that server instead of $RANDOM_ISP server. Port 25 blocking by the ISP isn't an issue since there's another port for SASL SMTP. * Provide web mail access for roving users. * Provide shell access for advanced roving users. (Personally, I use the latter).
The forwarding problem can be fixed by rewriting the envelope. The solution is shown on the SPF website.
Wouldn't this be declared as valid, and presumably laying the blame on the user.
Yes - and then we'd know exactly who's machine has been trojaned with much less effort. The ISP can then disconnect them until they have patched their OS/removed the trojan.
it's kinda scary that even the largest/richest software co in the world can't stop the spread of their IP, and that it takes only one person.
No it's not scary at all. It's not even surprising. The only thing about this that's surprising is that it hasn't happened sooner.
There's a lot of talk about 'information wants to be free' which is basically bullshit. Information doesn't actually want anything. It doesn't have the squishy bits made of meat that you need to be able to 'want' something.
Instead it's a basic property of information - if it's put in the presence of a copying mechanism, it will be copied. And if you're trying to stop it, you've already lost as soon as the information in question gets outside of your organization.
I use both X11 (XFree86) on a P4 2GHz and Windows XP on a P4 2.6GHz. I can't honestly tell the difference between them in responsiveness terms. I even play games (RTCW:ET etc.) on X11 and they run just fine at 1600x1200 resolution on that 2GHz system.
I used to run X11 on a 486 with 16MB of RAM. Ran fine on that too. The basic X Window System today is no bigger than it was when I had the 486, although the toolkits (GTK or Qt) are rather larger than in the 486 days (Openlook or Motif, or (gah) Xaw).
Most US states have incredibly soft DWI laws. For example, in Texas where I lived for about 6 years, IIRC, if you got banned for your 3rd DWI, they'd still let you drive to work.
Where I live now, the first offence causes a ban. Banned means banned - you're going to have to find some other way to get to work. The ban starts at 2 years, and getting insurance afterwards is tough. A subsequent conviction results in prison. The penalty for driving whilst banned is prison.
If you need your car for your livelyhood, the answer's simple: don't drink and drive. Why NM can't have a proper ban on the first offence is a mystery.
Google's numbers are at least coming from hard data, rather than some handwaving article. Anecdotal evidence suggests that Google's Zeitgeist is closer to the truth than the statement that 'Linux is currently overtaking Mac' in desktop installs.
You don't even need to do a survey - just look at the Google Zeitgeist for evidence.
Only 1% of Google users are using Linux, it's languishing down there with Windows 95. Macintosh has three times the usage.
I am a Linux fanboy. I'm using my Linux system now, and my primary desktop system has been Linux for quite a while. However, facts are facts, and the Mac is doing much better on the desktop. Linux is ready for the desktop, but only certain desktops (corporate desktops, where competent sysadmins run the systems, developer's desktops, like my own, desktops installed on other people's behalf, like my Dad's). However, it's not ready for the mainstream home user. Macintosh has been ready for all desktops since the 1980s.
I agree with you on the hardware side. My next computer purchase will be a laptop, and it will be a PowerBook. PCs, even 'integrated' ones like laptops are parts-bin machines, and will always be parts-bin machines. The Mac is more like an Audi - although it may not boast any more features than a Ford, it's better thought out and it's more likely to just work.
Having said that, I've been using RedHat Linux 8 since it came out as my primary desktop. I've not had to tinker with it for a long time - it just works. That doesn't mean I didn't need to tinker at the start - my ancient parport scanner for example, I needed to build sane from source. But then again, the scanner isn't supported at all under Windows XP (and I suspect not under Mac OSX), so I still win. Why not buy a new one? Well, the existing one might be old but it works and I don't see the need to replace working hardware which can be fixed by 'configure; make; make install'.
Choice? Screw choice! I want function! Would you drive a car if you had to put the damn wheels on every time you parked it?
You've obviously never had to drive a British Leyland product, or anything with Lucas prince of Darkness electrics:-)
But back on topic - you don't have to do that with Linux. I run RH8.0 at home, play games (such as RTCW:ET) that come for Linux, and spend no more time 'screwing around with it' than I ever do with Windows. My printer just works. The only bit of hardware at home I did have to fiddle around with was my ancient parport scanner, but you have to screw around a great deal to make the same scanner work under Windows XP, too.
I've got my Dad using Linux. I know he'd get infected by social engineering worms such as MyDoom if he was on Windows because every so often he moans that he can't download $SPYWARE from an email and I tell him "That's why you have Linux because it STOPS you downloading $SPYWARE and it means I don't spend an hour a week de-crapifying your computer!" After seeing the havok wreaked on friends by worms and spyware, he's stopped moaning about not having Windows. (And he'd only moan if I put Windows XP on his system because I'd lock it down so he couldn't infect the machine with malware).
Oh, good 'ol DesqView, a legend in its lunchtime. I used that to run a RemoteAccess BBS along with my usual day-to-day use of my 16MHz 386 system, with a whopping 2.5MB RAM (all in discrete 32kbyte chips, populating a massive full-length expansion card)
I remember plugging in each of the chips, buying them 512K at a time in a long tube filled with the buggers. 'Wow, this is amazing,' I thought, 'each of these chips has as much memory as a complete BBC Micro!'
I made the mistake of installing Overnet on Windows. I don't boot into Windows often, and I only installed it to get one specific file (which I ended up FTPing from a friend because the transfer rate seldom exceeded 1.5Kbyte/sec. It was a fairly hard-to-get made for TV movie).
Unfortunately, it also installed some extremely annoying interstitial adware which was a real pain to uninstall (and the adware company deliberately made it difficult to uninstall by the looks of the thing). The last time I booted Windows was a month ago, so it took me a while to remember what caused the installation of this cruft (I only booted XP to run BVE). The adware was also buggy and caused MSIE to hang for over a minute every time it displayed one of its ads. On the plus side it did get me to download the Firefox browser - I had to use Firefox to download the uninstaller for the adware!
This doesn't make the patent any better - although it's not particularly broad, using XML in this way is hardly novel. In fact I'd go as far to say is that it's an obvious use of XML to anyone ordinarily skilled in the art.
em*bry*o P Pronunciation Key (mbr-)
n. pl. em*bry*os An organism in its early stages of development, especially before it has reached a distinctively recognizable form.
An organism at any time before full development, birth, or hatching.
The fertilized egg of a vertebrate animal following cleavage.
In humans, the prefetal product of conception from implantation through the eighth week of development.
Where is what I said inconsistent with the definition?
On this morning's Today programme on BBC Radio 4, this very thing was discussed. One of the interesting arguments: at what point to we determine an embryo a human being?
Is a ball of 100 human embryo cells a human being? One woman on the program was claiming - yes, this is so. I personally think that this is a bit extreme, almost "every sperm is sacred" extreme.
On an unrelated note, I find it ironic that the same people who claim that abortion at day 3 is criminal are often pro-death penalty.
I know someone from the space programme in the 1960s - a man named Gene Kranz, who was (maybe still is) a member of the flying club I was a member of when I lived in Houston. Gene Kranz, if you don't remember, is the "Failure is not an option" man from the Apollo 13 mission when it all went pear-shaped.
He did a talk for the whole club about the Apollo programme, and why what's happening in today's NASA is happening. The talk was in 2000, so this was before the Columbia break-up. His analysis was basically society as a whole and by consequence NASA was now too risk averse to do anything exciting in space. The irony is that the risk aversion in NASA is actually a risk in itself, and contributed to the Challenger accident (and now the Columbia one as we've seen in the reports).
Bush's speech is all well and good, but I'm highly skeptical that anything will come of it. Going to Mars will be a very dangerous mission. Going to the Moon was very dangerous, and it's surprising that there were so few casualties in the Apollo programme. I don't think NASA has the guts to stomach these risks without a very serious shake-up in culture.
I hope I'm proven wrong, but I'm not particularly confident.
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Microsoft was almost incidental, pushed through by the inertia of the x86 chip (and more by the cheap IBM clone).
Apple had all this ease of use years before Windows 3.0 (the first usable version of Windows). Microsoft didn't innovate this ease of use - they copied others. Microsoft rarely innovate - they merely popularise ideas that are already out there. It's the cheap IBM clone and good marketing that made Microsoft - not ease of use. Witness the popularity of MS-DOS in its day when there were much more user-friendly platforms out there.
The buzzing sound from a transformer is generated mechanically from the transformer parts vibrating like a loudspeaker. They don't have to vibrate much to create an audible hum.
As for not being evolved to handle those environments, lightning has been around for much longer than humans have.
I've run the numbers. The additional cost of an LCD is orders of magnitude above the cost savings in electricity. Additionally, LCDs do generate quite a bit of heat - the 17in Compaq one I use here, the entire screen gets quite warm. I think the 17in Compaq uses around 50W or so, my 21in Trinitron CRT at home doesn't use much more than that (and the viewing angle is MUCH better)
The default service results in a connection that's firewalled from incoming data, and port 25 outbound is filtered.
If the user checks the box "I don't want to have your firewall" they get a normal end-to-end connection.
Also, dynamic IPs on 'always on' services is lunacy. Everyone should get a static IP by default. That way people would have more accountability (and I can block troublemakers from my server much more easily).
I use Spamhaus's XBL (Exploits Blacklist) which lists exploited systems sending spam. 99% of my Exim reject log is cable/DSL/dialup IP addresses being blocked by the XBL. Exploited home Windows systems is a very big problem.
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Programmed well?
Well, we had the "Protect and Survive" days here rather than the US "Duck and Cover", but I can say from first hand experience, the Russian cars they sold here (clones of Fiats) were utter crap. They may have been built like a tank, but they were built like a very crap tank that corroded easily. Having said that, domestic cars of the era that Ladas sold in great numbers over here were also pretty dreadful. (Morris Marina, anyone?)
The only Russian machinery I would contemplate owning is the single engine Yak light aircraft (such as the Yak-52 or the Yak-50) and the Sukhoi light planes. Relatively inexpensive and genuinely well built, even if they are a bit quirky.
Whilst not clustering, a good use for these low power systems would be for web hosts or budget dedicated servers. I'm sure a server room full of these would require much less airconditioning (and power) than the typical servers. Many people require dedicated servers for security (they are the only one on the box) and don't require fast FPU performance.
The SPF website gives the solution for the 'roving user' and 'mail forwarding' problems.
In summary, the 'roving user' problem can be solved by any of the following:
* SASL enabled SMTP on the SPFed SMTP server for the domain. Users then send their mail via that server instead of $RANDOM_ISP server. Port 25 blocking by the ISP isn't an issue since there's another port for SASL SMTP.
* Provide web mail access for roving users.
* Provide shell access for advanced roving users.
(Personally, I use the latter).
The forwarding problem can be fixed by rewriting the envelope. The solution is shown on the SPF website.
Yes - and then we'd know exactly who's machine has been trojaned with much less effort. The ISP can then disconnect them until they have patched their OS/removed the trojan.
Ewww. WD-40. It's really only good as a cleaner.
Try LPS-2 instead. Much better product.
No it's not scary at all. It's not even surprising. The only thing about this that's surprising is that it hasn't happened sooner.
There's a lot of talk about 'information wants to be free' which is basically bullshit. Information doesn't actually want anything. It doesn't have the squishy bits made of meat that you need to be able to 'want' something.
Instead it's a basic property of information - if it's put in the presence of a copying mechanism, it will be copied. And if you're trying to stop it, you've already lost as soon as the information in question gets outside of your organization.
I use both X11 (XFree86) on a P4 2GHz and Windows XP on a P4 2.6GHz. I can't honestly tell the difference between them in responsiveness terms. I even play games (RTCW:ET etc.) on X11 and they run just fine at 1600x1200 resolution on that 2GHz system.
I used to run X11 on a 486 with 16MB of RAM. Ran fine on that too. The basic X Window System today is no bigger than it was when I had the 486, although the toolkits (GTK or Qt) are rather larger than in the 486 days (Openlook or Motif, or (gah) Xaw).
Why can't they just have proper anti-DWI laws?
Most US states have incredibly soft DWI laws. For example, in Texas where I lived for about 6 years, IIRC, if you got banned for your 3rd DWI, they'd still let you drive to work.
Where I live now, the first offence causes a ban. Banned means banned - you're going to have to find some other way to get to work. The ban starts at 2 years, and getting insurance afterwards is tough. A subsequent conviction results in prison. The penalty for driving whilst banned is prison.
If you need your car for your livelyhood, the answer's simple: don't drink and drive. Why NM can't have a proper ban on the first offence is a mystery.
Google's numbers are at least coming from hard data, rather than some handwaving article. Anecdotal evidence suggests that Google's Zeitgeist is closer to the truth than the statement that 'Linux is currently overtaking Mac' in desktop installs.
You don't even need to do a survey - just look at the Google Zeitgeist for evidence.
Only 1% of Google users are using Linux, it's languishing down there with Windows 95. Macintosh has three times the usage.
I am a Linux fanboy. I'm using my Linux system now, and my primary desktop system has been Linux for quite a while. However, facts are facts, and the Mac is doing much better on the desktop. Linux is ready for the desktop, but only certain desktops (corporate desktops, where competent sysadmins run the systems, developer's desktops, like my own, desktops installed on other people's behalf, like my Dad's). However, it's not ready for the mainstream home user. Macintosh has been ready for all desktops since the 1980s.
I agree with you on the hardware side. My next computer purchase will be a laptop, and it will be a PowerBook. PCs, even 'integrated' ones like laptops are parts-bin machines, and will always be parts-bin machines. The Mac is more like an Audi - although it may not boast any more features than a Ford, it's better thought out and it's more likely to just work.
Having said that, I've been using RedHat Linux 8 since it came out as my primary desktop. I've not had to tinker with it for a long time - it just works. That doesn't mean I didn't need to tinker at the start - my ancient parport scanner for example, I needed to build sane from source. But then again, the scanner isn't supported at all under Windows XP (and I suspect not under Mac OSX), so I still win. Why not buy a new one? Well, the existing one might be old but it works and I don't see the need to replace working hardware which can be fixed by 'configure; make; make install'.
You've obviously never had to drive a British Leyland product, or anything with Lucas prince of Darkness electrics
But back on topic - you don't have to do that with Linux. I run RH8.0 at home, play games (such as RTCW:ET) that come for Linux, and spend no more time 'screwing around with it' than I ever do with Windows. My printer just works. The only bit of hardware at home I did have to fiddle around with was my ancient parport scanner, but you have to screw around a great deal to make the same scanner work under Windows XP, too.
I've got my Dad using Linux. I know he'd get infected by social engineering worms such as MyDoom if he was on Windows because every so often he moans that he can't download $SPYWARE from an email and I tell him "That's why you have Linux because it STOPS you downloading $SPYWARE and it means I don't spend an hour a week de-crapifying your computer!" After seeing the havok wreaked on friends by worms and spyware, he's stopped moaning about not having Windows. (And he'd only moan if I put Windows XP on his system because I'd lock it down so he couldn't infect the machine with malware).
Oh, good 'ol DesqView, a legend in its lunchtime. I used that to run a RemoteAccess BBS along with my usual day-to-day use of my 16MHz 386 system, with a whopping 2.5MB RAM (all in discrete 32kbyte chips, populating a massive full-length expansion card)
I remember plugging in each of the chips, buying them 512K at a time in a long tube filled with the buggers. 'Wow, this is amazing,' I thought, 'each of these chips has as much memory as a complete BBC Micro!'
I made the mistake of installing Overnet on Windows. I don't boot into Windows often, and I only installed it to get one specific file (which I ended up FTPing from a friend because the transfer rate seldom exceeded 1.5Kbyte/sec. It was a fairly hard-to-get made for TV movie).
Unfortunately, it also installed some extremely annoying interstitial adware which was a real pain to uninstall (and the adware company deliberately made it difficult to uninstall by the looks of the thing). The last time I booted Windows was a month ago, so it took me a while to remember what caused the installation of this cruft (I only booted XP to run BVE).
The adware was also buggy and caused MSIE to hang for over a minute every time it displayed one of its ads. On the plus side it did get me to download the Firefox browser - I had to use Firefox to download the uninstaller for the adware!
The headline is a bit misleading, true.
This doesn't make the patent any better - although it's not particularly broad, using XML in this way is hardly novel. In fact I'd go as far to say is that it's an obvious use of XML to anyone ordinarily skilled in the art.
You still haven't answered the question: what, exactly, was wrong with the original post?
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Where is what I said inconsistent with the definition?
On this morning's Today programme on BBC Radio 4, this very thing was discussed. One of the interesting arguments: at what point to we determine an embryo a human being?
Is a ball of 100 human embryo cells a human being? One woman on the program was claiming - yes, this is so. I personally think that this is a bit extreme, almost "every sperm is sacred" extreme.
On an unrelated note, I find it ironic that the same people who claim that abortion at day 3 is criminal are often pro-death penalty.
Use it to Slashdot Slashdot.
I know someone from the space programme in the 1960s - a man named Gene Kranz, who was (maybe still is) a member of the flying club I was a member of when I lived in Houston. Gene Kranz, if you don't remember, is the "Failure is not an option" man from the Apollo 13 mission when it all went pear-shaped.
He did a talk for the whole club about the Apollo programme, and why what's happening in today's NASA is happening. The talk was in 2000, so this was before the Columbia break-up. His analysis was basically society as a whole and by consequence NASA was now too risk averse to do anything exciting in space. The irony is that the risk aversion in NASA is actually a risk in itself, and contributed to the Challenger accident (and now the Columbia one as we've seen in the reports).
Bush's speech is all well and good, but I'm highly skeptical that anything will come of it. Going to Mars will be a very dangerous mission. Going to the Moon was very dangerous, and it's surprising that there were so few casualties in the Apollo programme. I don't think NASA has the guts to stomach these risks without a very serious shake-up in culture.
I hope I'm proven wrong, but I'm not particularly confident.
Microsoft was almost incidental, pushed through by the inertia of the x86 chip (and more by the cheap IBM clone).
Apple had all this ease of use years before Windows 3.0 (the first usable version of Windows). Microsoft didn't innovate this ease of use - they copied others. Microsoft rarely innovate - they merely popularise ideas that are already out there. It's the cheap IBM clone and good marketing that made Microsoft - not ease of use. Witness the popularity of MS-DOS in its day when there were much more user-friendly platforms out there.
If it's coronal discharge, it's faulty.
The buzzing sound from a transformer is generated mechanically from the transformer parts vibrating like a loudspeaker. They don't have to vibrate much to create an audible hum.
As for not being evolved to handle those environments, lightning has been around for much longer than humans have.
I've run the numbers. The additional cost of an LCD is orders of magnitude above the cost savings in electricity. Additionally, LCDs do generate quite a bit of heat - the 17in Compaq one I use here, the entire screen gets quite warm. I think the 17in Compaq uses around 50W or so, my 21in Trinitron CRT at home doesn't use much more than that (and the viewing angle is MUCH better)
What ISPs need to offer really is two services.
The default service results in a connection that's firewalled from incoming data, and port 25 outbound is filtered.
If the user checks the box "I don't want to have your firewall" they get a normal end-to-end connection.
Also, dynamic IPs on 'always on' services is lunacy. Everyone should get a static IP by default. That way people would have more accountability (and I can block troublemakers from my server much more easily).
I use Spamhaus's XBL (Exploits Blacklist) which lists exploited systems sending spam. 99% of my Exim reject log is cable/DSL/dialup IP addresses being blocked by the XBL. Exploited home Windows systems is a very big problem.
I'm a covert ops!
That role rocks on RTCW:ET. I'm totally addicted to the game. I usually play CvOps, sometimes engineer and sometimes a medic.