As there is nothing on the MS linked site that supports that claim.
Agreed; I didn't see anything in the article that would imply that either.
So that means that either MS is posting one thing and telling hardware manufacturers something completely different, or (far more likely) Soyo just doesn't understand the requirements or is too lazy to implement them properly.
That means that the FreeBSD folks are behind the times and have a little work to do...
Errrr, FreeBSD has support for ACPI in the -CURRENT branch. This is the branch where things are tested before being commited to -STABLE. The ACPI code itself uses the same code base as Linux; the only difference is that FreeBSD isn't putting beta quality code on production servers...
do we realy want the future to think that porn was concidered important. gee, it's replicated in all formats all over the world
Well, it is considered important by a lot of people, and given how widespread it is, has definately made a major impact on our culture. Like it or not, that's a part of history and should be recorded as such.
And as for the star trek replicator paragraph, if something like that were to come out it would have a huge impact on society, and probably result in a major change in property laws, including these copyright and patent ideas. After all, without scarcity, modern economics is pretty much lost.
Which is exactly where you're missing the point. Digital content already exists in a world without scarcity, which is why trying to apply current economic laws to it is failing so miserably. The internet is the culmination of a revolution that began with the printing press. Media companies are trying to use copyright to enforce artificial scarcity because they know that their business model won't work anymore.
I think another good point to make is that many of those who don't believe in silly things like copyright are not communists or anarchists. In fact, many value their property rights very highly and will vehemently defend them. However, the distinction is that they believe that thoughts and ideas (read: content) are simply not things that can be owned.
I'm not defending warez kiddies, of course. They're definitely not on the moral high ground here:) But the whole idea of "Intellectual Property" is a contradiction in terms, and flawed at best.
2. Students remove batteries from the calculators.
3. The teacher walks to each desk and verifies that the batteries are out.
4. The students replace batteries and place calculators under their desk.
Tee hee, I remember my HP48GX had a mega-capacitor inside of it that would keep the memory for up to 10 minutes with no batteries. The idea was to make it easier to change the batteries without losing data, but it made it great for those who didn't understand the technology:)
Not to mention it had symbolic maniuplation and automatic built-in unit conversion YEARS before TI caught up.
Personally, I like the attitude of my calculus teacher. You had to show the steps on the test, so I wrote some programs that used the symbolic maniuplation to come up with the right results. A few of the other students thought this was an unfair advantage, but her opinion was, "If you understand the subject well enough to write a program to do it for you, more power to ya."
Hmm, posted here or on his site? I've been trying wilwheaton.net since the show started airing, but it was down even before the/. article went up.
There's a few comments about it on roxanndawson.net, mostly supporting Wil. I just figured she was playing into character like Shatner did (and like I said before, she DID play a Klingon:)
It still seems a little fishy to me. If there really was a misunderstanding that was bothering him, wouldn't he have been "going to call her" after the taping finished, not after it aired? Or did he mention something about it before tonight? Hmm, maybe Wil's trolling/. in a more traditional medium...
Personally, I think they were just acting. Wil said that himself in his exit interview. And after all, Roxann DID play a Klingon. The players do discuss "strategies" before the game, so maybe they decided to mess with the audience a little.
There's really to telling how long those exit interviews really were. That quote MIGHT have been taken out of context. I still think most of them went out for drinks after the taping and had a good laugh about it. Hmm, maybe if Wil's site ever comes back up he'll tell us what really happened...
You can have animated backgrounds in Windows now? Suddenly I feel relieved that my employer is too cheap to upgrade my WinNT 4.0 box.;-)
You too can have animated backgrounds! IE 4 or "better"; even on Win95 or NT4, has a "feature" called Active Desktop that lets you load GIFs, JPGs, and even HTML pages (complete with VBScript, oh the wonder) as backgrounds. Just pick you favorite animated GIF, set it to tile, and let the migrane follow.
Especially good images for this are phychodelic animations that change colors completely, annoying little hamsters, or quick strobe animations. Great to stick on a friends machine (warning: don't try this on someone who has epilepsy).
It gets better! Active Desktop also has features that improve your Windows experience by making the shell crash more, both by itself and when IE falls over.
The first thing we do with those NT boxes here at work is make sure that the Active Desktop "feature" is permanently disabled:)
I switched most of my domains over to DirectNIC when I got fed up with NSI about 6 months back. There were many things, but the last straw was that my newer domains were in a different system (some crappy web interface) that wouldn't let me specify more than two DNS servers. I used their support e-mail to ask if it was possible, and after about a week got an (automated) message back saying that their automated help system couldn't answer my question and to fax the information in. Forget that.
Anyway, I just started looking at registrars at random, and ended up at DirectNIC. I've been very happy with them so far. It costs a third as much, and while it uses a web interface, it's a nice one and makes it really easy to manage multiple domains. You can even get SSL certificates through them -- I'm pretty sure it's just a standard Equifax SSL cert -- if you can ignore Verisign's FUD (doesn't bother me one bit, I got a few Equifax certs after balking at Verisign's insane pricing for 128-bit). NSI's "new" interface always just seemed hacked-together to me.
Anyway, ditching NSI made me very happy in itself, and DirectNIC has been pleasing to deal with. I'd gladly encourage anyone to give them a try. The transfer process from NSI is relatively painless; I've heard a lot about them trying to hold on to domains but an email confirmation with a special key to put in a web page was all I needed.
And i know people using DOS for there daily
programming, creation of Embedded Systems and
ofcourse webbrowsing and chatting....
Yes, DOS is definitely used for embedded systems. Last time I was at Target I caught a glimpse of one of the "cash registers" (which are actually IBM terminals) rebooting. It was running some vaiant of DOS, I couldn't tell if it was MS or IBM's, and MS Lan Manager (!).
Also, if you compiled a test kernel yourself and don't want to clutter the boot menu, you can just tell grub to boot it anyway - it comes with a shell (nothing you need to work with unless you want to).
So basically Linux can finally do what BSD's loader(8) has been doing for ages?:-)
Seriously, BSD (especially Free, but Net and Open have good ones too) seriously kicks when it comes to the bootstrap process. There's nothing quite like being able to boot from any kernel file you please, as well as loading/unloading kernel modules and configuring devices before the kernel boots. I hear the commercial UNIX loaders on hardware like Alpha and Sparc have similar features.
I love both *BSD and Linux, and it's nice to see Linux finally get a bootloader that's not stuck in the stone ages. Great work!
Bah,./ sucks! Tried to post this last night by MySQL was being gimpy...
I'm sorry, but I have to argue this point. Everyone on the 'net got hit by Nimda.
I guess it depends on the semantics of what the original poster meant by "hit". Yeah, I got plenty of crap in my logfiles, but then again so did everyone else. At least my IIS box (I'd love to run Apache on the Exchange server, but stupid Outlook Web Access doesn't seem to like it for some funny reason:) wasn't contributing to the problem.
Slightly offtopic, I'd like to know which crack-smoking moderator modded the parent as Flamebait. It's a valid point worth exploring and no more flamebait than my original post:)
FBSD/Apache
FreeBSD rocks!
Verizon decided the proper response was to ingress filter port 80 traffic for all residential DSL customers (something they'd never done in almost three years of service).
Okay, now this is another rant entirely... I automatically hate any ISP who does port filtering/transparent proxying of any sort.
...or because other nimrods can't be bothered to do any kind of bounds checking.
The original CodeRed exploited a buffer overflow in the Index Server DLLs (the authors of which should be shot). Nimda, on the other hand, exploited a bug in the decoding of Unicode/UTF-8 character sets in URLs. To be fair, UTF-8 decoding is so complex and non-trivial, it's arguable that nobody has gotten it right yet. There may be one, two, or even zero correct implementations. Perhaps making the security check (rather naive filtering for../) depend on correctly decoding the URL is inexcusable bad design, but it's certainly not as mind-numbingly stupid as not doing proper bounds checking...
That is unless everyone in the entire world stopped using IIS.
Maybe MS should put up a big red warning screen when you install IIS that it requires a dedeicated admin whose full-time job is installing patches and removing MS bloat-components and won't let you continue until you click that you have. Though for some reason I don't think even that would stop some PHBs...
Hehe, one of the (few) advantages of working for an accountant is that they know so little about the technical stuff they don't even try to mandate particular software or methods.
<RANT>A big part of the problem is that companies like MS cater to the lowest common denominator and happily let users install and activate potentially and probably dangerous services without fully understanding the responsibilities involved in it. Witness the number of Win2k boxes whose 'admins' installed with the "give me everything" option and didn't even know they had a web server running...</RANT>
I didn't. IIS can be secured -- many things that MS releases patches for are not exploitable if you follow sane security practices. Stuff like deleting all the ISAPI crap that comes in the default setup, and putting your web root in a nonstandard location (preferably on a different partition), deleting all sample files, enforcing proper filesystem permissions, and running any applications in an isolated process.
Of course, one of the advantages of Apache is that it ships in a relatively secure configuration by default, it's better for dummys who install stuff and plug it into the network without bothering to check the configuration. It's a whole lot better by default than IIS, that's for sure. Most of the MS patches are for various add-ons like index service that most people don't use anyway and should be shut off.
DISCLAIMER: I use Apache for the primary web server for the business I work at. We run IIS as the secondary server for load-balancing and have yet to be compromised by anything, even though patches don't always get applied immediately (usually pretty soon after release though). I think Apache is great, but want to point out that anything can be secured if you put some effort into it.
Probably because if they were to ban every hip-hop song that is offensive there would be nothing left to play...
It's already hard enough on the radio stations having to play songs where the lyrics sound like, "...and then I ---- to her ---- and ---- the old ---- of ---- ---- ---- mother ----!!!"
Slashdot Mirror
As there is nothing on the MS linked site that supports that claim.
Agreed; I didn't see anything in the article that would imply that either.
So that means that either MS is posting one thing and telling hardware manufacturers something completely different, or (far more likely) Soyo just doesn't understand the requirements or is too lazy to implement them properly.
That means that the FreeBSD folks are behind the times and have a little work to do...
Errrr, FreeBSD has support for ACPI in the -CURRENT branch. This is the branch where things are tested before being commited to -STABLE. The ACPI code itself uses the same code base as Linux; the only difference is that FreeBSD isn't putting beta quality code on production servers...
That headline really needs to be changed. It should read something like "ACPI Forced On in WinXP Certified Mobos"
Also, did anyone else notice this little gem on the requirements page?
Does this mean hardware support for DRM in sound cards?
Hmm, come to think of it, maybe the Rosetta stone was outlawed by the ancient Egyptians...
do we realy want the future to think that porn was concidered important. gee, it's replicated in all formats all over the world
Well, it is considered important by a lot of people, and given how widespread it is, has definately made a major impact on our culture. Like it or not, that's a part of history and should be recorded as such.
Who else thinks michael is going to get his ass kicked for pushing Taco's proposal down out of the top spot?
Have you tried using the DOMAIN\Username format for your user name?
Most likely the admin doesn't know how to configure basic authentication properly.
Of course, if you're reading your mail in a web browser, you really should get whoever runs it to set up SSL if they haven't already...
And as for the star trek replicator paragraph, if something like that were to come out it would have a huge impact on society, and probably result in a major change in property laws, including these copyright and patent ideas. After all, without scarcity, modern economics is pretty much lost.
Which is exactly where you're missing the point. Digital content already exists in a world without scarcity, which is why trying to apply current economic laws to it is failing so miserably. The internet is the culmination of a revolution that began with the printing press. Media companies are trying to use copyright to enforce artificial scarcity because they know that their business model won't work anymore.
I think another good point to make is that many of those who don't believe in silly things like copyright are not communists or anarchists. In fact, many value their property rights very highly and will vehemently defend them. However, the distinction is that they believe that thoughts and ideas (read: content) are simply not things that can be owned.
I'm not defending warez kiddies, of course. They're definitely not on the moral high ground here :) But the whole idea of "Intellectual Property" is a contradiction in terms, and flawed at best.
2. Students remove batteries from the calculators.
3. The teacher walks to each desk and verifies that the batteries are out.
4. The students replace batteries and place calculators under their desk.
Tee hee, I remember my HP48GX had a mega-capacitor inside of it that would keep the memory for up to 10 minutes with no batteries. The idea was to make it easier to change the batteries without losing data, but it made it great for those who didn't understand the technology :)
Not to mention it had symbolic maniuplation and automatic built-in unit conversion YEARS before TI caught up.
Personally, I like the attitude of my calculus teacher. You had to show the steps on the test, so I wrote some programs that used the symbolic maniuplation to come up with the right results. A few of the other students thought this was an unfair advantage, but her opinion was, "If you understand the subject well enough to write a program to do it for you, more power to ya."
Ok, cool, thanks. I'll check it out once the /. effect passes...
Hmm, posted here or on his site? I've been trying wilwheaton.net since the show started airing, but it was down even before the /. article went up.
:)
/. in a more traditional medium...
There's a few comments about it on roxanndawson.net, mostly supporting Wil. I just figured she was playing into character like Shatner did (and like I said before, she DID play a Klingon
It still seems a little fishy to me. If there really was a misunderstanding that was bothering him, wouldn't he have been "going to call her" after the taping finished, not after it aired? Or did he mention something about it before tonight? Hmm, maybe Wil's trolling
Personally, I think they were just acting. Wil said that himself in his exit interview. And after all, Roxann DID play a Klingon. The players do discuss "strategies" before the game, so maybe they decided to mess with the audience a little.
There's really to telling how long those exit interviews really were. That quote MIGHT have been taken out of context. I still think most of them went out for drinks after the taping and had a good laugh about it. Hmm, maybe if Wil's site ever comes back up he'll tell us what really happened...
And the parent post was NOT offtopic.
You can have animated backgrounds in Windows now? Suddenly I feel relieved that my employer is too cheap to upgrade my WinNT 4.0 box. ;-)
You too can have animated backgrounds! IE 4 or "better"; even on Win95 or NT4, has a "feature" called Active Desktop that lets you load GIFs, JPGs, and even HTML pages (complete with VBScript, oh the wonder) as backgrounds. Just pick you favorite animated GIF, set it to tile, and let the migrane follow.
Especially good images for this are phychodelic animations that change colors completely, annoying little hamsters, or quick strobe animations. Great to stick on a friends machine (warning: don't try this on someone who has epilepsy).
It gets better! Active Desktop also has features that improve your Windows experience by making the shell crash more, both by itself and when IE falls over.
The first thing we do with those NT boxes here at work is make sure that the Active Desktop "feature" is permanently disabled :)
I'll say it once:
:-)
Stargate SG-1
Stargate SG-1
Stargate SG-1
Even if you don't get cable, catch it this week in syndication -- it's a hilarious episode where they make fun on conspiracy theorists.
Yeah, that really is too bad. Maybe if they cancel the show after this season they'll rerun the old episodes where it was actually good...
Recompiling from source, with new class names, ought to fix the problem in no time.
Nah, a decent hex editor should be enough do the trick here. Remember, window classes are just LPCSTRs.
I switched most of my domains over to DirectNIC when I got fed up with NSI about 6 months back. There were many things, but the last straw was that my newer domains were in a different system (some crappy web interface) that wouldn't let me specify more than two DNS servers. I used their support e-mail to ask if it was possible, and after about a week got an (automated) message back saying that their automated help system couldn't answer my question and to fax the information in. Forget that.
Anyway, I just started looking at registrars at random, and ended up at DirectNIC. I've been very happy with them so far. It costs a third as much, and while it uses a web interface, it's a nice one and makes it really easy to manage multiple domains. You can even get SSL certificates through them -- I'm pretty sure it's just a standard Equifax SSL cert -- if you can ignore Verisign's FUD (doesn't bother me one bit, I got a few Equifax certs after balking at Verisign's insane pricing for 128-bit). NSI's "new" interface always just seemed hacked-together to me.
Anyway, ditching NSI made me very happy in itself, and DirectNIC has been pleasing to deal with. I'd gladly encourage anyone to give them a try. The transfer process from NSI is relatively painless; I've heard a lot about them trying to hold on to domains but an email confirmation with a special key to put in a web page was all I needed.
Depending on how successful Spiner is in his negotiations, maybe the the movie will open with Data's severed head on a table.
They tried that.
It didn't work.
:-P
The X-ray emissions from a fuse are detectable with the help of a well-equipped physics lab.
A well-equipped physics lab will also let you construct Battlecruisers, but I don't see any slashdot stories about it...
And i know people using DOS for there daily programming, creation of Embedded Systems and ofcourse webbrowsing and chatting....
Yes, DOS is definitely used for embedded systems. Last time I was at Target I caught a glimpse of one of the "cash registers" (which are actually IBM terminals) rebooting. It was running some vaiant of DOS, I couldn't tell if it was MS or IBM's, and MS Lan Manager (!).
Also, if you compiled a test kernel yourself and don't want to clutter the boot menu, you can just tell grub to boot it anyway - it comes with a shell (nothing you need to work with unless you want to).
So basically Linux can finally do what BSD's loader(8) has been doing for ages? :-)
Seriously, BSD (especially Free, but Net and Open have good ones too) seriously kicks when it comes to the bootstrap process. There's nothing quite like being able to boot from any kernel file you please, as well as loading/unloading kernel modules and configuring devices before the kernel boots. I hear the commercial UNIX loaders on hardware like Alpha and Sparc have similar features.
I love both *BSD and Linux, and it's nice to see Linux finally get a bootloader that's not stuck in the stone ages. Great work!
UNIX: Where /sbin/init is Job 1
Bah, ./ sucks! Tried to post this last night by MySQL was being gimpy...
I'm sorry, but I have to argue this point. Everyone on the 'net got hit by Nimda.
I guess it depends on the semantics of what the original poster meant by "hit". Yeah, I got plenty of crap in my logfiles, but then again so did everyone else. At least my IIS box (I'd love to run Apache on the Exchange server, but stupid Outlook Web Access doesn't seem to like it for some funny reason :) wasn't contributing to the problem.
Slightly offtopic, I'd like to know which crack-smoking moderator modded the parent as Flamebait. It's a valid point worth exploring and no more flamebait than my original post :)
FBSD/Apache
FreeBSD rocks!
Verizon decided the proper response was to ingress filter port 80 traffic for all residential DSL customers (something they'd never done in almost three years of service).
Okay, now this is another rant entirely... I automatically hate any ISP who does port filtering/transparent proxying of any sort.
The original CodeRed exploited a buffer overflow in the Index Server DLLs (the authors of which should be shot). Nimda, on the other hand, exploited a bug in the decoding of Unicode/UTF-8 character sets in URLs. To be fair, UTF-8 decoding is so complex and non-trivial, it's arguable that nobody has gotten it right yet. There may be one, two, or even zero correct implementations. Perhaps making the security check (rather naive filtering for ../) depend on correctly decoding the URL is inexcusable bad design, but it's certainly not as mind-numbingly stupid as not doing proper bounds checking...
Unix: Where /sbin/init is Job 1
That is unless everyone in the entire world stopped using IIS.
Maybe MS should put up a big red warning screen when you install IIS that it requires a dedeicated admin whose full-time job is installing patches and removing MS bloat-components and won't let you continue until you click that you have. Though for some reason I don't think even that would stop some PHBs...
Hehe, one of the (few) advantages of working for an accountant is that they know so little about the technical stuff they don't even try to mandate particular software or methods.
<RANT>A big part of the problem is that companies like MS cater to the lowest common denominator and happily let users install and activate potentially and probably dangerous services without fully understanding the responsibilities involved in it. Witness the number of Win2k boxes whose 'admins' installed with the "give me everything" option and didn't even know they had a web server running...</RANT>
(who DIDN'T get hit by Nimda?)
I didn't. IIS can be secured -- many things that MS releases patches for are not exploitable if you follow sane security practices. Stuff like deleting all the ISAPI crap that comes in the default setup, and putting your web root in a nonstandard location (preferably on a different partition), deleting all sample files, enforcing proper filesystem permissions, and running any applications in an isolated process.
Of course, one of the advantages of Apache is that it ships in a relatively secure configuration by default, it's better for dummys who install stuff and plug it into the network without bothering to check the configuration. It's a whole lot better by default than IIS, that's for sure. Most of the MS patches are for various add-ons like index service that most people don't use anyway and should be shut off.
DISCLAIMER: I use Apache for the primary web server for the business I work at. We run IIS as the secondary server for load-balancing and have yet to be compromised by anything, even though patches don't always get applied immediately (usually pretty soon after release though). I think Apache is great, but want to point out that anything can be secured if you put some effort into it.
Probably because if they were to ban every hip-hop song that is offensive there would be nothing left to play...
It's already hard enough on the radio stations having to play songs where the lyrics sound like, "...and then I ---- to her ---- and ---- the old ---- of ---- ---- ---- mother ----!!!"