"A joint research effort by our matematicians and IT professionals have concluded that 128 bit addressing will suffice for no more than approximately 25 years into the future. Microsoft has thus decided to extend the protocol to use 136 bits, which will suffice for at least 75 years."
I currently rent a "virtual server" from Adgrafix. Their virtual server let me set up my own web server, but as I have no root access, I have to ask the admins kindly every time I want them to restart my server.
With IBM's new stuff, someone could start selling real virtual servers with root access and everything, giving customers _full_ control of an Internet connected server.
If prices are reasonable (far below a dedicated server), I'll gladly sign up as the first customer. That's a promise!
Everyone keeps saying that this beast deletes MP3 files. It does not, at least not where I work. For an MP3-file A.mp3, it creates an A.mp3.vbs that contains the worm. The original file is left intact.
It _does_ delete JPEG-files, though. It creates a file A.jpg.vbs, and then deletes the original file. Check the code, it's all in there.
To sum up, you loose your porn, but get to keep your pirated music. This must have been written by one of those extremist women.
If you hoped Netscape would encapsulate Gecko in it's traditional Motif (or other "native") window, you will be just as disappointed as me to find that Netscape 6 RC1 uses exactly the same, slow, buggy GUI that the Mozilla nightly builds do. In fact, Netscape 6 RC1 reminds me of a randomly chosen nightly Mozilla build in all aspects, except for the N-icon: It eats lots of memory, hangs the X server for no apparent reason, gives lots of annoying messages in the console window, and bugs when I try to save some of my preferences.
Netscape is making a fool of themselves again. Sending out immature bloat/bug-ware as "release candidates" just because "the timing is right", is not the way to win the (second?) browser war.
If I understand the news.com article correctly, I used that technique for at least one (probably more, don't remember) DOS program I wrote in the late '80s. It's the only reasonable way to interpret a two digit year.
I think the patent system as we know it is coming to an end.
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From the docs:
Just kidding...
For more details, see On Mindcraft's April 1999 Benchmark.
I currently rent a "virtual server" from Adgrafix. Their virtual server let me set up my own web server, but as I have no root access, I have to ask the admins kindly every time I want them to restart my server.
With IBM's new stuff, someone could start selling real virtual servers with root access and everything, giving customers _full_ control of an Internet connected server.
If prices are reasonable (far below a dedicated server), I'll gladly sign up as the first customer. That's a promise!
| One failed operation (say, an insert) will
| abort the whole transaction, all the previous
| work also.
Eh, you want transactions that do not fail if one part of them fails? You must be a MySQL user.
Everyone keeps saying that this beast deletes MP3 files. It does not, at least not where I work. For an MP3-file A.mp3, it creates an A.mp3.vbs that contains the worm. The original file is left intact.
It _does_ delete JPEG-files, though. It creates a file A.jpg.vbs, and then deletes the original file. Check the code, it's all in there.
To sum up, you loose your porn, but get to keep your pirated music. This must have been written by one of those extremist women.
If you hoped Netscape would encapsulate Gecko in it's traditional Motif (or other "native") window, you will be just as disappointed as me to find that Netscape 6 RC1 uses exactly the same, slow, buggy GUI that the Mozilla nightly builds do. In fact, Netscape 6 RC1 reminds me of a randomly chosen nightly Mozilla build in all aspects, except for the N-icon: It eats lots of memory, hangs the X server for no apparent reason, gives lots of annoying messages in the console window, and bugs when I try to save some of my preferences.
Netscape is making a fool of themselves again. Sending out immature bloat/bug-ware as "release candidates" just because "the timing is right",
is not the way to win the (second?) browser war.
If I understand the news.com article correctly, I used that technique for at least one (probably more, don't remember) DOS program I wrote in the late '80s. It's the only reasonable way to interpret a two digit year.
I think the patent system as we know it is coming to an end.
Would Bob complain about old technology when
he's the inventor of a very successful OT himself?
Bob's article is the best piece of irony I've
seen for a very long time. Anyone who complains
loudly makes a fool out of himself, IMNSHO.