FreeDOS has done the trick for me before. Being on dialup, I disassembled AWDFLASH.EXE first to make certain it didn't pull any undocumented DOS stunts, then got the FreeDOS image, and did it. It worked fine. But I've only done it once. YMMV.
Okay, I did the math. If it takes you 4 days to shred 5K pounds, and that rate is sufficient to meet or exceed the production rate, then you still win in employee time at $15/hr. (It'd be even cheaper to hire another person at $7.50/hr if they're spending all day at it.) This doesn't account for equipment, power, maintenance, or depreciation, but what did you expect for asking/. to do business math?
A similar thing (source: Reader's Digest) was happening with a scam at the Catskill off-track betting site. One of their employees, Christopher Hart, would change the bet registered to the actual ticket to reflect the winner after the race. He even set up an automatic system to do it.
Then they made ~$3M when Volponi beat 42:1 odds, and suspicions triggered an investigation. Nobody believed one person would bet 6 tickets on those odds.
While that's true, I believe the standard open-source radeon will work fine. They don't do 3D acceleration...
This being the second time I've heard this, would someone mind explaining to me about this?
I've looked at the 2.4.2[23] kernel DRM sources, and there are clearly functions in the Radeon driver for pushing vertices and textures to the video card (radeon_cp_dispatch_* in linux-2.4.23/drivers/char/drm/radeon_state.c). Furthermore, glxinfo claims "OpenGL renderer string: Mesa DRI Radeon 20020611 AGP 4x x86/MMX/3DNow!/SSE TCL" which I take to mean the card is doing textures, clipping, and lighting at least.
I don't play too many games, but as a rough benchmark, OpenGL screensavers actually become viewable fullscreen in DRI mode. It must be doing something. So why do I keep hearing they don't do 3D acceleration?
One fine day in October 2000, I headed into the local OfficeMax and dropped $25 on a 3-button Logitech for my shiny new Linux box. It's working great, and if it ever dies, I don't know what I'd do.
I could never use a wheel. My middle fingertip almost reaches the mouse cord, so unless someone puts a wheel way down there, they'll always be too awkward to use even for scrolling.
so there must be a threshold, then, after which one becomes eligible for damnation. Once you can think for yourself, I guess. Interesting view of the world.
Exactly. Once you can exercise your own free will (and free won't), then you're either working for or against God, and gaining or losing karma for it.
Measurements (with an ammeter; sorry, I'm cheap:P) for AthlonXP 2400+ system (Soyo KT333 Dragon Lite, 512MB PC2700 RAM, ATI Radeon 7500 64MB DDR video, 80GB Seagate Barracuda IV hdd):
STPGNT = 0.51 A HLT = 0.76 A Full utilization = 0.91 A
This on 110V US AC. I can't tell you what the phase angle is, though. Coincidentally, the difference between STPGNT and HLT is what my 17-inch LCD monitor consumes at 100% brightness.
It makes my ancient UPS (salvaged from a 486 machine) is happy....
The "Push buttons to select the car battery for you" terminal in the local Wal-Mart once spent a few days displaying a Win98-esque dialog box reporting some error. Being an embedded app, there was no mouse, and none of the keys were Enter, so it was effectively wedged. My dad and I found it highly amusing.
Apparently the Taoists are either wrong or they don't follow their own philosophy, because I can't think of any powerful/successful Taoists at the moment.
Is "great" determined solely by power/success? Especially to a Taoist?
Yeah, you sure do sound like a troll, with such an adversarial tone. Also by claiming to know what 99% of users want. (Don't forget, 87% of statistics are made up on the spot.)
If I were to say anything about 99% of users, it's that they'll never hose the system to the point where they'll need to care.
And incidentally, for those upgrading by CVSup from an earlier release, they'll be recompiling the system anyway.
Finally, would you mind justifying exactly why this is so bad, for us poor, unenlightened masses?
Is the Original Unix Way the One True Way? Let us go back to before dynamic linkers ever existed. Let us give up SMP. Let us return to our roots, as technologically advanced as Windows 95.
To stop evolving is to die. They knew having a dynamically linked/bin and/sbin could be harmful, so they put static (but crunched) binaries in/rescue. Stick ANY Linux distribution in and see if they do the same. No, Linux just screws you over if you hose ld-linux or libc. (Unless you've had the foresight to install sash.)
Rather than camping out in the past and watching the world race on ahead of them, FreeBSD is providing flexibility (at a small cost to performance, in this case) while taking care to avoid erasing past wisdom. I can't see how that compares to putting GDI into the Windows kernel.
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The idea that a non-Linux system can only be Microsoft-based is entirely your own invention. Don't read into things so much.
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Don't worry. Since it's only an update, nobody will install it.
And I as a non-programmer barely understanding the concept of buffer overflows which seem to plague many many many packages...still do not understand why it is so difficult to develop secure code in the first place?
Laziness? Lack of thorough testing? Ignorance? Just wondering really...
Development leaves so many ways for things to go wrong, in so many places, even if things going wrong were accounted for in the first place. (A lot like real plans in the military or corporate management.)
OpenSSH/OpenBSD was knocked off their high horse in the summer of 2002 by a buffer overflow; but that was second-level damage which occurred when a multiplication elsewhere in the code overflowed. Nobody spotted that problem in six years of security-minded proactive auditing.
And we had telnet way before SSH because it's a heck of a lot easier to call write() to send the password than worry about encryption and key exchange. Most of the WWW is HTTP instead of HTTPS for the same reason. It's so much easier and faster not to encrypt.
On top of all that, nobody teaches secure coding from the get-go. I think the only college class I had that ever touched on it was a 400/500-level elective in operating systems. None of the actual required courses give a damn about secure code.
And how do you know the compiler is trusted in the first place? I recall hearing a story once about Ken Thompson backdooring a compiler that would compile backdoored compilers and login programs from clean source...
LiveJournal (.com) supports a feature in which anonymous comments can be "screened", meaning they're only visible to the owner of the blog. At some later point, the owner can come back to the comments page and unscreen or delete the comment. There's also a checkbox associated with each message, and a box at the bottom to either unscreen or delete all selected comments.
So the effort in this case is proportional to the number of posts made in the blog times the frequency which the owner takes care of things, rather than the number of comments. Perhaps MovableType and others could use a similar feature?
At my church (St. Luke's Episcopal in Jamestown NY), there is incense at Christmas. Perhaps it represents the gifts of the wise men; I never asked.
I'd also like to relate a joke I heard recently:
Some ministers were arguing on the correct position to pray. Some believed kneeling was essential; those with knobby knees insisted sitting was just as good; others believed otherwise. Finally they asked a parson from a rural church what his opinion was, for he had been silent the whole time. He said, "One day I was late for service and ran across a neighbor's lawn, when I tripped and fell headlong down his well. My foot caught on a board halfway down. Brethren, I have not prayed so well before or since!"
The joke is especially funny to me, because the only prayer I have had (clearly and immediately) answered was not delivered any particular position, only from the heart.
I don't believe PGP and friends' purpose is encryption; that's merely a side benefit. The problem PGP is designed to solve is authentication: how do you really know fred@foobar.co.uk is J. Fred Foobar of Liverpool?
People don't generally perceive a need for that. My mom, for instance, only emails people she has met IRL and exchanged addresses with anyway. Spam and other scam mails (including the ever-popular "Customers want to use credit cards, so give us your bank account number", supposedly from Merchant Services) are untrustworthy on their own merits. She doesn't need PGP to tell her that.
Wrong on #4. Gentoo's Portage is quite similar, but with one killer feature: the ability to select a version. Both FreeBSD and Gentoo's latest XFree builds don't work for me, but under Gentoo, I can easily install the official, unpatched XFree86.org release. BSD is just screwed.
Slashdot Mirror
Okay, I pick low heat and high speed. Now build me a cool-running yet high-power chip.
FreeDOS has done the trick for me before. Being on dialup, I disassembled AWDFLASH.EXE first to make certain it didn't pull any undocumented DOS stunts, then got the FreeDOS image, and did it. It worked fine. But I've only done it once. YMMV.
Okay, I did the math. If it takes you 4 days to shred 5K pounds, and that rate is sufficient to meet or exceed the production rate, then you still win in employee time at $15/hr. (It'd be even cheaper to hire another person at $7.50/hr if they're spending all day at it.) This doesn't account for equipment, power, maintenance, or depreciation, but what did you expect for asking /. to do business math?
A similar thing (source: Reader's Digest) was happening with a scam at the Catskill off-track betting site. One of their employees, Christopher Hart, would change the bet registered to the actual ticket to reflect the winner after the race. He even set up an automatic system to do it.
Then they made ~$3M when Volponi beat 42:1 odds, and suspicions triggered an investigation. Nobody believed one person would bet 6 tickets on those odds.
I can beat that. I once bought a single I didn't like.
This being the second time I've heard this, would someone mind explaining to me about this?
I've looked at the 2.4.2[23] kernel DRM sources, and there are clearly functions in the Radeon driver for pushing vertices and textures to the video card (radeon_cp_dispatch_* in linux-2.4.23/drivers/char/drm/radeon_state.c). Furthermore, glxinfo claims "OpenGL renderer string: Mesa DRI Radeon 20020611 AGP 4x x86/MMX/3DNow!/SSE TCL" which I take to mean the card is doing textures, clipping, and lighting at least.
I don't play too many games, but as a rough benchmark, OpenGL screensavers actually become viewable fullscreen in DRI mode. It must be doing something. So why do I keep hearing they don't do 3D acceleration?
One fine day in October 2000, I headed into the local OfficeMax and dropped $25 on a 3-button Logitech for my shiny new Linux box. It's working great, and if it ever dies, I don't know what I'd do.
I could never use a wheel. My middle fingertip almost reaches the mouse cord, so unless someone puts a wheel way down there, they'll always be too awkward to use even for scrolling.
Would the Athlon Powersaving HOWTO be of interest to you? Assuming that CPU isn't too buggy....
:P) for AthlonXP 2400+ system (Soyo KT333 Dragon Lite, 512MB PC2700 RAM, ATI Radeon 7500 64MB DDR video, 80GB Seagate Barracuda IV hdd):
Measurements (with an ammeter; sorry, I'm cheap
STPGNT = 0.51 A
HLT = 0.76 A
Full utilization = 0.91 A
This on 110V US AC. I can't tell you what the phase angle is, though. Coincidentally, the difference between STPGNT and HLT is what my 17-inch LCD monitor consumes at 100% brightness.
It makes my ancient UPS (salvaged from a 486 machine) is happy....
The "Push buttons to select the car battery for you" terminal in the local Wal-Mart once spent a few days displaying a Win98-esque dialog box reporting some error. Being an embedded app, there was no mouse, and none of the keys were Enter, so it was effectively wedged. My dad and I found it highly amusing.
Is "great" determined solely by power/success? Especially to a Taoist?
Yeah, you sure do sound like a troll, with such an adversarial tone. Also by claiming to know what 99% of users want. (Don't forget, 87% of statistics are made up on the spot.)
If I were to say anything about 99% of users, it's that they'll never hose the system to the point where they'll need to care.
And incidentally, for those upgrading by CVSup from an earlier release, they'll be recompiling the system anyway.
Finally, would you mind justifying exactly why this is so bad, for us poor, unenlightened masses?
Is the Original Unix Way the One True Way? Let us go back to before dynamic linkers ever existed. Let us give up SMP. Let us return to our roots, as technologically advanced as Windows 95.
/bin and /sbin could be harmful, so they put static (but crunched) binaries in /rescue. Stick ANY Linux distribution in and see if they do the same. No, Linux just screws you over if you hose ld-linux or libc. (Unless you've had the foresight to install sash.)
To stop evolving is to die. They knew having a dynamically linked
Rather than camping out in the past and watching the world race on ahead of them, FreeBSD is providing flexibility (at a small cost to performance, in this case) while taking care to avoid erasing past wisdom. I can't see how that compares to putting GDI into the Windows kernel.
The idea that a non-Linux system can only be Microsoft-based is entirely your own invention. Don't read into things so much.
Don't worry. Since it's only an update, nobody will install it.
I can count the number of spam I receive per month on one hand since implementing that.
And open source has no bugs.
/dev/null now.)
People have no bugs.
Some virus I got N copies of relied solely on people being dumb enough to run it. (Swen, was it? I forget, and they go to
Sometimes, the code is not at fault. A virus the user runs can be equally destructive to ~/office/resume.sxw on ANY system.
Development leaves so many ways for things to go wrong, in so many places, even if things going wrong were accounted for in the first place. (A lot like real plans in the military or corporate management.)
OpenSSH/OpenBSD was knocked off their high horse in the summer of 2002 by a buffer overflow; but that was second-level damage which occurred when a multiplication elsewhere in the code overflowed. Nobody spotted that problem in six years of security-minded proactive auditing.
And we had telnet way before SSH because it's a heck of a lot easier to call write() to send the password than worry about encryption and key exchange. Most of the WWW is HTTP instead of HTTPS for the same reason. It's so much easier and faster not to encrypt.
On top of all that, nobody teaches secure coding from the get-go. I think the only college class I had that ever touched on it was a 400/500-level elective in operating systems. None of the actual required courses give a damn about secure code.
And how do you know the compiler is trusted in the first place? I recall hearing a story once about Ken Thompson backdooring a compiler that would compile backdoored compilers and login programs from clean source...
LiveJournal (.com) supports a feature in which anonymous comments can be "screened", meaning they're only visible to the owner of the blog. At some later point, the owner can come back to the comments page and unscreen or delete the comment. There's also a checkbox associated with each message, and a box at the bottom to either unscreen or delete all selected comments.
So the effort in this case is proportional to the number of posts made in the blog times the frequency which the owner takes care of things, rather than the number of comments. Perhaps MovableType and others could use a similar feature?
Why recompilation when we can already add "Load" directives to XF86Config? Dream big: why not go for auto-loading of modules like the Linux kernel?
I'd also like to relate a joke I heard recently:
The joke is especially funny to me, because the only prayer I have had (clearly and immediately) answered was not delivered any particular position, only from the heart.
Try reading the FAQ sometime; it's a great resource. It'll tell you all about the legal issues surrounding a Slashdot mirror.
I don't believe PGP and friends' purpose is encryption; that's merely a side benefit. The problem PGP is designed to solve is authentication: how do you really know fred@foobar.co.uk is J. Fred Foobar of Liverpool?
People don't generally perceive a need for that. My mom, for instance, only emails people she has met IRL and exchanged addresses with anyway. Spam and other scam mails (including the ever-popular "Customers want to use credit cards, so give us your bank account number", supposedly from Merchant Services) are untrustworthy on their own merits. She doesn't need PGP to tell her that.
Wrong on #4. Gentoo's Portage is quite similar, but with one killer feature: the ability to select a version. Both FreeBSD and Gentoo's latest XFree builds don't work for me, but under Gentoo, I can easily install the official, unpatched XFree86.org release. BSD is just screwed.