You're trying to treat the symptoms too.. Not having guns will not stop anyone from killing. They'll just grab a standard kitchen knife and do some random slaughter.
IANASK (I am not a serial killer;)) but it seems to me that there is quite a difference between a gun and a kitchen knife. A gun is a very 'point and click' kind of device, whereas to kill someone with a kitchen knife you really need to want to have to do it. (Those rib cages don't puncture themselves, people!)
What i'm trying to say is that with easy access to guns you're more likely to have 'rage' type killings. Obviously a pre-meditated killer will just use something else if they can't get a gun.
I hope they synchronise it to music. Or something. Actually, that'd cost money and they have none.
I'll be happy just to be able to find out if there are any going down over my part of the sky at night so that I can see them. Well, it probably won't be any more exciting than a meteor shower. Hrm.
And I just saw a magazine article last month saying how good Iridium was and that you should get an Iridium phone if you can afford it.. hehe.. suckers.
Just wait until SGI starts selling mid-grade Linux workstations. They already have an X server for Nvidia hardware (in-house only for now, but not for long) that is said to blow Octanes out of the water. (Holy hardware T&L, Batman! I believe it!)
I saw these puppies (arf!) at the Linux show that was here in Sydney, Australia. I didn't get much of a chance to enquire as to what sort of CPUs they have or whatever, but from the little presentation I watched it's all supposed to be 'standard' Intel hardware. I assumed it was some sort of NVidia chipset because the Performer/OpenGL demos they were showing had the little NVidia logo all over them.
And yeah, it was pretty silky smooth running things like that Performer streetscape, rocket Tux, some hangliding demo, full screen, under X (with Gnome, BTW;))
I doubt they'd blow an Octane out of the water for CPU power? Aren't those things fairly hefty.. not sure what they are. I'm sure the graphics card could probably cope with the amount of polys an Octane could throw at it but I doubt an Intel based system could throw the same amount of polys and do whatever physics / fluid dynamics/etc need to be done at the same time?
I'm just guessing.. I could be wrong:) Leave me alone!
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I paged through all ten chapters of the Nanomedicine article and I failed to find a single instance of the possible dangers of nanobots-run-amok, or the chance that a malevolent force could use them as a weapon.
Like the cookie cutters in The Diamond Age hey? Those things are cool.. along with all the other nano-machines in that book.
I think that as with most technology these days it'll only become mainstream after the military need it for something.
How many laptops have you installed Linux on? I've done a bunch. There's always something which requires voodoo to get working, whether it's hacking out your own modelines (for the LCD screen!) because nothing else gets it right, starting in framebuffer mode because that's the only way to get X to work, hacking the install disks to move the location of th TCIC controller, or trying valiently (and eventually giving up) to get sound to work. Many laptops I've worked on have had built-in but unusable hardware in one way or another.
I got a Dell Inspiron 3500 about half a year ago. I installed RH6 and was really surprised how easily everything worked! Except for the sound (which you mention as being a common problem) I had no problems with X at all, using the X config tool that happens as part of the RH install I found the NeoMagic chipset in the list, found a "Laptop LCD 1024x768" in the monitors list, and lo and behold I've got a laptop running X @ 1024x768x16. The Dell badged 3COM 10/100 PCMCIA NIC gets detected fine by the pcmcia module too. I haven't got a PCMCIA or Internal modem so I don't know how well that works.
Still can't get that damned sound to work as anything but an SB (not 16 or Pro, just SB);)
Apart from the sound thing (which is probably easy to solve, I've just not gotten into the nitty gritty of linux configuration) I'd definately recommed a Dell for running Linux on.
Here's a thing. Does linux in any way support IEEE1394 (FireWire) yet? I'm planning on getting an digital video camera later this year with a FireWire port and an adapter for my PC and play around with some DV editing.
It'd be neat if I could do it all under Linux and not have to get Premiere for Win2K or whatever.
Incase you DON'T know where to get the good stuff.
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Actually, why was it needed to upgrade the cpus? I mean, I thought hubble's cpu doesn't do more than controlling movements and handling communication protocols so it can send pictures. The new 'brain' will be 20 times faster, but what's the point? Does the telescope perform calculations on-site ? Just wondering
Don't know for a fact but based on reading some of the other Hubble related threads it's likely that it was mainly just 'preventative maintenance'.. the old CPUs probably already had some damage from the length of time they'd been up there and they needed to be replaced anyway, and possibly the 486s now cost the same as the original CPUs did when they were built. (ie. if your P133 dies now you're likely to not get another P133 CPU but some faster Socket 7 CPU like a K6-2 because it costs the same). Yeah. That's my theory;)
If you're looking for decent service AVOID THIS PLACE LIKE THE PLAGUE;)
I placed an order on 23rd November for a CD that was "ships within 24 hours". I received it 23rd December. I called the place twice in that period asking them what's going on (they're in the same city I am, Sydney, Australia) and they said "we'll follow it up with the supplier and let you know". Needless to say they didn't call back.
To top it off, earlier this week (about the 20th) I looked on their website and noticed they were offerring delivery within 24 hours of ordering to the Sydney CBD (which is where mine was to be delivered to). I wrote an annoyed e-mail to them asking how they can offer 24 hour delivery when they can't even get my normal order there in a month. I got the CD about the same time I got the e-mail reply.
So yeah, avoid ChaosMusic.. the $5 saving or so isn't worth the wait I think:)
Windows 2000 is the most secure operating system Microsoft has ever shipped.
Is this REALLY that difficult?:) WinNT is, how many, 4 or 5 years old and yet still there are severe security flaws coming out in the CORE operating system. Sure Linux has had a few security holes here and there but they've been patched pretty much 'instantly' and most of them weren't in the kernel (ie. the core OS) but in tools like Sendmail and whatever.
Maybe I just don't know what I'm talking about (well, probably;)) but I don't see how people can even consider running some of the things they run on NT.
On an unrelated note, i'm just rambling because it's Christmas Eve (well, 3:30pm) and I want to go home but I have to wait for some lame-arse Y2K update to post on the Intranet before I go.. [sigh]
Well... It started with a floppy, back then when few people used modems, and most modems were = 2400 bps. It doesn't work anymore - too small. Great, now we have CDs. But... Don't you think that with xDSL installed at home you will also find CDs useless?
That's when they'll start attaching DVDs to the front of magazines.
People can't even decide how to pronounce vi and GIF, when both of these have unambiguous official pronounciations. (Quickly: vee eye, and jiff, NOT vye and giff (as in 'gift')).
Bah! GIF is giff, damnit!:) The G stands for Graphic, not Jraphic. Jif is for cleaning your bathroom.
Now the question is how the average home user will setup a firewall...
Well one possibility would be that a firewall would be another appliance, like a home alarm is now. There could be a protocol designed that the firewall would send out a broadcast on the protected side of itself asking for devices and they'd all respond with what they are and based on that the firewall would know what to let through or whatever.
The idea probably has lots of holes in it, but it's just the first thing I thought of off the top of my (bored of work and caffeine affected) head.
Oh. Backup your data. Win98 doesn't like to share partition tables with other operating systems.
Of course backing up your data is a good suggesiton, but i've never personally had problems with Windows / Linux dual boots. Well, the only problem i've had is that for some reason unknown to me Win95/98 decides to fdisk/mbr when installing, thereby wiping out lilo. There isn't really any reason for this as far as I can see, the Win95/98 installer doesn't do partitioning?! (Unless you have an unpartitioned HDD I assume).
This shouldn't be a problem when adding a Linux partition to a Win98 install though, unless you reinstall '98.
If this is the same piece of footage that I saw, if you had listened to the voiceover, it's British... they were talking about the coming of the things in Britain... at least thats the bit I saw, channel 10 news I believe.
I did notice that, but the presenter (Channel 9 this was) said before they ran the piece that they would be available "here". I guess she was just misinformed.. I woulnd't be surprised, those news people usually aren't too savvy when it comes to tech stuff:)
I saw something on the morning news like 2 days ago about the AIBO. They showed a real dog trying to play with one and then giving up. Hehe. They showed it cocking up one leg and looking like it was peeing on something, that was amusing too.. it should spray out battery acid or something instead, for realism.
I'm sure they implied that they would be available to Australian buyers this time? (They mentioned Sony will be selling them over the Internet).
Anyhoo.. can't afford one anyway:) Just bought a laptop which is about the same price but just a little more useful.
Of course, a grammatically incorrect motto is about the only innovation Apple has had in the last 10 years.
In my experience with talking to Mac users they ignore anything not Apple related and when something 'new' comes out (like AirPort) they think they're the first ones to have the 'innovation'.
I'm sure wireless networking has been around a little longer:)
Just my observation...
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Of course, if you could implant a SONY memory stick (ala AIBO robo-dogs) in the cat, then the cat could just drop off the data it collected once it had left the building.
Either it'd cough it up like a furball or bury it somewhere after expelling it elsewhere. In which case you'd need a radio transimitter in it anyway to locate it.
Still, I think the whole thing is pretty cool. Does this mean they'll eventually be able to say, get signal from a video camera and 'insert' it into this same area of the brain in order to allow blind people to see? (by having a tiny camera in their glasses or something). If they can decode the signal it probably wouldn't be too much harder to encode the signal and make the neurons fire. This is all of course assuming the process for humans isn't too different than that for cats.
Can Microsoft explain to me why 75% of the time when I unsuspend my laptop under Win98 does it either: a) Not unsuspend at all but 'hang' without any visual cue. b) Unsuspend but constantly blue screen until I reboot. c) Unsuspend but have everything I try and run (including 'explorer') show one of those nice GPF dialogs.
Whereas under linux I can suspend/unsuspend whenever the hell I want and not have any troubles even running X or whatever?
Wait, 3 and 4 don't happen. I'm sorry. I guess hundreds of coal workers dieing every year just isn't as news worthy as 19 Japanese people with radiation burns. Millions of Tobacco smokers dying horrible deaths is maybe as news worthy, but just barely.
Yeah! And it's not like the Japanese aren't used to Radiation Burns! Err.. sorry, that was in bad taste;)
More on topic.. I remember something not too long ago here in Australia where there was a town where a lot of the children had mental problems (learning difficulties and the like). The town was situated right next to one of the biggest Steel Mills in Australia. I don't hear about any deformed children living near the one research reactor Australia has.
I guess I've just always been of the belief that it's a Really Bad Idea to have your firewall hit unnecessarily. IOW, put the web server outside the firewall, probably on its own subnet off the incoming connection. That way, if the machine IS cracked, you don't suddenly have to worry about all your non-hardened hosts being hit from a supposedly trusted machine. After all, once you're through the firewall, you're through the firewall, and it won't protect you anymore. If you happen to be running bad CGI, or ColdFusion, or somesuch which just screams "Crack me!", you're probably in for a much larger world of hurt if you think everything is already protected.
What you do is have two firewalls and have the webserver sitting between the two.. your corporate network behind one, and the Internet behind the other. That way if your Webserver is compromised the attacker still can't get through the internal firewall.
Overly simplified, but you know what I'm getting at;)
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IANASK (I am not a serial killer ;)) but it seems to me that there is quite a difference between a gun and a kitchen knife. A gun is a very 'point and click' kind of device, whereas to kill someone with a kitchen knife you really need to want to have to do it. (Those rib cages don't puncture themselves, people!)
What i'm trying to say is that with easy access to guns you're more likely to have 'rage' type killings. Obviously a pre-meditated killer will just use something else if they can't get a gun.
I'll be happy just to be able to find out if there are any going down over my part of the sky at night so that I can see them. Well, it probably won't be any more exciting than a meteor shower. Hrm.
And I just saw a magazine article last month saying how good Iridium was and that you should get an Iridium phone if you can afford it.. hehe.. suckers.
I saw these puppies (arf!) at the Linux show that was here in Sydney, Australia. I didn't get much of a chance to enquire as to what sort of CPUs they have or whatever, but from the little presentation I watched it's all supposed to be 'standard' Intel hardware. I assumed it was some sort of NVidia chipset because the Performer/OpenGL demos they were showing had the little NVidia logo all over them.
And yeah, it was pretty silky smooth running things like that Performer streetscape, rocket Tux, some hangliding demo, full screen, under X (with Gnome, BTW ;))
I doubt they'd blow an Octane out of the water for CPU power? Aren't those things fairly hefty.. not sure what they are. I'm sure the graphics card could probably cope with the amount of polys an Octane could throw at it but I doubt an Intel based system could throw the same amount of polys and do whatever physics / fluid dynamics /etc need to be done at the same time?
I'm just guessing.. I could be wrong :) Leave me alone!
Like the cookie cutters in The Diamond Age hey? Those things are cool.. along with all the other nano-machines in that book.
I think that as with most technology these days it'll only become mainstream after the military need it for something.
I got a Dell Inspiron 3500 about half a year ago. I installed RH6 and was really surprised how easily everything worked! Except for the sound (which you mention as being a common problem) I had no problems with X at all, using the X config tool that happens as part of the RH install I found the NeoMagic chipset in the list, found a "Laptop LCD 1024x768" in the monitors list, and lo and behold I've got a laptop running X @ 1024x768x16. The Dell badged 3COM 10/100 PCMCIA NIC gets detected fine by the pcmcia module too. I haven't got a PCMCIA or Internal modem so I don't know how well that works.
Still can't get that damned sound to work as anything but an SB (not 16 or Pro, just SB) ;)
Apart from the sound thing (which is probably easy to solve, I've just not gotten into the nitty gritty of linux configuration) I'd definately recommed a Dell for running Linux on.
It'd be neat if I could do it all under Linux and not have to get Premiere for Win2K or whatever.
KernelNotes.org has changelists and things but hasn't been updated for 2.2.14 yet.
Don't know for a fact but based on reading some of the other Hubble related threads it's likely that it was mainly just 'preventative maintenance'.. the old CPUs probably already had some damage from the length of time they'd been up there and they needed to be replaced anyway, and possibly the 486s now cost the same as the original CPUs did when they were built. (ie. if your P133 dies now you're likely to not get another P133 CPU but some faster Socket 7 CPU like a K6-2 because it costs the same). Yeah. That's my theory ;)
I placed an order on 23rd November for a CD that was "ships within 24 hours". I received it 23rd December. I called the place twice in that period asking them what's going on (they're in the same city I am, Sydney, Australia) and they said "we'll follow it up with the supplier and let you know". Needless to say they didn't call back.
To top it off, earlier this week (about the 20th) I looked on their website and noticed they were offerring delivery within 24 hours of ordering to the Sydney CBD (which is where mine was to be delivered to). I wrote an annoyed e-mail to them asking how they can offer 24 hour delivery when they can't even get my normal order there in a month. I got the CD about the same time I got the e-mail reply.
So yeah, avoid ChaosMusic.. the $5 saving or so isn't worth the wait I think :)
Is this REALLY that difficult? :) WinNT is, how many, 4 or 5 years old and yet still there are severe security flaws coming out in the CORE operating system. Sure Linux has had a few security holes here and there but they've been patched pretty much 'instantly' and most of them weren't in the kernel (ie. the core OS) but in tools like Sendmail and whatever.
Maybe I just don't know what I'm talking about (well, probably ;)) but I don't see how people can even consider running some of the things they run on NT.
On an unrelated note, i'm just rambling because it's Christmas Eve (well, 3:30pm) and I want to go home but I have to wait for some lame-arse Y2K update to post on the Intranet before I go.. [sigh]
URL? ;)
What about that Quake 3 bus or whatever? :) Or do you mean something more glitzy where you get to touch the developers or something :)
I've decided I will pronounce it "GayForce" for amusement.
Hmm.. when (if?) I buy one I'll have to think of something different to say incase people over hear me talking about my "badass gay force". ;)
That's when they'll start attaching DVDs to the front of magazines.
Bah! GIF is giff, damnit! :) The G stands for Graphic, not Jraphic. Jif is for cleaning your bathroom.
Well one possibility would be that a firewall would be another appliance, like a home alarm is now. There could be a protocol designed that the firewall would send out a broadcast on the protected side of itself asking for devices and they'd all respond with what they are and based on that the firewall would know what to let through or whatever.
The idea probably has lots of holes in it, but it's just the first thing I thought of off the top of my (bored of work and caffeine affected) head.
Of course backing up your data is a good suggesiton, but i've never personally had problems with Windows / Linux dual boots. Well, the only problem i've had is that for some reason unknown to me Win95/98 decides to fdisk /mbr when installing, thereby wiping out lilo. There isn't really any reason for this as far as I can see, the Win95/98 installer doesn't do partitioning?! (Unless you have an unpartitioned HDD I assume).
This shouldn't be a problem when adding a Linux partition to a Win98 install though, unless you reinstall '98.
I did notice that, but the presenter (Channel 9 this was) said before they ran the piece that they would be available "here". I guess she was just misinformed.. I woulnd't be surprised, those news people usually aren't too savvy when it comes to tech stuff :)
I saw something on the morning news like 2 days ago about the AIBO. They showed a real dog trying to play with one and then giving up. Hehe. They showed it cocking up one leg and looking like it was peeing on something, that was amusing too.. it should spray out battery acid or something instead, for realism.
I'm sure they implied that they would be available to Australian buyers this time? (They mentioned Sony will be selling them over the Internet).
Anyhoo.. can't afford one anyway :) Just bought a laptop which is about the same price but just a little more useful.
In my experience with talking to Mac users they ignore anything not Apple related and when something 'new' comes out (like AirPort) they think they're the first ones to have the 'innovation'.
I'm sure wireless networking has been around a little longer :)
Just my observation...
Either it'd cough it up like a furball or bury it somewhere after expelling it elsewhere. In which case you'd need a radio transimitter in it anyway to locate it.
Still, I think the whole thing is pretty cool. Does this mean they'll eventually be able to say, get signal from a video camera and 'insert' it into this same area of the brain in order to allow blind people to see? (by having a tiny camera in their glasses or something). If they can decode the signal it probably wouldn't be too much harder to encode the signal and make the neurons fire. This is all of course assuming the process for humans isn't too different than that for cats.
We're getting closer to the whole Matrix thing ;)
I don't think even this tool has the required err.. sub-tool? to open an iMac. Nothing like an old fashioned brick to open one of those puppies.
I think I need one of these because we only have a phillips head screwdriver in our department, and I needed a flat head one once. Yeah.
a) Not unsuspend at all but 'hang' without any visual cue.
b) Unsuspend but constantly blue screen until I reboot.
c) Unsuspend but have everything I try and run (including 'explorer') show one of those nice GPF dialogs.
Whereas under linux I can suspend/unsuspend whenever the hell I want and not have any troubles even running X or whatever?
Good old Microsoft.
Yeah! And it's not like the Japanese aren't used to Radiation Burns! Err.. sorry, that was in bad taste ;)
More on topic.. I remember something not too long ago here in Australia where there was a town where a lot of the children had mental problems (learning difficulties and the like). The town was situated right next to one of the biggest Steel Mills in Australia. I don't hear about any deformed children living near the one research reactor Australia has.
What you do is have two firewalls and have the webserver sitting between the two.. your corporate network behind one, and the Internet behind the other. That way if your Webserver is compromised the attacker still can't get through the internal firewall.
Overly simplified, but you know what I'm getting at ;)