Quit Mozilla, Delete compreg.dat from your "Mozilla\Components" folder, restart Mozilla. It's a known (and fixed in Nightlies) bug where the Installer doesn't overwrite your compreg.dat file because of something to do with modification dates.
Anybody care to summarize exactly what a Token Ring connection is?
It's a network type where essentially the machines are in a "ring". A machine is only allowed to talk on the network if it's holding the "token". The token gets passed around between machines, and if a machine needs to send something they grab the token and send.
Basically it prevents collisions (since only the machine with the token is sending) and means resource use is fair (each machine can only hold the token for a limited time).
I believe TR came in 16Mb and 4Mb flavours (which meant at the top end it had more bandwidth than the 10Mb ethernet that was common).
A fair few organisations still use Token Ring in their LANs (although I doubt there are any new installations going in). HTH:)
I'm not an audio guy but from what a friend told me once dB isn't linear. So going from 96 to 98dB is actually twice as loud, or something along those lines.
So you WOULD stab me in the back rather than call me out in the street to fight?
Sure, if my objective was to kill you then that would definately be the better alternative. Or maybe i've been playing too much of the "Hitman 2" Demo:)
So, it's a year later and still we don't know where Osama bin Laden is, it seems we've forgotten about Afghanistan and now Bush is getting ready to pre-emptively attack Iraq. From what I've read about Saddam Hussein he doesn't just sit around in one place either, so what happens when they can't find him?
What is it with all these stories coming out now about how Iraq could have nuclear weapons in like 30-40 seconds? Seriously though, a few months ago they were saying "2-3 years", now it's down to "6 months" or less. Are they making excuses to attack Iraq? Can't it be argued that the US is also a country with weapons of mass destruction and a warmongering leader?
It is a shame that civilians died in the terrorist attacks, but what about the civilians the US has killed in Afghanistan, like that wedding - they excuse it by saying some collateral damage is to be expeced. Why do they say that the 'terrorist' attacks were "cowardly"? It'd take a fairly brave and strong willed person to willingly fly themselves into a building. If they were cowardly they'd just talk about how they were going to attack America but do nothing about it.
What is it with removing all images of the WTC from movies etc in the last year?! It happened, we all know it happened. Removing the WTC from media I would think is an insult to the victims, it's as if they're saying that the buildings never existed.
Enough typing for me, flame away:) And remember, opinions are like arseholes - we all are one. Err, have one;)
The criteria is the problem, which is why the best content management solution for an organisation is a custom built solution based on their requirements.
It's also why you never hear good things about companies who try to implement commercial CMSs like Vignette. I personally worked on a website that was being converted to use the Aprtix CMS, and basically we had to tailor the site to fit the CMS rather than building the site we wanted. Without doing it yourself you use flexibility.
At the organisation I work for now we (I) custom built a CMS on top of Lotus Domino (perfect for Workflow etc), which exactly meets the buisnesses needs.
Amusing how much difference the dotcom bubble bursting makes to the value of a Consulting firm like that.
Obviously they've lost themselves a few customers. Ironically, the customers probably went out of business because they spent all their money on consultants.
Unfortunately it only supports up to 4 IDE devices (still, with 4 x 80Gb drives you can get 240Gb out of a RAID5 array), but it's IDE hardware RAID5.
I'd say that's the biggest advantage of SCSI.. it's easy to make a RAID 5+1 array with 5 drives per array and a hot spare - all off one controller. (Power on the other hand is another issue:) )
In regards to point one, isn't that how things like MSI (The new Microsoft Installer) work? That is, you download an MSI package and the installer is a Windows component. However I would think that for flexibility MSI still lets you run your own code. So basically it'd be a locked down version of MSI - however it still would need to be flexible for some "complicated" apps.
With regards to point two - I suppose you could do this by having the person packaging the app specifiying what permissions the app needs and before installation the user has to okay the permissions the app wants. Again this would depend on a package based installer as you say:)
I've noticed two common misconceptions - that the people running Kazaa (Sharman Networks?) can block this client easily. And also that they can stop the client being hosted on websites.
First, it's not that easy to block the client because the client is the same as the one you get from the Kazaa website, it's just had all the spyware and other crap removed. So basically the only way Kazaa could block it is by releasing a new client version and blocking all old versions.
That'd mean all users would need to download a new client (not just the users of Kazaa Lite). Plus the guy would just remove the spyware from the new version and put that up as Kazaa Lite again.
Secondly, if they somehow get the guy to stop allowing people to download from the website the guy can just go and stick it on Gnutella or another P2P service and magic - suddnely it's on 1000s of computers out there.
Basically, as someone else has said, the cat's out of the bag.
I also worked on an Aptrix implementation, then I moved to a different company and ended up writing my own Notes/Domino CMS that had all the functionality of Aptrix we needed, none of the functionality we didn't need, and none of the quirks.
Basically if you're using Notes/Domino it's not a huge effort to make a good CMS with Workflow/Templating/any other features management would like because exactly like you said, it's a great platform for RAD of worklow type apps.
These patches can hardly be critical
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Based on that sample patch they gave it seems that an unpatched system allocates one more page of memory than it actually uses. Sure it's not nice in terms of resource use but it's hardly going to affect the operation of the kernel.
Obviously with the number of people (especially "power" users) who run the "generic" kernel any critical flaws are going to get uncovered and patched. I think these kind of issues, that directly affect the stability of the kernel are more important than "clean up" type patches this article describes.
Obviously they're nice to have, but it's hardly a priority when there are bigger fish to fry.
I find it funny that the post mentions a lawsuit from Kodak and the O'Reilly essay about Java says:
[...] At the same time,
Sun loves to have Kodak moments with some parts of the open source community -- most notably, Apache -- who increasingly feel used and abused [...]
Could someone post some background on this story, like who is John Romero and why would one care that he is selling his car?
John Romero was a "rock star" of the computer game industry in the early 90s. He then disappeared to work on the "ultimate computer" game. Instead fucking it up, releasing Daikatana, and now needing to sell his Ferrari to buy Ramen Noodles.
In summary, he's no one relevant and you shouldn't care.
One clue might be that the troll says "I wish John the best of luck at Adobe" when this paper was written by Dr Warnock "CEO and Co-Founder of Adobe" in 1991.
I never understood this either. I was looking for a potential name for an idea I had (This must be a sign of the "New Economy": Working out the name of your business based on whether the domain name for it is available:) ). Anyway, one of the names I checked had expired 2-Feb-2000 (this was only a week ago I was checking), and yet all the details were still there in WHOIS and the name still resolves to an IP using DNS. In fact, the last updated date was 13-Nov-2001, about a year and half after expiry!
So it's expired but the owner can still use it because it still resolves? What's up with that? And especially if you're saying the owner needs to transfer it to you even if it's expired, seems to imply that they can keep the expired domain as long as they want.
This is a computerised system, it should be that as soon as it hits the expiry date (maybe +1 week at the most incase there is a delay in payment) the domain is deregistered and removed from whois, and available free for all again.
How do we know that microsoft isn't violating someone's copyright if we never see their source code!
Come on, man! If Microsoft were using other people's code that they weren't entitled to they'd tell us. Don't you trust Bill Gates or something? I mean, look at the guy's track record!
On another note, you CAN obtain the WinXP kernel sources, they're at www.kernel.org under the name "linux-2.4.x".
The moon rotates around the earth and its own axis in such a way that only one side is ever facing us. There is a bit of a "wobble" due to slight orbital differences so that we see a few degrees of the "dark" side now and then, but on the whole we never see the "other" side of the moon directly. It's not really dark either, the sun hits it too, it was just called that because it was an unknown during early space exploration (because we couldn't see it).
What you're referring to as a new moon occurs when the Earth is in between the sun and the moon (ie. the opposite of an lunar eclipse on earth)
How would the observatory communicate with the Earth though, since the "dark side" means it never actually faces the earth? They'd have to have a satellite orbiting the moon, recieving data while on the dark side and sending it back while on the "light" side.
Alternatively have 2 geostationary sats such that the observatory can transmit to one, and that one transmits to another one it can "see" which has line of sight to earth.
I'm sure there's a simpler solution, but i'm no space communications guru:)
The temperature is as low as 80K in polar regions (reduced thermal noise in detectors).
- 40K inside permanently shadowed craters (coldest place in the Solar System!)
Heh, with temperatures like that they could REALLY overclock the PCs running these observatories!
I wouldn't want it working across stories. Say you're visiting/. for the first time today. You read the comments for the top story (which will most likely have the latest comments) and then if you go to read the comments for the next story down there won't be any comments to read because they're all older.
So yeah, I thought of the global thing, but for the above reason it wouldn't really be suitable.
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Quit Mozilla, Delete compreg.dat from your "Mozilla\Components" folder, restart Mozilla. It's a known (and fixed in Nightlies) bug where the Installer doesn't overwrite your compreg.dat file because of something to do with modification dates.
It's a network type where essentially the machines are in a "ring". A machine is only allowed to talk on the network if it's holding the "token". The token gets passed around between machines, and if a machine needs to send something they grab the token and send.
Basically it prevents collisions (since only the machine with the token is sending) and means resource use is fair (each machine can only hold the token for a limited time).
I believe TR came in 16Mb and 4Mb flavours (which meant at the top end it had more bandwidth than the 10Mb ethernet that was common).
A fair few organisations still use Token Ring in their LANs (although I doubt there are any new installations going in). HTH :)
I'm not an audio guy but from what a friend told me once dB isn't linear. So going from 96 to 98dB is actually twice as loud, or something along those lines.
:)
I'm sure someone smarter will explain it
Sure, if my objective was to kill you then that would definately be the better alternative. Or maybe i've been playing too much of the "Hitman 2" Demo :)
So, it's a year later and still we don't know where Osama bin Laden is, it seems we've forgotten about Afghanistan and now Bush is getting ready to pre-emptively attack Iraq. From what I've read about Saddam Hussein he doesn't just sit around in one place either, so what happens when they can't find him?
:) And remember, opinions are like arseholes - we all are one. Err, have one ;)
What is it with all these stories coming out now about how Iraq could have nuclear weapons in like 30-40 seconds? Seriously though, a few months ago they were saying "2-3 years", now it's down to "6 months" or less. Are they making excuses to attack Iraq? Can't it be argued that the US is also a country with weapons of mass destruction and a warmongering leader?
It is a shame that civilians died in the terrorist attacks, but what about the civilians the US has killed in Afghanistan, like that wedding - they excuse it by saying some collateral damage is to be expeced. Why do they say that the 'terrorist' attacks were "cowardly"? It'd take a fairly brave and strong willed person to willingly fly themselves into a building. If they were cowardly they'd just talk about how they were going to attack America but do nothing about it.
What is it with removing all images of the WTC from movies etc in the last year?! It happened, we all know it happened. Removing the WTC from media I would think is an insult to the victims, it's as if they're saying that the buildings never existed.
Enough typing for me, flame away
The criteria is the problem, which is why the best content management solution for an organisation is a custom built solution based on their requirements.
It's also why you never hear good things about companies who try to implement commercial CMSs like Vignette. I personally worked on a website that was being converted to use the Aprtix CMS, and basically we had to tailor the site to fit the CMS rather than building the site we wanted. Without doing it yourself you use flexibility.
At the organisation I work for now we (I) custom built a CMS on top of Lotus Domino (perfect for Workflow etc), which exactly meets the buisnesses needs.
Amusing how much difference the dotcom bubble bursting makes to the value of a Consulting firm like that.
Obviously they've lost themselves a few customers. Ironically, the customers probably went out of business because they spent all their money on consultants.
http://www.adaptec.com/worldwide/product/proddetai l.html?prodkey=AAR-2400A&cat=%2fTechnology%2fRAID% 2fATA+RAID
:) )
Unfortunately it only supports up to 4 IDE devices (still, with 4 x 80Gb drives you can get 240Gb out of a RAID5 array), but it's IDE hardware RAID5.
I'd say that's the biggest advantage of SCSI.. it's easy to make a RAID 5+1 array with 5 drives per array and a hot spare - all off one controller. (Power on the other hand is another issue
In regards to point one, isn't that how things like MSI (The new Microsoft Installer) work? That is, you download an MSI package and the installer is a Windows component. However I would think that for flexibility MSI still lets you run your own code. So basically it'd be a locked down version of MSI - however it still would need to be flexible for some "complicated" apps.
:)
With regards to point two - I suppose you could do this by having the person packaging the app specifiying what permissions the app needs and before installation the user has to okay the permissions the app wants. Again this would depend on a package based installer as you say
Anyway, I'm rambling too..
I've noticed two common misconceptions - that the people running Kazaa (Sharman Networks?) can block this client easily. And also that they can stop the client being hosted on websites.
First, it's not that easy to block the client because the client is the same as the one you get from the Kazaa website, it's just had all the spyware and other crap removed. So basically the only way Kazaa could block it is by releasing a new client version and blocking all old versions.
That'd mean all users would need to download a new client (not just the users of Kazaa Lite). Plus the guy would just remove the spyware from the new version and put that up as Kazaa Lite again.
Secondly, if they somehow get the guy to stop allowing people to download from the website the guy can just go and stick it on Gnutella or another P2P service and magic - suddnely it's on 1000s of computers out there.
Basically, as someone else has said, the cat's out of the bag.
I also worked on an Aptrix implementation, then I moved to a different company and ended up writing my own Notes/Domino CMS that had all the functionality of Aptrix we needed, none of the functionality we didn't need, and none of the quirks.
Basically if you're using Notes/Domino it's not a huge effort to make a good CMS with Workflow/Templating/any other features management would like because exactly like you said, it's a great platform for RAD of worklow type apps.
Based on that sample patch they gave it seems that an unpatched system allocates one more page of memory than it actually uses. Sure it's not nice in terms of resource use but it's hardly going to affect the operation of the kernel.
Obviously with the number of people (especially "power" users) who run the "generic" kernel any critical flaws are going to get uncovered and patched. I think these kind of issues, that directly affect the stability of the kernel are more important than "clean up" type patches this article describes.
Obviously they're nice to have, but it's hardly a priority when there are bigger fish to fry.
John Romero was a "rock star" of the computer game industry in the early 90s. He then disappeared to work on the "ultimate computer" game. Instead fucking it up, releasing Daikatana, and now needing to sell his Ferrari to buy Ramen Noodles.
In summary, he's no one relevant and you shouldn't care.
One clue might be that the troll says "I wish John the best of luck at Adobe" when this paper was written by Dr Warnock "CEO and Co-Founder of Adobe" in 1991.
Actually, I read (I think on lkml) an email from Linus saying that he uses a web based news gateway to read lkml.
Of course if you send HIM a message it's a different story.
I never understood this either. I was looking for a potential name for an idea I had (This must be a sign of the "New Economy": Working out the name of your business based on whether the domain name for it is available :) ). Anyway, one of the names I checked had expired 2-Feb-2000 (this was only a week ago I was checking), and yet all the details were still there in WHOIS and the name still resolves to an IP using DNS. In fact, the last updated date was 13-Nov-2001, about a year and half after expiry!
:)
So it's expired but the owner can still use it because it still resolves? What's up with that? And especially if you're saying the owner needs to transfer it to you even if it's expired, seems to imply that they can keep the expired domain as long as they want.
This is a computerised system, it should be that as soon as it hits the expiry date (maybe +1 week at the most incase there is a delay in payment) the domain is deregistered and removed from whois, and available free for all again.
End Rant.
I increated the CPU power in my Mac Classic:
http://www.zipworld.com.au/~marcins/fish.html
Come on, man! If Microsoft were using other people's code that they weren't entitled to they'd tell us. Don't you trust Bill Gates or something? I mean, look at the guy's track record!
On another note, you CAN obtain the WinXP kernel sources, they're at www.kernel.org under the name "linux-2.4.x".
The moon rotates around the earth and its own axis in such a way that only one side is ever facing us. There is a bit of a "wobble" due to slight orbital differences so that we see a few degrees of the "dark" side now and then, but on the whole we never see the "other" side of the moon directly. It's not really dark either, the sun hits it too, it was just called that because it was an unknown during early space exploration (because we couldn't see it).
What you're referring to as a new moon occurs when the Earth is in between the sun and the moon (ie. the opposite of an lunar eclipse on earth)
Sorry, that was just bad formatting pasted from the article. It was on a seperate line and the '-' was a bullet point. It meant 40K (not -40K).
Alternatively have 2 geostationary sats such that the observatory can transmit to one, and that one transmits to another one it can "see" which has line of sight to earth.
I'm sure there's a simpler solution, but i'm no space communications guru :)
The temperature is as low as 80K in polar regions (reduced thermal noise in detectors). - 40K inside permanently shadowed craters (coldest place in the Solar System!)
Heh, with temperatures like that they could REALLY overclock the PCs running these observatories!
I wouldn't want it working across stories. Say you're visiting /. for the first time today. You read the comments for the top story (which will most likely have the latest comments) and then if you go to read the comments for the next story down there won't be any comments to read because they're all older.
So yeah, I thought of the global thing, but for the above reason it wouldn't really be suitable.
Switch to "light" mode. It's a lot cleaner and smaller, and this "zoo" functionality does not exist at all in light mode (for now at least).
Well, you could have this "mode" only display new comments since last time you refreshed the page.
ie. You load the page and see 50 comments, when you've finished you hit refresh and see only the 5 posted while you were reading.
To do this you'd only for each person need to keep track of the last message id they've seen for each story. Still a fair bit of data, but a lot less.
You could maybe only keep track for stories that are on the front page and purge from the db after that?