Also, IBM is involved in UEFI. With the amount of time and money IBM has invested in Linux, there's no way they're going to support a BIOS replacement that would intentionally lock Linux out.
At work, I've taken to using Firefox as a web browser, because I prefer it; and IE as a web application runner, because it's necessary for that task. So I'm Googling around and browsing MSDN with Firefox, but using IE for Outlook web access and Sharepoint. Different jobs, different tools.
But what happens when we've converted all the oil into money?
(Unless there's a way to make plastics without oil these days? IANAOC (I Am Not An Organic Chemist), and freely admit that this is not my area of expertise).
I was going to buy a Mac mini next month. It would have been my first Mac. I wanted to play with Mac OS X, and enjoy having a near-silent desktop again for the first time since my Amiga days. Now, it looks like it might not be worth it; I'd essentially be investing in a dead-end platform.
Can someone explain how a website in.info is more informative than a website in.con? Err... I mean.com?
A few years ago, I heard a radio advert that had been put out by the.tv registrar. It went something like this:
"Here's a website with a.com name." *unimpressive murmuring sounds* "Here's a website with a.tv name!" *loud, in-your-face music* ".tv makes your website more exciting, more dynamic, more TV-like!"
I couldn't believe my ears. It's a flipping TLD, for crying out loud.
"My-itis" even permeates Microsoft's programming languages. In object-oriented languages, the keyword used for objects to refer to themselves is generally "this" or "self". In VB.NET, it's "me".
There is nothing to stop an attacker from having the user download a malicious app to their own filesystem and running it from there
Actually, that is preventable: mount/home with the "noexec" option. Doesn't protect against scripts passed to other executables (e.g. malicious Javascript exploiting a Firefox hole), though.
The PS2 could perhaps be emulated since it was only a 300Mhz MIPS processor, but I pity the person that has to write the emulator for the pipelining stages on the VUs.
More likely that the PS3 will just contain a PS2-on-a-chip. I think that's the route that Sony went for the PS2's PSone backward-compatibility.
I wonder if the Debian guys and girls would consider this change to be compatible with the Debian Free Software Guidelines? I suspect probably not, which would bar GPL3 software from being included in Debian. That'd be an interesting turn of events.
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You're kidding, right? Even inanimate objects find me repulsive.
-Stephen
Also, IBM is involved in UEFI. With the amount of time and money IBM has invested in Linux, there's no way they're going to support a BIOS replacement that would intentionally lock Linux out.
-Stephen
At work, I've taken to using Firefox as a web browser, because I prefer it; and IE as a web application runner, because it's necessary for that task. So I'm Googling around and browsing MSDN with Firefox, but using IE for Outlook web access and Sharepoint. Different jobs, different tools.
-Stephen
That's why I like plastic.
But what happens when we've converted all the oil into money?
(Unless there's a way to make plastics without oil these days? IANAOC (I Am Not An Organic Chemist), and freely admit that this is not my area of expertise).
-Stephen
Appears to be a riff on this anecdote: David Korn embarrasses Microsoft.
-Stephen
I was going to buy a Mac mini next month. It would have been my first Mac. I wanted to play with Mac OS X, and enjoy having a near-silent desktop again for the first time since my Amiga days. Now, it looks like it might not be worth it; I'd essentially be investing in a dead-end platform.
-Stephen
A few years ago, I heard a radio advert that had been put out by the
I couldn't believe my ears. It's a flipping TLD, for crying out loud.
-Stephen
A former colleague of mine renamed the icon on the machine he used at work to "it's not sodding 'My Computer', it doesn't belong to me!"
-Stephen
"My-itis" even permeates Microsoft's programming languages. In object-oriented languages, the keyword used for objects to refer to themselves is generally "this" or "self". In VB.NET, it's "me".
(To be fair, it's "this" in C#).
-Stephen
There is nothing to stop an attacker from having the user download a malicious app to their own filesystem and running it from there
/home with the "noexec" option. Doesn't protect against scripts passed to other executables (e.g. malicious Javascript exploiting a Firefox hole), though.
Actually, that is preventable: mount
-Stephen
I misread the headline as "Bender's Open Movie Project".
"Bite my shiny, metal GIMP."
-Stephen
The "zones" mentioned in the article are nothing to do with Linux, and everything to do with Solaris.
-Stephen
This Futurama DVD is brought to you in association with Thompson's Teeth! The only teeth strong enough to eat other teeth!
-Stephen
How horribly buzzwordy. What's wrong with simply saying "new episodes of Futurama"?
-Stephen
Because we're talking about food. Although I think you just put me off mayo for life.
-Stephen
Fantastic! Chips that M.C. Escher would be proud of!
-Stephen
The PS2 could perhaps be emulated since it was only a 300Mhz MIPS processor, but I pity the person that has to write the emulator for the pipelining stages on the VUs.
More likely that the PS3 will just contain a PS2-on-a-chip. I think that's the route that Sony went for the PS2's PSone backward-compatibility.
-Stephen
A fireman that rescued me (barely sensible) after an electronic device exploded, said that BeO was probably the culprit.
:-)
I initially read that as "...said that BeOS was probably the culprit"
-Stephen
is it the fact that it has to send *to* port 25 that's getting blocked?
Yeah, that's right. The source port is irrelevant.
-Stephen
They read 80GB of infringing code from the canonical source and compressed it:
dd if=/dev/zero bs=1M count=80k | gzip -9 >what_we_stole.gz
-Stephen
What's the problem? It's a perfectly cromulent word.
</obsimpsons>
-Stephen
AFAIK, there is no 2.7 tree. New development is still being done in 2.6.
-Stephen
The BBC announcement hadn't yet made it to their web site when I submitted the story last night.
-Stephen
girls?
Yes. http://women.alioth.debian.org/
-Stephen
I wonder if the Debian guys and girls would consider this change to be compatible with the Debian Free Software Guidelines? I suspect probably not, which would bar GPL3 software from being included in Debian. That'd be an interesting turn of events.
-Stephen