If you RTFA you'll see that it states they aren't affected. Only RealVNC is affected, and only version 4.1 (version 4.0 is fine). The Slashdot editors should have titled the article "Critical Flaw Found in RealVNC 4.1", but I guess that would've been not-very-interesting.
You're all way off with this tri-state/base 3 discussion. Just because the article talks about "3x" drives doesn't mean that there's base 3 maths involved. You're letting the 3 confuse you.
The 3x refers to the fact that the drives hold 3x as much information. If you want to talk about the number of states of each dot, it's not 3, but *eight*. So if you want to talk in bases, you should really be talking base-8.
But in any case, this is all abstracted to a high enough degree that to all intents and purposes one could consider the drive to be emitting a stream of binary digits, just like the old days. Only at the very lowest levels does the firmware need to know it's not dealing with binary states.
The English language has lately tended towards economy (minimalism) in the realm of punctuation, whereas previously it tended towards pedanticism.
It's a common trend to see hyphenation drop out of words as time goes by. If it isn't "email" now, you can rest assured it soon will be.
A quick glance at business letters will reveal other trends. Full stops and commas are often left off the end of lines now. For example:
23rd October, 2000
Dear Mr. Smith,
Hi there!
23 October 2000
Dear Mr Smith
Hi there!
Apparently my FreeBSD box isn't running an OS...
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...because, although it's been up for nearly a year now without a reboot - running DNS, NFS, NAT, firewall etc - it doesn't have a GUI (or even a monitor in fact), nor do I use it for web browsing, composing email or "being productive".
Not only are the PCs I buy "naked", they're not even assembled. I guess you could say they are dis/un-membered.
When I buy a system I order the mobo, ram, drives, network and gfx cards etc exactly as I want them, and needless to say a Windows OS (or any other) is not in my list of required parts.
Better still, just have a 5 buttons on your hardware DVD player: one for each region. To play a region 1 disc, press 1. From that point on the player is locked at region 1. Same for the other regions. I suppose you could add a sixth "regionless" button for older discs that don't check the player.
... before you make any comments. A quick skim of these comments shows that about 50% of the people ranting here haven't actually used the public beta at all. Many of the things they say are just plain wrong.
I suggest they try it before venting.
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If you RTFA you'll see that it states they aren't affected. Only RealVNC is affected, and only version 4.1 (version 4.0 is fine). The Slashdot editors should have titled the article "Critical Flaw Found in RealVNC 4.1", but I guess that would've been not-very-interesting.
So how does an article posted on the IBM website in August 2005 constitute "news" in January 2006?
And between non-consenting adults at that...
You're all way off with this tri-state/base 3 discussion. Just because the article talks about "3x" drives doesn't mean that there's base 3 maths involved. You're letting the 3 confuse you.
The 3x refers to the fact that the drives hold 3x as much information. If you want to talk about the number of states of each dot, it's not 3, but *eight*. So if you want to talk in bases, you should really be talking base-8.
But in any case, this is all abstracted to a high enough degree that to all intents and purposes one could consider the drive to be emitting a stream of binary digits, just like the old days. Only at the very lowest levels does the firmware need to know it's not dealing with binary states.
1) Darwin is more organized from top to bottom. From drivers to solving the /etc/ chaos
2) Darwin is a macrokernel with less maintenance. No module recompiling.
3) Bundles bundles bundles
4) Potentially faster than FreeBSD
5) Automatic kext loading
6) NetInfo
7) IOKit driver architecture
8) More flexible BSD-like license
9) Corporate support
10) Mach-O binaries. dyld memory use efficiency. FAT binaries
The English language has lately tended towards economy (minimalism) in the realm of punctuation, whereas previously it tended towards pedanticism.
It's a common trend to see hyphenation drop out of words as time goes by. If it isn't "email" now, you can rest assured it soon will be.
A quick glance at business letters will reveal other trends. Full stops and commas are often left off the end of lines now. For example:
23rd October, 2000
Dear Mr. Smith,
Hi there!
23 October 2000
Dear Mr Smith
Hi there!
...because, although it's been up for nearly a year now without a reboot - running DNS, NFS, NAT, firewall etc - it doesn't have a GUI (or even a monitor in fact), nor do I use it for web browsing, composing email or "being productive".
Guess I'd better switch to OS X.
Not only are the PCs I buy "naked", they're not even assembled. I guess you could say they are dis/un-membered.
When I buy a system I order the mobo, ram, drives, network and gfx cards etc exactly as I want them, and needless to say a Windows OS (or any other) is not in my list of required parts.
Better still, just have a 5 buttons on your hardware DVD player: one for each region. To play a region 1 disc, press 1. From that point on the player is locked at region 1. Same for the other regions. I suppose you could add a sixth "regionless" button for older discs that don't check the player.
Similar arrangement for software DVD players.
> The "uptime" command should come in handy.
Better still, www.uptimes.net
... before you make any comments. A quick skim of these comments shows that about 50% of the people ranting here haven't actually used the public beta at all. Many of the things they say are just plain wrong. I suggest they try it before venting.