Here is what Microsoft has to say. Notice they don't actually mention OS X at all, but I'm sure it's an implied thing... While porting Office to a Posix/Unix style OS is a lot of work, porting the GUI to X/Windows will surely be a bigger task, should they try to do it.
What's actually scarier... Follow the link on the bottom of that press release to this.
Word 2001 introduces the Data Merge Manager, a feature available first for the Mac that simplifies and consolidates into a single window the entire process of using data to conduct mass communications via e-mail or letter. Tight integration with the new e-mail and personal information manager makes it easy to merge contacts from the Address Book into a bulk mailing.
Eeeek! Is it me, or does it sound like Microsoft is giving every Mac user who buys Office some mass spam software?:)
Up until now, Intel was keeping even the databooks on these chips under lock and key. By giving these out now, they're letting anyone who wants to port an OS to their chips a fair chance.
Now, instead of just Windows NT, Solaris and Linux(the three OS's they were supporting) anyone can go do a IA-64 port.
They were being secretive before, claiming that the data contained in those.pdf's were trade secrets and it would be revealing too much information to let the whole world see it. This really is a good step on their part. Had the 386 been a complete secret as to the internals(memory management/protection, etc) would Linux have even been started? (perhaps, but it would have been much more difficult)
No, they're not "Open Sourcing" their chip, and I don't really see where *Intel* said that. But they are being Open Source Friendly. Don't flame someone for making a good effort, even if it's not as much as you want.
I know a few of these points have been brought up already, but let me summarize and add my own thoughts:
1) The metal bracket on RIMMS isn't for EMI shielding, it's for heat. It's just like the heatsink on your CPU, which doesn't add to the EMI protection noticably.
2) A 150MHz SDRAM dimm isn't RDRAM. Rambus uses an entirely different protocol, and anyway... 150Mhz SDRAM is probably faster than rambus.
3) Your SDRAM won't work at 150MHz because it's simply too fast for the junctions to switch, not because of EMI. If you've got a serious EMI problem, you'll probably see it if you're overclocking or not.
4) That design shown probably wouldn't fix an EMI problem, either. It'll most likely act as an antenna, worsening the problem.
BUT... To whoever made that page.. Keep hacking. While this idea might not have worked, you may come up with a great supercooled DIMM refrigerator or something. Good luck.:)
http://www.mail-abuse.org/rss is a "realtime" relay system. If you get a spam that used someone else as a relay, you forward them the IP of the relay, and it gets added to an RBL style list. Only after it's been proven that someone's mail server is being used for spam can it get added, and the turnaround time for off and on this list is very short. Take a look at their FAQ for more info.
I saw Mission to Mars last night. I liked the little remote-controlled rover. He was the best part of the movie. We named him 'Skip', and rather enjoyed MST3K'ing some lines for him. Try it, it's fun.:)
But... I'd take this movie any day over Supernova. Supernova has to be the *worst* Sci-Fi movie I've ever seen... Really... And I've seen a lot of really bad Sci-Fi movies.
Supernova(a movie that was supposed to be released in 1998) was originally directed by Francis Ford Coppola. (yes, THAT Francis Coppola). He quit half way through, and they went through a slew of other directors and crew. This is the only movie in recent memory that had *NO* opening credits, and very short closing credits... Nobody wanted to be associated with this.
It had plot holes up the wazoo. First, they were a kind of space ambulance. They'd receive a distress call, and go rescue people. To do this in a speedy way, they had to use some kind of warp drive. However, to use their warp engines, they all had to get naked and get inside these protective bubbles. They had 6 crew members, and 6 bubbles. So, if they actually did rescue someone, they had no hope of bringing them back.
Also, space ambulances apparently have a whale problem, since they had CO2 powered harpoons all over the ship, that they used several times.
Oh yes, and zero-gravity sex. Many many unnecessary times. (and it's PG13, so it's kinda pointless boring shots)
They actually had a guy wrapped in a sheet or something, and said he was a robot. He limped. I still don't get it.
They found some 9th-dimensional matter, too. Apparently, you can make a big-ass bomb out of it. *puke*
How does the movie end? Well, a supernova started, and the impact is going to reach earth in 51 years. What happens to earth? What happens to the two people who survived?(who had to both share a protective bubble-thing on the way back, and had their "DNA mixed") No idea. I'm not waiting for the sequel.
.. just as soon as they finish uploading (the i386 image is already there and the alpha image is about 8% there and should be in place by the time most of you read this message).
This will probably be the last release candidate image before release day unless folks find some real show-stoppers here, so please look thoroughly:). Thanks!
- Jordan
So, barring any big problems, FreeBSD-4.0 will be released on Monday, March 13th.
I was honored to be able to see it at the premiere back in early December. My first experience with the original Fantasia was when I was much younger, and didn't really appreciate it.
Disney's original plan was to have Fantasia constantly running, and constantly changing. Every time you went to a theater to see it, they added a new part, and removed an old one. This didn't happen for several reasons, but they took many of the concepts behind Disney's original goals into this.
The more I read/hear about Disney, the more I think the man was just born too early. He had dreams of robots, immersive dynamic content, and thoughts of the future.
If he were alive today, he would definately be a geek I would want to meet.:)
Perhaps I'm just in a bad mood today, but debunking this sounds fun.
First, the code you posted below, apparently never outputs anything but:
f1 : f2 : not a good cypher cancelled way : pfa 0.1 by Frank Joppe (C) Copyright 2000 Usage: pfa pfa --x Hexadecimal input, use lowercase only! --help This screen help
from a look at the binary. I'm not quite silly enough to try to run it, but I'm sure someone here on a scratch box will.
Secondly... Define fast? Faster than, say, http://www.entropia.net/prime? They're using a massive distributed effort to factor prime numbers, and it still takes a serious amount of time.
My PIII 600 takes a few weeks to look for factors of (2^8858987)-1 using Lucas-Lehmer's algorithm. If you've got something that can top this, I'm sure a lot of people would like to know....
People like The EFF especially, who is offering up to $250,000 for large prime numbers.
How about some benchmarks, or some documentation on how it works? Or why you're using geocities to distribute it?
Not completely related, but... I had the privilage of meeting Dean Haglund, one of the Lone Gunmen a few weeks ago, at a Fox party. (see obliglatory photo here). He mentioned to me that he had a website up where he talked about upcoming projects.... www.deanx.com doesn't mention anything about this, but I suppose he's not saying it's not true.:)
His e-mail appears to be broken right now, perhaps when it's fixed we can see if he has any comments...
1) Even if your guest says they have a DSL line and can handle script kiddies, insist on a proxy of some sort before hand.:)
2) Plan for many more people than you expect. I honestly expected a lesser crowd than the ones I've had before for events like this, since I couldn't promote it well.
3) Implement the hacks I've got to ircd to allow for a forum like this. (Hide joins/parts from non-opers, disallow nick changes, etc).
But, a lot of really good questions got asked, and Bruce did a wonderful job of answering them. We'll be doing more of these, so please subscribe to the mailing list, if you want to be informed of them... (majordomo@dragondata.com - put 'subscribe irc' in the body).
Also, we're holding a contest to see who can bring the most interesting person for a future chat.... Go here for details... Win a t-shirt from Think Geek, or a $20 gift certificate from B&N.
As an administrator for a couple of servers on NewNet, as well as a software developer, I can assure you that this kind of association with NewNet isn't desirable.
I'm actively working to bring interesting things to NewNet that aren't warez/porn/whatever related. Things like this help.
Ok, I know how poor taste it is to follow up your own post, but...:)
The channel is #astepcloser. If that's full, please use #astepcloser-mirror. (Exact same content, just mirrored to another channel).
Also, irc.newnet.net is a dns roundrobin pointing to all of the servers. In case it picks one that is down or full, and it's not giving you a new one, here's a list:
Hi, I'm Kevin Day, the guy who's kinda running this interview tonight.
I really had no idea this was actually going to make it up on here, so this will definately be a learning experience as how to handle larger crowds. Right now it's 7 hours before the chat starts, and there are already more people here than there were for some tv/movie stars that I've done this with.
I'm gonna post a 'how this is gonna work' to www.astepcloser.com in a few minutes, but briefly:
The channel is moderated during the Q&A. This means nobody can talk who isn't running the show, or Bruce. With hundreds of people here, there's no sensible way of doing this.
To have a question asked, you'll send it to me, or one of the people helping out. (They'll have @'s next to their name).
We'll pick the interesting looking questions, and post them in the channel. Bruce will answer.
The realtime nature of this will allow followup questions to his responses, as well as the hint of unpredictability. (I hope!):)
You're welcome to hang out before and after the event. We've got one other interview scheduled two weeks from now, with more on their way.
(And yes, please don't flame me that www.astepcloser.com looks a whole awful lot like www.slashdot.org. That's the default SquishDot look that I haven't had the chance to change much yet):)
We'll definately be exploring the slashdot effect on irc servers tonight.:)
First, Jordan K. Hubbard. jkh has been the somewhat-unofficial leader of the FreeBSD group for years now, and has somehow kept his cool no matter how much people are going bezerk around him. Search the freebsd-* mailing list archives, and get a good example of his character.
Second, Marshall Kirk McKusick. He's always been present to remind the *BSD groups of past mistakes, and giving guidance. He's also contributed Softupdates, which is kinda a paranoid version of mounting your filesystems async. Anything that speeds up disk access as much as softupdates does without adding any data risk is quite worthy of recognition.
Joe is also by far my favorite. Features like intelligent paragraph formatting (preserving "> >" at the beginning of lines), being able to handle all sorts of unprintable characters, huge files, histories on text prompts, and it includes 'jmacs', 'jstar' and 'jpico'. It also has 'rjoe' for restricted environments.
Yes, it's WordStarish, but it's easy to learn, and very configurable.
"vi has two modes. One in which it beeps, and one in which it doesn't."
Oh, C software is very very vulnerable. Take a look at GNU software that has had problems.
Or a list of changes FreeBSD has made. (Note that about half of these are ported applications, not FreeBSD specific)
Or look here at some reasons why C is vulnerable to Y2k problems.
Just because it was written in C doesn't make it Y2k bugproof. Using time_t when possible is great, but the act of trying to make things human readable/parseable makes it harder.
Note too that most old Verisign keys expire on 12/31/99, people with old browsers should have fun on SSL sites. (Netscape allows 'Continue Anyway', IE won't allow you to)
I don't know how load could cause a system to reboot except for software problems though. You can throw as much work as you want at a CPU or RAM or hard drive, and as long as your drivers and core OS are good, they aren't going to be rebooting.
As much fun as it is to rip apart Microsoft, I found their history article a good thing. I honestly never thought I'd live to hear:
"[Engineers] were literally in front of the FTP and download servers for an entire day rebooting them to keep them up because there were too many users for what the boxes could handle."
come from a Microsoft spokesperson.
No, this isn't a new story to laugh at Microsoft with. Having them admit to being mortal is an important step in becoming less of the conceived monster that they appear to be.
In case you're missing the big deal: Microsoft admitted that something they made didn't work. Perhaps this is just a fluke, or this article didn't get cleared by their PR people, but maybe this is a sign that they're going to start being more forthright when it comes to bugs?
Language, Sex and Violence also have their settings. Parents/cafe owners/whatever can then go into IE and specify what level they consider acceptable. If it's over the rated limit, it asks for a password.
The problem? It's not widely implemented on web sites, and there's no requirement people do it. I own an ISP, and ask that my customers add these tags, and insist that they do if they have any 'adult' content. Nobody has complained so far, and several have commented that they are glad they added them.
As much as I hate the idea of forcing webmasters to do anything, what do you feel about making these slightly more mandatory?
SYMPTOMS When you install Microsoft Windows on a computer that has the Linux operating system installed, Windows may overwrite or deactivate the Linux boot manager (LILO, or Linux Loader). As a result, you can no longer access the Linux operating system.
When Linux is installed on your computer, it allows a dual boot by loading a boot manager called LILO directly into the MBR. To remove LILO, perform the following steps...
Slashdot Mirror
Here is what Microsoft has to say. Notice they don't actually mention OS X at all, but I'm sure it's an implied thing... While porting Office to a Posix/Unix style OS is a lot of work, porting the GUI to X/Windows will surely be a bigger task, should they try to do it.
:)
What's actually scarier... Follow the link on the bottom of that press release to this.
Word 2001 introduces the Data Merge Manager, a feature available first for the Mac that simplifies and consolidates into a single window the entire process of using data to conduct mass communications via e-mail or letter. Tight integration with the new e-mail and personal information manager makes it easy to merge contacts from the Address Book into a bulk mailing.
Eeeek! Is it me, or does it sound like Microsoft is giving every Mac user who buys Office some mass spam software?
-- Kevin
Up until now, Intel was keeping even the databooks on these chips under lock and key. By giving these out now, they're letting anyone who wants to port an OS to their chips a fair chance.
Now, instead of just Windows NT, Solaris and Linux(the three OS's they were supporting) anyone can go do a IA-64 port.
They were being secretive before, claiming that the data contained in those
No, they're not "Open Sourcing" their chip, and I don't really see where *Intel* said that. But they are being Open Source Friendly. Don't flame someone for making a good effort, even if it's not as much as you want.
I know a few of these points have been brought up already, but let me summarize and add my own thoughts:
:)
1) The metal bracket on RIMMS isn't for EMI shielding, it's for heat. It's just like the heatsink on your CPU, which doesn't add to the EMI protection noticably.
2) A 150MHz SDRAM dimm isn't RDRAM. Rambus uses an entirely different protocol, and anyway... 150Mhz SDRAM is probably faster than rambus.
3) Your SDRAM won't work at 150MHz because it's simply too fast for the junctions to switch, not because of EMI. If you've got a serious EMI problem, you'll probably see it if you're overclocking or not.
4) That design shown probably wouldn't fix an EMI problem, either. It'll most likely act as an antenna, worsening the problem.
BUT... To whoever made that page.. Keep hacking. While this idea might not have worked, you may come up with a great supercooled DIMM refrigerator or something. Good luck.
http://www.mail-abuse.org/rss is a "realtime" relay system. If you get a spam that used someone else as a relay, you forward them the IP of the relay, and it gets added to an RBL style list. Only after it's been proven that someone's mail server is being used for spam can it get added, and the turnaround time for off and on this list is very short. Take a look at their FAQ for more info.
I saw Mission to Mars last night. I liked the little remote-controlled rover. He was the best part of the movie. We named him 'Skip', and rather enjoyed MST3K'ing some lines for him. Try it, it's fun. :)
But... I'd take this movie any day over Supernova. Supernova has to be the *worst* Sci-Fi movie I've ever seen... Really... And I've seen a lot of really bad Sci-Fi movies.
Supernova(a movie that was supposed to be released in 1998) was originally directed by Francis Ford Coppola. (yes, THAT Francis Coppola). He quit half way through, and they went through a slew of other directors and crew. This is the only movie in recent memory that had *NO* opening credits, and very short closing credits... Nobody wanted to be associated with this.
It had plot holes up the wazoo. First, they were a kind of space ambulance. They'd receive a distress call, and go rescue people. To do this in a speedy way, they had to use some kind of warp drive. However, to use their warp engines, they all had to get naked and get inside these protective bubbles. They had 6 crew members, and 6 bubbles. So, if they actually did rescue someone, they had no hope of bringing them back.
Also, space ambulances apparently have a whale problem, since they had CO2 powered harpoons all over the ship, that they used several times.
Oh yes, and zero-gravity sex. Many many unnecessary times. (and it's PG13, so it's kinda pointless boring shots)
They actually had a guy wrapped in a sheet or something, and said he was a robot. He limped. I still don't get it.
They found some 9th-dimensional matter, too. Apparently, you can make a big-ass bomb out of it. *puke*
How does the movie end? Well, a supernova started, and the impact is going to reach earth in 51 years. What happens to earth? What happens to the two people who survived?(who had to both share a protective bubble-thing on the way back, and had their "DNA mixed") No idea. I'm not waiting for the sequel.
Just posted this morning to the freebsd-current mailing list:
h a/4.0-20000307-CURRENT 6 /4.0-20000307-CURRENT
- IMAGES/4.0-20000307-CURRENT/
:). Thanks!
From: "Jordan K. Hubbard"
Subject: FreeBSD 4.0 release candidate #3 now available.
ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/snapshots/alp
ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/snapshots/i38
With ISO images available from:
ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/snapshots/ISO
.. just as soon as they finish uploading (the i386 image is already
there and the alpha image is about 8% there and should be in place by
the time most of you read this message).
This will probably be the last release candidate image before release
day unless folks find some real show-stoppers here, so please look
thoroughly
- Jordan
So, barring any big problems, FreeBSD-4.0 will be released on Monday, March 13th.
I was honored to be able to see it at the premiere back in early December. My first experience with the original Fantasia was when I was much younger, and didn't really appreciate it.
:)
Disney's original plan was to have Fantasia constantly running, and constantly changing. Every time you went to a theater to see it, they added a new part, and removed an old one. This didn't happen for several reasons, but they took many of the concepts behind Disney's original goals into this.
The more I read/hear about Disney, the more I think the man was just born too early. He had dreams of robots, immersive dynamic content, and thoughts of the future.
If he were alive today, he would definately be a geek I would want to meet.
-- Kevin
Perhaps I'm just in a bad mood today, but debunking this sounds fun.
First, the code you posted below, apparently never outputs anything but:
f1 :
f2 :
not a good cypher
cancelled
way :
pfa 0.1 by Frank Joppe (C) Copyright 2000
Usage:
pfa
pfa
--x Hexadecimal input, use lowercase only!
--help This screen
help
from a look at the binary. I'm not quite silly enough to try to run it, but I'm sure someone here on a scratch box will.
Secondly... Define fast? Faster than, say, http://www.entropia.net/prime? They're using a massive distributed effort to factor prime numbers, and it still takes a serious amount of time.
My PIII 600 takes a few weeks to look for factors of (2^8858987)-1 using Lucas-Lehmer's algorithm. If you've got something that can top this, I'm sure a lot of people would like to know....
People like The EFF especially, who is offering up to $250,000 for large prime numbers.
How about some benchmarks, or some documentation on how it works? Or why you're using geocities to distribute it?
- Kevin
Not to be rude, but:
- What's the key combination to print something in Windows?
Alt F-P
- What's the key combination to close a window?
Depends on what you mean. Alt F-C to close a document. Alt-F4 to close the entire application.
- What's the key combination to save a file?
Alt F-S
- Where does Game X install itself in the Start menu?
Usually under the game name. Where did apache choose to install itself?
Ok, smack me for being blind. His site *does* talk about this... http://www.deanx.com/buzz.htm
:)
(and it was at the TCA event he's speaking of where I met him... even spookier)
Not completely related, but... I had the privilage of meeting Dean Haglund, one of the Lone Gunmen a few weeks ago, at a Fox party. (see obliglatory photo here). He mentioned to me that he had a website up where he talked about upcoming projects.... www.deanx.com doesn't mention anything about this, but I suppose he's not saying it's not true. :)
His e-mail appears to be broken right now, perhaps when it's fixed we can see if he has any comments...
Ack, that should be 'subscribe astepcloser' in the body. :)
Ok... First of all, a offical transcript is here:
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:)
:)
:)
http://www.a stepcloser.com/Zope/astepcloser/forum/948687822/i
Secondly, we learned quite a bit.
1) Even if your guest says they have a DSL line and can handle script kiddies, insist on a proxy of some sort before hand.
2) Plan for many more people than you expect. I honestly expected a lesser crowd than the ones I've had before for events like this, since I couldn't promote it well.
3) Implement the hacks I've got to ircd to allow for a forum like this. (Hide joins/parts from non-opers, disallow nick changes, etc).
But, a lot of really good questions got asked, and Bruce did a wonderful job of answering them. We'll be doing more of these, so please subscribe to the mailing list, if you want to be informed of them... (majordomo@dragondata.com - put 'subscribe irc' in the body).
Also, we're holding a contest to see who can bring the most interesting person for a future chat.... Go here for details... Win a t-shirt from Think Geek, or a $20 gift certificate from B&N.
Thanks to everyone who came.
Kevin
As an administrator for a couple of servers on NewNet, as well as a software developer, I can assure you that this kind of association with NewNet isn't desirable.
I'm actively working to bring interesting things to NewNet that aren't warez/porn/whatever related. Things like this help.
-- Kevin
Hey, In my defense, they didn't announce the new show until after Bruce and I scheduled this. :) It was originally going to be a week later. :)
Although, I did get to meet most of the X-files cast last week. Perhaps I can talk a few into doing a chat like this.
Kevin
A transcript of this chat, (and all the other's we've done) will be up at www.astepcloser.com within an hour or two of completion.
-- Kevin
Ok, I know how poor taste it is to follow up your own post, but... :)
:)
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Also, irc.newnet.net is a dns roundrobin pointing to all of the servers. In case it picks one that is down or full, and it's not giving you a new one, here's a list:
irc.dragondata.com
|-irc.away.net
|-services2.newnet.net
|-security.dragondata.com
`-hub.dragondata.com
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|-services.newnet.net
`-irc.eskimo.com
I promise that if I had known this was going to happen, I would have prepared better.
Hi, I'm Kevin Day, the guy who's kinda running this interview tonight.
:)
:)
:)
I really had no idea this was actually going to make it up on here, so this will definately be a learning experience as how to handle larger crowds. Right now it's 7 hours before the chat starts, and there are already more people here than there were for some tv/movie stars that I've done this with.
I'm gonna post a 'how this is gonna work' to www.astepcloser.com in a few minutes, but briefly:
The channel is moderated during the Q&A. This means nobody can talk who isn't running the show, or Bruce. With hundreds of people here, there's no sensible way of doing this.
To have a question asked, you'll send it to me, or one of the people helping out. (They'll have @'s next to their name).
We'll pick the interesting looking questions, and post them in the channel. Bruce will answer.
The realtime nature of this will allow followup questions to his responses, as well as the hint of unpredictability. (I hope!)
You're welcome to hang out before and after the event. We've got one other interview scheduled two weeks from now, with more on their way.
(And yes, please don't flame me that www.astepcloser.com looks a whole awful lot like www.slashdot.org. That's the default SquishDot look that I haven't had the chance to change much yet)
We'll definately be exploring the slashdot effect on irc servers tonight.
-- Kevin
I've got two nominations
First, Jordan K. Hubbard. jkh has been the somewhat-unofficial leader of the FreeBSD group for years now, and has somehow kept his cool no matter how much people are going bezerk around him. Search the freebsd-* mailing list archives, and get a good example of his character.
Second, Marshall Kirk McKusick. He's always been present to remind the *BSD groups of past mistakes, and giving guidance. He's also contributed Softupdates, which is kinda a paranoid version of mounting your filesystems async. Anything that speeds up disk access as much as softupdates does without adding any data risk is quite worthy of recognition.
Joe is also by far my favorite. Features like intelligent paragraph formatting (preserving "> >" at the beginning of lines), being able to handle all sorts of unprintable characters, huge files, histories on text prompts, and it includes 'jmacs', 'jstar' and 'jpico'. It also has 'rjoe' for restricted environments.
Yes, it's WordStarish, but it's easy to learn, and very configurable.
"vi has two modes. One in which it beeps, and one in which it doesn't."
Oh, C software is very very vulnerable. Take a look at GNU software that has had problems.
Or a list of changes FreeBSD has made. (Note that about half of these are ported applications, not FreeBSD specific)
Or look here at some reasons why C is vulnerable to Y2k problems.
Just because it was written in C doesn't make it Y2k bugproof. Using time_t when possible is great, but the act of trying to make things human readable/parseable makes it harder.
Note too that most old Verisign keys expire on 12/31/99, people with old browsers should have fun on SSL sites. (Netscape allows 'Continue Anyway', IE won't allow you to)
Kevin
I don't know how load could cause a system to reboot except for software problems though. You can throw as much work as you want at a CPU or RAM or hard drive, and as long as your drivers and core OS are good, they aren't going to be rebooting.
As much fun as it is to rip apart Microsoft, I found their history article a good thing. I honestly never thought I'd live to hear:
"[Engineers] were literally in front of the FTP and download servers for an entire day rebooting them to keep them up because there were too many users for what the boxes could handle."
come from a Microsoft spokesperson.
No, this isn't a new story to laugh at Microsoft with. Having them admit to being mortal is an important step in becoming less of the conceived monster that they appear to be.
In case you're missing the big deal: Microsoft admitted that something they made didn't work. Perhaps this is just a fluke, or this article didn't get cleared by their PR people, but maybe this is a sign that they're going to start being more forthright when it comes to bugs?
Or am I reading too much into this?
I haven't seen anyone mention RSAC yet. It seems to satisfy many concerns brought up, as well as it's already supported in IE and Netscape.
RSAC allows webmasters to place tags on their pages to rate their use of Language, Nudity, Sex and Violence.
You rate each on a scale of 0 to 4, such as for nudity:
0: None
1: Revealing Attire
2: Partial Nudity
3: Frontal Nudity
4: Provocative frontal nudity
Language, Sex and Violence also have their settings. Parents/cafe owners/whatever can then go into IE and specify what level they consider acceptable. If it's over the rated limit, it asks for a password.
The problem? It's not widely implemented on web sites, and there's no requirement people do it. I own an ISP, and ask that my customers add these tags, and insist that they do if they have any 'adult' content. Nobody has complained so far, and several have commented that they are glad they added them.
As much as I hate the idea of forcing webmasters to do anything, what do you feel about making these slightly more mandatory?
Kevin
What's even better is this one:
:)
Windo ws Overwrites Linux Boot Manager
SYMPTOMS
When you install Microsoft Windows on a computer that has the Linux operating system installed, Windows may overwrite or deactivate the Linux boot manager (LILO, or Linux Loader). As a result, you can no longer access the Linux operating system.
They also tell you this:
Remov ing the Linux LILO Boot Manager
When Linux is installed on your computer, it allows a dual boot by loading a boot manager called LILO directly into the MBR. To remove LILO, perform the following steps...
Wheeeeee.