If I ever become a teacher, any student turning in any paper with even one instance of such laziness gets an automatic 0, and if I'm feeling nice I'll let them redo it for 10% credit.
Papers must be written in ENGLISH unless it's a foreign language class.
The last time I used cursive was taking the SATs. I had to copy the honor pledge in cursive and sign it.
I ended up just printing it and going back and connecting the letters randomly because it was so much faster and looked plausable enough anyways -- better than taking the time to try and write proper cursive.
Even my signature is *barely* cursive...only about half of the letters are real "cursive" letters, and maybe 2-3 of the connections are done properly. And I don't even have a very long name...it's 8 letters total in my signature, first AND last names.
A Mini-ITX rig, with an integrated Via C3 processor, will probably perform about as well as an Intel Celeron, a little bit weaker in the floating-point realm.
These machines are designed to be low-power, high-efficiency machines, where the emphasis is a quiet, cool system, rather than a high-performance one. For instance -- home theatre, mobile audio/video (car, truck) or light terminals in high-traffic areas. Many of them have hardware assisted MPEG decoding, to allow them to play DVDs and such in a home-theatre setting without heating up or glitching due to the limitations of the CPU.
If you wanted to run one of these as a TCP service provider (http, ftp, etc.) you're probably fine. But I wouldn't use this for anything "heavy" including, a high-volume e-mail server, Active Directory or DNS server, etc. The CPU just doesn't have enough power to push these services with sufficient performance.
Cliffnotes: Mini-ITX: Good for light useage. Applications: Personal HTTPd/FTPd, personal e-mail server, home router, file server.
Bad applications: Active Directory / PDC, DNS, etc.
802.11 is the layer 1 and 2 protocol. Above that, all the standard protocols that work over wires work, because at that point you're in the logical, not physical, realm.
Philips had a very clever marketing scheme, involving a commercial. The device being pushed is a combonation VCR player/recorder and DVD burner in the same box...allowing you to seemlessly back up your VHS onto DVD media. It's optimized or compressed or something so one standard-length disk will fit a full length VHS.
I think the box itself is about $500. Possibly more. Plus the cost of media, obviously.
Your compiler will not produce code with instructions it does not recognize.
It will produce executable code with instructions it recognizes, ordered in such a way as to produce bad effects, intentionally or not, due to the way they are laid out.
For your all information, this bug has absolutely nothing to do with the third parameter. The problem exists when only run as
INPUT TYPE
with no attribute value, or any additional text.
So, chalk it up to subpar error handling...This bug could be analogous to a double free() or a pointer being reassigned to the wrong target. Just because the compiler (browser) doesn't catch it doesn't mean it's the not the programmer (page creator) fault.
INPUT TYPE CRASH...the crash is an invalid attribute, and the TYPE is missing its parameter.
You have massively malformed HTML there, so of course it's going to crash...I guess IE is just a little less careful for looking for the way to render something that doesnt exist than some other browsers are. But, this isn't an MS problem...
You've got to remember that HTML is still a programming language. If you write bad code in C/C++ you can take down your OS with memory leaks, overwriting your command stack, etc. In HTML, you can crash your browser.
Strikes me that this would already have been doable...configure the router to multicast packets from your source IP to the destination IP as well as to the government listening address...
I've known this for a while...at least 6 months. Mail from my domain "jkoebel.net" is undeliverable to "aol.com".... their mail server simply refuses to respond to my mail server's requests.
"Broadband" referrs to the modulation of multiple signals on different frequencies over the same physical wire.
Contrasted with "baseband", which is the simple placement of an electrical signal on a wire.
Ethernet uses a baseband method of signaling. Hence the technical terminology "100 Base TX" 100 Megabit, baseband signaling. The TX, I forget what that represends.
Baseband signaling is trivial to interpret...an ethernet adapter only needs to be aware of three states on the wire...0, 1, and null. As opposed to broadband, where the adapter needs to be aware of the different signal levels and frequencies and pick the right channel from the wire to modulate/demodulate over.
How can a lawyer define a technical term? "Broadband" has been misused because DSL/Cable are implimentations of broadband, but broadband signaling is not implicitly faster (or slower) than baseband signaling. There is no debate over what "broadband" means, it is explicitly defined in the world of electrical engineering, and has been for many years.
This thing was manufactured in 1989. It gets 15,000 pages per toner cartridge (costs $100/cartridge, though.)
It's hot. It's dead slow. and it does graphics terribly. And it weighs 50 lbs.
After putting a memory board (eBay!) into it, it now has 2.5MB of RAM instead of the lowly 512KB it came with. It's expandable to 4.5MB total. Recently, the paper has started to come out in poor print quality, like the charge corona is going so not all the toner is properly placed on the page (toner where there shouldn't be, no toner where there should be.)
if it finally totally goes, I'm going to get an old-school laserjet and use that.
Built into the NTFS filesystem are "reparse points", the ability to mount volumes as folder paths.
This way, it would be *trivial* to mount your USB thumbdrive as C:\Documents and Settings\$USER\, just have it symlinked that way and make sure the drive is plugged in when you boot. Otherwise it might get messy.
NTFS also supports hardlinking...not quite the same thing as symlinks, but rather close...The real trouble is that most of these things aren't supported using the default tool set, you must add it using third-party software. Such software (usually free) just calls the APIs to create hardlinks, reparse points, etc.
The logic needed to run a USB port is a lot more than that required to run a Parallel port. These network print server boxes often do little more than pass the file presented to them over the network, out the parallel port.
The USB port requires the USB Root Hub, USB host, and all sorts of other advanced logic that isn't cost-effective to integrate into the small machine.
I won't comment on the legitimatcy of the article due to the date (4/1) but, this RFC seems to be technically perfect, but flawed in every other way.
Attacking systems MUST set the "evil" bit. Secure systems MUST drop the packets, insecure systems MAY chose their action -- drop, crash, give in.
Basically, this system, you give implicit trust to the remote system on the end of the communications, and let that system determine the security your own network will take in response to the communications.
Let one malicious user not flag his attack packets as evil, and the remote network will let him right in.
Burstable bandwidth means you're paying for this much - but if your server for some reason needs more, instead of being screwed and dropping connections, your server gets more bandwidth, which you pay for.
Good for low-useage servers with very short spikes of popularity.
You've just said that the ISP should eat the cost of the extra bandwidth...why? You agreed to burstable charges...they gave you more in advance, on condition you would pay for it with your next bill.
"Because YOUR (isp) system of delivering bandwidth is faulty or doesnt account for abuse potentials is NOT my (consumer) fault."
"If you decide to enforce a D/L cap, i myself will not be your customer...."
With that type of an attitude, you're saying you are entitled to unlimited bandwidth. The datacenter has an OC-48 into it...does that mean you're entitled to that? Not unless you paid for it...
The network has the capability to deliver high speeds, but if you didn't pay for that speed you're not entitled to it any more than someone who doesn't have the service at all is.
Is it something within the technical capabilities of Windows to do? Yes. Changing resolution for different full-screen windows happens all the time when you play a game...
The X-Box has a motherboard running a VIA chipset, Intel CPU, nVidia graphics processor; the only difference is the BIOS has a protection on it to prevent running unsigned code.
You know what would have made me go out and buy the album in a heartbeat?
To have the MP3 tracks of the songs embedded on the CD also.
The technology to make mixed-mode CDs (Data Track 1 + Audio Tracks 2..n), that *work* in devices like walkmen, car audio, and computers, has been around for YEARS and YEARS.
An album I put together for some friends of mine who all attended this concert was a big hit. On the audio portion of the CD, I put the most well known track from each of the 18 or so bands that played. On the data portion, I put the same track in MP3 format.
I've bought a few CDs and ripped them to MP3. If when I bought a CD, it came with the MP3s already (buying a CD legally entitles you to the MP3s, you just have to go find or rip them) that would be excellant. ALso acceptable in this case would be DRM-enabled WMA files that require the physical CD they came from the first time they are played, to unlock them; after that, they're yours and yours alone. Reformat, just copy and reactivate.
[[If I have an 802.11b base station, and my neighbor has an 802.11b base station, can we communicate between our base stations?]]
Yes, set the APs to bridge to each other's MAC addresses. You've created a wireless bridge between two networks.
[[For that matter, can two access cards just communicate with each other]]
Yes, this is called "Ad-Hoc" mode. It's a checkbox when you're setting the network up; in Windows XP it reads something like "This is a computer-to-computer (ad-hoc) wireless network that does not use an access point." At which point you just worry about SSID and WEP keys if any.
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If I ever become a teacher, any student turning in any paper with even one instance of such laziness gets an automatic 0, and if I'm feeling nice I'll let them redo it for 10% credit.
Papers must be written in ENGLISH unless it's a foreign language class.
The last time I used cursive was taking the SATs. I had to copy the honor pledge in cursive and sign it.
I ended up just printing it and going back and connecting the letters randomly because it was so much faster and looked plausable enough anyways -- better than taking the time to try and write proper cursive.
Even my signature is *barely* cursive...only about half of the letters are real "cursive" letters, and maybe 2-3 of the connections are done properly. And I don't even have a very long name...it's 8 letters total in my signature, first AND last names.
A Sun Sparc has a much better processor than a VIA EPIA board does...
A Mini-ITX rig, with an integrated Via C3 processor, will probably perform about as well as an Intel Celeron, a little bit weaker in the floating-point realm.
These machines are designed to be low-power, high-efficiency machines, where the emphasis is a quiet, cool system, rather than a high-performance one. For instance -- home theatre, mobile audio/video (car, truck) or light terminals in high-traffic areas. Many of them have hardware assisted MPEG decoding, to allow them to play DVDs and such in a home-theatre setting without heating up or glitching due to the limitations of the CPU.
If you wanted to run one of these as a TCP service provider (http, ftp, etc.) you're probably fine. But I wouldn't use this for anything "heavy" including, a high-volume e-mail server, Active Directory or DNS server, etc. The CPU just doesn't have enough power to push these services with sufficient performance.
Cliffnotes:
Mini-ITX: Good for light useage. Applications: Personal HTTPd/FTPd, personal e-mail server, home router, file server.
Bad applications: Active Directory / PDC, DNS, etc.
802.11 is the layer 1 and 2 protocol. Above that, all the standard protocols that work over wires work, because at that point you're in the logical, not physical, realm.
Philips had a very clever marketing scheme, involving a commercial. The device being pushed is a combonation VCR player/recorder and DVD burner in the same box...allowing you to seemlessly back up your VHS onto DVD media. It's optimized or compressed or something so one standard-length disk will fit a full length VHS.
I think the box itself is about $500. Possibly more. Plus the cost of media, obviously.
Your compiler will not produce code with instructions it does not recognize.
It will produce executable code with instructions it recognizes, ordered in such a way as to produce bad effects, intentionally or not, due to the way they are laid out.
For your all information, this bug has absolutely nothing to do with the third parameter. The problem exists when only run as
INPUT TYPE
with no attribute value, or any additional text.
So, chalk it up to subpar error handling...This bug could be analogous to a double free() or a pointer being reassigned to the wrong target. Just because the compiler (browser) doesn't catch it doesn't mean it's the not the programmer (page creator) fault.
That's cuz the proper syntax of an INPUT tag is:
INPUT TYPE CRASH...the crash is an invalid attribute, and the TYPE is missing its parameter.
You have massively malformed HTML there, so of course it's going to crash...I guess IE is just a little less careful for looking for the way to render something that doesnt exist than some other browsers are. But, this isn't an MS problem...
You've got to remember that HTML is still a programming language. If you write bad code in C/C++ you can take down your OS with memory leaks, overwriting your command stack, etc. In HTML, you can crash your browser.
Strikes me that this would already have been doable...configure the router to multicast packets from your source IP to the destination IP as well as to the government listening address...
I've known this for a while...at least 6 months. Mail from my domain "jkoebel.net" is undeliverable to "aol.com" .... their mail server simply refuses to respond to my mail server's requests.
It sucks...
"Broadband" referrs to the modulation of multiple signals on different frequencies over the same physical wire.
Contrasted with "baseband", which is the simple placement of an electrical signal on a wire.
Ethernet uses a baseband method of signaling. Hence the technical terminology "100 Base TX" 100 Megabit, baseband signaling. The TX, I forget what that represends.
Baseband signaling is trivial to interpret...an ethernet adapter only needs to be aware of three states on the wire...0, 1, and null. As opposed to broadband, where the adapter needs to be aware of the different signal levels and frequencies and pick the right channel from the wire to modulate/demodulate over.
How can a lawyer define a technical term? "Broadband" has been misused because DSL/Cable are implimentations of broadband, but broadband signaling is not implicitly faster (or slower) than baseband signaling. There is no debate over what "broadband" means, it is explicitly defined in the world of electrical engineering, and has been for many years.
WTF do the lawyers think they can get off doing?
I have an IBM 4019/E Laser Printer.
This thing was manufactured in 1989. It gets 15,000 pages per toner cartridge (costs $100/cartridge, though.)
It's hot. It's dead slow. and it does graphics terribly. And it weighs 50 lbs.
After putting a memory board (eBay!) into it, it now has 2.5MB of RAM instead of the lowly 512KB it came with. It's expandable to 4.5MB total. Recently, the paper has started to come out in poor print quality, like the charge corona is going so not all the toner is properly placed on the page (toner where there shouldn't be, no toner where there should be.)
if it finally totally goes, I'm going to get an old-school laserjet and use that.
Built into the NTFS filesystem are "reparse points", the ability to mount volumes as folder paths.
This way, it would be *trivial* to mount your USB thumbdrive as C:\Documents and Settings\$USER\, just have it symlinked that way and make sure the drive is plugged in when you boot. Otherwise it might get messy.
NTFS also supports hardlinking...not quite the same thing as symlinks, but rather close...The real trouble is that most of these things aren't supported using the default tool set, you must add it using third-party software. Such software (usually free) just calls the APIs to create hardlinks, reparse points, etc.
The logic needed to run a USB port is a lot more than that required to run a Parallel port. These network print server boxes often do little more than pass the file presented to them over the network, out the parallel port.
The USB port requires the USB Root Hub, USB host, and all sorts of other advanced logic that isn't cost-effective to integrate into the small machine.
I won't comment on the legitimatcy of the article due to the date (4/1) but, this RFC seems to be technically perfect, but flawed in every other way.
Attacking systems MUST set the "evil" bit. Secure systems MUST drop the packets, insecure systems MAY chose their action -- drop, crash, give in.
Basically, this system, you give implicit trust to the remote system on the end of the communications, and let that system determine the security your own network will take in response to the communications.
Let one malicious user not flag his attack packets as evil, and the remote network will let him right in.
Sounds like a plan!
I run a similar setup...my 2+4 channel controllers, my optical drives are on the 2-channel and my HDD on the RAID controller, all master devices.
My Name is Dr. Sbaitso. I am here to help you.
Say whatever is in your mind freely. Our conversation will be kept in strict confidance. Memory contents will be wiped after you leave.
So, tell me about your problems.
Burstable bandwidth means you're paying for this much - but if your server for some reason needs more, instead of being screwed and dropping connections, your server gets more bandwidth, which you pay for.
Good for low-useage servers with very short spikes of popularity.
You've just said that the ISP should eat the cost of the extra bandwidth...why? You agreed to burstable charges...they gave you more in advance, on condition you would pay for it with your next bill.
"Because YOUR (isp) system of delivering bandwidth is faulty or doesnt account for abuse potentials is NOT my (consumer) fault."
"If you decide to enforce a D/L cap, i myself will not be your customer...."
With that type of an attitude, you're saying you are entitled to unlimited bandwidth. The datacenter has an OC-48 into it...does that mean you're entitled to that? Not unless you paid for it...
The network has the capability to deliver high speeds, but if you didn't pay for that speed you're not entitled to it any more than someone who doesn't have the service at all is.
godaddy.com
good service, 9.95/domain/year/1 year, and it goes down to like 6.95/year at 5 years.
Is it something within the technical capabilities of Windows to do? Yes. Changing resolution for different full-screen windows happens all the time when you play a game...
Is it something someone has coded? Probably not.
I have never posted "dupe" before, but this is the _third_ time in recent history that I've seen this story.
Don't you people ever check the current articles?
Seriously...
Hmm...
The X-Box has a motherboard running a VIA chipset, Intel CPU, nVidia graphics processor; the only difference is the BIOS has a protection on it to prevent running unsigned code.
Sounds like General Mayhem Forums...
You know what would have made me go out and buy the album in a heartbeat?
To have the MP3 tracks of the songs embedded on the CD also.
The technology to make mixed-mode CDs (Data Track 1 + Audio Tracks 2..n), that *work* in devices like walkmen, car audio, and computers, has been around for YEARS and YEARS.
An album I put together for some friends of mine who all attended this concert was a big hit. On the audio portion of the CD, I put the most well known track from each of the 18 or so bands that played. On the data portion, I put the same track in MP3 format.
I've bought a few CDs and ripped them to MP3. If when I bought a CD, it came with the MP3s already (buying a CD legally entitles you to the MP3s, you just have to go find or rip them) that would be excellant. ALso acceptable in this case would be DRM-enabled WMA files that require the physical CD they came from the first time they are played, to unlock them; after that, they're yours and yours alone. Reformat, just copy and reactivate.
[[If I have an 802.11b base station, and my neighbor has an 802.11b base station, can we communicate between our base stations?]]
Yes, set the APs to bridge to each other's MAC addresses. You've created a wireless bridge between two networks.
[[For that matter, can two access cards just communicate with each other]]
Yes, this is called "Ad-Hoc" mode. It's a checkbox when you're setting the network up; in Windows XP it reads something like "This is a computer-to-computer (ad-hoc) wireless network that does not use an access point." At which point you just worry about SSID and WEP keys if any.