Hi, I'm in Germany and here we pay per minute for dialup. I'm not saying speed and always-on is not good, what I am saying is that these per-minute costs are more important.
Let me put a price tag on it for you, if I spend 2 hours online per day (a lot!) on the cheepest dialup I know of (freenet 0.89 cents per minute) it will cost about 30 USD per month as long as the hours are offpeek (6pm - 9am) otherwise I it's about 55 USD per month. Of course even for avrage net use this makes the cost of braodband more palatable. Except of course for the fucking extravagant connection fee bordering on extortion from Deutsche Telecom.
but I just checked it out with Netscape 3.04 with js and images off,
I'm thinking *mabye* their "technology" peeks at the user-agent and picks out only the majority browsers it knows should be able to display popups. I say this because I use a custom user-agent in opera also blocking everything except html and it works OK. Also works in lynx.
(iv) Same thing. Is anybody that worried about flash suppressors? It's not like they actually supress the muzzle flash anyway
I thought they were supposed to suppress the flash from the perspective of the shooters, and people shooting near them because it can ruin your ability to target correctly? Having said that I'm pretty sure I took that from a Tom Clancy novel (clear and present danger?) I read years ago:)
Yes but isn't the problem if you do screw the BIOS you can't boot your PC in order to reflash it?
Usually the only alternative open is to boot another PC and remove the BIOS whilst the PC is running and insert the corrupted one then flash the old corrupted bios on this PC.
So the Romanians lied to him, isn't this a good thing?
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lalala, at least I hope it went something like that:-/
Well it's a matter of acceptance and CYA. *You* may not care if it isn't sun approved, however a lot of people will care and it will stop businesses from using it.
If I'm consulting for someone and they asked what JVM to use I wouldn't suggest one that's not Sun certified because when/if they fuck something up I don't want to take any flak for suggesting a non-certified JVM. It's the same situation with JBOSS, it's a free application server but when I was working at Compaq we wouldn't even suggest it to a client because it wasn't Sun approved (and of course the partnering with BEA).
Mysql runs my database, doesn't mean I'd recommend it to someone for critical data, same deal with the JVM.
The C programming language does everything I need it to do.
I too once was a C zealot. Then I had a job at Compaq which required me to develop in TCL which I hated at first, but eventually it opened my eyes a lot.
These days I do 90% of my work in python, it's a bloody great language. I remember when I first started hacking C about a decade ago, I'd pump out these little programs quite quickly but anything large took a lot of time, usually debugging. I never got tierd of C but I suppose when I started programming professionally it lost a lot of its appeal.
Anyway, I diverge.
Python lets me create complex systems very fast. The first time I used python I worte a client/server chat program, it took about half a day to do (including the basic python tutorial). I find I don't have the time to fuck around with C anymore, I don't find the joy in hunting down bugs either (at least I hunt less in python).
I still use C on occasion though. But only then I can't do it fast enough in python, the C code is still usually ran from python in the end.
If you want sun to put a magic sun approved stamp on your JVM or J2EE platforms you have to pay them a lot of cash to have them verify it. Obviously this prevents a problem for OS projects unless some patron comes along and drops the money for it.
I know where youer coming from!! But luckily my previous job (compaq) Had lots of showers in the buildings so I was biking for the whole year and it was great. Now I'm stuck without showers again so I'm back to public transport. I'm sure that having people bike/run to work makes them healthier, why can't companies see that it's advantagous to supply showers? Cheap bastards.
Basically I got lucky the first time, and ever since then I've been paranoid, in hopes there won't be a second time
I got r00ted earlier this year. Serves me right for running a severly underpatched box I suppose. Probably not too much of a problem since I was on dialup thou. Did you actually do anything to this guy? Weren't you tempted to log on to IRC and chat with him? Or else start distributing his passwords of him and his friends to other people on IRC? Just wondering:)
Re:Encryption and compression make a lot of sense.
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Thanks, I realize compressing divx would be a silly thing to do, it was just an example:)
A few years ago when I was at uni I was doing my postgrad thesis on multi-dimensional DB indexing. I was comparing several algorithms against one another, the main problem being that the bottleneck of the system was disk access so I couldn't make a fair comparison. This was of course exacerbated since I was using Java (hey, I was young and reckless back then) so the IO was slow. I looked at a few ways of improving the IO and one method was compressing the data to load faster (since cpu cycles were cheap), it was however unfeasible because of the random accesses the database would have to do. I ended up buying a ton of RAM and storing the DB there.
Now I think about it more it should be reasonable straightforward to store DB blocks compressed, the index after all keeps an byte-offset to the data so I don't see how compression would effect it as long as the data was stored in 64K blocks. I do think that this compression would have to be managed by the DBMS not a generic system wide compresssion system since the index should represent bute offsets in the compressed file not the uncompressed file (otherwise more work would need to be done then actually needed). It would be a cheap way of getting more disk space, but more importantly it may speed up the access time, like a cheap SCSI (or mabye use it with SCSI) at the expense of some CPU.
some specialised industry data formats for microchips
I was messing with multi-dimensional indexing algorithms for my postgrad thesis (think select area x1, y1, x2, y2 from a processor layout / city map, etc) so I have a little bit of experience with this. A simple ascii to binary translation will work a *lot* better than zip! Dead fast too:)
Having said that I don't think I've worked for a client were compression wasn't important, my last job was programming for [an extreamly large mobile telco] and we used zip a lot on logfiles, call details, and billing corporate customers. It was very neccessary since the dev machines were very very very short of HD space. Actually I guess the production was short of space too since they pulled one of the SCSIs of dev and propped it into the production machine. A couple of months work erased by cheap-ass admins, oh well their money I guess:)
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Wouldn't this be a problem for random access? I mean lets say I'm playing a 700MB divx that I decided to zip as well (admittedly a stupid thing) and I decide to start half way through the movie, it would have to decrypt the first 350MB then?
I see this as only being useful for sequential access, please correct me if I'm being stupid here:)
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Most compression formats have lead in characters in the files, PKZip does anyhow so thats probably not a problem when breaking the encryption.
However in ST-TNG episode 2-21 "Peak Performance" Wesley uses the transporter to beam his antimatter experiment over to Riker's ship. Geordi is able to squeeze a couple of seconds of warp speed out of the ship using this.
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Hi, I'm in Germany and here we pay per minute for dialup. I'm not saying speed and always-on is not good, what I am saying is that these per-minute costs are more important.
Let me put a price tag on it for you, if I spend 2 hours online per day (a lot!) on the cheepest dialup I know of (freenet 0.89 cents per minute) it will cost about 30 USD per month as long as the hours are offpeek (6pm - 9am) otherwise I it's about 55 USD per month. Of course even for avrage net use this makes the cost of braodband more palatable. Except of course for the fucking extravagant connection fee bordering on extortion from Deutsche Telecom.
but I just checked it out with Netscape 3.04 with js and images off,
I'm thinking *mabye* their "technology" peeks at the user-agent and picks out only the majority browsers it knows should be able to display popups. I say this because I use a custom user-agent in opera also blocking everything except html and it works OK. Also works in lynx.
(iv) Same thing. Is anybody that worried about flash suppressors? It's not like they actually supress the muzzle flash anyway
:)
I thought they were supposed to suppress the flash from the perspective of the shooters, and people shooting near them because it can ruin your ability to target correctly? Having said that I'm pretty sure I took that from a Tom Clancy novel (clear and present danger?) I read years ago
Yes but isn't the problem if you do screw the BIOS you can't boot your PC in order to reflash it?
Usually the only alternative open is to boot another PC and remove the BIOS whilst the PC is running and insert the corrupted one then flash the old corrupted bios on this PC.
This has always seemed a tad risky to me.
Anyone can come up with a conspiracy theory about anything.
It's a conspiracy!
So the Romanians lied to him, isn't this a good thing?
t ems to be deployed on your PC. Market to millions realtime...
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lalala, at least I hope it went something like that
Well it's a matter of acceptance and CYA. *You* may not care if it isn't sun approved, however a lot of people will care and it will stop businesses from using it.
If I'm consulting for someone and they asked what JVM to use I wouldn't suggest one that's not Sun certified because when/if they fuck something up I don't want to take any flak for suggesting a non-certified JVM. It's the same situation with JBOSS, it's a free application server but when I was working at Compaq we wouldn't even suggest it to a client because it wasn't Sun approved (and of course the partnering with BEA).
Mysql runs my database, doesn't mean I'd recommend it to someone for critical data, same deal with the JVM.
The C programming language does everything I need it to do.
I too once was a C zealot. Then I had a job at Compaq which required me to develop in TCL which I hated at first, but eventually it opened my eyes a lot.
These days I do 90% of my work in python, it's a bloody great language. I remember when I first started hacking C about a decade ago, I'd pump out these little programs quite quickly but anything large took a lot of time, usually debugging. I never got tierd of C but I suppose when I started programming professionally it lost a lot of its appeal.
Anyway, I diverge.
Python lets me create complex systems very fast. The first time I used python I worte a client/server chat program, it took about half a day to do (including the basic python tutorial). I find I don't have the time to fuck around with C anymore, I don't find the joy in hunting down bugs either (at least I hunt less in python).
I still use C on occasion though. But only then I can't do it fast enough in python, the C code is still usually ran from python in the end.
If you want sun to put a magic sun approved stamp on your JVM or J2EE platforms you have to pay them a lot of cash to have them verify it. Obviously this prevents a problem for OS projects unless some patron comes along and drops the money for it.
Perhaps they forgot to synchronize their watches? Scientists are terribly forgetful about things like this :)
these events were meant to be caused by tiny black holes? At least thats what the last slashdot story like this said. IANAQP
I know where youer coming from!! But luckily my previous job (compaq) Had lots of showers in the buildings so I was biking for the whole year and it was great. Now I'm stuck without showers again so I'm back to public transport. I'm sure that having people bike/run to work makes them healthier, why can't companies see that it's advantagous to supply showers? Cheap bastards.
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Basically I got lucky the first time, and ever since then I've been paranoid, in hopes there won't be a second time
:)
I got r00ted earlier this year. Serves me right for running a severly underpatched box I suppose. Probably not too much of a problem since I was on dialup thou. Did you actually do anything to this guy? Weren't you tempted to log on to IRC and chat with him? Or else start distributing his passwords of him and his friends to other people on IRC? Just wondering
Thanks, I realize compressing divx would be a silly thing to do, it was just an example :)
A few years ago when I was at uni I was doing my postgrad thesis on multi-dimensional DB indexing. I was comparing several algorithms against one another, the main problem being that the bottleneck of the system was disk access so I couldn't make a fair comparison. This was of course exacerbated since I was using Java (hey, I was young and reckless back then) so the IO was slow. I looked at a few ways of improving the IO and one method was compressing the data to load faster (since cpu cycles were cheap), it was however unfeasible because of the random accesses the database would have to do. I ended up buying a ton of RAM and storing the DB there.
Now I think about it more it should be reasonable straightforward to store DB blocks compressed, the index after all keeps an byte-offset to the data so I don't see how compression would effect it as long as the data was stored in 64K blocks. I do think that this compression would have to be managed by the DBMS not a generic system wide compresssion system since the index should represent bute offsets in the compressed file not the uncompressed file (otherwise more work would need to be done then actually needed). It would be a cheap way of getting more disk space, but more importantly it may speed up the access time, like a cheap SCSI (or mabye use it with SCSI) at the expense of some CPU.
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Yeah but I could count on my left hand the people who've paid for WinZIP
And since zip support is transparent in winXP (yeah like tgz was in KDE years ago) even less will.
some specialised industry data formats for microchips
:)
:)
I was messing with multi-dimensional indexing algorithms for my postgrad thesis (think select area x1, y1, x2, y2 from a processor layout / city map, etc) so I have a little bit of experience with this. A simple ascii to binary translation will work a *lot* better than zip! Dead fast too
Having said that I don't think I've worked for a client were compression wasn't important, my last job was programming for [an extreamly large mobile telco] and we used zip a lot on logfiles, call details, and billing corporate customers. It was very neccessary since the dev machines were very very very short of HD space. Actually I guess the production was short of space too since they pulled one of the SCSIs of dev and propped it into the production machine. A couple of months work erased by cheap-ass admins, oh well their money I guess
Wouldn't this be a problem for random access? I mean lets say I'm playing a 700MB divx that I decided to zip as well (admittedly a stupid thing) and I decide to start half way through the movie, it would have to decrypt the first 350MB then?
:)
I see this as only being useful for sequential access, please correct me if I'm being stupid here
Most compression formats have lead in characters in the files, PKZip does anyhow so thats probably not a problem when breaking the encryption.
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What !!!
How the hell am I supposed to get anything done if I can take nethack everywhere? Are you crazy!!!
However in ST-TNG episode 2-21 "Peak Performance" Wesley uses the transporter to beam his antimatter experiment over to Riker's ship. Geordi is able to squeeze a couple of seconds of warp speed out of the ship using this.
:-|
Oh God, much too much ST
Thanks, after reading through the PHP docs for a while I saw this was the case. Personally I usually code like
:)
if ($pw='secret') { $auth=true; } else { $auth=false; }
because of years of trying to avoid uninitialized C variables, but I suppose I'm bound to mae mistankes now and then
can also be dual licensed with a great deal of Open Source licenses including, among others, the BSD license
If it can be relesed under a BSD licence doesn't that mean it can then be re-released under any licence anyway?
PHP-Templates are very handy for seperating the logic/formatting as well. Well I suppose thats what they were designed for.
Pardon my ignorance (I've only dabbled a little in PHP), what is the danger of the global variables in this situation?