So make comment editing painful so folks won;t do it. Just like you can't moderate a story you post to. If you edit a comment, the moderation gets reset to whatever it posted at (-1 to +2) plain and simple. Also to avoid lamers from editing comments to get out of -1 land (say they posted at +1), you make it so that your post has to be at its original moderation or higher to edit it (or for simplicity, +1) So 0 and -1 comments could NOT be edited.
OR even simpler. Any comment at -1 or 0 could be edited at its current moderation - who cares? Any comment at +1 or higher will automatically get set to +1 when edited to start over. Easy enough and hard to abuse.
So for the word problem challenged:
sub edit_submit {
if current_moderation > 1 { moderation = 1 }
}
Actually I like having the option. I look at it this way. I normally try to post good solid comments. But if I'm in the mood and just want to spout off and be an idiot, I post at +1 - that way the worst that can happen is a -2 hit to my karma:) Yeah its only one point. But lose 10 and you lose hte bonus - easy enough to whore and get it back. But seriously - it lets you post subpar comments at +1 instead of +2 where you're more likely to get modded down.
Of course sometimes when I'm being a d**k and posting obnoxious stuff it'll be funny enough to get +5 so go figure:):)
With the deal off, who knows what will happen. But I found Dave Winre's thoughts startling. He put all the pieces in place and basically says 'Its possible' Possible that Microsoft really can control the Internet at will and nobody can stop them. Doesn't mean they will or even that it is likely - but the potential is looming more and more each day.
They are selling Linux and getting free development work from the Open Source community. It's a creative way to cut back expenses.. just Open Source your work, and get it developed for free.
Which isn't necessarily a bad thing. It helps IBM, sure. But we all benefit since the code is out there and can be reused in other areas unrelated to IBM so we win too. I think IBM has taken a smart avenue related to Linux. Sure, they need to make money, but they realized early on the only way to make money in OSS is to be accepted as an honest and contributing player by the commuinity which they seem committed to. More power to them!
Believe it or not, they are used for CPU design. The folks at ZWorld designed their Rabbit CPU architecture using FPGAs and then created the chip from that design (vs the usual prototyping on silicon over and over). Its not uncommon. Now using FPGAs in realworld 32-bit CPU scenarios for Windows is another thing:)
Been there, done that. And the best part is hitting the psycho walking up to finish you off with the last round cause he thought you were out of ammo:)
Problem is if someone taps into the 1-wire bus and knows how the system works, they can grab the data and emulate it using a simple Microchip microcontroller. For security, you should use the new SHA-1 iButton which uses a challenge setup to encrypt data. See above
The iButtons are really slick little devices. On problem with normal ones? The data can be intercepted off the 1-wire data bus if someone gets access to it... Not good.
However, Dallas (now part of Maxim-ic) has come out with a VERY cool SHA-1 based device This prevents someoen from intercepting the data sent form the iButton. It can be used as an end user device AND as a co-processor on the controller. This allows a very simple micro-controller to be used since the on board SHA-1 ibutton is used to validate the response to the challenge. When time allows I've really wanted to improve an existing design of mine for a touch & open door lock.
Note there are a number of vendors out there for iButtons - so you just might find something for Computers
Yes I did. However I've seen other posts from people who fried their processors due to no heat sink (my favorite was the guy who built his brand new computer and turned it on without putting the heatsink on) and they didn't report flaming infernos. Besides, there isn't a whole lot of flammable stuff in a PC case AND its all metal anyway (cept for the front panel which has a metal plate between it and the CPU. Yes it'll smoke and it might burn up part of your motherboard. But nowhere is it said that a heatsink falling off will torch your PC every time. And a properly installed heatsink on a quality motherboard should never have any problem. I have Athlon based servers runnign 24x7 unattended and I'm not concerned about them burning my house down. As for shipping - agreed - the cheesy plastic nubs are a joke - at this stage heatsinks should be screwed into the freaking mounting holes that have been in motherboards forever.
Besides, its not just Athlons. While back we had a Dual Pent II 300MHz box. All of a sudden we smelled something, the help desk phones lit up, and then smoke came out of the server. One heatsink hand fallen off (actually it did fall off - it just came loose) - this overloaded the power supply and burned up the ATX connecter and the 5VDC wires. Didn't burst into flames, but it burned the hell out of the power cable. Of course we replaced the heatsink and the power supply - and the damn thing booted fine with both CPUs. That overheated CPU still runs to this day! I was impressed!
the important thing is that publicity of Tom's article got AMD off their butts to try and resolve the problem. Yes, this won't help folks with existing motherboards and I doubt we'll see the new Maxim chips on motherboards for a little while (since many aren't even reading the thermal diode yet) I think its great that Tom's HW pushed AMD in the right direction. So we can debate about who did what, conspiracy, etc but its pointless. Obviously THW blew up Athlons in less than a second. Obviously someone (possibly AMD, who knows0 had one running without a heatsink. Personally I think the 2nd video is fake in some way. I'm an AMD/Athlon fanatic - love them. But I can't believe they managed to play Quake on a CPU without a heatsink unless the mobo they used was doctored in some way to throttle speed based on the thermal diode reading.
But in the end - its really not an issue. Yes, existing Athlon owners are at a SLIGHT risk of failure if their heatsinks fall off (I'd love to see REAL stats on how often THAT happens) But in the end, its still cheaper to replace your Athlon once than to go with an equivalent Pentium 4. So lets be glad AMD listened to the folks at Tom's Hardware - realized they were getting a black eye, and did something about it. Hopefully in a few months we can buy mobos with the Maxim chip safty valve or some tryp of clock throttler. Then the Pentium freaks will have to argue over real stuff like benchmarks and performance instead of making snide comments about Athlons burning you house down.
This article states the obvious - 802.11b and Bluetooth target different audiences, etc. No kidding. However, they ARE in conflict. Numerous articles and tests have shown that 802.11b throughput and range drops like a stone if your 802.11 device happens to be near a bluetooth device since they share the same spectrum. So what do you do if you have bluetooth devices all over your cube and the guy next to you wants to use his 802.11b PDA? He'll most likely have serious trouble if he's not near the access point.
I personally think Bluetooth is a joke. Remember how USB was supposed to eliminate all the wires to our PCs? You know - one or two USB cables to the box. The monitor and keyboard would have USB ports on them so you could plug other stuff into them, etc, etc. But it hasn't really happened. Yes, USB is making inroads but VERY slowly and NOT because of bandwidth issues. USB 2 will be nice but its not gonna speed up adoption of USB. Bluetooth will be similar. WHo cares if your PDA uses a serial or USB port or wireless to talk with your desktop? Personally? I'd prefer to have wires for security (do I want my contacts and calendar broadcast to to my cubemates?) Thanks, I'll pass. Printers? Maybe - but serisouly, use a thin, easy to route USB cable.
I don't need a pico net on my desktop. I need a smartly designed setup where wires run a minimum distance because defvices can be chained, etc. My mouse should plug into my keyboard (duh!) instead of running along side its wire. (Appel got that one right) My keyboard should be able to plug into my monitor. My camera - go to the monitor or keyboard. Speakers? Whatever. You get the point.
I just don't see the killer apps that will make Bluetooht more than an annoyance.
Huh? They've agreed to provide me with a service, for a fee I'm paying. It's their duty to fulfill the contract. Companies have to obey the law, just like people do.
Right and are you 100% sure that contract forbids them from doing this? Are you sure it doesn't have a clause stating they can do just about anything or that the contract terms can change at any time? Most do.
Thanks for the update. I've never read that folks were using MAPs to block anythign but email. Blocking websites on MAPs is retarded. I still think MAPs is a good concept and my mailservers use it - for email. But beyond that..... I can't understand why an ISP would choose to block web sites based on it unless they are doing it to hurt MAPs with bad PR (don't blame us - blame MAPs)
Suppose there's only two or three ISPs where you live. Imagine if they all subscribe to MAPS. What's your fucking solution now?
Your solution is to DEAL with it. Email is not a freaking right - it is a privledge. SO you either ask your ISP to handle it in a different manner or just deal with it like other things in your life you can't control. Tired of paying $0.20 a KW for electricity? What are you gonna do then? Burn candles?
The world is not custom made to your liking - you take the best compromise you can get. If no ISP fits your needs - you either move or accept it and move on. Don't try to shut down a service many of us LIKE just because you're in a crappy situation.
I thought MAPs was used to block spam via DNS queries to their blacklist. SafeSurf makes it sound like their web site is being blocked? It makes no sense! Or do they distribute their list of safe sites via email?
I'm tired of everyone blasting the MAPs service and similar services. SPAM sucks - MAPs helps. Its not perfect. But I'm tired of all these people acting like email is a God given right - its not. If your ISP choses to utilize MAPS or any other blacklist that is THEIR right as the company providing you teh service. Should they notify you? Sure, but if not - too bad.
The bottom line is MAPs is not frocing things down peoples throats. If your ISP choses to use it - well that may be a good thing or bad thing to you just like other stuff such as port blocking, etc. You take that into accont. Remember folks - internet service is provided to you by a provider that sets the rules - don't like it? Go elsewhere or if no alternative exists, deal with it.
It seems more and more groups are trying to shut down MAPs - which personally would piss me off big time. Its a good service. Plus it allows me to utilize it in any manner I choose. I cna have sendmail block emails or use it to add headers, etc. But in teh end - its up to the ISP (I'm my own ISP for services - yay!) to determine how they will handle SPAM. procmail may work for you, but its not for everyone!
As for SafeSurf - that legislation is hilarious. Rating every web page on teh Internet - as if. The scary part is knowing our esteemed leaders - they'll think its a great thing. If it got passed? Well, instead of spending the time rating all my pages I'd form a LLC for my web sites with no assets:) They want to sue? Fine - sue the shell and I'll start another one or move overseas (my servers anyway):)
Yes, and in that case, the user should indeed loudly complaint. To the webmaster of that s(h)ite!
Actually - in addition, Mozilla needs to complain loudly - I'm tired of going to a new site and having Mozilla just lock up because of some whacked out IE only crap. Mozilla needs to be able to handle stuff like this, recover AND should pop up some type of window informing the user that this site uses non compliant Javascript, etc and to complain to the webmaster or whatever. But freezing isn't the answer!
I think Mozilla will help move some websites towards standards comliancy, though at the expense of some users who will refuse to use it 'cause it works on IE!' Its a tough battle and there are arguments for both sides (maybe Mozilla should handle whatever screwy stuff it is but also pop up a window or use a taskbar icon to indicate a BAD site - non compliant whatever - wnough users bug the webmaster about it - maybe they'll fix it instead of telling users 'Use IE and don't bug me"
I think the behavior he is referring to (dropping the login and then after a few refreshes he gets back in) is what happenes when/. is down on the backend (assuming here). In other words when teh site goes into static mode with all.shtml files. This happens quite often. You can try to login but get the static pages anyway. - Thats my take on it anyway since the sites will go static for a while then ban g- I'm back in afer a refresh and everythign is runnign dynamically like it should - I always assumed this was DB problems on teh backend.
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Simply reset ann edited comment's moderation to +1 if it is already at +1 or higher. If its at 0 or -1 leave it at that moderation level - no biggie.
OR even simpler. Any comment at -1 or 0 could be edited at its current moderation - who cares? Any comment at +1 or higher will automatically get set to +1 when edited to start over. Easy enough and hard to abuse.
So for the word problem challenged:
sub edit_submit { if current_moderation > 1 { moderation = 1 } }
Easy enough!
Actually I like having the option. I look at it this way. I normally try to post good solid comments. But if I'm in the mood and just want to spout off and be an idiot, I post at +1 - that way the worst that can happen is a -2 hit to my karma :) Yeah its only one point. But lose 10 and you lose hte bonus - easy enough to whore and get it back. But seriously - it lets you post subpar comments at +1 instead of +2 where you're more likely to get modded down.
Of course sometimes when I'm being a d**k and posting obnoxious stuff it'll be funny enough to get +5 so go figure :) :)
The post is correct. The new VM was added in 2.4.10 so that VM will be in the kernel from 2.4.10 onward. It does read a bit odd given 2.4.14 is out :)
With the deal off, who knows what will happen. But I found Dave Winre's thoughts startling. He put all the pieces in place and basically says 'Its possible' Possible that Microsoft really can control the Internet at will and nobody can stop them. Doesn't mean they will or even that it is likely - but the potential is looming more and more each day.
Its a bug. See further down
was what I did. Looks good to you?
Um not unless this is a typo - you cleaned after you dep'ed - ooops! make clean dep bzImage would be more like it!
Which isn't necessarily a bad thing. It helps IBM, sure. But we all benefit since the code is out there and can be reused in other areas unrelated to IBM so we win too. I think IBM has taken a smart avenue related to Linux. Sure, they need to make money, but they realized early on the only way to make money in OSS is to be accepted as an honest and contributing player by the commuinity which they seem committed to. More power to them!
Believe it or not, they are used for CPU design. The folks at ZWorld designed their Rabbit CPU architecture using FPGAs and then created the chip from that design (vs the usual prototyping on silicon over and over). Its not uncommon. Now using FPGAs in realworld 32-bit CPU scenarios for Windows is another thing :)
Here is a PDF version Download all you want - I'm not metered (but its also only 384kbps :) )
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Been there, done that. And the best part is hitting the psycho walking up to finish you off with the last round cause he thought you were out of ammo :)
Problem is if someone taps into the 1-wire bus and knows how the system works, they can grab the data and emulate it using a simple Microchip microcontroller. For security, you should use the new SHA-1 iButton which uses a challenge setup to encrypt data. See above
However, Dallas (now part of Maxim-ic) has come out with a VERY cool SHA-1 based device This prevents someoen from intercepting the data sent form the iButton. It can be used as an end user device AND as a co-processor on the controller. This allows a very simple micro-controller to be used since the on board SHA-1 ibutton is used to validate the response to the challenge. When time allows I've really wanted to improve an existing design of mine for a touch & open door lock.
Note there are a number of vendors out there for iButtons - so you just might find something for Computers
Yes I did. However I've seen other posts from people who fried their processors due to no heat sink (my favorite was the guy who built his brand new computer and turned it on without putting the heatsink on) and they didn't report flaming infernos. Besides, there isn't a whole lot of flammable stuff in a PC case AND its all metal anyway (cept for the front panel which has a metal plate between it and the CPU. Yes it'll smoke and it might burn up part of your motherboard. But nowhere is it said that a heatsink falling off will torch your PC every time. And a properly installed heatsink on a quality motherboard should never have any problem. I have Athlon based servers runnign 24x7 unattended and I'm not concerned about them burning my house down. As for shipping - agreed - the cheesy plastic nubs are a joke - at this stage heatsinks should be screwed into the freaking mounting holes that have been in motherboards forever.
Besides, its not just Athlons. While back we had a Dual Pent II 300MHz box. All of a sudden we smelled something, the help desk phones lit up, and then smoke came out of the server. One heatsink hand fallen off (actually it did fall off - it just came loose) - this overloaded the power supply and burned up the ATX connecter and the 5VDC wires. Didn't burst into flames, but it burned the hell out of the power cable. Of course we replaced the heatsink and the power supply - and the damn thing booted fine with both CPUs. That overheated CPU still runs to this day! I was impressed!
But in the end - its really not an issue. Yes, existing Athlon owners are at a SLIGHT risk of failure if their heatsinks fall off (I'd love to see REAL stats on how often THAT happens) But in the end, its still cheaper to replace your Athlon once than to go with an equivalent Pentium 4. So lets be glad AMD listened to the folks at Tom's Hardware - realized they were getting a black eye, and did something about it. Hopefully in a few months we can buy mobos with the Maxim chip safty valve or some tryp of clock throttler. Then the Pentium freaks will have to argue over real stuff like benchmarks and performance instead of making snide comments about Athlons burning you house down.
LOL - A posting member < 24 hours old - ROFLMAO!
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I personally think Bluetooth is a joke. Remember how USB was supposed to eliminate all the wires to our PCs? You know - one or two USB cables to the box. The monitor and keyboard would have USB ports on them so you could plug other stuff into them, etc, etc. But it hasn't really happened. Yes, USB is making inroads but VERY slowly and NOT because of bandwidth issues. USB 2 will be nice but its not gonna speed up adoption of USB. Bluetooth will be similar. WHo cares if your PDA uses a serial or USB port or wireless to talk with your desktop? Personally? I'd prefer to have wires for security (do I want my contacts and calendar broadcast to to my cubemates?) Thanks, I'll pass. Printers? Maybe - but serisouly, use a thin, easy to route USB cable.
I don't need a pico net on my desktop. I need a smartly designed setup where wires run a minimum distance because defvices can be chained, etc. My mouse should plug into my keyboard (duh!) instead of running along side its wire. (Appel got that one right) My keyboard should be able to plug into my monitor. My camera - go to the monitor or keyboard. Speakers? Whatever. You get the point.
I just don't see the killer apps that will make Bluetooht more than an annoyance.
Right and are you 100% sure that contract forbids them from doing this? Are you sure it doesn't have a clause stating they can do just about anything or that the contract terms can change at any time? Most do.
Thanks for the update. I've never read that folks were using MAPs to block anythign but email. Blocking websites on MAPs is retarded. I still think MAPs is a good concept and my mailservers use it - for email. But beyond that..... I can't understand why an ISP would choose to block web sites based on it unless they are doing it to hurt MAPs with bad PR (don't blame us - blame MAPs)
Your solution is to DEAL with it. Email is not a freaking right - it is a privledge. SO you either ask your ISP to handle it in a different manner or just deal with it like other things in your life you can't control. Tired of paying $0.20 a KW for electricity? What are you gonna do then? Burn candles?
The world is not custom made to your liking - you take the best compromise you can get. If no ISP fits your needs - you either move or accept it and move on. Don't try to shut down a service many of us LIKE just because you're in a crappy situation.
I'm tired of everyone blasting the MAPs service and similar services. SPAM sucks - MAPs helps. Its not perfect. But I'm tired of all these people acting like email is a God given right - its not. If your ISP choses to utilize MAPS or any other blacklist that is THEIR right as the company providing you teh service. Should they notify you? Sure, but if not - too bad.
The bottom line is MAPs is not frocing things down peoples throats. If your ISP choses to use it - well that may be a good thing or bad thing to you just like other stuff such as port blocking, etc. You take that into accont. Remember folks - internet service is provided to you by a provider that sets the rules - don't like it? Go elsewhere or if no alternative exists, deal with it.
It seems more and more groups are trying to shut down MAPs - which personally would piss me off big time. Its a good service. Plus it allows me to utilize it in any manner I choose. I cna have sendmail block emails or use it to add headers, etc. But in teh end - its up to the ISP (I'm my own ISP for services - yay!) to determine how they will handle SPAM. procmail may work for you, but its not for everyone!
As for SafeSurf - that legislation is hilarious. Rating every web page on teh Internet - as if. The scary part is knowing our esteemed leaders - they'll think its a great thing. If it got passed? Well, instead of spending the time rating all my pages I'd form a LLC for my web sites with no assets :) They want to sue? Fine - sue the shell and I'll start another one or move overseas (my servers anyway) :)
Which means being hit by nimda would be a good thing since it 'enhances' machine accessability :) :) Root access for everybody! :)
Actually - in addition, Mozilla needs to complain loudly - I'm tired of going to a new site and having Mozilla just lock up because of some whacked out IE only crap. Mozilla needs to be able to handle stuff like this, recover AND should pop up some type of window informing the user that this site uses non compliant Javascript, etc and to complain to the webmaster or whatever. But freezing isn't the answer!
I think Mozilla will help move some websites towards standards comliancy, though at the expense of some users who will refuse to use it 'cause it works on IE!' Its a tough battle and there are arguments for both sides (maybe Mozilla should handle whatever screwy stuff it is but also pop up a window or use a taskbar icon to indicate a BAD site - non compliant whatever - wnough users bug the webmaster about it - maybe they'll fix it instead of telling users 'Use IE and don't bug me"
I can dream can't I? :)
I think the behavior he is referring to (dropping the login and then after a few refreshes he gets back in) is what happenes when /. is down on the backend (assuming here). In other words when teh site goes into static mode with all .shtml files. This happens quite often. You can try to login but get the static pages anyway. - Thats my take on it anyway since the sites will go static for a while then ban g- I'm back in afer a refresh and everythign is runnign dynamically like it should - I always assumed this was DB problems on teh backend.