Hey Jimmy, assuming you're using FAT32 as your XP filesystem, which uses 73.8 MB of space for every gigabyte, not just 73.8 megs one time, that adds up to roughly 8,856MB of space used for the filesystem. Which on a labeled 123.5 GB drive, leaves you with roughly 115GB of space! Wow! The HD manufacturers were right!
The OS *do* use a negligible amount of drive space in these days with 100+ GB hard drives. And you're confusing file systems with operating systems. Just because an OS allow you to use a file system that waste resources, doesn't mean the OS itself use a lot of drive space.
Granted, overcoming the huge momentum for binary units will be difficult, but one could always consider it practice for getting the USA to accept metric.
So you're saying that USA should use 1 KB = 1000 bytes, while the rest of the world don't need to? (sounds weird to me)
Or are you saying that a group of people should try to enforce a new global standard where 1 KB = 1000 bytes? (sounds impossible to me)
He failed to name how the capacity should be described, though.
Well, who cares how it should be described?
What we should care about is how most describe it and try to enforce that way in order to avoid confusion. But sure, if you want to be an anarchistic geek, go to a forum screaming that we should use GiB and KiB because blah blah blah... Then watch how many cares and watch the power of a de facto standard.
"It's not a beta as such, it's the source compiled with resources, put together by people who had both the resources and the know-how. I called it a pre-release for a reason, instead of labeling it an alpha or beta."
If that's true, there might have been more leaked than we first knew. Perhaps the hacker rushed the source out because that was likely to cause a lot of attention on its own. (hackers like attention) But he had grabbed the entire hl2 tree with resources and all, and that might now have been leaked.
Or perhaps Valve messed up once again, and allowed another hacker to once again grab stuff from their computers. Sounds unlikely though...
*Most* released software has known bugs in it, but is released when the software is in a good enough state.
Quake 1's QuakeC API code had lots of TODO's and even comments like "Oooh really ugly hack coming up!" in the code. Yet, Quake 1 *was* released and *was* a huge success. And even the unpatched version was very playable and of release-quality.
The same goes for Doom's later released source code, etc, etc...
So, once again, pretty much all released software has bugs. Nothing wrong with that. The problem is if the software has obvious glaring bugs, but a simple TODO/BUG entry won't tell you that.
Amazing that you actually get replies from one of, if not the, most visited places on the web. I don't wanna know how many stupid mails they get per day.:-O
Links 8 and 10 in the results might be useful, but they do not contain the exact phrase I was searching for.
At least for me, every site on the first page has some "to be or not to be" phrase in their title or page. Perhaps you discovered another Google anomaly.:-)
Yes, I use a Senator pen and have to say that it has always worked fine. I don't really prioritize anything special with pens (I didn't even know it was a Senator pen until I looked, which explains how much I know about pens). The only exception is: they have to work.:-) I hate those damn pens that don't work when you need them and for some reason.;-)
Actually deleting files during an upgrade is a common practice.. (i do this in my updater)
Well, for your application's security's sake, I sure hope the delete procedure isn't directly initiated by a server package, where the server is unverified as well. By adding 1 and 1, the resulting security exploits is quite easy to understand.
I think we all are a little more paranoid since 9/11.....
This hasn't anything to do with 9/11, this has to do with common sense regarding computer security and network protocol design.
The following functions were put into Earthstation5 to allow automatic, remote upgrade of the Earthstation5 software.
These functions are: Reload Earthstation5 Shutdown Earthstation5
Delete a File All of these functions are necessary to perform when upgrading software.
Hell no.
These guys should learn something about computer security. Funny that the same guys who're using a solution that screams "EXPLOIT ME" is developing some application that's supposed to be focused on extra security.
This is how to perform a teeny bit safer automatic upgrade:
- Server sends a packet containing a field that says it's an update packet, along with a version ID to update to, i.e. 110 for version 1.10 or whatever.
- Client receives packet and uses a partial client-side URL to the place where the new version can be downloaded. For example, the client could use the partial URL "http://www.es5.com/files/es", attach the received version ID (that is: "110") to the string, and finally the file extension, to form the URL "http://www.es5.com/files/es110.zip". The client then takes care of its shutdown, auto-install, and restart sequence.
Voila! Upgraded application without a RANDOM UNVERIFIED COMPUTER sending the CLIENT a message to DELETE something and it BLINDLY AGREES to. It's amazing that such poor programmers can even design something that compiles. Or are they hired by the RIAA to fool people into downloading their "new, cool and extra safe" application?
I wouldn't recommend anyone to download the DNS-faking "we-have-more-users-than-Kazaa" dudes' software.
When these recorders are out and priced for regular consumers, I guess Longhorn with full DRM support and Microsoft BIOS chips are out too... I wonder what path MPAA will follow.:-P
If one is to think like you when it comes to computer hardware, one will never buy anything.:-)
Computer hardware constantly improves and when these recorders are out, they'll probably be a bit more expensive than others. So better wait until they get affordable. No wait, then those BlueRay recorderse started getting interesting!
The art of arranging sounds in time so as to produce a continuous, unified, and evocative composition, as through melody, harmony, rhythm, and timbre.
Most of us can probably agree that "noise" isn't a rythmic sound with a melody. Noise to me is just chaotic sound, i.e. the opposite of music.
So this should answer both what counts as music and why.
Of course the encoding format shouldn't matter at all. If you can playback a JPG image and it sounds really great with a sound that matches the characteristics of music, well, then I guess it's music.
"today announced that it will temporarily suspend its Site Finder, a new service to improve Web navigation for Internet users."
SiteFinder is still active now at least -- just tried an invalid URL.
"During the more than two weeks that Site Finder has been operational, there is no data to indicate that the core operation of the Domain Name System or stability of the Internet has been adversely affected."
Cool, you didn't ruin the DNS system and caused internet-wide instability. Good job!! *pats VeriSign on their back* Seriously... was that even expected? The problems lies in other areas...
"The service has been well received by millions of Internet users who appreciate getting navigation tools as opposed to the 'dead end' of an error message," added Lewis.
I suppose they're enjoying their increased amount of spam due to spam filters malfunctioning too?
"The next several weeks will be a test as to whether innovation will occur within the Internet infrastructure. The fact is that while the Internet has been used for innovative purposes over the last decade, the core infrastructure has suffered from a lack of innovation,"
Advertisements (or redirects to a commercial web site, whatever you'd like to call it) isn't an improvement to the core internet infrastructure in any way.
I think DviX is nothing more than another attempt by some programmers to make money by trying to be monopolistic (like M$).
Well, ever considered that maybe we need those guys trying to become monopolistic, or else MS will just make Windows Media Video a standard instead of DivX? At least the DivX team has a niche, MS don't.
"The BIOS would also allow better control of unauthorised devices connected to a system, Microsoft said."
Why is a protection against "unauthorized devices" suddenly necessary on BIOS-level? Has anyone even been victim of a device that should really have been "unauthorized" (whatever that means in this case) that has been connected to a PC? It sounds like they're talking about hardware, and that's what's puzzling me. Are Microsoft telling us that future devices might be set as "unauthorized" because they don't fulfill Microsoft's demands and standards for an authorized device, or what?
Are Microsoft's customers saying "we should be able to protect ourself against unauthorized hardware" (I'm not hearing anyone), or are Microsoft just trying to shove a new feature down their throats because they need it for their plans?
"Phoenix's Core System Software (CSS) is a next-generation BIOS with a more sophisticated integration of operating system and hardware, for example making it easier for system administrators to remotely monitor the hardware configurations of their systems."
As with all computer software, complexity increases the chance of bugs and often also security exploits. How can Microsoft and Phoenix assure these "enhancements" to the BIOS don't do this? They can't? Well, then we might have an interesting future with really messy exploits ahead (with potential for viruses to gain direct hardware access and control), and also BIOS crashes due to the added complexity.
Ever have one of those weeks? This has just not been the best couple of days for me or for Valve.
Yes, the source code that has been posted is the HL-2 source code.
Here is what we know:
1) Starting around 9/11 of this year, someone other than me was accessing my email account. This has been determined by looking at traffic on our email server versus my travel schedule.
2) Shortly afterwards my machine started acting weird (right-clicking on executables would crash explorer). I was unable to find a virus or trojan on my machine, I reformatted my hard drive, and reinstalled.
3) For the next week, there appears to have been suspicious activity on my webmail account.
4) Around 9/19 someone made a copy of the HL-2 source tree.
5) At some point, keystroke recorders got installed on several machines at Valve. Our speculation is that these were done via a buffer overflow in Outlook's preview pane. This recorder is apparently a customized version of RemoteAnywhere created to infect Valve (at least it hasn't been seen anywhere else, and isn't detected by normal virus scanning tools).
6) Periodically for the last year we've been the subject of a variety of denial of service attacks targetted at our webservers and at Steam. We don't know if these are related or independent.
Well, this sucks.
What I'd appreciate is the assistance of the community in tracking this down. I have a special email address for people to send information to, helpvalve@valvesoftware.com. If you have information about the denial of service attacks or the infiltration of our network, please send the details. There are some pretty obvious places to start with the posts and records in IRC, so if you can point us in the right direction, that would be great.
We at Valve have always thought of ourselves as being part of a community, and I can't imagine a better group of people to help us take care of these problems than this community.
Yes, I agree Miranda is a great and super configurable IM. You basically make it what you want to, and before you should even think about Miranda might be missing a feature, you should look at the plugin section containing around 200 categorized plugins.:) The plugins in Miranda get access to lots of areas of the IM, so even if Miranda for example didn't support displaying which soundtrack Winamp plays, or even smileys, these features can still be enabled through simple plugins. You can also make it look quite beautiful by skinning it and using some professional-quality graphics plugins.
Although I'd prefer my own imagination, it's not too bad since I think the LOTR trilogy as movies were so good. Reading the books also feels like a super-mega-extended deluxe edition of the movies, so that's nice.:-)
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Hey Jimmy, assuming you're using FAT32 as your XP filesystem, which uses 73.8 MB of space for every gigabyte, not just 73.8 megs one time, that adds up to roughly 8,856MB of space used for the filesystem. Which on a labeled 123.5 GB drive, leaves you with roughly 115GB of space! Wow! The HD manufacturers were right!
The OS *do* use a negligible amount of drive space in these days with 100+ GB hard drives. And you're confusing file systems with operating systems. Just because an OS allow you to use a file system that waste resources, doesn't mean the OS itself use a lot of drive space.
Granted, overcoming the huge momentum for binary units will be difficult, but one could always consider it practice for getting the USA to accept metric.
So you're saying that USA should use 1 KB = 1000 bytes, while the rest of the world don't need to? (sounds weird to me)
Or are you saying that a group of people should try to enforce a new global standard where 1 KB = 1000 bytes? (sounds impossible to me)
That's actually a pretty good idea! Much better than the MiB stuff that isn't "backwards compatible", causing it to be used by basically no one.
He failed to name how the capacity should be described, though.
Well, who cares how it should be described?
What we should care about is how most describe it and try to enforce that way in order to avoid confusion. But sure, if you want to be an anarchistic geek, go to a forum screaming that we should use GiB and KiB because blah blah blah... Then watch how many cares and watch the power of a de facto standard.
If that's true, there might have been more leaked than we first knew. Perhaps the hacker rushed the source out because that was likely to cause a lot of attention on its own. (hackers like attention) But he had grabbed the entire hl2 tree with resources and all, and that might now have been leaked.
Or perhaps Valve messed up once again, and allowed another hacker to once again grab stuff from their computers. Sounds unlikely though...
You are apparently not a programmer.
*Most* released software has known bugs in it, but is released when the software is in a good enough state.
Quake 1's QuakeC API code had lots of TODO's and even comments like "Oooh really ugly hack coming up!" in the code. Yet, Quake 1 *was* released and *was* a huge success. And even the unpatched version was very playable and of release-quality.
The same goes for Doom's later released source code, etc, etc...
So, once again, pretty much all released software has bugs. Nothing wrong with that. The problem is if the software has obvious glaring bugs, but a simple TODO/BUG entry won't tell you that.
Amazing that you actually get replies from one of, if not the, most visited places on the web. I don't wanna know how many stupid mails they get per day. :-O
Links 8 and 10 in the results might be useful, but they do not contain the exact phrase I was searching for.
:-)
At least for me, every site on the first page has some "to be or not to be" phrase in their title or page. Perhaps you discovered another Google anomaly.
Well, since the karma count isn't displayed in numbers here on /. anymore...
Yes, I use a Senator pen and have to say that it has always worked fine. I don't really prioritize anything special with pens (I didn't even know it was a Senator pen until I looked, which explains how much I know about pens). The only exception is: they have to work. :-) I hate those damn pens that don't work when you need them and for some reason. ;-)
Yes, maybe that's true, but in this case I think the criticism is well founded. No one wants a program that's able to remotely delete your files.
Actually deleting files during an upgrade is a common practice.. (i do this in my updater)
Well, for your application's security's sake, I sure hope the delete procedure isn't directly initiated by a server package, where the server is unverified as well. By adding 1 and 1, the resulting security exploits is quite easy to understand.
I think we all are a little more paranoid since 9/11.....
This hasn't anything to do with 9/11, this has to do with common sense regarding computer security and network protocol design.
The following functions were put into Earthstation5 to allow automatic, remote upgrade of the Earthstation5 software.
These functions are:
Reload Earthstation5
Shutdown Earthstation5
Delete a File
All of these functions are necessary to perform when upgrading software.
Hell no.
These guys should learn something about computer security. Funny that the same guys who're using a solution that screams "EXPLOIT ME" is developing some application that's supposed to be focused on extra security.
This is how to perform a teeny bit safer automatic upgrade:
- Server sends a packet containing a field that says it's an update packet, along with a version ID to update to, i.e. 110 for version 1.10 or whatever.
- Client receives packet and uses a partial client-side URL to the place where the new version can be downloaded. For example, the client could use the partial URL "http://www.es5.com/files/es", attach the received version ID (that is: "110") to the string, and finally the file extension, to form the URL "http://www.es5.com/files/es110.zip". The client then takes care of its shutdown, auto-install, and restart sequence.
Voila! Upgraded application without a RANDOM UNVERIFIED COMPUTER sending the CLIENT a message to DELETE something and it BLINDLY AGREES to. It's amazing that such poor programmers can even design something that compiles. Or are they hired by the RIAA to fool people into downloading their "new, cool and extra safe" application?
I wouldn't recommend anyone to download the DNS-faking "we-have-more-users-than-Kazaa" dudes' software.
I don't really care since they're backwards compatible with current players. This sounds like some great news! :-)
:-P Doh!
However, not going to wait for a burner for these. I've already ordered my DVD burner.
4.7 GB data is still pretty nice and I wouldn't recommend anyone to buy a CD burner when they need a burner these days.
When these recorders are out and priced for regular consumers, I guess Longhorn with full DRM support and Microsoft BIOS chips are out too... :-P
I wonder what path MPAA will follow.
If one is to think like you when it comes to computer hardware, one will never buy anything. :-)
:-)
Computer hardware constantly improves and when these recorders are out, they'll probably be a bit more expensive than others. So better wait until they get affordable. No wait, then those BlueRay recorderse started getting interesting!
Etc etc
music:
The art of arranging sounds in time so as to produce a continuous, unified, and evocative composition, as through melody, harmony, rhythm, and timbre.
Most of us can probably agree that "noise" isn't a rythmic sound with a melody. Noise to me is just chaotic sound, i.e. the opposite of music.
So this should answer both what counts as music and why.
Of course the encoding format shouldn't matter at all. If you can playback a JPG image and it sounds really great with a sound that matches the characteristics of music, well, then I guess it's music.
"today announced that it will temporarily suspend its Site Finder, a new service to improve Web navigation for Internet users."
SiteFinder is still active now at least -- just tried an invalid URL.
"During the more than two weeks that Site Finder has been operational, there is no data to indicate that the core operation of the Domain Name System or stability of the Internet has been adversely affected."
Cool, you didn't ruin the DNS system and caused internet-wide instability. Good job!! *pats VeriSign on their back* Seriously... was that even expected? The problems lies in other areas...
"The service has been well received by millions of Internet users who appreciate getting navigation tools as opposed to the 'dead end' of an error message," added Lewis.
I suppose they're enjoying their increased amount of spam due to spam filters malfunctioning too?
"The next several weeks will be a test as to whether innovation will occur within the Internet infrastructure. The fact is that while the Internet has been used for innovative purposes over the last decade, the core infrastructure has suffered from a lack of innovation,"
Advertisements (or redirects to a commercial web site, whatever you'd like to call it) isn't an improvement to the core internet infrastructure in any way.
I think DviX is nothing more than another attempt by some programmers to make money by trying to be monopolistic (like M$).
Well, ever considered that maybe we need those guys trying to become monopolistic, or else MS will just make Windows Media Video a standard instead of DivX? At least the DivX team has a niche, MS don't.
"The BIOS would also allow better control of unauthorised devices connected to a system, Microsoft said."
Why is a protection against "unauthorized devices" suddenly necessary on BIOS-level? Has anyone even been victim of a device that should really have been "unauthorized" (whatever that means in this case) that has been connected to a PC? It sounds like they're talking about hardware, and that's what's puzzling me. Are Microsoft telling us that future devices might be set as "unauthorized" because they don't fulfill Microsoft's demands and standards for an authorized device, or what?
Are Microsoft's customers saying "we should be able to protect ourself against unauthorized hardware" (I'm not hearing anyone), or are Microsoft just trying to shove a new feature down their throats because they need it for their plans?
"Phoenix's Core System Software (CSS) is a next-generation BIOS with a more sophisticated integration of operating system and hardware, for example making it easier for system administrators to remotely monitor the hardware configurations of their systems."
As with all computer software, complexity increases the chance of bugs and often also security exploits. How can Microsoft and Phoenix assure these "enhancements" to the BIOS don't do this? They can't? Well, then we might have an interesting future with really messy exploits ahead (with potential for viruses to gain direct hardware access and control), and also BIOS crashes due to the added complexity.
What do you mean with "never heard of"? Sometime is always the first...
Source (umm, please excuse the pun)
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Ever have one of those weeks? This has just not been the best couple of days for me or for Valve.
Yes, the source code that has been posted is the HL-2 source code.
Here is what we know:
1) Starting around 9/11 of this year, someone other than me was accessing my email account. This has been determined by looking at traffic on our email server versus my travel schedule.
2) Shortly afterwards my machine started acting weird (right-clicking on executables would crash explorer). I was unable to find a virus or trojan on my machine, I reformatted my hard drive, and reinstalled.
3) For the next week, there appears to have been suspicious activity on my webmail account.
4) Around 9/19 someone made a copy of the HL-2 source tree.
5) At some point, keystroke recorders got installed on several machines at Valve. Our speculation is that these were done via a buffer overflow in Outlook's preview pane. This recorder is apparently a customized version of RemoteAnywhere created to infect Valve (at least it hasn't been seen anywhere else, and isn't detected by normal virus scanning tools).
6) Periodically for the last year we've been the subject of a variety of denial of service attacks targetted at our webservers and at Steam. We don't know if these are related or independent.
Well, this sucks.
What I'd appreciate is the assistance of the community in tracking this down. I have a special email address for people to send information to, helpvalve@valvesoftware.com. If you have information about the denial of service attacks or the infiltration of our network, please send the details. There are some pretty obvious places to start with the posts and records in IRC, so if you can point us in the right direction, that would be great.
We at Valve have always thought of ourselves as being part of a community, and I can't imagine a better group of people to help us take care of these problems than this community.
Gabe
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Opera also supports "data" URI's. :-)
Yes, I agree Miranda is a great and super configurable IM. You basically make it what you want to, and before you should even think about Miranda might be missing a feature, you should look at the plugin section containing around 200 categorized plugins. :) The plugins in Miranda get access to lots of areas of the IM, so even if Miranda for example didn't support displaying which soundtrack Winamp plays, or even smileys, these features can still be enabled through simple plugins. You can also make it look quite beautiful by skinning it and using some professional-quality graphics plugins.
Yeah, ditto.. :-P
:-)
Although I'd prefer my own imagination, it's not too bad since I think the LOTR trilogy as movies were so good. Reading the books also feels like a super-mega-extended deluxe edition of the movies, so that's nice.