People seems to use too many words without really considering what they are, what they mean and where they come from. Breakthrough is just one more example.
Borrowing from another example, lets go back to the solid state transistors. At the time, there was a barrier for semiconductor based technology. Transistors made it possible to (here we go) break through that barrier. Not just some concept, or exciting tecnology or invention.
I don't know how much of a barrier this (borrowing again) semiconductor laser from Intel is breaking. I for one have been hearing about second order optical polymers for quite a few years (10+ years at least), and even saw some in action. It really didn't break any real barriers into optical computing (we need 3rd order optical polymers for that) so, again, I'm a little skeptic about this being a "breakthrough". What king of "new horizons" does it open for us ? Yes, it made things easier, for sure, but a breakthrough ? Please, show me the barrier.
I, for one, has stopped hoping reporters and PR people to use the language correctly a long time ago. Which is really said. You expect IT people to use computers (their tool of work) correctly.
Which can be really dangerous. It might just backfire. I had that experience myself, asking once for about 5 times the regular price on a service I really didn't want to execute. Guess what ? They said yes.
Moral of the history: if you are going to overprice so you get a "no", make sure your price is so high there is absolutely no chance they will say yes.
I should have asked 20x, not 5x. YouTube should be asking for $100bi is that is what they want (not to sell).
You are obvious a newbie regarding regular expresions, based on your post.
First, 515 is not too much when talking about regular expressions. There is much to be discussed, not to mention tips&tricks to give away.
Also, you are deadly wrong about the "small web page". First, it only talks about Perl Regular Expressions. There are other kinds, including the classic (basic?), extended, posix and (from your reference) perl regular expressions. Mastering the different kinds is enough to fill 300 pages of the book.
Where are you going to use REs ? sed ? VI ? perl ? php ? C ? SQL ? You need to know what flavor of REs you need for that particular environment.
Regular expressions is a very tricky topic, and understanding them is not something easily acomplished. Come to think about it, 515 might not even be enough.
HTML was not, by far, a new concept. It was just a new implementation of the hyperlinking methodology, which was in use before, ranging from simple things like product documentation to Gopher, which was the precursor of HTTP.
Give any "inovation" award to the creation of the HTML show a lack of knowledge that should not exist on the academic field. Giving it a "commercial" award is ok, tho, so maybe it should be listed on PcMag or some other publication.
Actually, SMP means the processors are symmetric, which has deeper implications than simply similar.
Lets also remind that SMP is Intel's way of doing multiprocessing. AMD's is called simply MP, and is a very different beast, already having different code on the Linux kernel.
That being said, as long as we are already outside the SMP concept (we are talking about AMD here), I doubt different clock speeds will be much of an issue. Specially since much of the MP code on the Linux kernel already uses spinlocks that should be able to (mostly) take care of it.
I also can't speak for the GP, but it has been some time since I used ANY ISPs e-mail address. These days I have a dedicated server inside a datacenter. This might be overkill for many, but I like to have complete control.
Aside from the free services, there are plenty of shared hosting solutions around, where you can pay $4/month and get a relatively good service.
The article's about personal software firewalls, not personal hardware firewalls.
There is no such thing as hardware firewalls. There are software firewalls, and firewall appliances, which are just a software firewall running on a "dedicated" hardware. The hardware itself does no filtering or traffic control.
I happen to agree with the article. I have been saying for years that those personal firewalls aren't worth their weight in salt (yes, I know how much a software weights). What good is it to have a lock after someone already broke into your computer ? Lets face it, the moment a computer gets compromised, it is no longer your computer. It belongs to whoever compromised it.
Don't get me wrong. I don't consider those NAT boxes as firewalls either. When I get a WRT54G, until I have replaced its firmware, and installed a good bunch of iptables rules, I won't consider it any better than, lets say, Zone Alarm. And I'm talking here on the "forbid everything, allow what is necessary" kind of rules.
Personal firewalls are everywhere these days, ranging from old timers like ZoneAlarm, to new runners like Windows XP Firewall from Mickeysoft. And we see how big are the botnets and how far malware spread these days, proving they are far from effective.
Just because Google owns Orkut doesn't mean this case has anything to do with search engines. It is Orkut the brazilian government is attacking, not Google Search. Because Google Inc owns Orkut, the government is asking it to take action.
This case has been brewing around here for about 2 years, in and out of the news and all that. This particular issue of Google Brasil (which is pretty much just a comercial branch office) refusing to hand the information is at least 6 months old. Some news.
GPL (vWhatever) is not the only OpenSource license, or even the only free software ((c) FSF) license around.
Actually, I personaly doubt they will release it using GPL, in whatever incarnation of the license. They are more likely to get OSI approval for an open source license of their own, just like SUN and IBM did. And considering the stakes here, the approval (or not) should be handled by the OSI board as high priority.
Fvwm was not the first multi-platform WM by far. Both OLWM (Open Look Window Manager) and olvwm (Open Look Virtual Window Manager) from Sun ran on Linux before fvwm was even released. Most of us used to run olvwm prior to 1995.
Since I was using FVWM on AIX in 1993, I still think that is older than OLWM.
And that's not even counting twm (Tom's Window Manager), the first really usable X11 window manager which has always been multi platform (although I don't think twm really counts as a gui - it's more a way of getting lots of X terms up:-))
Also missing: - MWM: the default window manager for plenty of Unix systems - CDE: the default window manager for plenty of Unix systems in the end of the 90s, in an attempt at standarization - FVWM: the first multiplatform window manager [from what I remember] - Enlightenment: which eventually was merged into Gnome - OVWM (sic?): anyone who used SunOS remember this one
Just to name 5 important ones. Well, maybe not Enlightenment, but this one was pretty important for Gnome.
In theory, you can end up with a location that takes a number so large that you need more than 100MB (mb = milibits ?) to store it.
Also, you would have to either store enough digits of pi (which would defeat any compression ideas), or calculate it "on site", which would be... hummm... kind of fun, I suppose.
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People seems to use too many words without really considering what they are, what they mean and where they come from. Breakthrough is just one more example.
Borrowing from another example, lets go back to the solid state transistors. At the time, there was a barrier for semiconductor based technology. Transistors made it possible to (here we go) break through that barrier. Not just some concept, or exciting tecnology or invention.
I don't know how much of a barrier this (borrowing again) semiconductor laser from Intel is breaking. I for one have been hearing about second order optical polymers for quite a few years (10+ years at least), and even saw some in action. It really didn't break any real barriers into optical computing (we need 3rd order optical polymers for that) so, again, I'm a little skeptic about this being a "breakthrough". What king of "new horizons" does it open for us ? Yes, it made things easier, for sure, but a breakthrough ? Please, show me the barrier.
I, for one, has stopped hoping reporters and PR people to use the language correctly a long time ago. Which is really said. You expect IT people to use computers (their tool of work) correctly.
Which can be really dangerous. It might just backfire.
I had that experience myself, asking once for about 5 times the regular price on a service I really didn't want to execute. Guess what ? They said yes.
Moral of the history: if you are going to overprice so you get a "no", make sure your price is so high there is absolutely no chance they will say yes.
I should have asked 20x, not 5x. YouTube should be asking for $100bi is that is what they want (not to sell).
I second that.
I have been using WRT routers for many different things, including VoIP relays, bandwidth management, ADSL router/firewall etc.
Those are some versatile little boxes, once you get right of the factory provided firmware.
Hangovers BE a NASTY WENCH! Yarrrrrrrrr!
No, I think he means JKLÇ.
[ooc] Oh, the good old days of GMing Paranoia[/ooc]
Citizen, since you correctly stated that the computer is your best friend, who is your second best friend ?
You are obvious a newbie regarding regular expresions, based on your post.
First, 515 is not too much when talking about regular expressions. There is much to be discussed, not to mention tips&tricks to give away.
Also, you are deadly wrong about the "small web page". First, it only talks about Perl Regular Expressions. There are other kinds, including the classic (basic?), extended, posix and (from your reference) perl regular expressions. Mastering the different kinds is enough to fill 300 pages of the book.
Where are you going to use REs ? sed ? VI ? perl ? php ? C ? SQL ? You need to know what flavor of REs you need for that particular environment.
Regular expressions is a very tricky topic, and understanding them is not something easily acomplished. Come to think about it, 515 might not even be enough.
stty doesn't depend on the shell you are running so, yes, you can use it with tcsh, bash, ksh, zsh, csh, bsh, ash ...
You might as well ask yourself how many non-free, non-oss projects/companies die every year.
HTML was not, by far, a new concept. It was just a new implementation of the hyperlinking methodology, which was in use before, ranging from simple things like product documentation to Gopher, which was the precursor of HTTP.
Give any "inovation" award to the creation of the HTML show a lack of knowledge that should not exist on the academic field. Giving it a "commercial" award is ok, tho, so maybe it should be listed on PcMag or some other publication.
And since Opterons are MP, and not SMP, what is exactly your point ?
Care to show me a 3-way SMP system, with similar processors ?
But I agree there the "other" implications for symmetric are mostly hardware related, even tho some of them reflect on software (OS) design.
No. It is only called Symmetrical (SMP) on Intel processors. AMD's multiprocessing architecture is somewhat different.
Actually, SMP means the processors are symmetric, which has deeper implications than simply similar.
Lets also remind that SMP is Intel's way of doing multiprocessing. AMD's is called simply MP, and is a very different beast, already having different code on the Linux kernel.
That being said, as long as we are already outside the SMP concept (we are talking about AMD here), I doubt different clock speeds will be much of an issue. Specially since much of the MP code on the Linux kernel already uses spinlocks that should be able to (mostly) take care of it.
I also can't speak for the GP, but it has been some time since I used ANY ISPs e-mail address.
These days I have a dedicated server inside a datacenter. This might be overkill for many, but I like to have complete control.
Aside from the free services, there are plenty of shared hosting solutions around, where you can pay $4/month and get a relatively good service.
My advice is: Be you own provider.
Actually, I tend to place RMS in the "Bozo" category.
Thats why you need a dedicated firewall, instead of that "personal" thing.
There is no such thing as hardware firewalls. There are software firewalls, and firewall appliances, which are just a software firewall running on a "dedicated" hardware. The hardware itself does no filtering or traffic control.
I happen to agree with the article. I have been saying for years that those personal firewalls aren't worth their weight in salt (yes, I know how much a software weights). What good is it to have a lock after someone already broke into your computer ? Lets face it, the moment a computer gets compromised, it is no longer your computer. It belongs to whoever compromised it.
Don't get me wrong. I don't consider those NAT boxes as firewalls either. When I get a WRT54G, until I have replaced its firmware, and installed a good bunch of iptables rules, I won't consider it any better than, lets say, Zone Alarm. And I'm talking here on the "forbid everything, allow what is necessary" kind of rules.
Personal firewalls are everywhere these days, ranging from old timers like ZoneAlarm, to new runners like Windows XP Firewall from Mickeysoft. And we see how big are the botnets and how far malware spread these days, proving they are far from effective.
I second you on that one.
Just because Google owns Orkut doesn't mean this case has anything to do with search engines.
It is Orkut the brazilian government is attacking, not Google Search. Because Google Inc owns Orkut, the government is asking it to take action.
This case has been brewing around here for about 2 years, in and out of the news and all that. This particular issue of Google Brasil (which is pretty much just a comercial branch office) refusing to hand the information is at least 6 months old. Some news.
Well, maybe that is why these guys like it so much.
I find that "not being smacked" works as a great incentive for some classes of users.
Let me kindly refer you to the Open Source Initiative website.
GPL (vWhatever) is not the only OpenSource license, or even the only free software ((c) FSF) license around.
Actually, I personaly doubt they will release it using GPL, in whatever incarnation of the license. They are more likely to get OSI approval for an open source license of their own, just like SUN and IBM did. And considering the stakes here, the approval (or not) should be handled by the OSI board as high priority.
Since I was using FVWM on AIX in 1993, I still think that is older than OLWM.
That is a good candidate.
Also missing:
- MWM: the default window manager for plenty of Unix systems
- CDE: the default window manager for plenty of Unix systems in the end of the 90s, in an attempt at standarization
- FVWM: the first multiplatform window manager [from what I remember]
- Enlightenment: which eventually was merged into Gnome
- OVWM (sic?): anyone who used SunOS remember this one
Just to name 5 important ones. Well, maybe not Enlightenment, but this one was pretty important for Gnome.
In theory, you can end up with a location that takes a number so large that you need more than 100MB (mb = milibits ?) to store it.
... hummm ... kind of fun, I suppose.
Also, you would have to either store enough digits of pi (which would defeat any compression ideas), or calculate it "on site", which would be