It's not so much that hard drives are shielded, as the media is far less sensitive to external magnetism than tape. It takes an awful lot of power to degauss a hard drive nowadays;)
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I don't know about that... Most farms that I've been around have had a problem with "volatile hydrocarbons"... At least the cattle ranches have..;)
Binning 4*4 makes the res 1750*1000, 1.75Mpixels. Binning or combining the values of a group of elements in a CCD array is used to increase the light sensitivity of the CCD. That's how they got that much from such a short exposure. Typically to get the kind of results that they showed, you need at least a 30 minute exposure.
2.4.x changed the way that vma's were merged. VMA's being the sections of virtual memory that you malloc. Mozilla (I'm guessing) has fairly fine-grained memory handling, so it malloc()'s and free()'s often, making for _lots_ of vma's.
The changes in 2.4.9 make contiginous (sp?) vma's merged into one, speeding up walking the list of vma's. Note that previous versions did this already, but only in very few (easy) cases. This change is a bit more 'expensive', but has made a noticable difference in mozilla for me. These changes could also help out lots of other programs that handle memory similarly (can't think of others atm though).
All in All.. i like;)
Disclaimer: this is my understanding, but as I'm not Rik Van Riel, I'm probably talking out my ass
Been using 2.4.9 for the last hour now. Other than a silly bug b0rking NTFS it works great. Simple fix for NTFS though that somebody else already pointed out on here. The updated emu10k1 driver along with the new emu-tools is just awesome.
The changes to VMA merging make a noticable difference in mozilla; that alone is worth the upgrade.
Side note: this is twice in a row that Linus has posted a kernel with a b0rked build, last time was with the emu10k1 driver as a module, this time good 'ole NTFS. Hope he has a relaxing vacation;)
Hear Hear.. I was noticing that myself a little bit ago. The funny thing about the ads is that i just "upgraded" to IE6 to see what it was like (I know, I know, but it's what i use on my windoze partition). First thing I noticed, as the first place I went to was slashdot, was that the little privacy icon on the statusbar was on. I clicked on it and it showed me that IE6 had blocked some cookies from doubleclick.
Cool that the default privacy settings in a MS product blocks DoubleClick, not cool that it was Slashdot that showed me this..
On a side note, bring on the pop-ups. I usually use mozilla, and with the help of the user.js file, don't get pop-ups at all.
Actually, Mozilla has some great features to deal with pop-up windows. This page goes over quite a few things that you can mess with that aren't available via the standard options dialog. Most notable is buried in the Other Useful Preferences section which discusses the user.js file. Within there are some great features to control when and what javascript is available to a page.. I personally love this feature.
This will help greatly with those websites that "require" that you have javascript enabled in order to view them, while also killing any javascript that you don't want to function..
It's actually a really simple problem. On a machine with limited resources (win9x is crippled by design with this), the large number of combo-boxes being rendered in one control array overflows the control array. I found this out while trying to reproduce the problem in VC6.. (I was curious).. easy prob to program around too..
It's kinda neat to look at, and (so far) hasn't hosed my windoze dev box... I've had controls disappear, smear or just never render. Leave the desktop in that state for when friends/co-workers come by, then go off like it's spreading through the entire network.. always a laugh..;)
Good 'ole Canterbury Dark from PWB.. Pretty good stuff seeing as it is a fairly large volume product from these guys. But yes, I definately agree that the beer "Down There" is getting much better...
Of course, the biggest thing he misses is the rise of the microbrew in the USA, making it finally possible to find good American beer!;-)
Damn, that comment almost made me spray good Canadian beer.. Although in all fairness, in my last trip to Oregon, I had some great beers from the small brew-pubs...
I still have trouble putting the three words, "good","beer" and "American" in the same sentence... c'est la vie..;)
Future job posting for California Power Commision:
Wanted: Computer "specialists" with experience with Internet-enabled Air conditioning units. Preference given to applicant with proven ability to "control" all current models of A/C units.
At the ISP I used to work for, our RADIUS servers logged to SQL servers. Worked awesome for statistics generation, and with a few well-tuned stored procs, was very fast at finding precisely this kind of info.
This goes great with this article from a couple of days ago.
I used to think that the whole idea of paying a shitload of money to goons like Verisign was that you could trust the certificates issued by them. If they make mistakes like this, how can I trust them anymore? Furthermore, how can I trust the certificate any ecommerce site that uses their certificates?
This is a huge problem for all CA's if this is a precedent. I'm really curious to see what, if anything, Verisign will do about this.
Excuse me? Did i read that correctly? Are you saying that it is wrong for us to "punish" these companies / people by taking away their "livelyhood"?
Please realize that with the proof of prior art, these same companies that you are defending have done exactly that to someone else. By filing a patent and getting the Good Old USPO to accept, these companies are building their "livelyhood" on somebody else's hard work and ideas and have effectively taken away their livelyhood.
Why should we not take away something that was never rightfully theirs? While I may not have the most positive views about patents, I do believe that they have uses. Using patents to steal somebody elses work is most definately not one of them. If prior art to a patent exists and is signifigant (it should be pretty much the same as the patent), then in my view that patent is a tool of theft and should be treated as such.
If the legal dept. in your company is forced to create imaginary threats in order to justify it's existance and expense, then you have larger internal problems to worry about than somebody using your "name".
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It's not so much that hard drives are shielded, as the media is far less sensitive to external magnetism than tape. It takes an awful lot of power to degauss a hard drive nowadays ;)
I don't know about that... Most farms that I've been around have had a problem with "volatile hydrocarbons"... At least the cattle ranches have.. ;)
Ministry of Truth
All you need to do with emacs is write an extension for it to load as a server in MACH...
Oh wait, then you'd have HURD... nevermind.. ;)
Binning 4*4 makes the res 1750*1000, 1.75Mpixels. Binning or combining the values of a group of elements in a CCD array is used to increase the light sensitivity of the CCD. That's how they got that much from such a short exposure. Typically to get the kind of results that they showed, you need at least a 30 minute exposure.
2.4.x changed the way that vma's were merged. VMA's being the sections of virtual memory that you malloc. Mozilla (I'm guessing) has fairly fine-grained memory handling, so it malloc()'s and free()'s often, making for _lots_ of vma's.
The changes in 2.4.9 make contiginous (sp?) vma's merged into one, speeding up walking the list of vma's. Note that previous versions did this already, but only in very few (easy) cases. This change is a bit more 'expensive', but has made a noticable difference in mozilla for me. These changes could also help out lots of other programs that handle memory similarly (can't think of others atm though).
All in All.. i like ;)
Disclaimer: this is my understanding, but as I'm not Rik Van Riel, I'm probably talking out my ass
Been using 2.4.9 for the last hour now. Other than a silly bug b0rking NTFS it works great. Simple fix for NTFS though that somebody else already pointed out on here. The updated emu10k1 driver along with the new emu-tools is just awesome.
The changes to VMA merging make a noticable difference in mozilla; that alone is worth the upgrade.
Side note: this is twice in a row that Linus has posted a kernel with a b0rked build, last time was with the emu10k1 driver as a module, this time good 'ole NTFS. Hope he has a relaxing vacation ;)
Oh great.. now somebody is gonna r00t my coffee maker and make it brew nothing but decaf...
Hear Hear.. I was noticing that myself a little bit ago. The funny thing about the ads is that i just "upgraded" to IE6 to see what it was like (I know, I know, but it's what i use on my windoze partition). First thing I noticed, as the first place I went to was slashdot, was that the little privacy icon on the statusbar was on. I clicked on it and it showed me that IE6 had blocked some cookies from doubleclick.
Cool that the default privacy settings in a MS product blocks DoubleClick, not cool that it was Slashdot that showed me this..
On a side note, bring on the pop-ups. I usually use mozilla, and with the help of the user.js file, don't get pop-ups at all.
Actually, Mozilla has some great features to deal with pop-up windows. This page goes over quite a few things that you can mess with that aren't available via the standard options dialog. Most notable is buried in the Other Useful Preferences section which discusses the user.js file. Within there are some great features to control when and what javascript is available to a page.. I personally love this feature.
This will help greatly with those websites that "require" that you have javascript enabled in order to view them, while also killing any javascript that you don't want to function..
Enjoy, and have fun.. ;)
-Greg
It's not a problem with the markup on the /.
It's actually a really simple problem. On a machine with limited resources (win9x is crippled by design with this), the large number of combo-boxes being rendered in one control array overflows the control array. I found this out while trying to reproduce the problem in VC6.. (I was curious).. easy prob to program around too..
It's kinda neat to look at, and (so far) hasn't hosed my windoze dev box... I've had controls disappear, smear or just never render. Leave the desktop in that state for when friends/co-workers come by, then go off like it's spreading through the entire network.. always a laugh.. ;)
Good 'ole Canterbury Dark from PWB.. Pretty good stuff seeing as it is a fairly large volume product from these guys. But yes, I definately agree that the beer "Down There" is getting much better...
Not to point out the obvious, but if you're not the proud owner of a nice LCD display, you're staring at a beeg-ass vacuum tube right now...
Damn, that comment almost made me spray good Canadian beer.. Although in all fairness, in my last trip to Oregon, I had some great beers from the small brew-pubs...
I still have trouble putting the three words, "good","beer" and "American" in the same sentence... c'est la vie.. ;)
V.35 is rated up to 8Mb... Just a little bit faster than the standard serial port on your PC.. ;)
Future job posting for California Power Commision:
End of power problem.. ;)
At the ISP I used to work for, our RADIUS servers logged to SQL servers. Worked awesome for statistics generation, and with a few well-tuned stored procs, was very fast at finding precisely this kind of info.
This goes great with this article from a couple of days ago.
I used to think that the whole idea of paying a shitload of money to goons like Verisign was that you could trust the certificates issued by them. If they make mistakes like this, how can I trust them anymore? Furthermore, how can I trust the certificate any ecommerce site that uses their certificates?
This is a huge problem for all CA's if this is a precedent. I'm really curious to see what, if anything, Verisign will do about this.
When Windows crashes, at least it lets you click OK first.
I looked and looked, but could not find anywhere to click okay on the STOP screen on my win2K box...
Excuse me? Did i read that correctly? Are you saying that it is wrong for us to "punish" these companies / people by taking away their "livelyhood"?
Please realize that with the proof of prior art, these same companies that you are defending have done exactly that to someone else. By filing a patent and getting the Good Old USPO to accept, these companies are building their "livelyhood" on somebody else's hard work and ideas and have effectively taken away their livelyhood.
Why should we not take away something that was never rightfully theirs? While I may not have the most positive views about patents, I do believe that they have uses. Using patents to steal somebody elses work is most definately not one of them. If prior art to a patent exists and is signifigant (it should be pretty much the same as the patent), then in my view that patent is a tool of theft and should be treated as such.
maybe I'm ranting, but that's my thoughts...
If the legal dept. in your company is forced to create imaginary threats in order to justify it's existance and expense, then you have larger internal problems to worry about than somebody using your "name".
They should put up a slashbox that shows the current stats for slashdot.
It would be interesting to see and also be a great advertisement for Open Source Software in a high stress environment.
For a real interesting experiment, turn off the power in MAE-East and watch what happens...
Classy, non-destructive (so far)...
cool...