There's been a well known bug in TrackNuclearShit.DLL since Win 3.11, and MS has refused to patch it.
I think if you upgrade to IE 4.1 128 bit security, then disable javascript, but be sure to install MSN wallet software, then things work.
UNLESS, you're on SP 3 Win NT 4, at which point install the ATI drivers for the All in wonder card from a command line ONLY. Then remove the card with some BBQ tongs and put it in a shed. Do not look at the card for 3 weeks, then quickly put it back in wrapped in tinfoil. Turn the computer upside down. Leave it along for 8 minutes, then quickly apply mayonnaise to the front panel.
How slashdot slows scientific progress in the world:
1. Oh look, and interesting story on academic research on slashdot.
2. Oh look, a lovely link to those poor academic's website. Surely they have the $40k necessary to make a server that can handle the load from slashdot?
3. Oh look, the reeking Sun Ultra 5 that they were using for web duties has burst into flame, destroying the lab and scaring a small puppy that lives in the lab next door.
Am I the only one that thinks perhaps the problem is not with the spammers, but with the pricing model that allows them to flourish?
When I call someone long distance, I pay for the call, so that's why I don't call people I don't know. Otherwise I could pick some dude in Taiwan and bankrupt him in a matter of days.
Why doesn't Motorola stop talking to their lawyers and sort out some pricing that makes sense.
Wired magazine also has an article in this month's issue (so it won't be online until next month) about supercomputing used in Gene research. IBM is building a 100 million dollar machine that will acheive 1 petaflop in order to attempt to simulate protein folding faster than ever before.
Roger Penrose is quoted in the article back yapping about his "Quantum Theory of Mind." Basically he says that because dreaming seems "weird" and if you talk about things generally then deciding on something seems like a collapse of a superposition in quantum states. Not very convincincing.
Another example of scientific celebrity status influencing people.
I don't know about you guys, but I think that MS is pushing things at a time when they aren't as strong as they used to be.
Sure, the anti-trust ruling was recently overturned in part, but that whole process sent an important message to the industry - that MS really is prepared to do almost anything to win, and that there are large companies that oppose them.
Microsoft still dominates the desktop, but important mindshare is being lost as Windows loses ground on the sever market. This doesn't matter for users of digital cameras yet, but the decision makers in companies are beginning to consider alternatives, something they haven't done in a while.
That, coupled with the fact that no one really wants a new version of Office, means that their revenue is under pressure. So they try to insert themselves in other people's revenue streams. This might be just the exact wrong time to be attempting all this.
I know MS still looks as strong as ever, but something like 40-60% of it's revenue comes from Office upgrades, of which a large percentage is bulk corporate purchasing. If any of this drys up, or slows down (as it did with the introduction of Win2k), then any kind of revolt on behalf of the companies providing supporting programs to Windows (like Kodak) could really be trouble for MS.
Be thankful for this approach MS is taking again the GPL. It's dumb, but it's outright dumb. I would have expected some sort of "compatible" licensing scheme with their toolkits, that once everyone starts using with GPL code bases, they try to undermine the GPL from a legal standpoint. Call it a legal "embrace and extend."
At least they're being forthright with their intentions this time.
Just another day of casual Slashdot punditry on issues that people have been arguing about for centuries. Surely, the top moderated posts will have a definitive answer for us?
While we're looking into the small matter of what constitutes art, we will surely have some time to look back on previous debates settled by this forum:
What is the definition of life? ("I can't believe that [insert name] is such a [big company] whore.").
Are humans rational beings? ("First post! My whang is a laser that will illuminate all of the world with justice!").
Does God exist? ("I haven't read the article, but check out my homepage with pictures of lego boobies").
IBM is an awesome hardware/research company. Too often people get down on them for their poor marketing or whatever, but their research is second to none in my eyes.
I still remember when GMR hard drive technology was announced by them and the press release said "Drives of up to 100 gigabytes would be possible with the technology" and I didn't believe it, just seemed like more vapour and claims.
Then those drives just started showing up around 8 months later. I hope the same thing happens with this new fab. tech, even if it's only for improved power consuption to begin with.
I'm not sure if this has been discussed before, but is there anything stopping us from attempting a distributed data dump of the CDDB listings into one of the open alternatives? For example, I'll take Country/Western (>/dev/null) and transfer it to a determined open CDDB server, you do it for electronic, etc. Or it could be divided by CD ID #'s.
I mean, it was us that put the information in there in the first place, we should be able to get it back out right?
This kind of idea comes along every once and a while and promises to "revolutionize the way you interact with everything in your home."
Problem is, if there aren't any stereos, vcrs, dvd players with this technology installed in them, then what are the chances there will be? Slim probably.
Furthermore, don't count out MS yet as WebTV is old tech now and still manages to post reasonable sales, the XBox will be the new hardware platform for these types of initiatives from Microsoft, and I have alot more confidence in MS being able to convince Hitachi to put a chip in their stereo than Rogers.
I found out why they think everyone needs gigabit ethernet to their garage, take a look at the image sizes on that homepage. If they just took the time to find out about this new format jpg that everyone's been talking about, I think they'd be just fine with dialup.
And if you don't have Apache running, or don't want to install it, then check out streamsicle at the link below. It's all Java and comes with it's own webserver and HTML frontend.
You know I was wondering what these people would do when faced with the digital era. No longer will qualitative descriptions be relevant when you can actually say "Yup, the whole signal made it to the speaker."
When will someone just lay some ethernet cable on this, put a few megs of memory in speakers and just cut out the whole cabling dilemma altogether.
Did anyone else read the article and find the on going metaphor for the chip as a baby both retarded, AND retarded?
It's fine when tech people try to make their articles more interesting, but please, just drop the first paragraph cuteness as soon as possible when talking about new hardware.
Everyone was claiming that the music industry was doing itself serious long term damage persecuting Napster in the name of saving short term licensing revenue, and now we're seeing that come true.
If the record companies had kept Napster running at full tilt as a honeypot to keep all the users attracted, then just started charging a couple bucks and improved the service with the income, I'd still be using Napster. But they made it suck, so there was incentive to develop competing services, and now the market is fractured. Sure Napster could become popular again, but will it ever see the 80-90% market share it did before? Already the service is seeing a 47% decrease in logins.
The sad thing about all this is that the main problem here is how do we pay the artist? When Napster was dominant there were several interesting solutions to that problem, now who knows?
Despite what information theorists tell them, the music industry presses ahead with schemes for encryption destined for failure. It's a classic case of "I know you told me it's impossible, but we'll show you by just going ahead and doing it!"
This is a great way to waste a huge amount of money. A couple good examples are the Atomic Airplane attempts of the late 60's, and currently, President Bush's dogged determination to produce an missle defense system.
America's love of the underdog and the axle grease and spit way of getting things done can really get in the way of common sense sometimes. If the music industry would just get the fact that these watermarking and other various types of protection during widespread distribution are doomed to failure, perhaps we could all get on with enjoying some music online for a reasonable price.
Protect your computer from outside forces, befriend LOMAC of the forest people. He will pound intruders with sticks and release hounds upon persons who would scan your ports.
He shall call locusts to protect ftp, floods to guard again DoS and will conceal your serial ports with small bushes and shrubbery.
It is LOMAC! Flee!
He shall create small burrowing animals to scratch at the shins of Chinese hackers who would defile your graduate hompage. He will attach secret undersea creatures to the undersides of your mouse to protect you against static charges. He will warn you when you sit weird and your leg might fall asleep.
From the article: "There are several indications in the report that the real problem is internal radiation."
The article contrasts a hiroshima style massive external radiation burst vs. these Chernobyl defects which are from internal radiation. What does that mean? I thought all radiation was from an external source?
The only thing we can be sure of, is that no matter how good [secret_message]RIAA, come and get your reeking DeCSS, call me at home 782-224-9824[/secret_message] our technics for data hiding become, the powers that be will find a way to deal with them.
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There's been a well known bug in TrackNuclearShit.DLL since Win 3.11, and MS has refused to patch it.
I think if you upgrade to IE 4.1 128 bit security, then disable javascript, but be sure to install MSN wallet software, then things work.
UNLESS, you're on SP 3 Win NT 4, at which point install the ATI drivers for the All in wonder card from a command line ONLY. Then remove the card with some BBQ tongs and put it in a shed. Do not look at the card for 3 weeks, then quickly put it back in wrapped in tinfoil. Turn the computer upside down. Leave it along for 8 minutes, then quickly apply mayonnaise to the front panel.
There, that should do it.
How slashdot slows scientific progress in the world:
1. Oh look, and interesting story on academic research on slashdot.
2. Oh look, a lovely link to those poor academic's website. Surely they have the $40k necessary to make a server that can handle the load from slashdot?
3. Oh look, the reeking Sun Ultra 5 that they were using for web duties has burst into flame, destroying the lab and scaring a small puppy that lives in the lab next door.
To hell with you slashdot for burning puppies.
Am I the only one that thinks perhaps the problem is not with the spammers, but with the pricing model that allows them to flourish?
When I call someone long distance, I pay for the call, so that's why I don't call people I don't know. Otherwise I could pick some dude in Taiwan and bankrupt him in a matter of days.
Why doesn't Motorola stop talking to their lawyers and sort out some pricing that makes sense.
It looks like European revenues are more important that I thought, accounting for almost 3.8 billion in revenue.
If France gets in on this, it could get crazy, they're pretty serious about this stuff.
Wired magazine also has an article in this month's issue (so it won't be online until next month) about supercomputing used in Gene research. IBM is building a 100 million dollar machine that will acheive 1 petaflop in order to attempt to simulate protein folding faster than ever before.
It's a pretty cool article.
Roger Penrose is quoted in the article back yapping about his "Quantum Theory of Mind." Basically he says that because dreaming seems "weird" and if you talk about things generally then deciding on something seems like a collapse of a superposition in quantum states. Not very convincincing.
Another example of scientific celebrity status influencing people.
I don't know about you guys, but I think that MS is pushing things at a time when they aren't as strong as they used to be.
Sure, the anti-trust ruling was recently overturned in part, but that whole process sent an important message to the industry - that MS really is prepared to do almost anything to win, and that there are large companies that oppose them.
Microsoft still dominates the desktop, but important mindshare is being lost as Windows loses ground on the sever market. This doesn't matter for users of digital cameras yet, but the decision makers in companies are beginning to consider alternatives, something they haven't done in a while.
That, coupled with the fact that no one really wants a new version of Office, means that their revenue is under pressure. So they try to insert themselves in other people's revenue streams. This might be just the exact wrong time to be attempting all this.
I know MS still looks as strong as ever, but something like 40-60% of it's revenue comes from Office upgrades, of which a large percentage is bulk corporate purchasing. If any of this drys up, or slows down (as it did with the introduction of Win2k), then any kind of revolt on behalf of the companies providing supporting programs to Windows (like Kodak) could really be trouble for MS.
Be thankful for this approach MS is taking again the GPL. It's dumb, but it's outright dumb. I would have expected some sort of "compatible" licensing scheme with their toolkits, that once everyone starts using with GPL code bases, they try to undermine the GPL from a legal standpoint. Call it a legal "embrace and extend."
At least they're being forthright with their intentions this time.
Just another day of casual Slashdot punditry on issues that people have been arguing about for centuries. Surely, the top moderated posts will have a definitive answer for us?
While we're looking into the small matter of what constitutes art, we will surely have some time to look back on previous debates settled by this forum:
What is the definition of life? ("I can't believe that [insert name] is such a [big company] whore.").
Are humans rational beings? ("First post! My whang is a laser that will illuminate all of the world with justice!").
Does God exist? ("I haven't read the article, but check out my homepage with pictures of lego boobies").
We really tackle the tough ones here, and we win.
IBM is an awesome hardware/research company. Too often people get down on them for their poor marketing or whatever, but their research is second to none in my eyes.
I still remember when GMR hard drive technology was announced by them and the press release said "Drives of up to 100 gigabytes would be possible with the technology" and I didn't believe it, just seemed like more vapour and claims.
Then those drives just started showing up around 8 months later. I hope the same thing happens with this new fab. tech, even if it's only for improved power consuption to begin with.
I'm not sure if this has been discussed before, but is there anything stopping us from attempting a distributed data dump of the CDDB listings into one of the open alternatives? For example, I'll take Country/Western (>
I mean, it was us that put the information in there in the first place, we should be able to get it back out right?
This kind of idea comes along every once and a while and promises to "revolutionize the way you interact with everything in your home."
Problem is, if there aren't any stereos, vcrs, dvd players with this technology installed in them, then what are the chances there will be? Slim probably.
Furthermore, don't count out MS yet as WebTV is old tech now and still manages to post reasonable sales, the XBox will be the new hardware platform for these types of initiatives from Microsoft, and I have alot more confidence in MS being able to convince Hitachi to put a chip in their stereo than Rogers.
Sure there was some piling on by VA during what was a heady time for linux, but they put that money into smart, useful places.
Sourceforge is very useful to me, and I would hate to see it go away.
I found out why they think everyone needs gigabit ethernet to their garage, take a look at the image sizes on that homepage. If they just took the time to find out about this new format jpg that everyone's been talking about, I think they'd be just fine with dialup.
And if you don't have Apache running, or don't want to install it, then check out streamsicle at the link below. It's all Java and comes with it's own webserver and HTML frontend.
Kind of works "out of the box," most of the time.
You know I was wondering what these people would do when faced with the digital era. No longer will qualitative descriptions be relevant when you can actually say "Yup, the whole signal made it to the speaker."
When will someone just lay some ethernet cable on this, put a few megs of memory in speakers and just cut out the whole cabling dilemma altogether.
Did anyone else read the article and find the on going metaphor for the chip as a baby both retarded, AND retarded?
It's fine when tech people try to make their articles more interesting, but please, just drop the first paragraph cuteness as soon as possible when talking about new hardware.
Everyone was claiming that the music industry was doing itself serious long term damage persecuting Napster in the name of saving short term licensing revenue, and now we're seeing that come true.
If the record companies had kept Napster running at full tilt as a honeypot to keep all the users attracted, then just started charging a couple bucks and improved the service with the income, I'd still be using Napster. But they made it suck, so there was incentive to develop competing services, and now the market is fractured. Sure Napster could become popular again, but will it ever see the 80-90% market share it did before? Already the service is seeing a 47% decrease in logins.
The sad thing about all this is that the main problem here is how do we pay the artist? When Napster was dominant there were several interesting solutions to that problem, now who knows?
The NY Times had a pretty good article about this recently too.
10 avoid $SUN
20 avoid $PLANETS
30 become $SMARTER THAN HUMAN CREATORS COULD HAVE DREAMED
40 multiply
50 goto 10
Despite what information theorists tell them, the music industry presses ahead with schemes for encryption destined for failure. It's a classic case of "I know you told me it's impossible, but we'll show you by just going ahead and doing it!"
This is a great way to waste a huge amount of money. A couple good examples are the Atomic Airplane attempts of the late 60's, and currently, President Bush's dogged determination to produce an missle defense system.
America's love of the underdog and the axle grease and spit way of getting things done can really get in the way of common sense sometimes. If the music industry would just get the fact that these watermarking and other various types of protection during widespread distribution are doomed to failure, perhaps we could all get on with enjoying some music online for a reasonable price.
It seems that perhaps Amazon's CEO has come to the same conclusion.
Or perhaps he just realized his company's valuation is a joke.
Protect your computer from outside forces, befriend LOMAC of the forest people. He will pound intruders with sticks and release hounds upon persons who would scan your ports.
He shall call locusts to protect ftp, floods to guard again DoS and will conceal your serial ports with small bushes and shrubbery.
It is LOMAC! Flee!
He shall create small burrowing animals to scratch at the shins of Chinese hackers who would defile your graduate hompage. He will attach secret undersea creatures to the undersides of your mouse to protect you against static charges. He will warn you when you sit weird and your leg might fall asleep.
It is LOMAC! (Score:-1, Retarded).
From the article: "There are several indications in the report that the real problem is internal radiation."
The article contrasts a hiroshima style massive external radiation burst vs. these Chernobyl defects which are from internal radiation. What does that mean? I thought all radiation was from an external source?
The only thing we can be sure of, is that no matter how good [secret_message]RIAA, come and get your reeking DeCSS, call me at home 782-224-9824[/secret_message] our technics for data hiding become, the powers that be will find a way to deal with them.
They're just that good!