Recently US senators and members of Congress have been demanding punishment for anyone responsible for the recent media accounts of US involvement in Stuxnet and Flame. Can we assume that there's going to be a thorough investigation of what is in effect confirmation of those media stories? Starting with the HR departments of those giant defense (or offense) contractors and going as far as the evidence leads? Are we holding our breath?
The NYT engineers had been working nonstop for months without success trying to get their iPhone app to stop freezing. Eventually they decided it would be smart to work on something different and less strenuous for a while and then return to their important project with fresh minds.
Not to start a browser religious war, but right now in Chrome (7.0.517.44), selective blocking of cookies doesn't work. I just did the following:
- removed all Facebook cookies;
- set Chrome to block facebook.com cookies selectively;
- visited Facebook.
The cookies from Facebook were back. Maybe I should add that, in the words of leftists from 60 years ago, "I am not now, nor have I ever been, a member" of Facebook.
I've got nothing against the Aeron chair per se, but ergonomically it's mostly theater. You stay more alert, and your back feels better, if you more or less perch on the edge of your chair - pretty much any chair - with your feet on the floor. That is to say, it doesn't matter what the back of the chair is made of. And w.r.t. desks, the lessons they used to teach in typing class are still true when it comes to keyboard height. None of this is exactly rocket science, but for those who want to know more about the ergonomics and history of furniture there's a terrific book called The Chair: Rethinking Culture, Body, and Design by Galen Cranz.
Underlying almost all the talk on/. about this project there seems to be the assumption that one reasonably competent performance of a classical piece is equivalent to any other adequate performance. Sorry, but most lovers of classical music would violently disagree with that idea. I for one love some performances of a given piece and detest others.
Note that I'm talking about performances, not the sonic fidelity of recordings, which is a much easier thing to get right. In fact, one way of looking at this is that there is no one right way to perform a classical piece.
So when I think of this project, I can't help thinking there's not a high probability that their recording of, say, a Beethoven symphony will turn out to be one that I want to live with. Sorry if that sounds snobbish - that's really the way it is with classical music.
In fact there's a whole newsgroup devoted to rating various performances and recordings of classical works and proving that other posters are idiots. Sound like Slashdot? See nntp://rec.music.classical.recordings.
Whatever the merits of the documentary, the name of the organization Aizhixing is extremely sly. It literally means Love, Knowledge, Action; it rhymes with Aizibing, which means AIDS. This reminds me of the wordplay in the Grass Mud Horse episode.
Not that I'd discourage anyone from keeping their Apache up-to-date, but I decided to see what would happen if I prevented the Windows Apache on my machine from loading mod_isapi. The answer? Nothing, apparently. The only thing I really feared was that it might interfere with the Zend debugger, but no, it's fine.
It's been easily half a dozen years since, afflicted with an Emacs-induced sore left wrist, I switched to a Kinesis keyboard that uses thumbs, not pinkies, for chording. It has no SysRq key. I'd forgotten all about that long-lost, alluring key, and now you go and remind me!
Mandarin (which is the official nation-wide dialect) is much more phonetically impoverished than Cantonese: fewer tones, fewer consonants. So if there's a more lucrative language for punsters anywhere in the world than Mandarin, I'd be surprised.
You mean the Xinhua article, diplomat? I linked to the GoKunming blog because its article was more informative and because it isn't controlled by the Chinese government.
Just a minor point: You say the blogger calls himself "end tip of the wind". Isn't that a bit too literal a translation? Wouldn't the meaning come through more as "the latest fashion"?
These days more and more email I get is base64-encoded (usually for no good reason.) Since I'm the kind of caveman who still uses Rmail, I came up with this annoyance-avoider:
I'm afraid you won't find a real solution to the problem as you've defined it, since soluble coffee is a pretty compromised idea. So why not redefine the problem like this: How can I get a caffeine buzz, plus good flavor, plus a nice texture that reminds me of expresso, from something I can plop in the bottom of a styrofoam cup and run hot water over?
Take that redefined problem to your nearest East Asian grocery store, find the aisle for tea, and grab a box of Pu-erh mini-tuochas. Mini-tuos are individually paper-wrapped clumps of fermented tea from the Chinese province of Yunnan. When you unwrap a clump and drop it in a cup and add boiling water, a couple of minutes later you have a brew that's as dark as espresso. More importantly, it gives a good caffeine kick along with a taste and mouth feel that espresso drinkers I know find it easy to get used to.
Pu-erh, by the way, is a big subject. If you're interested in it, the best place to start (non-commercial, usual disclaimers) is here.
While IANAP (physicist) there's something here that bothers me a lot.
We computeniks often tend to assume the physical world has the nice friction freedom of the virtual machine that executes our C++, Perl or whatever.
But this idea moves things around in the physical world where each move will require power from, well, pick a winner, and will throw off a certain amount of waste heat. In this context is it really smart to fling everything in the room repeatedly back and forth in order to relocate one object?
With the Win32 OSes, if you want to put arbitrary stuff out on a network you don't need to exploit currently open security holes; you can use approved techniques.
If you need to do this you write what's called a protocol driver and you also write an application program that calls it. If you want to be slightly fancy you write the protocol driver in such a way that it can be dynamically loaded when needed and disposed of when it isn't needed any more. There's no need to reboot, the way there is when you want to change any one of countless settings in these OSes.
I've actually done this in creating free NT/9X bootp clients and a free NT RARP server: things Microsoft never saw fit to implement.
The open letter writers were right to express suspicion of whether a meaningful chunk of code would ever get released by MS. There's at least one precedent for this and it isn't encouraging. More than a year ago MS released what they represented as the complete code base for Microsoft Research's NT implementation of IPv6. I follow the main places on the Net where people who write protocol drivers for MS OSes post. Some of them (us), at least, are fairly gabby, complaining about the paucity of information available from Microsoft and exchanging hard-won knowledge. But if any of the NDIS protocol posters have mentioned the IPv6 code, it just sailed right by me. <brutal candor>I haven't read the IPv6 code myself.</brutal candor>
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Emacs. Can your editor do that?
(Sorry, couldn't resist.)
In version 25, Emacs will have built-in Firefox! So there!!
Recently US senators and members of Congress have been demanding punishment for anyone responsible for the recent media accounts of US involvement in Stuxnet and Flame. Can we assume that there's going to be a thorough investigation of what is in effect confirmation of those media stories? Starting with the HR departments of those giant defense (or offense) contractors and going as far as the evidence leads? Are we holding our breath?
The NYT engineers had been working nonstop for months without success trying to get their iPhone app to stop freezing. Eventually they decided it would be smart to work on something different and less strenuous for a while and then return to their important project with fresh minds.
The name is Human Samani.
Not to start a browser religious war, but right now in Chrome (7.0.517.44), selective blocking of cookies doesn't work. I just did the following:
- removed all Facebook cookies;
- set Chrome to block facebook.com cookies selectively;
- visited Facebook.
The cookies from Facebook were back. Maybe I should add that, in the words of leftists from 60 years ago, "I am not now, nor have I ever been, a member" of Facebook.
I've got nothing against the Aeron chair per se, but ergonomically it's mostly theater. You stay more alert, and your back feels better, if you more or less perch on the edge of your chair - pretty much any chair - with your feet on the floor. That is to say, it doesn't matter what the back of the chair is made of. And w.r.t. desks, the lessons they used to teach in typing class are still true when it comes to keyboard height. None of this is exactly rocket science, but for those who want to know more about the ergonomics and history of furniture there's a terrific book called The Chair: Rethinking Culture, Body, and Design by Galen Cranz.
Underlying almost all the talk on /. about this project there seems to be the assumption that one reasonably competent performance of a classical piece is equivalent to any other adequate performance. Sorry, but most lovers of classical music would violently disagree with that idea. I for one love some performances of a given piece and detest others.
Note that I'm talking about performances, not the sonic fidelity of recordings, which is a much easier thing to get right. In fact, one way of looking at this is that there is no one right way to perform a classical piece.
So when I think of this project, I can't help thinking there's not a high probability that their recording of, say, a Beethoven symphony will turn out to be one that I want to live with. Sorry if that sounds snobbish - that's really the way it is with classical music.
In fact there's a whole newsgroup devoted to rating various performances and recordings of classical works and proving that other posters are idiots. Sound like Slashdot? See nntp://rec.music.classical.recordings.
Whatever the merits of the documentary, the name of the organization Aizhixing is extremely sly. It literally means Love, Knowledge, Action; it rhymes with Aizibing, which means AIDS. This reminds me of the wordplay in the Grass Mud Horse episode.
Good thing Flash is so secure!
... to power his home by the lake?
Not that I'd discourage anyone from keeping their Apache up-to-date, but I decided to see what would happen if I prevented the Windows Apache on my machine from loading mod_isapi. The answer? Nothing, apparently. The only thing I really feared was that it might interfere with the Zend debugger, but no, it's fine.
It's been easily half a dozen years since, afflicted with an Emacs-induced sore left wrist, I switched to a Kinesis keyboard that uses thumbs, not pinkies, for chording. It has no SysRq key. I'd forgotten all about that long-lost, alluring key, and now you go and remind me!
Mandarin (which is the official nation-wide dialect) is much more phonetically impoverished than Cantonese: fewer tones, fewer consonants. So if there's a more lucrative language for punsters anywhere in the world than Mandarin, I'd be surprised.
just link to the original article, idiot.
You mean the Xinhua article, diplomat? I linked to the GoKunming blog because its article was more informative and because it isn't controlled by the Chinese government.
Just a minor point: You say the blogger calls himself "end tip of the wind". Isn't that a bit too literal a translation? Wouldn't the meaning come through more as "the latest fashion"?
These days more and more email I get is base64-encoded (usually for no good reason.) Since I'm the kind of caveman who still uses Rmail, I came up with this annoyance-avoider:
(defun rmail-base64-decode ()
"Decode a base64-encoded RMAIL message body or its base64-encoded MIME parts"
(interactive)
(set-buffer rmail-buffer)
(goto-char (point-min))
(while (search-forward-regexp "^[Cc]ontent-[Tt]ransfer-[Ee]ncoding: +base64"
(point-max) t)
(if (search-forward "\n\n")
(let ((inhibit-read-only t)
(base64-start (point)))
(if (search-forward-regexp "\\(^$\\|^-\\)")
(let ((base64-end (- (point) 1)))
(base64-decode-region base64-start base64-end))
)))))
I'm afraid you won't find a real solution to the problem as you've defined it, since soluble coffee is a pretty compromised idea. So why not redefine the problem like this: How can I get a caffeine buzz, plus good flavor, plus a nice texture that reminds me of expresso, from something I can plop in the bottom of a styrofoam cup and run hot water over?
Take that redefined problem to your nearest East Asian grocery store, find the aisle for tea, and grab a box of Pu-erh mini-tuochas. Mini-tuos are individually paper-wrapped clumps of fermented tea from the Chinese province of Yunnan. When you unwrap a clump and drop it in a cup and add boiling water, a couple of minutes later you have a brew that's as dark as espresso. More importantly, it gives a good caffeine kick along with a taste and mouth feel that espresso drinkers I know find it easy to get used to.
Pu-erh, by the way, is a big subject. If you're interested in it, the best place to start (non-commercial, usual disclaimers) is here.
There's another way to sidestep web bugs: use Lynx.
That way you only view the images you really want to see.
This book has deeply influenced my thinking even though I've only read the review. It's given me a great new word: nerdistan!
While IANAP (physicist) there's something here that bothers me a lot. We computeniks often tend to assume the physical world has the nice friction freedom of the virtual machine that executes our C++, Perl or whatever. But this idea moves things around in the physical world where each move will require power from, well, pick a winner, and will throw off a certain amount of waste heat. In this context is it really smart to fling everything in the room repeatedly back and forth in order to relocate one object?
stuff out on a network you don't need to exploit currently open security holes; you can use approved techniques.
If you need to do this you write what's called a protocol driver and you also write an application program that calls it. If you want to be slightly fancy you write the protocol driver in such a way that it can be dynamically loaded when needed and disposed of when it isn't needed any more. There's no need to reboot, the way there is when you want to change any one of countless settings in these OSes.
I've actually done this in creating free NT/9X bootp clients and a free NT RARP server: things Microsoft never saw fit to implement.
/Lew
The open letter writers were right to express
suspicion of whether a meaningful chunk of code
would ever get released by MS. There's at least
one precedent for this and it isn't encouraging.
More than a year ago MS released what they represented
as the complete code base for Microsoft Research's
NT implementation of IPv6. I follow the main
places on the Net where people who write protocol
drivers for MS OSes post. Some of them (us), at least,
are fairly gabby, complaining about the paucity of information available from Microsoft and exchanging hard-won knowledge. But if any of the NDIS protocol posters have mentioned the IPv6 code, it just sailed right by me. <brutal candor>I haven't read the IPv6 code myself.</brutal candor>