ICANN has no power of its own. Good luck getting them to do anything for you. Pretty much every domain registrar does something to violate ICANN's terms. As an example, try letting a 3 letter dot com domain expire and see how long it takes to come up for open registration... Don't hold your breath!
Yes but did IBM threaten the commercial version (Turbo Hercules) or the OSS version? Let's get our facts straight before we jump to the conclusion that IBM is threatening OSS.
All of those projects have code in them that solves specific problems. The 'dead' projects are still a valuable resource for anyone who is developing GPL code since they can freely use the 'dead' code in their project.
If you need urgent care (you wouldn't need an ambulance otherwise), you can go to any emergency room in the US and they WILL treat you regardless of your ability to pay. That is the law here (or was until today anyway).
There weren't resources in American hospitals to tread them promptly enough to prevent permanent disability?
Which hospital? What insurance plan? What was the illness?
As I recall, IDE drives first appeared with about 200MB of capacity. They replaced RLL drives which maxed out at about 140MB. Before RLL there was MFM (same electrical interface, different coding). If it's a 10MB drive, it's probably a Seagate ST506/412 (I had one on my CP/M box). You'll need an MFM controller in anything you hook it up to. You'll also need a BIOS that has a proper disk parameter table for the drive geometry. One problem that you're going to have is that all MFM controllers use ISA bus interfaces. (First there was ISA, then EISA, VLB, then PCI, then PCI-X and finally PCIe.) I haven't seen a computer manufactured with an ISA bus slot for well over 10 years.
IMHO you should use the serial port to move whatever data you want moved. Your chances of success with other methods are low.
Funny how my post above was modded flamebait and yours is +3 interesting.
Does Bush's out-of-control spending justify Obama ramping spending up by an order of magnitude?
If when you talk about "the damage Bush did", you are referring to the growth of entitlement programs like free prescription drugs for seniors, then I agree with you.
If when you say there is no difference between Democrats & Republicans, you mean that they are all crooks, then I agree with you. There are differences between the party platforms however. Republicans (claim they) are for smaller government and less spending. Democrats make no such claim.
I suppose it depends upon your definition of a fork. I am quite aware that they have a set of patches they apply on top of the standard WINE distro. I could have been more concise.
Thanks! That's a reasonable explanation. The post (and the linked content) did not describe the anomaly in detail. Generally an SEU is a recoverable event. Apparently this one caused actual hardware damage to the primary string. I'm glad that they were able to figure out a solution and make this amazing observation in Orion.
Yes, I have issues. I am not alone. If you search their support forums for 'crahes' and '64', you'll see an abundance of posts. Some of them are quite detailed in describing the issue.
I suppose I could have been a bit more specific though. The problems only occur if you are running a 64 bit OS and have more than 4GB of RAM. (There isn't much point to running a 64 bit OS if you have less.)
I think you've misunderstood my position. I have no problem whatsoever with them reselling WINE. I'm a repeat customer of theirs. What I referred to as a problem was even though they are a WINE contributor, they do not have control over all of the changes which make it into the merge. Thus they don't have ultimate control over their own 'product'.
Obviously a fork would solve that problem but they seem to be unwilling to go that route.
OK, maybe you are involved in the mission and know more than I. What I do know is that all spacecraft have an expected mission life (anywhere from a few months to 15 years depending upon the mission). Generally when an anomaly occurs there is a balancing act between understanding what went wrong and getting things going again quickly.
Five months is an awfully long time to spend scratching your head if you've got a redundant string ready to be switched on.
I know this article is about CX Pro but I'm going to chime in about one of CodeWeavers' other products: CrossOver Games.
I've been using CX Games on and off for almost 2 years now. The product is great if you are running a 32 bit version of Linux. However, if you are running a 64 bit distribution, you WILL have problems. My hardware is relatively modern (dual Xeons, 16G RAM, 9600GT video). The issues you WILL have on a 64 bit system if you try to play a Windows game are continuous random crashes due to running out of memory. I think CodeWeavers has good support as far as they can go. Their problem is that they are basically a 're-seller' of WINE and don't have control over that 'product'. I'm not going to bother submitting links into their support forums on this issue, if challenged I will link to the post where they admit that it just won't work right and there's nothing they can do about it.
BTW, I also use Crossover & MS Office under Trusted Solaris and I think it's a vast improvement over the previous solution (Star Office). I'm not a big fan of Microsoft but when the application (word processing, spreadsheets, presentations) opens 3 times faster and is more responsive and reliable, I take notice.
What else would you expect from the New York Times? The chart is highly misleading.
The "mandatory spending" is only mandatory because of the !@&#(* spending bills that REQUIRE certain monies to be spent on certain things.
Our (Democrat Party controlled) government has been spending like a drunken sailor with no regard whatsoever how to come up with the funds to meet our spending obligations. Democrats will typically point to the Bush administration and say "Look at what he spent!". Does one irresponsible act warrant another? BTW, Bush was pressured to agree to the spending bills that the (Democrat Party controlled) congress sent to him in order to include the programs that he was pushing. How many people realize that the Democrat Party has been in control of the US Congress (both House & Senate) for over 3 years now?
Pretty much any government contract can be canceled on a moment's notice. Yes, there is usually a penalty and some associated 'closeout' costs but just because there is a contract, it doesn't mean there is an obligation to continue the work. or pay the contract in full.
As an aside, I almost feel ashamed to be an American right now since after this year, we will no longer have ANY manned space flight capability. The Russians, Chinese, and even the Indian's have active manned space flight programs but the United States of America does not.
Were the two folks who had the ability to remotely activate the cameras trustworthy, bonded individuals with some kind of background check and security clearance?
People are people and even people with good jobs can do bad things.
If a capability exists to activate a camera on a laptop sitting in a young girl's bedroom, there will be temptation to activate it. You cannot change human nature. What you can and should do to prevent such abuses is to never allow such a capability in the first place. There are many other ways to recover a laptop. All you would need is for the laptop to "phone home" with the IP address it was assigned (and maybe a traceroute to the destination). The ISP could then be identified and law enforcement could take action. There is no justification for having a covert camera on the student laptops. The commission of one crime (theft) does not justify the commission of other crimes (unauthorized surveillance). The school is doomed and they are trying to do some damage control while they hurry to the table in an effort to settle this case before it goes to trial.
The lawsuit has been filed. The allegations have been made. Evidence will be presented (if it ever goes to trial). Remember that as of now this is a CIVIL case so it can be settled. Thus far there are no CRIMINAL charges.
Somewhere in the bottom of one of my closets is a TRS-80 model 100. It also ran off 4 AA batteries. It sported a LCD display which could do 8 lines of 40 characters each and was likely the last computer that Bill Gates actually wrote any software for.
See Woz's original post here. And the explanation here. It could be argued that Toyota should change their cruise control interface so it doesn't keep increasing the "set" speed beyond a few mph above the actual speed. As long as you are aware of how it works, it does not pose a danger.
Yes it would sap the orbit. The current induced into the satellite would create an opposing field which would react with the Earth's field and degrade the orbit. The question is; what is the intensity of that effect? It's probably very small.
My wife and kids all have Iphones and I've used them. I just got a Nexus phone and I love it. I agree with the summation that the screen is not as responsive as the Apple phone. It took me a bit of trial and error but I discovered that you must tap quickly to get the phone to respond well. If you are slow it often seems to ignore the input. This may be a software issue. I hope that it is, and that it will be fixed soon.
I haven't yet seen anybody else make the following observation so I wonder if it's just my phone, but the audio level that comes out of the Nexus is noticeably lower than what comes out of the Iphone. I can turn the volume on the thing all the way up and it is still very weak in comparison. This applies to both ring tones and multimedia audio. This is more likely to be a hardware issue so I will not hold my breath waiting for a fix.
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ICANN has no power of its own. Good luck getting them to do anything for you. Pretty much every domain registrar does something to violate ICANN's terms. As an example, try letting a 3 letter dot com domain expire and see how long it takes to come up for open registration... Don't hold your breath!
Yes but did IBM threaten the commercial version (Turbo Hercules) or the OSS version? Let's get our facts straight before we jump to the conclusion that IBM is threatening OSS.
All of those projects have code in them that solves specific problems. The 'dead' projects are still a valuable resource for anyone who is developing GPL code since they can freely use the 'dead' code in their project.
If you need urgent care (you wouldn't need an ambulance otherwise), you can go to any emergency room in the US and they WILL treat you regardless of your ability to pay. That is the law here (or was until today anyway).
There weren't resources in American hospitals to tread them promptly enough to prevent permanent disability? Which hospital? What insurance plan? What was the illness?
IMHO you should use the serial port to move whatever data you want moved. Your chances of success with other methods are low.
Does Bush's out-of-control spending justify Obama ramping spending up by an order of magnitude?
If when you talk about "the damage Bush did", you are referring to the growth of entitlement programs like free prescription drugs for seniors, then I agree with you.
If when you say there is no difference between Democrats & Republicans, you mean that they are all crooks, then I agree with you. There are differences between the party platforms however. Republicans (claim they) are for smaller government and less spending. Democrats make no such claim.
I suppose it depends upon your definition of a fork. I am quite aware that they have a set of patches they apply on top of the standard WINE distro. I could have been more concise.
Thanks! That's a reasonable explanation. The post (and the linked content) did not describe the anomaly in detail. Generally an SEU is a recoverable event. Apparently this one caused actual hardware damage to the primary string. I'm glad that they were able to figure out a solution and make this amazing observation in Orion.
I suppose I could have been a bit more specific though. The problems only occur if you are running a 64 bit OS and have more than 4GB of RAM. (There isn't much point to running a 64 bit OS if you have less.)
You will note above that I put 're-seller' in quotes. If you have a better way to describe their business, I would love to hear it.
Obviously a fork would solve that problem but they seem to be unwilling to go that route.
Five months is an awfully long time to spend scratching your head if you've got a redundant string ready to be switched on.
OK so their instrument had an upset. That sort of thing happens in space. Why did it take them 5 months to switch over to the redundant string?
I've been using CX Games on and off for almost 2 years now. The product is great if you are running a 32 bit version of Linux. However, if you are running a 64 bit distribution, you WILL have problems. My hardware is relatively modern (dual Xeons, 16G RAM, 9600GT video). The issues you WILL have on a 64 bit system if you try to play a Windows game are continuous random crashes due to running out of memory. I think CodeWeavers has good support as far as they can go. Their problem is that they are basically a 're-seller' of WINE and don't have control over that 'product'. I'm not going to bother submitting links into their support forums on this issue, if challenged I will link to the post where they admit that it just won't work right and there's nothing they can do about it.
BTW, I also use Crossover & MS Office under Trusted Solaris and I think it's a vast improvement over the previous solution (Star Office). I'm not a big fan of Microsoft but when the application (word processing, spreadsheets, presentations) opens 3 times faster and is more responsive and reliable, I take notice.
The "mandatory spending" is only mandatory because of the !@&#(* spending bills that REQUIRE certain monies to be spent on certain things.
Our (Democrat Party controlled) government has been spending like a drunken sailor with no regard whatsoever how to come up with the funds to meet our spending obligations. Democrats will typically point to the Bush administration and say "Look at what he spent!". Does one irresponsible act warrant another? BTW, Bush was pressured to agree to the spending bills that the (Democrat Party controlled) congress sent to him in order to include the programs that he was pushing. How many people realize that the Democrat Party has been in control of the US Congress (both House & Senate) for over 3 years now?
As an aside, I almost feel ashamed to be an American right now since after this year, we will no longer have ANY manned space flight capability. The Russians, Chinese, and even the Indian's have active manned space flight programs but the United States of America does not.
WTF?
Were the two folks who had the ability to remotely activate the cameras trustworthy, bonded individuals with some kind of background check and security clearance? People are people and even people with good jobs can do bad things. If a capability exists to activate a camera on a laptop sitting in a young girl's bedroom, there will be temptation to activate it. You cannot change human nature. What you can and should do to prevent such abuses is to never allow such a capability in the first place. There are many other ways to recover a laptop. All you would need is for the laptop to "phone home" with the IP address it was assigned (and maybe a traceroute to the destination). The ISP could then be identified and law enforcement could take action. There is no justification for having a covert camera on the student laptops. The commission of one crime (theft) does not justify the commission of other crimes (unauthorized surveillance). The school is doomed and they are trying to do some damage control while they hurry to the table in an effort to settle this case before it goes to trial.
The lawsuit has been filed. The allegations have been made. Evidence will be presented (if it ever goes to trial). Remember that as of now this is a CIVIL case so it can be settled. Thus far there are no CRIMINAL charges.
See here for more info.
See Woz's original post here. And the explanation here. It could be argued that Toyota should change their cruise control interface so it doesn't keep increasing the "set" speed beyond a few mph above the actual speed. As long as you are aware of how it works, it does not pose a danger.
Insightful and Informative (but politically incorrect). Sorry I have no mod points of my own.
Yes it would sap the orbit. The current induced into the satellite would create an opposing field which would react with the Earth's field and degrade the orbit. The question is; what is the intensity of that effect? It's probably very small.
I haven't yet seen anybody else make the following observation so I wonder if it's just my phone, but the audio level that comes out of the Nexus is noticeably lower than what comes out of the Iphone. I can turn the volume on the thing all the way up and it is still very weak in comparison. This applies to both ring tones and multimedia audio. This is more likely to be a hardware issue so I will not hold my breath waiting for a fix.