Hmm actually, in a class B it would be (256 * 256) - 2. You _can_ have 'all zeroes' or 'all ones' in the final _octet_, as long as the local IP space in its entirety doesn't contain 'all zeroes' or 'all ones'.
e.g. 192.168.0.[1-255] are all valid 192.168.[1-254].x are all valid 192.168.255.[0-254] are all valid
Thus, the only addresses which aren't valid in this instance are 192.168.0.0 and 192.168.255.255.
Ah, but tobacco isn't addictive; the cigarette companies say so and they know best of course. </sarcasm>
ObGripe: asking me how I thought the Internet influenced American society. Grr. You'd have thought that, when conducting an Internet survey, they'd realise there are rather a lot of people outside the US who use it.
Oh, you can definitely be addicted to books - though I think you'd have a hard time making a newspaper last four hours. Except maybe the Sunday editions, and newspapers not in your native language.
I'm glad I'm not the only sad git who has three computers at home. On the lame excuse that, since I'm an I.T. contractor and networking is somewhere on the CV, I have to keep the hand in.
No-one is fooled by it, for some reason.;)
My newest system hasn't been switched off much lately, but then I gave it a distributed.net client to keep it entertained while I was at work.:)
Any single company utterly dominating a market is a Bad Thing. I want to see AMD do well because they're the only competition left in the x86 market (NS[?] has pulled its Cyrix chips now I believe). And competition => lower prices + faster innovation. Which is all good for us, the consumer. I don't want AMD to "smash" Intel any more than I want Intel to smash AMD, for all that will happen is that the Evil Empire will continue, and a new Dark Lord will appear.....
I intend to get a K7 box, though when I've got the money - broke atm:(
Who's talking about "hackers"? I thought the article was about professional programmers?
What do you think happens to hackers when they finish uni, their parents kick them out of home and welfare won't pay for their net connection?
They get jobs, and turn into professional programmers. Or systems administrators, technical support staff, etc. etc. ad nauseam. There aren't really _too_ many hackers still closeted in universities getting doctorates.
Not really. My old 386 happily swamps most of the FM waveband between 99MHz-102MHz. Dead irritating when a few local FM stations with weak transmitters happen to broadcast around there.
I guess I could get it to play things if I wanted to, but I'd rather listen to Classic FM.
You could get 64K into (or rather, bolted onto the back of) a ZX81. 64K RAM packs weren't all that common, though, since the ZX Spectrum had come out by then and the ZX81 disappeared rather quickly after that.
Possession of a dodgy copy of Win98 would probably be treated with the same indifference as being caught having an eighth in your pocket (slap wrist, don't to it again, here we'll have that for the next police ball -er, because you're not supposed to have it) and owning a website with 1000GB of pirated software will be treated with the same heavyhandedness expected to someone pushing several million worth of crack onto the streets.
Punishment to fit crime. No-one is seriously going to care much about the odd dodgy copy of Win98, Office etc. that a friend burned for you, but Microsoft would have an absolute fit if someone went and posted the ISO image on a public site, and you can expect to be prosecuted.
.....that certain (mainly if not entirely anonymous) posters around here are quick to belittle the makers of any OS which isn't open source, or worse, doesn't conform to their idea of what open source should be, or isn't Linux, etc.
Come on, folks. So the APSL isn't to everyone's taste. Nor is the (L)GPL, the BSD licence, etc. But it's a step in the right direction - namely, towards the goal of producing Software Which Doesn't Suck. And that is to be welcomed. (And having had a look at the APSL I'm rather confused about which parts of it people have a problem with. After all, it's their base code, if they release it they can put whatever restrictions they damn well feel like on it.)
Comments such as "Mac is dead" don't really help the argument any. Not to mention that they fly in the face of any real evidence (the G3 and iMac seem to be doing quite well, thank you very much).
Motives aren't all that important. Companies have a strategic aim to keep existing, and that generally means making money. So if public release of source code, in Apple's view, helps them along that road - and, incidentally, releases more source to the public in the grand design of producing Software Which Doesn't Suck - I'm all for it, on both counts. If only Microsoft would follow the same route, we might even (eventually) end up with a version of Windows which didn't suck, though this is probably heresy.;)
I might have to go get myself a Mac now, so I can take a better look at this thing. Hmm.
I thought the 48.5 day bug only affected Win9x or unpatched NT... I am fairly sure we had NTs with uptimes of >48.5days at my last place of work, though I refused to admin them so I wouldn't bet my life on it.
....I was led to believe the even-numbered kernel releases were to be treated as beta, so am rather surprised to see the 2.2.10 kernel released as part of the SuSE 6.2 distro. Does this no longer apply, or are SuSE being a little irresponsible?
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0.0.0.0 is also used as a source address by machines attempting to acquire an IP address from their local BOOTP/DHCP server on initialization, IIRC.
"What do you want to boot today?"
Hmm actually, in a class B it would be (256 * 256) - 2. You _can_ have 'all zeroes' or 'all ones' in the final _octet_, as long as the local IP space in its entirety doesn't contain 'all zeroes' or 'all ones'.
e.g.
192.168.0.[1-255] are all valid
192.168.[1-254].x are all valid
192.168.255.[0-254] are all valid
Thus, the only addresses which aren't valid in this instance are 192.168.0.0 and 192.168.255.255.
(I think this is buried somewhere in RFC1812.)
"What do you want to boot today?"
Ah, but tobacco isn't addictive; the cigarette companies say so and they know best of course.
</sarcasm>
ObGripe: asking me how I thought the Internet influenced American society. Grr. You'd have thought that, when conducting an Internet survey, they'd realise there are rather a lot of people outside the US who use it.
"What do you want to boot today?"
NO NO NO! UNSUBSCRIB ME PLZ FROM THIS LSIT
"Cake or death!" (E. Izzard)
You can bet your life there are a small bunch of techies under an NDA somewhere in Redmond, WA, working on that one right now. :)
"Cake or death!" (E. Izzard)
Oh, you can definitely be addicted to books - though I think you'd have a hard time making a newspaper last four hours. Except maybe the Sunday editions, and newspapers not in your native language.
"Cake or death!" (E. Izzard)
suits me. as long as the wards have PCs, 100BaseT, ......
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Sorry, that should say three *currently operational* computers.
"Cake or death!" (E. Izzard)
I'm glad I'm not the only sad git who has three computers at home. On the lame excuse that, since I'm an I.T. contractor and networking is somewhere on the CV, I have to keep the hand in.
;)
:)
No-one is fooled by it, for some reason.
My newest system hasn't been switched off much lately, but then I gave it a distributed.net client to keep it entertained while I was at work.
"Cake or death!" (E. Izzard)
Hooray.
:(
Any single company utterly dominating a market is a Bad Thing. I want to see AMD do well because they're the only competition left in the x86 market (NS[?] has pulled its Cyrix chips now I believe). And competition => lower prices + faster innovation. Which is all good for us, the consumer. I don't want AMD to "smash" Intel any more than I want Intel to smash AMD, for all that will happen is that the Evil Empire will continue, and a new Dark Lord will appear.....
I intend to get a K7 box, though when I've got the money - broke atm
"Cake or death!" (E. Izzard)
Who's talking about "hackers"? I thought the article was about professional programmers?
What do you think happens to hackers when they finish uni, their parents kick them out of home and welfare won't pay for their net connection?
They get jobs, and turn into professional programmers. Or systems administrators, technical support staff, etc. etc. ad nauseam. There aren't really _too_ many hackers still closeted in universities getting doctorates.
"Cake or death!" (E. Izzard)
Not really. My old 386 happily swamps most of the FM waveband between 99MHz-102MHz. Dead irritating when a few local FM stations with weak transmitters happen to broadcast around there.
I guess I could get it to play things if I wanted to, but I'd rather listen to Classic FM.
"Cake or death!" (E. Izzard)
You could get 64K into (or rather, bolted onto the back of) a ZX81. 64K RAM packs weren't all that common, though, since the ZX Spectrum had come out by then and the ZX81 disappeared rather quickly after that.
"Cake or death!" (E. Izzard)
Possession of a dodgy copy of Win98 would probably be treated with the same indifference as being caught having an eighth in your pocket (slap wrist, don't to it again, here we'll have that for the next police ball -er, because you're not supposed to have it) and owning a website with 1000GB of pirated software will be treated with the same heavyhandedness expected to someone pushing several million worth of crack onto the streets.
Punishment to fit crime. No-one is seriously going to care much about the odd dodgy copy of Win98, Office etc. that a friend burned for you, but Microsoft would have an absolute fit if someone went and posted the ISO image on a public site, and you can expect to be prosecuted.
"Cake or death!" (E. Izzard)
There is an update to Tom's Hardware Guide detailing the latest developments re: the ASUSTeK board.
"Cake or death!" (E. Izzard)
..... that anti-Intel FUD is alive and well in Tom's hardware.
I received a reply from ASUSTek's sales team this morning as follows:
"It'll be released by the end of the month."
No more, no less. "Nuff zed," as you might say.
"Cake or death!" (E. Izzard)
(and my grammar was slightly better in the email, too. s/send/sent/ *blush*)
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I've send an email to ASUSTeK asking if anyone there can clarify/confirm/deny this story. When/if I get a reply, be sure it'll end up here.
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actually, it's "c'est la vie". But I'm irredeemably pedantic. =)
Three good reasons why productivity hasn't increased much in the workplace since computers were introduced.
1. Games
2. Email
3. The world wide web
That's even _before_ you take into account crashy software (and hardware, since a lot of companies can't afford to upgrade all that often).
"Cake or death!" (E. Izzard)
The footage you're referring to can be found on the BNFL website:
:)
Go to http://www.bnfl.co.uk/index1.html
Go to Activities -> Transport then click on "Film: Locomotive"
Enjoy
"Cake or death!" (E. Izzard)
s/Pt/Pu/g. Yeah, I'm a pedant =)
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.....that certain (mainly if not entirely anonymous) posters around here are quick to belittle the makers of any OS which isn't open source, or worse, doesn't conform to their idea of what open source should be, or isn't Linux, etc.
;)
Come on, folks. So the APSL isn't to everyone's taste. Nor is the (L)GPL, the BSD licence, etc. But it's a step in the right direction - namely, towards the goal of producing Software Which Doesn't Suck. And that is to be welcomed. (And having had a look at the APSL I'm rather confused about which parts of it people have a problem with. After all, it's their base code, if they release it they can put whatever restrictions they damn well feel like on it.)
Comments such as "Mac is dead" don't really help the argument any. Not to mention that they fly in the face of any real evidence (the G3 and iMac seem to be doing quite well, thank you very much).
Motives aren't all that important. Companies have a strategic aim to keep existing, and that generally means making money. So if public release of source code, in Apple's view, helps them along that road - and, incidentally, releases more source to the public in the grand design of producing Software Which Doesn't Suck - I'm all for it, on both counts. If only Microsoft would follow the same route, we might even (eventually) end up with a version of Windows which didn't suck, though this is probably heresy.
I might have to go get myself a Mac now, so I can take a better look at this thing. Hmm.
"Cake or death!" (E. Izzard)
I thought the 48.5 day bug only affected Win9x or unpatched NT... I am fairly sure we had NTs with uptimes of >48.5days at my last place of work, though I refused to admin them so I wouldn't bet my life on it.
"Cake or death!" (E. Izzard)
....I was led to believe the even-numbered kernel releases were to be treated as beta, so am rather surprised to see the 2.2.10 kernel released as part of the SuSE 6.2 distro. Does this no longer apply, or are SuSE being a little irresponsible?
"Cake or death!" (E. Izzard)
How do I know you have a consciousness? Prove it.
*smirk*
"Cake or death!" (E. Izzard)