The basic design flaw is that any executable you start can play havoc on any and all of your files.
What is needed, is security on application level: a sandbox for every executable. And not only a sandbox for the complete user (as in Linux/UNIX/NT). There is an experimental OS called EROS that does this.
Of course, W98 is even worse, because it has no "sandbox" whatsoever.
But on Linux and NT you can still lose all your files (belonging to your account).
Microsofts stupididy with the default configuration of Outlook and Explorer however makes this still worse...
what the 96% number REALLY proves...
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"All people are saying that the earth is flat so it must be true!"
This is some positive evidence for Oracle, but not more.
RMS: "Metallica justifies their lawsuit saying they think it is an outrage that their music has become a "commodity". Apparently they think music is a commodity when shared between fans, but not when large companies sell copies through record stores. What hypocritical absurdity!" I couldnt say it better. Does Metallica want to stay with the "commodity" argument?
at least in a few simple tests I did. Hotspot on Win98 outperformed gcc-2.95.2 there, especially in memory management (object allocation/deallocation).
Arrays were a little slower than C (about 10%). Integer calculations the same speed.
And I cannot help people that still believe that Java is slower than Perl...
2) looks more like the usual compiler optimization (like optimization for the two parallel units in the P5)
3) hmm... P3 ISSE and AMD 3dNow?:)
in general, Intel seems to have fucked up their initial merced design. Wasnt VLIW supposed to allow long pipelines and mucho MHz? And now the x86-Athlon is the fastest chip on the world (MHz-wise, at least)...
Maybe its just the chip, but it may also be the instruction set.
profile-guided optimization: I wait for gcc to support this...
Since it states that a conscious obvserver decides about reality. Can you say "Reality created by consciousness?".
The multiverse (or Everetts interpretation) is a more logical alternative, since it doesnt need an esoteric element. Its accepted by many well known physicists, and pretty old, too.
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since this would be shortsighted.
.txt file, and doubleclick it, too...
If you give a normal, completely non-nerd user a nice icon, in an email message, he will likely click on it.
And believe that the people that designed all this are clever enough to protect him from harm.
The slightly more clueful user will see that its just a harmless
The basic design flaw is that any executable you start can play havoc on any and all of your files.
What is needed, is security on application level: a sandbox for every executable. And not only a sandbox for the complete user (as in Linux/UNIX/NT). There is an experimental OS called EROS that does this.
Of course, W98 is even worse, because it has no "sandbox" whatsoever.
But on Linux and NT you can still lose all your files (belonging to your account).
Microsofts stupididy with the default configuration of Outlook and Explorer however makes this still worse...
"All people are saying that the earth is flat so it must be true!"
This is some positive evidence for Oracle, but not more.
RMS: "Metallica justifies their lawsuit saying they think it is an outrage that their music has become a "commodity". Apparently they think music is a commodity when shared between fans, but not when large companies sell copies through record stores. What hypocritical absurdity!" I couldnt say it better. Does Metallica want to stay with the "commodity" argument?
at least in a few simple tests I did. Hotspot on Win98 outperformed gcc-2.95.2 there, especially in memory management (object allocation/deallocation).
Arrays were a little slower than C (about 10%). Integer calculations the same speed.
And I cannot help people that still believe that Java is slower than Perl...
More people know Java (than Perl), and Java will be supported/included anyways. And its faster, too.
So, really, why Perl?
"Be thankful you are not my student. You would not get a high grade for such a design :-)"
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I seem remember a number of SuSE security reports until they finally simply advised to uninstall the thing...
Blaming the user for a flawed system is silly.
If it isnt secure out of the box, its flawed.
Its a flawed concept to launch all kinds of stupid daemons as installation default.
Its idiotic to expect users to fiddle with a number of strange configuration files if they REALLY want the thing to be secure.
AND EVEN IF YOU CHANGE ALL THIS, you still get cracked due to bad software with silly design (bind, imap, sendmail, etc.).
No so with OpenBSD, as seems.
If just one very good bastard can take you out, your system is not worth much (think of credit card information).
The agonizing thing is, that SuSE, RedHat et al are exceptionally clueless when it comes to security.
according to numbers I saw on the web Postgres is about 20% slower than Oracle for TPC tests.
Not very far off, especially when considering that Oracle probably optimizes their DB specifically concerning benchmarks.
Have no link, sorry.
Oracle et al however have some edge or two regarding reliability features (and features in general).
...it looks likely that generally a lot of very idiotic stuff gets patented.
obviously.
sorry, but your opinion simply is silly.
Your java programming competition will be very happy.
1) is nice
:)
2) looks more like the usual compiler optimization (like optimization for the two parallel units in the P5)
3) hmm... P3 ISSE and AMD 3dNow?
in general, Intel seems to have fucked up their initial merced design. Wasnt VLIW supposed to allow long pipelines and mucho MHz?
And now the x86-Athlon is the fastest chip on the world (MHz-wise, at least)...
Maybe its just the chip, but it may also be the instruction set.
profile-guided optimization: I wait for gcc to support this...
>Any real leet hacker knows you don't use anything but machine code.
yeah, and IA64 increases the fun factor a lot!
>I know a guy (yes, I know him) who broke into _____'s mainframe and transfered 100,000 (US dollars) into his bank account
sounds like a nice buffer overflow...
In fact, compilers are an essential tool to get any software to work on any chip :)
(Very Long Instruction Word)
Only Intel calls it "EPIC", probably because it hypes better and makes it look like a genuine Intel innovation.
Transmetas CPUs are VLIW, too.
But letting the compiler do the guessing (instead of the CPU) is the only reasonable choice indeed.
This is why I all Linux distributions fail miserably for non-techie users.
But if you look at Windows, its too complicated too.
...is believed to have popped into existence with the big bang.
So, "before" most likely makes no sense. Since there is no continuity of time.
If I remember right, the total mass/energy of the universe is supposed to be exactly zero.
Seems to be due to the negative energy stored in gravitational fields (well, if I remember right).
that theyll use quantum resonance for the next generation UDMA drives, since they found no other way to move 100 MB/s over an IDE cable... ?
ok, no problem. Hope thats clear now...
>"But what happened before that?"
:)
"Before" (the big bang), there was no time.
So there is no "before".
Easy, isnt it?
If "buckyballs" were shown to hav QM characteristics, then DMA can have too.
Since it has the same diameter.
Since it states that a conscious obvserver decides about reality. Can you say "Reality created by consciousness?".
The multiverse (or Everetts interpretation) is a more logical alternative, since it doesnt need an esoteric element. Its accepted by many well known physicists, and pretty old, too.
"At its most fundamental, life is a quantum phenomenon, this book argues."
obviously, since quantum mechanics ist the fundamental basis of everything.
no need to compete...