But the whole point of this discussion: What if there is a bug in the library that renders that *data*? All of a sudden, your data is no longer very data-y, and much more executable-y than you might have intended.
For reference, take a look at the (lengthy) list of bugs in any of the image processing libraries.
Android has it's own VM system, and it's called Dalvik. It has language independence built in so Java source files can be used... they compile to DEX, the Dalvik bytecode format. It does JIT.
Please tell me that the above was (well-disguised) sarcasm.
wow... your comment indicates that you have never read any of his stories, and is singularly uninformed.
He is alternatively described as an expert swordsman, boxer, and master of disguises. More of his mysteries were solved through observation than by main force, but, nevertheless, an action adventure Holmes would be in keeping with the original cannon, and a much more exciting movie than one without.
The owner of the machine is the business that owns it, while the user is the poor guy sitting at the keyboard. It is perfectly reasonable for the owner to want to protect against a rogue user. But all of the comments in the grandparent thread still apply. The legitimate owner (even if it is a business) still owns the physical hardware and has all the same concerns a regular person would have.
I actually have the current generation K790 and my fiancee has my older W600. They have *excellent* battery life. I've went for four days without charging mine and still had 40% battery life left. I normally charge every night, and even with an average of an hour conference call, my battery doesnt drop below 90%, even if I take tons of pictures.
I used to listen to music on it, the music player is pretty good. But I dont like carrying around headphones. When I did, I could listen to an average of three or four hours of music and still have 80% battery left. (Much better battery life than my ipod).
I love my phone. It is the best phone I've ever had and I use it for lots of stuff. The camera takes outstanding photograps. Really great quality so I dont have to worry about carrying my "real" camera everywhere. Reception is really good on my K790, a tiny bit worse on the W600. Bluetooth works well, I use it all the time to transfer photos. Overall, I'd give the phone 9/10.
I cannot wait to see the new models. My phone looks like it will last a while, but if anything were to happen, I know I would without hesitation upgrade to these newer phones.
For those of you wondering why the survey server fell over: It is a 5 year old Dell 2450 2x1Ghz processors, 1GB RAM, 1x100Mbit LAN connection. Give it a break. We dont exactly have a huge budget over in the Linux group, if you haven't noticed. And the survey is a CGI. We aren't exactly running linux.dell.com on the hundred's of nodes cluster we use for our main dell.com page.
BTW, tried to post uname -a and/proc/cpuinfo, but the lameness filter seems to object.
Not mentioned in the article, but the limitation on firing rate is not inherent in the gun, the limitation is due to electricity generation demands. Current ships power plants can only generate a limited amount of electricity. This is compounded by the fact that current generation ships have separate engines for moving the ship and electrical generation.
Plans for future ships have several big generators onboard and electrical engines for moving the ship, which should help them generate more electricity to fire the railguns more often.
Oh, yes it does make this right. Very right. You see, strategically, it would be best if the worlds most profitable software company were to lose a bunch of these suits and then decide that they dont like software patents very much. Then they could spend some of their money buying some patent reform laws.
BZZT! Wrong answer, dude. These are _patents_ we are talking about. It doesn't matter if you signed a licence agreement or not. It doesn't matter if you planted them, or they were blown in from your neighbor. If you have GM crops in your land, you are in violation and owe Monsanto $$.
I'm sorry, but all of the posts mentioning catch-22 or "damned if you do,..." are full of it.
Basically, Microsoft is breaking a whole crapload of things that don't need to be broken. Several of these changes impact me, and I can tell you that they are not improving security by turning these features off. Actually, they are reducing security by turning these off because now every Tom, Dick, and Harry out there need to go and write their own kernel mode driver to re-implement the missing functions.
For example, in SP1, there is no longer _any_ way to access physical memory from userspace, period. This is perfectly idiotic. Linux has/dev/mem and is not less secure because of it. They are basically just admitting the complete and utter failure of their previous access control. In windows \\device\physicalmemory used to be controlled via an ACL. This method is good enough for Linux, so I don't understand why this isn't good enough for Microsoft.
Yes, do you know how many $millions that Microsoft has been pouring into Cornell for their Windows cluster?
They would be idiotic to refuse. Microsoft is buying them lots of machines, giving them free software, and access to all internal MS engineering resources. Basically, it isn't Cornell running a huge MS cluster, it is MS running a huge MS cluster.
Bzzt. The Dell Order entry people are _supposed_ to be trained to spot this type of thing. (ie. sending stuff to Hotels, Mail Forwarders, etc.) If they are at all suspicious about your intentions with the equipment, they are supposed to bump you over to a special queue to investigate.
In the poster's case, he probably doesn't want to attract attention. Most of the stuff I have seen so far is a bad idea and will just get you extra attention.
This extra attention is courtesy of Government Export Control regulations.
No, take it from somebody who knows, the pages at the Blog site are _not_ "corporate Dell pages". These pages are made by the Linux Engineering team, not marketing. They do not have any resources attached to them outside of whatever free time the engineers in that group scrounge up to maintain it.
.bashrc: export CVS_RSH=ssh export CVSROOT=:ext:username@server.domain:/path/to/cvsro ot
generate keys: ssh-keygen -d run an agent: ssh-agent add your keys: ssh-add
newer versions of debian and fedora automatically run ssh-agent for you when you start X.
You can also use a nifty program, "keychain", that automates a lot of this.
We have disabled CVS PSERVER and exclusively use cvs over SSH. We have an rsync mirror of the cvs tree on a second machine with anonymous-read-only cvs for people that just want to look (on the separate machine for security)
All that is legal is not necessarily moral. All that is moral is not necessarily legal.
If you believe that legality doesn't match morality, work to change the laws.
I, for one, believe that many forms of intellectual property law are immoral. I act accordingly. I regularly write to my elected representatives to let them know my views. I even send them money if their views correspond to mine.
Well, have you ever seen one of those huge ocean container ships being unloaded? They can unload several thousand containers in 24 hours, easily matching or besting the numbers you claim.
Using modern boom equipment, it would be no problem to place blocks at this rate.
I pulled an HP Laserjet 4P out of the office trashbin about 8 years ago. It is still going strong, and I've only gone through about 3 or four toner cartridges. That thing is built like a tank. It has been around the world, both directions, and has been banged up pretty good. I can remember exactly one paper jam for the entire time I've had it, and the print quality is pretty good. It is slow as hell, but I'm pretty patient. It prints about 2-4 pages per minute.
As far as I can tell, the 5P line, and the Deskjets they started making about that time is where everything went to hell.
I was thinking about getting a newer printer to do color stuff, but from the sounds of the discussion, I think I'll keep it around...:-)
I had a K570 at a previous job that took literally 45 minutes to boot from power-on to login prompt.
Turning off the extended mem-check reduced this to 25 mins.
I once had a SCSI cable go bad, and I had to boot that darn thing up about a dozen times, swapping out cables, to find the bad cable. What a bad night that was! Swap cable, take 25-min break, watch SCSI errors from kernel. lather, rinse, repeat. 3 hours to find one bent pin on a scsi cable. yuck.
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But the whole point of this discussion: What if there is a bug in the library that renders that *data*? All of a sudden, your data is no longer very data-y, and much more executable-y than you might have intended.
For reference, take a look at the (lengthy) list of bugs in any of the image processing libraries.
Android has it's own VM system, and it's called Dalvik. It has language independence built in so Java source files can be used... they compile to DEX, the Dalvik bytecode format. It does JIT.
Please tell me that the above was (well-disguised) sarcasm.
wow... your comment indicates that you have never read any of his stories, and is singularly uninformed.
He is alternatively described as an expert swordsman, boxer, and master of disguises. More of his mysteries were solved through observation than by main force, but, nevertheless, an action adventure Holmes would be in keeping with the original cannon, and a much more exciting movie than one without.
Bzzt. wrong. try again.
You confuse "owner" in this case with "user".
The owner of the machine is the business that owns it, while the user is the poor guy sitting at the keyboard. It is perfectly reasonable for the owner to want to protect against a rogue user. But all of the comments in the grandparent thread still apply. The legitimate owner (even if it is a business) still owns the physical hardware and has all the same concerns a regular person would have.
Huh? What is this about descending UID comments?
Actually, yes I have driven in that area and several other areas where there is a *lot* of wind generation.
I think they are beautiful.
I actually have the current generation K790 and my fiancee has my older W600. They have *excellent* battery life. I've went for four days without charging mine and still had 40% battery life left. I normally charge every night, and even with an average of an hour conference call, my battery doesnt drop below 90%, even if I take tons of pictures.
I used to listen to music on it, the music player is pretty good. But I dont like carrying around headphones. When I did, I could listen to an average of three or four hours of music and still have 80% battery left. (Much better battery life than my ipod).
I love my phone. It is the best phone I've ever had and I use it for lots of stuff. The camera takes outstanding photograps. Really great quality so I dont have to worry about carrying my "real" camera everywhere. Reception is really good on my K790, a tiny bit worse on the W600. Bluetooth works well, I use it all the time to transfer photos. Overall, I'd give the phone 9/10.
I cannot wait to see the new models. My phone looks like it will last a while, but if anything were to happen, I know I would without hesitation upgrade to these newer phones.
For those of you wondering why the survey server fell over: It is a 5 year old Dell 2450 2x1Ghz processors, 1GB RAM, 1x100Mbit LAN connection. Give it a break. We dont exactly have a huge budget over in the Linux group, if you haven't noticed. And the survey is a CGI. We aren't exactly running linux.dell.com on the hundred's of nodes cluster we use for our main dell.com page.
/proc/cpuinfo, but the lameness filter seems to object.
BTW, tried to post uname -a and
Not mentioned in the article, but the limitation on firing rate is not inherent in the gun, the limitation is due to electricity generation demands. Current ships power plants can only generate a limited amount of electricity. This is compounded by the fact that current generation ships have separate engines for moving the ship and electrical generation.
Plans for future ships have several big generators onboard and electrical engines for moving the ship, which should help them generate more electricity to fire the railguns more often.
Oh, yes it does make this right. Very right. You see, strategically, it would be best if the worlds most profitable software company were to lose a bunch of these suits and then decide that they dont like software patents very much. Then they could spend some of their money buying some patent reform laws.
BZZT! Wrong answer, dude. These are _patents_ we are talking about. It doesn't matter if you signed a licence agreement or not. It doesn't matter if you planted them, or they were blown in from your neighbor. If you have GM crops in your land, you are in violation and owe Monsanto $$.
I'm sorry, but all of the posts mentioning catch-22 or "damned if you do, ..." are full of it.
/dev/mem and is not less secure because of it. They are basically just admitting the complete and utter failure of their previous access control. In windows \\device\physicalmemory used to be controlled via an ACL. This method is good enough for Linux, so I don't understand why this isn't good enough for Microsoft.
Basically, Microsoft is breaking a whole crapload of things that don't need to be broken. Several of these changes impact me, and I can tell you that they are not improving security by turning these features off. Actually, they are reducing security by turning these off because now every Tom, Dick, and Harry out there need to go and write their own kernel mode driver to re-implement the missing functions.
For example, in SP1, there is no longer _any_ way to access physical memory from userspace, period. This is perfectly idiotic. Linux has
RTFM. Linux _grew_ by $180million dollars compared to $100million for MS. Those look like actual numbers to me.
Yes, do you know how many $millions that Microsoft has been pouring into Cornell for their Windows cluster?
They would be idiotic to refuse. Microsoft is buying them lots of machines, giving them free software, and access to all internal MS engineering resources. Basically, it isn't Cornell running a huge MS cluster, it is MS running a huge MS cluster.
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Mine is arriving on Monday.
Bzzt. The Dell Order entry people are _supposed_ to be trained to spot this type of thing. (ie. sending stuff to Hotels, Mail Forwarders, etc.) If they are at all suspicious about your intentions with the equipment, they are supposed to bump you over to a special queue to investigate.
In the poster's case, he probably doesn't want to attract attention. Most of the stuff I have seen so far is a bad idea and will just get you extra attention.
This extra attention is courtesy of Government Export Control regulations.
No, take it from somebody who knows, the pages at the Blog site are _not_ "corporate Dell pages". These pages are made by the Linux Engineering team, not marketing. They do not have any resources attached to them outside of whatever free time the engineers in that group scrounge up to maintain it.
export CVS_RSH=ssh
export CVSROOT=:ext:username@server.domain:/path/to/cvsr
generate keys: ssh-keygen -d
run an agent: ssh-agent
add your keys: ssh-add
newer versions of debian and fedora automatically run ssh-agent for you when you start X.
You can also use a nifty program, "keychain", that automates a lot of this.
We have disabled CVS PSERVER and exclusively use cvs over SSH. We have an rsync mirror of the cvs tree on a second machine with anonymous-read-only cvs for people that just want to look (on the separate machine for security)
Another Vistor. Stay Awhile... Stay FOREVER!
:-(
Heard this one way too many times from having to start this from the beginning. I don't think I ever did get to the end of that stupid game...
All that is legal is not necessarily moral. All that is moral is not necessarily legal.
If you believe that legality doesn't match morality, work to change the laws.
I, for one, believe that many forms of intellectual property law are immoral. I act accordingly. I regularly write to my elected representatives to let them know my views. I even send them money if their views correspond to mine.
There is nothing wrong with file sharing.
Well, have you ever seen one of those huge ocean container ships being unloaded? They can unload several thousand containers in 24 hours, easily matching or besting the numbers you claim.
Using modern boom equipment, it would be no problem to place blocks at this rate.
You can do the same thing with RPM:
/; cpio -div)
$ rpm2cpio somepackage.rpm | (cd
I pulled an HP Laserjet 4P out of the office trashbin about 8 years ago. It is still going strong, and I've only gone through about 3 or four toner cartridges. That thing is built like a tank. It has been around the world, both directions, and has been banged up pretty good. I can remember exactly one paper jam for the entire time I've had it, and the print quality is pretty good. It is slow as hell, but I'm pretty patient. It prints about 2-4 pages per minute.
:-)
As far as I can tell, the 5P line, and the Deskjets they started making about that time is where everything went to hell.
I was thinking about getting a newer printer to do color stuff, but from the sounds of the discussion, I think I'll keep it around...
Yes, but in this case the only people who want said thing to be illegal are large, monied corporations.
I had a K570 at a previous job that took literally 45 minutes to boot from power-on to login prompt.
Turning off the extended mem-check reduced this to 25 mins.
I once had a SCSI cable go bad, and I had to boot that darn thing up about a dozen times, swapping out cables, to find the bad cable. What a bad night that was! Swap cable, take 25-min break, watch SCSI errors from kernel. lather, rinse, repeat. 3 hours to find one bent pin on a scsi cable. yuck.