Ah I remember the days. Playing X-Wing on my old (386? 486?)...
That game had very stupid copy protection. The game would start, and would ask you a question by giving you a symbol that you had to find in the manual and type in its name.
Of course, one young teenager with a hex-editor (remember Norton DiskEdit?) was easily able to find all of the 'names' in one of the game's data files, and it was rather trivial to replace all of them with a single space. At the time it was all I knew how to do, because it was before my programming days.
It was quicker to do this than to try to find a crack on the BBSs out there. And yes, I have my own purchased copy of that game - I just hated having to keep flipping through the manual.
I develop some software that I've released free (as in beer and speech) under the GPL. I have a simpler way to deal with this problem.
Anyone who downloads my software and isn't happy with it is entitled to a full refund for purchase price.
Since the price happens to be $0, I'm not concerned. Then again, I wasn't concerned in the first place because I doubt that any such laws that would be passed in the U.S. would pass in Canada too.
In Canada, we have fair use laws. The law allows me to purchase a CD (or tape, or whatever). I can give or lend the original CD/tape to a friend legally. My friend can also legally make a copy of that CD or tape for his/her own use, and then return that (original) CD back to me.
I am allowed to make copies of that CD or tape for my own personal use.
I am not allowed to give/sell/lend those copies to anyone else.
Admittedly I know very little about 4GL, but I was wondering if anyone could comment on the possibility of generating a parser/compiler for the language in Java, perhaps using a tool such as JavaCC? There seems to be quite a set of grammars already available (not 4GL, but many other languages/file formats) for use as a starting point.
Clearly a software problem - the programmers didn't take the 2GB file size limit of most OSs/filesystems into account. Obviously they also never tested how 'pause' behaves over a long period of time.
I've seen this same issue with video capturing software, or other software which might record large amounts of data. The solution would be that they would have to split the pause buffer into smaller files, each under 2GB. If their software is designed intelligently enough it shouldn't be a big deal to fix this.
In order to compete with MS-Office in the Enterprise arena, sorry guys, they're going to have to offer an acceptable alternative to Outlook which can work with existing Exchange servers.
A company like mine, for example, which has approx 500 employees, would probably jump at the chance to get something equivalent at a cheaper price, but only if it can replace the whole thing.
Sorry - money where my mouth is. I read a different article on this subject with more detail at New Scientist today which mentioned that. No permanent damage. There.
The firmware doesn't go foobar. The iMac isn't destroyed. Most CD drives have a mechanical (manual) eject that can be hit with a pen or paper clip. In that case you can just pull the CD out and you're fine.
In other cases, perhaps you might need to get creative to get that CD out. Perhaps you need to pull the drive apart - who knows. The point is, the article made it clear that there is no permanent damage to the machine. Get the CD out, and everything goes back to normal.
59 comments and nobody states the obvious. You have a wife and you want exercise.
What about sex? It can be done indoors or out in a variety of locations and positions, in private or in public (depends on how bold you are I suppose), and is very good for your health. You'd get your daily heart-rate boost, in addition to improving your married life (your relationship with your wife).
And you'll make virtually the entire/. population jealous and horny just for mentioning it.
"We've found an electronic way of handling those complex keys, and of regenerating them dynamically so that lists of keys don't have to be stored anywhere"
Big fscking deal. They generate a random number, use that as a seed, and store the seed in a database.
Whooptie-doo. I can write that in less than ten lines of Java code.
hire a college intern, tell them they will be working with multimedia on a daily basis and have them burn CDs all day. it might be cheaper than a robot and the intern is more mobile
My bet is that that's exactly what the company did. Now the intern wants to be lazy and is asking/. to automate his job!
So how does that translate into "Linux is vulnerable and Windows is not?
Because free() on Windows is "less efficient" in that it does some checking to make sure it wasn't called twice with the same parameter. This is why some say 'double-frees' won't be a vulnerability on Windows.
OK you talked me into it. I'm compiling mod_gzip right now.
I never said I'm running mod_gzip. I did say I'm using gzip to compress our output on the site. But it's using Java's build-in gzip packages (java.util.zip.GZIPOutputStream I think).
You shouldn't have any problems though - I'm using mod_gzip on another one of my servers and it hasn't given me any issues.
Personally though, I think the whole HTTP compression thing is overblown - causes more problems than it solves sometimes, and if you're compressing to please modem users, I'd prefer to simply put a banner on my site saying "Burn your modem, you fewl".
I work as the lead programmer for a (somewhat) large e-Business application, and I can honestly say that gzip compression is definitely worth it.
In our case, the application is Java-based. It was a piece of cake to add dynamic gzip compression to the 'main' servlet which every other servlet in the application extends. For us, it was important to see how quickly a page can be sent to our customers. Even a small gain would improve things a lot.
The results? Well - after some testing, we figured out that for any pages greater than 8k in size, it's worth the extra time to compress with gzip. We've saved a bundle in bandwidth costs, and more importantly, customers are happier that they can download their (large - a couple hundred k) reports in a decent timeframe, for example.
I've had no trouble with it either. The only case where it had issues was when the content wasn't textual, such as dynamically-generated PDF documents. The browers didn't know what to do with this, so some care had to be taken to only use gzip on the html and text content. Naturally we check the accept-encoding in the http request headers to make sure it's ok.
Many companies who are our customers don't have T1s, after all. Quite a few have ISDN. The thing is, you can't get them to listen and spend more money on a pipe just so they can use the advanced (bandwidth-intensive) features of your site. Instead, you have to do what you can to accomodate them as much as possible.
The gzip compression actually made the site bearable even on a 28.8. Thus, customers who have faster lines benefit even more, since our own pipe is less clogged as a result too.
We can always throw an extra machine or two into our application server pool (relatively cheap for a simple 1U server). Adding extra bandwidth, though, is expensive and management has already forbidden it for the time being.
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It's there now. Make sure you reload the page.
I'm already running it in our staging environment, to test it before loading the whole kit-and-caboodle to our production servers.
Ah I remember the days. Playing X-Wing on my old (386? 486?)...
That game had very stupid copy protection. The game would start, and would ask you a question by giving you a symbol that you had to find in the manual and type in its name.
Of course, one young teenager with a hex-editor (remember Norton DiskEdit?) was easily able to find all of the 'names' in one of the game's data files, and it was rather trivial to replace all of them with a single space. At the time it was all I knew how to do, because it was before my programming days.
It was quicker to do this than to try to find a crack on the BBSs out there. And yes, I have my own purchased copy of that game - I just hated having to keep flipping through the manual.
I develop some software that I've released free (as in beer and speech) under the GPL. I have a simpler way to deal with this problem.
Anyone who downloads my software and isn't happy with it is entitled to a full refund for purchase price.
Since the price happens to be $0, I'm not concerned. Then again, I wasn't concerned in the first place because I doubt that any such laws that would be passed in the U.S. would pass in Canada too.
A little pet peave of mine.
You mean peeve?
(spelling mistakes are a pet peeve of mine)
To take an analogy that's similar to yours:
In Canada, we have fair use laws. The law allows me to purchase a CD (or tape, or whatever). I can give or lend the original CD/tape to a friend legally. My friend can also legally make a copy of that CD or tape for his/her own use, and then return that (original) CD back to me.
I am allowed to make copies of that CD or tape for my own personal use.
I am not allowed to give/sell/lend those copies to anyone else.
It's not a bad compromise, I think.
Admittedly I know very little about 4GL, but I was wondering if anyone could comment on the possibility of generating a parser/compiler for the language in Java, perhaps using a tool such as JavaCC? There seems to be quite a set of grammars already available (not 4GL, but many other languages/file formats) for use as a starting point.
Clearly a software problem - the programmers didn't take the 2GB file size limit of most OSs/filesystems into account. Obviously they also never tested how 'pause' behaves over a long period of time.
I've seen this same issue with video capturing software, or other software which might record large amounts of data. The solution would be that they would have to split the pause buffer into smaller files, each under 2GB. If their software is designed intelligently enough it shouldn't be a big deal to fix this.
Unfortunately a lot of the time those numbers are fairly artificial.
Most online sites I know make up for low prices by nailing you with high shipping and handling charges (per item) when you check out.
A better price comparison would take this into account too.
In order to compete with MS-Office in the Enterprise arena, sorry guys, they're going to have to offer an acceptable alternative to Outlook which can work with existing Exchange servers.
A company like mine, for example, which has approx 500 employees, would probably jump at the chance to get something equivalent at a cheaper price, but only if it can replace the whole thing.
Sorry - money where my mouth is. I read a different article on this subject with more detail at New Scientist today which mentioned that. No permanent damage. There.
The firmware doesn't go foobar. The iMac isn't destroyed. Most CD drives have a mechanical (manual) eject that can be hit with a pen or paper clip. In that case you can just pull the CD out and you're fine.
In other cases, perhaps you might need to get creative to get that CD out. Perhaps you need to pull the drive apart - who knows. The point is, the article made it clear that there is no permanent damage to the machine. Get the CD out, and everything goes back to normal.
Here in Canada, the legally required minimum is two weeks, plus 5 sick days (plus public holidays). That's what most companies offer around Toronto.
Quite pathetic, when most countries around the world offer 2 or 3 times that.
It took them a whole day?
Geez. A quick Google search on 'warez' yields not merely a million, but 4,290,000 sites!
Search took 0.04 seconds. How much are they paying these guys?
59 comments and nobody states the obvious. You have a wife and you want exercise.
/. population jealous and horny just for mentioning it.
What about sex? It can be done indoors or out in a variety of locations and positions, in private or in public (depends on how bold you are I suppose), and is very good for your health. You'd get your daily heart-rate boost, in addition to improving your married life (your relationship with your wife).
And you'll make virtually the entire
"We've found an electronic way of handling those complex keys, and of regenerating them dynamically so that lists of keys don't have to be stored anywhere"
Big fscking deal. They generate a random number, use that as a seed, and store the seed in a database.
Whooptie-doo. I can write that in less than ten lines of Java code.
hire a college intern, tell them they will be working with multimedia on a daily basis and have them burn CDs all day. it might be cheaper than a robot and the intern is more mobile
/. to automate his job!
My bet is that that's exactly what the company did. Now the intern wants to be lazy and is asking
Simple solution to your problem. Put your swap partition on a RAM disk!
:)
Performance problem solved
I've been waiting for this for a while
:)
According to the site, the phones will be running J2ME (Micro Edition), and personal applications can be downloaded.
The best part is that they've reserved 150kb memory on the phones for these personal applications. Should definitely be fun to try.
I only wonder how decent the garbage collector is
And, as a lesson...Always make backups before doing upgrades, installs, un-installs, etc.
Based on his original post, I'd say that's the real irony behind the whole thing. He was trying to ghost the drive!
So how does that translate into "Linux is vulnerable and Windows is not?
Because free() on Windows is "less efficient" in that it does some checking to make sure it wasn't called twice with the same parameter. This is why some say 'double-frees' won't be a vulnerability on Windows.
'Course that makes it waaaay slower.
OK you talked me into it. I'm compiling mod_gzip right now.
I never said I'm running mod_gzip. I did say I'm using gzip to compress our output on the site. But it's using Java's build-in gzip packages (java.util.zip.GZIPOutputStream I think).
You shouldn't have any problems though - I'm using mod_gzip on another one of my servers and it hasn't given me any issues.
Personally though, I think the whole HTTP compression thing is overblown - causes more problems than it solves sometimes, and if you're compressing to please modem users, I'd prefer to simply put a banner on my site saying "Burn your modem, you fewl".
I work as the lead programmer for a (somewhat) large e-Business application, and I can honestly say that gzip compression is definitely worth it.
In our case, the application is Java-based. It was a piece of cake to add dynamic gzip compression to the 'main' servlet which every other servlet in the application extends. For us, it was important to see how quickly a page can be sent to our customers. Even a small gain would improve things a lot.
The results? Well - after some testing, we figured out that for any pages greater than 8k in size, it's worth the extra time to compress with gzip. We've saved a bundle in bandwidth costs, and more importantly, customers are happier that they can download their (large - a couple hundred k) reports in a decent timeframe, for example.
I've had no trouble with it either. The only case where it had issues was when the content wasn't textual, such as dynamically-generated PDF documents. The browers didn't know what to do with this, so some care had to be taken to only use gzip on the html and text content. Naturally we check the accept-encoding in the http request headers to make sure it's ok.
Many companies who are our customers don't have T1s, after all. Quite a few have ISDN. The thing is, you can't get them to listen and spend more money on a pipe just so they can use the advanced (bandwidth-intensive) features of your site. Instead, you have to do what you can to accomodate them as much as possible.
The gzip compression actually made the site bearable even on a 28.8. Thus, customers who have faster lines benefit even more, since our own pipe is less clogged as a result too.
We can always throw an extra machine or two into our application server pool (relatively cheap for a simple 1U server). Adding extra bandwidth, though, is expensive and management has already forbidden it for the time being.
But...
Can it compile the Linux kernel in 23 seconds?
He spelt Eschelon wrong.
Does anyone else find it amusing that we're obsessing over the name and spelling of a system that we don't even know (for a fact, with proof) exists?
If it does exist, how do we know its name?
If it doesn't exist... well... who cares what it's called?
We send you a CD ROM with your side of the program to load on your computer (a 5 minute process).
Is this the new FedEx super-express delivery I've been hearing about? How much does it cost?