But... Does the mouse pointer and keyboard qualify as a 'priviledged app' ? If no, then the privileged apps would not be able to get interactions via mouse and keyboard. If yes, then we still have all sorts of problems.
Maybe the real issue is that 'privileged apps' should not have a gui! Take a look at how Mac-OS X handles the same concepts. The gui can not run as root, it can only execute another specific program as root if the appropriate authentication is passed.
A char is NOT DEFINED TO BE A BYTE (8 bits) in the any standard.
Almost always it is, though.
Take a look at the Texas Instruments TMS320C3x family of DSP's. It can do no byte level access. In the c compiler for it, sizeof char is 1 and defines a char as 32 bits. This means sizeof long is 1 and defines 32 bits as well. and this is completely standard compliant!!
Okay, so then in the new version of windows, explorer.exe gets replaced with a.net version which still runs the same old explorer C/C++ code as a COM component? If that is true, then explorer will not really be a.NET thing. I can make a COM container gui in Borland Delphi, that doesn't make internet explorer a Delphi thing.
The way you used xargs breaks if there is any whitespace in the filenames. Yeah, you probably don't make directories with spaces in them, but your users will. If you want to use xargs, use find -print0 and xargs -0
Most people don't realize that they need to use TIN foil, not ALUMINUM foil. There IS a difference.
... this is just your friendly paranoid delusional helpful comment of the day...
--jeff++
Exact same thing happened to me. At one point I changed to use the courier smtp server for a bit, and then mailq showed 1000 messages bouncing because of a dictionary attack. I noticed immediately because it clogged my mail server so nothing was coming through.
If the FBI won't listen to you, tell your news agency that terrorist hackers are trying to steal credit card numbers from people in the area to fund terrorism and that the FBI refuses to investiage...
A different perspective: My friend's family has a lot of money and pays the high university fees for their son to go to university full time. I, however, do not have all the cash, so I must work part time to pay for my courses and take longer to complete my degree.
Questions:
Is my friend being subsidized? If he isn't playing on the same grounds, should he be allowed to? Is it fair? Should the government not allow my friend's parents to subsidize him? Wouldn't that be a socialist attitude to take?
Can the fact that corporate taxes are lower in the U.S. than in Canada be interpreted as an unfair U.S. Government Subsidy?
Not only that, but American Home Builders are the ones getting shafted as the price of their new house is directly affected and increased. Canada still shipped a LOT of wood under this tariff. U.S. customers still buy it even at the higher price. So economically, the softwood lumber tariff hurt the U.S. citizens.
If you are going to have free trade, do free trade.
Focus on backwards compatibility in the wrong manner *IS* the problem here. Even when they do try to make things backward compatible they still break lots of existing applications anyways.
There is nothing saying that the new MS OS could create a database-based filesystem with backwards-compatible API's to make it appear like an old-style NTFS partition. It would be a much cleaner solution than piling on a seperate user-visible-only-mocked-up-pretend-filesystem on top of ntfs.
What a mess! This was the perfect opportunity to replace all the muck and make a nice clean new filesystem. Instead, they just pile on more crap on top of the old cruft. Well, this is an opportunity for the linux fs gods to try do a database filesystem that is truly innovative. I'm certain it is possible!
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But... Does the mouse pointer and keyboard qualify as a 'priviledged app' ? If no, then the privileged apps would not be able to get interactions via mouse and keyboard. If yes, then we still have all sorts of problems.
Maybe the real issue is that 'privileged apps' should not have a gui! Take a look at how Mac-OS X handles the same concepts. The gui can not run as root, it can only execute another specific program as root if the appropriate authentication is passed.
--jeff++
Does the fact that the interference signal came from cuba mean that Fidel ordered it?
--jeff++
Any machine-readable-only media must be constantly 'refreshed' and maintained over the years, unlike a nice paper book.
the New Rosetta Project has the right idea...
--jeff++
Ahh, the wonders of C and C++ 'portability'!
jeff
The problem is much worst than that.
sizeof char is defined to be 1
1 what? 1 char.
A char is NOT DEFINED TO BE A BYTE (8 bits) in the any standard.
Almost always it is, though.
Take a look at the Texas Instruments TMS320C3x family of DSP's. It can do no byte level access. In the c compiler for it, sizeof char is 1 and defines a char as 32 bits. This means sizeof long is 1 and defines 32 bits as well. and this is completely standard compliant!!
And it also breaks tons of code!
--jeff++
Take a look at the Texas Instruments TMS 67xx series of DSP's.
--jeff++
Okay, so then in the new version of windows, explorer.exe gets replaced with a .net version which still runs the same old explorer C/C++ code as a COM component? If that is true, then explorer will not really be a .NET thing. I can make a COM container gui in Borland Delphi, that doesn't make internet explorer a Delphi thing.
--jeff++
The way you used xargs breaks if there is any whitespace in the filenames. Yeah, you probably don't make directories with spaces in them, but your users will. If you want to use xargs, use find -print0 and xargs -0
--jeff++
But explorer.exe in 2000/XP is just an ActiveX container. Did they rewrite all of the IE ActiveX control in .NET too?
--jeff++
No, no no.... Trigger the easter egg and a spreadsheet window pops up!!!!
--jeff++
Cloning is still legal in Canada, eh!
--jeff++
Most people don't realize that they need to use TIN foil, not ALUMINUM foil. There IS a difference.
... this is just your friendly paranoid delusional helpful comment of the day...
--jeff++
Any bets on how long it will be before these see-through scans in secure areas end up on this site?
--jeff++
Exact same thing happened to me. At one point I changed to use the courier smtp server for a bit, and then mailq showed 1000 messages bouncing because of a dictionary attack. I noticed immediately because it clogged my mail server so nothing was coming through.
--jeff++
If the FBI won't listen to you, tell your news agency that terrorist hackers are trying to steal credit card numbers from people in the area to fund terrorism and that the FBI refuses to investiage...
--jeff++
A different perspective: My friend's family has a lot of money and pays the high university fees for their son to go to university full time. I, however, do not have all the cash, so I must work part time to pay for my courses and take longer to complete my degree.
Questions:
Is my friend being subsidized?
If he isn't playing on the same grounds, should he be allowed to?
Is it fair?
Should the government not allow my friend's parents to subsidize him?
Wouldn't that be a socialist attitude to take?
Can the fact that corporate taxes are lower in the U.S. than in Canada be interpreted as an unfair U.S. Government Subsidy?
--jeff++
Not only that, but American Home Builders are the ones getting shafted as the price of their new house is directly affected and increased. Canada still shipped a LOT of wood under this tariff. U.S. customers still buy it even at the higher price. So economically, the softwood lumber tariff hurt the U.S. citizens.
If you are going to have free trade, do free trade.
--jeff++
Focus on backwards compatibility in the wrong manner *IS* the problem here. Even when they do try to make things backward compatible they still break lots of existing applications anyways.
There is nothing saying that the new MS OS could create a database-based filesystem with backwards-compatible API's to make it appear like an old-style NTFS partition. It would be a much cleaner solution than piling on a seperate user-visible-only-mocked-up-pretend-filesystem on top of ntfs.
--jeff++
What a mess! This was the perfect opportunity to replace all the muck and make a nice clean new filesystem. Instead, they just pile on more crap on top of the old cruft. Well, this is an opportunity for the linux fs gods to try do a database filesystem that is truly innovative. I'm certain it is possible!
--jeff++
Step #1: Find government website that doesn't have up to date IIS on it.
Step #2: Use security hole in old IIS to upload a modified P2P client that works silently in the background without killing the website.
Step #3: Have P2P client on the government's server start leeching copyrighted files and distributing them.
Step #4: Notify RIAA and MPAA of the IP address of this server.
Step #5: Allow RIAA and MPAA to get into trouble for destroying government property.
Step #6: ????
Step #7: Profit!
--jeff++
May I suggest that most computers and computer software nowadays are truly internally enormous, ad-hoc, kludges as well.
--jeff++
"Only a moron could fall off a segway."
--jeff++
Can you clarify what 'Barely real time' means? Do you mean 'soft real time'?
--jeff++
'Age and treachery will always overcome youth and skill'
--jeff++
"32 bits ought to be enough for anybody"
right?
BTW, a 64 bit processor means more than just the amount of ram you can stuff in it... Think virtual.
--jeff++