I found some of the comments above gaining the complete fail badge due to the assumption that it's going to be used by some iphone-toting hardcore geek who complains that it doesn't have GPS. FFS. The main page has a KID doing the presentation for the device. I wonder who it's aimed at. It's a $99 device that last for MONTHS on a single set of batteries and has an entire instance of wikipedia on it. I sponsor a child in India and I've been wanting to get her something special for the last couple of years (missed on the OLPC). This would be perfect. I can send her this with a spare set of batteries and then send her updates and batteries every six months. Not a single negative so far (yes, she reads and writes English). And if any moron cares to reply that children in India need food more than they need gadgets; note that this is Slashdot and most people here are aware of the true value of knowledge and what it can do for a person.
I could be very wrong but wouldn't shifting the frequency increase the latency of the signal since the original wavefront will be delayed to allow for the compression to happen? Maybe it wouldn't be a great shift (and so not really matter) but I was curious. Anyone with expertise in field care to comment?
Modded insightful? Hello? Is there anyone still here? I know there's supposed to be a good point in there but it got eaten alive and spat back out with copious amounts of troll saliva.
Don't forget Mandrake. User friendly, Autodetects hardware quite well(especially X11). Works OK for servers, but Debian would be a better choice for that. You can't beat apt-get.
Quite correct, but the -data- will have to be split(e.g. if it reside in a single file). While this is not particularly difficult for some applications, it is still not as straightforward as typing in a command in the Xgrid plug-in.
For example, I have a short script which cleans up fax numbers( a few thousand) and then sorts them and removes duplicates. It also removes numbers that are listed in a blacklist. If I split up the file, how would duplicates be found if they reside in different data segments that are being processed by on a remote machine? Since my script is not made to communicate with a remote process, it has no way of knowing about remote data. Also, sorting requires that all the data to be visible to the sorting process. Yes, this can be distributed, but only through communicating with the remote processes or better yet, by using the Xgrid API. That is why certain types of programs do NOT tend themselves to distribution without rewriting the application. Mind you, I have only covered some very basic concepts. It gets much complicated when you have multiple simultaneous processes that require interprocess communication via UNIX sockets or shared memory.
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Pardon the expression, but "Not so, not so".
While the Xgrid application does indeed allow you to create custom interfaces for command line programs, there is still the issue of data. Xgrid will start processes on remote machines but as to how data is read and distributed is another matter.
i.e. If you have an application that simply generates data(eg. a calendar) then that would work well with the custom plug-in feature. However, if your program needs to be fed data(eg. sort a list read from stdin), your program would have to have a way of splitting the data and giving it to the appropriate process. To achieve this, you would really have to use the Xgrid API to write your own plug-in.
This is not a vulnerability with regards to particular TCP protocol. This vulnerability had to do with protocol handlers. That is, the interfaces that handle how the browser will react to a particular link when it is not a HTTP request. Firewalls won't work here. What is required is more sensible checking of what handlers are allowed to run and for what purpose. Personally, I don't see a good reason for having a SSH, IMHO. Others may disagree.
In any case, it's a browser/system issue, not a network issue.
I think the main point is being missed IMHO. Apart from the fact it would take quite a while to download over a slow connection, I think that this might show as to wether how willing we are to pay for Linux or Windows.
I have never bought a copy of Windows in my life and yet have purchased both Linux CDR's and boxed sets simply because I want to support the people who took the time and effort to create the products. That's part of what Open Source is all about.
Hmm. Reusing design is quite a very obvious answer to this debate. I'd like to see all the programmers out there write their own own 3D libraries!! Anyone else annoyed by zlib not being installed(Grrr!)?
Another very obvious thing is the following. For certain organisms to interact at the cellular and molecular level, wouldn't you want similarly designed or at least similarly based organisms? I mean that the majority of organisms(except for viruses IMHO(could be just my ignorance)) have symbiotic relationships with other organisms. How could your immune system protect against foreign bodies if it had no information on the offender. Not that the immune system knows immediately but if you read Michael Behe's book(Darwin's black box) there is one section in there which mentions that the immune system has to send out a live database and then replicate the section that works(if you're not following, read the book).
In short(and crudely, i can't elaborate even slightly; I'm at work), try and play baseball with a fire truck for a bat. If you don't like the analogy, buy a microscope, study biochemistry and do a comparison of microscopic mechanisms and see how even local organisms differ in size, shape, material, etc.
To all you/. trolls, I'm a newbie, so hit me with your best shot!
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When the statement "computer model shows conclusively" is used in a particle physics article, what kind of fail is that?
Uh, anyone with mod points to mod parent up? Or my sibling?
I found some of the comments above gaining the complete fail badge due to the assumption that it's going to be used by some iphone-toting hardcore geek who complains that it doesn't have GPS. FFS. The main page has a KID doing the presentation for the device. I wonder who it's aimed at. It's a $99 device that last for MONTHS on a single set of batteries and has an entire instance of wikipedia on it.
I sponsor a child in India and I've been wanting to get her something special for the last couple of years (missed on the OLPC). This would be perfect. I can send her this with a spare set of batteries and then send her updates and batteries every six months. Not a single negative so far (yes, she reads and writes English).
And if any moron cares to reply that children in India need food more than they need gadgets; note that this is Slashdot and most people here are aware of the true value of knowledge and what it can do for a person.
I could be very wrong but wouldn't shifting the frequency increase the latency of the signal since the original wavefront will be delayed to allow for the compression to happen? Maybe it wouldn't be a great shift (and so not really matter) but I was curious. Anyone with expertise in field care to comment?
Modded insightful? Hello? Is there anyone still here? I know there's supposed to be a good point in there but it got eaten alive and spat back out with copious amounts of troll saliva.
Don't forget Mandrake. User friendly, Autodetects hardware quite well(especially X11). Works OK for servers, but Debian would be a better choice for that. You can't beat apt-get.
Quite correct, but the -data- will have to be split(e.g. if it reside in a single file). While this is not particularly difficult for some applications, it is still not as straightforward as typing in a command in the Xgrid plug-in.
For example, I have a short script which cleans up fax numbers( a few thousand) and then sorts them and removes duplicates. It also removes numbers that are listed in a blacklist. If I split up the file, how would duplicates be found if they reside in different data segments that are being processed by on a remote machine? Since my script is not made to communicate with a remote process, it has no way of knowing about remote data. Also, sorting requires that all the data to be visible to the sorting process. Yes, this can be distributed, but only through communicating with the remote processes or better yet, by using the Xgrid API. That is why certain types of programs do NOT tend themselves to distribution without rewriting the application. Mind you, I have only covered some very basic concepts. It gets much complicated when you have multiple simultaneous processes that require interprocess communication via UNIX sockets or shared memory.
Pardon the expression, but "Not so, not so".
While the Xgrid application does indeed allow you to create custom interfaces for command line programs, there is still the issue of data. Xgrid will start processes on remote machines but as to how data is read and distributed is another matter.
i.e. If you have an application that simply generates data(eg. a calendar) then that would work well with the custom plug-in feature. However, if your program needs to be fed data(eg. sort a list read from stdin), your program would have to have a way of splitting the data and giving it to the appropriate process. To achieve this, you would really have to use the Xgrid API to write your own plug-in.
.., slightly offtopic but here goes.
SCO vs APPLE Stock
Have a chuckle and then get back to the real world(work).
Female, left handed, tie-wearing geek on Slashdot?
I got off at the wrong bus stop.
Sorry about the offtopic comment.
This is not a vulnerability with regards to particular TCP protocol. This vulnerability had to do with protocol handlers. That is, the interfaces that handle how the browser will react to a particular link when it is not a HTTP request. Firewalls won't work here. What is required is more sensible checking of what handlers are allowed to run and for what purpose. Personally, I don't see a good reason for having a SSH, IMHO. Others may disagree.
In any case, it's a browser/system issue, not a network issue.
genpen me baby!
Because recent security problems(like getting a root shell just by opening two programs in sequence) really don't cut the mustard.
I use MandrakePPC 8.0 for all our servers(we run a small ISP) and I use MacOS 9 for all my get-on-with-work stuff like Word, Excel,etc.
BTW, running single user mode should NOT give me root access without a password!
There is a Debian PPC port. Check out:
:)
http://www.debian.org/ports/
BTW, I'm a Mandrake user.
I think the main point is being missed IMHO. Apart from the fact it would take quite a while to download over a slow connection, I think that this might show as to wether how willing we are to pay for Linux or Windows.
I have never bought a copy of Windows in my life and yet have purchased both Linux CDR's and boxed sets simply because I want to support the people who took the time and effort to create the products. That's part of what Open Source is all about.
Hmm.
/. trolls, I'm a newbie, so hit me with your best shot!
Reusing design is quite a very obvious answer to this debate. I'd like to see all the programmers out there write their own own 3D libraries!! Anyone else annoyed by zlib not being installed(Grrr!)?
Another very obvious thing is the following. For certain organisms to interact at the cellular and molecular level, wouldn't you want similarly designed or at least similarly based organisms? I mean that the majority of organisms(except for viruses IMHO(could be just my ignorance)) have symbiotic relationships with other organisms.
How could your immune system protect against foreign bodies if it had no information on the offender. Not that the immune system knows immediately but if you read Michael Behe's book(Darwin's black box) there is one section in there which mentions that the immune system has to send out a live database and then replicate the section that works(if you're not following, read the book).
In short(and crudely, i can't elaborate even slightly; I'm at work), try and play baseball with a fire truck for a bat. If you don't like the analogy, buy a microscope, study biochemistry and do a comparison of microscopic mechanisms and see how even local organisms differ in size, shape, material, etc.
To all you
"The knowledge of the world is equal to the reciprocal of it's population" - Genericpenguin