My kid was told that he couldn't join, because he said that he didn't believe in their "supreme being". Not raising your child to believe in the supreme being of the Flying Spaghetthi Monster, this is entirely your fault! Fortunately it is not too late yet, believers of all ages can receive the blessing of His Noodly Appendage. Repent, lost child! And then join the scouts and spread the pastafarian word among them.
The reason to keep those addresses secret is because if the spammers found them, they would not be useful anymore.
If you have a static IP address, the problem is you. Someone with access to your out-bound email is sending spam.
I understand you've never administrated services for a user base which you don't completely control? How is a conscientious administrator who wants to fix the problem supposed to identify the spamdrone-infected PC if Spamcop won't even give up a queue ID to search for in the logs? With a network where several thousand clients, such as student laptops and PCs in dorms, are not under centralised administration (and thus get infected by spyware because their users run with default administrator privileges enabled), this is a real problem.
Once the email's been sent by the client it gets processed by your outgoing mail gateways, and suddenly Spamcop blacklists your outgoing mail relays. And servers all over the place start rejecting your users' email, and the users start complaining to you. And unless the spamdrone sent enough email to really make an impact on your traffic, and it actually sent its email straight to your mail gateways and not a subordinate mail server which normally has a lot of traffic, and relays through your mail gateways.
I'd personally love to see the Apache Project coordinate and release a mail server.
Obviously this guy has not heard of Postfix, a truely awesome mailserver
Postfix is not an Apache project, Wietse Venema still runs the show himself. "James" (http://james.apache.org/) is the Apache project's attempt at an email server.
Who cares about the electromagnetic emission for tracking? As soon as an artillery projectile comes above the horizon, it can be tracked with microwave anti-artillery radar, and its origin determined by analyzing the ballistic trajectory. The technology is already here.
In a technical article about the features they don't support in the 64-bit edition of Windows XP, the 16-bit subsystem is listed. I won't miss it. Mostly because I usually use Linux. =)
The equivalent procedure for Windows would be something like replacing the current kernel in Windows XP with the kernel from the current development tree of Longhorn. I think the instructions for doing that would be a lot hairier, if possible at all.:-)
But: Half the fun of Linux is hand-tweaking your own kernel setup and compiling your own. Why not just do that? =)
Also, remember that you need to upgrade other pieces as well when going from 2.4 to 2.6 - the module utilities in particular. They are now known as "module-init-tools"
2. It shows that the U.N. cannot control its own members, IE the United States.
The U.N. isn't supposed to "control" it's own members - it's supposed to be an organization where efforts are joined together, not forced from the individual member. If someone doesn't want to play ball, the other member nations will try to convince the outsider to join back in, but not with brute force.
It is not simple United States arrogance, it is a company trying to obey the spirit of the United States sanctions and Embargos
Quite a few of those sanctions and embargos are seen as United States arrogance by the rest of the world. Remember, most of the world isn't American, and a lot of us are becoming quite fed up with your holy War on Terror.
There aren't that many eyes besides the Netscape developers what look at the source code of Mozilla, compared to, for instance, the source code of Linux, which is often used as an example in education and studied by many others as well.
Naaah... The division between the variants of Norwegian are nothing like that.
Dividing the country between languages would end up like a crazy patchwork.
And the british would get the oil fields, since english is often the primary language on the oil drilling platforms with people from multiple nations working together.:-D
The parent post speaks the truth. Most norwegians can handle the English versions of software without spending extra brainpower. I am from Norway and I've used English versions of Windows, Office and lots of other software without any problem.
In many technical situations using the non-translated version is often easier than having to deal with the sometimes flaky translation of English technical terms.
If you have a translated version of Windows 2000, take a look at the explanation for the different counters you can measure in the system performance graphing utility. There are many dubious translations that can cause confusion there, at least in the Norwegian version. Example: "Flytende emuleringer/sek" means in norwegian what "Liquid emulations/sec" means in english. The original text was probably "Floating point emulations/sec"...:-)
(By the way, who the f!ck runs big bloated Windows 2000 on a computer so old it doesn't have floating point in hardware??)
Being a Norwegian from a nynorsk-dominated part of the country, I find the parent and "parent's parent" (grandfather?) of this post quite amusing indeed.
I believe the primary reason Microsoft started translating Office into Nynorsk is the effort to translate OpenOffice into Nynorsk that has recently received quite a bit of press in Norway. It seems that there are few things Microsoft is more afraid of now than open source and Free software, and their main reason for investing (wasting?) a significant sum of money in translation is simply to have something to point at and say "Look, we can do it too!"
Now, Microsoft translating office to a small language wouldn't be slashdot news except for one thing: I think open source is gaining the initiative. Any general will tell you that grabbing the initiative and making the enemy react to your moves is a Good Thing - having to wait for the opponents's action before reacting is the way towards defeat...
As for the language debate in Norway, there are extremists on both sides. The most conservative Bokmål-folk write something that is reminiscing of Danish anno 18xx. The most conservative of the Nynorsk-folk write something that is reminiscing of the way people spoke on small farms sqeezed between fjords and mountains anno 18xx.
The parent post seems to be posted by a kid from Oslo. A lot of people there seem to be bothered by Nynorsk for some reason, even though listening to the dialect and "middle class language variations" of people from Oslo shows that their spoken language often is a happy mix of the liberal (modern) forms of both variants of Norwegian.
I can't remember seeing any Nynorsk-speakers yelling "Bokmaal-nazi", though... =D
I think the power of this CD with a load of goodies on it is that it can be downloaded by a LUG or similar activist group and duplicated (with a burner, or perhaps at a CD factory if the group has the financial resources).
Then they can distribute it to all those people who don't necessarily have the connection or the patience to wait for the big downloads to finish.
Remember, the target group here aren't the power users who have dsl or cable, but the home users who might still be happily downloading their mail with a 56k modem.
Put yourself in the position of a computer user without particular interest in how the computer works. When your computer-savvy friend hands you a CD and says "This disc contains a lot of good, free software, and no, it isn't pirated! Just pop it in and try!" - you'd be a lot more inclined to actually trying it out than if the same computer-savvy friend told you to check out an URL, and wait for long, long downloads, wouldn't you?
I certainly think the OpenCD is an excellent way of pulling people onto the bandwagon. It's already moving, we just need to give it more mass and more momentum.
Well, exactly. Microsoft's virtual machine was one of the fastest. But that was before the Java quarrel between Sun and Microsoft started. Things change.
I very much doubt Microsoft has poured resources into Java since they were forced to quit calling their VM a Java VM by the courts.
Since that time, there have been a many improvements in Java technology from both IBM, Sun and open source community. JIT compilation, for instance, which has a huge impact on performance, has been tremendously improved since Microsoft did any serious Java work.
DirectMusic - This is something that Linux really doesn't have, to my knowledge. DirectMusic allows the composition of dynamic soundtracks using a powerful MIDI engine. I know MIDI sounds like a throwback to the past, but several modern console games have taken to using it to allow in game music to reflect in game events.
Yeah, and pretty much all modern computer games have ditched MIDI in favour of higher-quality, lifelike, real music, in MP3 or other formats. The music for Hitman 2, for instance, was performed by 110 musicians from the Budapest Symphony and choir, and it'll also be published on it's own soundtrack CD. If you find a sound set for a windows software synth that plays better that 110 human musicians, mail me. I want it. =)
Also, often you can crossfade between different themes suitable for different situations, and achieve pretty much the same effect.
MIDI is for music pros with a bunch of synths and samplers working together and for space-constrained consoles. And the consoles shouldn't remain that limited for very long.
I'm no expert, but my guess would be that the "drag your stylus about" part was almost certainly just random number generation, and the crypto just, well, plain crypto...
Elliptic Curves refer to a set of mathematics... Here's a FAQ!
Such releases are quite similar to flamebait on slashdot, except that the flaming that follows is written in legalese, and, well, karma isn't what they should be afraid of losing... =)
OK, so the hackers now have a list of 60K credit cards that worked on this test. But the credit card company also has a list of credit cards tested by the hackers, right?
It shouldn't take too long for the credit card company to block all those cards. Of course, they've got 60K pissed off customers whose cards will have to be replaced, and that's not going to be that cheap!
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I understand you've never administrated services for a user base which you don't completely control? How is a conscientious administrator who wants to fix the problem supposed to identify the spamdrone-infected PC if Spamcop won't even give up a queue ID to search for in the logs? With a network where several thousand clients, such as student laptops and PCs in dorms, are not under centralised administration (and thus get infected by spyware because their users run with default administrator privileges enabled), this is a real problem.
Once the email's been sent by the client it gets processed by your outgoing mail gateways, and suddenly Spamcop blacklists your outgoing mail relays. And servers all over the place start rejecting your users' email, and the users start complaining to you. And unless the spamdrone sent enough email to really make an impact on your traffic, and it actually sent its email straight to your mail gateways and not a subordinate mail server which normally has a lot of traffic, and relays through your mail gateways.
Who cares about the electromagnetic emission for tracking? As soon as an artillery projectile comes above the horizon, it can be tracked with microwave anti-artillery radar, and its origin determined by analyzing the ballistic trajectory. The technology is already here.
Here. Faster.
In a technical article about the features they don't support in the 64-bit edition of Windows XP, the 16-bit subsystem is listed. I won't miss it. Mostly because I usually use Linux. =)
The equivalent procedure for Windows would be something like replacing the current kernel in Windows XP with the kernel from the current development tree of Longhorn. I think the instructions for doing that would be a lot hairier, if possible at all. :-)
RedHat's Arjan van de Ven has RPM's here.
But: Half the fun of Linux is hand-tweaking your own kernel setup and compiling your own. Why not just do that? =)
Also, remember that you need to upgrade other pieces as well when going from 2.4 to 2.6 - the module utilities in particular. They are now known as "module-init-tools"
Here ya go.
I wonder if the Norwegian University of Science and Technology can handle this link posted on slashdot...
Let's find out. =)
How about http://www.ntnu.no/~andersmo/WolfET.exe ?
The U.N. isn't supposed to "control" it's own members - it's supposed to be an organization where efforts are joined together, not forced from the individual member. If someone doesn't want to play ball, the other member nations will try to convince the outsider to join back in, but not with brute force.
Quite a few of those sanctions and embargos are seen as United States arrogance by the rest of the world. Remember, most of the world isn't American, and a lot of us are becoming quite fed up with your holy War on Terror.
There aren't that many eyes besides the Netscape developers what look at the source code of Mozilla, compared to, for instance, the source code of Linux, which is often used as an example in education and studied by many others as well.
MJPEG (Motion JPEG)?
Naaah... The division between the variants of Norwegian are nothing like that.
:-D
Dividing the country between languages would end up like a crazy patchwork.
And the british would get the oil fields, since english is often the primary language on the oil drilling platforms with people from multiple nations working together.
The parent post speaks the truth. Most norwegians can handle the English versions of software without spending extra brainpower. I am from Norway and I've used English versions of Windows, Office and lots of other software without any problem.
:-)
In many technical situations using the non-translated version is often easier than having to deal with the sometimes flaky translation of English technical terms.
If you have a translated version of Windows 2000, take a look at the explanation for the different counters you can measure in the system performance graphing utility. There are many dubious translations that can cause confusion there, at least in the Norwegian version. Example: "Flytende emuleringer/sek" means in norwegian what "Liquid emulations/sec" means in english. The original text was probably "Floating point emulations/sec"...
(By the way, who the f!ck runs big bloated Windows 2000 on a computer so old it doesn't have floating point in hardware??)
*snicker*
Being a Norwegian from a nynorsk-dominated part of the country, I find the parent and "parent's parent" (grandfather?) of this post quite amusing indeed.
I believe the primary reason Microsoft started translating Office into Nynorsk is the effort to translate OpenOffice into Nynorsk that has recently received quite a bit of press in Norway. It seems that there are few things Microsoft is more afraid of now than open source and Free software, and their main reason for investing (wasting?) a significant sum of money in translation is simply to have something to point at and say "Look, we can do it too!"
Now, Microsoft translating office to a small language wouldn't be slashdot news except for one thing: I think open source is gaining the initiative. Any general will tell you that grabbing the initiative and making the enemy react to your moves is a Good Thing - having to wait for the opponents's action before reacting is the way towards defeat...
As for the language debate in Norway, there are extremists on both sides. The most conservative Bokmål-folk write something that is reminiscing of Danish anno 18xx. The most conservative of the Nynorsk-folk write something that is reminiscing of the way people spoke on small farms sqeezed between fjords and mountains anno 18xx.
The parent post seems to be posted by a kid from Oslo. A lot of people there seem to be bothered by Nynorsk for some reason, even though listening to the dialect and "middle class language variations" of people from Oslo shows that their spoken language often is a happy mix of the liberal (modern) forms of both variants of Norwegian.
I can't remember seeing any Nynorsk-speakers yelling "Bokmaal-nazi", though... =D
I think the power of this CD with a load of goodies on it is that it can be downloaded by a LUG or similar activist group and duplicated (with a burner, or perhaps at a CD factory if the group has the financial resources).
Then they can distribute it to all those people who don't necessarily have the connection or the patience to wait for the big downloads to finish.
Remember, the target group here aren't the power users who have dsl or cable, but the home users who might still be happily downloading their mail with a 56k modem.
Put yourself in the position of a computer user without particular interest in how the computer works. When your computer-savvy friend hands you a CD and says "This disc contains a lot of good, free software, and no, it isn't pirated! Just pop it in and try!" - you'd be a lot more inclined to actually trying it out than if the same computer-savvy friend told you to check out an URL, and wait for long, long downloads, wouldn't you?
I certainly think the OpenCD is an excellent way of pulling people onto the bandwagon. It's already moving, we just need to give it more mass and more momentum.
Well, exactly. Microsoft's virtual machine was one of the fastest. But that was before the Java quarrel between Sun and Microsoft started. Things change.
I very much doubt Microsoft has poured resources into Java since they were forced to quit calling their VM a Java VM by the courts.
Since that time, there have been a many improvements in Java technology from both IBM, Sun and open source community. JIT compilation, for instance, which has a huge impact on performance, has been tremendously improved since Microsoft did any serious Java work.
Yeah, and pretty much all modern computer games have ditched MIDI in favour of higher-quality, lifelike, real music, in MP3 or other formats. The music for Hitman 2, for instance, was performed by 110 musicians from the Budapest Symphony and choir, and it'll also be published on it's own soundtrack CD. If you find a sound set for a windows software synth that plays better that 110 human musicians, mail me. I want it. =)
Also, often you can crossfade between different themes suitable for different situations, and achieve pretty much the same effect.
MIDI is for music pros with a bunch of synths and samplers working together and for space-constrained consoles. And the consoles shouldn't remain that limited for very long.
IMHO, DirectMusic is not that useful...
I'm no expert, but my guess would be that the "drag your stylus about" part was almost certainly just random number generation, and the crypto just, well, plain crypto...
Elliptic Curves refer to a set of mathematics... Here's a FAQ!
No... But there is a distributed project out there working very hard to crack it - but so far elliptic curve encryption holds out...
By the way, Ars Technica has a team working hard on this project, and they I'm sure they'd like some help... ;-)
Such releases are quite similar to flamebait on slashdot, except that the flaming that follows is written in legalese, and, well, karma isn't what they should be afraid of losing... =)
OK, so the hackers now have a list of 60K credit cards that worked on this test. But the credit card company also has a list of credit cards tested by the hackers, right?
It shouldn't take too long for the credit card company to block all those cards. Of course, they've got 60K pissed off customers whose cards will have to be replaced, and that's not going to be that cheap!