Yes. That's the point he is making. See, the original whiner up there figures that his $40/mo entitles him to be a "full Node" on the net. Yeah, right.
Actually RAM would be one of the easiest to do, as in requiring the least complex hardware. Mainly you need an OS that will let you swap entire banks to disk on demand and stop using them. Then make your mobo just stop powering the DIMM slot. No need for special hardware tricks to make it seem like the RAM is still there, even though it's not.
WTF do you mean "End of story."? You're making a generalization based upon looking at stats from one! web server, whereas everybody else here is giving themselves mental hernias trying to come up with convoluted reasons why a sampling of 125,000+ servers is flawed. Sweet jebus!
Perhaps the fact that someone knows someone enables them to accomplish what is needed. I used to think that a meritocracy would be my idea of utopia. But then I thought again. Often a person gets a job because of who they know. And then the person they know mentors them into a place where they are very very good at their job. It's just a thought.
It's because there's two kinds of secure people. The stupid fucks who are just secure in themselves regardless of their actual capabilities, and those who are very capable and thus are secure in themselves. The first kind annoys people, the second kind are respected, admired and emulated. You might be the first kind.
You really just aren't very smart, are you? I've been reading this thread and I keep seeing you say "Autism is just a way of being different." Have you actually met an autistic child? They aren't just different. You can't just give them their rein and they'll go out and develop into an adult. Most autistic children would die if they were left to themselves. They won't wander over to the fridge if they get hungry. There aren't many behavioral drugs that will do anything for an autistic child. Pull your head out of your ass and look at what the people who have autistic family members are relating here. Go do some reading. Find out what it means for a person to be autistic. Then come back and post.
One would think that a knowledge of social interactions would lead to a developer who can write software that people want. How much do you want to bet that Dick Stallman never would have written an Instant Messanger tool. But if you count the number of people who use IM, they probably out number 100:1 (or more) the total of all the people who use Emacs & gcc.
Boxing has nothing to do with anger any more than rape does. You may not admire Tyson, but being a skilled boxer requires a certain innate intelligence, dedication, self control, physical strength, coordination, and numerous other traits. Tyson has serious personality problems, but don't attribute his boxing ability to anger. His best years as a boxer were when his anger was being moderated by Cus. When Cus died so did Tyson's carreer.
I would much rather be socially included in society, than be a genius outsider.
Doesn't matter what you want. The parent poster wants you to be a genius for him. So too fucking bad if you are unhappy, isolated, etc. Just get to thinking and leave the breeding with supermodels to the rest of us.
Actually buffer overflows like this are exactly how people "take over your computer, steal sensitive files, destroy your machine, anything". The ability for a remote fucktard to get remote access to your machine is always a bad thing, whether it's a remote root exploit or not.
It's not a matter of putting replacement libraries on the system. It's a matter of being able to put libraries on the system. They don't have to replace shit. That's what LD_PRELOAD does for you. If, for example, you have a company where developers have access to a server but not access to root on that server... well they do actually have root, if they want it.
You apparently didn't read the article. The problem is that the webservers are sending files called "niceboobies.jpg" with a content type of application/executable (or whatever it is) and people are seeing a file labeled as a.jpg and opening it. IE then says, well it's a application/executable and runs the thing.
However the idiot who wrote the lead to this set of comments is truly stupid. Why is it that stupiddot "editors" write such blatantly false crap? IE will NOT automatically run this crap.
RAID is only useful for hardware failures. And a real (for some definitions of real) RAID arrays have hot swappable drives, hot standby drives, etc. You can yank the drive and restore it without your server ever failing. If you can't replace a drive in 2 minutes + online rebuild time (a performance loss depending on the hardware involved) then you need some help on system design.
I think you've got it completely wrong. The ripping will be at 1x speed. It doesn't take a particularily fast CPU to encode mp3s at faster than realtime. My duron 800, using lame 3.7something encodes in the area of 8-10x faster than realtime playback of a particular track (at 192 kbps, hq, js.)
Yes it is possible to patent something that others have been using for years. If those "others" are keeping it secret (which prevents them from patenting it) then it's your development and you can patent it. And it doesn't matter if they can show they developed it 100 years ago, if it's not obvious (by some obscure standard which I'm not privy to) then it's patentable. You don't have to establish that it's yours nor do you have to prove that nobody else developed the same thing at the same time. First one to file the application gets it.
Hey there my brave fellow, why don't you set up a website with this same information on it. Call Steve Jobs up and his office, give him the URL and ask him to send his attorneys over. It's easy to be "brave" when it's not your money or your time or your life that has to take the hit.
Anyone talking about goods, property, etc. is off base. Talk about work. Talk about craftsmanship. Talk about skills. Talk about education. Talk about specialization. None of that stuff is free and it's all required to create software.
So what you are saying is that you are willing to spend 1000+ hours of your own personal time to create software that serves a specific purpose? I program for fun too. I even give some of it away. But I also have a mortgage, car payments, medical bills, children to raise, feed, and clothe. I'm good at what I do (programming), better than most people in fact. The skills and knowledge necessary to do what I do are specialized and not held by the general populace. My work facilitates the work of other people. It's not just a matter of can I get someone to pay me for my work, it's a matter than some people (RMS and his drones) think that I shouldn't be able to set the terms and conditions of how I work. Dick thinks that I should just do the work and if I want to get paid, I can make sure that my software is so unusable or so generic, that people have to pay me to teach them to use it or pay me to customize it for them. But I'm not a teacher, I don't want to be a teacher, and why should I intentionally write obfuscated software? Why shouldn't I write software that works, serves a purpose, meets the needs of many people and then let the people who want to use it pay me for it?
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Yes. That's the point he is making. See, the original whiner up there figures that his $40/mo entitles him to be a "full Node" on the net. Yeah, right.
Actually RAM would be one of the easiest to do, as in requiring the least complex hardware. Mainly you need an OS that will let you swap entire banks to disk on demand and stop using them. Then make your mobo just stop powering the DIMM slot. No need for special hardware tricks to make it seem like the RAM is still there, even though it's not.
WTF do you mean "End of story."? You're making a generalization based upon looking at stats from one! web server, whereas everybody else here is giving themselves mental hernias trying to come up with convoluted reasons why a sampling of 125,000+ servers is flawed. Sweet jebus!
'talk' is seriously different than any of the IM programs out there currently. Compare the feature sets, that's the point.
Perhaps the fact that someone knows someone enables them to accomplish what is needed. I used to think that a meritocracy would be my idea of utopia. But then I thought again. Often a person gets a job because of who they know. And then the person they know mentors them into a place where they are very very good at their job. It's just a thought.
It's because there's two kinds of secure people. The stupid fucks who are just secure in themselves regardless of their actual capabilities, and those who are very capable and thus are secure in themselves. The first kind annoys people, the second kind are respected, admired and emulated. You might be the first kind.
You really just aren't very smart, are you? I've been reading this thread and I keep seeing you say "Autism is just a way of being different." Have you actually met an autistic child? They aren't just different. You can't just give them their rein and they'll go out and develop into an adult. Most autistic children would die if they were left to themselves. They won't wander over to the fridge if they get hungry. There aren't many behavioral drugs that will do anything for an autistic child. Pull your head out of your ass and look at what the people who have autistic family members are relating here. Go do some reading. Find out what it means for a person to be autistic. Then come back and post.
One would think that a knowledge of social interactions would lead to a developer who can write software that people want. How much do you want to bet that Dick Stallman never would have written an Instant Messanger tool. But if you count the number of people who use IM, they probably out number 100:1 (or more) the total of all the people who use Emacs & gcc.
Boxing has nothing to do with anger any more than rape does. You may not admire Tyson, but being a skilled boxer requires a certain innate intelligence, dedication, self control, physical strength, coordination, and numerous other traits. Tyson has serious personality problems, but don't attribute his boxing ability to anger. His best years as a boxer were when his anger was being moderated by Cus. When Cus died so did Tyson's carreer.
Doesn't matter what you want. The parent poster wants you to be a genius for him. So too fucking bad if you are unhappy, isolated, etc. Just get to thinking and leave the breeding with supermodels to the rest of us.
Actually buffer overflows like this are exactly how people "take over your computer, steal sensitive files, destroy your machine, anything". The ability for a remote fucktard to get remote access to your machine is always a bad thing, whether it's a remote root exploit or not.
It's not a matter of putting replacement libraries on the system. It's a matter of being able to put libraries on the system. They don't have to replace shit. That's what LD_PRELOAD does for you. If, for example, you have a company where developers have access to a server but not access to root on that server... well they do actually have root, if they want it.
Actually you can still use buffer overflows when the stack is noexec. So there.
You apparently didn't read the article. The problem is that the webservers are sending files called "niceboobies.jpg" with a content type of application/executable (or whatever it is) and people are seeing a file labeled as a .jpg and opening it. IE then says, well it's a application/executable and runs the thing.
However the idiot who wrote the lead to this set of comments is truly stupid. Why is it that stupiddot "editors" write such blatantly false crap? IE will NOT automatically run this crap.
RAID is only useful for hardware failures. And a real (for some definitions of real) RAID arrays have hot swappable drives, hot standby drives, etc. You can yank the drive and restore it without your server ever failing. If you can't replace a drive in 2 minutes + online rebuild time (a performance loss depending on the hardware involved) then you need some help on system design.
I think you've got it completely wrong. The ripping will be at 1x speed. It doesn't take a particularily fast CPU to encode mp3s at faster than realtime. My duron 800, using lame 3.7something encodes in the area of 8-10x faster than realtime playback of a particular track (at 192 kbps, hq, js.)
Yes it is possible to patent something that others have been using for years. If those "others" are keeping it secret (which prevents them from patenting it) then it's your development and you can patent it. And it doesn't matter if they can show they developed it 100 years ago, if it's not obvious (by some obscure standard which I'm not privy to) then it's patentable. You don't have to establish that it's yours nor do you have to prove that nobody else developed the same thing at the same time. First one to file the application gets it.
Righto. Will do. Or were you talking to the parent of my posting? Either way I'm on task for the pointless one liners. K. THX. BYE.
Err, so what if I'm "almost" in 2 locations at once? And who cares if some observer thinks I've gone faster than the speed of light. So there.
Actually VNC is available to anyone with a JVM, not a webbrowser. The browser is just an easy way to get the java client onto the client hardware.
Hey there my brave fellow, why don't you set up a website with this same information on it. Call Steve Jobs up and his office, give him the URL and ask him to send his attorneys over. It's easy to be "brave" when it's not your money or your time or your life that has to take the hit.
No, that's trademarks and only trademarks. Other forms of IP don't have the same dilution concerns legally.
Actually that's bullshit. The only downward moderation I've gotten was critizing RMS, linux, or stupid-dot.
Anyone talking about goods, property, etc. is off base. Talk about work. Talk about craftsmanship. Talk about skills. Talk about education. Talk about specialization. None of that stuff is free and it's all required to create software.
So what you are saying is that you are willing to spend 1000+ hours of your own personal time to create software that serves a specific purpose? I program for fun too. I even give some of it away. But I also have a mortgage, car payments, medical bills, children to raise, feed, and clothe. I'm good at what I do (programming), better than most people in fact. The skills and knowledge necessary to do what I do are specialized and not held by the general populace. My work facilitates the work of other people. It's not just a matter of can I get someone to pay me for my work, it's a matter than some people (RMS and his drones) think that I shouldn't be able to set the terms and conditions of how I work. Dick thinks that I should just do the work and if I want to get paid, I can make sure that my software is so unusable or so generic, that people have to pay me to teach them to use it or pay me to customize it for them. But I'm not a teacher, I don't want to be a teacher, and why should I intentionally write obfuscated software? Why shouldn't I write software that works, serves a purpose, meets the needs of many people and then let the people who want to use it pay me for it?