Apple haven't announced anything. In fact, they specifically declined to comment. Making parallels to Osborne does not make sense in the absence of an Apple announcement.
How are they getting the MAC address of my WiFi interface? I thought that an unassociated WiFi station would listen for beacons of access points (scanning). When an upper layer sees an access point that policy says the device should connect to, it will try to associate with it. Until then, what packets is my device sending out? If I were running my own access point, I would be transmitting beacons. It my device was configured to connect to any open acces point, then it would connect when it found one. In the absence of these two device policies, what would be causing my device to transmit packets?
If you have an Android, iPhone or Blackberry device, you can also use the Google Authenticator app. Granted, if you have one of these devices you probably also have a mobile service, but at least with the app you are not reliant on the mobile network delivering your SMSs in a timely manner. Then again, you could probably run it in your homebrew portable raspberry pi running android connected with bluetooth to your pebble watch. No mobile service required, only a little hacking.:-) See http://support.google.com/a/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=1037451
I havent seen a 7th release candidate for any kernel since the change to 3.0
Then you're just not looking. Every release from 3.0 had an rc7 release. That's was the last for each, except 3.1 which made it up to -rc10. In fact, every release since 2.6.20 except 2.6.35 went up to at least -rc7.
Have a look at the git tags if you don't believe me.
When I did my degree in the early '90s, it was a Bachelor of Applied Science (Computing Science). i.e. about computing, not computers. It seems that this degree from the same uni is now labelled Computer Science. That really irks me, but at least my degree says Computing Science.
Because HTTP is proprietary? Google Drive has a HTTP API for storage, updating and retrieval: https://developers.google.com/drive/v1/reference/ I think the garbage to forget is your uninformed post.
When you sit down to start your work day, send an email to your team and manager saying what you plan to get done today. At the end of the day, send another email saying what you did get done today. This helps by keeping you focused. It is harder to slack off when you've already told people what you're doing. It's ok to miss your targets occassionally, but you become conscious of doing that too often. It also keeps you connected with your colleagues and manager. It is a virtual hello/goodbye, and helps people see that you are getting work done.
A couple of researchers in Sydney think they've got a model for searching the genoma much more efficiently. They're trying to fund their research and development with crowdsourcing: http://rockethub.com/projects/4065-a-gps-for-the-genome : "The PASTE project [is] based on a new number system we call Permutahedral Indexing - P.I. for short, an N-dimensional map that efficiently locates and interrelates complex datasets in the space of all possible data. P.I. does this efficiently even when the data has hundreds of independent dimensions and comes in petabytes and exabytes." They don't seem to need much money in the scheme of things - I might just throw in $25.
I was hoping we'd see a 95W X6 available retail sometime soon. I want to build a mini-itx 6-core box, but these are typically limited to 95W parts. There is a 95W X6 manufactured, but it is not available retail (only to OEMS from what I understand).
Atheros-based access points do work with OpenWRT. It works better than Broadcom-based devices. I replaced a Broadcom-based device with an Atheros-based one so it would work better, and run with the Linux 2.6 kernel. Only very recently has OpenWRT been able to run a 2.6 kernel with Broadcom-based wifi because the open drivers are getting up to scratch, and even then some things still dont work as well as Atheros wifi. The Atheros wifi on OpenWRT uses the madwifi driver, so this opening up of the HAL will still benefit OpenWRT in allowing even more sophisticated use of wifi.
I'm afraid you just failed basic math. What you describe is a three percentage point increase. Consider it this way. There were 88 linux developers, now there are 118 linux developers, which is a 34 percent increase. That applies whether you started with 8.8%, 8.8 people, 88 companies, etc
If your only problem with the old router was a fried "WAN" port, you dont need to get a new one. The only special thing about the "WAN" port is the way the device is configured. Any other port can be a WAN port (assuming you have spare ports).
Your prefixes of "hard drive manufacturer" and "real" are unnecessary. If you want to be anal about it, its quite simple - the drive is 750GB, or 698.49GiB. If your OS is reportig GiB as GB then your OS has a bug. These days I never want to know sizes in GiB. It's much easier to convert in your head between K, M and G by moving a decimal point around. If people would start using the correct unit prefixes in their software and conversations, your problem would be solved. But right now, you are continuing to perpetuate the problem by calling GiB "real GB". The way to calculate these units has already been settled. You just don't seem to want to accept it (since you clearly know about GB and GiB, but call GiB "real GB").
what the hell was wrong with cd's and flash drives mounting
in 'mnt'?!?! Doesn't that make sense? You mount things in mount!
Perfectly logical to me. But nope, now they go to media.
/mnt has always been a single temporary mount point according to the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard. The practice of creating subdirectories under/mnt has only been a defacto stardard by some distros, but not debian (on which ubuntu is based).
FHS introduced/media as the base mountpoint for removable media. Ubuntu tries to adhere to the FHS, so that is where it puts flash disks and the like.
It may be legal in the US, but this trial is in Australia where it is not legal. Australia has very stringent copyright law. It is illegal to record shows of television - although as far as I know, no-one has been prosecuted for doing it.
The word fork is being a bit overused lately because some high profile projects have forked recently. This is not a fork of gaim - since it is planned to merge the changes back into gaim, it is just a branch. Branches are quite common when you want to add substantial features to a program, because it isolates those new features from the mainline until it is ready, and development of minor features can continue on the mainline. You can call it a fork if you want, but I think that is just sensationalising what is just a development branch.
Similar to what I have, except I use pp instead of pd (because its faster to type) and pp without args takes you to your home directory (like cd without args).
To go along with it, I use
alias r "pushd +1"
alias rr "cd "$OLDPWD"
If you're working within a number of directories, use pp to get to them and then use r to rotate between the directories.
rr is convenient to quickly cd somewhere else to do something and then get back again.
When I look for a project, I just type "fm project_name" into mozilla, where I have "fm" set up as a shortcut to search freshmeat. 99% of the time, it comes back with the project (it's probably 100% really, but you can't be too sure).
How long do you think till the mac-heads credit apple with bring down the price of FC by including it in the X-raid? Just like they credited apple with bring down the price on SCSI, USB, etc.
Have SCSI prices come down? Hot damn. I'm off to get some of that SCSI gear. I've been waiting for this for years.
I thought the anti-trust legislation was enacted to ensure a balanced marketplace. Monoplies are detrimental to the marketplace so any use of monopoly power that distorts the market needs by be restrained. Hence the anti-trust legislation.
Where does free software and open source fit in the marketplace? And why should the judge show any concern over the effect that Microsoft may have on free and open source software? It seems to be outside its jurisdiction.
Not a troll - honest questions.
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Apple haven't announced anything. In fact, they specifically declined to comment. Making parallels to Osborne does not make sense in the absence of an Apple announcement.
How are they getting the MAC address of my WiFi interface? I thought that an unassociated WiFi station would listen for beacons of access points (scanning). When an upper layer sees an access point that policy says the device should connect to, it will try to associate with it. Until then, what packets is my device sending out?
If I were running my own access point, I would be transmitting beacons. It my device was configured to connect to any open acces point, then it would connect when it found one.
In the absence of these two device policies, what would be causing my device to transmit packets?
In Australia, I ordered two model B boards from element14 on Sunday and they turned up today (Tuesday), just under 50 hours after I ordered.
If you have an Android, iPhone or Blackberry device, you can also use the Google Authenticator app. Granted, if you have one of these devices you probably also have a mobile service, but at least with the app you are not reliant on the mobile network delivering your SMSs in a timely manner. Then again, you could probably run it in your homebrew portable raspberry pi running android connected with bluetooth to your pebble watch. No mobile service required, only a little hacking. :-)
See http://support.google.com/a/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=1037451
I havent seen a 7th release candidate for any kernel since the change to 3.0
Then you're just not looking. Every release from 3.0 had an rc7 release. That's was the last for each, except 3.1 which made it up to -rc10. In fact, every release since 2.6.20 except 2.6.35 went up to at least -rc7. Have a look at the git tags if you don't believe me.
When I did my degree in the early '90s, it was a Bachelor of Applied Science (Computing Science). i.e. about computing, not computers. It seems that this degree from the same uni is now labelled Computer Science. That really irks me, but at least my degree says Computing Science.
Because HTTP is proprietary? Google Drive has a HTTP API for storage, updating and retrieval: https://developers.google.com/drive/v1/reference/
I think the garbage to forget is your uninformed post.
When you sit down to start your work day, send an email to your team and manager saying what you plan to get done today.
At the end of the day, send another email saying what you did get done today.
This helps by keeping you focused. It is harder to slack off when you've already told people what you're doing. It's ok to miss your targets occassionally, but you become conscious of doing that too often.
It also keeps you connected with your colleagues and manager. It is a virtual hello/goodbye, and helps people see that you are getting work done.
A couple of researchers in Sydney think they've got a model for searching the genoma much more efficiently. They're trying to fund their research and development with crowdsourcing: http://rockethub.com/projects/4065-a-gps-for-the-genome : "The PASTE project [is] based on a new number system we call Permutahedral Indexing - P.I. for short, an N-dimensional map that efficiently locates and interrelates complex datasets in the space of all possible data. P.I. does this efficiently even when the data has hundreds of independent dimensions and comes in petabytes and exabytes."
They don't seem to need much money in the scheme of things - I might just throw in $25.
I was hoping we'd see a 95W X6 available retail sometime soon. I want to build a mini-itx 6-core box, but these are typically limited to 95W parts. There is a 95W X6 manufactured, but it is not available retail (only to OEMS from what I understand).
Perhaps your friend could have a read of this: http://norvig.com/21-days.html . It's not what he/she wants, but that's life.
So, Google are leveraging their monopoly in search/advertising to break into the mobile platform market? Is this Google being evil?
Atheros-based access points do work with OpenWRT. It works better than Broadcom-based devices. I replaced a Broadcom-based device with an Atheros-based one so it would work better, and run with the Linux 2.6 kernel. Only very recently has OpenWRT been able to run a 2.6 kernel with Broadcom-based wifi because the open drivers are getting up to scratch, and even then some things still dont work as well as Atheros wifi.
The Atheros wifi on OpenWRT uses the madwifi driver, so this opening up of the HAL will still benefit OpenWRT in allowing even more sophisticated use of wifi.
I'm afraid you just failed basic math. What you describe is a three percentage point increase. Consider it this way. There were 88 linux developers, now there are 118 linux developers, which is a 34 percent increase. That applies whether you started with 8.8%, 8.8 people, 88 companies, etc
If your only problem with the old router was a fried "WAN" port, you dont need to get a new one. The only special thing about the "WAN" port is the way the device is configured. Any other port can be a WAN port (assuming you have spare ports).
Your prefixes of "hard drive manufacturer" and "real" are unnecessary. If you want to be anal about it, its quite simple - the drive is 750GB, or 698.49GiB. If your OS is reportig GiB as GB then your OS has a bug.
These days I never want to know sizes in GiB. It's much easier to convert in your head between K, M and G by moving a decimal point around.
If people would start using the correct unit prefixes in their software and conversations, your problem would be solved. But right now, you are continuing to perpetuate the problem by calling GiB "real GB". The way to calculate these units has already been settled. You just don't seem to want to accept it (since you clearly know about GB and GiB, but call GiB "real GB").
It may be legal in the US, but this trial is in Australia where it is not legal. Australia has very stringent copyright law. It is illegal to record shows of television - although as far as I know, no-one has been prosecuted for doing it.
The word fork is being a bit overused lately because some high profile projects have forked recently.
This is not a fork of gaim - since it is planned to merge the changes back into gaim, it is just a branch. Branches are quite common when you want to add substantial features to a program, because it isolates those new features from the mainline until it is ready, and development of minor features can continue on the mainline.
You can call it a fork if you want, but I think that is just sensationalising what is just a development branch.
When I look for a project, I just type "fm project_name" into mozilla, where I have "fm" set up as a shortcut to search freshmeat. 99% of the time, it comes back with the project (it's probably 100% really, but you can't be too sure).
Have SCSI prices come down? Hot damn. I'm off to get some of that SCSI gear. I've been waiting for this for years.
Thanks Apple.
> If you depend on support calls to make your living, the last thing you want to do is install Linux!
Wrong approach. Put them on a maintenance contract instead, and collect the easy money.
I thought the anti-trust legislation was enacted to ensure a balanced marketplace. Monoplies are detrimental to the marketplace so any use of monopoly power that distorts the market needs by be restrained. Hence the anti-trust legislation.
Where does free software and open source fit in the marketplace? And why should the judge show any concern over the effect that Microsoft may have on free and open source software? It seems to be outside its jurisdiction.
Not a troll - honest questions.
XOR is the strongest encryption available - completely uncrackable. You just have to use it right. Its called a One Time Pad (OTP). Go look it up.