But as you say so yourself on that webpage, this bug does occur with.jpg and.gif as well. This is just a bug in the layout renderer, nothing to do with lack of PNG support.
Do you mean they've never tried typing something like 'netscape 7' from the command line? When I accidentally do that (7 instead of &), the DNS lookup goes crazy and netscape starts eating 99% of the cpu. Netscape is just full of those big obvious bugs. If they were subtle bugs, sure I'd report them. The 4.x series has been going down hill since 4.05, but even that version crashed several times a day.
Since a few weeks I'm with @Home in The Netherlands. I don't know how my service compares to the @Home service in the US. Here servers are officially not allowed, but according to their webpages they do not actively check, and will only react to complaints. So I don't think I'll be getting into trouble with my private ssh server.
What's weird is that all incoming connections reach my computer except for telnet. Any ideas why telnet is blocked but ftp/http is not?
If I'm not mistaken, shared ELF libraries are location independent. They do everything relative to the contents of a register. Compiling with -fpic makes sure the compiler doesn't use this register.
NT that I have to use at work is getting to me as well. A few days ago I accidentally hit ctrl-alt-del on my Linux box at home, and much to my surprise it was caught by icewm. Still not sure if this is entirely a good thing, but I guess for me it's too late to complain.
eBay may use NT as a frontend, but relies on Solaris for its backend. The backend is much more heavily stressed. When eBay goes down, it's most often the backend that is having problems.
I suppose there should be some advantage to using this 3c90x driver over the 3x59x driver that I'm currently using (I have a 3c900B). Does anyone know more about this?
Consider also Occam's Razor, where the simplest explanation is most likely the correct one. Do you think that many geeks find social activity difficult because they are relatively inexperienced in it, or because they have a mild form of a rare neurological disorder?
That it worked in 2.0.x doesn't mean it can't be broken in 2.3.y, especially since the latter is a development series. And yes, it was broken in 2.3.7 and some successive kernels. At least since 2.3.15 it has been compiling again, but I haven't really testesd it so I can't promise it's fully stable. (It probably is though, or they wouldn't have repaired it.)
ALSA is not in the main kernel at the moment, and I have no idea whether it will still be included or not. It does not seem very likely.
Philips Electronics is planning to bring out a game console as well. Recently they bought VLSI just for that. Anyway, if MS goes ahead then at least let them use Athlon chips to save AMD.
Not really an all that narrowly defined... but in any case a well defined class of phenomena...
The 'outcomes' have to be independent. Say you take 'length of human being'. If you choose the humans in a purely random way, those lengths will be independently distributed, and (sum_of_N_lengths - N * average_length) / (sqrt(N)*st.dev.) will be approximately distributed according to the standard Gaussian distribution, for N large enough.
If you take 'rareness' of an animal, and define 'rareness' in a way like Ben Tilly describes it, or in any other way I can imagine, there is no way that your outcomes are independent.
The Gaussian distribution is 'the universal distribution' in the following sense: Consider a series of events that generate some value. For example, rolling of a dice, which generates a value from 1 to 6. Assume that these events are independent, meaning that, say, the 10th outcome will in no way influence, say, the 20th outcome. Now take the first N outcomes, add them together and divide by N. The larger you take N, the better the distribution of this average follows the Gaussian distribution. (And I should add that there are some mild conditions that have to be satisfied).
Now what are they saying here? That the 'rareness' of species does not follow the Gaussian distribution? How do you quantify 'rareness'? How can this satisfy any kind of independence condition (where there's one rare animal, there are bound to be more).
What's the weirdest of all, is the statement that rare species are more common that expected. What a joke! If something is more common than expected, then by definition it is not as rare as you thought!
At first there were only the webpages with the script to let you in. Then people mentioned that all you have to do is type in the URL with a bogus password field (note the: "bounced directly into a user's mailbox"). It's all the same hole. And it's fixed now.
It shows that CNN is reading Slashdot, though:) (and not understanding all of it).
Cisco's research department consists of about 5 people, compared to 24,000 for Lucent's Bell Labs. Cisco is totally dependent on the companies they buy.
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But as you say so yourself on that webpage, this bug does occur with .jpg and .gif as well. This is just a bug in the layout renderer, nothing to do with lack of PNG support.
Do you mean they've never tried typing something like 'netscape 7' from the command line? When I accidentally do that (7 instead of &), the DNS lookup goes crazy and netscape starts eating 99% of the cpu. Netscape is just full of those big obvious bugs. If they were subtle bugs, sure I'd report them. The 4.x series has been going down hill since 4.05, but even that version crashed several times a day.
Since a few weeks I'm with @Home in The Netherlands. I don't know how my service compares to the @Home service in the US. Here servers are officially not allowed, but according to their webpages they do not actively check, and will only react to complaints. So I don't think I'll be getting into trouble with my private ssh server.
What's weird is that all incoming connections reach my computer except for telnet. Any ideas why telnet is blocked but ftp/http is not?
If I'm not mistaken, shared ELF libraries are location independent. They do everything relative to the contents of a register. Compiling with -fpic makes sure the compiler doesn't use this register.
NT that I have to use at work is getting to me as well. A few days ago I accidentally hit ctrl-alt-del on my Linux box at home, and much to my surprise it was caught by icewm. Still not sure if this is entirely a good thing, but I guess for me it's too late to complain.
eBay may use NT as a frontend, but relies on Solaris for its backend. The backend is much more heavily stressed. When eBay goes down, it's most often the backend that is having problems.
See here. Somehow, this page about Haughton was pulled.
Actually, www.circumcision.org is full with interesting information. Makes me feel glad I'm an uncut Dutchman :)
Because we all apparently bugged the hell out of someone, and that someone took it down.
Silly? Apparently not. :)
Or at least the cgi script has been removed.
Hurry! pasteboard.com is still free.
Another suggestion would be OrgasmStreet.com, haha.
I suppose there should be some advantage to using this 3c90x driver over the 3x59x driver that I'm currently using (I have a 3c900B). Does anyone know more about this?
Great remark.
You may be paranoid but that doesn't mean they're not after you :)
And some more of your suggestions and we have someone in need of a psychiatrist :)
That it worked in 2.0.x doesn't mean it can't be broken in 2.3.y, especially since the latter is a development series. And yes, it was broken in 2.3.7 and some successive kernels. At least since 2.3.15 it has been compiling again, but I haven't really testesd it so I can't promise it's fully stable. (It probably is though, or they wouldn't have repaired it.)
ALSA is not in the main kernel at the moment, and I have no idea whether it will still be included or not. It does not seem very likely.
Yep, CD-I.. I knew that could only be a failure. But times have changed and now this kind of stuff seems to be the future. Weird.
Philips Electronics is planning to bring out a game console as well. Recently they bought VLSI just for that. Anyway, if MS goes ahead then at least let them use Athlon chips to save AMD.
They still link to it from their homepage, though.
Not really an all that narrowly defined... but in any case a well defined class of phenomena...
The 'outcomes' have to be independent. Say you take 'length of human being'. If you choose the humans in a purely random way, those lengths will be independently distributed, and (sum_of_N_lengths - N * average_length) / (sqrt(N)*st.dev.) will be approximately distributed according to the standard Gaussian distribution, for N large enough.
If you take 'rareness' of an animal, and define 'rareness' in a way like Ben Tilly describes it, or in any other way I can imagine, there is no way that your outcomes are independent.
This is all bullocks.
The Gaussian distribution is 'the universal distribution' in the following sense:
Consider a series of events that generate some value. For example, rolling of a dice, which generates a value from 1 to 6. Assume that these events are independent, meaning that, say, the 10th outcome will in no way influence, say, the 20th outcome. Now take the first N outcomes, add them together and divide by N. The larger you take N, the better the distribution of this average follows the Gaussian distribution. (And I should add that there are some mild conditions that have to be satisfied).
Now what are they saying here? That the 'rareness' of species does not follow the Gaussian distribution? How do you quantify 'rareness'? How can this satisfy any kind of independence condition (where there's one rare animal, there are bound to be more).
What's the weirdest of all, is the statement that rare species are more common that expected. What a joke! If something is more common than expected, then by definition it is not as rare as you thought!
At first there were only the webpages with the script to let you in. Then people mentioned that all you have to do is type in the URL with a bogus password field (note the: "bounced directly into a user's mailbox"). It's all the same hole. And it's fixed now.
:)
It shows that CNN is reading Slashdot, though
(and not understanding all of it).
Cisco's research department consists of about 5 people, compared to 24,000 for Lucent's Bell Labs. Cisco is totally dependent on the companies they buy.