My experience of this as an end-user with BT Internet (not anymore) is that they weren't really interested if the attack wasn't successful.
The fact that the attack was unsuccessful partly because I was able to see it and block it with BlackIce Defender didn't seem to persuade them that their users were doing bad things by portscanning BTs network for Wingate, BackOrifice etc.
Heh. I'd much rather read about paint drying than the new Star Wars movie, and perhaps even pre-dried paint than a 3-month old movie. Horses for courses...
Sorry to disappoint, but it seems that most scientific progress is not Big-Bang style, but incremental. You could have the same complaint about processor speeds, digital paper, graphics cards, storage density, quantum computing, optical switching or pretty much any other field. Over time, things get 'better'.
Apart from this other CF-based one, you mean? It's not as featureful as the Nex-II, but it's cheaper too. I have one, and it's OK. I prefer the sound of my MD walkman, but that wasn't $75.
The other downside of the iPod is the hard disk, which is (relatively speaking) a fragile medium. The CF-based players are completely solid-state.
I can't get DSL or Cable where I live (1/2 mile from one major road on one side, and another on the other side - go figure), because there aren't enough folks down my road to make digging it up worthwhile for the cable company (who have a monopoly on the area), and the local exchange is crap. Instead, I have a microwave 'wireless DSL' link from Tele2 at 512/128, for about the same as BT DSL (£50/mo) and no download caps that I'm aware of. Really quick install too - I don't think they have too many customers.
Service is pretty good so far - no outages and decent speed, especially during the day. I wish I could get cable and pay less though, even if it is delivered by the Telewest Monkeys.
Indeed! I had the original radio shows on tape for a long time (taped from the radio), but the tapes have slowly been either chewed by tape decks or lost. The radio show had a significantly different plot in places... I prefer it.
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Isn't this exactly the problem that NeWS and Display Postscript were supposed to solve in the 80's? Between Moore's Law and the advances in VMs driven by Java and C#/CLR, Maybe things are faster enough to give them another shot now...
Or you could get the equivalent Papst VarioFan, and have it adjust it's speed as necessary. I'm sure I remember reading somewhere on slashdot why it's not such a great idea to connect the 12V and 5V aspects of your switched-mode PSU in this way. Something to do with exciting failure modes.
ultra quiet system with a VIA C3 [via.com.tw], perhaps their 933Mhz model.
You say that as if it is of comparable performance. I was looking around just the other day for info on UNDERclocking and passive cooling possibilities, and found
this comparitive review that suggests for work involving some FP, the 866Mhz version is not much faster than a K6-2/400.
I held hopes of a silent PC with decent performance up til then. Anyone know anything about underclocking (say) Athlon 1400XP[*] to 900Mhz and the reduction in heat output that would result?
[*] pick the current processor that is the right side of the 'how much?' price break.
Photoshop and Illustrator aren't exactly language intensive applications
It's not just a case of search & replace 'Printer' for 'Drucker' like translating for european languages. The software needs to deal with Unicode pretty well, and understand the layout of non-roman character sets properly. Illustrator and Pagemaker may be 'visual' software, but they deal with laying out a LOT of words.
Incidentally, this cuts both ways. It was a real challenge for me to get good Kanji truetype fonts last year when I wanted some for a software project (those cool advertising-style fonts). My OS supports Kanji, and so did my graphics software, but actually getting decent fonts was hard. Eventually I found Font Too who were happy to export a CD for me.
*blink* OK... I don't see quite why the clients can't just stream from the fileserver and save your network, but hey, that's me told. I'm sure there's a good reason.
There is a content-encoding plugin for Apache called mod_gzip that will do the server end, for any output including dynamic. I've not tried it, but on face value it's a standards-based way of getting what you want.
I think, although I can't find it for sure, that LWP supports gzip content-encoding too, which would mean that things like SOAP::Lite and XML-RPC would benefit too.
IE 5 & 6 can save any webpage as what MS call a Web Archive. It's actually a multi-part MIME document, the same as used for HTML E-Mail.
CSS has some allowances for print-specific layout and page breaks. I think between them you'll get what you want, but it won't be as nice and controllable as PDF.
John Knoll was the creator of Photoshop, not Warnock (Photoshop History). Warnock did work on Postscript before founding Adobe though (I believe the early work was done at Xerox PARC).
It has a digital signature, which I assume is similar to a PGP Signature, in that it will be invalid if the file changes. Whether anyone uses that or not is another matter. I've never seen a signed document myself, although I know of at least one organisation that uses them internally to provide a 'paper trail' during a certification process.
Neither PowerDVD nor WinDVD does anything that can't be gotten around with DVDGenie, for free. The only bit you'd be stuck with is if the drive itself is RPC-2 region-locked, and I think that does screw you regardless of the OS.
what makes you think she'll want to rebuild her kernel?
Her engine was designed to fit into the car it is installed in. It already works fairly close to optimally. She (and I) don't need to know what a carburretor does.
However, to get some reasonably basic functionality out of a linux system, you do need to know what is going on under the hood. Want NTFS support for moving from win2k? Rebuild the kernel [*], want firewire support to make home movies? Rebuild the kernel. They aren't particularly techie requirements. I hear Windows XP does Firewire support and DV as standard (Mac OS too).
Other OSes allow you to install drivers without quite so much fooling - BeOS is just a case of copying a file to a particular directory, for instance.
[*] For some reason RH7.2 doesn't include the ntfs.o module, even though it includes all the other fs modules. Bleh.
Think about what a mass transit system is supposed to do during off-peak hours.
Ummm, people use it to go to nightclubs and drink without risk of DWI? People use it to travel between points in the city same as they do at peak-time? Don't limit your thinking to commuters.
I used to live in a large city (London) with (fairly) good and (definitely) extensive public transport, and it worked pretty well. I and many people I knew didn't have a car at all. The city is also friendly to pedestrians, unlike moderate-sized towns in the US (my experience is limited here to a few - Tucson, Reno, suburbs of DC).
When I lived in London, I walked a lot of places. That was safe, environmentally friendly, and healthy for me. Aside from transporting goods, there's not much reason to have to drive.
If he already has a system, then he doesn't need some booting CD distribution. Whether the native OS of the system is windows or Linux, there are players available.
If you mean doesn't have a DVDROM, then he's pretty much SOL as far as playing DVDs is concerned, anyway.
If the PC is already running Linux, then you don't need to go through all that. Obviously that isn't the case, because your question would be silly then:)
So, why not just get PowerDVD, or WinDVD? No rebooting. It probably even came bundled with your DVDROM drive - I know I have a few copies kicking around.
The only situation where the requirement makes sense that I can think of is that someone on a corporate network has a new PC with DVDROM, but isn't allowed to have DVD Player software installed, but that person is likely to not have access to the BIOS to allow CD-Booting, either.
Here's a post describing the clause - have a look at your license and see if you have it. Draw your own conclusions. Regardless of your interpretation, consider if you are prepared to defend your interpretation against Borland's in court, and can afford to do so.
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My experience of this as an end-user with BT Internet (not anymore) is that they weren't really interested if the attack wasn't successful.
The fact that the attack was unsuccessful partly because I was able to see it and block it with BlackIce Defender didn't seem to persuade them that their users were doing bad things by portscanning BTs network for Wingate, BackOrifice etc.
Like NEXTSTEP and OPENSTEP, it has its quarks,
But not a native one though...
Heh. I'd much rather read about paint drying than the new Star Wars movie, and perhaps even pre-dried paint than a 3-month old movie. Horses for courses...
Sorry to disappoint, but it seems that most scientific progress is not Big-Bang style, but incremental. You could have the same complaint about processor speeds, digital paper, graphics cards, storage density, quantum computing, optical switching or pretty much any other field. Over time, things get 'better'.
NO OTHER MP3 PLAYER WILL DO THIS.
Apart from this other CF-based one, you mean? It's not as featureful as the Nex-II, but it's cheaper too. I have one, and it's OK. I prefer the sound of my MD walkman, but that wasn't $75.
The other downside of the iPod is the hard disk, which is (relatively speaking) a fragile medium. The CF-based players are completely solid-state.
I can't get DSL or Cable where I live (1/2 mile from one major road on one side, and another on the other side - go figure), because there aren't enough folks down my road to make digging it up worthwhile for the cable company (who have a monopoly on the area), and the local exchange is crap. Instead, I have a microwave 'wireless DSL' link from Tele2 at 512/128, for about the same as BT DSL (£50/mo) and no download caps that I'm aware of. Really quick install too - I don't think they have too many customers.
Service is pretty good so far - no outages and decent speed, especially during the day. I wish I could get cable and pay less though, even if it is delivered by the Telewest Monkeys.
KDE rules! Chess rules likewise.
;-)
Yes, except Chess uses all the memory to remember openings and strategies.
audio if the original radio show.
Indeed! I had the original radio shows on tape for a long time (taped from the radio), but the tapes have slowly been either chewed by tape decks or lost. The radio show had a significantly different plot in places... I prefer it.
Isn't this exactly the problem that NeWS and Display Postscript were supposed to solve in the 80's? Between Moore's Law and the advances in VMs driven by Java and C#/CLR, Maybe things are faster enough to give them another shot now...
just imagine them modded to 7 volt instead of 12.
Or you could get the equivalent Papst VarioFan, and have it adjust it's speed as necessary. I'm sure I remember reading somewhere on slashdot why it's not such a great idea to connect the 12V and 5V aspects of your switched-mode PSU in this way. Something to do with exciting failure modes.
ultra quiet system with a VIA C3 [via.com.tw], perhaps their 933Mhz model.
You say that as if it is of comparable performance. I was looking around just the other day for info on UNDERclocking and passive cooling possibilities, and found
this comparitive review that suggests for work involving some FP, the 866Mhz version is not much faster than a K6-2/400.
I held hopes of a silent PC with decent performance up til then. Anyone know anything about underclocking (say) Athlon 1400XP[*] to 900Mhz and the reduction in heat output that would result?
[*] pick the current processor that is the right side of the 'how much?' price break.
Photoshop and Illustrator aren't exactly language intensive applications
It's not just a case of search & replace 'Printer' for 'Drucker' like translating for european languages. The software needs to deal with Unicode pretty well, and understand the layout of non-roman character sets properly. Illustrator and Pagemaker may be 'visual' software, but they deal with laying out a LOT of words.
Incidentally, this cuts both ways. It was a real challenge for me to get good Kanji truetype fonts last year when I wanted some for a software project (those cool advertising-style fonts). My OS supports Kanji, and so did my graphics software, but actually getting decent fonts was hard. Eventually I found Font Too who were happy to export a CD for me.
*blink* OK... I don't see quite why the clients can't just stream from the fileserver and save your network, but hey, that's me told. I'm sure there's a good reason.
There is a content-encoding plugin for Apache called mod_gzip that will do the server end, for any output including dynamic. I've not tried it, but on face value it's a standards-based way of getting what you want.
I think, although I can't find it for sure, that LWP supports gzip content-encoding too, which would mean that things like SOAP::Lite and XML-RPC would benefit too.
more about the content-encoding thing
I use it as my MP3 server.
Without any disks?
He was/is a citizen of the USA.
No he wasn't.
IE 5 & 6 can save any webpage as what MS call a Web Archive. It's actually a multi-part MIME document, the same as used for HTML E-Mail.
CSS has some allowances for print-specific layout and page breaks. I think between them you'll get what you want, but it won't be as nice and controllable as PDF.
John Knoll was the creator of Photoshop, not Warnock (Photoshop History). Warnock did work on Postscript before founding Adobe though (I believe the early work was done at Xerox PARC).
It has a digital signature, which I assume is similar to a PGP Signature, in that it will be invalid if the file changes. Whether anyone uses that or not is another matter. I've never seen a signed document myself, although I know of at least one organisation that uses them internally to provide a 'paper trail' during a certification process.
Neither PowerDVD nor WinDVD does anything that can't be gotten around with DVDGenie, for free. The only bit you'd be stuck with is if the drive itself is RPC-2 region-locked, and I think that does screw you regardless of the OS.
Even the read-only module?
[man, this lameness filter is annoying]
what makes you think she'll want to rebuild her kernel?
Her engine was designed to fit into the car it is installed in. It already works fairly close to optimally. She (and I) don't need to know what a carburretor does.
However, to get some reasonably basic functionality out of a linux system, you do need to know what is going on under the hood. Want NTFS support for moving from win2k? Rebuild the kernel [*], want firewire support to make home movies? Rebuild the kernel. They aren't particularly techie requirements. I hear Windows XP does Firewire support and DV as standard (Mac OS too).
Other OSes allow you to install drivers without quite so much fooling - BeOS is just a case of copying a file to a particular directory, for instance.
[*] For some reason RH7.2 doesn't include the ntfs.o module, even though it includes all the other fs modules. Bleh.
Think about what a mass transit system is supposed to do during off-peak hours.
Ummm, people use it to go to nightclubs and drink without risk of DWI? People use it to travel between points in the city same as they do at peak-time? Don't limit your thinking to commuters.
I used to live in a large city (London) with (fairly) good and (definitely) extensive public transport, and it worked pretty well. I and many people I knew didn't have a car at all. The city is also friendly to pedestrians, unlike moderate-sized towns in the US (my experience is limited here to a few - Tucson, Reno, suburbs of DC).
When I lived in London, I walked a lot of places. That was safe, environmentally friendly, and healthy for me. Aside from transporting goods, there's not much reason to have to drive.
If he already has a system, then he doesn't need some booting CD distribution. Whether the native OS of the system is windows or Linux, there are players available.
If you mean doesn't have a DVDROM, then he's pretty much SOL as far as playing DVDs is concerned, anyway.
If the PC is already running Linux, then you don't need to go through all that. Obviously that isn't the case, because your question would be silly then :)
So, why not just get PowerDVD, or WinDVD? No rebooting. It probably even came bundled with your DVDROM drive - I know I have a few copies kicking around.
The only situation where the requirement makes sense that I can think of is that someone on a corporate network has a new PC with DVDROM, but isn't allowed to have DVD Player software installed, but that person is likely to not have access to the BIOS to allow CD-Booting, either.
Here's a post describing the clause - have a look at your license and see if you have it. Draw your own conclusions. Regardless of your interpretation, consider if you are prepared to defend your interpretation against Borland's in court, and can afford to do so.