There is also the Mount Rainier format (CD-MRW) which, according to Philips, "enables native OS support of data storage on CD-RW. This makes the technology far easier to use and allows the replacement of the floppy. This is done by having defect management in the drive, by making the drive 2k addressable, by using background formatting, and by standardizing both command set and physical layout. The new standard is promoted by Compaq, Microsoft, Philips, and Sony and is supported by over 40 industry leaders: OS vendors, PC-OEM's, ISV's, chip makers, and media makers."
Back in 2000 I wanted to upgrade my 4x4x24x CD-RW drive, but was initially going to wait until CD-MRW technology was on the market... after a few months, I purchased a plain ol' 24x10x40x CD-RW drive. To my knowledge, CD-MRW still is not a viable retail option.
Heh, nowadays everything (wired, at least) is microsegmented -- you won't be able to sniff anyone else's data. Now, insecurely encrypted wireless links which are cropping up in a lot of universities nowadays, is a whole another story.
I think he meant to say "intelligence is linear" rather than "intelligence is a scalar", in the 12th paragraph. Intelligence, if measured by IQ, is in fact a scalar.:)
Cost is not the issue; the issue is that a large computer manufacturer needs to make the first step to phase out floppy disks. As countless others mentioned, the floppy system is slow, unreliable, fragile, and holds very little data. With the advent of many superior technologies since the introduction of the floppy, there's no reason aside from backward compatibility to use floppies... and backward compatibility can only last so long.
...but I offer my own Open Source Software CD to people at my school and recently on eBay. I used Slashdot's story a few months ago about what software for Windows to include on a CD-ROM to get about 666 MB worth of software.
First I gave out a few for free to friends. Then others that are in our computer science classes -- people I barely know -- started asking me for my "open" CD for the DJGPP compiler that's on it. My school uses the ancient Borland Turbo C++ 3.0, and DJGPP's IDE, RHIDE, emulates it very well -- a great alternative to paying $70 for the suite. So far a few tens of CDs were sold at my school and two online.
I have an SSH server set up on my DSL-connected Linux machine and pay for FastMail.fm e-mail that offers IMAP. When I want to manage my e-mail, I log on to my server from wherever I am using PuTTY (I changed the SSH port to something that most firewalls allow), and run Mutt.
I have it set up to use GPG for automatic signing -- all I do is type up an e-mail, press the send key, enter my GPG passphrase at the prompt (which is 35 alphanumeric chars,), and press Enter. My e-mail gets signed and mailed. When I receive a PGP-encrypted/signed mail, Mutt automatically decrypts it for me, again using my passphrase.
It's very convenient (setting it up is the hardest part, and that's also easy with online documentation) and very self-reliant: no special provider to go out of business, no browser to block Java, and always encryped.
Not a completely original idea
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Nullsoft did something like that a few years ago -- Winamp used to be shareware. Then, at version 2.50, Nullsoft thanked all those who purchased it, and turned Winamp into freeware.
Re:MODUP: Guide to running Photoshop, IE, Kazaa...
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Anonymous checkout is available in regard that you don't have to have YOUR OWN account to use their CVS. However, even an anonymous account requires a password. In Wine's case, their anonymous (read-only) account is usename "cvs" and password "cvs".
A nice hard drive in a USB 2.0 enclosure, like this one is my preferred method for backups. It's portable, expandable, and compatible with any USB-graced machine. It's also as cheap and as reliable (hard drive-wise) as you're willing to pay.
I am listening, but I have my own argument against storing it on the SIM card: first, if you lose your cell phone, you lose the SIM card. Second, why be dependent on some card when you could synchronize it with your computer and reliably back it up?
Yes, the Kiosk mode is slated to become available in KDE 3.1.
Still on the TODO list: - Create framework to effectivly "disable" certain features. Think kiosk-mode, think "don't allow user to select custom wallpapers in public places", Waldo Bastian
ECN is a standard -- RFC 3168. It is not marked experimental in the kernel!
Here's what the help says:
CONFIG_INET_ECN:
Explicit Congestion Notification (ECN) allows routers to notify clients about network congestion, resulting in fewer dropped packets and increased network performance. This option adds ECN support to the Linux kernel, as well as a sysctl (/proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_ecn) which allows ECN support to be disabled at runtime.
Note that, on the Internet, there are many broken firewalls which refuse connections from ECN-enabled machines, and it may be a while before these firewalls are fixed. Until then, to access a site behind such a firewall (some of which are major sites, at the time of this writing) you will have to disable this option, either by saying N now or by using the sysctl.
Ironically, ZDnet's "techupdate.zdnet.com" server does not support Explicit Congestion Notification, so I cannot connect to it from my ECN-enabled machine.
*sigh*
My favorite quote from the article
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While the first 32-bit processor came out in 1995, the average PC used 1 MB of memory, so 4 GB was both unaffordable and generally not needed. But the recent advent of Windows XP and digital media has changed all of that.
Actually, since those leading zeroes can theoretically be eliminated, you'd end up saying "base 10" when meaning binary... if you added a leading zero to signify that it's not "base 10" in base 10, ending up with "base 010", that may actually mean base 8 (octal) to some.
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nvidia.com's problem is not Mozilla's fault, according to bug 148090.
There is also the Mount Rainier format (CD-MRW) which, according to Philips, "enables native OS support of data storage on CD-RW. This makes the technology far easier to use and allows the replacement of the floppy. This is done by having defect management in the drive, by making the drive 2k addressable, by using background formatting, and by standardizing both command set and physical layout. The new standard is promoted by Compaq, Microsoft, Philips, and Sony and is supported by over 40 industry leaders: OS vendors, PC-OEM's, ISV's, chip makers, and media makers."
Back in 2000 I wanted to upgrade my 4x4x24x CD-RW drive, but was initially going to wait until CD-MRW technology was on the market... after a few months, I purchased a plain ol' 24x10x40x CD-RW drive. To my knowledge, CD-MRW still is not a viable retail option.
Heh, nowadays everything (wired, at least) is microsegmented -- you won't be able to sniff anyone else's data. Now, insecurely encrypted wireless links which are cropping up in a lot of universities nowadays, is a whole another story.
I think he meant to say "intelligence is linear" rather than "intelligence is a scalar", in the 12th paragraph. Intelligence, if measured by IQ, is in fact a scalar. :)
Cost is not the issue; the issue is that a large computer manufacturer needs to make the first step to phase out floppy disks. As countless others mentioned, the floppy system is slow, unreliable, fragile, and holds very little data. With the advent of many superior technologies since the introduction of the floppy, there's no reason aside from backward compatibility to use floppies... and backward compatibility can only last so long.
You're right, and this analogy has already been published to the front page of K5: Road builders and maintainers should pay robbery victims.
...but I offer my own Open Source Software CD to people at my school and recently on eBay. I used Slashdot's story a few months ago about what software for Windows to include on a CD-ROM to get about 666 MB worth of software.
First I gave out a few for free to friends. Then others that are in our computer science classes -- people I barely know -- started asking me for my "open" CD for the DJGPP compiler that's on it. My school uses the ancient Borland Turbo C++ 3.0, and DJGPP's IDE, RHIDE, emulates it very well -- a great alternative to paying $70 for the suite. So far a few tens of CDs were sold at my school and two online.
These CDs are quite popular.
Like the CD in my sig...
I have an SSH server set up on my DSL-connected Linux machine and pay for FastMail.fm e-mail that offers IMAP. When I want to manage my e-mail, I log on to my server from wherever I am using PuTTY (I changed the SSH port to something that most firewalls allow), and run Mutt.
I have it set up to use GPG for automatic signing -- all I do is type up an e-mail, press the send key, enter my GPG passphrase at the prompt (which is 35 alphanumeric chars,), and press Enter. My e-mail gets signed and mailed. When I receive a PGP-encrypted/signed mail, Mutt automatically decrypts it for me, again using my passphrase.
It's very convenient (setting it up is the hardest part, and that's also easy with online documentation) and very self-reliant: no special provider to go out of business, no browser to block Java, and always encryped.
Nullsoft did something like that a few years ago -- Winamp used to be shareware. Then, at version 2.50, Nullsoft thanked all those who purchased it, and turned Winamp into freeware.
Anonymous checkout is available in regard that you don't have to have YOUR OWN account to use their CVS. However, even an anonymous account requires a password. In Wine's case, their anonymous (read-only) account is usename "cvs" and password "cvs".
A nice hard drive in a USB 2.0 enclosure, like this one is my preferred method for backups. It's portable, expandable, and compatible with any USB-graced machine. It's also as cheap and as reliable (hard drive-wise) as you're willing to pay.
Would anyone care to explain what is a "Bayesian" mail filter?
I am listening, but I have my own argument against storing it on the SIM card: first, if you lose your cell phone, you lose the SIM card. Second, why be dependent on some card when you could synchronize it with your computer and reliably back it up?
So true, so true...
RedHat 8.0 does not support my SoundBlaster 16 PCI although RedHat 7.3 supported it out-of-the-box. No music for me.
I don't think it's that simple. I assume we don't have the right to relicense their library at will.
Yes, the Kiosk mode is slated to become available in KDE 3.1.
Still on the TODO list:
- Create framework to effectivly "disable" certain features. Think kiosk-mode, think "don't allow user to select custom wallpapers in public places", Waldo Bastian
The flaw affects software using Pretty Good Privacy, the most popular tool for scrambling e-mail.
Only the PGP *program* seems to be affected, not the actual OpenPGP standard. Thank god.
PHP 4.3.0 which is still in CVS has full (not experimental) support for Apache 2 and has had it for months now.
ECN is a standard -- RFC 3168.
It is not marked experimental in the kernel!
Here's what the help says:
CONFIG_INET_ECN:
Explicit Congestion Notification (ECN) allows routers to notify
clients about network congestion, resulting in fewer dropped packets
and increased network performance. This option adds ECN support to
the Linux kernel, as well as a sysctl (/proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_ecn)
which allows ECN support to be disabled at runtime.
Note that, on the Internet, there are many broken firewalls which
refuse connections from ECN-enabled machines, and it may be a while
before these firewalls are fixed. Until then, to access a site
behind such a firewall (some of which are major sites, at the time
of this writing) you will have to disable this option, either by
saying N now or by using the sysctl.
Ironically, ZDnet's "techupdate.zdnet.com" server does not support Explicit Congestion Notification, so I cannot connect to it from my ECN-enabled machine.
*sigh*
While the first 32-bit processor came out in 1995, the average PC used 1 MB of memory, so 4 GB was both unaffordable and generally not needed. But the recent advent of Windows XP and digital media has changed all of that.
Most web-accessible e-mails are the result of publically accessible mailing list archives. For example, Vorbis mailing list archives.
Actually, since those leading zeroes can theoretically be eliminated, you'd end up saying "base 10" when meaning binary... if you added a leading zero to signify that it's not "base 10" in base 10, ending up with "base 010", that may actually mean base 8 (octal) to some.
Woo, fun fun fun!!!
Here we are:
http://pwhite.myip.org/linux-mirrors.php