Because with WINE, its developers just CAN'T have borrowed implementation details, since they're not available. Windows is closed source, remember? So, all they have is the various specifications of the API and implementing the Win32 spec is not illegal.
...All of these worms made use of security flaws in the systems they attacked, and if there hadn't been security vulnerabilities in Windows®, Linux, and Solaris®...
What's also wrong with this? Um, can anybody remember the name of the worm that recently attacked Linux and Solaris? Darn, I forgot the name, must not have had such a great impact...;-) Probably because there are not many people running IIS in wine on there Linux Box.
>So how are you ahead in wireless?
>A Euro standard?
>Wireless messaging?
Well, just think about SMS on your cell phone.
>And telecom?
Depends, just like in the US. Our long distance calls are cheaper, instead. And, there ARE providers which give you free local calls. Or even better deals, like in my area. One company here has a deal which gives you 1. Electricity, for a really low price if you stay below a certain limit; 2. Free local calls; 3. A ADSL-Flatrate (1024/256). I think that's really cool.
I don't know the details of this National ID card project, but here I Germany we have something very similar. It's called a "Personalausweis" and there's really nothing bad about it. Around the age of 16 you get one, and it's the ONLY valid proof of your identity (even your Passport contains a copy of it). Thus, you don't need a drivers licence like in the US to prove your age, just show your card and every government institution, bank or theater will accept it.
written that OSI can be quite instructive in illustrating the way things should NOT be done.
I HATE OSI. I did the CCNA and we had to learn this stupid thing. I can still see the seven layers... Actually, Cisco used it to illustrate how networking works! Only to tell us afterwards that it's not used anywhere. That was so frustrating.
Yea, sort of. But Kazaa, Morpheus & friends ALL do log on to a central server which transmits a list of supernode IP's to the client program. If this server is taken down, NONE of the current clients could connect to the network.
As far as my understanding goes, you still need the material to form or build something from. It's not like building something from hot air, (well, at least not if it's not going to be made of CO2, O or N), you still need to provide the atoms you want to build your new stuff from. Your mp3 player uses gold conductors? You need gold. You want to have some nuclear missles for self-defense? You need uraninum or the likes. So, until we can't put single protons, neutrons and eletrons together to make custom made atoms, it's not like star trek. (*sigh*)
Note: I only have experience with XFree86, so when I say 'X' I really mean XFree86.
I don't think there's a need for an replacement for X. It's great, and it works. But, most of the time I deal with X, I find it confusing, difficult to install and really hard to handle. First of all, it needs good setup tools. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I haven't found any good, complete ones for XFree86 4.1.0. There's xf86cfg but that didn't really work, uses the highest screen res it finds which makes it flicker and almost unreadable and is far from complete. It doesn't cover all features of X. There's XFsetup, but the readme said that it wasn't compatible with 4.1.0. There's of course xf86config but that's a joke in terms of usability. And the config generated by XFree86 -configure - a config file doesn't tell me what I have to do, it doesn't help me in any way.
Setting up DRI must be easy. Like copy binary, tell which driver to load. But, I have to recompile stuff and get Glide3 for Voodoos. That's annoying.
X needs better mouse support, I think it's just ridiculus that I have to edit config files just to get my mouse wheel working. And for the mouse pointers, where's color, alpha blending, shadows and whatso ever?
My last point is that X has all this stuff for exporting a screen over a network included. Much of the (great) functionalty of X is not used on home computers because people usually don't need it. What about a cut down version of XFree86, streamlined, compact with a decent setup tool that uses NCurses? That would, in my opinion, be sufficent to eliminate the need for things like Berlin. I respect those peoples work but I think they shouldn't "re-invent the wheel", like they taught me in my OOP class:-)
Did you all ever try KConfigure? It does what the name says, i.e. configure [options], make, make install. It also does make uninstall, can read from tar.gz & tgz files and allows to install packages as root or not. It adds a mime type so you can click on a "configure" script in Konqueror and it starts up. Support for rpms and debs is planned, I think. I just recently found this program and I love it. Here are the links:
BTW, I am _NOT_ involved in the project, I just like it.
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I do like KDE's object model of sorts, widgets and kparts. Very will thought out implementations, i just hope they learn to quit breaking binary compatibility with each major release:)
Well... after all I've heard they're going to break binary compatibilty one more time with KDE 3. After that, it won't be necessary to do this any more, because of some feature in QT and/or KDE 3.
Okay, here come the obvious reasons NOT to use assembly:
1) It is as platform dependant as any language can possibly get.
2) It is very hard to read.
3) It is relatively hard to learn. Don't tell me assembly isn't hard, it is definetely _MUCH_ harder than Ruby which has e.g. those nice and _easy_ string manipulation possibilities.
4) Source code is huge.
Reason 4) is probably not that important. But still, if somebody wants to program a simple program to get a job done quickly, assembly is really not the language to use.
And while those instructions may be just 1's and 0's I don't consider the binary numeral system to be a "programming language". Instead it's just assembly instructions being represented as binary numbers.
I'd say this the other way arround: Assembly is a way to represent the raw binary format of 1's and 0's in a sort of human readable format.
I think that whole encyclopedias and books which explain "How to restart civilisation" should be sent to Mars for safe-keeping.
Yea, let's write the Civilization-From-Scratch-HOWTO. I'd start like this:
0. Introduction
This is HOWTO will teach you how to start a civilization from scratch. I will call this a CFS from now on.
During this HOWTO I'll assume that you're a Carbon-based lifeform, but this HOWTO is known to work with Silicon-based beings also.
1. Choosing & Preparing the Planet
Of course, the planet must have enough of all the basic recources you need. For carbon-lifeform (using the ATPase-system to gain Energy) that's oxygen.
Note: you need EVERY element from the periodic table, especially uranium and plutonium. That'll reserve you the option to start over from scratch if you have to. Read the GNuclearBomb-Mini-HOWTO for details
Let's just take a hammer, or even better - a rock!
With give the drives and the rock to a gorilla in the zoo and tada - all data erased for the cost of one or two bananas.
Yes,
I recently read an article about a company here in Germany that recovers data even from very badly damaged hard drives. I don't know how much of this stuff is true, but one guy from that company said they where able to recover most of the data by examining the "borders" of each data track. He said that when data is overwritten with other data on a drive, it's usually not written exactly on top of it so that sometimes the underlying data is still visible at the borders.
The article had picture of some special reading device that was able to read "every kind of drive, even those of new and unknown technologies." The article wasn't in a tech magazine but nevertheless, I found it very interesting.
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Because with WINE, its developers just CAN'T have borrowed implementation details, since they're not available. Windows is closed source, remember? So, all they have is the various specifications of the API and implementing the Win32 spec is not illegal.
...All of these worms made use of security flaws in the systems they attacked, and if there hadn't been security vulnerabilities in Windows®, Linux, and Solaris®...
;-) Probably because there are not many people running IIS in wine on there Linux Box.
What's also wrong with this? Um, can anybody remember the name of the worm that recently attacked Linux and Solaris? Darn, I forgot the name, must not have had such a great impact...
>So how are you ahead in wireless?
>A Euro standard?
>Wireless messaging?
Well, just think about SMS on your cell phone.
>And telecom?
Depends, just like in the US. Our long distance calls are cheaper, instead. And, there ARE providers which give you free local calls. Or even better deals, like in my area. One company here has a deal which gives you 1. Electricity, for a really low price if you stay below a certain limit; 2. Free local calls; 3. A ADSL-Flatrate (1024/256). I think that's really cool.
I never understood where this comes from.
Do you have a link to that announcement?
I don't know the details of this National ID card project, but here I Germany we have something very similar. It's called a "Personalausweis" and there's really nothing bad about it. Around the age of 16 you get one, and it's the ONLY valid proof of your identity (even your Passport contains a copy of it). Thus, you don't need a drivers licence like in the US to prove your age, just show your card and every government institution, bank or theater will accept it.
written that OSI can be quite instructive in illustrating the way things should NOT be done.
I HATE OSI. I did the CCNA and we had to learn this stupid thing. I can still see the seven layers... Actually, Cisco used it to illustrate how networking works! Only to tell us afterwards that it's not used anywhere. That was so frustrating.
Read the article to the end.
If you've done nothing wrong, you should have nothing to hide, and applaud this system for making the streets safer for our children.
Check out the last statement of the essay. Judging from your words, I think you'd make a perfect borg. All thoughts and actions shared.
Yea, sort of. But Kazaa, Morpheus & friends ALL do log on to a central server which transmits a list of supernode IP's to the client program. If this server is taken down, NONE of the current clients could connect to the network.
But hey, there's still The GiFT Project Looks good to me.
As far as my understanding goes, you still need the material to form or build something from. It's not like building something from hot air, (well, at least not if it's not going to be made of CO2, O or N), you still need to provide the atoms you want to build your new stuff from. Your mp3 player uses gold conductors? You need gold. You want to have some nuclear missles for self-defense? You need uraninum or the likes. So, until we can't put single protons, neutrons and eletrons together to make custom made atoms, it's not like star trek. (*sigh*)
I don't think there's a need for an replacement for X. It's great, and it works. But, most of the time I deal with X, I find it confusing, difficult to install and really hard to handle. First of all, it needs good setup tools. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I haven't found any good, complete ones for XFree86 4.1.0. There's xf86cfg but that didn't really work, uses the highest screen res it finds which makes it flicker and almost unreadable and is far from complete. It doesn't cover all features of X. There's XFsetup, but the readme said that it wasn't compatible with 4.1.0. There's of course xf86config but that's a joke in terms of usability. And the config generated by XFree86 -configure - a config file doesn't tell me what I have to do, it doesn't help me in any way.
Setting up DRI must be easy. Like copy binary, tell which driver to load. But, I have to recompile stuff and get Glide3 for Voodoos. That's annoying.
X needs better mouse support, I think it's just ridiculus that I have to edit config files just to get my mouse wheel working. And for the mouse pointers, where's color, alpha blending, shadows and whatso ever?
My last point is that X has all this stuff for exporting a screen over a network included. Much of the (great) functionalty of X is not used on home computers because people usually don't need it. What about a cut down version of XFree86, streamlined, compact with a decent setup tool that uses NCurses? That would, in my opinion, be sufficent to eliminate the need for things like Berlin. I respect those peoples work but I think they shouldn't "re-invent the wheel", like they taught me in my OOP class :-)
Did you all ever try KConfigure? It does what the name says, i.e. configure [options], make, make install. It also does make uninstall, can read from tar.gz & tgz files and allows to install packages as root or not. It adds a mime type so you can click on a "configure" script in Konqueror and it starts up. Support for rpms and debs is planned, I think. I just recently found this program and I love it. Here are the links:
Project Homepage
Also check out apps.kde.com
BTW, I am _NOT_ involved in the project, I just like it.
Well... after all I've heard they're going to break binary compatibilty one more time with KDE 3. After that, it won't be necessary to do this any more, because of some feature in QT and/or KDE 3.
Does anybody know more about this?
Yes, that's right. If you _REALLY_ want it to look like Aqua, go get the liquid rendering engine from www.mosfet.org. It's great and looks so cute :-)
1) It is as platform dependant as any language can possibly get.
2) It is very hard to read.
3) It is relatively hard to learn. Don't tell me assembly isn't hard, it is definetely _MUCH_ harder than Ruby which has e.g. those nice and _easy_ string manipulation possibilities.
4) Source code is huge.
Reason 4) is probably not that important. But still, if somebody wants to program a simple program to get a job done quickly, assembly is really not the language to use.
And while those instructions may be just 1's and 0's I don't consider the binary numeral system to be a "programming language". Instead it's just assembly instructions being represented as binary numbers.I'd say this the other way arround: Assembly is a way to represent the raw binary format of 1's and 0's in a sort of human readable format.
I think that whole encyclopedias and books which explain "How to restart civilisation" should be sent to Mars for safe-keeping.
Yea, let's write the Civilization-From-Scratch-HOWTO. I'd start like this:
0. Introduction
This is HOWTO will teach you how to start a civilization from scratch. I will call this a CFS from now on.
During this HOWTO I'll assume that you're a Carbon-based lifeform, but this HOWTO is known to work with Silicon-based beings also.
1. Choosing & Preparing the Planet
Of course, the planet must have enough of all the basic recources you need. For carbon-lifeform (using the ATPase-system to gain Energy) that's oxygen.
Note: you need EVERY element from the periodic table, especially uranium and plutonium. That'll reserve you the option to start over from scratch if you have to. Read the GNuclearBomb-Mini-HOWTO for details
...
Let's just take a hammer, or even better - a rock!
With give the drives and the rock to a gorilla in the zoo and tada - all data erased for the cost of one or two bananas.
Yes,
I recently read an article about a company here in Germany that recovers data even from very badly damaged hard drives. I don't know how much of this stuff is true, but one guy from that company said they where able to recover most of the data by examining the "borders" of each data track. He said that when data is overwritten with other data on a drive, it's usually not written exactly on top of it so that sometimes the underlying data is still visible at the borders.
The article had picture of some special reading device that was able to read "every kind of drive, even those of new and unknown technologies." The article wasn't in a tech magazine but nevertheless, I found it very interesting.
Uh... Have you been in love with him or something? That's about what it sounded like when my last girlfriend broke up with me.