I got a portable that has XP home installed and found that security issues are a problem since cywin likes to put different users' home directories in/cygwin/home. XP home doesn't protect directories outside of the user's Document and Settings directory so you need to do something extra if your PC is used by more than one person. Either use something like junction points or manually use the cacls command to protect your cygwin directory structure.
I have the best of both worlds--the physically split keyboard with tenting manufacturered by IBM (later Lexmark), called the Select Ease. It's not heavy like the old IBM PC/AT keyboards, but still has the same tactile feel but with the ergonomics that's superior to the Microsoft version because the pieces are separate and adjustable. My trackball is in-between which enables me to use either hand to control the mouse.
...since you'll probably wait a couple of hours for the thing to finish formatting. And imagine backing that sucker up--I know that many don't have backups of our primary drive. Better get a large-capacity medium to do that.
Actually, data on a CD is not multilayer. The data is on one surface. If you look edgewise on a CD, notice that the data side is very very close to the label area. If there weren't any labels, and you tried to play the CD label-side "down" you won't be able to read it because the laser won't be able to focus on the data since it's now too close to the optics.
I built my AMD-based PC from scratch and it took a lot of my time. With that out of the way, I could say that it was almost as enjoyable as it was frustrating. Mainly, if you're going to build a PC for the sake of saving money, you're pretty much forced to go mail order. But before that you need to spend a lot of time searching the net to get an idea of what products work well with others. While it is convenient, the main problem associated with mail order in my experience is returns for an incompatible or bad part. Particularly stuff like RAM and power supplies (for AMD-based PCs).
A good place to see all the good deals is pricegrabber.com. I don't like pricewatch.com because many places stiff you with outrageous shipping. Pricegrabber is more reasonable and have a ratings guide on each vendor. If you really want to use pricewatch, make use of www.resellerratings.com.
Recently, I got a PIII 1GHz laptop with UXGA (1600x1200 native resolution) from Dell for $1000 shipped, after rebate. Difficult to beat that. What does this mean? It means you need to do your homework to know whether building a PC or buying a pre-built is a better deal. Another good site to get good specific deals is techbargains.com. For general deals, they also rely on pricegrabber.
Do companies get special treatment when they've been convicted of a crime or is it just Microsoft? According to http://news.com.com/2100-1001-937326.html,
the judge asked both sides to seek a compromise and "asked the plaintiff states "how could the defendant's proposed remedy be modified to make its terms more acceptable to plaintiffs." She also asked what changes the states would make to their remedy to satisfy issues raised during the court proceeding while still maintaining the remedy's goals."
So if some normal schmoe is convicted of a crime, does this person get to have remedies changed so it's more "acceptable"?
I'd have to agree that the dragon book is required reading if one wants to know about parser theory. However, it is a very dense book and without proper guidance, one can get very confused. Much of the examples are applicable on a theoretical level since the tools mentioned have limitations like all variables used by yacc is global to the program and is not reentrant. It's better to get the theory from dragon and then apply it to more modern tools than lex and yacc. But I haven't gone through the other links others have mentioned but I would recommend dragon as a last resort. If you want to come up to speed quickly, dragon will not help you do that.
Unfortunately, Mac OS X uses netinfo to store most of its information and all of the information, including passwords, are available to anyone who can execute nidump. i.e. nidump passwd.
I'm surprised nobody has added what has been mentioned in prior XBox stories here. People who want to see the XBox go under shouldn't rush out and buy them because Microsoft is losing money; rather, they should not buy it. If enough people purchase XBoxes, the product may reach critical mass that probably will reduce its production costs even more. Critical mass will also create the mindset of the XBox is successful, which will create more legitimate sales. It doesn't matter if most of these machines aren't used for native games--the statistics will spin to say that XBox is successful.
I don't find the back, forward, reload, stop, and select all very useful. These functions are all available via the keyboard or navigational buttons. Problem with the context menus is that when you're right-clicking on some link at the bottom of the screen, the contextual menu will display with the first menu item above where your cursor is and it slows down selection. It's much better if I use , -, to do these things because these keys never move regardless of where my cursor is.
When HP purchased Apollo in 1989/1990, it was a vertical acquisition as well. Marketshare for that business space at HP stayed the same at the end of the transaction while Sun gained marketshare.
HP buying Apollo was also a much smaller acquisition. What makes you think that HP, merging with a much larger company will have a better chance of it being a success than when it bought Apollo?
I've had good luck with using XMLsoft's XML parser using the traditional C interface. The website provides both DOM and SAX paradigms. You'd use DOM if you want to read the entire XML file into memory into a tree structure and grab various XPATHs; use SAX if you're only interested in a small subset of the XML file. A DOM/XSLT processor is provided so all you need is to write your XSLT templates.
SAX just provides the hooks that tells you whether you're at the beginning, end, of a tag, document, characters, and so forth but doesn't allow you to reference items you've already looked at--that's your program's job. It's more efficient and faster than DOM in this sense; however as your needs of the total XPATHs of your document approaches its entirety, the time saved using SAX will diminish towards the performance of DOM so you're better off using DOM/XSLT since the maintenance is easier.
Performance wise, I found the XMLsoft version to be 2X, more or less, than that of a parser written in Java using Oracle's XML library depending on the size of the XML document. There are some features missing in XMLsoft's version but it is constantly being updated and feature gaps eliminated.
Do a google search for XSLT FAQ for more info on DOM/XSLT. XSLT is quite a beast.
Check out http://asuaf.org/~joshua/storage/optical.html
for a cross-sectional diagram of a CD. This is the case for both factory-pressed CDs as well as CD-Rs and CD-RWs. Designers would want to leverage most manufacturing of CDs for CD-Rs and CD-RWs and besides the organic material for CD-Rs/RWs, everything else is the same.
Actually, CDs are made up of a metallic aluminum (or gold) layer sandwiched between a tough polycarbonate layer and a very thin lacquer layer. The label is printed on top of this layer of lacquer, which is much more sensitive to damage than the underside.
According to Behind The Mask of Spider-Man: The Secrets of the Movie by Mark Cotta Vaz, Stan Lee who wrote the forward stated "When I dreamed up Spidey, I wanted to be sure his name wouldn't be confused with another not inconsequential hero named Superman. So I purposely put a hyphen between Spider and Man. That made the magazine's masthead look totally different from the one featuring the cat from Krypton."
Many of Ferrari's mundane parts are mass produced, courtesy of Fiat. Or does someone else own Ferrari? Haven't followed their recent history.
I feel the best oil you can get is Redline. Don't know how much Ferrari oil is, but US$7 or so for a quart isn't too bad if you're concerned about performance.
This is an interesting topic and is brought up every now and again in car mailing lists and Usenet.
Apparently, having aftermarket parts installed on your car does not void your warranty; but if an aftermarket part is directly responsible for a specific failure then that service is not covered. But enough dealers give people with aftermarket parts a hard time forcing most to just take them off before going to the dealer. Of course, there are those who abuse this (at least in California) law.
Yes, but replacing stock exhaust and air intake with aftermarket parts aren't really "hacking" in my opinion.
The real "fun" begins when you've either replaced your ECU with a piggyback programmable device or something like a Motec. Once you're able to adjust your fuel/air maps, you're able to extract the most potential from your car; but then that's when complacency will bite you if you're not careful.
One of the problems with tuners is that they add more power without accounting for aging of components. This isn't usually a problem in racing since you're rebuilding your components after every or a number of races. But for "hackers," they often tune it and forget it--or tune it and increase the mods. Sometime down the road, they'll blow a piston or apex seal without warning. Not to mention several thousand dollars' down the drain.
I personally prefer more conservative tuning, but then when some guy beats you during an ad-hoc "race," your first instinct is "gotta get mo' power."
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I got a portable that has XP home installed and found that security issues are a problem since cywin likes to put different users' home directories in /cygwin/home. XP home doesn't protect directories outside of the user's Document and Settings directory so you need to do something extra if your PC is used by more than one person. Either use something like junction points or manually use the cacls command to protect your cygwin directory structure.
I have the best of both worlds--the physically split keyboard with tenting manufacturered by IBM (later Lexmark), called the Select Ease. It's not heavy like the old IBM PC/AT keyboards, but still has the same tactile feel but with the ergonomics that's superior to the Microsoft version because the pieces are separate and adjustable. My trackball is in-between which enables me to use either hand to control the mouse.
Actually, he wasn't sure as per his website www.wilwheaton.net. Current info is at Coming Attractions by Corona
...since you'll probably wait a couple of hours for the thing to finish formatting. And imagine backing that sucker up--I know that many don't have backups of our primary drive. Better get a large-capacity medium to do that.
I hear that Sanyo is the OEM for Plextor. Sanyo also invented Burn-Proof.
Actually, data on a CD is not multilayer. The data is on one surface. If you look edgewise on a CD, notice that the data side is very very close to the label area. If there weren't any labels, and you tried to play the CD label-side "down" you won't be able to read it because the laser won't be able to focus on the data since it's now too close to the optics.
A good place to see all the good deals is pricegrabber.com. I don't like pricewatch.com because many places stiff you with outrageous shipping. Pricegrabber is more reasonable and have a ratings guide on each vendor. If you really want to use pricewatch, make use of www.resellerratings.com.
Recently, I got a PIII 1GHz laptop with UXGA (1600x1200 native resolution) from Dell for $1000 shipped, after rebate. Difficult to beat that. What does this mean? It means you need to do your homework to know whether building a PC or buying a pre-built is a better deal. Another good site to get good specific deals is techbargains.com. For general deals, they also rely on pricegrabber.
So if some normal schmoe is convicted of a crime, does this person get to have remedies changed so it's more "acceptable"?
I'd have to agree that the dragon book is required reading if one wants to know about parser theory. However, it is a very dense book and without proper guidance, one can get very confused. Much of the examples are applicable on a theoretical level since the tools mentioned have limitations like all variables used by yacc is global to the program and is not reentrant. It's better to get the theory from dragon and then apply it to more modern tools than lex and yacc. But I haven't gone through the other links others have mentioned but I would recommend dragon as a last resort. If you want to come up to speed quickly, dragon will not help you do that.
Unfortunately, Mac OS X uses netinfo to store most of its information and all of the information, including passwords, are available to anyone who can execute nidump. i.e. nidump passwd .
I'm surprised nobody has added what has been mentioned in prior XBox stories here. People who want to see the XBox go under shouldn't rush out and buy them because Microsoft is losing money; rather, they should not buy it. If enough people purchase XBoxes, the product may reach critical mass that probably will reduce its production costs even more. Critical mass will also create the mindset of the XBox is successful, which will create more legitimate sales. It doesn't matter if most of these machines aren't used for native games--the statistics will spin to say that XBox is successful.
I don't find the back, forward, reload, stop, and select all very useful. These functions are all available via the keyboard or navigational buttons. Problem with the context menus is that when you're right-clicking on some link at the bottom of the screen, the contextual menu will display with the first menu item above where your cursor is and it slows down selection. It's much better if I use , -, to do these things because these keys never move regardless of where my cursor is.
When HP purchased Apollo in 1989/1990, it was a vertical acquisition as well. Marketshare for that business space at HP stayed the same at the end of the transaction while Sun gained marketshare.
HP buying Apollo was also a much smaller acquisition. What makes you think that HP, merging with a much larger company will have a better chance of it being a success than when it bought Apollo?
SAX just provides the hooks that tells you whether you're at the beginning, end, of a tag, document, characters, and so forth but doesn't allow you to reference items you've already looked at--that's your program's job. It's more efficient and faster than DOM in this sense; however as your needs of the total XPATHs of your document approaches its entirety, the time saved using SAX will diminish towards the performance of DOM so you're better off using DOM/XSLT since the maintenance is easier.
Performance wise, I found the XMLsoft version to be 2X, more or less, than that of a parser written in Java using Oracle's XML library depending on the size of the XML document. There are some features missing in XMLsoft's version but it is constantly being updated and feature gaps eliminated.
Do a google search for XSLT FAQ for more info on DOM/XSLT. XSLT is quite a beast.
Check out http://asuaf.org/~joshua/storage/optical.html for a cross-sectional diagram of a CD. This is the case for both factory-pressed CDs as well as CD-Rs and CD-RWs. Designers would want to leverage most manufacturing of CDs for CD-Rs and CD-RWs and besides the organic material for CD-Rs/RWs, everything else is the same.
Sure about that? Their website states multibeam. Multiread is what I thought of CD-ROM drives that can read CD-RW discs.
Actually, CDs are made up of a metallic aluminum (or gold) layer sandwiched between a tough polycarbonate layer and a very thin lacquer layer. The label is printed on top of this layer of lacquer, which is much more sensitive to damage than the underside.
According to Behind The Mask of Spider-Man: The Secrets of the Movie by Mark Cotta Vaz, Stan Lee who wrote the forward stated "When I dreamed up Spidey, I wanted to be sure his name wouldn't be confused with another not inconsequential hero named Superman. So I purposely put a hyphen between Spider and Man. That made the magazine's masthead look totally different from the one featuring the cat from Krypton."
But according to the article, the Intel G-bit card dropped 100% of the packets in spurts for no explanable reason. I'd stay from Intel cards for now.
Definitely needs a new name/acronym if it has any bugs...
Honda does make a fast car: NSX.
Many of Ferrari's mundane parts are mass produced, courtesy of Fiat. Or does someone else own Ferrari? Haven't followed their recent history.
I feel the best oil you can get is Redline. Don't know how much Ferrari oil is, but US$7 or so for a quart isn't too bad if you're concerned about performance.
This is an interesting topic and is brought up every now and again in car mailing lists and Usenet.
Apparently, having aftermarket parts installed on your car does not void your warranty; but if an aftermarket part is directly responsible for a specific failure then that service is not covered. But enough dealers give people with aftermarket parts a hard time forcing most to just take them off before going to the dealer. Of course, there are those who abuse this (at least in California) law.
Yes, but replacing stock exhaust and air intake with aftermarket parts aren't really "hacking" in my opinion.
The real "fun" begins when you've either replaced your ECU with a piggyback programmable device or something like a Motec. Once you're able to adjust your fuel/air maps, you're able to extract the most potential from your car; but then that's when complacency will bite you if you're not careful.
One of the problems with tuners is that they add more power without accounting for aging of components. This isn't usually a problem in racing since you're rebuilding your components after every or a number of races. But for "hackers," they often tune it and forget it--or tune it and increase the mods. Sometime down the road, they'll blow a piston or apex seal without warning. Not to mention several thousand dollars' down the drain.
I personally prefer more conservative tuning, but then when some guy beats you during an ad-hoc "race," your first instinct is "gotta get mo' power."
My Mazda has 0 valves and 0 cylinders and it can still kick some serious butt.