As someone who has ran dual-cpu workstations for years, I can personally attest to the fact that 99% of CPU heavy tasks do not make use of SMP.
CPU-heavy tasks aren't the target. Intel and AMD have picked up on a very important trend in computing that you are overlooking. While one core runs your word processor, web browser, spreadsheet, etc., the other core handes the 100 spyware programs that are running on your computer. Sure, a few years ago one core would have been enough, but not for the modern Windows user.
After all, how long would it take to go through all the valid SSNs and generate an MD5 cross-reference.
Good point. I was just trying to say that it should have been encrypted in some way, so that if the results needed to be mapped back to the original data set, it could be, but Berkley should never have been given actual SSNs. I was too sloppy about it. Something (unknown to the recipient) could be appended to the SSN before MD5, or ID numbers independent of SSN could have been used.
The title says it included SSNs but the article doesn't mention them.
The Security Focus article does mention them: "The compromised system had the names, addresses, phone numbers, social security numbers and dates of birth of everyone who..."
Now, why in the world they were handed a bunch of social security numbers (instead of MD5's of the numbers) to store is a mystery to me.
Incidentally, is there any good reason why people like the other way? (i.e. braces aligned)
1) If you ever end up with mismatched braces you can do this:
egrep '{|}' program.c to get an overview of the braces to more easily find the mismatch (no "if" or "for" stuff to clutter it). This is probably less useful with modern editors that do brace matching.
2) Personally, I think it makes it easier to skim the code. For example, look at:
if (condition)
x = y;
and then look at:
if (condition)
{
x = y;
a = b;
}
When reading either of the above, I think "If I care about what happens when the condition is satisfied, indent one level and read, otherwise skip to the next line with the same level of indentation." If you do braces the other way, when you skip forward to the next line with the same level of indentation you may or may not run into a "}", which seems out of place to me (i.e. the braces are part of the statement to be executed, not part of the "if"). Just my opinion though. Do whatever makes you happy.
Microsoft reports that half of all computer crashes reported by its customers are caused by spyware and its equivalents. Dell reports that spyware is responsible for more than 12 percent of all technical support calls.
They think there is something to patent here? Seems like there should be prior art all over the place. At MagPortal.com we have been using software to repair our links to articles for years.
David is the kalarm guy. Kalarm may not be the biggest open source project, but his responsiveness about bug reports and feature requests has been amazing.
So you spam a bunch of voters and 0.01% have a positive reaction to your message while 99.99% hate your guts for spamming them. How does that get you elected?
Non-political spam works because the 99.99% of recipients who hate your spam have no recourse. In politics, those 99.99% can vote against you.
I think that what the TidBITS people are doing with ebooks is a good example of what a lot of traditional publishers are missing out on. There have been a number of publishers that have made articles freely accessible online and tried to sell banner advertising. When that doesn't work out, they simply make their articles "subscriber only," which shrinks their online audience greatly (and sinks search engine rankings since nobody is motivated to link to inaccessible articles) and eliminates the possibility of making "add on" revenue producers like ebooks impractical.
For example, an industry publication could make articles freely accessible to bring in traffic and then earn revenue through ebooks, vendor directory lisings, "ask the expert" services, RFP services, industry reports, forum subscriptions, etc. Some publications have dabbled in such things, and some such efforts will inevitably fail, but it seems that many publications don't even try to branch beyond their print approach of simply selling ads.
There were two main reasons for using XUL instead of a web page:
I needed a richer widget set to work with. For example, I needed to use hierarchical trees to display our category list.
HTML is page oriented, so when the user moves from one page to another, a request must be sent to the server and page info sent back to the browser, which may cause delays in places where it is irritating the to user (you could probably work around this with sufficiently complicated JavaScript, but it would be tedious). XUL is for building applications, not individual pages, so it is much easier to download data in a big chunk and allow the user to move through multiple screens/tabs without having to touch the server every time.
OK, you won't use it, but I did recently write a Mozilla application for MagPortal.com to allow our editors to work remotely. We are a Linux shop and our editors mostly use Windows, so it had to be cross-platform. Mozilla/XUL was used for the client application to provide a nice GUI interface (more sophisticated than what you could achieve with normal HTML -- uses widgets like <tree> and transfers data in a way that reduces latency for the user) that transfers XML back and forth across the Internet to the web server for storage. It works very nicely and is quite professional. I am somewhat surprised that you don't hear more noise about companies building custom applications like this with Mozilla.
McFarlane's book was my primary reference for the project. It is a very useful book, but I do agree with the reviewer that the index needs some work. Additionally, make sure you keep an eye on the errata page. I was a bit disappointed that the book didn't talk about how to parse generic XML in your application (look at the parseFromString() member function of DOMParser).
Wow, you think a business should retaliate against its customers because they refuse to deal with MS? Let me know if you run any businesses so I can be sure not to buy from them
More importantly, did you see where it bounced you through some jerk's affiliate link before you got there so that he would get paid if you bought anything?
Spamming works for selling viagra, etc. because you get one sale for sending 100,000 emails and you have little or no negative impact from the 99,999 people that you just pissed off.
If you send 100,000 political spams and that gets you one vote/donation while 99,999 people are now pissed off at you and will vote against you, how does this help your compaign?
My friends ask me if Linux is really worth over $1000?
Actually, it's $699 for the tiny little part of Linux that SCO claims to own. So if SCO's intellectual property makes up a few percent of Linux (yeah, right), then Linux as a whole should be worth several tens of thousands of dollars. And you get it for free!
The problem that I've had with every version of Mozilla I've seen so far is that I can't tell when I have new email under Linux. Under Netscape 4.8, when new mail arrives the mail client icon on the KDE Kicker panel changes so I can see that I have mail even if the mail client is iconified. In Mozilla 1.x or Netscape 7.1 this does not happen, so I can't tell when new mail arrives if the browser and mail client are iconified or covered by other windows. I realize there is an option in preferences for audio notification, but it doesn't seem to work and I really don't want to annoy everyone in my office ever time I get email anyway.
Is there some simple work-around that I don't know about? Are there any plans to fix this? I've raised this issue on mozillazine.org and reported it to Netscape (a few weeks before AOL killed Netscape), but it seems to get no attention. This is a total showstopper for me. Someone please rescue me from having to use Netscape 4.8 for email...
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Those silly "common people"...
While we're on the topic, does anyone know of a use for transparency apart from pretty eye candy?
A transparent kruler could be pretty handy.
As someone who has ran dual-cpu workstations for years, I can personally attest to the fact that 99% of CPU heavy tasks do not make use of SMP.
CPU-heavy tasks aren't the target. Intel and AMD have picked up on a very important trend in computing that you are overlooking. While one core runs your word processor, web browser, spreadsheet, etc., the other core handes the 100 spyware programs that are running on your computer. Sure, a few years ago one core would have been enough, but not for the modern Windows user.
Does it cost $500 to participate in the beta test?
No, it costs $699. Make check payable to SCO.
After all, how long would it take to go through all the valid SSNs and generate an MD5 cross-reference.
Good point. I was just trying to say that it should have been encrypted in some way, so that if the results needed to be mapped back to the original data set, it could be, but Berkley should never have been given actual SSNs. I was too sloppy about it. Something (unknown to the recipient) could be appended to the SSN before MD5, or ID numbers independent of SSN could have been used.
The title says it included SSNs but the article doesn't mention them.
The Security Focus article does mention them: "The compromised system had the names, addresses, phone numbers, social security numbers and dates of birth of everyone who..."
Now, why in the world they were handed a bunch of social security numbers (instead of MD5's of the numbers) to store is a mystery to me.
Incidentally, is there any good reason why people like the other way? (i.e. braces aligned)
1) If you ever end up with mismatched braces you can do this:
egrep '{|}' program.c
to get an overview of the braces to more easily find the mismatch (no "if" or "for" stuff to clutter it). This is probably less useful with modern editors that do brace matching.
2) Personally, I think it makes it easier to skim the code. For example, look at:
if (condition)
x = y;
and then look at:
if (condition)
{
x = y;
a = b;
}
When reading either of the above, I think "If I care about what happens when the condition is satisfied, indent one level and read, otherwise skip to the next line with the same level of indentation." If you do braces the other way, when you skip forward to the next line with the same level of indentation you may or may not run into a "}", which seems out of place to me (i.e. the braces are part of the statement to be executed, not part of the "if"). Just my opinion though. Do whatever makes you happy.
They think there is something to patent here? Seems like there should be prior art all over the place. At MagPortal.com we have been using software to repair our links to articles for years.
David is the kalarm guy. Kalarm may not be the biggest open source project, but his responsiveness about bug reports and feature requests has been amazing.
So you spam a bunch of voters and 0.01% have a positive reaction to your message while 99.99% hate your guts for spamming them. How does that get you elected?
Non-political spam works because the 99.99% of recipients who hate your spam have no recourse. In politics, those 99.99% can vote against you.
I think that what the TidBITS people are doing with ebooks is a good example of what a lot of traditional publishers are missing out on. There have been a number of publishers that have made articles freely accessible online and tried to sell banner advertising. When that doesn't work out, they simply make their articles "subscriber only," which shrinks their online audience greatly (and sinks search engine rankings since nobody is motivated to link to inaccessible articles) and eliminates the possibility of making "add on" revenue producers like ebooks impractical.
For example, an industry publication could make articles freely accessible to bring in traffic and then earn revenue through ebooks, vendor directory lisings, "ask the expert" services, RFP services, industry reports, forum subscriptions, etc. Some publications have dabbled in such things, and some such efforts will inevitably fail, but it seems that many publications don't even try to branch beyond their print approach of simply selling ads.
The increase to 100MB was reported in Motley Fool on May 17.
As this article in BusinessWeek points out, Microsoft is trying to settle and partner rather than fight in court.
Hi Ben,
I emailed you at the address given on the contact page for your website earlier. You can call me at 610-581-7702 whenever you like.
OK, you won't use it, but I did recently write a Mozilla application for MagPortal.com to allow our editors to work remotely. We are a Linux shop and our editors mostly use Windows, so it had to be cross-platform. Mozilla/XUL was used for the client application to provide a nice GUI interface (more sophisticated than what you could achieve with normal HTML -- uses widgets like <tree> and transfers data in a way that reduces latency for the user) that transfers XML back and forth across the Internet to the web server for storage. It works very nicely and is quite professional. I am somewhat surprised that you don't hear more noise about companies building custom applications like this with Mozilla.
McFarlane's book was my primary reference for the project. It is a very useful book, but I do agree with the reviewer that the index needs some work. Additionally, make sure you keep an eye on the errata page. I was a bit disappointed that the book didn't talk about how to parse generic XML in your application (look at the parseFromString() member function of DOMParser).
Wow, you think a business should retaliate against its customers because they refuse to deal with MS? Let me know if you run any businesses so I can be sure not to buy from them
Sounds like he works for SCO.
More importantly, did you see where it bounced you through some jerk's affiliate link before you got there so that he would get paid if you bought anything?
Ugh. I didn't notice that there are two story links (one of them new, one of them not). I'll shut up now.
I guess if the dupe is two months old it is easier to get it past the editors...
Spamming works for selling viagra, etc. because you get one sale for sending 100,000 emails and you have little or no negative impact from the 99,999 people that you just pissed off.
If you send 100,000 political spams and that gets you one vote/donation while 99,999 people are now pissed off at you and will vote against you, how does this help your compaign?
My friends ask me if Linux is really worth over $1000?
Actually, it's $699 for the tiny little part of Linux that SCO claims to own. So if SCO's intellectual property makes up a few percent of Linux (yeah, right), then Linux as a whole should be worth several tens of thousands of dollars. And you get it for free!
The problem that I've had with every version of Mozilla I've seen so far is that I can't tell when I have new email under Linux. Under Netscape 4.8, when new mail arrives the mail client icon on the KDE Kicker panel changes so I can see that I have mail even if the mail client is iconified. In Mozilla 1.x or Netscape 7.1 this does not happen, so I can't tell when new mail arrives if the browser and mail client are iconified or covered by other windows. I realize there is an option in preferences for audio notification, but it doesn't seem to work and I really don't want to annoy everyone in my office ever time I get email anyway.
Is there some simple work-around that I don't know about? Are there any plans to fix this? I've raised this issue on mozillazine.org and reported it to Netscape (a few weeks before AOL killed Netscape), but it seems to get no attention. This is a total showstopper for me. Someone please rescue me from having to use Netscape 4.8 for email...