The name 'C' is not trademarked (could it ever be?) and hence there are no restrictions on its use. Furthermore, the GCC documentation explicitly states its deviance from the standard. The CDDA logo is trademarked and the licenced under the condition that discs and players bearing the logo conform to the CDDA specifications. So I think it would be illegal to use this logo on a non-standard disc. I haven't seen it used on many discs anyway, though.
No it won't. First, the behaviour of rand() is implementation-dependent. Second, most implementations produce all their possible outputs (typically 2**16) in a fixed cyclic order.
So the 1986 attack on Libya hit Gaddafi's home by accident? And the CIA never planned the assassination of Castro? And the USA had nothing to do with the assassination of Allende in Chile?
The ISA bus was fairly tightly coupled to the 8086/8 processor bus, but it still exists in many modern PCs where the processor bus has changed out of all recognition, and I remember there being ISA bridges for the Amiga.
I found I could even fall asleep while taking notes. My writing would degenerate into a random wavy line. When my head slumped forward, the shock would cause me to wake up for another minute or so.
There's already a system for this, and it doesn't involve having other people do the work for you and getting it wrong. You can define a list of domains to search under before interpreting a domain name as absolute. The downside, of course, is that the search may take some time.
Under Unix you can put a line in your resolv.conf file like this: "search fr com". Under Windows you can enter "DNS suffixes" of "fr" and "com" somewhere in the TCP/IP configuration dialogs. Then www.coca-cola will resolve to www.coca-cola.fr while www.superpages will resolve to www.superpages.com since there is no www.superpages.fr.
Actually you could use [ssn].[first].[last].us. Athough SSNs are not unique, no SSN should be assigned to two people with the same name. (But what happens if you wish to change your name, and your chosen name happens to be that of someone who shares your SSN?) Unfortunately, there are still people who believe that SSNs are secret and will accept them as proof of identity.:-(
Smart cards don't help you much if the PC you plug them into has been compromised. Unless the smart card has its own display which can show you what it's being asked to sign, and a button to allow/deny this - and I've never seen any arrangement like that - then the software on the PC could use it to sign a completely different message from the one you wanted to send.
Uranium doesn't put off gamma rays, just alpha (and I'm sure that if I'm wrong, somebody will point it out.) Much harder to detect when the device is shielded with a couple of inches of lead.
I thought lead is what you'd need to stop gamma rays. The material of a normal suitcase should be enough to stop alpha rays. Of course, the required level of shielding depends on the level of radiation as well as its type, so maybe lead would be necessary here.
It's not a memory problem. Sadly, Windows 98 is still using graphics and UI systems derived from Windows 3, with internal tables limited to 64K in size. Windows 2000 doesn't have this problem.
I agree with you, accept that you are incorrect in saying "ATA only allows for two buses" which is incorrect. There are only two well-known sets of I/O addresses for ATA interfaces, but it's possible to have many more. There are 2 on my motherboard and another on my sound card (yes it really is an ATA interface, not a proprietary CD-ROM interface). I think Linux allows for up to 8 or 10 ATA interfaces.
The keyboard controller is not involved in memory access; it's only used to enable or disable one of the address lines. If this is enabled while the processor runs in real mode, another 64 KB of memory beyond the 1 MB mark is accessible. For total compatibility with real-mode software written for the 8086 it must be disabled. If it wasn't for the continued use of DOS while memory got much cheaper, no-one would have had to care about it, but some bright sparks decided that it would be useful to get that extra 64 KB while running DOS.
The old CMOS configuration format used something like 1 byte for number of heads, 10 bits for number of cylinders (1-based), and 6 bits for number of sectors per track. Hence you can specify up to 255 heads, 1024 cylinders, and 63 sectors/track. I think the same format is used for the parameters of BIOS calls for reading and writing disk sectors, which are used by DOS and by the first stages of boot loaders. This results in a limit of about 8 GB.
The IDE C/H/S addressing mode allows something like 4 bits for head number, 10 bits for cylinder number, and 14 bits for sector number. If the BIOS uses this mode and doesn't invent a new geometry for use in BIOS calls then it can only work with drives that claim geometries of up to 16 heads, 63 cylinders, 1024 sectors. This results in a limit of about 504 MiB or 528 MB in older BIOSes.
If the drive had to tell the truth about its geometry then the limits would be even smaller.
I'd guess that the filenames are stored in UTF-8. If it's possible to convince zsh that non-ASCII characters are OK, and if the terminal can handle UTF-8, then it might be possible to display them properly.
I think that the personal cassette player was invented and patented in the US before the Sony Walkman. However, the inventor made the mistake of including a belt and belt-clip in the design and not claiming for a player that did not use those.
Which is less than the global average of $12.923 (according to the international version of the previously mentioned Bill Gates Personal Wealth Clock).
Automatically delete user directories that have not been accessed within the last days. This is an effective mechanism for only keeping information on the system for active users. (ON)
It sounds like this really means roaming profiles under NT. These are stored centrally and copied to and from other machines in the domain as necessary when a user logs on and off. They are not deleted when a user logs off - instead they are cached. So this may just be an option to clean up the cache, which NT doesn't do and which is a useful feature.
There are two problems here - first, fluff like copyright information is being printk'd at too high an importance level, and second, the minimum level for display defaults to KERN_DEBUG (lowest level). The changes being proposed are that fluff should be printk'd at a lower importance level and the minimum level for display should be higher by default. That would not stop you from specifying a lower minimum level to dmesg (which currently also defaults to KERN_DEBUG) and seeing messages which were suppressed from display at boot time.
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Then there are 'punitive' damages, i.e. to compensate you for ongoing pain, suffering, mental anguish, permanent dexterity loss, etc., that you have suffered and/or will continue to suffer for years.
No! Punitive damages are meant to punish the guilty party, hence the name. Sometimes a defendant is found to have made a calculated decision to break the law because the expected financial benefit of doing so was greater than the expected damages. As I understand things, the threat of punitive damages is intended to deter such calculation.
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The name 'C' is not trademarked (could it ever be?) and hence there are no restrictions on its use. Furthermore, the GCC documentation explicitly states its deviance from the standard. The CDDA logo is trademarked and the licenced under the condition that discs and players bearing the logo conform to the CDDA specifications. So I think it would be illegal to use this logo on a non-standard disc. I haven't seen it used on many discs anyway, though.
No it won't. First, the behaviour of rand() is implementation-dependent. Second, most implementations produce all their possible outputs (typically 2**16) in a fixed cyclic order.
So the 1986 attack on Libya hit Gaddafi's home by accident? And the CIA never planned the assassination of Castro? And the USA had nothing to do with the assassination of Allende in Chile?
The ISA bus was fairly tightly coupled to the 8086/8 processor bus, but it still exists in many modern PCs where the processor bus has changed out of all recognition, and I remember there being ISA bridges for the Amiga.
I found I could even fall asleep while taking notes. My writing would degenerate into a random wavy line. When my head slumped forward, the shock would cause me to wake up for another minute or so.
There's already a system for this, and it doesn't involve having other people do the work for you and getting it wrong. You can define a list of domains to search under before interpreting a domain name as absolute. The downside, of course, is that the search may take some time.
Under Unix you can put a line in your resolv.conf file like this: "search fr com". Under Windows you can enter "DNS suffixes" of "fr" and "com" somewhere in the TCP/IP configuration dialogs. Then www.coca-cola will resolve to www.coca-cola.fr while www.superpages will resolve to www.superpages.com since there is no www.superpages.fr.
Actually you could use [ssn].[first].[last].us. Athough SSNs are not unique, no SSN should be assigned to two people with the same name. (But what happens if you wish to change your name, and your chosen name happens to be that of someone who shares your SSN?) Unfortunately, there are still people who believe that SSNs are secret and will accept them as proof of identity. :-(
Nitpick: GNU tar has an option to pipe files through bunzip2. It doesn't have internal support for either gzip or bzip2.
In the UK, and presumably also in Australia, representatives of all candidates in the election can be present as observers during counting.
Smart cards don't help you much if the PC you plug them into has been compromised. Unless the smart card has its own display which can show you what it's being asked to sign, and a button to allow/deny this - and I've never seen any arrangement like that - then the software on the PC could use it to sign a completely different message from the one you wanted to send.
Probably takes them in a car, too.
I thought lead is what you'd need to stop gamma rays. The material of a normal suitcase should be enough to stop alpha rays. Of course, the required level of shielding depends on the level of radiation as well as its type, so maybe lead would be necessary here.
That would be 35 MB of virtual memory, which will gradually get moved into your swap-file.
It's not a memory problem. Sadly, Windows 98 is still using graphics and UI systems derived from Windows 3, with internal tables limited to 64K in size. Windows 2000 doesn't have this problem.
I agree with you, accept that you are incorrect in saying "ATA only allows for two buses" which is incorrect. There are only two well-known sets of I/O addresses for ATA interfaces, but it's possible to have many more. There are 2 on my motherboard and another on my sound card (yes it really is an ATA interface, not a proprietary CD-ROM interface). I think Linux allows for up to 8 or 10 ATA interfaces.
The keyboard controller is not involved in memory access; it's only used to enable or disable one of the address lines. If this is enabled while the processor runs in real mode, another 64 KB of memory beyond the 1 MB mark is accessible. For total compatibility with real-mode software written for the 8086 it must be disabled. If it wasn't for the continued use of DOS while memory got much cheaper, no-one would have had to care about it, but some bright sparks decided that it would be useful to get that extra 64 KB while running DOS.
The old CMOS configuration format used something like 1 byte for number of heads, 10 bits for number of cylinders (1-based), and 6 bits for number of sectors per track. Hence you can specify up to 255 heads, 1024 cylinders, and 63 sectors/track. I think the same format is used for the parameters of BIOS calls for reading and writing disk sectors, which are used by DOS and by the first stages of boot loaders. This results in a limit of about 8 GB.
The IDE C/H/S addressing mode allows something like 4 bits for head number, 10 bits for cylinder number, and 14 bits for sector number. If the BIOS uses this mode and doesn't invent a new geometry for use in BIOS calls then it can only work with drives that claim geometries of up to 16 heads, 63 cylinders, 1024 sectors. This results in a limit of about 504 MiB or 528 MB in older BIOSes.
If the drive had to tell the truth about its geometry then the limits would be even smaller.
I'd guess that the filenames are stored in UTF-8. If it's possible to convince zsh that non-ASCII characters are OK, and if the terminal can handle UTF-8, then it might be possible to display them properly.
I think that the personal cassette player was invented and patented in the US before the Sony Walkman. However, the inventor made the mistake of including a belt and belt-clip in the design and not claiming for a player that did not use those.
Which is less than the global average of $12.923 (according to the international version of the previously mentioned Bill Gates Personal Wealth Clock).
It sounds like this really means roaming profiles under NT. These are stored centrally and copied to and from other machines in the domain as necessary when a user logs on and off. They are not deleted when a user logs off - instead they are cached. So this may just be an option to clean up the cache, which NT doesn't do and which is a useful feature.
There are two problems here - first, fluff like copyright information is being printk'd at too high an importance level, and second, the minimum level for display defaults to KERN_DEBUG (lowest level). The changes being proposed are that fluff should be printk'd at a lower importance level and the minimum level for display should be higher by default. That would not stop you from specifying a lower minimum level to dmesg (which currently also defaults to KERN_DEBUG) and seeing messages which were suppressed from display at boot time.
That's disgusting.
No! Punitive damages are meant to punish the guilty party, hence the name. Sometimes a defendant is found to have made a calculated decision to break the law because the expected financial benefit of doing so was greater than the expected damages. As I understand things, the threat of punitive damages is intended to deter such calculation.
Er, all Nextel phones are made by Motorola.