How about this list of IPs originating spam in chinese? I dont read chinese and dont read BIG5 or GB2312 or EUC-TW. Any emails with chinese language encoding are summarily rejected by my filters:
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the way apple promotes it you'd think apple invented simd.
however, x86 has sse2/sse3/pni. altivec is really needed on g4/g5 in order to compensate for the rest of the platform's performance shortcomings. on x86 it's not so critical.
(*) the mini is much, much cheaper (*) the mini is much more powerful in every way (*) the a9home is not smaller than the mini. the a9home is slightly taller, and only a bit narrower -- but thats because the arm9 has no optical drive. this is not a deskspace/floorspace saver at all. and quite frankly any PC shipping today without an optical drive is utterly stupid. (*) its not even a particularly impressive ARM system either. there are other ARM systems better than the a9home.
basically for mom and pop a mac mini is orders of magnitude a better deal for them, in every concievable way. the a9home is for nostalgic riscos hackers only, and it's pretty clear thats who its targeted at.
and really, if you're obsessed about mac mini deskspace, then your parents must be living in a cardboard box underneath a bridge or something...
I dont think its a good deal at all. There is better and cheaper ARM hardware than this. So I dont quite understand all the hype about this one. Its not special in any particular way, and its quite expensive to boot.
Agreed. This is the major problem with apple (other than apple's terminal case of NIH syndrome).
OSX dictates to the user how they will perform functions. Users are given no choice in how to do things. OSX is a dictatorship, you're forced to use a computer with training wheels on and you can't take them off.
Apple also keeps changing the API on developers. Whenever they manage to do something with OSX that Apple doesn't like, Apple insists on removing or breaking the API so you can't do that anymore. So some very useful utilities have slowly lost functionality over time and OSX revisions.
Re: the updater -- I too have run into the problem where OSX software updater wants to install software you've removed. I've removed itunes from my Mac Mini and all that other trash, but software updater always wants to keep 'upgrading it', even though I told it not to.
The only reason to buy this is if you absolutely must run RiscOS. That is its only real feature.
In every other detail it loses vs a SFF PC or Mac Mini. It's not smaller or faster. It's also much more expensive.
I'm not even sure this is a particularly great ARM platform either. I've seen other small ARM systems which were similarly equipped and much cheaper to boot.
I'm not sure RiscOS really reached any significant popularity outside the UK. It appears to me this is more of a nostalgia effort much like the amiga revival projects.
Now you know why the BSA wants bittorrent shut down so badly. opensource is threat to their bottom line, and bittorrent is an excellent method for opensource distribution.
kill bittorrent = hurt opensource = major win for the BSA.
You can sue the US govt and the US govt does get sued all the time. And civilians win judgements againt the US govt too, and on rare occasions against the individual government officials responsible as well.
Suing the USPTO would just be more of the same. Though I'm unaware of anyone having sued the USPTO.
By being able to reasonably guess what another program is doing, you can design attacks around it. You dont have to target stuff as specific as crypto keys.
Stuff like timing attacks. A timing attack that might have been difficult or impossible before, may be possible or trivial now.
remember you're talking about an industry that has publically stated they feel that going to the bathroom for a potty break during commercials is theft of revenue and "immoral".
Ohhh man, I can't think of any better way to insure a dead apple than using java for cocoa. The complaints about OSX 10.0 being slow and unstable were legion -- and that was native binary objc and c. If it were java apple would have been dead -- nobody would have tolerated it.
Fortunately you do not design operating systems:-)
That was part of it, the other part was BeOS was incomplete and largely broken -- it had significant design flaws and would require far too much work to fix it and get it to do what apple wanted, while mach/bsd/etc met their needs nearly perfectly out of the box.
You forget -- Apple tried several times to create a replacement os. nukernel, Pink, Copland, etc. -- all utter failures.
They eventually gave up and went with mach/gcc/etc. It is notable that apple did briefly look at BeOS and rejected it outright.
Sure, it's possible apple could have licensed QNX or whatnot -- but OSX would be much lesser if they had. They couldn't have licensed WinCE because WinCE didn't exist at the time apple was writing their new OS.
I've never heard anyone claim 10.4 is largely developed by the open source community. Sounds like a strawman to me.
The OSX you have today would be a radically different beast had they not gone FOSS. Its quite possible OSX would not even exist at all, and where would apple be today without OSX?
These are precision devices with moving parts. They will fail, it's inevitable.
The problem is that platter densities have become astoundingly high, and failure rates have increased accordingly.
I've owned literally hundreds of drives and no manufacturer is noticeably better than the other (with the exception of the infamous IBM GXP fiasco). Often people will 'swear by' some manufacturer -- right up until their first drive failure.
The best you can do is buy a drive with a sufficiently long warranty, and replace the drive when the warranty expires.
There are only a few things you can do to extend your drive life, the easiest is cooling. The second is dont spin them up and down all the time. The third is make sure they have good, constant clean power -- ditch the old shitty PSU in your PC and get a decent one. And a good UPS.
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How about this list of IPs originating spam in chinese? I dont read chinese and dont read BIG5 or GB2312 or EUC-TW. Any emails with chinese language encoding are summarily rejected by my filters:
[211.100.226.52], reject=554 5.7.1 thank you for your support of falun gong/free tibet now/free and democratic china.
[211.100.226.6], reject=554 5.7.1 thank you for your support of falun gong/free tibet now/free and democratic china.
[211.139.61.110], reject=554 5.7.1 thank you for your support of falun gong/free tibet now/free and democratic china.
[211.162.182.2], reject=554 5.7.1 thank you for your support of falun gong/free tibet now/free and democratic china.
[211.162.233.3], reject=554 5.7.1 thank you for your support of falun gong/free tibet now/free and democratic china.
[211.162.249.133], reject=554 5.7.1 thank you for your support of falun gong/free tibet now/free and democratic china.
[211.162.30.114], reject=554 5.7.1 thank you for your support of falun gong/free tibet now/free and democratic china.
[218.11.75.123], reject=554 5.7.1 thank you for your support of falun gong/free tibet now/free and democratic china.
[218.13.89.58], reject=554 5.7.1 thank you for your support of falun gong/free tibet now/free and democratic china.
[218.17.238.163], reject=554 5.7.1 thank you for your support of falun gong/free tibet now/free and democratic china.
[218.17.82.102], reject=554 5.7.1 thank you for your support of falun gong/free tibet now/free and democratic china.
[218.18.212.221], reject=554 5.7.1 thank you for your support of falun gong/free tibet now/free and democratic china.
[218.18.74.226], reject=554 5.7.1 thank you for your support of falun gong/free tibet now/free and democratic china.
[218.18.86.27], reject=554 5.7.1 thank you for your support of falun gong/free tibet now/free and democratic china.
[218.19.96.234], reject=554 5.7.1 thank you for your support of falun gong/free tibet now/free and democratic china.
[218.20.58.103], reject=554 5.7.1 thank you for your support of falun gong/free tibet now/free and democratic china.
[218.2.199.251], reject=554 5.7.1 thank you for your support of falun gong/free tibet now/free and democratic china.
[218.4.247.80], reject=554 5.7.1 thank you for your support of falun gong/free tibet now/free and democratic china.
[218.71.165.253], reject=554 5.7.1 thank you for your support of falun gong/free tibet now/free and democratic china.
[218.71.205.30], reject=554 5.7.1 thank you for your support of falun gong/free tibet now/free and democratic china.
[218.71.222.187], reject=554 5.7.1 thank you for your support of falun gong/free tibet now/free and democratic china.
[61.144.184.8], reject=554 5.7.1 thank you for your support of falun gong/free tibet now/free and democratic china.
[61.149.100.140], reject=554 5.7.1 thank you for your support of falun gong/free tibet now/free and democratic china.
[61.149.102.114], reject=554 5.7.1 thank you for your support of falun gong/free tibet now/free and democratic china.
[61.149.102.135], reject=554 5.7.1 thank you for your support of falun gong/free tibet now/free and democratic china.
[61.149.103.11], reject=554 5.7.1 thank you for your support of falun gong/free tibet now/free and democratic china.
[61.149.131.87], reject=554 5.7.1 thank you for your support of falun gong/free tibet now/free and democratic china.
[61.149.134.110], reject=554 5.7.1 thank you for your support of falun gong/free tibet now/free and democratic china.
[61.149.153.81], reject=554 5.7.1 thank you for your support of falun gong/free tibet now/free and democratic china.
[61.149.178.5], reject=554 5.7.1 thank you for your support of falun gong/free tibet now/free and democratic china.
[61.149.204.30], reject=554 5.7.1 thank you for your support of falun gong/free tibet now/free and democratic china.
[61.149.206.7], reject=554 5.7.1 thank you for your support of falun gong/free tibet now/free and democratic china.
[61.149.55.188], reject=554 5.7.1 thank
freescale (coldfire) is doing just fine, almost universally used in automotive and portable audio. niche markets yes, but very large ones.
altivec is nothing unique.
the way apple promotes it you'd think apple invented simd.
however, x86 has sse2/sse3/pni. altivec is really needed on g4/g5 in order to compensate for the rest of the platform's performance shortcomings. on x86 it's not so critical.
(*) the mini is much, much cheaper
(*) the mini is much more powerful in every way
(*) the a9home is not smaller than the mini. the a9home is slightly taller, and only a bit narrower -- but thats because the arm9 has no optical drive. this is not a deskspace/floorspace saver at all. and quite frankly any PC shipping today without an optical drive is utterly stupid.
(*) its not even a particularly impressive ARM system either. there are other ARM systems better than the a9home.
basically for mom and pop a mac mini is orders of magnitude a better deal for them, in every concievable way. the a9home is for nostalgic riscos hackers only, and it's pretty clear thats who its targeted at.
and really, if you're obsessed about mac mini deskspace, then your parents must be living in a cardboard box underneath a bridge or something...
I dont think its a good deal at all. There is better and cheaper ARM hardware than this. So I dont quite understand all the hype about this one. Its not special in any particular way, and its quite expensive to boot.
The mac mini is a better deal for mom and pop though. Orders of magnitude more powerful and expandable than this ARM PC, and cheaper to boot.
ps/2 to usb convertors are dead cheap. i got one for US$5 which handles both ps/2 keyboard _and_ ps/2 mouse, and its tiny.
including ps/2 on any new design is stupid.
Agreed. This is the major problem with apple (other than apple's terminal case of NIH syndrome).
OSX dictates to the user how they will perform functions. Users are given no choice in how to do things. OSX is a dictatorship, you're forced to use a computer with training wheels on and you can't take them off.
Apple also keeps changing the API on developers. Whenever they manage to do something with OSX that Apple doesn't like, Apple insists on removing or breaking the API so you can't do that anymore. So some very useful utilities have slowly lost functionality over time and OSX revisions.
Re: the updater -- I too have run into the problem where OSX software updater wants to install software you've removed. I've removed itunes from my Mac Mini and all that other trash, but software updater always wants to keep 'upgrading it', even though I told it not to.
The only reason to buy this is if you absolutely must run RiscOS. That is its only real feature.
In every other detail it loses vs a SFF PC or Mac Mini. It's not smaller or faster. It's also much more expensive.
I'm not even sure this is a particularly great ARM platform either. I've seen other small ARM systems which were similarly equipped and much cheaper to boot.
I'm not sure RiscOS really reached any significant popularity outside the UK. It appears to me this is more of a nostalgia effort much like the amiga revival projects.
They are stupid though.
We instruct them dont open these attachments in weekly meetings.
We circulate memos telling them dont open these attachments.
We tell them in person face to face dont open these attachments.
So what do they do?
They open those attachments anyway.
Then when their computer goes to shit, "oops, guess I shouldnt have opened that attachment, huh?"
I don't know any other way to describe these users except "stupid". If you know a better word for the above, please let me know.
Now you know why the BSA wants bittorrent shut down so badly. opensource is threat to their bottom line, and bittorrent is an excellent method for opensource distribution.
kill bittorrent = hurt opensource = major win for the BSA.
castro doesnt smoke cigars any more.
You can sue the US govt and the US govt does get sued all the time. And civilians win judgements againt the US govt too, and on rare occasions against the individual government officials responsible as well.
Suing the USPTO would just be more of the same. Though I'm unaware of anyone having sued the USPTO.
no, because that's not what you said. you gave a very specific domain name.
/. rules of not checking anything before you post. congratulations, you're now perfectly qualified to join /. staff.
guess you've learned the
i anxiously await your first triple post!
There's a whole damned revolution waiting on opensource.apple.com and nobody's paying attention to it.
Non-authoritative answer:
*** Can't find opensource.apple.com: No answer
maybe that's why?
By being able to reasonably guess what another program is doing, you can design attacks around it. You dont have to target stuff as specific as crypto keys.
Stuff like timing attacks. A timing attack that might have been difficult or impossible before, may be possible or trivial now.
No crypto involved.
so the price on your immortal soul is higher than satan was willing to pay?
morals and ethics and the desire to not be condemned to eternal hellfire? :)
so did you get the job?
If god is omnipotent, then god is cruel via inaction to allow needless suffering to occur.
If god can't act, then god isn't omnipotent.
remember you're talking about an industry that has publically stated they feel that going to the bathroom for a potty break during commercials is theft of revenue and "immoral".
Ohhh man, I can't think of any better way to insure a dead apple than using java for cocoa. The complaints about OSX 10.0 being slow and unstable were legion -- and that was native binary objc and c. If it were java apple would have been dead -- nobody would have tolerated it.
:-)
Fortunately you do not design operating systems
That was part of it, the other part was BeOS was incomplete and largely broken -- it had significant design flaws and would require far too much work to fix it and get it to do what apple wanted, while mach/bsd/etc met their needs nearly perfectly out of the box.
You forget -- Apple tried several times to create a replacement os. nukernel, Pink, Copland, etc. -- all utter failures.
They eventually gave up and went with mach/gcc/etc. It is notable that apple did briefly look at BeOS and rejected it outright.
Sure, it's possible apple could have licensed QNX or whatnot -- but OSX would be much lesser if they had. They couldn't have licensed WinCE because WinCE didn't exist at the time apple was writing their new OS.
I've never heard anyone claim 10.4 is largely developed by the open source community. Sounds like a strawman to me.
The OSX you have today would be a radically different beast had they not gone FOSS. Its quite possible OSX would not even exist at all, and where would apple be today without OSX?
These are precision devices with moving parts. They will fail, it's inevitable.
The problem is that platter densities have become astoundingly high, and failure rates have increased accordingly.
I've owned literally hundreds of drives and no manufacturer is noticeably better than the other (with the exception of the infamous IBM GXP fiasco). Often people will 'swear by' some manufacturer -- right up until their first drive failure.
The best you can do is buy a drive with a sufficiently long warranty, and replace the drive when the warranty expires.
There are only a few things you can do to extend your drive life, the easiest is cooling. The second is dont spin them up and down all the time. The third is make sure they have good, constant clean power -- ditch the old shitty PSU in your PC and get a decent one. And a good UPS.