Well, the Mozilla "bug" is that Mozilla doesn't perform a check to see if the font size is sane, it just blindly tells X to show an extremely large text. But X should definately check that it can handle it itself, so the bug is an X bug, Mozilla should just be a little more friendlier with X:-)
They only need to keep it running for a short time, KPNQwest is trying to find a buyer for the network. Let's hope it finds one, as the european Internet will suffer a huge bandwidth shortage if the network goes down.
As a KPNQwest customer myself, I'd like to say that they've provided a great service over the years. This is absolutely the best ISP ever, no real outages, great customer service (as you might have noticed). It's a real shame it turned out like this.
"It must have been a real slow day at Oy Online Solutions"
From the web page: "Online Solutions Oy on Jyväskyläläinen tietoturvan asiantuntijayritys."
Translated: "Online Solutions Inc. is a small security firm in the middle of the forest, in the middle of nowhere". If they don't try to find some weird bugs like the bug in IE's gopher protocol, they might just as well go outside and shoot a bear to get some excitment in their day...
Exactly.
And it was 1000 performance improvements. Who the hell writes 100% perfect, fully optimized and all features present on the first release code? Not even God managed that, it's called evolution!
This is only the Dutch KPNQwest. Several KPNQwest subsidiaries in other countries will continue their services on the EuroRings network, and at least KPNQwest Finland has promised to connect their network to another backbone is EuroRings fails.
When I was running my system (AMD Athlon XP 1700+ with Asus A7V133-C) with the default BIOS on the motherboard (1007) I experienced several problems when trying to run programs. Most of them either Segfaulted or caused a bus error. The crashes where usually related to situations where a program tried to display an animation or a video. Sometimes the system completely froze. I tried to compile the kernel with all kinds of different options, tried with and without athlon ptimization but nothing seemed to work. I thought it might have been related to the "Athlon/AGP bug", but the solutions to fix the bug did not work for my system.
Then one day I happened to check Asus homepage and found a BIOS update for my motherboard. I flashed my BIOS with the new software (1008) and now I haven't had any problems. The BIOS came out 8.3.2002, so it's quite new.
I guess the only real solution is to give a specific coding standard for every project. Before you begin coding, make up a standard that every developer has to follow, for comments, code layout, etc.
Apparently Slashdot's use of Apache 2 is important according to Netcraft as it is mentioned: several high profile sites, including News.com and slashdot.org have started using it
How about online lectures? You could have a video feed sent to everyone, and perhaps let the students send questions in real time, which would be answered to everyone over the video feed. The video could also be stored for later retreival, meaning you only have to have the lectures once, newcomers can look at the old feeds.
I love this feature of the RedHat install. Since it's a beta, I don't want to waste 3 cds on it. No problem, I just downloaded the ISOs to another computer (with an NFS daemon), and installed it over the network. Just had to create a simple boot disk, and voila. This is a great and fast way to install the new RedHat if you don't neccessarily need it on CDs. And it is faster because my CD doesn't read as fast as my network can transfer.
As long as you only shut out that specific country... However, the Internet is so not controlled by the government already, I think it might be really difficult, if not impossible to have such a firewall. It's not like as if all the traffic would pass one single point...
You could probably just get the source tarball and patch that!? If not, you need to checkout the MOZILLA_1_0_RC1_RELEASE cvs tag. Use the build configurator to make a.mozconfig file, and put in CVS tags, co: -P -r MOZILLA_1_0_RC1_RELEASE . That should do the trick.
This release seems like a very stable release. I've been running it for many hours now (compiled from cvs) and it has been faster and generally more pleasant than MZ0.9.9. And I really like the new download manager =). Mail return recipts aren't bad either!
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"it only really affects those sysadmins who don't bother to lock their server down"
Which happens to be the majority. If you're lazy enough not to run a real web-server then you're lazy enough not to make it secure.
"an older, largely obsolete scripting technology"
I don't think the script kiddies care about the popularity of the technology, if there's a hole, there's a hole.
"That bug is an XFRee bug and not a Mozilla bug"
:-)
Well, the Mozilla "bug" is that Mozilla doesn't perform a check to see if the font size is sane, it just blindly tells X to show an extremely large text. But X should definately check that it can handle it itself, so the bug is an X bug, Mozilla should just be a little more friendlier with X
That's ok. It never appeared on my credit card bill either, so I didn't loose anything, except for a possible subscription.
I don't know what happened, but I got a mail saying:
"SSC Linux Journal thanks you for your order. Please allow 4-6 weeks for new subscriptions to arrive.
(10-12 weeks for foreign orders)"
After that, nothing... Maybe a bug?
"What would happen to the gaming world at large if Sony was to start developing games for Linux?"
I would remove my Windows partition.
I did buy the magazine, however, it never appeared in my mailbox and I really won't bother subscribing again...
They only need to keep it running for a short time, KPNQwest is trying to find a buyer for the network. Let's hope it finds one, as the european Internet will suffer a huge bandwidth shortage if the network goes down.
As a KPNQwest customer myself, I'd like to say that they've provided a great service over the years. This is absolutely the best ISP ever, no real outages, great customer service (as you might have noticed). It's a real shame it turned out like this.
"It must have been a real slow day at Oy Online Solutions"
From the web page: "Online Solutions Oy on Jyväskyläläinen tietoturvan asiantuntijayritys." Translated: "Online Solutions Inc. is a small security firm in the middle of the forest, in the middle of nowhere". If they don't try to find some weird bugs like the bug in IE's gopher protocol, they might just as well go outside and shoot a bear to get some excitment in their day...
Exactly.
And it was 1000 performance improvements. Who the hell writes 100% perfect, fully optimized and all features present on the first release code? Not even God managed that, it's called evolution!
"1000 ways they could have written the code better the first time"
What happened to release early, release often?
This is only the Dutch KPNQwest. Several KPNQwest subsidiaries in other countries will continue their services on the EuroRings network, and at least KPNQwest Finland has promised to connect their network to another backbone is EuroRings fails.
When I was running my system (AMD Athlon XP 1700+ with Asus A7V133-C) with the default BIOS on the motherboard (1007) I experienced several problems when trying to run programs. Most of them either Segfaulted or caused a bus error. The crashes where usually related to situations where a program tried to display an animation or a video. Sometimes the system completely froze. I tried to compile the kernel with all kinds of different options, tried with and without athlon ptimization but nothing seemed to work. I thought it might have been related to the "Athlon/AGP bug", but the solutions to fix the bug did not work for my
system.
Then one day I happened to check Asus homepage and found a BIOS update for my motherboard. I flashed my BIOS with the new software (1008) and now I haven't had any problems. The BIOS came out 8.3.2002, so it's quite new.
I guess the only real solution is to give a specific coding standard for every project. Before you begin coding, make up a standard that every developer has to follow, for comments, code layout, etc.
h tml
A good standard for C++:
http://www.possibility.com/Cpp/CppCodingStandard.
And you had to pack it in rar?!
From all the formats, you had to choose the one that doesn't come with my RedHat distro...
Apache/2.0.35 Server at images.slashdot.org Port 80
Apparently Slashdot's use of Apache 2 is important according to Netcraft as it is mentioned: several high profile sites, including News.com and slashdot.org have started using it
I dunno what you've been doing, but MZ renders pages withing milliseconds for me. It's amazingly fast!
How about online lectures? You could have a video feed sent to everyone, and perhaps let the students send questions in real time, which would be answered to everyone over the video feed. The video could also be stored for later retreival, meaning you only have to have the lectures once, newcomers can look at the old feeds.
I love this feature of the RedHat install. Since it's a beta, I don't want to waste 3 cds on it. No problem, I just downloaded the ISOs to another computer (with an NFS daemon), and installed it over the network. Just had to create a simple boot disk, and voila. This is a great and fast way to install the new RedHat if you don't neccessarily need it on CDs. And it is faster because my CD doesn't read as fast as my network can transfer.
As long as you only shut out that specific country... However, the Internet is so not controlled by the government already, I think it might be really difficult, if not impossible to have such a firewall. It's not like as if all the traffic would pass one single point...
"It's Best Buy's obligation to make sure their prices are accurate."
Unless they have said something like we do not take any responsibility of typos in prices, blahblah...
so backing up on cds is a baaad idea... ?
"He further suggests that source code availability is not generally needed, and when it is needed, Microsoft provides it."
Have I missed something?!
Does dd work with DVDs? I know it doesn't (normally) work with (S)VCDs, as they are CD-XA, which the vanilla kernel doesn't support.
You could probably just get the source tarball and patch that!? If not, you need to checkout the MOZILLA_1_0_RC1_RELEASE cvs tag. Use the build configurator to make a .mozconfig file, and put in CVS tags, co: -P -r MOZILLA_1_0_RC1_RELEASE . That should do the trick.
This release seems like a very stable release. I've been running it for many hours now (compiled from cvs) and it has been faster and generally more pleasant than MZ0.9.9. And I really like the new download manager =). Mail return recipts aren't bad either!