Now we know why this is vapourware and will never make it to colour screens - did you ever see the Guinness ads with the tagline "Not everything in black and white makes sense"
I posted this message about the spoof Wasp T-12 (well spotted mod who modded it 'Funny') before reading the article. So now tell me which of these phrases come from the E1060 article, and which come from the spoof Wasp T-12 ad:
* Dynamic idle for personalized portal connections
The fact that trains can't wander all over the place is part of the problem! If a faulty-set switch causes two trains to be heading for each other on the same piece of track, you can't tell them both to turn left, like you could do with airplanes.
It also had a Matrox RT100 real-time editing card, which can do all the things they were doing with the wobbly 3d interface, but using the lovely nice sweet Adobe Premiere interface.
Of course, it does cost 700UKP but comes with lots of software - Premiere, Encore, Photoshop, After Effects.
University statistics lab. The linux and windows boxes are identical dell rack servers (dual 2.6GHz Xeon, 4G RAM).
Pretty much the same software is on each OS - R for stats, openOffice, matlab, LaTeX + LaTeX gui of some description.
The Windows racks are up-to-date and free of crud as they can be.
A lecturer this morning was saying he was expecting his students to know command-line stuff, but it seems they're all busy using the XFCE gui things (file manager especially)!
I run a lab of thin clients hanging off a rack of Dell servers. I really wasn't too keen on umpteen Gnome sessions running, or even half a dozen bloaty nautiluses. So I stripped them out, and made XFCE the only option.
Its slick, light, windowsy-enough to not scare newbies too much, and the lab has run for over a term with no problems.
I set the servers up to give the users a choice of connecting to the Linux boxes or Windows boxes, and 95% of the connections are to the Linux boxes....
I think Monsanto were at one point going to make most of their output into 'suicide seeds' - these are plants that produce non-fertile seeds, so farmers wouldnt be able to plant them.
google for 'suicide seeds' for more info, also called 'Terminator' patents.
my band has a song about GM food:
Well you reap what you sow and you sow what you reap
from the share of the grain you have stored
but when some sod breeds suicide seed that wont grow
you sow only what you can afford
but with all this biotechnology now
maybe one day soon they'll design
a multinational with a heart
and a government with a spine
they say that we've been cross-breeding for centuries
this isnt anything new
when i see a pig shag a tomato successfully
i might concede that its true
Article: "During a demonstration of digital photography with a soon-to-be-released Nikon camera, a Windows Media Center PC froze"
See, it was an unreleased _camera_ that caused the problem. Nothing to do with Windows. Oh no. Of course not. Its perfect.
Expect Nikon shares to plummet...
And does this: "Bill Gates promised that Microsoft would help millions of consumers stay seamlessly plugged into a world of digital music, movies, video games and television shows." sound a bit too much like The Matrix to you?
By the time I've found the section in the manual that's in my language, I could have fiddled with the thing long enough to have fixed the problem. I think my record is 20 languages in one manual.
Ah, they've used an old Persian cypher, I just dug it up out of an original text in arabic, I have the only copy in the west. Very clever. Here's what it says:
To me, a remote exploit is something that exploits a running server. Most of the examples seem to be trojan horse attacks, getting the user to run an application on a file which overflows a buffer in the application.
Jonathan Rockway, a student in my Fall 2004 UNIX Security Holes course,has discovered a remotely exploitable security hole in NASM. I'm publishing this notice, but all the discovery credits should be assigned to Rockway.
The only way I'd call this a remote exploit would be if someone has written an apache module that takes some assembly code and returns an executable. I dont think thats a very common setup.
Its a bunch of extensions for firefox. Includes 'x':
x provides a toolbar button (which you can place wherever you wish via View > Toolbars > Customize... - it's labelled "Paranoia") from which you can quickly clear privacy sensitive data, specifically: history, form info, saved passwords, download history, cookies, and the cache (both disk and in memory cache).
Of course its indiscriminate and will hence wipe out all your non-pron data too. So do all your pron surfing with a different (expendable) firefox profile
Maybe you just want a better graphics card? Nowadays you can run numerical calculations on the graphics card's processor - and no, you don't get random noise all over your screen, its not simple memory-mapped graphics! Plus it gives you the excuse to buy a machine that can play Doom 3.
More info here: http://www.gpgpu.org/
Whatever you do, make sure you have a properly tuned ATLAS library:
http://math-atlas.sourceforge.net/
I don't know if anyone has got ATLAS or BLAS to work on GPUs yet.
I suspect lots of people wont want to see the politics stuff. But the category selection stuff doesn't seem to work at the moment (there's bugreps in the slashdot bug tracker).
Slashdot Mirror
Now we know why this is vapourware and will never make it to colour screens - did you ever see the Guinness ads with the tagline "Not everything in black and white makes sense"
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http://www.aber.ac.uk/media/Modules/MC30820/bic
Why has everyone gone 'oh i bet it has tabs'? Perhaps it'll have an even better metaphor for multiple web pages, and firefox will then copy that!
Hmm, is that bacon overhead?
I posted this message about the spoof Wasp T-12 (well spotted mod who modded it 'Funny') before reading the article. So now tell me which of these phrases come from the E1060 article, and which come from the spoof Wasp T-12 ad:
* Dynamic idle for personalized portal connections
* Full spectrum audio dominance
* share the scoop with rapid ease
* hoot your trap off
* 1024 character TXT with full fluid lexicon
* Double duty - info focused
tricky...
I've got a Wasp T-12 including twin mp3 decks with scrubjockey interface, and sharkproof casing.
It's been out for three weeks in Japan - where's yours?
Nathan.
The fact that trains can't wander all over the place is part of the problem! If a faulty-set switch causes two trains to be heading for each other on the same piece of track, you can't tell them both to turn left, like you could do with airplanes.
I think they call it 'Spanking the human'....
How is the Theora codec doing?
t ml
http://www.theora.org/
And the BBC's Dirac codec?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/rd/projects/dirac/index.sh
Baz
It also had a Matrox RT100 real-time editing card, which can do all the things they were doing with the wobbly 3d interface, but using the lovely nice sweet Adobe Premiere interface.
Of course, it does cost 700UKP but comes with lots of software - Premiere, Encore, Photoshop, After Effects.
I'm tempted...
University statistics lab. The linux and windows boxes are identical dell rack servers (dual 2.6GHz Xeon, 4G RAM).
Pretty much the same software is on each OS - R for stats, openOffice, matlab, LaTeX + LaTeX gui of some description.
The Windows racks are up-to-date and free of crud as they can be.
A lecturer this morning was saying he was expecting his students to know command-line stuff, but it seems they're all busy using the XFCE gui things (file manager especially)!
Baz
I run a lab of thin clients hanging off a rack of Dell servers. I really wasn't too keen on umpteen Gnome sessions running, or even half a dozen bloaty nautiluses. So I stripped them out, and made XFCE the only option.
Its slick, light, windowsy-enough to not scare newbies too much, and the lab has run for over a term with no problems.
I set the servers up to give the users a choice of connecting to the Linux boxes or Windows boxes, and 95% of the connections are to the Linux boxes....
Baz
I think Monsanto were at one point going to make most of their output into 'suicide seeds' - these are plants that produce non-fertile seeds, so farmers wouldnt be able to plant them.
google for 'suicide seeds' for more info, also called 'Terminator' patents.
my band has a song about GM food:
Well you reap what you sow and you sow what you reap
from the share of the grain you have stored
but when some sod breeds suicide seed that wont grow
you sow only what you can afford
but with all this biotechnology now
maybe one day soon they'll design
a multinational with a heart
and a government with a spine
they say that we've been cross-breeding for centuries
this isnt anything new
when i see a pig shag a tomato successfully
i might concede that its true
Article: "During a demonstration of digital photography with a soon-to-be-released Nikon camera, a Windows Media Center PC froze"
See, it was an unreleased _camera_ that caused the problem. Nothing to do with Windows. Oh no. Of course not. Its perfect.
Expect Nikon shares to plummet...
And does this: "Bill Gates promised that Microsoft would help millions of consumers stay seamlessly plugged into a world of digital music, movies, video games and television shows." sound a bit too much like The Matrix to you?
Baz
By the time I've found the section in the manual that's in my language, I could have fiddled with the thing long enough to have fixed the problem. I think my record is 20 languages in one manual.
Baz
I saw an ad recently boasting a plasma TV with a 'double the standard lifetime' of 60,000 hours.
Baz
I knew _someone_ would mention Goatse when I noticed the 'GATSE' letters....
And why did they typo three 'e's in Seventeeen.. Hmmm. Maybe that means something....
Ah, they've used an old Persian cypher, I just dug it up out of an original text in arabic, I have the only copy in the west. Very clever. Here's what it says:
BINLA DENIS HIDIN GATSE VENTE EENHI GHSTR EETCL
APHAM
To me, a remote exploit is something that exploits a running server. Most of the examples seem to be trojan horse attacks, getting the user to run an application on a file which overflows a buffer in the application.
t
Example: http://www2.uic.edu/~kkubic1/securesoftware/26.tx
Jonathan Rockway, a student in my Fall 2004 UNIX Security Holes course,has discovered a remotely exploitable security hole in NASM. I'm publishing this notice, but all the discovery credits should be assigned to Rockway.
The only way I'd call this a remote exploit would be if someone has written an apache module that takes some assembly code and returns an executable. I dont think thats a very common setup.
Baz
http://www.squarefree.com/pornzilla/
Its a bunch of extensions for firefox. Includes 'x':
x provides a toolbar button (which you can place wherever you wish via View > Toolbars > Customize... - it's labelled "Paranoia") from which you can quickly clear privacy sensitive data, specifically: history, form info, saved passwords, download history, cookies, and the cache (both disk and in memory cache).
Of course its indiscriminate and will hence wipe out all your non-pron data too. So do all your pron surfing with a different (expendable) firefox profile
Put your shoes in your computer case...
With four flashes, the first thing you better do before any fancy schmancy edge detection algorithm is run the red-eye removal filter!
In the USA these things are called 'Tubes'. In the UK we call them 'Valves'. Why?
:)
Well, they look like tubes, but they function as valves. And of course the people of the USA are more concerned with looks than functionality...
Baz
This guy is impatient. He's got a whole 13 years to edit together the baby videos to make the perfect embarrass-my-teenage-kid movie.
"Windows Sans WMP"? Is that some new font? A replacement for "MS Comic Sans"?
Reminds me, I must go delete Comic Sans from the secretaries' machines, since they don't write comics. Well, departmental meeting minutes are close...
Maybe you just want a better graphics card? Nowadays you can run numerical calculations on the graphics card's processor - and no, you don't get random noise all over your screen, its not simple memory-mapped graphics! Plus it gives you the excuse to buy a machine that can play Doom 3.
More info here: http://www.gpgpu.org/
Whatever you do, make sure you have a properly tuned ATLAS library:
http://math-atlas.sourceforge.net/
I don't know if anyone has got ATLAS or BLAS to work on GPUs yet.
Baz
I suspect lots of people wont want to see the politics stuff. But the category selection stuff doesn't seem to work at the moment (there's bugreps in the slashdot bug tracker).
Pleasey weasey?