I'm not certain myself (been a while since I did anything electrical, and I never fully groked FCs anyway), but wouldn't this sort of thing work in both directions? ie fields outside don't affect the inside and fields inside doeen't affect the outside. I suspect it depends very much on your grounding.
*sigh* Unfortunatly, you took me the wrong way. I know that no virus is truely dead because it is relatively trivial to re-activate (eg burn a cdrom with the autoexecute bit set and this worm present). What I was referring to was the question of if a worm cannot spread, is it a worm? As I was typing my comment, when I finished the `can't spread' bit, I got an attack of poetitis and wound up turning it into a semi inaccurate rhyme. What I had been intending to finish with was `is it still a worm'.
I don't like virii either and I take them seriously (though I haven't had to be as paranoid since I left dos/windows behind, though since my home network is no longer behind a firewall, I'll have to up my paranoia again). Actually, I do worry about these things: everything I get from the net always comes as source (yes, I know, not bullet proof) as I have never fully trusted binaries (though djgpp programs are relatively safe, or at least self announcing).
Problem is, the alsa-util packages insist that the drivers are not loaded, even when they are
Are your sure they're loaded? Make sure you follow the modules configuration instructions carefully, I had some problems with this myself. Especially confusing is the different instructions for 2.0.x and 2.[12].x kernels.
Also, if the modules get unloaded then reloaded, the mixer will be muted again. Solution: modprobe them in by hand.
This legislation threatens us all (as a test case for liberal democracy) and MUST BE STOPPED BY ALL MEANS REASONABLE.
What, only reasonable means? What about nice, unreasonable means such as revolution.
Unfortunatly, Australia does not (AIUI) have a liberal democracy. Australia is like a giant prison and the politians are prison wardens. The only thing that has changed in the 211 years since its colonization is it is no longer ruled by England and the prisoners get to vote (not that it does them any good). The deomocracy is a facade.
Thankfully, I managed to escape after 7 years `imprisonment'. actually, it wasn't quite that bad, but I could feel the oppression. I've now been in NZ for almost 5 years, and though I rather like it here, I'm starting to wander. Our `esteemed leader', Jenny Shipley (haha, she'll be banned to:), seems to be very pro oppression. She may be NZ's first female primeminister, but from what I've heard, she's very unpopular amoungst the NZ women. My point here is I'm worried about NZ following in Australia's footsteps (she's very pro christianity too (as in the oppressive sort, I realize there are more liberal sorts out there)).
However, I'm ambivalent about my own comment as I don't endorse cracking, nor approve, but I can see how it can be a game under the right circumstances.
Good usefull info here. Sure, a lot if it is already know, but confirmation from the other side always helps:)
So for not killing your file system you should give copies of all the hacked files to 2600.com so that they can mirror it. They will get it anyways but its like saying " you got me.. but wait for next round"
I didn't even know there was a code of ethics (as such) to these things. So done properly (???) cracking and being cracked is really just an elaborate game. Cool (sort of), but I don't intend on participating (other than possibly saying "you got me" when appropriate).
I beleive the entries for DVD, PC etc (the vague ones) are to thow people off the scent about the true nature of the poll. Instead of seeing what they should do (eg stick with PC/Windows), they are seeing what sort of market for Mac/Linux games there is out there. I think they will just take the numbers of people that voted (what, about 12-15 thousand by now, due to the resets) and use that to determine the possible size of the market (extrapolating due to the fact that not everyone will vote).
This (I believe) is not a poll to see whether they should concentrate on Mac or Linux or Windows, or even what sort of market share each os has (others do that), but whether the Mac and Linux markets are big enough for them to bother with. I would say that with ~15k responses, the markets are big enough.
With this sort of poll, they're not truely after percentages (unlike, say, electoral polls). What they are after is shear numbers. Lets say that 6000 Windows users vote: that would probably lead to 90% (5400) voting for Windows games. This doesn't mean alot really: Sierra already does Windows games. Now lets say 80000 Slashdotters vote, leading to something like still mean nothhing, but the absolute numbers reveal that there is a potential Linux market of at least 56000 customers, probably more as this is only a small portion of the Linux community. Lets say Sierra makes $20 a pop for each game: by these numbers alone, they could get $1,120,000 from the Linux market, likely more. Would you sneer at such figures? I wouldn't, I'ld be saying gimme gimme gimme! (and get that game out). Oh, and they'ld probably achieve such figures on an old game (eg Kings/Space Quest), let alone a new one. It would cost them, what, $50-100k, to do the port? 900% profits. Very good for the bottom line.
You are saying approximatly (words, not gist (your gist and mine pretty much match up)).
TWIUI, you do not travel forwards (any faster than normal) or backwards through time when you go FTL. Instead, you out-race the information of where you've been, and so it appears (to the observer at your destination) you arrived before you left. In fact, if you could come in visibly, the observer would first see you suddenly show up out of nowhere (assume instant accelleration, eg stutterwarp (2300AD, GWD(rip))), and a copy of you leave your destination along the path you came in on. In fact, you should be able to see this yourself if you look backwards (note the assumption of visibility).
Things get even more interesting if the observer is to the side: he sees one ship suddently show up in the middle of is FOV, splitting into two, one retreating along your path (your past image) and one trailing your actual progress. Note: I beleive all these images will travel at the speed of light (or slower?). ie if the observer measures the speed of your travel, it will look like you're going =c.
You seem to have misunderstood me. Intel had no problem with >16 IRQs, the motherboards had the problem. New style mobos (eg SMP) probably don't have to worry as much about backwards compatability in the PIC arangement.
That said, I'd forgotten about the SMB boards having more IRQs. Thanks for the heads up.
I wouln't be supprised if Intel's using the Newton-Rhapson (sp?) method of calculating 1/sqrt(x). This can be done with a table lookup and a few multiplies and subtractions, acheiving very good accuracy (1 16 bit lookup + 4 mult s + 1 subtraction gives good results for floats). You can then get 1/x by squaring your result.
Intel uses this technique on the i860, giving results accurate to the last couple of bits.
Using 9 8059 PICs (1 master, 8 slaves), IA-16/32 has always supported up to 64 IRQs (that's not 192, but still, much better than 8/15)). The problem is that nobody ever did this commercially (I wouldn't be suprised if someone did this privately). I guess nobody ever produced a 64 IRQ mobo for two reasons: compatability (the big killer) and, in general, what would you use 64 IRQs for in the first place?
I can think of some specialist uses for 64 IRQs such as lots and lots of IDE/SCSI/serial/NIC etc controllers (ie big honking servers), but your average user would rarely, if ever, need more than 24-32 (easy to run out with 16, as we all know).
You've been reading HHGTTG. Funny books (I thoroughly enjoyed them), but come on! Any race that could do such damage would just waltz on in and do it without bothering to fill out council forms. If the council got snarky, they'd wind up being scheduled from demolition as well.
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Alright folks. Bottom line is, the people who are for GNU/Linux are WHINING. Plain and simple, it's nothing else.
Any you're not whining? Almost all I see is whining about `it must be gnu/linux' and `it must not be gnu/linux'. About the only posts I've ever seen not whining are the ones pointing out that RMS isn't advocating calling the kernel GNU/Linux.
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I'm not certain myself (been a while since I did anything electrical, and I never fully groked FCs anyway), but wouldn't this sort of thing work in both directions? ie fields outside don't affect the inside and fields inside doeen't affect the outside. I suspect it depends very much on your grounding.
I don't like virii either and I take them seriously (though I haven't had to be as paranoid since I left dos/windows behind, though since my home network is no longer behind a firewall, I'll have to up my paranoia again). Actually, I do worry about these things: everything I get from the net always comes as source (yes, I know, not bullet proof) as I have never fully trusted binaries (though djgpp programs are relatively safe, or at least self announcing).
Since this worm can't spread,
does this mean it's dead?
I liked him, especially his character (Bones). May he never be forgotten.
Also, if the modules get unloaded then reloaded, the mixer will be muted again. Solution: modprobe them in by hand.
than to never try at all.
What, only reasonable means? What about nice, unreasonable means such as revolution.
Unfortunatly, Australia does not (AIUI) have a liberal democracy. Australia is like a giant prison and the politians are prison wardens. The only thing that has changed in the 211 years since its colonization is it is no longer ruled by England and the prisoners get to vote (not that it does them any good). The deomocracy is a facade.
Thankfully, I managed to escape after 7 years `imprisonment'. actually, it wasn't quite that bad, but I could feel the oppression. I've now been in NZ for almost 5 years, and though I rather like it here, I'm starting to wander. Our `esteemed leader', Jenny Shipley (haha, she'll be banned to:), seems to be very pro oppression. She may be NZ's first female primeminister, but from what I've heard, she's very unpopular amoungst the NZ women. My point here is I'm worried about NZ following in Australia's footsteps (she's very pro christianity too (as in the oppressive sort, I realize there are more liberal sorts out there)).
However, I'm ambivalent about my own comment as I don't endorse cracking, nor approve, but I can see how it can be a game under the right circumstances.
find / -perm -04000 -print
Or if you're only interested in suid root programs:
find / -perm -04000 -user root -print
This will include directories and non-executable files, which may not be a bad thing.
BTW, nifty bit of limits. I didn't learn that stuff untill about grade 11.
And PlayMedia are big enough for this sort of thing? What's the bet they're backed by the RIAA?
This (I believe) is not a poll to see whether they should concentrate on Mac or Linux or Windows, or even what sort of market share each os has (others do that), but whether the Mac and Linux markets are big enough for them to bother with. I would say that with ~15k responses, the markets are big enough.
With this sort of poll, they're not truely after percentages (unlike, say, electoral polls). What they are after is shear numbers. Lets say that 6000 Windows users vote: that would probably lead to 90% (5400) voting for Windows games. This doesn't mean alot really: Sierra already does Windows games. Now lets say 80000 Slashdotters vote, leading to something like still mean nothhing, but the absolute numbers reveal that there is a potential Linux market of at least 56000 customers, probably more as this is only a small portion of the Linux community. Lets say Sierra makes $20 a pop for each game: by these numbers alone, they could get $1,120,000 from the Linux market, likely more. Would you sneer at such figures? I wouldn't, I'ld be saying gimme gimme gimme! (and get that game out). Oh, and they'ld probably achieve such figures on an old game (eg Kings/Space Quest), let alone a new one. It would cost them, what, $50-100k, to do the port? 900% profits. Very good for the bottom line.
TWIUI, you do not travel forwards (any faster than normal) or backwards through time when you go FTL. Instead, you out-race the information of where you've been, and so it appears (to the observer at your destination) you arrived before you left. In fact, if you could come in visibly, the observer would first see you suddenly show up out of nowhere (assume instant accelleration, eg stutterwarp (2300AD, GWD(rip))), and a copy of you leave your destination along the path you came in on. In fact, you should be able to see this yourself if you look backwards (note the assumption of visibility).
Things get even more interesting if the observer is to the side: he sees one ship suddently show up in the middle of is FOV, splitting into two, one retreating along your path (your past image) and one trailing your actual progress. Note: I beleive all these images will travel at the speed of light (or slower?). ie if the observer measures the speed of your travel, it will look like you're going =c.
Yup, yet another Dr Who fan (though I haven't seen it for many years *sob*).
That said, I'd forgotten about the SMB boards having more IRQs. Thanks for the heads up.
It's a whole book, not just a couple of web pages. All (?almost, anyway) of Intel's online documentation is in PDF.
Intel uses this technique on the i860, giving results accurate to the last couple of bits.
I can think of some specialist uses for 64 IRQs such as lots and lots of IDE/SCSI/serial/NIC etc controllers (ie big honking servers), but your average user would rarely, if ever, need more than 24-32 (easy to run out with 16, as we all know).
The free un*x programmers have put a lot of love into kernel research/development to make their kernels, that's why they are superior to NT.
You've been reading HHGTTG. Funny books (I thoroughly enjoyed them), but come on! Any race that could do such damage would just waltz on in and do it without bothering to fill out council forms. If the council got snarky, they'd wind up being scheduled from demolition as well.
Any you're not whining? Almost all I see is whining about `it must be gnu/linux' and `it must not be gnu/linux'. About the only posts I've ever seen not whining are the ones pointing out that RMS isn't advocating calling the kernel GNU/Linux.