Give me a vi key-binding for the Visual Studio IDE and I'll switch. Say, does anyone know if there is an API for writing editor plug-ins for the IDE? I would love to try to make the win32 version of gvim work with all the nifty features (i.e. Intellisense) of Visual Studio.
Because they track every click you make, as well as what your HTTP-referrer was. If you don't want them to build up a profile on you, don't accept their cookie.
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Way late, and I'm sure nobody cares, but here's my list -- I guess I'm not a typical geek either... Dell OptiPlex workstation running WinNT (ick!) Slackware 4.0 CD Redhat 6.1 CD Bottle of Red Wine Jar of pickle coffee/coffee maker piles of paper with crap scribbled all over them caffiene-lovers' calendar some book a friend told me to read broken wristwatch bolt from something unidentifiable pokemon card I found in the street
If the speed of the btopenworld site is anything to go by, I don't hold out much hope for their internet service. I've typed this comment, and it still hasn't finished downloading on my 2 Mbps link at work:P
Round 0: Installation The Gimp: Megabytes of downloading libraries, toolkits, plug-ins, extras and whatnot. Hours of hacking to get the darn thing to see everything. Photogenics:
Verifying archive integrity...OK
Uncompressing Photogenics....................................... ........................................ .................................. The program returned an error code (139) Press Return to close this window...
I exctract the tarred and gzipped contents.
$./Photogenics
segmentation fault
What version of glibc does this need? It doesn't say... I am SOL and give up:( Gimp: 0, Photogenics: -1
Those who write virii in the MS-DOS/Windows space are probably cracking boxen in the *nix space. Why wite a virus that goes off silently and may or may not do anything l33t to a MS desktop when you can get r00t on a big server and make shit happen right there on your tty!
...any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankind. Therefore, do not send to know for whom the bell tolls -- it tolls for thee. - John Donne
The same sentiment goes for injury like this. I have never heard of this guy, but he has obviously touched many. My best wishes to everyone close to him.
snookums (who has lost a relative to a drunk-driver)
The solution is to stop thinking in terms of keywords/phrases and manually-compiled lists of sites. These are methods that have been shown to consistently loose. My mother is a primary (elementary) school teacher, and the use of CyberPatrol is mandated by the Education Department. It blocks searches for the phrase black cockatoo (a common Australian bird) because it contains the substring black cock. This kind of mistake is unvavodable in a pattern-matching system. Decryption of block-lists by Peacfire and friends have shown us quite clearly that these lists are compiled in a manner that is not just sloppy, but actively malicious.
The solution is to implement a scheme of probability of content type in exactly the same way that Google does it. If lots of known porn sites, or sites with a high occurrence of "bad" words link to a given page, then that page is very probably filled with porn. Another technique is to look at combinations of factors. If a page scores highly in "sex" category, but also in "psychology" then it is probably safe to assume that it is a research paper on human sexuality and not porn. Similarly, if a page contains the words nude and supermodel but has no images or hyperlinks, then it is probably innocuous.
If anyone from Google is listening, how much to license your technology and database?
XFree is just too big and bloated for the embedded market - anybody care to argue this? Or for installing on old 486's and P90's. I know - I've tried it.
Until March last year I was running XFree86 on a DX2/66 with 32MB RAM quite happily. Running with FVWM2, no KDE, no GNOME everything was peachy.
I only upgraded my box so I could play mp3's and compile kernels in reasonable time. X (like any GUI) requires a little extra RAM, not CPU.
RAM is small, and consumes little power, so the only issue in increasing the memory size of a web-pad/palmtop is cost
Considering the current "situation" between France and the USA over Echelon, I'd be a bit paranoid if I were placing this order.
Think about it - you have 2500 radio transmitters, with timing accurate to 1GHz. Use this as a phase array and you could transmit a pencil-thin beam of radio/microwave energy at any satellite or other receiver you choose.
I'm sure this machine would have plenty of processing power to anaylse its own activity and transmit data in this way without anyone noticing the loss of clock cycles.
IIRC, details of DEC's VMS operating system were among the things that the Cracking ring broken by Cliff Stoll we selling to the Russians. Is that a coincidence? Is it a coincidence that DEC, VMS and AXP (the true name of the Alpha) are all TLA's?
I had chat a few year back with a retired phsyicist who worked at the University of Sydney during WW2. He did a lot of reading on Tesla, and claimed that many of Tesla's inventions were promptly snapped up by the US government and classified. Plasma weapons, HERF guns, redio jamming devices and such. Perhaps the memory of Tesla is being aritificially supressed to stop people looking too closely at his work?
Perhaps more participation will not be a bad thing. I forsee a future in which the existing section structure of/. is more strongly emphasised. If people only read (and commented on) those sections that interested them, the signal-to-noise ratio should go back up. To break things up like this requires a certail critical size of readership as a whole, to ensure that the current lively discussion continues in each of the various sections. Pulling in VA customers/associates might push things over the line.
Nah. Everybody knows that all Microsoft products are written in basic. Bill wrote that basic for the Altair all those years ago, and has been building on the same code ever since.
DOS was written in GWBASIC; Win 3.x in QBASIC; WinNT in VB; Win95 in VBScript; and Win2K is a fat activeX control running inside IE5
Let's hope this turns out like the Celeron - a nice piece of hardware for a very modest price. I wonder if Intel consider the Celeron a success or failure? Will they do things differenly this time? (I suppose they think they have their clock locking technology perfected by now;)
One has to wory about release of specification for things like video harware, but of course if cost of end product is the major force behind this then Intel cannot affor to tie themselves to proprietary software producers.
I think this is a very interesting development that bears watching.
Is this perhaps some strange behaviour of the TCP layer? (or a bad interaction between PPP and TCP layers?) Do you have a packet trace of the connection? If you get one then you might be able to narrow down just who it is that is asking for the re-sends.
I have some nice old 19" B&W screens off some NCD xterms that bit the dust. I'd like to hook them up to the VGA cards of linux x-boxen. Is this possible? The pinout for the connector is available from the NCD website, but I don't know what to connect together. Do I just plug the sync lines in, then hook the signal up to the green or what? Any hints would be appreciated - my eyes are going nuts coding on my blury 5yo 15"
Indeed old boxen == good xterminals. The "dummy server" you talk about exists in the form of VNC. However, the client requires MS-Windows or another X server (perhaps Xappeal??)
Just ftp to your favourite metalab (sunsite) mirror. Do mget *.lsm in pub/Linux/system/status and pub/Linux/system/status/xstatus then have a look and see what sounds nice.
I use xperfmon++ for real-time monitoring - it looks a lot like the windows prefmon tool, but does not have the capability to log to file (this would probably run to only a few lines of code if you wanted to add it). However, almost all the stats can be got from vmstat(8) and netstat(8) -i. Just write a few filters to get rid the the headers and stuff from the output then paste(1) the results into one file and BINGO!
This is a ticklish situation, especially with cards similar enough to confuse the drivers.
In an ideal world, one could tweak the PnP stuff in the BIOS, but in my experience this is not a particulary good solution, since most BIOS configurability is to do with IRQ's, whereas the drivers scan by IO port.
I see two ways for you to get out of this...
1) Compile the drivers as modules, and see if changing the insertion order removes the problem.
2) Edit the source code of the drivers so that the port scanning that they do at startup does not overlap. This is rather non-portable, because you will have to know or guess what IO port the BIOS is going to assign to your cards. This will be the same after each restart, but may change if you add or remove cards from the system.
3) (just though of this) Try building one driver into the kernel and the other as a module. Add a 'reserve' entry to the kernel boot parameters (man bootparam for more info) to prevent the built-in driver from detecting the wrong card. Then, insert the module for full functionality (perhaps). This suffers from problems like (2), but requires only a change to lilo.conf if you change your hardware setup.
I haven't tried any of these, so your mileage will probably vary a lot.
I haven't read all the comments yet, so perhaps someone else has suggested this, bear with me. I am an Australian, and planning to move over seas later this year. Would anyone be interested in going into business with me to start a redirector service? Charge a small fee, or get advertising sponsorship (I hate banner-ads, but bandwidth costs money), then let.au folks set up an encrypted pipe to access anything that they want. Hell, one could even set up a VPN -- pipe IP over https of ssh or whatnot and give subscribers full access to all ports on all machines. To provide this service we need no modems, network hardware or anything in Australia at all. The best that.gov.au could do is black-list the redirector site. If so, just get another IP and a new domain name, e-mail all the customers and get back on-line. The idiots in Canberra could chase us all over the world forever without having the slightest effect.
That's fine for you people who have constitutionally protected rights. Us poor colonials (Australians) have to put up with government that can limit our freedom in any way they choose. Many fire-arms are illegal here. In my state it is illegal to own a flak-jacket (who is that a danger to I ask?). The government also wants ISP's to filter material from the Internet that is offensive to their subscribers. I believe that emulators are not only a Good Thing, but also an inevitability (as mentioned elsewhere in this thread). However, if governments decide to outlaw them because they harm big businesses then we are all SOL. Governments have been brown-nosing the wealthy since the Magna Carta was signed.
Slashdot Mirror
Is it just me, or is the ibm web site slashdotted?
How quickly do you think they could get apache up and running on their new box?
Give me a vi key-binding for the Visual Studio IDE and I'll switch.
Say, does anyone know if there is an API for writing editor plug-ins for the IDE? I would love to try to make the win32 version of gvim work with all the nifty features (i.e. Intellisense) of Visual Studio.
Because they track every click you make, as well as what your HTTP-referrer was.
If you don't want them to build up a profile on you, don't accept their cookie.
Way late, and I'm sure nobody cares, but here's my list -- I guess I'm not a typical geek either...
Dell OptiPlex workstation running WinNT (ick!)
Slackware 4.0 CD
Redhat 6.1 CD
Bottle of Red Wine
Jar of pickle
coffee/coffee maker
piles of paper with crap scribbled all over them
caffiene-lovers' calendar
some book a friend told me to read
broken wristwatch
bolt from something unidentifiable
pokemon card I found in the street
If the speed of the btopenworld site is anything to go by, I don't hold out much hope for their internet service. I've typed this comment, and it still hasn't finished downloading on my 2 Mbps link at work :P
The Gimp: Megabytes of downloading libraries, toolkits, plug-ins, extras and whatnot. Hours of hacking to get the darn thing to see everything.
Photogenics: I exctract the tarred and gzipped contents.
What version of glibc does this need? It doesn't say...
I am SOL and give up
Gimp: 0, Photogenics: -1
Actually, you might not be far off there.
Those who write virii in the MS-DOS/Windows space are probably cracking boxen in the *nix space. Why wite a virus that goes off silently and may or may not do anything l33t to a MS desktop when you can get r00t on a big server and make shit happen right there on your tty!
find / -type alien -exec rm -rf {} \;
The same sentiment goes for injury like this. I have never heard of this guy, but he has obviously touched many. My best wishes to everyone close to him.
snookums (who has lost a relative to a drunk-driver)
The solution is to stop thinking in terms of keywords/phrases and manually-compiled lists of sites. These are methods that have been shown to consistently loose.
My mother is a primary (elementary) school teacher, and the use of CyberPatrol is mandated by the Education Department. It blocks searches for the phrase black cockatoo (a common Australian bird) because it contains the substring black cock. This kind of mistake is unvavodable in a pattern-matching system.
Decryption of block-lists by Peacfire and friends have shown us quite clearly that these lists are compiled in a manner that is not just sloppy, but actively malicious.
The solution is to implement a scheme of probability of content type in exactly the same way that Google does it. If lots of known porn sites, or sites with a high occurrence of "bad" words link to a given page, then that page is very probably filled with porn.
Another technique is to look at combinations of factors. If a page scores highly in "sex" category, but also in "psychology" then it is probably safe to assume that it is a research paper on human sexuality and not porn. Similarly, if a page contains the words nude and supermodel but has no images or hyperlinks, then it is probably innocuous.
If anyone from Google is listening, how much to license your technology and database?
Until March last year I was running XFree86 on a DX2/66 with 32MB RAM quite happily. Running with FVWM2, no KDE, no GNOME everything was peachy.
I only upgraded my box so I could play mp3's and compile kernels in reasonable time. X (like any GUI) requires a little extra RAM, not CPU.
RAM is small, and consumes little power, so the only issue in increasing the memory size of a web-pad/palmtop is cost
I always thought that the stem man came from the Latin(?) for hand as it does in the word manual.
Thus, mankind are "the ones with the hands" -- the use of tools is what sets us apart from the other animals more than anything else.
Considering the current "situation" between France and the USA over Echelon, I'd be a bit paranoid if I were placing this order.
Think about it - you have 2500 radio transmitters, with timing accurate to 1GHz. Use this as a phase array and you could transmit a pencil-thin beam of radio/microwave energy at any satellite or other receiver you choose.
I'm sure this machine would have plenty of processing power to anaylse its own activity and transmit data in this way without anyone noticing the loss of clock cycles.
IIRC, details of DEC's VMS operating system were among the things that the Cracking ring broken by Cliff Stoll we selling to the Russians. Is that a coincidence? Is it a coincidence that DEC, VMS and AXP (the true name of the Alpha) are all TLA's?
You might think so, but I'm not so sure.
I had chat a few year back with a retired phsyicist who worked at the University of Sydney during WW2. He did a lot of reading on Tesla, and claimed that many of Tesla's inventions were promptly snapped up by the US government and classified. Plasma weapons, HERF guns, redio jamming devices and such. Perhaps the memory of Tesla is being aritificially supressed to stop people looking too closely at his work?
Perhaps more participation will not be a bad thing. I forsee a future in which the existing section structure of /. is more strongly emphasised. If people only read (and commented on) those sections that interested them, the signal-to-noise ratio should go back up.
To break things up like this requires a certail critical size of readership as a whole, to ensure that the current lively discussion continues in each of the various sections. Pulling in VA customers/associates might push things over the line.
Rodd
Nah. Everybody knows that all Microsoft products are written in basic. Bill wrote that basic for the Altair all those years ago, and has been building on the same code ever since.
DOS was written in GWBASIC;
Win 3.x in QBASIC;
WinNT in VB;
Win95 in VBScript; and
Win2K is a fat activeX control running inside IE5
Let's hope this turns out like the Celeron - a ;)
nice piece of hardware for a very modest price.
I wonder if Intel consider the Celeron a success
or failure? Will they do things differenly this
time? (I suppose they think they have their clock locking technology perfected by now
One has to wory about release of specification
for things like video harware, but of course if
cost of end product is the major force behind this
then Intel cannot affor to tie themselves to
proprietary software producers.
I think this is a very interesting development
that bears watching.
Is this perhaps some strange behaviour of the TCP layer? (or a bad interaction between PPP and TCP layers?) Do you have a packet trace of the connection? If you get one then you might be able to narrow down just who it is that is asking for the re-sends.
I have some nice old 19" B&W screens off some NCD xterms that bit the dust. I'd like to hook them up to the VGA cards of linux x-boxen. Is this possible?
The pinout for the connector is available from the NCD website, but I don't know what to connect together. Do I just plug the sync lines in, then hook the signal up to the green or what?
Any hints would be appreciated - my eyes are going nuts coding on my blury 5yo 15"
Indeed old boxen == good xterminals.
The "dummy server" you talk about exists in the form of VNC. However, the client requires MS-Windows or another X server (perhaps Xappeal??)
Just ftp to your favourite metalab (sunsite) mirror. Do mget *.lsm in pub/Linux/system/status and pub/Linux/system/status/xstatus then have a look and see what sounds nice.
I use xperfmon++ for real-time monitoring - it looks a lot like the windows prefmon tool, but does not have the capability to log to file (this would probably run to only a few lines of code if you wanted to add it). However, almost all the stats can be got from vmstat(8) and netstat(8) -i. Just write a few filters to get rid the the headers and stuff from the output then paste(1) the results into one file and BINGO!
Rodd
This is a ticklish situation, especially with cards similar enough to confuse the drivers.
In an ideal world, one could tweak the PnP stuff in the BIOS, but in my experience this is not a particulary good solution, since most BIOS configurability is to do with IRQ's, whereas the drivers scan by IO port.
I see two ways for you to get out of this...
1) Compile the drivers as modules, and see if changing the insertion order removes the problem.
2) Edit the source code of the drivers so that the port scanning that they do at startup does not overlap. This is rather non-portable, because you will have to know or guess what IO port the BIOS is going to assign to your cards. This will be the same after each restart, but may change if you add or remove cards from the system.
3) (just though of this) Try building one driver into the kernel and the other as a module. Add a 'reserve' entry to the kernel boot parameters (man bootparam for more info) to prevent the built-in driver from detecting the wrong card. Then, insert the module for full functionality (perhaps). This suffers from problems like (2), but requires only a change to lilo.conf if you change your hardware setup.
I haven't tried any of these, so your mileage will probably vary a lot.
Cheers,
Rodd
I haven't read all the comments yet, so perhaps someone else has suggested this, bear with me. .au folks set up an encrypted pipe to access anything that they want. .gov.au could do is black-list the redirector site. If so, just get another IP and a new domain name, e-mail all the customers and get back on-line. The idiots in Canberra could chase us all over the world forever without having the slightest effect.
I am an Australian, and planning to move over seas later this year. Would anyone be interested in going into business with me to start a redirector service? Charge a small fee, or get advertising sponsorship (I hate banner-ads, but bandwidth costs money), then let
Hell, one could even set up a VPN -- pipe IP over https of ssh or whatnot and give subscribers full access to all ports on all machines. To provide this service we need no modems, network hardware or anything in Australia at all. The best that
That's fine for you people who have constitutionally protected rights. Us poor colonials (Australians) have to put up with government that can limit our freedom in any way they choose. Many fire-arms are illegal here. In my state it is illegal to own a flak-jacket (who is that a danger to I ask?). The government also wants ISP's to filter material from the Internet that is offensive to their subscribers.
I believe that emulators are not only a Good Thing, but also an inevitability (as mentioned elsewhere in this thread). However, if governments decide to outlaw them because they harm big businesses then we are all SOL. Governments have been brown-nosing the wealthy since the Magna Carta was signed.