Lots of people commenting on how the Z80 was used in the TRS80 and other more US-based machines, but on the other sides of the ponds (i.e. Europe and especially Japan) there was also the MSX platform. It had quite a strong following in the early to mid eighties, and also used the Z80 (at least the first incarnations did).
The radio waves are not what you hear. But the theory is that the radio waves cause things to move, which causes air to move, which is what you hear. At least according to the article...
I don't care about the reposts. Why would anyone care? Nobody is forcing you to read Slashdot.
That said, I think what is so bad about all of this is that Slashdot claims to be a news service -- but when you hold them to journalistic standards, suddenly they're nothing more but a discussion service. It's pretty hypocritical and I can understand why people might get fussed about it.
You don't understand. When it is convenient for Slashdot, they call themselves a "news service", so they can act as "journalists".
When somebody holds them to journalistic standards however, suddenly Slashdot is a nothing more than a "discussion service", and you are sent your merry way.
I don't think it'll work for the kernel. I'm unsure whether this is the kind of bug that you would write regression tests for in the first place. Consider how much human time it takes to run these kinds of tests. I'm inclined to believe the current method, even though it is risky, probably unearthed the bug faster than a regression test suite would have done.
Also regression test suites have a tendency to become a almost like a substitute for real thought, and engender a kind of conservatism that would kill kernel development. That is, developers will tend to defer to the authority of the regression test suite, instead of applying some real thought to what is actually happening: "I won't apply your patch because it breaks test #4751".
None of this is true. You can just grab the Mozilla 0.9.x RPMs and the Galeon RPMs, do an rpm -i and it will just work. Still a large download, but nowhere near having to have the source handy.
Well, for me, I switched to Galeon from Mozilla recently, and haven't looked back, because:
1. Galeon UI is still a lot faster on this machine at least.
2. Galeon has a full screen mode that WORKS.
3. Galeon has lots of features that Moz hasn't got.
4. Galeon has lots and lots of polish that is simply not there in Moz.
You're probably thinking about this paper. Abstract:
In this paper, we seek to answer a simple question: "How prevalent are denial-of-service attacks in the Internet today?". Our motivation is to understand quantitatively the nature of the current threat as well as to enable longer-term analyses of trends and recurring patterns of attacks. We present a new technique, called "backscatter analysis", that provides an estimate of worldwide denial-of-service activity.
There are two main benefits to this technology. First, it reduces power requirements, because you don't need to provide power to all of those gigabytes all the time. This yields smaller devices that run longer. Second, it allows stuff like quick booting.
To the people who are worried about their system getting sullied by "traces" of viruses or somesuch nonsense: watch out! The Illuminati have already planted an evil "persistent storage mechanism" in your computer right now, cunningly disguised as a so-called "hard drive"! For your protection, you should wear a tinfoil hat. If you want maximum security you should locate and remove the "hard drive" from your computer put it in a microwave oven (careful to wear your tin foil hat!). This will destroy the hard drive's subspace transmitter that is being used to send information about you to a race of alien overlords who use this information in the planning of their military campaign against Earth.
Persistent RAM is useful to improve on what laptops have been doing for ages with suspend-to-RAM and suspend-to-disk (and they don't seem to suffer too terribly from any of what you've mentioned).
Having persistent RAM just means you can do a suspend-to-RAM that behaves like suspend-to-disk, which is cool because it's faster and you don't need special "hibernation" partitions.
Yeah, but of course the problem with schemes like "no bugs found at $500" is that it can mean either that there are no bugs or that they are worth more than $500.
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Lots of people commenting on how the Z80 was used in the TRS80 and other more US-based machines, but on the other sides of the ponds (i.e. Europe and especially Japan) there was also the MSX platform. It had quite a strong following in the early to mid eighties, and also used the Z80 (at least the first incarnations did).
Have you thought this through? If people can be held responsible for bugs in software, then how can little people keep developing software?
Why would a virus need to use Outlook to send itself?
Our world is shrinking...
WORD UP DUUD... 68k rulez
Very gay indeed. A thousand mesmerized knob frobbing men. I am not kidding. LAN parties are a kind of geek gangbang. Turing would have loved it.
I love you and will send somebody to have your babies.
The radio waves are not what you hear. But the theory is that the radio waves cause things to move, which causes air to move, which is what you hear. At least according to the article...
These guys truly bought the farm, didn't they. Sheesh. I wish them luck with their setup.
But the cable co's will simply drop your packets unless you install their special software.
Funny, nothing you say makes any sense whatsoever. Perhaps you should team up with Steve Gibson and not make sense together.
Admittedly this link supports your alternative expansion, but as just that. Alternative.
That said, I think what is so bad about all of this is that Slashdot claims to be a news service -- but when you hold them to journalistic standards, suddenly they're nothing more but a discussion service. It's pretty hypocritical and I can understand why people might get fussed about it.
When somebody holds them to journalistic standards however, suddenly Slashdot is a nothing more than a "discussion service", and you are sent your merry way.
So it goes I guess.
I don't think it'll work for the kernel. I'm unsure whether this is the kind of bug that you would write regression tests for in the first place. Consider how much human time it takes to run these kinds of tests. I'm inclined to believe the current method, even though it is risky, probably unearthed the bug faster than a regression test suite would have done. Also regression test suites have a tendency to become a almost like a substitute for real thought, and engender a kind of conservatism that would kill kernel development. That is, developers will tend to defer to the authority of the regression test suite, instead of applying some real thought to what is actually happening: "I won't apply your patch because it breaks test #4751".
None of this is true. You can just grab the Mozilla 0.9.x RPMs and the Galeon RPMs, do an rpm -i and it will just work. Still a large download, but nowhere near having to have the source handy.
Well, for me, I switched to Galeon from Mozilla recently, and haven't looked back, because:
1. Galeon UI is still a lot faster on this machine at least.
2. Galeon has a full screen mode that WORKS.
3. Galeon has lots of features that Moz hasn't got.
4. Galeon has lots and lots of polish that is simply not there in Moz.
To the people who are worried about their system getting sullied by "traces" of viruses or somesuch nonsense: watch out! The Illuminati have already planted an evil "persistent storage mechanism" in your computer right now, cunningly disguised as a so-called "hard drive"! For your protection, you should wear a tinfoil hat. If you want maximum security you should locate and remove the "hard drive" from your computer put it in a microwave oven (careful to wear your tin foil hat!). This will destroy the hard drive's subspace transmitter that is being used to send information about you to a race of alien overlords who use this information in the planning of their military campaign against Earth.
Having persistent RAM just means you can do a suspend-to-RAM that behaves like suspend-to-disk, which is cool because it's faster and you don't need special "hibernation" partitions.
Slashbot discovers the benefits of a "pause" key. News at eleven.
Yah, DNS queries r also SLOW
Yeah, but of course the problem with schemes like "no bugs found at $500" is that it can mean either that there are no bugs or that they are worth more than $500.
Did you read the article? It talks about securing enough redundant bandwidth to protect against DDOS.