Also, they limit attachement size, but do they limit body size? would it be possible to UUencode the whole thing and stick it as the message text?
"Attachments" are basically the same thing, except that most mail clients know how to parse MIME extensions and only show parts that are intended to be human-readable. If you looked at it with a very old pre-MIME MTA you'd basically see a message with Base-64 (or quoted) text that form the "attachments". A logical way for them to handle things would be to limit the size of the message, not of attachments.
IBM is asking for documents related to communications with SCO or with MS regarding Unix. Given that they're taking on Microsoft in some sense with their Linux strategy its in their interest to expose MS if they're bankrolling this. Or get a big settlement from them.
Baystar requests redemption just to shake up SCO management? If they didn't like Darl, why did they give him the money in the first place?
They aren't trying to shake the SCO management out of the goodness of their heart, to reform the world. They invested in SCO because they believed they had a big-enough shot at their lawsuit to at least raise their valuation significantly. Not it turns out Darl's antics detract from that, so they decided to crack the whip.
They invested in SCO in the first place because of their perceived gain potential from the lawsuit, not because of the great sales they excpected for SCO Unix.
But isn't that a sign that the shorters think this is the lowest price SCOX will be at for a while -- so pretty much the same thing as for any other buying?
In addition to everything others have said... there's also diminishing return at work. If you shorted stock at $10 and its $2 now, a further fall of your maximim gain possible from this point on is pretty small. Not counting broker fees, interest etc., if you'd shorted $1000 of stock, you'd now make $800 in profit. Assuming its value falls away completely, your profit will only increase by a further 25%. On the other hand, the potential for loss is unbounded.
With this system, the ruling coalition often has a wafer-thin majority which means even an otherwise insignificant party with a small number of seats in parliament can exert and awfully strong influence on the government. The Prime Minister can be toppled pretty much anytime by losing a confidence vote. If the oppisition isnt't strong enough to form a majority coalition after that the only alternative is to dissolve parliament and hold general elections again.
Although this government has lived out its full 5 year term*, there was a period before that when there were 3 general elections in a 5 year period. In addition to the obvious fiscal cost of polling 600 million people, this level of instability deters investors because they don't know when a new government will come in and change policy.
That said, things seem to be maturing to a degree with parties that have caused governments to fall over minor issues suffering heavy losses in subsequent elections, so maybe we will see some happy middle ground where no party has a free hand, but the government mostly lives out its full term.
* Actually they did decide to hold elections a little earlier than otherwise scheduled for political reasons
The FCC imposed a half-million dollar fine, and more seriously threatened to cancel their license due to the repeated flagrant violations. That is a risk simply not worth taking for them.
0.7 is the voltage drop across a regular silicon diode, not the light emitting kind. It's often said that red through green LEDs have a voltage drop of 1.7v, You're right... its been a while since I took my electronics course.
Not "also." I should have phrased it more carefully. The also was supposed to be "in addition to changing the LED"
4. If so desired, replace it with an LED of different color using the solder iron and resin.
And watch your new LED smoulder after a while. Blue LEDs trigger at 3.2 volts as compared to 0.7 volts for red and green LEDs. You also need to place a larger resistance in series with it, which is at best hardto do on a PCB that wasn't designed for it.
I vague recall seeing LEDs with curren-limiting resistances built in though somewhere, so make sure you use one of those.
Of course! Because you're the only one smart enough to realise that it takes time for cars to stop. I'm sure the designers NEVER thought about it. They did not set the distance at which the yellow light activates based on how long it would take to stop. I'm sure it triggers when the car is about 3 feet from the line.
Not necessarily. If he doesn't know you have one, you give him the money, and then shoot him in the back as he's leaving.
Then spend the rest of your life in jail. That is second degree murder. Unless he's walking away with the batteries to your pacemaker you're no longer in any immediate physical danger, so using lethal force amounts to murder.
First rule of optimization... profile before you optimize.
The best I can tell, the only advantage you'll gain wrt optimization is code build specificallly for your processor, but I believe this will give you an extremely small speedup for most application. The kernel will probably benefit significantly, but most distros have versions of the kernel built for every minor processor type anyway (eg. i386, i586, i686 rather than just i386)
Not selecting features you don't want will usually just result in smaller programs without any performance gain.
So is it worth the time you'll spend compiling stuff and configuring them manually to save... maybe one gigabyte given that storage costs $1/gb now?
OTOH there are other good reasons for compiling stuff from scratch... building a Linux From Scratch system is an EXCELLENT (albeit time-consuming) way to learn the system inside-out.
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This is cool! I've always wanted an easy way to download heavy metals. Let me go get some uranium now.
Just for the record... its spelt gist ;)
(burglar sue's homeowner after falling threw roof)
Good idea. Let's start by making jokes about Canadian grammar and spelling!
Also, they limit attachement size, but do they limit body size? would it be possible to UUencode the whole thing and stick it as the message text?
"Attachments" are basically the same thing, except that most mail clients know how to parse MIME extensions and only show parts that are intended to be human-readable. If you looked at it with a very old pre-MIME MTA you'd basically see a message with Base-64 (or quoted) text that form the "attachments". A logical way for them to handle things would be to limit the size of the message, not of attachments.
IBM is asking for documents related to communications with SCO or with MS regarding Unix. Given that they're taking on Microsoft in some sense with their Linux strategy its in their interest to expose MS if they're bankrolling this. Or get a big settlement from them.
4) I H4XORed into the slashdot webserver and posted that way
5) I e-mailed my response to Cowboyneal
Don't use it then.
Baystar requests redemption just to shake up SCO management? If they didn't like Darl, why did they give him the money in the first place?
They aren't trying to shake the SCO management out of the goodness of their heart, to reform the world. They invested in SCO because they believed they had a big-enough shot at their lawsuit to at least raise their valuation significantly. Not it turns out Darl's antics detract from that, so they decided to crack the whip.
They invested in SCO in the first place because of their perceived gain potential from the lawsuit, not because of the great sales they excpected for SCO Unix.
But isn't that a sign that the shorters think this is the lowest price SCOX will be at for a while -- so pretty much the same thing as for any other buying?
In addition to everything others have said... there's also diminishing return at work. If you shorted stock at $10 and its $2 now, a further fall of your maximim gain possible from this point on is pretty small. Not counting broker fees, interest etc., if you'd shorted $1000 of stock, you'd now make $800 in profit. Assuming its value falls away completely, your profit will only increase by a further 25%. On the other hand, the potential for loss is unbounded.
The images are loaded from the server regardless. The google cache accomplishes exactly nothing in case of slashdotting.
which practically every serious physicist believes to be correct.
You mean just like every serious physicist believed Newtonian mechanics to be correct till the early 20th century?
You spell "lose" correctly. You are definitely not an american :-))
Actually I am... albeit of Indian origin
With this system, the ruling coalition often has a wafer-thin majority which means even an otherwise insignificant party with a small number of seats in parliament can exert and awfully strong influence on the government. The Prime Minister can be toppled pretty much anytime by losing a confidence vote. If the oppisition isnt't strong enough to form a majority coalition after that the only alternative is to dissolve parliament and hold general elections again.
Although this government has lived out its full 5 year term*, there was a period before that when there were 3 general elections in a 5 year period. In addition to the obvious fiscal cost of polling 600 million people, this level of instability deters investors because they don't know when a new government will come in and change policy.
That said, things seem to be maturing to a degree with parties that have caused governments to fall over minor issues suffering heavy losses in subsequent elections, so maybe we will see some happy middle ground where no party has a free hand, but the government mostly lives out its full term.
* Actually they did decide to hold elections a little earlier than otherwise scheduled for political reasons
A powerful computer to pump out spam quickly and a decent firewall to block it will pay for themselves quickly if you keep them running 24/7.
A powerful computer is counterproductive, since you're paid by the hour, not by output. Use the slowest CPU you can find.
The FCC imposed a half-million dollar fine, and more seriously threatened to cancel their license due to the repeated flagrant violations. That is a risk simply not worth taking for them.
0.7 is the voltage drop across a regular silicon diode, not the light emitting kind. It's often said that red through green LEDs have a voltage drop of 1.7v,
You're right... its been a while since I took my electronics course.
Not "also."
I should have phrased it more carefully. The also was supposed to be "in addition to changing the LED"
I work for Nasa, you insensitive clod.
I do'nt kneed on dman pvriev buton!
Of course, I'm not a science guy, so what do I know, right?
Apparently. I thought the energy from the sun reaching the earth through 150 million miles of hard vaccum might have been some clue.
4. If so desired, replace it with an LED of different color using the solder iron and resin.
And watch your new LED smoulder after a while. Blue LEDs trigger at 3.2 volts as compared to 0.7 volts for red and green LEDs. You also need to place a larger resistance in series with it, which is at best hardto do on a PCB that wasn't designed for it.
I vague recall seeing LEDs with curren-limiting resistances built in though somewhere, so make sure you use one of those.
Of course! Because you're the only one smart enough to realise that it takes time for cars to stop. I'm sure the designers NEVER thought about it. They did not set the distance at which the yellow light activates based on how long it would take to stop. I'm sure it triggers when the car is about 3 feet from the line.
RedHat's outsourced already, noone ever mentions it here because you cant deride the almighty linux vendors.
You need to pay more attention! Open season has been declared on Redhat since they killed their desktop distro. Deride away!
Heard of CallerID ? Telephone Directory ?
Heard of *67? Unlisted numbers? Payphones?
Thats where the crusher comes in!
Not necessarily. If he doesn't know you have one, you give him the money, and then shoot him in the back as he's leaving.
Then spend the rest of your life in jail. That is second degree murder. Unless he's walking away with the batteries to your pacemaker you're no longer in any immediate physical danger, so using lethal force amounts to murder.
First rule of optimization... profile before you optimize.
The best I can tell, the only advantage you'll gain wrt optimization is code build specificallly for your processor, but I believe this will give you an extremely small speedup for most application. The kernel will probably benefit significantly, but most distros have versions of the kernel built for every minor processor type anyway (eg. i386, i586, i686 rather than just i386)
Not selecting features you don't want will usually just result in smaller programs without any performance gain.
So is it worth the time you'll spend compiling stuff and configuring them manually to save... maybe one gigabyte given that storage costs $1/gb now?
OTOH there are other good reasons for compiling stuff from scratch... building a Linux From Scratch system is an EXCELLENT (albeit time-consuming) way to learn the system inside-out.