Microsoft usually has extremely ambitious plans for its "next" release. These always seem to get watered down as time goes on. In fact, they only time they manage to get a release on schedule is when it is little more than a service pack, eg win98se et al.
Of course, now with the new licensing plan, I suppose we (or rather, you) should be lucky you're getting a new release at all.
Are you trolling me? I didn't say that people want everything for free, I said that consumers want as much for free as possible.
They want to listen to a CD they bought while they drive to work, while their wife listens to the same CD as she cleans the house, while their kids listen to the same CD on their way to school. Yes, any of them should be able to listen to the CD, but not simultaneously. To do that, they should each buy their own copy.
The RIAA aren't simple "duplication services". They are incubators of talent, promoters, and much , much more. They deserve to be rewarded as such.
The RIAA gave us the CD format, generously not building in copy protection. Now they find that consumers don't respect the laws, and so they have to do something about it.
In my mind, making copy protected CDs is akin to a pub/bar/club having a sign saying "No drugs on the premesis" - They are helping us stay on the right side of the law.
That's what the Register wrote this morning when I read it. When I posted this post, I reloaded the Reg's page, but evidently it was cached by my browser and so I pasted the wrong figures.
Nobody else needs to either moderate me down or reply saying that I fucked up. I know, and now so do you. No malice intended, and I have learnt not to trust either Galeon (which was set to always reload pages I visit) or the Reg (who usually don't let me down).
The Reg's article is still worth reading, here is the link again, in case you missed it in the hurry to flame me.
You said it yourself. A proxy can only rewrite application-level protocol headers it knows about. Therefore unknown (to the proxy, eg smtp, gopher, irc, etc, etc) application protocols aren't going anywhere, and lower lever protocols have even less chance.
Now granted, an http proxy is easily defeated, but it has already prevented a lot of stuff that could otherwise get out from getting out. An smtp worm, not only has to have implement the smtp protocol to work well, but it also has to be able to locate a proxy and tunnel its way through and have somewhere on the outside to be tunnelled to.
You see how proxies as part of the security environment would have helped in this situation? (even if they didn't do any filtering to prevent the virus getting in in the first place)
The world is full of people who more intelligent and full-featured than either of us and who can consequently (a) switch industries and professions with absolute ease and (b) be successful at pretty much anything they put their minds to, including your job.
Yes, these people exist, but as a rule they don't Ask Slashdot to see if they are making the right decision.
This is just 4gb Travelstar, model DBCA-204860, I have just taken it out and it seems to "rattle", which might explain where some of the noise is coming from. Unfortunately, I have to power the drive down as much as possible, which means no ext3 for me on this drive.
What I meant by fragile wasn't that it is easy to damage the Thinkpad, which does seem to be a tough little blighter, but more in the leaving it powered on constantly, wearing out the CPU, fan and drives. Mind you, if you have experience of doing that, and I have never tried, you win!
This machine was half-inched from work, so the battery was already dead. I have found a place in the UK which has replacements for £52.87 (what's that, $80?) which has to be a bargain. They label them genuine IBM too!
I'm a big fan of IBM ThinkPads. A nice, small (5 pounds or so) ThinkPad 600X (P-III/500, 256 MB, 20 GB, 1024x768 (XGA?), DVD reader) should sell on Ebay for about $600. Also, it's quiet! (That's important if this thing is going to live in an apartment.)
They must have changed the harddisk from the 600 to the 600X because MINE MAKES A FUCKING RACKET.
I was going to mention something like this, but I wouldn't recommend using something as fragile as a laptop powered on 24/7.
Also, you couldn't count on the built in UPS (ie laptop battery) as they in general, and IBM's in particular, stop working within 6 months if you leave the laptop powered on mains for most of the time.
Bit late to reply, maybe, but "The moderation system is not a system of rewards and punishments. It's a filtering system"
You tell that to the people who have a +1 posting bonus, or to those who can only post twice a day.
Also, moderation should only ever be done at -1, oldest first. With no influence from the friends and foes crap, and if at all possible, anonymously. If a comment is going to be moderated up or down, let it be done so, soley on its content, not the author.
I would use MacOS X on a laptop too...
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...if I was given a "review unit" with it on.
As it is I'll happily continue with my Thinkpad 600 running Debian, XFce and Rox filer. I bet mine with its PII 266 is more responsive than his, too!
You have your mugging analogy a little skew whiff. Let me help you correct it.
You go to the roughest part of your town. Not the kind of place you want to be in the daytime, let alone at night. You have been warned by the police/your parents/local thugs/whoever not to go there.
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Microsoft usually has extremely ambitious plans for its "next" release. These always seem to get watered down as time goes on. In fact, they only time they manage to get a release on schedule is when it is little more than a service pack, eg win98se et al.
Of course, now with the new licensing plan, I suppose we (or rather, you) should be lucky you're getting a new release at all.
By the way, it's not just for the xbox, it'll be available for the GameCube, the PS2, and the PC as well.
Yes, but you forget that everyone here has already bought an MSX-Box so that they can stick it to Microsoft by not buying any games.
You didn't think I noticed when 26 other people pointed that out?
Are you trolling me? I didn't say that people want everything for free, I said that consumers want as much for free as possible.
They want to listen to a CD they bought while they drive to work, while their wife listens to the same CD as she cleans the house, while their kids listen to the same CD on their way to school. Yes, any of them should be able to listen to the CD, but not simultaneously. To do that, they should each buy their own copy.
The RIAA aren't simple "duplication services". They are incubators of talent, promoters, and much , much more. They deserve to be rewarded as such.
The RIAA gave us the CD format, generously not building in copy protection. Now they find that consumers don't respect the laws, and so they have to do something about it.
In my mind, making copy protected CDs is akin to a pub/bar/club having a sign saying "No drugs on the premesis" - They are helping us stay on the right side of the law.
Producers want you to pay for everything.
Consumers want as much as they can for free.
That's what the Register wrote this morning when I read it. When I posted this post, I reloaded the Reg's page, but evidently it was cached by my browser and so I pasted the wrong figures.
Nobody else needs to either moderate me down or reply saying that I fucked up. I know, and now so do you. No malice intended, and I have learnt not to trust either Galeon (which was set to always reload pages I visit) or the Reg (who usually don't let me down).
The Reg's article is still worth reading, here is the link again, in case you missed it in the hurry to flame me.
And read The Register's write up.
.NET version required 14,004 lines of code, while the Java version featured 2,096."
Basically, nothing to see here.
Oh, one interesting fact, "the
I didn't think that I had to label my post as a joke, but you have proven me wrong.
Yeah, but it all runs on X Windows, doesn't it?
To be honest, you probably only want them on a per app basis.
For example, Up Down would obviously be "Next Image" in an image viewer, but wouldn't necessarily mean anything else in another app.
But I'd like to see them get a Breakout clone in 1K
Or rather, the lack thereof.
You said it yourself. A proxy can only rewrite application-level protocol headers it knows about. Therefore unknown (to the proxy, eg smtp, gopher, irc, etc, etc) application protocols aren't going anywhere, and lower lever protocols have even less chance.
Now granted, an http proxy is easily defeated, but it has already prevented a lot of stuff that could otherwise get out from getting out. An smtp worm, not only has to have implement the smtp protocol to work well, but it also has to be able to locate a proxy and tunnel its way through and have somewhere on the outside to be tunnelled to.
You see how proxies as part of the security environment would have helped in this situation? (even if they didn't do any filtering to prevent the virus getting in in the first place)
Microsoft doesn't shut people down. Therefore, modchips must really, really piss them off.
And I wasn't making a point with the other thing, just ranting. The fact that you knew where else that is written means that it wasn't aimed at you!
...but I am looking for a new job just now, and I don't want you to find it!
This is just 4gb Travelstar, model DBCA-204860, I have just taken it out and it seems to "rattle", which might explain where some of the noise is coming from. Unfortunately, I have to power the drive down as much as possible, which means no ext3 for me on this drive.
What I meant by fragile wasn't that it is easy to damage the Thinkpad, which does seem to be a tough little blighter, but more in the leaving it powered on constantly, wearing out the CPU, fan and drives. Mind you, if you have experience of doing that, and I have never tried, you win!
This machine was half-inched from work, so the battery was already dead. I have found a place in the UK which has replacements for £52.87 (what's that, $80?) which has to be a bargain. They label them genuine IBM too!
They must have changed the harddisk from the 600 to the 600X because MINE MAKES A FUCKING RACKET.
I was going to mention something like this, but I wouldn't recommend using something as fragile as a laptop powered on 24/7.
Also, you couldn't count on the built in UPS (ie laptop battery) as they in general, and IBM's in particular, stop working within 6 months if you leave the laptop powered on mains for most of the time.
Bit late to reply, maybe, but "The moderation system is not a system of rewards and punishments. It's a filtering system"
You tell that to the people who have a +1 posting bonus, or to those who can only post twice a day.
Also, moderation should only ever be done at -1, oldest first. With no influence from the friends and foes crap, and if at all possible, anonymously. If a comment is going to be moderated up or down, let it be done so, soley on its content, not the author.
...if I was given a "review unit" with it on.
As it is I'll happily continue with my Thinkpad 600 running Debian, XFce and Rox filer. I bet mine with its PII 266 is more responsive than his, too!
So why are you griping about this, instead of doing something else more interesting?
Yes you're right, which is why I said as much here, the first answer to the question, and 7 hours before you posted.
My reward? 2 "Redundant" down mods, and irrefutable proof that the moderation system is truly broken.
You have your mugging analogy a little skew whiff. Let me help you correct it.
You go to the roughest part of your town. Not the kind of place you want to be in the daytime, let alone at night. You have been warned by the police/your parents/local thugs/whoever not to go there.
You are mugged.
Whose fault is that?
would "tar cf /dev/firewire/0" or whatever work?