I clicked on the links to WASTE that/. has so generously provided, and I found out that both the Download Page and the Security Page of WASTE can't be accessed!
I wonder if WASTE have been removed from nullsoft.com, since nullsoft is owned by AOL?
If SCO is so anxious to SUE SOMEONE of "infringing on their IP", then I think we should help SCO by becoming defendents-en-masse, in a reverse-class-action suit, and let SCO sue ALL OF US.
I can't wait to see how much love and goodwill SCO will get by suing all of us.
Say what you want, the Unix trademark is owned by The Open Group.
The suit by SCO against IBM, if it involved Unix, then The Open Group has the final say.
Problem is they make YOU eat the RAM
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DRAM Price Fixing
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The problem is that DRAM manufacturers did collaborate from time to time to either hike up the price or pull the price to artificially low level.
I still remember the time when Hynix (of Korea) was in big trouble - not that it isn't in deep doo-doo right now - Samsung collaborated with Microns to pull the DRAM price to some ridiculously low level and they did so for one simple reason - they wanted Hynix to be D-E-A-D so they can get rid of one of their most competitive competitors.
Although the "electronic bubble" may have burst, dragging with it a lot of the IT-related industries, not all have been lost.
Remember the railway boom and bust cycle ?
Well... after the railway have bust, another cycle began - the vehicles and highway cycle. In fact, it's the trucks and inter-connected highways that have taken lots of businesses from the railway companies that have accelerated the bust of the railway bubble.
Now, with the bust of the electronic bubble, some other thing WILL replace it - perhaps it's the wireless, or perhaps it's wearable stuffs, or whatever, but looking back in human history, something WILL EMERGE right after the crash of something else.
Like waves - one wave will come right after another - human civilization will NEVER LET ANYTHING STANDSTILL - and we'll see what come next.
Perhaps it's a combination of textile and electronics (wearable computing) or textile/electronic/long-range-sensing thingy, or perhaps with some bits of bio-electro-tech thrown in.
I'm sure something else will come up. Those who have visions will make a bundle, as usual. Those who do the "follow-the-leader" may make a smaller bundle.
And so on....
Does 1.4b do download manager ?
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Just wonder - does the 1.4 Beta contain a fully working Download Manager ?
The 1.3 series's (including the 1.3.1) Download Manager cannot do "Resume Downloading".
1.4 alpha's Download Manager also failed to resume downloading.
When we complain of awful sounding loudspeakers, sometimes it's the loudspeakers that is at fault.
Sometimes.
In some situations, however, even if you put the BEST loudspeakers in the world in a really lousy environment, you will get bad sounds.
What lousy environments, you may wonder.
Well... for one thing, echoes.
Not all the rooms (environment) are similar. There are a lot of variables:
The shape of the room;
The size of the room;
The position of the loudspeakers;
The volume of the sound;
The pitch (hi/lo) of the sound;
The material of the wall coverings, ala
if it's soundproof or not;
All contribute to the "total effect" of what your ears will hear.
If you play loud bass, that is, you wanna "hear the things you can feel", - those thump, thump, thump thing from sub-woofer, then you may need to take the width and length of the room into consideration and place your subwoofer (and woofer) accordingly.
You see, low pitch sound has a longer wavelength than high-pitch sound, and if the sound emitting from the sub-woofer hits the walls HALFWAY through the wavelength, you _may_ get echoes - much like what you'll get if you shine a light at a mirror, and the light reflected back, depending on the angle of attack.
So the best bet is to place the subwoofer about a wavelength unit away from the wall closest to it.
If the room is too small and you can't do that, then the next best thing is to sound-proof your walls - like what you see on the recording studio, line up your walls with cone-shape sponge thingies.
If you can't do that, then the next best thing is to hang THICK CLOTH - kinda like window panes - and let the thick cloth (and I mean THICK CLOTH) soak up the echoes before they bounce back into the room and mess up the whole environment.
All in all, it's a trial-and-error exercise.
Who knows, after playing for a while, and you may get the hang of it and become a sort-of "expert" and write a "how-to" on proper placement of sound equipments, sound-proofing your room, etc.
Tested with the Opera and Mozilla browsers, both on Windoze and Linux platforms, the exploit doesn't affect any of them.
IE on the other hand, crashed.
By the way, here is the entire "exploit code":
<html> <form> <input type crash> </form> </html>
Try calculate the cost of writing PERFECT proggies
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Wow...it took them this long to realise that it costs more to do things 2, 3, or 4 times then if they had done it right the first time..."
Well, try calculate the cost of writing PERFECT PROGRAMS that has NO BUGS, and all the features are implemented PERFECTLY.
I know about the planning process, I know about programming methodologies such as Extreme Programming but in this real world that we live in, believe it or not, NOTHING IS PERFECT and software patches become the second best thing one can have.
Sadly, the MS FUD has already started. In the wonderfully written "Code Red for Open Source" article at Cnet which is fair and balanced (in that Fox News kind of way) Balmer is quoted as saying something to the effect, "See, you dont know who's writing your OSS software."
If MS wants to make it a "lose-lose" situation for the IBM-Linux alliance, then we can make it a "lose-lose-lose" situation where NOBODY came out a winner.
Steve Ballmer may thinks he owns the world, but he ain't, at least not yet.
Believe it or not, MS still depend on the world for its own survival, Mr. Ballmer may think otherwise, but if MS crosses the line, the world will shuns MS like a plague.
No one is an island in this world, MS is no exception. If MS really wants a fight, then lets make it one that MS wins nothing but financial ruins.
MS is already suffering from utter Moral Bankrupcy, and from there it's a very short trip to Financial Bankrupcy.
IBM has learnt the bitter lesson back in the 80's, mebbe it's MS turn this time around.
The book does contain a section about possible attacks against Palladium and TCPA, as well as a discussion of non-cryptographic alternatives to Trusted Computing that provide good security without the bitter taste of DRM.
The hope is in part to establish some kind of precedent about fair use, whether or not it sticks around long enough to matter when Trusted Computing hits full stride. At least, it will provide a solid starting point for arguments;-)...these days, it seems public opinion is guided mostly by speculation and FUD...
Why not try self-publishing?
Or how about make the first edition of the book into pdf or whatever net-aware form, put it online, and let anyone who want to access it?
Whatever DCMA is, they can't control the whole world, yet.
Dunno about the US or what, but in many countries, including Malaysia, the term "Broadband" usually has to come with the quote-unquote, because services like DSL or ADSL doesn't guarantee that you get a speedy hookup.
Sometimes the ADSL line performs SLOWER than a 56K dialup line !
At least that's what happening to the ADSL service in Malaysia, offered by the telecommunication monopoly, the Telekom Malaysia.
Hypocrisy stalks the land The view from inside Iraq of this war's effect on people -- and on truth -- moves PAUL WILLIAM ROBERTS to outrage
By PAUL WILLIAM ROBERTS Tuesday, March 25, 2003
I have been in and out of Iraq more often than the Turkish army these past few days, viewing the war both firsthand and on the surprisingly copious array of television news channels available all over Syria and Jordan. I heard Donald Rumsfeld on the radio discussing "the humanity that goes into" building the kind of weapons of mass destruction that America prefers these days. I saw for myself enough of their effects, the inevitable consequences of their inbuilt humanity, to convince myself that no dialogue is possible with Washington's current leadership.
We no longer speak the same language. To them, terms like "freedom," "humanity," "democracy" and "liberation" signify the opposite of what they mean to me. I resent this theft and abuse of language.
And I am enraged at George W. Bush for forcing me, now the war is under way, to accept implicitly that the coalition must continue with its killing and destroying until the stated goal of "regime change" has been achieved. To stop at anything less now would be crueler to most Iraqis than whatever atrocities this conclusion brings. This is like Sophie's Choice.
And I hate both Bushes for the pleasure I distinctly felt when Iraqi television broke into its Saddam lovefest to reveal the nation's troops gloating over the corpses of U.S. soldiers, manhandling them so the camera could see the fresh bullet holes that punched the envelope of life to death. We have all become less than human in this. We all share in shame. Earlier this week, Ali Abul-Ragheb, the Jordanian Prime Minister, told me, "There will only be losers in this war, no winners."
During the course of one long day last week I was in England, Germany, France and Lebanon. The following day, I traveled through Syria, Jordan and Iraq -- seven different countries in which I had the same conversation with some 50 ordinary people: pilots, waiters, cab drivers, chefs, merchants, managers, barmaids. Not one felt that America had pursued a just course for a just cause. Not one believed the stated goals were the real objectives.
Not one had a good word to say about Saddam Hussein, either. Yet each, on learning I was from Canada -- and this is usually the first question you're asked nowadays -- had nothing but praise for Canada's stand against the war and support for the United Nations. I didn't have the heart to tell anyone that Canadian ships and servicemen were actively involved as American accomplices as we spoke.
Despite our claims of neutrality, we have 31 troops on exchange with British and U.S. forces in the Persian Gulf -- which gives us a greater presence than the majority of members of the so-called coalition. I felt ashamed at the hypocrisy.
Jordan feels ashamed, too. The Prime Minister told me his country would never permit the United States to launch an attack from its soil. Yet I saw U.S. military vehicles towing vast fuel containers through eastern Jordan; and I saw F-15 fighter jets landing somewhere behind the low hills lining the highway to western Iraq. The Jordanian air force does not possess any F-15s -- the Prime Minister himself volunteered that fact.
This morning, I was forced to abandon a new attempt to sneak back into Iraq when my guide and I stumbled across a raging battle between U.S. Special Forces and Iraqi troops somewhere near the town of Akashat. As I write this, three nations are denying all knowledge of such a battle.
As many of the "embedded" media enthuse over the "courage and professionalism" of their new pals, or marvel shamelessly at the wondrous toys they now get to play with, the rest of us, along with increasingly many Iraqis, wonder if we
For those who wear card carrying member of "You're wrong and I'm right" club...
In case you don't know the real meaning of "Good" in "Good At Their Jobs", it's that, you do NOT sabortage the collective aim of the whole team just because you have an attitude.
I don't care what kind of job you do, be it programmer or garbage collector, if you HAVE a job to do, DO IT WELL.
And the "DO IT WELL" means, usually, CARRY OUT WHATEVER YOU ARE SUPPOSED TO DO, AND THEN FINISH IT.
Slashdot Mirror
Like the speculation that Internet is dead, the one about VoIP and WIFI will deal local telecos a death blow is too premature.
No matter it's VoIP or WIFI, the data packets need the WIRES to complete their journey.
Who runs the WIRES ?
Well
Plus, don't forget that the local Telcos have the option to change with time.
Perhaps in 20 years, local Telcos may not earn as much money from their current business, they may branch out or exploit totally new territories.
But that's only my own 2 cents.
Those of you who are lucky, who have downloaded WASTE, please mirror the thing.
Seems like WASTE has been pulled from nullsoft, a repeat of the gnutella saga.
Thank you !
I clicked on the links to WASTE that
I wonder if WASTE have been removed from nullsoft.com, since nullsoft is owned by AOL?
Both the Download Page and the Security Page aren't accessible.
This bring the question of whether WASTE have been removed from nullsoft.com, or not?
Tried to get to the and found that it has been
If anyone successfully got to that page, can you please share with us info on how to dl WASTE ?
Thanks !
If SCO is so anxious to SUE SOMEONE of "infringing on their IP", then I think we should help SCO by becoming defendents-en-masse, in a reverse-class-action suit, and let SCO sue ALL OF US.
I can't wait to see how much love and goodwill SCO will get by suing all of us.
Say what you want, but for the math gifted, most of them will code in Occaml, or one of the Meta Languages (ML), if they ever come across them.
Can anyone please tell me how to set up my machine on mining prices for any selected item on the web ?
Thank you !
Say what you want, the Unix trademark is owned by The Open Group.
The suit by SCO against IBM, if it involved Unix, then The Open Group has the final say.
The problem is that DRAM manufacturers did collaborate from time to time to either hike up the price or pull the price to artificially low level.
I still remember the time when Hynix (of Korea) was in big trouble - not that it isn't in deep doo-doo right now - Samsung collaborated with Microns to pull the DRAM price to some ridiculously low level and they did so for one simple reason - they wanted Hynix to be D-E-A-D so they can get rid of one of their most competitive competitors.
Just a very curious question:
Does Linux do Direct-X ?
If Linux doesn't do Direct-X, then
How can we know which one runs better under Linux ?
Don't give up yet.
Although the "electronic bubble" may have burst, dragging with it a lot of the IT-related industries, not all have been lost.
Remember the railway boom and bust cycle ?
Well
Now, with the bust of the electronic bubble, some other thing WILL replace it - perhaps it's the wireless, or perhaps it's wearable stuffs, or whatever, but looking back in human history, something WILL EMERGE right after the crash of something else.
Like waves - one wave will come right after another - human civilization will NEVER LET ANYTHING STANDSTILL - and we'll see what come next.
Perhaps it's a combination of textile and electronics (wearable computing) or textile/electronic/long-range-sensing thingy, or perhaps with some bits of bio-electro-tech thrown in.
I'm sure something else will come up. Those who have visions will make a bundle, as usual. Those who do the "follow-the-leader" may make a smaller bundle.
And so on
Just wonder - does the 1.4 Beta contain a fully working Download Manager ?
The 1.3 series's (including the 1.3.1) Download Manager cannot do "Resume Downloading".
1.4 alpha's Download Manager also failed to resume downloading.
Anyone here know the answer ?
Thanks in advance !
Can anyone please enlighten me to what "off-the-shelf" packages the movie has employed?
Or is there a page where the packages are listed?
I am afraid I do not read French.
When we complain of awful sounding loudspeakers, sometimes it's the loudspeakers that is at fault.
Sometimes.
In some situations, however, even if you put the BEST loudspeakers in the world in a really lousy environment, you will get bad sounds.
What lousy environments, you may wonder.
Well
Not all the rooms (environment) are similar. There are a lot of variables:
The shape of the room;
The size of the room;
The position of the loudspeakers;
The volume of the sound;
The pitch (hi/lo) of the sound;
The material of the wall coverings, ala
if it's soundproof or not;
All contribute to the "total effect" of what your ears will hear.
If you play loud bass, that is, you wanna "hear the things you can feel", - those thump, thump, thump thing from sub-woofer, then you may need to take the width and length of the room into consideration and place your subwoofer (and woofer) accordingly.
You see, low pitch sound has a longer wavelength than high-pitch sound, and if the sound emitting from the sub-woofer hits the walls HALFWAY through the wavelength, you _may_ get echoes - much like what you'll get if you shine a light at a mirror, and the light reflected back, depending on the angle of attack.
So the best bet is to place the subwoofer about a wavelength unit away from the wall closest to it.
If the room is too small and you can't do that, then the next best thing is to sound-proof your walls - like what you see on the recording studio, line up your walls with cone-shape sponge thingies.
If you can't do that, then the next best thing is to hang THICK CLOTH - kinda like window panes - and let the thick cloth (and I mean THICK CLOTH) soak up the echoes before they bounce back into the room and mess up the whole environment.
All in all, it's a trial-and-error exercise.
Who knows, after playing for a while, and you may get the hang of it and become a sort-of "expert" and write a "how-to" on proper placement of sound equipments, sound-proofing your room, etc.
Hope this helps !
Tested with the Opera and Mozilla browsers, both on Windoze and Linux platforms, the exploit doesn't affect any of them.
IE on the other hand, crashed.
By the way, here is the entire "exploit code":
<html>
<form>
<input type crash>
</form>
</html>
Wow...it took them this long to realise that it costs more to do things 2, 3, or 4 times then if they had done it right the first time..."
Well, try calculate the cost of writing PERFECT PROGRAMS that has NO BUGS, and all the features are implemented PERFECTLY.
I know about the planning process, I know about programming methodologies such as Extreme Programming but in this real world that we live in, believe it or not, NOTHING IS PERFECT and software patches become the second best thing one can have.
Sadly, the MS FUD has already started. In the wonderfully written "Code Red for Open Source" article at Cnet which is fair and balanced (in that Fox News kind of way) Balmer is quoted as saying something to the effect, "See, you dont know who's writing your OSS software."
If MS wants to make it a "lose-lose" situation for the IBM-Linux alliance, then we can make it a "lose-lose-lose" situation where NOBODY came out a winner.
Steve Ballmer may thinks he owns the world, but he ain't, at least not yet.
Believe it or not, MS still depend on the world for its own survival, Mr. Ballmer may think otherwise, but if MS crosses the line, the world will shuns MS like a plague.
No one is an island in this world, MS is no exception. If MS really wants a fight, then lets make it one that MS wins nothing but financial ruins.
MS is already suffering from utter Moral Bankrupcy, and from there it's a very short trip to Financial Bankrupcy.
IBM has learnt the bitter lesson back in the 80's, mebbe it's MS turn this time around.
.... then MS will get a fight it can't forget
Take for example, the name "Command Prompt" which may be counted as one of the "trade secret of unix"
This time MS has to face not only IBM, but also The Regents of The University of California which happen to be the rightful owners of *BSD.
If MS wanna fights the world, then the world will fight back.
It's that simple.
It seems the DARPA grant for OpenBSD and for University of Pennsylvania has been cancelled (?) immediately and without warning.
Does that mean DARPR may be thinking giving a grant to someone who start the "Open Linux"project ?
The book does contain a section about possible attacks against Palladium and TCPA, as well as a discussion of non-cryptographic alternatives to Trusted Computing that provide good security without the bitter taste of DRM.
The hope is in part to establish some kind of precedent about fair use, whether or not it sticks around long enough to matter when Trusted Computing hits full stride. At least, it will provide a solid starting point for arguments ;-) ...these days, it seems public opinion is guided mostly by speculation and FUD...
Why not try self-publishing?
Or how about make the first edition of the book into pdf or whatever net-aware form, put it online, and let anyone who want to access it?
Whatever DCMA is, they can't control the whole world, yet.
How much is a 27" color TV ?
Now, how much you gotta fork out for a 27" CRT ?
Why the huge price difference ?
As far as I know, over 99% of the parts that are used to make a TV are also being used to make the CRT.
Why then that 1% makes such a HUGE difference in price ?
Dunno about the US or what, but in many countries, including Malaysia, the term "Broadband" usually has to come with the quote-unquote, because services like DSL or ADSL doesn't guarantee that you get a speedy hookup.
Sometimes the ADSL line performs SLOWER than a 56K dialup line !
At least that's what happening to the ADSL service in Malaysia, offered by the telecommunication monopoly, the Telekom Malaysia.
www.globeandmail.com/servlet/ArticleNews/TPStory
Hypocrisy stalks the land
The view from inside Iraq of this war's effect on people -- and on truth -- moves PAUL WILLIAM ROBERTS to outrage
By PAUL WILLIAM ROBERTS
Tuesday, March 25, 2003
I have been in and out of Iraq more often than the Turkish army these past few days, viewing the war both firsthand and on the surprisingly
copious array of television news channels available all over Syria and Jordan. I heard Donald Rumsfeld on the radio discussing "the humanity that goes into" building the kind of weapons of mass destruction that America prefers these days. I saw for myself enough of their effects, the inevitable consequences of their inbuilt humanity, to convince myself that no dialogue is possible with Washington's current
leadership.
We no longer speak the same language. To them, terms like "freedom," "humanity," "democracy" and "liberation" signify the opposite of what
they mean to me. I resent this theft and abuse of language.
And I am enraged at George W. Bush for forcing me, now the war is under way, to accept implicitly that the coalition must continue with its killing and destroying until the stated goal of "regime change" has been achieved. To stop at anything less now would be crueler to most Iraqis
than whatever atrocities this conclusion brings. This is like Sophie's Choice.
And I hate both Bushes for the pleasure I distinctly felt when Iraqi television broke into its Saddam lovefest to reveal the nation's troops
gloating over the corpses of U.S. soldiers, manhandling them so the camera could see the fresh bullet holes that punched the envelope of
life to death. We have all become less than human in this. We all share in shame. Earlier this week, Ali Abul-Ragheb, the Jordanian Prime Minister, told me, "There will only be losers in this war, no winners."
During the course of one long day last week I was in England, Germany, France and Lebanon. The following day, I traveled through Syria, Jordan
and Iraq -- seven different countries in which I had the same conversation with some 50 ordinary people: pilots, waiters, cab drivers, chefs, merchants, managers, barmaids. Not one felt that America had pursued a just course for a just cause. Not one believed the stated goals were the real objectives.
Not one had a good word to say about Saddam Hussein, either. Yet each, on learning I was from Canada -- and this is usually the first question
you're asked nowadays -- had nothing but praise for Canada's stand against the war and support for the United Nations. I didn't have the
heart to tell anyone that Canadian ships and servicemen were actively involved as American accomplices as we spoke.
Despite our claims of neutrality, we have 31 troops on exchange with British and U.S. forces in the Persian Gulf -- which gives us a greater
presence than the majority of members of the so-called coalition. I felt ashamed at the hypocrisy.
Jordan feels ashamed, too. The Prime Minister told me his country would never permit the United States to launch an attack from its soil. Yet I
saw U.S. military vehicles towing vast fuel containers through eastern Jordan; and I saw F-15 fighter jets landing somewhere behind the low
hills lining the highway to western Iraq. The Jordanian air force does not possess any F-15s -- the Prime Minister himself volunteered that
fact.
This morning, I was forced to abandon a new attempt to sneak back into Iraq when my guide and I stumbled across a raging battle between U.S.
Special Forces and Iraqi troops somewhere near the town of Akashat. As I write this, three nations are denying all knowledge of such a battle.
As many of the "embedded" media enthuse over the "courage and professionalism" of their new pals, or marvel shamelessly at the wondrous toys they now get to play with, the rest of us, along with increasingly many Iraqis, wonder if we
For those who wear card carrying member of "You're wrong and I'm right" club
In case you don't know the real meaning of "Good" in "Good At Their Jobs", it's that, you do NOT sabortage the collective aim of the whole team just because you have an attitude.
I don't care what kind of job you do, be it programmer or garbage collector, if you HAVE a job to do, DO IT WELL.
And the "DO IT WELL" means, usually, CARRY OUT WHATEVER YOU ARE SUPPOSED TO DO, AND THEN FINISH IT.