Heh, happens at my university too. They are using Cisco (I think) web proxy caching servers to help "alleviate" the bandwidth on our Resnet connections. However, I often get 0-byte and truncated files returned to me through HTTP. Thanks, proxy.
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REDMOND, WA--In what CEO Bill Gates called "an unfortunate but necessary step to protect our intellectual property from theft and exploitation by competitors," the Microsoft Corporation patented the numbers one and zero Monday.
With the patent, Microsoft's rivals are prohibited from manufacturing or selling products containing zeroes and ones--the mathematical building blocks of all computer languages and programs--unless a royalty fee of 10 cents per digit used is paid to the software giant.
"Microsoft has been using the binary system of ones and zeroes ever since its inception in 1975," Gates told reporters. "For years, in the interest of the overall health of the computer industry, we permitted the free and unfettered use of our proprietary numeric systems. However, changing marketplace conditions and the increasingly predatory practices of certain competitors now leave us with no choice but to seek compensation for the use of our numerals."
A number of major Silicon Valley players, including Apple Computer, Netscape and Sun Microsystems, said they will challenge the Microsoft patent as monopolistic and anti-competitive, claiming that the 10-cent-per-digit licensing fee would bankrupt them instantly.
"While, technically, Java is a complex system of algorithms used to create a platform-independent programming environment, it is, at its core, just a string of trillions of ones and zeroes," said Sun Microsystems CEO Scott McNealy, whose company created the Java programming environment used in many Internet applications. "The licensing fees we'd have to pay Microsoft every day would be approximately 327,000 times the total net worth of this company."
"If this patent holds up in federal court, Apple will have no choice but to convert to analog," said Apple interim CEO Steve Jobs, "and I have serious doubts whether this company would be able to remain competitive selling pedal-operated computers running software off vinyl LPs."
As a result of the Microsoft patent, many other companies have begun radically revising their product lines: Database manufacturer Oracle has embarked on a crash program to develop "an abacus for the next millennium." Novell, whose communications and networking systems are also subject to Microsoft licensing fees, is working with top animal trainers on a chimpanzee-based message-transmission system. Hewlett-Packard is developing a revolutionary new steam-powered printer.
Despite the swarm of protest, Gates is standing his ground, maintaining that ones and zeroes are the undisputed property of Microsoft.
"We will vigorously enforce our patents of these numbers, as they are legally ours," Gates said. "Among Microsoft's vast historical archives are Sanskrit cuneiform tablets from 1800 B.C. clearly showing ones and a symbol known as 'sunya,' or nothing. We also own: papyrus scrolls written by Pythagoras himself in which he explains the idea of singular notation, or 'one'; early tracts by Mohammed ibn Musa al Kwarizimi explaining the concept of al-sifr, or 'the cipher'; original mathematical manuscripts by Heisenberg, Einstein and Planck; and a signed first-edition copy of Jean-Paul Sartre's Being And Nothingness. Should the need arise, Microsoft will have no difficulty proving to the Justice Department or anyone else that we own the rights to these numbers."
Added Gates: "My salary also has lots of zeroes. I'm the richest man in the world."
According to experts, the full ramifications of Microsoft's patenting of one and zero have yet to be realized.
"Because all integers and natural numbers derive from one and zero, Microsoft may, by extension, lay claim to ownership of all mathematics and logic systems, including Euclidean geometry, pulleys and levers, gravity, and the basic Newtonian principles of motion, as well as the concepts of existence and nonexistence," Yale University theoretical mathematics professor J. Edmund Lattimore said. "In other words, pretty much everything."
Lattimore said that the only mathematical constructs of which Microsoft may not be able to claim ownership are infinity and transcendental numbers like pi. Microsoft lawyers are expected to file liens on infinity and pi this week.
Microsoft has not yet announced whether it will charge a user fee to individuals who wish to engage in such mathematically rooted motions as walking, stretching and smiling.
In an address beamed live to billions of people around the globe Monday, Gates expressed confidence that his company's latest move will, ultimately, benefit all humankind.
"Think of this as a partnership," Gates said. "Like the ones and zeroes of the binary code itself, we must all work together to make the promise of the computer revolution a reality. As the world's richest, most powerful software company, Microsoft is number one. And you, the millions of consumers who use our products, are the zeroes."
It looks like ESD foam, which is all the parent post said. It really wasn't implying anything.
As for the guy who decided it was necessary to pull out a VOM and check the resistance of some ESD foam to prove... well, er... nothing... he can go shove a portly penguin up his ass.
Now, back to the topic at hand. Isn't one of the main premises of the "Linux movement" to prove that Linux is indeed a "better" OS than Windows with the advent of "desktops" such as KDE and Gnome? Well, if it's so damn good, why do the developers of KDE have to copycat everything from Microsoft® Windows(TM)? Give me a break.
If you haven't seen these screenshots yet, look. They prove that KDE 3 is just a blatant Windows(TM) wannabe. From Konqueror's integration into KDE to join web browsing and file management into one view a la Microsoft® Internet Explorer (the common Slashdot mantra of "Let's pretend we hate it, steal all their ideas, integrate it into our own OS, and proclaim that it's better!"), to even the "Open File" dialog box. Holy shit, it looks like someone decompiled comdlg32.dll and recompiled it for KDE. That little "jump to location" panel was circa Microsoft® Office 97, and became a part of Windows' common dialogs later. Nice to see that KDE has finally stolen that one too.
All the widgets have moved to a Microsoft®-style type of widget. The check boxes (or should I say 'boxen'), scroll bars, command buttons, etc --- all a la Microsoft®! The only thing KDE 3 is missing is using Tahoma font for all the dialog boxes -- but I hear that is next on the list.
Hmm, the new "K" menu -- looks exactly like the new Office(TM) XP-style menus. Next thing you know, KDE 3.1 will come in the "Luna" style interface. Why don't you hacks try and come up with your own ideas once in a while? I guess that pretty much sums up the GPL -- "We're incapable of any self-developed ideas, we need to steal some from someone else and modify it to come up with our 'idea'." What a crock.
For all you legitimate Linux users out there --- don't buy into this crap. I suggest you use IceWM. It's small, efficient, and fast as hell. Oh, and it has its own, original interface.
I wonder if the next version of KDE will be called KDE XP?
The original web page in question, found at http://xenu.xtdnet.nl/ is entitled "Support the Dutch Action against the Church of $cientology." Put that with the fact that the information is supplied in a downloadable tarball, and, well, this guy has got to be a faithful Slashdot reader.
Then again, what more would you expect from an organization with figures like John Travolta and Tom Cruise...
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Could you kindly point me to the FreeBSD version? No FreeBSD version? OK, how about a version for Solaris? None? So, what else does it run on besides Microsoft?
Remote desktop is included. Free. It is also much better than VNC anyday. First of all, ever try running a web browser through VNC? Try scrolling a web page and you'll soon discover how much it sucks (refresh that screen!). Two, RD is a whole lot more polished... I find the interface with the desktop is a lot more "solid" than VNC. Also, it's more tightly integrated within the OS... IOW, you have more control over some things... like, whether or not you want wallpaper to be displayed (to improve speed), the color depth you want used in the remote connection, and the sound quality as well. That is the most awesome part... you can play an MP3 file on the remote computer and have it play through the guest computer's speakers by way of the RD sound driver! (It's transparent to the user). RD will also dynamically change transmitting sound bit rate encoding according to available bandwidth/net congestion. The only thing I couldn't do under RD flawlessly is play a Divx-encoded AVI video clip. Also, RD makes you log in with your workstation's username/password combination. VNC doesn't - one password for all. Also, last time I used VNC, the password went over the net unencrypted. RD uses 128-bit encryption for their net connection. All in all, all VNC basically does is forward mouse clicks and movements and show you a crummy screen capture. RD is more of an application. RD client is also available for almost every OS imaginable, too.
Unless you're one of those anti-Microsoft jackholes, once you've tried RD you'll see there is no going back to VNC, ever. Plus did I mention it's free with XP pro? Yeah, I think we all know that. This is like saying you own a Ferrari and a Yugo but Ferrari says you can't drive the Yugo if you want to drive the Ferrari. I don't see a problem there.:D
I'm not bashing VNC. It's a great tool, and I used to use it constantly to manage NT4 Server back in the day. But now that I have something better available for free, I just don't need it anymore. It's as simple as that.
You must have stopped reading before the next sentence:
"When you are dealing with these hardware schemas, rebalancing becomes risky and therefore is not implemented in Windows XP except for very specific scenarios."
Here is also a little talk about a similar situation having to do specifically with the VIA KT266A chipset:
"Win2k and WinXP require PCI devices to share IRQs, and neither OS supports the rebalancing of resources. Some say that if you install Win2k with ACPI disabled, then you'll be able to steer unused IRQs to your PCI devices. This may be true for Win9x, but it is emphatically not true of Win2k in my experience. Win2k accepts whatever IRQ assignments the Dragon+ BIOS makes. So the ONLY way to eliminate IRQ sharing in Win2k is to eliminate it in the BIOS. The only low risk way to make your Geforce to sole owner of IRQ11 is to disable the onboard audio and LAN and replace them with PCI cards.
But then you'll quickly discover that you can't use PCI slots 1 and 5 because they share the IRQ assigned to your AGP Geforce. You can't use slot 2 without sharing an IRQ with the onboard Promise RAID controller. You can't use slot 4 without sharing an IRQ with the onboard USB controller. Slot 3 doesn't share an IRQ with any onboard device. But many report that slots 1-3 don't work with their PCI boards (probably a bus mastering issue)."
In short, IRQ steering is good and if you disable it, you are just asking for trouble. It's implemented for a reason. It's not "just there."
As far as you saying "we didn't want to solve a hard problem" that is bullshit because IRQ sharing does solve a big problem, that being not having enough IRQs for x amt of devices in your system. I guess you just can't seem to let go of the ISA days.
Now FreeBSD has complications with multiple devices on the same IRQs (especially sound, video, and nic all off the same one). Is there a way to get around this for new hardware?
Well, yeah, there is a way... you could install Windows 2000 Server...
And they'll all be happy on IRQ 9.
Or you could just wait for the FreeBSD folks to upgrade the kernel.
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Quick, you need to go buy some dark Nike sneakers. I'll take care of the Kool-Aid and the purple sheet...
Victory again!
You know, I was going to post that, but since there is no content there, why bother?
Victory is mine! Now to read the article...
Heh, happens at my university too. They are using Cisco (I think) web proxy caching servers to help "alleviate" the bandwidth on our Resnet connections. However, I often get 0-byte and truncated files returned to me through HTTP. Thanks, proxy.
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Australia has to realize one thing... that alcohol does not consititute a food group.
REDMOND, WA--In what CEO Bill Gates called "an unfortunate but necessary step to protect our intellectual property from theft and exploitation by competitors," the Microsoft Corporation patented the numbers one and zero Monday.
With the patent, Microsoft's rivals are prohibited from manufacturing or selling products containing zeroes and ones--the mathematical building blocks of all computer languages and programs--unless a royalty fee of 10 cents per digit used is paid to the software giant.
"Microsoft has been using the binary system of ones and zeroes ever since its inception in 1975," Gates told reporters. "For years, in the interest of the overall health of the computer industry, we permitted the free and unfettered use of our proprietary numeric systems. However, changing marketplace conditions and the increasingly predatory practices of certain competitors now leave us with no choice but to seek compensation for the use of our numerals."
A number of major Silicon Valley players, including Apple Computer, Netscape and Sun Microsystems, said they will challenge the Microsoft patent as monopolistic and anti-competitive, claiming that the 10-cent-per-digit licensing fee would bankrupt them instantly.
"While, technically, Java is a complex system of algorithms used to create a platform-independent programming environment, it is, at its core, just a string of trillions of ones and zeroes," said Sun Microsystems CEO Scott McNealy, whose company created the Java programming environment used in many Internet applications. "The licensing fees we'd have to pay Microsoft every day would be approximately 327,000 times the total net worth of this company."
"If this patent holds up in federal court, Apple will have no choice but to convert to analog," said Apple interim CEO Steve Jobs, "and I have serious doubts whether this company would be able to remain competitive selling pedal-operated computers running software off vinyl LPs."
As a result of the Microsoft patent, many other companies have begun radically revising their product lines: Database manufacturer Oracle has embarked on a crash program to develop "an abacus for the next millennium." Novell, whose communications and networking systems are also subject to Microsoft licensing fees, is working with top animal trainers on a chimpanzee-based message-transmission system. Hewlett-Packard is developing a revolutionary new steam-powered printer.
Despite the swarm of protest, Gates is standing his ground, maintaining that ones and zeroes are the undisputed property of Microsoft.
"We will vigorously enforce our patents of these numbers, as they are legally ours," Gates said. "Among Microsoft's vast historical archives are Sanskrit cuneiform tablets from 1800 B.C. clearly showing ones and a symbol known as 'sunya,' or nothing. We also own: papyrus scrolls written by Pythagoras himself in which he explains the idea of singular notation, or 'one'; early tracts by Mohammed ibn Musa al Kwarizimi explaining the concept of al-sifr, or 'the cipher'; original mathematical manuscripts by Heisenberg, Einstein and Planck; and a signed first-edition copy of Jean-Paul Sartre's Being And Nothingness. Should the need arise, Microsoft will have no difficulty proving to the Justice Department or anyone else that we own the rights to these numbers."
Added Gates: "My salary also has lots of zeroes. I'm the richest man in the world."
According to experts, the full ramifications of Microsoft's patenting of one and zero have yet to be realized.
"Because all integers and natural numbers derive from one and zero, Microsoft may, by extension, lay claim to ownership of all mathematics and logic systems, including Euclidean geometry, pulleys and levers, gravity, and the basic Newtonian principles of motion, as well as the concepts of existence and nonexistence," Yale University theoretical mathematics professor J. Edmund Lattimore said. "In other words, pretty much everything."
Lattimore said that the only mathematical constructs of which Microsoft may not be able to claim ownership are infinity and transcendental numbers like pi. Microsoft lawyers are expected to file liens on infinity and pi this week.
Microsoft has not yet announced whether it will charge a user fee to individuals who wish to engage in such mathematically rooted motions as walking, stretching and smiling.
In an address beamed live to billions of people around the globe Monday, Gates expressed confidence that his company's latest move will, ultimately, benefit all humankind.
"Think of this as a partnership," Gates said. "Like the ones and zeroes of the binary code itself, we must all work together to make the promise of the computer revolution a reality. As the world's richest, most powerful software company, Microsoft is number one. And you, the millions of consumers who use our products, are the zeroes."
No shit.
It looks like ESD foam, which is all the parent post said. It really wasn't implying anything.
As for the guy who decided it was necessary to pull out a VOM and check the resistance of some ESD foam to prove... well, er... nothing... he can go shove a portly penguin up his ass.
This looks very similar to the conductive foam that you usually store CMOS ICs in to prevent them from static discharge...
KDE 3. Wow, is all I can say.
Now, back to the topic at hand. Isn't one of the main premises of the "Linux movement" to prove that Linux is indeed a "better" OS than Windows with the advent of "desktops" such as KDE and Gnome? Well, if it's so damn good, why do the developers of KDE have to copycat everything from Microsoft® Windows(TM)? Give me a break.
If you haven't seen these screenshots yet, look. They prove that KDE 3 is just a blatant Windows(TM) wannabe. From Konqueror's integration into KDE to join web browsing and file management into one view a la Microsoft® Internet Explorer (the common Slashdot mantra of "Let's pretend we hate it, steal all their ideas, integrate it into our own OS, and proclaim that it's better!"), to even the "Open File" dialog box. Holy shit, it looks like someone decompiled comdlg32.dll and recompiled it for KDE. That little "jump to location" panel was circa Microsoft® Office 97, and became a part of Windows' common dialogs later. Nice to see that KDE has finally stolen that one too.
All the widgets have moved to a Microsoft®-style type of widget. The check boxes (or should I say 'boxen'), scroll bars, command buttons, etc --- all a la Microsoft®! The only thing KDE 3 is missing is using Tahoma font for all the dialog boxes -- but I hear that is next on the list.
Hmm, the new "K" menu -- looks exactly like the new Office(TM) XP-style menus. Next thing you know, KDE 3.1 will come in the "Luna" style interface. Why don't you hacks try and come up with your own ideas once in a while? I guess that pretty much sums up the GPL -- "We're incapable of any self-developed ideas, we need to steal some from someone else and modify it to come up with our 'idea'." What a crock.
For all you legitimate Linux users out there --- don't buy into this crap. I suggest you use IceWM. It's small, efficient, and fast as hell. Oh, and it has its own, original interface.
I wonder if the next version of KDE will be called KDE XP?
The original web page in question, found at http://xenu.xtdnet.nl/ is entitled "Support the Dutch Action against the Church of $cientology." Put that with the fact that the information is supplied in a downloadable tarball, and, well, this guy has got to be a faithful Slashdot reader.
Then again, what more would you expect from an organization with figures like John Travolta and Tom Cruise...
Yap... same here.
Can someone say Windows Terminal Services?
No one expects the Spanish Inquisition!
</monty python>
Could you kindly point me to the FreeBSD version? No FreeBSD version? OK, how about a version for Solaris? None? So, what else does it run on besides Microsoft?
www.rdesktop.org
Remote desktop is included. Free. It is also much better than VNC anyday. First of all, ever try running a web browser through VNC? Try scrolling a web page and you'll soon discover how much it sucks (refresh that screen!). Two, RD is a whole lot more polished... I find the interface with the desktop is a lot more "solid" than VNC. Also, it's more tightly integrated within the OS... IOW, you have more control over some things... like, whether or not you want wallpaper to be displayed (to improve speed), the color depth you want used in the remote connection, and the sound quality as well. That is the most awesome part... you can play an MP3 file on the remote computer and have it play through the guest computer's speakers by way of the RD sound driver! (It's transparent to the user). RD will also dynamically change transmitting sound bit rate encoding according to available bandwidth/net congestion. The only thing I couldn't do under RD flawlessly is play a Divx-encoded AVI video clip. Also, RD makes you log in with your workstation's username/password combination. VNC doesn't - one password for all. Also, last time I used VNC, the password went over the net unencrypted. RD uses 128-bit encryption for their net connection. All in all, all VNC basically does is forward mouse clicks and movements and show you a crummy screen capture. RD is more of an application. RD client is also available for almost every OS imaginable, too.
:D
Unless you're one of those anti-Microsoft jackholes, once you've tried RD you'll see there is no going back to VNC, ever. Plus did I mention it's free with XP pro? Yeah, I think we all know that. This is like saying you own a Ferrari and a Yugo but Ferrari says you can't drive the Yugo if you want to drive the Ferrari. I don't see a problem there.
I'm not bashing VNC. It's a great tool, and I used to use it constantly to manage NT4 Server back in the day. But now that I have something better available for free, I just don't need it anymore. It's as simple as that.
1) Place said cell phone into a cold swimming pool.
2) Watch and learn.
I only read JonKatz book reviews. Then again, if I read them all, it would be the year 2025 before I got done...
Too bad it would be little used because Windows never crashes on me... har har har
You must have stopped reading before the next sentence:
"When you are dealing with these hardware schemas, rebalancing becomes risky and therefore is not implemented in Windows XP except for very specific scenarios."
Here is also a little talk about a similar situation having to do specifically with the VIA KT266A chipset:
"Win2k and WinXP require PCI devices to share IRQs, and neither OS supports the rebalancing of resources. Some say that if you install Win2k with ACPI disabled, then you'll be able to steer unused IRQs to your PCI devices. This may be true for Win9x, but it is emphatically not true of Win2k in my experience. Win2k accepts whatever IRQ assignments the Dragon+ BIOS makes. So the ONLY way to eliminate IRQ sharing in Win2k is to eliminate it in the BIOS. The only low risk way to make your Geforce to sole owner of IRQ11 is to disable the onboard audio and LAN and replace them with PCI cards.
But then you'll quickly discover that you can't use PCI slots 1 and 5 because they share the IRQ assigned to your AGP Geforce. You can't use slot 2 without sharing an IRQ with the onboard Promise RAID controller. You can't use slot 4 without sharing an IRQ with the onboard USB controller. Slot 3 doesn't share an IRQ with any onboard device. But many report that slots 1-3 don't work with their PCI boards (probably a bus mastering issue)."
In short, IRQ steering is good and if you disable it, you are just asking for trouble. It's implemented for a reason. It's not "just there."
As far as you saying "we didn't want to solve a hard problem" that is bullshit because IRQ sharing does solve a big problem, that being not having enough IRQs for x amt of devices in your system. I guess you just can't seem to let go of the ISA days.
That means that the FreeBSD folks are behind the times and have a little work to do...
Now FreeBSD has complications with multiple devices on the same IRQs (especially sound, video, and nic all off the same one). Is there a way to get around this for new hardware?
Well, yeah, there is a way... you could install Windows 2000 Server...
And they'll all be happy on IRQ 9.
Or you could just wait for the FreeBSD folks to upgrade the kernel.
You know, after Klerck posts his 'page widening post', it shifts the ad out of visible view... and I'm viewing on 1280x1024 ... :D