Slashdot gets roughly half a million unique visitors a day.
Of those, maybe 10% actually read the article. We've been slashdotted many times (our site has always fared well against the traffic, we've maxed out our 40gig pipes a few times before, but now timewarner and qwest will dynamically scale our pipes as needed), and our increase in unique visitors is only about 20,000-40,000 unique visitors.
What's impressive is that washingtonpost has 4.5 million unique visitors *and* they have registration.
I'd love to see a convincing explanation of why you couldn't do an accelerated desktop on, say a voodoo 2 card.
You couldn't do the entire desktop because the voodoo2 didn't have enough vram. Hell, even this pismo powerbook from 2000 doesn't do accelerated desktop.
But video overlays have been around for a while. I still have an mpeg2 decoder card that I picked up in 97. I could play mpeg2 videos windowed or fullscreen without using any cpu (all DMA).
Cagle's political cartoon agregator. I can read 50 different political cartoons in about 10 minutes.
Explainer is awesome.. it actually addresses the questions that most paper's gloss over (like that story about Insulin usage in the olympics.. Explainer was the only place I'd seen that actually explained *why* athletes would even want to use insulin)
In Today's Papers is a great way to see what the lead stories are in the washington post, nytimes, latimes, and other places.
could volunteer my services as a random Firefox mirror and who's to know if I'm distributing doctored copies? And where's the digital signature?
Well for windows, there isn't. But I would know since you're not offering an RPM signed by Redhat.
That's one nice thing about packages versus executable installers. My package manager will only install rpms that have GPG signatures that match the keys in my keyring.
That's actually the default for yum on fedora. It will refuse to install any unsigned or wrongly-signed rpm.
I don't know of a way to verify a windows executable is signed before running it.. Microsoft hasn't provided that feature yet. Of course, if they ever do, there's going to be a lot of complaining on slashdot.
It performs roughly equivalent to a 300Mhz PIII. Not only this, but it is extremely hot. The C3 was supposed to be cool, but this is one of the hottest laptops I've used.
It's completely fanless and draws extremely low power (you can get by with a 30W fanless PSU).
The C3 1ghz has a small fan and runs cooler, but you have the noise to deal with.
The C3 is mostly used for small, low-power, *quiet* applications.. like a car mp3 player (or my mame cabinet, as it were)
In order to program(not necessarily program well) all you need is a cheap computer and you can use Linux/gcc or Sun's jdk or mono or whatever to compile your programs.
Sure now, but it wasn't too long ago that you had to spend a large amount of money on a compiler, and a very expensive harddrive, since your sourcecode would take up more space than the floppy your program would eventually live on.
I remember spending $500 on the Merlin assembler so I could write Apple][ games.
Plus, all you need to *design* chips is a piece of EE software. There is a difference between designing a CPU, and actually manufacturing one.
He's in a white room with diffuse lights. The result is very even lighting that looks very unnatural. It's the same look 3d artists get with skybox lighting and radiosity. Which is why it looks 3D.
And it seems to have compatibility issues. It ended up breaking custom code of mine, as well as Invision Power Board. This was compiled from scratch. Hopefully they'll quickly release a.11.
How crazy is that custom code? We have hundreds of scripts from 4.1 that only required register_globals to be turned on to work perfectly. These are scripts that predate $_GET/$_POST/$_COOKIE vars, and they continue to work.
If you read the slides from the first lecture, it says the findings of holes amounts to 60% of your grade.
Makes sense.
The requirements are to exploit 10 holes in unix software. Nowhere does it say that the unix software must come standard with any distros, and it doesn't say that you can't write it yourself.
Write a simple program with 10 holes in it, point them out, and boom you win.
We are talking about finding vulnerabilities and exploiting them aren't we? I'd get extra credit for finding and exploiting holes the class requirements.
Don't get me wrong, if Apple did it on purpose, then yeah, it's kind of shitty... but we have no way of knowing that they did.
We don't? Apple came out in July and said flat out that future upgrades to the ipod firmware will break Real's stuff.
And what's this about moving a memory offset? Apple didn't break Real's tools, they made the ipod recognize the minor differences between fairplay encoded AACs created by Apple and fairplay encoded AACs created by Real.
We're talking about changing code that previously said "yes, I've checked this file and it is a valid fairplay encoded AAC" to saying "nope.. this isn't valid". You don't do that on accident.
We don't know what specifically the ipod is using to differentiate between the two, but I'm sure that someone will reverse engineer the firmware update and find that it looks specifically for "Real" in the AAC headers or something similar.
It's not that the code is flawed; it operates correctly.
Nonsense.. the code is flawed.
Example of why you can't trust "running the program to see if it works".
int main() {
int x=0;
printf("%d, %d, %d\n",x++,x++,x++); }
That code compiles cleanly, and gcc on linux/x86 will always print out "2, 1, 0". Always. If I didn't know any better, I'd say that it was perfectly correct code.
However, compile that with gcc on solaris/sparc, and it will print out "0, 1, 2".
Compile it with -Wall and gcc will tell you that there is probably something wrong with that code.
You could run it millions of times and have it run flawlessly.. but one little change could cause your program to operate completely differently.
It wouldn't be the first time Midway pulled off a football game without an NFL license. Back in 1990 or thereabouts (I forget the exact year), they released an arcade game called High Impact Football which used nonexistent teams.
Hell, even EA used to use fake names. NHL92 was an awesome game, but didn't use real teams nor real player names.. that came in NHL93 and was a huge deal at the time.
But I'm rather suprised no one has yet mentioned the definitive pre-license football game. Tecmo Bowl. Damn that game rocked.
I predict a huge upswing in the popularity of NCAA-based games.
Are you kidding? College is even worse. We at least can display the NFL logo on our *news* site. Not so with college.
The worst offender is college basketball. They've trademarked "Sweet 16" and "Final Four", and you aren't allowed to use those terms as section headings without paying licensing fees. Same goes for team logos.
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Nope, wrong. The PSP Battery is replaceable, new ones are just 45 bucks a pop.
Woah, Gameboy SP batteries are $15 from Nintendo.com, and the DS uses the exact same battery.
Although I had recently purchased a Tandy Single Speed CD rom drive ($400) I thought they were crazy to set such goals for the common public.
Jesus. Why did you spend so much money on a cd drive in 1994?
I bought my cdrom drive in 1993 for not more than $150.
Although I remember that this was before ATAPI, and I had to upgrade my soundcard. (Back then, your cdrom plugged into your soundcard, not your IDE controller).
I remember buying the cdrom drive specifically to play 7th guest, and then being really happy when Day of the Tentacle came out later that year, because then I could get the cdrom version (which I still have) with the full voices.
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This is just a case of Americans deciding that everything is "ized" because it sounds trendy.
As opposed to the british who change american words just to be difficult.
The automobile was invented in America, it has a trunk and a hood.. it does not have a boot nor a bonnet.
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There really isn't any information contained on those sites that isn't contained in the articles about the suit.
Is Apple going to sue slashdot now for telling us what the lawsuits were about?
Of course all Apple has achieved is validating the rumor.
Slashdot gets roughly half a million unique visitors a day.
Of those, maybe 10% actually read the article. We've been slashdotted many times (our site has always fared well against the traffic, we've maxed out our 40gig pipes a few times before, but now timewarner and qwest will dynamically scale our pipes as needed), and our increase in unique visitors is only about 20,000-40,000 unique visitors.
What's impressive is that washingtonpost has 4.5 million unique visitors *and* they have registration.
I'd love to see a convincing explanation of why you couldn't do an accelerated desktop on, say a voodoo 2 card.
You couldn't do the entire desktop because the voodoo2 didn't have enough vram. Hell, even this pismo powerbook from 2000 doesn't do accelerated desktop.
But video overlays have been around for a while. I still have an mpeg2 decoder card that I picked up in 97. I could play mpeg2 videos windowed or fullscreen without using any cpu (all DMA).
I read slate for 4 reasons.
Cagle's political cartoon agregator. I can read 50 different political cartoons in about 10 minutes.
Explainer is awesome.. it actually addresses the questions that most paper's gloss over (like that story about Insulin usage in the olympics.. Explainer was the only place I'd seen that actually explained *why* athletes would even want to use insulin)
In Today's Papers is a great way to see what the lead stories are in the washington post, nytimes, latimes, and other places.
Ad watch.. reviewing television ads.. brilliant!
could volunteer my services as a random Firefox mirror and who's to know if I'm distributing doctored copies? And where's the digital signature?
Well for windows, there isn't. But I would know since you're not offering an RPM signed by Redhat.
That's one nice thing about packages versus executable installers. My package manager will only install rpms that have GPG signatures that match the keys in my keyring.
That's actually the default for yum on fedora. It will refuse to install any unsigned or wrongly-signed rpm.
I don't know of a way to verify a windows executable is signed before running it.. Microsoft hasn't provided that feature yet. Of course, if they ever do, there's going to be a lot of complaining on slashdot.
It performs roughly equivalent to a 300Mhz PIII. Not only this, but it is extremely hot. The C3 was supposed to be cool, but this is one of the hottest laptops I've used.
It's completely fanless and draws extremely low power (you can get by with a 30W fanless PSU).
The C3 1ghz has a small fan and runs cooler, but you have the noise to deal with.
The C3 is mostly used for small, low-power, *quiet* applications.. like a car mp3 player (or my mame cabinet, as it were)
I bet this laptop gets awesome battery life.
In order to program(not necessarily program well) all you need is a cheap computer and you can use Linux/gcc or Sun's jdk or mono or whatever to compile your programs.
Sure now, but it wasn't too long ago that you had to spend a large amount of money on a compiler, and a very expensive harddrive, since your sourcecode would take up more space than the floppy your program would eventually live on.
I remember spending $500 on the Merlin assembler so I could write Apple][ games.
Plus, all you need to *design* chips is a piece of EE software. There is a difference between designing a CPU, and actually manufacturing one.
We designed 8bit CPUs in college classes.
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Hey, that looks just like some of the posts on the old BBS's I used to frequent. It just needs ++ATH0 NO CARRIER at the end to make it complete.
I'd be curious about how the photos were taken.
He's in a white room with diffuse lights. The result is very even lighting that looks very unnatural. It's the same look 3d artists get with skybox lighting and radiosity. Which is why it looks 3D.
Installing a JVM and an application server is about 99% less time consuming, and easier, than a comparable PHP installation.
On which distro? "yum install php" was all I needed to do to get php installed and running.
And it seems to have compatibility issues. It ended up breaking custom code of mine, as well as Invision Power Board. This was compiled from scratch. Hopefully they'll quickly release a .11.
How crazy is that custom code? We have hundreds of scripts from 4.1 that only required register_globals to be turned on to work perfectly. These are scripts that predate $_GET/$_POST/$_COOKIE vars, and they continue to work.
Let's say he manages to set $UserID to xj9-4t-7070';\nselect * from CCTable where UserID != ',
And how would he do that? All user submitted data is automatically escaped, so the best he could do is set $UserID to xj9-4t-7070\';
notice the quote mark is escaped.
Give no credence to the menu bar estimate...
That works both ways.. on my pismo, the estimate says 1 hour 20 minutes, I know for a fact that it'll only last 15 minutes.
I've tried every little apple hack that I can find, but no matter what I do, the battery life tacks down to about 70% and then goes straight to 0%.
I don't know that I can blame them; sometimes the situation dictates both parents working 50+ hour weeks just to pay bills and put food on the table.
I doubt this family has an xbox.
If you read the slides from the first lecture, it says the findings of holes amounts to 60% of your grade.
Makes sense.
The requirements are to exploit 10 holes in unix software. Nowhere does it say that the unix software must come standard with any distros, and it doesn't say that you can't write it yourself.
Write a simple program with 10 holes in it, point them out, and boom you win.
We are talking about finding vulnerabilities and exploiting them aren't we? I'd get extra credit for finding and exploiting holes the class requirements.
Don't get me wrong, if Apple did it on purpose, then yeah, it's kind of shitty... but we have no way of knowing that they did.
We don't? Apple came out in July and said flat out that future upgrades to the ipod firmware will break Real's stuff.
And what's this about moving a memory offset? Apple didn't break Real's tools, they made the ipod recognize the minor differences between fairplay encoded AACs created by Apple and fairplay encoded AACs created by Real.
We're talking about changing code that previously said "yes, I've checked this file and it is a valid fairplay encoded AAC" to saying "nope.. this isn't valid". You don't do that on accident.
We don't know what specifically the ipod is using to differentiate between the two, but I'm sure that someone will reverse engineer the firmware update and find that it looks specifically for "Real" in the AAC headers or something similar.
The ipod isn't done until Real wont run.
I'm not crazy about using iTunes as a general-purpose media player, but it's very handy for streaming audio over a network with shared libraries.
You can use daap to share music without itunes. An excellent (very fast, faster than itunes) daap server is can be found here
And there are plenty of clients... you can even get gnome-vfs-daap and browse itunes music shares with nautilus (or anything that uses gnomevfs)
Saying that something sucks is an opinion.
On that site, he claims that the creator of wikipedia is a "self-admitted pornographer" and his daughter has Fetal Alcohol Syndrome.
Maybe those are both true, but I doubt it.. sounds like grounds for libel to me.
It's not that the code is flawed; it operates correctly.
Nonsense.. the code is flawed.
Example of why you can't trust "running the program to see if it works".
int main()
{
int x=0;
printf("%d, %d, %d\n",x++,x++,x++);
}
That code compiles cleanly, and gcc on linux/x86 will always print out "2, 1, 0". Always. If I didn't know any better, I'd say that it was perfectly correct code.
However, compile that with gcc on solaris/sparc, and it will print out "0, 1, 2".
Compile it with -Wall and gcc will tell you that there is probably something wrong with that code.
You could run it millions of times and have it run flawlessly.. but one little change could cause your program to operate completely differently.
It wouldn't be the first time Midway pulled off a football game without an NFL license. Back in 1990 or thereabouts (I forget the exact year), they released an arcade game called High Impact Football which used nonexistent teams.
Hell, even EA used to use fake names. NHL92 was an awesome game, but didn't use real teams nor real player names.. that came in NHL93 and was a huge deal at the time.
But I'm rather suprised no one has yet mentioned the definitive pre-license football game. Tecmo Bowl. Damn that game rocked.
I predict a huge upswing in the popularity of NCAA-based games.
Are you kidding? College is even worse. We at least can display the NFL logo on our *news* site. Not so with college.
The worst offender is college basketball. They've trademarked "Sweet 16" and "Final Four", and you aren't allowed to use those terms as section headings without paying licensing fees. Same goes for team logos.
Nope, wrong. The PSP Battery is replaceable, new ones are just 45 bucks a pop.
Woah, Gameboy SP batteries are $15 from Nintendo.com, and the DS uses the exact same battery.
You have to take the costs with a grain of salt.
Don't forget that Mellanox *donated* 24 mts9600 infiniband switches. At $58,000 a piece, you've got $1.4 million worth of equipment for free.
Although I had recently purchased a Tandy Single Speed CD rom drive ($400) I thought they were crazy to set such goals for the common public.
Jesus. Why did you spend so much money on a cd drive in 1994?
I bought my cdrom drive in 1993 for not more than $150.
Although I remember that this was before ATAPI, and I had to upgrade my soundcard. (Back then, your cdrom plugged into your soundcard, not your IDE controller).
I remember buying the cdrom drive specifically to play 7th guest, and then being really happy when Day of the Tentacle came out later that year, because then I could get the cdrom version (which I still have) with the full voices.
This is just a case of Americans deciding that everything is "ized" because it sounds trendy.
As opposed to the british who change american words just to be difficult.
The automobile was invented in America, it has a trunk and a hood.. it does not have a boot nor a bonnet.
Same goes for trucks.