Exactly. This is a non-story. The person first needs access to the device, and even then it's not something that would happen except on purpose.
This bug affects IOS versions all the way back to 12.0. I've used regular expressions on these IOS's every day for years and years and have NEVER had the device reboot on me. You must have to get really complicated with the expression or be back-referencing very large strings in order to crash a box this way, because I never have, nor has anyone at my company (where we have 1000+ Cisco routers and switches).
I can't help but think this is a mistake. Unless nVidia releases fixed drivers in the next month, this is going to make the Ubuntu distros look very unstable.
From what I've read, the problem is actually nVidia's: Their drivers are sync'd up with Xorg versions prior to the 132_compositing patch. This patch fixes an underlying Xorg issue required for mobile Ubuntu, but it changes the ABI ever so slightly. So, when you try to use Compiz and an OpenGL program with compositing... BLAM, X crashes and you're back to your login prompt.
This is completely reproducible and affecting lots of testers - just read the bug reports at launchpad.net. It seems to affect users of newer cards, going back to at least the 7600 series.
The bug has been around for a while (people reported it upwards of nine months ago on Fedora, according to what someone said in one of the launchpad reports) and nVidia has not released a new version of their drivers built for the new Xorg ABI. I sure hope someone there gets the idea that maybe this needs to be fixed before Gutsy final.
If Microsoft doesn't get to say that IE and a ham sandwich are part of an "operating system", then GNU/Linux geeks don't get to say that the GUI isn't part of the OS.
So, the GUI that my arcade cabinet loads at boot (an svgalib-based menu, not KDE, Gnome, etc.) is now magically part of the OS? Every device running embedded Linux or Windows CE that only supports http configuration now suddenly has no OS?
I'm not sure, but how can she order them to do this? Firstly, she's asking them to start manufacturing evidence against themselves. Isn't that, like, against their 5th amendment rights or something?
More important, what law is it exactly that give the MPAA the right to force others to change the way in which they conduct business. Maybe she can order them to quarter foreign soldiers, er hire MPAA sysops, too, just in case someone starts sharing movies.
Can I order a breathalyser be installed in her car because I find it likely that someone might drive it while drunk? Or, do only large corporations get to tell judges what is and is not in public interest?
when a bad command was sent which instructed Viking to point its antenna in a different direction
I'm surprised that systems, even back then weren't designed for some kind of autonomous "recovery mode". No communications with Earth for an extended period? How about slowly rotating the antennae through a pattern in search of a "beacon" we would send out on a separate frequency in such an event?
You purport to be more enlightened, yet you equate age with weight. That doesn't sound like an intelligent argument. The only way your statement could be true is if the problem is actually with today's average lifestyle, and not physical at all.
I don't claim to know more than anyone else about obesity, but I've never seen anyone lose weight naturally unless they ate less/less garbage and/or expended more energy. What magical pill/therapy is there to get around this?
How many people eat and exercise properly yet suffer from signs of malnutrition? How come no one on "The Biggest Loser" or any gym I've *ever* been to has had such problems. This has to be incredibly rare, no? What are these signs of malnutrition? Are they worse than the signs and dangers of obesity? Also, wouldn't the people stop suffering from these symptoms after they got to a healthy weight and could eat more (maintaining their size)? Or, could they maybe avoid them completely by eating more from the get-go, but exercising harder?
It helps prevent users default pages getting hijacked with porn sites, among other things.
A decent firewall and web proxy would be about 100x more practical. Changing the home page as a policy is just doing something irritating for the sake of doing it.
The original poster overthought the way around it too. All he actually needed to do was create shortcut to google and use that to launch the browser instead of playing with registry permissions.
The day an automaton is "unbeatable" is the day it's 500ft tall and shoots nuclear rockets from its fingertips. I think I know a relatively easy way to beat this checkers program.
I think you're asking the wrong question: You should be trying to identify what it is about the color characteristics of this film you like and paying someone to develop a photoshop/gimp filter that does it with digital images.
I'd be surprised if you will even want to use this film in 30 years, when every phone in the world will be taking 3D holographic video that can be played back directly into your brain.
*sigh* Yes... I know it will be used mostly for porn.
There's also the case where people first saw something through "pirated" versions on the internet, then went out and bought it because they liked it so much.
Take the case of Jay. Jay never even caught Firefly when it was on the network (they always screwed with its time slot) but after seeing two episodes on the internet he went out and bought the DVDs. This was before Serenity, and his purchase probably, to some incredibly small degree, helped them justify making the movie. Of course, Jay immediately bought the Serenity DVD when it was available too, hoping it shows them there's interest in more Firefly.
In Jay's case, they made multiple sales they wouldn't have made without the "pirates". So, the pirates actually made them money by giving the product free promotion.
Now, not every product can be thrown out there and make money the way Serenity did. No, the secret is that your product has to be *good*. But, if your movie sucks, aren't you really ripping off people that expect a good product when they paid for your movie?
So, the actual cost to the media moguls are an unknown value between -($NUMBEROFPIRATECOPIES x $PRICE) and ($NUMBEROFPIRATECOPIES x $PRICE). If you average that out, you get $0.
If you are going to let me vote & drive in the first place, don't you sort of kind of think I can be trusted to NOT do something suicidally stupid?
1. Suicidally stupid, or homicidally stupid?
2. If a rule is made, it's not going to be made for you: It's going to be made to suit the majority. I've lost track of how many times I've almost been hit by idiots with their cell-phone glued to their head who didn't notice their light was red. I saw one bounce off the curb yesterday for no other apparent reason than he was dialing (or texting with!) the stupid cell in his hand.
When you have your three-year old strapped in the carseat behind you, and this kind of thing happens to you, it really does make you wish there was a clear-cut law that could be used to get these people to stop endangering *everyone*'s life.
Did it. A lot of dependencies failed then. My sound card(!) stopped working, for example. Turned it back on and AOK. OTOH when I built the kernel without it I had no problem (so far).
I have to think your testing was somehow tainted by some other problem. At the very least, your results are atypical.
I've blacklisted the IPv6 driver on several different distro's on a variety of hardware and never seen a single side-effect. From Mandriva on my arcade cabinet to Kubuntu running on a PS3... and systems with multiple sound cards... they've never even hiccupped after blacklisting the module.
Because if its not being used, it shouldnt be installed.
It's thinking like that which makes OEM Windows recovery CDs completely useless once you upgrade a motherboard or harddrive.
For the love of god, don't delete the IPv6 files to get back just a few meg of space. One day, you might want to lug your box over to a friends LAN and find that you actually need it.
Heh... Removing (proper) IPv6 on Linux requires kernel re-compile and if you try on Ubuntu to remove something like Avahi (which 99%+ of people do not need and which _can_ cause a lot of problems with DNS) then you'll see that it would "remove" almost the whole of your system through dependencies.
Or, if you're not an idiot, you just add "blacklist ipv6" to/etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.
1. Either you haven't used Gnu/Linux in a couple of years, or your system is misconfigured. The fonts on my systems display every bit as pretty as those on Windows.
2. Sit someone that's never used Windows in front of a Windows box. Same deal. Just because Linux has a lot of features that you don't immediately know how to use does not mean those features are a liability.
3. Flickery redraw of desktops? Have you even seen Linux? I honestly have no idea what you're referring to. My desktop is of the 3D Beryl version... prettier than Vista. As to your other points - almost all icon sizes are configurable, if you'll take the time to look through the options. That's the beauty of Linux - almost everything's configurable.
4. You don't like Linux because it actually enforces security which will only allow you to save to places where you have access? If you don't know how to use Linux, there's a ton of help on the web. There are even friendly folks (not me) that will assist you, even though you're complaining about something you got for free and obviously haven't read a beginners guide to Linux.
5. Go fuck yourself. Assemble your own software that fits your needs, or pay money for someone to do it for you. It is not the communities job to pander to your needs. If you don't like something about Linux, learn to code and fix it, or pay someone else to fix it. Microsoft won't give you their source, so if you don't like something about Windows you can just live with it.
Slashdot Mirror
Exactly. This is a non-story. The person first needs access to the device, and even then it's not something that would happen except on purpose.
This bug affects IOS versions all the way back to 12.0. I've used regular expressions on these IOS's every day for years and years and have NEVER had the device reboot on me. You must have to get really complicated with the expression or be back-referencing very large strings in order to crash a box this way, because I never have, nor has anyone at my company (where we have 1000+ Cisco routers and switches).
-J
I can't help but think this is a mistake. Unless nVidia releases fixed drivers in the next month, this is going to make the Ubuntu distros look very unstable.
From what I've read, the problem is actually nVidia's: Their drivers are sync'd up with Xorg versions prior to the 132_compositing patch. This patch fixes an underlying Xorg issue required for mobile Ubuntu, but it changes the ABI ever so slightly. So, when you try to use Compiz and an OpenGL program with compositing... BLAM, X crashes and you're back to your login prompt.
This is completely reproducible and affecting lots of testers - just read the bug reports at launchpad.net. It seems to affect users of newer cards, going back to at least the 7600 series.
The bug has been around for a while (people reported it upwards of nine months ago on Fedora, according to what someone said in one of the launchpad reports) and nVidia has not released a new version of their drivers built for the new Xorg ABI. I sure hope someone there gets the idea that maybe this needs to be fixed before Gutsy final.
-J
So, the GUI that my arcade cabinet loads at boot (an svgalib-based menu, not KDE, Gnome, etc.) is now magically part of the OS? Every device running embedded Linux or Windows CE that only supports http configuration now suddenly has no OS?
No.
I'm not sure, but how can she order them to do this? Firstly, she's asking them to start manufacturing evidence against themselves. Isn't that, like, against their 5th amendment rights or something?
More important, what law is it exactly that give the MPAA the right to force others to change the way in which they conduct business. Maybe she can order them to quarter foreign soldiers, er hire MPAA sysops, too, just in case someone starts sharing movies.
Can I order a breathalyser be installed in her car because I find it likely that someone might drive it while drunk? Or, do only large corporations get to tell judges what is and is not in public interest?
I'm surprised that systems, even back then weren't designed for some kind of autonomous "recovery mode". No communications with Earth for an extended period? How about slowly rotating the antennae through a pattern in search of a "beacon" we would send out on a separate frequency in such an event?
OT: Mods please mod parent informative. It actually is, for once.
You purport to be more enlightened, yet you equate age with weight. That doesn't sound like an intelligent argument. The only way your statement could be true is if the problem is actually with today's average lifestyle, and not physical at all.
I don't claim to know more than anyone else about obesity, but I've never seen anyone lose weight naturally unless they ate less/less garbage and/or expended more energy. What magical pill/therapy is there to get around this?
How many people eat and exercise properly yet suffer from signs of malnutrition? How come no one on "The Biggest Loser" or any gym I've *ever* been to has had such problems. This has to be incredibly rare, no? What are these signs of malnutrition? Are they worse than the signs and dangers of obesity? Also, wouldn't the people stop suffering from these symptoms after they got to a healthy weight and could eat more (maintaining their size)? Or, could they maybe avoid them completely by eating more from the get-go, but exercising harder?
DirectX 10 hardware is now obsolete?!!? Thank god I stayed with my non-obsolete DX9 hardware.
Oh wait... I run Linux/OpenGL. Nevermind.
A decent firewall and web proxy would be about 100x more practical. Changing the home page as a policy is just doing something irritating for the sake of doing it.
The original poster overthought the way around it too. All he actually needed to do was create shortcut to google and use that to launch the browser instead of playing with registry permissions.
-J
Twins won't be a problem: the software can tell them apart because the evil one has a goatee and the good one doesn't.
Yes, even the female ones.
>> There are 11 types of people in the world, those who know binaries and those who don't.
Guess which category you fall into.
Almost. We call it stalemate.
My universe imploded when W.O.P.P.E.R. played Tic-tac-toe against itself.
The day an automaton is "unbeatable" is the day it's 500ft tall and shoots nuclear rockets from its fingertips. I think I know a relatively easy way to beat this checkers program.
"Any app that doesn't need to be rewritten hasn't grown sufficiently beyond its original intent." - Jesse Litton, 1990
I think you're asking the wrong question: You should be trying to identify what it is about the color characteristics of this film you like and paying someone to develop a photoshop/gimp filter that does it with digital images.
I'd be surprised if you will even want to use this film in 30 years, when every phone in the world will be taking 3D holographic video that can be played back directly into your brain.
*sigh* Yes... I know it will be used mostly for porn.
There's also the case where people first saw something through "pirated" versions on the internet, then went out and bought it because they liked it so much.
Take the case of Jay. Jay never even caught Firefly when it was on the network (they always screwed with its time slot) but after seeing two episodes on the internet he went out and bought the DVDs. This was before Serenity, and his purchase probably, to some incredibly small degree, helped them justify making the movie. Of course, Jay immediately bought the Serenity DVD when it was available too, hoping it shows them there's interest in more Firefly.
In Jay's case, they made multiple sales they wouldn't have made without the "pirates". So, the pirates actually made them money by giving the product free promotion.
Now, not every product can be thrown out there and make money the way Serenity did. No, the secret is that your product has to be *good*. But, if your movie sucks, aren't you really ripping off people that expect a good product when they paid for your movie?
So, the actual cost to the media moguls are an unknown value between -($NUMBEROFPIRATECOPIES x $PRICE) and ($NUMBEROFPIRATECOPIES x $PRICE). If you average that out, you get $0.
1. Suicidally stupid, or homicidally stupid?
2. If a rule is made, it's not going to be made for you: It's going to be made to suit the majority. I've lost track of how many times I've almost been hit by idiots with their cell-phone glued to their head who didn't notice their light was red. I saw one bounce off the curb yesterday for no other apparent reason than he was dialing (or texting with!) the stupid cell in his hand.
When you have your three-year old strapped in the carseat behind you, and this kind of thing happens to you, it really does make you wish there was a clear-cut law that could be used to get these people to stop endangering *everyone*'s life.
OMG... Why did I just watch that? It's like porn, except without the sex and production values.
I have to think your testing was somehow tainted by some other problem. At the very least, your results are atypical.
I've blacklisted the IPv6 driver on several different distro's on a variety of hardware and never seen a single side-effect. From Mandriva on my arcade cabinet to Kubuntu running on a PS3... and systems with multiple sound cards... they've never even hiccupped after blacklisting the module.
It's thinking like that which makes OEM Windows recovery CDs completely useless once you upgrade a motherboard or harddrive.
For the love of god, don't delete the IPv6 files to get back just a few meg of space. One day, you might want to lug your box over to a friends LAN and find that you actually need it.
Or, if you're not an idiot, you just add "blacklist ipv6" to /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.
Oddly enough, this hole is on exactly the opposite side as the "face".
Install the KDE packages (or just use Kubuntu) and give Kopete a try. You won't miss Trillian *any*more.
1. Either you haven't used Gnu/Linux in a couple of years, or your system is misconfigured. The fonts on my systems display every bit as pretty as those on Windows.
2. Sit someone that's never used Windows in front of a Windows box. Same deal. Just because Linux has a lot of features that you don't immediately know how to use does not mean those features are a liability.
3. Flickery redraw of desktops? Have you even seen Linux? I honestly have no idea what you're referring to. My desktop is of the 3D Beryl version... prettier than Vista. As to your other points - almost all icon sizes are configurable, if you'll take the time to look through the options. That's the beauty of Linux - almost everything's configurable.
4. You don't like Linux because it actually enforces security which will only allow you to save to places where you have access? If you don't know how to use Linux, there's a ton of help on the web. There are even friendly folks (not me) that will assist you, even though you're complaining about something you got for free and obviously haven't read a beginners guide to Linux.
5. Go fuck yourself. Assemble your own software that fits your needs, or pay money for someone to do it for you. It is not the communities job to pander to your needs. If you don't like something about Linux, learn to code and fix it, or pay someone else to fix it. Microsoft won't give you their source, so if you don't like something about Windows you can just live with it.