Hemos, do you read slashdot?
"Cmdr Taco (luser)" do you read articles until the end? Hemos said: "This was in the science section before - but worth the front page."
It seems to me that such a kind of feat was also achieved with the SPOT satellites, except that it was of much more commercial importance.
The SPOT 3 satellite died in orbit on November 1996, way before its SPOT 4 successor was launched (March 1998). Meanwhile, to be able to continue their business, the owners of the SPOT network more or less resurrected SPOT 1, which was launched on February 1986.
Sadly, I don't remember or even knew all the details, so I would be glad if someone could step up to provide some more.
Related, but slightly OT: last November, a 50 Mbps laser link between SPOT 4 orbiting at 832 km and another satellite (Artemis) orbiting at 31,000 km was successfully tested. This allows ground stations to keep contact with SPOT 4 for a much longer time, and avoids having to rely too much on the onboard storage systems. Now, that's high-tech.:)
Step 1: Wait for this law to be voted and put into effect.
Step 2: Start pushing for a law that mandates opening code... everywhere. Say that it prevents small independant consultants from repairing Microsoft ware.
... because you can't change or revoke them. What if someone manages to get a copy of the binary data that characterize your iris? What if it gets circulated in some crackers circle? Will you change your iris? Or will you change your job? Or will you simply loose your work, since your iris is now unusable by your company?
Look in your prefs, does "Crossfading DirectSound Output Plugin" ring a bell?
Yes. And no, it's not the same. The current Winamp micro-fadeouts are more subtle and much better. That's probably why they're enabled by default.
Wow. So now, Australians get to watch some Winamp plugins while listening to their freshly copied CDs. When will the plugins be able to output to Ogg Theora?
Here are a few things that make me consider Winamp better than XMMS.
Shift-V (or right-click on the stop button) to stop the current song using fade-out. Much more nicer to my ears. XMMS doesn't have that.
I don't know since when, but latest Winamp versions have a very nice and subtle micro-fade-out when you stop a song or switch to a different one. This rocks. XMMS clicks and pops when you switch songs. This sucks.
Winamp Vorbis comment editor and Vorbis comment displayer simply rock. The best I've seen to date. XMMS Vorbis comment editor and Vorbis comment displayer simply suck. Big time.
That's all. That's enough for me to prefer Winamp over XMMS. Yet I use XMMS much more than Winamp... simply because I've run Windows approximately ten hours over the past five months.
Oh, and XMMS still doesn't seem to have good aRts support. This sucks, too.
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... four days ago. But thanks for the link to the Nature article.
Note: I'm posting this comment again so that the user that moderated my previous comment as "Redundant" will be right in a time-reversed parallel universe.;)
...have done that for a long time. I mean, putting a CPU inside a fridge... nothing new.
Oh, and can you imagine a beowulf cluster of those?
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And on July 14th, join us as we storm the Redmond stronghold and cut the head of the evil king of the Microsoft Kingdom. The storming of Redmond will symbolize, for all citizens of Linuxdom, liberty, democracy and the struggle against all forms of oppression!
Err, people ran MS-DOS 6.22 and Windows 3.11. Windows 95 was a hot topic, and everybody dreamed of getting a 4x CD-ROM. CD-Writers were science-fiction, in fact nobody talked about them because there was no chance it would arrive in homes before many years. CompuServe and AOL were big things to subscribe to, and some people even talked about the inter network.
Get a refrigerator from 1950, another one from 1970, and one from 2001, and set them side-by-side. Make sure each one is the basic model, with no fancy gee-gaws or "futuristic controls".
I submit to you that the 2001 refrigerator is approaching perfection.
Fast-forward ten years in the future. The 50's fridge is still working, the 70's fridge shows its age, the Y2K fridge has already been replaced.
Why do we live in a civilization where soda cans last for hundred of years and refrigerators die in a few?
Well, putting accents onto capital letters is not going to end the world or to bring us back to olde times!
Accented capitals are elegent, natural, friendly and cool. Those who support removal of accents are lazy bastard.... This is what I learned during the past hour, surfing on the Net. Perhaps I didn't read the good texts?:)
Anyway, I've put accented letters on capitals for more than seven years now, I like it, I won't change my ways. Why are there so many people out there to tell you of their True and Correct Way to Do Things? Typography is about the beauty of the text, and I find accented capitals much more beautiful.
In this case, I think the case is correct. Albert and René are both firstnames, and so begin with an uppercase letter.
Furthermore, book titles, movie titles, etc., use a capital letter on the first word that follows pronouns such as "les", "le", etc. So considering that this company name is some kind of title, I think I've got it right.:)
Ooh yes I should. But, alas, this particular misconception is anchored very deeply in the minds of French people that think they know something about typography.
This "rule" (don't put accents on capital letters), like a few other people hopefully don't know, dates back to the beginning of typewriters, where it was very tedious if not impossible to do so. Same for early book printing machines.
But I can show you several, hundred-years old books that have accents on French letters. And now that we all have computers, it's very easy to put accents on letters, so do it, as all typography manuals (well, the good, recent ones) tell you.
Plus, it allows you to highlight X, which is better than MsWindows in this regard. Just type CapsLock, then the accented letter, then CapsLock again to input an accented capital letter. Oh, and just use AltGr+Z and AltGr+X to input French quotation marks.
That's the correct way to write it in French, even though I've noticed a tendancy in American products to put more accents on French words than there are in reality. Ah those Americans, always overdoing things.;)
What a weak article. I don't know this site, but it seems to me as if it is targeted to younglings discovering life. It belongs to the 12-years old crowd, not Slashdot.
If my dual boot machine infects my Linux box from a windows run script the fault still lies with Windows, not Linux/BSD/Solaris or whatever*nix I am running.
If my dual boot machine infects my Linux box from a windows run script I don't care with which the fault lies. I am infected, and very annoyed.
Then again I dont dual boot.
So much so good. I for one dual boot, and I know lots of people do, and will for the forseeable future.
Of course, most viruses are created by taking existing code and changing a few lines, mostly the messages the virus emits, and (re)releasing it. But there also seems to be a few bright people there, sadly.
all the programmers with that kind of skill are mature and ethical
You are so optimistic.
The reason Linux doesn't have any viruses is because nobody is trying to write any.
In case you didn't notice, this whole discussion is about the fact that this is happening. Now.
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Hemos, do you read slashdot? "Cmdr Taco (luser)" do you read articles until the end? Hemos said: "This was in the science section before - but worth the front page."
It seems to me that such a kind of feat was also achieved with the SPOT satellites, except that it was of much more commercial importance.
:)
The SPOT 3 satellite died in orbit on November 1996, way before its SPOT 4 successor was launched (March 1998). Meanwhile, to be able to continue their business, the owners of the SPOT network more or less resurrected SPOT 1, which was launched on February 1986.
Sadly, I don't remember or even knew all the details, so I would be glad if someone could step up to provide some more.
Related, but slightly OT: last November, a 50 Mbps laser link between SPOT 4 orbiting at 832 km and another satellite (Artemis) orbiting at 31,000 km was successfully tested. This allows ground stations to keep contact with SPOT 4 for a much longer time, and avoids having to rely too much on the onboard storage systems. Now, that's high-tech.
Step 1: Wait for this law to be voted and put into effect.
Step 2: Start pushing for a law that mandates opening code... everywhere. Say that it prevents small independant consultants from repairing Microsoft ware.
... because you can't change or revoke them. What if someone manages to get a copy of the binary data that characterize your iris? What if it gets circulated in some crackers circle? Will you change your iris? Or will you change your job? Or will you simply loose your work, since your iris is now unusable by your company?
Winamp has built-in fading.
Look in your prefs, does "Crossfading DirectSound Output Plugin" ring a bell? Yes. And no, it's not the same. The current Winamp micro-fadeouts are more subtle and much better. That's probably why they're enabled by default.
Wow. So now, Australians get to watch some Winamp plugins while listening to their freshly copied CDs. When will the plugins be able to output to Ogg Theora?
- Shift-V (or right-click on the stop button) to stop the current song using fade-out. Much more nicer to my ears. XMMS doesn't have that.
- I don't know since when, but latest Winamp versions have a very nice and subtle micro-fade-out when you stop a song or switch to a different one. This rocks. XMMS clicks and pops when you switch songs. This sucks.
- Winamp Vorbis comment editor and Vorbis comment displayer simply rock. The best I've seen to date. XMMS Vorbis comment editor and Vorbis comment displayer simply suck. Big time.
That's all. That's enough for me to prefer Winamp over XMMS. Yet I use XMMS much more than Winamp... simply because I've run Windows approximately ten hours over the past five months.Oh, and XMMS still doesn't seem to have good aRts support. This sucks, too.
... four days ago. But thanks for the link to the Nature article.
...here on Slashdot.
;)
Note: I'm posting this comment again so that the user that moderated my previous comment as "Redundant" will be right in a time-reversed parallel universe.
been posted a few months ago?
...have done that for a long time. I mean, putting a CPU inside a fridge... nothing new.
Oh, and can you imagine a beowulf cluster of those?
And on July 14th, join us as we storm the Redmond stronghold and cut the head of the evil king of the Microsoft Kingdom. The storming of Redmond will symbolize, for all citizens of Linuxdom, liberty, democracy and the struggle against all forms of oppression!
Err, people ran MS-DOS 6.22 and Windows 3.11. Windows 95 was a hot topic, and everybody dreamed of getting a 4x CD-ROM. CD-Writers were science-fiction, in fact nobody talked about them because there was no chance it would arrive in homes before many years. CompuServe and AOL were big things to subscribe to, and some people even talked about the inter network.
Get a refrigerator from 1950, another one from 1970, and one from 2001, and set them side-by-side. Make sure each one is the basic model, with no fancy gee-gaws or "futuristic controls".
I submit to you that the 2001 refrigerator is approaching perfection.
Fast-forward ten years in the future. The 50's fridge is still working, the 70's fridge shows its age, the Y2K fridge has already been replaced. Why do we live in a civilization where soda cans last for hundred of years and refrigerators die in a few?
Thas is beganning to whory me.
Well, putting accents onto capital letters is not going to end the world or to bring us back to olde times!
... This is what I learned during the past hour, surfing on the Net. Perhaps I didn't read the good texts? :)
Accented capitals are elegent, natural, friendly and cool. Those who support removal of accents are lazy bastard.
Anyway, I've put accented letters on capitals for more than seven years now, I like it, I won't change my ways. Why are there so many people out there to tell you of their True and Correct Way to Do Things? Typography is about the beauty of the text, and I find accented capitals much more beautiful.
In this case, I think the case is correct. Albert and René are both firstnames, and so begin with an uppercase letter.
:)
Furthermore, book titles, movie titles, etc., use a capital letter on the first word that follows pronouns such as "les", "le", etc. So considering that this company name is some kind of title, I think I've got it right.
Looking at Google quite confirms this.
I was waiting for that... :)
Ooh yes I should. But, alas, this particular misconception is anchored very deeply in the minds of French people that think they know something about typography.
This "rule" (don't put accents on capital letters), like a few other people hopefully don't know, dates back to the beginning of typewriters, where it was very tedious if not impossible to do so. Same for early book printing machines.
But I can show you several, hundred-years old books that have accents on French letters. And now that we all have computers, it's very easy to put accents on letters, so do it, as all typography manuals (well, the good, recent ones) tell you.
Plus, it allows you to highlight X, which is better than MsWindows in this regard. Just type CapsLock, then the accented letter, then CapsLock again to input an accented capital letter. Oh, and just use AltGr+Z and AltGr+X to input French quotation marks.
I'll tell that to my camera.
Since we're all sharing eclipse photos, here's mine.
:)
The photo was taken using my great Canon PowerShot A40. The bluish shadow is due to a reflection inside the Slackware CD I was using as a filter.
That's the correct way to write it in French, even though I've noticed a tendancy in American products to put more accents on French words than there are in reality. Ah those Americans, always overdoing things. ;)
What a weak article. I don't know this site, but it seems to me as if it is targeted to younglings discovering life. It belongs to the 12-years old crowd, not Slashdot.
If my dual boot machine infects my Linux box from a windows run script the fault still lies with Windows, not Linux/BSD/Solaris or whatever*nix I am running.
If my dual boot machine infects my Linux box from a windows run script I don't care with which the fault lies. I am infected, and very annoyed.
Then again I dont dual boot.
So much so good. I for one dual boot, and I know lots of people do, and will for the forseeable future.
A great technical achievement? I don't think so. Virus writing does not strike me as being all that hard.
Please read Alan Solomon's comment. And what seems to be the headers of twoancestors of this virus.
Of course, most viruses are created by taking existing code and changing a few lines, mostly the messages the virus emits, and (re)releasing it. But there also seems to be a few bright people there, sadly.
all the programmers with that kind of skill are mature and ethical
You are so optimistic.
The reason Linux doesn't have any viruses is because nobody is trying to write any.
In case you didn't notice, this whole discussion is about the fact that this is happening. Now.