I have played with Xen and looked at the source. The issue is the impossibility of hardware traps when privileged instructions are run outside ring 0. Xen replaces these instruction with assembly calls into a Virtual machine monitor, a modded version of Linux which acts as the host. As long as guest O/S systems can be modded to invoke the VMM rather than execute instructions directly, it works fine. This requires source code mods.
The issue with VMware is that it is at best a hack. It tries to locate and modify the privileged instructions of the host o/s in the binary. This will not always work.
Cambridge University are source licensees for Windows and they have a modded HAL that can handle the interface with the VM Monitor. They are not, under the terms of their license, permitted to distribute the binary.
However, it is possible that MS themselves may want Xen support over time. The dinosaurs have shown us that it is advantageous for an O/S to share a platform and it can give significantly more flexibility.
I come from an age of dinosaurs myself. The work qas quite complicated with many jobs requiring considerable manual intervention (tape and disk pack loading). Many of our operators were in their early twenties.
The exact status of Jesus's beliefs are an interesting topic in themselves. There are certainly versions where he asserts that we are all the children of god. It is even evidenced by the opening wording of the Lord's Prayer.
Miracle working was not something monopolised by Messiahs in Judeaism.
At the time (as evidenced by the Essenes) the range of beliefs in Judeaism was pretty broad and the temple had as much a monopoly of the faith as the Vatican now.
The problem is how can people follow a religion's teaching to the latter? A lot of baggage comes down which can be selectively interpreted. Some of this doesn't even have a basis in the original teachings, such as Vatican-2 and the use of contraception.
Most spammers really have links to the west. Legislation exists now which would stop a lot of what they are doing, unfortunately it isn't particularly interesting for the authorities.
There is a clearer line of descent from this original Koran tha with the bible. Where the writings came from, we do not know, but the collection started a much shorter time after the death of Muhammed and this was the most complete. The authoritative version of the Koran remained in Arabic, so it is somewhat easier to track drift since the Othman version.
With Christianity, we had a slippage of 300 years or so before the Ecunemical council of Nicea. The original material was in a mixture of Arameic, Greek and Hebrew but was at that point translted into latin. I understand that several of the major translations into English since did try to revert to the original material where possible rather than just use the latin text but sometimes it wasn't available. Having to work from time to time with professional translations, it is easy to understand how inconsistencies can come about.
I do not recall Jesus saying that his version of Judeaism was anything but another interpretion.
He didn't preach "Christianity", he was effectively preaching his own interpretation of the scriptures that he learned as a boy at the temple. This came later from the apostles, particularly Paul who de-emphasised the Judaic background to improve the religion's marketability to the Romans and Greeks.
As for more recent texts, it becomes easier to track any changes as the originals are usually somewhere around. The gold plates of the angel Mormoni may not be available for consultation, but it is certainly possible to find an early example of the teachings.
Whatever is the case with the authenticity of a text, they were developed in another world to ours. People interpret and reinterpret according to their own goals. We have murderous idiots in Iraq who insist that the Koran gives them the right to kidnap and decapitate civilians associated with the enemy. Many of their religious leaders disagree. The same can be applied to Christian teachings.
It is certainly trues that a strong religious belief helps people do terrible things even if the belief is totally wrong. Personally, I would hope that people would think more for themselves. The problem is that it interferes with the Church's business model.
Most spam servers are in the west because they need good bandwidth. There may be some master spammer systems directing the spam in Eastern Europe, but most will be sitting in the west and so would their businesses.
In truth there are other ways to get around this. An advertiser offering a prescription drug or pirated software on the internet is breaking laws. The sale of unlicensed financial products is also breaking the law.
The W2K filter works fine but you have to know what needs to be opened and in which direction. I believe that the latest XP firewall is easier to setup, but ironically some major Linux distros are much better at this asking you about your required security level and allowing you to enable extra services by name. I say "ironically" because Linux is supposed to be harder to install. I really can't agree that an equiv Windows installation (Windows Adv Server with loads of extras) is easier to configure than Linux.
The KJV along with the Book of Common Prayer are actually more than religious works, they represent key documents in the development of the English language.
Of course, newer religions have better continuity in their scriptures (but even they have schisms). The Koran was collected in about 650CE (and one of the original versions of this documents survives to this day in Uzbekistan. It was written in Arabic and started only a short time after the death of Muhammed. Even with this version the issue of possible copying errors comes up. Incidentally the provenance of the document was accepted by the former Soviet authorieties and later UNESCO.
The other issue is that of interpretation. Even within a single religion, this can get so serious that it kills people on a regular basis.
You then have the problem of 'modernising' and 'localising' a religion. It amuses me to see the devout orthodox jew considering how to purify a microwave oven. The problem is that three of the great world religions came from desert tribes around 1500 years ago. Some laws have already been rejected by the Christians such as those of Leviticus regarding diet during the internationalisation phase.
It should be remembered that all religious works of literature in circulation have been written by the hand of man, however much they were inspired by God.
Nope, the three-hundred club was well defined. It was at a US base so they used Fahrenheit and such a difference is known. I understand that the participants where shoes and falling isn't recommended as the ice has the consistency of concrete.
Falling naked at minus 10C isn't nice either and you can get easily cut/bruised but I guess a lot easier than at -100F.
We know that what is written there has been preserved since its original versions because of the vast number of copies that we have. There are more accurate copies of the Bible than ANY other ancient work.
I would have to disagree with that one. The main english translation at the moment dates back to King James I. This itself has been revised many times. The bible itself is an assembly of texts, with many different origins, with the new-testament being loosely assembled in 325CE and the old-testament was largely standardised in the 500BCE. There are many major cultures based upon disagreements over the contents of the bible (i.e., the Jews who do not accept the new testament). Many other religions have books that go back 2000 years or so.
Religions are extremely dangerous, especially when they go outside their original scope. religions and medecine make a very difficult mix. Last time I read the bible, there is not one reference to stem-cell research.
Lastly, embryonic cells do not require a fertilised egg, otherwise how could cloning work?
It meant braving a sauna at about 100C and then going through an air temperature of -20C to go into water at almost freezing (they had to cut a hole in the 10cm ice and to keep the water moving to stop it refreezing). A temperature difference of 120 gives 216F. Not really 300 but the guys at the south pole don't have to dive.
Believe it or not, it is fine for up to a minute or so and then you haul yourself out and run back into the sauna as fast as possible, pausing only to grab another beer.
Quite correct and I understand that this is one of the techniques used by the KGB, to believe in your lies. This is one of the reasons that some spies passed polygraph tests without problems.
Actually a lot of the VMS privileges can be misused to gain others (i.e., CMEXEC). Others are so basic, that it is hard to deny them as many programs would cease to work (i.e., CREMBX and NETMBX).
I work at some large banks as an external and frankly, I am shocked about the access given to offsite vendor support staff. The issue is that when the system goes down, you want them to be able to fix things, it is fastest and most 'convenient' that they can access your system, and this is what the bosses are told and thus the firewall is opened.
I would disagree with you about intrinsic safety. The insurgents are using conventional HE which tends only to go bang when the detonator goes. You don't really need to be full IS for that. The transmitter for the camera won't be much of a risk as it is low power, but the very real risk is the bomb is controlled by a similar r/c circuit and frequency as the bomb.
What we are talking about here is just something to 'go and have a look' at a possible bomb and either eliminate as a threat or ask for the EOD team proper to clear it.
The robots deployed by the British in Northern Ireland were controlled through a wire. They were custom built and expensive. I would agree that using R/C is a no-no, but a cheaper robot can only help.
Note that the initial British remote controlled vehicles were like this one and for checking out only. These were quite simple. Later models featuring the shotgun had to be a *lot* more robust (if only to handle the recoil).
So, you're saying that if I drive around Bagdad with an R/C transmitter, I can set off IED's before I get close to them. I don't see a problem there.
I understand that one technique used by the British army in NI, and also by various other forces where there is a threat is to jamn the R/C channels when you have a number of vehicles moving around, i.e., a convoy.
I doubt whether this is a good idea for general use. Guns don't like sand and require frequent maintenance in the desert. The standard military issue stuff may work but most importantly there is a long supply chain of spare parts. Same goes for any piece of kit where the military has a good supply.
The case proposed here of a UXO disposal robot is rather different, it is something that may breakdown but if it is cheap enough to throw away when a bomb goes off and a soldier's life is saved, then wtf, go for it.
With so0me older GSM phones, some of the modem work had to be done by the PC, but not anymore. The ones with mini-USB connectors talk proper USB and declare themselves as modems with AT commands. The commands are usually documented in the configuration manual on the respective phone's developer site. This is certainly true for Sony-Ericsson and Nokia.
The things is that a GSM modem isn't like a WinModem. It provides the ability to use the phone's link as a data layer. This being quite demanding, also from the regulatory viewpoint, the modem tends to sit in the phone rather than the PC.
What you do get on the PC is some optimisation software sometimes and also stuff to make raising the link somewhat easier.
Yep, this means that you can get 2*Smarts in one standard European parking space.
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The translations in germany aren't always so good and sometimes they are plain wrong. Script translaters don't get paid better per page than anything else and usually, they just get the script, not even an English preview.
Yes, I know about the stuff that you get in the baltic states. This is really a hangover of the Soviet style dubbing. The only good point is that at least in Russia, you can still find plenty of stuff in English on VCD.
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The issue with VMware is that it is at best a hack. It tries to locate and modify the privileged instructions of the host o/s in the binary. This will not always work.
However, it is possible that MS themselves may want Xen support over time. The dinosaurs have shown us that it is advantageous for an O/S to share a platform and it can give significantly more flexibility.
I come from an age of dinosaurs myself. The work qas quite complicated with many jobs requiring considerable manual intervention (tape and disk pack loading). Many of our operators were in their early twenties.
The problem is how can people follow a religion's teaching to the latter? A lot of baggage comes down which can be selectively interpreted. Some of this doesn't even have a basis in the original teachings, such as Vatican-2 and the use of contraception.
Most spammers really have links to the west. Legislation exists now which would stop a lot of what they are doing, unfortunately it isn't particularly interesting for the authorities.
With Christianity, we had a slippage of 300 years or so before the Ecunemical council of Nicea. The original material was in a mixture of Arameic, Greek and Hebrew but was at that point translted into latin. I understand that several of the major translations into English since did try to revert to the original material where possible rather than just use the latin text but sometimes it wasn't available. Having to work from time to time with professional translations, it is easy to understand how inconsistencies can come about.
I do not recall Jesus saying that his version of Judeaism was anything but another interpretion. He didn't preach "Christianity", he was effectively preaching his own interpretation of the scriptures that he learned as a boy at the temple. This came later from the apostles, particularly Paul who de-emphasised the Judaic background to improve the religion's marketability to the Romans and Greeks.
As for more recent texts, it becomes easier to track any changes as the originals are usually somewhere around. The gold plates of the angel Mormoni may not be available for consultation, but it is certainly possible to find an early example of the teachings.
Whatever is the case with the authenticity of a text, they were developed in another world to ours. People interpret and reinterpret according to their own goals. We have murderous idiots in Iraq who insist that the Koran gives them the right to kidnap and decapitate civilians associated with the enemy. Many of their religious leaders disagree. The same can be applied to Christian teachings.
It is certainly trues that a strong religious belief helps people do terrible things even if the belief is totally wrong. Personally, I would hope that people would think more for themselves. The problem is that it interferes with the Church's business model.
Most spam servers are in the west because they need good bandwidth. There may be some master spammer systems directing the spam in Eastern Europe, but most will be sitting in the west and so would their businesses.
In truth there are other ways to get around this. An advertiser offering a prescription drug or pirated software on the internet is breaking laws. The sale of unlicensed financial products is also breaking the law.
The W2K filter works fine but you have to know what needs to be opened and in which direction. I believe that the latest XP firewall is easier to setup, but ironically some major Linux distros are much better at this asking you about your required security level and allowing you to enable extra services by name. I say "ironically" because Linux is supposed to be harder to install. I really can't agree that an equiv Windows installation (Windows Adv Server with loads of extras) is easier to configure than Linux.
Of course, newer religions have better continuity in their scriptures (but even they have schisms). The Koran was collected in about 650CE (and one of the original versions of this documents survives to this day in Uzbekistan. It was written in Arabic and started only a short time after the death of Muhammed. Even with this version the issue of possible copying errors comes up. Incidentally the provenance of the document was accepted by the former Soviet authorieties and later UNESCO.
The other issue is that of interpretation. Even within a single religion, this can get so serious that it kills people on a regular basis.
You then have the problem of 'modernising' and 'localising' a religion. It amuses me to see the devout orthodox jew considering how to purify a microwave oven. The problem is that three of the great world religions came from desert tribes around 1500 years ago. Some laws have already been rejected by the Christians such as those of Leviticus regarding diet during the internationalisation phase.
It should be remembered that all religious works of literature in circulation have been written by the hand of man, however much they were inspired by God.
Having seen the scrolls and read some of the translations, they are essentially old-testament, whioch corresponds to the Essenes being a Jewish sect.
Nope, the three-hundred club was well defined. It was at a US base so they used Fahrenheit and such a difference is known. I understand that the participants where shoes and falling isn't recommended as the ice has the consistency of concrete.
Falling naked at minus 10C isn't nice either and you can get easily cut/bruised but I guess a lot easier than at -100F.
Religions are extremely dangerous, especially when they go outside their original scope. religions and medecine make a very difficult mix. Last time I read the bible, there is not one reference to stem-cell research.
Lastly, embryonic cells do not require a fertilised egg, otherwise how could cloning work?
Believe it or not, it is fine for up to a minute or so and then you haul yourself out and run back into the sauna as fast as possible, pausing only to grab another beer.
Quite correct and I understand that this is one of the techniques used by the KGB, to believe in your lies. This is one of the reasons that some spies passed polygraph tests without problems.
George W is absolutely certain that Iraq caused this war upon themselves. He is certain about WMD. The evidence doesn't matter, it is only his belief.
The idiot also says he believes in a strong dollar.
Nice one, given the popularity, I'm sure plenty of people downloaded the series rather than buting the DVDs or tapes.
Actually a lot of the VMS privileges can be misused to gain others (i.e., CMEXEC). Others are so basic, that it is hard to deny them as many programs would cease to work (i.e., CREMBX and NETMBX).
I work at some large banks as an external and frankly, I am shocked about the access given to offsite vendor support staff. The issue is that when the system goes down, you want them to be able to fix things, it is fastest and most 'convenient' that they can access your system, and this is what the bosses are told and thus the firewall is opened.
What we are talking about here is just something to 'go and have a look' at a possible bomb and either eliminate as a threat or ask for the EOD team proper to clear it.
Note that the initial British remote controlled vehicles were like this one and for checking out only. These were quite simple. Later models featuring the shotgun had to be a *lot* more robust (if only to handle the recoil).
The case proposed here of a UXO disposal robot is rather different, it is something that may breakdown but if it is cheap enough to throw away when a bomb goes off and a soldier's life is saved, then wtf, go for it.
The things is that a GSM modem isn't like a WinModem. It provides the ability to use the phone's link as a data layer. This being quite demanding, also from the regulatory viewpoint, the modem tends to sit in the phone rather than the PC.
What you do get on the PC is some optimisation software sometimes and also stuff to make raising the link somewhat easier.
Yep, this means that you can get 2*Smarts in one standard European parking space.
Yes, I know about the stuff that you get in the baltic states. This is really a hangover of the Soviet style dubbing. The only good point is that at least in Russia, you can still find plenty of stuff in English on VCD.