The one thing I have observed on the internet is that a person's true character shines through when they are hidden behind the cloak of anonymity.
To see this, you just have to go to an online gaming site like Diablo-II on Battle net. Huge numbers of people are constantly lying, cheating, badgering, stealing, bragging, and manipulating. I cannot believe that all these same people would be doing the same things at the same frequency, if they were face to face with someone.
As an aside, I've often thought these places would be ideal in which to conduct job interviews;-)
I have no idea how this observation can impact or help us with child safety. But at least recognizing this as a fundamental underpinning of the problem may have some value as we further our thinking
VMS was (and still is) a very powerful and cool OS. There were tons of things DEC put into this OS in conjunction with the Vax hardware architecture that is still advanced today (e.g. clustering).
There was a recent thread on usenet in which someone asked about the differences between VMS, Unix, and NT. This Deja link should take you near the top of that thread
My impression is that the effectiveness of these oaths is entirely dependent on the society which enforces them.
I've always had the impression (at least in Canada) that when an engineer is in violation of the profession, the Eng Society goes after them faster and harder then anyone else. As a counter example, in the medical community it seems to me that the reverse is true, their society tends to protect their members as a first reaction.
We used to use these "TIGA" cards in the early 90's to run our 3D X-DOS CAD programs (we developed). They rocked at the time. Unfortunately, the Intel CPU speed increased (386,486,Pentium) at such a fast rate that it wasnt long before it was quicker to use a software buffer, render to it, and bitblt to screen. At this point, the cheap VGA cards won out.
There was another card made by Nth Graphics that was pretty cool at the time too.
As I understand it, the concept of "rings" for different privilege levels in a processor was introduced by Data General. Please refer to "Soul of a New Machine" by Tracy Kidder for details.
This bug causes zlib to free() a malloc'ed block of memory more than once. free() on most other OS's (including Windows, FreeBSD and OpenBSD) is smart enough to check for this and will print a warning instead of destroying the heap;
Not quite right on Windows... only in debug mode builds with switches set will you get any kind of warning. Release mode builds will give you an Application Error.
zlib is not os dependent. Many Windows based products/projects use it as well. Is there some linux specific issues related to this overflow issue?... or is it just a headline hype thing
Bang on! The thing that always amazes me is that they can say "we can't remove it" with a straight face. Given enough time and money, anything can be done.
In this particular case, I think that the time and money are largely outweighed by the interest in doing so. It really is a matter of refactoring and repackaging components and their dependencies.
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One of the main arguments against the "GNU/Linux" seems to be that it is too much of a mouthful.
If that's the case, why not call it "Lignux"?
This has the gnu term embedded inside. ;-)
The one thing I have observed on the internet is that a person's true character shines through when they are hidden behind the cloak of anonymity.
To see this, you just have to go to an online gaming site like Diablo-II on Battle net. Huge numbers of people are constantly lying, cheating, badgering, stealing, bragging, and manipulating. I cannot believe that all these same people would be doing the same things at the same frequency, if they were face to face with someone.
As an aside, I've often thought these places would be ideal in which to conduct job interviews ;-)
I have no idea how this observation can impact or help us with child safety. But at least recognizing this as a fundamental underpinning of the problem may have some value as we further our thinking
Perhaps if you read this, you might be better informed
VMS was (and still is) a very powerful and cool OS. There were tons of things DEC put into this OS in conjunction with the Vax hardware architecture that is still advanced today (e.g. clustering).
There was a recent thread on usenet in which someone asked about the differences between VMS, Unix, and NT. This Deja link should take you near the top of that thread
My impression is that the effectiveness of these oaths is entirely dependent on the society which enforces them.
I've always had the impression (at least in Canada) that when an engineer is in violation of the profession, the Eng Society goes after them faster and harder then anyone else. As a counter example, in the medical community it seems to me that the reverse is true, their society tends to protect their members as a first reaction.
We used to use these "TIGA" cards in the early 90's to run our 3D X-DOS CAD programs (we developed). They rocked at the time. Unfortunately, the Intel CPU speed increased (386,486,Pentium) at such a fast rate that it wasnt long before it was quicker to use a software buffer, render to it, and bitblt to screen. At this point, the cheap VGA cards won out. There was another card made by Nth Graphics that was pretty cool at the time too.
As I understand it, the concept of "rings" for different privilege levels in a processor was introduced by Data General. Please refer to "Soul of a New Machine" by Tracy Kidder for details.
Not quite right on Windows... only in debug mode builds with switches set will you get any kind of warning. Release mode builds will give you an Application Error.
zlib is not os dependent. Many Windows based products/projects use it as well. Is there some linux specific issues related to this overflow issue?... or is it just a headline hype thing
Bang on! The thing that always amazes me is that they can say "we can't remove it" with a straight face. Given enough time and money, anything can be done. In this particular case, I think that the time and money are largely outweighed by the interest in doing so. It really is a matter of refactoring and repackaging components and their dependencies.