I work in IT, and having installed XP on many new/old desktops and many old/new laptops, nothing has ever come close to XP in regards to device drivers
Funny story...
I recently had to reinstall Windows XP SP2 for my sister. Once XP was installed, I had the biggest problem I've ever had installing software - the USB cable modem was not recognised.
When the cable guy installed it, he (apparently) didn't leave them with any drivers, so we were utterly screwed and couldn't download any of the updates / other drivers.
Thankfully I had knoppix (v3.2 - so not overly new), and it automatically recognised everything including the USB Cable modem. Downloaded the drivers from the website, and we were off again.
So for me, Linux certainly did autodetect and support vital bits of hardware which Windows XP SP2 did not.
The number one reason I don't use windows is because its not open source.
I'm a programmer and I have many times hacked things about - not in the kernel, or even the desktop manager I use - but applications on it. And the whole philosophy of open source makes me wanna use Linux (or another os OS)
I use SSH every day; from work I ssh into my home machine so I can read my emails, use icq, and all sorts of other things - I seem to recall something similar is possible with windows console services or something; but the range of apps just isn't there for the console
Finally - and its just an example - Xine. There are a number of apps which are just top notch on linux - and the support of those apps is astounding. I had a very rare bug in playing a particular dvd through xine, and one of the developers took a lot of time to go through it with me to find the problem and the fix. Yes, I know that there are some projects which can claim similar for windows programs, and perhaps its not a real reason to stay on linux - but its certainly a psychological reason.
I left windows 2 years ago, and after a while of booting into it for games, I haven't looked back
They don't have to release the source of the modified GCC, but they do have to release the binary. i really dont think they do; read your GPL, if you release binary code, you have to supply a means of getting the source code. but to hit your argument at the base... the fact is, they don't even need to provide binaries for the modified gcc. it is being used "in house" and there is therefore no need to redistribute the changes. (remember, gcc is not provided to the end user in the router firmware)
Hang on... Does this mean that somebody can modify their compiler to take the source code and interpret it and compile different source code into the binary?
i.e. using their in-house compiler, produce a binary which no one else can produce from the source they have distributed?
From what I understand, this seems to be claimed to be GPL complient, but could be abused to go against the GPL's spirit...
There's no reason for you to be touching shared memory in a language like PHP.
I think there is...
I run a site which attracted up to 30 hits a minute at its peak. This particular site did a lot of calculations - it was performing a simulation for an online game. Without shared memory, each calculation was taking several seconds... Obviously with several seconds per simulation and one simualtion every 2 seconds (all roughly) the site died horribly... using shared memory with some useful precalculated matricies was the only method I found (short of throwing more hardware at it) that was able to keep up with the demand... it actually reducing the time per simulation to about 0.2 seconds
jack of all trades....
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Rather, the company thinks, a single program should handle it all...master of none
But seriously, isnt that what joe consumer wants? Something which IS jack of all trades but master of none
Word and excel are both more complicated than joe consumer wants - so what their trying to do is ressurect MS works and shove outlook and MSN messenger in there aswell?
That seems to me like it would really appeal to the OEMS, so thats what joe's gonna get...
Why are these things posted here? Is it because of the many/. users that use windows:-), or is it because we're always trying to make windows look bad?
While I can understand that capping is something that might very well be needed, I think that the broadband companies are going about it the wrong way...
What I personally would like to see (well, preferably no capping, but I cant see that continuing) is a daily limit - say 500mb-1gb, after which the connection slows down to modem / just over modem speeds, with up to 3 days (for example) which can be carried forward to the next
The main problems are caused by so many people running kazaa/etc and leaving it on - they should be the ones who are restricted, not a blanket restriction like 5gb a month which could easily be exceeded by "normal usage" (I am confident I have used more than 5gb in any one month without running p2p applications)
However, having said all of that, I expect that even though some companies will introduce capping, it will follow (atleast in the UK) the same trend as phone access... Some phone access is capped, but there are always the "unlimited" plans still available (and some companies actually do keep to the unlimited promise!)
If an individual parent disagrees, let her opt-in to a private program.
It would be opt in of course
I personally would oppose any government attempts to for ISP's to block the whole IP range or anything - but individual parents could choose whether to block it themselves (or click on the "kid safe" button in mozilla 3.2 and above)
I know replying to my own post is bad, but I wanted to respond to several people in one post...
The idea has nothing to do with the US government - not really I cant remember who assigns IP addresses, but its got everything to do with them THEY have complete control over who gets IP's and who doesnt... if they included a restriction that ip's outside a certain range cannot be used for adult material, then it doesnt matter what country their from.
The organisation who assigns the addresses can and should be country independant - since they control a global resource
What about shared (virtual) account hosts?
Obviously, they could have multiple IP addresses and police what gets served on which IP That is if they wanted to ensure that all of their customers could use all of their kid-safe sites without the blocking
It would be up to the owner of the address(es) to ensure that they comply with the restrictions - if they didnt, then their IP address could be removed I'm sure that given that choice any web hoster would enforce their own rules about what can be served through which IP
More and more individual hosts will have their own IP because there are so many
If this company has a machine that is hosting 10% adult material and 90% kid safe material, should they be delegated into the adult-only zone
Its the IP address and not the machine that matters If they wanted their kid safe material to be accessible, they would have to use a non-adult IP for that material, not a problem with modern web servers atall
While that does seem like a good idea, it could get a bit tricky when it comes to multiple sites on a single machine. Also, it might lead to a rise of adult sites putting their material on one of their adult-IP'd boxes, then creating a page that links to images on that box, and putting that page on a non-adult box. The end result would be that they've escaped the "adult IP" blacklist. In the event they're nailed on it, they might conceivably argue that they are hosting no non-adult material on the non-adult server - just linking to it. That could bring about a big whole mess over the legality of links and such. Not pretty.
Thats not a problem as long as joe consumer can CHOOSE to completely block the whole adult IP range, and all of the adult material is hosted in that range, there isnt a problem atall
Do children need to be protected from danger on the internet? Yes -- from predation. Not from information. If an individual parent disagrees, let her opt-in to a private program. Don't homogenize the perception of what's appropriate viewing for children by enacting state-endorsed legislation.
I'm not saying that it would be the be-all and end-all If kids wanted to see the adult pages, they could always use proxies etc
Should the state be able to set an age rating certificate on a movie? what about a video game? They do at the moment But it would be an international body that decided what should be in the adult portion of the web dont forget that the internet isnt (/shouldnt be) owned by america;)
Maybe with ipv6 we can be a little smarter and dole out adult ips to 6969:6969:6969 or sommat.
Thats not such a stupid idea...
With the current internet address system, anyone can have any ip
Would it be SO bad if there was a bill passed that anyone serving adult material had to have their IP's in a certain range?
There are obvious reasons why restrictions shouldnt be placed on the dns'ed addresses, but could they be enforced by whoever-it-is-who-hands-out-ip's? "You can have this IP as long as you dont display sexually explicit images/movies as defined by section 3(c)"?
It would mean that making the net safe for kids would be as simple as blocking that netblock Anyone displaying material which is deemed inappropriate and NOT within the IP range could have their IP address revoked...
I'm very much against internet censorship by the government, but can anyone think of a good reason why IP groups such as that would be a bad idea?
As much as we might not like it, the politicians feel that the DMCA does have a place in todays society - attempting to get the whole DMCA thrown out is likely to be less successful than promoting some key changes to help protect our rights
Remove the most controversial aspects of the DMCA and joe consumer gets most of his rights back... not all, but most Fight the whole of the DMCA and the odds of success are greatly reduced
Having said that, I'm not suggesting that we accept the DMCA - just that something is a hell of a lot better than nothing
but I noticed that with the last longhorn story (the one about the pictures) no one seemed to have the longhorn client video, so I'm posting it now as a sort of follow up type thing... get it here
If anyone can make a mirror with cheaper bandwidth, I'd appreciate it - my wallet is starting to regret posting the URL already!
thats a zip file with a password on - not an encrypted archive...
check the latest version - I dont know which version it was introduced in though;)
Is this really going to make an impact?...
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I have to ask, how much of an impact is this new development going to make?
Encryption with.zip files is already possible - look at powerarchiver as a simple example... Sure, its not standard, but you can do it very easily within a windows environment already - and a *nix version would be even easier to implement
Since applications which take a file and encrypt it are readily available, I have to question whether combining the two things into one is going to help much...
I feel that proper encryption of zip files will follow a very similar path to that of tar and gzip - if atall
Slashdot Mirror
Funny story...
I recently had to reinstall Windows XP SP2 for my sister. Once XP was installed, I had the biggest problem I've ever had installing software - the USB cable modem was not recognised.
When the cable guy installed it, he (apparently) didn't leave them with any drivers, so we were utterly screwed and couldn't download any of the updates / other drivers.
Thankfully I had knoppix (v3.2 - so not overly new), and it automatically recognised everything including the USB Cable modem. Downloaded the drivers from the website, and we were off again.
So for me, Linux certainly did autodetect and support vital bits of hardware which Windows XP SP2 did not.
I think their BOTH the Cowboy Neil option...
The number one reason I don't use windows is because its not open source.
I'm a programmer and I have many times hacked things about - not in the kernel, or even the desktop manager I use - but applications on it.
And the whole philosophy of open source makes me wanna use Linux (or another os OS)
I use SSH every day; from work I ssh into my home machine so I can read my emails, use icq, and all sorts of other things - I seem to recall something similar is possible with windows console services or something; but the range of apps just isn't there for the console
Finally - and its just an example - Xine. There are a number of apps which are just top notch on linux - and the support of those apps is astounding. I had a very rare bug in playing a particular dvd through xine, and one of the developers took a lot of time to go through it with me to find the problem and the fix.
Yes, I know that there are some projects which can claim similar for windows programs, and perhaps its not a real reason to stay on linux - but its certainly a psychological reason.
I left windows 2 years ago, and after a while of booting into it for games, I haven't looked back
At least Microsoft was nice enough to credit LSD in the tech note.
Is that what they were taking when they wrote the code?
They don't have to release the source of the modified GCC, but they do have to release the binary.
i really dont think they do; read your GPL, if you release binary code, you have to supply a means of getting the source code. but to hit your argument at the base... the fact is, they don't even need to provide binaries for the modified gcc. it is being used "in house" and there is therefore no need to redistribute the changes. (remember, gcc is not provided to the end user in the router firmware)
Hang on... Does this mean that somebody can modify their compiler to take the source code and interpret it and compile different source code into the binary?
i.e. using their in-house compiler, produce a binary which no one else can produce from the source they have distributed?
From what I understand, this seems to be claimed to be GPL complient, but could be abused to go against the GPL's spirit...
There's no reason for you to be touching shared memory in a language like PHP.
I think there is...
I run a site which attracted up to 30 hits a minute at its peak. This particular site did a lot of calculations - it was performing a simulation for an online game.
Without shared memory, each calculation was taking several seconds...
Obviously with several seconds per simulation and one simualtion every 2 seconds (all roughly) the site died horribly...
using shared memory with some useful precalculated matricies was the only method I found (short of throwing more hardware at it) that was able to keep up with the demand...
it actually reducing the time per simulation to about 0.2 seconds
so I'd say that shared memory does have its uses
No cache!
The NSA must have removed it!
Rather, the company thinks, a single program should handle it all ...master of none
But seriously, isnt that what joe consumer wants? Something which IS jack of all trades but master of none
Word and excel are both more complicated than joe consumer wants - so what their trying to do is ressurect MS works and shove outlook and MSN messenger in there aswell?
That seems to me like it would really appeal to the OEMS, so thats what joe's gonna get...
what about leaked videos?
;)
I'll say it again that this server is unlikely to cope with many requests - so if anyone can provide a mirror, feel free
Minesweeper WON'T stop coming up!
Perfect!!!!
I now have an excuse that I can use when my boss finds me playing it!
Why are these things posted here? Is it because of the many /. users that use windows :-), or is it because we're always trying to make windows look bad?
I guess the same reason that...
Security Vulnerabilities in KDE 2.1-3.0.4, 3.1 RC3
Trojan Found in libpcap and tcpdump
Bind 4 and 8 Vulnerabilities
and
Vulnerability In Linksys Cable/DSL Router
were posted?
i.e. this particular article would have been posted were it about windows, redhat, solaris or pretty much any other "widly used" system
my company refuses to upgrade from ie 4!!!
While I can understand that capping is something that might very well be needed, I think that the broadband companies are going about it the wrong way...
What I personally would like to see (well, preferably no capping, but I cant see that continuing) is a daily limit - say 500mb-1gb, after which the connection slows down to modem / just over modem speeds, with up to 3 days (for example) which can be carried forward to the next
The main problems are caused by so many people running kazaa/etc and leaving it on - they should be the ones who are restricted, not a blanket restriction like 5gb a month which could easily be exceeded by "normal usage" (I am confident I have used more than 5gb in any one month without running p2p applications)
However, having said all of that, I expect that even though some companies will introduce capping, it will follow (atleast in the UK) the same trend as phone access...
Some phone access is capped, but there are always the "unlimited" plans still available (and some companies actually do keep to the unlimited promise!)
Of your many rolls, which was or which were some of the most fun or most satisfying?
My guess is that he'll answer a fresh bacon roll with ketchup
Just one more comment for now...
If an individual parent disagrees, let her opt-in to a private program.
It would be opt in of course
I personally would oppose any government attempts to for ISP's to block the whole IP range or anything - but individual parents could choose whether to block it themselves (or click on the "kid safe" button in mozilla 3.2 and above)
I know replying to my own post is bad, but I wanted to respond to several people in one post...
;)
The idea has nothing to do with the US government - not really
I cant remember who assigns IP addresses, but its got everything to do with them
THEY have complete control over who gets IP's and who doesnt...
if they included a restriction that ip's outside a certain range cannot be used for adult material, then it doesnt matter what country their from.
The organisation who assigns the addresses can and should be country independant - since they control a global resource
What about shared (virtual) account hosts?
Obviously, they could have multiple IP addresses and police what gets served on which IP
That is if they wanted to ensure that all of their customers could use all of their kid-safe sites without the blocking
It would be up to the owner of the address(es) to ensure that they comply with the restrictions - if they didnt, then their IP address could be removed
I'm sure that given that choice any web hoster would enforce their own rules about what can be served through which IP
More and more individual hosts will have their own IP because there are so many
If this company has a machine that is hosting 10% adult material and 90% kid safe material, should they be delegated into the adult-only zone
Its the IP address and not the machine that matters
If they wanted their kid safe material to be accessible, they would have to use a non-adult IP for that material, not a problem with modern web servers atall
While that does seem like a good idea, it could get a bit tricky when it comes to multiple sites on a single machine. Also, it might lead to a rise of adult sites putting their material on one of their adult-IP'd boxes, then creating a page that links to images on that box, and putting that page on a non-adult box. The end result would be that they've escaped the "adult IP" blacklist. In the event they're nailed on it, they might conceivably argue that they are hosting no non-adult material on the non-adult server - just linking to it. That could bring about a big whole mess over the legality of links and such. Not pretty.
Thats not a problem
as long as joe consumer can CHOOSE to completely block the whole adult IP range, and all of the adult material is hosted in that range, there isnt a problem atall
Do children need to be protected from danger on the internet? Yes -- from predation. Not from information. If an individual parent disagrees, let her opt-in to a private program. Don't homogenize the perception of what's appropriate viewing for children by enacting state-endorsed legislation.
I'm not saying that it would be the be-all and end-all
If kids wanted to see the adult pages, they could always use proxies etc
Should the state be able to set an age rating certificate on a movie?
what about a video game?
They do at the moment
But it would be an international body that decided what should be in the adult portion of the web
dont forget that the internet isnt (/shouldnt be) owned by america
Maybe with ipv6 we can be a little smarter and dole out adult ips to 6969:6969:6969 or sommat.
Thats not such a stupid idea...
With the current internet address system, anyone can have any ip
Would it be SO bad if there was a bill passed that anyone serving adult material had to have their IP's in a certain range?
There are obvious reasons why restrictions shouldnt be placed on the dns'ed addresses, but could they be enforced by whoever-it-is-who-hands-out-ip's?
"You can have this IP as long as you dont display sexually explicit images/movies as defined by section 3(c)"?
It would mean that making the net safe for kids would be as simple as blocking that netblock
Anyone displaying material which is deemed inappropriate and NOT within the IP range could have their IP address revoked...
I'm very much against internet censorship by the government, but can anyone think of a good reason why IP groups such as that would be a bad idea?
This DVD will self destruct in 10 seconds
Your mission, should you choose to accept it is to assasinate general kERROR READING DRIVE E. (A)bort (R)etry (I)gnore
apparently its here...
whoops
I mean, its not as if the sun isnt big enough to take a photo with that resolution..
:P
I just happen to think that some of those images would make really nice wallpaper
This is not promoting the opposite...
As much as we might not like it, the politicians feel that the DMCA does have a place in todays society - attempting to get the whole DMCA thrown out is likely to be less successful than promoting some key changes to help protect our rights
Remove the most controversial aspects of the DMCA and joe consumer gets most of his rights back... not all, but most
Fight the whole of the DMCA and the odds of success are greatly reduced
Having said that, I'm not suggesting that we accept the DMCA - just that something is a hell of a lot better than nothing
but I noticed that with the last longhorn story (the one about the pictures) no one seemed to have the longhorn client video, so I'm posting it now as a sort of follow up type thing... get it here
If anyone can make a mirror with cheaper bandwidth, I'd appreciate it - my wallet is starting to regret posting the URL already!
Nope...
;)
thats a zip file with a password on - not an encrypted archive...
check the latest version - I dont know which version it was introduced in though
I have to ask, how much of an impact is this new development going to make?
.zip files is already possible - look at powerarchiver as a simple example...
Encryption with
Sure, its not standard, but you can do it very easily within a windows environment already - and a *nix version would be even easier to implement
Since applications which take a file and encrypt it are readily available, I have to question whether combining the two things into one is going to help much...
I feel that proper encryption of zip files will follow a very similar path to that of tar and gzip - if atall
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