went down to the colo on friday night
it seems the network was down, I had to set things right
I had a little money to burn and no local friends
So I bought a blade server for each of my LANs
IBM had a plan, said we're gonna get rich
Put the double cross on a doublecrossing SCO bitch
Just a dirty little F-U-D but it's a sure-fire win
Cisco, when we shut them down we're gonna cut you in
Yeah, late and wired as I was, ya know I'd do it all again
Back when I bought a blade server for each of my lans
They were sharp enough to fit up to eighteen to a rack
Hard enough to make them impossible to crack
Faster than the bootup of a windows machine
Shaded blue enough to make the sky look green
Hardly. This is a very interesting and useful project, with rather deeper implications for virtual server operation. Rather than requiring a pile of specialized code to emulate a machine, you just give the other OS a little private corner of its own, allowing the host OS to give it resources whenever they're avaliable (and how nice it is about giving those resources is easy to manage). Presto, huge performance increase.
It'd be a slow day if we saw, say, another article about SCO, an article about Microsoft 'blocking spam', some nostalgic whining about lack of innovation in games, a few drab articles about nothing in particular...
(Linus says:) I don't think X is going away as it has a powerful infrastructure and throwing it away would be stupid. And its network transparency is good. It's likely that X will be the 2D interface to a lower-level graphics system that is based on OpenGL. The Linux desktop wants to have 3D as the base and X as the interface to 2D.
Um...Why do we want a 3D desktop? It seems to me that first of all, 3D is always going to be slower to manage and display than 2D; monitors (even the newer ones with the spiffy multi-layer technology) don't really handle 3D displays well. Yes, I want my 3D displays, such as they are, for gaming; I don't see any real need or use for it in a business desktop, though.
Feel free to correct me here, but I don't read text on a slanted pane very well...:)
The article says the counterfeit detection scheme was provided to them as a black-box piece of code. They didn't even develop it, and don't actually have any idea what it does or how it works! (Didn't a previous article include a fairly detailed explanation? Something about circles in the blue channel or something?
Their solution? Request approved images directly from the government.
This is probably a good idea economically for China, but it smacks a little of France's banning of the word "e-mail" to me for some reason.
Are there any royalty-free video standards out there? I'm not a video guy, so I don't pay much attention to that part of the world, but I know there are plenty of open/royalty-free audio codecs...
And don't forget the fact that this tunneling system could allow for cross-subnet play (such as on a college campus with multiple dorm rooms) where all the subnets and connections between them are sufficiently fast to provide no signifigant slowdown compared to a simpler single-switch sort of lan environment.
Or better yet, we could email them like mad to release their source code and protocols. The source code license doesn't even have to be GPLed - something more restrictive would be fine by me - so long as it's open and avaliable, and the protocols are known.
Hmm, I think you mean Vern Buerg's LIST, which was indeed a truly incredible fileviewing utility for DOS (and some other related OSes) and is avaliable here (with an alternate version and some configuration suggestions also avaliable here). An enterprising author, Charles Prineas, has written a marvelous utility named V which made me a wholehearted convert from LIST. In his words: For those old enough to remember, V is similar in functionality to LIST - the classic DOS program, with the exception that V is a true 32-bit GUI application. If you are still using LIST after all these years, perhaps you should give V a try.
ObOnTopic: It's very easy to scan in a book with the right equipment (namely, a decent saw - bandsaws work well - and an auto-duplex document feeder), and OCR software is very accurate these days. Even the unproofed versions of HP5 are quite good. I should know; I downloaded a copy because my Amazon order was late.:(
Imagine this situation: You have an algorithm which can, given a program as input, determine if that program will function properly. The way to break it is simple. Write a program that performs tasks as the pseudocode following dictates:
Specification: This program will terminate (i.e. finish executing).
Run my own code through the 'properly functions' algorithm Does it say I'll terminate? If so, loop forever and never terminate. Otherwise (it says I'll never terminate) terminate immediately.
It is impossible for the algorithm to return an answer which is correct for this program, and therefore the algorithm itself is flawed.
This is a slight variation of the 'halting' problem.:)
And interestingly enough, Oracle for (RedHat) Linux runs without a hitch in FreeBSD. Yay FreeBSD!
I'm about to order one of these boxes to play around with. I don't know if I'll be keeping Lycoris on it, but it'll be a fun couple of days...
Is for it to make toast. Of course, depending on the heat management, it may well make toast if you leave it on, put a piece of bread in, and fold up the keyboard.
Well, I can emulate a PDP-1, which was from 1960 - that's a nice 40-some years so far... Seems to me that emulation (especially for something as popular as the x86 architecture, when it finally fades from vogue) is going to be around for a long, long time.
Windows (yes, that's what I'm typing with right now) has three things that keep me there:
Photoshop and Painter - and yes, I use the GIMP too, but they're not the same.
FruityLoops - best damn drum machine I've ever seen.
Games - particularly MMORPGs. Windows does game graphics better. Now, there are a lot of games I play on *inx (I'm a FreeBSD man myself), but Anarchy Online isn't one of them.
That's all I've got to say. I don't like Microsoft as a company, but one or two of their products are pretty decent. Office isn't one of them, and I use VIM and CodeWarrior for development on Windows and Unix both.
Everyone keeps talking about ADCs as though they have to be complex. Let me give you a concrete, simple example of an ADC that this bill could (theoretically) ruin:
Light switches.
Yes, the humble light switch, which turns an analog signal (where, exactly, the switch is in its throw range) into a digital signal (in its most pure form - on, or off) would be required to check for copyrighted material that could, potentially, be accessed by the flipping of a light switch (say, for instance, a book), and not function if said material is present (that is, not turn on the light...)
Don't you know? Every product code number is illegal without a separate, physical license from microsoft. Every single one. It says so right on the box. *grin*
But seriously...they release critical updates that deactivate copies of XP already. In my case, Microsoft keeps trying to push an 'updated video card driver' on me that (a) crashes my machine and (b) when it doesn't crash my machine, causes graphics to be rendered at about 1/4 speed...
I always use Netcat or one of its variants (such as OpenBSD's obnc or cryptcat, say) to do that sort of thing, and a number of other little wierdnesses besides. Certainly it isn't as smart as telnet, but it does the jobs I need it to and more besides.
I've gotten some e-mail basically saying this would be useless because most users aren't savvy enough to know how to shift their usage around
For most users, there are four main things they do on the Internet:
Browse the web, read email, and other low bandwidth activities
Download music, game demos, patches, and other time-displaceable high-bandwidth activities
Play games, video-conference, and other medium-bandwidth but latency-dependant activities
Watch 'streaming content' and other stupid^H^H^H^H^H^Hhigh-bandwidth non-time-displaceable activities.
So, the only thing that really could be strongly impacted by an easy-and-straightforward method of shifting around your usage would be the second activity, and the average user has already proven their willingness to install random, suspicious software...Why don't the cable companies provide some high-quality, cross-platform (hah! like that'll happen) software that grants you uncapped (or more-uncapped) downloads of things you let the software schedule the downloads of for later?
...the firewall doesn't know anything about which DLL within the EXE is making the call.
Not true, actually. Programs such as ZoneAlarm (and , IIRC, BlackIce Defender) can check against unauthorized components as well as unauthorized programs. You just have to tell it to, at the moment, but that may change if the default behavior of programs gets more evil...
Real to the point that a person can get their health back by having sex with a prostitute.
Um - what? I can't quite parse that sentence. What meaning of "real" are you using?
Well, you can't get your health BACK without LOSING it to begin with, so you have sex with a prostitute to lose your health, and then you can get your health back.
Ok, ok, maybe it's a strech. IANAL, but AFAIK, legislating against minors viewing R-rated films, say, doesn't exist; that's voluntary on the part of the movie theatres. (So says a post elsewhere here, and that's what I've heard before. I haven't checked.) Wouldn't pressure on stores to implement this voluntarily be better than complete legal mandate?
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went down to the colo on friday night
it seems the network was down, I had to set things right
I had a little money to burn and no local friends
So I bought a blade server for each of my LANs
IBM had a plan, said we're gonna get rich
Put the double cross on a doublecrossing SCO bitch
Just a dirty little F-U-D but it's a sure-fire win
Cisco, when we shut them down we're gonna cut you in
Yeah, late and wired as I was, ya know I'd do it all again
Back when I bought a blade server for each of my lans
They were sharp enough to fit up to eighteen to a rack
Hard enough to make them impossible to crack
Faster than the bootup of a windows machine
Shaded blue enough to make the sky look green
I don't know. Webmail, one of the numerous non-vulnerable email clients for Windows, maybe give up email entirely?
Or just sco.com, but that's not nearly so funny.
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Hardly. This is a very interesting and useful project, with rather deeper implications for virtual server operation. Rather than requiring a pile of specialized code to emulate a machine, you just give the other OS a little private corner of its own, allowing the host OS to give it resources whenever they're avaliable (and how nice it is about giving those resources is easy to manage). Presto, huge performance increase.
It'd be a slow day if we saw, say, another article about SCO, an article about Microsoft 'blocking spam', some nostalgic whining about lack of innovation in games, a few drab articles about nothing in particular...
Kind of like yesterday.
Um...Why do we want a 3D desktop? It seems to me that first of all, 3D is always going to be slower to manage and display than 2D; monitors (even the newer ones with the spiffy multi-layer technology) don't really handle 3D displays well. Yes, I want my 3D displays, such as they are, for gaming; I don't see any real need or use for it in a business desktop, though.
Feel free to correct me here, but I don't read text on a slanted pane very well...:)
The article says the counterfeit detection scheme was provided to them as a black-box piece of code. They didn't even develop it, and don't actually have any idea what it does or how it works! (Didn't a previous article include a fairly detailed explanation? Something about circles in the blue channel or something? Their solution? Request approved images directly from the government.
This is probably a good idea economically for China, but it smacks a little of France's banning of the word "e-mail" to me for some reason. Are there any royalty-free video standards out there? I'm not a video guy, so I don't pay much attention to that part of the world, but I know there are plenty of open/royalty-free audio codecs...
And don't forget the fact that this tunneling system could allow for cross-subnet play (such as on a college campus with multiple dorm rooms) where all the subnets and connections between them are sufficiently fast to provide no signifigant slowdown compared to a simpler single-switch sort of lan environment.
Or better yet, we could email them like mad to release their source code and protocols. The source code license doesn't even have to be GPLed - something more restrictive would be fine by me - so long as it's open and avaliable, and the protocols are known.
ObOnTopic: It's very easy to scan in a book with the right equipment (namely, a decent saw - bandsaws work well - and an auto-duplex document feeder), and OCR software is very accurate these days. Even the unproofed versions of HP5 are quite good. I should know; I downloaded a copy because my Amazon order was late. :(
This is a slight variation of the 'halting' problem. :)
Seems sadly unlikely. But perhaps that's for the best; it gives them an unfettered development environment. :)
Mozilla with MultiZilla : Mozilla
(Read : as "is to" and :: as "as", if you're not familiar with that syntax.)
And interestingly enough, Oracle for (RedHat) Linux runs without a hitch in FreeBSD. Yay FreeBSD! I'm about to order one of these boxes to play around with. I don't know if I'll be keeping Lycoris on it, but it'll be a fun couple of days...
Is for it to make toast. Of course, depending on the heat management, it may well make toast if you leave it on, put a piece of bread in, and fold up the keyboard.
Well, I can emulate a PDP-1, which was from 1960 - that's a nice 40-some years so far... Seems to me that emulation (especially for something as popular as the x86 architecture, when it finally fades from vogue) is going to be around for a long, long time.
That's all I've got to say. I don't like Microsoft as a company, but one or two of their products are pretty decent. Office isn't one of them, and I use VIM and CodeWarrior for development on Windows and Unix both.
(The previous comment is, of course, satirical. I really just say "FreeBSD".)
Light switches.
Yes, the humble light switch, which turns an analog signal (where, exactly, the switch is in its throw range) into a digital signal (in its most pure form - on, or off) would be required to check for copyrighted material that could, potentially, be accessed by the flipping of a light switch (say, for instance, a book), and not function if said material is present (that is, not turn on the light...)
But seriously...they release critical updates that deactivate copies of XP already. In my case, Microsoft keeps trying to push an 'updated video card driver' on me that (a) crashes my machine and (b) when it doesn't crash my machine, causes graphics to be rendered at about 1/4 speed...
I always use Netcat or one of its variants (such as OpenBSD's obnc or cryptcat, say) to do that sort of thing, and a number of other little wierdnesses besides. Certainly it isn't as smart as telnet, but it does the jobs I need it to and more besides.
For most users, there are four main things they do on the Internet:
- Browse the web, read email, and other low bandwidth activities
- Download music, game demos, patches, and other time-displaceable high-bandwidth activities
- Play games, video-conference, and other medium-bandwidth but latency-dependant activities
- Watch 'streaming content' and other stupid^H^H^H^H^H^Hhigh-bandwidth non-time-displaceable activities.
So, the only thing that really could be strongly impacted by an easy-and-straightforward method of shifting around your usage would be the second activity, and the average user has already proven their willingness to install random, suspicious software...Why don't the cable companies provide some high-quality, cross-platform (hah! like that'll happen) software that grants you uncapped (or more-uncapped) downloads of things you let the software schedule the downloads of for later?Not true, actually. Programs such as ZoneAlarm (and , IIRC, BlackIce Defender) can check against unauthorized components as well as unauthorized programs. You just have to tell it to, at the moment, but that may change if the default behavior of programs gets more evil...
Um - what? I can't quite parse that sentence. What meaning of "real" are you using?
Well, you can't get your health BACK without LOSING it to begin with, so you have sex with a prostitute to lose your health, and then you can get your health back.
Ok, ok, maybe it's a strech. IANAL, but AFAIK, legislating against minors viewing R-rated films, say, doesn't exist; that's voluntary on the part of the movie theatres. (So says a post elsewhere here, and that's what I've heard before. I haven't checked.) Wouldn't pressure on stores to implement this voluntarily be better than complete legal mandate?