"middle-click the folder and Nautilus will open it in the same window"
Actually, it doesn't. It opens it same as normal, then closes the parent window. The difference is that unless you're very careful the windows will be in different locations and different sizes. Both are really annoying when you're trying to get to a directory that is pretty deep quickly.
Also, most people's middle "button" is my mouse wheel, and double clicking that makes little sense and can actually be somewhat difficult.
I was trying to make fun of the acronyms in the headline, but this guy did it both before me and better than me. Oh, and I don't really care about Karma anyway, so mod me whatever you feel like...
I think VOIP is in fact DOA. I would prefer using AIM or MSN over a POTS network with a VPN to make the FTP and SSH connections to the LAN at the HQ more secure.
Again, Andrew Wiles got the Fermat Last Theorem proof wrong when he first came out with it; it took a good year at least, and maybe more, to patch.
Of course we shouldn't instantly think that it's solved and other people who are working on it shouldn't drop what they have, but it also probably shouldn't be dismissed any quicker than if someone else had released it who didn't have the history.
It drastically decreases the chance that it'll be written though. If you don't zero the data, the critical data could be written to disk any time from when it was put in memory to begin with until the next time it is written, which is concieveably never (in which case it has until the end of the program).
On the other hand, if you have
string str = "PASSWORD" do the hokey pokey str = "\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0";
The swapping would have to take place in that code region. From a purely statistical point, the chance of a page fault even occuring in that time is less than if you don't overwrite the data, and the chance is decreased even further by the OS hopefully being smart and seeing that the program is still using that page and picking another to swap out.
Of course, the more the program jumps around and the larger the space from entering memory and being zeroed the smaller the gap becomes.
"Things like Janet Jackson at the super bowl don't make me feel sorry for the guilty parties at all. National tv with children watching and people feel the need to 'push the envenlope'.
If you don't like it, don't watch it. You don't have to put a gun to anybody's head over a matter of taste."
In general, I fully agree with you. However, I do think that the option should be there to not watch it and that such "events" should not come up unexpectedly, as in the case of the Superbowl.
Uh, can you provide a source for this? I'm more inclined to believe NASA than a random post on/., no offense...
According to this, CDs and Floppy disks both make safe filters. Optically crummy filters, yeah. But safe. Maybe because the document is specifically taylored to eclipses where the amount of sunlight is less?
That's why it doesn't crush the state of New Mexico when it lands.
Bonus points to people who catch the reference, and even bigger bonus points to any who can tell me exactly what book it was in, because I have no clue.;-)
From the article on safe viewing: "More recently, solar observers have used floppy disks and compact disks (both CDs and CD-ROMs) as protective filters by covering the central openings and looking through the disk media."
My Dear Watson, I have discovered another use for AOL CDs! Grab the one from under that cup over there; we're going to watch Venus!
I agree... I don't think I would want to see ANY key go, and that includes the Windows key. Oh wait... there's one: the menu key. I forgot about it because I don't think I've ever seen a good use for it. I would get rid of Pause/Break before Caps, but only because I haven't done any programming in a while. Right alt key. Then probably F11 and F12. Only then caps.
Menu button? Uh... I think I pressed it a couple times to see what it did.
But the Windows key is very useful... my current keyboard doesn't have one, and I miss it. Win+E opens explorer, Win+M (or D) shows desktop, Win+F opens search (though I'll usually do Win+E, go to folder, then hit F3), and apparently Win+L locks computer (I didn't know that one until I read this discussion, but it'll be handy to know when I get a new keyboard).
"Actually, the correct key sequence would be windows key + D, since that's the toggle in windows, but map what you like."
Both work actually... M is for minimize, D is for desktop. M is a holdover from Windows 95 when the Win keys were first introduced, D was added because it corresponds to the "Show Desktop" button down in the quick launch area.
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"It's right above the delete key in place of the infrequently used insert key."
Oh my gosh... I'd kill someone for taking away my insert key... I'd rather have one of my shift keys go than that.
"Why the hell are we still shipping PCs with 12-year-old PS/2 technology?"
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"middle-click the folder and Nautilus will open it in the same window"
Actually, it doesn't. It opens it same as normal, then closes the parent window. The difference is that unless you're very careful the windows will be in different locations and different sizes. Both are really annoying when you're trying to get to a directory that is pretty deep quickly.
Also, most people's middle "button" is my mouse wheel, and double clicking that makes little sense and can actually be somewhat difficult.
Ah, I see... they're talking about Mono.
Yeah, I must have been hallucinating while using the C# debugger in Visual Studio or something...
OK, sorry, I wasn't sure
I was trying to make fun of the acronyms in the headline, but this guy did it both before me and better than me. Oh, and I don't really care about Karma anyway, so mod me whatever you feel like...
I think VOIP is in fact DOA. I would prefer using AIM or MSN over a POTS network with a VPN to make the FTP and SSH connections to the LAN at the HQ more secure.
If he had lived until he was 500 he might have been able to get it. :-p
Again, Andrew Wiles got the Fermat Last Theorem proof wrong when he first came out with it; it took a good year at least, and maybe more, to patch.
Of course we shouldn't instantly think that it's solved and other people who are working on it shouldn't drop what they have, but it also probably shouldn't be dismissed any quicker than if someone else had released it who didn't have the history.
And the first attempt of Andrew Wiles to prove Fermat's Last Theorem also failed, but he managed to patch it.
"If you're gonna brute force a ATM passcode then you get 2 or 3 passcode fails at most before they take your picture and it gets filed away."
Don't they eat your card too? Though I guess you could use one of the ones you just swipe...
On the other hand, if you haveThe swapping would have to take place in that code region. From a purely statistical point, the chance of a page fault even occuring in that time is less than if you don't overwrite the data, and the chance is decreased even further by the OS hopefully being smart and seeing that the program is still using that page and picking another to swap out.
Of course, the more the program jumps around and the larger the space from entering memory and being zeroed the smaller the gap becomes.
"Can someone objective sum up the issues and present them here, in colloquial English"
All your copyrights are belong to us.
"Things like Janet Jackson at the super bowl don't make me feel sorry for the guilty parties at all. National tv with children watching and people feel the need to 'push the envenlope'.
If you don't like it, don't watch it. You don't have to put a gun to anybody's head over a matter of taste."
In general, I fully agree with you. However, I do think that the option should be there to not watch it and that such "events" should not come up unexpectedly, as in the case of the Superbowl.
Uh, can you provide a source for this? I'm more inclined to believe NASA than a random post on /., no offense...
According to this, CDs and Floppy disks both make safe filters. Optically crummy filters, yeah. But safe. Maybe because the document is specifically taylored to eclipses where the amount of sunlight is less?
Hmm... 2004 transit picks up at sunrise for me, 2012 ends at sunset. At least I have both halves...
D'oh! Arizona, not New Mexico. Near Flagstaff.
I got too curious and looked up the reference myself... p. 155 of The Indispensable Calvin and Hobbes.
That's why it doesn't crush the state of New Mexico when it lands.
;-)
Bonus points to people who catch the reference, and even bigger bonus points to any who can tell me exactly what book it was in, because I have no clue.
From the article on safe viewing:
"More recently, solar observers have used floppy disks and compact disks (both CDs and CD-ROMs) as protective filters by covering the central openings and looking through the disk media."
My Dear Watson, I have discovered another use for AOL CDs! Grab the one from under that cup over there; we're going to watch Venus!
2000? 2003? XP if they really want it...
Another tidbit: Win+Shift+M will undo the action.
I wasn't aware of the other differences since I can't test what they do at the moment. Thanks for the detailed info!
And URLs? I often use ~ multiple times daily...
I agree... I don't think I would want to see ANY key go, and that includes the Windows key. Oh wait... there's one: the menu key. I forgot about it because I don't think I've ever seen a good use for it. I would get rid of Pause/Break before Caps, but only because I haven't done any programming in a while. Right alt key. Then probably F11 and F12. Only then caps.
Menu button? Uh... I think I pressed it a couple times to see what it did.
But the Windows key is very useful... my current keyboard doesn't have one, and I miss it. Win+E opens explorer, Win+M (or D) shows desktop, Win+F opens search (though I'll usually do Win+E, go to folder, then hit F3), and apparently Win+L locks computer (I didn't know that one until I read this discussion, but it'll be handy to know when I get a new keyboard).
"Actually, the correct key sequence would be windows key + D, since that's the toggle in windows, but map what you like."
Both work actually... M is for minimize, D is for desktop. M is a holdover from Windows 95 when the Win keys were first introduced, D was added because it corresponds to the "Show Desktop" button down in the quick launch area.
"It's right above the delete key in place of the infrequently used insert key."
Oh my gosh... I'd kill someone for taking away my insert key... I'd rather have one of my shift keys go than that.
"Why the hell are we still shipping PCs with 12-year-old PS/2 technology?"
Because it works just fine?