This is not the first time that Javascript-related vulnerabilities caused trouble for a lot of people and it will not be the last time. Therefore people with common sense would like to simply turn off Javascript in the browser setting so that for example bank account information (cookies etc.) cannot be revealed to malicious web sites. But, without Javascript enabled most bank web sites cannot be accessed. By law everybody who likes to operate a car has to pass a driver's test. Why is not require at least common sense to operate a bank web site?
HP is doing the same 32-bit nonsense with VMS. Instead of adapting everything for pure 64-bit code, they still waste their and our time with 32-bit vs. 64-bit compatibility. We have the same problem of backward compatibility on the Alpha (for many The 64-bit processor). Dealing with a mixed address space is a software developer's nightmare.
OpenVMS/Itanium - two excellent products, very closely connected, and both pushed together into the niche market in absolute silence. The same happened to OpenVMS/Alpha. What a waste!
I think removal of the x86-emulation from the Itanium CPU was overdue. It should have never made it into the chip. Every serious software developer would have re-compiled their code on the new chip anyway. What I wish to see next is a dramatic reduction of the power consumption and return to the original promise by Intel to make the Itanium a replacement of the aging x86 architecture, not only for expensive servers, but also for desktop and notebook PCs. The x86 is smashhit because it is available for so many different applications. The Itanium however was pushed into a niche.
It took our computer center a month to evaluate SP1. For SP2 it took them almost three months to figure out what might possibly go wrong if they deploy on all local Windows XP PCs. They face complains from hundreds of users if things go south. SP3 is going to be a nightmare for them. But, all those Windows bugs also keep them employed.
Cool! The iPronto (Philips TSI6400) plus one obligatory Network Extender (Philips NTX6400) cost only $1400. Just what the Godzilla of PVRs needs. Thanks!
Nice to see some progress in the Linux arena. But neither the quoted article nor the OpenVZ web site list too many alternative solutions. Here is one from another world (non-unix): OpenVMSGalaxy by Digital (now HP). Galaxy is part of OpenVMS, since more than half a decade.
I have seen similar experiments like the reported one in Great Britain. In the US (university) students are pushed through labs where they are suppose to learn things like physics. Those labs come with special computer programs to train the students. Before the lab begins, the students have to complete an online test. Then they conduct a few simple experiments. In the final last step they are suppose to use the computer and compare their experimental results with theoretical calculations. For example, they take a little vehicle on a ramp and measure the distance as a function of time. Then they are suppose to fit the data. The computer programs offer various functions with generic variable names. The students try them all and sometimes find the right formula. So, they pass. But, most students give the wrong answer when asked which variable in the formula represents the acceleration. They learn nothing. They quit without any idea about physics, units, and never have to do an error calculation. At some universities things went really bad: TA's are told be the professor that the students by definition do not give a "wrong" answer. Instead, students should simply discuss their results and it does not matter what their results are. I have seen it. The students are becoming the lab rats of instructors who want to find the perfect teaching method. Somehow I am wondering how the students pass the test before the lab, and what they do later in their life. What I do know is that not every faculty member is happy with the situation. But, these are new "learning techniques", funded with a lot of money. Everybody better shut up, as long as the money flows.
Alternative fuels might be good for many reasons. But why not also change the engine at the same time? Turbine engines are used in trucks since a long time http://turbinetruckengines.com/index2.html and even Chrysler invested into turbine engines for cars http://www.allpar.com/mopar/turbine-photos.html . Turbine engines have many advantages. Combined with an electric motor-generator concept, like in the Toyota Prius (w/ old piston engine, sigh), things become really interesting. Adding fuel alternative is easy with turbine engines.
So, Sony managers get away with unauthorized sabotage of an countless computers, while a kid is being charged with a felony for bringing down a school computer system? Talk about justice.
Why limit this idea to the transfer of music? Why not distribute any information through a chain of WiFi devices and build a whole network? With so many devices already existing it should be possible to build subnets, and hook them up to the Internet. Who cares about 2 cent music articles, other than organizations like the RIAA who see their distribution monopoly threaten? I find the idea of a network independent of any service provider much more attractive.
There is one (1) operating system with only one (1) local vulnerability (in older releases) and only one (1) denial of service (all releases): VMS. Certainly outstanding! But, I bet the media will not notice.
Actually, yvesdandoy used the right units (SI), he just got the wrong number from a table with the wrong units.;-) Let's face it: only 5% of the population on Earth still has a problem with the metric system. It seems ignorance cannot be cured.
The article posted here at/. refers to "mph". I see too often that students use such nonsense. Of course, they have no concept for units. If someone had told them at school to write "km/h" instead, then the students may realize one day that this means distance divided by time. They would prefer a system where each physical quantity requires only one (1) unit or a product of other units (one unit for time, only one for distance, one for mass etc.). They would know that G, M, k, m, etc. are only factors with a radix of 10. They would find that formulas and units used in formulas have to match on both sides of an equation. They would be able to verify this relationship for every equation and benefit from this simple test. Students would appreciate the concept of having the same radix for units and our number system (only 10 - not 6, 12, 14 and 16 combined). I see too often kids leaving high school with absolutely no concept for units. No offense, but something goes very wrong. It is not just in Kansas.
I am sure the next/. "mph" article will show up shortly.
BTW the cross section of neutrinos interacting with hadrons and leptons is so small that most neutrinos penetrate earth without interaction. Our probes are just not made out of neutrinos.
So, everybody was searching for the answer, and we got Java. Now, to find out what the problem was, we need larger, faster computers to run Ruby? 42, that's it!
... and from the chaos a voice spoke to me: "Smile and be happy, it could be worse !" ... and I smiled and was happy, and it got worse...
It's even worse than that, because this new release ONLY supports Linux and Solaris. ... while companies like IBM (AIX) and HP (TRU64/HPUX and VMS) are funding this project.
Because it was adapted to be Unix-compatible! Remember, MSDOS used the / for command line options. Now, that would produce a mess with the current scheme, wouldn't it? Later, Microsoft added an option to MSDOS to replace the / with another character. Nothing changed with Windows.
And X11 runs on VMS, too. But this comes at a price, namely that all alternative operating systems have to be adapted to be Unix-compatible with the current imake scheme. And that is hardly a platform-independent solution.
This discussion is about how the source code of the X Window Software is organized and being compiled. With Windows and OS/2 you have exactly the same issues. Windows for example uses a backslash "\" as separator between directory names and file names. Windows also uses device names (all the same for OS/2). Now, try to use a backslash in the current scheme. The only reason why we can build the X.Org software on Windows, OS/2 and (!) VMS is because these operating systems were adapted to be Unix compatible, not because the current X Window Software imake scheme is platform-independent.
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This is not the first time that Javascript-related vulnerabilities caused trouble for a lot of people and it will not be the last time. Therefore people with common sense would like to simply turn off Javascript in the browser setting so that for example bank account information (cookies etc.) cannot be revealed to malicious web sites. But, without Javascript enabled most bank web sites cannot be accessed. By law everybody who likes to operate a car has to pass a driver's test. Why is not require at least common sense to operate a bank web site?
Back in the old days we hired Bynars only as a pair (1+0), but nowadays we also hire detached Zeros.
HP is doing the same 32-bit nonsense with VMS. Instead of adapting everything for pure 64-bit code, they still waste their and our time with 32-bit vs. 64-bit compatibility. We have the same problem of backward compatibility on the Alpha (for many The 64-bit processor). Dealing with a mixed address space is a software developer's nightmare.
OpenVMS/Itanium - two excellent products, very closely connected, and both pushed together into the niche market in absolute silence. The same happened to OpenVMS/Alpha. What a waste!
I think removal of the x86-emulation from the Itanium CPU was overdue. It should have never made it into the chip. Every serious software developer would have re-compiled their code on the new chip anyway. What I wish to see next is a dramatic reduction of the power consumption and return to the original promise by Intel to make the Itanium a replacement of the aging x86 architecture, not only for expensive servers, but also for desktop and notebook PCs. The x86 is smashhit because it is available for so many different applications. The Itanium however was pushed into a niche.
It took our computer center a month to evaluate SP1. For SP2 it took them almost three months to figure out what might possibly go wrong if they deploy on all local Windows XP PCs. They face complains from hundreds of users if things go south. SP3 is going to be a nightmare for them. But, all those Windows bugs also keep them employed.
Cool! The iPronto (Philips TSI6400) plus one obligatory Network Extender (Philips NTX6400) cost only $1400. Just what the Godzilla of PVRs needs. Thanks!
I would add a decent remote control, like the Logitech Harmony 890 for about $400 (that's right!), merely 10% of the total cost. ;-)
Nice to see some progress in the Linux arena. But neither the quoted article nor the OpenVZ web site list too many alternative solutions. Here is one from another world (non-unix): OpenVMS Galaxy by Digital (now HP). Galaxy is part of OpenVMS, since more than half a decade.
o .html (an early online documentation, hosted by on a non-Digital/HP system)
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http://h71000.www7.hp.com/wizard/wiz_3191.html (check the date - 1999!)
http://www.s-and-b.ru/syshlp/vms_html/6512/6512pr
http://h71000.www7.hp.com/availability/index.html (Lots of information about High Availability/Disaster Tolerance)
"All the world's a stage" or was it "All the galaxy's a stage?"
http://scifi.about.com/library/weekly/aa022800b.h
I have seen similar experiments like the reported one in Great Britain. In the US (university) students are pushed through labs where they are suppose to learn things like physics. Those labs come with special computer programs to train the students. Before the lab begins, the students have to complete an online test. Then they conduct a few simple experiments. In the final last step they are suppose to use the computer and compare their experimental results with theoretical calculations. For example, they take a little vehicle on a ramp and measure the distance as a function of time. Then they are suppose to fit the data. The computer programs offer various functions with generic variable names. The students try them all and sometimes find the right formula. So, they pass. But, most students give the wrong answer when asked which variable in the formula represents the acceleration. They learn nothing. They quit without any idea about physics, units, and never have to do an error calculation. At some universities things went really bad: TA's are told be the professor that the students by definition do not give a "wrong" answer. Instead, students should simply discuss their results and it does not matter what their results are. I have seen it. The students are becoming the lab rats of instructors who want to find the perfect teaching method. Somehow I am wondering how the students pass the test before the lab, and what they do later in their life. What I do know is that not every faculty member is happy with the situation. But, these are new "learning techniques", funded with a lot of money. Everybody better shut up, as long as the money flows.
Alternative fuels might be good for many reasons. But why not also change the engine at the same time? Turbine engines are used in trucks since a long time http://turbinetruckengines.com/index2.html and even Chrysler invested into turbine engines for cars http://www.allpar.com/mopar/turbine-photos.html . Turbine engines have many advantages. Combined with an electric motor-generator concept, like in the Toyota Prius (w/ old piston engine, sigh), things become really interesting. Adding fuel alternative is easy with turbine engines.
So, Sony managers get away with unauthorized sabotage of an countless computers, while a kid is being charged with a felony for bringing down a school computer system? Talk about justice.
Why limit this idea to the transfer of music? Why not distribute any information through a chain of WiFi devices and build a whole network? With so many devices already existing it should be possible to build subnets, and hook them up to the Internet. Who cares about 2 cent music articles, other than organizations like the RIAA who see their distribution monopoly threaten? I find the idea of a network independent of any service provider much more attractive.
Did the judge append a non-functioning "sign off" option?
There is one (1) operating system with only one (1) local vulnerability (in older releases) and only one (1) denial of service (all releases): VMS . Certainly outstanding! But, I bet the media will not notice.
Actually, yvesdandoy used the right units (SI), he just got the wrong number from a table with the wrong units. ;-) Let's face it: only 5% of the population on Earth still has a problem with the metric system. It seems ignorance cannot be cured.
/. refers to "mph". I see too often that students use such nonsense. Of course, they have no concept for units. If someone had told them at school to write "km/h" instead, then the students may realize one day that this means distance divided by time. They would prefer a system where each physical quantity requires only one (1) unit or a product of other units (one unit for time, only one for distance, one for mass etc.). They would know that G, M, k, m, etc. are only factors with a radix of 10. They would find that formulas and units used in formulas have to match on both sides of an equation. They would be able to verify this relationship for every equation and benefit from this simple test. Students would appreciate the concept of having the same radix for units and our number system (only 10 - not 6, 12, 14 and 16 combined). I see too often kids leaving high school with absolutely no concept for units. No offense, but something goes very wrong. It is not just in Kansas.
/. "mph" article will show up shortly.
The article posted here at
I am sure the next
http://www.metric4us.com/
BTW the cross section of neutrinos interacting with hadrons and leptons is so small that most neutrinos penetrate earth without interaction. Our probes are just not made out of neutrinos.
Dvorak wrote: Curiously, Opera is already designed to appear to Web sites as Internet Explorer.
:-)
The same was true for NCSA Mosaic. And Mosaic became - you guessed it - the Microsoft Internet Explorer.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Explorer
So, everybody was searching for the answer, and we got Java. Now, to find out what the problem was, we need larger, faster computers to run Ruby?
... and from the chaos a voice spoke to me:
... and I smiled and was happy, and it got worse ...
42, that's it!
"Smile and be happy, it could be worse !"
It's even worse than that, because this new release ONLY supports Linux and Solaris.
... while companies like IBM (AIX) and HP (TRU64/HPUX and VMS) are funding this project.
Maybe you should read the whole paragraph before you throw in your guana.
Because it was adapted to be Unix-compatible! Remember, MSDOS used the / for command line options. Now, that would produce a mess with the current scheme, wouldn't it? Later, Microsoft added an option to MSDOS to replace the / with another character. Nothing changed with Windows.
What makes you think that I am writing about the X11 protocol?
And X11 runs on VMS, too. But this comes at a price, namely that all alternative operating systems have to be adapted to be Unix-compatible with the current imake scheme. And that is hardly a platform-independent solution.
This discussion is about how the source code of the X Window Software is organized and being compiled. With Windows and OS/2 you have exactly the same issues. Windows for example uses a backslash "\" as separator between directory names and file names. Windows also uses device names (all the same for OS/2). Now, try to use a backslash in the current scheme. The only reason why we can build the X.Org software on Windows, OS/2 and (!) VMS is because these operating systems were adapted to be Unix compatible, not because the current X Window Software imake scheme is platform-independent.
X.org could learn a lot from NetBSD. The NetBSD makefiles are small and contain typically just the names of the source files and targets.