A while, I think. The firewalls are needed to guard against engine fire, thanks to FAA rules, and can't be spared to stop crackers getting in and making every address resolve to goatse.cx!
No, we're talking about the GPLd Beowulf-clustered non-platform-dependant future of cloning!
Soon, with every boxed copy of SuSE you'll receive a voucher entitling you to own exactly 1 (one) clone, which does not have to be of yourself, SuSE's customers in the past have been favourites of, among other personalites, Natalie Portman, CowboyNeal and the Goatse Man!
I use Phoenix and the mouse gestures plugin; this means I end up using the "open in new tab", "change tab" and "close tab" mouse gestures almost exclusively.
However, there is also a "go back" gesture, quite possibly the simplest of them all, and do you want to know what site caused me to use this quick escape?
Goatse!
Now, that's one back button I don't want to EVER have to press!
There are two million people who'd know even where to start attacking this on the Earth?
I don't think there's even two million people on the planet who can program in C, let alone understand encryption... this all looks like hyperbole to me.
If you read the article is states that the encryption is equivalent to million-bit strength... in other words extremely fucking hard to break, unless you get very, very lucky, but it IS breakable.
Bear in mind that to a governemt, that sum is chickenfeed. As they are putting the equivalent of a rounding error upfront, I think it shows that they aren't overly confident of its succsess.
Whatever happens, you'll still get the email equivalent of the following:
*phone rings*
"Excuse me, sir, are you interested in..."
"I thought I was on a fucking do-not-call list!"
"Sorry sir, you are, it was an accident. Sorry sir."
Direct marketing is here to piss the hell out of us for a long time yet.
Boot-up speed. Turn PC on, wait for HDs to spin up, tap toes for three seconds, start doing things. SoundPlay. World's best mp3 player bar none. Shareware yes, but it really IS worth the money for once. Ease of use. I have never come across a network setup that was as easy as BeOS's. Enter hostname, enter domain name, check DHCP box, click apply, start the browser.
Didn't like:
Hardware compatability. If you can't get drivers (check the Hardware Matrix on here) for your hardware change your hardware or don't bother. Lack of apps. My needs are basic so it did all I needed it to, but not all I wanted it to.
Still kicks arse. And I still use it a couple of times a week. Give it a spin, see how you like it. If OpenBeOS gets the Open Source fanatics behind it it will rule.
... or anything, sometimes. Consider a big company's servers - these things are absolute monsters of the computer world, costing tens of thousands with all their hardware RAIDs, multiple processors, gigabytes of RAM, incredibly fat network connections (bonded gigabit ethernet's a favourite)... and double that for the back-up system.
Compared to that the OS cost is next to nothing, so they will use the best. They don't factor the cost into it, if the task at hand is best served by NetWare or Windows 2000 or OpenBSD or whatever they'll use that. The fact that people even consider using, let alone actually do, use open operating systems on these machines is testament to the strength of Open Source.
Look at the ultra-high end server market. That tells the true state of the OS game. And Microsoft are struggling.
I know. I'm scared too. The nation that has some of the most draconian computer crime laws - hell, the way legal system's acting we're lucky to have the concept of "fair trial" - hasn't done something against the informed public's wishes!
At this rate, Scotland are going to win the World Cup within a decade...
Might this not be due to the "memory effect" I know some rechargable batteries suffer from?
If it is then there is an easy cure.
1) Take dead, worthless battery.
2) Sign form saying you're doing this at your own risk.
3) Drop battery, flat, several feet onto a hard surface.
4) Watch as battery now works.
Apparently this causes the crystals that build up inside the battery and give rise to the memory effect to shatter, disappear and generally stop the evil memory effect in its tracks. Worked on my old NiCads, at least...
"Take a look at the best Linux gaming has to offer."
That'll be a stack of empty pizza boxes and a tower of coffee-stained mugs. I can see that in my room already, why'd I want to see someone else's mess?!
As it requires to be "over a computer network"... might I suggest people look back to their old old old X applications that might have used a "patent-infringing" concept? X being network transparent means that the program could tun on one computer and be viewed on a totally different computer.
X has been around since the late 70s (IIRC!) so it shouldn't be too hard to stuffle this case of patent madness...
The Graphics card that breaks the 10,000 product number will take up two PCI slots as well as the AGP one, need an IDE channel all to itself, and may or may not require you to sell your first born.
They probably wont go with the last one though. Who is going to have both children AND a next-gen graphics card?:-P
The compression ratio achieved therefore measures how many repeated fragments, words or phrases occur in the text.
Ah. I thought to detect really useless, annoying, pointless, bandwith-sapping and time-consuming email all you had to do was look for "fwd:" in the subject line.
Slashdot Mirror
Oh hush now. Last time I checked it was 2.4 at least, and rising steadily!
-Mark
A while, I think. The firewalls are needed to guard against engine fire, thanks to FAA rules, and can't be spared to stop crackers getting in and making every address resolve to goatse.cx!
-Mark
No, we're talking about the GPLd Beowulf-clustered non-platform-dependant future of cloning!
Soon, with every boxed copy of SuSE you'll receive a voucher entitling you to own exactly 1 (one) clone, which does not have to be of yourself, SuSE's customers in the past have been favourites of, among other personalites, Natalie Portman, CowboyNeal and the Goatse Man!
-Mark
Only in more, er, "rural" parts of the UK... which Scotland counts as!
Everyone, lock up your sheep, they've become sensitized to the sound of a fly unzipping so sales of velcro-fastened trousers have skyrocketed!
-Mark
I use Phoenix and the mouse gestures plugin; this means I end up using the "open in new tab", "change tab" and "close tab" mouse gestures almost exclusively.
However, there is also a "go back" gesture, quite possibly the simplest of them all, and do you want to know what site caused me to use this quick escape?
Goatse!
Now, that's one back button I don't want to EVER have to press!
-Mark
There are two million people who'd know even where to start attacking this on the Earth?
I don't think there's even two million people on the planet who can program in C, let alone understand encryption... this all looks like hyperbole to me.
If you read the article is states that the encryption is equivalent to million-bit strength... in other words extremely fucking hard to break, unless you get very, very lucky, but it IS breakable.
-Mark
Spam Spam Spam Spam
Where does it come from, Uncle Sam?
"Monty Python, don't you know,
When the madness was in full flow"
But what when the accursed stuff
Leads one to declare, "I've had enough!"?
"My son, spam's easy to fail,
When you stop using hotmail!"
-Mark
Just my $0.02...
-Mark
Whatever happens, you'll still get the email equivalent of the following:
*phone rings*
"Excuse me, sir, are you interested in..."
"I thought I was on a fucking do-not-call list!"
"Sorry sir, you are, it was an accident. Sorry sir."
Direct marketing is here to piss the hell out of us for a long time yet.
-Mark
-Mark
I really liked
Boot-up speed. Turn PC on, wait for HDs to spin up, tap toes for three seconds, start doing things.
SoundPlay. World's best mp3 player bar none. Shareware yes, but it really IS worth the money for once.
Ease of use. I have never come across a network setup that was as easy as BeOS's. Enter hostname, enter domain name, check DHCP box, click apply, start the browser.
Didn't like:
Hardware compatability. If you can't get drivers (check the Hardware Matrix on here) for your hardware change your hardware or don't bother.
Lack of apps. My needs are basic so it did all I needed it to, but not all I wanted it to.
Still kicks arse. And I still use it a couple of times a week. Give it a spin, see how you like it. If OpenBeOS gets the Open Source fanatics behind it it will rule.
-Mark
... or anything, sometimes. Consider a big company's servers - these things are absolute monsters of the computer world, costing tens of thousands with all their hardware RAIDs, multiple processors, gigabytes of RAM, incredibly fat network connections (bonded gigabit ethernet's a favourite)... and double that for the back-up system.
Compared to that the OS cost is next to nothing, so they will use the best. They don't factor the cost into it, if the task at hand is best served by NetWare or Windows 2000 or OpenBSD or whatever they'll use that. The fact that people even consider using, let alone actually do, use open operating systems on these machines is testament to the strength of Open Source.
Look at the ultra-high end server market. That tells the true state of the OS game. And Microsoft are struggling.
-Mark
You see Linux, I see *BSD!
-Mark
-Mark
Wasn't that what ISDN was meant to do?
-Mark
-Mark
I could never get the infinite lives cheat on Sonic 3 to work on the Sega MegaDrive.
My childhood... RUINED!
-Mark
I know. I'm scared too. The nation that has some of the most draconian computer crime laws - hell, the way legal system's acting we're lucky to have the concept of "fair trial" - hasn't done something against the informed public's wishes!
At this rate, Scotland are going to win the World Cup within a decade...
-Mark
Might this not be due to the "memory effect" I know some rechargable batteries suffer from?
If it is then there is an easy cure.
1) Take dead, worthless battery.
2) Sign form saying you're doing this at your own risk.
3) Drop battery, flat, several feet onto a hard surface.
4) Watch as battery now works.
Apparently this causes the crystals that build up inside the battery and give rise to the memory effect to shatter, disappear and generally stop the evil memory effect in its tracks. Worked on my old NiCads, at least...
-Mark
Who cares. I know which one I'd want... better than a Lottery win anyday!
-Mark
-Mark
As it requires to be "over a computer network"... might I suggest people look back to their old old old X applications that might have used a "patent-infringing" concept? X being network transparent means that the program could tun on one computer and be viewed on a totally different computer.
X has been around since the late 70s (IIRC!) so it shouldn't be too hard to stuffle this case of patent madness...
-Mark
-Mark
The Graphics card that breaks the 10,000 product number will take up two PCI slots as well as the AGP one, need an IDE channel all to itself, and may or may not require you to sell your first born.
:-P
They probably wont go with the last one though. Who is going to have both children AND a next-gen graphics card?
-Mark
-Mark