Except that the security in NTFS can be bypassed by placing to the drive in a Win98 machine and installing a copy of NTFS for 98 (it's a commercial NTFS driver for 98). You can then read any directory or file, whatever its permissions.
Well the original post was why do computers crash, not applications.
OSes crash due to bad drivers, a kernel mode program fails bringing the OS down. It shouldn't really be possible for an application to bring down the OS if the drivers are robust.
BTW, GCC does have an option to allow you to turn on some boundary checking.
Erm you do realise that the x86 has a hard time emulating a PPC processor?
Even though the P4 and Athlon beat the PPC in benchmarks, it doesn't mean you can simply emulate a RISC like processor at full speed. PPC can reverse its byte ordering in hardware, so it emulates X86 very nicely.
Allows power to be distributed where there's no mains sockets (saves on wiring), but also has the potential to damage hardware if a short in the cable occurs.
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Yup, so I have to suffer it when doing installs. But as soon as the system is going it's back to VI (or VIM to be precise).
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I don't use nano, vi is so much faster to use when you get used to it. Plus nano always makes me think of Mork and Mindy "nanooo nanooo":)
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I can't see how it makes it easier other than unpacking the code for you. But in the next release there will be some kind of script or tool to aid kernel configuration and installation.
I've read of problems people have with compiling kernels on the Gentoo forums, I used to hang out there helping people a little a while back. There does appear to be a lot of less experienced users giving it a try despite it being aimed at more experienced Linux users.
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Same here, I've tried all the popular distros and Gentoo seems to just work. The compiler setup is great and compiles most things better than other distros I've tried. Debian is the only other distro I can tolerate using, but that has some minor compiler setup quirks sometimes (mainly location of some includes, symlinks fix that).
The only downside with Gentoo is if you lose your system partition it takes ages to get the system going again.
Just wait 10-20 years for Matrix Episode 1 in Holo-vision, that really will suck. The annoying Jar Jar Binks style character will walk around in front of you.
Not to mention they need cable TV and a fast net connection to share MP3s, I'd love to see the RIAA send an anti-piracy taskforce into space. I wouldn't put it past them though:)
Too late IMHO, Symbian nearly have the market wrapped up now.
A Smartphone needs to be smart, it needs to actually work as business folks don't have the tolerance of geeks.
Yes, PocketPC devices did sell well eventually, but the competition was quite weak. It has taken Palm a long time to move to ARM processors and increase their screen resolution.
Smartphones however are a different market, Symbian OS is available as source so each phone maker can customise it, the apps don't need signing (was needed for the SPV to start with) and since there are many more licensees there are also many users and developers.
Heard on the news today that a criminal fitted with a tracking device shot his partner dead. These tracking devices don't stop crime, something else needs to be done.
How about a device that injects a mild sedative at regular intervals? if you feel sleepy you're unlikely to be able to plan or commit any major crime.
Linux is open source, there's not really a central company to sue. They can sue the person who inserted the code, but surely that person is likely to have worked at SCO if they got hold of the code. They'll end up sueing themselves or an ex employee.
Besides the code can be rewritten or removed fairly quickly, all that will happen in SCO will be less compatible with Linux. Considering SCO is pretty much a dead product (going by the opinions expressed here) it's suicide on their part.
A double spaced 500MB hard disk holds more than a non double spaced one, but it's still a 500MB disc.
Compressed audio sucks, no matter how good the compression system. We have the technology to provide 24-bit 96Khz (almost direct copy from the studio masters) audio to the masses yet nobody seems to care.
People could better spend their time thinking about features, coding etc.. than worrying about a name. It's not like the average "Gold CD" Windows user know what it is anyway.
(Gold CD meaning a install that has never been patched, bug fixed etc..)
Failure would be even more costly then, suicides etc..
What do they have against competition anyway? are they so scared they will actually have to listen to their customers and actually take notice of what others are doing? no more churn out what the heck we want.
By copying a CD for personal use and making no financial gain you're hardly committing a crime that is as serious as GBH, major fraud or using a firearm illegally. Yet it seems the RIAA and others seem to see it as a comparable crime, probably because their penthouse suite, swimming pool, Lexus and "happy-meal ass" lifestyle is under threat.
I do something like this already, when writing a script or simple program I enter the pseudo code into the file as comments and then work on a line at a time.Saves you forgetting anything.
I also tend to work at code from both ends (ie. start at the top of the function code and bottom). Then you don't forget to close things. I always create both curly braces when doing an conditional statement, no need to count them up later on. I'm sure other people have similar tricks.
CD was a music only disc yet we have CDROM, CDR CDRW.
I'm more interested in seeing a music disc since the computer format of choice should be DVD. Music discs don't need vast amounts of storage since no record label will release 20 albums on a disc.
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Except that the security in NTFS can be bypassed by placing to the drive in a Win98 machine and installing a copy of NTFS for 98 (it's a commercial NTFS driver for 98). You can then read any directory or file, whatever its permissions.
Well the original post was why do computers crash, not applications.
OSes crash due to bad drivers, a kernel mode program fails bringing the OS down. It shouldn't really be possible for an application to bring down the OS if the drivers are robust.
BTW, GCC does have an option to allow you to turn on some boundary checking.
Erm you do realise that the x86 has a hard time emulating a PPC processor?
Even though the P4 and Athlon beat the PPC in benchmarks, it doesn't mean you can simply emulate a RISC like processor at full speed. PPC can reverse its byte ordering in hardware, so it emulates X86 very nicely.
Some clever person should do a dual CPU box with x86 and PPC.
The only problem is the short lifespan of motherboards, real enthusiasts change their boards every 1-2 years.
Cache also reduces yield.
Allows power to be distributed where there's no mains sockets (saves on wiring), but also has the potential to damage hardware if a short in the cable occurs.
Yup, so I have to suffer it when doing installs. But as soon as the system is going it's back to VI (or VIM to be precise).
I don't use nano, vi is so much faster to use when you get used to it. Plus nano always makes me think of Mork and Mindy "nanooo nanooo" :)
I can't see how it makes it easier other than unpacking the code for you. But in the next release there will be some kind of script or tool to aid kernel configuration and installation.
I've read of problems people have with compiling kernels on the Gentoo forums, I used to hang out there helping people a little a while back. There does appear to be a lot of less experienced users giving it a try despite it being aimed at more experienced Linux users.
Same here, I've tried all the popular distros and Gentoo seems to just work. The compiler setup is great and compiles most things better than other distros I've tried. Debian is the only other distro I can tolerate using, but that has some minor compiler setup quirks sometimes (mainly location of some includes, symlinks fix that).
The only downside with Gentoo is if you lose your system partition it takes ages to get the system going again.
Just wait 10-20 years for Matrix Episode 1 in Holo-vision, that really will suck. The annoying Jar Jar Binks style character will walk around in front of you.
Not to mention they need cable TV and a fast net connection to share MP3s, I'd love to see the RIAA send an anti-piracy taskforce into space. I wouldn't put it past them though:)
Too late IMHO, Symbian nearly have the market wrapped up now.
A Smartphone needs to be smart, it needs to actually work as business folks don't have the tolerance of geeks.
Yes, PocketPC devices did sell well eventually, but the competition was quite weak. It has taken Palm a long time to move to ARM processors and increase their screen resolution.
Smartphones however are a different market, Symbian OS is available as source so each phone maker can customise it, the apps don't need signing (was needed for the SPV to start with) and since there are many more licensees there are also many users and developers.
Heard on the news today that a criminal fitted with a tracking device shot his partner dead. These tracking devices don't stop crime, something else needs to be done.
How about a device that injects a mild sedative at regular intervals? if you feel sleepy you're unlikely to be able to plan or commit any major crime.
Then spend a year surfing the web to test it :)
I thought Bluetooth had a very limited range? doesn't make sense to use Bluetooth unless there are many access points.
I'll patent the english language.
Linux is open source, there's not really a central company to sue. They can sue the person who inserted the code, but surely that person is likely to have worked at SCO if they got hold of the code. They'll end up sueing themselves or an ex employee.
Besides the code can be rewritten or removed fairly quickly, all that will happen in SCO will be less compatible with Linux. Considering SCO is pretty much a dead product (going by the opinions expressed here) it's suicide on their part.
A double spaced 500MB hard disk holds more than a non double spaced one, but it's still a 500MB disc.
Compressed audio sucks, no matter how good the compression system. We have the technology to provide 24-bit 96Khz (almost direct copy from the studio masters) audio to the masses yet nobody seems to care.
People could better spend their time thinking about features, coding etc.. than worrying about a name. It's not like the average "Gold CD" Windows user know what it is anyway.
(Gold CD meaning a install that has never been patched, bug fixed etc..)
Failure would be even more costly then, suicides etc..
What do they have against competition anyway? are they so scared they will actually have to listen to their customers and actually take notice of what others are doing? no more churn out what the heck we want.
By copying a CD for personal use and making no financial gain you're hardly committing a crime that is as serious as GBH, major fraud or using a firearm illegally. Yet it seems the RIAA and others seem to see it as a comparable crime, probably because their penthouse suite, swimming pool, Lexus and "happy-meal ass" lifestyle is under threat.
I do something like this already, when writing a script or simple program I enter the pseudo code into the file as comments and then work on a line at a time.Saves you forgetting anything.
I also tend to work at code from both ends (ie. start at the top of the function code and bottom). Then you don't forget to close things. I always create both curly braces when doing an conditional statement, no need to count them up later on. I'm sure other people have similar tricks.
CD was a music only disc yet we have CDROM, CDR CDRW.
I'm more interested in seeing a music disc since the computer format of choice should be DVD. Music discs don't need vast amounts of storage since no record label will release 20 albums on a disc.
Well I said high capacity disk. Minidisk is around 150MB.