Ok, let me see if I understand you correctly. You cannot properly spell 'banana', and you think Bush is a moron? Mr. Bush is the first president to hold an MBA from any school, let alone from Harvard.
Bush's SAT scores were higher than Kerry's too. I bet both candidates are very aware of the DARPA Net derived Internet, Internet2 and many secret things that we will never even see. Neither John Kerry nor George Bush got where they are today without being both intelligent and politically savvy.
I read this story Saturday evening and the tubes that Iraq was shopping for were of a much greater tolerance than needed for their small artilery rockets.
After looking at this picture, I cannot doubt your hardcore hackerness at all. I have read your articles in DDJ dating back to 1989 or so and know you have great technical skillz...
But when I saw that pic with the taco bell large cup, pepsi can hiding a liquor bottle and mostly empty cup of Betty Crocker chocolate frosting, I had to admit that you are probably a true hacker of RMS proportions.
All joking aside, I have found your technical articles to be very useful; what things are you currently working on? I assume that this speed comparison between compilers has been research for another purpose.
What he means is that as (if?) BPL use increases and the inteference makes using radio equipment more difficult, then many HAMs will cease to maintain their equipment and will not be prepared for emergency communication.
Next Saturday (June 26) is Field Day. Hams all over the world will go to remote locations and setup their radios, raise antennas and run this equipment without power from the grid. Lots of people expend a lot of time, resources and energy to stay prepared for emergencies. When they can no longer enjoy this, they will stop.
Please keep in mind that Amateurs have primary use of much of the 2.4GHz spectrum.
Primary means priority use over secondary users. 2.4GHz is loosely regulated by the FCC and has become a problem for stable communications. I have seen some 2.4GHz phones that will kill wi-fi connections everytime the phone rings...
If they are ignoring the cache on the P4 EE, then why mention the Extreme Edition at all? Cache size is the only difference between the Xeon based EE and a regular Northwood P4. Also, modern GPU's certainly do have cache. Read this old GeForce4 preview.
The Light Speed Memory Architecture (LMA) that was present in the GeForce3 has been upgraded as well, with it's major advancements in what nVidia calls Quad Cache. Quad Cache includes a Vertex Cache, Primitive Cache, Texture Cache and Pixel Caches. With similar functions as caches on CPU's, these are specific, they store what exactly they say.
Another good article has a block diagram showing the cache structures of the GeForce FX GPU. Nvidia and ATI both keep quiet about the cache sizes on their GPUs, but that dosen't mean that the full transistor count is dedicated to the processing core.
It wasn't a tough climb just for the USA, but most of the countries in the world. To directly comment on your statement:
"America was saved by grafting socialist ideas such as unemployment benefit and government-sponsored jobs"
I have studied the events of the early 1900's and came to the conclusion that events like the Great Depression were used as the vehicle to get things like unemployment and social security inserted into our social and economic fabric, but they were certainly not the only means to affect real and substantial recovery.
Hmmm, I am not familiar with going through customs, but could he bring an old junk laptop and then leave with the new one? I doubt that a customs official will bother recording the model and serial numbers.
There is an additional problem with relying on government grants for basic research funding. The research results were paid for by 'everyone' and can be (and have been) taken with no further compensation to the researchers that developed some very useful things.
Also, imagine taking a project to initial success and having the results given to another research team and you aren't a member. Now imagine your previous research being classified. You can't continue the research, talk about your successes or even use the results of your work to help get a regular job. Think of it as leverage used to get you to do work even if you do not like the direction things are heading toward.
That looks like one line to me, but what I really wanted to point out was that your code appears to be invalid.
But you have started me on my search, only 36^10-2 = 3656158440062974 left to try. I went to the store and used this method to grab a winner, that is why I already know two of the possibilities. I also showed the clerk, who is a friend, and a few other random people how to spot the winners. Guess we will be buying guaranteed winners for a while...
The article mentions things like your rental car showing up from the airport all by itself, which I admit would be quite cool. It also makes me wonder about the first collision between two autonomous vehicles on a public highway. Would the programmers get the tickets? Lots more interesting questions to be answered when these things start selling...
Did your survey include the huge number of Linux desktop deployments in China this year? I doubt that most of the end users of those Linux boxen will be able to participate in your online survey.
So, if any Micro$oft employees have ever looked at Linux kernel source, they are no longer allowed to work on Windows 'cause now they are tainted? Either the sword cuts both ways, or not at all.
In Microsoft's closed source world it would have been tough to know if someone had included code that was similar to something they had seen in the Linux ( or any other opensource) codetree. It will be interesting, if this windows code release (escape?) proves true, if any suspicious code is found.
WTF has "Hot Grits" got to do with Natalie Portman?
It has to do with all of the old "petrified natalie portman" and pouring hot grits down the front of their pants jokes/trolls in the not too distant/. past.
This link works. Yeah, FUD indeed; we will probably see plenty of it today.
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My point is that sevaeral SCO folks ( and Darl specifically) are blaming the actual traffic flood, even todays PR release.
LINDON, Utah, Feb. 1/PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- The SCO Group, Inc. (Nasdaq: SCOX), the owner of the UNIX(R) operating system and a leading provider of UNIX-based solutions, has confirmed that a large scale, Denial of Service attack has started that has made the company's Web site, www.sco.com, completely unavailable. Internet traffic began building momentum on Saturday evening and by midnight Eastern Time the SCO Web site was flooded with requests beyond its capacity. The company expects these attacks to continue through Feb. 12.
SCO has made their website completely unavailable by removing the www.sco.com name record, not a flood of packets. They have mentioned nothing about packet filtering at the router level or any alternative method of keeping their main site online. When the attacks start flooding Microsoft, do you think they will just take their main site down or look at a solution that keeps them up?
I'm only pointing out that SCO is not being honest about the reason for their web sites complete unavailablity. They could still be online with several alternative options that they aren't exploring and want to act like they have no choice in the matter. It looks like they are taking the 'poor me' attitude when things could have been made much better with a little effort.
Maybe their site isn't as important to the operation of their new business model. It may be an even bigger asset to them as a publicity tool while it is down ( due to their lack of name record). When I see them admit that they took it down themselves, then they will have a bit more credibility. With no name record, thus no actual attack on their site, they can't know when the attack would have ended or how severe the flood would have been. They can't really track the attack via DNS lookup operations because that can't give an accurate picture of the potential flood, only the number of participating machines.
They've removed the means to gather statistics about the attack and devise means to counter a defense. The opposite of what I would expect of Microsoft, IBM, Symantec, RedHat, Slashdot or thousands of other sites on the internet.
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Correction to make on my previous post. I had already done a dig and nslookup, but on sco.com and not www.sco.com.
[root]# host www.sco.com Host www.sco.com not found: 3(NXDOMAIN)
SCO has updated their dns servers and axed the record for www.sco.com. NXDOMAIN means no such domain. Wonder why SCO didn't announce that they themselves took www.sco.com completely offline.
Hopefully the media will know about this when SCO complains about the DDOS attack. Now I know why the rest of their services are fairly intact and responding.
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Yeah, I read that and knew that couldn't be the mindset of a technology company. It must be true that SCO has completed the transition into a litigious entity. I mean, who is going to buy or trust OS software from people that had 5 days notice of this event and couldn't think of a single thing to do to protect their site?
Registrar: DOTSTER
Domain Name: SCO.COM
Created on: 03-SEP-87
Expires on: 02-SEP-04
Last Updated on: 22-JAN-03
Take note that the last change of their domain record was a year ago last sunday,. No one even bothered to do something as simple as change www.sco.com to a place holder on another subnet and then use their massive free publicity to announce their alternate name for the duration of the virus DDOS attack.
When the response boils down to nothing more than a promise to make more announcements, well, I think they are sacrificing what is left of their technical reputation.
Always let the spreadsheet do the math, corrected total is: $4,728,443.00 for 377903 shares for an average of $12.51/share. Do these people share in the fraud charges if is is shown later that SCO knew they didn't own the copyrights? They certainly have profited from hollow lawsuits.
According to my calculations, the SCO insiders have made $4,656,443.00 from stock sales since June '03. That is getting very close to the entire value of SCO before their suit was filed against IBM. I guess litigation does pay... the executives.
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Ok, let me see if I understand you correctly. You cannot properly spell 'banana', and you think Bush is a moron? Mr. Bush is the first president to hold an MBA from any school, let alone from Harvard.
Bush's SAT scores were higher than Kerry's too. I bet both candidates are very aware of the DARPA Net derived Internet, Internet2 and many secret things that we will never even see. Neither John Kerry nor George Bush got where they are today without being both intelligent and politically savvy.
Really, I just want to download all of the articles. Really.
I read this story Saturday evening and the tubes that Iraq was shopping for were of a much greater tolerance than needed for their small artilery rockets.
After looking at this picture, I cannot doubt your hardcore hackerness at all. I have read your articles in DDJ dating back to 1989 or so and know you have great technical skillz...
But when I saw that pic with the taco bell large cup, pepsi can hiding a liquor bottle and mostly empty cup of Betty Crocker chocolate frosting, I had to admit that you are probably a true hacker of RMS proportions.
All joking aside, I have found your technical articles to be very useful; what things are you currently working on? I assume that this speed comparison between compilers has been research for another purpose.
What he means is that as (if?) BPL use increases and the inteference makes using radio equipment more difficult, then many HAMs will cease to maintain their equipment and will not be prepared for emergency communication.
Next Saturday (June 26) is Field Day. Hams all over the world will go to remote locations and setup their radios, raise antennas and run this equipment without power from the grid. Lots of people expend a lot of time, resources and energy to stay prepared for emergencies. When they can no longer enjoy this, they will stop.
Please keep in mind that Amateurs have primary use of much of the 2.4GHz spectrum.
Primary means priority use over secondary users. 2.4GHz is loosely regulated by the FCC and has become a problem for stable communications. I have seen some 2.4GHz phones that will kill wi-fi connections everytime the phone rings...
It wasn't a tough climb just for the USA, but most of the countries in the world. To directly comment on your statement:
I have studied the events of the early 1900's and came to the conclusion that events like the Great Depression were used as the vehicle to get things like unemployment and social security inserted into our social and economic fabric, but they were certainly not the only means to affect real and substantial recovery.
Hmmm, I am not familiar with going through customs, but could he bring an old junk laptop and then leave with the new one? I doubt that a customs official will bother recording the model and serial numbers.
There is an additional problem with relying on government grants for basic research funding. The research results were paid for by 'everyone' and can be (and have been) taken with no further compensation to the researchers that developed some very useful things.
Also, imagine taking a project to initial success and having the results given to another research team and you aren't a member. Now imagine your previous research being classified. You can't continue the research, talk about your successes or even use the results of your work to help get a regular job. Think of it as leverage used to get you to do work even if you do not like the direction things are heading toward.
The Linux version should be in the same box as the Windows release, Tux is even on the box cover. The Mac version will be boxed seperately.
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Hope my pre-order shows up soon...
That looks like one line to me, but what I really wanted to point out was that your code appears to be invalid.
But you have started me on my search, only 36^10-2 = 3656158440062974 left to try. I went to the store and used this method to grab a winner, that is why I already know two of the possibilities. I also showed the clerk, who is a friend, and a few other random people how to spot the winners. Guess we will be buying guaranteed winners for a while...
Sniff... Oh, that smell is that karma burning? I thought I'd stepped in SCO.
Didn't he play the Gimp in Pulp Fiction?
The article mentions things like your rental car showing up from the airport all by itself, which I admit would be quite cool. It also makes me wonder about the first collision between two autonomous vehicles on a public highway. Would the programmers get the tickets? Lots more interesting questions to be answered when these things start selling...
Did your survey include the huge number of Linux desktop deployments in China this year? I doubt that most of the end users of those Linux boxen will be able to participate in your online survey.
In Microsoft's closed source world it would have been tough to know if someone had included code that was similar to something they had seen in the Linux ( or any other opensource) codetree. It will be interesting, if this windows code release (escape?) proves true, if any suspicious code is found.
It has to do with all of the old "petrified natalie portman" and pouring hot grits down the front of their pants jokes/trolls in the not too distant
This link works. Yeah, FUD indeed; we will probably see plenty of it today.
SCO has made their website completely unavailable by removing the www.sco.com name record, not a flood of packets. They have mentioned nothing about packet filtering at the router level or any alternative method of keeping their main site online. When the attacks start flooding Microsoft, do you think they will just take their main site down or look at a solution that keeps them up?
I'm only pointing out that SCO is not being honest about the reason for their web sites complete unavailablity. They could still be online with several alternative options that they aren't exploring and want to act like they have no choice in the matter. It looks like they are taking the 'poor me' attitude when things could have been made much better with a little effort.
Maybe their site isn't as important to the operation of their new business model. It may be an even bigger asset to them as a publicity tool while it is down ( due to their lack of name record). When I see them admit that they took it down themselves, then they will have a bit more credibility. With no name record, thus no actual attack on their site, they can't know when the attack would have ended or how severe the flood would have been. They can't really track the attack via DNS lookup operations because that can't give an accurate picture of the potential flood, only the number of participating machines.
They've removed the means to gather statistics about the attack and devise means to counter a defense. The opposite of what I would expect of Microsoft, IBM, Symantec, RedHat, Slashdot or thousands of other sites on the internet.
Correction to make on my previous post. I had already done a dig and nslookup, but on sco.com and not www.sco.com.
;; global options: printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; -HEADER- opcode: QUERY, status: NXDOMAIN, id: 14794
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 1, ADDITIONAL: 0
[root]# host www.sco.com
Host www.sco.com not found: 3(NXDOMAIN)
[root]# dig www.sco.com
; > DiG 9.2.1rc1 > www.sco.com
SCO has updated their dns servers and axed the record for www.sco.com. NXDOMAIN means no such domain. Wonder why SCO didn't announce that they themselves took www.sco.com completely offline.
Hopefully the media will know about this when SCO complains about the DDOS attack. Now I know why the rest of their services are fairly intact and responding.
Yeah, I read that and knew that couldn't be the mindset of a technology company. It must be true that SCO has completed the transition into a litigious entity. I mean, who is going to buy or trust OS software from people that had 5 days notice of this event and couldn't think of a single thing to do to protect their site?
Registrar: DOTSTER
Domain Name: SCO.COM
Created on: 03-SEP-87
Expires on: 02-SEP-04
Last Updated on: 22-JAN-03
Take note that the last change of their domain record was a year ago last sunday,. No one even bothered to do something as simple as change www.sco.com to a place holder on another subnet and then use their massive free publicity to announce their alternate name for the duration of the virus DDOS attack.
When the response boils down to nothing more than a promise to make more announcements, well, I think they are sacrificing what is left of their technical reputation.
Always let the spreadsheet do the math, corrected total is: $4,728,443.00 for 377903 shares for an average of $12.51/share. Do these people share in the fraud charges if is is shown later that SCO knew they didn't own the copyrights? They certainly have profited from hollow lawsuits.
According to my calculations, the SCO insiders have made $4,656,443.00 from stock sales since June '03. That is getting very close to the entire value of SCO before their suit was filed against IBM. I guess litigation does pay... the executives.