software (or atleast patches) like the linux kernel developers do, I would have modded you +100 Insightful
But sadly that isn't the case
I am not sure if I am allowed to post this publicly but the following was part of the mail for XP SP2 from betamail@ms.
Known Issues Build 2142 is not considered Beta quality and as such it does contain some issues we expect some people will enounter during usage.
1. Media files that are encoded with the DIVX codec will fail to play. If you open an explorer window in a directory that contains these files, explorer may fail. Viewing web pages with DIVX encoded files embedded in them may cause Internet Explorer to fail.
This is insane. Why rush out a build ( even if it is officially non-beta-quality ) if there's a problem like this? One would be extremely p*ed off if their explorer suddenly crashes because of some video in some folder, considering the popularity of the format now a days. Or should I be happy that they have atleast warned us of known issues
How is a full compile of the kernel done and how long would it take on a 3GHz,756RAM computer?
Linux is for slower systems like mine ( a modest p3 with 256 megs, celeron 500MHz with 128 megs ) With a system like yours you should now be running windows with a trillion apps in the system tray so that there's atleast some equality between the haves and have-nots of this miserable world
I hope you are atleast using some bulky shiny desktop environment like the gnome or kde
It *is* funny ( and is partially even the reality )
No software is(/can be) perfect and linux is nothing but a software. There are a zillion devices out there and the drivers for some of them can/would be unstable. Would you deny the fact that the stable versions are only *officially* stable until around the.5 or.6 point upgrades come out?
You might call me aged but am still on 2.4.26. The slight apprehension about minor things going wrong and quirks popping out here and there still daunts quite a few people like me from considering the initial builds of the stable kernels as really stable.
No! I haven't booted in windows for the last 12 months except for playing quake
everyone will forget how this man made his fortune,
Hey what's wrong with earning money by spamming!?
It's just a kind of a social service. Think of all the calories people would have burnt selecting all those mails and deleting them, think of all the people who got to know about others in remote locations of Africa and Asia of whom they wouldn't have otherwise even heard of, think of all the....
And btw not everyone hates the p r0n mail they get
I got this email yesterday from the Nigerian PM's widow saying that he's been killed in a military a coup asking for my help to get back some monies from a European bank.
I guess I'd get to know the truth through the response for the reply I sent this morning.
"Seems that the problems at Akamai are screwing over Yahoo, Google, Microsoft,.."
We had a news item on yahoo mail and there goes yahoo down We had a news item on gmail and there go the google and gmail servers down Damn we didn't have any news on MS, why then did they down:-?. Forget it
It's just that we/.ers weed out the obvious things and spend our time fighting over more important things.
It would be interesting to see what Microsoft would be doing with hotmail to be in competition with yahoo and gmail. The only changes that I had seen in hotmail in the past 3-4 years are a decrease in the inbox space to a mere 2 megs, some zazzy icons and some improvements in the spam filtering.
People say Microsoft doesn't go innovative with their browser, OSes and the office suites because of almost zero competition (ie after ensuring that competition is almost zero). But what in the free-email wars??
Or is it that hotmail is doomed to be lost in history like the dot-com boom of which it had been one of the catalysts
To paraphrase our dear old friend bill 6 MB ought to be enough for anybody Applies atleast for me. Unless you have ppl in your address book who keep sending 2 MB check-this-joke word docs, clearing anything not important once in every 2 days should be more than sufficient.
Why is it that every poster tries to picture NYTimes as some vampire?!? (Soul sucking registration required) When one can sign up in yahoo for using their mail service, how can it be painful (or more painful) to register on nytimes once!?! It's not that you'll have to register every time you view a page. Let them save the cookie monsieur, unless you are paranoid about them tracking which articles you go through.
The article says the smallest java program is 68 chars long just to make it seem double that of C# public class smallest { public static void main(String[] args) { } }
But this would be the smallest Java program. only 56 chars public class A{public static void main(String[] args){}}
(Karma be damned; I am no better than an AC anyway)
There's actually no rule that you have got to name an institute after a person only if it's field is related to the person.
It's generally out of respect i suppose like we have a Mahatma Gandhi institute of technology/medical sciences/business administration/.* in every city of India
good to know that even a scientist receives such a respect in germany
(Karma be damned; I am no better than an AC anyway)
Slashdot Mirror
software (or atleast patches) like the linux kernel developers do, I would have modded you +100 Insightful
But sadly that isn't the case
I am not sure if I am allowed to post this publicly but the following was part of the mail for XP SP2 from betamail@ms.
Known Issues
Build 2142 is not considered Beta quality and as such it does contain some issues we expect some people will enounter during usage.
1. Media files that are encoded with the DIVX codec will fail to play. If you open an explorer window in a directory that contains these files, explorer may fail. Viewing web pages with DIVX encoded files embedded in them may cause Internet Explorer to fail.
This is insane. Why rush out a build ( even if it is officially non-beta-quality ) if there's a problem like this? One would be extremely p*ed off if their explorer suddenly crashes because of some video in some folder, considering the popularity of the format now a days. Or should I be happy that they have atleast warned us of known issues
How is a full compile of the kernel done and how long would it take on a 3GHz,756RAM computer?
Linux is for slower systems like mine ( a modest p3 with 256 megs, celeron 500MHz with 128 megs )
With a system like yours you should now be running windows with a trillion apps in the system tray so that there's atleast some equality between the haves and have-nots of this miserable world
I hope you are atleast using some bulky shiny desktop environment like the gnome or kde
doesn't chroot just give you a new root i.e the / directory!?!
or may be i am not yet worthy enough to be a root and am wrong
the parent!?!
.5 or .6 point upgrades come out?
It *is* funny ( and is partially even the reality )
No software is(/can be) perfect and linux is nothing but a software.
There are a zillion devices out there and the drivers for some of them can/would be unstable. Would you deny the fact that the stable versions are only *officially* stable until around the
You might call me aged but am still on 2.4.26. The slight apprehension about minor things going wrong and quirks popping out here and there still daunts quite a few people like me from considering the initial builds of the stable kernels as really stable.
No! I haven't booted in windows for the last 12 months except for playing quake
for example, a single-layer disc can hold 23.3 GB, 25 GB or 27 GB
How can they compete with blu-ray when the capacities specified by the blu-ray camp are like 1.53, 1.667 and 1.8 times the ones their capacities??
"Apparently caving to pressure from Slashdot readers"
/.'ers weren't trying to take credit for slashdotting the entire WWW
and this guy was saying that he's surprised that
everyone will forget how this man made his fortune,
....
Hey what's wrong with earning money by spamming!?
It's just a kind of a social service. Think of all the calories people would have burnt selecting all those mails and deleting them, think of all the people who got to know about others in remote locations of Africa and Asia of whom they wouldn't have otherwise even heard of, think of all the
And btw not everyone hates the p r0n mail they get
No! I don't get any such mails
alive!?!
I got this email yesterday from the Nigerian PM's widow saying that he's been killed in a military a coup asking for my help to get back some monies from a European bank.
I guess I'd get to know the truth through the response for the reply I sent this morning.
He also offered a compact disc of 37 million addresses for $129 (U.S.).
If someone over here has that cd, can he/she upload the list to some website?
I just need to check if any of my ids are in the bunch.
Did I miss something!?!? or are you new here?
/.-ed
:-?. Forget it
/.ers weed out the obvious things and spend our time fighting over more important things.
WWW has *really* been
"Seems that the problems at Akamai are screwing over Yahoo, Google, Microsoft,.."
We had a news item on yahoo mail and there goes yahoo down
We had a news item on gmail and there go the google and gmail servers down
Damn we didn't have any news on MS, why then did they down
It's just that we
your country?!
All my friends laughed at me when I asked them this question.
Now thanks to the chinese government, they would realise that I am not a fool but a visionary
It would be interesting to see what Microsoft would be doing with hotmail to be in competition with yahoo and gmail.
The only changes that I had seen in hotmail in the past 3-4 years are a decrease in the inbox space to a mere 2 megs, some zazzy icons and some improvements in the spam filtering.
People say Microsoft doesn't go innovative with their browser, OSes and the office suites because of almost zero competition (ie after ensuring that competition is almost zero). But what in the free-email wars??
Or is it that hotmail is doomed to be lost in history like the dot-com boom of which it had been one of the catalysts
To paraphrase our dear old friend bill
6 MB ought to be enough for anybody
Applies atleast for me. Unless you have ppl in your address book who keep sending 2 MB check-this-joke word docs, clearing anything not important once in every 2 days should be more than sufficient.
Why is it that every poster tries to picture NYTimes as some vampire?!?
(Soul sucking registration required)
When one can sign up in yahoo for using their mail service, how can it be painful (or more painful) to register on nytimes once!?! It's not that you'll have to register every time you view a page.
Let them save the cookie monsieur, unless you are paranoid about them tracking which articles you go through.
Great idea!!
Being forced to have IE, mozilla and opera open at the same time with your 3 logins when you want to search for some thing would be ultra cool
Damn!! I am not a genius
You get those even here in India
Check the monstrous camera watch phone
This is cheating; nevertheless it compiles and runs with sun jdk without any problems
class A{static{System.exit(0);}}
Only 32 chars. yay!!
But VC++ can also do that. So perhaps they are even?
But what about the case with more-advanced-than-helloworld programs??
The article says the smallest java program is 68 chars long just to make it seem double that of C#
public class smallest { public static void main(String[] args) { } }
But this would be the smallest Java program. only 56 chars
public class A{public static void main(String[] args){}}
(Karma be damned; I am no better than an AC anyway)
combined with outlook (+express), office and Internet explorer
considering the amount of code vbscript that systems on the internet exchange daily
(Karma be damned; I am no better than AC anyway)
A TCP/IP Stack and Web Server In BASIC
An interesting read for those who admire the series
Doc
Google's html version
He apparently appreciates, as young children do, that new words tend to refer to objects that do not already have names.
well a bot too can be programmed to know that but this creature has learnt that on its own
so i guess you *will* have to take it as 'understanding'
There's actually no rule that you have got to name an institute after a person only if it's field is related to the person.
It's generally out of respect i suppose
like we have a Mahatma Gandhi institute of technology/medical sciences/business administration/.* in every city of India
good to know that even a scientist receives such a respect in germany
(Karma be damned; I am no better than an AC anyway)
now i know the reason for that damned dog coming up every time i say help or press F3
the brain's plans of world domination come true???
(Karma be damned; I am no better than an AC anyway)