This is great news. It being the case that slashdot has roughly 90 ms less latency for me now, this will save me about one second every 11 times I load a new page!! This will surely allow me to get much more work done during the day, with how often I compulsively reload... $ traceroute www.slashdot.org traceroute to slashdot.org (64.28.67.150), 30 hops max, 40 byte packets [... ] 14 csr03-ve240.wlhm02.exodus.net (64.14.70.130) 301.782 ms 88.878 ms 86.956 ms 15 64.28.66.204 (64.28.66.204) 90.151 ms 86.267 ms 133.649 ms 16 * * *
$ traceroute brak.slashdot.org traceroute to brak.slashdot.org (66.35.250.150), 30 hops max, 40 byte packets [... ] 12 csr01-ve242.sntc08.exodus.net (66.35.194.58) 15.048 ms 15.537 ms 15.59 ms 13 66.35.212.174 (66.35.212.174) 15.66 ms 16.52 ms 19.198 ms 14 * * *
I believe the word you are looking for is...
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Nope; this guy beat you to 'darwinically'. Google also turned the word up in a number of 2001 publications. Strangely enough, the last six sites turned up by google are porn sites. (To your credit, there were only two pages of results in google, and it wasn't in the dictionary.)
Let alone read it. You can't necessarily speak Chinese if you can read it, and vice versa... or any language that uses Kanji or Kanji-like characters, for that matter.
That said, the GRE is a general test. I think it was alluded to that non-native english speakers do worse because of the language barrier, thus have to take the subject-specific GRE exam. It would follow, then, that there would be more of a need for this in non english-speaking locales.
... while I don't think the guy should have released the exploit while they were still talking to HP about the fix, I think the management of HP has been making some heavy-handed decisions. Not just moves like this, but in general... ever since Bill and Dave passed away, it seems the company has lost its heart. It's sad, really.
I hope you can point them in the right direction, Bruce... and I hope whoever owns this defect has a patch out by tomorrow at noon. =) I know if I owned that code, and I saw this article, I'd be working night and day to get a resolution...
Of course, this is probably Compaq (a "wholly owned subsidary" of HP) that we're talking about, so maybe my company isn't going to hell as fast as some might think.
I don't see anyone complaining when newspapers put out several editions of a paper every morning, each with several different revisions of stories, perhaps with drastic changes.
Perhaps what is needed is a version control system where online viewers see the latest revision by default, and can click on previous published editions of the article as well, if they choose. Kind of like a "viewcvs" sort of setup for each article.
I don't know if the online newspapers and news sites would go for this (as there was probably a good reason they made the change, whatever it is), but IMHO it would help improve journalistic integrity.
... at 1400x1050 mode on my laptop, I can nicely put two word processors side by side. Useful when doing long software engineering documents and you have to trace requirements back through who knows how many documents. Not that this doesn't look like a cool toy. =)
In the America I live in, we have the means to recycle most of the PC, except the CRT. I once toured a site run by HP (in Roseville, CA) that grinds the things up and sorts out the plastics, metals, etc. You could drive a car into this machine they have and it would be able to recycle it. Among other things, they use the resulting stuff to make flooring, but they have to send the CRTs to Canada to be taken care of for some reason, IIRC. I think they have to burn them up in a highly contained fire of some sort. Sort of like a cremation process for your monitors, I guess.
I think what they are saying is "you have to charge for it, because even if you don't we will come after you and make you empty your wallet for violating our patents". Evil bastards. They are planning on beating up Samba developers and stealing their lunch money, basically?
What I haven't heard mentioned here is the reliability of this system. If this system is reliable enough that it will work indefinitley, then its cost might be justified in that it has no annoying fans that will inevitably break down. In that case, it would be a logical step toward a better no-moving-parts computer.
As this post points out, fiber is still expensive in that the interconnect equipment, etc, is expensive. The cable itself is, however, pretty cheap. I don't see how it could hurt to install it now while it's easy if you forsee using it in the future. You can always pull the (cheap) cable through, and install ends and what not later.
Not to try and start a delivery-service flamewar here, but I get stuff shipped from UPS to here all the time and I've never had a problem with them. I try to avoid FedEx because I've had bad experiences with them giving me false information over the phone before. But the other day, though, I had something shipped FexEx to my apartment because I had no other option. The guy just happened to come when I wasn't there, and instead of leaving a note and going to the manager's office like one would expect, he delivered it to my neighbor! What in the name of...?! I don't remember authorizing that... it was pretty screwed up because when I went back to check the tracking page in the evening, it said DELIVERED, and I panicked, called the apartment manager -- nothing, and then called FedEx -- they played stupid and told me it was delievered to me, right when I was clicking on their "signature proof of delivery" page. It came up and said that there was no signature available, but then when I read down on the page it said that it was delivered to a different apartment in my complex... so I had to go knock on their door, and leave a note when they didn't answer. Blegh. That clinched it for me. I'm hereby boycotting FedEx.
... so it seems that you have to just sit back and cross your fingers no matter what shipper you use.
You should see what passes for art there
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I went there with my girlfriend a couple of months ago and we were amazed at what they called art. I mean, there is a friggin' electronic marquee that has fortune-like sayings scrolling by on it -- and that passes for art. There is a discombobulated urinal laying on its side. There are canvases painted completely in some arbitrary color. And that's just scratching the surface. I'm not usually one to blame the results of somebody's work on drugs, but it seriously looks like some of these people sat down, took a lot of hallucinogens, and did the first thing that came to mind. I don't know, maybe you have to be in the same state of mind to appreciate that. IMHO, if you can say those things are art, of course you can say thatvideo games are art. I know I'm preaching to the choir here, but think of the amazing amount of detail that goes into games... the examples of the Quake and Diablo series come to mind... I mean... somebody had to sit down and animate/draw/model each of those characters, textures, etc... it's a massive amount of work. Video games are a beautiful mixture of creative artwork and carefully thought out elements.
Anyway, my point is, if they come out and say that video games are not art, they're massive hypocrites, because damnit, if a canvas painted completely in blue is art, then just about any video game is going above and beyond art.
Cool! I'd have to hack it up so that I could put it in a standard case, or be able to cram a few hard drives in there as well so that I could do RAID, though. Maybe VIA should build G3s. =)
... then maybe I'll finally be able to put a decently fast (~300 mhz) CPU into an ATX case that doesn't need a CPU fan that keeps dying. Oh how I wish there was more low-maintinance hardware out there...
Not that I don't agree with you -- because I do -- I believe we need retaliation against the perpetrators of this. However, your statement that "no one kills 5,000 innocent civilians without being hunted to the very ends of the earth" got me thinking -- how many innocent civilians were killed int the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki? Here's a link. Makes you wish we could all just get along...
I didn't know the -ac trees had Promise IDE RAID support. I looked all over for a good solution for using that thing, after I carefully soldered on my resistor, only to find out that there was no good Linux support for the darned thing. Has anyone had any success using this thing in Linux (not using the closed-source drivers?) This is something I'd really like to see in a stable kernel.. does anybody know how to tell what -ac releases are stable, if any? **pounding head on cubicle wall** I suppose I can use software RAID if that's what it comes down to.
A couple of weeks ago while I was out at a wrecking yard digging up parts for one of my cool old cars, I watched an electromagnet lifting cars. That's a lot of iron filings.
That gives me an idea. What are aircraft made out of? Could they be attracted by a giant electomagnet? If so, when is [insert any mischevious dictator here] going to use them to bring down U.S. planes? =) Yow -- I shouldn't give them any ideas. Or maybe I should -- maybe they'll spend a lot of time creating the world's largest electomagnet, for no good reason. Buahahahaha!
Funny, I'm in the Sacramento area, and a couple of months back, my Comcast@Home service changed to AT&T@home. But for me, it's the same exact crappy service. Nothing has changed. I still get the same piss-poor 15 kB/sec upload speeds, I still have a static IP address (contrary to your AT&T @home experience); everything is the same. I guess I can only hope my quality of service doesn't degrade.
As for the shoddy uplink speed leading to a completely degraded connection issue, I think that pretty much has happened with every consumer-level broadband connection I've seen. (ADSL/Cable) Although it didn't happen quite so much when I first got comcast@home and I had a ~40kB/sec uplink. (When I moved, they charged me $100 to move it, didn't even let me keep the same static IP, and cut my uplink down to 15 kB/sec... ugh) That is, whenever I so much as upload a file to somebody else on a decently fast connection, my entire connection is pretty much hosed. I'm wondering if there is an easy way to fix that at the router level; i.e. I have a linux box between my LAN and the internet connected to the cable modem; perhaps that can do the work of making sure the uplink never gets saturated... something to think about.
Slashdot Mirror
This is great news. It being the case that slashdot has roughly 90 ms less latency for me now, this will save me about one second every 11 times I load a new page!! This will surely allow me to get much more work done during the day, with how often I compulsively reload...
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$ traceroute www.slashdot.org
traceroute to slashdot.org (64.28.67.150), 30 hops max, 40 byte packets
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14 csr03-ve240.wlhm02.exodus.net (64.14.70.130) 301.782 ms 88.878 ms 86.956 ms
15 64.28.66.204 (64.28.66.204) 90.151 ms 86.267 ms 133.649 ms
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$ traceroute brak.slashdot.org
traceroute to brak.slashdot.org (66.35.250.150), 30 hops max, 40 byte packets
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12 csr01-ve242.sntc08.exodus.net (66.35.194.58) 15.048 ms 15.537 ms 15.59 ms
13 66.35.212.174 (66.35.212.174) 15.66 ms 16.52 ms 19.198 ms
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"parallelism"
Nope; this guy beat you to 'darwinically'. Google also turned the word up in a number of 2001 publications. Strangely enough, the last six sites turned up by google are porn sites. (To your credit, there were only two pages of results in google, and it wasn't in the dictionary.)
Let alone read it. You can't necessarily speak Chinese if you can read it, and vice versa... or any language that uses Kanji or Kanji-like characters, for that matter.
That said, the GRE is a general test. I think it was alluded to that non-native english speakers do worse because of the language barrier, thus have to take the subject-specific GRE exam. It would follow, then, that there would be more of a need for this in non english-speaking locales.
I hope you can point them in the right direction, Bruce... and I hope whoever owns this defect has a patch out by tomorrow at noon. =) I know if I owned that code, and I saw this article, I'd be working night and day to get a resolution...
Of course, this is probably Compaq (a "wholly owned subsidary" of HP) that we're talking about, so maybe my company isn't going to hell as fast as some might think.
My TI-89 can solve integrals and limits, and do derivatives. Is this math or arithmetic?
Perhaps what is needed is a version control system where online viewers see the latest revision by default, and can click on previous published editions of the article as well, if they choose. Kind of like a "viewcvs" sort of setup for each article.
I don't know if the online newspapers and news sites would go for this (as there was probably a good reason they made the change, whatever it is), but IMHO it would help improve journalistic integrity.
... at 1400x1050 mode on my laptop, I can nicely put two word processors side by side. Useful when doing long software engineering documents and you have to trace requirements back through who knows how many documents. Not that this doesn't look like a cool toy. =)
In the America I live in, we have the means to recycle most of the PC, except the CRT. I once toured a site run by HP (in Roseville, CA) that grinds the things up and sorts out the plastics, metals, etc. You could drive a car into this machine they have and it would be able to recycle it. Among other things, they use the resulting stuff to make flooring, but they have to send the CRTs to Canada to be taken care of for some reason, IIRC. I think they have to burn them up in a highly contained fire of some sort. Sort of like a cremation process for your monitors, I guess.
For protocols that don't use any sort of keepalive, they might still be open. I've had SSH sessions stay open between hibernating Win2k on my laptop.
I think what they are saying is "you have to charge for it, because even if you don't we will come after you and make you empty your wallet for violating our patents". Evil bastards. They are planning on beating up Samba developers and stealing their lunch money, basically?
Try to get your hand in that position. I dare you. (All of those ()s are fingernails, right?)
Hell, I take the labels off too. I mean -- they're uncomfortable! The only way to tag me would be to ebed the damned things in the fabric itself...
I wonder how my Palm Vx would take it -- the casing being metal and all... no doubt the buttons, the screen, and the internal PCB would be toast...
What I haven't heard mentioned here is the reliability of this system. If this system is reliable enough that it will work indefinitley, then its cost might be justified in that it has no annoying fans that will inevitably break down. In that case, it would be a logical step toward a better no-moving-parts computer.
As this post points out, fiber is still expensive in that the interconnect equipment, etc, is expensive. The cable itself is, however, pretty cheap. I don't see how it could hurt to install it now while it's easy if you forsee using it in the future. You can always pull the (cheap) cable through, and install ends and what not later.
... so it seems that you have to just sit back and cross your fingers no matter what shipper you use.
Anyway, my point is, if they come out and say that video games are not art, they're massive hypocrites, because damnit, if a canvas painted completely in blue is art, then just about any video game is going above and beyond art.
Cool! I'd have to hack it up so that I could put it in a standard case, or be able to cram a few hard drives in there as well so that I could do RAID, though. Maybe VIA should build G3s. =)
... then maybe I'll finally be able to put a decently fast (~300 mhz) CPU into an ATX case that doesn't need a CPU fan that keeps dying. Oh how I wish there was more low-maintinance hardware out there...
Not that I don't agree with you -- because I do -- I believe we need retaliation against the perpetrators of this. However, your statement that "no one kills 5,000 innocent civilians without being hunted to the very ends of the earth" got me thinking -- how many innocent civilians were killed int the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki? Here's a link. Makes you wish we could all just get along...
I didn't know the -ac trees had Promise IDE RAID support. I looked all over for a good solution for using that thing, after I carefully soldered on my resistor, only to find out that there was no good Linux support for the darned thing. Has anyone had any success using this thing in Linux (not using the closed-source drivers?) This is something I'd really like to see in a stable kernel.. does anybody know how to tell what -ac releases are stable, if any? **pounding head on cubicle wall** I suppose I can use software RAID if that's what it comes down to.
A couple of weeks ago while I was out at a wrecking yard digging up parts for one of my cool old cars, I watched an electromagnet lifting cars. That's a lot of iron filings.
That gives me an idea. What are aircraft made out of? Could they be attracted by a giant electomagnet? If so, when is [insert any mischevious dictator here] going to use them to bring down U.S. planes? =) Yow -- I shouldn't give them any ideas. Or maybe I should -- maybe they'll spend a lot of time creating the world's largest electomagnet, for no good reason. Buahahahaha!
... and on my humble DSL connection...
/var/log/apache$ grep 'default\.ida' * | wc -l
30
Funny, I'm in the Sacramento area, and a couple of months back, my Comcast@Home service changed to AT&T@home. But for me, it's the same exact crappy service. Nothing has changed. I still get the same piss-poor 15 kB/sec upload speeds, I still have a static IP address (contrary to your AT&T @home experience); everything is the same. I guess I can only hope my quality of service doesn't degrade.
As for the shoddy uplink speed leading to a completely degraded connection issue, I think that pretty much has happened with every consumer-level broadband connection I've seen. (ADSL/Cable) Although it didn't happen quite so much when I first got comcast@home and I had a ~40kB/sec uplink. (When I moved, they charged me $100 to move it, didn't even let me keep the same static IP, and cut my uplink down to 15 kB/sec... ugh) That is, whenever I so much as upload a file to somebody else on a decently fast connection, my entire connection is pretty much hosed. I'm wondering if there is an easy way to fix that at the router level; i.e. I have a linux box between my LAN and the internet connected to the cable modem; perhaps that can do the work of making sure the uplink never gets saturated... something to think about.