You got the Empire State leaning to the left, but the big building just south of its tip leans heavily to the right. I feel like I'm gonna fall over...
Image stitching
The contract agreed upon by the two parties will specify who can do what to the data. This is usually a series of Ts and Cs followed by an "I Agree" widget or the like.
MG Rover was reported to be paying Tata £3,000 for each City Rover. Crunch the numbers any way, that's super cheap for a car. Sadly Rover got greedy and priced the model out of it's range for the UK. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CityRover
Looking forward to see how Jaguar continues with their new XF line and the funding from Tata.
It relates to Long term support. KDE delayed the release of 4.0 for ubuntu 7.10 (october). It cannot thus be included in the LTS version coming out next year. This is mostly KDE's own fault for not meeting their projected deadlines.
But I don't think Google's business model has a chance of winning. Quite simply it's too cheap and with thier primary income coming from advertising and search. How are they going to make money by practically giving you the applications.
They sustain it with the support payments from their clients. These prices may well increase over time or as new features are offered. For the moment it is roughly a dollar a week, per user, for the corporate package.
And once you've used the services within your own department, you'll wonder how your team survived without them--think on the lines of platform interoperability.
Cheers.
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Mod parent up.
This is indeed the root of any high-distribution system and is applicable to several domains--piracy, drugs, airborne diseases. It only takes one copy on a viable transmission medium to start the ball rolling.
With So Few Vulnerabilites, You'd Think They'd Be Fixed By Now 10/19/2004 6:56 AM Randy Wilson
- IIS 6, 3 vulnerabilities, 1 patched, 2 still open.
- Apache 2, 22 vulnerabilities, 21 patched, 1 still open.
That was 2004. If one brings 2005 data for apache 1.3 and apache-SSL 1.3 into the comparison, the view goes askew.
- Apache 1.3, 15 vulnerabilities, 13 patched, 1 partially patched, 1 still open. (The open vulnerability was reported in 2005--not when the blog was posted).
i have managed (in the past) to talk folks though downloading Mozilla (suite) via command line FTP. It is quite easy once you know the path. Once you know the path you might be able to directly download it via an FTP app or a download manager.
Then again, i've had switchers successfully download firefox with a.torrent and a link to Bram Coehn's official BitTorrent client.
Age of Mythology needs admin rights to start. Even power user won't cut it. The older Age* games also needed admin rights, and if Dungeon Seige is working in user mode, then it is the exception, not the rule.
> seriously is gaim really a better client? It alwasys seems to me like the unauthorized clients are a generation behind the real ones.
Well, that is kind of expected. Not all the protocols are openly documented -- some have to be continously reverse engineered to figure out the latest obfuscation. Frequent changes to Yahoo's auth procedure come to mind (see the changelog).
And you say "a generation behind" as if it is a bad thing. Note the argument "bleeding edge vs bug free". A more mature software typically delivers a better user experience. That said, it should be noted that Gaim has been and still remains one of the mostactive projects on sf.net. Should tell you something about the pace of development.
> Back when file sharing was big, gaim could not do it.
So are you admitting to file transfers being a passing fad?;) Gaim did support file transfers on different protocols at different times. Look at the changelog
version 0.11.0-pre5 (02/26/2001) -- Rewritten file transfer for TOC
version 0.75 (01/09/2004) -- Yahoo! file transfer (Tim Ringenbach)
version 0.76 (04/01/2004) -- Jabber file transfer
version 0.76 (04/01/2004) -- IRC file transfer (Tim Ringenbach)
version 0.79 (06/24/2004) -- Added MSN file transfer (Felipe Contreras)
version 0.80 (07/15/2004) -- Drag a file into the buddy list or a conversation to send it to that buddy
I know that much of the file transfer functionality for Msn and Y! protocols has been added just last month. But, to be perfectly honest, i didn't miss this feature, coz i use email to send/receive files. IMAP beats having to write firewall rules.
> Then buddy icons, gaim could not do it. No gaim can do those,
version 0.11.0-pre12 (05/29/2001) -- Can receive buddy icons in Oscar
version 0.45 (10/04/2001) -- Can choose buddy icon to send (for Oscar)
version 0.63 (05/16/2003) -- MSN protocol plugin was rewritten, has experimental buddy icon support, and MSN Mobile support.
version 0.79 (06/24/2004) -- Yahoo buddy icon support
version 0.79 (06/24/2004) -- Dragging an image file into the Modify Account dialog will set that as a buddy icon.
Earlier buddy icons could only be set for AIM/ICQ (2001-2003). Now i can drag an image onto the "modify account" dialog of any account and I get an instant buddy icon.
> but the big thing is voice and video, gaim cant do those.
Sure it can. Check out gaim-vv. It is a fork of gaim with the aim of bringing Voice and Video to the gaim experience. Its not perfect, but its not moving backwards either.
The Pause/Break key is still used by many applications (even windows).
In 'Age of Mythology', Pause/Break, Pauses the game. Logical huh?
And in windows, WinKey + Pause/Break, brings up the System Properties window. Super fast way to access the Device Manager, check your profile size (before taking a backup) and set Environment Variables.
It is basically up to the application developer to use all the keys on the keyboard. Personally, i would like to see a applications use the Pause key to pause the program operation (think games, monitoring software, timers, etc). It would get rid of the extraenous keys on the top of my keyboard.
Last year a gentleman from PDI/Dreamworks gave a seminar to the CS graduates about the computational challanges faced during the making of the movie SHREK. It was the typical time-filler type seminar...lots of movie clips and few details.
However, i dug out the following facts from the summary report i wrote on that seminar. One assumes that the statistics for SHREK 2 are in higher orders of magnitude.
Some snippets from my draft report.
CSc 890 -- PERNET Colloquium 8
Date: 9 April 2003
"The Computation of Shrek" Presentation by Karl Johann Schmidt PDI/DreamWorks
Rendering
Due to the complexity and storage requirements, rendering is split into 4 layers. The statistics with regards to renders are quite interesting. A typical frame contains 20 million polygons and approx. 50 lights and requires 2 GB of input data (such as textures and background images). It takes one hour to render a single frame. Other, more complex frames have higher stats in all areas.
Hardware and Software
The animation/rendering is done on 2000 dual processor Linux servers and 1200 Linux workstations supplied by HP. The software used is written in-house -- ~4 million lines. Programming languages used include C, C++, Perl, Python and csh scripts. Version control accomplished by CVS. Compilation is done on SGI Irix and Pentium Linux.
Problems on Linux
Mr. Schmidt also talked about the problems of using Linux as a development platform. These included, the gcc compiler being too slow when compared to the Intel compiler. Lack of support in Linux -- the earlier vendor was SGI, the present vendor is HP. Lack of enough high intensity colours in the 32-bit colour palette. This is a known caveat of 3D animated movies and it is generally accepted that they are less graphically spectacular than a non-animated movies in certain aspects. (He does not elaborate how this is a "Linux-specific" caveat).
While Opera 7.0x, 7.1x and 7.2x were terrible, the new 7.5x is way faster than any of its predecessors. It even beats out Firefox in terms of pure speed.
Opera does have other quirks though. When using it with a proxy server (privoxy) it tends to not get all the information on a page. This is more apparent on pages with lots (>80) images.
Vitrite allows you to set the transparency level of (almost) any window using the interfaces that have existed in windows 2000 since its release in late 1999. I believe it was up to the programmer to use (or not to use) the transparency interface.
I wonder if this is enough to counter the claim that Apple has had transparency since Sept 2000.
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The contract agreed upon by the two parties will specify who can do what to the data. This is usually a series of Ts and Cs followed by an "I Agree" widget or the like.
Always read the fine print.
Cheers.
It is a euro-box; the Mondeo does not sell in the US.
Try again sir.
MG Rover was reported to be paying Tata £3,000 for each City Rover. Crunch the numbers any way, that's super cheap for a car. Sadly Rover got greedy and priced the model out of it's range for the UK.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CityRover
Looking forward to see how Jaguar continues with their new XF line and the funding from Tata.
Mr. Sulu, set maximum magnification on the viewer.
It relates to Long term support. KDE delayed the release of 4.0 for ubuntu 7.10 (october). It cannot thus be included in the LTS version coming out next year. This is mostly KDE's own fault for not meeting their projected deadlines.
Cheers.
But I don't think Google's business model has a chance of winning. Quite simply it's too cheap and with thier primary income coming from advertising and search. How are they going to make money by practically giving you the applications.
http://www.google.com/a/help/intl/en/admins/editions_spe.html
They sustain it with the support payments from their clients. These prices may well increase over time or as new features are offered. For the moment it is roughly a dollar a week, per user, for the corporate package.
And once you've used the services within your own department, you'll wonder how your team survived without them--think on the lines of platform interoperability.
Cheers.
Mod parent up.
This is indeed the root of any high-distribution system and is applicable to several domains--piracy, drugs, airborne diseases. It only takes one copy on a viable transmission medium to start the ball rolling.
I'm surprised that in 150 odd posts, no one has bothered to check the page source.
o r="+searchstr;
from http://bittorrent.com
(emphasis mine)
function sendheader(searchtype) {
var searchstr = document.search.searchtxt.value;
if (document.search.rdfile.checked == true) {
--------> searchstr = searchstr+" filetype:torrent"; <--------
document.search.action = "http://ms128.mysearch.com/jsp/GGmain.jsp?searchf
document.search.submit();
}
So, BitTorrent search is using MySearch.com to perform 'filetype:torrent' searches. This also explains the presence of the MySearch news links.
Here is the original USENET posting inviting users to try Opera with true MDI. It is dated Jul 14 1996, 12:00 am. Google is my friend. Cheers,
it only takes three commands to install Gentoo
/dev/hda && mkfs.xfs /dev/hda1 && mount /dev/hda1 /mnt/gentoo/ && chroot /mnt/gentoo/ && env-update && . /etc/profile && emerge sync && cd /usr/portage && scripts/bootsrap.sh && emerge system && emerge vim && vi /etc/fstab && emerge gentoo-dev-sources && cd /usr/src/linux && make menuconfig && make install modules_install && emerge gnome mozilla-firefox openoffice && emerge grub && cp /boot/grub/grub.conf.sample /boot/grub/grub.conf && vi /boot/grub/grub.conf && grub && init 6
cfdisk
that's the first one
Source Bash.org
The lawyer quoted in the article, Parry Aftab, isn't she the infamous Aftab who (was said to have) harassed Katie Jones of Katie.com?
From the article "...if the agreement is incomprehensible, it may be unenforceable, according to Aftab."
Personally i wouldn't trust Ms. Aftab to sit the right way on a toilet. Let alone give sound legal advice.
Oh, and down with software patents and Linux rules n all that.
Nice troll,
From the same site that you quote comes this little gem.
With So Few Vulnerabilites, You'd Think They'd Be Fixed By Now 10/19/2004 6:56 AM Randy Wilson
- IIS 6, 3 vulnerabilities, 1 patched, 2 still open.
- Apache 2, 22 vulnerabilities, 21 patched, 1 still open.
That was 2004. If one brings 2005 data for apache 1.3 and apache-SSL 1.3 into the comparison, the view goes askew.
- Apache 1.3, 15 vulnerabilities, 13 patched, 1 partially patched, 1 still open.
(The open vulnerability was reported in 2005--not when the blog was posted).
- Apache-SSL 1.3, 1 vulberability, 1 patched.
Have you had enough FUD for today?
Cheers
Remember, Ballmer said that iPod users are thieves and that the most common format of music on an iPod is 'stolen'.
i would like to see his response to the rampant "thievery" by the company's own loyal staff.
Then again, Ballmer probably can't put his money where his mouth is, coz his foot is blocking the way.
i have managed (in the past) to talk folks though downloading Mozilla (suite) via command line FTP. It is quite easy once you know the path. Once you know the path you might be able to directly download it via an FTP app or a download manager.
.torrent and a link to Bram Coehn's official BitTorrent client.
Then again, i've had switchers successfully download firefox with a
Check your agencies.
http://www.nsa.gov/selinux/
Age of Mythology needs admin rights to start. Even power user won't cut it. The older Age* games also needed admin rights, and if Dungeon Seige is working in user mode, then it is the exception, not the rule.
Well, that is kind of expected. Not all the protocols are openly documented -- some have to be continously reverse engineered to figure out the latest obfuscation. Frequent changes to Yahoo's auth procedure come to mind (see the changelog).
And you say "a generation behind" as if it is a bad thing. Note the argument "bleeding edge vs bug free". A more mature software typically delivers a better user experience. That said, it should be noted that Gaim has been and still remains one of the most active projects on sf.net. Should tell you something about the pace of development.
> Back when file sharing was big, gaim could not do it.
So are you admitting to file transfers being a passing fad?
- version 0.11.0-pre5 (02/26/2001) -- Rewritten file transfer for TOC
- version 0.75 (01/09/2004) -- Yahoo! file transfer (Tim Ringenbach)
- version 0.76 (04/01/2004) -- Jabber file transfer
- version 0.76 (04/01/2004) -- IRC file transfer (Tim Ringenbach)
- version 0.79 (06/24/2004) -- Added MSN file transfer (Felipe Contreras)
- version 0.80 (07/15/2004) -- Drag a file into the buddy list or a conversation to send it to that buddy
I know that much of the file transfer functionality for Msn and Y! protocols has been added just last month. But, to be perfectly honest, i didn't miss this feature, coz i use email to send/receive files. IMAP beats having to write firewall rules.> Then buddy icons, gaim could not do it. No gaim can do those,
A quick search of the changelog reveals this:
- version 0.11.0-pre12 (05/29/2001) -- Can receive buddy icons in Oscar
- version 0.45 (10/04/2001) -- Can choose buddy icon to send (for Oscar)
- version 0.63 (05/16/2003) -- MSN protocol plugin was rewritten, has experimental buddy icon support, and MSN Mobile support.
- version 0.79 (06/24/2004) -- Yahoo buddy icon support
- version 0.79 (06/24/2004) -- Dragging an image file into the Modify Account dialog will set that as a buddy icon.
Earlier buddy icons could only be set for AIM/ICQ (2001-2003). Now i can drag an image onto the "modify account" dialog of any account and I get an instant buddy icon.> but the big thing is voice and video, gaim cant do those.
Sure it can. Check out gaim-vv. It is a fork of gaim with the aim of bringing Voice and Video to the gaim experience. Its not perfect, but its not moving backwards either.
I think you should test drive a recent gaim.
Cheers, imtheguru
For calling it like it is.
Thanks for posting man. You said everything i wanted to say, and more, and far more articulately.
The phone number (posted in another thread) is 415 (also SF).
Cheers,
Disable "Smooth Scrolling"
The Pause/Break key is still used by many applications (even windows).
In 'Age of Mythology', Pause/Break, Pauses the game. Logical huh?
And in windows, WinKey + Pause/Break, brings up the System Properties window. Super fast way to access the Device Manager, check your profile size (before taking a backup) and set Environment Variables.
It is basically up to the application developer to use all the keys on the keyboard. Personally, i would like to see a applications use the Pause key to pause the program operation (think games, monitoring software, timers, etc). It would get rid of the extraenous keys on the top of my keyboard.
Last year a gentleman from PDI/Dreamworks gave a seminar to the CS graduates about the computational challanges faced during the making of the movie SHREK. It was the typical time-filler type seminar...lots of movie clips and few details.
However, i dug out the following facts from the summary report i wrote on that seminar. One assumes that the statistics for SHREK 2 are in higher orders of magnitude.
Some snippets from my draft report.
CSc 890 -- PERNET Colloquium 8
Date: 9 April 2003
"The Computation of Shrek"
Presentation by Karl Johann Schmidt
PDI/DreamWorks
Rendering
Due to the complexity and storage requirements, rendering is split into 4 layers. The statistics with regards to renders are quite interesting. A typical frame contains 20 million polygons and approx. 50 lights and requires 2 GB of input data (such as textures and background images). It takes one hour to render a single frame. Other, more complex frames have higher stats in all areas.
Hardware and Software
The animation/rendering is done on 2000 dual processor Linux servers and 1200 Linux workstations supplied by HP. The software used is written in-house -- ~4 million lines. Programming languages used include C, C++, Perl, Python and csh scripts. Version control accomplished by CVS. Compilation is done on SGI Irix and Pentium Linux.
Problems on Linux
Mr. Schmidt also talked about the problems of using Linux as a development platform. These included, the gcc compiler being too slow when compared to the Intel compiler. Lack of support in Linux -- the earlier vendor was SGI, the present vendor is HP. Lack of enough high intensity colours in the 32-bit colour palette. This is a known caveat of 3D animated movies and it is generally accepted that they are less graphically spectacular than a non-animated movies in certain aspects. (He does not elaborate how this is a "Linux-specific" caveat).
While Opera 7.0x, 7.1x and 7.2x were terrible, the new 7.5x is way faster than any of its predecessors. It even beats out Firefox in terms of pure speed.
Opera does have other quirks though. When using it with a proxy server (privoxy) it tends to not get all the information on a page. This is more apparent on pages with lots (>80) images.
Mozilla and Firefox dont miss a single image.
Vitrite allows you to set the transparency level of (almost) any window using the interfaces that have existed in windows 2000 since its release in late 1999. I believe it was up to the programmer to use (or not to use) the transparency interface.
I wonder if this is enough to counter the claim that Apple has had transparency since Sept 2000.
-Happy vitrite user since 2002.