No, you aren't missing something. Applications will still run as they did, except when they are heavily multithreaded. Starting up something CPU-cycle expensive and typing in open office might give you an idea.
But all in all, it's the kernel. End users should be nicely unaware of it. Don't expect any fireworks to go off, most of the time you notice a kernel you will have hoped you didn't:).
Yeah, but sun already has several development platforms. They are not just the creators of the language, they are in the IDE, application server etc. business as well.
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No, that's not the problem. The problem is that the IDE's use different project files etc. So these are incompatible. Furthermore, IBM is using their own SWT implementation, which is AWT/Swing done right with more support from the base operating system. This is more or less incompatible with Swing, the sun way to doing GUI's.
I could not get to the source tar of this package (v1.1). It seems to be very large (4MB!), maybe due to some background captcha pictures in the package. The CVS entries work though, so I took a look at the code.
Maybe it's a good idea to put some logging functionality and blacklisting in the package as a future feature. If a lot of requests originate from the same IP address or range, you could check the owner of the domain (through reverse-DNS) and blacklist the server doing the man in the middle attack.
With email my configurable blacklist + bayan filter manages to get rid of most (not all, darnit) spam. No reason to not try these methods on captcha's.
Though I agree that captcha's aren't perfect, they have not been able to irritate me beyond reason, and spam has. So good work making this open source.
Cause they would have to pay way more than 10 grand, and would loose that case in court for sure.
Dunno how long hotmail exists, but sex has been on the internet for a long time (/m thinks back to huge naked ASCII women while waiting for my printout at university). So hotmale.com might even have existed before hotmail.com.
After the 10th XBox game, Microsoft is at a profit. Nice going guys...
Cygwin is just Posix libraries for Windows really, with some added tools and a familiar unix folder structure underneath.
What you do not have in cygwin but (very probably) will have in coLinux:
full linux file system (/dev and/proc are missing for instance)
running of linux applications and libraries without porting
true linux process management, every process it launches is a Windows process (which wreaks havoc on control characters like [ctrl]-[z])
Furthermore, this would be great for running linux on non compliant hardware. If you can run linux using Windows sound and video drivers, you can be sure that the linux demo at your friends house on his just new computer will run smoothly. Without you having to compile the latest video drivers for over an hour.
Still, I would not expect network support etc. right at the first go. VMware isn't an expensive commercial application just for nothing. They will get into some difficult problems I guess.
We all know how Windows assumes it is the only OS installed, when dealing with things like disk partitions, MBR's etc. How does the Windows NT kernel like sharing Ring 0 with Linux?
That should be no problem. Vmware already locks partitions or even serial and USB devices for it's own use. Obviously you cannot share these partitions or devides with both operating systems, but one at a time is no problem at all.
You have gone from experimental boxes only, to dual booting to Live CD's to try Linux out (very slow...)
I don't know about really slow. CDROM are definately not _that_ slow anymore. My Dell laptop has no problem at all running knoppix, including sound, firewire, networking, usb support. As long as you have enough memory (256 at least, 512 mb runs great) it is not slow after startup either. And compared with a complete installation of linux it takes a lot less time. Upgrading is easy too:)
If a linux fan wants to show a Windows user what its all about then they can hopefully download one EXE and go.
That I must agree with. It would take a bit of pain out of that process. And they can still keep their freakin' MSN messenger running in the background.
Confirmed, finally I can run Xeyes on my Windows computer. Xroaches will be more difficult though:)
I have a client (Win2k) server (RH linux 9) configuration installed. I currently run X windows from my cygwin configuration and gnome-session from my linux host atop of that. Looks great and runs fine over a 100 mbit connection. I'll try the K-desktop later on.
The biggest problem under cygwin is that applications don't respond well to control characters. Otherwise most applications are running fine. It takes some getting used to the different file name conventions and line feed characters though. So this linux under Win2k/XP is very welcome.
Well, I don't know. When I am looking for a "review" on google for a specific piece of computer hardware, I get hundreds of pages with a link or button [write a review]. Right after that, in 90% of the cases is [0 users have written a review].
So in certain cases some additional intelligence could not hurt. Something like a bayan filter might be used to solve above problem. So the idea is to have a brute force (enormously parallel) search engine and an semi intelligent agent coupled to it.
This might also check for bad links, browser compliance and even taste (filter out pages with yellow on green background and or too flashy pages etc).
Note that the agent might just stick to static rules, making it _very_ unintelligent:)
When are they going to find out that there is a third dimension out there? When are planes going to fly over my head?
I was wondering if a 4.1 speaker system could not do it all. One straight above the monitor (somewhere along the ceiling), one on either side (a bit further away if possible) and one right behind you. And the subwoofer, well, somewhere. Now you could 'vector' any sound from anywhere.
Or is this too simplistic to get the full 3D experience? Or is a 6.1 needed for this? Audiophiles, attack!
(2) working on the acoustics of the room, the placement of the speakers in the room, and the placement of their own head in the room. Note that all the stuff under #2 is free or cheap.
Maybe in your test setup, but changing the interior of my room does not come cheap. Furthermore, with few exeptions, there is little or no way to check if everything has been set up correctly. Then again, if I can not hear if it is setup ok or not, then it is probably set up well enough:)
Only on slashdot would someone imagine using his/her sleep to program. I hope I can dream up a nice 20" TFT screen, so my eyes won't hurt when I get up.
It's not so much buggy as that the Win 32 system is not really build for Java. The multitasking and process handling just don't fit right. I've never seen JRE bugs on MS (not including the MS port, which was fast but broken).
There's no denying that you can write really ugly code in Perl, but you can also write beautiul code in Perl
Which is somehow always the phrase if someone's defending one of the ugly languages. You CAN do it right. Well, you can write beautiful basic code, but most programmers agree that basic is ugly as sin.
When I write "2" + 2 then I would expect the language to reply "bullshit" too me. If the language uses answer = inputVar + 2 and the answer is four for "2" + 2, imagine what happens if the input is "u". Now u2 is ok for me, but I don't want the program to crash when it is trying to divide that variable later on.
Java is great for things like this. As long as there are additional interfaces available to use the specific phone features if they are available. Java applications are small, strong typed, and they know the word sandbox. Furthermore, there are many great tools around and very usefull debuggers.
Don't go comparing people with terrorists because you are diffent. That's going way to far, even if the target is a very religious group.
Before you go antagonizing an entire country, please take a look at yourself and your government too. If you are an American take a look at (recent) history would you?
I can understand most of the article, but that last sentence should be enough to put you on 0 for flamebait, instead of +5 insightful.
I think you are confusing the responsabilities of keeping a computer secure. First of all, it's the developers responsability. They should create secure programs and release updates if the software is found to be broken asap (thus not after a month of possible mayhem).
Obviously the end user has to do his part too. Install a firewall (which should at least be included), watch which mail attachments to click, and which programs to install. And obviously, keep up to date.
I don't see how your description of DRM has anything to do with security. It doesn't, not in this sense. Do you keep updated with fixes automatically if you use DRM? Or are you concerned about malicious music files?
And yes, both developers, corporations _and_ end users are responsible for security. You should implement security on every level. Can an end user do anything about harmfull word attachments? Outlook (Express) scripting? IE holes? (fill in rest of list).
Just saying to users that they should use another product is not feasible. Corporations should make sure that a product is reasonably secure from the start. Microsoft definately does not have an advantage on that point.
I must say that they are getting slightly better over time. Ending buffer overruns is a good thing. Now they just have to get the idea of sandboxes and firewalls (starting up IN TIME, hah) and they are getting somewhere.
Are you actually sure that they did not accidentally hit the same characters on the keyboard? I mean, if these tidbits are source, then I would not build a well on it.
Still, if they include it in their source tree then they are in violation I guess. Now go on and put them together into a real program or library.
I see more in high res LCD/OLED screens (for the real work), coupled with (very) high resolution e-ink 2x A4 sized books. You could just "Print" to the e-ink book and use that for documentation.
Later on, these e-ink books could be upgraded to color and touch screens to make annotations. The other screens could also use touch screens and - indeed - become part of the desk.
The books would obviously be portable and use wireless technology. With even small bateries these monitors could last really long.
Plasma screens are not really interesting for these kinda applications. Actually, I would prefer a high res / high lumen projector to a plasma screen right now. Beware for Plasma screens burning in as well, or having fans, or using a lot of energy...Wouldn't mind getting one though:)
Well yeah, you could not play duck hunt on a plasma screen, because the gun does not shoot. Instead it receives the light emited by the screen on a photo-detector. Since it is synchonized with the horizontal and vertical frequency it knows where it is aiming (it sees the electron beam).
Since LCD and Plasma screens do not do horizontal and vertical refresh, it is impossible to use this technique. Using radio would be a better idea. I think some 3D mice (also called owls) used this technique.
So now you also know why you could hit the duck while aiming much to the left and right of the duck, while aiming above or below would not get you a decent meal - err, score. The horizontal frequency is much higher.
Eh, it slices through the molecule bonds? Are that the ones that keep the molecules together or the atoms of the molecules? And will this not create by products?
I hope that these lasers are not too power consuming or using wrong materials. It would be a shame if a lot of polution was produced just to accomodate some stupid marketing hype. Can't they think of something more usefull than cutting freaking dinosaurs in cheese?
Oh hell, most of you will have never taste real cheese anyway:) And the laser will probably not be up to to cutting through Dutch 1 year (+) old 48+ cheese.
"Nu" translates to "now" in dutch, and for some time.nu places were popular. Maybe they still are in the underground scene. I haven't seen any commercial sites addopting.nu however. There are little or no.tv sites here as well.
Maybe the problem is that these domains come cheap, and that the stuff that you can find with.nu or.tv domain names mostly is too.
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No, you aren't missing something. Applications will still run as they did, except when they are heavily multithreaded. Starting up something CPU-cycle expensive and typing in open office might give you an idea.
:).
But all in all, it's the kernel. End users should be nicely unaware of it. Don't expect any fireworks to go off, most of the time you notice a kernel you will have hoped you didn't
Yeah, but sun already has several development platforms. They are not just the creators of the language, they are in the IDE, application server etc. business as well.
No, that's not the problem. The problem is that the IDE's use different project files etc. So these are incompatible. Furthermore, IBM is using their own SWT implementation, which is AWT/Swing done right with more support from the base operating system. This is more or less incompatible with Swing, the sun way to doing GUI's.
That's just all the slashdotters checking if the worm does indeed do any harm.
I could not get to the source tar of this package (v1.1). It seems to be very large (4MB!), maybe due to some background captcha pictures in the package. The CVS entries work though, so I took a look at the code.
Maybe it's a good idea to put some logging functionality and blacklisting in the package as a future feature. If a lot of requests originate from the same IP address or range, you could check the owner of the domain (through reverse-DNS) and blacklist the server doing the man in the middle attack.
With email my configurable blacklist + bayan filter manages to get rid of most (not all, darnit) spam. No reason to not try these methods on captcha's.
Though I agree that captcha's aren't perfect, they have not been able to irritate me beyond reason, and spam has. So good work making this open source.
Cause they would have to pay way more than 10 grand, and would loose that case in court for sure.
/m thinks back to huge naked ASCII women while waiting for my printout at university). So hotmale.com might even have existed before hotmail.com.
Dunno how long hotmail exists, but sex has been on the internet for a long time (
After the 10th XBox game, Microsoft is at a profit. Nice going guys...
What you do not have in cygwin but (very probably) will have in coLinux:
Furthermore, this would be great for running linux on non compliant hardware. If you can run linux using Windows sound and video drivers, you can be sure that the linux demo at your friends house on his just new computer will run smoothly. Without you having to compile the latest video drivers for over an hour.
Still, I would not expect network support etc. right at the first go. VMware isn't an expensive commercial application just for nothing. They will get into some difficult problems I guess.
We all know how Windows assumes it is the only OS installed, when dealing with things like disk partitions, MBR's etc. How does the Windows NT kernel like sharing Ring 0 with Linux?
:)
That should be no problem. Vmware already locks partitions or even serial and USB devices for it's own use. Obviously you cannot share these partitions or devides with both operating systems, but one at a time is no problem at all.
You have gone from experimental boxes only, to dual booting to Live CD's to try Linux out (very slow...)
I don't know about really slow. CDROM are definately not _that_ slow anymore. My Dell laptop has no problem at all running knoppix, including sound, firewire, networking, usb support. As long as you have enough memory (256 at least, 512 mb runs great) it is not slow after startup either. And compared with a complete installation of linux it takes a lot less time. Upgrading is easy too
If a linux fan wants to show a Windows user what its all about then they can hopefully download one EXE and go.
That I must agree with. It would take a bit of pain out of that process. And they can still keep their freakin' MSN messenger running in the background.
Confirmed, finally I can run Xeyes on my Windows computer. Xroaches will be more difficult though :)
I have a client (Win2k) server (RH linux 9) configuration installed. I currently run X windows from my cygwin configuration and gnome-session from my linux host atop of that. Looks great and runs fine over a 100 mbit connection. I'll try the K-desktop later on.
The biggest problem under cygwin is that applications don't respond well to control characters. Otherwise most applications are running fine. It takes some getting used to the different file name conventions and line feed characters though. So this linux under Win2k/XP is very welcome.
Well, I don't know. When I am looking for a "review" on google for a specific piece of computer hardware, I get hundreds of pages with a link or button [write a review]. Right after that, in 90% of the cases is [0 users have written a review].
:)
So in certain cases some additional intelligence could not hurt. Something like a bayan filter might be used to solve above problem. So the idea is to have a brute force (enormously parallel) search engine and an semi intelligent agent coupled to it.
This might also check for bad links, browser compliance and even taste (filter out pages with yellow on green background and or too flashy pages etc).
Note that the agent might just stick to static rules, making it _very_ unintelligent
When are they going to find out that there is a third dimension out there? When are planes going to fly over my head?
I was wondering if a 4.1 speaker system could not do it all. One straight above the monitor (somewhere along the ceiling), one on either side (a bit further away if possible) and one right behind you. And the subwoofer, well, somewhere. Now you could 'vector' any sound from anywhere.
Or is this too simplistic to get the full 3D experience? Or is a 6.1 needed for this? Audiophiles, attack!
(2) working on the acoustics of the room, the placement of the speakers in the room, and the placement of their own head in the room. Note that all the stuff under #2 is free or cheap.
:)
Maybe in your test setup, but changing the interior of my room does not come cheap. Furthermore, with few exeptions, there is little or no way to check if everything has been set up correctly. Then again, if I can not hear if it is setup ok or not, then it is probably set up well enough
Only on slashdot would someone imagine using his/her sleep to program. I hope I can dream up a nice 20" TFT screen, so my eyes won't hurt when I get up.
It's not so much buggy as that the Win 32 system is not really build for Java. The multitasking and process handling just don't fit right. I've never seen JRE bugs on MS (not including the MS port, which was fast but broken).
I want to have a dream about a trip to mars. Oh, wait...
There's no denying that you can write really ugly code in Perl, but you can also write beautiul code in Perl
Which is somehow always the phrase if someone's defending one of the ugly languages. You CAN do it right. Well, you can write beautiful basic code, but most programmers agree that basic is ugly as sin.
When I write "2" + 2 then I would expect the language to reply "bullshit" too me. If the language uses answer = inputVar + 2 and the answer is four for "2" + 2, imagine what happens if the input is "u". Now u2 is ok for me, but I don't want the program to crash when it is trying to divide that variable later on.
Java is great for things like this. As long as there are additional interfaces available to use the specific phone features if they are available. Java applications are small, strong typed, and they know the word sandbox. Furthermore, there are many great tools around and very usefull debuggers.
Don't go comparing people with terrorists because you are diffent. That's going way to far, even if the target is a very religious group.
Before you go antagonizing an entire country, please take a look at yourself and your government too. If you are an American take a look at (recent) history would you?
I can understand most of the article, but that last sentence should be enough to put you on 0 for flamebait, instead of +5 insightful.
I think you are confusing the responsabilities of keeping a computer secure. First of all, it's the developers responsability. They should create secure programs and release updates if the software is found to be broken asap (thus not after a month of possible mayhem).
Obviously the end user has to do his part too. Install a firewall (which should at least be included), watch which mail attachments to click, and which programs to install. And obviously, keep up to date.
I don't see how your description of DRM has anything to do with security. It doesn't, not in this sense. Do you keep updated with fixes automatically if you use DRM? Or are you concerned about malicious music files?
And yes, both developers, corporations _and_ end users are responsible for security. You should implement security on every level. Can an end user do anything about harmfull word attachments? Outlook (Express) scripting? IE holes? (fill in rest of list).
Just saying to users that they should use another product is not feasible. Corporations should make sure that a product is reasonably secure from the start. Microsoft definately does not have an advantage on that point.
I must say that they are getting slightly better over time. Ending buffer overruns is a good thing. Now they just have to get the idea of sandboxes and firewalls (starting up IN TIME, hah) and they are getting somewhere.
Are you actually sure that they did not accidentally hit the same characters on the keyboard? I mean, if these tidbits are source, then I would not build a well on it.
Still, if they include it in their source tree then they are in violation I guess. Now go on and put them together into a real program or library.
Uh, does that mean no more SCO articles? Dang!
Neh, they've probably put them in orbit around pluto already to sell them as antiquities later on.
I see more in high res LCD/OLED screens (for the real work), coupled with (very) high resolution e-ink 2x A4 sized books. You could just "Print" to the e-ink book and use that for documentation.
:)
Later on, these e-ink books could be upgraded to color and touch screens to make annotations. The other screens could also use touch screens and - indeed - become part of the desk.
The books would obviously be portable and use wireless technology. With even small bateries these monitors could last really long.
Plasma screens are not really interesting for these kinda applications. Actually, I would prefer a high res / high lumen projector to a plasma screen right now. Beware for Plasma screens burning in as well, or having fans, or using a lot of energy...Wouldn't mind getting one though
Well yeah, you could not play duck hunt on a plasma screen, because the gun does not shoot. Instead it receives the light emited by the screen on a photo-detector. Since it is synchonized with the horizontal and vertical frequency it knows where it is aiming (it sees the electron beam).
Since LCD and Plasma screens do not do horizontal and vertical refresh, it is impossible to use this technique. Using radio would be a better idea. I think some 3D mice (also called owls) used this technique.
So now you also know why you could hit the duck while aiming much to the left and right of the duck, while aiming above or below would not get you a decent meal - err, score. The horizontal frequency is much higher.
Eh, it slices through the molecule bonds? Are that the ones that keep the molecules together or the atoms of the molecules? And will this not create by products?
:) And the laser will probably not be up to to cutting through Dutch 1 year (+) old 48+ cheese.
I hope that these lasers are not too power consuming or using wrong materials. It would be a shame if a lot of polution was produced just to accomodate some stupid marketing hype. Can't they think of something more usefull than cutting freaking dinosaurs in cheese?
Oh hell, most of you will have never taste real cheese anyway
A dutch cheese head.
"Nu" translates to "now" in dutch, and for some time .nu places were popular. Maybe they still are in the underground scene. I haven't seen any commercial sites addopting .nu however. There are little or no .tv sites here as well.
.nu or .tv
Maybe the problem is that these domains come cheap, and that the stuff that you can find with
domain names mostly is too.