Plus, any revision control system whose author has developed a formal Theory of Patches can't be all bad.;-)
The formal
Theory of Patches
is just a page of incoherent mumbo-jumbo using fancy words and phrases, and that with little understanding. The so-called "definitions" and "theorems" are ambigious, incomplete and in general incomprehensive. For a starter :
The proofs and theorems given here are what I would call ``physicist'' proofs and theorems, which is to say that while the proofs may not be rigorous, they are practical, and the theorems are intended to give physical insight.
This is an approach often taken by experimental physicists, and is often reasonable, it is an entirable wrong approach for modelling application of patches! This is evident by his statement that
"The theory of patches is independent of the data which the patches manipulate".
An approach based upon Graph Theory (which he can read about in any book on Discrete Mathematics) would be much more fruitful. He could even pick up how to make definitions, theorems and proofs by reading the book by Grimaldi.
It would be great to have a mathematician work on this, but I am not a mathematician, and don't care for math.
It clearly shows! And if he doesn't care for math, why does he base his so-called theory on
"theory of quantum mechanics"? He happily refers to the mathematics of Operator Theory, and "applies" it. Yuck!
It goes on and on. The guy can't possibly have passed freshman year.
... certainly need an upgraded PR department. At least the developer of BK is honest. It's seldom that we in writing sees such a clear committment to vendor lock-in.
dSVG is NOT a spec being proposed by the W3C. It's something we came up with ourselves for our product, and then proposed to the SVG Working Group.
Since this appear to be a product by a comercial company, it sort of begs the questions : Is any patents filed relating to this, or is any existing patent involved? This includes any technology necessary to implement dSVG.
I apologize if I appear impolite, but I'm getting cynical as I age.
This file contains the proposal submitted to the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) SVG Working Group to enhance SVG's support of enterprise application development for dynamic interfaces
along with an EULA whose length put even the MS one to shame.
However, I can't download the proposal without first agreeing to the EULA, so good riddance. If I was sufficiently interested I probably could look it up at W3C site.
And SuSE stopped providing free downloads years ago
You may freely do an ftp-install of SuSE Linux, and use the YAST to update your system at any time. In fact, in contrast to RedHat, you don't even have to register in order to use the update system. What you don't get from ftp-install is some propertary software, like a three month trial license of WM-Ware.
You clearly are bit confused about the term "extortion", so please bear with me for a moment. Only a private citizen may be charged with extortion. When a corporation is doing the same, it's an example proving that competition in a free market is working for the good of us all.
Does the new SCO Linux licensing program imply that UnitedLinux customers are not immune to litigation? I would gather that the other partners are not so happy with such a prospect.
It was a private company that made the part that failed in Challenger booster. Even more so, one of the engineers at that company warned the managment of possible failure under certain conditions, and was ignored. The rest is history.
Some juveniles confuse Counter Strike with real life.
There are very active research programs going on in a number of defense groups concerning rail guns at all scales from personal defense to large scale cannons.
A handheld rail gun need quite some strong batteries if it's gonna match an typical ordinary handheld gun available today. Likely the weigth of the batteries will not make the gun handheld anymore. But shooting darts at close range might be practical.
... of how much energy you have available. A slug from this gun will never have any high velocity nor any significant penetration power. The energy released by the handheld batteries are quite simply not enough.
What do you think would happen if SCO was found out to have violated the GPL? The kernel Linux is, after all, under GPL.
SCO has never once said anything against the GNU,...
Of course SCO is very careful here, or they risk having a legal conflict with FSF. Perhaps SCO is hoping that by "taking care of" the Linux kernel, their litigation might be extended to GNU. After all, at
GNU's Not Unix!
we find the following written :
Variants of the GNU operating system, which use the kernel Linux, are now widely used.
If you wash your shredded paper to pulp, then reconstruction is not possible. This has been done for a long time in one oil company : shred then wash using a special machine. Huge amounts of paper was shredded this way.
Indeed an interesting article. In particular the following quote from Sen. Barbara Boxer is encouraging :
"I don't think you know what you've done," Boxer told Dickey. "You've motivated us to look closely at consolidation. When you said earlier that your local staff 'fell in line,' that was a dead giveaway."
Even the media organizations that you could once count on being neutral and just reporting the facts are lost to us now.
There do exist alternativ sources of informed and critical journalism. For instance,
ZNet
has many articles written by very good journalists from respected newspapers. Quite a few articles/interviews with Noam Chomksy as well on that site.
There is also foreign concerns about the US ownership concentrations. The highly respectable newspaper Le Monde diplomatique, has the following article
United States: an unfree press
describing the results of US ownership structure.
Back in the day, Slashdot linked to them (when they were still up) crushing their server... so, the admins used mod_rewrite to send any Slashdot referred folks to a different site (with a similar url).
Going out of their way to insult people in this fashion just shows how unserious they are.
But if you keep port 135 open on your DMZ boxes, you deserve to be hanged with a piece of CAT-5 cable.
Consider the usual : A Windows client on the internal network is infected with a virus that may exploit this buffer overflow. Since port 135 is not firewalled on the internal network, your Windows servers are hacked. And the rest is history.
In addition we have all those home Windows boxes connected direct to the Internet with no firewall/virus-detection. Another playground has been opened for script kiddies.
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The formal Theory of Patches is just a page of incoherent mumbo-jumbo using fancy words and phrases, and that with little understanding. The so-called "definitions" and "theorems" are ambigious, incomplete and in general incomprehensive. For a starter :
The proofs and theorems given here are what I would call ``physicist'' proofs and theorems, which is to say that while the proofs may not be rigorous, they are practical, and the theorems are intended to give physical insight.
This is an approach often taken by experimental physicists, and is often reasonable, it is an entirable wrong approach for modelling application of patches! This is evident by his statement that "The theory of patches is independent of the data which the patches manipulate".
An approach based upon Graph Theory (which he can read about in any book on Discrete Mathematics) would be much more fruitful. He could even pick up how to make definitions, theorems and proofs by reading the book by Grimaldi.
It would be great to have a mathematician work on this, but I am not a mathematician, and don't care for math.
It clearly shows! And if he doesn't care for math, why does he base his so-called theory on "theory of quantum mechanics"? He happily refers to the mathematics of Operator Theory, and "applies" it. Yuck!
It goes on and on. The guy can't possibly have passed freshman year.
... certainly need an upgraded PR department. At least the developer of BK is honest. It's seldom that we in writing sees such a clear committment to vendor lock-in.
Since this appear to be a product by a comercial company, it sort of begs the questions : Is any patents filed relating to this, or is any existing patent involved? This includes any technology necessary to implement dSVG.
I apologize if I appear impolite, but I'm getting cynical as I age.
Well, from download page we have :
This file contains the proposal submitted to the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) SVG Working Group to enhance SVG's support of enterprise application development for dynamic interfaces
along with an EULA whose length put even the MS one to shame.
However, I can't download the proposal without first agreeing to the EULA, so good riddance. If I was sufficiently interested I probably could look it up at W3C site.
You may freely do an ftp-install of SuSE Linux, and use the YAST to update your system at any time. In fact, in contrast to RedHat, you don't even have to register in order to use the update system. What you don't get from ftp-install is some propertary software, like a three month trial license of WM-Ware.
You clearly are bit confused about the term "extortion", so please bear with me for a moment. Only a private citizen may be charged with extortion. When a corporation is doing the same, it's an example proving that competition in a free market is working for the good of us all.
Does the new SCO Linux licensing program imply that UnitedLinux customers are not immune to litigation? I would gather that the other partners are not so happy with such a prospect.
An intelligent and well formulated reply for an adolescent using the PC his mummy bought for him.
Microsoft doesn't let anyone but itself re-compile the code to Windows
I may freely build my Open Source executables, along with any changes I've made to it.
If re-compiling Windows where an option, the DRM and Palladium would not be possible.
Microsoft are adapting their strategy since the old type FUD did not seem to work. MS did not come to have $40 billions in chash for beeing stupid.
It was a private company that made the part that failed in Challenger booster. Even more so, one of the engineers at that company warned the managment of possible failure under certain conditions, and was ignored. The rest is history.
Some juveniles confuse Counter Strike with real life.
There are very active research programs going on in a number of defense groups concerning rail guns at all scales from personal defense to large scale cannons.
A handheld rail gun need quite some strong batteries if it's gonna match an typical ordinary handheld gun available today. Likely the weigth of the batteries will not make the gun handheld anymore. But shooting darts at close range might be practical.
... of how much energy you have available. A slug from this gun will never have any high velocity nor any significant penetration power. The energy released by the handheld batteries are quite simply not enough.
What do you think would happen if SCO was found out to have violated the GPL? The kernel Linux is, after all, under GPL.
SCO has never once said anything against the GNU, ...
Of course SCO is very careful here, or they risk having a legal conflict with FSF. Perhaps SCO is hoping that by "taking care of" the Linux kernel, their litigation might be extended to GNU. After all, at GNU's Not Unix! we find the following written :
Variants of the GNU operating system, which use the kernel Linux, are now widely used.
And of course, agree to a new draconian EULA.
I've not installed MS latest service pack quite simply because of it's EULA (copied from Media Player 9.0 EULA).
That's less than 48 hours, depending on which timezone you live in. Should be an interesting weekend for some.
If you wash your shredded paper to pulp, then reconstruction is not possible. This has been done for a long time in one oil company : shred then wash using a special machine. Huge amounts of paper was shredded this way.
"I don't think you know what you've done," Boxer told Dickey. "You've motivated us to look closely at consolidation. When you said earlier that your local staff 'fell in line,' that was a dead giveaway."
There do exist alternativ sources of informed and critical journalism. For instance, ZNet has many articles written by very good journalists from respected newspapers. Quite a few articles/interviews with Noam Chomksy as well on that site.
There is also foreign concerns about the US ownership concentrations. The highly respectable newspaper Le Monde diplomatique, has the following article United States: an unfree press describing the results of US ownership structure.
Going out of their way to insult people in this fashion just shows how unserious they are.
Only half of my reply was that. Giving the link to Google for someone asking for a FAQ was a cheap shot I could not resist ;-)
I guess my question must have seemed really off topic on Slashdot.
Nope.
The DVD drive's BIOS takes care of this. From the manufactures site you'll find updated BIOS for download to handle more formats.
Is there a FAQ on this somewhere?
Have you tried Free Search Engine?
It's also common sense to have patched up boxes, but still old exploits works because this is not done.
Consider the usual : A Windows client on the internal network is infected with a virus that may exploit this buffer overflow. Since port 135 is not firewalled on the internal network, your Windows servers are hacked. And the rest is history.
In addition we have all those home Windows boxes connected direct to the Internet with no firewall/virus-detection. Another playground has been opened for script kiddies.