Though I only read the first few pages of the article, I can already see that this is extremely old news. I saw an english documentary on this exact fact during the actual iraq war! Just search google for "nuclear centrifuge aluminium tubes" and you'll see hundreds of links on that topic! Most of them date over a year ago.
I click on your 404 page link and get nothing but links to sites about dteam except for one solitary link... I'm not sure that's a bug as you've just found a loophole in the engine where if you search for a page that's gone, has the name in it's link, and hundreds of sites link to, it's sure to get a 404 page. All that says is they need a routine to get rid of the 404 pages!
However I agree with you totally in one point - Clusty is already totally bloated. If you look at google itself's example who won the previous search engine war by being clean and unbloated you can see what a bad idea for search engines that is!
I live in Australia. My local store doesn't force you to buy windows at all, and sells notebooks without windows as well. You have to buy a seperate OEM windows version that costs $165 and is freely installed (the last time I checked).
Actually I probably shouldn't have given you a link - it quotes the prices on the website including WinXP. If you go to the actual store to buy a computer then they explicitly ask "Do you want Windows with it?"
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and the webcam that you forgot to disable has an audience of two million...
South Park Episode S2E3: "Cow Days". In the episode they go to a rodeo and there's a game there where you have to get the ball through Jennifer Love Hewitt's mouth. Unfortunately the hole isn't big enough and Kyle yells "I call shenanigans!" bringing the police over.
In the end the shenanigans is enacted and everyone gets a broom (for some reason) and wrecks the rodeo.
It's not exactly a secret that google can be shown in different languages. Just google for their Language Tools page and you'll see their full repertoire. This includes Klingon, Pig Latin, Hacker (1337 5|>34|), Elmer Fudd, and . . . umm . . . "Bork Bork Bork".
I think it shows some of my habitual stupidity when I press the calculator button on my keyboard to check that bug and then, as KCalc pops up, realise that I use linux.
Most people just call both circumstances "buffer overflow", even though there's a subtle difference.
Anyway it's not that easy - forgetting to check for buffer size is an easy mistake to make, even though it is an extremely bad one to make. Most of the time it's not even evident looking at the code specifically looking for buffer overflow possibilities.
Windows XP installed by me (a windows person): 65 minutes. (Plus about 30 minutes to install extra software and drivers)
Mandrake installed by a windows user: 35 minutes. (Plus about 2 minutes to install the graphics driver. All other stuff was already installed).
Anyway, you're not really responding to his point since he was arguing that linux boxes just work without extra effort, and non-techies like his wife don't need to go through extra crap like installing virus scanners, popup blockers or firefox, having the windows update box pop up once a week...
In fact, you have I'm pretty sure just supported his argument.
So let me get this straight. You are attacking the writer for saying that that is a typo instead of a mistake? You, sir, are pedantic.
But let me for a second play your game.
Technically, by dictionary, a typo is "An error while inputting text via keyboard, made despite the fact that the user knows exactly what to type in. This usually results from the operator's inexperience at keyboarding, rushing, not paying attention, or carelessness." This means that should you accidentely type something totally different by habit or just thinking of something else, this will also classify as a typo under the definition of the world, for example typing "Gentoo AMD64" instead of "Gentoo x86" because he was copying the same format as above.
Unfortunately you have just assumed that he made a mistake, that he literally thought that he had the AMD64 version installed on his computer, and thought "I knew there was something wrong with that", or he thought that Pentiums were a special class of Athalon 64. That would be classed as a mistake.
Don't you know what they say about assuming: "don't assume or you'll make an arsehole out of yourself", or something like that. I say similar things about being pedantic as well.
That's because you can't just order Windows MCE from the shop and install it on any computer. You order the complete computer with Windows MCE pre-installed and because of this you can't choose the hardware or upgrade it. As a sideeffect, they couldn't get exactly the same hardware for MythTV as the windows box had a couple of specialised components.
You can see that they tried however. They were trying to compare the software not the hardware. They got the same cpu and hard drive and similar tuners (should have the same PQ for hardware - I'm pretty sure they have the same chipset), ram and dvd drives.
Unfortunately because of this it's not fair since MythTV wasn't made for that hardware, while WinMCE was.
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Though I only read the first few pages of the article, I can already see that this is extremely old news. I saw an english documentary on this exact fact during the actual iraq war! Just search google for "nuclear centrifuge aluminium tubes" and you'll see hundreds of links on that topic! Most of them date over a year ago.
I click on your 404 page link and get nothing but links to sites about dteam except for one solitary link... I'm not sure that's a bug as you've just found a loophole in the engine where if you search for a page that's gone, has the name in it's link, and hundreds of sites link to, it's sure to get a 404 page. All that says is they need a routine to get rid of the 404 pages!
However I agree with you totally in one point - Clusty is already totally bloated. If you look at google itself's example who won the previous search engine war by being clean and unbloated you can see what a bad idea for search engines that is!
The expression "I call shinanigans" comes from South Park. I wasn't talking about the word shinanigans!
I live in Australia. My local store doesn't force you to buy windows at all, and sells notebooks without windows as well. You have to buy a seperate OEM windows version that costs $165 and is freely installed (the last time I checked).
Actually I probably shouldn't have given you a link - it quotes the prices on the website including WinXP. If you go to the actual store to buy a computer then they explicitly ask "Do you want Windows with it?"
and the webcam that you forgot to disable has an audience of two million...
South Park Episode S2E3: "Cow Days". In the episode they go to a rodeo and there's a game there where you have to get the ball through Jennifer Love Hewitt's mouth. Unfortunately the hole isn't big enough and Kyle yells "I call shenanigans!" bringing the police over.
In the end the shenanigans is enacted and everyone gets a broom (for some reason) and wrecks the rodeo.
I'm already using vi, emacs, kate and gedit, why should I use yours as well? Because it uses Linux!
even Microsoft is vunerable to the Slashdot effect!
It's not exactly a secret that google can be shown in different languages. Just google for their Language Tools page and you'll see their full repertoire. This includes Klingon, Pig Latin, Hacker (1337 5|>34|), Elmer Fudd, and . . . umm . . . "Bork Bork Bork".
I think it shows some of my habitual stupidity when I press the calculator button on my keyboard to check that bug and then, as KCalc pops up, realise that I use linux.
lol, says the person who is a whole 195 ids behind me!
42 people have already beaten you to that joke! God bless Goatse for grabbing karma!
(this is a joke, not meant as troll, even if the way some people would assume the tone would give mean connotations.)
I love the use of the plural "unices" in that quote. It caused me to look up on google for the plural of unix, and sure enough, it's correct.
Most people just call both circumstances "buffer overflow", even though there's a subtle difference.
Anyway it's not that easy - forgetting to check for buffer size is an easy mistake to make, even though it is an extremely bad one to make. Most of the time it's not even evident looking at the code specifically looking for buffer overflow possibilities.
I've not known a single DVD to have playback problems. I think there's something wrong with your player or the video store, not the DVD standard.
Isn't he a New Zealander? If that's the case then yes, IBM would have absolutely no rights to what he does in his spare time.
Or the Video Player's Guide to the Codec.
. . . you haven't used linux in a while have you?
Windows XP installed by me (a windows person): 65 minutes. (Plus about 30 minutes to install extra software and drivers)
Mandrake installed by a windows user: 35 minutes. (Plus about 2 minutes to install the graphics driver. All other stuff was already installed).
Anyway, you're not really responding to his point since he was arguing that linux boxes just work without extra effort, and non-techies like his wife don't need to go through extra crap like installing virus scanners, popup blockers or firefox, having the windows update box pop up once a week...
In fact, you have I'm pretty sure just supported his argument.
yes of course since you'd need to run very fast from . . . umm . . . your computer . . .
also those vunerabilities were fixed before the bug was even public knowledge. My debian box was patched before the slashdot notice.
perhaps you should look a little closer, and you'll see the grandparent is the author of the article.
I'm sorry, it was a typo
In the future, robots will be twice as fast and three billion times the size. Ha hoiya.
So let me get this straight. You are attacking the writer for saying that that is a typo instead of a mistake? You, sir, are pedantic.
But let me for a second play your game.
Technically, by dictionary, a typo is "An error while inputting text via keyboard, made despite the fact that the user knows exactly what to type in. This usually results from the operator's inexperience at keyboarding, rushing, not paying attention, or carelessness."
This means that should you accidentely type something totally different by habit or just thinking of something else, this will also classify as a typo under the definition of the world, for example typing "Gentoo AMD64" instead of "Gentoo x86" because he was copying the same format as above.
Unfortunately you have just assumed that he made a mistake, that he literally thought that he had the AMD64 version installed on his computer, and thought "I knew there was something wrong with that", or he thought that Pentiums were a special class of Athalon 64. That would be classed as a mistake.
Don't you know what they say about assuming: "don't assume or you'll make an arsehole out of yourself", or something like that. I say similar things about being pedantic as well.
That's because you can't just order Windows MCE from the shop and install it on any computer. You order the complete computer with Windows MCE pre-installed and because of this you can't choose the hardware or upgrade it. As a sideeffect, they couldn't get exactly the same hardware for MythTV as the windows box had a couple of specialised components.
You can see that they tried however. They were trying to compare the software not the hardware. They got the same cpu and hard drive and similar tuners (should have the same PQ for hardware - I'm pretty sure they have the same chipset), ram and dvd drives.
Unfortunately because of this it's not fair since MythTV wasn't made for that hardware, while WinMCE was.