Examples include IPv4 vs IPv6, Apache, Perl, Embperl, Netscape/Mozilla, HTML and Windows.
When? Where? How? From the above I know Mozilla isn't rewritten, Windows get a deep overhaul but are in no way rewritten, HTML is a standard, not a program so can't be rewritten (just got extended to XML) - I don't know about the rest, but this is definitely a troll, and not very good to that!
For this reason, and for several more, whenever I don't need any of the multitude of Apache features, I install one of "mini servers" - for quite a while I was going on Boa, later switched to Mathopd, but I consider THTTPD or any of several other "tiny" webservers. Small, smart, fast and easy to configure. WAY easier than Apache. (yeah, you may think you configured Apache right because it works... but what if you just opened several security holes you didn't understand? It's much better to have a tiny config file you can use for 8 things out of which you need 6, and understand all thoroughly, than one with 400 things out of which you need 12 and understand thoroughly less than 50.)
Could inexpensive cruises to the moon happen within our lifetimes?
That depends on speed of development of science. And curiously, less of rocket science but of genetics/medicine. With some luck we may live till day when aging is stopped... and then we can live till _any_ following day:)
Since this story is a dupe, which seems to put end to most of ontopic discussion, let me ask about something offtopic. Not enough for ask slashdot, but quite okay for such a thread.
Okay, I recently bought a new keyboard after the old one had an "accident" with a dog. The new one is my first "multimedia keyboard". I got all those keys, I assigned some basic functions in LinEAK (volume up/down, eject/close CD) but I still have a bunch of unassigned keys and no real idea what to assign to them. Of course I could assign launching different apps, but that's not very creative. So... what would be your idea on that? A real geek config for "multimedia keyboard"?
I understand the idea of mobility... and I know there are games that don't suck on laptop. But there's GBA or such stuff if you want to be portable. Most of games that make proper use of that gfx card will plainly suck on such a laptop. Imagine an AvP2 style game payed in a departure hall on an airport. Sun shines on your screen, making it all gray, so you barely see anything on the screen, people walk by, somebody asks you some stupid question, you struggle with the touchpad to turn around... This sucks. A turn-based strategy could make a sense. An advanced FPP which requires this kind of hardware - no.
...would someone explain me why one wants a laptop with a highest performance 3D accelerated card that makes sense only in newest games - where you miss half or more the experience without a 5+1 sound system all around you, a decent quality, at least 17" monitor, a good heavyweight manipulator or at least a normal keyboard plus mouse... definitely not a laptop hardware...
Oh well, I spent quite a while and the only bug I found on Boa is that it has an alias redirecting to/usr/share/doc by default, which may reveal what kind of software you have installed on your system. One # in config file fixes that. No other bugs reported. (which doesn't mean there are none, but...)
...so many even tiny sites - home PCs, private tiny hosts and such, run Apache. It's big. It's slow. (okay, it can stand a big load without much slowdown, but overall latency is high) It's a system hog. These computers are often older Pentiums, sometimes 486s, sometimes used as clients/terminals, sometimes serving several other tasks.
Why people so rarely use tiny HTTP servers like Boa, Mathopd, thttpd... especially, that those tiny thingies are extremely fast under light load, light on system resources, have most of features every "amateur webmaster" wants, and because of small code base, usually completely bug-free.
Come on, Amos wasn't bad. It was, to the day, the best "rapid development" language I know. (of course waiting for half a hour on A600 for all the soil to drop after launching a Cascade was a problem) Now that were times... A homepage from my "early days" (it's years since I lost the password to this account:) with mu group's productions in Amos:) http://members.tripod.com/~SharpFang/Amiga.htm l
Yes. Except if you find 3 messages in 3 different files coming from the same source, that make sense and are encoded using the same (give or take a parameter value) method, you have a valid reason to send guys in black suits to the sender. Although, if the receiving end is, say, USENET reader, he's still uncatchable.
Think of code consisting from selectively placed LOL, OMG, ROTFLMAO, HEH, WOW, SUXORZ, ROXORZ, C00L, WOOT and several dozen smileys, place them at random places of a blog message and send them over some IM network. Undistinguishable from billions of messages that cruise the network daily.
Well, not completely.
It's pretty simple. Assume . being the signal value and the letter RGBCMYK the actual "used by device" color value.
Assume (for our purposes) 9 bit color depth.
.....C__(5) ..M_____(2) ....Y___(4)
_____R..(2)
__G.....(5)
____B...(3)
__...C__(3)
__M_____(0)
__..Y___(2) ..K_____(2)
These are equivalent plus/minus palette unlinearities.
Common part of C+M+Y is replaced by K. Better contrast and saving on color ink.
They would just jump at all the newest most-protected technology and spent long nights reverse-engineering it to access and decode most secret government papers in the "forbidden patterns" memory:)
Three days after releasing the new dollar, a forger was caught by Polish police. He made a $1, "hand-made", just for skills and proof-of-concept, but Polish police detected hard to notice mistakes. US police experts when asked about authenticity of the bill couldn't believe it was forged as it passed all their tests and only after pointing out the mistakes by polish experts they admitted it's forged.
I heard (the source wasn't very reliable though) that great most of the high-end color printers (ones capable of producing lifelike notes) has this kind of block built into hardware. You could guess this is some kind behind-the-scenes deal between manufacturers and governments... Of course it may be that my tinfoil hat is too worn and leaks just as well.
A group of GNU hackers implements a "compatibility" plugin with this mode for GIMP. Hackers worldwide are asked to send in notes of all currencies and nominals. As the authors say: "Of course the solution will be completely open-source. For now it is in alpha stage though. It correctly recognises my Monopoly notes, but Frank has donated a worn $1 and the test result was negative."
2) Take up smoking - use a modified bong to prevent excessive discharge of ash. 3) Use weed to prevent nicotine organism poisoning. 4) Run live video from the station on TV, get paid for commercials time 5) PROFIT!
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Examples include IPv4 vs IPv6, Apache, Perl, Embperl, Netscape/Mozilla, HTML and Windows.
When? Where? How? From the above I know Mozilla isn't rewritten, Windows get a deep overhaul but are in no way rewritten, HTML is a standard, not a program so can't be rewritten (just got extended to XML) - I don't know about the rest, but this is definitely a troll, and not very good to that!
The 'httpd.conf' file is a long and critical one.
For this reason, and for several more, whenever I don't need any of the multitude of Apache features, I install one of "mini servers" - for quite a while I was going on Boa, later switched to Mathopd, but I consider THTTPD or any of several other "tiny" webservers. Small, smart, fast and easy to configure. WAY easier than Apache.
(yeah, you may think you configured Apache right because it works... but what if you just opened several security holes you didn't understand? It's much better to have a tiny config file you can use for 8 things out of which you need 6, and understand all thoroughly, than one with 400 things out of which you need 12 and understand thoroughly less than 50.)
Could inexpensive cruises to the moon happen within our lifetimes?
:)
That depends on speed of development of science. And curiously, less of rocket science but of genetics/medicine. With some luck we may live till day when aging is stopped... and then we can live till _any_ following day
2004-01-11 20:13:26 Nerd "multimedia keyboard" setup. (askslashdot,upgrades) (rejected)
Tried playing Q3 on Laptop?
Yes. It does.
Since this story is a dupe, which seems to put end to most of ontopic discussion, let me ask about something offtopic. Not enough for ask slashdot, but quite okay for such a thread.
Okay, I recently bought a new keyboard after the old one had an "accident" with a dog. The new one is my first "multimedia keyboard". I got all those keys, I assigned some basic functions in LinEAK (volume up/down, eject/close CD) but I still have a bunch of unassigned keys and no real idea what to assign to them.
Of course I could assign launching different apps, but that's not very creative.
So... what would be your idea on that? A real geek config for "multimedia keyboard"?
I understand the idea of mobility... and I know there are games that don't suck on laptop. But there's GBA or such stuff if you want to be portable. Most of games that make proper use of that gfx card will plainly suck on such a laptop. Imagine an AvP2 style game payed in a departure hall on an airport. Sun shines on your screen, making it all gray, so you barely see anything on the screen, people walk by, somebody asks you some stupid question, you struggle with the touchpad to turn around... This sucks. A turn-based strategy could make a sense. An advanced FPP which requires this kind of hardware - no.
...would someone explain me why one wants a laptop with a highest performance 3D accelerated card that makes sense only in newest games - where you miss half or more the experience without a 5+1 sound system all around you, a decent quality, at least 17" monitor, a good heavyweight manipulator or at least a normal keyboard plus mouse... definitely not a laptop hardware...
Oh well, I spent quite a while and the only bug I found on Boa is that it has an alias redirecting to /usr/share/doc by default, which may reveal what kind of software you have installed on your system. One # in config file fixes that. No other bugs reported. (which doesn't mean there are none, but...)
...so many even tiny sites - home PCs, private tiny hosts and such, run Apache.
It's big. It's slow. (okay, it can stand a big load without much slowdown, but overall latency is high) It's a system hog. These computers are often older Pentiums, sometimes 486s, sometimes used as clients/terminals, sometimes serving several other tasks.
Why people so rarely use tiny HTTP servers like Boa, Mathopd, thttpd... especially, that those tiny thingies are extremely fast under light load, light on system resources, have most of features every "amateur webmaster" wants, and because of small code base, usually completely bug-free.
Field for "Evangelism"?
Man, that's the most beautiful animal in the world! A mare!
Come on, Amos wasn't bad. It was, to the day, the best "rapid development" language I know. :) with mu group's productions in Amos :)m l
(of course waiting for half a hour on A600 for all the soil to drop after launching a Cascade was a problem)
Now that were times...
A homepage from my "early days" (it's years since I lost the password to this account
http://members.tripod.com/~SharpFang/Amiga.ht
Yes.
Except if you find 3 messages in 3 different files coming from the same source, that make sense and are encoded using the same (give or take a parameter value) method, you have a valid reason to send guys in black suits to the sender.
Although, if the receiving end is, say, USENET reader, he's still uncatchable.
Think of code consisting from selectively placed LOL, OMG, ROTFLMAO, HEH, WOW, SUXORZ, ROXORZ, C00L, WOOT and several dozen smileys, place them at random places of a blog message and send them over some IM network. Undistinguishable from billions of messages that cruise the network daily.
Now, now...
imagine a beowulf cluster of these!
Come on, get UAE and Scorched Tanks. Beats SE by far. (almost 200 weapons, many shields, several modes of battle)
Anybody knows how to build one at home?
I read the page but it's too early in the morning for me. Would someone please explain the idea behind SPF _understandably_?
Well, not completely. It's pretty simple. Assume . being the signal value and the letter RGBCMYK the actual "used by device" color value. Assume (for our purposes) 9 bit color depth.
.....C__(5)
..M_____(2)
....Y___(4)
..K_____(2)
_____R..(2)
__G.....(5)
____B...(3)
__...C__(3)
__M_____(0)
__..Y___(2)
These are equivalent plus/minus palette unlinearities. Common part of C+M+Y is replaced by K. Better contrast and saving on color ink.
They would just jump at all the newest most-protected technology and spent long nights reverse-engineering it to access and decode most secret government papers in the "forbidden patterns" memory :)
Three days after releasing the new dollar, a forger was caught by Polish police. He made a $1, "hand-made", just for skills and proof-of-concept, but Polish police detected hard to notice mistakes. US police experts when asked about authenticity of the bill couldn't believe it was forged as it passed all their tests and only after pointing out the mistakes by polish experts they admitted it's forged.
I heard (the source wasn't very reliable though) that great most of the high-end color printers (ones capable of producing lifelike notes) has this kind of block built into hardware. You could guess this is some kind behind-the-scenes deal between manufacturers and governments... Of course it may be that my tinfoil hat is too worn and leaks just as well.
A group of GNU hackers implements a "compatibility" plugin with this mode for GIMP. Hackers worldwide are asked to send in notes of all currencies and nominals. As the authors say: "Of course the solution will be completely open-source. For now it is in alpha stage though. It correctly recognises my Monopoly notes, but Frank has donated a worn $1 and the test result was negative."
Don't count on it.
NASA will commission a $1bln bong project from an expert company just to get one that gets nose going up your nose.
BTW, a very interesting project: a bong that works without gravity!
2) Take up smoking - use a modified bong to prevent excessive discharge of ash.
3) Use weed to prevent nicotine organism poisoning.
4) Run live video from the station on TV, get paid for commercials time
5) PROFIT!