The google cache loophole in Great Firewall of China has been closed. Additionally, the entire.org TLD has been blocked for distributing misleading, unpatriotic propaganda on the subjects of freedom and democracy.
The libata switch also broke support for S.M.A.R.T. monitoring on SATA drives. The driver simply wasn't ready for production use. So if you had a server full of SATA drives, and you updated from an early 2.6 kernel to a recent 2.6 kernel, you no longer have any way to know if some of your drives are nearing their end of life, or if some of them are running too hot.
Use open source secure VOIP software, preferably developed outside the US. If it doesn't go through a service provider, and it's encrypted, they won't succeed in tapping it without first hacking one of the endpoints, no matter what outrageous laws the FCC takes upon itself to pass.
I was turned off to it a few years ago, because it was ugly, buggy, and slow in my opinion, but now it seems KDE has quickly grown into one of the greatest things since sliced bread.
I have a spreadsheet that takes 15 minutes to open. About 20 rows and 3500 columns with a lot of simple formulas that took only seconds to recalculate in its entirety when the spreadsheet is already open, but for some reason takes 1000x longer to load when I close and reopen the spreadsheet, saying "calculating" in the status bar. I'm guessing there's at least one bug relating to this.
This is my only spreadsheet that gives me this trouble. I have many many larger, more complex spreadsheets that I work with in OpenOffice 2 without noticeable slowness.
I'm not sure how they define "complete", but I bet in 30 years or so, after major discoveries have been made based off this, and all the patents have expired, and I'm dying of old age, this could really lead to some good treatments for a number of rare genetic illnesses, except for those so rare as to make developing a treatment unprofitable.
We've downloaded about 50 total (Do they count downloads of nightly builds?) but installed it on about 30 systems. I've heard some people say they've downloaded one and installed it on hundreds, but I'm sure most of them have really downloaded it more than a couple times.
GUI apps that don't break the mold are very easy to write in VB and VS.NET. I quit the two cold turkey a little over a year ago simply because I wanted to develop more portable skills. It still hurts from time to time. I hate creating interfaces without a form designer and integrated code editor, debugger, autocomplete, help, etc.
You just know that web hosts want to milk their IIS installs for as many sites as possible. It's cheaper to add more ram and hard drives than to buy another Windows Server license to host more sites.
No surprise there. Now if they could add celerons and semprons to the benchmark, we might see which is really the better value, otherwise they've wasted a lot of their own time and money.
Slashdot Mirror
That's what colocated mirrors, revision tracking, RAIDs, tape backups, remote online backups, and backups of backups are for.
It's not easy to backup a printed book.
They at least ought to turn off the seriously insecure by design autorun feature by default.
The google cache loophole in Great Firewall of China has been closed. Additionally, the entire .org TLD has been blocked for distributing misleading, unpatriotic propaganda on the subjects of freedom and democracy.
I'm a US american voting for european of the year only because a slashdot article told me to, and I hate/fear software patents.
The libata switch also broke support for S.M.A.R.T. monitoring on SATA drives. The driver simply wasn't ready for production use. So if you had a server full of SATA drives, and you updated from an early 2.6 kernel to a recent 2.6 kernel, you no longer have any way to know if some of your drives are nearing their end of life, or if some of them are running too hot.
Use open source secure VOIP software, preferably developed outside the US. If it doesn't go through a service provider, and it's encrypted, they won't succeed in tapping it without first hacking one of the endpoints, no matter what outrageous laws the FCC takes upon itself to pass.
I think Gate's law is every 12 months.
I was turned off to it a few years ago, because it was ugly, buggy, and slow in my opinion, but now it seems KDE has quickly grown into one of the greatest things since sliced bread.
Maybe $1 per cpu hour is too expensive. Either they'll have to sell the time at a market price, or shut the system down and write it off as a loss.
I think EMACS is closer to 50mb these days.
I have a spreadsheet that takes 15 minutes to open. About 20 rows and 3500 columns with a lot of simple formulas that took only seconds to recalculate in its entirety when the spreadsheet is already open, but for some reason takes 1000x longer to load when I close and reopen the spreadsheet, saying "calculating" in the status bar. I'm guessing there's at least one bug relating to this.
This is my only spreadsheet that gives me this trouble. I have many many larger, more complex spreadsheets that I work with in OpenOffice 2 without noticeable slowness.
There's nothing Microsoft could have done. Those low level interns practically run the company.
I'm not sure how they define "complete", but I bet in 30 years or so, after major discoveries have been made based off this, and all the patents have expired, and I'm dying of old age, this could really lead to some good treatments for a number of rare genetic illnesses, except for those so rare as to make developing a treatment unprofitable.
Even their website says "Copyright 2004" and their latest news item is dated 2003. Or has their site always been like that?
We've downloaded about 50 total (Do they count downloads of nightly builds?) but installed it on about 30 systems. I've heard some people say they've downloaded one and installed it on hundreds, but I'm sure most of them have really downloaded it more than a couple times.
The programming language was a nightmare, mainly the lack of arrays, requiring a very CPU intensive workaround. It was good enough for Myst I guess.
GUI apps that don't break the mold are very easy to write in VB and VS.NET. I quit the two cold turkey a little over a year ago simply because I wanted to develop more portable skills. It still hurts from time to time. I hate creating interfaces without a form designer and integrated code editor, debugger, autocomplete, help, etc.
Not every seasoned web developer in their mid-30's can spare $200 or so for web development software. Oh, wait, err, nevermind.
All the good open source programs have already been mentioned. Here's something from the other side of the camp:
ASP.Net WebMatrix
I never used the thing beyond the first day I tried it, but some people may find it useful. I use text editors for all my serious web development.
"Hey, check out this exciting new product!!!"
You just know that web hosts want to milk their IIS installs for as many sites as possible. It's cheaper to add more ram and hard drives than to buy another Windows Server license to host more sites.
They'll be in quite a shock the next time the game resets.
No surprise there. Now if they could add celerons and semprons to the benchmark, we might see which is really the better value, otherwise they've wasted a lot of their own time and money.
See http://whitehouse.org/
If anyone does, its name will probably start with a "g" like a lot of other projects.