Some car-rental companies sneak riders into their contracts saying that you have to pay extra $$$ every time you excede the speed limit
I always wondered how I should deal with those cars when I am about to make a completely fair and legal overtake. Holding the speed limits? Completely impossible!
Or somebody trapped in the TV was lucky to have his distress beacon handy, and when Toshiba realized this, they immediately replaced the unit for not risking to make it publicitly known that such accidents happen in their factory:)
Install Windows on a computer and hook it up to the Internet. Leave it hooked up without downloading one bit of software from anywhere! and the machine will be compromised. Why is that Mr. Gates?
[risk of being devil's advocate]
Just for clarification, is that computer hooked up directly on the internet without firewall, or is it running behind a NAT router? I am not sure if it is true, but most of the Linux distros' default installation aren't to good to hook up directly onto the net.
[/risk]
I am not too familiar with the internal workings of the Gnome project, but the time it took for them to crank out 2.8 is just... amazing.
I still have fresh memories of the 2.6 release.
I learned the hard way that backing your data up to another hard drive does no good when the power supply freaks out and fries *everything*...including BOTH hard drives.
That is why I always have another spare computer in my wardrobe that is completley separated from the rest of the network. I only plug the power in when I want to have a backup, and it transfers the contents of my fileserver to itself (a nice 200GB disk). When finished, I remove the connectors and put it back into the wardrobe.
That keeps me safe of hard drive failures, power supply freakouts, flodding of the cellar and a _small_ fire, since it most probably only will hit one side of the house and take either the files or the backup.
Feels pretty good for me:)
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Well, I got your point, but as a little side note (and as being a Swedish sailor myself), boats from Sweden and nearby countries are differently constructed than those from the Mediterranean and most other countries
Why?
The answer is very easy. In most countries the coast line is like a wall, and it gets deep very fast. Also, most of the shallows are made of sand and therefore boats hitting it wont take too much of damage than to the painwork.
Therefore neither the customers or the boatmakers are very concerned of making tough boats, they want it light and fast instead.
But in Sweden you have the extraordiary beutiful archipelagos (ever sailed in Stockholm?) and therefore a lot of islands. The shallows are made of solid, robust rock, which has made that swedish boats often are stronger than most others. The keel of a swedish sailboat usually survives a crash, even if it occurs at relative high speeds.
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Oh, I got really of the storyline there. Forgive me:)
"It would be skewed and bias to only quote people that are anti-Linux or anti-open source. I have done this for years, and will continue to do so, "
regardless of what a source thinks of my theories."
Hm. Keep the tounge right in the mouth next time you type something on that keyboard. And, also, don't continue what you have done for years.
IMHO it would be better if they started contributing to the Wine project instead of making a Wine API version.
Not only would it make the Wine project better, but it would also make most of their own programs Wine-compatible. Most of the things that make Wine incompatible with Flash right now are probably the same as the other Macromedia programs, and that would be a lot cheaper in development costs.
How are the laws around these DIY antennas?
Will the increased efficency make it illegal to use in some countries?
I know that in Sweden there are quite restrictive laws and rules around radio broadcasting, is there anybode here who knows about how legal it is there?
No, it isn't.:)
And the solution for simple programming bugs like buffer overflows is of course to implement hardware-based cryptography and rights managment. Palladium.
The Microsoft Way as usual.
In fact, here in the city of Västerås, Sweden, the local library's computers are in fact running Linux. It was fascinating to walk in there and get your eyes popped out by the fact that all Windows systems were replaced with Slackware Linux.! Something that I just don't understand is why they have chosen WindowMaker as the WM of choice, I think that something like fluxbox or even Gnome would fit so much better. I often see people having trouble with just closing windows, only because they don't find the close button on the widgets.
Even if this is a very small fee for Microsoft to pay, it clearly shows that they are becoming more and more desperate. I once heard an analogy that the human mind is just like an blood grape. It is yellow on the outside, and continues to be as you start putting pressure onto it, by squezzing it together. But if you squeeze it really hard it will literally explode in red, meaning that once you push someone really hard, his buried thoughts and views will show up.
I think that the same is happening to Microsoft. If they now seem to pathetically try to buy stocks of an opponent and trying to hide it from the court, it shows that they really prefer paying fees instead of losing it's customers.
What kind of passwords do they talk about? For example, a password to a home Windows computer would not be a too large security risk, and something worth giving away for chocolate. But when it comes to more important matters, such as addresses to webmail systems and remote-accessible Linux boxes the deal is significantly different. I would never give my root pass away on my server, but my grandma would of course give away her. She doesn't need to keep it secret at all.
Well, I am unavailable to retrieve the whole page, but what I see is "New Page 1" as the page title (thanks/.)
Now, that is what I call a professional page!
Slashdot Mirror
On four of my gentoo boxes:
/proc/cpuinfo
# cat
processor : 0
vendor_id : GenuineIntel
cpu family : 6
model : 5
model name : Pentium II (Deschutes)
stepping : 1
cpu MHz : 349.116
Running flawlessy...
Some car-rental companies sneak riders into their contracts saying that you have to pay extra $$$ every time you excede the speed limit
I always wondered how I should deal with those cars when I am about to make a completely fair and legal overtake. Holding the speed limits? Completely impossible!
e^in + 1 = 0
I read about this two weeks ago in a local newspaper. Didn't the article mean e^(i*\pi)+1=0 ?
Anyway, it could be my fonts confusing me.
Or somebody trapped in the TV was lucky to have his distress beacon handy, and when Toshiba realized this, they immediately replaced the unit for not risking to make it publicitly known that such accidents happen in their factory :)
Install Windows on a computer and hook it up to the Internet. Leave it hooked up without downloading one bit of software from anywhere! and the machine will be compromised. Why is that Mr. Gates?
[risk of being devil's advocate]
Just for clarification, is that computer hooked up directly on the internet without firewall, or is it running behind a NAT router? I am not sure if it is true, but most of the Linux distros' default installation aren't to good to hook up directly onto the net.
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Novell or Microsoft; I don't care.
Software patents are still evil.
I am not too familiar with the internal workings of the Gnome project, but the time it took for them to crank out 2.8 is just... amazing.
I still have fresh memories of the 2.6 release.
By the way, what has this got to do with bsd?
One word: irssi ;)
I was wondering, if Slashdot readers have any recommendations for a cheap automated way to store and retrieve data.
Remember the data in your brain, that is much cheaper than buying disks IMO.
I learned the hard way that backing your data up to another hard drive does no good when the power supply freaks out and fries *everything*...including BOTH hard drives.
:)
That is why I always have another spare computer in my wardrobe that is completley separated from the rest of the network. I only plug the power in when I want to have a backup, and it transfers the contents of my fileserver to itself (a nice 200GB disk). When finished, I remove the connectors and put it back into the wardrobe.
That keeps me safe of hard drive failures, power supply freakouts, flodding of the cellar and a _small_ fire, since it most probably only will hit one side of the house and take either the files or the backup.
Feels pretty good for me
I'd be more worried about it crashing
:P
:)
The computers or the boat itself?
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Well, I got your point, but as a little side note (and as being a Swedish sailor myself), boats from Sweden and nearby countries are differently constructed than those from the Mediterranean and most other countries
Why?
The answer is very easy. In most countries the coast line is like a wall, and it gets deep very fast. Also, most of the shallows are made of sand and therefore boats hitting it wont take too much of damage than to the painwork.
Therefore neither the customers or the boatmakers are very concerned of making tough boats, they want it light and fast instead.
But in Sweden you have the extraordiary beutiful archipelagos (ever sailed in Stockholm?) and therefore a lot of islands. The shallows are made of solid, robust rock, which has made that swedish boats often are stronger than most others. The keel of a swedish sailboat usually survives a crash, even if it occurs at relative high speeds.
[/OFFTOPIC]
Oh, I got really of the storyline there. Forgive me
"It would be skewed and bias to only quote people that are anti-Linux or anti-open source. I have done this for years, and will continue to do so, " regardless of what a source thinks of my theories."
Hm. Keep the tounge right in the mouth next time you type something on that keyboard. And, also, don't continue what you have done for years.
Can I run Linux on it?
I don't recall the MPL exactly, but isn't Netscape required to release the source code if this would become true?
IMHO it would be better if they started contributing to the Wine project instead of making a Wine API version.
Not only would it make the Wine project better, but it would also make most of their own programs Wine-compatible. Most of the things that make Wine incompatible with Flash right now are probably the same as the other Macromedia programs, and that would be a lot cheaper in development costs.
How are the laws around these DIY antennas? Will the increased efficency make it illegal to use in some countries? I know that in Sweden there are quite restrictive laws and rules around radio broadcasting, is there anybode here who knows about how legal it is there?
No, it isn't. :)
And the solution for simple programming bugs like buffer overflows is of course to implement hardware-based cryptography and rights managment. Palladium.
The Microsoft Way as usual.
In fact, here in the city of Västerås, Sweden, the local library's computers are in fact running Linux. It was fascinating to walk in there and get your eyes popped out by the fact that all Windows systems were replaced with Slackware Linux.!
Something that I just don't understand is why they have chosen WindowMaker as the WM of choice, I think that something like fluxbox or even Gnome would fit so much better. I often see people having trouble with just closing windows, only because they don't find the close button on the widgets.
Even if this is a very small fee for Microsoft to pay, it clearly shows that they are becoming more and more desperate. I once heard an analogy that the human mind is just like an blood grape.
It is yellow on the outside, and continues to be as you start putting pressure onto it, by squezzing it together. But if you squeeze it really hard it will literally explode in red, meaning that once you push someone really hard, his buried thoughts and views will show up.
I think that the same is happening to Microsoft. If they now seem to pathetically try to buy stocks of an opponent and trying to hide it from the court, it shows that they really prefer paying fees instead of losing it's customers.
What kind of passwords do they talk about? For example, a password to a home Windows computer would not be a too large security risk, and something worth giving away for chocolate. But when it comes to more important matters, such as addresses to webmail systems and remote-accessible Linux boxes the deal is significantly different. I would never give my root pass away on my server, but my grandma would of course give away her. She doesn't need to keep it secret at all.
...he'd just have to RTFM
The documentation is out there, just the problem that people don't read them!
Intel NGSCB for phones is here.
"software will not be written but visually designed"
I'd say WinXP isn't written. It is visually designed, so I don't understand it whan Gates says that the software _will_ be written when it already is.
Hey, it's not a bug. It is a feature, everybody should know that by now.
Well, I am unavailable to retrieve the whole page, but what I see is "New Page 1" as the page title (thanks /.)
Now, that is what I call a professional page!