That's pretty interesting, especially considering I did a/list on EFnet about 20 minutes ago. I got 24366 channels and didn't get disconnected while it was listing (although xchat locked up for a bit, probably while it was sorting the list).
Fast, scalable filesystem with extensible metadata, isn't that Reiser4?
WinFS may be cool, but we have an equivilant on Linux, and it's almost ready for prime time, it's called Reiser4, check Namesys for more info on Reiser4.
Know if there's any branches of that place up here in Quebec, Canada?
Here, if a store tries to charge more than the marked price, and the customer notices, the store has to give it to the customer for $10 less than the lower price, or if the lower price is less than $10, it's free.
Future Shop is particuarly nice for people who actually check, they frequently mislabel their stuff, I have gotten some really nice deals this way:)
Theoretically, if you are willing to mess with your diagnostic connector, you could use it to get the firmware off the modem, edit the binary and make the modem get 2 config files, one off the ethernet, and one off the cable Then use the one off the ethernet for the actual config, and if the cable company requests the config file, send them the one from cable connection.
It wouldn't be the first time someone modified hardware by editing binary firmware.
Really? I would love to know how it is technically feasable to track viewing habits on analog cable. The decoders are built in to the TV, and are decidedly one-way devices, it would be an interesting technical hack to tell what channels you are watching.
Also, satellite is just as good, with all the advantages of digital, and there is absolutely no way to track what you watch with small dish satellite (unless maybe if you actually plug in the phone line, but leaving it unplugged has not affected my viewing experience in any way).
Yes, yes I have had a caffeine withdrawal headache, and it is not pleasant, but I had headache levels put in perspective a couple of weeks ago when I got viral meningitis (which carries a pretty nasty headache), I went to the hospital (I felt extremely sick and I recognized a sore neck as a symptom of meningitis). They did a lumbar puncture (extracted spinal fluid) to check if I had bacterial meningitis, which can kill you in a matter of hours. It was viral, but after I got home I started getting headaches. I was fine as long as I was lying down, but as soon as I sat or stood up my head would start to hurt far more than anything I have felt in my life, and 3 extra strength Tylenol combined with 2 Ibprofen had absolutely no effect whatsoever. I hadn't vomited since I was 12 before this, but after about 20 seconds the pain had me doubled over. I went back to the hospital (the pain from sitting in the car long enough to get there had me vomiting up blood). (I hadn't successfully eaten or drunk anything in 3 days so I was rather dehydrated, they promptly put me on intravenous as well) After spending the night getting injected with pain killer every few hours (I don't know what the pain killer they used was) they said that the hole in my spine from the lumbar puncture was leaking, and this was causing the fluid that supports my brain to be low. When I sat or stood it would cause the fluid to come out and my brain was pulling down on the tissues above it causing the headache. They gave me a "blood patch" which involves taking blood from the arm and putting it in the back over the hole from the lumbar puncture, you lie down for at least two hours after, the blood coagulates and plugs the hole. I went home after that, was alright for that night and the day after, but I started getting the headaches (albeit not as bad) again after sitting/standing for abut 45 minutes, so I went back for a second blood patch, since then I have been fine.
The whole experience did give me some persecutive on headache levels though. My girlfriend's mother apparently knows someone who had the same condition and the pain made her black out almost instantly, and an online friend of mine who is a migraine sufferer and also had the same condition (after a lumbar puncture for a different reason) told me that the pain was at least ten times as bad as a migraine. Nowadays I can deal with a caffeine withdrawal pretty well.
Interesting point of view, remove all taste from the water to make it taste "good". Personally, I have found that the taste of tapwater in my hometown to be quite good (other places tend to have vile tapwater, but my hometown's tapwater is really nice). The tapwater in my town is very hard (kettles tend to get noticeable buildup on the heating elements after around 10 uses) but I find it tastes quite nice. I find that bottled or filtered water lack taste.
Interesting, I have Xv and Xinerama working fine, and I have never gotten multiple concurrent Xsessions working on the same hardware with any drivers, ever.
I have a Radeon 9700 Pro with driver version 3.2.8. Oh and BTW ATI is releasing new Linux drivers this or next week as well.
Wasn't there a recent James Bond movie where something like this happened? (of course it was visible light, not microwaves, so the producers could make a beam of light, which would not really be visible cutting a swath through the ground). I think it was called the Icarus project in the movie.
They cost more than the segway, but they have considerably longer battery life than the segway as well, and are capable of moving quite a bit faster, if you decide to set them that way, but it makes it VERY hard to navigate in small areas, they are very jumpy. I used to date a girl who has muscular distrophy and needed one of them.
I for one certainly wouldn't use username as primary key, I generally index on a generated user ID, and certainly don't use plaintext passwords, I use hashed passwords. Also, in the last app I wrote the user database was stored in a completely seperate database as everything else, with a completely seperate database login. It's not extremely hard to write good web code, you just have to remember that you can NEVER trust any data from an external source. Also, for user login I generally use sessions (usually a table in the database with current login sessions) and make sessions unique to the IP, and make them timeout after a not very long time, so it would be difficult (I admit there are still ways) to take over a user's login session. I know that it is impossible to write truly secure code, but there are ways, without overly large amounts of effort, to raise the bar a bit for the crackers, and mostly exclude script kiddies.
I usually run all stuff taken from a user on the net through a function that cleans it up a bit (escapes any single quotes, etc, and I always put all queried values in quotes. (generally I am targeting Postgres, and not worrying about other RDBMS's anyway)
Also, I would truly hope that the database user you are using with your web app does NOT have access to drop databases, I just give the user the minimum access required to make the app run, and nothing more (don't know too many apps that need DROP DATABASE)
This should be VERY good for mozilla, because it's not AOL's project anymore, its a community thing, so various companies will start putting money and possibly man hours into it. Not that it's a non-profit, the man hours, money, servers, bandwidth etc that any companies (or people) put into it can be a tax writeoff, it's basically a charity now.
I love living in Canada, it's ALOt harder to sue anybody up here, and if you do sue someone, you had better have a strong case. Of course don't forget the MASSIVE advantages of a state-run medicare system, no medical insurance companies being huge middle-men. Yes, the care we get may not be great, waiting for 9-10 hours in the waiting room for a broken arm or leg isn't fun, but it isn't life-threatening so it's understandable that other people might come first. Another advantage is that people with money get the same level of care as people without, theres no reason why the people with money should get high priority just because they are wealthy, while someone without money is thrown on the bottom of the barrel just because they may not be able to pay an absurdly high medical bill.
Doom3 is OpenGL (as all accelerated ID games are), and porting an OpenGL game to the XBox would pretty much involve a complete rewrite as the XBox used an API very similar to Direct3D, but different enough from OpenGL that it would be a signifigant amount of effort to port Doom3 (Unless MS provides ID with XBox GL drivers, which probably wouldn't be horribly hard, given nVidia's driver arch, they probably just need to tweak the geforce3 drivers a bit)
Yeah, the virtual resort files aren't that great, though. I ski Jay Peak A LOT and I tried the virtual Jay Peak a few months ago, its not really all that accurate, and only had 2 runs. Jay Peak itself is actually probably one of the best spots in the east, LOTS of snow every yeah, usually double other areas around here.
Cable companies don't give a shit whether you watch commertials or not, they only care if you pay you monthly bill for access, it's the TV stations that care about whether you watch advertising.
This is why satellite TV is better than cable, don't hook your reciever to a phone line, and there is absolutely no way they will know what you watch. (I prefer to have my privacy, I especially don't want any personal information being used to advertise "better" to me)
My school, in conjunction with the Université de Sherbrooke (mostly the U de S) are setting up a world-class beowulf cluster for general scientific work. A physics professor at my University, who also happens to be a world class astronomer (Dr. Lorne Nelson) has a research grant that he is using to help with the funding for this cluster.
A GOOD arguemnt against software patents, just suggest what would have happened to modern computing if say, Edsger W. Dijkstra had patented some of his inventions, we would be YEARS behind where we are today in operating systems and various other fields.
I live in Quebec, the provincial government in all their wisdon has a law that limits the number of movies that can be shown in the theatres in english for a year, so we basically only get the huge blockbusters showing in english around here (only lord of the rings, spiderman, and star wars since x-mas) and my choice to see smaller movies is either to download them from the internet or rent a car for $60 and drive 1.5 hours to Montreal to see it there.
I have watched several movies that I downloaded, but then rented them after they came out on DVD because the quality was less than perfect, just recently I watched a copy Blade 2 that I got on IRC, but the quality wasn't great (a badly compressed MPG), so I am definetly going to watch it on DVD once I get the chance. I am sure that there a LOT of people who live in rural areas that would not be able to watch certain movies any way except to download them.
My MBNA Mastercard and Royal Bank Visa both have similar things. In October, some friends and I all ordered $400 video cards from a place online, and we put it all on my card because I have a high enough limit to cover it. About 4 hours later, I get a call from my credit card company asking about the $1200 purchase in some place about 2000km (I forget where) from where I live (I can see why that looks rather suspicious).
The fraud protections are actually in the company's own interest, at least up here in canada, the credit card company is responsible for fraudulent purchases, not the customer. If someone steals my number and racks up a $5000 bill, I won't have to pay a cent, my credit card company will have to pay all of it.
Up here in Canada, UPS is actually suing our postal system its so good. I have never had a something shipped xpresspost even have slight damage on the cardboard boxes, and they are FAR cheaper than UPS or FedEx.
I agree completely, I was just discussing with one of my friends last night, we think that there's a chance that in 100 years time he will be taught in classrooms, theres so many tiny little things to pick up on, if you read them again, the first book has all kind of hints about things that happen in the latest book.
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That's pretty interesting, especially considering I did a /list on EFnet about 20 minutes ago. I got 24366 channels and didn't get disconnected while it was listing (although xchat locked up for a bit, probably while it was sorting the list).
Fast, scalable filesystem with extensible metadata, isn't that Reiser4?
WinFS may be cool, but we have an equivilant on Linux, and it's almost ready for prime time, it's called Reiser4, check Namesys for more info on Reiser4.
Know if there's any branches of that place up here in Quebec, Canada?
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Here, if a store tries to charge more than the marked price, and the customer notices, the store has to give it to the customer for $10 less than the lower price, or if the lower price is less than $10, it's free.
Future Shop is particuarly nice for people who actually check, they frequently mislabel their stuff, I have gotten some really nice deals this way
Theoretically, if you are willing to mess with your diagnostic connector, you could use it to get the firmware off the modem, edit the binary and make the modem get 2 config files, one off the ethernet, and one off the cable Then use the one off the ethernet for the actual config, and if the cable company requests the config file, send them the one from cable connection.
It wouldn't be the first time someone modified hardware by editing binary firmware.
Really? I would love to know how it is technically feasable to track viewing habits on analog cable. The decoders are built in to the TV, and are decidedly one-way devices, it would be an interesting technical hack to tell what channels you are watching.
Also, satellite is just as good, with all the advantages of digital, and there is absolutely no way to track what you watch with small dish satellite (unless maybe if you actually plug in the phone line, but leaving it unplugged has not affected my viewing experience in any way).
Yes, yes I have had a caffeine withdrawal headache, and it is not pleasant, but I had headache levels put in perspective a couple of weeks ago when I got viral meningitis (which carries a pretty nasty headache), I went to the hospital (I felt extremely sick and I recognized a sore neck as a symptom of meningitis). They did a lumbar puncture (extracted spinal fluid) to check if I had bacterial meningitis, which can kill you in a matter of hours. It was viral, but after I got home I started getting headaches. I was fine as long as I was lying down, but as soon as I sat or stood up my head would start to hurt far more than anything I have felt in my life, and 3 extra strength Tylenol combined with 2 Ibprofen had absolutely no effect whatsoever. I hadn't vomited since I was 12 before this, but after about 20 seconds the pain had me doubled over. I went back to the hospital (the pain from sitting in the car long enough to get there had me vomiting up blood). (I hadn't successfully eaten or drunk anything in 3 days so I was rather dehydrated, they promptly put me on intravenous as well) After spending the night getting injected with pain killer every few hours (I don't know what the pain killer they used was) they said that the hole in my spine from the lumbar puncture was leaking, and this was causing the fluid that supports my brain to be low. When I sat or stood it would cause the fluid to come out and my brain was pulling down on the tissues above it causing the headache. They gave me a "blood patch" which involves taking blood from the arm and putting it in the back over the hole from the lumbar puncture, you lie down for at least two hours after, the blood coagulates and plugs the hole. I went home after that, was alright for that night and the day after, but I started getting the headaches (albeit not as bad) again after sitting/standing for abut 45 minutes, so I went back for a second blood patch, since then I have been fine.
The whole experience did give me some persecutive on headache levels though. My girlfriend's mother apparently knows someone who had the same condition and the pain made her black out almost instantly, and an online friend of mine who is a migraine sufferer and also had the same condition (after a lumbar puncture for a different reason) told me that the pain was at least ten times as bad as a migraine. Nowadays I can deal with a caffeine withdrawal pretty well.
Interesting point of view, remove all taste from the water to make it taste "good". Personally, I have found that the taste of tapwater in my hometown to be quite good (other places tend to have vile tapwater, but my hometown's tapwater is really nice). The tapwater in my town is very hard (kettles tend to get noticeable buildup on the heating elements after around 10 uses) but I find it tastes quite nice. I find that bottled or filtered water lack taste.
Interesting, I have Xv and Xinerama working fine, and I have never gotten multiple concurrent Xsessions working on the same hardware with any drivers, ever.
I have a Radeon 9700 Pro with driver version 3.2.8. Oh and BTW ATI is releasing new Linux drivers this or next week as well.
Wasn't there a recent James Bond movie where something like this happened? (of course it was visible light, not microwaves, so the producers could make a beam of light, which would not really be visible cutting a swath through the ground). I think it was called the Icarus project in the movie.
They cost more than the segway, but they have considerably longer battery life than the segway as well, and are capable of moving quite a bit faster, if you decide to set them that way, but it makes it VERY hard to navigate in small areas, they are very jumpy. I used to date a girl who has muscular distrophy and needed one of them.
I for one certainly wouldn't use username as primary key, I generally index on a generated user ID, and certainly don't use plaintext passwords, I use hashed passwords. Also, in the last app I wrote the user database was stored in a completely seperate database as everything else, with a completely seperate database login. It's not extremely hard to write good web code, you just have to remember that you can NEVER trust any data from an external source.
Also, for user login I generally use sessions (usually a table in the database with current login sessions) and make sessions unique to the IP, and make them timeout after a not very long time, so it would be difficult (I admit there are still ways) to take over a user's login session.
I know that it is impossible to write truly secure code, but there are ways, without overly large amounts of effort, to raise the bar a bit for the crackers, and mostly exclude script kiddies.
I usually run all stuff taken from a user on the net through a function that cleans it up a bit (escapes any single quotes, etc, and I always put all queried values in quotes. (generally I am targeting Postgres, and not worrying about other RDBMS's anyway)
Also, I would truly hope that the database user you are using with your web app does NOT have access to drop databases, I just give the user the minimum access required to make the app run, and nothing more (don't know too many apps that need DROP DATABASE)
This should be VERY good for mozilla, because it's not AOL's project anymore, its a community thing, so various companies will start putting money and possibly man hours into it. Not that it's a non-profit, the man hours, money, servers, bandwidth etc that any companies (or people) put into it can be a tax writeoff, it's basically a charity now.
I love living in Canada, it's ALOt harder to sue anybody up here, and if you do sue someone, you had better have a strong case. Of course don't forget the MASSIVE advantages of a state-run medicare system, no medical insurance companies being huge middle-men. Yes, the care we get may not be great, waiting for 9-10 hours in the waiting room for a broken arm or leg isn't fun, but it isn't life-threatening so it's understandable that other people might come first. Another advantage is that people with money get the same level of care as people without, theres no reason why the people with money should get high priority just because they are wealthy, while someone without money is thrown on the bottom of the barrel just because they may not be able to pay an absurdly high medical bill.
Doom3 is OpenGL (as all accelerated ID games are), and porting an OpenGL game to the XBox would pretty much involve a complete rewrite as the XBox used an API very similar to Direct3D, but different enough from OpenGL that it would be a signifigant amount of effort to port Doom3 (Unless MS provides ID with XBox GL drivers, which probably wouldn't be horribly hard, given nVidia's driver arch, they probably just need to tweak the geforce3 drivers a bit)
Yeah, the virtual resort files aren't that great, though. I ski Jay Peak A LOT and I tried the virtual Jay Peak a few months ago, its not really all that accurate, and only had 2 runs. Jay Peak itself is actually probably one of the best spots in the east, LOTS of snow every yeah, usually double other areas around here.
Cable companies don't give a shit whether you watch commertials or not, they only care if you pay you monthly bill for access, it's the TV stations that care about whether you watch advertising.
This is why satellite TV is better than cable, don't hook your reciever to a phone line, and there is absolutely no way they will know what you watch. (I prefer to have my privacy, I especially don't want any personal information being used to advertise "better" to me)
My school, in conjunction with the Université de Sherbrooke (mostly the U de S) are setting up a world-class beowulf cluster for general scientific work. A physics professor at my University, who also happens to be a world class astronomer (Dr. Lorne Nelson) has a research grant that he is using to help with the funding for this cluster.
A GOOD arguemnt against software patents, just suggest what would have happened to modern computing if say, Edsger W. Dijkstra had patented some of his inventions, we would be YEARS behind where we are today in operating systems and various other fields.
I live in Quebec, the provincial government in all their wisdon has a law that limits the number of movies that can be shown in the theatres in english for a year, so we basically only get the huge blockbusters showing in english around here (only lord of the rings, spiderman, and star wars since x-mas) and my choice to see smaller movies is either to download them from the internet or rent a car for $60 and drive 1.5 hours to Montreal to see it there.
I have watched several movies that I downloaded, but then rented them after they came out on DVD because the quality was less than perfect, just recently I watched a copy Blade 2 that I got on IRC, but the quality wasn't great (a badly compressed MPG), so I am definetly going to watch it on DVD once I get the chance. I am sure that there a LOT of people who live in rural areas that would not be able to watch certain movies any way except to download them.
My MBNA Mastercard and Royal Bank Visa both have similar things. In October, some friends and I all ordered $400 video cards from a place online, and we put it all on my card because I have a high enough limit to cover it. About 4 hours later, I get a call from my credit card company asking about the $1200 purchase in some place about 2000km (I forget where) from where I live (I can see why that looks rather suspicious).
The fraud protections are actually in the company's own interest, at least up here in canada, the credit card company is responsible for fraudulent purchases, not the customer. If someone steals my number and racks up a $5000 bill, I won't have to pay a cent, my credit card company will have to pay all of it.
Up here in Canada, UPS is actually suing our postal system its so good. I have never had a something shipped xpresspost even have slight damage on the cardboard boxes, and they are FAR cheaper than UPS or FedEx.
I agree completely, I was just discussing with one of my friends last night, we think that there's a chance that in 100 years time he will be taught in classrooms, theres so many tiny little things to pick up on, if you read them again, the first book has all kind of hints about things that happen in the latest book.
dont forget cat /proc/cpuinfo.. it's never failed to give me a reliable clockspeed rating
Well, the problem with those is they dont play stuff like vorbis... (about half my music collection is in vorbis format now)
and if i make my own i can eventually get a nice little LCD and use it for fancy vis and stuff...