True: untill that is paided-for-only like Yahoo now is !!
I do not know webDAV, but I am guessing that it also allows you to do the signup in the first-place, which of course POP3 does not allow. So from MS's pov makeing WebDAV paided-for but pop3 still free could reduce the amount of Spam sent out.
> macafee researchers talking about viruses being transmitted over images. Everyone called it stupid market speak from a firm trying to sell more AV products by scaring people with somthing that is not possible.
So they went away, and like good engineers produced a proof-of-conncept for the disbelievers:-)
> Ok, the fix is easy: Don't read more data than you allocated memory for.
Should that not be Don't *write* more data... ? ie don't overflow your buffer.
Is not a buffer overflow also a function of your programming language and/or kernel. E.g. data and executable code mixed in one area is a bit iffy (instead of only addresses on the stack, and data on the heap). And the kernel could do some checks on where it jumps to, and what is found there.
For us the best thing about this system is that you do not need to turn the computer on: eg you can get a quick weather forcast in only 30 seconds !!
Also I notice that to celebrate 30 years they have dropped some of their *website* content: I had a script to pull and analysis the films-on-TV pages and the content disappeared a couple of weeks ago:-( (I am trying to get XMLTV working now)
I and my family live in a 128m2 passivly heated flat in Germany. It is in a block of 39 other flats. We have no heating system just good insulation, draught proofing and large triple glazed windows. They is a piped ventilation system (NOT air conditioning) with a heat exchanger to recover a lot of the heat from the outgoing air. We can open the windows, but usally do not need to as fresh air is constently supplied. The kitchen looks out of large windows on to the central courtyard. The kitchen has a ceiling:-)
Last winter the inside temperature never dropped before 19 degrees inside.
It is a revelation in comfort: especially as I spent the last 15 years in draughty 100 year old houses.
And building cost wise there is not much in it: you spend extra on insulation and good windows but you save on not fitting a boiler and raditors !!
> How to build your own personal reusable spacecraft > using only an old washing up liquid bottle, some > sellotape, a couple of lemons and a box of > bicarbonate of soda.
Hell: they made one of those on Blue Peter 30 years ago:-)
(I am not a big Star Wars follower so the following may be well known)
FWIW I remember an interview with George Lucas before the *original* Star Wars was released (#4) and he said then that his plan was to make 13 feature films for Star Wars so the one day you could go to the cinema and wtach them all back-to-back.
God how I hate that phrase !! "free-market" means many things to many people and is definitly not simply an intersection of the two words "free" and "market". To me the words conflict: a market can not be free: originally groups of people got to together in a special place on a particular time and day to trade goods. They invented regulated weights and measures, and currencies, and property laws to prevent stealing...
Do any free-marketeers really suggest ditching these ?
> The fact that something like OpenOffice, for > example, can be created and distributed without > spending millions of dollars,
AFAIK: Bad example: was not, for example, the OpenOffice word processor derived (ultimatly) from Star Writer ? And this was created by paid programmers. I do not know the budget, but it could easily have been millions.
FWIW the Ground control system for ESA's latest earth monitoring satellite Envisat runs on VAX/OpenVMS/FORTRAN at ESOC.
It works fine so there was no need to upgrade but due to the up-coming VAX end of life it will be skipping over the possiblilty of Alphas to use the Itanium under Alpha emulation.
IIRC Galileo is also about providing a better service, esp. at high latitudes. Remember GPS is pretty old now, and will be older by the time Galileo is up and runngin !!
> However, I'm perplexed at why the Mars Rover > failure and resurrection is considered a miracle > of human inginuity, rather than an indictment of > crummy testing.
The weekly c't on German TV program reviewed this edition on Monday night.
They reviewed it very favourably: starting out with clear statement that windows user can run a live Linux CD without having to worry about screwing up their windows setup !!
They covered most of the major apps., mainly KDE, and only at the end did they bring in a couple of disadvantages: The Gimp is not MS Paintshop, and the lack of good video editting software. But they pointed out that it is FREE, so you can't complain !!
It was good to see such a favourable review on national TV !!
(I do not watch this program much, but it is a 1/2 hourly weekly tech. program, by nature quite popularish !)
Negative - Beagle 2 will never orbit Mars. It is currently on a seperate (un-powered) trajectory to Mars and will enter the atmosphere when it arrives.
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True: untill that is paided-for-only like Yahoo now is !!
I do not know webDAV, but I am guessing that it also allows you to do the signup in the first-place, which of course POP3 does not allow. So from MS's pov makeing WebDAV paided-for but pop3 still free could reduce the amount of Spam sent out.
> Now we are lazy we sit in side and DIY only our computers in some cases.
:-)
Maybe I do not really belong here; but I *do* DIY my house, I fix my bike (adn the families, and the neighbours...) and I power my bike myself
> macafee researchers talking about viruses being transmitted over images. Everyone called it stupid market speak from a firm trying to sell more AV products by scaring people with somthing that is not possible.
:-)
So they went away, and like good engineers produced a proof-of-conncept for the disbelievers
> Ok, the fix is easy: Don't read more data than you allocated memory for.
Should that not be Don't *write* more data... ? ie don't overflow your buffer.
Is not a buffer overflow also a function of your programming language and/or kernel. E.g. data and executable code mixed in one area is a bit iffy (instead of only addresses on the stack, and data on the heap). And the kernel could do some checks on where it jumps to, and what is found there.
For us the best thing about this system is that you do not need to turn the computer on: eg you can get a quick weather forcast in only 30 seconds !!
:-(
Also I notice that to celebrate 30 years they have dropped some of their *website* content: I had a script to pull and analysis the films-on-TV pages and the content disappeared a couple of weeks ago
(I am trying to get XMLTV working now)
I guess you have not done much research on this!!
:-)
I and my family live in a 128m2 passivly heated flat in Germany. It is in a block of 39 other flats. We have no heating system just good insulation, draught proofing and large triple glazed windows. They is a piped ventilation system (NOT air conditioning) with a heat exchanger to recover a lot of the heat from the outgoing air. We can open the windows, but usally do not need to as fresh air is constently supplied. The kitchen looks out of large windows on to the central courtyard. The kitchen has a ceiling
Last winter the inside temperature never dropped before 19 degrees inside.
It is a revelation in comfort: especially as I spent the last 15 years in draughty 100 year old houses.
And building cost wise there is not much in it: you spend extra on insulation and good windows but you save on not fitting a boiler and raditors !!
http://home.arcor.de/zoxed/wohnsinn.html
Regards, Simon
> How to build your own personal reusable spacecraft
:-)
> using only an old washing up liquid bottle, some
> sellotape, a couple of lemons and a box of
> bicarbonate of soda.
Hell: they made one of those on Blue Peter 30 years ago
(Sorry: UK joke for OFs),
Simon
(I am not a big Star Wars follower so the following may be well known)
FWIW I remember an interview with George Lucas before the *original* Star Wars was released (#4) and he said then that his plan was to make 13 feature films for Star Wars so the one day you could go to the cinema and wtach them all back-to-back.
> It's not essential at all that it have a picture of tux on it.
Are you new here ?
> true free-market capitalism
God how I hate that phrase !! "free-market" means many things to many people and is definitly not simply an intersection of the two words "free" and "market". To me the words conflict: a market can not be free: originally groups of people got to together in a special place on a particular time and day to trade goods. They invented regulated weights and measures, and currencies, and property laws to prevent stealing...
Do any free-marketeers really suggest ditching these ?
> The fact that something like OpenOffice, for
> example, can be created and distributed without
> spending millions of dollars,
AFAIK: Bad example: was not, for example, the OpenOffice word processor derived (ultimatly) from Star Writer ? And this was created by paid programmers. I do not know the budget, but it could easily have been millions.
Regards, Simon
FWIW the Ground control system for ESA's latest earth monitoring satellite Envisat runs on VAX/OpenVMS/FORTRAN at ESOC.
It works fine so there was no need to upgrade but due to the up-coming VAX end of life it will be skipping over the possiblilty of Alphas to use the Itanium under Alpha emulation.
I disagree :-)
He does not have to raises his prices to limit demand: he can just say no to the extra work and keep his prices the same !!
The links seem to have gone now, but I originally read this one:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/3766831.stm
where the reference is to the uncertainty, and to appeasement, and not to the Nazi themselves.
IIRC Galileo is also about providing a better service, esp. at high latitudes. Remember GPS is pretty old now, and will be older by the time Galileo is up and runngin !!
> cross-check GPS with GLONASS
d =p rod_navsensors&rightmenuid=47
Product example:
http://www.uasc.com/products/index.asp?contenti
> However, I'm perplexed at why the Mars Rover
:-)
> failure and resurrection is considered a miracle
> of human inginuity, rather than an indictment of
> crummy testing.
Spin
> decent street lighting is more effective than cameras
I also read this once, but IIRC about a year ago and probably in the Guardian Weekly.
IIRC they also found that better lighting is also *cheaper* but "the public" feels safer with more cameras. So that is what they get !!
The weekly c't on German TV program reviewed this edition on Monday night.
They reviewed it very favourably: starting out with clear statement that windows user can run a live Linux CD without having to worry about screwing up their windows setup !!
They covered most of the major apps., mainly KDE, and only at the end did they bring in a couple of disadvantages: The Gimp is not MS Paintshop, and the lack of good video editting software. But they pointed out that it is FREE, so you can't complain !!
It was good to see such a favourable review on national TV !!
(I do not watch this program much, but it is a 1/2 hourly weekly tech. program, by nature quite popularish !)
> NASA's budget is around 17 billion
IIRC Bush said last night it was 86 billion
> Great, The beagle is in orbit.
Negative - Beagle 2 will never orbit Mars. It is currently on a seperate (un-powered) trajectory to Mars and will enter the atmosphere when it arrives.
Regards, Simon
> Let's just hope the electrical wasn't contracted out to Lucas.
Unfortunatly it was for MEX.
Regards, Simon
> What about trying to make an international Mars mission ?
Errr - Mars Express / Beagle 2 *is* an international mission - funded by ESA partners (mostly Europe + Canada)
Regards, Simon
> Probably about a third of the world's population drives on the left.
g /driv e_which_side.html :-)
According to:
http://www.travel-library.com/general/drivin
it is 27.58%
Page also has a whole load of stuff about the history etc of which side to drive on !!
Regards, Simon
> ... to not have any nasty accidents during the switchover itself.
:-(
IIRC safty improved after the switch-over, it was only when people became more confident that the accident rate went back up to the previous levels
Regards, Simon