Don't send it in the form of electricty..send it in the form of radiation energy just like how the Sun provides us energy wirelessly. Even NASA tested a Laser-Powered Aircraft last year.
Mitchell E Kertzman became a director of CNET Networks in May 1996. Mr. Kertzman is a general partner of Hummer Winblad Venture Partners. From November 1998 until March, 2003, Mr. Kertzman served as Chief Executive Officer and Director of Liberate Technologies, Inc., an information appliance and software provider. From July 1996 until November 1998, Mr. Kertzman served as Chairman of the Board of Directors and Chief Executive Officer of Sybase, Inc., a leading provider of enterprise database software, which Mr. Kertzman joined in February 1995 as Executive Vice President. Prior to joining Sybase, Inc., Mr. Kertzman served as Chief Executive Officer and a director of Powersoft Corporation, an application development tools provider.Mitchell Kertzman has been listed in Forbes' America's Most Powerful People.
Remember sometime ago Spirit was continously rebooting due to a flash memory problem. The usage of FAT file system in the embedded systems was partly responsible for the mess.
The problem, Denise said, was in the file system the rover used. In DOS, a directory structure is actually stored as a file. As that directory tree grows, the directory file grows, as well. The Achilles' heel, Denise said, was that deleting files from the directory tree does not reduce the size of the directory file. Instead, deleted files are represented within the directory by special characters, which tell the OS that the files can be replaced with new data.
By itself, the cancerous file might not have been an issue. Combined with a "feature" of a third-party piece of software used by the onboard Wind River embedded OS, however, the glitch proved nearly fatal.
According to Denise, the Spirit rover contains 256 Mbytes of flash memory, a nonvolatile memory that can be written and rewritten thousands of times. The rover also contains 128 Mbytes of DRAM, 96 Mbytes of which are used for data, such as buffering image files in preparation for transmitting them to Earth. The other 32 Mbytes are used for code storage. An additional 11 Mbytes of EEPROM memory are used for additional program code storage.
The undisclosed software vendor required that data stored in flash memory be mirrored in RAM. Since the rover's flash memory was twice the size of the system RAM, a crash was almost inevitable, Denise said.
Moving an actuator, for example, generates a large number of tiny data files. After the rover rebooted, the OSes heap memory would be a hair's breadth away from a crash, as the system RAM would be nearly full, Denise said. Adding another data file would generate a memory allocation command to a nonexistent memory address, prompting a fatal error.
Easily this would be the most watched program ever in Television history..
NEAR Spacecraft was saved in a nail-biting finish
on
Saving Huygens
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· Score: 2, Interesting
If Boris Smeds was a hero for the Cassini-Huygens Mission, Ann Harch was a heroine for the $150 Million Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous(NEAR) spacecraft mission to asteroid Eros. When an engine burn to reduce the spacecraft's approach speed went awry, the spacecraft tumbled violently and contact to it was lost for 36 hours. When they regained contact, the spacecraft was rushing at a great speed that it would pass Eros about two weeks ahead of schedule. The spacecraft had to be given new commands within 12 hours or it would miss clicking Eros altogether in the flyby. In the nerve-racking moments, Ann Harch and her colleagues rewrote new command sequences for the original program that took them 6 months to write. In a nail-biting finish the commands reached 8 minutes before the Eros flyby, just in time to enable capturing images of asteroid Eros. Ann Harch was later honored for her efforts with an asteroid being named after her.
Last year the Thai Finance Minister was trapped inside his BMW allegedly due to a software glitch.
http://www.thaivisa.com/index.php?514&backPID=514& tt_news=325
But another report said it was due to an electronic failure..
http://asia.cnet.com/news/systems/0,39037054,39130 270,00.htm
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they are loading the image as a background-image just get the image mentioned in the url(...)
If you do it this way using CSS, the images won't have a right click menu.
Though it's free now(only normal sms charges)..google may eventually charge a fee per sms through your cellular provider. Easily, that could bring in a lot more money for them.
Once a worm gets through a vulnerable browser to a system, it uses every possible exploit to spread to the other parts of the network and affects even users with secure browsers. So, to save the web we need all the web users to switch from IE to a more secure browser.
There's no use just telling it again and again on slashdot for the simple fact that the majority of the web users aren't slashdot readers. I still see people using version 4 browsers, IE 5,5.5 et al...wtf? Does that mean these guys will never upgrade their browsers? Then the only choice to have a safer web for all.. I believe, is is to install linux in their computers.
Slashdot Mirror
Looks like you didn't read the Bugtraq posting completely... There's an zip attachment with the fully decoded perl script.
Download link
Linus is doing the same thing Prof.Andrew Tanenbaum did years ago when he said "Linux is Obsolete".
Don't send it in the form of electricty..send it in the form of radiation energy just like how the Sun provides us energy wirelessly. Even NASA tested a Laser-Powered Aircraft last year.
Here's the Firefox Plugin
[[Category:Programmers]]
Mitchell E Kertzman became a director of CNET Networks in May 1996. Mr. Kertzman is a general partner of Hummer Winblad Venture Partners. From November 1998 until March, 2003, Mr. Kertzman served as Chief Executive Officer and Director of Liberate Technologies, Inc., an information appliance and software provider. From July 1996 until November 1998, Mr. Kertzman served as Chairman of the Board of Directors and Chief Executive Officer of Sybase, Inc., a leading provider of enterprise database software, which Mr. Kertzman joined in February 1995 as Executive Vice President. Prior to joining Sybase, Inc., Mr. Kertzman served as Chief Executive Officer and a director of Powersoft Corporation, an application development tools provider.Mitchell Kertzman has been listed in Forbes' America's Most Powerful People.
How about playing games while you pee?
Remember sometime ago Spirit was continously rebooting due to a flash memory problem. The usage of FAT file system in the embedded systems was partly responsible for the mess.
The problem, Denise said, was in the file system the rover used. In DOS, a directory structure is actually stored as a file. As that directory tree grows, the directory file grows, as well. The Achilles' heel, Denise said, was that deleting files from the directory tree does not reduce the size of the directory file. Instead, deleted files are represented within the directory by special characters, which tell the OS that the files can be replaced with new data.
By itself, the cancerous file might not have been an issue. Combined with a "feature" of a third-party piece of software used by the onboard Wind River embedded OS, however, the glitch proved nearly fatal.
According to Denise, the Spirit rover contains 256 Mbytes of flash memory, a nonvolatile memory that can be written and rewritten thousands of times. The rover also contains 128 Mbytes of DRAM, 96 Mbytes of which are used for data, such as buffering image files in preparation for transmitting them to Earth. The other 32 Mbytes are used for code storage. An additional 11 Mbytes of EEPROM memory are used for additional program code storage.
The undisclosed software vendor required that data stored in flash memory be mirrored in RAM. Since the rover's flash memory was twice the size of the system RAM, a crash was almost inevitable, Denise said.
Moving an actuator, for example, generates a large number of tiny data files. After the rover rebooted, the OSes heap memory would be a hair's breadth away from a crash, as the system RAM would be nearly full, Denise said. Adding another data file would generate a memory allocation command to a nonexistent memory address, prompting a fatal error.
Source: DOS Glitch Nearly Killed Mars Rover
BTW, there is another interview of Mike Deliman I read sometime ago in PCWorld.
Easily this would be the most watched program ever in Television history..
If Boris Smeds was a hero for the Cassini-Huygens Mission, Ann Harch was a heroine for the $150 Million Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous(NEAR) spacecraft mission to asteroid Eros. When an engine burn to reduce the spacecraft's approach speed went awry, the spacecraft tumbled violently and contact to it was lost for 36 hours. When they regained contact, the spacecraft was rushing at a great speed that it would pass Eros about two weeks ahead of schedule. The spacecraft had to be given new commands within 12 hours or it would miss clicking Eros altogether in the flyby. In the nerve-racking moments, Ann Harch and her colleagues rewrote new command sequences for the original program that took them 6 months to write. In a nail-biting finish the commands reached 8 minutes before the Eros flyby, just in time to enable capturing images of asteroid Eros. Ann Harch was later honored for her efforts with an asteroid being named after her.
How a down-to-the-wire computer fix at Cornell enabled a troubled spacecraft to take images of an asteroid
CU astronomer who helped save mission receives a celestial gift
sorry.. the proper links
Did Microsoft software trap Thailand 's finance minister?
BMW glitch locks Thai minister in
Last year the Thai Finance Minister was trapped inside his BMW allegedly due to a software glitch. http://www.thaivisa.com/index.php?514&backPID=514& tt_news=325
But another report said it was due to an electronic failure..
http://asia.cnet.com/news/systems/0,39037054,39130 270,00.htm
"In terms of pure music, Apple did a very good job. They did an excellent device."
"We've got smart competitors, Google and Yahoo,.."
But this one
" We're big believers in interoperability"
makes me laugh!
I guess you are making a point but stating that even an unfirewalled 'nix box won't be compromised is farfetched.
scoundrel.net
You can also use curl..
curl -A "Godzilla compatible; myownuserAgent 1.0" print.google.com
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backgr
background-color:white;
}
they are loading the image as a background-image
just get the image mentioned in the url(...)
If you do it this way using CSS, the images won't have a right click menu.
Though it's free now(only normal sms charges) ..google may eventually charge a fee per sms through your cellular provider. Easily, that could bring in a lot more money for them.
Ratan Tata is India's famous Industrialist. He runs the Tata group of companies.
a ta .htm
http://www.tatachemicals.net/0_about_us/ratan_t
Spam over Internet Telephony is
SOIT not SPIT
Unless they rename it
SPAM PERMEATING/PERVADING INTERNET TELEPHONY
In soviet Russia, WWW predicts death of Intel.
finding out how many of those x-patents are infringed by Linux.
They have been whining all the while about the Viral nature of GPL. Now they get proof!
Once a worm gets through a vulnerable browser to a system, it uses every possible exploit to spread to the other parts of the network and affects even users with secure browsers. So, to save the web we need all the web users to switch from IE to a more secure browser. There's no use just telling it again and again on slashdot for the simple fact that the majority of the web users aren't slashdot readers. I still see people using version 4 browsers, IE 5,5.5 et al...wtf? Does that mean these guys will never upgrade their browsers? Then the only choice to have a safer web for all.. I believe, is is to install linux in their computers.
build a cheap projector for TV, using commonly available items ? I want to see movies on a big screen without hurting my wallet...