As a retirement gift this week, the ousted Sony CEO (Nobuyuki Idei) was given an iPod of all things! He didn't find it very funny considering he is famous for declining Apple's offer to participate in the iTunes music store.
Break into a Linux server that has no services running presumably with some heretofore-unannounced buffer overflow in Linux's implementation of the ICMP protocol, all the while having every single packet sent to the system sniffed so that the sponsors of the challenge can know exactly how you did it.
Such a feat and sharing of knowledge should be worth about $1,000,000. I'm sure they'll get a lot of contenders with their offer of $0.
Larry Mumper is the chairman of the Agriculture Committee. I guess he's tired of people being scammed when they attempt to purchase cows and corn on EBay.
One shouldn't judge by looks, but it's hard not to in his case. Does he look like someone who has ever used EBay, or even knows how to spell EBay?
Doesn't that imply that the mere (former) existence of sites like Lokitorrent and Suprnova was illegal?
I'm not sure if that was ever decided by a court - rather it appears that scare tactics caused them to be shut down. For that reason, I personally don't feel comfortable declaring linking to content hosted on other systems illegal.
Michael Geist comes out every once in a while with a "The Sky is Falling!" piece about how government is trying to super-regulate the Internet in Canada or some other country.
It's sensationalist crap for the purpose of selling impressions on the websites he writes for.
The hairbrained proposals that some lobbyists are putting forth in Canada are real, but there's little danger of any of them being taken seriously and he knows that.
I remember the days of Ping of Death, Land, Teardrop, New Tear, Bork, etc.
Now that my WinXP SP2 system is susceptible to land again, it's getting me into a nostalgic mood. I think I'll go play Ms PacMan on my MAME cabinet now.
Now's the time to flood the (soon-to-be) newly formed software division of the EU patent office with patent applications.
Get them in now! If we can flood them with a few million patent applications per day, they'll be likely to just start approving everything. Imagine your new income after you have a patent on such non-obvious things as simple boolean logic.
Check your licensing agreements before you buy one of these dual-core processors. Make sure that your software vendor isn't going to double the price on you.
Oracle and others have announced plans to increase their revenue by charging people for multiple cores in their single processor.
Requirements?
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QA != Testing
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· Score: 3, Interesting
From TFA:
QA is described as making sure a project is "measurably meeting expectations and conforming to requirements"
At my job, requirements are often one-sentence requests with no needed detail whatsoever. If it then doesn't go to a business analyst in the IT department, that's what the programmers work from. When the QA process starts, it makes it easy to say that you've complied with all details of the requirements.
You would find an article in the latest Scientific American interesting:
How Did Humans First Alter Global Climate?. It's a controversial theory how humans have been altering the global climate for thousands of years, since the invention of clear-cutting forests for agricultural purposes. I found it a very interesting read, especially the theory presented by the author (here comes a troll modding for even parroting this theory) that early humans have actually caused us to avoid an ice age because of their global warming activities.
Now that Bill Gates is a knight, will he be appearing as a character in various Microsoft RPG games (a la Lord British)?
How many hardcore Linux users would install a Windows partition just to play future versions of Dungeon Siege and have a chance to maim Bill Gates?
Old school rap
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Ask mc chris
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· Score: 4, Funny
"I'm the master rapper and I'm here to say
I love Fruity Pebbles in a major way!
The bedrock yellow orange purple lime and red
But to get that fruity taste, I gotta trick Fred!"
Florian Mueller, the manager of the pan-European NoSoftwarePatents.com campaign, condemned the Commission's decision in the strongest terms: "A wannabe Napoleon who heads the Commission and a Microsoft puppet that runs the DG (directorate general) in charge have decided to negate democracy. Now we call on the EU Council to demonstrate a more democratic attitude and to reopen negotiations of its Common Position at the forthcoming meeting of the Competitiveness Council on Monday (7 March)."
It would appear the European Commission has moderated him -1 Flamebait and will be ignoring him.
First, since the article appears to be a bum link, here's the text of it:
Music companies seek larger chunk of online music revenues
Dow Jones
Published on: 02/28/05
LONDON -- Leading music labels are in talks with online retailers to raise wholesale prices for digital music downloads, in a bid to capitalize on growing demand for legal online music, the Financial Times reports Monday.
The moves, which suggest that the labels want a bigger slice in the fledgling market's spoils, has angered Steve Jobs, the Apple Computer chief executive officer who is behind the popular iTunes online music store, the newspaper says.
But music executives expressed caution about their ability to push through unilateral price increases, the report says.
Among the biggest groups, Universal Music and Sony BMG are known to be particularly reluctant to disrupt the market for downloads.
One top label said it would not raise wholesale prices now because the market wasn't yet mature enough for a price increase, the newspaper reports.
This is typical bean-counter logic. Let's see... 1 million sales at $0.99 = $990,000. But 1 million sales at $9.99 = $9,990,000! Wow, that's 10x better!
Before anyone questions the unimpeachable reputation of "The Hindu" - "Online Edition of India's National Newspaper", please keep in mind that they've brought significant news to us in the past.
Re:Other upgrades
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SLI Primer
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· Score: 3, Informative
I disagree with what you said "These systems do not have any use for a paging file." If you have more than 1 gigabyte of memory in your workstation and you run some variant of Windows, I invite you to test this for yourself.
Just run Performance Monitor (or Performance or whatever your version of Windows calls it) and add the following metrics:
Pages/Sec from the Memory Object
Average Disk Queue Length (total) from the physical disk object
Even if your memory used is nowhere near what your physical memory is, you will notice two things:
1. Your system still consistently uses the paging file
2. Every time your system uses the paging file, your disk queue length spikes
The moral of the story is, you need a fast disk subsystem for your paging file because Windows will use it even if you have 4 gigabytes of physical ram and are only using 256 megs.
As for RAID 0 vs RAID 5 in speed, what you say is true for writes, but not reads.
Other upgrades
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SLI Primer
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I think it likely after RTFA that other upgrades would give you more of a boost for your money. For instance, setting up an IDE RAID 5 array with a read/write caching hardware RAID controller would give almost everyone a huge speed increase for all of their applications, not just graphics ones.
Even just adding a second fast hard drive and placing your paging file on that with your OS on your first hard drive would give most users a big bump in speed.
I could go on, but I think on a list of 10 things to do, taking advtange of SLI is probably number 9 or 10.
It's very tempting to declare the old addage, "Live by the sword, die by the sword", but I'm not sure if that's the right attitude. Following that to its logical conclusion, it seems the only people that will be able to make money in the future are attorneys. Try to do anything else and you'll be sued.
Rather than actually doing anything with Nanotechnology, the UK should instead follow the lead of many Wall St companies and just put the prefix "Nano" in their name. Nano-Kingdom sounds pretty good to me.
Once you do this, you can expect all kinds of amazing profits!
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As a retirement gift this week, the ousted Sony CEO (Nobuyuki Idei) was given an iPod of all things! He didn't find it very funny considering he is famous for declining Apple's offer to participate in the iTunes music store.
Break into a Linux server that has no services running presumably with some heretofore-unannounced buffer overflow in Linux's implementation of the ICMP protocol, all the while having every single packet sent to the system sniffed so that the sponsors of the challenge can know exactly how you did it.
Such a feat and sharing of knowledge should be worth about $1,000,000. I'm sure they'll get a lot of contenders with their offer of $0.
Larry Mumper is the chairman of the Agriculture Committee. I guess he's tired of people being scammed when they attempt to purchase cows and corn on EBay.
One shouldn't judge by looks, but it's hard not to in his case. Does he look like someone who has ever used EBay, or even knows how to spell EBay?
Doesn't that imply that the mere (former) existence of sites like Lokitorrent and Suprnova was illegal?
I'm not sure if that was ever decided by a court - rather it appears that scare tactics caused them to be shut down. For that reason, I personally don't feel comfortable declaring linking to content hosted on other systems illegal.
After sending all my money to various Nigerian organizations, I wish I had some money for someone to siphon in a phishing scam!
Michael Geist comes out every once in a while with a "The Sky is Falling!" piece about how government is trying to super-regulate the Internet in Canada or some other country.
It's sensationalist crap for the purpose of selling impressions on the websites he writes for.
The hairbrained proposals that some lobbyists are putting forth in Canada are real, but there's little danger of any of them being taken seriously and he knows that.
Doctor WHO?
I remember the days of Ping of Death, Land, Teardrop, New Tear, Bork, etc.
Now that my WinXP SP2 system is susceptible to land again, it's getting me into a nostalgic mood. I think I'll go play Ms PacMan on my MAME cabinet now.
Now's the time to flood the (soon-to-be) newly formed software division of the EU patent office with patent applications.
Get them in now! If we can flood them with a few million patent applications per day, they'll be likely to just start approving everything. Imagine your new income after you have a patent on such non-obvious things as simple boolean logic.
How ironic would it be if Microsoft eventually abandoned .Net and Mono was the only remaining development environment that supported C#?
Check your licensing agreements before you buy one of these dual-core processors. Make sure that your software vendor isn't going to double the price on you.
Oracle and others have announced plans to increase their revenue by charging people for multiple cores in their single processor.
From TFA:
QA is described as making sure a project is "measurably meeting expectations and conforming to requirements"
At my job, requirements are often one-sentence requests with no needed detail whatsoever. If it then doesn't go to a business analyst in the IT department, that's what the programmers work from. When the QA process starts, it makes it easy to say that you've complied with all details of the requirements.
You would find an article in the latest Scientific American interesting:
How Did Humans First Alter Global Climate?. It's a controversial theory how humans have been altering the global climate for thousands of years, since the invention of clear-cutting forests for agricultural purposes. I found it a very interesting read, especially the theory presented by the author (here comes a troll modding for even parroting this theory) that early humans have actually caused us to avoid an ice age because of their global warming activities.
You have to hand it to chlorofluorocarbons... All those years in the pokey and they never fingered their co-conspirator - the sun.
Now that Bill Gates is a knight, will he be appearing as a character in various Microsoft RPG games (a la Lord British)?
How many hardcore Linux users would install a Windows partition just to play future versions of Dungeon Siege and have a chance to maim Bill Gates?
"I'm the master rapper and I'm here to say
I love Fruity Pebbles in a major way!
The bedrock yellow orange purple lime and red
But to get that fruity taste, I gotta trick Fred!"
From TFA:
Florian Mueller, the manager of the pan-European NoSoftwarePatents.com campaign, condemned the Commission's decision in the strongest terms: "A wannabe Napoleon who heads the Commission and a Microsoft puppet that runs the DG (directorate general) in charge have decided to negate democracy. Now we call on the EU Council to demonstrate a more democratic attitude and to reopen negotiations of its Common Position at the forthcoming meeting of the Competitiveness Council on Monday (7 March)."
It would appear the European Commission has moderated him -1 Flamebait and will be ignoring him.
This is one of the larger episodes of back-pedaling that I've seen in a while.
Example 1
Example 2
AOL has been fighting for years to keep other IM cilent makers off their network. Amazing what a shrinking user base will do for a company.
From the proliferation of (what I consider to be) annoying ring tones, I really feel alone in the world with my lowly silent setting.
For the life of me, I can not figure out why someone would take the time to set up a custom ringtone - let alone pay for one.
I guess it's the same people that blare their radio in the car with the windows rolled all the way down.
First, since the article appears to be a bum link, here's the text of it:
Music companies seek larger chunk of online music revenues
Dow Jones
Published on: 02/28/05
LONDON -- Leading music labels are in talks with online retailers to raise wholesale prices for digital music downloads, in a bid to capitalize on growing demand for legal online music, the Financial Times reports Monday.
The moves, which suggest that the labels want a bigger slice in the fledgling market's spoils, has angered Steve Jobs, the Apple Computer chief executive officer who is behind the popular iTunes online music store, the newspaper says.
But music executives expressed caution about their ability to push through unilateral price increases, the report says.
Among the biggest groups, Universal Music and Sony BMG are known to be particularly reluctant to disrupt the market for downloads.
One top label said it would not raise wholesale prices now because the market wasn't yet mature enough for a price increase, the newspaper reports.
This is typical bean-counter logic. Let's see... 1 million sales at $0.99 = $990,000. But 1 million sales at $9.99 = $9,990,000! Wow, that's 10x better!
Before anyone questions the unimpeachable reputation of "The Hindu" - "Online Edition of India's National Newspaper", please keep in mind that they've brought significant news to us in the past.
How many of us would not be alive today had they not warned us about mysterious monkeymen?
I disagree with what you said "These systems do not have any use for a paging file." If you have more than 1 gigabyte of memory in your workstation and you run some variant of Windows, I invite you to test this for yourself.
Just run Performance Monitor (or Performance or whatever your version of Windows calls it) and add the following metrics:
Pages/Sec from the Memory Object
Average Disk Queue Length (total) from the physical disk object
Even if your memory used is nowhere near what your physical memory is, you will notice two things:
1. Your system still consistently uses the paging file
2. Every time your system uses the paging file, your disk queue length spikes
The moral of the story is, you need a fast disk subsystem for your paging file because Windows will use it even if you have 4 gigabytes of physical ram and are only using 256 megs.
As for RAID 0 vs RAID 5 in speed, what you say is true for writes, but not reads.
I think it likely after RTFA that other upgrades would give you more of a boost for your money. For instance, setting up an IDE RAID 5 array with a read/write caching hardware RAID controller would give almost everyone a huge speed increase for all of their applications, not just graphics ones.
Even just adding a second fast hard drive and placing your paging file on that with your OS on your first hard drive would give most users a big bump in speed.
I could go on, but I think on a list of 10 things to do, taking advtange of SLI is probably number 9 or 10.
It's very tempting to declare the old addage, "Live by the sword, die by the sword", but I'm not sure if that's the right attitude. Following that to its logical conclusion, it seems the only people that will be able to make money in the future are attorneys. Try to do anything else and you'll be sued.
Rather than actually doing anything with Nanotechnology, the UK should instead follow the lead of many Wall St companies and just put the prefix "Nano" in their name. Nano-Kingdom sounds pretty good to me.
Once you do this, you can expect all kinds of amazing profits!