On Tuesday, the North American Electric Reliability Council (NERC), the industry group responsible for preventing blackouts in the U.S. and Canada, approved a raft of directives to utility companies aimed at preventing a recurrence of the outage. One of them gives FirstEnergy a June 30th deadline to install any known patches for its XA/21 system.
Giving them till the end of June to install software patches is ridiculous! Do they want another blackout or something? I wonder what are the deadlines for other directives like.
All the VCRs I've seen start playing write protected tapes after they're inserted (with no need to press play).
(Okay, they just output analog stuff from tape, but they do have microcontrollers, and some can even digitize the signal eg. for better pause and slow motion image quality.)
Someone should publicly identify the prof and spread the review and perhaps even his offline contact info all over the place (anonymously of course). I tried to find the review but couldn't. I hope someone has it.
Yes, I do think that biased defamatory reviews are a bad thing. It's just that I think that shutting down a site over this is far far worse and for that prof deserves some publicity in return.
As long as there are human DJs, there will always be a place for vinyl records and hence record stores that sell them. It seems to be a little known fact that most new releases are released on vinyl just for that purpose.
Yeah, but compare the number of DJs to the number of people who just want music to listen to. You'd have very few record stores if they were just for DJs buying vinyl.
Why can't DJs just order their records? It's not like you can't ship them. Though a record store still has an advantage when buying records and I'm sure plenty of DJs appreciate that.
Also, will DJs keep using vinyl? At psytrance parties I've seen plenty of DJs using CDs. Some even just use laptops. I guess there will always be DJs who want vinyl but I suspect the size of this segment will decline over time.
Paint is often supposed to protect surfaces from corrosion. In this case the paint collects nitrous oxide gasses and makes nitric acid, a very corrosive chemical. The paint is porous so we can have nitric acid within the paint, perhaps even close to the surface you want to protect. Now will that nitrous acid destroy whatever the paint was supposed to protect? Perhaps a good coat of different, non-porous paint below this paint will protect the surface, but if there are any deep scratches at least they may corrode much faster due to nitric acid.
I haven't had to deal with this issue since Wing Commander. I would have thought JPL would be capable of making software that plays animations at the same speed on all computers that are fast enough for it.
Then again if they forget to handle filesystem full errors on Mars rovers who knows...;)
It seems there are no fixes for old versions and you have to get the latest one. This sucks. I hate getting new RealPlayer versions because you always have to wonder what crap they've added in the next version.
Here's something you could easily set up:
Connect the VGA output to a VGA to TV converter. You need a scan converter (which changes the horizontal and vertical rates) rather than just a signal converter. These are >$100 usually. Then connect the output of that to a video capture or frame grabber device. Yes, there'll be loss of quality but at least it'll work and you won't have to build something special.
If you want to build something how about starting with a VGA to DVI converter. At least that gives you the analog portions of the circuit and the ADC. Or if you can stick in a card that has a DVI output.
Why not include Windows and perhaps others? I guess they wouldn't include non-open-source ones because it's a site about open source but I'd love to see the comparison. Have any other sites done that?
A buddy list can help at least on some services because you can totally ignore all messages from people who aren't on your buddy list. That's not really nice because then other people who are trying to legitimately contact you won't be able to.
With some IM clients you could set up a challenge system for people who aren't on your buddy list. But guess what? You find out that you have to deal with more or less the same issues as when trying to stop spam in e-mail.
I have a Yahoo.com e-mail account and I agree. However, the problem is only solved for you, not them. They still have to add extra hardware (with associated increased power and maintennance costs) because of the volume of spam coming in.
Windows are good (at least this meaning of "windows"... hehe). Would you rather live in a windowless box without any natural light ever or have holes in the walls with wind, rain and sometimes snow coming in?
I guess it'd be ok to complain about glass that's not for seeing through but is just decorative like on some skyscrapers...
If you want free VMWare check out Xen. It's GPLed and it should actually be faster than VMWare. There is a catch though: the OS that runs inside must be modified. Linux is already supported. XP is almost ready but I wonder if they'll be allowed to distribute their modifications.
Bochs emulates the IA-32 instruction set and enables you to run IA-32 software on any sort of hardware that you can compile Bochs on. (eg. I once ran it on a MicroVAX at an incredibly slow speed)
VMWare requires IA-32 hardware. Most of the instructions are executed natively and only some of the priviledged operations are emulated so that whatever is run under VMWare can work as if it has full control over the CPU while in fact being an un-priviledged task.
I once came accross a site that used HTML forms that are submitted using the HTTP POST metod to download files. The site was still easy to use; the only visible part of of the form was a button you clicked to start the download. However that couldn't be automated without some coding.
I still got what I wanted but I'm sure the vast majority of people wouldn't do it. Most wouldn't know how to and some wouldn't feel like going through the trouble.
The Javascript method mentioned earlier could work in a simillar way but what about people who disable Javascript or use a browser that doesn't support it.
What was known before would be more like:
A random person stuffs boxes of cookies into containers. The checkout clerks fail to notice boxes of cookies in containers and many people buy the containers with boxes of cookies in them but only pay for the container. The supermarket then tries to track down anyone who bought these and make them pay for the cookies.
Now things seem even worse for SCO. It seems they contributed the code. That's like some supermarket employee is told by their boss to stick the boxes of cookies into the containers and then label the items as "container with free box of cookies included". Surely they can't make people pay for the cookies now.
Certainly whoever sets up a server and leaves this enabled is stupid or careless, but I think the companies have some responsibility too. The option should at least be disabled by default. Enabling it should cause some sort of warning. Better yet it shouldn't be there. Why put such a dangerous feature in a program?
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It's incredibly ironic to have this happen so soon after that article!
The files listed in win2k/private/ntos/ appear to be kernel stuff. Yes, even asm files in there.
On Tuesday, the North American Electric Reliability Council (NERC), the industry group responsible for preventing blackouts in the U.S. and Canada, approved a raft of directives to utility companies aimed at preventing a recurrence of the outage. One of them gives FirstEnergy a June 30th deadline to install any known patches for its XA/21 system.
Giving them till the end of June to install software patches is ridiculous! Do they want another blackout or something? I wonder what are the deadlines for other directives like.
(Okay, they just output analog stuff from tape, but they do have microcontrollers, and some can even digitize the signal eg. for better pause and slow motion image quality.)
Yes, I do think that biased defamatory reviews are a bad thing. It's just that I think that shutting down a site over this is far far worse and for that prof deserves some publicity in return.
Actually the Saturn V was the largest operational rocket ever.
How do some industries get away with this? For example the entertainment industry, especially with DVDs.
Should the code be replaced? Could replacing the code be seen as an admission of guilt or at least evidence in that direction?
Yeah, but compare the number of DJs to the number of people who just want music to listen to. You'd have very few record stores if they were just for DJs buying vinyl.
Why can't DJs just order their records? It's not like you can't ship them. Though a record store still has an advantage when buying records and I'm sure plenty of DJs appreciate that.
Also, will DJs keep using vinyl? At psytrance parties I've seen plenty of DJs using CDs. Some even just use laptops. I guess there will always be DJs who want vinyl but I suspect the size of this segment will decline over time.
Paint is often supposed to protect surfaces from corrosion. In this case the paint collects nitrous oxide gasses and makes nitric acid, a very corrosive chemical. The paint is porous so we can have nitric acid within the paint, perhaps even close to the surface you want to protect. Now will that nitrous acid destroy whatever the paint was supposed to protect? Perhaps a good coat of different, non-porous paint below this paint will protect the surface, but if there are any deep scratches at least they may corrode much faster due to nitric acid.
Then again if they forget to handle filesystem full errors on Mars rovers who knows... ;)
Has anybody tried Real Alternative?
If you want to build something how about starting with a VGA to DVI converter. At least that gives you the analog portions of the circuit and the ADC. Or if you can stick in a card that has a DVI output.
Well then why doesn't Microsoft do it?
Why not include Windows and perhaps others? I guess they wouldn't include non-open-source ones because it's a site about open source but I'd love to see the comparison. Have any other sites done that?
With some IM clients you could set up a challenge system for people who aren't on your buddy list. But guess what? You find out that you have to deal with more or less the same issues as when trying to stop spam in e-mail.
I have a Yahoo.com e-mail account and I agree. However, the problem is only solved for you, not them. They still have to add extra hardware (with associated increased power and maintennance costs) because of the volume of spam coming in.
Some people already get IM spam. If people started using IM instead of e-mail spammers would move to IM too.
I guess it'd be ok to complain about glass that's not for seeing through but is just decorative like on some skyscrapers...
Xen has already been covered on slashdot
Bochs emulates the IA-32 instruction set and enables you to run IA-32 software on any sort of hardware that you can compile Bochs on. (eg. I once ran it on a MicroVAX at an incredibly slow speed)
VMWare requires IA-32 hardware. Most of the instructions are executed natively and only some of the priviledged operations are emulated so that whatever is run under VMWare can work as if it has full control over the CPU while in fact being an un-priviledged task.
IMHO the main disadvantage of MP3 here is that it sucks at low bitrates, like ones that would be used for streaming on dial-up.
I still got what I wanted but I'm sure the vast majority of people wouldn't do it. Most wouldn't know how to and some wouldn't feel like going through the trouble.
The Javascript method mentioned earlier could work in a simillar way but what about people who disable Javascript or use a browser that doesn't support it.
Now things seem even worse for SCO. It seems they contributed the code. That's like some supermarket employee is told by their boss to stick the boxes of cookies into the containers and then label the items as "container with free box of cookies included". Surely they can't make people pay for the cookies now.
Certainly whoever sets up a server and leaves this enabled is stupid or careless, but I think the companies have some responsibility too. The option should at least be disabled by default. Enabling it should cause some sort of warning. Better yet it shouldn't be there. Why put such a dangerous feature in a program?