I too had the good fortune to see a preview last night. And I too say - "it rocked!!!!!"
(for the Star Wars geeks - Anthony "C3P0" Daniels was at the screening I went to (at Fox Studios in Sydney))
The actor which plays Logan/Wolverine must have REALLY read the comics. He had the character down to a tee.
Nope! I read an interview with Hugh Jackman a couple of days ago, he said he'd never even heard of the comic until he heard the role was up for auditions! But damn, was he good! He looked absolutely perfect, and played the role just right, I reckon (taking into account that this was a less experienced Wolvie, not the veteran "I'm the best at what I do" Wolvie).
The special effects had me wanting more and more.
Damn right! Magneto and Storm's powers - all I can say is "WOW!!". That alone made me glad they decided to focus on a smaller group of X-Men, and do it right, rather than trying to hurl a dozen or so of them into battle.
So yeah, all you "can't wait until Friday!" folks - get set! I think you'll love it!!
(are Kitty Pryde, Colossus, or Nightcrawler in the movie?)
Kitty Pryde for about 5 seconds, Colossus for about 1.:-) No sign of Nightcrawler.
Looks like they made the executive decision to just focus on a small group of characters rather than make it too confusing for viewers who've never read to comics. Works for me - half a dozen "good guys" with major roles is plenty, and the cameos of other X-Men (like Kitty, Colossus, Iceman..) were a treat for the fans.
Given that a large percentage of those who go to prision return to prision, I would venture that there is a positive corelation between commiting a crime in the past and commiting one in the future.
And if every employer refuses to hire a person because they have committed a crime in the past, do you think that will increase or decrease the chance of them committing a crime in the future?
I wouldn't mind if this was all about companies doing background checks, then in an interview saying "so, you got busted for [insert felony here] x years ago - what's with that?". But it's not. It's about companies doing background checks, and flat out refusing to hire people with convictions, real ones or non-existent ones incorrectly reported by the security firm. I don't think it leads society in a particularly positive direction if committing a crime carries a sentence of never getting a decent job again in your life, as well as jail time.
Unfortunately, most people just hear "IE is part of the OS" and start screaming, rather than realize that both KDE and Gnome are doing exactly the same thing.
A more accurate way to put it is to say that IE is part of the GUI. KDE and Gnome also make a browser part of the GUI. The reason why Microsoft's approach is lame for the previous example (the comms server in a rack) is that they make the GUI part of the OS. If it was a Linux box, you wouldn't angst about KDE/Gnome containing a browser that you didn't need for your comms server - you just wouldn't be using KDE or Gnome (or even XFree86 probably).
Also, it's not going to slow down the OS having an IE object that's not used sitting around. Anymore than KDE is slowed down by the ability to display web pages.
A lot of IE's code is pre-loaded at boot time, to allow the browser to start up quickly and give an illusion of superiority over Netscape. This is a non-trivial waste of memory, which you have to suffer through even if you never browse a single HTML file.
I know for a fact, as an eBay employee, that all Nazi memorabillia is banned from being listed on the eBay Germany site and eBay members who are registered as living in Germany are actively blocked from bidding on such items, irrelevant of which eBay site they are listed on.
Just out of curiosity, how does eBay know what is Nazi memorabilia and what isn't, in order to block German users, without it being "brought to their attention"? I know that Australian residents are blocked from the Adults Only section, but there is no separate section for Nazi items. I had a glance after reading this story, and they're mixed in with everything else in the various subcategories of Militaria (i.e. uniforms, medals, patches, etc.).
(p.s., there's plenty of it. Someone was even auctioning a genuine WW2 Knight's Cross.. $US3200 so far, reserve not yet met..)
"[Record labels] stealing our copyright provisions in the dead of night when no one is looking is piracy. It's not piracy when kids swap music over the Internet using Napster. There were one billion music downloads last year but music sales are way up, so how is Napster hurting the music industry? It's not. The only people scared of Napster are people who have filler on their albums and are scared that if people hear more than one single, they're not going to buy the record..." Courtney Love, speaking at the Digital Hollywood conference.
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Which reminds me, did Slashdot ever run a story about when they got hacked?
People use.zip files for wares because that's what's easy.
Actually people use self-extracting zip files inside multivolume rar archives inside zip files inside iso images, but that's another story entirely.:-)
That is *absolutely* the case. That's why the ILOVEYOU virus author renamed files not from file.ext to file.vbs but to file.ext.vbs.
That is *not* the case with Win95 and Outlook97.. regardless of whether I set my system to hide file extensions of known filetypes, Outlook displayed the ILOVEYOU attachment with the full ".txt.vbs" extension.
2) Food for thought: If you go on CNN and do their little unscientific cyber-poll about ILOVEYOU, something like 50% of the respondents never received it (me, included). I keep on seeing this "43 million users affected" number popping up in news reports. I wonder what the real numbers are...
Hard to say. The company I work for, f'rinstance, someone got the ILOVEYOU message, ran it, and bang, everyone in the global address list (i.e., the entire company) got mailed. The mail server overloaded, it got shut down, and was down until IT had cleaned it out. But all this happened early Friday morning, so most people just got in to work and found email switched off.
So, one way of looking at it is that only a few people here received the virus. Another was is to say that 1000 people did.
Presumably all the large estimates (like the 43 million you mentioned) are based on how many people the virus was sent to, not how many people actually received it.
2. Why are additions being thrown in? Are they at least defaulted to "N"?
I would assume they default to "N" (most things do) but I can't swear to that.
As for the why - they are being thrown in because people wish them to be thrown in, and because it pleases the benevolent lord of the 2.2 kernel, Alan Cox, to grant these people their wish.
Seriously though - the additions being "thrown in" are device drivers, for devices that didn't exist when 2.2 was released. People own these devices and need to use them - you can't just tell them to use a dev kernel, or wait for 2.4. You need to implement these drivers as quickly as possible, test them hard (2.2.15 had about 20 -pre versions before this final release, you know), and then get them out there!
I suppose you could adopt a "bug fixes only" attitude towards changes in the stable major version, but you would really really need to have much more frequent major releases for that to make sense.
I wish I could find where they mention the real number itself, or at least offer a link to where one may find it.
The lay person's version of the paper in question says "we are still running a number of tests in order to confirm our final number". So I guess you can't get the number just yet, but hopefully soon enough will be able to..
68k is great.. but unfortunately this article is a little mislabelled. The site in question is all about hacking Mac Color Classics, which came with a 68030, to use a PowerPC.
So, sadly, we're not talking about a true believer in the coolness of 68k's.. but rather a true believer in the coolness of a certain size & shape of all-in-one Mac.. oh well..
Damn, I get confused by all these different connections for CPUs. I'm still using a K6-2/300 so I've probably missed about 5 different slots and sockets already.:-)
But what's the story with Socket A? Is that an existing thing or a new, not yet available, thing? I'm guessing new, since I couldn't find any reference to it anywhere on any of the tech sites I searched..
Yes, this is a classic "Me too!" comment. Kernel Traffic is wonderful, a godsend to someone like myself who really is interested in what's going on in kernel-land, but can't possibly read 100 messages a day (or whatever) on the mailing list. Anyone else in the same boat (and I'm sure heaps of Slashdotters are) would be mad not to check it out every week.
And, if you're not aware, Kernel Cousins is a collection of "cousins" to Kernel Traffic, for other mailing lists. Currently the Gimp, Wine, Samba and Debian HURD mailing lists are summarised weekly or thereabouts. So if you're interested in the bleeding edge of any of those projects, there's something for you too.
Massive kudos to Zack Brown and the other traffickers for these summaries!!
There is a preference you can set in your user profile to filter out star wars stories, if you don't want to see them.
Unfortunately, while this filters them off the main page, you still see them in the next/previous article links. So there I was, happily reading about running Linux apps on my Sharp Zaurus, and the next story was about Star Wars, rather than something about COPPA (what's that? dunno! I'm not up to that yet)
Not that I actually have Star Wars filtered out - I enjoy the flamewars over what a rancid piece of shit TPM was. I only filter out Jon Katz.;-) But it's a thought.
http://www.ar.com.au/~storm/ikon/ - I've been meaning to replace the GIFs with PNGs for a while, this article reminded me to get off my arse and actually do it. So it's done. No more GIFs. Fuck you, Unisys!
Unfortunately the bug I'm waiting on seems to be lost in the wilderness, with nobody really knowing how to fix it. The problem is NTLM authentication, some proprietary means which Microsoft's Proxy Server uses to identify clients. I gather that Netscape never supported this, nor does Mozilla (does anything other than IE?), so I can't test it out with my neat work net connection.
Great to see that despite antitrust trials and whatnot, Microsoft can still spanner Mozilla's works for myself and anyone else in the same situation.
Oh well, downloading M15 to at least view a few local pages (hey I found one bug that way, which was fixed in a couple of hours, big kudos to the Mozilla team..)
In the original trilogy, how did all of Vader's henchmen speak? In a very clear British accent. They were considered bad/evil type people. How did C3P0 speak? Something like a British butler, and he was the fool throughout the series. All of the 'good guys' more or less spoke with normal American accents
What about Obi-Wan? I don't think Sir Alec has an American accent.
Now I DO know how to code. I'm taking my super-happy C++ coding classes in high school, so I know my way around a compiler and the like. So, after reading this article, I thought "hey, lets see if I can understand this NOW!" Guess what? It's still spaghetti code. I still can't unstand a stick of it, other then the PRINTFs and SCANFs. That's it. And I got a 98% in the class.
Being able to read other people's code is not a skill that I think is taught well, or indeed taught much at all.
I've been working as a programmer for 5 years now, and have developed a pretty good knack for reading and figuring out code. Which is good, because where I'm working now, we have code (ugly code) lying around that's 18 years old. I don't even know if the authors are still alive - they sure aren't still working here, though!
But this skill is purely something I've developed through experience. I did a CompSci degree at uni - we wrote lots of code, and we learnt a lot of interesting and useful things. But we never did anything along the lines of learning how to read code. So don't feel too bad if you haven't learnt that in your high school C++ classes.
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It totally rocked!!!!!!!!!
I too had the good fortune to see a preview last night. And I too say - "it rocked!!!!!"
(for the Star Wars geeks - Anthony "C3P0" Daniels was at the screening I went to (at Fox Studios in Sydney))
The actor which plays Logan/Wolverine must have REALLY read the comics. He had the character down to a tee.
Nope! I read an interview with Hugh Jackman a couple of days ago, he said he'd never even heard of the comic until he heard the role was up for auditions! But damn, was he good! He looked absolutely perfect, and played the role just right, I reckon (taking into account that this was a less experienced Wolvie, not the veteran "I'm the best at what I do" Wolvie).
The special effects had me wanting more and more.
Damn right! Magneto and Storm's powers - all I can say is "WOW!!". That alone made me glad they decided to focus on a smaller group of X-Men, and do it right, rather than trying to hurl a dozen or so of them into battle.
So yeah, all you "can't wait until Friday!" folks - get set! I think you'll love it!!
(are Kitty Pryde, Colossus, or Nightcrawler in the movie?)
Kitty Pryde for about 5 seconds, Colossus for about 1. :-) No sign of Nightcrawler.
Looks like they made the executive decision to just focus on a small group of characters rather than make it too confusing for viewers who've never read to comics. Works for me - half a dozen "good guys" with major roles is plenty, and the cameos of other X-Men (like Kitty, Colossus, Iceman..) were a treat for the fans.
Given that a large percentage of those who go to prision return to prision, I would venture that there is a positive corelation between commiting a crime in the past and commiting one in the future.
And if every employer refuses to hire a person because they have committed a crime in the past, do you think that will increase or decrease the chance of them committing a crime in the future?
I wouldn't mind if this was all about companies doing background checks, then in an interview saying "so, you got busted for [insert felony here] x years ago - what's with that?". But it's not. It's about companies doing background checks, and flat out refusing to hire people with convictions, real ones or non-existent ones incorrectly reported by the security firm. I don't think it leads society in a particularly positive direction if committing a crime carries a sentence of never getting a decent job again in your life, as well as jail time.
Maybe the URL you meant was http://par tners.nytimes.com/library/national/061300los-alamo s-theft.html ..?
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Courtney Love
Unfortunately, most people just hear "IE is part of the OS" and start screaming, rather than realize that both KDE and Gnome are doing exactly the same thing.
A more accurate way to put it is to say that IE is part of the GUI. KDE and Gnome also make a browser part of the GUI. The reason why Microsoft's approach is lame for the previous example (the comms server in a rack) is that they make the GUI part of the OS. If it was a Linux box, you wouldn't angst about KDE/Gnome containing a browser that you didn't need for your comms server - you just wouldn't be using KDE or Gnome (or even XFree86 probably).
Also, it's not going to slow down the OS having an IE object that's not used sitting around. Anymore than KDE is slowed down by the ability to display web pages.
A lot of IE's code is pre-loaded at boot time, to allow the browser to start up quickly and give an illusion of superiority over Netscape. This is a non-trivial waste of memory, which you have to suffer through even if you never browse a single HTML file.
"Their chip offered a unique combination of low power and low cost," said Gateway's eter Ashkin, of Transmeta's CPUs.
OK, we know what he meant by "low power", but perhaps that was not the most diplomatic way to phrase it. :-)
I know for a fact, as an eBay employee, that all Nazi memorabillia is banned from being listed on the eBay Germany site and eBay members who are registered as living in Germany are actively blocked from bidding on such items, irrelevant of which eBay site they are listed on.
Just out of curiosity, how does eBay know what is Nazi memorabilia and what isn't, in order to block German users, without it being "brought to their attention"? I know that Australian residents are blocked from the Adults Only section, but there is no separate section for Nazi items. I had a glance after reading this story, and they're mixed in with everything else in the various subcategories of Militaria (i.e. uniforms, medals, patches, etc.).
(p.s., there's plenty of it. Someone was even auctioning a genuine WW2 Knight's Cross.. $US3200 so far, reserve not yet met..)
And another cool quote for you:
"[Record labels] stealing our copyright provisions in the dead of night when no one is looking is piracy. It's not piracy when kids swap music over the Internet using Napster. There were one billion music downloads last year but music sales are way up, so how is Napster hurting the music industry? It's not. The only people scared of Napster are people who have filler on their albums and are scared that if people hear more than one single, they're not going to buy the record..."
Courtney Love, speaking at the Digital Hollywood conference.
Which reminds me, did Slashdot ever run a story about when they got hacked?
Yes, they did.
People use .zip files for wares because that's what's easy.
Actually people use self-extracting zip files inside multivolume rar archives inside zip files inside iso images, but that's another story entirely. :-)
That is *absolutely* the case. That's why the ILOVEYOU virus author renamed files not from file.ext to file.vbs but to file.ext.vbs.
That is *not* the case with Win95 and Outlook97.. regardless of whether I set my system to hide file extensions of known filetypes, Outlook displayed the ILOVEYOU attachment with the full ".txt.vbs" extension.
2) Food for thought: If you go on CNN and do their little unscientific cyber-poll about ILOVEYOU, something like 50% of the respondents never received it (me, included). I keep on seeing this "43 million users affected" number popping up in news reports. I wonder what the real numbers are...
Hard to say. The company I work for, f'rinstance, someone got the ILOVEYOU message, ran it, and bang, everyone in the global address list (i.e., the entire company) got mailed. The mail server overloaded, it got shut down, and was down until IT had cleaned it out. But all this happened early Friday morning, so most people just got in to work and found email switched off.
So, one way of looking at it is that only a few people here received the virus. Another was is to say that 1000 people did.
Presumably all the large estimates (like the 43 million you mentioned) are based on how many people the virus was sent to, not how many people actually received it.
Three cheers for RMS!!
I have always wondered what it is and what it does?
Well, since you don't want to take the 5 seconds on Google to search for "i2o", I did it for you.
Check out www.i2osig.org, or go straight to their Q&A section.
More importantly would it give me any speed improvements on an IDE system?
I'd guess it might, if you had an I2O IDE controller. Check out this list of products.
2. Why are additions being thrown in? Are they at least defaulted to "N"?
I would assume they default to "N" (most things do) but I can't swear to that.
As for the why - they are being thrown in because people wish them to be thrown in, and because it pleases the benevolent lord of the 2.2 kernel, Alan Cox, to grant these people their wish.
Seriously though - the additions being "thrown in" are device drivers, for devices that didn't exist when 2.2 was released. People own these devices and need to use them - you can't just tell them to use a dev kernel, or wait for 2.4. You need to implement these drivers as quickly as possible, test them hard (2.2.15 had about 20 -pre versions before this final release, you know), and then get them out there!
I suppose you could adopt a "bug fixes only" attitude towards changes in the stable major version, but you would really really need to have much more frequent major releases for that to make sense.
I wish I could find where they mention the real number itself, or at least offer a link to where one may find it.
The lay person's version of the paper in question says "we are still running a number of tests in order to confirm our final number". So I guess you can't get the number just yet, but hopefully soon enough will be able to..
68k is great.. but unfortunately this article is a little mislabelled. The site in question is all about hacking Mac Color Classics, which came with a 68030, to use a PowerPC.
So, sadly, we're not talking about a true believer in the coolness of 68k's.. but rather a true believer in the coolness of a certain size & shape of all-in-one Mac.. oh well..
Damn, I get confused by all these different connections for CPUs. I'm still using a K6-2/300 so I've probably missed about 5 different slots and sockets already. :-)
But what's the story with Socket A? Is that an existing thing or a new, not yet available, thing? I'm guessing new, since I couldn't find any reference to it anywhere on any of the tech sites I searched..
Yes, this is a classic "Me too!" comment. Kernel Traffic is wonderful, a godsend to someone like myself who really is interested in what's going on in kernel-land, but can't possibly read 100 messages a day (or whatever) on the mailing list. Anyone else in the same boat (and I'm sure heaps of Slashdotters are) would be mad not to check it out every week.
And, if you're not aware, Kernel Cousins is a collection of "cousins" to Kernel Traffic, for other mailing lists. Currently the Gimp, Wine, Samba and Debian HURD mailing lists are summarised weekly or thereabouts. So if you're interested in the bleeding edge of any of those projects, there's something for you too.
Massive kudos to Zack Brown and the other traffickers for these summaries!!
There is a preference you can set in your user profile to filter out star wars stories, if you don't want to see them.
Unfortunately, while this filters them off the main page, you still see them in the next/previous article links. So there I was, happily reading about running Linux apps on my Sharp Zaurus, and the next story was about Star Wars, rather than something about COPPA (what's that? dunno! I'm not up to that yet)
Not that I actually have Star Wars filtered out - I enjoy the flamewars over what a rancid piece of shit TPM was. I only filter out Jon Katz. ;-) But it's a thought.
http://www.ar.com.au/~storm/ikon/ - I've been meaning to replace the GIFs with PNGs for a while, this article reminded me to get off my arse and actually do it. So it's done. No more GIFs. Fuck you, Unisys!
Unfortunately the bug I'm waiting on seems to be lost in the wilderness, with nobody really knowing how to fix it. The problem is NTLM authentication, some proprietary means which Microsoft's Proxy Server uses to identify clients. I gather that Netscape never supported this, nor does Mozilla (does anything other than IE?), so I can't test it out with my neat work net connection.
Great to see that despite antitrust trials and whatnot, Microsoft can still spanner Mozilla's works for myself and anyone else in the same situation.
Oh well, downloading M15 to at least view a few local pages (hey I found one bug that way, which was fixed in a couple of hours, big kudos to the Mozilla team..)
In the original trilogy, how did all of Vader's henchmen speak? In a very clear British accent. They were considered bad/evil type people. How did C3P0 speak? Something like a British butler, and he was the fool throughout the series. All of the 'good guys' more or less spoke with normal American accents
What about Obi-Wan? I don't think Sir Alec has an American accent.
Now I DO know how to code. I'm taking my super-happy C++ coding classes in high school, so I know my way around a compiler and the like. So, after reading this article, I thought "hey, lets see if I can understand this NOW!" Guess what? It's still spaghetti code. I still can't unstand a stick of it, other then the PRINTFs and SCANFs. That's it. And I got a 98% in the class.
Being able to read other people's code is not a skill that I think is taught well, or indeed taught much at all.
I've been working as a programmer for 5 years now, and have developed a pretty good knack for reading and figuring out code. Which is good, because where I'm working now, we have code (ugly code) lying around that's 18 years old. I don't even know if the authors are still alive - they sure aren't still working here, though!
But this skill is purely something I've developed through experience. I did a CompSci degree at uni - we wrote lots of code, and we learnt a lot of interesting and useful things. But we never did anything along the lines of learning how to read code. So don't feel too bad if you haven't learnt that in your high school C++ classes.
It's a shame..