Windows do not like having a space at the begining or double spaces (I think...).
Spaces in the middle of a file name can also be frustrating in Windows, even with pure MS programs.
Example:
If I want to point someone on the corporate network to a huge file which resides on a network drive we can both access, I can just send a mail with this text:
file://K:\somedirectory\somefile.iso
Both Outlook and Thunderbird will create a link to the file when showing this mail.
However, this will not work in Thunderbird nor Outlook:
file://K:\some directory\somefile.iso
This will not work in Thunderbird nor Outlook:
"file://K:\some directory\somefile.iso"
file://"K:\some directory\somefile.iso"
file://K:\"some directory"\somefile.iso
This will work in Thunderbird, but not Outlook:
file://K:\some%20directory\somefile.iso
Disclaimer: My Outlook testing was done in Outlook 2000 and 2002/XP. Outlook 2003 may be different.
Not so. After the copyright runs out you are free to mount your hand held cam in front of the TV and film away.
So you still have a working Blu-ray player? You are lucky. My player died in 2053 and since the last Blu-ray compatible player was pulled from the market in 2042, I don't think I will ever be able to find a replacement.
I stopped using Acrobat reader a long time ago. It's so frigging slow and it's a huge resource hog.
I use FoxItReader [foxitsoftware.com]. It's super fast, the download is less than 1 meg. The only downside I've found is that it only works with Windows.
I found one more downside: I can't zoom the contents of a rectangle which I drag with the mouse. When working with A0 PDF drawings, this is almost a "need to have" feature.
(And I will have to learn some new keyboard shortcuts.)
But apart from that, it seems like a more than worthy replacement for Acrobat Reader.
On May 1, 2006, Sen. Ted Stevens inserted a version of the Broadcast Flag into the Net Neutrality Bill. The draft section can be seen here [2], and the full text of the bill here [3]
It seems that this info was added to the article on May 2, 03:19.
So the NEWS SITE Slashdot ran this story after 1½ months, while something as static as an encyclopedia was updated with the same news after only 1 day.
You are assuming that all the companies who have had this information stolen from them are negligent. I can guarantee you that not all of them are. Thieves can be very determined and resourceful.
Are you serious? We are mainly discussing data which was stored unencrypted on laptops. That is so negligent that words can't describe it.
And the sad thing is, you've probably got alias cp='cp -p' somewhere in your environment and aren't even aware of it.
Huh? If I had that, cp would not trash the file dates. It does on my Debian Sarge PC, but not on the previously mentioned Ubuntu PC. Should I add inconsistent cp behaviour dependent on distribution to the list?
My favourite annoyance is the default behaviour of
'cp'. Unless I add additional command line arguments, the file date will be
changed into today's date. I don't want that. I cannot imagine why anyone
would want that so much that it is the default behaviour.
At least it has been changed in Konqueror now. Two years ago I trashed the dates of some 100s of vacation photos by using Konqueror on a Knoppix CD to copy them from the camera card and clear the card afterwards. Konqueror on my Ubuntu Dapper Drake doesn't seem to do this. Nautilus doesn't either.
They could probably put two GPUs on the same board though.
Funny coincidence. I just saw a/. article describing exactly such a card. But now I can't find it again. I have searched through all other articles from the past 3 days, but it seems to be gone.
To give you a clue on how rich Microsoft is:
Let's say it's a 150MB CD. Let's also assume that we have a 3Gb/s (but 10 bytes with error correction, so 300MB/s) SATA controller and a RAID array to saturate it. At that speed, copying 150MB takes 0.5 seconds. In one week (604800s), you would be able to do 1209600 copies. Taking a generous retail price of $300 (let's at least take the suite and not just MS Word), that's 362.88 million dollars, or less than 1% of the pocket money Microsoft has, nevermind their total assets.
At this moment, I'm supporting roughly 1500 clients. 35% of my resources to supply all those clients with acurate time are being used by 40 clients. In fact, the top 10 "abusers" are taking nearly 17%... and it's a good moment.
I wonder if the abusers are running some kind of Unix/Linux/BSD time daemons.
In my experience, when starting the 'chronyd' time daemon under Linux, it will poll very often, like 15 seconds intervals. Everytime it gets an answer, it will compare it to the system clock, log the deviation and adjust the system clock speed based on the trend. After some time, the system clock will run really accurate, so the logged deviations will be small. The polling interval will then be increased in steps up to a max. limit of 4 hours. If the computer is restarted, this scenario starts over again.
Compare this to a typical Windows XP computer which seems to poll a time server once a week or so. No doubt that the ntp server will feel some clients more abusive than others.
Disclaimers:
The intervals stated above may be wrong. I haven't tinkered with optimizing my time daemons since the old pay-per-minute ISDN days so my memory is a bit rusty.
Chronyd is just an example. I have no knowledge of whether it stresses the time servers more or less than other time daemons like 'xntpd'.
I sold my first vacuum cleaner. Damn, it feels good.
Many years ago, my wife and I were looking for a new car. We went into a car shop, a salesman greeted us, asked what car we were looking for and gave us a lot of guidance. Some time later, another salesman took over, and the first one left.
"Huh, where did the other salesman go?".
"That was not a salesman. He was just in to pick up his new Audi A8."
i did not know they coudl boost the signal any more then what it was at.... i kinda figured they would already have it as high as they could. i mean why woudl they not jsut keep the signal "boosted" all the times soem places still have dead zones so that coudl help some??
Probably to avoid interference with other nearby phone cells using the same frequency.
This is pure guesswork on my behalf, but here goes:
I would imagine that the cell network is laid out so nearby cells use different frequencies within the allowed spectrum. This would prevent one cell phone or phone cell from interfering with the communication between another cell phone and phone cell.
Under good conditions, a signal with unchanged strength will reach farther, thus perhaps causing interference with far away cells. This would be a good reason for reducing the signal strength under good conditions.
Actually, the phone itself will also reduce transmission strength under good conditions. It is an old joke that if you want to avoid brain cancer, you should live near to a phone cell so your own cell phone doesn't have to turn up the transmission strength.
Tell me how to get Monsters Inc. Scream Team Training to run on a non-admin account without me manually entering an admin pw into Run As... every time and I'll be unbelievably grateful.
If you are on XP Pro (not XP Home), you should look into the '/savecred' option for the command line version of RunAs.
First time a program is started with 'runas/savecred/user:administrator', you will be prompted for the administrator password. The next time this command is used to start the program, XP will remember that this user is allowed to run the program with administrator priviledges and will not ask for a password. To make things a little more convenient and self-explanatory, you can put the command into a.bat file, make a shortcut to the.bat file and select the program's icon for the shortcut.
It is certainly not a perfect solution, but it can solve some problems.
However, you should not use this solution if you don't trust the user. I am almost certain that the program can be replaced with another program with the same name without revoking the priviledges.
After missing a few deadlines, the marketing goons will push to abandon security for more crap on the shelves.
Is it a fact that early testing will delay a project?
I must admit that I don't know much about large software development projects. But I do know a lot about large development projects in my own profession. It seems that any problem which was unresolved/ignored/insignificant during early development will turn into huge problems a few days before a deadline.
Are software projects different? I would think that early warnings about bad coding practices at least would make a programmer change his coding habits so he doesn't make the same error again and again and finally has to correct it in 200 different parts of the code after the final quality check.
It's definately a role model that other software venders could learn from.
You think that other software vendors should learn from "Force our users to login with administrative priviledges if they want any automatic updates or even NOTIFICATIONS"?
I can understand why a non-priviledged user is unable to perform an automatic update during his Firefox session. But I cannot understand why he doesn't receive a notification which urges him to login with an administrative account and update Firefox.
Disclaimer: There may be notifications when running Firefox as a non-priviledged user, but in that case they are very subtle. I am a little behind and still running 1.5.0.1. During all the time 1.5.0.2 was out, I have not noticed any update notifications.
They hold back each new iteration until prices slack off on the current product. AMD beat them to the 1 GHz punch because intel was holding back their own 1GHz chip to squeeze more profit. After AMD beat them, they released theirs 2 days later.
Yes, that would seem rather cynical and deliberate, wouldn't it? That is, unless you also remember that Intel released their processor but was unable to deliver in volume for several months.
And unless you remember that Intel's next processor, the 1.13 GHz had severe stability issues which made Intel retract that processor.
Both of those two incidents pretty much shows that Intel was certainly not so much ahead of AMD at the time, that they were sitting with processors ready for the market and just waiting for the market to get ready for the processors.
I have found some old stories at tomshardware.com, describing this if you should have forgotten about it. Let us remember that Tom is known to be very pro Intel biased, so any negative mentioning of Intel on that page should be taken seriously:
You must understand. You are taking a fictitious story and proclaiming how bad it is because of it's (I repeat) fictitious subject matter. (even if parts of it are actual facts)
I am willing to accept a lot of fictitious elements in a book. But I am not willing to accept actions which does not make sense in relation to the description we are offered by the author.
And A&D has a lot of those actions, making me stop and think: "Duh, why would he do THAT, when he could just do THIS?"
A few examples:
1. Somewhere in the Vatican, the bad guys have hidden a wireless camera and a canister with a weak magnetic field. The good guys do not know if this magnetic field will be measurable from distance. The good guys DO know that the signal from the wireless camera is measurable, since they can see the transmission on their monitors. We are also told that the good guys have some hefty equipment for tracing electronic communications.
Now, what are we going to try to trace? The weak magnetic field or the signal from the wireless camera?
Sorry, you guessed wrong - we are going to trace the weak magnetic field.
2. The vatican library is divided into small sealed compartments with low-oxygen air to protect the books. The portable container in which the Very Important Book resides must not be opened outside one of those compartments. We go into the compartment, open the container and try to decode the message in the book while almost dying because we are using up the oxygen.
Now, what are we going to do? Put the book back in the portable container, move the container to another sealed compartment with a "fresh" supply of low-oxygen air, open the container and continue our work?
Sorry, you guessed wrong - we will just stay and continue our little suicide attempt.
3. The good guys know a lot of very clever colleagues and students with access to the Internet. And we must assume that the residents in the Vatican has a lot of knowledge about the characteristics and history of each church in Rome. The good guys also know that they will need a lot of knowledge about the characteristics and history of the churches in Rome if they are going to decipher the clues, once they find them. (At least this is obvious after deciphering the first one or two of the five clues revealed through the book.)
So what are we going to do? Should we call our students and colleagues and let them dig up this kind of information in advance? Should we give a similar task to some of the possibly very knowledgeable residents in the Vatican? Should we let someone put together a response team of very clever people who can assist in deciphering the clues as soon as they are revealed?
Sorry, you guessed wrong - we are two persons, and one of us know a lot of history and we have nothing else to do the next 24 hours anyway. So let us try to save Rome and the Vatican all by ourselves.
I can imagine that some normal readers might read through this without noticing anything. But I cannot imagine any/.'er doing it.
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Example:
If I want to point someone on the corporate network to a huge file which resides on a network drive we can both access, I can just send a mail with this text: Both Outlook and Thunderbird will create a link to the file when showing this mail.
However, this will not work in Thunderbird nor Outlook: This will not work in Thunderbird nor Outlook: This will work in Thunderbird, but not Outlook: Disclaimer: My Outlook testing was done in Outlook 2000 and 2002/XP. Outlook 2003 may be different.
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(And I will have to learn some new keyboard shortcuts.)
But apart from that, it seems like a more than worthy replacement for Acrobat Reader.
He had once:
His teacher had one day brought a record player and a vinyl record with her to school to show it to the pupils.
I don't think we can expect that all children are that lucky, so a lot of them probably never saw a vinyl record.
Then I started wondering if "brane" might actually mean something. In case I am not the only one who didn't get it at once:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brane
So the NEWS SITE Slashdot ran this story after 1½ months, while something as static as an encyclopedia was updated with the same news after only 1 day.
My favourite annoyance is the default behaviour of 'cp'. Unless I add additional command line arguments, the file date will be changed into today's date. I don't want that. I cannot imagine why anyone would want that so much that it is the default behaviour.
At least it has been changed in Konqueror now. Two years ago I trashed the dates of some 100s of vacation photos by using Konqueror on a Knoppix CD to copy them from the camera card and clear the card afterwards. Konqueror on my Ubuntu Dapper Drake doesn't seem to do this. Nautilus doesn't either.
A few weeks ago, I jumpstarted our car with the power supply for an IBM Thinkpad. I guess I could have made it to the front page of /. too.
(Admitted - it was not a real jumpstart, since I let it charge for some hours first.)
In my experience, when starting the 'chronyd' time daemon under Linux, it will poll very often, like 15 seconds intervals. Everytime it gets an answer, it will compare it to the system clock, log the deviation and adjust the system clock speed based on the trend. After some time, the system clock will run really accurate, so the logged deviations will be small. The polling interval will then be increased in steps up to a max. limit of 4 hours. If the computer is restarted, this scenario starts over again.
Compare this to a typical Windows XP computer which seems to poll a time server once a week or so. No doubt that the ntp server will feel some clients more abusive than others.
Disclaimers:
The intervals stated above may be wrong. I haven't tinkered with optimizing my time daemons since the old pay-per-minute ISDN days so my memory is a bit rusty.
Chronyd is just an example. I have no knowledge of whether it stresses the time servers more or less than other time daemons like 'xntpd'.
"Huh, where did the other salesman go?".
"That was not a salesman. He was just in to pick up his new Audi A8."
Æffect, æffect
This is pure guesswork on my behalf, but here goes:
I would imagine that the cell network is laid out so nearby cells use different frequencies within the allowed spectrum. This would prevent one cell phone or phone cell from interfering with the communication between another cell phone and phone cell.
Under good conditions, a signal with unchanged strength will reach farther, thus perhaps causing interference with far away cells. This would be a good reason for reducing the signal strength under good conditions.
Actually, the phone itself will also reduce transmission strength under good conditions. It is an old joke that if you want to avoid brain cancer, you should live near to a phone cell so your own cell phone doesn't have to turn up the transmission strength.
First time a program is started with 'runas
It is certainly not a perfect solution, but it can solve some problems.
However, you should not use this solution if you don't trust the user. I am almost certain that the program can be replaced with another program with the same name without revoking the priviledges.
I must admit that I don't know much about large software development projects. But I do know a lot about large development projects in my own profession. It seems that any problem which was unresolved/ignored/insignificant during early development will turn into huge problems a few days before a deadline.
Are software projects different? I would think that early warnings about bad coding practices at least would make a programmer change his coding habits so he doesn't make the same error again and again and finally has to correct it in 200 different parts of the code after the final quality check.
It's definately a role model that other software venders could learn from.
You think that other software vendors should learn from "Force our users to login with administrative priviledges if they want any automatic updates or even NOTIFICATIONS"?
I can understand why a non-priviledged user is unable to perform an automatic update during his Firefox session. But I cannot understand why he doesn't receive a notification which urges him to login with an administrative account and update Firefox.
Disclaimer: There may be notifications when running Firefox as a non-priviledged user, but in that case they are very subtle. I am a little behind and still running 1.5.0.1. During all the time 1.5.0.2 was out, I have not noticed any update notifications.
They hold back each new iteration until prices slack off on the current product. AMD beat them to the 1 GHz punch because intel was holding back their own 1GHz chip to squeeze more profit. After AMD beat them, they released theirs 2 days later.
t s_problems_with_pentium_iii_1/ h tml
Yes, that would seem rather cynical and deliberate, wouldn't it? That is, unless you also remember that Intel released their processor but was unable to deliver in volume for several months.
And unless you remember that Intel's next processor, the 1.13 GHz had severe stability issues which made Intel retract that processor.
Both of those two incidents pretty much shows that Intel was certainly not so much ahead of AMD at the time, that they were sitting with processors ready for the market and just waiting for the market to get ready for the processors.
I have found some old stories at tomshardware.com, describing this if you should have forgotten about it. Let us remember that Tom is known to be very pro Intel biased, so any negative mentioning of Intel on that page should be taken seriously:
http://www.tomshardware.com/2000/08/28/intel_admi
http://www.tomshardware.com/2000/08/28/amd/index.
In general, I find your idea hilarious. Such a shame that you are going to loose arma for this.
/usr/sbin/comsatctl -a --lat=324.3 --lon=213.4
But I have to ask regarding your chosen coordinates:
[root@fortress]$
Actually, no. I am not going to ask. I am just going to keep wondering.
I am willing to accept a lot of fictitious elements in a book. But I am not willing to accept actions which does not make sense in relation to the description we are offered by the author.
And A&D has a lot of those actions, making me stop and think: "Duh, why would he do THAT, when he could just do THIS?"
A few examples:
1. Somewhere in the Vatican, the bad guys have hidden a wireless camera and a canister with a weak magnetic field. The good guys do not know if this magnetic field will be measurable from distance. The good guys DO know that the signal from the wireless camera is measurable, since they can see the transmission on their monitors. We are also told that the good guys have some hefty equipment for tracing electronic communications.
Now, what are we going to try to trace? The weak magnetic field or the signal from the wireless camera?
Sorry, you guessed wrong - we are going to trace the weak magnetic field.
2. The vatican library is divided into small sealed compartments with low-oxygen air to protect the books. The portable container in which the Very Important Book resides must not be opened outside one of those compartments. We go into the compartment, open the container and try to decode the message in the book while almost dying because we are using up the oxygen.
Now, what are we going to do? Put the book back in the portable container, move the container to another sealed compartment with a "fresh" supply of low-oxygen air, open the container and continue our work?
Sorry, you guessed wrong - we will just stay and continue our little suicide attempt.
3. The good guys know a lot of very clever colleagues and students with access to the Internet. And we must assume that the residents in the Vatican has a lot of knowledge about the characteristics and history of each church in Rome. The good guys also know that they will need a lot of knowledge about the characteristics and history of the churches in Rome if they are going to decipher the clues, once they find them. (At least this is obvious after deciphering the first one or two of the five clues revealed through the book.)
So what are we going to do? Should we call our students and colleagues and let them dig up this kind of information in advance? Should we give a similar task to some of the possibly very knowledgeable residents in the Vatican? Should we let someone put together a response team of very clever people who can assist in deciphering the clues as soon as they are revealed?
Sorry, you guessed wrong - we are two persons, and one of us know a lot of history and we have nothing else to do the next 24 hours anyway. So let us try to save Rome and the Vatican all by ourselves.
I can imagine that some normal readers might read through this without noticing anything. But I cannot imagine any