I've programmed for Win32, MacOS Classic, and MacOS Carbon. Of those APIs, Win32 was the easiest to use and had the best documentation. Carbon came in second, with Classic a very distant third.
I got news for ya, bud, Microsoft can't just make a monopoly out of everything it touches. If NAV goes the way of WordPerfect, it's because the market said "We like this better", not "Microsoft put a gun to each and every one of our heads and forced us to buy!"
Unless Microsoft does what it did with Windows, and puts a gun to the heads of all computer manufacturers, and says "You will include this software bundled with every computer you sell", or does what it did with Internet Explorer, and integrates it in the OS.
If Microsoft can at least build reminders into their Windows Update Services, maybe this will help slow the flood.
It won't help much. If you look at the infection pattern of recent viruses and worms, there's an initial growth period, where most of the infections happen, followed by an exponential decay, as antivirus programs are updated and systems are cleaned out.
The initial growth is usually 24 to 72 hours, during which time the virus is too new for antivirus systems to detect. Where including an antivirus program with Windows will help is the decay period: forced updates will reduce the amount of time infected systems spend spewing out garbage.
you say this as a joke, but seriously there are going to be some losers out there who will attempt to find, and exploit vulnerabilities in their AV app.
I am more afraid that MSFT will purposefully allow holes to exist in its OS so that more and more people will buy their AV software. Perhaps that's a bit paranoid but I certainly wouldn't put it past them.
You mean like they don't already purposefully allow holes to exist in the OS?
Just for the record, Microsoft produced an antivirus program back in the DOS 6.2/Win 3.1 days. I, and many other people, wondered why they stopped when they released Win95.
This is what I use on my personal PC, though I am considering setting up a RAID 5 server with a few TB of space. I have not, however, found a really good and inexpensive RAID-5 controller yet.
This simply doesn't exist. You can get good RAID 5, or inexpensive RAID 5, but not both. The cheapest good (pure-hardware) controller will run you around $150-$200. Anything cheaper is offloading the parity calculations to the computer's CPU.
If you're shelling out the cash for multiple TB of disk space, the extra cost of a hardware RAID 5 controller won't break you.
I have had ZERO problems with my server quality SCSI drives that still have 2 years left on their 5 year warrenty.
Argument by anecdote: I've had one Maxtor drive fail with a year left on the three-year warrenty. Restoring from backup is a pain, particularly if the backup is a slow medium like a CD or DVD.
It's even more of a pain if the backup procedure has also failed, and you need to send the drive out to a data-recovery place.
For my home system, I'm planning to go with RAID 1 for both backup and protection. Two hard drives in hot-swap mounts. Weekly backup procedure is to remove one of the drives, put in a third drive, and take the removed drive to work with me as an off-site backup.
SecondLife works fairly well under WineX. If you drop by the forums, there's a thread about running on Linux, with a link to a pre-compiled copy of WineX, and instructions on how to modify the WineX source to run SL.
XML-RPC as in "A way to remotely call code on another computer, using XML over HTTP as the transport medium".
Windows just happens to have a buggy, braindead implementation of the RPC concept, which is why Windows RPC services keep getting wormed.
The reason XML-RPC has been added to SecondLife is to allow users to offload heavy data processing or persistent data storage tasks to computers better able to handle it than the SecondLife servers. For example, if you're developing a video game in SecondLife, you might want to use XML-RPC to store a copy of the high-scores list on a remote server, so you can view it on a web page somewhere.
I've never seen my PC make toast or drive a nail, although it can keep toast warm after its made.
I don't know about using a PC to keep toast warm, but I routinely use my PC's monitor to soften butter for use in baking. It's slower and far more controllable than the microwave.
It usually takes them a week or so after the release to clean up the code, make sure the copyright statements are in place, package things up, and so on.
This is the minimum configuration, but RAID5 really just requires a disk to maintain parity. You lose capacity for the sake of reliability (example: 5 disk setup could use 4 for data while the other disk maintains parity).
I keep hearing this, but I don't see how it works. Assuming five disks, how can you fit parity information sufficient to rebuild any one disk onto a single disk? It seems to me that you should be losing a flat 1/3 of the capacity to parity information.
as for that, how much longer can it be until we have nearly universal wifi coverage matching our current cell phone coverage?
If you've got a cell phone, you'll know that, at least in the US, coverage can hardly be described as "universal". Even in places with supposedly "complete" coverage, like major cities, there are still dead spots.
It was time to do that at least a year ago. It's pretty much impossible to find good information on any popular consumer product and this is a problem that's been around for a long time.
Please, if you're going to complain, give a concrete example of the search terms you're using, and what results you're expecting. I haven't had any trouble finding what I want on Google in the years I've been using it.
Well, before we pull out our tinfoil hats and scream random obscenities at MS, let's RTFA, okay?
TFA states that patent revolves around giving other options when holding the click, and uses the default program when double clicked...Smells like Apple, anyone?
Furthermore, it's not as if they patented the motion of clicking a mouse button twice, as the poster makes it seem....Don't sound the alarm yet people....
Have you actually read claims 13, 14, and 15 of the patent application? Sounds like a patent on double-clicking to launch an application to me.
Unfortunately, no. Large swaths of the land ARE forests of idiotic billboards.
There are? Where? Admittedly, I haven't spent much time off the route between Seacliff, Davenport (my home) and the vehicle sims, but I haven't seen any idiotic billboards.
If that is the case, it sounds like you would own the copyright on the data you create/design. In the case of a building, since it cannot be exported, that still sounds like a service you're paying for. However, does Linden also reserve the right to use what you create in other endeavours?
Read the TOS. 1) You do own the copyright on anything you create 2) By putting content in-world, you grant them the right to use the content for the purpose of operating SecondLife, and for the purpose of advertising SecondLife.
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I've programmed for Win32, MacOS Classic, and MacOS Carbon. Of those APIs, Win32 was the easiest to use and had the best documentation. Carbon came in second, with Classic a very distant third.
I got news for ya, bud, Microsoft can't just make a monopoly out of everything it touches. If NAV goes the way of WordPerfect, it's because the market said "We like this better", not "Microsoft put a gun to each and every one of our heads and forced us to buy!"
Unless Microsoft does what it did with Windows, and puts a gun to the heads of all computer manufacturers, and says "You will include this software bundled with every computer you sell", or does what it did with Internet Explorer, and integrates it in the OS.
If Microsoft can at least build reminders into their Windows Update Services, maybe this will help slow the flood.
It won't help much. If you look at the infection pattern of recent viruses and worms, there's an initial growth period, where most of the infections happen, followed by an exponential decay, as antivirus programs are updated and systems are cleaned out.
The initial growth is usually 24 to 72 hours, during which time the virus is too new for antivirus systems to detect. Where including an antivirus program with Windows will help is the decay period: forced updates will reduce the amount of time infected systems spend spewing out garbage.
you say this as a joke, but seriously there are going to be some losers out there who will attempt to find, and exploit vulnerabilities in their AV app.
And of those, a number will succeed.
I am more afraid that MSFT will purposefully allow holes to exist in its OS so that more and more people will buy their AV software. Perhaps that's a bit paranoid but I certainly wouldn't put it past them.
You mean like they don't already purposefully allow holes to exist in the OS?
Just for the record, Microsoft produced an antivirus program back in the DOS 6.2/Win 3.1 days. I, and many other people, wondered why they stopped when they released Win95.
This is what I use on my personal PC, though I am considering setting up a RAID 5 server with a few TB of space. I have not, however, found a really good and inexpensive RAID-5 controller yet.
This simply doesn't exist. You can get good RAID 5, or inexpensive RAID 5, but not both. The cheapest good (pure-hardware) controller will run you around $150-$200. Anything cheaper is offloading the parity calculations to the computer's CPU.
If you're shelling out the cash for multiple TB of disk space, the extra cost of a hardware RAID 5 controller won't break you.
I have had ZERO problems with my server quality SCSI drives that still have 2 years left on their 5 year warrenty.
Argument by anecdote: I've had one Maxtor drive fail with a year left on the three-year warrenty. Restoring from backup is a pain, particularly if the backup is a slow medium like a CD or DVD.
It's even more of a pain if the backup procedure has also failed, and you need to send the drive out to a data-recovery place.
For my home system, I'm planning to go with RAID 1 for both backup and protection. Two hard drives in hot-swap mounts. Weekly backup procedure is to remove one of the drives, put in a third drive, and take the removed drive to work with me as an off-site backup.
It'll be cheaper than tape, but more work.
So does Carnildo Greenacre, and probably most of the rest of the population.
SecondLife works fairly well under WineX. If you drop by the forums, there's a thread about running on Linux, with a link to a pre-compiled copy of WineX, and instructions on how to modify the WineX source to run SL.
No.
XML-RPC as in "A way to remotely call code on another computer, using XML over HTTP as the transport medium".
Windows just happens to have a buggy, braindead implementation of the RPC concept, which is why Windows RPC services keep getting wormed.
The reason XML-RPC has been added to SecondLife is to allow users to offload heavy data processing or persistent data storage tasks to computers better able to handle it than the SecondLife servers. For example, if you're developing a video game in SecondLife, you might want to use XML-RPC to store a copy of the high-scores list on a remote server, so you can view it on a web page somewhere.
I've never seen my PC make toast or drive a nail, although it can keep toast warm after its made.
I don't know about using a PC to keep toast warm, but I routinely use my PC's monitor to soften butter for use in baking. It's slower and far more controllable than the microwave.
Anyone have an idea how much more bandwidth HDTV requires?
19.2Mbps.
It usually takes them a week or so after the release to clean up the code, make sure the copyright statements are in place, package things up, and so on.
Yeah if that result was typical, most of us 3D artists wouldn't be using Windows 2000.
It used to be typical. It was only with Win98/Win2k that Windows closed the gap. Now the Linux advantage is usually around 1% to 5%.
Thanks. I was looking for a concrete example.
This is the minimum configuration, but RAID5 really just requires a disk to maintain parity. You lose capacity for the sake of reliability (example: 5 disk setup could use 4 for data while the other disk maintains parity).
I keep hearing this, but I don't see how it works. Assuming five disks, how can you fit parity information sufficient to rebuild any one disk onto a single disk? It seems to me that you should be losing a flat 1/3 of the capacity to parity information.
as for that, how much longer can it be until we have nearly universal wifi coverage matching our current cell phone coverage?
If you've got a cell phone, you'll know that, at least in the US, coverage can hardly be described as "universal". Even in places with supposedly "complete" coverage, like major cities, there are still dead spots.
The question itself is pretty straightforward. It's the answer that's the problem.
It was time to do that at least a year ago. It's pretty much impossible to find good information on any popular consumer product and this is a problem that's been around for a long time.
Please, if you're going to complain, give a concrete example of the search terms you're using, and what results you're expecting. I haven't had any trouble finding what I want on Google in the years I've been using it.
Well, before we pull out our tinfoil hats and scream random obscenities at MS, let's RTFA, okay?
TFA states that patent revolves around giving other options when holding the click, and uses the default program when double clicked...Smells like Apple, anyone?
Furthermore, it's not as if they patented the motion of clicking a mouse button twice, as the poster makes it seem....Don't sound the alarm yet people....
Have you actually read claims 13, 14, and 15 of the patent application? Sounds like a patent on double-clicking to launch an application to me.
Unfortunately, no. Large swaths of the land ARE forests of idiotic billboards.
There are? Where? Admittedly, I haven't spent much time off the route between Seacliff, Davenport (my home) and the vehicle sims, but I haven't seen any idiotic billboards.
If that is the case, it sounds like you would own the copyright on the data you create/design. In the case of a building, since it cannot be exported, that still sounds like a service you're paying for. However, does Linden also reserve the right to use what you create in other endeavours?
Read the TOS.
1) You do own the copyright on anything you create
2) By putting content in-world, you grant them the right to use the content for the purpose of operating SecondLife, and for the purpose of advertising SecondLife.
It's 20% a month, not 20% a week.