There's a new version of NeoOffice out, 1.2 Alpha, that's a bit faster and comes a ways integration-wise (i.e. it does use the OS X print dialog now). Still a bit slow and generally not great; I prefer OOo on Linux any day of the week, but it's much better than running X11 on OS X.
It's your fault if you spill it. However, is it unreasonable to assume that it will simply hurt... instead of giving you third degree burns and putting you in the hospital for a week?
Now, a third degree felony sounds harsh, but they still need some punishment. If they had stopped at using the password taped onto the back of the computers I'd feel sorry for them, but they were spying on admins and using other means to get the password once it was changed.
Yes, EXACTLY. I could defiantly see some SERIOUS suspension time (on the order of months perhaps) for this... but a felony is ridiculous. What they did was pretty bad... but not enough to warrant a FELONY charge!
Probably not, but do most sites really have the money to hire a lawyer and fight it? Nope. So they shut down (or in the case of the RIAA, pay the comparatively small "settelment").
Wikipedia's servers are often overloaded. My net connection can go offline somtimes. It's 100% positivly available for a research paper, and will 100% be around to back you up. You can run complex searches on an offline version much better/nicer/faster than an online version (if you can run it online at all). You can show it off to friends. Or a multitude of other reasons.
Could you point me to some actual data supporting the sleep-deficit problem? Our school starts at 7:20 AM (with before-school activites starting as early as 5:00 AM!!) and I'd like some "official" data to back up the obvious truth that everyone is asleep 1st and 2nd periods.
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If even a tenth of the data was accurate, that's still a lot.
If you're downloading TV shows, you've got to at least be somewhat tech-savvy... but John Windows-User Joe, who doesn't even know the difference between "upload" and "download" (GRAHH!) probably likes the reality shows much better.
So they are catering to demand, just not yours (or that of the part of the population downloading TV).
If you're working on a small project by yourself, there's really no nead for the overhead of a version control system.
Of course, if you want change histories, have a medium- or large-sized project, or have more than one developer, you very much need CVS or Subversion. There's really no reason to go without then.
An undergound terrorist organization calling themselves only '/.' has figured out a way to bring down the CIA's webservers. "Each and every one of those motherf****** will be brought to trial and sentenced to a maximum penalty of death for this egregious crime." the head of CIA said earlier today.
Continuing reading, you can see that it's possible to directly have a torrent reference the network. The kenosisp2p.org bit is only for legacy clients that wouldn't know what to do with a "new" tracker location.
No, games and movies don't work the same way. If I authorize Half-Life 2 and play it, I can't give another person that copy without it breaking.
If I were to authorize a suggested Steam-movie, I could just re-record it without the copy protection and send it to someone else.
Uh, why? The OS does it itself anyways in the middle of the night; if the computer isn't on at that time the maintence tasks should be done at another time. Rescheduling them or doing it yourself achieves the same goal...
That article has mostly very good advice. However, the bit about prebinding is idiotic. OS X (10.2 and up) automatically updates the prebinding of any program that on the fly which needs to be updated when that program is launched. And all versions of OS X go through and redo prebinding on everything after major updates and installs anyways.
The rest of it is a very good routine to follow before an update however, and periodically if there hasn't been an update in a while.
Exactly. We need to find a way to enforce CAN-SPAM, and then everything else should be up to the user. Spam is free speech, but it's way too open to scamming without an enforced CAN-SPAM to at least give you an opt-out and a trail to follow back.
While an md5 collision would be a Bad Thing, it isn't necessarily the end of the world. Just because you can have two files that have the same hash (a collision) doesn't always mean you can arbitrarily change a file but keep the hash. However, it's likely that we'll eventually find a problem with md5 that will allow a determined attacker that really knows what they're doing to make limited changes to files; this collision is the first step in that direction.
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There's a new version of NeoOffice out, 1.2 Alpha, that's a bit faster and comes a ways integration-wise (i.e. it does use the OS X print dialog now). Still a bit slow and generally not great; I prefer OOo on Linux any day of the week, but it's much better than running X11 on OS X.
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Yes... this may be the first server to litterally explode from a slashdotting.
It's your fault if you spill it. However, is it unreasonable to assume that it will simply hurt... instead of giving you third degree burns and putting you in the hospital for a week?
Probably not, but do most sites really have the money to hire a lawyer and fight it? Nope. So they shut down (or in the case of the RIAA, pay the comparatively small "settelment").
Wow... that reminds me of the "Report Disloyalty" posters in B5. Scary.
Wikipedia's servers are often overloaded. My net connection can go offline somtimes. It's 100% positivly available for a research paper, and will 100% be around to back you up. You can run complex searches on an offline version much better/nicer/faster than an online version (if you can run it online at all). You can show it off to friends. Or a multitude of other reasons.
Could you point me to some actual data supporting the sleep-deficit problem? Our school starts at 7:20 AM (with before-school activites starting as early as 5:00 AM!!) and I'd like some "official" data to back up the obvious truth that everyone is asleep 1st and 2nd periods.
If even a tenth of the data was accurate, that's still a lot.
And that just made my list of top 100 favorite oxymorons.
If you're downloading TV shows, you've got to at least be somewhat tech-savvy... but John Windows-User Joe, who doesn't even know the difference between "upload" and "download" (GRAHH!) probably likes the reality shows much better.
So they are catering to demand, just not yours (or that of the part of the population downloading TV).
If you're working on a small project by yourself, there's really no nead for the overhead of a version control system.
Of course, if you want change histories, have a medium- or large-sized project, or have more than one developer, you very much need CVS or Subversion. There's really no reason to go without then.
Wow! With this new TV show, I can turn on the TV and watch the Sims watch TV!
(Apologies to Penny Arcade)
Yeah, I can see the article now:
An undergound terrorist organization calling themselves only '/.' has figured out a way to bring down the CIA's webservers. "Each and every one of those motherf****** will be brought to trial and sentenced to a maximum penalty of death for this egregious crime." the head of CIA said earlier today.
Exactly... I ment (and I think
It's a YRO article that actually deals with rights online!
Continuing reading, you can see that it's possible to directly have a torrent reference the network. The kenosisp2p.org bit is only for legacy clients that wouldn't know what to do with a "new" tracker location.
No, games and movies don't work the same way. If I authorize Half-Life 2 and play it, I can't give another person that copy without it breaking. If I were to authorize a suggested Steam-movie, I could just re-record it without the copy protection and send it to someone else.
Uh, why? The OS does it itself anyways in the middle of the night; if the computer isn't on at that time the maintence tasks should be done at another time. Rescheduling them or doing it yourself achieves the same goal...
That article has mostly very good advice. However, the bit about prebinding is idiotic. OS X (10.2 and up) automatically updates the prebinding of any program that on the fly which needs to be updated when that program is launched. And all versions of OS X go through and redo prebinding on everything after major updates and installs anyways.
The rest of it is a very good routine to follow before an update however, and periodically if there hasn't been an update in a while.
Ever heard of quantum mechanics?
Exactly. We need to find a way to enforce CAN-SPAM, and then everything else should be up to the user. Spam is free speech, but it's way too open to scamming without an enforced CAN-SPAM to at least give you an opt-out and a trail to follow back.
While an md5 collision would be a Bad Thing, it isn't necessarily the end of the world. Just because you can have two files that have the same hash (a collision) doesn't always mean you can arbitrarily change a file but keep the hash. However, it's likely that we'll eventually find a problem with md5 that will allow a determined attacker that really knows what they're doing to make limited changes to files; this collision is the first step in that direction.
The URL given in Software Update is http://www.info.apple.com/kbnum/n25791 . For those that tried it earlier, the article actually exists now. :)