Yeah. What most people didn't realize was that, once the high-density disks were produced in large numbers, the manufacturers used the same high-density magnetic medium to make the single-density disks. The only differences were in that extra hole, and (sometimes, but often not) better quality control for high-density.
If you bothered to read this thread, you'd know I was talking about an hour worth of time (or a single drop to the floor). If floppies would lose their magnetism in a mere 1h or due to a single drop, then there would never have been much use for them anyway.
That's how urban legends start. That file probably got corrupted while writing it to disk (cause: bad floppy, bad drive, or floppy formatted on misaligned drive). Time had nothing to do with it. If you tried it 1ms after you copied it, I bet you couldn't read it either. Similarly, I had some cousin who insisted his floppy got erased when he dropped it on the way home...
...this would require building nearly identical telescopes worldwide and then coordinating their exposures...
Actually, when using CCDs to capture the light, you can simply add intensity values from multiple exposures (provided they cover exactly the same region). For ground-based telescopes the atmospheric turbulence will smear each exposure slightly, making the composite severely smeared.
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You're correct. Although a good start, Boa Constructor is still in alpha stages (wxPython is mature though). There's a lot of activity, and their intention seems to be to make a RAD tool similar to MS Visual Basic. But they still have a long way to go. I have to agree that sadly MS Visual Studio is still unparalleled in the free/open software world. The only decent free/open IDE is maybe Eclipse when used with enough plugins, for Java development.
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If you like wxWindows (now wxWidgets), then try Boa Constructor. It's a free RAD tool for wxPython (which is cross platform).
Seeing this list makes me wonder how Japan deals with spam. It has the most dense and fastest networks in the world (often fibre glass running in the house), and computers that are continuously online are hijacked more frequently.
On second thought, maybe they just use more non-MS OSes?
This will perhaps make this kind of hack more difficult. Though I am fairly sure the x-box 2 will also be modded fairly easy.
A compactflash card in TrueIDE mode behaves nearly the same as a real IDE disk. The timings are a bit different, and the IDE disk requires more power (external source needed?). Other than that, a simple adapter would do the trick.
Since the data is stored over the whole surface area of the holographic medium, reducing this area (by cutting, scratching) would merely reduce the contrast of the stored data image.
However, with this thin-film laminate there is the posibility that it starts to delaminate or to deform over time, causing the holographic image not to be in one plane, and thus making the medium unreadable.
I doubt it will be an ARM microprocessor. The article only mentions an ARM core, so it will probably be a Samsung mpu with an ARM core. In the last few years, Samsung came out with some impressive ARM-based microprocessors.
Actually, if you check the Un*x printer compatibility database listing for HP, you will see that not all HP printers are so standards compliant. And they do use drivers, mostly standard ones like hpijs. Granted, HP's site is not a good place to look for Linux HP printer drivers.
"Given these circumstances, and after consulting industry colleagues and developers, Microsoft, for now, will not be releasing an update to Internet Explorer," it said, adding that Microsoft also would not release a planned update to its latest Windows operating system known as Windows XP Service Pack 2.
So this must be the reason why they don't fix that spoofing bug...
What ever happened with Line?
It claimed to be able to do something similar (running unmodified Linux applications in Windows). I came across it a few months ago, but was dissapointed that its development apparently ceased in 2001.
I meant 'Standby' instead of 'Hibernate'. Hibernating will write your RAM to disk. It is controlled by the OS instead of by the BIOS. Reading half a GiB worth of RAM back is significantly slower than resuming from suspend to RAM. But in hibernation state the computer is really off, so no risk of losing DRAM content.
If you really want to boot Windows XP fast, configure your BIOS to do a suspend to RAM on sleep. When you hibernate XP, the computer will be completely off (except for a tiny current for self-refreshing the DRAMS). From this state, booting will take only about 5s. And all programs you had previously running will still be there. Even music will continue playing where it left off.
The only drawback is: if you lose power, the DRAMS will be cleared. That could be solved by a UPS or maybe some built-in battery.
I think there are several possibilities for software like OpenOffice.
First of all, I don't think (IANAL) that MS can prevent applications to read the XML files, only to generate them. This was also the case with the GIF file format. So in that case, one could write an import filter in OO to read the XML, and export in Office97 format. Surely MS will not drop the ability to read their legacy file formats.
In case reading is not allowed, one could write an import/export filter for MS Office products to read the OO formats, and distribute that freely.
Preventing people to access security-related information will only make things worse. Hackers will create their own tools, and find security holes on their own. Yes, there will be less people that know about the holes. But they will be able to do more damage, since there are too few people which have the knowledge to stop them.
MySQL is a commercial open-source company
Strange to see the words "commercial" and "open-source" being used in the same sentence. They prove it can be done!
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Yeah. What most people didn't realize was that, once the high-density disks were produced in large numbers, the manufacturers used the same high-density magnetic medium to make the single-density disks. The only differences were in that extra hole, and (sometimes, but often not) better quality control for high-density.
Dear Anonymous Coward,
If you bothered to read this thread, you'd know I was talking about an hour worth of time (or a single drop to the floor). If floppies would lose their magnetism in a mere 1h or due to a single drop, then there would never have been much use for them anyway.
Sincerely,
ByteSlicer
That's how urban legends start. That file probably got corrupted while writing it to disk (cause: bad floppy, bad drive, or floppy formatted on misaligned drive). Time had nothing to do with it. If you tried it 1ms after you copied it, I bet you couldn't read it either. Similarly, I had some cousin who insisted his floppy got erased when he dropped it on the way home...
...this would require building nearly identical telescopes worldwide and then coordinating their exposures...
Actually, when using CCDs to capture the light, you can simply add intensity values from multiple exposures (provided they cover exactly the same region). For ground-based telescopes the atmospheric turbulence will smear each exposure slightly, making the composite severely smeared.
You're correct. Although a good start, Boa Constructor is still in alpha stages (wxPython is mature though). There's a lot of activity, and their intention seems to be to make a RAD tool similar to MS Visual Basic. But they still have a long way to go. I have to agree that sadly MS Visual Studio is still unparalleled in the free/open software world. The only decent free/open IDE is maybe Eclipse when used with enough plugins, for Java development.
If you like wxWindows (now wxWidgets), then try Boa Constructor. It's a free RAD tool for wxPython (which is cross platform).
What if your battery dies in winter, and you have to jumpstart it?
Seeing this list makes me wonder how Japan deals with spam. It has the most dense and fastest networks in the world (often fibre glass running in the house), and computers that are continuously online are hijacked more frequently.
On second thought, maybe they just use more non-MS OSes?
This will perhaps make this kind of hack more difficult. Though I am fairly sure the x-box 2 will also be modded fairly easy.
A compactflash card in TrueIDE mode behaves nearly the same as a real IDE disk. The timings are a bit different, and the IDE disk requires more power (external source needed?). Other than that, a simple adapter would do the trick.
Since the data is stored over the whole surface area of the holographic medium, reducing this area (by cutting, scratching) would merely reduce the contrast of the stored data image.
However, with this thin-film laminate there is the posibility that it starts to delaminate or to deform over time, causing the holographic image not to be in one plane, and thus making the medium unreadable.
I doubt it will be an ARM microprocessor. The article only mentions an ARM core, so it will probably be a Samsung mpu with an ARM core. In the last few years, Samsung came out with some impressive ARM-based microprocessors.
Actually, if you check the Un*x printer compatibility database listing for HP, you will see that not all HP printers are so standards compliant. And they do use drivers, mostly standard ones like hpijs.
Granted, HP's site is not a good place to look for Linux HP printer drivers.
MozillaQuest is running a related story here
"Given these circumstances, and after consulting industry colleagues and developers, Microsoft, for now, will not be releasing an update to Internet Explorer," it said, adding that Microsoft also would not release a planned update to its latest Windows operating system known as Windows XP Service Pack 2.
So this must be the reason why they don't fix that spoofing bug...
I propose we rename it from Hector into Turk 182 2nd Edition...
Maybe they should start using a phonetically based search engine at e-bay.
If you can't wait until the virus pops up on your network, just download the sample and start your own wave. After all, it's for a good cause!
What ever happened with Line?
It claimed to be able to do something similar (running unmodified Linux applications in Windows). I came across it a few months ago, but was dissapointed that its development apparently ceased in 2001.
I meant 'Standby' instead of 'Hibernate'. Hibernating will write your RAM to disk. It is controlled by the OS instead of by the BIOS. Reading half a GiB worth of RAM back is significantly slower than resuming from suspend to RAM. But in hibernation state the computer is really off, so no risk of losing DRAM content.
If you really want to boot Windows XP fast, configure your BIOS to do a suspend to RAM on sleep. When you hibernate XP, the computer will be completely off (except for a tiny current for self-refreshing the DRAMS). From this state, booting will take only about 5s. And all programs you had previously running will still be there. Even music will continue playing where it left off.
The only drawback is: if you lose power, the DRAMS will be cleared. That could be solved by a UPS or maybe some built-in battery.
I think there are several possibilities for software like OpenOffice.
First of all, I don't think (IANAL) that MS can prevent applications to read the XML files, only to generate them. This was also the case with the GIF file format. So in that case, one could write an import filter in OO to read the XML, and export in Office97 format. Surely MS will not drop the ability to read their legacy file formats.
In case reading is not allowed, one could write an import/export filter for MS Office products to read the OO formats, and distribute that freely.
Preventing people to access security-related information will only make things worse. Hackers will create their own tools, and find security holes on their own. Yes, there will be less people that know about the holes. But they will be able to do more damage, since there are too few people which have the knowledge to stop them.
Think of all the nice things you can do with those sheep after you counted them...
(No, not that - you pervert!)
Microsoft has had this for years: it's called fdisk...
MySQL is a commercial open-source company
Strange to see the words "commercial" and "open-source" being used in the same sentence. They prove it can be done!