Whoever orchestrated the purchase of these machines: a) has no business in office, and b) probably got a kickback from the manufacturer.
Why bother with a kickback? In this case, the manufacturer had something much more valuable than a mere kickback to give to the decision maker. Namely, the promise that from now on, he will win every election in his town...
I'm sure they could easily change the wm so that it only blocks the misbehaving application, and lets other applications run normally.
Why not implement a timeout? If the app hasn't given its ok to move/resize/iconify the window in n milliseconds, do it anyways, and set a flag that from now on it should no longer be asked...
That would nicely solve these "stuck window" problems.
That smalltalk compiler obviously wasn't a very good program.
Agreed. That compiler was indeed very poorly designed. But the GUI system (NT 4) obviously wasn't a very good system either: a properly designed system should never allow one broken app to lock up the whole UI.
In X, if an app no longer responds to events, you can still move and resize its window, or even iconify it, so it no longer gets in the way (although, obviously, that apps' window's contents would look a little bit funny). In MS Windows, however, the broken app's window just sticks to the screen, blocking everything else. And no, taskmanagering the app is not an option: in our case, the app was not crashed but performing a useful task (compiling), and killing it would mean to have to start all over.
If you are typing English text, why not use Emacs with its fill-paragraph and auto-fill-mode. Those commands can be bound to a function key, and nicely format a paragraph of text.
auto-fill-mode automatically inserts line breaks when you come near the end of the line, and fill-paragraph can be used to bring a paragraph back into shape after it has been messed up with inserted text.
Anyone who stays on top of their web server logs will see plenty of code red attacks every day. The fact that a default windows 2000 install is susceptable to it doesn't help.
Just grepped for <tt>../..</tt> in my <tt>httpd/error_log</tt>.<p> 292 matches.<p> But that log goes back to April 30th. Last year in August, I had that many probes in <em>one day</em>. So, I'd say, CodeRed/Nimbda activity did indeed decrease...
What he wants (and I'd like too) is an option that does wrapping like Windows Notepad.
Why would anybody want the wrapped Windows Notepad wrapping? Whenever I'm forced to use Notepad, I finds its wrapped wrapping highly confusing. Ever tried to edit a shell script in Notepad? You see two lines on the screen, but in reality, it's only one line in the file. And the screen contains no visual indication that a wrap took place. You can configure wrapping using some property dialog, but the other alternative is actually much worse (it looks like Slashdot's "page widening" posts). Why does notepad not use sth like emacs (small arrows in the rightmost column show that the line is being wrapped) or vi (the first line is entirely filled. A break in the middle of a word is a pretty good indication that it is only one line)?
On MS Windows, once the window manager sends the first resize event to the app, it will block until the app repaints itself.
And this leads to some lovely freezes if for some reason the app decides to take its time to repaint itself. At a former job, we used a GUI Smalltalk compiler that would not any GUI handle events while it was compiling. Because of this, the whole desktop basically became unusable for hours, because that stoopid Windows window manager was waiting for the Smalltalk compiler to react to its events...
I prefer jerky resize operations over desktops frozen for hours, thanks very much.
Looking through my Snort and Apache logs, I see about 5-10 CodeRed attacks *daily*.
This makes me wonder even more about those statistics. Many people already have noticed that the stat only talks about attacks, not successful attacks. But it doesn't even speak about properly targeted attacks either... Could it be that our statistician apprentices were counting those Code Red probes as attacks against Linux if they happened to show up in a Linux boxes logs? Even if these "attacks" have no chance of succeeding against such target?
It is almost impossible, in my experience, to connect a default SP1 install of win2k with IIS server running without it getting immediatly infected by a worm.
Is this still correct now? I've first heard these stories last August/September, and at that time, they were probably true due to the enormous stock of already infected systems. However, is this 25 minute figure still true nowadays? Obviously, a box gets rooted much quicker if there are hundreds of thousands of instances of Code Red out there trying to stumble upon its IP, than if there are only a handful infected machines left.
Of course, even with only a handful Code Red machines left, one of them will eventually "find" the newly installed box, but I'd guess this would takes days, rather than minutes.
My favorite is too ask them to hold the line while I play one of a selection of.wav files I keep stored for the purpose. These cover a range of dramatic scenes, my favorite being the 'missus threatening to jump out of the window' which the telemarketer gets to hear. I had to stop playing that after the cops came round one time to see what was up.
How does Free Software violate existing proprietary intellectual property rights.
The evil monopolistic corporations claim that the GPL undermines intellectual property by its "viral" nature, that would "infect" all proprietary code that would be shipped together with GPL'ed software, and would force it to fall
under the GPL as well.
This is of course utter nonsense (GPL only spreads to code derived from GPL'ed code, but not to code that is merely shipped on the same CD as GPL'ed code), but those evil monopolistic empires want you to believe otherwise in order to protect their own selfish interests. Indeed, the only way GPL'ed code really threatens proprietary code is by being superior in quality, and more consumer friendly;-)
Just because I make something that performs the same functions and has the same features as a proprietary application (ex XMMS vs Winamp), how am I violating intellectual property?
You would not violate copyright by doing so, but depending on your jurisdiction, you might violate patents (see Fraunhofer vs. free mp3 players), trademarks (see the Adobe vs Killustrator case), or trade secrets (DeCSS). Of course, all 3 examples are pretty dodgy, and heavily depend not only on jurisdiction, but also on who interprets the law...
Local intrastate gun and drug trafficking is interstate commerce.
People don't traffic guns and drugs for free: money is changing hands.
It would be commerce, yes, but not interstate commerce. The point that Anthony is trying to make is that lots of things which are either not commerce, or which are not interstate are still being shoehorned into the "interstate commerce" clause.
Funny, I only see one mmin there, and that at the very end of the string of measurements, not one after each number. Or maybe they corrected it in the meantime?
No demand curve I've ever seen has shrunk price with the number of demandees increasing.
Ever heard of economies of scale? While it is certainly correct that Lots of users = Lots of demand, it is also true that Lots of users = Less cost per user. Less cost to produce product will cause higher offer, because new competitors would otherwise enter the market offering the product at a lower margin.
Unless of course there are high barriers to entry and high risk to be quashed by the 800 pound gorilla. But that's basically what we're complaining about!
but I doubt it was 110V. If he touched the ground pin, he was grounding the entire circuit through his own body.
Back in the day, I had this happen occasionnally when unplugging my Commodore 64's transformer. (No UPS, just a normal transformer). Happened only when touching it right after unplugging it, seconds later it was ok. Could have been the inductance of the transformer doing funny things.
I'm pretty certain it's far less than line voltage too, as here in Europe line voltage is 220V which would be lethal if touched in such a way.
You can access your mail (and other apps) via a standard web browser.
How exactly would do you do this? N.B. I'm not speaking about specially set up Web applications (these work quite well), but about just the general Notes databases.
You can access your mail with your favourite POP3 or IMAP client.
Pop and Imap need to be specifically enabled on the server, which is often not done. Moreover, Notes' pop and imap interfaces are rather stripped down versions, which didn't allow to move messages into folders, nor to delete them. Only reading is possible. For any maintainance, you still need to log in using a Notes client. At least, that was the case when I last checked (about a year ago).
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Does this mean that if ever Bill Gates runs for President, they will only count votes cast for a "modern" candidate? Scary stuff!
Why bother with a kickback? In this case, the manufacturer had something much more valuable than a mere kickback to give to the decision maker. Namely, the promise that from now on, he will win every election in his town...
It's a Hitachi Laptop, not a Compaq
Why not implement a timeout? If the app hasn't given its ok to move/resize/iconify the window in n milliseconds, do it anyways, and set a flag that from now on it should no longer be asked... That would nicely solve these "stuck window" problems.
Agreed. That compiler was indeed very poorly designed. But the GUI system (NT 4) obviously wasn't a very good system either: a properly designed system should never allow one broken app to lock up the whole UI.
In X, if an app no longer responds to events, you can still move and resize its window, or even iconify it, so it no longer gets in the way (although, obviously, that apps' window's contents would look a little bit funny). In MS Windows, however, the broken app's window just sticks to the screen, blocking everything else. And no, taskmanagering the app is not an option: in our case, the app was not crashed but performing a useful task (compiling), and killing it would mean to have to start all over.
Actually, I used fgrep ;-)
auto-fill-mode automatically inserts line breaks when you come near the end of the line, and fill-paragraph can be used to bring a paragraph back into shape after it has been messed up with inserted text.
Just grepped for <tt>../..</tt> in my <tt>httpd/error_log</tt>.<p>
292 matches.<p>
But that log goes back to April 30th. Last year in August, I had that many probes in <em>one day</em>. So, I'd say, CodeRed/Nimbda activity did indeed decrease...
Why would anybody want the wrapped Windows Notepad wrapping? Whenever I'm forced to use Notepad, I finds its wrapped wrapping highly confusing. Ever tried to edit a shell script in Notepad? You see two lines on the screen, but in reality, it's only one line in the file. And the screen contains no visual indication that a wrap took place. You can configure wrapping using some property dialog, but the other alternative is actually much worse (it looks like Slashdot's "page widening" posts). Why does notepad not use sth like emacs (small arrows in the rightmost column show that the line is being wrapped) or vi (the first line is entirely filled. A break in the middle of a word is a pretty good indication that it is only one line)?
And this leads to some lovely freezes if for some reason the app decides to take its time to repaint itself. At a former job, we used a GUI Smalltalk compiler that would not any GUI handle events while it was compiling. Because of this, the whole desktop basically became unusable for hours, because that stoopid Windows window manager was waiting for the Smalltalk compiler to react to its events...
I prefer jerky resize operations over desktops frozen for hours, thanks very much.
This makes me wonder even more about those statistics. Many people already have noticed that the stat only talks about attacks, not successful attacks. But it doesn't even speak about properly targeted attacks either... Could it be that our statistician apprentices were counting those Code Red probes as attacks against Linux if they happened to show up in a Linux boxes logs? Even if these "attacks" have no chance of succeeding against such target?
Is this still correct now? I've first heard these stories last August/September, and at that time, they were probably true due to the enormous stock of already infected systems. However, is this 25 minute figure still true nowadays? Obviously, a box gets rooted much quicker if there are hundreds of thousands of instances of Code Red out there trying to stumble upon its IP, than if there are only a handful infected machines left. Of course, even with only a handful Code Red machines left, one of them will eventually "find" the newly installed box, but I'd guess this would takes days, rather than minutes.
Wait until the Euro comes to Britain, and you too get to pay those lovely ATM fees...
Did you already add the "Help, I'm stuck on a mountaintop, and my minutes are up" spiel to your .wav collection. You should. It's hilarous ;-)
Back in the day, Anderson Consulting was a very renowned employer...
The evil monopolistic corporations claim that the GPL undermines intellectual property by its "viral" nature, that would "infect" all proprietary code that would be shipped together with GPL'ed software, and would force it to fall under the GPL as well.
This is of course utter nonsense (GPL only spreads to code derived from GPL'ed code, but not to code that is merely shipped on the same CD as GPL'ed code), but those evil monopolistic empires want you to believe otherwise in order to protect their own selfish interests. Indeed, the only way GPL'ed code really threatens proprietary code is by being superior in quality, and more consumer friendly ;-)
Just because I make something that performs the same functions and has the same features as a proprietary application (ex XMMS vs Winamp), how am I violating intellectual property?
You would not violate copyright by doing so, but depending on your jurisdiction, you might violate patents (see Fraunhofer vs. free mp3 players), trademarks (see the Adobe vs Killustrator case), or trade secrets (DeCSS). Of course, all 3 examples are pretty dodgy, and heavily depend not only on jurisdiction, but also on who interprets the law...
No reason to throw insults around. Maybe it's part of the joke? Ya know: silence, void, ...
Moreover, wouldn't he still be able to call 911? Normally this is a free call, which you can always do, event _without_ a SIM card in the phone.
Funny, I only see one mmin there, and that at the very end of the string of measurements, not one after each number. Or maybe they corrected it in the meantime?
Linux doesn't belong into a Museum. Windows does!
Antartica?
Ever heard of economies of scale? While it is certainly correct that Lots of users = Lots of demand, it is also true that Lots of users = Less cost per user. Less cost to produce product will cause higher offer, because new competitors would otherwise enter the market offering the product at a lower margin.
Unless of course there are high barriers to entry and high risk to be quashed by the 800 pound gorilla. But that's basically what we're complaining about!
Back in the day, I had this happen occasionnally when unplugging my Commodore 64's transformer. (No UPS, just a normal transformer). Happened only when touching it right after unplugging it, seconds later it was ok. Could have been the inductance of the transformer doing funny things.
I'm pretty certain it's far less than line voltage too, as here in Europe line voltage is 220V which would be lethal if touched in such a way.
How exactly would do you do this? N.B. I'm not speaking about specially set up Web applications (these work quite well), but about just the general Notes databases.
You can access your mail with your favourite POP3 or IMAP client.
Pop and Imap need to be specifically enabled on the server, which is often not done. Moreover, Notes' pop and imap interfaces are rather stripped down versions, which didn't allow to move messages into folders, nor to delete them. Only reading is possible. For any maintainance, you still need to log in using a Notes client. At least, that was the case when I last checked (about a year ago).