User: red tiger

Re:Every MS Patch is Utmost Severe?

On: Microsoft Admits to Hiding Flaw Details

In practice it often really is so; however, there's no obligation for the compilers to actually do it. For example, gcc actually warns if that is assumed:

<b>$</b> cat test.c
#include <stdio.h>

int main()
{
printf("Hello, World!\n");
}

<b>$</b> gcc test.c -o test -Wall
test.c: In function `main':
test.c:6: warning: control reaches end of non-void function

So we really should return politely from the main function.

Re:Are these really useful?

On: ICANN Officially Approves .jobs and .travel TLD's

Well, do some Google searches:

• about 52,400,000 for site:info
• about 609,000 for site:coop

Re:google tracks clicks sometimes

On: Google Prefetching for Mozilla Browsers

Actually the tilde-feature is properly documented.

It is called synonym search and it really does some dictinary lookup, as it doesn't search for just the term entered but also its synonyms.

Seems quite useful to me... To be honest, I had never heard of it before I read this thread here :)

The Google cache

On: Most Common Ways to Kill a PC

Just FYI, the Google cache of the first page is readable! The other pages are apparently not.

Re:Oh, Oh

On: Tuning The Kernel With A Genetic Algorithm

-ffast-math is sometimes dangerous - it assumes that the floating point operations never result in neither "nan" (Not A Noumber) nor "inf" (infinity). Thus, some functions start giving incorrect answers. Of course, if you use only integers in your code, then it's not a problem. But it seems like you have this flag attached to every single compilation on your system... :-/ To be honest, I wouldn't do that.

Re:more evidence...

On: Mars Rovers Find More Evidence of Water

Actually its (Mössbauer) spectrometers are quite qood at determining the molecules they encounter. So, if they met a protein or even DNA...

Re:'Flaws' Not that big of a deal

On: Latest SP2 News

I agree that these flaws are really only for those kids who don't think, just do what is said. Why should a thinking man think that descrambler has a name like cmd?? Unfortunately, there are many of people like this among Windowsers... :-/

<offtopic>
Ha! My machine has more bits!
The last line has 16 #'s!
</offtopic>

Re:Doesn't work

On: Skype VoIP Software Released For Linux

I had the same problem on Fedora 2 - just a Segmentation Fault as the program tried to free some memory not belonging to it. Well, I tried a few times again and then it worked!

It's a pity there isn't any source code available, otherwise, I'm sure, the bug would be fixed much earlier...

OK, that's actually still beta, so they have some time.

Re:left text cutoff

On: More Insight On Longhorn's Avalon And Aero Design

Would a small hammer be better for your computer?

Anyway, I'd rather prefer taking a font editor and looking into the font files themselves - perhaps the error lies in there, not in the OS itself.

ACPI failure

On: Linux Kernel 2.6.6 Released

Well, I decided to install 2.6.6 and give it a try.

It compiled well, I tried to change as few settings as possible.

But, unfortunately, it couldn't cope with my CD/RW drive and complained about the interrupts (really, this problem should already be fixed in a stable kernel...)
There had been absolutely no problems with 2.6.5, but now the drive just wasn't working. It couldn't even eject.

I tried almost everything:) Finally I decided not to let ACPI deal with the interrupts (some forums gave me the idea).

And voila! pci=noacpi saved the day (night)!

But I don't know still, whether it also broke any useful features. I'll keep trying.

Re:Windows joke

On: Gnome.org Compromised?

$ lftp ftp.microsoft.com
[ftp] ftp.microsoft.com:~> ls
dr-xr-xr-x 1 owner group 0 Nov 25 2002 bussys
dr-xr-xr-x 1 owner group 0 May 21 2001 deskapps
dr-xr-xr-x 1 owner group 0 Apr 20 2001 developr
dr-xr-xr-x 1 owner group 0 Nov 18 2002 KBHelp
dr-xr-xr-x 1 owner group 0 Jul 2 2002 MISC
dr-xr-xr-x 1 owner group 0 Dec 16 2002 MISC1
dr-xr-xr-x 1 owner group 0 Feb 25 2000 peropsys
dr-xr-xr-x 1 owner group 0 Jan 2 2001 Products
dr-xr-xr-x 1 owner group 0 Apr 4 2003 PSS
dr-xr-xr-x 1 owner group 0 Sep 21 2000 ResKit
dr-xr-xr-x 1 owner group 0 Feb 25 2000 Services
dr-xr-xr-x 1 owner group 0 Feb 25 2000 Softlib
[ftp] ftp.microsoft.com:/>

Re:Windows joke

On: Gnome.org Compromised?

And not only the companies. The Soviet Russians were exactly like that, and they haven't changed much.

For example, Chernobyl:

• The first day they didn't tell anyone.
• The second day they said: "Yes, something little has really happened..."
• .......