I have a question - why the ****** does a website need to have/see/retreive the list of URLs I've been at in order to do this - coloring links is a browser side feature! The only thing a website needs to do is suggest which colors to use for said links.
They don't retrieve the list. The web site just makes a link with a:visited attribute which says e.g. that visited links should show a certain background image. And then they wait for the image requests...
Sane would mean tail-packing or, for extra credit, doing away with blocks entirely (e.g. replacing them with extents). Unfortunately it adds a lot of code complexity in file system code which should be small and reliable.
Intel graphics are only shit for gamers who want maximum settings for recent games.
If only... I have a laptop with an "Intel Corporation Mobile 4 Series Chipset Integrated Graphics Controller" according to lspci. It has great trouble achieving more than 2fps in Civilization IV.
Maybe it's just me but I see paying over 500 dollars for a cell phone no matter how cool, bending over.
Hence why most cell phones are leased, not sold (although that word isn't used, of course).
I still don't see the bending over bit. The cell phone costs a certain amount to produce, and the manufacturer asks that plus a reasonable profit. Sure there are cases where the manufacturing costs are less than half of the consumer price, but AFAIK Google One isn't one of those.
Why is paying the cost of a product associated with bending over? Are you saying that the price of the Google One was unreasonably above the cost of production?
I think you're exactly right. The invention seems to take a fixed-speed motor and a variable-speed motor of identical power and combine them into a variable-speed motor of identical power.
Killing NASA by increasing its budget certainly counts as change though. Most of the earlier presidents focused on improving NASA by decreasing its budget.
ACL's don't make a ton of sense in the default configuration, and few people use them correctly (but luckily on Linux hardly anyone besides me uses them at all, so the problem is limited).
The "shitty" user/group/others system is understandable by regular users and they tend to use it correctly. There are cases where it isn't flexible enough. Most of those can be handled by asking the systems administrator (which tends to be the user anyway, these days) to set up an extra group, but otherwise setfacl works fine.
So basically you agree that the NT security model is more powerful. Good.
Like I said, they are identical if you exclude MAC. They're both simple ACL file-based DAC systems. Since they're identical the NT security model isn't more powerful.
Once you include MAC, Linux is in a different league.
The Windows and Linux security models are virtually identical if you exclude MAC (SELinux etc.). The main difference is that people actually understand the basic Unix model of users and groups and so they often manage to set their file permissions to something relatively sane. Practically noone uses the full power of ACL's on either system.
MAC makes a large difference though, so it's a bit unfair to exclude it.
The way that AV products intercept system calls has been known to be broken for years. Some Linux kernel developers have attempted to find more secure solutions, but progress hasn't been fast. The AV industry is quite happy with what they have on Windows.
Why ISPs like aren't using it for video and radio delivery is beyond me.
They do, but only the content they themselves provide. The whole point of the Internet is that you don't have to contact every ISP in the world when you set up a server.
As I understand it, this is because the backbone providers and the last-mile ISPs don't know how to bill for multicast traffic.
More likely it's because every multicast flow requires every router which touches it to keep state about that flow. Noone has invented a router which can keep track of millions of multicast flows, and anything less is going to be a problem on the open Internet.
RGB is an additive process; one adds wavelengths to stimulate the cones in the eye. Since there are RGB cones in the eye and RGB emitters on the screen, I find it difficult to believe humans can tell the difference.
You would be correct if you could find a way to trigger each RGB cone individually. Perhaps an ultra-precise laser could do it. However, until that is invented, you can't avoid triggering at least two cones at once which makes it difficult to get all possible colours.
I'm told that most Cisco machines have processors the speed of an Amiga 500 inside.
Then you were told wrong. Even the main CPU on current Cisco routers is magnitudes faster than that 7MHz MC68000, and many routers rely on the hardware to handle moving packets while the main CPU is just for running routing protocol daemons etc. When you emulate, you don't get hardware acceleration, so you better emulate a decently fast main CPU.
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And, if Adobe ever releases a version that runs on the iPhone, Apple won't try to stop you.
That's the problem, Apple stops that from happening.
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The manufacturer of your microwave isn't actively going out of its way to block flash. You can legally sell flash for the microwave oven; software installation is a chore but the playing field is level for everyone. You don't sign an EULA when you buy your microwave.
I'm thinking that a filter would do a reverse DNS lookup on every connection.
You have WAY too much faith in reverse lookup. Reverse lookup on the open Internet is a way to say "Yes, I really want to run a mail server on this IP, so please don't block my mail". Apart from that it's used to make troubleshooting with traceroute slightly easier, but all the juicy stuff is in txt records or stored in whois anyway.
/24's are widely accepted at this point. I wouldn't be surprised if we went to/25 or/26 in the next few years as the limit, but anything much lower would force a lot of upgrades.
IPv6 isn't all that much more geographical than IPv4. Regional registries have assigned blocks, just like IPv4, but they will last a bit longer with IPv6 so the fragmentation will be less. Noone stops you from advertising addresses in a different region than they were acquired though.
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I have a question - why the ****** does a website need to have/see/retreive the list of URLs I've been at in order to do this - coloring links is a browser side feature! The only thing a website needs to do is suggest which colors to use for said links.
They don't retrieve the list. The web site just makes a link with a :visited attribute which says e.g. that visited links should show a certain background image. And then they wait for the image requests...
All you gotta do, is use fdisk to create a honking big 4TB physical volume partition with type 8E.
Linux works fine with LVM on the raw disk. You don't need a partition.
The challenge is booting from such a thing.
Sane would mean tail-packing or, for extra credit, doing away with blocks entirely (e.g. replacing them with extents). Unfortunately it adds a lot of code complexity in file system code which should be small and reliable.
Intel graphics are only shit for gamers who want maximum settings for recent games.
If only... I have a laptop with an "Intel Corporation Mobile 4 Series Chipset Integrated Graphics Controller" according to lspci. It has great trouble achieving more than 2fps in Civilization IV.
Maybe it's just me but I see paying over 500 dollars for a cell phone no matter how cool, bending over.
Hence why most cell phones are leased, not sold (although that word isn't used, of course).
I still don't see the bending over bit. The cell phone costs a certain amount to produce, and the manufacturer asks that plus a reasonable profit. Sure there are cases where the manufacturing costs are less than half of the consumer price, but AFAIK Google One isn't one of those.
Bend over and pay full price
Why is paying the cost of a product associated with bending over? Are you saying that the price of the Google One was unreasonably above the cost of production?
I think you're exactly right. The invention seems to take a fixed-speed motor and a variable-speed motor of identical power and combine them into a variable-speed motor of identical power.
ADSL broadband has always been out performed by DSL
Yes, Fords are always outperformed by vehicles too.
(Yay I finally managed to post a car analogy on Slashdot)
Killing NASA by increasing its budget certainly counts as change though. Most of the earlier presidents focused on improving NASA by decreasing its budget.
May I suggest you read the article you link to?
Flight ceiling 350 miles (563 km)
ACL's don't make a ton of sense in the default configuration, and few people use them correctly (but luckily on Linux hardly anyone besides me uses them at all, so the problem is limited).
The "shitty" user/group/others system is understandable by regular users and they tend to use it correctly. There are cases where it isn't flexible enough. Most of those can be handled by asking the systems administrator (which tends to be the user anyway, these days) to set up an extra group, but otherwise setfacl works fine.
So basically you agree that the NT security model is more powerful. Good.
Like I said, they are identical if you exclude MAC. They're both simple ACL file-based DAC systems. Since they're identical the NT security model isn't more powerful.
Once you include MAC, Linux is in a different league.
The Windows and Linux security models are virtually identical if you exclude MAC (SELinux etc.). The main difference is that people actually understand the basic Unix model of users and groups and so they often manage to set their file permissions to something relatively sane. Practically noone uses the full power of ACL's on either system.
MAC makes a large difference though, so it's a bit unfair to exclude it.
The way that AV products intercept system calls has been known to be broken for years. Some Linux kernel developers have attempted to find more secure solutions, but progress hasn't been fast. The AV industry is quite happy with what they have on Windows.
Why ISPs like aren't using it for video and radio delivery is beyond me.
They do, but only the content they themselves provide. The whole point of the Internet is that you don't have to contact every ISP in the world when you set up a server.
As I understand it, this is because the backbone providers and the last-mile ISPs don't know how to bill for multicast traffic.
More likely it's because every multicast flow requires every router which touches it to keep state about that flow. Noone has invented a router which can keep track of millions of multicast flows, and anything less is going to be a problem on the open Internet.
RGB is an additive process; one adds wavelengths to stimulate the cones in the eye. Since there are RGB cones in the eye and RGB emitters on the screen, I find it difficult to believe humans can tell the difference.
You would be correct if you could find a way to trigger each RGB cone individually. Perhaps an ultra-precise laser could do it. However, until that is invented, you can't avoid triggering at least two cones at once which makes it difficult to get all possible colours.
LCD projectors don't have color wheels, DLP projectors do. DLP projectors don't have a coloured panel; instead they have an array of little mirrors.
(the same technology that gives you eyestrain at the office)
Only those that are run at 100Hz or 120Hz. Modern ones flicker at 100kHz or more.
I'm told that most Cisco machines have processors the speed of an Amiga 500 inside.
Then you were told wrong. Even the main CPU on current Cisco routers is magnitudes faster than that 7MHz MC68000, and many routers rely on the hardware to handle moving packets while the main CPU is just for running routing protocol daemons etc. When you emulate, you don't get hardware acceleration, so you better emulate a decently fast main CPU.
And, if Adobe ever releases a version that runs on the iPhone, Apple won't try to stop you.
That's the problem, Apple stops that from happening.
The manufacturer of your microwave isn't actively going out of its way to block flash. You can legally sell flash for the microwave oven; software installation is a chore but the playing field is level for everyone. You don't sign an EULA when you buy your microwave.
I'm thinking that a filter would do a reverse DNS lookup on every connection.
You have WAY too much faith in reverse lookup. Reverse lookup on the open Internet is a way to say "Yes, I really want to run a mail server on this IP, so please don't block my mail". Apart from that it's used to make troubleshooting with traceroute slightly easier, but all the juicy stuff is in txt records or stored in whois anyway.
/24's are widely accepted at this point. I wouldn't be surprised if we went to /25 or /26 in the next few years as the limit, but anything much lower would force a lot of upgrades.
Dynamic IP's are going away, to be replaced by NAT'ed addresses. Mobile Internet is far along that road already.
IPv6 isn't all that much more geographical than IPv4. Regional registries have assigned blocks, just like IPv4, but they will last a bit longer with IPv6 so the fragmentation will be less. Noone stops you from advertising addresses in a different region than they were acquired though.