could all get you labeled as a terrorist, charged by the DMCA, and in general land you in GITMO. The homeland security bill and other draconian laws are the reason why this will be the last Phreak ezine. This is because all the good hackers have gone underground (any of these themes remind you of Farenheit 451?).
It's sad when the free exchange of information, ideas, and determining security exploits outside of anonymity could get you into lots of trouble.
ohhh you mean how all the scientific documents being written by all the biomedical/biochemistry/cell biology/etc/etc fields are written in latex? You mean how all grant templates for applications to the NIH are written in DOC format?
The truth is most of these professors and primary investigators (PIs, with MD's and Ph.D's) use MS Word in winxp or on MacOSX, then they sometimes wrap the documents using adobe distiller with adobe acrobat pro.
The only people I know who use LaTEX in academia are physicists and mathematicians (and some engineers).
This is why i love gentoo and won't ever use any other linux distro, this is even faster than going to ati and downloading the driver for winxp if you already have your kernel setup and pointed to by/usr/src/linux:
If you don't already have a kernel 1) emerge gentoo-sources 2) genkernel..most already do at this point, so all you need to do are these steps:
3) emerge ati-drivers 4) opengl-update ati 5) fglrxconfig , follow the directions, if you can't or don't want to understand it, then go buy a mac or use winxp. 6) restart X (no reboot required), ctrl+alt+backspace will do just fine..i've switched between my R9600 and GEForce 5500 so quickly because of Gentoo's setup..the geforce has better drivers but its DVI output doesn't want to work (won't even POST) so it's sitting in a box.
The article leaves out some very crucial information. Are we assuming here that the engineers are all male and that the nurses are female? What about people who think they are "engineers" but they are really more into business because they suck at being technical or vice versa? It's difficult to determine the definition of an engineer. Is it someone who uses more than just arithmetic on a regular basis, or is it someone who just puts stuff together from blueprints?
Some people have asked why we didn't put tabs in IE sooner. Initially, we had some concerns around complexity and consistency... will it confuse users more than it benefits them? Is it confusing if IE has tabs, but other core parts of the Windows experience, like Windows Media Player or the shell, don't have tabs?
Bluetooth®[1] is an available option that allows for wireless connections between your Toyota and many Bluetooth®[1] -enabled mobile phones. Built into the available onboard navigation system, the technology provides users with convenient hands-free phone capabilities.
Just because the virus isn't currently interested doesn't mean a virus can't be constructed that would be interested or that the Prius can't be made to become interested. The OSD of the system did become frozen simply because of a "corrupted" addressbook entry. If a malicious person began creating said virus, it could be disastrous in several years when we see more people driving Bluetooth enabled cars. On a minimal level the virus would end up screwing up the navigational/gps system and would lead the driver astray and cause him/her confusion for a while. At the worst...well I'm sure you can imagine.
I Want to discuss the concept of property ownership with you. It's usually pretty simple, but you seem to not grasp it fully.
When I purchase something (Windows XP, XBox, PS2, lumber, or a drill), I am now the owner of that piece of property. It is now mine to use in whatever manner I see fit. I can break it, hack it, stick it under a blow torch, make it run linux, make it run Amiga OS if I want. Stick it in my Microwave, use it for ammunition in my trebuchet, decompile it, or feed it to my fish.
You seem not to understand the concept of licensing. When you purchase WinXP you are not buying the code, you do not own the code, you are simply licensing it. If you do not agree to the terms of the license (which may or may not allow you to use it for ammunition in your trebuchet) then you cannot use the product.
No where in the "review" does it mention what kernel version is used by RHEL 2.1 or RH8. I know RH9 came with a stock 2.4.9 or something like that so I'm assuming RH8 is probably even older like a 2.2 kernel and RHEL 2.1 is a 2.4 kernel.
This is like comparing win98 performance to winxp performance. I would say that the only fair benchmark between IIS and apache (and not linux) would be to run the same tests on IIS and apache both on win2k3 server (yes apache is available for win).
If you want to benchmark operating system performance then go bench the same programs on win2k3 and the same system running the latest kernel.
Now, University of Notre Dame physicist Boldizsar Janko and his colleagues believe they have found such a control technique. Their work, funded by the National Science Foundation through a Nanoscale Interdisciplinary Research Team grant, was published in the March 5, 2005, edition of the journal Nature.
I work in a biochemistry lab and if you can get a publication in one of the two most highly ranked journals Science or Nature, it helps you greatly in getting funding (as they have from NSF) or tenure.
In the next 50 years or so do you think that photonics or spintronics will become the main technology behind computation, or will we see a hybrid computer that uses the best of both technologies (e.g. computation/cpu using spintronics and data transport in buses between devices/peripherals using photonics)?
They may be "illiterate" but they can count. In general asian parents put more emphasis on education, especially in math, science, and engineering. No wonder you see so many asians in tech and scientific research related fields.
Ohh.. you mean the integrated intel i855gm graphics in my $700 compaq laptop that i can use to model in blender, or that has support for openglsl in applications such as VMD?
First I would like to say that my experience purchasing items from tigerdirect was terrible. I thought they were a large reputable company (and one of a few which I have found that actually accepts purchase orders from Universities and has competitive prices). I work at a university so I have to go through my purchasing department. They write up a purchase order based on my requisition form. The purchase order is then faxed to tigerdirect. The purchase order form also has printed on it the exact delivery location at the university.
The idiots at tigerdirect simply addressed in a general format to the university (no department name or anything). Well my university has hundreds of departments, is stretched across like 100 acres, and employees 15000+ people.
So the package was lost for a month. Then we ordered it again and they couldn't find the purchase order that was faxed to them. Finally after two months when I did get my CPU fan and CPU grease, they shipped me some generic Silver compound because I they ran out of stock of the Arctic Silver 5!!!!! I HATE COMPANIES THAT DO THIS. It's like purchasing a pair of NIKES and getting AVIA's.
If you haven't noticed TigerDirect is a direct shipper meaning that they don't have railroad crates or warehouses full of merchandise. They aren't even a reseller but are simply a "middleman comapny" that sends the order out to the large reseller who then sends you the item.
If you know what's good for stay away from any company with this sort of business model because their employees are very much clueless about their own products so you won't get support (if any at all).
As far as this case vs. Apple is concerned I don't see how Apple's Tiger Operating System has anything to do with a company named Shit..oops TigerDirect that has a very different business model and sells in general everything under the sun (from cell phones to office furniture) related to consumer grade products. I hope the judge finds that TigerDirect is indeed full of shit. I hope everyone on/. can boycott purchasing items from TigerDirect. There are lots of better options out there.
Every day I see a new bug on the ieee1394 mailing list. There are some serious issues with firewire on linux. It is nowhere as mature as it is on winxp or macosx. DMESG spits out lots of errors, sometimes my drives unmount themselves when I transfer 50gb+ (ext3/reiser were massacres, xfs was slightly better). Even with the latest kernel these problems persist.
What's the difference in the longetivity of a hard drive because of adding a cooling solution? I've got SGI machines more than 8yrs old, that have been running virtually 24/7 nonstop, and still have their original scsi hard drives. These machines are beasts with dual power supplies (sometimes up to 1000W).
How long has this cooling craze been going on? Seems like it just started a few years ago. People have become so bored that they mod just about anything nowadays. It's more like a competition to see who can get the most fans into their $50.00 acrylic see-thru case.
I can already say that Open Office, for as nice as it is, cannot load MS Word files that have embedded jpeg images. Even the latest beta versions have this problem.
WTH are you talking about? I've been using MS Word docs with jpeg's/tiffs/png's/etc inserted into them since OOo v1.0.1 (that's my first install of OOo).
My only real regret was writing a full paper in the latest beta version of it, for the thing crashed consistenly when performing a File>Save,
What kind of idiot writes crucial documents with *BETA* versions of programs. I haven't used the latest 2.0beta of OOo so I can't comment on your problem. A simple bug report to the OOo bug website will get you a quicker reply than you could get out of MS. Especially with critical nature of your bug.
1 - How much will it cost to reinstall everything? That's IT time, == $$$.
Openoffice has this thing called *network install*, once it has been installed on a main server all that is needed is to install small user files, if you can click next, next, next then you can do it in less than 10 seconds. I can install OOo on 50 computers in less than 45 mins.
2 - How much will it cost to upgrade some computers, since OOo is usually more resource-hungry than Office?
OOo can be made to load up on boot so that it loads almost as quickly as MS Office. If the computers are automatically turned on in the morniing before school starts this shouldn't be a problem even on a pentium running win95.
3 - How much will it cost in money and grief to retrain everybody (yes, there are people who just get by with Word provided you don't ever change anything to their computers).
An idiot can learn how to use Openoffice. Especially if the idiot has used MS Office. In any case school is for learning. I'm not just talking about the students either, that goes for the teachers as well.
4 - How much grief will the remaining file format incompatibilities with Office bring to the school?
I challenge you to list any format incompatibilities you may think *school* kids may come across when converting from MS Office to OOo.
This is very true. My boss grabs NIH grant templates from their website which are in word 97/2000/xp format. He uses MacOSX word. Several times after he has worked on the document it will no longer open. We have come to believe that MS has deliberately sabotaged their own application on the MacOSX platform so that people become frustrated with Mac's (this problem doesn't seem to occur on windows). The resolution to his problem was to open up the grant file in either openoffice or a Windows version of Word save it again and then re-open it on MacoSX.
If everyone is using some derivative of OpenOffice I could rarely if ever see this happening (even saving it in ms word format from within openoffice for compatibility with non-openoffice users would be a better alternative).
AMD single processors can't handle multiple threads at once? What planet do you live on? So you're saying I can't run multiple threads of the same application on an athlon and do it effectively? The CPU will automatically split prioritization and CPU processing power evenly between the two. While this may not be as effective as Intel's hyperthreading technology, I'd take an athlon64 3200+ 939 pin or athlon xp 3200+ over a pentium4 3.2ghz any day, simply because of the fact that I haven't noticed any difference with hyperthreading on or off on the intel systems. All it does is make a fake virtual cpu out of a single cpu and reduce the processing time given to a single thread.
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With a list of possible submissions including:
- hacking
- phreaking
- spying
- carding
- reverse engineering
- anarchy
- conspiracy
could all get you labeled as a terrorist, charged by the DMCA, and in general land you in GITMO. The homeland security bill and other draconian laws are the reason why this will be the last Phreak ezine. This is because all the good hackers have gone underground (any of these themes remind you of Farenheit 451?).
It's sad when the free exchange of information, ideas, and determining security exploits outside of anonymity could get you into lots of trouble.
ohhh you mean how all the scientific documents being written by all the biomedical/biochemistry/cell biology/etc/etc fields are written in latex? You mean how all grant templates for applications to the NIH are written in DOC format?
The truth is most of these professors and primary investigators (PIs, with MD's and Ph.D's) use MS Word in winxp or on MacOSX, then they sometimes wrap the documents using adobe distiller with adobe acrobat pro.
The only people I know who use LaTEX in academia are physicists and mathematicians (and some engineers).
This is why i love gentoo and won't ever use any other linux distro, this is even faster than going to ati and downloading the driver for winxp if you already have your kernel setup and pointed to by /usr/src/linux:
..most already do at this point, so all you need to do are these steps:
..i've switched between my R9600 and GEForce 5500 so quickly because of Gentoo's setup ..the geforce has better drivers but its DVI output doesn't want to work (won't even POST) so it's sitting in a box.
If you don't already have a kernel
1) emerge gentoo-sources
2) genkernel
3) emerge ati-drivers
4) opengl-update ati
5) fglrxconfig , follow the directions, if you can't or don't want to understand it, then go buy a mac or use winxp.
6) restart X (no reboot required), ctrl+alt+backspace will do just fine
The article leaves out some very crucial information. Are we assuming here that the engineers are all male and that the nurses are female? What about people who think they are "engineers" but they are really more into business because they suck at being technical or vice versa? It's difficult to determine the definition of an engineer. Is it someone who uses more than just arithmetic on a regular basis, or is it someone who just puts stuff together from blueprints?
I hope the book is not as terrible as the movie
Also it is a windows media stream, sorry *NIX guys
Obviously never heard of mplayer/xine/whatever + win32codecs + firefox + mplayerplugin
Some people have asked why we didn't put tabs in IE sooner. Initially, we had some concerns around complexity and consistency... will it confuse users more than it benefits them? Is it confusing if IE has tabs, but other core parts of the Windows experience, like Windows Media Player or the shell, don't have tabs?
ahh you mean like KDE's konqueror?
Yes this is very scary:
Bluetooth®[1] is an available option that allows for wireless connections between your Toyota and many Bluetooth®[1] -enabled mobile phones. Built into the available onboard navigation system, the technology provides users with convenient hands-free phone capabilities.
Just because the virus isn't currently interested doesn't mean a virus can't be constructed that would be interested or that the Prius can't be made to become interested. The OSD of the system did become frozen simply because of a "corrupted" addressbook entry. If a malicious person began creating said virus, it could be disastrous in several years when we see more people driving Bluetooth enabled cars. On a minimal level the virus would end up screwing up the navigational/gps system and would lead the driver astray and cause him/her confusion for a while. At the worst...well I'm sure you can imagine.
2005-04-12 16:39:15 Linux box in a tub full of vegetable oil (Hardware,Hardware Hacking) (rejected)
..so why was it not accepted then? I found this story from here
I Want to discuss the concept of property ownership with you. It's usually pretty simple, but you seem to not grasp it fully. When I purchase something (Windows XP, XBox, PS2, lumber, or a drill), I am now the owner of that piece of property. It is now mine to use in whatever manner I see fit. I can break it, hack it, stick it under a blow torch, make it run linux, make it run Amiga OS if I want. Stick it in my Microwave, use it for ammunition in my trebuchet, decompile it, or feed it to my fish.
You seem not to understand the concept of licensing. When you purchase WinXP you are not buying the code, you do not own the code, you are simply licensing it. If you do not agree to the terms of the license (which may or may not allow you to use it for ammunition in your trebuchet) then you cannot use the product.
No where in the "review" does it mention what kernel version is used by RHEL 2.1 or RH8. I know RH9 came with a stock 2.4.9 or something like that so I'm assuming RH8 is probably even older like a 2.2 kernel and RHEL 2.1 is a 2.4 kernel. This is like comparing win98 performance to winxp performance. I would say that the only fair benchmark between IIS and apache (and not linux) would be to run the same tests on IIS and apache both on win2k3 server (yes apache is available for win). If you want to benchmark operating system performance then go bench the same programs on win2k3 and the same system running the latest kernel.
You retard RTFA:
Now, University of Notre Dame physicist Boldizsar Janko and his colleagues believe they have found such a control technique. Their work, funded by the National Science Foundation through a Nanoscale Interdisciplinary Research Team grant, was published in the March 5, 2005, edition of the journal Nature.
I work in a biochemistry lab and if you can get a publication in one of the two most highly ranked journals Science or Nature, it helps you greatly in getting funding (as they have from NSF) or tenure.
In the next 50 years or so do you think that photonics or spintronics will become the main technology behind computation, or will we see a hybrid computer that uses the best of both technologies (e.g. computation/cpu using spintronics and data transport in buses between devices/peripherals using photonics)?
They may be "illiterate" but they can count. In general asian parents put more emphasis on education, especially in math, science, and engineering. No wonder you see so many asians in tech and scientific research related fields.
Ohh.. you mean the integrated intel i855gm graphics in my $700 compaq laptop that i can use to model in blender, or that has support for openglsl in applications such as VMD?
I once emailed jensen (now audiovox) about adding OGG support for their car head units. Their reply?
"We currently have no future plans to support the royalty free OGG-Vorbis format."
WTF? If it's royalty free then why would it not be appealing. I'll freakin add the DSP code to your head units myself for free, just gimme the kit!
First I would like to say that my experience purchasing items from tigerdirect was terrible. I thought they were a large reputable company (and one of a few which I have found that actually accepts purchase orders from Universities and has competitive prices). I work at a university so I have to go through my purchasing department. They write up a purchase order based on my requisition form. The purchase order is then faxed to tigerdirect. The purchase order form also has printed on it the exact delivery location at the university.
..oops TigerDirect that has a very different business model and sells in general everything under the sun (from cell phones to office furniture) related to consumer grade products. I hope the judge finds that TigerDirect is indeed full of shit. I hope everyone on /. can boycott purchasing items from TigerDirect. There are lots of better options out there.
The idiots at tigerdirect simply addressed in a general format to the university (no department name or anything). Well my university has hundreds of departments, is stretched across like 100 acres, and employees 15000+ people.
So the package was lost for a month. Then we ordered it again and they couldn't find the purchase order that was faxed to them. Finally after two months when I did get my CPU fan and CPU grease, they shipped me some generic Silver compound because I they ran out of stock of the Arctic Silver 5!!!!! I HATE COMPANIES THAT DO THIS. It's like purchasing a pair of NIKES and getting AVIA's.
If you haven't noticed TigerDirect is a direct shipper meaning that they don't have railroad crates or warehouses full of merchandise. They aren't even a reseller but are simply a "middleman comapny" that sends the order out to the large reseller who then sends you the item.
If you know what's good for stay away from any company with this sort of business model because their employees are very much clueless about their own products so you won't get support (if any at all).
As far as this case vs. Apple is concerned I don't see how Apple's Tiger Operating System has anything to do with a company named Shit
Every day I see a new bug on the ieee1394 mailing list. There are some serious issues with firewire on linux. It is nowhere as mature as it is on winxp or macosx. DMESG spits out lots of errors, sometimes my drives unmount themselves when I transfer 50gb+ (ext3/reiser were massacres, xfs was slightly better). Even with the latest kernel these problems persist.
Is it possible to get an "evaluation version" from somewhere?
What's the difference in the longetivity of a hard drive because of adding a cooling solution? I've got SGI machines more than 8yrs old, that have been running virtually 24/7 nonstop, and still have their original scsi hard drives. These machines are beasts with dual power supplies (sometimes up to 1000W).
How long has this cooling craze been going on? Seems like it just started a few years ago. People have become so bored that they mod just about anything nowadays. It's more like a competition to see who can get the most fans into their $50.00 acrylic see-thru case.
3. Linux makes easy things extremely difficult. ...a gentoo fanboy
I can already say that Open Office, for as nice as it is, cannot load MS Word files that have embedded jpeg images. Even the latest beta versions have this problem.
WTH are you talking about? I've been using MS Word docs with jpeg's/tiffs/png's/etc inserted into them since OOo v1.0.1 (that's my first install of OOo).
My only real regret was writing a full paper in the latest beta version of it, for the thing crashed consistenly when performing a File>Save,
What kind of idiot writes crucial documents with *BETA* versions of programs. I haven't used the latest 2.0beta of OOo so I can't comment on your problem. A simple bug report to the OOo bug website will get you a quicker reply than you could get out of MS. Especially with critical nature of your bug.
1 - How much will it cost to reinstall everything? That's IT time, == $$$.
Openoffice has this thing called *network install*, once it has been installed on a main server all that is needed is to install small user files, if you can click next, next, next then you can do it in less than 10 seconds. I can install OOo on 50 computers in less than 45 mins.
2 - How much will it cost to upgrade some computers, since OOo is usually more resource-hungry than Office?
OOo can be made to load up on boot so that it loads almost as quickly as MS Office. If the computers are automatically turned on in the morniing before school starts this shouldn't be a problem even on a pentium running win95.
3 - How much will it cost in money and grief to retrain everybody (yes, there are people who just get by with Word provided you don't ever change anything to their computers).
An idiot can learn how to use Openoffice. Especially if the idiot has used MS Office. In any case school is for learning. I'm not just talking about the students either, that goes for the teachers as well.
4 - How much grief will the remaining file format incompatibilities with Office bring to the school?
I challenge you to list any format incompatibilities you may think *school* kids may come across when converting from MS Office to OOo.
This is very true. My boss grabs NIH grant templates from their website which are in word 97/2000/xp format. He uses MacOSX word. Several times after he has worked on the document it will no longer open. We have come to believe that MS has deliberately sabotaged their own application on the MacOSX platform so that people become frustrated with Mac's (this problem doesn't seem to occur on windows). The resolution to his problem was to open up the grant file in either openoffice or a Windows version of Word save it again and then re-open it on MacoSX.
If everyone is using some derivative of OpenOffice I could rarely if ever see this happening (even saving it in ms word format from within openoffice for compatibility with non-openoffice users would be a better alternative).
AMD single processors can't handle multiple threads at once? What planet do you live on? So you're saying I can't run multiple threads of the same application on an athlon and do it effectively? The CPU will automatically split prioritization and CPU processing power evenly between the two. While this may not be as effective as Intel's hyperthreading technology, I'd take an athlon64 3200+ 939 pin or athlon xp 3200+ over a pentium4 3.2ghz any day, simply because of the fact that I haven't noticed any difference with hyperthreading on or off on the intel systems. All it does is make a fake virtual cpu out of a single cpu and reduce the processing time given to a single thread.