Not if you use open in new window - because of a Mozilla bug that doesn't send referrers when opening in new windows...:-) I love how bugs in their own browser affect their own site.:-)
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What everybody seems to forget is that the earth is not still! If you travelled forward or backward in time, even a moment, you would be thousands of miles away from where you just were! The earth rotates about its axis, it orbits the sun, and the solar system orbits a marger body, which perhaps orbits a larger one... This particle will never show up in the lab.
Maybe paper is good for collaboration, but not for archival. I don't collaborate at home, so I don't use paper.
I hate paper enough that I am almost done scanning years worth of pay stubs, credit card statements, statements, time sheets, repairs, orders, taxes,... 449 files right now. And it all fits on one CD. Why do I even need a monthly paper statement? Just send it in email please and I'll save the file on disk.
Most University's are adding Windows workstations, but not the servers. You know what students are doing on those Win2k lab PCs? 85%: Microsoft Word (Sure beats tex for the average student) 15%: Telnet to the *nix server to code. 5%: Using in VB for their IS course in GUI design.
They still keep *nix labs for the serious geeks, and they always have SGI labs for the graphics stuff. Occassionally Macs. But the Pcs are there to fill the gap of cheap, nearly disposable clients. The real R&D is still on *nix.
This article is pretty good if you want to see a management level rewrite of history. Mr. Sanswers leaves out a few interesting details, like how AMD's turning point at the K6 came from buying out NexGen and rebranding their NX86 chip. It is hard to make AMD look like a small company battling a giant when they were buying out smaller companies, filing thousands of patents per year, and knowingly violating IP agreements hoping Intel would settle.
Nonetheless, it all worked. And I'm very glad it did.
IANAP (I am not a psychiatrist) but Mr. Heckenkamp sounds like he is a schizophrenic, or like he is playing to sound like one. He is about the right age (22) for this disorder to become apparent. His intelligence and criminal behavior also fit the common model for schizophrenia.
The article does not clarify what is exactly running at 110GHz - it says a "circuit". Is it a single transistor? Or a series of transistors? Does that include wiring? It is a common misconception that a 110GHz transistor produces a 110GHz chip. A 110GHz transistor would likely produce a 1GHz chip.
Use the money to pay students to work on open source projects. This kind of stuff would be a win-win-win: student gets paid, university gets useful software, open-source grows.
Example:
My college needed an emulator to teach assembly language to students, and I SOOO wanted them to have an undergrad build one and open source it.
At my work, just yesterday we were discussing how frustrating it was that users would downgrade when they had a problem instead of reporting it or checking for a newer version! The argument was that since they kept doing that, we could never determine if a new version needed bug fixes or not, and the bug reports we did get were meaningless because they were always on dated versions. I find this to be a common mentality.
Now I hear the exact opposite. This guy did exactly the right thing. Don't use beta versions, but if you have a problem, upgrade to the NEWEST, don't downgrade to an old version.
...Take a look at the list of other product names...All of these products run on Windows.
That is not the list of names. That is an innocuous example list to show what they are looking for.
You just demonstrated the very point Lindows is making. Microsoft is not attacking Lindows because of name similarity, they are attacking it because of the product. If Lindows ran on Windows, they would not be attacking it.
I assume it would be really easy to sniff the downlink, but is it also possible to sniff the uplink? If so, then someone can figure out the command structure once they decrypt the signal.
What about pre-programming the satellite to change encryption keys on a schedule or something? What does 802.11 do to generate new keys in a secretive way?
Does it not occurr to anyone that it is possible to have BOTH! Amazing concept, eh? A good programmer, who follows software design methods! I better go get a patent on this...
I work in a corporate environment, and our company has spent megabucks trying to get answers from Microsoft to no avail. We have even called and said "Hey - you have a flaw in XYZ.DLL where call Y() returns 5 instead of 12" and they roll over and go "huh?" Then after months (not hours on hold, I mean months of callbacks) you get nowhere. Note, that I'm not talking about 2 hour long phone calls, these are months and months of programmers and IT professionals talking to them.
Now go post something like that on a kernel discussion site and you'll have patches available the next day.
This thing is a hacker's dream. It looks quite modern - microprocessors, firmware, etc. Not purely mechanical. The speed limit is set by the circuitry -- which means it is all hackable.
Imagine programming one of these things to spin you around, then accelerate to breakneck speed (perhaps literally) This could be quite fun!
For those who go to the site and get a black screen - it appears that the site only works on Internet Explorer. No big deal though, it has 100 lines of Javascript just to fade in a picture of a tombstone with Sonic the Hedgehog crying and placing flowers next to it. Semi-cute I guess.
My only confusion with J# is that it looks the same as C#. C# is Java with a few keywords modified. What is different between the two? From looking at a page of code, I couldn't tell you which is which! They've even made VB look the same. Why would anyone prefer one over the other?
How can a US court make a decision regarding enforcement of a foreign court decision? Likewise, how can a French court expect to decide the practices of a US company that hosts a site in the US? I hope that somebody in the respective govts wakes up and realizes that these decisions make no sense at this level.
In a later ruling, the French court ruled that the US court ruling does not apply. (tomorrow) A US court ruled that the ruling of the French court that ruled that the us court ruling does not apply, does not apply. (next week) A French court ruled that the US court sucks.
I for one am surprised that so many critical pieces of software, particularly installers, are written in loosly-typed non-compiled languages such as perl, or shell scripts. I come from a DOS/Windows world where scripting is not available to the degree it is in *nix, and everything is written in fully compiled languages.
I'm not trying to say that this bug might not have happened if the code were written in C++, but I think it would be more difficult. Languages that allow such convenient string concatenation syntaxes also allow for unseen bugs in the substitution. I've never seen a Windows program install using.vbs files copying to directories. It's not that it couldn't, but it just isn't up to that scale deployment.
Perhaps this practice of using perl/csh for crucial coding should be re-examined?
Every 3 years, Microsoft "rewrites" the Windows API and adds it into a new version. Windows XP supports the Windows 3 API, the WIN32 API, OLE, COM, and.NET. This is the entire Microsoft strategy of constantly offering newer APIs to strengthen the OS. The disadvantage is that it becomes increasingly bloated. But maybe it is about time that Linux have the very clean and modern BeOS API added on top of it. By merging these two OSs we could obtain the strength and stability of *nix with the cleanly object-oriented design of BeOS.
I've purchased various super-silent heatsink/fan combos before, but they never remain silent for long. After about a year of leaving my PC on, the fans get louder and louder. I hope someone can find an simple, economical, non-fan alternative.
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Not if you use open in new window - because of a Mozilla bug that doesn't send referrers when opening in new windows... :-) I love how bugs in their own browser affect their own site. :-)
What everybody seems to forget is that the earth is not still! If you travelled forward or backward in time, even a moment, you would be thousands of miles away from where you just were! The earth rotates about its axis, it orbits the sun, and the solar system orbits a marger body, which perhaps orbits a larger one... This particle will never show up in the lab.
Why has no-one pointed this out?
Maybe paper is good for collaboration, but not for archival. I don't collaborate at home, so I don't use paper.
... 449 files right now. And it all fits on one CD. Why do I even need a monthly paper statement? Just send it in email please and I'll save the file on disk.
I hate paper enough that I am almost done scanning years worth of pay stubs, credit card statements, statements, time sheets, repairs, orders, taxes,
Most University's are adding Windows workstations, but not the servers. You know what students are doing on those Win2k lab PCs?
85%: Microsoft Word (Sure beats tex for the average student)
15%: Telnet to the *nix server to code.
5%: Using in VB for their IS course in GUI design.
They still keep *nix labs for the serious geeks, and they always have SGI labs for the graphics stuff. Occassionally Macs. But the Pcs are there to fill the gap of cheap, nearly disposable clients. The real R&D is still on *nix.
This article is pretty good if you want to see a management level rewrite of history. Mr. Sanswers leaves out a few interesting details, like how AMD's turning point at the K6 came from buying out NexGen and rebranding their NX86 chip. It is hard to make AMD look like a small company battling a giant when they were buying out smaller companies, filing thousands of patents per year, and knowingly violating IP agreements hoping Intel would settle.
Nonetheless, it all worked. And I'm very glad it did.
IANAP (I am not a psychiatrist) but Mr. Heckenkamp sounds like he is a schizophrenic, or like he is playing to sound like one. He is about the right age (22) for this disorder to become apparent. His intelligence and criminal behavior also fit the common model for schizophrenia.
The article does not clarify what is exactly running at 110GHz - it says a "circuit". Is it a single transistor? Or a series of transistors? Does that include wiring? It is a common misconception that a 110GHz transistor produces a 110GHz chip. A 110GHz transistor would likely produce a 1GHz chip.
Example: My college needed an emulator to teach assembly language to students, and I SOOO wanted them to have an undergrad build one and open source it.
This is hilarious!
At my work, just yesterday we were discussing how frustrating it was that users would downgrade when they had a problem instead of reporting it or checking for a newer version! The argument was that since they kept doing that, we could never determine if a new version needed bug fixes or not, and the bug reports we did get were meaningless because they were always on dated versions. I find this to be a common mentality.
Now I hear the exact opposite. This guy did exactly the right thing. Don't use beta versions, but if you have a problem, upgrade to the NEWEST, don't downgrade to an old version.
I assume it would be really easy to sniff the downlink, but is it also possible to sniff the uplink? If so, then someone can figure out the command structure once they decrypt the signal.
What about pre-programming the satellite to change encryption keys on a schedule or something? What does 802.11 do to generate new keys in a secretive way?
Does it not occurr to anyone that it is possible to have BOTH! Amazing concept, eh? A good programmer, who follows software design methods! I better go get a patent on this...
I work in a corporate environment, and our company has spent megabucks trying to get answers from Microsoft to no avail. We have even called and said "Hey - you have a flaw in XYZ.DLL where call Y() returns 5 instead of 12" and they roll over and go "huh?" Then after months (not hours on hold, I mean months of callbacks) you get nowhere. Note, that I'm not talking about 2 hour long phone calls, these are months and months of programmers and IT professionals talking to them.
Now go post something like that on a kernel discussion site and you'll have patches available the next day.
How much is it to buy a DS1 remote control? I would love to have that for Christmas. Maybe they should auction off control of it.
"Cool, look ma! I got my very own deep space probe!"
"That's nice dear..."
This thing is a hacker's dream. It looks quite modern - microprocessors, firmware, etc. Not purely mechanical. The speed limit is set by the circuitry -- which means it is all hackable.
Imagine programming one of these things to spin you around, then accelerate to breakneck speed (perhaps literally) This could be quite fun!
For those who go to the site and get a black screen - it appears that the site only works on Internet Explorer. No big deal though, it has 100 lines of Javascript just to fade in a picture of a tombstone with Sonic the Hedgehog crying and placing flowers next to it. Semi-cute I guess.
My only confusion with J# is that it looks the same as C#. C# is Java with a few keywords modified. What is different between the two? From looking at a page of code, I couldn't tell you which is which! They've even made VB look the same. Why would anyone prefer one over the other?
How can a US court make a decision regarding enforcement of a foreign court decision? Likewise, how can a French court expect to decide the practices of a US company that hosts a site in the US? I hope that somebody in the respective govts wakes up and realizes that these decisions make no sense at this level.
In a later ruling, the French court ruled that the US court ruling does not apply. (tomorrow) A US court ruled that the ruling of the French court that ruled that the us court ruling does not apply, does not apply. (next week) A French court ruled that the US court sucks.
I'm not trying to say that this bug might not have happened if the code were written in C++, but I think it would be more difficult. Languages that allow such convenient string concatenation syntaxes also allow for unseen bugs in the substitution. I've never seen a Windows program install using .vbs files copying to directories. It's not that it couldn't, but it just isn't up to that scale deployment.
Perhaps this practice of using perl/csh for crucial coding should be re-examined?
Every 3 years, Microsoft "rewrites" the Windows API and adds it into a new version. Windows XP supports the Windows 3 API, the WIN32 API, OLE, COM, and .NET. This is the entire Microsoft strategy of constantly offering newer APIs to strengthen the OS. The disadvantage is that it becomes increasingly bloated. But maybe it is about time that Linux have the very clean and modern BeOS API added on top of it. By merging these two OSs we could obtain the strength and stability of *nix with the cleanly object-oriented design of BeOS.
At the cost of performance.
I've purchased various super-silent heatsink/fan combos before, but they never remain silent for long. After about a year of leaving my PC on, the fans get louder and louder. I hope someone can find an simple, economical, non-fan alternative.