Does this work on Linux/X? I'm not sure if X apps are told when they are "minimized" - it might all just be a "special effect" applied by the window manager. And besides, I hardly ever minimize windows when I have 12 virtual desktops. So I'm not sure how effective this setting will be for people like me (linux users with lots of virtual desktops).
As others have pointed out, you missed what I said. I am basically doing what you suggested - installing 32-bit libraries and programs. Only, I'm installing them in a separate chroot environment instead of munging up my 64-bit environment by --force'ing things. I have the mplayer and other packages installed from debian-multimedia.org into this 32-bit environment, and have a script called "mplayer32" in/usr/local/bin:
#!/bin/sh
exec/var/chroot/sid-ia32/usr/bin/mplayer "$@"
Until I can use Win32 code from a 64-bit Wine/libwine, this seems to be the solution. Not perfect, but everything else runs pretty well in 64-bit.
Unfortunately you can't mix 32-bit and 64-bit programs and libs, or so it seems. For example, I can't play windows codecs using a 64-bit MPlayer because Wine doesn't yet support running win32 code in a 64-bit executable/library. So you have to use a completely 32-bit MPlayer + libavcodec + libwine if you want to use the Win32 WMV or Quicktime codecs. Or at least that was the case a few months ago when I spent a few days wrestling with compiling Wine and the other libs trying to get it all to work. In the end I installed a 32-bit chroot environment and run 32-bit MPlayer from there.
Just use the flashblock Firefox extension. Then flash files turn into a right-hand triangle "play" button. You get to decide when Flash files play and can just ignore the annoying ads or whatever.
In areas where right-to-carry is present, violent crimes go down. In areas (or whole countries) where guns are banned, violent crimes go way up.
Really? I'd like to see those statistics. I live in a country where most private gun ownership was banned ten years ago and I don't believe our crime rate has gone up. And look at the UK, where not even the regular police have guns. So I'm calling bullshit on your unsourced assertion.
But in cases where the conceptual deterrent isn't really registering with some punk, the far, far more common defense is called "brandishing." Showing someone the gun and a willingness to use it generally defuses the situation.
Right. Unless they also have a gun, or there's several of them, or you're overpowered and have the gun taken. My problem with guns is that they're just so dangerous. There's almost no room for error or mistake. Take a situation where tempers and/or fears are in a hightened state, with probably a lot of adrenaline (and possibly other substances) flowing. Add a gun or guns and the situation has the potential to end tragically for either party or by-standers. I'm glad you were able to defend youself from a "drug-addled bruiser" with your gun, but you seem to have convinced yourself that the gun was the only thing that saved you. Admitedly I wasn't there, but I'm sure there were alternatives.
As to using a gun "on the land" to protect yourself and property/animals, I have no problem there. My concern is in city and urban environments. My understanding is that a lot of guns perchased for personal protection are often poorly stored (handbag, briefcase, glove box, desk drawer, etc) and end up getting stolen. They then get sold to gangs and can, ironically enough, be used in home invasions. It's this "sloppy" gun ownership that I'm concerned about. I strongly believe that no-one needs a gun in a city or urban environment, and that wide-spread ownership only makes the whole crime situation worse, whether stolen or not. And I live in a country that largely confirms that belief.
The line "create a unique mathematical signature for each one based on a common formula" pretty much sounds like MD5 or SHA to me. In fact, the "based on a common formula" part sounds like they've done little or no work of their own and are lazily using a simple checksum. No?
A quick Google search for "SRAID" shows only 1 out of the top 10 are related to computers and RAID. The other 9 appear to be some word in gaelic. The second page is worse. It also appears to stand for "SRA (Shop Replaceable) Assembly Isolation Diagnostic".
However, a Google search for "software RAID" shows almost 10 times as many results, the first several pages of which appear to be entirely about computers and RAID. There's a bunch of howto's as well as ads for RAID gear.
So it looks like "SRAID" is not a widely used acronym. Or if it is, people aren't using it on web pages, which would be odd for a computer-related term. I suggest you use "software RAID" in the future, to be clear about what you're talking about.
I know what RAID is, FFS. I just didn't know what the 'S' was supposed to stand for. Can people please not make up their own acronyms or use vendors stupid marketing acronyms? Just stick with the ones that people can be expected to know. Because if we don't know what an acronym means, then it's useless and we have to go through this whole process of asking what an acronym stands for. Acronyms are supposed to save time. Thank you.
How is adding ":80" to a URL equivalent to "paying Redmond large denominations"? For your information, it was my own time. I was simply playing around with Apache 2 and mod_dav on my family network one afternoon. Now put down the crack pipe, step away from the keyboard, and go outside for a moment. There's a whole world out there. We'll bring down Microsoft one day, but it doesn't help if you leap on someone and start frothing at the mouth any time they're mentioned.
What problems did you have with WebDAV and Windows? I've done only a little testing but it seemed to work ok for me. The only trouble I ran into was Windows XP's implementation, which rewrites WebDAV URL's (http://host/path/) into UNC paths (\\host\path\). As documented in the subversion book, this can be worked around by specifying the port number in the URL e.g http://host:80/path/, or https://host:443/path/
Yes I am serious. Those home directories were being pulled from an LDAP database. My particular example was from my small family network, but it could conceivably have thousands of users. Are you going to set 'system variables' for thousands of users? I guess next you're going to come up with a batch file to pull the names out of an AD/LDAP database and create lots of system variables. Which would work, until a new user was created (or someone moved) and everyone would have to re-run the batch file. What about auto-completion? Does CMD.EXE let you type %~s, hit <tab> and have it list all the users (or system variables) starting with 's'?
But your little environment variable, as well as being harder to type, doesn't actually look up user's home directories. What if people's home directories are on different filesystems, possibly NFS mounts from various machines?
If I do a tracroute on 192.88.99.1, it goes off to the US somewhere. There doesn't seem to be any 6to4 gateways here in Australia. I'd still much rather use the AARNet IPv6 Migration Broker. I get a/48 prefix in their brand new network. And it's not on the 6bone, they have a proper 2001:: prefix.
PHP, like all scripting languages, suffers from having to parse all script files each time a page is displayed.
Speak for yourself, PHP weenie. My Perl code is parsed and "compiled" only when I restart the FastCGI handler(s) for my Catalyst web app(s). My templates are (I'm sure) parsed on each invocation though. The situation is probably similar for other real scripting languages e.g Python and Ruby.
I'm sure Microsoft would very much like to shift the debate from OpenDocument vs. Open XML to OpenOffice vs MS Office.
What are you talking about? That's *all* they've done! Every statement by them on the matter has been framed in terms of OO.o vs MSO. Microsoft know very well what they're doing and saying. And what they've been doing is reframing the debate (e.g in MA) as one of "forcing people to use different software", that is slow or doesn't support the disabled or doesn't feed the poor or whatever deficiency that OO.o has. In other words, FUD.
Windows 3.x had no part in it. DOS first mapped primary partitions across all hard drives to available drive letters, then did secondary partitions. Add a second hard disk and its primary partition(s) got squeezed into the middle of your alphabet. Either figure out how to reconfigure your programs or reinstall them. What fun!
I can't believe Microsoft is still mucking about with drive letters. It's 2006, FFS!
Any file that is not identified as part of a package may be a problem.
Not necessarily. It might be a config file you've added or edited, or user data. But apart from that, you're absolutely correct. Windows just has so many places for malware to hide. Windows users don't realise just how transparent Unix/Linux systems are. With a LiveCD you can see *everything*, nothing remains hidden. Makes it very easy to inspect, repair, and/or backup. No need to wipe and reinstall.
I have a feeling that the military views this more as a live beta test, with the strengths and weaknesses of the system being identified and evaluated.
The problem is that the other side has already identified the weaknesses of the current system. Warfare is all about adapting to a changing threat, and guerilla forces adapt quicker.
I used to use Mason and it is a pretty good framework. But nowadays I've switched to Catalyst, a framework and set of libraries that make MVC pretty easy. It has the added bonus that it supports a number of web engines (e.g mod_perl 1 and 2, CGI, FastCGI, etc) while I've given up on getting my old Mason sites working with Apache 2. I like the use of TT2 as a template engine. It has a simple but powerful mini-language that helps enforce MVC seperation by not being a full-blown programming language. I think Mason almost encourages embedding of logic in content (like PHP) because it doesn't have a seperate templating language, always using Perl code. You have to be really disciplined to break your modules up into a MVC-like arrangement.
I'm not big developer, just a one-man experimenter and network admin for my family. As well as my own projects I've made a few little web apps for the family Linux web server. Catalyst just lays things out so well.
PBS could be better but at least it's not like it is in Great Britain. Amoung other sources I've heard they have a tax on TVs that goes to support BBC.
The BBC is funded directly by a broadcast tax of some sort. Here in Australia we have the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) and SBS, both of which are government funded (not by specific taxes though). Now, you Americans might think it "unfair" for everyone to be "forced" to support broadcasters they might not even watch. But the BBC, ABC, and SBS provide something that the commercial broadcasters have trouble with: culture. While the commercial stations are racing to the bottom, trying to find the cheapest material with the highest ratings (e.g reality TV, Funniest home videos, game shows, etc), the government-funded stations can focus on informing and educating. Sure, the government-funded stations occasionally show some questionable material, and the commercial stations occasionally show something informative (no, Discovery Channel is pretty poor in general). But from where I'm sitting, the gulf is pretty huge.
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Does this work on Linux/X? I'm not sure if X apps are told when they are "minimized" - it might all just be a "special effect" applied by the window manager. And besides, I hardly ever minimize windows when I have 12 virtual desktops. So I'm not sure how effective this setting will be for people like me (linux users with lots of virtual desktops).
Unfortunately you can't mix 32-bit and 64-bit programs and libs, or so it seems. For example, I can't play windows codecs using a 64-bit MPlayer because Wine doesn't yet support running win32 code in a 64-bit executable/library. So you have to use a completely 32-bit MPlayer + libavcodec + libwine if you want to use the Win32 WMV or Quicktime codecs. Or at least that was the case a few months ago when I spent a few days wrestling with compiling Wine and the other libs trying to get it all to work. In the end I installed a 32-bit chroot environment and run 32-bit MPlayer from there.
Ah yes, the photo is right there in the Wikipedia article on him. My mistake. Thurrott is still an MS sycophant though.
Yes, Thurrott is an idiot. Isn't he the one with a tattoo of the windows logo on his arm? I can't find anything with Google though...
It's pretty simple to search on Mozilla's site, but here is the add-ons page, and here's its mozdev site.
Just use the flashblock Firefox extension. Then flash files turn into a right-hand triangle "play" button. You get to decide when Flash files play and can just ignore the annoying ads or whatever.
Really? I'd like to see those statistics. I live in a country where most private gun ownership was banned ten years ago and I don't believe our crime rate has gone up. And look at the UK, where not even the regular police have guns. So I'm calling bullshit on your unsourced assertion.
Right. Unless they also have a gun, or there's several of them, or you're overpowered and have the gun taken. My problem with guns is that they're just so dangerous. There's almost no room for error or mistake. Take a situation where tempers and/or fears are in a hightened state, with probably a lot of adrenaline (and possibly other substances) flowing. Add a gun or guns and the situation has the potential to end tragically for either party or by-standers. I'm glad you were able to defend youself from a "drug-addled bruiser" with your gun, but you seem to have convinced yourself that the gun was the only thing that saved you. Admitedly I wasn't there, but I'm sure there were alternatives.
As to using a gun "on the land" to protect yourself and property/animals, I have no problem there. My concern is in city and urban environments. My understanding is that a lot of guns perchased for personal protection are often poorly stored (handbag, briefcase, glove box, desk drawer, etc) and end up getting stolen. They then get sold to gangs and can, ironically enough, be used in home invasions. It's this "sloppy" gun ownership that I'm concerned about. I strongly believe that no-one needs a gun in a city or urban environment, and that wide-spread ownership only makes the whole crime situation worse, whether stolen or not. And I live in a country that largely confirms that belief.
The line "create a unique mathematical signature for each one based on a common formula" pretty much sounds like MD5 or SHA to me. In fact, the "based on a common formula" part sounds like they've done little or no work of their own and are lazily using a simple checksum. No?
A quick Google search for "SRAID" shows only 1 out of the top 10 are related to computers and RAID. The other 9 appear to be some word in gaelic. The second page is worse. It also appears to stand for "SRA (Shop Replaceable) Assembly Isolation Diagnostic".
However, a Google search for "software RAID" shows almost 10 times as many results, the first several pages of which appear to be entirely about computers and RAID. There's a bunch of howto's as well as ads for RAID gear.
So it looks like "SRAID" is not a widely used acronym. Or if it is, people aren't using it on web pages, which would be odd for a computer-related term. I suggest you use "software RAID" in the future, to be clear about what you're talking about.
I know what RAID is, FFS. I just didn't know what the 'S' was supposed to stand for. Can people please not make up their own acronyms or use vendors stupid marketing acronyms? Just stick with the ones that people can be expected to know. Because if we don't know what an acronym means, then it's useless and we have to go through this whole process of asking what an acronym stands for. Acronyms are supposed to save time. Thank you.
Just what exactly is "SRAID"?
Seriously, more like PostgreSQL or FireBird.
WTF?! Whatever you're on, cut the dose mate.
How is adding ":80" to a URL equivalent to "paying Redmond large denominations"? For your information, it was my own time. I was simply playing around with Apache 2 and mod_dav on my family network one afternoon. Now put down the crack pipe, step away from the keyboard, and go outside for a moment. There's a whole world out there. We'll bring down Microsoft one day, but it doesn't help if you leap on someone and start frothing at the mouth any time they're mentioned.
What problems did you have with WebDAV and Windows? I've done only a little testing but it seemed to work ok for me. The only trouble I ran into was Windows XP's implementation, which rewrites WebDAV URL's (http://host/path/) into UNC paths (\\host\path\). As documented in the subversion book, this can be worked around by specifying the port number in the URL e.g http://host:80/path/, or https://host:443/path/
Yes I am serious. Those home directories were being pulled from an LDAP database. My particular example was from my small family network, but it could conceivably have thousands of users. Are you going to set 'system variables' for thousands of users? I guess next you're going to come up with a batch file to pull the names out of an AD/LDAP database and create lots of system variables. Which would work, until a new user was created (or someone moved) and everyone would have to re-run the batch file. What about auto-completion? Does CMD.EXE let you type %~s, hit <tab> and have it list all the users (or system variables) starting with 's'?
But your little environment variable, as well as being harder to type, doesn't actually look up user's home directories. What if people's home directories are on different filesystems, possibly NFS mounts from various machines?
If I do a tracroute on 192.88.99.1, it goes off to the US somewhere. There doesn't seem to be any 6to4 gateways here in Australia. I'd still much rather use the AARNet IPv6 Migration Broker. I get a /48 prefix in their brand new network. And it's not on the 6bone, they have a proper 2001:: prefix.
Speak for yourself, PHP weenie. My Perl code is parsed and "compiled" only when I restart the FastCGI handler(s) for my Catalyst web app(s). My templates are (I'm sure) parsed on each invocation though. The situation is probably similar for other real scripting languages e.g Python and Ruby.
What are you talking about? That's *all* they've done! Every statement by them on the matter has been framed in terms of OO.o vs MSO. Microsoft know very well what they're doing and saying. And what they've been doing is reframing the debate (e.g in MA) as one of "forcing people to use different software", that is slow or doesn't support the disabled or doesn't feed the poor or whatever deficiency that OO.o has. In other words, FUD.
Windows 3.x had no part in it. DOS first mapped primary partitions across all hard drives to available drive letters, then did secondary partitions. Add a second hard disk and its primary partition(s) got squeezed into the middle of your alphabet. Either figure out how to reconfigure your programs or reinstall them. What fun!
I can't believe Microsoft is still mucking about with drive letters. It's 2006, FFS!
Not necessarily. It might be a config file you've added or edited, or user data. But apart from that, you're absolutely correct. Windows just has so many places for malware to hide. Windows users don't realise just how transparent Unix/Linux systems are. With a LiveCD you can see *everything*, nothing remains hidden. Makes it very easy to inspect, repair, and/or backup. No need to wipe and reinstall.
The problem is that the other side has already identified the weaknesses of the current system. Warfare is all about adapting to a changing threat, and guerilla forces adapt quicker.
I used to use Mason and it is a pretty good framework. But nowadays I've switched to Catalyst, a framework and set of libraries that make MVC pretty easy. It has the added bonus that it supports a number of web engines (e.g mod_perl 1 and 2, CGI, FastCGI, etc) while I've given up on getting my old Mason sites working with Apache 2. I like the use of TT2 as a template engine. It has a simple but powerful mini-language that helps enforce MVC seperation by not being a full-blown programming language. I think Mason almost encourages embedding of logic in content (like PHP) because it doesn't have a seperate templating language, always using Perl code. You have to be really disciplined to break your modules up into a MVC-like arrangement.
I'm not big developer, just a one-man experimenter and network admin for my family. As well as my own projects I've made a few little web apps for the family Linux web server. Catalyst just lays things out so well.
The BBC is funded directly by a broadcast tax of some sort. Here in Australia we have the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) and SBS, both of which are government funded (not by specific taxes though). Now, you Americans might think it "unfair" for everyone to be "forced" to support broadcasters they might not even watch. But the BBC, ABC, and SBS provide something that the commercial broadcasters have trouble with: culture. While the commercial stations are racing to the bottom, trying to find the cheapest material with the highest ratings (e.g reality TV, Funniest home videos, game shows, etc), the government-funded stations can focus on informing and educating. Sure, the government-funded stations occasionally show some questionable material, and the commercial stations occasionally show something informative (no, Discovery Channel is pretty poor in general). But from where I'm sitting, the gulf is pretty huge.