I mean great, I've heard all about the nice new changes to the 1.5/5.0 series, but what bugs did Sun fix between beta 2 and RC1 (since I'm sure there'll be an RC2 before the release, there always is).
Actually, 64-bit Windows XP is already out there and available for purchase, but only for the IA64 architecture (itanium) - support for AMD's 64 bit chips is still in beta (although relatively stable, from what I hear).
Umm... the DMCA doesn't really have anything to do with this; no copy-protection procedures have been circumvented, so no copyright violations have occurred here. In point of fact, the virus author hasn't broken any laws by writing and releasing this virus, assuming he hasn't been using it to damage any systems out there (besides his own).
Of course, if he actually were to try and damage someone's box with this virus he might have a hard time of it, since all it does is spread itself throughout the system... you get a minor to major slowdown and increase in file sizes, which can cause other things to break, but it's not very likely.
Of course, the "proprietary licensed technology" was actually an open industry standard - just that Rambus was on the commitee writing the standard and put their IP on it, and didn't really tell anyone that it was restricted.
Actually, go ahead and slashdot the www.ruf.rice.edu - that way, I'll have an excuse for some of the work that I was supposed to turn in yesterday (I'm a student at Rice).
The scary part has always been finding out that it's not mainstream: you're going to middle school, working on some neat eggdrop mods, and realize that even though all of your friends use it, nobody else does... so you become a bitter comp. sci. major and start reading/. to cope.
The sparc people who have to recompile every c++ program on their system might care, just offhand. And since you asked (or didn't), i386 users will probably care, too - their ABI changed as well.
What version is 2.4, exactly? My gprof returns the same version as the binutils installed, 2.14.etc. Certainly profile feedback works, but I'm fairly sure that's not what you mean. Maybe you want to do something with gcov?
Actually, it's in court right now - see the article from a couple days back. A judge issued an injunction based on a GPL violation.
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The difference here is that you pay for a license to use it on your computer. It's just multiple instances on the same computer - there's no network in use here, and the 2 end users are sitting AT the same computer, which just happens to have more than one monitor. Licenses distinguish about running over a network by saying that the application is being displayed and interacted with on one computer, but is hosted on/executed on another, interonnected by some kind of network. A dual head VGA card and two keyboards are still just a "1 CPU" license.
For $1,600 I would expect it to survive water pressures at the bottom of the Marianas trench. I should be able to hurl it at the sun and have it shield itself from fusing into heavier elements, and "wiggle" its way out back to Earth, find me and crawl quietly back into my pocket, all without a reset.
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I mean great, I've heard all about the nice new changes to the 1.5/5.0 series, but what bugs did Sun fix between beta 2 and RC1 (since I'm sure there'll be an RC2 before the release, there always is).
Actually, 64-bit Windows XP is already out there and available for purchase, but only for the IA64 architecture (itanium) - support for AMD's 64 bit chips is still in beta (although relatively stable, from what I hear).
Umm... the DMCA doesn't really have anything to do with this; no copy-protection procedures have been circumvented, so no copyright violations have occurred here. In point of fact, the virus author hasn't broken any laws by writing and releasing this virus, assuming he hasn't been using it to damage any systems out there (besides his own).
Of course, if he actually were to try and damage someone's box with this virus he might have a hard time of it, since all it does is spread itself throughout the system... you get a minor to major slowdown and increase in file sizes, which can cause other things to break, but it's not very likely.
I've found a removal tool for that one: Linux.
Of course, the "proprietary licensed technology" was actually an open industry standard - just that Rambus was on the commitee writing the standard and put their IP on it, and didn't really tell anyone that it was restricted.
Actually, go ahead and slashdot the www.ruf.rice.edu - that way, I'll have an excuse for some of the work that I was supposed to turn in yesterday (I'm a student at Rice).
Really? Then what channel was that on?!?!
The scary part has always been finding out that it's not mainstream: you're going to middle school, working on some neat eggdrop mods, and realize that even though all of your friends use it, nobody else does... so you become a bitter comp. sci. major and start reading /. to cope.
The sparc people who have to recompile every c++ program on their system might care, just offhand. And since you asked (or didn't), i386 users will probably care, too - their ABI changed as well.
What version is 2.4, exactly? My gprof returns the same version as the binutils installed, 2.14.etc. Certainly profile feedback works, but I'm fairly sure that's not what you mean. Maybe you want to do something with gcov?
In soviet russia, sequence numbers generate you!
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Actually, it's in court right now - see the article from a couple days back. A judge issued an injunction based on a GPL violation.
The difference here is that you pay for a license to use it on your computer. It's just multiple instances on the same computer - there's no network in use here, and the 2 end users are sitting AT the same computer, which just happens to have more than one monitor. Licenses distinguish about running over a network by saying that the application is being displayed and interacted with on one computer, but is hosted on/executed on another, interonnected by some kind of network. A dual head VGA card and two keyboards are still just a "1 CPU" license.
It's an obvious ploy to keep their server load down - the next step is trying to make it small enough that it can fit in an IP header.
Make sure you sit next to the first class car! You just might get free access. "Warsitting", perhaps?
Godwin's second law: over time, the probability of a zombie badger story on slashdot becomes one.
It'll only do that if you flash the M$ demons out of it.
For $1,600 I would expect it to survive water pressures at the bottom of the Marianas trench. I should be able to hurl it at the sun and have it shield itself from fusing into heavier elements, and "wiggle" its way out back to Earth, find me and crawl quietly back into my pocket, all without a reset.
Because the link doesn't point to a list, it points to a site that uses browser exploits to annoy and forkbomb the user's system.
Maybe, but I still wouldn't put the blame on DARPA for that. How could they know he would turn out to be an evil mastermind?
And yet their site still can't survive a slashdotting!