non amercian Alies realy diddnt need you help in WWI.
And in WWII, you invaded France, a netural country, but I guess you can call that saving them from themselves.
I think it's a matter of opinion. First, a quick history lesson:
In WWI, due to the antiquated tactics used, historians and war tacticians have calculated that a 3:1 manpower advantage would be required before an army could break through. Keep in mind that by 1917, Russia have capitulated, and Germany was able to send all of the soldiers from the eastern front to the western front, giving that army a numeric advantage. Yes, it is true that the American soldier was more likely to have been fighting with European weapons (American industry was horribly corrupt and inefficient at producing the necessary arms), and that he would be inexperienced as compared to the seasoned soldiers that the European Allied forces were deploying, but the sheer numeric advantage that came with the American deployment helped to, if not win the war, speed the Allied victory.
In WWII, Nazi Germany invaded France, an Allied country, creating a protectorate (Vichy Regime). The members of the French resistance fought both the soldiers of the Nazi Germany and the soldiers of the Vichy Regime. Maybe, from the members of the Vichy Regime, Normandy was seen as an unnecessary meddling by the UK/US, but as they were a Nazi protectorate, they were far from being a "neutral country".
Of course, Normandy was more ideological and political. It was done to keep the Soviet Union, with its "dangerous" ideologies, from controlling Western Europe. That's why during the Cold War, a strong West Germany was necessary.
At the same time, the above commentary was from a rather pro-American point-of-view. You may consult the facts, and are entitled to your own opinion, but please do try to keep it correct =P
The problem with the French law is, as other posters have pointed out, that the provider is also criminally liable. I'm not sure what the law actually states (my French isn't good enough, nor do I trust Babelfish to grab all the nuances one'd need for a legal analysis), but if merely removing the webpages probably won't be good enough. So, a poor newbie sysadmin, gets cracked, starts serving anonymous content, and he's probably liable. Great.
So yet again, we begin the 1984-isation of the world, by taking away not the freedoms themselves, but the vehicles for them. By attempting to silence people with different agenda's than yourselves, however much you disagree with them, you degrade your own freedoms. Unfortunately, the French government (and to a lesser extent, the US government as well) does not seem to understand this. At the same time, if the press do not keep the people aware of these limits to their personal freedom, then the press is not doing their job.
However, it also seems that many people misunderstand the notion of "personal freedom". The original notion of personal freedom, as advocated by Locke and others, state that with freedom come a set of responsibilities. The fundamental aspect of these responsibilities deal with not depriving others of their freedoms as well. Therefore, governments attempt to produce laws that are "fair", striking a set of codes that, together, attempt to create a balance between freedom and responsibility.
It all works in an ideal world, but we all know that we do not live in an ideal world. Citizens of democracy have a right to know what the legislations their governments attempt to impose upon them, and an obligation to not blindly reelect those officials who deprive these basic rights in a callous manner.
If Mozilla gets better, Fine. Great. Super spiffy. But don't feed this line of Bull that Netscape is better than IE at following standards.
Weren't we talking about Mozilla, and not Netscape 4.x, which is, imho, ergonomically superiour, but does suck in the rendering engine?
Oh, one mo re thing. On Win32 (Win98, WinNT 4), on my ThinkPad 600E/Desktop Box (*), NS 4.7 (**) *seems* to be happier than IE5. Then again, I *do* like NS more than IE5, with all the "fixes". Then again, the Java VM on IE is tonnes faster than the Netscape version. I hope the Mozilla version of the Java VM becomes faster.
(*) 366MHz Mobile PII, 128MB RAM, Internal V.90 Software Modem, or Dual 300MHz PII, 128MB RAM, decent video card . %0 A
(**) I'm sitting behind a V.90 dialup connection. Do you seriously think that I'm gonna "upgrade" to 4.72 when 4.7 works "most" of the time?
Perhaps you wanted to have YASH on your box? Perhaps you wanted the extra convenience to be able to run netscape from a root xterm and be able to have the "convenience" of not having it *be* a security hole on a single-luser workstation ? I have no idea.
The reader was, possibly, commenting on a reload that happens on a resize on Netscape 4.7x (and possibly older versions), if the http headers told the browser to *not* cache the content (see section 14.9 on rfc2616, for HTTP 1.1). However, not having u sed the Mozilla engine, I do not know if this problem is evident there.
Obwhythisbecomesaproblem: many dynamically-generated pages tell the browser to *not* cache the content from the servers, so the clients won't get a stale page from the cache. This is often a Good Thing (tm), but, as another previous reader(?) pointed out, can cause problems in certain situations.
and be sure to use ROT-13 twice--using it more than once will increase the number of times your attacker will have to attempt a crack, and thus increase its strength!
Just to be a snob.... on my parents' '97 Mercedes C280, the thing only works once. The keychain must have an internal clock in it, so it transmits the timestamp to the car. The car knows that any subsequent signals must be from a later time, so the signal only works once. Of course, you only need to open the doors once, so.....
How doyou think I reverse-engineered so many games to play with all the character stats and such? Yes, I miss doing that....
SGI-nVidia alliance - is SGI looking to buy?
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Of course, I'm probably wrong about this, but SGI may be looking to buy nVidia, to enter the consumer market. Or, they want to enter the consumer video card market by taking a look at what nVidia already makes, and seeing if they can improve upon it.
I don't really see nVidia benefitting technologically -- just the legal issues and such being resolved, which, of course, isn't a small thing, but still.... That would be rather amusing, if SGI began marketing their own line of consumer video cards.
If IBM has set out to kill Microsoft does that mean Lotus will begin to give a rat's ass about any platform other than Windows? Does that mean IBM will begin to support to PowerPC processor?
They do. Lotus has announced that the Lotus Notes will be available for Linux. The current RS/6000 line of workstations and servers run on both PowerPC and IBM Power architectures.
As for this acquisition of Sequent, this is really strange. I'm not sure what they want to do with it, really, other than bolster their NT side. Maybe we can see modifications to Linux for the Sequent machines, though. That would be cool.
Re:P3 optimizations == K7 optimizations, in genera
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the initial results would say the K7 will be the king of the x86 hill for the next year or so.
But only if they can get around their historically abysmal early-production woes. Of course, that point has been beaten to death by others, so...
The problem with that is that the 900MHz phones are built with very little available internal bandwith. Also, most of these things tend to be much noisier than POTS cables (for obvious reasons). That makes it really iffy on the already close-to-limit-of-specs 56k modem transfers.
They might also do some weird AD-DA conversions with lossy compression, but I'm not sure.
I talked to an almost clued sales rep from Ricochet when those things first debuted back in 1997 (in San Jose, CA area). I asked them about interoperativity of those devices with various UNIXen, and apparently, those things are just "ppp nodes" to the computer. So basically, those buggers just look like a modem. Therefore, in theory, they should work with anything that you can find/build a connector for.
Granted, this isn't something that's from my experience, so YMMV.
But then I have a question, which of Red Hat and SUSE bring back most to Linux? Red Hat pays kernel hackers (Alan Cox and others) and GNOME programmers. I know that SUSE makes X servers but not much more.
Well, I use Debian anyway but to me the company that pays Alan Cox is more likely to get my money.
Linus works for Transmeta. Granted, it's very unlikely that they will either open-source their CPU or offer it for free, but if they do that, will you buy their chips, even if their performance was extremely substandard, as compared to whatever Intel or AMD are peddling at the time?
Indeed. At my w*rk, we took our UK printer, brought it over to this side of The Pond, and looked at it in dismay. No 220V-110V switch on the PS, and more importantly, A4 tray. To us, it didn't seem that anything was amiss. Then we saw that the none of the papers actually fit, and checked them for size with the existing A4 paper that was left. *sigh*.
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Poor newbie sysadmin, period, without this silly law.
But the french are not only idiots, they are fagots.
So they're a bunch of musical instruments? Wow, I never knew =P
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Actually, France just ran out of resources. They were, afterall, pretty drained from WWII.
non amercian Alies realy diddnt need you help in WWI.
And in WWII, you invaded France, a netural country, but I guess you can call that saving them from themselves.
I think it's a matter of opinion. First, a quick history lesson:
In WWI, due to the antiquated tactics used, historians and war tacticians have calculated that a 3:1 manpower advantage would be required before an army could break through. Keep in mind that by 1917, Russia have capitulated, and Germany was able to send all of the soldiers from the eastern front to the western front, giving that army a numeric advantage. Yes, it is true that the American soldier was more likely to have been fighting with European weapons (American industry was horribly corrupt and inefficient at producing the necessary arms), and that he would be inexperienced as compared to the seasoned soldiers that the European Allied forces were deploying, but the sheer numeric advantage that came with the American deployment helped to, if not win the war, speed the Allied victory.
In WWII, Nazi Germany invaded France, an Allied country, creating a protectorate (Vichy Regime). The members of the French resistance fought both the soldiers of the Nazi Germany and the soldiers of the Vichy Regime. Maybe, from the members of the Vichy Regime, Normandy was seen as an unnecessary meddling by the UK/US, but as they were a Nazi protectorate, they were far from being a "neutral country".
Of course, Normandy was more ideological and political. It was done to keep the Soviet Union, with its "dangerous" ideologies, from controlling Western Europe. That's why during the Cold War, a strong West Germany was necessary.
At the same time, the above commentary was from a rather pro-American point-of-view. You may consult the facts, and are entitled to your own opinion, but please do try to keep it correct =P
The American Bill of Rights and the Supreme Court can do *what* to the French Government?
*fwap*
The problem with the French law is, as other posters have pointed out, that the provider is also criminally liable. I'm not sure what the law actually states (my French isn't good enough, nor do I trust Babelfish to grab all the nuances one'd need for a legal analysis), but if merely removing the webpages probably won't be good enough. So, a poor newbie sysadmin, gets cracked, starts serving anonymous content, and he's probably liable. Great.
However, it also seems that many people misunderstand the notion of "personal freedom". The original notion of personal freedom, as advocated by Locke and others, state that with freedom come a set of responsibilities. The fundamental aspect of these responsibilities deal with not depriving others of their freedoms as well. Therefore, governments attempt to produce laws that are "fair", striking a set of codes that, together, attempt to create a balance between freedom and responsibility.
It all works in an ideal world, but we all know that we do not live in an ideal world. Citizens of democracy have a right to know what the legislations their governments attempt to impose upon them, and an obligation to not blindly reelect those officials who deprive these basic rights in a callous manner.
Weren't we talking about Mozilla, and not Netscape 4.x, which is, imho, ergonomically superiour, but does suck in the rendering engine?
Oh, one mo re thing. On Win32 (Win98, WinNT 4), on my ThinkPad 600E/Desktop Box (*), NS 4.7 (**) *seems* to be happier than IE5. Then again, I *do* like NS more than IE5, with all the "fixes". Then again, the Java VM on IE is tonnes faster than the Netscape version. I hope the Mozilla version of the Java VM becomes faster.
(*) 366MHz Mobile PII, 128MB RAM, Internal V.90 Software Modem, or Dual 300MHz PII, 128MB RAM, decent video card . %0 A
(**) I'm sitting behind a V.90 dialup connection. Do you seriously think that I'm gonna "upgrade" to 4.72 when 4.7 works "most" of the time?
Perhaps you wanted to have YASH on your box? Perhaps you wanted the extra convenience to be able to run netscape from a root xterm and be able to have the "convenience" of not having it *be* a security hole on a single-luser workstation ? I have no idea.
re: Mozilla doing a reload in resize
The reader was, possibly, commenting on a reload that happens on a resize on Netscape 4.7x (and possibly older versions), if the http headers told the browser to *not* cache the content (see section 14.9 on rfc2616, for HTTP 1.1). However, not having u sed the Mozilla engine, I do not know if this problem is evident there.
Obwhythisbecomesaproblem: many dynamically-generated pages tell the browser to *not* cache the content from the servers, so the clients won't get a stale page from the cache. This is often a Good Thing (tm), but, as another previous reader(?) pointed out, can cause problems in certain situations.
Duh, you forgot ROT-13!
and be sure to use ROT-13 twice--using it more than once will increase the number of times your attacker will have to attempt a crack, and thus increase its strength!
*ducks*
Just to be a snob....
on my parents' '97 Mercedes C280, the thing only works once. The keychain must have an internal clock in it, so it transmits the timestamp to the car. The car knows that any subsequent signals must be from a later time, so the signal only works once. Of course, you only need to open the doors once, so.....
That would be the driver.
How doyou think I reverse-engineered so many games to play with all the character stats and such? Yes, I miss doing that....
I don't really see nVidia benefitting technologically -- just the legal issues and such being resolved, which, of course, isn't a small thing, but still.... That would be rather amusing, if SGI began marketing their own line of consumer video cards.
If IBM has set out to kill Microsoft does that mean Lotus will begin to give a rat's ass about any platform other than Windows? Does that mean IBM will begin to support to PowerPC processor?
They do. Lotus has announced that the Lotus Notes will be available for Linux. The current RS/6000 line of workstations and servers run on both PowerPC and IBM Power architectures.
As for this acquisition of Sequent, this is really strange. I'm not sure what they want to do with it, really, other than bolster their NT side. Maybe we can see modifications to Linux for the Sequent machines, though. That would be cool.
the initial results would say the K7 will be the king of the x86 hill for the next year or so.
But only if they can get around their historically abysmal early-production woes. Of course, that point has been beaten to death by others, so...
The problem with that is that the 900MHz phones are built with very little available internal bandwith. Also, most of these things tend to be much noisier than POTS cables (for obvious reasons). That makes it really iffy on the already close-to-limit-of-specs 56k modem transfers.
They might also do some weird AD-DA conversions with lossy compression, but I'm not sure.
I talked to an almost clued sales rep from Ricochet when those things first debuted back in 1997 (in San Jose, CA area). I asked them about interoperativity of those devices with various UNIXen, and apparently, those things are just "ppp nodes" to the computer. So basically, those buggers just look like a modem. Therefore, in theory, they should work with anything that you can find/build a connector for.
Granted, this isn't something that's from my experience, so YMMV.
But then I have a question, which of Red Hat and SUSE bring back most to Linux? Red Hat pays kernel hackers (Alan Cox and others) and GNOME programmers. I know that SUSE makes X servers but not much more.
Well, I use Debian anyway but to me the company that pays Alan Cox is more likely to get my money.
Linus works for Transmeta. Granted, it's very unlikely that they will either open-source their CPU or offer it for free, but if they do that, will you buy their chips, even if their performance was extremely substandard, as compared to whatever Intel or AMD are peddling at the time?
Indeed. At my w*rk, we took our UK printer, brought it over to this side of The Pond, and looked at it in dismay. No 220V-110V switch on the PS, and more importantly, A4 tray. To us, it didn't seem that anything was amiss. Then we saw that the none of the papers actually fit, and checked them for size with the existing A4 paper that was left. *sigh*.