man file. Make a script to check if a file's extension matches it's actual file type. I guess you could still make a real working DLL with stuff hidden in it though.
Hmmm... Ideally it would have a failsafe, either as a bootable OS in ROM or as some kind of special firmware, to allow a disk image to be written to the HD (or whatever you use in such conditions) remotely.
I don't think the comparison with the Bletchley Park cryptographers does justice to the codebreakers. They broke codes that good mathematicians assumed were unbreakable and produced the first digital electronic computers, all in a comparitavely short amount of time. They probably saved hundreds of lives by shortening the war. About 10,000 people worked there, selected for unusual skills in linguistics, mathematics or cryptography. They did incredible things like deducing the structure of a mechanical crytographic machine from the cyphertext intercepted from it, without ever seeing one.
Yahoo's engineers are only fairly small team of developers tying to make a more user-friendly mail interface. It's trivial but time-consuming, and they're not really doing anything new. Certainly not doing anything impossible.
I'd noticed that title and quietly giggled at it, but I hadn't read the lyrics till after I saw your post. I'm now slightly worried by how easy it is to interpret some of the lyrics as being about the Endless September, especially if you assume "innocent" is being used in it's old meaning as "ignorant"...
I don't know what network you're talking about, but Freenode's #Gentoo has got me out of serious problems countless times, and I've helped out several users there too.
SVG is already available for current versions of Firefox, if you're building your own binaries. However, if it's going to be included in official binaries by default and officially supported, that's cool.
I don't think it meant "aggressive towards the open source community". It's Microsoft they'll be competing with, and it seems that it's going to be Linux, rather than just Red Hat, against them.
So, they're "aggressively" pushing Linux instead of Windows as a virtualisation host OS. Six staff members hired to work solely on integrating it into the mainstream kernel is fairly aggressive (toward MS), I would say, as it could lose them a major new market.
I probably didn't explain myself very clearly. I mean that I don't understand how one could open a symlink rather than open it's target, or what that means, or why you would want to.
It always struck me as odd, the way the console window appears to be a part of the system instead of a separate executable, but I guess it has to do with the way DOS emulation works "seamlessly", i.e. just run the.exe and a console window appears for it. I suppose the system X11 uses, where if you need the text output of a program, you run it in a terminal emulator, is too difficult for users or something...
I believe they do, but a liveCD does make sense for something like this, which will take a lot of compiling, installation, configuration (including changing system config) and disk space.
The stuff about them wanting to leave before they die is just what the pest control guys tell you to make you feel better. They die in your wall cavities, and the smell goes away after a few weeks.
We had rats in our house after our dog had puppies - we left a large sack of lamb breeder's milk powder (same stuff as puppy milk, but much cheaper because stuff for agriculture tends to be taxed lower in the UK, and because pet owners will pay more than farmers who need it in bulk) in the attic/roof space. The powder is concentrated and mostly made of protein and various sugars (can rats digest lactose?), and the rats in our roof seemed to be able to live solely on the stuff. The amazing thing was that they were able to move large amounts of the powder into the roof space of the next room, through a brick wall. We never worked out how they carried it, but when we took out a lighting fixture to look for them, a fair amount of milk powder fell down.
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man file. Make a script to check if a file's extension matches it's actual file type. I guess you could still make a real working DLL with stuff hidden in it though.
Hmmm... Ideally it would have a failsafe, either as a bootable OS in ROM or as some kind of special firmware, to allow a disk image to be written to the HD (or whatever you use in such conditions) remotely.
Or something.
I don't think the comparison with the Bletchley Park cryptographers does justice to the codebreakers. They broke codes that good mathematicians assumed were unbreakable and produced the first digital electronic computers, all in a comparitavely short amount of time. They probably saved hundreds of lives by shortening the war. About 10,000 people worked there, selected for unusual skills in linguistics, mathematics or cryptography. They did incredible things like deducing the structure of a mechanical crytographic machine from the cyphertext intercepted from it, without ever seeing one.
Yahoo's engineers are only fairly small team of developers tying to make a more user-friendly mail interface. It's trivial but time-consuming, and they're not really doing anything new. Certainly not doing anything impossible.
Oh God. Their going to use Windows for it, but all the apps will be from Google. Kind of like GNU/Linux: it'll be Google/NT.
In this context, it doesn't mean "not very". It's like saying "Windows 3.1 isn't really an OS". Maybe it only makes sense in en_GB. I don't know.
That is not really OK. That's redundant, like "very unique".
Yes.
ME TOO!
I'd noticed that title and quietly giggled at it, but I hadn't read the lyrics till after I saw your post. I'm now slightly worried by how easy it is to interpret some of the lyrics as being about the Endless September, especially if you assume "innocent" is being used in it's old meaning as "ignorant"...
I don't know what network you're talking about, but Freenode's #Gentoo has got me out of serious problems countless times, and I've helped out several users there too.
It'd strange, actually. They covered previous releases, and even did several articles about planned features of this release before it came out.
SVG is already available for current versions of Firefox, if you're building your own binaries. However, if it's going to be included in official binaries by default and officially supported, that's cool.
I don't think it meant "aggressive towards the open source community". It's Microsoft they'll be competing with, and it seems that it's going to be Linux, rather than just Red Hat, against them.
So, they're "aggressively" pushing Linux instead of Windows as a virtualisation host OS. Six staff members hired to work solely on integrating it into the mainstream kernel is fairly aggressive (toward MS), I would say, as it could lose them a major new market.
I probably didn't explain myself very clearly. I mean that I don't understand how one could open a symlink rather than open it's target, or what that means, or why you would want to.
I honestly fail to understand the concept of "opening a symlink". It's a link. How can you open it?
Exactly. Probably a lot of the games are free too.
And never mind a KVM switch, whatever happened to manually moving plugs around?
They're talking about the machine, not the software. Might as well say "A gaming machine that doesn't run games? ...".
And why are they even opening a terminal on an OS which is configured through dialog boxes? This is an advanced feature that they're overcomplicating.
It always struck me as odd, the way the console window appears to be a part of the system instead of a separate executable, but I guess it has to do with the way DOS emulation works "seamlessly", i.e. just run the .exe and a console window appears for it. I suppose the system X11 uses, where if you need the text output of a program, you run it in a terminal emulator, is too difficult for users or something...
Well, is that wrong? Isn't that exactly what they did in this case?
You missing out a major attraction of both those games: you can load your saved games from Simcity 2000 as maps.
I believe they do, but a liveCD does make sense for something like this, which will take a lot of compiling, installation, configuration (including changing system config) and disk space.
LG3D is not a livecd. LG3D is a unconventional desktop environment that Sun Microsystems is developing. LG3D-livecd is a livecd for trying it out.
The stuff about them wanting to leave before they die is just what the pest control guys tell you to make you feel better. They die in your wall cavities, and the smell goes away after a few weeks.
We had rats in our house after our dog had puppies - we left a large sack of lamb breeder's milk powder (same stuff as puppy milk, but much cheaper because stuff for agriculture tends to be taxed lower in the UK, and because pet owners will pay more than farmers who need it in bulk) in the attic/roof space. The powder is concentrated and mostly made of protein and various sugars (can rats digest lactose?), and the rats in our roof seemed to be able to live solely on the stuff. The amazing thing was that they were able to move large amounts of the powder into the roof space of the next room, through a brick wall. We never worked out how they carried it, but when we took out a lighting fixture to look for them, a fair amount of milk powder fell down.