Anybody know if this Realtek problem is an issue on Win 2003? My personal/development/tinkering machine is running 2003, and just so happens to have Realtek audio hardware, with their control panel that's specifically mentioned. The hotfix to remedy the issue refuses to run on 2003. (Side note: I hate that crap. Why the hell shouldn't I be able to install XBox 360 controller drivers on Windows 2003 if I jolly well want to?) I don't want to jump in and install this security patch if it's going to break stuff on my OS...
Interesting idea, but I have a feeling if they used a storage/indexing scheme which made it impossible for them to actually show the content of the work being plagiarized, then they would be accused of just spewing horse shit with no means of backing up their claims.
So essentially, we're taking a console that's notorious for overheating (just visit a few stores with kiosks and count how many are functional), and running the CPU at full throttle, 24 hours a day nonstop. Does anybody else find this slightly unnerving?
Can't you do this already? Do a search, View > As List. Or use the appropriate toolbar button, if you've got the view type buttons in your Finder windows.
The arcade versions of Guitar Freaks and Drummania can be linked together, so that you can have a "band" with two guitarists and a drummer. Older releases also allowed linking up the final release of Keyboardmania, giving you two keyboardists in addition. Home versions of GF/DM let you have up to three players with a multitap.
Also of note, Nintendo's Band Bros for the DS (released only in Japan) lets up to 8 players perform a song, using a variety of instruments (the instruments all play the same way - only the sounds differ).
Those titles are definitely worth looking into if you're a fan of multiplayer music games.
Ditto on the "roll your own" approach. If you've got some familiarity with the principles of issue tracking systems, and also familiarity with the needs and processes of your business and department, then you'll be able to better tailor the tracking system to your organization's needs. The one downfall of prepackaged systems is that they have to attempt to accommodate the needs of EVERYBODY, which rarely works well.
I was able to bang out a system for a company of about 50 in just a couple weeks, and it's been working nicely since. Plus you know the system inside and out, so you can throw new features at it as the need arises.
...Let you burn an upgrade reinstall disc right after you install? It would have some identifying keys and whatnot generated based on the state of the machine, license key from the previous Windows, etc. Then, if you go to reinstall the upgrade, you could have a copy of Windows already on the disk, OR simply put in the upgrade reinstall disc you created.
Seriously, I thought of that in like 10 seconds, and it never crossed their minds?
Yes, though having 256MB storage on an SD card, and blazing fast speed is a fair trade as far as I'm concerned. I just couldn't go back to my 49 or 48 now.
It doesn't say they were correct 60% of the time, it says they were correct 60% more of the time than would be expected by chance. So that's an 80% rate of success, by my calculations (based on a 50/50 shot of picking the right one of the two photos).
...That misread that as C-PAN, and couldn't figure out what Perl had to do with the senate. Ugh, it's far too early in the morning for rational thought.
The typical way to do this is by storing a completely random, meaningless sequence of characters (often a hash of some random data) generated at login into the cookie, and keeping track of these hashes and their associated sessions on the server. You can know all the personal information you want about someone, but none of it will help you determine what their session ID hash is, since there's no direct correlation between the two.
Now, there's still the issue of packet sniffing or XSS to steal someone's session ID cookie, but there are some preventive measures for this too. For example, the server could also track the IP address that the session ID hash is associated with, and refuse access to a client that tries to use it from a different address. I'm sure there are many more clever approaches too, not the least of which is ssl encryption.
Well, it could certainly use a comment to explain the magic behind the bit fiddling, but it's not hard to figure out what it's doing just by looking at it for a few minutes. Hell, I don't do any 3D programming, and I spend most of my time in C# and SQL, and I could still figure out what it was doing, and that it was probably a floating point binary format trick - just not precisely why it worked.:)
Portability I'll grant you. I'm not sure what kind of results you'd get on a 64 bit architecture, or one with different endianness. Maybe I'll try it on my PowerPC iBook for laughs just to see how "wrong" the results are...
Yup, you can't even upgrade this from IE6 to IE7. The serial number for the installation doesn't pass the genuine advantage validation nonsense, which IE7 requires you to do to install it.
If the cost difference we're talking about here is simply the licensing/upgrading cost, it's worth noting that several of the popular "mega expensive" database platforms offer free (as in $0) versions - albeit with certain functionality removed.
Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Express Edition
Only supports databases up to 4GB, and is lacking the built-in task scheduler, and most of the high-availability and business intelligence features, but is perfectly usable for small-to-mid-sized applications/web sites. Plus you can upgrade later to one of the fancier versions if necessary.
Oracle 10g Express Edition
I haven't had a chance to play with this yet, but it looks similar to SQL Server Express in terms of features and limitations.
IBM DB2 Express-C
I don't really know anything about this one. I just now found it in a fit of "I wonder..." The product comparison pages don't really say much about it, but they'll send it to you free on a DVD, so that's pretty neat.
Sybase ASE Express
Never used this one either. It seems to be only for Linux.
Though honestly, from what I've seen of Postgre, I'd almost think that one would be worth looking into more so than these for small systems. One of these days I'll get around to experimenting with it. The advantage with the Express Editions is, however, that you don't have such a nasty learning curve if you can just jump right in with a database platform you're familiar with from at work. Why else would I do something insane like running php + MS SQL Server?:)
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Or better yet, 911. Instant fun.
If you had included a link to one of your web sites with your submission, then you'd already be done.
Anybody know if this Realtek problem is an issue on Win 2003? My personal/development/tinkering machine is running 2003, and just so happens to have Realtek audio hardware, with their control panel that's specifically mentioned. The hotfix to remedy the issue refuses to run on 2003. (Side note: I hate that crap. Why the hell shouldn't I be able to install XBox 360 controller drivers on Windows 2003 if I jolly well want to?) I don't want to jump in and install this security patch if it's going to break stuff on my OS...
Interesting idea, but I have a feeling if they used a storage/indexing scheme which made it impossible for them to actually show the content of the work being plagiarized, then they would be accused of just spewing horse shit with no means of backing up their claims.
So essentially, we're taking a console that's notorious for overheating (just visit a few stores with kiosks and count how many are functional), and running the CPU at full throttle, 24 hours a day nonstop. Does anybody else find this slightly unnerving?
Pretty soon we'll be able to have a 20 Must-read Firefox Extension Articles article. Looking forward to it.
Hey, there's no shame in learning something. :) And don't worry, there are still loads of things to complain about with Spotlight.
Now if I could just find a way to make the slide show of image results start at a specific image, or even randomize...
Can't you do this already? Do a search, View > As List. Or use the appropriate toolbar button, if you've got the view type buttons in your Finder windows.
The arcade versions of Guitar Freaks and Drummania can be linked together, so that you can have a "band" with two guitarists and a drummer. Older releases also allowed linking up the final release of Keyboardmania, giving you two keyboardists in addition. Home versions of GF/DM let you have up to three players with a multitap.
Also of note, Nintendo's Band Bros for the DS (released only in Japan) lets up to 8 players perform a song, using a variety of instruments (the instruments all play the same way - only the sounds differ).
Those titles are definitely worth looking into if you're a fan of multiplayer music games.
1. Use company's name
2. Get sued
3. Agree to sell their own name back to them
4. Profit!
Ditto on the "roll your own" approach. If you've got some familiarity with the principles of issue tracking systems, and also familiarity with the needs and processes of your business and department, then you'll be able to better tailor the tracking system to your organization's needs. The one downfall of prepackaged systems is that they have to attempt to accommodate the needs of EVERYBODY, which rarely works well.
I was able to bang out a system for a company of about 50 in just a couple weeks, and it's been working nicely since. Plus you know the system inside and out, so you can throw new features at it as the need arises.
...Let you burn an upgrade reinstall disc right after you install? It would have some identifying keys and whatnot generated based on the state of the machine, license key from the previous Windows, etc. Then, if you go to reinstall the upgrade, you could have a copy of Windows already on the disk, OR simply put in the upgrade reinstall disc you created.
Seriously, I thought of that in like 10 seconds, and it never crossed their minds?
Yes, though having 256MB storage on an SD card, and blazing fast speed is a fair trade as far as I'm concerned. I just couldn't go back to my 49 or 48 now.
It doesn't say they were correct 60% of the time, it says they were correct 60% more of the time than would be expected by chance. So that's an 80% rate of success, by my calculations (based on a 50/50 shot of picking the right one of the two photos).
most cited != most visited
I think it's already a pretty well-known fact that rational thought is not a prerequisite for posting on Slashdot.
...That misread that as C-PAN, and couldn't figure out what Perl had to do with the senate. Ugh, it's far too early in the morning for rational thought.
I was getting pretty edgy with only 166 hours of Warcraft a week.
The typical way to do this is by storing a completely random, meaningless sequence of characters (often a hash of some random data) generated at login into the cookie, and keeping track of these hashes and their associated sessions on the server. You can know all the personal information you want about someone, but none of it will help you determine what their session ID hash is, since there's no direct correlation between the two.
Now, there's still the issue of packet sniffing or XSS to steal someone's session ID cookie, but there are some preventive measures for this too. For example, the server could also track the IP address that the session ID hash is associated with, and refuse access to a client that tries to use it from a different address. I'm sure there are many more clever approaches too, not the least of which is ssl encryption.
It's funny because it's true. Sometimes I think Nextel should simply change their name to Previoustel.
Well, it could certainly use a comment to explain the magic behind the bit fiddling, but it's not hard to figure out what it's doing just by looking at it for a few minutes. Hell, I don't do any 3D programming, and I spend most of my time in C# and SQL, and I could still figure out what it was doing, and that it was probably a floating point binary format trick - just not precisely why it worked. :)
Portability I'll grant you. I'm not sure what kind of results you'd get on a 64 bit architecture, or one with different endianness. Maybe I'll try it on my PowerPC iBook for laughs just to see how "wrong" the results are...
Yup, you can't even upgrade this from IE6 to IE7. The serial number for the installation doesn't pass the genuine advantage validation nonsense, which IE7 requires you to do to install it.
Into the recycle bin...
I didn't realize we had tribes/cities named after the cell phone. :P
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/eponymous
If the cost difference we're talking about here is simply the licensing/upgrading cost, it's worth noting that several of the popular "mega expensive" database platforms offer free (as in $0) versions - albeit with certain functionality removed.
:)
Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Express Edition
Only supports databases up to 4GB, and is lacking the built-in task scheduler, and most of the high-availability and business intelligence features, but is perfectly usable for small-to-mid-sized applications/web sites. Plus you can upgrade later to one of the fancier versions if necessary.
Oracle 10g Express Edition
I haven't had a chance to play with this yet, but it looks similar to SQL Server Express in terms of features and limitations.
IBM DB2 Express-C
I don't really know anything about this one. I just now found it in a fit of "I wonder..." The product comparison pages don't really say much about it, but they'll send it to you free on a DVD, so that's pretty neat.
Sybase ASE Express
Never used this one either. It seems to be only for Linux.
Though honestly, from what I've seen of Postgre, I'd almost think that one would be worth looking into more so than these for small systems. One of these days I'll get around to experimenting with it. The advantage with the Express Editions is, however, that you don't have such a nasty learning curve if you can just jump right in with a database platform you're familiar with from at work. Why else would I do something insane like running php + MS SQL Server?