"I am very sceptical that there is an environmental factor associated with sex determination in humans, at least not one associated with profession."
What's probably happening here is that men which are more likely to have boys are more drawn to the engineering profession, rather than something in the chosen profession changing your likelyhood of having a male child.
EG: It may be as simple as left-brained people are more likely to have boys. They're already more likely to go into professions involving engineering and math, so this would cause an unusually high number of boys in these professions.
Hmm, anyone with the latest builds know if they've fixed that annoying bug where if you have more than $X tabs open (varies with screen resolution), the icon for them in the tab bar is off of the edge of the screen?
In real life, there is typically a fair amount of money required to carry out extortion like this.
On the internet, all that is needed is a cheap net connection, a computer and time. The amount of money required to carry out this online extortion is so minimal, it doesn't matter if you pay up or not.
We run into the same problem we do with spam, one or two sales in a few million messages fetches a profit. One person paying up $40,000 US in hundreds of attacks on sites would be more than enough to finance it.
5. Laugh at them and saying "Fine, DDOS it. See if I care."
I'm sure the majority of people don't have anything on their websites worth paying a ridiculous amount of money to keep online anyway. I know I don't.
Oh, and my ancient P200/96 MB RAM server on my cable connection (1Mbps up, 5Mbps down) can handle about 3 or 4 requests/second if they're only for static files before the server is over-loaded (Wish I hadn't had to find this out >_>). How many seconds would that last?
(From TFA) "With such a useful web developer feature available only in Firefox, could we soon start seeing websites asking their users to download Firefox to get the best browsing experience?""
Sure, if the webmasters are fucking retards.
Think about it, if you use SVG all over your site and say "Download Firefox or you wont be able to view this site." the 9X% (I use 9X since no one agrees on numbers.) Internet Explorer users would simply hit the back button and go find somewhere else to get whatever they were wanting from your site.
The only case where that might be acceptable is maybe in a situation where there is only a few users or where you are the exclusive provider of information on a topic.
So yes, webmasters will start telling users that they have to use FF to view their website... if they're fucking retards.
I was not calling her stupid because she did not know how to use Excel, I called her stupid because she did not ask for help with it and instead left it for 7 months.
It's perfectly understandable to not know something, but there is no real reason to not ask someone for help with it.
(Not knowing enough to put together a coherent question is not an excuse in this case. As long as she knew who she had gotten the e-mail from, she could have asked them, or she could have asked anyone else technically competent to look at it and explain what it is.)
"A professor sent her a link in an email to a computer on the network, and left a link in network places, assuming she'd know where to look. It took her 7 months to find it"
Well then, she falls under the stupid catagory. Lazy or not.
It would probably have taken 10 minutes to ask this professor how to do this or to find someone around the school who knows enough about computers to show her what to do.
If she is not willing to ask questions, she is never going to learn anything.
A) If you have a website, just put up a copy of putty.exe on it. You should be able to remember your own URL. B) Go to the putty mirror list and find one there with a simpler/more memorable URL.
It's not just OpenBSD. FreeBSD, NetBSD, DragonFly BSD and any other operating systems which Adaptec is not releasing a driver for themselves would need this.
"If you were Adaptec, would you write drivers for your hardware in Windows, a platform you're programmers are very experienced with and caters to the 90% marketshare, or write drivers for the niche 5% MacOS X or 5% other *nix market?"
If I was Adaptec I'd realize that most people who buy RAID hardware are not planning to run a desktop computer with Windows. They're likely planning to run some sort of server, which I'm sure have much more than 5% of users running a non-windows OS.
According to Netcraft, there are nearly 2500000 sites hosted on FreeBSD (source). This number does not include sites hosted on NBSD and OBSD (obviously).
"Everyone on here expects companies to spend millions in development and bend over backwards for their own purposes."
This wouldn't be millions in development. It would take one guy 10 minutes to e-mail the hardware specs (which they'd have to have available somewhere for them to have written their own driver) to the OpenBSD team and be done with it.
"Adaptec isn't interested in OpenBSD because it's not in their best financial interest, despite their best intentions."
Look at it this way, if you were a stockholder in Adaptec and were told millions of potential customers would not be able purchase your hardware because the company refused to release the specs for it, how would you feel?
On FreeBSD 5.3R, if I run "perl -e 'while (1) {fork()}'", all my SSH sessions logged in as the same user are unresponsive. My other SSH sessions (another username, root) are only slightly laggy (barely noticable). If I Ctrl+C as the user than spawned the app, it dies within a few seconds and leaves no traces in a ps listing.
The BitTorrent client and updates/etc are all covered under this license.
The license is considered a valid open source license.
You can give it (the software) away just by itself or on a cd/in a zip with multiple other programs. You don't have to pay royalties.
You have access to the source & binaries.
You can modify the source & fork the program.
Any modifications made to the program have to be licensed under this same license.
Use it however you want, but there is no warranty provided.
If you sublicense the code, you can charge for warranty/support or for offering indemnity for your customers, but the source must remain free.
If you file a patent claim against the BitTorrent software, you lose all rights under the license (right to re-distribute, etc.)
You can re-license any works you create based on the code, but you have to license it under an OSI-approved license that is compatible with this license.
(Note: This may not be 100% accurate, IANAL, I am not responsible, etc, etc.)
Slashdot Mirror
Sorry, should've checked my links:p lay_by_letter.asp?first_letter=T
https://vault2.secured-url.com/iib/dictionary_dis
(Just stripped all but the domain off of the link I posted and hit the dictionary link.)
Third definition down.
ND
- http://www.iib-uk.com/dictionary_display_by_lette
It's not Webster's or anything, but it's a reference.
ND
"The only other thing I could really ask for would be an easy-to-use DVD transcoder."
MPlayer/MEncoder?
It's only lacking in warnings and errors if you configure it like that. Take the below code as an example:
// Do something
// Do something.
<?
$name = $_GET['name'];
if ($naem == "Bob") {
}
?>
If you run that on my server, it'll give you a notice or warning or something about the uninitialized variable. Also take the following:
<?
$name = $_GET[name];
if ($name == "bob") {
}
?>
That'll complain about the undeclared string constant (name) and how it's just going to assume you mean 'name'.
ND
Y helo thar VMWare!
;_;)
For general stuff like web-browsing, etc, I find it runs XP just as fast as if it were running on the real machine, not in a VM.
Oh, and they have the software for Linux, too (But none for FreeBSD AFAICT
In fact, this post is being typed from XP installed in VMware running on W2K.
WORKSFORME
"I am very sceptical that there is an environmental factor associated with sex determination in humans, at least not one associated with profession."
What's probably happening here is that men which are more likely to have boys are more drawn to the engineering profession, rather than something in the chosen profession changing your likelyhood of having a male child.
EG: It may be as simple as left-brained people are more likely to have boys. They're already more likely to go into professions involving engineering and math, so this would cause an unusually high number of boys in these professions.
ND
Hmm, anyone with the latest builds know if they've fixed that annoying bug where if you have more than $X tabs open (varies with screen resolution), the icon for them in the tab bar is off of the edge of the screen?
ND
It wouldn't work in this situation.
In real life, there is typically a fair amount of money required to carry out extortion like this.
On the internet, all that is needed is a cheap net connection, a computer and time. The amount of money required to carry out this online extortion is so minimal, it doesn't matter if you pay up or not.
We run into the same problem we do with spam, one or two sales in a few million messages fetches a profit. One person paying up $40,000 US in hundreds of attacks on sites would be more than enough to finance it.
ND
Missing option:
5. Laugh at them and saying "Fine, DDOS it. See if I care."
I'm sure the majority of people don't have anything on their websites worth paying a ridiculous amount of money to keep online anyway. I know I don't.
Oh, and my ancient P200/96 MB RAM server on my cable connection (1Mbps up, 5Mbps down) can handle about 3 or 4 requests/second if they're only for static files before the server is over-loaded (Wish I hadn't had to find this out >_>). How many seconds would that last?
ND
(From TFA) "With such a useful web developer feature available only in Firefox, could we soon start seeing websites asking their users to download Firefox to get the best browsing experience?""
Sure, if the webmasters are fucking retards.
Think about it, if you use SVG all over your site and say "Download Firefox or you wont be able to view this site." the 9X% (I use 9X since no one agrees on numbers.) Internet Explorer users would simply hit the back button and go find somewhere else to get whatever they were wanting from your site.
The only case where that might be acceptable is maybe in a situation where there is only a few users or where you are the exclusive provider of information on a topic.
So yes, webmasters will start telling users that they have to use FF to view their website... if they're fucking retards.
ND
90 minutes is still good...
The instant I unplug mine it dies.
Got your 5.25" disk drive right here...
/me pats his server.
Fair enough.
I suppose I should clarify.
I was not calling her stupid because she did not know how to use Excel, I called her stupid because she did not ask for help with it and instead left it for 7 months.
It's perfectly understandable to not know something, but there is no real reason to not ask someone for help with it.
(Not knowing enough to put together a coherent question is not an excuse in this case. As long as she knew who she had gotten the e-mail from, she could have asked them, or she could have asked anyone else technically competent to look at it and explain what it is.)
ND
"A professor sent her a link in an email to a computer on the network, and left a link in network places, assuming she'd know where to look. It took her 7 months to find it"
Well then, she falls under the stupid catagory. Lazy or not.
It would probably have taken 10 minutes to ask this professor how to do this or to find someone around the school who knows enough about computers to show her what to do.
If she is not willing to ask questions, she is never going to learn anything.
ND
http://www.publicproxyservers.com/index.html
http://google.ca/translate
http://jmarshall.com/tools/cgiproxy/
Just a few examples...
I did that too for a while.
Eventually I just mirrored the site on my server (much simpler and easier to remember (for me, at least) URL).
http://mirror.nucleardog.com/putty/
So, I can suggest two things:
A) If you have a website, just put up a copy of putty.exe on it. You should be able to remember your own URL.
B) Go to the putty mirror list and find one there with a simpler/more memorable URL.
ND
It's not just OpenBSD. FreeBSD, NetBSD, DragonFly BSD and any other operating systems which Adaptec is not releasing a driver for themselves would need this.
"If you were Adaptec, would you write drivers for your hardware in Windows, a platform you're programmers are very experienced with and caters to the 90% marketshare, or write drivers for the niche 5% MacOS X or 5% other *nix market?"
If I was Adaptec I'd realize that most people who buy RAID hardware are not planning to run a desktop computer with Windows. They're likely planning to run some sort of server, which I'm sure have much more than 5% of users running a non-windows OS.
According to Netcraft, there are nearly 2500000 sites hosted on FreeBSD (source). This number does not include sites hosted on NBSD and OBSD (obviously).
"Everyone on here expects companies to spend millions in development and bend over backwards for their own purposes."
This wouldn't be millions in development. It would take one guy 10 minutes to e-mail the hardware specs (which they'd have to have available somewhere for them to have written their own driver) to the OpenBSD team and be done with it.
"Adaptec isn't interested in OpenBSD because it's not in their best financial interest, despite their best intentions."
Look at it this way, if you were a stockholder in Adaptec and were told millions of potential customers would not be able purchase your hardware because the company refused to release the specs for it, how would you feel?
ND
How about a basing it on the total system resources?
Maybe specifying a percentage rather than a hard value?
What would this fall under?
On FreeBSD 5.3R, if I run "perl -e 'while (1) {fork()}'", all my SSH sessions logged in as the same user are unresponsive. My other SSH sessions (another username, root) are only slightly laggy (barely noticable). If I Ctrl+C as the user than spawned the app, it dies within a few seconds and leaves no traces in a ps listing.
To me it seems quite simple. Men find it easier than women.
(Before you mod me down...)
Men are typically more left-brained & logical, where-as women are typically more right-brained & emotional (or so I've heard).
Emotions do not help you to understand a computer at all. Therefore, we can conclude that the more logical thinkers would find it much easier.
And since men are the more logical thinkers, this supports my original claim.
(Note: This may not be 100% accurate, IANAL, I am not responsible, etc, etc.)
Imagine a beowulf^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hcontiki cluster of those things!
Oh... wait...
People who don't breath cannot have a heart attack, since they are dead.
Therefore, people who do breath have a much higher risk of having a heart attack.
ND