At the electronics R&D lab I was working at last year, they had a bunch of Solaris blade servers for hosting Cadence microprocessor design and simulation tools (engineers accessed them over VNC).
Anyway, by the time I left they'd nearly done converting them all over to Linux, for two reasons: speed and stability.
You'd be suprised how easy it is to hide from NRO satellites. There are a limited number, and if you keep a careful eye on the satellite orbits it's perfectly easy to conceal an entire carrier battlegroup, let alone a single submarine, in plain sight. The ocean is big.
Basically, the problem is as follows. One has to assume that sneaky people in very quiet and fast submarines armed with nuclear tipped torpedos are trying to disrupt your carrier battlegroups. It's not possible to have continual real-time satellite coverage of the whole of a battlegroup's area of operation, and the sort of vessels being used for that kind of mission would be running ultra-quiet -- you almost certainly wouldn't pick them up on passive sonar.
Now, people will argue that no-one's trying to do that at the moment, but in the event of a war with country which has fast attack submarines armed with nuclear warheads -- like Iran, for instance -- a single mistake could really ruin your day. So carrier battlegroups train for that all the time.
I don't know how it was implemented, in this case, but you could, easily, make the OS immune to root-kits [that weren't there to begin with] by making the installed OS image Read Only (e.g. OS image burned onto a DVD, swap files hosted on HD).
It's not the OS image on the hard disk that counts, it's the OS image that's currently loaded into memory. Now think about how that applies to systems that are rebooted less than once a year.
Um, except gedit/wordpad don't offer tables, formulas, styles, graphics, or fields pulled from a database. Most geeks on/. work in technical environments where the bulk of work is either code or networks or research.
Well, the solution's obvious: they should be using Emacs! It supports all of the above features, runs on many platforms, and it's fast and has a small memory footprint too!
You might want to try the 1.3.6 version (latest stable), or, if you're adventuresome, the 1.4.0 in CVS. LyX is NOT designed for short documents, such as very quick notes or things of that nature. But it's phenomenal for long documents (several page letters, technical notes, books, theses, and, with the beamer class, even presentations which knock the crap -- admittedly not a difficult task -- out of PowerPoint).
I can vouch for the power of Lyx.:) I used it to produce a 105-page technical report a month ago -- it makes section numbering and generating tables of contents & lists of figures/tables effortless, of course, but the best thing is being able to just throw figures and tables at the document and having LaTeX position them in sensible places without having to do anything. It knocks the socks off trying to do the same thing in MS Office/OpenOffice/KOffice/etc.
Relatively few applications run correctly at all, and none run at native speed.
The former statement is unfortunately true, the latter is a troll. In my experience, those applications that do run correctly under Wine run faster than they do on Windows proper. And yes, that includes some fairly 3D-intensive applications (Half-Life in OpenGL mode comes to mind).
A benchmark I ran gave 95 FPS avg. on Windows and 107 FPS avg. on Wine (can't remember which version I was running. Interestingly, that was with an ATi graphics card...
I attended a private Catholic school, and I can confirm that I was taught the theory of evolution. Anyone who brought up ID in a Biology class got a disparaging look from the teacher, while the rest of the class would fall about laughing.
I don't actually know anybody who considers ID to be at all credible.
Yes, that's correct. The basic premise is as follows:
If you kill an enemy soldier, you've eliminated and enemy soldier from the field.
If you incapacitate an enemy soldier without killing him, you've eliminated three enemy soldiers from the field.
That's one of the reasons NATO use high-velocity, highly penetrating 5.56 mm ammunition. It's one of the least lethal types of rifle ammunition in existence. The problem was that the 7.62 mm bullets used in e.g. the British SLR were just too deadly.
No, the colour isn't inverted. It's just that because there aren't any reference features (houses, trees etc) your visual cortex can't work out whether it's looking at concave or convex features.
Try taking a screenshot of Google Moon, pasting in an image editor, and rotating it by 90 degrees. At some point, the convex features will start to look concave (and vice versa).
Sure, they have to keep registering new random-gibberish domains... but aren't they going to be continuously pointing at the same blocks of IP addresses?
Yes, and it's the "originating server domain name must match From: field's domain name" aspect of SenderID that particularly worries me.
I have several e-mail servers available to send via, depending on whether I'm e-mailing at my home computer via the NTL SMTP relay, on my way to work via my web service provider's webmail server, or at work via my employer's mail server -- all of which are sent with "From:" as my personal domain.
Only exposing a single e-mail address to recipients is great, as it means that whatever spool my mail is being sent to this week the e-mail address is still valid, without messing around with forwarding and Reply-to: headers (which just confuse people, in my experience).
So basically, SPF/SenderID are going to be a big problem for me, as I *don't* want to add NTL's SMTP relay to the "trusted" part of my SPF record, even though I need to send mail via said server (no other way to do SMTP send from within the NTL home network).
I couldn't care less if it's Microsoft, as long as 1) everyone can use it, and 2) it works.
ROFL.
Not everyone can use it. Microsoft's supposedly "Reasonable and Non-Discriminatory" patent licensing for Sender-ID is nothing of the sort, and makes free software implementations impossible.
It works... for a given value of "working". Whoo-hoo, now spammers need to set up a Sender-ID record for [423.sdlfk2_133dsk.net], [419.sdlfk3_175dsk.net] and [12.dngls4_983duy.net]! Wait until the domain gets blacklisted, then set up a new set of randomly-generated domain names! Maybe I should patent it! </sarcasm>
I could care if it's Microsoft. Hands up if you want Yet Another Broken Incompatible Standard?
Heh. You're not thinking far enough outside the box, I'm afraid.
It's not TV or game manufacturers who are interested. There are lots of situations where two people need to have VDUs, but the area for mounting them is limited.
I work over the corridor from these guys, and let me assure you that there are entire sectors of industry who are very interested in this technology. Very interested.
It's not bullshit, and you'll be seeing them in the real world quite soon.
Having seen the demonstrations and the low-down technical details of how they work, I'm pretty impressed by it -- in particular the solution for the problem of how to get touchscreen buttons to have one function for the left-hand person and another for the other.
I'm sorry I can't go into more details, but it's more than my job's worth...
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How much does a good healthy meal with vegetables cost vs. McDonald's. You do the math.
In the UK, a McDonalds meal is £2-3 IIRC (I never eat there).
I can easily cook a healthy nutritious meal with high-quality ingredients for £1.50 a head - and the more people to feed, the cheaper it gets.
So for a large poor family (like mine used to be) McDonalds is (relatively) expensive.
On Tue 21st June, the police contacted an IMC Bristol volunteer asking for IP logs.
They asked for the logs. They didn't get them, so they went to a judge and got a search warrant instead. Completely correct procedure.
RTFA yourself. They were told that said logs did not exist, via the server owner's legal counsel, but nevertheless the police decided to confiscate the equipment anyway.
Troll.
Instead of railing against NASA (annual budget $14 billion), why not direct your angst against the DoD (annual budget $400 billion).
I mean, the US spends a relatively TINY amount on space exploration.
Ooops, I forgot. Over there you get jailed for protesting against the military-industrial complex, don't you? Actual valuable research is a much easier target.
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At the electronics R&D lab I was working at last year, they had a bunch of Solaris blade servers for hosting Cadence microprocessor design and simulation tools (engineers accessed them over VNC).
Anyway, by the time I left they'd nearly done converting them all over to Linux, for two reasons: speed and stability.
The Cambridge University Engineering department does all computing and CAD tuition on Linux boxes (running a custom-rolled Knoppix, I think).
I would have voted for Excession rather than Consider Phlebas as a geek-friendly novel, though.
I strongly recommend The Algebraist, though, if you haven't read it already.
I think you meant, 'Rape. The gift that keeps on giving.'
You'd be suprised how easy it is to hide from NRO satellites. There are a limited number, and if you keep a careful eye on the satellite orbits it's perfectly easy to conceal an entire carrier battlegroup, let alone a single submarine, in plain sight. The ocean is big.
Basically, the problem is as follows. One has to assume that sneaky people in very quiet and fast submarines armed with nuclear tipped torpedos are trying to disrupt your carrier battlegroups. It's not possible to have continual real-time satellite coverage of the whole of a battlegroup's area of operation, and the sort of vessels being used for that kind of mission would be running ultra-quiet -- you almost certainly wouldn't pick them up on passive sonar.
Now, people will argue that no-one's trying to do that at the moment, but in the event of a war with country which has fast attack submarines armed with nuclear warheads -- like Iran, for instance -- a single mistake could really ruin your day. So carrier battlegroups train for that all the time.
Mod parent funny & overrated -- this is an oft-repeated joke on /. that seems to be regurgitated in some form every day...
It's not the OS image on the hard disk that counts, it's the OS image that's currently loaded into memory. Now think about how that applies to systems that are rebooted less than once a year.
Well, the solution's obvious: they should be using Emacs! It supports all of the above features, runs on many platforms, and it's fast and has a small memory footprint too!
I can vouch for the power of Lyx. :) I used it to produce a 105-page technical report a month ago -- it makes section numbering and generating tables of contents & lists of figures/tables effortless, of course, but the best thing is being able to just throw figures and tables at the document and having LaTeX position them in sensible places without having to do anything. It knocks the socks off trying to do the same thing in MS Office/OpenOffice/KOffice/etc.
The former statement is unfortunately true, the latter is a troll. In my experience, those applications that do run correctly under Wine run faster than they do on Windows proper. And yes, that includes some fairly 3D-intensive applications (Half-Life in OpenGL mode comes to mind).
A benchmark I ran gave 95 FPS avg. on Windows and 107 FPS avg. on Wine (can't remember which version I was running. Interestingly, that was with an ATi graphics card...
The parent is correct.
I attended a private Catholic school, and I can confirm that I was taught the theory of evolution. Anyone who brought up ID in a Biology class got a disparaging look from the teacher, while the rest of the class would fall about laughing.
I don't actually know anybody who considers ID to be at all credible.
Yes, that's correct. The basic premise is as follows:
If you kill an enemy soldier, you've eliminated and enemy soldier from the field.
If you incapacitate an enemy soldier without killing him, you've eliminated three enemy soldiers from the field.
That's one of the reasons NATO use high-velocity, highly penetrating 5.56 mm ammunition. It's one of the least lethal types of rifle ammunition in existence. The problem was that the 7.62 mm bullets used in e.g. the British SLR were just too deadly.
No, the colour isn't inverted. It's just that because there aren't any reference features (houses, trees etc) your visual cortex can't work out whether it's looking at concave or convex features.
Try taking a screenshot of Google Moon, pasting in an image editor, and rotating it by 90 degrees. At some point, the convex features will start to look concave (and vice versa).
HTH.
Yes, and it's the "originating server domain name must match From: field's domain name" aspect of SenderID that particularly worries me.
I have several e-mail servers available to send via, depending on whether I'm e-mailing at my home computer via the NTL SMTP relay, on my way to work via my web service provider's webmail server, or at work via my employer's mail server -- all of which are sent with "From:" as my personal domain.
Only exposing a single e-mail address to recipients is great, as it means that whatever spool my mail is being sent to this week the e-mail address is still valid, without messing around with forwarding and Reply-to: headers (which just confuse people, in my experience).
So basically, SPF/SenderID are going to be a big problem for me, as I *don't* want to add NTL's SMTP relay to the "trusted" part of my SPF record, even though I need to send mail via said server (no other way to do SMTP send from within the NTL home network).
What about "holly bush"?
Lots of Slashdot stories about the technical and patent problems associated with SenderID (and also SPF)... Also something from PJ at Groklaw.
ROFL.
I could care if it's Microsoft. Hands up if you want Yet Another Broken Incompatible Standard?
Heh. You're not thinking far enough outside the box, I'm afraid.
It's not TV or game manufacturers who are interested. There are lots of situations where two people need to have VDUs, but the area for mounting them is limited.
I work over the corridor from these guys, and let me assure you that there are entire sectors of industry who are very interested in this technology. Very interested.
It's not bullshit, and you'll be seeing them in the real world quite soon.
Having seen the demonstrations and the low-down technical details of how they work, I'm pretty impressed by it -- in particular the solution for the problem of how to get touchscreen buttons to have one function for the left-hand person and another for the other.
I'm sorry I can't go into more details, but it's more than my job's worth...
How much does a good healthy meal with vegetables cost vs. McDonald's. You do the math. In the UK, a McDonalds meal is £2-3 IIRC (I never eat there). I can easily cook a healthy nutritious meal with high-quality ingredients for £1.50 a head - and the more people to feed, the cheaper it gets. So for a large poor family (like mine used to be) McDonalds is (relatively) expensive.
RTFA yourself. They were told that said logs did not exist, via the server owner's legal counsel, but nevertheless the police decided to confiscate the equipment anyway.
> With the advent of multicored CPUs
I initially read that as "multicoloured CPUs".
*Wibbles*
I want a green one!
Troll. Instead of railing against NASA (annual budget $14 billion), why not direct your angst against the DoD (annual budget $400 billion). I mean, the US spends a relatively TINY amount on space exploration. Ooops, I forgot. Over there you get jailed for protesting against the military-industrial complex, don't you? Actual valuable research is a much easier target.
I built LFS (& Beyond LFS) as a newbie. At the time, it was the only way to get things to work on my laptop.
And actually, it's very straightforward, stable, and runs *very* fast. I don't see what the big deal is really.