A Critical Security Vulnerability has been reported for all x86-platform PCs.
Short description: By retailing a piece of software called an "Operating System" to a computer user, and then using social engineering to promote the installation of this software, a so-called "Operating System Vendor" may be able to execute ARBITRARY CODE on a user's computer.
Severity:
Severe. The exploit allows an entity to execute arbitrary code on a machine so compromised.
Challenge Vector:
Remote or local installation of components, either onto a pre-existing Operating System or onto an otherwise bare x86 PC.
Mechanism:
A package of executable software, called an "Operating System" is distributed by "Operating System Vendors." These Operating Systems have declared purposes which they fufill with wildly-varied results. These operating systems posess code which may not be fully understood by the user, often these Operating Systems enforce systems of privilege and resource maganement which place the Operating System in a position of "arbitrating" between the PC hardware platform and the user. When the Operating System has been so installed, it is capable of executing arbitrary code on the host system.
should be fully ported to Windows to realize the full benefits of the Windows operating system
I got the impression from TFA that the major feature HPC Edition had to offer was its handy and clean interface with Visual Studio, allowing all the CLI masses to write software for a compute cluster all their own (without having to deal with learning a different platform).
Would this have any effect on the HPC market? I can't see people with existing installations+software biting, but I can see it tempting to businesses building new installations and wanting to minimize training costs, etc, even if what they're buying won't really give you a full "H" in HPC. If a business IT department has passed the dictum: "This is a Windows only environment," and a manager in that business needs a compute cluster, he can either pick a fight with his IT department or bend over and take the Windows HPC software (which MS will give them for peanuts this first time around).
Unrelated, Near future prediction:
MS wil require the cluster edition in order to run distributed MSSQL
The number of "clusters" in the world will go up stupendously (MS will define this statistic as counting all machines which run a clustering OS, regardless of the application)
Instantly 80% of all "clusters" will be running Windows HPC
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If you aren't on a mac or don't want to bother with del.icio.us, you can always curl http://del.icio.us/rss/$USERNAME > bookmarks.xml, which will pull your bookmarks down from del.icio.us as an RSS XML file.
Not to give Microsoft any undue credit, but the Beta install requires 12 GB on disk, on account of it being a build of the so-called "Ultimate Edition," which has everything (a bit like counting iDVD's 1.4 GB against OSX's total, which I think is unfair).
Microsoft's new Vista is surprisingly entertaining. The new look of the operating system is good, and lets it outshine its Linux and Mac OS competitors. One notices repeatedly while working with this software that Microsoft scoped out its competition very carefully.
I wish they'd made an argument or two to support that conclusion. After reading TFA (or rather looking at it, it's very low-wordage), I have come to the conclusion that it has a very nice user interface, it will be easier for average people to use, and if the security features work as advertised, they might have that particular problem licked. I think it will also spur the Windows fanboys to make hundreds of pronouncements about Vista's unquestioned superiority over Mac OS X, on the basis of two interlocking arguments:
Windows Vista matches Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger's user interface, almost feature for feature.
Vista can run more programs.
These things given, Vista is a better operating system. But...
Whatever claims MS had to being a leading force in usability and human interface, they have relinquished them. Vista represents no objective improvement on what others did years ago, and most of the big questions that float around a usability engineer's head nowadays involve CSS and XML, not buttons and sliders. Thus...
It not clear that MS will even be putting more work into their OS over the next 2-3 years, since they're going to be turning the whole ship around and start bearing down on "Windows Live" and Internet featurism, built atop Vista's able platform. I personally think they're overreacting to the whole google thing. BillG used to say that the desktop was their platform, but that all has gone out the window since they're losing ground in the Internet.
If things go well for Apple and badly for MS, Vista and OS X 10.5 could release in the same basic timeframe, and MS appears to have almost destroyed itself to get this thing out the door (I see no Apple employees writing anonymous blogs about how everyone should be fired).
I think BillG and SteveB are convinced that MS will become the American Megatrends of the Internet-connected future if they don't take the lead and kill Google, which is causing them to gamble big on web services -- I just don't see such things as the end-all that the Win32 OS is.
If MS really wanted to make money off web services, they'd fully adopt open web standards, and then buy a telco or 3.
Along this line: What is the Perl instructor using to teach his class? If you align yourself with the other instructors you all will make it much easier on the students.
What are the pre-reqs for this class? I know it's probably a bit late for the submitter, but I wouldn't give a language introduction class to someone who didn't have an "Introduction to Computers" and an "Introduction to the Command Line" class as pre-requisites, or at least as concurrent enrollment requirements.
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To be fair, Apple does not open-source Core Foundation. They open-source Darwin, WebKit, and all of their forks of the various OSS projects they use (like Apache).
They do open-source something called "CF-Lite," but it's missing quite a few of the regular CF classes, like the CFAttributedString (strings with fonts) and CFNotificationCenter (indirect object communcation). And with a name like "CF-Lite," I can see the OS developers just hopping to merge their fixes into it.
TFA says that the average seek time will be 4.16 ms. Seek time is the time it takes for the arm carrying the head to swing from track x to track y on average. Rotational latency is the time it takes for a particular sector on that track to find its way around to where the head is waiting for it. Both, along with transfer latency make up the total latency.
The US's biggest source of hydrogren production is from the processing of fossil fuels.
Hydrazine requires large amounts of ammonia, and ammonia is obtained from the Haber process, which uses natural gas. Same thing for ammonium perc.
Just about every industrial chemical process we use consume hydrocarbons, which of course the US consumes far in excess of its own production. The depressing thing is that people assume that moving away from buring fossil fuels in the thing they own (a car) will cause consumption to decrease. It might cause the chemical process to change, perhaps to something "cleaner," but all of these processes free up carbon, which will end up in the atmosphere unless sequestered. Sequestration is easier of all the carbon is getting made in one place (a hydrogen plant instead of 100 million tailpipes), but trying telling the energy industry to do anything.
The cleanest source of hydrogen on the Earth's surface would be solar-powered or catalyzed hydrolysis of water. Off the Earth's surface, Hydrogen is the most plentiful element in the universe. Of course, for every 2 Hs you bring down to Earth, you'd have to bring down an Oxygen, otherwise fuel cells will eat all our oxygen.
Poster refers to the biblically reported dimensions of the ceremonial basin which sat in front of the first Temple (I'm way too lazy to look up the chapter and verse right now, it's in Beckmann).
Anyways, the bible says that the basin was 10 hands across, and thirty hands around. This is a contradiction, unless you consider that the rim would have to be a certain thickness, thus, rabinnical scholars conclude that thirty hands is the circumference of the inside of the basin, while 10 hands is the width measuring from the outside rim of the basin.
Such heroic scholarship is sometimes required to truly appreciate the bible.
No, but if you hold a legitimate license for OSX, you should be able to run it on whatever hardware you choose
The EULA binds you to only run it on Macintoshes, in the same way the Linux EULA (aka the GPL) binds you from distributing modified copies without the source.
Likewise, once you've lawfully obtained a copy of MacOS-X, Apple loses all rights to dictate how that copy may be used.
The license says you can't do it, and you're bound to the license.
If you think a software license is bullshit and unenforceable and they have no right to bind you to it, then turnabout is fair play. Microsoft can take the Linux kernel tomorrow, strap Win32 to it, and distribute WinLux without ever distributing the source. The GPL is an EULA just as much as Apple's EULA is, and it imposes quite revolutionary restrictions on what an end user can do with his copy.
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Please submit a story when you have a real Caterpillar drive working ;).
Homer: By the way, I was being sarcastic.
Marge: Well, duh.
A Critical Security Vulnerability has been reported for all x86-platform PCs.
Short description: By retailing a piece of software called an "Operating System" to a computer user, and then using social engineering to promote the installation of this software, a so-called "Operating System Vendor" may be able to execute ARBITRARY CODE on a user's computer.
Severity: Severe. The exploit allows an entity to execute arbitrary code on a machine so compromised. Challenge Vector: Remote or local installation of components, either onto a pre-existing Operating System or onto an otherwise bare x86 PC. Mechanism: A package of executable software, called an "Operating System" is distributed by "Operating System Vendors." These Operating Systems have declared purposes which they fufill with wildly-varied results. These operating systems posess code which may not be fully understood by the user, often these Operating Systems enforce systems of privilege and resource maganement which place the Operating System in a position of "arbitrating" between the PC hardware platform and the user. When the Operating System has been so installed, it is capable of executing arbitrary code on the host system.should be fully ported to Windows to realize the full benefits of the Windows operating system
I got the impression from TFA that the major feature HPC Edition had to offer was its handy and clean interface with Visual Studio, allowing all the CLI masses to write software for a compute cluster all their own (without having to deal with learning a different platform).
Would this have any effect on the HPC market? I can't see people with existing installations+software biting, but I can see it tempting to businesses building new installations and wanting to minimize training costs, etc, even if what they're buying won't really give you a full "H" in HPC. If a business IT department has passed the dictum: "This is a Windows only environment," and a manager in that business needs a compute cluster, he can either pick a fight with his IT department or bend over and take the Windows HPC software (which MS will give them for peanuts this first time around).
Unrelated, Near future prediction:
If you are using Mac OS X, you can download your del.icio.us bokmarks into Safari with the freeware delicious2safari.
If you aren't on a mac or don't want to bother with del.icio.us, you can always curl http://del.icio.us/rss/$USERNAME > bookmarks.xml, which will pull your bookmarks down from del.icio.us as an RSS XML file.
Not to give Microsoft any undue credit, but the Beta install requires 12 GB on disk, on account of it being a build of the so-called "Ultimate Edition," which has everything (a bit like counting iDVD's 1.4 GB against OSX's total, which I think is unfair).
From who in what market? MS makes money selling software, Google sells advertising. Everything else either company does is a loss leader/R&D project.
I wish they'd made an argument or two to support that conclusion. After reading TFA (or rather looking at it, it's very low-wordage), I have come to the conclusion that it has a very nice user interface, it will be easier for average people to use, and if the security features work as advertised, they might have that particular problem licked. I think it will also spur the Windows fanboys to make hundreds of pronouncements about Vista's unquestioned superiority over Mac OS X, on the basis of two interlocking arguments:
These things given, Vista is a better operating system. But...
I think BillG and SteveB are convinced that MS will become the American Megatrends of the Internet-connected future if they don't take the lead and kill Google, which is causing them to gamble big on web services -- I just don't see such things as the end-all that the Win32 OS is.
If MS really wanted to make money off web services, they'd fully adopt open web standards, and then buy a telco or 3.
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FreeDumb is dead. Netcraft confirms it.
Along this line: What is the Perl instructor using to teach his class? If you align yourself with the other instructors you all will make it much easier on the students.
What are the pre-reqs for this class? I know it's probably a bit late for the submitter, but I wouldn't give a language introduction class to someone who didn't have an "Introduction to Computers" and an "Introduction to the Command Line" class as pre-requisites, or at least as concurrent enrollment requirements.
To be fair, Apple does not open-source Core Foundation. They open-source Darwin, WebKit, and all of their forks of the various OSS projects they use (like Apache).
They do open-source something called "CF-Lite," but it's missing quite a few of the regular CF classes, like the CFAttributedString (strings with fonts) and CFNotificationCenter (indirect object communcation). And with a name like "CF-Lite," I can see the OS developers just hopping to merge their fixes into it.
Check it
That's interesting. Do you have a link on that? (no doubts, just curious)
TFA says that the average seek time will be 4.16 ms. Seek time is the time it takes for the arm carrying the head to swing from track x to track y on average. Rotational latency is the time it takes for a particular sector on that track to find its way around to where the head is waiting for it. Both, along with transfer latency make up the total latency.
For someone who knows all the answers:
Are hard drives becoming cache-starved? 16MB of cache doesn't seem like alot against 750GB on 7200 rpm platters.
Thank goodness I didn't buy that Blizzard Software Assurance contract...
I was lazy... here's an article
I will never buy the Matrix DVD. I hated that damn movie. But your accusation is serious and interesting. Please provide a link.
No, but you may have to spell out that first word again.
We expect more from our 4-digiters. You should be ashamed :)
Deploy nitpickers:
Just about every industrial chemical process we use consume hydrocarbons, which of course the US consumes far in excess of its own production. The depressing thing is that people assume that moving away from buring fossil fuels in the thing they own (a car) will cause consumption to decrease. It might cause the chemical process to change, perhaps to something "cleaner," but all of these processes free up carbon, which will end up in the atmosphere unless sequestered. Sequestration is easier of all the carbon is getting made in one place (a hydrogen plant instead of 100 million tailpipes), but trying telling the energy industry to do anything.
The cleanest source of hydrogen on the Earth's surface would be solar-powered or catalyzed hydrolysis of water. Off the Earth's surface, Hydrogen is the most plentiful element in the universe. Of course, for every 2 Hs you bring down to Earth, you'd have to bring down an Oxygen, otherwise fuel cells will eat all our oxygen.
If only we could send rocket tankers to Jupiter :)
Poster refers to the biblically reported dimensions of the ceremonial basin which sat in front of the first Temple (I'm way too lazy to look up the chapter and verse right now, it's in Beckmann).
Anyways, the bible says that the basin was 10 hands across, and thirty hands around. This is a contradiction, unless you consider that the rim would have to be a certain thickness, thus, rabinnical scholars conclude that thirty hands is the circumference of the inside of the basin, while 10 hands is the width measuring from the outside rim of the basin.
Such heroic scholarship is sometimes required to truly appreciate the bible.
GMail and Google Maps are the obvious ones.
Do disturbances in the Force propagate at the speed of light?
The EULA binds you to only run it on Macintoshes, in the same way the Linux EULA (aka the GPL) binds you from distributing modified copies without the source.
Alan is quoted as saying "This corn is RAW!"
His wife responded "I know, it's so crisp!"
Alan retorted "Of course it's CRISP, it's RAW!"
The license says you can't do it, and you're bound to the license.
If you think a software license is bullshit and unenforceable and they have no right to bind you to it, then turnabout is fair play. Microsoft can take the Linux kernel tomorrow, strap Win32 to it, and distribute WinLux without ever distributing the source. The GPL is an EULA just as much as Apple's EULA is, and it imposes quite revolutionary restrictions on what an end user can do with his copy.