I don't want to start a holy war here, but what's up with you Mac fanatics? I'm sitting here at my freelance gig in front of my Dual 2Ghz G5, and it's taking 20 minutes to commit these 3 SQL transactions to my weblog InnoDB database. I mean, on my single Xeon, which by all rights should be half as fast, this operation would take 3 ticks. If that.
In addition, during these commits, Nestcape will not work.
Mod parent up. Using the words is not illegal, but it is politcally unsound, and being politcially unsound in a country like China can be a nasty position to be in.
This seems to be, IMHO, another example of pre-emptive self-censorship, where people censor their actions because of the fear that someone will raise a stink, as opposed to making the stink and letting the powers come down on you.
Having a Beta book seems appropriate...
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Having a Beta book seems appropriate... for a beta application framework, at version 0.12.1, and no sign of 0.2 on the horizon.
That said, rails has made it really easy to build new webapps for my job. It has replaced Filemaker for the stuff I use project after project.
Methinks the poster refers to this, wherein some as yet uinidentifed party inserted a line into the kernel sources on the CVS repository.
if ((options == (__WCLONE|__WALL)) && (current->uid = 0))
if these random options are passed, and the uid of the "current" struct is 0, then do the block, right? 8^o Fortunately, some sharp programmers caught this before those files got integrated back into the kernel, but who knows what the future may bring.
My fan is kicking in a bit more than it used to (under Panther I think I heard it once in a year of use), particularly when I play with Quartz Composer. I tweaked energy saver and it has not returned.
They left out the present elevation of MIT, thereby ensuring future time travellers will AVOID the convention, since they will instantly recognize it as a clever trick by the Morlocks, dwelling deep in their underground lair!
As you know, with OSS, announcing a vulnerability is like a call to arms, getting devs out of bed and coding fixes. With a closed source product, it's like saying "Cooooooooooooome 'n get it!"
Good point, but the implication is that Microsoft is less responsive to vulnerabilities (regardless of how they're discovered) than OSS developers. If MS were able to turn fixes around as quickly as OSS developers, there would be no "Come'n get it," or at least none more so than in the competition.
That recent RSA presentation that asserted Windows 2003+IIS was more secure than Linux+Apache used "number of days with unpatched vulnerabilites" as its criteria for security. Of course, left unsaid, is that this is the count of number of days the public was aware of the exploit. The real issue is how many days the black hats are knowledgeable of it.
Gedankenexperiment: You have two script kiddies on a mesage board posting a security exploit at the same moment. One posts a "7o74ly 0wn a11 windoz!" crack, and the other posts a "7o74ly 0wn a11 1inux 1u5er5!" crack. Both exploits are effective and cause equivalent grief to the individual user. Which exploit will get patched first, and does this matter?
I suspect that the linux one wil get fixed first, and that this delay does matter (As a mac fanboy I will not speculate on how long an OS X patch would take...). I can't be sure, since no one collects such numbers on the number of days black hats know things.
From TFA- "I don't take any money from any vendor," said DiDio. "Yankee Group paid entirely for the survey. We use an independent survey house."
Discuss, refute, or support. The person who wrote TFA was too lazy to give any independent confirmation of this, so if anyone here knows anything concrete, please resond.
Interesting that she only addresses the matter of the survey, not Yankee group's relationship to the "vendor" in general. And, this was a survey, and as we've seen before, if you ask the right questions you can prove just about anything.
They shouldn't inhibit base features, but should eliminate the extra features... support for multiple cpus, larger hard drives, more ram, etc
Ah! But then XP Starter Edition would look attractive to American users, something I bet Microsoft would bend over backwards to avoid. What do we think would happen if our parents could buy a copy of XP limited to a half-gig of RAM, 40 Gig HD, and no DV, for $32? The market for XP Home (the real version) would be decimated.
Starter Edition is not a product designed to meet a user's needs; it is a product designed to cut into piracy in states where the citizens can't afford a full version of XP, nothing more. If you have the money (i.e. you live in the West), MS wants you to pay full price, regardless of what features you want or need. People in Asia are paying less for fewer features, but that has nothing to do with the the free market, or what people need or are willing to pay for.
I don't think people should be pirating XP (I'd rather they pirated OS X, as long as they ran it on Macs (ha ha ha)), but MS has not responded to the piracy by creating a better or more secure product that motivates people to pay, and hence get updates, support, etc. People are willing to pay for quality and support, and to have a realtionship with the people they are buying from, but MS is not in the relationship and quality business--they press CDs, print hologram certificates, and charge a number that sounds right, depending on how much you can pay.
This is about one step short of the IRS sending you an invoice every year and you just paying the number on the bottom line. I personally would have no issue with this (several european countries already do this), but alot of people, like privacy advocates, anti-tax people, etc. are really opposed to the government reckoning an indvidual's taxes on an individual basis, since it would require the IRS to have access to your financial records (moreso than under the current system.)
OTOH, There are alot of ins-and-outs to the tax laws in the US, if there is any question about a particular issue, he will likely err in my favor, and then if the IRS raises its nose we can argue it out. But, if the IRS was doing the tabulating for you, they would probably never err in your favor. It's like sitting at a Texas hold'em table at Vegas, except you don't know the rules to Texas hold'em. You can either have someone working for you explain it (your acct.), or you can let the House (the IRS) tell you if you won or not.
Alot of this stuff is application of SAN/RAID/Failover technology, which is cool (and we've never seen it so pervasively implemented), but not horribly revolutionary. I think the slickest thing they've developed, but might not get the most attention is their MapReduce framework. The abstract from their paper:
MapReduce is a programming model and an associated implementation for processing and generating large data sets. Users specify a _map_ function that processes a key/value pair to generate a set of intermediate key/value pairs, and a _reduce_ function that merges all intermediate values associated with the same intermediate key. Many real world tasks are expressible in this model, as shown in the paper.
It seems that the hard part of building massively parallel applications is efiiciently separating the parallel aspects of a problem from the necessarily serial aspects. If you start with a programming framework+runtime that handles this automatically, this could be a major boon to people running massively parallel applications. Could anyone who does this sort of thing often post their opinion on this?
All google has to do know is figure out a way to charge for it.
Perhaps revealing, the MPAA website is not taking credit for taking down lokitorrent: there is no mention of loki on its website, and its recent press release on targeting torrent sites neither mentions lokitorrent, nor mentions interrupting the service of any website. It only mentions legal action taken.
army.mil uses Mac OS X, for its "edge" web servers, anyway. Maybe not the highest volume, but in terms of hacker/cracker targets, it doesn't get any bigger than that.
A cease and desist letter doesn't mean much if you're in the right. Anyone can send one.
IANAL, but a good friend of mine from dear University was able to put himself through law school partly by taking a tidy fee for writing C&D letters for anyone who wanted one sent. He would get a few hundred bucks, and the C&D sender would get a very official looking letter with all the classy latin tags built right in.
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I don't want to start a holy war here, but what's up with you Mac fanatics? I'm sitting here at my freelance gig in front of my Dual 2Ghz G5, and it's taking 20 minutes to commit these 3 SQL transactions to my weblog InnoDB database. I mean, on my single Xeon, which by all rights should be half as fast, this operation would take 3 ticks. If that.
In addition, during these commits, Nestcape will not work.
etc etc etc
Chinese law forbids these terms?
Mod parent up. Using the words is not illegal, but it is politcally unsound, and being politcially unsound in a country like China can be a nasty position to be in.
This seems to be, IMHO, another example of pre-emptive self-censorship, where people censor their actions because of the fear that someone will raise a stink, as opposed to making the stink and letting the powers come down on you.
Having a Beta book seems appropriate... for a beta application framework, at version 0.12.1, and no sign of 0.2 on the horizon.
That said, rails has made it really easy to build new webapps for my job. It has replaced Filemaker for the stuff I use project after project.
I seem to remember Dave Hyatt setting us straight on that one. The iTunes Music Store does not use WebCore or WebKit to render its pages.
Just why, I couldn't guess. It seems like a natural application for it.
Methinks the poster refers to this, wherein some as yet uinidentifed party inserted a line into the kernel sources on the CVS repository.
if these random options are passed, and the uid of the "current" struct is 0, then do the block, right? 8^o Fortunately, some sharp programmers caught this before those files got integrated back into the kernel, but who knows what the future may bring.In other news, Apple has been bought and is now operated by every troll that ever bitched about Apple on slashdot.
Has anyone heard of a 'grinding' noise problem?
My fan is kicking in a bit more than it used to (under Panther I think I heard it once in a year of use), particularly when I play with Quartz Composer. I tweaked energy saver and it has not returned.
They left out the present elevation of MIT, thereby ensuring future time travellers will AVOID the convention, since they will instantly recognize it as a clever trick by the Morlocks, dwelling deep in their underground lair!
As you know, with OSS, announcing a vulnerability is like a call to arms, getting devs out of bed and coding fixes. With a closed source product, it's like saying "Cooooooooooooome 'n get it!"
Good point, but the implication is that Microsoft is less responsive to vulnerabilities (regardless of how they're discovered) than OSS developers. If MS were able to turn fixes around as quickly as OSS developers, there would be no "Come'n get it," or at least none more so than in the competition.
That recent RSA presentation that asserted Windows 2003+IIS was more secure than Linux+Apache used "number of days with unpatched vulnerabilites" as its criteria for security. Of course, left unsaid, is that this is the count of number of days the public was aware of the exploit. The real issue is how many days the black hats are knowledgeable of it.
Gedankenexperiment: You have two script kiddies on a mesage board posting a security exploit at the same moment. One posts a "7o74ly 0wn a11 windoz!" crack, and the other posts a "7o74ly 0wn a11 1inux 1u5er5!" crack. Both exploits are effective and cause equivalent grief to the individual user. Which exploit will get patched first, and does this matter?
I suspect that the linux one wil get fixed first, and that this delay does matter (As a mac fanboy I will not speculate on how long an OS X patch would take...). I can't be sure, since no one collects such numbers on the number of days black hats know things.
From TFA- "I don't take any money from any vendor," said DiDio. "Yankee Group paid entirely for the survey. We use an independent survey house."
Discuss, refute, or support. The person who wrote TFA was too lazy to give any independent confirmation of this, so if anyone here knows anything concrete, please resond.
Interesting that she only addresses the matter of the survey, not Yankee group's relationship to the "vendor" in general. And, this was a survey, and as we've seen before, if you ask the right questions you can prove just about anything.
Be careful about mentioning the spewing of toxic gasses-- the Indians are probably still touchy about that whole Union Carbide thingy.
No 9 pin, less space than a Cappucino. Lame. :)
They shouldn't inhibit base features, but should eliminate the extra features... support for multiple cpus, larger hard drives, more ram, etc
Ah! But then XP Starter Edition would look attractive to American users, something I bet Microsoft would bend over backwards to avoid. What do we think would happen if our parents could buy a copy of XP limited to a half-gig of RAM, 40 Gig HD, and no DV, for $32? The market for XP Home (the real version) would be decimated.
Starter Edition is not a product designed to meet a user's needs; it is a product designed to cut into piracy in states where the citizens can't afford a full version of XP, nothing more. If you have the money (i.e. you live in the West), MS wants you to pay full price, regardless of what features you want or need. People in Asia are paying less for fewer features, but that has nothing to do with the the free market, or what people need or are willing to pay for.
I don't think people should be pirating XP (I'd rather they pirated OS X, as long as they ran it on Macs (ha ha ha)), but MS has not responded to the piracy by creating a better or more secure product that motivates people to pay, and hence get updates, support, etc. People are willing to pay for quality and support, and to have a realtionship with the people they are buying from, but MS is not in the relationship and quality business--they press CDs, print hologram certificates, and charge a number that sounds right, depending on how much you can pay.
Just have IRS develop this software
This is about one step short of the IRS sending you an invoice every year and you just paying the number on the bottom line. I personally would have no issue with this (several european countries already do this), but alot of people, like privacy advocates, anti-tax people, etc. are really opposed to the government reckoning an indvidual's taxes on an individual basis, since it would require the IRS to have access to your financial records (moreso than under the current system.)
OTOH, There are alot of ins-and-outs to the tax laws in the US, if there is any question about a particular issue, he will likely err in my favor, and then if the IRS raises its nose we can argue it out. But, if the IRS was doing the tabulating for you, they would probably never err in your favor. It's like sitting at a Texas hold'em table at Vegas, except you don't know the rules to Texas hold'em. You can either have someone working for you explain it (your acct.), or you can let the House (the IRS) tell you if you won or not.
it's just that the market share of Linux on the desktop is tiny (2%)
That's still bigger than Apple's, as of IDC's most recent numbers.
This reminds me of that old Crunchly cartoon from the Jargon File.
My new invention, the computer!
What does it do?
It makes a million mistakes a second.
Computing is about what you run, not what you run it on.
What I really want is a single processor G5 cube with graphics on an AGP or PCI-E card. I'd pay $900 - $1200 for it.
Not so loud. They'll set the price at $1500.
Alot of this stuff is application of SAN/RAID/Failover technology, which is cool (and we've never seen it so pervasively implemented), but not horribly revolutionary. I think the slickest thing they've developed, but might not get the most attention is their MapReduce framework. The abstract from their paper:
MapReduce is a programming model and an associated implementation for processing and generating large data sets. Users specify a _map_ function that processes a key/value pair to generate a set of intermediate key/value pairs, and a _reduce_ function that merges all intermediate values associated with the same intermediate key. Many real world tasks are expressible in this model, as shown in the paper.
It seems that the hard part of building massively parallel applications is efiiciently separating the parallel aspects of a problem from the necessarily serial aspects. If you start with a programming framework+runtime that handles this automatically, this could be a major boon to people running massively parallel applications. Could anyone who does this sort of thing often post their opinion on this?
All google has to do know is figure out a way to charge for it.
Your social security number doesn't happen to end with "AND 1=1", does it?
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Perhaps revealing, the MPAA website is not taking credit for taking down lokitorrent: there is no mention of loki on its website, and its recent press release on targeting torrent sites neither mentions lokitorrent, nor mentions interrupting the service of any website. It only mentions legal action taken.
Just to help, you change the name of the machine in System Preferences > Sharing and type the name in the "Computer Name" field.
army.mil uses Mac OS X, for its "edge" web servers, anyway. Maybe not the highest volume, but in terms of hacker/cracker targets, it doesn't get any bigger than that.
No, he would just come up with clever text and the buyer would put it under his own letterhead. Very clever.
(we are now offtopic)
IANAL, but a good friend of mine from dear University was able to put himself through law school partly by taking a tidy fee for writing C&D letters for anyone who wanted one sent. He would get a few hundred bucks, and the C&D sender would get a very official looking letter with all the classy latin tags built right in.