That page must not reproduce the bug in question (or maybe one of us is confused), but with IE-5.50, I get a warning that "The security certificate was not issued by a company [I] have chosen to trust." Then, I have to click proceed, after seeing the little yellow triangle.
Maybe this isn't the same bug, but if it is, then my non-updated IE is definitely not affected.
Even if they were to block all the programs worth using, it would still be worth paying $40/month. My reasoning behind this is that it would cost me ~$20 a month for a second phone line, and then $20 more for an ISP. It comes out about the same, and you still get fast connection to other pages and games.
If my Kazaa were blocked, I'd just use Gnutella (which I do anyway), IRC, or just get some plain-old leech FTP.
Um, duh. That's CodeRed or Nimda. Both those worms just try random IP addresses -- there is no one sitting behind the box to check whether you're actually running IIS.
I reported this bug to bugs.kde.org a long time ago. There were other people that reported duplicates of the same bug, all complaining about how annoying it is. Try using the mouse wheel when you have Slashdot moderation access! More than once I have accidently moderated someone. Or, try navigating Freshmeat.net, where the long filter bars at the top use onChange to trigger them as soon as the mousewheel touches it. That is bad in itself, but worse with this Konqueror bug.
The problem is that as far as I know, the KDE team completely ignored all of the bug reports (there were several) about this. KDE has done a wonderful job with a lot of features, but I'm worried that it has a case of featuritis (or at least app-idis). People work on new eye candy all the time, and add new enhancements (look at the plan for 3.2). Rarely do I see any actual bugs fixed, though, other than crashes and security holes. Granted, those can be the worst kinds of bugs, but user-interface bugs can be just as bad when they get publicised like this!
Even if you program Java, then why not learn Java bytecode assembly?
Assembly will always be valid. And even if you don't like MIX, then just ignore MIX. Knuth's books are filled with pseudocode, flowcharts, mathematical descriptions, and English descriptions of the algorithms. If you can't understand at least one of those views, then you don't deserve to be a programmer!
Most algorithm texts I see these days have pseudocode, at most.
You remind me of a good point. Most of the people bitching about MIX are only bitching because they can't cut-and-paste the code into their favorite programs. Knuth does provide psuedocode, flowcharts, and the mathematical definitions of all the algorithms in the book! What more can you ask? The MIX code is just one more layer to ground the algorithms to real life.
If one doesn't understand MIX, then he should look at all the other resources avaialable for understanding the algorithm! If he can't understand the mathematics, then you still have the flowcharts and pseudocode. If he can't understand that, even when combined with the lengthy English discussion/explaination that goes along with it, then he shouldn't be reading the book!
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Maybe it's just my local crowd, but no software engineer I know would ever build this because the top 10 songs consistantly suck. So no one I know would ever have a need to build this.
Scratch that. I might want to write something like this, except in reverse. I want a Gnutella client that automatically ignores all songs that have ever been on a top 10 list. Of course the lists would be updated weekly, to filter out any new crap that comes along. </flamebait>
Besides, I'm partial to getting full albums, rather than singles (despite accusations of theft that will inevitably be charged against me). IMO, any band that can't make a decent dozen songs doesn't deserve my ear-time for a 3 minute single. One hit wonders (said "just about all pop artists) be damned.
Hopefully the "walker" technology could be used to find all songs of a particular album or even artist. Since most MP3 collectors don't bother to include the album name in the filename, maybe (extending on your idea), future p2p clients could interface to a database like CDDB to obtain a list of songs in an album, and to even verify that the downloaded songs are of the correct length (give or take a few seconds). Anyone up for this challenge?
Jesus Christ, it was one of the most confusing programs I ever had to learn (when I first started using Linux). Unmap this, rebind this, keycodes, mappings, blah blah... and if you mess up, you can't even hit C+A+Backspace, since you've just unmapped all the keys!
Anyway, I wish someone would come up with a better interface for X keyboard mappings. Not a new API, but just a new version of xmodmap and the corresponding config lanugage. Anyone up for the challenge? </rant>
Unfortunately, with the "Limit Search Results" option set to some low number on all the clients I've seen, this wouldn't help much. Not to mention that it only works for un-firewalled hosts.
I do know that BearShare has implemented a web server where you can connect and see a web page with a list of available files on that host. But, again, it doesn't work through firewalls and it is disabled by default.
I can't tell you how many times I went to pull out a $1 and got a $10, only to realize at the last minute before the cashier took it. Once I even almost gave a $50 instead of a $5. It *is* a problem, even to us Americans. Plus, having colorized bills would make organizing my wallet easier.
I'm certainly not saying that MS makes the only Optical mouse -- I know of at least two other vendors off the top of my head, and Logitech even makes a chordless version. My point is simply that Microsoft hardware has never been crap in my experience, and compared to many of their software products, the hardware is near perfect. It is well designed and well built.
For one, without Microsoft I wouldn't have my beautiful Optical Intellimouse or my Natural Keyboard (can't type on anything else). And my friends wouldn't have their XBoxes, and I would never have played Motocross/Monster Truck Madness with my Sidewinder joystick.
IMHO, Microsoft's gaming/input/hardware development has been the shining jewel of their whole company.
This was discussed last time slashdot covered this, and it seems like the consensus was that it would be trivial for an organization to create thousands of bogus users and stuff the balots.
To me, a web of trust makes more sense. It would take some time to get "into the web", but it take even longer for an organization to build up enough trust to effectively distribute bogus files. As soon as they start, their trust is ruined, and everyone knows not to download from that person.
I've been using Gentoo since Slashdot's last story on them, and I have had nothing but good experiences. The portage system has made my system noticeably faster, since my binaries finally are not optimized for a 386. The ease of applying my own patches on top of the normal package source is also a major selling point. The nice people at Gentoo even added the driver for my printer to Ghostscript's source, something I used to have to do by hand.
But the coolest feature (besides portage) is the beautiful init script infrastructure. The init scripts are the prettiest of any I've seen so far, and also the easiest to modify. Having all the configuration files in plain-text is a very nice thing.
Sorry if this is redunant, because I'm sure everyone already knows that GENTOO IS GREAT!
Seriously, if 99% of all the viruses that Norton can detect have not ever been seen in the wild, how do they get their hands on them? That's a question that has been bugging me for years. The only way I can think of is if either they wrote the viruses themselves or if they are in close contact with the actual authors.
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That page must not reproduce the bug in question (or maybe one of us is confused), but with IE-5.50, I get a warning that "The security certificate was not issued by a company [I] have chosen to trust." Then, I have to click proceed, after seeing the little yellow triangle.
Maybe this isn't the same bug, but if it is, then my non-updated IE is definitely not affected.
Even if they were to block all the programs worth using, it would still be worth paying $40/month. My reasoning behind this is that it would cost me ~$20 a month for a second phone line, and then $20 more for an ISP. It comes out about the same, and you still get fast connection to other pages and games.
If my Kazaa were blocked, I'd just use Gnutella (which I do anyway), IRC, or just get some plain-old leech FTP.
Um, duh. That's CodeRed or Nimda. Both those worms just try random IP addresses -- there is no one sitting behind the box to check whether you're actually running IIS.
I hope you grepped for \.\./\.\. :)
I hope it all gets fixed soon!
I reported this bug to bugs.kde.org a long time ago. There were other people that reported duplicates of the same bug, all complaining about how annoying it is. Try using the mouse wheel when you have Slashdot moderation access! More than once I have accidently moderated someone. Or, try navigating Freshmeat.net, where the long filter bars at the top use onChange to trigger them as soon as the mousewheel touches it. That is bad in itself, but worse with this Konqueror bug.
The problem is that as far as I know, the KDE team completely ignored all of the bug reports (there were several) about this. KDE has done a wonderful job with a lot of features, but I'm worried that it has a case of featuritis (or at least app-idis). People work on new eye candy all the time, and add new enhancements (look at the plan for 3.2). Rarely do I see any actual bugs fixed, though, other than crashes and security holes. Granted, those can be the worst kinds of bugs, but user-interface bugs can be just as bad when they get publicised like this!
That would be 2G, since there is already 1G of gravity pulling down. But still, it's not a terrible amount.
Wierd. In the US, I've never seen one that *did* require a set top box (except for really really old TV's with mechanical dials).
Even if you program Java, then why not learn Java bytecode assembly?
Assembly will always be valid. And even if you don't like MIX, then just ignore MIX. Knuth's books are filled with pseudocode, flowcharts, mathematical descriptions, and English descriptions of the algorithms. If you can't understand at least one of those views, then you don't deserve to be a programmer!
Most algorithm texts I see these days have pseudocode, at most.
You remind me of a good point. Most of the people bitching about MIX are only bitching because they can't cut-and-paste the code into their favorite programs. Knuth does provide psuedocode, flowcharts, and the mathematical definitions of all the algorithms in the book! What more can you ask? The MIX code is just one more layer to ground the algorithms to real life.
If one doesn't understand MIX, then he should look at all the other resources avaialable for understanding the algorithm! If he can't understand the mathematics, then you still have the flowcharts and pseudocode. If he can't understand that, even when combined with the lengthy English discussion/explaination that goes along with it, then he shouldn't be reading the book!
Mod this up!!
Why do you think she needs a dildo? She melted my dick!
Maybe it's just my local crowd, but no software engineer I know would ever build this because the top 10 songs consistantly suck. So no one I know would ever have a need to build this.
Scratch that. I might want to write something like this, except in reverse. I want a Gnutella client that automatically ignores all songs that have ever been on a top 10 list. Of course the lists would be updated weekly, to filter out any new crap that comes along.
</flamebait>
Besides, I'm partial to getting full albums, rather than singles (despite accusations of theft that will inevitably be charged against me). IMO, any band that can't make a decent dozen songs doesn't deserve my ear-time for a 3 minute single. One hit wonders (said "just about all pop artists) be damned.
Hopefully the "walker" technology could be used to find all songs of a particular album or even artist. Since most MP3 collectors don't bother to include the album name in the filename, maybe (extending on your idea), future p2p clients could interface to a database like CDDB to obtain a list of songs in an album, and to even verify that the downloaded songs are of the correct length (give or take a few seconds). Anyone up for this challenge?
Make humans understand xmodmap...
Jesus Christ, it was one of the most confusing programs I ever had to learn (when I first started using Linux). Unmap this, rebind this, keycodes, mappings, blah blah... and if you mess up, you can't even hit C+A+Backspace, since you've just unmapped all the keys!
Anyway, I wish someone would come up with a better interface for X keyboard mappings. Not a new API, but just a new version of xmodmap and the corresponding config lanugage. Anyone up for the challenge?
</rant>
Unfortunately, with the "Limit Search Results" option set to some low number on all the clients I've seen, this wouldn't help much. Not to mention that it only works for un-firewalled hosts.
I do know that BearShare has implemented a web server where you can connect and see a web page with a list of available files on that host. But, again, it doesn't work through firewalls and it is disabled by default.
I'll bet that *way* more than 1% of shared files are Porn...
Quoth the parent's parent: Use POVRay to render this :D
Quoth the parent: in case anyone is wondering, this is POVRay code... i think.
ObviousMan apparently has an alias: Vectra "duh" Fourteen.
luv384j6@h0tmail.com
Just so everyone knows, hotmai1.com appears to be unregistered... if anyone wants to make a quick buck as a spam provider...
The story's link points to a page that changes every day. The real (old, as of midnight) picture is at this page.
I can't tell you how many times I went to pull out a $1 and got a $10, only to realize at the last minute before the cashier took it. Once I even almost gave a $50 instead of a $5. It *is* a problem, even to us Americans. Plus, having colorized bills would make organizing my wallet easier.
I'm certainly not saying that MS makes the only Optical mouse -- I know of at least two other vendors off the top of my head, and Logitech even makes a chordless version. My point is simply that Microsoft hardware has never been crap in my experience, and compared to many of their software products, the hardware is near perfect. It is well designed and well built.
For one, without Microsoft I wouldn't have my beautiful Optical Intellimouse or my Natural Keyboard (can't type on anything else). And my friends wouldn't have their XBoxes, and I would never have played Motocross/Monster Truck Madness with my Sidewinder joystick.
IMHO, Microsoft's gaming/input/hardware development has been the shining jewel of their whole company.
This was discussed last time slashdot covered this, and it seems like the consensus was that it would be trivial for an organization to create thousands of bogus users and stuff the balots.
To me, a web of trust makes more sense. It would take some time to get "into the web", but it take even longer for an organization to build up enough trust to effectively distribute bogus files. As soon as they start, their trust is ruined, and everyone knows not to download from that person.
I've been using Gentoo since Slashdot's last story on them, and I have had nothing but good experiences. The portage system has made my system noticeably faster, since my binaries finally are not optimized for a 386. The ease of applying my own patches on top of the normal package source is also a major selling point. The nice people at Gentoo even added the driver for my printer to Ghostscript's source, something I used to have to do by hand.
But the coolest feature (besides portage) is the beautiful init script infrastructure. The init scripts are the prettiest of any I've seen so far, and also the easiest to modify. Having all the configuration files in plain-text is a very nice thing.
Sorry if this is redunant, because I'm sure everyone already knows that GENTOO IS GREAT!
Seriously, if 99% of all the viruses that Norton can detect have not ever been seen in the wild, how do they get their hands on them? That's a question that has been bugging me for years. The only way I can think of is if either they wrote the viruses themselves or if they are in close contact with the actual authors.
I guess it's unfortunate that I got all those mod points, me being wrong and all :)