I think it's about time the US caught up with the rest of the world and ditched these stupid and difficult-to-remember units once and for all.
Actually, they did, around 1972, but they also introduced a virtually unlimited transition period so that people aren't confused with the new units. But so far, hardly anybody has switched to the better, scientific, superior, European SI units!
...you're only allowed to install a certain version of Windows 2000, with servicepacks up to a certain number, and one hotfix. No other servicepacks or hotfixes are allowed. Extremely ridiculous, especially when you have a look at how much software comes with SuSE (a lot!) and how much comes with Windows 2000 (virtually none!).
But I'm still waiting for a certificate for some SELinux version. Since EAL4 is the highest level where it's still feasible to build the demanded security into it, hardly any normal "customer" operating system will achieve a higher level. But SELinux has been designed for security since the very beginning, and should be able to reach at least EAL5.
Why didn't the Germans use chemical weapons in their V1s and V2s?
Chemical weapons were never considered by Hitler because he was actually a victim of a gas attack in World War I, when he was fighting for the Germans. After that, he temporarily lost his eyesight, and regained it after two weeks being blind. During the rest of his life, he always had health problems and a lot of long-term after-effects caused by the gas.
Practially, SCO is f*cked in Europe. In Germany, they are not allowed to say anything about their "intellectual property" or their license. Should they try out anything similar in any other European country, they can expect to get f*cked the very same way they were f*cked in Germany. Oh, I love European legislation... it doesn't give fraudulent companes like SCO any chance.
Those "finer grained permission" make handling permissions correctly a lot more difficult, because they're a lot harder to understand. I like rwx for user,group,others: it's a simple concept, and although it has flaws, it's so simple that it can be easily implemented without any performance break-down (which has been observed too often in those "fine grained permission" systems).
Bwahahaha. The author is definitely _not_ an ex-BeOS developer, as I once saw a SkyOS presentation done by him in my school (and both he and I are Austrians, so any affiliation with BeOS or Be is _very_ unlikely, as he also presented his CV, and there was no foreign software company in it). SkyOS started as a personal project when he was still in school, he was supported by a number of CS teachers at doing this, and after finishing school, he simply went on with developing it.
Yes, the possibilities are indeed endless. I'm wondering when the terrorists will catch up and build booby traps that only explodes when the RFID scanner attached to the booby trap detects an e.g. US-american citizen nearby (which wouldn't be too difficult to build, since the passports will have RFID tags, too). "RFID tagging supports terrorism"?!
Or the criminals that check whether it's worth to rob out a bank or a store by using an RFID scanner that detects all banknotes and calculates how much money is in the cash register. "RFID tagging supports delinquency"?!
About 10 years ago, I used to build real swimming ships out of those really old Lego bricks and plates (the plates aren't available anymore) my mother and my aunt used for playing when they were kids (the bricks must be at least 35 years old). And now, those ships with those specialised bricks don't swim anymore. This really sucks.
I used to build a lot of guns using those big Lego bricks (I don't know the exact name anymore). Then, me and my brother, played soldiers, wearing my father's helmets (he's a soldier in the Austrian army). Oh, those were the days of being a kid, innocently "shooting" your brother and your friends for fun.;-)
If I send an e-mail to a RoadRunner mailbox, it is rejected. Why? Because my mailserver is a Linux box on my ADSL internet connection, and RoadRunner blocks all e-mails from residential IP ranges. With SPF, such filtering can be made much more careful, making it possible for me to send e-mails to RoadRunner customers again.
Why don't you use your ISP's mail relay? That's what it's for. i switched from relaying my mail via my ISP's smtp server to directly sending it to the recipients's MX for one day, and I got so many bounces because of filtering of dialup IP addresses that I really switched back after that one day.
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That is really non-trivial, as you have to be really good in guessing TCP parameters like window size, sequence number and acknowledgement number.
Hey, even Apple gives a guarantee for their iPod's battery, why doesn't the NASA's supplier?
And I wrote a little article in my weblog why ESA's mission is superior to NASA's mission:4 01#90
http://synflood.at/blog/index.php?m=200
Sorry, but the ESA orbiter showed this more than a month ago. NASA is just too late.
No, real man influence the entropy source of /dev/random, get the timing right and read what they want to write from said device file using dd.
So what? I live in Linz, Austria, does that make me an evil mass-murderer?
mod "Debian Troll's Best" down, he's a freaking troll.
I think it's about time the US caught up with the rest of the world and ditched these stupid and difficult-to-remember units once and for all.
Actually, they did, around 1972, but they also introduced a virtually unlimited transition period so that people aren't confused with the new units. But so far, hardly anybody has switched to the better, scientific, superior, European SI units!
"Calm down, mom, it's for science^Wbeing slashdotted"
...you're only allowed to install a certain version of Windows 2000, with servicepacks up to a certain number, and one hotfix. No other servicepacks or hotfixes are allowed. Extremely ridiculous, especially when you have a look at how much software comes with SuSE (a lot!) and how much comes with Windows 2000 (virtually none!).
But I'm still waiting for a certificate for some SELinux version. Since EAL4 is the highest level where it's still feasible to build the demanded security into it, hardly any normal "customer" operating system will achieve a higher level. But SELinux has been designed for security since the very beginning, and should be able to reach at least EAL5.
Why didn't the Germans use chemical weapons in their V1s and V2s?
Chemical weapons were never considered by Hitler because he was actually a victim of a gas attack in World War I, when he was fighting for the Germans. After that, he temporarily lost his eyesight, and regained it after two weeks being blind. During the rest of his life, he always had health problems and a lot of long-term after-effects caused by the gas.
Practially, SCO is f*cked in Europe. In Germany, they are not allowed to say anything about their "intellectual property" or their license. Should they try out anything similar in any other European country, they can expect to get f*cked the very same way they were f*cked in Germany. Oh, I love European legislation... it doesn't give fraudulent companes like SCO any chance.
The difference is that Apple actually says that they love open source, while Microsoft demonizes it.
Those "finer grained permission" make handling permissions correctly a lot more difficult, because they're a lot harder to understand. I like rwx for user,group,others: it's a simple concept, and although it has flaws, it's so simple that it can be easily implemented without any performance break-down (which has been observed too often in those "fine grained permission" systems).
Bwahahaha. The author is definitely _not_ an ex-BeOS developer, as I once saw a SkyOS presentation done by him in my school (and both he and I are Austrians, so any affiliation with BeOS or Be is _very_ unlikely, as he also presented his CV, and there was no foreign software company in it). SkyOS started as a personal project when he was still in school, he was supported by a number of CS teachers at doing this, and after finishing school, he simply went on with developing it.
I'm still available to play Zaphod.
CmdrTaco has two heads? How comes?
Yes, the possibilities are indeed endless. I'm wondering when the terrorists will catch up and build booby traps that only explodes when the RFID scanner attached to the booby trap detects an e.g. US-american citizen nearby (which wouldn't be too difficult to build, since the passports will have RFID tags, too). "RFID tagging supports terrorism"?!
Or the criminals that check whether it's worth to rob out a bank or a store by using an RFID scanner that detects all banknotes and calculates how much money is in the cash register. "RFID tagging supports delinquency"?!
Generally speaking digital watches are fugly.
.beat and I think it's stylish.
No. I like my swatch
About 10 years ago, I used to build real swimming ships out of those really old Lego bricks and plates (the plates aren't available anymore) my mother and my aunt used for playing when they were kids (the bricks must be at least 35 years old). And now, those ships with those specialised bricks don't swim anymore. This really sucks.
I used to build a lot of guns using those big Lego bricks (I don't know the exact name anymore). Then, me and my brother, played soldiers, wearing my father's helmets (he's a soldier in the Austrian army). Oh, those were the days of being a kid, innocently "shooting" your brother and your friends for fun. ;-)
the cygwin gcc might not be Linux-enabled, i.e. only generates x86 binaries for Win32.
I can remember when somebody wrote that Sauron was Frodo's father, and it was moderated +4 or +5 insightful. _That_ was bad.
If I send an e-mail to a RoadRunner mailbox, it is rejected. Why? Because my mailserver is a Linux box on my ADSL internet connection, and RoadRunner blocks all e-mails from residential IP ranges. With SPF, such filtering can be made much more careful, making it possible for me to send e-mails to RoadRunner customers again.
Why don't you use your ISP's mail relay? That's what it's for. i switched from relaying my mail via my ISP's smtp server to directly sending it to the recipients's MX for one day, and I got so many bounces because of filtering of dialup IP addresses that I really switched back after that one day.
Don't tell this me. Not even the parent postings were funny in any way.
A "dead president" is a dollar note. Actually, it's slang, and even Eminem got problems with the FBI for using it in of his songs.