The HDTV stuff has all the consumers confused. Digital cable, DirecTV, digital receiver, HDTV receiver... hey, guess what, they're not really related in any way. I just bought an NTSC TV, because I know whatever comes out next can be adapted to it.
Add on top of that, the studios are apparently objecting to us watching their shows at different times by using PVRs. They want to kill them dead in their tracks.
THEN it gets decided that ads should run DURING the shows, in a little square in the bottom corner.
The end result? We, the consumers, shell out more money, are forced to watch shows when the networks decide that we should, and then are forced to watch MORE advertising. The entire TV industry appears to be going to pot. I think I'd rather pay $40/mo for a gym membership than cable, and I'd feel better in the end.
I searched high and low for a solution to crufy Windows, and I believe this may be it. It's a decent set of instructions to get Windows running completely off of a CDR. It uses a ramdisk for its write purposes , and of course all changes are lost when you reboot.
Once you have the CD to your liking, you can escape the cruft of Windows.
You bring up some interesting points, but it really comes down to one question: does open source software "die"?
Let's say that I'm a kernel developer for the OS foo. I've been with the project since ver.02 and now 2.0 is looking pretty awesome. Then we have a conference and start to talk about direction. A huge debate breaks out and we end up with 4 or 5 cells of people who want to go off in their own direction. Now what?
Here's the beauty of Open Source: they fork. 1/2 of the attendees have the same vision and start to develop the new 2.1 tree for foo. The other half is broken into 3 groups. My group goes off and starts a new project, and viola, we have a new OS, bar, to 1.0. In the process we've gained a few developers from another project and 1 from foo. Now, you have two robust OS's: foo and bar. Both do something well, and their strength is the other OS's weakness.
Now, here's the best part: the user HAS A CHOICE to run foo or bar. They download foo, mess with it, and decide that it's not right for them. They download bar, and while it's missing some neat features from foo, it looks to be an overall superior OS in the mind of THAT USER.
To simply say that an OS is going in a different direction does make it dead. Mike is free to do whatever he wants to. He mentions that it's not fun, that it's all politics. Well, fork the kernel and start MikeBSD. Nothing wrong with that! Make your OS work for YOU. That's what Open Source is all about. As for raving about this OS or that OS being dead, you're just taking up space.
The article was light on details, but it sounds like RealNetworks was sniffing the data stream and reverse-engineering the Media Player protocol. I'm really hoping they did it the correct way, or Microsoft could literally sue them into oblivion.
AFAIK, you can reverse engineer the protocol correctly. What you need to do is have a programmer or team of programmers reverse engineer the stream and create a working replica. Once they've successfully created a Windows Media streaming program, they sit in a conference room with a team of "virgin" programmers who haven't seen the source or any data from the stream. The virgin coders then talk with the team that reverse engineered the stream, but don't actually see the source or the technical information. The virgin coding team then takes that data and creates a new software component.
I just really hope they took that vital step, otherwise RealNetworks is violating Microsoft's IP and will get sued off the face of the earth.
Those of us who have tricked^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hwooed somebody into marrying us are probably sensible enough to let them handle things
I am am a better cook than my wife. We both know this. Yes, I appreciate it when she makes me dinner, but usually she leaves the cooking to me. By the way, I found a site long ago here that really helps me out in the kitchen.
Don't fall into the lies, guys. Cooking can be as masculine as anything. Did I mention they make titanium cookware? Mmmmm.... titanium...
By saying that I boot ME every few months means that I only use ME every few months. My P233 with ME dual boots FreeBSD. I can't get > 2 hours of uptime out of ME, but I'm usually beating the crap out of it and running it on slow hardware. It's everything bad about 98 with some beta stuff from XP. Scenario: I needed a Windoze box for infrequent use. Win95 won't support USB. Win98 has issues with my NIC. ME conquers both, and gives me the benefit of the best games of the three. Win2K or XP? Too bulky to run on my box.
Yes, I use it as my Windows box. It gets booted every few months, when I either need to test something or I need to get my internet checkers fix. ME is XP without the security flaws, the NT kernel, and the bloat.
It bugs me that the cheapest PC they have is $299 that comes with Lindows. Why isn't the same box loaded with Mandrake for $299? The modem might be a soft modem, but spend another $20 and put a good modem in it. Geez.
There is a cool side to this though. Take my neighbor for instance. She's got a PII 450 with Win95 on it. She wants a faster Windoze box so she can put linux on her 450. So she goes to Walmart.com, buys the $299 PC, TRANSFERS her 95 license to the new box, and there you go. Microsoft of course says you can't do that with the newer versions of Windoze, but AFAIK this is still legal with Win9x.
I think it's funny to see this asked on/., the news site that's gone to ad-free subscriptions, and more annoying ads for those who didn't subscribe.
This is an easy scenario to figure out. On the day that/. implemented subscriptions and their new ad policy, which was greater:/. subscriptions or junkbuster downloads? That right there should be your answer.
Correction, TEXT EDITORS are your best friend. If you're developing on Windows, I prefer CuteHTML. It's everything good about Notepad with a complete HTML 4.0 reference in its help file as well as syntax highlighting and basic syntax checking. It also includes code snippets for Javascript and whatnot, but the beauty is that it's ALL HTML. No WYSIWYG whatsoever.
I think there's similar products out there for linux, but I haven't seen anything that I really like.
And I always hear him say stuff like "Well, *I* run IE, so I assume most everyone does". For awhile I had just assumed that Microsoft was sleeping with W3C, until I met a few web programmers. As I see it, there are really two types of prgrammers. Those who learned HTML in the beginning, and those who learned Frontpage so they could be 133t and have their own website. Since the latter outweighs the former, there you see the problem.
In their defense, from the user's point of view, the easiest tools out there are made by Microsoft. Click, click, click, oh look! I have a website. Sure, it's 8 MB in size without graphics, but it's all mine! Sadly only the geeks care about standards anymore.
Whenever Hemos or CmdrTaco posts about a Windows virus, they always end with "yadda yadda 90% of my e-mail yadda...". How is it that you can run the #1 geek news site and still have e-mail viruses infaltrating your inbox? Is it that much trouble to install MIMEDefang? If you'd like, I'll offer up my services as a consultant to install virus scanning software on your e-mail server, since you two obviously can't figure it out, but I hope that isn't neccesary.
"X-Force has verified that this issue is exploitable on Apache for Windows (Win32) version 1.3.24. Apache 1.x for Unix contains the same source code, but X-Force believes that successful exploitation on most Unix platforms is unlikely."
Sounds to me like it's nothing more than your basic overflow. While the article from Apache mentions the possible execution of code, I think they're referring to the Windows platform. Since all daemons have full security (root) on Windows, it makes sense that an attacker could run malicious code on a Windows machine. With *nix, Apache runs as nobody (by default, anyway) so attackers can't run any code as root, greatly reducing the amount of damage other than a DoS.
It also mentions that the overflow consumes more resources on Windows, since on *nix it's only a child process restarting rather than the ENTIRE process restarting.
Since there's no proof of concept issued yet, it's unlikely that a widespread attack will occur before a patch is issued.
Ok, why is the parent post modded down as "overrated"? I post at +2. It helps to burn my karma. If you're the first moderator, how is it possible that I'm "overrated"? No one has rated me yet!!!
I have no complaints about getting modded down as off-topic for any posts I make in this thread. This one may even be a troll. I'm sick of getting modded down by moderators who don't even understand the meaning of the words they're using. That's insulting. If it has nothing to do with the topic at hand, mod it down as offtopic. If you seriously can't figure out what to mod a post as, JUST DON'T MOD IT. let someone who knows what they're doing mod it down.
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It took centuries for explorers to convince the world that the earth was round. Now it's flat again. What are we supposed to teach our children?
Seriously... look at the facts.
The HDTV stuff has all the consumers confused. Digital cable, DirecTV, digital receiver, HDTV receiver... hey, guess what, they're not really related in any way. I just bought an NTSC TV, because I know whatever comes out next can be adapted to it.
Add on top of that, the studios are apparently objecting to us watching their shows at different times by using PVRs. They want to kill them dead in their tracks.
THEN it gets decided that ads should run DURING the shows, in a little square in the bottom corner.
The end result? We, the consumers, shell out more money, are forced to watch shows when the networks decide that we should, and then are forced to watch MORE advertising. The entire TV industry appears to be going to pot. I think I'd rather pay $40/mo for a gym membership than cable, and I'd feel better in the end.
I searched high and low for a solution to crufy Windows, and I believe this may be it. It's a decent set of instructions to get Windows running completely off of a CDR. It uses a ramdisk for its write purposes , and of course all changes are lost when you reboot.
Once you have the CD to your liking, you can escape the cruft of Windows.
Did the person who wrote the Slashdot editorialization for this story even read the bill?
You're new here, aren't you?
You bring up some interesting points, but it really comes down to one question: does open source software "die"?
.02 and now 2.0 is looking pretty awesome. Then we have a conference and start to talk about direction. A huge debate breaks out and we end up with 4 or 5 cells of people who want to go off in their own direction. Now what?
Let's say that I'm a kernel developer for the OS foo. I've been with the project since ver
Here's the beauty of Open Source: they fork. 1/2 of the attendees have the same vision and start to develop the new 2.1 tree for foo. The other half is broken into 3 groups. My group goes off and starts a new project, and viola, we have a new OS, bar, to 1.0. In the process we've gained a few developers from another project and 1 from foo. Now, you have two robust OS's: foo and bar. Both do something well, and their strength is the other OS's weakness.
Now, here's the best part: the user HAS A CHOICE to run foo or bar. They download foo, mess with it, and decide that it's not right for them. They download bar, and while it's missing some neat features from foo, it looks to be an overall superior OS in the mind of THAT USER.
To simply say that an OS is going in a different direction does make it dead. Mike is free to do whatever he wants to. He mentions that it's not fun, that it's all politics. Well, fork the kernel and start MikeBSD. Nothing wrong with that! Make your OS work for YOU. That's what Open Source is all about. As for raving about this OS or that OS being dead, you're just taking up space.
The article was light on details, but it sounds like RealNetworks was sniffing the data stream and reverse-engineering the Media Player protocol. I'm really hoping they did it the correct way, or Microsoft could literally sue them into oblivion.
AFAIK, you can reverse engineer the protocol correctly. What you need to do is have a programmer or team of programmers reverse engineer the stream and create a working replica. Once they've successfully created a Windows Media streaming program, they sit in a conference room with a team of "virgin" programmers who haven't seen the source or any data from the stream. The virgin coders then talk with the team that reverse engineered the stream, but don't actually see the source or the technical information. The virgin coding team then takes that data and creates a new software component.
I just really hope they took that vital step, otherwise RealNetworks is violating Microsoft's IP and will get sued off the face of the earth.
Awww crap... sorry about the link.
http://recipes.wenzel.net
MY SECOND TYAN THUNDER K7 BLEW UP!
Stop setting fire to it, then.
Those of us who have tricked^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hwooed somebody into marrying us are probably sensible enough to let them handle things
I am am a better cook than my wife. We both know this. Yes, I appreciate it when she makes me dinner, but usually she leaves the cooking to me. By the way, I found a site long ago here that really helps me out in the kitchen.
Don't fall into the lies, guys. Cooking can be as masculine as anything. Did I mention they make titanium cookware? Mmmmm.... titanium...
whan is someone going to get Linux running on [Alienware notebook]
When someone shells out $3,000 for it would be my guess. Oh wait, it does come with a free shirt....
Actually, it makes perfect sense. I used Commanche once, I hated it. And that was when I was a newbie!! vi httpd.conf was the way to do it!
IIS is all point and click. Apache is starting to make waves in the IIS admin camps, and the admins are still scared of editing text files.
When you think about it, $20 isn't bad for a management product.
Windows 95OSR2 will run USB if you apply the USB supplement.
USB support in 95C is shoddy at best. Yes, it has the USB supplement, and SOMETIMES it works. In my case, it doesn't.
As for Windows 98, if you are not using 98SE I would seriously try that
Most people don't acknowledge a version of 98 prior to SE. I sure don't.
2K and XP will also run on lower end CPUs (166Mhz and higher I think)
Unless you want to *DO* something, yes.
I should clarify....
By saying that I boot ME every few months means that I only use ME every few months. My P233 with ME dual boots FreeBSD. I can't get > 2 hours of uptime out of ME, but I'm usually beating the crap out of it and running it on slow hardware. It's everything bad about 98 with some beta stuff from XP. Scenario: I needed a Windoze box for infrequent use. Win95 won't support USB. Win98 has issues with my NIC. ME conquers both, and gives me the benefit of the best games of the three. Win2K or XP? Too bulky to run on my box.
does anyone actually use Windows Me?
Yes, I use it as my Windows box. It gets booted every few months, when I either need to test something or I need to get my internet checkers fix. ME is XP without the security flaws, the NT kernel, and the bloat.
It bugs me that the cheapest PC they have is $299 that comes with Lindows. Why isn't the same box loaded with Mandrake for $299? The modem might be a soft modem, but spend another $20 and put a good modem in it. Geez.
There is a cool side to this though. Take my neighbor for instance. She's got a PII 450 with Win95 on it. She wants a faster Windoze box so she can put linux on her 450. So she goes to Walmart.com, buys the $299 PC, TRANSFERS her 95 license to the new box, and there you go. Microsoft of course says you can't do that with the newer versions of Windoze, but AFAIK this is still legal with Win9x.
I think it's funny to see this asked on /., the news site that's gone to ad-free subscriptions, and more annoying ads for those who didn't subscribe.
/. implemented subscriptions and their new ad policy, which was greater: /. subscriptions or junkbuster downloads? That right there should be your answer.
This is an easy scenario to figure out. On the day that
Notepad's your best bet
Correction, TEXT EDITORS are your best friend. If you're developing on Windows, I prefer CuteHTML. It's everything good about Notepad with a complete HTML 4.0 reference in its help file as well as syntax highlighting and basic syntax checking. It also includes code snippets for Javascript and whatnot, but the beauty is that it's ALL HTML. No WYSIWYG whatsoever.
I think there's similar products out there for linux, but I haven't seen anything that I really like.
And I always hear him say stuff like "Well, *I* run IE, so I assume most everyone does". For awhile I had just assumed that Microsoft was sleeping with W3C, until I met a few web programmers. As I see it, there are really two types of prgrammers. Those who learned HTML in the beginning, and those who learned Frontpage so they could be 133t and have their own website. Since the latter outweighs the former, there you see the problem.
In their defense, from the user's point of view, the easiest tools out there are made by Microsoft. Click, click, click, oh look! I have a website. Sure, it's 8 MB in size without graphics, but it's all mine! Sadly only the geeks care about standards anymore.
Silly question:
Whenever Hemos or CmdrTaco posts about a Windows virus, they always end with "yadda yadda 90% of my e-mail yadda...". How is it that you can run the #1 geek news site and still have e-mail viruses infaltrating your inbox? Is it that much trouble to install MIMEDefang? If you'd like, I'll offer up my services as a consultant to install virus scanning software on your e-mail server, since you two obviously can't figure it out, but I hope that isn't neccesary.
I hit the karma cap, so I post crap like this.
Read on for Geekboy's review..., which he describes as "the only thing you / need/ to make a usable database."
Yeah, until the third edition....
Hackers are still going to great lengths, sometimes encountering Dissapointing results, just to get their PONG fix.
From the ISS article:
"X-Force has verified that this issue is exploitable on Apache for Windows (Win32) version 1.3.24. Apache 1.x for Unix contains the same source code, but X-Force believes that successful exploitation on most Unix platforms is unlikely."
Sounds to me like it's nothing more than your basic overflow. While the article from Apache mentions the possible execution of code, I think they're referring to the Windows platform. Since all daemons have full security (root) on Windows, it makes sense that an attacker could run malicious code on a Windows machine. With *nix, Apache runs as nobody (by default, anyway) so attackers can't run any code as root, greatly reducing the amount of damage other than a DoS.
It also mentions that the overflow consumes more resources on Windows, since on *nix it's only a child process restarting rather than the ENTIRE process restarting.
Since there's no proof of concept issued yet, it's unlikely that a widespread attack will occur before a patch is issued.
Ok, why is the parent post modded down as "overrated"? I post at +2. It helps to burn my karma. If you're the first moderator, how is it possible that I'm "overrated"? No one has rated me yet!!!
I have no complaints about getting modded down as off-topic for any posts I make in this thread. This one may even be a troll. I'm sick of getting modded down by moderators who don't even understand the meaning of the words they're using. That's insulting. If it has nothing to do with the topic at hand, mod it down as offtopic. If you seriously can't figure out what to mod a post as, JUST DON'T MOD IT. let someone who knows what they're doing mod it down.
The other major clue is the "flaming Homer" episode, where Steven Tyler mistakenly yells "heloooo St. Looouuiss!!!" Which makes me also wonder.
What do I know, I'm just wasting karma.