Last access time updates slow things down affects all OSs and filesystems, even though some have a high granularity for atime updates, e.g. once per hour. NTFS used to enable atime updates by default but as of Vista it is disabled -
"Next up Adolf Bormann of the Social Nationalist Brazilian Workers' Party is going to tell his father, Fuehrer Martin Bormann that he wants to marry his pregnant Jewish girlfriend"
I see your point and I can imagine siuations where non lethal weapons are more humane, but there's an issue here.
Imagine if you could surpress demonstrations like Tiananmen square only with non lethal weapons. It seems to me like the Chinese government may have won the battle there, but in the long run I suspect (and hope frankly) that the use of force was so excessive it will lose the war. But if a bunch of goons can break up demonstrations without excessive force, an unpopular government could keep the peace without ever passing that threshold.
It's not completely hypothetical either - British rule in India could have lasted longer if they could have avoided killing the demontrators at Amritsar.
False, they are the price you pay for a profit centered media. Back when the news was "free" you had reporters like Edward R. Murrow and the original Bernstein and Woodward that you so aptly mentioned. These journalists would report the news, and programs like Green Acres and Leave It to Beaver would make the money. Now conglomerates like ClearChannel, Viacom, Fox, and GE see the 30 minute evening news as underused advertising space. They sell out news time to "partners" (read company that stands to gain from you listening to this "article").
You're right, we should nationalise the media and create a government ministry to handle everything. The Ministry of Truth perhaps.
Slashdot readers have such high IQs that they realize that sex leads to babies, contraceptives don't work 100%, having intimate contact with some random person is a good way to get disease, and that one should save themselves for a life-partner so that they're ready for the responsibilities that come with sex while simultaneously avoiding the issue of STDs. So they don't have sex as teens.
Well that and the fact that no one has ever offered them sex.
That's because in Windows you can't replace a file if it is opened, and the sort of code which you want to patch is running from fairly early in the boot.
Mind you, recent versions of Windows support hot patching. The idea is the update daemon can attach to the process, pause it and, patch the updated function in place and then unpause it.
To make it work, the compiler uses a special function prologue and epilogue on API functions - on x86 the first two bytes of a function are a two byte NOP like mov edi, edi. These get replaced with jump short, but just before that there 5 actually NOP instructions which get replaced with a jmp long to the replacement.
If you were running 2000 there was little reason to update it
XP boots noticably faster than 2000 - that's what I noticed. It's prettier too. And newer OSs support more recent versions of DirectX than older ones, and thus you can see all the eye candy in new games.
Vista seems the same subjectively in terms of boot time. It can suspend very quickly though, and is pretty snappy with 2GB of RAM. And on a home machine, XP SP2 is much more secure - they patched hundreds of vulnerabilities and enabled the firewall by default (it was present in XP). Similarly, Vista improves security with UAC and by running IE7 in a very low prileged sandbox.
So essentially each upgrade gives you a few security, performance and cosmetic improvements. The cost is that you need a fairly high end machine to get decent performance, applications need to be updated to cope with the security changes, and new OSs tend to have bugs that take a while to be fixed.
Maybe you could see from the viewer pattern if it contains something interesting to a wide audience.
E.g. if it contains copyrighted material it should get posted to an indexing site. That should bring people from all over the world. Then you tag it and get a human to watch it and check if it is copyrighted. Whereas original material is probably viewed by a small circle of friends.
Just dumbly checking the popular stuff would help a bit, but I think you need to look at referrer information, or the location of the IP address. Another possibility would be check for patterns of cuts, pans and lighting to see if they look professional. Or if they match a finger print of a known copyrighted work.
And I'd be very interested to see what happens if you send the same DNA sample in twice, say a few months apart, and compare the results (which should be identical, right?)...
Maybe there were things that Linus wanted changed that Con didn't want to change. And since Linus knew Ingo wouldn't behave like that he got rid of Con. Linus is the one with the final say after all.
I think it's just like in a commercial environment where if you argue with your boss and he can find someone else to do your job better you're out. And better is a subjective thing - he might just think you're impossible to work with. Which is not exactly rare with the Linux kernel types.
As a CEO of major Fortune 100 company I have to say that reading your posts on slashdot has convinced me that Windows does not in fact have 90% of the desktop market. I'd never have realised. Thank you very much!
"Cross burning could be a crime if they were violating somebody's property rights,'' he said during his campaign. But if you go out on your farm some place and it's on your property and you put two sticks together and you burn it, I am not going to send in the federal police."
You realise that "I am not going to send in the Federal Police" is not the same as agreeing with someone right? There are lots of things that I personally don't agree with like hate speech that I don't believe should be criminalised. Ron Paul is a libertarian, and he's trying to find ways to shrink the Federal Government. I disagree with him and libertarians in general on a lot of things but it is good to see Republicans questioning the sacred truths of US politics. And it's frankly sad that people are dumb enough to regard questions like this as being some sort of exam question where candidates are marked up for parroting conventional wisdom and penalized for questioning it.
* free speech ends when it's purpose is to terrorize others.
I'd say it ends when it becomes incitement. Criticizing a group should be legal, calling for people to kill members of that group should be illegal. A jury should decide whether hate speech crosses the line into incitement.
But the act of burning a cross or a flag is not in itself incitement. And provided extremist groups avoid incitement they should not be criminalized.
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Last access time updates slow things down affects all OSs and filesystems, even though some have a high granularity for atime updates, e.g. once per hour. NTFS used to enable atime updates by default but as of Vista it is disabled -
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http://blogs.technet.com/filecab/archive/2006/11/
Bolting PC parts together is not engineering.
He could make good money on Jerry Springer then.
"Next up Adolf Bormann of the Social Nationalist Brazilian Workers' Party is going to tell his father, Fuehrer Martin Bormann that he wants to marry his pregnant Jewish girlfriend"
I see your point and I can imagine siuations where non lethal weapons are more humane, but there's an issue here.
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Imagine if you could surpress demonstrations like Tiananmen square only with non lethal weapons. It seems to me like the Chinese government may have won the battle there, but in the long run I suspect (and hope frankly) that the use of force was so excessive it will lose the war. But if a bunch of goons can break up demonstrations without excessive force, an unpopular government could keep the peace without ever passing that threshold.
It's not completely hypothetical either - British rule in India could have lasted longer if they could have avoided killing the demontrators at Amritsar.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jallianwala_Bagh_Mas
False, they are the price you pay for a profit centered media. Back when the news was "free" you had reporters like Edward R. Murrow and the original Bernstein and Woodward that you so aptly mentioned. These journalists would report the news, and programs like Green Acres and Leave It to Beaver would make the money. Now conglomerates like ClearChannel, Viacom, Fox, and GE see the 30 minute evening news as underused advertising space. They sell out news time to "partners" (read company that stands to gain from you listening to this "article").
You're right, we should nationalise the media and create a government ministry to handle everything. The Ministry of Truth perhaps.
Slashdot readers have such high IQs that they realize that sex leads to babies, contraceptives don't work 100%, having intimate contact with some random person is a good way to get disease, and that one should save themselves for a life-partner so that they're ready for the responsibilities that come with sex while simultaneously avoiding the issue of STDs. So they don't have sex as teens.
Well that and the fact that no one has ever offered them sex.
That's because in Windows you can't replace a file if it is opened, and the sort of code which you want to patch is running from fairly early in the boot.
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Mind you, recent versions of Windows support hot patching. The idea is the update daemon can attach to the process, pause it and, patch the updated function in place and then unpause it.
To make it work, the compiler uses a special function prologue and epilogue on API functions - on x86 the first two bytes of a function are a two byte NOP like mov edi, edi. These get replaced with jump short, but just before that there 5 actually NOP instructions which get replaced with a jmp long to the replacement.
http://msmvps.com/blogs/kernelmustard/archive/200
It's not really clear if this is a temporary solution or if the hot patch version is replaced with a new binary at the next boot.
HP want you to buy a new printer, I remember the same thing happening when XP was launched with multi function devices
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But Laserjets should be ok with Vista because the driver is just a text file, and they are -
http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/
Actually, it looks like my OfficeJet is supported too -
http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/softwareCatego
XP get security updates for at least 7 years after Vista's release.
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http://hardware.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1770
Except the drivers are written by HP. And they only do Vista drivers for new devices, not old ones.
If you were running 2000 there was little reason to update it
XP boots noticably faster than 2000 - that's what I noticed. It's prettier too. And newer OSs support more recent versions of DirectX than older ones, and thus you can see all the eye candy in new games.
Vista seems the same subjectively in terms of boot time. It can suspend very quickly though, and is pretty snappy with 2GB of RAM. And on a home machine, XP SP2 is much more secure - they patched hundreds of vulnerabilities and enabled the firewall by default (it was present in XP). Similarly, Vista improves security with UAC and by running IE7 in a very low prileged sandbox.
So essentially each upgrade gives you a few security, performance and cosmetic improvements. The cost is that you need a fairly high end machine to get decent performance, applications need to be updated to cope with the security changes, and new OSs tend to have bugs that take a while to be fixed.
Maybe you could see from the viewer pattern if it contains something interesting to a wide audience.
E.g. if it contains copyrighted material it should get posted to an indexing site. That should bring people from all over the world. Then you tag it and get a human to watch it and check if it is copyrighted. Whereas original material is probably viewed by a small circle of friends.
Just dumbly checking the popular stuff would help a bit, but I think you need to look at referrer information, or the location of the IP address. Another possibility would be check for patterns of cuts, pans and lighting to see if they look professional. Or if they match a finger print of a known copyrighted work.
Hopefully Metallica's Master Of Puppets will infringe on some insane patent like this.
And I'd be very interested to see what happens if you send the same DNA sample in twice, say a few months apart, and compare the results (which should be identical, right?)...
Unless you're mutating into something else.
u r fird lol :-)
Maybe there were things that Linus wanted changed that Con didn't want to change. And since Linus knew Ingo wouldn't behave like that he got rid of Con. Linus is the one with the final say after all.
I think it's just like in a commercial environment where if you argue with your boss and he can find someone else to do your job better you're out. And better is a subjective thing - he might just think you're impossible to work with. Which is not exactly rare with the Linux kernel types.
Maybe he means Kobolds. He does monitor elves after all.
As a CEO of major Fortune 100 company I have to say that reading your posts on slashdot has convinced me that Windows does not in fact have 90% of the desktop market. I'd never have realised. Thank you very much!
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Good God man, that's almost poetry.
Watch out for yetis though
http://www.funny-games.biz/bloody-pingu.html
I don't know Ingo personally, but he doesn't seem to be the cocaine type.
What about Theo de Raadt? Bolivian marching powder or Asperger's syndrome?
Theo! HUGBOX NOW! Good Theo!
He said Con wasn't following up on bug reports wheras Ingo did. In commercial terms he sacked Con and moved hi responsibilities to Ingo who he trusts.
And he was right to do so - if people don't want to support their code it's useless no matter how elegant it is.
They key phrase is "all your documents".
"Cross burning could be a crime if they were violating somebody's property rights,'' he said during his campaign. But if you go out on your farm some place and it's on your property and you put two sticks together and you burn it, I am not going to send in the federal police."
You realise that "I am not going to send in the Federal Police" is not the same as agreeing with someone right? There are lots of things that I personally don't agree with like hate speech that I don't believe should be criminalised. Ron Paul is a libertarian, and he's trying to find ways to shrink the Federal Government. I disagree with him and libertarians in general on a lot of things but it is good to see Republicans questioning the sacred truths of US politics. And it's frankly sad that people are dumb enough to regard questions like this as being some sort of exam question where candidates are marked up for parroting conventional wisdom and penalized for questioning it.
* free speech ends when it's purpose is to terrorize others.
I'd say it ends when it becomes incitement. Criticizing a group should be legal, calling for people to kill members of that group should be illegal. A jury should decide whether hate speech crosses the line into incitement.
But the act of burning a cross or a flag is not in itself incitement. And provided extremist groups avoid incitement they should not be criminalized.
Unless you are Chinese, most people are going to think you have something to hide if you store all your documents in Chinese.
ZFS is ok IMO. But if people use ReiserFS they are probably murderous terrorists.