The photo tour has one of the worst interfaces I've seen for viewing photos. Hiding half of the photo caption by default? Who comes up with this idiocy?
One small redeeming feature is that they haven't hijacked the right-click with a bloody Lightbox script.
it feels like the interface was designed to work on both big monitors and hand-held devices. Can't blame them for trying.
> Isn't it a bit idiotic to hard code refusal to route addresses reserved for "future use"?
they were reserved for multicast, back when everyone thought TV/movies would be distributed through the web. Multicast (1 server stream sending to lots of clients) never really took off though....
It's not so much a "refusal to route" to them as they are handled specially, and aren't designed to be routed as normal. Lots of home routers (eg my WRT54) will occasionally send out multicast broadcast packets onto the LAN, which you can see with a network capture tool.
just to pick nits, I think the Sea Shepard vessels are careful not to break any Australian or New Zealand laws when they are in Australian or New Zealand waters. All the "action" happens in the Southern Ocean near Antarctica.
They're definitely not following the established "rules" of the sea though, in terms of who has right-of-way...
"Koha" is a Maori word meaning gift/donation. The Maori are the indigenous people of New Zealand, so it's a pretty appropriate name for a FOSS library catalogue system written in NZ for anyone to use freely:)
PS Slashdot ate my "a macron" character - "Maori" should have a "-" over the "a".
Yes, we use the Brother P-Touch QL-550. It works fine with CUPS but we had to install a 3rd party (open source) driver for it that converts the postscript input from applications into the correct raster format for the printer.
But he was flying below tree height - and the software could not see the trees. The pilot forgot that the engines take 10 seconds to spool up from the low power used in near-stall to enough power to climb above the trees. So when he ordered climb power and nose up, the software refused to try to climb until the engines were delivering enough power to do so safely. Unfortunately, by this time the aircraft had hit the trees.
[...]A classic case of software-induced complacency. The software performed exactly according to the spec.
there were several other factors iirc - one was that because the plane was under 200ft, the software was assumed he was trying to land and did a few things against the pilot (although I can't recall exactly what right now).
The other more important one is that the pilots did not have adequate training about what the software would or would not do in all situations, so it wasn't simply a case of the pilot "forgetting" things.
Not sure about Australia, since they also have direct links to major Asian hubs, but for New Zealand at least, almost all our international traffic has to go via undersea cables to the USA.
The 2nd major contributor to cost is that fact that NZ just doesn't generate enough traffic to be able to peer in the US, so our ISPs have to pay the tier1s for transit.
So, it sucks that we have low data caps, but realistically it's entirely justified.
the Polynesians who populated New Zealand didn't get here until about 1400AD - these were some of the last islands to be populated. The people who got to North America got there thousands of years ago.
We know the ancestry of the New Zealand Maori based on language similarities up through Polynesia (all the way back to Taiwan), but again this is all very recent compared to the American settlement:)
Obviously such a list would not contain the actual addresses, but some type of checksum for each address. Then the onus would be on the sender to make sure that any email addresses they already know about do not hash to a value in the list.
If you're running debian then it was apparently updated automatically ages ago. The article seems to be about a bug reported by somebody who chose to turn off updates except for security fixes. Naturally, then, they didn't get this update - they then asked for these things to be considered security bugs in future.
No, the "volatile" repository is not enabled by default, and isn't even mentioned as a comment in apt's source.list config file. People who know debian well-enough to have even heard of the volatile repository are likely to be the people who can install an updated tzdata package manually.
>> Another Standard, Microsoft does not support, is the specification RFC 3987, which defines UTF-8 capable Internet addresses
> What Internet standards do they support properly?
Why don't you read the RFC mentioned here (http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3987.txt) and see who the author is. The problem is lots of legacy software and standards that expect all users to only use ascii.
1) the seasons play an important part... tv is pretty crap over the summer months (around Nov-Feb), and all the new series get shown on tv once people have stopped being on holiday, going out to the beach, etc. So that give you 6 months.
2) obviously they want to get popular shows to attract audiences. How long does it take until they decide that a US show is popular and looks like it will be around for a while? Once they find a series that they think would also be popular in Australia (or New Zealand), how long do you think it takes to buy the rights and then find a place for it in the schedule?
in many Western countries, the privacy laws are more to do with the collection of the data in the first place, rather than how to deal with privacy breaches.
For example, "data may only be used for the purpose for which it was collected". This means that a company can't sell your data to another company, unless that is one of the purposes for which it was collected (which means that they have to tell you that clearly when they collect it). So if a company asks for your email address for a competition, they can *only* use it for as long as they need it for that competition, unless they tell you otherwise when you enter it. The blurb here makes it sound like this bill only protects your data from unauthorised access, where the access is unauthorised by the company holding the data, rather than unauthorised by *you*.
are you accessing websites written in english or chinese? how many chinese people read english? (of course, I agree with you - people generally have the worse misconceptions about foreigners)
worked for me too, on my local machine and on two remote machines (12,000 kilometres away) via ssh. I guess it depends on how similar your setup is to the setup that all the testers used. I would have thought that with ubuntu, the list of packages installed on dapper should be very similar for just about everyone. I had one package fail to install because it couldn't remove a directory that had an old file (datestamped 1999, from when the machine had debian slink? on it) that wasn't under package management, and I think that was my only problem upgrading from the command line.
(Ok, so I forgot to install openssh-server on one of the remote machines, which made for an interesting reboot to get the new kernel running, but family members aren't as useless with a terminal command line as slashdot people seem to think so, if you provide the right instructions:p)
In The Kinks' song "Lola" from the 1960s, they were paid to change the line "...tastes just like cherry cola" (from the single version?) to "...tastes just like Coca-Cola" (for the album version, or vice-versa).
The melamona incidence rates in Australia and New Zealand are around four times higher than those found in Canada, the UK and the US. (from Cancer Council Australia).
Along with Australia, New Zealand has the highest skin cancer rates in the world. New Zealand also has the highest melanoma mortality rate in the OECD. (from Cancer Society NZ)
Pasty white english tourists coming from northern hemisphere winter with no tan and no sunscreen get sunburnt in 15 minutes in the midday sun of our summers.
Must be the better methods of detecting skin cancer and the wider access to medical services over time. If more people are being examined, more conditions will be found.
Are you seriously suggesting that the US isn't as good at looking for and diagnosing skin cancer as southern hemisphere countries?
Australia (and New Zealand) both get IP allocations from APNIC. They don't split up the/8s by country, ISPs and organisations just get handed out ranges from within those/8s. Australia and NZ have lots of customers in those ranges:(
because most of our visitors are international, they get much better response times from our Canadian mirror. (And also then we don't pay as many exorbitant data charges).
Our server here assumes that clients that don't resolve to *.nz are from overseas, and redirects them to the mirror. (Yes, I know this isn't perfect. It's not my fault.)
I was thinking about this the other day - software is the only industry I know where an individual or company has the right to own common methods. What if, for example, I went to the hardware store to buy some lumber, nails, and a hammer so that I could build something that would add value to my life?
Unfortunately, I don't really think this is true - it's just that in the computer industry we find out about computer-related patents more.
Lots of industries seem to have similarly absurd patents. Razor companies patent the design of the clip that holds the disposible blade to the handle, and then use the patents to prevent people making compatible disposible blades, for example.
The hot-air hand dryer in our bathroom proudly lists the patent numbers that protect its design of heating up air and blowing it out....
I don't think that's the purpose of this list. The linux kernel (both 2.4 series and 2.6 series) have supported both SB16 and SBLive for *years*.
If your distribution doesn't automatically work out the correct settings for the hardware, then that's not the kernel support's fault. I think this list is for hardware that can not be made to work on linux using open-source drivers.
Having said that, ISA cards can be fiddly to get going cos you need to fiddle around with irq and ioports settings, or get the bios and kernel working is isa-plug-and-pray.
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The photo tour has one of the worst interfaces I've seen for viewing photos. Hiding half of the photo caption by default? Who comes up with this idiocy?
One small redeeming feature is that they haven't hijacked the right-click with a bloody Lightbox script.
it feels like the interface was designed to work on both big monitors and hand-held devices. Can't blame them for trying.
I presume that's related to this caption from the tape library photo:
"Unlike a real library, you can't check out anything, but if you try, we have a security team standing by" :)
> Isn't it a bit idiotic to hard code refusal to route addresses reserved for "future use"?
they were reserved for multicast, back when everyone thought TV/movies would be distributed through the web. Multicast (1 server stream sending to lots of clients) never really took off though....
It's not so much a "refusal to route" to them as they are handled specially, and aren't designed to be routed as normal. Lots of home routers (eg my WRT54) will occasionally send out multicast broadcast packets onto the LAN, which you can see with a network capture tool.
just to pick nits, I think the Sea Shepard vessels are careful not to break any Australian or New Zealand laws when they are in Australian or New Zealand waters. All the "action" happens in the Southern Ocean near Antarctica.
They're definitely not following the established "rules" of the sea though, in terms of who has right-of-way...
"Koha" is a Maori word meaning gift/donation. The Maori are the indigenous people of New Zealand, so it's a pretty appropriate name for a FOSS library catalogue system written in NZ for anyone to use freely :)
PS Slashdot ate my "a macron" character - "Maori" should have a "-" over the "a".
Yes, we use the Brother P-Touch QL-550. It works fine with CUPS but we had to install a 3rd party (open source) driver for it that converts the postscript input from applications into the correct raster format for the printer.
Driver here: http://etc.nkadesign.com/Printers/QL550LabelPrinterCUPS. Brother also release a binary-only driver, but why use that when an open source one works....
But he was flying below tree height - and the software could not see the trees. The pilot forgot that the engines take 10 seconds to spool up from the low power used in near-stall to enough power to climb above the trees. So when he ordered climb power and nose up, the software refused to try to climb until the engines were delivering enough power to do so safely. Unfortunately, by this time the aircraft had hit the trees.
[...]A classic case of software-induced complacency. The software performed exactly according to the spec.
there were several other factors iirc - one was that because the plane was under 200ft, the software was assumed he was trying to land and did a few things against the pilot (although I can't recall exactly what right now).
The other more important one is that the pilots did not have adequate training about what the software would or would not do in all situations, so it wasn't simply a case of the pilot "forgetting" things.
Not sure about Australia, since they also have direct links to major Asian hubs, but for New Zealand at least, almost all our international traffic has to go via undersea cables to the USA.
Laying 30,000km of undersea cable isn't cheap :)
http://www.southerncrosscables.com/public/Network/default.cfm
The 2nd major contributor to cost is that fact that NZ just doesn't generate enough traffic to be able to peer in the US, so our ISPs have to pay the tier1s for transit.
So, it sucks that we have low data caps, but realistically it's entirely justified.
the Polynesians who populated New Zealand didn't get here until about 1400AD - these were some of the last islands to be populated. The people who got to North America got there thousands of years ago.
We know the ancestry of the New Zealand Maori based on language similarities up through Polynesia (all the way back to Taiwan), but again this is all very recent compared to the American settlement :)
my guess is the attachment has 12 faces - 1 (the one facing downwards) is attached to the pole :)
Obviously such a list would not contain the actual addresses, but some type of checksum for each address. Then the onus would be on the sender to make sure that any email addresses they already know about do not hash to a value in the list.
No, the "volatile" repository is not enabled by default, and isn't even mentioned as a comment in apt's source.list config file. People who know debian well-enough to have even heard of the volatile repository are likely to be the people who can install an updated tzdata package manually.
>> Another Standard, Microsoft does not support, is the specification RFC 3987, which defines UTF-8 capable Internet addresses
> What Internet standards do they support properly?
Why don't you read the RFC mentioned here (http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3987.txt) and see who the author is. The problem is lots of legacy software and standards that expect all users to only use ascii.
1) the seasons play an important part... tv is pretty crap over the summer months (around Nov-Feb), and all the new series get shown on tv once people have stopped being on holiday, going out to the beach, etc. So that give you 6 months.
2) obviously they want to get popular shows to attract audiences. How long does it take until they decide that a US show is popular and looks like it will be around for a while?
Once they find a series that they think would also be popular in Australia (or New Zealand), how long do you think it takes to buy the rights and then find a place for it in the schedule?
in many Western countries, the privacy laws are more to do with the collection of the data in the first place, rather than how to deal with privacy breaches.
For example, "data may only be used for the purpose for which it was collected". This means that a company can't sell your data to another company, unless that is one of the purposes for which it was collected (which means that they have to tell you that clearly when they collect it).
So if a company asks for your email address for a competition, they can *only* use it for as long as they need it for that competition, unless they tell you otherwise when you enter it. The blurb here makes it sound like this bill only protects your data from unauthorised access, where the access is unauthorised by the company holding the data, rather than unauthorised by *you*.
put some headphones on, close your eyes, and listen to this: http://media.putfile.com/Cereni---Holophonic
:)
It's quite amazing how we can subconsciously determine the size of a room based on the echoes off the walls/ceiling/floor
are you accessing websites written in english or chinese? how many chinese people read english?
(of course, I agree with you - people generally have the worse misconceptions about foreigners)
worked for me too, on my local machine and on two remote machines (12,000 kilometres away) via ssh. I guess it depends on how similar your setup is to the setup that all the testers used. I would have thought that with ubuntu, the list of packages installed on dapper should be very similar for just about everyone. I had one package fail to install because it couldn't remove a directory that had an old file (datestamped 1999, from when the machine had debian slink? on it) that wasn't under package management, and I think that was my only problem upgrading from the command line.
:p)
(Ok, so I forgot to install openssh-server on one of the remote machines, which made for an interesting reboot to get the new kernel running, but family members aren't as useless with a terminal command line as slashdot people seem to think so, if you provide the right instructions
In The Kinks' song "Lola" from the 1960s, they were paid to change the line "...tastes just like cherry cola" (from the single version?) to "...tastes just like Coca-Cola" (for the album version, or vice-versa).
The melamona incidence rates in Australia and New Zealand are around four times higher than those found in Canada, the UK and the US. (from Cancer Council Australia).
Along with Australia, New Zealand has the highest skin cancer rates in the world. New Zealand also has the highest melanoma mortality rate in the OECD. (from Cancer Society NZ)
Pasty white english tourists coming from northern hemisphere winter with no tan and no sunscreen get sunburnt in 15 minutes in the midday sun of our summers.
Are you seriously suggesting that the US isn't as good at looking for and diagnosing skin cancer as southern hemisphere countries?Australia (and New Zealand) both get IP allocations from APNIC. They don't split up the /8s by country, ISPs and organisations just get handed out ranges from within those /8s. Australia and NZ have lots of customers in those ranges :(
because most of our visitors are international, they get much better response times from our Canadian mirror. (And also then we don't pay as many exorbitant data charges).
Our server here assumes that clients that don't resolve to *.nz are from overseas, and redirects them to the mirror. (Yes, I know this isn't perfect. It's not my fault.)
Unfortunately, I don't really think this is true - it's just that in the computer industry we find out about computer-related patents more.
Lots of industries seem to have similarly absurd patents. Razor companies patent the design of the clip that holds the disposible blade to the handle, and then use the patents to prevent people making compatible disposible blades, for example.
The hot-air hand dryer in our bathroom proudly lists the patent numbers that protect its design of heating up air and blowing it out....
If you're not aware, gnome2 uses this library, so any gtk2/gnome2 applications you use are probably linked against libgdk_pixbuf.
update your systems...
I don't think that's the purpose of this list. The linux kernel (both 2.4 series and 2.6 series) have supported both SB16 and SBLive for *years*.
If your distribution doesn't automatically work out the correct settings for the hardware, then that's not the kernel support's fault. I think this list is for hardware that can not be made to work on linux using open-source drivers.
Having said that, ISA cards can be fiddly to get going cos you need to fiddle around with irq and ioports settings, or get the bios and kernel working is isa-plug-and-pray.