Why? The work that Al Gore has done to raise awareness of our current planetary climate crisis is second to none. The Peace Prize goes out to individuals who raise global awareness of issues that affect the peace of the entire world, right? Wouldn't you say that climate change is in that category?
Can you site a source for your claims? No? OK. Yes...if simple observation counts as a valid source. if you were to have gone out near the Groom Lake area near Roswell, NM, several years ago, you would have seen first hand what I'm talking about. The Air Force tested the what is now known as the F-117 "Stealth" Fighter out there at that time, along with the corresponding bomber.
That's one example of a more 'predictable' scenario. Another was their use in Iraq during Operation Desert Storm.
Non-lethal weapons, such as tasers, were first tested in small crowd scenarios before being used in wider police operations.
I'm sure if I googled, I could find plenty of other exmaples.
You mean *per gigabyte* and that's true. But tape drives are even cheaper No, they aren't. Go look on Pricewatch for an LTO Ultrium drive. LTO4 drives are about $1100, with the older, lower capacity LTO2s being about half that. The tapes themselves might be lower than HDDs in terms price/GB, but then they don't last nearly as long as an HDD, either.
Anyway, the biggest problem with tapes is that they aren't a random-access media. That's why they aren't used as a means of primary storage.
I think that's the point the parent (and I) are making. Eventually, yes, access time may matter more than raw storage space. Of course, I remember in the early-to-mid 90s when we were approaching what we thought were nearly 'unlimited' storage amounts -- until sound and video started filling our drives. Maybe something else will come around that we'll want to fill our drives with, though. If not, then I think we'll see where access times begin to matter more than space. At that point -- maybe we'll see SSDs dropping in price to become competitive enough to obsolete HDDs. I still doubt that, but it will take 10 years to find out, IMHO.
Testing. Government agencies and military often test their new equipment in more 'predictable' scenarios such as protests. If it were proven technology, it would already be deployed in those high-priority areas.
Yeah, but as the first adopters and the die hard gamers looking for every advantage they can get buy more of these, we'll see the price drop eventually. Sorry to burst your bubble, but eventually >= 10 years. Flash memory is expensive to produce, and production of flash memory already outstrips HDDs (think of all those USB thumb drives).
And it won't. 'Economies of scale' don't happen here. Flash memory production already outstrips HDDs. The fact is that the process of manufacturing memory, including flash memory, is expensive.
Why does your computer have a relatively small amount of RAM and huge storage? It's the same economic question we've been facing since the introduction of computing. You need some fast, temporary storage and some slower permanent storage. And the reason has nothing to do with technological barriers -- it boils down to economics. Memory is expensive, hard drives are cheap. That's it. No matter what happens, nothing is going to change that equation anytime soon. SSDs will remain a niche technology for gamers with deep pockets and maybe a few other high-end uses like scientific computing. It will take at least a decade or more before this filters down to the point that the average PC is using SSDs.
Now the only reasonable question is: does AT&T support child exploitation? No. They still have language in there explicitly says that they can cut your account for illegal activity. When referring to 'child exploitation', they probably mean 'kiddie pr0n,' which in the U.S. and other Western industrial nations is, at least the last time I checked, illegal.
And if the keyword(s) you think up aren't in there? If the author of the document hasn't provided enough notes. I've found cases like that in text files. In those situations, I would have vastly preferred a GUI. In many cases, you don't need to know the keywords, as in the parent's example. Just search for the IP address. Another example: if I want to know which mod_php is loaded in Apache, I don't have to know the keywords that Apache uses to determine which mod_php gets loaded. I don't even need to know the config file. I can do: $ cd/etc/apache2 $ find . -xdev -exec grep -l php \{\} \;./mods-enabled/php5.conf./mods-enabled/php5.load./mods-enabled/dir.conf./mods-available/php5.conf./mods-available/php5.load./mods-available/dir.conf
Then I can: $ grep php./mods-enabled/php5.load LoadModule php5_module/usr/lib/apache2/modules/libphp5.so
Which tells me that it's loaded from/usr/lib/apache2/modules/libphp5.so
I didn't have to know the keyword 'LoadModule'. I didn't need to know the config file it was present in. I only had to know three letters: 'php' -- what I was looking for.
s/usually/somtimes/. I've seen way to many "option=value" style configs where there was no scriptability. With text-y configs on *nix, there's always scriptability, even if I have to use an external script to get it. Usually a little sed and/or awk magic. Or Perl or Python. Try that with a GUI.
know in my case, when I administrate IIS, I use both the GUI and the text file. When I administrate apache, I use the text file, because that's all there is, but I wish there were a gui available many times, because I could get the job of changing a few options done a lot faster using that than searching up and down the text file. Mac OS X's Apache has a GUI. For Windows, there's always tools like this one. Finally, on other *nixes (Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris), you could always write one. Python and PyGTK are great tools for writing GUI admin tools that essentially edit text file configs. One might even exist, already, but I prefer configuring apache from the command line.
I don't know what their contract says with AT&T, but that might very well be on there. Something to the tune of 'only tested and approved applications'. Such a statement seems to be in conflict with AT&T's own behavior. So, no I doubt that very much.
If you want an open phone, there are several on the market or very close to market that will work MUCH better and the companies will support you in creating the apps. There's no need to hack the iPhone and Apple has cheated no one. I agree with that sentiment completely. If you don't like it, go elsewhere...Palm, Nokia, and other companies are making smart phones that encourage third-party development. If that's what you want, support them with your dollars instead of Apple. If Apple gets the message that people want third-party apps, they might change their product strategy to support that.
Look, man, no one is ever going to take you seriously. You troll every Linux and Mac OS X article, and this post is clearly a flamebait, but to answer your post:
A comparison of critical vulnerabilities is an apples-to-oranges comparison between IIS and Apache. First off, IIS is more vulnerable because it only runs on one platform, Windows Server. This makes exploiting security bugs a known quantity. Security bugs in the OS aren't counted against IIS in many bugs counts, despite the fact that these security bugs often directly affect IIS and sometimes only IIS, despite the fact that IIS and the OS are essentially integral to one another.
Let's add to that the fact that Microsoft doesn't consider many security vulnerabilities to be 'critical'. Even some remotely-exploitable bugs that could lead to pwning the box aren't counted as 'critical' by Microsoft, because there is no known 'live' exploit for it.
Nonsense. Lots of smaller companies have successfully sued Microsoft -- and won! One of them is the company currently known as "The SCO Group." (Hint: they used to be known as 'Caldera')
Just as it seems we're about to move away from purely Mechanical Memory we find ways to make it better. Just as? GMR was first discovered in 1988 and has already been used in modern HDDs. Chances are, you are using an HDD right now that has GMR-based technology in it.
As far as moving away from 'purely mechanical memory' -- I think a lot of you guys and your "SSDs are going to change everything! Real soon now!(tm)" aren't thinking of the bigger picture. I think that magnetic HDDs will continue to dominate storage for at least another decade or more for one important reason: no one has figured out a way to make flash memory ultracheap. Seagate and Samsung with their 'hybrid' drives will, of course, make lots of money selling speed-enhanced magnetic drives, but this, IMHO, simply isn't a harbinger of a future dominated by SSDs. Sorry to burst your bubble.:(
Failure to hand over the list would not put them in a favorable position, and may even bring criminal contempt of court charges down on the individual(s) responsible for making the call to not disclose the list. IOW, the judge could just keep putting people in jail until someone produces the list of 235.
restoring the user-defined movement path in Impress Why the heck did they take it out in the first place? It was something I used quite a bit and it was something I could point to and say "that's not in Microsoft Office".
Okay, okay. The 'duck' should have been in quotes. There are many people who have no idea what a loon is. The closest approximation is a duck. Both are waterfowl, and the loon is pretty duckoid. Yes, loons are divers, whereas ducks aren't. Loons... errrmm.... whistle/yodel/howl.... whereas ducks quack. But if you saw one, and didn't know what you were looking at, you might assume it to be an odd type of duck. That's all I'm saying.
Disclaimer: I grew up in Detroit, MI. I also happen to live near Tampa, FL. As a result, I'm very familiar with the various types of North American waterfowl. Moreso than someone from Iowa or even Ohio. Definitely moreso than those living on the other side of the Big Pond.
Very convincing argument - but would you sue Microsoft's CEO for slander? Hell fscking yes! The bigger they are, the harder they fall. Ballmer is a billionaire. He has big bucks! Juries HATE it when the big guy is seen as picking on the little guy.
MOD PARENT UP! If you're not understanding what he's saying, due to all the legalese, it's this:
If Microsoft fails to sue a patent infringer, even though they have demonstrated that they know the infringement exists, then tries to file suit later, the doctrine of laches kicks in -- Microsoft failed to mitigate their own damages by bringing a suit as early as possible in order to get the infringer to stop. What this means is that, with the laches defense, Microsoft would lose standing to sue -- because if they were getting damaged by the 'patent infringers', they should have sued in a timely fashion.
The bottom line is this: Microsoft's claims of patent infringement are spurious, slanderous, and, since they invoked the name of Red Hat, a violation of the Lanham Act.
So here's what I say: after the SCO case gets dismissed, Red Hat, your next target should be Microsoft.
Many of you may not know anything about Canadian currency. The Loonie is a colloquial term given to the Canadian dollar coin, because on the reverse side is a 'loon' -- a type of duck common in Canada.
They like control because it provides them a way to sell additional software and services for the phones. They don't want companies like Google stepping in and selling ads. Even on smart phones, Windows Mobile is customized for that purpose. Will Google allow that level of control to the cell companies? I'm guessing no more than they allow other third parties to control their content on the Web.
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Why? The work that Al Gore has done to raise awareness of our current planetary climate crisis is second to none. The Peace Prize goes out to individuals who raise global awareness of issues that affect the peace of the entire world, right? Wouldn't you say that climate change is in that category?
So the IPCC helped Al Gore invent the intarweb?
Erhm, right. Western U.S. geography is not my strong suit ;) I get a "F"! :-D
That's one example of a more 'predictable' scenario. Another was their use in Iraq during Operation Desert Storm.
Non-lethal weapons, such as tasers, were first tested in small crowd scenarios before being used in wider police operations.
I'm sure if I googled, I could find plenty of other exmaples.
Anyway, the biggest problem with tapes is that they aren't a random-access media. That's why they aren't used as a means of primary storage.
I think that's the point the parent (and I) are making. Eventually, yes, access time may matter more than raw storage space. Of course, I remember in the early-to-mid 90s when we were approaching what we thought were nearly 'unlimited' storage amounts -- until sound and video started filling our drives. Maybe something else will come around that we'll want to fill our drives with, though. If not, then I think we'll see where access times begin to matter more than space. At that point -- maybe we'll see SSDs dropping in price to become competitive enough to obsolete HDDs. I still doubt that, but it will take 10 years to find out, IMHO.
Testing. Government agencies and military often test their new equipment in more 'predictable' scenarios such as protests. If it were proven technology, it would already be deployed in those high-priority areas.
And it won't. 'Economies of scale' don't happen here. Flash memory production already outstrips HDDs. The fact is that the process of manufacturing memory, including flash memory, is expensive.
Why does your computer have a relatively small amount of RAM and huge storage? It's the same economic question we've been facing since the introduction of computing. You need some fast, temporary storage and some slower permanent storage. And the reason has nothing to do with technological barriers -- it boils down to economics. Memory is expensive, hard drives are cheap. That's it. No matter what happens, nothing is going to change that equation anytime soon. SSDs will remain a niche technology for gamers with deep pockets and maybe a few other high-end uses like scientific computing. It will take at least a decade or more before this filters down to the point that the average PC is using SSDs.
Not a problem. We know that the filename for modules end in .so.
./conf/httpd.conf:# LoadModule foo_module modules/mod_foo.so ./conf/httpd.conf:LoadModule access_module modules/mod_access.so ./conf/httpd.conf:LoadModule auth_module modules/mod_auth.so ...
So:
$ find . -xdev -exec grep -H "\.so$" \{\} \;
Next?
$ cd
$ find . -xdev -exec grep -l php \{\} \;
See? It's obviously loaded from
Then I can:
$ grep php
LoadModule php5_module
Which tells me that it's loaded from
I didn't have to know the keyword 'LoadModule'. I didn't need to know the config file it was present in. I only had to know three letters: 'php' -- what I was looking for. s/usually/somtimes/. I've seen way to many "option=value" style configs where there was no scriptability. With text-y configs on *nix, there's always scriptability, even if I have to use an external script to get it. Usually a little sed and/or awk magic. Or Perl or Python. Try that with a GUI. know in my case, when I administrate IIS, I use both the GUI and the text file. When I administrate apache, I use the text file, because that's all there is, but I wish there were a gui available many times, because I could get the job of changing a few options done a lot faster using that than searching up and down the text file. Mac OS X's Apache has a GUI. For Windows, there's always tools like this one. Finally, on other *nixes (Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris), you could always write one. Python and PyGTK are great tools for writing GUI admin tools that essentially edit text file configs. One might even exist, already, but I prefer configuring apache from the command line.
Look, man, no one is ever going to take you seriously. You troll every Linux and Mac OS X article, and this post is clearly a flamebait, but to answer your post:
A comparison of critical vulnerabilities is an apples-to-oranges comparison between IIS and Apache. First off, IIS is more vulnerable because it only runs on one platform, Windows Server. This makes exploiting security bugs a known quantity. Security bugs in the OS aren't counted against IIS in many bugs counts, despite the fact that these security bugs often directly affect IIS and sometimes only IIS, despite the fact that IIS and the OS are essentially integral to one another.
Let's add to that the fact that Microsoft doesn't consider many security vulnerabilities to be 'critical'. Even some remotely-exploitable bugs that could lead to pwning the box aren't counted as 'critical' by Microsoft, because there is no known 'live' exploit for it.
Nonsense. Lots of smaller companies have successfully sued Microsoft -- and won! One of them is the company currently known as "The SCO Group." (Hint: they used to be known as 'Caldera')
As far as moving away from 'purely mechanical memory' -- I think a lot of you guys and your "SSDs are going to change everything! Real soon now!(tm)" aren't thinking of the bigger picture. I think that magnetic HDDs will continue to dominate storage for at least another decade or more for one important reason: no one has figured out a way to make flash memory ultracheap. Seagate and Samsung with their 'hybrid' drives will, of course, make lots of money selling speed-enhanced magnetic drives, but this, IMHO, simply isn't a harbinger of a future dominated by SSDs. Sorry to burst your bubble.
Oh, I think a few hundred million dollars in damages is one HELL of a motivator, don't you?
Failure to hand over the list would not put them in a favorable position, and may even bring criminal contempt of court charges down on the individual(s) responsible for making the call to not disclose the list. IOW, the judge could just keep putting people in jail until someone produces the list of 235.
Okay, okay. The 'duck' should have been in quotes. There are many people who have no idea what a loon is. The closest approximation is a duck. Both are waterfowl, and the loon is pretty duckoid. Yes, loons are divers, whereas ducks aren't. Loons ... errrmm.... whistle/yodel/howl .... whereas ducks quack. But if you saw one, and didn't know what you were looking at, you might assume it to be an odd type of duck. That's all I'm saying.
Disclaimer: I grew up in Detroit, MI. I also happen to live near Tampa, FL. As a result, I'm very familiar with the various types of North American waterfowl. Moreso than someone from Iowa or even Ohio. Definitely moreso than those living on the other side of the Big Pond.
MOD PARENT UP! If you're not understanding what he's saying, due to all the legalese, it's this:
If Microsoft fails to sue a patent infringer, even though they have demonstrated that they know the infringement exists, then tries to file suit later, the doctrine of laches kicks in -- Microsoft failed to mitigate their own damages by bringing a suit as early as possible in order to get the infringer to stop. What this means is that, with the laches defense, Microsoft would lose standing to sue -- because if they were getting damaged by the 'patent infringers', they should have sued in a timely fashion.
The bottom line is this: Microsoft's claims of patent infringement are spurious, slanderous, and, since they invoked the name of Red Hat, a violation of the Lanham Act.
So here's what I say: after the SCO case gets dismissed, Red Hat, your next target should be Microsoft.
Many of you may not know anything about Canadian currency. The Loonie is a colloquial term given to the Canadian dollar coin, because on the reverse side is a 'loon' -- a type of duck common in Canada.
They like control because it provides them a way to sell additional software and services for the phones. They don't want companies like Google stepping in and selling ads. Even on smart phones, Windows Mobile is customized for that purpose. Will Google allow that level of control to the cell companies? I'm guessing no more than they allow other third parties to control their content on the Web.