Slashdot's tagline is "news for nerds", so no prizes for guessing what type of people visit the site. The average male Slashdot user probably looks a lot like our model -- but has more acne and bigger glasses. Users are 23 years old but look twice their age Hardly. I'm 35 and don't wear glasses. I do wear contacts, and have a backup pair of glasses, but these are compact, sleek designer frames.
I do have a beard that makes me look maybe 4-5 years older, though.
I dress professionally at work, but at home, I dress quite young and fashionably. My wife calls me a 'metrosexual', though somehow I'm not sure if this term fits.
steadfastly refuse to accept the fact that Windows is actually not a bad operating system. Hey! I resemble that remark!
But given your 'facts' about Slashdot users, I'd say your probably off on this 'fact', too. Then again, we all have opinions don't we? Nothin' wrong if someone else likes Windows, even though I don't.
Far from being lovable dorks, the Slashdotters have a vicious streak. They hunt like spiders, awaiting the arrival of an article from their victims -- usually a hapless news reporter. Yeah, and you're next! Have at 'im, boys!
Well, the theory goes something like this: the more wide and varied the seeds you feed to a random number generator, the more truly random your results. Many programs use a timestamp from the system clock as a seed, or even a timestamp as seed to put through the random number generator to get another random number that is used as a seed, etc. ad finitum. Of course, the system clock has only so much granularity, so based on that granularity there are a finite number of seeds for each 24 hour period. If you knew exactly when the random number was generated, you could, in theory, keep trying the corresponding seed and eventually (due to the fact that random number generators aren't truly random) you'd find out what the random number is.
Not good for cryptography relying on random numbers.
So, if you start with a seed that is more or less already random, you get a more truly random number. That's why programs like GPG rely on random keypresses or mouse movements to generate the random number for your key. More entropy means more truly random.
But this relies on user behavior, so if we grab random bits from a chip by recycling the power...bammo! More random!
OOo v2.0 worked fine on a P-III 600MHz with 512Meg RAM (on Windows XP SP2). Sure startup took a while, but once you're working that doesn't matter. I used such a setup for over 2 years, until that laptop finally broke down. Yeah, I don't have any basis for comparison on boxes slower than my slowest, which is an Athlon XP 1800+ with 1 GB of RAM. I should say that it ran pretty good on my wife's old machine, which is a 1.2 Ghz Celeron with 512MB of RAM on Ubuntu 6.06, though as she loaded apps, she kept hitting swap pretty heavily. GNOME is a bit of RAM hog these days...on Xubuntu 6.10, which is what the box is currently running it's definitely nicer, but I don't use that box for office apps anymore.
It is terribly slow. Looks like a huge piece of bloat. It will be great if it can be faster. When was the last time you used OOo? Since 2.0, it's not that slow. It's slow in initial loading, but that's because OOo loads the whole suite when starting any of its components, so comparing load time of OOo Writer vs. Word, for example, is not an apples-to-oranges comparison.
Once OOo is loaded, though, it responds very quickly on any fairly decent hardware -- at least like a 1.5 Ghz processor and have a gig of RAM depending on OS.
Who cares? I mean honestly, who does? You can't even quote Wikipedia on a college paper, so why should anyone be using it? Just as with any good encyclopedia, you can only use Wikipedia in a scholarly paper as secondary source -- IOW, you have at least one or two corroborating primary sources, such as from a scholarly journal article or from a well-reputed scholarly book.
OpenOffice.org itself doesn't lack assistive technologies. OOo on Windows lacks assistive technologies. OOo with GNOME or KDE integration gets the accessibility technologies of GNOME or KDE, respectively.
Still, it's a welcome sight to see IBM participating in OOo development. OOo just keeps improving with every new release, and I find that I use it more than Microsoft Office, although I have both installed at work and at home.
Exactly. SSDs have their place. They are now and will always be more expensive than mechanical drives. And, actually, $9 is a bit low, the going rate seems to be more like $10-12. And it looks more like $185 for 750 GB these days.
What was that? Don't think $10 is expensive? That's $10 a gigabyte, right? For $185, we get 750GB, which works out to be $0.24 a gigabyte.
And that's why mechanical hard drives remain king.
Left untreated, most forms of cancer will eventually metastasize, though. My maternal grandfather died of cancer that he never had treated. Officially, the cause of death was 'brain cancer', but they don't know where it started since it had metastasized and gone to the lymph nodes. They're guessing that he had cancer for many, many years before it metastacized, though.
I've been through a poly and talked with others that have and in my experience they look for the largest spike and dwell on that question. They'll tell the person that they think they're lying on it (which obviously makes it harder to pass that question when they repeat it). They'll try to convince you its just better to "confess". Then they'll eventually give up and say you passed (the question never gave a response high enough to cross the threshhold, just enough that they dwelled). Everyone I've talked to had a similar experience, where they were told they were lying on a ridiculous question.
Similar tactics to what were used during the Spanish Inquisition, only nobody gets phsycially tortured. You just have the mental aspect, and that's enough to get people to talk sometimes.
Of course, the best lie detector is a human being. Because people who are lying often say conflicting things or things that don't make sense given the circumstances. A truly skilled interviewer will be able to tell when most people are lying. It's maybe 1% of the population that is good enough at lying to go undetected by someone who is skilled at interviewing people.
No, no. See, the thing is when Caldera first aquired the Unix business from Santa Cruz, they were paying royalties to Novell. SCO is try to claim that they thought the APA transferred the copyrights, but if it did, then why were they paying royalties to Novell?
In limine means 'at the threshold'. It's a type of motion that's filed right before a trial is set to start, usually to have the judge rule on which evidence to include or exclude.
For those not understanding what's going on: Kimball ruled that the copyrights on UNIX System V don't belong to SCO, they belong to Novell, because the Asset Purchase Agreement, signed between Novell and Santa Cruz never transferred the copyrights, just the business. Santa Cruz was to collect UNIX royalties for SVR5 for Novell and keep a portion for themselves in exchange. The SCO Group stopped paying Novell for UNIX sometime ago, and Novell wants its money.
Now if SCO doesn't own the UNIX copyrights, then how can they sue IBM? The answer is, they can't, especially since Novell told them they can't. Now SCO wants to appeal this decision before the Novell trial is over so they can still sue IBM. And they want any evidence from the IBM trial to not be used in the Novell trial (they filed a similar motion in the IBM trial). And Kimball said "No, and no."
In short: SCO is screwed. After Novell is through with them, if anything is left, IBM will launch its Lanham Act claims against SCO and there will be a smokin' hole in Linden, Utah, where SCO HQ used to be.
Okay, let's say Microsoft decides to sue Linus Torvalds over its FAT filesystem patent. In the present system, the court would assess the damages based on the value of the entire operating system. With this, the court would have to determine what the FAT filesystem is worth. Considering it is no longer the default filesystem for any still-in-production Microsoft product, and it's already been implemented by countless vendors (digital cameras, anybody? Mac OS X? Be OS? OS/2?) and Microsoft hasn't sued any of them, the court would probably find that the FAT filesystem isn't worth much to Microsoft, because it doesn't give them a competitive advantage.
Try again, this time understanding something about the structure of the court system in Florida. The Florida Bar is an agent of the Supreme Court of Florida:
Article V, Section 15 of the Constitution of the State of Florida gives the Supreme Court of Florida exclusive and ultimate authority to regulate the admission of persons to the practice of law and the discipline of those persons who are admitted to practice. The Court performs those official functions through two separate arms: the Florida Board of Bar Examiners , which screens, tests and certifies candidates for admission to the practice; and The Florida Bar, the investigative and prosecutorial authority in the lawyer regulatory process. Neither of these two agencies, nor any of their functions, is supported by state tax dollars (source)
telnet? Who needs the bloat and overhead of telnet??? Why, telnet from netkit is awhopping 77K! I use netcat! Just look:
me@hostname:/etc$ ls -l/bin/nc -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 19516 2006-06-19 14:10/bin/nc
netcat is only 19K. And no messy escaping of characters necessary with netcat, so its overhead is much much lower. And can telnet do its thing on UDP? No. Can telnet listen for inbound connections? No. netcat! On my system, telnet is symlinked to/bin/nc.
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I do have a beard that makes me look maybe 4-5 years older, though.
I dress professionally at work, but at home, I dress quite young and fashionably. My wife calls me a 'metrosexual', though somehow I'm not sure if this term fits. steadfastly refuse to accept the fact that Windows is actually not a bad operating system. Hey! I resemble that remark!
But given your 'facts' about Slashdot users, I'd say your probably off on this 'fact', too. Then again, we all have opinions don't we? Nothin' wrong if someone else likes Windows, even though I don't. Far from being lovable dorks, the Slashdotters have a vicious streak. They hunt like spiders, awaiting the arrival of an article from their victims -- usually a hapless news reporter. Yeah, and you're next! Have at 'im, boys!
Well, the theory goes something like this: the more wide and varied the seeds you feed to a random number generator, the more truly random your results. Many programs use a timestamp from the system clock as a seed, or even a timestamp as seed to put through the random number generator to get another random number that is used as a seed, etc. ad finitum. Of course, the system clock has only so much granularity, so based on that granularity there are a finite number of seeds for each 24 hour period. If you knew exactly when the random number was generated, you could, in theory, keep trying the corresponding seed and eventually (due to the fact that random number generators aren't truly random) you'd find out what the random number is.
Not good for cryptography relying on random numbers.
So, if you start with a seed that is more or less already random, you get a more truly random number. That's why programs like GPG rely on random keypresses or mouse movements to generate the random number for your key. More entropy means more truly random.
But this relies on user behavior, so if we grab random bits from a chip by recycling the power...bammo! More random!
Once OOo is loaded, though, it responds very quickly on any fairly decent hardware -- at least like a 1.5 Ghz processor and have a gig of RAM depending on OS.
OpenOffice.org itself doesn't lack assistive technologies. OOo on Windows lacks assistive technologies. OOo with GNOME or KDE integration gets the accessibility technologies of GNOME or KDE, respectively.
Still, it's a welcome sight to see IBM participating in OOo development. OOo just keeps improving with every new release, and I find that I use it more than Microsoft Office, although I have both installed at work and at home.
No, the parrot may or may not have been killed by Schrödinger's cat, who may or may not be dead.
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Exactly. SSDs have their place. They are now and will always be more expensive than mechanical drives. And, actually, $9 is a bit low, the going rate seems to be more like $10-12. And it looks more like $185 for 750 GB these days.
What was that? Don't think $10 is expensive? That's $10 a gigabyte, right? For $185, we get 750GB, which works out to be $0.24 a gigabyte.
And that's why mechanical hard drives remain king.
Nah. I hear liquid cooling is great for overclocking.
Yeah, I was tryin' to be funny. Nobody else thought it was though :(
Left untreated, most forms of cancer will eventually metastasize, though. My maternal grandfather died of cancer that he never had treated. Officially, the cause of death was 'brain cancer', but they don't know where it started since it had metastasized and gone to the lymph nodes. They're guessing that he had cancer for many, many years before it metastacized, though.
Why billions when you could have .... millions! *pinky to mouth*
Probably Slashdotted. They use DynDNS for DNS:
;; global options: printcmd ;; Got answer: ;; ->>HEADER
morgan@dagda:~$ dig aa419.org
; > DiG 9.3.4 > aa419.org
Similar tactics to what were used during the Spanish Inquisition, only nobody gets phsycially tortured. You just have the mental aspect, and that's enough to get people to talk sometimes.
Of course, the best lie detector is a human being. Because people who are lying often say conflicting things or things that don't make sense given the circumstances. A truly skilled interviewer will be able to tell when most people are lying. It's maybe 1% of the population that is good enough at lying to go undetected by someone who is skilled at interviewing people.
No, no. See, the thing is when Caldera first aquired the Unix business from Santa Cruz, they were paying royalties to Novell. SCO is try to claim that they thought the APA transferred the copyrights, but if it did, then why were they paying royalties to Novell?
In limine means 'at the threshold'. It's a type of motion that's filed right before a trial is set to start, usually to have the judge rule on which evidence to include or exclude.
For those not understanding what's going on: Kimball ruled that the copyrights on UNIX System V don't belong to SCO, they belong to Novell, because the Asset Purchase Agreement, signed between Novell and Santa Cruz never transferred the copyrights, just the business. Santa Cruz was to collect UNIX royalties for SVR5 for Novell and keep a portion for themselves in exchange. The SCO Group stopped paying Novell for UNIX sometime ago, and Novell wants its money.
Now if SCO doesn't own the UNIX copyrights, then how can they sue IBM? The answer is, they can't, especially since Novell told them they can't. Now SCO wants to appeal this decision before the Novell trial is over so they can still sue IBM. And they want any evidence from the IBM trial to not be used in the Novell trial (they filed a similar motion in the IBM trial). And Kimball said "No, and no."
In short: SCO is screwed. After Novell is through with them, if anything is left, IBM will launch its Lanham Act claims against SCO and there will be a smokin' hole in Linden, Utah, where SCO HQ used to be.
I got the rest, but uh, what's the SCBA for?
Okay, let's say Microsoft decides to sue Linus Torvalds over its FAT filesystem patent. In the present system, the court would assess the damages based on the value of the entire operating system. With this, the court would have to determine what the FAT filesystem is worth. Considering it is no longer the default filesystem for any still-in-production Microsoft product, and it's already been implemented by countless vendors (digital cameras, anybody? Mac OS X? Be OS? OS/2?) and Microsoft hasn't sued any of them, the court would probably find that the FAT filesystem isn't worth much to Microsoft, because it doesn't give them a competitive advantage.
How's that for an example?
Wait until January 20, 2009, that's what.
Most likely, Bush will be able to claim executive privelege and force Thompson to wait until then.
All Thompson is trying to do is stick a monkey wrench in the works, delaying the end of his disbarrment hearing in front of the Florida Bar.
The guy's a whack job. Seriously, he needs to get a life. He's tried to sue the Florida Bar more than once, a clear violation of the 11th Amendment (which says you can't sue the court system).
telnet? Who needs the bloat and overhead of telnet??? Why, telnet from netkit is awhopping 77K! I use netcat! Just look:
/bin/nc /bin/nc
/bin/nc.
me@hostname:/etc$ ls -l
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 19516 2006-06-19 14:10
netcat is only 19K. And no messy escaping of characters necessary with netcat, so its overhead is much much lower. And can telnet do its thing on UDP? No. Can telnet listen for inbound connections? No. netcat! On my system, telnet is symlinked to
does it run Linux?
No, that's right. But the way I see it, it can't be any worse than waiting for OpenOffice to load...