Yeah an "if (OS = LINUX)" in a.EXE file would be so dangerous to a linux box, riiiiight.
It depends on whether or not Wine is on the box. On an Ubuntu or Debian box, for instance,.exe files are, by default, associated with wine in the GNOME mimetypes. Before you say "Yeah, but anyone bright enough to be running Wine isn't gonna just automatically click on an.EXE", realize that installing and configuring Wine is very easy these days with programs like winetools.
If Wine is on the box, all bets are off. The.EXE could easily embed a Linux binary payload and even execute it (or at least cause it to be executed).
Of course, if you don't run wine apps as root and you have taken reasonable security precautions, the damage that can be done is limited.
Well, supposedly the printer drivers for Canon work with USB or parallel, but from what I've gathered by reading the Gutenprint mailing list, the Canon drivers are very subpar. There are people working on them, though. I don't know of any Canon printer utility; Gutenprint only includes escputil for the Epson and nothing for the Canon.
I know for the Epson, both USB and parallel work fine. Until recently, there was no decent GUI front-end for the command-line printer utility. There are a two other projects that started a front-end but never completely finished--one is a Perl GTK 2 front-end that doesn't support 6-color printers and requires manual editing of the code to change perferences, the other one is a GTK 1.x front-end that stopped development years ago and doesn't seem to work with the latest printers at all.
How naive must someone be to think that silence on the part of a corporation equates to a tacit approval for people to circumvent a piece of hardware's embedded security system in order to run pirated copies of software?
Where in that sentence you quote does it say that they thought the silence was 'tacit approval'. There's a large difference between 'not going to do anything about it' and 'tacit approval'.
I might not do anything about someone's propensity to emit noxious gas from their butthole in my presence, but that doesn't mean that I have given my 'tacit approval' for them to rip huge farts while standing in the same room with me.
n addition to making it "beautiful", developers need to continue adding out-of-the-box widgets/features to prevent someone from ever needing to modify a script or enter a terminal window if they didn't want to.
I've begun a few projects in that regard.
One sore spot is the lack of GUI inkjet printer utilities for printers other than HP. I've created a program called Stylus Toolbox that acts as a front-end to escputil, the command line Epson printer utility that comes with Gutenprint (formerly called GIMP-Print).
I created this because I have my wife using Ubuntu 6.06 and the one thing that she could never do was check to see the ink levels on our Epson Stylus C88 to see which cartridge needed to be changed or to clean the print heads if she starts to get banding when printing her photos and stuff.
The problem here rests solely with the US TV industry which doesn't use an ad jingle to separate ads from regular programs (at the beginning and the end). I don't recall seeing this in any other country.
The TV industry used to do that, at least for a lot of TV shows. There would be a little jingle, which would typically be part of the TV show's theme song, in between the show and the commercials. I think it stopped sometime in the late 1980s/early 1990s. Probably closer to the early to mid nineties because I remember that Star Trek: The Next Generation used to have these things.
The chipset and NIC was a SiS based and I've had intermittent problems with it ever since getting it.
I had a motherboard with an SiS 735 chipset that completely blew up. It fried the controllers on two older hard drives that were in the box. But the power supply was and remains to be fine (I even checked it out with a meter). Not sure if it was the chipset or what, but the CPU (an AMD Athlon XP 2000) was fine...the only other major component on motherboards these days is the frickin' chipset, so I'm blaming SiS for their cheap chipset.
The board that replaced is a VIA KT600. It seem to be a much nicer chipset anyway.
Do you have concrete links and facts to support your observation?
This is Slashdot. What do YOU think?
Sure. If he's anything like me, he probably just doesn't remember what they were. He could find them with Google, but doesn't feel like it and suggests you go Google it for yourself.
I think things like pay, benefits, location, etc. matter far more to the vast majority of techies than merely "working on a prominent website." After all, in today's world, prominent websites come and go in a matter of months.
I agree. As a general rule, techies are ahead of the intelligence curve, especially when it comes to math skills, so they know to optimize pay and benefits as compared to cost of living. The Valley is one of the worst pay to cost of living ratios anywhere in the country.
Premium hardware at premium prices is far more accurate, the one thing I don't recall them ever doing is skimping on the $5,000 desktops.
IMHO, their laptops are a bit on the mediocre side, especially in the battery life department. Then again, anyone buying a laptop for gaming deserves what they get.;-)
Their hardware is by no means junk. It's just that you can often get the same hardware from somewhere else in a different case for much less. But then again, some people are willing to pay for a name, even though Alienware went through some quality control and customer service problems about 1.5-2 years ago. Maybe this has changed since Dell bought them.
What I have found is that while I am intellectually convinced that it's all bullshit, it is also very clear that she knows something that I don't. When she talks about "energy flowing" from my thoughts, or "EMF" from my computer, it helps to interpret these things as metaphors for things that are real.
I'd mod you +5 insightful if I could.
You're right. From a pure scientific standpoint, the models are goofy. But you know what? It works.
What I do know, though, is that my computer makes sonic noise, even if it seems pretty quiet to me
Good guess, but no. I can detect the EMF as well. It's not noise. It's detectable even in a computer with a LCD flat panel in one of those 'quiet' cases. There's still some sonic noise (hard drives spinning, power supply, fan, etc.) but it's not the noise.
You can probably detect the EMF as well. Do this: Sit in front of your PC with your eyes closed and tune out your thoughts... just try to sense what's around you. Spin around in the chair. This works even better if you get ear plugs, too. Now walk into a building you've never been in, but you know has a server room -- try to prearrange access to this server room. Try to 'feel' where the server room is. The results of this experiment will surprise you. (Change the details as appropriate for your scenario...the 'server room in a building' -- it just works for me because I'm a computer consultant -- it could be a friends house who has a number of PCs that you've never seen)
Mind reading. I can be standing behind her where she can't see me, start to think intense sexual thoughts, and she shudders and grins. "I felt your energy." Ok, whatever. Sometimes I think "energy" really is energy in the form of heat.
This concept of 'energy' is an ancient one and has nothing to do with the relatively young science of physics, at least not until you get into quantum physics, which posits that everything is made up of energy and that the observer has an effect on what is observed.
Do yourself a favor. Get yourself a copy of the movie "What the Bleep Do We Know?". They have it on Netflix. If you have any questions after that watching that video, you know where to find me.
I don't think he was talking about friction on the edge of the disk.
A disk made from thinner material will have less weight, especially if the material has the mass properties of, oh, say titanium (which if you RTFA, you'll find out that titanium and stainless steel were the two metals they were working with). Less weight means you need a smaller motor to spin up, and a smaller motor means less weight and heat, and less power requirements. A smaller motor and light disk mean less friction. Put it altogether, and you've a disk that spins faster, yet uses less power, is easier to keep cool.
For as stupid as the Senator sounded when he made those statements, he's really not too far off. I've used the idea of pipes (specifically water pipes) to explain how the internet works as well. In fact, it comes in handy explaining ATM terminology as well.
Well, that explains the problems I'm having with my mail server... the Internet pipe must be leaking and shorting something out. Guess I'll have to call a plumber!
Now imagine that instead of one person (Bush) having a "goverment monopoly" on nuclear missile launch codes, each citizen would get a "voucher" for 1/30,000th of a nuke which they could use to grant access to anybody they think represent their special interest...
Well, there's what? 1,000,000+ Slashdot UIDs? There's easily more than 30,000/.ers... say "Bye, Bye, Redmond!" Heh heh heh...
(They also want to reduce "Borg disk waste" by 50%... hmmm, Borg?)
Clearly "Borg disk waste" means "Microsoft disk waste". Google is moving to a less Microsoft-centric system. They clearly rely far too much on ASP.NET and SQL Server, and would like to become a LAMP shop. They may even be planning their own operating system to compete with Windows Vista.
Huh??? Google doesn't rely on ASP.NET or SQL Server. Google is the original LAMP shop.
Actually, it's not a problem at all. It's a good thing. If AMD were already producing 45nm chips, and they were twice the size and slower than Intel's solution, THAT would be a problem. When you are doing well enough that you are outselling your ability to produce, and you still have not yet implemented your already developed technology, you are in a very good position.
Oooh! Can you say that again?
This is what "Intel already has 45nm technology" whiners are missing entirely. AMD's sales are outstripping production and they've already got the 65 nm technology waiting in the wings in order to keep up with demand.
Die size doesn't matter a whole lot to the end user of the product unless we're talking laptops. Then it matters. But when we're talking desktops or servers (as is mostly the case with dual core 64-bit chips today -- few laptops are using 64-bit chips), then the end-user doesn't care so long as the case it's sitting in can keep it cool.
But it does matter to the manufacturer...and so what if Intel has 45 nm technology? As long as AMD can produce a better, faster chip and keep up with demand, they're sitting pretty. It's that simple.
My experience with DSL was appalling. At first it was great; I regularly had 768K downloads. After a while, my download speeds reduced more and more. They tried cutting my rate in hopes of eliminating transfer errors that were occurring, but it just kept getting slower and slower.
Just as I was ready to give up and call the cable company (who had just started offering cablemodems in my area), Rhythms went out of business. That solved that...I went to cable and never looked back.
In a related story, President George W. Bush has filed a separate lawsuit against Ars Technica, involving an alleged patent infringement.
Finally, in other news, the FBI has is investigating the mysterious disappearance of Jon "Hannibal" Stokes. A spokesperson for Ars Technica, a Web site for PC enthusiasts, had no comment.
I'm a first time Linux user, and Ubuntu's been installed for a couple of months alongside XP in my computer. As can be seen at the Ubunut Forums, there is a problem with the internet connection for some Ubuntu users.
No problem here. I've been using Ubuntu since a couple of days after the release of 5.10. I get updates almost daily.
I connect to the default Ubuntu repositories (and a few others to get things like Wine updates) from my Comcast cable account. I've never seen a slowdown or experienced any problem connecting except to the third-party Wine repository.
Actually, I can report that both Fedora and Ubuntu both have excellent digital camera support. The day I bought my Fuji FinePix, I just plugged it into the USB port, and voila! There were the pictures! No drivers to install, no need to load additional software (at least on Ubuntu).
Acting like criminals? Oh, you mean like Apple selling products with viruses pre-loaded, and saying it's MS's fault? Very few companies handle this kind of thing correctly. Tylenol did in the 1980's with the poisoning scare. Most companies act the way that Sony and Apple did.
Uh, Apple doesn't get excused either. But in a way, Jobs is right. Windows viruses are Microsoft's fault.
In relation to space colonization, the radiation given off by the sun (and other celestial bodies) is only one of a ridiculous multitude of environmental factors to deal with (nevermind the logistics) in any spaceflight, manned or unmanned.
Not to mention, if you're talking propulsion like the previous poster, it's important to consider that the Sun is a damned-near eternal source of stable, reliable energy driven by fusion on a massive scale. If we want to explore even just a little ways outside of our own solar system with manned missions, we definitely needs to figure out more about how this works.
As consumers, we've put up with rootkits, massive price increases, being treated like criminals when we're customers, faulty products, and just about every other mistreatment imaginable.
Not to mention acting like criminals themselves by lying about the their exploding batteries. Most recently, they pulled batteries from their VAIO notebooks after trying to pin the blame on Dell, Toshiba, HP, etc. They had to admit that it was their own fault. Sorta. But then they said "Well, it could happen if the user bumps it." and "It could happen if the user misuses the laptop." What??? Aren't we talking about metal shavings being where they're not supposed to? What does that have to do with consumer use (or misuse) of the laptop?
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So, then you have no use for:
All of these are half-web and half-desktop.
Yeah an "if (OS = LINUX)" in a .EXE file would be so dangerous to a linux box, riiiiight.
.exe files are, by default, associated with wine in the GNOME mimetypes. Before you say "Yeah, but anyone bright enough to be running Wine isn't gonna just automatically click on an .EXE", realize that installing and configuring Wine is very easy these days with programs like winetools.
.EXE could easily embed a Linux binary payload and even execute it (or at least cause it to be executed).
It depends on whether or not Wine is on the box. On an Ubuntu or Debian box, for instance,
If Wine is on the box, all bets are off. The
Of course, if you don't run wine apps as root and you have taken reasonable security precautions, the damage that can be done is limited.
Well, supposedly the printer drivers for Canon work with USB or parallel, but from what I've gathered by reading the Gutenprint mailing list, the Canon drivers are very subpar. There are people working on them, though. I don't know of any Canon printer utility; Gutenprint only includes escputil for the Epson and nothing for the Canon.
I know for the Epson, both USB and parallel work fine. Until recently, there was no decent GUI front-end for the command-line printer utility. There are a two other projects that started a front-end but never completely finished--one is a Perl GTK 2 front-end that doesn't support 6-color printers and requires manual editing of the code to change perferences, the other one is a GTK 1.x front-end that stopped development years ago and doesn't seem to work with the latest printers at all.
How naive must someone be to think that silence on the part of a corporation equates to a tacit approval for people to circumvent a piece of hardware's embedded security system in order to run pirated copies of software?
Where in that sentence you quote does it say that they thought the silence was 'tacit approval'. There's a large difference between 'not going to do anything about it' and 'tacit approval'.
I might not do anything about someone's propensity to emit noxious gas from their butthole in my presence, but that doesn't mean that I have given my 'tacit approval' for them to rip huge farts while standing in the same room with me.
I've begun a few projects in that regard.
One sore spot is the lack of GUI inkjet printer utilities for printers other than HP. I've created a program called Stylus Toolbox that acts as a front-end to escputil, the command line Epson printer utility that comes with Gutenprint (formerly called GIMP-Print).
I created this because I have my wife using Ubuntu 6.06 and the one thing that she could never do was check to see the ink levels on our Epson Stylus C88 to see which cartridge needed to be changed or to clean the print heads if she starts to get banding when printing her photos and stuff.
There's a link in my sig.
I had a motherboard with an SiS 735 chipset that completely blew up. It fried the controllers on two older hard drives that were in the box. But the power supply was and remains to be fine (I even checked it out with a meter). Not sure if it was the chipset or what, but the CPU (an AMD Athlon XP 2000) was fine...the only other major component on motherboards these days is the frickin' chipset, so I'm blaming SiS for their cheap chipset.
The board that replaced is a VIA KT600. It seem to be a much nicer chipset anyway.
Sure. If he's anything like me, he probably just doesn't remember what they were. He could find them with Google, but doesn't feel like it and suggests you go Google it for yourself.
I agree. As a general rule, techies are ahead of the intelligence curve, especially when it comes to math skills, so they know to optimize pay and benefits as compared to cost of living. The Valley is one of the worst pay to cost of living ratios anywhere in the country.
Check out this cost of living calculator and then compare average salaries for a particular area using something like this.
IMHO, their laptops are a bit on the mediocre side, especially in the battery life department. Then again, anyone buying a laptop for gaming deserves what they get.
Their hardware is by no means junk. It's just that you can often get the same hardware from somewhere else in a different case for much less. But then again, some people are willing to pay for a name, even though Alienware went through some quality control and customer service problems about 1.5-2 years ago. Maybe this has changed since Dell bought them.
I'd mod you +5 insightful if I could.
You're right. From a pure scientific standpoint, the models are goofy. But you know what? It works.
Good guess, but no. I can detect the EMF as well. It's not noise. It's detectable even in a computer with a LCD flat panel in one of those 'quiet' cases. There's still some sonic noise (hard drives spinning, power supply, fan, etc.) but it's not the noise.
You can probably detect the EMF as well. Do this: Sit in front of your PC with your eyes closed and tune out your thoughts... just try to sense what's around you. Spin around in the chair. This works even better if you get ear plugs, too. Now walk into a building you've never been in, but you know has a server room -- try to prearrange access to this server room. Try to 'feel' where the server room is. The results of this experiment will surprise you. (Change the details as appropriate for your scenario...the 'server room in a building' -- it just works for me because I'm a computer consultant -- it could be a friends house who has a number of PCs that you've never seen)
This concept of 'energy' is an ancient one and has nothing to do with the relatively young science of physics, at least not until you get into quantum physics, which posits that everything is made up of energy and that the observer has an effect on what is observed.
Do yourself a favor. Get yourself a copy of the movie "What the Bleep Do We Know?". They have it on Netflix. If you have any questions after that watching that video, you know where to find me.
So...the people that buy hell.com should buy diamond.com and point it to themselves.
Then DeBeers would have hell to pay!
*drum fill*
Thanks, I'm here all week!
I don't think he was talking about friction on the edge of the disk.
A disk made from thinner material will have less weight, especially if the material has the mass properties of, oh, say titanium (which if you RTFA, you'll find out that titanium and stainless steel were the two metals they were working with). Less weight means you need a smaller motor to spin up, and a smaller motor means less weight and heat, and less power requirements. A smaller motor and light disk mean less friction. Put it altogether, and you've a disk that spins faster, yet uses less power, is easier to keep cool.
If he's right, he's gonna be very rich.
Well, that explains the problems I'm having with my mail server... the Internet pipe must be leaking and shorting something out. Guess I'll have to call a plumber!
Well, there's what? 1,000,000+ Slashdot UIDs? There's easily more than 30,000
Huh??? Google doesn't rely on ASP.NET or SQL Server. Google is the original LAMP shop.
Oooh! Can you say that again?
This is what "Intel already has 45nm technology" whiners are missing entirely. AMD's sales are outstripping production and they've already got the 65 nm technology waiting in the wings in order to keep up with demand.
Die size doesn't matter a whole lot to the end user of the product unless we're talking laptops. Then it matters. But when we're talking desktops or servers (as is mostly the case with dual core 64-bit chips today -- few laptops are using 64-bit chips), then the end-user doesn't care so long as the case it's sitting in can keep it cool.
But it does matter to the manufacturer...and so what if Intel has 45 nm technology? As long as AMD can produce a better, faster chip and keep up with demand, they're sitting pretty. It's that simple.
Are you sure it's not your provider?
My experience with DSL was appalling. At first it was great; I regularly had 768K downloads. After a while, my download speeds reduced more and more. They tried cutting my rate in hopes of eliminating transfer errors that were occurring, but it just kept getting slower and slower.
Just as I was ready to give up and call the cable company (who had just started offering cablemodems in my area), Rhythms went out of business. That solved that...I went to cable and never looked back.
In a related story, President George W. Bush has filed a separate lawsuit against Ars Technica, involving an alleged patent infringement.
Finally, in other news, the FBI has is investigating the mysterious disappearance of Jon "Hannibal" Stokes. A spokesperson for Ars Technica, a Web site for PC enthusiasts, had no comment.
No problem here. I've been using Ubuntu since a couple of days after the release of 5.10. I get updates almost daily.
I connect to the default Ubuntu repositories (and a few others to get things like Wine updates) from my Comcast cable account. I've never seen a slowdown or experienced any problem connecting except to the third-party Wine repository.
No, no it doesn't.
Now scuttle off back to your mom's basement.
Actually, I can report that both Fedora and Ubuntu both have excellent digital camera support. The day I bought my Fuji FinePix, I just plugged it into the USB port, and voila! There were the pictures! No drivers to install, no need to load additional software (at least on Ubuntu).
Not to mention, if you're talking propulsion like the previous poster, it's important to consider that the Sun is a damned-near eternal source of stable, reliable energy driven by fusion on a massive scale. If we want to explore even just a little ways outside of our own solar system with manned missions, we definitely needs to figure out more about how this works.
Not to mention acting like criminals themselves by lying about the their exploding batteries. Most recently, they pulled batteries from their VAIO notebooks after trying to pin the blame on Dell, Toshiba, HP, etc. They had to admit that it was their own fault. Sorta. But then they said "Well, it could happen if the user bumps it." and "It could happen if the user misuses the laptop." What??? Aren't we talking about metal shavings being where they're not supposed to? What does that have to do with consumer use (or misuse) of the laptop?