Oh and strangely enough Fosters beer. Why you overseas people drink it, we'll never understand.
Because it's a different beer. Up until the 70s, fosters was available imported (and mainly drunk by Australian ex-pats, before the brand became rejected in Australia), but later on, Courage decided to use the brand to make the beer in the UK. Alas, they didn't follow the recipe to the letter and made something quite different.
I'd still call it "cooking lager" (you'd hardly use your best lager for cooking), but I hear reports that the Australian version tastes worse.
You can also get "Fosters Export" over here, but I have absolutely no idea what that is (except stronger, and a bit disgusting), as it's also brewed in the UK.
er.. in soviet russia, your status is as part of a consituent state of russian, transcaucasian, ukrainian and belorussian union socialist republics under a stalinist regime of centralised economic and social jurisprudence.
wait, am I supposed to use some sort of juxtapose in there? damnit, i'm bad at these!
oh I see, competitive market now is it? Well, I'd give him career prospects. The local sewage works are looking a bit green. Jack, you know it's the right decision!
Passing it unformatted is a lot less complicated than coming up with some clever coding system which possibly adds functionality.
If I want my application to search for a string, I would pass that string to it unmodified unless I had reason to do it otherwise. I wouldn't convert it to Chinese and back - that would be difficult.
it's not the quantity of bandwidth which puts isps against p2p, it's where it's going - it's unpredictable. If everyone's hitting a huge website, you can make specific routes. P2P pops up randomly and gives network admins a headache. Even so, forging disconnect packets is cheeky. Some ISPs just throttle it a bit.
I've been keeping mum on iplayer stuff, because I'm working with it, but there's no harm in me telling you that there is possibly a silverlight player in the works
This is actually a good thing - silverlight is an open standard - flash isn't.
This whole "try before you buy" thing works both ways though. I heard a song from the FIFA 08 soundtrack which I really liked, so I downloaded the album. It was a load of shit, so I didn't buy it.
I'm not sure if that's good or bad. On one hand I just saved myself 15 quid. On the other hand, the artist lost out.
Well, the concept of a patent troll isn't very easily definable in binary terms, but everyone knows what one is through recognition. A person who invents something and goes from company to company trying to sell their idea (which I believe used to happen in the past, but i'm unaware of this happening in modern times) is innocent. A financially backed share-trading institute of legal fees isn't. The difference is in the mentality of the patent holder. If a court can argue the mentality between manslaughter and murder, they can argue the mentality between a crazy scientist with a good idea, and an opportunist lawyer who doesn't make anything. The first port of call would be their line of education.
I'm just hoping that he will actually speak with a Welsh accent (cf. Futurama)
well, for one thing, "i cannae change the laws of physacs, captain" is definiately scottish, but i'm confused at this one. I'm an englishman, and doing an authentic scottish accent (either glaswegian graawl or edinburgh posh) is tricky. Either he's been practicing, or he's got a lot of work to do. bollocks.. give the job to a scot! i love simon pegg, but not here!
One of the justifications of the patent system is that an engineer could file one on his invention and could get a reward for his work in that way.
If the engineer is actively going about trying to sell his invention to companies who are yet to come up with a similar idea, there is no problem. Patent trolls don't do that.
But that would be hard to get. What we need is a patent license. If you sue over a patent you have no intention of ever implementing, you lose your right to have patents.
There used to be a program called "Comanche" that did this. Last reference I can find of it is back in 2001. I tried it once, and instead of reading down a file bit by bit, I was overwhelmed with tab after tab of options I'd never used or even heard of.
Apache ships with about 30. When there's a security hole in one of these extensions, they blame apache. IIS ships with about 2. When there's a security hole in an IIS extension, they blame the extension.
Most have a series of tabs/menus that allow a drill-down type search.
That's not useful. I don't want to have to "drill down", I want to search for a keyword. Say I've got several hosts, and I want to see everything specifically relating to an IP address. I search for the text of the IP address. For beginners looking to change one option, complex GUIs are a mass of buttons and tabs, rather than something they can search for.
Turn off the options you don't want - same way you would in a command line.
I don't want to turn them off, I want to remove all reference to them.
If the GUI attaches to the registry, export the hive and attach it.
That's not useful. I want to mail the config so someone can read it, eg. paste my config to a newsgroup to ask a question when I'm stuck. The usual equivalent in windows-land is you spend days searching for stuff and getting dumb meaningless error messages ("please check that the domain controller is both locatable and contactable" - hey I know, Mr Paperclip, why don't YOU tell ME whether it was either unlocatable or uncontactable or both..), then eventually you find the answer on someone smug bloke's blog with a mugshot of him in the corner and 1000s of thankyou messages, rather than anywhere on MSDN. (incidentally, that error was nothing to do with the server being unlocatable or contactable, but being windows, I couldn't do a trace on it to find out where it was breaking, I just had to click "OK" and try something else).
Yep, text-y configs you can't change things they don't give you options for either!
Text-y configs usually have some level of scriptability, eg. "IfDefined" in apache. Syntax that might apply to one feature will usually apply to all features, making things a lot more versatile.
Another advantage of text configuration is that you can arrange the order of the file according to what's important. You can also add comments.
Oh, not you as well. There's absolutely nothing wrong with text file configuration. There's a whole world of things wrong with a pointy-clicky GUI interface to a config in the registry when there's no other way to edit it.
How do you search a gui interface? How do you generate a gui config? How can you minimalise a gui config to the bare essentials? How do you upload/download a config and email it to someone? How do you edit the config without having to run remote desktop client? And of course, with clicky configs, if they haven't provided an option for something, then you can't do it. Sorry, "computer says no".
I'll admit that IIS hasn't had many vulnerabilities recently, but this is partly because it's got bugger all functionality. Most new vulnerabilities in apache are usually found in one if its thousands of modular extensions.
Lets not talk about using domain credentials for HTTP authentication (in fact, having your web server assume that's what you want to do), lets not talk about your configuration appearing all over active directory. Lets not talk about how server 2003 starts up every bloody service on the system on boot, giving you about 30 seconds to download the service packs before you get pwned by a virus. Lets not talk about how it took microsoft months to fix a serious user-affecting exploit in word, but yet, when they give a shit (like when DRM got cracked), they have a fix out in a matter of hours.
Personally, I use thttpd, because, er, I don't like the config format for apache. That's not because I don't like having my configs in readable text files, I just don't like the cludgy way that apache does it.
Does this mean we are a step closer to not having to recompile nvidia's video drivers after installing a new kernel?
We got a step closer to that when ATI released the specs to their r500 chipset a couple of weeks ago. NVidia can either follow suit or watch their linux customers leaving in droves.
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with an iphone
If djb worked at a fire station:
Caller: my house is on fire!
DJB: your sprinkler system is configured wrong *click*
I can already see the movie scene where they crack the chief of the FBI's laptop by guessing his pictogram.
Stacey: Try drawing a massive cock..
Arnie: I'm in. Lets get to work
Oh and strangely enough Fosters beer. Why you overseas people drink it, we'll never understand.
Because it's a different beer. Up until the 70s, fosters was available imported (and mainly drunk by Australian ex-pats, before the brand became rejected in Australia), but later on, Courage decided to use the brand to make the beer in the UK. Alas, they didn't follow the recipe to the letter and made something quite different.
I'd still call it "cooking lager" (you'd hardly use your best lager for cooking), but I hear reports that the Australian version tastes worse.
You can also get "Fosters Export" over here, but I have absolutely no idea what that is (except stronger, and a bit disgusting), as it's also brewed in the UK.
I'll have a go!
er.. in soviet russia, your status is as part of a consituent state of russian, transcaucasian, ukrainian and belorussian union socialist republics under a stalinist regime of centralised economic and social jurisprudence.
wait, am I supposed to use some sort of juxtapose in there? damnit, i'm bad at these!
oh I see, competitive market now is it? Well, I'd give him career prospects. The local sewage works are looking a bit green. Jack, you know it's the right decision!
He's welcome to come round my house and clean out the toilet with his tongue for $5/hour.
Passing it unformatted is a lot less complicated than coming up with some clever coding system which possibly adds functionality.
If I want my application to search for a string, I would pass that string to it unmodified unless I had reason to do it otherwise. I wouldn't convert it to Chinese and back - that would be difficult.
Oh come on.. you're not telling me that "rock, paper, scissors" is better than halo 3?!
it's not the quantity of bandwidth which puts isps against p2p, it's where it's going - it's unpredictable. If everyone's hitting a huge website, you can make specific routes. P2P pops up randomly and gives network admins a headache. Even so, forging disconnect packets is cheeky. Some ISPs just throttle it a bit.
*** AND NOW FOR THE JOKES ***
"SCO".
ahahaha! hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha...
On the plus side its not Silverlight.
I've been keeping mum on iplayer stuff, because I'm working with it, but there's no harm in me telling you that there is possibly a silverlight player in the works
This is actually a good thing - silverlight is an open standard - flash isn't.
New music and new artists are discovered
This whole "try before you buy" thing works both ways though. I heard a song from the FIFA 08 soundtrack which I really liked, so I downloaded the album. It was a load of shit, so I didn't buy it.
I'm not sure if that's good or bad. On one hand I just saved myself 15 quid. On the other hand, the artist lost out.
Dude, as a heterosexual female
what, on slashdot? naaaaaah...
Well, the concept of a patent troll isn't very easily definable in binary terms, but everyone knows what one is through recognition. A person who invents something and goes from company to company trying to sell their idea (which I believe used to happen in the past, but i'm unaware of this happening in modern times) is innocent. A financially backed share-trading institute of legal fees isn't. The difference is in the mentality of the patent holder. If a court can argue the mentality between manslaughter and murder, they can argue the mentality between a crazy scientist with a good idea, and an opportunist lawyer who doesn't make anything. The first port of call would be their line of education.
I'm just hoping that he will actually speak with a Welsh accent (cf. Futurama)
well, for one thing, "i cannae change the laws of physacs, captain" is definiately scottish, but i'm confused at this one. I'm an englishman, and doing an authentic scottish accent (either glaswegian graawl or edinburgh posh) is tricky. Either he's been practicing, or he's got a lot of work to do. bollocks.. give the job to a scot! i love simon pegg, but not here!
One of the justifications of the patent system is that an engineer could file one on his invention and could get a reward for his work in that way.
If the engineer is actively going about trying to sell his invention to companies who are yet to come up with a similar idea, there is no problem. Patent trolls don't do that.
isnt that glaringly obvious prior art?
Not prior to 1984. hmm.. 1984. how very apt.
Microsoft wins, and we get to live in a communist state under the communist government of microsoft, who giveth and taketh away the computer.
But that would be hard to get. What we need is a patent license. If you sue over a patent you have no intention of ever implementing, you lose your right to have patents.
but I wish there were a gui available many times
There used to be a program called "Comanche" that did this. Last reference I can find of it is back in 2001. I tried it once, and instead of reading down a file bit by bit, I was overwhelmed with tab after tab of options I'd never used or even heard of.
Apache ships with about 30. When there's a security hole in one of these extensions, they blame apache. IIS ships with about 2. When there's a security hole in an IIS extension, they blame the extension.
Most have a series of tabs/menus that allow a drill-down type search.
That's not useful. I don't want to have to "drill down", I want to search for a keyword. Say I've got several hosts, and I want to see everything specifically relating to an IP address. I search for the text of the IP address. For beginners looking to change one option, complex GUIs are a mass of buttons and tabs, rather than something they can search for.
Turn off the options you don't want - same way you would in a command line.
I don't want to turn them off, I want to remove all reference to them.
If the GUI attaches to the registry, export the hive and attach it.
That's not useful. I want to mail the config so someone can read it, eg. paste my config to a newsgroup to ask a question when I'm stuck. The usual equivalent in windows-land is you spend days searching for stuff and getting dumb meaningless error messages ("please check that the domain controller is both locatable and contactable" - hey I know, Mr Paperclip, why don't YOU tell ME whether it was either unlocatable or uncontactable or both..), then eventually you find the answer on someone smug bloke's blog with a mugshot of him in the corner and 1000s of thankyou messages, rather than anywhere on MSDN. (incidentally, that error was nothing to do with the server being unlocatable or contactable, but being windows, I couldn't do a trace on it to find out where it was breaking, I just had to click "OK" and try something else).
Yep, text-y configs you can't change things they don't give you options for either!
Text-y configs usually have some level of scriptability, eg. "IfDefined" in apache. Syntax that might apply to one feature will usually apply to all features, making things a lot more versatile.
Another advantage of text configuration is that you can arrange the order of the file according to what's important. You can also add comments.
let's no talk text file configuration
Oh, not you as well. There's absolutely nothing wrong with text file configuration. There's a whole world of things wrong with a pointy-clicky GUI interface to a config in the registry when there's no other way to edit it.
How do you search a gui interface? How do you generate a gui config? How can you minimalise a gui config to the bare essentials? How do you upload/download a config and email it to someone? How do you edit the config without having to run remote desktop client? And of course, with clicky configs, if they haven't provided an option for something, then you can't do it. Sorry, "computer says no".
I'll admit that IIS hasn't had many vulnerabilities recently, but this is partly because it's got bugger all functionality. Most new vulnerabilities in apache are usually found in one if its thousands of modular extensions.
Lets not talk about using domain credentials for HTTP authentication (in fact, having your web server assume that's what you want to do), lets not talk about your configuration appearing all over active directory. Lets not talk about how server 2003 starts up every bloody service on the system on boot, giving you about 30 seconds to download the service packs before you get pwned by a virus. Lets not talk about how it took microsoft months to fix a serious user-affecting exploit in word, but yet, when they give a shit (like when DRM got cracked), they have a fix out in a matter of hours.
Personally, I use thttpd, because, er, I don't like the config format for apache. That's not because I don't like having my configs in readable text files, I just don't like the cludgy way that apache does it.
I'll be interested to see what all this "fallocating" is about.
Does this mean we are a step closer to not having to recompile nvidia's video drivers after installing a new kernel?
We got a step closer to that when ATI released the specs to their r500 chipset a couple of weeks ago. NVidia can either follow suit or watch their linux customers leaving in droves.