Umm, you do know it's XML, right? Apparently, you don't know what XML is. You can encapsulate ANYTHING with XML. It's just a bunch of tags that have no meaning until you describe what the tags encapsulate. And then there are binary blobs, which don't mean jack because they don't get described as anything else besides a binary blob.
I did a little bit of Googling just so I don't put my foot in my mouth too firmly here.
It is a fact that binary blobs are allowed in OOXML as well as ODF. The MS/OOXML rabid fan site ooxmlhoaxes even stipulates this. No argument there.
BUT, in the article GNOME/OOXML podcast shows two sides closer than appears, these binary blobs that MSFT have are NOT specified in a publicly accessible document (if they ever were documented). While the thrust of the article was about software politics and the podcast itself, it did have a few nuggets for our conversation.
The discussion came about as a result of GNOME's support for the efforts of Jody Goldberg, the lead developer of the Gnumeric spreadsheet, to use the ECMA process to force Microsoft to reveal more about OOXML and, by extension, its previous binary formats.
According to Waugh, GNOME's involvement is limited entirely to support for Goldberg, "to ensure that Microsoft provide as much documentation as possible to make it easy for him to implement OOXML in Gnumeric specifically. And if he did not continue his participation, he would not be able to hold [Microsoft's] feet to the fire and make sure they came through on the various bits and pieces of documentation" needed for the OOXML standard. The advantage of supporting Goldberg's efforts, Waugh said, is that it helps free software support not only OOXML, but Microsoft's previous binary formats as well.
Now, if MSFT is allowed to just grandfather in undocumented binary blobs into OOXML for whatever reason, is OOXML truly an open format?
OOXMLhoaxes would have you believe that ODF has this same problem:
So why does no one ever mention that ODF can contain binary data within the XML ?
But, this is of course shenanigans. ODF is based on an open source package. Since the package is open source, we all know the code that would create the binary blob and can document it and recompile it. MSFT has not offered the code to authoritatively read their own binary blobs. And let's not talk about reverse-engineering being viable for use by large companies. This would open them up to patent lawsuits if MSFT chose to go that route.
From the same blarticle:
In the past the Office 2003 XML formats did indeed contains embedded binary date within the file. This of course due to the fact that this format consisted of a single XML file.
So, Office 2003 also has undocumented binary blobs? Well, so much for XML making it easy for one to decode previous Office formats.
Looks like I won't be chewing on my foot after all. Here's the search I did to find out about the OOXML undocumented binary blob problem in case you'd like a starting point.
with MS your files are accessible for however long they decide they should be, with FOSS, they're accessible as long as anyone is alive capable of re-compiling the source.
This is the point that people miss. All of the documents that were archived in the older formats will no longer be openable -- in this case, there is an arcane incantation as a workaround, but what if MSFT removes support entirely so that an authoritative document conversion is no longer possible? With open source, the method is obtainable. With closed source, it may be deleted when the company no longer supports it or closes its doors.
There are many cities/states/countries that rely on MSFT formats for document archival. Should a city keep spending money every 5-10 years to also update the formats on all of these records in case the necessary closed-source software ceases to exist or work on modern computers?
And a great deal of video archive from CCTV as well I expect. The question that arises is how would you index all this?
By time. And then you can go by difference and then by motion.
You could even have a second pass running that picks out faces and objects. These can then be compared to another database of similar faces and objects. All of these would then also be stored with references back to the original video.
It can be as simple or as complicated as you want. The technology exists today (and I'm sure is being used somewhere).
Sir Edmund Hillary was reacting to a story that turned out to not be true. The mountain climber was offered and given help at various points but died. Later climbing parties saw and passed the *dead* body on the way up, and this became the kernel of truth for the embellished and distorted story.
So, are you saying that you, too, are erroneously reacting before you know the whole story?
It's not like people need 14 months to save up for a digital TV. A 'good enough' off-brand 32" TV runs $700 now, and it'll probably be more like $500 later.
That's two or three months rent in many places -- with the matching lower pay.
My bad. It makes much more sense now. My train of thought lumped you in with those who equate card with HBA, but in hindsight I see what you meant.
A couple of things I've learned:
If your company is buying a director and the main goal doesn't coincide with either uptime/high availability or port density, then all your company is doing is making the switch vendor's stock price go up. And, if you don't want the lowest latency, don't buy fibre channel. Always buy what fits. It does everyone a favor in the long run.
We've also had a heck of a lot more stability out of our 6500 series switches then we have out of our 9140's and the 9500's are extremely expensive if you have a need for under 3 cards worth of ports.
1) Why don't you just direct connect since you only have 3 HBAs?
2) At least compare it to a 9120 or 9124 (which has 8-port licenses). Anyone knows that a 9140 (40 ports) and a 9506 (a director with 4 FC card slots) is way overkill for what you describe.
I'd say that at the very least, you're misinformed as to what's out there.
Coincidence. Some addresses are easily guessed, and others are taken from websites and mailing lists.
Also, about the only thing that can't be faked with the header you posted is the IP address that connected to your server (of which you didn't include). Check your server logs.
This has nothing to do with SquirrelMail. Though they may have other problems, this one is only SM doing its job and showing what your MTA has accepted.
I don't know which PSN you're accessing, but the one I access only lets me buy in increments of $5, $10, $25 or higher amounts, with no ability to put in an exact amount.
That's odd. Because I just used it a few days ago, and I'm able to either buy in increments like you say, or choose to buy with the exact amount (as long as the balance is over $5.00). As it stands, my online wallet is $0.00.
As for XBLA (Xbox Live Arcade, right?), the credits you can buy from MS don't match the dollar amount, so there's always money left over. At least that's what happens here. So maybe you're hitting some magic combination with the gift cards?
So, I'm guessing you don't have an Xbox360 or a PS3, or haven't seen both in action. Have you seen either? I don't want to just assume...
The difference is that for any balance over $5.00 on PS3 you end up paying exact change and end with a $0.00 balance. This is what I said above. On Xbox360, you can ONLY pay in blocks. You will almost always end up with money/credits left over.
In both cases if you only want to buy one small item, you overpay and have leftovers you don't want.
Do you have any of these game systems? How long? How many people have only bought one item that is less than $5.00, without ever buying anything else ever again? At least with the PS3, you can easily get to a $0.00 balance. It is difficult to impossible with Xbox360.
It seems your only real beef with my comment is ponying up $5.00 on the PS3 when you have less than the amount in your "wallet" to completely cover the less than $5.00 item. I'll agree on that specific point alone because it is annoying for them to do this even though it doesn't cost anything extra (from reading all the other comments).
The interest issue is silly. What kind of interest do you expect on $4.01?? I'll bet it costs them more to handle your account than the interest gained.
Simply put, Sony's PlayStation Network doesn't do this. The minimum is a $5.00 charge, but it's exact change above that.
1) You have a wallet. 2) If you don't have enough money in the wallet, and it will take less than $5.00 to cover, then you will be charged $5.00. 3) If the balance is $5.00 or greater, you will be charged exactly that amount.
You will always have less than $5.00 in your wallet, or most times $0.00 in your wallet as I have personally found.
I've been following this thread and yet I still don't see the answer to my question. I see a lot of dancing around instead.
Here's an example scenario. Say I have a server that sends perfectly valid HTML in response to an application that gets its data via an HTML formatted document. Say my delimiter between blocks of information is a div block. Again, this is perfectly valid. Now you come along and insert a div block on top of all the server's other div blocks. What is the application supposed to do?
And just in case you want to keep dancing, the div block could be a table or a p block or any other valid HTML construct that the server happens to use to format a perfectly valid HTML document, but that you use to insert your messages that would be better left to e-mail or a telephone call/voice mail.
So, again I ask, how do you ensure that your web page insertions don't break the application? Are you saying that an application needs to anticipate all random man-in-the-middle insertions into its data?
What other protocols on your customer's connection do you insert/delete/modify data? Just because we as network and systems administrators can do this legally, doesn't mean it's ethical. And are you telling your customers in bold print or several pages down in 6 point legalese? Do you tell them at all that you don't see a problem with doing this now or in some other way in the future?
I'm sorry. You've made a reference to South Park, which shows your (mental?) old age. To be hip and cool with the current/. crowd, you need to refer to xkcd or penny arcade online comic strips. Dilbert is also too old-school as it describes a work environment that is foreign to the new crop. Even understanding and correctly using "all your base" is falling out of fashion. Please spout nonsensical lines from obscure sources without further explanation. You are not guaranteed a Funny mod, but you will hide your age and fit right in.
AMD has also blamed this bug for the delay of the 2.4GHz Phenom, despite the fact that the erratum is unrelated to clock speed. [Emphasis added.]
Why does the summary claim this? I read through both articles, and AMD says this is a hardware issue across both chip models. Since this is a hardware issue, wouldn't it stand to reason that AMD would hold up a related chip because it's a hardware bug across both chip models and not because it's a clock speed issue? I'm not sure where the "despite" comes into play. I didn't see where the article said that AMD is not delaying a different speed Phenom.
How is the USA a "national accident"? According to my history lessons, documentaries I've watched, and books and articles I've read, there was nothing accidental about the formation of the USA. It is my understanding that the colonial rebels laid out political boundaries and fought off the UK. Subsequent states with set political boundaries agreed to join the union through a democratic process.
Germany, France, and Italy, just to name a few examples, are nations where political boundaries are more or less geographic or where the last boundary war left off. In those nations, a central government happened with time as control crept toward the edges. I tend to think of these circumstances as what creates a "national accident".
Or were you referring to another country? I suppose my USA-colored glasses could be interfering, but the thread definitely seemed to be referring to the USA.
Only so far as Google wants you to believe it's public. I know that's a bit cryptic, so let me explain.
Larry and Sergey own a majority of the voting shares. A common stockholder, or any stockholder, will never have a say in the direction of the company. Larry and Sergey even wrote a "poison pill" into Google's incorporation articles to make sure that they always have a majority vote.
GOOG stockholders are, in essence, donating equity. GOOG stockholders just hope that Larry and Sergey don't screw up because there's no way to vote them out.
I work with plastic fiber every single day. You can bend it around your pinky and still get 4Gb/s or even 10Gb/s out of it. For short-haul distances, 300m or less, it works just fine. Is this article from 10 years ago? For some reason, this is reminding me of how Microsoft touted shortcuts as something new when UNIX had symlinks (and got them right) decades before.
Every single U.S. citizen isn't in the active military, unlike Israeli citizens. And I never said that every single Israeli citizen is a member of the Mossad. But with everyone being in the military, you shouldn't be surprised if you also employ a Mossad member. That's all.
Except that Larry Page and Sergey Brin together hold the majority of voting shares. So while Larry and Sergey get credit for all the good, don't forget to give them the sole blame for the company's missteps.
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Images (which are very well documented) are not the only binary objects that MSFT includes in the document.
Apparently, you don't know what XML is. You can encapsulate ANYTHING with XML. It's just a bunch of tags that have no meaning until you describe what the tags encapsulate. And then there are binary blobs, which don't mean jack because they don't get described as anything else besides a binary blob.
I did a little bit of Googling just so I don't put my foot in my mouth too firmly here.
It is a fact that binary blobs are allowed in OOXML as well as ODF. The MS/OOXML rabid fan site ooxmlhoaxes even stipulates this. No argument there.
BUT, in the article GNOME/OOXML podcast shows two sides closer than appears, these binary blobs that MSFT have are NOT specified in a publicly accessible document (if they ever were documented). While the thrust of the article was about software politics and the podcast itself, it did have a few nuggets for our conversation.
Now, if MSFT is allowed to just grandfather in undocumented binary blobs into OOXML for whatever reason, is OOXML truly an open format?
OOXMLhoaxes would have you believe that ODF has this same problem:
But, this is of course shenanigans. ODF is based on an open source package. Since the package is open source, we all know the code that would create the binary blob and can document it and recompile it. MSFT has not offered the code to authoritatively read their own binary blobs. And let's not talk about reverse-engineering being viable for use by large companies. This would open them up to patent lawsuits if MSFT chose to go that route.
From the same blarticle:
So, Office 2003 also has undocumented binary blobs? Well, so much for XML making it easy for one to decode previous Office formats.
Looks like I won't be chewing on my foot after all. Here's the search I did to find out about the OOXML undocumented binary blob problem in case you'd like a starting point.
with MS your files are accessible for however long they decide they should be, with FOSS, they're accessible as long as anyone is alive capable of re-compiling the source.
This is the point that people miss. All of the documents that were archived in the older formats will no longer be openable -- in this case, there is an arcane incantation as a workaround, but what if MSFT removes support entirely so that an authoritative document conversion is no longer possible? With open source, the method is obtainable. With closed source, it may be deleted when the company no longer supports it or closes its doors.
There are many cities/states/countries that rely on MSFT formats for document archival. Should a city keep spending money every 5-10 years to also update the formats on all of these records in case the necessary closed-source software ceases to exist or work on modern computers?
And a great deal of video archive from CCTV as well I expect.
The question that arises is how would you index all this?
By time. And then you can go by difference and then by motion.
You could even have a second pass running that picks out faces and objects. These can then be compared to another database of similar faces and objects. All of these would then also be stored with references back to the original video.
It can be as simple or as complicated as you want. The technology exists today (and I'm sure is being used somewhere).
Sir Edmund Hillary was reacting to a story that turned out to not be true. The mountain climber was offered and given help at various points but died. Later climbing parties saw and passed the *dead* body on the way up, and this became the kernel of truth for the embellished and distorted story.
So, are you saying that you, too, are erroneously reacting before you know the whole story?
It's not like people need 14 months to save up for a digital TV. A 'good enough' off-brand 32" TV runs $700 now, and it'll probably be more like $500 later.
That's two or three months rent in many places -- with the matching lower pay.
One of the drawbacks of stars is that you can't exactly setup thrusters on the surface of a flaming, gaseous body.
But while we're talking about impracticalities, you could have an easier time extinguishing the side facing the direction you want it to move.
My bad. It makes much more sense now. My train of thought lumped you in with those who equate card with HBA, but in hindsight I see what you meant.
A couple of things I've learned:
If your company is buying a director and the main goal doesn't coincide with either uptime/high availability or port density, then all your company is doing is making the switch vendor's stock price go up. And, if you don't want the lowest latency, don't buy fibre channel. Always buy what fits. It does everyone a favor in the long run.
We've also had a heck of a lot more stability out of our 6500 series switches then we have out of our 9140's and the 9500's are extremely expensive if you have a need for under 3 cards worth of ports.
1) Why don't you just direct connect since you only have 3 HBAs?
2) At least compare it to a 9120 or 9124 (which has 8-port licenses). Anyone knows that a 9140 (40 ports) and a 9506 (a director with 4 FC card slots) is way overkill for what you describe.
I'd say that at the very least, you're misinformed as to what's out there.
Coincidence. Some addresses are easily guessed, and others are taken from websites and mailing lists.
Also, about the only thing that can't be faked with the header you posted is the IP address that connected to your server (of which you didn't include). Check your server logs.
This has nothing to do with SquirrelMail. Though they may have other problems, this one is only SM doing its job and showing what your MTA has accepted.
I don't know which PSN you're accessing, but the one I access only lets me buy in increments of $5, $10, $25 or higher amounts, with no ability to put in an exact amount.
That's odd. Because I just used it a few days ago, and I'm able to either buy in increments like you say, or choose to buy with the exact amount (as long as the balance is over $5.00). As it stands, my online wallet is $0.00.
As for XBLA (Xbox Live Arcade, right?), the credits you can buy from MS don't match the dollar amount, so there's always money left over. At least that's what happens here. So maybe you're hitting some magic combination with the gift cards?
What's the difference exactly?
So, I'm guessing you don't have an Xbox360 or a PS3, or haven't seen both in action. Have you seen either? I don't want to just assume...
The difference is that for any balance over $5.00 on PS3 you end up paying exact change and end with a $0.00 balance. This is what I said above. On Xbox360, you can ONLY pay in blocks. You will almost always end up with money/credits left over.
In both cases if you only want to buy one small item, you overpay and have leftovers you don't want.
Do you have any of these game systems? How long? How many people have only bought one item that is less than $5.00, without ever buying anything else ever again? At least with the PS3, you can easily get to a $0.00 balance. It is difficult to impossible with Xbox360.
It seems your only real beef with my comment is ponying up $5.00 on the PS3 when you have less than the amount in your "wallet" to completely cover the less than $5.00 item. I'll agree on that specific point alone because it is annoying for them to do this even though it doesn't cost anything extra (from reading all the other comments).
The interest issue is silly. What kind of interest do you expect on $4.01?? I'll bet it costs them more to handle your account than the interest gained.
It seems we just had a story that talked about Rogers.
Will ISP Web Content Filtering Continue To Grow?
(No, this one words it differently. -- Inserted by your friends at the NSA)
Simply put, Sony's PlayStation Network doesn't do this. The minimum is a $5.00 charge, but it's exact change above that.
1) You have a wallet.
2) If you don't have enough money in the wallet, and it will take less than $5.00 to cover, then you will be charged $5.00.
3) If the balance is $5.00 or greater, you will be charged exactly that amount.
You will always have less than $5.00 in your wallet, or most times $0.00 in your wallet as I have personally found.
If Sony can do this, why can't Microsoft?
I've been following this thread and yet I still don't see the answer to my question. I see a lot of dancing around instead.
Here's an example scenario. Say I have a server that sends perfectly valid HTML in response to an application that gets its data via an HTML formatted document. Say my delimiter between blocks of information is a div block. Again, this is perfectly valid. Now you come along and insert a div block on top of all the server's other div blocks. What is the application supposed to do?
And just in case you want to keep dancing, the div block could be a table or a p block or any other valid HTML construct that the server happens to use to format a perfectly valid HTML document, but that you use to insert your messages that would be better left to e-mail or a telephone call/voice mail.
So, again I ask, how do you ensure that your web page insertions don't break the application? Are you saying that an application needs to anticipate all random man-in-the-middle insertions into its data?
What other protocols on your customer's connection do you insert/delete/modify data? Just because we as network and systems administrators can do this legally, doesn't mean it's ethical. And are you telling your customers in bold print or several pages down in 6 point legalese? Do you tell them at all that you don't see a problem with doing this now or in some other way in the future?
It doesn't change the original content of the page
What controls do you have to ensure that you're not screwing up some automated data transfer that uses HTTP?
This sounds an awful lot like what Verisign/NetworkSolutions did with their DNS typosquatting debacle.
Get off my thread!
I'm sorry. You've made a reference to South Park, which shows your (mental?) old age. To be hip and cool with the current /. crowd, you need to refer to xkcd or penny arcade online comic strips. Dilbert is also too old-school as it describes a work environment that is foreign to the new crop. Even understanding and correctly using "all your base" is falling out of fashion. Please spout nonsensical lines from obscure sources without further explanation. You are not guaranteed a Funny mod, but you will hide your age and fit right in.
The cake is a lie!
AMD has also blamed this bug for the delay of the 2.4GHz Phenom, despite the fact that the erratum is unrelated to clock speed. [Emphasis added.]
Why does the summary claim this? I read through both articles, and AMD says this is a hardware issue across both chip models. Since this is a hardware issue, wouldn't it stand to reason that AMD would hold up a related chip because it's a hardware bug across both chip models and not because it's a clock speed issue? I'm not sure where the "despite" comes into play. I didn't see where the article said that AMD is not delaying a different speed Phenom.
How is the USA a "national accident"? According to my history lessons, documentaries I've watched, and books and articles I've read, there was nothing accidental about the formation of the USA. It is my understanding that the colonial rebels laid out political boundaries and fought off the UK. Subsequent states with set political boundaries agreed to join the union through a democratic process.
Germany, France, and Italy, just to name a few examples, are nations where political boundaries are more or less geographic or where the last boundary war left off. In those nations, a central government happened with time as control crept toward the edges. I tend to think of these circumstances as what creates a "national accident".
Or were you referring to another country? I suppose my USA-colored glasses could be interfering, but the thread definitely seemed to be referring to the USA.
Only so far as Google wants you to believe it's public. I know that's a bit cryptic, so let me explain.
Larry and Sergey own a majority of the voting shares. A common stockholder, or any stockholder, will never have a say in the direction of the company. Larry and Sergey even wrote a "poison pill" into Google's incorporation articles to make sure that they always have a majority vote.
GOOG stockholders are, in essence, donating equity. GOOG stockholders just hope that Larry and Sergey don't screw up because there's no way to vote them out.
If you only had a choice between an H1 hummer and a Mitsubishi Galant, or a BMW motorocycle... which would you drive?
I'd go to the lot across the street where people are driving away with free tanks.
I work with plastic fiber every single day. You can bend it around your pinky and still get 4Gb/s or even 10Gb/s out of it. For short-haul distances, 300m or less, it works just fine. Is this article from 10 years ago? For some reason, this is reminding me of how Microsoft touted shortcuts as something new when UNIX had symlinks (and got them right) decades before.
The parent needs to be modded up.
Every single U.S. citizen isn't in the active military, unlike Israeli citizens. And I never said that every single Israeli citizen is a member of the Mossad. But with everyone being in the military, you shouldn't be surprised if you also employ a Mossad member. That's all.
Except that Larry Page and Sergey Brin together hold the majority of voting shares. So while Larry and Sergey get credit for all the good, don't forget to give them the sole blame for the company's missteps.