I've had a look at it. After finding out that the archive, or at least the first few comics, can only be viewed in Popups, I stopped looking at it. Going through an entire archive like this is too cumbersome for me.
(Yes, I/could/ disable my popup blocker - but I don't want to. Certainly not if it's just for a webcomic.)
It's a rather serious comic (for a webcomic) in a fantasy universe. Interesting world, well thought out story, very good artwork. The best Webcomic I have seen so far.
Also, there doesn't seem to be any mention of userfriendly yet, but I guess that one goes without saying...
I think that feature is Windows-only. As you pointed out, Linux-users in general already have a system wide auto-update mechanism, so they don't need it. Besides, you wouldn't want some third-party tool to fool around with your rpm/dpkg/portage controlled system, would you?
[...] but if you have limited man-hours to work on it [...]
This is Microsoft we're talking about. They are one of the wealthiest companies on earth. I do believe they can hire about as many developers as they need.
Yes, I do realize there is a point where putting one more developer on a project won't get any more actual work done, but still...
I think one of the selling points is that the moment you press a modifier key (Ctrl, Alt, Shift, Meta, or a combination) all of the keys will immediately change their appearance to reflect their function with said modifier pressed. This should better happen in less than a second. (Less than 0.3 seconds would be better, but then again, if you type this fast, you probably won't need to look at the key anyway.)
Okay, that's very nice, but what puzzled me about this was that it seemed to be part of the things that had finally been released to the general public under the CDDL. Reading the announcement again, I guess I have been mistaken there.
Counter-question: Why do you want to know this? You won't be able to run old windows applications or drivers on it one way or the other, at least not without emulation. This is not something like x86 or even x86_64, it's completely different. It looks like the core of the processor will be an outdated PowerPC (which, fwiw, will likely have 64-bit registers), but that won't help someone who wants to run Windows software on it.
My guess is that Windows on the Cell, if MS decides to have go at it at all, will be only slightly more successful than Windows on Alpha or MIPS. (For exactly the reason above - old software won't run on it out of the box.)
And I would also like to rephrase part of my prior statement to read "GNU/Linux" for those that enjoy being picky.
On being picky, I think the term "GNU/Linux" is actually the poorer choice in this case. This is about the Linux _Kernel_, not the entire system. The GNU project has, for a change, nothing to do with this.
Any dissidents will, by now, have recognised your trolls for what they are. In a darknet you connect to people you trust, you form those trust relationships independently of Freenet. If you do-so on the basis of a "let me in d00des" on an IRC channel then you are a moron.
I do think he has a point. If one of the friends you chose to trust and connect with turns out not to be so trustworthy after all (for example because he's really a government mole), then you're in even deeper shit with a darknet-style Freenet than with the current one. And then there's the issue of how a band of dissidents in, say, china are going to connect to the rest of Freenet. At some point, one or better several members of that group will have to get out of hiding and ask some non-dissident - preferably one with international connexions - whether they would like to open a mutual Freenet link between their nodes.
Remember that one of the basic elements of the way Freenet nodes communicate is a request that asks a direct neighbor node for a certain piece of content. Now, what you can do with this is, set up a specifically altered Freenet node with a routing table of one node only - the node you want to probe. Now try requesting all of the data blocks and check blocks of a certain split file from that node only. If you get all of them within a significantly shorter timeframe than it would ordinarily take that node to retrieve the given file, then you can be reasonably certain that the user/owner of that node has either inserted or downloaded that file from/into Freenet.
See, you don't have to gain physical access to the machine to exploit this.
The only way I see around this is to either have a really large datastore (several hundred GB) so that there actually is a quite reasonable chance that large splitfiles you never had anything to with are present in it or to have a really tiny datastore so that the data blocks of large splitfiles you download are never all in there.
They (the freenet devs) are currently working on making it possible to run freenet as a large-scale darknet. That means it will be very hard to impossible to find out whether a given host is a node or not or even get an incomplete list of nodes.
At least that's the idea. As far as I can see, the most obvious result of their current course of development will probably be that the vast majority of people, even those in "free" countries, will not be able to use freenet at all.
I consider myself moderately geeky, but I honestly never understood why anyone would want a GMail acct. I find it particularly puzzling that this service is so popular among people who would need maybe two or three hours at most to set up their very own mail server + IMAP.
Maybe I've missed out on the most important bit about GMail that makes it so fantastic (it can't be the 1GB storage space, can it?). If so, please enlighten me.
This is why subversion has the svn dump command (or was it svnadmin dump or svndump? Well, it doesn't really matter) that you can use to do backups of your repository to _plaintext_ files, just like you would use pg_dump to backup your postgresql database.
Obviously, if you don't use the feature, it's pretty useless, but, hey, how often has it been pointed out that every serious project that uses computers needs a good backup strategy?
Slashdot Mirror
Does that mean.... Coral Cache is slashdotted?
If you're going for "best money can buy", then why use SATA disks and not SCSI (maybe in the form of SAS) ones?
Actually, I think it was taken from the french "dessin animé"
N: Raymond Chen
E: raymondc@microsoft.com
D: Author of Configure script
S: 14509 NE 39th Street #1096
S: Bellevue, Washington 98007
S: USA
I've had a look at it. After finding out that the archive, or at least the first few comics, can only be viewed in Popups, I stopped looking at it. Going through an entire archive like this is too cumbersome for me.
/could/ disable my popup blocker - but I don't want to. Certainly not if it's just for a webcomic.)
(Yes, I
Okay, people seem to take this as an occasion to hand out links to their own favorite comics. So, here's a favorite of mine:
http://www.errantstory.com/
It's a rather serious comic (for a webcomic) in a fantasy universe. Interesting world, well thought out story, very good artwork. The best Webcomic I have seen so far.
Also, there doesn't seem to be any mention of userfriendly yet, but I guess that one goes without saying...
Another poster posted this link:
printer description
There it says it can print 330 linear feet per minute - that's more than a thousand pages.
I don't know about porthole/portal or red carpet, but aptitude is just a frontend for dpkg.
I think that feature is Windows-only. As you pointed out, Linux-users in general already have a system wide auto-update mechanism, so they don't need it. Besides, you wouldn't want some third-party tool to fool around with your rpm/dpkg/portage controlled system, would you?
Look at your parent-post and you have the answer.
[...] but if you have limited man-hours to work on it [...]
This is Microsoft we're talking about. They are one of the wealthiest companies on earth. I do believe they can hire about as many developers as they need.
Yes, I do realize there is a point where putting one more developer on a project won't get any more actual work done, but still...
I think one of the selling points is that the moment you press a modifier key (Ctrl, Alt, Shift, Meta, or a combination) all of the keys will immediately change their appearance to reflect their function with said modifier pressed. This should better happen in less than a second. (Less than 0.3 seconds would be better, but then again, if you type this fast, you probably won't need to look at the key anyway.)
Okay, that's very nice, but what puzzled me about this was that it seemed to be part of the things that had finally been released to the general public under the CDDL.
Reading the announcement again, I guess I have been mistaken there.
Meaning, grub as in GRand Unified Bootloader?
I thought that was a GNU project...
does the cell have a 32 or 64 bit architecture?
Counter-question: Why do you want to know this?
You won't be able to run old windows applications or drivers on it one way or the other, at least not without emulation. This is not something like x86 or even x86_64, it's completely different. It looks like the core of the processor will be an outdated PowerPC (which, fwiw, will likely have 64-bit registers), but that won't help someone who wants to run Windows software on it.
My guess is that Windows on the Cell, if MS decides to have go at it at all, will be only slightly more successful than Windows on Alpha or MIPS. (For exactly the reason above - old software won't run on it out of the box.)
And I would also like to rephrase part of my prior statement to read "GNU/Linux" for those that enjoy being picky.
On being picky, I think the term "GNU/Linux" is actually the poorer choice in this case. This is about the Linux _Kernel_, not the entire system. The GNU project has, for a change, nothing to do with this.
It should be http://www.opencores.org/ . http://opencores.org/ points nowhere.
And then there's the issue of how a band of dissidents in, say, china are going to connect to the rest of Freenet. At some point, one or better several members of that group will have to get out of hiding and ask some non-dissident - preferably one with international connexions - whether they would like to open a mutual Freenet link between their nodes.
Not quite true.
Remember that one of the basic elements of the way Freenet nodes communicate is a request that asks a direct neighbor node for a certain piece of content. Now, what you can do with this is, set up a specifically altered Freenet node with a routing table of one node only - the node you want to probe.
Now try requesting all of the data blocks and check blocks of a certain split file from that node only. If you get all of them within a significantly shorter timeframe than it would ordinarily take that node to retrieve the given file, then you can be reasonably certain that the user/owner of that node has either inserted or downloaded that file from/into Freenet.
See, you don't have to gain physical access to the machine to exploit this.
The only way I see around this is to either have a really large datastore (several hundred GB) so that there actually is a quite reasonable chance that large splitfiles you never had anything to with are present in it or to have a really tiny datastore so that the data blocks of large splitfiles you download are never all in there.
Yes, I did know and have adjusted my life style accordingly a long time ago.
Quick and Dirty Operating System... Explains quite a bit, doesn't it?
They (the freenet devs) are currently working on making it possible to run freenet as a large-scale darknet. That means it will be very hard to impossible to find out whether a given host is a node or not or even get an incomplete list of nodes.
At least that's the idea. As far as I can see, the most obvious result of their current course of development will probably be that the vast majority of people, even those in "free" countries, will not be able to use freenet at all.
I consider myself moderately geeky, but I honestly never understood why anyone would want a GMail acct. I find it particularly puzzling that this service is so popular among people who would need maybe two or three hours at most to set up their very own mail server + IMAP.
Maybe I've missed out on the most important bit about GMail that makes it so fantastic (it can't be the 1GB storage space, can it?). If so, please enlighten me.
I just found a new .sig!
This is why subversion has the svn dump command (or was it svnadmin dump or svndump? Well, it doesn't really matter) that you can use to do backups of your repository to _plaintext_ files, just like you would use pg_dump to backup your postgresql database.
Obviously, if you don't use the feature, it's pretty useless, but, hey, how often has it been pointed out that every serious project that uses computers needs a good backup strategy?