There is an ultraviolet fire sensor in the engine bay that illuminates a light on the instrument panel in the event of a fire. We tested it. It works really well.
For those of you who will miss the premiere of the Tick live-action, or otherwise are unfortunate enough not to have a station which carries it, you can always find the 1st episode on Gnutella. I had the episode posted "privately" on my web-site for a while, but had to remove it due to space reasons.:-(
Why do you think the database would require an underlying filesystem? Many DBMSs use raw disk access in order to maximize speed. I know, because I've inadvertantly crushed a few partitions because they appeared to have no underlying filesystem on them.
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It would be interesting to see some stats about how many/.er's have the toolbar on after 'x' days -- in fact it would be interesting to have a compilation of stats in general:
No, the article was talking about another worm that was patched by Max Vision (or whatever the heck he's calling himself nowadays). However, the worm was infecting DoD servers, so he sent out another worm to patch them. However (and this is why he was arrested), he put a backdoor in the patched version.
In terms of security, there are some things that *are* perfectly secure. The one-time cipher is an example of this. Unfortunately, the pad of keys must be synchronized at either end of the communication -- and of course you can't transmit these, so practically-speaking, it's not really an option.
There's a neat document outlining "snake-oil" signs in encryption software here.
Why? Because PC floppy drives don't generate an OS event when a disk is inserted
Umm, what? Define "OS event" please. To me, an OS event is one which is generated by software because of some status change occuring within the hardware. You would be wrong to assume that PC floppy disks cannot generate a hardware event for disk changes. Review INT 13h, function 16h - Determine Disk Change (Floppy Drive, AT, and PS/2 only). The OS can poll this function to then generate an "OS event".
#611: People on Slashdot assuming they are more intelligent on a particular topic than the "world's leading" authority. A person in this position does not state things at random, duh!
Click on the number beside each post and it will give a breakdown after the post as to the moderations. (ie. your's is #85, so click on the #85 and you will see the moderation breakdown (ie. none at the time I am posting this)).
In case you don't know what Jackson Technology is, here's an article over at Tech-report. However, is appears that Intel has sold their soul to Lucifer. Ah well, let 'em join the ranks of other companies to have done the same.:-)
http://www.tech-report.com/onearticle.x/1947
Actually, the Star Office suite is not a bad interface -- it is just a case of Windowisms being applied to the Linux GUI. Some of them work, and some of them don't. Sun actually has some of the best UI designers in the business working for them.
Yeah, they are. Brazillian scientists were trying to make better honey-producing bees and used an African bee (which is very tempermental) as hybrid material. For information regarding killer bees check out www.insecta-inspecta.com/bees/killer/.
The original link I posted was to a spec. that featured a 400 MHz AMD K6-2 (for some reason I immediately leapt to 'Athlon':-), whereas the newer spec. is for a 600 MHz Celeron.
Point taken: however the linked article seems to see the SunPCi card as a major selling point for this. Although PCI bus is also great, it is fairly common on PCs, and hence not really something to get excited about. My confusion stemmed from Slashdot getting excited over PCI (bus I assume), and the article's SunPCi -- which, with a built-in Athlon-based processor and all the amenities seems to be more exciting than simple PCI-bus.
...the Slashdot article should read SunPCi. This is a card witha chip on it that allows the user to run existing x86 applications under the Solaris OS. The article confused me with the line:
"With a PCi card for an extra $195, the Sun Blade 100 machine would be able to run applications on both Microsoft's Windows and Sun's Solaris operating system."
Why is this even an issue?! Last I heard, Linux was providing a cheap and powerful alternative to other operating systems. Is it the goal of Linux to take over the desktop OS market?
No.
Linux provides what is lacking. Mac OSX provides what is lacking as well. As the French say "chacun son gout".
"My God, Vanessa's got a smashing body. I bet she shags like a minx. How do I tell them that because of the unfreezing process, I have no inner monologue?"
However, here is a problem. If you do not know what language fits the problem, then you are destined to work with a language that is less efficient at solving the problem (in terms of time, space, complexity, all of the above). Compare writing a parser in C vs. writing one in Perl, or writing set operations (from scratch, not the STL) vs. using the built-in language support of Pascal, or writing a thread-driven program using C vs. using the language-centric thread features of Java. There is give and take, and there is general programming languages vs. specialty programming languages. However, the only way to really know what a language offers is through advocacy. Now I'm not talking fanatical advocacy, but rather discussions about the merits of one language over another. Its all about give and take. Find the language with the features you need to solve the problem at hand.
The issue of using two mice came up while I was taking my User Interfaces course at the University of Waterloo.
Basically the idea is that with two mice you have many more degrees of freedom to work with. If you look at a standard mouse, you have 2 + number of buttons degress of freedom. When working with CAD programs and VR design, you need to have at least 3 degrees of freedom (one for each dimension, obviously). The problem comes in when trying to work with a 3D object on a 2D screen with a 2D instrument (mouse). In order to get the third dimension, many programs will do the "natural" thing and project 2D mappings of the 3D object. You manipulate these 2 dimensions, while the third remains fixed. However, when getting into operations like rotations and scaling, which are no longer natural movements done in a 2D plane (ie. moving something on a 2D vector), things get even more interesting.
Such things require the user to turn the operation on (click an option, hold a key on the keyboard, etc.) Using the keyboard with one hand and the mouse in the other is actually quite effective, but there is still a transition where we are no longer translating; we are transforming. Hence the second mouse. One mouse is useful for translations, and the other is useful for transformations. The buttons on the transformation mouse allow to switch between the transformations, and the motions allows you to perform continuous scaling/rotations while all the time maintaining the ability to translate the object as well.
For the Advanced Operating Systems course and Distributed Systems course at Saint Mary's University in Nova Scotia (Can.), we used a custom kernel called Lego. Unfortunately, it has nothing to do with the toy -- it is based on the fact that it is a microkernel with modularity similar to Lego building blocks (insert/reuse/replace).
For more information, you can see Dr. Hughes' work (and students') on Lego here.
...and then of course, a post like the above is read, and the grinding of gears can be heard as a mad rush to mod up the original post takes place. This appears to be very true. If there is a flamish original article, it will be mod'ed down. If there is someone to state that "Of course it is not flamebait, there are valid points, etc." it is mod'ed up.
It is quite entertaining to watch the dynamics of the moderation system. Perhaps the above article is insightful, perhaps it is not. This is definitely OT, and should be mod'ed down for precisely this reason and no other.
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This is hilarious:
For those of you who will miss the premiere of the Tick live-action, or otherwise are unfortunate enough not to have a station which carries it, you can always find the 1st episode on Gnutella. I had the episode posted "privately" on my web-site for a while, but had to remove it due to space reasons. :-(
Why do you think the database would require an underlying filesystem? Many DBMSs use raw disk access in order to maximize speed. I know, because I've inadvertantly crushed a few partitions because they appeared to have no underlying filesystem on them.
It would be interesting to see some stats about how many /.er's have the toolbar on after 'x' days -- in fact it would be interesting to have a compilation of stats in general:
No, the article was talking about another worm that was patched by Max Vision (or whatever the heck he's calling himself nowadays). However, the worm was infecting DoD servers, so he sent out another worm to patch them. However (and this is why he was arrested), he put a backdoor in the patched version.
In terms of security, there are some things that *are* perfectly secure. The one-time cipher is an example of this. Unfortunately, the pad of keys must be synchronized at either end of the communication -- and of course you can't transmit these, so practically-speaking, it's not really an option.
There's a neat document outlining "snake-oil" signs in encryption software here.
There's more to DVDs than layers - most DVDs are single-layered anyway.
At first glance, I read this as "There's more to DVDs than lawyers..."Why? Because PC floppy drives don't generate an OS event when a disk is inserted
Umm, what? Define "OS event" please. To me, an OS event is one which is generated by software because of some status change occuring within the hardware. You would be wrong to assume that PC floppy disks cannot generate a hardware event for disk changes. Review INT 13h, function 16h - Determine Disk Change (Floppy Drive, AT, and PS/2 only). The OS can poll this function to then generate an "OS event".
Hmmm, sad state of affairs to know that the above-linked site is now Slashdotted. :-)
#611: People on Slashdot assuming they are more intelligent on a particular topic than the "world's leading" authority. A person in this position does not state things at random, duh!
Click on the number beside each post and it will give a breakdown after the post as to the moderations. (ie. your's is #85, so click on the #85 and you will see the moderation breakdown (ie. none at the time I am posting this)).
Crap. I meant to point to this article over at The Register.
In case you don't know what Jackson Technology is, here's an article over at Tech-report. However, is appears that Intel has sold their soul to Lucifer. Ah well, let 'em join the ranks of other companies to have done the same. :-)
http://www.tech-report.com/onearticle.x/1947
Actually, the Star Office suite is not a bad interface -- it is just a case of Windowisms being applied to the Linux GUI. Some of them work, and some of them don't. Sun actually has some of the best UI designers in the business working for them.
Yeah, they are. Brazillian scientists were trying to make better honey-producing bees and used an African bee (which is very tempermental) as hybrid material. For information regarding killer bees check out www.insecta-inspecta.com/bees/killer/.
The original link I posted was to a spec. that featured a 400 MHz AMD K6-2 (for some reason I immediately leapt to 'Athlon' :-), whereas the newer spec. is for a 600 MHz Celeron.
Point taken: however the linked article seems to see the SunPCi card as a major selling point for this. Although PCI bus is also great, it is fairly common on PCs, and hence not really something to get excited about. My confusion stemmed from Slashdot getting excited over PCI (bus I assume), and the article's SunPCi -- which, with a built-in Athlon-based processor and all the amenities seems to be more exciting than simple PCI-bus.
"With a PCi card for an extra $195, the Sun Blade 100 machine would be able to run applications on both Microsoft's Windows and Sun's Solaris operating system."
Until I looked it up on Sun's site at: http://www.sun.com/desktop/products/sunpci/sunpcij tf.html
Why is this even an issue?! Last I heard, Linux was providing a cheap and powerful alternative to other operating systems. Is it the goal of Linux to take over the desktop OS market?
No.
Linux provides what is lacking. Mac OSX provides what is lacking as well. As the French say "chacun son gout".
Or it could be because the source's name was Art.
"My God, Vanessa's got a smashing body. I bet she shags like a minx. How do I tell them that because of the unfreezing process, I have no inner monologue?"
"I hope I didn't say that out loud just now."
However, here is a problem. If you do not know what language fits the problem, then you are destined to work with a language that is less efficient at solving the problem (in terms of time, space, complexity, all of the above). Compare writing a parser in C vs. writing one in Perl, or writing set operations (from scratch, not the STL) vs. using the built-in language support of Pascal, or writing a thread-driven program using C vs. using the language-centric thread features of Java. There is give and take, and there is general programming languages vs. specialty programming languages. However, the only way to really know what a language offers is through advocacy. Now I'm not talking fanatical advocacy, but rather discussions about the merits of one language over another. Its all about give and take. Find the language with the features you need to solve the problem at hand.
The issue of using two mice came up while I was taking my User Interfaces course at the University of Waterloo.
Basically the idea is that with two mice you have many more degrees of freedom to work with. If you look at a standard mouse, you have 2 + number of buttons degress of freedom. When working with CAD programs and VR design, you need to have at least 3 degrees of freedom (one for each dimension, obviously). The problem comes in when trying to work with a 3D object on a 2D screen with a 2D instrument (mouse). In order to get the third dimension, many programs will do the "natural" thing and project 2D mappings of the 3D object. You manipulate these 2 dimensions, while the third remains fixed. However, when getting into operations like rotations and scaling, which are no longer natural movements done in a 2D plane (ie. moving something on a 2D vector), things get even more interesting.
Such things require the user to turn the operation on (click an option, hold a key on the keyboard, etc.) Using the keyboard with one hand and the mouse in the other is actually quite effective, but there is still a transition where we are no longer translating; we are transforming. Hence the second mouse. One mouse is useful for translations, and the other is useful for transformations. The buttons on the transformation mouse allow to switch between the transformations, and the motions allows you to perform continuous scaling/rotations while all the time maintaining the ability to translate the object as well.
Two mice would be killer in Quake! :-)
For the Advanced Operating Systems course and Distributed Systems course at Saint Mary's University in Nova Scotia (Can.), we used a custom kernel called Lego. Unfortunately, it has nothing to do with the toy -- it is based on the fact that it is a microkernel with modularity similar to Lego building blocks (insert/reuse/replace).
For more information, you can see Dr. Hughes' work (and students') on Lego here.It is quite entertaining to watch the dynamics of the moderation system. Perhaps the above article is insightful, perhaps it is not. This is definitely OT, and should be mod'ed down for precisely this reason and no other.