NTFS doesn't use short filenames as part of its basic structure but it still supports them and has them enabled by default for compatibility. FAT (whether 12,16 or 32) uses short filenames as a basic part of the structure.
either way if you run a file based backup and restore and the short names end up different then some older stuff is liable to break.
the problem with the cmd approach is if you type too little to get down to a small number of options (small enough to reaconablly tab though) you have to back up manually using backspace before you can try again.
with the bash way if you know the filename you just type a bit tab and then if nessacery type some more (often you seem to end up with lots of files with a common prefix so you type the first letter of the prefix then tab then the first letter or two of the distinguishing part of the name).
I just wonder isn't it really easy to trace phone numbers? not if they use a voip account obtained either free (from a provider that gives free incoming) or using stolen credit card information and put thier base of operations outside the western world.
voip has made phone numbers as hard to trace as anything on the internet.
and it's the reason why phishing and identity theft accounts are frozen and almost 99% of all stolen funds are recovered. so you've just got to automate the scams enough that a 1% kept rate is viable.
So I must ask, how is exploiting security holes a legal business method? its not
It's obvious that most spyware-creating companies use this tactic, since it's obvious that no one in their right minds would accept spyware voluntarily no afaict its thier redistributers (usually on some form of commission) who do so. Theese redistributors are much harder to trace and when you do they are the bottom of the pile and easilly replaceable anyway.
A lot of HP's ability to make a profit comes from selling inkjet ink for $8000 per gallon and from people who learned long ago that HP had the best products, but have not updated their understanding. who is the best inkjet manufacturer nowadays or are they all shit? Modern HPs are hard/impossible to by clone cartridges for, epsons seem to suffer from clogged heads after a few years (its not worth paying to have theese replaced though DIY may be possible i suppose). Anyone have better experiance with other brands?
the only OS that was a radical change from its previous OS yet still supported most PC hardware was Windows NT. i'm sure in the early days of NT you had to specifically look for hardware that was NT compatible just like you do with linux today.
Even with MS behind it and strong statements that it was the only future of windows MS had to backtrack twice and release maintinace releases for 9x before they finally had the market ready (running mostly win32 apps on mostly NT compatible hardware) to drop 9x.
Take for example any common wireless router, it probably runs Linu i thought ones that were known to run linux (i bet there are also a lot of GPL violators keeping quiet though) were the exception not the rule, even linksys (famous for linux based wireless routers) ultimately decided that the licensing costs of vxworks were made up for by hardware savings.
not that this is really relavent to linux vs ms anyway as ms never had that market in the first place.
my guess is that moderate women don't ever make it to the top because of things like childbirth and people are scared shitless of firing women from a male dominated profession (in just the same way people are scared shitless of making fun of islam even though they quite happilly make fun of christianity).
so the only women you see in such positions are assholes that only stay there because the proffession is male dominated.
Paypal may not be a bank, but in the UK it's regulated by the Financial Services Authority just the same. yes in other words we brits are doing a better job of making them play by the rules than the yanks are.
ok i was under the impression that voice and HSCSD were the same with conventional GSM data being lower due to extra error checking. Anyway thats a minor detail my point about having to go at least 10 times lower than his figures to stand a good chance of killing voip still stands.
All that said: A signature state of the Berne Convention can NOT suspend copyright. sure they can, they may get trade sanctions (or even invaded though i think thats unlikly) for doing so though.
yes sometimes countries agree to things but ultimately the only enforceability of those agrements comes from each others use of force or coercion and there aren't many that would dare to pick a fight with the EU.
You forgot that a corporation can't use force to get you to do something the only reason they can't in modern western society (they do in some others) is that the goverments won't let them.
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On the other hand, if you want to carry a satellite or space-station module into orbit AND you want to have the option of bringing it back to Earth (as opposed to throwing it away) if it turns out to be broken somehow, then guess what, the shuttle is perfect, and I challenge anyone to even come up with a better concept than the shuttle. are there any satalites that are so expensive its worth trying to bring them back down?
plus the shuttle can only get to LEO which limits its usefullness for satalite recovery.
BTW are there any plans for boosting the ISS once there is no longer a shuttle to do it with or will it be left to burn up?
The moment the world switches away from fossil fuels (military reasons completely aside), middle east won't suddenly become a hellhole. i disagree, it will probablly destroy thier current government systems leading to in the short term civil war and in the medium term rebuilding a sustainable government system from scratch. Countries are strong because they control something be it a high tech level and/or patriotic population (lots of people with good meaningfull technical degrees, lots of research and development, people pay thier taxes without signficant resistance etc), valuable natural rescources (oil in the case of the middle east) or something else. Trade routes also used to be important but the ability to easilly cross the open ocean reduced that considerablly.
your going to have to go a lot lower than that to kill skype, standard PSTN voice channels use 64kbps GSM uses 14.4kbps and i bet some modern codecs can go even lower. It may still be feasible though.
it would also hurt file uploads and downloads over https (e.g. https based webmail apps) of course you may view that as a good thing and could possiblly avoid it by only limiting connections that had both sigificant upload and download (but then your increasing the complexity again).
but neither is a router that has a smaller link because part of the old link was taken over by a non-ip based TV service.
i don't see how prioritising packets on an IP link is any worse than subsectioning a link in fixed ratios for pots and internet (which telcos already do) or for TV and internet (which cablecos already do).
Are people like that really going to be any less productive if they're used to OpenOffice/Wordperfect? if they were trained with another app from the start probabblly not, nor if you spend money to retrain them. However throw them at a new app without retraining and they may not be able to find anything.
and thats before you consider compatibility issues (yes theese happen between office versions too and its a pita there too), the last thing someone who doesn't really understand document structure is going to wan't is to have to do all that formatting again when they take the document to another machine.
have you ever been on the receiving end of a DDOS attack, spoofed packets are a threat to the networks functionality and as such blocking them is a legitimate network management descision.
out of interest what were you using spoofed packets for?
right looking at wikipedia it can in principle be configured to be over saturn V size but they never actually did so. its not clear from the wikipedia article if the "high energy H2 upper stage" was ever tested as part of another rocket but i somehow doubt it. This is all academic anyway as political issues wouldn't let the american space program be based on a russian rocket.
i think the parent was reffering to the broken off pencil "lead" striking someone a full pen or pencil is far more visible. This is probablly however the least of the worries anyway.
generally in "zero G" little bits (especially conductive ones) breaking off anything is a bad thing. they won't just fall to the floor but will instead move until they hit something, get wafted arround by air currents and moved arround (relative to the vehircle) by acceleration etc. This greatly increases the risk they will get somewhere they shouldn't.
note: a standard ballpoint will work fine in a presurised spacecraft the space pens main advantage is it will write in a vacum (it will also write any way up under the influence of gravity or similar forces)
And now they are redesigning the whole heavy-lift launch vehicle for the Moon project. they probablly don't have much choice, if you keep building something for years you make lots of changes incrementally to take into account technological improvements and component availibility. If on the other hand you haven't built your item for decades then even if you still have the plans you are going to find it very very difficult to build as you keep finding parts unobtainable, things that were judged by eye by a particular person (especially with something as short run as a rocket) suppliers and subcontractors that no longer exist and a whole host of similar problems and when your done you'll still end up with something thats subpar by modern standards.
buying foriegn is another option of course but i don't think even the ruskies stuff can rival the saturn 5 and there are political issues too
iirc early versions of windows could only multitask windows apps.
windows 3.x in 386 enhanced mode could multitask dos apps but at least for games it didn't work anywhere near as well as native dos. 9x was much better at it but your already getting pretty bloated by that point (and i certainly don't call 9x an early version of windows).
also iirc tcp/ip using the windows stack from a dos app was afaict a pita (ID software reffered to it as a delicate balancing act and iirc there was a seperate windows helper app).
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NTFS doesn't use short filenames as part of its basic structure but it still supports them and has them enabled by default for compatibility. FAT (whether 12,16 or 32) uses short filenames as a basic part of the structure.
either way if you run a file based backup and restore and the short names end up different then some older stuff is liable to break.
the problem with the cmd approach is if you type too little to get down to a small number of options (small enough to reaconablly tab though) you have to back up manually using backspace before you can try again.
with the bash way if you know the filename you just type a bit tab and then if nessacery type some more (often you seem to end up with lots of files with a common prefix so you type the first letter of the prefix then tab then the first letter or two of the distinguishing part of the name).
I just wonder isn't it really easy to trace phone numbers?
not if they use a voip account obtained either free (from a provider that gives free incoming) or using stolen credit card information and put thier base of operations outside the western world.
voip has made phone numbers as hard to trace as anything on the internet.
and it's the reason why phishing and identity theft accounts are frozen and almost 99% of all stolen funds are recovered.
so you've just got to automate the scams enough that a 1% kept rate is viable.
So I must ask, how is exploiting security holes a legal business method?
its not
It's obvious that most spyware-creating companies use this tactic, since it's obvious that no one in their right minds would accept spyware voluntarily
no afaict its thier redistributers (usually on some form of commission) who do so. Theese redistributors are much harder to trace and when you do they are the bottom of the pile and easilly replaceable anyway.
A lot of HP's ability to make a profit comes from selling inkjet ink for $8000 per gallon and from people who learned long ago that HP had the best products, but have not updated their understanding.
who is the best inkjet manufacturer nowadays or are they all shit? Modern HPs are hard/impossible to by clone cartridges for, epsons seem to suffer from clogged heads after a few years (its not worth paying to have theese replaced though DIY may be possible i suppose). Anyone have better experiance with other brands?
the only OS that was a radical change from its previous OS yet still supported most PC hardware was Windows NT.
i'm sure in the early days of NT you had to specifically look for hardware that was NT compatible just like you do with linux today.
Even with MS behind it and strong statements that it was the only future of windows MS had to backtrack twice and release maintinace releases for 9x before they finally had the market ready (running mostly win32 apps on mostly NT compatible hardware) to drop 9x.
Take for example any common wireless router, it probably runs Linu
i thought ones that were known to run linux (i bet there are also a lot of GPL violators keeping quiet though) were the exception not the rule, even linksys (famous for linux based wireless routers) ultimately decided that the licensing costs of vxworks were made up for by hardware savings.
not that this is really relavent to linux vs ms anyway as ms never had that market in the first place.
my guess is that moderate women don't ever make it to the top because of things like childbirth and people are scared shitless of firing women from a male dominated profession (in just the same way people are scared shitless of making fun of islam even though they quite happilly make fun of christianity).
so the only women you see in such positions are assholes that only stay there because the proffession is male dominated.
Paypal may not be a bank, but in the UK it's regulated by the Financial Services Authority just the same.
yes in other words we brits are doing a better job of making them play by the rules than the yanks are.
ok i was under the impression that voice and HSCSD were the same with conventional GSM data being lower due to extra error checking. Anyway thats a minor detail my point about having to go at least 10 times lower than his figures to stand a good chance of killing voip still stands.
All that said: A signature state of the Berne Convention can NOT suspend copyright.
sure they can, they may get trade sanctions (or even invaded though i think thats unlikly) for doing so though.
yes sometimes countries agree to things but ultimately the only enforceability of those agrements comes from each others use of force or coercion and there aren't many that would dare to pick a fight with the EU.
did you even read the article you just quoted? in particular
"However, today the United Kingdom uses the short scale so widely that the term "British usage" is no longer an appropriate phrase.!
i'm a brit and i'm pretty sure we tend to use the short system for billion trillian etc just like the yanks now.
You forgot that a corporation can't use force to get you to do something
the only reason they can't in modern western society (they do in some others) is that the goverments won't let them.
On the other hand, if you want to carry a satellite or space-station module into orbit AND you want to have the option of bringing it back to Earth (as opposed to throwing it away) if it turns out to be broken somehow, then guess what, the shuttle is perfect, and I challenge anyone to even come up with a better concept than the shuttle.
are there any satalites that are so expensive its worth trying to bring them back down?
plus the shuttle can only get to LEO which limits its usefullness for satalite recovery.
BTW are there any plans for boosting the ISS once there is no longer a shuttle to do it with or will it be left to burn up?
The moment the world switches away from fossil fuels (military reasons completely aside), middle east won't suddenly become a hellhole.
i disagree, it will probablly destroy thier current government systems leading to in the short term civil war and in the medium term rebuilding a sustainable government system from scratch. Countries are strong because they control something be it a high tech level and/or patriotic population (lots of people with good meaningfull technical degrees, lots of research and development, people pay thier taxes without signficant resistance etc), valuable natural rescources (oil in the case of the middle east) or something else. Trade routes also used to be important but the ability to easilly cross the open ocean reduced that considerablly.
your going to have to go a lot lower than that to kill skype, standard PSTN voice channels use 64kbps GSM uses 14.4kbps and i bet some modern codecs can go even lower. It may still be feasible though.
it would also hurt file uploads and downloads over https (e.g. https based webmail apps) of course you may view that as a good thing and could possiblly avoid it by only limiting connections that had both sigificant upload and download (but then your increasing the complexity again).
but neither is a router that has a smaller link because part of the old link was taken over by a non-ip based TV service.
i don't see how prioritising packets on an IP link is any worse than subsectioning a link in fixed ratios for pots and internet (which telcos already do) or for TV and internet (which cablecos already do).
Are people like that really going to be any less productive if they're used to OpenOffice/Wordperfect?
if they were trained with another app from the start probabblly not, nor if you spend money to retrain them. However throw them at a new app without retraining and they may not be able to find anything.
and thats before you consider compatibility issues (yes theese happen between office versions too and its a pita there too), the last thing someone who doesn't really understand document structure is going to wan't is to have to do all that formatting again when they take the document to another machine.
have you ever been on the receiving end of a DDOS attack, spoofed packets are a threat to the networks functionality and as such blocking them is a legitimate network management descision.
out of interest what were you using spoofed packets for?
right looking at wikipedia it can in principle be configured to be over saturn V size but they never actually did so. its not clear from the wikipedia article if the "high energy H2 upper stage" was ever tested as part of another rocket but i somehow doubt it. This is all academic anyway as political issues wouldn't let the american space program be based on a russian rocket.
i think the parent was reffering to the broken off pencil "lead" striking someone a full pen or pencil is far more visible. This is probablly however the least of the worries anyway.
generally in "zero G" little bits (especially conductive ones) breaking off anything is a bad thing. they won't just fall to the floor but will instead move until they hit something, get wafted arround by air currents and moved arround (relative to the vehircle) by acceleration etc. This greatly increases the risk they will get somewhere they shouldn't.
note: a standard ballpoint will work fine in a presurised spacecraft the space pens main advantage is it will write in a vacum (it will also write any way up under the influence of gravity or similar forces)
And now they are redesigning the whole heavy-lift launch vehicle for the Moon project.
they probablly don't have much choice, if you keep building something for years you make lots of changes incrementally to take into account technological improvements and component availibility. If on the other hand you haven't built your item for decades then even if you still have the plans you are going to find it very very difficult to build as you keep finding parts unobtainable, things that were judged by eye by a particular person (especially with something as short run as a rocket) suppliers and subcontractors that no longer exist and a whole host of similar problems and when your done you'll still end up with something thats subpar by modern standards.
buying foriegn is another option of course but i don't think even the ruskies stuff can rival the saturn 5 and there are political issues too
iirc early versions of windows could only multitask windows apps.
windows 3.x in 386 enhanced mode could multitask dos apps but at least for games it didn't work anywhere near as well as native dos. 9x was much better at it but your already getting pretty bloated by that point (and i certainly don't call 9x an early version of windows).
also iirc tcp/ip using the windows stack from a dos app was afaict a pita (ID software reffered to it as a delicate balancing act and iirc there was a seperate windows helper app).