NFS is the best if and only if need something more than a free hosting provider such as Google sites. If you can host at google sites, your only cost is for the domain, and possibly DNS service if your registrar does not provide free DNS service. For sites that need more than what Google offers, NFS sounds nearly ideal.
Damnit. Accidentally hit the submit button on the preview page. The shortest legal page is "<!doctype title PUBLIC "-//IETF//DTD HTML//EN"><title//" and without dtd it is "<title//" Note double slashes instead of a close bracket and close tag.
Title is actually the only non-optional element, and that is the one you chose to omit. The shortest legal page is "title//" if you include a doctype, or "title//" if you do not. Please note that that utilizes the shorttag feature of html, and chooses an alternate root element. Those features are not well supported in browsers.
I'm pretty sure Xilinx was once a VHDL house, and is now mostly a mixed house, with the major exception of the EDK team. As such some documentation is still skewed towards VHDL, but if you are not using the EDK, it is not that bad. Besides, VHDL is trivial to read and understand even if you are not familiar with it. (Assuming you are at least familiar with Verilog). (Writing it is definitely harder without being familiar with it).
The odd thing is that Digilent is a VHDL shop. The other product examples are almost exclusively VHDL. So my guess is that Xilinx wrote many of the examples for the XUPV2P (Xilinx University Program Virtex 2 Pro) boards. Xilinx is a mixed shop, with different teams apparently using different languages. (I own a XUPV2P board, but in coursework have only worked with the Nexys and Basys boards.)
Sincerly, it seems I have been in a time machine for all these years. Quite long ago I was an active./'tter.
Quite long ago you were an active dotslashtter? Well the site has gone to hell. The css for postly a reply is apparently even broken in firefox at the minute. I fully expect the site to redirect to digg any day now. Sigh.
On the other hand good design practice for anything but ultra high speed devices makes glitching moot. You use flops, not latches, and all outputs are registered, so the outside world always sees clean signals. And that is a terribe example, since it is quite likely for no glitching to occur with that, depending on the design of the lookup table used in the fpga.
Oh and these days sythesis tools have gotten pretty darn good. "assign a=b*c;" is certainly a hell of a lot easier than building a combinational multiplier from, ttl chips. (Granted, a combinational multiplier is often not a great idea, but occasionally it is called for.)
Yes, assuming they own all the relevant rights. Signed major bands as a rule do not own the rights to their work. (They may have the royalties right, but likely lacks the rights to music or even the lyrics). Smaller bands may own the rights. Since ASCAP is a royalties collector, the band can play there, since no royalties would need to be collected on their own performance of their own work.
That's been something I've been meaning to write down. This happened to be the first time I wrote it down, but for the future I will have it ready to paste.
Re:If it works . . .
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Phoenix BIOSOS?
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Hyperspace is an extremely fast booting (approx 4 seconds) Linux based mini OS. It is available in two flavors. On PCs without the Intel's VT extensions it is just a fast booting OS, but you can only dual boot it.
On PC's with VT, the bios loads a hypervisor which then boots both Hyperspace, and windows. (It may defer starting windows until hyperspace has loaded). The result is that within for seconds you can begin using the computer, doing things like browsing the web while windows. Once Windows is up, users can instantly switch back and forth.
In theory there should be little reason why other OS could not be used instead of windows, although the system may be installing special drivers in windows to help mitigate some issues.
That said, they do appear to be using the same obfuscator for most other services. (Admittedly more as a way to minimize download size than attempting to obfuscate the code, but it tends to do both.)
I'm really surprised at the number of people who use noscript. Adblock is not surprising, since sites often fail to follow the common sense rules of advertising. But what is up with noscript? I've pretty much never had javascript freeze the page or anything of the sort. (On the other hand I don't use dialup). The security implications of letting javascript run are actually pretty minimal.
Now, as for flash adverts, I've never had an issue with the download size, although sound is an issue.
As for advertisements, if they fellow the following rules I don't mind them.
Rule 1: The advertisment must be on the relevant page. Rule 2: The advertisement must remain entirely within a rectangle on the page that does not overlap the page content. Rule 3: The advertisements must be reasonably sized. Rule 4: While animation is permissible, rapid flickering of any sort is not permissible, nor is automatically playing video. Playing video as a result of clicking on the advertisement is acceptable, as is a limited amount of automatic pre-buffering. Rule 5: Sound is not permissible. Rule 6: If a user chooses to interact with the advertisement by clicking on it. (Simply moving the mouse over it is not sufficient), the advertisement may do any of the above. Rule 7: Automatic video playing and audio are permissible despite rules 4 and 5 if the advertisements are part of video playback.
Rule 1 explanation: It must not be a popup or pop-under. Rule 2 explanation: None of those flash adds that project an appendage over the page, that can only be closed after the animation is finished, and usually by explicitly clicking on some part of the advertisement. Further, no pseudo-popups (utiling CSS to create what looks like a popup, but is actually part of the page), unless they do not cover the page content. Rule 3 explanation: Non of those double height horizontal advertisements. Rule 4 explanation: Those flicking adverts are obnoxious. Actual video can be processor intensive. However reasonable vector based animation is fine. Rule 5 explanation: Obvious. Rule 6 explanation: Once a user clicks on the advertisement, it may play video, play audio, overlap the page, etc. Rule 7 explanation: That is to say, that advertisements like Hulu's and ABC.com's Full episode player are permissible.
However, there are all too many advertisements that violate those rules, which is why I do run adblock.
The primary free windows debugger is WinDBG, which is available for free download from Microsoft. Recent versions have been distributed as part of the Debugging Tools for Windows, in which the core engine has been re-factored out to a dll, and 3 different command line interfaces to the engine are included. See: http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/devtools/debugging/default.mspx
Dr. Watson is still around (as of XP), but he has been largely replaced by Windows Error Reporting tool, which sends crash dumps of programs to Microsoft (assuming you allow it), who makes the dumps available to the author of the application in question (assuming they have jumped through all the right hoops).
When Windows is detected as non-genuine, the automatic updates client will only download Critical Updates. It is not possible to use the Windows Update or Microsoft Update sites in that case. However, the individual patch downloads are still available though Microsoft's download site. When downloading individual patches, you can download any Critical Update patches, but validation is required to download other patches. For non-patch downloads validation is usually not required, but it varies.
ICANN consists of multiple parts. The important part is the IANA, which publishes such things as official port assignments, assigning IP addresses, assigning autonomous system numbers, publishing the root zone file, and acting as the registry for the.arpa and.int TLDs.
Virtually all of that it does on behalf of the IETF. That said, some of that is done autonomously without directly involving the IETF. For example, IP address assignment, except for special purpose assignments like assigning the multicast region it does autonomously. (Of note, it only assigns to a small number of other organizations who subassign IP addresses, continuing on down until an IP address gets assigned to your connection.) Similarly, the AS numbering is done autonomously. Of significant note, with the exception of special TLDs like.arpa, determining the contents of the majority of the root domain file is a task done autonomously.
As for the rest of ICANN, pretty much all it does is set policy for the DNS, and arbitrate disputes, etc.
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Now, for what should be done with ICANN, the solution is simple.
Split out the IANA as a separate entity under the direct oversight of the IAB, as a group under the ISOC, but not a component of the IETF.
Change the IANA's function to be purely a registry, publishing lists of assignments made by other parties.
Assign the responsibility for assignment of IP address ranges to the IAB. (My understanding is that the IAB is effectively already responsible for those assignments).
Create a fourth significant ISOC organization (Other than the IETF, IRTF, and IANA per above), under the oversight of the IAB. This organization would take the role of setting policy for the DNS, effectively performing all functions of the current ICANN, except those the IANA.
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So rather than hand ICANN over to the EU or UN, we hand it over to an existing international organization who is already effectively in charge of the Internet, the ISOC, who breaks it into two separate pieces, and incorporates it into its organizational structure in the usual fashion.
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Acronyms: ICANN - Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers IETF - the Internet Engineering Task Force IAB - the Internet Architecture Board IESG - the Internet Engineering Steering Group IRTF - the Internet Research Task Force IRSG - the Internet Research Steering group ISOC - the Internet Society RFC - "Request For Comments"
For a more detailed description of those terms see RFC 2860
In Windows XP Embedded, you can choose which components to install, on a significantly more fine grained scale. For example, you can leave out Windows Explorer (i.e. the icons on the desktop, task bar, and File Management tool (the my computer window, etc)). I'm not sure quite how fine grained the driver selection is, but it is still far more fine-grained than tradition XP installations. You can definitely leave out unused network stacks, etc.
But for some reason few people seem to be aware of it, or choose to use it. I mean I've seen logic analyzers running standard OEM Windows XP.
At $200 million, they're approaching the ability to fund a mission to Mars.
That sort of money could indeed by the bulk of the operating costs for a mission to mars. But unfortunately it is only a tiny fraction of the planning costs, especially since some form of special spacecraft would be needed for a mission landing on mars, and AFAIK that is still yet to be developed.
But the claim of enough hype to power a mission to mars? Very odd considering this is the very first time I've even heard of the film. If the level of hype here could Power a mission to mars, than the level of hype for the iPhone shortly before its release could power a mission to another galaxy.
The second you boot may be problematic indeed, which would mean you would have trouble entering the BIOS setup utility using the bluetooth keyboard, but once you are in, it should work.
Interesting. I'm wondering if in that case what you have is not a blutooth dongle with HID emulation. (I.E. it lacks a blutooth mode, so could only be used for Blutooth HID devices).
But I've always thought external bluetooth dongles were idiotic. In that case why not just use a regular wireless mouse with external dongle? I never used the dongle that came with my Logitech keyboard, but instead used the internal bluetooth of my laptop.
Slashdot Mirror
NFS is the best if and only if need something more than a free hosting provider such as Google sites. If you can host at google sites, your only cost is for the domain, and possibly DNS service if your registrar does not provide free DNS service. For sites that need more than what Google offers, NFS sounds nearly ideal.
Damnit. Accidentally hit the submit button on the preview page. The shortest legal page is "<!doctype title PUBLIC "-//IETF//DTD HTML//EN"><title//" and without dtd it is "<title//" Note double slashes instead of a close bracket and close tag.
Title is actually the only non-optional element, and that is the one you chose to omit.
The shortest legal page is "title//" if you include a doctype, or "title//" if you do not. Please note that that utilizes the shorttag feature of html, and chooses an alternate root element. Those features are not well supported in browsers.
I'm pretty sure Xilinx was once a VHDL house, and is now mostly a mixed house, with the major exception of the EDK team. As such some documentation is still skewed towards VHDL, but if you are not using the EDK, it is not that bad. Besides, VHDL is trivial to read and understand even if you are not familiar with it. (Assuming you are at least familiar with Verilog). (Writing it is definitely harder without being familiar with it).
The odd thing is that Digilent is a VHDL shop. The other product examples are almost exclusively VHDL. So my guess is that Xilinx wrote many of the examples for the XUPV2P (Xilinx University Program Virtex 2 Pro) boards. Xilinx is a mixed shop, with different teams apparently using different languages. (I own a XUPV2P board, but in coursework have only worked with the Nexys and Basys boards.)
Sincerly, it seems I have been in a time machine for all these years. ./'tter.
Quite long ago I was an active
Quite long ago you were an active dotslashtter? Well the site has gone to hell. The css for postly a reply is apparently even broken in firefox at the minute. I fully expect the site to redirect to digg any day now. Sigh.
On the other hand good design practice for anything but ultra high speed devices makes glitching moot. You use flops, not latches, and all outputs are registered, so the outside world always sees clean signals. And that is a terribe example, since it is quite likely for no glitching to occur with that, depending on the design of the lookup table used in the fpga.
Oh and these days sythesis tools have gotten pretty darn good. "assign a=b*c;" is certainly a hell of a lot easier than building a combinational multiplier from, ttl chips. (Granted, a combinational multiplier is often not a great idea, but occasionally it is called for.)
Any thoughts on the list? I believe it successfully excludes most of the obnoxious advertisements, without leaving too many loopholes.
Yes, assuming they own all the relevant rights. Signed major bands as a rule do not own the rights to their work. (They may have the royalties right, but likely lacks the rights to music or even the lyrics). Smaller bands may own the rights. Since ASCAP is a royalties collector, the band can play there, since no royalties would need to be collected on their own performance of their own work.
Good point, but can't adblock plus also block it? (I think it can, but I'm not entirely certain).
That's been something I've been meaning to write down. This happened to be the first time I wrote it down, but for the future I will have it ready to paste.
Hyperspace is an extremely fast booting (approx 4 seconds) Linux based mini OS. It is available in two flavors. On PCs without the Intel's VT extensions it is just a fast booting OS, but you can only dual boot it.
On PC's with VT, the bios loads a hypervisor which then boots both Hyperspace, and windows. (It may defer starting windows until hyperspace has loaded). The result is that within for seconds you can begin using the computer, doing things like browsing the web while windows. Once Windows is up, users can instantly switch back and forth.
In theory there should be little reason why other OS could not be used instead of windows, although the system may be installing special drivers in windows to help mitigate some issues.
That said, they do appear to be using the same obfuscator for most other services. (Admittedly more as a way to minimize download size than attempting to obfuscate the code, but it tends to do both.)
I'm really surprised at the number of people who use noscript. Adblock is not surprising, since sites often fail to follow the common sense rules of advertising. But what is up with noscript? I've pretty much never had javascript freeze the page or anything of the sort. (On the other hand I don't use dialup). The security implications of letting javascript run are actually pretty minimal.
Now, as for flash adverts, I've never had an issue with the download size, although sound is an issue.
As for advertisements, if they fellow the following rules I don't mind them.
Rule 1: The advertisment must be on the relevant page.
Rule 2: The advertisement must remain entirely within a rectangle on the page that does not overlap the page content.
Rule 3: The advertisements must be reasonably sized.
Rule 4: While animation is permissible, rapid flickering of any sort is not permissible, nor is automatically playing video. Playing video as a result of clicking on the advertisement is acceptable, as is a limited amount of automatic pre-buffering.
Rule 5: Sound is not permissible.
Rule 6: If a user chooses to interact with the advertisement by clicking on it. (Simply moving the mouse over it is not sufficient), the advertisement may do any of the above.
Rule 7: Automatic video playing and audio are permissible despite rules 4 and 5 if the advertisements are part of video playback.
Rule 1 explanation: It must not be a popup or pop-under.
Rule 2 explanation: None of those flash adds that project an appendage over the page, that can only be closed after the animation is finished, and usually by explicitly clicking on some part of the advertisement. Further, no pseudo-popups (utiling CSS to create what looks like a popup, but is actually part of the page), unless they do not cover the page content.
Rule 3 explanation: Non of those double height horizontal advertisements.
Rule 4 explanation: Those flicking adverts are obnoxious. Actual video can be processor intensive. However reasonable vector based animation is fine.
Rule 5 explanation: Obvious.
Rule 6 explanation: Once a user clicks on the advertisement, it may play video, play audio, overlap the page, etc.
Rule 7 explanation: That is to say, that advertisements like Hulu's and ABC.com's Full episode player are permissible.
However, there are all too many advertisements that violate those rules, which is why I do run adblock.
The primary free windows debugger is WinDBG, which is available for free download from Microsoft. Recent versions have been distributed as part of the Debugging Tools for Windows, in which the core engine has been re-factored out to a dll, and 3 different command line interfaces to the engine are included. See: http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/devtools/debugging/default.mspx
Dr. Watson is still around (as of XP), but he has been largely replaced by Windows Error Reporting tool, which sends crash dumps of programs to Microsoft (assuming you allow it), who makes the dumps available to the author of the application in question (assuming they have jumped through all the right hoops).
Dr. Watson was not included in Vista.
See the page: http://www.microsoft.com/genuine/downloads/FAQ.aspx
Look for the question: Do security updates require validation?
When Windows is detected as non-genuine, the automatic updates client will only download Critical Updates. It is not possible to use the Windows Update or Microsoft Update sites in that case. However, the individual patch downloads are still available though Microsoft's download site. When downloading individual patches, you can download any Critical Update patches, but validation is required to download other patches. For non-patch downloads validation is usually not required, but it varies.
ICANN consists of multiple parts. The important part is the IANA, which publishes such things as official port assignments, assigning IP addresses, assigning autonomous system numbers, publishing the root zone file, and acting as the registry for the .arpa and .int TLDs.
Virtually all of that it does on behalf of the IETF. That said, some of that is done autonomously without directly involving the IETF. For example, IP address assignment, except for special purpose assignments like assigning the multicast region it does autonomously. (Of note, it only assigns to a small number of other organizations who subassign IP addresses, continuing on down until an IP address gets assigned to your connection.) Similarly, the AS numbering is done autonomously. Of significant note, with the exception of special TLDs like .arpa, determining the contents of the majority of the root domain file is a task done autonomously.
As for the rest of ICANN, pretty much all it does is set policy for the DNS, and arbitrate disputes, etc.
--------
Now, for what should be done with ICANN, the solution is simple.
Split out the IANA as a separate entity under the direct oversight of the IAB, as a group under the ISOC, but not a component of the IETF.
Change the IANA's function to be purely a registry, publishing lists of assignments made by other parties.
Assign the responsibility for assignment of IP address ranges to the IAB. (My understanding is that the IAB is effectively already responsible for those assignments).
Create a fourth significant ISOC organization (Other than the IETF, IRTF, and IANA per above), under the oversight of the IAB. This organization would take the role of setting policy for the DNS, effectively performing all functions of the current ICANN, except those the IANA.
-------
So rather than hand ICANN over to the EU or UN, we hand it over to an existing international organization who is already effectively in charge of the Internet, the ISOC, who breaks it into two separate pieces, and incorporates it into its organizational structure in the usual fashion.
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Acronyms:
ICANN - Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers
IETF - the Internet Engineering Task Force
IAB - the Internet Architecture Board
IESG - the Internet Engineering Steering Group
IRTF - the Internet Research Task Force
IRSG - the Internet Research Steering group
ISOC - the Internet Society
RFC - "Request For Comments"
For a more detailed description of those terms see RFC 2860
Rick Crocked?
In Windows XP Embedded, you can choose which components to install, on a significantly more fine grained scale. For example, you can leave out Windows Explorer (i.e. the icons on the desktop, task bar, and File Management tool (the my computer window, etc)). I'm not sure quite how fine grained the driver selection is, but it is still far more fine-grained than tradition XP installations. You can definitely leave out unused network stacks, etc.
But for some reason few people seem to be aware of it, or choose to use it. I mean I've seen logic analyzers running standard OEM Windows XP.
IIRC, a small little art film called Titanic cost over $200 mil to make.
Interesting you point that out considering the first few words of the summary:
James Cameron's first movie since 'Titanic'
Besides the level of hype is could not be nearly as high as the Summary claims considering that I've never even heard of it before this article.
At $200 million, they're approaching the ability to fund a mission to Mars.
That sort of money could indeed by the bulk of the operating costs for a mission to mars. But unfortunately it is only a tiny fraction of the planning costs, especially since some form of special spacecraft would be needed for a mission landing on mars, and AFAIK that is still yet to be developed.
But the claim of enough hype to power a mission to mars? Very odd considering this is the very first time I've even heard of the film. If the level of hype here could Power a mission to mars, than the level of hype for the iPhone shortly before its release could power a mission to another galaxy.
The second you boot may be problematic indeed, which would mean you would have trouble entering the BIOS setup utility using the bluetooth keyboard, but once you are in, it should work.
Interesting. I'm wondering if in that case what you have is not a blutooth dongle with HID emulation. (I.E. it lacks a blutooth mode, so could only be used for Blutooth HID devices).
But I've always thought external bluetooth dongles were idiotic. In that case why not just use a regular wireless mouse with external dongle? I never used the dongle that came with my Logitech keyboard, but instead used the internal bluetooth of my laptop.