Seriously, what the hell is this. I don't understand how this can be interesting to anyone. OS's have bugs, plain and simple. The vendor patches them, period. That's all that you should care about.
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I can chug 1.5 Litres of A&W Root Beer (fountain -- not bottled)
There, now this comment is as irrelevant as the (lack-there-of) story.
... Wouldn't you be able to place an existing BluRay Reader (5.25" drive) in an external case and hook it up? I am sure it would have some issues with drivers and decoders, but isn't the 360 at least software hackable in some way? Worst case scenario is you have a drive that can read files off a disc (DivX, MP4, etc.)
I don't see how this couldn't be done... However I am not in any way familiar with the innards of the 360.
WD in my opinion has always been "bottom of the barrel". I don't know if it's just a problem when they get imported into Canada or what, but I always have them die much to often. I've since switched to Seagate exclusively as well. No problems. Last computer was a 120GB drive, lasted 6 years no problems ever. Passed it on to a community house in my area for free after I bought myself a new system.
I feel that if this Seagate patent thing goes too far, I am going to switch to Samsung. I have heard great things about their new F1 line... and I am in the market for a couple 1TB drives. Maybe I will hold off a little while to see what happens.
The thing that always annoys me the most about Linux fanboys is their unwavering belief that Linux is just the most unique thing in the history of the universe as a technical platform. Linus apparently invented UNIX, there's no such thing as FreeBSD, and any criticism of any aspect of Linux is meant with a ferocious counter-attack criticizing Windows, as if those are the only two options.
... You say that like there is something else out there. All hail Linus!
No, not really. I grew up initially on Mac ('93-'96) then Win 95 and shortly after Win98, skipped the ME and 2k and jumped on to XP when it was released. In my last year of Elementary, my school brought in a couple Sun Ray's running Solaris (unsure of the version). It featured CDE and a 6-7 min login time (it was all setup over 10Mbit lines -- with hundreds of kids using it at once, it can drag down). Most students hated them (as did I when it took forever to log in). It ran Netscape 3 or something of the sort and no-one ever upgraded it. Web pages looked like crap and at the time I was learning HTML and CSS.
I really liked that it was 'different' from what I had used in the past, and I actually enjoyed CDE. I was interested in what ran in the background and did some research, learned some commands I wasn't supposed to, etc. It got me hooked on UNIX and UNIX derivatives. After losing interest in the slow-ass Ray's I eventually came across Linux. Whenever I had computer time at home I would read about this fascinating new world and all of its freedoms. At the time I only understood that it didn't cost money (I was 12 -- c'mon!). When my family eventually bought a CD burner I downloaded Redhat, burned it and installed it. About a week later I came home to it running Windows and completely flipped out because I installed it because I wanted to learn it and get to use it. But no, my mom wanted to set up her e-mail and didn't understand what she was doing. She called our ISP for help and they couldn't help her. Without asking me, she had my older brother come and re-install Windows. I was certainly knowledgeable enough to set up her damn e-mail. I had it set up on my account no problem.
At that point I was so frustrated I actually went out and took up a job delivering papers to save up and buy my own computer. Took me 2 years but I did it. During the summer of 2003 I had completed building my computer (which I just retired this past January). I installed SuSE 9.1 because at the time it seemed more friendly to me. I have since moved on through a few distro's and have landed on Gentoo, where I feel the most comfortable. Lots of command line and all the tools in portage I will ever need.
When I was 16 I moved out of my mom's house and have been doing web development for a living. I finished high school in 2006 (right on time). After high school I happened upon a cushy job at an advertising firm doing graphics for the most part. I also cut and make Corplast/Vinyl signs. I've been living with my girlfriend (of 3 years) for 15 months now. She has a Mac mini, which we have dual booted with Gentoo as she has picked up a lot of my habits. I use OSX for testing in Safari, but that's all I use it for. I have VMware with a few different installs of XP for testing in the different IE's. I run Photoshop under WINE since a few releases ago.
Yup. Us Linux folk don't appreciate and are not knowledgeable about any other OS's... not at all. I'm 19 and happened to use a lot of other OS's. Linux is my preference. However, I am not the type to go preaching to my friends "USE Linux or I will pwn j00!" like some Linux fanatics. I use it as a tool to do my job and some entertainment (moveis, music and writing software are two of my favourite past-times), as all computers and OS's should be used.
I'm going to assume you've never been to the flat lands and worked on a farm.
Around here (in the summer time) sun is up at 5am, and down at 11pm. They are up at the crack of dawn, eat a nice meal and get to work. At noon they take an hour off and have a good lunch. At 8pm they are done work, have another nice meal and then they get to do the things they want to do other than work.
Keep in mind most farming (be it wheat, corn, cattle, etc.) it's pretty akin to construction. Lots of lifting, being out in the heat most of the day, and long freaking hours. I don't think most people here on slashdot would be able to adapt (especially that being out in the daylight thing). A lot of thee people have been doing it since they were 16. Some now sit at 60+ and day-in day-out they do the same thing.
I have 4GB, still two more slots for another 4GB...
How the hell do you use ~4GB? I do video encoding, compression, editing, graphics, etc. etc. all simultaneously and honestly never go above 2GB. The only time I ever go over that is when I boot up XP via VMware (ram set to use up to 1GB), although I think I've done that once since I've gotten Photoshop CS2 and Flash 8 running fine under WINE.
It has a 'helper' called "Folder Sentry." Basically, it watches certain directories for new files to appear. It will then proceed to scan each file. Check out it's documentation here.
This is precisely the reason I (the original parent poster -- which was modded 'Offtopic') brought this up. See my other comment here.
I know what a "Disk Image" is. I own a Mac (not that I use OSX on it, though)
The point was that its still an Archive Format. It's a file that contains a virtual file system & files within.
I don't know about you, but every A/V I've used in the past has a daemon process that will scan a file the moment it saves to the hard disk. All it would take is one single download (and Safari saves 'Disk Images' to the desktop by default -- no confirm. You click, and it downloads) to kill the A/V, possibly even hijack the process (which is usually with elevated privileges). Voila! Instant botnet. (well, not really -- but is still scary).
Manually invoked A/V is still a risk, but not quite as bad... Unless you run as root.
Realtek AC'97
- For x86-based computers: Alcxwdm.sys - version 6.0.1.6242 or earlier
- For x64-based computers: Alcwdm64.sys - version 6.0.1.6242 or earlier
It certainly wouldn't make a whole lot of sense to not include it (short of any technical reasons, that is).
If Microsoft didn't include it, they certainly wouldn't see more sales. (Depending... some people are quite against flash -- but in a lot of cases those same people are also against Microsoft).
Silverlight is similar, but of a much different flavour. In all honesty (to me), it seems as though they just decided one day "Lets try to dip into this market and see where it takes us."
I don't seem to see any real force on Microsoft's part to have it completely obsolete Flash (but then again that could just be the AdBlock addon).
I don't understand it. Am I doing something wrong?
I absolutely cannot get Firefox to crash simply from browsing. I often have 2+ windows with 5-10 tabs in each. While not as intensive as some people here on Slashdot, it's my usage pattern. I don't think I've been able to get the memory over 60MB. Generally I use top or ps to check. My last system was the same. No issues, ever.
The girlfriend's computer, however, is a different story. Both are running Gentoo and I sync & update usually in the same day. They are both tuned for their processors and have similar use flags (essentially the same environment & settings on both). Hers usually sits at about 600MB (virtual). It crashes often. She usually has one window, less than 5 tabs open. It generally crashes 5+ times a day.
Hardware: My system: Custom; AMD Athlon64 X2 5200+, 4GB DDR2, 500GB HDD. My Old sys: Custom; AMD AthlonXP 2500+, 1GB DDR2, 120GB HDD. Her system: Mac Mini; Intel Core Duo (1.6Ghz?), 1.5GB DDR2, 80GB HDD. (Just upgraded the ram about a month ago -- crashes less frequent now but still uses lots of vRAM)
I've also noticed that my brothers system runs it fine (XP 64bit) on AMD. My mom's laptop (Vista 32bit) on Intel has memory issues... no crashes that I know of though (very surprising as everything else crashes).
Now that I sit and read what I just wrote, I am pretty sure it has something to do with swapping on a 2.5" 5400rpm drive. Maybe I'll disable the swap on the Mini and see what happens.
It's the free market society.
No-one is saying you absolutely have to own a computer and be a Developer, designer or what have you. You have every right to go and live in the woods in a wooden house.
If you want to live in todays society you have to at least be willing to accept that businesses will use advertising to make more money. Many-a-times businesses sell things below cost, and setup advertising deals with other businesses to make up the difference and then some. That 'and then some' will(/should) be used to pay it's employee's to create new products and the cycle starts over again.
Yes, advertising is becoming obtrusive depending on how you look at it. A few years ago everyone used huge pop-up ads on websites. Who does that now? Every web browser has controls to stop the majority of them. Google took the right route and kept them very unobtrusive and look where they are. They are doing great.
One complaint I see a lot is advertising in TV or Movies (and more recently, Games). I feel it's the same situation as websites and the software business... The money passes through so many hands that in the end, that make very little in the end. In some situations, I am sure that there are the cases where they have to make a deal with a company (Coca Cola, Pepsi, etc.) to cover their asses in case the movie doesn't do well. TV is the situation where they certainly could do without having Ads, but businesses WANT to buy advertising.
There is a very easy remedy to the TV, Movies and Games situation. Simply don't watch/plya them if you don't want to be subjected to the ads. If you have a family, spend time with them. Stop buying movies and paying for TV service and save that money. Save up, go to Disney land. Fearing that you will get bored of not watching TV, buy some books! Have a reading time every day where you read books to your kids.
Unobtrusive Advertising is where it's at. If it's in your face and a constant annoyance (eg: the land of pop-ups) eventually everyone will stop paying attention or find a way to do away with them (pop-up blocker, stop watching TV/movies) and their target market will diminish and will find a new way to get the word out about their products.
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... have bugs!
News at 11.
Seriously, what the hell is this. I don't understand how this can be interesting to anyone. OS's have bugs, plain and simple. The vendor patches them, period. That's all that you should care about.
tagged: whogivesashit
I can chug 1.5 Litres of A&W Root Beer (fountain -- not bottled)
There, now this comment is as irrelevant as the (lack-there-of) story.
Now get off my lawn!!!
(damn... I am only 19)
I finally finished compiling 2.0 and now this comes out!
I am going to write a letter!
[yes, this is clearly a terrible joke]
... at the time of writing, I can buy a BluRay Reader and external casing for about the same as the 360's HD-DVD external drive.
... Wouldn't you be able to place an existing BluRay Reader (5.25" drive) in an external case and hook it up? I am sure it would have some issues with drivers and decoders, but isn't the 360 at least software hackable in some way? Worst case scenario is you have a drive that can read files off a disc (DivX, MP4, etc.)
I don't see how this couldn't be done... However I am not in any way familiar with the innards of the 360.
Same here.
WD in my opinion has always been "bottom of the barrel". I don't know if it's just a problem when they get imported into Canada or what, but I always have them die much to often. I've since switched to Seagate exclusively as well. No problems. Last computer was a 120GB drive, lasted 6 years no problems ever. Passed it on to a community house in my area for free after I bought myself a new system.
I feel that if this Seagate patent thing goes too far, I am going to switch to Samsung. I have heard great things about their new F1 line... and I am in the market for a couple 1TB drives. Maybe I will hold off a little while to see what happens.
No, not really. I grew up initially on Mac ('93-'96) then Win 95 and shortly after Win98, skipped the ME and 2k and jumped on to XP when it was released. In my last year of Elementary, my school brought in a couple Sun Ray's running Solaris (unsure of the version). It featured CDE and a 6-7 min login time (it was all setup over 10Mbit lines -- with hundreds of kids using it at once, it can drag down). Most students hated them (as did I when it took forever to log in). It ran Netscape 3 or something of the sort and no-one ever upgraded it. Web pages looked like crap and at the time I was learning HTML and CSS.
I really liked that it was 'different' from what I had used in the past, and I actually enjoyed CDE. I was interested in what ran in the background and did some research, learned some commands I wasn't supposed to, etc. It got me hooked on UNIX and UNIX derivatives. After losing interest in the slow-ass Ray's I eventually came across Linux. Whenever I had computer time at home I would read about this fascinating new world and all of its freedoms. At the time I only understood that it didn't cost money (I was 12 -- c'mon!). When my family eventually bought a CD burner I downloaded Redhat, burned it and installed it. About a week later I came home to it running Windows and completely flipped out because I installed it because I wanted to learn it and get to use it. But no, my mom wanted to set up her e-mail and didn't understand what she was doing. She called our ISP for help and they couldn't help her. Without asking me, she had my older brother come and re-install Windows. I was certainly knowledgeable enough to set up her damn e-mail. I had it set up on my account no problem.
At that point I was so frustrated I actually went out and took up a job delivering papers to save up and buy my own computer. Took me 2 years but I did it. During the summer of 2003 I had completed building my computer (which I just retired this past January). I installed SuSE 9.1 because at the time it seemed more friendly to me. I have since moved on through a few distro's and have landed on Gentoo, where I feel the most comfortable. Lots of command line and all the tools in portage I will ever need.
When I was 16 I moved out of my mom's house and have been doing web development for a living. I finished high school in 2006 (right on time). After high school I happened upon a cushy job at an advertising firm doing graphics for the most part. I also cut and make Corplast/Vinyl signs. I've been living with my girlfriend (of 3 years) for 15 months now. She has a Mac mini, which we have dual booted with Gentoo as she has picked up a lot of my habits. I use OSX for testing in Safari, but that's all I use it for. I have VMware with a few different installs of XP for testing in the different IE's. I run Photoshop under WINE since a few releases ago.
Yup. Us Linux folk don't appreciate and are not knowledgeable about any other OS's... not at all. I'm 19 and happened to use a lot of other OS's. Linux is my preference. However, I am not the type to go preaching to my friends "USE Linux or I will pwn j00!" like some Linux fanatics. I use it as a tool to do my job and some entertainment (moveis, music and writing software are two of my favourite past-times), as all computers and OS's should be used.
I'm going to assume you've never been to the flat lands and worked on a farm.
Around here (in the summer time) sun is up at 5am, and down at 11pm. They are up at the crack of dawn, eat a nice meal and get to work. At noon they take an hour off and have a good lunch. At 8pm they are done work, have another nice meal and then they get to do the things they want to do other than work.
Keep in mind most farming (be it wheat, corn, cattle, etc.) it's pretty akin to construction. Lots of lifting, being out in the heat most of the day, and long freaking hours. I don't think most people here on slashdot would be able to adapt (especially that being out in the daylight thing). A lot of thee people have been doing it since they were 16. Some now sit at 60+ and day-in day-out they do the same thing.
I have 4GB, still two more slots for another 4GB...
How the hell do you use ~4GB? I do video encoding, compression, editing, graphics, etc. etc. all simultaneously and honestly never go above 2GB. The only time I ever go over that is when I boot up XP via VMware (ram set to use up to 1GB), although I think I've done that once since I've gotten Photoshop CS2 and Flash 8 running fine under WINE.
I'm in Saskatchewan. Medicine Hat, Calgary, Edmonton, etc. are places I visit often. :-S
WTF is a mullet?
I am Canadian. Honestly, I've never actually witnessed one in person.
I want to see a comparison to PHP with all extensions/modules enabled... I have a feeling PHP will have many, many more.
.NET anyway? This is Slashdot. ;-)
Sadly, that is not a good thing. I love PHP, but it's a mess and desperately needs an overhaul.
(please note: This is my opinion... not out to start a pissing war.)
p.s. - who the hell uses
ClamXav is for OSX.
It has a 'helper' called "Folder Sentry." Basically, it watches certain directories for new files to appear. It will then proceed to scan each file. Check out it's documentation here.
This is precisely the reason I (the original parent poster -- which was modded 'Offtopic') brought this up. See my other comment here.
I know what a "Disk Image" is. I own a Mac (not that I use OSX on it, though)
The point was that its still an Archive Format. It's a file that contains a virtual file system & files within.
I don't know about you, but every A/V I've used in the past has a daemon process that will scan a file the moment it saves to the hard disk. All it would take is one single download (and Safari saves 'Disk Images' to the desktop by default -- no confirm. You click, and it downloads) to kill the A/V, possibly even hijack the process (which is usually with elevated privileges). Voila! Instant botnet. (well, not really -- but is still scary).
Manually invoked A/V is still a risk, but not quite as bad... Unless you run as root.
We've been over this already today: http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/03/18/1724245
.dmg file... which is, you guessed it! An archive format. :-)
Most Mac programs come packaged in a
It certainly wouldn't make a whole lot of sense to not include it (short of any technical reasons, that is). If Microsoft didn't include it, they certainly wouldn't see more sales. (Depending... some people are quite against flash -- but in a lot of cases those same people are also against Microsoft). Silverlight is similar, but of a much different flavour. In all honesty (to me), it seems as though they just decided one day "Lets try to dip into this market and see where it takes us." I don't seem to see any real force on Microsoft's part to have it completely obsolete Flash (but then again that could just be the AdBlock addon).
I don't understand it. Am I doing something wrong?
I absolutely cannot get Firefox to crash simply from browsing. I often have 2+ windows with 5-10 tabs in each. While not as intensive as some people here on Slashdot, it's my usage pattern. I don't think I've been able to get the memory over 60MB. Generally I use top or ps to check. My last system was the same. No issues, ever.
The girlfriend's computer, however, is a different story. Both are running Gentoo and I sync & update usually in the same day. They are both tuned for their processors and have similar use flags (essentially the same environment & settings on both). Hers usually sits at about 600MB (virtual). It crashes often. She usually has one window, less than 5 tabs open. It generally crashes 5+ times a day.
Hardware:
My system: Custom; AMD Athlon64 X2 5200+, 4GB DDR2, 500GB HDD.
My Old sys: Custom; AMD AthlonXP 2500+, 1GB DDR2, 120GB HDD.
Her system: Mac Mini; Intel Core Duo (1.6Ghz?), 1.5GB DDR2, 80GB HDD. (Just upgraded the ram about a month ago -- crashes less frequent now but still uses lots of vRAM)
I've also noticed that my brothers system runs it fine (XP 64bit) on AMD. My mom's laptop (Vista 32bit) on Intel has memory issues... no crashes that I know of though (very surprising as everything else crashes).
Now that I sit and read what I just wrote, I am pretty sure it has something to do with swapping on a 2.5" 5400rpm drive. Maybe I'll disable the swap on the Mini and see what happens.
Perhaps they were testing to see if that is how manatee's came to be... ;-)
/sarcasm
Either that or God did it.
I have a feeling you have watched way too much Discovery Channel and Beverly Hills Ninja.
Yeah.
I wanna be real, okay!
... and I forgot to set the message to Plain Text. :-/
It's the free market society. No-one is saying you absolutely have to own a computer and be a Developer, designer or what have you. You have every right to go and live in the woods in a wooden house. If you want to live in todays society you have to at least be willing to accept that businesses will use advertising to make more money. Many-a-times businesses sell things below cost, and setup advertising deals with other businesses to make up the difference and then some. That 'and then some' will(/should) be used to pay it's employee's to create new products and the cycle starts over again. Yes, advertising is becoming obtrusive depending on how you look at it. A few years ago everyone used huge pop-up ads on websites. Who does that now? Every web browser has controls to stop the majority of them. Google took the right route and kept them very unobtrusive and look where they are. They are doing great. One complaint I see a lot is advertising in TV or Movies (and more recently, Games). I feel it's the same situation as websites and the software business... The money passes through so many hands that in the end, that make very little in the end. In some situations, I am sure that there are the cases where they have to make a deal with a company (Coca Cola, Pepsi, etc.) to cover their asses in case the movie doesn't do well. TV is the situation where they certainly could do without having Ads, but businesses WANT to buy advertising. There is a very easy remedy to the TV, Movies and Games situation. Simply don't watch/plya them if you don't want to be subjected to the ads. If you have a family, spend time with them. Stop buying movies and paying for TV service and save that money. Save up, go to Disney land. Fearing that you will get bored of not watching TV, buy some books! Have a reading time every day where you read books to your kids. Unobtrusive Advertising is where it's at. If it's in your face and a constant annoyance (eg: the land of pop-ups) eventually everyone will stop paying attention or find a way to do away with them (pop-up blocker, stop watching TV/movies) and their target market will diminish and will find a new way to get the word out about their products.
... and 64/100 for Firefox 3.0b5pre ("Minefield")
57/100 :-( I really was expecting more.
OpenBSD rejected NDISWrapper first, due to their "anti-binary blob" policy.
That and Linus changed his mind shortly after this was posted to Kernel Trap. Read a few comments up.