| Just a thought |
[Sep. 16th, 2005|03:50 pm] |
We keep hearing about competition between google and microsoft. What if ... google starts funding open source OS or comes up with it own OS?
A launch of gmail increased all mailbox sizes, I wounder what will happen to OS and in particular windows! No matter what happens I am sure users will be winners. |
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| I am Idealist |
[Jul. 27th, 2005|02:48 pm] |
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 | You scored as Idealist. Idealism centers around the belief that we are moving towards something greater. An odd mix of evolutionist and spiritualist, you see the divine within ourselves, waiting to emerge over time. Many religious traditions express how the divine spirit lost its identity, thus creating our world of turmoil, but in time it will find itself and all things will again become one.
Idealist | | 88% | Modernist | | 56% | Materialist | | 50% | Romanticist | | 50% | Cultural Creative | | 44% | Existentialist | | 44% | Postmodernist | | 38% | Fundamentalist | | 13% | </td>
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| UFO's & the biggest military computer hack of all time |
[Jul. 25th, 2005|12:48 pm] |
Fascinated listening to Briton Gary McKinnon's interview with The BBC World Service, Gary was arrested and freed on bail pending extradition proceedings to the U.S.. There, he faces charges of gaining unauthorized access and causing criminal damage to military computers in his search for evidence of UFO cover ups and anti-gravity technology of extra-terrestrial origin. In a very candid interview, Gary re-affirms that he had no malicious intent, was amazed at the ease with which he penetrated the networks, explains in detail what evidence of UFO cover ups he saw, describes a personal journey through hell as he became obsessed with the project and how very scared he is that he could be facing up to seventy years in a Virginian jail. |
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| 2038!! |
[May. 6th, 2005|09:35 pm] |
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Tuesday, January 19 2038. Time: 03:14:07 GMT. If Linux programmers get nightmares, it's about this date and time. Immediately after that second is crossed, current computer systems running on Linux will grind to a halt or go into a loop. This will trip up a lot of databases. No, this is not another hoax raised by some anti-Linux lobby. It is Linux's own Y2K nightmare, says Businessworld.
If you ask what this 2038 bug is, you will have to put up some technical argot. The bug has its origins in the way the C language, which has been used to write Linux, calculates time. C uses the 'time_t' data type to represent dates and times. ('time_t' is an integer that counts the number of seconds since 12.00 a.m. GMT, January 1 1970.)
This data is stored in 32 bits, or units of memory. The first of these bits is for the positive or negative sign, and the remaining 31 are used to store the number. The highest number that these 31 bits can store works out to 2147483647.
Calculated from the start of January 1 1970, this number would represent the 2038 time and date given at the top. Problems would arise when the system times of computers running on Linux reach this number. They can't go any forward and their value actually would change to -- 2147483647, which translated to December 13 1901! That will lead many programs to return errors or crash altogether. |
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