The best dedicated server provider: 1. Offers wide range of servers and server lines. 2. Dynamically covers all specs and OS. 3. Has his own Datacenter. 4. Guarantees a perfect network and sensitive/quick support. 5. Proactively monitors and basic manages your server. 6. Treats you as a human being, not as a wannabe criminal. 7….Continue Reading…
This is an awesome essay I encountered via Slashdot. It’s from paulgraham.com (see link at bottom) and is entitled ‘Great Hackers’. This is only the first part. See the link at the bottom for the rest. July 2004 (This essay is derived from a keynote talk at Oscon 2004.) A few months ago I finished…Continue Reading…
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Some people discovered yesterday that you can get a free 2 GB @msn.com email account. Do you really get that storage or is it a bug? Here’s one example of inconsistent wording: Image: Bug in MSN Hotmail storage warning The account shows a 25 MB limit while the warning contradicts itself, saying 2 GB and…Continue Reading…
Too many to type up here. Here’s a good article on security by obscurity (and why it doesn’t work).
In all seriousness, 64-bit computing by itself means that the General Purpose Registers are 64-bits wide. That means increased dynamic range. Using base 2, a 32-bit processor gives you 4,294,967,296 possible values. (which is where the 4 GB RAM limit of 32-bit processors comes from.) That is it’s dynamic range. A 64-bit processor’s dynamic range…Continue Reading…