Table layout is still very useful. I've seen some ugly, brittle CSS layout hacks that could have been solved with a very simple table layout.
I couldn't agree to this more. I'm currently working on a web project at my work, where I tried until I was blue in the face to make divs + CSS work for the layout of a page I was creating. To this day I still haven't found a solid way to lay out elements in a horizontal fashion while still providing the flexibility that tables rows give you (IE, trying to inline or float divs horizontally that contain block-level elements without it just completely fucking up the horizontal layout). Not to mention trying to make that code work across all the popular browsers without hacky workaround code. Until these annoyances are dealt with for good, there's still going to be a need for tables as a layout mechanism.
I wish people would stop parroting this fallacy all the time. Market share has nothing to do with how easy it is to break into a system.
True, but the greater the OS market share, the more motivation there is for crackers to exploit it's vulnerabilities (if you think OS X (or any other OS) is 100% vulnerability-free, then you're living on the moon, in a cave, under a rock, with your fingers in your ears).
...and OS that was never meant to be a multi-user OS
Maybe that was the case with the non-NT versions of Windows, but certainly not with the NT-based versions of Windows, which haven't been in production since Windows Me. From Wikipedia:
Windows NT is a family of operating systems produced by Microsoft, the first version of which was released in July 1993. It was originally designed to be a powerful high-level-language-based, processor-independent, multiprocessing, multiuser operating system with features comparable to Unix.
UNIX on the other hand was designed from day one to be networked multi-user OS, and security and separation of concerns was there from beginning.
In the 1970s the project was named Unics, and eventually could support two simultaneous users. Brian Kernighan invented this name as a contrast to Multics; the spelling was later changed to Unix.
Unix (aka Unics), originally was NOT multi-user. That feature was added on later.
The comeback confirms what researchers noted last week, that Srizbi had a fallback strategy. So, in the end, that strategy paid off for the criminals who control the botnet."
Now if only Bush had a fallback strategy, we wouldn't be dealing with the mess that is current-day Iraq..
Really now? You somehow know the inviolate checksums of every possible variation of every copyrighted work ever produced? WoW!!! I mean WOW!!! That's just amazing...
Do you happen to have a calendar of all future cataclismic events as well? Just asking, cause you could save the human race a lot of suffering if you'd share it...
The card is exactly the same as the Geforce GTX 280 except with quadruple the VRAM. Like all of the Quadros, they're the same as the normal lineup with more RAM and different drivers.
Well no shit Sherlock. This has always been the case of GeForce vs Quadro cards, where the difference comes in the firmware controlling the card. In fact, you can even soft-mod a GeForce card such that the OS thinks it's its Quadro 'equivalent' (it's not of course because it lacks the firmware that makes it a Quadro, thus the perforamnce won't be anywhere the same in professional applications). So yea, nothing new here..nvidia has always taken advantage of this synergy to branch out into the professional market with minimal changes (thus cost) to an existing lineup.
A video card I can't use on XP32 since it can't properly allocate that much VRAM & system RAM at the same time.
A few things things wrong with this statement:
The GPU (which is far beyond 32 bits) is accessing the VRAM, not the CPU
Video rendering/CAD powerhouses are the target audience for this card (not consumer-level gamers/enthusiasts), whom are probably NOT going to be running this card on a 32 bit version of XP
excuse me but this is total bullshit. oldest trick in the book. if you are behind in technology, pop out a card with huge ram and try to get some sales.
Are you some kind of idiot?
With 4GB of graphics memory and 240 CUDA-programmable parallel cores
That alone should be a plain indicator that this ISN'T a consumer-level card, nor is it even remotely close to being targeted as such by nvidia.
Nice to see a change in the way they're developing web pages pages (at least at a cursory glance). View source of www.usa.gov vs change.gov. Looks like he's at least getting some decent web developers behind him...I guess that's a good start.
what are we going to do to balance things out and prevent the population from skyrocketing?
I'd imagine as that concern becomes closer to reality, government(s) would have have to start imposing limits on the number of offspring a person is allowed to have (much like how China does in an attempt to prevent overpopulation). I realize this imposes on our freedom to reproduce, but given the alternative I'd say it's by far the lesser of two evils.
I once worked with an admin that wrote a 'compiler' that would remove a random line of text from source code before compiling....if you replace 'worked' with 'read about', and 'admin' with 'BOFH'.
Not a command per-se, but if you've ever wondered how to disconnect a stalled ssh session (like to disconnect a stalled telnet session), follow this key sequence:
<enter> <enter> <enter> <shift-tilde> <period>
That will disconnect you from a stalled ssh session w/out having to exit your terminal session
lsof is a LIFE SAVER for trying to find what's still using something in a mounted resource when trying to unmount something. For example:
lsof/mnt/myMount
That will list which processes have anything under/mnt/myMount open
It's also useful to find who's accessing what device. For example, say you're trying to listen to an mp3 and Amarok bitches about the sound device not being available. In that case, you could do something like this (assuming you're using ALSA):
lsof/dev/snd
That will list what processes are accessing any of your ALSA sound devices.
Are you serious?? Openfire for the XMPP (aka Jabber) server, and Pidgin for the client. If setup correctly, you can force SSL/TLS encryption. I've implemented this at my company and it's rock solid. Beats the hell out of any proprietary solution you'll find, if IM is your main goal. I'd recommend setting up XMPP service DNS records for your domain for a really slick implementation.
Why? If you spend 5 years at a company and learn 'the trade' on their dime they should be safe from you running to the next company and spilling everything they worked hard to make, at lest for a short time. It would be massively unfair for me to take your designs for "insert tech here" and run to "insert corp/country of choice" and beat you to market , or, very closely join you.
Yea..the keyword there is if. If you do that, then you should suffer the legal consequences (if there are any), but you shouldn't be punished simply because you could do that. In any event, treat your valued professionals like they are valued, otherwise somebody else will. Like it or not, the labor market succumbs to the same market forces that every other market does...
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Table layout is still very useful. I've seen some ugly, brittle CSS layout hacks that could have been solved with a very simple table layout.
I couldn't agree to this more. I'm currently working on a web project at my work, where I tried until I was blue in the face to make divs + CSS work for the layout of a page I was creating. To this day I still haven't found a solid way to lay out elements in a horizontal fashion while still providing the flexibility that tables rows give you (IE, trying to inline or float divs horizontally that contain block-level elements without it just completely fucking up the horizontal layout). Not to mention trying to make that code work across all the popular browsers without hacky workaround code. Until these annoyances are dealt with for good, there's still going to be a need for tables as a layout mechanism.
Communities heavily polluted with gender-benders in Canada, Russia, and Italy have given birth to twice as many girls as boys...
Well, that explains Russia's booming mail-order bride industry.
In the future, this breakthrough may help patients with similar injuries produce entire sentences, using signals from their brains."
Or give rise to the Strogg. I, for one, welcome our new cybernetic overlords.
I wish people would stop parroting this fallacy all the time. Market share has nothing to do with how easy it is to break into a system.
True, but the greater the OS market share, the more motivation there is for crackers to exploit it's vulnerabilities (if you think OS X (or any other OS) is 100% vulnerability-free, then you're living on the moon, in a cave, under a rock, with your fingers in your ears).
...and OS that was never meant to be a multi-user OS
Maybe that was the case with the non-NT versions of Windows, but certainly not with the NT-based versions of Windows, which haven't been in production since Windows Me. From Wikipedia:
Windows NT is a family of operating systems produced by Microsoft, the first version of which was released in July 1993. It was originally designed to be a powerful high-level-language-based, processor-independent, multiprocessing, multiuser operating system with features comparable to Unix.
UNIX on the other hand was designed from day one to be networked multi-user OS, and security and separation of concerns was there from beginning.
Actually, no it wasn't. From Wikipedia:
In the 1970s the project was named Unics, and eventually could support two simultaneous users. Brian Kernighan invented this name as a contrast to Multics; the spelling was later changed to Unix.
Unix (aka Unics), originally was NOT multi-user. That feature was added on later.
The comeback confirms what researchers noted last week, that Srizbi had a fallback strategy. So, in the end, that strategy paid off for the criminals who control the botnet."
Now if only Bush had a fallback strategy, we wouldn't be dealing with the mess that is current-day Iraq..
Really now? You somehow know the inviolate checksums of every possible variation of every copyrighted work ever produced? WoW!!! I mean WOW!!! That's just amazing... Do you happen to have a calendar of all future cataclismic events as well? Just asking, cause you could save the human race a lot of suffering if you'd share it...
I couldn't have put it in better words :)
The same part that they found a strange sign that said "You came to the Wong place".
The card is exactly the same as the Geforce GTX 280 except with quadruple the VRAM. Like all of the Quadros, they're the same as the normal lineup with more RAM and different drivers.
Well no shit Sherlock. This has always been the case of GeForce vs Quadro cards, where the difference comes in the firmware controlling the card. In fact, you can even soft-mod a GeForce card such that the OS thinks it's its Quadro 'equivalent' (it's not of course because it lacks the firmware that makes it a Quadro, thus the perforamnce won't be anywhere the same in professional applications). So yea, nothing new here..nvidia has always taken advantage of this synergy to branch out into the professional market with minimal changes (thus cost) to an existing lineup.
Try cygin + dd.
A video card I can't use on XP32 since it can't properly allocate that much VRAM & system RAM at the same time.
A few things things wrong with this statement:
excuse me but this is total bullshit. oldest trick in the book. if you are behind in technology, pop out a card with huge ram and try to get some sales.
Are you some kind of idiot?
With 4GB of graphics memory and 240 CUDA-programmable parallel cores
That alone should be a plain indicator that this ISN'T a consumer-level card, nor is it even remotely close to being targeted as such by nvidia.
When in this position what do you folks usually do?"
Have a good employment backup plan.
Disclaimer: This is slightly offtopic
Nice to see a change in the way they're developing web pages pages (at least at a cursory glance). View source of www.usa.gov vs change.gov. Looks like he's at least getting some decent web developers behind him...I guess that's a good start.
what are we going to do to balance things out and prevent the population from skyrocketing?
I'd imagine as that concern becomes closer to reality, government(s) would have have to start imposing limits on the number of offspring a person is allowed to have (much like how China does in an attempt to prevent overpopulation). I realize this imposes on our freedom to reproduce, but given the alternative I'd say it's by far the lesser of two evils.
Thank you so much for the warning! I'll stay on 1.20 then and my next router certainly won't be a D-link.
Seeing as how reliable D-Link routers are (based on previous experience) I'd imagine it won't be long.
I once worked with an admin that wrote a 'compiler' that would remove a random line of text from source code before compiling....if you replace 'worked' with 'read about', and 'admin' with 'BOFH'.
Not a command per-se, but if you've ever wondered how to disconnect a stalled ssh session (like to disconnect a stalled telnet session), follow this key sequence:
<enter>
<enter>
<enter>
<shift-tilde>
<period>
That will disconnect you from a stalled ssh session w/out having to exit your terminal session
lsof is a LIFE SAVER for trying to find what's still using something in a mounted resource when trying to unmount something. For example:
/mnt/myMount
/mnt/myMount open
/dev/snd
lsof
That will list which processes have anything under
It's also useful to find who's accessing what device. For example, say you're trying to listen to an mp3 and Amarok bitches about the sound device not being available. In that case, you could do something like this (assuming you're using ALSA):
lsof
That will list what processes are accessing any of your ALSA sound devices.
...like violence; if a little doesn't solve the problem, use more.
Also like a certain tagging language that everyone here loves.
I'm sure the fastest thing would be to just search online for someone else who posted a working cd-key.
Until you go and try to play it online..
Sounds like they're taking a page from Dell. Any design process that involves the end-user is a plus in my book.
Are you serious?? Openfire for the XMPP (aka Jabber) server, and Pidgin for the client. If setup correctly, you can force SSL/TLS encryption. I've implemented this at my company and it's rock solid. Beats the hell out of any proprietary solution you'll find, if IM is your main goal. I'd recommend setting up XMPP service DNS records for your domain for a really slick implementation.
Why? If you spend 5 years at a company and learn 'the trade' on their dime they should be safe from you running to the next company and spilling everything they worked hard to make, at lest for a short time. It would be massively unfair for me to take your designs for "insert tech here" and run to "insert corp/country of choice" and beat you to market , or, very closely join you.
Yea..the keyword there is if. If you do that, then you should suffer the legal consequences (if there are any), but you shouldn't be punished simply because you could do that. In any event, treat your valued professionals like they are valued, otherwise somebody else will. Like it or not, the labor market succumbs to the same market forces that every other market does...
Yeah, thats what Apple needs..another CPU arch switching mess and backporting nightmare.
Non-compete agreements are such bullshit and should be illegal...