I'm from LA and I know the traffic there. I also know that if there is an accident on the Golden State Freeway, there are at least 20 different ways you can go. About the worst bottleneck is the 405 pass between the Valley and Downtown. If that is really hosed, you can still use Laurel Canyon or another route. If you run into a traffic backup on the freeway, you can take the next exit and use the surface streets going the same direction. The bottom line, you have options.
Here, in Washington DC, you often have one way in, one way out. If something goes wrong on a major route, it can and does hose the whole city:
We had a snow flurry of about 1/4". There were kids stranded in school buses at midnight.
One guy drove a tractor onto the Mall and said he had a bomb. Hosed traffic downtown for 2 days. Ruined a perfectly good John Deere too.
A truck with gunpowder overturned on the Beltway. Traffic on my little 2-lane residential street 5 miles away was backed up.
We had 6" of snow during the workday which wasn't really predicted. It took me 3 hours for the 5 mile trip home. I had it easy.
An accident on the Woodrow Wilson Bridge backed up traffic on I-95 for 30 miles. There were lots of people who didn't make it to work that day.
A candle caught some wrapping paper on fire under the Christmas tree. Christmas trees are like gasoline when the have been up a few weeks, especially in S. California. No time for 911. Hit it with a fire extinguisher before the tree caught. A few seconds more and the whole house would have burned down.
Years ago, the Radio Shack salesman was trying to sell me insurance on a $200 car stereo. I wasn't interested until he said it also covered theft, so I bought the insurance.
The day after I installed the radio, it was stolen. After providing the police report for the claim, I got a new stereo.
Windows has lots of good tools for stuff like this too. I once wrote a simple C program which would print out ASCII 7 (beep) randomly every 20 minutes or so, then used the NT Resource Kit to install it as a service. However, my evil coworker accomplice changed the requirements so it would beep randomly every 2 minutes. Instead of the Chinese water torture I envisioned, my other coworker victim was pulling his hair out ("WTF is wrong with my computer?") within a few hours of getting back from vacation. Just because you are paranoid doesn't me others aren't out to play jokes on you.
This is no joke. In my senior year, I had 6 periods of woodshop (2 as teachers assistant) and 6 periods of all of the other classes combined. The woodshop was the only thing useful I got out of highschool.
I am also a rather successful software developer, but the H/S experience was very useful. When I had to rebuild a flooded condo, I was able to rebuild the kitchen myself, and I also made all of my furniture. The amount of money I have saved with those woodshop skills now ranges in > 10k range.
My data too. But the FBI said the data had not been accessed when the laptop was found. Of course, no one would ever think to change the BIOS date prior to copying the file, so I feel SO MUCH safer...
By providing such useful information about the site design in a simple exception, the site is already Pwn3d. Unless the site is really running RHEL with Apache and an error page script that generates messages like this to mess with hackers. Not that I would know anything about using this technique;)
I think the sweetest IDE I have ever used was Borland C++ Builder. It combined the ease of VB GUI development with the power of C++. You could also compile direct to a single.EXE. No DLLs, JRE, Frameworks, or other nonsense. The entire Visual Component Library (VCL) that made up the GUI widgets was based on the ANSI string class, so you didn't have to muck around with string memory management yourself (no buffer overflows). You could also use all of the VCL string handling routines independently of the GUI. Borland even made it cross platform with Kylix for Linux, which included both Delphi and C++ Builder.
The problem is Borland basically abandoned it. The power of the VCL was very poorly documented, with few examples (at least it was there, no asking for a CD whenever you pressed F1). Then, after version 6, they stopped updating and dropped Kylix support altogether. Borland kicked Visual Studios butt in Windows development in every way possible until.NET, and didn't require a framework for programs to run. But Borland just let it wither on the vine...
Borland already made it cross platform with Kylix. I'm sure it would not be hard to make an OS-X version too. The C++ Builder 6/Kylix 3 (released over 5 years ago) are competitive with.NET now. All Borland/Codegear has to do is release them again with better documentation and support for important new technologies like XML/web services.
That sounds about as easy as renewing your drivers license here in Virgina:
Wait in line for 2-3 hours to get to the entrance of the building. Hopefully you don't pass out from lack of circulation since there is no place to sit and you have to stand the whole time, along the the other 500 pissed off people.
Once you get to the clerk, who hands you the forms, you are finally allowed to enter the building, where hopefully you'll find a seat where you can fill out the long form which asks for all of your information that the DMV already has on file. If you have a good book, you should be able to finish it while waiting in the building with another 500 of your best friends.
Once you FINALLY get to the counter, the whole transaction takes 5 minutes, where the clerk tells you the score of the football game you completely missed.
BTW, there is nothing sweeter than having an Audi with a stickshift on the Autobahn, with a case of Parkbrau Perminators in the fridge at home. Of course here in VA, an Audi doesn't do you much good, as the ticket for going 75MPH on the interstate is over $1000.
To escape quotes in Oracle, use two quotes (''), so if you used an expression:
replace(p_input_parm,'''','''''')
This would replace all single quotes with escaped quotes. With the quotes escaped in Oracle, SQL Injection attacks go nowhere. You should also escape the HTML characters < and > to prevent someone from injecting Javascript into your site. There is a function in Oracles OWA_UTIL package for this.
Since when is Windows copy/paste functionality consistent? I never, under any circumstances use drag and drop. Sometimes it copies the files, sometimes it moves them, sometimes it creates shortcuts. You never know. Whenever you copy or paste text from a website into a document or between documents, emails, etc, Office always transfers all of the fonts and formatting with the text, instead of just the text which is usually what you want. Yes, I know about paste special, but half the time it is greyed out or not available, and you have to use Notepad paste. Then, there is that annoying clipboard toolbar that is supposed to manage multiple clipboards but just gets in the way
As for installation, I once wanted to reinstall Office, but couldn't remove the old version because I didn't have the original CD used to install it. I had an Office CD, but apparently it wasn't the same one used to install it. Since when to you need the CD to remove software? Some of the Microsoft installation screens don't have an install button at all. Instead, they have cancel button where the install button would be. The actual install button is at the top of the screen with a picture of a computer or something that looks more like a billboard graphic than an install button. I have to explain to everyone (including IT professionals) where it is, it is so counterintuitive. I'll take Synaptic, YAST, or CNR any day over this.
What would be the the most obvious use of Oracle Enterprise Linux? I would assume to run an Oracle database, but apparently not. I tried it out, and all it is is RHEL with the logos changed. There is no configuration that supports an Oracle database. After reading many technotes, I found out the only supported configuration is "workstation" (apparently you can't use server to install your database on). Even then, you have to install a lot of obscure packages to get it to work. Neither Oracle support, nor any of their documentation had anything on this, and I had to google other websites to find answers. It is actually easier to set up Oracle on Ubuntu (which isn't even a supported platform) then Oracle Linux.
I am not sure who writes crappier installers, Oracle or Microsoft, but at least Oracle's crappy installers are cross-platform
I haven't seen an iPhone, much less bought one, but I do have experience with games on phones. On my samsung (which has tactile buttons), I got several arcade games with the actual roms (Pac-Man, Joust, Galaga). Unfortunately, they were almost unplayable due to the small screen and buttons being too close together. Still, I think the idea is cool. And Chessmaster 9000 works just fine on it.
So did I. Its only got 2G, but it still runs Ubuntu quite nicely. Most letters will be circular filed, but spend your money and any corporation will listen to that.
The Windows command shell is actually quite powerful, if a total kludge. I routinely have 30 command shell windows open at work to perform various tasks. Unless you know where to look, you will never find any documentation on it. However, you can access the man pages for it by typing "help" at a command prompt. The 2 most useful commands are FOR and SET.
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I'm from LA and I know the traffic there. I also know that if there is an accident on the Golden State Freeway, there are at least 20 different ways you can go. About the worst bottleneck is the 405 pass between the Valley and Downtown. If that is really hosed, you can still use Laurel Canyon or another route. If you run into a traffic backup on the freeway, you can take the next exit and use the surface streets going the same direction. The bottom line, you have options.
Here, in Washington DC, you often have one way in, one way out. If something goes wrong on a major route, it can and does hose the whole city:
A candle caught some wrapping paper on fire under the Christmas tree. Christmas trees are like gasoline when the have been up a few weeks, especially in S. California. No time for 911. Hit it with a fire extinguisher before the tree caught. A few seconds more and the whole house would have burned down.
My Dell did come with a recovery disk. Of course it was the full install CD for Ubuntu...
Years ago, the Radio Shack salesman was trying to sell me insurance on a $200 car stereo. I wasn't interested until he said it also covered theft, so I bought the insurance.
The day after I installed the radio, it was stolen. After providing the police report for the claim, I got a new stereo.
Windows has lots of good tools for stuff like this too. I once wrote a simple C program which would print out ASCII 7 (beep) randomly every 20 minutes or so, then used the NT Resource Kit to install it as a service. However, my evil coworker accomplice changed the requirements so it would beep randomly every 2 minutes. Instead of the Chinese water torture I envisioned, my other coworker victim was pulling his hair out ("WTF is wrong with my computer?") within a few hours of getting back from vacation. Just because you are paranoid doesn't me others aren't out to play jokes on you.
I did too in 1984, but went the other path.
My major was Woodshop.
This is no joke. In my senior year, I had 6 periods of woodshop (2 as teachers assistant) and 6 periods of all of the other classes combined. The woodshop was the only thing useful I got out of highschool.
I am also a rather successful software developer, but the H/S experience was very useful. When I had to rebuild a flooded condo, I was able to rebuild the kitchen myself, and I also made all of my furniture. The amount of money I have saved with those woodshop skills now ranges in > 10k range.
My data too. But the FBI said the data had not been accessed when the laptop was found. Of course, no one would ever think to change the BIOS date prior to copying the file, so I feel SO MUCH safer...
Lately, all of my Windows PCs seem to reboot on a regular basis due to security updates. I happens a lot more than once a month.
By providing such useful information about the site design in a simple exception, the site is already Pwn3d. Unless the site is really running RHEL with Apache and an error page script that generates messages like this to mess with hackers. Not that I would know anything about using this technique ;)
An EMP would fry the ignition systems in an internal combustion engine too, it it not hardened.
This works for all languages and methods.. The only time you don't want to do this is if you have to maintain YOUR own code.
I think the sweetest IDE I have ever used was Borland C++ Builder. It combined the ease of VB GUI development with the power of C++. You could also compile direct to a single .EXE. No DLLs, JRE, Frameworks, or other nonsense. The entire Visual Component Library (VCL) that made up the GUI widgets was based on the ANSI string class, so you didn't have to muck around with string memory management yourself (no buffer overflows). You could also use all of the VCL string handling routines independently of the GUI. Borland even made it cross platform with Kylix for Linux, which included both Delphi and C++ Builder.
The problem is Borland basically abandoned it. The power of the VCL was very poorly documented, with few examples (at least it was there, no asking for a CD whenever you pressed F1). Then, after version 6, they stopped updating and dropped Kylix support altogether. Borland kicked Visual Studios butt in Windows development in every way possible until .NET, and didn't require a framework for programs to run. But Borland just let it wither on the vine...
Borland already made it cross platform with Kylix. I'm sure it would not be hard to make an OS-X version too. The C++ Builder 6/Kylix 3 (released over 5 years ago) are competitive with .NET now. All Borland/Codegear has to do is release them again with better documentation and support for important new technologies like XML/web services.
BTW, there is nothing sweeter than having an Audi with a stickshift on the Autobahn, with a case of Parkbrau Perminators in the fridge at home. Of course here in VA, an Audi doesn't do you much good, as the ticket for going 75MPH on the interstate is over $1000.
They do. You ever looked on the back of your server to see where it is made?
To escape quotes in Oracle, use two quotes (''), so if you used an expression:
replace(p_input_parm,'''','''''')
This would replace all single quotes with escaped quotes. With the quotes escaped in Oracle, SQL Injection attacks go nowhere. You should also escape the HTML characters < and > to prevent someone from injecting Javascript into your site. There is a function in Oracles OWA_UTIL package for this.
Since when is Windows copy/paste functionality consistent? I never, under any circumstances use drag and drop. Sometimes it copies the files, sometimes it moves them, sometimes it creates shortcuts. You never know. Whenever you copy or paste text from a website into a document or between documents, emails, etc, Office always transfers all of the fonts and formatting with the text, instead of just the text which is usually what you want. Yes, I know about paste special, but half the time it is greyed out or not available, and you have to use Notepad paste. Then, there is that annoying clipboard toolbar that is supposed to manage multiple clipboards but just gets in the way
As for installation, I once wanted to reinstall Office, but couldn't remove the old version because I didn't have the original CD used to install it. I had an Office CD, but apparently it wasn't the same one used to install it. Since when to you need the CD to remove software? Some of the Microsoft installation screens don't have an install button at all. Instead, they have cancel button where the install button would be. The actual install button is at the top of the screen with a picture of a computer or something that looks more like a billboard graphic than an install button. I have to explain to everyone (including IT professionals) where it is, it is so counterintuitive. I'll take Synaptic, YAST, or CNR any day over this.
What would be the the most obvious use of Oracle Enterprise Linux? I would assume to run an Oracle database, but apparently not. I tried it out, and all it is is RHEL with the logos changed. There is no configuration that supports an Oracle database. After reading many technotes, I found out the only supported configuration is "workstation" (apparently you can't use server to install your database on). Even then, you have to install a lot of obscure packages to get it to work. Neither Oracle support, nor any of their documentation had anything on this, and I had to google other websites to find answers. It is actually easier to set up Oracle on Ubuntu (which isn't even a supported platform) then Oracle Linux.
I am not sure who writes crappier installers, Oracle or Microsoft, but at least Oracle's crappy installers are cross-platform
I wish I had mod points. Oh, wait your already modded +5 funny anyway.
Goto a command prompt:
C:\> delC:\> del
C:\> del
It will probably take a while, but you can read /. on Firefox while waiting.
Sounds like something for
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Once you have nuked the java process, what is the keystroke to return back to the gui?
I haven't seen an iPhone, much less bought one, but I do have experience with games on phones. On my samsung (which has tactile buttons), I got several arcade games with the actual roms (Pac-Man, Joust, Galaga). Unfortunately, they were almost unplayable due to the small screen and buttons being too close together. Still, I think the idea is cool. And Chessmaster 9000 works just fine on it.
So did I. Its only got 2G, but it still runs Ubuntu quite nicely. Most letters will be circular filed, but spend your money and any corporation will listen to that.
The Windows command shell is actually quite powerful, if a total kludge. I routinely have 30 command shell windows open at work to perform various tasks. Unless you know where to look, you will never find any documentation on it. However, you can access the man pages for it by typing "help" at a command prompt. The 2 most useful commands are FOR and SET.
That is exactly what I have. A NATed DSL modem/router connected to a H/W firewall (also NATed). Doesn't seem to affect my web surfing much.