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Where does it say that ? They do have a preview which outlines what it will have, but near as I can tell, you have to be a paying ADC member to be able to get a copy now.
There are a couple of downsides. If you're not visible, in the office and working, when the next round of redundancies roll around, your name will be high on the list
Secondly, finding a company to let you do this is nearly impossible. I currently work from home about 1/3 of the time. I'm in the office 8 hours a day and then work from home 2 - 4 hours a day. The work I do at home is of the same quality that I perform in the office, but generally the same chunk of work takes less time at home due to fewer interruptions. Despite this, we are not allowed to work from home. Management will not allow it, despite having presented a fairly good business case.
I personally think this is a good thing. I know a lot of ISP's who've voluntarilly added all of their dialup and DSL IP addresses to various RBL's. They insist that you use their upstream SMTP server.
This way, you can still send mail, and ISP's don't have to police all of their users to ensure that they aren't running open relays.
Well, your site has been abusing my bandwidth most of the day:) I'm very impressed and will be buying a couple of cd's this week as a trial - I want to see how much import duty I get whacked.
Having never heard of CDBaby.com before, I'm now browsing and enjoying that. I do have to ask though, why you posted a line to 'Music to have sex to' on/.'
Another question - Have you bought the copies of Opera on the office machines seeing as you know how it feels to be the underdog ?
Crap argument. Compaq got into business by reverse engineering someone else's IP in their basement (the IBM BIOS) and selling it.
Their actions, which you are condemming here in another context, are what started and fueled what has become the booming IT industry of today. If no-one had broken the IBM stranglehold, we would not be anywhere near where we are today.
Languages, be they scripting languages or compiled languages are just tools. You chuck them all in a toolbox and pull the right one out for the right occasion.
In the same way that you don't use a hammer to remove screws, you don't use c++ to do some quick text munging. You pick the tool that will let you get the task done as efficiently as possible.
You also take into account whether this is a long term app or a once off problem solver. Do you really need a spec cycle, architecture, etc, to retrieve some data from a postgres db to a csv file? No.
What about people who pay for net access? A lot of those people don't use the auto update because they are on slow connections and it is costing them a lot of money to be on the net.
A lot of people still pay per minute to be connected to the Internet and using the auto update tool over a 56K modem can take quite a few minutes. Plus, if you have to reload for any reason, you have to go through the whole process again. The autoupdate solution doesn't give you the files with instructions, so you have to run up the phone bill twice.
Companies would never go for this. They would be exposing themselves to massive costs to provide people who wear prescription glasses with polarized glasses in their prescription. They will also be risking lawsuits from people who find that the weight of glasses causes sinus problems.
Damn, I'm tired of hearing that OS X is based on FreeBSD. This is just not true. One very small part of OS X is based on a fork of FreeBSD, but that is only one part. Not even the kernel is FreeBSD.
Getting Quartz to run on another platform with the performance that it currently delivers would be a non-trivial task!
For anyone who actually gives a damn about accuracy, check out the architecture diagram at developer.apple.com/macosx for more information.
Also, the NVIDIA name carries a certain assurance that it's all going to work well.
Yeah. It'll work great. Until you want to play games in something kinder on the eyes at 60Hz refresh rate on 2K or XP. Then you'll find that they're a pile of shite!
Stupid question - how the hell are you supposed to do anything if you can't talk to the user ?
You're an AV application. You are running as system because you have to work with the registry and do other things. You see an incoming virus. You're not allowed to create windows, so how do you alert the user to the virus?
Only way I can see is to fork a child process with lower privileges. The downside to this though is that you lose all the advantages of threading...
The problem here is that they are not just stopping you hacking the IMEI. I know of no legitimate reason to do this.
As far as I am aware though, this bill also stops you hacking things that there is good cause to. Things like unlocking your phone so that you can use it abroad with other networks.
Have you read big brother? Seen minority report? This is the way business wants to go. If you can't see that as being a bad thing, then imagine this...
You apply for life insurance. The life insurance company checks with the food store where you shop and see that you don't eat real healthy. They also note that you don't buy vitamin pills and shop really late at night. From this they deduce (whether correctly or not) that you are a workaholic working yourself into an early grave. They either decline your life insurance or hit you with a higher premium. Scared yet? No? Ok, how about this...
You are injured in a rail accident that SHOULD have been prevented. They knew about the problem, they just hadn't got around to fixing it because that would have hurt pre-tax profit statements. You complain. Next thing you know your political affiliations, things you did in high school and who you had lunch with last week are all under the microscope. Sound like fantasy? Not quite - This happened to a survivor of the paddington rail crash.
To counter your point: If someone wants to spy on me, go ahead, you'll be bored
May we take that as official permission to do so? Can we mail pictures of who you have lunch with to your girlfriend? Send tapes of the things you say in confidence about your boss to your boss?
In the UK you can almost GUARANTEE that the card will be identifiable back to you. Already your underground card has a number on it that ties back to a card with your address details (if you didn't lie when you gave them). You have to have this if you have a ticket valid for more than a week.
If you think this is bad, wait for the new tube tickets. At present to access the underground (Subway, Metro, call it what you will), you put a cardboard ticket in a slot. The magnetic stripe is read and the ticket is spat out. You remove your ticket, the gate opens and off you go.
With the new system you merely wave a card near a reader on the machine. London Underground are currently claiming that you shouldn't even need to take the ticket out of your bag. Ok, I've worked in buildings with card controlled access like this in the past, and I'm not sure this will actually work, but that is another rant.
Once these are accepted, all Joe Privacy invader needs to do is hook up these readers at entrances to stores, restuarants, etc.
This weekend I had to upgrade my machine. My old motherboard blew so I had to get a new one. Boards with ISA slots are almost impossible to find these days!
Because of the new board, I had to replace my ISA->PCMCIA controller with a PCI->PCMCIA controller. This controller is required because I use a wireless network adaptor.
The Windows drivers that it shipped with seemed to work. My wireless card was recognised and I could connect to the network at home. But every now and then it would lose connectivity.
3 hours and gods only know how many mouse clicks later I found out that it was a known issue. All I had to do was upgrade the drivers. No probs I thought
First I had to download the new drivers. Then I had to go into device manager and remove the device completely. Then I had to unzip the drivers and I needed a password to do this. Then I had to install the drivers and reboot. On reboot, all of my NIC information was lost so I had to re enter all of my network information.
And this is easy? To who exactly?
Next issue - Install my new GeForce 2MX card, download the latest nvidia drivers and install them. Start a game and wonder why my monitor is flickering. Check the refresh rate and it is set at 60Hz. So I hunt around and find a tool to fix nvidia refresh rates in games for windows XP and 2000. It won't install. Some more reading shows that it only works with older versions of the drivers.
Now I have a choice of using outdated drivers or playing games with headaches.
And this is simple and just works for the Joe average home user?
The Apache team told CERT that the next 1.3 version would be 1.3.25. This was the plan right up until a couple of hours before release. At this point, 1.3.25 was up for testing, and for some reason (I'm sure it was a good one), 1.3.25 was abandoned and they went to 1.3.26. I'm sure that the changelog will reveal all.
The problem is that when the vulnerabilities are announced, every script kiddie in town gets on the wagon and starts trying to pull servers down. If ISS hadn't announced the vulnerability, yes it would still have existed, and yes, I would still be sleeping at night.
Every time a new vulnerability is announced I start seeing the scans at our firewalls. FTP vuln -> shedloads of attempts at port 21 of every IP we answer for, even though we don't run any public facing FTP servers. Same for the SNMP vuln and every time a new IIS malformed string attack happens, we start to see it in our logs.
At least let us patch before telling the kiddies that we're possibly open to bad things:(
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Where does it say that ? They do have a preview which outlines what it will have, but near as I can tell, you have to be a paying ADC member to be able to get a copy now.
And if I remember right, the final frame to that cartoon, the punchline if you will, had Dilbert loading a double barrel shotgun.
;)
I'm not sure if it's a virus or just fiendishly good marketting, but why take chances?
Or something to that effect
There are a couple of downsides. If you're not visible, in the office and working, when the next round of redundancies roll around, your name will be high on the list
Secondly, finding a company to let you do this is nearly impossible. I currently work from home about 1/3 of the time. I'm in the office 8 hours a day and then work from home 2 - 4 hours a day. The work I do at home is of the same quality that I perform in the office, but generally the same chunk of work takes less time at home due to fewer interruptions. Despite this, we are not allowed to work from home. Management will not allow it, despite having presented a fairly good business case.
I personally think this is a good thing. I know a lot of ISP's who've voluntarilly added all of their dialup and DSL IP addresses to various RBL's. They insist that you use their upstream SMTP server.
This way, you can still send mail, and ISP's don't have to police all of their users to ensure that they aren't running open relays.
Well, your site has been abusing my bandwidth most of the day :) I'm very impressed and will be buying a couple of cd's this week as a trial - I want to see how much import duty I get whacked.
Having never heard of CDBaby.com before, I'm now browsing and enjoying that. I do have to ask though, why you posted a line to 'Music to have sex to' on /.'
Another question - Have you bought the copies of Opera on the office machines seeing as you know how it feels to be the underdog ?
Crap argument. Compaq got into business by reverse engineering someone else's IP in their basement (the IBM BIOS) and selling it.
Their actions, which you are condemming here in another context, are what started and fueled what has become the booming IT industry of today. If no-one had broken the IBM stranglehold, we would not be anywhere near where we are today.
Languages, be they scripting languages or compiled languages are just tools. You chuck them all in a toolbox and pull the right one out for the right occasion.
In the same way that you don't use a hammer to remove screws, you don't use c++ to do some quick text munging. You pick the tool that will let you get the task done as efficiently as possible.
You also take into account whether this is a long term app or a once off problem solver. Do you really need a spec cycle, architecture, etc, to retrieve some data from a postgres db to a csv file? No.
Actually, this was covered as point 5 - wall of text :)
You left out
:)
Out to get you
What about people who pay for net access? A lot of those people don't use the auto update because they are on slow connections and it is costing them a lot of money to be on the net.
A lot of people still pay per minute to be connected to the Internet and using the auto update tool over a 56K modem can take quite a few minutes. Plus, if you have to reload for any reason, you have to go through the whole process again. The autoupdate solution doesn't give you the files with instructions, so you have to run up the phone bill twice.
This was the premise of a book titled Decipher. Well, one of the premises. Check it out at Amazon
This is the same author who wrote the screenplay of 51st State / Formula 51 (depending on where you live)
The Offspring already did this on their latest album (Conspiracy of One).
Noting new to see here.. Move along.
Companies would never go for this. They would be exposing themselves to massive costs to provide people who wear prescription glasses with polarized glasses in their prescription. They will also be risking lawsuits from people who find that the weight of glasses causes sinus problems.
Damn, I'm tired of hearing that OS X is based on FreeBSD. This is just not true. One very small part of OS X is based on a fork of FreeBSD, but that is only one part. Not even the kernel is FreeBSD.
Getting Quartz to run on another platform with the performance that it currently delivers would be a non-trivial task!
For anyone who actually gives a damn about accuracy, check out the architecture diagram at developer.apple.com/macosx for more information.
that's coz you're stupid. They are not allowed to run wires. If you can't run wires, then what is your remaining option? Wireless. Duh!
Also, the NVIDIA name carries a certain assurance that it's all going to work well.
Yeah. It'll work great. Until you want to play games in something kinder on the eyes at 60Hz refresh rate on 2K or XP. Then you'll find that they're a pile of shite!
Stupid question - how the hell are you supposed to do anything if you can't talk to the user ?
You're an AV application. You are running as system because you have to work with the registry and do other things. You see an incoming virus. You're not allowed to create windows, so how do you alert the user to the virus?
Only way I can see is to fork a child process with lower privileges. The downside to this though is that you lose all the advantages of threading...
The problem here is that they are not just stopping you hacking the IMEI. I know of no legitimate reason to do this.
As far as I am aware though, this bill also stops you hacking things that there is good cause to. Things like unlocking your phone so that you can use it abroad with other networks.
Have you read big brother? Seen minority report? This is the way business wants to go. If you can't see that as being a bad thing, then imagine this...
You apply for life insurance. The life insurance company checks with the food store where you shop and see that you don't eat real healthy. They also note that you don't buy vitamin pills and shop really late at night. From this they deduce (whether correctly or not) that you are a workaholic working yourself into an early grave. They either decline your life insurance or hit you with a higher premium. Scared yet? No? Ok, how about this...
You are injured in a rail accident that SHOULD have been prevented. They knew about the problem, they just hadn't got around to fixing it because that would have hurt pre-tax profit statements. You complain. Next thing you know your political affiliations, things you did in high school and who you had lunch with last week are all under the microscope. Sound like fantasy? Not quite - This happened to a survivor of the paddington rail crash.
To counter your point:
If someone wants to spy on me, go ahead, you'll be bored
May we take that as official permission to do so? Can we mail pictures of who you have lunch with to your girlfriend? Send tapes of the things you say in confidence about your boss to your boss?
I didn't think so.
In the UK you can almost GUARANTEE that the card will be identifiable back to you. Already your underground card has a number on it that ties back to a card with your address details (if you didn't lie when you gave them). You have to have this if you have a ticket valid for more than a week.
If you think this is bad, wait for the new tube tickets. At present to access the underground (Subway, Metro, call it what you will), you put a cardboard ticket in a slot. The magnetic stripe is read and the ticket is spat out. You remove your ticket, the gate opens and off you go.
With the new system you merely wave a card near a reader on the machine. London Underground are currently claiming that you shouldn't even need to take the ticket out of your bag. Ok, I've worked in buildings with card controlled access like this in the past, and I'm not sure this will actually work, but that is another rant.
Once these are accepted, all Joe Privacy invader needs to do is hook up these readers at entrances to stores, restuarants, etc.
The cameras have nothing on this!
This weekend I had to upgrade my machine. My old motherboard blew so I had to get a new one. Boards with ISA slots are almost impossible to find these days!
Because of the new board, I had to replace my ISA->PCMCIA controller with a PCI->PCMCIA controller. This controller is required because I use a wireless network adaptor.
The Windows drivers that it shipped with seemed to work. My wireless card was recognised and I could connect to the network at home. But every now and then it would lose connectivity.
3 hours and gods only know how many mouse clicks later I found out that it was a known issue. All I had to do was upgrade the drivers. No probs I thought
First I had to download the new drivers. Then I had to go into device manager and remove the device completely. Then I had to unzip the drivers and I needed a password to do this. Then I had to install the drivers and reboot. On reboot, all of my NIC information was lost so I had to re enter all of my network information.
And this is easy? To who exactly?
Next issue - Install my new GeForce 2MX card, download the latest nvidia drivers and install them. Start a game and wonder why my monitor is flickering. Check the refresh rate and it is set at 60Hz. So I hunt around and find a tool to fix nvidia refresh rates in games for windows XP and 2000. It won't install. Some more reading shows that it only works with older versions of the drivers.
Now I have a choice of using outdated drivers or playing games with headaches.
And this is simple and just works for the Joe average home user?
WTF ? ? ?
CERT didn't get it wrong, things changed.
The Apache team told CERT that the next 1.3 version would be 1.3.25. This was the plan right up until a couple of hours before release. At this point, 1.3.25 was up for testing, and for some reason (I'm sure it was a good one), 1.3.25 was abandoned and they went to 1.3.26. I'm sure that the changelog will reveal all.
The problem is that when the vulnerabilities are announced, every script kiddie in town gets on the wagon and starts trying to pull servers down. If ISS hadn't announced the vulnerability, yes it would still have existed, and yes, I would still be sleeping at night.
:(
Every time a new vulnerability is announced I start seeing the scans at our firewalls. FTP vuln -> shedloads of attempts at port 21 of every IP we answer for, even though we don't run any public facing FTP servers. Same for the SNMP vuln and every time a new IIS malformed string attack happens, we start to see it in our logs.
At least let us patch before telling the kiddies that we're possibly open to bad things