The NBN is a highly political topic in Australia. The opposition leader blames it for loosing him the last election (probably right too). He hates it with a passion. He appointed Malcolm Turnbull to "destroy the NBN". A job he has been working on ever since. There have been many lies and much FUD spread by them and their sock puppets (particularly their propaganda wing, "The Australian")
This is a fairly typical example:
As a taxpayer and citizen of Australia I want the $40 billion dollar waste of money (and way to appease country based members of parliament) shutdown and the money handed back to taxpayers.
If this person actually had a clue, they would know that the NBN is "off budget". It isn't being paid for out of taxpayer dollars. It is being funded by Government bonds. So there is NO MONEY TO GIVE BACK TO TAXPAYERS. But this is a favourite lie they like to peddle. As well as it not actually costing tax payers anything in the long run it will actually make a modest profit (~7% IRR)
The "appeasing country based MPs" is also pure BS. The NBN was planned and under way well before the country based MPs held the balance of power. It's just that they have all realised how beneficial it will be to the country and it was one of the reasons they chose to back the Government, rather than the Opposition (hence their hatred of it).
Another part of the FUD is that the actual budget is $36B, but they love to round it up to $40B or $50B or even $60B.
To put the price tag into perspective, even if it were to come out of the budget, it would be less than 1%!!! For such a significant national infrastructure item that will last for decades to come, that's pretty small bickies.
The N in NBN is for NATIONAL. The plan is for 93% fibre, 4% wireless 3% satellite with at least 12/1 speeds available on all mediums. The fibre is to go down to towns of 1,000 premises, sometimes smaller if the fibre is going through town anyway. Those on wireless will basically be those currently on the outer edges of ADSL or beyond. Those on satellite will be truly rural.
The NBN are planning plenty of backhaul to their POIs. Congestion isn't going to be an issue within the NBN. Your ISP (now known as RSP), well that *could* be a different story, especially if you go with one of the cheep and cheerful providers.
I do not understand why some Australians are so happy with the NBN. From articles on/. and elsewhere, I would say that what it does best is give the government the ability to dictate where you can go on the web, and track where you have been. I would rather have no internet at all than one like that.
You do realise that NBN Co is only offering a Layer 2 service. It's the ISP (now RSP) that offers the higher level services. I realise you*could* do some deep packet inspection stuff from their end, but as I understand it, it would not be at all practical at this scale.
Now if you tinfoil hat is wound on so tight you are too scared of the NBN to use it, what do you use for your connectivity now? A Telstra copper connection (weather it is from them or another ISP), just like the vast majority of Australians do now? How is that different to the vast majority of people going over the NBN infrastructure?
In conjunction with getting solar power at home, I've also set up real time usage monitoring.
I've had a stand alone power monitor for a while (our state Government offered them + a bunch of CFLs and other stuff for $50). However it doesn't have any PC connectivity. One day I was looking in the meter box, and I realised that the sensor was just a clamp meter around the input wires.
I already had a clamp current meter attachment for my multimeter (which also has RS232 out), so I put the clamp around the same incomming wires, connected it to my multimeter and then to my PC (via an RS232 -> USB cable). From there I have some scripts to take readings and enter them into a database as well as a web interface for output. Fortunately for me, the meter box is just outside of the room where the PCs are, so it was easy to wire up.
I actually did this setup in a number of stages. Initially, I used some software for my multimeter to plot / save to text file the raw (amperage ) data. I then started batch importing it into the database and calculating wattages etc from there. Now it all happens automatically. Readings are taken at 1 minute intervals.
Even though I already had all the parts, they cost well under your budget. From memory their original costs were:
Now I live in Australia, so your meter box setup may be different to ours. In mine, the meter and circuit breakers etc are mounted on a board in the box. This board has hinges on one side, so you can swing it out to get behind it. That's where the wires are that you need to put the clamp around. Obviously you want to be very careful back there, but there *shouldn't* be any bare wires etc. If in doubt, you could get an electrician to do this for you.
Can I update V 11.2 , 11.1 in place and expect not lose what I have ? Likely?, Yes ?, impossible?
or no?
Yes you can. With 11.2 you can either do it via the updater (zypper ) or do an upgrade from the appropriate CD / DVD. I can't remember if 11.1 can do a dist upgrade via zypper or not.
I normally just do the upgrade from DVD, and have always done so. I've never had any significant issues in the past. I normally do some testing on OpenSUSE releases and that is the thing I concentrate on, making sure that upgrades work (NB. I was a slacker this time and didn't do any testing on 11.3)
Or what about an user-configurable firewall at the ISP? Have it block port 80 by default, but any user who wants to use it can simply go to the web site and enable the port.
Exactly.
That's what my ISP does (in Australia). You can run all the servers you want with them. It's your connection. But they do want you to explicitly turn it on. I think that is a Good Thing (TM), especially for port 25.
What if we all downloaded proxy programs that allowed others to use our internet connection like with P2P software? I would have 20 or so people browsing on my internet connection but my internet connection could be spread out over another 20 people's networks and so on. It would really screw up the goverment's ability to see who's browsing what. Granted, some type of illegal sites would have to be blocked so you don't get blamed for your neightbor's bad habits and you could turn off the program when you needed the full pipe like when gaming.
gressive driving, and weaving in and out of traffic which is what happens when artificially low speed limits are applied on perfectly safe roads?
I hypothesize that more accidents are caused by said aggressive, distracted, impaired, or unskilled driving outnumber accidents genuinely caused by speed way more by several orders of magnitude. But such a study will never be conducted on the fear that police will lose justification for bullshit speed traps.
You are entirely correct. Speed does NOT kill, it's stopping too quickly that kills (normally by coming into contact with something with a reasonably high speed differential). Obviously, speed does tend to exacerbate the significance of an accident, and may increase the probability under some circumstances (but not always).
However if you have the vast majority of road users traveling at reasonably similar speeds that are suitable for the conditions, keeping safe distances, being observant etc, the probability of an accident is quite low. As you indicated it's those who don't do those things that are likely to cause an accident.
I also agree that there are too many vested interests for sanity to actually prevail. That being said, in a recent news article here in Queensland, a Police union representative stated that there was absolutely no evidence that hidden (unmarked) speed cameras did anything to reduce the road toll. Although the 'powers that be' immediately dismissed the comment.
Also, you can run Visio (and the 'standard' MS Office applications) via Crossover Office. They run as well as they ever do, not that I actually use them much. So you definitely don't need Windows just to run them.
I do as you do and use OpenOffice Draw for most stuff. I only use Visio if an external contractor sends me a file in that format.
Remaining puzzle: I don't know of any 120km-diameter impact crater "off the WA coast" of about the same age (i.e. ~Late Eocene). The Earth Impact Database certainly doesn't show one, and the list of impact craters >100km is very short. In fact, it is unlikely for such a crater to exist off the coast of Washington because the continent quickly changes to deep ocean crust due to the subduction zone parallel to the coast, I'm not sure the crust there is even Eocene in age (it's pretty young due to the adjacent Juan de Fuca ridge), and hardly any impact craters are known from ocean crust anyway (the only ones known are quite small, and didn't really form an "impact crater" because of the deep ocean water). It's possible that this "crater off Washington" was confused with the large (85km) Late Eocene impact structure that exists off the East Coast of the USA in Chesapeake Bay and is not far from Washington, D.C..
Coincidentally both the Popigai impact and Chesapeake Bay impacts are mentioned in the abstract of the paper, so it's very likely a mix-up about the two Washingtons that explains the third one. We can't really blame the submitter for the mix-up. They just quoted the errors in the other article.
I suspect the author actually meant the Woodleigh crater off Western Australia (WA).
I believe this is largely a "marketing" exercise. One of their main aims would be to reduce the number of people willing to be mules. This means that the "real bad guys" have to work harder to get their money clean.
They want to let those in "the latter group" know that this is definitely illegal, instead of having the thin veil of thinking it *may* be slightly dodgy in some way, but not necessarily illegal, or even if it is, no one has ever got in trouble for it.
If they get a few convictions, or even get some cases to court, the media will do the rest for them. Job done.
That will work a LOT better than any traditional advertising / press release etc.
Except that such separation is merely common (and prudent) business practice. If it isn't your money why would you not keep it in a separate account?
Correct.
Even if this were a perfectly legal thing, I would personally do it via a separate account just to keep my personal finances separate from my business finances.
That is mostly because salt water corrodes. If you have something that's been for a swim in salt water, get the batteries out quick and wash in fresh water (as fresh as you can get). Then dry out completely.
You then have a reasonable chance of saving the item.
In your case where you had fresh water running over LCD screens, you are probably lucky you didn't get the higher mains voltages doing "bad things" (TM) around the PSU.
V = IR So the higher the voltage the more current you will get going into the wrong places (even at low conductivities / high resistance)
I'm fairly certain that if you tried this, the water would be rendered conductive by dissolving whatever contaminants you happen to have on the surface of the device and you'd still get a short. YMMV.
Actually that's very unlikely. Even in a fairly conductive liquid you don't necessarily get a short.
Many years ago I dropped my calculator into Copper refining electrolyte.
Electrolyte is
* ~180 g/L H2SO4
* 35 g/L Cu++
* plus lots of other stuff. It's meant to be conductive.
It's also at 65 degrees Celcius (to aid conductivity).
I fished it out as quick as I could and pulled out the batteries. I asked the ex electronics foreman what to do. His advice as to pull it all apart, wash out as thoroughly as possible with water, put it somewhere to dry in the air for a week or two, and see what happens.
The calculator still worked. The only issue was that some Copper had plated on the contacts of the physical on/off switch, so I couldn't physically turn it off. It has an auto off feature and a soft on button. It still works to this day.
I have had the same calculator and number of other electronic devices (PDA type things etc) fall into a variety of "not good" liquids. They've all survived. The main thing seems to be to get the batteries out ASAP.
As the developer you can't tell an end user what their name is. (cue obligatory xkcd reference: http://xkcd.com/327/ ). I could just as easily change my name to <script>do_something_evil();</script>. It's NOT your call.
You can, and should enforce type checking. If it is supposed to be a date field, it should be a valid date, but in general text fields are "anything goes".
It's your job as the developer to sanitise it when it goes into the database and AGAIN when you display it to someone.
I can see an argument for storing the data in a way that is already sanitised for viewing, but that can cause more issues. eg convert the example above to: <script>do_something_evil();</script> But what happens when that version was really my name??
Just to clarify, there is a link at the bottom of the careers page (NOT the careers page itself) marked:
# Open Positions At Oracle (Please use Internet Explorer)
However, I was able to follow the link, search for jobs, view their details and get to the "apply for this job" stage with no issues. From there it wanted you to register / login so I stopped.
The upshot is that not having IE is not restricting you confirming or denying Oracles hiring intentions
I do agree that they *shouldn't* have a page that is marked as IE only, that is pretty dumb for a company in their position, but in reality it doesn't appear to be a real requirement.
Well, I was able to access the Oracle careers page (http://www.oracle.com/corporate/employment/index.html) with Firefox (under Linux) no problems.
From that Page:
We're Hiring! To make Oracle's acquisition of Sun successful, we need more smart and savvy employees. We're hiring sales consultants and sales representatives specializing in servers and storage. We also need first-class chip designers, hardware engineers and software developers. To apply for these career opportunities, please send your resume to oracle-sun-hiring_ww@oracle.com.
I've never had any issues viewing any Oracle web page because I've not been using IE
You know, I do those close brace comments, but usually with a copy of whatever opened them:
}// if ( dome )
Yes, the smart editor will highlight the block for me, but many times (especially in code I didn't write) the block is bigger than the page....
I agree totally. I routinely do this.
As well as not having the entire block on the same page, sometimes the editor looses the plot with brace matching, especially if there is some commented out code in the middle somewhere.
There is also the issue of accidentally deleting a brace (typically closing). This obviously results in a syntax error, but it is much quicker to find if they are appropriately marked.
I also tend to flesh out my coding. In the UML editor, I tend to add a comment as to what the method, class, whatever is to achieve (not for trivial stuff though). I find this helps when there is a period of time between original design and building it.
When I'm writing a method, I quite often start with a series of comments stating what should happen at a high level, then I start filling in the details. I find marking the end of each block helps that process.
Every line should be commented, like:// Declare function called doit with one int param that returns an int int doit(int i)// See above comment {// The function's open brace. I like to put braces on their own line. You should too!! BTW, this is C code, so braces are totally the way to go.
if(i == 0)// Check if i is 0. You know, in C, "==" is the way to compare values, unlike in VB where you use a single "=". Just thought u should know.
return 0;// Return 0. That is, all the bits of the return value are 0. We could also return i, because i is 0, too. That is, all the bits of i are 0. On a 32 bit system, there would be, like, 32 0's.
else// <-- But you forgot to comment the meaning of this line!!! Please redo and resubmit to code review
{// Begin an if block using a brace (this is C syntax!!!)
int j = i - 1;// Declare an int variable named j that is one less than i
return i + doit(j);// Return the sum of i and the value of calling doit with j
}// Finish the if block with a C close brace. By the way, we could have written the above code as return i + doit(i - 1) without using the braces. }// The function's close brace.
There! Now that is both way readable and informative. Anything less would just not pass my code review.
Here in Australia you are quite hard pressed to purchase a netbook with Linux pre-installed.
I got my original eeePC 701 with Linux, but my newer S101 *had* to come with Windows. At the time the only machine I could find with Linux was a single Acer Aspire One unit. However my wife had her heart set on the S101...
It now has openSUSE (currently 11.2) installed and everything Just Worked (TM), but that wouldn't be included in anyone's statistics (except mine).
Speaking of statistics, I RTFM, and I couldn't actually see where / how they came up with this statistic. Did I miss something??
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The NBN is a highly political topic in Australia. The opposition leader blames it for loosing him the last election (probably right too). He hates it with a passion. He appointed Malcolm Turnbull to "destroy the NBN". A job he has been working on ever since. There have been many lies and much FUD spread by them and their sock puppets (particularly their propaganda wing, "The Australian")
This is a fairly typical example:
As a taxpayer and citizen of Australia I want the $40 billion dollar waste of money (and way to appease country based members of parliament) shutdown and the money handed back to taxpayers.
If this person actually had a clue, they would know that the NBN is "off budget". It isn't being paid for out of taxpayer dollars. It is being funded by Government bonds. So there is NO MONEY TO GIVE BACK TO TAXPAYERS. But this is a favourite lie they like to peddle. As well as it not actually costing tax payers anything in the long run it will actually make a modest profit (~7% IRR)
The "appeasing country based MPs" is also pure BS. The NBN was planned and under way well before the country based MPs held the balance of power. It's just that they have all realised how beneficial it will be to the country and it was one of the reasons they chose to back the Government, rather than the Opposition (hence their hatred of it).
Another part of the FUD is that the actual budget is $36B, but they love to round it up to $40B or $50B or even $60B.
To put the price tag into perspective, even if it were to come out of the budget, it would be less than 1%!!! For such a significant national infrastructure item that will last for decades to come, that's pretty small bickies.
Sorry, what are you talking about??
The N in NBN is for NATIONAL. The plan is for 93% fibre, 4% wireless 3% satellite with at least 12/1 speeds available on all mediums. The fibre is to go down to towns of 1,000 premises, sometimes smaller if the fibre is going through town anyway. Those on wireless will basically be those currently on the outer edges of ADSL or beyond. Those on satellite will be truly rural.
The NBN are planning plenty of backhaul to their POIs. Congestion isn't going to be an issue within the NBN. Your ISP (now known as RSP), well that *could* be a different story, especially if you go with one of the cheep and cheerful providers.
I do not understand why some Australians are so happy with the NBN. From articles on /. and elsewhere, I would say that what it does best is give the government the ability to dictate where you can go on the web, and track where you have been. I would rather have no internet at all than one like that.
You do realise that NBN Co is only offering a Layer 2 service. It's the ISP (now RSP) that offers the higher level services. I realise you*could* do some deep packet inspection stuff from their end, but as I understand it, it would not be at all practical at this scale.
Now if you tinfoil hat is wound on so tight you are too scared of the NBN to use it, what do you use for your connectivity now? A Telstra copper connection (weather it is from them or another ISP), just like the vast majority of Australians do now? How is that different to the vast majority of people going over the NBN infrastructure?
"He who can destroy a thing, controls a thing." --Paul Atreides, Dune
Your sig is remarkably apt for this story ...
In conjunction with getting solar power at home, I've also set up real time usage monitoring.
I've had a stand alone power monitor for a while (our state Government offered them + a bunch of CFLs and other stuff for $50). However it doesn't have any PC connectivity. One day I was looking in the meter box, and I realised that the sensor was just a clamp meter around the input wires.
I already had a clamp current meter attachment for my multimeter (which also has RS232 out), so I put the clamp around the same incomming wires, connected it to my multimeter and then to my PC (via an RS232 -> USB cable). From there I have some scripts to take readings and enter them into a database as well as a web interface for output. Fortunately for me, the meter box is just outside of the room where the PCs are, so it was easy to wire up.
I actually did this setup in a number of stages. Initially, I used some software for my multimeter to plot / save to text file the raw (amperage ) data. I then started batch importing it into the database and calculating wattages etc from there. Now it all happens automatically. Readings are taken at 1 minute intervals.
Even though I already had all the parts, they cost well under your budget. From memory their original costs were:
* clamp meter attachment (Digitek QM1565) $25 (see http://www.jaycar.com.au/productResults.asp?keywords=QM1565&keyform=KEYWORD&SUBMIT.x=0&SUBMIT.y=0)
* multimeter with RS232 (Digitek QM1538) $50 (NB. this model is no longer available, don't know what an equivalent would be)
* RS232 -> USB $6 (from eBay)
Now I live in Australia, so your meter box setup may be different to ours. In mine, the meter and circuit breakers etc are mounted on a board in the box. This board has hinges on one side, so you can swing it out to get behind it. That's where the wires are that you need to put the clamp around. Obviously you want to be very careful back there, but there *shouldn't* be any bare wires etc. If in doubt, you could get an electrician to do this for you.
I've put a sample of our median usage and production on Imageshack http://img31.imageshack.us/i/electricityusageandprod.png/
Here is the usage and production for a single day http://img163.imageshack.us/i/usageprodction20100915.png/
Having this type of data is great for tracking down where your usage is going.
Can I update V 11.2 , 11.1 in place and expect not lose what I have ?
Likely?, Yes ?, impossible?
or no?
Yes you can. With 11.2 you can either do it via the updater (zypper ) or do an upgrade from the appropriate CD / DVD. I can't remember if 11.1 can do a dist upgrade via zypper or not.
I normally just do the upgrade from DVD, and have always done so. I've never had any significant issues in the past. I normally do some testing on OpenSUSE releases and that is the thing I concentrate on, making sure that upgrades work (NB. I was a slacker this time and didn't do any testing on 11.3)
Or what about an user-configurable firewall at the ISP? Have it block port 80 by default, but any user who wants to use it can simply go to the web site and enable the port.
Exactly.
That's what my ISP does (in Australia). You can run all the servers you want with them. It's your connection. But they do want you to explicitly turn it on. I think that is a Good Thing (TM), especially for port 25.
callerid is not the same as the ANI number on the call. The ANI is what is used to bill.
I think that was exactly the GPs point.
If they used the ANI rather than the caller ID, there wouldn't be a problem.
What if we all downloaded proxy programs that allowed others to use our internet connection like with P2P software? I would have 20 or so people browsing on my internet connection but my internet connection could be spread out over another 20 people's networks and so on. It would really screw up the goverment's ability to see who's browsing what. Granted, some type of illegal sites would have to be blocked so you don't get blamed for your neightbor's bad habits and you could turn off the program when you needed the full pipe like when gaming.
Isn't that called TOR? http://www.torproject.org/
gressive driving, and weaving in and out of traffic which is what happens when artificially low speed limits are applied on perfectly safe roads?
I hypothesize that more accidents are caused by said aggressive, distracted, impaired, or unskilled driving outnumber accidents genuinely caused by speed way more by several orders of magnitude. But such a study will never be conducted on the fear that police will lose justification for bullshit speed traps.
You are entirely correct. Speed does NOT kill, it's stopping too quickly that kills (normally by coming into contact with something with a reasonably high speed differential). Obviously, speed does tend to exacerbate the significance of an accident, and may increase the probability under some circumstances (but not always).
However if you have the vast majority of road users traveling at reasonably similar speeds that are suitable for the conditions, keeping safe distances, being observant etc, the probability of an accident is quite low. As you indicated it's those who don't do those things that are likely to cause an accident.
I also agree that there are too many vested interests for sanity to actually prevail. That being said, in a recent news article here in Queensland, a Police union representative stated that there was absolutely no evidence that hidden (unmarked) speed cameras did anything to reduce the road toll. Although the 'powers that be' immediately dismissed the comment.
Also, you can run Visio (and the 'standard' MS Office applications) via Crossover Office. They run as well as they ever do, not that I actually use them much. So you definitely don't need Windows just to run them.
I do as you do and use OpenOffice Draw for most stuff. I only use Visio if an external contractor sends me a file in that format.
Remaining puzzle: I don't know of any 120km-diameter impact crater "off the WA coast" of about the same age (i.e. ~Late Eocene). The Earth Impact Database certainly doesn't show one, and the list of impact craters >100km is very short. In fact, it is unlikely for such a crater to exist off the coast of Washington because the continent quickly changes to deep ocean crust due to the subduction zone parallel to the coast, I'm not sure the crust there is even Eocene in age (it's pretty young due to the adjacent Juan de Fuca ridge), and hardly any impact craters are known from ocean crust anyway (the only ones known are quite small, and didn't really form an "impact crater" because of the deep ocean water). It's possible that this "crater off Washington" was confused with the large (85km) Late Eocene impact structure that exists off the East Coast of the USA in Chesapeake Bay and is not far from Washington, D.C..
Coincidentally both the Popigai impact and Chesapeake Bay impacts are mentioned in the abstract of the paper, so it's very likely a mix-up about the two Washingtons that explains the third one. We can't really blame the submitter for the mix-up. They just quoted the errors in the other article.
I suspect the author actually meant the Woodleigh crater off Western Australia (WA).
http://www.unb.ca/passc/ImpactDatabase/images/woodleigh.htm
I believe this is largely a "marketing" exercise. One of their main aims would be to reduce the number of people willing to be mules. This means that the "real bad guys" have to work harder to get their money clean.
They want to let those in "the latter group" know that this is definitely illegal, instead of having the thin veil of thinking it *may* be slightly dodgy in some way, but not necessarily illegal, or even if it is, no one has ever got in trouble for it.
If they get a few convictions, or even get some cases to court, the media will do the rest for them. Job done.
That will work a LOT better than any traditional advertising / press release etc.
Except that such separation is merely common (and prudent) business practice. If it isn't your money why would you not keep it in a separate account?
Correct.
Even if this were a perfectly legal thing, I would personally do it via a separate account just to keep my personal finances separate from my business finances.
Salt water, on the other hand...
That is mostly because salt water corrodes. If you have something that's been for a swim in salt water, get the batteries out quick and wash in fresh water (as fresh as you can get). Then dry out completely.
You then have a reasonable chance of saving the item.
In your case where you had fresh water running over LCD screens, you are probably lucky you didn't get the higher mains voltages doing "bad things" (TM) around the PSU.
V = IR
So the higher the voltage the more current you will get going into the wrong places (even at low conductivities / high resistance)
I'm fairly certain that if you tried this, the water would be rendered conductive by dissolving whatever contaminants you happen to have on the surface of the device and you'd still get a short. YMMV.
Actually that's very unlikely. Even in a fairly conductive liquid you don't necessarily get a short.
Many years ago I dropped my calculator into Copper refining electrolyte.
Electrolyte is
* ~180 g/L H2SO4
* 35 g/L Cu++
* plus lots of other stuff.
It's meant to be conductive.
It's also at 65 degrees Celcius (to aid conductivity).
I fished it out as quick as I could and pulled out the batteries. I asked the ex electronics foreman what to do. His advice as to pull it all apart, wash out as thoroughly as possible with water, put it somewhere to dry in the air for a week or two, and see what happens.
The calculator still worked. The only issue was that some Copper had plated on the contacts of the physical on/off switch, so I couldn't physically turn it off. It has an auto off feature and a soft on button. It still works to this day.
I have had the same calculator and number of other electronic devices (PDA type things etc) fall into a variety of "not good" liquids. They've all survived. The main thing seems to be to get the batteries out ASAP.
I have to agree with this 100%.
As the developer you can't tell an end user what their name is. (cue obligatory xkcd reference: http://xkcd.com/327/ ). I could just as easily change my name to <script>do_something_evil();</script>. It's NOT your call.
You can, and should enforce type checking. If it is supposed to be a date field, it should be a valid date, but in general text fields are "anything goes".
It's your job as the developer to sanitise it when it goes into the database and AGAIN when you display it to someone.
I can see an argument for storing the data in a way that is already sanitised for viewing, but that can cause more issues. eg convert the example above to: <script>do_something_evil();</script>
But what happens when that version was really my name??
Not really. If she was sharing them then the loss is determined by how many people downloaded the song.
Well, on average, the upload / download ratio can only be 1.
Sorry about replying to my own post.
Just to clarify, there is a link at the bottom of the careers page (NOT the careers page itself) marked:
# Open Positions At Oracle (Please use Internet Explorer)
However, I was able to follow the link, search for jobs, view their details and get to the "apply for this job" stage with no issues. From there it wanted you to register / login so I stopped.
The upshot is that not having IE is not restricting you confirming or denying Oracles hiring intentions
I do agree that they *shouldn't* have a page that is marked as IE only, that is pretty dumb for a company in their position, but in reality it doesn't appear to be a real requirement.
Well, I was able to access the Oracle careers page (http://www.oracle.com/corporate/employment/index.html) with Firefox (under Linux) no problems.
From that Page:
We're Hiring!
To make Oracle's acquisition of Sun successful, we need more smart and savvy employees. We're hiring sales consultants and sales representatives specializing in servers and storage. We also need first-class chip designers, hardware engineers and software developers. To apply for these career opportunities, please send your resume to oracle-sun-hiring_ww@oracle.com.
I've never had any issues viewing any Oracle web page because I've not been using IE
You know, I do those close brace comments, but usually with a copy of whatever opened them:
} // if ( dome )
Yes, the smart editor will highlight the block for me, but many times (especially in code I didn't write) the block is bigger than the page....
I agree totally. I routinely do this.
As well as not having the entire block on the same page, sometimes the editor looses the plot with brace matching, especially if there is some commented out code in the middle somewhere.
There is also the issue of accidentally deleting a brace (typically closing). This obviously results in a syntax error, but it is much quicker to find if they are appropriately marked.
I also tend to flesh out my coding. In the UML editor, I tend to add a comment as to what the method, class, whatever is to achieve (not for trivial stuff though). I find this helps when there is a period of time between original design and building it.
When I'm writing a method, I quite often start with a series of comments stating what should happen at a high level, then I start filling in the details. I find marking the end of each block helps that process.
Every line should be commented, like: // Declare function called doit with one int param that returns an int // See above comment // The function's open brace. I like to put braces on their own line. You should too!! BTW, this is C code, so braces are totally the way to go.
int doit(int i)
{
if(i == 0) // Check if i is 0. You know, in C, "==" is the way to compare values, unlike in VB where you use a single "=". Just thought u should know.
return 0; // Return 0. That is, all the bits of the return value are 0. We could also return i, because i is 0, too. That is, all the bits of i are 0. On a 32 bit system, there would be, like, 32 0's.
else // <-- But you forgot to comment the meaning of this line!!! Please redo and resubmit to code review
{ // Begin an if block using a brace (this is C syntax!!!)
int j = i - 1; // Declare an int variable named j that is one less than i
return i + doit(j); // Return the sum of i and the value of calling doit with j
} // Finish the if block with a C close brace. By the way, we could have written the above code as return i + doit(i - 1) without using the braces. // The function's close brace.
}
There! Now that is both way readable and informative. Anything less would just not pass my code review.
I guess you would have a better chance if you RTFA. Manuals can be fun too, mind, but they are shoddy for providing stats!
You are right!!
Although, in this case TFA had about as much statistics as TFM ...
Here in Australia you are quite hard pressed to purchase a netbook with Linux pre-installed.
I got my original eeePC 701 with Linux, but my newer S101 *had* to come with Windows. At the time the only machine I could find with Linux was a single Acer Aspire One unit. However my wife had her heart set on the S101 ...
It now has openSUSE (currently 11.2) installed and everything Just Worked (TM), but that wouldn't be included in anyone's statistics (except mine).
Speaking of statistics, I RTFM, and I couldn't actually see where / how they came up with this statistic. Did I miss something??
Understand women. Not even God can do that...
http://www.berro.com/joke/bridge_to_hawaii.htm
It's an oldie ...