If the browser isn't smart enough to realize that "tech.slashdot.org" is not the ASCII decimal representation of an integer betweeen 0 and 65535, then your problem isn't related to the URL nomenclature at all...
no reason why we couldn't be moving all of its relatively simple programs from the mainframe to a JAVA or.NET
You're comparing apples to oranges there. Java absolutely runs on mainframe computers, so moving "from mainframes to Java" does not make sense.
es we store things one way in the mainframe and again in AD or SQL Databases
DB2 is DQL-based and widely supported on mainframe and distributed environments. There is no reason those two cannot interact.
A big black box that takes up lots of room, lots of power and lots of cash
That "big black box" uses less energy and takes up far less space than equivalent computing ability of servers.
a VM that runs on Intel hardware but responds just like a mainframe
This is a fine idea, but the entire architecture would have to be re-worked in order to get the same response, throughput, and computing power of a mainframe. And once that is done... you'd have an intel-based mainframe, and probably not that much better off!
"It will be interesting to see why Google didn't choose to include OpenOffice.org... clip-art graphics, fonts, templates and tools for Microsoft Office migration."
My guess is that they chose StarOffice because it has clip-art graphics, fonts, templates, and tools for MS Office migration. You know, glaringly trivial shit for most users.
The article does not address the issue of privacy. Facebook and myspace, and xanga, allow users some amount of granularity to control who can view their personal data, which is one of the draws of these websites. Let me start a blog, post my home address and phone number and who I'm dating on it, and let google index it for spam-harvesters and identity thieves to come get? I don't think so.
I don't think that's fair. You have a lot of proprietary software that simply cannot touch the things in OSS. Like your favorite MMO, or SlickEdit, or OMEGAMON XE. Professionals have an incentive to produce good products - they can rake in more $$ with a better product.
(to bring this back on topic, that's not quite the case with MS... they already *have* their monopoly, and that they can find more MS sysadmins than Linux sysadmins is on their side.)
Goodness; I wish people stop with the "dumb lazy users" mantra. Mum doesn't know what "system security or stability" means, she just wants to watch her DVDs.
Not quite. They are engineered (as they have been for decades) for stability and were designed to handle that kind of load. Its CPU/RAM/storage are redundant, so that if something in the system goes down, new resources are allocated. Additionally, shops will have multiple mainframes just for that kind of redundancy. Its kind of like saying your car is a "single point of failure" - sure, it is, but they were engineered for the purpose of being reliable.
Some of the features of firefox are fast page loading times between hitting the 'back' and 'forward' button; firefox retains these pages in memory so that it doesn't have to fetch each page when you use 'back'. The amount of caching increases with multiple tabs. Try disabling this; does this really make firefox a better browsing experience?
One thing I kind of want to say is that, while I agree that the SiteKey method isn't secure, it seems that most any kind of website can fall prey to this kind of MITM.
With enough time, one could (with relative ease) write a bot that wraps around just about any website. (monitor the headers, cookies, GET/POST vars that are passed during a normal browser login, and then write a script that uses curl to emulate all of that and create a phishing site).
I tend to think that at some point, any "necessary" security measures that could be taken to ensure someone's idenity would be inconvenient for the user or too expensive for the consumer.
I have yet to come across a pornographic website that emulates the wii interface, and the claim seems to be rather unsubstantiated. Could somebody point me to a few example websites?
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If the browser isn't smart enough to realize that "tech.slashdot.org" is not the ASCII decimal representation of an integer betweeen 0 and 65535, then your problem isn't related to the URL nomenclature at all...
And lets not forget about her stint at the erotic bakery!
Yeah. This would be really cool and interesting, but without the source code its pretty much impossible for me to gain any technical insight.
...you mean to tell me that fragmentation *reduces* the performance of storage???
...not another framework. Will it run on Linux??
if the proof-verifying-algorithm is polynomially verifiable.
Anyone remember PF7 and PF8?
You're comparing apples to oranges there. Java absolutely runs on mainframe computers, so moving "from mainframes to Java" does not make sense.
DB2 is DQL-based and widely supported on mainframe and distributed environments. There is no reason those two cannot interact.
That "big black box" uses less energy and takes up far less space than equivalent computing ability of servers.
This is a fine idea, but the entire architecture would have to be re-worked in order to get the same response, throughput, and computing power of a mainframe. And once that is done... you'd have an intel-based mainframe, and probably not that much better off!
Its about time they start making software that runs on Linux too.
Will the new platform run on Linux??
If the beer in the video game was Budweiser, why wouldn't it be a water sport?
I myself solve the problem using this construct:
...
#define BeginWhile {
#define EndWhile }
#define BeginFor {
#define EndFor }
"It will be interesting to see why Google didn't choose to include OpenOffice.org ... clip-art graphics, fonts, templates and tools for Microsoft Office migration."
My guess is that they chose StarOffice because it has clip-art graphics, fonts, templates, and tools for MS Office migration. You know, glaringly trivial shit for most users.
The article does not address the issue of privacy. Facebook and myspace, and xanga, allow users some amount of granularity to control who can view their personal data, which is one of the draws of these websites. Let me start a blog, post my home address and phone number and who I'm dating on it, and let google index it for spam-harvesters and identity thieves to come get? I don't think so.
I don't think that's fair. You have a lot of proprietary software that simply cannot touch the things in OSS. Like your favorite MMO, or SlickEdit, or OMEGAMON XE. Professionals have an incentive to produce good products - they can rake in more $$ with a better product. (to bring this back on topic, that's not quite the case with MS... they already *have* their monopoly, and that they can find more MS sysadmins than Linux sysadmins is on their side.)
Goodness; I wish people stop with the "dumb lazy users" mantra. Mum doesn't know what "system security or stability" means, she just wants to watch her DVDs.
It wouldn't fly here, they could do a much better job enforcing it in the US.
Not quite. They are engineered (as they have been for decades) for stability and were designed to handle that kind of load. Its CPU/RAM/storage are redundant, so that if something in the system goes down, new resources are allocated. Additionally, shops will have multiple mainframes just for that kind of redundancy. Its kind of like saying your car is a "single point of failure" - sure, it is, but they were engineered for the purpose of being reliable.
Some of the features of firefox are fast page loading times between hitting the 'back' and 'forward' button; firefox retains these pages in memory so that it doesn't have to fetch each page when you use 'back'. The amount of caching increases with multiple tabs. Try disabling this; does this really make firefox a better browsing experience?
One thing I kind of want to say is that, while I agree that the SiteKey method isn't secure, it seems that most any kind of website can fall prey to this kind of MITM. With enough time, one could (with relative ease) write a bot that wraps around just about any website. (monitor the headers, cookies, GET/POST vars that are passed during a normal browser login, and then write a script that uses curl to emulate all of that and create a phishing site). I tend to think that at some point, any "necessary" security measures that could be taken to ensure someone's idenity would be inconvenient for the user or too expensive for the consumer.
I have yet to come across a pornographic website that emulates the wii interface, and the claim seems to be rather unsubstantiated. Could somebody point me to a few example websites?