AFAIK knocking on wood originates in Germanic and Slavic tribes' beliefs that trees are inhabited by spirits; knocking was supposed to alert the spirits to your presence, so that they could help you.
On the KDE website, there was no mention of KDE 4.0 being a developer release. It hinted strongly, in fact, that KDE 4.0 was a general release.
It was only after all the problems and complaints that the KDE devs said that the release wasn't for mainstream users.
KDE 4.0 wasn't a developer release. What it was, was the first release with major architectual changes for public consumption. This was the first release with a stable library and without this release, a large number of KDE application developers wouldn't have a platform for porting and polishing their applications for KDE 4. Ultimately it is the decision of the distributions on what to include in their releases. I wouldn't consider KDE 4.0 a proper replacement for KDE 3.5.x, but I would make it available for use by application developers.
All this was well known and openly discussed during the planning and development of the KDE 4 platform including 4.0, 4.1, 4.x. To state otherwise is disengenious at best.
IMHO, the reason why this is so difficult is because of the awe and wonder (and fear!) we feel when we see the magnificent complexity and interconnectedness in the nature around us. We are today not very different from our cavemen ancestors in the sense that we still go through most of our lives in a state of bewilderment, and most of our efforts focus on bringing some measure of control and understanding over the complexity that is bombarding us every minute!
The awe of understanding is much more impressive than the awe of ignorance.
-- Dawkins
Regarding SMTP, we do auth through TLS. That's why email failed to be delivered through their system. My point is that it is disturbing that they capture / attempt to capture authentication information from their clients without disclosing this information. There is a lot of room for abuse considering the type of communication that takes place over email by business travelers. Especially, as you mention that most ISPs either do not require authentication or secure authentication.
Some of this could be mitigated by the use of certain email tools, but unfortunately things like PGP and other methods of encrypting communications via email are not well supported by email clients and are even harder to use by those email clients that support them. Not something that a typical business user would be able or willing to manage.
I noticed some hotels intercept SMTP traffic after a client complained he couldn't send email through our mail server while he was on the road. The hotel's service provider was trying to masquerade as our mail server and attempting to intercept the mail delivery. When I tested it I sent a test message through the mail server that was representing itself as our mail server and received the message 12 hours later. Interesting that it took that long to deliver the message and surprising that they would try to intercept messages and authentication information in this fashion. If I remember correctly, this was the Hilton in Chicago. I can't remember the name of the organization that was providing the service for the hotel.
What's RFC 8288? I think you meant RFC 822. Most regex email validators restrict based on TLD and other odd stuff that has to be maintained over time. It's better to simply verify that the string conforms to RFC 822. If you need to *really* know if the address is valid, then do an MX lookup plus SMTP validation.
From the article: Someone might accidentally make both the text and background white, thus rendering the text unreadable.
How hard would it be to warn the user that there's not enough contrast between the background and foregroung color for text to be readable? At the very least, the system could warn the user if they are the same color.
Isn't it possible in Germany or some other EU country to sue an individual/entity on behalf of another entity for trademark/patent/ip/contractual violations or some sort w/o their consent. I remember seeing some article on slashdot similar to this in the not too distant past.
If that is the case, I propose that a company in the EU sue SCO on behalf of SCO for violations related to the SCO's recent operations. I am sure some bright minded individual here at slashdot can come up with an amount of money to start with.
The cost of a license for commercial development is not a valid argument. If a company develops an application for sale, the cost of a license is a fraction of the overall cost to develop, market, and maintain a product. As far as development kits go, the decision on which dev kit that gets chosen is based on quality, which will drive the cost of development in the long run, and company politics.
If you design a site in such a way that you're getting performance that bad. Well, it doesn't matter which language you use.
Php, perl, c, etc. Are not the panacea your looking for, good architecture is what you need. Languages have their pluses, but it sounds like you just need a better design.
There are plugins available right now that allow you to create forms via drag-n-drop. I don't know if any are open source. You can check out eclipse-plugins.2y.net/eclipse/plugins.jsp for more info.
I've used a tool on windows to read ext[23] partitions before. You can find it by doing a search for win32, linux, etc. on google. This was quite a while ago and it could read ext2 just fine. At the time there was a beta or talk of such that supported writing to ext2 from windows. Maybe by now it might be worth checking out. I think this was the program:
http://uranus.it.swin.edu.au/~jn/linux/explore2f s. htm
Done this. Although they do offer multiple desktops, it's poorly implemented. When I tried using it on XP, the items in the taskbar reorder themselves in what seemed like a random fashion. Sometimes I would have trouble switching to apps and getting focus. Sometimes I would "lose" applications entirely - they were there but I couldn't get focus or see them in the taskbar. There were quite a few annoying aspects. Enough to make the feature useless. I think this is one feature that could be made more useful, but I'm afraid it is only for power users. I know too many people that use windows and can't grok the fact that you can have more than one application open at a time.
I did this once for a company. It's funny that the manual at the time didn't mention data loss. It was fun finding that out the hard way:) If I remember right I setup Realpopup on their machines for this very purpose. Cheap and it worked.
I going to let you in on a little secret my friend. Ear plugs. I know what your thinking, "Ear plugs? I want less noise." Well, my friend not only do ear plugs block entrance into the little holes on the side of your head by those neverdowells who wish to invade your sleepy peace, but they block sound also. I know, I know. It sounds to good to be true. But "Sound" is what we're talking about my friend. I can let you have a go with a pair of the finest plugs this side of the Mississippi.
Sounds like a good deal my friend!
So, now you're wondering how much is a wonderful, fantastical, new age device like this going to cost me. Well, have solice in knowing that although it may not be free, it is well worth the price! Now I can see that I have your attention sir.. and I want to keep it. So, I'll tell you what, since your such a nice fellow - studious fellow. I'll let you have your pick of my finest stock of plugs for only 59.95US a plug. It may sound high, but sound is what we're talking about...
Hell, I'm a sucker and a good guy to boot and I can tell you are too. I'll tell you what. I'm willing to give you the pair for the same price. It's a hell of a deal not only do you get the one I spoke of earlier for that low, low price, but you get enough of these wonderful plugs to satisfy your whole head.
So, do we have a deal?
Great! I'm glad to help a fellow person and happy plugging.
I'm a roadrunner customer and the contract that I accepted when signing up for service is so broad that it could prevent most internet activity, including web browsing. Basically, very open contract. Not much to do but switch services if they decide to enforce it.
We're a small company, but we got hit by the 'I Love You Virus'. We received it from one of our insurance agents and we didn't have an autoupdate facility enabled. My boss opened an email just as I got into work and was updating our email scanner, I clocked the time from my boss saying that his email (Outlook) was 'going wacky' (reading alert as he yelled) till I unplugged his ethernet at 45 secs via logs. We sent out 3 emails (Virii) and lost a thousand picture files on our file server due to this virus. We really didn't suffer much though by comparison. Replaced files from backup. Fixed three infected computers. Total time 2 hours including followup. This isn't much of a hassle for us, but I can't imagine how that would translate to a large organization. The impact has got to be tremendous. The cost has to be high on a global scale. We were lucky and are a lot better prepared now for intrusion. Some people just have to much free time on their hands.
Yeah, we all miss McBride but what does this have to do with quantum mech. Unless somehow we can get 5 linebackers to occupy the same state at the same time (superposition) and bring our defense up to par with... ahh never mind.
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AFAIK knocking on wood originates in Germanic and Slavic tribes' beliefs that trees are inhabited by spirits; knocking was supposed to alert the spirits to your presence, so that they could help you.
Michael Quinion's site is a nice resource for these types of phrases. http://www.worldwidewords.org/qa/qa-tou1.htm
On the KDE website, there was no mention of KDE 4.0 being a developer release. It hinted strongly, in fact, that KDE 4.0 was a general release.
It was only after all the problems and complaints that the KDE devs said that the release wasn't for mainstream users.
KDE 4.0 wasn't a developer release. What it was, was the first release with major architectual changes for public consumption. This was the first release with a stable library and without this release, a large number of KDE application developers wouldn't have a platform for porting and polishing their applications for KDE 4. Ultimately it is the decision of the distributions on what to include in their releases. I wouldn't consider KDE 4.0 a proper replacement for KDE 3.5.x, but I would make it available for use by application developers.
All this was well known and openly discussed during the planning and development of the KDE 4 platform including 4.0, 4.1, 4.x. To state otherwise is disengenious at best.
See http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20080710131440951 for more information.
Regarding SMTP, we do auth through TLS. That's why email failed to be delivered through their system. My point is that it is disturbing that they capture / attempt to capture authentication information from their clients without disclosing this information. There is a lot of room for abuse considering the type of communication that takes place over email by business travelers. Especially, as you mention that most ISPs either do not require authentication or secure authentication. Some of this could be mitigated by the use of certain email tools, but unfortunately things like PGP and other methods of encrypting communications via email are not well supported by email clients and are even harder to use by those email clients that support them. Not something that a typical business user would be able or willing to manage.
I noticed some hotels intercept SMTP traffic after a client complained he couldn't send email through our mail server while he was on the road. The hotel's service provider was trying to masquerade as our mail server and attempting to intercept the mail delivery. When I tested it I sent a test message through the mail server that was representing itself as our mail server and received the message 12 hours later. Interesting that it took that long to deliver the message and surprising that they would try to intercept messages and authentication information in this fashion. If I remember correctly, this was the Hilton in Chicago. I can't remember the name of the organization that was providing the service for the hotel.
What's RFC 8288? I think you meant RFC 822. Most regex email validators restrict based on TLD and other odd stuff that has to be maintained over time. It's better to simply verify that the string conforms to RFC 822. If you need to *really* know if the address is valid, then do an MX lookup plus SMTP validation.
could you format an interview in a more annoying fashion.
find . -type f -exec chmod a+r \{\} \;
Alternately, you can improve upon the speed by doing...find . -type d -exec chmod a+rx \{\} \;
I ran the parent's code against the java code (minus an unecessary cast and object allocation) with an argument of 12345.
java -server: 54 secs
cpp: 47 secs
I'm certain you could tweak the java code quite a bit and the cpp code too and get both of those numbers down even further.
How hard would it be to warn the user that there's not enough contrast between the background and foregroung color for text to be readable? At the very least, the system could warn the user if they are the same color.
Isn't it possible in Germany or some other EU country to sue an individual/entity on behalf of another entity for trademark/patent/ip/contractual violations or some sort w/o their consent. I remember seeing some article on slashdot similar to this in the not too distant past.
If that is the case, I propose that a company in the EU sue SCO on behalf of SCO for violations related to the SCO's recent operations. I am sure some bright minded individual here at slashdot can come up with an amount of money to start with.
The cost of a license for commercial development is not a valid argument. If a company develops an application for sale, the cost of a license is a fraction of the overall cost to develop, market, and maintain a product. As far as development kits go, the decision on which dev kit that gets chosen is based on quality, which will drive the cost of development in the long run, and company politics.
If you design a site in such a way that you're getting performance that bad. Well, it doesn't matter which language you use.
Php, perl, c, etc. Are not the panacea your looking for, good architecture is what you need. Languages have their pluses, but it sounds like you just need a better design.
There are plugins available right now that allow you to create forms via drag-n-drop. I don't know if any are open source. You can check out eclipse-plugins.2y.net/eclipse/plugins.jsp for more info.
I've used a tool on windows to read ext[23] partitions before. You can find it by doing a search for win32, linux, etc. on google. This was quite a while ago and it could read ext2 just fine. At the time there was a beta or talk of such that supported writing to ext2 from windows. Maybe by now it might be worth checking out. I think this was the program:
f s. htm
http://uranus.it.swin.edu.au/~jn/linux/explore2
Done this. Although they do offer multiple desktops, it's poorly implemented. When I tried using it on XP, the items in the taskbar reorder themselves in what seemed like a random fashion. Sometimes I would have trouble switching to apps and getting focus. Sometimes I would "lose" applications entirely - they were there but I couldn't get focus or see them in the taskbar. There were quite a few annoying aspects. Enough to make the feature useless. I think this is one feature that could be made more useful, but I'm afraid it is only for power users. I know too many people that use windows and can't grok the fact that you can have more than one application open at a time.
I did this once for a company. It's funny that the manual at the time didn't mention data loss. It was fun finding that out the hard way :) If I remember right I setup Realpopup on their machines for this very purpose. Cheap and it worked.
This filesharing thing sounds as dangerous as needle sharing.
2.69 at your local grocer.
That's cheap. I bought spam recently for a wedding gift and it was much more expensive than that.
That's gotta be the stupedist, funniest thing I've seen in at least a day or two.
I going to let you in on a little secret my friend. Ear plugs. I know what your thinking, "Ear plugs? I want less noise." Well, my friend not only do ear plugs block entrance into the little holes on the side of your head by those neverdowells who wish to invade your sleepy peace, but they block sound also. I know, I know. It sounds to good to be true. But "Sound" is what we're talking about my friend. I can let you have a go with a pair of the finest plugs this side of the Mississippi.
Sounds like a good deal my friend!
So, now you're wondering how much is a wonderful, fantastical, new age device like this going to cost me. Well, have solice in knowing that although it may not be free, it is well worth the price! Now I can see that I have your attention sir.. and I want to keep it. So, I'll tell you what, since your such a nice fellow - studious fellow. I'll let you have your pick of my finest stock of plugs for only 59.95US a plug. It may sound high, but sound is what we're talking about...
Hell, I'm a sucker and a good guy to boot and I can tell you are too. I'll tell you what. I'm willing to give you the pair for the same price. It's a hell of a deal not only do you get the one I spoke of earlier for that low, low price, but you get enough of these wonderful plugs to satisfy your whole head.
So, do we have a deal?
Great! I'm glad to help a fellow person and happy plugging.
You mean that software developers need to edit text?
I'm a roadrunner customer and the contract that I accepted when signing up for service is so broad that it could prevent most internet activity, including web browsing. Basically, very open contract. Not much to do but switch services if they decide to enforce it.
We're a small company, but we got hit by the 'I Love You Virus'. We received it from one of our insurance agents and we didn't have an autoupdate facility enabled. My boss opened an email just as I got into work and was updating our email scanner, I clocked the time from my boss saying that his email (Outlook) was 'going wacky' (reading alert as he yelled) till I unplugged his ethernet at 45 secs via logs. We sent out 3 emails (Virii) and lost a thousand picture files on our file server due to this virus. We really didn't suffer much though by comparison. Replaced files from backup. Fixed three infected computers. Total time 2 hours including followup. This isn't much of a hassle for us, but I can't imagine how that would translate to a large organization. The impact has got to be tremendous. The cost has to be high on a global scale. We were lucky and are a lot better prepared now for intrusion. Some people just have to much free time on their hands.
Yeah, we all miss McBride but what does this have to do with quantum mech. Unless somehow we can get 5 linebackers to occupy the same state at the same time (superposition) and bring our defense up to par with... ahh never mind.