User: cutshade

Anti-patterns

On: Good Database Design Books?

Lots of good suggestions on how to learn what to do.

This is a good book to show you common ways you can get yourself in trouble and how to avoid them: http://pragprog.com/titles/bksqla/sql-antipatterns

J

Re:Wrong

On: Nurturing Ideas Into Open Source Projects?

I'll bet you don't believe in Extreme Programming techniques then. (Although I've never tried the pair programming myself)

Tabula Rasa origins

On: Garriott's New Project Cooking Along

Tabula Rasa is also used as the name of a secret group dedicated to wiping out Maestros (magicians) in Clive Barker's Imajica. See here for a review.

Good article on honeypots

On: Security-Why Not Watch The Crackers?

I found this article on honeypots to be quite interesting and informative. Gives examples of how to track people and prevent them from getting any further than the honey pot.

Vote: New slashdot section

On: Handspring Files For IPO

In light of the torrent of these IPO announcements, all those in favor of a new slashdot section dubbed 'IPO Mania' please vote aye!

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Ah, for the good old days of slashdot with links to actual interesting geek sites on the web.

Re:Sweet!

On: German Robot Klaus Passes Driving Test

Just imagine being pulled over:

Excuse me sir.. er ma'am .. er thing. Do you know how fast you were travelling?

Exactly 103.29801 km/h sir!

SR not reliable enough

On: Linux PDA w/Voice Recognition

Can't really see this being very useful until they can correctly identify the owner's voice in a crowd of people standing outside in a wind. Until then I won't be buying anything with speech recognition. Why bother training a PDA if it doesn't recognize your voice in places you're most likely to need it? Having things read to you could definitely be useful in a PDA though.

Can they fix it?

On: WebTV Security Hole

Yep, yet another MS goof. So, not knowing much about WebTV, is this something they can fix, or is it coded into the box?