(should have previewed, but slashcode should have been smart enough to not turn my unfortunate use of the < and > signs into tag markers when obviously they were not tags at all)
Frankly it sounds to me like they want a bunch of kiddie coders to go and write them this (near trivial I might add) article posting system which they will then happily use or sell wherever they want, having had it 'security tested' by the same bunch of kiddie coders.
Re:Joe vs. vi vs. GUI based editors
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What's worse is when a distro sets $EDITOR or $VISUAL to vi by default, then when something (perhaps unexpectedly) fires up the default editor (eg crontab -e) you get dumped into vi, with no help on what you should do to even exit the program let alone edit the file.
Compare that with something like joe or jove which have at least enough information there to edit & save or cancel the edit.
Personally if I have to use a console editor I prefer ``le'', hit F10 and select what I want from a menu - why should I have to remember arcane commands just to edit a file.
Interesting. I don't keep up with this technology, but years ago the landing was the diciest part of flying a plane...
Not really, taking off is the 'diciest' due to the fact that should you lose an/the engine at that point you are going to lose a heap of airspeed instantly due to being in a climb configuration (high angle of attack, lots of drag) compound that with the fact that you are pushing the engine(s) hardest at takeoff, often only having just warmed them up....
Landing a plane requires slightly more skill and but its not that hard most people could do it survivably after practicing maybe 20 or 30 times, and if you lose an/the engine during landing then it's much less a problem.
This is especially important if you only have one data line - dual DNS is useless if both servers are on the same connection
secondary.org provides free secondary DNS for anybody who wants it. I have them as secondary on a couple of domains I host on my cable and it's all good.
Via C3 running at 800MHz, but I thought that should be pretty good, since alot of people talked about running these things on Celeron 700s
The Via C3 has a slow (1/2 speed) FPU, you have no show of recording (software encoded) on a C3, hell, you'll barely be able to play back.
You should have done 5 minutes of research on the net before trying to do a C3 based set top box, even lat year it was common knowledge that without serious compromise it would not be possible.
To really destroy MD5, you need to either be able to reverse the plaintext from the hash, or build a lookup table where you can get the plaintext from the hash.
Exactly which plain text are you finding, there are (for he purposes of this at least) an infinite number of plain texts for each MD5 hash.
You jest, but braille "displays" do exist. Infact you can even get braille notebooks.
I had a quick play with the technology at a demonstration once (I live in Christchurch, where this is developed), quite interesting for a sighted person.
Screens : I never really used multiple screens ('public screens') in WB, and I don't use them now in whatever window manager of the day might be. To each thier own on that one.
Actually, no, now I think of it, of course I lie, I didn't often *choose* to use them, but most often you got no choice in the matter, an app (not so much later on, you generally goa choice) would typically open it's own screen rather than use windows on the WB. I guess the approach, now I think of it, had advantages, and disadvantages.
I do remember running a few things by choice on thier own screens - DOpus V (/Magellan), GoldEd (text editor), Thor (I think), and Trapdoor (fido MTA).
What somewealthycompany should do is make a cellphone based on an A500+/600 in such a way that it would run standard Amiga titles, include a decent LCD screen or LCD headgear capability - instant enormous collection of games (and apps for that matter) ready made for your cellphone (and of about the same quality as the high end custom made cellphone games today).
I doubt it's possible (yet) in such a small form factor due to the problems inherit in recreating/emulating the architecture (particularly the custom chips), but would be cool.
Datatypes : OK I'll give you that one. An OS standard way of handlng different datatypes (codecs) would undoubtably be useful. GUI Toolkits (MUI) : TCL/TK has had a dynamic packer for eons, as is the case with pretty much any other toolkit these days. Of course, you're coming from Windows, where things are different (I remember watching somebody design a gui in VB once and couldn't understand why they were positioning everything exactly, what on earth was gonna happen when the window size changed, then they locked the window size down). Assigns : Also known as Symbolic Links. Arexx : Yes, I give you that one, an OS endorsed and unbiquitous scripting language for IPC is good. Screens : I never really used multiple screens ('public screens') in WB, and I don't use them now in whatever window manager of the day might be. To each thier own on that one. GUI 'Consistency' : Yes, this is a problem with anything except Amiga, Windows and Mac really. CMD Line : xterm etc. YAM : Onl vaguely remember using it (but it was the email of choice in the day). Thunderbird does it for me.
What I'm saying is that yea, *Windows* might be lacking, but if you're goign to change OS (to AmigaOS) then Un*x boxen have the majority of those things you miss and a lot more going for them besides.
Have to go back through my memory for assigns, as I recall (and correct me if I'm wrong) it was used to assign a 'drive' to a particular location in the filesystem (eg, assigning SCRIPTS: to the startup scripts directory). If I'm remembering correctly, that's just like doing a symlink in the root really, so 0 points on that one.
Can't remember datatypes at all (well, I can remember there being 'datatypes' but that's all), guess I could go dig out my manuals and remind myself but I wont. I'l give the benefit of the doubt on this.
Arexx, well, yes, that is one thing that was usefull, not in the language itself (I only dabbled in arexx, I don't remember it being hot as a language) but in the ubiquity of being able to connect to an apps arexx 'port' to automate things (inter process communication). That was handy on many occasions and all the half decent apps supported it. I guess there is a loose analagy in communicating through unix/ip ports nowadays, but I don't think it's really as tight as the AREXX ports system, and certainly not a common thing in applications. So I'll give you 1/2 a mark for that one.
Ok, I'll bite, name one feature that you miss today from AmigaOS. I was a long ime Amiga user right from the original soft kicked A1000 with the "signature lid" to an A3000 kitted to the hilt with coolness (and still soft kicked actually), and I can honestly say that I don't conciously miss anything now that I had then (admittedly, it's been quite a number of years now).
Ahahahahahahahaha, ahahahahahahahaha, hahahahahahaha, bwahahahahahahahaa, oh man, companies lowering prices, ahahahahahahaha... I havn't laughed so hard in years.
A) He tricked people into looking at porn. ooh ahh. Big woop, it hasn't scarred them for life, it didn't make them blind, no more than somebody accidentaly clicking on a goatse link.
B) All that you accomplish by putting him in prison is forcing him to associate with hard criminals, who kill, mame, rob and rape. How exactly is that in any way a good thing for his 'correction'?
The most harsh thing that should even be considered for this guy is is a fine and home detention with no computer access for some period. But really... he made people look at porn, what's the big deal?!
It's not just windows users. I use X exclusively (with KDE at the moment), have done for years, and I don't like using virtual screens.
I like everything on one screen, but with gimp not having proper MDI it can be a real pain in the ass to use, windows always getting covered up, then having to fish through to bring them to the top. If I make the always on top then they get in the way of my other windows.
He's saying the original developer (eg A.Cox) contributed thier code which happens to also be GPL in some other project (eg Linux Kernel) to the non-GPL project using a different licence (the non-GPL licence).
And yes, if somebody wanted they could happily snarf the non-GPL version from the source to the non-GPL project (if that licence permits it), but of course it's unlikely to be identical to the GPL version or even complete.
Just had a cursory look through it, and I think alpha is the right word, doesn't seem to be feature complete and there are numerous little things that need fixing.
The interface looks purty, but it's a bit unintuitive. For example, I would have expected a way to be able to manage multiple servers at the same time, there appears to be no way to delete backup profiles, the fact that users are grouped by the username is not obvious (click a user with multiple hosts and an expansion arrow will appear allowing you then to expand it out to see the hosts), it's not obvious that a user has no permissions (the permissions tab is just disabled). You can't resize some panes (eg looking at a 'Catalog' (huh? Database is the term) you can't make the list of tables longer and the tabset smaller (easy fix in glade though), the view menu is completely redundant, the Edit menu options don't work (on Backup profiles at least, havn't checked the others). Some things are mis-labelled (eg apparently the 'Performance' tab of Startup Variables is for managing log files).
It also requires to be installed in/opt (hard coded in the binary), I guess if you want it somewhere else you have to compile yourself.
But those are all minor things, one glaring ommission though is there is no way to manage the data, or structure of databases - you can see all the structure but can't actually do anything with it, and can't even run an SQL statement against it - maybe it's coming.
It'll take them some work, but it's a good looking start anyway.
Pretty much any recent browser EXCEPT Internet Explorer in any of it's incarnations does CSS sufficiently well, bugless and standard like that you can expect things to more or less work the intended way in any of them - with the notable exception of overflow:scroll or overflow:auto in KHTML (Konq, Safari, maybe it's been added recently though?).
IE is a whole different ball game. In IE there are 3 big problems...
* First is no PNG-alpha support without ugly (and not brilliant as they will break things like links over the top of them) hacks.
* The second is floating, that is, using float:left, and especially float:right - this is simply broken on so many levels, depending on what you are floating where, all sorts of things can happen, from losing all your left margins, losing background colours, losing forground text, losing borders, getting extra space, getting less space. This has got to be the most infuriating problem ever, at least you can work around the PNG issue, but this, forget it - you'll never get it right. Many a time I have made a layout, all fluid for browser size and conforming to standards, degrades brilliantly, only to have a look in IE and find it completely torn to shreds because it decided that a float:right somewhere is far to complicated for it to handle.
* The third is the box-model, althugh it has to be said, I don't really care most of the time if IE displays a box a couple pixels bigger or smaller.
There are many other smaller issues in IE that you'll come across when writing good standards compliant CSS that will take you ages to figure out.
To top it all of, Microsoft doesn't give a sh*t about any of these problems, as far as they are concerned IE does everything it's supposed to, so what if it has bugs people will work around them, because hey, we're Microsoft.
The long and the short of it is, and I hate to say it, you have to develop using IE as your base-reference because it is the lowest-common-denominator, what you do in IE will work fine in the other browsers, but IE simply can't handle the stuff the other browsers can do.
I'm waiting for the day that Mozilla comes up with some whizzy bang dohickey for the browsing world that everybody wants - bring back the browser wars ! At least IE might get some much needed patching then.
Heaven forbid that employees should think of anything non-work releated at work, or increase thier personal skills or knowledge while working of course.
I guess somebody should tell all the apprentices of the world that they can no longer use their new-found skills outside of the current workplace.
The clause is pure BS, what you do on your time is yours, provided you're not using company secrets or resources to do it then the company has no say in it.
While you're right of course - if Microsoft had common sense here they'd click up the usage report for his account, see that he hasn't used it in x months and realise that this is a legitimate request.
I've been in similar situations (not with MS) and usually if you talk nice you can get at least a partial credit.
The point is, he hasn't really cost MS anything for that time, he legitimatly forgot he had that account, legitimatly didn't get the reminders, and legitimatly didn't use thier service for a couple of months.
MS should have the grace to credit him some or all of the amount in the name of customer relations.
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(should have previewed, but slashcode should have been smart enough to not turn my unfortunate use of the < and > signs into tag markers when obviously they were not tags at all)
'<' is less than and '>' is greater than
Computer keyboards have exactly one set of brackets -- [ is an open bracket, ] is a close bracket.
The other character tuples you mention are not brackets;
( and ) are parentheses
{ and } are braces
is 'greater than'
only [ and ] are brackets.
There ends the lesson.
Frankly it sounds to me like they want a bunch of kiddie coders to go and write them this (near trivial I might add) article posting system which they will then happily use or sell wherever they want, having had it 'security tested' by the same bunch of kiddie coders.
What's worse is when a distro sets $EDITOR or $VISUAL to vi by default, then when something (perhaps unexpectedly) fires up the default editor (eg crontab -e) you get dumped into vi, with no help on what you should do to even exit the program let alone edit the file.
Compare that with something like joe or jove which have at least enough information there to edit & save or cancel the edit.
Personally if I have to use a console editor I prefer ``le'', hit F10 and select what I want from a menu - why should I have to remember arcane commands just to edit a file.
Yep, because the ladies sure loves a guy in a Star Trek uniform in any other situation.
Not really, taking off is the 'diciest' due to the fact that should you lose an/the engine at that point you are going to lose a heap of airspeed instantly due to being in a climb configuration (high angle of attack, lots of drag) compound that with the fact that you are pushing the engine(s) hardest at takeoff, often only having just warmed them up....
Landing a plane requires slightly more skill and but its not that hard most people could do it survivably after practicing maybe 20 or 30 times, and if you lose an/the engine during landing then it's much less a problem.
This is especially important if you only have one data line - dual DNS is useless if both servers are on the same connection
secondary.org provides free secondary DNS for anybody who wants it. I have them as secondary on a couple of domains I host on my cable and it's all good.
Via C3 running at 800MHz, but I thought that should be pretty good, since alot of people talked about running these things on Celeron 700s
The Via C3 has a slow (1/2 speed) FPU, you have no show of recording (software encoded) on a C3, hell, you'll barely be able to play back.
You should have done 5 minutes of research on the net before trying to do a C3 based set top box, even lat year it was common knowledge that without serious compromise it would not be possible.
To really destroy MD5, you need to either be able to reverse the plaintext from the hash, or build a lookup table where you can get the plaintext from the hash.
Exactly which plain text are you finding, there are (for he purposes of this at least) an infinite number of plain texts for each MD5 hash.
You jest, but braille "displays" do exist. Infact you can even get braille notebooks.
I had a quick play with the technology at a demonstration once (I live in Christchurch, where this is developed), quite interesting for a sighted person.
Actually, no, now I think of it, of course I lie, I didn't often *choose* to use them, but most often you got no choice in the matter, an app (not so much later on, you generally goa choice) would typically open it's own screen rather than use windows on the WB. I guess the approach, now I think of it, had advantages, and disadvantages.
I do remember running a few things by choice on thier own screens - DOpus V (/Magellan), GoldEd (text editor), Thor (I think), and Trapdoor (fido MTA).
What some wealthy company should do is make a cellphone based on an A500+/600 in such a way that it would run standard Amiga titles, include a decent LCD screen or LCD headgear capability - instant enormous collection of games (and apps for that matter) ready made for your cellphone (and of about the same quality as the high end custom made cellphone games today).
I doubt it's possible (yet) in such a small form factor due to the problems inherit in recreating/emulating the architecture (particularly the custom chips), but would be cool.
Datatypes : OK I'll give you that one. An OS standard way of handlng different datatypes (codecs) would undoubtably be useful.
GUI Toolkits (MUI) : TCL/TK has had a dynamic packer for eons, as is the case with pretty much any other toolkit these days. Of course, you're coming from Windows, where things are different (I remember watching somebody design a gui in VB once and couldn't understand why they were positioning everything exactly, what on earth was gonna happen when the window size changed, then they locked the window size down).
Assigns : Also known as Symbolic Links.
Arexx : Yes, I give you that one, an OS endorsed and unbiquitous scripting language for IPC is good.
Screens : I never really used multiple screens ('public screens') in WB, and I don't use them now in whatever window manager of the day might be. To each thier own on that one.
GUI 'Consistency' : Yes, this is a problem with anything except Amiga, Windows and Mac really.
CMD Line : xterm etc.
YAM : Onl vaguely remember using it (but it was the email of choice in the day). Thunderbird does it for me.
What I'm saying is that yea, *Windows* might be lacking, but if you're goign to change OS (to AmigaOS) then Un*x boxen have the majority of those things you miss and a lot more going for them besides.
Have to go back through my memory for assigns, as I recall (and correct me if I'm wrong) it was used to assign a 'drive' to a particular location in the filesystem (eg, assigning SCRIPTS: to the startup scripts directory). If I'm remembering correctly, that's just like doing a symlink in the root really, so 0 points on that one.
Can't remember datatypes at all (well, I can remember there being 'datatypes' but that's all), guess I could go dig out my manuals and remind myself but I wont. I'l give the benefit of the doubt on this.
Arexx, well, yes, that is one thing that was usefull, not in the language itself (I only dabbled in arexx, I don't remember it being hot as a language) but in the ubiquity of being able to connect to an apps arexx 'port' to automate things (inter process communication). That was handy on many occasions and all the half decent apps supported it. I guess there is a loose analagy in communicating through unix/ip ports nowadays, but I don't think it's really as tight as the AREXX ports system, and certainly not a common thing in applications. So I'll give you 1/2 a mark for that one.
Ahahahahahahahaha, ahahahahahahahaha, hahahahahahaha, bwahahahahahahahaa, oh man, companies lowering prices, ahahahahahahaha... I havn't laughed so hard in years.
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A) He tricked people into looking at porn. ooh ahh. Big woop, it hasn't scarred them for life, it didn't make them blind, no more than somebody accidentaly clicking on a goatse link.
B) All that you accomplish by putting him in prison is forcing him to associate with hard criminals, who kill, mame, rob and rape. How exactly is that in any way a good thing for his 'correction'?
The most harsh thing that should even be considered for this guy is is a fine and home detention with no computer access for some period. But really... he made people look at porn, what's the big deal?!
It's not just windows users. I use X exclusively (with KDE at the moment), have done for years, and I don't like using virtual screens.
I like everything on one screen, but with gimp not having proper MDI it can be a real pain in the ass to use, windows always getting covered up, then having to fish through to bring them to the top. If I make the always on top then they get in the way of my other windows.
MDI would make it soooooo much cleaner.
He's saying the original developer (eg A.Cox) contributed thier code which happens to also be GPL in some other project (eg Linux Kernel) to the non-GPL project using a different licence (the non-GPL licence).
And yes, if somebody wanted they could happily snarf the non-GPL version from the source to the non-GPL project (if that licence permits it), but of course it's unlikely to be identical to the GPL version or even complete.
Just had a cursory look through it, and I think alpha is the right word, doesn't seem to be feature complete and there are numerous little things that need fixing.
/opt (hard coded in the binary), I guess if you want it somewhere else you have to compile yourself.
The interface looks purty, but it's a bit unintuitive. For example, I would have expected a way to be able to manage multiple servers at the same time, there appears to be no way to delete backup profiles, the fact that users are grouped by the username is not obvious (click a user with multiple hosts and an expansion arrow will appear allowing you then to expand it out to see the hosts), it's not obvious that a user has no permissions (the permissions tab is just disabled). You can't resize some panes (eg looking at a 'Catalog' (huh? Database is the term) you can't make the list of tables longer and the tabset smaller (easy fix in glade though), the view menu is completely redundant, the Edit menu options don't work (on Backup profiles at least, havn't checked the others). Some things are mis-labelled (eg apparently the 'Performance' tab of Startup Variables is for managing log files).
It also requires to be installed in
But those are all minor things, one glaring ommission though is there is no way to manage the data, or structure of databases - you can see all the structure but can't actually do anything with it, and can't even run an SQL statement against it - maybe it's coming.
It'll take them some work, but it's a good looking start anyway.
Pretty much any recent browser EXCEPT Internet Explorer in any of it's incarnations does CSS sufficiently well, bugless and standard like that you can expect things to more or less work the intended way in any of them - with the notable exception of overflow:scroll or overflow:auto in KHTML (Konq, Safari, maybe it's been added recently though?).
IE is a whole different ball game. In IE there are 3 big problems...
* First is no PNG-alpha support without ugly (and not brilliant as they will break things like links over the top of them) hacks.
* The second is floating, that is, using float:left, and especially float:right - this is simply broken on so many levels, depending on what you are floating where, all sorts of things can happen, from losing all your left margins, losing background colours, losing forground text, losing borders, getting extra space, getting less space. This has got to be the most infuriating problem ever, at least you can work around the PNG issue, but this, forget it - you'll never get it right. Many a time I have made a layout, all fluid for browser size and conforming to standards, degrades brilliantly, only to have a look in IE and find it completely torn to shreds because it decided that a float:right somewhere is far to complicated for it to handle.
* The third is the box-model, althugh it has to be said, I don't really care most of the time if IE displays a box a couple pixels bigger or smaller.
There are many other smaller issues in IE that you'll come across when writing good standards compliant CSS that will take you ages to figure out.
To top it all of, Microsoft doesn't give a sh*t about any of these problems, as far as they are concerned IE does everything it's supposed to, so what if it has bugs people will work around them, because hey, we're Microsoft.
The long and the short of it is, and I hate to say it, you have to develop using IE as your base-reference because it is the lowest-common-denominator, what you do in IE will work fine in the other browsers, but IE simply can't handle the stuff the other browsers can do.
I'm waiting for the day that Mozilla comes up with some whizzy bang dohickey for the browsing world that everybody wants - bring back the browser wars ! At least IE might get some much needed patching then.
Heaven forbid that employees should think of anything non-work releated at work, or increase thier personal skills or knowledge while working of course.
I guess somebody should tell all the apprentices of the world that they can no longer use their new-found skills outside of the current workplace.
The clause is pure BS, what you do on your time is yours, provided you're not using company secrets or resources to do it then the company has no say in it.
While you're right of course - if Microsoft had common sense here they'd click up the usage report for his account, see that he hasn't used it in x months and realise that this is a legitimate request.
I've been in similar situations (not with MS) and usually if you talk nice you can get at least a partial credit.
The point is, he hasn't really cost MS anything for that time, he legitimatly forgot he had that account, legitimatly didn't get the reminders, and legitimatly didn't use thier service for a couple of months.
MS should have the grace to credit him some or all of the amount in the name of customer relations.
The same can be said about any common combination-lock, great against people who don't know the combo, but lets anybody who does through.