oh please. I doubt Benetton is going to be expecting these rfid tags to still work after people buy their clothing. Stuff like static electricity in hot dryers and just general wear and tear is going to wear them out. And when all else fails, there is the microwave oven.
So, you'r saying that you are actually microwaving your socks to dry them?;-)
I've never quite understood why people were so enthousiastic about this 'round wheel' thing. Why can't we just walk and carry stuff? What's the need of all this so-called technological advancement if I can still carry stuff around with my bare hands?
The fact that we don't have a perfect low-tech solution (and have used this one for decades) doesn't mean that it's a good system. You already show the problems with current voting system. New technology (read up on mathematical papers around e-voting, they really are interesting) can achieve better privacy and correctness of elections.
I am sure that electronic voting has future, but I agree with the original submittor of the story. It needs to be completely open and verifiable. We might not be there yet, but we will eventually.
Using design patterns
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PHP5 Coming Soon
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· Score: 4, Interesting
The quote above states:
Co-creator Zeev Suraski states the new object model is inspired by the book, "Design Patterns".
While this isn't false, it did get me on the wrong foot. It appeared to me as if the PHP developers were just realizing that stuff like design patterns exist, and started writing their code accordingly. THe article however states:
"The way PHP4 was built -- it was not easy to implement design patterns," says Suraski. "PHP5 is much more suitable, so you will be able to take that book and implement the design patterns in your code."
It would've been helpful if that quote had been in the post, but it makes clear that PHP5 will have much better OO features than PHP4 currently has.
If they install Outlook Web Access, you could also use Outlook Grabber. Yes, I wrote it, yes, I am plugging it real hard now, but at least it's Free(tm).;-)
</plug>
When I have time, I'll try porting it to Exchange 2000 web access, that's a bit different in layout unfortunately:(
I know, I know, I have been extremely lucky:). Exactly one year ago, I was asked to join the internet team of a public broadcaster in the Netherlands. Their sites are based on the Open Source CMS mmbase. Of course, my work doesn't consist of 100% open-source programming, a lot of projects are more based around implementing the CMS for sites then on extending it. Nevertheless, I have been able to write significant bugfixes / applications that have been or will be released under an Open Source license.
How exactly is this news? Okay, it's a new review maybe, but the machine has been on the market for over a year now if i'm not mistaken. One of my coworkers already had one when I started my current job in December 2001.
It's a nice machine, sure, but worthy of a slashdot frontpage post a year later?
Way to go! A friend of mine gave me this URL a few hours ago, we had the following discussion on IRC:
11:22 <philb> http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/2295153.stm 11:25 <Gullie> philb: that is _old_ news 11:26 <philb> yes. 11:26 <Gullie> the idea is about 15 years old, first implementation was about 5 years ago 11:26 <philb> It's just appeared on the BBC news page 11:26 <Gullie> nutty bbc 11:26 <philb> I think it's because QinetiQ keep spamming the newswires with it
Seriously, if you search on slashdot on 'quantum cryptography', I predict you'll find quite an amount of previous stories saying exactly the same. By the way, a few minutes ago:
1:27P <philb> HA ha Gullie 1:27P <philb> I win 1:28P <philb> Slashdot ran the BBC news regurgitated story 1:28P <philb> yet again 1:30P <Gullie>:( 1:30P <philb> yes.:(
As far as I can see from the document index, it doesn't cover it. Around a year ago I did quite some research on this topic and I found one document that covered all aspects (including the management part) very well. Unfortunately I lost the link (i'll reply to this if I happen to find it again).
The first few chapters of that document described how you should see security in your entire company. Be realistic: if loosing creditcard-information is not going to harm your stock, why should you put effort in securing it? On the other hand, if it means your credibility as a trustworthy company diminishes, you (as a developer) will be more likely to have budget to set things up in a secure way.
Bottomline: explain to your boss how much $$$ is involved with certain choices, let him do the math in Excel (they are really good at that). If they understand that they will loose money when a webapp is compromised, they will be very likely to give you the opportunity to write decent software.
I did a quick compare and was kind of surprised by the following:
Linux cluster:
Total System Cost 2,380,546 US $
TPC-C Throughput 138,362
Price/Performance 17.21 US $
Windows cluster:
Total System Cost 2,533,095 US $
TPC-C Throughput 137,261
Price/Performance 18.46 US $
Note that the number of clients in the windows tests is higher 24 instead of 16), with smaller CPU's. Also, the server's aren't identical.
Besides from the small differences in setup, it's plain that hardware-costs greatly outnumber software costs. Yeah, linux has a small bit more performance (less than 1%) for a bit lower price (6%) but these aren't real shocking numbers. Of course, I'll get flamed for not bashing microsoft, but the difference really isn't that big.
It might not be directly an action against civilians' Internet access, but do you have any idea why the door was locked at the time of the fire?
Unfortunately, China is one of the countries where internet access is very strictly regulated. If I recall correctly (but correct me if i'm wrong), everything is being monitored by the government, I might even recall that they only open up small parts of the internet to prevent people from seeing anything that isn't in line with the government's opnion.
I'm always very cautious when communist-bashing is concerned (this happens most of the time out of nationalistic feelings), but we must face the fact that there is no freedom of speech in China. That's the reason that places like this internet-cafe exist, with all safetly-risks that come with that.
Shutting down these 'illegal internetcafe's' for safety-checks is not an issue of free speech, the fact that they exist is.
In her research, Plant noticed that while those less used to mobile phones used one or several fingers to access the keypad, younger people used both thumbs ambidextrously, barely looking at the keys as they made rapid entries.
If I play a musical instrument then I don't look at my fingers anymore (either when playing the piano or guitar), does that mean that I have mutated in a musick playing monster?;-)
I think the author mixed 'learning' with 'mutating'
we had some severe clone attacks yes, but not entire mit.edu was k-lined. Too bad that some have to ruin it for the rest, but that's how it works.. unfortunately:)
A little bit of karma whoring, but as a SlashNET server administrator I'd like to point out that we have servers in the U.S.A., Europe and Australia. So, use: - eu.slashnet.org - us.slashnet.org - au.slashnet.org
You may also check out our brand new fancy website at www.slashnet.org for more information:)
I've already posted this comment today at another story, but it seemed relevant again:)
In the Netherlands, a big project is going on currently called 'kennisnet' (or, translated, 'knowledge-net'). The idea is to put all elementary schools (I hope I translated that good, schools for children from 4 to 12 years old) on a 'subset' of the internet. They will be linked together and have access to the internet too, but on a filtered basis. Every school may choose which filter they want to have activated (Filternet [schoolfilternet.nl] is the biggest one that claims 99% filtering), to ensure that the children don't see pr0n and such when the teacher is unaware of it.
Frankly, I find this quite a good idea. Ofcourse, I'll have a bunch of people replying on this that information shouldn't be censored and that filtering is evil, but think of this: how would you react if your child, aged 9, interested in technology, viewed this page and accidently clicked on a goatse link?
In the Netherlands, a big project is going on currently called 'kennisnet' (or, translated, 'knowledge-net'). The idea is to put all elementary schools (I hope I translated that good, schools for children from 4 to 12 years old) on a 'subset' of the internet. They will be linked together and have access to the internet too, but on a filtered basis. Every school may choose which filter they want to have activated (Filternet is the biggest one that claims 99% filtering), to ensure that the children don't see pr0n and such when the teacher is unaware of it.
Frankly, I find this quite a good idea. Ofcourse, I'll have a bunch of people replying on this that information shouldn't be censored and that filtering is evil, but think of this: how would you react if your child, aged 9, interested in technology, view this page and accidently clicks on a goatse link?
I think somebody forgot that HTML source can be viewed...
The nasty part: every time somebody looks at this page, his MSN-email address is being posted to this mailform.pl script (the web equivalent of an open relay) and it is sent to this wanadoo.nl user.
Somehow, it is quite hard to _really_ initiate a secure communication without much work. You can ofcourse:
- send e-mail signed with PgP, but that doesn't really fall under 'instant-messaging' or 'conferencing'
- run a SSL-enabled IRC client and connect to a secure IRC network (lot's of compiling and patching here)
- use Licq's OpenSSL features... but since no certificates are used during instantiation, it could still be hijacked
- using 'talk' on a machine that is accessed through SSH... hardly to call userfriendly
I must note that I haven't read the article, but a standarized, easy, and secure (meaning that Man-In-The-Middle attacks are not possible due to strict certificate-based identity checking) conferencing programs could be the next Big Thing
I'm not an expert in ERP and CRM, but I believe I recently saw a press release from the Dutch ERP vendor BaaN that they are going to support their 'iBaaN' platform on Linux. Maybe worth a look?
Hmm, didn't Alex Chiu invent the immortality device? Doesn't that mean that people don't die anymore? Well.. he apparently thinks different now:
This I-Ching book is designed to allow you to predict just about everything: the death of a person, the exact time and date to expect a visitor, the rise and fall of the stock market, the presidential election, the out come of a war, etc.
If you know somebody is going to die, then why don't you give him an immortality device. Hmm, buf if you give him that, he won't die anymore, your prediction becomes fraud and the universe will then collapse into a singularity with infinite impropability.:)
I definately agree with this: i've tested LDAPBrowser (and a beta-version of LDAPAdministrator) on several different LDAP machines, including:
Netscape Directory Server 4.1x
iPlanet Directory Server 5.0
OpenLDAP
Microsoft SiteServer Commerce Edition 3
Only the last one had some issues, but unfortunately I wasn't able to help the kind Softerra people (who were very responsive during the beta-test) out with it because I've changed jobs since.
For those wanting to administrate an LDAP server (eg: adding/removing/editting entries), I would definately advise LDAPAdministrator
Slashdot Mirror
So, you'r saying that you are actually microwaving your socks to dry them?
It needs a 'GROUP BY' parameter if you want a HAVING ;-)
I've never quite understood why people were so enthousiastic about this 'round wheel' thing. Why can't we just walk and carry stuff? What's the need of all this so-called technological advancement if I can still carry stuff around with my bare hands?
The fact that we don't have a perfect low-tech solution (and have used this one for decades) doesn't mean that it's a good system. You already show the problems with current voting system. New technology (read up on mathematical papers around e-voting, they really are interesting) can achieve better privacy and correctness of elections.
I am sure that electronic voting has future, but I agree with the original submittor of the story. It needs to be completely open and verifiable. We might not be there yet, but we will eventually.
While this isn't false, it did get me on the wrong foot. It appeared to me as if the PHP developers were just realizing that stuff like design patterns exist, and started writing their code accordingly. THe article however states:
It would've been helpful if that quote had been in the post, but it makes clear that PHP5 will have much better OO features than PHP4 currently has.
If they install Outlook Web Access, you could also use Outlook Grabber. Yes, I wrote it, yes, I am plugging it real hard now, but at least it's Free(tm).
</plug> When I have time, I'll try porting it to Exchange 2000 web access, that's a bit different in layout unfortunately
Yeah, sounds great! Let me point my 'wizard.crack.nz' domain to your production server :-)
:))
(okay, I know, reverse resolving would fix that, but I just had to make that comment
I know, I know, I have been extremely lucky :). Exactly one year ago, I was asked to join the internet team of a public broadcaster in the Netherlands. Their sites are based on the Open Source CMS mmbase. Of course, my work doesn't consist of 100% open-source programming, a lot of projects are more based around implementing the CMS for sites then on extending it. Nevertheless, I have been able to write significant bugfixes / applications that have been or will be released under an Open Source license.
:)
Please don't hurt me now
How exactly is this news? Okay, it's a new review maybe, but the machine has been on the market for over a year now if i'm not mistaken. One of my coworkers already had one when I started my current job in December 2001.
It's a nice machine, sure, but worthy of a slashdot frontpage post a year later?
Seriously, if you search on slashdot on 'quantum cryptography', I predict you'll find quite an amount of previous stories saying exactly the same.
By the way, a few minutes ago:
Found the document: http://members.rogers.com/razvan.peteanu/
c _for_sec_dev4.pdf
Or a direct link: http://members.rogers.com/razvan.peteanu/best_pra
As far as I can see from the document index, it doesn't cover it. Around a year ago I did quite some research on this topic and I found one document that covered all aspects (including the management part) very well. Unfortunately I lost the link (i'll reply to this if I happen to find it again).
The first few chapters of that document described how you should see security in your entire company. Be realistic: if loosing creditcard-information is not going to harm your stock, why should you put effort in securing it? On the other hand, if it means your credibility as a trustworthy company diminishes, you (as a developer) will be more likely to have budget to set things up in a secure way.
Bottomline: explain to your boss how much $$$ is involved with certain choices, let him do the math in Excel (they are really good at that). If they understand that they will loose money when a webapp is compromised, they will be very likely to give you the opportunity to write decent software.
Linux cluster:
Windows cluster:
Note that the number of clients in the windows tests is higher 24 instead of 16), with smaller CPU's. Also, the server's aren't identical.
Besides from the small differences in setup, it's plain that hardware-costs greatly outnumber software costs. Yeah, linux has a small bit more performance (less than 1%) for a bit lower price (6%) but these aren't real shocking numbers. Of course, I'll get flamed for not bashing microsoft, but the difference really isn't that big.
It might not be directly an action against civilians' Internet access, but do you have any idea why the door was locked at the time of the fire?
Unfortunately, China is one of the countries where internet access is very strictly regulated. If I recall correctly (but correct me if i'm wrong), everything is being monitored by the government, I might even recall that they only open up small parts of the internet to prevent people from seeing anything that isn't in line with the government's opnion.
I'm always very cautious when communist-bashing is concerned (this happens most of the time out of nationalistic feelings), but we must face the fact that there is no freedom of speech in China. That's the reason that places like this internet-cafe exist, with all safetly-risks that come with that.
Shutting down these 'illegal internetcafe's' for safety-checks is not an issue of free speech, the fact that they exist is.
If I play a musical instrument then I don't look at my fingers anymore (either when playing the piano or guitar), does that mean that I have mutated in a musick playing monster?
I think the author mixed 'learning' with 'mutating'
we had some severe clone attacks yes, but not entire mit.edu was k-lined. Too bad that some have to ruin it for the rest, but that's how it works .. unfortunately :)
A little bit of karma whoring, but as a SlashNET server administrator I'd like to point out that we have servers in the U.S.A., Europe and Australia. So, use:
:)
- eu.slashnet.org
- us.slashnet.org
- au.slashnet.org
You may also check out our brand new fancy website at www.slashnet.org for more information
I've already posted this comment today at another story, but it seemed relevant again :)
In the Netherlands, a big project is going on currently called 'kennisnet' (or, translated, 'knowledge-net'). The idea is to put all elementary schools (I hope I translated that good, schools for children from 4 to 12 years old) on a 'subset' of the internet. They will be linked together and have access to the internet too, but on a filtered basis. Every school may choose which filter they want to have activated (Filternet [schoolfilternet.nl] is the biggest one that claims 99% filtering), to ensure that the children don't see pr0n and such when the teacher is unaware of it.
Frankly, I find this quite a good idea. Ofcourse, I'll have a bunch of people replying on this that information shouldn't be censored and that filtering is evil, but think of this: how would you react if your child, aged 9, interested in technology, viewed this page and accidently clicked on a goatse link?
In the Netherlands, a big project is going on currently called 'kennisnet' (or, translated, 'knowledge-net'). The idea is to put all elementary schools (I hope I translated that good, schools for children from 4 to 12 years old) on a 'subset' of the internet. They will be linked together and have access to the internet too, but on a filtered basis. Every school may choose which filter they want to have activated (Filternet is the biggest one that claims 99% filtering), to ensure that the children don't see pr0n and such when the teacher is unaware of it.
Frankly, I find this quite a good idea. Ofcourse, I'll have a bunch of people replying on this that information shouldn't be censored and that filtering is evil, but think of this: how would you react if your child, aged 9, interested in technology, view this page and accidently clicks on a goatse link?
Look closely:
...
<input type="hidden" name="recipient" value=mmargae@wanadoo.nl" ID="Hidden5">
I think somebody forgot that HTML source can be viewed
The nasty part: every time somebody looks at this page, his MSN-email address is being posted to this mailform.pl script (the web equivalent of an open relay) and it is sent to this wanadoo.nl user.
Somehow, it is quite hard to _really_ initiate a secure communication without much work. You can ofcourse:
... but since no certificates are used during instantiation, it could still be hijacked
... hardly to call userfriendly
- send e-mail signed with PgP, but that doesn't really fall under 'instant-messaging' or 'conferencing'
- run a SSL-enabled IRC client and connect to a secure IRC network (lot's of compiling and patching here)
- use Licq's OpenSSL features
- using 'talk' on a machine that is accessed through SSH
I must note that I haven't read the article, but a standarized, easy, and secure (meaning that Man-In-The-Middle attacks are not possible due to strict certificate-based identity checking) conferencing programs could be the next Big Thing
I'm not an expert in ERP and CRM, but I believe I recently saw a press release from the Dutch ERP vendor BaaN that they are going to support their 'iBaaN' platform on Linux. Maybe worth a look?
If you know somebody is going to die, then why don't you give him an immortality device. Hmm, buf if you give him that, he won't die anymore, your prediction becomes fraud and the universe will then collapse into a singularity with infinite impropability.
Only the last one had some issues, but unfortunately I wasn't able to help the kind Softerra people (who were very responsive during the beta-test) out with it because I've changed jobs since.
For those wanting to administrate an LDAP server (eg: adding/removing/editting entries), I would definately advise LDAPAdministrator
Heh
.. I must remember that :)
But indeed, I didn't know that this kind of posts worked so well
(yes, I was honest, no, I won't be in the future)
Now what did I ask? I'm actually being modded UP as 'insightfull'
*sigh*