I'm not at all surprised that the banks here don't follow that advice. Westpac seems to think that a six digit password (upper-case characters and digits only) is enough for online banking.:-(
1. what missing functionality? the article doesn't say.
Apparently this had something to do with OOo compatibility that could be fixed with a OOo update.
2. define 'usability.' is this another "it's not windows" whine fest? osx isn't windows either but you don't see many complaining about that. that's right, end users can't install that latest trojaned screensaver or other useless...
To be honnest I suspect it's something like that. "It's not Windows, I can't install my usual crap". Never mind that user's should NEVER EVER be allowed to do that on a sensitive, internal network (think US State Department computers)
3. interoperability with what exactly?
See 1.), it apparently was an office file format interop/compatibiltiy issue (from heise.de).
Ohwell I'm only paying for this SHIT with my tax Euro - wait, NOT, I'm currently paying for the SAME SHIT with my tax AU$...:-(
Now compare this with iptables, one text file, just one, and it's a text file.
Of course, the time you spend learning the comically baroque iptables can account for a lot of clicking in Windows...
Then repeat that for another ten systems. Or just copy the same file to all of them.
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It wouldn't have been hard at all to clone an Amiga -- most of the hardware, as I understand it, is well documented.
Yes, the hardware interfaces was well documented. But since the Amiga was using custom chips (for sound and graphics, if not more) I doubt it would've been easy or cost effective to re-create those chips for a clone.
* Learning: Pascal is fast. C++ is horribly slow. The rest are moderate.
* Compiling: While it can't beat "no compile", Pascal is shockingly fast for people used to something like C or Java. C++ is horribly slow.
* Start-up: Pascal again does fine. Here it's joined by C and C++. The interpreted stuff is typicallly an embarassment.
* Run-time: Pascal again does fine. Here it's joined by C. C++ can be fast if you treat it like C or if you're a God-like expert in compiler/library details that normal mortals don't understand. The interpreted stuff is typically an embarassment.
What I find interesting is that no one has mentioned that what's actually more important than the language itself is the available libraries/toolkit/frameworks that it comes with.
Let's face it, after you've learned a few languages it pretty much comes down to "what is printf called this week?" when you pick up a new language (functional languages aside). Getting familiar with frameworks is actually what takes the most time.
C++ and C are pretty bad in this department. STL is nice but only gets you so far. Threads? Nope (not yet). Sockets? No. XML/encryption/whatnot? Sorry. You have to write an awful lot of code to come up with this or find (and learn!) a support lib that does this. (I do C++ for a living.)
So I'd say: Python. Or C#/Mono (but that's not on the list, why?)
Even if you need to transfer data from an ext3 file-system to an MS Windows machine you can always get software that can read that file-system. Here is a MS Windows ext2/3 reader if you don't believe me. Even Mac's have software that can read and format ext3 file-systems. So were are the development costs since the products are already available and are, shock/horror free?
As much as I would like to have a universal non-proprietary file system this won't fly with users. Both options are read-only which means you can't even remove images from the media after you've copied it to your system.
AFAICS the Win solution that you ref'd is a standalone program, meaning it's not possible to use standard file I/O calls to read from the device. So the pipeline would be:
start reader
copy to local system
remove copied files on the camera (which ones did I copy again?)
I invented this method and has worked for me perfectly since then. What I did was to develop an algorithm by which I can reconstruct my passwords based on the website or account.
This is security through obscurity: you're relying on the algorithm being kept secret.
That being said, I used to do this as well for a while but started to move critical passwords away from it.
Now I store them in my iPod instead, which has the drawback that I have no idea how I can recover my passwords when it dies. There are backups but no idea if I can actually get at the data. It would be useful to export them (as text or CSV) and encrypt that with GPG.
"That's great! The result is correct, and your app is also quite a bit quicker than my own implementation of the problem. Congratulations, I think you're the only one so far who managed to get the correct result so far."
I was so taken aback that I probably just stared at him for a few seconds. Then, I stupidly said "So... You want to see my code?" but he was like "No, the result is correct, and your implementation is very fast, so I don't need to see the code. Good job. Send in the next guy."
This is so sad. He notices your code is faster and he's not the least bit curious? (I presume he's some kind of CS prof.)
Anyway, good for you, but still...:-(
Terrorists around the world were heard saying: "Curses, foiled again..."
I'd argue the exact opposite: now that we know for sure that iTunes can be used to these purposes (otherwise apple wouldn't have included it in the EULA, right?) they'll double their efforts to find out how...
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It's not like it's a disease, bad in anyway, or meaning that one does not enjoy being outside. It's probably different for everyone - for me it means that I don't like being in crowds and am more likely to relax being alone or with (a few) close friends.
It's reasonably unlikely that any random traffic will happen to match this particular pattern. It's possible there's some really crappy chips out there that took "Wake on LAN" to mean "wake if there's any traffic received on the wire whatsoever", but which might make you feel clever in a lab but would be near-useless in the real world.
Don't blame it on the NIC, it's a Windows 'feature'.
You can specify what type of packets the computer is supposed to wake up from. Choices are (from memory, I don't use Windows) 'Pattern match', 'Magic Packet', and 'Both'. Default is 'both' but 'magic packet' is the one you probably want. 'pattern match' apparently allows you to specify a packet pattern that, on arrival, will wake-up the computer.
at least one major OEM would like to see improved Linux support but is afraid that the Windows support would then be at risk.
Whoever that is maybe it's a consolation that the ATI Windows OpenGL drivers are pretty crappy as well. As is ATI's responsiveness to pleas for better drivers for professional purposes (vis-sim community namely).
Until that changes I'll always go with and recommend nvidia.
or europe, because we have it here. Most places still have the last few yards all copper, but there are
Oh yeah, and how wonderful that can be. After the fall of the Berlin wall the Telekom went nuts to rip out the old copper wires in the eastern part of Berlin to replace them with fiber. (Probably not to the homes but only to the curb.) Right now there's lots of places where you can't get ADSL since that won't work over fiber. Tough luck for those people.
The question remains why a DVI (only) LCD should be/is *more* expensive than one with analog only. I would imagine that DVI actually makes it easier since a) the video card doesn't need to do digital-to-analog conversion obsoleting RAMDACs and such and the LCD doesn't have to do analog-to-digital to drive the (I assume) digital LCD panel. I remember reading somewhere that some IBM flatpanels actually had to use blowers to cool the ADCs.
From what I've seen (can't get the PDF, damn/. effect) it's what's called a brush less motor, which is nothing new by far. The idea is to instead of having a rotating magnetic field inside a static m-f you reverse the situation. This prevents a whole bunch of problems with brush fire etc thereby increasing performance and lowering power consumption.
Looking at the article, am I to understand that they are trying to make a subscription alternative to GPS?
As written in the article the idea is to have a free public service *as well as* a subscription with service guarantee i.e. someone you can sue if something goes wrong. (Of course it'd probably be an American sueing;-)
I can very well understand the desire not to be dependent on a monopoly, esp. if it's the US military or MS.
But apart from that, what about redundancy? One could imagine 'dual-band' devices with increased accuracy and faster aquisition.
maybe this will help out in the future for satellite imaging to stream video back to earth instead of just pictures that take hours to transmit across space. i think it would be cool to get live video from a satellite orbiting jupiter at any given moment:)
Yeah, right, like it affects the transmission time in any way. The transmission time is still the same due to distance (doesn't change) and speed of light (doesn't change). Remember that radio waves travel just as fast as light?
It mainly affects loss of communication between ground stations and satellites in low-earth orbit since they can't communicate when outside line-of-sight.
I have held off buying a PDA because I wanted to make sure I could run Linux on it with the manufacurer's blessing...
Personally I'm holding my breath until they do the Right Thing (IMHO) and develop a integrated phone/PDA/MP3 device that's not based on almost ancient technology (moto 68k in this case). Anyone else getting tired of always having an address/phone number in the wrong device? And it'd be cool to be able to store some data on it as well (Flash or disk) to take it home...
Did anyone check this out? They deliver GPS data for a fixed point in the Bay Area to do DGPS. Wouldn't it be cool to setup a network of these stations/sites all over the world so you could select the one closest to your current location?
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I'm not at all surprised that the banks here don't follow that advice. :-(
Westpac seems to think that a six digit password (upper-case characters and digits only) is enough for online banking.
1. what missing functionality? the article doesn't say.
Apparently this had something to do with OOo compatibility that could be fixed with a OOo update.
2. define 'usability.' is this another "it's not windows" whine fest? osx isn't windows either but you don't see many complaining about that. that's right, end users can't install that latest trojaned screensaver or other useless...
To be honnest I suspect it's something like that. "It's not Windows, I can't install my usual crap". Never mind that user's should NEVER EVER be allowed to do that on a sensitive, internal network (think US State Department computers)
3. interoperability with what exactly?
See 1.), it apparently was an office file format interop/compatibiltiy issue (from heise.de).
Ohwell I'm only paying for this SHIT with my tax Euro - wait, NOT, I'm currently paying for the SAME SHIT with my tax AU$... :-(
Of course, the time you spend learning the comically baroque iptables can account for a lot of clicking in Windows...
Then repeat that for another ten systems.
Or just copy the same file to all of them.
It wouldn't have been hard at all to clone an Amiga -- most of the hardware, as I understand it, is well documented.
Yes, the hardware interfaces was well documented. But since the Amiga was using custom chips (for sound and graphics, if not more) I doubt it would've been easy or cost effective to re-create those chips for a clone.
If you did do such a thing where would the RIAA send the notice?
Your last known ICBM address, derived via geo location? (Probably delivered that way too...)
What I find interesting is that no one has mentioned that what's actually more important than the language itself is the available libraries/toolkit/frameworks that it comes with.
Let's face it, after you've learned a few languages it pretty much comes down to "what is printf called this week?" when you pick up a new language (functional languages aside). Getting familiar with frameworks is actually what takes the most time.
C++ and C are pretty bad in this department. STL is nice but only gets you so far. Threads? Nope (not yet). Sockets? No. XML/encryption/whatnot? Sorry. You have to write an awful lot of code to come up with this or find (and learn!) a support lib that does this. (I do C++ for a living.)
So I'd say: Python. Or C#/Mono (but that's not on the list, why?)
Even if you need to transfer data from an ext3 file-system to an MS Windows machine you can always get software that can read that file-system. Here is a MS Windows ext2/3 reader if you don't believe me. Even Mac's have software that can read and format ext3 file-systems. So were are the development costs since the products are already available and are, shock/horror free?
As much as I would like to have a universal non-proprietary file system this won't fly with users. Both options are read-only which means you can't even remove images from the media after you've copied it to your system.
AFAICS the Win solution that you ref'd is a standalone program, meaning it's not possible to use standard file I/O calls to read from the device. So the pipeline would be:
instead of
I, too, second the Science Museum.
Apart from, Forbidden Planet might be of interest.
I invented this method and has worked for me perfectly since then. What I did was to develop an algorithm by which I can reconstruct my passwords based on the website or account.
This is security through obscurity: you're relying on the algorithm being kept secret.
That being said, I used to do this as well for a while but started to move critical passwords away from it. Now I store them in my iPod instead, which has the drawback that I have no idea how I can recover my passwords when it dies. There are backups but no idea if I can actually get at the data. It would be useful to export them (as text or CSV) and encrypt that with GPG.
"That's great! The result is correct, and your app is also quite a bit quicker than my own implementation of the problem. Congratulations, I think you're the only one so far who managed to get the correct result so far."
I was so taken aback that I probably just stared at him for a few seconds. Then, I stupidly said "So... You want to see my code?" but he was like "No, the result is correct, and your implementation is very fast, so I don't need to see the code. Good job. Send in the next guy."
This is so sad. He notices your code is faster and he's not the least bit curious? (I presume he's some kind of CS prof.) Anyway, good for you, but still... :-(
Terrorists around the world were heard saying: "Curses, foiled again..."
I'd argue the exact opposite: now that we know for sure that iTunes can be used to these purposes (otherwise apple wouldn't have included it in the EULA, right?) they'll double their efforts to find out how...
And here's your first clue. Diebold is in the business of making ATMs.
Heise security has a story that there's malware around specifically targetting Diebold ATMs running Windows...
http://www.heise.de/security/Windows-Trojaner-auf-Diebold-Bankautomat--/news/meldung/134794 (in German)
http://www.sophos.com/security/blog/2009/03/3577.html (blog entry the article refers to)
From your site:
Our six core services * web development and design * network engineering * custom programming solutions * corporate identity design, marketing and promotion * IT consulting
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Profit, obviously.
I'm sorry you're an introvert.
Don't be sorry for us (you insensitive clod!)
It's not like it's a disease, bad in anyway, or meaning that one does not enjoy being outside.
It's probably different for everyone - for me it means that I don't like being in crowds and
am more likely to relax being alone or with (a few) close friends.
But I digress.
It's reasonably unlikely that any random traffic will happen to match this particular pattern. It's possible there's some really crappy chips out there that took "Wake on LAN" to mean "wake if there's any traffic received on the wire whatsoever", but which might make you feel clever in a lab but would be near-useless in the real world.
Don't blame it on the NIC, it's a Windows 'feature'.
You can specify what type of packets the computer is supposed to wake up from. Choices are (from memory, I don't use Windows) 'Pattern match', 'Magic Packet', and 'Both'. Default is 'both' but 'magic packet' is the one you probably want. 'pattern match' apparently allows you to specify a packet pattern that, on arrival, will wake-up the computer.
at least one major OEM would like to see improved Linux support but is afraid that the Windows support would then be at risk.
Whoever that is maybe it's a consolation that the ATI Windows OpenGL drivers are pretty crappy as well. As is ATI's responsiveness to pleas for better drivers for professional purposes (vis-sim community namely).
Until that changes I'll always go with and recommend nvidia.
ruined it for the real "hackers" out there; the script kiddies.
Somebody please mod this guy 'funny'. Either that or 'you can't possibly be fscking serious'.
or europe, because we have it here. Most places still have the last few yards all copper, but there are
Oh yeah, and how wonderful that can be. After the fall of the Berlin wall the Telekom went nuts to rip out the old copper wires in the eastern part of Berlin to replace them with fiber. (Probably not to the homes but only to the curb.) Right now there's lots of places where you can't get ADSL since that won't work over fiber. Tough luck for those people.
The question remains why a DVI (only) LCD should be/is *more* expensive than one with analog only. I would imagine that DVI actually makes it easier since a) the video card doesn't need to do digital-to-analog conversion obsoleting RAMDACs and such and the LCD doesn't have to do analog-to-digital to drive the (I assume) digital LCD panel. I remember reading somewhere that some IBM flatpanels actually had to use blowers to cool the ADCs.
In a project I took over from a co-worker I came across a weird bug due to the fact that he had made some 'convenient' defines:
#define true 0
#define false -1
Makes sense for Unix syscalls but caused me some troubles to figure out...
I'm suprised nobody has though of this before.
/. effect) it's what's called a brush less motor, which is nothing new by far. The idea is to instead of having a rotating magnetic field inside a static m-f you reverse the situation. This prevents a whole bunch of problems with brush fire etc thereby increasing performance and lowering power consumption.
From what I've seen (can't get the PDF, damn
Looking at the article, am I to understand that they are trying to make a subscription alternative to GPS?
;-)
As written in the article the idea is to have a free public service *as well as* a subscription with service guarantee i.e. someone you can sue if something goes wrong. (Of course it'd probably be an American sueing
I can very well understand the desire not to be dependent on a monopoly, esp. if it's the US military or MS.
But apart from that, what about redundancy? One could imagine 'dual-band' devices with increased accuracy and faster aquisition.
maybe this will help out in the future for satellite imaging to stream video back to earth instead of just pictures that take hours to transmit across space. i think it would be cool to get live video from a satellite orbiting jupiter at any given moment :)
Yeah, right, like it affects the transmission time in any way. The transmission time is still the same due to distance (doesn't change) and speed of light (doesn't change). Remember that radio waves travel just as fast as light?
It mainly affects loss of communication between ground stations and satellites in low-earth orbit since they can't communicate when outside line-of-sight.
I have held off buying a PDA because I wanted to make sure I could run Linux on it with the manufacurer's blessing ...
Personally I'm holding my breath until they do the Right Thing (IMHO) and develop a integrated phone/PDA/MP3 device that's not based on almost ancient technology (moto 68k in this case). Anyone else getting tired of always having an address/phone number in the wrong device? And it'd be cool to be able to store some data on it as well (Flash or disk) to take it home...
Did anyone check this out? They deliver GPS data for a fixed point in the Bay Area to do DGPS. Wouldn't it be cool to setup a network of these stations/sites all over the world so you could select the one closest to your current location?