.NET is a framework designed to allow software to run across separate architectures, so that (for example) Unix servers can download objects from Mac servers and run them. It also means that in the future (if Mono works) you'll be able to run MS Office 2005 on Linux or IE7 on Linux.
Hailstorm allows.NET servers to find all the other.NET servers' objects and download them. The protocols for doing this have been developed by people like IBM and anyway MS couldn't obfuscate them - it's XML - if you can use vi you can reverse-engineer it.
Passport is a bad idea, I agree, but if you don't like that complain to the dotGNU people not the Mono people.
I actually think the prospect of (for example) being able to develop opensource apps under Visual Studio.NET under Linux which run on any architecture (even Windows!) pretty exciting. If Sun hadn't dropped the ball with Java we could have had something like this years ago...
Few people can expect to finish a CS course and get a well paid job... maybe the top 1% do, and those are the ones that the universities/colleges use as 'typical examples' so they can get more students (=more money).
You'll probably be working in a sweatshop for 3 or 4 years for 3/4 the national average wage before being deemed 'experienced' enough to sign up with a few agencies and start building a career (my first job paid £6,500 [10 years ago]. It took another 4 years to get up to £15,000... once I had a bit of experience under my belt I could start asserting myself a bit & I'm now on a healthy £35,000*)
What really bothers me is the adverts you see from colleges which say things like 'I took a web design course with foo college and now I'm earning £100,000!'. If you could get £100,000 doing web design I'd quit my job tomorrow....
Tony
* This might not seem a lot to those in the US but it's quite a lot over here
At last an end to the current mess of dynamic IP, NAT and such garbage.
It's a pity that ipv6 routers are so rare, otherwise everyone would probably start using it tomorrow...
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Interestingly, I'm probably in the same situation. I can never visit the US for fear of imprisonment...
Last year I worked out that an Efficient Networks' 5260 could be turned into a 5660 (out of necessity, I'd just bought a 5260 which is a doorstop over here and didn't want to lose my money)... I then told people about it... I assume a number of people in the US also found out about it.
The way the DMCA is being treated if I set foot in the US I would probably be arrested - over changing 3 bytes in a file.
The same goes for the italian who worked out how to turn a Speedtouch Home into a Speedtouch Pro (a single command).
I'll bet the are thousands of other programmers who cannot safely visit the US any more. Was the DMCA drawn up by the Taliban or something?
You cannot access that site from a non-microsoft operating system. Period.
Even faking the user agents doesn't work as they seem to have some extra checking to make sure you don't do that.
This has nothing to do with the capablilties of browsers and everything to do with a monopoly trying to force people to use their products. I hear that the makers of Opera are considering legal action - the actions of the government are a breach of european law (product tying, for one.. possibly others).
I've kinda given up on Reiser, after it just trashed my firewall for the third time in a fortnight... it just doesn't handle crashes/reboots well (which seems to defeat the object of journaling really).
If XFS works it could be the FS I've been looking for.
They're like gold dust over here. The encumbent
telco (BT) try to force everyone to use crappy
USB modems which hardly work (they draw something
like 500ma off the USB bus, which means they have
to be the *only* device on the bus... if they work
at all).
As long as it's smart enough to do PPPoA (no PPPoE over here) there's someone will pay for it.
Spoken like a true cult member. 'You don't understand, otherwise you would realise we are right'.
I suffered at the hands of a cult. It took me nearly 10 years to get over it. My wife suffered from a different cult. She still has nightmares.
I never understood the difference in the law. If I beat the crap out of someone, I will be prosecuted and probably do some jail time. If I do it by emotional manipulation and blackmail, it's perfectly legal. If I do it in the name of 'religion' I get legal protection to continue doing what I'm doing!
OK Hubbard was a good sci-fi author but he'd clearly lost it when he decided to believe his own stories.
Battlefield earth was interesting... Unfortunately Hubbard was going nuts when he wrote it, so by about the 4th book it was seriously beginning to do my head in (lesbian bondage scenes with cheese graters?).
Obviously he continued on the path of senility and became a serious looney towards the end.
The great shame is people actually believe his lunatic ramblings...
In the UK 'hacktivism' is the current media vogue. There was an hour long TV programme about it recently.
The most 'hacky' person they could find was someone that wrote a VB script that accessed a web site every 7 seconds... This 'notorious hacker' (:/) explained "we had thousands of people doing this to a website and we certainly made our point!". Well 7000 hits/second isn't a particularly huge load to a big commercial website (I'd bet microsoft.com gets a hell of a lot more than that in normal traffic). Also writing VB script to load a web page isn't 'hacking' it's called 'typing in the example program'.
I'd love to know why all the self-confessed 'geeks' on the programme seemed to have green hair????
As usual the media trying to create something that doesn't really exist, and missing the point entirely.
There's a similar problem with MS Access, and I suspect it's common to all OSs.
Under access a 'decimal' field has a fixed size/precision, and the API (ADO) will throw an exception if, for example, you try to put 0.4444 into a dec(1,3).
Due to floating point rounding it is impossible to put the number 0.84 (I think... could be 0.82 or something) into a decimal field. The cast to double creates 0.83999999999... which won't fit.
You actually have to cast the variant type to a true 'decimal', then hack around with the internal structures of the variant_t to reduce the number of decimal places. (very undocumented, don't try this at home folks!).
Lesson: floating point numbers are problematic. If you want accuracy use fixed point/strings and custom libraries, MP libraries or similar.
Then whoever does not use the specified standard should be smacked in the face
Microsoft and Netscape you mean?
The 'standard' is not supported by 99.9999% of browsers. Probably never will be. That is not what I call a standard.
You *cannot* write a website using this 'standard' and have it understood by *any* current browsers except Mozilla. No company in their right mind would create a website that way.
Mozilla needs to be compatible with the existing standards before it starts messing around with wannabee standards. The existing standards are what is implemented by NS and/or IE (take your pick).
BTW do you have an example of a page that breaks JavaScript, as I haven't seen any since M17.
Absolutely any page that uses layers, or DOM. That includes anything that uses dropdown menus, cutesy mouse pointers, etc. Both my Bank & Credit Card company work fine with NS & IE, but not Mozilla. Where I work we've decided that Mozilla compatibility is simply not worth the programmer time - we've developed a website that is compliant with as many standards as possible, works fine on every browser we can throw at it *except* Mozilla, which barfs with hundreds of bogus Javascript errors. For the <0.1% of users who are likely to use it it's not worth investing time and money in.
Mozilla decided to ditch compatibility and use a 'pure' w3c design, which *nobody* uses. This means that mozilla is utterly useless for browsing a large percentage of Javascript sites. They should provide compatibility with both NS and IE DOM models (for fsck's sake, at least NS since this *is* supposed to be NS 6.x)
I try to keep track of the mozilla nighltlies, and have never seen a single version that doesn't lock *hard* when asked to do SSL. Older ones used to be able to crash X, on occasion.
For example, try http://www.co-operativebank.co.uk, click on the top left icon to start the java applet. This locks mozilla solid.
www.barclaycard.co.uk, try to click on something. Nothing works - Javascript errors... the code looks fine to me.
OK so the designer of that website is an idiot, but Netscape hasn't helped - NS4.7 hasn't been updated for years, and NS6 is a sick joke.
Mozilla breaks javascript (if you tell them about this they refer you to a snotty page about how they are the only browser that works and it's everybody else who is wrong... yeah right), and HTTPS locks it solid every time.
Someone needs to write a decent browser. All I want is something that supports HTML4, XHTML, CSS, SSL, etc. and *doesn't fall over every 2 fsking minutes*. Currently only IE does this. Sad but true. If it wasn't for VMWare I'd have to boot into Windows to browse!
Not true. *all* spam can be traced to the IP address and time it was sent.
That is enough for an ISP to pin it down to a single user.
...unfortunately most of the spam I get is from uu.net providers. If I could find a way of blocking all uu.net-derived domains (or even better bouncing with an 'get an ISP that doesn't associate with criminals, or leave me alone') message, I'd do it in a shot.
Maybe in the US where everyone has ADSL it'll fly, but in the rest of the world the majority of computer users do *not* have any kind of internet connectivity - usually by their own choice, on cost grounds.
In the UK, for example, it's picking up but the last statistics I read were only about 20% of computer users were online (only about 10% of homes had computers at all).
Also businesses (who whistler is arguably aimed at) don't by PC's with windows pre-installed, they buy empty ones and use the existing installs - where I work we have half a dozen standard disk images that get squirted onto machines. Businesses don't have the *time* to install fresh copies on every machine, including all the service packs, visual studio, etc. (the same is true of shops that sell PCs generally, they mirror the same HD across dozens of machines and give you an unopened Windows CD with the box).
This is going to make it vastly more expensive for shops and businesses, not that MS care a damn about hurting businesses!
Unless you're buying from dell or something all suppliers here offer bundles without Windows, and they're quite popular (I usually recommend to people to go for a windowsless PC as they're slightly cheaper and most people have a copy lying around anyway. I have about half a dozen from various jobs, MSDN, etc.).
CPRM is an extension to the ATA - fixed drive, specification *not* the ATAPI - removable drive, specification.
All this CF stuff is nonsense. Even if CF uses ATA, they will be a tiny minority of the number of ATA drevices - the vast majority of ATA devices are fixed hard drives just like the one in your PC.
1400W uWave + ~10KW RF VERY DIRECTED (PARABOLIC) OUTPUT. VERY DANGEROUS DEVICE
MUST ONLY BE USED IN CONTROLLED ENVIRONMENT, NOT OUTSIDE, IT MAY KNOCK PLANES,
SATELLITES, ETC...OUT OF THE SKY
ONLY $12.00.
Talk about war on the cheap! What do you bet saddam has a boxload of these already?
As a the highest paid senior programmer (in a company of 35 people) I have a lot of 'clout' in that I have a hand in every project, and can openly contradict the directors without fearing for my job.
I'm aware of the subtle pressure to move into 'management'... Luckily I'm in a company that recognises that Good techie != Good manager and PHB is content to leave me where I am (actually he's trying to invent a 'not-quite-management-but-higher-than-senior' position for me so I don't get left behind)
It's an undeniable fact that techies generally have poor social skills... Unfortunately management requires the opposite, as it involves meeting customers, being diplomatic, and, shock horror, managing people! Any manager worthy of the name would recognise this and *not* attempt to promote someone against their will.
Obviously, in this case His management are not competent. On top of this they are outright bullies - trying the threaten him into promotion.
My normal attitude to this would be to let them sack you then sue for wrongful dismissal, but according to an earlier thread the US has no employee protection laws. In that case the only way out is to be proactive - leave ASAP, even if it means a pay cut. It is unlikely a company which fails to recognise the individual skills its employees has will last long anyway, so he'll have to find new work when it goes bankcrupt anyway.
1. Client side image maps. These didn't work in NS4.x either, but you'd have thought it wouldn't be *that* hard to implement.
2. They've totally stuffed javascript. Nothing more complex than a simple 'hello world' app runs... This is hard to understand since netscape invented the damned thing.
Mozilla isn't ready for prime-time yet - granted it's better than NS6 (which should be withdrawn immediately before netscapes' reputation is permanently damaged) but there's loads of work to do before it's in the same ballpark as IE.
I'm stuck with running IE under VMWare, which is the only option at the moment.
Slashdot Mirror
.NET is not Passport. .NET is not Hailstorm.
.NET servers to find all the other .NET servers' objects and download them. The protocols for doing this have been developed by people like IBM and anyway MS couldn't obfuscate them - it's XML - if you can use vi you can reverse-engineer it.
.NET under Linux which run on any architecture (even Windows!) pretty exciting. If Sun hadn't dropped the ball with Java we could have had something like this years ago...
.NET is a framework designed to allow software to run across separate architectures, so that (for example) Unix servers can download objects from Mac servers and run them. It also means that in the future (if Mono works) you'll be able to run MS Office 2005 on Linux or IE7 on Linux.
Hailstorm allows
Passport is a bad idea, I agree, but if you don't like that complain to the dotGNU people not the Mono people.
I actually think the prospect of (for example) being able to develop opensource apps under Visual Studio
Few people can expect to finish a CS course and get a well paid job... maybe the top 1% do, and those are the ones that the universities/colleges use as 'typical examples' so they can get more students (=more money).
You'll probably be working in a sweatshop for 3 or 4 years for 3/4 the national average wage before being deemed 'experienced' enough to sign up with a few agencies and start building a career (my first job paid £6,500 [10 years ago]. It took another 4 years to get up to £15,000... once I had a bit of experience under my belt I could start asserting myself a bit & I'm now on a healthy £35,000*)
What really bothers me is the adverts you see from colleges which say things like 'I took a web design course with foo college and now I'm earning £100,000!'. If you could get £100,000 doing web design I'd quit my job tomorrow....
Tony
* This might not seem a lot to those in the US but it's quite a lot over here
At last an end to the current mess of dynamic IP, NAT and such garbage.
It's a pity that ipv6 routers are so rare, otherwise everyone would probably start using it tomorrow...
Interestingly, I'm probably in the same situation. I can never visit the US for fear of imprisonment...
Last year I worked out that an Efficient Networks' 5260 could be turned into a 5660 (out of necessity, I'd just bought a 5260 which is a doorstop over here and didn't want to lose my money)... I then told people about it... I assume a number of people in the US also found out about it.
The way the DMCA is being treated if I set foot in the US I would probably be arrested - over changing 3 bytes in a file.
The same goes for the italian who worked out how to turn a Speedtouch Home into a Speedtouch Pro (a single command).
I'll bet the are thousands of other programmers who cannot safely visit the US any more. Was the DMCA drawn up by the Taliban or something?
I've not used dselect since trying it a couple of years ago. It's redundant, and it has the UI from hell.
When you're initially installing use tasksel to select what groups of packages to install (this is what the installer brings up by default now).
To find a package use apt-cache search, then apt-get install. It's a damned sight easier than trying to use dselect.
Slashdot did *not* get it wrong.
You cannot access that site from a non-microsoft operating system. Period.
Even faking the user agents doesn't work as they seem to have some extra checking to make sure you don't do that.
This has nothing to do with the capablilties of browsers and everything to do with a monopoly trying to force people to use their products. I hear that the makers of Opera are considering legal action - the actions of the government are a breach of european law (product tying, for one.. possibly others).
Dual license it - GPL for the world and a proprietary license for companies.
This is exactly how QT is distributed.
I've kinda given up on Reiser, after it just trashed my firewall for the third time in a fortnight... it just doesn't handle crashes/reboots well (which seems to defeat the object of journaling really).
If XFS works it could be the FS I've been looking for.
They're like gold dust over here. The encumbent
telco (BT) try to force everyone to use crappy
USB modems which hardly work (they draw something
like 500ma off the USB bus, which means they have
to be the *only* device on the bus... if they work
at all).
As long as it's smart enough to do PPPoA (no PPPoE over here) there's someone will pay for it.
Spoken like a true cult member. 'You don't understand, otherwise you would realise we are right'.
I suffered at the hands of a cult. It took me nearly 10 years to get over it. My wife suffered from a different cult. She still has nightmares.
I never understood the difference in the law. If I beat the crap out of someone, I will be prosecuted and probably do some jail time. If I do it by emotional manipulation and blackmail, it's perfectly legal. If I do it in the name of 'religion' I get legal protection to continue doing what I'm doing!
OK Hubbard was a good sci-fi author but he'd clearly lost it when he decided to believe his own stories.
Battlefield earth was interesting... Unfortunately Hubbard was going nuts when he wrote it, so by about the 4th book it was seriously beginning to do my head in (lesbian bondage scenes with cheese graters?).
Obviously he continued on the path of senility and became a serious looney towards the end.
The great shame is people actually believe his lunatic ramblings...
In the UK 'hacktivism' is the current media vogue. There was an hour long TV programme about it recently.
The most 'hacky' person they could find was someone that wrote a VB script that accessed a web site every 7 seconds... This 'notorious hacker' (:/) explained "we had thousands of people doing this to a website and we certainly made our point!". Well 7000 hits/second isn't a particularly huge load to a big commercial website (I'd bet microsoft.com gets a hell of a lot more than that in normal traffic). Also writing VB script to load a web page isn't 'hacking' it's called 'typing in the example program'.
I'd love to know why all the self-confessed 'geeks' on the programme seemed to have green hair????
As usual the media trying to create something that doesn't really exist, and missing the point entirely.
There's a similar problem with MS Access, and I suspect it's common to all OSs.
Under access a 'decimal' field has a fixed size/precision, and the API (ADO) will throw an exception if, for example, you try to put 0.4444 into a dec(1,3).
Due to floating point rounding it is impossible to put the number 0.84 (I think... could be 0.82 or something) into a decimal field. The cast to double creates 0.83999999999... which won't fit.
You actually have to cast the variant type to a true 'decimal', then hack around with the internal structures of the variant_t to reduce the number of decimal places. (very undocumented, don't try this at home folks!).
Lesson: floating point numbers are problematic. If you want accuracy use fixed point/strings and custom libraries, MP libraries or similar.
Astronomy != Astrology
Get a dictionary...
Then whoever does not use the specified standard should be smacked in the face
Microsoft and Netscape you mean?
The 'standard' is not supported by 99.9999% of browsers. Probably never will be. That is not what I call a standard.
You *cannot* write a website using this 'standard' and have it understood by *any* current browsers except Mozilla. No company in their right mind would create a website that way.
Mozilla needs to be compatible with the existing standards before it starts messing around with wannabee standards. The existing standards are what is implemented by NS and/or IE (take your pick).
BTW do you have an example of a page that breaks JavaScript, as I haven't seen any since M17.
Absolutely any page that uses layers, or DOM. That includes anything that uses dropdown menus, cutesy mouse pointers, etc. Both my Bank & Credit Card company work fine with NS & IE, but not Mozilla. Where I work we've decided that Mozilla compatibility is simply not worth the programmer time - we've developed a website that is compliant with as many standards as possible, works fine on every browser we can throw at it *except* Mozilla, which barfs with hundreds of bogus Javascript errors. For the <0.1% of users who are likely to use it it's not worth investing time and money in.
Mozilla decided to ditch compatibility and use a 'pure' w3c design, which *nobody* uses. This means that mozilla is utterly useless for browsing a large percentage of Javascript sites. They should provide compatibility with both NS and IE DOM models (for fsck's sake, at least NS since this *is* supposed to be NS 6.x)
I try to keep track of the mozilla nighltlies, and have never seen a single version that doesn't lock *hard* when asked to do SSL. Older ones used to be able to crash X, on occasion.
For example, try http://www.co-operativebank.co.uk, click on the top left icon to start the java applet. This locks mozilla solid.
www.barclaycard.co.uk, try to click on something. Nothing works - Javascript errors... the code looks fine to me.
OK so the designer of that website is an idiot, but Netscape hasn't helped - NS4.7 hasn't been updated for years, and NS6 is a sick joke.
Mozilla breaks javascript (if you tell them about this they refer you to a snotty page about how they are the only browser that works and it's everybody else who is wrong... yeah right), and HTTPS locks it solid every time.
Someone needs to write a decent browser. All I want is something that supports HTML4, XHTML, CSS, SSL, etc. and *doesn't fall over every 2 fsking minutes*. Currently only IE does this. Sad but true. If it wasn't for VMWare I'd have to boot into Windows to browse!
Not true. *all* spam can be traced to the IP address and time it was sent.
That is enough for an ISP to pin it down to a single user.
...unfortunately most of the spam I get is from uu.net providers. If I could find a way of blocking all uu.net-derived domains (or even better bouncing with an 'get an ISP that doesn't associate with criminals, or leave me alone') message, I'd do it in a shot.
Maybe in the US where everyone has ADSL it'll fly, but in the rest of the world the majority of computer users do *not* have any kind of internet connectivity - usually by their own choice, on cost grounds.
In the UK, for example, it's picking up but the last statistics I read were only about 20% of computer users were online (only about 10% of homes had computers at all).
Also businesses (who whistler is arguably aimed at) don't by PC's with windows pre-installed, they buy empty ones and use the existing installs - where I work we have half a dozen standard disk images that get squirted onto machines. Businesses don't have the *time* to install fresh copies on every machine, including all the service packs, visual studio, etc. (the same is true of shops that sell PCs generally, they mirror the same HD across dozens of machines and give you an unopened Windows CD with the box).
This is going to make it vastly more expensive for shops and businesses, not that MS care a damn about hurting businesses!
Unless you're buying from dell or something all suppliers here offer bundles without Windows, and they're quite popular (I usually recommend to people to go for a windowsless PC as they're slightly cheaper and most people have a copy lying around anyway. I have about half a dozen from various jobs, MSDN, etc.).
CPRM is an extension to the ATA - fixed drive, specification *not* the ATAPI - removable drive, specification.
All this CF stuff is nonsense. Even if CF uses ATA, they will be a tiny minority of the number of ATA drevices - the vast majority of ATA devices are fixed hard drives just like the one in your PC.
ISAPI Extension Error: 1
We killed babelfish!
Does anyone have a link to an english version... what is this thing? A fingerphone sounds like a windup to me.
This has gotta be a wind up.
EXTREMELY HIGH POWER PARABOLIC EMP WEAPON
1400W uWave + ~10KW RF VERY DIRECTED (PARABOLIC) OUTPUT. VERY DANGEROUS DEVICE
MUST ONLY BE USED IN CONTROLLED ENVIRONMENT, NOT OUTSIDE, IT MAY KNOCK PLANES,
SATELLITES, ETC...OUT OF THE SKY
ONLY $12.00.
Talk about war on the cheap! What do you bet saddam has a boxload of these already?
For example, anyone with a WinTV/PCI?
I'll be steering clear of the P4 then...
As a the highest paid senior programmer (in a company of 35 people) I have a lot of 'clout' in that I have a hand in every project, and can openly contradict the directors without fearing for my job.
I'm aware of the subtle pressure to move into 'management'... Luckily I'm in a company that recognises that Good techie != Good manager and PHB is content to leave me where I am (actually he's trying to invent a 'not-quite-management-but-higher-than-senior' position for me so I don't get left behind)
It's an undeniable fact that techies generally have poor social skills... Unfortunately management requires the opposite, as it involves meeting customers, being diplomatic, and, shock horror, managing people! Any manager worthy of the name would recognise this and *not* attempt to promote someone against their will.
Obviously, in this case His management are not competent. On top of this they are outright bullies - trying the threaten him into promotion.
My normal attitude to this would be to let them sack you then sue for wrongful dismissal, but according to an earlier thread the US has no employee protection laws. In that case the only way out is to be proactive - leave ASAP, even if it means a pay cut. It is unlikely a company which fails to recognise the individual skills its employees has will last long anyway, so he'll have to find new work when it goes bankcrupt anyway.
The biggest problems I've found so far are..
1. Client side image maps. These didn't work in NS4.x either, but you'd have thought it wouldn't be *that* hard to implement.
2. They've totally stuffed javascript. Nothing more complex than a simple 'hello world' app runs... This is hard to understand since netscape invented the damned thing.
Mozilla isn't ready for prime-time yet - granted it's better than NS6 (which should be withdrawn immediately before netscapes' reputation is permanently damaged) but there's loads of work to do before it's in the same ballpark as IE.
I'm stuck with running IE under VMWare, which is the only option at the moment.