That's the federation protocol. It works.. but there's no web UI so it's not so useful. I suspect that in theory with that and the console UI you could get a pukka wave user to invite you to a wave, but not worked out how yet.
Over complex for sure.. and not really used - I was at a place that moved to sharepoint. They might as well have kept on using SMB network shares because there was precisely zero difference other than they moved some of the directories around.
Didn't find out until years later that it has some kind of web/intranet component as well. Had a look at it.. my god, the UI from hell. No wonder it's not used.
Most (probably all, these days) insurance will not cover things like satnavs and laptops left in cars. You don't leave valuables in cars.. this has been standard advice for 20 years plus.
Maybe you do in the US, but here in the UK you'd get laughed at if you even suggested leaving a laptop in an unattended car.
1. Is simply not true. Adware and spyware are common in commercial software. 2. Also not true - the first thing a pirate does is strip out the crap. 3. If you *have* paid for it, it could be infected. That's why you scan everything.
If you don't use them then that's squatting, and you'll lose at arbitration. Last company I was at used to throw lawyers at that situation, but it isn't needed to even go that far.
We have no rules... and I'm the one that would set them if any. You see we employ smart people not drones.. people that learned how to dress themselves when they were in school and don't need patronising.
I've never worked anywhere that had a dress code. I've seen a few places like that.. and such things always come from overbearing management that think they're slave masters not bosses.
I sort of agree you can't judge a show by its first episode.. Encounter at Farpoint was deadful. OTOH 2-3 episodes in the actors should be getting into their parts, you've discerned where the show is going and inflicting much more than that of a bad show on yourself is just not worth it.
There's a number of shows that haven't got their feet yet.. Warehouse 13 is on the third (ish) episode here and I've already decided to leave it until the second series. Flashback(? forget the name.. just came out last week) had a really lame first episode but I'm giving it a couple of weeks to get interesting. Fringe is starting the third (I think) series here and may be worth a second look after I abandoned it halfway through the first series, to see if it's got any better.
My worry about SGU when it shows here (Thursday IIRC) is that there's so much backstory they've got to live up to even if it's reasonably good it'll feel like a disappointment.
You'll never drive away *all* your customers. There will always be a segment of the population that whilst complaining about high prices and crap service will still take it because they believe they have no choice (bonus points if you can arrange that they *do* have no choice). You see a few of them on slashdot, even.
That potaroo site is hopeless. It's now at 738 days. That's two days *more* than the last time this came up on slashdot a month or so ago. It's also roughly the same as it was last year, and the year before that. It predicts nothing. Their baseline assumptions are wrong, otherwise they'd at least have a figure that would go down at some rate approximating 1 day per day.
Now my guess is that there's nothing in any contract you've signed in the last few years that commits the ISP to give you a statically allocated public IP address
Dynamic IPs solve nothing when DSL is connected 24/7 - it was a good solution for dialup but is increasingly anachronistic these days. I agree carrier grade NAT *will* happen - first on the cheapest ISPs (the £4.99/mo ones that are only good for browsing and email anyway), but there's no reason for that to be dynamic either (Mobile Broadband already uses carrier grade NAT... My dongle gives me a 10.x.x.x address).
Now currently my ISP will give me any number of IPs that I can justify (by justify I mean 'I want more IPs' is a valid justification, but RIPE rules mean you have to say that on the application). If they become scarce then that policy may change, but there's no sign of that yet... the ISP already provides fully routed IPV6 to anyone that asks so they're setup for the future.
Tell that to most ISPs. Some of them charge *per month* for them.
IPV4 exhastion has been predicted as '2 years' for about 5 years. The 'exhaustion counters' are not going down. Someone needs to plot a graph of the days left to see if there's a general trend downwards or whether it's static - to my eyes it looks fairly static, but there should be a slow decay in the number of addresses theoretically.
Multiple versions per framework is essentially how sxs works.. it's the same idea.
Private frameworks to an application isn't new - you can put DLLs local to a windows app too if you want.. OSX has a global frameworks directory that is similar to the sxs directory, and has the same problems eg. if you're linking to the itunes lib you have to check the one you're writing with is on the target system in the package installer (or install it, but for something like itunes that's probably a bad idea).
No, because that's what sxs solves. You can have multiple versions of the MSVCxxx libraries installed and each app can find the correct one.
It's similar to the library versioning that unix does, except instead of changing the filename each library has a manifest containing its version number and a checksum of the library, and the loader knows how to fing the right one.
This is a complete non-story written by someone who doesn't test applications on a clean system prior to distribution, then wonders why it doesn't work.
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That's the federation protocol. It works.. but there's no web UI so it's not so useful. I suspect that in theory with that and the console UI you could get a pukka wave user to invite you to a wave, but not worked out how yet.
Over complex for sure.. and not really used - I was at a place that moved to sharepoint. They might as well have kept on using SMB network shares because there was precisely zero difference other than they moved some of the directories around.
Didn't find out until years later that it has some kind of web/intranet component as well. Had a look at it.. my god, the UI from hell. No wonder it's not used.
That's a joke site... in case you aren't sure checkout their 'Teleportation tweak' http://www.machinadynamica.com/machina60.htm
Most (probably all, these days) insurance will not cover things like satnavs and laptops left in cars. You don't leave valuables in cars.. this has been standard advice for 20 years plus.
Maybe you do in the US, but here in the UK you'd get laughed at if you even suggested leaving a laptop in an unattended car.
Now there are 206 hulks running around.
Just don't make them angry.
Where did he say it looks for http/https/ftp/file? He said look for know protocol names. That includes anything supported the browser.
You're *deploying* behind NAT? Just get enough IPs to run your sites and stop being a cheapskate.
I just don't get why *this* issue is supposed to appeal to 20 somethings when the usual magazine full of naked women doesn't?
A guy I knew in college did this and made a couple thousand on eBay before getting a seriously nasty letter from Microsoft.
Whoah I'm in the wrong business.
He made a couple of thousand on ebay and the only downside was a *letter*???
Well:
1. Is simply not true. Adware and spyware are common in commercial software.
2. Also not true - the first thing a pirate does is strip out the crap.
3. If you *have* paid for it, it could be infected. That's why you scan everything.
If you don't use them then that's squatting, and you'll lose at arbitration. Last company I was at used to throw lawyers at that situation, but it isn't needed to even go that far.
We have no rules... and I'm the one that would set them if any. You see we employ smart people not drones.. people that learned how to dress themselves when they were in school and don't need patronising.
I've never worked anywhere that had a dress code. I've seen a few places like that.. and such things always come from overbearing management that think they're slave masters not bosses.
I sort of agree you can't judge a show by its first episode.. Encounter at Farpoint was deadful. OTOH 2-3 episodes in the actors should be getting into their parts, you've discerned where the show is going and inflicting much more than that of a bad show on yourself is just not worth it.
There's a number of shows that haven't got their feet yet.. Warehouse 13 is on the third (ish) episode here and I've already decided to leave it until the second series. Flashback(? forget the name.. just came out last week) had a really lame first episode but I'm giving it a couple of weeks to get interesting. Fringe is starting the third (I think) series here and may be worth a second look after I abandoned it halfway through the first series, to see if it's got any better.
My worry about SGU when it shows here (Thursday IIRC) is that there's so much backstory they've got to live up to even if it's reasonably good it'll feel like a disappointment.
That's what VPNs are for. With a little clever programming of the router you an make it totally transparent.
It always amazes me that slashdot goes on about how great ipv6 is at least once a month and still doesn't have an ipv6 address.
You'll never drive away *all* your customers. There will always be a segment of the population that whilst complaining about high prices and crap service will still take it because they believe they have no choice (bonus points if you can arrange that they *do* have no choice). You see a few of them on slashdot, even.
That's because they keep pushing it back.
That potaroo site is hopeless. It's now at 738 days. That's two days *more* than the last time this came up on slashdot a month or so ago. It's also roughly the same as it was last year, and the year before that. It predicts nothing. Their baseline assumptions are wrong, otherwise they'd at least have a figure that would go down at some rate approximating 1 day per day.
Now my guess is that there's nothing in any contract you've signed in the last few years that commits the ISP to give you a statically allocated public IP address
Dynamic IPs solve nothing when DSL is connected 24/7 - it was a good solution for dialup but is increasingly anachronistic these days. I agree carrier grade NAT *will* happen - first on the cheapest ISPs (the £4.99/mo ones that are only good for browsing and email anyway), but there's no reason for that to be dynamic either (Mobile Broadband already uses carrier grade NAT... My dongle gives me a 10.x.x.x address).
Now currently my ISP will give me any number of IPs that I can justify (by justify I mean 'I want more IPs' is a valid justification, but RIPE rules mean you have to say that on the application). If they become scarce then that policy may change, but there's no sign of that yet... the ISP already provides fully routed IPV6 to anyone that asks so they're setup for the future.
1. IP addresses cannot be bought or sold.
Tell that to most ISPs. Some of them charge *per month* for them.
IPV4 exhastion has been predicted as '2 years' for about 5 years. The 'exhaustion counters' are not going down. Someone needs to plot a graph of the days left to see if there's a general trend downwards or whether it's static - to my eyes it looks fairly static, but there should be a slow decay in the number of addresses theoretically.
Multiple versions per framework is essentially how sxs works.. it's the same idea.
Private frameworks to an application isn't new - you can put DLLs local to a windows app too if you want.. OSX has a global frameworks directory that is similar to the sxs directory, and has the same problems eg. if you're linking to the itunes lib you have to check the one you're writing with is on the target system in the package installer (or install it, but for something like itunes that's probably a bad idea).
Yes it does - if you don't have the correct version of .NET installed your app won't run.
It affects *any* external dependency. It's not unique to the MSVCxx libraries at all.
If they were statically linked you'd have way more than 11gb of applications..
Which version of .net? Which build of that version? No good trying to run code written on .NET 3.5 on .NET 2 for example.
Same with other elements like DirectX.
If your installer doesn't make sure that the right version (or later, if applicable) is installed you'll get exactly the same problems.
No, because that's what sxs solves. You can have multiple versions of the MSVCxxx libraries installed and each app can find the correct one.
It's similar to the library versioning that unix does, except instead of changing the filename each library has a manifest containing its version number and a checksum of the library, and the loader knows how to fing the right one.
This is a complete non-story written by someone who doesn't test applications on a clean system prior to distribution, then wonders why it doesn't work.