Use: in HTTP, BasicAuth Username and Password. Used to save yourself having to see the dialog box of your browser (which just adds these to the HTTP header for you). Also username/password for other net protocols, as mentioned by another poster.
For you younger folk, do you remember the 2000 election?
Remember the husband/wife absentee votes from two people in a foreign embassy in a small country? The husband was appointed by Clinton. The two votes came back, and were added in when everyone was watching. I forget the country, but I'm sure there is a record somewhere because of how close the election was. Those two votes were counted in the Clinton column. So the public knows that this husband and wife, who were the only two absentee votes coming from that country, voted for Clinton. And if you watched the votes for other offices as the vote was registered (I didn't), you would have been able to ascertain who they cast their vote for other offices, such as Senator, etc.
Are you saying that the appointees voted absentee for New York Sentor Hillary Rodham Clinton or are you confused about who ran for chief executive office in 2000?
Thanks. The only reason I didn't say "omnivore" was to emphasize the stupidity of herbavore humanity. Of course we need herbs -- wheat bread to soak up the gravy, potatoes to complement the steak, cereal to accompany the milk, eggs and bacon...
Ever since man needed a Redeemer, he's been eating meat. Yum.
You! Sir! Have won today's AWARD for the most CLUELESS post on Slashdot! This award is reserved for the truly pathetic posters who argumentatively restate the parent post's point while appearing to be contradictory.
And do not think this is an easy award to win!
There are thousands of participants each day posting multiple posts in each article. Usually, at any one time the award designation could shift to another worthy participant BUT somedays there are the TRULY CLUELESS AND PATHETIC such as your OWN that are so beyond the pale of idiocy that they deserve the MVP (Most Vapid Post) of the Day award.
I met this same girl at the just-off-campus pizza buffet joint. Maybe not the same instance, but class: self-righteous, pop-culturally correct, loud.
She was the patron just in line ahead of me. When she got to the register she demanded: "You will put out vegetarian pizzas, right? I'm a vegetarian and I do not eat meat" -- but loves cheese, I thought -- " and I refuse to kill a defenseless animal for my nutrition."
The cashier informed her that the store always provided vegetarian pizzas on its buffets for people who, for one reason or another, preferred them.
What happened next was purely by reflex and was not pre-meditated.
I said: "You will put out meat pizzas, right? I am a carnivore and I believe it is unethical to kill and eat defenseless little plants which are rooted in the ground and are unable to put up any fight at all against human harvestors. Animals at least have a chance to escape or mount a defense."
As a former LA County resident and current Orange County resident all I can say is that I'm glad to hear LA has solved all the other problems is was facing.
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You're right, I didn't clarify the egregious behavior: charging the innocent bystanders. The rest is a needed public service. Especially against those *&(# humming mommies. Sheesh!
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What's really scary is that they codified the exception for humming to your OWN baby. Of course, if you're a babysitter and hum a soothing lullyby, such as Furious Angels from Matrix Reloaded, you're a commerical entity and must pay high royalties!
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Public Performance. That's it. I really wasn't kidding...OK, so maybe the boombox stuff was overboard, but rest was real:)
I worked as an Air Personality (dj) at a commercial station when was a wee-young 15 year old High SchRool student. And I ran a radio station, briefly as a favor, back in 1998 (near Bellingham, WA). ASCAP, etc, were not to be toyed with. There is no escape from their clutches. Even if you said, "OK, no ASCAP music!" They would still demand payment if you used any 2nd or 3rd party programming sources, because they would likely use ASCAP music under license and the entire broadcast chain must be licensed (and paying multiple times for the same "performance").
Sigh.
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Somehow the RIAA will attack this as illegal. You're listening to someone else's music! For free!
Next, the RIAA will follow around boomboxers and low-riders charging all the innocent passers-by for the music they are listening to. The boomboxer/low-rider will be summarily executed for unauthorized distribution of music and performing copyrighted works without license. Mothers humming to their babies will be given tit-twisters as punishment unless they pay ASCAP fees. Especially nursing mothers with sore nipples.
You know, I think I'd rather default to a booky than swap a song. After the Wired article, I think the mob treats people better than the RIAA.
Well...I shouldn't have said "run via" but MySQL still includes cygwin in its distribution. So, some part of the application depends on cygwin, as does postgreSQL but to a different extent. I don't think MS SQL Server uses cygwin for anything:^)
Despite dire warnings, we've gone ahead and put rifles with automatic conversion kits into our adolescent (11, 12, and 15-year-old) childrens' rooms. We've got a nebulous set of rules, which include several like these: Keep the door open when you're loading the gun. Don't quickly empty the chamber when we walk past. Don't ever lie to us about what you're doing. Unfortunately we've had instances where all of these rules - especially that last one - have been broken, so now we are looking at getting more specific. We'd be very interested in hearing from both sides of the fence: parents with Gun-connected progeny, and those who are chafing under their rule. Parents, once you're past making the huge mistake of actually letting the kids have firearms in their rooms, what's a reasonable set of guidlines? Non-parents, what are the rules that chap your hide the worst? Do they actually make a difference in your behavior, or do you just sneak past them anyway? Finally, and this is sort of a meta-question from an exasperated dad, does everybody lie about what they're doing with their weapons?
OK. Over-the-top, I know. Seriously, though, just because you've made the mistake of letting your children have Internet access in their own rooms(!) doesn't mean you can't change your mind and move the computers into an open space in your home where observation is not seen as snooping but as unavoidable. Rules can change in life and as painful as it may be to re-establish the ground rules, it is better than allowing the bad decision continue.
Of course, if unrestricted access to the 'net is not a threat to your mindset then this is all a non-issue. Just some of us believe what we learned from programming applies to people, too: Garbage In, Garbage Out.
Make computer access a family affair (no, not "pr0n night at the Smiths"; you know what I mean). Foster a healthy approach to the 'net and encourage a productive use of its resources. Don't worry: they'll still get their fill of garbage, just it won't be when so ever they will.
Lastly, putting the computers in the family room may be the only way to get them out of their rooms!:)
"'We haven't talked to a single user who has said they're using [open source] because it's better.'"
That has to be the dumbest spin-attempt I've heard since the HSN ladder guy fell on camera and the call-in hack said, "That never happens." Wha? Of course, what Mr. Microsoft really means is once someone says they use Linux or FOSS because it is better, Microsoft stops talking to that person.
Like an "All You Can Eat" Italian buffet, where, on your third trip, Luigi steps up and says, "Hey - that's all you can eat."
The best contribution to world peace in the history of civilization was the Pax Romana -- not a brokered peace but an enforced one. Pax Americana is the best hope for such a peace today; anti-war protestors need to promote Pax Americana.
Why wait for IE next year when Google Toolbar has excellent pop-up blocking built-in? Even Yahoo's toolbar is beginning to feature pop-up blocking. Anyway, I use Google ToolBar for IE 6 -- Google has made IE useful where it was impossible to put up with before. Microsoft should be very grateful to Google.
Wrong. When a precedent is set it is always a huge deal; hijaaking HTTP requests for company-sponsored oh-yeah-I-guess-it-could-be-seen-as-an-ad spam breaks new ground. Lookit, people still cheer Chuck Yeager for breaking the sound barrier, Hank Aaron for his home runs, Armstrong for his one small step and we still jeer Robert Morris Jr.'s first Internet Worm, Amazon's One-Click patent, X10's pop-under ads (not the actual first, but many people's first in experience). Closer to home, you and everyone reading this remembers the first time they clicked a Slashdot troll's link to Goatse. Belkin will be remembered for bringing spam and censorship to the router long after others extend the breach further.
My home computer, used by my 4 year old for educational games and web sites and by my non-technical wife to check email, look at her personalized MyYahoo page, and other surfing runs Windows XP Home. All patches in place, the family all have their own accounts with reduced privileges (no passwords and we have fast user switching enabled, but Daddy is the Administrator account) and the system is sitting behind a Toshiba Magnia SG20 (running a modified Redhat 7.3) firewall/router. I didn't get anti-virus software, though.
For an email client my wife uses Outlook Express and has a Hotmail account. She gets very little mail and almost no spam -- maybe one a month and it goes to the Junk Mail folder (my Hotmail account fills with email worm infection attempts every 2 to 3 hours, which is the price I pay for redirecting all incoming mail to "slashdot@rjamestaylor.com" to my Hotmail account. I figured if a worm went through Hotmail it would be checked for viruses. Unfortunately, that is true ONLY if you are using the Web Client to attempt to download an attachment. If you use OE, they don't bother to check the attachments.
Earlier this week my wife told me the computer is running really slow. I told her to press Ctrl-Shift-Esc to bring up the Windows Task Manager and she replied "something popped up but went away." I told her not to hit Esc twice (my assumption being that she had). She tried it again -- "nothing happened this time." Crap I thought - we've got Klez, or some other virus that kills WTM and other attempts someone may use to discover/remove it.
Turns out she received a spam that had Kelz and also used the iframe expoit -- and when the email was displayed in the Preview folder, *splat*, Agent Smith began infecting our machine's programs.
So, on my weekend I get to disinfect my home computer because I failed to install an Anti-Virus program. But really, I was let down by Microsoft 3 times:
Windows is architected for ease of development and not security in the Internet{worked} Age
Windows XP Home, which required a huge series of patches to be installed upon initial installation (I bought the full version for my OS-less homebuilt PC), yet did not have anything to stop Klez. (In fact, this is puzzling -- I thought a patch fized the iFrame exploit...and my system was and is fully pached. ???)
MSN Hotmail doesn't check attachments as they arrive, only when yoy request the emal for download in the Web client. But OE is made to interface directly with Hotmail!
I am in the process of downloading Lycoris. Maybe Lindows. Probably WineX and Cross-over plugins, too. (Yes, I'll pay.) I'm going to test those two distributions on my wife and son. If either pass the test, that will be our OS at home on the desktop. I may try SuSE and Mandrake, but I like Lycoris/Lindows' "KISS & MAKEUP" (Keep It Simple Stupid and Make it Act Kinda Equivelent to Understood Patterns).
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Use: in HTTP, BasicAuth Username and Password. Used
to save yourself having to see the dialog
box of your browser (which just adds these to the
HTTP header for you). Also username/password for other
net protocols, as mentioned by another poster.
- For you younger folk, do you remember the 2000 election?
Are you saying that the appointees voted absentee for New York Sentor Hillary Rodham Clinton or are you confused about who ran for chief executive office in 2000?Remember the husband/wife absentee votes from two people in a foreign embassy in a small country? The husband was appointed by Clinton. The two votes came back, and were added in when everyone was watching. I forget the country, but I'm sure there is a record somewhere because of how close the election was. Those two votes were counted in the Clinton column. So the public knows that this husband and wife, who were the only two absentee votes coming from that country, voted for Clinton. And if you watched the votes for other offices as the vote was registered (I didn't), you would have been able to ascertain who they cast their vote for other offices, such as Senator, etc.
Ever since man needed a Redeemer, he's been eating meat. Yum.
This award is reserved for the truly pathetic posters who argumentatively restate the parent post's point while appearing to be contradictory.
And do not think this is an easy award to win!
There are thousands of participants each day posting multiple posts in each article.
Usually, at any one time the award designation could shift to another worthy participant
BUT somedays there are the TRULY CLUELESS AND PATHETIC such as your OWN
that are so beyond the pale of idiocy that they deserve the MVP (Most Vapid Post) of the Day award.
And true. Happened at Mr Gattis off UTA campus in Arlington, TX, around 1993.
She was the patron just in line ahead of me. When she got to the register she demanded: "You will put out vegetarian pizzas, right? I'm a vegetarian and I do not eat meat" -- but loves cheese, I thought -- " and I refuse to kill a defenseless animal for my nutrition."
The cashier informed her that the store always provided vegetarian pizzas on its buffets for people who, for one reason or another, preferred them.
What happened next was purely by reflex and was not pre-meditated.
I said: "You will put out meat pizzas, right? I am a carnivore and I believe it is unethical to kill and eat defenseless little plants which are rooted in the ground and are unable to put up any fight at all against human harvestors. Animals at least have a chance to escape or mount a defense."
And there was much laughter and rejoicing.
As a former LA County resident and current Orange County resident all I can say is that I'm glad to hear LA has solved all the other problems is was facing.
:)
What's really scary is that they codified the exception for humming to your OWN baby. Of course, if you're a babysitter and hum a soothing lullyby, such as Furious Angels from Matrix Reloaded, you're a commerical entity and must pay high royalties!
I worked as an Air Personality (dj) at a commercial station when was a wee-young 15 year old High SchRool student. And I ran a radio station, briefly as a favor, back in 1998 (near Bellingham, WA). ASCAP, etc, were not to be toyed with. There is no escape from their clutches. Even if you said, "OK, no ASCAP music!" They would still demand payment if you used any 2nd or 3rd party programming sources, because they would likely use ASCAP music under license and the entire broadcast chain must be licensed (and paying multiple times for the same "performance").
Sigh.
Next, the RIAA will follow around boomboxers and low-riders charging all the innocent passers-by for the music they are listening to. The boomboxer/low-rider will be summarily executed for unauthorized distribution of music and performing copyrighted works without license. Mothers humming to their babies will be given tit-twisters as punishment unless they pay ASCAP fees. Especially nursing mothers with sore nipples.
You know, I think I'd rather default to a booky than swap a song. After the Wired article, I think the mob treats people better than the RIAA.
To be honest I'm not comfortable enough with postgreSQL to run it in production; I'm comfortable with mysql and ms sql server these days.
I do not consider cygwin a WART!
Well...I shouldn't have said "run via" but MySQL still includes cygwin in its distribution. So, some part of the application depends on cygwin, as does postgreSQL but to a different extent. I don't think MS SQL Server uses cygwin for anything :^)
- Remote file retrieval, administrative authentication bypass, authentication bypass, remote code execution
- SAP DB Privilege Escalation/Remote Code Execution
What does it say about MySQL that MaxDB is necessary? *Pondering significance*What? You didn't know MySQL ran via cygwin?
- C:\mysql\bin\cygwinb19.dll
MySQL just has a better installation process is all.BTW, I run cygwin on my WinXPPro laptop (the only way I'll get UNIX-like OS features on my Dell Inspiron 5150 sadly) along with KDE3. Yep and uh-huh.
Of course, if unrestricted access to the 'net is not a threat to your mindset then this is all a non-issue. Just some of us believe what we learned from programming applies to people, too: Garbage In, Garbage Out.
Make computer access a family affair (no, not "pr0n night at the Smiths"; you know what I mean). Foster a healthy approach to the 'net and encourage a productive use of its resources. Don't worry: they'll still get their fill of garbage, just it won't be when so ever they will.
Lastly, putting the computers in the family room may be the only way to get them out of their rooms! :)
That has to be the dumbest spin-attempt I've heard since the HSN ladder guy fell on camera and the call-in hack said, "That never happens." Wha? Of course, what Mr. Microsoft really means is once someone says they use Linux or FOSS because it is better, Microsoft stops talking to that person.
Like an "All You Can Eat" Italian buffet, where, on your third trip, Luigi steps up and says, "Hey - that's all you can eat."
How long 'til the judge tosses this sad case out WITH PREJUDICE?
Visualize Whirrled Peas.
Why wait for IE next year when Google Toolbar has excellent pop-up blocking built-in? Even Yahoo's toolbar is beginning to feature pop-up blocking. Anyway, I use Google ToolBar for IE 6 -- Google has made IE useful where it was impossible to put up with before. Microsoft should be very grateful to Google.
- but this issue is WAY over-hyped.
Wrong. When a precedent is set it is always a huge deal; hijaaking HTTP requests for company-sponsored oh-yeah-I-guess-it-could-be-seen-as-an-ad spam breaks new ground. Lookit, people still cheer Chuck Yeager for breaking the sound barrier, Hank Aaron for his home runs, Armstrong for his one small step and we still jeer Robert Morris Jr.'s first Internet Worm, Amazon's One-Click patent, X10's pop-under ads (not the actual first, but many people's first in experience). Closer to home, you and everyone reading this remembers the first time they clicked a Slashdot troll's link to Goatse. Belkin will be remembered for bringing spam and censorship to the router long after others extend the breach further.Just because I refuse to acknowledge the spoon doesn't mean it isn't stirring my coffee...
For an email client my wife uses Outlook Express and has a Hotmail account. She gets very little mail and almost no spam -- maybe one a month and it goes to the Junk Mail folder (my Hotmail account fills with email worm infection attempts every 2 to 3 hours, which is the price I pay for redirecting all incoming mail to "slashdot@rjamestaylor.com" to my Hotmail account. I figured if a worm went through Hotmail it would be checked for viruses. Unfortunately, that is true ONLY if you are using the Web Client to attempt to download an attachment. If you use OE, they don't bother to check the attachments.
Earlier this week my wife told me the computer is running really slow. I told her to press Ctrl-Shift-Esc to bring up the Windows Task Manager and she replied "something popped up but went away." I told her not to hit Esc twice (my assumption being that she had). She tried it again -- "nothing happened this time." Crap I thought - we've got Klez, or some other virus that kills WTM and other attempts someone may use to discover/remove it.
Turns out she received a spam that had Kelz and also used the iframe expoit -- and when the email was displayed in the Preview folder, *splat*, Agent Smith began infecting our machine's programs.
So, on my weekend I get to disinfect my home computer because I failed to install an Anti-Virus program. But really, I was let down by Microsoft 3 times:
- Windows is architected for ease of development and not security in the Internet{worked} Age
- Windows XP Home, which required a huge series of patches to be installed upon initial installation (I bought the full version for my OS-less homebuilt PC), yet did not have anything to stop Klez. (In fact, this is puzzling -- I thought a patch fized the iFrame exploit...and my system was and is fully pached. ???)
- MSN Hotmail doesn't check attachments as they arrive, only when yoy request the emal for download in the Web client. But OE is made to interface directly with Hotmail!
I am in the process of downloading Lycoris. Maybe Lindows. Probably WineX and Cross-over plugins, too. (Yes, I'll pay.) I'm going to test those two distributions on my wife and son. If either pass the test, that will be our OS at home on the desktop. I may try SuSE and Mandrake, but I like Lycoris/Lindows' "KISS & MAKEUP" (Keep It Simple Stupid and Make it Act Kinda Equivelent to Understood Patterns).Mimi == Grandmother. Don't ask why! They are handy and require little maintenance.