There is a duty for the people who can decide on security policy and pay checks to realize a few facts about IT security. While the best security may not always be affordable just understanding that each node on the Internet is a possible "bad guy" with tools and a getaway vehicle. The bad guys are everywhere and anywhere and you just can't ever know.
Jeremy
Re:PayPal. Nice idea, but it has it's problems.
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You can call them. I checked out their IPO data and just dialed their phonenumber to verify it worked. I am sure you could get an operator or just pick someone at random from the directory until someone listened to you.
So the reviewer says its the most gorgeous and awesome first person shooter he has ever had the pleasure to be completely engrossed in and... your response is that it has not lived up to its hype.
Re:XML is a poor choice for cuneiform
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Thats why.. They are using SVG! The XML can be used to store meta data or even the document with the SVG references for the cuneiform characters.
Run through an XSLT transformation.. Voila... HTML or PDF representing the cuneiform document (Do texts written in cuneiform qualify as documents??!?;).
I agree... to an extent. Some music really is good without people yelling and singing along. While the energy and live performance is really great its not everything there is to the music.
I re-read the ESR original and the link posted here. I would just say that ESR probably was a little arrogant but he still seemed to have his heart in the right place.
I bet 6mo after the IPO he still made a sizeable chunk of cash, too. You know if I just made 40M on paper I would probably be feeling just a little high on the hog.
While I think its funny ESR has still been doing what hes always done. Anyhow
A thing thats always bothered me. I have carried an IPAQ on an airplane with me. Now you look at that IPAQ. Lets see, what have I had to do to get the IPAQ through the gates and onto the airplane? Well, I simply handed it to the guard and hit a button to make it turn on and off. You could simulate what would make your average security guard happy with hardly nothing. You could fit enough explosives, or, a small caliber pistol in the case of an IPAQ easy.
It frigtens me how easy it is to get stuff right through the metal detectors, and through personal security checks. I shouldnt be afraid. I still fly, I know a determined terrorist could hijack a plane anyways.
Re:Messing things up or using Perl for what it fit
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Not to start a flamewar on "to comment" or "not to comment" but the usage of comments in the latter example in a production environment is a little overkill.
Hell I don't even do much perl work and I could tell everything except the regex without a comment, almost immediately. The regular expression probably needs a comment to say "hey here is what I'm doing since its less than obvious". When I am writing a book sure I dumb down my comment level so people can follow the example code.
When I am writing a production quality system I only comment when I do things that break accepted standard/best practice or to summarize blocks of code so that you can figure out what I am doing with comments without being innundated with an explanation of every function or feature of a language, in other words there has to be some assumed base level of knowledge.
I think there is a middle ground and it is best for the largest variety of situations. Any reasonably educated programmer worth his salt could pick up a well structured well commented program in ANY language and understand it. As soon as you know the underlying idea behind Java, or behind FORTRAN you should be able to understand the program, well placed comments enhancing this ten fold. I don't need documentation on the language in my production system:)
As to the fact that Perl is unreadable, that is false. The fact that Perl ALLOWS you to write obscure code, yep thats true. It is also true for any language or development tool tho.
*shudder* Deer Hunter on a console:( Why did you have to mention anything about the crap that would make it to a console. The world will never be the same.
No, there was an excellent article about the hardware that would have to change before it would require you to re-register. Swapping one or two items wont really make you have to re-register I don't believe.
I have to agree. It may be expensive but for every single person who finds employment they probably have friends. Computers are a very learning oriented environment so I like the idea of using something computer related.
It could just spark that flame of passion that a lot of people here have for technology. If it can do that for even a small handful of kids I think its worth trying. It may not be everything and it might only be a band-aid but it IS a start.
I think the important thing is how much it costs. I had a friend whom as completely uninterested in any kind of internet appliances. He found out the price of the audrey and now has 3! The biggest thing is the price, but hes also really into hacking it and learning about it because its easier to figure out etc. anyhow
You better just PRAY to your respective deity that the phone doesnt RING while your doing that.
It spikes WAY up in amperage when it rings. I was doing just that, stirpping phne wire with teeth.. It rang and my jaw clenched from the juice... chipped a tooth.
Opera lets you do this as well, but it still won't completely fool some browser detection systems.
I changed the opera User-Agent string so it would say it is IE 5. I then sent it up against a quick Java server I wrote.. the User-Agent string would identify it as Internet Explorer, however it still has Opera in the string and our browser detection routines detect that and stop it. Opera only has a predefined list of options you can pick to. (To bad, so sad)
Even the author admits there is nothing innovative about the operating system. He also admits he has no goals for the system.. just a project. The features are rather standard as far as OS' go. Nothing too exciting.. just a cool pet project.
*sheepish grin* I just knew someone would complain about slashdot. mySQL is also not a *choice* of mine but I won't pretend it can't do the job in most cases, especially with some of the add ons such as InnoDB./. process something like 180 queries per second, which isn't a lot but you also could not just use access for it either. I would prefer PostgreSQL for an open source database. I have also used DB2 and Oracle and prefer DB2 for more a more highend database. I agree slashdot should not fall over. But if you develop poorly it won't matter if you throw Oracle at it.
I wish more practical posts like this got moderated up.
While I think all software does indeed have limitations I think developers tend to impose artificial limitations.
I don't like mySQL all that much but I will be the first to admit I have been a part of a team that forced it to scale. Uhm MySQL doesnt scale? Look at what your posting to! Slashdot isnt even a massive web cluster or anything and it handles the load quite nicely. We used PHP, SQUID, and mySQL in combination to make the system scale absolutely through the roof.
It is all about the developers in most cases!
I also don't like Perl and would not choose to implement in it but I find the claims that its impossible to write clean code in it a little far reaching. I have seen Java, C, PHP, and Perl written well. I have also seen code in each language an indecipherable jumble of spaghetti code (even in Java and even worse in PHP)
So anyway...use technology that gets the job done and keeps you in the green.. stop fretting about the small stuff (and its all small stuff;)
Slashdot Mirror
*chuckle* I rather think that was a thinly veiled jab at how long HURD has been in development.
Jeremy
We all do, that is why I have an editor! (seriously) :)
Jeremy
Yep, same guy.
:)
a lfield+HURD
Not to be an ass but behold the power
of google
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=UMASS+Neal+W
Jeremy
What amuses me is that even among slashdot the slashdot crowd so few people are willing to challenge the authenticity of this "memo"
I am not saying I don't believe, but I still have my curiosities about the origin of the memo.
This is an "attention getter". What better way to circulate it through the Linux community than to put the face of Microsoft on it?
It worked, authentic or not.
Jeremy
There is a duty for the people who can decide on security policy and pay checks to realize a few facts about IT security. While the best security may not always be affordable just understanding that each node on the Internet is a possible "bad guy" with tools and a getaway vehicle. The bad guys are everywhere and anywhere and you just can't ever know.
Jeremy
You can call them. I checked out their IPO data and just dialed their phonenumber to verify it worked. I am sure you could get an operator or just pick someone at random from the directory until someone listened to you.
Paypal Inc
1840 Embarcadero Road
Palo Alto CA 94303 USA
Phone: 650-251-1100 Fax: 650-251-1101
So the reviewer says its the most gorgeous and awesome first person shooter he has ever had the pleasure to be completely engrossed in and... your response is that it has not lived up to its hype.
*scratches his head in confusion*
Oh, wait.. nm
Jeremy
(((Age >= 18) && (Age <= 26)) && (Sex='male'))
Jeremy
Thats why.. They are using SVG! The XML can be used to store meta data or even the document with the SVG references for the cuneiform characters.
;).
Run through an XSLT transformation.. Voila... HTML or PDF representing the cuneiform document (Do texts written in cuneiform qualify as documents??!?
Jeremy
I agree... to an extent. Some music really is good without people yelling and singing along. While the energy and live performance is really great its not everything there is to the music.
Jeremy
I re-read the ESR original and the link posted here. I would just say that ESR probably was a little arrogant but he still seemed to have his heart in the right place.
I bet 6mo after the IPO he still made a sizeable chunk of cash, too. You know if I just made 40M on paper I would probably be feeling just a little high on the hog.
While I think its funny ESR has still been doing what hes always done. Anyhow
Jeremy
A thing thats always bothered me. I have carried an IPAQ on an airplane with me. Now you look at that IPAQ. Lets see, what have I had to do to get the IPAQ through the gates and onto the airplane? Well, I simply handed it to the guard and hit a button to make it turn on and off. You could simulate what would make your average security guard happy with hardly nothing. You could fit enough explosives, or, a small caliber pistol in the case of an IPAQ easy.
It frigtens me how easy it is to get stuff right through the metal detectors, and through personal security checks. I shouldnt be afraid. I still fly, I know a determined terrorist could hijack a plane anyways.
Oh well, jsut food for thought.
jeremy
Whatever works :)
That is why I made ls a batch file to dir :-)
Jeremy
Not to start a flamewar on "to comment" or "not to comment" but the usage of comments in the latter example in a production environment is a little overkill.
:)
Hell I don't even do much perl work and I could tell everything except the regex without a comment, almost immediately. The regular expression probably needs a comment to say "hey here is what I'm doing since its less than obvious". When I am writing a book sure I dumb down my comment level so people can follow the example code.
When I am writing a production quality system I only comment when I do things that break accepted standard/best practice or to summarize blocks of code so that you can figure out what I am doing with comments without being innundated with an explanation of every function or feature of a language, in other words there has to be some assumed base level of knowledge.
I think there is a middle ground and it is best for the largest variety of situations. Any reasonably educated programmer worth his salt could pick up a well structured well commented program in ANY language and understand it. As soon as you know the underlying idea behind Java, or behind FORTRAN you should be able to understand the program, well placed comments enhancing this ten fold. I don't need documentation on the language in my production system
As to the fact that Perl is unreadable, that is false. The fact that Perl ALLOWS you to write obscure code, yep thats true. It is also true for any language or development tool tho.
Anyhow back to work for me.
Jeremy
*shudder* Deer Hunter on a console :( Why did you have to mention anything about the crap that would make it to a console. The world will never be the same.
Jeremy
No, there was an excellent article about the hardware that would have to change before it would require you to re-register. Swapping one or two items wont really make you have to re-register I don't believe.
Jeremy
I have to agree. It may be expensive but for every single person who finds employment they probably have friends. Computers are a very learning oriented environment so I like the idea of using something computer related.
It could just spark that flame of passion that a lot of people here have for technology. If it can do that for even a small handful of kids I think its worth trying. It may not be everything and it might only be a band-aid but it IS a start.
Jeremy
I think the important thing is how much it costs. I had a friend whom as completely uninterested in any kind of internet appliances. He found out the price of the audrey and now has 3! The biggest thing is the price, but hes also really into hacking it and learning about it because its easier to figure out etc. anyhow
Jeremy
You better just PRAY to your respective deity that the phone doesnt RING while your doing that.
It spikes WAY up in amperage when it rings. I was doing just that, stirpping phne wire with teeth.. It rang and my jaw clenched from the juice... chipped a tooth.
Owch.
Jeremy
Opera lets you do this as well, but it still won't completely fool some browser detection systems.
I changed the opera User-Agent string so it would say it is IE 5. I then sent it up against a quick Java server I wrote.. the User-Agent string would identify it as Internet Explorer, however it still has Opera in the string and our browser detection routines detect that and stop it. Opera only has a predefined list of options you can pick to. (To bad, so sad)
Jeremy
Its a good thing hes only implemented 6% of linux syscalls then
Jeremy
Even the author admits there is nothing innovative about the operating system. He also admits he has no goals for the system.. just a project. The features are rather standard as far as OS' go. Nothing too exciting.. just a cool pet project.
Jeremy
*sheepish grin* I just knew someone would complain about slashdot. mySQL is also not a *choice* of mine but I won't pretend it can't do the job in most cases, especially with some of the add ons such as InnoDB. /. process something like 180 queries per second, which isn't a lot but you also could not just use access for it either. I would prefer PostgreSQL for an open source database. I have also used DB2 and Oracle and prefer DB2 for more a more highend database. I agree slashdot should not fall over. But if you develop poorly it won't matter if you throw Oracle at it.
:)
Off-to-work-I-go
Jeremy
I wish more practical posts like this got moderated up.
;)
While I think all software does indeed have limitations I think developers tend to impose artificial limitations.
I don't like mySQL all that much but I will be the first to admit I have been a part of a team that forced it to scale. Uhm MySQL doesnt scale? Look at what your posting to! Slashdot isnt even a massive web cluster or anything and it handles the load quite nicely. We used PHP, SQUID, and mySQL in combination to make the system scale absolutely through the roof.
It is all about the developers in most cases!
I also don't like Perl and would not choose to implement in it but I find the claims that its impossible to write clean code in it a little far reaching. I have seen Java, C, PHP, and Perl written well. I have also seen code in each language an indecipherable jumble of spaghetti code (even in Java and even worse in PHP)
So anyway...use technology that gets the job done and keeps you in the green.. stop fretting about the small stuff (and its all small stuff
Jeremy