It's not quite this easy. It is a very time consuming procedure. Before each patch can be put into the source tree it has to be:
1. Tested alot 2. Read over for anything irregular (ie if $username=="sstrick" then karma=999) 3. Merged with any other changes to the same piece of source (CVS helps but there is often an element of human involvement). 4. Tested some more.
This can often take almost as much time as writing a small code change yourself.
The admin setup doesn't bother me that much...however I do agree that shared mail is a bit of a dog. To keep it running well it requires WAY to much admin time.
I actually quite like the user interface. I don't find it that inconsistant because there is not much to it - it's just a mail client.
However I would put up with a lot more than this if it stops Trojan attacks such as this. Personally security is my number one concern.
This is why if a company is going to use a large corporate email system they should choose Lotus Notes over exchange any day. While notes can run script on the opening of an email it has to be (unless someone is stupid enough to change the default settings) signed by a trusted sender. Atleast someone in your organisation who is an administrator.
A virus such as this simply would not propagate between organisations with notes. At the worst it might screw up that organisations mail system, but if an admin really wanted to do damage their are much easier ways.
I don't have a problem with people seeing my crimanal record under one condition.
I get to know that they are looking. I think every Australian should be able to access this site and see a list of names (from the credit cards) of everyone that has bought there criminal profile off the site.
There was one particular domain that has been sending alot of junk to my hotmail account lately. Always from different accounts so I couldn't just block one address.
I looked up who the domain was registered to then using the whitepages online I found out their home phone number. I then submitted an order on their site with this guys details with a note asking what time at night he would like me to call him at home to discuss his spam policy.
Since then I have not recieved any spam from that domain.
Whoa! Steady on. That was a serious comment not flamebait.
Where in my comment do I say that I don't like iMacs? I used to work in a office full of them and while not using them personaly I could definetly see their worth for all things graphical. My comment stems from the fact that, Steve Jobs has said, when building the iMac Apple designed a computer for women.
May I suggest that before you post next time you take a walk and cool down.
The rates are good but I'm not here to work I'm here to travel. Buying a DVD player would mean more time working and less time travelling. Besided when I'm staying in hostels (when I'm travelling not working) it's already bad enough trying to make sure that nobody steals a laptop. Add a DVD to that and you start to become a target.
I would suggest that if your Hotels in Europe don't have DVD players you are staying in the wrong places.
What hotels are you talking about? Hotels generally have cable TV but media players in rooms? I don't even know of hotels with private video players. Currently I am in a nice, ****, Best Western hotel in Helsinki. It has the Flat-Screen TV and the ISDN but no form of media player.
If you want to watch a movie you can, you just have to pay the hotel £8. I can rent a DVD for £3. It would be against their best interest to provide movie players.
I am a contractor who traveling around Europe. When I run out of money I stop, get a job for a while, write some code and then move on. Basically I live in hotels and can still fit everything I own into a backpack, a small suit bag and a laptop case.
I like DVDs, I rent them sometimes. The only thing I can watch them on is my laptop as most hotels don't provide DVD players and it's not really an option to carry one around with you. At the moment this is about the only thing I use w98 on my machine for (I don't feel bad though as I bought w98 for £10 in Estonia).
When this DVD player comes out I will buy it and then remove w98 of my machine. Why? Well I need the HD space. Laptops still arn't the best things for large harddrives and I'm not trying to save up for better hardware at the moment.
That's why this player is a good thing. Besides you can never have too much choice.
What exactly do they do when a child is reported as being "different"?
I am also interested in how the organisation makes it's money?
Do they get a fee for each child that gets dobbed into them? Or maybe they could just charge the parents a fee for a conformity program to stiffle this individualism, hell we could even pass a law that they have to go on the program and the parents have to pay.
I just have visions of a classroom full of desks of identical looking kids, all to afraid to express an opinion in case they get reported. Wait a second maybe I'm thinking of 1984....
This is a hard one to classify. While I don't think Yahoo! charges for this service they do certainly make money off banners. Can you get common carrier status when a site is still clearly comercial? It could be argued Yahoo! recieves money from sales through the advertising revenue that these purchases generate.
Basically I'm not a lawer and if there are any out there that know this for sure I would be interested to hear.
Basically if I knowingly act as a broker for illegal, stolen or forged goods then I am breaking the law.
Nintendo of America Inc.'s general counsel, Richard Flamm, said in a press release today that his organization has advised Yahoo! "many times" of the easily identifiable counterfeit goods...
This is often difficult to prove in the real world (hence the reason pawn brokers exist). However if they can prove that they have regularly informed Yahoo! of prirated material, and Yahoo! has still gone ahead and sold it, then Yahoo! has knowly profited from the sale of illegal goods.
I don't like Yahoo!'s chances. Getting them to change there site or the way that they post goods for sale is a completly different question.
You can see that their obvious angle is that they don't want to produce a handbook for a malicous coder. It is a big step for any company to publish a list of security bug. You can imagine the bad press already if anyones machine was hacked with these security issues.
However what they don't realise is that these bugs are very likely to found by hackers anyway. By releasing them to the open source community they are likely to ge them fixed *alot* quicker then if they keep them in house.
There is however a chance that mozilla is starting to loose faith in the open source community. The open source community have not exactly rallied around the mozilla project. I remember reading (sorry I can't find the source) that at one stage there where as many Netscape developers as open source developers working on Mozilla. Maybe they think the bugs will get fixed just as fast if they do it themselves.
I live in Perth and I have Telstra cable. It's not in all areas yet and they don't have cable modems out at the moment but they do at least have the infrastructure there.
I can't surf the net from it yet but I do get plenty of Simpsons on foxtel.
You might notice a new keyboard but would you notice a new PS/2 DIN extension cable?
No amount of welding will prevent someone from doing this. If you don't have a PS/2 DIN then it can just be a normal extension cord.
Funnily enough I just started reading 1984 last night. I think that the only thing George Orwell got wrong was that big brother made it obvious to everyone that they where being watched.
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Joke != troll
Lighten up I figured most of the slashdot crowd would figure it out.
No wonder it's running faster...
64.28.67.48 is running Microsoft-IIS/5.0 on Windows 2000
It's not quite this easy. It is a very time consuming procedure. Before each patch can be put into the source tree it has to be:
1. Tested alot
2. Read over for anything irregular (ie if $username=="sstrick" then karma=999)
3. Merged with any other changes to the same piece of source (CVS helps but there is often an element of human involvement).
4. Tested some more.
This can often take almost as much time as writing a small code change yourself.
The admin setup doesn't bother me that much...however I do agree that shared mail is a bit of a dog. To keep it running well it requires WAY to much admin time.
I actually quite like the user interface. I don't find it that inconsistant because there is not much to it - it's just a mail client.
However I would put up with a lot more than this if it stops Trojan attacks such as this. Personally security is my number one concern.
At the risk of being flamed to a crisp:
This is why if a company is going to use a large corporate email system they should choose Lotus Notes over exchange any day. While notes can run script on the opening of an email it has to be (unless someone is stupid enough to change the default settings) signed by a trusted sender. Atleast someone in your organisation who is an administrator.
A virus such as this simply would not propagate between organisations with notes. At the worst it might screw up that organisations mail system, but if an admin really wanted to do damage their are much easier ways.
Anyway just my $0.02.
I don't have a problem with people seeing my crimanal record under one condition.
I get to know that they are looking. I think every Australian should be able to access this site and see a list of names (from the credit cards) of everyone that has bought there criminal profile off the site.
There was one particular domain that has been sending alot of junk to my hotmail account lately. Always from different accounts so I couldn't just block one address.
I looked up who the domain was registered to then using the whitepages online I found out their home phone number. I then submitted an order on their site with this guys details with a note asking what time at night he would like me to call him at home to discuss his spam policy.
Since then I have not recieved any spam from that domain.
A microsoft story on slashdot that isn't just flamebait? What's the world coming to?
Whoa! Steady on. That was a serious comment not flamebait.
Where in my comment do I say that I don't like iMacs? I used to work in a office full of them and while not using them personaly I could definetly see their worth for all things graphical. My comment stems from the fact that, Steve Jobs has said, when building the iMac Apple designed a computer for women.
May I suggest that before you post next time you take a walk and cool down.
This opens up alot of doors to new web sites and other internet business's that cater specifically to the female market.
Just look at the iMac for example.
Have a look at rewebber. They also have european mirrors.
The site doesn't say whether this is Pepsi compatable or not.
This is the funniest site I've seen toady. Only problem is it's not a hoax.
The rates are good but I'm not here to work I'm here to travel. Buying a DVD player would mean more time working and less time travelling. Besided when I'm staying in hostels (when I'm travelling not working) it's already bad enough trying to make sure that nobody steals a laptop. Add a DVD to that and you start to become a target.
I would suggest that if your Hotels in Europe don't have DVD players you are staying in the wrong places.
What hotels are you talking about? Hotels generally have cable TV but media players in rooms? I don't even know of hotels with private video players. Currently I am in a nice, ****, Best Western hotel in Helsinki. It has the Flat-Screen TV and the ISDN but no form of media player.
If you want to watch a movie you can, you just have to pay the hotel £8. I can rent a DVD for £3. It would be against their best interest to provide movie players.
My situation:
I am a contractor who traveling around Europe. When I run out of money I stop, get a job for a while, write some code and then move on. Basically I live in hotels and can still fit everything I own into a backpack, a small suit bag and a laptop case.
I like DVDs, I rent them sometimes. The only thing I can watch them on is my laptop as most hotels don't provide DVD players and it's not really an option to carry one around with you. At the moment this is about the only thing I use w98 on my machine for (I don't feel bad though as I bought w98 for £10 in Estonia).
When this DVD player comes out I will buy it and then remove w98 of my machine. Why? Well I need the HD space. Laptops still arn't the best things for large harddrives and I'm not trying to save up for better hardware at the moment.
That's why this player is a good thing. Besides you can never have too much choice.
If anything this will encourage users to now have a second, non-microsoft operating system on their desktop.
What exactly do they do when a child is reported as being "different"?
I am also interested in how the organisation makes it's money?
Do they get a fee for each child that gets dobbed into them? Or maybe they could just charge the parents a fee for a conformity program to stiffle this individualism, hell we could even pass a law that they have to go on the program and the parents have to pay.
I just have visions of a classroom full of desks of identical looking kids, all to afraid to express an opinion in case they get reported. Wait a second maybe I'm thinking of 1984....
This is a hard one to classify. While I don't think Yahoo! charges for this service they do certainly make money off banners. Can you get common carrier status when a site is still clearly comercial? It could be argued Yahoo! recieves money from sales through the advertising revenue that these purchases generate.
Basically I'm not a lawer and if there are any out there that know this for sure I would be interested to hear.
Basically if I knowingly act as a broker for illegal, stolen or forged goods then I am breaking the law.
Nintendo of America Inc.'s general counsel, Richard Flamm, said in a press release today that his organization has advised Yahoo! "many times" of the easily identifiable counterfeit goods...
This is often difficult to prove in the real world (hence the reason pawn brokers exist). However if they can prove that they have regularly informed Yahoo! of prirated material, and Yahoo! has still gone ahead and sold it, then Yahoo! has knowly profited from the sale of illegal goods.
I don't like Yahoo!'s chances. Getting them to change there site or the way that they post goods for sale is a completly different question.
I know it's sad to reply to your own post but the source for the lack of open source support of mozilla is an interview with Jamie Zawinski.
You can see that their obvious angle is that they don't want to produce a handbook for a malicous coder. It is a big step for any company to publish a list of security bug. You can imagine the bad press already if anyones machine was hacked with these security issues.
However what they don't realise is that these bugs are very likely to found by hackers anyway. By releasing them to the open source community they are likely to ge them fixed *alot* quicker then if they keep them in house.
There is however a chance that mozilla is starting to loose faith in the open source community. The open source community have not exactly rallied around the mozilla project. I remember reading (sorry I can't find the source) that at one stage there where as many Netscape developers as open source developers working on Mozilla. Maybe they think the bugs will get fixed just as fast if they do it themselves.
You mean kids also play with lego?
I live in Perth and I have Telstra cable. It's not in all areas yet and they don't have cable modems out at the moment but they do at least have the infrastructure there.
I can't surf the net from it yet but I do get plenty of Simpsons on foxtel.
Well if you're trying to remain anonymous it's a good thing that all of your teachers are too clueless to do a whois.
I was going to post a link here but, as unlikely as it is that your teachers are reading, I don't want to make it easy for them.
You might notice a new keyboard but would you notice a new PS/2 DIN extension cable?
No amount of welding will prevent someone from doing this. If you don't have a PS/2 DIN then it can just be a normal extension cord.
Funnily enough I just started reading 1984 last night. I think that the only thing George Orwell got wrong was that big brother made it obvious to everyone that they where being watched.