I want a TiVo like unit that would have modular tv tuners, so I could plug in more than one and record what's going on on a couple of channels at once. I hate having to choose between two equally good programs to watch at some times, and other times there is nothing good on. --
I used to work at a company called Gandalf, who used to do routers and bridges and switches and stuff. While I was there, most of the boxes used Intel i960 processors, and they cross compiled all the C code on Solaris boxes using a GCC cross compiler.
Since I was busy at the time writing an automated test tool that ran on a network of Linux computers (SLS 1.03, installed from 5.25" floppies), I thought it was cool that I was using a free operating system to test stuff that had been cross compiled on a free compiler.
Check out the PDF brochure, especially the picture on the last page of the teeth gritting hags from hell! Look out little girl, or they'll bite your head off. That little knife isn't going to protect you. --
Second, how will AMEX ensure that you will pay your bill?
If I understand this correctly, the disposable number will be linked to your normal, non-disposable AMEX card. AMEX will still have all your details, and any bills you run up will acrue to your regular account, but the number will cease to be valid after one use, so that an unscrupulous merchant can't run up extra charges on it after you've paid for what you meant to pay for. They will probably have to have some sort of mechanism where merchants with legitimate complaints can add an extra charge after the fact (like if you use it to pay for a hotel bill, but then they found you stole all the towels).
Think of it as just a symlink to your regular card, one that you (or AMEX) destroy as soon as it's fullfilled its purpose.
I conceed your first point, though, that the process of getting the disposable number from AMEX is just as prone to interception and theft as any credit card purchase, but I think the real problem with credit card fraud so-far has been unscrupulous merchants adding extra charges (like double billing) and/or idiot merchants leaving your credit card number on their system where it is stolen by crackers and script kiddies. This concept addresses both of those problems.
The first screen (the rest timed out on my company's poxy proxy server) looks so much like Microsoft Outlook that it's scary.
As for other complaints that an automatic updater is dangerous because people could insert dangerous programs that way: That's why RPMs are cryptographically signed. Sure, a cracker could put a dangerous RPM on updates.rpm.com, but since it wouldn't be signed with RedHat's key, autorpm (my automatic updater of choice) won't install it.
You confidently say "it's legal here". You may end up being unpleasantly suprised by just how long "the long arm of the law" ends up being. Even if you have specific legal cases that you can cite, you're very likely to end up in court, even in Austria. --
You want NiMH batteries. They are rechargable, but they have a drain curve that makes them compatible with digital cameras, unlike NiCds or even rechargable alkalines. I use them in my Visor and my digital camera, and am gradually building up my stock so I can have some in my GPS and handheld aviation radio. --
I always found the boxes you can get from your local liquour store are about the right size so that you can still lift them when they're full of books.
I also found that after moving my books about 18 times (and realizing that some were still in the boxes from 4 or 5 moves ago), that the "take all but the most important ones to the local used book store and sell them, then when you're finished moving go and buy some new books" method works best.
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A couple of simple questions about the X box
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- Does it have internet access? And I don't mean through a modem, since I'm not going to run a third phone line just for some damn game - I mean an ethernet port I can plug into my hub, assign it an IP, and get out on the net? I consider this a major factor in the success of any future game. My kids' N64 has been gathering dust since I showed them on my PC how you could fire up Team Fortress Classic and go out there and play with and against real people.
- Is it true what I heard about the ugly box? A friend told me it's a big ugly "X" that stands up on your TV, and so it won't play nice in a stack of the usual stuff that lives on top of your TV like VCR, DVD player and cable box (not to mention old pizza boxes, empty boxes for tapes you forgot to bring back to Blockbuster, and 3 inches of dust). I've been looking around the web for pictures of it, and haven't been successful.
I told them about relative links back around the time of M5. I'm not holding my breath for a fix. Evidently fancy gui shit is more important than standards complaince. --
The interesting thing is that the relative links are handled *differently* than Mozilla, even though they still handle them wrong. With./foo.html type relative links, Galeon just silently ignores them, and Mozilla says "Can't find host `.'" or something like that.
Ok, then, look at http://xcski.com/~ptomblin/. Validates as 4.0 Transitional except for one tiny little problem that's beyond my control. But Galeon can't handle the relative links in it (try clicking on the link to my Rochester Flying Club page, or the one to my Piseco trip page). Neither can Mozilla M17. Netscape can. IE can. Lynx can. xmosaic could handle them back in 1992. But Mozilla, the saviour of us all, can't.
So much for standards compliance. So much for the quality of open source software. Maybe if they hadn't wasted the last two years on chrome and eye candy, they could have actually implemented something that has been an integral part of the web since its early days.
I tried Galeon, and I think somebody read Icaza's headline and left out the "not". This thing sucks. First of all, the button I use *most* in a browser is "Back", so what does Galeon do but hide it down in a pull down menu! I cannot find a configuration menu to fix that. Secondly, like Mozilla, it doesn't handle relative links properly. Things like href="./abc.html" are just silently ignored, while things like href="/rfc/index.hmtl" bring up some god awful search engine thing. Relative links have been part of the web since the days of xmosaic, and indeed some of the ones on my home page have been there for 8+ years as my web pages have been tarred and moved off to new jobs, isps, and web servers without having to be changed.
If this is the best the Open Sores Community can do, then sign me up to buy a copy of Windows, because we've lost.
I'm pretty sure the IBM/360 was the first system to use a layer of abstraction to separate the programmers from the hardware, so that they could write programs that would run on a wide variety of computers. One result of that was that you had a few operating systems that ran on these machines. --
Re:Confessions of a former java performance bitch
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Listeners leak. Creating dialogs with buttons and just letting the listeners go will cause memory leaks. Listeners register with AWT and need to be explicitly unregistered.
You know, if there was ever a place I thought that Java needed a "delete" keyword and destructors, this is it. Just think how much easier if you could "delete" a dialog when you were finished with it, and the dtor for the dialog could take care of removing all those listeners? This is one of the few times I wish I was still doing C++ instead of Java.
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A "freaking free-loading Canadian" stealing jobs from good honest hard working Americans since 1997.
D) Put down the damn computer and remember why you came to the beach in the first place. Help your kids build a sand castle.
If your deadlines are that important and close, then stay home. If they aren't, leave the computer at home and spend some time with your kids. Trust me on this, trying to do both doesn't work.
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A "freaking free-loading Canadian" stealing jobs from good honest hard working Americans since 1997.
It would be nice to find out something about what they are talking about, but half the navigation of the site requires Javascript. No web page is important enough to make me turn that FPOS on. --
A "freaking free-loading Canadian" stealing jobs from good honest hard working Americans since 1997.
I worked at one job where they had conference rooms that were covered floor to ceiling, even the door, with dry erase board. That was kind of cool in that you almost never had to worry about running out, but you got a real "All work and no play make Jack a dull boy" vibe at times. --
A "freaking free-loading Canadian" stealing jobs from good honest hard working Americans since 1997.
What I've had in the past:
- 40 desks in a big huge room with nothing to deaden sound, and a management policy that wearing a walkman to deaden the noise and get some work done was "unprofessional looking". Can you guess that Andersen Consulting was involved?
- 100+ people in a gigantic room with cubicles, and about 25% of them regularly on the phone or checking voicemail with speaker phones. (By the way, if somebody near you is checking his voicemail with the speaker phone, go find a private office, call him up, and leave a message saying "I was wondering if you could please SHUT THE FUCK UP YOU INCONSIDERATE PIECE OF SHIT!". It helps if your voice isn't recognizable.) Even worse was the fact that there weren't real desk, just those psuedo desks that hang off the cube wall. So the guy opposite me would start stomping his feet to the music he was listening to, and my monitor would shake. Or somebody would sit on the desk in the cube next to me, and my monitor would rise up.
- 8 developers in a big room with no cubicles but lots of nerf guns. This one actually worked pretty well.
- Most of a floor in a building shaped like three hexagons. Cubicles clustered in little "pods" around the windows, all the "support" rooms in the middle. This one worked very well, because the rooms in the middle and the shape of the building kept it so only a few dozen people were in your line of sight, even if you stood and looked over the cube walls.
What I have now:
- Three people sharing an office originally meant for two. Since I'm new, and these guys know lots about the application, it's working pretty well since I can ask them questions and have them show me stuff. Even better, they like to keep the lights off and the blinds drawn some (but not all) of the time. We've got real desks, and lots of bookshelves.
What I want:
- A private office. One that I have room for a white board on one wall (or a window that I can write on with dry erase markers!), a window, and room for posters and paintings to make the place feel like home, and desk and bookshelves like I have now plus a side table and a guest chair. One of those nifty little desk lights they have at thinkgeek. A secretary to give me @$@#$@#NO CARRIER
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A "freaking free-loading Canadian" stealing jobs from good honest hard working Americans since 1997.
How does a port scan violate your privacy? All the scanner sees is an active IP address with ports X Y and Z open. On the Internet, theren't nothing private about that information.
There isn't anything "private" about the locked or unlocked state of your car door as with many cars it can be ascertained just by looking, but if I'm at the shopping mall and I see a guy testing car door handles, I'm going to tell mall security.
How should a potential intruder be treated anyway?
By denying them access even to services that others have a legitimate right to, like my mail, usenet and web servers. If I were as paranoid about security in practice as I am in theory, the first thing I would do if I saw a port scan would be to totally black hole every packet that came from that source, no matter what port or protocol.
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Why dont they just do what most Top Secret military facilities do and have seperate "public" and "private" network terminals?
You mean like how it was for Wen Ho Lee? Yeah, perfect security - at least until the lusers come along.
I might expect such a comment from a five-digit-account-number poster like yourself. Slashdot isn't what it used to be.
Geez, you over 2000-account-number guys are touchy, aren't you? Why, back in my day...
I want a TiVo like unit that would have modular tv tuners, so I could plug in more than one and record what's going on on a couple of channels at once. I hate having to choose between two equally good programs to watch at some times, and other times there is nothing good on.
--
I used to work at a company called Gandalf, who used to do routers and bridges and switches and stuff. While I was there, most of the boxes used Intel i960 processors, and they cross compiled all the C code on Solaris boxes using a GCC cross compiler.
Since I was busy at the time writing an automated test tool that ran on a network of Linux computers (SLS 1.03, installed from 5.25" floppies), I thought it was cool that I was using a free operating system to test stuff that had been cross compiled on a free compiler.
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Check out the PDF brochure, especially the picture on the last page of the teeth gritting hags from hell! Look out little girl, or they'll bite your head off. That little knife isn't going to protect you.
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Thanks for the tip, Tower. Damn shame about how it got moderated.
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Second, how will AMEX ensure that you will pay your bill?
If I understand this correctly, the disposable number will be linked to your normal, non-disposable AMEX card. AMEX will still have all your details, and any bills you run up will acrue to your regular account, but the number will cease to be valid after one use, so that an unscrupulous merchant can't run up extra charges on it after you've paid for what you meant to pay for. They will probably have to have some sort of mechanism where merchants with legitimate complaints can add an extra charge after the fact (like if you use it to pay for a hotel bill, but then they found you stole all the towels).
Think of it as just a symlink to your regular card, one that you (or AMEX) destroy as soon as it's fullfilled its purpose.
I conceed your first point, though, that the process of getting the disposable number from AMEX is just as prone to interception and theft as any credit card purchase, but I think the real problem with credit card fraud so-far has been unscrupulous merchants adding extra charges (like double billing) and/or idiot merchants leaving your credit card number on their system where it is stolen by crackers and script kiddies. This concept addresses both of those problems.
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The first screen (the rest timed out on my company's poxy proxy server) looks so much like Microsoft Outlook that it's scary.
As for other complaints that an automatic updater is dangerous because people could insert dangerous programs that way: That's why RPMs are cryptographically signed. Sure, a cracker could put a dangerous RPM on updates.rpm.com, but since it wouldn't be signed with RedHat's key, autorpm (my automatic updater of choice) won't install it.
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Well, then I guess it depends on whether I'm quoting Phinn or Beta, doesn't it? Didn't Beta always say "freaking"?
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Thate depends on whether you're quoting "Family Guy", or my former cow orkers.
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You confidently say "it's legal here". You may end up being unpleasantly suprised by just how long "the long arm of the law" ends up being. Even if you have specific legal cases that you can cite, you're very likely to end up in court, even in Austria.
--
You want NiMH batteries. They are rechargable, but they have a drain curve that makes them compatible with digital cameras, unlike NiCds or even rechargable alkalines. I use them in my Visor and my digital camera, and am gradually building up my stock so I can have some in my GPS and handheld aviation radio.
--
I always found the boxes you can get from your local liquour store are about the right size so that you can still lift them when they're full of books.
I also found that after moving my books about 18 times (and realizing that some were still in the boxes from 4 or 5 moves ago), that the "take all but the most important ones to the local used book store and sell them, then when you're finished moving go and buy some new books" method works best.
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- Does it have internet access? And I don't mean through a modem, since I'm not going to run a third phone line just for some damn game - I mean an ethernet port I can plug into my hub, assign it an IP, and get out on the net? I consider this a major factor in the success of any future game. My kids' N64 has been gathering dust since I showed them on my PC how you could fire up Team Fortress Classic and go out there and play with and against real people.
- Is it true what I heard about the ugly box? A friend told me it's a big ugly "X" that stands up on your TV, and so it won't play nice in a stack of the usual stuff that lives on top of your TV like VCR, DVD player and cable box (not to mention old pizza boxes, empty boxes for tapes you forgot to bring back to Blockbuster, and 3 inches of dust). I've been looking around the web for pictures of it, and haven't been successful.
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I told them about relative links back around the time of M5. I'm not holding my breath for a fix. Evidently fancy gui shit is more important than standards complaince.
--
The interesting thing is that the relative links are handled *differently* than Mozilla, even though they still handle them wrong. With ./foo.html type relative links, Galeon just silently ignores them, and Mozilla says "Can't find host `.'" or something like that.
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Ok, then, look at http://xcski.com/~ptomblin/. Validates as 4.0 Transitional except for one tiny little problem that's beyond my control. But Galeon can't handle the relative links in it (try clicking on the link to my Rochester Flying Club page, or the one to my Piseco trip page). Neither can Mozilla M17. Netscape can. IE can. Lynx can. xmosaic could handle them back in 1992. But Mozilla, the saviour of us all, can't.
So much for standards compliance. So much for the quality of open source software. Maybe if they hadn't wasted the last two years on chrome and eye candy, they could have actually implemented something that has been an integral part of the web since its early days.
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I tried Galeon, and I think somebody read Icaza's headline and left out the "not". This thing sucks. First of all, the button I use *most* in a browser is "Back", so what does Galeon do but hide it down in a pull down menu! I cannot find a configuration menu to fix that. Secondly, like Mozilla, it doesn't handle relative links properly. Things like href="./abc.html" are just silently ignored, while things like href="/rfc/index.hmtl" bring up some god awful search engine thing. Relative links have been part of the web since the days of xmosaic, and indeed some of the ones on my home page have been there for 8+ years as my web pages have been tarred and moved off to new jobs, isps, and web servers without having to be changed.
If this is the best the Open Sores Community can do, then sign me up to buy a copy of Windows, because we've lost.
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I'm pretty sure the IBM/360 was the first system to use a layer of abstraction to separate the programmers from the hardware, so that they could write programs that would run on a wide variety of computers. One result of that was that you had a few operating systems that ran on these machines.
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Listeners leak. Creating dialogs with buttons and just letting the listeners go will cause memory leaks. Listeners register with AWT and need to be explicitly unregistered.
You know, if there was ever a place I thought that Java needed a "delete" keyword and destructors, this is it. Just think how much easier if you could "delete" a dialog when you were finished with it, and the dtor for the dialog could take care of removing all those listeners? This is one of the few times I wish I was still doing C++ instead of Java.
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A "freaking free-loading Canadian" stealing jobs from good honest hard working Americans since 1997.
Another option:
D) Put down the damn computer and remember why you came to the beach in the first place. Help your kids build a sand castle.
If your deadlines are that important and close, then stay home. If they aren't, leave the computer at home and spend some time with your kids. Trust me on this, trying to do both doesn't work.
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A "freaking free-loading Canadian" stealing jobs from good honest hard working Americans since 1997.
It would be nice to find out something about what they are talking about, but half the navigation of the site requires Javascript. No web page is important enough to make me turn that FPOS on.
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A "freaking free-loading Canadian" stealing jobs from good honest hard working Americans since 1997.
I worked at one job where they had conference rooms that were covered floor to ceiling, even the door, with dry erase board. That was kind of cool in that you almost never had to worry about running out, but you got a real "All work and no play make Jack a dull boy" vibe at times.
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A "freaking free-loading Canadian" stealing jobs from good honest hard working Americans since 1997.
What I've had in the past:
- 40 desks in a big huge room with nothing to deaden sound, and a management policy that wearing a walkman to deaden the noise and get some work done was "unprofessional looking". Can you guess that Andersen Consulting was involved?
- 100+ people in a gigantic room with cubicles, and about 25% of them regularly on the phone or checking voicemail with speaker phones. (By the way, if somebody near you is checking his voicemail with the speaker phone, go find a private office, call him up, and leave a message saying "I was wondering if you could please SHUT THE FUCK UP YOU INCONSIDERATE PIECE OF SHIT!". It helps if your voice isn't recognizable.) Even worse was the fact that there weren't real desk, just those psuedo desks that hang off the cube wall. So the guy opposite me would start stomping his feet to the music he was listening to, and my monitor would shake. Or somebody would sit on the desk in the cube next to me, and my monitor would rise up.
- 8 developers in a big room with no cubicles but lots of nerf guns. This one actually worked pretty well.
- Most of a floor in a building shaped like three hexagons. Cubicles clustered in little "pods" around the windows, all the "support" rooms in the middle. This one worked very well, because the rooms in the middle and the shape of the building kept it so only a few dozen people were in your line of sight, even if you stood and looked over the cube walls.
What I have now:
- Three people sharing an office originally meant for two. Since I'm new, and these guys know lots about the application, it's working pretty well since I can ask them questions and have them show me stuff. Even better, they like to keep the lights off and the blinds drawn some (but not all) of the time. We've got real desks, and lots of bookshelves.
What I want:
- A private office. One that I have room for a white board on one wall (or a window that I can write on with dry erase markers!), a window, and room for posters and paintings to make the place feel like home, and desk and bookshelves like I have now plus a side table and a guest chair. One of those nifty little desk lights they have at thinkgeek. A secretary to give me @$@#$@#NO CARRIER
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A "freaking free-loading Canadian" stealing jobs from good honest hard working Americans since 1997.
How does a port scan violate your privacy? All the scanner sees is an active IP address with ports X Y and Z open. On the Internet, theren't nothing private about that information.
There isn't anything "private" about the locked or unlocked state of your car door as with many cars it can be ascertained just by looking, but if I'm at the shopping mall and I see a guy testing car door handles, I'm going to tell mall security.
How should a potential intruder be treated anyway?
By denying them access even to services that others have a legitimate right to, like my mail, usenet and web servers. If I were as paranoid about security in practice as I am in theory, the first thing I would do if I saw a port scan would be to totally black hole every packet that came from that source, no matter what port or protocol.
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A "freaking free-loading Canadian" stealing jobs from good honest hard working Americans since 1997.