If you moderate down something as off-topic, the replies to it should probably be automatically bumped down a notch.
Here we're looking at my reply to a message, but the original message was off-topic and moderated down below my threshold, so it looks like *I* started talking about something off-topic out of the blue.
The problem I've found with java beautifiers is that most of them are like the old "cb" program, where I want something as configurable as "indent". Remember "cb"? It was "our coding style or nothing". So are a whole raft of Java beautifiers.
I'd not heard of Exhuberant ctags. I'll give it a try.
Don't forget "make". The only things missing from that combination are: - a decent class editor/browser for Java. ctags stopped cutting it when I moved from C to C++, and it's useless for Java. - a decent code beautifier, since indent doesn't work right for Java.
On NPR this morning, when describing the 9/9/99 hoopla, they used the phrase "some computer programmers believe this will affect" blah blah blah. But the problem is that I've talked to a lot of old mainframe programmers, and not one single one of them believed that a date would be mistaken for an end of field mark. The only people who believed this crap were non-programmer idiot bosses and "Y2K experts".
The end of field or end of file marks where they *did* use all nines where generally not dates. In the few cases where they *were* dates, the dates were fixed length fields. And guess how many digits it takes to represent a month or a day, boys and girls? That's right, two each. So if they were putting in an end of file mark as all nines, it would have been equivalent to the 99th day of the 99th month of '99.
I'm sure some devious Y2K conslutants are keeping that in their back pocket so when the Y2K money starts drying up, they can trot out "hey, in 8 and a half years it's going to be 99 days and 99 months since the beginning of 1999".
That's why on alt.sysadmin.recovery, we have adopted the convention that when you're talking about a Piece of Shit that doesn't happen to be a Point of Sale terminal, you use the acronym FPOS. Since POS are also universally FPOS, the confusion is reduced.
Try reading what I actually said. If you have *two* private keys, that's EXACTLY as vulnerable as having two copies of one private key, because compromising either one of those locations gives you the keys to the fortress. Actually, it's more vulnerable because a brute force crack will find one or the other in half the time.
Can somebody explain to me why the primary key couldn't be stored in more than one place? Crytographically, having one key stored in two places is no less secure than having two keys, each stored in one place.
Hands up everybody who believes Microsoft's explanation? Nobody? No, I didn't think so.
I gave up trying to get Enlightenment *or* Windowmaker working right under gnome. When I have multiple desktops, E+gnome was restoring all my windows in the first desktop, no matter where they were. And when I used Windowmaker under gnome, I would get one set of all the saved windows back where they belong, and another entire set in the current desktop, which is a pain in the ass to remove.
So now I'm using a windowmaker login (rather than a Gnome or KDE login) and I just have Windowmaker start a panel. It works well, the windows come back where they belong.
The only problem I have is that if I add or remove desktops, or add or move icons on the desktop file manager, it crashes X. But I rarely do that, and I never need to.
Is anybody the slightest bit surprised that Spamazon is acting this way? After all, they spam, and they reserve the right to sell your email address to other companies unless you follow an obscure and poorly documented procedure for opting out. Using your information in ways you don't want is just business as usual for these scumbags.
Actually, the 15 minutes to reload the almanac isn't a limitation of the GPS, it's a limitation of the satellites. The entire almanac is only broadcast in little packets that take 15 minutes to download the whole thing.
The FAA *has* approved GPS as primary navigation for enroute and non-precision approach. However, the testing for that FAA approval included proving that the unit could handle GPS_Week rollover.
But most planes don't use GPS or Loran for IFR navigation - they use ground based VOR navigation aids. So you don't have to know the latitude and longitude (as another person in this thread asked), you just follow the beam.
No, the javascript validation isn't redundant. It's done while the input is happening, so it's useful. Lets say you have a field that only allows integer input. With javascript, you could cause the input routine to throw anyway any non-numeric input, so they don't enter 'abc'. You still have to validate it on the server side, to make sure they didn't enter 'abc' because they had javascript turned off, but also to make sure they didn't enter a value greater than MAX_INT even with javascript turned on. The difference is that the javascript validation is immediate after every keystroke, and the server side validation is done after the entire field has been entered.
It's perfectly legit to have Javascript form validation. As long as you also have the same form validation on the server side that your forms still work for people who turn off Javascript.
Even leaving aside the horrendous security implications of Javascript, I turn it off because if I don't, Netscape crashes about 18 times a day.
I don't see the point of this. It just seems to walk you through the same steps as a RedHat install, but without the smarts (it doesn't skip the networking stuff if you're not doing a network install, it doesn't know how big your disks are, etc). Maybe if you had to install a bunch of identical machines, it might save you time, but otherwise it makes little sense to me.
I read that thing in the Savage Love article, and my first thought was "ok, fire up the target designator lasers, I'll be over with my load of smart bombs in just a few minutes". I wonder if it's fear of death threats that makes the actual location of Bill Gate's office such a secret?
It did? What broke? I'm using 2.2.10ac12 with RedHat 6.0, and I haven't noticed anything not working regarding NFS mounting. (One of these days I'll figure out how to do locking, though)
What a great encapsulation of everything that I feel about the RMS versus OSI debate. RMS is a great person, and we wouldn't be here without him, but man I wish he'd stop acting like a crackpot. St. Ignusious? That freaking song? Give me a break!
And any search terms you type in the location textfield will be passed to Google.
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How do I avoid the bozos altogether when the company won't let me hire anybody without going through HR? I'm speaking as a senior programmer and team leader, not the president of the freaking company, so I don't exactly have the ability to change company policy when it doesn't suit me.
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You seem to be acting under the misaprehension that a incompetent person cares whether they hire inferior employees or not. They don't. And if you don't do what it takes to get past the HR firewall, you'll never get a chance to talk to the clued person who wants to hire you.
I've been on both sides, the job hunter and the employer, and believe me, when you see the unqualified bozos that HR sends your way, you wish that more supposedly smart people knew how to play the HR game.
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The point is that the HR people have something you want, a job. They are likely to have to screen a few hundred resumes for every job they are hiring for, and they are probably hiring for several at the same time. So their top priority is finding ways of trimming the pile of resumes down, preferably without having to read the resume in detail. Don't give them an excuse to throw yours away. They will throw a resume away because it's not formatted right, because it's too long, too short, badly written, badly spelled, etc.
I've been working for 15 years, some of it contract, some of it full time. I've changed jobs about 9 times in that 15 years. Believe me, I know how the game is played.
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If you moderate down something as off-topic, the replies to it should probably be automatically bumped down a notch.
Here we're looking at my reply to a message, but the original message was off-topic and moderated down below my threshold, so it looks like *I* started talking about something off-topic out of the blue.
The problem I've found with java beautifiers is that most of them are like the old "cb" program, where I want something as configurable as "indent". Remember "cb"? It was "our coding style or nothing". So are a whole raft of Java beautifiers.
I'd not heard of Exhuberant ctags. I'll give it a try.
Don't forget "make". The only things missing from that combination are:
- a decent class editor/browser for Java. ctags stopped cutting it when I moved from C to C++, and it's useless for Java.
- a decent code beautifier, since indent doesn't work right for Java.
...not Cold Fusion.
I knew the name Code Fusion was a mistake.
On NPR this morning, when describing the 9/9/99 hoopla, they used the phrase "some computer programmers believe this will affect" blah blah blah. But the problem is that I've talked to a lot of old mainframe programmers, and not one single one of them believed that a date would be mistaken for an end of field mark. The only people who believed this crap were non-programmer idiot bosses and "Y2K experts".
The end of field or end of file marks where they *did* use all nines where generally not dates. In the few cases where they *were* dates, the dates were fixed length fields. And guess how many digits it takes to represent a month or a day, boys and girls? That's right, two each. So if they were putting in an end of file mark as all nines, it would have been equivalent to the 99th day of the 99th month of '99.
I'm sure some devious Y2K conslutants are keeping that in their back pocket so when the Y2K money starts drying up, they can trot out "hey, in 8 and a half years it's going to be 99 days and 99 months since the beginning of 1999".
That's why on alt.sysadmin.recovery, we have adopted the convention that when you're talking about a Piece of Shit that doesn't happen to be a Point of Sale terminal, you use the acronym FPOS. Since POS are also universally FPOS, the confusion is reduced.
Try reading what I actually said. If you have *two* private keys, that's EXACTLY as vulnerable as having two copies of one private key, because compromising either one of those locations gives you the keys to the fortress. Actually, it's more vulnerable because a brute force crack will find one or the other in half the time.
Can somebody explain to me why the primary key couldn't be stored in more than one place? Crytographically, having one key stored in two places is no less secure than having two keys, each stored in one place.
Hands up everybody who believes Microsoft's explanation? Nobody? No, I didn't think so.
My Gnome slashapp applet stopped working a few days ago, presumably because you changed that backend. Does anybody have an updated Slashapp?
I gave up trying to get Enlightenment *or* Windowmaker working right under gnome. When I have multiple desktops, E+gnome was restoring all my windows in the first desktop, no matter where they were. And when I used Windowmaker under gnome, I would get one set of all the saved windows back where they belong, and another entire set in the current desktop, which is a pain in the ass to remove.
So now I'm using a windowmaker login (rather than a Gnome or KDE login) and I just have Windowmaker start a panel. It works well, the windows come back where they belong.
The only problem I have is that if I add or remove desktops, or add or move icons on the desktop file manager, it crashes X. But I rarely do that, and I never need to.
Is anybody the slightest bit surprised that Spamazon is acting this way? After all, they spam, and they reserve the right to sell your email address to other companies unless you follow an obscure and poorly documented procedure for opting out. Using your information in ways you don't want is just business as usual for these scumbags.
Actually, the 15 minutes to reload the almanac isn't a limitation of the GPS, it's a limitation of the satellites. The entire almanac is only broadcast in little packets that take 15 minutes to download the whole thing.
(to quote a good friend)
The FAA *has* approved GPS as primary navigation for enroute and non-precision approach. However, the testing for that FAA approval included proving that the unit could handle GPS_Week rollover.
But most planes don't use GPS or Loran for IFR navigation - they use ground based VOR navigation aids. So you don't have to know the latitude and longitude (as another person in this thread asked), you just follow the beam.
No, the javascript validation isn't redundant. It's done while the input is happening, so it's useful. Lets say you have a field that only allows integer input. With javascript, you could cause the input routine to throw anyway any non-numeric input, so they don't enter 'abc'. You still have to validate it on the server side, to make sure they didn't enter 'abc' because they had javascript turned off, but also to make sure they didn't enter a value greater than MAX_INT even with javascript turned on. The difference is that the javascript validation is immediate after every keystroke, and the server side validation is done after the entire field has been entered.
It's perfectly legit to have Javascript form validation. As long as you also have the same form validation on the server side that your forms still work for people who turn off Javascript.
Even leaving aside the horrendous security implications of Javascript, I turn it off because if I don't, Netscape crashes about 18 times a day.
I don't see the point of this. It just seems to walk you through the same steps as a RedHat install, but without the smarts (it doesn't skip the networking stuff if you're not doing a network install, it doesn't know how big your disks are, etc). Maybe if you had to install a bunch of identical machines, it might save you time, but otherwise it makes little sense to me.
I read that thing in the Savage Love article, and my first thought was "ok, fire up the target designator lasers, I'll be over with my load of smart bombs in just a few minutes". I wonder if it's fear of death threats that makes the actual location of Bill Gate's office such a secret?
It did? What broke? I'm using 2.2.10ac12 with RedHat 6.0, and I haven't noticed anything not working regarding NFS mounting. (One of these days I'll figure out how to do locking, though)
And don't forget Ti and Bo.
What a great encapsulation of everything that I feel about the RMS versus OSI debate. RMS is a great person, and we wouldn't be here without him, but man I wish he'd stop acting like a crackpot. St. Ignusious? That freaking song? Give me a break!
Since when has Network Solutions needed a dispute in order to act with "an arrogant, indifferent attitude"?
Put the following into your .netscape/preferences.js:
l e.com/keyword/");
user_pref("network.search.url","http://www.goog
And any search terms you type in the location textfield will be passed to Google.
How do I avoid the bozos altogether when the company won't let me hire anybody without going through HR? I'm speaking as a senior programmer and team leader, not the president of the freaking company, so I don't exactly have the ability to change company policy when it doesn't suit me.
You seem to be acting under the misaprehension that a incompetent person cares whether they hire inferior employees or not. They don't. And if you don't do what it takes to get past the HR firewall, you'll never get a chance to talk to the clued person who wants to hire you.
I've been on both sides, the job hunter and the employer, and believe me, when you see the unqualified bozos that HR sends your way, you wish that more supposedly smart people knew how to play the HR game.
The point is that the HR people have something you want, a job. They are likely to have to screen a few hundred resumes for every job they are hiring for, and they are probably hiring for several at the same time. So their top priority is finding ways of trimming the pile of resumes down, preferably without having to read the resume in detail. Don't give them an excuse to throw yours away. They will throw a resume away because it's not formatted right, because it's too long, too short, badly written, badly spelled, etc.
I've been working for 15 years, some of it contract, some of it full time. I've changed jobs about 9 times in that 15 years. Believe me, I know how the game is played.