There was an article here on/. and people were talking about popup windows, and I said that it would be nice to be able to disable window.open on a per site basis. I wonder how they implemented this. If it was a global thing for all sites or per site. But this is cook.
Who wins here? The terrorists. Now we get to live in a next to police state. JUst watch. First they take away crypto on the net, then they will allow phone taps, as well as cell phone taps. Then carnivore or some program like it will be required on teh net as well as some automated phone listening system. Then we can take away peoples right to go to the airport unless they are flying. They do it in India (I'm told from someone who would know). Then what?
We are at war on our own soil, with an enemy which we cannot see.
Personally, I don't have anything to really hide in "email" in the way of information. Of course this affects SSL so there goes the credit card online shopping....
I'd be interested in who makes the quietest power supply. I have not really noticed any difference in different power supplies they all seem noisy and my newest one is a 300Watt screaming noise maker. I can hardly hear the TV over it.
If I were to buy a router / firewall, it would be either linksys or netgear. My current hub is netgear. Both are usually UNIX compatible to a degree.
The biggest advantage to using Linux or even BSD or any other UNIX is that you can configure the firewall as an actual gateway/router/firewall, DMZ whatever you want to make you feel safe on the net.
iptables is pretty easy and if you already understand ipchains going to tables makes things easier. As you can specify an interface to forward from to. -i eth0 -o eth1 kinda thing...
of course this was made by the 'academics'.. again MIT creates something without thinking should they.. this is always the case though. To many people think more important of can we do this rather than should we do this.
Why isn't MIT trying to figure out how to make SMTP a secure method of communication. Or adding a better way of removing spam off mailservers.
You know what I'd rather see, is a way of an end user setting up server side spam filters so that one does not have to download spam email to the machine and have the email client do the filtering. This would eliminate 50% of my junk email and probably yours too.
Why cant they create something useful to the users.. guess this means that there needs to be a privacy project started on sourceforge... Whats a good name for that???
In version 1 you are getting your new product out the door.
In version 2 you are adding loads of features.
In version 3 you have oodles of software features and bugs that you are fixing and this is usually the most unstable bersion.
In version 4 you have stabalized version 3 and added more features, but the code is usually so bloated that it is difficult to maintain.
So version 5 you do a total rewrite and screw backward compatability.
ROTFLOL.. ok.. this is the mozilla model.. but I have seen this elsewhere too.
Seriously the best time to throw away backward compatiblity is when you cannot support it. I.E. Hardward to support it is not longer made, like VAX. Or when the percentage of clients that use your software that need the support is so small, that it is more of a burden to support it.
It really depends on what you are doing. For anything server side, there really are few GUI tools that can optimize the code to make it fast. How many server side GUI tools do you know of that output kernel code? How about clean readable C?
If you are doing GUI develoipment like a user interface, then maybe this is true. If you are using something like PowerBuilder, Symantic Visual Crape oh I mean Cafe, Visual C++ or Visual Basic or something like that. Few GUI tools output optimized readable code. When the GUI screwes up it can be a real pain to debug. Trust me I have been there done that.
CLI can be effective for somethings as well especially in the case where the server is remote and you are using telnet or ssh to get to the server. There are editors that will open telnet/ftp for you and allow you to edit remotely.
Personally I like to use a program that does syntax higlightening with code completion. Outside of that the GUI's are pretty crappy IMHO. This to me gives me a somewhat happy medium. I get readable code with code completion and can limit the bloat. I can use the GUI help (many tools seem to lack that) to tell me the syntax of commands I don't know, which is very useful.
How dumb are you? I guess if you are a newbie you may fall to this (if your that dumb you probably should not be using computers in the first place). But most experienced Linux users are not going to download an attachment to an email and then run it as root without knowing what it does. I know I wouldn't.
This is different than just say opening your mail program and going to the inbox and reading a mail that wipes your hard drive like the "I Love You" Windows virus did.
Or better yet the code red which atacket web servers by causing a buffer overrun.
I am talking about extending poorly written code. Imagine an application that is 20 years old and feature rich and extremely badly designed. Then imagine bug fixing it and adding new features.
Hey if it was like appache where there was a base and each new module was an actual module that was added through a config file then I would have no problem with it, but it is not.
imagine now an executable that is statically linked and over 55Megs in diameter;-).
So how do you go from a nightmae legacy design to a moden design with that kind of beast?
This is fine foe new code and new designs, but when you are talking about a company that has over 3000 programs that are over 40 pages each, each little enhancement adds another if statement here and a switch statement there. The amount of time to do a fix / enhancement is much less often than to do a rewrite.
Just because the code is readable and understandable does not mean it does not become a nightmare to work with.
Take mozilla / or linux kernel projects. While the code may be nicely written it is not always easy to debug that many lines of code, especially for someone new to the source.
The problem is that while software developers may want to fix the bugs and make it work nice and all, the managers generally want to make money and the only way to sell a product is through new features. Usually adding in features after an application has been developed makes an app a nightmare to work on and harder to debug.
Just kidding, yes you can donate to a church and then write them off on your taxes. Get a reciept from the church, as you'll need it for your taxes at the end of the year. Alternately you can look at some dealers, like if they were made by HP I think they have a disposal program. They may even take none HP computers. Alternately you could try a place like selling them on a message board like craigslist.org or even ebay. I'd use craigslist, but they are only available (or marketed?) in certain areas AFAIK. I've sold a few items using craigslist.
Up until I saw that it comes with Caldera or is it Corel, I was looking at it as a possibility. I am not sure if there are laptop specific drivers in the kernel, that are not available in the default kernel. I guess with the dvd it is a maybe.
So the table says Caldera openlinux 2.4 and the paragraph on software says Corel openlinux 2.4. I think there is a typo, I think it shoudl be Caldera.
Unfortunately for me right now it is priced a little to high. I need a laptop for under 1000. Preferably around $500 would be awesome, and I could live without dvd for now.
I started recieving spam this week, that has me as the sender even though I did not send the spam. How do you 'filter out' that? Also isn't that a form of impersonation / identity theft?
I am wondering if anyone has thought about implementing a new SMTP protocol that will prevent spam. I wonder if it is possible to do....
There is a few articles where people claim stuff, but they do not really say anything. Okay they say that they have full screen video over 28.8. Where's the evidence? What are they using to do this? And if this really can be done, then why is it NOT being done anywhere???? I think its crap.
duh! I already know that. But the real question is for a smaller system will you actually see any difference? In my system now, it takes a few seconds to run fsck. So with journaling it will be what 1 second a mount point? Sure it will be faster, but I still want instant on / instant off like my palm does.
Hmm this will be interesting. My machine has had a few unexpected shutdowns, and I have had to run fsck on them. With a 30 GIg drive it actually was faster than with my old system. Of course it helps that I have a super fast computer these days (1.2Gighz with WD 7200RPM drive). I'd imagine that soon I can have my dream of instant on / instant off machine;-).
Wern't they hacked a little while ago? Something about passwords or usernames or something?
I'm glad I stopped using them years ago, when M$ took over. I kinda new that their service was going down.
Lets see, they were hacked once, then the red worm did a little damage, now they are hacked again... hmm can't wait for.net, so that everyone can read my design documents. hmm do you think they 'll have local or remote storage with.net???
It's to bad that they are such a hackers target and they do little in the way of security. I wonder how strong the M$ firewall will be in XP..
I know it may seem a bit trollish, and would be suprised if someone did not ask quesitons, but then again there are those that follow blindly.. Are you a sheep or a wolf?
Hmm I want my web server to be IIS I feel all left out not being affected by code red....
I asked REdhat once..
on
Memory Leaks
·
· Score: 1, Redundant
they told me they use electric fence. While it is definately not the same (I have used purify as well) it is basically a library that you like against and then when you run your program it checks your malloc's and things like that to make sure you have allocated the correct amount of space.
But to answer the question are there any out there? NO, not with pretty GUIs and all.
mozilla and netscape branched a while ago.. There are features in mozilla that are not in netscape. Image blocking is one of them I think. I am not sure what else. While it is true that they are patching netscape from mozilla patches they are two different branches. Mozilla 0.9.3 != Netscape 6.1 and mozilla 1.0 will probably not = netscape 6.2.
Netscape 6.0(1) was buggy as hell and this is an attempt at fixing that and possibly gaining market share. I.E. Those that like to run it cause it is NOT miscrosoft or those that are using a platform that does not have IE.
I guess that is why I bought my 1.2 Ghz Athelon. It was less than the 1.3 at the time and way less than the 1.4. The thing to also look at is to make sure you get the 266Mhz fsb with the athelon instead of the 200. It makes a little bit of difference.
I saved money on the cpu to spend on memory, and hard drive. Which is used more than raw cpu power. Fact is that most people could get by pretty well with 600Mhz cpus. Even most gamers would be fine with 600Mhz systems. Unless you are doing some serious heavy duty gaming, or super intense graphics or scientific number cruntching then 600 is plenty fast. (or some type of emulation)
..lol.. didn't you every watch friends where joey carries a purse?
Anyway that is something to try. Either a purse or a jacket with lots of pockets. I go for the bag myself. It holds pens, phones, pda, laptop, coffee mug.. usually not to a job interview though.. just to and from work so I have the things that make my life easier. many employers don't want you makeing personal phone call on their system.. thus the need for a cell. ocassionally I have to do buisiness (car friends etc)
Slashdot Mirror
There was an article here on /. and people were talking about popup windows, and I said that it would be nice to be able to disable window.open on a per site basis. I wonder how they implemented this. If it was a global thing for all sites or per site. But this is cook.
Who wins here? The terrorists. Now we get to live in a next to police state. JUst watch. First they take away crypto on the net, then they will allow phone taps, as well as cell phone taps. Then carnivore or some program like it will be required on teh net as well as some automated phone listening system. Then we can take away peoples right to go to the airport unless they are flying. They do it in India (I'm told from someone who would know). Then what?
We are at war on our own soil, with an enemy which we cannot see.
Personally, I don't have anything to really hide in "email" in the way of information. Of course this affects SSL so there goes the credit card online shopping....
I'd be interested in who makes the quietest power supply. I have not really noticed any difference in different power supplies they all seem noisy and my newest one is a 300Watt screaming noise maker. I can hardly hear the TV over it.
The biggest advantage to using Linux or even BSD or any other UNIX is that you can configure the firewall as an actual gateway/router/firewall, DMZ whatever you want to make you feel safe on the net.
iptables is pretty easy and if you already understand ipchains going to tables makes things easier. As you can specify an interface to forward from to. -i eth0 -o eth1 kinda thing...
Why isn't MIT trying to figure out how to make SMTP a secure method of communication. Or adding a better way of removing spam off mailservers.
You know what I'd rather see, is a way of an end user setting up server side spam filters so that one does not have to download spam email to the machine and have the email client do the filtering. This would eliminate 50% of my junk email and probably yours too.
Why cant they create something useful to the users.. guess this means that there needs to be a privacy project started on sourceforge... Whats a good name for that???
In version 2 you are adding loads of features.
In version 3 you have oodles of software features and bugs that you are fixing and this is usually the most unstable bersion.
In version 4 you have stabalized version 3 and added more features, but the code is usually so bloated that it is difficult to maintain.
So version 5 you do a total rewrite and screw backward compatability.
ROTFLOL.. ok.. this is the mozilla model .. but I have seen this elsewhere too.
Seriously the best time to throw away backward compatiblity is when you cannot support it. I.E. Hardward to support it is not longer made, like VAX. Or when the percentage of clients that use your software that need the support is so small, that it is more of a burden to support it.
If you are doing GUI develoipment like a user interface, then maybe this is true. If you are using something like PowerBuilder, Symantic Visual Crape oh I mean Cafe, Visual C++ or Visual Basic or something like that. Few GUI tools output optimized readable code. When the GUI screwes up it can be a real pain to debug. Trust me I have been there done that.
CLI can be effective for somethings as well especially in the case where the server is remote and you are using telnet or ssh to get to the server. There are editors that will open telnet/ftp for you and allow you to edit remotely.
Personally I like to use a program that does syntax higlightening with code completion. Outside of that the GUI's are pretty crappy IMHO. This to me gives me a somewhat happy medium. I get readable code with code completion and can limit the bloat. I can use the GUI help (many tools seem to lack that) to tell me the syntax of commands I don't know, which is very useful.
This is different than just say opening your mail program and going to the inbox and reading a mail that wipes your hard drive like the "I Love You" Windows virus did.
Or better yet the code red which atacket web servers by causing a buffer overrun.
Yeah thats that same thing. And I'm Joe isuzu
Yea I am trying to get management into doing a rewrite, so how do you convince management to do a rewrite???
Hey if it was like appache where there was a base and each new module was an actual module that was added through a config file then I would have no problem with it, but it is not.
imagine now an executable that is statically linked and over 55Megs in diameter ;-).
So how do you go from a nightmae legacy design to a moden design with that kind of beast?
This is fine foe new code and new designs, but when you are talking about a company that has over 3000 programs that are over 40 pages each, each little enhancement adds another if statement here and a switch statement there. The amount of time to do a fix / enhancement is much less often than to do a rewrite.
Just because the code is readable and understandable does not mean it does not become a nightmare to work with.
Take mozilla / or linux kernel projects. While the code may be nicely written it is not always easy to debug that many lines of code, especially for someone new to the source.
The problem is that while software developers may want to fix the bugs and make it work nice and all, the managers generally want to make money and the only way to sell a product is through new features. Usually adding in features after an application has been developed makes an app a nightmare to work on and harder to debug.
Just kidding, yes you can donate to a church and then write them off on your taxes. Get a reciept from the church, as you'll need it for your taxes at the end of the year. Alternately you can look at some dealers, like if they were made by HP I think they have a disposal program. They may even take none HP computers. Alternately you could try a place like selling them on a message board like craigslist.org or even ebay. I'd use craigslist, but they are only available (or marketed?) in certain areas AFAIK. I've sold a few items using craigslist.
So the table says Caldera openlinux 2.4 and the paragraph on software says Corel openlinux 2.4. I think there is a typo, I think it shoudl be Caldera.
Unfortunately for me right now it is priced a little to high. I need a laptop for under 1000. Preferably around $500 would be awesome, and I could live without dvd for now.
I started recieving spam this week, that has me as the sender even though I did not send the spam. How do you 'filter out' that? Also isn't that a form of impersonation / identity theft?
I am wondering if anyone has thought about implementing a new SMTP protocol that will prevent spam. I wonder if it is possible to do....
Show me the money baby!!!
duh! I already know that. But the real question is for a smaller system will you actually see any difference? In my system now, it takes a few seconds to run fsck. So with journaling it will be what 1 second a mount point? Sure it will be faster, but I still want instant on / instant off like my palm does.
Hmm this will be interesting. My machine has had a few unexpected shutdowns, and I have had to run fsck on them. With a 30 GIg drive it actually was faster than with my old system. Of course it helps that I have a super fast computer these days (1.2Gighz with WD 7200RPM drive). I'd imagine that soon I can have my dream of instant on / instant off machine ;-).
I'm glad I stopped using them years ago, when M$ took over. I kinda new that their service was going down.
Lets see, they were hacked once, then the red worm did a little damage, now they are hacked again... hmm can't wait for .net, so that everyone can read my design documents. hmm do you think they 'll have local or remote storage with .net???
It's to bad that they are such a hackers target and they do little in the way of security. I wonder how strong the M$ firewall will be in XP..
I know it may seem a bit trollish, and would be suprised if someone did not ask quesitons, but then again there are those that follow blindly.. Are you a sheep or a wolf?
I wonder if you can run anything other than windows on it???
ap_rputs("<?xml version="1.0"?>\n" , r);
Okay that'smodule talk... ;-)
Hmm I want my web server to be IIS I feel all left out not being affected by code red....
But to answer the question are there any out there? NO, not with pretty GUIs and all.
Netscape 6.0(1) was buggy as hell and this is an attempt at fixing that and possibly gaining market share. I.E. Those that like to run it cause it is NOT miscrosoft or those that are using a platform that does not have IE.
I saved money on the cpu to spend on memory, and hard drive. Which is used more than raw cpu power. Fact is that most people could get by pretty well with 600Mhz cpus. Even most gamers would be fine with 600Mhz systems. Unless you are doing some serious heavy duty gaming, or super intense graphics or scientific number cruntching then 600 is plenty fast. (or some type of emulation)
Anyway that is something to try. Either a purse or a jacket with lots of pockets. I go for the bag myself. It holds pens, phones, pda, laptop, coffee mug.. usually not to a job interview though.. just to and from work so I have the things that make my life easier. many employers don't want you makeing personal phone call on their system.. thus the need for a cell. ocassionally I have to do buisiness (car friends etc)