I think that a better way to filter porn is to require or suggest porn pages to have meta tags in them like meta contents = porn. This way search engines can use this tag to filter out porn as well as net nanny and the like. Of course it also means that those that want porn get easily access it.
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Don't be supprised if this happens either. In SF we have almost an entirely NEW board of supervisors, cause people were tired of the old ones as they were not doing their job. The new board is not much better, but I'd rather nothing get done than to have WIll Brown get what he wants done, and this new board isn't in WIlies pocket.
As I said if you do not vote you cannot complain. If you voted the canidate in then you are part of the problem and maybe next time you will know more about the candidate.
Just because someone is an encumbant does not make them bad. They are bad when they do things that are not good for all, but only good for a few.
In the words of Spock " The needs of the many out weight the needs of the few."
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This is why it is important for people who read slashdot to vote. It is important for anyone over the age of 18 in the US to vote and those that are under the age of 18 to talk with their parents and their elders and to get them to understand what this really means.
People always cry when something like this happens, or is introduced, but the fact is that if you did not vote, then you really cannot complain. So did you vote??? I did!
Ever wonder why old people get there way ? It is because they are the largest group of voters. The fact is that many (not all) of them do not understand technology so when they vote they get what they want.
I voted a lot of things down last year cause they were stupid. Mre taxie cabs in SF?? NO we don't need them, try calling the cab company that is what your cell phone is for.
You do realize that even if this is introduced as a bill it can be taken to the people at any point in time?? That is what petitions do, if enough people get petitions together they can force a vote on the ballot and prevent idiots like this from getting things like this passed. Get politically active and make a change!!
His thinking is flawed and we see that and hopefully so will some of the people in Congress when they realize that this is a total violation of privacy. It is in fact probably more close to the opposite. If you do not protect these people provacy then child molesters will have better access to the children. The truth is that if he knew what he was talking about he'd want to protect the privacy of people than do this. Sounds to me like he wants Big Brother to be watching you and me!
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While this is true, ther eis an advantage of open source. That advantage is that anyone can look at the source to find backdoors. Basically that you have the source and can search for user names and passwords. In closed source you do not have this option and you MUST rely on the vendor to provide you this information.
Question: How long do you think that Microsoft REALLY knew about this back door?
Question:How many systems have they accessed or could they have had acess to because of this?
While I agree that noone may have looked at all the source, I think it is a little more difficult for things like this to happen with open source.
As far as kernel patches go I think Linus does look at the patches as well they are usually reviewed by other developers and it is not a matter of here take my word. Besides you don't usually put usernames and passwords in the kernel you put them in other software.
Apache probably watches out for back doors pretty closely I'd imagine or at least hope.
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From what you have said and other as well it seems that they are doing almost like what Linux is doing. Creating patches that fix several things, and in some cases add new features. The Linux release cycles are similar, only in 2.2 they always seem to include new features as well as bug fixes.
Personally I think that a monthly bug release cycle is the best way to go. And if they add a new feature that should have been in the inital release then that is also good too. Hey Mozilla is doing monthly releases as well.
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I guess the question I have is is OS X forcingf people to get the updates? Probably not. This means that you can choose weather you want to update every month or once every 3 months or whatever.
I think that they are probably focusing on the issue of fixing one bug at a time and doing it right rather than trying to fix all the bugs at once and then doing it half assed like M$ would. I don't use OS X but would you rather have to download one huge patch every 6 months to a year (4-15Meg) or would you rather have 6 to 12 patches that were maybe smaller (1 - 2Megs). So how big are the patches? Are they small ones here and there that fix things without braking something else or are they like M$ where they fix lots of things add new features and then add more bugs at the same time?
Sorry I am not a big fan of M$ as they keep making there software 'easier' to use they make it more bloated and 'all in one' and then stuff it at you. Why is it that when you install Windows now a days you get IE and cannot get ride of it?
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The most obvious solution is to teach them how to use cvs. The other option is to use Microsofts own source control software SourceSafe. It handles binaries cause it can handle VB forms. It is easy to learn as it is Microsoft and works just like any other M$ product.
The third option is to try PVCS which is another form of CVS / SourceSafe, but made by a diffeerent company. It has a GUI just like SourceSafe and handles binaries.
We just use a fileserver and people edit from there. You can set up word docs to keep track of who did what edits and change colors. There is an option in it as well.
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One thing I'd add is that is why you review the site. Maybe a line like when we loose contracts we review what the winner did to see where we may have weakness so that in future business with the company we can better server there needs. I.E. It is a learning process for 'our' company.
Oh and don't spend all the effort on mentioning money try mentioning it only once (not sure what the exact letter looks like). It may seem like you are making up these holes just to get some of their business. you can even give an example of what you think is a securty hole in the letter and what the result of that being exploited could potentially be. This is not to say that you need to hack in, but that you need to show that you are not making it up and that they can check it out on their own and say 'oh my you are right' then call you up.
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The only requirement IMHO is that what is under the GPL must stay under the gpl and what is not can be under a new license. The problem that they face now is that if they released stuff under the gpl and then change it are they violating the gpl then?
They cannot take works that are under the gpl then just release them as BSD license cause they want to.
What is hurting Caldera is that they are to late to the market and they have done to little for linux. I think they helped with wine some how at some point or was that corel?? But what have they done as far as kernel development? Both SuSe adn Redhat at least have helped in that area.
What have they done to defend the gpl? Even RH and Mandrake do that. Maybe the just need less employees.
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It is not suprising though. Consider the number of driver and new features that have been introduced. As well as the S390 archetecture. There are numberous new drivers, as well as framebuffer, as well as better SMP. I am sure that there is more. It would be interesting if the kernel developers had a debug feature in there that if you build it with that on it would tell you the time of execution of each function (not sure if they do), similar to perl benchmark.
I quote" Hardware compatibility is a large part of the growth."
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I too have almost given up on mozilla as well. I am using konq, like the poster of this.. Although I have had to install kdesupport, kdelibs, kdebase, just to get it, I also got kde multimedia with that and some other kde tools (I'm running gnome as my desktop, windomaker as my window manager and I still use some kde apps). (this will probably get moded down to -1)
I tried Opera and found that it did not handle plugins that well. I find konq to handle the plugins a little better. I still use Netscape 4 to visit Cnet and watch cnet tv, as mozzilla.8 didn't work at that site and neither did opera, or konq.
I think that when mozilla reaches its 1.0 release it may be worth a second look at, but if they just rewrote the image rendering again, then doesn't it beg the question of how many bugs that introduced?
I then look at the system requirements of mozilla and have to say that you are better off with opera, netscape 4.x even. konq is good, and would do fine with those requirements, but it is a little bit of a beast itself too.
Oh and watch out when converting profiles from netscape to mozilla. When.8 did the conversion on mine it too the.netscape directory and grew it emensly, from 7Meg to almost 100 Meg. Why I don't know, but it did. Not sure if this is a bug or what, but I suspect that they are storing the data differently. Besides, why do I have to create a profile for a browser? yes there should be preferences, but not a profile when you start it up. That is really obnoxious. Maybe a prompt "would you like to create a profile" rather than forcing me to create a default profile.
It would be so nice if you could just install just the browser, with NO references to anything else, no composer, no mail, just the browser, AND then configure the browser to use an external mail app, unlike netscape 4.
Can you say.. scope creap / feature creap???
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Linux, OS X, are both UNIX like. At the core of darwin (which is the core of OS X) is a BSD type kernel. Darwin probably uses the same commands as most UNIX systems so it is UNIX like if nothing else.
The real question is does this really matter? OS X will provide the stability of UNIX as well as better multi tasking and protected memory just like BSD, Solaris, and other UNIX OSes.
You can open up an terminal window in OS X and start issuing UNIX commands do you really care if people call it UNIX or not???
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I have worked for multiple software companies and they have standards of what makes a 'show stopper' and what is not and what can go into a release.
Show stoppers are usually bugs that crash the software when doing normal functions. Like if you open up a file and the software crashes, that would be a show stopper. In some cases it depends on your clients as well. If the client finds a bug they may deem it as necessary to be fixed. Most companies I have worked at usually work closely with clients. In many cases the software does not get FULLY tested till the client actually gets the software. Then when (not if they will find bugs) they tell us an dthen we make it a priority to fix them and send out patches to certain clients if not all. This would depend on the client contract.
"Low priority" bugs would be ones that do not impead functionality, but are more of annoyances. Take for instance I saw one bug that when you scroll the scrollbar the window would flicker. This is annoying, but does not prevent the user from using the software. Other less important bugs are bugs that are on reports. If a report does not show the correct data and you can get the data from the database or it is a known bug this can also be a low priority bug. The question usually is "Can the client work with the application with this bug or will it cause the client major problems or loss of money?" Take for instance the reports bug, a client could just not use the reports and create their own from sql.
Something you must remember is that some of the programs that I have worked on have been written by many programmers. They are thousands of files andhave client, server, and database code, in multiple languages. Some of these bugs could be caused by some of the software that we use. Bugs in windows API's, bugs in Sybase, or Oracle, bugs in the server OS, or even 'quirks' that many programmers do not know about.
Next, many times programmers get put in a job where they know the language but NOT the API and the API is not well documented, especially if this is a 'custom' system where the software company has developed programs for DB access on top of the 'db lib'. What about programmers that leave the company or get fired?
So who do you blame? The programmer that impemented something that he did not know the company API, the software company for not completely testing "EVERY" single case that could possibly come up?
You never know how a user will use software or what they may do or have installed on their system that could affect how your software will work.
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.. it is opt OUT. I always get email that says if you don't want to recieve this..blah blah blah.. then opt out... personally I just set up mail filters on my system and most of the spam gets set to spam filtered where if I do not recgonize the senders address it is deleted... I think this is an incredible waste of a mail system. personally if I owned a mail server I'd consider sewing spammers for clogging my mail system.. I wonder if you can do that???
I'd prefer for opt in, rather than opt out though.. I hate people scanning the net for email address.. email spiders should be outlawed.. I am not puting my email address somewhere so someone can arbitrairily use it to spam me... nor should I have to register at a site and give them my email address so that they can sell it to spammers... what about my rights on the net??? The right NOT to recieve unsolicited email.... I guess it is like telephone soliciters..
My favorite thing to do is when a telephone soliciter calls and says is Mr or Mrs home? I know that that they are soliciters right away so I start to screw with them.. here are some of my answers...
No can I have them call you back?
No they died yesterday in a freak game show accident.. you know that lady from the 'eakest link' scared them to death...
Oh is this about the pizza I just ordered? I want onions and peppers too on that...
Or I start telling them all my problems... and most of them I make up.
I wish I could do that to spamers, the problems is that most spamers don't have a valid return address... in which case my filters eat that up and spit it to the trash bin........
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That would work for php also, except you change the html to php instead of jsp;-)
I started my own comparison of various programming languages at my own personal web site. I go over perl, php, asp/VB (some), java, javascript, C and C++. I compare a few different things. Mainly I discuss the basic similarities / differences of these languages like the for loops, while loops, if statements, functions, types, and then I get into how each has its own definition of an 'object'. Yes C sort of has objects they are structure. Not a 'real' object like C++ or Java but it is similar.
The point is that anyone can learn any language once they have learned one language. The big differences in the languages are the 1) syntax, 2) garbage clean up (or lack of) and 3) the ease of programming. Lets face it pointers are not easy and objects can be difficult as well.
Personally I think what language you pick should be more dependant on what you feel comfortable with. JSP has the drawback that it is not part of apache, so if you are running apache each JSP page needs to have a call made to tomcat (or whatever you use) which means you have to have a socket call outside of apache. Perl / CGI meanse you have a new process forked for each page (why the hell did he not say mod_perl instead). Neither php nor perl have string 'types' but you can 'force' types if need be.
In case you want to see my review go here -> http://www.mindspring.com/~joeja/programming_myth. html .
I'd love constructive critism on this so I can improve the comparison and correct any mistakes that I may have made.
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I know that Mandrake was based or is based on redhat, so I have a few questions maybe someone can answer here.
IS Mandrake 8 using gcc 2.96 like RH or 2.95 like a good distro would?
Can you upgrade a RH system to a Mandrake system?
Is pppoe as easy to configure as ppp (and how easy to configure is ppp)?
Lastly how is Mandrake about rearranging your system? I.E RH moved the/etc/rc.d/init.d scripts in RH 7.0 to/etc/init.d???
How easy are the upgrades? I.E. Will I spend a day reconfguring my system??
Seriously I am not trying to start a flame war I am looking for real answers here.....
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The truth is that I have always been told use spaces in my programs. I usually try to do so. You never know what a person has their tab set to. If someone has their tabs set to 4 and you set yours to 8 you can change the display of how a program will look in an editor. Then if some are using spaces then you have big mess. I'd recommend using spaces as a space is a space is a space and a tab is unknown....
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You need to register before you can download. It prompts me for a password. Now if I could only remeber what mine was....
Now if they port the rest of OS X to Intel I'd be interested in getting it. But whats the real difference of getting darwin vs BSD or some other UNIX for intel or Linux?
It might be nice to try Darwin with X and see how stable that would be vs Linux or BSD.
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just for S&G what if someone did a DDOS on Appliance.com or attacket the system and gained access and turned all the AC units on an dmade it real cold all at the same time?? What would be the energy drain on the power system and how long would it be before someone shut an entire grid down?
Okay so maybe this is a little far fetched, but it could be possible if someone got in.
Parynoind.. naw.. everyone's just out to get me
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There already is a CURL, it is a Cnet URL. No joke, this is what they call it. Curls are used in PRISM or story server, which IS a server side programming language based on Tcl, with extensions.
Personally I am looking for a server side language that is better than JSP and Servlets. Perl is okay, and mod_perl is better, but can get messy, Php is good, but does not cache like Story Server.
On another note this is exclusionaly technology in its current form. It does not work with Netscape 6, it does not work on Linux or Unix at least that is what there system requirements say, no not even Mac either. So they inventeda new plugin.. BFD there are lots of those, and unless it is an open standard that anyone can implement then it is useles to me and would deter me from visiting that site.
Hey M$ is even talking about making there C# an open standard. Of course they wont make it open enough it will still have COM/DCOM/ActiveX hooks.
Who would have thought that the WWW would have become the World Wide Divide? Maybe they should detect a browser and say, "your browser maker is to dumb to make a browser that works with the standards! Please go away. (lol)
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I'd kind of have to agree. But I think that they may be making a market for people who want a little more power then a palm, but not the expense of a Pocket PC. At 259 or whatever it is less than a Pocket PC but if you can install your own apps, maybe they are hoping for the OS community to port some palm apps to it as well as some Linux apps. I'm sure there are lots of apps on Linux that could run in less than 8Meg of RAM, of course Mozilla would not be one of them. How hard is it to use the grafetti(sp) like language?
It has more memory than a palm as well. ANY palm. Palm max mem 8M, Agenda 16Meg + 8Meg....
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.. and they did not impress me. They are using open source technologies which some think are good, but it sounded like they were and ASP of sorts and they planned on making there money off of dot.coms. Well the dotcoms are we all know are not all doing so well so I think that has had to start hurting them. Needless to say I did not get a job with them nor did I want one after I interviewed. The guy was a jerk!
I had the impression when I interviewed that they were barely getting bye. I think if they survive they will probably go through a few rounds of layoffs....
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No really, resistance is futile, you will be assimalated. We are aliens.
You know I am totally ammazed at how many movies show alien tech that works with ours. What was that movie with Will Smith and the attacking UFO's??? Yeah okay I'll just hack into their system and put them to sleep.
This person has more time on their hands and is watching to much sci fi. Get out of your house dude and get a grip on reality! Get a dog or something! It's just TV. What makes you think that any life other than bacteria is out there? And if there is what makes you think that there tech would even be remotely like ours?
Today's posts are the result of a server in Alaska that has take over Slashdot. Please be prepaired for a meltdown and DDOS at 4pm........ April fools!!!
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Besides hasnt someone cracked adult check already??
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As I said if you do not vote you cannot complain. If you voted the canidate in then you are part of the problem and maybe next time you will know more about the candidate.
Just because someone is an encumbant does not make them bad. They are bad when they do things that are not good for all, but only good for a few.
In the words of Spock " The needs of the many out weight the needs of the few."
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People always cry when something like this happens, or is introduced, but the fact is that if you did not vote, then you really cannot complain. So did you vote??? I did!
Ever wonder why old people get there way ? It is because they are the largest group of voters. The fact is that many (not all) of them do not understand technology so when they vote they get what they want.
I voted a lot of things down last year cause they were stupid. Mre taxie cabs in SF?? NO we don't need them, try calling the cab company that is what your cell phone is for.
You do realize that even if this is introduced as a bill it can be taken to the people at any point in time?? That is what petitions do, if enough people get petitions together they can force a vote on the ballot and prevent idiots like this from getting things like this passed. Get politically active and make a change!!
His thinking is flawed and we see that and hopefully so will some of the people in Congress when they realize that this is a total violation of privacy. It is in fact probably more close to the opposite. If you do not protect these people provacy then child molesters will have better access to the children. The truth is that if he knew what he was talking about he'd want to protect the privacy of people than do this. Sounds to me like he wants Big Brother to be watching you and me!
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Question: How long do you think that Microsoft REALLY knew about this back door?
Question:How many systems have they accessed or could they have had acess to because of this?
While I agree that noone may have looked at all the source, I think it is a little more difficult for things like this to happen with open source.
As far as kernel patches go I think Linus does look at the patches as well they are usually reviewed by other developers and it is not a matter of here take my word. Besides you don't usually put usernames and passwords in the kernel you put them in other software.
Apache probably watches out for back doors pretty closely I'd imagine or at least hope.
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Personally I think that a monthly bug release cycle is the best way to go. And if they add a new feature that should have been in the inital release then that is also good too. Hey Mozilla is doing monthly releases as well.
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I think that they are probably focusing on the issue of fixing one bug at a time and doing it right rather than trying to fix all the bugs at once and then doing it half assed like M$ would. I don't use OS X but would you rather have to download one huge patch every 6 months to a year (4-15Meg) or would you rather have 6 to 12 patches that were maybe smaller (1 - 2Megs). So how big are the patches? Are they small ones here and there that fix things without braking something else or are they like M$ where they fix lots of things add new features and then add more bugs at the same time?
Sorry I am not a big fan of M$ as they keep making there software 'easier' to use they make it more bloated and 'all in one' and then stuff it at you. Why is it that when you install Windows now a days you get IE and cannot get ride of it?
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The third option is to try PVCS which is another form of CVS / SourceSafe, but made by a diffeerent company. It has a GUI just like SourceSafe and handles binaries.
We just use a fileserver and people edit from there. You can set up word docs to keep track of who did what edits and change colors. There is an option in it as well.
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One thing I'd add is that is why you review the site. Maybe a line like when we loose contracts we review what the winner did to see where we may have weakness so that in future business with the company we can better server there needs. I.E. It is a learning process for 'our' company.
Oh and don't spend all the effort on mentioning money try mentioning it only once (not sure what the exact letter looks like). It may seem like you are making up these holes just to get some of their business. you can even give an example of what you think is a securty hole in the letter and what the result of that being exploited could potentially be. This is not to say that you need to hack in, but that you need to show that you are not making it up and that they can check it out on their own and say 'oh my you are right' then call you up.
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They cannot take works that are under the gpl then just release them as BSD license cause they want to.
What is hurting Caldera is that they are to late to the market and they have done to little for linux. I think they helped with wine some how at some point or was that corel?? But what have they done as far as kernel development? Both SuSe adn Redhat at least have helped in that area.
What have they done to defend the gpl? Even RH and Mandrake do that. Maybe the just need less employees.
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I quote" Hardware compatibility is a large part of the growth."
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I tried Opera and found that it did not handle plugins that well. I find konq to handle the plugins a little better. I still use Netscape 4 to visit Cnet and watch cnet tv, as mozzilla .8 didn't work at that site and neither did opera, or konq.
I think that when mozilla reaches its 1.0 release it may be worth a second look at, but if they just rewrote the image rendering again, then doesn't it beg the question of how many bugs that introduced?
I then look at the system requirements of mozilla and have to say that you are better off with opera, netscape 4.x even. konq is good, and would do fine with those requirements, but it is a little bit of a beast itself too.
Oh and watch out when converting profiles from netscape to mozilla. When .8 did the conversion on mine it too the .netscape directory and grew it emensly, from 7Meg to almost 100 Meg. Why I don't know, but it did. Not sure if this is a bug or what, but I suspect that they are storing the data differently. Besides, why do I have to create a profile for a browser? yes there should be preferences, but not a profile when you start it up. That is really obnoxious. Maybe a prompt "would you like to create a profile" rather than forcing me to create a default profile.
It would be so nice if you could just install just the browser, with NO references to anything else, no composer, no mail, just the browser, AND then configure the browser to use an external mail app, unlike netscape 4.
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The real question is does this really matter? OS X will provide the stability of UNIX as well as better multi tasking and protected memory just like BSD, Solaris, and other UNIX OSes.
You can open up an terminal window in OS X and start issuing UNIX commands do you really care if people call it UNIX or not???
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Show stoppers are usually bugs that crash the software when doing normal functions. Like if you open up a file and the software crashes, that would be a show stopper. In some cases it depends on your clients as well. If the client finds a bug they may deem it as necessary to be fixed. Most companies I have worked at usually work closely with clients. In many cases the software does not get FULLY tested till the client actually gets the software. Then when (not if they will find bugs) they tell us an dthen we make it a priority to fix them and send out patches to certain clients if not all. This would depend on the client contract.
"Low priority" bugs would be ones that do not impead functionality, but are more of annoyances. Take for instance I saw one bug that when you scroll the scrollbar the window would flicker. This is annoying, but does not prevent the user from using the software. Other less important bugs are bugs that are on reports. If a report does not show the correct data and you can get the data from the database or it is a known bug this can also be a low priority bug. The question usually is "Can the client work with the application with this bug or will it cause the client major problems or loss of money?" Take for instance the reports bug, a client could just not use the reports and create their own from sql.
Something you must remember is that some of the programs that I have worked on have been written by many programmers. They are thousands of files andhave client, server, and database code, in multiple languages. Some of these bugs could be caused by some of the software that we use. Bugs in windows API's, bugs in Sybase, or Oracle, bugs in the server OS, or even 'quirks' that many programmers do not know about.
Next, many times programmers get put in a job where they know the language but NOT the API and the API is not well documented, especially if this is a 'custom' system where the software company has developed programs for DB access on top of the 'db lib'. What about programmers that leave the company or get fired?
So who do you blame? The programmer that impemented something that he did not know the company API, the software company for not completely testing "EVERY" single case that could possibly come up?
You never know how a user will use software or what they may do or have installed on their system that could affect how your software will work.
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Or try http://www.saintsong.com.tw/taiwan/www/it/english/ ithome.htm
they have small computers..
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I'd prefer for opt in, rather than opt out though.. I hate people scanning the net for email address.. email spiders should be outlawed.. I am not puting my email address somewhere so someone can arbitrairily use it to spam me... nor should I have to register at a site and give them my email address so that they can sell it to spammers... what about my rights on the net??? The right NOT to recieve unsolicited email.. .. I guess it is like telephone soliciters ..
My favorite thing to do is when a telephone soliciter calls and says is Mr or Mrs home? I know that that they are soliciters right away so I start to screw with them.. here are some of my answers...
No can I have them call you back?
No they died yesterday in a freak game show accident.. you know that lady from the 'eakest link' scared them to death...
Oh is this about the pizza I just ordered? I want onions and peppers too on that...
Or I start telling them all my problems... and most of them I make up.
I wish I could do that to spamers, the problems is that most spamers don't have a valid return address... in which case my filters eat that up and spit it to the trash bin........
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I started my own comparison of various programming languages at my own personal web site. I go over perl, php, asp/VB (some), java, javascript, C and C++. I compare a few different things. Mainly I discuss the basic similarities / differences of these languages like the for loops, while loops, if statements, functions, types, and then I get into how each has its own definition of an 'object'. Yes C sort of has objects they are structure. Not a 'real' object like C++ or Java but it is similar.
The point is that anyone can learn any language once they have learned one language. The big differences in the languages are the 1) syntax, 2) garbage clean up (or lack of) and 3) the ease of programming. Lets face it pointers are not easy and objects can be difficult as well.
Personally I think what language you pick should be more dependant on what you feel comfortable with. JSP has the drawback that it is not part of apache, so if you are running apache each JSP page needs to have a call made to tomcat (or whatever you use) which means you have to have a socket call outside of apache. Perl / CGI meanse you have a new process forked for each page (why the hell did he not say mod_perl instead). Neither php nor perl have string 'types' but you can 'force' types if need be.
In case you want to see my review go here -> http://www.mindspring.com/~joeja/programming_myth. html .
I'd love constructive critism on this so I can improve the comparison and correct any mistakes that I may have made.
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IS Mandrake 8 using gcc 2.96 like RH or 2.95 like a good distro would?
Can you upgrade a RH system to a Mandrake system?
Is pppoe as easy to configure as ppp (and how easy to configure is ppp)?
Lastly how is Mandrake about rearranging your system? I.E RH moved the /etc/rc.d/init.d scripts in RH 7.0 to /etc/init.d???
How easy are the upgrades? I.E. Will I spend a day reconfguring my system??
Seriously I am not trying to start a flame war I am looking for real answers here.....
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Now if they port the rest of OS X to Intel I'd be interested in getting it. But whats the real difference of getting darwin vs BSD or some other UNIX for intel or Linux?
It might be nice to try Darwin with X and see how stable that would be vs Linux or BSD.
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Okay so maybe this is a little far fetched, but it could be possible if someone got in.
Parynoind.. naw.. everyone's just out to get me
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Personally I am looking for a server side language that is better than JSP and Servlets. Perl is okay, and mod_perl is better, but can get messy, Php is good, but does not cache like Story Server.
On another note this is exclusionaly technology in its current form. It does not work with Netscape 6, it does not work on Linux or Unix at least that is what there system requirements say, no not even Mac either. So they inventeda new plugin.. BFD there are lots of those, and unless it is an open standard that anyone can implement then it is useles to me and would deter me from visiting that site.
Hey M$ is even talking about making there C# an open standard. Of course they wont make it open enough it will still have COM/DCOM/ActiveX hooks.
Who would have thought that the WWW would have become the World Wide Divide? Maybe they should detect a browser and say, "your browser maker is to dumb to make a browser that works with the standards! Please go away. (lol)
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It has more memory than a palm as well. ANY palm. Palm max mem 8M, Agenda 16Meg + 8Meg....
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I had the impression when I interviewed that they were barely getting bye. I think if they survive they will probably go through a few rounds of layoffs....
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Huh? Maybe W2K but 95 crashes on a regular basis as does win 95. The memory allocation is all wrong in that OS.
MAC OS X might as well consider itself BSD as it is based on BSD and it will show people that BSD is not just for the server anymore.
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You know I am totally ammazed at how many movies show alien tech that works with ours. What was that movie with Will Smith and the attacking UFO's??? Yeah okay I'll just hack into their system and put them to sleep.
This person has more time on their hands and is watching to much sci fi. Get out of your house dude and get a grip on reality! Get a dog or something! It's just TV. What makes you think that any life other than bacteria is out there? And if there is what makes you think that there tech would even be remotely like ours?
Today's posts are the result of a server in Alaska that has take over Slashdot. Please be prepaired for a meltdown and DDOS at 4pm........ April fools!!!
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