My mom won't install flash on her machine by her own, and you want her to go out, buy a Vista Box, and install it? we are not all hackers, and those of us who are, rarely buy Microsoft crap.
I'd really love to see the sources where all that bunch of crap come from. I mean, he may not be a technichal genius, and he is more of a marketing guy, but the article shows him as a crook and a thief.
Yes, the example was a bit too specific. Actually, if I where given this requirements, and I know my clients all used IE 5.5sp2, I will code for no less than IE 5.5sp2 (and probably without taking into consideration firefox since noone uses it). This in this very specific example, because it is an internal tool. If it where for an external tool, then I'd code (and I do) for firefox and IE. I never tested in konqueror, opera, camino, safari, etc, though, because they ARE a few users minority (for instance, coding for IE for mac is a pain, nothing works, and they are less than 1% of viewers), so my original stance on things stand: The best tool for the job.
Actually, true developers use the tool that is best for the job. If I was building, say, a web based content management system that only published html pages, in a controled environment, it makes no sense wasting the time and money required for a multi platform application, when I know all my users are using Internet Explorer 5.5 service pack 2, and the internal editor in internet explorer is great as opposed to the one in firefox which is lacking in most features.
Basically, when you do an md5 for a string, you transform an existing text with a variable length to a fixed length string. Now, imagine the variable text is 200bytes long, but the fixed string is 20 bytes long, you are obiously loosing information, and that there may be a combination of 200 bytes that produce the same 20 byte sequence, but the amount of combinations in 20 bytes (160 bits) make it highly unlikely that you will find a repeated sequence. What this investingators found is a way to replicate this sequences. The problem being that usually we check integrity with this md5 hashes, so teoretically, someone could alter a text and produce a new one that seems (from the md5 hashes) identical to the first one. This is specially nice for putting backdoors in source code downloaded from the net, as we often check it against an md5 hash.
I assume you are trying to be funny, but I actually find it hard to understand how NorthAmericans always assume some disadvantage when they actually lost at something.
- They will never use it, so they can't break it:-)
I installed firefox/thunderbird on anyone who requests my help with their computer, but linux is going to far
You must be kidding, I enjoyed much more the book than the movies. I actually read it first, and during the movie, I often wondered how a person who never read the book was supposed to understand what was happening. Also, the book is much more complete. The redeeming part of the movie is the amazing intro with Bonasera asking for the favor.
A clockwork orange is a good example, it is hundreds of times more powerfull listening to beethoven during a beating, than reading about it.
The big fish. The movie is wonderfull, the book is crap.
Actually, I have left, right, scrool wheel (which should count as three), three for expose, and two for forward-back in the browser (which I actually use), so, 10:-) All in my logitech bluetooth mouse
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I used RedHat from 7.2 up until 9. It is a mess, if you will only use the default install it behaves nicely, but when you start adding stuff you loose control fast. I had a VAIO notebook at that time, and gentoo was faster and easier to manage. Fedora is worse than RedHat in the sense that they don't have support from RedHat anymore (that you probably know), and you loose the polished and finished distribution you used to have. If you try debian or gentoo you will never look back. Once you started deploying packages with emerge you will be instantly in love.
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And that is exactly the kind of attitude that drives away users. If this book exists, it might be usefull to someone. If a friend of mine comes to me asking the best way to see linux, I will show them this book, and hopefully turn them away of fedora and into debian (or gentoo) before it is too late. And they do come and ask.
Isn't the basis of.torrents to have as many seeds as possible? how fast your download will be if only a couple of people can find it on some obscure protocol that noone uses anymore? Is a chicken and egg issue, if the site is readily accesible, you get fast downloads and higher risk, if it is not accesible you get dead torrents.
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My mom won't install flash on her machine by her own, and you want her to go out, buy a Vista Box, and install it? we are not all hackers, and those of us who are, rarely buy Microsoft crap.
This simply doesn't make sense. What prevents an user, using a different tool without said backdoor?
I'd really love to see the sources where all that bunch of crap come from. I mean, he may not be a technichal genius, and he is more of a marketing guy, but the article shows him as a crook and a thief.
I guess the poster point was not that fundamentalist don't exist, but that there is 0 relation between them and the growing of the tech labor force.
Have you seen creative's lineup?
Actually, I think he means 3/4
Yes, the example was a bit too specific. Actually, if I where given this requirements, and I know my clients all used IE 5.5sp2, I will code for no less than IE 5.5sp2 (and probably without taking into consideration firefox since noone uses it). This in this very specific example, because it is an internal tool. If it where for an external tool, then I'd code (and I do) for firefox and IE. I never tested in konqueror, opera, camino, safari, etc, though, because they ARE a few users minority (for instance, coding for IE for mac is a pain, nothing works, and they are less than 1% of viewers), so my original stance on things stand: The best tool for the job.
Actually, true developers use the tool that is best for the job. If I was building, say, a web based content management system that only published html pages, in a controled environment, it makes no sense wasting the time and money required for a multi platform application, when I know all my users are using Internet Explorer 5.5 service pack 2, and the internal editor in internet explorer is great as opposed to the one in firefox which is lacking in most features.
One of my contacts is an aol internal support team, and he has 477,789, ranked 1165, I wonder how many the 1st one has
I know you are a troll, but I actually don't speak english natively. There are people who doesn't, you know?
In true slashdot tradition, I didn't RTFA :-)
Thanks for the clarification
Basically, when you do an md5 for a string, you transform an existing text with a variable length to a fixed length string. Now, imagine the variable text is 200bytes long, but the fixed string is 20 bytes long, you are obiously loosing information, and that there may be a combination of 200 bytes that produce the same 20 byte sequence, but the amount of combinations in 20 bytes (160 bits) make it highly unlikely that you will find a repeated sequence. What this investingators found is a way to replicate this sequences. The problem being that usually we check integrity with this md5 hashes, so teoretically, someone could alter a text and produce a new one that seems (from the md5 hashes) identical to the first one. This is specially nice for putting backdoors in source code downloaded from the net, as we often check it against an md5 hash.
Actually, a new hope is the true number 7, the phantom menace is number 4... you can see it clearly in the scrolling text in the new 3d versions.
You KNOW who Darl McBride will play.
Jar Jar Binks?
I assume you are trying to be funny, but I actually find it hard to understand how NorthAmericans always assume some disadvantage when they actually lost at something.
Because some of us live outside the US and have great quality audio programming/talkshows ?
- They will never use it, so they can't break it :-)
I installed firefox/thunderbird on anyone who requests my help with their computer, but linux is going to far
What does the Animal Accident Recovery Patrol have to do with this?
All your base R belong 2 us ?
:-)
But it was just a guess... step 1: know your enemy
You must be kidding, I enjoyed much more the book than the movies. I actually read it first, and during the movie, I often wondered how a person who never read the book was supposed to understand what was happening. Also, the book is much more complete. The redeeming part of the movie is the amazing intro with Bonasera asking for the favor.
A clockwork orange is a good example, it is hundreds of times more powerfull listening to beethoven during a beating, than reading about it. The big fish. The movie is wonderfull, the book is crap.
Actually, I have left, right, scrool wheel (which should count as three), three for expose, and two for forward-back in the browser (which I actually use), so, 10 :-)
All in my logitech bluetooth mouse
I used RedHat from 7.2 up until 9. It is a mess, if you will only use the default install it behaves nicely, but when you start adding stuff you loose control fast. I had a VAIO notebook at that time, and gentoo was faster and easier to manage. Fedora is worse than RedHat in the sense that they don't have support from RedHat anymore (that you probably know), and you loose the polished and finished distribution you used to have. If you try debian or gentoo you will never look back. Once you started deploying packages with emerge you will be instantly in love.
And that is exactly the kind of attitude that drives away users. If this book exists, it might be usefull to someone. If a friend of mine comes to me asking the best way to see linux, I will show them this book, and hopefully turn them away of fedora and into debian (or gentoo) before it is too late. And they do come and ask.
Isn't the basis of .torrents to have as many seeds as possible? how fast your download will be if only a couple of people can find it on some obscure protocol that noone uses anymore? Is a chicken and egg issue, if the site is readily accesible, you get fast downloads and higher risk, if it is not accesible you get dead torrents.